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By The Blossom
Chapter 2
Kagome rested on Sesshoumaru's shoulder, sleepily, continuously gazing out the window. She was brought to alert by Sesshoumaru's deep growl. "Sessho?"
"Scoundrels, heathens, bandits coming close and really fast. Youkai…"
Kagome closed her eyes, she and felt for her secret. She could eventually feel the pulse of a demonic aura of in the distance. Kagome never told Sesshoumaru she could feel such things if she concentrated and still does not plan to.
He handed her a small sword that lay at his other side, "Stay in the carriage."
"But I want to go outside!"
He snapped back at her as he felt the carriage slow and come to a stop, "You will stay here! I will not risk your life for your petty entertainment!"
Kagome blinked and backed away from him with the sword. Sesshoumaru moved to leave, unseen guilt in his eyes. He knew he was over dramatic this time but instinct told him that these scum were more than just ordinary carriage bandits.
He stepped outside, his guard were already positioning in front of the carriage, weapons drawn. The dragons that were harnessed to the carriage were released, flame already billowing in their mouths. Sesshoumaru could faintly see his brother's palace upon the hill ahead. The youkai that were approaching were peculiar but fast. Soon Sesshoumaru could feel more emerging from the woods around them. His guard did too and moved to surround the carriage. "Are they insane? Do they not see this is a royal transport?"
The number of youkai seemed to multiply; he could feel more just appearing out of nowhere. Soon all of them emerged from the woods, like a ragtag army.
The guard on duty on the east most tower was a simple bird youkai. Bird youkai had incredible sight and the ability to move fast and alert others of danger quickly. In other words, perfect lookouts, but horrible at almost anything else.
"Oh woe is me. The life of a frail bird is like the leaves in the wind. At least the pay is good and I get six free hours of watching women bathe in the nearby hot spring."
The lookout watched with his excellent eyesight the women, from the palace, take their breaks and go down to the hot spring, strip, and wash. There were not as many women as there should be at this time but it made sense since their Superior Lord was coming to pay a visit. His current job was to watch out for Lord Sesshoumaru but alas naked women were so distracting.
A curious feeling came to his senses. Youkai…lots and lots of youkai. And a powerful youkai among them. His first guess was Lord Sesshoumaru was coming near but there was an odd sensation about the number of youkai he felt that was unnerving. He flew up off his post and look in the general direction the youki was coming from, "Oh dear lord…"
There in a small clearing were many youkai surrounding a transport, a royal transport. A battle? Perhaps the local ruffians plan to cause trouble. He flew down to the bottom of his lookout and informed another to take over as he brought his sighting to his Lord.
Inuyasha was finally breathing normally. The entire staff had been working all night without much break to bring the palace to stunning perfection. Eventually Inuyasha had to have Miroku and Sango motivate the servants to continue to work with money. It worked for a good majority of the night but they kept on demanding more money and he had to give in since he obviously could not afford to have his entire staff quit. He let half of his staff take a break while he waited for his brother to arrive.
Inuyasha walked around the front part of his palace making sure everything was in perfect order. He smiled broadly, "That damn bastard will have to get on his knees in order to find anything wrong with this place."
The nearby demonic auras sent a shiver up his spine and he sniffed around, "What in the hell…"
One of his lookouts practically flew straight into him and started squawking. Inuyasha backed away from the disheveled bird youkai and growled, "Speak in the proper tongue!"
The bird calmed and stopped squawking, "Sorry my Lord, sorry. I have just spotted a massive number of youkai off to east trail, where the first clearing comes up. A band of ruffians are holding up Lord Sesshoumaru and his carriage."
"Carriage? What in the hell is he carrying? Dammit, I am leaving to assist him. Inform the third infantry to meet me there."
Inuyasha, not caring that he was finely dressed in his formal clothing took off through his palace gates towards Sesshoumaru.
All at once the army bearing no flag charged in towards Sesshoumaru and his guard. The Taiyoukai flicked his wrist producing a whip, within seconds a handful of demons were dead at his hand. Usually most would stop charging him after seeing such an attack but they kept coming, fearlessly. He continued to fight but noticed something…extremely odd, "Did I not just kill a bunch of guys who look the same as the ones I am fighting now?"
Duplicates…? What was going on here?
Kagome could hear fighting outside and the occasional thud against the carriage she was in. The curtains were closed and she itched to look outside. With the sword still firmly in her hand she reached her other hand to pull the curtain aside.
Suddenly she felt a hand roughly grab her arm, dragging her to the other side of the carriage. A thick-clawed hand covered her mouth to stop her from screaming. Kagome thrashed and thrust her small sword behind her, hoping to injure her captor.
Whoever was holding her caught the sword and she could hear the slice of flesh. The youkai growled and threw the sword down. He was large and muscular and held kicking Kagome tightly against him. She bit down on his hand, drawing blood. The youkai bandit once again growled and shook her a bit before exiting the carriage.
Through all the commotion he dragged her towards the forest. She tried to scream but his bloody clawed hand was practically inside her mouth. Her mind raced for a possible escape but she clearly saw none.
Fighting continued around him. Sesshoumaru had taken out his sword and started cutting through the crowd at great speed. They kept coming, just reemerging from the woods. He sniffed the air to find that Inuyasha was close by, if not already in the fighting.
"Never misses a chance to fight…"
A small flag went off in Sesshoumaru's head as he ran his sword through another youkai, looking at the man's eyes for more than a second. Though at the same time, his expert hearing picked up muffled feminine screams.
"Kagome…!"
He moved he way towards where he heard the cries but all at once all the youkai near him lunged on him bringing him to the ground.
Inuyasha unsheathed Tetsuiga sparing only a quick glance at Sesshoumaru. Immediately his skin began to crawl, as he felt that something was misplaced about this battle. Inuyasha whirled around to see a woman being held captive by a large bull youkai who was making his way with her to the forest.
Inuyasha could smell the blood from his hands and wondered if they were hers or his. The hanyou Lord noticed youkai charging towards him so he took his gaze away from the captor and the girl to defend himself. At his next possible moment he turned around again to find that they were nowhere to be found. Inuyasha dashed towards the forest he saw them heading to and sniffed around for the girl he had only faintly smelt. The scent of fresh flowers…just a bit further.
He dashed through the trees only to come face to face with an extremely large youkai. It resembled a bull on two feet, towering easily thirty feet above Inuyasha. He saw the girl in his grasp, still struggling.
Sesshoumaru roared from under the massive dogpile of youkai. He sent them all flying, slashing at anything near him with his sword. He jumped out of pile of bodies and ran towards the scent of Inuyasha and Kagome, cutting through all that stood in his way.
Inuyasha was sure that this was the bull youkai from before but it was almost impossible for it to have change to this big. The hanyou felt the tinge of magic in the air but charged up towards the youkai. It merely shimmered out of existence before he reached it and reappeared in another place.
"What the hell?" Inuyasha turned around to hear it release a deep chortle.
The girl screamed, "Sesshoumaru!"
Out of nowhere a slick white figure dashed past Inuyasha towards the monster. Once again the monster disappeared laughing and reappeared in another place in the clearing.
Sesshoumaru jumped back next to his half brother, "What type of illusive magic is this?"
"Hell like I know!"
Kagome kicked and punched the furry claw that contained her. It was just like fighting a brick wall. She looked down and stopped struggling. Even if the youkai released her, she would meet a quicker death from the enormous height she was at. Kagome definitely did not feel like becoming a pancake.
There was someone new chasing after them. He looked much like Sesshoumaru and from her high position she was not sure if those were dog-ears she saw.
The change from the smaller youkai to the massive one that was holding her was interesting. It just simply grew in size while it was running, a purple aura surrounding the both of them. Now…when the new inuyoukai charged at them, she felt her head spin and miraculously they reappeared somewhere else.
She spotted Sesshoumaru come crashing out of the thicket and screamed his name. He did the same thing that the other inuyoukai did and once again she felt the teleportation.
They continued to try and attack the bull-youkai and every time they did she simply reappeared with the bull youkai somewhere else. Unfortunately it was getting her very nauseous and she silently begged for them to do something else.
Above her, she felt the pin prick of a usual feeling. She had felt it several other times in her life but knew not where it came from. She gazed upwards to the ugly face of the bull but her stare snapped downwards where a thick iron chain held a deformed purple orb on his neck. There was a pulsating to it, an evil feeling being emitted.
She felt the tug of the teleportation but at the same time she saw that the orb released the energy that most likely caused the disappearing act.
She turned back down to Sesshoumaru, who was almost seething in anger. Kagome called down to him at the top of her lungs, "The thing on his neck! Destroy it!"
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were in mid charge when they heard her call, "The thing on his neck! Destroy it!"
They pulled back and looked up. There was a strange ornament hanging on a chain from the bull youkai's neck.
Sesshoumaru spoke softly, "Take the right and I'll reach to destroy it while you are adistraction."
Inuyasha spat back, "It'll just disappear again!"
"Do as I say!"
They both moved to attack with stunning speed.
The bull youkai had heard her and shook her powerfully, "Shut up wench!"
Kagome felt the painful twist of her neck and held still for a moment. She felt an enormous anger build up inside her. Her hands dug deeply into the thick skin of the bull youkai's hands and she felt more anger. She screamed and memories seemed to flitter inside her head. Memories of her mother, her father, her baby brother, and grandfather.
Her hands glowed brightly Kagome did not notice. The glowing spread to the skin of the bull-youkai and he roared, shaking her more.
The bull youaki was no longer paying attention to the Inuyoukai brothers.
Sesshoumaru had seen the abnormal events unfold as he felt an array of emotions being discharged from Kagome. Then he saw the glowing and remained puzzled, "A miko?"
Inuyasha was surprised that the bull youkai had not already flickered and disappeared. He kept his charge with his sword high above his head. The hanyou jumped up and dug the sword deep into the skin of the monster's waist. It stomped its feet on the ground narrowly missing Inuyasha who was jumping away.
Sesshoumaru leapt up to the youkai's other arm and looked at Kagome who seemed to be bracing herself. He dashed up the arm and towards the neck. With his sword he pierced through the deformed purple orb and through the bull youkai's chest. He pulled down with all his might, running the sword all the way down to the monster's gut.
Kagome fell from the youkai's grasp as it roared, a powerful energy being released. Inuyasha jumped back up, sheathing his sword and catching the screaming Kagome.
Sesshoumaru jumped away from the falling giant body. It fell, but at the same time it reduced back to its normal size. It hit the ground with a sickening thud, blood splattering everywhere.
Kagome snuggled deeply into the clothing she thought belonged to Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshoumaru, thank you…"
Instead of the calm voice she was so used to hearing she heard another voice, "Oi wench! Don't mistake me for that stick-in-the-ass brother of mine!"
The inuyoukai dropped her unto the grass and she looked up with wide amazed eyes at his dog-ears.
"Inuyasha."
Kagome got up and ran to Sesshoumaru who was approaching and hugged him. He paused at looked at his brother, "Hopefully you have everything prepared at the fortress."
Inuyasha glared back at Sesshoumaru and the girl who was clinging to him, "Keh, don't you worry you pretty little head about it, Sesshoumaru. Let's just get the fuck back."
The entire ordeal was unnerving to both Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha.
Bull youkai possessing powerful artifacts such as the orb?
Multiplying army forces?
Capturing Kagome but meaning no immediate harm to her?
What sick game was being played?
Something told Sesshoumaru, Naraku had a hand in it.
Chapter 2! I hope you liked it!The next will be up in a good week. More action and fun are coming up soon.
Please go and check my new story! It's called Dancing with the Crescent Moon! It is a Kagura/ Sesshoumaru fic but it has plenty of other romance coming into it. Please check it out, it's going to be my new baby!
Thanks especially to Fading Existence (my sister and friend) for helping me write both of these stories.
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