InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Power II: Running ❯ Solitary ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4: Solitary

Sesshoumaru was beginning to be angry. He couldn't smell her anymore, and she wasn't answering his calls. He reached out to her mentally and found her unresponsive, she was purposely ignoring him. He growled and heard the movements of the others catching up to him. He traveled toward the place where he had seen Kagome headed toward last and felt an amount of evil energy. He slowed and proceeded forward with extreme caution. The others slowed behind him, feeling the same evil Kehai. He felt the barrier before him just before he ran into it. He touched it gently and it zapped him mercilessly. Riasha was the first to arrive and see the barrier. She warned Jax and Shippou, who stopped just behind Sesshoumaru and Riasha.

"Dammit! I knew it was a trap! No, that's not, true, she didn't lie, we are free to go, and I believe that she really will pull the government off our tail." Riasha observed. The others stood and watched, not sure what they could do, nervous because of the passive lord's silent fuming. He was not making a noise or doing anything, but the three demons knew he was royally pissed off. Even Hal knew; the tension was that thick.

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Kanna appeared out of the mist in the clearing and walked silently toward the unsuspecting girl. Kagome felt the eyes on her and turned to see Kanna approaching, holding her mirror like always. She held herself loose and ready in case she should need to defend herself. Kanna stopped about 10 feet away and held up her mirror.

"If you will look into my mirror, I will take your soul so I can control you. Your friends are free, and I have informed the government that you are not at fault for the deaths of those gang members. The only thing I have left to do is inform the gangs that I have you, which I will do after I take your soul." Kanna said it all like she would be going along with it and thought she was going to be sucked into her mirror. Kagome quirked an eyebrow, placing her long nailed fingers on her hips.

"Why do I get the impression that you really think my soul is going to fit in that mirror? It didn't before, why would it now?" Kanna just held up the mirror for closer inspection. Kagome took a step closer and peered at it, realizing why Kanna was so nonchalant. This was not the same mirror as before. It held no crack where she had hit it with her arrow, spilling souls out of it. So, she had gotten a new mirror, was this one better or something?

"New mirror, I'm guessing it must be better than the last one?" Kagome commented, not acknowledging the fact that the girl-sized white being in front of her was trying to take her body to use. Kanna answered in her young and sweet voice.

"It was made after Naraku died, I killed Kagura and added her power to it, making it more powerful and giving it a bigger capacity. It can now hold twice as much as it used to. Right now, there are absolutely none in there besides your grandfather. As soon as I have you, I will have no need for him and will free his soul to wander up here, with many others." Still the little bitches face was passive. So she never was going to give her grandpa back his soul, it was just a way of deterring her from cracking the mirror again. She felt anger curse through her, but kept it from exploding. She forced it down with a self-control she had learned from experience with the Shikon and smiled at Kanna. A plan had formed in her mind now, and she quickly started putting it into action. She slung the bow off of her back and then remembered that she didn't have her arrows anyway. Stupid! Damn! Now what was she going to… oh, shit, now she remembered. She Lifted up her hand and sent a blast of energy at the mirror, hitting it directly in the center. The energy was sucked in and she swore. So that wouldn't work, time for plan C. She unsheathed the sword at her waist and held it firmly in her right hand. She hefted it a few times, realizing for the first time what perfect balance it had, fitting her hand and arm strength just right. She looked to see whirlwind coming at her and put up her barrier. The whirlwinds broke apart and went around it. More followed, but she just shook her head and chuckled, her eyes retaining a light purple. As she took over the wind in the area, the whirlwinds died down and disappeared. She now was the one in control of the wind and all was calm and still.

"That is mine. My power, not Kagura's. I have long since surpassed her in prowess when it comes to being a wind-user." She charged at Kanna, who held her mirror up higher. Kagome avoided looking directly at it until she raised her sword and put a large amount of energy into it, making the sword glow purple. She plunged it into the mirror and watched as the glass rippled and finally shattered; sending pieces of glass everywhere. Kagome ignored the glass cutting her skin to shreds, entranced by the mirror. Then the spell was broken as the mirror fell from Kanna's hands, the sword coming out and sending Kagome backwards with the force of dispelled power. Kanna had also fallen back; her mirror lay on the ground. A bright white light emitted from it and shot up into the air, Kagome had to shield her eyes. She rose to her feet as the light stayed like that for a moment, almost as if hesitating. Then it shot off in Kagome's direction, enveloping her in white light. She screamed and closed her eyes as she felt what she thought were a hundred needles pricking her over and over. Slowly it subsided and the light lifted her into the air, holding her up as if she was a rag doll, limp and without life.

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Sesshoumaru watched as Riasha chanted spells, trying to dispel the barrier in between him and Kagome. This thing angered him greatly, this thing that separated him from his possibly in trouble mate. He growled and thought hard, finally remembering the sword on his hip, the Tetsusaiga. He unsheathed it and watched as it retained its power, becoming a large fang.

"Back off." He warned the others as the sword glowed with power. He put his concentration into it and it slowly shone red, it's barrier-dissipating power. The others were now ell away from the barrier and he swung the sword in an elegant arch, unleashing the Baryuuha. It flew over the ground and hit the barrier with such force, it wavered, and then it was engulfed in light. When the light and dust faded, there were three long, deep marks in the ground, and the barrier was gone. Sesshoumaru signaled them forward and they proceeded straight ahead before soon coming out into a brightly lit clearing. Kagome was standing, having pushed herself up after being thrown back by something powerful. A bright light that had come out of the broken mirror on the ground was shooting at her; she had no chance to move out of the way. Sesshoumaru watched, feeling helpless and hating the feeling. The light threw her into the air and held her that way, on her back, her eyes were closed. She seemed to be glowing with her own purple energy, trying to fight off the white energy.

Her eyes snapped open suddenly and she turned until she was upright, her now white trench coat flapping in the wind. She looked now as if she was the one emitting the white light, and it was slowly turning a purplish color. All of the wounds on her body were healed, as if they had never been there. After a few moments it had turned a hue of purple so light, it looked almost white. Kagome's hair was swirling around her, longer than it had been before, almost to her knees. She glowed as she was slowly brought to the ground and landed lightly. Her clothes had turned a white color that had a slight purple mixed with it. Her sunglasses were gone and even the sword was now the pearly color. She was staring at Kanna soberly, and Kanna looked slightly nervous. When Kagome spoke, her voice echoed and bounced off of the trees in the clearing. It made her surreal, and she seemed god-like.

"I have my grandfather's soul, Kanna. What do you hold on me now? How would you control me now?" Her voice made everything shake when she laughed. "You will be punished, Kanna, for those gangs coming after us and ultimately causing my brother's and mother's death." Kanna's eyes widened. "Yes, I know my mother was dead and that you used her to make that call to me, telling me about Souta's death." Kanna looked fearful. Kagome looked like a goddess, standing lightly on the ground, glowing that pearly color. She even knew things that otherwise would have been impossible for her to know. Kanna dropped to her knees.

"You have won, Kagome. You now possess my mirror's powers, and Kagura's. You are powerful, even beyond what I already knew. Unlike Naraku, I also know when to give up. I give up to you, Kagome." She was sincere, she knew when she had lost, and she was ready to die. But Kagome was not going to give her that.

"You deserve to die a million times over, Kanna." Her echoing voice once again filed the clearing. "I can't do that, in all good faith." Kagome smiled and lifted a hand, sending a blast of energy at her. Kanna writhed and squirmed on the ground in it, and when it faded she got up to find herself alive still. She was dressed in her Kimono, but it now was dirty and torn. She felt pains and aches all over her, and a lack of control she couldn't handle.

"What have you done to me?" She screamed. Kagome was now fading to a very light glow that people would not really notice. She waved her hand at Kanna.

"I turned you into a human to live out a full human life span, without the will to kill yourself. You must eat and sleep, and everything else a human does, you must now do. I thought it was a proper punishment since my mother and my brother can no longer live out theirs. I will watch you and make sure it is a living hell, too. I think we should give you an American name…" Kagome thought for a moment before snapping her fingers. "I've got it! Your name is now going to be Katrina Howard. How do you like that, Kat?" Kagome said in a voice dripping with false sweetness. `Kat' had a horrified look on her face.

"You bitch!" She spat. Kagome shook a finger at her.

"I don't think your old enough to swear, Kat. You look about 10 years old! Yes, I think 10 years is a good number. And you know, if you tell anyone anything that happened before now, you'll end up in a straight jacket, in a hospital. Now THAT will be a long 70 or 80 years!" Kagome laughed and turned to the others, leaving `Kat' standing there, her jaw agape. Kagome called over her shoulder. "Come now, we aught to bring you into town so someone can find the poor starving child and adopt you." She said like she was talking to a young child. Kat just stood there looking struck. Jax gave her a questioning look and she nodded to him. He went over and picked her up, kicking and screaming, and brought her into town, returning within a few minutes.

After Jax and Kat had left the clearing, she took a few steps closer to the others, watching their reactions. Riasha looked gleeful at what she had done to Kanna, but unsure of what was going on exactly. Hal looked like he was ready to go down on hands and knees and start worshipping her, and though she couldn't read Sesshoumaru's face well, his eyes were slightly confused. His aura was wondering about her too, he was impressed, but wanted to know what had changed about her. She was kind of curious herself. She knew that not much of it was really the mirror's power, it was something else. It had come from her dream the other night, a sort of power that she couldn't figure out. It was getting stronger everyday, but the night of her dream it had seeped to the surface. When the mirror's light hit her it sort of `jump-started' the other power that had been lying somewhat dormant inside of her. She felt overflowed with quiet energy, powerful and seething inside of her. The buzzing from when she had woken up was now gone, and instead she could pick up any voice she wanted, and there were billions. If she concentrated she could figure out where the person was, who he or she was, and everything about them. Pretty much, she knew what was going on inside each and very person in the world. It was a funny feeling, she didn't know where it came from, how she was doing it, or anything. One thing really surprised her; the population was about 8 billion, which was a lot more than what the census said. The reason was all the hidden demons; there were a few billion of them! She could feel them all, some hiding like hermits in the woods, some of them pretending to be human, some of them didn't try, and these ones sickened her. They were either in hospitals, or in laboratories that the government knew nothing about. A few of them were being used for experimentation, and some she found were even government sponsored. She had never really trusted the government; somewhere in the back of her mind she knew things like this were going on. Other experimentations were being done too, on dogs and cats and other animals, and one evaded her for a moment, then she realized why. It was something she had never seen before, and alien, from space that they had not been able to traverse yet. It was kept captive by the free country itself: the US.

"Kagome." Sesshoumaru brought her out of her thoughts and insights. She looked at him, her vision clearing, and finally really saw him. "Are you with us now?" He said, not impatiently, just curious. She nodded and realized that they had been trying to get her attention a couple of times now. She smiled.

"Sorry guys. I was having a… an insight." She finished. They both passed a look between them that she did not let go unnoticed. "Yeah? What?" She asked. Sesshoumaru was silent and Riasha nervously ventured forth.

"What happened to you, Kagome? Are you alright?" She asked. Kagome looked at them confused for a moment. Them she smiled happily.

"Am I alright? Am I all right? You guys have no idea what it is to be all right! I can feel again! I can sing and dance and be happy. It's like I have become so strong that I can take the world and tip it upside-down if I wanted to!" She exclaimed. They gave her funny looks, even Sesshoumaru looked slightly put off. She grinned.

"So, you don't have the responsibility of all the stuff you had before, like people's emotions, and controlling your so as to not cause natural disasters? Your okay now?" Riasha asked tentatively. Kagome frowned.

"Nope, I definitely wouldn't say that. More along the line of it's gotten even worse, but clarified too. I can understand it all now. It isn't just a jumble of things trying to invade my brain all at once. I feel like I'm strong enough to handle them all. Like I said, I can take on anything now, compared to how it was before. It's just the opposite as when Sesshoumaru accidentally transferred his feelings to me. Then I felt like I was so overloaded that one more thing would push me over the edge. It was horrible." She shuddered. "But now I feel so free!" She jumped up into the air but forgot about her strength and ended up very high before she started to fall back down. She landed easily enough and laughed, doing a little dance. Sesshoumaru couldn't help but laugh at her antics. This was his Kagome, the Kagome he mated. She was silly, and funny, and hard headed, and lively, she was his life, what made him feel alive. She grabbed his hands and put them on her hips, and put her arms around his hips, dancing with him. For such a stiff person, he could move when needed though and He danced really well.

That was the scene Jax came to when he returned. Riasha was just about on the ground laughing, and Kagome and his usually placid friend were doing silly dances and then dancing close, like the young people of the generation did. Well, technically, Kagome was one of those young people, and man she knew how to dance like one. He walked over to Riasha and whispered in her ear.

"I don't know what's going on here, but you definitely should learn to dance like Kagome is." He said to her. She elbowed him lightly, still smiling. Kagome was doing a provocative dance her friend Eri had taught her a few years ago. She ran her fingers through her hair and went down low, turning her hips this way and that, before coming up again. Then she turned and was grinding with Sesshoumaru, who easily picked up on the dance and was soon as good as Kagome herself. Jax just about drooled. "We gotta learn how to do that." He said. He didn't know what was going on exactly to make them so silly, but there was nothing bad about the area. Riasha pulled him down to whisper in his ear, telling him everything Kagome had said. He smiled. "Good, I'm glad she's finally back to being like herself." This wasn't completely true, this was pent up energy from being held down too long, but still, she was back to being the girl that she used to be.

Kagome caught all of Riasha and Jax's conversation, remembering the part about the dancing. She whispered into Sesshoumaru's ear before dancing toward Jax, turning her back to him and giving Riasha a wink. Riasha smiled in acceptance, getting the idea of what Kagome was going to do. Kagome needed Riasha's permission first; otherwise she would have been flirting with someone else's mate. Sesshoumaru had been fine with it, hell; he'd be getting a kick out of it.

Kagome kept her back to Jax and danced slowly closer to him, until she was right up to him. He was slightly surprised that she would be doing this, but when he saw the look of laughter on Riasha's face he realized she had somehow planned this. She took each of his hands and put them on her continuously moving hips, placing her butt against his groin. He got the idea really quick to go with it and smiled when he knew he had gotten it. His knees were bent and he was moving with her. Slowly she turned around and danced on his knee. She motioned to Riasha, who came over and attempted to dance on his other knee. Kagome showed her how to move her hips and after a few moments it clicked. Kagome watched Jax's face as he grinned at them, loving every moment.

But then Kagome swayed away from him to dance with Sesshoumaru again. She got up beside him and bumped him with her hips, sending him a few feet. He looked stunned for a second, and she covered her mouth, she had forgotten her strength again. He got a sort of predatory look on his face and prepared to go after her. She squealed and ran off, him following close on her heels. They tore around the clearing a few times before she let him catch her. He hadn't been trying real hard; he knew she would give up eventually. He grabbed her hips and turned her around, kissing her sweetly. She smiled into the kiss. She was so happy, she wished this moment would last forever. But other thing needed to be done, so she pulled back and gave him an apologetic look. She turned to find Riasha and Jax locked in a tight, steamy embrace. She cleared her throat and they stopped to look at her, Riasha licking her lips. Both of their lips were slightly swollen, and Kagome ginned.

"We still have stuff to do guys, sorry. I would like to frolic around all day too, but Hal and Shippou there," She was pointing to them, they had been forgotten in all their `frolicking', and were sitting under a tree, trying to look inconspicuous. "Hal needs a place to stay, and now the government isn't going to bother you." She directed at him. "Where do you want to go in the US?" He looked at her like he didn't know if he was supposed to talk to her. She grinned. "It's okay, I don't bite, anymore. I'm not like, a god or anything, so you can stop looking at me that way. I'm just a very powerful hanyou." She frowned. "I don't think I'm a hanyou either. Just, part demon, with miko and Shikon and other special powers." She smiled. "Yeah, that's it. I just have a lot of different powers. Now speak man, Speak!" He opened his mouth and then swallowed.

"I want to go to Texas. I have relatives there. They all said to come and visit anytime. I hope they meant permanent visits." He smiled wryly. She smiled back.

"Texas it is then! Come over here and visualize where you want to go, like a place outside the house, in even inside if no one is going to freak out. I think outside, possibly outback would be the best." She said, thinking.

"I know just the spot! I have a picture of the backyard when we were just kids, and now there should be nobody out there because it's now a garden that is unused. Grandma told me that in her last letter, just last month." He said. She grasped both of his hands.

"Okay, now think about being in that place, what it looks like, precisely, imagine being there." To the others she said. "I should be back in a jiffy guys! Stay right here and I'll be right back!" With that she suddenly vanished, then reappeared hardly a minute later. It had seemed the longest minute in the world to the other four but was just the 60 seconds that it was. Sesshoumaru strode to her, his passive face on securely. He grabbed her arm just enough so it hurt, and pulled her roughly closer to him.

"Don't ever do that again without asking me first." He growled. Riasha and Jax were shocked. He hadn't treated her that way ever since she had gotten there! What was going on? Her eyes flashed in anger and she was about to chew him out when a flash of recognition hit her. She wrapped her arms around him.

"Can't fool me! You almost got me, but it's going to be a lot harder to get me with things like that now! I know!" She said before breaking up into laughter. Sesshoumaru had on a look of consternation, and let her arm loose. Damn, sometimes he wasn't sure if he liked his mind read! Finally Kagome forced herself to stop and looked around at them all soberly. "Okay, It's time to bring my grandfathers soul back to him. Let's go, all." She ushered them all in and glanced at Shippou. "Got it?" She asked him. He looked slightly confused for a moment before realizing she had given him their coordinates, her house. He grinned and nodded. They prepared to travel again, grasping hands, making the circle of sorts again.

"Here we go!" Said Kagome, and they dematerialized.

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I was just a little drunk when writing this so no holding it against me!

PS: I do not promote drinking, so don't do what I do. *sigh* I hope you all like this chapter!

RyuuAngel