InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Say Goodbye ❯ Chapter 6 Free Wind ( Chapter 6 )

Chapter 6: Free Wind

In my dreams I am the wind

Blowing freely without a care

I am floating everywhere

Bringing scents from afar

I never stop without a warning

I bring warmth to the freezing

Or a cool breeze to refresh

I push clouds with the terrible storms

And blow them away with a breeze

Showing the colors of the bright blue sky

I am free to wander places

Without a leash to hold me back

I can blow strong or weak

And I laugh with a solemn whistle

I am anything I want to be

No one can ever stop me

For I am the wind…

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`Who the hell does Naraku think he is? A strong youkai like myself shouldn't have to take orders from a hanyou such as him. I could easily kill him with just one stroke of my fan, but he has my heart. One movement and he could kill me. I would have to catch him in his weaker form. But he has Kanna watching me.

`And Kanna! I would've thought she would agree with me, but she's too loyal to Naraku. I can't trust her with this, or she may tell Naraku.

`But still, there's nothing I can do. If only someone was powerful enough…'

Kagura was lying on her feather as the natural wind drafts blew her wherever. She sat up in concentration. She knew Sesshoumaru wouldn't help her from the last time he refused her offer straight up and down, even though she had presented him with a jewel shard in return. Kouga was too weak for her to rely on. Inuyasha would even the match, but Kagura knew better. Naraku would use Kanna to send his attacks back at him. Who could obliterate Naraku for good?

Kagura looked down, hearing some children playing, and saw a village nearby. `Of course, Kagome!' She remembered hearing from Kanna that Naraku was almost defeated by Kagome before he made her and her sister. `Her arrows have the ability to purify anything she wills. This is perfect! As long as Inuyasha gets the flower in time, then my freedom will be secured.

`But Gaijin and the plan. I'll have to make it look like I tried to get rid of them. Naraku might try to kill me if he sees I failed, but that's a risk I'll have to take for my freedom.'

Kagura's instincts told her she was being watched. "Kanna! I know you're watching me. Tell Naraku I have something to offer that might be of his deepest interests." `That should do it.'

She smiled inwardly to herself as she commanded the wind to take her back to the castle.

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"Kagome, are you feeling any better?" Shippou asked as he brought Kaede another damp cloth.

"Well, I've been worse if that's what you mean." Kagome smiled slightly.

"I see the herbs are helping. Do ye feel any pain?"

"Not much I guess. By body feels a little numb." Kaede had given Kagome some herbal medicine to make her drowsy a little so as to ease the pain of it all.

"There is not much more that I can do for you, so it is best for you to rest now." Kagome nodded and lied back down to let the effects of the medicine overcome her as she fell asleep.

"Lady Kaede, do you really think Kagome will last long enough for Inuyasha to make it back with the flower?"

"Perhaps. We really cannot tell. Inuyasha will just have to try as much as one can. We can only pray that he will return and Naraku won't attack us while he is away."

"I sure hope so. Kagome probably has the most faith in him out of all of us." Shippou looked at his friend disquietly while he spoke. She looked somewhat peaceful as she slept, but Shippou knew better. He knew Kagome was suffering more than she was letting on. She just didn't them to worry. "Poor Kagome."

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Kagura walked through the castle hallways heading towards the hidden door where Naraku hid during the start of his conjugation cycle. She opened the door and closed it quietly as she went down the steps. "Naraku. Where are you?" Kagura looked around in the dark room, not seeing anything but the light seeping through the cracks of the only door.

Suddenly, the few torches in the room lit, casting an eerie and gloomy look among the walls as the fire light danced off and on them. Near one of the far corners were Naraku's demons, and, in the middle of them all lay Naraku reconstructing his body. "Why do you disturb me, Kagura? You have your order, yet you still remain. How is that so?"

"Naraku, I have a proposal to make. Will you consider it?"

"What could you propose to me?"

"Inuyasha is very persistent to get back to Kagome with that flower. Perhaps too persistent. What if he manages to get to her in time? Your plan would fail, would it not?" She waited for his acknowledgement.

"Continue."

"I suggest that if the outcome of the battle between Inuyasha and Gaijin turns out that Inuyasha survives and seems that he will make it, then maybe we should send a few demons to Kagome to finish the job. She will be too weak to fight, and Inuyasha would surely not make it in time to rescue her and give her the antidote."

"An intriguing suggestion, yet one thing ponders my mind. What makes you think Gaijin will fail just like you and your siblings?"

"Only a small thought for future preparation. Of course, I would not belittle your plans or think doubtfully of them."

"It would do you wise not to, but I will think over what you said." Kagura grinned some. "Do not believe that your assumption is correct, however. Gaijin is not like you or others. You know not yet the extent of Gaijin's power. His chances of failure are slim. Know this, dear, Kagura, if should he fail and your plan succeeds not, you shall pay dearly."

"Yes, Naraku," Kagura said calmly.

"Leave my presence immediately, should I decide upon something else."

"Yes, Master."

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"Hurry up, mutt! Do you want Kagome to die?"

"What kind of question is that?!"

"At the pace you're going, you make it seem like it. We're never gonna make it at this rate. I ought to just leave you behind and get the flower on my own."

"And say that I left Kagome's life in the hands of a dumb, weak wolf? I don't think so! I told her that I'd save her, and that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna save her, so shut up!"

"Yeah, right. A slow dog like you is gonna save Kagome? My ass you will. I'm saving her!"

"No, I'll save her! So shut up or I'll hack you to bits with Tetsusaiga!"

"Both of you shut up! It doesn't matter who saves her. As long as she's saved, who cares who saves her. Now less arguing and more running!" Ayame huffed out. She was doing the best she could to keep up with the two and their bickering was helping her. But at least she was doing better than Hakkaku, Ginta, and the rest of the wolves.

"Do you think they'll stop?" Hakkaku asked Ginta.

"I do not think they will for long. But they are going faster so we'll hopefully save sis."

Ayame glared back at them. "What did you say?"

"I mean Kagome. Kagome! Not sis, of course." Ayame faced forward and kept her pace. "Very scary Ayame is," he whispered.

"Very indeed," agreed Hakkaku.

"I heard that!" Ayame yelled back. Ginta and Hakkaku cowered under her words.

Miroku looked down at the bunch. Miroku sighed. "Hopefully, all of them will stop protesting against each other."

"I wouldn't count on it. With all this tension and what's at stake, it's no wonder that Inuyasha and Kouga haven't started fighting yet."

Miroku sighed again. "At least we know how to get along, eh, Sango?" Miroku was inching his hand away from her waist.

Sango caught his hand in the process. "Don't make me throw you down there off Kirara. It's a long drop and the probability of you surviving unscathed is slim."

He placed his hand to his heart. "Sango! You wound me so. I only wish to show my affection of you and your body…"

"Well you can show it down there if you don't STOP!" Miroku sighed once more, giving up for the moment. Keyword: moment.

The next thing everyone knew was that some of the wolves that were behind were whining. Somehow, just somehow, Miroku had managed to get thrown off Kirara and had landed hard on some of the wolves that were unfortunate enough to not notice a flying monk heading their way.

"Yo! Next time, aim away from the wolves if you must through your monk around," Kouga yelled up at Sango.

"Don't blame me! Blame the brainless baka that doesn't know how to keep his hands to himself or fly!"

"Hey, if you haven't noticed, we ain't got time for all this! Either someone pick up Miroku and we go or just leave him there with the pathetic wolves. I don't care which, just as long as we don't stop!" Inuyasha was getting ticked off with all the delays and didn't feel like waiting around anymore.

"Well tell that monk to stop messing around and then maybe we wouldn't have this problem."

"Hey, guys, I think we're pretty close to the volcanoes," Ayame pointed out.

The others looked at her. "Why do you say that?"

"Because we've got company, and they're coming from the ground."

Everyone turned to the direction in which Ayame as looking, and sure enough, were lava and magma creatures climbing from in the cracks of the volcano vents, sort of like the terrain in which Totosai lived in.

Inuyasha cracked his knuckles as he placed his hand on Tetsusaiga. "Finally, I was wondering when the volcanoes would show up. Playtime!"

"Be careful, Inuyasha! Those youkai are made out of actual volcanic lava. They could melt the Tetsusaiga if you try to cut them down," Sango warned as she saw some more youkai come out, except these were just those that lived in the extremities of the volcanoes, ones that were not at all made out of lava.

"Who said I had to touch them? They'll just get a taste of my Wind Scar!" Inuyasha quickly pulled out Tetsusaiga as it transformed quickly and he slammed it down to earth. A few of the monsters were hit, but more kept rising from pits.

"Pathetic, dog-shit! Is that all you could do?" Kouga jeered as he punched the ground rigorously. The punch created a blitz of power as it shot through the ground to a group of youkai. They too were engulfed by the power of the attack.

"Not even close."

Inuyasha and Kouga took on the lava youkai while the others attacked the other volcano inhabitants that dared to block them from the volcanoes.

"They keep coming at us! We won't be able to get through unless we come up with a plan!" Miroku yelled to the others.

"He's right," Ayame agreed as she sliced through one of the youkai with her whip that she transformed from on of the flower petals in her hair. "We'll be here all day just trying to fight off all these things."

Looking up from of the youkai that he just fell, Ginta saw a youkai about to pounce on Ayame. "Ayame, behind you!"

Ayame turned around in time to see a huge snake-like youkai rise to attack.

"Hiraikotsu!" echoed Sango's call soon to be followed by the resounding whistle of her boomerang as it slashed through the demon and returned to her.

Ayame sighed relievingly. "Thanks a lot. I owe you one."

"Don't mention it."

"Leaf blight!" she yelled as leaves appeared and flew towards the youkai that almost succeeded in hurting Sango as it was chopped by the small items. She landed and smiled at Sango. "Now we're even."

"Don't celebrate yet girls. We've still got a huge problem on our hands," Kouga yelled as he was able to take out another two youkai.

"Okay, you guys are really starting to piss me off! What the…?"

Suddenly, the demons retreated back to the volcanic vents mysteriously. "Where are they going?" Sango asked.

"It looks as if they're moving back underground," Miroku responded.

"Do you think we won?" Hakkaku questioned as well.

"Maybe, but that was way too easy…"

The ground started shaking abruptly and everyone tried to hold their ground.

"What's happening? We're still not in range to be feeling a volcano erupting so what the hell is going on?"

Then the rumbling died down and nothing seemed to have changed.

"I don't get it. Nothing happened."

Realization dawned on Miroku. "Everyone, get back. Something's coming!"

"What? I see anythi- Oh shit, everyone get back, now!"

Unexpectedly, something huge punched opened the ground in front of them as rock and gravel flew everywhere.

"The youkai weren't retreating; they were regrouping," Miroku said as the huge mass of lava spilled out from the crevices in the enormous youkai.

"Regrouping? What do you mean regrouping?"

"Youkai and the like of the same matter and substance can regroup - fuse - together to form a new being. Like Naraku did before he had gotten possession of the jewel fragments Kagome had. Spontaneous regeneration. It's like how Naraku is made up of millions of youkai, this creature is made up of lava and other youkai that live in volcanoes. I think that's what Kaede meant when she said that not many have been able to survive going through here."

"So basically this thing is nothing but lava and rock? Sounds pretty dumb to me. This thing's going down!"

Inuyasha charged in for a quick attack with Tetsusaiga, but the lava creature extended a limb out to smash Inuyasha to the ground. He dodged it, but not before he was sprayed with the magma as the limb slammed to the ground. It burned though Inuyasha's haori and he tried to fling his arm in attempts to rid of the burning substance.

"Damn it! It's too damn hot to get close to!"

"Hey, dumb mutt, next time think before you charge in recklessly to attack! You'll get burned if you don't."

"Shut up!"

"How are we gonna defeat something like that if we can't use our weapons to throw or get in close enough to inflict damage?" Ayame asked.

Miroku studied the creature as it began its assault on Inuyasha and Kouga. "It's unstable."

"Unstable?"

"It's movements. It slowly crawls against the surface and lava keeps pouring out of it with every attack it makes. Whatever becomes disconnected with its body immediately airs out and hardens. That's its vulnerability. It loses a part of itself with every attack. If we could get it to separate itself or decrease its mass, it'll harden itself."

"But it's using the vents to replenish itself with every attack," Sango pointed out.

"True. I think I have a plan."

Here're the results for the polls. Not many of you voted so it wasn't very reflected of your opinions of your favorite male character on the list.

Inuyasha:

Sesshoumaru:

Miroku:

Kouga:

Closing statements of the candidates-

Inuyasha: Yes, take that you losers. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Now, for me to take a queen. Damn it! Kikyou or Kagome. Kikyou or Kagome. Kikyou or Kagome…

Kagome: Here let me Inuyasha. (grabs ear) Kikyou is dead! Or did you not remember chapters 1 through 3 and the prologue in which were about Kikyou's death?!

IY: Ow, wench, watch the ears. Okay, so you're my queen. You don't have to yell.

Kagome: I'm sorry. Let me rub your ears for you.

IY: You did just so you could mess with my ears, didn't you?

Kagome: Maybe. (smiling)

Sesshoumaru: Pathetic half-breed and humans. This Sesshoumaru does not care to rule over such lowly beings, especially those that do not care to love this Sesshoumaru. Come Rin.

Rin: Yes, Sesshoumaru-sama. But what about Jaken?

Sess: Jaken is dead.

Rin: Why is he dead?

Sess: …

Rin: Can't you bring him back with Tenseiga?

Sess: Yes.

Rin: Then why don't you?

Sess: … … …

Miroku: All of you people wound me so. I guess people of noble cause never receive respect or love from those that they wish to protect. Oh! Such a lovely body. She will bear many, many children of good health.

Sango: Where are you going, houshi-sama?

Mir: Nowhere my lovely Sango, nowhere but to bed. Would you care to join me? Of course that would mean in the same bed, sharing the same sheets, alone. There's plenty of room of course.

San: Houshi-sama?

Mir: Yes, Sango, dear?

San: (whack, crack, thud) And don't bother getting up until you know how much I think you are a hentai.

Mir: I love you too, my dear.

Kouga: Keh, like I need any votes from humans to rule over this country. All that's needed is a little coup de grâce and some coup d'etat, and that mutt will be a million feet under in no time. But at least I know I have Kagome's vote.

Ayame: If you haven't noticed, Kagome has been paying no attention to you. She's playing with the President's ears so cut the flirting act. But I'll be your right hand mate when you take over all the wolf tribes in the mountains. And I better be too.

Kou: (sweat drop) Of course, Ayame. Who else would I have as my mate?

Aya: I thought as much. Now let's go start on rebuilding your tribe with little Ayame's and little Kouga's.

Kou: (anime fall) (thinking) What have I gotten myself into? Promising to marry her when she came back from her training? What was I thinking when I was little? Oh, if only Kagome had chosen me! Well, Ayame's not so bad, but she still ain't no jewel shard detector.

Aya: (using a mind reading machine) I heard every single thought, you bastard! I wish I could osuwari you straight to hell!

Kag: I can help make that possible!

Aya: Thanks, Kag. Osuwari! Burn, Kouga, burn!

And there you have it folks. Inuyasha has won the election for President and Kagome is the first lady. Vice President is Sesshoumaru, but Rin is too young to be second lady so we'll just have to make it Kagura.

Rin: No, I wanted to be second lady! That's not fair! Just because I'm ten doesn't mean I can't be in office.

Sess: (poison claws at ready) You shall make Rin second lady, even if This Sesshoumaru does not care to be Vice President.

Correction, Sesshoumaru is Vice President and Rin shall be Second Lady.

Sess: I refuse to be placed second to my little, worthless brother.

Inu: Bend over, will ya? I got some shoving to do.

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