InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Escape ❯ Confusion ( Chapter 6 )

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"Looking for something hanyou?" came the sickening high-pitched voice of a female youkai.

His head snapped up in the direction of the voice. Blood began to creep into his eyes and pure rage threatened to unleash itself as he witnessed Naraku's right hand woman clutching his miko by her neck. "Put. Her. Down. Now. Kagura." He warned in a barely contained voice. Fiery hatred coursed through his veins.

Confusion

Kagome whimpered slightly in the tight grasp of the wind youkai. She was only able to get short gasps of air into her burning lungs. The youkai's claws were embedded, thought while not deeply still painfully into the tender regions of her neck. It was getting harder to breathe by the second. Tears gathered at the corners of her eyes. She had just been getting into a good dream when the wind youkai had blown a hole in the side of the building and practically ripped her from the bed. How in the hell she had managed to reach the 5th floor of an apartment complex was beyond her. Kagome winced as a wet, sticky substance, presumably blood, began to trickle down her neck.

Inuyasha's eyes flickered dangerously as thin streams of blood dripped from Kagome's neckline. "What do you want?" he spat while slowly readjusting his footing so that it would give him more speed when he lunged at Kagura.

She smirked at this. "You do realize that you sealed your fate when you ran away from Naraku. You didn't actually think that you could escape him?"

Inuyasha tightened his grip on the hilt of Tetsusaiga. 'How the hell did that bastard find me? I covered my tracks thoroughly.' He scowled at himself. He had lost Kikyo to Naraku, and he'd be damned if he lost Kagome to him as well. "OK, Kagura. I'll come with you quietly as long as you let the miko go," he said slowly, his fang reverting back to its original state.

Kagome's eyes widened at this. He was willing to throw his life away for her?

Kagura snorted. "How noble of you hanyou, but whatever gave you the impression that I was here for you?" And with that she summoned her giant feather from her hair and threw Kagome onto it.

Before Inuyasha could react, Kagura had already taken off.

"Kagome!" He let out a string of obscenities as they rose higher and higher into the cold midmorning air.

"Inuyasha," Miroku said entering and rubbing sleep out of his eyes, "did I not tell to keep the noise level to a min-." He stopped in mid sentence consequently making Sango collide into him.

"What's the matter with you houshi?" Sango questioned a little flustered from his sudden movement. Her eyes widened in surprise and shock as she looked over his shoulder. The room was in shambles and Inuyasha stood amongst the chaos, his back to them as he gazed out at the city through the gaping hole in his wall. "Inuyasha," she said cautiously approaching him, "what happened?"

"That bitch took her," he snarled angrily and whirled around, flexing his clawed hands. "I'm going after them." He turned to leave.

"Wait Inuyasha!" Miroku shouted, but the half demon had already leapt out of the newly formed exit.

"Crap! We'll have to follow him by car. Come on." She grabbed his sleeve and practically flew out of the room.

'Shit shit shit,' he cursed to himself. The wind whipped through his silver tresses as he sprinted down the deserted street. Their scents were fading quickly with thanks to the drizzle and damp weather. His ears shifted in the direction of the slowly vanishing figure towards the horizon. The constant slapping of his bare feet against the cold, wet pavement reverberated throughout the now quiet streets. 'What the hell could they want with the wench?' He seriously doubted that it was because of her miko abilities though there was potential. So deep was he in his musings that he failed to notice a pair of eyes following him with malicious intent.

. . .

Kagome groggily came to her senses. Sometime between almost being strangled to death and being thrown onto a giant feather, she had passed out. Now fully awake she realized that she was now grounded in what seemed to be a forest of some kind. She didn't know there were any forests around here. Clenching her teeth in discomfort, she pushed herself off of the slick grass and came to her feet. Kagome winced at the sudden pain from her neck. Bringing her hand to her neck, she discovered that the small wounds that had been inflicted from the youkai's claws or talons or whatever they had been were already beginning to heal, but this didn't come as a surprise. She had always been able to heal faster than others from reasons unknown.

Once steadying herself, Kagome began to wander. The rays of first morning's light had begun to stretch out beyond the horizon, streaking the sky in various hues and textures. She shivered in the thin oversized shirt…shirt? When had she changed into a shirt? Unless he had done it. A spark of anger as well as mortification ignited within her as she realized that Inuyasha had took off her dress…Kagome looked inside the shirt…and had removed her bra. Her face flushed with embarrassment and anger.

"I am so going to kill that lecherous bastard when I get out of here," she growled furiously, while weaving through the tall trees.

"And by lecherous bastard you're referring to the hanyou I presume?"

Kagome whirled around at the sound of her kidnapper's voice, who was leaning casually on the trunk of a tree, fan in hand. A small smile played on the youkai's lips. "What do you want?" she asked, trying to mask the nervousness that had been aroused at the suddenness of her appearance.

The wind youkai shrugged at this. "It's not about what I want, but more of what my boss wants of you."

Puzzlement spread across the girl's face. "What do you mean?"

"You know very well what I am talking of, Higurashi," Kagura scoffed with irritation. "You do realize your significance in the waging war between the human and youkai race."

This only confused Kagome more. "I don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about."

She sighed in exasperation. "Do you even know of your past and the part your parents played in all this?"

Her heart began to ache at the mention of her parents. Why must the past be constantly brought to present? "Leave my parents out of this," she responded stiffly. "The past is buried so let it stay that way."

"On the contrary sweetie. The past, yours in particular, is the entire key to this whole situation. What Naraku wants with you I will never be able to fathom." Kagura brought her fan to her face to hide the twisted snarl that had developed. "If it were up to me I would kill your little ass and put you six feet under right along with those ignorant parents of yours."

Unfathomable amounts of bluish energy swirled around the girl at this declaration. And for a second Kagura was taken aback. She was a miko? How could such an inexperienced miko display such amounts of power? Cold, dark blue orbs replaced the once frightened ones of the Higurashi girl as her hair began to rise and fan out around her head. Kagura took a small step back. 'Where is Naraku?'

"You have no right to speak of my family in such manner," she snapped, her eyes ablaze with fury. The bluish energy pulsed around her being awaiting the command to unleashed.

Kagura wasn't going to wait around to see what would happen if she pissed the girl off even more. With that final thought, she summoned her giant feather.

Kagome smirked at this. 'Coward.' Before the wind youkai could leave the ground, she launched the pulsating blue energy towards her, and in a flash, sent her flying into a nearby tree. Only a tattered and thoroughly battered Kagura was left lying in a heap on the wet ground. Energy cackled and cracked about her; the raw power ran through her veins. She wanted more of this. More of being in control and doing whatever the hell she wanted to do. Too long had she conformed to the rules and direction of others. It was a nice change to in control for once. She licked her lips hungrily as electric bolts of energy danced around her.

But then it all became too much. The heat and intensity of such power began to overwhelm her senses. Tiny black dots clouded her vision and the throbbing of an oncoming migraine threatened to engulf her in excruciating pain.

"Kagome!!!" She glanced up exhaustedly at the rapidly approaching figure as the bluish energies retreated from whence they came. Darkness steadily invaded her sight.

"Inuyasha," she said softly before completely submitting into blackness.

End.

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