Chapter 5: "This is True Power…"
InuYasha and Shippo are staring each other down. (Well, InuYasha was looking down about 5 feet, being 6'2", but you get the idea.) InuYasha was the first to say something.
"If you've been holding back, then you let yourself get hit?" He said, referring to the cut.
Shippo smiled and said, "I had to wait until even a small bit of blood became visible. Even if it's barely noticeable."
Shippo then starts emitting an even stronger aura then before, causing everyone to stand on guard.
"This aura is so powerful. How is able to keep this up?" Miroku asked.
"Who cares? He has to die!" Koga said.
"No! There has to be another way." Kagome said, with some worry in her voice. She didn't want to kill Shippo, but she didn't want to let him continue fighting InuYasha either. Just then, the aura around Shippo grows to the point where he's not even visible anymore, creating a strong wind.
"Damn it!" InuYasha yelled. The wind was so strong, that everyone was doing what they could to keep from getting blown away.
This aura, if it's this strong, do you think that he'll be as strong as Naraku?" Miroku asked.
"Let's hope not!" Kagome yelled.
"The stronger he gets, the more of a threat he is." Sango said.
Koga tries to run through the wind, but gets blown back by another shockwave. This time, when Shippo appears, he is at InuYasha's height. His hand is balled into a fist, and his body looks more bulged than InuYasha's. Everyone looks both awed and worried at him.
"How the hell-" InuYasha began
"Is the Jewel really able to give demons this much power?" Miroku finished.
Shippo looks at him and smiles. The smile is even more evil than before.
"You still think that this power is from the Jewel Shard? No… this: this is true power."
Shippo concluded by chopping the air, creating a wave of Fox Fire. InuYasha tried to block the wave but, surprisingly, it overpowered him.
"InuYasha!"
Kagome tries to run toward InuYasha, but Shippo throws a leaf on her and she becomes paralyzed.
"Kagome!"
InuYasha stands up and looks at Kagome, and ran toward her. However, when he got too close, a barrier appeared around her. He tried to break it with Red Tesusaiga, but nothing happened. InuYasha then looks angrily at Shippo.
"What did you do to her?"
"What I did…" Shippo started, "Was keep her still long enough for her to watch you die. Then, she and everyone else will die."
"Over my dead body!"
"Of course!"
Shippo then pulls out 2 leaves and puts them together. They then combine to form a sword, which Shippo uses to block Tetsusaiga just as InuYasha charges him.
"That cheap trick sword won't last forever!" InuYasha yelled.
"It'll last long enough." Shippo said. He then, with little effort, knocked Tetsusaiga out of InuYasha's hands and then dashed behind him and put his sword to his neck.
"It's over InuYasha, you lost." Shippo said.
"Damn you, Shippo." InuYasha said.
Shippo smiled as he got ready to lop InuYasha's head off, but stopped all of a sudden. InuYasha takes opportunity of this and kicks Shippo away.
"What's going on?" Shippo asks himself, then he realizes it, "MIROKU!" He yelled at the top of his voice.
Miroku takes a defensive stance as Shippo charges at him. Yet Shippo is able choke Miroku.
"Whatever you did to me, I suggest you get rid of it now." Shippo told him as though he was holding back a fit of rage.
Miroku kept looking at him, not saying anything, causing Shippo to tighten his hold on the monk. Shippo kept holding him until a yell caught his attention.
"Hey, Shit-po! I got a present for you!"
Shippo let of Miroku just in time for Koga to give him a powerful kick to the face, which was followed by a back kick to is chest. Koga was going to kick Shippo a third time, but Shippo caught the kick and spun Koga's leg, causing Koga to fall with a spin.
"Koga!" Kagome yelled, still paralyzed, but able to talk now. InuYasha looked at Kagome, and was glad that Shippo's hold on her was weakening.
"That's it. Time to join your father Shippo! Backlash Wave!"
InuYasha launched the Backlash Wave at Shippo hoping to kill him. However, as soon as it hit Shippo, it dissipated. Everyone was shocked and looked at Shippo with a look that said "You're supposed to be dead."
"Are you done?" Shippo asked.
"What the hell?" InuYasha asked.
"That should've killed him." Sango added.
"Is this what you were trying to do?" Shippo asked. His body then started to glow red. Shippo then spreads his arms, and the red glow turns into an explosion of aura that destroys everything in the general area. Seeing this, Shippo walks away from the battlefield. InuYasha and the group, badly marked up, appear out of the rubble.
"Damn you, Shippo." InuYasha growled.
"He probably thinks us dead." Sango said.
"Then we should let him keep thinking that." Koga said.
"At least until we recover our strength." Miroku added.
Everyone started to head back, except InuYasha. When Kagome noticed this, she stopped as well.
"InuYasha?"
"He tried to kill us," InuYasha said, "Shippo tried to kill us. I can never forgive him for that."
"He couldn't help it he-"
"He had these feelings inside him. I could tell that Shippo was fighting me as though he had wanted me dead for a while. So next time I see him… I'll kill him."
End Chapter. Chapter Inspiration Song: (I STILL can't remember ')
Well, there it was again, Chapter 5 of my story is back again. I hope to make my story stay this time. So keep looking out for more of my stories, and more chapters to this one.