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Chapter 2: A new Dimension
Kagome and the spirit detectives stood by the well, each carrying a bag of various items.
'InuYasha's not going to be happy about this...' Kagome thought, reaching for a hand.
"To make this work, every one is going to have to hold hands" She started, hearing Yusuke's groan. "Hey! I don't wanna do this either but Koenma gave his orders and..."
"Alright Alright!" Yusuke groaned. "What're we supposed to do anyway, jump down and wait for Lassie to come save us?" He asked, smirking.
Kuwabara burst out laughing, holding onto the side of the well for support. "N-nice one Urameshi!"
Kagome frowned and gave Yusuke a death glare. "Just come on." She mumbled, grabbing the two hands closest to herself, which happened to be Kurama's and Yusuke's. She prepared herself to jump down as the others reluctantly grabbed hands.
A few secods later
"Yusuke, would you mind getting off my back?" Kagome cried. Her cheeks burned red as she realized the position she was in. Kurama had been the first to go down and had been pushed down on his back in the bottom of the well by the weight of Kuwabara and Yusuke. Unfortunatly for Kagome, she had landed face first on top of Kurama and was pressed tigtly to his body.
"I'll get up as soon as this idiot gets offa my head!" Yusuke said as Kuwabara began to climb up after Hiei, who had 'convieniently' landed on top.
Kagome blushed and tried to shift to a more comfortable position, not noticing the groan that crossed Kurama's lips as she accidentally brushed against his groin.
Kurama held down a growl as she brushed against him. He could feel every curve of her body pressed so tightly on him and noticed that his pants seemed a little tighter than before. "Yusuke...I would appreciate it if you wold hurry" He groaned.
Kagome blushed even harder at the sound of his voice so close to her ears. She let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding when Yusuke's weight was lifted off her back. She climbed up, using the vines that had grown on the side to help.
Finally out of the well, she looked up, only to see Yusuke and Inuyasha growling at each other. Yusuke's finger was held out, which the tetsusaiga began to glow.
"Inuyasha! Wait!" She yelled, trying to get the angry hanyou's attention before he used wind scar and destroyed Yusuke. Seeing no other option she took in a breath..."Sit Boy!" She yelled, running to Inuyasha.
There was a pause-The only noise being Inuyasha's cursing-and then the whole group burst into fits of laughter. Not good.
Kagome reached her hand to Inuyasha, but quickly pulled it back at his growl. She frowned and put her hands on her hips as he sat.
"What the hell was that for?" He asked, thoroughly embarrassed.
"You can't just run around attacking people for no reason Inuyasha!" Kagome said back.
Kurama raised a brow at the two bickering at each other.
'So this is InuYasha' Kurama thought.
He doesn't look like much... said Youko from within Kurama.
'Yes, but it's obvious that Kagome would not agree...' replied Kurama
Is that regret I hear? Aw is little Kurama angry because Kagome-
'Shut up, fox!'
She is beautiful...And she's got a kitsune for a son...She'd probably be a good mate...don't you think? Youko asked
"Kurama, are you alright? The jerk left a minute ago" Yusuke said, laying a hand on Kurama's shoulder.
Kurama nodded, only slightly aware of Youko laughing in the back of his mind.
" Well we're a bit stranded...Kagome stormed off a while ago crying." he said, rubbing the back of his head. "You think I should go after her?"
Kurama shook his head, knowing that his friend wasn't very good at comforting people. "I'll go" He said turning and walking toward her strangely pleasant scent.
Kagome wiped her eyes, hating that she had cried in front of Yusuke and the others. "Baka Inuyasha...letting Kikyo join the group...How could he after all we've been through together" She mumbled, rubbing her arm to warm up.
Wait...it was in the middle of the summer...how could she be cold in the middle of the afternoon?
"Ku ku ku...My dear Kagome, how does it feel to be betrayed ?" Asked the all to familiar voice of Naraku.
She wiped her eyes again and fell into fighting stance immediatly. "What do you want!" She asked.
"Ku ku ku...do you really believe you can defeat me?" He asked, crimson eyes traveling the length of her body with a lusty haze.
Kagome padded her back for her arrows and kicked herself mentally for leaving them in the clearing by the well. "I know I can defeat you, Naraku!" She said, channeling her powers into her fists. "I'm not the same little girl that you used to know" She warned.
Her smirked evilly, licking his lips "I can see that for myself...Your spirit is unlike Kikyo's...untainted and pure." He said, stepping forward.
Kagome stepped back cautiously, narrowing her sapphire eyes in disgust. "Don't you dare look at me that way!" She said, glaring at him as her temper rose higher and higher.
Naraku took another step closer, fixing her gaze in his own.
Kurama followed Kagome's scent deep into the woods, pulling his hands from his pockets to cover his nose as a horrible smell enveloped him. Slowly, a dark fog rolled in, blocking Kagome's scent from his nose.
It's a miasma...don't breathe it in Youko warned.
Kurama tensed at the sound of Kagome's pained voice. He rushed toward her, hoping that she was alright. He broke through the miasma, into a clearing that held Kagome and a demon in a fur pelt.
Naraku turned his eyes upon the boy who had just entered the clearing, narrowing them slightly. He was a demon...and a human...a hanyou?
Kurama pulled the rose from his hair and walked to Kagome's side, eyes never leaving Naraku.
Kagome looked over at Kurama and then back towards Naraku, just in time to notice him lifting his hand from the pelt and holding out a large crystal that glew darkly.
He laughed, taking a step towards them. "I do admit, my dear Kagome, we have a bit of a problem. I was hoping to be rid to you today...to end your interference in the battles between Inuyasha and myself...but it seems that your little friend here is going to complicate things." He said.
Kagome frowned and let her miko power begin to condense in front of her hands, seeing Kurama by her side as the rose transformed into a powerful whip. His jade eyes had a unnatural gold gleam to them. She turned her eyes back to Naraku.
"Ah I see...so you're a demon are you?" He asked, in a far to casual voice.
Kurama growled at the man. The mere presence of Naraku was bringing out Youko, so he knew that the demon was far more powerful than anyone he had ever encountered before. He narrowed his now golden eyes. "What or who I am should be of no concern to you...Naraku."
Naraku's eyes narrowed dangerously. This was no ordinary demon, he'd have to be careful. He silently strengthened his barrier and channeled some more power into the crystal. It wouldn't kill them...not how it was now, but he knew that it would end her interferences.
"It's time to die Naraku!" She said, noticing in the back of her mind that the statement sounded like somthing Inuyasha would say. She launched the energy at him just as he threw the crystal at her.
It grew closer, flying straight through her power ball and at her until it was three, two then...in pieces?
She watched as the shattered remains flew towards her and stopped, suddenly growing and swallowing her up and encasing her in a dark jewel. She tried to scream, but found her lungs frozen. She couldn't even smirk as fuzzy images of Naraku being disintegrated by her beam filled her vision. She managed a small smile as her heart beats grew faint and her head got dizzy.
'At least I took Naraku with me' She thought as her eyes closed and darkness closed in...
Miroku sat up quickly and looked at his hand, features pale as he felt a horrible pain where his Wind tunnel was.
"What's the matter Miroku?" Sango asked, a little alarmed.
Miroku only looked at his hand and dashed outside, fearing the worst. He'd never had pains like this...so this must be the final stage of the curse...his death.
Sango burst from the hut. "What wrong Miro-"
"Get back...I think it's time!" He said, looking at the moments confusion and then sudden anguish in her features. She took a step back and tears began to slide down her face. This couldn't be the end...
Miroku closed his eyes and waited for the wind to eventualy swallow him like it had so many others. He waited ...
One Minute...
Two Minutes...
Sango looked up as Miroku cautiously unwound the prayer beads, looking at his hand in absolute confusion. She ran to him and looked at his hand, happiness spreading upon her face as she saw only smooth flesh there. She embraced Miroku without a second though, laughter bubbling up from her chest. "It's gone...the curse is broken!" She said, grinning.
Miroku nodded, between confusion and happiness himself. "But for this to have happened..." He began.
"...Then Naraku must be dead." Sango said, frowning. Who could have killed Naraku? InuYasha was in the village somewhere with Kikyo, Shippou was somewhere in the village, Kouga didn't have the strength to do it...
"Kagome must have done it...unless there is someone else after Naraku..." Miroku muttered.
"But I thought she was in her time...She couldn't have done it..." Sango said turning toward Inuyasha's forest.
Miroku turned as well, feeling his muscles tense at an all to familiar feeling. "I can feel Naraku's miasma, come on." He said, going to grab his staff and her Hiraikotsu before leaving.
They charged off towards the well with newfound energy, faces set in sheer determination.
The dark jewel had once again crystalized and had attached itself to a large tree with a small hole in it. Kagome was suspended in the dark liquid, her body slightly shimmering. Her face looked peaceful and content, like she was sleeping peacefully. Beside her was Youko Kurama, also suspended in the liquid inside the transparent shell. His long tail and silver hair floated behind him.
"Excuse me, but have you seen a girl around here? Her name is Kagome and-"
"Yeah I've seen her, she went off that way after what's his name ran off" Said a boy with black hair.
Miroku stepped forward his eyes slightly narrowed. "May I ask what is is that you are doing here? " He asked as a tall, doofy looking boy with orange hair stepped beside the boy with black hair.
He looked a little aggitated at the question but answered anyway. "We came here with her to help her fight some guy named Narwacku or something, but she ran off and left us here. You all must be the people she travels with, ummm Shippou and...uhhhmmmm Kaede? Those are the only names I remember. " Yusuke said, rubbing the back of his head and blinking at the disturbed looks on their faces.
Sango burst out in laughter, followed by Miroku. She took a deep breath and wiped at her eyes. "N-no we're not Sh-Shippou and K-kaede! I'm Sango, and he's Miroku!" She said inbetween giggles.
"Hey! stop laughin' I wasn't like I knew!" Yusuke said, glaring at the both of them.
Kuwabara stepped past Yusuke quickly and took Sango's hands, "Pretty lady, would you be my girlfriend?" He asked, only to be rewarded by a blow to the head from a large, hard object.
Sango looked at the boy, a bit dumbfounded, she was so used to smacking Miroku around that she had instinctivly smacked the other boy across the head with her Hiraikotsu. Wait a minute they were here to go find Kagome, no time to speak with the newcomers!
"As much as we would love to chat, I'm afraid we need to find Kagome immediatly, Naraku has been defeated somehow...I think she's the one who did it."
Yusuke almost growed. "Naraku better not be dead after all we went through to get here!" He said angrily, watching as they headed off in a direction not paying him any attention. "Oh well, I guess we could at least go and get Kurama." He said catching up with them.
As they walked through the weak miasma Miroku looked around, searching for any sign of Kagome. "Naraku has indeed been defeated, his miasma has been reduced down to only a slight irritant to my nose."
Sango nodded, removing her mask. "I'm still nervous, why hasn't Kagome appeared yet? We should have found her by now."
"Don't worry, I'm sure she's alright..."Miroku said, but his voice was slightly hesitant.
They entered a clearing where the miasma had diminished completely a heap of what used to be the feared Naraku lay on the ground. Sango stepped forward to approach it, only to be stopped by a hand on her arm. " Don't touch it, it needs to be properly taken care of."
Yusuke walked forward, past the heap and towards a large tree. "Hey...Was there always a big black blob hanging on this tree with two people in...Hey! That's Kurama and Kagome!" He yelled, squinting to see through the dark crystal.
At the sound of Kagome's name, Sango and Miroku ran forward, all but pushing Yusuke out of the way.
"What's going on here. " Sango said reaching forward to touch the crystal.
"Wait! Don't touch it. I've seen this spell before, All who touch it fall into an permanent sleep...much like death..."Miroku said, eyes slowly going to the ground as realization dawned in Sango.
Miroku stepped frward and raised a sutra to the crystal, attaching it with his staff and mumbling some words underneath his breath. Slowly the darkness around them both dissipated and the crystal fell to the ground. "I'm afraid all I can do is remove the outer shell around the bodies so that we can touch them..."
"Hold on! Are you telling me that Kurama is gone!" Yusuke yelled, looking ready to pummel Miroku.
"We can bring them back can't we? I mean...what about the time that Kagome lost her soul to Kikyou! She told us that she got some of it back then didn't she!" Asked Sango in a frantic voice, eyes wide and rapidly filling with tears.
Miroku hesitated, his eyes dark with grief. "I'm afraid we can't bring her back. Their souls have been locked in a permanent dream world where all the victims go..." Miroku said.
Sango held back her tears in vain, falling down on her knees beside Kagome and hugging her motionless body. "Why, Why does everyone in my life have to leave me? Naraku took my entire family away from me...and now Kagome as well..."
Miroku put a hand on her shoulder supressing his own tears for her sake. Not even he wanted to admit that Kagome was finally gone, he couldn't bring himself to speak a word, not even a prayer.
Yusuke stood, rooted to the spot with tear filled eyes. Though his mouth refused to move hs brain was already going miles per hour.'No...it can't be...Kurama can't be dead...He's to good a fighter to have been killed by some stupid spell...This isn't happening...Kurama...Wait a minute...'
"Koenma! Koenma brought me back to life once...I'm sure he'd do the same for Kurama..." He murmured.
Hey guys sorry for the abrupt ending but I needed to update asap and this is all I could do before the weekend. Please read and review.