koga story
A full moon illuminated against the blackened sky, casting an eerie glow on the mist that settled through out the Forest of InuYasha. Nothing could be heard, only the soft steps of running wolves; wolves that belonged to the Wolf Demon Tribe. A swirling whirlwind indicated that the leader of the wolf tribe was with them. He was known as Koga, by a few villages and other tribes of wolves. As the ookami leader ran on without stopping at all, his mass of wolves were trailing behind him a distance away.
Two members of Koga's tribe took on the appearence of a human, and were the only ones left from the trap Naraku set for Koga and his comrades. They were Ginta and Hakkaku, and as cowerdly as they were, they were very loyal to Koga, even if they did think often that their leader was sometimes reckless.
The small tornado that surrounded Koga as he ran, due to the jewel shards embedded in his legs, suddenly started to die down as Koga slowed his pace and came to a complete stop. When the winds had vanished, his comrades finally caught up to their quick leader and imeadiatly plopped down on the forest ground, gasping and panting for breath as they rested. Koga, who remained standing up, looked down at his worn out companions with an iritated look across his face. He then folded his arms over his chest.
"Don't tell me you've already given up." Koga growled angrily. Not one of his companions had any guts to answer their leader for a while. But finally, Hakkaku broke the awkward silence.
"Koga...We've been at this everyday for many hours...Naraku seems impossible to track down."
Koga glared at Hakkaku with narrowed azure eyes. "We're just not looking hard enough! Don't you want to avenge our slaughtered brothers?" He asked harshly.
Hakkaku said nothing more, and looked down at the ground. It was no use trying to talk Koga out of looking for Naraku; it was something he needed to do, no matter what.
"Please Koga...Can't we just take a day off or something?" Ginta asked. "We don't even know how to find Naraku."
Koga rolled his eyes with annoyance. "The Band of Seven, Ginta. Or Kagura. If we find them, we'll find Naraku." He replied simply. Ginta nodded in agreement.
Koga fell silent for a fairly long moment, as watched his companions through narrowed eyes. He sighed, and couldn't believe the decision he had just made. "Fine. Go home. I'll continue the search for Naraku on my own." He said, another sigh escaping him.
Ginta and Hakkaku stood up instantly, as if their exhaustion had suddenly vanished. "Thanks Koga!" They said in unison, as they turned away from their leader and ran off with the rest of their comrades. Koga simply turned in the opposite direction, and walked slowly into InuYasha's Forest.
'Naraku can't be too far. I'll kill that bastard..' He thought with frustration as he sniffed the air ocasionally, trying to detect any scents of Naraku, Kagura, or the Band of Seven. But unfortunantly, he scented nothing. Koga hoped that in the direction he was heading in, somehow he would be nearing Naraku's castle. He doubted it could be that easy, but he still kept it in mind.
What Koga did not know, was that he was being watched closely by Naraku himself. Kanna, the eldest incarnation of Naraku, was standing in front of him as he sat down on the wooden floor of his castle. Her white mirrow showed a clear picture of the wolf demon walking through the forest, all by himself. Naraku grinned that creepy smile that could send shivers up your spine, and turned away from Kanna's mirror. The picture already started to fade to it's original tinted reflection of objects around the room, including the Wind Sorceress who was leaning against a far wall of Naraku's room as she snapped her fan closed with her right hand. Naraku turned to look at her with impure, evil dark eyes.
"Kagura...You have failed to kill one of my enemies once before. I want you to track down that wolf demon, Koga, and kill him." Naraku ordered.
Kagura looked at Naraku with disgust, but didn't dare defy him. "Don't you think Bankotsu would finish him off better then I?" She asked carefully.
"No. I want him to save his strength for taking down InuYasha...You will go after Koga, and kill him quickly, or else you will be nothing but a pool of flesh." He warned her. "And bring me his shards while you're at it." Naraku added simply.
"Understood, Master..." Kagura mumbled, and exited the room through the flap that went over the doorway.
She walked down a narrow hallway, stepping over piles of human bones that littered the ground. She turned right only once as she entered another hall, until she finally reached the entrance doors. Kagura opened them with ease, and shut them closed before walking down the steps of the castle and towards the middle of the grounds. She plucked a small white feather from her hair band, and threw it in the air. Instantly, it became larger and she climbed on top of it, as it started to raise higher into the air. She sped through the dark, gloomy sky, looking down at the forest for the ookami leader. Her thoughts suddenly turned to Naraku's threat, and she narrowed her eyes angrily.
'I will have my freedom some day...' She thought, as she flew on through the night on her large white feather.
Kagura did not have to fly far, for she soon spotted Koga in a heavily misted clearing, in a part of the forest. She quietly landed on the forest ground, a couple yards away from Koga's current position, and began to walk towards him, her fan clutched tightly in her right hand. She was not affraid of fighting Koga, what she feared most was the possibility of loosing to the wolf demon, and coming back to Naraku's castle, nearly close to death, only to be turned into a pool of flesh from her failure.
Kagura shuddered at the thought, and pushed it aside. She would win this battle; there's no way she would loose to a pathetic wolf demon. In the distance, Kagura could finally make out the figure of the young wolf leader through the mist, and it was obvious that Koga had noticed her comming his way, for he had stopped in his tracks. Kagura kept walking forward and only stopped when Koga was visable.
By now, a light drizzle of rain had started to come down from the sky, as it's pace suddenly quickened and started to pour down hard, making everything around them drentched in water instantly. The clouds had began to turn unusually more dark and eerie when thunder could be heard in the distance. Kagura unfolded her fan slowly in front of the right side of her face, making it vanish behind the opened fan.
"I have come to slay you, Koga." She said chillingly.
"Kagura!" Koga yelled angrily, as he clentched his hands into fists tightly. "I have not forgotten what you did to my comrades!"
Kagura sighed, seeing that the wolf was already angered. "Well, of course you wouldn't. Most of your tribe is dead." She answered simply. Kagura raised her fan in the air, getting ready for an attack. A bolt of lightening had lit across the sky, setting both figures in illumination for a moment, but then resuming to darkness as the light vanished.
"My orders were to kill you, and so, I will not fail this time." She added, a bone-chilling grin creeping across her face.
'That damn Naraku must have sent her...But at least it saves me time from tracking her down...' Koga thought.
Without hesitation, Kagura waved her fan in the air. "Dance of The Dragon!" She shouted clearly, as huge gusts of wind shot out of her fan, at an incredible speed. Koga managed to dodge a few of the twisting winds by jumping high into the air, and out of range. But he did have to admit, there was something different about Kagura.
'Is it me, or has Kagura's demonic aura become stronger?' Koga thought suspiciously, as he dodged a few more wind attacks. When the gusts had finally vanished and the smoke finally cleared from the battle field, Koga was still left standing.
"Is that all you've got, Kagura?" Koga asked tauntingly.
"Not even started!" Kagura answered. "Dance of Blades!" She yelled out, as six blade-shaped winds came charging out of her fan, soaring towards Koga.
He shifted either to his right or left with quick movements, trying his best not to get hit by the sharp wind blades. But unfortunantly, he just wasn't quick enough as two blades sliced the top skin layer of each of his arms.
"Damnit..." He muttered, as blood dripped from his arms, making a small red puddle on the green grass.
Although his injuries were deep, he showed no pain on his angered face. He was determined to kill Kagura and Naraku. Koga simply ignored his wounds completly, as he sprinted at Kagura swiftly with some help from his jewel shards that were embedded in his legs, and swung a punch at her. He succeded in making a good hit to the side of her face, and she jumped back, rubbing her cheek with her left hand. Koga jumped back too, and kept an eye on Kagura's fan.
"Don't get your hopes up, wolf. That's the only hit you'll lay on me." Kagura said, as she raised her fan again, and shouted, "Dance of the Dragon!"
Instantly, more cycles of large winds shot out of her fan again, bigger then before. Koga barely had time to react as he jumped into the air. It was too late, for the winds had reached him and sucked him into the center of the feirce winds, that looked similar to a tornado.
"Damnit!" Koga muttered, as he struggled to locate which direction Kagura was in, so that he could watch out for anymore attacks.
"Dance of Blades!" Kagura yelled over the whipping winds, as ten more blade-shaped gusts entered the tornado Koga was trapped in.
Forunantly for Kagura, each blade had hit him either on his legs, arms or face, causing deep bloody gashes to form on his skin. She let the winds surrounding Koga die down, so that she could see if she had done any damage. As they finally disappeared, Koga fell from the sky, hitting the ground with a loud thud. He layed there with his eyes closed, unmoving with lost consciousness, as small red blood puddles started to surround the badly injured wolf demon. Kagura walked toward him slowly, quite satisfied with the damage she had caused, and was ready to give Koga the death blow.
While Koga was stuck in a desperate situation, and things couldn't look worse for the wolf prince, InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippo, had also continued their own search for Naraku, or the Band of Seven. InuYasha was up in front of the traveling group, his hands tucked into his bright red Kimono sleeves as he walked down a rocky path next to the foggy Forest of InuYasha. Miroku was close behind, his staff rattling and jingling noisily each time he moved. Sango walked behind the houshi, already changed into her Demon Slayer's outfit. Her gigantic boomerang, Hiraikotsu, was strapped across her right shoulder; Kirara, in her small cat form, was snuggled in her arms. Kagome was on the right side of Sango, a bow in her hand, and a quiver of arrows strapped onto her back. Shippo sat on Kagome's right shoulder as he always did, his kitsune feet hanging limply from his seat on Kagome's shoulder. InuYasha had suddenly stopped dead in his tracks, and sniffed the scents that trailed on a breeze.
"What's wrong, InuYasha?" Kagome asked the hanyou curiously, when she noticed he had stopped walking down the path. Instinctivly, Miroku, Sango, and Kagome halted after him.
"I'm picking up a strong scent of blood...Wolf blood." InuYasha replied. His face suddenly had a look of iritation. "No doubt that mangy wolf has gotten himself into trouble..." InuYasha added harshly.
"You mean Koga's in trouble?" Miroku asked, looking at InuYasha with seriousness.
"Yeah. By the strong smell of his blood, I'd say that idiot is some where in the forest, in a fight to the death with someone. But who, I don't know yet." InuYasha replied.
"Should we help him?" Sango asked, but already was expecting the answer "no".
But before InuYasha could open his mouth to say his expected opinion, Kagome imeadietly interrupted him. "Of course we should help him! He's probably wounded some where. InuYasha," Kagome said, as she turned to the hanyou. "Which direction do you smell Koga?"
"Oh, no. There's no way I'm helping that sad excuse for a wolf demon." InuYasha said bitterly.
"But InuYasha! What if his injuries are so bad, that he could die from them?" Kagome asked, worriedly.
"What do I care? If he dies, it solves a lot of our problems. Just leave him, Kagome." InuYasha replied. The hanyou could care less of what happens to Koga; They've been rivals for as long as he could remember. Sure, sometimes they would help each other out once in a while, but InuYasha only helps Koga because he doesn't have a choice sometimes. But in the end, he usually does get a big sit. Koga only helps InuYasha so that he could prove that Kagome would be happier if she stayed with him. Although, when Koga almost killed InuYasha one time, it had made Kagome very upset and decided he would still kill InuYasha, but just not in front of her. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo could only stand by and watch the two bicker, while time was running out and Koga's life was in danger.
"Just leave him?! You can't just expect me to leave someone I know to die!" Kagome snapped, becoming angered.
InuYasha sighed. "Kagome--" He started, but was cut short by another interruption from her.
"InuYasha, you had better take me to him...Or else." Kagome warned him sternly.
"No." InuYasha answered simply. Kagome walked up to the hanyou, her face showing emense rage. InuYasha looked at Kagome, and took a step back catiously. The full moon in the sky had made Kagome's face illuminate, which made her look like she belonged in a horror movie.
"Kagome...What are you--" InuYasha began carefully.
"InuYasha...." Kagome started, and suddenly pointed an accusing finger at him. "SIT!" She yelled out.
InuYasha's rosary neckless glowed pink for a split second, and then instantly he was forced face first into the ground with a loud thud. Groans of pain could be heard from InuYasha, as he slowly staggered to his feet, his face turned slightly pink from the hard impact.
Shippo looked up at the hanyou, and sighed. "When will you ever learn, InuYasha?" He asked innocently.
InuYasha glared at Shippo, which made him fall silent, not wanting to get punched in the head. He then stared at Kagome with burning fury, and just when he was about to open his mouth to protest, a look in her eyes signaled that she would say it again, faster, and with more "sits".
"Okay, okay!" InuYasha grumbled quickly, and knealt down on one knee, his back facing Kagome. "C'mon..." He muttered miserably, as she climbed on his back. Sango and Miroku shook their heads with dissapointment, wondering why InuYasha and Kagome couldn't just easily agree on one thing. They sighed.
Kirara jumped from Sango's arms, and trasformed with a red blaze of fire, into a large saber toothed tiger. Sango hopped on Kirara's back, while Miroku jumped on too, and sat behind her. InuYasha and Kirara set off at a sprint through the heavily wooded forest, following the scent of Koga's blood. Kagome had readied an arrow in her bow, just in case she would have to act fast....
Kagura raised her closed fan high into the still air, as she neared the unmoving wolf demon and stopped in front of him, her fan hovering above his neck. All was silent, as if waiting for for the fallen wolf leader to enter the after life.
"This is the end of your pitiful life, Koga..." Kagura muttered quietly, as she raised her fan an inch higher, the tip of it slightly glowing light blue. She brought down the fan quick and swift, aiming at Koga's unprotected neck. But suddenly, an arrow that had a light blue aura surrounding it, shot out of the trees at her left side, making Kagura withdraw her attack as the arrow grazed her right cheek, leaving a small cut. If the arrow hadn't been let loose at the right time, Koga could have been beheaded by the Wind Witch.
Kagura narrowed her eyes with anger and frustration, and turned to the direction where the arrow had been released in. "Who has interrupted our battle?" She demanded.
InuYasha walked out from the protection of the forest, his hand clutched on the sheathed Tetsusaiga's handle, followed by Kagome, Shippo, and Miroku, who had jumped off Kirara before leaving the forest; Sango still upon Kirara's back as they also exited the misted woods. Kagome gasped, looking past Kagura and at the unconscious Koga, who was still lying on the ground. She looked up at Kagura, suddenly angered. But she was not angry for long, for her fury shifted to surprise.
"InuYasha....Kagura has four jewel shards embedded in her fan!" Kagome said urgently, as she noticed the dim pink glows of the jewel fragments.
"Hey Kagura, where'd you get those jewel shards, eh? Didn't steal them from Naraku, did you?" InuYasha asked harshly.
"I obtained these jewel shards on my own, half breed." Kagura snapped. "And if you will excuse me, I have unfinished business to attend to..." She added, looking back down at the wounded Koga.
Kagome nudged the hanyou roughly, urging him on to help Koga. "I'm going already..." He mumbled with annoyance, as he withdrew Tetsusaiga, the rusted blade suddenly turning into a massive fang-shaped sword with a yellow blaze.
InuYasha ran at Kagura, gaining speed while she simply moved in front of Koga, using him as a sheild. InuYasha smirked, and his blade started to glow a bright yellow.
"WIND SC--" He began to yell, but didn't even get to swing his blade at all, as he heard an aggravated yell come from behind him.
"No, InuYasha! If you kill Kagura with the Wind Scar, you'll kill Koga too!" Kagome snapped angrily.
"Isn't that the point?" InuYasha asked flatly, turning to look at her.
"NO! We came to help Koga, not kill him!" Kagome shouted at him
"Okay! Geez..." InuYasha muttered silently, followed by a sigh.
"Enough of this!" Kagura yelled over the bickering pair. "Dance of the Dragon!" She shouted out clearly, as she swung her fan open and brought it down in one sweep, making cycles of tornados shoot out of the fan, kicking up debris from the forest ground. Imeadiatly, Sango grabbed Miroku by his houshi kimono collar, and jerked him up to sit behind her on Kirara. The cat demon jumped high into the air, avoiding the wind attacks.
"Kagome!" InuYasha yelled towards her, as he ran back to Kagome and picked her up quickly, jumping out of range from the attacks, but nearly getting hit. InuYasha landed softly on the ground that had not been torn up by the wind attacks, several feet away from Kagura, and put down Kagome gently.
As the winds started to die down, Miroku unwrapped the rosary beads around his right hand. "Wind Tunnel!" He shouted, as the void in his hand began to suck up anything in it's path. Feirce winds threatened to pull Kagura within the Hell Hole. Just as things seemed to be going perfectly, a buzzing sound suddenly could be heard over Miroku's Kazanna. He looked towards his right and saw a swarm of Naraku's poisonous insects, the Saimyoushou, zipping through the sky, heading towards him.
"Seal the Wind Tunnel Miroku, or you'll get poisoned from their venom!" Sango called back to him urgently. Miroku quickly wrapped the rosary beads around his right hand; The winds formed from his void completly vanished.
"Damn..." The houshi cursed, as he looked away from the Saimyoushou, and back at Kagura. Sango looked down at Kagura from her seat on Kirara, and gripped the handle on her boomerang.
"Hiraikotsu!" She shouted, as she launched her weapon as hard and swift as she could. The boomerang flew to the right of Kagura, becoming farther away, but suddenly started to turn around, coming at Kagura's left side. Kagura quickly slashed her fan out with one quick motion of her hand before Sango's weapon could reach her, a single tornado escaping Kagura's fan. The whirlwind knocked head on the Hiraikotsu, sending it spiraling back at Sango and Miroku. The huge heapon hit Kirara's right side, the impact making the cat demon fall out from the sky with a painful roar.
"Kirara!" Sango yelled out desperatly, as she and Miroku hung onto her for dear life, and crashed into the forest ground.
"Sango! Miroku!" Shippo shouted with concern from his seat on Kagome's right shoulder. Without a word, Kagome ran towards them, falling on her knees when she got there to help Sango and Miroku to a sitting position.
"Are you guys okay?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"Yes...We're fine." Sango replied wearily, as Kirara tranformed to her smaller cat demon form. Sango picked up Kirara and she held her in her arms, stroking her soft head gently. The three of them looked up at the battle field once more.
"Indeed, Kagura's demonic aura has become stronger from the jewel shards..." Miroku pointed out.
"We have to get them out of her fan quickly, or Koga may not make it." Sango replied. She surprisingly winced, from a pain that had surged up her shoulder. Kagome looked back at her with concern.
"Your arm is wounded from the crash." Kagome warned Sango, when she saw that blood had started to seep through her Demon Slayer's outfit. She then looked back at Miroku. "Stay with her, Miroku. And I'll get my--" She suddenly paused, a horrible feeling suddenly surging in the pit of her stomach. "Oh, no! I left my bag by the well!" Kagome said to them.
"It's okay, Kagome. I'll be fine." Sango assured her, while putting her right hand over her wounded shoulder.
"Okay, if you're sure..." Kagome started, as she pushed her drentched bangs that clung to her forehead from the pouring rain aside.
"Don't worry Kagome, I'll stay with her." Miroku said. Kagome nodded, and stood up. She walked back over to InuYasha, keeping an eye on Kagura with a distasteful look upon her face.
"Oh...How touching. It won't matter, you know. You'll all be dead!" Kagura said as Kagome reached InuYasha, and she brought down her fan again, releasing ten light blue wind blades soaring towards them. InuYasha stood in front of Kagome, as he blocked each attack with Tetsusaiga.
"Not very impressing." He said to Kagura, as the last blade hit his father's fang.
"Hmph.." Kagura muttered, and jumped into the air. "Dance of the Dragon!" She shouted, as more cycles threatened to run through InuYasha. The hanyou jumped from the left and the right, dodging the attacks as best he could, while Kagome ran off to the side, trying to avoid the winds. But InuYasha did have to admit, her wind attacks were faster, but also bigger too. Kagura had landed from her jump, a few yards from Koga. When she had realized that she had no sheild to protect her like before, InuYasha was already charging at her, his blade risen in the air. Kagura took a small step back, thinking with slight fear, that it was all over.
Tetsusaiga glowed bright yellow, as InuYasha spotted the part in which two demonic auras collided. "WIND SCAR!" He yelled clearly, bringing down his blade with ease at the swirling demonic auras' line. A rush of yellow electicity surged through the ground, making it's way towards Kagura.
The large swarm of Naraku's poisonous wasps instantly buzzed it's way in front of Kagura, forming a yellow and black sheild of insects. As the Wind Scar finally drew near, each wasp was zapped by the electric attack, and had fallen on the ground when all had cleared. Kagura remained where she was, and wasn't too amazed at what Naraku had ordered Saimyoushou to do. He had done this once before, except with hundreds of demons.
"Damnit." InuYasha muttered with dissapointment.
He charged at Kagura again, slashing his blade at her, while she dodged each attempted blow. It had occured to InuYasha that his Wind Scar probably would fail again, seeing that Naraku had sent another swarm of Saimyoushou to the battle field, waiting for the Wind Witch to be threatened to be killed. The two fought blade to fan non-stop, determined to kill one another, as they began to draw farther away from the wolf demon. As this battle went on, Kagome had snuck up quickly towards Koga, to see if he was alright.
"Koga?" Kagome said quietly to the wolf demon as she kneeled down beside him, his eyes still closed and his body unmoving. She knew he was still alive; She could tell by the weak and steady breaths he took in and released out of him. Although, he was still bleeding heavily from the many gashes that littered his skin.
The rain was still coming down hard, as lightening slitted the blackened sky, and thunder rumbled in the distance. For once in a long while, Kagome had no clue what to do. She was helpless for the wolf demon, and had made it worse when she forgot her overly large yellow bag by the well. Kagome sighed, feeling miserable that she could not help Koga without her medicle supplies, while his life could be hanging on to a single thread. She looked up at the clashing opponents, InuYasha and Kagura, before looking back down at Koga. InuYasha had had a glimpse of Kagome with Koga for a moment with narrowed eyes, and was just about to yell out at Kagome to stay away from him, but was distracted as Kagura released her 'Dance of Blades' attack at him.
'What should I do?' Kagome suddenly thought desperatly, as she looked down at Koga with concern.
InuYasha clashed with Kagura again; It was Wind Scar versus Dance of the Dragon. The hanyou was surprised at how long he has been fighting Kagura, for he never really faught her for a long period of time. InuYasha had to admit that the Wind Witch was stronger from the jewel shards embedded in her fan, and the battle was not going well. InuYasha had several scars and wounds across his face and his arms. Kagura, on the other hand, looked as though she hadn't been touched at all. Unfortunantly, it was true. The only hit she had gotten was from the one Koga had launched at her in their battle. Since then, InuYasha was unable to even come close to her.
"Bastard!" InuYasha shouted at Kagura, before coming at her and swinging his blade. Kagura dodged it with ease, and sent wind blades soaring at the hanyou, who was struck down painfully. InuYasha shifted his blade into the ground when the attack had ended, and leaned on it for support as he breathed heavily.
"Are you giving up already, half breed?" Kagura sneered, as she approached the hanyou slowly.
"InuYasha..." Kagome whispered with concern, from her spot next to Koga. "Will you be all right?"
"Nnnhh..."
Kagome suddenly looked back down at Koga, and her stomach flipped over with joy. Koga was finally stirring, and his eyes opened a little so that they were azure slits. His vision was quite blurry, and he couldn't move at all from the burning pain from his injuries.
"He's alive!" Shippo exclaimed from his seat on Kagome's shoulder.
"Koga! Are you okay? Say something!" Kagome said quickly.
"Kagome...What are you...Doing here...?" Koga asked slowly and quietly.
"InuYasha smelled your blood, so we came to help you." Kagome explained. "That's not important right now. Your injuries are serious. You could have died from blood loss or something...We need to get them treated." She added.
"You have to...Get to some place...Safe..." Koga muttered silently.
"No! We are not leaving you alone with deep wounds!" Kagome said sternly.
"......." Koga didn't answer. It was no use fighting with such a determined miko. All he did was close his eyes, and only the sound of his breathing could be heard from him. Kagome sighed, and looked back towards Miroku and Sango.
'They seem all right...Except, now Miroku has two red hand marks on his face.' Kagome thought, and shook her head with dissapointment. 'I can't beleive he would do that in a time like this...'
"WIND SCAR!" InuYasha yelled out suddenly, breaking Kagome's thoughts and causing her to look up at the battle field. Miroku and Sango had also looked up, a hopeful expression was across their faces.
The surge of bright yellow electricity shot through the ground, making cracks through the muddy floors of the forest. A blinding yellow light erupted over the forest, as it clashed with Kagura's body, sending her falling to the ground with a fearful expression on her face when the light had cleared.
"No...This can't be happening...I've...Failed..." Kagura whispered her last words, as her wounds, caused by Tetsusaiga's ultimate attack, bled heavily and littered the wet floors with blood.
InuYasha imeadietly dropped to his knees with a splash of rain water, and panted. Tetsusaiga had transformed back to it's original rusty old self, as its' handle rested in InuYasha's right hand.
"It's over..." Miroku said quietly from a distance away; Sango was the only one who could hear it.
Kagome rose to her feet, and ran over to InuYasha, leaving her bow and quiver of arrows beside Koga. She knealt down on his left side, and put a hand on his shoulder. "InuYasha, are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine..." The hanyou muttered.
"Okay...Well, I know your wounded, but we need to get back to the well so I can get my medicle supplies, alright?"
"Fine. Let's go now."
The two of them walked slowly across the blood stained muddy grounds towards Miroku and Sango; Kagome guiding InuYasha carefully. Kagome suddenly stopped, and looked to her right, at the unmoving wolf demon. InuYasha followed her gaze and narrowed his eyes.
"Kagome just--" He began.
"No." Kagome answered firmly, and walked towards the ookami prince. She then turned to Sango and Miroku.
"Sango, do you think Kirara could carry Koga?" She asked.
"I think so..She doesn't look so bad anymore." The demon slayer replied, as she still held her injured shoulder. Kirara jumped from Sango's hands, already understanding the message, and ran forwards to Kagome. She transformed into her larger saber-toothed tiger form, and slowed her pace to a walk, stopping at Kagome's side when she got there.
"Kirara, try to pick up Koga. Be careful, though." The miko said.
Kirara slowly walked to the wolf demons side, and nudged Koga's right side, trying to get him up and onto her back. Koga flinched and winced at the sudden movement of his body, but didn't say anything. He knew they were only trying to help. Koga gripped the fur of Kirara's back, and helped her pull himself up. Finally, he was lying on the neko; His head rested on her neck.
InuYasha had been watching all of this, and was angered that they were helping a pathetic wolf demon. He turned away from the three figures, and began to walk towards Kagura's dead body. He grabbed the fan from her hand when he got to her, and plucked out the four jewel shards one by one.
Kirara and Kagome reached Sango and Miroku, and InuYasha soon caught up with them. He gave Kagome the jewel shards from Kagura's fan, but didn't say a word. Kagome simply nodded, and tucked the jewel fragments into the small glass jar that was hung loosly on a string around her neck. The group set out through the forest in silence, leaving Kagura's dead body and the battle field behind.
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The pouring rain, lightening, and thunder had stopped completely by the time the group had finally reached the Bone Eaters Well, and they all settled down to rest beside it. Koga was sitting down at the base of the well with his back against the wooden surface of it, and his eyes were now opened. He had regained complete conciousness when they reached the well. Koga had white bandages on all of his wounds, and red blotchs could be seen through each of them, indicating that his injuries were probably still serious. Kagome was finishing with bandaging up her last patiant, Sango. Each of them, even Kirara, were covered in bandaids, bandages, or ointments. She, however, was the only one uninjured. It was still awkwardly and unusually silent in the clearing. Nobody had spoken a word since they left the battle, not even a bickering fight between Koga and InuYasha broke out.
Kagome sat back, and looked at each of their faces; They were all seated in a circle around a fire Miroku had started. She studied every face, and wondered why nobody had spoken in a long time.
Finally, she broke the extreme awkward silence. "Hey, what's every body's problem? We beat Kagura, and Koga's still alive."
Koga looked up at Kagome. In a flash, he held her hands in his. "Kagome, I’m glad you didn’t get hurt. I'm touched by how much you care about me."
He then turned to look at InuYasha, still holding Kagome's hands. "Mutt face, how could you bring Kagome to a dangerous fight like that?!" He demanded.
Kagome blinked, trying to find words to say. InuYasha's eyes had started to show emense anger in them. He suddenly punched the wolf demon in the head, leaving a bump there.
"You let go of Kagome's hands right now!" The hanyou growled with rage, ignoring Koga's question.
"Back off, dog breath!" Koga yelled angrily, letting go of Kagome's hands and pointed at InuYasha. "So why did you help me?!"
"I had no choice, mangy wolf!"
"Every one has choices, stupid!"
Kagome opened her mouth to explain what happened, since the hanyou was doing a good job of ticking off Koga, but InuYasha cut her off.
"You see Kagome? I told you we didn't have to help him. He could have just been killed and solved all of our problems!" InuYasha answered stubbornly.
"This isn't about me, it's about Kagome's safety!" Koga muttered.
"Where's this coming from?!"
"I'm saying that it's your fault for putting Kagome in danger!"
"Why you....I never put Kagome in danger!" InuYasha replied angrily.
"Then why was she at the battle, idiot?" Koga retorted, folding his arms across his chest.
"Shut up, you scrawny wolf!"
"No you shut up, stuuuuuupid!"
"I'm not stupid, moooooron!" InuYasha growled at Koga.
"Are too!" Koga grunted loudly.
"Are not!"
"TOO!"
"NOT!"
"MORON!"
"IDIOT!"
Kagome shook her head with an annoyed expression on her face. "All I wanted was to break the silence with a nice conversation, and then Koga and InuYasha have to be at each others necks..." She muttered to herself, as the bickering continued between the Inu and ookami. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo just ignored the pair of them.
"Well, as long as we're all alive and well, that's all that matters, right?" Miroku said loudly over the yells from InuYasha and Koga.
"That's right. That's the only important thing." Sango replied.
"I agree. If we hadn't come to help Koga, he would have been a goner." Shippo added in the conversation.
The bickering suddenly stopped, and Koga turned to look at the small kitsune, who was sitting in front of the fire.
"What'd you say, fox?" Koga growled.
"Nothing; I didn't say anything." Shippo answered quickly.
Sango, Miroku, Kagome, and Shippo all laughed, while InuYasha and Koga exchanged confused expressions.
Two members of Koga's tribe took on the appearence of a human, and were the only ones left from the trap Naraku set for Koga and his comrades. They were Ginta and Hakkaku, and as cowerdly as they were, they were very loyal to Koga, even if they did think often that their leader was sometimes reckless.
The small tornado that surrounded Koga as he ran, due to the jewel shards embedded in his legs, suddenly started to die down as Koga slowed his pace and came to a complete stop. When the winds had vanished, his comrades finally caught up to their quick leader and imeadiatly plopped down on the forest ground, gasping and panting for breath as they rested. Koga, who remained standing up, looked down at his worn out companions with an iritated look across his face. He then folded his arms over his chest.
"Don't tell me you've already given up." Koga growled angrily. Not one of his companions had any guts to answer their leader for a while. But finally, Hakkaku broke the awkward silence.
"Koga...We've been at this everyday for many hours...Naraku seems impossible to track down."
Koga glared at Hakkaku with narrowed azure eyes. "We're just not looking hard enough! Don't you want to avenge our slaughtered brothers?" He asked harshly.
Hakkaku said nothing more, and looked down at the ground. It was no use trying to talk Koga out of looking for Naraku; it was something he needed to do, no matter what.
"Please Koga...Can't we just take a day off or something?" Ginta asked. "We don't even know how to find Naraku."
Koga rolled his eyes with annoyance. "The Band of Seven, Ginta. Or Kagura. If we find them, we'll find Naraku." He replied simply. Ginta nodded in agreement.
Koga fell silent for a fairly long moment, as watched his companions through narrowed eyes. He sighed, and couldn't believe the decision he had just made. "Fine. Go home. I'll continue the search for Naraku on my own." He said, another sigh escaping him.
Ginta and Hakkaku stood up instantly, as if their exhaustion had suddenly vanished. "Thanks Koga!" They said in unison, as they turned away from their leader and ran off with the rest of their comrades. Koga simply turned in the opposite direction, and walked slowly into InuYasha's Forest.
'Naraku can't be too far. I'll kill that bastard..' He thought with frustration as he sniffed the air ocasionally, trying to detect any scents of Naraku, Kagura, or the Band of Seven. But unfortunantly, he scented nothing. Koga hoped that in the direction he was heading in, somehow he would be nearing Naraku's castle. He doubted it could be that easy, but he still kept it in mind.
What Koga did not know, was that he was being watched closely by Naraku himself. Kanna, the eldest incarnation of Naraku, was standing in front of him as he sat down on the wooden floor of his castle. Her white mirrow showed a clear picture of the wolf demon walking through the forest, all by himself. Naraku grinned that creepy smile that could send shivers up your spine, and turned away from Kanna's mirror. The picture already started to fade to it's original tinted reflection of objects around the room, including the Wind Sorceress who was leaning against a far wall of Naraku's room as she snapped her fan closed with her right hand. Naraku turned to look at her with impure, evil dark eyes.
"Kagura...You have failed to kill one of my enemies once before. I want you to track down that wolf demon, Koga, and kill him." Naraku ordered.
Kagura looked at Naraku with disgust, but didn't dare defy him. "Don't you think Bankotsu would finish him off better then I?" She asked carefully.
"No. I want him to save his strength for taking down InuYasha...You will go after Koga, and kill him quickly, or else you will be nothing but a pool of flesh." He warned her. "And bring me his shards while you're at it." Naraku added simply.
"Understood, Master..." Kagura mumbled, and exited the room through the flap that went over the doorway.
She walked down a narrow hallway, stepping over piles of human bones that littered the ground. She turned right only once as she entered another hall, until she finally reached the entrance doors. Kagura opened them with ease, and shut them closed before walking down the steps of the castle and towards the middle of the grounds. She plucked a small white feather from her hair band, and threw it in the air. Instantly, it became larger and she climbed on top of it, as it started to raise higher into the air. She sped through the dark, gloomy sky, looking down at the forest for the ookami leader. Her thoughts suddenly turned to Naraku's threat, and she narrowed her eyes angrily.
'I will have my freedom some day...' She thought, as she flew on through the night on her large white feather.
Kagura did not have to fly far, for she soon spotted Koga in a heavily misted clearing, in a part of the forest. She quietly landed on the forest ground, a couple yards away from Koga's current position, and began to walk towards him, her fan clutched tightly in her right hand. She was not affraid of fighting Koga, what she feared most was the possibility of loosing to the wolf demon, and coming back to Naraku's castle, nearly close to death, only to be turned into a pool of flesh from her failure.
Kagura shuddered at the thought, and pushed it aside. She would win this battle; there's no way she would loose to a pathetic wolf demon. In the distance, Kagura could finally make out the figure of the young wolf leader through the mist, and it was obvious that Koga had noticed her comming his way, for he had stopped in his tracks. Kagura kept walking forward and only stopped when Koga was visable.
By now, a light drizzle of rain had started to come down from the sky, as it's pace suddenly quickened and started to pour down hard, making everything around them drentched in water instantly. The clouds had began to turn unusually more dark and eerie when thunder could be heard in the distance. Kagura unfolded her fan slowly in front of the right side of her face, making it vanish behind the opened fan.
"I have come to slay you, Koga." She said chillingly.
"Kagura!" Koga yelled angrily, as he clentched his hands into fists tightly. "I have not forgotten what you did to my comrades!"
Kagura sighed, seeing that the wolf was already angered. "Well, of course you wouldn't. Most of your tribe is dead." She answered simply. Kagura raised her fan in the air, getting ready for an attack. A bolt of lightening had lit across the sky, setting both figures in illumination for a moment, but then resuming to darkness as the light vanished.
"My orders were to kill you, and so, I will not fail this time." She added, a bone-chilling grin creeping across her face.
'That damn Naraku must have sent her...But at least it saves me time from tracking her down...' Koga thought.
Without hesitation, Kagura waved her fan in the air. "Dance of The Dragon!" She shouted clearly, as huge gusts of wind shot out of her fan, at an incredible speed. Koga managed to dodge a few of the twisting winds by jumping high into the air, and out of range. But he did have to admit, there was something different about Kagura.
'Is it me, or has Kagura's demonic aura become stronger?' Koga thought suspiciously, as he dodged a few more wind attacks. When the gusts had finally vanished and the smoke finally cleared from the battle field, Koga was still left standing.
"Is that all you've got, Kagura?" Koga asked tauntingly.
"Not even started!" Kagura answered. "Dance of Blades!" She yelled out, as six blade-shaped winds came charging out of her fan, soaring towards Koga.
He shifted either to his right or left with quick movements, trying his best not to get hit by the sharp wind blades. But unfortunantly, he just wasn't quick enough as two blades sliced the top skin layer of each of his arms.
"Damnit..." He muttered, as blood dripped from his arms, making a small red puddle on the green grass.
Although his injuries were deep, he showed no pain on his angered face. He was determined to kill Kagura and Naraku. Koga simply ignored his wounds completly, as he sprinted at Kagura swiftly with some help from his jewel shards that were embedded in his legs, and swung a punch at her. He succeded in making a good hit to the side of her face, and she jumped back, rubbing her cheek with her left hand. Koga jumped back too, and kept an eye on Kagura's fan.
"Don't get your hopes up, wolf. That's the only hit you'll lay on me." Kagura said, as she raised her fan again, and shouted, "Dance of the Dragon!"
Instantly, more cycles of large winds shot out of her fan again, bigger then before. Koga barely had time to react as he jumped into the air. It was too late, for the winds had reached him and sucked him into the center of the feirce winds, that looked similar to a tornado.
"Damnit!" Koga muttered, as he struggled to locate which direction Kagura was in, so that he could watch out for anymore attacks.
"Dance of Blades!" Kagura yelled over the whipping winds, as ten more blade-shaped gusts entered the tornado Koga was trapped in.
Forunantly for Kagura, each blade had hit him either on his legs, arms or face, causing deep bloody gashes to form on his skin. She let the winds surrounding Koga die down, so that she could see if she had done any damage. As they finally disappeared, Koga fell from the sky, hitting the ground with a loud thud. He layed there with his eyes closed, unmoving with lost consciousness, as small red blood puddles started to surround the badly injured wolf demon. Kagura walked toward him slowly, quite satisfied with the damage she had caused, and was ready to give Koga the death blow.
While Koga was stuck in a desperate situation, and things couldn't look worse for the wolf prince, InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippo, had also continued their own search for Naraku, or the Band of Seven. InuYasha was up in front of the traveling group, his hands tucked into his bright red Kimono sleeves as he walked down a rocky path next to the foggy Forest of InuYasha. Miroku was close behind, his staff rattling and jingling noisily each time he moved. Sango walked behind the houshi, already changed into her Demon Slayer's outfit. Her gigantic boomerang, Hiraikotsu, was strapped across her right shoulder; Kirara, in her small cat form, was snuggled in her arms. Kagome was on the right side of Sango, a bow in her hand, and a quiver of arrows strapped onto her back. Shippo sat on Kagome's right shoulder as he always did, his kitsune feet hanging limply from his seat on Kagome's shoulder. InuYasha had suddenly stopped dead in his tracks, and sniffed the scents that trailed on a breeze.
"What's wrong, InuYasha?" Kagome asked the hanyou curiously, when she noticed he had stopped walking down the path. Instinctivly, Miroku, Sango, and Kagome halted after him.
"I'm picking up a strong scent of blood...Wolf blood." InuYasha replied. His face suddenly had a look of iritation. "No doubt that mangy wolf has gotten himself into trouble..." InuYasha added harshly.
"You mean Koga's in trouble?" Miroku asked, looking at InuYasha with seriousness.
"Yeah. By the strong smell of his blood, I'd say that idiot is some where in the forest, in a fight to the death with someone. But who, I don't know yet." InuYasha replied.
"Should we help him?" Sango asked, but already was expecting the answer "no".
But before InuYasha could open his mouth to say his expected opinion, Kagome imeadietly interrupted him. "Of course we should help him! He's probably wounded some where. InuYasha," Kagome said, as she turned to the hanyou. "Which direction do you smell Koga?"
"Oh, no. There's no way I'm helping that sad excuse for a wolf demon." InuYasha said bitterly.
"But InuYasha! What if his injuries are so bad, that he could die from them?" Kagome asked, worriedly.
"What do I care? If he dies, it solves a lot of our problems. Just leave him, Kagome." InuYasha replied. The hanyou could care less of what happens to Koga; They've been rivals for as long as he could remember. Sure, sometimes they would help each other out once in a while, but InuYasha only helps Koga because he doesn't have a choice sometimes. But in the end, he usually does get a big sit. Koga only helps InuYasha so that he could prove that Kagome would be happier if she stayed with him. Although, when Koga almost killed InuYasha one time, it had made Kagome very upset and decided he would still kill InuYasha, but just not in front of her. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo could only stand by and watch the two bicker, while time was running out and Koga's life was in danger.
"Just leave him?! You can't just expect me to leave someone I know to die!" Kagome snapped, becoming angered.
InuYasha sighed. "Kagome--" He started, but was cut short by another interruption from her.
"InuYasha, you had better take me to him...Or else." Kagome warned him sternly.
"No." InuYasha answered simply. Kagome walked up to the hanyou, her face showing emense rage. InuYasha looked at Kagome, and took a step back catiously. The full moon in the sky had made Kagome's face illuminate, which made her look like she belonged in a horror movie.
"Kagome...What are you--" InuYasha began carefully.
"InuYasha...." Kagome started, and suddenly pointed an accusing finger at him. "SIT!" She yelled out.
InuYasha's rosary neckless glowed pink for a split second, and then instantly he was forced face first into the ground with a loud thud. Groans of pain could be heard from InuYasha, as he slowly staggered to his feet, his face turned slightly pink from the hard impact.
Shippo looked up at the hanyou, and sighed. "When will you ever learn, InuYasha?" He asked innocently.
InuYasha glared at Shippo, which made him fall silent, not wanting to get punched in the head. He then stared at Kagome with burning fury, and just when he was about to open his mouth to protest, a look in her eyes signaled that she would say it again, faster, and with more "sits".
"Okay, okay!" InuYasha grumbled quickly, and knealt down on one knee, his back facing Kagome. "C'mon..." He muttered miserably, as she climbed on his back. Sango and Miroku shook their heads with dissapointment, wondering why InuYasha and Kagome couldn't just easily agree on one thing. They sighed.
Kirara jumped from Sango's arms, and trasformed with a red blaze of fire, into a large saber toothed tiger. Sango hopped on Kirara's back, while Miroku jumped on too, and sat behind her. InuYasha and Kirara set off at a sprint through the heavily wooded forest, following the scent of Koga's blood. Kagome had readied an arrow in her bow, just in case she would have to act fast....
Kagura raised her closed fan high into the still air, as she neared the unmoving wolf demon and stopped in front of him, her fan hovering above his neck. All was silent, as if waiting for for the fallen wolf leader to enter the after life.
"This is the end of your pitiful life, Koga..." Kagura muttered quietly, as she raised her fan an inch higher, the tip of it slightly glowing light blue. She brought down the fan quick and swift, aiming at Koga's unprotected neck. But suddenly, an arrow that had a light blue aura surrounding it, shot out of the trees at her left side, making Kagura withdraw her attack as the arrow grazed her right cheek, leaving a small cut. If the arrow hadn't been let loose at the right time, Koga could have been beheaded by the Wind Witch.
Kagura narrowed her eyes with anger and frustration, and turned to the direction where the arrow had been released in. "Who has interrupted our battle?" She demanded.
InuYasha walked out from the protection of the forest, his hand clutched on the sheathed Tetsusaiga's handle, followed by Kagome, Shippo, and Miroku, who had jumped off Kirara before leaving the forest; Sango still upon Kirara's back as they also exited the misted woods. Kagome gasped, looking past Kagura and at the unconscious Koga, who was still lying on the ground. She looked up at Kagura, suddenly angered. But she was not angry for long, for her fury shifted to surprise.
"InuYasha....Kagura has four jewel shards embedded in her fan!" Kagome said urgently, as she noticed the dim pink glows of the jewel fragments.
"Hey Kagura, where'd you get those jewel shards, eh? Didn't steal them from Naraku, did you?" InuYasha asked harshly.
"I obtained these jewel shards on my own, half breed." Kagura snapped. "And if you will excuse me, I have unfinished business to attend to..." She added, looking back down at the wounded Koga.
Kagome nudged the hanyou roughly, urging him on to help Koga. "I'm going already..." He mumbled with annoyance, as he withdrew Tetsusaiga, the rusted blade suddenly turning into a massive fang-shaped sword with a yellow blaze.
InuYasha ran at Kagura, gaining speed while she simply moved in front of Koga, using him as a sheild. InuYasha smirked, and his blade started to glow a bright yellow.
"WIND SC--" He began to yell, but didn't even get to swing his blade at all, as he heard an aggravated yell come from behind him.
"No, InuYasha! If you kill Kagura with the Wind Scar, you'll kill Koga too!" Kagome snapped angrily.
"Isn't that the point?" InuYasha asked flatly, turning to look at her.
"NO! We came to help Koga, not kill him!" Kagome shouted at him
"Okay! Geez..." InuYasha muttered silently, followed by a sigh.
"Enough of this!" Kagura yelled over the bickering pair. "Dance of the Dragon!" She shouted out clearly, as she swung her fan open and brought it down in one sweep, making cycles of tornados shoot out of the fan, kicking up debris from the forest ground. Imeadiatly, Sango grabbed Miroku by his houshi kimono collar, and jerked him up to sit behind her on Kirara. The cat demon jumped high into the air, avoiding the wind attacks.
"Kagome!" InuYasha yelled towards her, as he ran back to Kagome and picked her up quickly, jumping out of range from the attacks, but nearly getting hit. InuYasha landed softly on the ground that had not been torn up by the wind attacks, several feet away from Kagura, and put down Kagome gently.
As the winds started to die down, Miroku unwrapped the rosary beads around his right hand. "Wind Tunnel!" He shouted, as the void in his hand began to suck up anything in it's path. Feirce winds threatened to pull Kagura within the Hell Hole. Just as things seemed to be going perfectly, a buzzing sound suddenly could be heard over Miroku's Kazanna. He looked towards his right and saw a swarm of Naraku's poisonous insects, the Saimyoushou, zipping through the sky, heading towards him.
"Seal the Wind Tunnel Miroku, or you'll get poisoned from their venom!" Sango called back to him urgently. Miroku quickly wrapped the rosary beads around his right hand; The winds formed from his void completly vanished.
"Damn..." The houshi cursed, as he looked away from the Saimyoushou, and back at Kagura. Sango looked down at Kagura from her seat on Kirara, and gripped the handle on her boomerang.
"Hiraikotsu!" She shouted, as she launched her weapon as hard and swift as she could. The boomerang flew to the right of Kagura, becoming farther away, but suddenly started to turn around, coming at Kagura's left side. Kagura quickly slashed her fan out with one quick motion of her hand before Sango's weapon could reach her, a single tornado escaping Kagura's fan. The whirlwind knocked head on the Hiraikotsu, sending it spiraling back at Sango and Miroku. The huge heapon hit Kirara's right side, the impact making the cat demon fall out from the sky with a painful roar.
"Kirara!" Sango yelled out desperatly, as she and Miroku hung onto her for dear life, and crashed into the forest ground.
"Sango! Miroku!" Shippo shouted with concern from his seat on Kagome's right shoulder. Without a word, Kagome ran towards them, falling on her knees when she got there to help Sango and Miroku to a sitting position.
"Are you guys okay?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"Yes...We're fine." Sango replied wearily, as Kirara tranformed to her smaller cat demon form. Sango picked up Kirara and she held her in her arms, stroking her soft head gently. The three of them looked up at the battle field once more.
"Indeed, Kagura's demonic aura has become stronger from the jewel shards..." Miroku pointed out.
"We have to get them out of her fan quickly, or Koga may not make it." Sango replied. She surprisingly winced, from a pain that had surged up her shoulder. Kagome looked back at her with concern.
"Your arm is wounded from the crash." Kagome warned Sango, when she saw that blood had started to seep through her Demon Slayer's outfit. She then looked back at Miroku. "Stay with her, Miroku. And I'll get my--" She suddenly paused, a horrible feeling suddenly surging in the pit of her stomach. "Oh, no! I left my bag by the well!" Kagome said to them.
"It's okay, Kagome. I'll be fine." Sango assured her, while putting her right hand over her wounded shoulder.
"Okay, if you're sure..." Kagome started, as she pushed her drentched bangs that clung to her forehead from the pouring rain aside.
"Don't worry Kagome, I'll stay with her." Miroku said. Kagome nodded, and stood up. She walked back over to InuYasha, keeping an eye on Kagura with a distasteful look upon her face.
"Oh...How touching. It won't matter, you know. You'll all be dead!" Kagura said as Kagome reached InuYasha, and she brought down her fan again, releasing ten light blue wind blades soaring towards them. InuYasha stood in front of Kagome, as he blocked each attack with Tetsusaiga.
"Not very impressing." He said to Kagura, as the last blade hit his father's fang.
"Hmph.." Kagura muttered, and jumped into the air. "Dance of the Dragon!" She shouted, as more cycles threatened to run through InuYasha. The hanyou jumped from the left and the right, dodging the attacks as best he could, while Kagome ran off to the side, trying to avoid the winds. But InuYasha did have to admit, her wind attacks were faster, but also bigger too. Kagura had landed from her jump, a few yards from Koga. When she had realized that she had no sheild to protect her like before, InuYasha was already charging at her, his blade risen in the air. Kagura took a small step back, thinking with slight fear, that it was all over.
Tetsusaiga glowed bright yellow, as InuYasha spotted the part in which two demonic auras collided. "WIND SCAR!" He yelled clearly, bringing down his blade with ease at the swirling demonic auras' line. A rush of yellow electicity surged through the ground, making it's way towards Kagura.
The large swarm of Naraku's poisonous wasps instantly buzzed it's way in front of Kagura, forming a yellow and black sheild of insects. As the Wind Scar finally drew near, each wasp was zapped by the electric attack, and had fallen on the ground when all had cleared. Kagura remained where she was, and wasn't too amazed at what Naraku had ordered Saimyoushou to do. He had done this once before, except with hundreds of demons.
"Damnit." InuYasha muttered with dissapointment.
He charged at Kagura again, slashing his blade at her, while she dodged each attempted blow. It had occured to InuYasha that his Wind Scar probably would fail again, seeing that Naraku had sent another swarm of Saimyoushou to the battle field, waiting for the Wind Witch to be threatened to be killed. The two fought blade to fan non-stop, determined to kill one another, as they began to draw farther away from the wolf demon. As this battle went on, Kagome had snuck up quickly towards Koga, to see if he was alright.
"Koga?" Kagome said quietly to the wolf demon as she kneeled down beside him, his eyes still closed and his body unmoving. She knew he was still alive; She could tell by the weak and steady breaths he took in and released out of him. Although, he was still bleeding heavily from the many gashes that littered his skin.
The rain was still coming down hard, as lightening slitted the blackened sky, and thunder rumbled in the distance. For once in a long while, Kagome had no clue what to do. She was helpless for the wolf demon, and had made it worse when she forgot her overly large yellow bag by the well. Kagome sighed, feeling miserable that she could not help Koga without her medicle supplies, while his life could be hanging on to a single thread. She looked up at the clashing opponents, InuYasha and Kagura, before looking back down at Koga. InuYasha had had a glimpse of Kagome with Koga for a moment with narrowed eyes, and was just about to yell out at Kagome to stay away from him, but was distracted as Kagura released her 'Dance of Blades' attack at him.
'What should I do?' Kagome suddenly thought desperatly, as she looked down at Koga with concern.
InuYasha clashed with Kagura again; It was Wind Scar versus Dance of the Dragon. The hanyou was surprised at how long he has been fighting Kagura, for he never really faught her for a long period of time. InuYasha had to admit that the Wind Witch was stronger from the jewel shards embedded in her fan, and the battle was not going well. InuYasha had several scars and wounds across his face and his arms. Kagura, on the other hand, looked as though she hadn't been touched at all. Unfortunantly, it was true. The only hit she had gotten was from the one Koga had launched at her in their battle. Since then, InuYasha was unable to even come close to her.
"Bastard!" InuYasha shouted at Kagura, before coming at her and swinging his blade. Kagura dodged it with ease, and sent wind blades soaring at the hanyou, who was struck down painfully. InuYasha shifted his blade into the ground when the attack had ended, and leaned on it for support as he breathed heavily.
"Are you giving up already, half breed?" Kagura sneered, as she approached the hanyou slowly.
"InuYasha..." Kagome whispered with concern, from her spot next to Koga. "Will you be all right?"
"Nnnhh..."
Kagome suddenly looked back down at Koga, and her stomach flipped over with joy. Koga was finally stirring, and his eyes opened a little so that they were azure slits. His vision was quite blurry, and he couldn't move at all from the burning pain from his injuries.
"He's alive!" Shippo exclaimed from his seat on Kagome's shoulder.
"Koga! Are you okay? Say something!" Kagome said quickly.
"Kagome...What are you...Doing here...?" Koga asked slowly and quietly.
"InuYasha smelled your blood, so we came to help you." Kagome explained. "That's not important right now. Your injuries are serious. You could have died from blood loss or something...We need to get them treated." She added.
"You have to...Get to some place...Safe..." Koga muttered silently.
"No! We are not leaving you alone with deep wounds!" Kagome said sternly.
"......." Koga didn't answer. It was no use fighting with such a determined miko. All he did was close his eyes, and only the sound of his breathing could be heard from him. Kagome sighed, and looked back towards Miroku and Sango.
'They seem all right...Except, now Miroku has two red hand marks on his face.' Kagome thought, and shook her head with dissapointment. 'I can't beleive he would do that in a time like this...'
"WIND SCAR!" InuYasha yelled out suddenly, breaking Kagome's thoughts and causing her to look up at the battle field. Miroku and Sango had also looked up, a hopeful expression was across their faces.
The surge of bright yellow electricity shot through the ground, making cracks through the muddy floors of the forest. A blinding yellow light erupted over the forest, as it clashed with Kagura's body, sending her falling to the ground with a fearful expression on her face when the light had cleared.
"No...This can't be happening...I've...Failed..." Kagura whispered her last words, as her wounds, caused by Tetsusaiga's ultimate attack, bled heavily and littered the wet floors with blood.
InuYasha imeadietly dropped to his knees with a splash of rain water, and panted. Tetsusaiga had transformed back to it's original rusty old self, as its' handle rested in InuYasha's right hand.
"It's over..." Miroku said quietly from a distance away; Sango was the only one who could hear it.
Kagome rose to her feet, and ran over to InuYasha, leaving her bow and quiver of arrows beside Koga. She knealt down on his left side, and put a hand on his shoulder. "InuYasha, are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine..." The hanyou muttered.
"Okay...Well, I know your wounded, but we need to get back to the well so I can get my medicle supplies, alright?"
"Fine. Let's go now."
The two of them walked slowly across the blood stained muddy grounds towards Miroku and Sango; Kagome guiding InuYasha carefully. Kagome suddenly stopped, and looked to her right, at the unmoving wolf demon. InuYasha followed her gaze and narrowed his eyes.
"Kagome just--" He began.
"No." Kagome answered firmly, and walked towards the ookami prince. She then turned to Sango and Miroku.
"Sango, do you think Kirara could carry Koga?" She asked.
"I think so..She doesn't look so bad anymore." The demon slayer replied, as she still held her injured shoulder. Kirara jumped from Sango's hands, already understanding the message, and ran forwards to Kagome. She transformed into her larger saber-toothed tiger form, and slowed her pace to a walk, stopping at Kagome's side when she got there.
"Kirara, try to pick up Koga. Be careful, though." The miko said.
Kirara slowly walked to the wolf demons side, and nudged Koga's right side, trying to get him up and onto her back. Koga flinched and winced at the sudden movement of his body, but didn't say anything. He knew they were only trying to help. Koga gripped the fur of Kirara's back, and helped her pull himself up. Finally, he was lying on the neko; His head rested on her neck.
InuYasha had been watching all of this, and was angered that they were helping a pathetic wolf demon. He turned away from the three figures, and began to walk towards Kagura's dead body. He grabbed the fan from her hand when he got to her, and plucked out the four jewel shards one by one.
Kirara and Kagome reached Sango and Miroku, and InuYasha soon caught up with them. He gave Kagome the jewel shards from Kagura's fan, but didn't say a word. Kagome simply nodded, and tucked the jewel fragments into the small glass jar that was hung loosly on a string around her neck. The group set out through the forest in silence, leaving Kagura's dead body and the battle field behind.
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The pouring rain, lightening, and thunder had stopped completely by the time the group had finally reached the Bone Eaters Well, and they all settled down to rest beside it. Koga was sitting down at the base of the well with his back against the wooden surface of it, and his eyes were now opened. He had regained complete conciousness when they reached the well. Koga had white bandages on all of his wounds, and red blotchs could be seen through each of them, indicating that his injuries were probably still serious. Kagome was finishing with bandaging up her last patiant, Sango. Each of them, even Kirara, were covered in bandaids, bandages, or ointments. She, however, was the only one uninjured. It was still awkwardly and unusually silent in the clearing. Nobody had spoken a word since they left the battle, not even a bickering fight between Koga and InuYasha broke out.
Kagome sat back, and looked at each of their faces; They were all seated in a circle around a fire Miroku had started. She studied every face, and wondered why nobody had spoken in a long time.
Finally, she broke the extreme awkward silence. "Hey, what's every body's problem? We beat Kagura, and Koga's still alive."
Koga looked up at Kagome. In a flash, he held her hands in his. "Kagome, I’m glad you didn’t get hurt. I'm touched by how much you care about me."
He then turned to look at InuYasha, still holding Kagome's hands. "Mutt face, how could you bring Kagome to a dangerous fight like that?!" He demanded.
Kagome blinked, trying to find words to say. InuYasha's eyes had started to show emense anger in them. He suddenly punched the wolf demon in the head, leaving a bump there.
"You let go of Kagome's hands right now!" The hanyou growled with rage, ignoring Koga's question.
"Back off, dog breath!" Koga yelled angrily, letting go of Kagome's hands and pointed at InuYasha. "So why did you help me?!"
"I had no choice, mangy wolf!"
"Every one has choices, stupid!"
Kagome opened her mouth to explain what happened, since the hanyou was doing a good job of ticking off Koga, but InuYasha cut her off.
"You see Kagome? I told you we didn't have to help him. He could have just been killed and solved all of our problems!" InuYasha answered stubbornly.
"This isn't about me, it's about Kagome's safety!" Koga muttered.
"Where's this coming from?!"
"I'm saying that it's your fault for putting Kagome in danger!"
"Why you....I never put Kagome in danger!" InuYasha replied angrily.
"Then why was she at the battle, idiot?" Koga retorted, folding his arms across his chest.
"Shut up, you scrawny wolf!"
"No you shut up, stuuuuuupid!"
"I'm not stupid, moooooron!" InuYasha growled at Koga.
"Are too!" Koga grunted loudly.
"Are not!"
"TOO!"
"NOT!"
"MORON!"
"IDIOT!"
Kagome shook her head with an annoyed expression on her face. "All I wanted was to break the silence with a nice conversation, and then Koga and InuYasha have to be at each others necks..." She muttered to herself, as the bickering continued between the Inu and ookami. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo just ignored the pair of them.
"Well, as long as we're all alive and well, that's all that matters, right?" Miroku said loudly over the yells from InuYasha and Koga.
"That's right. That's the only important thing." Sango replied.
"I agree. If we hadn't come to help Koga, he would have been a goner." Shippo added in the conversation.
The bickering suddenly stopped, and Koga turned to look at the small kitsune, who was sitting in front of the fire.
"What'd you say, fox?" Koga growled.
"Nothing; I didn't say anything." Shippo answered quickly.
Sango, Miroku, Kagome, and Shippo all laughed, while InuYasha and Koga exchanged confused expressions.
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