InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Through your Heart ❯ WAR- In the middle of it ( Chapter 20 )

……………………& #8230;………………………

Through your Heart

Chapter 20: WAR-In the middle of it

……………………& #8230;………………………… ;…………………………R 30;…………………………&# 8230;…

Arrows kept flying away to kill anything that crossed their paths. When Kagura almost got hit by one of them in the sky, she tried to search from where they were being fired. When she spotted the Kagome girl InuYasha was always traveling with, her eyes narrowed. But then she saw the mysterious blonde girl she had talked to in the forest and her red eyes widened slightly in recognition.

'So she had a couple more tricks up her sleeve…Is she a miko too, to fire arrows like this?' She looked around carefully and when she spotted her creator, fighting away from her enough, she decided it was time to pay them a visit.

Kagome gasped and the evil youkai surrounding them backed away as Kagura descended from the sky, her feather disappearing in the process. She waved her fan carelessly but still held a firm position, showing that she would attack at any careless move. "So we meet again." Kagura finally spoke up, but Kagome was baffled that the wind demoness was talking to Usagi and not her.

"Kagura." Usagi nodded to her as a sign of recognition.

"Usagi-chan, you know Kagura?" The miko asked, still wary of Kagura's presence. Her blonde friend only nodded and let her bow disappear. It wouldn't be very effective if Kagura tried something.

The wind demoness opened her fan wider, prepared for battle. Usagi tensed and put a hand in front of Kagome, preventing her to shoot an arrow, to the miko's surprise. "Kagura, why are you doing this? I can see you don't want to do this as much as I. Why not stop this now?" The rabbit asked, but Kagura only sneered.

"You are mistaking my act from back then. It's not because I saved Kohaku that I'm good! And anyway, why I do this is none of your business! You wouldn't understand anyway." The demoness muttered.

Usagi relaxed slightly and gazed at her with unreadable eyes. "What wouldn't I be able to understand, Kagura? Is it the fact that you are being controlled?"

Kagura stepped back in surprise but quickly recovered. "How do you… Never mind how you know this. All I want is my heart back so I can be free, and if I'm good enough, Naraku will give it back! That's all there is to it! DANCE OF BLADES!" Kagura shouted, waving her fan in a big sweeping motion.

Usagi tensed again and took Kagome in her arms, jumping away from the deadly attack. "Kagome, stay on the side."

Kagome nodded, too shaken up to say anything. As Usagi turned around, the miko felt a familiar power. She looked on the left side of the crowd and gasped as a light, just like the one of her own purifying arrow, lit the sky where InuYasha was presently fighting. 'Oh God, no! Not Kikyou!' The miko glanced at Usagi momentarily and ran away in the thick crowd in InuYasha's direction.

Usagi turned around as she felt something move behind her. "Kagome no! Don't go there!" She shouted, but it was already too late; her black haired friend was already gone. 'Be careful, Kagome-chan…'

Usagi gasped as an attack from Kagura whizzed by her. "I'm your opponent! If your attention keeps getting diverted, then you won't last long!" Kagura sneered.

Usagi shook her head in reprimand but decided to fight her anyway, if it was what the demoness wanted. "Kagura, before we start hurling attacks at each other I should warn you; I was the one who deflected your attack (chapter 8), not Kagome."

The demoness' mouth opened and closed, but no words got out. "You…! DANCE OF BLADES!"

Usagi side-stepped it and smirked as the attack killed several enemy youkai. Kagura didn't seem to care as she assaulted Usagi again. The rabbit had to come to a fast decision. "SPACE SWORD! BLASTER!" The attack of Kagura got cut in the middle, the 2 halves crashing beside her.

Usagi leveled Uranus' sword at the ready menacingly. "Stop this foolishness, Kagura! I don't want to do this! There are other ways to free you!" The blonde pleaded, but Kagura was so confused and pissed that a simple human could deflect her attacks so easily that she lost all reason.

With a mighty and enraged cry, she started to shower Usagi with her Dance of Blades, not letting the blonde take a break. Usagi countered her attacks blow by blow.

...................

Kagome ran and ran, dodging countless attacks with a frightened yelp, but with determination written in her eyes. She shot several arrows to help the good side and the youkai nodded at her thankfully.

She almost got hit by one of Naraku's henchmen and closed her eyes tightly but when she reopened them, the evil youkai was dead at her feet, Kouga standing warily over it. "You okay, Kagome? What are you doing all alone here?" He asked worriedly.

Kouga had been injured, but he wasn't showing any signs of fatigue just yet. Kagome ran into him and clutched at his armor. "KOUGA-KUN!"

The urgency and despair in her voice made him regain his seriousness. "Calm down Kagome. What's wrong?" He petted her hair gently but she shook his hand away.

"Please Kouga-kun! You have to help me get to the left sideline! InuYasha's in trouble, I can feel it!" The miko looked so on the verge of crying that Kouga didn't grumble about the hanyou.

Instead, he took Kagome in his arms and asked her to hold tight, since he still had his 2 jewel shards. "Thank you so much, Kouga-kun! You don't know what this means to me!"

Kouga grumbled something under his breath that sounded suspiciously like "I know I'm going to regret this later", but he quickly tapped into the power of his shards and ran to where he could smell, albeit faintly, the scent of the mutt.

There were so many youkai it wasn't easy to discern a smell from the other, but he still managed. Kagome pointing him the direction also helped greatly.

..................

InuYasha froze suddenly and his ears flattened on the top of his head. He had dreaded this moment.

Katsura, who was still beside him, suddenly blocked his sensitive nose and grimaced. "By the Gods! What is that horrid stench!?" The moment he said that, an arrow whizzed by the general and he would've been purified like the youkai behind him if he hadn't dodged.

The Inu general whirled around and prepared to strike whoever had dared to target him but his eyebrows rose when a miko resembling Kagome-san stood there, bow poised for the next strike.

"Kikyou…" InuYasha breathed, but his eyes remained hard and apprehensive.

"You know that wench, InuYasha-sama? She smells like death and desolation!" Katsura said with another grimace.

The silver haired hanyou nodded and took a few steps forward, showing Katsura that he would deal with her alone. "What are you doing here, Kikyou?"

Kikyou gave him an overly fake smile. "Why InuYasha, I'm here so you can hold onto your promise to go to Hell with me."

InuYasha looked unsure for a second about how to answer but he steeled his nerves. 'Come on, you idiot! The real Kikyou's been dead for over 50 years! It shouldn't be this difficult!'

"I'm sorry Kikyou but I can't anymore. I found a new reason to live." The hanyou admitted.

The undead miko's smile immediately vanished and InuYasha found himself to be the target of hatred filled eyes. "YOU PROMISED, INUYASHA! Is it because of that other girl? My *copy*?" Kikyou sneered out the word with disdain. "Of course it's all because of her. I told her to stay away from you but the bitch didn't listen! Well then, I'll kill you and then I'll kill her! I'll kill her so slowly you'll roll in your grave! Then I'll let Naraku have his fun! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!"

"Naraku? So Kagome was right! You DO work with him! How could I have been such a fool?!" InuYasha spit out, repulsed by what Kikyou had become.

The miko only smirked and let an arrow fly. The aura around it became black and InuYasha jumped out of the way before it could hit him. Instead, another youkai behind him got hit and screamed in agony when his soul got devoured, before he fell on the ground, dead.

Katsura had troubles holding himself in check. "Bitch! That was one of our soldiers!"

InuYasha snarled. "Now I see! You're not human anymore! The least I can do is honor your memory and kill you!" Though he had troubles believing his own words, the hanyou stood his ground and readied his claws.

"Oh no, InuYasha! You'll be the one to die!" Kikyou let her arrow fly so fast InuYasha barely had the time to see it before he dodged it.

"SANKONTESSÔ!" The hanyou used the blood caked on his haori to attack. Kikyou countered with another arrow and the 2 attacks collided in the middle.

InuYasha was readying his claws again when an arrow shot up from the dust of the earlier collision. The silver haired hanyou froze at the sudden assault and as it was about to hit him, another arrow intercepted Kikyou's.

The purifying power of the second arrow cancelled the one holding the dark power. InuYasha looked around frantically and when he spotted Kagome, a huge smile lit his face. "Kagome!"

The miko from the future smiled at him and turned to Kikyou, a grim look on her face.

"You! How dare you interfere again?! InuYasha betrayed me! He deserves to die!" Kikyou shouted.

Kagome readied her bow, imitating the other miko's movement. "How can you keep saying this? InuYasha's not the only one to blame! You also didn't believe in him! And it was Naraku who killed you, not InuYasha!" Kagome shouted harshly, making Kikyou take a step back in surprise.

The school clad girl focused on her arrow as much as she could and let her arrow fly. It lit up halfway and still grew in intensity as Kagome poured all of her might in it.

Kikyou gasped and fired her own but it was too late; her dark arrow got absorbed and purified and headed towards her. The undead woman screamed in terror and her soul stealers flew away, leaving her to her fate. "NOOO! INUYASHA! HELP ME!"

InuYasha only closed his eyes tightly and blocked her shrill cry. When the light subsided, a pile of dirt and ashes lay where Kikyou once stood.

His conscience cleared and he hugged Kagome who was still a little shaken up after receiving the rest of her soul back. But even if Kikyou was defeated, nobody rejoiced. InuYasha remained solemn and sent one last prayer for the real Kikyou.

"Thank you Kagome" he said silently, "I should've done this a long time ago. I'm so sorry if I ever made you suffer these past years because of her. I realize how immature I was then, still running after the past instead of letting it go."

Kagome only nodded and buried her head in his shoulder, finally feeling free of Kikyou's oppression. Suddenly, she remembered the war around her and her head snapped up. "Oh no! I forgot! Usagi-chan is fighting Kagura alone!"

……………………& #8230;………………………… ;…………………………R 30;………………………… < p class="MsoNormal">

R&R!!!

Eternal Cosmos ^_~