Man yall must have some pretty pathetic home lives. I mean yall actually
take the time to read this shit? Man yall need a life. Seriously. Go out,
hit some clubs, play video games ............. Get on with life! Nah I'm just
kiddin on you guys. We actually broke 5 reviews, great job. Don't think
I'ma get easier on you though. Well it seems yall loved the ramen line.
Glad to see comedy is still appreciated these days. If you had any
questions just look to where I responded to your review.
Loki*-*TheGrimScreamer: I'll blackmail if I want to damnit! And yeah the groups are alike that's what I was lookin for. Tryin to stay alike to inu's group but still keep a good sense of originality. Glad you like the changes.
SilvermoolightGJ: Whoa! I didn't think you would actually hang around for another chapter. I just thought you would read the first one and drop it. Don't get me wrong though, I'm honored. Good to see you like what's goin on and I'll try to keep it up.
Sweetthang-37: Ummmm......... I'll make it quick. Your not a bitch, your not a slut, and Kagome wont tell anyone cause she's kinda freaked out and also really stouborn. Thanks and keep reading!
angel-wings-131: Glad you liked the ramen line. Yeah I tried to up the length of the chapter. But the length of each chapter is gonna fluxtuate. I'll try to keep 'em long though. Yeah the 2 groups are similar, that's what I was amin for. Glad I hit the mark. And belive me I'm gonna have fun with Fluffy this chapter ^_^. Good job on your story also!
Kurisuchie: Glad to see you got to reading it and I'll work on the dialogue. Keep at your story!
Sesshomaru13: Ohh you will get more. And yeah ima try to get kag and ryllis to talk a little but it may take a while. There is gonna be a little more action this chapter and less dialogue. But don't worry you asked and you will receive! But the gift may be on layaway.
Yukioh2021: Glad you loved it but say more! JK. Thanks a lot and keep reading!
Alright that's out of the way. On with the show! Ohh don't give me the long faces. You know you want it!
Disclaimer: How many times do I gotta say it? I don't own him. If you sue me I will turn you in to my football team's new tackling dummy. We need one. I ripped the last one in half.
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'I'm dead. That's all there is to it. Toukijin might as well already be tearing me in half,' thought Sesshomaru's toad servant Jaken as he ran as quickly as he could down the halls of his masters castle.
'It doesn't matter if it isn't my fault, it will be blamed on me,' he dimly thought as he rounded another dark corridor, passing by some of his master's demon lieges who immediately backed out of his way. They all knew, when something needed to be told to Lord Sesshomaru, no one hindered it if they wanted their head still firmly planted on their necks.
'Kami get my bed ready,' he prayed as he burst into Sesshomaru's private study.
"Mi Lord we have a problem," he called to his master, who stood overlooking a window that showed his lands.
Slowly, Sesshomaru turned around and regarded the toad youkai in front of him. His golden eyed stare bore through Jaken who immediately stepped back shuddering.
"This had better be important Jaken, for your sake," he told him in his ice cold voice.
Jaken took a few moments to get his voice back under his own control which had been so long held by Sesshomaru's stare. His voice came out sputtering and squeaking like a little child who got caught by his parent doing something wrong. "I... It's Rin me lord. She.. she's gone missing."
"What!?" Sesshomaru asked, a brief look of anger flashing over his emotionless face, his intense golden eyes coming to full bear on his tiny servant.
Jaken took another step back under his mater's glare. "She isn't in her chambers me lord. I searched the entire castle looking and the grounds for her but no one has seen her."
Sesshomaru immediately left the room sweeping up a sputtering Jaken in his wake. He walked quickly down the halls, his demon slaves cringing and getting out of his way, fearing to even touch him and possibly invoke his wrath.
Sesshomaru finally came to Rin's chambers shoving the doors open and walking into the room. His head turned like it was on a swivel, searching for some reason of the girl's disappearance. But the chamber looked peaceful. Rin's toys were spread out on the floor like normal. Her sheets were tossed around on top of her bed with no respect to order. This also normal, though it did annoy Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru didn't understand what was wrong. Everything was perfectly fine. The room looked exactly how it normally did as a small wind came through the open window. 'Wind...,' Sesshomaru thought suddenly and he took a deep sniff of the scent inside the room.
'I knew it,' Sesshomaru thought, 'Kagura.' The wind youkai had come through the window and had gone straight out all while Rin was still asleep. No wonder his guards didn't report anything. There had been a storm last night. It must have been child's play for her to whip up a storm and then come in and kidnap the sleeping child while no one could see her.
With out another thought, Sesshomaru walked out of the room and strode down the hallways of his castle. Jaken ran as quick as he could to catch up with his master's long stride.
"Me Lord wait please!" he called. "What did you find out, do you know where Rin is?" He asked breathlessly.
"Yes, I do," Sesshomaru answered. And he did. He was no fool. Kagura's sent had been all over the room. And Kagura did not follow her own orders.
"Prepare for departure Jaken. It is time I dealt with the problem of Naraku."
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"Kagome, do you have any more ramen?" Sango heard Ryllis ask Kagome for the twentieth time that day.
Sango heard Kagome sigh for what also seemed like the twentieth time that day also. "No, Ryllis I don't. You ATE ALL OF IT!" she snapped at the hanyou. Sango grinned. Kagome seemed happy of the new addition of friends they had gained over the past month. But having Ryllis around was just like having another Inuyasha. Cocky, arrogant, annoying, and a bottomless pit for a stomach, if their was any doubt in Sango's mind that the two were brothers it had been erased over the past month.
Sango heard Inuyasha snicker and watched as she rounded on the hanyou. "What you think this is funny!? This means you don't get anything either!" she shouted.
"I know. But the thought of how red your face is right now compared to a tomato is what is making me laugh." Inuyasha replied and then burst out laughing with his brother from the look of outrage on her face.
Sango grinned, 'Ohh their dead,' she thought watching the two brothers continue to laugh. What they didn't notice though was that Kagome had already made eye contact with Kouketsu. And the fairy caught on immediately.
"Sit Boys!" they yelled at the same time. The two necklaces activated and the inu-hanyous found themselves face down in the ground.
The hut burst out in laughter as the two picked themselves up off the ground, their faces red as an apple, and sat back down cross legged with backs turned. Sango walked over and put a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Never learn do you?" she asked. All she got out of Inuyasha was a feral warning growl. Sango sighed and walked back to her place on the floor.
"So what about you guys?" Miroku asked, drawing the conversation away from the hanyous. "We told you how we ended up here. What's your story?" Sango, Kagome, and Shippo sat forward a little turning their attention to the group. Taken aback by the sudden question they looked at each other with questioning looks.
"Guess there aint no harm in it........" Brandon said slowly.
"Okay sure. I was wondering what we were going to do this afternoon anyway." Kouketsu said.
"Well, even though Ryllis tends to believe everything is about him this group mainly started off with me and Kouketsu," Hinote began. She turned too Kouketsu. "What was it thirty-nine years ago?" Kouketsu nodded. "Man it still seems like only yesterday..."
"What does?" Kagome asked.
"Thirty-nine years on an island off the coast of Japan there was a terrible war. A war of magic between elemental nymphs," she indicated herself, "And Light Fairies." she then indicated Kouketsu.
"Originally our two races got along fine," Hinote continued, "The fairies studied the powers of magic from the stars, while the nymphs learned of the powers from the earth around them. Together the two studied further and their respective cultures flourished."
"But the peace that was between them was not meant to last," Kouketsu said sadly. "A freak accident occurred when a fairy and a nymph combined the powers of light and dark. The resulting reaction completely destroyed one of the fairy villages. Tempers flared quickly, and within almost no time, a civil war had erupted on the island."
In a small voice not her own Hinote continued on. "The war began and ended on the same battle. In the largest village of the island, Icthion, the two forces clashed to try and take the village for their own. This village was once peaceful, a center for both Fairies and Nymphs. Both Kouketsu and I were born and raised in this village," a small tear dropped from Hinote's eye. "In the center of the battle the two leaders of the races, Kaki of the nymphs and Maru of the Fairies, fought using rings of amazing magical power. And as they forced the powers of the earth and the heavens against each other the portal of annihilation opened up."
"The portal of annihilation. What the hell is that?" Inuyasha asked, turning back to the conversation.
"It's what occurs when the powers of light and dark are combined. Like what started the war in that freak accident. Except on a much larger scale." Kouketsu explained. "The stars blinked out, and from the sky a huge ball of ice, rock, metal, and fire came down upon us."
Kouketsu fell silent. Hinote had her eyes to the ground. Both going over memories from long ago.
"Your village was hit by a comet?" Kagome asked, shaking them out of the silent state.
"A what?" Hinote asked.
"A comet," Kagome repeated, "That's what they are called."
Hinote looked down again. "I do not know what the thing is called, but it's name doesn't matter. The Island was completely destroyed. Every village nearly wiped out. Both of our leaders killed and very few left alive. Out of the thousands that had lived on the island less than only a hundred now remained."
"No one had any idea what to do. Suddenly Kouketsu and I found our selves in positions of power due to us being the only higher ranked people left alive. The rings Kaki and Maru were given to us. And with them the choice on what to do with what was left of our races."
Kouketsu looked down at her ring and spoke. "Neither of us had any idea how to be a ruler. Our home was destroyed and with so few left of us we did not have the magical strength to rebuild it. So we made the decision to leave the island and come to Japan. Once there every one went there separate ways and Hinote and I were left to decide what to do with the powerful rings we had been gifted. Knowing that there still may be chances that other people may make our former rulers mistake, we undertook a journey. Traveling from one place to another we solved disputes between peoples using our magic. We worked from the shadows because many feared us and did not understand that we wanted only to help."
"And so we did our thankless task for twelve years, finally coming to this very village we are in now. There we met Kaede and gained our third group member." Kouketsu looked over at Ryllis who gave a muttered "keh" and turned facing her.
"Alright I take over the story here. I don't trust you guys telling how I got in. Probably make some stupid pansy version of it." Ryllis said. Kouketsu tutted but Ryllis ignored her and spoke.
"Well just like them I had been doin my share of helping the community." Ryllis received some raised eyebrows for this comment. "What!? I Did! Since I didn't have really any other type of job I went around and destroyed demons that attacked villages."
Sango gave a small smile and gained renewed respect for the hanyou. If he was a demon hunter then he was alright in her books. Ryllis continued on, "Well I was on my way to another village where I had heard rumors of demon attacks. On my way through the forest I came on the scent of a demon. I thought this was the one I had been searchin for and I followed the scent."
"The trail led me to the middle of field and suddenly it disappeared. Like whatever was leaving the scent had just vanished. I looked around but couldn't find anything."
"So the demon, you were searching for had vanished?" Miroku asked.
"No it didn't," Sango piped up. She looked at Ryllis, "It went to the air didn't it?"
Ryllis looked at the girl with a questioning look. "Are you a huntress?" He shook his head when she nodded and muttered under his breath, "No wonder she was so damned hard to hit." Sango grinned. 'No wonder he was so damned hard to dodge,' she thought.
"Yeah he did go to the air. And he surprised me by comin down from it too." Ryllis continued on. "We fought and during the battle I lost the Tersaga. And then, for some reason that I still to this day have not figured out, I lost control of myself."
"You lost control of yourself?" Kagome asked with confusion.
Ryllis nodded. "Right, when he was about to finish me off. I felt something inside me come to the surface. Like a completely new being. And then all I thought about was survival and blood. I killed the demon like he was nothing but an annoying fly. But it wasn't over. I wanted more blood. I wanted more death. So I went in search for it."
"He came to this village," Kaede told them, "And in the following battle, I placed the same necklace on him that I placed on ye Inuyasha. Then Kouketsu set the word of subjugation and Ryllis was bound to them. Curious I found it that ye Kagome had chosen the same word as Kouketsu."
Kouketsu smiled and looked at Kagome. "I guess great minds think alike." Kagome blushed at her statement.
"Yeah yeah you just go and think that." Ryllis said. "If you ask me both of you have the mental capacity of one of Naraku's insects." He exchanged a low hand slap with Inuyasha.
After a dual sit and the two angry brothers once again ignored the group dejectedly Hinote continued from where Ryllis had left off.
"Ryllis was with us from then on. It was good to have his strength but we definitely had to start buying more food." she added as an afterthought.
"For three more years we continued moving around Japan, staying near Kaede's village, which had become an unofficial home for us." Kouketsu said. "Then on one trip to a village we ran into trouble. Word of Ryllis' amazingly powerful sword had gotten around Japan. We went to one village under the impression that a small battle was brewing between two rival trade clans. It turned out to be only a setup. Naraku had been keen to get the Tersaga and organized the whole thing to draw us there, knowing we would come. We escaped with our lives, but we were forced to go into hiding to throw Naraku off us and it worked. Up until last month." She fell silent.
Hinote finally broke the silence. "We went back to working in the shadows. We destroyed demons who attacked villages like Ryllis and for nineteen years we stayed shut off as our own little group, separated from the rest of the world except for our demon hunts." A small grin came over her face and she glanced at Kouketsu. "Ryllis and Kouketsu didn't mind the time alone though."
Everyone laughed as a deep growl came out of the hanyou's throat and Kouketsu's face went as red as Hinote's. The embarrassed fairy quickly got back to the subject of the story.
"Seven years ago we finally came to a small village at the northern most point of Japan. It had been completely destroyed. And from what Ryllis' nose told us, by none other than Naraku. As we searched through the destruction we came across one lone survivor. A young human girl. Only about five years old. Somehow she had made it without even a scratch on her body while the rest of her family and village had been completely obliterated by Naraku. We didn't have the heart to leave the girl at some other village with no explanation of what had happened. Not only this but she had taken a huge liking to me. So she kinda became like a surrogate daughter and stuck with us from then on." tears formed on the fairy's face. "I really miss her....."
"Hey you stop dem tears right there." Brandon spoke up. "Were gonna get her back and nothing on this planet is gonna stop us. You got it?" After Kouketsu nodded her head and wiped her eyes with her arm Brandon looked at everyone. "Alright I guess that means I'm the one stuck finishin this story off. Now I guess from how I speak to yall you guys no that im not from around here huh?" Brandon received some nods and then looked at Kagome. "I'm not. I'm just like you actually. I came from the future."
Kagome and the others gasped at this. "Yeah thought that would surprise ya. From the big city New York over in America." Kagome looked at him. "Your from New York? Ohh I've always wanted to go there!" Sango dropped her head a little. 'So he is not from that place father told me about.....'
Brandon smiled. "Thrust me the place is off the chain." He looked at everyone else. "Well unlike Kagome I didn't come here through a well. I was what you called a boxer. A person who fought with his fist competitively." Inuyasha smirked, "Sounds like my kinda sport." 'Why am I not surprised,' Sango asked herself.
"On the way to a fight three years ago I got jumped by a rival fighter and a bunch of his friends. They tossed me into the river and left me for dead. But then I woke up one day and found myself lookin at a very red, but yet so fine, lookin nymph. From then on I joined up with them and showed em what fightin was really about. Still think I'm actually dead and this is some kinda weird hell though......" he left off.
Kagome smiled, "You and me both." Everyone laughed.
Miroku turned to Ryllis. "What did you do before you got into hunting demons?"
Ryllis looked at him with an unreadable face. "I'm not gonna tell ya. If you really wanna know ask my brother. He knows exactly what it was like."
No one heard Inuyasha mutter under his breath, "Yeah, I think I do."
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Across the forests of his territory he whisked. A tornado of speed. Dust kicked up behind him as the fastest demon alive tore through his lands. Kouga stopped at a hill over looking a forest and looked around.
'What a great day for a run. Well of course any day is great if your me.' he thought to himself. He looked over the pristine lands of his wolf pack hunting grounds. 'Who wouldn't love ruling this?' he asked himself.
Kouga breathed in deeply with his nose. He loved the scent of the air, the trees, the blood, the flowers........ THE BLOOD?! Kouga took in another deep sniff. There it was, clear and unmistakable, the scent of blood. He quickly set off south searching for it's source.
The farther he went the more and more powerful the scent became. There was a lot of blood. This was not some killed prey by his hunters, more than likely someone was either hurt or dead.
Kouga continued to get closer, warning signs were going off in the back of his head like crazy. Something about this scent was familiar to him. In the back of his mind he new he had smelt this before.
Finally Kouga came to a small clearing in the forest and gapped in horror and shock. Tied to a pole was Ayame, the young, female wolf-youkai he had rescued when she was a little girl and promised to marry before he had met Kagome. Blood pored from open wounds all over her body. Her clothes were in tatters, barely covering up her sacred parts. Her head listed to the side and her whole body was limp.
It took Kouga a few seconds to get over the shock then he was immediately at her side cutting her loose from her bonds. He fumbled with her slick bloody wrist, breathing a large sigh of relief when he found a weak, but still existent, pulse.
He looked over the beautiful desecrated youkai. 'Who could have done this to her,' he thought, his mind numb. Ayame was in no way weak. And here she was teetering on the brink of death. Kouga was taken from his thoughts as Ayame's eye lids fluttered open and viewed her rescuer.
Kouga barely heard her muttered words as she struggled for breath. "Kouga......... I'm sorry....... I led him........ to you." Then her eyes fluttered shut again as she slipped into unconsciousness.
'Huh,' but the wolf-prince never got a chance to think. A powerful blow hit him in the back of the head lifting him off his feet and Ayame out of his arms. Stars went off in his head as he struggled to get up and look at his attacker as another hammer blow struck his chest.
Through cloudy eyes he watched as enormously thick vines retreated back to a man in a purple robe. "Naraku," Kouga barely sputtered the words out. The man said nothing and Kouga felt the vines take hold of his swift legs. He knew what was coming next.
Pain like never before erupted in him as the vines burrowed into his shins and ripped the shards of the Shikon Jewel out of them. For what seemed like agonizing hours but took only seconds. The vines plundered his legs, finally withdrawing when Kouga felt like he could no longer take it.
His vision blurred from the pain, he could only hear the laughing hanyou walk away. Finally his vision cleared and the pain in his legs began to recede. He got up and found Naraku gone. His eyes came to Ayame.
He yearned to go after Naraku. No one could insult him like this. But common sense took over. He was injured. And if Ayame was not taken care of she would die. Reaching a decision he threw his head back and gave the howl that would call those of his pack immediately to him.
Hearing their encouraging responses he sat down and drew Ayame close to him and began the process of licking her wounds, allowing the demon way of healing to take over. All he could do now was wait for help to arrive.
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The moonless night over Kaede's village was halfway through as Miroku walked out of the hut of the old priestess. Inuyasha and Ryllis were both inside, along with all the others, except for Kouketsu who was now on watch for any problems. Normally they would not take watch while in the safety of the village, but past events had awoken them to the fact that they must now always be on guard.
Miroku headed out to a hill that overlooked the flooded fields of the village. There sat the fairy he was supposed to replace.
Kouketsu nodded to him in greeting staying quiet the way she normally does, unlike her fiery outspoken friend the nymph Hinote. She continued to look at the stars which shown clear with no interference from the moon.
"Hey I know I'm early but if you wanna go ahead and get some sleep I'll take over from here," Miroku opened out. A quizzical look came on his face when the Fairy did not answer her question, but continued to look out at the stars.
"Kouketsu is there....," "Shhh," she silenced him quietly. Miroku watched and waited as she closed her eyes and spread her beautiful wings out full. After several minutes her eyes opened slowly and she spoke with a low voice.
"Something is out there, can you feel it?" she asked him. "It slips just beyond my thought and reach but I know it is there."
Miroku closed his eyes and calmed his mind, searching with his thoughts for any disturbances in the auras of the land close to them. After probing he found it. Beyond the borders of the land. On almost all sides. A dark disturbance. Not one with this land of purity. And it was coming closer. He could see rolling shapes in the darkness. They were getting closer. He could see the pinpricks of light that was their eyes. The borders of the village were within their reach. And then he saw a lone figure, finally stepping out of the haze, fully revealing himself to the world.
Miroku's eyes flew open. "Ohh kami no......" A dark haze spread over the sky, covering the stars.
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Shippo closed his eyes but he could not block out the screams of the young girl. The gut wrenching screams broke through his heart like ice. But it was worse when they stopped. Cause when they stopped that meant the girls pain was over. And if her pain was over.......
Shippo's face was grabbed roughly and his eyes were forced open. He looked into those delusioned eyes. The eyes of a madman. Eyes that swore death to those around him.
"Why?" he asked as the knife was pressed to his stomach.
All he received was a laugh. That horrible laugh was all he heard as the knife plunged into him and he was sent into the darkness. ________
Shippo jerked up from his nightmare in a cold sweat. He shivered as the wind blew through the window of the hut, cold even in the arms of the sleeping Kagome.
'Why,' he asked himself, 'Why do I keep seeing that dream. I just want to be left alone.'
After many minutes of shivering Shippo got up. He could just not stay asleep. Not even in Kagome's arms. He looked around the room and saw the monk's and Fairy's bed empty.
'I'll go check on those two. Kouketsu needs to be warned about being alone with that monk.' Shippo tottled off out into the village.
As he walked he looked up at the beautiful stars who were clearly visible with the lack of moon. Like all kids he shared a fascination with the night sky and what was veiled in it's darkness.
Shippo was just contemplating what a star would look like up close when he saw a strange type of cloud. It seemed to cover up the night sky and all the stars on it. Then he saw Miroku and Kouketsu running up. Miroku's staff was drawn and Kouketsu's ring was glowing brightly. They were yelling at him.
"Get Inuyasha!" they yelled frantically. "Huh?" Shippo asked, and at that point all hell broke loose.
Demons pored into the villages from all sides burning and destroying as they went. People woke up and found themselves immediately attacked by the creatures. Within seconds, the whole village was awake and in chaos.
Shippo froze in fear as he saw the demons head directly towards the base of the hill the shrine was on. The same place he was. His mind screamed at his body to move but it just would not listen. The demons swarmed through the roads and came bearing down towards him and he finally made the decision, to late, to run. But just as it seemed over a powerful voice went up into the night.
"Wind Tunnel!" the blessed curse in Miroku's hand opened up and immediately grabbed at the besiegers, who unsuccessfully tried to escape the vortex. More and more were sucked in as Miroku strained under the intense pressure the void was causing him. Sweat streaked off his body as his arm shook from the strain. Finally he was forced to close off the void.
The demons took the opening and rushed him knocking him out and immediately set upon him. Kouketsu aimed her ring and a blast of white light flew forth, blowing the demons off the unconscious monk.
More and more demons continued to pile into the small courtyard and rushed at the fairy. From her ring a wall of light projected itself out in front of her, Miroku, and the shrine. The demons pounded against the shield again and again as Kouketsu shook from the strain.
The elf looked over at the fox. "Get the others," she told him. Shippo tried to move but he couldn't take his eyes off those demons. "NOW!" she yelled, putting the power of her magic behind the command. Shippo shook himself out of the state and darted into the hut.
He leaped up onto the sleeping Inuyasha and bounced up and down on him. "Inuyasha wake up!" the black haired man stirred but did not get up. Shippo got really mad and got a bucket of water, drenching it over Inuyasha's head.
Inuyasha sputtered and cursed, shooting up immediately and gave the kitsune a death glare. "You fucking brat!" Shippo glared right back, a sign that he was growing and not afraid to go up against those who had taken over as parental figures.
"I like you much more dead to the world mutt, but if you will return to the land of the living you will realize we are under attack!!!!" the kitsune barked at him.
"What?" Inuyasha got out of the bed and ran over to the door and looked out of the house. His head immediately shot back to Shippo, "Why didn't you fucking tell me there were demons on our front door step!!!!?" Shippo tried to say "I did" but Inuyasha was already waking the others, who got up immediately and ran outside.
Just as they came out Kouketsu, drained from the constant use of her magic, fell to the ground in exhaustion. Her shield wavered and the demons surged forward, but fell back as Hinote issued a powerful blast of pure energy from her ring. Along with Ryllis, Inuyasha, Brandon, and Sango who mounted Kirara, she charged the demons to try and take the fight away from the shrine.
Kaede and Kagome quickly pulled Miroku and Kouketsu closer to the hut, then stood in front of them with their arrows drawn. Seeing Shippo Kagome shouted, "Shippo what are you doing out here!? Go find some where to hide!" Shippo did not need to be told a second time, and darted of into some bushes near the hut, using his fox magic to make himself even better hidden.
Shippo watched on as the battle raged. The thing that looked like a cloud covering up the stars turned out to be some of Naraku's poisonous insects, who came down and swarmed the village, attacking everything in sight. The demons that had fallen back from Hinote's first blast rallied back and were now in a furious fight.
The battle raged on and on. Demons continued to pour in from the borders of the village, easily overwhelming the guard who had been taken by complete surprise. Villagers ran left and right in terror but unless they got in the way of the attackers they were left unharmed. The demons seemed to have only one purpose, get to the shrine.
As more and more poured in, Hinote and the rest were forced to give up more and more ground. Inuyasha and Ryllis attacked one tentacle creature with there untransformed blades and were soon overcome, their unconscious bodies tossed back to the shrine like rag dolls. Brandon's fists and legs whirled around in seamless motion, striking faster than the eye could see. Then a large demon came. His skin was made of what seemed to be steel. Brandon's punches looked to cause only an annoyance to the behemoth as he picked him up and tossed him into the roof of Kaede's hut, which collapsed under the force. Sango's hirakatsu sang through the air, taking a serious toll on the attackers who did not have a way to reach her in the air. But then the same tentacle monster that took out Ryllis and Inuyasha grabbed Kirara as she came around on another low pass and slammed her into the ground. Sango hoped off the unconscious youkai as it transformed back into the small cat. It was the last act she could do as the youkai pummeled her with attacks, putting her out of commission.
The demons continued to pile in. Hinote blasted them with her ring, her powerful magic barely holding back the tide that threatned to engulf her. Suddenly two shadows moved across the ground under her blast and grew out from the ground in front of her, yellow eyes shining out of it's darkened form. Before Hinote had the chance to call out she received a blow to the gut then another to the head and fell to the ground out cold.
Shippo watched as the demons bore down on Kagome and Kaede, the last ones left defending the shrine. Then Shippo was forced to look away as bright light poured out from Kagome's eyes.
"You.... will.... not.... touch.... him." Shippo turned his head to see Kagome standing over Inuyasha her eyes blazing. She aimed her bow and pulled back the arrowless string.
She released the taught line, and coming forth from the bow shot four powerful arrows full of miko magic. The bore through the lines of demons, who screamed out in shock and agony as the arrows came in contact with them, instantly purifying their youkai blood and disintegrating their bodies.
Shippo stared as Kagome lowered her bow, her chest heaving as she tried to breathe in air. Kaede was staring at the girl in shock and was about to speak when a chilling laugh echoed across the courtyard.
Naraku stepped into view, his cold smile chilling the blood in Shippo's veins. He laughed again and stared at the young miko. He held up a hand and vines flew from his fingers, grabing her roughly around her midsection and yanking her towards him.
"Well if it isn't the little whore," Naraku said as Kagome struggled against his grip, "Didn't I tell you I'd be back?" Kagome gasped as the vines wrapped around her neck and squeezed hard.
"Put her down!" Kaede loosed an arrow at the evil demon, who slapped it away like it was a fly. With his vines he slapped the old woman flying into the trunk of a tree. Shippo heard a sickening crack come from the miko's chest as she hit the trunk and fell to the ground.
Shippo turned back to Naraku as a whimper of pain escaped from Kagome's mouth. Then Naraku spoke. "Fox! I know your out there!" he called out to the courtyard. He squeezed Kagome even tighter and gave out a scream in pain. Shippo winced from the sound. "Reveal yourself. Or I will kill her." Another scream came from Kagome's lips as Naraku added emphasis to his words.
"Shippo...." Kagome gasped, "Run.." another scream came from her as her body began to shake from the lack of oxygen. "Make your choice fox! She wont last much longer...." Naraku warned as he continued to strangle Kagome.
Shippo felt torn between Kagome's orders and her Naraku induced screams. Every sound that came from her tortured body made him shudder. He couldn't just stand there. Kagome had protected him for three years. The worse blood curling scream yet erupted from Kagome's abused form and Shippo finally made his choice. It was time for him to protect the one he viewed as a mother.
"Stop!" he yelled running out of the bushes in front of Naraku. He quailed under the ominous form but held his ground. "Please, don't hurt her."
"Shippo..... don't..." Kagome uttered before another vine wrapped around her mouth.
"Ahh good to see you've come to reason," Naraku sneered and held out his hand, "So we have a deal? Your life for hers?"
Shippo glared at the hanyou. "How do I know you wont break the deal?"
Naraku sighed. "Stupid, Kit. You and I both know you can just use those pathetic fox powers to make sure I cant break my promise, not even I have the strength to break a Kitsune binding spell."
Shippo looked at him and held out his hand. When Naraku grinned he reached forward and grabbed his hand, bright light erupting from the joining. Naraku quickly dropped Kagome like she was made of acid. She fell gasping to the ground. "Do not attempt to follow me Higurashi, the foxes magic will not protect you were I will go." Naraku warned her.
Shippo fought the repulsion as Naraku seized him with the vines and began top walk off in the direction of the forest. The last thing he saw before the vines covered up his vision was the teary eyed Kagome looking into his eyes before fainting to the ground.
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'At last, I have them all,' Naraku thought as he held the completed Shikon jewel in his hands. 'I can finally go to work. Once I have the last child from this new world, it will all end quickly.' Naraku walked up to the well.
He closed his eyes and the jewel glowed brightly. Then with a blast of power the well in front of him turned into a gaping hole.
Naraku grinned sadistically as he leaped down into the well. 'It is my time....'
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It was a peaceful night at Kagome's home. Souta and Grandpa were asleep and Mrs. Higurashi was in the kitchen she looked out at the shrine wondering when her daughter would come home.
A bright light came from the window of the well house and Mrs. Higurashi stared in wonder. It glowed brighter and brighter till it seemed like daytime outside. 'It's so bright...' she thought, before the light engulfed her.
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Well sorry that took so long to update but due to health reason's and a really stubborn blonde girl, I was not allowed on my computer. Also for those of you who don't know Ayame is a girl who appears in later Inuyahsa episodes that aren't in America yet. That's all please review. I am out!
Your Lord and Master,
Ryan aka The Mutt
Loki*-*TheGrimScreamer: I'll blackmail if I want to damnit! And yeah the groups are alike that's what I was lookin for. Tryin to stay alike to inu's group but still keep a good sense of originality. Glad you like the changes.
SilvermoolightGJ: Whoa! I didn't think you would actually hang around for another chapter. I just thought you would read the first one and drop it. Don't get me wrong though, I'm honored. Good to see you like what's goin on and I'll try to keep it up.
Sweetthang-37: Ummmm......... I'll make it quick. Your not a bitch, your not a slut, and Kagome wont tell anyone cause she's kinda freaked out and also really stouborn. Thanks and keep reading!
angel-wings-131: Glad you liked the ramen line. Yeah I tried to up the length of the chapter. But the length of each chapter is gonna fluxtuate. I'll try to keep 'em long though. Yeah the 2 groups are similar, that's what I was amin for. Glad I hit the mark. And belive me I'm gonna have fun with Fluffy this chapter ^_^. Good job on your story also!
Kurisuchie: Glad to see you got to reading it and I'll work on the dialogue. Keep at your story!
Sesshomaru13: Ohh you will get more. And yeah ima try to get kag and ryllis to talk a little but it may take a while. There is gonna be a little more action this chapter and less dialogue. But don't worry you asked and you will receive! But the gift may be on layaway.
Yukioh2021: Glad you loved it but say more! JK. Thanks a lot and keep reading!
Alright that's out of the way. On with the show! Ohh don't give me the long faces. You know you want it!
Disclaimer: How many times do I gotta say it? I don't own him. If you sue me I will turn you in to my football team's new tackling dummy. We need one. I ripped the last one in half.
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'I'm dead. That's all there is to it. Toukijin might as well already be tearing me in half,' thought Sesshomaru's toad servant Jaken as he ran as quickly as he could down the halls of his masters castle.
'It doesn't matter if it isn't my fault, it will be blamed on me,' he dimly thought as he rounded another dark corridor, passing by some of his master's demon lieges who immediately backed out of his way. They all knew, when something needed to be told to Lord Sesshomaru, no one hindered it if they wanted their head still firmly planted on their necks.
'Kami get my bed ready,' he prayed as he burst into Sesshomaru's private study.
"Mi Lord we have a problem," he called to his master, who stood overlooking a window that showed his lands.
Slowly, Sesshomaru turned around and regarded the toad youkai in front of him. His golden eyed stare bore through Jaken who immediately stepped back shuddering.
"This had better be important Jaken, for your sake," he told him in his ice cold voice.
Jaken took a few moments to get his voice back under his own control which had been so long held by Sesshomaru's stare. His voice came out sputtering and squeaking like a little child who got caught by his parent doing something wrong. "I... It's Rin me lord. She.. she's gone missing."
"What!?" Sesshomaru asked, a brief look of anger flashing over his emotionless face, his intense golden eyes coming to full bear on his tiny servant.
Jaken took another step back under his mater's glare. "She isn't in her chambers me lord. I searched the entire castle looking and the grounds for her but no one has seen her."
Sesshomaru immediately left the room sweeping up a sputtering Jaken in his wake. He walked quickly down the halls, his demon slaves cringing and getting out of his way, fearing to even touch him and possibly invoke his wrath.
Sesshomaru finally came to Rin's chambers shoving the doors open and walking into the room. His head turned like it was on a swivel, searching for some reason of the girl's disappearance. But the chamber looked peaceful. Rin's toys were spread out on the floor like normal. Her sheets were tossed around on top of her bed with no respect to order. This also normal, though it did annoy Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru didn't understand what was wrong. Everything was perfectly fine. The room looked exactly how it normally did as a small wind came through the open window. 'Wind...,' Sesshomaru thought suddenly and he took a deep sniff of the scent inside the room.
'I knew it,' Sesshomaru thought, 'Kagura.' The wind youkai had come through the window and had gone straight out all while Rin was still asleep. No wonder his guards didn't report anything. There had been a storm last night. It must have been child's play for her to whip up a storm and then come in and kidnap the sleeping child while no one could see her.
With out another thought, Sesshomaru walked out of the room and strode down the hallways of his castle. Jaken ran as quick as he could to catch up with his master's long stride.
"Me Lord wait please!" he called. "What did you find out, do you know where Rin is?" He asked breathlessly.
"Yes, I do," Sesshomaru answered. And he did. He was no fool. Kagura's sent had been all over the room. And Kagura did not follow her own orders.
"Prepare for departure Jaken. It is time I dealt with the problem of Naraku."
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"Kagome, do you have any more ramen?" Sango heard Ryllis ask Kagome for the twentieth time that day.
Sango heard Kagome sigh for what also seemed like the twentieth time that day also. "No, Ryllis I don't. You ATE ALL OF IT!" she snapped at the hanyou. Sango grinned. Kagome seemed happy of the new addition of friends they had gained over the past month. But having Ryllis around was just like having another Inuyasha. Cocky, arrogant, annoying, and a bottomless pit for a stomach, if their was any doubt in Sango's mind that the two were brothers it had been erased over the past month.
Sango heard Inuyasha snicker and watched as she rounded on the hanyou. "What you think this is funny!? This means you don't get anything either!" she shouted.
"I know. But the thought of how red your face is right now compared to a tomato is what is making me laugh." Inuyasha replied and then burst out laughing with his brother from the look of outrage on her face.
Sango grinned, 'Ohh their dead,' she thought watching the two brothers continue to laugh. What they didn't notice though was that Kagome had already made eye contact with Kouketsu. And the fairy caught on immediately.
"Sit Boys!" they yelled at the same time. The two necklaces activated and the inu-hanyous found themselves face down in the ground.
The hut burst out in laughter as the two picked themselves up off the ground, their faces red as an apple, and sat back down cross legged with backs turned. Sango walked over and put a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Never learn do you?" she asked. All she got out of Inuyasha was a feral warning growl. Sango sighed and walked back to her place on the floor.
"So what about you guys?" Miroku asked, drawing the conversation away from the hanyous. "We told you how we ended up here. What's your story?" Sango, Kagome, and Shippo sat forward a little turning their attention to the group. Taken aback by the sudden question they looked at each other with questioning looks.
"Guess there aint no harm in it........" Brandon said slowly.
"Okay sure. I was wondering what we were going to do this afternoon anyway." Kouketsu said.
"Well, even though Ryllis tends to believe everything is about him this group mainly started off with me and Kouketsu," Hinote began. She turned too Kouketsu. "What was it thirty-nine years ago?" Kouketsu nodded. "Man it still seems like only yesterday..."
"What does?" Kagome asked.
"Thirty-nine years on an island off the coast of Japan there was a terrible war. A war of magic between elemental nymphs," she indicated herself, "And Light Fairies." she then indicated Kouketsu.
"Originally our two races got along fine," Hinote continued, "The fairies studied the powers of magic from the stars, while the nymphs learned of the powers from the earth around them. Together the two studied further and their respective cultures flourished."
"But the peace that was between them was not meant to last," Kouketsu said sadly. "A freak accident occurred when a fairy and a nymph combined the powers of light and dark. The resulting reaction completely destroyed one of the fairy villages. Tempers flared quickly, and within almost no time, a civil war had erupted on the island."
In a small voice not her own Hinote continued on. "The war began and ended on the same battle. In the largest village of the island, Icthion, the two forces clashed to try and take the village for their own. This village was once peaceful, a center for both Fairies and Nymphs. Both Kouketsu and I were born and raised in this village," a small tear dropped from Hinote's eye. "In the center of the battle the two leaders of the races, Kaki of the nymphs and Maru of the Fairies, fought using rings of amazing magical power. And as they forced the powers of the earth and the heavens against each other the portal of annihilation opened up."
"The portal of annihilation. What the hell is that?" Inuyasha asked, turning back to the conversation.
"It's what occurs when the powers of light and dark are combined. Like what started the war in that freak accident. Except on a much larger scale." Kouketsu explained. "The stars blinked out, and from the sky a huge ball of ice, rock, metal, and fire came down upon us."
Kouketsu fell silent. Hinote had her eyes to the ground. Both going over memories from long ago.
"Your village was hit by a comet?" Kagome asked, shaking them out of the silent state.
"A what?" Hinote asked.
"A comet," Kagome repeated, "That's what they are called."
Hinote looked down again. "I do not know what the thing is called, but it's name doesn't matter. The Island was completely destroyed. Every village nearly wiped out. Both of our leaders killed and very few left alive. Out of the thousands that had lived on the island less than only a hundred now remained."
"No one had any idea what to do. Suddenly Kouketsu and I found our selves in positions of power due to us being the only higher ranked people left alive. The rings Kaki and Maru were given to us. And with them the choice on what to do with what was left of our races."
Kouketsu looked down at her ring and spoke. "Neither of us had any idea how to be a ruler. Our home was destroyed and with so few left of us we did not have the magical strength to rebuild it. So we made the decision to leave the island and come to Japan. Once there every one went there separate ways and Hinote and I were left to decide what to do with the powerful rings we had been gifted. Knowing that there still may be chances that other people may make our former rulers mistake, we undertook a journey. Traveling from one place to another we solved disputes between peoples using our magic. We worked from the shadows because many feared us and did not understand that we wanted only to help."
"And so we did our thankless task for twelve years, finally coming to this very village we are in now. There we met Kaede and gained our third group member." Kouketsu looked over at Ryllis who gave a muttered "keh" and turned facing her.
"Alright I take over the story here. I don't trust you guys telling how I got in. Probably make some stupid pansy version of it." Ryllis said. Kouketsu tutted but Ryllis ignored her and spoke.
"Well just like them I had been doin my share of helping the community." Ryllis received some raised eyebrows for this comment. "What!? I Did! Since I didn't have really any other type of job I went around and destroyed demons that attacked villages."
Sango gave a small smile and gained renewed respect for the hanyou. If he was a demon hunter then he was alright in her books. Ryllis continued on, "Well I was on my way to another village where I had heard rumors of demon attacks. On my way through the forest I came on the scent of a demon. I thought this was the one I had been searchin for and I followed the scent."
"The trail led me to the middle of field and suddenly it disappeared. Like whatever was leaving the scent had just vanished. I looked around but couldn't find anything."
"So the demon, you were searching for had vanished?" Miroku asked.
"No it didn't," Sango piped up. She looked at Ryllis, "It went to the air didn't it?"
Ryllis looked at the girl with a questioning look. "Are you a huntress?" He shook his head when she nodded and muttered under his breath, "No wonder she was so damned hard to hit." Sango grinned. 'No wonder he was so damned hard to dodge,' she thought.
"Yeah he did go to the air. And he surprised me by comin down from it too." Ryllis continued on. "We fought and during the battle I lost the Tersaga. And then, for some reason that I still to this day have not figured out, I lost control of myself."
"You lost control of yourself?" Kagome asked with confusion.
Ryllis nodded. "Right, when he was about to finish me off. I felt something inside me come to the surface. Like a completely new being. And then all I thought about was survival and blood. I killed the demon like he was nothing but an annoying fly. But it wasn't over. I wanted more blood. I wanted more death. So I went in search for it."
"He came to this village," Kaede told them, "And in the following battle, I placed the same necklace on him that I placed on ye Inuyasha. Then Kouketsu set the word of subjugation and Ryllis was bound to them. Curious I found it that ye Kagome had chosen the same word as Kouketsu."
Kouketsu smiled and looked at Kagome. "I guess great minds think alike." Kagome blushed at her statement.
"Yeah yeah you just go and think that." Ryllis said. "If you ask me both of you have the mental capacity of one of Naraku's insects." He exchanged a low hand slap with Inuyasha.
After a dual sit and the two angry brothers once again ignored the group dejectedly Hinote continued from where Ryllis had left off.
"Ryllis was with us from then on. It was good to have his strength but we definitely had to start buying more food." she added as an afterthought.
"For three more years we continued moving around Japan, staying near Kaede's village, which had become an unofficial home for us." Kouketsu said. "Then on one trip to a village we ran into trouble. Word of Ryllis' amazingly powerful sword had gotten around Japan. We went to one village under the impression that a small battle was brewing between two rival trade clans. It turned out to be only a setup. Naraku had been keen to get the Tersaga and organized the whole thing to draw us there, knowing we would come. We escaped with our lives, but we were forced to go into hiding to throw Naraku off us and it worked. Up until last month." She fell silent.
Hinote finally broke the silence. "We went back to working in the shadows. We destroyed demons who attacked villages like Ryllis and for nineteen years we stayed shut off as our own little group, separated from the rest of the world except for our demon hunts." A small grin came over her face and she glanced at Kouketsu. "Ryllis and Kouketsu didn't mind the time alone though."
Everyone laughed as a deep growl came out of the hanyou's throat and Kouketsu's face went as red as Hinote's. The embarrassed fairy quickly got back to the subject of the story.
"Seven years ago we finally came to a small village at the northern most point of Japan. It had been completely destroyed. And from what Ryllis' nose told us, by none other than Naraku. As we searched through the destruction we came across one lone survivor. A young human girl. Only about five years old. Somehow she had made it without even a scratch on her body while the rest of her family and village had been completely obliterated by Naraku. We didn't have the heart to leave the girl at some other village with no explanation of what had happened. Not only this but she had taken a huge liking to me. So she kinda became like a surrogate daughter and stuck with us from then on." tears formed on the fairy's face. "I really miss her....."
"Hey you stop dem tears right there." Brandon spoke up. "Were gonna get her back and nothing on this planet is gonna stop us. You got it?" After Kouketsu nodded her head and wiped her eyes with her arm Brandon looked at everyone. "Alright I guess that means I'm the one stuck finishin this story off. Now I guess from how I speak to yall you guys no that im not from around here huh?" Brandon received some nods and then looked at Kagome. "I'm not. I'm just like you actually. I came from the future."
Kagome and the others gasped at this. "Yeah thought that would surprise ya. From the big city New York over in America." Kagome looked at him. "Your from New York? Ohh I've always wanted to go there!" Sango dropped her head a little. 'So he is not from that place father told me about.....'
Brandon smiled. "Thrust me the place is off the chain." He looked at everyone else. "Well unlike Kagome I didn't come here through a well. I was what you called a boxer. A person who fought with his fist competitively." Inuyasha smirked, "Sounds like my kinda sport." 'Why am I not surprised,' Sango asked herself.
"On the way to a fight three years ago I got jumped by a rival fighter and a bunch of his friends. They tossed me into the river and left me for dead. But then I woke up one day and found myself lookin at a very red, but yet so fine, lookin nymph. From then on I joined up with them and showed em what fightin was really about. Still think I'm actually dead and this is some kinda weird hell though......" he left off.
Kagome smiled, "You and me both." Everyone laughed.
Miroku turned to Ryllis. "What did you do before you got into hunting demons?"
Ryllis looked at him with an unreadable face. "I'm not gonna tell ya. If you really wanna know ask my brother. He knows exactly what it was like."
No one heard Inuyasha mutter under his breath, "Yeah, I think I do."
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Across the forests of his territory he whisked. A tornado of speed. Dust kicked up behind him as the fastest demon alive tore through his lands. Kouga stopped at a hill over looking a forest and looked around.
'What a great day for a run. Well of course any day is great if your me.' he thought to himself. He looked over the pristine lands of his wolf pack hunting grounds. 'Who wouldn't love ruling this?' he asked himself.
Kouga breathed in deeply with his nose. He loved the scent of the air, the trees, the blood, the flowers........ THE BLOOD?! Kouga took in another deep sniff. There it was, clear and unmistakable, the scent of blood. He quickly set off south searching for it's source.
The farther he went the more and more powerful the scent became. There was a lot of blood. This was not some killed prey by his hunters, more than likely someone was either hurt or dead.
Kouga continued to get closer, warning signs were going off in the back of his head like crazy. Something about this scent was familiar to him. In the back of his mind he new he had smelt this before.
Finally Kouga came to a small clearing in the forest and gapped in horror and shock. Tied to a pole was Ayame, the young, female wolf-youkai he had rescued when she was a little girl and promised to marry before he had met Kagome. Blood pored from open wounds all over her body. Her clothes were in tatters, barely covering up her sacred parts. Her head listed to the side and her whole body was limp.
It took Kouga a few seconds to get over the shock then he was immediately at her side cutting her loose from her bonds. He fumbled with her slick bloody wrist, breathing a large sigh of relief when he found a weak, but still existent, pulse.
He looked over the beautiful desecrated youkai. 'Who could have done this to her,' he thought, his mind numb. Ayame was in no way weak. And here she was teetering on the brink of death. Kouga was taken from his thoughts as Ayame's eye lids fluttered open and viewed her rescuer.
Kouga barely heard her muttered words as she struggled for breath. "Kouga......... I'm sorry....... I led him........ to you." Then her eyes fluttered shut again as she slipped into unconsciousness.
'Huh,' but the wolf-prince never got a chance to think. A powerful blow hit him in the back of the head lifting him off his feet and Ayame out of his arms. Stars went off in his head as he struggled to get up and look at his attacker as another hammer blow struck his chest.
Through cloudy eyes he watched as enormously thick vines retreated back to a man in a purple robe. "Naraku," Kouga barely sputtered the words out. The man said nothing and Kouga felt the vines take hold of his swift legs. He knew what was coming next.
Pain like never before erupted in him as the vines burrowed into his shins and ripped the shards of the Shikon Jewel out of them. For what seemed like agonizing hours but took only seconds. The vines plundered his legs, finally withdrawing when Kouga felt like he could no longer take it.
His vision blurred from the pain, he could only hear the laughing hanyou walk away. Finally his vision cleared and the pain in his legs began to recede. He got up and found Naraku gone. His eyes came to Ayame.
He yearned to go after Naraku. No one could insult him like this. But common sense took over. He was injured. And if Ayame was not taken care of she would die. Reaching a decision he threw his head back and gave the howl that would call those of his pack immediately to him.
Hearing their encouraging responses he sat down and drew Ayame close to him and began the process of licking her wounds, allowing the demon way of healing to take over. All he could do now was wait for help to arrive.
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The moonless night over Kaede's village was halfway through as Miroku walked out of the hut of the old priestess. Inuyasha and Ryllis were both inside, along with all the others, except for Kouketsu who was now on watch for any problems. Normally they would not take watch while in the safety of the village, but past events had awoken them to the fact that they must now always be on guard.
Miroku headed out to a hill that overlooked the flooded fields of the village. There sat the fairy he was supposed to replace.
Kouketsu nodded to him in greeting staying quiet the way she normally does, unlike her fiery outspoken friend the nymph Hinote. She continued to look at the stars which shown clear with no interference from the moon.
"Hey I know I'm early but if you wanna go ahead and get some sleep I'll take over from here," Miroku opened out. A quizzical look came on his face when the Fairy did not answer her question, but continued to look out at the stars.
"Kouketsu is there....," "Shhh," she silenced him quietly. Miroku watched and waited as she closed her eyes and spread her beautiful wings out full. After several minutes her eyes opened slowly and she spoke with a low voice.
"Something is out there, can you feel it?" she asked him. "It slips just beyond my thought and reach but I know it is there."
Miroku closed his eyes and calmed his mind, searching with his thoughts for any disturbances in the auras of the land close to them. After probing he found it. Beyond the borders of the land. On almost all sides. A dark disturbance. Not one with this land of purity. And it was coming closer. He could see rolling shapes in the darkness. They were getting closer. He could see the pinpricks of light that was their eyes. The borders of the village were within their reach. And then he saw a lone figure, finally stepping out of the haze, fully revealing himself to the world.
Miroku's eyes flew open. "Ohh kami no......" A dark haze spread over the sky, covering the stars.
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Shippo closed his eyes but he could not block out the screams of the young girl. The gut wrenching screams broke through his heart like ice. But it was worse when they stopped. Cause when they stopped that meant the girls pain was over. And if her pain was over.......
Shippo's face was grabbed roughly and his eyes were forced open. He looked into those delusioned eyes. The eyes of a madman. Eyes that swore death to those around him.
"Why?" he asked as the knife was pressed to his stomach.
All he received was a laugh. That horrible laugh was all he heard as the knife plunged into him and he was sent into the darkness. ________
Shippo jerked up from his nightmare in a cold sweat. He shivered as the wind blew through the window of the hut, cold even in the arms of the sleeping Kagome.
'Why,' he asked himself, 'Why do I keep seeing that dream. I just want to be left alone.'
After many minutes of shivering Shippo got up. He could just not stay asleep. Not even in Kagome's arms. He looked around the room and saw the monk's and Fairy's bed empty.
'I'll go check on those two. Kouketsu needs to be warned about being alone with that monk.' Shippo tottled off out into the village.
As he walked he looked up at the beautiful stars who were clearly visible with the lack of moon. Like all kids he shared a fascination with the night sky and what was veiled in it's darkness.
Shippo was just contemplating what a star would look like up close when he saw a strange type of cloud. It seemed to cover up the night sky and all the stars on it. Then he saw Miroku and Kouketsu running up. Miroku's staff was drawn and Kouketsu's ring was glowing brightly. They were yelling at him.
"Get Inuyasha!" they yelled frantically. "Huh?" Shippo asked, and at that point all hell broke loose.
Demons pored into the villages from all sides burning and destroying as they went. People woke up and found themselves immediately attacked by the creatures. Within seconds, the whole village was awake and in chaos.
Shippo froze in fear as he saw the demons head directly towards the base of the hill the shrine was on. The same place he was. His mind screamed at his body to move but it just would not listen. The demons swarmed through the roads and came bearing down towards him and he finally made the decision, to late, to run. But just as it seemed over a powerful voice went up into the night.
"Wind Tunnel!" the blessed curse in Miroku's hand opened up and immediately grabbed at the besiegers, who unsuccessfully tried to escape the vortex. More and more were sucked in as Miroku strained under the intense pressure the void was causing him. Sweat streaked off his body as his arm shook from the strain. Finally he was forced to close off the void.
The demons took the opening and rushed him knocking him out and immediately set upon him. Kouketsu aimed her ring and a blast of white light flew forth, blowing the demons off the unconscious monk.
More and more demons continued to pile into the small courtyard and rushed at the fairy. From her ring a wall of light projected itself out in front of her, Miroku, and the shrine. The demons pounded against the shield again and again as Kouketsu shook from the strain.
The elf looked over at the fox. "Get the others," she told him. Shippo tried to move but he couldn't take his eyes off those demons. "NOW!" she yelled, putting the power of her magic behind the command. Shippo shook himself out of the state and darted into the hut.
He leaped up onto the sleeping Inuyasha and bounced up and down on him. "Inuyasha wake up!" the black haired man stirred but did not get up. Shippo got really mad and got a bucket of water, drenching it over Inuyasha's head.
Inuyasha sputtered and cursed, shooting up immediately and gave the kitsune a death glare. "You fucking brat!" Shippo glared right back, a sign that he was growing and not afraid to go up against those who had taken over as parental figures.
"I like you much more dead to the world mutt, but if you will return to the land of the living you will realize we are under attack!!!!" the kitsune barked at him.
"What?" Inuyasha got out of the bed and ran over to the door and looked out of the house. His head immediately shot back to Shippo, "Why didn't you fucking tell me there were demons on our front door step!!!!?" Shippo tried to say "I did" but Inuyasha was already waking the others, who got up immediately and ran outside.
Just as they came out Kouketsu, drained from the constant use of her magic, fell to the ground in exhaustion. Her shield wavered and the demons surged forward, but fell back as Hinote issued a powerful blast of pure energy from her ring. Along with Ryllis, Inuyasha, Brandon, and Sango who mounted Kirara, she charged the demons to try and take the fight away from the shrine.
Kaede and Kagome quickly pulled Miroku and Kouketsu closer to the hut, then stood in front of them with their arrows drawn. Seeing Shippo Kagome shouted, "Shippo what are you doing out here!? Go find some where to hide!" Shippo did not need to be told a second time, and darted of into some bushes near the hut, using his fox magic to make himself even better hidden.
Shippo watched on as the battle raged. The thing that looked like a cloud covering up the stars turned out to be some of Naraku's poisonous insects, who came down and swarmed the village, attacking everything in sight. The demons that had fallen back from Hinote's first blast rallied back and were now in a furious fight.
The battle raged on and on. Demons continued to pour in from the borders of the village, easily overwhelming the guard who had been taken by complete surprise. Villagers ran left and right in terror but unless they got in the way of the attackers they were left unharmed. The demons seemed to have only one purpose, get to the shrine.
As more and more poured in, Hinote and the rest were forced to give up more and more ground. Inuyasha and Ryllis attacked one tentacle creature with there untransformed blades and were soon overcome, their unconscious bodies tossed back to the shrine like rag dolls. Brandon's fists and legs whirled around in seamless motion, striking faster than the eye could see. Then a large demon came. His skin was made of what seemed to be steel. Brandon's punches looked to cause only an annoyance to the behemoth as he picked him up and tossed him into the roof of Kaede's hut, which collapsed under the force. Sango's hirakatsu sang through the air, taking a serious toll on the attackers who did not have a way to reach her in the air. But then the same tentacle monster that took out Ryllis and Inuyasha grabbed Kirara as she came around on another low pass and slammed her into the ground. Sango hoped off the unconscious youkai as it transformed back into the small cat. It was the last act she could do as the youkai pummeled her with attacks, putting her out of commission.
The demons continued to pile in. Hinote blasted them with her ring, her powerful magic barely holding back the tide that threatned to engulf her. Suddenly two shadows moved across the ground under her blast and grew out from the ground in front of her, yellow eyes shining out of it's darkened form. Before Hinote had the chance to call out she received a blow to the gut then another to the head and fell to the ground out cold.
Shippo watched as the demons bore down on Kagome and Kaede, the last ones left defending the shrine. Then Shippo was forced to look away as bright light poured out from Kagome's eyes.
"You.... will.... not.... touch.... him." Shippo turned his head to see Kagome standing over Inuyasha her eyes blazing. She aimed her bow and pulled back the arrowless string.
She released the taught line, and coming forth from the bow shot four powerful arrows full of miko magic. The bore through the lines of demons, who screamed out in shock and agony as the arrows came in contact with them, instantly purifying their youkai blood and disintegrating their bodies.
Shippo stared as Kagome lowered her bow, her chest heaving as she tried to breathe in air. Kaede was staring at the girl in shock and was about to speak when a chilling laugh echoed across the courtyard.
Naraku stepped into view, his cold smile chilling the blood in Shippo's veins. He laughed again and stared at the young miko. He held up a hand and vines flew from his fingers, grabing her roughly around her midsection and yanking her towards him.
"Well if it isn't the little whore," Naraku said as Kagome struggled against his grip, "Didn't I tell you I'd be back?" Kagome gasped as the vines wrapped around her neck and squeezed hard.
"Put her down!" Kaede loosed an arrow at the evil demon, who slapped it away like it was a fly. With his vines he slapped the old woman flying into the trunk of a tree. Shippo heard a sickening crack come from the miko's chest as she hit the trunk and fell to the ground.
Shippo turned back to Naraku as a whimper of pain escaped from Kagome's mouth. Then Naraku spoke. "Fox! I know your out there!" he called out to the courtyard. He squeezed Kagome even tighter and gave out a scream in pain. Shippo winced from the sound. "Reveal yourself. Or I will kill her." Another scream came from Kagome's lips as Naraku added emphasis to his words.
"Shippo...." Kagome gasped, "Run.." another scream came from her as her body began to shake from the lack of oxygen. "Make your choice fox! She wont last much longer...." Naraku warned as he continued to strangle Kagome.
Shippo felt torn between Kagome's orders and her Naraku induced screams. Every sound that came from her tortured body made him shudder. He couldn't just stand there. Kagome had protected him for three years. The worse blood curling scream yet erupted from Kagome's abused form and Shippo finally made his choice. It was time for him to protect the one he viewed as a mother.
"Stop!" he yelled running out of the bushes in front of Naraku. He quailed under the ominous form but held his ground. "Please, don't hurt her."
"Shippo..... don't..." Kagome uttered before another vine wrapped around her mouth.
"Ahh good to see you've come to reason," Naraku sneered and held out his hand, "So we have a deal? Your life for hers?"
Shippo glared at the hanyou. "How do I know you wont break the deal?"
Naraku sighed. "Stupid, Kit. You and I both know you can just use those pathetic fox powers to make sure I cant break my promise, not even I have the strength to break a Kitsune binding spell."
Shippo looked at him and held out his hand. When Naraku grinned he reached forward and grabbed his hand, bright light erupting from the joining. Naraku quickly dropped Kagome like she was made of acid. She fell gasping to the ground. "Do not attempt to follow me Higurashi, the foxes magic will not protect you were I will go." Naraku warned her.
Shippo fought the repulsion as Naraku seized him with the vines and began top walk off in the direction of the forest. The last thing he saw before the vines covered up his vision was the teary eyed Kagome looking into his eyes before fainting to the ground.
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'At last, I have them all,' Naraku thought as he held the completed Shikon jewel in his hands. 'I can finally go to work. Once I have the last child from this new world, it will all end quickly.' Naraku walked up to the well.
He closed his eyes and the jewel glowed brightly. Then with a blast of power the well in front of him turned into a gaping hole.
Naraku grinned sadistically as he leaped down into the well. 'It is my time....'
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It was a peaceful night at Kagome's home. Souta and Grandpa were asleep and Mrs. Higurashi was in the kitchen she looked out at the shrine wondering when her daughter would come home.
A bright light came from the window of the well house and Mrs. Higurashi stared in wonder. It glowed brighter and brighter till it seemed like daytime outside. 'It's so bright...' she thought, before the light engulfed her.
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Well sorry that took so long to update but due to health reason's and a really stubborn blonde girl, I was not allowed on my computer. Also for those of you who don't know Ayame is a girl who appears in later Inuyahsa episodes that aren't in America yet. That's all please review. I am out!
Your Lord and Master,
Ryan aka The Mutt
