InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Turn Around ❯ Chpt 14: On With The Journey! ( Chapter 14 )

IMPORTANT NOTICE!
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE STARTING THE STORY:

I do not own any of these characters in this FanFic. -Sigh- Although I wish I could, especially Sesshomaru...-giggle-

All lettering in ITALICS means the person is having these thoughts in their head. They are not spoken out loud.

Word Key: (Translation)

Arigatou - Thank You
Kami - God
Gomen ne/Gomen nasai - Sorry/Very Sorry
Baka - Idiot
Doushite - Why
Iie - No
Hai - Yes
Honto ne - Really
Onegai - Please
Doragon - Dragon
Gami - Toad
Ningen - Human
Nan desu ka - What is it?
Genki - Fine
Kudasai - Please
Yameru - Enough
Iku - Go
Nani? - What?
Naze desu ka - Why?
Domo arigato gozuimasu - Thank you very much!
Matte - Wait
Ima Yameru - Stop it now!
Chikusho - Damn it!
Anata-no namae wa? - What is your name?
Watashi no namae wa desu - My name is...
Do itashi mashite - You're welcome!
Damare - Shut up!
Ogaa-san - Mother
Otou-san - Father
Warawa nai - Don't laugh!
Masaka - It Can't Be!
Wakaranai - I don't understand
Bakayarou - Stupid Bastard
Kiesare - Get out of here!

TO ALL: PLEASE NOTE!The Word Key will slowly be updated as the story moves along.

OKAY, let the reading commence! Enjoy!

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THIS CHAPTER HAS NO ORIGINAL REFERENCE TO THE ORIGINAL INU YASHA SERIES. THIS IS SOMETHING I ADDED MYSELF. Please take note of these changes.

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Chapter 14:On With The Journey!

 Kagome woke up and absentmindedly rubbed her eyes. She had no idea what time it was, and she didn't care. Last night, Inu Yasha had drained all the remaining energy she had, and was even now was exhausted.

 Kagome cringed inwardly, wondering how Rin was holding up at the bastard's hideout. A cold voice sounded in her head, making her shiver.

 Maybe she isn't “holding up” at all!

 Kagome got out of bed and purposefully hit her head against the wall, numerous times.

 There is no time for pessimism, or time for my head to be thinking stupid things! We need to pack up, and get on the road to searching for Rin. There must be a trail around somewhere…

 Another thought popped into her head, and in wonder and excitement, she voiced her idea out loud.

“Kagura! We find her around all the time! Why the hell don't we demand her to tell us where Rin is? Sesshomaru will kill her, if she doesn't comply…”

 Kagome smirked evilly, and ran towards out of the room in her “sleeping wear”, which happened to be none at all. Just after she stepped out a couple of paces from her bedroom, she stopped cold and realized her nakedness, and ran back to the bedroom to put something on.

 “Inu Yasha!”, she yelled from the bedroom, unaware that he wasn't even inside at the moment.

 Kagome ran out of her room, not paying attention to where she was going, and ran straight into Miroku, knocking them both over with her laying on top of him.

 “Oh! Good morning, Miroku! Where is…”

 Miroku couldn't resist their current position, and as usual, began to squeeze her backside.

 *SMACK*

 Miroku looked up from the floor with the red mark on the right cheek of his face, and little yellow canaries spinning around his head.

 “Pretty birdie…pretty birdies..”

Sango found him lying on the floor with the red hand imprint on his face, and instantly knew what he had done. She instinctively smacked his other cheek, to “make both sides even” and walked off to run downstairs, where Kagome had went just a minute before.

“Oh, Sango! I have to tell you something…it's..!”

 “If it's about Miroku and his hentai ways, I've dealt with him just as you have.” Sango said with a smirk on her face.

Kagome giggled, and shook her head.

“Perhaps with two of us smacking him, he will drop his perverted ways?”

 Sango looked at Kagome as if she was dreaming of the impossible.

 Both looked at each other and said at the same time,

 “Not likely.”

 “Hey! I can hear you from over here! I love my women, oh…but I think I love these pretty birds flying around my head more…”

 He had said it so weakly but with such attempted determination he sounded as if he was drunk. It was funny, and both the girls began to laugh. Quickly, they made their way outside, before the hentai was finally able to rise from the floor and join them.

“Sango-chan! You know…we see Kagura all the time, right? Sooo, if we were to stop her next time we see her, maybe she can tell us where Rin is! How could we have not thought of this before?”

Sango looked at Kagome and smiled.

Always countable for innovative and smart ideas. One of the many reasons why we all love you,Sango thought.

“That's a wonderful idea, Kagome! But…it'll be luck if we run into her. Naraku now has Rin, so he doesn't have reason to be sending Kagura around to tell us ridiculously minor threats.”

“Oh…why is it that all of my plans backfire somehow?!”

Kagome sighed heavily, not knowing what to do.

“Well…we know Kagura hates Naraku, and she tries to get away from him as much as possible. Perhaps we can catch her when she escapes to be alone for a few hours. It's not likely, but it's worth a try!”

Kagome turned around, feeling his aura the moment he had walked into the room.

“Once again, you have outdone yourself, my dear! And I didn't mean your new plan.”

Inu Yasha grinned evilly and Kagome blushed scarlet.

“I have no idea what you are talking about, Inu Yasha, and I don't want to find out. Why don't you go and…tend to the children or something? Or are youincapable of THAT too?”

Kagome smirked when Inu Yasha was about to attack her from the hidden threat of last night not being `capable' enough for her. He would show her otherwise that night, he silently promised.

“Kagomeee…save meee! Your children are going to kill meee!”

“Seems as though even a grown up Shippo can't handle the children alone. Inu Yasha, instead of trying to fight me, put that useful energy into feeding the kids. You're hardly ever around, and they should spend more time with you.”

“Hey! It's not MY fault I have a life doing important things such as…”

“OSUWARI!”

Kagome smiled when she saw him slam into the ground with sick interest and laughter.

“And for that comment, you will also wash their clothes in the lake nearby. If you have anything else to add, you will not have a choice in bathing the kids as well.”

“Owww…pretty stars…”

The two women walked away to the direction of the well, in silent chatter that not even Inu Yasha could pick up. Not in this state, anyway.

“What was all that about, Kagome-chan?”

“Nani?”

“You know…about Inu Yasha's not having `capability'?”

Kagome smirked for the second time in less than 10 minutes, and decided she would tell Sango about it.

The girls needed a laugh; the journey that would be starting later that afternoon would be tough, so they needed something to keep them relaxed in the mean time.

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Kagura paced her bedroom, doing her best to ignore her memories that kept flashing back before she was knocked out. She thanked kami there weren't many, and kept telling herself things could be a lot worse.

Her mind was going to drive her insane. With Naraku's scent all over the place, she needed to get out.

Kagura knew Rin was condemned to the palace, and there would be no way of her being able to get out. Not only that, but Naraku would find it suspicious that Kagura would want to take Rin out on a `friendly excursion', seeing how in his eyes they were still enemies.

Kagura smiled a real smile. Rin was going to be rescued by her friends eventually…and that meant they would finally fight Naraku. If he was dead…didn't that mean she was free? Finally free from the clutches of his raping, his physical abuse, and harsh words. Freedom…what exactly was that? Kagura had never experienced such a luxury, and she wouldn't hold her breath about it either.

With all these thoughts clouding her mind, she decided to let out some of her frustration on some weaker demons. It was a reason to get out. Naraku wouldn't care, so long as she came back.

As she left the barrier of the castle, a thought crossed her mind.

If I can find Kagome and the rest of them, I can tell them where the palace is! Naraku's barrier isn't strong, the only good thing about it is that it's invisible, and senseless (meaning can't be seen, smelt, touched, etc). He became weak recently by wasting all of his energies on training Rin, and had to weaken his barrier... She's become quite strong in only a couple days! I bet when her friends come save her, she will play a big role in defeating Naraku, but…

Kagura paused in her thoughts, and her face paled.

Naraku plans on USING her to fight her friends. If I bring them here…he will cast a spell on her, and make her fight them! She could get killed!

Kagura sighed, realizing her plan was for nothing. Perhaps there was another way.

Perhaps…

I must find them!

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Inu Yasha sat on the rooftop of their home, watching the sunset, and realized they should have left to go on their journey that day.

One day won't make that big of a difference. We will leave tomorrow morning…and Sesshomaru offered to take the children to his palace. At least we are making some progress…Poor Jaken, he will have to look after the children until we get back.

Inu Yasha smirked, seeing Jaken running for his life and a bunch of children running after him, screaming his name over and over, “Jakennn…JAKENNNNN!!!!!!!!!!”

A voice interrupted his thoughts, and he began to growl. Instinctively, he pulled out his tetsuaiga.

“What do you want, Kagura?”

“Allow me to speak to Kagome. This is of no concern to you. If you do not, then Rin will be seriously harmed. It is impertinent that I speak with her. This is not a request.”

“Well, bitch, no one orders ME around!”

Inu Yasha got up and went to slice her when he heard Kagome faintly call…

“Osuwari!”

“Hey! What did you do that for? She's with NARAKU, remember? So we have to kill her! What's wrong with you??!?!?”

“I have come to tell you where Rin and Naraku are! You will follow me, and I will take you! I am willing to do this, even if it means my death…Rin was there for me after that incident! I must save her, but…I warn you. If you do not kill Naraku fast enough, he will put a spell on her, and make her use her miko powers to fight you!”

“….Her miko powers, that's why Naraku wanted her…oh kami, he's training her at the castle right now! If we don't go soon to save her, and she gets cast under his spell…she will be able to kill us all, without even tiring herself, I can guarantee that. I've seen her train…and I overheard Naraku talking to her once. He was saying that she is so much more powerful than you, Kagome! We are all gravely in danger if something isn't done soon…she gets so much stronger every day…”

Kagome was in silent thought.

If we go, and we don't get there fast enough, there's a chance that Rin will be put under Naraku's spell. Rin would then fight us…and if she is as strong as Kagura says, Inu Yasha and Sesshomaru will be doomed...we have to get there, and defeat Naraku quickly! If worse comes to worse and Rin gets put under the spell…we need to kill Naraku right away so the spell will wear off.

Kagome turned to Kagura, nodding at her in silence.

“Take us. I shall go and prepare everyone, it won't take long. We don't have time to wait. We must go now!”

Kagome ran into the house, kicking Miroku in a sign to get up off the floor, and called for Sango.

“Sango! We leave now!”

“For where? We don't even know where it is…”

“Kagura is here. She will take us. I'll inform Miroku. Is there any way you can take Kirara and go to Sesshomaru's palace? He needs to be informed that we are leaving.”

“Kagome, we, meaning myself, Miroku, Shippo, and Inu Yasha already made plans for him to come here tonight. You were still sleeping at that time, it was earlier this morning…”

Kagome blushed, knowing why she had slept so long. Stupid Inu Yasha had drained all her energy, and she needed the extra rest.

“Oh…then we shall wait for him! Hopefully he won't take too long…”

“Speaking about me in front of me is rather brash, isn't it?”

The cold, emotionless voice sounded loud in the room, and Kagome slowly turned around.

“Err...speak of the devil! There he is! Oh good, so we can leave now!”

Kagome dragged Sango to run out of the house, so they could speak with Kagura, but Sesshomaru stopped them.

“I already took the liberty of speaking to Kagura. I know where Naraku is, but she will lead us.”

Kagome and Sango looked at each other, then at Sesshomaru and nodded their approval.

“Ok! So let's get going?”

The small form of Kirara jumped onto Sango's shoulder, minding the hirakotsu. Kagome grabbed her back pack, and the three of them left the room.

After they had walked a few paces, Sango stopped, making Kagome question her.

“Why did you stop, Sango?”

“I feel like we are missing something…don't you?”

Kagome looked around, seeing Inu Yasha, Sesshomaru, Shippo, Sango, Kirara, and of course Kagura…she was right, it did feel like someone was missing…

“Waittttt! Wait for meeeeee!”

A small purple figure from in the distance began to run their way, and Kagome giggled, completely confused as to how they had forgotten about the monk.

“At least he realized he was left behind…its too bad he did. We could deal without his hentai ways for a while.”

Kagome agreed with Sango, and turned around to face Kagura.

“Lead the way!”

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Jaken didn't like Kagome's children. They were crazy, they had lost all of their marbles…and he wondered how anyone could want these brats. They were so hard to take care of…they kept chasing him across the field, and all he could do was keep running, but he was tiring…

“Leave this Jaken alone! This isn't nice…”

Kagome's son, (Jaken had forgotten his name, seeing how he never cared about it in the first place) was catching up to him, and groaned his defeat as he got closer. There was a pond near by, and he knew exactly what was going to happen.

He had finally caught up to the little gami, and pulled the staff out of his hands. He threw it a few meters away, and picked up Jaken.

“Sara! Count to 3, and I will throw him into the water! A gami that cannot swim shall be a funny sight!”

Sara beamed, seeing that her older brother was doing this just for her.

“One….two….threeeeeeee!”

On the count of three, the gami was thrown into the pond, a small `splash' confirming it.

Sara giggled and ran to her brother to hug him.

“Now, I've managed to throw him in, but if he can't swim, how will he get out? …”

Jaken's groans and attempts at yelling were heard, but they were futile.

He grinned evilly and with sick laughter watched as the gami struggled in the water.

He pondered a thought, and this came to mind.

“Playfully torturing people and demons…I'm becoming more and more like mom everyday!”

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Author's Note:

Omg it took me forever to post this, and don't kill me for is :S or at least not until the fanfic is done. I'd really like some reviews, if you guys don't hate me too much to give them to me.

Just a quick note, future chapters will take a longer time to write, because of my schooling and exams, but not THIS long, I promise.

I'll update soon…I hope…anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and PLEASE review!