InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Children of Light ❯ Chapter 30 ( Chapter 30 )

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A/N** Hi everyone! I know it's been a while (sorry, sorry, sorry) but I want you to know that I am still working on this story, it hasn't been forgotten, life's just been a bit crazy. I thought I'd post this chapter up though and give you all a little tease (I know, I'm awful) ;-)

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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.02.2005 | Updated On: 06.03.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 568 | Status: Work In Progress

Chapter 30

The blue Durango swerved dangerously on the highway, nearly taking out a telephone pole, as it raced towards the coast at high speeds.

“Inu Yasha! You okay?” Miroku gripped his friend's shoulder from the backseat of the Durango. Before mounting their rescue attempt, they had decided that they were definitely going to need some more leg room for themselves and the weapons, that were now stored in the back of the SUV. So they had stopped long enough at Inu Yasha's to pick up the truck he used on most of his outings for Sesshoumaru.

“Yeah, I'm fine.” Inu Yasha shook his head as he cleared his senses, regaining control of the car. “I…I felt Kagome for a sec. It was huge, but it's gone now.” Renewed hope and determination filtered through Inu Yasha's senses and seeped into his veins at the unmistakable feeling of Kagome. Except it wasn't just Kagome he had felt in that moment, he was sure of it. There had been something…different…about her energy.

“Don't worry Inu Yasha,” Sango reassured him from her place in the back seat next to Miroku. “She'll be okay. We'll get there soon.”

Kouga nodded his agreement from the passenger seat, not entirely trusting his voice or his thoughts at the moment. They were riding into the final battle. Again. He only hoped that this time the story would hold a different ending for all of them. Most importantly, he hoped to get Kagome back from Naraku, even if her heart belonged to another. A fact that had taken Kouga many lifetimes to finally come to terms with, but he would die to save her. Even if the women he loved, didn't love him back. And Naraku would finally pay. He would pay dearly for what he had done to all of them, once and for all.

Inu Yasha didn't respond to anyone as his intense gaze burned into the road before him. His ears lay plastered back against his head. His concealing beads tucked safely in his pocket next to the jewel, as his clawed hands gripped the steering wheel tightly while his foot pressed heavily on the gas pedal. Never knowing that right at that moment, for the first time since their awkward hostile alliance had begun centuries ago, he and Kouga, were in complete agreement.

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“Sir,” a guard came crashing through Naraku's office door.

Naraku looked up from his laptop and glared at the man before him. “What could be so important that you had to disturb me so recklessly?” He had been in the middle of planning what countries he would take over first with his new power once he got the jewel. Some of the European countries definitely had some bonuses. Food, culture, women and wealth oozing from its very pores. Maybe he would start with Italy, or Greece perhaps? Both were rich in all those things he loved.

“Sorry sir, but it couldn't be helped.” The guard swallowed nervously. “There…there's been an incident.”

“Incident?” Naraku's eyes lost their heated angry glare as a cold curiosity took its place. “What kind of `incident'?”

“The women sir. She's missing.”

“WHAT!?!” Naraku leapt from behind the desk so fast his leather chair crashed to the ground as it knocked itself over behind him. “What the hell do you mean she's missing!?” The fury in Naraku's voice was enough to freeze the guard in his place as he began counting down the seconds of what remained in his misled life.

“We…we don't know what happened sir. We found Hojo behind the warehouse. He's unconscious. They're not sure if he's going to make it.”

“I don't care about Hojo, tell me about the girl!” Naraku forced himself to remain calm. It was of no concern to him if Hojo had been eliminated. In fact, it would be doing him a favor, taking care of one less loose end. Hojo had always been a poor excuse for a lackey, but the boy knew people and he knew how to get information with his boyish charm. When Naraku had discovered his connection to Kagome, he had used Hojo to infiltrate the little group and promised him that he could have Kagome once their operation was complete. Not only was the boy probably dead, but he was an idiot too.

“Yes sir, they went down to check on her, and well, somehow she's gotten out of her chains. The door…well sir, the door was ripped off its hinges actually. We don't know where she is.”

Naraku looked mildly surprised. Did Kagome receive help from the outside? Was her poor excuse of a demon lover already here? No, if Inu Yasha had been on the base already, he would have been smashing down his door by now. No matter.

“Get the troops ready. I have a feeling we're about to have company very soon and I'm sure the girl will be with them.”

“Yes sir, right away sir.” The guard turned and hurried out the door, relieved to know that he had managed to escape with his life and body intact.

Naraku turned to face the window of his ocean view. He caught his reflection in the glass and smiled as he thought of the hanyou and his friends who were most likely at his very doorstep. He had a couple of surprises waiting for them.

He smirked at what was to come as he offered a silent thanks to whatever sinister god had been smiling down on him as of late. He had destroyed their annoying little self-righteous group once before, and he was about to do it again.

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“Well, what do you think? You think he knows we're here?” Kouga grinned from his crouched position behind a thicket of bushes that were nestled atop a hill, giving them all an excellent view of the base below.

There were a number of warehouse's scattered to one side of the base, closer to the forest. The opposite side, that faced the ocean, had a larger building, several stories high. Most likely where Naraku and his employees worked most of the time. Moments ago, the base had erupted into frenzied action as a loud wailing siren tore across the entire base. The alert was being broadcasted through speakers posted on tall poles, while red and blue lights flashed at various positions throughout the base. As soon as the alert had gone off, humans and demons below had begun running around, some in a panic, others in a more organized formation.

“Yeah, I'd say our covers blown.” Inu Yasha clenched his fists as he gripped the Tetsusaiga at his side. Kagome's bow and arrows were strapped securely to his back. He had left his red leather jacket in the truck and was now only wearing his blue cargo jeans and white, sleeveless shirt. His lean taut muscles flexed under his skin as his body prepared itself for the battle ahead.

“Well then, better not keep him waiting, eh Inu?” Miroku winked at his friend as he clasped his staff tightly in both hands. It seemed fitting somehow that he was wearing his purple button up dress shirt over his dark jeans, while Sango hung on tightly to Hiraikotsu over her shoulder, her pink tank top and black jeans showing off the lean muscles of years of intense training. She quickly threw her hair up into a high ponytail on top of her head to keep it out of her way.

“Let's kill this fucker!” Kouga growled, having tied his own hair back in a low ponytail. His dark pants and soft brown shirt seemed to make him look more like the wolf he was then ever before. He didn't have a weapon per say, except for his strength, his claws and his unnatural speed.

Inu Yasha roared as he lunged forward, bursting through the concealment of the bushes. The demons on the outer edge of the perimeter didn't know what hit them when Tetsusaiga's Cutting Wind attack turned them to ash.

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Kagome could hear the squealing of the sirens as the alert was sounded. They must have discovered Hojo and her missing. She hadn't meant to hurt him, even if he had deserved it. But she had, had no control over it.

One minute she was struggling against Hojo, fighting to keep him from taking her back to Naraku, when something inside her had simply erupted. She had known it hadn't been her energy. She felt Inu Yasha's power come flying out of her when it sensed her panic and her fear. Apparently, having called on Inu Yasha's power once, had allowed an opening for it to travel through without Kagome's knowledge. Her mate's power had sensed she was in danger, and her mate had done what any good mate would have done. He had protected her.

Kagome had awakened next to Hojo's unconscious body; the force of Inu Yasha's power briefly knocking her out. She wasn't sure how long she'd been unconscious, or how far she had run when her breath finally gave out. She didn't want to think about Hojo, about the betrayal. Had Inu Yasha's power killed him? Was he okay? Kagome cursed herself for caring. She had more important things to worry about right now. She had to find Inu Yasha. Together they could come back and take care of Naraku.

A loud and familiar roar in the background, coming from the direction of the base, shook her out of her thoughts.

“No…it…it can't be.” Kagome quickly turns to face the direction of the camp and sends her energy flying over the forest and across the fields, back to the base camp she had just escaped. Immediately she feels four very familiar auras. “But…how?”

Kagome's eyes widen in joy and surprise when she realizes that they had indeed found her. Inu Yasha was so close.

“Oh no…”

A startling realization sends Kagome reeling back in her thoughts as she comprehends her situation, and where she is, for the first time. She is in the forest, while her loved ones are battling Naraku. Again.

A bout of dizziness begins to shake her senses as the cries and screams of the battle begin to reach her ears. The similarities between this battle and their last continue to swarm in her mind as fleeting memories momentarily assault her senses. Looking up towards the faintly dimming sky, through the break of the branches overhead, she can see that the sun is just over an hour or so away from setting. Smoke begins to rise through the trees as the battle at the base rages on and Kagome's heart squeezes in her chest.

“Wait…please, hang on…don't…” she bites the inside of her cheek and pushes herself harder as she flies through the forest with an unnatural speed. He body teeters on the edge of exhaustion from the exertion. “No…it can't be. I won't…I won't let it. Not again!”

Tears slip freely from her eyes as she continues to race through the forest, praying to all the gods she knows and to any listening entities, that they watch over her loved ones until she can reach them. Finally she spies the edge of the forest and the beginning of the base just ahead, when a very old and very familiar feeling of the earth suddenly shaking, sends her catapulting through the air and over the brush to an open clearing. She lands with a thud against the hard cool earth. Rocks scratch at her legs and her arms.

Kagome closes her eyes and prays that no piercing cackle echoes through the air.