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Authors Beginning Note: Well, I'm back at it again! I found it not so difficult to get inot the swing of things after I reread the 1st 3 chapters. A hard task-dissolve into a previous writing style, and keep this story UNDER 15 chapters. I have quite the task befoer me.
Well, A later start than I had hoped to make, so I'm thinking the story may run through New Years as well.
I hope you enjoy!
The Christmas Dolls
Chapter 4
Enemy of my Enemy
What met Kagome and Inuyasha was not quite what they expected. Threads were twined everywhere, like a sewing lesson gone completely wrong.
"Now what?" Kagome stopped. Inuyasha looked at her strangely.
"What do you mean now what? Just shoot one of your damn arrows!"
"What good will the do?"
"Just do it!" Kagome stared him in the eyes.
There's just something about him…I trust he knows what he's talking about…but why…Wasn't it just last night that he was trying to kill me…now it's like…we're saving each other…I guess…an Enemy ofmy enemy is my friend…and the like…
She concentrated and felt a tug inside of her. As she loosened the arrow, a stream of light caused the spindly strings to fall uselessly to the floor.
She stepped forward, but quickly withdrew her bare foot. Blood oozed out of the many lined cuts left over from the razor strings. Inuyasha growled and picked her up. Ignoring the tiny pricks on his feet, he carried the unprotesting girl as far as they could go. She released more arrows to allow them to get by, until finally, they came to the thickest covering of all. The doorway to Souta's room.
"Souta! Can you here me!"
"Sis! Get me out of here!" She heard him cry.
"Follow me." Kagome grabbed Inuyasha's wrist, and without hesitation, used her arrow to completely descimate her bedroom door. Her room was unearthly cold and her feet seemed to freeze to the floor as she walked.
"What are we doing here!"
"Getting your sword."
"Tetsusaiga!" He growled.
Kagome shoved the key into the lock mercilessly, ignoring him. It clicked open and she dropped the box as a blinding flash shocked her eyes into seeing nothing more than dots. She heard a gasp. Blurred vision came to her as she groped the floor for the small wooded chest that was so precious to her. Her hand grasped a smooth round sphere that seemed warm and alive in her palm. She drew the necklace close to her.
"Where did you get that?" She heard a hitch in his voice and looked up in the direction he should be.
"My mother gave it to me. She said it was a family heirloom and to guard it with my life."
"Hide it." The warning in his voice made her shiver. She tucked it safely in her shirt, where its glow was thoroughly extinguished. She was grateful when he picked her up, so she wouldn't have to stumble through the hallways blindly and cut her own throat on one of those threads.
"Do you have Tetsusaiga?" She asked gently.
"Hush."
She heard the splintering of wood and knew that her brother's door had been brutally opened. Kagome felt her vision clear away and gasped. It was like a spiders lair inside. The room was covered to the brim, and worst yet were the visible silhouettes of cacoons. Spiders creeped along every vine and turned to look at them. Thousands upon thousands of beady red eyes stared at them.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome squealed, holding on to him tightly. He felt the overbearing instinct to protect her kick in. He set her down besides him.
"Naraku! Show yourself!" Thousands of little laughters echoed through the spaghetti mass as each spider responded to his call.
"Here I am!"
"Come get me Inuyasha."
"Fight me Inuyasha."
"Suffer Inuyasha."
Inuyasha slashed at every thread but they seemed to replace themselves. Instead thread upon threads began to wrapp around his legs, his arms, his torso. Kagome looked horrified.
"No!" She screamed and lunged. With her arrow she lashed out viciously at the webs. She was near the point of insanity. She looked the part of a violent mad woman. The arrows tore away and Inuyasha was free. Kagome didn't stop. She kept slashing and tearing. The bodies of her brother, and friends fell to the floor.
She fell to her knees, exhausted and afraid. She wept adn couldn't move.However in her frenzy, She did not notice the glow eminating from her chest. A white light.
"The Shikon Jewel! I must have it!" A storm of spiders dove down for her, unbeknownst to the weeping girl.
"Kagome!" She looked up at the form of her would be savior before death descended.
Bong! The clock downstairs struck.
And everything disappeared as it had been before it had begun.
Kagome thrashed awake. Almost screaming as she sat up. The morning sun burned her eyes and she looked down besides her. Sango was wrapped snuggly in her sleeping and was rudely awoken by her companion.
"Kagome?"
"Tell me it wasn't a dream! Tell me I'm not going insane!There really were spiders, and Naraku! And…" Sango's eyes bugged out.
"Kohaku!"
"Souta!" They said simultaneously. They quickly ran out and tore through the house. It wasn't until they looked at the blissfully sleeping forms of the two boys sprawled about and snoring, that a sigh of relief escaped them.
"Girls! What are you doing up at this time of the morning? And in your brother's room?" Each girl looked at each other.
"Nothing mom! Go back to bed!" Kagome kissed Ms. Higurashi and Sango followed suite. The woman rubbed her kissed cheek and shook her head.
"They just seem to get odder as they grow older." She turned around and fell back into bed.
Kagome picked up the doll, captured in the moment of chivalrous rage. His feet were stained red and thin cuts seemed to have shredded the skin. She let a single tear fall for him.
Sango held up Miroku in the light and examined him. He seemed no worse for ware. Maybe a little uncomfortable in his position, but still not injured.
"We need answers. And we're not getting them until they wake up."
"And that won't be until tonight. Sango, I don't want to go through that again. Last night, we…we almost…we…" Sango shook her head.
"We'll just have to have your grandfather set up a protective barrier everywhere." Kagome sat there and looked at the man in her palms.
"He kept calling me Kikyo."
"Who?"
"Naraku. The man who was after us. And he wanted the necklace…the necklace!" She groped around her neck and there it was. She pulled it out and it looked like and ordinary glass bead the size of a large shooter marble.
"Kikyo was the Princess. And a Priestess. You must look an aweful lot like her." Kagome's face turned sour.
"I don't know if that's something I want."
"Either case, this Naraku seems to be after you Kagome." Kagome sat there for a moment, her mind reeling backwards and forwards at once, causing a stand still.
"The library. We should go to the library. Maybe we'll find something there."