Disclaimer: I do not own any part of InuYasha, only my own character Kakiya.
Chapter 5
Kakiya awoke to the touch of something touching at her hair. "Who is it?" she said lazily, struggling to open her eyes in the bright morning sun.
"It's silver..." she heard a voice say.
"InuYasha?" she properly opened her eyes to see and saw his red robe. She slowly sat and stretched herself out. "What's silver?" she looked at the hair he held in his hands, and rubbed her eyes still sleepy, "Mine?" she was still wondering what was going on.
"Who else's would I be talking about?" he scoffed.
His response brought back her to her senses, "Yours is the same colour too, you know." She looked back at Kagome who was still sleeping peacefully.
Kakiya tucked her back in and pointed to the window. InuYasha nodded and jumped out the window with Kakiya following behind him. They went back up the roof and sat there together, bathing in the sunlight.
InuYasha was still looking at her ponytail, "I've never seen it like this before."
"It's my natural hair colour... but it seems that I didn't get to change it back before you saw." She ran her hand through her silver hair and it turned black as her hand combed through the rest of hair. Kakiya noticed he was still looking, "Does it bother you that much?"
"Why did you change it back to black?"
"It's simpler this way; I won't attract as much attention." She brushed her hair from her wounded shoulder, "And it's easier to move around looking human."
"I guess that makes sense."
Kakiya started to unwind the bandages around her shoulder and observed her unscathed shoulder; it healed perfectly as soon as she turned back. She held the bundle of bandages in her hand and lit it on fire, letting the ash float away in the wind.
"We should get back to our own time today." He stood up and nodded towards the well, "I'm going back ahead of up, make sure you tell Kagome to hurry up."
"Sure thing." She replied.
Kakiya watched him go stood up herself, walking towards the window of Kagome's room, "You're up already?" she asked.
"Yup, I heard you guys moving around up there. I'll be done in a moment. Wait for me by the well." Kagome called out.
Kakiya jumped down from the roof and landed softly on the ground. She made her towards the well and then sat down on the ledge of the well when she got there. Kakiya looked around the shrine; she knew that she wouldn't ever be coming back here again. Only about five minutes passed before Kakiya saw Kagome run out of the house lugging around a large yellow backpack.
'What does she carry in that thing anyway?' she wondered.
Kagome ran towards her, "Alright, I'm ready now." She walked down the steps towards the well, "Let's go."
Kakiya got up from her seat, "You can go first; I can freely cross the well much like you can." She looked back at the door to the well's shed, "Besides, there's something I have to do first."
"Alright then, see you on the other side." Kagome said, jumping into the well and disappearing into the blue light.
Near the door, Mrs. Higurashi stepped away from behind the door, "You knew I was here?"
Kakiya smiled, "I saw you behind Kagome when she left the house." She told her, 'And I can easily sense you're presence.' She thought as she walked up the stairs and greeted her mom.
"It was nice to see you again." She told her.
"I won't be coming back here again." Kakiya told her.
She smiled, "I figured out that much, Kakiya, which is why I came here to see you off." Mrs. Higurashi stepped forward and quickly embraced her long lost daughter, "I'm just glad I got to see you one last time."
Kakiya nodded and stepped away. She watched her mother return to the house. Kakiya closed the door to the shed and walked down the steps. Sitting down on the well's ledge again she gazed at the pair of closed doors.
"Goodbye." She whispered before leaning back and falling backwards into the well.
When she reached the other side of the well, she hopped out to find InuYasha and Kagome there, waiting for her.
"Took you long enough." InuYasha scoffed.
"I had something I had to do first." Kakiya simply replied.
"Well, let's go back to the village. Sango and Miroku might be there waiting for us." Kagome told them.
When they reached the village, they found that both Sango and Miroku had not yet returned. Kakiya told them that it was probably due to Sango's broken blade since that would have taken a longer time to fix.
"We should wait here for them then." Said Kagome.
InuYasha nodded. "Yeah, I guess we should. We have nothing better to do."
"And, I think Kaede's returned. I'm going to talk with her for a while. I still need to get used to the different medicinal herbs here." Kagome smiled and ran off into Kaede's hut, then quickly poked her head back out, "Don't get into any trouble." She said, glaring at the two.
Kakiya grinned evilly, "We'll try..." she quietly said as Kagome's head disappeared back into the hut. She turned towards InuYasha and looked at him, "So now that my powers are back to its fullest, shall we have our little match? To kill time?"
InuYasha grinned, "Of course!"
Kakiya stood there and thought for a moment, "Well I might as well do it."
"Do what?" he questioned.
"You'll see." She said, grinning.
Kakiya held out her hands and three orbs of a pale blue light came out of her hand. They circled them as they grew bigger; soon the two were surrounded by the blue light. They disappeared from the spot they were just standing on and reappeared in the same field that Kagura had fought with them before. She staggered a bit as she stepped away from InuYasha.
'That took more energy than I had originally thought...' Kakiya sighed and straightened herself up, "At least it worked!" she said, grinning.
InuYasha looked around at the broken field, "You can teleport around now?" then he glared at her when he heard her last line, "Are you saying that you could have failed?"
"Umm, we could have been torn apart if I failed." Kakiya grinned, "That was my first time actually doing that!"
He let out a long sigh, "I'm just glad that it didn't."
"Anyway, let's get started!" Kakiya flipped back away from InuYasha. Holding out her right hand, a large, dark sword materialized in her palm. She gripped the sword and pointed it towards InuYasha, "Draw your sword, InuYasha!"
InuYasha complied and unsheathed his great Tessaiga, "If it's a sword fight you want, then a sword fight you will get!"
He heard her giggle, "You may have the first blow, since you are the younger one."
"Well aren't you haughty?" InuYasha held his sword above him, "I'll make you regret that decision! Wind Scar!" he aimed the attack directly at Kakiya.
Kakiya simply stood there and waited for his attack to fly by. InuYasha noticed that she came out unscathed. He wondered how she avoided it without moving, but then noticed her barrier, shimming after the dust settled.
His Tessaiga glowed red, "A barrier, huh? You have so many neat tricks up your sleeve, Kakiya. At least, that will make our fight interesting." He raised his sword over his head again, "Wind Scar!" the blow reached Kakiya in no time and shattered her already weakened barrier.
She looked at him in surprise, "Well, that was quick." Kakiya gripped her sword, "Maybe I underestimated you a little."
Kakiya ran towards him and slashed at him with her blade. InuYasha shielded from the blow with his sword and was now face to face with her. She put her other hand to support her sword and pushed InuYasha back. Kakiya quickly swiped at him multiple times, but each attack got averted by him. He saw her back opened during one of her attacks and swung towards her. Kakiya saw was he was trying to do and whipped around, blocking his sword with hers. However, she didn't have much grip on her footing due to the quick turn, so his strength pushed her far back.
Smiling, she looked at the distance that InuYasha managed to push her back, "Would you look at that?" she said in a mocking tone, "You managed to push me back." She glided two fingers along her blade, charging it with dark electrical energy as it went along, 'Guess I'll have to try a bit harder now.' She thought.
Their swords clashed once again, but this time, InuYasha felt strange. Each time their swords collided, it sent a spark of pain up into his body.
Kakiya grinned, "Maybe I went a bit too far this time." She swung at him at full force, making him fly back towards the tree line.
Kakiya had managed to wound his right arm during the blow. Pulling back she looked at her sword and the dark energy surrounding it disappeared.
InuYasha slowly pulled himself up, "What was that?"
"Each time your sword touched mine, a fragment of my own energy surges into your body, which acts kind of like a small lightning bolt." Kakiya explained.
He looked at his sword, 'What a skill...' he thought and looked up at her, 'Good thing that I'm not her enemy.'
InuYasha ran towards her and swung at her which Kakiya easily blocked with her sword. He noticed that there was not shock in his body anymore.
"I made it go away," Kakiya smiled at him and leaned in closer towards him, "You would have eventually lost all your nerves and could have died if I continued." She quickly touched him, negating any of the effects her dark energy still had on his body.
While their sword clashed, Kagome had finally left the hut after a long talk with Kaede. She noticed that the two were not anywhere to be seen. Kagome began searching the village, but still couldn't find them.
"Where could they be?" she thought out loud.
Suddenly, she heard a large crash and instantly recognized it as InuYasha's Wind Scar.
'They can't be...' she thought, dreading the scenario that might be happening that instant in her head. She looked up towards the sound and what she saw only confirmed her suspicions. "Even though I clearly told them to behave and to stay out of trouble!"
Kagome hopped on her bike that she kept in this era and peddled as fast as she could towards the dust-filled clouds, carrying nothing but her bow and arrows upon her back. 'When I see them...' she thought angrily, 'Oh, they are going to get it.'
Back at the now even more ripped up fields, it could be easily seen that Kakiya had the upper hand. She stood there, sword resting on her shoulder, while InuYasha was kneeling a few metres away from her, covered in bruises and scratches. He had a major wound on one of his legs and his right arm was still bleeding from Kakiya's past attack.
Kakiya glanced at the silver-haired boy, "Hey, are you done yet?" she asked him.
He stood up again and pointed his sword at her, "No... Not yet. Not until I beat you." He attacked her again.
Kakiya studied him while she blocked his blows, "In that condition... I don't think so." She told him.
Once again, she pushed him back and swung at him. He tried blocking it, but that made him fall back. InuYasha was now laying flat on his back with Kakiya looking over him.
She drove her sword into the ground, right next to his face, and leaned on it, "Now are you done?" Kakiya too, was now starting to feel the fatigue moving in.
InuYasha looked up at her and tried moving his sword, but failed to make it budge. "Just give me a minute." He said, breathing hard.
Kakiya laughed, "Whatever you say." She smiled.
Both he and Kakiya suddenly sensed a large purifying aura flying quickly towards them. Kakiya quickly grabbed her sword and stepped in front of InuYasha's injured body. She held her sword up and the arrow pierced through it, shattering it as it purified her dark energy. Kakiya caught the arrow before it hit her shoulder and lazily threw it on the ground beside InuYasha.
"It's Kagome..." InuYasha groaned.
"What is she doing here?" Kakiya said as she watched Kagome storm her way towards them.
Kagome started shouting at them as soon as she was within earshot of them, "I was wondering why it was so quiet out. Then, when I actually went to go check, I found you two gone. What next? I hear InuYasha's Wind Scar and I see dust clouds floating into the sky!" she glared at the two and noticed the injured InuYasha then glared at Kakiya, "I can't believe you'd actually do this to him!" she screamed. "Isn't there something called, 'holding back?' Or does it not exist in the world of demons?" Then she noticed her clothes that she gave Kakiya were all dirty and torn up, even her hair was no longer in a pony tail, "And your clothes!"
Kakiya looked at herself and then scratched her head, "Umm, sorry?"
"Saying 'sorry' isn't going to make InuYasha's wounds disappear nor will it mend your clothes!" Kagome yelled.
Kakiya sat down beside InuYasha, "Hey InuYasha, so I'm guessing we're done now, huh?"
He sighed, "Yes, Kakiya. We're done fighting."
Kakiya grinned and stood up and pointed to InuYasha, the tip of her finger glowing a soft green, "Look Kagome. Sorry." InuYasha glowed the same green for a brief moment before all of his wounds, scars, and blood cleared away. When Kakiya said 'Sorry,' InuYasha returned to the state he was in before their fight started, even his clothes were no longer ripped up nor was there blood that stained it either. Her grinned widened, "I guess saying 'sorry' really did make all his wounds disappear!"
InuYasha jumped up and patted himself, "You're right! They're all gone!" he picked up Tessaiga and sheathed it, "Nice trick, Kakiya." He grinned.
Kagome did a face palm, "I can't deal with the two of you anymore." She sighed. "Let's get back to the village, okay? We can get you a change of clothes there too. And please, no more fighting."
"Can I teleport us back?"
"No." InuYasha said immediately.
"But I need practice..."
Kagome looked at her with confusion, "Teleport? You can do that?"
"Yup." Kakiya replied happily
InuYasha walked over to a stone and picked it up. He tossed it into the air a few times before tossing the stone to Kakiya, who caught it with a puzzled look on her face.
"I want you to send that stone to my hand again, with your teleporting powers."
Kakiya glared at the rock, "But why would I do that? You're standing right there, I could just give it back-"
"Just do it." He cut her off.
"If you say so."
A blue pale orb wrapped itself around the rock and engulfed it. It suddenly disappeared, but then a cracking sound was heard. When Kakiya looked back at her hand, she found crumbles of the stone. InuYasha found a fragment of what used to be his stone left in his palm.
He glared at her, "And you wonder why I don't let you teleport us." he said, holding out the fragmented rock, "Look at this!"
Kakiya looked at the crumbles in her hand and quickly tossed it over her shoulder, "Well, that was because... err... it wasn't living. Yes, right. I can do better with people." She smiled.
InuYasha pulled Kagome to his side, trying to distance them from Kakiya, "We'll just go back on foot. "You can teleport back to the village or whatever; we'll just get there on foot." He turned around and started walking towards the bike, which he quickly picked up and continued on his way to the tree line.
Kakiya let out a sigh. She held out her hand and a few blue orbs come from it. They raced towards InuYasha and surrounded them completely in the blue energy. They circled around Kakiya before engulfing her too in the blue light. They disappeared from the worn fields and reappeared in front of Kaede's hut.
"See, InuYasha? It worked fine..." Kakiya fell forward, but caught herself. She straightened back up again, "We're all here in one piece." She smiled despite her tiredness.
InuYasha set down the bike, which Kagome led away to park elsewhere, "Yeah, except for the person in question." He looked at her, "You look like you're about to faint or something."
"I'm just slightly tired."
Kagome came back and joined into their conversation, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, teleporting always makes me tired, is all. I'm just not used to it yet."
"The sun's setting, let's call it a day and go inside. Hopefully Sango and Miroku come back tomorrow." Kagome told them and went inside Kaede's hut.
Kakiya followed behind her, "Good idea."
Deep within the forest near the site that InuYasha and Kakiya had just fought, Kagura was lurking around, and she watched their fight. 'Interesting... This woman defeated InuYasha so easily...' she pondered. Kagura took a feather from her hair when thrown into the air, it turned into a giant feather on which she rode upon, 'I might be able to use her to kill Naraku... Ah! I'll let them fight it out when I bring her to him. Yes... then finally, I'll be free!'
Kagura was not the only one who was watching InuYasha's match, almost on the opposite end of the forest to where Kagura was hiding, a small human child, Rin, also observed the match. She quickly ran back to the imp demon, who was impatiently waiting for her return.
"What took you so long?" he almost screeched.
"Master Jaken! I heard some load noises and when I went to go look, I saw InuYasha fighting with this human lady! Except she was a strange human, she had strange powers." She told him, excited about what she saw.
Jaken impatiently tapped his foot, "And...?"
Rin looked at him, "Do all humans have powers like that?"
He sighed, "She was probably a demon."
"But she looked so human!" Rin frowned, "She can't be a demon!"
"Believe what you will. Perhaps one day you'll meet her, and then you'd be able to find out then." Jaken pulled on the reins of the two-headed dragon who sat nearby, "Come along now, we can't keep Lord Sesshomaru waiting."
"Yes!" Rin said cheerily. She ran after Jaken, but quickly glanced back before she left, 'I hope I get to meet her one day...' Rin thought.
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