InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Boyfriend ❯ Onward ( Chapter 25 )

Disclaimer: InuYasha, Kagome and anyone else you saw in the manga or anime does not belong to me. Yukio does. If I saw so much as a shiny penny for this story, you think I'd be writing fanfiction still? Okay, I would… Damn other authors and their more interesting universes…

 

Genre: Angst, Romance
Rating: M
Codes: Inu/Kag
Feedback: Keeps my muse talking and the stories coming! Do tell. But if you have a flame, use it for something more productive, like setting your clothes on fire.

 

 

The Boyfriend
Chapter 25

 

This time when they jumped, they didn't have to worry about Tama and Kagome was able to enjoy the thrill of floating through time. Her feet had barely touched the ground before she heard:

 

“Kagome! Kagome! InuYasha! Kagome!” coming from the top of the well. Shippo was staring down, yelling his head off. Kagome looked up just a moment before InuYasha grabbed her around the waist and jumped up out of the well. Shippo was clinging to her before she was back on her own feet. “When you didn't come back? I got worried! Are you okay? You weren't attacked again were you?”

 

“It's okay, Shippo,” Kagome assured him, giving him a hug. “We just couldn't bring Tama through and after we tried, she was so upset I didn't want to leave her. Then, I had to go to school and,” Kagome yawned, “and I haven't been feeling up to the trip. I'm sorry,” she told him.

 

“It's okay,” Shippo said, looking down in disappointment. “I guess I just thought that since she was your baby, she would be able to come through like you do.”

 

“So did we, Shippo,” Kagome assured him. “But I brought pictures! Where are Miroku and Sango?”

 

“Oh, them? They're back in the village. They weren't as worried as I was,” Shippo said, shooting a disapproving look towards the village. Kagome grinned at the kitsune's exuberance and started walking to her friends. Shippo chattered at her the entire way to the village, telling her about the progress they had made on looking for the fragment.

 

“What did you say?” InuYasha asked suddenly and Kagome stopped walking to look down at Shippo, so he would repeat himself.

 

“I said: we found out that Hakudoushi is looking to find a way to the boundary between this world and the next! So that's where the last shard would be, right?”

 

“I wonder how it got there,” Kagome said softly while InuYasha started trying to think of a way to beat Hakudoushi to his destination.

 

“Apparently, he's been trying to find it for months,” Shippo continued.

 

“How did you find out?” Kagome asked as they resumed walking.

 

“Well… he… he kinda told us,” Shippo admitted.

 

“So we figure it's a trap,” Sango continued, stepping out from behind a tree and startling Kagome. “Hello, Kagome-chan, welcome back,” she said, smiling.

 

“Hi, Sango-chan,” Kagome responded. “A trap?”

 

“It seems fairly obvious that he can't find a way in, so he's trying to use us to do so,” Sango explained.

 

“Not surprising,” InuYasha said quietly. “And, of course, it's going to work because we can't let him get to it first. Damnit!” InuYasha hit a nearby tree, startling a small flock of birds out of it.

 

“Where's Tama?” Sango asked.

 

“She can't go through the well,” Kagome explained briefly. Sango nodded understandingly and motioned to Kaede's hut.

 

“We should go find Miroku and discuss our next plan,” Sango said. Kagome nodded and InuYasha just started walking. A minute later, they were sitting outside the hut in a semi-circle and no discussion of the `plan' was being made, due to Kagome pulling out the photos she brought with her.

 

“She looks so much like you, Kagome-sama,” Miroku said, touching the picture and smiling.

 

“This is InuYasha?” Sango was asking about the photo in her hand, of the hanyo peacefully lying next to Tama.

 

“Yup. Hard to believe, huh?”

 

“Hey!” InuYasha protested.

 

“It's too bad I can't meet her,” Shippo said sadly. “I was hoping we could play together when she got bigger.”

 

“I know, Shippo, I'm sorry you won't get to meet her, too,” Kagome said, patting his head as he sighed.

 

“Weren't we supposed to be discussing how to beat Naraku to the last shard?” InuYasha grumbled. Everyone handed back Kagome the pictures and settled down to talk seriously about strategy. It took them less than an hour to decide to `fall for' Hakudoushi's trap and hope for the best. “We'll be pushing very hard and fast,” InuYasha said, turning to Kagome. “Are you sure you can handle it? You can stay behind—”

 

“You know I'm going,” Kagome said, sighing. “Mama will take care of Tama while we're gone. And I'll be okay.” InuYasha knew better than to argue, so he nodded and stood up.

 

“Then let's get you home for now. We can leave after you get out of school on Saturday. That will give us and extra half a day instead of leaving on Sunday,” InuYasha said and Kagome nodded.

 

“What are these `days' you're speaking of?” Miroku asked, slightly confused.

 

“The days have names in Kagome's time,” InuYasha explained. “Today is Wednesday, so we'll be back in three days. Then we can go after the final shard and hopefully, we'll get it before Naraku.” Everyone nodded in agreement.

 

“Where the hell did these fucking birds come from?” InuYasha yelled as he shot off the wind scar at a huge group of avian youkai.

 

“They look more like pterodactyls!” Kagome yelled as she clapped her hands over her ears to drown out a nearby `bird' as it screeched horribly. InuYasha fought viciously to protect the first villagers they had found alive since leaving behind Hakudoushi's trap, which turned out to be a waste of time that nearly got them killed. But, of course, they had expected no less. Nearly a week had been wasted and they were trying to get Kagome home as fast as possible when they had come across the first exsanguinated body. Empty, burned out villages followed and Kagome had to accept that she was going to miss some school. They couldn't just let this go and hope for the best.

 

“I believe these are the beings responsible for destroying the other villages,” Miroku yelled as one of the birds burst into flames. It hit the largest house and the villagers hiding within fled the burning building into the clutches of the vampire birds.

 

“There's no doubt about that!” InuYasha snapped as he swung at another bird, protecting an old man who cowered on the ground in fear. Kagome was frustrated at her inability to fight and just tried to avoid making herself a target. She watched Sango throw Hiraikotsu through several of the youkai and Miroku opened his wind tunnel. She was watching the birds disappearing into his hand when she saw…

 

“Saimyoushou!” Kagome's cry saved Miroku from sucking in the poisonous insects, although he was now down to his staff as a weapon. InuYasha chased after a smaller part of the flock that had cornered several villagers and that's when Kagome saw the birds headed for her. She turned and ran towards Sango, who was closest, but she knew she couldn't get there in time. She tripped and fell into the dirt, her hand brushing up against something familiar. She didn't spend any time in thought; she just grabbed the bow and knocked a nearby arrow, pulled and released as fast as she could. She had seen how ineffectual an ordinary arrow was against youkai, but she wasn't going to die without at least trying!

 

A pink light filled the sky and all the birds disappeared in a purifying cloud as Kagome stared, dumbfounded. She was so shocked that she almost didn't see a bird dive-bombing a little girl just a few meters away. The girl's shriek pulled her out of her daze and she barely took the time to aim the next arrow she found. It still struck right through the youkai, as she was hoping.

 

Her power was back.

 

 

To be continued…

 

A/N: I chose to use the English words for the days of the week because it's simpler. But for those who want to know the days of the week (starting with Monday) in Japanese, they are: getsuyoubi (moon day), kayoubi (fire day), suiyoubi (water day), mokuyoubi (wood day), kinyoubi (gold day), doyoubi (earth day), and nichiyoubi (sun day). Note that Sunday and Monday are the same meaning as in English. And, as before, I'm sorry for the very long delay in posting, but as some of you know, I've been doing prenatal stuff, trying to buy a house and a new car (ours died) and right after we got the new van, we were in a bad accident and it was totaled. We've been so busy lately I just haven't had time to post this update and I'm really sorry, everyone!