InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 28 ( Chapter 28 )

 

Ch. 28

 

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“Sa…Sakura…?”, InuYasha questions, as the girl in question laid on top of his body, blood streaming from her arm.

 

Her eyes were closed and her breathing was shaky.

 

“Sakura!”, he screams.

 

“Uh…”, she groans, blinking her eyes open.

 

“Sakura…?”

 

“I'm fine…”, she replies, pushing herself off of him.

 

“Are you sure?”

 

“Yeah…”, she answers, standing up, “We have a larger problem to deal with”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Him!”, she sternly says, pointing towards a tree.

 

InuYasha follows her line of vision and sees a young male with magenta-eyes and shoulder-length black hair pulled-back into a low-ponytail, wearing a tight black sleeveless-kimono.

 

“I see… The protector of the Shikon jewel has the ability to see my wires, like the wench who killed my sister”, the male remarks.

 

“Your sister…?”

 

“Yura…”, he replies.

 

“Yura of the demon hair…”, InuYasha whispers, the name coming back to him.

 

“Yura…?!”, Sakura gasps, recalling her mother's story about the female-demon, “So you're her brother, huh?”, she retorts, unfazed by the new-found information, “So what should we call you?”

 

“Ruya of the wires”, he politely introduces, bowing, “And I'll be taking the jewel now, if you don't mind”, he continues, tugging on one of his wires and Sakura could feel the jewel being pulled from underneath her kimono and from around her neck.

 

Sakura quickly snatches the wire in her left hand, preventing it's movement and causes her blood to slowly trickle along the invisible-thread.

 

“I don't think so…”, she scoffs, as her expression darkens, “I'd sooner die than let a low-life like you take the jewel…”

 

“I see… So be it…”

 

Suddenly, a clump of wires wrap around her wrist pulling her into the air and threads of single wires wind around her body until she is completely covered, drops of blood dripping from within the ball of wires.

 

“Sakura!”, InuYasha shouts.

 

“The poor girl…”, Ruya mocks, “But she did say over her dead body…”, he smirks, tugging on one wire and pulls the Shikon no Tama from inside the ball, “Now what to do with you, hanyou?”, he taunts, as he swallows the jewel.

 

“Sakura…”, he whispers, as he collapses onto his knees clutching the wound on his chest, still not in any condition to fight.

 

“Farewell, hanyou!”, the demon yells, his eyes glowing from the power of the jewel as he snaps his fingers, sending invisible wires towards the helpless half-demon.

 

As the wires descended towards their target, several daggers fly across the wire's path slicing them before they reached InuYasha and firmly plants themselves into the ground.

 

“What…?”, Ruya gasps, looking in the direction the daggers came from, “You…?!”, he hisses.

 

“Yura… Ruya… Your mother obviously wasn't very smart in naming her children, your name is just a jumbled-up version of your sister's name!”, a female voice ridicules.

 

InuYasha's ear twitches at the sound of the voice in recognition, causing him to look up at his savior to see who Ruya saw, Sakura standing balanced on one of Ruya's wires with her arms crossed pretty-much unscathed except for the fresh cut on her upper-right arm.

 

“Sakura…?”, the half-demon gasps in shock.

 

“How the hell did you survive, wench?!”, the wire demon growls.

 

“Come fight me and find out”, she coolly challenges while smirking.

 

“You little bitch!”, he yells, charging at her.

 

Sakura simply back-flips to avoid his strike, grabbing one of Ruya's wires in her hand but it doesn't cut her flesh and InuYasha could see why, she had strips of red-cloth wrapped around her hands; torn pieces of his Robe of the Fire-Rat, to protect her skin.

 

Suddenly Sakura gets behind Ruya, catching the wire-demon off-guard as he turns in an attempt to counter-attack, but is quickly stopped in his attack by Sakura as she spears her hand into his abdomen, curling her fingers around the solid-orb of the Shikon jewel.

 

“Do you still want to know how I survived…?”, she quietly taunts into his ear, “Well, for one thing… That life or death situation you put me in caused me to quickly learned how to create barriers to protect myself with…”, she coldly says, “And another thing… I can purify evil and demons…”, she adds, before channeling her power into the hand she impaled in Ruya's chest and releases the energy inside, causing him to slowly turn to dust from within and scatter in the wind, leaving only the Shikon no Tama in the palm of her hand, “That was a little bonus for calling me a bitch…”, she venomously spat, landing effortlessly on the ground beside InuYasha.

 

“Sa…ku…ra…?”, InuYasha nervously asks, shock at her malicious killing.

 

“Yes, InuYasha?”, she questions, smiling brightly as she looks over to him.

 

“Ruya…”, he began to say.

 

“Don't worry about what just happened. It just extremely irritates me when someone calls me a bitch…”, she hurriedly explains, “We should get going. I hate to admit it, but I'm actually beginning to miss my annoying cousin…”

 

`You have got to be kidding me… She's brushing off violently slaying her opponent as venting rage… Women are strange…', he thinks, following his traveling-companion, only to see her waver and causes him to run forward to catch her before she fell, “You alright?”

 

“Just a little light-headed…”, she replies, “Must have exhausted myself purifying him…”

 

“Perhaps you should be the one taking it easy”, he laughs.

 

“Whatever, dog-boy…”, she huffs, “I should be telling you that! You're still recovering…”

 

“Fine, we'll both take it easy as we travel”

 

“Feh…”, she scoffs, wanting to end the discussion, `Great…! I've been around him for so long that I'm beginning to pick up his mannerisms…!', she thinks.

 

`Great! She's starting to pick up my habit in wanting to end conversations! Kagome is going to kill me!', he mentally notes, `Wait…? Why did I think that?', he ponders, as his head started to throb the longer he wondered to himself.

 

 

 

 

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