Terrors in the apocalypse
Chapter 8
Inuyasha fell to his knees, holding his stomach.
"INUYASHA!" Miroku yelled, grabbing his shoulders. "INUYASHA WHATS WRONG?"
"Post traumatic stress disorder." Kichi said out of the blue, Sango and Miroku looked over, Inuyasha screaming and yelling as he rolled back and forth on the ground.
"IT HURTS! IT HURTS!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Miroku. Set up a barrier. Sango, fight off the early demons. I'll tend to Inuyasha." KichiYumi kneeled down next to Inuyasha…
Inuyasha looked around, the earth was still on fire, and smoke was still rising… Sesshoumaru was still killing his allies; he could hear their screams. He looked down to his stomach, which had a very large hole in it. Blood was pouring from his wound.
"It hurts! Kagome! Where are you?" he said, voice fading slightly.
"INUYASHA!" kagome ran up to him. "Inuyasha?" she saw the pool of blood he was laying in. and fell next to him, arms around his neck, sobbing loudly. "No… no. Please Inuyasha. Don't. I don't want you to die." She said, seeing his eyes looking into hers.
"I…. I can't hear you…" he whispered. She then mouthed the words "I love you" as he passed from consciousness…
"I have a barrier up." Miroku looked back. "Any luck?"
Kichi looked up. "Good. And he just blacked out. He'll be fine when he wakes up."
Sango sighed, sitting down. "So we're good for now?" she asked.
Miroku nodded. "As long as my barrier holds. Yes. Yes we are." He chuckled.
Kichi looked from Inuyasha, to Sango and Miroku. "I have to go find something." She walked back to the beast she was riding before.
"Hey. Kichi." Miroku held out his hand. She looked back, one hand on the thing's shoulder as she prepared to jump up.
"What is that thing?" he asked. Then watched her smile and close her eyes. Suddenly leaping up and landing gently on its back.
"A chimera. I found it one day." She said with a smile. With that, she gently pulled on the rope she had fashioned into reigns, and led it out of the barrier, where the chimera spread its wings, and lifted off the ground. "I'll be back in a couple hours! Inuyasha should be up by then!" she yelled down to Miroku and Sango.
When she was out of sight, Miroku suddenly started to set up a fire, Sango looked around.
"What's up?" Miroku asked, putting some branches on the fire.
"Nothing… I wanted to change into my normal clothes… but… I forgot… I lost them." she giggled. Miroku smiled.
"Oh yeah… I remember that." He said with a chuckle. Then blinked as Sango hit him in the back of the head.
"Pervert." She mumbled. Then looked over to him as he slowly stood up next to her.
"But… isn't that part of… you know…" he said, shrugging a little.
"Our relation?" she asked. Miroku was a bit closer now.
"Yeah." He said with a small smile.
"Oh… I see…." She said. As they started to kiss.
"GAYH! THE RABITS! OH GOD NO!" Inuyasha suddenly screamed in his sleep, scaring Sango, who, upon instinct, smacked Miroku.
"Oh! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" she said, taking his hand. "Are you ok? It was a reflex! I haven't gotten over the habit!"
He nodded. "Yeah… I'm fine… Lets get to setting up camp for the night." Then kneeled down, pulling out some blankets from his bag.
Sango was a little red in the cheeks, but also got to work of building a cover.
The chimera landed softly next to the barrier and went inside. Kichi looked from the group. Inuyasha was lying where he was before, only he was asleep, several bones were around him from the food. And a blanket rested over him. Sango and Miroku were lying next to each other, fast asleep. They still had their clothes on. And were sleeping in different makeshift beds.
Kichi sighed, jumping off the chimera's back, and pulling out her sleeping bag. As a tall man with gray hair leapt down also.
"So. You'll need me here?" he asked. His eyes were black, except for a small ring of white which indicated his iris would have been there if his eyes were normal. He had sharp claws, and a tail. He was, of course, a full dog demon, like Sesshoumaru.
"Yes. I'll go with them. I'll be fine." Kichi nodded.
"I'm not to sure of that." He noted her one blue eye, the other green.
"I told you before. I'll be fine. Don't worry." She shook her head a little to the side to brush away some white hair from her eyes.
The guy sighed. "Alright…. I'll trust you… I guess…" he said.
"Ok. Then goodnight cloud." She sat down next to the fire.
"What makes you think I'm going to sleep now?" he questioned, following her.
"I don't know…" she said, astonished by her own words.
"So… you come and find me, and then we can't spend time together?" he sat down next to her. "I'm hurt."
She smiled. "Where?"
He pointed to his lips. "There."
Kichi huffed. "That worked before on me you little brat." She said with an angry tone
"5 times. Kichi." Cloud laughed.
"Yes I know the count." She turned and suddenly kissed him deeply on the lips. She then pulled back.
"Ok. Just so we are sure." He laughed a little.
Sango, who was facing away from them, had her eyes open, listening to them talk, and the giggles from kichi.
"But still. When the new moon comes…"
At this, Sango stopped listening. Inuyasha was planning on killing all the demons here. And tomorrow was the night of the new moon…
"Yeah… I know." She said. "But when he leaves… I'll go with them." Kichi sighed sadly. Then looked up at cloud, who had rested his hand on her shoulder.
"Like you said. You'll be fine. I'll be here. I'll be able to defend everyone." He said with a smile.
"Well… also… what if something happens? What if Inuyasha wishes on the shikon no tama at some point? What if he wishes none of this never happened?" kichi asked, voice cracking, and tears forming. "I wouldn't want to live without you."
Cloud sighed. "True… we wouldn't have met…" he said. "Never married…"
"Never had a child." Kichi said without warning, Cloud looked at her.
"What?" he asked.
She rested a hand on her stomach. "I'm pregnant cloud. And hopefully, when this is all over, if Inuyasha wishes his friends that died back to life, and that the world was rebuilt. We'll be fine. You'll have a daughter, and me." She smiled.
"Holy shit…" he said. "Really?"
Sango yawned, and closed her eyes.
"Sango… hey… Sango…" she heard a voice. It was Miroku's. "No…" she waved her hand weakly to try and get rid of him. Then he shook her a little. "No! 5 more minutes…" she mumbled.
"There's hot food Sango. Don't deny it. You know it loves you." Miroku said with a dorky smile on his face.
"Yes. Yes. I know it loves me. Everything loves me… but not now… sleep." She said tiredly.
"Get up Sango!" Inuyasha yelled, jerking her awake and right into Miroku, who fell backwards.
"Ow!" Miroku held his face.
"Sorry…" she said, a bit red in the cheeks. Miroku sat up.
"Its ok…" he handed her some meat. "Here. Eat up. We have a lot of demon killing to do." Miroku nodded with a smile.
Sango sighed, pulling off a small amount of meat, and popping it into her mouth, chewing quickly.
"Everyone. This is cloud." Kichi spoke, they looked over to the tall gray haired man. He wore a torn up shirt with wavy designs of blue and red on it. His pants were torn up at the bottom of the legs. Other than that, he looked all right.
"Hello." He waved slowly.
"Good morning." Sango then coughed, and patted her chest, and sighed. "Went down the wrong way." She explained quickly.
"I'm going to go with you guys when you leave feudal Japan." Kichi told them. "He's going to stay here in my place."
"What about the chimera?" Miroku asked.
"I'll have it." Cloud raised his eyebrows.
"Ok. But first. We're going to kill demons!" Inuyasha said happily, raising his fists and laughing a little.
"Uh… Inuyasha… tonight is the new moon…" Sango raised her hand a little.
"What? It is?" he asked, blinking a couple times.
"Yes. Actually Inuyasha, it is. So it might be best that we leave when night falls." Miroku closed his eyes and sighed.
"Bleh. We have Cloud and… Kichiyumi." Inuyasha huffed.
"This isn't like you Inuyasha. You normally get all weird about the new moon." Sango perked a brow.
"Yeah I know…" he said. "But… its time I do thing differently."
"When did you turn over a new leaf?" Sango smirked. "I know you haven't since…. Oh… when was it?"
Miroku chuckled, "Kagome told him that she likes him?" he started laughing at this, and a little vein started to pulse on Inuyasha's forehead.
Kichi looked confused. She then sighed.
"OK LISTEN! WE WILL GO AT SUNSET! THERE IS A GREATER CHANCE THAT WE WILL FIND WHATEVER IT IS!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Cram it Inuyasha. It's going to come here." Kichi whispered. "The lord of the demons here… he can hear you."
Cloud put his arms around her. "Its ok…"
"What do you mean?" Miroku stood up, wincing a little "damn you wound… heal." He mumbled.
Kichi took a step forward, and pulled off the sleeves of her shirt to show deep wound scars. Like claws made them. "He… had attacked me. He even… tried to… rape me..."
Sango twitched at that.
"He had grabbed my arms. That was when cloud appeared and… he rescued me."
Inuyasha scoffed. "What's this lord of demons look like?" He seemed unaffected by kichi's story.
"I can't remember… but his name was Kenaomaru." She sighed, looking down as cloud then embraced her in his arms.
"Kenaomaru? Where does he live?" Miroku looked around.
"He lives to the west. You'll see it after about a couple hours." Cloud answered.
"Good… then lets rest some more and go and kill him. Sesshoumaru's power will be weaker here when we kill this Kenaomaru." Inuyasha smiled.
Miroku leaned over to Sango. "Is it just me, or is Inuyasha having very weird mood swings?"
Sango nodded, "you noticed it too?" she looked slightly at Miroku "stop that."
"Stop what?" he asked innocently. Then his staff was implanted into his head. "Ok…." He slowly pulled his hand from Sango's rear.
"So… this, Kenaomaru… he's the king of demons here?" Inuyasha asked.
Cloud nodded "yes. He is."
"Great… I need a challenge…" Inuyasha smiled.
"Well… you now have what you are looking for Inuyasha." A small and creepy voice slowly rose behind Sango and Miroku, who were now frozen in place. The voice then chuckled. "You want a challenge…." It said.
Sango was holding her throat, gasping for air. Miroku had fallen over, knocked over the back of the head.
Before they could react, the weird demon king leapt out from behind the two and landed hard on the fire, putting it out and enveloping them in darkness. All Inuyasha saw was a pair of long legs.
"Inuyasha… be careful." He heard kichi's voice.
"What?" he asked. "You're making just me fight? GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE!" he snarled.
"No Inuyasha. You wanted a challenge… so it's just you and me." The demon chuckled again.
"Well then." Inuyasha drew his Sword, the flash lit up the area briefly. "Lets go."
((End chapter. I didn't really know where to stop… so... I decided to stop there… well… that's it… I guess…))