InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Unexpeced Allies Part III: Trial of the Century ❯ A Fight to Remember ( Chapter 20 )

SF: I didn't proofread the first update of this, so that's why I'm putting it up again. So sorry about that. And, since I'm only a beginning Japanese student, I decided to change a couple of words to English. Wouldn't want to look stupid, now do I? Oh, um, you already know that I don't own them, so let's get this stone rolling.

Chapter Eighteen:

A Fight to Remember

Kagome paced the house frantically, stopping to peer under the coffee table. Grumbling slightly, she stopped and poked her head into Shippou's room.

"Have you seen my riding boots?" she asked. Shippou looked up from his homework and nodded. "They're with your jacket, Mom."

Kagome nodded in thanks and turned toward the coat closet at the other end of the hallway. Shippou followed close behind her, eying the gray halter top and the black leather pants she had on.

"Are you going to visit Mira again?" he asked as Kagome slipped the leather jacket on.

"Yup. I'll be back before 6. If anything happens, go to the shrine, ok?"

"Ok," Shippou agreed as Kagome grabbed the white motorcycle helmet in the corner of the closet. She slipped it over her head and smiled through the clear face shield.

"Be good, and finish you're homework. When I get back I'll have a surprise for you."

"Yay!" Shippou cheered as he walked Kagome to the door. "I'll be good, you'll see!"

"I know, my pup," Kagome said as she tugged on her fingerless gloves. She ruffled Shippou's hair, grabbed her pack with the Reioseiga inside and left. She walked down the steps to the parking lot below and straddled the indigo and white motorcycle. Starting the engine with a roar and kicking up the kickstand, she sped out of the parking lot and headed for the countryside to Mira and InuTaisho's home. As she passed various cars, she thought about the past month.

'Who would have thought that things would be the same, yet so different,' she mused as she passed a black sedan. 'There's no Miroku or Sango, but the others are here. I miss those two, and Sesshoumaru too. I wonder what happened to him, if he still thinks about me.'

A beeping from behind her startled her. Kagome looked over her shoulder to see another car nearly swerve off the road to avoid another motorcycle. It crossed into oncoming traffic and caught up with Kagome. She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. He wore a black motorcycle jacket, black helmet, and blue jeans; the motorcycle was completely silver. Kagome watched him avoid an oncoming car, then return to her side.

"You'd better be careful, unless you want to be road kill," Kagome warned as he avoided another car. The cyclist shrugged and sped ahead of her, disappearing over the hill in the road. Kagome sighed in relief and returned to her thoughts as she turned onto a barely used country road that lead to Mira's. Her thoughts screeched to a halt when she looked ahead.

The other cyclist was ahead of her , blocking the road. Kagome stopped her bike, balancing it on the front wheel as she stared at him from between the handlebars. The other cyclist reached inside his saddlebag and pulled out a sword, pointing it at her. Kagome blinked in shock as he suddenly kicked the kick stand up and started for her. Kagome dropped the bike back on two wheels and sped away. She could here his bike as the other cyclist struggled to catch up. Kagome barely stayed ahead of him, weaving up and down different roads to stay ahead of him.

Kagome glanced back and found the cyclist gone. She sighed in relief and went ahead a little further. After a while she stopped by a field. She hid her bike and herself in a ditch and watched as the cyclist sped past her hiding place. She held still for a moment, then stood up and started to pick up her bike. She whirled around as a flapping came from behind her. Kagome turned just in time to see the cyclist floating to the ground behind her.

'Youkai!' her senses screamed as she jumped away from him to the clearing behind her. She watched as his feet touched the ground. Kagome took her pack off her back, tied the Reioseiga to her hip and turned to the youkai.

"I'm not what you think I am," she warned as he withdrew his sword from his sheath. Kagome shook her head. "You don't want to do this."

He answered by charging toward her, his sword pointed for her throat. Kagome twisted to the right and dodged him. As the blade passed her face, she elbowed his helmet and left-hooked him in the ribs. He stumbled back, crouching, as Kagome took up her stance again.

"I can still show mercy," Kagome said. He stood up, brushed himself off and took off his jacket. He tossed it to the side and pointed the sword at her again, his muscles tensing under the fitted black t-shirt.

Kagome shrugged and took off her jacket as well, wrapping it around her wrists. He charged again and again Kagome dodged. This time she wrapped her jacket around his arm, using it to trap him as she kneed him in the same ribs and kicked him in the back of the head. Kagome ducked under his arm and rammed her knee into his chest, bringing her other knee up to collide with his chin before flipping over and landing on her feet in a crouch. She shot a ray of blue ki into his stomach and stood as he streaked across the clearing away from her. Kagome waited until he stood up to speak to him again.

"Are you ready to quit?"

Kagome watched as the short, human-like nails on his fingers lengthened into claws, a sure sign he was changing into his humanoid form. Kagome sighed and shook her head.

"If that's how you want to play, then it's fine with me."

In a burst of light she changed as well, her wings flexing like fingers behind her as her claws tapped the hilt of her sword expectedly. He charged her again, but this time Kagome blocked it with the Reioseiga. When he leaped back she attacked. Each slash was effectively blocked, even after the sword transformed into a fang. Kagome levitated as she bared down on him, another attempt to strike him blocked.

'Who is he?' Kagome wondered as she struggled against him, her crystalline eyes blazing. 'Not even Jichan can block my attacks.'

He pushed back suddenly, dislodging her. Kagome turned and ran toward a nearby tree, listening as his footsteps followed her. Just as he slashed at her, Kagome ran up the trunk of the tree and flipped over him. He turned just as she was attempting to kick him in the back of the head, hopefully shattering his helmet. He grabbed her leg and spun her around repeatedly before throwing her back to the tree. Kagome landed back first into the massive trunk.

Kagome groaned loudly as she slid down the bark to the ground. She let her head lull to the side, her knees bent and allowed the Reioseiga at her side to transform back to its protective state. She closed her eyes and listened to the youkai as it approached her. He slowly raised her head and lifted her helmet's shield.

Kagome suddenly burst forward in a blast of blue ki, knocking him to the ground. She straddled his hips and pinned him, her sword at the base of his throat.

"I thought," Kagome growled, fangs bared as her eyes paled to a near icy blue. "that since you didn't know what I could do, I would let you go. Now that I know you're a danger to others, I think I'll just put you out of your misery. That is, unless you'd like to ask for mercy."

In a blink of an eye they're positions were reversed, with Kagome pinned to the ground and the Reioseiga buried tip first into the ground a few feet away. She panted softly as the youkai stared at her through the tinted shield of his helmet. He turned his head toward her sword, then back to her and waited.

'Does he want me to get my sword?' she wondered as she watched him. When he did it again, Kagome immediately called for it, the sword glowing a fierce white. When her hand closed around it he pinned her wrists, and the sword, above her head in one of the swiftest moves Kagome had ever seen. She stared at him rebelliously as he watched her. He lifted her shirt and exposed Sesshoumaru's mark on her left side. Kagome watched as he slowly traced the crescent, staring in awe when it glowed golden in front of her. He then raised one hand and gently pulled off Kagome's helmet, tossing it away from them.

Kagome scowled threateningly. "You won, ok? You've proved your point." He started to laugh, irking Kagome to no end as his shoulders started to shake. "What's so funny?" she demanded, forgetting that she was trapped under him.

"You didn't expect to defeat your sensei did you?"

Kagome blinked suspiciously. "Just who are you anyway?"

He continued to chuckle as he removed his helmet. Silky silver hair poured from it, down his back and around Kagome's face like a curtain. He shook his head for a moment, then smiled down at her.

"I didn't hurt you, did I?" Sesshoumaru asked, Kagome owlishly blinking at him from underneath him.

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SF: HE'S BACK!!!! HEAD FOR THE HILLS!!!!! {::runs around the stage with Sesshou in pursuit::} Come on Sesshou! Can't you take a joke!?

Sesshou: {::swipes at SF's head, barely misses, and keeps on running::} This Sesshoumaru finds nothing you do funny crossbreed.

SF: But Sesshou-

Inu-chan: Quit being a big assed baby Sesshoumaru!

{::everyone on stage freezes, the echo bounding around the stage as Sesshoumaru stops chasing SF::}

Sesshou: What did you say hanyou?

Inu-chan: {::unsheathing Tetsusiaga::} You heard me. Quit being a whinny assed punk and leave her alone. At least you get a good part in this story. So shut the hell up.

Sesshou: How dare you….{::unsheathes Toukijin, and he and Inu-chan pounce on each other::}

SF Oh great. Here they go again. {::sits on the couch with Kagome, Sango, Miroku and the others and eats a little popcorn::} Do they have to do this every da-

Sesshou: This time you die, halfbreed. {::knocks Tetsusaiga out of Inu-chan's hand::}

Inu-chan: Oh shit!

{::Tetsusaiga flies through the air and toward Kagome, still in it's fang transformation::}

Kagome: (guess) Eeeeeee!

SF: {::jumps up, grabs Tetsusaiga by the hilt and jerks it out the air::} Got it! {::sees everyone staring at her::} What?

Kagome: Um…how did you do that?

SF: Do what?

Silver Fox: The sword. How did you do that?

SF: {::looks down at Tetsusaiga, still in it's fang transformation::} Um…{::shrug::} I don't know.

Sesshou: A full blooded youkai, able to wield Tetsusaiga? Impossible.

SF: {::tosses Tetsusaiga to the ground nervously::} Yeah, um, I agree. No way I can hold it.

Shippou: But you did! How, Guardian-sama?

SF: {::to Shippou::} How many times to I have to tell you not to call me that. I'm just SF to you, OK? {::to the others::} I don't know what you guys are tripping on, but I want som-

Sesshou: {::jumps over Inuyasha's head to SF::} You will show me how to wield the fang.

SF: Um…{::makes a mad dash for the other side of the stage::} Gotta go! The recommendation for this week can be found on 'To Bear Witness'! Come on Sesshou! Have a heart!