InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changes 'Till The End ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 6: Fight

"Can you tell me what's wrong now Kagome?" asked Sango. The group had met up in Kaede's village the day before, and this was the first time the girls could get alone. The two were sitting in the hot spring that was close to the village, both needing the break. The sun was almost ready to set, but they didn't mind.

Kagome sighed; she didn't want to think about it. But almost non-stop crying must have worried her friend; she could at least give her an explanation. "A few days ago Kouga came and took me away from Inuyasha, and he accidentally slammed me into the side of a mountain near his clan and he…and he…" the girl trailed off.

Sango touched her arm. "Tell me Kagome, maybe I can help."

"Because I tumbled and hit the wall so hard I lost the baby… " Kagome put her head in her hands, spilling a few tears. She couldn't change the past.

"Oh Kagome, I'm sorry." What else could she say? She didn't know that her friend was pregnant. `Maybe Inuyasha told her while they were alone on the rumor.' The exterminator was sure it must have been hard on her, but that wasn't really something they could replace.

"Are you okay?"

"I'll be alright soon." Kagome turned her attention to some bushes; she could have sworn they had just moved. Then a few yards away another bush moved. "I don't think we're alone, could it be Miroku or Inuyasha?" she asked.

"They would have told us it was they by now. I don't like this Kagome." She said, finally seeing a pair of eyes in the bushes.

The two had the same thought; they quickly got out of the water and dressed back into their clothes. There was another rustle of leaves before a certain baboon came out. Kagome and Sango stared at each other, not really knowing what to do. Then, what they assumed to be Naraku came straight for them.

Sango, never leaving her boomerang behind, picked it up expertly and flung it at the demon. It missed him by a few inches before it came back to her in half. Kagome had left her arrows with Inuyasha, and now she was helpless. And she still had the jewel shards around her neck.

Naraku was being silent as he moved closer to attack Kagome, ready to rip her in half before her aura exploded around her, forming some kind of blue shield. Naraku had to jump back to avoid crashing into it. Kagome didn't know what happened; just that she hadn't been hurt. She looked to see Naraku aim himself for her again.

Before he could move an inch, Inuyasha had appeared and started attacking Naraku. "Stay away from Kagome!" he yelled, holding the glowing sword in front of him. Miroku was not far behind. He ran to Sango who was sitting on the ground helplessly looking at her broken weapon.

"I want the jewel Inuyasha." He said dangerously. "And I'll do anything to get it." He took out a small, black orb from under his pelt, and threw it at the ground, causing a deep, black fog to settle on the surrounding area.

"Miroku, take the girls and get out of here!" he yelled. Miroku didn't waste a second while pulling Kagome and Sango behind him at a fast pace. They all wanted to stay to help Inuyasha, but their human lungs couldn't support the poison from the fog. The hanyou was on his own.

"When you die Inuyasha, I will have your wench dead and the jewel." He smiled evilly, before attacking Inuyasha with a sword hidden in his baboon pelt. He managed to cut Inuyasha's arm, leaving him bleeding. The attack wasn't strong enough to do much damage, but it did hurt him.

"Whom do you think you're fighting?" yelled Inuyasha as he swung his sword in his Kaze no Kizo attack. He managed to hit Naraku in the chest, shredding the pelt, revealing that it was actually Naraku, not just a puppet. The red spider mark on his back proved it.

`He has gotten stronger.' thought the half-demon. `But no match for me.' With that thought he threw his sword. Inuyasha quickly held up Tetsiga in front of him, holding off the attack with all his might. He finally managed to over throw the sword and it fell to the ground.

Inuyasha made his move, he ran straight for the demon before plunging the sword through his chest. Naraku instantly moved back, allowing the sword to slip out of him, his blood dripping out of the wound while two jewel shards fell from the cut to the ground. Naraku touched his wound, it wasn't too deep, but he'd rather fight off the hanyou when he was completely well and ready to fight.

"I'll return." He said before disappearing into the fog. A few seconds later the sky cleared, but all the surrounding shrubs and trees looked dead.

The hanyou quickly made his way to the two jewel shards on the ground, and then turned to run after Miroku, Sango, and Kagome. He hoped they were all safe and back in the village, but when Naraku was around, no one could be sure.

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Inuyasha found the group in Kaede's hut, talking with the older woman. `Must have come back from the neighboring village.' he thought as he entered. Kagome had Shippou in her lap, the kit was scared when he heard that Naraku had attacked the two girls.

"Ye say that a blue shield had formed around thee?" the old woman asked.

Kagome nodded. "When Naraku came at me, I just shut my eyes thinking I wouldn't see another day when it just formed. I don't know what it was, just that I didn't get hurt."

Inuyasha now had come to sit next to Kagome, taking her hand. Sango and Miroku, who were sitting on Kagome's other side didn't seem to notice, but Kaede hid her knowing smile. `Something has happened while I was away.'

"Don't you know what it is?" Inuyasha asked, trying to be civil to the `old hag' as he usually referred to her. Last week Kagome had a talk with Inuyasha asking him not to insult the people that helped them out all of the time. He had agreed hesitantly.

"I do not know Inuyasha. It be very strange." Kaede had some ideas, but she didn't want to startle the girl. The one solid thought that came to mind was that the girl's miko powers were finally getting stronger, to the point where she could protect herself. That was a very good thing.

"You're miko powers are revealing themselves, my child. You grow stronger by the hour."

Everyone looked shocked at Kaede's statement, but Kagome was the most surprised. Maybe being the reincarnation of a priestess paid off. "I could protect myself now." She stated, mainly for Inuyasha.

He nodded then took out the two jewel shards from his left pocket. He handed them to Kagome and she put them in her little jar. She knew that Naraku had the rest of the jewel shards. While she was up she noticed the fairly large cut on Inuyasha's right arm.

"Come with me." she said to the hanyou before taking her first aid kit from her bag. He followed her outside and to a tiny river that was in the forest named after him. "You're hurt." she said, pointing to the cut.

"I'll heal." was his only reply. "You wanted to bandage me up so you had to take me all the way out here?" he asked, looking around.

She looked him over, deciding that she didn't want his cut to become infected, half demon or not. She looked through the white box until she found some antiseptic, a bandage, and a cloth. "Take you shirt off." she told him. After he was bare chest, she dipped the small cloth into the water before running it over his cut.

"I'll be fine by tomorrow." He tried to pull his arm away, but she kept him still, now dipping a new cloth into the antiseptic. The white liquid had a strong, nasty smell to it, making his dizzy.

"This might sting." she warned, gently running the cloth over the cut, watching his face for a reaction.

"Doesn't hurt but it smells." the girl smiled. Then she took out the roll of bandage. "I don't need a bandage, the cut will be gone in an hour."

Kagome nodded and put the bandage away. There was another reason that she had asked the hanyou out here away from everyone else. She looked up at him before burying her self in his chest. Inuyasha placed his arms around the girl.

"I want to try again." she whispered. Inuyasha nodded into her hair, knowing what she meant. He kissed her forehead before deciding it was time to head back to the group.

"When you're in heat we'll try again." he told her. Kagome smiled, knowing that she only had about three weeks left until her normally timed period came, and a week and a half before that she went into `heat'. At least that was the schedule Inuyasha told her.

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"How are we going to get the rest of the shards?" asked Sango when the two had returned to the hut. They were all sure now that Naraku had the rest. Running around ancient Japan for nearly two years was worth it then.

"He'll come back to find us." stated Miroku.

"We have the rest of the jewel shards, and I bet that bastard doesn't want to wait much longer." added Inuyasha.

"He'll show up again, and that's when we'll defeat him." Miroku was happy that the jewel's quest was coming close to an end, after they defeat Naraku the hole in his hand, his `wind tunnel', would be gone. What a happy day that would be. He wouldn't die.

Sango looked at the monk, knowing what he was thinking about. She touched his holed hand gently, and smiled down to him.

"We'll defeat him." she told him. Than almost instantly all eyes turned to Inuyasha. Kagome, Sango, Miroku, and Shippou all stared at him.

"What!?" he barked.

Kagome looked down to her hands that were in her lap. "Do you still want to become full demon?" she asked him, not looking up. There was a pause. Did he really want to become full demon? He knew that he could protect Kagome well enough as a half demon. And she seemed to like him how he was. Why ruin a good thing?

"I don't know." Kagome wasn't shocked, she knew since their relationship took a good turn he didn't know what he wanted anymore.

"Then I'll protect it until we find a good use for it." she said, finally looking into his eyes. Shippou yawned from across the room and Kagome went to go pick him up. She smiled down to the warm kit in her arms. "Time for bed." she whispered. She knew that she had been neglecting the kit when she was surrounded by her problems, and she wanted to make it up to him.

Inuyasha smiled in front of his friends while watching Kagome, thinking of what a good mother she would become one day. The group had earlier decided that since there were three rooms in Kaede's small hut that Inuyasha and Kagome would take the room on the right, while Kaede had the largest room in the center, and Miroku and Sango would have the room to the left of Kaede's.

Kagome's and Inuyasha's room was just big enough for a futon and a small table. She crawled under the blankets of the futon with Shippou in her arms. Inuyasha lay down next to her, spooning himself against her back.

He nuzzled her cheek and let out a low purr to show her his contentment for staying near her. The girl giggled before kissing him and falling asleep. Inuyasha put one arm around her waist under Shippou before he dozed off as he usually did. `The next fight won't be easy.'

-

Sango was laying on her back under the blanket of their shared futon, no longer thinking it was risky to sleep near the monk. She sighed.

"Inuyasha has changed a lot since he mated with Kagome." she stated.

Miroku turned on his right side to be able to look at the woman next to him. He smiled. "It almost seems strange that he is acting more civil and showing more emotions, most being for Kagome."

The exterminator nodded at his comment, knowing it was so very true. Things had changed in the past three weeks, some for the better and some for the worst.

Miroku had something on his mind. "When we defeat Naraku, you'll have your brother back." He took her hand, showing her that he wanted to talk about it.

"I know." she smiled sadly, thinking back to the day when her brother was revived by Naraku to be used against them. She shivered at the thought of someone so evil doing something so cruel. "Could he live with us?" she asked, hoping that Miroku would agree.

Miroku couldn't believe she had to ask. He could feel the pain coming out of her eyes when ever someone would mention her family to her, he would never hesitate to make her happy again. "Of course, if that's what you want. Then I guess I'll have to build us a home too." he said, kissing her cheek.

Sango gave him a brilliant smile as she hugged him. "Thank you." she whispered.

He hugged her back, bringing her so that her head lay on his chest. "Sleep." he commanded. She put her arm around his torso before mumbling a good night.

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Ehh… I re-wrote some things in this chapter from the original one I posted, I also fixed some misspellings, hopefully I got them all. Hope you liked this chapter, since I am not good at fight sceens. Oh well, until next time.

- tarr-chan