InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Chaos ❯ Revelations ( Chapter 10 )

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

Warnings: Strong Language, Violence, Gore

Revelations

 

“Kagome, hang on.”

The stumbling miko stopped her movements, but the sudden tightening of her muscles caused the wounds to stretch.

“Damnit.”

Kagura landed next to her and quickly moved to her front. The amount of blood covering her was staggering, and even Kagura was surprised by the impressive injuries covering her face and chest.

“Damnit, Kagome!”

“All of the blood… it threw my senses haywire, and I didn't react fast enough…”

Kagura gingerly touched the cuts across her face and Kagome winced.

“Those won't heal on their own for a long time… Hold still for a second.”

Without warning, Kagura leaned forward and Kagome gasped when a strange, wet warmth ran across the wounds. Rolling her eyes to see what it was, she was shocked to find Kagura licking her cuts.

“What!?”

“My saliva's a coagulant. It'll help close these,” the witch said, running her tongue across the last of the cuts once more before pulling back. “The ones on your chest'll have to heal on their own,” she said, smiling apologetically.

A bright red shade had engulfed her face and Kagome looked at the ground, her own face turning as red as a tomato.

“It'll be fine… Thank you, Kagura.”

“No problem…”

Laughter suddenly filled the air and the two instantly closed in on each other, taking defensive stances.

“Isn't that cute? The whores are flirting.”

The voice echoed through the forest and Kagura quickly drew her fans, Kagome's hand going to the hilt of her sword.

“This is bad. I used a lot of energy getting away from the blood,” the miko whispered, her back pressing to Kagura's.

A slithering sound filled the air and suddenly, Kagome was gone, pulled into the darkness without a sound.

A tall, bone-white snake demon appeared from the forest, Kagome in his massive jaws. Next to him was a sickly-looking woman with a long, slender scythe that glowed with black energy.

“Kagura, father wants to see you,” the woman said, spinning the scythe above her head. “And the whore's coming, too. He wants her jewel.”

Kagome glared at the fangs clamped on her middle, beginning to glow with her youki.

“Take the fangs off or I'll break them,” she growled. The demon shook with his laughter while the woman followed suit.

“Not after that little show you put on in the village. After being tortured by the Reikai, you go and use the little reserves of energy you had left to kill a horde of pathetic D-Classes! You probably can't even bring your sword out, like you are now! So just shut up and be a good little slut.”

“Seriously, what the hell is it with these demons!? Do I seriously look like a whore?” she asked Kagura, who shrugged.

While the demons laughed, Kagura understood what Kagome was doing and held back a smirk.

Suddenly, the snake yelped in pain and Kagome was being flung through the air, blood covering her hand. She landed hard next to Kagura and smirked.

“You're not the smartest demon I've fought,” she said, grabbing the hilt of the Tetsusaiga. “Letting your jaws loosen while they're the only thing holding me is a really bad mistake.”

He hissed at her, dark red eyes focused on the miko. Suddenly, she drew her blade and it transformed in a flash of light.

“You ssssshould be dying of poissssssson!”

“I guess he didn't inform you of what he put into me, did he?”

“Kagome, stay back. You've already had fun today, but I haven't gotten anything.”

“Have at it, Kagura,” Kagome said, letting the Tetsusaiga lower slightly.

“Dance of Blades!”

The sickles launched at the incarnations and the woman moved, blocking them with her scythe.

She then vanished, and before Kagura could react, a scythe blade was coming for her throat. The Tetsusaiga suddenly appeared, holding up the scythe just before it hit her. Kagome pushed back, throwing the woman off her feet.

As soon as she landed, she spun and launched again. As Kagome moved to block, the incarnation vanished and suddenly, Kagura was in the air, a blade to her throat.

“Drop the sword, bitch, or I'll slice her throat.”

“Dance of-”

Kagura's attack was cut off as the blade pressed to her throat, drawing a rivulet of blood.

“How about, if you let her go, I'll make your death quick?” Kagome asked, pointing the tip of her blade at the woman.

“I don't think that sounds very fun,” the woman said, practically pouting. “I'm an Empath, so let's both stop playing around, shall we? We both know you aren't going to put her life at risk.”

“Well, maybe I don't think you'll move faster than I will,” Kagome said, looking for weaknesses.

She only found one, and it was the arm holding the scythe close to Kagura. If she moved fast enough, she could sever it at the elbow before the blade could be brought up, but that was seriously risky.

“I don't think so,” the incarnation said, smirking.

The blade drew even closer to Kagura and more blood began to fall.

“My, my, my, you're so full of emotions! Confusion, anger, wariness, concern, fear, and loving worry all wrapped into a few seconds. I wonder what you'll feel if I spill even more blood?”

The incarnation began to pull the scythe, obviously prepared to decapitate this time.

“Stop!”

“That's what I thought,” the incarnation said, sneering viciously. “Now drop that oversized hunk of scrap metal or I'll spill all of her pretty little blood all over these trees.”

“Just kill her, Kagome,” Kagura barked, her eyes glaring as close to the incarnation as possible.

Kagome began to move the Tetsusaiga, but hesitated. Several different scenarios played through her mind, and none of them had good outcomes. With a growl, she released the sword, letting it bury itself in the soft soil at her feet.

“Good little slut. Now you're going to fight my brother there, and you're not going to use anything but your bare hands. No power, no youki, no magick, nothing, got it? And if you decide to use some trick, then I'll have to cut her pretty little head off.”

The snake reared back and suddenly, Kagome was dodging its massive jaws.

 

“So, what's the plan here?” Kagura asked, painfully aware of how close the blade and her artery were. With a heart, a wound like that wouldn't be a simple matter, and it wasn't guaranteed she'd even survive it.

“Oh, Kagura, I'm having a little fun. She can't do much with you as my prisoner.”

“And why do you think that, bitch?” the witch bit out, her youki flaring with her anger.

“Oh, I was born for the purpose of taking you and her back. I can sense emotions, and that makes it very easy to manipulate an enemy. You, for example, are filled with hatred towards me, and concern for her safety. And you're angry that you can't do a thing about it,” the incarnation sneered.

“All that information's good to you how? You can't use it to control me,” Kagura said, looking for a vulnerability in the hold on her.

“Oh, so simple-minded. The anger isn't what I can use; it's the concern. Both of you are concerned for each other's safety, and I can use that to control you.”

“You think so? After Naraku, you're an amateur in manipulation, bitch.”

“Ah, so arrogant. But look at your girlfriend over there.”

Kagura's eyes moved to Kagome, who was landing with a large chunk of her side missing.

“See? She's drained almost all of her energy. She's losing incredible amounts of blood. She's lucky to be standing. Yet, despite all of that, she's not using that sword and killing brother, because I have your life in my hands. Still think I'm an amateur?” the incarnation asked, a low growl resonating from her chest.

“I'm not a hostage,” Kagura snarled, her body glowing with her youki.

Before the woman could react, Kagura brought her elbow back, with incredible speed and force, as well as a coating of youki. When it hit, she brought the other arm up, knocking the scythe away. She vanished in a flash, and the snake was knocked out of his path to Kagome by her fans.

 

“Kagome, are you okay?” Kagura asked, quickly coating the miko in youki to heal the more impressive wounds.

“Yeah, I'm fine…”

A massive gale filled the forest, and suddenly Kagome was holding her sword once more.

“Kagura, can you get me to Yukina when we're done?”

“What are you going to do, Kagome?” the witch asked, a sense of foreboding forming.

Without warning, Kagome brought her sword high above her head and then smashed it down.

“Wind Scar!”

Youki flared and a massive wave launched forward. With a scream of agony, the snake demon's youki vanished, the wave following suit a second later.

As soon as the wave was gone, so was the last of Kagome's strength, and she fell forward, digging the rusty de-transformed blade into the ground to keep her up.

“You bitch!”

Her head whipped up to find the woman, her body burnt in several places, and bruised from where Kagura had hit, but otherwise unscathed. She was stalking toward her, dark youki glowing around the scythe in her hands.

“That hurt, you whelp! Prepare to die!”

As the incarnation brought her weapon up, Kagome began to see her life flash before her eyes. Tears fell as memories well-buried from the time since she left the Sengoku Jidai surfaced.

“Dance of the Dragon.”

The woman dove away as vortexes of youki launched at her, and Kagura caught Kagome just as she began to fall, no longer able to hold herself up.

“Hang on, Kagome.”

An angry roar filled the air and Kagura swung the fan in her free hand, blocking the scythe with youki.

The woman swung her leg up, knocking Kagura back as she blocked for its target, Kagome.

“I'm going to kill her. Then, I'm going to beat you to within an inch of your life. Then, I'm going to take you to father so he can take control of you again!”

“Oh, what happened to manipulating? You seem unfocused now,” Kagura said, sneering.

“I should've just cut your head off, you bitch,” the incarnation snarled.

She swung her scythe again, aiming for Kagura's head. While she moved to avoid it, the weapon changed its course and started heading for the now-exposed Kagome. Instinctively, Kagura spun.

As the scythe blade entered her back, she grabbed the incarnation's throat and let her youki flare. There was a scream and suddenly, the incarnation's energy wasn't there anymore. As its owner vanished, the scythe broke apart and fell away from Kagura, leaving a painful hole.

She quickly stumbled to a tree and slid to the ground, Kagome in her arms.

“You okay?”

“Y… Yeah, just sleepy…”

Kagura's eyes widened at that, and she looked down at the miko, finally sensing how bad the energy deficiency really was. The blood coming from most of her body wasn't going to help, either.

“Hey, no sleeping, Kagome. Come on, you gotta' stay up for a little while,” she said, gently shaking her, careful of opening any wounds she healed.

“Too tired,” the miko groaned.

“Come on, you can't black out before me.”

Kagome groaned, and her eyes widened slightly.

“You need to get healed…”

“It's fine,” Kagura said, shrugging.

“No, it's not! You're bleeding because of me!”

Lucidity instantly filled the miko's eyes and she sat up, seeing Kagura's blood on the tree trunk.

“Shit. What happened!?”

“Don't worry about it. I just got careless with that stupid bitch with the scythe…”

“You took that hit so I wouldn't, didn't you?”

“Heh. Don't read too much into it, Kagome.”

“It's hard not to. There was someone else I threw myself in front of, before, if you'll remember.”

“I remember. I did some stupid things that day, too, if you'll remember.”

“I never said it was a stupid mistake. If I hadn't done it, then I never would've had the courage to confess to him.”

“I'll never understand what it was about him that you found attractive,” Kagura sighed.

“This is a really weird conversation, isn't it?” Kagome suddenly asked, smirking. “But if you must know, traveling with him for five years brought a lot of good qualities to light…”

“I guess it would be hard for me to see them,” Kagura said, shrugging. The movement caused her great pain, and she couldn't hide the wince.

“Okay, that's it,” Kagome said, standing up. “Come on, we need to get you to Yukina.”

Suddenly, Kagura laughed, making Kagome's eye twitch.

“What?”

“I'll be fine in a few minutes, as long as I don't go anywhere. You're the one that was just on the verge of death, Kagome.”

“Good point.”

“I can't believe it,” Kagura sighed after a long moment of silence.

“What?”

“That somehow, we let those two ambush us. I can feel movement through air, we can both smell and hear everything in this forest, and they had Naraku's youki. How in the hell did we let them sneak up on us?”

“Well, that's not a mystery. We were distracted.”

“How'd we get so distracted that we let those two sneak up on us? Healing you shouldn't have done that,” Kagura sighed.

“Who knows? The important thing is that they're dead.”

“They almost took us with them,” Kagura growled.

“Sorry,” Kagome exclaimed, her hands raised in placation. “And sorry about not listening to you about the town,” she added, barely above a whisper.

“It's fine…”

“No, it isn't! This entire thing's my fault! I'm so sorry, Kagura!”

“Let it go,” Kagura sighed.

“I can't! It's my fault that you're hurt! If I hadn't gone in there, pissed off and careless, I wouldn't have gotten hurt, and you wouldn't have been distracted enough for those two to sneak up on us. If I hadn't gotten hurt in the first place, even if they did manage to sneak up on us, both of us would've been able to shred them to pieces because I would still have enough power to have blown them away with one stroke of my sword! Goddamnit, it's my fault and I'm-”

Kagura's hand suddenly stopped Kagome's spirited tirade, and she watched with wide eyes as Kagura looked down at her.

“Kagome, I said to let it go. The bitch could practically read minds, so it would've probably ended the same way regardless of the factors leading to it. She was made to capture both of us, because that bastard somehow knows there's something between us. And it's pissing me off that I don't know what that something is, because I'm starting to act as protectively as that mutt. So just be quiet and don't exert any more energy while we wait for your friends to come heal us. Okay?”

Kagome nodded once and the hand over her mouth vanished.

“Just one thing, and then I'll be quiet. What's between us, if we weren't both girls, would be called love, I think, and it's seriously confusing to me, probably more than you.”

Before Kagura could respond, rustling was heard and several shadows emerged from the edge of the forest.

 

A/N:

Well, there's chapter 10! I'm really sorry for how long it's been since I last updated, but here's hoping the chapter made up for it. Be sure to review!