What's Most Important
Chapter XI
I don't own Inuyasha or it's characters, I just like to steal them and mess with their lives.
Author's Note: Okay, I can't even give any valid excuses. Well...I guess I can give a few, but none that should justify all of my prolonged absense. I did plan on writing it over and over, and I actually did start, but issues with saving and brothers being dumb messed that all up. All I can say is I'm really, really sorry and I hope I never do that again. In fact, for a while I won't start any new stories, but I'll be fixing up my old ones especially 'You Only Get One Shot' and I will give it chapters. Also, it should have a sequel later. I think I'm going to write out my entire stories from now on before I upload the chapters. Thanks to those who are still reading and reviewing.
Reviewer Responses
Kairiyuna15: I'm glad you liked it, even if it was short. And I am sorry I took so long, but thankful you seem sypathetic. Thanks for reviewing.
Clouds of the Sky: I'm am happy you seemed to like it and also sorry it took so long. Thank you.
Inuyasha looked frantically around the room, without managing to see a single sign of where Naraku had gone. His golden eyes swept over the room carefully, until finally landing on Kagome. He sheathed his sword before dropping to his knees before her, trying to see how he could help. He watched her as she seemed to choke on the very air she needed so badly, cursing Naraku every nanosecond of it. He searched her face to see if she had any idea what to do, but she simply stared at him helplessly, having no idea. Inuyasha cursed before Kagome placed her hand on his shoulder, looking at him. She gave him a look as she supressed the pain, before motioning at the door. She wanted him to go after Naraku.
Inuyasha wanted so bad to say something, to even tell her he simply couldn't, but he knew it was all he could do. Kagome wasn't going to get better just because he was with her, but perhaps Naraku had some way to save her, and Inuyasha would persuade him into telling him how. He stood up and looked down at her, still indicisive. She nodded to him, motioning to the door again. He turned and noticed Myouga, sitting beside Kagome.
"Myouga!" he said, as if amazed by the flea's very being. Myouga's eyes widened, thinking his master was planning somethig dangerous as if he wanted to send him after Naraku and stay with Kagome himself. "You stay with Kagome. See if you can remove the poison." he orded the flea. Myouga nodded eagerly; this was much better than going after Naraku. He had removed poison from Kagome before, but this poison didn't seem to be in her blood, but in her air. Could he stop it?
Inuyasha waited no longer, immediately running to the door, taking one last look at the helpless Kagome, before continuing the follow the path he could smell. Kagura followed him, planning to stop at nothing to destroy Naraku.
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Naraku sat in a room in his palace, trying to catch his breath. He watched in horror as one of his tentacles seemed to shrivel into a leg resembling a spiders. He was changing back. Reverting into his original form was not optional, not with having a half insane half demon in his palace. Not to mention Kagura seemed to finally have a change at her goal, as he was too weak to go get her heart. Not to mention, he was sure he could not leave his hiding place.
Then it hit him. He hadn't covered his scent when he had fled! He had simply left it as he was already in indescribible pain and couldn't think straight. He was horrified as he began changing faster. Inuyasha was coming for sure already; he could almost taste his muderous intent. He felt himself revert more, and knew he could not fight. He had to flee. He looked to see a hole beside him. Perhaps all hope wasn't lost.
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Kagura raced after Inuyasha, amazed even he could run as fast as he was. He was running at least twice as fast as she had ever seen his run. She wondered idly if it was from adrenaline, before shaking her head. Now was not the time to think of such things, she needed to focus on staying in Inuyasha's pace. She watched him break through a door Naraku had traveled though, not wanting to waste half a second on opening it. Kagura jumped through it after him, only run into his back.
Kagura looked around. They were in a simple room; well, if you could call it a room. It was more of a closet, and a very small one at that. It was perfectly empty, but reeked of Naraku's stench. Inuyasha repeatedly sniffed the air, before dropping on all fours and smelling the floor. He stared at the floor. "His scent changed here." he said, seemingly talking to himself rather than her. He looked around for a window, a hidden door, anything. But alas, there was nothing; the only disfigure in the wall being a tiny hole. Inuyasha looked at the hole, wondering if it was some sort of trick. Perhaps it could be opened or...something. He looked in the hole and only saw black, but smelled Naraku.
Kagura watched him, confused. He simply stared at a hole. What was he doing? Inuyasha immediately punched through the wall, breaking it apart, before extracting a fist. He pulled his hand closer to him, before glaring at the tiny flea in his hand. It smelled like Naraku. He didn't remove his gaze from the flea, yet spoke to Kagura. "Did Naraku ever create any more incarnations? Ones that are fleas?"
Kagura was taken off guard before noticing the flea enclosed between Inuyasha's fingers. "Not that I know of."
"Thought so." he said, before vanishing, back in the direction towards Kagome. Kagome and Myouga.
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"This hardly makes sense!" Myouga said, watching the new flea in Inuyasha's hand. Kagome watched also; now breathing, but still supressing much pain and not aquiring as much air as she would have liked. Myouga had been able to get some of the poison that had infused with her blood, but had no way to clear out her air fully. Inuyasha had rushed to the two after finding the flea, and after showing him to Myouga, he learned more quite quickly.
"So, what do you know about him?" Inuyasha asked eagerly, squishing the unknown flea a bit.
"Hanzatsu." Myouga said in wonder. "He's my cousin. He's been missing for...quite some time."
"Since he bacme Naraku." Inuyasha said, staring at him. He could hardly believe it. Kagome made a noise that no one could quite understand, most likely since she couldn't speak much more than a gurgle.
"That is the man I have been enslaved by? An insignificant flea?" Kagura scoffed, saying the very thing Kagome had been thinking herself.
A tiny squeak interrupted them, coming from the flea recently identified as Hanzatsu. "Uh...No! I'm simply Myouga's cousin! I was uh...kidnapped! Yeah, kidnapped by Naraku!"
Inuyasha's only reaction was slapping his open palm on the ground, the flea who used to be Naraku underneath it. "Tell me how to cure Kagome, NOW!" he screamed to his palm.
The flea squirmed before saying something. Inuyasha lifted his palm to let him speak, still holding onto one of the flea's legs. "You can cure her by...AHHHRRGG!" he screamed, before biting Inuyasha's finger. Inuyasha was about to retaliate by squishing the flea, but Myouga beat him to him, pulling him out of the way of Inuyasha's hand.
"What are you doing, Myouga!" Inuyasha growled angrily.
"You cannot crush him or he will not help us at all. You need him for Kagome." Hanzatsu pulled away from Myouga, who in turn got angry, and to everyone's surprise, punched him in the face with a tiny flea hand.
Hanzatsu smirked. "Do what you want, I cannot cure the worthless human." He seemed to realize he was not in the best postion to speak as so. He gulped before being hit my Myouga once more. Inuyasha was alarmed as a choking sound behind him. He looked to see Kagome seeming to having problems breathing again. Inuyasha cursed before thinking of something. He ran from the room, taking Kagome with him.
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They sat in the room Inuyasha had found Hanzatsu, Inuyasha picking up the jewel shards the flea had dropped in his hurry to get away. It turned out he cared about his insignificant life too much to keep them. He handed them to Kagome, who purified them and was amazed as they combined to finish the flawless Shikon Jewel. She looked at it and handed it to Inuyasha.
'He can become a full fledged demon now.' she thought, saddened. 'But I can't hold him back from what he truly wants.'
Inuyasha looked at her with deep golden eyes, before leaning over and hugging her. 'Our last hug while he's still half human.' She hardly even noticed her breathing problems, only magnified by horrid drama.
Inuyasha held the jewel. He closed his eyes and wished. A faint pink light engulfed them. Kagome passed out immediately, not being able to stand both her shortness of air and the huge aura coming from the Shikon.
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"Now what to do with you..." Myouga said, grinning at the flea. He held him out to Kaede, who took him, looking at the ugly menace. She planned on making a rosary for Hanzatsu, to make it so he could never overtake a human again. It turned out when the demons had eaten Onigumo's soul, the flea had interrupted and outwitted them, dominating Onigumo's body. Thus, Naraku was born, only to become what he had once been.
"Oh, it seems someone is getting better." Kaede observed, as she saw the teenage human girl shift, beginning to gain consiousness. She sat up and looked around, purely confused.
"KAGOME! You're awake!" screamed a tiny, fluffy, fox demon, throwing himself at the girl.
"Shippou!" Kagome yelled in return. She held the fox in her arms, looking around. She remembered what had happened and sighed. "What happened to Inuyasha?" she asked, fearing he had become overcome.
"What do you think happened, Stupid girl." said an arrogant boy behind her. She gasped and turned to see Inuyasha behind her. She threw herself off the futon she had previously been occupying and into Inuyasha's chest, poor Shippou falling to the ground. "You're still here!" she said in amazement.
"Of course." he said, hiding his face as his skin tinged a bit at Kagome's embrace. "I'm not going to use the wish to help a helpless girl and not see how it turned out.
She stared in amazement before hugging him, not caring about the others silently watching them.
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"What!" a green demon known as Jaken said, surprised. He picked up the flea, not noticing the snickering of people and demons encased in the bushes. The flea had a sign in kanji written on it: Jaken's new Subordinate
Jaken smirked and stetched out the tiny flea, immediately waking it from it's forced sleep. "Subordinate, huh?" said the creepy demon, looking at it. He began asking the demon questions, to which the flea only glared at him. Jaken then shook him, yelling "Listen to me!" The rosary on the fleas neck glowed as the flea immediately looked at Jaken, now forever forced to listen to Jaken every time he asked.
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Author's Note: Well, this chapter ends my story. This chapter seemed a lot funnier in my head, not to mention much shorter. I s'pose this is okay. I wanted to give Jaken something; that wierd little fron...thing. I hope you enjoyed it and wait for my new stories. Thanks for reading!