Inuyasha : Kagome's heart
Chapter Seven : Allies
Kagome's POV
The small town of Hato . It's something like millions of miles away from the eastern cave . The people there were nice and friendly , after I told them I'm a rich demon slayer . They offered me food and a temporary house to stay in with a maid and a cook . I couldn't say no . It turns out they have a lizard demon , problem : it steals the food and sometimes the women in the town . Kills young children and balh , balh , balh .
My house was very nice . Not like in my time , but very upper class : a actual bed with wooden polished wooden floors , windows . The bedroom wall had a painting of a hot spring and a beautiful lake .
My maid , Kina , told me there was a hot spring near the town just off by the end . I decided to go there after I got some info of the lizard demon off the mayor. He gave me more then enough information .
The hot spring was great ! I wish Sango was there with me she would of love it . No Miruko or Inuyasha .
After I dug into a special meal from my chef , Leitia . I had miso soup with fried pork , delicious .
The mayor told me the demon often comes from the north and waits for defenceless weak humans to come out . Great .
The one thing I asked for was a bow and arrow , with some daggers . He happily provided me with what I needed .
It was dark . Round about ten . I told the mayor to illustrate everyone to go in side before sun down , and no one come out side . He did , they did .
The demon first appeared from the north as the mayor for told . Yep , he was a lizard demon and ugly one at that .
He stayed by the town tree waiting , just like the mayor said .
I was at least six kilometres away from him , crouching behind a roof . My bow and arrow position perfectly .
Pin . Swish , Thud .
The job was done .
The demon didn't have the jewel shards . But he did give me a clue where he kept the hostages : he left a wide trail .
Miruko's POV
Inuyasha's behaviour seemed to have altered since Kagome went missing . I've been studying his and Koga's behavioural structure and I must say they have improved .
I've tried to be as calm as possible and stay out of their way , since the beginning of this mishap . I know that they both share deep feelings of compassion towards Kagome . But I must repeat my self they have improved . They have had civilised convocations with one another , with out arguing . Each one of them seemed to of had open convocations with each other and compromise a simple and efficient plan :
Sango and I will stay at the headquarters , while the both of them will go terrorising at town . In doing this it will lead out Kira . Then Koga will rescue Kagome . From there Koga will drop Kagome back to HQ . Inuyasha will integrate Kira , finding out all she knows about Naraku's hiding place , then Koga will follow Inuyasha to where Naraku's hiding place and destroy him once and for all .
Sango and I have been patching up Koga's allies wounds for the past few hours . Ly , Tense , Kayo and Shipiki . I have healed all their wounds to the best of my abilities, with Kagome's first aid kit .
Inuyasha and Koga were over going there plans .
Kagome's POV
The women and children were in a cave in the north-west . The cave was shockingly clean and smelt nice . The demon was keeping four women and six children hostage . But he stole about , what , ten grams worth of heavy jewellery : necklaces , rings , golden statues .
"thank you ," the mayor bowed "thank you so much , miss. You don't know how missed these people were".
I blushed "It's my job , really , no problem," I said , scratching the back of my head .
"Here," he shoved the jewels into my hand .
"No really, I couldn't," I blushed , taking a step back .
"Please , you must, as a reward," he insisted .
"No I couldn't , you've all done enough," I said kindly .
The mayor shook his head and sent his maids to go fetch something . The maids came back with a pouch , and silver arrows as well as a bronze dagger .
"Please accept these gifts as our humble towns thank you," he bowed , and so did his maid .
I blushed . I had no choice . I bowed my head . "Thank you," I said . I accept the lovely gifts .
"may I stay here another day?," I asked , feeling really embarrassed . Blushing .
The mayor looked up at me , smiling . "Of course !," he exclaimed . "Stay as long as you like!."
I exhaled , relived I could stay another day .
Back at my house , I went to the hot spring between five and fifth teen minuets . I came back to my house steaming hot .
I was greeted warmly my maids and chef . Large fish with sugared rice was my meal . It was delicious .
I took a long nap , feeling absolutely exhausted . I've been concealing my scent for too long now . I've used up too much of my energy . I had too let it go soon .I slept till it was dark .
I crept down stairs , I so Kina and Leitia , making a huge moon cake . They looked at me as I walked down the stairs .
"What's going on?," I asked half confused .
Kina , turned a deep red . "No , no , no your suppose to be sleeping!," she blushed .
"What , why?," I asked , suspiciously eyeing the both of them .
"Because , we were going to surprise you with your desert," said Leitia , properly revealing the yummy looking moon cake .
It was a tempting golden brown , with layers of powdered sugar sprinkled all over it .
"You didn't have to," I lied , smiling .
"We wanted to thank you." she said , gently . "You rescued my younger sister . She would have never escaped if it wasn't for you." I felt sickened when she said that . I hate hearing defenceless women that can't protect themselves and need to be saved . That's such a cliché , and I hate clichés , I use to live in one .
The day after I decided to do something nice for the town .
It turns out only some of the men and women know archery . But they all suck at it .
Inuyasha's POV
"Alright," I said proudly agreeing with Koga . "We have a plan." Koga nodded , silently . He was probably thinking about Kagome . That made me think of her , then my thought fastened on Kikyuo . Some how I couldn't keep my thoughts off her .
"K-Koga are we ready to move out?," Ginta asked nervously . Koga got up steadily , his face was hard on concentration, mixed with sadness . "Ginta , you go with inuyasha . Hakkakuwill follow me," he said . "Good luck , Inuyasha," he said after grabbing Hakkakuand speeding off wit him .
I nodded . He was serious . For some strange reason I had a bad feeling about this , but I shook it off instantly .
"Ginta , ready to go?," I asked in my confident voice . He nodded . "Go lets get moving," I claimed .
I had to run pretty slow , since Ginta didn't have any jewel shards . Before we reached a town I smelt the blood of a rat , and I followed it to a cave .
"Dam it," I cursed . Feeling anger surge up my body . Kira definitely had Kagome with , all the demons were robbed of their shards . And dead .
"I can believe this bitch is getting all the shards!," I hissed stamping my feet , outraged .
Ginta looked sad after what I said .
"Kagome…," Ginta whispered to himself , sadly .
I groaned .
"Ginta , we better get going . The next town is miles away," I said . He nodded .
Kagome's POV .
Pin . Pin . Pin
They shot there arrow all synchronised . They all learnt well and quickly .
Thud . Thud . Thud
Again , everything was synchronised . All of them were on target .
"Good," I said . "your all getting better."
There were cheers all around the town . Men and women were all proud of their work .
I walked towards the children , all of then had wooden daggers , swinging them around .
I corrected all of them and showed them the right way to stab .
"Good!," I exclaimed .
The mayor thanked me for helping the town improve its defense .
"It's no problem!," I blushed .
"Thank you , thank you . You must stay another day , miss Kira. Please I insist!," he pleaded .
I shook my head. "I'm sorry but I have a mission I must complete," I said seriously .
He nodded ."we let me give you food for your jounery!,"
Mushrooms , moon cakes , biscuits and carrots , were all stuffed into my bag .
"Thank you," I bowed to the mayor .
"Please come and visit our town again," he bowed happily .
"I will," I said making my way down the forest . I could the cheers and praises of the inhabitants of the town echo across the forest .
Inuyasha's POV
We came to a pleasant , yet cheerful town . Many of the women were polishing something shiny and wooden . I didn't want to destroy this innocent town , but I had no choice .
I performed the wind scar ripping apart a house in two .
Women screamed and ran in side their houses .
Ginta , attacked three men before I made another wind scar . He jumped out the way automatically .
Thud.
An arrow hit my shoulder unsuspectedly . A young girl fired at me , not scared on bit . She reminded me of Kikyuo and Kagome , her long and her eyes were an nice dark brown .
She loaded another arrow ready to fire it . I jumped off the house ignoring the little girl . Another wind scar ripped a main house apart .
Ginta had no knocked out six men with no trouble . It was just the women .
Thud . Thud.
Two arrows hit Ginta's bare skin ,bleeding badly . "Ginta ! Are you okay?," I asked .
He pulled the arrows out of his skin . "I'm okay," he said .
Slick
An arrow cut across my skin as it swished past me , thudding to the ground . Six girls all had arrows and were loading some more up .
Ginta tried to take one down , but one of them drew out a wooden dagger and tried to stab him . He jumped back .
Slick . Crash .
Destroyed the arrow and swished my sword in front of the girls , trying to scar them . They stood there reloading arrows .
Ginta charged at one of them , picking up the girl slamming her down on the ground .
"Curse you demon," she hissed aiming her arrows at Ginta . He snapped them in half , taking her dagger .
Ping .
Dodged another arrow , pushing down three other girls .
Swish . Slick . Puff
One of those girls slicked my back , popping on of my veins . I started to feel dizzy . I put my guard down again .
"Wind scar!," I yelled . The girls were lifted up by a gust of wind and crashed against the town houses .
"were done here, Ginta lets move on," I said jumping on a forest tree .
Koga's POV
I smelt blood . Its old
"Koga," bellowed Hakkaku , miles behind me . "Can you smell that?," he asked . We're going to catch up with inuyasha .
"Yeah , lets go check it out."
We arrived near some disgusting , dirty cave . Inuyasha scent was all over the out side . He must of smelt the blood too .
There were eight rat demons , dead around the cave . It's like they were all robbed .
I caught a different scent that came from the cave , followed it inside .
The cave had some blue gooey substance that smelt weird , I tried not to step on it . In the cave was light , it only had a few jiggered edges on the sides .
Waterfall was close to this place . We walked deeper in the cave .
The waterfall was big and beautiful : outside the cave was so tranquil , calm field with hills of lushes green grass . None of this place had inuyasha's scent around it . He must of under looked it .
I sat on the edge of the waterfall sniffing the water , thinking about Kagome . I heard laughter , a light giggling . It must've been inside my head , Hiten didn't seem to hear it .
The loud gushing noise of the waterfall settled my thoughts .
I heard laughter again , this time Hakkaku did hear it . We both follow the laughter , over the waterfall and deeper into the fields .
A girl with short blue hair was laughing , she held a piece of .glass in her hand . Sitting on the grass , happily laughing .
She looked up at us and smiled . "Hello there , Kouga," she giggled . Closing her eyes .
Her scent was sweet , delicious . "How do you know my name?," I asked .
"I knew you were coming , silly," she tilted her head and stared happily at Hakkaku . "Hello , Hakkaku . I didn't except you!" she giggled .
I was calm for some strange reason . I sat down close to her . "Who are you?," I asked , pulling a daisy out the ground .
"Alley," she answered simply . She rested her head on my shoulder . I don't know why but I didn't care when she done that ."You and Inuyasha are searching"
I gasped . "How did you know?," I asked .
Amazing blue eyes , stared into mine , hypnotizing me . "I know everything," she said , wrapping her arm tightly around mine. "Stay here , please. You'll get hurt badly if you leave." I heard anxiety in her voice when she said that .
"Alley , what do you know?," I asked , kindly . I know it seems weird me asking a kid what she knows , but I believed her and what she said .
Her stunning blue eyes glowed as she spoke . "Naraku has a new off spring . The child is dangerous in more than one way," she warned me , gripping me tighter . "Fast . Strong . The child has overwhelming power." Her voice was almost inhuman as she said that .
Tightening her grip , her eyes watered . "Please stay , I don't want you too die," she whispered .
This child only known for two minutes and yet she feels worried about me .
"Who is this child?," I asked .
She shook her head . "I'm not telling you!," she yelled "You'll just go off looking for the child, and die!" Her tears dripped down her cheeks slowly .
How did she know ? Was I that obvious ?
I shook my head . "I won't." To tell you the truth I wasn't sure what I would do : a new child of Naraku's was bad enough , considering the bastard already had one that's still alive . But Kagome's been kidnapped and needed to be saved , so what should I do ?
She looked at me , judging my faucal expression .
"Your thinking about something important," she deduced . Her eyes were piercing on mine . I looked at her and smiled weakly .
"How old are you?," I asked in a playful tone . Wondering how smart she really is .
"You don't need to know," she blushed . Turning her eyes to Hakkaku
who was sleeping on the ground . She gasped . Freezing , her eyes widened .
"Inuyasha is .." she tailed off . "is chasing the child," she whispered , shaking .
"What!," I got up . She got up with me , her grip on me was strong .
"Don't go!," she cried .
Let go of her , reluctantly , something was telling me not too.
"Please..," she begged , falling to her knees .
I smiled at her . "I'll come back," I said "I promise"
I left Hakkaku there he would just slow me down .
Inuyasha's POV
I heard movement on the Southern side and decided to follow it . Left Ginta near the town since Kouga was taking his time , Ginta could fill Kouga in and their job would be done .
This person was fast . I chased him/her into the forest . Jumping on the tree branches .
Snap . Snap .
I was steadily catching up . More and more I thought this person was Kira . Chasing Kira was pretty exhausting . She was faster then Kouga . Much faster . I could barely catch up . Each time I jumped I heard Kira's breathing . Heard every step she took loud and clear . The hypnotizing sound of her kimono swish side to side . I could almost image what she looked like . What Kagome looked like : scared and praying that I would save her .
I'm coming Kagome don't you worry . I'll save you …
Kagome was probably thrown over Kira's shoulder , defenceless . That thought made me speed up by seconds . I dazed off in a day dream : thinking about Kagome.
Before I knew I feel through the trees and hit the ground . Hard on my back .
I groaned . The pain went away swiftly .
My boned ached badly . I just about heard Kira's movement . Skipping trees in mid-air . I fell a sleep .