Well it took me two weeks but I have another long chapter( 7 pages). Work is really demanding so that's why I'm going a little slow. I will continue to update. I will not leave this story unfinished. Thanks to the added Sess/Kagura part it will add at least 10 more chapters I think. The only thing I'm a little sad about is the amount of reviews is going down. I hope I haven't lost too many people.
Disclaimer: I don't own IY. Never have but hope to in the future.
Chapter 44: Sorting Things Out
Inuyasha's Kaimetsuha [I know I altered the name but according to Tsukinoko it basically means the same thing and I agree that it sounds slightly better that way.] had successfully killed off all of the yakuza army with the exception of Kitiara who had been finished off by a combined effort from Inuyasha and Kagome. The only things left now was to sort everything out amongst the allies.
[by the way the # doesn't mean anything different then the stars from before. Its just that ff.net deletes them so I'm now using #]
"Well that was an interesting way to end a fight," the mysterious stern spectator said.
"I loved it," the other man said with a huge grin.
"Since when was that attack an area attack? I thought that it did damage to one person only. Not to an entire battlefield," the woman asked.
"I'll explain that later."
As soon as Inuyasha had finished the attack and was sure that Kitiara was dead his legs gave out on him. He didn't need any sit command this time as he fell face first in to the ground in front of him.
"INUYASHA!" Everyone yelled and ran up to him. Kagome looked over the extent of his injuries. He had major gashes on his chest and back. Around those injures seemed to be very bad burns. His legs and arms had cuts going up and down them. It looked as if he had lost quite a bit of blood in battle. If he had been human, Inuyasha would have died. Even as a hanyou Inuyasha was barely conscious. Kagome quickly used her powers to start healing him. She had used a lot of her power during the battle but luckily Midoriko and Izayoi had been right she had plenty of miko power. She was grateful for this because she needed it when healing Inuyasha. It took her several minutes but he was looking better as time went on. Inuyasha could feel his aches disappearing and when his mind settled he realized Kagome was healing him. He also could sense that it was really draining her power. Once all of his major injuries were healed he stopped her. "That's good enough," Inuyasha said to her.
"You still have a lot of injuries left," she said as she tried to continue healing him.
"They're only scratches left. I don't need to carry you home cause you passed out from healing me to much," he told her. He could tell that she wasn't about to stop so he actually reasoned a way out of it. "Worry about the others. I'll be fine for now."
When Inuyasha said that it made Kagome realize she had totally forgotten about everyone else. One of them could have been dying and she was just thinking about Inuyasha. She quickly turned to see all of her friends their with only a few injuries but nothing severally life threatening. Tai seemed to be the worst though even he wasn't as bad as Inuyasha. All his injuries were probably from the fact that he like Inuyasha had just charged ahead without anyone else there to help him out. He had a big diagonal gash on his back. He had two horizontal cuts along his torso and his legs were badly cut up as well. Most of the leg cuts he received he had gotten while in his demon form.
Kagome quickly made her way around healing everyone. Within a few minutes everyone was back to normal except for Kagome who felt just a bit weak. "So does anyone want to start explaining everything?"
"Well how about we get out of here first?" Tai asked. "We can all go back to the Shrine and then talk about it."
"That sounds good," Kagome said as she almost fell asleep.
"I'll meet you there," Tai said as he watched all of them take off. Sango, Miroku, and Rika atop Kirara, Souten had learned to fly like her brother and gave Kyo a ride, while Kagome was on Inuyasha's back. Kouga, Ayame, and Shippo were left to run to Kagome's house. As soon as they were gone Tai took off towards the edge of the forest. As soon as he got there he looked up into the trees. "Are you going to come down now or do you want to continue to spy from up there?"
"I don't know. Should we?" the one man said with a smile.
"It is fun to annoy him sometimes," the woman said but they soon jumped down in front of him.
"Happy now?" came the usual stern voice.
"What are you guys doing here?" he asked almost mad at them.
"Don't take that tone of voice we me young man!" the woman yelled. "Besides I see more than just guys here."
"You know what I mean," Tai replied.
"Who ever taught you how to disrespect your elders," the one man asked.
"Oh, I don't know. It could have been the man who trained me for quite a bit," Tai asked.
"Are you saying I did?" the man stated though he knew the answer.
"I told you it was a bad idea," the woman said to the detached man.
"Yes, I knew it was," the man said in monotone, "but I was in his debt."
"Well you better get going and see you uncle or else they'll start to wonder what happened to you," said the other man. Tai didn't move though. He just looked at the man with a grin. It took him a little bit to understand why Tai wasn't leaving. He just growled before rephrasing his statement. "Get going to the shrine now."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going," Tai said.
Just as he turned around to go he heard the monotone voice call out to him. "Tai," he said and waited for Tai to face him. "Don't forget about dinner at your grandfather's this Sunday."
"Thanks, I almost forgot," Tai said. "Hiko's coming from the US, isn't he?"
"Yeah, we finally got him to get out of Pennsylvania and come back home," the man replied with a small laugh. [sorry but the author has to advertise his home state, which he loves. J ]
"He likes the forests there you know that," Tai said. "Who would have expected it, a dog liking to be around trees?" Tai and the woman laughed while the two men just glared at him a bit.
"You know you just made fun or yourself?" the man said in monotone.
Tai didn't care. He didn't mind if a joke was made at his expense as long as he could laugh at it. "Well I have to get going. See you later."
Inuyasha and Kagome were the first to arrive but by then Kagome was asleep on Inuyasha's back. While trying to get her off, he woke her up. Everyone else got there about the same time except for Tai. He showed up a minute later. "Where were you?" Inuyasha asked.
"I just had some clean up to do," Tai replied. "Where's Shippo and Souten?"
"Well Souten dropped off Kyo and they had to go. They didn't say why but they took off," Inuyasha said.
"I see," Tai said. "So what exactly are we sorting out?"
"I want to know how did that huge attack?" Kagome asked Inuyasha. "How is that attack the same as when we fought Naraku?"
"I don't know," Inuyasha said. "I did it the same way. Maybe it had to do with the fact that there was more energy put into the attack this time."
"Actually, I know the answer," Tai said. "You guys would figure this out if I gave you enough time but I'd rather save time and just tell you now."
"Well quit blabbering about stupid things and just tell us," Inuyasha said.
"Think about it. When you fought Naraku, how many people were you fighting?" Tai asked though it was obvious.
"One," Inuyasha said.
"Yes and this time we were fighting hundreds. I hope you can see the obvious," Tai said. "The attack varies on the amount of enemies. When you fought Naraku, the attack didn't spread out like it did this time because it sensed there was only one enemy."
"It can sense the number of enemies?" Kagome asked a little skeptically.
"The energy of the attack goes after all the evil energy on the battlefield. With Naraku, there was only one evil energy source where as in this battle there were many. Now as you saw with Kitiara, the attack can only do as much damage as the energy going into it."
"I guess it's a good thing that we had added help," Inuyasha said.
"Yes, I made sure to get whoever I could," Tai said but Inuyasha just looked at him with and knowing glare.
"You hear that. You needed our help," Kouga called out.
"Well your help I think we could have done without," Inuyasha said getting Kouga a little angry. "Now Ayame was helpful but I don't know about you." Kouga was tempted to hit him but over the years he had learned to take jokes. "Now that I think about it what are you doing here?"
"Tai called and said he needed help in this upcoming battle so we came. What's wrong with that?" Kouga asked.
"Well last time I checked you and his family, specifically Kagura, didn't get along?" Inuyasha said.
"Kagura?!" Sango questioned while she and Miroku shared the same surprised expression on their faces.
"Yeah, we forgot to tell you. Tai here is the son of Sesshomaru and Kagura," Kagome said filling them in.
"That's surprising," Miroku said.
"Anyway!" Inuyasha said. "Care to explain why you two are acting all friendly?" Inuyasha asked looking at Kouga and Tai.
"I guess I'll explain," Kouga said. "Do you remember when we first met?"
It took Inuyasha a second to think back that far. "Yeah, I remember. You and your wolves were tearing apart that village."
"Yes," Kouga said a little somberly. "I'm not particularly proud of that. Anyway one of the people that was killed when my wolves attack was a small girl. That girl was then later revived by Sesshomaru. Rin was that girl."
"That's how Rin met up with Sesshomaru?" Kagome stated a little surprised.
"Yes, well so as to not say too much that was remembered later on and Kagura treated Rin as her own daughter. Because of the fact that both my pack was revived and Rin was revived that little fight ended without too much hassle."
"Beside's Inuyasha those two are the most stubborn people I know. So your saying that just like that, they made peace?" Kagome asked.
"It wasn't exactly that easy," Tai said with a stutter. "It took a bit of convincing. My father helped out as well."
"That isn't good," Inuyasha said.
Before any more could be said, the door to Kagome's house opened. "Kagome!" her mother yelled as she ran over with the rest of her family not far behind. "We were so worried about you. We didn't know how you were doing."
"It's good to see that you're doing good as well, boy," Mr. Higurashi said to Inuyasha. "I should have known you could take care of yourself."
"I knew you'd win," Souta said. "That's why you're my hero."
"Yeah, whatever," Inuyasha said.
"So who are all these people, Kagome?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.
"This is Sango, Miroku, Kouga, Ayame, Rika, Kyo, and I think you know Tai," Kagome said. "Everyone this is my mom, dad, my grandfather, and my little brother, Souta."
Everyone exchanged hello for a little bit. "We'll leave you out here with you friends, Kagome. We're going to start dinner soon so if your friends want to join us they are welcome," Mr. Higurashi said.
Sango and Miroku agreed while the others declined the offer. "Well I think its time we get going," Kouga said.
"Yes, we have a far way to get home. It has been nice to see you again," Ayame said. With that Kouga and Ayame took off.
There was something bothering Sango that she finally decided to ask. "I can understand why everyone else is here but can you tell me why you're here? Not that I'm not grateful," Sango asked Rika and Kyo.
"That's cause he's you're descendants," Rika said without thinking. Kyo and Tai glared at her.
"What?" Sango asked shocked.
"Don't get too flustered," Kyo said. "What she means is that I'm a descendant of the Demon Exterminators."
"They still exist?" Sango asked.
"Yes, the town of exterminators still exists but many have gone off from the town and live in other parts of the world. It was not a well liked idea at first but we are able to cover more area this way," Kyo said.
"It's great to know that our way of life still lives on in the future," Sango said.
"Yes, and we have Inuyasha to thank for that. If he had not made the wish on the Shikon Jewel, the town would have just been another memory," Rika said.
"So how do you fit into this?" Miroku asked.
"I'm technically not one of the exterminators but I've been hanging around with Kyo since I was young that I got a good bit of training myself," Rika said with a smile. "Wanna fight me to see?"
"No thanks," Miroku said with a smile. "If I want a fight all I have to do is," Miroku's hand grabbed onto Sango's rear and she instantly swung for his head. Miroku was expecting this and jumped back. "See what I mean," He said quickly as he ran away from Sango as she continued to try and hit him.
"I've always heard stories but its nothing like seeing it in person," Kyo said with a smile.
"What do you mean you've heard stories?" Kagome wondered.
"Those two are the most famous couple of all the demon slayers," Rika said.
"I can understand why," Inuyasha said. Inuyasha looked around and noticed someone missing, "Where's Tai?"
"I don't know he was here before," Kagome said.
"He wouldn't have left without saying good bye," Rika added. Just then Tai walked out of the Higurashi house.
"What were you doing in there?" Inuyasha asked.
"Don't you trust me yet?" Tai asked but from the look on Inuyasha's face he already knew the answer. "If you must know, I went to get a drink of water. Now if you'll excuse me I must be going. I was asked to tell you that dinner is ready."
"That's good," Kagome said. "Inuyasha, could you go get Sango and Miroku?"
"Yeah sure," Inuyasha said as he walked off.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay?" Kagome asked Rika and Kyo.
"No thanks. We must be going as well," Rika said. "Have fun." Rika and Kyo gave Kagome before leaving.
The entire Higurashi family was gathered around the table as well as Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku for supper. They all ate while chatting a bit more. "So you're Sango and Miroku?" Mrs. Higurashi stated more than questioned. "Kagome has told me so much about you. It's so nice to meet you finally."
"The feeling is mutual," they both said.
"So how did you get through the well?" Inuyasha asked. "And how did you know where we were?"
"Midoriko gave us the ability for when she wanted us to deliver her sword to Kagome," Sango said. "As for your location, we could easily feel an overwhelm evil demon energy."
"Oh my god, I lost the sword. I forget where I put it," Kagome said getting worried.
"Calm down," Inuyasha assured her. "I put it away with Tetsusaiga. You totally forgot about it when you fell asleep."
"Speaking of the sword," Miroku said. "What was with that combined attack you two did? You guys must have really been training to do that."
"Actually, our training had nothing to do with that. I could feel what Tetsusaiga wanted me to do so I did it," Inuyasha admitted and Kagome agreed.
"So what are you going to call it?" Sango asked.
Kagome was about to say something when Inuyasha spoke, "Kyuusei Batsu" [ aka Sudden Death Strike. Thanks to Array for this.]
"Don't I get any say in this?" Kagome just about yelled at him.
"Ow, ow, ow," Inuyasha said as he rubbed his sensitive ears. "Fine, what do you want to call it?"
"I think "Kyuusei Batsu" is a good name," Kagome said.
"Then why the hell did you yell at me?" Inuyasha asked.
"I wanted you to admit that I had a say in the naming of it," Kagome said. Inuyasha just gave his usual 'Feh' response which Kagome just ignored. She just turned back to Sango and Miroku. "This is so cool, so you'll be able to go back and forth with us."
"Actually we can't," Miroku said and which Kagome got a bit disappointed. "Once we go back to the feudal era, we can't come back here. This is a one time chance."
"So how long before you have to go back?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"Well she never told us how long before we had to go back, so we can go back whenever we want," Sango said.
"That's good cause I want to show you around," Kagome said with a smile.
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Well that's it for this chapter. I do have a question for my audience though:
I've been thinking about doing another karaoke incident. What do you guys and girls think? Probably won't be with Sango and Miroku. Just IY and Kagome. Let me know
Thanks to all the people for reading and for those who review. Please review and join me next time for:
Chapter 45: Touring Tokyo