Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, Inuyasha and all other characters that appear in this story are owned by Takahashi Rumiko. I also do not own Harry Potter… so go figure… But I do own Sakura, the Surra, and Erisa along with his little staff… so yeah.
Chapter Five: Erisai, horse Taiyoukai
The group of three stood in front of Dumbledore before a smoking cauldron. "Are you sure you have to do this?" He asked Sakura. Sakura nodded simply.
"Yes, we must. This is the only time we can located Erisai."
"Then we shall do as you wish. Drink this transporting potion and shout out the place you wish to go to." Sakura nodded, "Be warned, it does not taste the best. Also, take this vial with you. It contains the same potion, which will return you to our time and place."
"I understand." Sakura stepped forward and took a steaming cup of the potion. She swallowed the conconction. Much to Harry, Ron, and Hermione's surprise she didn't cringe the slightest, her face remained smooth and blank as she shouted very loudly and clearly, "TO ERISAI, THE POWERFUL HORSE TAIYOUKAI!" Her body began to glow and she disappeared in a shower of sparkles.
Kagome stepped forward and took the vial placing it in her pocket and the cup in her hands. "Inuyasha," She said, "Say 'To where Sakura is', it's the safest." With that she too swallowed the nasty potion and shouted: "TO WHERE SAKURA IS!" And vanished in the same fashion. Inuyasha scowled and took the potion. He sniffed it once and cringed greatly before swallowing it. His face turned green and he looked as if he was going to spit it right back out, but forcefully swallowed it. He shouted the same words as Kagome used and immediately began to feel his body tingle and his skin crawl. The room began to wither away from his sight until everything was a blur. When the blur stopped, he found himself lying face flat on the ground next to Kagome. Sakura was sitting on a rock waiting for them.
"Inuyasha," She began, "I don't want to do this to you, but you must face Erisai in your weakened form. We have no choice but to do this. Hang onto your life until the sun rises. Although Erisai disappears the moment the sun rises, when he is in a battle he never leaves until either he wins or loses."
"KEH! I will!"
"For now, we must wait. We will go once it becomes four hours past midnight, then perhaps you can hang on for three hours until you regain your youki."
"No way! I'm going to hunt Erisai down and kill him whether…"
"Inuyasha, in order to strengthen the Tetsusaiga's Kekkaigiri, you must use the Tetsusaiga. In your human form, you cannot transform the Tetsusaiga. I am correct, am I not?"
"Humph! Are you telling me that I have to sit here and wait until four hours passes before I go off to kill this thing? We might as well wait for six hours then!"
"NO! If you go after six hours, Erisai will disappear again and will be difficult to track down and that means that we have to wait another full month for him to reappear! Even four hours is risky enough!"
"SO why don't we just bust in on…"
"INUYASHA-SAMA!"
Inuyasha slapped his face with one hand and removed it to see a small flea youkai dressed in mustard-yellow haori with four sleeves and blue pants. He was completely bald around the head except for the sides, which had tuffs of gray hair that suck out. Like Jaken, his eyes were bulbous, but not yellow. Inuyasha and the rest knew exactly who he was: Myoga, the cowardly flea. "Myoga, since when did you pop out?"
"I was just hanging around when I sensed you!" Myoga turned to say hello to Kagome and froze when he saw Sakura. Squeaking in surprise, Myoga jumped off Inuyasha's palm, but wasn't fast enough to escape Inuyasha's fingers. "Inuyasha-sama, please release me! Sakura-sama! Please tell Inuyasha-sama to release me!"
"I'm afraid I'm under his ranking, Myoga."
"You're trying to run away aren't you?"
"No! I simply wanted to say hello to Sakura-sama!"
"You know her?"
"Of course I know Myoga, he was Inutaisho-sama's cowardly little imp. Always deserted your father whenever things got too dangerous. He may be very cowardly, but he is extremely informative. Quite the opposite of Jaken, I must say… well, sort of. They're both cowardly…"
"Sakura-sama! Are you calling me cowardly?"
"Yes," Sakura said sweetly, "After all you did desert us during the war between the neko youkais, did you not. And I am well aware of the fact that you also ditched Inutaisho-sama during his fight with Ryuusai, and I'm sure you wouldn't have wanted to accompany him in his fight with Tatemaru either. Pity… if only you were more courageous, you may have been a bit more useful, obviously you are only useful in your imformative manner, sucking other people's blood, and being plain annoying."
"Ha! So Sakura thinks you're worthless too, huh?" Inuyasha smirked releasing Myoga who now stood in front of Sakura shaking his tiny fists at her.
"Not entirely, but yes." With that she squashed him flat with her thumb.
"Why, Sakura-sama? Why are you so cruel to me as well?"
"By the way Myoga, shouldn't you be running?"
"Of course, but I came to supply Inuyasha-sama with some information on Erisai."
"Aww…" Kagome said from next to Inuyasha, "You actually decided to risk your running time to give us some information!"
"Kagome! How could you?"
"Shut up flea, and tell us about him already!"
"Well, Erisai was your father's rival. Your mother, the beautiful Izayoi-sama, not only captured the heart of your father but Erisai's as well. I remember clearly that they battled one another for the hand of your mother. The battle was a great one that lasted for two months, mainly because Erisai had his Barrier and Inutaisho could not break it, nor could he use the Sounna to destroy it because Izayoi-sama was with Erisai inside the barrier. Of course she did not willingly join him because she loved only your father. You can say that your mother was kidnapped. Anyway, your mother wasn't the only reason why Erisai came to hate your father. You see, before the battle, he had a huge army of strong house youkai. Erisai felt that with his barrier and his army, he was unstoppable, but with the newly made Tetsusaiga, your father defeated the whole army. What was once an army of ten thousand strong horse youkai became nothing but ten thousand dead bodies. Then, using the Souuna, your father turned Erisai's army against him, provided that they were the only ones that could enter his barrier, and using Erisai's closest friends, he had them bring your mother back to him. Once she was with your father, he ordered his new army of zombies to kill Erisai and left the scene not caring if Erisai survived or not."
"Umm…" Kagome started, "Wasn't that a bit…"
"He had no choice!" Myoga shouted annoying Inuyasha slightly, "Although Inuyasha can use the Kekkaigiri, that is only because it was strengthened when Goshinki shattered it and Toutosai fixed it. Back then, the only thing the Tetsusaiga could do was to kill a hundred youkai with one swing, and Inutaisho-sama had programmed it so that it's true powers would only be accessable to you, Inuyasha-sama. Now I must leave, but be careful, Inuyasha-sama, once Erisai finds that you are the son of Inutaisho-sama and Izayoi-sama, he will want to kill you. Well, that's all for now, he's coming, good luck Inuyasha-sama!"
"WAIT! YOU AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE!" Inuyasha shouted grabbing the fleeing flea, "YOU WILL STAY RIGHT HERE AND ASSIST ME TO ANYTHING POSSIBLE!" While saying that, Inuyasha tied Myoga to a string and attached him to the prayer beads around his neck. Myoga kicked and wiggled in vain, but his struggles were useless.
"Please, Inuyasha-sama, release me!"
"SHUT UP!"
"Why?" Myoga wailed, crying waterfalls, "Why didn't you become like your mother instead?"
"Ah-ha! So dad ignored and squashed you too, didn't he?" Inuyasha shouted triumphantly.
"Well, not so much for the squashing, that's pretty new, but he did tie me into his hair once… EEEEEE! He's here! PLEASE…" (A/N: Imagine Inutaisho trying Myoga into his hair… haha! I've got to draw that one time!)
"SHADDUP! I'm not going to let you go until you figure out a way to stop him!"
"Exactly identical…" Myoga cried.
The trees were torn aside as a huge whirlwind came towards them. When the whirlwind stopped a man was standing there. His hair was long and golden. The hair was separated so that a long part hung down his back, and the sides of his hair was braided loosely and tied with red cords. His eyes were brown and had orange youkai markings above his eyes. He wore a long flowing yellow haori and a purple vest over it and his pants were a darker shade of yellow. He wore black boots, much like Sesshomaru's own and carried a wooden staff with great, broad-rimmed leaves attached to vines that were wrapped loosely around the staff and glowed a yellow color. Although he was the enemy of Inutaisho, there was no mistaking that he was very handsome. He stared at the trio for a second, but mainly at Inuyasha who had his hand on the hilt of the Tetsusaiga. "Inuyasha… son of Izayoi and the dog spawn…"
"How did you…" Inuyasha started in shock.
"You reek of that Inutaisho, and of course you smell of Izayoi. Who would have known that they would have had a child? Not just any child, but a disgusting half dog, with the name that starts with dog. So, what happened to that repulsive fool?"
"SHUT UP! MY FATHER IS NOT A REPULSIVE FOOL! AND HE'S DEAD!"
The great horse youkai Erisai raised a golden eyebrow, half in genuine surprise and mock surprise. "The great Inutaisho, dead? How? Did he ditch you with Izayoi first?"
"HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT MY DAD LIKE THAT! HE DIED PROTECTING US!"
"Protecting you? Oh yes, now I remember, Inutaisho cannot create barriers, he is nothing but a narrow-minded swordsman that swings magical swords that kills all of my men and brought them to life, turning them against me. Do you wish to know how I survived my own men attacking me? I had to release the fire-leaves to kill them. Yes, they may have been zombies, but they were still my own men. Your great father gave me no choice but to turn against my own faithful army! Speaking of your father, you are human. May I ask you why?"
"WHETHER I'M HUMAN OR NOT IS NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!" With that, the hotheaded Inuyasha pulled the Tetsusaiga out of its hilt. It stayed in its untransformed state.
"The Tetsusaiga, huh? I hate that sword as much as I hate the Souuna. Although you are my dear Izayoi's son, you still carry the filthy blood of Inutaisho, the walking shame of Izayoi."
"WALKING SHAME, WALKING SHAME, WALKING SHAME! I'M SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYONE CALLING ME THAT! SESSHOUMARU, MY OWN BROTHER, HUMANS, YOUKAI, YOU, EVERYONE! I WILL DESTROY YOUR DAMNED BARRIER AND KILL YOU!" With that Inuyasha charged at Erisai, who looked awfully bored.
"So… your own brother, or half-brother, called you the walking shame of Inutaisho. But let me correct him, you are not the walking shame of Inutaisho, but the walking shame of Izayoi." The blade of the untransformed Tetsusaiga slammed into the barrier, which crackled and pulsed under it before it sent both the Tetsusaiga and Inuyasha flying backwards into the ground sliding back a good fifteen feet.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried, "DON'T BE TOO HARD ON HIM IN YOUR HUMAN FORM, YOU HAVE TO STALL TIME!"
"Stall time, huh? And who might you be? Another human lover?"
"If you don't shut your dirty mouth, I'll slice you to bits, you son of a bitch…" Inuyasha growled getting up from the ground.
"You cannot slice me to bits, even with the Tetsusaiga, for it does not have the ability to slice barriers. Your father was incredibly stupid, was he not? Why didn't he ask for a barrier slicing sword instead of a stupid life giving sword?"
"That so-called stupid life giving sword, you bastard, brought my mother back to life!" With that Inuyasha raised his hands over his head to make another attempt at the barrier, which resulted in the same result as before.
"Izayoi died? That idiotic fool actually let Izayoi die?" Erisai seethed through clenched teeth, "Well, now that I know that even the great Inutaisho couldn't save Izayoi, I will take the time to show you exactly what I can do." With that, Erisai lifted his staff in the air and the dim yellow aura brightened until everything around him was whitewashed. Sakura stood there for a moment, her eyes growing wider and wider. "LEAF BLADE!"
"INUYASHA! WATCH OUT!" Kagome screamed as the leaves around Erisai's staff stiffened and glowed eerily green. Erisai waved his staff in one sweeping movement so that a bunch of sharpened leaf-shaped blades shot out from the leaf spot glowing green. Sakura wasted no time jumping in front of Inuyasha. The three spots on her forehead began to glow red and she formed a barrier. The leaf blades slammed into the barrier and bounced off harmlessly. Erisai looked a bit shocked for a second, but it faded away.
"Sakura? I thought Sesshoumaru killed you?"
"Humph, that bigoted fool needs a lot more to kill me." Sakura said shooting him a cold glare. By this time, the sun had begun to rise.
"Hmm… your barrier is quite powerful, I wonder why you didn't trail around Inutaisho's tail like a sad half-puppy?"
"That's because he told me he could settle you himself."
"You remind me too much of Sesshoumaru. The way you speak, the manner in which you hold yourself, and even your fighting techniques. As for this barrier of yours I can see it is a purifying barrier that purifies anything that touches it. Very amusing of you, no? After all, you still possess youkai powers. I wonder how you can do that, after all, you and I both know that a hanyou born with miko powers cannot live even up to the age of ten."
"How I can use miko powers is not of your concern, Erisai."
"Yes, just like Sesshoumaru. I suppose you do act and sound like him, after all, you both were educated together and never broke apart. I am amazed that such a strong bond between the two of you broke so easily, all because of one flimsy war and that whelp that holds Inutaisho's blood. Anyway, your barrier is nothing to me." The staff had now begun to glow white and a huge blast of white electricity shattered Sakura's barrier. Sakura's eyes widened in shock, as Erisai laughed. "My, my, you even look like that fool when you're surprised! And remember, I am the master of barriers, you cannot do anything to my barrier, so don't even…" But Erisai didn't finish his sentence because…
"KENATU!" A huge ball of white light smashed into the barrier but did no harm to it. "How dare you compare me to that worthless Half-breed."
"SESSHOUMARU!" Inuyasha barked, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" He had already transformed back into his regular hanyou form. His hair was silver and his eyes were golden, the thick purple stripes on his face had returned and he was now holding the transformed Tetsusaiga in his hand.
"I am simply here to gain the barrier smashing technique."
"WHAT? YOU BASTARD!" Forgetting about Erisai, Inuyasha charged at Sesshoumaru who immediately blocked his moves, but it was hard because Inuyasha was no longer the hanyou he fought before. "That barrier shattering technique is mine!"
"Yours, is it?" Sesshoumaru asked after neatly blocking one of Inuyasha's blow, "What business do you have with Erisai? Although you possess father's honorable blood, you still have the filthy human's blood running through your veins."
"What business do I have with Erisai? I have a lot more business with Erisai than you do!" Inuyasha angrily swirled the sword that so he could slit Sesshoumaru's waist, but that was blocked as well.
"So, what is your business with Erisai? Only to gain the ultimate Kekkaigiri?"
"That's not my only business, and I'm not going to tell you what the other business is, because it doesn't concern you!"
"So, Sesshoumaru, you didn't know, huh?" Erisai said with a smirk. "Well, let me just say that your ever so honorable and FOOLISH father was my rival for the hand of Izayoi." Erisai seemed to enjoy the look of shock that spread across Sesshoumaru's face like wildfire, making it one of his most rare moments in showing any sign of emotions. "Of course, Izayoi would have been so much better off if she were with me, in fact, I could have protected her from that fool Tatemaru with one wave of my powerful barrier and of course the Shinti." Erisai lifted his staff to point out that he was referring to that. "But, alas, the beautiful Izayoi chose to go to that cursed dog."
"WHAT THE HELL DID I TELL JUST YOU? STOP TALKING SHIT ABOUT MY DAD!" Inuyasha broke the Tetsusaiga's contact with the Toukijen and unleashed the kaze no kizu at Erisai. It slammed into his barrier, but died down into a gust of wind.
"Please, that boring breeze can't do anything to my barrier, you should know that, after all, Inutaisho did use it several times in hopes that it would break my barrier, but it didn't. Can't you try anything better? Ooh, since when did inu-hanyous gain inuyoukai marking?"
"Shut up! I'm special! Now, how 'bout this?" Inuyasha punched Sesshoumaru out of his way and squeezed the hilt of the Tetsusaiga, turning its blade red and slammed it into the barrier with all its might. The barrier faultered for a second, but Inuyasha only managed to make a tiny hole in it, and it wasn't big enough to let his youkai ball into it. Nonetheless, it surprised and annoyed Erisai. "DAMN!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Since when did the Tetsusaiga become a barrier shattering sword?"
"KEH! Got a problem?"
"Actually, no. That Kekkaigiri is not strong enough to break my barrier."
"Stay out of my fight, Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said coldly, "KENATU!"
"Don't even think about it, Sesshoumaru!" Sakura shouted, using her poison light whip to slice the sword attack into two. "If you want to get Inuyasha out of your way, you're going to have to fight with me!"
"Very well, I shall dispose of you first, since you are putting yourself in my way. KENATU!" Sesshoumaru swung the Toukijen so that a blast of white shot out from his sword and slammed into the ground plowing everything up. Sakura smirked.
"Humph. Is that all you can do with that stupid Toukijen?" In a flash, she jumped up in the air. As she was coming down, the impact of the wind pushed her sleeves past so that two bright bracelets shone under the sword attack. They glowed white before morphing into balls of white light on her wrists and shape shifted so that they connected together to form a long staff with a huge blade twice the size of Jaken. The light glowed and dimmed to show a silver staff in Sakura's hand. At the base of the blade at the top of the staff a red brush-like cord swayed in the wind. Slowly and surely, the winds began to gather around the blade of the staff. Sakura swung the Surra Staff once, sending a blast of bubbling electricity of pink and white, shouting: "WIND ARCH-WAVE!" Sesshoumaru jumped up in the air sending another one of his sword attacks at Sakura. But he was not fast enough to dodge the aftershock the wind arch-wave caused and he was thrown backwards into the ground. Sakura simply sliced the sword blast neatly into two with the Surra Staff.
"I will kill you once and for all Sakura." Sesshoumaru growled getting up from his spot. His clothes were torn and he was bruised, but had no serious injuries. "I see that the Surra Staff has become more powerful, but I will not let you beat me." Sesshoumaru charged at Sakura with his sword ready. When he got to her, he slammed the blade of the Toukijen against the blade of the Surra Staff.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was trying to find ways to shatter the barrier using the Kekkaigiri, but his attempts seemed futile. Erisai sat on a rock hand watched with his chin in his palm. "WHY." Clang! "WON'T." Clang! "THIS." Clang! "STUPID." Clang! "THING." Clang! "BREAK?" Clang! Clang!
"My barrier cannot break because your father's ridiculous sword cannot do anything to it even if it has become more powerful than before. Amusing how the Tetsusaiga can shatter barriers. I must admit that your little Kekkaigiri is quite a powerful one, although it is not powerful enough to shatter my barrier, and nor is it as powerful as my own Kekkaigiri. Pity."
"Come out of your damn barrier and fight me like a man, you coward! GET OFF ME, SESSHOUMARU!" Inuyasha snapped swinging the Tetsusaiga at the Toukijen as it made an attempt to slice through his stomach. "That stupid Toukijen shit can't do crap!"
"Actually, dear brother, it can. It does possess a tiny bit of the Tetsusaiga."
"YOU BASTARD!"
"Inuyasha! Deal with Erisai and leave Sesshoumaru to me!"
"Shut up! I'll kill both of them!"
"INUYASHA!" Kagome shouted from the sidelines, "LISTEN TO SAKURA! YOU CAN KILL SESSHOUMARU ANOTHER DAY!"
"Aww… what a happy family, the human girl giving Inuyasha, the spawn of Inutaisho, advice and Sakura loves Sesshoumaru enough to want to fight him and kill him herself…"
"SHUT UP!" Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Sakura shouted at the same time. Sakura slammed the Surra Staff into the blade of the Toukijen, nearly flipping it out of Sesshoumaru's grasp.
"How dare you nearly disarm this Sesshoumaru? DIE!" Sesshoumaru swung the Toukijen at Sakura.
"And Sesshoumaru cares enough for Sakura to fight her with all the strength he's got," Erisai smirked, "Well, it's time to get rid of the whelp." With one wave of the Shinti, Erisai dispersed his barrier and another swing sent a blast of black and green energy that slammed into Inuyasha, killing him. "Was that all? Oh too bad, after all, he was the son of Inutaisho."
"INUYASHA!" Sakura and Kagome cried out at the same time. Sakura untransformed the Surra staff and barely managed to dodge Sesshoumaru's Toukijen, which gave her a small cut on her cheek. A thin line of blood trickled down her cheek as she released her poison light whip, transforming it into the miko light whip. She sliced at Sesshoumaru and missed cutting only his yellow and blue sash around his waist. The Tenseiga and the scabbard of the Toukijen went flying away from him. In the meantime, Kagome ran to Inuyasha's lifeless body. Myoga had climbed out of Inuyasha's collar sobbing and trying to pull away from him, but he was stuck on Inuyasha and wailed over his body.
"Where are you aiming? Tut, tut, looks like you've gotten worse at fighting."
Ignoring Sesshoumaru, Sakura jumped up towards the Tenseiga, that had now started to fall, shouting: "Kegawa no Riyou!" Her pelt lifted and stretched past Sesshoumaru knocking the now wildly pulsating Tenseiga towards her as she jumped towards it. It was right above Sesshoumaru's head when she caught it. For a second, Sesshoumaru thought she was going to punch him, but instead, right when Sakura got to the wide-eyed Sesshoumaru, she jumped up in the air and caught the Tenseiga. Then Sesshoumaru understood. She was trying to use the Tenseiga to bring Inuyasha back to life! As she returned to safe ground, holding the Tenseiga, a flash of red beamed from around her hands.
"Not a chance!" Sesshoumaru shouted sticking the Toukijen into the ground to release his poison light whip. Sakura barely dodged it, but it grazed through her back slicing through her many layers of clothes and biting into her skin. Blood spurt out from her back as the whip made its contact with her skin, but she did not release her grasp of the Tenseiga, so Sesshoumaru only had a matter of time. He savagely slammed his whip at Sakura who blocked all of his moves with the Tenseiga and it's scabbard. When the whip came in contact with the scabbard, a crackle of blue energy repelled the whip sending it back to him. Sesshoumaru gritted his teeth as he kept on attacking Sakura with his whip. The whip managed to cut through her clothes and give her some serious cuts, but she still held onto the Tenseiga.
Finally, he managed to disarm her, using his pelt. The pelt knocked Sakura backwards and into the ground. "Was that all you could do Sakura? You are nothing without the Surra Staff." He calmly turned away from her and walked coolly back to the Toukijen, which lay lodged in the ground, forgotten for a moment. He pulled the Toukijen out of the ground and used his pelt to tie the Tenseiga and the scabbard of the Toukijen around his waist. He had to get another sash after Sakura demolished it into ribbons. Holding the Toukijen, Sesshoumaru turned to face an amused Erisai.
"Hmm… amusing, very amusing. I am amazed that you managed to knock the great Sakura off her feet."
"She was nothing."
"She was nothing? Sakura?" Erisai asked in a mockingly surprised way, "Do you not know what she is?"
"That hanyou is nothing, and whatever she is, does not concern me. What does concern me is you."
"Sakura, Sakura, Sakura… she holds, or held, part of the blood of the gods. Did you not know that? It's a pity she died before she could figure out her true powers."
"I'm not dead yet." Sakura emerged from the woods she was sent into supporting herself with… Tenseiga? Sesshoumaru looked down at his waist to see that the Tenseiga was indeed tied securely to him with his pelt. So how had the Tenseiga gotten into Sakura's hands. As if she could read his mind, Sakura smirked and said with difficulties, "FEH! Did you not forget that the Surra can replicate the powers of other weapons even if I only touch them?" Sakura coughed and spat out some blood from her mouth, "Too bad I have to touch them with both hands, that was why I didn't fight you."
"So she still lives, of course I wasn't expecting you to die so easily." Erisai said coolly from his spot. He had recreated the barrier and looked rather bored again.
"The Tenseiga cannot save that damned half-breed. It has stopped pulsating, which means the spirits of the underworld had already taken his soul."
"FEH!" Sakura coughed up another spurt of blood that ran down her front. "So you still cannot see the true power of the Tenseiga." She squeezed the hilt of the Tenseiga and it immediately transformed into the huge fang of Inutaisho. "Let me show you, exactly what the Tenseiga can do!" Feeling satisfied from the look of shock she received from Sesshoumaru, Sakura lifted the Tenseiga so that the huge fang pointed up to the sky. She closed her eyes as a giant whirlwind spun around her, the Tenseiga then started to glow pink and began to pulsate. As it did, Sakura spoke, "The Tenseiga is a special sword, it is very powerful and you have obviously underestimated its abilities. It is the twin sword of the Tetsusaiga, which means that it too, like the Tetsusaiga, can transform into Inutaisho-sama's fang." Sakura swung the Tenseiga and a huge blast of pink light shot out from its end heading towards Inuyasha and a sobbing Kagome. The light sliced through Inuyasha's body, separating him from Kagome. Inuyasha's body lifted in the air and the slices of pink light moved from him and slammed into the ground creating a huge crater with a crackle of pink thunder. Then it was gone.
Inuyasha's body landed back on the ground in the crater. At first nothing happened except the Tenseiga in Sakura's hand de-transformed into smoke and it's usual thin blade and then back into the Surra. Then she sound of Inuyasha's heart beating was heard. Sakura collaped into the ground, using the Tenseiga to support her weight.
"I'm not dead yet, Erisai…" a red-sleeved clawed hand appeared from the edge of the crater and Inuyasha's head popped up, his dog ears wiggling the dirt and the stones off his head. "I won't die easy, and you'll regret that you ever used your stupid leaf-shit on me!" Erisai and Sesshoumaru both put on looks of complete astonishment.
"How…" Erisai started.
"First," Inuyasha growled, "I will rip my stupid brother away from any chances of getting the Kekkaigiri attack and then second, I'll get the ultimate attack of the Kekkaigiri, and lastly, I'll rip your scaly hide from limb to limb!" As fast as the look of shock came from Sesshoumaru, it flickered back to a look of distain.
"Inuyasha, do you honestly think that a mere halfling like you could do any harm to me?"
"KEH! Half is all I need to rip your scaly hide!"
"You fail to use your head at all times…" Sesshoumaru swung the Toukijen to block Inuyasha's attack.
"SESSHOUMARU!" Kagome shouted from her spot, "DIE!" She was holding her bow with a newly formed arrow notched ready to slice him to bits. She released her arrow and it glowed. Sesshoumaru calmly caught it between his two fingers and let it melt away. Kagome looked horrified.
"You and your arrows, when are you going to stop interfering?"
"NEVER!" Kagome shouted, forming another arrow with her miko powers. She notched the arrow and this time it glowed pink all over, even her body began to glow. She released another one of her purity arrows. This time Sesshoumaru knew that he could not simply catch it, so he released his sword attack again. The white ball of energy slammed into the pink arrow that seemed to be being pushed back, but it glowed more brightly and slowly edged it's way towards Sesshoumaru and hit him directly in the chest. He flew backwards and slammed into Erisai's barrier, which crackled beneath his back and rejected him causing him to fly forward and land prostrate in the ground. Kagome lowered bow with a look of satisfaction on her face. "Finally." She muttered.
But Sesshoumaru was not dead. He simply would not die! His body was scorched and he had millions of deep cuts all around him and most of his clothes were torn except his pants, which was only torn to his knees. The pelt was mangled and destroyed. His eyes glowed red, which meant that he had nearly died and would have transformed back to his true form, but he didn't and the glow slowly faded leaving behind dull blank golden orbs. "You can't kill me, foolish ningen, EVER." He reached down to his hip and squeezed the hilt of the Tenseiga, which began to pulsate wildly in his grasp. The pupil and the shimmer in his eyes returned and the cuts and scorch marks vanished from his face and body. His clothes magically mended on their own until he was the usual clean and well-groomed Sesshoumaru. Even the yellow sash had been repaired and was around his waist as usual. His pelt, which was around his waist in place of the sash had returned to it's usual spot on his left shoulder. He was now holding onto the Toukijen, which had started to glow dangerously red. "Stop interfering and DIE!" He swung the Toukijen sending a wave of red at Kagome.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha shouted after he had just released the backlash wave. "LOOK OUT!" He made a dash for her, but knew it was too late.
"Like you, I don't die easy either!" Kagome shouted back as she had just notched another bow. She released the arrow and it simply sliced through the red aura, dispersing it completely in a shower of pink sparkles. The arrow may have missed Sesshoumaru by a mile, but the pink aura around it grazed his cheek and landed in the ground.
"Miko, your powers have increased. But you cannot escape this!" Sesshoumaru swung the Toukijen for the umpteenth time and a blast of his bullet-like energy made its way towards Kagome.
"Humph! Anyone can escape that puny thing!" Sakura jumped in front of Kagome and released her miko light whip. Like Kagome's arrow it dispersed the bullet-like energy. Sakura's clothing may had been ragged, but her skin looked as if it had been untouched. The sleeves of her shirt were torn and her dress was dirtied. The miko light whip disappeared in her hand with a pink glow and she transformed the Surra bracelets into the Tenseiga and squeezed the hilt. Her clothes, like Sesshoumaru's magically repaired itself, leaving her unscathed. "Inuyasha, take care of Erisai while I take care of Sesshoumaru." The Tenseiga in Sakura's hand glowed white and transformed into her usual Surra Staff. "Kagome, help Inuyahsa."
"Okay."
"NO! KAGOME STAY BACK! I'LL KILL THIS SCUMBAG ALONG WITH SESSHOUMARU ALL AT ONCE!"
"JUST DO IT!"
Grumbling, Inuyasha turned to Erisai. "Alright, wussy, bite me!"
"Very well, after all, you are so easy to kill."
"KEH!" Do you know how many people told me that and really got it? MILLIONS! Erisai humphed and dispersed his barrier. He lifted his staff and slammed it into the ground. A wave of blue shot out from the staff, rippling across the ground. Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and jumped up in the air holding onto her before landing neatly on the ground. Sesshoumaru and Sakura were too busy fighting in midair to be affected with the blast. "Is that all you can do?"
"INUYASHA! TO GET THE ULTIMATE KEKKAIGIRI YOU HAVE TO USE THE KEKKAIGIRI ON ERISAI'S STAFF! THAT'S WHERE HIS BARRIER IS FORMED!" Sakura said as she swatted the Toukijen away. She grit her teeth and angrily sliced the blade into two. Sesshoumaru didn't seem surprised.
He just humphed and called out lazily, "Toukijen, regnerate." The blade, which landed in the ground, zipped back and reconnected in a glow of red.
"Alright, scummy horse! You're gonna get it!"
"Summy horse, eh? It's too bad you're too much like Inutaisho."
"SO?"
"So, if you were more like Izayoi, then maybe I would have spared your life and even given you the ultimate Kekkaigiri."
"KEH! I don't need it from you! All I have to do is slice your ass into two and destroy that stupid thing with my Kekkaigiri!" So Inuyasha charged towards Myoga who was screaming his head off, his large bulbous eyes wobbling with tears.
"Inuyasha-sama! Please release me! You cannot defeat him!"
"SHUT UP AND RUN ALL YOU WANT, BECAUSE I NOW KNOW HOW TO GET THE ULTIMATE KEKKAIGIRI FOR THE TETSUSAIGA, AND THAT CAN BE USED TO SMASH OPEN NARAKU'S ANNOYING BARRIERS!" Inuyasha released one hand from the Tetsusaiga and grabbed Myoga who had been grabbing uselessly onto his shirt to pull him back. He tore Myoga off the prayer beads around his neck and threw him away snapping: "Run all you want, but I'm getting the the Kekkaigiri!"
"INNNUUUUUUUUUUUYASSSSHAAAAAAA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! NOOOOOOOOOO!" Myoga wailed as he floated uselessly away from Inuyasha.
The blade of the Tetsusaiga changed to red once more. Erisai snorted and sent a blast of Leaf Blades at Inuyasha who dodged them easily, now moving at full speed towards Erisai. Erisai had realized that he had to put up his barrier or else Inuyasha would destroy the Shinti. But he underestimated Inuyasha's speed, thinking that he would only be able to move as fast as a hanyou can get. His eyes widened in shock as Inuyasha dashed in a blur towards him, the Tetsusaiga raised high in the air.
"INUYASHA! IT IS I, SESSHOUMARU, WHO SHALL HAVE THAT!" Sesshoumaru called lazily, but with a hint of panic in his voice. He broke contact with the Surra Staff and swung the Toukijen so that he released the sword attack for what was now the millionth time.
"DIE YOU STUPID STAFF!" Inuyasha shouted not noticing the sword attack coming at him from behind.
"SESSHOUMARU! DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR WEAKNESS IS?" Kagome shouted from the ground, Sesshoumaru ignored her. If he was lucky, then the sword attack would kill Inuyasha and the Shinti at the same time giving him the ultimate Kekkaigiri attack. He didn't see the pink glow of miko energy forming into an arrow from Kagome. "YOUR WEAKNESS IS THAT YOU UNDERESTIMATE PEOPLE!" Kagome screamed the last word before releasing the arrow. Disgustingly enough for Sesshoumaru, Kagome's arrow demolished the sword attack again!
"I'll get you again…"
"HA, HA!" Sesshoumaru was interrupted by Inuyasha's triumphant laugh as he swung the Tetsusaiga down on Erisai's arm holding the Shinti, slicing it off. The Shinti flew up in the air rotating slowly and Inuyasha yelled: "KEKKAIGIRI!" The Tetsusaiga started to suck the barrier energy out of the staff, and he severed the Shinti staff neatly into two. A burst of bright light flashed out from it forming a white explosive wave that shimmered in the sky. Smirking, Inuyasha landed on the ground. Erisai looked devastated and shocked. Inuyasha KEH-ed still in the position he was in when he sliced the Shinti into two. The blade of the Tetsusaiga was bathed in the explosive white wave, and began to absorb it until it was gone. When it was gone, the blade was normal. "Now, as for you…"
"I can always make another barrier!" Erisai shouted as his arm regenerated. He swung his arms and his annoying barrier was formed.
"So what?" Inuyasha snapped. The Tetsusaiga began to pulsate and glow. It grew longer and thicker and the blade started to glow red. Slowly a red miasma formed around the Tetsusaiga, "THE ULTIMATE KEKKAIGIRI!" Inuyasha shouted happily. He ran at Erisai who was his barrier.
"EAT THIS, BARRIER!" He shouted. Myoga, Kagome, and Sakura sweat-dropped and Sesshoumaru, who was sailing through the air to slice Sakura fell out and landed on the floor. Unlike Inuyasha, he landed on his feet, a brief look of laughter flickered across his face before it vanished. Inuyasha swiped the barrier with the Tetsusaiga, and much to his glee, the barrier shattered in a shower of blue sparkles. "HAHA! AND NOW… TO FINISH A COCKY BASTARD LIKE YOU OFF…" Immediately, the ultimate barrier-shattering blade changed back to the normal fang and swirls of winds formed around the blade. "KAZE NO KIZU, BASTARD!" He slammed the Tetsusaiga into the ground and sent blasts of the wind scar at Erisai, which tore him to shreds, leaving nothing but dust in the air. Inuyasha landed gracefully on the ground, still in the position before.
"Inuyasha! You did great!" Kagome shouted as she rushed at him. She ran into his arms and hugged him. Sakura swung the Surra Staff and disarmed Sesshoumaru immediately before joining them.
"Nah. If it weren't for you, Kagome, and Sakura then I wouldn't have made it."
"I'm so proud of you!" Kagome sobbed.
"Inuyasha, wonderful job… JUST STOP SWINGING YOUR DAMNED TOUKIJEN!" Sakura shouted angrily swinging the Surra Staff, which hadn't de-transformed yet, at Sesshoumaru who tried to slice her into two. "Just stop it for once in your life." She said regaining her composure as she grabbed the blade of the Toukijen and snapped it off for the umpteenth time. "Kagome, go back with Inuyasha." Kagome nodded and forced Inuyasha (who was struggling to swipe at Sesshomaru with the Tetsusaiga) to uncork his vial and swallow the potion.
"Inuyasha, say Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Inuyasha shook his head from side to side wildly. "SAY IT OR ELSE!"
"OKAY! HOGWARDS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY!" Inuyasha slowly started to fade, "I hate the place…" was the last thing he said before he was completely gone. Kagome did the same and vanished.
"I'm sick and tired of you." Sakura said, glaring at Sesshoumaru. She uncorked the vial and swallowed it shouting very clearly, "HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY!" Sesshoumaru lashed out at her to at least slice her arm off but she had already become transluscent and vanished.
Humphing to himself, Sesshoumaru thought, So what if you left me here, I came here the same way you did. Not hesitating for a second, Sesshomaru called, "Toukijen, regenerate!" The blade rushed at the remains of the Toukijen in his hands and it was as normal as it always was. He put the Toukijen back into its scabbard and uncorked the vial in his only hand single handedly. He downed it in one gulp and called out coolly, "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." As he faded away he remembered how he had sliced the Umbridge imp's arm off and the Village healer had taken her away to give her a new arm… so maybe he would be able to get his other arm back. It wasn't that he needed it, but life was uncomfortable without it.
Sesshoumaru found himself not sitting in the lawn of Hogwarts, but in the healing area. He coolly surveyed the area until his eyes came upon the terrified healer herself. "Miko," He said coolly, "I have heard that you can regenerate arms." The shivering woman before him nodded hastily. "Then give me my arm." He nodded towards his left arm.
"B-b-but… because you're d-d-demon, it might n-not work."
"Try anyway." He said coldly. The woman nodded and nearly led him to a seat, then she remembered what he did to a girl that had touched him (she had to regenerate her arm) and gestured towards the seat instead. Sesshoumaru sat on the chair while the woman bustled around in her storage room. She emerged with a liquid and told him that he had to drink it and stay in the infirmary for the night. Ignoring the slightly shivering woman, Sesshoumaru reached over with a clawed hand and drank the liquid in one gulp. Because he was a demon, his tongue was more sensitive, thus what was supposed to taste bad tasted like poison. "If I find this is poison, I shall kill you." He stated blandly.
"Don't worry, it isn't. You'll have to drink this so you can sleep. The regrowth of the arm is very painful, so you should sleep through it." Sesshoumaru glared at the woman suspiciously as she recoiled, "Don't worry, no one is here to harm you, of course, unless you can live through an extremely painful process… something in which even demons cannot stand as far as my studies—" Madam Pomfrey as cut off when Sesshoumaru snatched the glass bottle out of her hands and drank the whole bottle before carelessly dropping it on the floor. The glass shattered across the floor and lay there broken. "That… very good. Now please pick a bedding to sleep in… and you'll have to wear…"
"I will not wear what you ningens wear." Sesshoumaru cut her off. He left, searching for the best bedding. Obviously, if he were human, drinking the whole bottle of the potion would have made him drop off to sleep even before finishing it. At first everything seemed fine for him, and he still hadn't found a suitable spot when he started to feel drowsy. At the same moment, he saw the human who purposefully put grease in his hair in what he found was the best spot: secluded and far form all noise and interruption. Just for him. Summoning the last of his strength left to fight the drowsiness that had now started to come upon him like a ton of what should have been lead (provided that he was youkai so bricks were nothing), he grabbed the thing by it's collar and tossed it behind him with a drowsy, "That's mine now."
The kid landed with a thud in the back and Sesshoumaru kicked his boots off and slid under the covers, armor, pelt, sword, sash and all. Overall, it seemed as if he was going to have a terrible sleep with all those things. But he didn't think about those things and drifted straight to sleep the moment his head hit the pillow.
"Your clothes are here, we do not want you to be running into the two feuding brothers wearing that ridiculous clothes of yours. I trust you understand how to wear those, or must I have Hakudoushi assist you?" Voldermort stared down at the neatly folding clothes stacked on top of one another. There was a white haori, pants, boots, armor, a red and blue sash and a pelt formed like a cape. At the top of the stack was a long blue cord with a bushy end. Voldermort stared at the items in front of him, his now amber eyes flickering in confusion. "I trust you do not know. Hakudoushi." Almost in a Naraku-like manner, the lavender-haired demon entered the room. "Assist Voldermort with his clothes." He bowed to Naraku once and lifted the garmets on the floor and backed out of the room with Voldermort in front of him. Once the two were out of sight, Naraku smirked. The only thing was that Voldermort needed to learn several things before everything was set. They also needed to come up with a very good lie, such as how "Inutaisho" managed to come back to life. Now that was going to prove to be very hard.
Voldermort stood before the now haughty Hakudoushi who had set each items apart from the other. He stood arrogantly in front of him before speaking quite loftily, "You should know how to put the boots on. This is a haori, and of course you know this is the pants." As Hakudoushi spoke, his eyes gestured towards the white shirt and pants before them. He gave Voldermort instructions on how to put them on and handed him the armor, and then the sash, which was supposed to look like Sesshoumaru's own yellow and blue sash. Next, he gave Voldermort the boots to wear and the pelt went on last. It was fastened to his back and flowed to the ground. As for his hair, he had him tie it up in the ponytail in the way the real Inutaisho usually had it in. He then raised a mirror to show him what he looked like and he was astounded. Never had he even dreamed to have such a handsome, young figure, heck, he only dreamed about a proper body with its proper magical powers!
Now everything was a dream come true. Not only did he get a handsome figure, but it was strong and full of energy, just what he wanted. With this new figure he would be able to smash Dumbledore to bits, hopefully this new demonic body mayv repell the spells and hexes thrown at him. The only person he had to worry about was Kagome, since Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru would immediately fall into their trap, although he smelled very faintly of Voldermort, but not even Sesshoumaru was able to detect the slight change in scent. As for the Sakura woman, who was once his faithful "right arm", they weren't too sure about her, but her being only four-fifths demon may have been good enough for her to be fooled. After all, if Sesshoumaru a full dog demon was unable to detect the slight differences, then obviously the woman would be unable to detect the difference. But Naraku was unsure of her, and reminded him that they may have known Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, and their little friends by the back of their hands, this Sakura woman was a mystery that must be solved immediately. "After you have dressed, Naraku-sama wishes for you to test this Sakura woman." Without further comments, Kanna silently left the room. Before she left she stopped and told him without turning around, "That is a direct order. You will not disobey Naraku-sama."
"Naraku!" An angry Kagura stormed into the room, "Why haven't you asked me to check up on Voldermort? You know very well that I am more experienced in clothing than Hakudoushi!" Naraku glared up at Kagura and she realized the awful truth, he was suspicious of her, and was afraid that she would sneak out again and feed both Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru the news. It was also likely that she was not going to follow Voldermort and his minions as well… and if she was, then Naraku would send his hell bees with her or his puppet. He was no longer sure if even Hakudoushi and Mouryumaru were safe under Kagura's eyes since Kanna died under her supervision. But really, Kanna's death was her own fault. If Kanna hadn't been so confident with her mirror, then Sakura (was that her name?) wouldn't have sliced her in half and she may have dodged her attack. Oh well, the creepy bitch was gone now, so Kagura had one less Naraku-mini-me to worry about. And, if Naraku was suspicious of her, then he would have been right. If Kagura had gone with Voldermort, she would have tricked him into getting her her heart and would have inflicted him with a very serious wound. Then she was planning to run off to Inuyasha to feed him the news. Damn Naraku! He was just too clever.
Kagura sighed to herself and went off to her room to daydream about freedom. As she lay around feeling sorry for herself because Sesshoumaru was not good enough to kill Naraku, she thought about how unwilling Inuyasha would be. Kouga was too weak, and although Kagome had immense priestess powers and was also very kind-hearted, Kagura would have to get past Inuyasha first. Miroku's Kazanna would have been good enough if Naraku wasn't the one who gave it to him, and Sango was too weak-hearted when it came to her family members. All Naraku had to do was flash Kohaku at her and she would freeze immediately. Kirara was too weak, since Naraku's body was made of not only all those demons but of poisonous miasma as well. Thus, one bite and Kirara may be killed. Kagura sighed again walked out onto the front of Naraku's castle.
If Naraku wasn't so creepy then she would have been staring up at the starry night sky, but he was and so all she saw were black angry clouds with thunder crackling out of the sky occasionally. Kagura sat on the steps and looked up at the sky. The lightening smashed through the sky glowing so brightly it almost appeared pink. Suddenly, Kagura saw a white sleeve with red trimmings on it and the lightening shape-shifted into the long pink light whip of the new face. Kagura suddenly sat up straight. YES! If that woman was able to slice through Kanna's mirror and kill her with a simple light whip without it reflecting back at her, then she might have been able to kill Naraku. On top of that, she was able to create powerful barriers and her sword of the winds was more powerful than her own fan! I will follow Voldermort to Inuyasha when he's ready and observe her more. If she is as powerful as she looks, then she might be the one. Kagura clenched her fist in determination. I'll do anything to be free and to set Kohaku free.
"Kagura, what are you thinking about?" Kagura turned around to see a boy around eleven emerge from the castle. He was wearing a periwrinkle top with simple Persian blue patterns on it. He had white wrappings around his wrists and his ankles and his hair was put up in a short ponytail so that a small mane formed behind his head. Around his waist was a sash and tucked in it on his back was a sickle with a long chain attached to it.
"Nothing, Kohaku, just trying to get some fresh air." Kohaku joined Kagura at the deck sitting in Indian-style. Kohaku was the only one of Naraku's little gang or family that Kagura actually liked to be with. She would do anything she could in her power to protect him, mostly because she understood that like her, he was not completely free and within any minute Naraku could control him. Kohaku looked up at the dark sky that was supposed to be dotted with stars, but wasn't. It gave Kagura a feeling of being trapped in a tiny box. Personally she did not enjoy Naraku's barrier either, it was uncomfortable and disturbing. "Kohaku… do you not remember anything?" Kohaku shook his head. Kagura wondered if she could tell him who he was. After all, Kohaku was Naraku's first "family" member and was there long before even Kanna came. Thus, Kagura held his memories. Perhaps if she gave his memories back, then maybe they could find a way to escape together. Kagura was more than willing to look after Kohaku when he didn't want to go back.
She didn't blame him, if she had been controlled by Naraku and killed her whole family that she loved, then she wouldn't have wanted to remember anything. For a second, Kagura considered telling Kohaku who he was, then she remembered that it was better if she didn't tell him, especially if he didn't want to remember. That was the main reason, the second reason was that if she messed up here and told Kohaku, she was certain that Naraku would put her back into his body. Besides, Kohaku would be able to recall his memories once he was ready to accept the truth. So, in short, Kagura stayed silent. The two of them looked almost like brother and sister, sitting together staring up at the sky as lightening continued to flash in the sky. In some ways Kagura was like an adoptive or temporary sister to Kohaku and she certainly didn't mind it.
Kagome sat alone in her room staring up at the thin sliver of the moon. They had just returned from their little trip back to their own time and land, so it wasn't yet a proper crescent moon or even a waxing moon. The events were whirling around her head, she wondered what it was that made her come into such a strange position. First, the bone eaters well took her to the past, and now, something strange had happened. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were yet to fight each other and something engulfed them and here they were. Sure, they were back five hundred years into the future, but it felt as if they were in a different world. People walked about with sticks that could do magic tricks, strange herb or drinking medicine that could do all sorts of things, and now this weird man that resembled somewhat of a snake. If Kagome did not have her priestess powers then she would have mistakened him as just another snake demon.
She looked up at the moon and realized that it was like the very night she had first met Inuyasha. The stars were sprinkled across the midnight sky and the moon, barely visible, yet large, so large that it nearly kissed the ground. Kagome had never seen such a beautiful night. The last time she saw it was during the new moon, which was ages ago in the feudal era. The last time they went back to fight Erisai, she barely noticed it because she was worried about Inuyasha and them being attacked when they were in their weakened state. She was also preoccupied with Sakura, whose eye color had changed to midnight blue, and lost her claws and fangs. Her hair, which was tinted blue, changed completely to black, and even her bone-structure shifted, so that she had a softer look. All in all, Sakura didn't look very different from when she had her demonic energy.
Tearing her gaze from the beautiful night sky, Kagome let her eyes sweep down across the Hogwarts landscape taking in the lake where she swore she saw something move in it. The starlights gave the garden or the yard this romantic look, where there were many shadows and lights. Kagome's eyes shifted towards the forest where Dumbledore had told her never to go to. It was dark for a second and then she saw a flash of yellow light before some trees fell quickly. Hmm… maybe he was right… I wonder if Inuyasha's okay. Then she remembered when they first came, Inuyasha refused to sleep in a "cave" and ran off into the forest. The forest was called the Forbidden Forest and she was told that many strange and menacing creatures lived in it. Inuyasha, as usual, KEH-ed and immediately made it his permanent home. The next day, many people were astounded to see that he popped out unscathed… or at least the other teachers. The students had no idea about this.
Suddenly a pair of golden eyes popped right into her face. Kagome let out a yell and fell over on her back. She heard the familiar laughter, mocking her for her clumsiness. Inuyasha jumped off the window ledge in front of her, grinning happily. Kagome glared back at him. "Inuyasha! You scared me!"
"So? You should learn to be more alert then!"
"Well, I'm different from a ridgid stick like you!"
"WHAT? Well if I'm a stick then you're a wretch!"
"Would you quit calling me that?"
"KEH! And what if I won't do that?"
"Then, I'll say the word."
"You wouldn't!"
"I'd like to see you try and provoke me." Kagome said closing her eye in annoyance. Her left eyebrow twitched slightly from annoyance. Inuyasha seemed to have decided against provoking her, so she continued. "So, um… why did you come here?"
"Just… because someone started throwing rocks at me while I was in the tree. Oh and this half horse half human popped out and tried to pin me down with their arrows, so I gave them a piece of my own mind." Kagome flinched and suddenly realized what the flash of light was. "I used the kaze no kizu on them, so they'll never bother me again! You know how many of those strange things I killed? A hundred! Aren't you proud of me?" Kagome looked dryly at Inuyasha who had begun to laugh maniacally. He continued to laugh like that for a moment before he stopped and gave her a pleading, puppy-dog look.
"Inuyasha… those things were probably trying to protect their own lands. And don't think that your puppy dog look would work on me because it won't."
"Well, at least none of those weirdos bother me. They run away from me!"
"I wouldn't be surprised." Kagome said dryly.
"WHAT? ARE YOU SAYING THAT I'M UGLY! WHY YOU… I'LL…"
"SIT!"
Inuyasha, who had tried to tackle her, was in midair when she said "the word" and plummeted face-flat into the ground with a loud thud. He tore his face out of the ground and glared at her looking much like a cute little puppy. This, Kagome simply could not resist and reached over and petted his head. Inuyasha growled under her hand, and growled louder when she petted his ears. They twitched and flicked trying their best to get her hands off them, but that proved useless. Kagome released his ears and stood back. Once her subduing spell had worn out, Inuyasha leapt to his feet yelling at her incoherently for a second before shouting: "KEH" and jumping up on the windowsill to jump out. He turned around and glared at her before jumping out the window, his ears drooped. Kagome giggled for a second as she watched her lover land quite gracefully on the ground, which was thirty feet below. He landed on all fours and scratched his ears with his hind leg before leaping off towards the Forbidden Forest.
She knew she could not stay angry with him for long, he always found a way to make her forgive him no matter how wrong he was. Sighing contently to herself, Kagome looked back up at the sky and smiled dreamily as the stars in the sky seemed to rearrange themselves so that they formed Inuyasha's shape. "Inuyasha…" She whispered to herself as she lowered her head into her arms. She was lucky that her bed was against the wall with the window, because the moment she said Inuyasha, she fell asleep.
The winds shifted directions slightly as someone clad in red landed on the windowsill. He nearly fell off, provided that Kagome's arms where on the sill, but managed to regain his composure. Golden eyes stooped down to watch the softly sleeping figure before clawed hands took her gently by the shoulders. Kagome stirred slightly in his touch but didn't awake. Inuyasha let out a sigh of relief, if she woke up, he would have freaked out and fallen out the window on his head. Moving swiftly and silently, Inuyasha placed Kagome's head on the pillow and pulled the covers over her tucking her in. He jumped up on the windowsill and turned to give her one last look before muttering quietly, "Goodnight Kagome," then jumped out the window.