InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ This Wasn't In The Job Description ❯ Naraku ( Chapter 32 )

TWITJD Chapter 32

 

 

 

The forest around InuYasha and his friends grew ominously quiet as they made their stealthy advance on Naraku. Every footfall on the debris of the forest floor seemed to make a loud sound in their ears. InuYasha led the way, ears pricked forward and Tessaiga drawn and at the ready.

 

They came to the gates of a heavily guarded mansion. Assorted lower youkai looked down at them brandishing their claws, fangs and weapons warily. InuYasha looked back up at them and snarled.

 

“Kagome, do you sense a portal nearby?” said InuYasha.

 

“Yes,” said Kagome. “In there.”

 

“No one comes in Lord Naraku's stronghold that is not one of his vassals!” snarled a vicious looking youkai, saliva dripping from his gaping, fang-filled jaws.

 

“No one keeps me from where I want to be!” said InuYasha. “Come on, you guys, we're going in!”

 

The air filled with roars and snarls as the youkai jumped down off the walls at them, like a rain of monsters from a nightmare. InuYasha and his friends' expressions were set and grim, ready to meet the oncoming enemy as they brandished their weapons - even Kagome, whom InuYasha tried to shield with his body.

 

“Hiraikotsu!” yelled Sango, and threw her weapon, slicing several youkai in half.

 

Kirara had leapt from her arms and changed to her large youkai form, and clamped her jaws with their large saber-sized teeth on their foes. Sango took a quick glance at her new companion and smiled in approval and wonder.

 

As several youkai leaped at Miroku, he dispatched them expertly with his staff, dodging their blows expertly. He moved with grace and speed, staying close to Sango's side. It was clear they fought well together, and knew and trusted each other in a fight.

 

Not to be left out, Kagome quickly notched an arrow and skewered one of the pouncing youkai. InuYasha glanced at her briefly with a look of respect, and then went on the attack, slicing all comers to bits.

 

Suddenly, out of the sky came a hoard of youkai, almost blotting out the sun.

 

“Stand back!” said Miroku, and took the chain and gauze off his hand.

 

“Are you sure you should do that?” said Sango, but it was too late.

 

The quantum singularity began to suck up the youkai at a stupendous rate.

 

Meanwhile, InuYasha had made short work of the remaining youkai guards with Tessaiga. When the dust had settled, InuYasha quickly looked around to make sure there were no more youkai and that everyone was okay. Miroku was wrapping his hand back up, and Sango had regained Hiraikotsu. Kirara had returned to her small form and went to rub against Sango's legs. Feeling a thrill she had never felt before, Kagome lowered her bow, her eyes sparkling as she looked back into InuYasha's concerned face. He gave her a quick smile of approval. It seems her archery skills would not go to waste.

 

“Okay, let's move out,” said InuYasha, and sheathed Tessaiga before ripping off the doors leading into the mansion's stronghold.

 

The courtyard looked deserted, but InuYasha sniffed and growled, looking towards the sliding reed doors of the mansion. The others gathered behind him as a dark silhouette appeared behind the doors. Smoothly, InuYasha brandished Tessaiga in front of him, giving the others a warning glance to stay back.

 

The doors slid open, and a handsome, but evil-looking hanyou with long, ebony hair and red eyes approached him, a look of disdain on his face. He raked the group with a contemptuous glare, and then his eyes came back to rest on InuYasha.

 

“Just what do you think you are doing?” said Naraku. “I've almost found all the pieces to the missing Shikon no Tama formula, but you won't find them here. So be gone with you, InuYasha.”

 

“Watch out!” yelled InuYasha as tentacles shot out at them, long and sinuously strong, from Naraku's back.

 

That's when InuYasha saw it again, the place where the youki met, and he narrowed his eyes as he sliced at the incoming tentacles, trying to figure out what he was supposed to do. Then he saw that Naraku was suddenly distracted.

 

Someone else had entered the fray.

 

“Ah, Kikyo,” Naraku drawled as the scientist came up along side InuYasha. “Thank you for doing me the favor of not having to track you down again. I will personally extract what I need from you and then you may join your boyfriend here in hell.”

 

“Stay back!” yelled InuYasha at Kikyo, but she just gave him a look of contempt and readied her bow as Naraku's tentacles shot out at her.

 

`I can do this,' thought InuYasha, and concentrated on the scar between the youki and sliced.

 

The kaze no kizu blazed a path of brilliant yellow force as it headed for a wide-eyed and startled Naraku. He was forced to retreat, the blow ripping his tentacles and part of his body to shreds.

 

“Now, Kagome!” said InuYasha. “Do you see the portal?”

 

Furtively, Kagome looked around, reaching out with her senses until she spotted the small glowing star that was the portal, on the porch very near where Naraku stood.

 

“It's up there, to the right!” said Kagome pointing.

 

“Right!” said InuYasha, and grabbed Kagome, putting her on his back, then looked over at a startled, but still defiant Kikyo.

 

“Come on, we're going!” said InuYasha.

 

“You don't tell me what to do!” said Kikyo, almost snarling.

 

With a growl of aggravation, InuYasha charged the scientist and scooped her up, then went running towards the portal, Miroku and Sango right behind him. The scientist struggled futilely in his arms, her blows almost hitting Kagome who tried to cling to the hanyou's back and dodge them at the same time.

 

“There!” said Kagome as InuYasha leapt on the porch.

 

The hanyou ran full tilt into the portal, and Kagome reached behind to grab Sango's extended hand. The PR agent was cradling Kirara with the other arm. That left Miroku to grab an edge of Hiraikotsu as they were all sucked up into the portal.