A/N: Ya'll probly hate me! But it wasn't my fault that this update was late this time! For some reason, unknown to me, would not let me log in! It was horrible! Do you forgive me::gives puppy eyes: Please don't make me resort to begging!
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Chapter Nine: Kagome Captured By The Thunder Brothers
With the help of Inuyasha, Miroku climbed out of the Well, wearing a shocked expression at how drastically his surroundings had changed around him. "You were telling the truth," he said in disbelief.
Inuyasha grunted in slight irratation. "You didn't believe me?" He question without looking at the modern-day monk.
"Well, I'll admit, I was skeptical at first," Miroku replied honestly. "But with the appearance of Kagome and seeing that the Well actually does work, all my doubts have now fanished." He said and dusted off his jeans.
Inuyasha just rolled his eyes. "Now what, neko?" He grunted at the other hanyou.
Kagome's let out a irratated sound and whipped around to face the inu hanyou. "Look here you mutt, I have a name and it isn't 'neko' or 'cat' or anything else! It's Kagome! Ka-go-me! You get it!" She finished off with a hiss, poking Inuyasha in his chest with each word that left her mouth.
Inuyasha pushed her hand away. "Yeah, what ever." He grumbled, not really caring what the neko hanyou thought.
Kagome glared at him. That arrogant mutt! She thought and open her mouth to tell him just that. But she stiffened as she felt something. She turned in the direction she felt the slight shiver of magic. "Did you feel that?" She question softly.
Inuyasha just 'feh'd', Miroku was the one who answered her. "Feel what? I don't sense anything," He said.
"It's Shikon Shards!" Kagome cried and suddenly bounded in the direction where she felt the Jewel Shard coming from, Inuyasha and Miroku quickly following close behind.
The three Shikon hunters burst out of the forest to find a clearing where there were three youkai's battling. One seemed to be a fox youkai, and the other two were elemental youkai, seemingly thunder youkai.
One of the thunder youkai was rather good looing with jet black hair pulled back into a long braid, he had slightly tanned skin and a fine looking face and sky blue eyes to top it off. The other one wasn't so appealing in looks, he was completely the opposite of the first youkai. He was rather fat looking, with a pointed mouth and nose, he was bald except for three, thin strand of hair and he had small with small, beady eyes.
Kagome closed her eyes, trying to sense who had the Shikon Shard. "He has the Shard," She said and pointed at the battling fox youkai.
"Well then, we'll just have to get it from him, won't we?" Inuyasha asked, flexing his knuckles as the cracked.
"No, Inuyasha," Miroku said and placed a hand on the inu hanyou's shoulder. "I sense no evil in the fox's aura, we can't harm someone who is seemingly innocent." He said.
"We'll help him then," Kagome said, suddenly jumping into the middle of the battle.
"Stupid cat!" Inuyasha growled out and jumped after the neko hanyou as did Miroku.
Now that the fox youkai had three allies helping him, the battle changed. The tunder youkai's were slowly getting pushed back.
Kagome jumped atop the fat ones back, slashing deep gashes with her sharp claws. "Get off!" The youkai cried out, reaching behind him and grabbing ahold of the neko hanyou's tail and throwing her over his head.
When he did this, Kagome tried to rake her claws across his face, but scratched the top of his head instead, causing one of the strands of hair to fall off and float to the ground.
The youkai's eyes widened and he reached to the top of his head. Huge tears began to form in his beady eyes "MY HAIR!" He cried and the tears began to fall down his face as he opened his mouth and lightening shot out in ever direction.
The lightening from his mouth shot between te other battling youkai's causing them to break apart. The bald youkai turned his huge head, causing the lighening to turn on the neko hanyou.
The blast hit Kagome square in her chest, causing her to fly back into a tree, her head making contact with the hard bark of the tree, making her lose consciousness.
The other youkai turned towards the other one. "Watch it, Manten! You almost blasted me!" He yelled out at the bald youkai.
The bald one, Manten, stopped his attack on the knocked out neko hanyou and turned around. "I'm sorry, Hiten. But this wench," he pointed a finger at the neako demoness. "Just made me lose another hair!" He cried as more tears formed in his eyes.
Hiten rolled his eyes and turned back to the other two still in the clearing. "I'll have to take care of you later, fox. And you," Here, he pointed a finger at Inuyasha. "Had better stay out of my way next time, if you know what's good for you." And with that he soared into the air, calling after his younger brother to follow him.
Manten walked over to the young neko and picked her up, throwing her over his large shoulder. "I'll teach you to mess with my beautiful hair," he muttered as a a grey cloud formed around him and, he too, took off into the air after his older brother.
"Hey! Come back here and fight like a demon!" Inuyasha yelled after them, shaking a fist at the air as he did so.
"It would seem that they have taken your female friend," A calm voice said from behind Inuyasha and Miroku.
The two from the future turned around to see the fox youkai in his human form. He was rather handsome with long reddish/brown hair, he had high cheek bones and pointed ears. He had deep, forest green eyes that sparkled with life. His feet were were un-shoed and he was wearing a pair of dark green pants with a lighter shade of green top.
Before either Inuyasha or Miroku could answer a smaller version of the youkai before them came running out from under some bushes. "Papa!" A small kitsune cried, jumping from the ground and into the older youkai's arms.
The small kitsune looked at the two strangers with bright green eyes, a shade lighter than his fathers. "Papa, who're these people?" He questioned, looking curiously up at his father.
The fox youkai shrugged his shoulders and looked at the two. "I don't know, Shippo." He took a step forward. "I am Isamu and this is my son," here he glanced down at the small kitsune currently in his arms and his eyes softened ever so slightly, "Shippo."
Inuyasha just grunted and crossed his arms so Miroku was left to do the introductions. He bowed politely to Isamu. "Its a pleasure to meet you. I am Miroku, a monk. And this," he indecated Inuyasha with a nod of his head. "Is Inuyasha, an inu hanyou, and the one that those thunder youkai's took is our traveling companion, Kagome is a neko hanyou."
Isamu's forest green eyes widened a little at hearing the name. "Kagome? The neko who protects the Shikon no Tama?" He questioned.
Miroku nodded his head. "Yes." He replied.
Inuyasha was getting fed up with all the small talk that was going on. "Feh, can you just tell us where those baka youkai's wemt? We have to rescue that neko and then we have to go on a quest!" He growled out.
Isamu nodded his head. "Yes, please forgive me. I will help you find your woman," he said, sitting Shippo on the ground at his feet.
Inuyasha growled. "SHE AIN'T MY WOMAN!" He bellowed angerily at the fox youkai.
Isamu ignored his outburst and walked past him in the direction of the mountains. "We have no time for talking. We must rescue your friend before Manten and Hiten do something to her." He said, walking along a path that led straight to the mountains.
Miroku glanced at Inuyasha, shrugged his shoulders and then hurried to catch up to Isamu.
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The four travelers had been traveling for half the day and they were now half way up the mountain. There hadn't been any conversation going on between them and the silence was beggening to get to Miroku, so he decided to ask a question.
"Why were those thunder youkai's attacking you, anyway?" He asked.
"Because they was after the Shikon shard that I possess," he replied without slowing his pace. He reached into his shirt to get to a hidden pocket and pulled out a small sliver of pink so that the inu hanyou and the monk could see that he was speaking the truth.
"Who were those baka youkai's?" Inuyasha grunted out, pushing a large boulder out of their path, they continued to climb upward.
It was the small kitsune, Shippo, that answered. "Those were the Thunder Brothers, Manten and Hiten," he jumped up on Miroku's shoulder to avoid the flying rocks that slid out from under the adults feet.
"The who?" Inuyasha asked, glancing back at the kitsune.
Shippo jumped to Inuyasha's shoulder and knocked on his head. "Are you hard deaf or something?" He questioned innocently.
Inuyasha growled in response, "Why you little," he swiped his hand at his should where the kitsune was sitting, but Shippo quickly jumped off of the inu hanyou's shoulder and onto his fathers shoulder and stuck his tongue out at the agravated hanyou.
"Shippo, behave," Isamu told his son firmly. "The Thunder Brothers are ruthless youkai's who'll do anything to get possion of a Shikon shard. They already have three shards as it is and they wished to add mine to their collection."
They four rounded a large boulder and then they could finally see the top of the mountain where there was a large cave opening.
Isamu stopped walking and looked up at the cave. "There it is, the Thunder Brothers lair."
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Kagome shifted slightly, feeling hard, cold stone under her. "Ohh," she moaned slightly.
"Ah, so you have awakened," a voice commented off to her right.
Kagome's eyes snapped open at hearing the voice and she shot into a sitting position, ignoring the pain that shot through her head as she did so.
She saw the large, bald youkai standing over a large boiling pot, stirring somethnig with a large woodened spoon. She quickly scanned the small, stone room she was in, searching for any way she might escape.
The other youkai snickered. "Don't bother trying to escape, the only way out is through here," he said and pointed to a large boulder that was blocking what seemed to be the entrace to the stone room.
"What do you plan to do with me?" She questioned the youkai. If I can keep him talking maybe it'll give me time to think of a plan, or for Inuyasha and Miroku to come and help me.
But even though Manten seemed a bit dense, he didn't fall for the trick as he turned and began to walk towards the neko hanyou. "I plan to boil you into my hair growing postion. With this position I will have a head full of thick, shiny hair in no time at all!" He reached out a hand, grabbing Kagome by her hair and yanking her off the stone sledge she was laying on.
Kagome hissed in anger. "I don't intend to be boiled in no hair postion!" She yelled, reaching up with a sharply clawed hand and swiping at Manten's face, leaving three bloody scratches across his pointed nose.
Manten yelped in pain and released her, reaching for his bloody nose. "You witch! I'll teach you to show respect!" He yelled, reaching a hand back to slap the neko hanyou.
But before he could bring his hand down the boulder blocking the entrance was blasted away by the other thunder youkai, Hiten. "What are you doing, Manten?" He asked in a cold voice.
Manten rushed to his elder brothers side. "Hiten, this witch has no respect!" He cried to his older brother. He was about to complain some more but was silenced when his brother turned a glare onto him.
"We need this wench alive. She can sense the Shikon shards, we can use her to find more shards and then we'd be the most powerful youkai's ever!"
Manten nodded his head eagerly in agreement. "I agree, brother. "But she still needs to be taught respect." He tried to tell his brother again.
Hiten looked at his brother's scratched and bloody nose and slowly agreed. "Through her in the hole with that other wench," he replied shortly and turned and walked out of the small, stone room.
Manten turned his large head and glared at the neko hanyou sitting on the floor. He walked over to her and grabbed both of her clawed hands, so she wouldn't be able to scratch him again and cause even more damage. "You're lucky Hiten is going easy on you, wench," He muttered as he drug the neko hanyou across the cold stone floor.
Manten drug Kagome out of the small room and into a larger cavern. He took her to the middle of the cavern where there was a deep, dark hole with a flat stone slab with a small hole in the middle.
Manten kicked the slab aside. "You'll be down there until you learn how tp show proper respect!" He said and threw Kagome down the dark hole. Kagome screamed, her voice echoing off the stone walls that now surrounded her. She seemed to fall forever before she hit the cold, stone floor once more, knocking the breath out of her.
While she was trying to recover her breath, she heard movement off to her side and then she heard a soft voice. "Guess I'm not the only one down here now,"
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So, does this chapter earn me your forgiveness? I had alot of fun writing this one! Does it make up, mina-san? Review replies!
inuyasha4ever1Hey, glad you love it! And gomen my update was so late::grumbles: can be so stupid sometimes. billejoe's girl: Hey! Glad you like it! I know how it is when you get started on a really good fiction and its never updated. Ikimono Joufu: Oh, my cats have done that to me many, many times. Thanks for reading! SenceLess: Yep, gotta love cookies! Lol. Haha, yep, I really had alot of fun writing that part out! It's one of my fav. parts! Lol.
Oh yeah, and here is how the voting is going on which fic I'll do next. So far Full Moons Rain has three votes, The Princess & The Pauper has two votes, A Singers Story has one vote, Perfect Proposal also has one vote, and Radio Talk has zero votes. Okay mina-san, I'm gonna let ya'll vote for this chapter and the next chapter on which story you all like best. Here are the summeries again for the new readers.
Full Moons Rain
(AU) Kagome has been feeling weird ever since that strange dog had bitten her. And even worse is that she can't remember an entire night. She doesn't remember how she got in the forest, or why she woke up in that damp cave when the last thing she remembered was being in her room watching TV. And she didn't know why she had that strange taste in her mouth, a taste that was slightly matalic. Can the strange whate haired man help her understand what is happening to her? Can he help her with the changes she is going through? And can he deal with the way his feelings are changing for the girl?
The Princess & The Pauper
(AU) Kagome Higurashi and Kikyo Hakama are two totally different people who live in totally different worlds. Kagome lives in a cheap apartment with a low paying job, while Kikyo is a princess who has never had to work a single day in her life. Kagome longs for adventure and some excitment in her boring life. Kikyo longs for freedom and to go some place where she can make her own choices and not have to listen to any one. What would happen if the two met? What if the two decided to trade places temporarily? Just to see what it would be like?
A Singers Story
(AU) Kagome is a just started out singer. She has Sango as her back up singer, Miroku as the drummer, but no guitar player. Plenty of people have tried out for the spot in Kagome's band, and many of them had talent, some, not so much. But that white haired man, he caught Kagome's attention. He was arrogant, self centured, and it seemed that he couldn't say a nice word about anyone. But he could play his quitar.
Perfect Proposal
(AU) Kagome Higurashi is the host of the TLC show, Perfect Proposal. She loves helping the people set a surprise proposal for the ones they love. So when one of her best friends, Miroku Kazanna, asks for her help to set up a proposal for his girlfriend, Sango Mitsumaru, she eagerily accepts the job, loving the idea of having her friends on her show. But what she doesn't know is that there is a surprise for her and not just Sango. Will she catch wind of the surprise or will she remain clueless as she helps Miroku?
Radio Talk
(AU) Kagome goes on a radio talk show to 'Find Your Perfect Date' as FDJ called it. She meets quiet a few interesting guys, some freaky, and some just plain weird. But then, she goes on a date with the strange, white haired man, Inuyasha. At first the only thing that sparks between them is both of their stubborn attitudes and personalities. But soon, other kinds of sparks will fly between the two.
Please let me know which you like! Ja ne, mina-san! Nobody's Angel 196
