Chapter Five: Battles and Attacks

Akiko saw a young guy standing in front of them. He wore a red kimono with a sword and some odd looking type of necklace that Akiko had never seen before. He had long, silver hair and the same colored dog-ears. He also had amber eyes.

'I assume that's InuYasha. He doesn't look so tough. This shouldn't be very hard,' Akiko thought. Suddenly, a girl wearing weird clothing came up to him.

"The Shichinintai!" she gasped. She pulled out an arrow for the bow she was carrying. Another girl came up to them. She was dressed like she probably killed demons for a living or something. She had a sword and a huge boomerang. They were joined by a young monk, a kitsune and a cat demon.

The girl with the arrows, shot one, but missed terribly. For some reason that girl reminded Akiko of someone…

Then the girl with the boomerang threw it. Kyoukotsu stopped it with his hands and threw it back at her. It hit her directly in the stomach and she fell to the ground, unconscious. Blood dripped out of her mouth.

The oddly dressed girl gasped and bent down beside her. "Sango! Are you okay, Sango?"

Then the monk who wore prayer beads on his hand took them off and yelled "Wind Tunnel!" Something like a black hole came from his hand, sucking in everything around them. Ginkotsu shot his jagged blades directly at the hole in his hand. It caused the sides of the hole to rip open some. The monk quickly closed up his.

"Miroku!" the same girl called; Ginkotsu made a "Gesh" sound.

Fire surrounded the little cat demon. When the flames dissipated, she had large fangs and was much bigger. She growled fiercely and ran to attack. Mukotsu sprayed some kind of brownish red poison at her and she fell to the ground, twitching.

Once again the girl ran over to help her fallen friend. "Kirara!" she yelled.

The small kitsune ran over to help the three. He started to cry some as Miroku's Wind Tunnel was still sucking in small amounts of air, even with the prayer beads over it as the blood from Ginkotsu's cuts ran down his wrist.

Meanwhile, Sango began to come out of her unconscious state. She sat up and tried to speak. As she did, more blood came from her mouth. She made a painful gasping sound and fell back down.

The cat demon Kirara lie twitching on the ground, poisoned by Mukotsu.

Now InuYasha had become mad. "You filthy bastards," he yelled. "You are going to pay for this!" With that he unsheathed his sword. Despite how small of a sheath it was, the blade turned out to be huge and fang-like. "Tetsusaiga!" he yelled as he pulled it out. Then he yelled "Wind Scar!" and a flash of light came at the Shichinintai.

Akiko quickly pulled out Dohanone and said, "Reihou Nami." As she did, a blue flash of light shot out from her sword. It hit InuYasha's Wind Scar and made a huge explosion of Demonic Energy as the two attacks of the fang swords collided.

"What the hell is that?" InuYasha said as the aura died down. "And who are you, anyway?" InuYasha asked Akiko, as he had never seen her before. "Are you another one of the Shichinintai?"

Akiko saw the annoyed looks of the rest of the Shichinintai, but nodded slightly. "Yes, I am," she said.

InuYasha gave her disgusted look. "Well then you are going to die along with the rest of them. Go ahead and attack me with your sword again. Try using that attack you just did."

Akiko didn't like the sound of that. 'Why would he want me to attack him?' she wondered. 'Oh well, it doesn't matter. There's no way his attacks can be stronger than Dohanone's. Even if it is a fang sword like mine.'

"Well?" InuYasha asked impatiently.

"Reihou Nami!" she yelled, sending out another wave of blue demonic energy.

InuYasha prepared his sword and yelled, "Backlash Wave!" Swirling wind blew Akiko's attack Reihou Nami back at the Shichinintai. They all prepared to block it when Akiko said, "Toku no zana Kiba." InuYasha's Backlash Wave, which had sent her Reihou Nami back to them, was now being redirected towards InuYasha again as Toku no zana Kiba repelled it. The full power of the Reihou Nami hit InuYasha. Many deep gashes hit allover his body. Each one gushed blood from the wound.

By now, InuYasha was almost unconscious as well. His bright amber eyes seemed darker and dead-like as he passed out completely.

"INUYASHA!" the girl and kitsune yelled together. They ran over to him. Now the girl got angry. Tears filled up in her eyes. "You won't get away with that!" She aimed another arrow at the Shichinintai. It was mostly aimed at Akiko.

"Akiko," Renkotsu said to her.

"Yes?"

"Do you think you have an attack that can repel the Sacred Arrow?"

"Sacred Arrow?" 'I thought only Lady Kikyo could shoot the Sacred Arrow. Wait! That is where she looks familiar. She looks just like Kikyo. Or at least from the paintings I've seen of her. But that couldn't be. She was said to have died over 50 years ago.'

"Yes, Sacred Arrow," Renkotsu said interrupting her thoughts. "Do you?"

"Um. I think I might…" Akiko replied, thinking of one of Dohanone's attacks, which would be most likely to defend against the Sacred Arrow.

"Well are you going to use it or not because Kagome is about to shoot her arrow," Suikotsu informed her.

Akiko thought for a moment, 'who? Oh!' The oddly dressed girl now confirmed as Kagome had shot her arrow. The arrow was engulfed in Lady Kikyo's Sacred Power.

"Hyakuhei Kurumu," Akiko said as the arrow came towards her. The arrow hit the blade of Dohanone. As it did, the pure, pink light collided with the deep red evil light of Hyakurei Kurumu. Surprisingly for Kagome, The aura around her arrow left along with the aura around Akiko's sword.

"What?" Kagome shrieked. "It didn't work!" She now had a terrified look on her face as all of the Shichinintai approached her.

Before they got to her the kitsune yelled, "Fox Fire! Smashing Top!" A blue flame almost hit the Shichinintai, but Renkotsu took a drink out of his flask and blew fire at the Fox Fire, burning Shippo. His Top was still about to hit them when Jakotsu took Jakotsutou and slashed at it. The top stopped spinning and reduced down to a normal size.

Shippo was now unconscious with Sango and InuYasha.

"Hold it right there!" Miroku said. He tried opening his Wind Tunnel again, but out of nowhere came large bees, which flew towards it. Miroku closed his Wind Tunnel immediately.

Ginkotsu took an axe out from behind his back and hit Miroku down his shoulder with it. Blood shot up from his wound. He yelled in pain and put his hand over his wound to try and stop the blood, which was already forming a puddle beneath him.

As they got closer Mukotsu smirked. "Kagome my dear! How have you been? I'm still looking forward to when we can get married." He laughed and tried to hide his evil grin behind his veil.

Everyone prepared for the final attack to completely finish of InuYasha and all of his friends when a woman suddenly burst out of the wind. "Yo." She said.

"Oh great. It's that bitch Kagura," Jakotsu said in a sarcastic joy, scrunching up his face.

"Who is she?" Akiko asked.

"She's an incarnation like Kanna," he told her. "Except she annoys me," he added on.

Kagura gave him a look that said that she felt the same about him.

'Jakotsu doesn't like her? Go figure…' Akiko thought, bemused at her own dislike for Jakotsu already.

"Why are you here anyway?" he asked her.

She cleared her throat and replied, "Naraku has decided that he is not ready for InuYasha and all of his stupid little friends to die yet." Without another word, she pulled a feather out of her hair and flew away on it.

"'Not ready for them to die yet?'" Renkotsu shouted angrily. "We've been trying to kill them for ages and have never succeeded. And now that we have almost done it, he wants us to let them live? What the hell is wrong with him?"

A look of relief crossed Kagome's face.

"It doesn't matter," Suikotsu said calmly. "Now that we have Akiko, we can do it again when Naraku really wants them dead. We didn't even have Bankotsu's help for this. Next time when we do, we'll be invincible."

Jakotsu, Renkotsu, Mukotsu, Ginkotsu, and Kyoukotsu didn't seem too thrilled about it, but didn't say anything more.

As they went back to where Bankotsu was staying, Akiko found herself deep in thought again. 'Well Suikotsu just kind of gave me a compliment. And Bankotsu already trusts me. That's two down, five to go. I think Jakotsu will probably be the hardest. I just have to make sure I get on their good side. If I can manage to kill InuYasha or one of his friends, they'll probably trust me more. But what is it with them listening so much to Naraku? Oh well. Not bad for my first day. I could really use something to eat right now though…'

It was like he read her mind for when they got back, Bankotsu asked, "Is anybody else hungry? I want something to eat."

They all agreed and Renkotsu had gone to make dinner with Suikotsu as Kyoukotsu went off to go hunt for something to eat.

During dinner, Bankotsu was told about what kind of attacks her sword had.

"Wow, you are an even better member than I thought you would be. Your first day and you already kicked our arch nemesis' ass. Good one," he said smiling cheerfully. Kageyu, who had been with him, also congratulated her.

To Akiko's utter disgust found herself blushing at Bankotsu compliment. "Thanks…" she muttered.

And to make matters worse she could have sworn that Jakotsu saw for he gave her an evil glare, watching every move she made for the rest of the night.

Author's Note: Wow, this chapter ended up being four pages long in Microsoft Word. And it didn't even contain much of Bankotsu! By the way, did anyone notice I said "rate" last chapter? lol. That's what happens when you write too much on Quizilla. C'est la vie… But please review.