p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"The forest is dark even with the sun up high in the sky. Crowded by trees and bushes that casts heavy shade down on us. I've sensed the jewel a while back and we've been following it ever since. We got a lead on a demon bear that attacked a village, and came to the conclusion that it must have a shard. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It's through here," I point off in the distance further in the woods. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"We're tracking a demon bear?" Inuyasha asks. He wasn't in on the conversation we had with the villagers, but instead was sniffing out the culprit of the destruction. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Yes, it attacked a village apparently. It started out as just a mischievous cub, but suddenly it grew huge and violent," Miroku replies. "Inuyasha, you seem displeased." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanI glance over my shoulder at Inuyasha who's head is bowed, arms are crossed, and who wears a frown. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What an understatement! Why am I on a bear hunt when I could be hunting down a wolf?" Inuyasha huffs. "We already know that Koga has two shards jammed into his skinny little hairy legs. I'd feel more like fighting if I smelled the reek of wolf on this mountain."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"So in other words, your first priority right now is butchering Koga?" Miroku asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"He's his rival in love!" Shippo says from on top of Miroku's style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThis provokes Inuyasha to slam his fist into the little fox demon's head, a wound swells up where Inuyasha's fist makes contact. The little fox demon falls to the ground, steaming with anger as he rubs his head. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Why'd you do that?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanMiroku kneels to Shippo. "Shippo, if you bug Inuyasha you'll only feel his fist."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThere is rustling coming from a large bush nearby, that gains all of our attention. Out walks four poorly dressed thieves. All their heads are half shaved, hair dangling in ponytails in the back. They all carry weak looking swords they must have stolen or plundered from the dead. They chuckle as they approach, grins on their faces. Oblivious to the world of hurt they will get if they continue./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"They're just ordinary thieves," Miroku says, shaking his head./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Hey! Who you callin' 'ordinary'," one says. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Looks like ya ain't got no money. Just leave us the women and we'll call it even!" Another says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanI shudder at the very thought of their grimy hands on my body. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Do you know what? I don't want to waste anymore of my time, so if you don't want to get hurt, ya better leave!" Inuyasha scoffs. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe thieves all growl, thrusting their blades in front of them aimlessly. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What did you say?" one responds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThere is a shift in the atmosphere, and the feeling I got for the shard, is quickly approaching. span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"There shard is coming this way," I say loud enough for my entire group to hear. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanSango steps forward, putting the Hiraikotsu in front of me to keep me from harms way. Just as she does, a loud roar echoes throughout the mountains. The bear demon might be bigger than we thought. Out from the forest ahead of us, lifting its head out of the tree tops, is a massive gray bear with red eyes. It thrusts its paws down at the trees, breaking one and sending it flying into the thieves who try to run. Another tree comes flying at us./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanSango throw the Hiraikotsu at the coming greenery and breaks it in half, forcing the two halves to fall at either side of us. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanOn the front of its forehead glows the brilliant light of a shard. It calls to me, beckoning me to retrieve it./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"The shard is in his forehead!" I announce, pointing up at the shard even though it seems like a mile away. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanInuyasha chuckles to himself, grabbing Tetsusaiga and readying to rush forward. "He might be huge, but he's got the brain of a bush pig!" He runs several feet, leaping into the air and swings at the beast whose head follows the blade to its right./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanInuyasha lands off in the distance, I can't even see his face, he's so far away. But, between the bear and us as a group, appears a dark purple hole in the sky. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanSaimyosho, the bees that Naraku control, come swarming out of the purple hole and fly at the bear. They overcome his face, and the bear roars in pain and anger. The beast shakes its head to avoid the stinging bees but it doesn't help. A Saimyosho plucks the shard out from the bear's forehead./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanInuyasha lands down beside us, his eyes on the bear that disintegrates in front of us. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"They took the jewel shard," Inuyasha growls./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe bees continue to swarm the bear until it falls on its side and dissipates to nothing but bone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe bees fly back up to the sky, surrounding the one that carries the shard./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Is it a trap?" Miroku asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Probably," Sango answers./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Fine with me! And this time Naraku won't manage to escape!"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"We follow the Saimyosho to a castle that looms darkly in the midst of shadows. It's night by now, but the clouds are significant with rays of purples instead of blues and black. The closer we get to the castle, the more I can smell the horrible scent of death. The walls surrounding the castle are high and we have to trudge up a hill to get to a double wooden door. Inuyasha arrives at it first, he swings his right arm back and thrusts into the wood. The wood trembles and explodes, splintering everywhere and revealing a graveyard of dead bodies amongst the courtyard. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe bodies look familiar, the outfits reminding me quickly of Koga and his clan, but I don't see anyone familiar. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Are they of the demon wolf tribe?" Sango asks. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanUp ahead, is the largest building of the castle. Its doors are gone and wooden stakes spike out of the engawa (edging strip surrounding the building.)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe wind picks up, brushing across the field of dead and picking up dust and dirt as it passes through us. I shiver. The smell of the dead reaches me and coils my stomach. I should be used to this by now but I still find times when I am weak to the carnage and dead of this time period. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe bodies on the ground shiver and shake, and then lifts from the ground like dangling puppets. This reminds me of the time with Yura of the Hair – how her strings of hair controlled the dead but this time, there are no trees for hair to hold onto. So, what's controlling them?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Impossible! They're still alive!" Miroku says in complete surprise./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I don't think they are alive," I mutter loud enough for him to hear. "We've seen this before. They are puppets." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What? Puppets?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe dangling men turn towards us, away from the castle's main building, some have weapons glued to their hands. They make groaning noises as they rush at us. Up close I can see there is no pupils in their eyes, just pure white. We get in a position ready to fight, all of our weapons in our hands and once they reach us we all swing and slash, bludgeoning and tearing into their dead flesh but even as they fall, they get back up. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanWhile we fight we become separated. Inuyasha is closer to the building and is fighting off most of the horde. I stand in the center, earning the least attention from the dead but still ripping through a few stragglers. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanAnd just like that, they stop moving and rise into the sky, their limbs dangling lifelessly as they reach high above us. Their bodies turn, facing Inuyasha and come flying down at him. Inuyasha blocks his face with his arm as the bodies pumble him but he doesn't break, he keeps standing still. They pull away only inches from his body and explode as if they been slashed into by a massive weapon. Blood and gore spits everywhere, drenching Inuyasha in their death as the bodies fall back onto the ground lifelessly./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I don't get it, why are they collapsing?" Miroku asks, glancing at me as if I know the answer. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It's him! Inuyasha!" A familiar voice shouts from somewhere behind us. I glance over my shoulder to see Koga standing on top of the castle main entrance, his eyes in bewilderment as he examines the battlefield of men who were probably his allies. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It's Koga of the wolf tribe!" Inuyasha announces the wolf demon's presence. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Inuyasha, how dare you do this?" Koga's face is full of contempt and surprise. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Don't jump to conclusions. Your pals here were already dead by the time I got to the castle!" Inuyasha replies, he looks down at his hands, dripping with the dead's blood./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Shut up! Don't lie! You're covered head to foot in their blood!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanI look around the battlefield, now realizing that the dead stopped fighting just as Koga arrived. He didn't see the fight, he doesn't know. This is a set up./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Koga! This is how they were when we arrived! They were already dead and became puppets that attacked us! They just now exploded and collapsed, Inuyasha had nothing to do with this!" I yell style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Keara? Don't even try protecting that cur! Already dead when you got here? How stupid do you think I am, you bloodthirsty mutt?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"We were set up by Naraku," Miroku mumbles. "It was his poison insects that led us here in the first place. The demon wolf tribes were somehow enticed here too and they were quickly slaughtered." /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Koga rushed to their rescue and arrived just in time to find Inuyasha covered in his comrades' blood," Sango finishes their realization. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThis isn't good. Koga won't come to reason. He doesn't want to believe Inuyasha is innocent. If I don't stop them, they'll fight till death. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanKoga leaps off the gateway, pulling his right arm back, his hand forming into a fist as he comes at Inuyasha. Inuyasha leaps back just in time for Koga to slam his fist into the ground before him. Rocks and pebbles go flying from the impact but the impact is stronger than we realize. A shock wave pulses from the ground and sends Inuyasha flying back, splitting the earth as long as it goes on. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanA sparkle glitters from his arm just then and I see that a shard of the Shikon No Tama is in his right arm, giving him extra power and strength. But there is something different about this shard, it's not glowing purple or pink, it's shining near black./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I see you've managed to find another jewel shard for your arm!" Inuyasha says from a distance away. He appears unharmed, probably having leapt far enough away from the shockwave to avoid it. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You stole my original jewel shard the last time we met. But I warn you, this new one's even better!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanKoga rushes at Inuyasha again, using the same arm to wing at him multiple times and each time Inuyasha avoids the attack./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Stop! Inuyasha didn't kill your friends! You need to realize this!" I demand. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Shut up! I believe what I see with my own eyes!" Koga halts his movement just to look back at me, anger changing his face to one of vengeance. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"He's got a block of wood for a brain, so he can't grasp anything too complicated. All he understands is a few punches in the head!" Inuyasha snarls. "The demon wolf tribes live in packs and they cherish their comrades like family. Seeing so many of his brothers' dead all at once would make him insane with grief!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I thought he would listen to you, Keara. But I was wrong. He's too far gone," Miroku says./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanInuyasha looks over at the main building, I can just barely see his eyes squint as if he's realizing something and this angers Koga further. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Pay attention!" Koga orders. "What are you lookin' at?" Koga runs at him again at top speed but Inuyasha is just as fast and jumps out of the way of the incoming attack. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Should we help?" Sango asks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Inuyasha came here looking for Naraku, do you think…" Miroku starts./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Naraku's inside the castle?" Sango finishes. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Charging into the enemy's trap is generally unwise…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanSango steps back, pulling her massive boomerang behind her. "We don't have a choice!" She shouts, as she steps forward and slings her weapon at the building. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanMiroku and Sango don't wait for impact, they run after the weapon, entering the building and disappearing from my sight leaving me standing with Kirara and Shippo at my side and the two men fighting in the distance. /span/p