InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Miracle of Love ❯ The Fight ( Chapter 2 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

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Chapter 2 The Fight

Late that night, the fire had died down to embers and everyone was asleep, except for Inuyasha.

“Damn. When will this night end?” He looked down at his hands. “How can I fight Naraku like this?” Inuyasha looked over to where Kagome was sleeping, his eyes softening as he looked upon her lying there so peacefully. “How can I tell her how I feel about her, when I can't even protect her properly?” Inuyasha sighed. “I can't allow my feelings for Kagome to be a weakness. I can't tell her until Naraku is dead.”

At that moment, the foul stench of miasma rolled into the camp. Inuyasha jumped to his feet and faced the direction from whence it came. Behind him, he could hear the others gathering their weapons and standing behind him. “Naraku” spat Inuyasha, and he sped off in search. The rest of them followed hard behind him.

Sango came up beside him, and gave him a quick look. “You need to be careful, Inuyasha, it is not yet morning. Don't do anything stupid.”

“Feh! Just you worry about yourself. I can take care of myself, even if I have to do it as a human. I am not going to let Naraku escape this time!”

Up ahead, the trees opened up on a meadow. Inuyasha and Sango entered it first, with Miroku, Kagome and Shippo right behind them. In the center of the meadow was Naraku in his baboon pelt. “It's about time you got here, Inuyasha.” He stopped, tilted his head and laughed. “I like your new look, half-demon, or should I say human? Without your demon abilities, how can you even think to defeat me?”

Inuyasha growled “I don't need any demon abilities to take you down, Naraku!” With that, Inuyasha raced towards him with the Tetsusaiga, untransformed, out. Naraku easily dodged away from his attack and sent a branch out to impale Inuyasha as he passed by. Inuyasha saw the attack coming and barely managed to avoid it and it struck the ground beside him. “You'll have to do better than that!” cried Inuyasha.

“Oh, I plan to” Naraku sneered. He launched several more branches toward the half-demon. Just then, Sango's boomerang came cutting through the branches that were aimed at Inuyasha. One of Kagome's arrows came streaking past Inuyasha and hit Naraku, just catching the edge of the pelt. Inuyasha leapt back out of the way and stood beside Kagome. Sango threw her boomerang again, and followed behind with her sword drawn. Naraku managed to dodge the boomerang and swatted Sango aside like a fly. She landed in a heap and did not move.

Miroku ran over to Sango to make sure that she was going to be ok. As he stood, he started to unwrap the prayer beads from his hand. Naraku looked over at the monk and laughed. "I have some friends who would like to pay you a special visit." He pointed up into the trees where swarms of the wasps started to make their appearance.

"Damn!" Miroku cursed as he rewrapped his hand. "I won't be able to help out much in this fight guys. Sorry!" He took up a defensive stance in front of Sango, ready to protect her with his life.

“Sango! Are you all right?” Asked Shippo as he rushed over to her side. “Are you hurt? I'll protect you!” Shippo patted Sango on the cheek and then went to stand in front of her with his arms spread wide.

Kagome looked over towards her friend, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Sango was still breathing. “Naraku! You won't get away with that!” she cried as she released another arrow. Naraku easily dodged it and turned towards her. The sky was starting to brighten in the east, and Kagome could tell that Naraku was pissed.

“Insolent human! You have been a bother to me for too long. It is time that you DIED!” Naraku was moving toward Kagome even before he completed his statement. As he got close to her, one of his branches shot out and caught her in the chest, impaling her and lifting her up into the air before flinging her into a tree. Kagome gave a small gasp, and then slid weakly down the tree to lie crumpled at the base.

“KAGOME!” Inuyasha ran over to her and faced Naraku. “YOU BASTARD! I WILL KILL YOU FOR THIS!” As Inuyasha spoke, the sun rose and lit up the meadow. Inuyasha began the transformation back to his half-demon state. He drew the Tetsusaiga and threw Wind Scar towards Naraku. Naraku was caught in the blast and sliced in half.

Miroku came up, supporting Sango who looked like she was in some pain. “Damn, it was one of Naraku's puppets. He got away.” Inuyasha dropped down beside Kagome and reached out to touch her.

“Kagome, are you okay? Please speak to me!” Inuyasha cried as he tried to stop the blood flowing from her chest. Kagome did not answer him. She was pale, and there was a chill to her flesh. The only sign that she was not yet dead was the breath that they could hear rasping in her chest. Shippo started to cry. Inuyasha carefully picked her up and nestled her to his chest. “I have to get her to Kaede quickly.”

“Go Inuyasha! We'll follow on Kirara” Miroku told him, and with that, Inuyasha took off bearing Kagome back towards the village. The monk uttered a prayer for Kagome before helping Sango onto Kirara. “I hope that it will not be too late to save her,” he thought as Kirara leapt into the air.

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