Kagome and the Diclonius
Kagome took a deep breath and smiled as the scent of the ocean overwhelmed her body. A gentle breeze blew through her black hair while her eyes glittered in the sunlight like the beautiful blue waves rising and falling before her.
When she had first exited the Bone Eater's Well and discovered she was on a beach in a region of modern Japan instead of the Feudal Era, she had been quite perturbed. Now, however, she was beginning to enjoy the seashore and even took of her shoes in order to feel the warm sand beneath her.
"I almost wish I'd brought my bathing suit with me," she told herself while searching for pretty seashells.
"Then I'd be able to get an amazing tan. I wonder if Inuyasha would like me better with a tan?" She pondered this further while adjusting the pack of arrows and bow she carried on her back.
"I also wonder why I brought my weapons but no other supplies," she said to the hermit crab scuttling beside her feet. "Mom must have forgotten to give it to me before I jumped into the well. But there's no use worrying about it now, not when I'm enjoying a day on the beach!"
She skipped a little further down along the sand and was contemplating building a sandcastle when the static of a walkie-talkie drew her attention. She turned around and was surprised to see another girl had appeared on the shore without making a sound.
"I wonder who that is," Kagome mused out loud. The girl, whose back was to her at the moment, had short pink hair and was wearing a black dress. When the breeze mussed her hair, though, Kagome was shocked to see two small white things sticking out of her head. "Are those what I think they are?" She began striding toward the girl, one hand already reaching toward the bow hanging from her back.
"Papa, I've arrived here like you instructed," the girl spoke into a small mechanical device.
"Good girl, Nana," a male voice responded. "You know what your mission is: find Lucy and alert us to where she is, but don't try to take her on until we've arrived."
"Yes, Papa," Nana replied eagerly. "Nana will be good and do what you say."
"Hey! You!" Nana jumped as Kagome reached out and grabbed her shoulder. Swiftly she turned around, revealing frightened pink eyes, but it wasn't her face that drew Kagome's attention; atop her head stood two small white ear-shaped items.
"You scared me," Nana said, relaxing after realizing the girl was not the person she searched for. However, her eyes widened once again when Kagome pointed her weapon directly into her face.
"You are a demon! How dare you arrive on the beach on a beautiful day like this and terrorize innocent tourists!" Nana trembled and took a few steps backward.
"Y-you are mistaken. Nana is not a demon-Nana is a good girl!"
"Yeah, right, demon," Kagome said sarcastically. "I'm going to purify you right now!"
"Nana does not want to hurt humans," the scared girl said before clenching her hands together. "So, goodbye." In the blink of an eye, the girl had leapt into the air and disappeared. Kagome scowled at the empty space.
"Don't tell me you're not a demon when you can disappear like Inuyasha can!" she yelled out angrily. There was no response and she sighed, setting the weapons back onto her back. "Well, if there's one demon here there are probably others as well just waiting to terrorize the beach-goers. I'd better go on patrol and protect them."
With a proud smile, Kagome started walking up the beach again, making sure to keep her eyes open for any other potential threats, until she came across an angry man dressed in a military uniform. He was also screaming into a walkie-talkie.
"Now listen to me, Bando-."
"Damn you all! I will find her on my own terms and kill that bitch myself!"
"Excuse me sir," Kagome said with a cheerful smile as she approached the man. "I am on patrol looking for demons and I was wondering if you'd seen any lately?" The man stared at her hatefully.
"What the hell are you talking about, you crazy woman? There aren't any demons here!"
"But I just saw one down the beach a little while ago," Kagome protested stubbornly. "She had pink hair and weird cat-like ears on top of her head and she could fly-." Kagome was cut off by Bando suddenly kicking her in the chest and knocking her to the ground.
"You bitch! You saw that Diclonious! Where is she? Tell me, or I'll kill you!" He punctuated these threats by kicking her in the side and chest even harder. Kagome coughed violently and struggled to breathe through the pain coursing through her body.
"Must… reach… arrows…"
"I told you to talk, damn woman!" Bando was about to kick her again when suddenly Kagome lifted her arms weakly and pointed the loaded bow at his chest. He stared at her for a minute before bursting out laughing.
"You think a pathetic bow and arrow will hurt a soldier like me? Don't make me-"
"Hit… the mark…" Kagome whispered before releasing her sacred arrow. Instead of striking the Bando's chest, though, her shot went low, cracked through his protection, and landed squarely in his crotch.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" he screamed before falling on his back in pain. "My nuts! You bitch! I'll kill you!"
"I don't think so, you asshole!" By now Kagome was on her feet and standing over the injured man. "How dare you treat me like that? I deserve more respect than that!" She proceeded to stomp on his face with her bare foot several times before kicking his chest for good measure. "If I ever see you treating a woman badly again, you'll get a worse punishment than this!" She then stormed off, clutching her bow so tightly that her fingers turned white.
"Co-come back here," Bando weakly called, although he was unable to do more than whimper at the moment. Kagome ignored him and continued walking, more determined than ever to find a demon.
"There's got to be more around here," she murmured, just as a new set of figure entered her field of vision.
She ignored the young man and woman who seemed like a couple but focused all her attention on the girl skipping happily beside them. Her hair was longer and a different shade of pink than Nana's, but there was no mistaking those two white things upon her head.
"Demon," Kagome whispered, resetting her arrow. The couple still had not noticed her presence, but the pink-haired skipper soon did.
"Nyuu?" she asked in a squeaky voice, looking curiously at Kagome. Kagome responded by lifting her bow and aiming it carefully. "Nyuu!" The girl suddenly looked happy and started running toward Kagome, who gasped and released her arrow at once. It soared for a few feet before striking the pink-haired girl in the left shoulder, releasing a spurt of blood.
"Yes!" Kagome cried, reaching for another arrow.
"NYUUUUUUU!!!!" The pink-haired one started to cry and clutch at the arrow with her right hand.
"Nyuu! What happened to you? Hold on!" The young man and woman rushed to Nyuu, who was crying even more pitifully now and bleeding steadily onto the sand.
"Kouta, hold on," the girl said as she removed a handkerchief from her pocket. "I'll take care of her, ok?"
"All right, Yuka." Kouta then turned to Kagome, who was aiming her next shot at Nyuu. "Hey! Stop! What do you think you're doing?" He ran toward Kagome, who was forced to lower her weapon.
"Me? What are you doing, trying to help that demon?" Kagome demanded. "I already wounded her and with another shot I can destroy it!" Kouta had reached her by now but instead of looking pleased with her work, the young man was furious. Without warning he slapped Kagome hard across the face, leaving her stunned.
"You have no right to attack Nyuu!" Kouta screamed. "She never did anything to you, so leave her alone!"
Kagome stared at him a moment longer before narrowing her eyes at the man. Before he realized, she had slapped him back across the face, not once but several times.
"You stupid idiot!" she screamed, whacking him harder and harder. "I am trying to save you all from a grisly death, but you want to protect the demon and punish me? How dare you lay your hands upon me like that?" She lifted her bow again and also started beating Kouta with it. "I'm getting really sick of the men in this place!" she screamed, hitting him harder and harder.
"Kouta!" Yuka screamed from her spot beside the still pained Nyuu. "Stop hurting him!"
"No! Not until he apologizes for what he did to me!" Unfortunately, Kouta was unable to do this as he'd been hurt so badly that he passed out on the sand. Kagome stood over his body and glared, still angry at her shabby treatment.
"Kouta! Are you all right?" Yuka ran to the boy and grabbed his hand, tears spilling down her cheeks.
"Kouta," a new, calm voice said. Kagome looked over to Nyuu and was shocked to see her glaring with hate-filled eyes. "You hurt Kouta, you bitch." The pink-haired girl grabbed the arrow from her shoulder, pulled it out without wincing, and tossed it back toward its owner. Kagome growled and lifted her weapon once more.
"I knew you were an evil demon, and this time I will-." Her thought was not completed as the pink-haired girl pointed at her head and shot it in to the air like the cork off a champagne bottle. Blood gushed from her neck and drenched the surrounding sand until her limp body fell into the mess and began soaking up the red liquid.