Chapter 4: Meeting the Gang
I rose my hand up cracking my knuckles, "let's do this" I ran towards her and swiped at her, but she dodged my claws. She had jumped back and rose her fan in the air.
"Dance of Blades!" She yelled as she swung her fan in my direction. Gusts of air and light beams raced towards me. My eyes widened. Quickly I tried to dodge each one. Some hit the barrier behind me, some hit the ground causing dirt particles to rise thus causing it to hinder my vision. A couple blades hit my left arm and my right thigh thrusting me backwards. My feet slid across the ground, I bent down and used my right hand to dig into the ground and keep my balance. Once I stopped sliding I straightened my posture.
"Tch, is that all you got?" I teased. I ran at her again. This time I stuck my claws into my open wound on my arm and then pointed the tips of my claws towards her, "Bullets of Blood!" I yelled. My blood shot at her in little pellets. Her facial expression changed from serious to surprise. Some of the pellets ripped through her clothing, but none of them grazed her skin. While she was distracted I jumped and landed behind her and slashed her back. She got pushed forward and then jumped away from me.
"That's as close as I'll let you get to me, wench!" She yelled. "Dance of Blades!" More beams of light shot at me. I quickly unsheathed my sword and used it to block them. Trees fell down behind me.
I looked behind me and felt slight fear. That's what will happen to me?! I turned my attention back to Kagura. "You must be quite useless without your fan, Kagura!" I taunted her. "Let me get rid of that for you!" I rose my katana into the air and the sky started to get dark. Thunder started to clash, and the sky would glow every couple of seconds from the lightning starting to form. I pointed towards her with my katana and lightning struck the ground beside me, then started to move towards Kagura with an intense speed.
Her eyes widened, and she swayed her fan in front of her once again, "Dance of Dragons!" She yelled, and gusts of wind spiraled into multiple tornados. It slightly changed the direction of my lightning bolt, but not enough to completely miss her. A lot of her clothing got torn, and her left arm got badly burnt. One of the tornados got to me and hit me, cutting me in multiple places and throwing me backwards into a tree. "Dance of Dragons!"
Oh no! It was too late. It all happened so fast. When my back hit the tree, it knocked the wind out of me. Then the blades of light hit into my stomach, both my arms, my thigh once again, and my cheek. I-I'm losing too much… My vision started going out. Blood… I blacked out.
"Damn that Naraku!" Kagura growled. She walked up to the girl slumped over against the tree. "Is he trying to get me killed?" She examined the features of this girl. "She seems strong. It was only by luck that she let her guard down for a second…" Kagura took a small feather out of her hair and threw it downwards. Gusts of wind formed, and she was sitting on top of the feather. She flew a safe distance away so that she could keep an eye on Kasumi from afar.
"Nnnhhnn" I groaned as I slowly fluttered my eyes open. I tried to sit up, but pain shot through me. "Ahhkkk!" I screamed and fell back to my laying position. A girl ran into wherever I was located.
"Please, rest." She said. She sat beside me and put a warm rag on my forehead.
I grabbed her wrist, "Where am… I?" I managed to mutter out.
"We're in a village. This is Kaede's hut. You're safe." She assured me.
"I will be fine soon. I just need a little time to rest." I let go of her wrist.
She stood up and walked out of the hut. I was left alone. I could over-hear talking.
"We shouldn't have brought her here!" I heard a male voice.
"We had to! She was badly hurt because of Kagura!" That sounded like the same girl that was in here with me.
"I don't care, Kagome! She is of the Antler tribe! They are not a tribe to mess with." The same male voice growled.
"Awwh are you scared, Inuyasha?" teased what sounded like a small male child. Hearing that name made my eyes shoot open.
Inuyasha! I growled and jolted to my feet, racing outside, and ignoring any pain I was in. I scanned the group in front of me. There was a female with black hair that reached just below her shoulders, brown eyes, wearing a green skirt, and a long-sleeve shirt with a red tie. She wore white socks that reach almost to her knees, and brown shoes. Such an odd way to dress. The other girl was carrying a huge boomerang on her back that was taller than her. She had black hair that reached down to her lower back, and brown eyes. The bottom portion of it tied together. She wore a light pink, mixed with dark pink kimono, and a green over skirt, with sandals. Next was a male, he has very short black hair tied in a tiny pony tail, blue eyes, two gold earrings in each ear, wearing two kimonos, one black and one purple, his right hand is covered in a purple cloth with blue beads tied around it. There was a small child, he smelled of a fox demon. He had little fox feet, normal hands, and a fox tail. He has short orangish-brown hair tied back with a blue ribbon. He has green eyes, and elven ears. He wore a blue hanjuban that has leaf designs on it, a brown fur over-jacket, and dark blue sashinuki. A small feline demon with two tails was standing beside the little guy. This feline was a beige color and had black marks on its feet, face, and tips of its tails. I turned my attention to the silver-haired dog demon that I saw at my village and started to growl lowly.
The girl dressed oddly ran up to me and put one hand on my shoulder and the other on my upper back, "you shouldn't be moving yet!" concern came off her voice.
"Who are all of you?" I questioned through my teeth.
"I'm Kagome, that's Sango…" She pointed to the girl with the boomerang, "Miroku…" she pointed to the man in purple, "Shippo…" she pointed to the fox demon, "Kilala" she pointed to the feline, "and Inuyasha" she pointed to the dog demon who then crossed his arms and looked elsewhere making a humph noise.
"You! Mutt!" I called out.
He turned with a very pissed off expression. "What did you just call me?!" He yelled and cracked his knuckles.
"You heard me. I called you a mutt! You wreak of half-demon!" I scoffed.
"Why you little-" he started to say but was cut off by Kagome.
"Inuyasha, SIT!" She yelled, and the Beads of Subjugation had shined purple and forced his face to the ground. "Sorry about that" she turned to me and waved her hand up and down, her eyes closed as she laughed.
I rose an eyebrow, "that mutt destroyed my village a couple of days ago!" I yelled and backed away from Kagome.
She stopped laughing and looked shocked, "how? He's been with us the entire time!"
"That is impossible! I saw him with my own eyes!" I started to wonder if what I saw was truly Inuyasha. I mean, I never picked up a scent, but I know what I saw!
The male, Miroku, stepped up, "Lady Kasumi, that is your name, right?"
I sighed, extremely irritated. Just how many people know of me?! I nodded. "What of it?" I demanded.
"Did anyone else happen to show up after your village was destroyed?" Miroku asked.
"W-well yes."
"What was their name?"
I tilted my head. My ears twitched up once then back down as I put my index finger to my lips and looked up to the sky. "His name was… Naraku"