The Moon Hides Its Light from Me

FadedMoon

Disclaimer: It's actually all logic, yannoe? If I did own Inuyasha then I wouldn't have shared him with ANYONE! I'd be the selfish, little brat I am and keep him to myself and never ever let anyone write any stories about him because he's all MINE! But… I don't… so boohoo… it sucks, doesn't it?

Chapter 2

This Is Why I Hate Being Human

Inuyasha just stood there, looking so helpless and unsure of what to do. Then, as the hentai monk was recovering, the gang turned around at the rustling of bushes coming from across the stream behind them.


Whirling around, the group stared at the far away bushes, all trying to adjust their human eyes to the dark, except Shippo. The small kitsune took one small whiff of the air and shouted, "WATCH OUT! IT'S A DEMON!"

But he had been too late to warn the group, for the youkai had already jumped out at them. Instinctively, Inuyasha unsheathed his Tetsusaiga, willing for it to transform. But when he looked toward his hand that held the Tetsusaiga, it was still the useless rusted katana. Remembering his current state, he sighed and cursed his human side, which he knew would probably be the death of him someday. The others, seeing that Inuyasha had failed transforming his katana, drew their weapons slowly.

The youkai, who had jumped over to their side of the stream, landed softly and stayed crouched for a moment. Then straightening up, the campfire revealed that the demon was wearing a long black hooded-cloak that shadowed its face, despite the brightly burning fire. Kagome nervously fitted an arrow to the bow and started to raise it toward the youkai when it spoke.

"So, you must be the 'legendary' hanyou, Inuyasha," said the covered demon.

Taking another whiff, Shippo quietly murmured, "A female bat youkai…? Why in these parts? I thought they lived far from here and wanted nothing to do with the Shikon no Tama."

The temporary human, who stood next to the kitsune, looked up at hearing the news. 'So it's a bat youkai… a group of them lived near my home when I was little… How does she know me though?' wondered Inuyasha.

"What do you want Bat?" he demanded, "If it's the jewel, then you will not get it." He motioned Miroku and Sango to move in front of Kagome and protect her and the jewel she carried.

"No, I have not come for the powerful jewel, I thought that Inuyasha would know that we bat youkai, who are faithful to the inu youkai, stay away from the jewel," scoffed the bat demon, "I'm here for YOU."

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With that, she drew a boomerang that was similar to Sango's, but yet quite smaller. Sango laughed saying, "You think you can defeat us with just that one tiny boomerang?" revealing the massive boomerang in her hands.

Her laugh was cutoff short for the youkai had thrown the boomerang directly at Sango and it flew right by her face giving her a gash from her ear to straight across her cheek, as if she had one stripe of a demon's markings. Gasping, Sango reached up to her face as blood flowed freely. Miroku, seeing this, ran to her checking if she would be okay, then he turned to see the demon flying straight at them. The demon had caught the boomerang then broke it in half to the monk's surprise. He almost smirked at the demon for such a clumsy mistake, but he then saw a gleam of silver chains reflecting the light of the still-burning fire. The bat youkai pulled the two halves of the used-to-be boomerang apart revealing that it was actually nun chucks inside. The youkai started attacking Miroku with it and the monk tried to block her attacks with his staff with no avail. Then an arrow was shot from Kagome's bow and whizzed by the bat's arm and merely scratched it. The demon angrily glared at the girl for giving her such a cut.

'They're better than I thought.'

She attacked once more at the houshi knocking him off his feet then gave him one more blow to the head and the monk was knocked unconscious. Turning around to the girl who shot the arrow earlier, she was caught by surprise that another arrow had already been shot was just a foot away from her heart, but she swiped at it was it was gone.

Inuyasha saw this all happen right before his eyes, and still he stood there helpless, trying to find out some way to help his friends. His grip on the Tetsusaiga tightened when he saw the female youkai start toward Kagome, who was rapidly shooting arrows at demon trying to purify it. The bat demon merely swiped at each one with her clawed hands until she was just a few feet away. Then she reached for the bow itself and snapped it in two, as Kagome stumbled backwards onto the ground.

Just as the demon lifted her right clawed hand to give the fatal blow to Kagome, who had her eyes tightly shut, Inuyasha charged at the bat demon knocking her over. The youkai's red eyes flashed toward Inuyasha as she grabbed him by the throat and lifted him off the ground.

Kagome, who had been waiting for the pain, uncertainly opened her eyes to see her hero being choked by the bat youkai. Then she saw movement behind the youkai and hanyou, Sango was trying to stand up from the blood loss. The demon exterminator gathered her strength and hurled her great boomerang toward the demon hitting it square the side sending the demon and hanyou flying. The demon landed a couple hundred feet away and the hanyou half that distance for the she had released her grip as they sailed through the air. Both landed hard and with a big crash, and Inuyasha thought as pain raced through his body, 'Gods that hurt… this is exactly why I hate being human… half-human even…'

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Sango ran to the now stirring monk and tried to help him up as Kagome ran to where Inuyasha laid.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried flinging herself towards him.

"Kagome? Are you alright? She didn't hurt you did she?" questioned Inuyasha, even through the searing pain.

"Nonsense, look at yourself, you're in a worse condition than me…," answered Kagome, now kneeling next to him.

"I'm sorry I couldn't protect you earlier," said the hanyou, "I guess I was sc-"

"It's alright, just as long as you're going to be okay." she replied quickly cutting the hanyou off before he said something he would regret.

Kagome was about to say something else, but she felt like she was being lifted from the collar of her school outfit and then tossed aside a couple of dozen feet. Inuyasha gasped as the girl demon appeared above him getting ready to cut Inuyasha limb to limb with the sharp-edged boomerang. Closing his eyes, he prayed. 'Oh dear gods, if I die right now, as a pathetic human, I just want Kagome to know that I tried…'

He heard the demon give an unexpected shriek as she exclaimed, "THE KAZAANA!"

Tilting his head to where Sango and Miroku were, he saw the monk getting ready to use void in his left hand on the demon. Giving one quick glare at everyone, she turned quickly and ran away using her demonic speed.

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After the bat youkai had sped off, Miroku straighten up to his full height and walked Sango over to the stream, where they tried to wash the blood off her face and cleanse the wound. Kagome, who had been thrown for a distance, was trying to sit up now. 'Wow,' she thought, 'I always thought that Miroku's void was pretty scary, but to scare off a demon like that…' It was confusing to think about, even for Miroku, himself.

'Many times have I used my void,' thought the monk as he looked at his left hand, now covered with rosary beads, 'but none of the demons ever ran off like THAT… I wonder, why do bat youkai fear the void so much? She was anything but a weak youkai…' Sitting by the campfire now, the monk crushed some herbs together; making a powder to put on Sango's wound to make it heal faster. The demon exterminator sat next to the monk, looking at him as he worked, she pondered, 'What is it that makes him think so deeply? Never have I seen such seriousness in his eyes out of battle since we first met.' She blinked and her eyes went a bit bigger as she realized the houshi was looking back at her now. Blushing, she turned away as Kagome limped over to their camp.

Seeing the two together by the firelight like that, Kagome smirked as she thought what a cute couple they would make. Reaching for her huge, indestructible, yellow bag, she pulled out a couple of ointments and cloth bandages. She limped over to where her two overly-blushing friends were sitting and laid the treatment items by their feet, then she started back to where Inuyasha was.

As she had guessed, the hanyou had fallen unconscious from the pain. She didn't blame him though, it was tough for even her to stay awake and she was human all the time. Collapsing on the ground next to him, she looked up toward the heavens watching the moon fade away as the sun began to rise. 'Its so strange… why DID he turn human? Why can't he see the moon? What if he's just making up the part about not seeing it?' Kagome sighed. She looked toward the unconscious hanyou next to her, noting his human ears. 'I hope this won't happen again, its going to slow down the hunt for the jewel shards, which means I'm going to have to stay longer and he's going to keep telling me how useless I am other than just a shard detector, then there's Kikyo…' She frowned as the hanyou started stirring. Looking upwards again, she saw the sun peeking over the ridge of the forest. Once again, she felt the hanyou's demonic aura pulsating from the human next to her. She turned her head toward him again, as his raven-black hair started turning silver again and his ears went back up to the top of his head, making her want to scratch them.

The boy sat up, bringing a re-clawed hand to his head, trying to massage the pain out of his pounding skull. Then lifting his eyes to meet hers, Kagome asked him, "So… what happened?"