InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Demon You Made Me ❯ 6th Floor, Traps, Twists, and Betrayal! ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 6: 6th Floor, Traps, Twists, and Betrayal!

Shippou and Kyuni reached the tall wooden gates of the slayers village, and Kyuni dug a hole under the walls. As shippou reached the other side of the wall, he immediately searched for the scents of his old friends. "there." He said to himself as he caught the scent and followed it to one of the refurnished homes in the center of the village. Shippou knew that Miroku, Sango, and Kirara were the only inhabitants of the village at the time, so he didn't bother trying to avoid other slayers.

Inside the small home, the neko youkai jumped from her masters lap and stood at the doorway, a curious look on her face while her fur stood on end. It was if she sensed danger, but something held her back from charging it. The Taijiya looked down at her pet, "what is it Kirara? A demon?" she asked as she stood. Miroku watched on interestedly.

Then, a small kitsune burst into the straw door flap, out of breath. "shippou-Chan?!" they both said in unison, their features in shock. "Shippou is that really you?" Sango asked as she bent down to embrace the young child whom she hadn't seen in almost a year, and the fox nodded. "We haven't seen you since the day `she' left, what brings you back shippou?" Miroku said.

"ka-kagome. Sh-she's in trouble!" he managed to pant out. "kagome-Chan? She's back, she returned to this era? But why? And what kind of trouble is she in?" Sango burst out, pulling shippou away so she could look him in the eye.

"Kouga sent his messenger to alert me. I was told to gather you two, and we must assist kagome. She has gone to fight Naraku. Apparently she's been back for a while, long enough to become involved in another one of his schemes." He explained once he caught his breath.

"Kouga sent for you? But why wouldn't he just go himself, and why is Kouga even aware that kagome is in trouble?" Miroku asked.

"from what I hear, Kouga is injured badly, attacked by a priestess. And also…Kyuni has informed me that kagome and Kouga were mated as of yesterday." He said quietly.

Sango blushed, and Miroku smirked, but it quickly faded. "if kagome is at the hands of Naraku, we must find her." He stated as he stood. "but why Kouga?…" Sango wondered to herself softly. "no time to dwell on that Sango, we HAVE to save kagome!" shippou shouted as he bolted back outside to wait for them to gather their things.

Sango nodded and stood, stepping out of her casual kimono to reveal her slayers ward. She pulled hiraikotsu from against the wall and hoisted it over her shoulder. Miroku reached for his staff, and stood next to Sango. "well Sango my love, looks like its gonna be just like the good ol' days, fighting along side Lady Kagome as we battle Naraku. Since that last day, nothings been the same without her."

"I've missed her so, Miroku. I can not wait to see her smile again, I hope we aren't too late when we arrive." She whispered as she reached for his hand and gave it a small squeeze. He smiled and kissed her on the cheek, "well, we better get going then, shoult we?" he said as he eased her out the door.

"Kirara!" she shouted, and waited as the neko at her feet burst into flames as she transformed. "who's this shippou?" Miroku asked as he jumped on behind Sango, just then noticing his wolf companion. "oh, this is Kyuni, she was the one sent by Kouga." He said, then turned to face the she-wolf, "okay Kyuni, thank you for all your help, you can return to Kouga now, I'm sure he would like to know of your progress." Shippou said as he jumped into Sango's lap, who was astride Kirara.

The wolf just tilted her head up at the little fox, `leave? No, Kouga-sama told me strictly that I was not to return until I knew the condition of Lady Kagome. So I can not leave here until I have this knowledge.' She explained to him in their own language. "fine, but I don't think there's any room up here for you." He told her. She nodded, and took off running ahead of them.

"What going on with the wolf shippou?" Sango asked. "She's coming with us, but she says she'll follow from the ground." and with that, Kirara left the ground, and followed the directions given to them by Kyuni.

~*~*~*~*~*~

kagome sang along with the music that flowed through her ears from the headphones.

"How can you see into my eyes, like open doors. Leading you down into my court, where I become so numb.

Without a soul, my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold. Until you find it there, and lead it back home.

(WAKE ME UP)

Wake me up inside,

(CANT WAKE UP)

wake me up inside

(SAVE ME) call my name and save me from the dark, (WAKE ME UP). Bid my blood to run (CANT WAKE UP) before I come undone. (SAVE ME) save me from the nothing I've become

. Now that I know what I'm without, you cant just leave me, bring it to me and make me real, bring me to life.

(WAKE ME UP)

Wake me up inside,

(CANT WAKE UP)

wake me up inside

(SAVE ME) call my name and save me from the dark, (WAKE ME UP). Bid my blood to run (CANT WAKE UP) before I come undone. (SAVE ME) save me from the nothing I've become

Bring me to life, (I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside. ) bring me to life.

Frozen inside without your touch without your love darling, only you are the life among the dead.

(All but this time I cant believe I couldn't see, kept in the dark but you would never fallow me.

I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems, not to open my eyes to everything.

Without thought, without a voice, without a soul.

BRING ME TO LIFE!!

(WAKE ME UP)

Wake me up inside,

(CANT WAKE UP)

wake me up inside

(SAVE ME) call my name and save me from the dark, (WAKE ME UP). Bid my blood to run (CANT WAKE UP) before I come undone. (SAVE ME) save me from the nothing I've become, bring me to life.

I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside. Bring me to life"

She sang, her voice full of emotion, he body twisting on the ground as she poured her heart and soul into the song.

"Poor pitiful kagome, tell me, were you singing to my dear inuyasha just then?" came a haunting voice.

Kagome jumped, ripped the headphones off her ears, and turned to see Kikyou standing behind her. "Well well well, if it isn't the ever illusive bitch we've been searching for?" she returned calmly. "How can I help you Kikyou? If its your mate you're searching for, I'm sorry to inform you that he has gone out." She smiled.

Kikyou scoffed back at her, "I know very well where that half breed has run off to, carelessly leaving you behind." Kagome snarled, but said nothing, she well knew that Kikyou was just trying to get her riled up. `Two can play at that game.'

"Well at least I know that he will be returning to me, unlike you. Infact, he's helping me so that he can have first row seats to your death." She smiled, happy to see the look of frustration on Kikyou's face.

Kagome's smile faded, "you-you have the shikon no tama INSIDE of you Kikyou? Why would you sink so low as to use the one thing that you should have always kept pure?" she asks sincerely.

Kikyou gave a small smile, she looked to be in thought about it. "Nothing in this world is ever truly pure, you should know that yourself kagome. You were miss perfect, the purest heart. But now look at you, your powers have darkened, and your heart is dripping in malice. Looks like you and I are more alike than I would ever have liked to believe."

"That may be true, but the both of us are still miko's none the less, it is our duty to see that such object is not abused when in our hands." She tried to reason.

"Perhaps, but such morals are not a valued thing in this age of war kagome, you need to realize that. And I am here, to help you realize that you are NOT part of this world!" she yelled, as she held out her hand and sent an energy blast towards kagome. Kagome jumped into the air, landed on one palm, and flipped herself back to her feet, landing a few feet out of range of the attack.

She held out her hands, and gave a blast of her own, Kikyou maneuvering out of the way. "it seems as if you have learned some new techniques since the last time I fought you a few years time ago. But such will not save you, you will die today." Kikyou said as she threw an onslaught of miko energy blasts.

Kagome expertly dodged each one, but panted at the exertion. "Eat crap Kikyou." She said under her breath and she threw daggers of energy towards her opponent. Kikyou dodged most of them, the last shredded through the sleeve of her white priestess haori. Kikyou didn't even seem to acknowledge her close encounter as she charged towards kagome.

Kikyou took her bow from around her shoulder and held it out towards kagome, and it swirled in her miko chi. Kagome picked up a sturdy stick from the ground and held it out in defense. The two objects clashed together, and miko energy crackled around them. Again and again their weapons met as Kikyou pushed kagome back with the force of her power.

Kagome was using all of her strength against Kikyou, but she soon realized that with the added power of the jewel, Kikyou was indeed stronger than she was.

~*~*~*~*~*~

As inuyasha ran along the forest of the other side of the mountains, he felt as if he was getting closer to something, so he continued going. "Naraku you bastard! Where the hell are you!?" he yelled into the woods, small birds fleeing in fear.

"You have arrived inuyasha, its been a while." Came a smooth voice from behind him, "to think that you'd leave you're dear Kikyou for kagome, and then leave kagome in search of me." He smirked.

Inuyasha stopped and turned around to come face to face with the creature in the baboon pelt. "Naraku." He seethed. "What the hell are you and Kikyou planning? And why?!" he demanded. "Do I really have to answer that inuyasha? You should know my plans well by now. All this time and you haven't figured out what it is that I want? It is simple, the shikon no tama, and your dear mate Kikyou."

"You selfish bastard, how a creature like you could ever exist is beyond me."

"But inuyasha, you don't see it? You were exactly like me at one time. You were obsessed with both the jewel and Kikyou. You wanted more power, longed for the power to overcome your brother. And you lusted after the touch of the one woman you could not have." He said, his comfortable smirk hidden in the mask of his pelt.

Inuyasha seethed with his anger at hearing the enemy compare his past to his own actions. "You know nothing, about me or what I wanted." He said through clenched teeth, his eyes hidden in the shadow of his bangs. He unsheathed his sword, and charged the other hanyou.

The swirls of the windscar formed around the fang, and he dropped the sword and watched as waves of power rushed his opponent. Naraku's body was ripped to pieces at the force of the blast, but inuyasha knew that it couldn't have been this easy.

Sure enough, swarms of demons surged from the empty pelt and charged towards inuyasha. He swung at each one, successfully destroying them, but their source had no end, and he began to feel a little cramped as they attacked him from every direction.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Sango, Miroku and shippou flew above the eastern lands, keeping a keen eye out for kagome, Kikyou, or Naraku. "have you picked up their scents shippou?" Sango asked as the young kitsune sniffed at the air, as he had been doing since they left. "be patient Sango, I don't have the senses of a dog you know." He thought, and although it hit something deep in each of them, they kept quite.

Kagome deflected another attack by Kikyou, who seemed to never tire out, `the benefits of being dead.' She told herself. All of a sudden, she thought she heard a familiar voice, and glanced around her as she still tried to fend of Kikyou, who was now trying to burn her hands with miko chi. She looked above her when she heard another voice, and her jaw went slack.

`Kirara? Sango, Miroku, shippou?!!' she screamed to herself. "Sango-Chan!!!" she yelled to her friends that were passing directly over her. The girl she called out to looked around in confusion. "what is it Sango?" Miroku asked. "I-I'm not sure, but I thought I heard someone call my name." She thought aloud, and Miroku and shippou shrugged to each other, neither having heard someone calling out to them.

Kagome watched as her friends looked down to where she was, but continued to move on ahead towards the mountains. "they didn't stop?" she wondered aloud. "foolish wench, I have erected a barrier around us so we would not be disturbed. " Kikyou yelled, catching kagome off guard, who hadn't been paying attention, not thinking about why Kikyou's attacks had stopped.

She looked back over to Kikyou and her breath caught in her throat. Kikyou stood only a few feet away, an arrow strung to her bow, and she had it aimed right at her chest. "it ends here." She said, and released the arrow, and watched it make a straight line for her reincarnation. The arrow burst into holy power, and kagome watched in horror, it was as if time slowed as her eyes were fixed on her coming demise.

Time jumped back to speed, and the arrow pushed against kagome chest bone, and sent her flying backwards to a nearby tree. The arrow deflected off her chest bone, yet still sank through the soft flesh in her shoulder, and she was fixed fast to the tree. She winced and grinded her teeth in pain, and reached a hand up to the object protruding from her body. When her hand came in contact with it however, a strong barrier fended her off.

She looked up to Kikyou with a confused look, "you didn't kill me, and you didn't put a spell over me, what is it that you're planning?! You could easily kill me yet you stand your ground!" she yelled at her.

Kikyou simply smirked, and gave no answer.

~*~*~*~*~

"what's that?! in the distance!" Sango called out as the group saw a flash of light just over the hill. "maybe its kagome! She must be fighting already." Shippou answered. "Kirara, head for those flashing lights in the forest below." Sango told the large cat demon, and it picked up its pace and began to descend towards the ground.

They saw the light again, and pieces of demon showered them from the sky, "is it kagome who is doing this? She must have become stronger since the last time we saw her!" Sango said, and Miroku nodded. `but its odd, I DO sense an evil aura, no doubt Naraku's, but I do not sense kagomes miko powers…' he thought to himself.

They landed on the battlefield, just in time to see another flash of light from the one attacking the demons. "kagome?!" shippou called, still unable to see from the blinding light. The light faded, and their eyes focused, and all three gasped and took a step back. inuyasha stood with his sword to the ground, panting and bleeding. His head was bowed, but he was watching the new arrivals from the corner of his eyes.

He kept silent, and continued to pant, and as another demon charged him, he weakly picked up his sword, and split the demon in half. The group couldn't seem to find their voices, to shocked at seeing the hanyou before them. Emotions that were thought to be long gone, began to resurface, some of anger, some of joy at seeing an old friend.

Miroku looked around him, observing their environment, and found many demons, but no sign of Naraku. He put aside his pride, figuring that the others wouldn't, Sango was too shocked for words, and Shippou's face was distorted in anger and looked on the verge of tears, he noted as he ran to assist the other boy. "KAZAANA!" he yelled as he got infront of inuyasha and opened his wind tunnel, quickly drawing all the demon inside. "they'll be back." inuyasha whispered.

Miroku didn't turn to look at inuyasha, "where is Naraku, and where is kagome-sama?" he asked in a serious tone. "Naraku was never here, only a puppet of course. As for kagome, she it on the other side of the hills, she was resting. Didn't you see her on you're way over here? She was smack in middle of a large field." He answered, getting a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach at the thought of kagome.

The group all fixed their eyes on inuyasha now, "I told you I heard something! kagome must have called out my name when she saw us pass, but why didn't we see her?!" Sango worried, forgetting about the tension between the four.

~*~*~*~*~

Kikyou continued to smile to kagome, as she stood before her. She then put a hand to her chest, and drew out the shikon no tama. "you put up quite a fight, but it has been all in vain, you and inuyasha fell right into our trap, and now its time for part two." She said with a wicked smile as she held out the black jewel.

Kagome fixed her eyes on the jewel, horror in her silver orbs, `I could fend that off easily when at full power, but wounded and tired as I am, I may not be able to resist it this time!'

Kikyou placed the jewel to the other girls chest, and watched as the jewel sank into her body, and sent a charge of miko energy with it. "heh, now there's no way you can remove the shards, I have placed a strong barrier around it. and seeing that you are not in very good form, I doubt you will be able to dispose of it."

Kagome cringed in pain, and tears of anguish and distress rolled from the corners of her eyes, "ahhh!" she screamed as she felt the power and chains of the shikon no tama rush through her body. She tossed her head back and forth, "UGNN, INUYASHA!!!!!!!"

~*~*~*~*~*~

Inuyasha's ears twitched and he felt a pang in his soul, an image of kagome appeared as he gazed over the mountains, and his heart twisted, "kagome, no. KAGOME!" he screamed as he began to leave.

"inuyasha?! What's wrong? What's happened to kagome?!" Sango screamed. He stopped to look back at her, pain written clearly in his face, "I-I don't know, but she's in trouble, I have to get to her. I can make it the fastest, you three try to find Naraku, I know he must be close, I can feel his presence!" he yelled to them, and turned to run again.

`there's more to this than I thought, Naraku must have set a trap for us, knowing that I would be eager to find him, and patrol the area, leaving kagome vulnerable. Dammit Naraku, you will pay for this.'

As he made his way up and over the crest of the hill, a blur of white caught his eye as he passed, and it seemed to catch his attention, seeming familiar to him, but he shrugged it off. Kyuni watched as the hanyou bounded over her head, and run towards the west. She kept still as the wind blew at her coat, her eyes closely following inuyasha.

`there you go inuyasha, go rescue her, hurry inuyasha….run straight into their trap…'

Suteki: mwuhaha, hehe, cliff hanger! I know you're all gonna hate me for that one. Sorry it took me so long to update, but its here! Tell me what you think, and I'll update again asap! ;) -Chapter 7: When My Soul Returns

Lyrics: `Tourniquet' By Evanescence