Blizzard: Crash and Burn

By Archerelf

Like I own Inuyasha. Sure….and I invented chocolate and the flying pig air squad! It can't happen. I want his ears...

Chapter 4: Snowy Complications

Kagome had long since gone back to sleep by the time Inuyasha decided to find some signs of food or life outside of the snowy cave. She was so warm now, but he couldn't get over the feeling that she still thought Kikyo was the most important thing to him. Why would he then, go through the trouble of saving her? Why would he risk his own life daily, if not for her? Why did she let him hug her like that if Kikyo was still important to him? To tell the truth, Kikyo had been complete out of the picture for months now. He never thought of her, only bad memories surfaced. Inuyasha jumped outside of the snowy cave. The snow lay much quieter in great sheets of depth and beauty. The snow was packed down and lay 4 feet easily. The wind had died down but he couldn't shake the feeling there was more to come. Like a bad dream repeating.

A dollop of snow fell off a near branch onto his head. Shaking it off like a dog, Inuyasha's ears twitched. That's what she was to him. Kikyo was just like the snow. Cold, distant, the last thing he ever needed. As he turned around to the tree, one fragile blossom still hung to the tree, desperate for life. That was Kagome. Warm, fragile and a beauty inside and out. A familiar buzzing caught his ear. One of Naraku's insects. It would lead to disaster.

' if he attacked us, we would never be able to repel him. I'm starving and tired and I can't let Kagome get in the way. We need to get out of here. But where do we go? Crap.. The swarms should be coming soon.'

Inuyasha raced off toward the cave. 'Kami, let her be ok….'

To his great relief, the insects had yet to reach the cave. Kagome was still fast asleep. He hated to wake her. It was like waking a sleeping angel, still uncurling her wings and settling down into slumber. But now was not the time for day dreaming as much as he wanted too. Inuyasha knelt beside Kagome and gently shook her shoulder.

"….Kagome…? I'm sorry but we need to go…"

Kagome's eyes fluttered open slowly, as if trying desperately to shake off a deep slumber.

"Smile, Inuyasha… I hate it when you frown." Kagome proceeded to turn over.

Inuyasha sighed. This would be harder than expected.

"Kagome, Naraku is after us. We're in trouble. We need to go…I'm sorry.."

"You aren't going to leave me are you?"

This caught the half demon complete off guard.

"Kagome I could never leave you. Why would you even think that?"

" I don't know…Just don't leave me behind…ok?"

Unsure of how to answer Inuyasha smiled. He'd been doing a lot more of that lately.

"Ok."

The half demon pulled the miko up into a sitting position and with a quick hug he gathered her in his arms. Her caught her intoxicating scent once again. A slight trace of apple…just like home. They quickly gathered up Kagome's backpack and Kagome broke the silence again.

"Are you sure you don't need your pants back?" Kagome blushed in the process of saying this. It seemed more than sufficiently awkward. But again, with his back turned this time Inuyasha declined.

"You'd freeze without them."

'And you'd always be there to warm me up' thought Kagome, smiling while packing. The remaining matches and provisions would be enough for a few days if used sparingly. To run out would be disaster.

As Kagome mounted Inuyasha's back, she gave his ears a quick squeeze. When retelling the tale later, he'd omit this part, and the slight purr she heard escape from his diaphragm.

As they flew off into the world of white, the wispy clouds failed to hide the insects of the enemy. At least 3 were on their trail and more undoubted were on their way back to their master's lair. 'He must be close' the hanyou reasoned. Otherwise they wouldn't risk getting pummeled by another storm. As he barely skimmed the cold icy surface of the ground below, Inuyasha looked up. The sky seemed to be clearing but there was no sunlight to melt the cold. Jumping from overwhelmed tree to snow exhausted tree, the hanyou began to pick up speed.

Everything was white! But to give up would be worse than death. Kagome, fully awake, sensed his tension and slightly loosened her death grip around his neck. Last thing she needed was for her sole protector to faint of oxygen deprivation. After an hour of moving around they finally landed on a branch of a tree that resembled Goshinboku. That tree always brought back memories. The first time he woke up after 50 years, he saw her face. All the times he created a crater nearby while she sat the heck out of him for doing or saying something moronic. But it was his miko that pulled him out of his reverie.

"Inuyasha, what's that?

A dark cloud swirled like black cotton candy against the white wispy clouds. Inuyasha's ears flattened against his head. He sniffed the air. Something didn't smell right. Electricity? No! Naraku's magic!

A sudden bolt of lighting struck their tree only inches away from where Kagome had stood previously on the branch. Inuyasha grabbed her before she had a chance to shriek. Unfortunate the next tree was miles away, so down was their destination. But 4 feet of snow is near impossible to move in. Unfortunately, if you are a magical, demonic evil, half demon like Naraku, you might not have as much as a problem.

"Weak. Just as I thought. Trying to protect the weak and he can't even protect himself. How pathetic." Naraku smirked. Running forth in his baboon pelt he neared the hanyou and miko. Inuyasha found himself in a fighting stance while Kagome stood, shivering, behind him. Tetsusaiga had been drawn and stood, with the same coloration of a icicle, ready to be reddened with the blood of a monster.

"This ends now.. KAZE NO KIZU!" Inuyasha shouted. In the split second his arms were down from the attack, Naraku's demonic smile grew bigger. He opened a portal, as he dodged the Wind Scar, black as the deepest ebony. It acted as a vacuum, engulfing Inuyasha and Kagome. In the portal they could only see each other but they heard his every word bouncing off every speck of darkness. Inuyasha and Kagome were attached to each other only by their hands.

"Kagome! Don't let go!"

"Inuyasha! Its pulling me harder! Don't let go of me! Please, don't let go!

"Kagome!"

Inuyasha began to lose his grip. The suction in a tunnel was unbearable.

"Don't you dare let go, Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled to her as she gradually began to pull away. She seemed to be fighting tooth and nail to get back to him. But the blackness would eventually win. Even with demonic speed, smell and strength, the tunnel won. It was too strong for even a half demon.

"Kagome! KAGOME!" Inuyasha was beyond frantic now.

He wasn't going to lose her again. Eventually she faded from sight but with a abrupt breeze they were both deposited on a mass of bone, skull and dead ligaments. Where were they? And Were was Kagome?

Inuyasha sat up and looked around, shocked. He had been here before. This was the place he first received Tetsusaiga. He first battled Sesshomaru here. They lay in the remnants of the great Inutaisho's tomb.

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