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Warnings- Nothing special, just in remembrance of the past characters and drama, of course… What would Inuyasha be without drama…?

Chapter 30

You stand and give the wrapped girl a wary glance before sprinting off back towards the castle. 'Hopefully this'll work! If it doesn't? Well, hopefully it'll work...' You muse inwardly as you sprint back towards the crumbling castle.

Jumping up through the hole in the castle wall where you were thrown out you frantically look around for your sword. Once you spot it you glance back at the blonde to see her breaking out of the vine wrap you put her in. You then quickly run to your sword and pull it out from the wall I was thrown into.

"You may have gotten through this far, human, but now I'm serious!" The blonde yells entering through the broken castle wall. You get into your fighting dance.

"Oh? You looked pretty serious before!" You reply. 'If it worked in the cave it should work again... Hopefully it will work again...' You think to yourself as flames slowly appear on the right side of your sword.

"A fire attack, huh?" You hear the fair-haired girl mutter getting into a stance as you raise your sword.

"Hakumei-kaen!" You yell as you bring the kyojin crashing down onto the castle's surface.

Fire emits from your sword's edge moving as fast as any other wild fire and as fast as it moved it slowly burned itself out. A bead of sweat rolls down the side of your face as you see the damage your attack has made. Leaving burn marks on the castle floor in it's' wake and only itself out at the blonde opponent's feet. 'Shit! What the hell was that?! Maybe I can try-' You suddenly hear distant laugh echo across the room and look up to see the blonde has disappeared. 'Where did she-' Suddenly cutting your thought off a hard uppercut punch lands below your chin and from the impact your sent flying into the corner wall.

Aching pain floods throughout your body from your neck and down your spine as you slide to floor. Laughter floods throughout the room as you make attempts to get back up again.

"And I thought this would have been a decent fight for a minute, but you can't even land an attack!" The blonde laughs as she continues to approach. "But, it seems you haven't gotten to my level yet, oh well!" You then finally get to your feet with the support of your sword just in time to see the girl disappear once again.

'I know she didn't just disappear into nothing... She's just going to punch me over and over again til' I wither away and die...' You think to yourself frantically glancing around. 'She's just too fast... Like almost Inuyasha's type of speed... Almost... But, I need a way to compete with her speed or I'm going to be beaten to death!' Suddenly a hard kick to your back throws you forward and onto your knees.

"Why are you just standing there? Scared to death? Accepting your fate? Well, either way this makes my job easier!" You hear as the girl remains invisible.

Scowling to yourself in pain, you continue to come up with a way to beat the girl. 'Speed, speed, speed... What can I do to slow her down?! Even if I slow her down I couldn't fight her then! It needs to be one big attack, but I still don't have a lot of energy! But, still something to compete with her speed... And effective enough to make her faint...' You think as you push yourself up with the help of the Kyojin. 'The Kyojin... Speed... Hakumei Kaen... Yes! That's it!!' You yell inwardly.

Holding your sword out in front of you, you levitate the tip of the sword high above the ground and watch as the majority of the rest of your ki floods into it, making it glow a (color of your ki) color. To your favor you notice sparks popping up from the ground below it.

"What's this? Planning on attacking again? Take your best shot because this is your last chance, human!" The voice yells, from what seems in every direction around you.

You slightly raise your sword and forcefully let it plummet down to the crackling Earth below. 'And I'll call this new attack...'

"Raiden Shikei!!" You yell as the Kyojin meets with the ground below, passing piercing the surface.

Large sparks emit from the ground and a great ball of what seemed to look like your ki jumped off the ground, and like light traveling from mirror to mirror, it bounced from wall to wall, brightening up the room. With a large bang it stops hitting its invisible target in the back as a bright light engulfs the room. When the light fades away you see the girl drop to the ground from positioned on the wall, to a shaking crumpled position on the floor.

Watching the girl warily you remove your sword from the ground and slowly sheath it. 'I guess... I finally beat her...' You muse inwardly. A rush quickly runs throughout your body and you feel your legs tremble and give way under you. Falling onto your hands you quickly push yourself into a position of sitting against the wall. 'It's good that I stopped her from killing me, but how the hell am I suppose to get out of here?! I'm almost close to a paralyzed person in this state...' You think to yourself as you try and control your breathing rate. 'Well, this place held up during our fight, maybe it can stand a little longer when the feeling in my legs come back...' You think remembering the current state of the castle.

Glancing around the room, you notice Adira slowly moving from her position from the ground and rubbing her head. 'Shit!! She shouldn't be recovering that fast!! This- this crappy little castle is going to be my grave! And I can't believe I'm still a virgin!! I'm going to die a virgin!! After all this! I should have never-' Your thoughts come to a halt as you notice the girl standing in front of you, staring down at you expressionlessly. Without a word she pulls you up by the arm, which she slings over her shoulder and quickly starts to walk you to the hole in the wall and out of the castle.

Stepping into the forest she drops you at the base of the tree leaving you in a sitting position leaning against the tree. Bemused by her deeds you open your mouth to say something, but only to be quickly cut off.

"Don't get used to that, human, it will never happen again! I only did it this time because, you are a suitable opponent and are to make a good rival for me... Once more..." She says glaring down at you, before quickly turning on her heel and walking away.

"Wait a minute! What happened to the Adira you were before you tried to kill me?!" You ask frowning and sitting limp turning to face her. The girl stops and turns around.

"That girl you saw before, you will never see again... She was just another version of me without memories... Kind of like the way you are now... A hopeless idiot, perhaps?" The blonde answers frowning back. "You may have gone this far, but next time you won't be so lucky priestess!" The blonde says walking away.

"Geez, there's going to be a next time? Hopefully, she'll just put me out of my misery then!" You mutter, shifting against the tree and moving your aching body. "Got damn it!"

Despite the horrible turn of events earlier, the sun is still seen shining through the cracks of the leaves above. You quickly tread down the forest path in hopes of finding Inuyasha... After a long, maybe 20 minute wait you regained some of your energy back and soon you were back on your way, still aching though... As soon as you take your next step the ground starts to tremor causing you take support on a tree. Holding tightly onto the tree you hear loud, earth shredding rumble and suddenly a bright light floods the area making you quickly shut your eyes.

Just as soon the flash fades and you open your eyes and look up to see a flock of birds hurriedly flying into the opposite direction you were heading. 'Hn that must mean I'm going the right way then... Hopefully...' You think to yourself as the quake slowly calms down. Unlatching yourself from the tree you quickly continue back down the path in a cautious jog. Becoming more aware of the area around you, you notice a weak ki enter the area to your right and hidden forest lush. Just as soon as you start to pick up your pace you notice the holder of the weak ki quickly moving toward you quickly and just in time you stop as a arrow flies right pass your head and right into a tree beside you. Glancing toward the arrow you slowly turn toward the owner who's stepping out from behind a tree.

"You're K-Kikyo!" You blurt surprised with the zombie girl's appearance.

"So you've heard of me." Kikyo says and takes out another arrow from her pack.

"Yeah, from Inuyasha..." You reply frowning. "What do you want anyway?"

"To give you a final warning stay away from Inuyasha!" She yells aiming her arrow at you.

"As much threatened as I feel right now, that's not going to happen, Ms. Kikyo!" You reply in mock respect to the girl and getting ready to dodge another arrow.

"Then so be it!" She then launches another arrow at you, which you quickly dodge.

As she pulls out more arrows, you slowly pull out the Kyojin. Blocking her oncoming arrows with your sword, you notice the limp in the zombie girl's step as she starts to move. Before getting ready to fire another arrow, suddenly the girl collapses to the ground clutching her sides. You sheath the Kyojin and cautiously approach her. Getting closer to the girl you cringe as you notice the girl coughing up sticky black liquid stuff... This all turns most of your irritation into sympathy.

"Hey, um, are you ok?" You ask the girl looking down at her.

"Get away from me!!" She yells and you jump away as you notice a crackle of what's left of her ki start to appear around her.

"It's obvious you're in no condition to fight and I'm sure you know it, too! And if you want my help-"

"I do not need your help!" She cuts in and grabs her mouth, starting to cough up more and more black liquid. "And if you were to help me, I'd just have a better opportunity to kill you...You seem to be much more of a foolish person, than I thought you were..." She says wiping the black liquid from her lips.

"I'm not foolish, I'm just being nice, and it's pretty obvious a person like you wouldn't accept that kind of help anyway, that's why I asked..." You reply frowning before starting to back away.

"Of course, but before you go I have important information that may help you in the future..." Kikyo says with a serious expression plastered upon her face.

"Why would you give a damn about what happens to me? You just tried to kill me! You must think I was born yesterday!" You sneer shaking your head.

"This information does not only involve you, it involves the survival of human race and the survival of Inuyasha also..." She answers looking up at you.

"Since when do you care about Inuyasha either? From what I heard you've always been trying to kill him, too!" You ask.

"This time it's different, even from what you may think about Inuyasha and I, I-"

"Alright, I guess I know what you're saying, I'm listening."

"Alright, do not interrupt me until I'm finished." She says and you nod for her to go on. "Last week there was a child born in the castle, it was the child of a woman who wishes not to be named and the person who may have the ability to change form from person to person. The mother of the child soon found me and gave me the child because she could not return to her family with a fatherless child. Soon after I was confronted by the self-proclaimed father of the child, who was in Inuyasha's form when I met him, I was over-powered by the imposter and he took the child." She ends rubbing her hands through the grass.

"Someone is disguising their self as Inuyasha?" You think out loud to yourself as a mind suddenly comes to mind. "Kurayami!"

"Yes, that was what he said was his name. The reason I've told you this is because this demon, by the name of Kurayami, may have ties with Naraku, from what I know from meeting with him... Have you met him?"

"Yeah, sort of a long story... But, how would he have any ties with Naraku? Inuyasha killed Naraku last year..." You ask the bemusedly.

"That's something you'll have to find out for yourself, but you shouldn't underestimate Naraku, the type like him can never vanish from the world completely."

"Right, but why would he want that baby?" You ask.

"...If you're not such a foolish person like you say you are, think about that yourself..." She replies starting to cough again.

"...Some help you are... And if I'm so much a foolish person like you say I am, what are you expecting me to do about this?!"

"Do not question me; I know what I'm doing right now. You're a person that helps another person or demon that has tried to kill you multiple times; you're very naïve, almost in a bad way... So, I know you will do something about this..."

"Hey! Don't just judge me right on first meeting! You don't know nothing about me, so don't try and say such things!" You yell indignantly at the zombie girl.

"...Of course, but you'd do anything for Inuyasha, I'm sure..."

You pause and look away as you notice the girl glaring up at you. "And how would I go about doing something about that then, if you're so sure I would?"

"That's for you to decide when the time is right; I only have information to give you. Lastly, this demon, Kurayami is very powerful and caution should be taken around him. I'm not sure if Inuyasha is strong enough to fight him, but they may be on the same level. This Kurayami has a special technique of planting something in his opponent's body, setting it off and spreading poison throughout the opponent's body that slowly destroys one organ at a time... Then causes a bright white light when he initiates the attack... Which he performed on me, causing me to lose when we fought..." Kikyo says coughing.

"Poison? Do you know if there's an antidote to it?"

"I don't know about that either... That's another reason why I can't do anything else about it..." She answers sitting on her knees.

"So, if you don't find an antidote, what's going to happen to you?" You ask approaching her slowly.

".... That's none of your business..."

"But, it is! I can help you, and besides if you don't get any help now, how will you survive?"

"It's not a matter of how, anymore. I didn't tell you all of this because I want you to help me anyway, other people will need and want your assistance right now." She says standing up and leaning on a tree.

"But-"

"Go find other people to help and force it upon them. Besides, wouldn't you rather help Inuyasha?"

"...Fine, not that I care, but at least find someone else to help you..."

Frowning you slowly back away from her, eyeing her bemusedly, before turning around and running away. 'Hopefully it wasn't Inuyasha that was hit by that poison technique a few minutes ago... ' You mutter inwardly to yourself as a bead of sweat slides down your forehead. '...And if Kikyo dies then who's going to take care of that baby if we get it back, plus we don't know who it's mother is...'

Running farther down the path, your sprint slows down to walk as you notice someone leaning on a tree far away from you. 'That could be Inuyasha's imposter... Kurayami...' You think to yourself as you continue to approach warily. 'No... That has to be someone else, what would he be doing sitting around out here...' You continue to walk closer and now getting a better view of the loiterer. 'Wait... That's Inuyasha!!'

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Raiden Shikei- Another one of the Kyojin's attacks, which means translates as Thunder and Lightning Capital Punishment.

Alright, another chapter full of adventure, action and drama completed! I hoped you enjoyed!

Later!