Chapter 12-The party
"Ready? GO!" Touken dashed at them with his high speed. This time the duo wouldnt be taken by surprise though. Yusuke powered one of his hands with spirit energy and punched forward. "SHOTGUN!" He yelled. Countless small spirit bullets were launched from his fist at their opponent.
Touken stopped and began spinning his swords at an extremely high speed. As the bulllets hit the blades they were reflected to the left and right. Yusuke continued to fire as Inuyasha ran behind him. "WIND SCAR!" He slashed his Tetsuiaga downward and fired his signature attack. "One way or another, you're gonna get hit by one of our attacks!" Yusuke said while still firing.
"I dont think so! REVERSAL WAVE!" Touken yelled. He continued to spin one of his swords, while the other one began to glow with white energy. He then slashed the glowing sword and sent out the small wave of white energy just as he had in their previous fight.
"I was hoping you would do that! BACKLASH WAVE!" Inuyasha slashed the wind scar right as it was about to hit him after being reflected again. The yellow blast of energy exploded into several whirlwinds mixed with energy which quickly headed back at Touken.
"Thats not good! I'll go with the lesser of the two!" Touken thought to himself as he stopped spinning his sword and ran straight into the storm of spirit bullets. He had dodged some of them, but he was hit by a large portion of them, breaking small pieces of is armor off. As he finally reached Yusuke, he began to slash at him with his great speed, obviously not aiming at his vitals.
But due to the training that he and Inuyasha had gone through with the help of the others, Yusuke was able to dodge most of his sword slashes and only come out with a few cuts. Finally, Touken slashed horizontally with both his swords coming from the left. But as he expected Yusuke to dodge again, he was sadly mistaken. Yusuke had raised up his right arm and allowed the swords to dig into him!
"W-what are you doing?" A confused Touken asked. This gave Yusuke the perfect chance to attack him. Since he had finally gotten Touken off guard, Yusuke wasnt about to let this opportunity slide. He charged his left hand with almost half of his spirit energy and smashed it straight into the swordsmans face.
Touken was sent flying through the air, and ground as he began bouncing like a rubber ball until he finally hit a large rock which he had left an imprint in right before it broke apart with him still inside.
He weakly got up and reached for his swords. "Lets end this!" Inuyasha yelled as he began to glow with a small yellow aura. "Right, put everything you've got into it!" Yusuke then said as powered himself up. Both auras began to burn even brighter as they prepared their attacks. "SPIRIT..." "WIND..." They began to fire.
"I see that you two have gotten better, so lets see how you do against my strongest attack!" Touken then smashed the bottom of the hilts of his swords together. They fastened together to become one dual sided sword. One of the blades began to glow with green energy, the other with red. He then began spinning the sword slowly, building speed. When it was spinning as fast as possible Touken yelled out. "HELL CYCLONE!" At this a large, firey tornado flew out of his sword and toward the duo.
"GUN!" "SCAR!" They had both finished firing their attacks and watched as they collided with Toukens cyclone. They were in a perfect deadlock for quite a while, neither side giving in. This changed when something unexpected happened. The wind scar and spirit gun collided, but instead of exploding as they would normally have done, they meged together instead. The blast was a light green color, it had an electical looking aura around it as it easily broke apart Toukens cyclone.
"No...way..." Touken thought as the blast lifted past his cyclone and into the air. It then exploded, coloring the entire sky green, and then raining down in small shards as if it had been glass.
Touken then seperated his sword back into two blades and sheathed them. "Thats it, you guys win. I cant beat that." He chuckled softly after watching the last of the shards fall. "With something like that, they might actually be able to win...N-No, they might be able to hurt him but no one can defeat him..."
The group cheered the victory that would earn them the jewel shards. "Well done you two. I'm glad that you've progressed so much since you first got here. With your power you might actually succeed where my family has failed so many times. Well here's your prize." Touken threw the necklace with the sacred jewel shards on it to Kagome who put it around her neck.
Just as she caught them an idea popped into her head. "Hey Touken! Why dont you come with us? We could really use your help!" She said with a smile. "Its a tempting offer but no thanks. I have to watch over the tower and everyone in it. But with Inuyasha and Yusuke with you Im sure youll be fine."
He gave a thumbs up before turning around only to be stopped by a group of the servant girls. "Master, you always keep saying that you wish you could travel around to try and destroy the knights. Now you finally get an invitation and turn it down?" One of them said. "She's right you know. Besides we can handle taking care of everything while you're gone. You and your father trained us yourselves. We can handle anything that comes our way." Another one told him. Touken sighed and then said "Well... I guess, if you guys are sure you can handle everything. And, if all of you are okay with me coming along...I guess you've got yourselves a new ally!"
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The group had stayed one more day at Judgment tower for Toukens going away party (Inuyasha and Hiei had to be pursuaded.). Everyone ,even the people who were living in the tower after being saved were there. Miroku got more slaps than he could count. Kuwabara, Shippo, Kirara, and Shiro were all playing while everyone was a little weirded out that Kuwabara was playing with them. Yusuke and Inuyasha were seeming to become better friends by the day since they were talking alot more than they used to. Kagome and Sango had made good friends with some of the "Sisters" of the tower and were playing with some of the children who were living there. Kurama had to hide from a mob of girls that were after him just like back home. Hiei stayed quiet naturally.
Touken was saying goodbye to everyone for half the party. Kuwabara entertained the crowd with his over exagerated stories of how he "Single handedly defeated the saint beasts, the Toguro brothers, Sensui, and the three kings with his bare hands. That is until Yusuke punched him in the back of the head and told the real stories. Miroku got slapped another hundred times and had Sango hit him in the head with her hiraikoutsu countless times as well. Kagome had dazzeled the crowd by shooting her purification arrows in the air creating a bright sparkling light. After the party everyone had finally gone to bed resting up for the big send off tomorrow.
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"Goodbye!" "Good luck! "Bye Master!" Everyone was there as the now slightly bigger group set off. "So can Shiro grow into a giant like Kirara?" Sango asked curiously looking at then cat demon on Toukens shoulder. "Yep. He can fly too! Pretty cool right?" He said as they were still walking slightly ahead of everyone else since Touken was the only one who knew the the woods in that area. "Wow so Kirara can fly too?" Touken asked surprised that his demon cat wasnt the only one. "Yeah. She also helps out when we fight demons!" Sango told him as the two quickly became friends. "I think Shiro has actually killed more demons than me! In fact he was the one that found most of the jewel shards we have!" Touken said a little embarrassed at the fact.
" I have never had such a pleasureful night!" Miroku said remembering all the girls who had slapped him. Kagome sighed as she was lookig at her new jewel shards. "Well at least we got these. This gives us a little bit of a head-start on Naraku and the knights." She said while looking deeply at the jewel shards.
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