(Fight without flight)
"What should we do, Shippo?" Kagome cried out. "Inu Yasha's powerful, but with Hiten and his fire wheels he doesn't stand a chance!"
Shippo pondered as he stared at his father's pelt, all that was left of him. Running his small fingers over the sewn lines, he wondered if Manten had sewn in back up together, but then he doubted it.
"Of course!" Kagome yelled out. "I can knock out his wheels with my archery!" frantically she looked around for an arrow. It was in the range of her hand, and she grabbed it quickly. Wasting no time, she looked around for her bow…but realized that she had lost it a long time ago. Back in the field where she had first been discovered by Manten.
"Damn…my bow, I should have kept that with me…" Kagome muttered in complete disbelief. Just then, Shippo took out a green leaf from his chest pocket and placed it on his head.
"Shippo, what are you…"
"I'll help you." Shippo said, wiping away a tear as he gazed at his father's pelt. "After all, if I don't repay the deed you have done for me, father will be very cross."
Well, this is it.
I've borrowed Manten's powers and absorbed them into my own.
That hybrid…ripped away that was everything to me.
Heh, as if I didn't already lose a lot already.
But this time, I'll win.
That half breed…doesn't stand a chance.
Hiten was at his wit's end. Not only did this half breed find out how to get past his lightening attacks, he was beginning to run from him. At the moment the best thing to do seemed to be to chase after him, as a tiger chases after a rabbit, as a hawk chases after a sparrow.
"Hah! You have nowhere to go anymore but to surrender to your death!" Hiten cried out. Sakura watched on in horror. Even though she knew that Hiten would probably win, she couldn't get the pain out of her gut. And it wasn't because of the dagger that was buried deep within her stomach. Hiten seemed like a mad person, like one of those rounins who loved to kill, who loved to shed blood. Who chased after their victim until they killed them.
Just then out of nowhere, an arrow whizzed by Hiten's ankle and shattered his wheel to pieces.
"Damn!" Hiten cried out. Taking this chance, Inu Yasha grasped onto the hilt of the Raigekijin's blade and gripped firmly.
"Ah, so you prefer to be toasted into a crisp, do you?!" Hiten's angered voice rang throughout the battlefield and he sent huge volts of energy through to the thunder pike, giving the half demon extreme pain.
"No…" Sakura rasped in horror. She looked around for the girl who had probably shot it, and gathering up her strength once again; ran over to where she was. When the girl saw that she was there, she put on a look of disbelief and shock.
"Hello, Kagome." Sakura hissed. "Did you miss me?"
"Hey, who are you?" The little fox demon squealed. "Are you on the side of the thunder brothers?"
"……I should say I am." Sakura said simply as she glared back down at Kagome. "You said that you weren't lying. I knew you were, and hoped that you wouldn't get in the way of the battle."
"But…I'm on Inu Yasha's side, and he's losing!" Kagome yelled back. "I must do something, right? If Hiten were to be in trouble, you would help him, right?"
This took Sakura back. As she took a step backwards, she felt the pain in her gut take over and she fell to the ground with a thud.
"Sakura!" Kagome yelled and ran to aid her. Sakura sat up and glared at the girl, hoping that she would move away. In fact, she didn't. The young fox demon ran by her side and ran his hands over the handle of the blade.
"Can't we take it out?" Shippo asked as Kagome looked at the dagger in concern. She shook her head side to side.
"No, Shippo." Kagome said. "The wound is almost healed around the blade, and I assume the only way that we can take it out is to get it taken out by a doctor."
"But…we can't just take it out?"
Kagome shook her head once again. "Shippo, if we take this out…her artery will burst and she'll die of losing blood." Kagome looked up at the doubtful girl. "So don't take this out, no matter what. I know a good doctor in the place that I stay sometimes, so I'll take you there."
"I don't need your help." Sakura spat. Just then, she froze as she saw Hiten get punched in the face. "Hiten!!"
The thunder demon skidded straight across before he came to an abrupt stop at a huge boulder. His head bashed against the hard surface, and as he lay there in half pain, he heard his name.
"Hiten! Oh my god, Hiten!!" the frail voice rang out.
'That…sounds a lot…like someone I know…' he thought to himself as he lifted himself out of the rubble. He stared at the hybrid with his red eyes and smirked, but stopped when he felt a lump in his throat. Coughing it out, he saw that it was blood.
"I have never been struck in the face…in all my life." Hiten yelled in spite of his humiliation. "And I refuse to let it happen again!"
With all his might, Hiten swung down his Raigekijin at the source of his sorrow. Inu Yasha. As the hybrid desperately tried to block the pressure with a single demon scabbard, Hiten grit his teeth.
He was determined to kill the half breed. He didn't want to finish him off in a matter of seconds. He wanted to enjoy this opponent's death more than any other. How pleasing it would be to see the half breed's body tattered into pieces, to see the red liquid gushing out like a waterfall.
Just then, he turned his head slightly and saw two figures running towards his brother's corpse. How dare they, he thought. How dare they.
With a sudden outburst of anger, Hiten collected energy into his mouth while at the same time pressured Inu Yasha with more lightening powers.
"Look out!!!" The hybrid screamed just as soon as he let a shower of burning energy let go. It headed straight towards the two, both the girl and the fox tyke. How he hoped they'd die a miserable death.
"Hah!" Hiten yelled in triumph. "A toast to you!"
"Kagome…Shippo!" Inu Yasha screamed in a state of utter disbelief. "Kagome!!! Shippo!!!"
"You have wise friends, Inu Yasha." Hiten laughed. "They prove my point that anyone who dares to get in my way meets up with death!"
Sakura quickly half ran, half tripped over to the two, hoping that they hadn't died…yet. Even though they were enemies, she couldn't help but feel sorry for them. Hiten…he didn't really kill them, did he?
After all, the girl could have easily killed her off for all she knew. She was the one with more scars and more pain. All Kagome had to do was remove the dagger and she'd probably have been lying on the ground dying. But Kagome decided not to, whether it was out of fear or pity.
"Kagome…Shippo!" Sakura yelled amidst the thunderous battle. They probably hadn't even noticed her by now, she thought. Just then, she saw a faint blue luminous glow around Kagome and the small fox demon.
"Are you guys alive?" Sakura questioned. "You guys aren't harmed?"
"No, we're not." Kagome said as Shippo gazed at the blue glow form into a fox's shape and ascend into the heavens. "I think Shippo's father saved us. He cares for us."
Sakura gave them a weak smile and watched the glow grow fainter and then disappear. Hopefully there was somebody up there, such as her brother…who cared for her as well.
Just then, she felt the ground pulse hard. Then pulsed again. It was a faint one, but she could still feel it underneath her feet and knees. She turned her head just in time to see Inu Yasha with the Tetsusaiga in hand. Hiten's forehead was seriously bruised as if he had been knocked out there also.
"Tetsusaiga!!!" Inu Yasha yelled out as Kagome and Shippo ran forward, looking as if they were going to stop him.
Hiten was going to die. Her small thought of hope that he might have been able to win was washed away. Sakura had to do something. Hiten was going to get struck in the head. No demon nor human that she had ever known had survived a blow to the head.
Heh…me? Die? I don't think so.
I have someone waiting for me, someone that might need my help.
I can't die now. Not this easily .
Just to think about the fact that I couldn't do anything for him…kills me even more.
I can't die without doing something for him.
I can't die without…doing something for him.
Just can't die…
Without doing something…
For him…
For him……
Sakura made up her mind. It was surprising to her how fast her reflexes were when they came into hardcore situations. Everything happened so quickly in a matter of moments. Hiten grabbed onto his Raigekijin as it was his dear life, knowing that he would die. The wooden handle of the Raigekijin surely couldn't stand a chance against another demon blade.
Inu Yasha swung with all his might, but then felt something sharp cut across his right wrist and missed Hiten's head. Instead, it cut the thunder pike in half and cut deep into his right shoulder, causing him to fall and cry out in pain.
Kagome and Shippo screamed in horror as Hiten and Inu Yasha both collapsed out of pain onto the battlefield. Inu Yasha's wrist, as well as his injuries must have built up. Hiten? The only injuries that he had gotten was the punch, the heatbutt and the gash in the shoulder. But the main reason that they had screamed was because of what Sakura had done to prevent everything.
'Heh…' Sakura thought as she crumpled to the floor. 'I was able to do something for him…after all…'
Um...you'll probably know what happened. If not, read the next chapter. (sobs) And LWD, don't kill me, I have a good reason for why this happened; as you probably already know what happened. If not, well...no comment. Just wait for the update.
I'm thinking, after I edit the whole story after I'm finished (You know, after I proofread and go over it and stuff like that...) I should make a sequel. I was thinking of a happy ending for this story, but #1, this is angst...and #2, the story wouldn't be considered 'finished' to me. So therefore, I have been thinking of making a sequel to 'Ice cold soul.'
What do you guys think? R&R! Well, it's only the second part of the R...since you've probably already read it anyways. All you guys need to do is to do what the second R stands for...REVIEW! LOL....