Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Testing Times ❯ First Impressions ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3

First Impressions

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***The Feudal era***

 

Sango had to get away from the pervert and InuYasha. She began to walk into the forest in hopes that she could find some demons and kill them to relieve her frustration. She always missed Kagome when she left. Kagome was like her sister, her family and so she gets lonely when Kagome isn't around. Miroku had been bugging her a lot lately and she needed to get away. She didn't know why but she walked toward the well. When she got closer to the well she saw the familiar light come through, Kagome was back.

 

To Sango's horror though, so were other people. Kagome was carried out of the well by a short demon, ropes tied tightly around her. Sango wouldn't stand for that.

 

In an instant her battle cry filled the air; “Hiraikotsu!!!” and her giant boomerang flew toward Hiei. Surprisingly it hit him and he was sent flying into a tree, but Hiraikotsu was sent into a tree too and stuck.

 

“Leave Kagome alone or I won't hesitate to kill you” Sango said furiously as she ran toward the spirit detectives with her sword raised.

 

“Spirit gun” Yusuke yelled as his spirit gun flew toward Sango. Sango barely dogged it and jumped up into a tree just in time.

 

“Urameshi, you can't hurt girls” Kuwabara's pleas went unnoticed.

 

“Sango no, you'll be killed!” Kagome yelled as she tried in vain to get out of the ropes.

 

“Don't worry Kagome, I won't be killed by these losers.” Sango got a glare from Hiei who clearly didn't like being called a loser.

 

“You want some? Come and get some shortie!” Sango yelled as she unsheathed her sword with a devilish smirk.

 

“A human challenging me? That's very funny,” scoffed Hiei, as he quickly pulled out his sword ready to cut her head off.

 

“Bring it on.” Sango jeered as she ran toward him and their swords begin to clash.

 

Sango and Hiei were pretty well matched when it came to sword fighting. Unfortunately Hiei's speed gave him a huge advantage. Within seconds he had Sango pinned to a tree. While holding her neck with one hand Hiei drew back his mighty sword to complete a final blow to the heart. In desperation Sango used a huge amount of strength and grabbed the sword, cutting her hand wide open. In that same motion, Sango fiercely shoved Hiei to the ground. After some fancy maneuvering, Sango had both of the swords pointed directly at Hiei's neck, the blood from her hand flowing freely.

 

“Surrender” Sango said with a victorious grin.

 

“Never” Hiei kicked her in the chest and sent her flying back. He leapt up ready and assumed a defensive position.

 

Their duel was interrupted as Miroku came yelling.

 

Miroku's voice rang out as he ripped the beads off his right hand; “Sango get out of the way” he opened his wind tunnel.

 

Hiei was surprised by this and tried to jump out of the way but the wind was too great and started sucking him in. Hiei growled and tried to grab a hold of a tree but he couldn't dig in hard enough. He went flying toward the palm of Miroku's hand.

 

Right when Hiei was almost done for Kagome yelled “Stop Miroku…duck!” Her pleas came too late; Yusuke hit Miroku with a tree branch. He was unconscious.

 

Hiei caught his breath, assured as he felt the solid ground underneath him. He saw his sword and scooped it up, knowing that Sango could attack at any second. After a moment of trying to sense the demon slayer, he felt a glimpse of Kurama's spirit energy. He turned and ran as fast as he could toward the energy.

 

Sango saw him running from her hiding position behind a bush. She turned to her feline friend who had recently appeared next to her; “Kirara after that demon.” Kirara transformed into a huge fire cat and soared into the air. Sango leapt up and swung herself onto Kirara's back and the two sped off after Hiei.

 

Meanwhile, InuYasha had appeared and saw Kagome tied up. In rage her removed his Tetsusaiga and aimed it at Yusuke who was guarding her.

 

“Step away from Kagome and I won't blow you into a million pieces.”

 

Yusuke was about to respond when he saw Hiei running toward a small village. Instead of fighting he hauled up Kagome and ran toward the village. InuYasha was fuming and began to race after him. Unfortunately Yusuke was really fast and InuYasha was having trouble catching him.

 

“Too slow, loser.” Yusuke taunted as his grip tightened on Kagome, making her inhale sharply.

 

“Your goanna die!” InuYasha said furiously flashing his fangs and flexing his claws at Yusuke. He launched an impressive jump at Yusuke and cut him on the arm, yet that accomplished very little. Yusuke still had Kagome and he wasn't letting go anytime soon.

 

Since Hiei was the fastest he arrived at the village first. He closed his eyes to try and pinpoint Kurama with his Jaken. While his eyes were closed a sword came dangerously close to his intestines. Sango had jumped off of Kirara and swung her sword with all her might at Hiei. He had dodged just in time and her sword stabbed into the ground where he had stood only a second ago.

 

“You can't escape that easy demon,” Sango chuckled as she ripped the sword out of the ground.

 

“Who said I was trying to escape, human?” Hiei lunged his sword at her neck, barely missing.

 

Meanwhile, Kuwabara had made a spirit sword and ran after InuYasha. In annoyance InuYasha had stopped chasing Yusuke and turned to fight Kuwabara. Within a matter of moments InuYasha had sent a Wind Scar toward Kuwabara and sent him flying into a tree, knocking him out. As soon as he was done fighting the stupid carrot top, he turned his attention to the black haired teen that still had Kagome in his grasp. Yusuke landed in the village and looked around for Hiei. He was distracted as Tetsusaiga almost cut off his head. A very angry InuYasha glared at him and Tetsusaiga began to glow. Yusuke dropped Kagome and began to charge up his spirit gun, both hoping the other one would not survive this attack. Kagome looked between the two helplessly. She yelled things that were just drowned out by the two charging their tools of destruction.

 

Little did the two fighting hot heads know they were quiet close to Kaede's hut. As soon as Yusuke was done charging, he unleashed an extremely strong spirit gun, set to kill. In response, InuYasha sent a devastating wind scar hurdling toward the energy of Yusuke's attack. The explosion was great and demolished quite a few of the surrounding houses. The resounding explosion also sent the tied Kagome into the wall of Kaede's hut, she left an imprint and fell limply to the ground. Neither one of the fighters seemed to see that she had sustained damage.

 

Hiei and Sango's battle was growing fiercer and more bloodthirsty. Hiei was beginning to memories Sango's attack pattern. He blocked a sword thrust she sent at him and sent her sword flying useless onto the ground. After she was disarmed, it was easy for him to punch her into a tree and lay his razor-sharp sword against her neck.

 

“Beg for mercy and I might spare your life.” He said with a chuckle as he pressed the knife into her smooth skin.

 

“Id sooner die” Sango said as she spit in his eye.

 

“If you insist.” Hiei's eyes seemed to grow darker and his smile spread, he moved his free hand to hold her arms and with the other he raised his sword, ready to stab a hole through her neck.

 

“STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Screamed Kurama, he had just barely managed to get out of the hut to see what the problem was.

 

Surprisingly Yusuke put his arms down but his eyes never left the dog demon. Hiei did not move in his position, he just calmly turned his head toward Kurama.

 

Kurama looked at the battlefield. He saw both Miroku and Kuwabara unconscious, Hiei pinning Sango to a tree, InuYasha and Yusuke glaring at one another and…Kagome. Kagome was on the ground, still tied, and looked dizzy and scratched up. The impact of the explosion had torn some holes in her cloths and left a few bloody cuts all over her.

 

Yusuke saw it was Kurama and quickly yanked up Kagome's weakened body; “Kurama this girl says she saved you and brought you her, is it true.”

 

“Yes Yusuke it is! Now please these people, especially Kagome saved my life! Please let them go, and untie her immediately.” Kurama said in horror at Yusuke's treatment of Kagome.

 

Reluctantly, Hiei withdrew his sword and let go of Sango who fell into a heap on the floor. Sango calmly began to get up, Hiei noticed she must be in great pain, her hand was split quite deeply and there was a long cut across her throat. Yet somehow she ignored both completely.

 

Yusuke set Kagome down and began to untie the ropes. He felt a pang of guilt seeing the state she was in.

 

“Get away from her.” InuYasha growled as he pushed him aside and cut the ropes, not trusting the boy with HIS Kagome.

 

Kurama looked at his friends then at Kagome, “What happened, why did you suddenly start hurting these people?”

 

“We didn't start it, that blood crazed human attacked us.” Hiei said as he pointed to Sango.

 

“I'll show you blood crazed” Sango said and she grabbed her sword off the ground and turned it toward Hiei ready to do battle once again.

 

“Sango, please no more fighting, please.” Said a weak voiced Kagome. Immediately Sango sheathed her sword, shot a death glare at Hiei, then ran over to Kagome's side to check on her.

 

Hiei stared after her with annoyance and shock, it was rare for a human to still be ready to fight him after a beating like that…he was somewhat impressed.

 

Kurama turned his attention to Sango, “Kagome needs help, someone get Kaede.” Sango nodded and helped Kagome rise to her feet. Kurama looked at Sango thankfully, “I'm sorry miss I forgot your name.”

 

“My name is Sango, I'm Sango the demon slayer.” Sango said as she began to help Kagome walk toward Kaede's hut.

 

“Hn, Demon slayer, you couldn't kill a demon fly.” Hiei smirked as he approached Kurama.

 

“You wait, when Kagome is better I promise I will kill you.” Sango glared, then ignored him and began to move Kagome, yet pain was beginning to show itself on her face.

 

“Well Sango, your hand is bleeding very badly, and your neck, you should get them patched up too.” Kurama said with concern laced in his voice.

 

Sango didn't reply at first, she set Kagome down on a cot in the hut. She turned toward Kurama, determination set in her face. “I can fix myself.” She turned sharply and began to head for a creek.

 

“Hiei why don't you come inside, you look like you have a deep cut on your side.” Kurama said, already knowing her would say no.

 

Hiei just stared a cold stare at him and disappeared. Kurama shrugged and went inside to check on Kagome.

 

 

***In Spirit World***

 

“Botan!!!” A grumpy Koenma yelled.

 

“Yes Lord Koenma, what do you need?” Asked the cheery blue-haired girl.

 

“I was watching the tape with Kagome and I realized she was talking about the sacred Shikon no tama, those shards have been missing for years. These shards are very rare and powerful. There is no way that we can let them go freely about in some strange world. I want you to go to Yusuke and tell them to gather all the jewel shards and bring them back, we can't have that kind of power available to anyone, tell them it's there new mission.”

 

“Yes, Lord Koenma, but how can I get there? I don't have a peace of the Shikon Jewel.” Botan asked brimming with curiosity.

 

“Well I do Botan!” Koenma chuckled. “I'm so smart, while Kagome was unconscious I took a piece of the jewel shard.” He struck a Heroic pose.

 

“Sir, that's steeling!” Botan said ashamed.

 

Koenma looked annoyed, “Who cares, I'm the all-powerful ruler of spirit world! Now go and tell Yusuke!”

 

“Yes Sir Mr. Koenma Sir.” Botan said as she rolled her eyes and flew out the window on her ore toward Kagome's shrine.

 

 

When Botan got to the shrine she avoided some of Kagome's family by acting like a spy, yes she fell on her face, then she slipped into the well house. She took a deep breath and jumped into the well. There was a flash of pink light and she appeared on the other side of the well.

 

 

When at the bottom of the well Botan blinked a few times; “That was strange.” She manifested her ore again and flew out of the dark well. She sensed the spirit energy coming from a nearby village so she flew toward it. The first person she saw was Kuwabara, he was sitting under a tree playing with a strange yellow and orange cat that had two tails, she raised an eyebrow at the cat but stopped to talk to Kuwabara anyway.

 

“Hi sweet kitty Kirara, yes Kirara. Oh, hey Botan.” Kuwabara said as he pet Kirara who seemed more then pleased to have someone paying attention to her.

 

“Hello Kuwabara, could you gather the spirit detective team and Kagome please?” Botan asked sweetly.

 

“Ah, sure.” Kuwabara jumped up and struck a heroic pose, “I the amazing Kuwabara will now gather everyone!” With that he ran around the village like an idiot until everyone was gathered into Kaede's hut, awaiting the news Botan brought.

 

“Alright, what do you want Botan?” asked Yusuke giving her a deadpanned expression.

 

“Well, I don't know how to tell you this but…Koenma wants you to stay in this era a little while longer.” Botan said the last part in a rush as she bracing herself against the attack she knew would come.

 

“What do you mean stay longer? I thought we were supposed to gather Kurama and then split! Why do we have to stay here?” Yusuke yelled, rage filling his voice.

 

“You have to stay here, Yusuke, because Koenma wants you to gather the Sacred Jewel shards. He also suggested that you work with Kagome's team because they already have half of the jewel shard, it will prevent more bloodshed. Also it would be good to kill this Naraku, (Kagome had told them about him when she was kidnapped.) he could be a huge threat to our world.” Botan said this as if she was giving instruction on how to bake a cake.

 

“What is so important about these shards?” Hiei spoke up from a corner of the hut that he hadn't moved from since the meeting began.

 

“They will increase a demons power, a lot. A full jewel could turn a half demon into a full demon, that's how powerful they are.” Botan said, a little worried how Hiei would react.

 

“Then I will gather these shards, if I may use what I find.” Hiei said giving her a glare that told her she shouldn't argue, she didn't listen.

 

“Hiei you can not use the Jewel shards, they may corrupt your mind and all sorts of other things. Please just help us Hiei.” Botan pleaded, she tried to give him a cute face but he just ignored it.

 

“Hn, Whatever” Hiei said turning away, he smirked slightly, he never said he wouldn't use them.

 

“Wait, we have to gather the Jewel shards and use them to turn me into a full fledged demon.” InuYasha screamed. “I won't let you take away what's mine.” He stood up and withdrew Tetsusaiga and turned it toward Botan.

 

“InuYasha SIT (Bang!), we need all the help we can get to defeat Naraku. We will find out who gets the shard later but for now please just SIT (Bang!) tight and relax.” Kagome said calmly yet with a somewhat evil smirk on her face.

 

The spirit detectives were in shock, all eyes on the half demon lying on the ground. Yusuke and Kuwabara burst out laughing, “How--ha-- did--ha-- you--ha--do--ha-- that,” Yusuke asked between laughs.

 

“That necklace around his neck controls him so every time I say SIT (Bang!) he is smashed face first on the ground.” Kagome said cheerfully.

 

This made Yusuke laugh so hard he fell on the ground laughing and holding his stomach. “That is the funniest dang thing I've ever seen.”

 

Even Kurama chuckled and Hiei smirked.

 

“That's not funny!” yelled a very peeved off half-demon as he jumped up ready to kill Yusuke.

 

The rest of the meeting went uneventfully; except for Yusuke getting punched though a wall, resulting in InuYasha being sat for twenty minutes. After that, all the people found different places to sleep, there were quite a lot of beds in the village that were not being used, plus the villagers were to scared to stop them from sleeping wherever they wanted.

 

Most all the Spirit detectives and InuYasha's gang fell asleep, only a few couldn't sleep. One of those was Sango, her hand hurt too much.

 

`Damn demon, who does he think he is, kidnapping Kagome and then trying to look for the jewel shards with us, curse him.' She began to walk toward a creek, one of her favorite places to rest and think. Sango looked down at her hand, `Wow, I really did do a number on this, ouch, oh well I shouldn't of grabbed the sword but he would of killed me if I hadn't. I guess ill try to clean out my hand now.' Sango ran quietly back to the hut and grabbed some of Kagome's first-aid stuff. She walked back to the creek and bent down. She put her hand in the water to wash it out; she cringed at just how much blood came out. She pulled her hand and proceeded to dry it off and wrap it up. The wrapping was difficult because she only had one hand to do it. `Damn that demon' was all she repeated whenever she felt a sharp wave of pain. After the hand was wrapped she touched her neck and cringed. `Great now I have to bandage that up too.' She began to wash and wrap her neck where Hiei's sword had been only hours ago. `What should I do now?' she wondered, `I can't sleep with that demon around; I'll just have to stay up and keep guard. One night of lost sleep won't hurt me.'

 

Eventually sleep claimed Sango despite her wishes and she fell asleep sitting up under a tree near the hut. Unknown to her, a certain three eyed fire demon had been watching her the whole time, and reading her thoughts. `If she though today was bad, wait till I get going. I think I finally have a reason to go on with this trip; she is a very interesting target. Let's see how well the Demon slayer can survive.' Hiei chuckled to himself and fell asleep in the tree that Sango was under.

 

 

***The Next Morning***

 

Sango woke up to a lovely surprise…

 

[Smack] “Pervert!!!!” then again maybe not.

 

“Lady Sango, what did I do to deserve this? I am merely trying to check that the cold ground has not harmed you.” Miroku said with a lectures smile.

 

“Yeah, checking my butt. Watch it Miroku, or else next time you won't have a hand to check with.” Sango said in disgust as she turned her back on him and stomped away.

 

Hiei had woken up and watched the whole scene; `I wonder why the demon slayer allows the monk to do that, when she could probably kill him for it.' The thing Hiei didn't understand is why he felt annoyed at the monk, why should he care? It's just the demon slayer.

 

Everyone was eating breakfast, well except Hiei because he never eats with humans, he was off hunting somewhere.

 

Kagome was the first to attempt a conversation. “So, I guess we are all teammates, maybe we should tell something about ourselves to get to know each other. I'll start, my name is Kagome and I like to take long baths, how about you Miroku.”

 

“Okay” Miroku said straitening up and looking around the circle, “my name is Miroku and I like beautiful woman, ouch, Sango what was that for?” Miroku had a red handprint on his face like he has had so many times before.

 

Sango just glared at him, “My name is Sango and I hate lectures monks”

 

“Sango I'm deeply hurt,” Miroku said as his hand started to head toured its destination.

 

“Don't even think about it Monk!” Sango warned him. Miroku withdrew his hand and immediately looked at the clouds innocently.

 

Shippo jumped up and down with his hand in the air. “Me next, me next. My name is Shippo and I like Lollypops and crayons.” The little fox laughed.

 

Kuwabara joined in, “My name is Kazuma Kuwabara and I like kittens.” He said holding up Kirara, Sango glared at him but realized Kirara didn't seem to mind.

 

“My name is Kurama and I enjoy plants.” Said Kurama with a grin.

 

Only the spirit detectives knew what he meant, no one in the InuYasha group knew what he was talking about, but they ignored it and continued.

 

“I'm Yusuke and I like arcade games and kicking butt.” Yusuke said as he flexed his muscles.

 

Kagome looked at InuYasha and poked him, “InuYasha introduce yourself”

 

“I'm InuYasha and if you want to live don't pick fights with me, that includes you, hair gel.” He directed that at Yusuke, daring him to take the bait.

 

“I'm going to kick your…” Yusuke started but Kurama interrupted.

 

“Let's please keep this to a peaceful meeting.” Kurama pushed Yusuke down from a standing position so he wouldn't fight.

 

“I agree,” said Kagome as she too pushed InuYasha into a sitting position.

 

“I guess its my turn, my name is Botan and I'm just staying for breakfast then I'm leaving to go back home.” She chuckled and ate another bite of pancakes.

 

“Lucky” Yusuke murmured wishing he could go home and see Keiko.

 

“Oh by the way what's the name of that loser short demon in the tree?” Sango asked loud enough that someone could here her in a nearby tree.

 

“Oh that Hiei, he's…” Kurama was interrupted as a very annoyed fire demon stomped in.

 

Hiei blew past everyone else till he came face to face with Sango.

 

“Listen Slayer if you are going to insult me do it to my face, but if you ever insult me again I promise I will kill so fast you won't even realize I hit you.” Hiei gave a glare that would of made even the strongest demon cringe. Sango remained unfazed.

 

“I will call you whatever I want you annoying, small, weak, pathetic excuse for a demon.” She glared at him just as hard and even took a step forward.

 

Although Hiei would never admit it, that was one of the first times anyone has stood there ground when he threatens them, let alone comes up with a insult back. This girl was clearly a worrier; he respected that but still hated her guts.

 

They both reached for their weapons at the same moment when Kurama quickly intervened.

 

“Please, Hiei, Sango, I beg of you not to fight. We are now on a team and we need no unnecessary bloodshed. Put back your weapons.”

 

It wasn't for many tense filled moments until Sango sheathed her sword.

 

“You got lucky.” She said to Hiei and she left the room.

 

Hiei's glare intensified, purely wanting death for the demon slayer.

 

Kagome tried to release some of the tension.

 

“Well now that introductions are over, let's hit the road.” Kurama was a little marveled how she could remain so calm and collected when her best friend almost started a death match.

 

They spent the rest of the day packing up supplies, until Kagome realized something.

 

“I forgot to tell my parents I wouldn't be back for a while! I'm sorry but I have to go back and tell them.” She said as she picked up her giant yellow backpack.

 

“What, Wench? No, there is no way I'm letting you go back again! You are my shard detector and I won't stand for you going back, your coming with us whether or not you want to, wench.” InuYasha said as he smiled, satisfied with himself.

 

Kagome was about to respond when someone else did.

 

“Excuse me InuYasha, but I believe that you have no power over whether or not Kagome goes back to her era. Also I would prefer it if you would never insult her in front of me particularly with the word; wench.” He coolly turned from InuYasha to Kagome. “Kagome I have to go back to our time to and tell my mother, Yusuke and Kuwabara have to pack and tell their relatives. Is it all right if we come with you?”

 

Kagome was a little shocked, no one had really stood up for her before, and she kind of liked it.

 

“Thank you Kurama, and yes we should go back and pack, let's gather up Yusuke and Kuwabara and let's go.” She then marched out of the hut only to be stopped by a rather persistent half demon.

 

“No Kagome you can't go” InuYasha eventually let her go after about fifteen SIT BOY commands. And then everyone from the present began to make their way to the well. They were going to go back for the last time that they would be able to for a very long time.

 

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