InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Fire Bearer ❯ Chapter 8

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

“AHHHHHHH!”

Inuyasha and Kagome jumped apart at the sound of the scream. It took a second for everything to register. "That sounded like-"

But she was cut off by another scream, "MOMMA!"

"Shippo!", Kagome cried out before taking off in the direction of the scream. "Shippo! Where are you!", but she was only answered with more screams. She ran and ran until she came to a clearing where she found Shippo being chased by a bull demon.

The bull demon charged after him, lowering its head so that its horns were mere inches from Shippo's back, but was stopped by a sudden burst of flame in its face. It looked up to see an orange-clad woman with long black hair and flame-dancing eyes. "You will pay for interrupting my meal, wench!"

"Oh you wish you ugly freak.", she said mockingly. She turned her head in Shippo's direction and told him, "Go find Inuyasha, he should be right behind me."

"Alright.", he replied to her before running off in the direction she had come from.

She turned back to the demon in front of her, only to find him gone. She stood for a moment before sensing him again and jumping out of the way just in time for him to rush by her and tear a piece of her kimono sleeve. "Wench, stand still so I can kill you!" It roared as it turned on its heels to face her again.

"Ahhhhh, but where's the fun in that?" She said, again mocking him, before looking at her sleeve and speaking again. "Besides, I still need to kill you for trying to hurt Shippo, and destroying my sleeve. Do you have any idea how long it takes to repair this stuff?"

"Shut up wench and fight me."

"Fine, whatever you say.", she said before charging and punching him right between the eyes, causing him to stumble backwards.

"You will pay for that!" he sneered before lowering his head again and charging at her. She simply jumped over him and turned in mid air, kicking him in the back of the head, making him go flying straight into a tree. He stood back up and turned to her. Snarling, it spoke, "Wench, you will-"

"'Pay for that', yeah yeah, I know. Can you get a new line already?" she interrupted him. She raised her hands towards him as they were surrounded with fire. "Say goodbye- FIRE STRIKE!"

The demon screamed in pain as the fire shot from Kagome's hands and surrounded his being, burning him until he was nothing more then ash. Kagome sighed and turned from the demon's ashes to leave when something caught her eye. Walking up to the pile of ash, she saw a glittering of some sort. Reaching into the ashes she pulled two objects from it. Her eyes went wide in shock. They were jewel shards!

She stood there, dumbfounded as she looked at the shards. Why had she not noticed them? Why were they not being purified? What the hell was going on? Her breathing got harder and she felt as though she were about to hyperventilate. Getting her breath under control, she closed her eyes and concentrated souly on purifying the shards. After a moment a faint pink light emanated from her hand, changing the shards from there black swirls to a light pink.

Kagome sighed in relief and exhaustion. It had become much harder to simply purify the shards. She didn't understand what was happening. She had a pretty good idea though. She was pulled from her thoughts though when she heard Inuyasha's voice.

"Kagome! Kagome where are you?"

"I'm right here Inuyasha," she responded, turning to look at him. Once he appeared in the opening she tossed the shards to him, which he caught. "I got those from the demon. Watch over them, I'll be back later," she told him, turning to walk out of the clearing.

"What do you mean you'll be back later Kagome?" he asked, stepping in front of her.
"Where are you going?"

"Somewhere," she answered vaguely, stepping to the side. He only followed her movements. She sighed, "Inuyasha, please get out of my way."

"Not until you tell me where your going," he said.
"I don't have to, ok? You're not my babysitter."

"No, but I am your protecter," he said.

This angered Kagome greatly. "Protector? Protector!?" she yelled. "When was the last time you had to protect me, huh? The last time you really needed to protect me, I died!"
Inuyasha stumbled back at this, a look of hurt washing over his eyes. Kagome immediately felt guilty. "Look... I didn't mean it like that."

"No!" Inuyasha said, turning from her. "You don't have to say anything. You don't trust me, it's fine."

"Of course I trus-"

"I said you don’t have to say anything!" he yelled at her. "I don't care where your going, just be back in 3 days." With that he took of into the woods.

Kagome stood there in shock, tears filling her eyes before collapsing to the ground. Her fists pounded into the ground as the forest floor lit fire beneath her. Anger, pain, guilt, and many other emotions flooded out of her in those matter of moments before her movements stopped. She just sat there, silent tears running down her face.

"I can't..." she mumbled out looking to the sky. "I can't! I can't do this on my own. I-I wont. Please, give me help, send help!" She dropped her head again before getting an idea, looking up again she said in the strongest voice she could mutter. "I call council... I
call council with Fire Bearers past."

She sat there for a moment, and nothing happened. Lowering her head again, she stood up and started to walk away. Right before she got to the edge of the clearing, it started to shake lightly, a hot wind blowing around in a torrent. In a sudden blaze, fire erupted, but was gone as quickly as it came. Standing there in shock, Kagome looked up only to see for women of different ages standing before her.

Unsteadily she asked, "W-who are you?"

The elder one stepped forward. "We are the spirits of Fire Bearers past. I believe you called us."