A/N: Well thank you for those reviews I'm glad you like my story and I'm very sorry for the long wait for this chapter but I had a lot of stuff going on the last few weeks such as Badminton practices and a tournament. Oh, and a lot of homework jeez those teachers try to cram everything they can into our brains by giving us thousands of projects and tests my god I'm amazed I'm alive. Anywho enough of my babbling and to the story.
Oh and a quick note "" talking and ' ' thinking.
A Gift and A Curse
Chapter 3
'Finally we have completed it,' he thought to himself a pleased smile crossing his lips. He smirked, 'it took us long enough but we have completed it,' he looked over at Kikyo who had helped him with his plan and his smirk grew even more 'and now would be the perfect time to take care of that annoying priestess since her spiritual powers are so very low but unfortunately I still might need her. Damn I can never hit two birds with one stone.' Then something crossed his mind. "Tell me Kikyo, do you know what kind of demon your reincarnation will become when she is dosed with the potion?"
"No, I do not, Naraku," she snapped, "now excuse me while I go have a nap and a bath since I have been up all night working on that potion," she growled.
He laughed silently to himself. 'Yes, it was true he made her stay up all night working on that potion but it was worth it,' he then called for his own reincarnations and Kohaku. They all bowed when they came to the presence of their creator.
"What is it you wish of us Naraku," asked Kagura.
"Gather a small army of demons that will distract Inuyasha and his companions then I want Kohaku to poison Kikyo's reincarnation with a potion I have brewed."
"What weapon shall I use to poison her with," asked Kohaku in his mono tone voice he uses when he is being controlled by Naraku. (I hate Naraku and many other reasons for taking control of Kohaku because one time in the series when he is not being controlled he is really nice and innocent)
He seemed thoughtful for a few seconds then said, "With a dart. I shall prepare that for you while, Kagura, readies the army." Then he dismissed them with a wave of his hand. Soon it will be time my little miko, soon it will be time."
"Ah, I see ye have finally returned from ye's hunt, were ye successful?"
"Yes, we were successful Lady Kaeda, we managed to retrieve a piece of the Shikon No Tame," replied Miroku with a warm smile.
"Uh, Kaeda may Miroku and I talk to you in privet?" asked Sango.
"Why of course child," she then gave Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo a stern glare and also noticing that Kilala was in the room also gave her a nod. Kilala the opposite of Inuyasha quickly bounded out of the room in her tiny form.
Now that everyone was out of ear shot she turned to her questioners. "Now, what was it you wanted to talk with ye about?"
Sango wrung her hands, "Well... uh... Inuyasha sort of...o I CAN'T DO THIS Miroku you tell her."
"As you wish, well Kagome was attacked by Inuyasha the night before we got here and it's not the verbal attack and not the physical attack but more on the..."
"Sexual?" Kaeda asked getting a bit nervous. Sango nodded while groaning.
"Kagome, said something about having her period," Sango piped up. "She said it was something that everyone went through I'm still also going through it but it is not as bad as Kagome's."
"Period?"
"Oh, right you don't get it I forgot sorry Miroku. A period is a woman's menstruation. I don't know much about it this was from Kagome and I have forgotten the rest. But that's the main idea."
"I see very clearly now the reason why Inuyasha attacked Kagome was because she was giving off extremely woman smells and that may drove Inuyasha's hormones to the limit. Plus I'm surprised Kouga did not show up."
"Why would Kouga show up?"
"Well, Kouga does claim Kagome as his and is madly in love with her so who else's hormones would go haywire." Miroku and Sango then fell silent in deep silence until a loud yell and boom disrupted them from their thoughts.
"What in the world?"
"Run, children I sense great evil," with a nod they left.
"What or who do you think it is?" Well it could be Kouga smelling Kagome or it could be Naraku.
"I wouldn't call Kouga evil so I take it number two then and if that is so we better quicken our pace."
"Oh, great. Why does he always have to bring those bugs?" Miroku growled while putting the prayer beads on his hand back on while dodging an attack from Kagura's wind blades.
During the battle everyone had gotten separated in the forest. Miroku and Kilala were together, Inuyasha and Shippo were together, and Kagome and Sango were together. Inuyasha could have taken out all the demons but since the dense forest was well do dense and he could have killed everyone including Kagome and everyone else. Since that had happened everyone had to take care of themselves. With only a little help.
"SANGO, BEHIND YOU!" Kagome yelled.
"Hirakstu... thank you Kagome."
"No prob Sango," called Kagome while killing 3 other demons with her purity arrow but as soon as she killed them 5 others took there place. "Darn it this is getting nuts." She dodged an attack from a snake demon having to jump into a net of trees.
Kohaku took his chance Kagome was down and not moving too much only trying to untangle herself from the bushes. He took aim and fired. She fell lifeless to the forest floor. Some of the demons had finally realized that she was behind the bushes and were about to attack when they got sight of Kohaku and backed of and then went and attacked Inuyasha and the others.
Finally Inuyasha cracked and used Kaze no Kizu on Kagura. If it hadn't been for Miroku distracting her he would have failed but he was able to kill all the demons around her and destroyed some of her clothes. She called to all the survivors to retreat.
Inuyasha smirked finally have gotten rid of the nuisance. He turned and saw everyone gathering. First came Miroku, then Sango, and Kilala. Shippo bounded on Sango's shoulder. "Where's Kagome Sango?"
"What do you mean she's not here? I thought she came to Inuyasha."
"No, she hasn't shown up."
"I suggest we search around or Inuyasha can just use his nose." He looked at the hanyou but he was already gone.
"Kagome, Kagome!" Where is she?" He tried sniffing around but the scent of blood and dead corpses almost made him faint. Suddenly a foot caught his attention. "Oh no," he jumped the bushes to find an unconscious Kagome with a dark sticking out of her neck. "Naraku," he seethed. He picked her up and bounded towards to Kaeda's village. He passed Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kilala. They gave him quizzical looks but then saw Kagome in his arms and followed him without a word.
Inuyasha burst through the door and called for the old hag to come and assist him.
"Yes, my impatient dog hanyou," she sighed but then stopped in her tracks when she saw Kagome in his arms. "Lay her down here," she ordered. Inuyasha quickly did as he was told. First she checked her breathing which was fine, then checked her heart beat which was also fine. She tried to find anything that might be harmful. The only thing that was different was a hole that made Kagomes' veins around that spot turn green. Kaeda looked at Inuyasha who was staring intently at Kagome's face. "What happened Inuyasha?"
"Feh, I don't know I was too busy trying to kill that wind demon. All I know is that the fight ended all of a sudden and Kagome was missing so I went off to go look for her and when I found her she was unconscious behind some bushes with this dart sticking out of her neck." He handed Kaeda the dart. Kaeda took the dart then excused herself and ran to the back of her hut.
Finally the rest of the gang showed up and the first thing they asked, "What happened to Kagome?" and all they got for a reply was,
"I don't know go ask the old hag she's not telling me anything." They all turned toward the door and one question kept on going on through their heads, "What's going on here?"
Kaeda finally came out of the hut looking exhausted. Before anyone could ask her anything about Kagome she held up a hand to silence them. "I can only say this that Kagome will live but what was in that dart I do not know. The only thing we can do is pray it is nothing too serious and I think that everyone should stay out of the hut for tonight." Everyone gave her a nod and continued on eating their dinner.
The next morning everyone was awakened by an unearthly scream coming from Kagome.
A/N: Yeah I finally finish it and you know I think that was my first cliffhanger I have done in my entire life. Wow I'm proud of myself MUHAHAHA!!! and I shall try to get the next chapter in as soon as possible since I'm not too busy next week and I already have the plot for the next chapter so the more reviews I get the faster it will come.