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Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Danielle
Happy Birthday to you!
See Danielle, I told you that I had to finish your present, so happy late birthday…even though I went to your party. Oh...um…the morbidity has nothing to do with you, it's just that it's the final battle and…well you know.
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This chapter is dedicated to my friend Danielle, because she recently aged another year.
Disclaimer: I just torture them…I don't own them.
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Inuyasha glanced behind him and smiled slightly. The members of his pack were all walking behind him and Kagome was attempting to explain to Sango and Miroku that there weren't any warlords in her time. At least, he heard her add, not in the civilized areas…there might be some in some…okay, as far as I know, there aren't any warlords. As I'm sure you can imagine this explanation didn't work to well.
"But Kagome!" He heard Sango exclaim before he tuned them out. Inuyasha lifted his head and looked up at the blue sky, thinking hard.
'So…' He thought. 'I've admitted my feelings to Kagome…and she returns them. Which is more then I ever hoped for…but what now?' He asked himself. Inuyasha's own mind answered.
'You kill Naraku first of all. You still have to revenge Kikyo, and you still have to revenge the innocence that was Kagome when she first came to you…the innocence that thing destroyed.' As if startled by his own thoughts Inuyasha paused a moment to consider them. That is to say, physically he kept on walking down that small dirt way, but mentally the hanyou was at a standstill.
'It's true.' He realized. 'When Kagome first entered this world she had never seen massacre or death. She had never been threatened…she didn't live in fear for her life every single day. Hell, she didn't even know that there was any intelligent creatures besides humans out there…let alone the existence of youkai and magic…even when we first began our quest to find the Shikon no Tama shards she was still happy. It wasn't until we started fighting Naraku that she began to come across all of those horrible blood baths. And here I am…driving her on day after day after day…pressing her to keep moving just so that we can reach the next horrible carnage. I never thought about it before…'
"Maybe we should take a break." Inuyasha said aloud. Utter silence answered his suggestion. Scowling Inuyasha turned around, expecting what he would see to be something that he wouldn't like. He wasn't disappointed.
His friends were completely motionless, save for their breathing. Kagome was holding Shippo midair, as if she had been in the process of picking him up when she had heard Inuyasha's announcement. Shippo was staring at him, his mouth was dropped and his eyes bigger and rounder then teacups. Sango and Kirara looked like Shippo, but Sango's right hand was rested on Kirara's left ear, frozen in the middle of scratching it. Miroku had actually fainted.
"Did…did Inuyasha just make a…a joke?" Sango asked Kagome haltingly.
"I…don't know…" Kagome answered.
"Inuyasha…are you feeling okay?" Shippo asked Inuyasha. Inuyasha was now scowling as darkly as a thunderstorm brewing, but the three friends, the three conscious friends didn't even notice.
"Inuyasha…repeat what you just said."
"We must have misheard him."
"Mrow."
"Or he could have just actually been making a joke…"
"Inuyasha? Joke? About taking a break?"
"Yeah…I see your point."
"WILL ALL OF YOU JUST SHUT UP?" Inuyasha bellowed, finally loosing his patience. "Feh." He added as he stomped off into the forest and sat down on a boulder, crossing his arms and his eyebrows lowering. "Feh." He said again, just for good measure.
Kagome and Sango shrugged when they looked at each other. They weren't going to argue with one of their rare chances to be able to sit down and rest their feet during the day without Inuyasha breathing down their necks and sounding like a wounded hippo as he shouted at them to get moving and to stop wasting time. So they set about preparing lunch for the crew. Miroku (who had woken up.) and Shippo sat nearby, watching the girls like hawks. Both were hungry, though Miroku wasn't so hungry that his eyes didn't stray to a certain part of Sango's anatomy, much to her vexation.
SLAP! Went Sango.
"OW!" Went Miroku.
"Pervert." Went Kagome and Shippo.
"Feh." Went Inuyasha.
It was normal…almost calm. The day a tranquil thing, the moods of everyone somewhat lighter then usual. But for those doomed to fight evil in the name of good such things are to be destroyed until fate itself is completed. After all, justice and tyranny always seem to walk hand and hand, until death do they part.
And so it was, that almost immediately after Kagome had lit the fire Inuyasha's head shot up in alarm and Kirara began to growl in agitation.
"What is it Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, seizing up his staff and clenching the hand that bore the wind tunnel. Kagome was hurriedly putting away everything and Shippo was helping her. Sango was adjusting her stance from where she stood next to the fully transformed Kirara. The demon exterminators eyes were darting over the horizon, trying to deem from which way the danger was coming. Inuyasha was gripping the hilt of Tetsusaiga tightly and his eyes were narrowed in hate.
"Naraku's stench." He said. His were eyes trained on a particular spot in the surrounding forest directly in front of him that seemed darker then the other parts of the heavily shaded woody ground.
"Heh. Very good hanyou. Yes, I myself have finally come to see you. It's time we settled this, don't you think?" Naraku said. The monster stepped forward into the light; he was dressed in his usual baboon costume, but his aura seemed even darker and more dangerous then usual. Even swallowing up his surroundings, embedding the very light within its malign murkiness. Beneath his mask his mouth was twisted in a cunning smile and his eyes glittered with an evil befit of War himself.
I want to go over this one more time, just so that you all remember. Naraku has no tentacles. When Naraku has tentacles then they are fighting a puppet. Not a golem, please remember that, a puppet. Golems are monsters from Jewish lore. The word Golem means thief in Hebrew. Got that? Good. Also, Naraku looks like a giant bug and he is actually a lot like a poison imp. This will soon be explained further. The point is that. There. Are. No. Tentacles. Grr.
"For once I agree with you." Inuyasha said, smirking. "I can't wait to be dancing…" He leapt at Naraku, bringing Tetsusaiga down as he willed the Wind Scar. "…ON YOUR GRAVE!" He shouted. Naraku leapt out of the way, narrowly avoiding the attack, only to jump again as one of Kagome's celestial arrows came flying past, narrowly missing his ear as he jerked his head away just in time. Sango's boomerang came hurling and it shredded his baboon garb, but unfortunately for the pack…their luck ran out there.
As Sango's boomerang came hurtling back towards her Naraku caught it, and the weapon of a demon exterminator became the trash that a demon threw away. With a snap Naraku broke Sango's boomerang bone, even as he morphed into his natural form. Sango's eyes were wide with horror and tears began to drip from them.
"Oh. Don't cry Sango." Naraku crooned. "I haven't even given you reason to. Not yet that is." He said and then he took something that looked like a ball and lobbed it at Sango. She caught it, but then she let out a scream of hurt and dropped it.
The pain ran through her blood like fire, burning and killing everything that stood in its way. It overtook her mind and it overcame her, taking her very sanity and warping it into something so unrecognizable that she was not even capable of a single thought. No word ran through her head, nothing. Nothing except the screaming of the pain within her. Her heart shrieked with it. Her spirit withered with it, and her soul ran from it. Sango could do absolutely nothing but stare down at the decapitated head of her brother…her eyes were seeing and yet they were unseeing.
Naraku smirked again. He sensed her pain. It was so vibrant and rich that he could feel it on the air almost like an actual thing. It pleased him greatly, that he could be the cause of such suffering. He chuckled at Sango's sorrow…at her loss.
Kagome and Shippo both ran to Sango and tried to drag her off the battlefield but she wouldn't move. Inuyasha moved forward to attack once again but Miroku stepped in front of him. Inuyasha immediately stood down, recognizing Miroku's duty to avenge his own beloved's sorrow.
"You…bastard…" Miroku whispered. He felt a cold fury, rushing through his blood and burning and freezing every single ounce of priestly calm that he possessed. "I'LL KILL YOU!" He screamed and he rushed Naraku. Naraku only laughed.
"You think you can monk?" Naraku yelled as he sidestepped Miroku. His hand stretched like a rubber band and grabbed Miroku by his neck before bringing him up against a tree and pushing hard. "Because in the end that's all you are!" Naraku hissed at Miroku before dropping the unconscious body.
"MIROKU!" Kagome and Shippo shouted in fear. From the distance they couldn't see if Miroku was dead or alive and they didn't dare go attempt to get past Naraku to check.
"YOU BASTARD!" Inuyasha yelled. He brandished Tetsusaiga and bared his teeth at Naraku in a ferocious growl. "I'm going to rip out your heart and dry it and wear it as a necklace!"
"Thank you for that lovely graphic vision Inuyasha, it must have strained your imagination to come up with something so original. I must say that I'm impressed, and in respect for your trouble I'll be sure to do the same to you. Now DIE!" Naraku replied and then launched his entire morphed bug-like body at Inuyasha.
Kagome watched in horror and then jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned around to find a new girl there.
This girl was grinning cheerfully, despite the battle that surrounded her. She had glasses and mischievous sparkling eyes. Her hair was long, a light brown color, and rather curly. She had a light dusting of freckles and around her eyes there was a tattoo like the ones that Kagome had seen on the Stooges hand's the day that she had met H.
"Sorry I'm late." The girl said. "I was a little busy with a boulder. Don't ask." She said, waving her hand.
"Excuse me?" Kagome asked weakly, utterly confused.
"I'm a friend of Jenny's. Hello! Oh!" The new girl suddenly looked worried. "Um…your friend just got hit…" She said. Kagome gasped and whirled back around.
Sure enough Inuyasha was now on the ground bleeding heavily from a wound in his lower abdomen. It was already bubbling with miasma poison. Naraku stood above him laughing.
"No…" Kagome gasped. As if he heard her words Naraku turned and looked at her, smiling.
"Now you're all alone." He crooned as he took a step away from her.
"Not alone. Never alone. Don't make one more move Naraku." Said a blessedly familiar voice from behind the monster.
Ha, ha! I know, I know, it's an evil cliffy. But some people were threatening me. So I had to update. Sorry for the delay, and I'll be gone this weekend. I was planning to write but I can't now. Wahh!
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