"Halt! By the orders of Lord Obinawa, you are hereby under arrest!" A man in blue-grey armour with red shingles and a red sash commanded as he pulled hard on his horse's reigns, causing the gelding to rear. The captain's voice was bass and husky.
"Nye!" A short man with an annoyingly high and nasal voice called out with a triumphant voice. The man's arms were spread apart; his light blue kimono top was not so flattering to his scrawny body and over sized eyes that seemed far to big for his head. His khaki kimono shorts seemed two sizes too big where his thighs were concerned. "You'll never catch me alive!"
A soldier with a blue-silver helmet and a sword longer than the point of his middle finger to his opposing shoulder then took a step forwards. "You impudent toad!" The soldier cried out, pointing his sword in an accusing manner towards the peasant. "Do you know who you're talking to?"
"I will never," the impish little man cried out, "retreat!" And with that, the little man scrambled behind a tree, placing his hands –both left and right –onto the fertile soil and concentrated. The ground of which he had placed his hands on glowed a fiery red.
'May there be,' The impish man concentrated, his eyes shut closed and his eyebrows knitted together and arched. A large red spark then emitted from the ground as he cried out "DARKNESS OF LIGHT!"
All the horses reared and screeched, knocking their riders flat on their backs. Some of the men were cursing as they tried to get the frantic geldings calm and under control. But in the soldiers' frantic actions, none of them noticed the small hole in the ground that was acting like a whirlpool and was dramatically increasing in size by the second.
The grass on which both man and horse had been standing on was being sucked into the hole in the ground, dragging along both man and horse along with it. The ground itself was now acting more like quicksand than grass and soil.
"AARGH!" cried countless amounts of soldiers being sucked into the ground and into the dark oblivion that awaited them.
.o0O0o. Chapter Seventeen
The Hellish Earth User and Midnight Beauty.o0O0o.
"Mm!" Kagome breathed out as she stretched her arms out. "Man does that feel good!" The day was a hot one, with the sun beating down brutally. Daytime animals were sticking to the shade while the rest of their family slept. It hadn't been this warm in the spring time in a long time and Kagome couldn't even recall when springtime had ever felt like the first day of summer. Even though it couldn't possibly be more than 9:00am, Kagome was already starting her shirt stick to her skin as she mentally cursed that she had brought her long-sleeved uniform top instead of the tee-shirt. Afraid that her deodorant had possibly worn off already, Kagome was ever so thankful of the cool, light breeze that swept over her whole body.
Kagome slid on her yellow backpack and shortened the straps, making the backpack sits higher on her back rather than being loose and causing a strain. The little kitten Koruna, had scratched a rather large hole in the side of the overstuffed yellow backpack where some of Kilala's Catnip had fallen out of the container, letting Kagome's necessities fell onto the forest floor and be lost forever.
Getting onto her knees, Kagome went face to face with her little two-tailed kitten and patted his head. "So what are we going to do today Koruna?" Kagome gently asked her little kitten. Koruna looked at his mistress and blinked twice, then rubbed his cold, wet little nose against her warm, dry one. Kagome giggled softly, nuzzling her nose into the top of Koruna's head. Koruna purred quite loudly to this and brushed his cheek across Kagome's nose as an indication that he wanted to be pet.
"I noticed that you have one of the shikon shards in the back of your head," Kagome said quietly. Koruna looked at Kagome, eyes not fully open. "Now do I take it from you? Or is it your primary life source, just like Kohaku's? Or is it just a tool in your mass destruction –like Kouga?" Kagome sighed. No harm in letting the two-tailed keep the shard for now, right?
"Well I think that I have to go home for a little bit. If InuYasha is going to let me come back and stay with him, he's going to expect something to eat. I might as well bring that much," Kagome mentally sorted files of food and possibilities in her head, knowing as well as anyone in her group that she was going to have to bring noodles, something fried in a vat of oil, anything containing massive amounts of sugar or meat. 'Gee, this is going to be a hard decision,' Kagome added sarcastically with a large roll of her eyes.
"Mew?" Koruna mewed; not exactly sure of what was going on. Kagome looked at her kitten with her head tilted slightly to one side. Kagome's eyes were glued onto her flaming-feline, her pupils tiny in the bright light.
.o0O0o. Elsewhere .o0O0o.
"What? You say that you defeated the army single-handedly?" The lord of the castle asked in bewilderment towards the scrawny peasant man bowing before him. The lord's jaw was hanging down in both shock and bewilderment and practically digging his palms into his wooden floors with the weight of his body.
"Ay, my lord. I had heard that those men were bothering you, so decided to take care of them for you!" the peasant seemed slightly nervous. Even though he had the lord eating right out of his hands, the peasant could not help but tremble in his light blue kimono top and khaki kimono shorts.
"In that case, I would be honoured to have you in my army," the lord said humbly as he himself bowed down in front of the peasant with the two sacred jewel shards embedded in his wrists. Just then a soldier that was currently doubling as a guard walked up to the lord and bowed courteously before bringing his mouth towards the lord's ear and whispered.
"Eh?" the peasant asked, not sure what was going on. Whatever the soldier had said had just infuriated the lord of the castle. He immediately ordered the guards to throw out the peasant.
"Aah! What is the meaning of this?" the peasant demanded once he had hit the ground. The guards were laughing cruelly and kicking the poor man.
"You are nothing but an impostor!" one of the guards bellowed, delivering a powerful kick.
"How dare you claim to have defeated the Obinawan army to our lord? We should have you executed!" the second guard exclaimed as he brought down a wooden staff against the poor peasant's back. The two guards continued to beat the earth-using peasant and laughed whole-heartedly while doing so.
"Stop! I beg of you!" the little man cried out in his nasal voice. The little man was just able to flip over onto his stomach and press both of his hands on the ground. "Darkness of light! Darkness of light!" the man cried out in a pleading manner.
He only stopped crying out once a whirlpool of soil, grass, twigs and rocks started to draw in the two soldiers that were abusing Hiim.
"May you be welcomed in the darkness of oblivion!" Hiim called out. Once the whirlpool had subsided and the two soldiers gone, Hiim cried out: "Hiim HAS destroyed the Obinawan army!"
.o0O0o. With Kagome .o0O0o.
"I have to go home. Back to my place where I live," Kagome tried to explain with the best sign language that she possibly could. Koruna mewed in content and hopped onto Kagome's shoulder, obviously expecting to be taken home with her. Kagome closed her eyes and lowered her head as she got up –having to use her hands and arms to push herself up off of her knees.
"You know," Kagome started, slyly, "I bet we could get there a lot quicker if you transformed!" Kagome suggested this, trying the best that she could so that she didn't sound that she was inviting herself, but it was obvious that she would rather ride her feline friend than walk.
"Mo!" Koruna gave a slight sound as he hopped off of Kagome's shoulder and daintily skipped over to a large enough clearing for her to transform to his larger, more threatening form. With a ground-shattering growl, followed by the hissing of the flames that he was currently engulfed in, Koruna transformed into his demonic three-story tall form –scaring the heck out of Kagome.
"Oh yeah, I forgot how tall you can get," Kagome muttered hoarsely to herself in disbelief, anime teardrops forming in the sides of her eyes and a sweat drop running down he back of her head. Kagome could do nothing but stand right where she was and half-tremble. Though she was completely used to the transformation of Kilala which took no more than several seconds, the transformation of Koruna scared her more than half to death.
Kagome let a small whimper escape from her throat as realization that she had forgotten one of the more important factors about her kitten's demonic transformation. Kagome nearly fell over as she had completely forgotten on her means of transportation.
'Oh no!' Kagome mentally died. 'Just how am I supposed to get on top of him?' "Oh boy," Kagome breathed out, "and just how am I supposed to get anywhere near the top of him? Sure I can get on top of Kilala, but Kilala's no taller than a draft horse. Koruna's at least two stories high! Maybe even more!"
"Mro?" Koruna mewed in an extremely bass voice due to large size that he now was. Koruna looked thoughtfully at his mistress, then opened his mouth as if he was going to either attack or roar out loud, deafening everyone and bursting any eardrum within a fifty metre range. Kagome gave an exhausted and defeated smile.
"Hey Koruna," Kagome spoke in a gentle and peaceful tone of voice, "Do you think that you could revert back, just for a teeny tiny second?" Kagome's hand was placed on her neck in a nervous manner as if she was afraid that Koruna might blast her to death.
"Tso!" Koruna gave a slight growl, not in defence or anger, but more as a response instead of speaking. But instead of transforming back to the kitten that Kagome knew and loved, Koruna simply grabbed Kagome's shirt with his massive and awesome fangs and expertly threw the strangely dressed girl over onto his back. Kagome screamed since she was not expecting the sudden gesture and cringed, expecting her fall to be a violent one and break at least a dozen bones in her body. But, being the massive demon that he was, Koruna easily caught Kagome and managed to make sure that she landed softly and with very little pain.
"Oh Man am I ever glad that I'm not a guy," Kagome winced as she rubbed both the inside and the outside of her thighs. Even though Kagome had been used to landing on Kilala's back quite often, Koruna's body was much larger –and wider –then Kilala's.
"Alright!" Kagome exclaimed, pointing her finger and arm towards the direction of the mountains. "Let's go!" Koruna jumped straight into the air and started to run on the air towards the well.
'Two shards of the sacred jewel!' Kagome gasped. 'And it's just past the well!' "Koruna, do you smell anything human? A lot of them? Anything?" Kagome urged, thinking that if the shards had anything to do with a battle, then the wielder couldn't have gotten far. (Wow, doesn't that sound like sumtin Sango wud say?)Stopping immediately to take a whiff of the air, Koruna restarted just as fast as he had stopped at an incredible speed, rivalling that of Kouga's. Koruna ran as fast as he could towards one of the mountains. Kagome yelled in fear as she grabbed the thick main of Koruna and gripped to it for dear life.
Moments later, the pair was at the edge of a mountain base and the two of them were greeted with multiple corpses. Kagome was sickened by the site of all the blood smeared over the body and had made rather large pools of blood surrounding the corpses and
"My gosh," Kagome murmured quietly as she hopped off of Koruna and gave him a gentle pat on his head. "What –happened here?" Kagome scoured the area for any sight of something that could have been a tool of the assassin that was to blame for the manslaughter.
"This wasn't a war, nor was it a battle," Kagome said sadly, bearing all of her courage to hold her head high as she spoke. "This was a slaughter. Oh if only InuYasha was here! He would be able to smell whatever did this," Kagome was nearly sobbing. She wished nothing but to be able to fall to her knees with her hands covering her eyes and sob. Kagome was utterly alone. There was no strong Kouga to stand by her side, for she had told him that she would be staying with InuYasha until the sacred jewel was compete once more. She couldn't find InuYasha at all, and lord only knows if he wished even to speak to her again after she had ran off with Kouga.
.o0O0o. With Sango .o0O0o.
Reaching for the back of her head, Sango untied the knot that was keeping her mask tied around her face. Sango let the mask slip off of her face and then let go of the towel covering her body. Reaching up one more time, Sango untied the ribbon that was keeping her hair in a ponytail. Shaking her head slightly, she let her hair flow about her before getting into the hot spring. Her pace was slow and tired, her soul feeling empty and deprived.
'Kagome,' Sango wanted to cry, 'I've lost Kohaku, my Father, everyone that I held dear. Now I've lost you,' with this, tears were forming in both the corners of her eyes. Images of Kagome's smile, laughter and happiness were flowing through her mind and being displayed through her eyes, putting Sango through a living hell.
.o0O0o. With InuYasha .o0O0o.
"Didja see anythin' Shippo?" InuYasha asked as Shippo floated by in his pink bubble transformation. Shippo grunted as he transformed back into his kitsune state.
"There's a battle scene a little farther up ahead. There was a large cat that looked a bit like Kilala, and there was also Kag-"
"Kagome? Where!" InuYasha demanded, clutching Shippo by his fur vest. Shippo could barely breathe, but managed to get out:
"It's almost at the well! Not too far from here!" and as soon as the words had left Shippo's tiny little mouth, InuYasha viscously threw the little fox-demon onto the ground and started to run.
"Kagome's…not far from here!" Sango and Miroku cried out in unison. This was the longest time that either of them had been away from Kagome, and both of their hearts yearning with an intensity that would make the sun seem like a mere match.
"Yeah, and I bet you that Kilala could take you there! I bet that she could smell her from here even!" Shippo explained, pulling himself to his knees with his hands.
Without hesitation, Sango grabbed Shippo by his green long-sleeved shirt with leaf prints all over it and hopped onto a fully transformed Kilala. Trying to ignore Shippo's scream as she picked him up, Sango urged Kilala on as fast as the two-tailed could go.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried out as if the word just spoken was a battle cry.
.o0O0o. With Kagome .o0O0o.
Sitting on the ground and leaning up against Koruna, Kagome closed her eyes and hung her head low. Not knowing exactly what she was going to do or what was going to become of her, Kagome relied on Koruna now for support.
"Well, what's done is done. I guess I can't do much now," Kagome sighed, not liking at all the fact that all of these men had been slaughtered and by the looks of it, no apparent reason –for there were no other corpses from other uniforms.
With another rumbling of the ground, causing Kagome to bury her face into Koruna's fur, a giant stake popped up out of the ground not seven metres from where both Kagome and Koruna were currently in the clearing. Kagome screeched as another stake popped up even closer to where she was currently.
"KAGOME!" Kagome could make out the cry of InuYasha and the rustling of the trees and foliage. Sango, Shippo, Miroku and Sango were also heard, but in the present situation, Kagome couldn't afford to pay them much mind, for the stakes kept popping out of the ground closer and closer.
But before a stake could hit her, Kagome rolled out of the way only seconds before the stake pierced the ground to where she had just been squatting less than seconds before. Kagome was completely expecting another stake at any given moment in the direction that the previous ones had been.
But, what Kagome was NOT expecting was for another spike to shoot up directly underneath where she had just rolled to. As she had just lain down onto her back for a moment's rest, one of the dirt spikes shot up directly out of the ground and went straight through her back.
It all happened so fast, Kagome didn't even have time to open her eyes as the mind-shattering pain shot through her, tearing a hole through her school uniform on her back and then a whole out through right under her breast, forcing her –as a reflex –to cough up blood. A pink mist surrounded her for a second, raising her hair and uniform as if there was a fan about her, but then that mist quickly faded to red and then to a deep purple.
But, instead of all of her body going loose, Kagome's face hardened and matured, just like the rest of her body. Kagome's hair majestically swept from being a raven black to a majestic red-roan, starting from her roots and making their way down. Her eyelids and eyelashes became dramatically darker and thicker, her lips becoming fuller and darker as well.
Though the blood that was flowing down from where the stake had pierced a hole through Kagome and also the blood from her mouth and the cut on top of her eyebrow, Kagome –or rather, what had just saved Kagome –sat up. Opening her eyes revealed eyes as grey as a cloud. Her eyes, if one looked deeply into them, could have easily held both heaven and this world, and possibly even the other world, for they were eternal, majestic and pools of limpid grey.
"Ka-…Gome?" Sango asked, dumbfounded as she hopped off the still-transformed Kilala. Making her way slowly towards what she thought was Kagome; Sango extended a quivering right arm while her grip was still strong on her Hiraikotsu.
Averting her gaze to her side with her half-closed eyelids and perfectly cool, calm and collected expression, Kagome –or what Kagome was now –made eye contact with Kagome's friends. Raising the back of her hand, Kagome started to lick off the blood that had trickled down from a cut on her hand down to her knuckle.
Shaking her head slightly to get the majestic raspberry-cream coloured hair out of her face and partially behind her ear, Kagome raised her eyes and spoke slowly, her voice slow, tender and slightly higher than Kaguya's voice as she said:
"The one you know as Kagome. Kagome has gone to sleep. I am the one destined to earth. My name…is Kamatari."
.o0O0o.
A/N: DUN DUN DUN! Next episode: Who is Kamatari? What is she doing? What is her connection with Kagome? Whhooei! So what do you think of the new episode opening? No A/N at the beginning, no interruptions –cept for that once- and yeah! So I kinda like how the story's going. Enough suspense for y'all? Well, I've had fun. Sorry that the Chapter's so short though
So, what're my expectations? Oh I dunno, maybe…. 115 reviews? Lol. Well actually, I don't know. Every time I put down a standard, it usually happens. But you never know! If I don't get 115, I MITE not put a new chapter.
I also had an idea to write Gone With The Wind as an InuYasha fanfic. You like?
.o0O0o. Reviews .o0O0o.
Miko Kagome Archer: So HOW many times are you gunna review? LoL. Well thank you for your…multiple reviews. Very kind of you! Even though your reviews were no more than…what? 6 words long at MOST? Well nonetheless. It's a review, and that's all that matters, right? Thanks for the great reviews, even if they are a little short! To the point, that's what makes you great! And I LIKE spelling it Kilala, not Kirara.
Menolly Harper: I know not whether I should praise you or scold you! Thank you EVER SO MUCH for the 100th review! But I wasn't even ready for the 100th review! I mean I only had four pages of stuff! I know NOW I only have eight, but still! Its such a good cliffie that I had to leave it like that. Sorry for the wait, here's the chapter. Thx for the praise. Everybody here give Menolly a BIG round of clappage! Yes, clappage!
Kagomereincarnated: Well no actually! You were reviewer 99! Not 89! YAY! So now you're completely pro-KougaxKagome? –rejoices- Chalk another one up for the couples team! And I'm glad that I opened your eyes to the Kagome and Kouga pairing. –bosom swells up with pride- So far, I've gotten TWO people to come in loving with Kouga and Kagome pairings! –does the Jassy dance- (Ask Ally what it means)
Simone: Well guess what! I updated, so YOU need to review! LoL. 'I'll keep reviewing if you keep updating' Well that's just what I did! So I expect to hear plenty of reviews from you! Koruna's SOO adorable, ne? I tried to make her look like one of the kittens that I think is Kilala's older brother or w/e.
Michelle/Michie: Oh NO! not YOU again! Haven't I seen enough of you already? Lol. No I'm just joking michie! You know I love you! What, with you being my editor and all. But recently, I haven't really needed you, have I? No, I guess not. So now you're just gunna hafta wait in suspense like the rest of the readers! And YAYE! Five BIG SHINY stars! I just love five star ratings! And guess what I found out? Those little blue things, they're actually red, not blue. You know the ones that drag you to hell or w/e. Well I try really hard to make sure that Kagome and the rest of the gang stays within character restrictions. You know! Well I'm not sure if I'm TOO good, but I suppose that I am good! It's always nice to be complimented by such a BIG review like yours!
Dawnstar28: Well I'm sorry it took so long! I'm really glad you think that my story's awesome! I mean it's not everyday that someone says that your story's awesome! This was the best ending that I could do since I was so pressed for time with all of the demands that I've gotten! Considering I only got like…two reviews last chapter, I'm doin pretty good this chapter, huh!
Sakurablossomskxk: If you thought LAST chapter was detailed, how much are you gunna love THIS one? It's so nice to hear from you again! You're one of my most faithful reviewers! If I could send you anything, I would! But, since I can't, -bakes her famous family secret double-fudge brownies- have these instead!