InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ One by One ❯ Selfish man. ( Chapter 9 )
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By: Johnny Walker 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.23.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 205 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 03.23.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 205 | Status: Completed
InuYasha and Kagome wandered down the dirt road in silence. They had been walking for an hour and a half. InuYasha had left the bike on the road. He had messed with something hidden in the engine, and though it appeared the same to Kagome, InuYasha claimed it was safe from everything.
His excuse for making her walk was that the dirt path was unsafe. Kagome knew after what he had just done, it really was out of spite for those eighty something sits. 'Bastard.'
The day actually was pretty nice. It wasn't too hot or too sunny. The path ran through a meadow of brownish ankle high grass. But after the first hour of walking, Kagome's legs began to get tired. She looked at the town in the distance and sighed inwardly. She glared at the asshole walking in front of her. 'Fucking bastard.'
'Fucking bitch.' InuYasha thought of the girl behind him. 'If it's the last thing I do I will find a way to remove this damned necklace and get her back for this.' For now he contented himself with making her walk. For him, the five miles was nothing. For the city girl? 'Heh.'
Kagome willed herself not to make a noise, not to stretch or rub her legs. Not give any sign that the walk bothered her. This bastard thought she was gonna complain, that the city girl couldn't handle it. Oh no, she was gonna tough it out.
InuYasha frowned a half hour later. 'So, she's not as weak as she looks. No matter, I'll get her yet.' he thought, walking slightly faster.
'BASTARD!' Kagome screamed in her mind as she increased her pace accordingly. She looked up at the town and tried to figure out how much longer. 'Who are you kiddin'? You have no idea. Keep walking.' Her tired legs and aching feet agreed. 'I really don't have good shoes for this...'
InuYasha scowled when they got within a quarter mile of the town. 'Not a sound out of her. Damnit. Ah well. Next time.' He thought, stopping. He reached in his pocket and removed a red bandanna with a white pattern on it before putting it over his head and covering his ears.
Kagome rolled her eyes. 'James Yasha.' She thought. "What's with the bandanna?" She asked, a hint of anger in her voice. "People see my ears, they'd freak an' try and kill me, and it's alot of work killing a whole town." Kagome rolled her eyes again. "But you're a half demon, you're one of the good guys."
InuYasha stopped dead in his tracks and stared at her like she has said the single stupidest thing on the planet. "You got a lot to learn, girl." He muttered with emphasis on the last word.
They passed the first house, and two or three more on the outskirts before they entered the town proper. InuYasha's eyes scanned the houses. 'No one's out. It's too quiet. Something's happened. They couldn't of seen me coming. No human has eyes that good. And most humans tend to be sympathetic towards travellers. What are they afraid of?'
The smoke was coming from the other side of town. It had mostly died away, but something still smoldered. When the ruins came into view, Kagome rushed towards a group of people who had gathered outside it. InuYasha stayed hidden in the shadows of a wooden house and leaned back against it. His ears picked up the conversation inside.
Kagome ran up to the group of about ten people gathered infront of what used to be a house. Several people were shifting through the ashes with rakes.
She found someone who looked important, a middle aged balding man, and pushed her way through the crowd to him. "Excuse me, is there anyway I can help here?" She asked. He looked from a clipboard in surprise. She could tell he had a long day from the bags under his eyes. "No miss, the only thing we can do now is bury these people." He said sadly. Apparently he had not noticed she was a stranger to the town.
Kagome turned to watch the men shifting through the ruins. 'They're looking for remains.' She thought, sickened slightly. "This is
horrible." She muttered to herself.
"Yeah, it's shame.. third time in a month." "What?" "Yeah, but the McClowins were too proud to pay.." He said exhausted. "But they paid anyway." He flipped the papers on the clipboard down. "In the end, they all pay." He added quietly.
"Well, nothing we can do now." He said. trying to clear the silence his last sentence made. "That's how it is. People live and people die, and you can't do nothing but look out for yer self. Live and let die."
InuYasha listened to the conversation inside with interest while he lit up. They had had his attention since he figured out what they were talking about. 'Not your average dinner table talk. Wish they would stop talking in innuendos. Just because they know what they mean don't mean I do.'
He could smell the girl returning. He wrinkled his nose, but for some reason instead of blocking the scent, more of it wafted in. 'Fuck it.' He thought, opening his eyes.
Kagome explained all she had heard to InuYasha. When she finished he turned this head toward the house he was resting against. "Well now, everything makes a little more sense." He said. "What do you mean?" "Nothin'. Anyway, where's the shard?"
In the heat of what had happened she had forgotten to pay attention to the shard. "Uhh.." she began, focusing. "It's not in the town. It's not far away though.. that way." She exclaimed, pointing to a line of hills a quarter mile away. "Well, then, let's go." He said as he started walking.
As they exited the town, Kagome again asked him what he meant back in the town. "Huh? Oh yeah. Some guy's been demanding ransom of people, and I guess if ya don't pay ya get blown up." He said, reaching up and removing the bandanna. "How do you know?" "I was listening to some people talk about it. Looks like they're next on the list."
"That's terrible! What are they gonna do about it?" "Hell I dunno, they seem to have money troubles and can't pay." He said shrugging. "So they're gonna get killed!?" Kagome asked in shocked concern. "Yeah, looks like it." InuYasha replied indifferently.
"We gotta help!" Kagome exclaimed. InuYasha stopped and looked over his shoulder at her. "We?" "Yeah, I mean you're strong enough to get rid of this guy and-" Kagome looked into his yellow eyes. Nothing. No worry, no empathy. If anything, there was annoyance.
"You don't care do you?" "Not specifically." He replied, walking again. True, he knew the moral thing to do was to help, but he had no obligation to do the moral thing.
"But.. they can't help themselves.." She begged quietly. "So? Not our problem. Our problem is the jewel. For all we know this guy will blow US up." "You're the only one that can help!" She yelled angrily. "So what?" He replied just as angrily. "So they're going to die!" "Better them than me!" He barked.
Kagome stopped. InuYasha looked over his shoulder. She had her head down so he couldn't see her face, hands balled tightly into fists and shaking. "You selfish bastard..." She said quietly, the words dripping with hate, turning back to town.
"Where the hell you think yer goin'?" InuYasha demanded angrily. She whipped around. "TO GO HELP THOSE PEOPLE, SINCE YOU CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO!" She screamed.
InuYasha stared at her retreating back. 'Jesus. She's pissed. Real pissed. Eh, why the hell do, SHOULD, I care? Because she'll be a bitch to travel with.' His mind informed him. 'Oh, yeah right.'
Still, he felt a twinge of something. He pushed it down immediately. 'It was just a memory brought on by her resemblance to Kikyo. A memory from the bad ol' days...'
InuYasha trudged up the last of the slope. He looked out over the landscape as the wind whipped into his face. He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the scent it brought to his nose.
There were a bunch of small, hastily constructed wood structures ahead. Most were one story, but some were twice as tall. The smell of explosives came to his nose. And the smell of demon.
Without having to wait for the girl he made short work of the distance. As he got closer he also picked up the smell of several humans. 'So the demon didn't make the explosives himself. Lazy bastard.' He thought, landing in front of the largest building.
He flicked his wrist, bringing the switch blade into his hand. He quietly pushed the door open, hoping nothing was booby trapped. He stepped in and surveyed the scene.
The room was filled with barrels. One was open to reveal a black powder. 'Thank God I put out my smoke.' Several humans stood with their backs toward him, mixing explosives. Some had guns, one had a knife.
InuYasha walked up toward the one directly in front of him. He grinned. The same feeling from earlier in the day when he had popped a wheelie down that hill returned. He flexed his grip on the knife. He couldn't help but grin in anticipation. But above all, the knowledge, the sweet knowledge of the future, while his victim remained ignorant.
InuYasha got within arm's reach of the first human. He covered human #1's mouth with his hand, feeling him twitch in surprise just before InuYasha drove the blade into his back.
InuYasha twisted the knife and slid it out before letting him drop to the deck. The others' attention was drawn by the sound of his body hitting the wooden floor.
The human on InuYasha's right didn't even have time to blink before InuYasha closed the distance and slit his throat. The one on his left even had time to yell and draw his sidearm before InuYasha sent him to meet his buddies.
InuYasha stood up and scanned the room triumphantly. True, it was just three humans, but he'd drunk to less. A sound made him look to his right.
'FUCK!' There was another room, and this guy had seen what had happened to #3 and drawn his gun. InuYasha's eyes widened, not in fear of the human.
He bolted for the door with all the speed he could muster, hoping the human would realize his target was gone in time not to fire.
InuYasha distinctly heard the gun go off, and distinctly heard the hot chunk of lead imbed itself in a barrel and begin to smolder.
Kagome was half way back to town when the ground beneath her rocked. A split second later, a thunderous explosion reached her ears. She whipped around. 'InuYasha!' She ran off toward the sound of the explosion.
She raced down the hill toward a form laying motionless on the ground. As she got close, she recognized a familiar pair of ears. "Jesus!" she exclaimed, dropping to her knees next the form. "InuYasha!?"
The half demon coughed and rolled over on to his back. "Fuck
me... that hurt like hell." He mumbled sitting up. "You're okay?" Kagome questioned. InuYasha pushed himself to his feet and brushed the ashes off his jacket. "Course, I ain't no weak human." He said, his yellow eyes made even more prominent by the soot on his face.
InuYasha coughed some black soot once more before reaching in his jacket. Kagome stared at him increduously as he pulled out his pack of smokes and lit up. 'I don't fucking believe him.'
"Demon's still alive." he muttered nonchalantly, sticking the lighter back in his jacket. "Demon? What demon?" Kagome exclaimed.
The wall of one of the still standing buildings, a larger one, exploded outward as something crashed through it. The demon, it was two and a half times InuYasha's size, looked human enough in that it had two arms and two legs, but its skin was black as coal.
"That one." InuYasha replied coolly, taking a drag. "Stay 'ere." He muttered to Kagome before rushing at the demon.
InuYasha closed distance with the demon. The thing saw him and charged at him. 'Shit, he's fast!' InuYasha thought in alarm, leaping sideways just in time to avoid a fist the size of his head.
The demon turned after him in a blur. 'Oh shit, he can turn too. Well, if he's this fast, he can't be that heavy.' InuYasha turned and leapt straight at the demon, twisting mid air to avoid another fist.
The switch blade glowed yellow as InuYasha slashed into its chest before jumping back to survey the damage. Except there was no damage. The demon was unharmed.
'Oh fuck.' He thought, barely dodging another fist. His eyes widened as the other fist swung out at him. He turned his body parrallel to the ground and felt the air move as the fist passed beneath him.
InuYasha landed and leaped at his opponent, slashing again, getting the same result. 'Oh shit. That's not gonna work!' He thought leaping back and away from a fist. Before he could get his bearings another fist whistled down at him.
He jumped back, barely in time, but the demon rushed at him and before he landed the next fist was on its way.
InuYasha was winded. The demon was always there, always swinging. He couldn't get more than fifteen feet from the bastard. He felt his legs giving less and less strength to each jump. His breathing became ragged.
'I gotta end this, gotta end this soon.' Even his thoughts came in pants. He ran through his options. The knife and.. the knife. 'I'm fucked.'
InuYasha took a deep breath as he pushed off. Weakly. Very weakly. A fist flew toward him. He tried to move, tried to twist, but he no longer had the air in his lungs.
The fist grew larger in his vision untill it disappeared underneath his eyes and slammed into his chest.
While he was in air, he was only aware of the dull pain throughout his chest. Then his back slammed into the wall of a partially destroyed building.
'Oh fuck..' InuYasha had felt something slam hard into his shoulder. Well, harder than the wall that slammed into his back. It felt as if his ribs had been pushed in on his lungs.
He looked up. 'Hey, I'm actually inside. That sumbitch punched me into TWO walls.' he thought, chuckling. The far side of the room was filled with the same barrels from before. The roof had been blown off in the explosion.
InuYasha pushed himself to his feet as the demon jumped into the building, crushing a pile of barrels. It stood on the opposite end, staring at the immobile half demon. 'He knows I can't move. The fucker's smiling.' InuYasha thought grasping his side. "Yeah yeah, keep smiling ugly." He taunted.
The demon didn't move. 'Cool headed bastard.' InuYasha thought. 'I. Am. Fucked.' Just once, outta curiosity, he flicked his eyes to the hill where he had left Kagome. 'Yepp, she's still there.'
But she wasn't all that was there. Embedded in one of the surviving support beams was the knife of human #1. The explosion had blown it, blade first, into another building.
InuYasha grinned in earnest as he stared at the hilt protruding from the blackened beam. Some wood had fallen away to reveal embers inside the beam. 'Beautiful.'
InuYasha returned his own blade to his sleeve, and reached for the embedded knife, never taking his eyes off the demon. He grabbed the hilt and ripped it free, sending the beam crashing down. He held it up, ready to strike, blade pointing at the demon.
Now that its opponent was armed and ready for a fight, the demon got ready to finish off the half demon.
'This is gonna hurt like hell!' InuYasha brought the blade back and whipped it with all his strength. It sailed between the demon's legs and into a barrel.
InuYasha looked up at the demon and let a small smile spread over his face. He quickly crossed his arms over his face as the first explosion sent a rush of air past him fast enough to push him backwards.
Kagome lost her balance and fell backwards as the third explosion of the day rocked through the landscape. She regained her footing and searched for InuYasha. She found the smoldering half demon two hundred feet away, lying still on his stomach.
InuYasha came to slowly. Someone was shaking his shoulder. His good shoulder thankfully. Something jammed against his neck. He heard the girl call his name.
Kagome sighed in relief when the half demon's ear twitched at the sound of her voice. She removed her fingers from his jugular. She hadn't felt a pulse, but he was responding. Still he didn't move. "InuYasha, are you okay?"
Her answer came mumbled around the dirt. "Fuck... this.. shit.."
His excuse for making her walk was that the dirt path was unsafe. Kagome knew after what he had just done, it really was out of spite for those eighty something sits. 'Bastard.'
The day actually was pretty nice. It wasn't too hot or too sunny. The path ran through a meadow of brownish ankle high grass. But after the first hour of walking, Kagome's legs began to get tired. She looked at the town in the distance and sighed inwardly. She glared at the asshole walking in front of her. 'Fucking bastard.'
'Fucking bitch.' InuYasha thought of the girl behind him. 'If it's the last thing I do I will find a way to remove this damned necklace and get her back for this.' For now he contented himself with making her walk. For him, the five miles was nothing. For the city girl? 'Heh.'
Kagome willed herself not to make a noise, not to stretch or rub her legs. Not give any sign that the walk bothered her. This bastard thought she was gonna complain, that the city girl couldn't handle it. Oh no, she was gonna tough it out.
InuYasha frowned a half hour later. 'So, she's not as weak as she looks. No matter, I'll get her yet.' he thought, walking slightly faster.
'BASTARD!' Kagome screamed in her mind as she increased her pace accordingly. She looked up at the town and tried to figure out how much longer. 'Who are you kiddin'? You have no idea. Keep walking.' Her tired legs and aching feet agreed. 'I really don't have good shoes for this...'
InuYasha scowled when they got within a quarter mile of the town. 'Not a sound out of her. Damnit. Ah well. Next time.' He thought, stopping. He reached in his pocket and removed a red bandanna with a white pattern on it before putting it over his head and covering his ears.
Kagome rolled her eyes. 'James Yasha.' She thought. "What's with the bandanna?" She asked, a hint of anger in her voice. "People see my ears, they'd freak an' try and kill me, and it's alot of work killing a whole town." Kagome rolled her eyes again. "But you're a half demon, you're one of the good guys."
InuYasha stopped dead in his tracks and stared at her like she has said the single stupidest thing on the planet. "You got a lot to learn, girl." He muttered with emphasis on the last word.
They passed the first house, and two or three more on the outskirts before they entered the town proper. InuYasha's eyes scanned the houses. 'No one's out. It's too quiet. Something's happened. They couldn't of seen me coming. No human has eyes that good. And most humans tend to be sympathetic towards travellers. What are they afraid of?'
The smoke was coming from the other side of town. It had mostly died away, but something still smoldered. When the ruins came into view, Kagome rushed towards a group of people who had gathered outside it. InuYasha stayed hidden in the shadows of a wooden house and leaned back against it. His ears picked up the conversation inside.
Kagome ran up to the group of about ten people gathered infront of what used to be a house. Several people were shifting through the ashes with rakes.
She found someone who looked important, a middle aged balding man, and pushed her way through the crowd to him. "Excuse me, is there anyway I can help here?" She asked. He looked from a clipboard in surprise. She could tell he had a long day from the bags under his eyes. "No miss, the only thing we can do now is bury these people." He said sadly. Apparently he had not noticed she was a stranger to the town.
Kagome turned to watch the men shifting through the ruins. 'They're looking for remains.' She thought, sickened slightly. "This is
horrible." She muttered to herself.
"Yeah, it's shame.. third time in a month." "What?" "Yeah, but the McClowins were too proud to pay.." He said exhausted. "But they paid anyway." He flipped the papers on the clipboard down. "In the end, they all pay." He added quietly.
"Well, nothing we can do now." He said. trying to clear the silence his last sentence made. "That's how it is. People live and people die, and you can't do nothing but look out for yer self. Live and let die."
InuYasha listened to the conversation inside with interest while he lit up. They had had his attention since he figured out what they were talking about. 'Not your average dinner table talk. Wish they would stop talking in innuendos. Just because they know what they mean don't mean I do.'
He could smell the girl returning. He wrinkled his nose, but for some reason instead of blocking the scent, more of it wafted in. 'Fuck it.' He thought, opening his eyes.
Kagome explained all she had heard to InuYasha. When she finished he turned this head toward the house he was resting against. "Well now, everything makes a little more sense." He said. "What do you mean?" "Nothin'. Anyway, where's the shard?"
In the heat of what had happened she had forgotten to pay attention to the shard. "Uhh.." she began, focusing. "It's not in the town. It's not far away though.. that way." She exclaimed, pointing to a line of hills a quarter mile away. "Well, then, let's go." He said as he started walking.
As they exited the town, Kagome again asked him what he meant back in the town. "Huh? Oh yeah. Some guy's been demanding ransom of people, and I guess if ya don't pay ya get blown up." He said, reaching up and removing the bandanna. "How do you know?" "I was listening to some people talk about it. Looks like they're next on the list."
"That's terrible! What are they gonna do about it?" "Hell I dunno, they seem to have money troubles and can't pay." He said shrugging. "So they're gonna get killed!?" Kagome asked in shocked concern. "Yeah, looks like it." InuYasha replied indifferently.
"We gotta help!" Kagome exclaimed. InuYasha stopped and looked over his shoulder at her. "We?" "Yeah, I mean you're strong enough to get rid of this guy and-" Kagome looked into his yellow eyes. Nothing. No worry, no empathy. If anything, there was annoyance.
"You don't care do you?" "Not specifically." He replied, walking again. True, he knew the moral thing to do was to help, but he had no obligation to do the moral thing.
"But.. they can't help themselves.." She begged quietly. "So? Not our problem. Our problem is the jewel. For all we know this guy will blow US up." "You're the only one that can help!" She yelled angrily. "So what?" He replied just as angrily. "So they're going to die!" "Better them than me!" He barked.
Kagome stopped. InuYasha looked over his shoulder. She had her head down so he couldn't see her face, hands balled tightly into fists and shaking. "You selfish bastard..." She said quietly, the words dripping with hate, turning back to town.
"Where the hell you think yer goin'?" InuYasha demanded angrily. She whipped around. "TO GO HELP THOSE PEOPLE, SINCE YOU CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO!" She screamed.
InuYasha stared at her retreating back. 'Jesus. She's pissed. Real pissed. Eh, why the hell do, SHOULD, I care? Because she'll be a bitch to travel with.' His mind informed him. 'Oh, yeah right.'
Still, he felt a twinge of something. He pushed it down immediately. 'It was just a memory brought on by her resemblance to Kikyo. A memory from the bad ol' days...'
InuYasha trudged up the last of the slope. He looked out over the landscape as the wind whipped into his face. He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the scent it brought to his nose.
There were a bunch of small, hastily constructed wood structures ahead. Most were one story, but some were twice as tall. The smell of explosives came to his nose. And the smell of demon.
Without having to wait for the girl he made short work of the distance. As he got closer he also picked up the smell of several humans. 'So the demon didn't make the explosives himself. Lazy bastard.' He thought, landing in front of the largest building.
He flicked his wrist, bringing the switch blade into his hand. He quietly pushed the door open, hoping nothing was booby trapped. He stepped in and surveyed the scene.
The room was filled with barrels. One was open to reveal a black powder. 'Thank God I put out my smoke.' Several humans stood with their backs toward him, mixing explosives. Some had guns, one had a knife.
InuYasha walked up toward the one directly in front of him. He grinned. The same feeling from earlier in the day when he had popped a wheelie down that hill returned. He flexed his grip on the knife. He couldn't help but grin in anticipation. But above all, the knowledge, the sweet knowledge of the future, while his victim remained ignorant.
InuYasha got within arm's reach of the first human. He covered human #1's mouth with his hand, feeling him twitch in surprise just before InuYasha drove the blade into his back.
InuYasha twisted the knife and slid it out before letting him drop to the deck. The others' attention was drawn by the sound of his body hitting the wooden floor.
The human on InuYasha's right didn't even have time to blink before InuYasha closed the distance and slit his throat. The one on his left even had time to yell and draw his sidearm before InuYasha sent him to meet his buddies.
InuYasha stood up and scanned the room triumphantly. True, it was just three humans, but he'd drunk to less. A sound made him look to his right.
'FUCK!' There was another room, and this guy had seen what had happened to #3 and drawn his gun. InuYasha's eyes widened, not in fear of the human.
He bolted for the door with all the speed he could muster, hoping the human would realize his target was gone in time not to fire.
InuYasha distinctly heard the gun go off, and distinctly heard the hot chunk of lead imbed itself in a barrel and begin to smolder.
Kagome was half way back to town when the ground beneath her rocked. A split second later, a thunderous explosion reached her ears. She whipped around. 'InuYasha!' She ran off toward the sound of the explosion.
She raced down the hill toward a form laying motionless on the ground. As she got close, she recognized a familiar pair of ears. "Jesus!" she exclaimed, dropping to her knees next the form. "InuYasha!?"
The half demon coughed and rolled over on to his back. "Fuck
me... that hurt like hell." He mumbled sitting up. "You're okay?" Kagome questioned. InuYasha pushed himself to his feet and brushed the ashes off his jacket. "Course, I ain't no weak human." He said, his yellow eyes made even more prominent by the soot on his face.
InuYasha coughed some black soot once more before reaching in his jacket. Kagome stared at him increduously as he pulled out his pack of smokes and lit up. 'I don't fucking believe him.'
"Demon's still alive." he muttered nonchalantly, sticking the lighter back in his jacket. "Demon? What demon?" Kagome exclaimed.
The wall of one of the still standing buildings, a larger one, exploded outward as something crashed through it. The demon, it was two and a half times InuYasha's size, looked human enough in that it had two arms and two legs, but its skin was black as coal.
"That one." InuYasha replied coolly, taking a drag. "Stay 'ere." He muttered to Kagome before rushing at the demon.
InuYasha closed distance with the demon. The thing saw him and charged at him. 'Shit, he's fast!' InuYasha thought in alarm, leaping sideways just in time to avoid a fist the size of his head.
The demon turned after him in a blur. 'Oh shit, he can turn too. Well, if he's this fast, he can't be that heavy.' InuYasha turned and leapt straight at the demon, twisting mid air to avoid another fist.
The switch blade glowed yellow as InuYasha slashed into its chest before jumping back to survey the damage. Except there was no damage. The demon was unharmed.
'Oh fuck.' He thought, barely dodging another fist. His eyes widened as the other fist swung out at him. He turned his body parrallel to the ground and felt the air move as the fist passed beneath him.
InuYasha landed and leaped at his opponent, slashing again, getting the same result. 'Oh shit. That's not gonna work!' He thought leaping back and away from a fist. Before he could get his bearings another fist whistled down at him.
He jumped back, barely in time, but the demon rushed at him and before he landed the next fist was on its way.
InuYasha was winded. The demon was always there, always swinging. He couldn't get more than fifteen feet from the bastard. He felt his legs giving less and less strength to each jump. His breathing became ragged.
'I gotta end this, gotta end this soon.' Even his thoughts came in pants. He ran through his options. The knife and.. the knife. 'I'm fucked.'
InuYasha took a deep breath as he pushed off. Weakly. Very weakly. A fist flew toward him. He tried to move, tried to twist, but he no longer had the air in his lungs.
The fist grew larger in his vision untill it disappeared underneath his eyes and slammed into his chest.
While he was in air, he was only aware of the dull pain throughout his chest. Then his back slammed into the wall of a partially destroyed building.
'Oh fuck..' InuYasha had felt something slam hard into his shoulder. Well, harder than the wall that slammed into his back. It felt as if his ribs had been pushed in on his lungs.
He looked up. 'Hey, I'm actually inside. That sumbitch punched me into TWO walls.' he thought, chuckling. The far side of the room was filled with the same barrels from before. The roof had been blown off in the explosion.
InuYasha pushed himself to his feet as the demon jumped into the building, crushing a pile of barrels. It stood on the opposite end, staring at the immobile half demon. 'He knows I can't move. The fucker's smiling.' InuYasha thought grasping his side. "Yeah yeah, keep smiling ugly." He taunted.
The demon didn't move. 'Cool headed bastard.' InuYasha thought. 'I. Am. Fucked.' Just once, outta curiosity, he flicked his eyes to the hill where he had left Kagome. 'Yepp, she's still there.'
But she wasn't all that was there. Embedded in one of the surviving support beams was the knife of human #1. The explosion had blown it, blade first, into another building.
InuYasha grinned in earnest as he stared at the hilt protruding from the blackened beam. Some wood had fallen away to reveal embers inside the beam. 'Beautiful.'
InuYasha returned his own blade to his sleeve, and reached for the embedded knife, never taking his eyes off the demon. He grabbed the hilt and ripped it free, sending the beam crashing down. He held it up, ready to strike, blade pointing at the demon.
Now that its opponent was armed and ready for a fight, the demon got ready to finish off the half demon.
'This is gonna hurt like hell!' InuYasha brought the blade back and whipped it with all his strength. It sailed between the demon's legs and into a barrel.
InuYasha looked up at the demon and let a small smile spread over his face. He quickly crossed his arms over his face as the first explosion sent a rush of air past him fast enough to push him backwards.
Kagome lost her balance and fell backwards as the third explosion of the day rocked through the landscape. She regained her footing and searched for InuYasha. She found the smoldering half demon two hundred feet away, lying still on his stomach.
InuYasha came to slowly. Someone was shaking his shoulder. His good shoulder thankfully. Something jammed against his neck. He heard the girl call his name.
Kagome sighed in relief when the half demon's ear twitched at the sound of her voice. She removed her fingers from his jugular. She hadn't felt a pulse, but he was responding. Still he didn't move. "InuYasha, are you okay?"
Her answer came mumbled around the dirt. "Fuck... this.. shit.."