InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Cataclysm ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, YuYu Hakusho (As much as I'd love to) or any of the anime/manga characters.

 

Hesitation

As they exited into Kagome's kitchen, there was an odd silence.

“Yusuke, can I talk to you for a sec?” she asked before leaving the room. She didn't have to look back to know that her cousin was glad to leave the awkward silence.

“Okay, so what do you want to know about Naraku?” she asked, causing him to blink in surprise.

“Why would I-”

“That guy was your boss, right? Then you have to work with us, even though most of my friends probably won't like it…

“I guess… So, do you have any idea where he might be?”

“That Makai place you were talking about. He'll probably hide there and feed off demons until he's strong enough to attack.”

“Makai is bigger than this world. That's a lot of searching,” he groaned as the two sat down.

“Yeah… Well, we can eliminate a bit of it. All of Sesshomaru's land would be too dangerous for him if he's healing.”

“Awesome! His land is half of Makai! Nicely done,” he said, smiling.

“Perhaps we may interject,” said a voice in the doorway. They looked up to find both Miroku and Kurama standing there.

“Whatcha got, Kurama?”

The red-head sighed and looked at the monk.

“After some discussion, we believe that he will be in a forested or heavily-cratered area so he can set up his traps. There are only three places like that in Makai.”

Kagome nodded thoughtfully. Suddenly, her eyes widened in surprise and she shot up.

“No way,” she said, heading for the shrine doors.

When she stepped outside, her fears were confirmed. Naraku's aura was descending. And then, to her surprise, a young man appeared before her.

Everyone else was gathering outside as Kagome stared at the new incarnation.

“Who are you?”

“I have no name. You can simply call me Shuuketsu.”

“Why are you on my grounds, Shuuketsu?” she bit out. To her irritation, the incarnation smiled warmly, as though he was a friend.

“Master has requested your presence.”

At that, Kagome's power began to flow into her hands.

“Get off of my grounds and away from my shrine. And tell him that I'm going to make sure to finish the kill next time,” she said so coldly that her allies shuddered.

“Ah, I have no doubt. Unfortunately, I have the power of the Jagan, and I can make you come with me,” he said, his voice hardening. In the next second, there was a blur of black and the incarnation was looking at the edge of a blade.

“A Jagan, you say? Interesting. But you're not strong enough,” Hiei said as he swung the blade. The demon was gone before the sword met his flesh, and he appeared several feet away, smirking.

“Spirit Gun!”

A blast of blue energy burst through the air and hit the demon in the chest and Inuyasha used the opening created by Kagome's cousin.

“Wind Scar!”

The energy ripped forth and suddenly, it formed an archway into the sky. A glowing purple aura was surrounding the demon, and he was smiling arrogantly.

Kagome balled up all of her purifying energy and was about to throw it when the demon appeared in front of Inuyasha. Her hand stopped and he smiled before teleporting in front of her.

“You shouldn't have hesitated, miko,” Shuuketsu said with a cruel smile. And then, a tentacle smashed through her side and Kagome fell to the ground, bleeding.

She watched helplessly as he picked her up by the throat. Massive, bat-like wings sprouted from his spinal column, and he smiled darkly at her.

“I'll be borrowing your little miko for a while,” he said before they rose into the air. It seemed like forever before they landed.

“Welcome to the place where you lose your powers, miko,” the monster said as he threw her onto a hard, stone floor.

There was an echoing laugh in the room and she looked up to find Naraku, fully healed, standing before her. Shuuketsu bowed and vanished as Naraku stepped forward. She looked on in fear to find him beginning to undress.

“What? What are you doing?”

“I'm going to deflower you,” he said with a dark smile. “Mikos without their purity aren't mikos anymore, and you'll lose your powers, little Kagome.”

She began to back away only to have him laugh.

“There's no place for you to run! Fear not, though. I won't be the only one to get something out of this. I'm going to take away your miko powers, and then I'm going to turn you into a demon! Won't that be a nice little irony? And then, I'll return you to your friends so that they have no trust with you.”

Kagome glared and her miko ki began to rise.

“You won't touch me, Naraku,” she bit out.

“Oh?”

Kagome let a massive spike of her energy shoot forward, but it was slow and the kurohanyo easily avoided it. She felt his hand against her face before she barreled into the wall, blood rolling from her lips.

“I'm going to enjoy this,” he said as he slowly began to undress her…

 

Hiei

Hiei watched as the demon appeared. Much to his surprise, the miko was talking to it. And then, he heard the demon and felt his pride flare up. He was the only one to effectively use the Jagan. He needed to prove it.

He shot forward, his sword drawn against the demon's throat. Suddenly, he was gone, and the next thing Hiei was seeing was the miko being pulled away from the entire group.

As her energy disappeared, the hanyo snarled.

“What the fuck!? Why didn't she fight him?”

Hiei stared at the idiotic hanyo and shook his head.

“Inuyasha, Lady Kagome didn't hit him because you were being used as a shield,” Miroku said, staring at the sky.

“Yeah? I say it was entirely too easy!”

“You're thinking that Kagome is a traitor?” Sango asked, her eyes wide.

“No. But it was too easy, and she was talking to the bastard. I think she just let her stupid ass get captured so she can try something, the stupid woman,” he growled.

And then, Yusuke just had to step in, of course.

“Hey! Is she really that reckless? That's my cousin you're talking about,” he added angrily.

Inuyasha smirked before looking at the sky.

“Yeah, that's definitely something she'd do. Besides, the only other possible reason she didn't give up a fight is because she didn't think anything against it. And that would be bad.”

“There is a third option,” Kurama stated, meeting Hiei's glare. “It's possible she has been made into a traitor through the psychic powers of the Jagan eye.”

Inuyasha's mouth fell open.

“At any rate, we're unfamiliar with this time, so we must begin planning how to find her,” Miroku said, stepping back inside…

 

Kagome

She watched as the ground quickly approached nearly a week later. She felt completely helpless as her limp body fell to the ground. She was naked and bleeding all over. Shuuketsu smiled before lifting off.

“Bye bye, Kagome!”

Kagome lay on the cold, hard stone for what seemed like minutes but was actually several hours. She shakily stood up and stumbled towards the house. She sensed everyone in the kitchen, and that's where she headed, tears streaming from her eyes.

As soon as Kagome entered the room, Inuyasha snarled and she couldn't move fast enough to stop the fist. It smashed into her cheek and she flew against the wall. As she made the impact, she felt her bone give and watched blood roll down from her shoulder.

“You filthy whore! You smell of that bastard! What happened? Did you just let him into you, like a bitch!?”

“Inuyasha, Kagome isn't that weak,” Sango stated, looking at her best friend with concern.

“Oh yeah? Then why does she smell like blood, arousal, sex and Naraku?” he snarled, glaring at the miko, who rightfully flinched, on the floor.

Kagome's head lifted upward and she held a look that had the hanyo actually shaking.

“Inuyasha, I suggest you shut up,” she said as she began to rise.

Though she was absolutely miserable, she stood with a slow, predatorial grace she hadn't possessed before.

“Oh? And what're you gonna do, bitch!?”

“Sit,” she said with so much anger that he actually met the floor beneath the kitchen's wood.

He stood up, snarling furiously. He raced towards her and everyone, including the stoic Hiei, gasped as his claw raked across her face, which also made her head whip to the side.

Blood flowed from her new, bloody gashes across her cheek, and her head slowly turned.

The air about her changed, and everyone watched as her hair began to move on an unfelt wind. Inuyasha's eyes widened as all of the blood covering her body disappeared and the mark of her broken bone became the color of her normal skin again.

Suddenly, she was smiling coldly, and she gently brushed the gash marks on her face.

“You know something, Inuyasha? You didn't help me. I was gone for an entire week, being tortured, and you didn't help me. So I couldn't give a shit what you think! You think your claws are strong? You haven't seen mine, yet,” she said as energy wrapped around her hand.

An inhuman snarl escaped her as she began to walk towards Inuyasha.

Kagome's eyes began glowing a strange, terrifying mix of red, blue, and silver. And they were slitted in raw, unfiltered anger. Before anyone present could react, she vanished, and soon, the hanyo was against a wall. Smoke was rising from where she gripped his throat. In place of her fingernails were silver, glowing claws, and they were beginning to draw blood.

As the blood left the holes in Inuyasha's neck, it was instantly purified and turned to smoke.

“Listen well, Inuyasha,” she said in a voice completely different from her own. “If you ever think to touch me again, I will kill you. And I doubt that you'll come back, whether it's Sesshomaru or Kikyo or an angel that tries to revive you. I'm not scared of you, and now I'm stronger than you. I'll do it without hesitation if you try to hit me again. Do you understand me?” she snarled, her energy flaring into a massive red and blue bubble around her.

Inuyasha's eyes were slanted and she could see him biting his lip to keep from crying out in pain. She didn't care. She wasn't weak, and she wasn't going to let him cause her more pain than being tortured had.

“Kagome, you're killing him!”

She didn't even acknowledge Kurama as she tightened her hold on the hanyo's neck.

“What? Nothing to say, Inuyasha?” she asked, suddenly realizing that relishing his suffering was too much like Naraku. That didn't make her release her hold, but she lessened the energy she was pouring into the hanyo who she'd once loved.

“Fuck you, you bitch!”

And then, he drew Tetsusaiga and Kagome dove backward, away from his slash.

“You fucking whore! You let him make you into a demon!?” he spat out, preparing to strike.

“Let him? I let him? Inuyasha, I was tortured for seven days. Seven goddamn days! You weren't there to help me, so shut. the. fuck. up!”

Every one of her friends, as well as Yusuke, gaped at her change in behavior.

“I'm not going to shut up! You whored yourself out to Naraku! What? Did he promise you eternal life or some shit like that?” he asked, sneering. When she began to run at him again, he swung the sword down.

Much to everyone's surprise, she caught it with ease. And the gash in her hand healed almost as quickly as it had formed. Massive electric sparks were forming where she held the demonic sword, and she slowly walked towards him, her grip holding his sword above her. And then, she grabbed his throat once more, and unfiltered power surrounded them.

Suddenly, she relaxed her hold on the blade and he dropped the sword to the ground.

“You're not worth the energy,” she spat. “I'm going to use these claws that Naraku forced onto me to rip his throat out next time. See you later,” she said before throwing the hanyo, with one hand, through the air. As soon as he hit the wall opposite where she'd been thrown, she let her power flare.

“Sit!”

He smashed into the ground with a painful crack sound and Kagome watched as blood filled the crater in the wood beneath him.

With that, she shakily walked up the stairs and slammed her door closed as she got dressed.

 

Hiei

Hiei watched as the miko entered the room. He could smell the difference in her fragrance. She wasn't human anymore. But she wasn't a demon, a hanyo, or a miko either. He had no idea what she was.

And then, the hanyo hit her. He'd been expecting a cry of pain or a shout from the feeble woman. But she simply took the damage and then, she was talking. She was different from before her capture. That much was painfully obvious.

And then, she used a spell and the hanyo hit the ground. In a blind charge, filled with anger, the inu hanyo rendered her face. To say that Hiei was surprised would be an understatement.

He didn't trust anyone. Because of that, he was able to observe everyone and sense their true selves. But he'd thought their group was rather close, and to see the hanyo strike her like that was a shock. And then, the room changed, and Hiei sensed the massive levels of youki forming.

The energy began to roll off of the miko in waves as she recovered from the strike. And then, the hanyo was the one suffering. He watched with awe as she sprouted claws and attacked the inu hanyo.

He watched as she slowly began to purify the man who he thought she'd been affectionate towards.

And then, she insulted him, and he was swinging his sword at her. Hiei was surprised when the miko… human… demon… whatever she was, caught the blade with her bare hand. Not even he would do something like that.

And then, she attacked. There was so much power in her attack that the Jagan was woken up, and Hiei felt its odd mix of emotions. It practically seemed joyful at the energy coming from the woman. He had to hold back the smirk that was threatening to form as she threw the hanyo and he fell unconscious after his head broke the wooden pillar behind him.

Before anyone could bother him, he vanished, watching the girl from the tree outside of her window…

 

Kagome

Kagome fell onto her bed, sobbing. Her head whipped up when she heard a low, hesitant knock on her door.

“Kagome-nee-chan?”

“Come in, Sango,” she said, trying to hide her misery.

The taijiya walked inside and closed the door, Shippo at her heels. They sat down next to her on her bed and Sango gently began brushing her friend's hair.

“Did I kill him?” Kagome asked, her body shaking.

“No, you didn't kill him… Just knocked him unconscious.”

“That's… good…” she choked out, her head buried in the fluffy pillow.

“You don't think so?”

Kagome shrugged before raising her tear-streaked face.

“I don't know. He might try to attack me again,” she whispered, her face a mask of misery.

Sango wrapped her arms around her and let the younger girl sob.

“I won't let him, Kagome.”

“I don't want anyone near me,” she sobbed harder. “I might hurt them.”

“Inuyasha attacked you first. And he wasn't pulling punches, either,” she said, trying to comfort Kagome.

“It doesn't matter. What that hanyo did to me… I'm some kind of a science experiment,” she said, crying even harder, though Sango hadn't been aware that was possible.

“What are you talking about, Kagome?”

Kagome looked at her and her eyes were almost lifeless as she recounted what had happened to her.

 

FLASHBACK

Kagome shook as Naraku pulled the fabric off of her chest, making her upper body bare. Next, he grabbed the hem of her skirt and tore it off before slowly sliding her panties down.

“I think I'll keep these clothes as a trophy,” he said before adding the thin fabric to the rest of her destroyed clothes. Tears were running down her face, and he smiled evilly.

“Oh, come now, Kagome. You should feel honored! I've decided to do this to you and not your incarnate.”

Kagome attempted to crawl away, but she suddenly felt a hand in her hair and her head was pulled upward, making her cry in pain.

“Why are you doing this?” she cried out, although she already knew the answer.

“It's simple. I want to make you suffer. I want to destroy you. I want to take everything that is pure and good in this world and completely crush them.”

She bit back a scream as he tore into her. She felt sick as he filled her with his member, which grew harder when she finally did scream. When he was finally done, he threw her to the floor and laughed hysterically as he felt her powers disappear.

Three more days of the same thing, from dawn to dusk, Naraku continued his torture. And then, on the fifth day of her capture, the hanyo broke her utterly.

As she heard his feet on the stone dungeon floor, Kagome tensed and looked up to find Naraku, holding a large, jagged knife covered in various colors of blood.

He seemed to drink in her fear like a delicious wine, and Kagome shrank back.

“Please… just kill me…”

“Oh, I don't think so, Kagome,” he said, sneering. “Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. But that's not really important. Let's make you a demon,” he said, bending down. Before she could move, a claw cut a large gash in her stomach. And then, he slid the knife into the hole and chanted something. As he pulled the knife out, the wound instantly healed and Kagome's eyes began to glow a dark blood-red.

“What… What did you just do?” she asked as agony racked her entire body.

“I made you into a demon. Well, technically, I made you several demons. I killed a snake demon, a fire apparition, an inu youkai, and a worm demon with the knife. And I just put their powers inside of you.”

Kagome glared at him as he stepped back.

“Three out of those four are extremely powerful. I'm not going to be afraid to use what you gave me to kill you.”

He simply smirked as he knelt down.

“What I gave you is a lot of weaknesses. Snakes have no patience and are generally easy to kill with the right knowledge. Fire apparitions are generally reckless and let their emotions get the better of them. And inu youkais… well, I'm sure I don't need to tell you what weaknesses they have. Worm demons have low endurance, low stamina, and feeble bodies. I'll leave you to… adjust… now, Kagome.”

And with that, he left her. It wasn't until the next afternoon that he returned, and he was very surprised.

Kagome stood up when he entered and energy danced around her body. Miko energy.

“How is this possible!?”

Kagome began to run at him when she was suddenly lifted off the ground. As she was slammed into the ground, he smirked.

“Miko energy or not, you're still an abomination. And you're weak. Your `friends' will never accept you now.”

Kagome's tears began to fall as she swung her foot out. He easily caught it mid-motion and threw her. As she hit the dungeon wall, she lost consciousness. When she woke up, Shuuketsu was flying with her in his grip.

“What the hell are you doing?” she snarled.

“Oh, I'm just doing as ordered. Oh, and Naraku instructed me to tell you something. You smell like him now. You would do well to remember that mercy won't save you. Your hanyo friend will most likely attack you, calling you a whore and a traitor. It might be wise to defend yourself, since master doubts you'll live if you don't. Bye bye, Kagome,” he said as he released her.

END FLASHBACK

 

Sango's eyes were overflowing with tears as her friend finished the story.

“I am so sorry, Kagome,” she said, hugging her friend tightly.

“It's not your fault, Sango,” she said, smiling sadly at her `sister.'

Shippo hugged his mother and she absently pet his orange hair.

 

Unknown to them, others, outside of the room had heard her. Kurama and Yusuke both glared at Inuyasha, who just thought she was lying. Hiei was both filled with rage and pity. And, surprisingly, he felt that he wanted to make her feel better, as he felt a slight kinship for the somewhat-hiyoukai female.

 

Several hours later, Kagome walked down the stairs, her armor on and her bow and arrows on her back.

As she reached the doors, she found Kurama, Hiei and Yusuke waiting. She nodded in acknowledgment before heading for the woods. She immediately sensed Inuyasha's anger and she smirked.

“Take your best shot,” she said, not even turning around to face him.

“Like I can hit you. You'd just use those arrows, like the cheap bitch you are.”

The next second, her bow and arrows were on the ground and she spun around.

“No bow, and no arrows. Just me and you. But I doubt you'll try to hit me again.”

“Oh? And why's that, bitch?” he snarled, beginning to pull the Tetsusaiga from its sheath.

“Because we won't let you,” Yusuke said, making the hanyo snarl.

“Back off, human.”

“And neither will we, Inuyasha,” Sango's voice said, making him look to the side. Both the slayer and monk stood, their weapons prepared. Shippo was at the feet, along with Kirara.

“You all want to side with this traitor?” he barked, his glare on Kagome, who was pulling her armor off.

“Thank you, everyone, but if Inuyasha really wants it so badly, I'd rather he just get it out of his system.”

“You make it sound like you're giving me a privilege, bitch.”

Kagome's energy flared and she looked at all of her real friends.

“Seriously, I'd really prefer if everyone just made the forest and shrine safe from all the energy he's going to release.”

“Are you positive, Lady Kagome?” Miroku asked, his charms prepared.

“She's not a `lady' ya damn monk!”

Kagome's eyes twitched, and she looked at Yusuke.

“She's serious,” he said before backing up. Really fast. The rest of the groups went with him, and soon, there was a massive barrier around the shrine grounds, keeping any stray attacks from hurting the surrounding area.

“You know there's no going back, right?” she asked as the last plate of her armor hit the ground. She quickly threw them out of the barrier, making sure they'd be safe.

Inuyasha sneered and pulled the sword from its sheath.

“I'm sure that I'll be able to live with myself.”

Without warning, he swung the blade and energy blasted forward.

Kagome dove to the side and watched as the wind scar followed the arc of the barrier before disappearing.

“No holding back, then? I hope you enjoy Hell, Inuyasha. I sincerely do. But you should know that Kikyo is in Heaven, and as much as I feel bad for her, I'll be glad that you don't get to see her again if you really have no problem attacking someone that's supposed to be your friend.”

Inuyasha glared at her, his hate flowing freely.

“Kikyo ain't dead, you lying bitch!”

Kagome looked at the ground, tears falling from her eyes.

“Yes. She is.”

“Liar!”

Diamond spikes grew along Tetsusaiga's length and he snarled.

“Adamant Barrage!”

As he swung, she let the tears flow.

As the spikes were about to reach her, her hand shot out. As one, they disintegrated and the ashes fell to the ground.

“I really am sorry, Inuyasha… She died trying to protect me…”

“Lying bitch!”

He charged at her, rapidly swinging the large sword several times in quick succession. She dodged with ease, and then she had her claw around his throat.

“We don't have to do this, Inuyasha. Please don't make us.”

He sneered and his fist smashed her face, knocking her through the air and into the electrifying power of the surrounding barrier.

“You're a traitorous bitch! You'd rather let Naraku have you then be on our side. I mean, really! I can understand if you were just a slut, but to actually sleep with the enemy? You must be pretty pathetic to have no problem with-”

She snarled, and he found his head being shoved deep into the ground by her claw. Smoke began to rise, and he watched in shock as her own tears evaporated from the intense flames that began to rise from her body.

“I was raped! I was forced into everything he did to me! And I couldn't stop him. And do you want to know why Kikyo needed to save me? Because you didn't. I don't care if you knew where I was or not. I didn't know if help was coming, so I resigned myself to my fate. I even begged from him to kill me. So don't you fucking dare to call me a traitor when I was supposed to get help that never came!”

Smoke was filling the air around them, and Inuyasha snarled at the feel of his skin melting.

“You're nothing but a weak bitch,” he said as he swung his leg up. It connected with her side and she flew up into the barrier.

She fell to the ground, her clothes little more than a smoking heap of fabric now. She lashed out. As her claw raked across his face, blood poured to the ground. She blocked his retaliation swing of Tetsusaiga and slid backward.

“I'm not a bitch, I'm not a traitor, and I'm not a whore!” she screamed as flames wrapped around her body.

Inuyasha snarled and she felt energy beginning to wrap around him. His sword began to blacken, and she tensed.

“You're lying! You're a lying whore, and I should've killed you when you let that baby take control of you! Meidou Zangetsuha!”

A massive vortex began to form next to her and Kagome sobbed from blood-red eyes.

“I'm sorry.”

He watched in shock as the hole vanished. Then he looked down to find her standing an inch away, and her arm was jutting through his spine. Blood rolled from his mouth as he fell to his knees, her hand coated in his blood.

“I promised Kikyo I'd stop you if you went that far,” she said, falling to her knees as her frame was shaken with her sobs.

The hanyo's amber eyes dimmed and his body turned cold.

 

AN: Well, there's chapter two! I think it turned out really well, even though I won't be surprised to find bad reviews because I killed Inuyasha and Kikyo. But this all goes to my greater story plot, and I wanted to incorporate the idea at least once of Kagome actually killing Inuyasha. That said, make sure to leave reviews!