A/N – Okay so embarrassingly, this whole time I've been spelling Tetsusaiga wrong =S I know this is correct because that's how Rumiko spells it =(

SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE! I realized as I looked back on other fanfics that there are various spellings for the sword. So FINALLY I actually went to check out the real spelling.

Anyways, sorry for the long update, but here it is.

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The History Book

Chapter Nine – Only to Be Expected

Last Time:

"Kagome, its okay. Just for this night, just cry out all of your feelings towards her. It's okay to show weakness. I'm here to protect you. She won't win just because you're hurting," Inuyasha said as cupped her cheek with his warm hands, bringing her face to rest under the crook of his neck.

Kagome began to cry out all of the pain that she held within herself for the past two days. It was true that her anger had taken over, but deep down, the old Kagome was tearing up inside. If Inuyasha weren't here to convince her to cry out, she would have held onto the sadness until her heart suffered.

She didn't even notice when Inuyasha carried her onto his lap as he positioned himself beside a tree.

Kagome didn't notice when Inuyasha placed a soft kiss on her forehead.

Glimmers of flickering light managed to seep through the ferns of the trees high above the sleeping couple's heads. Kagome lay comfortably in the arms of Inuyasha. A peaceful smile graced her lips – a far cry from the events from the night before. Inuyasha was as well content with himself; his head lay on top of Kagome's raven tresses as he took another breath of her sweet scent.

A stranger could walk by the two right now and would simply smile at the sheer purity of this moment. This peaceful moment that would end as soon as one of them woke up.

Which Kagome did.

Her lashes began to slowly flutter open from the sun's light. As she slowly came to consciousness, she noticed that she wasn't alone rather she was sleeping on another person…Inuyasha?

As Kagome tried to wake herself up, memories from the night before flicked by her mind. Oh yeah…Inuyasha was with me last night.

Kagome turned her head up to see the man she loved sleeping peacefully, however her sudden movement started to stir him awake.

"Mhm…Kagome?" Inuyasha said as his eyes started to open.

Kagome felt a rush of warmth reach her cheeks at the realization of the position they were both in. Inuyasha turned to stare at the blushing girl before him. His legs started to feel numb from having Kagome sleep on them all night. Realization dawned on him when he noticed how intimate their position was. He too started to blush.

Words were not spoken as the two just stared into each other's eyes.

In this position we're in…oh, it's just too perfect…but there's something in the back of my mind that is fighting for attention…wait…what is it?

Kishami.

Kagome's eyes widened from her dreamy ones, as her suppressed anger re-surfaced. She reluctantly pushed herself away from Inuyasha and stood up.

Inuyasha immediately missed the warmth. "Kagome?"

"We should get back to the others. We have a long journey ahead to the East," she answered while walking towards edge of the river to pick up the forgotten bottles of water.

Inuyasha looked down to the ground as he too stood up. He knew that Kagome would return to this hollow person. She already told him last night that she couldn't be the same person anymore. She had to be stronger…and by being stronger, it meant not showing any weakness. Inuyasha already knew that after last night, after he said that she could at least cry out her feelings for once, that she would not do it again. He wished that someone above would pity him and bring back the old Kagome. But for now, all he could do is just stay by her side and support her no matter what. After all, he loved her.

"Let's get going then," Inuyasha said as he helped Kagome carry some of the water bottles back to camp.

They found the rest of their group already packed and ready for the journey ahead. It seems that they weren't worried that Inuyasha and Kagome had not returned to the hut last night. Miroku was starting to eye Inuyasha warily as if saying did you manage to get lucky?

In response, Inuyasha 'keh'd' him (if that was possible) and told him to mind his own business.

Sango in turn eyed Kagome saying we'll talk about this later.

While all these silent exchanges took place Shippou sighed. He wasn't the oblivious kid they all believed he was. Instead he stayed quiet, clearly noting that no one was going to talk about it.

Sango realized she had almost forgotten something very important that they needed to bring along their travels. She quickly ran inside the hut to pull out Kagome's yellow backpack.

"Here Kagome, the history book is inside."

"Thanks Sango," Kagome said as she took her heavy backpack. She then began to gather her bow and arrows, all set ready to go.

"So should we walk?" Sango asked everyone.

Kagome was the first to speak; clearly she was taking charge now. "Well, the book says that we would encounter battle after battle with demons, so I think running would be our best option to avoid these unnecessary battles. This way, we'll be able to reach the castle in one piece. No doubt, Kishami has set up traps for us."

Miroku looked out into the distance as if contemplating Kagome's strategy. "I think Lady Kagome is right. It would be very ideal if we can reach this castle before sunset. Who knows what Kishami has planned for us."

Sango nodded in understanding. "Kirara."

The obedient cat demon suddenly ran forward in front of the group and transformed into her larger form. Sango and Miroku, with Shippou on Miroku's shoulder, jumped onto the awaiting cat's back.

Kagome already positioned herself on Inuyasha's back.

"Let's go," Inuyasha called out, as everyone began into a run towards the East.

Kaede managed to come out of her hut just in time to see the group leave. She then looked towards the sky, and even though it was daylight and the sky was a nice clear blue, the wise woman couldn't help but sense a strange ominous feeling.

Sighing, she went back inside the safety of her small hut and began to pray.

The wind felt nice against Kagome's skin as Inuyasha ran forward in lighting speed. So far, nothing interesting has happened on their travels. Even though it had only been about four hours, Kagome had that aching feeling in the back of her mind that something should have happened already. It was probably the history book's warning that they would come across many battles that had Kagome so rattled.

Inuyasha could feel Kagome's stiff form in an intense stance. It was almost like she was going to draw out her bow at any minute. But there was nothing on the road, nor did he smell any demon near by. So why was she so nervous?

Once again, Inuyasha went back to thinking how he wished the old Kagome were with him right now. He wished that her relaxed form would hug his back, feeling safe.

Inuyasha looked to his right to check how Miroku, Sango, and Shippou were doing. Kirara was intent on the path in front of her, moving her legs against the air as she flew alongside Inuyasha. Shippou had already fallen asleep on Miroku's shoulder, and it was only the afternoon. Sango seemed calm as she held firm onto Kirara's fur, but Miroku was acting different.

Miroku's eyes turned serious as he scanned the area. Currently they were running along a dirt path with open land. In the distance, they could see a forest they were soon going to head into. Further up ahead, they didn't see any castle.

"What's wrong Miroku?" Inuyasha called out.

Miroku's focus was still straight ahead and took a moment to organize his thoughts before responding. "I'm not sure, but I think they're might be a demon ahead."

This grabbed Kagome's attention.

She suddenly became nervous as she remembered what the book had warned. Suddenly she realized something important that she had overlooked before, and soon became calm with relief. We can actually cheat death...

"It's probably a small demon!" Kagome shouted over to Miroku. "I just realized…that the book said we would come across many battles, but…we'd make it in the end to see the castle. So, in a way, the book was telling us that we would survive! If these battles were at all seriously dangerous, the book would mention our deaths!"

Everyone eyes widened in surprise.

They were nearing the woods now.

"Do you suppose then, if the book ever did predict our deaths in a battle…do you think we can avoid it?" Sango asked, speculating the literally life changing prospects to the book.

Kagome actually smiled at this. "I'm not sure, but if the book gave enough detail on those battles, we could probably change our future!"

Miroku was excited, but was now thinking that maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Wouldn't changing the future throw off the whole flow of space and time? Maybe it doesn't matter, after all, Kagome travels back in time.

Inuyasha smiled and was about to say how they could skip ahead to find out how their battle with Naraku would go then suddenly out of the corner of his eye, a sharp dagger was flying straight towards him and Kagome. With speeds of a hanyou, Inuyasha managed to dodge the weapon and jump on a nearby branch.

Kirara also stopped near Inuyasha above the ground as they all turned to face the demon.

It was a tree demon, but in a human form. Branches with leaves on it stuck out from the demon's ear, which was what gave away the fact that it was a tree demon.

Miroku tugged on the prayer beads that sealed his wind tunnel while Sango held firm onto her Hiraikotsu.

Inuyasha let Kagome off his back to stand on the branch, while she took out her bow and arrow to aim at the demon.

Inuyasha also took this time to draw out Tetsusaiga.

"What do you want demon?" Inuyasha yelled as the female demon playfully picked at the branches that stuck out of her ear. Her outfit was clearly those of a tree demons, her delicate parts were covered in leaves as if she just came out of the story of the Bible as Eve.

The demon laughed like an evil villain would in a movie as she introduced herself. "My name is Daiki, and I'm the demon that guards this forest."

"Won't you let us pass peacefully?" Miroku asked as he tried to be the diplomatic person. "We are not disturbing the forest, we are merely passing by."

"I'm sorry, but I made a deal with some humans to not let any travelers pass by unless they can defeat me. I guess they're trying to hide from someone."

Kagome made a face that clearly meant that something was suspicious. "Why would you make a deal with humans?"

The demon just smiled. "For a long time I was simply a demon tree like Yomeiju and yearned for a body to move around. Then out of nowhere, about twenty years ago, a samurai and a priestess promised me a real body if I would guard the forest and stop travelers from moving forward."

The word priestess didn't go past Inuyasha's keen ears as he began to become more suspicious. "Who was this priestess?"

Suddenly, Daiki broke off a piece of the branch that stuck out of her ear. In her hand the broken twig transformed into a wooden dagger. She started to lunge forward at the hanyou as she screamed, "As if I would tell you that!"

Inuyasha pushed Kagome aside as he managed to block the daggers with the Tetsusaiga. Although he forgot one small detail: that Kagome and him were standing on a branch high above the ground.

"Shit, Kagome!" Inuyasha screamed as he continued to block more of Daiki's attacks.

Sango, being the quick thinker she was, brought Kirara down to grab Kagome before she fell to her death.

"Thanks Sango! Put me down on the ground. I can shoot from below," Kagome said as she heaved a sigh of relief from her savior.

Inuyasha sighed in relief at Kagome's safety. He internally slapped himself in the head for being so stupid and careless for letting Kagome fall.

The small exchange didn't go unnoticed by Daiki as she realized how important the girl was to the hanyou. She threw a couple of more daggers at the boy, and then changed course to dive towards Kagome.

Inuyasha, who was blocking himself from Daiki's weapons, was distracted before he realized whom Daiki charged towards. "Shit, Kagome watch out!"

Kagome, who was busy pulling herself up, didn't realize that Daiki already threw more of her wooden daggers towards her. Kagome couldn't ready her bow in time and was left to shield herself with her arms, but realized that she was protected when Sango jumped off Kirara to stand in front of her with Hiraikotsu.

Sango turned behind her. "Are you okay Kagome?"

Kagome was disappointed in herself for being so weak. "I'm fine."

Daiki's eyes sharpened at the girl with the large boomerang.

Sango was distracted with talking to Kagome that she didn't notice when a large branch grabbed a hold of her ankle. "Agghhh!" Sango screamed as the branches suddenly moved with life and trapped herself against another tree. She struggled to free herself from its grasp, but as she held Hiraikotsu, the branches were holding onto her tightly.

"Shit, she can control the forest trees!" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped down to stand in front of Kagome.

"Sango! I'll help you!" Miroku shouted as he ran over to the tree and started to use his staff to break off the branches. He struck down as hard as he could to at least loosen its hold, but it was too strong. He couldn't use the wind tunnel or else Sango would get sucked into it as well.

As Miroku continued to try and help Sango escape, more vines wrapped around Miroku's ankles until he too fell trapped against a tree. "Shit!" he yelled. He tried to struggle free but only managed to pull out his hands. Maybe now he can try and pry off the branches.

Kirara along with Shippou came down and tried to help rip off the branches. Kirara's sharp fangs were no use against the large branches, and Shippou's foxfire was not strong enough to damage it without burning Miroku or Sango.

So much for a small demon.

Feeling satisfied that at least half of the intruders were under control, Daiki turned her attention towards the boy with the sword and the girl with the arrows. She knew the boy was protective of the girl, and she thought of ways she could use this to her advantage.

She could see that the boy was ready with his sword, and didn't fail to notice the girl drawing an arrow with her bow, ready to fight.

Calling silently to the trees, Daiki felt the roots underground shift to sneak behind the girl to grab her ankles. Daiki's smile turned upward into a smirk as she eyed the roots behind the girl.

Inuyasha noticed the change in Daiki's facial expression and felt something was moving behind him and Kagome. He turned around quickly in that moment to see a wall of roots lift itself free from the ground to charge at Kagome.

Inuyasha yelled at Kagome to duck as he jumped over her to cut the roots before they cascaded down on her.

Daiki smirked. She knew all along that the boy would pull a move like that. Her intention was not to grab the girl, but the boy instead. After all, he was the one waving that giant sword.

With Inuyasha's back turned to the enemy, Daiki wasted no time to send more vines and roots after Inuyasha to grab hold of his entire body.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed out realizing the danger.

"Shit," Inuyasha cursed as he realized his mistake. He now hung a couple of feet in the air from the vines' hold on him.

"I'll deal with you first!" Daiki yelled as she forcefully slammed Inuyasha's entire body into the ground. She originally wanted to kill the hanyou first, but then an idea came into her mind. "How would you like to see your lover die right before your eyes?" She questioned with a coy smirk.

"Don't you dare lay a fucking hand on her you bitch!" Inuyasha yelled, trying to break free from his hold. But that initial slam into the ground was already starting to weaken him. The Tetsusaiga was pressed so hard against himself that he couldn't even swing it.

Ignoring the hanyou, Daiki swiftly turned to face Kagome, and broke off more of the branches attached to her ears, and began to throw multiple of her wooden daggers towards the stiff girl.

Inuyasha couldn't move to reach out to Kagome.

With his free hands, Miroku started to unravel the prayer beads from his wrist as he unleashed his wind tunnel, at least it can suck in the daggers away from Kagome.

But no wind came.

"What the…" Miroku said as he turned his hand to face himself…but. Where did the wind tunnel go?

"Kagome! Get out of the way!" Inuyasha yelled when he noticed that for some reason Miroku's wind tunnel was not working.

But Kagome stayed still. She had to fight. No more running. Not when she still had to fight Kishami. If she couldn't fight off a demon like Daiki, then she didn't deserve to face the devil herself.

Kagome drew her arrow back even further. Her arrow would not be able to cut off the many daggers that were flying towards her, but the purification energy should be enough to absorb them.

She let her arrow go.

It managed to hit her target. Daiki didn't even get the chance to scream when the arrow pierced her right through the head. Her body dissipated into a million fragments as her life came to an end.

Kagome defeated her. She killed Daiki. Not Sango, Miroku, or even Inuyasha. For once in her life, without protection, Kagome killed a strong demon…all on her own.

So why on earth was Kagome bleeding?

"KAGOME!" Inuyasha screamed. With a final pull, Inuyasha was able to break free from the vines as they began to loosen its hold on him.

"Kagome!" Sango shouted to her friend.

"Lady Kagome!" Miroku yelled.

Shippou was starting to cry.

Why is everyone yelling at me? Kagome thought in confusion. Then without warning she felt pain rip throughout her entire body, and she clenched her eyes shut at the discomfort. Kagome noticed as she looked down at herself.

Three daggers managed to lodge itself into her left arm, lower abdomen and right thigh.

Oh…

Kagome started to fall forward from her pain and blood loss as darkness started to claim her. All she saw before she fell was Inuyasha running towards her.

My purification powers…didn't work.

Well I think that's a good place to end this chapter.

I'm not sure that Daiki sounds like a feminine name but it means tree in Japanese so I figured it would work.

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