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On the last Chapter:
Inuyasha had run about 5 miles. He pulled out the map that Kaede had given him. "Ok, It felt like I ran about 5, 6 miles." Inuyasha said out loud to himself, tracing where he went with a claw. "So... I should be... here." He said, pointing to a mountain pass. He looked around. He was surrounded in vegetation and it was humin. There wasn't a chance in here that this was a mountain pass. "Oh crap!" He shouted in anger. A squabble was heard in the mass of vegetation and trees. Inuyasha quieted down. Someone was definitely following him.
Chapter 5: The oracle twins
Inuyasha gripped his Tetsusaiga tightly. His ears twitched, trying to hear where the creature was and eliminate it. For all he knew, it could be a minion of the sicko he was trying to eliminate, or the sicko himself! The rustling in the bushes continued.
Inuyasha took out his powerful sword Tetsusaiga and put it in front of him threateningly. "It's either come out, go away, or risk feeling my blade against your throat." He growled.
The thing in the bushes stopped rustling, and a brown blur flew out, up into the trees, and out of sight. Inuyasha put his sword down a little, smiling in triumph. "Thing ran away with his tail between his legs." Inuyasha sneered.
But just after he said it, a pink ball flew down from the sky and transformed back into a small young human like person, with a large bushy tail. "Who are you calling a coward? You were the one who pulled out his sword just cause he started hearing things."
"Shippo..." Inuyasha started, but finished by punching Shippo off his head and onto the ground. "What the hell are you doing here?" He thundered after him.
"I am making sure that you don't mess things up. Kagome is really depressed nowadays. What the heck did you do to her?" Shippo responded.
Inuyasha opened his mouth to yell at Shippo, but nothing came out. He sort of knew what he had done. But he didn't want to admit it. He was the cause of her depression, but he hoped that he was wrong.
But in his heart, he knew, that something that he did, caused Kagome's depression that eventually caused her to run into the grasp of a sick, twisted creature.
"Who ARE you?"
He shook his head. "I did nothing. Mind your own business runt." Inuyasha grumbled, pounding Shippo on the back of the head.
"Ow!" Shippo wailed. With tears in his eyes from he pain he muttered, "Even though you say you didn't do anything, I'm pretty sure you did. How else would Kagome fall into such a trap."
"What you say punk?"
"I said, that you are the reason Kagome's sick!" Shippo said his hands furled into fists, defiantly and confidently, even though he knew what would be ahead of him.
That was a low blow and a clean hit. Inside, Inuyasha knew that it was true, but Shippo didn't have to say it like that! With his fist raised, Inuyasha's emotionless face suggested that Shippo run.
"Uh, Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha gave no reply, his ear twitched and he stepped closer.
"Inuyasha, your scaring me."
"Shippo..." He said softly. It sounded maniacal and so not him. Shippo ran for his life.
Yelling shouts of "HELP!", he darted into the jungle, bursting through bushes and scrambling through logs, he attempted desperately to get rid of the fate that lay before him. He thought nothing of defending himself through violence, all he had to do was get the heck away from Inuyasha.
A huge crack was heard and a piece of rotted wood hit the ground next to Shippo. He squeaked, and dared to look behind him. Inuyasha looked like he might kill with that expression on his face. Shippo had him confused with Sesshomaru for about two seconds.
A glinting shimmer caught Shippo's eye. He took a chance and took a sharp turn, darted towards a shimmer in the air that he saw. He saw the shimmer in front of him.
He was gonna make it! Wait a minute, what if its a barrier of some sort? Shippo squeezed his eyes shut and expected the worst.
BAM!
Shippo flinched, thinking it was him that came in contact of the glint that he saw. It wasn't. It was Inuyasha.
"Ow." Inuyasha yelped, stumbling backwards and landing on his back. Shippo skidded to a stop and turned around, panting. Why did he pass and Inuyasha didn't?
Holding his head, Inuyasha sat up. "What the hell? Shippo, what did you do?"
"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything." Shippo said, taking a step closer to him, not passing the barrier. "You deserved it anyway. I was sure you were going to kill me."
"I wasn't going to do anything of the sort." Inuyasha said, quietly adding, "Kagome would have killed me if I did."
"So, where are we?" Shippo asked, inching closer to Inuyasha, confident that the barrier wouldn't let him hurt him.
"How should I know." Inuyasha stated, pulling out the map. "I measured where I was but it says that I should be in the mountains. Tell me, does this look like the mountains to you?" Inuyasha waved his hands in the air.
"Lemme see that map." Shippo demanded, holding out his hand.
"Hello! I can't enter the barrier." Inuyasha said bluntly.
"I'm supposing your supposed to clear your mind of violence. Any attacks will throw you out and you won't be able to enter." Shippo said, working on pure hunch.
Growling, Inuyasha took a deep breath and walked into the barrier. He slammed his face right into it.
"Your supposed to clear your mind of violence, not calm down!" Shippo said, pointing his finger at him.
Twitching, Inuyasha took another deep breath. He thought of Kagome and the predicament he was in. He needed to desperately fix this problem. Inuyasha opened his eyes, relaxed. He walked into the barrier and took a step inside it. It let him go. Amazed, he got himself fully into it. He looked down at Shippo.
"You better not strike me." Shippo said, pointing his finger accusingly at Inuyasha. "If you do, you'll get thrown out." Of course, Shippo didn't know if any of this was true, he just had to save himself from pain and he was pretty sure that was going to happen... kind of. "So, show me the map."
Inuyasha slammed the map down on the ground in front of Shippo. "We started here." He said, pointing a claw at the dot that Kaede showed him. "This is what I got." Inuyasha slid his nail over to the mountains several inches away. "They were supposed to be right after the mountains. What the hell happened?"
Shippo looked at the dots. "Inuyasha? How old is this map?" He asked without taking his eyes off of it.
"About 120 years, why?"
"So that's the problem." Shippo exclaimed, figuring it out. "You can't be on the mountain because the Mt. Chaldea (I made that up too) no longer exists. It was destroyed by a powerful demon 75 years ago."
"And you know this... how?" Inuyasha asked.
"Just because you pay no attention to history at all doesn't mean I don't." Shippo said in a 'duh' tone.
"Ok then smart guy, where are we?" Inuyasha asked, close to loosing his temper.
Shippo scanned the map. He calculated and recalculated the distance he went. He stared at the map with a little "Oh."
"What? Where are we?" Inuyasha snapped.
"We're exactly where we're supposed to be." Shippo said softly.
"What, already? Then where are the-- oh..." Inuyasha snapped, looking around, and then noticed something that had happened to him once upon a time.
Two girls about the age of twelve were attached to a large tree. Their arms were linked and they were knotted into the tree with branches and vines. They had long black hair to their back. They had no markings on them. One wore a red belly shirt with short sleeves and simple white skirt. The other was wearing a one piece outfit that was purple with white streaks. Two straps held the breasts and tied at the neck. A single strip of cloth ran down from the belly and spread out at the hips. Two more strips then ran down the legs and tied at the shin. (complicated isn't it?)
Their hair fluttered in the wind. Inuyasha was awed by them. Was that how he looked when Kagome found him? Asleep, seemingly doomed to eternal slumber?
"How do we wake them up?"
"Huh?" Inuyasha was broken from his trance.
"How do we wake them up?" Shippo repeated.
"I... don't know." Inuyasha said slowly. He forgot to ask Kaede about that. "I guess we could try shaking them."
"Death if I ever saw it." Shippo said.
"Ok then smart ass, how do you propose we wake them up." Inuyasha said, sending him a glare.
"We could try poking them." Shippo suggested.
"Oh yeah, they went a hundred years without a twig brushing against them or a squirrel sniffing them or something." Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"Just let me give it a shot." Shippo whined and ran up to them.
They looked so peaceful. It would be a shame to waken them. But it must be done. For Kagome's sake. Shippo cautiously pulled out his hand and tugged at the girl with the skirt. Miraculously, her eyes opened. But they were not human, there were no pupils in her eyes. Her eyes shone white. But it was different from what Kagome looked like when she was being sucked of her memories. This one looked like power and control.
A white flash appeared and Shippo was thrown back. Inuyasha shielded his eyes at the light. A pulse vibrated and flew out at them and a high pitched sound erupted from the wave. All those with sensitive hearing was brought down. Clutching his ears, it seemed like Inuyasha's head would explode. "SHIPPO, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!" He shouted at Shippo.
Shippo cowered behind Inuyasha, covering his ears as well. "I don't know!" He wailed.
But the sound was over soon. Shuddering from the pain, they dared to look up. The second one's eyes opened. Expecting another one of the high pitched frequency, they covered their ears again, still looking at the girls.
But the second girl didn't do the same thing as the first. There was a pulse, but the roots and vines that bound them disintegrated and rocks and trees surrounding them dislodged themselves. They threw themselves the opposite direction of the oracles. Inuyasha grabbed Shippo and dove to the side to avoid a boulder that crashed where they were.
A barrier surrounded the two girls and they floated to the ground. Their feet touched the ground lightly and the wind stopped blowing. The rocks fell where they were. Inuyasha looked up at the them, not questioning if they truly are the oracle twins.
They both took a step forward at the same time. They closed their eyes and opened them again, no longer having pearly white eyes, but now brown eyes.
"Inuyasha... Shippo..." They both spoke at the same time, with an unusually calm tone, their voices echoing through the trees. "You have awoken us. Thank you."
Shippo and Inuyasha were both at awe.
Back at the village, the villagers screamed and ran, scattering at a shadowed figure, somehow she had started a fire in their minds and the village was in ruins. Kaede ran out of her hut with Kagome still inside. "Who goes there?" She shouted at a shadowed figure.
The figure did not reply, just walked forward. Wind blowing everywhere, her cloak fluttering in the wind. Kaede stepped back and the cloaked figure approached Kaede, barely 3 feet away from her. Kaede opened her mouth to speak but was silenced when Syfence pulled out the pendulum in front of Kaede's trembling face with one swift motion.
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Ooh,
what will happen? Will Kaede die? Will Inuyasha get back in time?
Will Kagome's memories come back to her? Keep reading, I shall be
back with the conclusion. Although, I'm not sure if this next chapter will be the last one. shrug Let's see what happens.
Alena Rio