Author's Note: To Shiru: The demon stones' powers will hopefully become clear in this chapter. And yes, the Shikon no Tama will be appearing. We just have to get Kagome in the story first. And to The Masked Mistress, thanks for reviewing! And yes, a bizarre story line indeed…
"Ai, wake up." A small hand gently tried to shake him awake. "Please wake up Ai!"
"Hn?' He opened his eyes slowly to stare into brown ones. He jumped backwards when he realized whom they belonged to.
"I'm sorry, did I surprise you?" Kagome asked, a worried look coming onto her face.
"Yeah." He replied automatically.
"I'm sorry." She apologized.
"Why didn't you wake up before?" He asked, calming himself down.
"Because, you didn't feel true terror before a few days ago when you got your first Demon Stone…or Inuyasha and Melissa did."
"You know about all that?"
"Yes, I've seen everything. I saw everything you saw when I was sleeping. I even felt how you felt." She elbowed him. "Even about Melissa." This made him blush.
"Since it's Sunday I won't have to rush and introduce you. But I will, sometime today."
"Why not now?" She asked.
"I don't want to seem surprised." He said, then got dressed in the normal Inuyasha shirt and jeans.
Downstairs
"No!" Melissa yelled, falling over in defeat.
"Yes!" Inuyasha cried, throwing down his controller.
"You got me again…" Melissa sighed. She had never been too good at video games.
"Inuyasha beats all!" The little plush toy yelled.
"Are you two playing that Inuyasha game again?" Ai asked, just walking into the room.
"Yep!" Inuyasha called to him, waving his controller.
"Ai!" Melissa ran up to him, fake tears in her eyes. "He beat me again! Make him let me win! Please?" She sniffed, almost as if she were about to start crying.
"Why don't you play me instead?" Ai started to pry Inuyasha's controller out of his hands.
"Okay…" She sniffed again and nodded.
After awhile of playing the video game, Inuyasha sniffed the air. "Uh, guys…"
"What is it Inuyasha-kun?" Melissa turned towards him.
"We've got a problem…" He looked outside a window. Spiderheads were surrounding the whole house.
"Those are the demons that eat humans…alive!" She gulped.
"I'll be right back." Ai ran upstairs to fetch something.
"Time for some pest control." A transformed Inuyasha said, making Melissa jump slightly.
"Wait! There's too many!"
"Who cares?" He looked down at her. "I'm going to need some blood."
"Blood?"
"I need it for Blades of Blood." He replied. "But, being filled with stuffing, I don't have any. That's where partners help, in areas their partner can't." Melissa nodded, then went to the kitchen.
When she came back she held a sharp knife. "Let's get on the roof." So they went up onto the roof.
On the roof
Melissa's hand shook as she held the steel next to her arm. I can do it… She thought. Of course, cutting herself was harder than it seemed.
"Can you go any slower?" Inuyasha asked, standing next to her.
"I've never cut myself before." She spat. Here goes… She slid the knife's blade across her skin. The blood that started to ooze from the wound stained her white skin. "There…"
"Now you have to say the words with me, and do the actions." She nodded, then placed her hand where the blood was.
And together they chanted, "Blades of blood!" And together they flung Melissa's blood. Only Inuyasha's was fake but Melissa's was the one that turned into the attack.
"How dare you!" Some of the Spiderheads said before they disintegrated. More came in to replace their fallen comrades.
"Iron Revere soul stealer!" But more still came.
"Are they never ending?" Melissa asked.
"There's gotta be somewhere they're coming from." The half dog demon plush toy replied.
"But where?" She had forgotten about the blood on her arm, which was still flowing.
"Why don't you let Kagome use the demon stone?" A familiar, yet unseen voice said.
Kikyo? Both partners thought.
"Where's Kagome and who's her partner?" Melissa tried to ask the voice but there was no reply.
"Over here!" A girl's voice said behind them.
"K-k-k-Kagome?" Inuyasha stuttered.
Kagome came running up to them.
"Ai?" Melissa saw the boy come out from behind Kagome. What 's with him and hiding behind people? She thought.
"Do you have the demon stone?" Kagome asked the girl before Ai could say anything.
"Yeah." She handed the stone to her.
"Demon Stone of the feudal area, release your powers and assist us! Please!" The stone then glowed after Kagome finished and the huge mantis demon stood in front of the gang.
The mantis the sprayed its purple mist and all of the spiderheads disintegrated, all of them except one.
"Iron revere soul stealer!" And in the place of the remaining demon was another demon stone.
"Let's go get it!" Melissa said, cheerfully.
"You're hurt, let Inuyasha go get it and let me wrap your arm." Ai said, taking out bandages that you can wrap around. Kagome smiled at the offer, and Inuyasha and Melissa stared.
"Okay…" The human girl sat down as the boy came to wrap her arm up.
Inuyasha jumped down into the street and picked up the demon stone. This one had a spider in it.
"You killed my car, man!" A teenager jumped out of his car. The front of his car had a huge dent in it, where Inuyasha stood.
"You're the one who ran into me." Inuyasha jumped out of the crevice he had made.
"But you just jumped into the middle of the road!"
"Look here," Inuyasha picked the teenager up by his shirt. "I'm not paying for your car if that's what you want. And if you don't get the hell out of here in five minutes, I'm coming for you." And he dropped him.
"How do I know you're not bluffing?"
"How?" Inuyasha picked up his car and hurled it into the horizon, never to be seen again by anyone. Then the guy ran away in terror.
Later
"How come you didn't tell us about her, Ai?" Melissa asked, sitting next to Ai on the sofa, Inuyasha in her lap, plush form.
"Because…" Was all he would say.
"Because he was scared." Kagome replied.
"Why was he scared?" Melissa gave up on Ai.
"Because of what you would-" She was cut off by a hand over her mouth.
"I'm home kids!" Kuno walked into the room. "What happened to you Melissa?" He noticed her bandage.
"Oh? This?" She pointed to it. "The knife slipped when I was trying to cut something." She smiled. "But Ai made it feel all better." Ai blushed.
"Oh. It wasn't a bad cut was it?"
"Not at all, tiny."
"Good."
That night
"Kagome, you said you woke up because I felt true terror." Ai said, sitting on his bed.
"Yes." She replied, pulling back the covers.
"Then does that mean that Melissa felt true terror to make Inuyasha wake?"
"Yes." She said again.
"What did she go through?"
"I have no clue. You might want to ask Inuyasha, or Melissa herself. But I think neither of them will talk, probably don't want to be reminded." She tucked herself in.
"Good night." Ai got under the covers as well.
