Kouga, who was wringing Kagura's neck with his one hand with immense power, let a very low and angry growl emanate from his throat. Even with just one, Kagura was finding it hard to breathe. Kagura was trying to pry Kouga's steel grip from her neck with both her hands the best she could with the remaining strength that her body contained. Kouga's eyes were no longer the innocent blue but rather the same shade red as Kagura's eyes, only more deadly and serious.
"Where…is…Naraku?" Kouga demanded, his breathing extremely heavy due to his immense and frightening anger. Kagura, who was still trying to loosen the grip from her neck and wipe the blood off of her, did nothing but grunt for air. Kouga growled and tightened his grip around his enemy's neck and started to dig his claws into the soft flesh of the wind demon.
"I'll never tell you, bastard," Kagura sneered the best she could with the remaining breath still in her lungs. Kagura valued her life, but knowing Naraku, Kanna was probably reflecting what she was saying and doing at this very moment and willingly showing it to her master. Kagura wasn't about to sacrifice her life for Naraku –not now, not ever.
"I'll ask you…once more," Kouga's breathing was still hard and half-panted. "Where…is Naraku?" Kouga exploded when he mentioned the insidious half-demon's name.
When Kagura's only response was grunt of breath, Kouga squeezed Kagura's neck nearly as hard as he could and dug his claws right through Kagura's neck until he could feel the air and hollowness in Kagura's throat. Kagura gave a small squeak and t hen went limp, her eyes rolled up past her eyelids and blood dripping from her mouth and neck.
Kouga dropped the corpse onto the ground; not needing her any longer. He walked away slowly from Naraku's now dead incarnation, his eyes closed and his body language a combination of seriousness and uncaring. Kouga hadn't even realized that he had just avenged his comrades that had died in battle for a shard of the Shikon no Tama in those few minutes, a quest that had taken him so long to complete and here he had done it in mere minutes. Yet he wasn't even capable of realizing it at the moment. Just then his eyes flew open and a bolt of electrical knowing sparked from Kouga's temple.
'How can this be?' Kouga demanded himself in bewilderment and unbelieving as he threw his torso around to look at the dead figure of Kagura. But what he saw was not a dead demon of the wind, rather a very alive one. And she was holding up her fan as high above her as high as she possibly could while keeping her body –cuts, bruises, gashes and all- moving as close to Kouga as she could.
"Dance…of blades," Kagura grunted as she whipped her fan attack directly at Kouga. The wolf demon had just enough to time to dodge the attacks due to her proximity.
.o0O0o. Chapter Twenty One
What to Do This Time .o0O0o.
'Damnit! Why won't she just die!' Kouga was starting to get angry as he had to constantly leap and roll so that he wouldn't get hit. A few stray pebbles were then rolled by Kagura's feet. Small enough that someone would have to have been moving to have pushed them into clear view.
"Dance of Dragons!" Kagura unleashed one of her most powerful attacks. Kouga went wide eyed not at how or where she summoned the strength to unleash the attack, but rather how she had managed to stand up and resume a battle stance without him realizing it.
"Y-you-you're standing!" Kouga could not lunge at Kagura for he was clearly shocked out of his mind. Kagura closed her eyes and did a rather dramatic spin her fan-hand up in the air and her head and body cocked back to actually make her quite graceful. While in this position, the wind demon slowly opened her eyes and let an evil smirk wash up on her face with no resistance.
"You can cut off a wolf's head and it still holds the power to bite. When you thought you had killed me, you forgot that I am immortal as long as I am still a part of Naraku." Kagura slowly walked up towards Kouga in a completely cocky, confident and unafraid manner. Lazily drawing her arm to her shoulder height, Kagura let the fan fall open rather insidiously. Raising the fully open fan above her head, a freak lightening storm commenced behind her.
"Prepare youself demon, for I will now completely unleash the true power from Naraku!" Kouga couldn't help but scowel and snarl as he heard this, letting his face unconsciously bear his fangs and his eyes returning to the normal emotionless pools of blue.
'So that's where she got it from. Well now that I know that she's still linked to Naraku…' Kouga lunged towards Kagura relatively slowly, 'That son of a bitch will die!'
"Blades of Symphonia!" Kagura cried, a bolt of lightening striking the wind controlling fan and passing through to the ground on which Kouga and Kagura both stood. A half sphere of lightening covering, upturning and destroying everything in its path as its size grew to cover a hundred yard radius. Kouga grunted as he anticipated what was going to happen next and braced himself for the worse. Kouga grunted as the mist from the waterfall's indefatigable waters then came crashing onto him as the waves of immense power headed directly towards him. There was nowhere for him to run, for everything that he could run towards would be hit as soon as he got there, for he couldn't run as fast as light, no matter how close the comparison.
Crossing his arms over his face to make an X to protect his head was possibly the smartest thing that he had done that whole battle. But unfortunately it made no difference because he was still thrown back multiple metres, forcing him to fall off the ledge of his cliff and fall through any of the trees that dare remain in his way as he tumbled from a fatally high distance. Kagura had noticed how far Kouga had been thrown, but it made no difference to her had he been thrown only twenty feet or the whole two hundred metres that he had.
"Ha ha ha," Kagura gave a combination of gay, evil and mocking laugh as she snapped her fan closed. Scanning the area that Kouga had just recently been standing, a small look of disgust was shown and a small sigh was released.
"He didn't even leave his shards." So, deciding that there was no point in staying any longer, Kagura turned around and walked in the opposite direction of Kouga in a huff and didn't look back. Her body tensed all over and then went completely limp as a pair of pine green metal chopsticks with beautiful yellow pansies painted on the place where one would grip the chopsticks was then stabbed into some of the most sensitive nerves in the neck –the carotid artery. But Kagura didn't fall on her face, for a pair of strong arms were then wrapped around her waist and her neck. A few rather large locks of loose blue-grey hair then fell onto Kagura's chest. A pair of white fangs were poking out at the end of the light lips on the dark, very Asian skin.
"So, you must be the one they call Kagura. The name doesn't suit you," the half wolf-demon gave a smug smirk as he scanned and memorized the face of the one that had just died and then been resurrected. "How do you do? My name's Hiim!" The half wolf-demon gave a bright, anime smile as he tossed Kagura over his back in the piggyback position and started to walk towards Kouga to check up on him. As it would turn out, Kouga was still conscious, but writhing in pain as he flipped his body over so that he would lie on his nearly-broken back.
"C'mon Kouga! I know your tougher then that," Hiim called down to the bottom of the mountain where Kogua had been thrown right off of the cave's ledge. Hiim tossed his head as an indication for Kouga to follow him, and just so that Hiim could get his own hair out of his face. Kouga's eyes closed for a few seconds and then reopened as he stood up, his face bearing no emotion whatsoever. Hiim gave another warm and anime smile as he walked towards the waterfall just outside of Kouga's cave and splashed a bit of water onto Kagura's face.
"Hey Kouga…who's."
"This dude?" Ginta started with Hakkaku right next to him to finish his sentence. Kouga had just leapt up onto the edge of the ledge from the outside of his cave and he was already disgusted by the sight. Kagura was on his land and was being woken up by one of his own kind. Or at least, half of his own kind. But what was really disgusting him was that Hiim was actually being compassionate towards Kagura!
As Kagura stirred, Hiim patted the back of her neck as he gave a small smile with his eyes closed. Expertly patting the spot where he had just punctured with his chopsticks not too long ago, Kagura stiffened slightly in pain. Though the warm hand was greatly welcomed, the place where he was patting was not very considerate. Kagura sniffed the air for a second as she thought that she had smelled some type of herb.
"Nice to see your awake!" Hiim said cheerfully, that super big anime smile never leaving his face as he then rubbed tiny little circles around the spot where he had attacked Kagura's neck with his iron tipped chopsticks. As he took his hand away from Kagura's neck, he licked it. This is when Kouga saw why he was rubbing Kagura's neck with one hand –or rather, finally realized what he was doing. Hiim's expression became half-serious, and would have been completely serious had it not been for the smug little smile he was wearing. Kouga was taken back for a second, but then gave a smirk and crossed his arms as Hiim continued to lick his hands.
Ginta and Hakkaku just exchanged glances as they brought their attention from this strange half wolf-demon with blue-grey hair and dog ears to their leader Kouga. Hoping that they could clue into what the two of them were explaining silently with their body language, Ginta and Hakkaku just became more and more lost as Kouga walked up to Hiim and sniffed the green paste that was on his hand. A combination of evil and content smirk then washed up onto the left side of Kouga's face.
"So Kagura," Kouga started slyly as he went on one knee and sat next to his half demon accomplice as Hiim propped Kagura up into a sitting position. "Where did you say Naraku was hiding?" Kagura looked up at Kouga, her eyes zoned out and in a completely different place.
"Four days North-East. The castle is hidden by an illusion that makes the area look like a small village. Anyone who enters will be killed by the toxic miasma. If they can survive that," Kagura bowed her head so her bangs covered her eyes, "then you must face off with one of Naraku's newest minions." Hiim's face was stricken with fear and he showed it without restraint, as did Kouga. But Kouga's face quickly returned back into the hating demon that he had been portrayed as throughout his life.
"One of Naraku's newest minions," Kouga growled just saying the words that Kagura had told him. A snarl was clearly visible upon his tan face as Hiim's head whipped over to see the wolf-demons face out of complete fear. Kouga's glare continued as he looked at Hiim straight in his eternally endless pools of grey were a swirl of emotions of fear, anxiety, uncertainty and confusion.
"Newest minions….but what's that supposed to mean? Doesn't everyone have minions? It's not like they can just," Hiim searched for the word he was looking for. Finally finding it, he flung his arms up in exclamation, "detach his arms and legs off and then make them fight!" Kouga looked from Kagura to the sky with the small little snarl returning in disgust.
"No, you're right. He can't rip off his arms and his legs. But he can detach his soul, his heart, his humanity and his mind. One of them," Kouga flicked some dirt from under his fingernails, "is Kagura that you see right before you." Hiim's eyes widened and then examined Kagura quickly, but Hiim's face quickly returned to the unserious and playful that Kouga had seen the most of.
"Silly wolf!" Hiim teased, picking up Kagura and giving her a piggy back as if he was no older then eight. "Kagura can't be any of those. She's much nicer then that! Just you wait and see!" Hiim's smile remained comical and warm. Kouga couldn't help but smirk a little bit, keeping his fangs hidden. Hiim went up to the edge of the ledge, his eyes still closed and the comical grin of a six year old with ice cream still plastered to his face. With one deep breath, Hiim gave himself a reassuring nod and saluted Kouga. Kouga had just enough time to salute back before Hiim jumped off of the ledge with Kagura. Ginta and Hakkaku instantly ran to the ledge and slid on their bellies to look headfirst down the steep mountainside to see Hiim on sudden impulse. But instead of seeing a big splash of landing in the river down below, there was a giant feather evading every drop of waterfall water being directed by Hiim.
"Whoa!" Hakkaku said in awe as he watched the feather ride in a completely straight line.
"Wow," Ginta commented not too long after. Kouga remained stationary on his rock with his arms crossed and his little smug smirk not moving from his face.
'Can't really expect much more outa him now can I?' Kouga leaned back on his rock to give his back a rest, but then completely lost his balance and fell head first onto the ground. A very loud bang was heard as Koua's thick head collided with the hard ground. The whole wolf pack looked at Kouga, and then burst out laughing, for Kouga surely was a funny sight. Sitting on his head with his legs crossed and a stubborn little snarl threatening its way onto Kouga's face was visible for everyone to see. With no help from anyone, Kouga had to get himself up and then shake his head, getting his hair out of his face.
Crunch, crunch, crinkle crinkle, crunch crunch. The sound was barely audible, but it was still there. Kouga's head turned around to the familiar sound and found himself staring at a Ginta that was coming out of the cave with a bag of fried potatoes from Sister Kagome's land.
'Kagome!' Kouga's brain snapped as he realized that she had left to go back to her world for a little bit. Surely she would be back by now, wouldn't she? "Ginta, where did you get those?"
"Hrachachu am I shwer maming phem phor lafer."
"Ah myum myum mya bla bla?" Kouga did a poor imitation of Ginta and his mouth full of chips to prove his point. Ginta quickly downed the rest of the fried potato thins that were in his mouth and swallowed hard while whipping his mouth to rid himself of any remaining crumbs.
"Hakkaku and I were saving them for later."
"That still doesn't answer my question."
"Oh…" Ginta wanted nothing more than to look away and not face Kouga from his stupidity, but decided against it, for that would make him look much lower than Kouga. "Sister Kagome gave them to us a while ago."
"What? When was this?"
.o0O0o. Flashback .o0O0o.
"Hey, thanks a lot guys. I'm really sorry about having to drag you guys along when it's usually Kouga…"Kagome said sadly with a twinge of regret that she had to ask Ginta and Hakkaku to go out of their ways just for her.
"Hey, no problem Kagome!" Hakkaku draped his arm in a brotherly like way over Kagome's shoulder. Kagome's face was beaming for it was so rare that either one of the amazing duet ever called her "Kagome" without adding "Sister" before.
"Yeah, anytime!" Ginta also placed his arm over Kagome's shoulder. Kagome couldn't help but laugh at this and then brought both of her arms out from under her and slung them over Ginta and Hakkaku's shoulders. Kagome then just spontaneously started skipping and looked at the two wolf demons next to her with a laugh and said:
"C'mon!" What other choice do two wolf demons have when the alpha-male's mate gives them an order? They fulfill her wishes that's what! But Ginta and Hakkaku didn't really look at Kagome like the Alpha-male's woman. They looked at her more like the friend and sister that she was, mortal or not.
After half an hour of continuous walking, the trio then reached Kagome's time-travelling well. Of course by this time, Ginta and Hakkaku had insisted on carrying Kagome, saying that her backpack was too heavy for her to handle, that she must be tired of walking and that she didn't get enough sleep to possibly finish walking all the way that she had.
"Guys I'm fine! I can handle it!"
"But Kagome, if you get hurt or anything then it's our fault!" Hakkaku protested in a concerned manner and simply kept walking.
"Ginta, get me down from here! Please!" Kagome pleaded, doing the little prayer hand position. With this, an evil grin swept across Ginta's face, scaring Kagome a bit considering the fact that she had never seen Ginta get anything past annoyed.
"Maybe I could get you down, but…" Ginta turned around with the evil smirk that made Kagome want to shiver. "Yougiveusallyourfriedpotatoes!" Ginta got right up into Kagome's face as he just slurred the words together he said them so incredibly quickly and he was o hyper. Had Hakkaku not been holding Kagome, she surely would have fallen down anime style for sure.
"Well I don't know if I have any in my bag, but-"
"Yes you do." Hakkaku said a matter-of-factly.
"But…how do you know if I do or no-"
"Hakkaku has the best nose in the tribe, next to Kouga's." And with this, Kagome was just even more lost. But nonetheless, she was placed on the ground and given her overstuffed yellow backpack that most chiropractors would faint if they saw it on Kagome's back.
Rummaging through her backpack, Kagome threw out anything that was in her way including clothes, textbooks, toys and to-be-prepared food. After many newly discarded items, Kagome triumphantly raised two bags of chips and a bag containing gummy worms, gummy bears and other jelly type candies.
"Ta da!" Kagome exclaimed triumphantly as she passed the bags of chips to her two wolf friends. Ginta and Hakkaku didn't need to be told twice and their arms shot directly for the bags of potato chips.
"They aren't both the same flavour by the way," Kagome warned as the placed a hand on both the bags of chips. "This one's bold barbeque and this one's…" Kagome had to take the bag from Ginta to see what flavour it was. "This one's regular. Now before you guys eat the barbeque, I might wanna-"
But Kagome was cut short of her sentence by a Hakkaku who was now spitting out fire from his throat and running around like a madman.
"Tell you that the Barbeque's really, Really hot." Kagome then hid her face in her hands and dared not look at the display around her.
Now apparently, neither one of the two wolf demons were very bright. It wasn't enough for Hakkaku to have tasted the very hot and spicy bold barbeque chips. Oh no. Ginta had to go and try them out himself just to see what they were like. Ginta was just too thick headed to realize that if Hakkaku was running around with fire coming out of his throat that it probably meant that the chips were extremely hot and spicy and that he shouldn't eat them. But hey, I guess that he'd have to find out someway, right?
.o0O0o. End Flashback .o0O0o.
Kouga fell down anime style. If all of his comrades were this foolish, then he would have one pitiful army. And then without even asking, Kouga reached over and grabbed a handful of chips. Luckily for Kouga, Ginta and Hakkaku had already finished eating the barbeque chips. But from what he had heard, he would have liked to see Hakkaku breathe fire.
"Oh by the way Kouga," Ginta stopped to get Kouga's attention. "Who was that guy that was with you and Kagura earlier?"
"One of Kagome's kind," Kouga said unconsciously. This got everyone's attention. One of Kagome's kind? But Kagome was a human girl. The thing that was there not long ago certainly wasn't human. Certainly, he was part human; that much they could smell. But there was something else about the fellow. It wasn't demon, but it wasn't human either.
"One of Sister Kagome's kind?" Hakkaku asked, bewildered, making sure to use the word Sister due to Kouga's presence.
"But She's mortal! This fellow smelled something other than human." Kouga was still zoned out before he realized what he said. But when he did realize that he said, he lifted his head out of his chin and looked at his two comrades.
'Aw shit,' Kouga cursed, remembering that Ginta and Hakkaku weren't there when Hiim first made his appearance and tried to take Kouga to the Ten'nyo/Wolf demon Sanctuary, but then ended up electrocuting the two. But before Kouga could even flail his arms around trying to tell everyone to stop and that he didn't mean what he had said, Ginta and Hakkaku had already rounded up more of the other wolves and started to spread the word in whispers.
The wolves were barking at one another, spreading the word and the wolf demons were whispering and murmuring in groups one of two things.
"Kouga's definitely lost it."
"Sister Kagome? But how could this be?"
"No no no no no no no!" Kouga cried out, his arms flailing. But no one listened to Kouga and continued murmuring what they wished, causing a rather large sweatdrop to run down the back of Kouga's head.
"Feh!" Kouga couldn't help but imitate dog turd in a situation like this, complete with the turnaround and arms crossed.
.o0O0o. With InuYasha .o0O0o.
"InuYasha, are you done yet?" Shippo couldn't help but complain as he sat on one of the branches in a relatively small tree with sturdy enough branches. Sure, the view was great and the sky was partially cloudy with fluffy white clouds that felt like they could be picked up and put into your pocket, but staring at trees, fields and clouds for hours got boring quick.
"Why don't you just shut up Shippo? I'll be done when I'm done!" InuYasha gripped the dirt with his claws and had a rather large forehead vein that was fit to burst.
"InuYasha, you've been sitting there all day!" Shippo rolled onto his back and rolled his head back and stuck his tongue out, mimicking a dead man. Three more veins were then ready to explode. A small rustling in the bushes was audible and a solid staff then appeared.
"Shippo does have a point InuYasha. You have been sitting here a long time." Miroku scratched the back of his head. But InuYasha completely tuned out everything that the others had to say stuck his nose even higher in the air, his doggy ears swivelling around in circles, searching for anything.
Doggy ears suddenly whipped forward and nose did too.
"She's here."
.o0O0o. With Hiim .o0O0o.
"So Kagura, what do you like doing?" Hiim asked in a carefree tone as he continued to carry the wind-demon piggyback on Kagura's feather, not knowing that if he put her down on it if she would fall through or not. And besides, he liked having her pressed against his back. Still completely zoned out with the truth telling serum, she was rather sociable and not evil-like at all.
"Like…doing?" Kagura asked completely innocently as she didn't understand. Hiim nodded and didn't look at her, rather kept his eyes on the landscape below him seeing where he was going.
"Hee hee! This is so cool! All you have to do is think where you're going and it takes you!" Hiim was now completely chibi style and was jumping up and down excitedly. Kagura sweatdropped seeing as how immature her captor was currently acting.
"Oh, uh yeah! Like doing! Some people like to make clothing in their spare time, others like to read, some people even like to make jewellery or train to make them stronger in their free time! So what do you like to do?" Hiim finally turned his head around and looked Kagura in the face as closely as he could without having to turn his whole body around.
Kagura looked at Hiim completely stunned. What did she like doing? Well she had never been asked that before. She had never even had the chance to do anything on her own without fearing for her life or without Naraku being only moments away from killing her. She then looked to the side and let the beautiful scenery around her sink in for the first time. Normally it was just a whole cluster of green land and blue sky. But this time, Kagura's eyes fell upon something far more beautiful then Naraku would let her see.
The different shades of lush green directly below and all around her were breathtaking. The different hues of blue as the sky never seemed to end seemed so perfectly calm in such a troubled world. The white and grey clouds that just seemed so fluffy and perfectly shaped for every single thought that Kagura could relate to seemed so close that you could almost touch them. A flock of geese then flew up beside the two demons and decided to take a small break from flying and landed on the feather. Kagura giggled like a little girl and went to stroke one on the head. Hiim smiled at this.
"So do you like animals?" Hiim asked quietly, not wanting to disturb any of the geese. Kagura gave a small smile with those innocent little eyes and little girl smile. Hiim knew that the serum wouldn't last for very long, so he figured he might as well bring out the best in her that he could.
"These ones seem nice," Kagura said with a small laugh. Hiim smiled too and tightened his grip around Kagura so that it would be like a hug. Kagura laid her head on Hiim's shoulder and smiled as innocently as a six year old girl.
"Mr. Hiim?" Kagura asked a few minutes later.
"Yeah?" Hiim asked very, very softly.
"Will you stay with me?
.o0O0o. With Kouga .o0O0o.
"Hey guys, do you smell that?" Kouga asked, sticking his head straight up into the air and took small acute sniffs. The rest of the pack did as was asked and smelled the air looking for anything that was recognizable. Hakkaku was the first to respond.
"Hey isn't that-"
"The crazy lady Kaguya?" Ginta finished. Fear then struck Kouga and his entire body went as stiff and as straight as a board. Racing to his feet and without an explination, Kouga rushed as quickly as he could to where his instincts told him best. To find Kagome.
"Damnit! Why now of all times!" Kouga cursed as he ran as fast and as hard as he could to the time-traveling well. As soon as it was in sight, he pushed himself even harder and jumped straight down into the well to find Kagome and make sure that Kaguya didn't find her.
'Hang on Kagome. Just wait for me,' Kouga nearly had tears in his eyes just thinking about Kagome getting hurt by that Kaguya bitch. 'If anything ever happens to you, I don't know what I'll do.' And with that the mystical blue and white light engulfed Kouga.
.o0O0o. In Present Time .o0O0o.
"KAAAGOOOMEEEE!" Kouga called out a war cry as he barged through everything that stood in his way. He rushes in following his nose to where she might be all over the house at lightening speed.
Screeching to a halt, Kouga came across the living room as his nose and eyes found what he was looking for. But what he was looking for was not what he then saw, nor what he wanted to see. In front of him, was Kagome safe and sound as she possible could be. Only she was bound to a wooden chair and gagged. Seeing Kouga, she screamed and wriggled her wrists but to no avail. The screaming then brought in armed and armoured men by the dozen who rolled in, crashed through windows and kicked through doors. Kagome screamed and shook her head trying to get Kouga out of her house, but Kouga couldn't and would never leave his Kagome behind.
Pling pling pling pling pling. Ratatatatatata. The different sounds of different guns pulling on Kouga was just too much! Kagome was screaming and guns were shooting, all of this was confusing Kouga to no end. Stunned, Kouga had no time to react to the multiple bullets now entering his flesh and coughed up blood as the bullets hit no vital organs, rather got caught in his fur and armour.
Finally regaining his senses, Kouga ran straight to all of the armoured men and attacked each and everyone of them with his fists and feet. While a few men then dropped down unconscious, the remaining men continued to shoot at Kouga without stopping for their life. But then miraculously and suddenly, the bullets stopped penetrating Kouga. Rather, they couldn't even get anywhere near Kouga, for an invisible barrier was then placed around the wolf-demon.
"What the…" one of the armoured men questioned as he stopped shooting and looked directly at Kouga. Kouga too was partially stunned, but instincts kicked in and Kouga ran straight for the rest of the men and knocked all of them out, seeing as how none of their weapons were effective against his tanned hide.
"Don't. You. EVER. Touch. KAGOME!" Kouga spat out as he kicked and knocked down each and every standing man in the room before he went for Kagome.
Slicing the ropes and the gag with his claws but being careful not to harm Kagome in anyway possible, Kouga picked up Kagome who had passed out from all of the excitement and carried her outside where he lay her across his lap for a few minutes until he too felt rather exhausted and climbed up onto the well and then jumped down, carrying Kagome in his arms and not letting her go for the world.
.o0O0o. In Sengoku Jidai .o0O0o.
Lying Kagome down onto his own straw mattress once he had returned back to his cave, Kouga shooed all of the wolves away so that Kagome could sleep in peace. Many of the wolves and cubs had snuck in past Kouga's careful eye, but the alpha-male quickly returned them back to their parents. Ginta and Hakkaku were then placed on guard so that no one would disturb Kagome. And if they did:
"I'll beat them do death."
"But Kouga, what do we do if she wakes up?" Hakkaku asked concerned. Both he and Ginta knew better then anyone that she would want to see Kouga no matter what, and that she would barge through them and not give up until she did see her lover.
"Then leave her. She'll be scared enough. If she really does need me," Kouga had to think for a second, knowing that he would probably be off fighting and that he definitely didn't want to put Kagome in any more danger, "then tell her to wait. I'll be back soon." And with that, he ran in and kissed Kagome rather deeply and, even in her sleep, Kagome responded to the kiss and kissed him back rather deeply. Kouga gave a slight growl as he was turned on by his Kagome, but then knew that he had to stop and leave, no matter how much he wanted to stay and kiss her.
"Ginta. Hakkaku. I trust that you'll take care of Kagome."
"Yes Kouga."
"Good then." And with that, a small tornado ran off into the distance faster then any eye could keep up with.
.o0O0o. With InuYasha .o0O0o.
"I'm sure that's it!" InuYasha cried over his shoulder as he ran as fast as he could north-east to where he caught the scent of the mysterious woman. Lagging behind InuYasha, in his opinion, were Shippo and Sango riding Kilala and Miroku riding Kagome's bike. Surprisingly, he was going quite fast considering the fact that they were running/biking on uneven ground.
Minutes later, with everyone breathing heavily, they reached the Goshinboku, exactly where the group had last met this beautiful Ten'nyo. Miroku was the first to speak with awe as he dropped Kagome's bike.
"Kaguya."
Kaguya's head turned around slowly as she stopped reciting her incantation. Upon the perfectly-applied-makeup face and flawless skin was a rather evil smile.
"What do you want bitch!" InuYasha demanded and clenched his fists. Kagura smiled and flicked her wrist, causing many sakura blossoms to shoot straight into InuYasha's skin like bullets. InuYasha grunted, but stayed his ground.
"There has been a new Ten'nyo recently. I have been sent to kill her. And if she resists," Kaguya gave an evil chuckle, "then that is her problem. Stupid humans that you are. I can smell her on you. Who is she?"
"Aah!" Shippo cried as he dove for Kilala, knowing that he could easily say something that he wasn't supposed to accidentally. Kilala nestled her head into her fur and nuzzled Shippo on his head for a second, and then resumed her battle stance and gave a very loud combination of a growl and a hiss.
"Hmm…." Kaguya searched the group to see if any of them were hiding something. "Do you not normally have five in your group with you? Where is the girl?"
"You won't lay a finger on Kagome!" InuYasha cried defensively as he unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and swung at the too-cocky Ten'nyo.
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Her heart beat harder, her breathing grew quicker, and her forehead began to sweat cold. A soft gasping sound was heard from every breath Kagome drew from her mouth and her whole body began to tense. Ginta and Hakkaku then came running.
"What's wrong with her?" Ginta asked hurriedly as he leaned overtop of his Alpha-Female to see if he could find anything that was making her act the way she was.
"I dunno. Should we go get help?"
"Hurry!" And with that, Ginta and Hakkaku raced off to find the medicine chief.
A small gasp escaped Kagome's lips and her eyes snapped open to reveal a pair of pupil-less majestic stormy grey eyes. Kagome's upper body slowly lifted itself into an upright position. The bottom tips of her hair slowly and gradually turned the majestic colour of red-roan and crawled up to the roots of her hair as her face and chest developed into that known as Kamatari. The wolves' heads turn and not a pair of eyes were looking elsewhere as everyone's attention was on this strange new person in Kagome's clothes.
Jumping on top of the cave that belonged the alpha-male Kouga, Kamatari looked around in the forest below her and searched for something that no one knew. With the rising of her chest, Kamatari took in a deep breath and closed her eyes and concentrated, causing an indigo aura to appear and surround her. With this, the youngest of wolf children and cubs were whimpering and crying out of fear and discomfort. This sound snapped many wolves back to reality as they reached for their young ones, but for many the sound was tuned out by watching in fascination as this strange new creature before them made her next move.
"Kaguya. Come and find me…Little sister."
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A/N: DUN DUN DUUUUUUNNN! Hey! If theres anyone out there still keeping track, I hope this chapter was long enough for you. It took me a while to finish and I would have updated sooner but I was out in Edmonton shopping in the worlds largest shopping mall and visiting family. So when numero 140 came in, I was out.
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Kikyo: So you were out doing things more important then your story and it's characters?
Jassy: Uh…yeah?
Kagome: well at least she had a good time. And she got souvenirs for all of you readers and reviewers!
Jassy: YEAH! Here ya go! –hands out cowboy hats, mugs, t-shirts and Mountie Police Moose and Beavers-
Shippo: Jassy, what is this strange looking animal?
Hiim: Hey! He's kinda cool!
Jassy: It's a beaver…one of Canada's international animals! They're fuzzy and have big teeth and can get out of any obstacle that you give them. One of the smartest animals out there!
Kilala: Mew?
Sango: No Kilala, I won't replace you with one of these "Beaver" creatures.
Jassy: MM! Very important. I won't be asking for numbers of reviews anymore! (I know wut ur thinking, 'What took her so long!') But oh well! No time like the present rite? NO MORE REVIEW NUMBERS! So I'll just update whenever I'm finished!
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Luciado:O It's going into your favourites? Well I feel so special! That was a very nice review of you! Thank you!
DreamBeamz: Look, I'm really sorry I couldn't have the making out sessions in this chapter like I wanted to (hey I even wanted them to get married in this one, but I couldn't) it just KINDA went against the whole story thing. But remember, as soon as Kagome snaps back from being Kamatari and Kouga explains what's happened to her, I'm sure that's the first thing she does! And do you think this was a good way to get Kagura to squeal?
Miko Kagome Archer: It was a great chapter! But this one's even better! And what do you mean "it works now" ? I don't understand! But I hope you review again!
Briana: Here ya go! I did write more! And I'll continue writing more until someone sais "Look Jassy, this is just getting so boring! End it already!" but until that day comes, I will continue writing!
Bitter042: well I just figured out how I made Kagura squeal. You like it? I guess I did make up someone that she cared about a little huh? Oh well. I hope you like this chapter!
Name:: VERY nice name Name! I congratulate you on your originality! And you know I'd LOVE to make InuYasha go to Hell with Kikyo, trust me I really do! But then how would Kagome return from being Kamatari? Remember only InuYasha can do that! And I hope this chapter was FUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUN as well:D
: well THANK YOU REVIEWER NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTY! LETS GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUS! Or him…SRY! (its kinda hard to tell if you're a girl or a guy…-.-; well only since u said please….LoL! just jokin! I would have posted had u said please or not!
July 27, 2005