InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Shards Of Hope ❯ Will They Never Learn? ( Chapter 11 )

Disclaimer: Since I obviously don't own the copyright to Teen Titans or Inuyasha, I'm taking advantage of the Fair Use Clause of the Copyright laws to write a story with them in it. Who knew the government would protect the little guys? Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

 

Author's Note: All thanks goes to EmaniaHilel for this chapter. She edited it more than anyone else, as two of my editors are still MIA and a third has been ill as of late. I think she deserves a hand for helping me with this chapter. I thank you all for your patience and appreciate the reviews. Enjoy!

 

Chapter 11: Will They Never Learn?

 

With both Slade and the woman gone, Robin suddenly found himself running headlong into Inuyasha. Despite his incredible skills, the boy wonder still couldn't dodge in time and he slammed into Inuyasha, causing them both to stumble back a few steps and fall down. They were both up in an instant, pointing fingers at each other.

“Watch where you're going!” Inuyasha growled.

“What are you doing here?” Robin snapped back, anger starting to rise in his voice, “You let them get away!”

“I did not!” Inuyasha shouted back, “You did!”

Cyborg kneeled next to Beast Boy, watching the spectacle, Robin and the demon were bickering, pointing fingers, and both of their faces were beginning to turn red. Beast Boy groaned a little, clutching his stomach. Cyborg was briefly drawn away, looking down at his friend; one of his shoulders was cut up. Cyborg clasped the uninjured shoulder, looking at the gash on the other, “Are you ok?”

Beast Boy looked up, winced, touched his bleeding shoulder gingerly, and nodded. Cyborg smiled and ruffled his hair a little, “Don't worry, we'll get you patched up in no time.”

More shouts, louder and angrier, drew Cyborg's attention away from his friend. “Do you think they'll kill me if I get between them?”

Beast Boy looked over at them, winced again, and nodded. Cyborg sighed; this wasn't going to be easy.

“You're just getting in my way!” Inuyasha snapped, his clawed finger perilously close to Robin's nose.

Robin opened his mouth to speak, but Cyborg got between them and interjected, “ENOUGH!” His shout was loud enough to steady both of them and he turned to Robin, “Come on man, this isn't how you should be acting…” Robin scowled, and Cyborg twisted his head to face Inuyasha, “And YOU, you can't understand a word I'm saying but you need to chill out too! Waving a sword around like that is dangerous man!”

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and looked to Robin for translation. Robin just shook his head and turned away in disgust, both of himself and the demon.

“Robin?” Starfire's somewhat cheery voice rang out and Robin looked around, finding her walking up the flight of steps to the temple courtyard. The oddly dressed man and woman followed beside her, a giant…

Robin's eyes widened, “STARFIRE!” He shouted and she smiled, completely unaware of the massive saber tooth cat behind her. “WATCH OUT!” He yelled and took off towards them, Bo staff in hand and prepared to deal with yet another threat.

Starfire blinked a few times, watching him with a bit of confusion, finally turning around only to find the people's pet behind her. It looked at her with its big red eyes and she smiled, caressing its head for a moment, it made an almost purring sound that reminded her of one of the animals on her planet.

Robin slowed to a halt watching the scene, then slapped his forehead, “Please… please tell me you did not get another pet, it looks dangerous Star, it'll scare people.”

Starfire smiled, and flames enveloped the sabertooth cat, allowing Kilala to return to her smaller form. The titans, Starfire excluded, stared in shock, while Starfire quickly lifted Kilala and hugged the poor demon cat halfway to death again, murmuring how cute the cat was. Sango let out a breath, walked over to Starfire and smiled, reaching out for Kilala. Starfire frowned but let go, and Kilala quickly ran up Sango's arm and perched on her shoulder, safely away from Starfire's strangling embrace.

“Ok… that… was odd.” Cyborg mumbled, looking at the now miniature… thing that sat on the woman's shoulder.

Beast Boy nodded dumbly, then clicked his fingers together, an idea forming in his head, “Dude… I wonder if I can do that.”

 

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Raven sat silently, watching the door for a while after Robin had ran after Cyborg. Kagome was quiet as well, unsure of what to say or how to say it.

“I know more than I said I knew,” Raven finally said quietly. Kagome looked at her, but Raven hadn't turned to face her. She was still looking away, her cowl was up and her face hidden from Kagome.

“What… do you know?” Kagome queried almost reluctantly.

“I know I have never wanted someone to be wrong so much as I do now.” Raven turned to look at the confused girl.

“But… why?” Kagome stammered, watching Raven's piercing amethyst eyes.

“Because, if you're telling the truth, and the chakra jewel is truly a shard of the Sacred Jewel, fate itself is mocking me.” Raven's hand moved slowly up to her forehead and she took out the chakra jewel.

The back of the jewel had blood on it, and Kagome realized it had been pierced into Raven's forehead.

For a moment Raven quivered, as if she had just been drained of power. “How can you prove this is a sacred jewel shard?” She asked, holding the red stone in her hand.

Kagome stared at it. It was much larger than a single jewel shard, almost as if three jewels had been conjoined, but more important than that was such a deep red color. She had never seen it like that before… “All I have to do… is touch it.”

Raven walked over to Kagome and placed the jewel down on the table next to her. Even with the cowl up, Kagome could see the small trickle of blood coming from the gash in Raven's forehead where she had taken the jewel. Raven watched the jewel intently, a mixture of fear, hope, and hatred running through her. Kagome tore her eyes away from Raven and slowly reached out, lightly touching it. There was a glimmer and the dark color of the jewel faded away, turning into a vaguely pink color.

There was absolute silence for a moment, and then Raven snatched the jewel shard from the table. Kagome got to her feet, but Raven was already walking out the door.

 

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Kagura found herself stuck in a tornado of flames whipping around and biting at her. Screams, horrified screams echoed just above the crackle of the firestorm that surrounded her. A hand made of flame reached out and grabbed at her, followed by several others. Terror gripped Kagura as she realized they were trying to drag her into the hellish nightmare that surrounded her. One of the fiery hands finally grabbed her wrist. She tried to pull away but it was too strong and with a sudden wrench it dragged her through the wall of fire.

Reality went black for a moment and Kagura opened her eyes with a bit of fear of what she would find. Slade was hovering over her and she tried to scramble away, but found her hand still held by his. She gawked for a moment, and then tried to pull away again.

“Let go of me!” She growled out and tugged again, but this time he released his hold, and she felt herself roll over. She was mere inches from rolling into lava when Slade grabbed her injured shoulder. Kagura was pulled from the ground from behind, wrenching her sore limbs in a way that made her bite down on her lower lip to keep from yelling out.

Slade forcibly turned her around and she stared at a large stone, finding flames spread across it creating some sort of symbol.

“Who are you?” A completely unnatural and guttural voice echoed forth from the flaming rock.

And somehow Kagura knew this wasn't going to be a good day.

 

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Robin walked into the main lobby of the United States Embassy, followed by Beast Boy. Sango was keeping a close guard on Miroku, placing Inuyasha between herself and the lecher. Inuyasha was scowling at the masked idiot boy in front of him. Sango had an entirely different problem, as Beast Boy had been walking backwards, watching Kilala intently and changing forms every so often in an effort to look like her. Instead, he kept looking more and more like a fox and leaving Sango certain he was a Kistune. Kilala looked at the fox that was Beast Boy and chirped, watching him change back again. Behind all of them was Starfire and Cyborg, both keeping watch, and in Cyborg's case, keeping an eye on the demon.

Robin's face was furrowed, Slade had, once again, gotten away from him, taking a Japanese woman with him. Regardless of whether she had attacked Beast Boy or not, she was in danger. It had been that demon's fault. Barring his path had prevented him from catching Slade. To put it lightly, it had not been a good day for Robin and the fact he turned and glared at Inuyasha every so often made it obvious to the other Titans as well.

Inuyasha stopped catching Robin, once again, glaring at him. Inuyasha growled and, fist forward, commenced yelling at him, “What the hell are you staring at me for?”

Robin stopped and the lobby was filled with an uneasy silence. Robin's eyes narrowed at Inuyasha who was glaring right back at him. Miroku and Sango leaned forward and exchanged worried glances. Cyborg winced noticeably, while Beast Boy returned to his human form.

Starfire swallowed uncomfortably, “Friends… let us not…”

“We're not friends.” It seemed that Robin and Inuyasha echoed the same sentiment at the same time, which seemed to only make their mutual anger grow. Robin's hand lowered to his belt and Inuyasha's hand seemed to go for his blade when a very familiar and very loud voice called out an all too familiar and painful word.

“Inuyasha. SIT!” Kagome shouted and Inuyasha hit the floor with an audible thud, making a small crack in the stone floor.

Kagome was already beside Inuyasha, staring down at him, “Just what did you think you were doing?”

“Kagome…” Inuyasha began, beginning to push himself from the floor.

“SIT!” She shouted again, and he slammed back into the floor.

Robin watched the girl, unsure how to respond. That is, until she turned and faced him, face flushed.

Not for the first time that day, Robin found a finger pointed at him, perilously close to his nose, “And you! You're no better than he is!”

Robin held up a hand, cutting Kagome off before she truly got started, “Where's Raven?”