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I Do Not Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

5. The Return Home

I lay on my bed, trailing my finger over the groves in the head board. I was on house arrest. Locked in my room, forbidden from going outside. They thought I had run away, and the well excuse was just something I had made up from the top of my head.

I stared at the pale blue walls, cluttered with stick figure paintings. They had let me pain on the walls, since it had been the only way to express myself. I never used to speak when I first moved here, being broken inside from the loss of my sister and my best friend talking just seemed too much work. So I painted on the walls, my dreams, memories, hopes, wishes. Every painting had Inuyasha in it, in some way or another.

My injuries were fine and mended. My mother had taken me to the hospital once she noticed my discoloured shoulder and the bandage around my chest and back. But my centipede wound had healed surprisingly in the short time I had been in the feudal era and my so called 'broken arms', were nothing more then a few bruises. I didn't believe the doctor though. There was no way that a few bruises could have hurt so much.. but then he'd gotten me when he asked if my arm hurt now.. which it didn't anymore.

I sighed mournfully and grabbed my ipod out of my pocket. I've never been grounded before, being on house arrest was worse. My windows were shut tight, and my door was locked. Kagome thought it was a bit much, and so did Jii-chan, Souta was still scared hiding in his room from the centipede demon, but Mom wouldn't listen. She was over-protective, way to over-protective. It was suffocating.

I sat on the edge of my bed, and put the ipod in my ears, blasting the music loud. The Higurashi's had gone out, for five minutes, enough time to get out. I dressed in camo, cargo pants, black sneakers, a black tank-top, and tied my hair into a French-braid. I braided my hair until I got to the middle of my back, where I tied the end with a black ribbon and left the rest, undone.

I grabbed my black leather backpack from my closet and tossed all of it's contents onto the floor. I wouldn't be needing math books if I was going to be fighting demons. I resupplied my bag, with the freshly washed kimono Kaede had given me yesterday, my first-aid kit that was alway under my bed for some reason, and all the clothes I could fit into my bag, along with some cleaning necessities. I threw the bag onto my back and ran to the window. I tried to pry it open but it didn't work, this window had been barely opened in the first place and now with it shut tight and even nailed down, there was no hope of ever getting the thing open again. I sighed and laid back down on the bed, not even bothering to try door.. I already had tried picking the lock five times.

The webs of hair.. Inuyasha's hostile behaviour.. and the newly broken shikon no tama. I didn't really understand any of these things. The webs of hair that could control people meant a youkai, and youkai's meant they were after the shikon no tama. But now the shikon no tama was broken now.. So there would be more youkai attacks since everyone would be after a shard.

I noticed something glittering and pink on my white carpet, and slid off the bed to look. It was a shikon shard.. I picked it up, holding it gently between my fingers. It had a little splotch of red on it's tip. This must have been the shard that cut me..It must have caught onto my hair or something. .then fell out while I was braiding my hair.

If that hair youkai was after jewel shards then...

I turned off the Ipod, straining my ears like I had before.. I heard the sound of wire being stretched almost instantly. My window shattered seconds later. I jumped to my feet, shoving my ipod into one of the deep pockets of my pants. There at the shattered window, shards of glass covering it, was a huge snake of raven hair.

I stared at the monster, frozen, like a deer in the headlights, my stupid habit taking over once more. A hair monster outside my window.. webs of hair in the feudal era..obviously this was connected. There was no other explanation as to why the hair monster was here, except..

A lock of hair shot out from the main monster and wrapped itself around my ankle. The lock snapped back yanking my feet from under me, causing me to smack my skull against the glass covered floor. It pulled me out the window, but its grip wasn't tight, and I fell from its grasp, slamming into the Goshinboku.

I started seeing black spots as the pain shot through my body like lighting, and I felt something warm and thick trickle from my head down my neck. I rubbed my head where it hurt the most and looked at my hand. it was covered in blood. I stumbled to my feet, wiping the blood off on my shirt, trying to keep myself from blacking out. "Talk about bad hair day."

I looked about the shrine, hoping that, for some unknown reason, the monster had been an illusion, just my mind playing tricks on me, and that I had managed to launch myself out the window and hit this tree... 100 feet away. But it wasn't an illusion, the snake of hair still at my window, confirmed it. My eyes trailed along the snake like body of this hair monster, and my eyes widened as I noticed where the youkai's body lead from..

I leaped to my feet, and shot toward the well house. The youkai detected my movement and snapped back, causing me to trip and fall through the door. I grabbed onto the door frame, balancing myself, before the youkai lunged at me again. The youkai wrapped itself around my waist and threw me against the opposite wall.

It was strange though. The youkai's grip would be strong as it wrapped itself around me, but then it would seem as though it changed its mind, and instead of dragging me it would toss me away. Like I was some hot potato. I scanned the well house for something of use. This was a small wooden structure used as a store room for old artifacts, there must be something in here. And then suddenly I remembered.

My head snapped back to the wall where I had seen them only the day before. There they sat just as dusty as last time. The two katanas Jii-chan had forbade me of touching even though I knew well what they were. But Jii-chan was convinced I would break them..

I scrambled to my feet and ran over to the shelf where they sat. My hands grasped onto the hilts, and I yanked them out of their scabbards.

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Inuyasha ran though the forest, looking ahead, but not paying attention. Running through dense forests had become second nature, and he was more worried about the trees than himself. If he ran into one, at the speed he was going, it's be more likely the tree would snap in two, not him.

He didn't notice the webs of hair, nor could he see it for that matter, but he knew something dangerous was around. Something really dangerous, at least for a human girl, anyway. Kaori.. was someone he had sworn to protect, the first human outside his family, that didn't judge him because of what he was. Even though she had been young, she was well in formed of the half-breed youkai's out there, but she didn't seem to care. She was the only person that had stayed with him even when her whole village and even her sisters, turned on him. He had to keep her safe.

Kaede had told him about her country, and where she had resided over the last 50 years, learning her information from Kaori's minor, sleep-talking, and when she muttered on about how much she hated it when she thought she was alone. But as far as any of them knew, it was the safest place to be right now, and that was where he had sent her.

He knew she had gotten older, and obviously that would mean she'd be stronger, and not just the helpless 6 year old that had sworn to become a hanyou at all costs. But he couldn't see her like that, he couldn't look at her and see a healthy, young, smart, teenage girl. He still saw the little 6 year old brunette.

Something rustled in the shadows. Inuyasha stopped and flexed his claws, growling and sniffing the air. Blood.. Kaede's blood! Kaede stumbled out from behind the bush, her should slashed, and bleeding. Inuyasha ran to her, and caught her as she started to fall toward the earthy ground.

"What're you up to, with all this blood?" He asked, starting at her blood drenched sleeves.

"Couldn't ye have worded that some other way?" She mumbled, grudgingly. Inuyasha bent down, on his knees, still staring at her.

"Who did this, Kaede-babaa?" He demanded, putting her on his back, heading toward the village.

"Ye better not go this way, the village girls are being manipulated by someone, they are them, who had attacked me." She warned, trying to ignore her pain.

"Where's Kaori!" She demanded, noticing the absence of her younger sister. She knew that most likely he would have sent her to hide somewhere, maybe in a cave, or some where out of the way and unknown. But the aura around him made her worry, he didn't seem exactly worried if Kaori was found, like he usually had in the past.

"Who cares!? I feel less irritated when she's not around! That useless girl broke the jewel! The world is better off without her!" He spat, trying to sound as convincing at possible. Kaede gasped, and glared at the silver haired hanyou.

"Call her here! We need her!" She shouted into his ear, causing Inuyasha to flinch.

Inuyasha growled, and looked back at her ancient face, that was twisted into a look of fury. "No way! I can handle this myself!" He leaped into the air, turning his head forwards to pay attention to where he landed.

"You damn guy! Look!" Kaede squeezed his shoulders, transferring some of her weak powers into him. Inuyasha flinched again, not knowing what was happening, but then below him, webs of black hair appeared all across the forest, most of them leading to the centre, but that wasn't what had caught his attention.

In the largest clearing, with grass that was tall and pale green, flowers cluttering the earth, young Sakura trees growing around a small crystal clear pond, and in the middle of this clearing, was the bone-eaters well. The meadow was covered in raven strands of hair, leading toward the well, where they joined together making a huge monster that stretched downwards, reaching into the well.

A wave of panic rushed over him and he landed in the densest part of the forest, where a small cave resided beside a small stream. He put Kaede down by the water, not far from the entrance of the cave. "Stay here, or I'll kill you." He growled. He then turned on his heel and sprinted back toward the well, cutting through the hair as he went. The power to see the raven tresses wouldn't last forever.

He reached the well in five seconds, the journey would have taken a half-an hour for a human, cut through the monster hair, stretching down the well, and jumped down after it. If this was the way to get to Kaori's country, then she wasn't safe.

Neon blue light shone around him, white orbs floating upwards. But it was gone as fast as it came. He was now standing in the bottom of a stone well, the sky had disappeared from above him, and in stead of hearing the sing song voice of the birds, he heard, and smelt, Kaori.

He leaped out of the well, landing in a crouch on the edge. But what he saw, pulled his attention away from any danger. A woman.. no, a teenage beauty, stood by the stairs, her back up against the wall, holding two sharp, lethal Katanas in her hands. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead, and her braided hair was a mess, but it didn't subtract any from her angelic features. She stood facing a snake of raven hair, panting.

A raven lock snapped toward her, but she had keen reflexes, and sliced it in two. More shot toward her, but again, they were cut to bits. She was running about the wooden structure, trying to get closer to the well, but the youkai wouldn't let her, attacking her every time it got the chance.

"You god damn youkai!" She shouted, Kaori's voice coming from her lips. "Why won't you die, damn it!"

The aggression in her voice startled Inuyasha. He'd never heard a human woman speak so aggressively, nor the words being said with Kaori's voice, for that matter. He watched as the girl and the impossible youkai continued to fight, seeming completely obvious to him. The brunette, was quick, agile, had fast reflexes, which seemed to make up for lack of strength. She was focused and determined, and fire blazed behind her familiar green eyes. It was almost as if she was raised by youkai...

The raven locks shot out toward her again, knocking her Katanas from her hands, landing across the room. The girl didn't falter, although, for a millisecond, panic flashed over her face. She spirited toward the youkai, jumped onto the banister then landed behind the youkai, only a few feet away from her swords.

But as her foot touched the wood, it broke under her weight. She'd stepped on a weak board. Her foot fell through, the sharp pieces of wood cutting into her skin. She gasped, fell to the floor, but she didn't cry out in agony, like most humans would have.

It wasn't until the scent of Kaori's blood hit Inuyasha's nose, did he snap out of it. He looked back at the girl, to see Kaori as he always saw her, as a child, her leg thorough the wood, covered in blood. She reached for one of the katanas that had been knocked just out of arms reach, her face reflecting her pain. The hair youkai saw this as an opportunity and shot toward her.

Inuyasha growled and leaped from the spot where he had been frozen, and landed behind Kaori, his claws flexed. He was about to slash through the monster, when suddenly it disappeared, from sight. He whipped around, toward Kaori, where the youkai should have been, but it was not. Instead Kaori, held one of the swords in her hand gasping, as a stand of wire-like hair fell to the floor.

"Stupid.. Youkai.. " She panted, dropping the sword to the wooden floor. "..had to kill.. the main strand that.. controlled it.. before it.. would die.." She rested her forehead on the floor, panting, quickly falling into unconsciousness. Inuyasha broke the wood away from her mangled leg, and picked her up, dropping his fire rat kimono over her, and jumped back down the well. The fight wasn't over yet, but she wasn't safe from danger here either.

End Of Chapter 5

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