InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Mystic Miko ❯ Battle for Control ( Chapter 4 )

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A/N: Sorry for the long wait. But I will tell you about it at the end of this chapter. There are references to movie 1 in this chapter. I loved that movie. It was great.

WARNING: There is a battle scene in this chapter. Some things might be view as very graphic. If you are not 13 or older then leave and e-mail me for a revise chapter. I have warned you. So don't go reporting me. If you have a problem with this, let me know and I will fix it.

The Mystic Miko

Chapter Four: Battle for control

They were two days from Kaede's village. The weather was working towards their advantage and they all enjoyed the warm spring day.

"Focus on your powers. Allow it to flow through your blood." Kikyo said. They had progressed quickly through many of the spells and now Kikyo was training her to allow her power to increase her human scenes and abilities. Slowly Kagome rose up off the path they had stopped on. "Good, very well done. Kaede was a good teacher. She had taught you great control. I wouldn't have thought you would accomplished this much in so little time."

"This feels sort of familiar. I feel that I had done this before." Kagome pushed through her memories. She knows that at some time she had done this.

"Can you remember when?"

"It was a while ago. Years I think. It's very hazy."

"The one time I saw you float was after I had attacked Menomaru, and his counter sent us all in separate directions." Inuyasha said.

"Explain." Kikyo ordered.

"I met her on the bridge, she came to me and then-"

"I attacked him. And continued too. Only it wasn't me. I tried to stop and I yelled at him. But my voice wasn't allowed to make the sounds." Kagome bowed her head as the memories came forward. She came back to the ground and then knelt down.

"She sent acid from her hands and it destroyed the bridge. I fell down the ravine until I got my balance then I jumped up the side. She floated in the air, following me." Inuyasha knelt in front of Kagome and gripped her shoulders. "It wasn't you, you had no control."

"So that is how you were wounded. I came upon you two later." Kikyo's eyes wavered. Remembering her own disbelief at the scenes. Inuyasha wounded and Kagome had caused most of them. "Enough," she sliced her hand through the air, as if to erase the memories. "That was of the past. But to answer why it felt the same was because it is. Menomaru tapped into your miko abilities and over laid his own, you floated and attacked with his acid."

"You mean I can produce those kinds of attacks?" Kagome's head came up. She pushed those memories back and then looked Inuyasha in the eyes. "I know Inuyasha, I know."

He nodded and stood up. "How come you and Kaede rely on the arrows only?"

"Kaede hasn't the power level too. While I choose to maintain the traditional pose of a miko. Midoriko was the last miko to possess this power level. And it wasn't necessary to use them during my time."

"So I can send attacks out like bullets?" Kikyo looked at her with a question in her eyes. "Oh, sorry. Um, like Inuyasha's blades of blood?"

"Yes, something like that. Here watch." Kikyo raised her hand and her first two fingers glowed fuscia and with a snap of her wrist she sent an attack to the tree stump sitting in the field to their right. A small explosion happened and when the dust settled they could see a small crack in the side of it.

"Amazing." Miroku stood and strode over to the stump. "To carry such powers after your soul had divided up, shows just how powerful one of you alone could become."

"Yes, our power is great." Kikyo said.

Kagome walked up to Kikyo and clasped her hands around one of hers. "Teach me. Teach me to use it, show me what I can do with this knowledge."

"And what would you do with it." Kikyo recognized the traditional request for apprenticeship, but wasn't sure to what extent Kagome was will to go to.

"Bring justice to my friends. Serve the people as their miko."

"You mean to stay in this era? To not return to your own?"

"If I am able, I will serve both."

"Very well, your answers are truthful and pure. I will continue as I have." Kagome released her hand and then looked at her friends.

"It's time to move on. Shall we?" They all nodded and started up the path. Inuyasha took the lead as always with Shippo hitching a ride on his back. Kagome and Kikyo walked behind them, speaking softly to each other and continued Kagome's apprenticeship.

Sango watched the mikos and didn't notice the small smirk on Miroku's face. `At last, alone with my Sango.' A hand stretched out inching it's way towards the round firmness of Sango's back side.

"I would suggest removing that hand or I will be forced to remove it, or something else." Sango said deadly calm.

"Why Sango, are you suggesting that I was intending something else besides stretching?"

"In the years we have traveled together, Houshi, have you done anything to suggest otherwise?"

Miroku snapped his hand back and switched his staff to it. `She has gotten too good at this.' He thought in frustration. It had been sometime since he was successful at his groping. It was quite irritating and a twitch was developing. The sooner they got back to the village the better. A small smile developed on his face. Pretty young women's faces were swilling around in his mind. But as it always does, each face changed into one. Sango's.

"Is there something the matter, Kagome?" Miroku snapped out of his daydream when he heard Sango's question. There in the path, the mikos stood staring off into the forest.

"Inuyasha, there is a shard coming our way." Kagome said.

"From where?" Inuyasha loosened the Tetsusaiga in its sheath.

"From the south. About three miles out." Kikyo said. Inuyasha quirked an eye at her, and Sango and Miroku looked straight at her face. "I can still sense the shards. I have already demonstrated my abilities. Do you doubt my intentions?"

"No, we we're just surprised. I guess we're use to Kagome giving directions." Sango said.

"Later, lets get ready. Shippo stay with the girls. Sango, Miroku. Let's go met this one." Inuyasha said as he prepared to leave.

"You can't leave us here. One of us has to tell you where the share is located."

"Kagome-sama is correct, Inuyasha. As much as I would like to keep them out of the fight, it's necessary for one to be there."

"Keh, fine. But both of you are to remain in the back. Understand?"

"Inuyasha," the girls sighed in unison. They looked at each other and shrugged their shoulder.

As Inuyasha began the trek south to confront the youkai, Kikyo and Kagome notched arrows to their bows and followed in the back of their group.

"Sometimes I wonder if his brain takes a leave of absence." Kagome mutters as she ran besides Kikyo. Saving her breath for the run, Kikyo shot her a confused look. "It's nothing," she responded.

Kirara landed beside them and they climbed on. In little time they come upon the battle. Inuyasha was dodging the swipes of a humanoid boar youkai. Kagome gasps at the sight of it.

Unlike Sesshoumaru and the few other powerful youkai, whose appearances have been pleasing to the eye. This youkai looked as though he stepped from the bowels of hell.

Instead of booted feet he had hooves and his legs were hairy and thick. His loins were covered in a cloth that was tied at his hips. His broad chest was clear of hair and with each swipe of his clawed hands the muscles jumped in his chest and shoulders.

Hair ran up his spine and then spread across his head with coarse short black hair. His thick neck supported the overly large head. His nose was a snout and the eyes were beady. Long yellowed tucks protruded out of his large mouth.

"Ahh, what is that thing." Kagome said as she walked into the clearing with Kikyo.

"A boar youkai. And a powerful one in his own right. The addition of the shard will make him a difficult opponent." Kikyo said as they watched Inuyasha deflect another swipe at him.

Sango launched her boomerang at the youkai and watched as it glanced off it's back. With surprise she dodged it's awkward return, noticing that is hardly left a mark on the youkai.

Miroku sent sutras at its feet, hoping to cause it to remain still. This youkai seemed to have all it's focus on the hanyou. With dismay, his sutras were repelled when the youkai tapped into the shard that he had.

"It's in his stomach." Kagome yelled to her companions. That could only mean one thing. He willingly swallowed the shard. Kagome gathered her senses and searched the youkai for the trapped innocence that was most likely not present. She watched Inuyasha return a blow to its jaw and as it stumbled back, he glanced up at her. She shook her head in dismay.

Gravely he nodded his head. Over the years he had come to dislike killing. With the new bond he shared with the sword he found it easy to dispatch most of the creatures they had came in contact with. `Kagome has done well with me. I had always been thrilled at the prospect of a kill. Now it seems to be more of a burden. Its been a long five years.'

Inuyasha swung his fang at the youkai and removed one of its arms. Blood poured from the wound as Inuyasha readied for a final blow. But he wasn't prepared for the sudden regeneration of the severed arm. As he swung the fang the youkai took his chance at his surprise and ducked under the attack and punched Inuyasha across the face sending the hanyou sliding across the grass.

"Boar youkai have the power to regenerate limbs with ease. Inuyasha won't be able to just hack at it. We will have to remove the shard from him and then remove his head from his body." Kikyo said.

"How are we to get the shard?" Miroku asked. Him and Sango stood next to the mikos as their attacks had been futile.

"You will have to keep him distracted and when it's the right time. Kagome and I will shoot him with our arrows. Once he is down you will have to cut his stomach out. It won't kill him. Just make him madder and more out for our deaths."

"A little help here would be nice!" Inuyasha shouted at them.

"Just forming a plan, Inuyasha. Be there soon." Miroku smirked as he and Sango ran to him and commenced to attack the youkai on all sides.

"We need to put as many arrows into him as possible. Control them as we had done before." Kikyo said. Kagome nodded and pulled back on her bow. As one force the girls pulled every arrow they had from their quivers. The arrows floated about them and they silently waited for the most precise timing.

The group took turns attacking the large youkai. Miroku ran swiftly in close and chanting a spell smote it across it's back, leaving a red streak as if he had burned it. Before their eye the mark was healed and it turned its attention to Miroku.

Kirara jumped in and pushed it to the ground, swiping its chest with her claws. The youkai brought its feet up and launched the neko into the nearby trees.

Inuyasha took advantage of its momentary distraction caused by the others and readied his fang for the wind scar. As Kirara went by and Sango and Miroku ran away from it. He swung the fang sending his attack.

With speed not previously shown the youkai dodged the power of the attack and slammed Sango into the ground.

"Sango." Kagome yelled, pulling back on her bow as she watched her friends rush to aid her.

Using the same technique the youkai had on Kirara, Sango launched it into the sky. "Now, Kagome"

As one being the mikos charged their arrows and let loose their force to the youkai. Within seconds the boar youkai became a pin cushion lying on the ground. Miroku took hold of Sango's boomerang and arched it into its stomach, cutting into its softer front hide. With a twist he forced the stomach out of the youkai.

With a roar the boar youkai came from the ground and swiped at Miroku. He dodged the attack and danced way. "Again, mikos," Miroku yelled. Kagome and Kikyo spread their senses out to the area and gathered all the arrows. Some their own and some from previous battles. Again they charged them and let them fly to the youkai.

Sango jumped to Kirara's back and they launched toward the boar youkai, as it flew through the air. Sango drew her sword and with the added force of Kirara, she swiped at the head, causing it to fly into the nearby bushes. Where Shippo had been told to hide in by Inuyasha.

"Kagome!" Shippo yelled as he came running out. Kirara landed next to their opponent and nudged the body with her paw. She gave a sniff at the lack of movement and then withdrew to her companions sides. "Kagome. That was great. I didn't know you could put so much punch into you attack." Shippo said, still clutching she leg with all his might.

"It's okay now Shippo. The worst is over."

"Kagome, or Kikyo. Um, would one of you mind taking the shard. Please." They turned to find Miroku struggling with Sango's boomerang, to keep the stomach he had removed from joining the body.

"Of course, Houshi." Kikyo calmly stepped up and using a knife removed the jewel. As always happens the darkened gem blinked and then became pink. "Here, Kagome put this with the others." She handed the shard to Kagome as they all stared at her again. "I have no use for them. She is the rightful guardian, after all."

"Thank you Kikyo." Kagome said.

"KA-GO-ME!!!"

The group looked at each other wondering who could be so mad. Kagome looked over the field that they had fought in and saw the most comical sight. There, across from them, pinned to a tree by several arrows through his clothes, was Inuyasha.

"Get me down, NOW!"

"Why don't you just pull them out, Inuyasha."

"I would if I could but your arrows are still charged."

"My arrows? Don't you mean our arrows. I wasn't the only one firing them."

"I mean your arrows, because everyone of these are yours. Not one of them is Kikyo's. She does have better aim then you, wench."

"Oh, SIT!" By the power of the prayer beads, Inuyasha was freed from the tree, only to say hello to the earth. "I will not let you compare me to her any more, Inuyasha." With that Kagome pulled Shippo up into her arms. "We are going to go find a place to camp. Come find us." Then she left the clearing.

"Kagome, wait."

"Leave her be. You shouldn't have said that, Inuyasha. Even I am mad at you. Comparing us, when you know neither of us like it."

"Well, they were hers." Inuyasha said, his eyes downcast.

"Are you sure, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.

"Of course I am, I do have a nose you now." He glared at Miroku. Maybe he had gone about the whole thing wrong.

"You mean her sent was on them? But non of these arrows are from her quiver. Do you mean to say that her miko powers carries her scent?"

"Yes, Miroku, that's exactly what I mean." Inuyasha turned to follow the young miko into the forest, hoping that she will forgive him. Once again he spoke before he thought.

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"I had thought that since she was with our party, he would stop comparing us. I mean, sure we look something alike and maybe we have similar scents, but I know who I am and I am not Kikyo. I never will be."

"And you don't have to be, Kagome. She is she and you are you. My friend." Shippo said to try to bring down his oka-san's temper.

"Um, Shippo do you think you could go find some firewood. I need to be alone for a moment."

"Sure, Kagome, I'll be right back." And then he went off into the woods

`The nerve of him. Why if neither of us were there, where would he be now. I mean, Kami. His just so narrow minded. But I love the big jerk.' Suddenly Kagome felt a jump in her aura. A pulling then came. On instinct, born from too many attempts to control her body, Kagome pulled her miko powers close to her inner being and locked them down.

Another over whelming pull came and she felt her body fall to the ground. Darkness.

O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.

"Hey, Kagome." Inuyasha said as he got closer to her scent. "I want to talk to you. Um.." He came out of the woods and looked around. "Kagome! Oh, no. Shippo!" `What happened?'

There laying on the ground was Kagome and Shippo wasn't anywhere around. Her large yellow bag was still strapped to her back and she looked as thought she had just slumped to the ground. He sniffed around her, and found no other scent besides Shippo's. "Shippo!" He called again.

"What, Inuyasha." The kitsune said as he came back with his arms loaded with firewood. He spotted Kagome laying on the ground and the wood was dropped. "Kagome! What happened? Why is she on the ground?"

"That's what I would like to know?"

"Know what, Inuyasha?" Miroku said as the other came up behind him. They saw Kagome and both Sango and Kikyo ran to her.

"I found her this way when I got here. But I don't know what caused it. No body had been here with her. Do you know anything, Kikyo?"

Kikyo spread her senses about Kagome and found that her miko powers were lock up. "She had been attacked by something. She has closed in on herself. Something is trying to take control. She has learned well from previous encounters. All we can do, is make her comfortable and wait."

"What is attacking her?"

"I don't know. It's coming from inside of her. Or something from a fare distances. All I get is an echo from her. We can only wait." They set up camp and wrapped Kagome in her sleeping bag. Shippo kept saying how sorry he was for leaving her alone. Everyone told him that he was not to blame. That it could have happened even if he was there. He laid curled up next to Kagome and refused the evening meal.

Inuyasha watched the kitsune. He had grown some in the last few years. No long could he ride comfortably on the girls shoulders. And he had noticed that Kagome loved this kit, as if she was his own mother. And know because he hadn't kept a lid on his tempter he had once again cause the kit to be worried.

Jumping from his branch in the tree, he went to Shippo. Gently picking him up, he jumped back into the tree and held the kit close to him. "I am to blame for this Shippo. You shouldn't feel like this. I knew what I had said would make her mad the moment the words came out. And because of that she has gotten hurt. But we shouldn't keep feeling sorry for ourselves, she wouldn't want that. So let's both eat and get our sleep. Cause you know she will be worried about us, more than herself."

"Okay, Inuyasha. I'll eat. Um, can I sleep up here with you?"

"Sure, Shippo." Inuyasha answered as he landed on the ground again and settled next to Kikyo. Taking the food she handed him, he gave Shippo his and then looked over at Kagome. `I'll do better, Kagome. You'll see.'

O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o.

Kagome opened her eyes and looked around. Once again she was in that hut that Kikyo had brought her to when she transferred her knowledge. "What is going on? Why am I here?"

"You're here, because you wouldn't release your powers to me." A voice came behind her. Kagome turned and found a young women sitting next to the fire pit. She had long light ash brown hair and her skin was a light bronze. She wore a long flowing white tunic and plain brown sandals.

"You are the one from before. The one to give life to Kikyo. Why do you want my powers?"

"I am needed. There is a great evil that was released. I was sent to confront it. But I will not sit back and watch my abilities with the power go to someone else. The freedom I had that night, brought back many memories, but I was to weak to take complete control. But when you lost your temper at that hanyou, I took my chance. But you seemed to know what I wanted and locked it away."

"If you mean Naraku, then you needn't worry. Inuyasha will vanquish him."

"Naraku is but a start of the evil. But I didn't bring you here to tell you my reasons. I brought you here to take control of you. I will be the one to live this life. While you will be the voice in the back ground."

"Some how I think not. You have no power. While I," Kagome raised her hand and allowed it to glow, "have complete control over it. If you thought to look through my own memories, you would have learned that I have learned to keep that control. Try all you want to pull it from me. But it will not work." She felt a slight pull on the little bit of power she was releasing into her hand. But not enough to take control.

"You will slip up sometime. And that is when I will make my move." She vanished from the hut and Kagome tried to wake her body up. "While you have control of it, I will have control of your body. While I feed you anger, my control will be absolute. When you grow tired of this life, call me."

"And what will I call you?"

"Lee-na."

`Great, know I am stuck here in this semi life, while that women controls it.' Kagome looked around the hut and then stood, walked to the straw mat door and pushed to the outside. She was greeted to the site of a simple village in a small valley. But an empty village. The sun was setting and there was a light breeze.

Standing there, she allowed the breeze to move her hair and she closed her eyes. Once again she tried to take control of her body, but the anger that was still in her system was too strong still. `Inuyasha sure knows how to get me mad. And just when things were looking good, another enemy has to make an appearance. But was she an enemy, or a lost soul wishing for life again?'

Kagome opened her eyes again and looked about the place. The sun was setting and the village… `Wait a minute. The sun should be down and the stars should be lighting up the sky.' It was like looking at a picture. The sun, the village, everything, but the breeze was stationary. `Weird. Well since I seem to be stuck here for a while I might as well as look into that spell that Kikyo gave me to solve.' She walked back into the hut and conjured up a weaving machine. Inside the design that was set in the weave, the `knot' of her companions and hers' auras was shown. `Now where is that release knot.'

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Well that's the end of this chapter. Sorry about the wait. Much has happened. And my muse didn't seem to want to finish this. I had the first five pages written a week ago. But the rest was very difficult. I finally got this done today. Hope you liked it, please review. I love to get review.

Something about the movie. Did anyone notice that Sesshoumaru only had one sword in the movie? If it was suppose to be after Inuyasha acquired the backlash wave attack. Shouldn't he have ? Just wondering if anyone caught that.

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Inu Facness - Nope you can't make me change it. I am trying to do something that not many others try with this pairing. And I hop I am succeeding. But since you have been great too me, I release you from our agreement. I don't wish to torment you any longer. But if you continue to read, thank you in advance. I wonder if others are wondering what this is all about. They'll just have to wait.

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