InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Long Awaited Reunion ❯ Fight for Survival ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter 7: Fight for Survival

'What's this feeling?' Inukigo thought as she looked at the group standing on the opposite side of the clearing, 'I feel like I need to dig my claws into something. Make something bleed. Kill something,' she began to grin evilly. 'They'll be perfect. The hanyou looks like he'll be fun to kill.'

Everyone saw the grin that crossed Inukigo's face and it sent chills up their spines.

"This is bad Inuyasha. I can sense more youki coming from her than when your youkai blood takes over," Miroku said.

"She must have been really pissed at Naraku for it to take her over that much," Sango stated.

"Inuyasha, how are we going to stop her?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know. However we do it we have to be careful. She's already seriously hurt from her fight with Naraku and I don't want to injure her any more than she already is."

They didn't have time to come up with a plan to stop Inukigo, because at that moment she decided that it was time to charge head on into the group. Inuyasha heard her coming and turned to see her closing the distance between them at a speed that would challenge Koga's. He barely had enough time to grab Kagome and jump out of the way along with the others. Inukigo skidded when her targets scattered, but didn't stop. She looked around her and singled out the small neko youkai as her first target since it was closest.

Kirara saw that Inukigo was coming at her and transformed into her larger form. She remembered what Inuyasha had said about not wanting to hurt Inukigo so she didn't attack.

Inukigo grinned again when Kirara transformed, 'This will be even better then I thought.'

She started swiping her claws at Kirara with tremendous force, slightly splitting the ground whenever she came into contact with it instead of Kirara. Kirara was doing her best to dodge Inukigo's strikes, but they started coming to fast for her and Inukigo made contact with Kirara's right shoulder, creating four long, deep gashes. Inukigo slowly stood up from her crouched position, studied her claws, then started to lick the blood off of them.

'Great,' Inuyasha thought, 'She's already in a state of bloodlust, and now she's got a taste for it too.'

"Kirara!!" Sango screamed. She instantly forgot everything about not hurting Inukigo when Kirara collapsed and changed back to her smaller form, "Hiraikotsu!"

"Sango-chan stop!" Kagome yelled. But it was too late. Sango's giant boomerang was on a direct course for Inukigo, who currently seemed to be unaware of it. However, just before the boomerang hit her, Inukigo jumped into the air and out of harm's way. She watched it as it returned to Sango and decided that this woman who had attacked her would be her next target. She charged towards Sango at top speed, reaching her in seconds. Sango had just enough time to hold up Hiraikutsu as a shield.

"You know, it wasn't such a good idea to do that," Inukigo said as she grinned sadistically at Sango. That look gave Sango the chills. She froze for a split second, giving Inukigo just enough time to get past the oversized boomerang. Inukigo would have made contact, but Inuyasha got behind her just in time, wrapping his arms fully around her, pinning her

arms at her sides.

"Miroku! Get over here now and put some ofudas on her so we can calm her down!"

Miroku rushed over, ofudas in hand, but in no way could he place any of them on Inukigo. Inuyasha may have had her arms pinned, but the hold he had on her lifted her up off of the ground, and she was kicking madly at the air in her struggles to get free. Miroku couldn't get anywhere near her.

"Inuyasha, I can't do anything with her kicking like that!"

"Kuso," Inuyasha swore. There was no way of restraining her if she didn't calm down a little, "Inukigo, it's me, Inuyasha!" he yelled, but not harshly, "C'mon, calm down! You've gotta' calm down!"

Inukigo relaxed in Inuyasha's arms, and he saw her eyes flash amber for a split second, but it wasn't enough time to get the ofudas on her. She threw her head back, smashing it into Inuyasha's face. Inuyasha was shocked at the impact, and loosened his grip just enough for Inukigo to free her arms. She reached back with both hands and grabbed Inuyasha's shoulders. He yelped in pain as she dug her claws in deep, then she threw him over her head and straight into Miroku.

"Inuyasha! Miroku-sama!" Kagome screamed.

Unfortunately, her scream caught Inukigo's attention, and she was right next to Kagome in seconds. Kagome knew that she couldn't get away and threw Shippou from her arms just as Inukigo pounced on her. Kagome was pinned to the ground and winced as Inukigo's claws dug into her right shoulder. Inukigo raised her right hand and prepared to ram it into Kagome's chest. Luckily Sango made it just in time, swinging her Hiraikutsu at Inukigo. Inukigo heard it coming, and jumped off of Kagome in time to avoid it, and landed right behind Sango.

"Guess you haven't learned about not interfering."

Sango turned her head to look at Inukigo, but she didn't have enough time to defend

herself and ended up with four long gashes up her back. She fell to the ground right next to Kagome. She wasn't unconscious, but she decided not to move, hoping that Inukigo would lose interest in her for the moment.

"Sango!!" Miroku yelled. He and Inuyasha had managed to untangle themselves and were now both standing and had seen what happened. Miroku's cry caught Inukigo's attention and she forgot about the two girls on the ground. She began to slowly walk towards Miroku and Inuyasha, flexing her blood covered claws and cracking her knuckles.

"Sango-chan, daijobou ka?" Kagome whispered as she sat up.

"Hai, Kagome-chan. The gashes aren't too deep, it does hurt to move around though."

"What are we going to do? Not only are we getting hurt, but Inukigo-chan is seriously injured too," Kagome said as she glanced at her blood covered shirt. The blood wasn't hers, it was Inukigo's. She was bleeding heavily from the large hole in her stomach, "If we don't find a way to stop her soon she'll die from blood loss."

"I don't know. I can't think of a way to do it without hurting her more," Sango replied.

"I hope Inuyasha can think of something soon. I don't want anything to happen to her."

At that moment, Inuyasha was desperately trying to think of something before Inukigo reached him and Miroku. He was trying to think of the ways that they stopped his demon blood.

'The rosary works on me, too bad she doesn't have one,' he thought to himself, being grateful for the thing for once, 'There's physical contact. Kagome changed me back once by kissing me,' he would have blushed at the memory if it had not been for the current situation, 'But I don't think that will work either. I've already been close to her and it only had worked for a second,' Inukigo was getting closer and he was running out of time, 'Then there's Tetsusaiga. It acts as a guardian sword and binds my demon blood,' that's when he got an idea, 'Wait, Inukigo and I are twins. We have the same blood. If Tetsusaiga works on my blood, it should work on hers too.'

"Miroku, I've got an idea. Think you can keep her busy long enough for me to get close to her?"

"I think so, what do you have in mind Inuyasha?"

"I'm gonna try to get her to hold Tetsusaiga. It works for my blood so I'm hoping that it'll work for hers too."

"Good idea, I'll see what I can do."

Their conversation was cut short when Inukigo decided that she had had enough of walking and ran the remaining distance to Miroku and Inuyasha. Miroku jumped into her path to divert her attention towards him and away from Inuyasha, and it worked. Miroku could barely hold off her strikes with his staff. Inuyasha waited until he was sure that Miroku had her full attention. He wasn't sure if he would get a second chance to do this so he was going to have to be careful. He saw an opportunity when Inukigo stumbled a bit as Miroku dodged her claws. He unsheathed Tetsusaiga and rushed forward as fast as he could with the intention to grab her hand and place Tetsusaiga in it. Unfortunately, Inukigo heard him move and was ready long before he got there, remembering that she had a wound in her stomach.

"Hijin Kessou!"

Inuyasha was shocked when he saw one of his own attacks coming at him. 'Chikushou, I forgot that she could do that,' He held up Tetsusaiga as a shield, and managed to block most of the blades, but a few of them got by, creating cuts on his arms and legs.

"Inuyasha!"

It was a mistake for Miroku to draw attention to himself because Inukigo turned quickly, with her claws aiming to stab Miroku in the chest. He saw her coming just in time and managed to move partially out of the way, but ended up with a gash along his arm. Inukigo looked around the clearing. No one was left standing. She grinned widely as she looked down at her claws.

'This has been more fun then I thought it would be. Their blood tastes good too.'

Inuyasha saw how preoccupied she was with her claws and took the chance to run at her. This time, she didn't notice him coming because she was too fascinated with the blood on her claws. She didn't even know he was there until he had grabbed her wrist. Before she could make a struggle to break free, Inuyasha had Tetsusaiga firmly planted in her hand and quickly wrapped her fingers around the hilt.

Then something happened that completely caught Inuyasha by surprise. Tetsusaiga started to pulse madly, then started to glow with a blinding white light. Inuyasha squinted his eyes shut to block out the light, then tried to pull the hand that was still holding onto Tetsusaiga away when it felt like something was burning him. There was some resistance, but he finally got his hand away. Then he realized that he had also pulled the Tetsusaiga away from Inukigo's grasp. When the light faded he prepared to put the sword back in her hand, only to find that it was already occupied, by another sword, that looked identical to the Tetsusaiga that he was still holding.

'Nani? Another sword? Where did that come from?' he thought, then he saw the sword Inukigo was holding start to pulse in much the same manner as Tetsusaiga, 'The hell with how it got there! It's starting to contain her youkai blood!'

"Inukigo, wake up!!" he screamed at her.

She struggled against the grip on her wrist for a second before he yelled at her, then froze.

'Where am I? What am I doing? Why do I smell so much blood?'

Inuyasha was relieved when he saw her crimson red eyes turn back to their normal amber colour and the stripes on her cheeks fade away. He was worried when he saw the panicked look on her face.

"Inukigo?" he said quietly.

"Inuyasha? What's going on, why do I smell everyone's blood?" she asked, then looked at her claws, "And why is it all over me?"

'She doesn't remember anything that happened.'

"What do you remember?" Inuyasha asked calmly as he sheathed Tetsusaiga.

"I remember Naraku showing up and talking about his plan, then nothing up to right now. Inuyasha what did I do? Did I...hurt everyone?"

By this time everyone had managed to get to their feet and were making their way over to the twin inu-hanyous. Inuyasha looked at Inukigo and saw how scared she looked as their friends approached. He knew exactly what she was feeling - overwhelming guilt. He quickly let go of her wrist and grabbed her shoulders wanting to reassure her.

"Inukigo, listen to me. What you did wasn't you fault. You got really angry at Naraku and your youkai blood took over. You attacked us because you didn't know who we were or what you were doing, so don't blame yourself for it."

"My youkai blood took over?"

Inuyasha nodded and Inukigo looked at the people around her.

'Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Kirara, Inuyasha. I hurt all of them. What if I do it again? They might not be able to stop me next time. I have to get away from them.'

She pulled herself out of Inuyasha's grasp, dropped the sword that she was holding, and made one leap away from the group. She wanted to go further but that's all the far she got as fell to her knees clutching her stomach as searing pain spread throughout her entire body. She felt something warm and wet against her hand, and held it up to look at it, and was shocked by the amount of her own fresh blood that was on it. She then realized that she had two rather large, gaping wounds, the one in her stomach bleeding heavily.

'When did I get these?' she asked herself. Her vision started to blur as the pain from the injuries and the blood loss kicked in and she lost consciousness, falling the remaining distance to the ground.