"There was no place for me, so I had to make one for myself, and then I realized, I had a place, but I was the only one in it. I didn't know any other way to live."
-Inuyasha.
The Darkness Within Our Hearts: Chapter 17 - Rematch and Flames of Love.
"W-where are you dragging me too? I can walk by myself without your help!" Kouga barked at Anika as she pulled him onward to...where ever it is she's leading him to.
"Where do you think we're going? To Kagome's location, dummy!" Anika answered. "I can smell Inuyasha with his mortals...they're not far from here!"
"What? W-wait a second!"
Anika stopped and released her grasp around Kouga's wrist. "What now?" She asked in an aggressive tone and putting her hands on her hips.
"Uhh...before we go, I wanted to know EXACTLY what you plan to do."
"What do you mean, 'exactly what you plan to do'? Isn't it obvious yet? I thought you were smart, Kouga. But...I guess your just as plain and dumb as that hanyou, Inuyasha..." She stated turning away in disappointment; sighing. "Oh, woe is me..."
"Just ANSWER my damn question, wench!"
Anika sighed again, scratching her head. "Ok. Ok. Fine. Don't be such a pansy..." Mumbling the last part.
"What was THAT?" Kouga growled.
"Uhh...nothing. And about my plan..."
"..." Kouga stared on. "Go on...!"
"You'll have to find out later!"
Kouga was growing impatient. "I don't have time to be playing games! I'm looking for a man named Nara-"
"Yeah. Yeah." Anika cut in. "Enough of the bullshit, already! I had just about more then I can handle from you! Now hurry up you sack of shit, before Kagome starts moving elsewhere!"
"Fine." Kouga spat. Both demons ran, their speed causing a tornado behind their feet, and much bigger than Kouga's tornado by himself. "Heh. I'm surprised you can keep up with me, girl."
"Like-wise. But I heard you were fast 'cause you have Shikon shards in your legs, right?" Anika smirked.
"Well...yes, your correct."
"YOU CHEATER!" Anika barked.
"What the hell?"
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Bankotsu stood his ground, Rei did as well, as if they were waiting for the first cow-boy to draw their guns to shoot at one another. The set battle field was in dead silence. The wind blew. Both warriors gripped their weapons.
Aiyanami felt her heart beat in and out of her chest. But not out of fear, but out of sheir excitment to kill this particular opponent or if she's been waiting for this moment all her life.
Bankotsu tilted his head to the side, and put on a face of amusment. "Why do you hesitate? Are you merely afraid of my power?--ah."
Before Bankotsu realized it, Rei had somehow moved from his sight and appear behind him. "Your wide open." She whispered into his ear.
Bankotsu quickly jumped away from the samurai, gaining some distance. But what else was puzzling was, Rei did not attack Bankotsu when she had the chance. "How did she get behind me so fast?" Bankotsu narrowed his eyes, into a heart-piercing glare. "W-what is this feeling...?" Bankotsu felt this strange aura emiting from Rei, one of pure darkness overflowing all around the atmosphere.
The samurai warrior smirked. "You have a piercing stare, just as I was told." Rei glared and seemed disgusted all in the same. "I'm disgusted with your attitude."
"Little bitch..." Bankotsu growled low in his throat. The urge of cutting her to pieces was growing larger and larger.
Rei turned slightly to her right. "I only came here for one thing...I'll tell you what I came here for."
"Look, I don't care what you're up to bu--"
Rei used her long spear and thrusted it's blade at Bankotsu, leavng a long cut on his cheek and cutting of a bit of his beautiful black hair. His blood oozed out from it's wound and ran down his tanned face.
"I challenge you to a duel to the death!" Rei smiled, pointing her bladed spear at Bankotsu.
Bankotsu wipped the blood running down his cheek. "I didn't even see her strike coming! Does she have a power? Or does she use some kind of special technique?" Bankotsu thought, Aiyanami continued to talk.
"And you have no right to refuse. Once we begin, I'll crush you."
"Pretty straight forward, isn't she?"
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Kagome sighed in bliss as she slowly stepped into a nice refreshing hotspring with Sango and Shippo. "Ahh...this is heaven!" She sighed dreamishly as she clean her face with a small white towel.
"Yes. It's been awhile since we could relax like this." Sango agreed and scooped up water with one hand and poured it over her shoulder; cleaning off the dirt. "Hey, Kagome?"
"Hm?"
Sango paused for a moment til she was able to come out with her question. "What do you plan to do...after...we defeat Naraku and you collect all the shikon shards?"
"Hmm..." Kagome thought. "I'm not sure, Sango. I've never thought of that before."
"Do you still plan on visiting us in this era, right?" Shippo asked with consern.
"Of course I still plan to, you guys are my friends, after all..." Kagome's expression became sad and depressing. "But the only reason I keep coming back here, is beacause I have to collect the Shikon shards, so...after I collect the shards, my reason to come here would be expired...and plus, what would Inuyasha think?"
Suddenly an awfully familiar feminine voice echoed through the air. "Ha! Ha! Ha! That's enough talk girls and boy!"
"That voice," Sango turned to Kagome. "Isn't it...Anika's?"
"Yes. But...where is it coming from?" Kagome answer looking around as she wrapped a white towel around her body.
"Wouldn't YOU like to know, huh, Kagome?" Anika's voice boomed again. Acting very out of character and stupid.
Having her voice so loud, obviously Inuyasha and Miroku could hear and came to the Hotspring, asking. "What's wrong?" or "Are you ok?"
Sango picked up a near by rock and threw it at Miroku's head. "You pervert!" She cried as Miroku fell back from impact.
"Osuwari!" Kagome commanded. And Inuyasha crash into the ground. Anika's voice laughed in amusment.
"Ho! Ho! Ho! Very amusing, amusing indeed!" She chuckled. Anika jumped from her hiding place with Kouga behind her.
"KOUGA!" Inuyasha growled, trying to get up from the floor. "What the hell? What's going on?"
"Inu shit. I don't even KNOW what's going on either! I'm just here!" Kouga replied.
Anika continued to laughed and jumped over to where Kagome was and picked her up and put Kagome over her shoulder, like a sack of potatoes. "W-w-what are you doing?" Kagome cried to Anika, but was ignored.
"Listen up Inuyasha! Kouga!" Anika shouted, pointing a finger at both hanyou and wolf demon. "I'm kidnapping Kagome! And if you don't give me...uhh...the...S-Shikon shards you stole from me and Rei, I'll EAT Kagome!"
"What?" Kagome cried again. "Anika, you wouldn't!"
Inuyasha stood up. "My ass! Like, I'd give you the Shikon shards! I KNEW you were up to NO good!"
"Ho! Ho! Ho!" Anika chuckled again. "Is that so, hanyou? Is that your final answer?"
"YES!" Inuyasha barked.
"Then Kagome dies!" Anika annouced and flames appeared around Anika and Kagome, the flames consumed them and once the flames settled, Anika and Kagome were no where to be seen, only Anika's final laugh and Kagome's final cry echoed...
"Inuyasha!" Kouga roared. "You stupid ass! LOOK, at what you've done! Kagome is gonna get eaten 'cause of YOU!"
"Oh, shit..." Inuyasha didn't even realize what he's done. Kagome is in danger now. "Oh, shit..."
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Bankotsu charged forward thrusting Banryuu at Rei's head, she easily moved to the side and avoided his attack, using the end of her spear she thrusted it backwards, the small blade on the end cutting Bankotsu, but Rei found out she only hit his clothes. He stumbled forward, regaining his balance he turned around for another deadly attack.
"I'm not finished yet!" Bankotsu thought.
Rei spun her spear around, and Bankotsu proceeded with his attack, but Rei stabbed her spear into the ground between Bankotsu arms, it's long handle blocking his arms and and he couldn't accomplish his attack, she smirked, and tricked Bankotsu, making him fall forward; face down towards the floor, her spear still holding back one of his arms and she pinned him down in a certain way.
Bankotsu felt a strange surge of pain run through his neck as Rei pined him down from behind. "Aiyanami style halbred technique. Style five. Mode two. 'Tsuchiguruma'. This is a technique designed to target the nerves in your neck. Is it affective?"
He replied with a choke and growl of pain. But he refused to be deafeated and ignored the pain and lift Rei off from him and grabbed his halberd and swung if at Rei from behind, but she used the long handle of her spear and blocked him off. Both of them went flying back, having a long distance between them.
Rei swung her spear and the bottem blade seemed to come off but attached to a chain. Swing it around, Bankotsu jumped away from the chain and it's blade, the blade striking rocks and rubble and dirt flew into the air. Bankotsu dived down at Rei, using all his weight and power into this blow. "If she blocks with her spear, that skrawny stick won't be strong enough save her from my Banryuu! She'll be cut in half!"
And just as Bankotsu predicted, Rei was gonna block with her spear. "Game over!" And his blade collided with the handle of her spear.
"What? Impossible!" Bankotsu's banryuu DIDN'T break through the spear. Rei had blocked off his attack again.
"Are you surprised, Bankotsu?" Rei asked but he didn't reply and they both struggled to over power one another. "If you haven't figured it out yet, you rather pathetic. Do you remember when we first met? And the scroll I was reading...which I obtained from that pathetic war lord?"
.: Flash Back :.
"What heck is up with the striped face crew?" Anika asked but Rei just shrugged and drank some more sake.
"Hey! Did you kill everyone here?" Renkotsu questioned, stepping forward to appear more threatening.
"I didn't. But she did." Anika pointed to Rei who was still drinking and began to read a scroll. "Why? You...live here or something?"
"No! We wanted to kill this village ourselves!" Jakotsu whined.
Anika sweatdropped. "Oh? Well...your too late..."
Bankotsu stepped forward. "We came a long way here. And we'll kill you instead. Two girls who slauthered this village has gotta be strong..."
.: End Flash Back :.
Rei smirked as she tried to over power Bankotsu but they were at equal. "Using one of it's black magic spells, I slapped it on this spear, so that YOU couldn't break it and end my life in one swing...THAT'S how I lasted up til now against your Banryuu."
"Just because your weapon is unbreakable...doesn't mean you've won!" Bankotsu finally over powered Rei, she barely dodged his blade, once again, they were at a stale-mate. (I think that's how you spell it. But you get the idea.)
"Bankotsu oo-aniki!" Jakotsu's voice called. He used his serpent sword and swung it at Rei, Jakotsu's sword was much moe troublesome, the threw her spear at his dancing blades and they became tangled with one another. She was defenseless now.
"I won't die now! But if my time has come, I'll take Bankotsu to hell with me!" Rei said stepping back until she came to the edge to a cliff, the bottem filled with rushing waters.
"Give up and die!" Bankotsu yelled and charged for a final attack.
"Not yet!" Rei thought and moved quickly to the side and pulled out a small mini katana hidden within the sleeve of her kimono, and thrusted it into Bankotsu's back. Bankotsu lost all thought and felt nothing but pain, not able to stop himself, both Rei and Bankotsu fell off the edge to the cliff and fell into deadly cold rushing waters.
"BANKOTSU OO-ANIKI!" Jakotsu cried along with the other Shichinintai as they watched him fall and vanish into the river.
End of Chapter 17.
Jakotsu: HOLY SHIT!
Anika: HO! HO! HO!
Kagome: I'm gonna get eaten! Help me, Inuyasha you baka!
Inuyasha: Oh, shit...
Bankotsu and Rei: Review! And look forward to the next chapter!
Anika: HO! HO! HO!
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The Darkness Within Our Hearts: Chapter17 - Rematch and Flames of Love. Complete!
Date posted: June 26, 2005
Disclaimer: Does not own InuYasha.
Copy Right of author, Rei Aiyanami.