(AN:) Sorry folks for not updating for a while. Kind of busy. Chapter 4 was supposed to be titled Demon Naraku, but I decided that Naraku won't show, not until after a few chapters. Instead, Kagura will show up. Well, hope you leave a review and enjoy!
Chapter 4-Demon Kagura
Inuyasha and the gang continued their journey, crossing many trees, fields, villages, and a few mountains. The sun had set and the moon was up in the dark sky. Everyone was sitting down on the ground, surrounding a small fire. Inuyasha was laying on his side, resting his head on his hand, Miroku was lying his back against the tree, Sango was staring deep into the burning fire, Kagome was looking up the night sky filled with many shiny stars, and as for Shippo and Kirara, they were fast asleep next to Kagome. Everything was quiet and Inuyasha couldn't stand it anymore and got up on his feet.
"I can't believe what you told me Kagome," yelled Inuyasha.
"What did I do," asked Kagome looking at the dog demon.
"You know what I'm talking about! 'Hey! I think I sense a Jewel Shard and we have to head back to the back of the village!' Great work Kagome," yelled Inuyasha.
"What's wrong with you," asked Miroku facing Inuyasha, "You've been acting different for some time now…"
"I agree. All you've been focusing on is Jewel Shard this or Jewel Shard that or Naraku this and Naraku that," said Sango.
"Why are you all messing with me," growled Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, were just worried, that's all," whispered Kagome.
"Well don't be! Damn," growled the dog demon.
Inuyasha jumped in the air and landed on a tree branch and hopped away. Everyone looked at the direction where Inuyasha went off and Kagome got up and was about to go after him until Miroku stopped her.
"Leave him Kagome," said Miroku getting up, "I don't what's going on, but I think he might need some time alone…"
"Why is acting so different? He never acted this way before," said Kagome in here worried tone.
"I'm sure he'll be fine, but I would like to know too," said Sango.
"We should get some rest," said Miroku, "There is a nearby village not too far from here. We can pick some supplies and ask the villagers if they seen this new stranger."
Kagome nodded and looked behind, facing the dark forest that Inuyasha had went. She really had a bad feeling about this, not of Inuyasha, but also this new stranger that Hiro's village talked about. Soon, their story spread to many other villages. Miroku went back down on the ground and rested his back against the tree, soon falling asleep.
"Get some rest Kagome. I'll stand and watch over the place," smiled Sango.
Kagome gave a small nod and took out her sleeping bag from her backpack and set it up. Soon, she went inside and quickly fell asleep.
Cloud stopped in a dark forest and turned off the engine. He quickly got off Fenrir and looked at his surroundings. It may be dark, but by the looks of it, it seemed quiet and peaceful. Cloud jumped on a nearby tree branch and looked around, seeing the land stretch in front of him.
"No buildings. No towns. Where am I," asked Cloud to himself, "It's as if I'm in a new world…"
Cloud jumped back down on the ground and pressed a button on his Fenrir. The sides of the motorcycle opened up, revealing six different swords, from their shape and size. Cloud took all the swords out, one by one of course, and combine them together until they formed into one huge sword. Cloud then pressed the button again and the sides of the motorcycle closed and placed his sword on his back.
"It's getting dark, I should rest maybe," said Cloud to himself, "I wonder how the others are doing? I wonder if they are here or somewhere else?"
Cloud took one good look around his surroundings and gave a small nod to himself saying that this was a good place to take a small nap before going on. Cloud lay on the ground, resting his head against a tree and falling asleep.
It was morning and Kagome and the gang were about to move on, but they couldn't move knowing that Inuyasha wasn't here. Shippo was wondering what happened and everyone decided to wait until Inuyasha gets back.
"Where is he," asked Miroku.
"Maybe we should go on. Inuyasha can meet up with us in the village," said Sango.
"You go on ahead, I'll wait for him," said Kagome facing towards the forest behind her.
"Are you sure," asked Miroku.
"Positive. I'm sure he'll be wondering where I have gone," said Kagome giving a weak smile.
"I'm here," said a male voice.
Everyone turned to the side to see Inuyasha walking towards them, his hands in the opposite sleeve, his right hand in the left sleeve and his left hand in the right sleeve. By the look on Inuyasha's face, he was doing a lot of thinking.
"What happened Inuyasha," asked Kagome in a worried voice.
"Nothing…just…want to beat Naraku so badly…sorry if I acting like a jerk," sighed Inuyasha.
"Are you alright? You hardly ever act like this Inuyasha," said Miroku have a scared look on his face.
"Not get used to it…well, let's find this Cloud so we can get this over with," sighed Inuyasha.
Everyone nodded and soon walked off, heading to the next village. Everyone walked there in silence, only their footsteps were heard. Shippo was wondering what was going on, but he was afraid to ask so he just remained quiet. Later on, Inuyasha and the gang finally reached the village and so many villagers walking around, farming, talking, trading, selling, shopping, cook, all that. Everyone looked around at the village and then faced each other.
"Ok. Will ask a few villagers and move on," said Miroku.
"This will be our last time looking for this guy," said Inuyasha.
"Why," asked Shippo jumping on Kagome's shoulder and looking at Inuyasha.
"We can't waste our time finding this guy. We do kind of have something more important than looking for a guy that could be far away from here," explained Inuyasha.
"He does have a point. This will be the last village we stop by ok? Maybe we can meet up with during our journey," smiled Kagome.
"Ok. Will split into two. I'll go with Kagome and you two boys will be going there," smiled Sango pointing at the opposite direction of where they were facing.
"Fine. But were not staying too long," said Inuyasha.
"And what about me and Kirara," asked Shippo that was still on Kagome's shoulder.
"You can come with us of course," smiled Kagome.
Just before they could move, there was a loud scream and soon, more screams were heard in the village. Inuyasha and gang saw villagers running away, filled with fear, running to their homes or hiding in their forest. Inuyasha and the gang looked up and saw thousand of demons in the air heading towards the village. But one thing that caught the gang's attention was a giant feather in the air with a female riding on it, which of course, was not really a female human, but a female demon instead.
"Kagura," yelled Inuyasha.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Inuyasha and the team," grinned the wind sorceress demon, "Naraku knew that you would all be here…"
"Speaking of Naraku, where is he," yelled Miroku.
"He has better things to do instead of wasting his times on you fools," grinned Kagura, "But more importantly, I have something better to do instead of killing all of you."
"Will see about that Kagura," yelled Inuyasha as he took out a sword from his hilt and as soon as he pulled it out, there was small bright light and Inuyasha was wielding a huge sword with a furry handle at the bottom of the blade.
Sango grabbed her kimono and tossed it aside, showing her demon-slayer uniform and wielding her massive boomerang, hanging from her back. Kagome took out her bow and placed an arrow on the bow, ready to aim and fire at the upcoming demons. Kirara's eyes stared to turn bright red and then a huge fire came up from the ground, swallowing the cat like demon. After that, the fire was blown away, revealing a huge giant fox like demon growling at the demons.
"Hope you all had a good life! Demons! Attack and kill," ordered Kagura.
The demons from the air rushed towards Inuyasha and the gang, but before they could come any closer, Inuyasha stepped forward and slammed his sword the ground, showing a huge beam like slash attack, heading towards the demons.
"Hope you enjoy my little Wind-Scar," grinned Inuyasha.
"Not good enough Inuyasha," grinned Kagura.
More demons were on the way, but Inuyasha and the gang were killing more demons by the minute. Sang tossed her boomerang at them, cutting many demons into two and as her boomerang came back, she would toss it again, repeating the same process over and over again. Kagome was firing a few arrows and as she fired, the arrows gave a small light, going through demons and killing them instantly. Miroku however was having a hard time. He had something, called the Wind Tunnel that would suck up everything to his hand, however, he couldn't use it on the demons because with the demons were thousands of small little insects of Naraku's. If Miroku swallowed them up with his Wind Tunnel, he would get ill and also, have a chance that he could die from them. Miroku jumped in the air and ended up whacking a few demons with his staff, but only one by one. Inuyasha was getting tired of this and placed his sword at the side. Tetsaiga began to turn blue and the blade started to turn into some kind of diamond like form. Inuyasha gave a grin and yelled out his attack at the demons.
"Adamant Barrage," yelled Inuyasha as he sliced his sword across in front him releasing thousands of small crystal (or diamond) sharp shards at the demons, striking them everyone on their body and when Inuyasha's attack was over, hundreds of demons fell to the ground with a loud THUD.
However, they couldn't keep up this fight any longer. More demons were still coming and everyone was getting tired. Sango was kneeling on the ground breathing hard, Miroku was using his staff to help him get up from the ground, Kagome nearly lost all of her arrows and knew she couldn't defeat all of them with only 3 arrows left, Kirara was laying on it's stomach, groaning a bit, and Inuyasha was trying to hide his exhaustion, but failed. Kagura gave a small laugh and gave out her evil grin at them.
"Well, looks like Inuyasha and his teammates can't fight anymore. Time for all of you to die! Demons! Attack," ordered Kagura.
But before they even had the chance to move or even attack, there was a huge tornado, sucking up the demons and disintegrating them. Kagura quickly turned her feather around trying to find the attacker, but saw nothing. Inuyasha and the gang also tried to look for the unknown attacker, but failed as well. Just then, another tornado appeared, disintegrating more demons.
"Show yourself," yelled Kagura.
Something soon jumped in the air where Kagura was floating and gave a serious look. Before Kagura could even respond or attack, the attacker extended his left arm and a small red ball appeared at the center of his palm. It blew Kagura off her feather and soon, she landed hard on the ground and moaned in pain. The attacker was back on the ground from the air and aimed his sword at her, wielding it on his right hand. He had spiky blonde hair and wore all blue, from the top to the bottom, wearing black boots, black gloves, and had a metal symbol of a lion, attached to his shoulder armor.
"Who are you," yelled Kagura groaning in pain.
"The name is Cloud," said the attacker softly, "And I'm here to take you down."
"Cloud….huh? Well, hope…we can meet again," grinned Kagura coughing a few times. She took out a fan and blew it across her, causing a huge sandstorm. Cloud jumped away and landed on the roof of a hut and as the sandstorm cleared, Kagura disappeared. Cloud gave a small growl and hopped down seeing Inuyasha and the gang, looking at him.
"Well, I guess she got away. She won't be messing with you for a while," said Cloud facing them. As Cloud began to walk away, Kagome soon picked up something and tugged Inuyasha's sleeve, making him snap out of his trance.
"Inuyasha," whispered Kagome, "That's Cloud! The one we were trying to find!"
"I know that Kagome," whispered Inuyasha at her.
"But he has a Jewel Shard," whispered Kagome, her voice raising a bit.
"A Jewel Shard," yelled the gang in surprised of what Kagome just said. Before Cloud could leave, Inuyasha yelled out his name, making Cloud stop where he was and making him turn around.
"Looks like people know my name know," mumbled Cloud, "What you want?"
"Kagome. Are you sure this guy had a Jewel Shard," asked Miroku facing Kagome, forgetting the attack that just happened a few seconds ago.
"Positive. It sense it coming from his…bracelet," said Kagome in a shock tone.
"What you want," asked Cloud raising his voice just a little higher, "You called my name."
"You hold a Jewel Shard," yelled Inuyasha aiming his sword at him.
"A Jewel Shard," asked Cloud raising an eyebrow, "What are you talking about?"
"Don't play stupid with me! It's attached to you," yelled Inuyasha.
Cloud looked down at his material bracelet and saw the purple shard giving a soft small glow. Cloud looked at Inuyasha and the gang, back the shard, then back at Inuyasha, then at the shard.
"So, this is called a Jewel Shard," asked Cloud to himself.
"Hand it over and will let you slide," ordered Inuyasha.
Cloud looked up at Inuyasha and then faced at Kagome. Cloud focused his sight on Kagome and saw a small glass bottle of the same shards Cloud has attached to his material bracelet.
"What is this Jewel Shard," asked Cloud "Some kind of rare item? Because by the looks of it, you people have a lot of the same shards I have."
"They are not rare. They are pieces to form the Jewel of the Four Souls," said Sango.
"Jewel of the Four Souls," asked Cloud.
"This guy doesn't seem to know about anything of the Jewel Shard Inuyasha. Maybe if you act NICE, he'll give it to you," said Kagome.
"No way. I don't act nice, you know that Kagome," said Inuyasha not taking his eyes off Cloud and after he was done talking to Kagome, Inuyasha raised his voice at Cloud, "Now, are you going to hand us that Jewel Shard or do I have to take it by force!"
"Sorry, I don't give things away to strangers," said Cloud as he aimed his sword at Inuyasha, "But I would like to see you try to take it away from me by force!"
Inuyasha dashed towards Cloud and slammed Tetsaiga at him, but Cloud used his sword to block the attack and soon, the two collide, trying to break each other's stance and have the chance to attack. Inuyasha in a way was surprised, 1) This was a human, not a demon and he fought EXTREMELY well. 2) He wield the Tetsaiga. The Tetsaiga was at least, supposed to destroy his sword into pieces, but it didn't. And 3) It didn't even look like he was using the power of the Jewel Shard in this fight. The two jumped back from each other and Inuyasha was the first to act.
"WIND-SCAR," yelled Inuyasha as he slammed his sword at the ground, firing a huge slash beam attack at Cloud.
"BLADE BEAM," yelled Cloud as he slammed his sword at the ground, firing also a huge beam-like-slash attack at Inuyasha, but his attack gave a green color while Inuyasha's Wind-Scar gave like a bright light attack.
The two blade like beams collided with each other, trying to cancel each other out, however, but were destroyed instantly, but Cloud's Blade Beam attack was split into small tiny waves slicing the ground towards Inuyasha. Inuyasha sliced them one by one, and saw Cloud was up in the air ready to strike him down, but Inuyasha gave a small grin.
"Bad move Cloud! Take this," yelled Inuyasha as he placed the sword at the side of him. The sword turned bright blue and turned into diamond form again and Inuyasha cried out his attack, "ADAMANT BARRAGE!"
Inuyasha sliced his sword across him, firing sharp spear like diamond shards at Cloud, but Cloud placed his sword at the side him and was about to perform his attack.
"Are you coping my attacks? If so, you need to make up your own moves pal! Take this! FINISHING TOUCH," yelled Cloud as he sliced his giant sword across him, creating a huge tornado.
The sharp speard diamond shards soon flew up instead of going towards Cloud and were destroyed instantly by the strong tornado wind that Cloud created. Cloud landed back on the ground and was ready to attack.
"Damn! What are you," yelled Inuyasha, "It's like you know my moves!"
"Inuyasha correct," asked Cloud.
"That's my name," growled Inuyasha.
"Well, like I said, are you coping my attacks? You need to come up with your own moves or name because those have been taken already," said Cloud.
"What? Oh, like, how do you know I copied your attacks? Maybe you're the one who is coping my attacks" yelled Inuyaha.
As both were about to charge at each other, Cloud felt something cold, running down his spine. It was a cold, but an oddly familiar feeling. Cloud jumped backed away before Inuyasha could slice him and was up in the air, on top of a village hut house.
"I got to go. Hope we can meet again Inuyasha," said Cloud.
"Hold on a minute! Where are you going," yelled Inuyasha.
But before Inuyasha could even make one step, Cloud snapped his fingers and there was a huge sound from behind a village hut. A black motorcycle came out of a hut and as soon as it came out, Cloud jumped up in the air and fell on the motorcycle and drove away into the forest. Inuyasha tried to catch up with him, but Cloud was long gone now.
"Damn," yelled Inuyasha.
"Uh, what was that thing that came out of that hut," asked Miroku.
"I think it was a demon…what do you think Kagome," asked Sango, but she got no reply, "Kagome?"
Everyone turned around and saw Kagome with a shock look on her face. Everyone got closer to Kagome wondering what just happened, but by the look on her face, she looked really, really surprised.
"It…it can't be," whispered Kagome in shock.
Cloud drove and drove, past the forest and was on the road. Cloud couldn't believe what just happened. He was fighting that Inuyasha or whatever and all of a sudden, her gets a weird feeling inside him.
"So…your still alive," asked Cloud to himself as he drove away, "This time, it's going to end here and now…Sephiroth."
End of Chapter 4Uh oh. Has Sephiroth truly came back? Will Cloud defeat him if he is back? Well, leave a review and find out for yourself folks.