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Chapter 3- Something Given, Something Taken
I step back in surprise, what could she want with me? Is it because Im a demon slayer? Or is it because I have to Shikon jewel in my possession?
"And who exactly are you?" Miroku demanded.
The demon stood up and smiled, "Sana..." She ran her eyes up and down Miroku, her expression seemed to be disappointed. " I half expected the monk to have the jewel, but I guess not." She now turned to me, her eyes glued to the Shikon jewel that was hidden underneath my shoulder pad.
Sana drew one of the two swords that were tied around her waist, it seemed slightly old and tattered. It reminded me of Tetsusaiga. She turned it around in her hand and muttered, " a sword this powerful didn't deserve to be in the hands of a mere Inu-youkai.
'It doesn't look exactly like Tetsusaiga or Tensusaiga, but I can't be too sure...' I looked at Sana curiously, " What is the name of that sword?" I motioned toward the one she was holding.
"I think it's Tamjior or something...but who cares, it's not like they need a name to draw blood..." she smirked at her sword and brought her attention back to me and Miroku.
"Is that all you care about, killing?" Miroku spat.
"Ya...pretty much, but I do care about the jewel shards, quite a bit..." She paused, " The little children dressed in white were adorable also, except the wind girl drove me insane, all she ever talked about was the wind and flying that stupid feather of hers, god she was such a bitch." Sana's tail flicked as she said this.
I looked at Miroku, " Do you think she means Kanna, Hakudoshi and Kagura?"
Miroku shrugged, "Probably."
Sana looked at me and smiled, "enough of this chit chat, I want to kill you fast so I can receive the jewel and be off. " She swung Tamjior as me and Miroku readied our weapons.
The blade of her sword glowed black. She swung it swiftly to the side blades erupted it seemed that they were made from shadows. They cut down few trees, as she had no control over them, some headed towards Miroku and I.
Sana stroked her sword, " It seems you've only been used to kill demons, though this must be your first time, you would be able to kill the easily..." She told the sword. The sword glowed red momentarily as well as Sana's eyes. She admired it and nodded as if it was talking to her.
"Is that sword talking to her?" I asked Miroku.
"Well that's something you don't see everyday..."Miroku gestured to Sana.
"It's too tiering using a sword that needs to be controlled against some pathetic humans, for the time being I will use my own sword, as it obeys my every command." She gently put Tamjior in it's sheath and drew the one that sat beside it.
She swung her sword, blue sparks emerged around the blade. Miroku's eyes wide, he threw a few ofuda. They pasted themselves to Sana's sword, they lingered for a few moments then desinagrated causing no apparent affect.
"Do you really think you can defeat my sword with a few pieces of pathetic paper?" she snapped at Miroku, " I nicked this sword of a priest, sure it stings me when I touch the blade but it's powerful especially because it has a demon heartstring centered in the middle." she added.
"Your sword may be powerful, but can it uphold it's strength against Hiraikotsu?"I said flinging the large boomerang towards Sana.
Sana smirked and lunged her sword into the ground causing a hasty barrier to found around the sword and herself. Hiraikotsu was caused to bounce of the barrier and hit a nearby tree.
"Well that's annoying..." she said and walked over to Hiraikotsu and stabbed her sword in it forming a huge crack down the middle.
"No!" I yelled and ran towards Sana and Hiraikotsu drawing the small knife like sword I had tied around my waist. Sana as I could see was paying no attention, I ran up behind her stabbing the knife into her back.
I could tell it had hurt her, she let go of her sword and knelt down on one knee, "Aw shit, that actually hurt!" she hollered, Sana pulled the knife out of her back and then turned swiftly stabbing the knife right between my shoulder blade and my collar bone. I grasped the knife, it hurt so much. I finally collected the courage to pull it out, covering my hand over my wound I realized that Sana had already ripped of my shoulder pad and had grabbed the jewel. Before I knew she had grabbed her sword from Hiraikotsu and jumped to the tree tops.
"Thanks, but it's a shame I couldn't kill you." she laughed. I could see a rustle in the tree tops but soon everything went silently, I closed my eyes and fell to the ground. Miroku was soon at my side, he looked at me then my wound.
"Wow, that's pretty deep..." he said and ripped some cloth from his coat rapping it around my arm to stop the blood.
"Please call for Kirara..." I asked him. He nodded his head.
There was a growl from the bushes as Kirara leapt to my side, I petted her gently as I was now sitting upward.
Miroku sat at my other side, "Are you alright?" He asked me.
"Yes Im fine now..." I replied and looked at him half smiling. After a few long moments I felt his hand, on guess where? My butt. For the next few moments all you could hear was a loud thwacking noise. "Ugggg" I groaned as my wound hurt after giving Miroku a hard hit. "I think I used a little too much force on that one.." I laughed.
Miroku rubbed the redness on his cheek, " I wouldn't have guess..."He said cooly. Kirara turned to Miroku giving a long low pitched growl.
When we had finally reached the village, they were all looking at us worriedly.
"What happened?" asked a woman holding a small child by the hand.
"Nothing too elaborate..." I said making sure they didn't know of what happened. I wouldn't want to frighten them. Miroku looked at me with a questioning look. I whispered in his ear, "We wouldn't want to scare them..." He nodded and we walked off into our cabin.