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Festival Time, Naraku's Attack
They walked towards the village center until they saw Inuyasha, Miroku, Kohaku, and Shippo watching everyone talk and play the games. "Hey, guys!" Kagome called loudly walking with everyone, who was behind her. They looked over and saw the girls walking towards them. Inuyasha's and Miroku's jaws dropped as they gawked and Shippo and Kohaku looked curiously at their behavior. "What's with them?" Shippo asked Kohaku. "I don't know." He replied curious.
"Inuyasha, let's go have some fun!" Kagome exclaimed grabbing his arm and dragged him away with him protesting. "You too, Miroku." Sango said pulling Miroku away from the group by his arm. They looked at where they headed and Kaname said to the kids, "Well, shall we go and have fun." They cheered and dragged Kaname by her hands towards the games. They played the goldfish contests and the other games that were around and ate some caramel apples. "This is the best!" Shippo exclaimed happily sitting on Kaname's shoulder eating his caramel apple. "Same here." Kohaku agreed walking by Kaname's side. "Me too." Rin agreed walking on the other side of her. Kaname nodded smiling as they walked down the busy street looking at the decorated booths along the way.
They passed by many booths until they saw Inuyasha and Kagome posing for the artist for their painting. "There's Inuyasha and Kagome!" Shippo said pointing towards the artist's booth. "There's Miroku and Sister." Kohaku said pointing in another direction showing Miroku talking to Sango while she blushed until she felt his hand rubbing on her bum and smacked him across his face hard. "There they go again." Shippo said while Kohaku sighed and Rin smiled at Kohaku. Kaname sighed at Miroku and they walked towards near the Sakura trees, where the kids were playing with Ah-Un.
Kaname was leaning against the tree watching the kids play with Ah-Un. The kids would fly around on Ah-Un's back and laugh while they did loops and twists in the air. She leaned against the tree feeling the breeze rush by her while hearing the villagers cheer nearby and the drums beat in rhythm. She decided to walk around the fields away from the noisy crowds and to be in peace. She walked towards the fields where they went to this morning and sat in the middle of it staring up at the sky.
She lifted her finger and watched the red Shikigami formed into a ball at the top of the finger. She watched it twirl and grew until it became a size of a ball. She gazed at the power until a one-eyed demon came up behind sneaking behind her. It licked its lips and crept slowly until it stood a few feet from her waiting to strike. It opened its mouth to bear shiny, long teeth while it rushed towards the unsuspecting girl. She felt the demon behind him as she looked behind and threw her Shikigami towards its target. The Shikigami hit and destroyed the demon's body as it screamed painfully and agony. She watched it fell on the ground before turning back to the moon and stars.
She didn't know that the demon she just killed was actually a part of Naraku's body. The cords of muscle came crawling from the beaten body as it found the girl and sped towards her. She felt something behind again and stood up quickly to see the muscle cords speeding towards her targeting her. She stood glued there stuck to the ground watching the cords slithered towards her in a great amount of speed. As it was almost apart from curling Kaname into its grasp, the cords was suddenly slashed into many pieces forming into a purple haze and dispersed into the air.
She was puzzled at the sudden action and said, "What?" "I see that Naraku is targeting you again." Sesshomaru said walking from the forest and into the clearing. "Oh, Sesshomaru." She said surprised to Sesshomaru here. He was holding the Tokijin in his hand and questioned with trying not to worry, "You hurt?" "No, I'm fine, thanks." She replied rubbing the back of her head with her hand. "Good." He said calmly putting Tokijin into its sheath. She watched him curiously as he looked around the area before turning towards her. "Why are you out here in the woods?" He questioned the wind blowing his hair a little. "Well, I thought I would go away from the loud noise from the festival and spend my time in silence." She explained embarrassed of what happened.
He blinked and said in his usual tone, "I see." While he was walking towards her, a purple flash flickered across the area and an explosion burst out loud making Kaname close her ears and eyes wincing and screaming. The flash and the explosion stopped unexpectedly making her opened her eyes and unclosed her ears to see Sesshomaru lying face down injured in a deep, deep craters in the jagged earth. "Sesshomaru!" she cried out running towards him and bending down beside him. She inspected him and found out that he was unconscious and had many cuts and wounds on him. "What was that? Could it be...Naraku?" she thought puzzled and scared searching around the area.
"Hahahaha, what a waste!" Naraku's voice laughed from the shadows. She stood up quickly and tried to find the voice. "Naraku, show yourself!" she shouted standing beside Sesshomaru's lifeless body. "Being brave, I see, but that is unnecessary since you belong to me now." He said coldly. Purple clouds formed a few feet away from her and two red eyes appeared from the clouds staring at her. "What do you want?" she said trying to be brave. "I want only one thing, of course, your body. Once I take your body, I'll control the Shikigami and take over the world with the Shikon Jewel." He said with his eyes blinking. "But, since Sesshomaru is here, it's best to take over his body since he is a 'perfect demon' and then absorb you into me." He said turning his attention to the unconscious Sesshomaru.
He started to move forward slowly until Kaname stood in front of Sesshomaru arms spread in a protective stance. "There's no way you're going to use his body for your own malicious needs." She said glaring at the two red eyes. "You think you can stop me? Ha, go away, I dare you." He replied glaring back also. The muscle cords came out of the clouds and slithered towards her in a fast pace. "Shikigami attack!" she shouted throwing her power towards the cords. The cords burnt slowly until they were into black mush while Naraku chuckled. "I see you grew strong, but I will take his body and make it into my own." "Over my dead body!" she exclaimed angrily. "That can be arranged." He replied sending out his miasma.
She whipped up a white Shikigami and threw it in front of them that made an invisible barrier that blocked the miasma's attack. He sent out countless tentacles that flew towards her while she concentrated on her new spells. "It's time to finish this!" she shouted covering in her red Shikigami. "Go!" she shot her hand up in the sky as the red Shikigami formed a beast and zipped towards the tentacles with the power and heat of a flamethrower that caused the tentacles to melt like iron and turned into squishy, gooey, mucky mush.
"Damn it!" he cursed seeing that he failed again. "I'll be back." The eyes closed and disappeared while the purple clouds dispersed into the woods and the shadows. She wiped her forehead with her arm sighing in relief looking at where Naraku was last seen. "I guess he lost again and probably come back to attack again, but I'll be ready for him." She said to herself aloud before bending down on her knees next to Sesshomaru.
She moved him from the barren, rough ground and set him lying on a large leaf to cushion him and another big leaf folded to cushion his head. She moved his sleeve up to see numerous of cuts on him. 'Wow, he sure it cut up from Naraku's attack. It's a good thing I know about treatments, now to check his other arm.' She went on the other side and started to lift the sleeve up. She found nothing until she saw the chopped arm. 'Ahhh, His arm's chopped! It doesn't look it happened recently. He must have this for a long time.' She pulled up his Hakama legs to see many other cuts and deep cuts. 'I doubt medical treatments would help many cuts like this. I'll just use my Shikigami to heal. Maybe, I'll try that new spell I learned yesterday.'
She lifted her hands and clasped them together while chanting in her mind. A blue Shikigami glowed and twirled around her before it flew onto Sesshomaru making him glow, too. She felt fatigue and weariness coming towards her while concentrating on her power. The body was slowly regenerating as the cuts started to heal and closed up on his skin. His arm was glowing on its power as it started to mutate and slowly grew a new arm. The power stopped glowing on Sesshomaru making her stopped too. She opened her eye slowly almost falling behind, but luckily caught herself. 'I'm so tired. I guess I've used too much energy mending his wounds. Oh, well, at least he's healed.'
Back at the village, Kagome was talking and giggling with some women near the tress when they walked off done talking and she turned to Inuyasha, who was standing there bored. "This is fun, right, Inuyasha!" she exclaimed eating some cake that villagers made. "Yeah, right." He replied looking around the village. "Sango, I was just playing around!" Miroku cried panicky running away from a terribly mad demon slayer. "If touching other women's bums is called playing around, then I would feed you to a giant eating demon right now!" Sango threatened angrily running after the lecherous monk with her Hiraitoksu.
They sweatdropped as Inuyasha sighed, "He'll never learn." "Oh, that reminds me, do you know where Kaname went?" she asked looking around for her. "She probably went to bed or something." He replied eating a rice cake in his hand. "Why would she do that, Inuyasha? It's only 9:30." She questioned him showing her watch at him. "Come on, she probably want to spend some time to herself. Maybe she's playing with the kids or thinking in Kaede's." he said eating the rice cake still. "Oh, well, I hope she's all right." She said staring up at the sky with the stars twinkling.
She was laying her legs out comfortably and leaning against the tree for support while watching and sitting next to Sesshomaru. She yawn a little as she kept watch over for a while. She noticed how low the temperature is while she shivered from a gust of wind that blew her way. "I-Its s-so c-c-cold." She stuttered covering herself while shivering. She looked around and found a pile of dry sticks near some trees. She put it near them in the middle while she summoned a small ball of red Shikigami and threw it at the pile making it lit up.
The fire roared warming her up while she occasionally checked up on him. She leaned watching the moon while listening for any demons that might come lurking by. She turned to Sesshomaru, who was still lying on the leaf out cold from the attack groaning sometimes. 'He's still unconscious, he must have struck hard.' She turned to look around the area bored and tired from extreme fatigue while trying to stay awake for a little while longer. Her arms and legs began to fall asleep until she moved them around for a while trying to awake them.
Sesshomaru was still knocked out cold until he slowly opened his eyes fully and looked around in confusion. "Where am I?" he muttered to himself looking around the forest confused. "Oh, Sesshomaru, you're awake!" he heard Kaname exclaimed with relief in her voice. He looked up to see her sitting him looking at him smiling. "I'm glad you're awake, you've been asleep for so long." She said brushing her back behind her ears. "…" he got up slowly until he sat fully up. "What happened?" he questioned puzzled. He felt something weird on his left and looked down to see his full grown left arm. "How did I have my left arm back?" he questioned surprised at this.
"Oh, you didn't remember. You saved me from being attacked by strange tentacles and was walking towards me before you were suddenly attacked by Naraku." She explained seriously while sitting on her legs. His eyes narrowed at the name before she explained more, "The attack left you unconscious with a lot of wounds and I healed you with my Shikigami. So, that's why you got your left arm back again." He stayed silent for a few moments with her sweating from the silence until he later said, "I see. Impressive work you did." She smiled and said, "Thank you." He looked away.
"It must be late; I think we should go-." She said standing up before fainting from extreme exhaustion cutting off her sentence. He caught her before she fell down on the ground. 'I see. She has been using all her Shikigami until she ran low energy for a while. I should go back to the village and let her rest.' He thought at her face before carrying her away bridal style towards the village. He walked till he saw the village lights from a distance away from the hill he stood on. He stood there feeling the breeze past him pulling his hair back with his Mokomoko.
He felt her shift a little and see her open her fully wide eyes. "Sesshomaru?" she said puzzled at what was happening. He put her down carefully while she stood up on her own now. She looked towards what's he looking and saw the village lights. "Oh, the festival, it's still on." She said looking at her watch to see its 9: 45. "You better go before it ends." He said calmly while looking at her. "Why don't you come with me?" she asked holding out her hand. He looked at it before turning his head away. "I'm not into worthless things like that." He replied looking away from her disappointed face. She pulled her hand back and used it to rub the back of her head saying in disappointment, "Oh, okay, sorry."
Sesshomaru saw this and quickly said, "But if you insist, I'll go." "Really?! Okay, let's go, then!" she said turning her frown into a smile. She walked up to him and grabbed his left hand about to drag him towards the village, but ended in up pulled towards him in his grasp. His right arm covered behind her while she stared at him stunned. He stared at her normally as she turned her head away blushing harder than a tomato. 'OMG! OMG! OMG! I'm being hugged by Sesshomaru! This can't be real…can it?' her thoughts rushed by in her mind.
They stared at each other for a long time to them, but a short while in reality. Her face felt like it's on fire while Sesshomaru just looked calm as usual. 'Why can't I stop blushing around boys?! The last time I blushed like this was when Jin caught me before I fell from the stairs at school. Mio never let it down and always remind me every time.' She calmed down a bit before looking back to Sesshomaru to see him looking at her coolly, but with a quirk of interest.
He pulled his attached hand from hers and wrapped it around her with the other arm. He smiled a bit seeing her blush more with a pink tint on her cheeks. 'I-Is he smiling?' He hugged her tight with her head under his chin while she blushed against the crook of his neck. She felt a sting in her chest while she heard her heart beatin her ears. 'My heart, I can hear my heartbeat. It is because of Sesshomaru?'
She felt him move away and before she even started to say something, she was cut off by a pair of warm lips. Her eyes widened a little before she let the issue slide and closed her eyes and kissed back. She wrapped her arms around his neck hugging him closely. Sesshomaru was a little surprised by her and decided to go along. They stood still kissing each other with their eyes closed until they both pulled apart needing to breathe.
They broke away from the hug just standing while she blushed and moved shyly and he was standing there and acting coolly. Her mind was yelling crazy about the whole thing while her heart was beating furiously that it's almost about to burst out of her chest. She felt relieved, embarrassed, and glad at the whole thing, but was worried about what he thinks of this. She switched into reality when he looked at her with a single glance. She tilted her head to the side in confusion until he walked over and said, "Come." "Where?" she asked mostly puzzled at him. "To the festival." He replied holding out his hand. "Really?! Let's go!" she exclaimed happily took his hand and ran off with him trailing behind.
They ran towards the village hearing the drums' beat getting louder each time they get closer. They slowed down when they got inside the village and stopped in behind the gates. They saw the villagers in their kimonos dancing to the drums while the others talked around the blazing bonfire in the center of the village. "Kaname!" Kagome's voice called out. They turned to see Kagome running towards them waving. Kaname waved back saying, "Hey!" She slowed down and stopped in front of them. "Oh, Kaname, where have you've been? We thought you're with the others. You've been gone for a long time." She said with a worried face. "I'm sorry." She apologized feeling bad for a while.
Kagome looked at Sesshomaru and smirked mischievously. "Oh, I see, you've been busy I see." She said looking at Kaname while smirking. "What?" she said confused. They looked at each other and looked away with Kaname blushing redder than Sesshomaru. "Hey, Kagome!" Inuyasha's voice called out. They turned to see Inuyasha coming towards them. "What is it, Inuyasha?" she asked confused. "The fireworks are about to start, we better get some seats." He explained to her before moving his eyes towards Sesshomaru. "What are you doing here?" "Come on, Inuyasha, let's go grab seats!" she said grabbing his kimono sleeve and dragged him away from them with him protesting. Kaname sighed relived silently thanking Kagome.
Sesshomaru stepped up and said, "Come." "What?" He quickly picked up Kaname, who let out a yelp of surprise, and jumped on the rooftops. She hanged on to him while he leaped from roof to roof until they jumped onto the tall rooftop in the village. He gingerly set her down while she looked around astounded. He sat down making her sit beside him looking up around the village. On the ground, a man dressed in a white kimono stood in front of the fireworks raising a torch shouted, "Ready?" The other men in white kimonos stood in front of the other fireworks responded shouting, "Ready!" "Go!" he shouted lowering the torch towards the fuse making it ignite.
The fuse was ignited making the fireworks go off into the sky and blasted revealing colorful explosions turning into flowers, hearts, and stars. Everyone in the village said 'ooh' amazed sitting in the grass watching the show. Miroku and Sango were watching it from a hill with Shippo, Rin, and Kohaku. Inuyasha and Kagome were watching it from a tall tree smiling at the sight.
They watched the show while she smiled and let out a laugh. He watched her from the corner of his eyes and smiled at her enthusiasm. She remembered something and started to pick something from her pocket. She got it out and said to him, "Here." He was confused and curious as he held out his hand and she dropped it in his. He pulled his hand away and looked to see a pink bead bracelet in his palm. "That's my good luck charm. Each bead is carved with the kanji of luck. Since you gave me something, I thought that I would give you something." She explained fingering her bell on her necklace.
He nodded understanding what she meant, took the bracelet, and wore it on his right arm. She continued to watch the fireworks blow up in the sky while he did it until she decided to do something she would never do. She leaned over his way and touched her lips with his. He was surprised by her bravery while they both stopped blushing madly. They didn't say anything except they smiled and turned to watch the show with his arm around her shoulders.
TBC
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