InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Together Forever ❯ Another Shard and a small Mystery ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter Seven: Another Shard and a small Mystery…

Kagome sat up rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Stretching she found the others were starting to stir. She also noticed that Inuyasha was no longer next to her. It was then that she noticed him coming back to camp, carrying an armful of fish. Setting them down on a large rock he then went to Kagome's pack and got out a large knife, using it to clean the fish. Kagome fumbled with the pack, finally finding the pair of jeans and shirt she wanted she went behind some bushes and dressed as fast as possible. "Eek, hentai!" WHAM! THUD! Sighing she stepped out from behind the bushes and placed her school uniform in a smaller bag then stuck that into her large pack.

The smell of fish woke Miroku from his state of unconsciousness. Opening his eyes slowly he saw Kagome sitting next to him. "Here Miroku, have some fish and try to stay on Sango's good side, ok?" Kagome said setting the plate of fish before him. He sat up slowly, rubbing the left side of his face which still had a red handprint on it. "Hai, I'll try." He trailed off gulping when his eyes met Sango's. She was pissed and looked likely to kill the houshi if he even moved towards her. Sighing Kagome stood up and started to put her sleeping bag and everything else away. Miroku finished his fish and started packing.

The group was soon on their way, Inuyasha informing them that they would be at the village by mid-day if they kept up their currant pace. Inuyasha and Kagome were slightly ahead of the group while Sango and Miroku walked a little behind them, Sango keeping a safe distance between them, and Shippo and Kirara ran in between the four older companions of the group. Three hours after they had started walking Kagome sensed a jewel shard. Kami- sama, how she wished she hadn't.

Kagome had felt the shard and after alerting the group to it's presence a giant snake youkai burst upon them coming up from under the ground. "Shit!" Inuyasha cried as he dodged the hissing snake's tail. Kagome was in Inuyasha's arms before she even had a chance to move. The others dove for cover, Shippo being jerked up by Sango who dove behind a tree with Miroku as Inuyasha jumped onto a high branch of the tree; Kagome clinging to him for dear life.

The snake youkai was a sickly pale green with a bright orange diamond shaped patch on the top of its head, ending right between its blood red eyes. It was on that spot that a jewel shard was implanted into the skin of the snake. Inuyasha leaped down to the others, setting Kagome down gently. He raced from behind the tree and unsheathing the Tetsusaiga he growled at the hissing snake. "The sssshardsssss...give me the sssshardsssss..." It hissed swaying its head and lashing its tail threateningly. "No way in hell, you bastard!" Inuyasha snarled, jumping into the air and aiming a blow at the snake's head all the while dodging its tail.

Swaying to the right the snake dodged the blow and swung its tail at Inuyasha. He dodged left, but the tip of the tail grazed his side, cutting him; it was sharp, sharp enough to draw blood from the grimacing hanyou. "Inuyasha, watch out!" Kagome cried from her hiding spot seeing the deadly tail lash out once more. Using the Tetsusaiga Inuyasha barely managed to stop the blow. "Whatssss wrong, to weak to beat me?" the snake taunted laughing at Inuyasha's snarls of hate. "I won't lose. Not to a weak bastard like you!" Inuyasha spat out; hatred evident in his voice.

Miroku watched as Inuyasha began the deadly dance of a battle. Swing, miss, dodge, strike, a cry of pain from the snake as Inuyasha's blade hit its mark, dodge, thrust, snarls and curses thrown back and forth all the while the fight went on. The snake now had Inuyasha wrapped up in its tail. He let out a cry of pain as the serpents grip on him tightened to an almost unbearable degree.

Sango grabbed her haraikotsu and threw it with as much force as she could muster. The snake saw it and easily dodged it. Sango wanted to curse but held it in as she caught the haraikotsu and looked the battle field over. Inuyasha was still struggling to free himself from the serpent's tail. Kagome looked at Miroku and he nodded. Taking her bow and an arrow she aimed for the serpent's head. An all too familiar warmth passed through Kagome's body and she let the arrow fly. The arrow glowed brightly, purified by Kagome's power. The snake which had been laughing at Inuyasha's cry's of pain turned but too late to dodge completely, thus as it dodged the arrow hit near the Shikon shard. A sizzling sound could be heard as the Shikon shard was jarred out of the snakes head. "The pain, oh the pain, wench you ssshall pay for thisssss!" the snake hissed, loosing its hold on Inuyasha.

He hit the ground with a dull thud but quickly stood and ran towards the Shikon shard. Dodging the damned snake's tail as it continued to thrash from the searing pain of Kagome's purification. Grabbing the shard Inuyasha jumped into the air and landed next to Miroku, staggering slightly from the pain wracking his body. That damn snake cracked a few of my ribs and my being dizzy doesn't help! Chikuso! Inuyasha though as Kagome took the shard from him and Miroku stepped forward to use his Kazaana to finish off the snake so Inuyasha could rest.

Sango and the others stepped back to give him room and the snake finally having recovered from the pain hissed threateningly at them. "I will kill you all for thisssss." it hissed and charged them. Miroku unraveled his prayer beads and the kazaana did its thing. But unfortunately the group didn't notice the presence of a certain child of Naraku. Kagura smiled wickedly and went to signal the damned saimyousho.

Miroku braced himself a bit more firmly as he was pulling the snake into his Kazaana. Damn this thing is huge! It's taking forever! He thought trying to measure how much of the snake he had yet to suck up. The others turned and looked at Kagome as she let out a small shriek. 'Kagome tell Miroku to stop! The saimyousho are coming! If he sucks them up it will be too much for him! There are hundreds coming! They'll kill him!' the voice screamed at her within her mind and she called out to Miroku. "Miroku stop it now! The saimyousho are coming and if you pull them in they'll kill you!" she screamed franticly and a just as she finished they heard the horrible sound of the buzzing saimyousho.

Miroku barely managed to wrap the prayer beads around his hand and jump back before the saimyousho flew at him and the others. Shippo let out a yelp and clung to Kagome tightly. Kagome whacked the saimyousho with her bow while Shippo shot fox fire at them. Inuyasha cut them to shreds with his sword while Miroku used his staff to knock them about as Sango used her haraikotsu on them and Kirara swiped at them with her huge and deadly claws.

"Kuso, there's no end to them!" Inuyasha huffed as he fought off the saimyousho, making sure to stay close to Kagome. "Argh, why wont they just die!?" Kagome said frustrated as her arms became tired. "They just keep coming!" Sango said backing up and meeting Miroku's back. "I agree this is very strange." He said frowning as he beat down another batch of saimyousho. "Aieee! Help me!" Shippo cried as a large group of the damned saimyousho flew at him. Inuyasha grabbed Shippo and Kagome then looked at Sango and Miroku. "Let's run for it!" They all took off followed closely by the angrily buzzing saimyousho.

Inuyasha turned sat Kagome down and turned to face the saimyousho and his eyes nearly popped out at the site before him. The saimyousho were being seared by fire! "What in the hell!?" was all he managed to say. The others face's were pretty much the same as Inuyasha's except Kagome who seemed for some reason relieved and unworried about why fire was suddenly killing the saimyousho or as by the fact that they couldn't see who was killing the damned things!

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Inu: *is cuddling with Kagome*

Kag: *sighs and snuggles into Inuyasha*

San: Kawaii…..*smiles*

Miro: *wants to cuddle with Sango but sees that she has Haraikotsu with her* O.o;

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