InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love, What About It? ❯ The Attack ( Chapter 2 )
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By: zelarasha08 
A unknown demon rolls into view and a new character follows.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.14.2005 | Updated On: 08.14.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.4K | Visits: 226 | Status: Completed
A unknown demon rolls into view and a new character follows.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.14.2005 | Updated On: 08.14.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.4K | Visits: 226 | Status: Completed
Okay in this chapter there is A LOT more stuff, so in other words its better than the first 1.
Disclaimer: In my MIND I own the Inuyasha gang, but in reality I don’t *tear*. Onward with the story!
Chapter 2: The Attack
Kagome crawled out of the well expecting to be greeted by an annoyed Inuyasha. No matter how soon she came back, it was never soon enough for him. Noticing that he wasn’t there, she was slightly down hearted. ‘Woah,’ she thought ‘why should I care that much? It doesn’t matter.’ She scanned the area as she walked. She didn’t even see Shippo, Sango or Miroku! She tried to shrug it off as she made her way to Kaede’s hut. Maybe she knew where they were.
As Kagome walked up to the hut, Kaede greeted her at the entrance. “Ah, I felt ye presence young Miko.” Bowing Kaede led Kagome inside. Kagome sat down on the floor and took her bag off, it was a relief to her shoulders, she decided to pack extra treats for Shippo so it was a bit heavy. Kaede walked in with a steaming pot and poured Kagome some tea. “Here ye go.”
“Thank you Kaede,” Kagome said, “where is Inuyasha and the rest? I’ve only been gone a day, I didn’t expect them to be gone.” She then took a small sip.
“Oh the lads? They got word of a shard not too far off. I ‘spect them to be back later today.” Kaede sat down across from Kagome and poured herself a cup. “In the mean while, ye can practice your archery. I think with a little more practice, ye can be better than my dear deceased sister, Kikyou.”
For some reason the mention of Kikyou’s name made Kagome’s skin crawl. But then she realized it was because Inuyasha still loved her, by why would she care, they were only friends, right? Kaede noticing Kagome’s expression asked “Are ye all right young Miko?”
“Oh yeah I’m fine! Just thinking!” Kagome laughed, trying to make it sound convincing. Kaede eyed her with her good eye then finally looked outside and drank some of her tea. After a long silence Kaede said, “After ye finish the tea, ye can go outside and practice a bit.”
“Sure!” Kagome exclaimed, ‘what’s the point of acting all moody now?’ she questioned herself. Kagome sipped the rest of her tea and set her hands on the table. That’s when Kaede noticed Kagome’s ring and her one eye widened.
“What a beautiful ring ye have there Kagome.”
“What?.. Oh yeah, my grandpa gave it to me. He said it was his great-great grandma’s or something. It must be pretty old then!” Kagome held out her right hand to give Kaede a better view of it. Kaede’s suspicions were confirmed. She’s definitely seen this ring before, but where she couldn’t quite remember, but what she did know was it was VERY special. Kaede seeing Kagome’s happy eyes on the ring decided not to tell her about it, just not yet at least.
Kagome then took her bow and arrow out of her bag and walked outside. She walked along till she got to a secluded spot by a huge elk tree. Inuyasha was usually perched in its branches looking out or sleeping in it. Kagome readied her arrow pulled back the string and shot it straight for the tree’s trunk about 30 feet away. The arrow went whirling at top speed…and missed it by a foot.
“Wow that was WAY off.” She scolded to herself out loud. She took another arrow, readied it, and shot it at the tree, aiming a little more to the left. The arrow hit the bark but it bounced off, ‘not enough power’ she told herself. Concentrating all her thoughts on her objective she took another arrow and set it up. She had to feel the arrows power combined with the bows strength, she needed to know exactly what she was doing. Taking a deep breath she looked squarely to the middle of the tree. She pulled back the string, and released. The arrow hit the tree perfectly in the middle! Kagome let out a squeak of joy and did a little dance.
“Impressive!” A unknown voice shouted.
Kagome yelped and dropped her bow in surprise. She swung herself in the direction of the voice to find it was only Kouga. “Kouga!” She yelled.
“Oh I didn’t mean to scare you my sweet Kagome!” He said sincerely, “I was just in awe at your perfect archery!” He bowed before her. Kagome smiled, she was flattered, at least someone complimented her on her skills… Unlike Inuyasha! He always criticized her! “Where is that stupid flea-bag? Isn’t that dog usually with you?” He added.
“Inuyasha? He and the rest are off getting a shard, I only got here a little while ago.” She replied picking up her bow.
“How dare he leave you alone? See? he doesn’t deserve you, I on the other hand would NEVER leave you alone!” He rushed up and kissed Kagome’s hand. She blushed at the attention he was giving her. She didn’t love Kouga, but he loved her, and Kagome tried to be considerate towards his feelings. “Kagome, why don’t you come with me?”
“Oh… well I…” she stammered, she was caught off guard by his question, “I-I was just going to wait till Inuyasha and the gang came back…” At the end of her sentence there was a very distant sound but it was too far away to make out.
“Who cares about that hanyou? Be with me and you’ll never have to see him again.” Again the noice sounded again more clear, and there was a slight vibration in the ground.
“Kouga I…” she sighed, he just didn’t understand, “Kouga, I don’t like you in that way. I know that you think I’m your ‘woman’, but I’m not. You should find someone that will return the same feelings to you.” She bit her lip and looked up to Kouga. The vibration increased.
He looked slightly hurt but his stubbornness took the better of him. “I’ll never love ano-.” His sentence was cut off short by loud trembling. Kagome and Kouga both looked to the right and they could see where it was coming from.
A huge reptile-like demon was charging their way. It looked like a 20 foot long lizard but it had several spikes growing out of its back which seemed to look poisonous. Kagome gasped as it came closer, she could sense a shard within it. It screeched in the distance and stomped its way forward. Kouga stepped in front of Kagome to shield her but she wasn’t going to be a baby and hide! She took and arrow out and set it up on her bow, she stepped to the side so Kouga wasn't in the way, and waited.
Sensing danger ahead the reptile-demon curled into a ball and rolled up onto the hill where Kagome and Kouga stood. Oddly enough the giant ball stopped in front of them, it looked like a big prickly ball. Kouga and Kagome looked at each other in confusion, Kouga stretched out his arm, avoided the spikes, and poked the youkai. It began to swell up, slowly. Kagome dropped her arms (arrow following suit, falling to ground) and looked towards Kouga in alarm, but Kouga just stood there, looking at the youkai clearly confused.
Suddenly a voice pierced the air, “TAKE COVER! HURRY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!” Kagome didn’t even bother looking to the owner of the voice, she grabbed Kouga by the arm and dragged him behind the tree. Kagome’s heart was thumping in her chest, she knew something bad was about to happen, and that unknown voice confirmed her fears. There was a loud “PHHHPH” noise followed by several whooshing and thunks against the tree. Kagome screamed and grabbed onto Kouga, who didn’t seem to mind. Once the noises ceased, Kagome slowly peered her head around the tree. The demon-reptile seemed to have released the spikes from it’s back shooting them for several yards around. The youkai began to unravel itself from the ball and the young Miko found her chance for attack, pulling herself together she pulled back her last arrow and shot it straight for the demon. ‘Come on hit it!’ She commanded. The arrow whizzed through the air and shot straight through one of it’s hind legs, causing it to topple over. “YES!” she shouted.
Kagome looked back to Kouga to see his expression but it wasn’t what she expected. Rather than being triumph it was more of a surprised expression. Kagome, puzzled, followed his eyes in the direction he was looking. A girl was sprinting up the hill towards them, ‘I must have not seen her since I was concentrating on the youkai.’ She told herself. ‘It must be the voice that warned us about it’s attack.’ The girl, finally making her way to the top of the hill, gave Kagome a better look at her. She had light blue eyes and golden blonde hair tied into a loose bun on the top of her head, she seemed to look Kagome’s own age, maybe a little older. She was wearing a long sleeve white shirt that went to the middle of her thighs, black spandex shorts that went to her knees, black gloves, purple cloth that tied around her hips (making a belt) and a black vest that had talons and teeth hanging from the neckline. Over all it was a pretty simple outfit. ‘Is Kouga staring at her?’ Kagome asked herself looking at Kouga.
“I’ll… I’ll take it fr-from here!” The girl shouted between gasps for air. Her face looked flushed, most likely from a long run. She unsheathed two curved swords and held them in front of her. She rushed to the demon, jumped in the air and slashed down one of the swords. But the demon was a step ahead, it rolled to the side and shot its tongue out, wrapped it around the sword, and swallowed it whole. She landed and charged again without hesitation, this time she striked the demon’s slithering tongue causing the beast to pierce the air with a horrible screech. The girl laughed and jumped back. Fury was in the youkai’s eyes. It swung its tail around meeting with the girls legs, knocking her over. The demon advanced on her and Kagome began to panic. She looked at Kouga wondering why he wasn’t helping her, he continued gaping at the girl until he felt Kagome’s eyes on him. “She can handle it.” He said as a matter o’ factly and he nodded towards the battle.
Looking upon the battle Kagome realized the girl was no longer on her back but slashing her sword at the demon’s face, making the demon hiss in anger. It tried another tail attack but the girl was too fast, she easily jumped over it and flipped through the air landing on the beast’s back. She thrust her sword deep into its shoulder blade, even louder shrieks admitted from the demon. It swung its body side to side, finally throwing the girl off of its back flying through the air. She landed right on her back knocking the air out of her. The youkai quickly slithered over (bleeding profusely) and stepped onto her lower leg, there was a sickening cracking as the weight crushed her bones. The girl screamed out in a mixture of pain and anger, she slashed at the youkai’s leg, but had no luck at making it back away.
Now Kouga felt that the girl needed help and started to run towards the fight. Kagome sighed, finally Kouga was going to help. Kouga ran straight for the demon and jumped into it, pushing it away from the girl. Kagome ran as fast as she could towards the girl and started to help her, she saw angry tears in her eyes. Once sitting up, the girl jumped up leaning on her good leg. “I need to keep fighting! This damned Youkai destroyed half my village!” She tried to hop over towards the demon but fell over because of the pressure on her leg. Kagome helped her once again saying “Don’t be stupid! Your hurt, you have to stay still!”
Spitting and hissing the youkai made its new target Kouga. Breathing in deeply the youkai spewed out fire, missing Kouga only by a hair as he rolled away. The demon breathed in again trying to hit Kouga with fire again, it missed but instead it went straight for Kagome and the girl. Kagome gasped and pushed the girl to the side while she rolled the opposite way, to prevent being burned. Sighing at her luck Kagome jumped up. "Kouga let's finish him!"
Kouga smiled and threw his arms at the youkai punching it in several different spots, while running in circles around it. The demon began to get confused and aggravated, just what Koga wanted. Kagome sneaked and picked up her bow once again and pulled one of the arrows out of the tree she was practicing on. The demon screeched as it became dizzy, Kouga ran straight for Kagome, the demon following.
"Kouga jump!" Kagome demanded holding her bow out loaded with then arrow. The wolf demon obeyed and jumped into the trees branches. Kagome couldn't have had a better shot, she realized the arrow and it flew through the air with a pink light surrounding it. The arrow peirced the lizard demon squarely in the head and caused it to disintegrate. The body of the demon slumped over to the ground slightly twitching.
Then Kagome saw it clear as day, the Shikon shard in the middle of it’s belly. Seeing as the youkai was not making huge movements, Kagome yelled at the girl. "Give me your sword, hurry!" The girl looked at Kagome with puzzlement but did as she was told and threw the sword on the ground next to her. She quickly approached the disgusting body and slashed at the spot where the shard was.
Screeching in defeat the youkai thrashed around, but eventually death over took it and it froze. Kagome retrieved the shards from its wounded scales. Somehow, the girl hobbled over and fell to her knees next to the demon. She thrust her hand through the open wound on its stomach confusing Kagome and Kouga, who had jumped back down from the tree's branches. But then she pulled her blood drenched arm out to reveal her other curved sword in her hand that the youkai swallowed, ending their confusion. “Damn youkai.” She mumbled to herself as she wiped her hand on the grass.
Seeing that Kouga started to stare at the girl again Kagome finally asked the unanswered question, “Uh, just out of curiosity… who are you?”
The girl laughed and looked up to Kagome, slightly embarrassed. “Oh I’m sorry, I’m Kelei, high priest’s daughter. That dumb youkai rolled through my village not to far off (points in direction of which she first appeared) setting buildings aflame and crushing it’s citizens, I’ve chased it all the way to here.” Her face pained as the thought of her hometown. Then she asked quietly “Um, who are you two?”
“I’m Kagome and this is Kouga.”
“Pleased to meet you.”
Kouga, snapping out of his trance, smirk-grinned at her. Kelei smiled, then realizing what she did turned red and looked towards the ground. ‘How cute,’ Kagome thought, ‘during battles she seems to be bossy and determined, but out of battle she is very shy.’
“Kagome!” a distance voice called out. Kagome looked to the sky and saw that it was Sango that called her name, she was riding Kirara, along with Shippo who was waving furiously. Looking at the field she saw Inuyasha sprinting their way followed by Miroku who was barely keeping up. Kirara landed and Sango and Shippo hopped off, Inuyasha and Miroku then appeared. All of the newly arrived looked at the youkai dead on the ground.
Sango laughed and said “That was the demon we were hunting down earlier!” Shippo got a closer look and then said “Yeah! We almost had it but Inuyasha scared it and it rolled away!”
TWAMP!
Kelei giggled but suddenly stopped and looked down when she saw Inuyasha’s eyes flash her way. “Who the hell are you?” he demanded.
Both Kouga and Miroku yelled “Don’t talk to her that way!” Kelei looked up at both Kouga and Miroku, they both looked surprised at each other. “Feh.” Inuyasha said.
“This is Kelei, she helped us defeat the youkai. The thing destroyed half her town and she tracked it down to here.” Kagome answered, angry at Inuyasha’s ignorance.
“Please to meet you all.” She mumbled softly. Looking once again, to the ground rubbing her broken leg.
“Let me help you up dear maiden!” Miroku exclaimed and rushed to Kelei’s side. Sango glared at him, daring him to try something funny. Miroku grabbed Kelei under both her arms and motioned to pull her up. Kouga growled and said “Stupid! Her leg is broken!” Miroku look started but then Kelei said softly “Oh no, it’s not anymore, I healed it.” Kelei set herself straight and brushed herself off. Then realizing they wouldn't understand she blushed and said quickly, “I just healed it a second ago. I can heal most injuries.” She then bent over and picked up her twin swords.
RUB RUB
“Oh.” Kelei gasped turning into a deep shade of red. Sango made way to nail Miroku right in the head but Kouga got there first.
BAM!
Sango laughed. “Don’t you touch her!” Kouga growled at Miroku. Sango then said to Kelei, “Sorry about Miroku, he’s such a pervert.”
Kelei giggled and then said, “But he’s a monk!” Miroku, recovering from the hit on his head, grabbed her hand and asked, “Will you do me the honor of bearing my child?” Not expecting this question Kelei jumped and gasped, “Eh?” Sango burst out, “Miroku stop harassing Kelei, she’s not going to bear your child!”
Kelei laughed again. Kouga glared at Miroku with his arms crossed. Kagome noticed and wondered what was up with Kouga he was acting strange, but decided not to ask. “Oh! You probably want to know everyone else’s name. That over there with the hiratsu is Sango, the little kitsune is Shippo, and that is Inuyasha.” Sango and Shippo waved back but all Inuyasha did was say “Feh.” Kirara transformed into its smaller form and rubbed its head against Kelei, who picked it up and started petting it. “And that cute cat demon is Kirara.” Kagome added.
“If your finished with introductions now I’d like to go to Kaede’s and eat before I die of starvation!” Inuyasha yelled at Kagome. She responded, “Sit!” Inuyasha toppled to the ground and Kelei’s eyes widened but seeing as he was okay broke into a laugh.
“Let’s go over to Kaede’s now.” Kagome said cheerfully and they all except for Inuyasha made their way to her hut. The rosary wearing off, allowed Inuyasha to get up. “UGH, what did you do that for you wench?!” He hollered at Kagome. She didn’t even look back when she yelled “Sit!” once again. She could hear his mutterings that were nonsense as her and the rest walked down to Kaede’s.
Disclaimer: In my MIND I own the Inuyasha gang, but in reality I don’t *tear*. Onward with the story!
Chapter 2: The Attack
Kagome crawled out of the well expecting to be greeted by an annoyed Inuyasha. No matter how soon she came back, it was never soon enough for him. Noticing that he wasn’t there, she was slightly down hearted. ‘Woah,’ she thought ‘why should I care that much? It doesn’t matter.’ She scanned the area as she walked. She didn’t even see Shippo, Sango or Miroku! She tried to shrug it off as she made her way to Kaede’s hut. Maybe she knew where they were.
As Kagome walked up to the hut, Kaede greeted her at the entrance. “Ah, I felt ye presence young Miko.” Bowing Kaede led Kagome inside. Kagome sat down on the floor and took her bag off, it was a relief to her shoulders, she decided to pack extra treats for Shippo so it was a bit heavy. Kaede walked in with a steaming pot and poured Kagome some tea. “Here ye go.”
“Thank you Kaede,” Kagome said, “where is Inuyasha and the rest? I’ve only been gone a day, I didn’t expect them to be gone.” She then took a small sip.
“Oh the lads? They got word of a shard not too far off. I ‘spect them to be back later today.” Kaede sat down across from Kagome and poured herself a cup. “In the mean while, ye can practice your archery. I think with a little more practice, ye can be better than my dear deceased sister, Kikyou.”
For some reason the mention of Kikyou’s name made Kagome’s skin crawl. But then she realized it was because Inuyasha still loved her, by why would she care, they were only friends, right? Kaede noticing Kagome’s expression asked “Are ye all right young Miko?”
“Oh yeah I’m fine! Just thinking!” Kagome laughed, trying to make it sound convincing. Kaede eyed her with her good eye then finally looked outside and drank some of her tea. After a long silence Kaede said, “After ye finish the tea, ye can go outside and practice a bit.”
“Sure!” Kagome exclaimed, ‘what’s the point of acting all moody now?’ she questioned herself. Kagome sipped the rest of her tea and set her hands on the table. That’s when Kaede noticed Kagome’s ring and her one eye widened.
“What a beautiful ring ye have there Kagome.”
“What?.. Oh yeah, my grandpa gave it to me. He said it was his great-great grandma’s or something. It must be pretty old then!” Kagome held out her right hand to give Kaede a better view of it. Kaede’s suspicions were confirmed. She’s definitely seen this ring before, but where she couldn’t quite remember, but what she did know was it was VERY special. Kaede seeing Kagome’s happy eyes on the ring decided not to tell her about it, just not yet at least.
Kagome then took her bow and arrow out of her bag and walked outside. She walked along till she got to a secluded spot by a huge elk tree. Inuyasha was usually perched in its branches looking out or sleeping in it. Kagome readied her arrow pulled back the string and shot it straight for the tree’s trunk about 30 feet away. The arrow went whirling at top speed…and missed it by a foot.
“Wow that was WAY off.” She scolded to herself out loud. She took another arrow, readied it, and shot it at the tree, aiming a little more to the left. The arrow hit the bark but it bounced off, ‘not enough power’ she told herself. Concentrating all her thoughts on her objective she took another arrow and set it up. She had to feel the arrows power combined with the bows strength, she needed to know exactly what she was doing. Taking a deep breath she looked squarely to the middle of the tree. She pulled back the string, and released. The arrow hit the tree perfectly in the middle! Kagome let out a squeak of joy and did a little dance.
“Impressive!” A unknown voice shouted.
Kagome yelped and dropped her bow in surprise. She swung herself in the direction of the voice to find it was only Kouga. “Kouga!” She yelled.
“Oh I didn’t mean to scare you my sweet Kagome!” He said sincerely, “I was just in awe at your perfect archery!” He bowed before her. Kagome smiled, she was flattered, at least someone complimented her on her skills… Unlike Inuyasha! He always criticized her! “Where is that stupid flea-bag? Isn’t that dog usually with you?” He added.
“Inuyasha? He and the rest are off getting a shard, I only got here a little while ago.” She replied picking up her bow.
“How dare he leave you alone? See? he doesn’t deserve you, I on the other hand would NEVER leave you alone!” He rushed up and kissed Kagome’s hand. She blushed at the attention he was giving her. She didn’t love Kouga, but he loved her, and Kagome tried to be considerate towards his feelings. “Kagome, why don’t you come with me?”
“Oh… well I…” she stammered, she was caught off guard by his question, “I-I was just going to wait till Inuyasha and the gang came back…” At the end of her sentence there was a very distant sound but it was too far away to make out.
“Who cares about that hanyou? Be with me and you’ll never have to see him again.” Again the noice sounded again more clear, and there was a slight vibration in the ground.
“Kouga I…” she sighed, he just didn’t understand, “Kouga, I don’t like you in that way. I know that you think I’m your ‘woman’, but I’m not. You should find someone that will return the same feelings to you.” She bit her lip and looked up to Kouga. The vibration increased.
He looked slightly hurt but his stubbornness took the better of him. “I’ll never love ano-.” His sentence was cut off short by loud trembling. Kagome and Kouga both looked to the right and they could see where it was coming from.
A huge reptile-like demon was charging their way. It looked like a 20 foot long lizard but it had several spikes growing out of its back which seemed to look poisonous. Kagome gasped as it came closer, she could sense a shard within it. It screeched in the distance and stomped its way forward. Kouga stepped in front of Kagome to shield her but she wasn’t going to be a baby and hide! She took and arrow out and set it up on her bow, she stepped to the side so Kouga wasn't in the way, and waited.
Sensing danger ahead the reptile-demon curled into a ball and rolled up onto the hill where Kagome and Kouga stood. Oddly enough the giant ball stopped in front of them, it looked like a big prickly ball. Kouga and Kagome looked at each other in confusion, Kouga stretched out his arm, avoided the spikes, and poked the youkai. It began to swell up, slowly. Kagome dropped her arms (arrow following suit, falling to ground) and looked towards Kouga in alarm, but Kouga just stood there, looking at the youkai clearly confused.
Suddenly a voice pierced the air, “TAKE COVER! HURRY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!” Kagome didn’t even bother looking to the owner of the voice, she grabbed Kouga by the arm and dragged him behind the tree. Kagome’s heart was thumping in her chest, she knew something bad was about to happen, and that unknown voice confirmed her fears. There was a loud “PHHHPH” noise followed by several whooshing and thunks against the tree. Kagome screamed and grabbed onto Kouga, who didn’t seem to mind. Once the noises ceased, Kagome slowly peered her head around the tree. The demon-reptile seemed to have released the spikes from it’s back shooting them for several yards around. The youkai began to unravel itself from the ball and the young Miko found her chance for attack, pulling herself together she pulled back her last arrow and shot it straight for the demon. ‘Come on hit it!’ She commanded. The arrow whizzed through the air and shot straight through one of it’s hind legs, causing it to topple over. “YES!” she shouted.
Kagome looked back to Kouga to see his expression but it wasn’t what she expected. Rather than being triumph it was more of a surprised expression. Kagome, puzzled, followed his eyes in the direction he was looking. A girl was sprinting up the hill towards them, ‘I must have not seen her since I was concentrating on the youkai.’ She told herself. ‘It must be the voice that warned us about it’s attack.’ The girl, finally making her way to the top of the hill, gave Kagome a better look at her. She had light blue eyes and golden blonde hair tied into a loose bun on the top of her head, she seemed to look Kagome’s own age, maybe a little older. She was wearing a long sleeve white shirt that went to the middle of her thighs, black spandex shorts that went to her knees, black gloves, purple cloth that tied around her hips (making a belt) and a black vest that had talons and teeth hanging from the neckline. Over all it was a pretty simple outfit. ‘Is Kouga staring at her?’ Kagome asked herself looking at Kouga.
“I’ll… I’ll take it fr-from here!” The girl shouted between gasps for air. Her face looked flushed, most likely from a long run. She unsheathed two curved swords and held them in front of her. She rushed to the demon, jumped in the air and slashed down one of the swords. But the demon was a step ahead, it rolled to the side and shot its tongue out, wrapped it around the sword, and swallowed it whole. She landed and charged again without hesitation, this time she striked the demon’s slithering tongue causing the beast to pierce the air with a horrible screech. The girl laughed and jumped back. Fury was in the youkai’s eyes. It swung its tail around meeting with the girls legs, knocking her over. The demon advanced on her and Kagome began to panic. She looked at Kouga wondering why he wasn’t helping her, he continued gaping at the girl until he felt Kagome’s eyes on him. “She can handle it.” He said as a matter o’ factly and he nodded towards the battle.
Looking upon the battle Kagome realized the girl was no longer on her back but slashing her sword at the demon’s face, making the demon hiss in anger. It tried another tail attack but the girl was too fast, she easily jumped over it and flipped through the air landing on the beast’s back. She thrust her sword deep into its shoulder blade, even louder shrieks admitted from the demon. It swung its body side to side, finally throwing the girl off of its back flying through the air. She landed right on her back knocking the air out of her. The youkai quickly slithered over (bleeding profusely) and stepped onto her lower leg, there was a sickening cracking as the weight crushed her bones. The girl screamed out in a mixture of pain and anger, she slashed at the youkai’s leg, but had no luck at making it back away.
Now Kouga felt that the girl needed help and started to run towards the fight. Kagome sighed, finally Kouga was going to help. Kouga ran straight for the demon and jumped into it, pushing it away from the girl. Kagome ran as fast as she could towards the girl and started to help her, she saw angry tears in her eyes. Once sitting up, the girl jumped up leaning on her good leg. “I need to keep fighting! This damned Youkai destroyed half my village!” She tried to hop over towards the demon but fell over because of the pressure on her leg. Kagome helped her once again saying “Don’t be stupid! Your hurt, you have to stay still!”
Spitting and hissing the youkai made its new target Kouga. Breathing in deeply the youkai spewed out fire, missing Kouga only by a hair as he rolled away. The demon breathed in again trying to hit Kouga with fire again, it missed but instead it went straight for Kagome and the girl. Kagome gasped and pushed the girl to the side while she rolled the opposite way, to prevent being burned. Sighing at her luck Kagome jumped up. "Kouga let's finish him!"
Kouga smiled and threw his arms at the youkai punching it in several different spots, while running in circles around it. The demon began to get confused and aggravated, just what Koga wanted. Kagome sneaked and picked up her bow once again and pulled one of the arrows out of the tree she was practicing on. The demon screeched as it became dizzy, Kouga ran straight for Kagome, the demon following.
"Kouga jump!" Kagome demanded holding her bow out loaded with then arrow. The wolf demon obeyed and jumped into the trees branches. Kagome couldn't have had a better shot, she realized the arrow and it flew through the air with a pink light surrounding it. The arrow peirced the lizard demon squarely in the head and caused it to disintegrate. The body of the demon slumped over to the ground slightly twitching.
Then Kagome saw it clear as day, the Shikon shard in the middle of it’s belly. Seeing as the youkai was not making huge movements, Kagome yelled at the girl. "Give me your sword, hurry!" The girl looked at Kagome with puzzlement but did as she was told and threw the sword on the ground next to her. She quickly approached the disgusting body and slashed at the spot where the shard was.
Screeching in defeat the youkai thrashed around, but eventually death over took it and it froze. Kagome retrieved the shards from its wounded scales. Somehow, the girl hobbled over and fell to her knees next to the demon. She thrust her hand through the open wound on its stomach confusing Kagome and Kouga, who had jumped back down from the tree's branches. But then she pulled her blood drenched arm out to reveal her other curved sword in her hand that the youkai swallowed, ending their confusion. “Damn youkai.” She mumbled to herself as she wiped her hand on the grass.
Seeing that Kouga started to stare at the girl again Kagome finally asked the unanswered question, “Uh, just out of curiosity… who are you?”
The girl laughed and looked up to Kagome, slightly embarrassed. “Oh I’m sorry, I’m Kelei, high priest’s daughter. That dumb youkai rolled through my village not to far off (points in direction of which she first appeared) setting buildings aflame and crushing it’s citizens, I’ve chased it all the way to here.” Her face pained as the thought of her hometown. Then she asked quietly “Um, who are you two?”
“I’m Kagome and this is Kouga.”
“Pleased to meet you.”
Kouga, snapping out of his trance, smirk-grinned at her. Kelei smiled, then realizing what she did turned red and looked towards the ground. ‘How cute,’ Kagome thought, ‘during battles she seems to be bossy and determined, but out of battle she is very shy.’
“Kagome!” a distance voice called out. Kagome looked to the sky and saw that it was Sango that called her name, she was riding Kirara, along with Shippo who was waving furiously. Looking at the field she saw Inuyasha sprinting their way followed by Miroku who was barely keeping up. Kirara landed and Sango and Shippo hopped off, Inuyasha and Miroku then appeared. All of the newly arrived looked at the youkai dead on the ground.
Sango laughed and said “That was the demon we were hunting down earlier!” Shippo got a closer look and then said “Yeah! We almost had it but Inuyasha scared it and it rolled away!”
TWAMP!
Kelei giggled but suddenly stopped and looked down when she saw Inuyasha’s eyes flash her way. “Who the hell are you?” he demanded.
Both Kouga and Miroku yelled “Don’t talk to her that way!” Kelei looked up at both Kouga and Miroku, they both looked surprised at each other. “Feh.” Inuyasha said.
“This is Kelei, she helped us defeat the youkai. The thing destroyed half her town and she tracked it down to here.” Kagome answered, angry at Inuyasha’s ignorance.
“Please to meet you all.” She mumbled softly. Looking once again, to the ground rubbing her broken leg.
“Let me help you up dear maiden!” Miroku exclaimed and rushed to Kelei’s side. Sango glared at him, daring him to try something funny. Miroku grabbed Kelei under both her arms and motioned to pull her up. Kouga growled and said “Stupid! Her leg is broken!” Miroku look started but then Kelei said softly “Oh no, it’s not anymore, I healed it.” Kelei set herself straight and brushed herself off. Then realizing they wouldn't understand she blushed and said quickly, “I just healed it a second ago. I can heal most injuries.” She then bent over and picked up her twin swords.
RUB RUB
“Oh.” Kelei gasped turning into a deep shade of red. Sango made way to nail Miroku right in the head but Kouga got there first.
BAM!
Sango laughed. “Don’t you touch her!” Kouga growled at Miroku. Sango then said to Kelei, “Sorry about Miroku, he’s such a pervert.”
Kelei giggled and then said, “But he’s a monk!” Miroku, recovering from the hit on his head, grabbed her hand and asked, “Will you do me the honor of bearing my child?” Not expecting this question Kelei jumped and gasped, “Eh?” Sango burst out, “Miroku stop harassing Kelei, she’s not going to bear your child!”
Kelei laughed again. Kouga glared at Miroku with his arms crossed. Kagome noticed and wondered what was up with Kouga he was acting strange, but decided not to ask. “Oh! You probably want to know everyone else’s name. That over there with the hiratsu is Sango, the little kitsune is Shippo, and that is Inuyasha.” Sango and Shippo waved back but all Inuyasha did was say “Feh.” Kirara transformed into its smaller form and rubbed its head against Kelei, who picked it up and started petting it. “And that cute cat demon is Kirara.” Kagome added.
“If your finished with introductions now I’d like to go to Kaede’s and eat before I die of starvation!” Inuyasha yelled at Kagome. She responded, “Sit!” Inuyasha toppled to the ground and Kelei’s eyes widened but seeing as he was okay broke into a laugh.
“Let’s go over to Kaede’s now.” Kagome said cheerfully and they all except for Inuyasha made their way to her hut. The rosary wearing off, allowed Inuyasha to get up. “UGH, what did you do that for you wench?!” He hollered at Kagome. She didn’t even look back when she yelled “Sit!” once again. She could hear his mutterings that were nonsense as her and the rest walked down to Kaede’s.