I'm upset cuz I finished my other Inuyasha fics and they got, like, three reviews… there's too much of a turnover rate here.
Oh, in response to somebody's review (I can't remember and I'm too lazy to look it up.) yes, Sango's pretty annoying. Then again, she's kinda annoying in the anime, too. She's only there, I think, to keep Miroku's thoughts off Kagome. That, and just in case Inuyasha angsting over Kikyo isn't bad enough, she can angst over Kohaku or her village, and so keep the angst-meter up.
"Lady Kagome! You're hurt!"
Blood ran down Kagome's arm, dripping from her fingertips to the ground.
"It's not that bad. I'll be okay."
Once the arrow had been removed, she was able to examine the wound. It should be healed up in a few days.
'for such a powerful youkai,' she thought, 'he sure did have poor aim. It's almost like he aimed that way on purpose…'
No way. No youkai is that kind.
Her mind flicked briefly back to the white haired hanyou, the pure innocence she had seen in his eyes. Had that youkai been his brother?
She shook her head, trying to clear out her thoughts.
In any case, there had to be some other youkai who had come after the jewel. Fighting them was a straightforward battle.
Perfect.
Inuyasha followed his friend's trails to find them in a bit of a bind. The saimyoushou were doing their jobs well. They were bigger than yellow jackets, but had the same basic purpose: to sting everything in sight. The three humans were doing their best to fight them off, but there were a lot of the little things. One of them noticed the hanyou and changed course. It's stinger dripped with poison, and a single amber drop of it dropped to the ground.
Inuyasha slashed it to pieces as it flew at him, yellow blades of energy flying from his claws. He took down several more the same way.
Suddenly, the saimyoushou froze, seeming to die in the air. The dropped to the ground, dissolving into dust before they hit the ground.
"Well, that's probably the weirdest thing I've seen today," Miroku said honestly. The other three gave him weird looks. He had a strange idea of weird.
"Hey, Inuyasha, you're back. When did that happen?"
"A minute ago."
"We found Sesshoumaru, he went to go find you."
"So you should probably stick close to us for a while," Kikyo finished.
"Where'd you go?"
"A lady made me stay. She wanted to know about the youkai."
"Huh? In the woods?"
"Mm-hmm. She looked like you," Inuyasha said, pointing at Kikyo.
"Me?"
The hanyou nodded again.
"That's really…" Sango didn't want to use the word weird, it was getting used way too often lately.
"We found Sesshoumaru," Miroku said again.
"Me too. Or he found me. He grabbed an arrow right out of the air. It was so cool!"
"An arrow?"
"Yeah, the lady who looked like you was gonna hit me with it but Sesshie came out of nowhere and grabbed it!"
(This was accompaniewd by the sort of theatrics you can generally expect from six year olds.)
"But then he threw it back," Inuyasha said, his face falling. "He hit her in the shoulder. That wasn't really nice."
"Where'd he go after that?" Sango wanted to know.
"I dunno. Somebody else showed up and the two of them vanished."
"He must be the same guy who cursed by ancestors."
"And who mine sealed."
"This is way too freaky for me. You kids have fun fighting superdemons, I think I'm gonna go home."
"Kikyo… won't you stay with us?"
Inuyahsa turned a patented cute face on the older woman, who tried her very hardest to ignore it.
"I can't stay here. There's so much I can handle, and evil demon creatures is just thiiis far over the line."
She held her finger's a hair's breath apart, to show how far over the line these things were.
"Okay…"
"I think the well was back... this way?"
"Yeah," Miroku said absently. He was watching the dusty remaints of one of the bees very closely. After it made no attempts to move or kill him, he pocked it with a stick.
"They all died at the same time," he said, puzzled. "Why would they do that?"
"Whoever had the hive under his possession must have died."
"But that was the demon that was with Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha said. "Sango, if your whole family could only bind him, then who could have killed him?"
"I don't know. But somebody around here should."
"There it is. The well." Kikyo grinned. In ten seconds she would be back home,and she could forget this whole thing ever happened. It was her job to protect Americans. Human Americans. In America. Preferably sometime after the second world war. Feudal Japan, she could do without.
She grinned at the well, and moved forward.
"Look out!"
Something big and orange slammed into her, pushing her out of the way of a large ball of green fire. She hit the ground hard, the orange thing landing rather painfully on top of her.
"Oww…" she moaned, rubbing her head.
"Are you okay?"
She looked up at Orange Thing, to find that it had green eyes. Kinda nice green eyes.
"What's wrong, you paralyzed from the neck up? I said are you hurt."
"No… but that's gonna leave a mark," she said, gingerly feeling the back of her head.
"Well so long as you're alive."
Orange Thing was decidedly male, and he was taking his own sweet time getting off her.
"What was that stuff?"
She pushed Orange Boy off her, (which he wasn't expecting, judging by the fact that he fell over,) and looked back at the green fire. It had mostly dissappated, only a few lone flames danced around-
"The well!"
The wood planks around it burned with the heatless fire.
"Ohnoohnoohnoohno"Kikyo jumped at it, going straight through the flames.
"I wouldn't do that if I were" Orange Boy started, but Kikyo was gone.
Waving a hand, he put the flames out and peered into the well. Sitting at the bottom and looking dejected was Kikyo.
"What did you have to go do that for?" he asked her. She only looked up at him sadly.
"It doesn't work."
Dumdumdillydumdumdum.
Well, than you Karvian, for helping me move this story along a bit. More people should be like you. Thank you Kitsune Ryune, for always knowing the answers to my questions, you're on the board like, fifty times. I've stopped counting.
Questions for this chapter:
1. Who's Orange Boy (all of you should get this)
2. There's a quote in this chapter, who can tell me what it is?
3. Demo, tada kona mama.
I used this a while back, what's it mean?
I dedicate this chapter to Inukid. Your wish is my command.
I'm also having a 'longest review ever' contest. I wanna see how much room you can fill up with, I don't care, anything.
There's this online help thingie and I'm always sending them rants about how I hate my little sister. It accomplishes nothing, but at least I have someone to rant to. So yeah, something like that.