A/N: Technically this is chapter 13, sorry for the mess up, well I'm not really superstitious, but I just thought since 13 is supposed to be the unlucky number, I think it's time to bring Naraku out, lol.
Chapter 13: A Run-In with Naraku
The group had met back up and decided to forward their search for Naraku, hopefully with less disruptions and breaks. Inuyasha and Kagome kept smiling at each other from the front, making the rest very curious.
"I wonder what happened with those two," Sango said as she pet the sleeping Kirara in her arms.
"I don't know, perhaps they shared their true feelings with one another and now they have no reason to be mad anymore," Miroku answered in his wise tone, hoping Sango would get the message.
"I guess so," Sango said then looked over at the monk and got a very alarmed look. Miroku was smiling goofily at her with his eyebrows set in a charming fashion.
"Miroku, stop it," she inched from him as her face turned a pinkish red.
Miroku stopped and sighed heavily, she was never going to let him willingly kiss her or admit how she felt.
Before things could get even more awkward with the pair, Kirara jumped out of Sango's arms, transformed and growled.
"What is it Kirara," Sango asked, but then saw Inuyasha stop and pull out his blade and Miroku frowned, "Naraku," he announced.
Just as predicted, Naraku formed in front of them with his insects buzzing around him.
Naraku smiled mischievously, "Ah, Inuyasha, it has been far too long."
"What do you want Naraku," Inuyasha snarled as he stood protectively in front of everyone.
"Isn't it obvious, now hand over the sacred jewel and I won't have to kill you all," he replied holding out one of his hands towards the group.
Inuyasha snorted, "We're not stupid Naraku, we know even if we gave you the jewel you would kill us anyways," Inuyasha rose his sword even more towards Naraku challengingly.
Naraku chuckled menacingly as he scanned the group, his eyes stopped on Kagome and Ai.
'A baby? This will be fun,' Naraku thought with a most ingenious smirk.
Naraku quickly shot out one of his tentacles towards Inuyasha and knocked him out of the way before he could use his sword.
When Inuyasha hit the ground he shot his gaze to Kagome, but before he was able to do anything Naraku wrapped the tentacle around Ai and pulled the doll to him.
'Oh great,' Kagome thought, she could not afford a bad grade from this and how was she to explain it. She could picture it, 'Sorry about the doll, but I was in the feudal era with my friends and we were caught off guard by this terrible half demon named Naraku and he destroyed the doll before we could get her back,' it sounded worse than the 'my dog ate my homework' excuse.
Sango jumped onto Kirara and rose into the air, "Hiraikotsu," she yelled, letting go of her mighty weapon.
Naraku barely had to look up at the weapon coming at him to send another tentacle and throw it off course. The massive boomerang hit the ground and separated parts of the earth from its fall.
Naraku sent the same tentacle at Sango and forced her off of Kirara to the ground below, just like her weapon, with ease.
"Sango," Miroku ran over to her.
Ai started to cry within Naraku's grasp. Naraku snarled, 'What a horrible noise this blasted child is making.'
Inuyasha aimed his sword at Naraku with an even angrier look, he imagined what it would be like if that was a real baby, his baby in his grasp and the image mixed with Ai's pitiful cry was tearing at Inuyasha, what a despicable horrible scum of the earth to want to warm a baby, even if it was fake, Naraku didn't seem to know that.
"What are you to do Inuyasha, if you use your wind scar you will no doubt harm this baby, is it yours Inuyasha," he asked with a satisfied smile.
Kagome couldn't stand the look he was giving him, 'Naraku was so cruel, he would actually enjoy hurting a baby he thought to be one of ours.'
Kagome grabbed an arrow, but Inuyasha beat her to it and hacked off Naraku's tentacle holding Ai, as he did Inuyasha chuckled, "Are you that stupid Naraku, it's not even real."
Inuyasha landed back in front of Kagome as Ai landed in front of Naraku, along with his tentacle.
Shippo watched the scene from behind Inuyasha and Kagome, but bravery managed to take over and he ran as fast as his little legs could take him to retrieve the doll.
Shippo made it to Ai and grabbed her; with all his adrenaline he had found unknown strength as he managed to carry the doll that was just a tad bigger than he was.
Naraku spotted him, of course and shot out a tentacle at the frightened fox child. But before the tentacle made it to Shippo it was sliced clean off by Inuyasha's sword.
Kagome kneeled down to Shippo and the doll and placed Ai securely back in the pouch as Shippo jumped on her shoulder for protection, his courage gone, replaced with fear.
Inuyasha stood; ready to fight, in front of Kagome. Inuyasha then sniffed the air and without turning his head, shot his eyes to the side with a frown.
Wind began to gather and suddenly formed into Sesshoumaru, the newcomer glared at his brother, "Inuyasha, I told you to back off," he barked.
Naraku glared at the dog demon then snarled at Kagome, 'If I could get that baby away from them, I could use it to retrieve the sacred jewel.'
Inuyasha turned to Sesshoumaru, forgetting all about Naraku, "Oh yeah like I'm going to listen to you Sesshoumaru, I'm going to kill Naraku and I don't need your help," he barked back.
While the brothers quarreled Naraku aimed again, going for Ai.
"Inuyasha," Kagome yelled as the tentacle came to her, it was too quick for her to draw out her bow. Naraku's tentacle seized its prize and pulled itself back to the rest of the body. Kagome frowned, she was tired of him doing that, a new hatred came within her, what if it was her own child being abducted like that from that scum ball? It was after all supposed to represent taking care of her future child. With this thought she soon found more of her adrenaline.
Kagome forwarded her eyes more as she drew her bow, targeting her enemy, "You are just plan evil Naraku," she yelled.
Naraku turned to Kagome with a cold expression, holding the doll up in the air as it still cried horribly. Kagome pulled back the arrow and let it go sending it straight to him, making it glow with spiritual energy.
"Come on, hit it," Kagome whispered to herself.
The arrow didn't pierce Naraku, but where Kagome had secretly planned it too, she wasn't after Naraku particularly anyway, she just wanted her kid back.
The sacred arrow flew upward and split the tip of Naraku's tentacle that held Ai in it from the rest of it.
Everyone seemed to be watching the scene now, even Sesshoumaru, 'Stupid girl,' he thought, 'she could have hit Naraku, instead she wanted to save that fake human thing.'
Naraku wasn't normally one to flee from a battle, but he didn't have time to stand around and play around with them. So with one last look at each of the group, he disappeared, leaving miasma to fill his rivals' lungs.
Sesshoumaru snorted unimpressed, not affected in the least by Naraku's vile before disappearing as well from the area.
Kagome began coughing and covering her face from the thick smoke. Inuyasha grabbed her and Shippo and jumped out of the area quickly.
Miroku grabbed Sango and Kirara helped them make their escape from the smoke filled air.
Once everyone was in the clearing Inuyasha turned to where Naraku vanished with a deep frown, 'We'll get you Naraku,' he silently threatened.
A/N: I know it took me long enough, lol, I'm running out of ideas on this one, as you may have noticed it's supposed to be humorous also, but I seem to slowly run out of it for this story, I only saw a few funny little things about this chapter, sigh
I'll probably only have a few chaps left, but hang in there, and btw, for those who might have read this chapter before I took it down to work on, I just added a few things and tried to make it better, hope it was ok, I wasn't necessarily happy with it, it just lacked something, idk
well please review and thanks to my readers who has reviewed, I appreciate it extremely.