...,... (KZ is now in a semi-coma state from the three hours of jumping around and screaming his lungs out because of the hitting the 300-review mark. Please give him time to recuperate; his body has never had such a force exerted on itself for a long time. Not to mention he didn't stop to breath once during that three hour screaming time, which would most likely explain why his face was purple when he got knocked out.)..., Huh, wha- happened?... (Waking up)... 300! 300! 300! Hack, cough, wheeze (slumps back in hospital bed asleep)
But seriously, I need you guys to tell me what I need to give you all in reward, since I have no idea what to do. But this... is... just... com-...-pletely...a...w...e...s...o...m...e...
300. I think it should be some kind of club, like 'The Three Hundred Club.'... Nah, people would confuse it with that really creepy Christian only show the seven hundred club. I wonder why they chose 700? Is that the number of viewers they have?
Whoa, I'm on chapter 27, and I have A LOT more to go through... I now have no clue how many chapters there will be, since I'm also planning a good bit of stuff after the Senko incident. By the way, I didn't really expect you all to start guessing guys 'off the elevator' to their doom, or whatever. That was a pleasant surprise, and I'm DIEING to say who got off.
Disclaimer - (With 300 reviews, the cast of the Disclaimer thought it would be nice to commemorate the event. So, we took a vote, which led to some grumbles, followed by some accusations of fixing the vote, then some yells of protest, and to top that off a little full blown war, but when the lot was threatened with Auntie Martha and/or Felix based punishments, we finally came to an agreement as to how to celebrate)
Group of never-ending disclaimer characters- LUAU!
Felix, KungPowKitty and Love Music- (singing) I'M A LITTLE COCONUT, I LIVE IN A SMALL GRASS HUT! PEOPLE COME AND KNOCK ON ME; THAT IS WHY I'M CRACKED YOU SEE!
Sangarouka- Throw it over here, Kagome!
Kagome- (throws coconut) Go long!
Miroku- (catches coconut) INTERCEPTION!
Strawberry (yes, she gets a break from the spinning whatever-mer-bob of DOOM)- (is hula dancing, or whatever you call it) It's like this, see?
Inuyasha- No I do not! Argh, I give up!
Strawberry- Kagome, your boyfriend has commitment issues!
Kagome- Took you that long to figure it out? (throws coconut/football to Sesshomaru, who proceeds to fumble it)
Inuyasha- What!
Kagome- Sit!
(Are we slightly confused? Wanna guess where the fellers are? I'd try guessing Hawaii)
Kamiko-Zephuru- Did you know more than one-third of the world's commercial supply of pineapples comes from Hawaii?
Myoga- Yes. You've said that every hour, on the hour ever since we got on the STINKIN' PLANE!
(speaking of which)
Shard- Look, you gotta let go
Sango- (shakes head no)
Shard- It's perfectly safe now, we're on the ground
Sango- (continues to shake head)
Stalking Chicken- And I thought I was a devoted stalker
Shard- WOULD SOMEONE GET HER OFF ME!
(Sango has basically tied herself to Shard and is not letting go. Let's just say she wasn't thrilled about the mode of transportation used to get to the islands)
KPK- Gee, Shard, it's not like you to not like shovels
Shard- You shut up (sorry, it's an inside joke that I couldn't resist)
Sango- I don't like flying
Shard- Good, well, we aren't flying anymore, so get off!
?- Aloha!
(blue fuzz ball walks onto the beach amongst the group of Inuyashaness with a guitar. Somewhere a record starts to play and a spot light's turned on)
KZ- You gotta be kiddin me
YOU AINT NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG, CRYIN ALL THE TIME!
(I GOT 3 WORDS FOR YA! "LILO, AND, STITCH!")
Felix- I WANT!
KPK- WHAT'R YOU DOIN WITH MY FRYING PAN!
Strawberry- Oh you know this ain't gonna be pretty
Inuyasha- Popcorn? (I forgot to mention, his hair is still short)
Felix- (who is being pursued by KPK, leaps out at Stitch, who darts away and waits for his spotlight to follow him) I will get you, my pretty! And your little girl, too!
Stitch- (sticks tongue out at Inuyasha folksies) Ppthhhhhhh!
Love Music- Oh, he did not
Kagome- I'd say he just did
KPK- Sic'im, Felix!
Felix- CHARGE!
Lilo- (to Stitch) You just had to do that, didn't you?
Stitch- Raar! (head buts Felix) (one of those dust clouds animators use to signify a brawl occurring pops up around Felix and Stitch)
Miroku- This could be a pretty even match. I'll have to join the poll
Shippou- 20 lollipops says Stitch beats him
Sota- Deal
(dust clears)
Rin- Bet you weren't betting on that
(Stitch and Felix are dressed up in top hats and tails and have those cane type things)
Felix-(singing) And the maniac jumped over the mOOOOUUUUntAAAAAAIIIIIIIIN!
Stitch- The maniac jumped over the hiiiiill!
Felix and Stitch- (singing and dancing, now) So as you can see, Life is boring but you see, that without a frieeeeeend, There ain't nobody to shoot-down-with-an-M-60-combination-pistol-and-hit-over-the-head-with-a-silver-crowbar-until-they-fall-into-a-gate-and-get-caught-on-it-by-the-lip-until-all-they-see-is-dancing-blue-bunnies-frolicked-over-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-all-the-small-things-you-done-baby,-I-will-surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
Inuyasha-What the hell was that?
CHAPTER 27 - Senko Strikes- Part One - The Missing
The girl broke down in tears. "NO! DON'T DO THIS TO ME!"
The small room made it's way up the center shaft, closing in on the top level of the tower. The elevator had glass windows on two sides, letting them all look out across the city of Tokyo.
After a minute of no speaking what so ever in silent 'remorse', the youkai exterminator couldn't stand it any longer.
"Wow," Sango was staring out of the nearest window. "The entire city is covered with ice, and that sakura is still falling," She sighed, and looked skyward to where their destination was. "If it wasn't for all the people getting killed and frozen and such, especially without all of those souls going towards the top of the tower, it actually would be kind of pretty..."
"KIND OF PRETTY!" Inuyasha fumed, still stuck to the ceiling. "THAT SHIT OUTSIDE IS ANYTHING FROM IT! HOW COULD YOU THINK OF ANYTHING SO STUPID, LIKE THAT BASTARD WHO STAYED DOWNSTAIRS!" 'oops'
Kagome's button had now been pushed. "Inuyasha..."
He looked down at her from the ceiling.
"SIT, BOY!"
Smash, thump! Our little hanyou just hit the bottom of the elevator and went soaring back up to the ceiling, getting quite a bit of damage done. "Oww..."
"Serves you right!" Kagome snapped back. "You really need to be a little more considerate of what's going on in someone else's life! How do you think I would be if it had been you down there, HUH?"
While those two continued fighting, Akutsuo and Osoane walked over to Eri and Sangarouka, the two hugging each other. "He'll be fine," one of them said to the other. "We'll just come up here, stop the spell from continuing, and we'll go back down, and he'll be just fine, like nothing ever happen-"
"HOW DO YOU KNOW?" The other wailed. "HE'S PROBABLY DEAD RIGHT NOW! HOW COULD HE DO THAT TO ME? THAT BASTARD! THAT STUPID BASTARD!" (You really want to kill me for not telling you who it was, don't you?) (KPK- (sings) Neener, neener neener! I know who it is!)
Akutsuo and Osoane looked at each other before kneeling down to the two girls. "Listen," Akutsuo began. "I'm sure Sangarouka is right, Eri. Hojo will probably be just fine when we come back down here, you'll see."
Eri didn't stop crying. Sangarouka patted her back, inside desperately wishing the miko in training next to her wouldn't cut off the circulation to her other arm quite as much.
Minutes passed, and finally the elevator door chimed. Top level. "Welcome to the top level of the Tokyo Tower," and automated voice said. "Please be patient as the elevator locks onto the floor."
Inuyasha was pinned to the doors, as he had been with the ceiling. But the anklet seemed to be becoming less powerful; he could move around a bit from the doors and such. "Hey wench, what's up with this thing?" he attempted to hold out his wrist to Kagome.
"That direction spell is wearing off, numb skull." They still were not in happy moods from the fact of Inuyasha getting sat, and the yelling afterwards. And in that yelling, Inuyasha had let it slip that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, and also said something along the lines of "MAYBE I SHOULD GO BACK TO KIKYO! EVEN THOUGH SHE'S NOTHING BUT MUD, AT LEAST SHE'S NOT SOME STUPID LITTLE WENCH!" Words he soon after regretted, since that was when Kagome shut her trap, and barely even talked to him for the rest of the way up. 'I have got to learn to get my mouth to say the things my mind tells it to, not my anger... Damn, like that's ever gonna happen...'
The doors opened.
Very slowly and warily, the group left the elevator, and into the large lobby type thing. Kagome had remembered that when she was younger, and her mother had taken her on a trip here, this area was a small cafe type thing, juxtaposed to the observation deck. It appeared to still be a cafe, but it all of the chairs and tables had been knocked out of the way, and there were bits of all sorts of ashes.
The anklet gave, and returned to its normal state of being on Inuyasha's wrist. The hanyou ignored that, though, since his nose was burning with the large variety of different scents and smells. "Damn, it reeks in here!" he whispered softly. They all began to spread out in the room, slowly looking for any trace of life. "There are tons of scents, I can't even pick out from another..."
"Thank you for that little insight, but would please shut up!" Kagome scorned. She still equaled no happy. Inuyasha sighed in defeat, and began to look around the area as well.
Eri walked over to the nearby counter, and looked over the edge of it. 'That's really weird... Gonna have to come back to that...' She sniffled, and continued looking around
After a minute or two of searching around the entire room/ cafe/whatever, not a trace of any life was found. "What in the world is going on here?" Akutsuo asked to no one in particular. "We've searched everywhere in this place, and nothing?"
"Keh, like hell," Inuyasha began. "I already told you guys that there's all these different scents in here, and-"
"Wait, I think the scents are coming from all of these ashes," Osoane said, bending down and fingering some of the black powder-like substance on the ground. "I mean, if something was burnt, wouldn't it give off a smell, no matter what it was?"
"True," Kagome said, walking over to the other girl and her hand to her chin. "But why burn so many different things? Not to mention that if each and every one is different, only makes that much of ash, and-"
Inuyasha touched one of the bits of ashes, and was electrocuted for a moment after getting shot into one of the tables, completely fried.
"- And can do that, what would it be?"
They pondered for a moment, before Sangarouka raised her hand. "What about incense?"
Miroku rolled this over in his head. "Hm, that would make sense. I remember back in Sengoku Jidai, when I was young, Master Mushin showed me some things about incense burning and their abilities on people. And-"
"And if something can be done in normal monk arts...," Sango began.
"It can be done in the dark arts," finished Shippou, currently on Morobuku's shoulder.
While the others continued their discussion on what was going on about them, Eri returned to where the counter was, and began to look much more closely at what she had seen. It was a small ball, no larger than one of the beads of Inuyasha's rosary. And, much like the rosary beads, it was completely black, but it was emitting a strange aura. It wasn't evil, or good for that matter. Just... aura. 'Crap, if only I'd studied more of my miko tactics, I could tell what this is...'
Looking on the counter, she picked up a napkin, and then in turn picked up the small ball with it, just in case touching it would be a no-no.
With the small sphere in hand, she walked over to where Kagome and the others were, and outstretched her hand. "Hey, look at this. I found it over by the counter," she said. "All I can sense from it is just an aura, but I can't decipher it."
Kagome had no idea what it was, and neither did Miroku once he came over to them and looked at it as well. All it emitted was an aura, but there was nothing behind it, like it was waiting for something to be added to it.
"Miroku, any ideas?"
"None what-so-ever."
Eri rolled the small ball back into the napkin, and slipped it into her pocket.
The sharp end of a dagger, or what looked would be a dagger, shot straight through the floor, where Inuyasha had been standing prior to his shocking experience. Slowly it slipped back down to where it had been, leaving only a hole in its wake. Silence gripped the entire room. The battle kimonos of Kagome, Inuyasha, etc melted onto their bodies, their weapons also appearing out of air. Thus, leaving Eri feeling very confused and left out. As the others got into a ready stance to attack, even Shippou was, Eri sighed. 'Well, this is new... I hope all those Tae Kwon Do classes pay off...' Clenching her fists and raising them up to near her cheeks, the girl slowly got into a raised side stance. It was then that she remembered that she was still in her school uniform, and thanked Kami that a certain pervert hadn't noticed her revealed legs.
A small ruffling sound was heard from where the hole had come from. Inuyasha unsheathed Tetsusaiga, Sango readied Hirikotsu, Sangarouka gripped her mace tip whip, etc. However, there are two other people here, remember.
Upon Osoane melted a green kimono, and out of nowhere, she unfolded a striking fan with a dragon and dog insignia upon it. Morobuku had a pure blue kimono seam itself onto his body, and in his hands appeared a black Ekku (Like an oar, kinda. Lots of fun to work with)
The hole was slashed open and exploded in tile and flooring, as a figure shot out from the gape. The entire group was thrown backward, excluding Eri, who had simply embraced the blow and moved back into position. The others looked at her strangely, and she in turn smiled. "Hey, martial arts help."
The figure that had shot out of the room clung to the ceiling, before letting itself down to the ground. Because of the blast to the floor, dust and smoke were pluming everywhere, making it difficult to see much of anything. All they were able to make out was the thing's shadow, which was soon joined by three more shadows.
The first figure stopped moving, and the remaining three began to walk forward, with two stopping by the first one, and the remaining kept walking towards the members of the group. "Well, well, brother Tako, I believe our spell didn't stop the miko and the others, eh?... Indeed, Tsumyena, I do believe they have caught up with us, to stop our incense from taking the world's souls..."
Kagome was trying to recognize the voice speaking, but it was a mix of three, and it was really troublesome to decipher. "Wh-Who are you!"
"Stop being a wimp and come on out of that smoke and fight!" Inuyasha roared at the unknown person. Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed 'Always so eager to fight...'
"It is not us who you shall fight, hanyou filth..." The brothers/Senko's body said, stepping out of the dust and into the confused gazes of their adversaries. "But it shall be our helpers who will fight against you!"
Miroku was utterly confused. "Senko!"
The body of the monk scoffed at the name. "Senko? So that was the name of this monk... We took his body after being released from our imprisonment, which he so kindly gave to us, along with his soul... Yes. I find the purest souls are the most delicious."
Kagome gaped and covered her mouth. "You mean- You mean you ate him! You ate that poor monk!"
"Don't be foolish, miko..." Tako began." If we had eaten his body, there would be nothing for us to obtain. Only his soul was eaten, thus giving us his memory... And that was how we learned about all of you, and the fact that we had to destroy you in order for our goal to be succeeded, which will probably need to be done soon now..."
Akutsuo turned his head. "Plan? What's this plan?"
"Seriously," The brothers Tentsu rolled their eyes. "Who do you think we are, some villains out of James Bond or something?... Why should we tell you our plan, just for you to attempt to eradicate it, knowing precisely what to do and where to go?"
"Worth a shot..." Akutsuo sighed, head heaving.
"Whoa," Eri began. "A smart villain. That was unexpected."
"Silence child!" The body of Senko bellowed, sending an arm of smoke out and clouting Eri in her chest. The girl went soaring backward, and into the elevator, completely knocked out. The elevator chimed. "Now leaving the Observatory level. Thank you for coming to the Tokyo Tower." The doors closed, and down went the elevator, along with Eri.
"And now..." Tentsu began, smirking condescendingly at the infuriated teens before him. The dust and smoke were clearing behind him. Soon it would be clear enough to see the others with Tako and Tsumyena, and clear up the entire mess. "I shall let you fight your adversaries."
In a flash the body of Senko had soared to some unknown destination, whipping the dust and smoke up so within moments it would be gone.
"FINE BY ME!" Inuyasha shouted, Tetsusaiga reared up and ready to unleash Wind Scar upon the unsuspecting attackers. 'I'll just kill off the small fry, and then go after Senko...'
He began to swing his sword, until the smoke finished clearing, and he swerved around so it wouldn't hit the three before him.
There were two girls, each with Sais in hands, and one boy with sharpened Tunfas. Before them, looking ready to kill, stood Naena, Ayumi, and Yuka.
- - - -
Little twist in there! My infamous cliffhanger has returned.
Review?... Possibly?... Without maiming?...
KPK- Whoa whoa whoa! Rewind for a second! Pause or something! Did I miss a change in scripts or something!
This is going to be a new edition to my stories. It is called 'Review answers' (aka - RVW ANSRS). Okay, very crappy name, and 'wonderfully original', but live with it, my creative valve wore itself out on writing this chappy. Kinda. Anyway, commencing.
RVW. ANSRS.
To gold-dragonrider-of-pern - Yes, I am planning on having Fluffy in the next story. It's kinda important that he is, too, so... yeah.
To Lelyn Black - Actually all together I have four sisters, but you've only met Strawberry and KPK. I don't know if you'll meet the other two or my brother. Depends if KPK feels like it or not.
To InuCrush - GOMEN NE! Sorry, I must have read the wrong name on that review. I SORRY! REALLY REALLY MUCH! PLZ DONT KILL ME!