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War Of The WorldsIY YYH crossover. What happens when a whole lot of demons come after Kagome for the Shikon shards? Kurama falls in love with Kagome while protecting her. Will Kagome remain faithful to Inuyasha or will he risk losing her forever.
Chapter Thirty One Screams When Sparks Fly
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes;
There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Henry Kissinger
He leapt down in one swift movement, holding on to the herbs he had collected carefully. He wondered why he was making the effort to help this human. Perhaps it was because she was amusing, he thought to himself. He expected that the miko would scream at him for saving her, for he was a demon. Or maybe she would bow to him in gratitude and be like those meek human women he had often encountered.
What he had not expected was a hassled looking Kuronue suddenly appearing in front of him and grabbing him by the shoulders. "Kurama! Help me!"
Kurama could only stare at his comrade in confusion.
"You! You brought me here!" a shriek suddenly pierced his sensitive ears. He turned, and neatly dodged something that crashed behind him. He heard Kuronue moan before realizing what exactly that miko had thrown at him. It was their collection of relic mirrors.
Kurama stared at the shattered fragments in disbelief and something akin to shock flashed through his eyes. Slowly, his aura flared and he turned to face that blasted woman once again. His eyes gleamed and he started to growl. To Kurama's satisfaction, she quivered a little in fear. However, she lifted her head in a foolish attempt of bravery and glared at him.
He moved slowly and deliberately towards the foolish miko, and she took steps back, trying to maintain the gap between them, shivering with fear now, her eyes reflecting her emotions clearly. As she fell back towards a dead end, towards a huge tree behind her, she looked sideways for means to escape but Kurama had quickly moved forward and covered up the distance.
He placed the hand not carrying the herbs beside her head and bent down to speak softly beside her ear. "Never ever do that again miko, I had the choice of leaving you for the dead back then, and this is how you humans repay my kindness, is it?"
"I never asked for your help!" The miko yelled indignantly, but her face was red.
In a sudden movement, he reached out and grasped her waist, feeling the blood oozing through the soft leaves he had placed there. Her breath whooshed out and she crumpled down, fainting dead away.
"You always had a way with the ladies Kurama." Kuronue dryly said behind him, swinging his red ruby once again. "They literally drop at your feet.."
"You couldn't even stop her." Kurama turned to Kuronue this time, holding the miko as would one carrying a sack of potatoes.
"Er, you see, she immediately screamed as soon as she awoke, and I could not help but flee at the sight of an enraged female. Have you not heard of this? Hell hath no fury as a woman's scorn? Or something to that." Kuronue sheepishly said, rubbing the back of his head.
Kuronue knew that he could not harm the female, for Kurama had taken an interest in her, and had he done anything, Kurama would have taught him a lesson he would rather forgo. Kurama might be considered his best friend, but he would not have let that stop him from torturing him should he feel displeased with Kuronue. Kuronue inwardly shuddered; he tried to stop himself from remembering that particular incident.
Kurama merely shot him a glare and proceeded back to the hut, he took note of those she had broken and those valuables he loved that had not. Kurama laid her carelessly on that mat once again, not bothering to be gentle even when she gave a hiss of pain in her unconscious state. Why should he? After all, she had broken his precious relics.
She carefully stripped her of her clothing, intent on his task of cleaning her wound. He was mildly confused with the strange thick cloth like material the miko wore inside of her robe. He was curious, this strange cloth was not like anything he had ever seen, but he imagined that he would have more fun asking the miko these questions when she was awake for they covered what could be called her assets, though Kurama would have to admit, she had a generous figure.
He bandaged the wound that seemed nothing more than a sword wound but had some sort of intent poison in it. He was unsure as to what was exactly the poison, but he figured that he would know when the symptoms appeared, he could not bother himself to actually worry himself about it.
The miko would die when she had to die, that was all to it. If she were to live, she would. She had to fight for her life with her own capabilities, and he was only there to see how she would actually do it. She was a form of entertainment to him, since he had decided to bring her back to his home. However, the tinges of regret crept into him once again, as he mentally moaned the lost of his precious relics.
He left the hut after doing what he wanted, and could do. He jumped up then, to where Kuronue was sitting by a sturdy branch.
It was silent as Kurama settled beside Kuronue, but they had been long time friends, though Kurama would prefer not to admit that. He was not one to be attached to people. He disliked having his thoughts focused on someone, regardless of the fact that they were family, friends or merely comrades.
Kuronue understood that well, but being one of mild manner, he had not minded that fact much and had just treated Kurama the way he had liked. He treated Kurama as one of his best friends, even though Kurama would not hesitate to leave him if ever in danger. But he understood that that was the nature of the Youko. And despite that, he chose to remain by Kurama's side.
Kurama could never understand himself, how Kuronue could selflessly stay by his side, when he could have left.
"Would we have time to pursue that artifact hidden in that village Kurama?" Kuronue murmured as he continued to stare ahead to the beautiful landscape that stretched beyond them.
Kurama took a while to answer. "We shall leave tomorrow, when the miko rests."
"Then, the village of Konoha would have to await our arrival."
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"Urgh." Kagome mumbled out as she slowly got up and clutched her head. The room was spinning, and she seemed to be spinning along with it.
She used her powers to form threads and to form a mesh over her wound. It healed the wound somewhat, but as always, her powers did not work well on herself and she was quite aware that the last slice by Naraku had his miasma in it.
Without Kaede-obaasan's help, she would not know how to heal it, without the modern medications as well.
Kagome sighed, but she felt better now that her powers had eased some of the pain. As she reached out and touched her wound, she realized that it was bandaged quite neatly and had some medicinal plants between the bandages, speeding up the healing process and possibly, neutralizing the poison.
Kagome was perplexed for a moment, wasn't she at that two youkais' hideout? They were thieves, the artifacts around her screamed "STOLEN GOODS!" But then, she realized that she wasn't anything but her bra and miko pants. Her top had been stripped off, and discarded.
Kagome's face first turned white, as the possibilities of what might have happened when she was asleep flitted past her mind, before turning red.
She jumped up and winced a little in pain but hurried and wore her miko robes properly. She grabbed her arrows and bow that was at a corner of that small hut and readied one.
She ran out of the hut and cursed. Had she been unconscious for that long already? The moon was not shining, and Kagome's heart clutched in fear and pain. It was the night of the new moon.
Inuyasha would be human, and she wouldn't be there. She lowered her bow and arrow, staring desolately at the darkened sky, alit only with the stars. The moon at the other side of the earth. Her grip tightened on the bow, how could she had been so careless as to let Naraku's stupid idiotic henchman transport her to another part of Japan with it's stupid teleportation skills? How could she have allowed herself to slip and caused for trouble for her family here?
"Inuyasha.." Kagome whispered out, sadly.
"So, you're awake now miko." A breeze tickled her ear from behind. Kagome instantly turned and her bow glowed with her pure purifying power in the dark.
The Youko only raised his arms up in mock defeat with a sly grin on his face that Kagome itched to punch off his face. "Touchy aren't you?"
"YOU! You took off my clothes! You.. You PERVERT!" Kagome screamed at him as he merely raised an eyebrow. Her bow continued to glow threateningly but he merely regarded her coolly, as if she was merely a specimen that could not hurt its creator no matter how much it tried to climb from its cage. It was as if he were saying, 'Would I even be interested?'
She was shaking with rage now, and heard another thump behind her. She glared up that Youko, and briefly counted to ten. She couldn't afford to lose her cool now. She lowered the glowing bow, and turned in a swift movement.
"I'm leaving."
The bat youkai, if she had heard correctly before, was named Kuronue merely stared at her in astonishment and disbelief before smiling.
"What are you smiling at? You bunch of demon perverts!" Kagome snapped as she attempted to walk past the bat youkai who irritatingly kept blocking her way refusing to let her past.
"Let me go! I have to leave!"
"You're miles away from where we had found you. You could never find your way back without help. You could also get hurt. What with the numerous number of demons around here." Kuronue said pleasantly, still smiling and swinging an annoying red ruby which grated on her nerves.
"Besides," said the even more disgusting and annoying Youko who had crept behind her yet again. "You're only a human girl."
Kagome was miles away from her friends, after failing yet again, in protecting herself during a fight. She had to meet stupid youkais along the way, and had unfortunately met a Youko that seemed to ruffle her feathers just as how Inuyasha would. Inuyasha would be weak now, and she was not there to comfort and protect him, just as how he would protect her. She was depressed, and already annoyed. And now, here the Youko was insulting her.
Though it could have been the stress of not being able to attend school to complete her examinations that caused her to snap like that.
Instincts took over and Kagome thought no more.
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Really, in all his life, Kuronue could never have thought that a woman was brave enough to jump on Kurama like that. Even his lovers had not dared to do such a primal thing. It was like watching a mongrel fighting a well groomed pedigree that thought nothing of it, before the mongrel jumped on it.
Kuronue could only laugh and laugh as he watched them two swipe at each other, the miko being on the winning side. Kurama could only scream obscenities, and crying out for the miko to let go, something he usually did not do. Kurama hated showing his weaknesses, and his emotions were one of them.
Kurama looked thoroughly hassled and perplexed, and seemed unsure with what to do. The incredulous look on the usually stoic youkai was enough to make Kuronue burst into fresh peals of laughter.
When Kurama finally had the sense to pull the woman off, he laughed even harder as he saw Kurama's hair sticking out in all directions and his ears looking battered.
It was a priceless moment.
Though, if he had been in the same situation, he wouldn't have pulled the woman away.
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"Get of me woman!" Kurama yelled as the crazy miko jumped on him and proceeded to pull his ears and hair, screaming like a lunatic the whole way.
He had not expected her to suddenly turn and jump on him and attempt to strangle him. He had expected her to yell, and scream but not this savage way of hurting someone. He tried to call for his rose whip but the savage cries of that insane human pierced his ears and her constant failing ruined his concentration. He was in pain, not that he would admit it to himself.
He finally succeeded in whipping out his rose whip and immediately yanked the woman with it away from his precious hair and ears. The woman had the nerve to bare her teeth at him even after she was held and tied up with his whip.
He heard Kuronue laughing his head off, and he could only glare at his friend but the laughter did not cease much to his annoyance. Kurama attempted to smooth what was left of his dignity and pride.
The human was still glaring at him, and was hissing just like an enraged cat. He was not one to be cowed down by a woman and glared back with the same ferocity.
The air crackled between them and his rose whip loosened and disintegrated as the miko's pure power purified the plant filled with his demonic power. His own hair stood on end, at the close contact of such pure power. But he did not back away and instead unleashed his own strong demonic youki.
"I've heard of sparks flying but I have not seen such attraction between two people until today." An amused voice cut through his thoughts.
The miko seemed embarrassed by the comment by Kuronue and blushed red. She blushed even further as she seemed to recall exactly what she had done to him. She backed away, and her power retracted back. Kurama himself, pulled back his powers but continued glaring at the miko.
"You are very brave indeed miko, to have done such a thing to the great Youko Kurama." He hissed.
"You? Great? Hah!" She exclaimed, but the blush had not yet fade away from her face.
"You insolent," Kurama started.
"Kurama," Kuronue stopped him midway.
"What?!" He snapped.
Kuronue shrugged, but was still grinning, turning to smile at the miko whom seemed to have regained some of her senses. "Don't know 'bout you two, but I'm famished. Got to find myself a tasty morsel to eat. I'll get some for the miko too. Don't want her starving now."
Kagome looked at Kuronue with something akin to gratitude in her eyes. "Thank you."
"No problem." Kuronue grinned at her, before turning back to Kurama and lifting an eyebrow of his own. "I'll be going now.."
"So go." Kurama said shortly.
That bat youkai only laughed again, "Yeah, yeah, you two had better not fight now and.." He turned to go, before turning back and grinning at the both of them. "Behave now..."
He jumped off and flew and the clearing ringed with his laughter just as Kurama whipped out his rose whip yet again.
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In the clearing, Kurama had reluctantly made a fire for he noticed the miko shivering and despite everything, he could not let that female die due to his negligence.
She seemed to be pointedly ignoring him, for which he was grateful. He did not think that he could continue keeping his calm around her without fighting for the urge to kill her any longer should she have annoyed him.
He had by now, made himself look respectable once again, but could not help shoot a glare at the oblivious miko every now and then. He had the urge to do a petulant pout for reasons beyond him.
"So, your name is Youko Kurama then?" So, she had finally decided to make amends hasn't she?
He gave in to the urge to act like a child. He ignored her. Hah. See how she had liked it.
"Why you.." He smirked as he saw her hackles being raised up again. "I asked you your name very nicely and yet… you stupid youkai! You think you're all high and mighty don't you??" The human miko yelled as she got up from where she was huddling at, near the fire.
He stared at her blankly, not comprehending. Youkais' were mightier than humans, and of course, youkais' were on a higher level than humans, what was this miko talking about?
"Miko.." Kurama began before she heatedly started shouting again.
"My name is not MIKO! It's Ka-go-me! Ka-go-me!!" The miko, no, Ka-go-me, yelled.
"Ka-go-me. What a unique name," Kurama said teasingly. He was shocked at himself as well. He seemed to love to ruffle this Kagome.
He brushed it off, she was interesting, and he would enjoy playing with her these few days. She only glared at him and huffed before settling back beside the fire as the wind blew towards her again, chilling her.
Kurama stared at the miko, whom kept looking up at the dark sky. And he wondered. Who was this Inuyasha?
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Yet again, that annoying Youko Kurama managed to make her irritated and mad. She had no idea how she could just snap like that and lunged at him. The memory of it made her blush yet again. The implications that Kuronue had implied kept flitting past her mind as well.
"Here." Kagome jumped as that Kurama had suddenly disappeared from where he was leaning against a tree and watching her to behind her.
He draped something around her just as she turned to glare at him. It was a soft coat like thing. On closer inspection, Kagome realized that it was a plant that she had never seen in her life.
"It's warm…" She whispered as she pulled it closer around her, forgetting to be angry with the fox behind her.
"Thank you." She said, as she stared at Kurama, not understanding why he was doing this after what had happened between them.
He only smiled. And Kagome could not help but be reminded at how similar his appearance was with Inuyasha.
"Kurama!" Kuronue suddenly came bursting through the trees, startling the both of them. "They're here!"
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Whew… Finally.
Am truly, truly sorry that I have not updated sooner. It could be due to stress, exams and stuff. It's all excuses, I know, but I couldn't help it.
But its here! Finally!
Anyway, I thought this chapter was a bit weird; I couldn't seem to decide how Youko Kurama in the past would act like and how Kuronue would act. So I could possibly change this chapter after comments from avid fans of them both. I'd like your opinions please!
Thanks for all your support. I really appreciate it. This is to all my readers who have been following the story. Thank you.
Yours truly, Nicole.
P/S – Noticed something?
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07-07-07
11.40pm