(Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.)
Chapter 19: Another Battle
Kagome struggled to take in as much air as her lungs could hold with the constants pressure to her ribs from the large, green tentacles. After another sharp intake of air she found herself in a dark, constricting cocoon. Kagome struggled but to no avail. The tentacles had succeeded into pinning down her arms to her body and her legs together, offering no amount of free movement.
She struggled further more but soon gave into exhaustion with the lack of air. Darkness was soon overcoming her muddled mind even as she tried to fight it away. With the last ounce of air in her lungs, Kagome reached deep inside her soul and brought forth a huge wave of purification.
-Outside-
Inuyasha and co were taking a rest earlier on after the confrontation with Kouga and Kikyo offered to get water for the group which Sango and Miroku found awfully strange of her but the arrogant hanyou didn't suspect a thing.
When minutes finally passed into an hour, Inuyasha had enough waiting and decided to look for Kikyo himself. When he returned and didn't find her, he had 'persuaded' the team into looking for her.
They were now running / riding Kirara with Inuyasha in the lead. Kirara was flying close to the tree lines so that they would be able to see the sprinting hanyou without a problem. They were at this for an hour and still had to keep going.
Sango and Miroku watched as Inuyasha came to a sudden halt. He stuck his nose in the air and sniffed. They were puzzled by his actions as they watched what he was to do next. Sango and Miroku watched as realization crossed the hanyou's face and his eyes widened into a shocked expression.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong? Have you discovered something?" just before the houshi's words even registered in Inuyasha's brain, he was sprinting at full speed towards the north.
"Kirara! Hurry we have to follow him!" they watched as Inuyasha burst into a clearing up ahead. When they arrived, they finally realized what got Inuyasha all riled up. The real Naraku was standing there with his tentacles stuck straight out to a large cocoon.
To the side was Kouga and Kagura confronting in the heat of a battle and Kikyo and Kanna stood at the side watching the events.
When their attention was tuned back to Inuyasha, they saw that he had his sword unsheathed and raised above his head readying to use the wind scar.
Before they could even stop Inuyasha he had released the wind scar and was heading straight for Naraku, the large cocoon, Kagura and Kouga. "Inuyasha! What if that hits Kouga!" "Good. Then this will get rid of all our worries."
The large demonic wave hit Naraku at full force. As it proceeded to the cocoon, just before it even touched, another bright wave of pink light emerged and destroyed the tentacles and proceeded to counter the huge demonic wave. The bright, pink light proved too much to look at and all the spectators had to shield their eyes.
Naraku and his 'offspring' took this as their chance to slip away into the shadows to recover from their injuries and watch from a safe distance.
When everyone opened their eyes and the dust settled all they could see is a figure clad in black in the middle of the battle field on one knee clutching her chest as she took large rigid breaths of air into her lungs. (A/N: She still has her hood on. Even if you believe it would get blown off… well too bad.) Behind her stood Kouga looking disbelievingly at them but that look quickly changed as he stalked up to Inuyasha and co angrily.
"You stupid dog-turd that could have killed me! I was just lucky Akoya saved me!" "Too bad it didn't" muttered Inuyasha. "What did you say you mutt!" Kouga and Inuyasha kept on this bickering until Miroku stepped in.
"Who's Akoya?" Just as Kouga was going to answer, a feminine voice from behind did. "I'm Akoya. It's nice to see you guys again. And Inuyasha, don't start charging into things without thinking. What would have happened when you accidentally kill Kikyo… again?" There she pointed to the miko at the edge of the battle field still gapping at the large amount of purification powers she just witnessed.
"That's right… Kikyo where have you been? You just disappeared on us." Everyone looked towards Kikyo as Sango's words started to build up new questions in everyone's mind. "Oh it was awful! Naraku abducted me when I was out gathering water and brought me here when he felt the aura of another powerful demon!" Kouga watched disgustedly as she ran across the field and started to latch onto Inuyasha with tears streaming down her face.
"That fucking liar! She tried to kill us! She's betraying your team! Let's kill her now!" Kouga stomped forward threateningly flexing his sharp claws.
"You're the liar here. Kikyo would never be helping the enemy! Don't you even dare to accuse her of such things! And if you lay a single claw on her, it will be your head!"
"Kouga let it be." came the tired voice of Akoya. (A/N: Ok… here's the deal… I'm going to refer to Kagome as Akoya when Inuyasha and Kouga are around and up to part they really find out its Kagome.) "But…" "I said leave them be. If Inuyasha here wants to believe everything Kikyo says, we can't do anything about it. Let's take our leave of our own courses and till then, bye for now."
They all watched as Akoya took the first leave by disappearing into the shadows at the edge of the forest. Each and everyone then started to depart even if they were still fuming about what had happened earlier.
(A/N: You people should be so happy i updated this week... i've got like 2 essays due and a music assignment that i have to start thats due tomorrow and its like 2 pm right now... sigh had to get so much work at one time... o well tell me what you think. i wrote it jus... well now... well i have to go back to the torturous treatment that homework is putting me through. Oh and i want to thank all of you for all your wonderful reviews cuz i jus realize that i have a lot compared to other people and this is my first fanfic :D well bye!)
