InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Scorched ❯ Mica and Mika ( Chapter 8 )

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Chapter 8

Mica and Mika
The Twisted Twins

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Why couldn’t she sleep? She’d been trying so hard all night, just like Inuyasha had asked her to, but as tired as she was, slumber just wouldn’t take her. Why?
Kagome scented the room, finding that her new-found senses seemed to make sense of things more than they messed outlooks up like she’d originally thought. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary.
She sat up carefully in her bed, holding the blankets close to her chest for comfort. Glancing around the room, her eyes pierced every corner and crevice, but observed nothing.
Sight was enhanced, as well; she’d found out earlier when staring at Inuyasha that she could see their auras if she looked hard enough at their bodies, almost like looking at a cloud of blue fog over their hearts. It appeared to be a third degree of focusing that opened up the ability to see through someone’s body into their life-force, possibly the most beautiful, yet terrifying, thing she’d ever seen in her life. She didn’t believe that demons had that ability. She did, however, believe that her Miko had somehow influenced the change in her sight sense, almost as if her Miko was rising with her demon. Maybe it was; it certainly wouldn’t surprise her, anymore.
Having sensed and seen nothing, she carefully just lay back down in her bed. Attempting to go to sleep was even harder than before; she just couldn’t stop the feeling that something was off. If Inuyasha came in here, chances are, he’d tell her to lay her ass back down to sleep, to stop being a baby because there was nothing wrong. If there was really nothing strange happening, then why did she feel that there was?
A sonic-feeling boom from somewhere outside the house had her heart racing, her body tense and up in the bed as she tried to hold on to anything at all during the shaking of the ground beneath her. She closed her eyes tightly, refraining just barely from screaming in terror as the entire house shook, dust and particles coming down from the ceiling and onto her face.
The door slammed open, and Kagome swore her heart had gone up into her throat for a second, her head growing momentarily light as she watched her bodyguard approach the bed with haste.
Inuyasha only appeared worried when he picked her up bridal-style, holding her close as he walked her out of the room, but said nothing as he raced with demon-haste down the hallway and into the basement. If he couldn’t even say something about the situation, she suspected he felt the same way that she did; he was scared, and had no fucking idea what was going on.
She felt the growl coming from his chest more than she heard it. What is happening? She had to admit; she certainly felt better with him holding her so closely, as if nothing could really bother him. Safety was certain in this beautiful man’s arms, even if assurance itself wasn’t.
Self-asserting booms began simultaneously sounding in the distance, but the ground didn’t shake with the vibrations. As a few people began screaming, hideous laughter rained over them, and it left a ghostly wailing behind that sent shivers down the spines of both Inuyasha and Kagome, though Inuyasha tried to hide it better.
Kira and Sango were already checking into the boom, while Miroku was trying to be helpful by somehow hiding behind the door in the living room. If they were there, then, who were the people outside screaming? What was going on?
“Here, boss,” Shippo urged from the other side of the basement door. “There’s protection down here.”
Inuyasha wasted no time handing the girl to his demon friend. “Protect her at all costs.”
“Wait!” Kagome shouted, grabbing Inuyasha’s now frail attention by grabbing for his sleeve. “Inuyasha, I’m scared. Please don’t leave me.”
Quiet as he was, the half demon seemed to contemplate her actual request with feeling, his demon dog ears twitching ever so slightly. Did he care what she thought about this? Was he trying to hide it? “Kagome, you don’t have a choice. There’re demons out there. They’re here for you. I’m not letting them take you.”
“I can take a little battering.”
“We don’t even know what we’re up against, yet.”
She sighed. This man was definitely insufferable. “Please, Inuyasha, I’m not weak. I won’t break.”
The half demon snorted.
Kagome found herself growling. “I want to stay upstairs with you!”
“Forget it, wench. I don’t even want to stay upstairs. You’re not staying.”
She kicked harshly at Shippo, and he yelped, dropping her to the floor harshly.
“Oww!” She screamed.
“Kagome, for god’s sake,” Inuyasha picked her up before she had the chance to rise again, and clawed harshly at her thighs as he pushed Shippo aside to go down into the basement.
The house shuddered suddenly, but as quickly as it came, it was gone.
Damn it, what the hell is going on now?! He almost spat at himself for letting down his guard, even for the slightest amount of time. Whatever that boom was, it posed an immediate threat to his territory, and Kagome could have been killed. He could have lost her before he even had the chance to really protect her. It pissed him off more than he could have ever imagined.
Well, one thing was certain; this wasn’t happening ever again. The woman was going in a basement and being locked away behind a couple of vault doors, and then a safe. He might be able to cram her sexy body in one, and he would try. She wasn’t playing these childish games anymore.
Kagome gasped sharply as the pinkish globe around her neck began pulsing thickly, making her body pulse, her head throb. They were going into the basement, that much she was aware of. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head, but before she had known what had happened, Inuyasha had dropped her straight on her ass on the hardwood floor of the basement, not saying a word.
“Damn it!” She growled, points poking into her tongue, indicating the possible indication of fangs. The metallic taste of blood filled her mouth, dripping down the sides of her lips, and as she glared up to Inuyasha to find out why he had so rudely dropped her, she found him staring at her mouth pointedly, almost like a father observing his child’s injuries.
Huffing, her voice came out raspy and deep. “What the hell did you do that for?”
Inuyasha, rather than answer, roughly grabbed the back of her robe and hauled her to her feet. “Why did you do that?” he demanded angrily. “I’m hauling your ass to safety and you go and pull that shit.”
It took Kagome an entire minute to realize that he was referring to the jewel rather than her bleeding tongue. It was nice to know that he was worried about her. Really.
“I didn’t do anything, though. I didn’t do that.”
He snorted. “Kagome,” he began, laughing almost angrily, golden eyes lighting up in the darkness for only her eyes to see. It was almost frightening, but her fear only forced the demon change on her faster, and her claws stretched, ready to defend her pride.
“Do you know what you did? Do you even have the slightest idea?”
She could feel her anger rising in her chest, but she knew she had to keep her anger a little more under control. “No. What?”
“You just called every demon in this forest to you. You just told them where the jewel is, and where you are!”
Kagome whole-heartedly frowned. But how? She didn’t want that. She didn’t even realize what was going on. Not to mention it was dark, she was bleeding, and for some reason, the demon aspects of her body were attempting to change out again. Something wasn’t right around here, and Inuyasha was really starting to piss her off. She didn’t mean to do anything; why didn’t he realize that?!
“Inuyasha!” The voice was Miroku’s, but it was distant and gone.
“Miroku!” Kagome shouted, terrified, trembling nervously on the floor where Inuyasha had left her. Her claws had formed completely on her fingertips now, and a buzzing numbness had started at the base of her spine. Maybe a tail was thinking about growing this time? The jewel was still pulsing cautiously around her neck, almost agitating her more.
Inuyasha squatted without warning, pulling a gun out and gathering Kagome into his grasp. The floor of the basement was refreshingly cool and awkward, but watching Inuyasha load the silver bullets into the gun made her feel that much closer to him, and that much more comfortable about being seated on the floor.
Wait…Silver? She couldn’t resist. She may have been turning demon, but part of her was still the curious Kagome. “Are those silver?”
“Yeah,” he replied, quietly glancing around the room, his dog ears twitching this way and that for signs of the danger they both knew was near in the darkness that was no longer silent.
“Why? They’re not vampires,” she scoffed. This was just getting weirder and weirder by the day. What the hell was he expecting that to do with silver? They weren’t werewolves and vampires; they were demons.
“No, but silver hurts. They’re allergic to it. It makes them heal humanly slow.”
“Are you allergic, too?”
“Nope.” He turned his head and landed his gaze right on Kagome’s eyes, giving her a quick smirk, before looking away. “You’re bleeding.”
Wiping her mouth, she came away with blood on the back of her hand, giving Inuyasha a very meaningful glare as she kept the infected hand away from her face. “I don’t suppose someone dropped me on my ass?”
Inuyasha snorted nonchalantly, not even sparing her a glance. “I don’t suppose you’d sell me some crack because you bit your own lip?”
A hand grabbed Kagome’s still uplifted one, and, shocked, she turned and stared up into the light blue eyes of a demon woman that she had never seen before, simply grinning back down at her with incredible long fangs pointing down over her chin.
“Boo.”
Kagome jerked and screamed. Inuyasha immediately shot the gun where the demon was, but she was no longer there. Not immediately locating the beast, he reached for a screaming Kagome and pulled her close, but realized with a violent snarl that his gun was gone. His hand was as empty as it was the day he was born, and yet, the feeling of the gun still stayed in his hand.
The demon reappeared in front of them, holding Inuyasha’s gun in plain sight, but had another pointed and ready. “Silver doesn’t hurt you, does it, Inuyasha?”
Inuyasha, still strong and proud, growled to himself, squeezing Kagome even closer. “You better get the fuck out.”
“I don’t think so,” she grinned.
The demon was blue; there was really no other explanation for her. Her hair, tank top with black tiger stripes, her hooker-like boots, shining like new plastic; everything that wasn’t black was a royal blue, including her eyes, lips and the teardrop markings on her face.
Inuyasha could only growl as the demon intimidated him. They weren’t taking Kagome. They would never take her back to Kouga. Kagome may have well been the lost experiment, now worth millions because changing her species had actually worked. But he didn’t care how much money he could get, Kagome wasn’t going anywhere. She wasn’t an experiment. She was a Miko, no longer completely pure. She was his to protect.
The demon smirked brightly. “Give me the girl, Inuyasha. Kouga wishes to make her his mate.”
Anger boiled up inside of him harshly at the thought of Kouga touching her, laying any of his lowly wolf claws on her, and he didn’t know why. “Fuck you.”
The demon smirked and Kagome screamed. Something hit him upside the head hard, and he felt like he’d broken his neck, his eyes blacking out as he lost feeling in his body. He slowly drifted into darkness that he fought to keep out of, but as it took him, the last thing he saw was Kagome’s frightened and transforming eyes as she stood in front of two female demons that looked exactly alike, except the other was red. Blood trickled down his face, and he saw a transformation never before seen taking place in Kagome before the darkness overcame him.

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