Chapter 9 The Remaining Incarnations
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"Do either of you sense a demonic aura?" Sango asked Miroku and Kagome.
"No, not yet, but I'll let you know when I do." Miroku answered her.
"Yeah, me neither." Kagome answered. "Wait, I think I do sense something. Miroku, do you sense it to?"
"Yes, yes I do, but it's not that strong. It seems as it's coming from over there." Miroku said pointing to his right.
"Take us down Kilala." Sango ordered her two-tail cat. Inuyasha and Kagome were already on the ground waiting on the ground when the others landed.
"Are you ready?" Inuyasha asked everyone, everyone nodded. "Okay, just to let everyone know, we're dealing with Moryomaru and Kagura. Kagome, you and Shippo take Kagura; the rest of us will take Moryomaru. Your spiritual powers will do us more harm than good right now when it's dealing with Moryomaru. I hope you understand." Inuyasha said to Kagome.
"I understand." Kagome told him. "Come on Shippo, let's go." Kagome and Shippo then went after Kagura, while the others went after Moryomaru. Kagome and Shippo had it a bit easier, in Kagome's eyes. All she really had to do was shoot off one of her spiritual arrows, unnoticed, and as long as it hit the mark, Kagura's heart (or lack there of), she should be defeated.
"Dance of Blades!" Kagura said noticing that Kagome was crouching behind the bushes. "Get out of here Moryomaru; you don't want Naraku dead do you? Hurry before Inuyasha and the others get the chance to attack you and destroy you!" Moryomaru did what he was told and left for Naraku's hideout.
"Damn it!" Inuyasha thought seeing Moryomaru make a run for it. "I only have one shot, so I better make it a good one." "Wind scar!" Inuyasha yelled, and with all his might he swung his tetsusagia letting the attack off. Unfortunately, Moryomaru was already out of sight, so the attack didn't meet the mark. "Damn it!"
"It's okay Inuyasha," Sango said trying to calm him down. "There's always next time, and next time he won't have the chance to leave. Now just be concentrated on defeating Kagura, it looks like Kagome is running into a little trouble anyways."
Sure enough, as soon as Inuyasha turned his attention onto Kagome and Shippo trying to defeat Kagura, he saw Kagome let one of her spiritual arrows go and Kagura move it with her fan yawning, and Shippo hiding scared. Inuyasha nodded to Kagome to send off another one of her arrows. Without questioning it, Kagome did what she was told, and once again Kagura moved Kagome's arrow out of the way like it was nothing. "Iron reaver soul stealer!" Inuyasha yelled before she was able to do anything to stop him. "Three down, three more to go than Naraku himself."
"Not entirely." Miroku interrupted. "Are you forgetting that Moryomaru hold Naraku's heart? If you kill him you don't have to kill Naraku for he dies with him. Why do you think Kagura wanted him gone so badly? So we wouldn't have the chance to kill Naraku so easily by only killing Moryomaru."
"Anyways, is everyone ready to go?" Sango asked the group.
"Not yet, I feel a pretty strong demonic aura and it's coming this way." Kagome said drawing back one of her arrows, getting ready for whoever it was to come closer so she could hit him. The figure started to appear, and Kagome shot her arrow off, "Damn it, I missed."
"Kagome, no offense, but did you honestly think that you were going to get him?" Inuyasha asked her. "You're still not at as good as you should be for hitting where you want. It usually only happens once in a blue moon." Hearing this, Kagome got furious. Inuyasha to a huge gulp, he knew what was coming. And sure enough, Kagome yelled, "Sit boy!" causing Inuyasha to fall helplessly to the ground.
"How dare you comment on my marksmanship like that!" Kagome yelled hurt. "You're supposed to be my boyfriend and boyfriends don't say that type of thing about their girlfriends! They say things like 'Nice shot honey' or 'Better luck next time' not 'You don't have enough skill to hit where you want'!"
"I never said that!" Inuyasha said defending himself.
"You might as well have."
The demonic aura belonged to Hakudoshi "Kagome, did you really think that you were going to pierce me with that arrow? Are you forgetting that I read minds, so dodging that arrow was nothing. It seemed that you enjoyed being raped by Naraku a lot yesterday; at least it seemed that way by the way that you screamed." Hakudoshi said with a smile. Inuyasha unleashed his wind scar, but Hakudoshi managed to jump out of the way. "You missed me," Hakudoshi laughed.
Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, and Miroku all started to unleash attacks on Hakudoshi, which he dodge most of them with ease. Just every once in a while he would get hit with one of Miroku's attacks with his staff, nothing too serious. Kagome, Inuyasha, and Sango finally managed to time their attacks together, and Hakudoshi was unable to dodge all three. He was able to dodge Kagome's arrow flying, but he wasn't able to dodge Inuyasha's wind scar or Sango's hiraikotsu. Inuyasha then went over to Kagome and held her tight.
"Are you all right? Hakudoshi is nothing more than a brat that is dead now, but he had no right to say what he did."
"Yes, Inuyasha I am fine. I just can't wait until the rest of Naraku's incarnations and Naraku himself is dead. That bastard deserves to die, and I would love to kill him myself. It's just that if I would see him again… I just can't see him again. Not after what he has done to me." Kagome said almost in tears.
"Are you guys ready to go? I can sense no more demonic aura's here." Miroku asked ready to finish off Naraku and his incarnations.
"I can't sense any more demonic aura's here either, so we better get on the move. Somehow I think we're going to have to deal with Naraku and Moryomaru together. Naraku's not going to make the same mistake twice." Kagome responded. Kagome then climbed on Inuyasha's back, and the others got onto Kilala, and they were off looking for the only incarnation that they had yet to run into, Byakuya.
"Miroku, can you sense the demonic aura too?" Kagome asked sensing a very strong demonic aura ahead of them.
"Yes, Kagome I can, but this kind of seems like Naraku is setting us up." Miroku responded in puzzlement.
"I don't care." Inuyasha said with a cocky attitude towards Miroku's comment. "As long as I get the chance to kill that sick bastard I don't care."
"Look, over there! There he is! There's Byakuya!" Sango said noticing him. "Take us down Kilala!"
"This shouldn't be hard." Inuyasha boasted. "Every other one of Naraku's incarnations has been easy."
"That's rather odd too." Kagome commented. "It's like Naraku wants us to defeat all of his incarnations. But if that's true, what would be the point or his reasoning behind it even?"
"If you don't mind, I'm going to kill Byakuya now. You are more than welcome to help." Inuyasha said trying to stop the nonsense.
"Go on ahead Inuyasha; Miroku and Kagome are making a lot of sense." Sango said to him.
"Fine, continue talking about all of this, but it's nothing more than a pile of bullshit if you ask me. There would be no reason for Naraku to lead us on like this. Now excuse me, I'm going to kick some ass now." Inuyasha then jumped out from behind the trees they were behind and yelled, "Wind scar!" and Byakuya was destroyed instantly, causing Inuyasha to scratch his head in wonder. He then rejoined the group behind the trees where they were having the same conversation that Inuyasha had left them with.
"You bring up a very interesting point too." Kagome said to Miroku, and then turning her attention to Inuyasha, "So, how did it go? Surprised that you defeated him so soon?" Kagome said in an "I-told-you-so" voice.
"Okay, okay, so you guys were right, big deal. So why has Naraku been setting us up if you guys know everything today?" Inuyasha said in an annoyed sort of way.
"Miroku said something about Naraku just might feel strong enough with Moryomaru by his side, and then Kagome argued it by saying that Naraku must be absorbing his incarnations back into him somehow. So all of us have agreed that one of them has to be right." Sango told him.
Inuyasha nodded his head, "I see. So Naraku thinks that he's safe hiding behind Moryomaru does he? Well we'll change his tune. It's not going to be easy, but I think we can do, no, I know we can do it. And Kagome, as for you not wanting to see Naraku again, I'm sorry, but I don't want you to stay alone somewhere, so I want you to come with us. I swear on my life that I will protect you and let no harm come to you." Inuyasha said to Kagome sincerely.
"Okay, I'll come." Kagome said with a smile to hide her pain. "We're close to Naraku's hideout. I can't sense a demonic aura quite yet, but this place seems familiar to me somehow. Inuyasha, can you pick up on Naraku's scent?"
"It's very faint, but yes, I've been able to pick up his scent since we arrived at this spot. So we're definitely close." Inuyasha responded.
"Okay then, let's start out. I want this bastard taken care of tonight!" Kagome proclaimed while jumping onto Inuyasha's back. "Aren't you guys coming too?"
Regaining themselves, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, go on top of Kilala once more so they could start on their way to Naraku's hideout. They used Kagome's sense and Inuyasha's nose to guide their way.