Kagome screamed when the youkai's tail threw near the Goshinbku. Wincing, she groaned in pain when her ribs hurt.
"Getting a little slow are we, Kikyo?"
Kagome raised her eyes and they widened. Stuttering, she pointed at him, "Y-You're alive!" The boy sneered, "Disappointed?"
Kagome's jaw fell opened, "Wha-? Why would I be disappointed?" The boy narrowed his amber eyes at her, and then finally commented, "Because you couldn't kill me, of course. You do look pretty stupid, sitting down here, Kikyo."
Kagome growled, "Okay. That's it! I am not Kikyo! My name is Kagome! Ka-Go-Me!" The boy snarled, "Liar! How stupid do you think I am?"
Ignoring the pain in her side, Kagome put her hands on her hips and smirked, "Considering that you're the one who's pinned to that tree, I'd have to say very!"
Before the boy could so much as growl at her, the youkai broke into the clearing and made straight for Kagome. She shrieked, and started running, "But if you can get rid of this thing, I swear I'll take back my words!"
"Pathetic half-demon!" The creature hissed. Inuyasha raised a brow, irritated, "It's Inuyasha, bitch. And who the fuck are you calling pathetic? Take a look at yourself."
The youkai snarled, but its attention was diverted by Kagome, who winced. Great. "Give me the Shikon No Tama!"At that very moment, Kaede and the village men burst into the clearing. Their eyes became horrified when they saw that Inuyasha's eyes were open.
"How is it possible!"
Kagome screamed when the youkai, rushed towards her and tossed her into the air, sinking its teeth into her side. Kagome's eyes became dazed with pain and as they fell on a small glowing jewel, she gasped. Was that the sacred jewel everybody was talking about?
However, before she could say anything, she was crushed against the half demon by the youkai's body while it swallowed the jewel. "You stupid bitch!" ranted Inuyasha, angrily, "How could you let that weakling take the jewel, Kik-"
He paused and sniffed. His eyes grew confused, "Wait, you're not her?" Kagome groaned at the pain of being crushed and the loss of blood, and bit out angrily, "Of course, I'm not her, you idiot! My name is Kagome! I already told you!"
Inuyasha was stunned for a few minutes. This girl looked like her, but her attitude was way different than the priestess he had fallen in love with. For one, she was rude, and abrupt. And her style of dressing was too vulger. Was she some prostiture, but then they tended to be submissive, not that he would know anything about that? Who was this girl?
"Hey." His voice was quiet and thoughtful. Kagome glared at him with one eye, "What!" Inuyasha mused aloud, "Do you think that you can remove this arrow?"
Kagome looked at the arrow which was pinning Inuyasha to the tree, and said doubtfully, "I don't know..."
"Do not do that, child!"
Kagome tried to turn her head at Kaede's cry, but found herself firmly pinned. Inuyasha ignored the old priestess and looked at Kagome, "Well, can you? If you want to live, that is."
Kagome gaped at him and then frowned. She had to get back home. Gritting her teeth and trying her best to ignore the pain she was in, she lifted her hand and touched the arrow, which started glowing. Kaede stared in horror at what the girl was doing. She would get them all killed!
Inuyasha stared at the girl. She had power, he could tell that much but there was something about her aura, which he couldn't place, something familiar, something which bothered him. However, somehow he knew she was the only one who could get rid of his imprisonment.
"Well, can you?" he demanded, impatiently. Kagome scowled at him, and something snapped in her, making the arrow disintegrate. Inuyasha's eyes widened with delight and he smirked as Kagome stared wonderingly at her hand. Woah, I had no idea I could do that!
When the youkai saw the arrow disappearing, it snarled and tried to crush its two victims. However, a second later, it's entire body fell apart, as Inuyasha burst free and used his claws, cutting through it's entire body. Kagome cried out in pain as she was tossed onto the ground, her injuries hurting worse than ever.
However, instead of turning into dust, the youkai's body parts started twitching and Kaede rushed over towards the girl. "The Jewel, child! We have to remove the Jewel from Mistress Centipede's body!" the priestess cried urgently.
Vaguely, Kagome wondered, the thing had a name? However, she snapped out of it soon enough, and saw something glowing in one of it's legs, and pointed. Kaede rushed in that direction and sighed in relief when she took out the Jewel, handing it to Kagome.
"So this is it? This tiny thing is what everyone's after?" She stared at the glowing jewel. It was so pretty!
"Yeah." Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha standing a few feet away. "And it's mine. So hand it over, Ka-Go-Me."
Kagome narrowed her eyes, "Or what?"
Inuyasha smirked, "Or, I'll just kill you and take it from your corpse." Kagome stared at him, "So you'll kill me?"
He nodded, sneering. Kagome was sure she had lost her mind when she said aloud, "You sure are unattractive when you make that face." Inuyasha stared at her, shocked, "Excuse me?"
This gave Kaede the chance she was looking for. Drawing out a necklace from her kimono, she chanted a small prayer. To Inuyasha's shock and dismay, his neck glowed and the necklace appeared around his neck, "What the hell!"
Kagome looked at Kaede bewildered. What did the priestess just do? Kaede yelled at the girl, "Subdue him! Speak the word!"
"What word!" Kagome yelled back as she took a few steps back from a glowering Inuyasha, a death look in his eye. "To subdue him!"
Kagome ignored her and started running. Pushing past trees and bushes, she stumbled, and her eyes widened, as Inuyasha bared his claws and raised his hand. Squeezing her eyes shut, she gaped as she saw Inuyasha fly through the air to land against a tree. But it was not Inuyasha's landing, which made her gape. It was the unexpected saviour that stood in front of her. His silver hair falling down his back, he was a vision in white, as he assessed her with cold, golden eyes.
"Kagome!" Kaede's cry echoed through the queit forest, and the man's eyes widened as he stared at the girl lying in front of him. Kagome?
A.N: I'm down with the flu and I still wrote this chapter for you. NOW REVIEWWWWW!
I'm sorrry for the delay in the updates but my grandmother died a few days back and I've been going through quite a rough patch. This chapter had been written last week, so accept my sincerest apologies for making all of you wait.