By Goth Kag
"Lady Kagome what was that thing you gave Saki before we left?" Miroku asked as they walked through the forest in search of this demon.
"Yes, Kagome, did it really have powers?" Sango asked also as she walked next to Miroku. Inuyasha snorted.
"It was a stupid toy." Inuyasha said crossing his arms.
"It was a toy that I got when I was little, about 5 years old. It was my comfort toy. And no it doesn't have real powers but I thought it would make her feel good to think it did." Kagome said smiling, "And it's not stupid!" She sneered at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha's ears twitched as he heard something in the trees. He pulled out his sword (I don't know how to spell it) and got ready. Kagome knocked an arrow and Miroku readied his staff as did Sango.
"How dare you enter my forest, have you no remorse?" Said a voice from the trees, a man jumped from his hiding place. He had no shirt on but he had white kimono pants. He had a strap across his chest that held a blade on his back. On his well muscled arms were unknown designs that went from his shoulder to his wrist. He had long silver hair that flowed to his thighs. But he had a pure white mask on. All you could she was his eyes which were a piercing red. He also had white hand gloves on, but you could tell he had claws.
"Are you the demon that destroyed the village outside of here?" Inuyasha asked growling, pointing his blade towards the man.
"What of it? You are in my forest, on my property," He looked at Kagome, "And you come looking for a fight but bring women? You shall pay for your stupidity." He said as he snapped his fingers and was in front of Kagome. Kagome yelped in surprise.
Inuyasha swung his blade, the man ducked and jumped back as Inuyasha stood in front of Kagome.
"Don't touch her!" Inuyasha said growling.
"Why do you protect her? Women are lying vixens who want nothing more then to see their men suffer. They're as untrustworthy as rats. And they're all the same." The man said glaring at Kagome and Sango.
"Lady Kagome and Lady Sango is no such thing." Miroku said stepping up.
"Oh but they are." The man said as he pulled out his long blade. Kagome looked into his fire like eyes for some hint of his behavior. He ran at Kagome with full force and collided his blade with Inuyasha's. Inuyasha growled as he fought to keep his stance, but his feet began to move backwards as the demon's aura spiked with anger. Inuyasha finally lost his balance and was thrown across the clearing hitting a near by tree.
He was unconscious.
The demon turned his gaze to Kagome. Kagome backed up.
"Stand back, Lady Kagome!" Miroku said throwing his sutras at the formidable demon. He lifted his arm as the sutras came at him. Once they hit the designs down his arm they desegregated. Kagome gasped.
"Stay out of my way!" The demon yelled in a piercing voice as he kneeled down and dug his claws into the ground. Power emitted from his hand and ground. A root shot up from the soil and rapped itself around Miroku's squirming form.
"Miroku!" Sango yelled as she ran toward him, another root shot out and grabbed her. It squeezed her hard. Sango let out a cry.
"Let them go!" Kagome cried as she knocked an arrow and fired. The demon stood there then at the last possible moment moved away. The arrow struck a tree and turned it into dust. The demon went up to her.
"Run away, girl. I like my victims free-range." He said looking at her mincingly. Kagome stood straight up and looked him in the eye. In this time Inuyasha began to wake. He looked forward at Kagome as he got up slowly and walked toward them.
"I will not run." Kagome said sternly as if to convince herself not to run. The demon was taken back along with Inuyasha. The demon walked up to her and raised his hand. A slap echoed through the forest. Inuyasha growled and whispered "…bastard…" the best he could.
It took Kagome awhile to register what happened then she turned to him with tears brimming,
"I am not scared of you." She said slowly. The demon looked at her in utter shock. Inuyasha took this moment to attack. He ran at the demon with a war cry. He lifted his sword high in the air, Kagome knew what was coming next…
But it went differently…
Exactly when Inuyasha raised his sword, the demon's power flared and emitted from the ground itself. It was so powerful that it blew the demon's own hair up. Kagome finally realized that he was hiding something and that mask was used as a sutra to hide it. Inuyasha opened his mouth,
"WIND SCA-"
"Stop!" Kagome yelled, Inuyasha stopped in mid sentence as he turned to her.
"What the hell, Kagome!" He yelled at her but didn't get a reply. Kagome started to walk toward the powering demon. She grabbed his wrist and engulfed herself in the power. The others gasped at her courage and some stupidity. The demon glared at her. Her hair flew up along with her skirt because of the surge.
"What are you doing?" The demon yelled at her. Her hands gripped his wrists tightly.
"You're hiding something! Why did you kill all those women? I want to know why!" She yelled back. The demon's power subsided in a gush of wind. Kagome still kept her grip on him but with a smooth move, her back was against him and a knife was at her neck.
"Let her go, bastard." Inuyasha said as she held his sword out.
"So you won't to know why? Well then that answer is going to cost you." He whispered in her ear as a gust of wind blew past and they were gone…