InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Red ❯ She's A Killer... ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5: She's a killer...

Sesshomaru growled menacingly at the youkai who dared even think to defeat him and his own.. but they paid his warnings no heed. He was not quite so surprised to find that their eyes locked greedily upon the the demoness under his arm. Not her in general, of course, but the large, yet unfinished jewel dangling from her neck.

The wench was full of surprises indeed, Sesshomaru thought, his lips curling menacingly into a slight smirk as he felt the youth's body tense, muscles bunching in readiness to pounce.

And pounce she did.

Sesshomaru couldn't fathom a creature other than himself moving so quickly. He watched as Kagome disappeared completely from sight, causing the eyes of her enemy to widen in confusion. Perhaps they thought her fearful enough to run from their supposed superiority... The fools...

Sesshomaru watched as they relaxed their stances, not even a moment before one of the pair roared in fright and pain. It's partner howled in outrage as they saw the miko demoness dart seemingly playful in front of them, knicking at

their skin with those dangerously sharp claws, rapidly placing scratches upon their bodies, ranging in various degrees of damage.

Her speed was too great for either of them to defend themselves, and soon they were panting from the loss of blood, and exertion... even though they'd barely moved during the entire time of the attack.

Suddenly the motions of tearing them apart halted abruptly. The largest of the neko youkai looked up to see the insolent bitch standing in front of them, smirking for all she was worth... But wait... what's that... that glow in her hands.... no... she... she took their shards... without them even noticing it, she took their shards! Bitch!

Had Kagome enjoyed this sort of thing, she might have expressed a sort of triumph at her victory. But she had yet to shed that part of her humanity to hold completely destroying one's enemy's in low regard. She resented her growing love of the hunt, feeling that there was something not quite right about taking innocent lives. Yet, quickly she learned that one needed to survive, by any means necessary; there was just no other way around it, especially in this era.

Deciding not to dwell on such depressing thoughts any longer, the young vixen moved in for the kill.

The newly arriving onlookers came just in time to watch the battle come to an end. They stood together and watched as the tips of their companion's claws began to glow a deep violet until they pulsed with a type of energy... purifying energy it seemed.

Their eyes widened as, in one clean sweep, the offending youkai were decapitated, their bodies instantly purified into a pile of ashes.

*****

Night had fallen when the group became stationary once again, settling in a clearing for the remainder of the evening. Each member sat in a comfortable silence as they ate their meal, their minds on the earlier events of the day. All but Kagome, that is.

Said youkai rested at the top of a nearby tree, depthless blue-gray eyes watching the moon and stars as had become accustomed. Each night she distanced herself from her friends for a few moments, delighting in her own senses as they tuned into the entire night forest. The fresh smells and whistling winds were delightful, and she wanted to take full of advantage of what she could not before. It was times like these when she understood just why Inuyasha always stayed in the tree tops whenever possible; it was breathtaking, freeing in a way. Sometimes, though, she wished she could just go bursting forth into the depths of the forest, run until her legs gave under such fierce usage. Now that she was youkai, it took quite a bit to control the urges of that purely primal instinct.

At first, she wasn't so sure she'd make it through such an ordeal, becoming youkai that is... It was a drastic, almost tragic change.

She should have known the battle would turn out as expected... or at least, not with such a twist.

~Flashback~

There was miasma everywhere, as well as the sounds of Naraku's maniacal laughter through out the battle ground them.

Inuyasha was bled profusely yet still attacking Naraku relentlessly, though the evil hanyou continued batting him away as if he were some troublesome child. But he would soon get his just deserts.

The mighty Lord Sesshomaru had just swooped down upon him, fueled by the rage seen in his red-rimmed eyes. Naraku was not prepared for such a magnanimous assault, but he should not have been surprised, being that he had kidnapped the taiyoukai's most precious possession, playing one of his little games as per usual.

His attention focusing mainly on the ruthless Sesshomaru, he had not the time to block the reckless swings of the cleaving fang, and as a result, was under the attack of two raging dog demons. He would not last long.

And watching all of this from the side was a very frightened, very human, Kagome.

She watched frightfully as the brothers hammered away at Naraku, all the time getting closer to the unconscious pair of Sango and Miroku, lying haphazardly out on the battlefield.

She felt so useless in times like these. There was nothing she could do but protect the children at this point. They were hiding behind a boulder, the three of them; Kagome, Shippou, and Rin. Other than this menial task, there was nothing she could do without endangering the others.

"So, my supposed reincarnation, you are as useless as ever I see," came a cold, mocking voice from just behind them.

Startled, Kagome turned to lay blue-gray hues on the person she hadn't wanted to see at a time like this.

"Kikyou... What are you doing here?"

The dead priestess slowly notched an arrow onto her bow, pointing it directly at Kagome's head, who was only a few yards away. "I have come to take possession of my soul once more. Surrender, and your death will be quick and painless."

The young miko was beyond scared. She needed to get out of here and now would be a pretty good time. But she couldn't just leave the children to save her own skin.

Suddenly though, she didn't have much time to think as she looked up just in time to so an arrow flying directly in aim for her head. Kagome's eyes widened, caught like a dear in head lights.

Tears sprang forth as she closed her eyes to await her death... she had failed, failed in all her attempts to make things right. Inuyasha had been right all along, she was nothing but a useless shard detector...

But Lady Fate's plans were a little different in the matter, or so Kagome found when she opened her eyes to find that the death blow never came...

The arrow was floating in mid-air, it seemed, suspended just before hitting it's target, motionless and now useless, glowing with a mysterious violet light.

I'm glowing too... This was her last thought before losing herself in the all incompassing darkness...

*****

The undead priestess's eyes held expression for the first time since she'd been unearthed, watching as an arrow that would have been dead on it's mark stopped just before making it's contact. She watched as her reincarnation's eyes lost their hue of color all together, and became totally white as her aura began swirling with an unimaginable power.

Those eerie eyes held her own, and they promised death... for the second time.

Kagome began walking towards Kikyou slowly, in an almost preditorial way, her aura swelling with the untapped energy that had finally surfaced to aid it's mistress.

With an unconscious command, tendrils of that pure, violet power swept out to take hold of the body of bones and earth, wrapping around the flesh of stone as would a vice.

The pain was unbearable, like being purified by one's own soul in this case, being made whole without one's concent. It was the sweetest solace, the sweetest bliss every fathomed by the fallen miko; Kikyo was screaming...

Yet, quickly those screams were cut short as they tendrils of Kagome's power instantly tore her body apart, returning to the earth from which it had been stolen.

Now it was Kagome's turn to scream...

Her body began to twirl, almost drowning in the sea of her seemingly endless energy. Her soul was reforming, she was becoming whole again... and it hurt like hell.

Though, she observed that, it was not only her soul changing, but her very body... like it was trying to accommodate that which had been lost for longer than she really new. She was... she was becoming... but what? Could it be that her miko strengths were so great, that her human body could not withstand them anymore... but how could that change?

What would she become?

~End Flashback~

They'd found her as she was now... an inu-youkai. Everyone had been surprised, more so than herself to say the least. Somehow, she'd known that she wouldn't be the same after than ordeal, she'd known that none of them would be the same after that.

Kagome smiled slightly, remembering Inuyasha's rage over the second and last death of Kikyo, and then his later worry for her well-being. She shook her head slightly, the smile slipping wider, almost enough to show the glint of one of small, twin fangs. The Inuyasha wasn't fooling anyone, he did care... he just had a difficult time showing it... which made him an ass at the worst times possible, one could suppose.

She sighed, standing from her perch. It was time to get back to the others. Another day would start soon, and they still had to search more shards.

*****

Miroku sat quietly thinking, back against a nearby tree with his staff resting comfortable against his shoulder. The entire night, his thoughts had been preoccupied with the earlier actions of a certain demoness.

He'd seen her fight before, as there had been numerous occasions when they'd had quite a few dangerous encounters with enraged, power-hungry youkai. But it was nothing like what he'd seen today. He'd never expected Kagome to be such an efficient killer, even as a youkai. Yet, she'd made quick work of her enemies, and had taken possession of their shards without batting an eye.

What he supposed was amusing about the situation, was the look on the inu brothers' faces... Well, Inyasha was the only one with an open expression, but Sesshomaru's body language gave him away most times.

He found it... interesting that, while Inuyasha had been in awe of the lovely youkai's now not-so-hidden abilities, his half brother's body was tense with what seemed to be concern and anxiousness. Miroku'd had to hide his smirk, knowing others would wonder what he was so amused about. It was just too much that the infamously cold Lord of the West was worried about someone, especially someone whom he'd tried to kill on more than a few occasions...

Speak of the devil...

Kagome just touched down, going over to take the sleeping Shippou from his position at the base of her sitting tree, and into her arms. With slight smile, he watched as the kit woke momentarily, only to slip under this surrogate mother's shirt, curling up into a ball against her stomach.

But it seems, he wasn't the only one watching...

The bearest traces of a sneer started to curl the corner of the taiyoukai's lips, unconsciously it seemed, as he watched the little display of affection. Could it be that the tight as was actually... jealous? Oh how priceless...

This is just too much... Miroku thought to himself as he hid his wide smile.

Seems Inuyasha has a rival for Lady Kagome's affection. How... appropriate.

TBC