InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Brother's Keeper ❯ It's Bad Enough Sharing Blood ( Chapter 6 )

Brother's Keeper

 

Chapter 6

“It's Bad Enough Sharing Blood”

 

Sota gasped in awe as the demon emerged from underneath the ground. As he took a step back just so he could see the entire demon, everyone else geared for battle. “Kagome, is there a Shikon shard on the demon?” Inuyasha asked.

“Hold on for one moment,” Kagome replied. A brief pause followed as Kagome searched the demon's body for a shard. The demon was about 25 feet tall, so it took her a while to scan the entire body. It had a very tough and tan-colored exterior around it. On it's back were what appeared to be stone pillars that came to a very sharp point at the end of each one. Even Kagome was in awe of the foe that stood in front of her. “Right there, behind his right ear,” she exclaimed. Inuyasha pulls out Tetsusaiga, revealing it as a huge fang. Sota became impressed again when he pulled it out. Kagome grabbed her bow and arrows, turned around, and said, “Sota, you and Shippo go find a place to hide.” Sota nodded his head in complete agreement. Shippo jumped on Sota's shoulder as Sota ran behind a giant boulder. He tried to stay as low to the ground as possible, but he still slightly showed his head so he could still get a good view of what was going on.

 

Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Kirara all tried to prepare themselves for the hard battle that fell before them. Inuyasha ran towards the demon, screaming at the top of his lungs as he did so. Kagome placed an arrow on her bow, and Miroku and Sango hopped on Kirara and took off. Inuyasha jumped in the air, ready to strike, but was easily batted down by the back of the demon's right hand. Being the stubborn demon that he is, Inuyasha hopped right back up and tried again, only to be swatted back down to earth. The demon then started marching towards Kagome, creating a minor earthquake with each step it took. Kagome took aim at the demon's chest, but it bounced off like a flea trying to tackle a grizzly bear.

 

Sango, flying on Kirara's back about 40 feet in the air, grabbed her Hiraikotsu tightly and prepared to chuck it at the demon. She grunted very heavily as she threw her arm across her body, releasing her heavy boomerang. It hit one of the spikes on the back and bounced off, but it was hit just right and with enough force to cause the spike to slowly break off the back. The demon became annoyed as Sango even surprised herself that she was able to do that. The demon turned his in Kirara's direction, and opened its mouth wide open, ready to launch an attack. Bright particles started to collect to form a ball at the front of the demon's mouth. The ball became increasingly bigger. Suddenly, a yellow beam shot out from that ball, and narrowly missed hitting Kirara by about three feet. “I don't care who you are! That was way too close for comfort!” Miroku said in reaction.

 

The demon kept marching onward, this time in Sota's direction. Kagome saw this and fired as many arrows as she could, as quickly as she could in hopes of creating a distraction from behind. However, this attempt was to no avail, and soon, Kagome ran out of arrows. Sota kept moving his head more upward to look at the demon, with his expression showing more and more fear. He slowly crawled backwards as the demon crept closer. The demon lifted up his right leg, ready to stomp Sota into the next life. Kagome saw this and screamed her brother's name as loud as she could, stretching out her right arm in an attempt to save him even though she was too far away to do anything. Her voice echoed through the forest.

 

The demon's foot started to come down. Sota closed his eyes as tightly as he could and put his hands together, almost as if praying that someone or something would save his life. The foot came closer, but suddenly, it was repelled back as a huge, light blue dome surrounded Sota, still in his little “prayer mode.” The demon was knocked backwards and came to a crash on its back. Everyone gasped in awe of what happened. Inuyasha saw this as the perfect opportunity, so his attacked the demon while it was down.

 

“WIND SCAR!!!” he shouted as three yellow blades came from Tetsusaiga and destroyed the demon. Pieces of the demon's body flew everywhere. Sota, unaware of what happened yet, continued to be in his state of hope, as flying pieces of carcass bounced off his barrier. Sota slowly opened one eye and came out of his hopeful stance, with the biggest look of confusion on his face. “Huh? What happened how come I'm still alive?” he asked in astonishment. He saw the path Inuyasha's attack made and assumed it was he who saved his life. “Wow! Inuyasha, you saved my life! I thought I was a goner.” This time, confusion was written all over Inuyasha's face. “You're crazy, little dude,” he said. Inuyasha saw that Kagome's arm was still extended with an open palm. “Your sister must have put up a barrier to protect you,” he tried to reason.

“What? Are you crazy? I don't have that power,” Kagome responded.

“Well then, how do you explain the barrier?”

 

Inuyasha and Kagome both took a look at Sota, which surprised him. “Did I really do that?” he asked himself.

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