InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Centre ❯ Crashin the Place ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 7: Crashin the Place

In a dark corridor.

"OW!"

"Sorry."

"Houshi, you stepped on my foot. Rubbing my butt is not going to help," Sango said.

"Got your mind off your foot didn't it?"

"Just get us out of here."

"You've been here longer that me!" Miroku exclaimed.

"But I don't walk around in the dark."

"You just don't trust me behind you."

"That too-" Sango said. A blood curdling howl of rage echoed through the halls.

"It's just a guess, but I think that was Sesshoumaru. Think he got loose and found Inuyasha?"

"I don't think the emergency system would have gone off just for a fight. The last time this happened there was an escape. Whoever it is, they sure aren't happy. Do we have to go in that direction?"

"Sango, notice what we are following?" She made no reply. "Sango? You do know the fastest way to an exit is to follow the exit signs."

"Shut up Houshi."

"Where are we going?!" Kagome yelled. Inuyasha had her hand in a death grip and was whipping her around corridors so fast her neck was suffering from whip lash.

"We have to get to them before he does," was his explanation.

"Get to what?" Kagome ask. He suddenly stopped. Inuyasha was gifted at stopping the force of inertia. Kagome was not. She crashed into him with her full weight and the extra addition of a force known as momentum. They both went sprawling into the nearest wall.

"Well well, what is this pretty picture?" a voice called out from the shadow.

"We are in serious trouble," Kagura said as she watched the dog demon transform. No one could collar a transformed demon. The collars were too small. There's always a catch to something.

"Naraku says to get out," Kanna said, her mirror in hand. How she knew that Kagura had no clue, but she wasn't about to question a good idea.

"Damn dog demons," she said, pulling a feather from her hair piece. The feather expanded and began floating upward.

Sesshoumaru roared in outrage. Naraku's bitches were going to get away!

"Sesshoumaru-sama," Rin called out. "We have to….get everyone out."

The red in his eyes died out and he watched the feather floating farther and farther away.

"Kagome is uncollaring everyone. Naraku knows he cannot win here. He will destroy this place if he can." Sesshoumaru nuzzled her. If she grabbed on he could just fly out of here. "No!" she said, struggling to rise. "Jaken is in here. Kagome is here. We CANNOT leave them!" Even in her weakened state he could feel the power behind her words. She had subdued him. Technically speaking she was alpha bitch now. He followed her orders. He growled, but complied, knocking down the wall between them and the inner corridors of the Centre. He would do as she instructed, but dammit he wasn't going to like it!

Then he remembered something.

Tetsusaiga.

Inuyasha's ears were ringing. He winced as he touched his head. Minor concussion for sure. Oh well, give it an hour, it would heal. Kagome was groaning and pulling herself off of him. She'd had a soft landing, lucky bitch.

"You are such a sick perv!" Sango said to Miroku. Inuyasha and some girl had literally fallen at their feet. She went over to help the poor girl as Inuyasha pulled himself up, cursing all the way.

"You ok?" she asked the girl.

"Never better," Kagome replied sarcastically. She turned to Inuyasha, eyes blazing. "If you ever pull me around like that again I'll purify you where you stand, so help me! I am not a rag doll!!" Inuyasha flattened his ears against his head in an effort to dull the painful volume of her voice.

"It's not my fault you are a slow bitch!"

"Human, idiot! I'm not a hanyou or a youkai! I don't run as fast as you and I certainly have no clue where we are going!"

"Inuyasha," Miroku interrupted. "Where's your collar?"

Sango did a doubt take and looked at the hanyou. Sure enough, there was a red ring around his neck that was healing from where the collar had been, but the metal itself was gone.

"Ask her," Inuyasha said, pointing a thumb to Kagome.

"I have a name you….prick," Kagome retorted, fuming. Inuyasha looked unfazed.

"Think that one up all on your own? Come on bitch, we have to get going."

He never saw it coming. Inuyasha's head spun sideways and he reconnected with the wall, his cheek burning. Kagome stood there, tears in her eyes, hand still raised from the slap.

"You listen and you listen real good, Hanyou. First I am going to free everyone I can find who has a collar. Second I am going to find my partner, Rin. Third, I am going to level this place so no one can ever use it again. Now I don't know what the heck your priority is, but you need to stop calling me b-, that b-word and ordering me around like some harem wench!"

Sango and Miroku had taken a couple steps back. Kagome was looming over Inuyasha, an eerie glow coming from her skin. A pissed off Miko was not something they wanted to be on the receiving end of. Knowing Inuyasha, he'd probably say something incredibly stupid and end up purified for a few days. Sango looked at Miroku and a silent agreement was exchanged.

"Why don't I show you where the youkai are kept? We'll go uncollar everyone," Sango said.

"And Inuyasha and I will go get Tetsusaiga," Miroku said, picking the Hanyou up before he could retaliate.

"Wait!" Kagome called out. She reached over to Miroku's neck.

Thunk.

Slap.

"What IS it with men around here?" Kagome said, fuming. Miroku had a look of joy and a red hand print on his face.

"Miroku…" a dark growl came. Inuyasha was beyond pissed. His eyes were flashing red.

"Ha..ha, we'd best be going! Come on Inuyasha!" he said, pulling the growling hanyou away.

Sango shook her head in disbelief.

"Well I know I will make it out of here in one piece. Him, I am not so sure about."

Thunk.

Sango turned in surprise. The collar around her neck was gone. Kagome looked satisfied, cracking her knuckles.

"I'm getting faster at this. It's kind of fun!"

Fun? Running through a research facility with youkai and people trying to kill you was fun? This girl must be off her rocker for sure. Kagome had closed her eyes and was focusing on something.

"Down this hallway, I think," she said and began walking in the direction of the youkai holding cells. Sango's jaw dropped.

"How'd you know that?"

"All the collars are connected. I felt that when I removed Inuyasha's. After feeling yours too I know what I am looking for. The most concentrated area is down there. I'm just following the thread, really," Kagome said, pointing to something. Try as she might, Sango saw nothing. Absolutely nothing. Must be one of those things only Miko could see.

Sesshoumaru stopped by the large double doors. The seal was still on them. Well, that was good in that it had kept Naraku out, but it was also keeping him out.

Rin seemed to know exactly what he needed. She slipped off his shoulders and knelt before the door, carefully pulling off the slips of papers. She was recovering slowly. How, he had no idea, but she was not as worn as she had seemed at first.

Rin frowned. The door was still sealed even though the sacred scrolls were gone. She had no power left. But Sesshoumaru was behind her. He trusted her to open these doors. Rin would have walked across fire if he asked it.

Wait, wasn't there something Kagome once told her?

Flashback

"Barriers aren't that hard," Kagome commented, licking the ice cream off her spoon. "Especially old ones. The key is to not try to break them, but absorb them. Power is more willing to yield if it has a place to go. Forcing it to just dissipate can have bad consequences."

"Good to know if I ever need to undo a barrier, but I don't think I am strong enough to break a barrier anyway."

"That's just it. It is actually easier for weaker mikos to break powerful barriers. The power is attracted to a lower power source. It's a concentration gradient. Power wants to move from a high concentrated area to a lower one."

"Barriers are highly concentrated and mikos are much lower, right?" Rin asked.

"Yep! Drat! I ate this entire pint." Rin laughed at the look of total horror on Kagome's face.

"Not like you have anyone to keep your figure for!" Rin teased and got a pillow in her face for it.

End of Flashback

Rin placed her hand upon the door and steadied her breathing. The barrier glowed in her mind, crackling with energy just waiting to be set free.

Come to me, she thought. I have no power left. I am an empty shell. You've been sitting on this door too long.

The power resisted…but it was tempted.

Come on. Naraku is the only one you were meant to keep out. My lord's possession is in here. He has every right to get in. Open up. Please.

At first there was nothing. Then a crack was heard and Rin was surrounded by a bright glow that made Sesshoumaru back up from the brightness and pain of it. The glow died out and everything was dark again. Sesshoumaru shook his head to stop the ringing in his ears.

The double doors creaked under the pressure as he leaned on them, willing all his strength to open the doors that had been sealed nearly two hundred years ago.

In the middle of the room was a small raised platform with a rusty blade sticking out of it. Tetsusaiga. Floating above it, sheathed in a scabbard, was it's twin, Tenseiga.

And across the room another door opened and his damn bastard brother stepped in, shock and surprise on his face as he saw Sesshoumaru.

Rin's eyes widened in horror. Inuyasha was here. OH SHIT!