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Inuyasha's ears perked in alarm, hearing the voice of the dragon. Before Inuyasha had a chance to wield the Tetsusaiga, his human features began to take over his hanyou features. His dog ears were now gone, being replaced with human ones on the sides of his head. The silver hue of his hair darkened, now matching the hue of Kagome's, and his amber eyes turned brown, seeming that they had more warmth.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha cried out desperately, flinging away the bucket as he began to give chase to the two of them.
"The arrows Inuyasha! Use the Sacred Arr- AHHH!!!" Kagome's sentence was cut off by another vicious squeeze from the dragon. "Use the arrows Inuyasha! They're your only chance!!!" Her last few words were faint as the dragon whisked her away.
He gave a quick nod, heading back towards the village. His breathing was heavy; it seemed that it was harder for his body to handle endurance needing tasks when he was in his human form. He cursed under his breath at that thought. Quickly, he picked up the bow and quiver before running in the direction the dragon took Kagome.
It took a few minutes for him to catch up with them, but as soon as he did, he stopped in his tracks as he pulled back the arrow on the string of the bow. He released it, trying to aim for the dragons chest, but it missed the dragon's body altogether. "How the heck do you use these things?!" He called to Kagome. He was used to wielding a sword, and could now understand her clumsiness at her first attempts of using the bow and arrow..
The dragon used the end of his tail to smash Inuyasha into a nearby cliff face, pinning him there as he said, "Pesky half-demon, you dare challenge me, sire of the weak Ryukotsusei for possession of this human girl? If you are so foolish as to do so, come and find me in my dwelling place, if you can make it there in time before she is dead." The dragon made a black portal appear high in the sky, spiraling up through it, letting Inuyasha fall to the ground.
Kagome couldn't speak, her mouth covered by the tip of one large talon, and was futilely trying to budge it. The two disappeared, the portal too, leaving behind only the dark night sky.
Inuyasha staggered up, clutching his side where one of the dragon's spikes had gone through. "Kagome?!" He yelled out, though, it was too late. He growled angrily as he ran, looking for any trace of the dragon and Kagome. He finally caught a glimpse of ebony scales catching the weak light, coming from a meadow nearby. Strange place for a dragon to live. Nevertheless, he ran towards the meadow.
As he ran, he thought about what the dragon had said, and what really caught his attention were the dragon's last words. 'Before she is dead.' His heart pounded fasted as he quickened his pace. "Damn, I told her to go home today. And she didn't listen!" He said in between breaths. Kagome was thrown into the center of a large stone pit, resembling a demolished Greek arena, with columns surrounding the perimeter. The dragon lay down inside the oval, making a perfect ring around it with many meters of dragon left to spare. It watched her with cold, blue eyes, silent.
"I don't even have the Jewel Shards with me, they're in my pack at Lady Kae-" Kagome put a hand to her side and felt a small glass bottle, or what used to be a small bottle and was now a bunch of glass splinters digging into her side. Oh no, I put the bottle in my pocket when I almost forgot it at home!!
He nearly dropped to the ground in exhaustion when he reached the meadow, blood staining his left side. Breathing heavily, he kneeled down, trying to catch his breath, concealing himself behind the tall grass.
After a few seconds, he pushed himself to move on and rescue Kagome before anything bad happened to her. "This is all my fault. If I had told her the real reason I wanted her to leave, maybe she would've been safe in her own time era right about now." He mumbled to himself, taking the full blame on himself.
Up ahead, he spotted Kagome, along with the dragon. Slowly, he crept toward them, trying not to make a sound. He held the bow and an arrow close to him, getting ready to use it if he had to.
"I am Natirozenu, sire of Ryukotsusei, and I know you have two Jewel Shards in your pocket, hand them over, now." He rumbled.
"N-No! I... I-I'd rather eat them before I gave them to you!"
Kagome clutched the Jewel Shards in her hands, now up on her feet, staring down the dragon, then became wide-eyed when the dragon chuckled.
"Brave words little lady, though I'm afraid that's all they are. I'll make you eat them soon enough, your lover isn't going to be able to do much about it tonight anyway."
He growled slightly, listening to the slight conversation the two of them had. Nocking an arrow to the bow, he aimed it at Natirozenu's head, before releasing it, sending it flying towards the dragon.
He strained his eyes to see the arrow, hoping that it would hit in the correct spot and not miss. However, he knew his chances of a bulls eye were decreasing as he saw the arrow slow down a bit.
Natirozenu looked lazily at the arrow flying towards him, and stopping it in the air. "So, you did come to save her. Foolish half-demon." He let the arrow drop, not caring that it fell before Kagome's feet. "If you two would just give me the Jewel Shards, I might just let you two leave in peace. That is, of course, if you don't take much longer, the night air is starting to whet my appetite."
"Heh, over my dead body!" He called out loud. Putting a hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga, he pulled it out. Of course, it was remained in its normal state, serving as little more than a piece of junk.
In a desperate attempt to free Kagome, he plunged the Tetsusaiga in Natirozenu's body. As a distraction, he released another arrow towards him. Quickly, he grabbed Kagome by the hand, as well as puling the Tetsusaiga out of the dragon's side, covered in blood.
He pulled Kagome, making a run for it, not wanting to look back. "See what you've done?! I told you to go home, but no, you had to insist on staying, didn't you?!" He spoke angrily, blaming this whole situation on her when it was partly his fault.
Kagome had picked up the arrow, and risked a quick glance back at Natirozenu. His hide was regenerating rapidly where the Tetsusaiga had cut him.
"No one escapes from me." He roared, leasing a black lightning stream from his mouth, blasting the two of them apart. He picked up Kagome in a paw, clenching her tightly, causing her to scream again.
Inuyasha got up from the lightening that had sent him flying to the ground. His vision was blurry at first, but then it became clear, and he could see that Kagome had been captured by Natirozenu once again. "Let her go you stupid lizard!" He yelled at him as he ran towards him, slashing him viciously with Tetsusaiga, though the attack had little effect, since it wasn't in its powerful form. "Kagome!" He called out, as he still slashed at Natirozenu.
Natirozenu sent Inuyasha flying with another blow from his tail. "THE SHARDS!" He rumbled.
Kagome seemed to see in slow motion Inuyasha flying through the air, his body landing on the hard rubble inside the oval with a dull thud, causing her to bite her lower lip in worry. "Never!" In a rash, hasty decision, Kagome pushed the two shards into the skin of her forearm where she wouldn't drop them, then let their power flow through to the one arrow she held in her hand. I hope this works. She stabbed the arrow hard, down into the jewel shard she could see lying at the base of one claw right in front of her stomach.
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