In the darkness, a body stirred from the blood-stricken land, moaning with the rapture of life. Its slender, sleek, flawless body was silhouetted perfectly in the darkness against the delicate luminescence of the full Harvest Moon as it sat up. It stretched with elegant care, softly bending its back in a crescent shape; long tresses of fine hair fell to the ground and some rested on its chest. Soft green eyes stared out at the moon, the light filtering softly through foliage to the body.
It was perfect from head to toe. A perfect female, whose body was as if a shot of pure liquid ecstasy to the beholder had taken him breathless, stood in the moonlight. She had a long bronze mane that came down her length in liquid strands that flowed like water to her feet. He eyes were two emeralds, soft and elegant, but seemed to sear through one's flesh to tear at that person's essence. Her skin was also a brilliant bronze colour that was soft to the touch and so flawless that her elegant beauty could blind even the wisest of men. She had a pair of bronze cat ears that hade fine bronze hair that covered them in an ideal soft fluff. A long, copper cat tail curled itself about her bare body, gently caressing her bare, unspoiled breasts. Belts of precious stone, bone, and bead decorated her waist line as the only pieces of garment that she had to cover any part of her body at all. Her clawed hands were covered in blood, but her face seemed so full of rapture that the blood was barely noticeable to an onlooker as it ran through the gullies between her fingers like oil though a polished pipe, dripping slowly and sickly to the ground beneath her and dripping softly into the tow-inch deep pool of blood that surrounded her. She smiled, faultless white fangs glimmered though as her tongue ran across the fangs in total bliss. She bent herself backwards until her head and knees were the only things touching the ground before slowly lying down in the pool and rolling to her side, gently pawing at the blood with her free hand.
"Tell me," she spoke softly in a maniacal, but coolly seductive voice, "were you happy before you met my claws? Were you in a world of ecstasy?"
Her facial expression was soft and delicate now, smiling coyly like a cat in her state of satisfaction. "You were good until you met my claws. You just fell to me. You didn't even fight back, didn't scratch my beautiful hide. What were you thinking when my paw went though your stomach? Did you see me pull your entrails out and devour them while they were still attached to you, pain rushing though your body? Or were you still enraptured by me, like such a foolish being as you blind males are? I did not love you, I only attracted you to eat your sweet flesh and drink and bathe in your sweet-smelling blood. You were such a sanguine person when you spoke your soul to me, but you were still a blind male fool. Blind as any human is."
She bent her head down and lapped up some of the blood, the crimson liquid running down her lip as she reared her head back in satisfaction. "Youkai blood… blood of humans… ketsueki… it's all so wonderful."
Her emerald eyes scanned the sky, looking directly at the burning topaz moon, the great sphere reflecting in her stone-like eyes. Then a part of her seemed to scream inside, and, as if to answer that cry, she reared her head to the heavens, her mane flying back, letting out a blood-curdling cry that rang across the land for miles on end, startling anything that was within range from its rest. After fifteen minutes of her wild outburst, she fell back to her blood pool and began to paw and lick up the sweet blood once more, covering her saccharine body in the fragrance of the staling blood.
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The next morning was chilled with the frost of a birthing winter, and all seemed to be preparing for the cold that was to begin approaching soon. From a nearby forest, squirrels could be seen gathering food for the arctic months ahead. Winter birds sang of the frost to come with full heart, brightening the branches of firs and other trees about. A frosty breeze swept across the land, threatening to take the trees with them, the birds gripping tightly with their clawed feet and bunching up in effort to stay on their perches. Winter was truly beginning to grace the land with her benevolence.
Just then, a loud crash came from within the forest, causing the birds to flock away in fright, their wings flapping against their breasts with the muffled sound of feathers against body. The squirrels that were out quickly scrambled up the trees and into the little crevices they call home. An uneasy silence followed; even the wind observed the uneasy silence of the land, holding its breath cautiously in anticipation.
Then a terrible crash came from the forest once more, this time a strip of yellow energy followed with, shredding trees and slicing effortlessly through rocks and thick, old trunk. A dark shadow leaped from the forest in a shot, bouncing through the rubble and dashing about the open plain in furious effort to be shielded once again. Shortly after the shadow, another body leapt from the forest in an equally angered state, but more for an anger to get revenge rather tan to hide. It leapt and sped after the shadow, long strands of silver hair flowed behind his body and ruby-coloured clothing that burned bright like fire covered his body. He held a huge, fang-shaped sword in his right hand, with little effort, his blazing amber eyes shining with anger. It was none other than Inuyasha.
"Fucking shit!" He cursed, dashing after the shadowed figure. "Damned as hell if he thinks he can get away with the Shikon no Tama! That mother fucking bastard has something else coming to him, that's for fucking sure!"
He leapt again for more speed as he dashed through the plains, chasing the shadowed figure, gaining distance on it. Once he got close enough, he raised his sword in a strike, slashing down the back of the shadow, felling it.
"Fuck!" The shadow cursed as it fell, the small lavender jewel leaving his grasp and bouncing away. Inuyasha leapt over the felled enemy and skidded over to the Shikon no Tama, picking it up.
Inuyasha turned his gaze to the shadowed Youkai who lay injured and bleeding before him. "You fucking bastard! You think you can get past me with the Shikon no Tama and live your life with more than half-an-ass-of-a-chance of living? I Fucking hope not!"
He raised Tetsusaiga and slashed down on the Youkai, splitting its body in half. Blood burst from its mouth in floods and his innards fell from the wound in his stomach that Inuyasha had made that moment. Its pink intestines rolled out and fell on the ground, blood splashing onto the grass and staining it black, slowly flowing down its stomach and intestines in small rivers of crimson. A severed lung rose and fell in struggled effort to keep the dying cells alive, but to no avail. Its blue eyes rolled back slightly in its head, the bloody mouth leaking blood at constant intervals, some blood trickling down from the edges of its eyes. Its body convulsed a few times, blood spraying about from an artery that was still attempting to supply the body with oxygen and nutrients. Inuyasha slashed the body again, and the heart exploded, spattering blood and pieces of heart onto Inuyasha's face. Finally the body rested, the blood now just trickling from places instead of flowing in continuous gushes. Inuyasha stared at the mauled body indifferently, his amber eyes glowing, before he put Tetsusaiga back into its sheath.
Inuyasha stepped over the mangled carcass and began to pad back to the forest from which he came, silently gazing down at the ground with an emotionless look on his face. Kagome had barely begun to leave the forest at that moment, began to run over to Inuyasha once she spotted him, and realized that he was covered in blood. She dashed over to him and clasped her arms around his neck.
"Inuyasha!" she cried, hugging him tightly. "Inuyasha, are you okay? Are you hurt?"
A little startled, Inuyasha stared blankly at her for a heartbeat before saying in a prideful manner, "No, of course not." He gazed down at her and stroked her jet-black hair.
Then Kagome looked up at him, her eyes aflame. "Damn it Inuyasha! Why the hell did you go ahead without me? You could have been seriously hurt!"
"Nani!" Inuyasha cried, taken aback. "Well if you weren't going so damn slow, I wouldn't have ditched you back there!"
"Well if you weren't so hot-headed I could have had it over then and there without you having to go all ballistic…"
"Ballistic! Who was going ballistic? I wasn't going ballistic! You were the one who had it out in the open in the first place!"
"It's my fault now? Who was the one who was being such a gallant jerk…"
"I was being a gallant jerk!" Both of their voices reached a fever pitch as their arguing continued and Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara began to leave the forest.
"Yes you were!"
"No I wasn't!"
"Yes you were!"
"No I wasn't!"
"YES YOU WERE!"
"NO I WASN'T!"
Shippo watched them argue blankly. "There they go again…" he said in a dead tone. The others nodded in agreement.
"YES YOU WERE!" Kagome yelled at the top of her lungs.
"NO I WASN'T!"
"Grr… O-suwari!"
Inuyasha plummeted to the ground with such great force that he created a crater that was about two feet in depth.
"Fuck!" he cursed from where he lay, knowing that Kagome had defeated him once again.
"Huh, you are so thick-headed it isn't even funny anymore." Kagome said in disgust.
"What was that?" Inuyasha growled, sitting up in his little crater.
"You heard me, I said you are so thick-headed that not even A & W Root Beer can compare to the thickness of your skull!"
"You want to say that again? I dare you!"
"I certainly will!"
"Not if I have something to say about it!"
"You just dared me stupid!"
"Not as if I care!"
"You better care, if you know what's good for you, you ass!"
"I am not an ass!"
"You are so an ass!"
"No I'm fucking not!"
Shippo shook his head in dismay. "There they go again." Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara all turned and began to head back, not all that concerned about Inuyasha and Kagome, they seem to always solve their differences later on.
"I'm going home!" Kagome shouted at Inuyasha.
"Fine! See if I care!" Inuyasha retorted viciously, his pride too much for anyone to handle.
"I don't care if you care! I'm going home and I'm not going to come back!"
"I don't care if a bitchy ho like you ever comes back!"
"O-SUWARI!"
"Fucking shit!" Inuyasha cursed as he hit the ground at 50m/s.
"I'm going home and that's final!" Kagome huffed, and with that, marched off, returning to the bone-well to return to her world.
"Aw, fuck! See if I fucking care!" Inuyasha sat up and wiped away the trickle of blood that leaked from his bleeding mouth. After a few moments, he padded off toward Inuyasha's forest, the same area in which Kagome had headed off to, and also the same area the others had started off to fifteen minutes in advance.
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