InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Hidden Strength Within ❯ Chapter 19 ( Chapter 19 )

Kagome and Shippo spent most of the day resting. As nightfall approached they began to stir and pack their campsite up. Shippo noticed the change in Kagome’s scent; he couldn’t help but to feel nervous.

Once she finished her transformation she walked over to her pup and cradled him in her arms.

“What is wrong Sweetie?” she asked tenderly.

“I sense your nervousness; is this one really that powerful? You never were this nervous when we were fighting against Naraku.” he stated.

She smiled sadly towards him, “Oh Sweetie, it is only the fact that I worry for your safety. Though you have grown and you are more powerful now, this battle can only be fought and won by me. I am not sure if I will be able to protect you properly and I know I will loose if something happens to you during the fight.”

Shippo approached his mother and gave her a reassuring hug and stated, “I will be fine! I promise to stay where it is safe and I will also use the concealment spell that you gave me so that the demon will not be able to detect me.”

“Honey you know I just worry about you; after all a mother is only so strong until her pup is injured or worse, and then she falls.” she hated to admit her weaknesses out in the open but she also knew that it was an obvious weakness. She remembered all the times that she laughed at her mother when she would stress about Souta or her, now she understands what her mother must have been feeling all those years.

“Ha-ha only one thing is worse than the wrath of a scorned woman!” she stated absent mindedly.

“What was that mommy?” Shippo asked.

“Oh I was just thinking about one of the quotes that everyone is always throwing around back in my old time. They always say nothing is worse than the wrath of a woman who is scorn. But now I know differently, the wrath of a mother protecting her pup is more powerful and fearful to the enemy and offenders.” she stated as she scuffed up his hair.

“Come on Mom we should be going, you have a demon to kill and three shards to collect after all!” he stated with pride.

Slowly they began their little hike to the clearing that the beast was waiting in.

She could sense that the beast had just finished his evolving from absorbing the other two demons’ remains. The stench was almost nauseating to the both of them.

Suddenly something caught her eye and she turned her head and saw that there was a cave there.

“Shippo you should hide here in this cave. I can feel a powerful aura being emitted by the earth here; it will help to enhance the concealment spell.” she stated as he slowly entered the cave while chanting the spell.

Once she was sure that he was safe, she left and proceeded to the clearing that held the last three jewel shards.

‘Finally this is coming to an end. Once I collect these three it will then be time to track down Naraku and kill him once and for all. I’m sorry Sesshoumaru but I can not allow you or your pack to enter harms way when it is my fault that Naraku is here. I alone must destroy him.’

Sesshoumaru was in his study reading a scroll on how to break different concealment spells. He was finally satisfied with the result of most of them; all they normally took was just the spilling of a powerful demon’s blood into the mouth of the victim and the concealment would be broken for good.

Once he was completely sure that he could break the spell on the demigoddess he felt a cold chill run down his spine.

‘Rin’s in danger.’ he thought as he rushed out of the study and to his ward’s room.

When he entered the room and realized that she was perfectly safe and sound in her bed he left quietly so he would not disturb her sleep. ‘What could have caused me to feel as though my ward was in danger? Only beings that are under my protection can…’

His thoughts were immediately directed towards a certain demigoddess and her young fox kit.

He tried over and over again to contact Kagome through their telepathic link but each time he ran into a block.

‘That stupid girl is going to get herself killed. Why would she disrespect me and disobey my orders? I must find her at once and figure out what she is doing.’

Sesshoumaru walked out to his gardens and took off in his white orb form. He knew that the Captain of his guards would keep an eye on Rin when they notice that he had left the compound.

As he traveled he felt a strong aura being emitted from a demon holy mountain. ‘Funny how she would seek refuge in a demon holy mountain of all places.’

He knew that it would take him most of the night to get to the cave that he felt her aura coming from. ‘She had better stay in that cave until I arrive.’

Kagura and Kanna knew that they were close to Kagome. Even though her scent had changed her anger was still the same as before the transformation.

“Sister do you think that we will be able to convince Kagome into helping us escape from Naraku?” Kanna asked.

Kagura looked to her and couldn’t help but to wonder the same thing. “All we can do is hope that she allows us to explain before she kills us.”

They had just passed the cave that was holding the young kit within.

‘I wonder why she would hide her kit in a demonic cave versus keeping him with her so she could keep an eye on him.’ Kagura wondered.

“Sister it is possible that she already knows that we follow her and that is why she has left him there under the guise of her aura and scent.” Kanna stated after reading Kagura so well.

“It would make sense especially since we both know that she could easily kill this demon with both hands tied behind her back. You don’t think that she would be crazy enough to actually go after Naraku on her own do you?”

“Yes sister, Kagome feels completely to blame for breaking the Shikon Jewel and all the evil deeds that Naraku has done. She feels that she alone is the one that must stop him and fix what he has done.”

They arrived to the clearing just in time to watch the battle. They watched for hours as she basically toyed with the demon. So far she has managed to remove two of the three shards from his distorted body.

They knew that the sun would be rising soon and that she would only be able to prolong the inevitable death of the beast for so long; for the last shard was inside of the beast’s heart.

“I am sorry demon but I had hoped that I would not have to kill you but it appears that our time has drawn to an end and I must have that last shard now.” Kagome stated as she prepared for the last blow of the battle that would kill the demon and finish her quest all at once.

Meanwhile back at the campsite of Inuyasha and his pack Naraku was busy fighting with all of them.

The wolf Prince was really no challenge and managed to knock out within the first few minutes.

Kikyo was staying back watching the fight and waiting for the right moment to attack. She watched as Inuyasha kept pushing Sango behind him every time Naraku would go to strike her down. She also witnessed that Miroku was doing the same to Princess Ayame.

‘This is a rather discussing sight if I do say so myself.’ she thought quietly.

Finally she saw her chance and moved in for the attack.

Inuyasha, Miroku, Kirara, and Ayame had Naraku cornered into a big oak tree with no possible way of escaping. Kikyo moved in for her kill, no one would even know until it was too late.

Naraku smirked as she watched what was happening behind the unsuspecting group.

Inuyasha noticed the smirk and followed Naraku’s line of vision only to be met with the sight of Kikyo towering over an unconscious Sango with a blade to kill her with.

“Kikyo NO!” he yelled as he moved to protect his mate but everything seemed to move in slow motion.

When Inuyasha moved the strong hold on Naraku was weakened and he moved to his next target which just so happened to be Ayame. Once Miroku noticed what was going on he opened his wind tunnel to suck Naraku in.

“Finally this nightmare will be over once and for all.” Miroku stated as he watched Naraku slowly get absorbed while Kirara took off with Ayame to safety.

Once Naraku was fully absorbed Miroku looked to his wind tunnel just to notice that it didn’t disappear. ‘It must have been a damn puppet. Damn you Naraku you will one day die and I pray to the Gods that I will be there to witness it first hand.’

“Sango NO!” Inuyasha yelled from behind Miroku.

Miroku turned around quick enough to witness the blade starting to enter Sango’s chest with Inuyasha no where near close enough to stop Kikyo from killing her.

Slowly the sun started to rise and Sesshoumaru finally reached the cave’s entrance only to find the fox kit hiding within.

“Shippo where is your mother?” he asked.

“She left me here to fight the demon and collect the shards but I fear something is wrong she shouldn’t have been gone for this long. Can you please help me get to her and make sure she is safe Lord Sesshoumaru?” he all but cried out.

“Hn” he stated as he helped the kit out of the cave.

“You can come out now, I know you are there.” Kagome stated as she continued to keep her back to the tree line.

The sun rise was concealing her transformation back into her daytime form. She knew that her new enemy would not know about her transformation.

Kanna and Kagura looked at one another and wondered if Kagome was talking to them. Before they could show themselves to her they heard an all too familiar laugh from the tree line to Kagome’s back.

“Kuku kuku! Well done Priestess, your abilities have grown stronger than I originally thought possible when I heard from Kikyo that you were a demigoddess. Though I must admit that I am surprised to see you are forced to transform back into such a primitive form once the sun comes up.” Naraku stated.

“Come now Naraku I know you didn’t come all the way just to state the obvious.” Kagome stated while trying her best to hide her surprise that he knew. ‘Though it shouldn’t be too surprising since it was Kikyo’s loud mouth that told him…I will gladly kill her if Inuyasha doesn’t do it first.’ she thought to herself.

“You can come out now Kagura and Kanna. You two did very well by tracking Kagome down for me. Who knows I might actually start believing you now Kagura.”

Kagome glared wickedly to the two demonesses. ‘And here I thought that they were actually going to revolt against him. I can’t believe that I am still so naive about these things.’

Kagura looked to Kagome and sighed, “There goes any chance that we might have had sister to be free from this monster once and for all.”

Kanna merely nodded her head in agreement while they watched from over head Naraku and Kagome battle.

The battle would not last long for Kagome for she was still weakened from the battle that lasted all night and not to mention that she lost most of her power when she transformed back into her human form. ‘This is not good. If only Sesshoumaru were nearby. Wait a minute…Lord Sesshoumaru please help ’ she shouted out to him through their connection.

Author Notes:

Sorry it took so long. I hope you all enjoy this chapter and feel free to leave me any and all reviews. Until next time enjoy.