InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Infatuation ❯ Bitch Slapping a Dark Miko ( Chapter 6 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

A/N: Hi guys! I’m not dead, just got very, very sick for a while so please excuse the long period between updates. Things should be back to normal now. =) I hope everyone enjoys this chapter! Oh, and if this installment seems a little more kick-ass and darker than normal, blame the influence on my recent re-discovery of Dark Angel and the new Evanescence single.

This chapter is dedicated to lady Kcassandra for being such a faithful reviewer! I greatly appreciate your encouragement and praise!

Thanks also to the best beta ever, Inukaggurl06! This would not be possible without you!

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Recap

“Quite,” Tsubaki laughed. “Now I’ll teach you a thing or two about true power, little girl.”

Kagome flared up her energy, her chocolate eyes glowing in determination. “Bring it, bitch.”

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Infatuation

Rated M/R for language

Chapter 6: Bitch Slapping a Dark Miko

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Tsubaki and Kagome openly glared, each waiting for the other to fire off the preliminary attack. The two began to slowly circle, deliberately taking tauntingly slow steps in an attempt to provoke the other. Kagome fought the urge to roll her eyes at Tsubaki’s blatantly cocky attitude as the dark miko smirked.

“Take this!” Tsubaki yelled as she hurled a ball of dark energy at Kagome’s stomach.

The light miko easily deflected the blow with a barrier, hurling a stream of her own pink energy back. Tsubaki leaped out of the way, spinning around to fire a few more blasts. Kagome continued blocking and launching away more attacks as she inched closer to the dark miko. Once in range, Kagome delivered a roundhouse kick square in Tsubaki’s chest, sending her crashing into a wall.

“You little bitch!” Tsubaki screeched, a dagger materializing in her hand. She fused it with dark energy and sent it hurling towards Kagome.

The Slayer reflexively dodged; however, the blade managed to graze her right shoulder. The energy began to burn brightly, injecting the taint into her bloodstream and skin. The Shikon shard hidden in her bra began to pulse, reacting to the proximity of the dark energy.

“Ahh, so you do have a shard. This shall work to my advantage.”

InuYasha started growling, leaping in front of Kagome. Although the chances of his ass being purified were devastatingly high, he could not stand idly by and watch the witch hurt his partner.

Tsubaki just cackled at the hanyou, putting her hands together and concentrating. The glow in Kagome’s chest intensified to blinding heights, sending out shockwaves of dark energy in the process.

Kagome could not breathe. Her limbs were beginning to numb and she could feel her motor skills shutting down.

‘No! I have to fight this!’

She could easily flare her energy and purify the taint, but the level of power necessary would bring every youkai, hanyou and spiritually sensitive being in a 10-mile radius barging into the club. Not exactly a fabulous idea when you were undercover.

‘Kill InuYasha!’

“What?’ Kagome gasped to herself, immediately realizing her limbs had begun to move of their own volition towards the hanyou. The dagger in her right hand jerkily rose above her head, poised to strike.

‘Kill InuYasha!’

‘No!’ she mentally screamed, fighting the foreign invasion in her mind. ‘This witch bitch will NOT control me!’

She struggled against her plunging arm, stopping it inches above InuYasha’s back. The hanyou turned around instantaneously, shock spreading over his features.

“Kagome?”

“Run,” the miko managed to bite out, muscles tensed for her internal battle.

“What the hell is going on?” he stepped back slightly, swinging his glare to Tsubaki. “What the fuck did you do to her?”

“It’s no fault of mine if your little girlfriend is so weak-willed,” Tsubaki cackled.

“I’m. NOT. WEAK!” Kagome shouted as her aura rose dramatically, purifying the shard and destroying Tsubaki’s hold over her.

“How…?” Tsubaki gasped in shock.

Kagome’s energy was blaring, her eyes alight in ire. Her hair was floating around her as her entire body was encased in a pink spiritual glow, emitting raw power.

“I told you it wouldn’t be pretty if you didn’t play nice. Now, I‘m gonna kick your pathetic ass.”

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Lights continued to pulse to the beat of the music as the two undercover wolves danced away. Suddenly, Ayame stopped cold.

“Did you just feel that?” she gasped.

“Oh yeah,” Kouga practically groaned, grinding his pelvis against the female ookami again.

“Not THAT, you hentai!” The Slayer slapped the wolf away. “The surge of miko energy.”

Both locked gazes, serious and concerned.

“Shiiiit,” Kouga growled.

“Kagome,” Ayame whispered.

They disappeared, stealthily making their way through the gyrating crowd and towards the pulsing power. Once they found an empty stairwell, Ayame whipped out her small walkie as the two ookami pounded their way up the staircase.

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“Red to Home,” Ayame’s voice crackled.

Rin stopped dancing cold and dived for the walkie. The other room occupants merely raised eyebrows at the smallest Slayer laying flat on her belly and holding the device in victory.

“Sakura here. How’s it hanging?”

“BIG trouble. Kag’s power level just rose through the roof! We need the gang ASAP!”

“We’re on it!” Rin replied, the entire room springing into action.

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“Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit,” Kouga muttered as they reached the VIP landing.

“Is that your brilliant assessment of the situation?” Ayame quipped sarcastically, unwrapping the chain around her waist. It was a nice little whip disguised as a belt.

‘I’m dying to try this bitch out,’ she mentally smirked.

“Are you dumb or something? Can’t you feel that shit?! Kagome‘s pissed!”

Ayame snorted. “You ain’t seen pissed yet, wolfling. This is mildly peeved.”

Kouga‘s eyes widened. “Remind me never to get on her bad side.”

“Hey, you two!”

The wolves turned their heads to see a burly bouncer.

“No passes, no entrance!”

“Bite me,” Ayame replied, wrapping the chain around the bouncer to pull him close, then chopping him on the back of his thick neck and leaping gracefully over the body.

“Remind me never to piss you off either,” Kouga muttered, taking off down the hall, catching up with Ayame.

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Once Rin, Sango, Sesshomaru and Miroku came within eyeshot of the Shikigami on their bikes, they instantly felt the crackling of spiritual energy.

“Uh-oh,” Rin eloquently mumbled.

She and Sango locked eyes, nodding at each other as they parked their bikes by a curb and shot off towards the club’s back entrance.

“Hey!” Miroku called to them as he and Sesshomaru caught up. “What’s wrong?”

“Are you that oblivious, monk?” Sango snapped. “Hello, feel the incredible surging spiritual energy? That’s one uber-angry miko who’s on the defensive!”

“Oh.”

“That’s you’re reply? You really are the dumbest piece of--”

“Hey! Quit the flirting and let’s go help!” Rin hollered, hauling Sango off by the arm.

“I was NOT flirting!” Sango retorted on the defensive.

“Whatever,” Rin muttered.

Sesshomaru merely raised an irritated eyebrow at the lesser beings he was forced to work alongside.

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InuYasha couldn’t decide whether to be scared or turned on.

‘Daaamn, she’s hot when she’s angry! Her eyes look like liquid fire, that glow just enhances her body, that angry scowl is so damn sexy, and the way her chest is heaving in fury is just--”

Ayame and Kouga chose that moment to burst through the door and ruin his train of mental appraisal.

“What the hell are you doing here?”

Ayame rolled her eyes and pointed toward the raging miko Kagome.

“Oh yeah.”

Kouga wolf-whistled. “Daaaamn, she’s hot when she’s angry!”

“Shut the fuck up, ookami!”

‘I’m the only one allowed to think like that!’

Ayame smacked Kouga upside the head. “Would it kill either of you to focus on the matter at hand? The two miko facing off!”

They all got down to business, whipping out weapons or lowering into defensive stances.

“What did this bitch do to get Kags so angry?” Ayame inquired quietly.

“Tried to control her.”

“Ooo, she absolutely hates that. There won’t be anything left of the witch when Kag’s is done.”

The two Hunters nodded in agreement.

Ayame took a tentative step forward. A pink barrier materialized to block her path.

“Stand down,” Kagome ordered in a firm voice. Ayame nodded and stepped back.

The remaining Slayers and Hunters came crashing in next.

“What the--”

“Wow, Lady Kagome appears particularly hot when--”

“Shut the fuck up, Houshi!”

“Ooo, Kagome’s gonna fry some dark miko tonight!”

Everyone, sans Kagome and Tsubaki, cast a dubious glance at Rin.

“What? You were all thinking it too!”

“Nevermind,” Sango said, turning to Ayame. “What’s the plan?”

“Orders are to stand down.”

“AKA, wait for the cronies to show up and then open a can of whoop ass?”

“Hai.”

Sango shrugged. “Sounds good to me.”

Sesshomaru looked positively bored, as per usual. ‘This Sesshomaru is wasting time, yet again. Why haven’t I gone back to solo freelance work again?’

As if on cue, about 15 lesser youkai broke through the ceiling, surrounding the assembled fighters.

“It’s time to par-tay!” Rin announced.

The Slayers and Hunters paired off back-to-back with their respective partners and began attacking. Because of close quarters, the Wind Scar was void. InuYasha engaged in claw-to-claw combat, covering Kagome the best he could.

Kagome was entirely too irate to care about the new youkai popping up. The barrier could fry them, for all she cared. Her focus remained solely on Tsubaki as she continued to raise her spiritual energy.

Tsubaki’s eyes widened fearfully.

Kagome smirked. “I’ll give you one last chance to speak up, or forever hold your peace.”

“He offered me immortality.”

“Isn’t that sweet of him? That still doesn’t explain how you factor into his ‘grand’ plans.”

“I was to help him collect the Shikon shards.”

“As a miko, you can sense them, duh. I figured that much. What happened to make the deal end?”

“He turned one of my Shikigami on me, giving me this scar on my eye.”

Kagome fought the urge to roll her eyes over the woman’s vanity. The scar was barely visible!

“So he can’t sense them himself, can he?”

“Oh he can sense them, but he can’t see them. He can configure a general area, but it would take him too long to pinpoint it’s exact location.”

“And time is money,” Kagome muttered. “Or, in his case, time is power.”

“Exactly. He’s too weak on his own. But the more shards he has--”

“The more dangerous he becomes.”

“Gee, you’re a quick one, Slayer,” Tsubaki snorted.

Kagome just smirked, raising her power higher.

Tsubaki looked panic-stricken. “I thought if I told you what I knew you weren’t going to kill me!”

“Oh, I’m not going to kill you. Even a bitch like you doesn’t deserve to die.”

Tsubaki visibly relaxed.

“I’m just going to strip you of your powers.”

“What?!”

“Can’t let dark miko run amuck in Japan. Sorry,” Kagome grinned sardonically, “It’s against the Slayer code.”

Before Tsubaki could utter a word of protest, a white, pulsing light wrapped around her. The whit casing slowly turned black as the dark miko’s powers were drawn out. Once Kagome completely drained Tsubaki, the casing dropped to the floor, shattering into billions of miniscule lights that immediately burned out of existence.

Tsubaki dropped to the floor, exhaustedly trying to scoop up the bits as they disappeared. “No!” she cried mournfully.

“Look on the bright side,” Kagome whispered weakly, as she too fell to her knees, “You’re free. Naraku won’t bother you now because you’re of no use to him.”

Tsubaki just glared at the miko. She grabbed the dropped dagger off the floor, and lunged at Kagome. “I can still kill you without my powers!”
Tessaiga’s blade stopped her short of her goal.

“Back off, bitch,” InuYasha snarled. “Unless you wanna be dead along with powerless, you better run and never come near her again.”

Tsubaki ran screaming past the fighting Slayers, Hunters and youkai and out of her office door.

“You okay?” InuYasha asked quietly, scooping the miko into his arms.

Kagome nodded. “Thanks. I can walk, ya know.”

The moment her feet touched the floor, her legs crumbled.

“You were saying?” InuYasha smirked.

“Shut up.” Kagome turned her attention to the others. “You guys okay?”

Everyone looked up from their personal pile of youkai goo.

“Peachy-keen, jelly bean!” Rin replied cheerfully.

“Easy-peasey,” answered Ayame.

“What they said,” chorused Sango, Miroku and Kouga.

“Indeed,” Sesshomaru contributed.

“Whaddya say we head back to HQ?” asked InuYasha.

“Sounds good,” said Ayame as she slipped her chain back through it’s belt loops. “We need to debrief.”

“And check the computers!” Rin added.

“Kags?” Sango asked.

“Shh,” InuYasha whispered. “She’s out like a light.”

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