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Chapter 15- It's In The School Part two

Kagome ran along the hallways taking sharp turns now and then around corners but each step took her closer to the someone...or something that possessed the sacred jewel shard. She could feel the flow of demonic aura clearly now. It was surrounding them like a thick cloak. In addition, she could feel the presence of the shard grow stronger with each running stride she took. It was just around the next corner now. She was sure of it. She heard InuYasha say something about finally feeling the demonic aura, but she didn't reply. She had to find that shard. She was halfway to the corner, InuYasha directly behind her. Each step felt like eternity. It was so much like a dream. A dream where your running towards something but it never seems to get any closer. Then all of a sudden it rushed up to her, as if reading her thoughts. She turned the corner to see nothing. She stopped running altogether. InuYasha nearly plowed her over.

"Hey! What'cha do that for wench?!" he yelled with surprise. Kagome looked completely confused.

"Im sure it's here somewhere." she said uncertainly. She suddenly felt very vulnerable. Like a mouse being stalked by a cat. It helped that InuYasha was there, but it couldn't calm her down completely. What if it was an invisible demon? How could her half demon fight that when he couldn't see it, worse yet, what if nether of them could see it. If she could see it they'd have a chance. They proved that in the fight against Yura. (First season) she began looking around. InuYasha sensed her distress.

"Don't worry Kagome I'll be here to protect you. I wont let anything happen to you." he said trying to calm the silently frantic beauty in front of him. If under different circumstances he would have found the scene quite comical. Kagome picked this time to voice her thoughts.

"But InuYasha, what if he's invisible and we can't see it?" she said getting even more worried.

"You really do underestimate my demonic senses Kagome. I may not be able to see it but I can sure as hell sniff it out or listen for the sounds." he said right before Kagome gasped. This took him by surprise. "What's the matter Kagome?"

She didn't reply. She had just remembered something from the movie 'When A Stranger Calls' that the man was up in the ceiling. Gulping down her fears as best she could she looked up and saw...

You know I really should just leave it here but people wanted longer chapters and that would just be mean. So on with the show/story whatever thingy.

Nothing. She scanned the support beams and saw nothing. It was defiantly in this short hallway. That much she knew. Then she felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. Her eyes widened. She whipped around and saw a mannequin with a metal sword that looking identical to the Tetsuiga! In it's chest she saw a black glow. 'That's a fragment of the shikon jewel no doubt.'

The mannequin looked slightly bent and out of shape. but what puzzled her the most was the sword it held. Every last detail she saw on the Tetsuiga was mimicked in the dummy's sword. The handle was the same and everything. Her first thought was that it was half-demon to and didn't feel hatred for humans but when she checked InuYasha's sheath she immediately knew that she was wrong.

"Umm..InuYasha. I found the jewel shard."

"Great kagome. Pick it up already. I need another thing of ramen." he said casually. Why didn't he sense the demon. He said he could sense the demonic aura so why couldn't he sense the demon dummy? Suddenly the demon shifted it's stance from a normal stance to a battle stance, scraping the floor in the process. InuYasha's puppy ears turned in the direction of the sound. He swirled around to see the dummy. 'Well now I know why I couldn't smell it. It's not a living thing. It has no scent . It's not like Kikyo ether since Kikyo had lived once, this thing hasnt lived. Damn this things smart.' he finally noticed Tetsuiga and his hand went to the sword in his sheath. When he felt Tetsuiga's handle he grasped it tightly and withdrew the sword from it's sheath. Suddenly the mannequin started to look a lot like InuYasha. The ears. The hair, the eyes, the clothes everything.

"InuYasha! It must have something to do with illusion! That fake Tetsuiga might only be plastic! And-whoa what happening?!" a blue light suddenly surrounded her and a bow and arrow appeared in front of her and clattered to the ground noisily. InuYasha heard but was to buy fighting the untiring dummy. When kagome reached for the bow she suddenly felt very dizzy."InuYasha..." she said weakly and fell to her knees and collapsed unconscious next to the bow. What she failed to notice was the little black beads of very real poison. When she grasped the bow they were absorbed and had an immediate effect. InuYasha heard he call and broke the connection with the dummy. He looked over his shoulder to see Kagome laying on the floor unconscious. What scared him most was he smelled poison. Not much but just enough to make his stomach churn. He knelt down to find the source of the poison. He noticed the bow. Sure enough he saw the poison. For a human, it wasn't deadly. It wouldn't harm her in the least. The only reason he knew was because people used this on him when he was just little. Just after his mother died. When he woke up. There was no one left in the once overcrowded village. He turned and scowled at the demon. The dummy began walking slowly over to Kagome, as if Taunting InuYasha.

"Hey dummy! Leave Kagome alone! Your fighting me!" he said gaining the dummy's attention again. He stepped in front of Kagome to take away any access that thing had to Kagome.

"ADAMANT BARRAGE!" he shrieked. Sending numerous fragments of piercing sharp crystals at the dummy. The dummy let out a soundless screech and faded out of existence. The "Tetsuiga" it was using faded into a fine dust along with the dummy and slowly vanished leaving behind nothing but the tainted sacred jewel shard. He couldn't touch it. Not until Kagome woke up.else he might turn evil. It wouldn't be the first time. He remembered when they were stuck inside the demon's belly. When Naraku placed tainted jewel shards into the Tetsuiga, knowing InuYasha wasent strong enough to contain all that power. Because of the power overload he transformed into a full fledged demon. If it werent for Kagome, he might have slaughtered everyone. Kagome ran into the acid, well aware that it would dissolve away her human flesh and kept him from fully transforming. In result he was able to get them all out of the burning acid. Kagome and purified those tainted jewel shards. he shook his head to clear the memory and he surveyed the damage he did to the school. There were large diamond shaped crystals all over the walls, floor and ceiling. Oh man Kagome was going to kill him!!

After about an hour of pacing and waiting impatiently Kagome had finally come around. She slowly opened her coffee brown eyes and saw InuYasha in front of her. At first all he was, was a red and white blur but as the seconds passed her vision became clearer. Still a little dizzy in the head, she asked InuYasha what happened. InuYasha told her that he destroyed the demon. He didn't tell her how because she would unfortunately probably earn him a few sits when she found out in a few minutes.

"InuYasha? Where is the shard?"

"over there? He gestured behind him. She tried to stand but found the task impossible. Her body just wouldn't obey her commands.

"InuYasha. Will you please help me stand up?" muttering something about human woman being so weak he bent down and hoisted her up bridal style and brought her over to where the jewel shard lay. He set her down gently next to the jewel shard and watched in a amazement at how she simply picked up the fragment and it became it's usual pure pink color. Kagome once again tried to get to her feet and this time she managed to stand on shaky, weak legs. But unfortunately they couldn't bear her weight for long and she was sent tumbling back down to the ground in a heap. Before she hit the hard linoleum floor InuYasha caught her and picked her up again he also bent down and grabbed the jewel shard. Kagome put it into her vile of shards. When she added it to her collection it fused with the ones the had already captured. InuYasha suddenly started walking and shifted her in his arms. The movement caused her to sling her arms around his neck as he continued walking back down to the cafeteria

A/– sorry guys im going to end it here it's getting late. Im sooo sorry that I didn't update! But I have a good excuse this time! I was grounded off the computerplus I couldn't leave the house. For two weeks.but im back. I hope you liked this chapter. Im not sure I liked how it turned out. I think I made the chapter a little longer then the rest. thank you for all of your reviews. I really appreciate it! Until next time later! Jaa!

PS sorry i got mixed up witht the chapters before. i was a little disoriented i guess you could say. my bad!