Chapter 13
InuYasha watched with a growing feeling of dread dropping into his chest. The demon cloud seemed to be getting bigger with the addition of more demons.
"I won't be able to fight well because of my situation," InuYasha pointed out.
"No duh! I already figured that out! Maybe you can distract the demons to give Kagome and me a chance to kill them before the focus on killing us." Sango turned her head from the demons to look over at her friends.
Kagome nodded. "I think that is best. InuYasha, use your untransformed Tetsusaiga to knock the demons off balance so we can kill them. All right? Let's go!"
"WAIT!" InuYasha yelled as the girls readied their weapons and prepared to run into battle. They looked at him like he had grown another head.
"What?" they asked.
InuYasha growled. "Did anyone ask my opinion on this plan? Why the hell do I have to be a distraction? I could kill them easily!"
Kagome glowered at him. "Okay then InuYasha! What do you think of the plan? You are the distraction because you are the most vulnerable. And if you want to take them on all by yourself, go ahead." She crossed her arms and pinned him with a menacing stare, daring him to defy her.
Sango could have laughed at InuYasha's face if the situation wasn't as bad. "Um, I think we should go now." Kagome and InuYasha looked up and saw the demons enter the clearing and their eyes grew big.
"I'm good with the plan. What are you all waiting for?" InuYasha said as he unsheathed Tetsusaiga and charged the demons.
Kagome snorted. "I don't understand him sometimes."
Sango grabbed her friend's hand and dragged her into the battle. "Talk later, fight now!" she said as she let her boomerang fly through the air.
It cut through several demons before returning to her hand. She nodded at Kagome before running off to InuYasha's other side.
Kagome turned and saw several demons coming toward her and she squeaked. She grabbed an arrow and let it loose. She heard the satisfying 'twang' of the bowstring as the arrow flew. It hit the first few demons and they disintegrated.
'Score one for Kagome!' she praised herself. 'Now, for round two!' She grabbed another arrow and aimed for the next group of demons.
'I have to be a distraction! Stupid wench!' InuYasha grunted the words out in his head in rhythm with his swings. He sent a demon toward Sango while Kagome killed one that he couldn't get to in time.
InuYasha nodded his thanks and Kagome nodded back. He swung at a lizard demon before he spotted Koga.
"Koga? Come help us kill these demons!" InuYasha yelled to the wolf demon.
Koga smiled. "No can do. I am here to help them!" he said before coming at InuYasha full speed.
InuYasha gasped and braced himself for the pain. To his surprise, it never came. He opened his eyes and saw Sango's boomerang throwing Koga back into a tree. When Koga stood up and was hit in the stomach with one of Kagome's arrows.
He screamed as the miko power killed him. When InuYasha yelled, "Thanks," the girls yelled back at him, "Your welcome!"
The battle dragged on with all three of them sustaining injuries. 'We won't be able to kill them all! They just keep coming! Damn pathetic human body!'
InuYasha fought to keep himself standing up. His body was losing energy fast, as were Sango and Kagome's bodies.
Kagome screamed in pain, as a bat demon raked his claws against her arm. "InuYasha! I am running out of arrows! I won't be able to keep this up for much longer!"
Sango yelled out her report, too. "I am losing strength. I can hardly throw my boomerang! How much longer until morning?"
"I don't know!" He swung at a snake demon. "Ten minutes, an hour. I lost track of time!"
Sango screeched, as another snake demon bit her leg. It was bleeding profusely and Sango winced when she tried to put her full weight on it. 'Great! Just what I needed now!'
She gasped as a wave of pain shot through her.
"Get behind me! Quickly!" a voice yelled from behind them.
They turned to see Miroku running toward them. Sango couldn't believe her eyes. 'He came back!'
She didn't know whether she was happy or devastated to see him back. One half of her was ecstatic, the other half wanted to slice him into pieces.
Kagome ran over to her and pulled on her arm, getting her to move behind Miroku. Kagome was the most trusting out of the trio. She didn't let the fact that Miroku had tried to kill Sango prevent her from trusting him.
InuYasha struggled, not wanting to believe that Miroku was back to help them. Yet, at the same time, he was happy that his best friend had come back.
Kagura swooped down and hovered in front of Miroku. "So, I see you have decided to come join in the fun!"
Miroku braced himself and grabbed his prayer beads.
A/N: Sorry about not updating and I want to apologize beforehand about the little change in the dialect and stuff in the next chapter. I couldn't remember what I wrote in Chapter 14 (I wrote that before this one) so I improvised. Use whatever dialect you like the best when you are reading. Also, I apologize for the short chapter. I couldn't fill in the full two pages! Happy reading!