The Moon Hides Its Light from Me
*~Faded_Moon~*
Disclaimer: October 21, 2003 is my 14 ½ bday!!! Get Inuyasha for me!!!! And a buncha reviews!!!! (I.O.W. I don't own Inuyasha or the pig from Princess Mononoke)
Yannoe, I'm tired of waiting so I decided to just go ahead and update… what can I say? I love to write!!
I just kinda noticed, despite the fact that I'm trying to keep the characters, well, in character, with the way my story goes, certain people just hafta be… nicer. Like for example, last chapter, Sesshy was being nicer to Inuyasha when he was little and didn't make fun of him cause he was a hanyou, rather he made fun of him when he was human. Also, there isn't that much 'competition' between Rin and Jaken (sp: Jakken?) Jaken acts more like an older brother to Rin. Most of all, Kikyo hasn't tried to kill anyone yet, other than Kagome, and she's not even doing it herself. Gomen for all the OOCness
Btw, if you are offended by the use of the word 'damned', please keep in mind its not suppose to be used as foul language, rather it is used as an adjective. In example, the movie: Queen of the Damned, the word 'damned' describes the people/vampires. But if I get enough people complaining about it, I'll be more than happy to go back and change the word to something else.
On to the real reason you're here……
Chapter 6
The Fight Then Flight To The Well
Meanwhile, Kikyo stood there in Inuyasha's arms, neither of them wanting to let go in fear of losing each other again. She had heard her, Kagome calling out Inuyasha's name in a frantic search to get to him. Kikyo smiled, it was a good thing she put up the barrier after Inuyasha joined her. But now, Kikyo watched out of the corner of her eye as Kagome hacked away at the barrier's surface. Even though Inuyasha couldn't hear her or see her through the barrier, Kagome now proposed a possible threat of breaking through if she kept up that speed, though the dead miko doubted that she had the energy to do so. Kikyo closed her eyes and mentally called out to her soul stealers to carry out her next part of her plan. The silver youkai silently glided out of the field and its surrounding barrier to a nearby cavern with a cursed beast lying dormant within it.
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The soul stealers swarmed around the beast, a boar youkai, waking it to do Kikyo's bidding: attack and kill Kagome. The giant youkai arose, blood dripping from its tusks and mouth and started after the soul stealers. (A/N: the boar youkai looks kinda like the boar demon from Princess Mononoke, but without all the black squiggly things shooting out of it.) The damned beast gained speed, going faster and faster, and was already charging long before he saw his target, a young girl in green and white hacking away at what seemed like nothing.
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Kagome was getting tired, she had already made two long cuts into the barrier, but it still wasn't enough to break through. Sweat dripped down from her face and blisters were forming on her hands from gripping the arrow shaft.
'Inuyasha…' she pleaded with her mind 'Inuyasha, why don't you know that I am here?'
She looked toward the sky; the sun would be rising soon, would Kikyo release Inuyasha then or would she drag him off to hell? Kagome panicked, how would she know? She had to break through, somehow……
Just as she started picking up her pace again, she felt a dark aura coming. She never felt a presence like that before. Kagome scanned the area around her. There was definitely something coming, she looked back at the field where Inuyasha and Kikyo stood. Somehow, Kikyo and the dark aura heading toward her were linked, but she couldn't quite figure out how.
'Kikyo… this is your doing.' She stopped and shoved the arrow back into the quiver and slung it onto her back. Then restringing her bow, she backed away from the barrier then charged toward it, focusing all her miko power on breaking through the barrier. It worked, but it still wasn't enough. A thin crack appeared between the first two. If she charged at it again and she might be able to break through, but before she could, it came.
The huge boar youkai appeared out of nowhere and charged straight into Kagome, sending her a couple of dozen meters away from the barrier. Kagome slowly tried to stand, her body bruised all over now. She carefully notched an arrow in the string, however, the demon was already charging again. She shot it directly at the boar, and it would have hit it had it not been for the black tentacle-like arms that shot out of its body (A/N: those black squiggly things) and blocked it. Her purifying arrow had cut through the tentacle, but as soon as it hit the forest floor, it dissolved into smaller tentacles and slithered back to its main body. Kagome gasped at this, there was no way for her to defeat this beast by herself. She looked toward the field with the barrier and gasped again, the barrier had broken! There was a sizable hole in the side of the barrier where she had working.
'The boar youkai must have broken through it on accident.' She thought to herself. However, when she took a step toward the field, the boar youkai came between her and the field, obviously guarding it. She backed away again and the boar youkai advanced, this time ready to attack her until she lay dead on the forest grounds. Kagome turned her heel and ran, what else could she do?
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Softly, the Lord of the Western Lands landed on the ground a few feet from the famed Boner Eater's Well. He looked around, he could smell his half brother somewhere near with his dead wench. It was bad enough that Inuyasha already had human blood running through his veins, but considering mating with a human was more than what Sesshoumaru could bear.
"Disgusting," he spat. "The great inu-youkai blood tainted with human blood… pathetic and disgusting…"
Then he perked up his ears, he had heard someone running from something giving the chase. Sesshoumaru tilted his head back so he could get a better whiff of the air. A smile played across his mind, his brother's other wench that was alive was running from a boar youkai. Even better, they were headed for his direction.
'To kill or not to kill…? That's never really been the question, but…' he narrowed his eyes toward the darkness of the forest. A dark shadow was advancing towards him through the trees. There were occasional streaks of bright purple light that flew toward the massive darkness only to be consumed by it. He took another whiff of the air that blew from the direction of the dark shadow and the purple light towards him. The scent of fear rode upon the wind, covering up most of the other smells other than one other that he had not felt since his mother died and his father took a human as his new mate: hurt from betrayal.
'At least she's making a stand before she goes under. It'll make her death look much less pathetic when I kill her.' He took out his whip and got into a fighting stance as the miko and the boar demon shot out of the thick lining of trees. 'Then again, I should ask her about what Inuyasha has been doing since the spell awakened, first, before killing her. It makes things so much easier.'
He stood between the girl with the demon chasing her and the well. He noticed that her eyes were shut tight as she ran.
'She's been running blindly? I wonder what brought her here… Oh, another question added to the list.' He smirked inwardly as the boar demon noticed him with his whip out. The giant demon jumped toward him and landed between him and the girl to try to attack the inu-youkai, believing that he was going to protect the girl Kikyo commanded him to kill.
'Bad mistake, Pig.' The whip cracked and the boar demon was cut into two and fell dead on the ground.
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Kagome, who had just realized she was running towards the well, saw the boar youkai jump in the air and thought it was going to try to stop her from getting to the well, notched her last arrow and shot it. A whip cracked and the boar fell, just as her arrow passed through the torn body and embedded itself in the owner of the whip.
Kagome stopped as she heard a scream come from a person behind the carcass of the boar. She gasped as she realized that she was not the one that had slain the beast, rather she had shot her rescuer. Hurriedly, she limped to the other side of the massive beast to save whomever she shot.
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Tetsusaiga started to vibrate violently. Inuyasha gasped and looked down at the blade at his side. Something was wrong and he could feel it. Searching his mind, he reached down for the rusted katana, and then realized something.
'Sesshoumaru…' he looked back up at Kikyo who had backed away from him. She watched the blade as it shook and sent off a strange aura calling for its brother blade. "Kikyo…" he started, then without explaining the rest, he turned and left. The clay miko regained her senses and realized that her minion had not returned yet, but neither had her reincarnation. Sighing, she gave a wave of her hand and the barrier disappeared.
'She's probably going to die soon, anyhow,' she shrugged and watched Inuyasha head back the way he came. Just as the hanyou reached the edge of the clearing where it met the forest, the sun peeked its head over the land of Feudal Japan, and once again, the boy turned into his natural form. 'At least he's not searching for her because he still thinks she's asleep… too bad, he'll get to her too late by the time he realizes that she's gone.' With a smirk, she turned and left with her soul stealers.
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Kagome froze. Her breathing became irregular as her chest felt constricted. Her eyes grew about twice at large. All she could do was stand there and stare. Laying on the ground in front of her, next to the Bone Eater's Well, laid the Lord of the Western Lands, writhing in pain. Out of his chest, just above his abdomen, protruded her purifying arrow that was lodged somewhat deeply. Kagome could only watch in horror as Sesshoumaru coughed up blood and his face paled. The sight of blood on silk white shook her out of her trance.
'Oh my gosh… I- I… I just… p-purified… Sesshoumaru…' Her body wanted to take a step back, but her mind betrayed her and moved forward, she had to see if he was okay. Shaking, she slowly inched forward. She could tell that she had made a direct hit and Sesshoumaru had received the full blow of the purified arrow, but how he was still alive was beyond her. That was when she noticed something glowing at the youkai's side… Tenseiga.
'Why was he here? Why did he attack that demon… to save me?' Kagome violently shook her head. 'No, it attacked him first, but still, why was he here in the first place?' she continued to inch toward him. 'Will he make it? Even after all those times he tried to kill me, I can't just leave him like this…' She stopped two feet away from the youkai in pain. For some reason she didn't even know about, she got on her hands and knees and crawled towards him. When she was close enough, she gently placed her hand on his forehead. Sesshoumaru flinched, but Kagome was still able to tell that he was becoming colder and he was fading, fast. She got up into a kneeling position, remembering the last part of her dream: Sesshoumaru had saved her; and now in real life, he had done it again. Kagome sighed.
"Hold on, Sesshoumaru…" she whispered lightly. Then she tried to get up again, it hurt, but she had to get help from the village. Suddenly, Sesshoumaru's hand shot up and grabbed her wrist. On instinct, Kagome tried to send out her purifying powers, but because of the previous battle she had and having tried to break through a barrier, she had too much strain put on herself and she cracked. The last of the energy that she had left her and the unconscious miko fell backwards, landing on Sesshoumaru.
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JUST TO GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU START BOMBARDING ME WITH QUESTIONS:::
-:-NO NO NO NO!!! Sesshy doesn't die!!! He never dies!!!
-:-Kagome only fainted because she had used too much of her power in a short time, and btw, she landed on Sesshy's stomach so its suppose to kinda look like they're sleeping together (^-~)
-:-Heres a diagram of how Kagome (^-^) was able to shoot =-- Sesshy (-.-) instead of the bull (Oo) when they were close to the well [[]]:
(^-^) =-- (Oo) ~~(-.-) [[]] **the ~~ is the whip
(pretty bad diagram eh?)
I hope that clears up most of everything!!! Feel free to ask if your confused about anything!!!
Review, criticize, help, or whatever you want… just give me ideas. btw, sorry so short
Answers to reviews from chapter 4 to 5:
DestroyerDRT- yeah, I'm an odd person. Hence, odd stories.
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AnonymousT- STOP MAKING NEW STORIES BEFORE YOU EVEN GET TO 3 CHAPTERS!!!
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Wackoramaco87- I love leaving cliffhangers because I think it's healthy to keep people anticipating XD (yes I know I'm a cruel person) I like what I did to Jaken too… but I wish I could do that in real life then cut him up into little small pieces then… oops, cant say what's gonna happen to him
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