All around them, an army of undead wolf youkai began emerging from the rocky soil, swords and spears and axes clutched in their rotting claws as they stalked toward Kagome and her group. Pushing ahead, the living banded together upon a stretch of exposed stone as their enemies closed in around them from all sides. Despite her protests, Sesshoumaru shoved Kagome behind him into the middle of the pack. Gripping her bow, the miko cringed at the smell of decay, trying not to lose her breakfast at the sight of all that raw red flesh dangling from the zombies’ exposed bones and skulls.
“It’s just like before!” Ayame cried out in despair, as the enemy she’d just hacked down reassembled and lunged toward her a minute later. “We can’t fell them!”
“Shut up and keep trying!” Kouga snarled as he dashed from foe to foe, decapitating them with sword and claw and Jewel-enhanced leg.
But after just a few minutes, the zombie heads glowed and snapped back onto their respective necks, the corpses returning steadfastly to their feet. In front of her, Sesshoumaru wasn’t faring much better. For each broad swathe Tessaiga cut through the enemies before him, the scattered limbs and bones reattached and reanimated shortly thereafter.
“Dammit,” Kouga panted, skidding to a halt nearby. “At this rate they’re just gonna wear us down.”
“We should retreat,” Ayame said, shaking her head. “It’s no good.”
“She’s right, Kouga-onii-sama,” Ginta said, yelping as a severed hand clamped around his ankle.
Prising it off his pack mate with the flat of his dagger, Hakkaku nodded as well. “Onii-sama, it seems we have no choice… ”
Kouga grit his fangs. “You cowards. There has to be a way to defeat them.”
“You should leave,” Sesshoumaru said, slashing through another file of enemies, “while you still have the strength.”
“You say that like it doesn’t apply to you,” the wolf prince growled.
Sesshoumaru cut him a look. “My followers and I can take to the air at any time.”
Kagome glowered at him. So I’m just a ‘follower’, huh?
Turning around, she looked behind her toward Sesshoumaru’s actual followers. Her eyes widened in alarm as she saw the undead wolves swarming Jakken and Ah-Un—a few enemies leaping nimbly around the dragon’s fiery jaws and advancing toward the flailing imp. As two zombies closed in on Jakken from the front and behind, Kagome shot forward on Entei, knocking one enemy clean off as she whipped around and sent a blazing arrow through the other.
The zombie screamed as her reiki seared through him, his soul escaping from his open jaws in a ray of white light. The bones and armor that remained clattered to the dragon’s back—and stayed there.
“Ah…?” Blinking, Jakken lowered his hands from his temples, the toe of his boot prodding at the still remains as he gaped at her. “Miko, you…”
As Kagome nocked and charged another arrow, the rest of her group hurried toward her, cutting a path through the zombie throng.
“Kagome-chan!” Kouga exclaimed, bowling Jakken aside as he sprang atop Ah-Uh to meet her–the sheer ardor in his gaze making the young miko lean back with a blush. “Your power broke the curse!”
Puffing a strand of auburn hair out of her eyes, Ayame crossed her arms sulkily. “Of course, it did…”
“Er, guess so,” Kagome agreed awkwardly as Sesshoumaru drew up beside her, glaring. “S-sorry to take off again…but it worked out, didn’t it?”
There was about as much chance of Sesshoumaru buying that weak line of logic as there was of Jakken professing his undying gratitude to her. As Kagome braced herself for a reprimand or worse, a peal of cold, feminine laughter rang out from the direction of the summit stronghold, the horde of zombie wolves going still as statues at the sound.
Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
Sesshoumaru should really let Kagome help, she’s like, a pro at this. Purifying stats are max.
haha well said!! 🙂
thanks, Mimo! <3
I wonder who is she hmmm… kagura?
we shall seeeee…!
thanks for commenting, angel! <3
Kagome should purify all those zombies while they’re just standing still and that woman is laughing like the anime villainess that she is.
Sesshoumaru needs to see her in action and realize his woman is a priestess/fighter. Yeah I went there. She is his woman as he is her man/demon. Koga needs to get a damn clue.
If the laughing bruha is Kagura, I hope you do a cannon divergence and let her get purified.
While Kagura helped the Inutachi from time to time, she only did it for her own benefit. I do not forget that she killed Koga’s people and hurt others. I don’t really care that she had no choice but to follow Naraku’s orders.
Plus she was his creation. The majority of them were trash. I only felt sorry for Kanna in the end.
That’s why I detest Sesshomaru/Kagura pairings as much as I loathe Sesshomaru/Rin pairings. I think the manga makes it clear that Kagura had this one-sided affection for the Western Lord. He felt pity for her when she died and seemed sympathetic to her plight. I doubt if the cannon Sesshoumaru loved anyone carnally in the manga or anime.
The other pairing is just wrong to me because as someone who writes about crime, it reeks of the grooming behavior of a pedophile. Raising a child to be your future sex partner and making her see you as a potential love interest churns my stomach. Sesshomaru is not a pedophile. End rant.
Back to the tale. I wonder why Sesshomaru doesn’t use Tenseiga on the zombies. It could work. He can dispatch their souls to hell or heaven with one swing. The sword works on beings not of this world anymore like Magatsuhi or whatever the evil dude was from the jewel. I seem to recall he used Tenseiga in that movie about the evil sword Soungga.
lol! yeah, Transgressions has become very anime (it’s just too much fun!). maybe i’ll tone it down in the final version haha, we’ll see..
While I do feel somewhat sympathetic for Kagura and her plight, she remains kind of…icky in my mind. And she has done some pretty messed-up stuff…the taint of Naraku is hard to get past, I guess. Never remotely cared for SessKagura pairings in fanfic – I think it’s sweet that she had feelings for him in the canon. But it needs to remain unrequited in my opinion lol
As for SessRin…yeesh. Yeah, I can’t really get into that one, either…for the reasons you outlined. Upon a friend’s recommendation I did read Snowbound by Fenikkusuken some years back, and it remains the one and only Sess x “Rin” fic I can swing – no doubt because it’s actually Rin’s (adult) reincarnation who falls in love with him in that story. 🙂
Also, excellent point about Tenseiga! 🙂 And by the way, that’s awesome that you write about crime – always been a fascinating subject for me. Thanks for sharing, Doug! <3
Can’t agree more!!! That’s exactly what i think about Sess/Kagura and Sess/Rin pairings.
I tried writing fiction and find myself disappointed with the results. I suppose I’m just meant to be a chronicler of people’s miseries and occasional joy.
Real life is often brutal, miserable and tragic. Sometimes people kill others for the most trivial of reasons.
I escape from all that by having different unrelated hobbies. I also read a lot and watch movies and anime. I enjoy writers like you who can create magic with words.
A good yarn is a good yarn. It takes talent to make a Sesshoumaru/Kagome pairing work because in cannon, they had few interactions. The writer has to bring them together in a believable way. He or she must also craft a story that keeps Sesshoumaru and Kagome in character as well as retain the atmosphere of the original show.
That is why those fanfics where Kagome turns into a hanyou or a demon never work for me.
Aw, thank you, Doug – that means so much <3
I can totally relate to wanting to escape from real life...I'm quite an escapist too. And I agree, a good story is a good story whether it's original fiction or fan fiction - or non fiction! 🙂