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Don't own Inuyasha, you all heard it before.
Chapter 11- Rescue
Inuyasha made sure that he couldn't be seen then took off his friendship necklace and scratched a message onto the back.
RIP = 3 dys
Then threw it out of the small window, that let them get air, then slowly climbed back down and hoped that Miroku and Sango would get the message.
The next night was the same, Kagome sang and then appeared really weak and sick, coughing and sinking in the pool, not even strong enough to sit up properly. Inuyasha feared the worst.
Kagome shivered as a light sweat covered her skin and heat rolled out of her scales while she huddled closer to Inuyasha's warmth. He made sure that her tail was in the cool water but that didn't seem to ease the fever in any way.
Kagome's breathing was laboured and she lay limp on the rocks that where in the pool.
Naraku waved Inuyasha over for a talk. He promised a friendly discussion and Inuyasha whispered quietly to Kagome before getting a mumbled response out of her then swam across to talk.
"What?" he asked crossing his arms and being at once on his guard, Kagome's tired eyes never left his blurred form as her vision slowly started to fail her.
Naraku gave a half smiled and offered a towel to him "Just checking up on the creature… but it doesn't seem to be moving very well at the minuet…?" Inuyasha rolled his eyes and took the gift, draping it around his shoulders.
"Well you have only yourself to blame for that one" he dried his face and said firmly "She's dying. She needs to be in the ocean or she'll die" he glanced back at her and she gave a weak smile when she saw him looking at her.
Naraku looked interested "That can't be right, the water is directly from the ocean, it's replaced regularly, there isn't a reason for the sickness"
Inuyasha thought that he must be talking to the most dense and stupid scientist on the planet. "For a scientist you aren't that smart. You can't replicate the sea. It's not just the water she's missing, it's the currants and the sea creatures, the moon and the tides. If you had half a brain you'd let her go"
Naraku laughed "Let her go? No, I can't do that. I'd be passing up the opportunity of a life time!" he smiled so wickedly that Inuyasha took a step back "How many biologists have had the chance to dissect a mermaid corpse?"
Inuyasha staggered away in horror and growled suddenly filled with anger and strength even though he hadn't eaten for four days. "I'll never let that happen!" she rushed forwards and landed one good punch across Naraku's face before his gothic goons came to restrain him.
Inuyasha fought against the black men as hard as he could but when a guns handle came into contact with the back of his scull he didn't have much choice but to kneel in pain.
Suddenly a loud screeching was heard and then small group of humans plus one mermaid looked up to see a purple car breaking through the roof and into the pool. Miroku jumped down on top of the car and pulled out a rifle.
"Please don't make me use this!" he said loudly.
Inuyasha saw Sango lowering a ladder and then Miroku took aim and fired once at the fire alarm. The shrill wailing made everyone cover their ears and most ran for cover. Inuyasha dived into the water and pulled a barely conscious Kagome into the water and swam over to Miroku.
"Took you long enough" he grunted as they hoisted Kagome onto the roof of the sinking car.
Miroku grinned and said "Well better late than never, hold on!" he ordered and Sango revved up another car engine and the ladder the small group was holding onto got pulled out onto the roof.
Sango threw open the doors "Get in, hurry!"
Miroku picked up a mermaid Kagome and with Inuyasha following dived into the boot of the black range rover.
Sango stomped on the gas and the car shot forwards and off the roof onto a rocky and unstable path that would lead out of the aquarium. "Nice to see you're still in one piece!" she shouted as she dodged people and objects, taking hair pin turns and jolting the car around.
Inuyasha nodded "Thanks for getting us out of there" he held onto his seat as she took another turn at eighty miles an hour. "Sango head for the shore! Kagome needs to get back in the sea or she'll die"
"Got it!" Sango said then stuck her head out of the window and screamed "MOVE RIGHT NOW CAUSE I AIN'T STOPPING!" the men in font of her dived for cover and Inuyasha thought her heard Naraku screaming for his own car.
"Faster Sango!" Inuyasha said feeling the temperature of Kagome's skin even though she was three feet away.
Kagome was panting her eyes flickering not fully opening or closing she suddenly glowed and had legs. Inuyasha pulled her close to him and shook her awake.
Kagome wearily looked up at him and asked "Safety…?"
Inuyasha smiled and said "Almost, listen Kagome, I need you to help us here, we need you to stand and run when we stop. Run to the sea and don't stop"
Kagome nodded mutely and then hissed out "I'll try"
Sango slammed on the breaks and the car almost did a front flip. "Damn road block!" she turned and the group went off-road.
Miroku put a hand on her shoulder "There's an old pier in this direction" he pointed and Sango quickly turned the car and narrowly missed the large tree and sign that marked their way. Miroku held onto the seat in front of him "If we live long enough to see it!"
Kagome let out a short laugh then said a little off topically "I love crab cakes… kept in mama's kitchen…" Inuyasha gave her a look and she smiled goofily up at him "Hey what you doing looking at my house without knocking?" a tree slapped the window "That's better. Come in!"
Miroku shook his head and said "What drugs did they hype her up on?"
Kagome pointed at him and said "Shh library zone no singing"
Sango laughed "I think she'll recover when she smells the sea air, hang tight!" And that they did until the old pier came into view.
Sango looked behind her and said "Shit" three cars were following her like follow the leader. "Inuyasha! Get ready to jump!" she warned and turned, breaking the car as much as she dared, the car looked about to roll over but somehow rightened itself as Kagome and Inuyasha opened the door and jumped.
Kagome lay where she landed breathing the smell of the sea air, her head cleared and she staggered to her feet and wobbled closer to the sound. The cars sped by, too intent on catching Sango's rover to look at anything else.
Inuyasha got up and saw her wobbling perilously on her feet then scoped her up bridal style and ran along the old creaking pier that had once been a star attraction.
Kagome sighed when the sea mist touched her skin. "Home…"
Inuyasha smiled at her and said "Just one more minuet-"
A loud gunshot pierced the quiet night. Inuyasha gasped out loud and fell dropping Kagome and rolling a few feet before curling up around the bullet hole in his chest.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted and crawled over to him. Naraku stood at the end of the pier with a powerful one shot rifle in his hands, he reloaded and then slowly walked forwards.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome said again turning him onto his back.
The human groaned and looked up at her. He had one hand pressed to the wound, a through and through, the bullet was glinting a few feet away. "Go" he said quietly "Get away from here"
Kagome held him close to her and said "Not without you" she looked up to see Naraku a hundred meters away from them. She looked down at the broken human. Who had endured so much for her sake, numerous beatings and tortures for her sake, he had never left her side, protected her as far as he was able and tried to bear her pain for her.
Naraku smiled at their helplessness. He would kill the boy then drag that creature back by its hair.
Kagome's tears hit Inuyasha's chest then she lowered her head and pressed her lips to his in a gentle caressing kiss that was soothing water on tired skin.
Kagome pulled him to his feet, he held one hand to his chest and she embraced him tightly then just as Naraku reached them she threw her weight backwards and over the railing of the pier falling the long way down to the sea.
Inuyasha was vaguely aware that they were falling but all he could do was hold into Kagome's small warm body as the sea rushed up to meet them.
The water enveloped them and pulled them towards the bottom of the sea. Kagome gently laid Inuyasha on the soft white sand at the bottom of the sea. He was breathing gently not entirely conscious but enough to realise that he was breathing water.
A small smiled graced his lips for a second before he fainted.
Kagome cradled his head in her scaled lap and murmured softly to him before covering his wound with her hand. The sea water glowed around them and Inuyasha was healed. Kagome kissed his forehead then, not caring if he couldn't hear her at that moment. "I need to leave for a while, I'll be back"
Kagome's eyes flashed siren and she pulled out of the sand a sharp shell that she was going to fight with. She swam in a blur up to the pier. She rocketed out of the water and landed with pointed toes after using magic to dry herself out in a single second.
She glared with slit like eyes and the man she was stalking raised his gun in horror and fired wildly.
Time seemed to slow down for Kagome, her head tilted to the side slightly and the bullet whizzed past her ear and as soon as it passed her she straitened up so it looked like she hadn't moved at all.
Her slow walk down the old wood made Naraku scared, she gripped the sharp shell and smiled with skewer like teeth. "Ever wondered why mermaids are so elusive?" she asked quietly.
Naraku fumbled to reload the gun "It's partly for your own protection" Kagome said in a deadly whisper. "Ever heard of sirens? Mermaids are their descendants, we have the overwhelming desire to drown a evil soul when he is in our ocean. Like you for example"
Naraku took a step back and fell over the gun falling just out of reach. Kagome stood on his hand as he reached for it. "I thought you'd be interested… I'm letting you know about us mermaids… ah well, lets get this over with"
She brought her hand down and the shell plunged through his neck. His eyes were wide as he choked on his own blood. Kagome watched him drown on dry land then pulled out the shell and left him as she walked to the end of the pier and jumped into the waves.
Sango glance in the rear view mirror biting her lip as the chasing cars gained more ground than they did. Miroku held the rifle in his hands and said "Would you hate me if I shot someone?"
Sango didn't answer right away "At the minuet I don't mind!" she screamed as a car pulled out in front of them. She stomped on the breaks and the car flipped over.
Miroku groaned where he landed. The car was a wreck and he saw sure he had a few broken ribs and definitely a broken shoulder and an arm.
He glance over at Sango who was in almost as bad shape as he was. Her head was on the dashboard as the airbag hadn't gone off, she hadn't replaced it from crashing last time, and there were large cracks in the windscreen where her head had smashed into it. Her forehead was bloody and her left shoulder was sloped in a funny way.
Miroku grabbed her elbow with his uninjured hand and whispered "Sango?"
She groaned and opened one eye, she looked at him and said "Suspended driving issue again, right?"
He smiled and squeezed her hand "At least Kagome got home alright"
A loud scream was heard outside as well as a loud growling shriek, they heard gunshots and then the scrambling of running feet.
Kagome kicked the human away from the car wreck and then shouted into the upside down car "Sango? Miroku? Are you alright!" Kagome punched another man away from her and then pressed her ear to the car to hear for signs of life.
Miroku heard her and shouted back "Kagome? Is that you?" Sango gasping and looking up showing how badly her face was damaged to Miroku, he suspected a broken nose, skull and possibly a few missing teeth.
Kagome sighed in relief and said "Thank the gods, I'm gonna get you out, hang tight"
She was heavily relying on her siren strength to tear the car apart and get to her friends. She dug her nails into the door and tore it off with a yell.
Miroku and Sango looked up to see her, her features quickly returning to normal, Kagome's eyes widened at the sight of her two best friends. "Oh my gods!" she said as she pulled Sango out.
Miroku pulled himself out with a yell as he felt all his broken bones shift against each other. Kagome pulled Sango to her feet and then said to Miroku "Can you get to the water, I can heal you both when we get to the water"
Miroku nodded and with a lot of encouragement and help got to his feet. Kagome supported the two humans and then laid them both down in the shallows. When her feet touched the sea she fell over with a curse as her tail reappeared.
Crawling awkwardly on her hands she pressed Sango's hurt face into the water and the water began to glow after a short minuet Sango became conscious and sat up breathing the air and coughing loudly.
Kagome sighed in relief when he saw her friends perfectly healed face without a scratch to show that it happened.
Sango felt her face in surprise then Kagome wriggled over to Miroku while Sango popped her dislocated shoulder back into the socket with a grunt.
Kagome spent three minuets repairing Miroku as he had lots of broken bones and fractures that could be deadly. Miroku slowly felt the pain leave him and properly woke up when Kagome splashed his face once.
He woke up in Sango's lap and smiled up at her "Sango, dear… can I drive in the future?"
Sango kissed him strongly and held him tightly while nodding. Kagome smiled at them and then wiggled into deeper water. She stiffened suddenly and called back to the two on the beach.
"Come on. We've been summoned"
The humans waded out to meet her and she waved a hand around their heads and then sighed "You can breath underwater until the sun rises, so make sure you're on land when that happens" The silly air bubbles around their heads were the only things keeping them alive underwater.
Sango grabbed her hand "Thank you Kagome, but where are we going?"
Kagome winced and said a little blankly "The mermaid queen has asked to meet you… I think I'm definitely in trouble this time…"
Kagome pulled them under the water with her and held onto each of their hands and they went to the pier where a small crowd had appeared.
Miroku and Sango looked around at them all in wonder, Miroku wondered where all the males were but kept quiet. Some mermaids hissed at the humans and others hid while some smiled politely and made way for the trio.
Kagome let them go and went to the ocean floor to cradle Inuyasha's head in her lap protectively. Sango and Miroku kicked over and sat on either side of them Sango held his hand while Miroku put a hand on his shoulder. Inuyasha groaned and woke up, he smiled at her and guestured her closer with one hand.
Kagome smiled and bend down and planted a quick kiss on his lips, earning a gasp from the watching mermaids before letting him go and swimming in front of a mermaid with a black tail with a red tailed mermaid floating next to her. Inuyasha knew that these two were specail mermaids and sat up to watch.
Kagome sank to the floor and bowed "Midoriko"
Oh dear, busted! Lets see if this is good or bad news...