Kisses to those still with me!
~Yasha's Sis
Circumstance
Book 2: Land of Grass
Chapter 20:
Border
They make it to the border.
Hotaru slowed as they pass into the waning grasses and growing sands.
They just needed to make it to the boarder, that's what she said. Their pursuers couldn't follow into Sand's territory without risking war. No one was quite so stupid to do this. This world, after all, had just freed itself from a bloody thing of a continent wide battle. It was brutal and crippling to the nations at the heart of the land, like something out of Kagome's history books.
No one would want that again, not so soon.
InuYasha doesn't know why he believed her.
Earth trembles under their feet an instant before Hotaru flings them to the right, earthen spears spiking up from the place where they once stood.
InuYasha twists with her, rolling them further into the dunes and away from the answering roar of flames that sweep after him. His honeyed eyes scan the stone trap and the four shinobi posted at their back.
How far away were the others?
Kiba sat sheathed on his back and with Hotaru in his arms he can't reach for him. They need a plan, or a miracle, because while InuYasha has never feared fire and the robes gifted to him at birth could withstand quite a bit of damage, Hotaru was less resilient than that.
What the hell did these fuckers want?
Hotaru shifted forward to kneel in these shinobi's direction making InuYasha rumble low in his throat with disapproval. Stay still.
"I do not recognize them." She whispered quietly, not-youki twisting and building beneath her skin.
InuYasha almost spares her an incredulous look. Why would she know the people trying to kill them? And then he takes in their appearance and frowns in concentration.
No head bands, no distinguishing features to promote one of the five major villages or the smaller ones that always hunt for an edge. Their face masks are carved from something like wood and blank of any notable designs. The slits for the eyeholes are barely wide enough to see through.
This is an assassination squad or something close.
Question was, who were they after?
Next chapter: Battle
Thoughts? Comments? Concerns?
~Yasha's Sis