LOTS OF REVIEWS! FIANLS ARE OVER! I NO LONGER HAVE COMP. OR BAND CLASS!!… so many things to be happy for, so little time… technically speaking.
Now, I apologize MAJORLY for not updating anything this week a lot. Unfortunately, I had finals things week, which suck beyond all reason, and I was/am sick, which blows a lot too.
Also, I is sorry for making the previous chapters rushed, but by the end of the fifth one, I was like, "Holy crap, I just had one day occur in five chapter … that is no good….". So, less rush and stuff now, since I don't really have to rush.
One more thing before I shut up. I am perfectly open to edits, that is when you tell me if there is something that doesn't seem right or is wrong with my writing, and you tell me what it is. Then, I try to correct this issue in the next chappie. This does not give you permission to flame me, which if you do, I shall ban you. BWAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! Hack, cough…. Shouldn't have done that.
From the creator of the destructive squirrels…
Disclaimer - (Lessee…back to the peoples in St. Louis. We get the characters we missed and explain the orbs later. Last time they were in some minor trouble with the law, am I correct? Yeah, okay, so they got outta that…how, I don't know, but they did. So, here we go!)
KungPowKitty- And THAT's the Science Center! Back in the 50s…
Shippou- Is she always like this?
Kamiko-Zephuru- No. I think she's possessed
Kagome- Someone please stop the tour
Inuyasha- Or at least put some duct tape on her mouth
Felix- I wouldn't say that if I were you (eyes KPK, who's hand is resting on her sheathed frying pan)
Sota- Why not?
Shard- She has a way with revenge
Random bystander- Yo! Sup, dawg?
BAM!!!!
Kagome- Sango, what'd you do that for?!
Sango- He called me a name! He insulted me.
KZ- (slaps forehead)
Inuyasha- Since when is being called a dog an insult?!!
Kagome- You sit (Thud), and you apologize (points to Sango)
Sango- No!
Felix/Shard/KZ- Don't say we didn't warn you
Inuyasha characters- Huh?
WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM, WHAM!
KPK- AS I WAS SAYING!!!! Forest Park was originally created in order to…
(group walks off, all Inuyasha characters with massive bumps on their heads)
---later---
Love Music- Come on, Inuyasha, pleeze!
Shard- It won't hurt, we promise!
KZ- 'cept maybe his ego
WHAM!
Kagome- Don't listen to him
Sangarouka- Really, you'll love it!
Morobuku- (snicker) Yeah, you'll (snicker) love it!
Inuyasha- NO!!! DON'T TAKE ME IN THERE!!! SOMEBODY HELP!!!
Felix- I warned you
KZ- It was nice knowing you, dude
Inuyasha- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
(So what is going to happen to Inuyasha? Where have they taken him to? Why is Felix acting sane? Where did all my cookies go?! Shard, bring those back!!! All will be revealed at the next disclaimer!!!
…
Okay okay, I'll tell you where they've taken Inuyasha: to the barber. (Queue dramatic music!))
(music - w w w . the otaku . Com/ misc/ jukebox/ Evangelion, Cruel Angel's Thesis 2)
CHAPTER 5 - Demonic Holder
"Moshi Moshi, Higurashi residence, Kagome speaking." Kagome answered the phone. Inuyasha had darted out of the room once he was able to move.
"Uh, hi. I know that this is a little early, but this is Yoshima. We met last night?"
"Oh yeah, I remember." Kagome sat down on the nearby counter top. "You are a friend of Naena, right?"
"Yeppers."
"Okey dokey… um… why are you calling?"
"Oh, sorry, I get easily distracted. I was calling to see if the rest of us could come over later to actually introduce ourselves since last night didn't work all that well."
"Sure, but Inuyasha, me, Shippou, Miroku, okay, the rest of us, have school and stuff, so you might be in the company of my mom and grandpa for a while, okay?" she asked forebodingly.
"Why the ominous voice?"
"You've never met my mom completely hyped on coffee. Do you want to?"
Kagome could hear on the other side of the phone other people starting to wake up and blow up things in the microwave. Yoshima sighed. "Sure, it might make these guys a little more appreciative of my sanity."
"At least you don't have Naena over there with you."
"True. I gotta go, they are about to melt the printer in the oven. Akutsuo isn't fully awake yet."
"Ick, good luck."
"Thanks. HEY, THAT'S MY SUITCASE, YOU IDIOT, YOU CAN'T EAT THA-"
Dial tone.
Kagome looked at the phone like it was a bomb of some sort. She slowly put it back on the receiver, listening to her mom coming down the stairs. Yanayai slid open the kitchen door, and yawned happily at Kagome within her bathrobe. "Oh, Kagome… why are you up so early?"
She shrugged. "Couldn't sleep."
Her mother smiled to herself, going over to the refrigerator to get out some eggs. ' Obviously because of Inuyasha… now, I want some coffee…'
- - time/place skip- -
Inuyasha walked through the school doors, heading towards his first hour class. Miroku followed him. "So…" the houshi began. " I believe that there was some commotion downstairs at about the time you get out of the shower, eh Inuyasha? Care to fill us in?"
"Keh, none of your business you perverted monk." Blush crept it's way over the hanyou's face.
Ayumi, Yuka, and Eri giggled. "You actually saw him coming out of the shower?! Holy crap, what did it look like?!"
"AYUMI!, that's disgusting!" Kagome snapped back.
"Fine, keep all of the good stuff to yourself." Eri said.
Kagome glared at her friend. " Who are you to talk? You're dating Hojo now, remember?"
Yuka and Ayumi's mouths dropped wide open, staring at the blushing Eri. "Uh, yeah you guys. Ka-Kagome told Hojo that she didn't like him like that, and that I liked him, and things… so," She rubbed the back of her neck. "Now we're dating!"
Once Yuka got control of herself again, " Kagome… why did you do that?"
"Yeah," Ayumi chimed in. "I thought you liked Hojo! Why did you break up with him?!"
Kagome sighed, continuing to walk towards her classroom. "You guys, I was never even going out with him. And another thing, I thought you guys already knew that I'm trying to go out with Inuyasha."
Yuka and Ayumi blinked twice. " But why did you break up with Hojo?!"
Eri slapped her forehead. "I don't think they get it."
- - placed skip- -
"Thank you." Senko said to the cashier, after placing down some yen. He took hold of the incense burner that he bought, and walked out of the shop.
The incense monk went down the sidewalk, heading toward a small shrine that the locals said he could stay in for a while. He had been walking ever since leaving Kagome's house, and was now about half-way across Tokyo.
'I believe that this is the type of burner that Monk Higurashi told me to get…' he looked down at the small parchment that Kagome's grandfather gave him. It had writing on it that told the young monk which type of burning that would help him develop his spiritual energy, but the writing was extremely erratic. 'Ugh, I can't tell if it says Akurei burner or Asumei burger. I guess I'll have to hope that I got the right one: the Akurei one.'
Within ten minutes Senko came to the small shrine, and set down his few belongings. He kneeled on the small sitting pillow in front of the Buddha altar, and clasped his hands and eyes together. "Junzui Buda, Junzui Zen, Junzui Kami, shoosan subete no karera ni… (I don't expect you to know what it means)" Senko repeated the saying several more times before opening his eyes. The young monk reached for some nearby incense, and tried to decide which one to burn while filling up the burner with ash to hold the incense stick.
(music switch - w w w . the otaku . Com/ misc/ jukebox/ go to Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth)
'Hmm…' he looked at the jet black burner with the red imprinting of a dragon and phoenix on it. 'This… doesn't seem… right. Oh well, I'm just nervous, that's all.'
He placed his incense into the holder, and lit a match. He placed the flame to the stick, letting aroma smoke filling the small room.
But something wasn't right. He had lit a stick of incense known as incense of calmness, which he often lit. However, this time, the smell was not calming. It was almost… fear filling.
"Maybe I put in the wrong type…" he reached for the stick to pull it out of the burner. The smoke suddenly whipped around, knocking over Senko, latched onto the shrine door, and slide it closed. The smoke from the burner then lashed back and surrounded itself around the young monk's neck, lifting him into the air.
Senko was terrified. "W-What's happening?!"
The dragon and phoenix impression on the incense burner began to glow and move, along with the entire burner emitting a red glow of demonic aura. "Hehehe… After all of these years, we are able to live once more…"
"W-Who said that?!" Senko said, trying to pry the smoke from his neck off.
"We are the demons Tako and Tsumyena, who were confined to be within this incense burner over five hundred years ago. After being condemned that long without being given anything to move or breath or anything with for so long, we thank you for giving us a limb; the smoke of the incense."
Senko gasped for air, reaching down into his kimono to try to find his sacred sutras. " What do you want with me?!"
"What else? Being confined within this Akurei incense burner for so long, it would be wonderful to have a soul to feed off of and a body to move in…" The smoke began to tie around the young monk's neck even harder, squeezing out the air. Senko finally felt his sutras, and threw some at the burner. Upon touching the Akurei holder, the sutras evaporated from the extreme demonic aura.
Tako and Tsumyona laughed in unison once more. "Did you really think that you could defeat us like that, monk?" a bit of the smoke broke loose from the main bit, and picked up another stick of incense from Senko's bag; an incense of souls. The smoke arm placed the tip of the incense to the one already burning inside of the burner, making catch on flame. The smoke arm then placed the stick of incense into the ash, letting the smoke and smell develop.
Senko could feel himself being knocked out by the grip of the smoke arm. 'I guess I indeed got the wrong burner…'
"Now," The demonic incense burner said, having the smoke from the incense of souls turn into another arm. "Your soul will be mine!"
The new smoke arm gripped Senko's mouth open, and pulled out the monks soul. Senko's body went limp, and fell to the ground in a heap once being let go of from the first smoke arm. His soul was engulfed in the smoke of the Incense of the soul stick, and vaporized into the burner. The smokes then joined and condensed into a small, red glowing orb, and floated down to the Dragon and Phoenix impressions. The impressions lifted themselves from the burner and placed themselves onto the small orb.
The red ball of evil floated over to Senko's body, and entered his body. The body of Senko tensed for a moment, before opening it's eyes to reveal blood red eyes for a moment before fading back to normality. The Dragon and Phoenix impression then forced their way onto 'Senko's' body's forehead.
"Now," Senko, now Tako and Tsumyona, said, lifting himself off of the ground. "We, the brothers Tenstu, Tako and Tsumyona, shall take the souls of all." The Tenstu body said. Tenstu (which is what I shall call him/they/it/Senko's body now) walked over to the altar, and picked up the Akurei burner.
- - place change - -
In the middle of Sango's math test, the demon hunter suddenly got chills sent down her spine. 'What was that…?'
Once that period was over, Sango headed straight for Kagome. "Kagome, in the middle of first period, did you get a chill down your spine?"
"Yeah, b-"
"You guys felt that too?" Ayumi said, walking up to the two friends. "Eri and Yuka just finished telling me that when they were in gym class, they had been running when all of the girls got a major chill down their spine and fell over! I don't think that there has been something this big since the storm a while back…"
'You mean Zephuru…' Kagome thought.
Miroku walked over to the girls. "Inuyasha and I also felt the same thing, as did Hojo. I heard him telling Eri a minute or two ago outside of his Biology classroom."
Kagome looked behind the houshi, expecting a hanyou to be there. "Where did Inuyasha go to?"
Miroku pulled the young miko over, and whispered into her ear. "Right after class ended, he left the school and headed for your home. I believe he wants to talk to your grandfather."
- - place change - - (now change to escape)
Kaede continued to pick herbs in her garden, listening to Kouga and Zephuru getting at it again. She sighed. 'Within a few minutes, Lady Ayame shall force the wolf demon to roll over once more… This is getting repetitive…'
The wind blew like ice for a moment, then as hot as fire, then it returned to normal. The miko stood from her kneeling position, trying to feel what caused the air to change so. Kaede looked up at the trees of the nearby forest. The plant giants were swaying back and forth inharmoniously. "Yon trees sense evil…"
"So, you felt it too, huh?" Kagura asked, coming out of the miko's hut. She headed over to the old woman, and looked around at the forest in front of them. "The trees can sense something?"
"Aye. A strong evil demonic surge just swept through the lands…" she turned to the Wind Woman. "I have no doubt that the void of evil Naraku left behind has now been filled."
Kagura frowned. "Something more evil than Naraku… Is that even possible? He was named after hell, you know…"
"That I know well indeed, but I don't like to think that the limit of evilness was Naraku. This demon or demons or humans or whatever has turned into such evil, most likely derived from a different area than here."
Kagura listened to the loud fwap of Kouga being 'rolled over'. "You certainly know quite a bit from just a wave of power."
"I am a miko, ye know." The old woman picket up her basket of herbs, and walked toward her hut. 'If only Kagome were here… She might be able to help with this new predicament….'
- - back to normal time- -
The school intercom came on. "Telephone call for Kagome Higurashi. Telephone call for Kagome Higurashi. Please go to the nearest class room."
The miko walked over to a nearby classroom, over hearing two teachers telling each other that they too had got a major shiver in the middle of their first period classes.
Kagome asked the teacher of the room if she could use the phone, and pressed line three to receive the call. This used to happen a lot when Inuyasha would come into the future era, and Sota would call her to tell her that he had gone missing again.
"Um, moshi moshi, this is Kagome Higurashi…."
"Kagome!" She heard her grandfather say on the other end. "About a half hour ago I felt a massive surge of evil energy pass through the area, did you?"
"Yeah," she said in a hushed voice. "But the thing is, I think everyone in my entire school felt it. Most likely everyone in Tokyo too. I think that it must have been a really big surge of evil…"
"I was called a little bit after it happened by the elementary school that Shippou and Sota go to that all of the children in the school collapsed at the exact same moment. The teacher also told me it happened right after she felt a chill go down her spine. Your mother is already over there picking the two up."
'Oh no…' the miko thought. "What do you want me to do?"
"Just get through the rest of school today then get yourself back home with everyone else, including Eri. I have a feeling that this is not going to be leading anywhere good." and he hung up the phone.
'Hmm…' Mr. Higurashi thought, placing the phone on the receiver. 'If I'm not mistaken, I believe that that girl Eri had a faint holy aura around her when she last visited. She most likely should be able to help us.'
- - - - - - -
Oh yeah, major cliffy. It had to happen somewhere, so it came here.
I know we said that we would explain the orbs next, but that will come at a later date. Sry.
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