Disclaimer: I FreeTheSoul888 do not and I repeat do not own any of the Inu Yasha characters and I never will because if I did own them I wouldn't be here writing this story I would be hanging out with them right now……. Anyway lets get to chapter 15
P.S I do not own the sword names Ensui, Recca, Fujin or Raijin they belong to Flame of Recca.
Chapter 15
Last Time:
"And where do you four think you're going?" A voice asked. The girls looked up as four figures jumped down in front of them and got into fighting stances. "Sorry but we aren't going to let you leave."
This Time:
"Who are you?" Kikyo demanded as the four of them get into their fighting stances.
"We are going to be the ones to end your lives." The girl who had spoken earlier replied. Kagome looked at each of the four strangers and for some reason felt that she had seen them before.
"What make's you think you can defeat us so easily?" Sango's voice broke into Kagome's thoughts.
"Because even though we have the same teacher, we got a bit of anextra advantage." At these words Kagome realized who they were.
"You're Rin, Kanna, Kagura, and Koharu!" She yelled, "You were to be taught by Mistress Kaede after us."
"Very good, at least one of you has a brain." The one named Kagura said.
"If you are disciples of Mistress Kaede, why are you working for Maeko?" Ayame asked.
"That is something we can not tell you." Rin replied.
"Enough wasting time! Let's fight!" Koharu declared and with that the two teams began to fight.
Kikyo vs. Kanna:
"I don't have time to fight you so I'll finish this quickly." Kikyo informed Kanna as she quickly unsheathed her swords.
"Funny, I was about to say the exact same thing." Kanna replied with a wicked smirk causing Kikyo's temper to rise and when the girls loose their tempers they do very stupid things.
"Don't smirk at me like that! Take this!" Kikyo sliced the wind with her swords as two sharp blades of water came shooting out and headed straight towards Kanna.
Just as the water was about to hit Kanna she said, "Is that all you got?" And then quickly pulled out a mirror. The water blades were sucked into the mirror to Kikyo's surprise and then were shot back out but when they came back out they were frozen solid and they were heading straight towards Kikyo!
She tried to get out of the way but her feet were frozen to the ground and the ice blades made a direct hit with her and sent her flying back a few good feet. When she got back on her feet, Kanna had another wicked smirk on her face.
"Do you get it now? You can't defeat me for I am ice and you are water. Ice freezes water and therefore you have no chance in winning this fight."
"Don't be so cocky! This battle is far from over since I am still standing!" Kikyo informed her as she sheathed her two swords and pulled out Ensui.
"Oh another sword, I'm so scared." Kanna said sarcastically. Kikyo ignored the comment and charged at her and tried to slice Kanna but she quickly dodged and then sent ten ice arrows at Kikyo. Kikyo was able to dodge the first five but the last five were direct hits.
As Kikyo stood there bent over and bleeding, while the ground began to be stain with her blood, while Kanna basked in the glory of hitting her, she noticed a black jewel was centered at the top of the mirror that Kanna was holding and she could sense strong magic coming from it.
"Are you ready to give up yet?" Kanna asked.
"Not on your life!" Kikyo replied. She raised Ensui in the air as a deep blue light surrounded her. "Azure Dragon Blast!" A dragon of water went shooting out of the sword to Kanna's surprise and then went in for an attack. Kanna quickly got over her shock and pulled out her mirror.
"Haven't I already told you that water attacks are useless on me?" A huge blast of ice came out of her mirror and completely froze Kikyo's dragon. As it crashed into the ground and shattered into pieces, Kikyo took her opportunity.
"You fell for my trick!" Kikyo informed her. And before Kanna knew what was happening, Kikyo was right in front of her and had her sword right in the center of the jewel causing it to break into pieces as well. "I'm guessing that jewel is what gives you your immense power, so do you still want to fight me?"
Kikyo was expecting Kanna to either runaway crying or to keep fighting till she died. She was not expecting a hug from her enemy.
"Thank you! Thank you so much for doing that!" Kanna exclaimed.
"Okay you better get off of me right now and tell me what is going on!"
Ayame vs. Koharu:
"Are you the one that fell in love with the icy wolf Kouga?" Koharu asked as she and Ayame faced one another.
"Yes, so what?" Ayame asked as she felt a sharp pain go through her at the mention of Kouga's name.
"Oh no reason really." Koharu said as she pulled out a scythe. "It's just too bad he turned out to be working for us."
Ayame's temper reached its limit.
"SHUT UP!" She yelled and pulled out eight of her darts, set them on fire and threw them at Koharu. Koharu was unprepared for this attack and got hit by the first two but dodged the others.
"You know that almost hurt." She informed Ayame. "Lightening I call upon you!" The sky became very dark, and thunder was heard overhead as lightening crashing down on where Ayame stood.
Luckily she jumped out of the way without so much as a scratch (for once). After that last attack the two of them just stood there; staring at one another in complete and total silence. The only sound that could be heard between the two of them was the sound of their own hearts beating at an unnatural rate.
Neither one was willing to move; they were both too evenly matched that the slightest movement from either of them could result in their defeat.
"Why isn't she making a move?" Ayame thought. "This silence is beginning to get to me!"
"This shouldn't be taking me this long to finish her off! I'm lightening! Lightening is stronger than fire isn't it?"
The two continued to stand there, as a single leaf fell from a tree nearby. It floated aimlessly toward the ground and as soon as the tip of the leaf touched the ground the two instantly pulled out their weapons and ran towards one another in a frontal assault.
They jumped past one another; then gently touched the ground opposite from where they originally stood. The wind whipped past them blowing their hair in the breeze… Ayame collapsed to the ground in pain while tightly holding her left side. A deep flesh wound was imprinted there.
"How does the pain of lightening feel against your skin?" Koharu coldly asked as she held up her scythe. It was drenched with Ayame's blood.
"That… was nothing…" Ayame replied as she gasped between breaths. The pain was immensely painful (obviously).
"Stop trying to act tough you fire ass bitch! Just admit you lost!" Ordered Koharu, "that and the fact that Kouga will never be yours." At the sound of those words, Ayame's temper had reached its peak. Her hair ignited into a blazing flame, and her eyes changed to a glowing bloodshot red. Koharu couldn't help but back up a bit in fear.
"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING ABOUT KOUGA!" She whipped around to face Koharu. The lightening girl had to let out a scream at the sight of Ayame's eyes. "I WON'T LET YOU HURT ME ANYMORE!"
With that Ayame's hands produced two flame balls, and without a moment of thought she chucked them at Koharu. Both were direct hits as Koharu screamed in pain, as Ayame continued with her bombardment of flame balls.
In a desperate attempt to protect herself from the pain of the flames (sorry about that rhyming there) Koharu held up her scythe. However as two more flame balls went shooting at her; as soon she held up her scythe and the flames made contact the scythe broke in two and a black jewel came crashing out and burst into flames.
Ayame sensed the change in Koharu's power and ceased her firing to look at the girl and see what damage she had created. As the smoke faded she could clearly see Koharu, bleeding uncontrollably with a smile on her face.
"Thank you for saving me." She faintly said; then fell over in a dead faint.
Sango vs. Kagura:
Kagura and Sango stood in the clearing and silently stared at one another as they each pulled out their weapons. Sango of course pulled out her giant boomerang and was very surprised to see that Kagura pulled out a fan from her kimono.
"Is that your weapon?" Sango asked. "Because if that is this match will be over before we can even start."
"You shouldn't underestimate the power of a fan Sango." Kagura replied, "For it is not how big the weapon is, it's how you use it." With that Kagura raised her fan in the air and a giant wind began to form.
"Don't tell me you control the wind to?" Sango couldn't imagine someone else with the same gift as hers. Kagura just smirked.
"Controlling the wind was an ability I received from Master Maeko. My true gift… is raising the dead to do my bidding." Sango was about to say that that had to be a lie, I mean how could someone control the dead, when Kagura raised her fan yet again towards the sky. "Why do you think I lured you to this very spot here in the forest? It's because we are standing on an ancient burial ground meaning there will be millions of corpses for me to control."
No sooner had Kagura said that, the ground began to shake causing Sango to use her Hiraikotsu as a support as millions of skeletal hands began to shoot up from underneath the ground. Awakening from their thousand year sleep, Sango was shocked at such ability that she almost didn't notice that the skeletons were beginning to close in on her.
"Hope you aren't afraid?" Kagura said with maliciousness in her voice. "Because they have been dying to feel the flesh of a living soul for a very long time now." Sango just gave Kagura a glare as she turned her attention back on the dead that were beginning to enclose her in a tight circle.
"Shit! How the hell am I going to fight off all these stupid… oh wait a minute, I know what I need to do." Sango thought as she picked up her Hiraikotsu and called upon the wind to help her with her plan. She swung her Hiraikotsu with all her might towards the dead minions causing a path for her to run down.
Not wasting a minute she began to sprint down the pathway towards Kagura as she grabbed her returning boomerang and positioned it back on her back she pulled out her sword, Fujin, and tried to slice Kagura in two. Unfortunately Kagura obviously dodged out of the way before that could happen.
"Perhaps I shouldn't underestimate you Sango?"
"Perhaps you should fight me straight on instead of having to rely on the walking dead!" Sango turned around to face the army again and with oneswoop of her Fujin the entire army was ripped into parts by the power of the wind. "Now you have no choice but to face me one on one."
"You think you destroyed my only source of dead bodies? Hello we arein a forest there are other corpses besides the one's buried beneath the ground."
"Yeah like what?"
"Like them." Sango turned towards the forest as dead raccoon's, squirrels, bears; rabbits etc… came out of the forest and started to limp towards Sango.
"You're kidding me right? You think they're going to stop me?" Sango asked as she kept her attention on the almost still furry creatures.
"No, they were just a distraction!" Before Sango could take action Kagura swung her fan and began to cause a giant wind and sent it straight at Sango who could barely keep her balance as the animals behind her were swept away and the wind began to cut at her skin. "You wanted it to be one on one so here you go!"
"Do you think that you can hurt me with my own element?" Sango yelled as she threw her arms out towards the wind as a white light surrounded her and she began to push the wind back towards Kagura.
"I don't get it, how is your wind stronger then mine?"
"Because Kagura, while you got the power from Maeko I was born with the power and controlled it all my life!" With that she made a powerful burst of the wind hit Kagura sending her flying while the fan fell out of her grasp. Sango used the wind to fly up into the sky and cut the fan into pieces and unconditionally broke the black jewel as well. When Sango touched the ground again she looked at Kagura. "So do you want to keep going or are you ready to surrender?"
Kagura looked directly at Sango and smiled, completely shocking Sango.
"Wow. You actually did it, you saved me." Sango looked at her for a second before saying…
"Okay what the heck are you talking about?"
Kagome vs. Rin:
"Rin, why are you doing this?" Kagome asked Rin as she got ready to grab an arrow just in case talking itout didn't work.
"I already told, I can't tell you the reason." Was Rin's reply.
"Listen Rin I know you wouldn't do something like this."
"Something like what?"
"Working for Maeko. I met you before remember? You, Kagura, Kanna, and Koharu were so nice before, I just can't except that you betrayed Mistress Kaede." Rin stared at Kagome for a few seconds and then pulled out a staff with an hourglass at the top.
"If you defeat me in combat maybe then I'll be able to tell you what you need to know."
"If that's the only way then so be it." With that their battle began.
Kagome pulled out an arrow and aimed it at Rin; planning to end it with one shot when to Kagome's surprise Rin just raised her staff to sky. The hourglass began to spin and before Kagome could do something all time froze where the two of them stood. Rin was the only one who could still move. She ran behind Kagome quickly and when time was upKagome was able to move again but it was too late for her to realize that Rin was behind and was not prepared to defend herself, and Rin got a clear shot at her.
"AH! How did you get behind me so quickly?" Kagome asked as she gripped her arm. Rin placed her weapon (which was a knife she kept hidden in her kimono) back in its hiding place and faced Kagome to answer her.
"I control time."
"You don't mean you stopped time did you?"
"What else do you think I mean." Before Kagome could answer Rin held up her staff again and again the hourglass began to move and time stopped. Rin was able to get another shot at Kagome as time began again.
Kagome winced at the pain. "How am I supposed to defeat someone who can stop time and get behind me for a sneak attack?" Kagome asked herself as Rin looked to be prepared to stop time again. "That's it!" Kagome had a plan.
Kagome waited till Rin stopped time again. She could stand a little more pain until her plan could be put into action. And when time restarted she knew she had to take her chance. Before Rin could put her staff to the sky again Kagome began to call upon the earth once again to come to her assistance. She glowed green as the roots came and wrapped themselves around Rin pinning her to where she stood.
"If this is the best you can do Kagome then you have no chance in beating me. I can easily get out of this and as soon as I do I'll have to finish you off."
"That's what you think Rin." Kagome pulled out an arrow and aimed it at the hourglass.
"NO! DON'T DO THAT!" Rin warned, but it was too late. Kagome let loose the arrow and as soon as it hit the hourglass and it broke all time stopped again as the black jewel flew out and landed in Kagome's hand
"Quick! Destroy… that jewel… before time is… stopped forever…" Rin strained to say those words as if someone was trying to stop her…
"Um… okay." Kagome decided to ask questions later as she pulled out Raijin and destroyed the jewel. Sure enough time returned to normal and the roots let Rin go and she fell to the ground. "Now you're going to tell me what I need to know!" Kagome demanded as Rin got off the ground.
Rin smiled at Kagome.
"Now that I've been freed from Maeko's control I'll tell you all you want to know."
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FreeTheSoul888 – There's chapter fifteen for you all and I am so very, very sorry that I took such along time to update this story, but now that summer is here I'm planning on updating more often if I can as long as I don't get writers block so I hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next one.
Thank you and I'll see you all in the next chapter