InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Antiquitys Rune ❯ Taijiya no Mura ( Chapter 3 )

Dedication: To all those who are reading...

 

Antiquity's Rune

Chapter Three: Taijiya no Mura

 

 

They had walked in silence for quite sometime, each going through events in their minds; thinking of what was to come. Biting her lip slightly Kagome made a decision and her steps became smaller as she trailed behind Sango and began to walk instep beside Kiouyasha. Her chocolate brown eyes moving to the boy that looked so much like her...like Kikyou's Inuyasha, "Kiouyasha...do you really not remember us?"

 

The black haired boy noticeably huffed as his sharp black eyes shifted to glance towards Kagome, "No, I don't know you, I don't recognize you and I don't remember you, nor do I care to. Only reason I'm with you pack of wolfs is because..." His voice drifted off slightly, he wasn't going to say it, he wasn't going to tell this girl it was because he had a hope, somewhere that they would find Kikyou unharmed and since they were searching for what had happened to the village anyways, he mind as well tag along, "....because I have nothing better to do."

 

Kagome hid the look of shock and hurt that wanted to appear on her face as she swallowed hard, her voice a tiny whisper, "oh..." Shutting her eyes, her body stiffened as she increased the speed of her walk until she was walking several yards ahead of the group, a silent tear slid down her cheek to glisten in the moonlight. She did not know what she was thinking...no matter how much she wanted to be over him and move on with her life, he was there in her heart, tearing it to pieces. No matter how much she did not want to love him...she still did, she still wanted him to be hers...for him to love her and not Kikyou. Even this...Kiouyasha, as little as he was of the Inuyasha she knew, she still craved his love. Two years and still, she acted as if things had never changed. She thought she had become stronger and wiser in those years but now it seemed as if it had just been a wall; one that crumbled and disappeared when she was near him. Sniffing softly her gaze moved ahead of her and to a small forest. She had to control her emotions, better still; she had to get over everything. Inuyasha was gone and even if he were here, it would have never changed anything between him and her. It was something she had to except. Quickly she nodded confidently to herself, "I have to move on." And she would...or do her hardest pretending she had, maybe if she was good enough she could fool herself. Sighing softly at her resolve she felt a small weight lift from her, even if she was pretending, at least it made her feel a little better. Slowly her walk came to a pause and she frowned at the forest, looking over her shoulder as Sango came up behind her, "Was...this always here?"

 

Sango cased a glance at Miruko and then back to the forest, "Actually Kagome...it wasn't here a few days ago when we paused by..." As she spoke, Sango's hand moved, lightly touching the Hiraikotsu on her back as Miruko moved towards the forest with a slight frown. Pausing, he turned back towards the group,

 

"It definitely has an evil aura around it...I would suggest we go around but somehow I don't think that will be possible."

 

Biting her lip Kagome moved closer to the forest her brow dipping low into a frown as she moved to grip the bow and pull it off her back but as she did so a long tentacle snaked from the forest and curled around her leg with amazing speed. With a scream, Kagome was whipped of her feet and dragged into the forest. Quickly Kagome moved her hands to cover her face as she was dragged through scrubs and other unpleasant things; with a cry of pain her body was pulled across some other sharp rocks (her back was mostly saved by her backpack) and she twisted her hand back to try to get at the quiver of arrows. As her hand reached for one she was pulled up into, the air and her brown eyes widened as she looked at the large black ball of mass; it had wide glowing eyes and at least a dozen other tentacles. Wiggling in her stop, she released with some dread that as she was pulled upside down to hang over the yokai's mouth her arrows had fallen from the quiver and now littered the ground. Cursing softly underneath her breath she reached for the bokken and pulled it free. She was not sure what she would do with the weapon but as she pulled it free, the strangest thing happened. With a flash of bright light the sword changed into a real sword, a slim black handle wrapped with a satin ribbon around it with a blade twice as long that was a cool shining metal. Her lips parted in a gasp but her wonder was quickly lost as she was suddenly Sango's voice was heard,

"Hiraikotsu!"

The large weapon flew through the air towards Kagome and snapped the tentacle in half and Kagome began falling towards the creature's mouth, however the beast turned to confront the three people that had dared to attack it and Kagome bounced off its body, tumbling onto the ground. Quickly shifting to her feet, she ran from the creature but it seemed to sense her movements and quickly two tentacles launched towards her. Swiftly she jumped the first and in reaction to the second, she brought up the sword to hold before her, her eyes closing as she did so. As the second tentacle was about to ram into her she braced herself but she did not feel the impact, all she heard was a 'zing' and a sound which seemed like blood splatter followed by warm thick liquid on her face. Blinking open her eyes she watched as the monster failing tentacle began to glow white; this white light began to consume the creature and slowly Kagome turned to stare, her eyes wide with disbelieve, the sword slowly lowering to her side. If she had cared to look, she would have seen the look of wonder and shock on Sango and Miroku's face as they watched the yokai be swallowed up by the white light. When its whole body was consumed, it seemed to quiver and exploded into hundreds of tiny white lights that slowly drifted to the earth; as they did, the forest began to disappear as if being cleansed of its evil aura and demon that created it.

Kagome simply stood in her spot, parts of her body covered with the blue blood of the yokai. Swallowing hard her gaze was drawn to Miroku as he began to talk,

"Kagome! That was amazing...where did you learn to do that?"

Miroku probably did not realize how stupid his question was but Sango gave him a smack in the back of his head and an odd look to make him understand. Shifting, she moved to place her hand on Kagome's shoulder, "Are you alright Kagome?"

Kagome blinked and looked towards Sango and was in the act of licking her lips when it touched a blue blob of blood and she began to hack, "Ahhhhchhhk."

She began to bounce slightly and Miru quickly produced a white piece of clothe which Kagome snatched up and began to wipe her face off, shivering with disgust as she did so, "God, I forgot about this...the crazy demons and the blood and...intestines.."

Shivering again she finished wiping off her skin and handed the tainted clothe back to Miru, who quickly shook her head and held up her hands, "That's alright Kagome you can keep it."

Grinning weakly she muttered a thanks and pulled the backpack off her back and dropped it to the ground. The bag was torn and ripped in several places and already in a few hours, the bag had looked like it was several years older. Sighing she stuffed the white clothe into the bag and fixed a few straps before she flung it back onto her back and began moving around the now field like area, gathering of her arrows and putting them back into her quiver. She seemed to be going around in a daze; she still held the blood stained sword in her hand and did not even seem to notice. Sango and Miroku glanced at each other worriedly and slowly moved towards her while, Miru stood back and watched but before they would say anything Kiuoyasha seemed to appear out of the darkness his eyes narrowing on Kagome,

"What are you doing?"

Kagome did not even seem to hear him as picked up the last few of her arrows and placed them back in the quiver. Sango frowned at the boy, "Kiuoyasha, hush...you don--"

"I don't know what? That this girl shows some amazing abilities and now is acting as if nothing has happened. What the hell is wrong with her?"

Miroku moved to Kagome and placed his hand on her shoulder and the girl paused in her actions, her shoulders slumping as her head dipped low, her bangs shadowing her eyes as listened to the boy speak,

"What in gods name is the matter? She's acting like---"

"Shut UP!" Kagome twisted to glare at the boy, her sword coming up to point at him. Tears had appeared in her eyes and in all seriousness, she felt like throwing up. As she stared at him, she felt sicker and she spun away, shoving the bokken back into its sheath, as she did it returned to normal. Stalking away Miroku followed her and Sango stayed behind with Miru and Kiuoyasha,

"We'll stay far behind, let Miroku talk to her..."

When Kiuoyasha appeared to speak Sango just held up her hand, "Please be quite...you have no idea what this means to her. So just keep your mouth shut..."

Of course, Sango was not always so rude but lately she just could not handle the stress. Wrapping her arm around Miru's shoulders, they slowly began to follow Miroku and Kagome.


Walking beside Kagome Miroku slowly let his hand slide from her shoulder as he moved the staff at his side, "Kagome at you alright."

Shaking slightly Kagome stared at the ground as they walked, "Miroku, I...I can't be -him-"

Miroku glanced sideways at Kagome; he knew what she was referring to. It was achingly similar to Inuyasha's sword, the Tessaiga, but this wooden sword seemed to have purifying properties.
"Kagome, you are not him...I believe that everyone adjusts to a situation. You coming here, you were bound to develop new abilities...I think this one has come into being because you need to be here...and since your arrows was lost to you, your powers did what they had to keep you alive."

Huffing softly she glanced sideways at him brushing her black hair away from her face, "You think so? But...why that..."

Miroku nodded with a small smile, "Yes I think so...and who knows..." He didn't want to say it but secretly he thought it was Kagome's need to be closer to Inuyasha that made her powers express itself in such a unique way. Glancing behind them he gave a little nodded and the rest of the group began to walk faster to catch up to them. Shifting, Kagome adjusted her backpack,

"I...I just don't know what I thought this was going to be like...why did I think it was going to be like old times...better.."

Sango moved up beside Kagome and rested her hand on the young girls shoulder with a small smile, "Things change over time...for you things may have gotten better and for a while it was here as well. It's only recently that it's been like this." Of course, Sango knew that not really, what Kagome was talking about but she thought that perhaps being ignorant to situation may help a bit, plus that probably wasn't something Kagome wanted to talk about, not yet anyway.

As they continued to walk, the night seemed to get lighter and Kagome wondered when she arrived. How long had it been since she had been here? In addition, was it healthy for a young child being up all night long? Talking a glance towards Miru she noticed that the young girl and began to slump, moments later Miroku picked the young girl up and put her on his back, she gave a small protest but quickly became quite and began to sleep. Kagome only smiled slightly as they walked, her mind wanted to wander, back to the way, things were but she strengthened her resolve. She would not think of how things use to be or how she wanted them to be. This was now and she would have to deal with the things that came her way...the things that had already happened.


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Sesshomaru moved through the forest, his golden-amber eyes tracing the outline of the trees as he continued to walk, bending round tree branches and walking calmly over other moving things. Pausing in the middle of the woods his eyes narrowed as he a whip of light and suddenly turned cracking it back and to his left. The energy moved right through a tree and it began to fall away. Standing there was a girl with flowing black hair that reached her thighs, her eyes appeared to be black. She was wearing a Kimono that was black with white patterns along the sleeves with a white obi that had red and yellow patterns with some flower like patterns as well. She also wore Sashinuki Hakama, which was black as well. Her upper torso was covered in similar armour to Sesshomaru's own and hooked to her waist was a sword. Sesshomaru's expression did not change as he looked at the girl, "You should not be so careless Rin, if I were your enemy you would have been dead by now."

Rin's form shifted slightly to the right and suddenly from a branch above Sesshomaru the real Rin jumped from it's branch her sword ready to come down on Sesshomaru's head and the man stepped to the side and Rin's sword cracked the ground and she quickly she pulled it free and swung towards Sesshomaru's chest. Sidestepping his fist moved forward and stopped inches away from her face,

"As I said Rin you shouldn't be so careless, even if your illusions appear to be real they do not carry your scent and anyone such as me could easily find you."

Rin sighed as her shoulders slumped and she stepped back, the illusion of herself vanishing,

"Hrmp..."

Maybe Sesshomaru would have smiled but he only arched an eyebrow at the young girl as he stepped around her and began to walk. Slipped her sword back into its sheath she took a place just behind Sesshomaru and to his right,

"Next it shall be different Sesshomaru."

"Let's hope it is Rin or you will not survive long where we are going..."