Disclaimers: I do not own Inuyasha
A/N Whew, didn't update in a while huh? Enjoy the chapter!
Circus Dog
Chapter 13. The Plan
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Kagome ran at full speed, avoiding all the rubble in her path and leaping over any big rocks. Yes, she is leaping. Turns out that Teruyuki can also channel some of his demonic abilities into her to give her minor demonic powers such as speed.
She was now facing three opponents, Sango, Miroku, and Kirara. The three had decided to be the ones to test her at the same time to make sure she was prepared for anything out on the battlefield. 'They make it sound like I'm going to war.'
'Well you are partially. You're going to be fighting some very awful youkai my dear. It's best that we come lock and loaded.'
'Great, I'm a young teenagers spending my entire summer training to fight against a circus of youkai while my family is conveniently gone on vacation to some place I would love to be. I could be making good money right now at my job and watching movies until the wee hours of the morning.. But nooooo I just had to save a dog and get into all this.'
'Stop whining and pay attention! The monk is coming at us!'
"Ack!" Kagome screeched, leaping and swinging her sword at the houshi.
The patting had struck the houshi in the back and he had fallen, "Oh dear no! She has struck me!" He cried out dramatically.
Kagome sweat dropped and slid to a stop, glancing down at her sword then back up at Sango, "Is this really necessary?" She pointed to her wrapped sword.
Sango sighed loudly, "Yes Kagome, we just need you to prove to us that you can properly defend yourself. However we don't need you blowing us up or injuring us in the process."
Kagome mopped and nodded grudgingly, "Fine.."
'Ha! Imagine how I feel! I don't exactly appreciate being covered by a sponge bob square pants fleecy blanket!'
She winced, 'Yeah, I guess but I'm the one running around with the damn thing!'
"We're resuming our test! Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled, throwing her weapon at Kagome.
"Eek!" 'How come she gets to keep hers without patting?' Kagome mentally whined, just barely dodging the blow before leaping up at the woman, "This is so stupid!" She yelled, slashing her blade at Sango.
The demon slayer had pulled out her own Katana and blocked while Kagome fell back to the ground and landed gracefully. "Deal with it!" Sango called back, "Kirara! My weapon!"
Kagome hissed and ran towards the Hiraikotsu, 'Like hell I'm going to let her get it back.'
'Speaking like Inuyasha now, hmm?'
'Shut up.'
Just as Sango's fingers were millimetres away from her weapon, Kagome had poked the woman in the chest with her covered blade and tapped Kirara effortlessly also.
"Am I done?"
Sango blinked, frozen in place, "I guess you are now."
"Good." The miko had first unravelled her sword and sighed contently, running her finger over the cool blade, hearing Teruyuki purr in satisfaction. "Much better eh?" She giggled when vapour leaked out from the blade and a small kitten version of his snow leopard form rubbed against her legs and purred.
Kirara and turned back into her small form and bounced over to Teruyuki, mewing at the small form of the demon.
Teruyuki blinked and walked up to the neko, sitting in front of her. The two had examined each other before Kirara mewed.
"Thank you. I think you're cute too. I like you fur." Teruyuki admired.
Kagome gaped, "You can speak with Kirara?"
Teruyuki twitched one of his kitten ears before transforming into his human form and snorting, "Of course I can! She is a feline like me."
"You big flirt." Kagome muttered.
Miroku coughed, "Anyways, lets move on."
"Another test? You guys said that was the last one!" Kagome snapped.
"It was." Miroku added, "So now we move on to more pressing matters." His tone grew serious, "Kagome now that you are ready, we are going to leave the day after next to fight Naraku."
"We're going to make the first move? That kinda sucks." Kagome sighed, "But it gets to be a surprise attack, right?"
"Yes, we need to be cautious however since he does possess the Shikon. His men have been standing guard outside this building stopping us from leaving the building." Sango continued. "We need to devise a plan."
"Sewers?" Teruyuki suggested, shuddering at the thought of the stench that would stick to them like glue.
"That's a good suggestion." Sango agreed.
"Or, we could be a little more creative." Miroku grinned mischievously.
.:.:.:. With Inuyasha .:.:.:.
The hanyou fidgeted, taping his claw against the floor. He was ordered to stop. So then he started to do it with his foot. Once again, he was ordered to stop. He growled, twitching his silver ear back and shrugged, picking at his fangs with his pinkie claw.
Sesshoumaru sighed and glared at Inuyasha from his desk, "Why are you here to begin with, little brother?"
Inuyasha huffed, "Well, I have nothing better to do while Kagome is getting tested. You didn't want me to be there in case I would jump in to save her. So I'm here, annoying the piss outta you instead. Ain't that just dandy?" He grinned and resumed cleaning his fangs.
Sesshoumaru growled and pushed a button on his intercom, "Rin."
"Yes Fluffy?" Her perky voice sang.
"Please send Jaken up to escort my brother out."
"Hey! Ya could have just asked ya jackass!" Inuyasha jumped to his feet and slammed his hands on the demon's desk, "I don't need that two foot piece of junk to 'escort' me anywhere!" With that said he had left the office rather loudly.
"We make a good team Fluffy! How did you know that would get to him?"
"Let's just say that I am well aware of what annoys my younger brother." Sesshoumaru replied before clicking the intercom off after her giggles.
Inuyasha growled and trudged down to the elevator, sending glares to all that got in his path. 'I hate that bastard with a sweet passion.' After entering, he had pushed a button roughly and felt the metal room move to his floor.
Upon entering his room, he was greeted with a wonderful scent. Kagome had left him dinner on the dinning room table he observed and would have scarfed it down if it weren't for his delicate ears catching the noise of swishing water. 'She's taking a bath?' He craned his neck to look down the hall that led to the bathroom door.
He noted that steam rose from beneath the door. He walked out of the kitchen towards the washroom. He had stopped before reaching the door and growled, Teruyuki materializing in front of him, sitting with his legs crossed and his back leaning against the door, his eyes closed.
"Going somewhere dog boy?"
"Outta my way cat."
Teruyuki hissed, "Miss Kagome is taking a bath, it's best that you leave her be."
Inuyasha's brows rose, "Since when are you not enthusiastic to peep in?"
"Since I was wrapped in a fleecy blanket. Kagome had to stop me from freezing the damn thing since it belonged to Shippou." Teruyuki huffed.
"Did Kagome pass the test thing? Did anyone hurt her?"
He snorted, "As if I'd let anything happen to Miss Kagome. They didn't stand a chance against us."
Inuyasha sat down across him, "That's how it should be. Now, I heard that we were supposed to do a sneak attack on Naraku in two days. Any plans on that yet, that you know of?"
Teruyuki mentally grinned, but held his straight face, "No, nothing that I am aware of. The monk and slayer should be coming to discuss the matter tomorrow. For now they want us to relax and recoup." He informed, "Anything else you are deathly curious of dog boy? Or are you just going to wait for Kagome to come out of the bathroom in nothing but a white towel?"
Inuyasha blushed, "F-feh!"
The girl had opened the room door and stepped out into the hall fully dressed in pyjama's, stretching. "That was a great bath." She turned to the boys and blinked, "Oh, Inuyasha! You're back. I left you some dinner, but what are you doing sitting there?"
"I was—"
"He was hoping to get a glance at your body if he was lucky. But I fought him off Miss Kagome. It's a good thing you used the connecting door to your room to get out, other wise I think he might have jumped you." Before he could get slashed at by the angry hanyou's claws, he had dematerialized into vapour and flown back into the room that kept his sword.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at the vapour that fled the room and raised a brow back at the furious blushing half youkai. "Well? Were you really fighting to see me? Or is he just being his usual annoying self?"
"I-I would never spy on you Kagome or do something so indecent. I was just going to check up on you and make sure you weren't injured by the humans." He replied, standing to his feet and glancing away from her.
She noted how red his cheeks were and shyly walked up to him, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him on the cheek. "Thank you for worrying." She tweaked one of his dog ears playfully before walking back towards the living room. "You better eat your dinner before it gets cold." She called back.
He let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding, and walked to the kitchen. 'Damn that wench.'
.:.:.:. The next day .:.:.:.
"I approve of your arrangements. I have already contacted a spy that I have inside Naraku's Circus. Things have been settled and will begin according to the plan." Sesshoumaru said.
Miroku nodded, "Yes, thank you. However, I did not know you had someone on the inside."
Sesshoumaru nodded, "No one does, not even Naraku. Although I do have my suspicions. I believe he is catching on to her. Be quick about this, I want this pitiful war to end."
"We will do our best." Sango replied, briefly bowing before leaving.
"Do you honestly think this will work?" She had asked later on after they had left the office and walked towards the elevator.
"I do. Naraku has no idea how to predict what is happening inside this building thanks to our barrier and Kagome's powers. All we have to do is properly inform Inuyasha afterwards." He said as they stepped into the elevator.
"That's easier said than done. Knowing him, he'll just go after her right away."
"We will stop him before that happens, and we will not tell him. This needs to seem convincing, so we are counting on his demon to react." Miroku removed a sutra from his jacket, "Which is where this comes in." The moving room beeped and they stepped out.
Sango nodded, "Alright." She turned to the door and knocked.
Teruyuki had been revealed, having opened the door to let them in.
"Where's Kagome and Inuyasha?"
"Spooning on the couch and too lazy to open the door, that's where." He hissed in annoyance, his ears having flattened against his head before he return to the blade.
Just as he had said it, they were on the couch together watching a movie. Inuyasha had his arms wrapped around Kagome's figure nicely with his nose dug into her hair. "Go away." He growled.
Kagome giggled and invited them to sit and watch the movie.
They had watched it till the end, which was at noon. Kagome had gotten up to take a shower and get dressed while Miroku and Sango explained the preparation.
"You do realise that you are going to kill my sense of smell," Inuyasha intercepted, "By having me go through a sewer."
Sango pulled out a handkerchief and handed it to the hanyou, "This will help with that." She watched him sniff it cautiously before inhaling the scent in large amounts. "It belongs to Kagome and she had been holding onto it ever since yesterday to make sure her scent was all over it. She gave it to me to give to you."
He could smell Sango's scent on the cloth as well but it wasn't as strong as Kagome's heavenly smell. "Alright." He said in almost a low purr, pulling it away from his nose. "We'll do it then. Tomorrow night, right?"
"That's right." Miroku confirmed.
Kagome stepped out in a pair of nice fitting navy jeans and a white tank. "All done talking?" She asked while bending over to snatch the sword that had been leaning against the wall outside her room. She approached them and placed her sword at her side, patting it.
Teruyuki purred then kept quiet.
"Yes, it seems like Inuyasha likes our plan." Miroku smiled.
"That's good. Inuyasha you better go put on some fresh clothes, we are entertaining guests and you are still in your pyjama bottoms." Kagome ordered.
He chuckled, standing up, "Yeah, but as I seem to recall it, you like seeing me without a shirt wench." He smirked at her rosy cheeks as he walked passed her.
Sango had raised a brow, "Whoa, getting close to him are we? You have a lot to tell me Kagome."
Kagome blushed even more and countered, "Well, you have just as much to tell me about Miroku."
The slayer's cheeks burned and the monk piped up, "Oh? Sango do you really?"
She had shot him a glare before hitting him on the head. "I do not."
Inuyasha had emerged from the bedroom wearing jet-black jeans with a black wife beater. "Did I miss somethin'?"
"Not much." Kagome shrugged.
The building shook.
Kagome squeaked, falling back.
The hanyou caught her and held her close until the shaking stopped. He let go of her but then crushed her into a hug once more when the building shook a second time.
"What the hell is that?!" The hanyou shouted, letting Kagome go for only a moment while he went to retrieve his Tetsusaiga.
"Someone is attacking the barrier!" Sango yelled. "We have to hurry and get out there to defend ourselves!"
They had all rushed out cautiously and taken the elevator down to the main floor, stepping out to see that everyone was ducking for cover.
"Shit, we better hurry." He gripped the handle of his katana and ran out of the building.
Above them, a blue barrier flashed, then a figure flying above it slashed blades at the thing. Other demons were stationed at the gates and were also attacking the barrier.
Kagome smirked, "How about we test out our abilities, 'Yuki?" She asked her blade that agreed whole-heartedly. They had run towards the gates, her blade now withdrawn. 'We have to be careful, hide the aura.' She mentally whispered as she dove out of the protection of the shield to strike at the enemies.
Inuyasha howled, "Kagome! Damn it wench!" He ran after her and had also withdrawn his Tetsusaiga and slashed at them.
Miroku and Sango had nodded at each other and proceeded to go after their friends.
Inuyasha had recognized some of them from the Circus and had gladly used his Windscar against them. What he didn't count on was Kagome's scream and the smell of blood. 'Ka--gome!' He turned around just in time to see a woman lift Kagome onto her feather, the miko's head bleeding. She was knocked unconscious, but firmly held her blade.
"Kagome!"
Kagura turned to the hanyou and smirked, "See you later, half breed." She waved, her feather floating up towards the sky.
"Kagura!" Inuyasha snarled viciously, running after her and leaping. She was too fast, and her feather had disappeared into the heavens.
His form fell back down to the ground with a thump, and he sheathed his sword. He let out menacing growls, cracking his knuckles.
His aura grew ten times fold.
His eyes bled red, despite the sword that was strapped to his hip.
Purple markings had formed.
Claws had lengthened.
The ground beneath his feet cracked.
"I'll kill you! NARAKU!" He was snarled and growled, about to leap after the woman before being held back by the monk.
.:.:.:. With Naraku .:.:.:.
"Finally, they escaped that protective shell and decided to defend themselves. Now I will be expecting your visit much sooner, half breed." Chuckled the Ring Master as he stared into the glowing gem.
He continued to observe the hanyou until he was held back by a boy.
"Calm down Inuyasha!" Miroku yelled, earning a few scratches as he slapped on a sutra to the youkai's back.
It sparked and he was knocked out instantly.
Miroku clutched onto his bleeding arm and panted, Sango rushing to his side worriedly.
Naraku grinned and closed the gem into his fist, "Where's your hero now, Midoriko? She cannot save you, or that half breed. She is weak. Just as I suspected and the hanyou will be returning here to once again be controlled by me." He laughed.
Within the darkened Shikon jewel, the miko sighed and laid helplessly, her powers being drained by the youkai that hovered above her.
'It is only a matter of time, Naraku.'
'Only a matter of time…'
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A/N Hmm, was that good? I hope it was! R&R!
Inu: Kagome!!!!! KAGOME!!!
Kag: -ears ringing- Shut up! I'm right here!
Inu: But you were kidnapped!
Kag: Duh, in the fic! I'm fine Inuyasha..
Inu: Oh..
Teruyuki: So Kagome, ready for our date?
Inu: Say what?
Kag: Yes! Let's go!
Inu: But she's my girlfriend!
Kag: In the fic. Not in real life. Bye bye!
Inu: -drooped ears-
Kag: Just kidding! I love you Inuyasha!!
Inu: Hell ya! –goes out with Kagome-
Moi: Ready Teruyuki?
Teru: Yes! Let's go.
Moi: Teehee, R&R