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Chapter 5 –
"Where is the half demon and his group?"
"He is in the Northern Regions of the continent, my lord."
"Very well, Kagura, find them." Naraku's voice was like venom to her ears.
"Yes." She replied, knowing that the 'man' before her held her heart, literally.
"Well? What are you waiting for!" His voice rose.
Kagura's eyes narrowed for a moment before she plucked a feather from her hair and throwing it in the air, taking off away from the fortress.
"Kanna, do you have any interesting information on Inuyasha's group?"
"They have another with them now." Kanna replied.
"Who is this other?"
"Another half demon, I do not believe she'll pose much of a threat to you master."
"Oh I had not thought of anything of that sort."
Kanna chose to stay silent.
-.- Inuyasha -.-
The group lay animatedly on the ground in front of their friends.
"Sango?"
Sango was dressed in her demon exterminator outfit with the bone boomerang strapped to her back. A frustrated look on her face.
"You'd think that after everything, including the fact that we're supposed to marry once we defeat Naraku, he would stay away from other women, especially demon women, but nooo he has to go and ask every other woman to bare his children. Perverted monk!"
Iria and Inuyasha looked puzzled for a few moments until they got a look from Kagome saying the she'd explain things later.
"I'm sure he was just kidding around, you know how Miroku is." Kagome replied getting up from the ground and dusting off her skirt.
"Yeah, but I just really wish that he would quit it."
"So, Sango, how'd your trip to the exterminator village go?" Iria jumped in a bright smile put on her features.
"It went fine, how's about your own little trip their you little runaway." Sango asked teasingly.
"It went alright, I got a new wardrobe, as you can see, that's all I really wanted." Iria replied, her eyes flashing towards Kagome and Inuyasha for a moment.
"Dance of Blades!"
It had been an unexpected attack on the small group, Kagome and Inuyasha were in the air, Inuyasha only having minor wounds, Sango had been pushed out of the way by
Iria, being pulled down to the ground by Miroku, and Shippo was safe with Kirara behind a couple of rocks.
"Iria!" Kagome yelled from Inuyasha's arms.
"Oh so I did get one of them. You're group is beginning to get slow." Kagura said from her position in a tree not far from the small clearing.
"Iria!" Kagome yelled again.
"Face it, wench, she's dead."
"I don't die that easily." Iria said jumping up from the rubble of the small blast.
"How…?" Kagura looked at her as if she was crazy.
"Please, that was a petty excuse of an attack." Iria replied.
"I am the wind sorceress, Kagura." She said.
"I'm Iria." She answered the unspoken question. Her head was cocked to the side allowing a few strands of silver hair to fall past her shoulders. Her golden eyes held anger and then suddenly her eyes were as cold as Sesshomaru's.
"So, girl, are you going to fight me?"
"Try me."
The two swords at her waist were brought out and put into her hands in a matter of seconds before she sliced at the Wind Sorceress. Iria and Kagura both back flipped away from each other.
"Not bad, for a kid."
"Not bad, for an incarnation."
"Pardon me?"
"You think I wouldn't notice? How blind do you expect me to be?"
"I don't know you are a half breed."
"We'll see if you still think half demons are the runts of the litters when we're done this fight." Iria replied before bringing her blade up to the mouth and breathing on the steel.
"What are you doing? Going to fog up your blade there child." Kagura said.
"Your insolence is, amusing." Iria smiled at the look of discomfort on her opponents face. "Let me introduce to you, my blades of fire. Get used to them, their going to be the things that kill you."
Iria ran at Kagura swinging both arms forward and using her forearms to propel the now red blades into her opponent, forcing them upwards before abruptly bringing them to her and kicking Kagura hard in the stomach.
"So you can use fire, that's a good thing to know." Kagura smiled almost evily before taking a feather out of her hair and throwing it into the air and leaving their small group.
Iria looked up at her fellow companions while she sheathed both of the blades.
"Um, I'll explain…" Iria smiled graciously. Coming out of the once forest now crater she led her friends back to the clearing that Kagome and Inuyasha had been using for their needs.
-.- Naraku's Lair -.-
"Kagura had returned my lord." Kanna said dutifully just before her 'sister' landed in the room. Blood was flowing freely from her stomach and chest.
"Kagura, your report, please." Naraku said all too nicely.
"They have another in their group, someone I was not aware of."
"Who?" Naraku demanded.
"A half demon by the name of Iria."
"Anything else?"
"She's can use fire elements."
"Good, now go and get yourself cleaned up." Naraku said, his demeanor changing drastically at the bad news.
-.- Inuyasha -.-
The small group had gathered wood, started a fire and had settled down for a quiet dinner before Iria started to explain to them what had happened.
"I can use fire elements and water elements…" She started. "I'm not able to use them all to well but that's because I don't have someone who can teach me how to use them, I'm the only element user that can use the 4 elements."
"I thought you could only use fire and water." Miroku said.
"True, but as I get older, wind and earth should come to me, in a battle, in a disaster… it can happen at any time. But it also brings forth my demon side, since it was my father that was the last element user around… and he's dead."
The small group was silent for a minute.
"Couldn't we find someone to teach you the elements separately?" Shippo asked from her lap.
"That's the problem, its either demons or humans not hanyou's that use elements. So even if I did ask them they'd find out I was a half demon and chase me out of their village for example."
"So that's why you ran to Goshinboku… you thought that you'd be safe. That's why you were running from those villagers in the first place." Inuyasha answered his own question.
"Yes, that was just after I learned about the water element, that being the first element I used, I was scared and when I found out that the woman in the village could help me I went there. You know the rest."
"How'd you find out about the water element?" Shippo asked, his big emerald eyes looking up at her. Iria giggled before answering.
"There was a serpent demon away from the water, her name had been Shinta, and she was giving birth to her young when I came across her. The only thing is, serpent demons can't give birth to their babies if they aren't in the water because the babies don't know how to breathe through their nose, they use their gills. I couldn't move her, and the nearest water source was in eye sight but to far. There was a hole in the ground where a water hole had been a long time ago so I looked at the water and the whole and something told me to lift my hands. I'd think it was my demon side, but anyways when I did that the water came over to the other hole." Iria shrugged
"What about the fire one?" Shippo asked still smiling.
"The fire element isn't a good bedtime story Shippo, maybe some other time." She smiled ruffling his hair.
"Awe."
"Speaking of bedtimes, we should all be getting to bed." Sango said to them all.
"Yeah it is getting kind of late." Kagome agreed.
As Sango and Miroku were getting ready for bed, Iria walked over with Shippo cradled in her arms sleeping.
"If you want to sleep in the tree with Inuyasha tonight, I can watch Shippo." She smiled.
"Thank you." Kagome said.
"I'll take first watch Inuyasha." Iria said to him as he walked over to them.
"Alright, wake me up when you want to switch."
"Mmk." Was her answer as she walked back over to a tree where she could see everything that was around her.
"C'mon Kagome, you want to sleep up in the tree with me?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes." Kagome smiled up at her mate.
Inuyasha gathered her in his arms before jumping up into one of the highest branches before settling Kagome in his lap and wrapping his arms around her waist. Her head lay on his chest.
"I love you, Kagome." He smiled into her hair.
"I love you too Inuyasha." She buried her face deeper into his chest, a smile formed thoroughly on her face.
Author Notes
You know, since you love em' and all. ;)… All things considered, I think this was an alright chapter, although I think I'm going crazy with the comma's, besides that and 'wordiness' as my computer likes to call it, its okay… if your wondering why it took so long to update, I had this chapter almost done, and when I reread it, I didn't like where it was going, so me sitting here with the thought's. 'This is the fifth fucking chapter and I don't have any elements in it. Jesus what the fuck is wrong with you' o.O I figures I'd delete the chapter and start over, so that's exactly what I did.
I know there isn't much Inuyasha and Kagome fluff, so in the next couple chapters I'm going to put some in there, hopefully.
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Updated: July 24, 2006.
Expect Update around: July 28th, 2006.