Act X: "It's Our Time Now."
(Scene: Kaiede's hut, the feudal era.)
"I still do not understand how ye could have journied all the way here with such injuries Inu-Yasha." Kaiede said as he sat propped up against the wooden walls of the hut. "Even if ye be a demon, ye should not have moved beinging in such critical condition. Ye could have hurt yourself even worse."
"Don't waste your time lecturing him Kaiede, we all know how stubborn Inu- Yasha is." Chippou said sipping on his tea. "He won't listen to anyone whether his life depends on it or not. It's always his way or no way."
Kagome sat aside him applying bandages to his joints which had began to bleed again. Even if he was hurt, she enjoyed tending to his wounds, it was the only time in which she saw any weakness from him.
"What I do not understand is why ye was so desperate to get back here." Kaiede asked pouring Miroku another glass of tea.
"Could it be that you wanted to see Kagome again?" Miroku asked seeing he was starting to get annoyed already. But Inu-Yasha didn't say a word, as if he just ignored Miroku's childish proding. "What's wrong Inu-Yasha, all out of come backs?"
"No!" The demon snapped back. "I'm just in a lot of pain and don't want to waste energy on defending myself from idiotic questions." He could feel himself blushing a bit and hated it. He hated it whenever he showed any sort of human weakness.
"Well I think it's sweet you were willing to put yourself in such danger to see Kagome again." Sango added
"I never said that!" Inu-Yasha added. He calmed down and thought it over for a moment, maybe he did for Kagome. "I just wanted to be near Kagome. I don't feel right when she isn't around. I feel...broken."
Kaiede nodded a moment as Inu-Yasha said this. "I am glad ye admit ye feeling so easily, perhaps a journey to Kagome's world was the best for you. Kagome, do ye have anything to say on the matter?"
Kagome had remained surprisingly silent this whole time, but instead of anwsering Kaiede's question, she stood up and left without a word. She walked out the door and into the rain, no comment.
"What was that all about?" Chippou asked staring at where Kagome had left.
"I believe she has to think about it." Miroku replied as Sango got up to follow after her.
"No!" Inu-Yasha said as Sango went for the door. "I have to talk to her." His bones ached loudly as he got to his feet.
"Inu-Yasha, don't be a fool, you're too injured to go after her, sit back down." Kaiede said trying to coax him back.
"I'm sorry Kaiede, there's something I have to to." He said getting slowly to the door. "Huh, Chippou's right, I am stubborn.
"Kagome!" Called Inu-Yasha through the rain, he could see her standing only a few feet away, but in his condition, it felt like an eternity to walk. He slowly made his way behind her and put his hands on her cold, wet shoulders.
"I can't see you now Inu-Yasha." She whispered sadly "I can't look at you, what Yu did, what I let her do..."
"No. You did what you felt you had to. I'm not mad at you at all, please, don't push me away. I'm not angry, I'm glad were both alive and together if anything."
Kagome turned around, her wet school uniform clinging to her body (cough Think Kirsten Dunst in 'Spiderman". cough) and looked him in the eyes, tears streaming between the raindrops. She stared into him without really seeing him at all. All she could see was the pain that she had allowed to happen.
"I don't know what to say Kagome, except..."
I wanted you to know,
I loved the way you left,
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away,
I keep your photograph,
You know if serves me well,
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain,
Kagome joins Because I'm broken,
when I'm lonesome
and I don't feel right when your gone away. Kagome stops
You've gone away,
You don't feel me anymore.
Kagome only When the worst is over now,
and we can breathe again,
I wanna hold you high to steal my pain away.
There's so much left to learn,
And there's none left to fight,
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain,
Inu-Yasha joins 'Cause I'm broken
when I'm hopin'
and I don't feel like I'm strong enough.
Cause I'm broken
when I'm lonesome
and I don't feel right when you've gone away.
'Cause I'm broken
when I'm hopin'
and I don't feel like I'm strong enough.
Cause I'm broken
when I'm lonesome
and I don't feel right when you've gone away.
Cause I'm broken
when I'm open
and I don't feel right when you've gone away.
Inu-YashaYou've gone away,
You don't feel me anymore.
( Thank God for the band Seether with the awesome song 'Broken')
The two stood in the rain for the longest time just staring at each other. They knew that Miroku, Sango, and Chippou stood behind a corner of a building as they stood and stared at one another, but could care less.
"What are they waiting for?" Chippou whispered
"Young fox. These things cannot be rushed." Sango said as they watched on. "True love is a rose garden, it must be tended to tenderly and never rushed. It may take a while, but the results are worth it."
Inu-Yasha slowly drew closer as Kagome did too. Closer, and closer, slowly but surely until.
"Well isn't this a touching moment." Yelled a voice from aside. They both turned simultaniously to see a very smug Yu standing apart from them in the rain. Inu-Yasha drew his claws, ready to pounce on her and reached for the 'Tetsaiga', but! "Is this what you're looking for?" Yu called pointing his own sword at him. "Yes, I took it off of you after you passed out. Seems kind of worn for a legendary weapon."
"Give me it back!" Inu-Yasha demanded "You have no use for it, you'll never be able to tap into it."
Suddenly in a flash of lightning, the 'Tetsaiga' instantly transformed. "You mean like this?" she asked back, a superior look on her face. "Yes Inu- Yasha, as you can plainly see, I can easily wield your weapon. I must say, it's quite powerful at that, not meant like an amature like you. It's in much better hands with me."
"You bitch! Give it back!" Inu-Yasha sprang at Yu and slashed at her violently, barely missing both. Using the mommentium, he again shot at her, just grazing her leg this time, but not enough to slow her down.
"Inu-Yasha! Move aside!" Miroku yelled as the three jumped out of their hiding spot. The half demon dodged back as the monk put his hand out at Yu. "WIND TUNNEL!"
A giant plume of wind began to draw everything around into it as Yu struggled against the vortex. "Such a power. I could use something like that, but I doubt he would easily be swayed. Oh well, he'll just have yo die."
A buzzing noise crept through the near woods, and suddenly, hundreds upon thousands of poison wasps flooded the area. "Miroku! You have to stop!" Sango yelled "Those insects will kill you if you draw them in."
Miroku drew back, remembering the pain the wasps had caused him so many times before. He wasn't going to risk his life like that unless it was to draw in Naraku, not this girl. But where had the wasps come from?
"Curious of my buzzing friends?" Yu called out as the area became engorged with the deafening noise. "Did you really think I would come alone to fight you all? Please, I'm a buisness woman, I had to even the odds somehow. So, let's call out my special guest! Lady Kikyo!"
A woman clad in red and white robes crept up slowly from the other side of the fight. Her black hair ran down her front and sides as she batted it out of her large brown eyes to her shoulders. Her numerous soul gatherers surrounded her, the energy of the fallen always fresh in her body these days.
"Kikyo?" Inu-Yasha whispered "Why are you helping her?"
"We have a lot in common." Kikyo replied in her usual monotonous, yet depressed tone.
"For one, we both hate you." Yu added. "We met two days ago and hit it off, had a real girls night out. Drank, talked, planned of how to kill you, ya know, the tourist bit for me."
"And now we've come to take the jewel shards Inu-Yasha." Kikyo continued. "Hand them over and we'll leave peacefully. Resist and we'll destroy you, understand?"
The group gathered close and drew their weapons as Kikyo and Yu stood on either side, ready to fight whoever attacked first. This would be a battle of epic proportions for sure, a battle to the death for the Shikon jewel shards that Kagome safely kept on her at all times.
"Why fight us. You're going to lose." Kikyo began
"There's no way you can win." Yu continued "You cannot use the 'Wind Tunnel', our power together is unmatched, and of course, I weild the 'Tetsaiga', and along with it the 'Wind Scar'."
"Just hand over the shards." Kikyo continued. "There is no need for so much pointless death. Save yourselves and just surrender."
"Never!" Kagome yelled "We've fought a lot of people and demons to get this far, there's no way we're gonna stop now!"
"Foolish Kagome. Don't you understand like Yu and I do? Your time is over.." She looked passed the groups to Yu, almost as if cueing her.
"It's our time now."
Hey, it's me it's me it's Artie of the 'D'
Well...that's a bitch, ain't it? Just when things start to look good, things spin out of control and throw in a new surprising twist. As always, you can reach me at DarkArtimishotmail.com with questions and comments, or do please reply, I ever so enjoy reading your critiques. And to explain to Confused Dolphin, remember that store manager, he's going to be very important, very soon, and I'm so sorry for giving you nightmares hugs. Anyhow, here's the next preview.
Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn is an understatement for these two. Kikyo with her natural supernatural abilities, and Yu with the 'Wind Scar' on her side, Inu-Yasha still hurt, and Miroku's 'Wind Tunnel' unavailable, things are looking really, really bad! It's all on the line in an all out no holds barred fight for the ultimate prize in Act XI: The Green Eyed Soul.
I love the word 'gambit', soulds threatening, yet mysterious, huh? I hope you've enjoyed what I've writtain so far. The best is yet to come in: Inu- Yasha's Totally Excellent Adventure.
(Scene: Kaiede's hut, the feudal era.)
"I still do not understand how ye could have journied all the way here with such injuries Inu-Yasha." Kaiede said as he sat propped up against the wooden walls of the hut. "Even if ye be a demon, ye should not have moved beinging in such critical condition. Ye could have hurt yourself even worse."
"Don't waste your time lecturing him Kaiede, we all know how stubborn Inu- Yasha is." Chippou said sipping on his tea. "He won't listen to anyone whether his life depends on it or not. It's always his way or no way."
Kagome sat aside him applying bandages to his joints which had began to bleed again. Even if he was hurt, she enjoyed tending to his wounds, it was the only time in which she saw any weakness from him.
"What I do not understand is why ye was so desperate to get back here." Kaiede asked pouring Miroku another glass of tea.
"Could it be that you wanted to see Kagome again?" Miroku asked seeing he was starting to get annoyed already. But Inu-Yasha didn't say a word, as if he just ignored Miroku's childish proding. "What's wrong Inu-Yasha, all out of come backs?"
"No!" The demon snapped back. "I'm just in a lot of pain and don't want to waste energy on defending myself from idiotic questions." He could feel himself blushing a bit and hated it. He hated it whenever he showed any sort of human weakness.
"Well I think it's sweet you were willing to put yourself in such danger to see Kagome again." Sango added
"I never said that!" Inu-Yasha added. He calmed down and thought it over for a moment, maybe he did for Kagome. "I just wanted to be near Kagome. I don't feel right when she isn't around. I feel...broken."
Kaiede nodded a moment as Inu-Yasha said this. "I am glad ye admit ye feeling so easily, perhaps a journey to Kagome's world was the best for you. Kagome, do ye have anything to say on the matter?"
Kagome had remained surprisingly silent this whole time, but instead of anwsering Kaiede's question, she stood up and left without a word. She walked out the door and into the rain, no comment.
"What was that all about?" Chippou asked staring at where Kagome had left.
"I believe she has to think about it." Miroku replied as Sango got up to follow after her.
"No!" Inu-Yasha said as Sango went for the door. "I have to talk to her." His bones ached loudly as he got to his feet.
"Inu-Yasha, don't be a fool, you're too injured to go after her, sit back down." Kaiede said trying to coax him back.
"I'm sorry Kaiede, there's something I have to to." He said getting slowly to the door. "Huh, Chippou's right, I am stubborn.
"Kagome!" Called Inu-Yasha through the rain, he could see her standing only a few feet away, but in his condition, it felt like an eternity to walk. He slowly made his way behind her and put his hands on her cold, wet shoulders.
"I can't see you now Inu-Yasha." She whispered sadly "I can't look at you, what Yu did, what I let her do..."
"No. You did what you felt you had to. I'm not mad at you at all, please, don't push me away. I'm not angry, I'm glad were both alive and together if anything."
Kagome turned around, her wet school uniform clinging to her body (cough Think Kirsten Dunst in 'Spiderman". cough) and looked him in the eyes, tears streaming between the raindrops. She stared into him without really seeing him at all. All she could see was the pain that she had allowed to happen.
"I don't know what to say Kagome, except..."
I wanted you to know,
I loved the way you left,
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away,
I keep your photograph,
You know if serves me well,
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain,
Kagome joins Because I'm broken,
when I'm lonesome
and I don't feel right when your gone away. Kagome stops
You've gone away,
You don't feel me anymore.
Kagome only When the worst is over now,
and we can breathe again,
I wanna hold you high to steal my pain away.
There's so much left to learn,
And there's none left to fight,
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain,
Inu-Yasha joins 'Cause I'm broken
when I'm hopin'
and I don't feel like I'm strong enough.
Cause I'm broken
when I'm lonesome
and I don't feel right when you've gone away.
'Cause I'm broken
when I'm hopin'
and I don't feel like I'm strong enough.
Cause I'm broken
when I'm lonesome
and I don't feel right when you've gone away.
Cause I'm broken
when I'm open
and I don't feel right when you've gone away.
Inu-YashaYou've gone away,
You don't feel me anymore.
( Thank God for the band Seether with the awesome song 'Broken')
The two stood in the rain for the longest time just staring at each other. They knew that Miroku, Sango, and Chippou stood behind a corner of a building as they stood and stared at one another, but could care less.
"What are they waiting for?" Chippou whispered
"Young fox. These things cannot be rushed." Sango said as they watched on. "True love is a rose garden, it must be tended to tenderly and never rushed. It may take a while, but the results are worth it."
Inu-Yasha slowly drew closer as Kagome did too. Closer, and closer, slowly but surely until.
"Well isn't this a touching moment." Yelled a voice from aside. They both turned simultaniously to see a very smug Yu standing apart from them in the rain. Inu-Yasha drew his claws, ready to pounce on her and reached for the 'Tetsaiga', but! "Is this what you're looking for?" Yu called pointing his own sword at him. "Yes, I took it off of you after you passed out. Seems kind of worn for a legendary weapon."
"Give me it back!" Inu-Yasha demanded "You have no use for it, you'll never be able to tap into it."
Suddenly in a flash of lightning, the 'Tetsaiga' instantly transformed. "You mean like this?" she asked back, a superior look on her face. "Yes Inu- Yasha, as you can plainly see, I can easily wield your weapon. I must say, it's quite powerful at that, not meant like an amature like you. It's in much better hands with me."
"You bitch! Give it back!" Inu-Yasha sprang at Yu and slashed at her violently, barely missing both. Using the mommentium, he again shot at her, just grazing her leg this time, but not enough to slow her down.
"Inu-Yasha! Move aside!" Miroku yelled as the three jumped out of their hiding spot. The half demon dodged back as the monk put his hand out at Yu. "WIND TUNNEL!"
A giant plume of wind began to draw everything around into it as Yu struggled against the vortex. "Such a power. I could use something like that, but I doubt he would easily be swayed. Oh well, he'll just have yo die."
A buzzing noise crept through the near woods, and suddenly, hundreds upon thousands of poison wasps flooded the area. "Miroku! You have to stop!" Sango yelled "Those insects will kill you if you draw them in."
Miroku drew back, remembering the pain the wasps had caused him so many times before. He wasn't going to risk his life like that unless it was to draw in Naraku, not this girl. But where had the wasps come from?
"Curious of my buzzing friends?" Yu called out as the area became engorged with the deafening noise. "Did you really think I would come alone to fight you all? Please, I'm a buisness woman, I had to even the odds somehow. So, let's call out my special guest! Lady Kikyo!"
A woman clad in red and white robes crept up slowly from the other side of the fight. Her black hair ran down her front and sides as she batted it out of her large brown eyes to her shoulders. Her numerous soul gatherers surrounded her, the energy of the fallen always fresh in her body these days.
"Kikyo?" Inu-Yasha whispered "Why are you helping her?"
"We have a lot in common." Kikyo replied in her usual monotonous, yet depressed tone.
"For one, we both hate you." Yu added. "We met two days ago and hit it off, had a real girls night out. Drank, talked, planned of how to kill you, ya know, the tourist bit for me."
"And now we've come to take the jewel shards Inu-Yasha." Kikyo continued. "Hand them over and we'll leave peacefully. Resist and we'll destroy you, understand?"
The group gathered close and drew their weapons as Kikyo and Yu stood on either side, ready to fight whoever attacked first. This would be a battle of epic proportions for sure, a battle to the death for the Shikon jewel shards that Kagome safely kept on her at all times.
"Why fight us. You're going to lose." Kikyo began
"There's no way you can win." Yu continued "You cannot use the 'Wind Tunnel', our power together is unmatched, and of course, I weild the 'Tetsaiga', and along with it the 'Wind Scar'."
"Just hand over the shards." Kikyo continued. "There is no need for so much pointless death. Save yourselves and just surrender."
"Never!" Kagome yelled "We've fought a lot of people and demons to get this far, there's no way we're gonna stop now!"
"Foolish Kagome. Don't you understand like Yu and I do? Your time is over.." She looked passed the groups to Yu, almost as if cueing her.
"It's our time now."
Hey, it's me it's me it's Artie of the 'D'
Well...that's a bitch, ain't it? Just when things start to look good, things spin out of control and throw in a new surprising twist. As always, you can reach me at DarkArtimishotmail.com with questions and comments, or do please reply, I ever so enjoy reading your critiques. And to explain to Confused Dolphin, remember that store manager, he's going to be very important, very soon, and I'm so sorry for giving you nightmares hugs. Anyhow, here's the next preview.
Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn is an understatement for these two. Kikyo with her natural supernatural abilities, and Yu with the 'Wind Scar' on her side, Inu-Yasha still hurt, and Miroku's 'Wind Tunnel' unavailable, things are looking really, really bad! It's all on the line in an all out no holds barred fight for the ultimate prize in Act XI: The Green Eyed Soul.
I love the word 'gambit', soulds threatening, yet mysterious, huh? I hope you've enjoyed what I've writtain so far. The best is yet to come in: Inu- Yasha's Totally Excellent Adventure.