Love beyond the Western Lands
Chapter 5: Wind V.S. Wind
Kikyou prepared for attack, but none was coming. Kagura was merely standing there, dazed. "Why won't she move?" Kikyou thought. "Perhaps an attack will wake her."
Kikyou opened her fan. "Crescents of doom!" Kikyou cried. Pale blue moon crescents extracted from the black and blue fan. Kagura immediately woke from her trance, and jumped. The blades were grinding in the exact spot Kagura was standing.
Kagura executed one of her own blasts. "Glint of menace!" Kagura screamed, waving her own fan. A small glint of a blue diamond dropped to the floor. It began to look like it was about to explode and at that precise moment, Kikyou leapt into the air, releasing another wave of crescents.
Kagura was able to dodge them all, but a smaller one, the size of the diamond, sliced the feather in half and out from her hair bun. "Now, you won't be able to escape!" Kikyou said triumphantly.
Kagura looked as if she was ready to explode. "YOU BAKA!" She screamed, eyes shining with tears. "THAT WAS MY ONLY SOURCE OF TRANSPORTATION! BAKA! BAKA BAKA BAKA!"
Kikyou was taken aback; Kagura was acting like a child! Kikyou didn't quite care. "Magic vines!" Kikyou said. With a small wave of her fan, underground vines jetted toward Kagura like a tremor. The vines plunged up right beneath Kagura. "UAGH!" Kagura cried.
Kikyou smirked. She raised her fan. "Spirit of the blue moon…" Kikyou said, voice echoing eerily over the snowy plains. The day sky turned into night. The moon appeared, only it was blue. It turned into a shapeless haze, hovering directly towards Kagura.
When Kikyou knew that it would hit and kill Kagura, a hoard of hell youkais defended Kagura, releasing her from the vines as well. Kikyou was flabbergasted. "Did you REALLY think that you would be able to kill me that easily, Miko Kikyou?" said Kagura's sneering voice. "If those hoard of youkai did not block the blast, you would have been easily slain," Kikyou said, quite annoyed. "Yes, well…" Kagura began, "I'm here now, and it's your turn to be impaired from battle." Kikyou did not understand what she meant, but she suddenly felt her self getting weaker and weaker, until she dropped to her knees. "What's happening to me?" Kikyou thought. "I…I can't move!"
Kagura laughed. "You have been paralyzed from my mist of ice," Kagura said. "You're not covered in ice, no… You're just impaired to move, which also means you're unable to unleash attacks… And I mean ALL attacks." Kikyou tried to use her spirit blast, but it didn't work. "She wasn't bluffing…" Kikyou thought. "It's the end of me…"
"Farewell, Kikyou!" Kagura exclaimed, raising her fan. "Dance… of the dragon…" Her voice echoed menacingly. Tornadoes began to appear. "I command you to merge together!" The tornadoes merged together and looked like a gray, misty dragon. "No…" Kikyou thought. Kikyou closed her eyes, ready to accept her fate.
But as the dragon grew close, so close that Kikyou could feel its power, she felt a strong arm wrap around her waist. Kikyou opened her eyes. Sesshoumaru carried her away from her blast. "It's you…" she whispered. "Kikyou…" Sesshoumaru whispered. They stared into their eyes as they landed.
"Sesshoumaru!" Kagura hissed, snapping them out of their gaze. "How dare you interrupt this battle?!" "Kagura," Sesshoumaru said smoothly, "You should know better not to get into fights with Kikyou. She can kill you easily in a fair battle, but a cheating chi-wah (If you read the previous chapter carefully, you'll know what it means.) like you will never fight fair."
Kagura was white-faced from this. "Nobody calls me…" She blasted another round of dancing blades at Sesshoumaru and Kikyou. "…A CHI-WAH!" Sesshoumaru dodged all of them. Kikyou tried to move, but Sesshoumaru stopped her. "You must rest until you can move again," Sesshoumaru said. Kikyou nodded, and fell asleep.
Sesshoumaru pulled out his Toukijin. "I will not fight you, Sesshoumaru!" Kagura said. "What's wrong? Do you think I am too strong for you? Because I know if you do that and flee back to Naraku without killing Kikyou, I know he won't be happy," Sesshoumaru said coolly.
Kagura's face tightened at that comment. "If you think you're all that, Sesshoumaru," Kagura said dangerously, "fight me with no weapons at all. Only your claws and fists may be your weapon." Sesshoumaru looked taken aback. "What is wrong with this wench?" Sesshoumaru thought. "Doesn't she know that my strength is nothing compared to her powers?" "What's the matter?" Kagura said. "Afraid to accept?" Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes. "Of course I accept, you baka." He put Toukijin away.
"Perfect!" Kagura said with a sinister smile. "Dance of blades!" Crescent blades flew from the fan. Sesshoumaru just merely jumped. With his inhuman speed, he sprinted towards Kagura, slashing her face. "AUGH!" Kagura groaned, wincing from the 3 bloody scratches from her face. Sesshoumaru held Kagura by her throat and threw her four yards apart. As her body impacted with a sturdy willow tree gave a loud crack of bones breaking. "Perhaps you will think about contradicting me in advance," Sesshoumaru said.
Kagura got up. "Perhaps you will think about paying more attention to your beloved Kikyou and not have all your attention on killing me!" Kagura hissed satisfyingly.
Sesshoumaru spun around. Kikyou was lifted into the air by Kagura's wind vines. Sesshoumaru soared through the sky, slashing the tentacles and making them disperse. He caught Kikyou in his arms. Seeing that she was no longer safe on the ground, Sesshoumaru created a realistic illusion of a cloud and left Kikyou there for the rest of the fight.
Sesshoumaru ran directly towards Kagura, dodging the silver crescent blades. As he neared her, he slapped Kagura's other cheek, leaving another 3 bloody claw scratches. "She is not my love, wind witch!" Sesshoumaru said menacingly.
"Then why did you save her when I was about to kill her?" Kagura said smugly. Sesshoumaru did not answer. His fists were clenched. Kagura scoffed. "Thought so," Kagura muttered. Sesshoumaru ran towards Kagura, grabbing her by the neck with one arm, and clutching her hand with the fan with his other hand. "What have you thought of?" Sesshoumaru snarled. "Th-th-That y-y-you love h-h-her!" Kagura choked. Sesshoumaru grew even angrier. With his other arm holding the fan, he punched Kagura, having her fly into the middle of the lake. Little that Sesshoumaru knew Kikyou was awake…. and that she heard the quarrel.
Kikyou was flabbergasted from what she heard. "Does he really love me?" Kikyou wondered.
Kikyou suddenly heard a splashing of water. Kagura rose out from the bottom of the lake, looking quite angry and cold. "N-never d-d-do th-th-that!!!" Kagura screamed. With a wave of her fan, the blades appeared again. Sesshoumaru easily dodged them.
"How swift he is!" Kikyou thought, while watching from the cloud. Kikyou sat up. "I can move again!" she said quietly. Then she looked up. It was night time. "They have been fighting this long," Kikyou thought wearily.
But as Sesshoumaru landed, Kagura ran towards him with all her might. Her fan was closed, and in her hand was a silver blue stiletto. From Kikyou's sharp black eyes, the stiletto's tip was pointing for Sesshoumaru's heart. "No…" Kikyou thought. A short willow bow and arrow appeared in her hands. She slung the arrow on the bow. The stiletto was getting closer and closer towards Sesshoumaru.
Kikyou released the arrow. The arrow hit the stiletto, and the stiletto shattered. Kagura's eyes focused on Kikyou now. Sesshoumaru gave Kikyou a look of thank you and disappeared into the trees. Kikyou's fan was in her hand now. "Well?" Kikyou declared. "Now that the effect of your mist has worn off, let's finish this fight!"
Kikyou leapt off the cloud (The cloud disappeared). Kikyou and Kagura were in mid-air now. "Dragon's fury!" Kikyou cried. Her fan blasted out a gust of visible blue wind in the shape of a dragon. "Dance of the dragon!" Kagura cried. Her fan released a mist of gray wind in the shape of a dragon.
Kikyou and Kagura snapped their fans closed. Their dragons were battling. Sesshoumaru did not do anything; he merely watched. Suddenly, Kagura opened her fan again, sending out a wave of blades. Kikyou's dragon and she dodged it, but her dragon received a hit.
Kikyou landed. She decided to use her fan to control the dragon. She opened her fan. Her dragon dispersed into a formless haze. Kagura's dragon was still there. "Wench!" Kagura cried. "What are you up to?!?"
Kikyou smirked. "That shall be for you to find out," Kikyou said, as the gray dragon no longer lashed itself at the blue haze: It just floated there in the blue mist.
"Yes!" Kikyou thought triumphantly. She snapped her fan closed again. The blue haze quickly turned back into a dragon, with the gray dragon trapped in it. The blue dragon grew larger and larger. Light started to split out of it. Kikyou put her fan away and drew her bow with a blunt arrow and shot it. The arrow did not harm Kagura, but it just pushed her into the lake again. The arrow split into silver vines, holding Kagura down, until she was unconscious.
Suddenly, the dragon exploded, destroying almost everything around it.
Kikyou was fine, but her wounds reopened and the blast left more than ever.
Sesshoumaru walked out of the trees. He saw Kagura's motionless body being lifted by a few of the youkais. Sesshoumaru looked around and saw Kikyou's body lying on the mussed snow. "Kikyou!" Sesshoumaru cried, running towards her. He picked Kikyou up. "Sesshoumaru…" Kikyou said wearily. "Quiet, Kikyou, quiet. You need your rest," Sesshoumaru said.
Kikyou felt her side. "Probably checking if the shards are still there," Sesshoumaru thought. Kikyou nodded, but did not shut her eyes just yet. "What happened to Kagura?" Kikyou asked quietly. "She was brought back to Naraku most likely," Sesshoumaru said. "Sesshoumaru?" Kikyou said again. "Yes, Kikyou?" Sesshoumaru said. "Did you really mean what you said to Kagura about me?" Kikyou asked. Sesshoumaru did not have to ask what she meant. Sesshoumaru looked into her deep pools of black eyes, but did not say anything, but smiled. "That's for you to find out, dear Kikyou," Sesshoumaru said.
Kikyou smiled as well. "So, I'll be getting my answers in the morning?" "Perhaps, Kikyou, perhaps," Sesshoumaru said. Kikyou nodded and closed her eyes. Sesshoumaru got on to his cloud and set Kikyou on it, but still held her with one arm. He leaned down and kissed her lightly on the cheek. "I love you, Kikyou." He said it so quietly, no one could hear it. Kikyou's lips slowly formed a smile. Sesshoumaru began to blush. "Holy crap," he thought. "She knows I kissed her… Ah what the heck…" And they flew into the night.
To be continued…
