InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Destiny ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

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Kagome's Destiny

 

Chapter 10

 

Kagome stood staring at two soldiers fighting each other. The two soldiers were fighting each other to show Kagome that they had indeed learned what she had taught them. They were both very handsome demons for being so low in strength. They had the look of two bad boys. They fit the look of bad guys: dark hair, dark eyes, dark clothing's.

 

Kagome watched as the bigger soldier kicked the feet of his smaller opponent from underneath him. This action caused his opponent to fall on his back. He, however, quickly rolled over and leapt back to his feet.

 

“Give up! You can't win!” yelled the bigger demon.

 

`Now that is odd. He doesn't seem to be talking about the fight.' Kagome thought in confusion.

 

“Never,” came the heated reply.

 

Kagome watched as they returned again back to their fight. The fight steadily became more heated with each step and kick that they took. Not long after this continued, the two of them where starting to have scratches and bruises all over their bodies. The scratches soon started to flow with blood and spill over onto their skin and ground. This told Kagome that they were fighting each other to the max for demon abilities wont' let you bleed unless you are extremely injured.

 

`Whatever they are truly fighting over is going to stop right now!' Kagome thought as she stepped forward to stop the match.

 

“Halt! Stop this right now!” commanded Kagome. “I don't know what has gotten into my two best students, but this is going to end now. Get on separate sides of the field. I want to hear nothing of this again. Do you understand me?”

 

“Yes, Lady Kagome,” They both said at the same time.

 

“Better. Now get out of my sight. You two will resolve whatever dispute that you have on your own time, not mine.” Kagome said, dismissing them.

 

The two demons walked away quickly and quietly.

 

`What is up with these demons? They have been on hot water for the past two days. All of them have. Maybe dad can yell me why. He knows what is going on here better than I do.' With that last thought Kagome walked to the other end of the training ground and looked for her father, Hakito. Spotting him using unmerciful tactics on some very weak fighters.

 

Kagome stood short twenty feet away from his arena to watch him.

 

Hakito ruthlessly sent his opponent to the ground then quickly went to his next opponent in a matter of seconds. He steadily quickened his pace and he was soon the only one standing.

 

Hakito turned away form them and looked at Kagome. He took one look at her expression and walked to her.

 

“What's wrong, Kagome?” he asked.

 

“I need to ask you something,” Kagome said.

 

“Come with me. They will be unconscious for a while.”

 

Kagome nodded her understanding and walked with her father to a secluded area of the field. Hakito stopped beside a large oak tree and leaned against it.

 

“What's troubling you?” Hakito asked.

 

“I…I…I was wondering if you are having problems with your training?”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“Well, the men are fighting.”

 

“Kagome, they are suppose to fight,” Hakito said with sarcasm.

 

“You know what I mean! They are fighting, but it doesn't seem like they are practicing. I don't know what they are fighting about.”

 

Hakito looked thoughtful. He seemed to go into deep thought with his face in concentration. He suddenly sniffed the air and turned his face back to Kagome.

 

“Kagome, I think that I know why they are acting so hostile.”

 

“What is it?” asked Kagome with interest.

 

Instead of answering, Hakito walked closer to Kagome. He walked so close that they were almost close enough to touch. He sniffed again, inhaling Kagome's intoxicating scent.

 

“Are you in heat?” he simply asked.

 

“You mean my time of the month?” Hakito nodded. “Yes,” answered Kagome.

 

“Well, that is why.” Hakito said. “You are in heat. Your smell is very…tempting. Your smell is very sweet to fight for you.”

 

“But, dad? I have a…a…” Kagome stopped. She tried again after a moment's hesitation. “I have something that stops the scent of that from coming out.”

 

“Oh, Kagome, you should know how demons have such a sense of smell. Even though you have almost covered your scent completely, the more powerful demons can still smell it. It isn't as nearly as strong, but it is there.” he said.

 

Kagome didn't know what to say.

 

“And it doesn't help that you are a beauty.” Hakito said in a whisper.

 

“Now you stop that! Now you are just being ridiculous!” exclaimed Kagome.

 

“Am I?” asked Hakito very seriously.

 

Kagome opened her mouth only to close it when she could not respond.

 

Hakito nodded as if he just answered a question. “That's what I thought. Just keep your distance away from some of your admirers.”

 

Hakito side stepped the smack that was coming at him. He smiled and walked away to torture some more trainees.

 

`Oh, man!' Kagome walked back to the other side of the field. As she walked she noticed that the other Lords, princes, and upper class demons were training the soldiers to the extreme. One in particular caught her eye. Sesshomaru was racing around some soldiers. He would strike then with a whip before going to a different soldier. He didn't seem to notice her watching him.

 

`Wow! His hair is so…” Kagome stopped those thoughts before she could think of something else.

 

Sesshomaru stopped and suddenly flew at Kagome. Sesshomaru fought Kagome with a fierceness that surprised her. He let out some poison from his claws and made a sweep at her.

 

“Gather around everyone! Watch to see how you can learn from this fight.” Hakito said out of nowhere.

 

Sesshomaru pulled out his sword, and swung it at Kagome.

 

`Oh, so he is trying to get me to fight with a blade. I will play his game for a little while.' thought Kagome.

 

Kagome took out her own 2 small swords. They were very different from many. If any thing, they looked like they were a set of long daggers. They were thin and string. The difference in them was the fact that one dagger had a dark blue gem in the hilt. The second dagger had a pure white gem in it. It wasn't a pearl, but more like a diamond.

 

`Now this is getting good!' Hakito thought silently.

 

The fight silently progressed. The sound of metal against metal soon could be heard throughout the entire field.

 

Kagome and Sesshomaru watched each other, waiting for the opportune moment to strike. They calculated their steps and strikes. They both tried to press an advantage on each other at every turn.

 

`I don't think that I can keep this up!' Kagome and Sesshomaru thought at the same time.

 

Kagome and Sesshomaru forced each other and stared at each other.

 

“You are getting better compared to that pathetic weakling you use to be.” stated Sesshomaru. His face remained emotionless.

 

“I will take that as a compliment, Lord Sesshomaru.” Replied Kagome cheerfully.

 

Kagome stood back into a relaxed posture.

 

“Thank you for the fight, Lord Sesshomaru.”

 

Sesshomaru slightly nodded. Kagome looked into his amber eyes. They flickered with an emotion before they turned back into a blank look.

 

`Was that…lust…in his eyes?' Kagome thought uncertainly. `No, it couldn't have been. Snap out of it, Kagome! You are seeing things.'

 

Sesshomaru turned around swiftly and firmly walked away. The crowd of soldiers dissipated and went back to work.

 

 

 

 

A Walk To Remember - by Mandy Moore

 

Only Hope Lyrics

 

 

 

There's a song that's inside of my soul

it's the one that I've tried to write over and over again

I'm awake in the infinite cold

but you sing to me over and over and over again

 

Chorus:

So I lay my head back down

and I lift my hands and pray to be only yours

I pray to be only yours

I know now you're my only hope

 

Sing to me the song of the stars

of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again

when it feels like my dreams are so far

sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again

 

Chorus

 

I give you my destiny

I'm giving you all of me

I want your symphony

singing in all that I am

at the top of my lungs

I'm giving it back

 

Chorus

 

 

End of song

 

 

Kagome was training one of her trainees when she felt a sudden intense pain in her back. She felt scared, worried, and above all, extreme pain. Kagome cried out and fell forward onto her hands and knees.

 

`What is this? I shouldn't be feeling his pain. Oh, Shippo, what is happening to you?'

 

“Lady Kagome?” asked her opponent.

 

“I'm…” Kagome never got the chance to finish her sentence before she cried out again.

 

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!” cried out Kagome again.

 

“Lord Sesshomaru? Lord Hakito? Someone help! Lady Kagome is hurt!”

 

Not seconds later Sesshomaru appeared at Kagome's side, kneeling beside her.

 

“Kagome?” he whispered.

 

Kagome's only response was to cry out in pain and anguish.

 

“Kagome? Kagome?” came Hakito's yells through the now gathered crowd. “Move out of my way before I kill you myself!” The crowd filed out so that Hakito's could pass.

 

“Kagome, what is wrong?” asked Hakito with worry.

 

“It's…Shippo. He's being attacked…by…by…” Kagome gasped again and pulled herself into a ball. “So much pain…he is in so much…pain!”

 

“By who? Who is hurting your kit?” Sesshomaru asked. His question surprised Kagome. She could have sworn that she saw worry in his eyes.

 

“Naraku,” Kagome said with dread in her voice.

 

“Where?” Sesshomaru asked with a slight urgency in his voice.

 

“North. Shippo is north.”

 

“Can you move? I know that it hurts, but you have to overpower the pain.”

 

“I think that I can.” Kagome slowly started to uncurl from her ball like position.

 

Kagome stood up and faced her audience. Suddenly, she was gone. She wasn't in the field.

 

“Where did she go?” asked Kagome's latest training.

 

“She left to go face, Naraku. Move out! She is going north!” bellowed Hakito. “What are you just standing there for! Get moving!”

 

Deciding that the demons where going to slow, Hakito grabbed a soldier.

 

“Either you move quicker or this is what you will receive from me!”

 

Hakito rapped his hands around the demon's head and broke it. He broke his head so fast that appendage remained in his hands while the rest of his body fell in a bloody heap on the ground. His head was dripping red blood from it. His body was already bloodying the ground. It was pooling at the top of his body, steadily moving around his body until it soaked his clothes. Hakito threw the head in his hands to the watching demons. It landed in the mist of them. Many of them took one look at the body, then the head, and started to move north with haste.

 

`Kagome!' Hakito thought.

 

He quickly shot off trying to follow Kagome, but stayed behind to make sure that the soldiers kept up.

 

No one noticed that Sesshomaru left almost immediately after Kagome. Koga was already gone when Hakito yelled for them to move. He knew that Hakito was going to make them move, one way or another.

 

 

 

Evanescence Lyrics

 

My Immortal

 

I'm so tired of being here

Suppressed by all my childish fears

And if you have to leave

I wish that you would just leave

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone

 

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase

 

[Chorus:]

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I held your hand through all of these years

But you still have

All of me

 

You used to captivate me

By your resonating mind

Now I'm bound by the life you left behind

Your face it haunts

My once pleasant dreams

Your voice it chased away

All the sanity in me

 

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase

 

[Chorus]

 

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone

But though you're still with me

I've been alone all along

 

[Chorus]

 

 

`Hang on, Shippo! Hang on! I'm coming!' Kagome thought frantically.

 

Kagome speed off to the north going over forests and plains. She didn't let the pain affect her. Her motherly instincts kicked in full force when she stood up.

 

Kagome thought about all the times that she protected Shippo. She would protect him from the cold at night. She would feed him and keep Inuyasha from hitting him on the head. She remembered that he would cry hopelessly in the night. She would wake up to hear him whispering his dead parents names. She would hold him her arms and whisper encouraging words to him. He would slowly calm down and fall asleep in her arms.

 

Kagome was brought out of her thoughts by a presence behind her. She looked behind her only to see Sesshomaru closing in on her. She watched as he steadily sped up to come even with her.

 

`He's faster than I thought that he was!' thought a surprised Kagome.

 

Kagome felt another wave of anger go through her mind. She sped up to surpass Sesshomaru. She was going at top speed now. Sesshomaru sped up, but didn't exceed her.

 

`She's fast!' Sesshomaru thought.

 

Kagome and Sesshomaru were going so fast that they seemed to be only blurs of color going by even to the eyes of demons.

 

As the pair moved straightly north, they soon felt the evil presence of Naraku. The smell of miasma soon wafered through their noses.

 

“We're getting close.” said Kagome in a normal voice. She knew that Sesshomaru would hear her even over the rapidly passing winds.

 

Sesshomaru didn't respond. They continued going as fast as they could.

 

They came upon a large clearing that had several occupants all ready in it. Kagome could see Miroku and Sango fighting against hundreds of lower class demons. Sango was throwing her Hiraikotsu, while Miroku was using his staff. Miroku couldn't use his wind tunnel upon the appending fact that Naraku had his poisonous insects nearby. Kirara was in her larger demon form attacking any demons that might get to close to Sango.

 

Kagura and Kanna were no where to be found.

 

`Where is Shippo?' Kagome thought frantically.

 

Kagome searched for him everywhere. She finally found him hiding behind a tree at the beginning of the forest. She could see that he was crying and wincing. She saw that he had a large gash on his back. It had blood flowing through the wound. It was, however, slowing down. Blood soaked the back of his clothes and was pooled at his feet.

 

`What is this feeling. I want…no…I need to kill!' Kagome turned her full attention onto the creature that dared to hurt her son: Naraku. She vaguely noticed that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were fighting Naraku. She went into a killing frenzy. She pushed her way through the hordes of demons. She killed every demon that came in her path. She quickly came to Naraku, Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru.

 

“Naraku!” screamed Kagome. Kagome came between Sesshomaru and Inuyasha.

 

Inuyasha turned toward Kagome. “Kagome, get back! You're going to get yourself killed!”

 

“Back off! He's mine!”

 

Kagome rushed forward to Naraku. She got closer and closer. She was almost right on top of him when he stopped moving. Kagome stopped herself just short of Naraku. Her will to kill started to recede.

 

`I feel no life force from him. Is he…dead…or is he faking it?'

 

“What the hell!” shouted Inuyasha from behind Kagome.

 

“What is this trickery?” asked Sesshomaru.

 

Kagome walked forward. She stopped next to the body of the now decreased Naraku.

 

“Kagome, get away from him!” commanded Inuyasha as he walked forward to move Kagome away with force if necessary.

 

Instead of obeying, Kagome kneeled down next to Naraku's body. She looked over his body. Blood was slowly running down from his nose and mouth. His face was contracted in extreme pain. His hand was balled into a fist. She forced his hand open only to see a blackened half of the completed Shikon No Tama in his palm. Kagome took it and it instantly turned pink to her touch.

 

“How did he d—” Inuyasha was slammed into a tree across the clearing. He crumbled to the foot of the tree already unconscious.

 

“Inuyasha!” screamed Kagome in alarm.

 

Kagome looked around her to find the hiding enemy. She left something in the back of her thoughts. It was more like a feeling of…no. Kagome couldn't describe it as a feeling, it was more like a prickling sensation in the back of her head.

 

“Sesshomaru, watch out!” warned Kagome.

 

The warning came too late. Kagome and Sesshomaru were slammed into the trees next to Inuyasha.

 

“Kagome!” Miroku, Sango, and Kirara were running to her. Shippo was tucked into Sango's arms. He was unconscious.

 

“Shippo?” asked Kagome.

 

“He'll be fine in a few weeks. He is healing himself with his demon healing abilities.”

 

“What happened, Lady Kagome?” Miroku looked at Sesshomaru very nervously. “My wind tunnel is no longer in my hand.”

 

“I don't know. He is dead. I think that the guy that killed him just attacked us.”

 

Silence followed this statement. A fog began to roll in. Within a few short seconds, the fog had almost completely covered the entire area.

 

Kagome and Sesshomaru stood and looked around. They could see an outline of a demon.

 

“We could use some wind,” said Sesshomaru.

 

Miroku and Sango just stared at Sesshomaru. He wasn't attacking them then he got up.

 

Kagome nodded. She used her power to blow most of the fog away.

 

Miroku's jaw dropped. In front of them was a gorgeous demoness. She was more like a seductress than anything else. The demoness had long, fine hair. It was a rich, chocolatey brown color. Her lips were blood red. Her womanly curves only added to her appeal to any man. Her eyes were pure dark blue with a black ring around them both. She was wearing pure dark blue.

 

“Wow!” whispered Miroku.

 

They watched as she slowly walked forward. She swayed her hips back and forth.

 

“You insignificant things.” She purred out. Her voice was like music no matter what she said.

 

“I will take over the world. My children will rule under me.”

 

Kagome, Sesshomaru, Miroku, and Sango went into a fighting stance.

 

“Speaking of children,” she said. “You look handsome. I have decided that you will be the father of my children.” She stated to Sesshomaru.

 

“You are of no interest to this Sesshomaru.” was Sesshomaru's reply.

 

“Ouch,” she said in sarcasm.

 

“You killed Naraku. He was mine to kill, you will die for your interference.” Sesshomaru leaped forward. He swung his sword at her going for a head strike.

 

He sliced through her. She faded in appearance to almost transparent.

 

“What is this sorcery?”

 

“You can't kill something that isn't there, Lord Sesshomaru.” She faded into nothing.

 

“She is just an allusion. Something that she made to test us. Her true body must be in another place.”

 

“She is like Naraku then?” asked a now conscious Inuyasha.

 

“No, she uses magic to make her appearance and personality to be here. It also seems as if she knows what is happening to her allusion. Naraku had Kanna show him what happened in her mirror, I think.”

 

“Where are they, anyway? They weren't here when Naraku showed up,” asked Sango.

 

“I don't know. I don't feel their presence.” said Kagome.

 

“Let's leave. My father and the others are on their way. Koga is almost here as it is.”

 

Silence followed this statement. It was short lived when Koga broke through the tree line in a haze of dirt and pine tree scent.

 

“Yo!” he said. He looked at Kagome only to shift his eyes to the bloody body of Naraku. “So you defeated him. Now wonder I fell his presence suddenly disappear.”

 

“We didn't kill him you mangy wolf!” growled Inuyasha.

 

“What?” yelled Koga with confusion. “He is dead right there.”

 

“He is dead, but not by my hand. She shall die.” Sesshomaru said. He swiftly turned around and walked back in the direction of the approaching army.

 

Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Koga, Kirara, and lastly, Inuyasha followed him.

 

“Hey, what did he mean by `she', Kagome? Can someone please tell me what is going on?” Koga asked. “What the hell is going on?!

 

End of Chapter 10. I hope that you liked it. Hey, don't give me that evil look. I told you that Naraku was going to die. I didn't tell you how or who would kill him, now did I? (animebook fan: evil grin!!! LOL)