-1Les Yeux Bleu
Natsunohinagiku
Disclaimer: I hate putting this up, it shatters all my dreams about owning IY and CCS.
Note 1: I got a new plug! Now I can update more.
Note 2: If you like this pairing (YueKag) , read "My Silver Angel" by Angel Nor Devil. It's a one-shot, so it's all done and it's a pretty cute story.
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Kagome was enjoying herself., even though the S.O.S was bogus. Inuyasha didn't need any help at all, he just wanted to see his old friend again. This was the first time she met up with all of her old friends. Though it wasn't the same without Miroku and Sango and she missed them dearly, everyone else was there. Except...
"Hey," Kagome noticed, "Where's Kagura?" The room went pretty quiet and most people were looking at Kanna. Kagome flushed, she didn't mean to draw attention to Kanna, she just missed the wind sorceress's snarky, quick replies and just her presence. "Never mind." Kagome added quickly, hoping to restore the way things were.
"Kagome," Sesshoumaru called for her, walking into the room, "Call your mother and ask her condition." Whether he picked up on the vibes in the room or not, they didn't find out, because his face remained neutral and most others took that as a cue to act like nothing had happened. Kagome left the room to search for a phone, getting a bit lost before finding one in an old study. She picked up the phone and called home, the phone held between her shoulder and her ear while she rummaged for a pen and paper.
"Hello, Mama? Mmmhmm, it's Kagome. Are you feeling alright? Good. Listen, Mama? We have someone who may be able to cure you with his medicine. You just have to tell me how you're doing and everything about your condition. Like, do you cough up blood?" The conversation went on like that for a long while. Kagome had a list of the symptoms and problems. "Okay, Mama, I have to go now and tell Jinenji so that he can give you the right medication. Love you too, bye mama." She hung up the phone and took the list to Jinenji. He would obviously be outside in the gardens.
"Jinenji-kun," she called out, walking around, looking for the big, orange hanyou, "Here's the details on my mom's illness," she found him crawling about near the faerie flowers, a demon herb. She was handing in the list when a servant came rushing out from the manor, looking quite flushed and bright eyed.
"Higurashi-san!" the servant reached Kagome, "I just received a call from a Souta. He said to get your disguises and meet him at the park. He was shouting and sounding very urgent, and I'm very sure it's an emergency!" Kagome listened with growing horror.
"What was I thinking, leaving him home alone?" she berated herself. To Jinenji, she yelled a hasty good bye and a thanks for helping her mother and she was off to find Sesshoumaru. She sprinted into the manor, knocking over a servant. "Gomen!" she called over her shoulder. The servant- who ended up being Jaken- merely shook a fist at her. She kept running though, intent on finding Sesshoumaru. Where the hell was he at anyway? Smack. Oops, looks like she found him. And Shippou, standing beside him.
"Aahaa," she said sheepishly, before her urgency took over, "Sesshou, there's something wrong back in Tomoeda. I need to go. Fast."
"Then take Kirara," Sesshoumaru told her, "But Miko, what if this is a trap?" Kagome looked back at him and a steely look entered her eyes.
"Then I'll just have to risk it, won't I?" she replied evenly, "My brother over any other thing. The only one who should push him around should be me. Come on Shippou." She grabbed Shippou's collar and dragged him off.
"Listen, since we don't have much time," she started, "could you use your magick to disguise us today? Not illusory, your other magick." He nodded. He clapped his hands together and started chanting quickly. The blue green flames of a foxfire licked at them and Kagome looked down to see that she was in her priestess outfit. Touching her face to make sure there was a mask, she smiled in gratitude. "Thanks, Shippou. Now let's go!" They ran to the "stables", where Kirara was laying about. Kagome rushed to explain the situation and Kirara changed into her larger form. Mounting quickly, they held on tightly to her fur as she took of at a fast pace.
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Souta ran as swiftly as he could. He was in the park in less than a minute. From one direction, he could feel Sakura and her group coming and from the other at a much faster pace, the dark jyaki. They would clash right about here and Souta wanted to make sure that he was there to protect Sakura. This jyaki scared him, especially since he was pretty sure who it was. The malevolency was one that Kagome had come home with faint traces of after the final battle. It stank of Naraku. It seemed stronger than a puppet, and that bothered Souta.
He heard the rustling of movement to his right as Sakura, Yue, Kero and Syaoran entered the clearing and he stilled even more. He could not risk getting caught yet- he needed a surprise entrance to take on Naraku when the time came. So he watched carefully as the group spread itself out and took defensive positions. Sakura wore a beautiful pink Chinese gi with sleeves that flowed about as she moved her arms to release her wand-staff. Souta was mesmerized by her fluid movements and had to reshift his focus onto Kero to make sure he wasn't distracted. He couldn't lose his focus or it cost the lives of these people. He tensed as he felt the jyaki getting closer- it was so close that it was almost suffocating Souta now. The bushes rustled and a clow spirit came out!
Sakura, Yue, Kero and Syaoran cried out in surprise. For while it held the shape and form of a clow spirit- not to mention its powers, Sakura thought as she dodged the blur of the Shot Card trying to attack her- it was clearly not a clow card. There was a weird vibe coming from it and it felt.. inherently evil.. malicious and willing to destroy her by any means. Sakura shuddered.
Meanwhile, in the trees, Souta's eyes widened in shock. When Kagome first faced Naraku five hundred years ago, he had created a dark, crystallized jyaki imitation shard of the shikon jewel. A jewel was one thing, but an animated recreation of a magic being? How strong was Naraku now? He watched as Sakura smacked the creature hard, swinging her staff like a baseball bat. It flew into the trees before rebounding and coming for her again. Souta wanted dearly to interfere now and save Sakura but he could not be noticed by Naraku- not yet. He grit his teeth as he watched the spirit flying towards Sakura at a fast pace... and Syaoran shot it down with that mystical board of his. Souta sighed in relief.
The battle continued as they fought diligently against the spirit, but Souta could see that Sakura was weakening. Syaoran looked pretty bad too. They had both been hit numerous times by the dark clow spirit and they were breathing heavily. Yue looked slightly ruffled, he was still rather fine but the ominous presence made his movements sluggish and his guard was kept up from all sides.
"Heel." the icy, deep voice of none other than Naraku penetrated the clearing and everybody stiffened. Heads slowly turned to see the spirit stopping and trotting towards its apparent master. The baboon cloaked man stepped from the shadows but Souta did not feel a rise in jyaki... it was still mostly in the surrounding trees.
"Sakura Kinomoto... I have heard much about you. But never have I seen a battle so pathetic," he drawled amusingly. Syaoran growled and shot a bolt of golden light from his board at the hanyou. But Naraku looked at it humorously before swatting it away as if it were a pesky fly. He shook his head almost pityingly.
"I've heard of your ancestors, boy. The mighty Clow Reed. It is quite sad that you do not have even an eighth of his power." Naraku taunted him cruelly, watching as Syaoran's face contorted into an expression of rage. He charged at Naraku, sword raised. The villain merely smirked sadistically before raising his hand and creating a reddish-pink barrier. Syaoran hit the barrier and was immediately flung backwards.
"I think we've been chit chatting for long enough, ne?" Naraku asked, his lip curled in an arrogant smirk. "And when I've dealt with you all and taken the cards and staff for myself, maybe I'll keep young Miss Sakura alive.. she could come to be quite useful... in more ways than one." Everyone blanched as they realized the double meaning in his words. Souta was disgusted and horrified beyond belief and Yue moved in more protectively around Sakura. Naraku however, was busier. He created a large shadowy ball of pure dark energy and hurled it towards Yue and Sakura. Souta had to act. He nocked an arrow swiftly and shot it through the dark ball, dissipating it as the arrow continued towards his heart.
"Ah, if it isn't-" was all he managed to get out before he crumbled into nothing but a bamboo skin and a wooden doll.
"Another kugutsu," Souta mumbled, walking towards Yue and Sakura. He smiled tiredly at them.
"WATCH IT!" Yue exclaimed, pushing him out of the way. Souta looked at him confusedly for a moment, when a spear came hurtling out of the air and landed in the hard earth, quivering where Souta was just standing.
"Your reflexes need some work, Houshi," came the drolly amused voice of a child. Four heads whipped in the direction of the fallen kugutsu. Behind the baboon skin a small white haired boy floated, encased in a red barrier. He raised his hand and the spear wobbled before unearthing itself and flying into his outstretched hand. Souta nocked an arrow warily and prepared to release it at any time.
"Ah ah," the child leered at them menacingly, his pale violet eyes boring into them. "You don't want to do that. Even if your arrows get pass my barrier, I always can pull the next card out of my hat." He raised his other hand and everyone gasped as they saw a wriggling teddy bear Keroberos being held limply by his wing.
"Such an adorable creature ne?" the child purred, "I think I may have rather knocked the stuffing out of it though." He laughed callously at the joke. "But for now, Houshi.. DIE!" Once again he sent his spear at Souta. Souta was ready for it this time, or so he thought as he dodged sideways. He cursed angrily when the spear suddenly veered off its intended course to chase after Souta. He turned and held out an arrow to parry the spear, but the arrow could only hold out for so long, enchanted or not. His eyes widened when he saw the spear begin to cut through the wooden shaft and he shut his eyes.
"Coward!" he heard the child scream at him. Souta forced himself to open his eyes and his unseen marine ones locked with the child's lavender ones. 'This is the end huh?' Souta heard himself thinking before he saw brilliant green.
Kagome feared the worst. And apparently her fears were well grounded. She came upon the scene of a weakened sorceress and her companions and her brother at the tender mercies of none other than Hakudoushi. Shippou began conjuring a foxfire barrier to save Souta and she nocked an arrow and aimed it at Hakudoushi's unsuspecting back. It whistled through the air and Hakudoushi turned too late...
But the arrow was cut up by a metallic fan.
"Kagura!" Kagome exclaimed, "You betray us? Why?" Her deep cerulean eyes bored into the wind witch's own ruby ones. The witch closed her fan with a snap. Meanwhile the foxfire barrier had saved Souta and the spear lay on the ground motionless. Everything seemed to stop as Kagome and Shippou entered the clearing, their weapons raised and their faces confused.
"K-" Kagura began but Kagome broke her off with a hiss.
"Cat!" Kagome hissed, knowing Kagura would get it. Kagura stopped and nodded almost invisibly.
"Cat." Kagura acknowledged, tapping the fan, "I assume you've been to the Manor already."
"Obviously Kagura," Kagome rolled her eyes.
"And you know of his unfortunate revival," Kagura continued, "So I assume you know of the need for an enemy's blood for the ritual. What I'm not sure if you know, is that the person whose blood was taken would be bonded to him."
"So your heart?" Kagome ventured. Kagura nodded in affirmative and comprehension dawned on Souta. The others looked very confused.
"Enough!" Hakudoushi looked very annoyed. He began to float away and Kagura materialized her feather. The child was smart enough to know that this battle would be lost if they continued. "So you survived," he jeered, "But how's your mother, Miko?" he laughed before taking his leave. "You know where to find us." he uttered. Then he was gone.
"KEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sakura cried out, falling on her knees. Kagome placed a comforting hand on her shoulder and she promptly fainted.
"I'm guessing you have questions," Fox started uncertainly, his voice carrying around the dark, silent park.
"Damn Straight." Syaoran growled.
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