InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Twist of Fate ❯ Take Me Away Back In Time ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two: Take Me Away; Back In Time

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InuYasha struggled in the demon woman's arms, trying to free himself.

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`Well, this sucks,' he thought, as he removed one arm holding him, to only have the others replace their hold. `How the fuck am I supposed to fight someone with four arms more than me?' Then he happened to look down at the lower half of the womans body, and gaped. `What the hell?'

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The lower portion of her body didn't consist of two legs, but about 50, on each side of her long trailing body that looked much like a centipede. The claws on her hands dug into his arms, causing blood to stain his shirt in wet circles on his arms. Still he fought, causing her claws to dig deeper into his flesh, but still he fought. There was a blue glow that surrounded them, but he ignored it as he tried to gain his freedom from the creature that held him. Finally, the blue glow subsided, and he was carried with the creature outside of the well, and into the air above it.

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InuYasha managed to break one of the creatures arms with a upward punch to the elbow, causing the arm to bend the opposite direction, and the creature to cry out in pain and drop him. The training he had received from Sango kicked in, and he tucked and rolled, landing so that he rolled harmlessly off his shoulder to spring to his feet and face the still screaming monster. A moment later, the creature turned to face him, screaming in anger.

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“Stupid Human!” she screamed, lunging at the teenager. InuYasha ducked aside from the attack, barely missing the claws on her hands as they tore open the front of his shirt.

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“Bitch,” he snarled back, looking down at the taters of his shirt. “That was my favorite shirt!” He ran forward to punch the centipede, and managed to catch another one of her arms and broke it. She struck back with her long body, throwing him towards the ground with great force.

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InuYasha hit the ground hard, knocking the air out of him, and most likely breaking a few of his ribs in the process. He lay there stunned for a few moments, which gave the centipede woman the chance to attack him. She was bearing down hard on him, when InuYasha saw a form in black fly through the air at the creature. Suddenly the creature screamed again, and two of the arms on her right side fell off to the ground.

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The figure clad in black landed right next to InuYasha as he took a painful breath, and through silted eyes, he saw two unsheathed katana's, and a brown ponytail swinging between two well-formed shoulder-blades that he had been thrown over innumerable times.

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“Sango?” he breathed, gasping a bit as he tried to take a larger breath. The dark-clad figure turned her head just slightly, so that she could see him with one brown eye.

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“I figured you were going to get yourself in trouble, so I made sure to watch for your departure. I don't know how you managed this mess though.” InuYasha had to chuckle at that, only to gasp again. “Come on InuYasha, I though you were tougher then that? Are a few cracked ribs going to stop you from a brawl?” InuYasha chuckled a bit more, then raised himself on his elbows. Sango smirked at him, then turned back to face the creature that was now regaining it's composure after losing two of its arms.

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“Filthy humans!” the centipede woman snarled, gazing with narrowed eyes at the woman in the black suit, standing between her and her prize.

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“Youkai bitch,” Sango snarled back, flexing her grip on her katana's. This is what she dreamed of, every time she wore her blades. A true battle to heat her blood; a challenge where she might actually die. “Come on bitch. Or are you afraid that I might best you?”

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The youkai roared out with anger, and then charged back at Sango.

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“InuYasha, move your butt!” she warned, as she leapt to the side of the charging youkai, hoping that it would follow her instead of attacking the raising InuYasha. The youkai did as she wanted, and turned from her forward path, to the side where Sango could get a good slash on her, and took off the first two limbs, and half of the lowest one on the left side. The youkai screamed again, and Sango took the time to glance over at InuYasha.

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He had moved from his spot, and was making his way towards the trees. Apparently, he wasn't feeling quite up to fighting yet. Good. He was smart enough now to know where his limits where, and he knew her well enough to know she can handle this. Sango turned back to her prey, her eyes bright with an animalistic lust for blood.

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The centipede youkai came to attack again, and Sango finished her off, slashing at her; removing her head and splitting her chest into two diagonal pieces. The pieces writhed for a moment, then fell to the earth with a sickening splat. Sango sheathed her katana's, after whipping them clean on the grass and her thighs, and turns to find InuYasha.

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He is sitting down with his back up against a tree, and his head bent forward as if unconscious.

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`Hmm,' Sango mused, heading his direction. `The only thing that can take him out is either he had a damaging blow to the head, or he got injured badly enough that he can't breath right.' As she walked forward, his head lifted, and he looked at her with a sardonic grin.

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“Don't think that this means I need you to save my butt every time we run into something like that.” Sango stopped right before him, and placed her hands on her hips, and was grinning back at him.

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“Now why would I ever think something like that?”

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“Because you got to take down the first one, without me getting a good piece of it. So next time, it's mine.”

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“Deal. Now, how badly are you hurt?” InuYasha winced.

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“A few broken ribs, but I'm just winded for a bit, and I don't have that great salve of yours.”

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“Damn. Well, we'll have to hole down for a little while until you're up to your full fighting potential again. We need to be at full strength until we find out what on earth we're going to do.” Then she quirked an eyebrow at him. “It seems I was right to watch you, and make sure you weren't getting into too much trouble on that field trip to the shrine..”

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“Trouble? Me? Never. Just a minor scrape.”

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“Minor scrape my butt.”

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“What the hell was that thing?”

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“A Youkai.”

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“A Youkai? How do you know that? I thought those things were just myths. And I was meaning to ask, what the hell were you doing at the shrine?”

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“Well, for a myth, it sure kicked your butt. And for why I was there, I think I can be at my family's shrine any time I feel like it.”

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“Family shrine? You're a priestess?” He had to choke on a laugh.

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“Oh, shut up. I just live there, and no, you'll never find me in priestess garb. It's a different sort of temple then that. Now, give me your arm.” He did as he was told, and she helped him to his feet, threw his arm over her shoulder, and helped him walk into the forest.

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