InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Delayed Dawn ❯ Declaration of a New War ( Chapter 14 )

A Delayed Dawn

 

Disclaimer: Must I waste the space? Yes, I guess I do.

 

Warning: This story is posted in the mature section for good reasons. If ideas such as vulgar language, descriptive violence, and sexual situations such as rape disturb you, then you are warned now.

 

Chapter Fourteen A Declaration of a New War

 

Inuyasha fumed as he stomped away from the shrine. He couldn't believe the audacity of that woman. Sesshoumaru was going to kick all of their asses for this. At least they had an idea of where she was. If Sesshoumaru really wanted to go after her, then he could use The Toukens, or whoever to track her ass down. She could hide from the three of them, but she wouldn't be able to hide from The Toukens.

 

Sango and Miroku remained quiet. Neither of them knew what to do or say at the moment. Things were suddenly more complicated than they had been. They knew that it wouldn't take long before they just decided to storm the place and take Kagome as a prisoner. As kind as The War Dogs tried to be, it was still a war.

 

“Hey,” a familiar voice greeted them.

 

“Feh,” Inuyasha grumbled back.

 

Kouga looked at Miroku and Sango. “Where ya been? Heard you were in the area, thought you'd be around last night.”

 

“We got caught in the storm,” Miroku explained.

 

“Really? Did you find shelter or something?” Kouga asked. Miroku pointed over towards the shrine, which they could still see. Kouga realized where Miroku was pointing. “Shit. You were there? How the fuck did you manage to get through that barrier?”

 

Sango and Miroku exchanged looks. “Barrier?” They asked in unison. Neither of them had sensed or felt a barrier of any kind.

 

Kouga nodded. “Hell ya. Bastard of a barrier too. Even with all of the mikos around our compound, still haven't seen anything that strong. Not even that Kiki-ho had anything like that.” Kouga shook his head. “Well, doesn't matter. Glad to see you back and alive.”

 

Miroku chuckled. “Get used to it because we don't know how much longer we have left.”

 

Kouga cocked his head to the side. “Huh?”

 

“What he means is that when we get back, and have to report back to Sesshoumaru about our little excursion, we'll most likely be executed,” Sango explained. “We can only hope for a quick death.”

 

Kouga nodded. He noticed that Inuyasha hadn't said anything other than the feh and with his arms crossed; Kouga could tell what kind of mood he was in. “Okay. How about you hold off on your report for a while and hang out with me and the guys for a while. Kinda like a prepare-to-die party.”

 

“Fuck that,” Inuyasha sputtered as he pushed Kouga out of the way and continued his march toward the compound. Feeling a tingling sensation through his body, Inuyasha paused. He looked over at Kouga and he knew that Kouga felt it too. “What the hell?”

 

“Huge motherfucker,” Kouga commented. Kouga then shook his head. “No, a huge mass of motherfuckers.”

 

“Shit!” Inuyasha yelled. “They're heading this direction.”

 

Miroku looked behind him. “It's Kagome. They must have sensed her aura,” he told them.

 

“We've got to protect her,” Sango pleaded with them. Inuyasha nodded and all four of them sprinted toward the shrine. It didn't take long for them to get there, but the mass of demons they felt had arrived before they did. Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha ran up the steps. Kouga could only watch as they passed through that damn barrier. Kouga was left outside. He figured there was something he must be able to do.

 

At the top of the stairs, they found Kagome kneeling, surrounded by her arrows and bow in hand, aiming up at the army of demons that were descending upon her home. They watched as she fired one of her arrows, a surge of pink energy surrounding the arrow and exploding when it impacted with one of the demons, purifying it.

 

“Kagome!” Sango yelled, running up to her friend. “Are you okay?”

 

Kagome nodded. She saw Inuyasha and glared at him. “Damn things picked up my aura,” she said as if blaming Inuyasha for their predicament.

 

Sango nodded. She found a position and pulled out her guns, aiming and firing them at the demons. She was able to take a few out, but that was nothing compared to the number. “There must be at least a hundred, if not more!” She yelled out.

 

Miroku had also found a place for protection as he fired his gun at the demon army. Sango was right. They would run out of bullets before even putting a dent in their numbers. They would need backup and they needed it three minutes ago.

 

Kagome fired some more arrows. She knew that the weaker ones would be destroyed by the barrier, but the stronger ones could get through. The barrier was weaker near the top since not many demons flew into the shrine. And that was the method of entrance for these things.

 

Inuyasha stared at the massive demon army with a smirk on his face. For the last year, he hadn't been in a good fight, and he was itching for one big time. And now, he was getting his wish. While the majority of the demons were trying to fly in, he felt that some were trying to actually walk up to the shrine. He cracked his knuckles. Oh how he wanted to beat down on something in a little hand to hand combat.

 

Running over to the corner of the shrine property, he found a demon working on something. Inuyasha didn't care what it was. Running as fast as his could, his fingers and claws extended, his arm up high, the demon didn't even see it when Inuyasha attacked. He could only hear the echo of Inuyasha calling out the attack as he died.

 

“Sankontessou!” Echoed throughout the grounds. However, Inuyasha didn't realize that he was only in one corner of the grounds.

 

Kagome fell forward, her hands smacking into the ground. She shot her head up as the demons started chuckling above her. “NO!” She screamed out. Inuyasha turned to see what was going on. Kagome dropped her bow, and grabbed a couple of the arrows that she had stuck in the ground.

 

Standing up, she started to run over to one of the corners of the shrine. The demons realized that she knew. A swarm flew towards her. Kagome fell to the ground, stabbing one of her arrows into the dirt, creating a small barrier around her. She looked up the see the demons destroyed. Kouga stood there. With the large barrier down, he was able to finally join the fight.

 

Inuyasha started to walk over to where the larger mass of demons sat, waiting for their turn. But he stopped. He felt something, tugging at him. Did he miss a demon? Inuyasha spun around, and found that there weren't any demons near him. But he still felt it. Inuyasha walked around, using his senses to pinpoint the location of this strange feeling. He wandered around the shrine until he found the source. Walking inside he could see a faint red smoke slithering around the room.

 

Sango fired another bullet, killing one more demon. She aimed her gun again and pressed on the trigger only to hear a click instead of a bang. “Shit,” she proclaimed. Patting herself down, she found that she is without any more ammo. “Miroku, I'm out.”

 

Miroku shot down another demon. “I'm on my last round,” he told her. After that, both of them would be sitting ducks. Miroku took a quick sweep of the shrine grounds. Kouga was doing a pretty good job of protecting Kagome from some of the stronger demons, though she was holding her own. Sango was just hiding, her knife in hand. And Inuyasha. . . he couldn't see Inuyasha anywhere.

 

Kagome decided to use Kouga as a distraction. With him fighting the demons, she could hurry over and try to reset the barrier. Grabbing the last of her arrows, she stood up and ran toward the corner of the shrine. Kagome didn't sense the demon behind her. It shot something out at her, hitting her in the shoulder. Kagome screamed out in pain, falling onto the ground.

 

“Kagome!” Sango yelled, giving away her hiding position to the remaining demons still alive.

 

Miroku turned and saw Kagome lying in a puddle of her own blood. “Kagome-sama!” He called out. Sango and Miroku ran over to her, hoping that they could protect her. Kagome saw them, and with an arrow in hand, erected a barrier around the three of them. The barrier would only last as long as she was conscious.

 

He heard her scream. He could smell her blood. And that made something inside him react. Inuyasha slowly walked out. He looked up. Kouga was having a hard time taking the demons on his own. Sango and Miroku were trying to protect the injured girl, though he could see that it was her who was protecting them. Looking at the demon army, Inuyasha could sense their willingness to tear into them and feast.

 

He started to laugh, which caused the demons to focus their attention on him instead of the injured Kagome. As if a completely different being, Inuyasha reached over and grabbed the tilt of the sheathed sword. He pulled out the rusty thing and it was the demon army's turn to laugh at him.

 

“You think you can take us on with that?” They teased in their demonic voices.

 

“Nice sword,” another demon taunted.

 

Kagome heard their rants and forced herself to life her head up to look. She gasped at what she saw. That silver haired demon, the one Sango and Miroku had called Inuyasha was standing there, having found the one artifact she had. She cursed at herself for having it so easily obtainable. Now this stubborn hanyou was going to break it.

 

Inuyasha looked down at the sword he had in his hands. He held it out in front of him, both hands on the grip. He concentrated his demonic energy into the sword, his red energy mixing with the red energy of the sword he could see swirling around the blade. Come on. He silently said to both himself and the sword. He could sense the demons swarming in for the attack.

 

Looking up at the demons, Inuyasha smirked, he pulled back the sword and then in one quick swipe brought it down. Sango and Miroku covered their eyes from the flash the sword created. Kouga had disappeared as soon as he felt the energy coming from both Inuyasha and the sword. However, Kagome couldn't look away. It was amazing. She watched as the flash took out the entire demon army. And that was the last thing she saw before blacking out.

 

*Two Days Later*

 

Kagome eyes shot open to realize that she was in her room, lying in her bed. “Itai,” she yelped when she felt the pain in her shoulder. Reaching up she felt that she was bandaged up.

 

“Hey, you're up,” a voice spoke. Kagome looked over and found Sango standing in the doorway, closing the door behind her. “How are you feeling?”

 

Kagome rested her head down in the pillow. “Better,” she replied. “How long?” When she didn't get an answer, Kagome repeated her question. “How long have I been sleeping?”

 

“Oh, uh, two days now,” Sango said, setting down a bowl of soup on the nightstand before sitting down in the chair she had placed next to the bed. “We didn't think you would be up for another couple more days. I guess those miko powers of yours are pretty strong. You took a nasty hit from that demon. Even poisoned.”

 

Kagome listened to what Sango told her. She had decided. Kagome threw the covers off and quickly jumped out of bed.

 

“Whoa, whoa,” Sango started protesting, standing up, following Kagome over to her closet. “What are you doing? You should stay in bed.”

 

Kagome grabbed a shirt and pulled it on. Stripping herself of the pajama bottoms she figured Sango dressed her in, Kagome slipped on a pair of blue jeans. Reaching up to one of the shelves in the closet, Kagome grabbed a bag and stuffed a couple of shirts and some jeans into the bag. Sango watched as she went over to her drawers and grabbed some socks and undergarments.

 

*Downstairs*

 

Radio was the medium of choice now. Televisions had long disappeared. Miroku, Inuyasha and Kouga sat in the living room of Kagome's shrine, the drawl of the announcer filling the background with war and weather updates. They were all surprised to not hear anything about the attack that happened a few days back. No mention of a large demon army appearing in the outskirts of New Tokyo. It was learned long ago that one could `buy' false news. However, it didn't mean that it wasn't possible, and this might be the first case in a long time where someone paid a lot of money to ignore news reports.

 

“You are out of your mind,” a voice spoke from the staircase. All three men turned to see Kagome walking down the stairs with Sango right at her feet. “I don't want you to die,” Sango pleaded with the scientist.

 

“Who's going to die? Kagome?” Kouga asked as he looked at the beautiful miko doctor. He walked up to her, taking her free hand into his. “I would hate to see my potential mate risk her life.”

 

Kagome sighed, whipping her hand out of Kouga's. She turned and headed into the kitchen, Sango still shadowing her. “Kagome, what can I say to change your mind?”

 

Apparently, everyone was interested in what was going on. Kagome opened the fridge and pulled out a couple bottles of water. Heading to the cabinet, she pulled out some energy bars and anything else she could grab that didn't require much preparation. Turning, she found not only Sango, but Miroku, Inuyasha and Kouga standing behind Sango, all with curious faces.

 

“What's going on?” Miroku asked, trying to wedge himself into the tension between the two females.

 

Sango sighed. Kagome shot Sango a look telling Sango that if she said anything she would be on the receiving end of her miko temper, but Sango just couldn't let Kagome do something so ridiculous. Sango turned to face the three men standing behind her. “Kagome is going to go find this Naraku guy and tell him that she doesn't have the jewel and that the jewel doesn't exist.”

 

Kagome cursed under her breath. She wasn't going to stand here any longer getting lectured by people who just didn't understand. Kagome hurried passed Sango and thought she had made a clean break through the men when a force on her arm stopped her in her tracks.

 

“Are you a fuckin' idiot or do you just want to die?” Inuyasha asked her. Kagome couldn't look up at him. He actually had concern for her, she could tell by the soft tone he used.

 

Kagome shook his grip off of her. Rubbing where his hand was, Kagome stared at the ground. She didn't have an answer. Going to Naraku was the only thing she could think of. What was she going to do, run away each time he sent an army after her? He'd kill her for wasting his time. It seemed like a logical idea. Tell him that she doesn't have the jewel and that the jewel doesn't exist, to leave her alone and leave it at that. Kagome thought about saying that, but shook it out of her head. They couldn't understand. She started to head out of the house.

 

“I won't save your stupid ass if Naraku does anything to you, you got that wench?” Inuyasha blurted out. “I don't care.”

 

That stopped Kagome. She was fuming. Kagome spun around, her eyes narrowed, her body stiff and tense. She was never so pissed off at anything or anyone before. “Why you. . . “She started but then stopped. Her eyes went wide, her irritation with the hanyou morphed into shock. “You thief,” she called out. Stomping up toward the hanyou, she pointed. “You dirty rotten thief. You. . . “She could even finish.

 

Miroku was slightly confused. He wondered if he had missed something. “Uh, thief? Inuyasha?”

 

Kagome held out her hand. “Give it back,” she demanded.

 

Inuyasha looked around, even more confused than everyone else. “What?”

 

She sighed. What was he, three? These games were stupid. “What?” She asked. “The sword. You took it, now give it back.”

 

Inuyasha looked down at his side. Slid into his belt was the worn sheath that contained the rusty, yet powerful sword. He wasn't sure what had happened that day, all he knew was that the sword called to him and he destroyed the army. Things had been fuzzy for him. He still wasn't completely clear on what had gone on.

 

“This?” He said. “Fuck no. I'm keeping this,” he started. “I saved your sorry ass with this.”

 

Kagome blinked. She tried to think back to two days ago. Yes, the bright flash. She remembered. It was then that she was injured and it had been the last thing her eyes captured. Her current mental state switched from anger to curiosity, the only type of curiosity a scientist could have. Looking up at Inuyasha with bright blue-gray eyes, she had only one request. “Show me.”

 

Inuyasha nodded. He walked out into the living room area which provided more space. With his hand on the hilt, Inuyasha looked up at Kouga. “Attack me.”

 

Kouga almost had to ask Inuyasha to repeat his command. Almost. Kouga smirked with pleasure. Cracking his fingers, Kouga get into an offensive attack stance. Inuyasha pulled out the sword and concentrated his youkai energy into the sword. Kouga started to walk forward, but then stopped. He sensed it again. Everyone watched as the sword transformed from a piece of rusty metal to a large shiny sword that was at least double in size.

 

“Shit,” Kouga said. His youkai could sense the power coming from both Inuyasha and that sword. He wouldn't admit it, but it scared the piss out of him. He took a few steps back, not wanting any kind of accident.

 

Slipping on her glasses, Kagome walked up to the sword, inspecting it verbally. “I never thought I would see it,” she said barely loud enough for the humans to hear. “Tessaiga transformed.” But everyone heard it.

 

“I don't remember reading about any kind of sword transformation in your report Higurashi-sensei,” Miroku stated.

 

Kagome giggled. “That's because I purposely left it out.” She couldn't take her eyes away from the sword. Kagome examined as much of it as she could. It was breathtaking. She spiked her miko aura up some so she could feel the power of the sword without physically experiencing the receiving end of it.

 

Her miko aura danced with Inuyasha's youkai aura that swirled around the sword. Faint pink dancing with the intense scarlet red. She had to touch the smooth shiny surface of the transformed sword. Kagome reached out and touched the sword with a finger. Immediately, the sword transformed back into its rusty state.

 

“You fucking broke it? Stupid wench,” Inuyasha accused her.

 

Kagome heard what he said, but didn't have time to argue with him. Dropping her backpack, she headed over to the book shelf and started pulling off books, letting them fall onto the floor. No one said a word because no one knew what she was doing. She had already kept much from them, and now they wondered how much more she knew.

 

Once enough of the books were removed, Kagome pulled out a ratty notebook and opened it up. She found a pen on a table near the couch and flipped to a particular section of her notebook. Kagome started to scribble things inside it. Inuyasha and Kouga could hear her mumblings as she wrote.

 

“My assumption that a dog demon, or something related to the dog demon pack would be able to handle the dog demon sword is correct. The sword transformation is activated by the youkai aura of the demon, or in this case, a hanyou. Hanyou subject is half dog demon, half human. Sword reacts to opposing youkai energies, yet transforms back into rusty state near a human presence. At this time, the reason for the reactions to humans is unknown and will need to be studied furthered.” And once Kagome was finished, she dated her comments and closed the notebook up.

 

Looking up, she found Inuyasha had slipped the sword back into its sheath and was now standing only inches from her. Kagome hugged the notebook against her chest. She could feel him staring down at her, into her. Trying to ignore his looks, Kagome glided past him and went to grab her backpack. She hadn't forgotten about her trip to set Naraku straight.

 

“No,” Inuyasha said.

 

Kagome slipped the backpack onto her shoulder. Without looking at him, she replied, “You can't stop me.”

 

“Fine, you can go, but that notebook thing stays,” he told her.

 

Kagome shot her head up, her eyes meeting his amber ones. “You can't.”

 

Inuyasha took a step closer. “Oh yes I can. You lied to us. And Naraku will be interested in your little notebook. I'm under orders to make sure that I gather information concerning this jewel and the artifacts. And it looks like that notebook is full of interesting things.”

 

Inhaling a sharp intake of breath, Kagome stood up straighter. She wasn't going to let this hanyou intimidate her. “Listen here you. You have no right. You have no right to order me around; you have no right to my work. I don't care about your orders, get it? I just want to be left alone to do what I do.”

 

“Say whatever you want wench. But I always follow orders and I have never failed a mission,” his voice was low and dangerous, the words escaping from a small smirk. He was enjoying this.

 

Kagome wasn't one to back down. She looked at Inuyasha, her facial features soft, her eyes gentle and bright. “Like I said,” she said with a warm smile on her face. “I don't want to kill you.”

 

Before Inuyasha could counter, his ears perked over towards the radio, which had been on low volume. He had picked up on some familiar words. He headed over to the radio and turned it up, listening intently.

 

“. . . on a shrine outside of New Tokyo. The Gokusotsu gang has now claimed responsibility for the attack claiming they were destroying a weapon that was being developed that could destroy the mythical Shikon no Tama jewel. No word on whether the weapon claim is true or not, however, the subject of the Shikon no Tama has been an odd one. Leading scientists and historians claim that the jewel's existence is false since technology, leading monks, mikos and youkai can sense the jewel, and no detection has been made. On the same topic, leader of the Gokusotsu gang, Naraku, has declared his war against those who impede on his search for the Shikon no Tama jewel. No explanation about why he has declared war on those who wish to hinder his search for an object that probably doesn't exist. It is believed that the Shikon no Tama jewel will give any living being, human or youkai, incredible power. It is the opinion of this announcer that if such a jewel exists, whoever obtains the jewel will most likely be declared winner of this war. In Old Kyoto today . . . “

 

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome. “Still want to talk to that bastard?”

 

A/N: Well, finally something happened. I'm glad that you've stuck with me this far because the first 13 chapters were the setup chapters. Thanks for reading and reviewing. Take care and much happiness to all. So corny.

 

I can't get to reviews right now. I will get to them one of these days. I started a new job and it's killing me.

 

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