Angles In Waiting
Chapter 3
A New Power

The gang stood before a large ogre, all of them in a defensive stance. It gave a deafening roar once again. Inuyasha flattened his ears to his head in order to try to block out the noise. Even Shippo was having difficulty handling the sound.

"There's a jewel shard in it's throat." Kagome informed Inuyasha. I glared at the demons throat for a moment as if he would be able to see it if he stared long enough.

"Kagome stay back." Inuyasha ordered the angel. She glared slightly but complied anyway. "Come on Shippo." She called to the kit, unfortunately he still had his ears covered and couldn't hear her.

Kagome didn't realize that the child hadn't followed her until she was already under cover. "Crap!" she shouted. "Shippo!" she called to him hoping that he would hear her voice over the incessant roaring.

Shippo for one felt like his head was splitting in half. The noise cut through his sensitive hearing seeming to skip his eardrum and go directly to his brain. He didn't even notice the battle going on around him.

The sound of Inuyasha's wind scar, Miroku's wind tunnel, and Sango's Hiriakotsu all eluded him. He heard something in the back of his mind. It was a voice, not just any voice he realized, it was Kagome.

Oh Kagome. He thought. Please help me, make the demon stop. I can't take the noise. Kagome knew he was in distress; she had been trying to get to him since the battle started. The only problem was that she had to get to him without drawing attention to herself or Shippo.

It was proving to be quite a challenge; the ogre demon was very sensitive to movement. It let out a huge roar, this time loader than ever. The sound quickly cut thought the humans hearing, instantly giving them horrible headaches.

But of course with Inuyasha's hearing it was greatly magnified. The sound hit him like a brick wall. He had been in the air about to strike the ogre with the tetsusiaga. Inuyasha was stunned by the sound and gravity quickly took its hold and pulled hi back to earth.

Shippo, who had already been in pain couldn't take it anymore, he screamed. He felt like his skull had been shattered and some one had applied pressure to the broken pieces to cause more pain.

Now the demon noticed him. Shippo passed out due to the pain just as the demon opened his mouth and the energy ball started to form. Kagome knew that subtlety wasn't going to save anyone now and ran to Shippo.

Kagome gathered Shippo into her arms and held him tightly and the demon unleashed his attack. Inuyasha had regained consciousness just in time to see Kagome grab Shippo. The entire gang watched in horror as the attack hit the ground.

The attack stopped when it hit its victims, it stayed as it was for a moment then seemed to cave in on itself. Once it got to the point that it was exactly a third of its original size it flew back to the ogre and destroyed it with a magnificent blast.

The Inu-gumi just stared at the ogre's remains for a moment and turned back to Kagome and Shippo. Kagome sat unharmed with the unconscious kit in her arms. She stood up and held Shippo closer to her. "We have to get him to a healer. Now." She said.

At this Inuyasha rushed over and picked Kagome up bridal style Sango and Miroku climbed onto Kirara. Despite the commotion the Neko youkai had not forgotten the most important thing. She flew to the remains and grabbed the Shikon shard and then followed Inuyasha back to Kaede's.

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Kagome came into the hut to speak with Kaede. She sat down next to Shippo, whom was still unconscious. "He has only busted an eardrum child. He will be fine with in a day or two." Kaede told the younger miko. Kagome smiled "Good, it scared the hell out of me when I saw the blood."

"Hai child, I know." Kaede responded. "When will he wake up?" Kagome asked her worry returning. "Most likely by the end of the day, possibly tomorrow." Kaede informed her. Kagome got up to go tell the others, "I'll be back in a few minutes Kaede." She said. The old miko just nodded and continued to stir the stew.

When Sango saw Kagome walk out of the hut she immediately stood up, Miroku did the same. "How is he Kagome?" Sango asked. "He'll be fine, the blood was nothing to serious. Since he's a demon it'll be nothing." Kagome told them. Both sighed in relief.

Kirara rolled her eyes at their worry. So what, he wasn't seriously injured. The kit would find this worry ridiculas. If anything his biggest worry was going to be the dreadful headache he was going to have when he woke up.

"Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked. "Hai?" Kagome responded. "Was that you back there who sent the attack back at the demon?" he asked, the question had been bothering him for a while now.

"Hai, it was. I don't know how but the power came from me." She said, confusing herself with her answer. Miroku noticed so just nodded his head in agreement. "I'm guessing more of your power will awaken next time your in trouble." Sango speculated.

Inuyasha was up in a tree listening to the conversation. He growled lightly. 'Next time she's in trouble' Sango had said. There shouldn't have been a 'this time'. He was furious that he had let the demon come that close to hurting Kagome and Shippo.

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Kagome started searching for Inuyasha that day near sunset. "Inuyasha." She called. She heard the rustle of leaves from up in the Goshinbaku. "Inuyasha," said again trying to find his red Haori through the leaves. She caught a glimpse of silver from somewhere up above her head and knew Inuyasha was there.

She gave a sigh, "Inuyasha, it's not your fault." She called up to him knowing full well that he was listening. "You did what you had to do. You did what you could to help." She heard a snort from above her. "I have to learn to protect myself eventually." Finally Inuyasha responded, "You shouldn't need to. I should be protecting you."

She smiled up at him, "And you do a damn good job of it to. But we can't know when we're going to be attacked, you can't always be there." She smiled up at him again and headed back to the hut. "I can sure as hell try." She heard him say but kept walking, 'Yes Inuyasha, you can always try and I'll do the same.'

Well I'm finally starting to get back on track. I'll post another update sooner than usual. Hopefully this weekend. I'm pushing my creativity into overdrive.

Review responses:
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Becca Patty: Be patient my friend this doesn't get straight to the plot like in WDY. Hehe but I'm glad you like it.