Chapter 13-Deaths Wind
Kaede's village was normally quiet in the morning, but when Shippo and the others found that Kagome was nowhere to be found, Inuyasha had escaped with the Tetsuigia, and a dead villager everything started to spin out of control. "Damn Inuyasha! We should have killed him when we had the chance, but now he's free and Kagome is at his mercy," said Sango who punched a tree picturing Inuyashas smiling face on it.
Miroku looked at her with worry. To him it seemed all Sango could do anymore was punch non moving objects. "Now that Inuyasha is gone we have nothing to lose now. Our best bet is to find Kagura before Inuyasha does since she will be the next person he will go after," said Miroku who was trying to be optimistic about the situation.
"The only problem is that we don't know where Kagura is. If we did then maybe we would have a shot at finding her," said Koga who was leaning against a small hut.
"I may know where the Wind Sorceress is, but she may not be their at all," said Kikyo who made an appearance from the small hut.
"Were?" said Miroku.
"I heard villagers talk of a strange woman who appeared before them out of the Wind and commanding it around her with a fan, 'said Kikyo pointing northeast of where she was standing.
"Then we better go their and see if the rumors are true," said Sesshomorru.
(Northeast of Kaede's village)
Kagura sat on a small rocky area and relaxed for a moment for what seemed to be the first time in a long time without the worry of facing Narakus torture of him squeezing her heart and making her feel the pain when she disobeyed him. "For the first time ever I feel...free and it feels...very good," said Kagura as she removed her sandals and placed her feet on the soft grass and let it message her feet s she stretched out her legs in the process.
"Consider this your first and last time to ever feel freedom because when I'm done all you feel left before you die...is pain!" said a voice from behind her up in a tree branch behind her.
She turned around to find a crouching figure with sliver hair, dark purple clothing with dark metal like armor on the outside from his side up to his shoulder, a spider like jewel on his forehead, and mixed color of yellow-red eyes staring at her with an evil smile stretching across his face showing his demon teeth. "Who are you?" Kagura said as she took out her fan and readied herself for combat.
"Can't you tell Kagura? I guess you wouldn't recognize me considering how much your former master...and now mine has changed me. I have been transformed by Naraku into a lethal weapon of nearly unsurpassable power," said the figure as he jumped from the tree branch passed where Kagura was standing and landed on the now wavy grass at a somewhat long distance.
It was then that Kagura realized who the figure was and nearly gasped at the site of him. "Inuyasha! I don't believe it! You have changed," she said in fear and surprise.
"Glad you finally noticed. However, I'm not here to show you what I have become Kagura. I am here to kill you and to show you first hand what happens to traitors like you who betray their master," said Inuyasha whose smile went away and a more serious look went upon his face.
"I had no choice if I hadn't escaped with my heart he would have killed me regardless if I was loyal or not," said Kagura as she expanded her fan and released a violent wind storm at Inuyasha who just stood their while it came at him.
"Haven't you ever heard of loyalty till death!" said Inuyasha as unsheathed Tetsuigia and slashed through the wind storm in a single slash of his blade.
"What? Impossible!" Kagura said in complete shock. Never in her battles with Inuyasha did the half-demon ever have such an ability to break her wind storms.
"Is that all you can do? Blow wind at me? No wonder Naraku despised you. You are the weakest of all his incarnations. Kanna has more strength then you...and brains for staying loyal as well," said Inuyasha as he swung the power of the Wind Scar from Tetsuigia and sent it towards Kagura who barely dodge the attack.
"I'll show you! Die you filthy half-demon!" said Kagura as she unleashed the Dance of the Dragon attack on Inuyasha who blocked each attack with Tetsuigia without moving a single step from where he was standing.
"Now that you've had your attempts to kill...and failed! I think I show you a new trick or two on what Naraku has taught me since I became his apprentice," said Inuyasha to a now scared Kagura who found herself to frozen in fear to run away.
Inuyashas Tetsuigia started to glow and turn red, but Kagura immediately noticed it was not the red that Tetsuigia turned into to destroy barriers with. The sword became a dark, evil blood red with a lighter red demon energy appearing like bits of lighting sparking intensely with every passing moment. "No! Don't kill me please! All I wanted was freedom from Narakus torture. Show mercy!" said Kagura in a frightened voice.
"Sorry, but the old Inuyasha that would show mercy is dead...just like you!" said Inuyasha as he pointed Tetsuigia's blade at Kagura and shot a beam of demon energy right at her.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screamed Kagura as the blast went through her creating a massive hole that was once her internal organs as she fell back on the very rock she had been laying on earlier.
Inuyasha walked up to the now dead body of Kagura and stared at the near hollowed out body. He reached in her and pulled out the remains of her small heart. It cracked and turned to dust in his hands and blew into a natural wind. "Well you finally got your freedom Kagura. Maybe now you can relax in hell for awhile...before its your turn for the devil torture you that is," said Inuyasha as he chopped off Kagura's head and holding it up high while laughing as his mission was accomplished.
"Inuyasha!" came a voice and the sound of an arrow being fired from behind him.
Inuyasha turned around and faced the attacker only to find he was facing his old friends turned enemies. "Well if it isn't Kikyo and the others coming to save Kagura from her impeding death. Well you're too late! As you can see she's lost to you...as is her head," said Inuyasha with an evil smile on his face.
"Inuyasha..." said Sesshomorru, but was cut off by Inuyasha.
"That's Lord Inuyasha to you my brother. Or should I say half-brother since that seems more appropriate at this point. Or maybe I should just stop calling you Sesshomorru and start calling you dead meat," said Inuyasha with a serious look on his face.
"You'll pay for your insolence Inuyasha. One way or another you will die today," said Sesshomorru who took Tokijin from his waist and held it with TWO hands.
"I see you took a demons arm to be a temporary one for you in order to wield Tokijin better against Tetsuigia and me. Another dragon arm perhaps? Or some other type of arm with mystical properties. Considering I sliced your arm off when you transformed at our fathers tomb to get this blade I thinks it only appropriate I take the other arm as well so you can't use either Tetsuigia...or Tokijin," said Inuyasha who stared at the demon arm that was not Sesshomorru's.
"It doesn't matter what you think Inuyasha because you will not beat me like you did all those other time on a marginal level," said Sesshomorru in a calm voice.
"You're right! This time...I'm going to out right kill you and not even Tenseiga can save you from my power," said Inuyasha as both opponents readied to unleash their attacks upon the other.
"No one interfere! Inuyasha is mine to kill!" said Sesshomorru.
"What? No! Inuyasha must die at my hands for what he's done!" said Sango who tried to run forward, but was restrained by Miroku and Kilala.
"Don't worry Sango I won't die just yet. In fact you'll all have your turn at my head when I'm done with Sesshomorru. But until then, sit back and watch the entertainment that is about to unfold before you," said Inuyasha as both he and Sesshomorru engaged each other in combat with opposite blades with each user wanting to kill the other. But only one could and would win. The only question was...who?" said Inuyasha as he cricked his neck as he readied for the fight.