Kagome looked at the sight before her in utter terror. If something wasn't done soon, InuYasha would be killed. And what was worse was the fact that neither of them had brought any weapons.
"Don't worry your pretty little head of hair," Yura smiled wickedly. "I will try to make the cut as quick and painless as possible." She lifted her katana to his throat and started to slice. She managed to cut the first layer of his skin, but was stopped by an enchanted arrow that pierced her back. InuYasha and all the hair fell to the ground. Yura looked around and glared angrily. She spotted a figure holding a bow in front of it far off in the distance.
(A decoy...?)
She felt a sharp cut across the back of her left leg. She looked down to see that a long sword had cut it. She followed its twists and turns to its master: Jakotsu. He leapt up at her and slashed again with his sword. She managed to dodge it and sent more hair at him, entangling him.
"How rude," Yura glowered. "That wasn't very nice."
"What can I say," Jakotsu smirked. "I'm not a very nice person."
Yura tugged on one of the strands of hair, causing the entire ball that encased him to constrict. As all this was going on, Kikyou, the one who had fired that arrow, was already helping InuYasha out of the tangle of hair. Kagome joined them.
"What's going on here?" Kikyou demanded.
"We're fighting a demon," InuYasha responded sarcastically. "And we were doing just fine until you girls showed up."
Kikyou's face went red with rage. "This is the thanks I get for saving you?" she exclaimed.
"Kikyou," Kagome said, "Let me handle this." There was a long pause, then the two words that InuYasha hated most: "Sit, boy!" He crashed to the ground. "Now," Kagome continued, "What do we say?"
"Don't make me say it-"
"What do we say?" she shouted angrily.
"Thank you," InuYasha muttered under his breath.
"There," Kikyou smiled. "Was that so hard?"
"Excuse me," a voice called out of nowhere, "But would you guys mind HELPING ME?"
They looked up to see Jakotsu suffocating in Yura's hairball. InuYasha smiled, leapt up and slashed at her. The shock of the attack caused the hairball to loosen, and Jakotsu was freed.
"InuYasha!" Kagome called, "You and Jakotsu keep her at bay. Kikyou and I will find the comb and destroy it!"
InuYasha nodded and looked over at Jakotsu. "Ready?" he smiled. Jakotsu returned the smile and nodded. Then the two of them rushed to Yura and began their counterattack. Meanwhile, Kagome and Kikyou searched for the red skull containing Yura's comb. Through the several hundred strands of hair they searched for it. But they couldn't find it.
"Give up," Yura exclaimed, blocking the blows from InuYasha's claws and the Jakotsutou. "Neither one of you has the strength to beat me."
"Then how is it we beat you before?" InuYasha said, slashing at the strands of hair between him and his enemy. The three combatants fought for a long amount of time as Kikyou and Kagome searched frantically for the red skull with the comb. Out of the corner of her eye, Kagome saw it.
"Kikyou," she shouted, "I found it!" She dashed to it and tried to break it open with a rock. Yura noticed this and sent waves of hair down at her. But InuYasha stopped her.
"Your fight is with us," he said. He and Jakotsu leapt up and took turns slashing at her.
Kagome continued to try to break the skull, but had no success. Kikyou ran up to her and shoved her to the side. "Let me handle this," she scoffed. She took one of her arrows and thrust it to the skull, shattering it. The comb on the other hand was not scratched at all.
"Face it," Yura said with a sadistic smile, "You cannot beat me." She sent out a final wave of hair to her enemies and encased them. She immediately began to constrict. InuYasha and Jakotsu felt the pressure on their bodies and slowly started to suffocate.
"We're running out of time," Kagome exclaimed. Kikyou looked up at the fight, tightened the grip on her arrow and slashed at the comb with it. It only grazed it slightly, but it was enough to make Yura stop her attack. She felt pain all throughout her body. She had been weakened.
"Don't think this is over," she shouted as a hair strand snatched the comb from Kikyou's hand. And with that, she left.
The boys fell to the ground. Only Jakotsu could stand back up. He ran over to InuYasha and noticed for the first time that he had been stabbed. He put his arm around him and helped him to his feet. "You okay?" he smiled sweetly.
"Just peachy," InuYasha replied coldly. Kagome and Kikyou ran up to them.
"Thanks for helping us," Kagome said. Jakotsu smiled and nodded.
"She'll probably be back," Kikyou whispered. Then she looked at InuYasha and started laughing. "I honestly thought you would be able to take care of that demon by yourself."
InuYasha gritted his teeth. "Actually, I could have. She is a weak demon after all."
"A weak demon?" Kikyou smirked. "And even the both of you could barely hurt her."
"We did a lot more damage to her than you ever could have," InuYasha exclaimed. Then, turning to Jakotsu, he said, "Am I right?"
"Leave me out of this," Jakotsu whispered meekly.
Kikyou and InuYasha continued arguing for a long time before anyone realized that he was actually very hurt. They decided to let it go for now, and take him back to the village.

Yura hated the ice fortress. It was so cold and dark. But she had to go back there anyways. Only Gyouka could repair her scratched comb. She entered the courtyard and walked around the garden of dead trees. The Toukaibutsu were all at full strength now. The battle would begin soon. Their army lacked only one more ingredient...
After spending a few minutes looking at the awful sight of decaying wood, she went into the main hall. There, she saw Shimoka and Frostbyte plotting something. She couldn't quite hear what they were saying, but it sounded like a sneak attack on someone.
She then went to the long winding staircase that led to the overlook room. After climbing what seemed like a hundred flights, she arrived. The room was empty, save for one thing. Sekka sat at the window ledge, staring out into space.
"Hey," Yura called out, "Have you seen Gyouka anywhere?"
Sekka turned her head slowly. "Gyouka went out to revive more dead demons."
"I see," Yura whispered. "When will he be back? I really need to see him."
"Why?"
Yura showed her the comb. Sekka took it, and without warning, blasted it with a ball of ice. Yura tried to stop it, but when she didn't feel any pain from it, she became intrigued.
Sekka handed the comb back to her. It had gone from red to an icy blue. "There," she smirked, "All fixed."
"Thank you," Yura said, examining the comb. "But what did you do to it?"
Sekka smiled. "I improved it. You'll see the next time you go into battle."
Yura sat down on the other end of the window ledge and looked down at the courtyard. She saw Naraku and his offspring enter, as well as Fuyuka, Icehaken and the wolves, Shimoka, Frostbyte and the Yukikyuu. Without any signs of warning, they all began a free-for-all battle. Yura glanced over at Sekka, who was smiling wickedly.
"My bet's on Shimoka," she whispered.
"What are they doing?" Yura asked.
"A training session," a voice said from behind them. Gyouka had returned with two new demons, but they were still downstairs. "I would like to introduce the two newest members of this army of ours." He pointed his hand to the direction of the door, but no one came. Yura looked over at Sekka, who just shrugged.
"I said," Gyouka called out, "I would like to introduce the two newest members of-"
"We heard you the first time!" a young male voice called from the door. Yura, Sekka and Gyouka listened carefully to the conversation between the two demons.
"I can't go in there like this," a deep male voice said.
"Don't worry about it," the younger voice comforted.
"But there's two beautiful women in there, and they'll think I'm ugly."
"No we won't!" Yura called out.
Sekka decided to join in the persuading. "Come on! We don't have all goddamn day!"
The demons entered the room. No one else there would recognize them, but InuYasha, Kagome and Shippou would. They were the Thunder Brothers: Hiten and Manten.
"Now," Yura said, "Why would you think that we would think that you are ugly?"
Hiten stared at her with a blank face, but Manten pointed to his head and said, "Because I don't have any hair."
Yura smiled. "Well," she chuckled, "As it turns out, I am a hair demon. I can help with this little problem..."
Sekka leapt to her feet, ran over to Hiten, grabbed his arm, and with a big smile said, "This one's mine!"