Inuyasha Regashi
The enemy is: Meimei
Story is starting to pick up steam you guys! Hold on!
"Okay, so where is this Koga guy?" Meimei said to Byakuya, riding beside him on his paper crane.
"He is just up ahead. Do you think you can take Koga on? He is a full blooded wolf demon, you know?"
"I know I can beat him! Even if I don't, I know I can probably get whatever Koga took from him!"
"If you say so…" Byakuya breathed 'Naraku plans to let Koga critically injure this girl, and then he will finish her off. But I wonder why he took a bit of her blood?' he thought, glancing at Meimei's hand. "hmm, that's funny, the wound has not healed…"
The two looked up ahead and saw a whirlwind going ahead of them. "a whirlwind?" Meimei wondered aloud
"That's him!" Byakuya said. Byakuya steered the paper crane to stop in front of the whirlwind where it came to an abrupt stop.
"Byakuya! Why the visit?" Koga hissed.
"oh you know, the usual: take your jewel shards and leave you for dead. No more no less." Byakuya explained. "If you hand them over right now, it will cut the time in half and you can live. Heheh"
"you know the answer to that: HELL NO!" Koga shouted.
"please mr. wolf man! let us have your jewel shards! Mr. Naraku, my dear friend really wants them back! I really don't want to hurt you!" Meimei pleaded.
"And who the hell are you supposed to be? are you another one of naraku's detachments? You don't smell like him?" 'as a matter of fact, I cant smell her at all…!" Koga shouted
"My name isn't important! Now give me the jewel shards or I will have to hurt you!" Meimei warned, drawing out her chakrams.
"HAHAHAHAHAAAAA! You? Hurt ME? What are you stupid? A rabbit is scarier than you!" Koga roared with laughter.
"HEY! THAT'S NOT FUNNY!" Meimei shouted. Byakuya snickered. "that was a good one…."
"hey! Whose side are you on?" Meimei said turning to Byakuya. "ugggh! You boys think you know everything! Ill show you!" Meimei charged at Koga with more speed than he expected. She tried to cut him but he evaded her attack in the nick of time.
"oh, so you're serious? Well then, I won't go easy on you cause you're a little girl!" Koga warned.
"STOP JUDGING ME BECAUSE IM A GIRL!" Meimei charged at Koga again, with more intensity than before. Koga could only dodge her attacks. 'wow, she is pretty fast!' Meimei came at him again and again and again. She slashed left then right, upwards and downwards. "fine then, if I can't touch you, ill let my weapons do the work!" Meimei landed with a back flip and threw her chakrams at Koga. The two circular blades whizzed throught the air. He ducked and they managed to miss him. "heh! Your aim is terrible! Kid you should really go back home and—" he was cut off by a slice to the face and one to the leg.
"GAAAAHHH! You little…!"
"I told you! Don't underestimate me because I'm a girl! I'm stronger than you think!" Meimei said, catching her chakrams.
"heh, just because you hit me once, you think you've won?" Koga said wiping his face.
"Well, at least it lets me know that you arent invincible!" Meimei said.
"heheh, yeah well, im enough to beat you!" Koga charged at Meimei, attempting to deliver a sucker punch to the little girl. But she was all too swift. She backflipped out of the way of his melee of attacks. Meimei tried to slash him, but he evaded her attack as well.
'Wow. She's pretty good—for a kid.' Byakuya said, idly standing by. Then, behind him, came familiar voices.
"Hey Koga!"
"Boss, where are you?"
Appearing behind him, was Ginta, Hakkaku and the wolves. "whoa! Koga! What are you doing?" Hakkaku asked.
"Why are you fighting a little girl? Isnt that a little low?" Ginta said.
"SHUDDUP! SHE CAME AFTER ME!" Koga spat. Meimei nearly cut him once more, but again it was evaded.
"why does she want to fight you?" Hakkaku asked.
"she's in cahoots with Naraku! She wants my shikon shards!" Koga said.
"how can a puny little girl like her possibly think that she can get your shikon shards?"
"yeah if you ask me, she couldn't hurt a fly." Ginta said.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Meimei shouted at them. This moment of distraction provided koga with an opportunity to punch Meimei in the gut. "LESSON NUMBER ONE: NEVER TAKE YOUR EYES OFF OF YOUR OPPONENT!"
Meimei was in temporary shock over the pain of the blow. She slid back fifty feet away on all fours, but still mamaged to get up again. "what? That should have knocked you out!" Koga said confused.
"heh, I should've told you that I'm made of different stock. My father is a dog demon, and he is one of the strongest in this land. I'm not going to lose to a little mongrel like you!"
"dog demon, you say? No wonder why you're so weak!" Koga said. "you're just a pup! Why don't you go back home? I wonder why Naraku even wasted his time asking you to do his dirty work! He might as well send that half-wit Inuyasha to do it for him!"
"TO HELL WITH YOU!" Meimei shouted charging at him. Her body started to glow an eerie white glow. Koga sensed this and hesitated for a moment. 'wait, what is this? The aura around her isnt demonic like it was a moment ago, its….purified?' in that moment, Meimei was upon him and slashed him in the belly. Koga let out an agonizing cry as blood spurted out of his wound.
"KOGA!" the two wolf demons cried. Koga observed his wound closer and discovered that it was burning away. 'I'm—I'm—I'm being purified? By this little girl! What the hell is going on here?' Koga thought.
"heh! How do you like that?" Meimei said triumphantly.
"Don't get so cocky, kid. Just because you hit me in the abdomen, doesn't mean im not able to beat you down!" Koga said charging again at her. Meimei threw her chakrams at him once more, this time, the chakrams in a flash of light, multiplied into many disks of light. 'what the? They multiplied!' before he knew it, he was surrounded by them and they cut him all over. Blood flew everywhere as the disks continued to spin rapidly. Koga fell to his knees his face grimacing. "damn you, you little bitch!"
"okay, enough play time! Give the jewel shards and I won't have to hurt you anymore!" Meimei said.
"oh no! Koga is getting sliced and diced!" Ginta said
"Maybe she's not so wimpy after all! We need to get help—fast!" Hakkaku said.
"Let's go!" Ginta commanded.
The two wolf demons and their wolf companions ran away into the forest to look for help. Koga stayed kneeling grimacing at the pain in his wounds while Meimei stared him down.
….
The group was still running through the forest in search of Meimei. They had almost reached the middle of the forest when Itaru picked up Meimei's spiritual powers fluctuate.
"You guys! I can sense her! She's just up ahead!" Itaru announced.
"and that's not all, I smell blood—and that wimpy wolf!" Inuyasha said.
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"Koga is there too? You don't think…" Kagome began.
"If he lays a finger on her, I'm ripping his arm off and shoving it down his damn throat!" Inuyasha declared.
"I'm sure that he wouldn't harm a defenseless little girl like Meimei!" Miroku said.
"You don't know Meimei! She is impulsive and if she feels like she is in danger, she will try to protect herself. She may look really weak and harmless, but believe me, she is like a cat: you can poke fun at her all you want, but get on her bad side, its all over!" Itaru warned.
"I find that hard to believe. She is so sweet and gentle! She is more like a cute little kitten!" Shippo said.
"Well, if it turns out whoever she is fighting with is the one hurt, you'll think otherwise." Itaru reiterated.
"Inuyasha! Kagome! Help us!" came two voices headed their way.
"It's Ginta and Hakkaku!" said Kagome.
"You guys! You gotta help us! Koga is being beaten upby a little kid!"
"A little kid? They must mean Meimei!" Inuyasha said. "lead us to him!"
"Okay!" they both said.
…
Koga and Meimei were still battling it out, but Koga's movements were slower than usual. He was bleeding a lot faster then. Byakuya was still standing on the side, watching the scene before him 'wow, can this kid actually win? I don't think Naraku was expecting this!'
"I said you can give me the shikon jewel shards and I won't hurt you anymore! Why do you insist on fighting me?" Meimei said.
"because I'm not going to lose to a little runt like you, a half breed who doesn't know her place in the world!" he managed to punch her in the face and send her flying into a couple of trees. Meimei slowly got up and grinned, "what place? We all breathe the same air, walk on the same earth, drink the same water, what makes you think you're better than me?" Meimei charged again at a surprised Koga. 'how can she still have so much strength!"
"KOGA!" came a voice from the forest. 'them again…' thought Byakuya. 'and they brought Inuyasha and his group.'
"Oh, you're back. I thought you ran away. You sure are a bother." Byakuya said.
"Byakuya! What have you done with Meimei?" Inuyasha shouted.
"I didn't do anything to her." Byakuya said simply.
"it's obvious you did! Meimei wouldn't be fighting someone who she doesn't have anything against!" Inuyasha said.
"Oh its nothing. Naraku just asked her to do something for him. That's all. There is no need to make a fuss." Byakuya explained.
"Oh we're going to do more than fuss! In gonna rip your damn head off!" Inuyasha shouted. Koga turned to where Inuyasha and his group were. He spotted Kagome and rushed over to her side. "Kagome…lovely as ever. How have you been? I hope your dog hasn't been mistreating you…"
Both Inuyasha and Itaru growled and stood between Kagome and the wolf demon. "back off you!" Itaru commanded. "And who are you supposed to be? Another half breed pup?"
"What did you say?" Itaru said.
"Koga! What happened to you?" kagome asked. "That little pipsqueak over there is calling herself trying to fight me. But it's no matter. But if she tries to come after you, Kagome, ill put an end to her—"
"LESSON NUMBER ONE:NEVER TAKE YOUR EYES OFF OF YOUR OPPONENT!" shouted Meimei, kicking Koga in the face.
"You little….!"
"wait koga! Don't hurt her! She doesn't know what she is doing!" kagome pleaded.
"Kagome! Do you see what she did to me?" Koga said.
"she must have a good reason for doing this! Meimei, why are you trying to hurt Koga?"
"because, he stole something from my friend!" Meimei said.
"what? Your friend? Who is this friend of yours?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously.
"his name is Naraku, he is not who you think he is! He said that the Naraku you guys are looking for is a full blooded baboon demon, but he is a half demon just like me! all he wanted was a friend!"
"Meimei, you've got it all wrong! Naraku isn't concerned with being your friend, all he is concerned about is getting the shikon jewel completed! After he's done with you, he'll kill you!"
"What? You can't be serious!" Meimei said incredulously.
"it's true, Meimei! Believe me! he's the one that we are looking for " Itaru said winking.
"Is that true, Byakuya?" Meimei asked looking towards Byakuya.
"Well, I can't say it's not…" Byakuya said.
"you…you…you tricked me?" Meimei hissed.
"Nah ah ah, I didn't trick you: Naraku did." Byakuya corrected. Meimei growled at him and lunged at his floating figure. "how dare you!"
Far away, Naraku was watching the whole ordeal. He looked at his hand and in it was a little paper doll. "I knew that this would come in handy sooner or later." He said to himself. The thorn in the palm of his hand sank back into his hand, with Meimei's blood on it. the blood reappeared on narakus finger as he wrote on the paper doll. "now, be a good girl and do my bidding. Kill Koga, Inuyasha and the rest of his group.
Meimei was almost upon Byakuya, chakrams drawn and ready for battle, until a stabbing pain gripped her heart. She fell back onto the ground screaming.
"MEIMEI!" yelled. He ran over to his little sister, but she jumped away. "Meimei? What is it, sis? Whats wrong? Tell me!" Itaru pleaded. Meimei hunched over, still gripping her chakrams. Her silver bangs were covering her eyes.
"sis?"
Suddenly her chakrams flew from her hands and multiplied into many shining disks.
"WHOA! EVERYBODY! DUCK!" Itaru yelled.
The disks whizzed through the air towards the group. Inuyasha grabbed Kagome; Miroku, Sango and Shippo jumped on Kilala's back and jumped away. Koga, not having enough time to dodge, kicked the disk away. "Whoa! That was a close one!" Inuyasha said.
"what's happened to Meimei?" Shippo said, fear visibly gripping him.
"Meimei is not herself—look!' Miroku said pointing to the little girl. She lifted up her eyes to reveal eyes glazed over and pupiless."
"It looks like she is under some sort of spell! My only guess is that Naraku is behind this!"
"BYAKUYA! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY SISTER!" Itaru sshouted.
"Oh me? I haven't done a thing. I'm just here to observe and make sure Meimei does what she was told to do." Byakuya said.
"What do you mean, supposed to do?" Itaru asked.
"You will see soon enough!" Byakuya summoned vines out of the ground , trying to entrap the others. Inuyasha drew the testsusaiga and slashed away at the gigantic vines. But when the vines were cut, a thick poison miasma spewed from them. Inuyasha and Kagome covered their mouths. "damn! A miasma!"
"Don't cut them, Inuyasha! Those vines are full of naraku's miasma!" Miroku shouted.
"Well thanks, Mr. obvious!" Inuyasha said cynically as he grabbed Kagome and jumped away.
"If the vines are full of miasma, how are we supposed to get rid of them?" Sango said.
"Don't worry! Maybe I can purify them!" Kagome said, drawing an arrow to her bow. She released the arrow in a beam of white light. The vine was disintegrated and so was the miasma.
"got it!"
"good work, Kagome! Just keep firing those arrows and we'll be rid of them!" Inuyasha said.
"I can't destroy them all, I only have five arrows left!" Kagome informed.
"WHAT?"
Kagome looked at her five arrows in her quiver. "I'm sorry, Inuyasha."
"Well, miasma or not, its destroy or be destroyed!" Koga said kicking the vines in half, which spewed more miasma.
"Dammit, you stupid wolf! We'll all suffocate if you keep that up!" Inuyasha shouted.
"Yes, that's it. keep fighting. You won't be able to withstand the miasma. And when I have you trapped, Meimei can do the rest!"
"Meimei, speak to me! Meimei! It's me, big brother!" pleaded Itaru. His only answer was a disk whizz towards him, which he easily dodged.
"Meimei! Stop it! I know this isnt you! You don't want to hurt anyone! Please stop!"
Meimei charged at her brother, posed to strike. Itaru whipped out Sutasaiga and held her off;They were deadlocked.
"Meimei! Come on! you're stronger than this! You can beat this Naraku! You can!" Meimei gave no response, just staring blankly at him with soulless eyes.
She leapt away from her brother and behind him and slashed at him. Itaru deflected her shot. "Meimei!"
"Yes…that's it. Kill your brother…that's exactly what the shikon jewel needs : anger, fear and despair. Yes. Kill them. Kill them all!"
"Inuyasha! What are we going to do? We can't hurt Meimei and we can't even touch Byakuya!" Sango said.
"im trying to figure that out! Give me a minute, will you?" Inuyasha yelled, dodging another vine. "hye! Maybe my Wind Scar can work!" Inuyasha poised tetsusaiga in front of him. Demonic energy swirled around the blade as he raised the sword above his head. "WIND SCAR!" upon bringing the blade down to the ground, the vines disintegrated and so did the miasma. It continued toward Byakuya and surrounded him, seeming to engulf him
"You did it, Inuyasha!" Shippo cheered.
When the wind scar dispersed, Byakuya was still standing.
"Damn! I couldn't get him!" Inuyasha cursed. Suddenly, the vines emerged from the ground once again, engulfing him and stabbing him with razor sharp thorns.
"wh-wha-what is this?" Inuyasha shouted. He watched as the others were caught by the vines as well.
"aaaack! These thorns weren't here before!" Kagome screamed.
"hehehe. The more you try to destroy them, the more they evolve. If you keep destroying them, they will only evolve into demon plants that will devour you whole." Byakuya said.
"Meimei! Snap out of it! please! Everyone needs you!" Itaru tried as hard as he could to fight her off without hurting her.
Meimei tossed the chakrams and the disks of light again.
**"that's it…your friends will be cut into pieces by your own little sister's hand."**
The disks missed Itaru, but flew in the direction of Inuyasha and the others. "NOOOOO!"
They all screamed in pain as the disks sliced through them, blood flying in every direction.
'Meimei! You have to stop this, and it looks like im going to have to help you! Itaru charged at Meimei, ignoring the disks that whizzed towards him. For a tiny moment, Meimei regained her consciousness. She watched as her brother running at her with sutasaiga. 'wait, why has Itaru drawn the sutasaiga? Is something the matter? And why is he looking at me like that?'
Itaru leaped high into the air, sword raised and shouting a battle cry; suddenly, a big, thorny vine erupted out of the ground. It impaled Itaru in the abdomen, sending blood spurting from the wound. Itaru's eyes were wide in the shock of pain. In that instant, Meimei regained her consciousness, breaking the spell.
"OH NO…..!"
"ITARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Kagome screamed.
The Sutasaiga landed blade down in the dirt, the vine ripped itself violently out of Itaru's body; he dropped to the ground as if dead.
"NO! ITARU!" Meimei cried.
"heheh, this worked out perfectly. Thanks kid for your help! I'm sure Naraku will appreciate it! now get those shikon jewel shards!" Byakuya commanded.
Meimei stood there in shock of what just happened. She stared at her brother's lifeless body. Her mind tried to grasp the fact that her brother had been killed right before her very eyes; that Naraku tricked her into fighting Koga when he was the good guy. All she could feel was nothing. But then she felt a new feeling:
Rage.
"hey! Hurry up! I don't have all day here! Lets get Koga's jewel shards and get out of here!"
Suddenly, from inside the forest, an arrow was shot. It pierced the barrier and parts of it shattered.
"what the…?" Byakuya said.
**"hmm that pesky priestess again."**
"damn her! That could have killed me—" Byakuya sensed an intense concentration of demonic energy in Meimei's direction.
"what?"
"hey! Look at the girl!" Hakkaku said.
"shes radiating a tremendous amount of demonic energy!" said Ginta.
"whoa! Im sensing an enormous amount of demonic energy!" Miroku said wincing at his cuts.
"its coming from Meimei!" Kagome said.
"you insufferable, mother fucking bastard. You kidnapped me and brought me to that Naraku, he takes over mind and make me hurt my friends and my family…." Meimei growled.
The aura around Meimei intensified.
"oh no, whats going on?" Sango said.
"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOUUUUUUU!"
A massive explosion of heat erupted from the small girl. It burned almost everything in its wake.
"THIS HEAT!" Miroku exclaimed.
"ITS PURE DEMONIC ENERGY!" said Inuyasha.
The rest of the group screamed in the intense heat. Byakuya shielded himself from the blinding light. "Wha-whats happening!"
What followed the intense heat was even worse than the heat itself. Pure energy and light. Purified energy that pierced through byakuya's barrier. The light punctured holes in him and pulverized his body. When it hit Shippo, Kilala, Koga, Ginta and Hakkaku, they all screeched in pain of the purifying light. Hitting Inuyasha's body, he reverted to his human form; his demonic features disintegrating in a flurry of sparkles.
Itaru woke up to the noise and saw before him, his little sister engulfed in an unearthly light. Her eyes were blank as she screeched a blood curdling scream. The hair ties that held her hair together burned away, releasing the long silvery locks of hair into the vortex of energy. Itaru struggled to get up and ran toward his little sister in attempt to stop her.
"MEIMEI!"
The hair tie that held his hair in the small ponytail burned as well, his ebony strands blowing straight behind him. His demonic features disappeared as well. He tackled his little sister and used his own spiritual powers to bring her down. There was an additional explosion that emitted a blue light. The gang screamed even more and the vines that held them were destroyed. Koga and the wolf demon tribe were blown away. The rest of the group was blown into the forest, Inuyasha at the last moment grabbed onto a tree branch and caught Kagome and Shippo as well. Miroku and Sango did the same, holding on for dear life for the explosion to subside.
When the blast finally did subside, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Kagome climbed down from the trees. They surveyed the damage in the wake of the blast. Trees were flattened and grass was nonexistent. There was a gigantic crater where the brunt of the explosion was. In the middle, was Itaru and Meimei on the ground atop of each other.
"NO!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"Meimei! Itaru!" Kagome cried. They ran towards the two unconscious children, Sango holding Shippo and Kilala who were also unconscious. Kagome bent down to check the two children. Their clothes were torn and there was blood soaking through Itaru's clothes. Kagome checked their pulses, while Miroku looked around them in awe. 'such power….from such a young girl! How could this be?'
'Everything is destroyed. My body has returned to its human form. And Shippo and Kilala are unconscious! Could this be what Naraku was after all along?' Inuyasha thought.
'I've never seen anything like this before! How in the world could a half demon child create such a blow?' Sango thought. She looked up to the sky. 'Well, Byakuya is gone. And I'm sure that Naraku has felt it too.'
"you guys…!" Kagome began. The three adults looked her way. "They're…they're not breathing!"
….
Deep in naraku's lair, he watched the scene unfold before him, still holding the little paper doll scribbled with Meimei's blood. 'Excellent, this power will be mine and Inuyasha nor Sesshomaru nor Kikyo will be able to stop me!' suddenly, the blood scribbles on the paper doll glowed red, then white. The paper doll burned to nothing, leaving Naraku confused. Naraku's body was ripped to shreds inside of his barrier and left only his head floating.
'What the-!'
Byakuya appeared in front of him in bits and pieces. Byakuya stared right at him saying, "sorry Naraku. She's dumb, but she sure isn't weak!"
OH YEAH BABY! WOOOOOOO! I GOT AN ADRENALINE RUSH WRITING THAT ONE! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!