InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness ❯ Time to Kill ( Chapter 2 )

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Time to Kill

As Kagome left the stadium, she smirked. That had felt good. But she hoped there were plenty of A- and S-Class demons or there wouldn't be any challenge at all.

“That was foolish,” Hiei's voice said from behind her. She didn't jump, like he'd expected, but she at least seemed surprised.

“What was?”

“Showing what you can do so early, fool,” he sighed.

“I showed them nothing. I'm not going to waste my power on weaklings.”

“Hn. I sincerely hope you're not as arrogant as you seem, or you'll be sure to have a painful death.”

“It's not arrogance if you can back it up. So, what's with the advice? You seemed most likely to want me dead.”

“I respect power and control. You have both. Aside from that, I'd rather you didn't die, lest we be disqualified.”

She smirked.

“Thanks for the concern. I was wondering about your arm,” she said suddenly.

“What about it?” he asked defensively.

“I sense incredible power under the seal, but I can't tell what it is…”

“Then I guess the seal is effective, isn't it?” he sneered.

Kagome frowned before suddenly stopping.

“Hey, now I'm worked up. Want to race to the hotel?”

Hiei began laughing before seeing she was serious.

“Alright. If I win, you'll tell me how a miko became a psychopathic demon.”

“Fine. If I win, then you'll tell me what's under the seal.”

“Done,” Hiei said with a cocky smirk.

Kagome hit a tree nearby and a single leaf started following.

“Start when the leaf hits the ground,” she said before taking a stance.

The leaf landed and the two were gone in black and blue blurs.

Within half a minute, the two were halfway across the island and almost at the hotel.

Hiei was annoyed that the miko was matching his pace perfectly and pushed youki into his legs. At the last second, he burst forward and beat her to the hotel by a mere second.

Kagome screeched to a halt, giggling.

“That was great! You're faster than I thought,” she said between pants.

“Hn.”

Hiei was simply amazed. He'd actually had to run to the point of sweating to beat the miko by a second. He was sincerely looking forward to hearing her story.

“So, you won,” she sighed. “I'd rather nobody overheard my story,” she said, heading for the shore.

Hiei followed, truly interested now. When they reached a cave, a barrier rose around its mouth and she sat against the rock wall.

“So how much do you know?”

“You traveled with a slayer, monk, kit, and a inu hanyo in the past You also made some very odd acquaintances and fought against a demon named Naraku to protect the Shikon no Tama, as its guardian.”

“Alright. Then I'll skip everything up to the week prior to the final battle…

 

Flashback

Kagome pulled the jewel shard from the demon's chest, a triumphant smile on her face.

“Yes! Now we just need the other half and the jewel will be complete!”

“Don't forget where that half is, Lady Kagome,” Miroku sighed, wiping away her smirk.

“I know. He'll be coming, soon.”

The others tensed when they sensed a fast-approaching demon, but Kagome simply sighed.

“Hello, Kagura,” she said, smiling as the wind sorceress appeared.

“Why the hell are you here, Kagura!?” Inuyasha barked, his hand gripping the hilt of Tetsusaiga.

“Relax, Inuyasha,” Kagome sighed. “Did you get what I asked?” she asked Kagura.

She nodded slightly and revealed a small pouch.

“You said if I got these for you, you could help me,” she said before tossing the bag to Kagome.

“That's right. Just give me a few minutes to set it up.”

Everyone watched as she pulled an arrow from her quiver and began carving a circle around herself and Kagura.

“Kagome, may I ask what you're doing?” Miroku asked.

“Yeah, what the hell!?”

“Inuyasha, be quiet. I need to concentrate,” she said before closing the circle. With that done, she drew the arrow against her bow and let it fly. It landed behind Kagura and she quickly shot four more in the four cardinal directions. Power filled the air and she quickly grabbed a yellow crystal from the pouch.

After a quick chant, the crystal flashed bright blue and exploded into dust. The arrows around them began to glow and she watched as blood trickled from her palm.

“Alright. Kagura, can I have one of your feathers?”

The sorceress cautiously handed her one and stared in shock as it became bright red from the miko's blood.

Another chant left Kagome and she began to glow, her aura resonating with the jewel's. Her eyes were now bright white, and she smiled.

“Alright. Kagura, you need to release your youki. When that's done, you just need to close your eyes. There'll be some pain, but when it's over, you'll be free.”

“What exactly are you going to do, miko?” she asked warily.

“That's what I want to know,” Inuyasha growled.

“I'm going to give you your heart,” she said surprising everyone.

“What? Naraku has my heart! What are you really doing, miko?” she asked angrily.

“It's true. He does have your heart. But your heart shares your youki. In this circle, the dominant power calls to itself. It doesn't matter what Naraku does, it'll come to you. But you have to trust me for this to work, Kagura.”

“Why would you help me, miko?”

“You hate Naraku almost as much as we do, for starters. You also helped us find him several times. And you protected Kohaku, as well. You may be part of him, but you're not Naraku.”

Everyone was gaping at her while a wall of blue energy surrounded them.

“How is it that a miko would so easily trust not only a demon, but a demon created in order to kill you?” Kagura asked, bewildered.

“If you'd actually wanted to kill me, we wouldn't be in this circle right now. Can you release your youki now?”

Kagura's eyes closed and red energy left her body. The circle flashed purple and the arrows exploded into silver dust.

Kagome said the final chant and all of the energy exploded into a skyward column. Both of them began to glow with the column's light. A beating mass of tissue suddenly appeared in front of a bewildered Kagura.

The sorceress's mouth opened in a silent scream as the mass launched into her chest and her eyes flashed blood-red.

The feel of her heart beating in her chest brought tears to the demon's eyes. Suddenly, the power surrounding them vanished and Kagome dropped to her knees, panting.

When she looked up, everyone gasped at finding dark red eyes where her blue ones had been.

“Does it hurt, Kagura?” Kagome asked, taking in the demon's pale face. When she didn't answer, Kagome felt all the stares focused on her.

“What?”

When nobody answered, she pulled out a mirror and stared wide-eyed at her reflection.

“Oh man,” she sighed.

“What exactly just happened? Why do you suddenly smell like Kagura?” Inuyasha asked.

“It's the ritual. It wasn't originally for this.”

“What was it for, exactly?” he barked.

“It was a spell to bring out a hybrid demon's dominant power. I redid it so that, instead of separating them, the other half of Kagura would be pulled to her… Unfortunately, I was needed, and there was a reason hybrid demons performed the ritual alone…”

“Which was…?” he prompted.

“Well… the ritual was originally for separating themselves and rebuilding their youki without whichever half they deemed `useless.' So, generally, other people being inside was a bad idea as the stray youki would most likely kill them.”

“What!?”

“I redid the spell, though. Instead of separating and halving a demon, I made it to complete one. So, the heart came to her body as the result.”

“And now you smell like a demon!”

“Well… To do the ritual, I needed to manipulate my qi to control the circle and hold everything here so the heart would correctly find us… And it seems that youki mixed with my aura when I did so…”

“Stop saying things like it's not a big deal, wench!”

“Sit,” she sighed before turning to Kagura.

“You have your freedom, so do me a favor and use it well, okay?”

Kagura stared at the miko in amazement.

“You've done this for me, a demon who's tried to kill you so many times…”

“Not your fault. But I suggest you get out of here in a hurry,” she said, her eyes focused on an approaching, wrathful aura.

“How'd he get here so quickly?” she asked, lifting her fans. Suddenly, Kagome's hand wrapped around it and stilled the movement.

“Leave, Kagura. I gave you freedom, so please don't waste it dying.”

Kagura's eyes widened as power began to flow around the miko.

“Besides, he's not going to get close enough to worry about,” she said before drawing a bow and arrow. Her red eyes focused on the sky and power wrapped around the entire clearing.

The arrow launched and the air it passed through began to shimmer with an unseen flame as purple energy wrapped around the arrowhead.

When it met a tree, a massive explosion went off and a brilliant dome of light rose, completely surrounding the entire area around them, and keeping Naraku away.

“Go,” she said with a smile to the wind sorceress.

“I'll find a way to repay you for this, miko.”

“My name's Kagome,” she said with a frown. “And all you need to do is live and make sure that you don't kill anyone without a good reason.”

The barrier shattered after several dozen tentacles began barraging it and she smiled. With that, Kagura nodded and she was high in the sky, moving too fast for even Naraku to catch.

“Inuyasha, I want you to stay out of the fight,” she said as the aura approached at incredible speeds.

“What!? Did you hit your head, wench!?”

“No. It's just a puppet, and it doesn't have any shards. Don't waste your energy.”

The others gaped at her and she sighed. That was getting annoying.

“Stop staring at me. I'm perfectly sane.”

“Really? Cause you're not exactly making that obvious. You just helped Kagura! With some kind of dark demon magic! And now you're telling me not to fight Naraku! And you're saying you're sane, wench!?”

“Don't argue,” she snapped, surprising him. “The final battle will be soon, but it won't be today.”

“How right you are, Kagome,” said a dark voice nearby. Out of the woods stepped Naraku, his barrier shimmering and his dark red eyes focused on her. “My my, what have you done to yourself, Kagome? If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were a demon.”

“If you've got no point here than I'll just finish this quickly,” Kagome said before drawing another arrow. The amusement vanished from the kurohanyo's expression and tentacles began to snake their way toward her.

“Oh, but I do have a point here. This puppet of mine isn't as weak as the others. It's meant to take the jewel from you.”

“Too bad for you.”

She unleashed the arrow and a massive spray of both youki and reiki followed it in a whirlpool-looking vortex of energy.

It hit his barrier and the puppet was shredded apart. As its head began to vanish, a smile formed.

“Six days. We'll meet in the field outside of Inuyasha's Forest. And then, this will be over, once and for all.”

The face disappeared and they quickly returned to Kaede's village. If Naraku was going to be outside of Inuyasha's Forest, then he'd be near there, and that was bad…

 

The rest of the week passed quickly, with everyone training to be able to fight to their limits. On the fifth night, every ally they had showed up.

As Kagome and Sango were heading toward the spring for a bath, they sensed a quickly approaching mass of demons, and tensed. When they reached the spring, they found a large pack of two different kind of wolves rushing past them, while Ayame the wolf princess stepped into the spring.

“Hello, Kagome,” she said upon seeing the two women.

“Hi… Ayame.”

“Koga's already at the village,” she said, smiling smugly.

“He's already here?”

Kagome closed her eyes and when she spread her aura, they flew open.

“Oh, this could get really ugly… Umm… I'll see you both later,” she said to Sango and Ayame before spinning and taking off through the woods. When she stopped, she found the scene she'd been expecting.

“You bitch! A sneak attack!?”

Koga lunged at Kagura, who had just shown up, and the ground exploded where his fist reached.

“Calm down, wolf,” Sesshomaru sighed. “She smells not of Naraku.”

Koga's eyes narrowed as he took in Kagura's scent. His eyes widened in shock as soon as it reached him.

“You're right… She smells like… Kagome?”

“I do?” Kagura asked in surprise. That's when the two noticed Kagome, and Koga snarled.

“What the hell!? Why does Kagome smell like Naraku!?”

“I do?” she repeated, as confused as Kagura.

“It's some dumbass ritual the wench did,” Inuyasha said nearby. “The stupid woman let herself get turned into a demon!”

“Inuyasha?”

“What, wench?”

“SIT!”

The branch he was perched on shattered under his downward pull, and he hit the ground growling.

“Serves you right. Anyway, he's right about the part of the ritual… I guess more than our energy mixed…”

“There seems to be a lot of `unexpected things' that are happening from this ritual, miko,” Kagura said accusingly.

“Well, I did only ever try it with you. Not like the need came up otherwise.”

“So I was a test subject, then?”

“Well, not exactly. I am a miko. I know what I'm doing with spells.”

“Evidently not,” said a voice behind her. She spun to find Kikyo staring at her. The older miko's eyes widened at the red hue of her eyes.

“I see… Experimenting, were we?”

“What the hell is going on!?” Koga bellowed in frustration.

“Well, first off, you should know that Kagura isn't under Naraku's control,” she said, making his eyes widen.

“And how did you pull that off?”

“Demon magic,” Kikyo said, eyeing the two women, who had slight similarities now.

“Well… kind of,” Kagome admitted, eyes downcast and face flushed.

“Untrained fool,” she sighed.

“It worked!”

“And now you're a demon.”

“Not entirely,” Kagome said defensively. “I can only control a little youki, and it's not like I can do anything truly demonic!”

Kagome felt all of the eyes on her, and she sighed.

“Right, this probably doesn't make much sense… Okay, here's the deal. I used a ritual to return Kagura's heart to her. Her heart was in Naraku's possession, and it was how he controlled her. To return her heart, I reworked a hybrid demon's spell so that instead of separating a demon, it would complete them. When it was through, some of Kagura's youki was in me, she had her heart, and Naraku was more than a little angry.”

Everyone who hadn't been present seemed to accept this explanation, and Kagome turned to Kikyo.

“When this battle is over, we'll decide who has the complete soul, little reincarnation,” Kikyo said in a cold voice.

“Whatever,” she sighed before walking past her into the woods. With a sigh, she stripped and slid into the relaxing spring. Both of the other women were staring at her and she sighed.

“This is going to be a very short alliance, I think.”

“Why?” Ayame asked. “What happened? And why'd you charge off?”

“Well… Kagura showed up, and so did Kikyo…”

“Kagura? Isn't that one of Naraku's incarnations?” Ayame asked in surprise.

“Well, she was, until Kagome released her,” Sango explained.

“Really? How'd you release her? Come to think of it, you smell different. I would say you smell demonic, but that can't be right…”

Ayame's eyes narrowed in concentration as she sniffed the air, but stopped five minutes later, frustrated at her senses.

“Well… To release her, I kind of became a little bit demon,” Kagome said, staring at the water. Red eyes reflected up to her, and she sighed.

“Why would a miko turn herself into a demon?” Ayame asked, beyond confused.

“Well, it wasn't really something I expected to happen… But it doesn't matter. It's happened and it's over with, so there's nothing to do about it now.”

Ayame was about to answer when her eyes widened and her entire body stiffened. Kagome did as well, her new senses, though weaker than a normal demon's, warning her of the approaching danger.

Out of nowhere, Hakudoshi formed, and he began to swing his scythe at the three. He was surprised when a hand caught it, and the miko pushed him back.

The distraction of her naked body made him slow the fraction of a second needed for her to hit him with her miko qi. He flew backward through the trees as his barrier formed.

“Ayame, Sango, let's get back to the village,” she said as she got dressed with inhuman speed.

“What!? Why would we retreat!? He's just some kid,” Ayame barked.

“He's got a barrier, and there's no way we can break it. We need the Tetsusaiga,” she said before lifting her bow and drawing an arrow taut. “I'll distract him. You two go get Inuyasha.”

With that, she let the arrow fly and the forest shook as it passed the trees. The air around Kagome became charged with a lot of power. Seeing that she could last a while, the two got dressed and took off for the camp.

As soon as they were out of sight, Hakudoshi appeared.

“That was unwise. We both know you'll be dead before they get close.”

Kagome smirked and grabbed another arrow.

“Well, I'm feeling lucky today. Is this a surprise attack or are you on your own?”

“Does it matter?”

“Well, I'm curious as to whether you're acting on orders or just came her to attack on your own.”

“What's the difference?”

“I can forgive you if you're here on orders, but if it's because you wanted to attack, then I have to attack you, and I don't want to use my energy on anyone but Naraku.”

“Forgive me!? What makes you think I give a damn whether you forgive me or not!?”

Hakudoshi lifted his weapon and began to swing at her. The blade's movement was stopped by the arrow, which she held horizontally in front of her. The wooden shaft of the arrow shimmered with purple energy, and he couldn't push any further toward her.

“Sorry, you lose.”

His eyes widened as the energy left the shaft. His weapon was covered in light and then, his body was completely and utterly decimated by the waves of power she released.

“How!?” his floating head barked.

“It's the final battle. I'm not going to hold back anymore, and I'm certainly not going to let the fact that I'm a miko stop me from keeping myself alive anymore. It's time to kill. Tell that to him, if you live.”

His eyes widened as she drew another arrow against her bow and, the second she let it loose, he was gone.

“Kagome!”

Inuyasha and Miroku burst through the woods only to find her holding her bow in front of a massive splash of blood and body parts that covered the trees.

“Oi! What the hell happened!?”

“Hakudoshi attacked…”

“Whose blood is that!?” Inuyasha asked, grabbing the Tetsusaiga as he glared around the forest.

“Hakudoshi's,” Kagome said quietly. “I missed by a few inches, but I almost had him…”

End of Flashback

 

“Well, good night, Hiei,” Kagome said, standing up.

“That's it?”

“You wanted to know how I became a psychotic demon, not how I got to be as powerful as I am,” she said with a wink. “Maybe next time.”

And with that, the barrier dropped and she was gone, leaving Hiei staring blankly at the cave wall.

The miko was definitely interesting, to say the least. And he suddenly found himself wanting to know the rest of the story…

 

A/N:

Okay, there's chapter 2! I had a good time writing this. I like making Kagome darker, in case you've noticed, and I promise you that it will only get darker. Review! Remember, constructive criticism is a writer's friend!