Arrrgh! it won't lemme indent!
I have been busy this past week so I couldn't get enough time to type up this chappie.
::Sess:: ::cough:: yeah right::cough::
Will you shut up!? Anyway I bring to you chappie 8 for your boredom relief.
::Sess:: Isn't there something else you need to say?
Liiiiiiike?
::Sess:: Oh I don't know, a disclaimer maybe?
Nooo way. You can't make me.
::Sess:: Oh really? ::promptly grabs Chaos and begins his tickle asault:: I won't stop until you say it!
Okay, Okay I give, I give! I don't own InuYasha!
Chapter Ocho (eight)
Naraku stood there with an evil smirk on his face and none other than Kagome on his arm, looking lovingly up at him. The group all looked initially shocked that Kagome was actually alive, but then they're shock turned to confusion as to why she would even be near Naraku much less love him. InuYasha began to sniff around, trying to tell if it was just a puppet like all the others that had wandered into his path over the past two days had been. But this one didn't have her sweet scent. In fact it had little to no scent at all. Naraku knew InuYasha would figure that out, so he threw the puppet at InuYasha with his mind. He caught it by the neck and began to choke the life out of it. Miroku could feel there was a jewel shard in the puppet but, unlike Kagome, he could not tell where. InuYasha would not heed his warnings, he was too enraged by what Naraku did to him and Kagome. The pain he put them through, the sorrow that he felt because of the deception, it was all coming out with life of the puppet. The head began to bulge like a balloon inflating, its eyes popping out with the pressure. Just like a balloon that got too much air, the head eventually popped with a very loud CLAP! And the jewel shard that was in the neck of the puppet fell out, catching the light of the setting sun on the way down. Naraku smiled even more as the head exploded. The bamboo flap behind him began to glow an evil red, showing the silhouette of a giant tree with thorns. InuYasha could smell Kagome though it seemed her scent was fading and the stench of death was becoming ever more present.
InuYasha did not care that Naraku was standing in the way, he just dashed right past him through the doorway, to find Kagome intertwined in the tree, the thorns digging into her skin. On her neck was a hand print about the size of InuYasha's. Another jewel shard fell from Kagome's throat as he cut away the branches. He could hear her heart beat begin to slow and saw the color fade from her eyes. Without the breath of life it would stop completely. He needed to breath for her, somehow. He held her in his arms and kissed her, breathing air into her lungs. Unsuccessful the first few times, he refused to give up, instead he kissed her again and again, breathing for her. At last she coughed, inhaling the much needed air for herself, the color finally returning to her cheeks. She put a limp arm around his neck, barely holding on in her weak state. Glad that she was back among the living, InuYasha once again passed by Naraku, scarcely registering his presence. Only when he heard Naraku's evil cackle did he even acknowledge the vile man behind them.
"Hmhmm, thank you InuYasha. Now I have the complete Shikon jewel. Kagome was very helpful indeed. And might I add she has very soft skin."
"You sick bastard! YER GONNA PAY FOR EVEN TOUCHING HER!! SHE IS NOT JUST SOME DAMNED JEWEL DETECTOR!" InuYasha began to lunge toward Naraku when a hand gripped his shoulder. He turned to see Kagome attached to that hand and a worried look on her face. Then he remembered what Kagura had told them, Naraku would not die just by slicing him to bits. He housed his core somewhere else. His core, not his heart. A creature like that has no heart. They had to find Moroymaru and find a way to destroy him. They did not know if Naraku knew what Kagura had told them, but right now they had to leave because the fight InuYasha was about to get into was a no-winner. That is if Naraku let them go without a fight. Seemingly he did. But when dealing with Naraku, the group had learned there is always an ulterior motive for whatever he does.
The truth was he didn't have the complete Shikon jewel, there was one still missing. He knew where it was of course. However getting to said place was a different matter altogether. It lay between the gateway of the living world and the world of the dead. He had sent Kagura to retrieve it once but she came back empty-handed. It seems in order to retrieve the jewel one must be already in the world of the dead, or in the world of the un-dead. Seeing how he was neither as of late, it was going to be mighty tricky. That's why he let Kagome in on his little secret. He would let them lead the way to the underworld, and take the jewel out from under their noses, completing a jewel that already looked magnificent because it had been tainted with malice. And it would only get more beautiful after it had been completed.
(A/N): I know its short but at least its something. The updates may seem to get more and more stretched now that I'm back in school ( ::Sesshy::damn!). I will try to update as often as I can, (::Sesshy::reviews are very good bribes), but please remember I may get a major case of (Sesshy:: Writer's block) KNOCK IT OFF! ::smacks sess and takes keyboard back:: no a major case of Senioritis. OMG I'm a senior! ::faints:: I'm ok I'm ok. ::Sesshy:: oh yeah like anybody cares.