The imposing youki returned as the beast launched himself at Naraku, their bodies blurring as jaws snapped, and claws swiped. Kagome tried to concentrate, tried to stay focused, but her mind was spinning.
Twin flames were a myth. Or at least so rare that they'd become one.
"Hell no! We're not going anywhere!" Kagura stood straighter, glaring as Naraku landed a blow on the beast's shoulder before being shoved away by his back leg.
"Why can't I hear him?" Kagome asked, latching onto something tangible. "Did he talk to you before?"
Kagura shook her head. "This is the first time. It makes me wonder if Mama wasn't actually talking to herself all those nights, though."
"There's no way she'd keep something like that from us." But even as she said it, every instance of their mother somehow knowing he wouldn't harm them or what he was up to ran through her mind, and she faltered.
What the hell was going on?
"Do you think you can get a barrier around him?" her sister asked. "It might give us enough of an opening to—" The beast howled as tentacles pierced his left leg, miasma bubbling around the wound. Kagome instinctively scrambled out into the open, her final arrow flying up to separate them, and the beast crashed to the ground.
Naraku's eyes narrowed. "Enough of this foolishness. I am done playing." His appendages struck the ground, cutting off some of the beast's fur as he caged them both in. Kagome realized her mistake too late, helplessly raising her hands before being shoved out of the way, Kagura taking her place.
And the brunt of Naraku's attack.