InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Back to you ❯ Caught in the Crossfire ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer: Oh, yeah I don't own InuYasha but I do own the rights to this story save for the characters!

Yep, here's the next chapter to the story. NOt too much clearer, but a filer. I've put some very important information in this chapter and I hope that you like it! SO HERE IT IS!

Back to you

By Miztikal-Dragon

Chapter Eight: Caught in the crossfire.

T he next think she knew she was at the bottom of the bone eater's well, her sundress completely ruined. Looking up she saw the darkness of the well house, Kagome was back in her own time. Frantically getting on their feet, she began to climb up the side of the well, she had to go back. Sango need help and Kagome knew that it had been InuYasha who called out to her..

It had to have been

Reaching the top, Kagome let herself drop back down. This time she wasn't surrounded by the usual calming deep blue light. NO, she hit the bottom hard. Crying out in frustration, Kagome pounded her fists again the bare soil, tears pouring down her face.

"NO!" She said hoarsely, "NO! Please god NO!I have to go back! I need to see InuYasha.Let me go backPlease!"

Soon after what seemed like hours, Kagome's sobs had began to cease as an intense fatigue settled in her body and heart. She closed her eyes and prayed for InuYasha's safety as her body went numb and she fell into the black hold known to her as unconsciousness.

Oo I hopelessly, helplessly, wonder why. Everything gotta change around me. I'd tell it to your face, But you lost your face along the way. And I'd say it on the phone, If I thought you were alone. Why do things have to change? oO

What time was it? He had lost track. Kagome had gone missing and he was very worried for her safety. The police had said that they couldn't do anything after only six hours, that Lee would have to wait two days until they could put her as a missing person.

He was pacing back and forth, his eyes darting around the room. Thoughts of worst case scenarios kept popping up in his distressed mind, images of Kagome's dead body somewhere in the streets of Tokyo. His stomach heaved and Lee dashed towards the kitchen, just barely making it to the sink, he purged.

After ridding himself of all the contents of his stomach into the kitchen sink, he wiped the bile from his lips and turned on the water to wash out his mouth. Once that was done, he sluggishly drifted back into the living room where he collapsed on the couch; the telephone only in an arm's reaching distance.

Grabbing the television remote from the coffee table, Lee turned on the TV. and changed the channel from non-stop cartoons to the news network. After a few minutes of mindless babbling, a news reporter broadcasted the crime scene of a horrendous murder of a innocent bystander.

"This morning at around eleven o'clock, a young police officer was gunned down by a gang member on thirty-fifth avenue and Northern." Lee let out a heavy sigh as the man continued, "Mr. Koga Ookami was off duty when he was fatally shot several times from point blank range. Witness' say that the man who shot the officer then fled into a near by weapon store where he then continued to throw things about before shooting himself.Paramedics say that the suspect is in critical condition and he was taken to Tokyo General where he will be under intense care and guarded by policeMore at ten.back to you Sakura.."

Turning off the television, Lee got onto his feet and went up to Kagome's room hoping that he had just been dreaming. That his niece was asleep in her bed, but when he opened her door the room was empty. He wasn't dreaming, she really was missing. Going over to her window he looked out, it would be getting dark soon and Kagome had yet to return.

Glancing around, he spotted the well house, he used to hide in there when he was young, playing hide and seek with his older brother and father. Snapping out of la la and he saw something move near the open door of the well house.

'Maybe Kagome's in there!' he told himself as he left Kagome's room and went down the stairs, 'Or maybe it's one of those damned stray cats that she's been feeding!'

Pulling on his shoes and getting a flash light out of a near by cabinet, Lee opened the back door and slowly made his way towards the well house, A nagging feeling deep within his stomach, well he only thought it was nagging until it growled, and loudly at that. The gravel crunched noisily as gooseflesh crept up on his arms. Here it was July, and yet it was getting cold instead of hot. Where's irony? The hypocrisy? Turning on the flashlight, he pointed it into the darkness as he climbed up the two or three stairs as he entered the well house. Shining the light around the room, he called out,

"Kagome?" He said, "Kagome are you in here?"

No response.

Taking a good look at his surroundings, Lee could see bloodstains all around the well, they had to have been a little over a month old, but there was so much; it looked as though someone was brutally murdered in such a small place to boot. A shuffling sound could be heard coming from inside the well along with a faint whimper. Cautiously going over to the side of the well, he took one more quick glance around the dark room before he adjusted his eyes and shinned the flashlight down into the depths of the bone eater's well. His eyes widened in horror at what he saw.

".K..Kagome?" He choked out in a hoarse whisper.

Oo But you don't need my pictures on your wall. You say you need no one. And you don't need my secret midnight call, I guess you need no one. Is anybody waiting at home for you? Cause it's time that will tell if it's heaven if it's hell or if its, Anybody waiting at home for you? Cause it's time that will tell this tale. oO

Miroku had woken up to his wife's warm body tightly pressed up against his, a smile came to his lips as he leaned over Sango and kissed her forehead. She really needed some rest. Carefully removing his arm from around her waist, the monk climbed out of the futon bed and leisurely put back on his robes and looked down at his feet.

'Hey I'm still wearing my sandals, a new record.' He told himself as he grabbed his staff and walked out into the open, chuckling just a bit.

"How's Lady Sango feeling?" A male villager asked as Miroku passed, "She looked a little ill earlier when she returned."

"She wore herself out," Miroku smiled rubbing the back of his neck, "She's okay, a little rest and she'll be as good as new."

The villager laughed as the monk continued on down the road. He really wanted to find out why Sango had been so distressed. Looking down as something brushed up against his leg, he saw a untransformed Kirara. He smiled as he stopped to pick up the neko youkai and place her on his shoulder. As soon as he had left the village, Miroku petted Kirara, he was heading towards the bone eater's well.

"So Kirara, you were with Sango when something had happened right?" He asked curiously.

The cat mewed in an affirmative

"Does it have something to do with Lady Kagome?" How he was able to understand the youkai's answers was confusing, but he did. The cat mewed again.

"Did something bad happen to Lady Kagome?" the monk guessed.

They had reached the bone eater's well a few minutes later and yet Kirara gave no affirmative, but the monk noticed how the neko tensed up and he could hear the low threatening growl that his companion was emitting.

"Come out at once," Miroku said loudly as he looked at the sword embedded in a tree behind the well, "I can sense you Tsubaki so show yourself!"

"Aye monk," A woman's voice cooed, "Ye have remarkable powers, but yet yer still weak without yer wind tunnel aren't ye?"

Miroku shifted his weight uneasily as Kirara jumped onto the ground and transformed into her true size, fangs barred and her claws digging into the soft soil.

"How did you know of that curse?" Miroku asked glancing around, "You are supposed to be deceasedIn an urn.. Didn't InuYasha slay you over eleven years ago?"

Laughter could be hear all around him and it made his skin crawl as it turned practically into loud cackling.

"Yer as smart as Naraku explained," Tsubaki said as she appeared out of the darkness, sitting lazily on a tree branch a few feet away from him, "Aye, I was brutally slain by that worthless hanyou InuYashaBut I was given lifeI cheated death in hell for an eternity! I no longer live off the souls of young maidens.. My beauty and all of my powers have been restored and surpassed their original state.."

"Then why did you chase after the wolf youkai Ayame?" Miroku asked standing behind an angered Kirara, "I doubt that she played any part in you malicious plans."

"Malicious?" The evil priestess laughed, "Ye call mere coincidences malicious?" She paused looking down at her finger nails before continuing, "But yer wrong young monk.Those wolves fit perfectly in with my plans, though 'Ayame' as ye call her got what she deserved when she tried to flee from InuYasha and Koga's fight to warn yer village"

"Where's InuYasha?" Miroku questioned arching one of his eyebrows, 'This priestess knows something shoe's not telling. What is she hiding and how is Naraku involved in all of this? Did he revive her or something?'

Tsubaki grew serious as she disappeared from the tree and reappeared in front of the monk. He had a cocky tone in his voice and she didn't like it at all. He was after information, probing for what she knew and he was being very cautious about his surroundings. It made her angry at his intelligence, or was she just over exaggerating, too paranoid.

"He is out of the way for now," She said seductively as she touched the tip of Miroku's staff only to get a jolt of electricity throughout her body. "But tell me monkWhere is Kikyo? Why did she just disappear from this world once she fell down the bone eater's well? Where did she go?"

"Kikyo?" He asked unsurely, "Kikyo is dead. I do not know of whom you're talking about, but the priestess Kikyo died about twelve years ago by the hands of the half demon Naraku."

"Then who is the girl that yer wife protected?" Tsubaki hissed getting irritated very quickly, "Why was this 'Kagome' so important to InuYasha, yet can be the exact double to that of a dead priestess? Tell me this monk!"

Not wanting to divulge any information, Miroku planted his staff deep into the soil and pulled out a few spell sutras, throwing them at the undead priestess. Tsubaki screamed as the paper cut her skin, she was caught in a tornado of the monk's hidden powers as the spell sutras sliced her face, altering her mask. She hid her face in her hands as her concealing spell wore off. Her once extravagant looking face and pale complexion dried up and cracked before shattering into hundreds of pieces.

Her once black hair faded gray as her skin wrinkled with age. Miroku gasped at the undead woman's now haggard appearance. Tsubaki's face was covered by four enormous claw marks that covered the whole left side of her face and most of the right.

"What have ye done to my beautiful face!" She screamed as the gray flames flickered fiercely around her body. "Ye've ruined my ageless beauty! Ye ungrateful piece of shit!"

Pulling his staff out of the ground, Miroku charged the occupied woman and struck her head with his staff. When an unnatural force pushed the monk back, almost knocking him off his feet, the impression of the staff on Tsubaki's face could be seen clearly as her now blood red eyes glared daggers at him.

"Ye will pay for what ye've done to my face monk!" The evil priestess screamed hoarsely as a thick miasma seeped out from the forest, "Ye'll pay for what ye've done to my face! Expect the unexpected monk!"

He covered his mouth and nose as the poisonous gas shot at him, blowing his tied back hair in his face. He could hear Kirara's thunderous roar to his side, and Miroku quickly went to the neko youkai and climbed on her back as he humped into the air. The monk coughed and his eyes watered, the priestess had done something or maybe Naraku was to blame because Tsubaki had way too many characteristics of that evil hanyou Naraku. Coincidence or not, Miroku had to get to the bottom of this and quickly.

Oo You're in and out up and down, Wonder if you're lost or found. But I got my hands on you. Are you strong enough to tow the line? Are you gonna make me yours, Or do I make you mine? I'm in and out I'm up and down, Wonder if I'm lost or found. But I need your hands on me now. oO

OKay so that's what you get! XD I know, I'm just horrible! but don't worry the next chapter is better.. Not too much angst, but that's what I'm good for.. So see you next week. Scenery changes are "Hopeless" by Train.

Chapter Nine: Tension and a "visitor"

Until next time, Krystal.