Sorry for not updating in a while. I was working on oneshots. So anyway, in this chapter, a lot of information is shared in here. So pay attention. To most of it I guess... well anyway, please review.
Italics is for flashbacks
Bold is for something importantor a heading I guess
Underline is for emphisis
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On the last chapter of Who are You:
Syfence pulled back and struck, but it clanged on a barrier. Miki slid herself in front of Inuyasha with a barrier to block it. Miki let the barrier disappear then she sliced her hand through the air and Syfence was thrown back. Miki pulled her hand into the air and twirled it, and a shining light appeared. When Syfence brought herself upright again, everyone was gone.
Chapter eight: A plan to win
Syfence through an all out tantrum. Huts exploded. Trees fell. Rocks cracked and splintered into tiny pieces.
Syfence took her rampage looking for them, but they were no longer near her. About a mile north, around the border of a forest, on a small cliff, a shining orb of light appeared and exploded. And when the light died down, there appeared the two oracles, Kei sitting upwards on the ground, holding her arms tightly to her chest. Kagome was cradling Shippo, who even though breathing, lay limp in her arms. Inuyasha was breathing heavy with Miki next to him, her hands up and as the light disappeared completely, she lowered them.
"Well. What are we going to do now?" Kagome asked.
"We're going to destroy the devil woman. That much is obvious." Inuyasha said confidently.
"But how?" Kagome asked quietly. "She deflected everything. Even that attack that nearly killed me!" She said, throwing a furious look at Inuyasha. Inuyasha stared at the ground determinedly, not doing a very good job hiding the guilt that was tugging at his heart.
He charged at Syfence once more out of rage. He pulled out Tetsusaiga and did the wind scar.
Syfence didn't even move this time. She held her hands out and, somehow, grabbed the vortex of the Wind Scar and guided it towards a particular hut...
Kagome rubbed her chaffed wrists even though there was no rope or chain. She walked towards the curtain that would take her outside. She had to get rid of the human, or, or demon, or whatever she was. She hurt the entire village and she would get hers. She slung the bow and arrows over her shoulder and pulled back the curtain. A bright yellow twirling vortex crashed towards her. Kagome screamed and ran to the back of the hut.
Inuyasha stared at Syfence. "How did you do that?"
"You truly are a stupid one." Syfence sneered.
"Huh?" Inuyasha looked towards the hut that was earlier destroyed. Through the mass of stones and broken lumber, a hand lay limp that led to somebody under the rubble.
"What! NO!" Inuyasha yelped and and ran towards it. He clawed through the wood and saw Kagome. She didn't seem to have anything broken but she wasn't moving. She looked dead.
"Sh- shut up." He said weakly. "I- I'm sorry. I just..." He took a deep breath, trying to control the tears. She was so close to dying. "I, I didn't mean to... I'm just sorry, alright?" He said hoarsely. His voice cracked at the end.
Kagome tilted her head. What is this? Where's the ugly demon that had kidnapped her earlier?
Everyone watched as in the distance, where Syfence was in the village. They heard things breaking and stuff blowing up. They even saw a cloud of dust from an explosion that was almost like an atomic blast.
Kei rose her hand to try and gain attention. "Inuyasha... please." The monotone in her voice was was so serious, it was hard to detect the tint of pain in her voice. Her hands were stained with blood from the earlier injury, and were not wrapped up or bandaged. But that wasn't the reason she felt pain.
"Inu- Inuyasha." Kei called again.
He went over to her and looked down on her. "Inuyasha, Syfence is..." Kei paused, and took a deep breath, trying to recover, but winced, and broke down a little. Inuyasha bent down and saw all this sweat beaded on Kei's forehead. Her fists were clamped tightly to her chest. He wrenched her hands from it and saw a hole made by something that went through her completely. There was a little more in the second attack Syfence did earlier.
"Damn you, DIE!" Syfence screamed, and a bunch of roots lifted themselves out of the ground and whipped themselves forward to kill Kei. Kei jumped out of the way and the roots slammed into the ground and ricocheted off the ground at Kei. Kei continued to run and one of them struck out far enough and stabbed right through her chest . The world in Kei's eyes seemed to go frame by frame at every heartbeat that beat slowly. The root retracted, which was even more painful.
A tear escaped her eyes in pain and, trying to keep Shippo safe, hit the ground, flipping herself over so her back hit the ground and Shippo was not harmed by the ground or her body weight.
And just as she was sure she was going to die, and die without saving the innocent, a spear of energy sliced through the branches and Miki appeared in front of them, twirling her spear, challenging the roots to attack her. Which they did.
So now Shippo was safe, but Kei was injured. What a day this turned out to be. Inuyasha gulped when he saw all the blood. Kagome gasped behind him.
"Please. This isn't the problem. You must defeat the enemy before more lives are was-- wasted." Kei said, grunting in pain when she took another breath.
"Oh my God..." Kagome breathed.
"I'm telling you..." Kei said, her sides heaving. "Syfence is the problem. I will live. I have foreseen it. And I know how to stop-- stop her." Kei said quietly. Everyone but Shippo who was unconscious, and Miki who stared with no emotion on her face at the destruction that was happening out in the distance.
"You've... you've got to rest... you can't possibly survive with those injuries if their not treated." Kagome said.
"I'M TELLING--" Kei lost control a little and fell on her back. A considerable amount of blood squirted out and Kei cried out in pain. Everyone leaned in closer to her, scared for her safety. "I'm telling you, I will live. I have foreseen it." Kei said, controlling her breaths to small bursts. "Even if I do die, I am not worth enough. You, Inuyasha... and the priestess girl Kagome... you all take part in a great piece of magic that I am not worthy for. I am only to assist. And Syfence... she is a puppet."
"Say what?" Inuyasha and Kagome both exclaimed at the same time.
"I apologize. The one you are fighting... is a puppet. An invincible puppet. The real one, is... in the trees. And you must work together to defeat her. Only then will she be defeated. (Quoting Kaede, don't bite my head off)" Kei took a deep breath, and winced. "Don't worry about me. That will only burden you. I have foreseen my survival." And with that, Kei's eyes closed and she fell limp.
Inuyasha and Kagome both jumped. Kagome put her hand to Kei's face. "She's breathing." She said softly.
"'I have foreseen my survival.'" Inuyasha repeated. "Is that the truth, or something to make us feel better?" They both looked at Kei, then at Miki, who continued to stare at the village, waiting for an answer.
"I know what you are looking for, and no I will not answer." Miki said, her back facing them. Kagome closed her mouth and looked at Inuyasha.
"You'll get used to it." Inuyasha mouthed to her. Kagome looked back at Miki. "Then what--"
"Do we do? We fight." Miki said.
"But she said--"
"In the trees. Yes. One attacks the trees and several attacks the invincible puppet."
"Now what sense--"
"It makes more sense then you know."
By around now, Kagome and Inuyasha were getting aggravated by Miki's foresight. But they still had to speak for Miki's foresight to work and for her to answer.
Inuyasha and Kagome stared at her for a few minutes, waiting for her to answer their thoughts. Then Inuyasha remembered what Miki had said before the fight.
"Our foresight. It tells us what you are going to say. You were going to tell us your names, so we know your names. There is no such thing as mind reading. The mind is complicated and no human, could penetrate the mind and read it like a book. Supernatural beings are a different case, however, we do not classify ourselves as one."
Inuyasha groaned before saying something again in vain. "Then tell us..." He paused, waiting for an answer.
"Yes?" Miki asked.
"Say what? I thought you had the power of foresight." Inuyasha said.
"Not all the time. They come to us at random. And Kei is much more skilled at it then I am. And you did not finish, or try to finish, so I could not know what you were going to say." Miki said, closing her eyes. Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but Miki cut him off.
"Wait... the priestess. Where is she?"
Kagome raised her hand. "I think your referring to me."
"No, you are here. Where is the other priestess?"
Kagome and Inuyasha stood there in silence, then it hit them. "Kaede!"
"Oh crap. If Syfence finds her, she is definitely going to kill her." Kagome whined.
"She's alive?" Inuyasha asked.
"Of course she is. It was an illusion." Miki said.
"Damn it. What the heck are we going to do?" Inuyasha asked.
"One goes for the real one. The rest of us shall distract the real Syfence with the puppet." Miki said.
"I don't get..."
"Syfence is searching for us using the puppet. She uses her entire attention and strength and puts it into the puppet. If two of us are fighting the puppet, she will be concentrating on fighting us. Then she will be defenseless when one of us go to her." Miki said.
"And you know this... how?"
"My sister and I share a special bond. It is the same for all twins who are close." Miki said. "So who will be the one to kill her? It cannot be me."
Inuyasha gripped the handle on his sword. "It should be me. I am not forgiving that wench for what she did to Kagome."
Kagome nodded. "Even though I'm not entirely sure what she did, and why I should trust you, but she hurt Shippo..." She looked at the unconscious two laying on the ground, breathing, but limp. "And Kei. But I can't do it so you will have to."
Miki nodded and held her hands up, closing her eyes, then opening them again. They were shining white. "Inuyasha." Her voice echoed while she started up her power. "I cannot transport you, you will have to run. Syfence will know you are coming otherwise. She is in the trees. Catch her scent. It is full of hatred."
A blinding light shone and Inuyasha shielded his eyes. When it died, Kagome and Miki were gone.
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Ah yes, the big fight. The prequel before everything happens. I... don't really have a lot to say for this chapter... So, review, and I'll continue writing the next chapter of Who are you? Thanks.
Alena Rio