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Chapter 6: The Other

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"So what if I'm from Kagome's time? Why should you care, huh?" Toku argued with Inu-Yasha.

"Why the hell do you think I should? You think you could just lie to us?" he growled.

Toku was still in her human state, but she had entwined her staff, which was now the size of a stick, in her hair, holding it back. In this case, it was a good thing.

Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara were watching them bicker, waiting to see who would win this contest. Since Toku's arrival, she had made herself a worthy opponent against Inu-Yasha. She sure seemed to have the same temper as he did. She was like Kagome, only younger, and didn't like him in that way. In fact, she really didn't like him at all.

"I didn't lie to you, you assumed! You automatically assumed I was from this era. Kagome's not from this era, yet she didn't have to tell you where she was from, so why should I?"

"That was different! And would you stop that!"

"Why? Am I scaring you? Are my telekinetic powers too much for the little Inu?" she said in a high pitched, baby like voice.

"Shut up!" he snarl. "Just shut up!"

"Why the hell are you so obsessed with me explaining myself? Shouldn't we be looking for Kagome?" Toku tried to say.

Inu-Yasha, who really didn't hear her (not by choice), just kept talking. "You don't scare me! Like a stupid girl is gonna scare me!"

"Ya didn't even hear me, did you, ya damn dog!" she glared at him. "Just shut the hell up for a few seconds! What's more important, getting me to explain or saving Kagome?" She shrugged her shoulders and the rest knew that she had won. Inu-Yasha glared at her, knowing how happy she might have felt to stop him. But what she did say was true. He was focused on beating Toku, while Kagome was in some unknown danger somewhere.

"Well-"

"Shut-"Toku silenced him. She had frozen, listening intently into the silent wind.

"What is it?" Miroku asked.

"I don't-"Sango started.

"Sshhhh!" she hissed. Everyone listened intensely to what she could have possibly heard. Even Inu-Yasha didn't hear anything. The only thing they could hear was the crackle of the fire and the wind whispering deeply in the night.

"Tuoh!" she whispered, sweeping her arm over the fire, extinguishing it. The group sat there in silence, in the dark forest. They listened closely.

"What are we listening for?" Shippo whispered.

'Shh!' she thought to them, causing everyone to jump away from her.

'Hush! Don't you hear it? There's someone else her, waiting in the darkness. I hear the pattern of seven different breathing rates. We are not alo- It's moving closer. She grabbed her staff from her hair and set a small ball of light out into the forest. The light created an eight foot radius wherever it floated in the closed up forest. No one had seen anything and Inu-Yasha was just about to rub it in her face when the light lit up a dark, shadowy figure.

"Ygrene!" Toku screamed, aiming her staff at the image and shot a blast of light at the shadow. The shadow returned the favor and shot its own black sphere of energy at them. Both spheres engulfed each other in an equal amount of force. The crew shielded their eyes from the blast, just when the black shadow tried to fly off.

"Oh no you don't!" Inu-Yasha shouted out to the person. He chased after the person, the others still stupefied, gaining back their senses. Toku transformed in the speed of wind, and followed him.

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Inu-Yasha had started to follow the figure that had attacked them, when it came to a halt in the meadow that was abutting the forest.

"What the hell was that about?" Inu-Yasha hollered at the black figure, coming to a halt. The figure turned to him

"What the hell?" it asked him. He recognized the voice. "I shall tell you what the hell." She turned to him in a sharp turn. He was right. The Kuro Miko stood in front of him, holding what looked like a dead bat in her hand. The blood soaked her hand and she tossed in to the ground.

"Kuroi denkou!" she said with such power. When she said that, a bolt of black lightning struck the land that Inu-Yasha was standing on. He jumped from the ground to another spot a bit further from where he was originally. He drew out Tetsusaiga. Kuro just threw her head back in laughter.

"Damn, Inu-Yasha! You don't know how to learn do you? You are a pathetic excuse for a hybrid. Even tha-"

She was struck in the arm with a ball of fire. "What the fu-"She quickly extinguished her arm. Inu-Yasha looked at her. When that ball of fire was thrown at her, she had this fearful look in her eye, at least of what he could see. He turned to see who had thrown the ball of fire.

Of course! He rolled his eyes as Toku, the show-off fairy, came to save the day.

"I guess it'd be a stupid idea to ask for thanks, wouldn't it?" she asked, landing gracefully next to him.

"Mmhm," he nodded. She glared at him and he returned the glare. They had completely forgotten that Kuro was there. She took this opportunity to make her black sphere larger than a small house, surrounded in a blanket of black smoke. The ball started to spark, and she hurled it at them. It hit the ground that they stood on, throwing then over twenty feet. Toku took advantage of her wings and got her balance, but Inu-Yasha was luckily caught by Sango, who was riding Kirara. The rest of them had gotten there in time.

"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled, throwing her boomerang after she had hoisted Inu-Yasha onto Kirara. The boomerang came swirling towards her, but she didn't move. She stayed in her spot, watching the boomerang now ten feet. The boomerang was now a foot away and that's when she reacted. A shield shortly surrounded her and did what no one had done- broke Hiraikotsu clean in half. The now useless boomerang fell to the floor.

"Damn!" Sango said threw clenched teeth from both anger and surprise.

Kuro's arms spread to her sides, and blackish-greenish flames of smoke surrounded her hands. She brought her hands together and shot a beam of energy down at Miroku. He deflected it by putting a barrier around himself. No one had seen Inu-Yasha jump from Kirara. He had gone behind Kuro and was about to attack her from behind when she sharply turned around.

"Serpentine!" she screeched, her smoke shooting out and intending to wrap itself around Inu-Yasha. But it missed. Something had disturbed its path and when Inu-Yasha turned to see who it was, it was none other than Toku.

"What the hell was that about!" Inu-Yasha snarled at her.

"Thanks Toku," she faked. "Oh, no problem, Inu-Yasha. It was nothing. Yeah, good thing I ain't some jerk or I would have never save you." She shot a fierce look at him and shot a bolt of lightning at Kuro. Of course, she defected it with her own.

"You know, instead of fighting me, don't you think that you should be finding your little damsel in distress?" Kuro asked, smiling evilly. "Besides, I already got what I needed, so I really have no use for her. You can come and pick her up whenever you feel like. She's not alone, but she is really annoying." She landed on the ground, but she had changed. She was no longer a nebulous figure, but a person.

She was pretty tall, but not so much. Maybe as tall as Toku. She had sleek, shiny auburn colored hair that went down to her waist. She wore what looked like a black middy collar and skirt going down to her knees and calf-high boots. The collar part slightly went of the shoulders. Her right eye was solid black, and the other one was covered by bangish hair that covered up half her face and only half her face. Another look-alike from Kagome's time.

"Now then, what do you say?" she asked him.

"What the hell is your problem? You come in here, start a fight, fight for a few seconds, then offer a deal or flee. What kind of a fight is that! That's a wussy fight to me!" Inu-Yasha asked.

"Well, it makes my life easier." She drew a sword from midair. "If it's a fight you want, it is a fight you'll get." She waved her sword and the meadow around them disappeared.

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Done for today. It was dumb, and I didn't add much detail, but I'm trying to get through this as fast as I can. Signing Off!