Kagome
Chapter Two
Seekers of the Sacred Jewel
Kaede and Inu Yasha just stared at Kagome's sudden comeback.
What the hell! She was savin us one minute, then she's about to kill us!
"Hyn" said Kagome, cracking her knuckles.
"Pay no heed to Kagome, child." said Kaede, motioning to Inu Yasha to back up.
The Sacred Jewel makes monsters more powerful. Is it... cursed?
"I hat havin' to wait! And I HATE the stench of you!" said Kagome, dashing after Inu Yasha. Inu Yasha just ran, knowing he was done for if Kagome got to him.
"AHH!" Inu Yasha tripped over some of Mistress Centipede's bones, falling to the ground. Kagome suddenly came to the side of him, and tried to slash him from the back, but Inu Yasha just kept his head down, so the pink beams wouldn't meet his head.
"Want me to scratch your back?"
"Ya really tried to hit me back there, didn't you?"
"Sh- shoot him!" yelled one of the villagers, as he and the rest tried to shoot Kagome with arrows and spears. Kagome just put her fist in front of her, pointing at the arrows. She then opened it, and a pink energy beam sot towards the arrows, and sliced them in half, and making them turn to dust. She then slashed two trees, making them fall onto the place where the villagers once stood, making them scatter to all directions. Kagome jumped onto a tree stump, and glared at the villagers.
"Who do you people think I am! Ya really thing you can do me like I did that centipede! I'm a half demon and a miko!"
"Lady Kaede!"
"Well, well. Somehow I knew it would come to this." said Kaede, pulling out a rosary from her kimono. "Ye always were a fool, Kagome.
Kagome was now after Inu Yasha again. She was just about to slash at him, when gloving beads started shooting towards her, and formed a circle around her neck. Instead of tackling Inu Yasha, she stopped at a stump, and examined the rosary on her neck.
"Huh? What the heck are these?"
"Quickly child! The word of jubigation!"
"Jubigation?"
"The word of jubigation!"
"But how will I know which one?"
"It matters not!" said Kaede, and Inu Yasha was running again towards a bridge. "Your word has the power to hold her spirit!" Inu Yasha was running and running, when he tripped and fell at the entrance of the bridge, and the jewel fell to the middle.
"Hah! How can you over power me when you cant even sit up!"
"The word to hold her spirit?" Inu Yasha focused his gaze over to Kagome's dog ears. "Hmmmmm..." Kagome was now reaching over to the jewel, when... "SIT!" The rosary around Kagome's neck glowed a bright pink, and made Kagome slam to the ground, face first.
"Wow. It actually worked..."
Once the spell wore off, Kagome jumped to her feet and started to try and pull off the rosary.
"What the hell? Why won't it come off!"
"Even ye lack the power to remove it, Kagome."
"You're one to talk! I'd come up there and finish you off! If ya didn't look half dead already!"
"The word please."
"Sit."
Wham!
Again, Kagome's face slammed to the ground. And she stayed like that for a bit. But she shouldn't have. It was now near daybreak, and birds were flying all over the sky. The bad thing was, that a flock of crows were flying above them, and one of them, which happened to be a crow demon with three eyes, swooped down, and scooped up the jewel.
"Hey! That stupid crow's making off with my jewel!"
Kagome then got up and was about to run after the crow with the jewel, when...
"Wait Kagome!" Kagome turned around to where Kaede was standing. "Ye must take Inu Yasha along with you! I shall explain later, but ye can only get thy jewel back together!"
"No way! I'm not working with him!"
"Ye must. Ye can only get the jewel back together, for Inu Yasha is the reincarnation of Inuko.
"What!"
"He is. Now both of you, get the jewel."
"I'm not working with him! And he doesn't even look a bit similar to Inuko!"
"Ya better let me help, or I'll S-I-T you to death!"
"Fine! Calm down! Geeze!" Kagome then looked around her, waiting for something, but nothing came. "KARIA!" (ka-lE-a)
"Karia?"
As if on cue, a small demon came out of the woods surrounding them. It looked a lot like a cat. It had yellowish fur, and a diamond shaped black stripe on her forehead. She had to tailed, with two stripes on each. When she spotted Kagome, it gave a "meow" of joy, and leapt into Kagome's arms. Kagome giggled, and hugger her, petting her fur.
"Hey there Karia! How've ya been?"
"Meow!"
Kagome giggled again.
"Uh... what the hell is that thing?"
"She's not a thing! She's a demon, and my best friend! Her name's Karia, and ya better be nice, or she could rip you to shreds!"
"That puny little cat! She couldn't even hurt a fly!"
"We'll see about that!" then she turned to look at Karia. "Karia, I need you to take me and the idiot over there to that crow." she said, pointing to the demon that stole the jewel. Karia 'mewed' in understanding, and leapt out of Kagome's arms, onto the ground in front of her. Flames surrounded her, and then the small demon turned into a bigger one, that looked like a saber toothed tiger, except she looked exactly like Karia, but had giant fangs, claws, and a more ferocious look, with fire at her heels.
"Whoa..." said Inu Yasha, staring in shock.
"Told ya." Kagome then climbed onto Karia, and patted the fur behind her. "Come on. We don't got all day!"
Inu Yasha slowly and cautiously walked over to them, and eyes Karia suspiciously.
"Now what!"
"Are ya sure this thing's stable?"
Kagome fell off of Karia.
"Listen up kid," she said, getting back up onto Karia. "Quit your complaints and get on so we can get the damn jewel!"
"Humph." Inu Yasha got onto Karia, and she shot forward into the air. Karia flew across the sky to the crow demon, with flamed at her feet.
The crow demon still had the jewel in it's beak, but not for long, because it swallowed it. The small crow turned bigger. Almost 5 timed it's regular size, with a longer tail, that looked dragon like.
"AHH! That stupid crow swallowed the jewel!" Kagome turned around to Inu Yasha with an evil glare. "It's all your fault!"
"No it isn't!"
"Yeah it is! You just had to make sure I didn't get the jewel!"
"Well if you did, you would have stolen it... and kept it!"
"How can I steal something when you just gave it to me!"
"Uh... well... uhm... eh...he he..."
"Thought so." Kagome looked thought full for a moment. "Aha!" she snapped her fingers in the air, and a bow and arrow appeared in her hands. She turned around, and gave them to Inu Yasha. Inu Yasha just stared at it.
"Uh... what do I do with this?"
Kagome sighed. "It's a bow and arrow."
"Duh. I can see that!"
"Shoot the damn bird with it!"
"What?"
"Shoot it!" said Kagome, as Karia gained up on the bird.
"What? I've never shot an arrow in my life!"
"Inuko was a master archer! Take the bird in one shot!"
"I told you, my name's Inu Yasha!" he yelled, as he got ready to shoot the arrow. But still, Inuko, give me your strength.
Inu Yasha pulled back the arrow, let it go, and it flew to the crow demon. At first, they both thought it would strike the demon, but when it was a meter away... it flew down. Karia went slamming into the ground, Kagome on top of her, and Inu Yasha on top of Kagome.
"Hey! You said Inuko was a master archer!"
"He was! It's you who's the klutz!"
"Meow."
"Yeah... uh... do ya mind getting off of me!"
"Sorry."
Inu Yasha and Kagome both mounted back onto Karia, and she was off towards the demon again.
"Try shooting it again!"
Inu Yasha tried. The good thing was, the arrow went farther than the first one. The bad thing was, that the arrow came flying back down to them. And didn't hit the demon.
"Karia!"
The cat demon suddenly stopped in a clearing in the forest, turned back in to a small demon, and leapt into Kagome's arms, making Inu Yasha fall on to his rear.
"Oww!"
Kagome turned around, and glared at Inu Yasha.
"I don't care what the old lady says!" she said, pointing at Inu Yasha, and poking him in the chest. "You are not Inuko, ya got that?" she poked him after each and every word, "I am sooooo outta here!" said Kagome, turning around, and leaping into the air, with the once again big Karia at her side.
"Hey Kagome! Wait!"
Kagome was now leaping from tree to tree, gaining on the crow demon with Karia at her side. The demon was now flying over a bunch of villagers, and started circling around a small child, about the age of 5. The little boy was happily running around in a flower bed, with a bunch of squirrels and chipmunks.
"Lookin' for your next meal already, eh?"
The demon dived down, and picked up the boy from the collar of his kimono. The kid was shocked at the sudden event, but came back to his senses, and flailed his hands around, screaming for help.
"HEEEEEEEELLLLLP!"
"Just wait a bit longer kid!" yelled Kagome as she leapt over a fairly large tree, and landed on Karia. She was just about to shoot an energy beam at the demon, when...
"WAIT! Kagome! You'll hurt the boy!"
"Buzz off!" Kagome was off of Karia, above the demon.
"IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!"
Kagome brought down a claw, and slashed the demon, tearing it into bits and pieces that fell into the river below, along with the child.
"Where is it? Where's the jewel?" said Kagome, landing on a boulder in the river, searching around franticly for the jewel.
"HEEEEEEEEELP!"
The child that fell into the river was being dragged away from shore by the river. The villagers, along with Inu Yasha ran after him.
"Wait! We'll help you!" yelled the villagers, trying to catch up to the boy, but they were too slow.
Inu Yasha got an idea, and took off his socks and shoes, and ran after the boy. He jumped into the water, not too far from the boy, and began swimming towards the him.
"Woah! Look at him go!" said a random villager.
"HE'S AN IMP I TELL YOU! A WATER IMP! HE'S NOT HUMAN AT ALL!"
He soon caught up, and put the boy on his back
"Got cha."
"LOOK! IT'S ON IT'S WAY BACK NOW! WHAT A DAY! WHAT A BOY! WHAT AN IMP!"
"And they say teenagers get excited!" said Inu Yasha, rolling his eyes at the man's comment. He quickly got back to shore, and placed the little boy on the sand in front of his mother.
"Mama! I was so scared!"
"It's okay honey. Now say thank you to the nice man."
"Hey! Get the jewel, dammit!"
Inu Yasha turned around to look at Kagome. He just glared at her, turned around, and stuck his head in the air. Kagome was dumbfounded by this.
The boy turned around to Inu Yasha, and bowed.
"Thanks for savin' me."
"No prob!" he replied with a smile.
Suddenly, the body parts of the crow started forming back into the giant demon, and flew out of the water, back into the sky.
"Look!"
"Oh!"
Inu Yasha looked at the sky, and saw the crow demon, cawing in rage, still circling around the village. Inu Yasha turned back to the boy with a smug smile.
"I guess you're off the hook now, kid."
Unexpectedly, the foot of the demon that was still attached to the child's kimono, started pulling towards the crow.'
"Huh? AHH!"
Huh? The jewel's probably calling back all the body parts... I got an idea!
Inu Yasha turned to a villager with a bow and a few arrows with him.
"Excuse me, could I borrow your bow?"
"Uh... sure."
Inu Yasha took the bow, and quickly tied the crow's foot onto an arrow.
"It's so far! Are you sure it's gonna hit?"
"It's my butt he's gonna hit!" muttered Kagome.
Inu Yasha had a determined expression on his face, and he readied his arrow to shoot the demon.
"I get it!" said Kagome, fixing her gaze back to the demon. "He's shooting the foot!"
I can do this! Thought Inu Yasha, letting go of the arrow, and letting it fly towards the demon. The foot can't help but be drawn but the jewel! Which almost guarantee's it'll hit!
The arrow whizzed towards the demon, and hit it in the stomach.
"Yes!" said Inu Yasha, from happiness, that his arrow hit.
"Wow..." said Kagome, in thought. "It hit..."
The crow demon blasted into several pieces, but that was not all that happened. Unfortunately, the arrow had struck right at the place the jewel was. The jewel started to crack... and crack... and crack some more, until it broke into hundreds... no... maybe even thousands of pieces, and went flying in all directions, with a blinding light coming from where it started, and beams of pink light going in the directions the shards of the jewels were blasted to.
"That light!" said Kagome, squinting and blocking her eyes from the bright light.
"Lady Kaede!"
"Ohh. I do not like thy looks of this."
The day had now started to grow dark, and it was now at sunset. Kagome and Inu Yasha were searching around the area they thought the jewel fell for none other that the sacred Shikon Jewel itself.
"Are you sure it fell here?" asked Kagome for the millionth time that day.
"Of course I'm sure!"
Out of nowhere, the head of the crow demon they killed earlier came flying towards them, right at Inu Yasha.
"I don't think so!" said Kagome, sliding in front of Inu Yasha, and slashing the crow. The crow turned to dust, and a tiny, pink, diamond like object fell to the ground. Inu Yasha walked over to it, to investigate. He picked it up, and examined it.
"Uh oh..." started Inu Yasha "I hope this isn't what I think it is..."
"What? What do you think it is?"
"I think it's a shard of the... jewel." he breathed.
"What... WHAT DID YOU SAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"