InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Synthetic Twilight ❯ XVIII ( Chapter 18 )

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Daisuke looked at the two demons who had seemed to be driven into a frenzy as their group approached, "We're in the business of demon slaying, and business is good!" he exclaimed as he hefted his large axe on one of his shoulders good-naturedly.
"Where is it?" a lizard demon yelled, smashing a house with its large tail.
"We know it's here somewhere!" the other joined in, ripping the roof of the headman's large house where the villagers were hiding.
"You don't suppose they could be looking for the jewel, do you?" Sango asked as the villagers ran by screaming.
"Well," Miroku said, fiddling with the beads used to seal his wind tunnel, "it certainly would explain the increased number of attacks in the area."
"Feh! This'll be easy!" Inuyasha said, pushing everyone aside and unsheathing a transformed Tetsusaiga. "WIND SC-"
"Inuyasha, SIT! Are you out of your mind?!" Kagome asked with her hands on her hips, Inuyasha grunted. "These people are going to have a hard enough time rebuilding with the damage already done to their village. They don't need you waving around Tetsusaiga like a jackass to completely level the place!"
Inuyasha jumped up, "This jackass saved your ass countless times waving Tetsusaiga around! Or have you conveniently forgotten about that, wench?" he shouted.
"Whatever, just don't use the Wind Scar, got it?" Kagome said, drawing her bow and an arrow from her quiver.
"Oh no you don't!" Inyasha said, grabbing the arrow from her hand and snapping it. "Stay back with Shippo and the others and let me take care of this."
"I will not!" Kagome said indignantly. "And stop breaking my damn arrows, they're a pain in the ass to make!"
"You don't need them, you're only going to get yourself hurt. Now, get back and let me protect you!"
"You sonofa- SITSITSIT!"
Shippo winced as he watched the spectacle in front of him, "I'm starting to wish I stayed home. By the time they pull their heads out of their asses those demons will have destroyed the whole village and they'd be knee deep in stomach acid."
"Shippo! Watch your language!" Sango chastised.
"Sorry, Sango." Shippo said meekly.
"Language aside, I'm afraid that Shippo might be right, love." Miroku said with an amused expression on his face.
"You couldn't hit the backside of a boar demon with your aim!"
"HAH! What do you know?! I could shoot its little tail off! Watch! Goddammit, Inuyasha! Stop breaking my arrows! SIT!"
"Bitch, stop using the subjugation beads!"
Miroku laughed, "Kind of reminds you of the old days, doesn't it?"
"...BITCH?! I'll show you a bitch! SIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!"
"I don't know who has the fouler mouth anymore," Shippo muttered.
Sango pinched the bridge of her nose, "We have to do something about this, our villagers have started to complain about their noise and the Inuyasha-shaped craters. And if the demon attacks continue to rise like this, they're going to have to work together. We can't just travel with them like we used to, Miroku. We have Daimasaru, and I'm not going to leave him behind, and I'm certainly not taking him on hunts like this!"
Miroku rubbed his temples and sighed, "I understand, Sango. I don't enjoy leaving our son back in the village even for these short hunts either. But what can we do? Look at them, they haven't even started to fight the demons, they're just standing in the middle of the village arguing."
The group turned to look at the two, still arguing with debris from the demons' frantic search falling around them.
"I do not appreciate being called a 'bitch', Inuyasha!"
"Then stop acting like one!"
"I wish we could just lock them in a shed." Shippo said, shaking his head disappointedly.
Miroku coughed, "Actually..."
Sango looked up hopefully, "Could we?"
"Oh I remember you doing that to Inuyasha once! But would it work for Kagome?" Shippo said brightly.
"I'd have to modify the sutras a little, but I believe it can be done." Miroku said.
"What are we waiting for? Let's finish these guys off quickly so we can go home!" Sango said, winding up to throw her large boomerang. "Hirakotsu!" she shouted as it whizzed over Inuyasha and Kagome's heads, cutting one of the lizard demons in half.
Daisuke laughed as he watched the surprised faces of the couple in the town centre, "Sango's a one-woman army when properly motivated, eh?"
Sango's smile was grim as she watched her Hirakotsu tear through the second lizard, "If it means restoring my village's peace, and my cherished quiet nights, I'd take out a horde of demons myself to hurry home!"
"Ugh, I'm covered in demon guts! This is your fault!"
"My fault?! How the hell is this my fault?! You started it!"
Daisuke whistled sharply, "Children! Make yourselves useful and help me salvage some parts from these demons!"
"Can't we just get Miroku to clean up the mess with his wind tunnel?" Inuyasha grumbled as he hacked off a claw from one of the lizard demon's hands.
"No, Inuyasha, things break and we use these parts to repair our armor and weapons when they do." Kagome said skinning some scales from the other lizard.
"What is this 'we' shit you keep going on about? Like you do anything to help with the armor repair." Inuyasha snorted.
"Fuck you! I've been purifying the parts we use since I started working here. Don't tell me that I don't do anything to help out when you wouldn't know the first thing about making armor or weapons yourself!"
Daisuke facepalmed, "On second thought, go back to our village, I want to work in silence! Souta! Kenji! Get over here! What are you two still doing here? Go!"
Sango watched the pair walk past them, still arguing. She leaned in toward Miroku, whispering in his ear, "Is there any chance we could do it tonight?"
"I'll prepare the sutras once we arrive home, my sweet." he said before walking over to the remains to bless them.


Kagome sighed as she slid the door to her room closed. Dinner had been a mess, while everyone else had seemed to be in high spirits, she and Inuyasha had spent the time glaring at one another from opposite ends of the table. Afterwards, he had stomped outside and Shippo told her that he'd be staying in Daimasaru's room for the night. She kicked off her jeans and threw her shirt into a corner in the room. She looked down at the jewel that she had sat on the floor next to her futon, purple light was already swirling in it. She frowned, it didn't make sense- when she was younger, if she purified the jewel, it stayed purified. Someone could corrupt it if they took it from her, but she was the only one who had touched it, why was it being corrupted now? "I'll get you in the morning," she said sighing at the jewel, slipping into a dark blue yukata, "I'm exhausted." She blew out the candle beside the bed and fell asleep almost immediately.
She was having that dream again with the voices, "Free us, let us serve you. Anything you wish for we can provide..."
"Anything...?" she could hear herself murmur in her dream.
"Does our priestess wish for power? Does she wish for wealth? Maybe love...?" the voices had become much clearer since her first dream, though they still spoke in their soft, soothing tones.
Kagome kicked the covers off of her, the room felt so hot. "I wish..."
"Stay back! Woman, do not descend into their madness, wake up!"
Kagome jerked awake and sat up. She shivered from the cold sweat that broke out on her body and pulled the covers back around her. She heard a loud thump outside of her window, along with a couple muffled voices. "Hello? Is anyone there?" she called, and reached for the jewel. It flared pink and the sounds outside had ceased.

Inuyasha sat outside of Kagome's window and almost whined, did she have to leave it open? Her scent he could smell coming from the room held a heady edge to it, he really didn't want to think about what it implied. If that wench is dreaming about Kouga, I'm going to string him up by his- he looked up to see Miroku standing in front of him. "Nice night for a walk, don't you think?" he asked serenely.
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes, the monk was up to something..."No it ain't."
Miroku decided to change tatics, "Maybe not, but I was wondering if you would help me carry something from that shed over there into the house."
"At this time of night? Forget it, monk, whatever you're sellin', I ain't buying."
Miroku kept his calm demeanor, "How unfortunate, I had hoped to not use force. But," he said taking out a sutra, "you see, we're kind of desperate." He gestured to where Sango and Shippo stood, both wearing masks and carrying those detestable green pellets and rope.
"What-?!" was all Inuyasha could manage to get out before Miroku slapped a sutra over his mouth. He fell limp and watched as Sango and Miroku drug him towards the small building.
"Shhhh, you guys'll wake up Kagome!" Shippo whispered.
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he heard, "Hello? Is anyone there?"
Miroku sighed, "Sango, my love, you may as well get her now. With any luck, you'll have an easier time of getting her to come here."

"Kagome?" Sango called from outside the door of Kagome's room.
"Just a minute, Sango-chan, I'm coming!" Kagome said as she groped blindly to find the handle of the door. "Is something worng? I thought I heard somthing outside."
Sango gave Kagome a sheepish look, "I, uh, forgot to bring in a sack of rice to cook for breakfast in the morning. I tired to wake Miroku so he could help me carry it in but he wouldn't budge, could you give me a hand?"
"O-okay," Kagome said slowly. Sango was quite possibly one of the strongest women she knew, and she needed help to carry in a twenty-five pound bag of rice? She shrugged, maybe she hurt her arm throwing Hirakotsu earlier.
"It's over here in this shed," she said, openning the door to the dark building. "Could you look around and see if you can find it for me?"
Kagome paused by the enterance, was that Miroku putting something on the side of the shed? "Sango-chan? I thought you said Miroku was asleep."
"I did? Oh! Well..." she stuttered nervously.
"Sango? Miroku? What's going on?" Kagome asked.
Sango and Miroku both looked at each other, and Sango pushed Kagome into the shed and slammed the door shut.
Kagome fell across a body and stifled a scream before she heard Inuyasha try to speak, but he sounded gagged. She got up and banged on the door, "Guys, this isn't funny! Let me out!" She could hear Miroku chanting something softly from the other side, "Miroku, what are you doing?!" She jerked on the handle but the door wouldn't budge.
Miroku's finished chanting and openned the little slot in the door, "Forgive us for this deception, but it's really for everyone's benefit."
"You can't just leave us in here!" Kagome yelled.
"Sure we can!" Shippo piped up.
"Shippo?!"
"Sorry, Mama."
Miroku smiled, "Behave yourselves! Don't do anything I wouldn't do!"
"Oh yeah? And what exactly wouldn't you do, monk?" Kagome asked angrily.
Miroku paused right before shutting the slot, "Hmm." He shrugged, "Have fun then!" he said cheerfully and shut the slot completely, leaving Kagome and Inuyasha in darkness.
Inuyasha mumbled something, Kagome sighed, "I'm not taking that gag off, good night."





AN: Haha, I profess my love for Kouga and his loincloth and I get the cold shoulder in return. XD
I did mention this was going to be a Inuyasha/Kagome pairing, I meant it. That doesn't mean that Kouga isn't going to pop up once a while to annoy Inuyasha/flirt with Kagome. That's what I like about Kouga, he has no chance, but he still tries. I always cheer for the underdog.
I think the main reason why people don't really care for a Kouga/Kagome pairing is because you know if she showed any interest in him, he'd run off with her as soon as he could. Happy stories from start to finish are pretty boring (to me anyway).

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