InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Demons, Inc. ❯ Chapter 09: Inuyasha and the Case of the Two Kagomes (at Which Point He Nearly Has a Heart Attack) ( Chapter 9 )
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By: Stars Came Out 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.24.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 5.6K | Visits: 196 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 05.24.2009 | Pages: 4 | Words: 5.6K | Visits: 196 | Status: Completed
DEMONS, INC.
Chapter 09: Inuyasha and the Case of the Two Kagomes (at Which Point He Nearly Has a Heart Attack)
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Inuyas ha grumbled, paced around the room, and waited for his computer to finish its current task. After his outrageous credit card bill, he'd demanded to know who the hell had bought a car with his money. So he started by going to the dealership where it had been sold, and he cornered Douglas and made him relinquish information regarding the recent purchase. (Of course, Inuyasha didn't even think to ask for a description of the person who had made the purchase.) Then Inuyasha discovered that the car was equipped with a GPS navigation system, at which point he downloaded the software to track the car onto his computer. Now he was waiting for it to locate the car. Then he was going to go after the car and smash its windows out, and maybe afterward throw rocks at whomever had purchased it. In the meantime he paced angrily.
Sango and Miroku were off looking for clues to Kagome. Luckily, Sango had never been legally connected to Kagome in the first place---as a matter of fact, no one ever realized she'd gone with Inuyasha and Miroku to begin with---so she safely went back to her restaurant and listened intently to gossip while Miroku checked out backlogs of newspapers in the library. No one would ever realize it was Miroku. If they did, they would probably faint in surprise to find he was not looking at something naughty. Shippou was in the kitchen dumping orange after orange into his new juicer. Sometimes the little machine made incredibly terrible noises, since Shippou decided all good orange juices needed a pureed gem stone to improve the flavor. Gem stones, as one might guess, do not especially like to be pureed. Actually, they downright hate it. Shippou, being a gem stone bully, took delight in their awful agony.
Inuyasha paused, suspicious, as his brand new car was located. He narrowed his eyes. Demons, Inc. headquarters? He wondered if this was maybe a trap. He frowned.
"Shippou! Hey, cut the fuck out whatever you're doing in there! Damn kids," he swore. "I'm going to go smash out some windows! Stay here in case the others come with news about Ka-Kagome. You got it, punk?!"
"I got it, Inuyasha. Bring me some ice cream on your way back. And some more oranges, please!"
"Yeah fucking right," Inuyasha replied with a snort. Grabbing a baseball bat that was autographed by the latest baseball heroes (thanks to Shippou's infomercial habits) he headed for the door.
"If you try to tie me to that chair, you're in for a world of trouble!" she shouted. She was desperately trying to think of a plan.
Why wasn't her horror movie wisdom coming to her? Oh yeah. This was the part where the heroine of the film gave up and got decapitated or punched through with kitchen knives. Only she was getting the Special Therapy Machine (another scream from far away).
"Horror movies have finally failed me! I feel so betrayed!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, swearing she would only take advice from action movies henceforth, as she gave one more valiant kick. Her foot landed in Manten's mouth and she was rewarded with a high-pitched squeak and the satisfying crunch of a breaking tooth.
"FUCK! You exposed my nerve you unforgivable little bitch!"
"Yay, go me!" Kagome shouted with the enthusiasm of a cheerleader doing a cheer, as Kagura and Hiten held her forcefully back against the bench. She kicked and screamed like an eight year old boy about to get a haircut.
"Manten, fucking put the straps on!" Hiten roared, straining to keep Kagome contained. Hiten was covered in an array of needle thin scratches and the tip of his ear had been ripped off. Kagura had turned into a walking bruise during this encounter with Kagome, and Manten had a few bloody decorations as well in addition to his recently broken tooth. Naraku's elite warriors had never been so close to defeat.
Naraku was standing in the doorframe, eyes and nose shadowed, with his arms folded. His mouth arched up into a brief smirk. "This has been quite entertaining, Kagome. But now it's time."
"I hope you know I'm impervious to all forms of attack except being fed chocolate cake," she snarled. "So if you want to do me any damage, bring me a cake!" She was so tired by that point that the wounds Kagura had left on the side of her face were numb, even though she could feel thin strings of blood attached to the curves of her face. "And you know what, I'm still sex-ay!" she added. She also decided she should have definitely taken over the world before attempting to avenge herself with Naraku.
Naraku chuckled. "Begin at your leisure, Kagura."
As Kagura, face blank and noncommittal, approached with the metal arm, Kagome deliriously wondered what had ever made this seem like a good idea at all, and why the other Kagome hadn't mentioned this machine. (Never mind the horrified screaming.)
"I'll never tell! You can't take that away from me!"
Inuyasha was a bit baffled, but pursued anyway. The woman eyed the baseball bat in his hand. "Look, bitch. Someone used my fucking credit card to buy that damn car and I want to punch his fucking face into the floor! Do it or I'll smash your computer!"
"No!" she screamed, diving protectively over it. "I won't let you!"
"Tell me!"
"I don't know! Go into the hallway and find him yourself!" she pressed a button and the card-key reader's light turned green from red. "Just don't touch my computer! It has my latest fanfiction on it!"
"Whatever, I don't even care," Inuyasha said as he waltzed into the hallway. "What the hell? Do I have to fucking check all the rooms?!"
Then he noticed that a door on the stairwell had been screwed off its hinges. As he went over to investigate, he further noticed the door smelled much like his aftershave.
"What the fuck?" he said. "Who would dare use the same smell as me?! That's it, you're going down, you little shit!" he said. He swung his baseball bat high into the air, smashed the side of the doorjamb for no good reason, and pelted down the stairs with a mighty war cry.
He stumbled and blinked in the sudden darkness as he entered the dungeon.
"Hello?" a female voice called out from the second cell. Inuyasha approached and leapt back a foot in surprise at the shadowy girl inside. "Hi, I'm Kagome."
"What? Ka-Kagome?! How the hell did you get in here?!"
"Well, I was abducted, but I'm not really sure about the details since I lost my memory." She smiled cheerfully.
Inuyasha slumped back against the wall with a goofy smile. He couldn't believe his luck. He was going to get to smash out windows and rescue Kagome! (He was never very good at connecting the dots; if the picture made a circle, he would probably wind up with a highly complex cube contained within a pyramid, or possibly an ice cream cone.) Without further ado, he crushed the bars that the other Kagome could have quite easily slipped out from.
"Thank you," she said happily as she stepped over the wreckage, still looking shadowy in the guttering torches on the wall. Inuyasha squinted at her. "I sure wish Kagome had done that before she had left, so I could leave this place!"
"Hang on a minute! You just said that you were Ka-Kagome!" He took a whiff and decided she smelled decidedly unlike Kagome. So he made the daring decision that he would never tell Kagome he had mixed her up with another girl. That could lead to horrendous "revenge" from her.
"I am, but there's another one, too."
"Oh God, no...you're fucking kidding..." His eyes widened in horror. One Kagome was manageable (after tranquilized, zonked out in front of the television, maybe), but two? He couldn't handle two of them. "There just can't...how the hell are you multiplying?!" He grappled with the wall, trying to support his immensely strong demonic self. He felt a little dizzy and thought maybe the world was going black on him. (He is very melodramatic.)
"We're not multiplying. Anyway, I will probably be the only remaining Kagome after today. She told me she was going to kick Naraku's bum-bum, but that was some time ago after they took her to the---" She shuttered. "I can't even say it."
"Where did they take her? What do you mean only Ka-Kagome remaining?"
"Well, she's probably been tortured to death by now!" the other Kagome said cheerfully. "I'll go wait upstairs with the darling secretary. Maybe I can get a role in her fanfic."
"Shit!" Inuyasha yelled. "Where the hell is Ka-Kagome?!"
The other Kagome shivered again. "Just follow the scent of DESPAIR!" she screamed before darting away.
"Wait a minute...This is a common misconception...despair doesn't actually have a scent. Some animals can detect fear by the---"
"I don't even care!"
"Tell us, Kagome. Don't you remember yesterday? Do you really want to repeat that?" Kagura looked somewhat unbelieving.
"I don't know anything about a Shikon Jewel! I've never even heard of it before!"
"Oh yeah? Then how did you know it was mined in Brazil?!"
"I didn't know that! I guessed that!" Kagome shouted. The knife made a small slice in her chin.
"Crap, I forget how fragile humans are..." Kagura grumbled as Kagome let off an impressive gasp, like a teapot about to whistle.
"Why is this even so important anyway?" she growled as she tried to smash her head even further back into the chair, away from the knife. Hiten and Manten were still glowering nearby, warily watching Kagome to ensure she didn't escape.
"That's not your business."
Naraku frowned suddenly. "I have some other business to attend to," he said as he glanced at the face of a cellular phone briefly before replacing it in his pocket. "Please continue without me and deliver a report later. If she does not talk by the end of the day, we'll assume she's not lying. Kill her."
"That's harsh!" Kagome shouted after him. "I hope your dog dies, Jimmy!"
The air seemed to turn even colder as everyone around her held their breaths, so tense that not a muscle stirred; everyone was entirely still. As a matter of fact, Kagome was sure she could hear hearts beating. Naraku's back had gone rigid and he had lost a bit of his fluid grace. She watched him out of the eye that hadn't swollen shut yet from Kagura's scratches. When he slowly turned on his heel to face her, his mouth was in a grim, peaceful line but his eyes were livid.
"What did you say to me?" he asked, deathly calm, as if asking about some trivial matter, like what time Kagome would like to be over for tea.
"I'm not sure, I think I said I hope your dog dies," Kagome said, trying to remember if that had, indeed, been the insult she had chosen to use. She had plenty of them, and she usually just let whatever wanted to be said get said. "But it's possible I said a pox on ye."
He walked slowly towards her. Kagura, Hiten, and Manten backed off rather immediately as Naraku's shadow fell over Kagome. He stared down at her and Kagome's heart beat painfully in her chest. He grabbed her by the arm and ripped her easily from the bench, causing Kagome to cry out at the sudden pain as the straps snapped.
"Holy mother of pearl! Jeez, I didn't know it was a sensitive subject!" Kagome said, voice a higher octave than normal with hysteria.
"I tolerate no one speaking illy of my dog," he said. He threw Kagome against the far wall with a blast of black energy that crackled. A sickening snap echoed throughout the room; after a moment had passed, during which the misty remains of Naraku's spell energy disappeared smokily into the air, Naraku approached Kagome's still body. Coldly, eyes narrowed fractionally as he looked down at her, he pressed a foot against Kagome's face until her jaw popped like a gear coming out of place. "Not even in death will you speak badly of my canine," he told her before exiting the room with graceful calm. As he reached the door he paused. "Kagura, clean this mess. Hiten, Manten, you are dismissed for now."
Kagura slowly approached Kagome with a disgusted face. After all the trouble they had gone to---to bring her here, to capture her after she had gotten here, to break her into the torture machine...Kagura sighed. What a waste. She paused when she reached Kagome's side. The human girl let out a pitiful groan and Kagura screamed shrilly as a hand flew to her heart.
"Holy shit! How can you possibly still be alive?!" No one could survive Naraku's demon technique. She had seen him use it many times before. Not even the strongest demons had so much as twitched after Naraku had used his technique Miasma! It was unthinkable that a human, the whole race of which didn't have any terrifying abilities after all as Kagura had learned a long time ago, could withstand the force and pressure of Naraku's technique. Furthermore, her jaw had been crunched!
Before awaiting a reply to her question, however, she pulled out her cell phone and hit the number 4 on speed dial. "Sesshoumaru? Hello, this is Kagura. Please pick me up from my apartment as soon as you are able. I don't care if it has to wait until tomorrow. I've sworn off aggravating humans and I want out of here." She hung up and raced out of the room.
But before she even reached the door, Inuyasha burst through with his baseball bat high above his head. "Damn you all to hell!" he said before targeting on Kagura.
"Inuyasha, you cur, get out of my way! I haven't time for this! It's not my fault you lost your job and relinquished your parking spot to me!" she said as she sent a gust of wind at him. It threw the bat slightly off course but Inuyasha was on a sugar high, so he brought it back down rather quickly. He grazed her shoulder.
"You're the bitch who got my spot? Damn you even more!" he spun the bat around again and cracked her on the head. She didn't even seem to notice.
"I don't have time for this!" she repeated, taking off at a run from the torture room. Inuyasha was about to follow in order to continue hitting her with the baseball bat when he noticed Kagome rolled onto the floor.
"Holy smokes!" He approached Kagome and knelt down beside her. "Shit..." He winced at her condition; she didn't look so well. But knowing Kagome, she got her own fair share of damage in...Still, she had clearly been injured and needed to be taken back to the apartment.
"Don't worry," Kagome slurred through her painful jaw, "I've gotta plan..." Although it sounded more like, Ohh wowwy, I gaaha ban...
She held up a pair of car keys and Inuyasha's face turned tomato red. He even managed an eye twitch.
The two Kagomes were sitting peacefully with one another on the sofa, looking at each other in a sort of dazed manner. The heavily bandaged Kagome was holding up a paper flash card, one among many that she had made out of cheques from Inuyasha's cheque book. She was helping the amnesiac Kagome remember things about every day life in the human world.
"That is a well," the amnesiac Kagome said. "But I don't remember ever seeing one."
Bandaged Kagome nodded, and pulled up the next one, waving it in her peer's face.
"That is a---actually, I'm not sure what that is..." she said with a slightly horrified look at the jumble of lines. Shippou, who was taking a break from his juicer (mostly because he had broken his juicer, and had 300 gallons of undrinkable orange juice lying around anyway), also squinted at the picture.
"I think it's supposed to be some kind of rock," he answered.
Bandaged Kagome shook her head no. If half her face wasn't covered in bandages, she would have frowned at them all.
"Wo," she said. "Id a BUILDING!" she yelled at her pupils. Stupid pupils. They should have known nothing offended Kagome more than rocks (for the next three minutes, anyway).
"Yay, it's a building!" Shippou said delightedly. "Okay, let's try to figure out what kind of building."
Amnesiac Kagome squinted thoughtfully for a moment. Bandaged Kagome tapped her foot impatiently.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango were in the kitchen discussing their plan.
"But..." Inuyasha grumbled, a strange look coming on his face. "But it's not time yet..."
Sango frowned. "Inuyasha, we knew this day would come from the very beginning. Actually, it's what we've been fighting for since the beginning."
"But..." he glanced over at the two Kagomes from the open kitchen door. Bandaged Kagome was heavily abusing amnesiac Kagome with his cheque book. "I knew I should have hidden that," he grumbled. "Now I have to buy more cheques."
Miroku cast a glance in that direction and sighed. "Inuyasha, you know the plan."
He slumped down into a chair at the kitchen table. "Whatever, see if I even fucking care. Ka-Kagome!" he yelled, standing up again and stomping towards the sofa. Two girls looked up at him. "Yeah, you," he said as he picked out bandaged Kagome with a pointed finger. "Come on. We're going now."
She blinked. "Whed?"
"She said where," Shippou translated for everyone.
"Duh, we're fucking sending you home, quarrelsome brat."
He overheard Shippou clawing up a tree and smirked. He was just laying down his last bag of glue when an indiscernible creature jumped out of the sky and landed directly on him.
"Raaah!" was its war cry. "Now, Shippou!"
Inuyasha, from the ground and now covered in brown glue, watched in horror as Shippou sailed over him with a deadly weapon: one among many he had bought from an infomercial. Before Inuyasha could be splashed with liquid dish soap, however, he rolled out of the way and the majority of the blue gel landed on Kagome, who had been sitting on him.
"Damn it!" he said. "We don't have time for this! We have to get going in order to catch that bastard by surprise!"
"No! I don't want to take a Calculus test tomorrow!" Kagome shouted as she leapt from the ground. Inuyasha snatched her arm and pulled her back down to the ground. Sango, Miroku, and the other Kagome were watching this grave battle with deadpan looks. Miroku briefly wondered where all of Kagome's bandaging had gone, and promptly decided he probably didn't want to know.
Kagome and Shippou had been running from Inuyasha for the better part of three hours, which had quickly turned into a fight 'til the death to entertain Kagome. Now that Inuyasha had caught her, he wasn't going to let her run off again. So he carried her all the way to the brand new car as the other demons followed. Shippou aided the process by throwing large amounts of chunky orange juice on everyone.
When they arrived at Demons, Inc., the sun had set entirely and the moon shone eerily down on the tall building. As they stepped inside, Miroku took a big breath of air and sighed satisfactorily.
"Ah, how I've missed this place," he said. "It seems like forever ago I was a man of respect."
"You were never a man of respect," Sango put in helpfully. "So don't let it bother you too much."
"Keh," Inuyasha added, prodding Kagome along the dark hallways. He belatedly noticed Shippou and Kagome exchange winks; before he could get a firm grip on either they'd darted off into the darkness.
"Go, Shippou!" Kagome shouted.
"Fuck! Get the fuck back here!" Inuyasha roared before bolting after one or the other of them. "We don't have time for your hijinks!"
And that's how the group spent the next two hours looking for Kagome and Shippou.
"You know what," Miroku panted as they collapsed in their old TV room, which hadn't changed a lick in their absence. Well, it smelled more like flowery lotion than before, but that was it. "I don't think they're even anywhere in the building any more."
They were interrupted during their recovery session by a loud crash in the hallway.
"Crap fuck it!" Inuyasha screamed. "I'm going to get you, bitch!" He launched himself out of his old wheely chair and ran out of the room at top speed. He skidded to a halt when he noticed the boss of Demons, Inc. had been the source of the crash and was giving him a hellish glare.
"That's him!" the amnesiac Kagome shouted. "That's Naraku!"
Naraku turned to face her with a surprising amount of scrutiny. "How the hell are you still alive?!" he snapped.
"You're the one that kidnapped Ka-Kagome?!"
"Yes!" amnesiac Kagome shouted. Sango let out a groan of despair at what she knew was about to happen. She was going to be accomplice to a murderer.
"Time to go down, bastard!" Inuyasha roared (he was going to have a very sore throat in the morning) before charging at Naraku. He hadn't quite been planning to hunt down Kagome's captor until she had been booted off to her world, but given this nice opportunity he decided to go for it.
Naraku held out a hand to block Inuyasha with a blast of energy, but Miroku cracked him on the back of the head with a drawer from the file cabinet. Naraku stumbled and swore before turning onto his new enemy, which gave Inuyasha a chance to run into him in delicate bull-dozer fashion. The trio tumbled down a flight of carpeted stairs while Sango and amnesiac Kagome watched placidly from the top of the stairwell.
Shippou materialized from somewhere and latched onto Naraku's leg with his piercing teeth, and refused to let go even when Inuyasha and Naraku fell out the window. Miroku, with an uncharacteristic war cry, followed them with a mighty jump and managed to get a punch into Naraku's face before he was thrown back with a powerful kick. Naraku and Inuyasha traded a few exciting rounds of cuts and scratches, neither being in the position to unleash their demon techniques. Just as Miroku was rejoining the fray, Inuyasha sprang back and unsheathed a sword from nowhere---his own demon technique, the Tessaiga. He swiped the blade in a downward cut like he was over-aggressively slicing a sandwich in half (that's usually what he used it for) and left a huge rent in the parking lot, although both Naraku and Miroku leapt out of the way in time. Shippou was knocked loose and scampered away to regain his composure.
"Watch what you're doing, my friend!" Miroku shouted.
"Stand out of the way!" Inuyasha roared as he sliced through a cloud of attractive purple miasma that Naraku unleashed.
Sango and amnesiac Kagome, who had, by that point, joined the group in the parking lot watched for a moment. Sango, with a sigh, finally jumped in and gave Naraku a burning punch that opened a hole in his arm.
"You bitch! Hiten, Manten! Get out here!"
Now more evenly matched, things reached a stand still. Miroku and Sango were blocking the two brothers and making small advances, thanks to the damage Kagome had done to them before. Inuyasha and Naraku alternated in beating each other up.
At that point, when things seemed cut right down the middle in terms of odds, everyone suddenly stood perfectly still.
Horrified, Naraku slowly looked to the top of the building. Where Kagome was sitting with a more demonic grin than he had ever managed. Her chuckle had managed to reach everyone through the battle noises somehow, never mind how since everyone knows evil chuckles don't travel through sound waves but by telepathy anyway.
Kagome, on the top of the building, looked more like a (demonic) cat than a person. Even Inuyasha felt a little bit of terror. Naraku, meanwhile, cast a glance to the other Kagome standing in the entryway to the building, who waggled her eyebrows and smiled brightly.
"What the fuck..."
Before another word could be spoken, Kagome began unleashing her arsenal.
"Watch out!" she yelled at her friends below as she launched off a series of grenade attacks in the form of rotting food from the break room. Naraku squealed as someone's month-old casserole spilled on his hair and ran into his eyes.
Then Kagome leapt off the building with a shiny black object in her hand. She barraged Naraku with staples and then landed quite nicely on top of his stomach. While Naraku flopped around trying to recover from these small, annoying pains that weren't causing him any fundamental damage, Kagome popped out her next weapon: a portable radio that someone had left on his desk, which she had happily tuned to the love songs station. This she blasted at top volume, quickly handing off the device to Shippou who bounced around out of reach with it, singing along, while Naraku screamed in pain and threw Kagome from himself.
Then Kagome decided to unleash her next weapon. It was a delightful weapon cobbled together from janitorial supplies. Smashing the tip of her mop into the ground, Kagome pulled the handle of the squeeze bottle that was tied around it, which unleashed a powerful spray of chemical, which interacted with the batteries she had removed from the small vacuum cleaner used on the stairs and attached to the front of the bottle, which resulted in a giant explosion from the expanding chemicals inside the battery casing, which burst the industrial bottle of bleach. A rainbow of chemical colors washed over the air, heeded on by the fire that she had begun. Naraku had cleared the area but this caught Manten by surprise and he was soon engulfed in a smelly, fiery doom.
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!" Hiten yelled out.
"Hey, I saw that movie, too!" Kagome shouted out to him happily over the sound of Shippou singing love songs.
"Really?!" Hiten yelled back. "I love the part when that guy gets his fingers cut off!"
"That part was so gross!" she replied. "Ugh, I never want to think about how that girl got her leg run over again, either! What a horrible movie!"
"Enough!" Naraku growled, silencing this pleasant chit-chatter. "I don't know how the hell you've survived, you little bitch, or how the hell there are two of you, but---"
"Wait a minute, you didn't bring her here, too?" Kagome asked, blinking. "Who did?"
Naraku snarled, causing the staples still stuck in his face to bunch up like a smiley face. "I don't really---"
"I did," a crisp female voice said over the noise (primarily Manten's screams of unending torture from the bleach spilling into his burns).
"What the hell?!" Inuyasha added in. "How the hell did a third human fucking get here?!"
"You have always been incompetent employees!" Naraku screamed.
"Now that was uncalled for," Miroku admonished. "It's not our fault no one ever gave us new security tapes."
"Is your name Kagome, too?" the amnesiac Kagome asked.
"Oh God," Sango mumbled, wishing she had just gone home when she had been given a chance.
"Of course not," the new woman snapped. No one seemed too sure since she also looked an awful lot like the other two human women. "My name is Kikyou. Which you, Midoriko, should know. Why the hell did you leave the Demons, Inc. headquarters without us? You knew the plan!"
"Well excuse me!" Kagome shouted. "But I wasn't about to go home with some demons I don't even know!"
"What the hell is going on here?" Shippou added to the general confusion. "Why are there three Kagomes and why do they all know each other?"
"Who cares!" Inuyasha replied. "It's time to kill EVERYBODY!"
He launched at Naraku with renewed force and with a sweep from Tessaiga shredded his enemy's arm from the body. Naraku growled furiously but took off after Kagome rather than concentrating on Inuyasha, even though that clearly would have been a better choice since Inuyasha was the one capable of ripping his limbs off.
Kagome, however, took it all in stride and did what anyone in her position would do.
She gave a joyful cry and raced back into the building. She laughed as pretty much every demon she had ever met chased her down the hallways, up and down the stairs, across balconies, and finally into a hallway lined with doors. Kagome picked one at random, stepped inside, and slammed the door shut behind her.
Everyone stopped, panting, bleeding, growling, Shippou still singing with the radio.
"Wow," Inuyasha finally said, sword hanging at his side. "That was fucking anticlimactic. I can't believe she just went home without fucking saying THANK YOU!"
Chapter 09: Inuyasha and the Case of the Two Kagomes (at Which Point He Nearly Has a Heart Attack)
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Inuyas ha grumbled, paced around the room, and waited for his computer to finish its current task. After his outrageous credit card bill, he'd demanded to know who the hell had bought a car with his money. So he started by going to the dealership where it had been sold, and he cornered Douglas and made him relinquish information regarding the recent purchase. (Of course, Inuyasha didn't even think to ask for a description of the person who had made the purchase.) Then Inuyasha discovered that the car was equipped with a GPS navigation system, at which point he downloaded the software to track the car onto his computer. Now he was waiting for it to locate the car. Then he was going to go after the car and smash its windows out, and maybe afterward throw rocks at whomever had purchased it. In the meantime he paced angrily.
Sango and Miroku were off looking for clues to Kagome. Luckily, Sango had never been legally connected to Kagome in the first place---as a matter of fact, no one ever realized she'd gone with Inuyasha and Miroku to begin with---so she safely went back to her restaurant and listened intently to gossip while Miroku checked out backlogs of newspapers in the library. No one would ever realize it was Miroku. If they did, they would probably faint in surprise to find he was not looking at something naughty. Shippou was in the kitchen dumping orange after orange into his new juicer. Sometimes the little machine made incredibly terrible noises, since Shippou decided all good orange juices needed a pureed gem stone to improve the flavor. Gem stones, as one might guess, do not especially like to be pureed. Actually, they downright hate it. Shippou, being a gem stone bully, took delight in their awful agony.
Inuyasha paused, suspicious, as his brand new car was located. He narrowed his eyes. Demons, Inc. headquarters? He wondered if this was maybe a trap. He frowned.
"Shippou! Hey, cut the fuck out whatever you're doing in there! Damn kids," he swore. "I'm going to go smash out some windows! Stay here in case the others come with news about Ka-Kagome. You got it, punk?!"
"I got it, Inuyasha. Bring me some ice cream on your way back. And some more oranges, please!"
"Yeah fucking right," Inuyasha replied with a snort. Grabbing a baseball bat that was autographed by the latest baseball heroes (thanks to Shippou's infomercial habits) he headed for the door.
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"You're a maniac!" Kagome screamed as Kagura managed to pin her to the ground. She heard her ankle pop painfully as the majority of Kagura's weight landed on her legs. Two other demons whose names Kagome had determined were Hiten and Manten piled on top. She was in too much stress to recognize Hiten as the one she had seen so many months ago in Demons, Inc. They had been called in to help restrain her, not that it had been doing much good. But now they finally had her, and she was exhausted."If you try to tie me to that chair, you're in for a world of trouble!" she shouted. She was desperately trying to think of a plan.
Why wasn't her horror movie wisdom coming to her? Oh yeah. This was the part where the heroine of the film gave up and got decapitated or punched through with kitchen knives. Only she was getting the Special Therapy Machine (another scream from far away).
"Horror movies have finally failed me! I feel so betrayed!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, swearing she would only take advice from action movies henceforth, as she gave one more valiant kick. Her foot landed in Manten's mouth and she was rewarded with a high-pitched squeak and the satisfying crunch of a breaking tooth.
"FUCK! You exposed my nerve you unforgivable little bitch!"
"Yay, go me!" Kagome shouted with the enthusiasm of a cheerleader doing a cheer, as Kagura and Hiten held her forcefully back against the bench. She kicked and screamed like an eight year old boy about to get a haircut.
"Manten, fucking put the straps on!" Hiten roared, straining to keep Kagome contained. Hiten was covered in an array of needle thin scratches and the tip of his ear had been ripped off. Kagura had turned into a walking bruise during this encounter with Kagome, and Manten had a few bloody decorations as well in addition to his recently broken tooth. Naraku's elite warriors had never been so close to defeat.
Naraku was standing in the doorframe, eyes and nose shadowed, with his arms folded. His mouth arched up into a brief smirk. "This has been quite entertaining, Kagome. But now it's time."
"I hope you know I'm impervious to all forms of attack except being fed chocolate cake," she snarled. "So if you want to do me any damage, bring me a cake!" She was so tired by that point that the wounds Kagura had left on the side of her face were numb, even though she could feel thin strings of blood attached to the curves of her face. "And you know what, I'm still sex-ay!" she added. She also decided she should have definitely taken over the world before attempting to avenge herself with Naraku.
Naraku chuckled. "Begin at your leisure, Kagura."
As Kagura, face blank and noncommittal, approached with the metal arm, Kagome deliriously wondered what had ever made this seem like a good idea at all, and why the other Kagome hadn't mentioned this machine. (Never mind the horrified screaming.)
* * *
"Who the hell drove into this building with that convertible sports car?!" Inuyasha yelled at the secretary. He had been asking the same question for five minutes now and she had given the same answer every time."I'll never tell! You can't take that away from me!"
Inuyasha was a bit baffled, but pursued anyway. The woman eyed the baseball bat in his hand. "Look, bitch. Someone used my fucking credit card to buy that damn car and I want to punch his fucking face into the floor! Do it or I'll smash your computer!"
"No!" she screamed, diving protectively over it. "I won't let you!"
"Tell me!"
"I don't know! Go into the hallway and find him yourself!" she pressed a button and the card-key reader's light turned green from red. "Just don't touch my computer! It has my latest fanfiction on it!"
"Whatever, I don't even care," Inuyasha said as he waltzed into the hallway. "What the hell? Do I have to fucking check all the rooms?!"
Then he noticed that a door on the stairwell had been screwed off its hinges. As he went over to investigate, he further noticed the door smelled much like his aftershave.
"What the fuck?" he said. "Who would dare use the same smell as me?! That's it, you're going down, you little shit!" he said. He swung his baseball bat high into the air, smashed the side of the doorjamb for no good reason, and pelted down the stairs with a mighty war cry.
He stumbled and blinked in the sudden darkness as he entered the dungeon.
"Hello?" a female voice called out from the second cell. Inuyasha approached and leapt back a foot in surprise at the shadowy girl inside. "Hi, I'm Kagome."
"What? Ka-Kagome?! How the hell did you get in here?!"
"Well, I was abducted, but I'm not really sure about the details since I lost my memory." She smiled cheerfully.
Inuyasha slumped back against the wall with a goofy smile. He couldn't believe his luck. He was going to get to smash out windows and rescue Kagome! (He was never very good at connecting the dots; if the picture made a circle, he would probably wind up with a highly complex cube contained within a pyramid, or possibly an ice cream cone.) Without further ado, he crushed the bars that the other Kagome could have quite easily slipped out from.
"Thank you," she said happily as she stepped over the wreckage, still looking shadowy in the guttering torches on the wall. Inuyasha squinted at her. "I sure wish Kagome had done that before she had left, so I could leave this place!"
"Hang on a minute! You just said that you were Ka-Kagome!" He took a whiff and decided she smelled decidedly unlike Kagome. So he made the daring decision that he would never tell Kagome he had mixed her up with another girl. That could lead to horrendous "revenge" from her.
"I am, but there's another one, too."
"Oh God, no...you're fucking kidding..." His eyes widened in horror. One Kagome was manageable (after tranquilized, zonked out in front of the television, maybe), but two? He couldn't handle two of them. "There just can't...how the hell are you multiplying?!" He grappled with the wall, trying to support his immensely strong demonic self. He felt a little dizzy and thought maybe the world was going black on him. (He is very melodramatic.)
"We're not multiplying. Anyway, I will probably be the only remaining Kagome after today. She told me she was going to kick Naraku's bum-bum, but that was some time ago after they took her to the---" She shuttered. "I can't even say it."
"Where did they take her? What do you mean only Ka-Kagome remaining?"
"Well, she's probably been tortured to death by now!" the other Kagome said cheerfully. "I'll go wait upstairs with the darling secretary. Maybe I can get a role in her fanfic."
"Shit!" Inuyasha yelled. "Where the hell is Ka-Kagome?!"
The other Kagome shivered again. "Just follow the scent of DESPAIR!" she screamed before darting away.
"Wait a minute...This is a common misconception...despair doesn't actually have a scent. Some animals can detect fear by the---"
"I don't even care!"
* * *
The metal arm was sitting unused by the bench. Apparently it was there to frighten her while they went at her with more conventional weapons to start with. Kagura held a finely honed blade to Kagome's throat, with just enough pressure to make swallowing painful."Tell us, Kagome. Don't you remember yesterday? Do you really want to repeat that?" Kagura looked somewhat unbelieving.
"I don't know anything about a Shikon Jewel! I've never even heard of it before!"
"Oh yeah? Then how did you know it was mined in Brazil?!"
"I didn't know that! I guessed that!" Kagome shouted. The knife made a small slice in her chin.
"Crap, I forget how fragile humans are..." Kagura grumbled as Kagome let off an impressive gasp, like a teapot about to whistle.
"Why is this even so important anyway?" she growled as she tried to smash her head even further back into the chair, away from the knife. Hiten and Manten were still glowering nearby, warily watching Kagome to ensure she didn't escape.
"That's not your business."
Naraku frowned suddenly. "I have some other business to attend to," he said as he glanced at the face of a cellular phone briefly before replacing it in his pocket. "Please continue without me and deliver a report later. If she does not talk by the end of the day, we'll assume she's not lying. Kill her."
"That's harsh!" Kagome shouted after him. "I hope your dog dies, Jimmy!"
The air seemed to turn even colder as everyone around her held their breaths, so tense that not a muscle stirred; everyone was entirely still. As a matter of fact, Kagome was sure she could hear hearts beating. Naraku's back had gone rigid and he had lost a bit of his fluid grace. She watched him out of the eye that hadn't swollen shut yet from Kagura's scratches. When he slowly turned on his heel to face her, his mouth was in a grim, peaceful line but his eyes were livid.
"What did you say to me?" he asked, deathly calm, as if asking about some trivial matter, like what time Kagome would like to be over for tea.
"I'm not sure, I think I said I hope your dog dies," Kagome said, trying to remember if that had, indeed, been the insult she had chosen to use. She had plenty of them, and she usually just let whatever wanted to be said get said. "But it's possible I said a pox on ye."
He walked slowly towards her. Kagura, Hiten, and Manten backed off rather immediately as Naraku's shadow fell over Kagome. He stared down at her and Kagome's heart beat painfully in her chest. He grabbed her by the arm and ripped her easily from the bench, causing Kagome to cry out at the sudden pain as the straps snapped.
"Holy mother of pearl! Jeez, I didn't know it was a sensitive subject!" Kagome said, voice a higher octave than normal with hysteria.
"I tolerate no one speaking illy of my dog," he said. He threw Kagome against the far wall with a blast of black energy that crackled. A sickening snap echoed throughout the room; after a moment had passed, during which the misty remains of Naraku's spell energy disappeared smokily into the air, Naraku approached Kagome's still body. Coldly, eyes narrowed fractionally as he looked down at her, he pressed a foot against Kagome's face until her jaw popped like a gear coming out of place. "Not even in death will you speak badly of my canine," he told her before exiting the room with graceful calm. As he reached the door he paused. "Kagura, clean this mess. Hiten, Manten, you are dismissed for now."
Kagura slowly approached Kagome with a disgusted face. After all the trouble they had gone to---to bring her here, to capture her after she had gotten here, to break her into the torture machine...Kagura sighed. What a waste. She paused when she reached Kagome's side. The human girl let out a pitiful groan and Kagura screamed shrilly as a hand flew to her heart.
"Holy shit! How can you possibly still be alive?!" No one could survive Naraku's demon technique. She had seen him use it many times before. Not even the strongest demons had so much as twitched after Naraku had used his technique Miasma! It was unthinkable that a human, the whole race of which didn't have any terrifying abilities after all as Kagura had learned a long time ago, could withstand the force and pressure of Naraku's technique. Furthermore, her jaw had been crunched!
Before awaiting a reply to her question, however, she pulled out her cell phone and hit the number 4 on speed dial. "Sesshoumaru? Hello, this is Kagura. Please pick me up from my apartment as soon as you are able. I don't care if it has to wait until tomorrow. I've sworn off aggravating humans and I want out of here." She hung up and raced out of the room.
But before she even reached the door, Inuyasha burst through with his baseball bat high above his head. "Damn you all to hell!" he said before targeting on Kagura.
"Inuyasha, you cur, get out of my way! I haven't time for this! It's not my fault you lost your job and relinquished your parking spot to me!" she said as she sent a gust of wind at him. It threw the bat slightly off course but Inuyasha was on a sugar high, so he brought it back down rather quickly. He grazed her shoulder.
"You're the bitch who got my spot? Damn you even more!" he spun the bat around again and cracked her on the head. She didn't even seem to notice.
"I don't have time for this!" she repeated, taking off at a run from the torture room. Inuyasha was about to follow in order to continue hitting her with the baseball bat when he noticed Kagome rolled onto the floor.
"Holy smokes!" He approached Kagome and knelt down beside her. "Shit..." He winced at her condition; she didn't look so well. But knowing Kagome, she got her own fair share of damage in...Still, she had clearly been injured and needed to be taken back to the apartment.
"Don't worry," Kagome slurred through her painful jaw, "I've gotta plan..." Although it sounded more like, Ohh wowwy, I gaaha ban...
She held up a pair of car keys and Inuyasha's face turned tomato red. He even managed an eye twitch.
* * *
"Inuyasha, I think it would be the best course of action for now," Miroku said seriously. "If Kagome were to get captured again---she probably wouldn't survive."The two Kagomes were sitting peacefully with one another on the sofa, looking at each other in a sort of dazed manner. The heavily bandaged Kagome was holding up a paper flash card, one among many that she had made out of cheques from Inuyasha's cheque book. She was helping the amnesiac Kagome remember things about every day life in the human world.
"That is a well," the amnesiac Kagome said. "But I don't remember ever seeing one."
Bandaged Kagome nodded, and pulled up the next one, waving it in her peer's face.
"That is a---actually, I'm not sure what that is..." she said with a slightly horrified look at the jumble of lines. Shippou, who was taking a break from his juicer (mostly because he had broken his juicer, and had 300 gallons of undrinkable orange juice lying around anyway), also squinted at the picture.
"I think it's supposed to be some kind of rock," he answered.
Bandaged Kagome shook her head no. If half her face wasn't covered in bandages, she would have frowned at them all.
"Wo," she said. "Id a BUILDING!" she yelled at her pupils. Stupid pupils. They should have known nothing offended Kagome more than rocks (for the next three minutes, anyway).
"Yay, it's a building!" Shippou said delightedly. "Okay, let's try to figure out what kind of building."
Amnesiac Kagome squinted thoughtfully for a moment. Bandaged Kagome tapped her foot impatiently.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango were in the kitchen discussing their plan.
"But..." Inuyasha grumbled, a strange look coming on his face. "But it's not time yet..."
Sango frowned. "Inuyasha, we knew this day would come from the very beginning. Actually, it's what we've been fighting for since the beginning."
"But..." he glanced over at the two Kagomes from the open kitchen door. Bandaged Kagome was heavily abusing amnesiac Kagome with his cheque book. "I knew I should have hidden that," he grumbled. "Now I have to buy more cheques."
Miroku cast a glance in that direction and sighed. "Inuyasha, you know the plan."
He slumped down into a chair at the kitchen table. "Whatever, see if I even fucking care. Ka-Kagome!" he yelled, standing up again and stomping towards the sofa. Two girls looked up at him. "Yeah, you," he said as he picked out bandaged Kagome with a pointed finger. "Come on. We're going now."
She blinked. "Whed?"
"She said where," Shippou translated for everyone.
"Duh, we're fucking sending you home, quarrelsome brat."
* * *
Inuyasha tiptoed around the courtyard of the apartment complex. Still in the uncut lawn he caught sight of dulled bits of glass from the pickle relish jar that Shippou had thrown at him so many weeks ago. Grumbling under his breath, Inuyasha laid down plastic bags filled with glue.He overheard Shippou clawing up a tree and smirked. He was just laying down his last bag of glue when an indiscernible creature jumped out of the sky and landed directly on him.
"Raaah!" was its war cry. "Now, Shippou!"
Inuyasha, from the ground and now covered in brown glue, watched in horror as Shippou sailed over him with a deadly weapon: one among many he had bought from an infomercial. Before Inuyasha could be splashed with liquid dish soap, however, he rolled out of the way and the majority of the blue gel landed on Kagome, who had been sitting on him.
"Damn it!" he said. "We don't have time for this! We have to get going in order to catch that bastard by surprise!"
"No! I don't want to take a Calculus test tomorrow!" Kagome shouted as she leapt from the ground. Inuyasha snatched her arm and pulled her back down to the ground. Sango, Miroku, and the other Kagome were watching this grave battle with deadpan looks. Miroku briefly wondered where all of Kagome's bandaging had gone, and promptly decided he probably didn't want to know.
Kagome and Shippou had been running from Inuyasha for the better part of three hours, which had quickly turned into a fight 'til the death to entertain Kagome. Now that Inuyasha had caught her, he wasn't going to let her run off again. So he carried her all the way to the brand new car as the other demons followed. Shippou aided the process by throwing large amounts of chunky orange juice on everyone.
When they arrived at Demons, Inc., the sun had set entirely and the moon shone eerily down on the tall building. As they stepped inside, Miroku took a big breath of air and sighed satisfactorily.
"Ah, how I've missed this place," he said. "It seems like forever ago I was a man of respect."
"You were never a man of respect," Sango put in helpfully. "So don't let it bother you too much."
"Keh," Inuyasha added, prodding Kagome along the dark hallways. He belatedly noticed Shippou and Kagome exchange winks; before he could get a firm grip on either they'd darted off into the darkness.
"Go, Shippou!" Kagome shouted.
"Fuck! Get the fuck back here!" Inuyasha roared before bolting after one or the other of them. "We don't have time for your hijinks!"
And that's how the group spent the next two hours looking for Kagome and Shippou.
"You know what," Miroku panted as they collapsed in their old TV room, which hadn't changed a lick in their absence. Well, it smelled more like flowery lotion than before, but that was it. "I don't think they're even anywhere in the building any more."
They were interrupted during their recovery session by a loud crash in the hallway.
"Crap fuck it!" Inuyasha screamed. "I'm going to get you, bitch!" He launched himself out of his old wheely chair and ran out of the room at top speed. He skidded to a halt when he noticed the boss of Demons, Inc. had been the source of the crash and was giving him a hellish glare.
"That's him!" the amnesiac Kagome shouted. "That's Naraku!"
Naraku turned to face her with a surprising amount of scrutiny. "How the hell are you still alive?!" he snapped.
"You're the one that kidnapped Ka-Kagome?!"
"Yes!" amnesiac Kagome shouted. Sango let out a groan of despair at what she knew was about to happen. She was going to be accomplice to a murderer.
"Time to go down, bastard!" Inuyasha roared (he was going to have a very sore throat in the morning) before charging at Naraku. He hadn't quite been planning to hunt down Kagome's captor until she had been booted off to her world, but given this nice opportunity he decided to go for it.
Naraku held out a hand to block Inuyasha with a blast of energy, but Miroku cracked him on the back of the head with a drawer from the file cabinet. Naraku stumbled and swore before turning onto his new enemy, which gave Inuyasha a chance to run into him in delicate bull-dozer fashion. The trio tumbled down a flight of carpeted stairs while Sango and amnesiac Kagome watched placidly from the top of the stairwell.
Shippou materialized from somewhere and latched onto Naraku's leg with his piercing teeth, and refused to let go even when Inuyasha and Naraku fell out the window. Miroku, with an uncharacteristic war cry, followed them with a mighty jump and managed to get a punch into Naraku's face before he was thrown back with a powerful kick. Naraku and Inuyasha traded a few exciting rounds of cuts and scratches, neither being in the position to unleash their demon techniques. Just as Miroku was rejoining the fray, Inuyasha sprang back and unsheathed a sword from nowhere---his own demon technique, the Tessaiga. He swiped the blade in a downward cut like he was over-aggressively slicing a sandwich in half (that's usually what he used it for) and left a huge rent in the parking lot, although both Naraku and Miroku leapt out of the way in time. Shippou was knocked loose and scampered away to regain his composure.
"Watch what you're doing, my friend!" Miroku shouted.
"Stand out of the way!" Inuyasha roared as he sliced through a cloud of attractive purple miasma that Naraku unleashed.
Sango and amnesiac Kagome, who had, by that point, joined the group in the parking lot watched for a moment. Sango, with a sigh, finally jumped in and gave Naraku a burning punch that opened a hole in his arm.
"You bitch! Hiten, Manten! Get out here!"
Now more evenly matched, things reached a stand still. Miroku and Sango were blocking the two brothers and making small advances, thanks to the damage Kagome had done to them before. Inuyasha and Naraku alternated in beating each other up.
At that point, when things seemed cut right down the middle in terms of odds, everyone suddenly stood perfectly still.
Horrified, Naraku slowly looked to the top of the building. Where Kagome was sitting with a more demonic grin than he had ever managed. Her chuckle had managed to reach everyone through the battle noises somehow, never mind how since everyone knows evil chuckles don't travel through sound waves but by telepathy anyway.
Kagome, on the top of the building, looked more like a (demonic) cat than a person. Even Inuyasha felt a little bit of terror. Naraku, meanwhile, cast a glance to the other Kagome standing in the entryway to the building, who waggled her eyebrows and smiled brightly.
"What the fuck..."
Before another word could be spoken, Kagome began unleashing her arsenal.
"Watch out!" she yelled at her friends below as she launched off a series of grenade attacks in the form of rotting food from the break room. Naraku squealed as someone's month-old casserole spilled on his hair and ran into his eyes.
Then Kagome leapt off the building with a shiny black object in her hand. She barraged Naraku with staples and then landed quite nicely on top of his stomach. While Naraku flopped around trying to recover from these small, annoying pains that weren't causing him any fundamental damage, Kagome popped out her next weapon: a portable radio that someone had left on his desk, which she had happily tuned to the love songs station. This she blasted at top volume, quickly handing off the device to Shippou who bounced around out of reach with it, singing along, while Naraku screamed in pain and threw Kagome from himself.
Then Kagome decided to unleash her next weapon. It was a delightful weapon cobbled together from janitorial supplies. Smashing the tip of her mop into the ground, Kagome pulled the handle of the squeeze bottle that was tied around it, which unleashed a powerful spray of chemical, which interacted with the batteries she had removed from the small vacuum cleaner used on the stairs and attached to the front of the bottle, which resulted in a giant explosion from the expanding chemicals inside the battery casing, which burst the industrial bottle of bleach. A rainbow of chemical colors washed over the air, heeded on by the fire that she had begun. Naraku had cleared the area but this caught Manten by surprise and he was soon engulfed in a smelly, fiery doom.
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!" Hiten yelled out.
"Hey, I saw that movie, too!" Kagome shouted out to him happily over the sound of Shippou singing love songs.
"Really?!" Hiten yelled back. "I love the part when that guy gets his fingers cut off!"
"That part was so gross!" she replied. "Ugh, I never want to think about how that girl got her leg run over again, either! What a horrible movie!"
"Enough!" Naraku growled, silencing this pleasant chit-chatter. "I don't know how the hell you've survived, you little bitch, or how the hell there are two of you, but---"
"Wait a minute, you didn't bring her here, too?" Kagome asked, blinking. "Who did?"
Naraku snarled, causing the staples still stuck in his face to bunch up like a smiley face. "I don't really---"
"I did," a crisp female voice said over the noise (primarily Manten's screams of unending torture from the bleach spilling into his burns).
"What the hell?!" Inuyasha added in. "How the hell did a third human fucking get here?!"
"You have always been incompetent employees!" Naraku screamed.
"Now that was uncalled for," Miroku admonished. "It's not our fault no one ever gave us new security tapes."
"Is your name Kagome, too?" the amnesiac Kagome asked.
"Oh God," Sango mumbled, wishing she had just gone home when she had been given a chance.
"Of course not," the new woman snapped. No one seemed too sure since she also looked an awful lot like the other two human women. "My name is Kikyou. Which you, Midoriko, should know. Why the hell did you leave the Demons, Inc. headquarters without us? You knew the plan!"
"Well excuse me!" Kagome shouted. "But I wasn't about to go home with some demons I don't even know!"
"What the hell is going on here?" Shippou added to the general confusion. "Why are there three Kagomes and why do they all know each other?"
"Who cares!" Inuyasha replied. "It's time to kill EVERYBODY!"
He launched at Naraku with renewed force and with a sweep from Tessaiga shredded his enemy's arm from the body. Naraku growled furiously but took off after Kagome rather than concentrating on Inuyasha, even though that clearly would have been a better choice since Inuyasha was the one capable of ripping his limbs off.
Kagome, however, took it all in stride and did what anyone in her position would do.
She gave a joyful cry and raced back into the building. She laughed as pretty much every demon she had ever met chased her down the hallways, up and down the stairs, across balconies, and finally into a hallway lined with doors. Kagome picked one at random, stepped inside, and slammed the door shut behind her.
Everyone stopped, panting, bleeding, growling, Shippou still singing with the radio.
"Wow," Inuyasha finally said, sword hanging at his side. "That was fucking anticlimactic. I can't believe she just went home without fucking saying THANK YOU!"
* * *
Comments: Haha...I bet you thought that the amnesiac Kagome was Kikyou, didn't you? :) (To clear up any confusion: amnesiac Kagome == Midoriko, brand new Kagome == Kikyou, bandaged Kagome == the real Kagome. Naraku brought Kagome to the demon world. Kikyou brought Midoriko to the demon world. Why shall be divulged next time!) Time for the big finale! Will everything be explained? Will all things be tidied up? Doubtful. I don't even remember what I was doing when I wrote most of this stuff.