Ch. 13:

A tall slender woman who was Inuyasha's height and was dressed in a black no sleeved top which had a slit in it going down to her stomach which let her cleavage show immensely, and wore a very short black skirt suddenly materialized in front of him.

He flinched but quickly regained his composure and took up a defensive stance. It shocked him how quickly she had appeared in front, but still he stood there defiantly making sure that she knew he wasn't afraid, and he was ready to fight.

Her deep unnatural red hair flowed smoothly down the middle of her back, some of it falling over her shoulders and covering her chest. Her deeply purple eyes stared cooly at Inuyasha, seemingly searching him for something.

He shivered. He felt an ice-cold grasp covering him as he felt like she could see straight into his very soul.

He sensed pure evil from her, seeing the blackness of her aura flowing off her in waves.

As she looked at Inuyasha, she had a sinister looking smirk on her cherry red lips, as if daring him to attack.

He saw her glance over in Kagome's direction and look back to him again. Her eyes held laughter in them as they soaked in Kagome's pain.

Inuyasha clenched his teeth together, feeling nervous.

"Who the hell are you!" He growled menacingly. "If anything happends to her- I will fucking tear you apart slowly, limb from limb. And you can bet on that with your life."

She calmly stood her ground, and began to laugh out loud at him.

"Oh my, Inuyasha. That is a dangerous threat now, but shouldn't you have waited for me to introduce myself before the insults? You don't even have my acquaintance. It's only the proper thing to do."

"How the hell would someone like you know anything about proper!" He yelled.

She kept her eyes cooly on Inuyasha. This demon woman stood there so still, undisturbed by what he said. Inuyasha glared at her, trying to keep his cool but it was hard. She was making him so angry, and so on edge just by standing there not doing anything. Not showing any emotion at all, but confidence.

One of his ears twisted towards Kagome as he heard her whimper something...His heart began to pound faster in his chest. He had to help her!

Inuyasha swung his sword over his shoulder and cracked his knuckles on his left hand.

"If you don't stop hurting Kagome, i'm going to skin you alive right here, right now. Trust me, it will be painful." His voice was very low and deadly. No one could hurt Kagome and get away with it.

"Now now Inuyasha dear. Don't be so harsh, and let me introduce myself. I am Kurishuna (Dark)."

She snapped her fingers once and Inuyasha heard a sound of pain come from Kagome. He tore his eyes away from Kurishuna and found Kagome. She was on her hands and knees trying to push herself up to stand from the ground, he could see even from far away that her body was trembling.

'Kagome!' He thought panicked. 'The spell's been lifted for now...' He stared back at Kurishuna as her voice drawled on.

"I control things with my mind, as you have just witnessed with miss Kagome, and I can bend your will to mine. Darkness is my alli, and I can use it to my very dearest pleasure. I love causing pain, I :revel: in it, including my own. That is my most pleasurable hobby..." She drug her tongue across her fangs teasingly as she gestured with one of her hands to Kagome.

Inuyasha was filled with disgust.

He heard her small voice call out to him "Inuyasha?" weakly.

"Kagome!" He called back. "Are you all right?"

"Yes.." she breathed. He could clearly tell that she wasn't, she was so weak that she couldn't stand herself up.

Kurishuna's sinister eyes turned to Kagome, and she made sure to lock her eyes with the little girl's.

Kagome's heart stopped when she saw those eyes for the first time. She was terrifed!

"Wasn't that nice, little Kagome? All of that pain? Wasn't it such a glorious feeling?" Her voice kept smooth. Just Kurishuna's cold gaze was enough for Kagome, she almost couldn't handle it...something about her was horrifying.

"Don't you talk to her!" Inuyasha yelled as he ran and got into his protective stance in front of Kagome, he dared Kurishuna with his eyes to come any closer to her.

"Why not, Inuyasha?" She pretend-pouted. Inuyasha growled low in his throat as he grew more adjetated with every word she spoke.

"Who exactly are you and why did you attack Kagome like that?" His voice was smoldering with rage.

"Why did I attack Kagome?" She put her finger to her chin and rolled her eyes towards the sky pretending to think. "Oh, yes. You see, I have this fedish with miko's. I dislike them completely because they are so goody-goody. They plainly bug me. But I especially don't like this particular one, because she slew my Naraku." She purred.

"So your one of his reincarnations?"

"Mmm. To an extent. But enough about myself, I have a duty to finish."

"What duty?" He growled. Kagome finally managed to pull herself up from the ground and she was currently leaning on a tree for support with Inuyasha in front of her. Her head was still pounding...that pain had been unreal.

"Avenging Naraku by killing that little miko of course!" She laughed. He heard Kagome gasp out loud behind him, which made him want to protect her even fiercer.

"Your gonna havta get through me first bitch. Keh. Who the fuck would want to avenge Naraku's death?" He spat at her.

"Isn't that obvious?" She retorted sourly.

"Then your fucked up more than I thought." He growled.

"If it's such a problem, why don't you :lie down: and die!" She yelled as she charged towards Inuyasha and Kagome.

Kagome's legs automatically locked up and she clasped her hands together and closed her eyes, waiting for the worst.

Inuyasha grabbed her out of the way just in time. There was an explosion behind them and Inuyasha kept running, not looking back.

"Shit!" He cursed out loud.

"What is it, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked panicked. He let her down to the ground.

"She's dissapeared again." He was looking around and sniffing the air and listening as hard as he could but she was completely gone, though he could still sense her aura. He remembered how she had appeared in front of him so suddenly last time, and he was just alittle freaked out.

His ear perked forward as he heard the crunching of a leaf, and he punched blindly at the air in front of him and his fist collided with Kurishuna's face. He heard something crack and then she screamed.

She appeared again a few feet away from them, hands clasped over her nose, blood running all down her hands and splattering onto the ground.

"Keh. Looks like I got you pretty damn good."

Kagome held her hands over her mouth at the site of blood, trying not to get sick from it.

"Inuyasha you got her!"

They watched as she snapped her own nose back into place, and then whiped the blood from her face with the back of her hand.

Kagome's eyes widened.

"I told you, I enjoy pain!" She said laughingly, which gave Kagome and Inuyasha the chills.