The power of pure sound ch 4

Inuyasha and the Power of Pure Sound.

A Jin Shirinue fanfic

Dislamer: I unfortunately do not own niether inuyasha nor Kamen Rider Hibiki, both of these belong to their respective creators, the idea to blend these two however is my original creation

Future reference: () surrounds sentences spoken in English, , surrounds thoughts

Chapter 4: Yura of the Demon Hair, and Jin of the Pure Sound.

Our story continues in modern day Japan, the sun has long since set, and the moon is high in the sky. But while all is quiet on outside of the Higurashi shrine, there is much going on indoors. The two eldest and the youngest member of the Higurashi family sit at their kitchen table descusing what happened to young Kagome. Her mother turns to the elderly head of the family. “Don’t tell me you actually belive her story father?” The eldermost member of the Higurashi family closes his eyes and contemplates the tale. Sota being one of the better behaved and more loyal younger siblings, comes to the defense of his sisters story. “It’s true, Kagome and Jin both fell down the well, when a monster tried tried to kidnap her, and when Jin tried to save her.” Grandpa Higurashi then goes into the tail of the well, “there is a legend of the bone-eaters well. Since ancient times whatever’s inside the well has consumed the corpses of monsters.” Kagome’s grandfather then stands with a determined look on his face a powerful monolog running through his mind. But what if the space-time continueum is disrupted by this. We cannot let that happen. A minor flury of activity later the well is “sealed” with naild on wooden bords, and various sacred slips, to keep the demonic entities at bay. “Closed it off?” asked Kagome after finishing her bath, and changing her clothes. Her grandfather nods his head, “yup. We need not worry about any more visitors from over there. I even used special spirit wards, just in case.” Kagome simply frowns in contemplation. Back in the feudal era Inuyasha and Jin continue to run through the woods, doing every thing in their power to find Kagome. Inuyasha bends over and begins to carefully sniff the ground, when he finnaly catches whif of a familiar smell, “yeah, that’s her allright I’d know her anywhere.” Jin stading nearby takes a good look around where they are, and sees a very welcome sight. “Inuyasha look, it’s the well.” As they draw closer a certain little bundle catches Inuyasha’s feral eye. “Why’d she leave her clothes here?” Jin closes his eyes and thinks very hard for a moment, before swear-snapping his fingers, “that’s it, she’s gone home back to our time.” Inuyasha peers down the well, “through here huh?” “yep, not entirely sure how it works, but it seems that simply jumping down the well is,” Jin stops midsentance as Inuyasha has already leaped down the well. “Hey, will you quit walking away while I’m talking to you.” Jin then also jumps down the well, hopefully to return to the future.

Meanwhile back in the future, Kagome lies her bed currently without a care in the world, or so one would think. For the girls mind was running a mile a minute, contemplating everything that had happened over the past three days. “Was I really there? In that feudal Japan?” “Only by working together will the three of you be able to gather the shards of the jewel.” Kagome shakes her head in an attept to displace the older memories, until she rememebers her first encounter with Yura. And what about that girl, the one with the hair? What did she want? Like I should even ask, the sacred jewel of course. And what about Jin, is he gonna’ be able to make it back here okay. Not to mention that if that girl doesn’t give the jewel back, Inuyasha’s gonna be pretty upset, I can hear him already. Kagome then conjures up a mental immage of Inuyasha looking at her with the typical scowl on his face, “I never asked for your help. Just go home you’ll only slow me down anyway.” Kagome frowns angrely at the mental image, “what am I worrying aobut him for?” The raven haired then claps her hands together to signify her washing her hands of the enitre situation. “Well that’s it then, chapter closed. From now o on its just a simple fary tale.” Later that evening the Higurashi family settles down for dinner, with Sota takin to his grandfather. “Grandpa, those things you put on the well will stay on right?” The Higurashi elder smirks confidently, “of course they will, have a little faith will you boy? If theres one thing I know, its spirits and how to deal with them.” Kagome looks exitedly at the meal her mother prepared for the evening, “real food!” All the while Kagome’s grandfather prattles on aobut how he will defend her, and keep the spirits at bay, an the like, util Sota points somehting out to the old man, “I don’t think shes listening grandpa.” Yound Sota was indeed right as Kagome was to exited by the delicious food set before her. “It’s a wonderful day to be alive, oh I can’t wait to,” once again fate prevents someone from finishing their thought, as the sliding door to the kitchen opens revealing a very ticked off Inuyasha and a fairly frazzled Jin. Jin then turns to Inuyasha and says, “you know depite the fact that a monster dragged us through the well the first time, that was a surpisingly smoother rider than this one was.” The other members of the Higurashi family stare with confused looks on their faces, while Kagome simply says two things, “Jin, Inuyasha?” Inuyasha’s scowl deepens, “you idiot, who said you could go home?” Jin straigtens his hair, and pushes his way past the irate half demon, “hold up there demon boy, maybe if we explain the situation she might be more willing to come back with us.” Kagome’s confusion coninues to grow util she finnaly decides to ask a quesiton. “How did you two get back here?” Inuyasha looks at the girl with a look that screams, “are you stupid or something?” “How do you think we came back, through the well of course?” Kagome’s grandfather angrely slams his hands on the table before standing up, “you lie! I placed and made those spirit wards myself! There’s no way either of you could have gotten through.” Inuyasha just looks at the old man like he was insane, and then thumbs towards Jin “first of all he’s not a demon,” then pulling out one of grandpa Higurashi’s wards he then drops a real bombshell, “and I hate to break it to you old man, but these “wards” of yours they don’t work.” This revalation drives the elderly priest to tears.

Inuyasha being the fairly uncivilized brute that he is then grabs Kagome roughly by her arm, “come on you, we’re leaving.” Kagome then pulls her arm back and snaps at the hanyo, “No and you can’t make me.” At this moment Jin decides to intervene, he places his hands on her shoulders and looks her straight in the eye. “Kagome listen to me, things have gone downhill since you came back, most of the villagers are the demons living puppets, and Kaede has been hurt, badly.” Kagome’s eyes widen at this news, she never intended for any one to get hurt, she just wanted to go home. So with Inuyasha being himself, and therfor having very little patients, grabs Kagome’s arm again, “so now you know what’s going on you’ve gotta come back with us.” It is then that Kagome’s mom who has been silent throughout the entire event finnaly says somehting. “You stay right there!” She then walks up to Inuyasha and stares intently at the half demon, until he becomes fed up with the various sets of eyes stareing at him. “What do you want?” Mrs. Higurashi then reaches up and, starts rubbing Inuyashas ears. “Your ears are they real?” Jin and Kagome both sweatdrop at the sight in front of them. “Uh, mom that’s not really cool, ya know.” It’s then that Kagome notices something on Inuyasha’s sleve. “Inuyasha, do you see that?” Inuyasha then focuses his eyes where Kagome is looking, “I don’t see anything.” Now it is Kagome’s turn to use the “are you really that stupid” look. There’s a hair right here on your shoulder. See?” The “invisible” hair in Kagome’s hand suddenly coils around her hand drawing a small amount of blood. “It moved!” Says Kagome in surprise, “what moved?” asks her brother. Kagome just stares at the strand of hair and ponders the situation, “does this mean, I’m the only one who can see it?” She then remembers what Yura said to her, and something strikes her like a ton of bricks, “Oh no!” she cries and then rushes out of the house.

Kagome rushes towards the well, and is greated with a very distrubing sight, dozens of tenticles made of Yura’s demonic hair. Her eyes widen in fear at the image, it is almost as if a giant octopuss made of hair has made residence within the old well. “Hair!” She gasps, “tons and tons of it.” Inuyasha then walks up behind her, “so the old crone was right, you do have the sight.” Kagome spins around to face the demon boy, “this is all your fault! The hair followed you here.” Inuyasha fumes at the accusation, “hey I’m not the only one at fault here, you boyfriend came back too.” Kagome blushes, and stomps her foot, “he’s not my boyfriend, he’s just a friend who happens to be boy.” (A.N: how many times have we heard this excuse). Jin being the most rational member of the group at the moment, then wedges himself between the two arguers and forces them away from one another. “Hey, hey, hey, we can play a game of he said she said later, right we have hairy situation on our hands.” The two other time travelers stare, and sweatdrop at the pun, Jin picking up on the vibe then shrugs his shoulders, “uh, ahem, pun not intended.” Unfortunately Kagome’s grandfather and brother followed them outside, “Kagome,” yells Sota, “whats’ goin’ on?” Kagome then closes the door to the shrine, “don’t come in!” she then turns around a begins to assess the situation. We’ve gotta’ find a way to stop it from coming out. As she begins to think a long hair tenticle lashes out towards the girl, forcing her to dodge to the side with a yelp. Seeing as nither the dog nor the human boy can see this strange hair its up to Kagome the give her directions.“Inuyasha in front of you.” “Where here?” He asks as he blindly swings his claws, still managing to cut several tentacles. But as soon as the hair is cut it immediately grows back. Kagome’s stares at the situation, “even if it gets cut, it grows back.” Jin tehn adds to the observation, “not to mention its everywhere, right?” As Inuyasha contiues to grapple with the “invisible” hair, Kagome then notices something, a lone strand of hair, seemingly doing nothing. That’s it, it’s all controlled by that single strand. she then rushes up to the strand, “Inuyasha over here, cut this one.” Inuyasha swings his claws wildly, “which one?” “This one right here!” The girl groans in frustration, “Kagome Inuyasha can’t see it, and for that neither can I.” Kagome thinks for a minute and gets another idea, “Then I’ll have to help him.” She then reaches up and grabbs the strand, like this. She tightens her grip and gets the strand to draw blood, as the hemoglobin rich fluid trickles down the strand Inuyasha turns around and sees the blood, “Heh, now I see it.” And with one swipe the control strand gets severed, the reesults are instant, the cut tenticles wither away into dust, while those that are still attached shrivel back into the well. Inuyahsa wipes his forehead, “whew, its gone.” But Kagome is still worried, I don’t get it, Yura already has my piece of the jewel. So why would she do somehting like this? Unless, its us she’s after. Kagome turns to the two boys, “we have to go back.” “I thought you didn’t wanna’ go back.” “I may not want to but I have to.” If I stay here my family would be in danger. It’s then that Kagome feels something being drapped over her shoulders, she looks to her right and sees that she is now wearing Inuyashas red coat. “It’s made with hair of the fire rat, this way you’ll at least have some protection.” Kagome is caught off guard by Inuyasha’s sudden generosity, “um, thank you.” Inyuasha stands up with his trademark scowl on his face, “yeah, well if you didn’t look so weird you wouldn’t need it any way.” Jin then leaps at the hanyo and chatches him in a noogie, “hey, look whose talking dog boy.” Inuyasha wrestles with the human boy for a moment, “get offa’ me you weirdo.” Kagome can’t help but giggle a little at the boys shinanigans, I don’t know if they’ll ever admit it or not, but those two are a lot alike. After a full minute of wrestleing the two boys finnaly settle down, Inuyasha then turns to Kagome, “any way, you ready.” Kagome nods, “are you ready.” Jin smiles, “as ready as I’ll ever be dog breath.” And with that the intrepid trio jump down the well.

Back in the feudal era, Yura rests in her hiding place, surrounded by hundreds of human skulls. “They’ll be back any minute now.” She then picks up a very pecular skull this one blood red and begins to stoke it, as one would stroke a pet. “Only this time, we won’t let them get away, will we?” Many miles away Kaede lies in her improvised hideing spot awating for the two boys to retrieve her, once everything is settled of course. “Hear me Inuyasha, Kagome truly is Kikyo reborn. That will aid ye a little, yet ye will not complete ye quest until she learns of her own power. Help her find herself Inuyasha.” At the bone-eaters well, a familiar set of voices echo up from the bottom. “Be careful you guys theres hair everywere down here too.” Jin is the first to climb out, giving a hand to Kagome. Inuyasha then leaps out of the well, “so what your saying is, what Yura is really after, is us?” Questions Inuyasha, “well duh, I mean why else if she already had my piece of the jewel?” Both boys stiffen at this remark, especially Inuyasha, “you’re piece of the je, how in the hell did that happen?” Kagome’s eyes widen in shock at the sight before her, “there’s a lot of hair here, but all we need to worry about is the main one. It’ll lead us right to her, I’m sure of it!” Jin cracks his neck, in a fashion similar to a certain ax wielding imagin, and then his knukles, “alright so witch way do we go?” Inuyasha then steps in front of the Gaijin boy, “what do you mean we? You don’t have any powers like me an’ the girl.” Jin growls and the pushes past the half-demon boy, “I may not have any powers, but it’s like I said, Kagome’s my friend and where she goes I go, I can’t trust you to protect her all the time.” Of course Kagome is happy to have sutch loyalty from at least one of her companions, but she also can’t help but worry for Jins safty. For Inuyasha while being brash and tactless, does make a point, Jin doesn’t appear to have any special powers and could easily be hurt in the fight, and if he got hurt protecting her, she wouldn’t know what to do. “So Kagome, where to we go?” Kagome’s train of thought is derailed by the question as the then finds her self face to face with her American friend. “Oh, right, we go that way.” She says pointing in a certain direction. “Right, lets go Kagome-chan, Dog boy!” Back with Kaede she continues her monolog, “ye must all work together, Jin and Kagome need ye Inuyasha, as much at ye need them. Forget your differences for now and be as one!”

As our intrepid trio travel through the forest in search of Yura, something catches Jin’s eye. “Hey guys, over there, it looks like a fire.” They draw closer and closer to the orange light and what they stumble on is almost too grusome for words. “What happened to their heads?” Gasps Kagome, Inuyasha then inspects the scene. “These are all guys from the village, or their bodys any way.” Jin, trying his best not to vomit bends down and examins one of the bodies, using his ammased knowledge gained from hour after hour of tv crime dramas. “Looks the head came clean off, whoever this Yura person is, she’s good, she’s very good.” With a saddened look on her face Kagome bends over one of the bodies, much to Inuyasha’s chagrin. “Oh, what now? I better not hear that your scared or you wanna’ go home or,” Inuyasha stops as Jin slugs the demon boy in the arm, as Kagome stands back up holding a bow and a quiver of arrows, “actually I thought I’d borrow these.” If we don’t stop her now, even more people will die. After Jin also borrows a new weapon, i.e. a wakizashi blade, the three take off to find the demon. “You know not gonna’ hit anything so why bother?” “I just need to practice a little.” Inuyasha scoffs, “practice? Don’t you mean learn?” Kagome scowls at the demon boy, “I’ll do it this time, I really belive I can.” Inuyasha blinks in surprise at the girls determination, then again, maybe she’ll do it after all. Suddenly a bunch of hair tentacles come shooting over the hill at the intrepid trio. “Here they come!” Yells Kagome. Inuyasha leaps into the air as Kagome begins giving him directions on where to dodge. “Left, right, duck.” Inuyasha lands on the ground panting at the effort of carrying two people. “There are to many of them, you’ve gotta’ help Inuyasha.” Inuyasha whirls around at the girl, “help! That’s what you’re here for isn’t it? You’re almost as useless as your friend.” Jin of course scowls at this and is about to argue the demons opinion that is until Kagome begins shouting out directions again. “Left, left!” Inuyasha leaps into the air again, “argh, their right behind us.” Inuyasha groans, “ugh, give me a break.” And Inuyasha gets his break, but not the way he means, a set of tenticles wrap around his legs and arms stopping him in his tracks and throwing Jin and Kagome off of him. Both humans land on the ground with a thud, Kagome levers herself up to a seated position, “Inuyasha!” Jin looks up at the hanyos situation, (Oh, slag!) he curses in english. Kagome then sees something very distrubing, “Oh, Kami!” “what? What is it?” “It’s a giant hair ball, it must Yura’s hideout.” And speak of the devil, or in this case demon, Yura decends from the heavins like a perveted angle of death. Deftly landing on a set of wires, “oh, my, look at the cute little doggie. You must be Inuyasha.” The dog boy scowls at the hair witch, “and you must be Yura, and how do you know my name?” Yura smirks sinisterly, “ohh, I don’t know wire service?” Jin sweatdrops and swats his forhead at the horrible pun but Yura continues. “Everyones saying that half-demon Inuyasha is “playing fetch” with some reincarnated shirne maden, and a bizzare forigner.” Inuyasha fumes at the comment, “ME, with those half wit humans?” Yura’s evil smirk deepens, “well your all half-wits to me.” She says as the pulls out a very familiar crystal, “I mean just look at what you’ve done to the sacred jewel.”

Kagome gasps, “that’s the jewel shard she stole from me.” Yura fingers the tiny crystal in her hand. “Once I’ve finished wrapping things up with all of you, I will go find the rest for myself.” Inuyasha smirks at the demon woman, “you? Take care of me? When this is over I’ll make you wish you never met me, or even heard my name!” With an incredible show of force, Inuyasha the snappes the hair cords around his ankel and swings towards the evil woman. Yura smirks an Inuyasha’s bravado, and then draws back the red comb in her right hand and swings her hand forward causing another hair tentical to shoot towards Inuyasha. He trys to dodge but its no use as he soon finds himself tied up once again. Yura lands on a set of wires positioned right behind Inuyasha and begins to run her fingers through his hair. “Such pretty hair, but you haven’t taken very good care of it have you? I mean just look at all these split ends.” Inuyasha strugles against his bonds, “get offa me!” Yura leaps off the wires she is currently standing on, dives down towards another set, bounces off of it, and with all the agility of a trapeeze artst flies past Inuyasha cutting his shoulder with her blade, “Inuyahsa!” “Inuyasha!” Yells the two teens of the future. Yura lands on a set of wires stationed above the hanyo, she chuckles sinseterly as she licks the blood off of her blade, “I’m going to chop you up into little, tiny pieces.” Yura leaps forward again set on finishing off Inuyasha once and for all, when suddenly an arrow flys past forcing her back to yet another set of wires. The two demons look over and see Kagome standing there another arrow ready, with Jin standing close by with his weapon at the ready, “let him go now,” yells Kagome, “I promise this time I won’t miss.” Yura’s head cocks to the side in a confused manner, “the girl who fell in the well.” Her gaze then shifts to Jin, oh, and the forigner as well, he does seem to have an ususual charm about him, I might just kill him last. her reavelry is then cut short as Kagome yells again, “you heard me!” Yura’s attention then turns back to Inuyasha, “oh, she wants you back Inuyasha! What a sweet widdle doggie you must be.” Inuyasha then turns towards the two humans, “I told you to hide, not draw attention to yourselves.” Yura fingers her blade, “of course her hair is nowhere near as pretty as yours Inuyasha, or an unique as the forigners, but waste not want not I suppose.” Kagome fumes at the comment, ““not as pretty as his,” huh? Shows what you know, you live in a world where they don’t even have shampoo!” Jin sweatdrops at this comment, “uh, Kagome you I care about you but, pelease try to your priorities straight.” Kagome then launches another arrow, but the aim is wide and it comes dangerously close to hitting Inuyasha. “HEY, watch were your aiming that thing will ya?” And with a thunk the arrow buries itself in the hairball that Yura calls a home. The impact zone then begins to glow with a bizzare pink light, and once it subsides Yura’s home begins to fall apart, reavealing that the hair is still attached to the skulls of the dead. Kagome blanches at the sight, Jin gaggs, Yura’s face addopts a panicked look as her home has becomed so severly damaged, while Inuyasha’s eyes widen, “those are the guys from the village!” Yura turns to face Inuyasha once again, “I’ll be adding your head to my collection as well, once I separate the pretty hair from you head, it’s wasted on you anyway.” Yura then picks up her comb, “but first things first, that woman has to die!” She swings her comb forward causing a long tentacle of hair to swing towards Kagome. The poor girl is frozen in fear and can’t dodge in time. “Kagome look out!” Jin leaps forward and knocks Kagome to the ground the tenticle then slams into his side, with a sickening crunch. Jin then flys back and coughs up blood, time seems to slow down as the human boy soars through the air his mind races at a mile a minute, so this is how it ends huh? I’m pretty sure that Yura will take another shot at Kagome once she’s sure I’m out of the way. Then she’ll kill Inuyasha and that’ll be the end of that. Well at least I’ll keep my last promise to dad, I died fighting to protect the people who are precious to me. But now I can’t help but think that Inuyasha was right, I don’t have any special powers, I was nothing more than a one time human shield. I just wish I could do more. As he finishes this thought he lands on the ground with a sickening thud, but through some bizare law of physics, or lack thereof, his tuneing fork necklace stikes at a rock behind him, realeasing powerful soundwaves, Inuyasha cringes in pain as the sound reaches his sensitive ears, and suprisingly even Yura flinches at the sound and if forced to cover her ears. The tuneing fork then flies up and passes right in front of Jin’s forehead, the soundwaves enter his body causing the same face on the tuneing fork to appear on his forehead. The energy flows through his body healing his injuries, Jin’s eyes snap open in surpirse and elation as the energy triggers somehting deep within, and at this moment Jin can only think of one thing to say, “HENSHIN!” The boys body is encased in purple flames startleing everyone, especially Kagome, what’s going on? The enflamed being stands up and with a wave of his hand the flames disperce reavealing a new person.

This one is just as tall as Jin but is covered from head to foot in indimidating purple armor. On his forehead is the same symbol as is on his tuneing fork, with two small horns adorning the sides of the symbol, the large black eyepieces obscure his eyes and large portion of his upper face, his lowerface is covered by a mouth piece that srangely resembles the grill on a furnis, his arms are covered with purple and silver gauntlets. His shoulders are addorned with white plates that resemble bat wings, while his chest and abdomen is covered with a black form fitting plate, aournd his waist is a golden belt, attached with a round buckle, with the kanji for drum shining proudly, his legs are covered with powerful looking purple armor, with a silver “bracer” around his ankle, his tennis shoes were replaces with two black metallic boots with silver soles. “Jin” stares at his new body for a few moments, before deciding exactly what to say, “well, that’s interesting.” Everyone snaps out of their surprise, the first thing out of Inuyasha’s lips is avery articulate, “WHAT THE HELL?” Kagome stares at the being that was mere seconds ago her dieing best friend, is that really you Jin? While Yura’s response is very different, she actually begins to shake, “this is impossible you were human only a few seconds ago.” Jin “smirks” behind his helmit, “well just goes to show, I’m full of surprises. And it’s only fair for me to warn you right off the bat, I’m pretty strong.” (A.N: play double action sword form) Yura screams in anger, and launches another tenticle of hair at the transformed human, Jin then curls his fingers in a very Inuyasha-like fashion, and with a cry of “onidume” his finger tips extend into claws that easily shred throught the steel like hair. Yura’s scowl deepens as she then sends a tenticle of hair to sneak up of the now demonized boy. “Jin behind you!” Yells Kagome, but thankfully while the warning was apreciated, it was unessicary as Jin in his demon form has gained a sense of hearing that could compete with Inuyasha’s powerful ears, as such Jin heard the tentilcles comeing long before Kagome saw them, he then leaps into the air and shoots towards Yura cocking his right fist back and then letting lose a powerful hay-maker. Yura gets knocked back but she then rightens her self and draws her sword, Inuyasha uses this opportunity to make his own move, he drives one of his clawed hands into the open wound on his chest, covering them in his blood, he then swings his claws forward performing his second signature move, “BLADE OF BLOOD!” several curved blades made of pure energy shoot forward and slice Yura’s sword hand clean off. As her hand tumbles down the hairs around Inuyashas left arm losen significally. Yura’s hand gets stopped in mid hair by a group of strands as she huffs at her predicament, “now that’s just not fair.” Inuyasha just laughs, “hah, serves you right.” Yura then wheels towrads Inuyahsa, “I’d almost fogetten about you doggie. I do wish that you’d show some restraint when addressing a lady. Were you brought up in a dog house or something?” “Maybe he was,” says Jin coming out of nowhere, “but I’m not complaining at the moment.” Jin then flies down delivering a massive flying kick to Yura’s side. Yura grabs another set of strands and manipulates them causing the skulls to fly towards the two good demons. Inuyasha simply crushes them with a few well placed punches, while Jin knocks them away with a barrage of kicks. Then Yura’s sword hand, still clutching its blade, whiz’s by the heads of the two warriors missing them my mere inches. “Hold still,” pouts Yura, “it’s harder to hit you two when you move.” Inuyasha swings his hand forward producing more energy blades, “Yeah I bet.” Yura then conjures up a wall of hair, stopping Inuyasha’s attack in its tracks, it is a this moment Yura implements a sneak attack, her sword hand swirves around and drives itself clean through Inuyasha’s left shoulder, “Inuyasha!” yells Jin. The dog boy falls to the ground with a thud, while Yura’s had replaces itself on her wrist, as a large set of hairs litterally stitch the hand back into place, not even leaving a scar. She smiles evily at the hapless half-demon before her, “half-demon, half-power, I should have figured.” Inyasha merely growls. “Your dissapointed aren’t you?” The hair witch asks as the places the pouch with the jewel shard wthin her cleavage. “I’ll bet you were planning to use this to turn into a full demon weren’t you?”

Jin’s “eyes” widen she still has the jewel! Oh what to? What to do? It’s then that Jin gets an idea, an idea that makes him shiver a little, (oh boy, I’m gonna regret this.) Jin leaps towards the two combatants as Yura raises her sword, “now hold still! If I don’t get a clean cut, the blood is gonna’ stain your beautiful hair.” “I don’t think so! Onidume!” Jin flys forward, and much to his future chagrin drives his clawed hand right into the middle of Yura’s chest and clean out the other side. When Jin pulls his hand out of the gaping wound the pouch with the jewel shard falls to the ground right in front of Inuyasha. Jin then shakes the blood off of his hand, “ugh, I’m never gonna’ live this down.” “Serves you right you witch.” Then as Inuyasha reaches for the jewel, a foot stomps on his hand, “what the?” exclaimes Jin as Yura’s hand launches forward as she begins the strangle the transformed warrior. “Why I never, a human I just met sticking his hand in my chest?” Both Inyasha’s and Jin’s eyes widen in shock, that’s impossible thinks Jin, how can she still be alive? Thinks Inuyasha. Yura tosses Jin aside before bending down to retrive the jewel shard, “plus there is the fact that you tried to steal my shard. I am very cross with both of you.” Inuyasha stares intently at his opponent her weak spot, where the hell is it? Yura snickers as she prepares to launch another attack, but her attention is drawn back to her lair, to see Kagome climbing up the pillar of hair. Yura scowls angrily as the draws the strings connected to her left hand, causing the column to shift and almost cause Kagome to fall off. Inuyasha then uses this distraciton to grab Yura’s sword and raises it up over his head. “You shouldn’t have looked away.” And with a powerful swing he cuts the woman diagonally across her shoulder. As the bisected demon begins to fall apart, hair comes form nowhere and stiches her back together again. Yura, with fury ablaze in her eyes turns around to face the half demon, “all right, that does it!” With a wave of her hand Yura strings Inuyasha up again, and the turns to Jin to prepare to do the same to him, when Inuyasha draws her attention back to him with a snicker. “When I took your hand it was only like you broke a nail. But now you seem mad for real, what’re you hiding that your so worried about.” Yura growls at the Hanyo, and as she prepares to attack again Kagome grabs everyones attention. “Guys, that red skull up there. Concentrate on that.” Inuyasha and Jin both stare in the direciton Kagome is pointing, but Inuyasha just scowls in confusion, “what red skull?” Jin double takes at his half demon comrade, “what do you mean “what red skull?” its right there plain as day.” Yura’s eyes shift nerviously between the human girl and the neo-demon boy, they can both see it now? Yura then shoots off towards Kagome, seeing as she was closer to her prized possetion. Inuyasha snaps himself free from his bonds “oh, no you don’t.” Inuyasha and Jin both rush forward to help Kagome. Yura pulls a large batch of hair nearly forcing Kagome to let go, “stop pulling my hair! Your getting it tangled!” Yura then chucks her sword at Kagome, it strikes her arm forcing the girl of the future to let go, and tumble through the air. Yura then strings Kagome up and to her surpise, in spite of the sword attack Kagome appears perfectly fine. “What are you? Why don’t you breath?” She’s right, why wasn’t my arm cut off? She then remembers what Inuyasha said about his cloak. But her thoughts are cut short as she realises that Yura is mere inches from her face. “Even from here you look pretty mortal to me. Let us put you to the test.” With a wave of her hand Yura causes a strand of hand to wrap tightly around Kagome’s neck, suffocating her. Yura would have succedded too if Inuyasha didn’t press the attack, “BLADES OF BLOOD,” the barely concious Kagome looks up, “Inu-yasha”. “Don’t you faint on me you stupid girl!” Jin then leaps up and uses his claws to just through Kagome’s bonds and catches her on their way down. Inuyasha the lands next to the two, “hey, could have done that.” Jin raises and eyebrow, at the demon boy, “the why didn’t you?” “Inuyasha, Jin look out!” yells Kagome as Yura’s sword comes flying in stabbing the dog boy in the right shoulder. The two fighters turn around and see Yura standing atop a pile of skulls, “you all seemed to have forgotten, I’m immortal!” Jin scowls angrily at the demon woman, “that was a low blow witch!” The mouth piece on Jin’s mask then twists into a very demoic looking mouth, and with a cry of “Hojustu Onibi!” he shoots a long purple string of flame at the demon woman driving her back, “even flames cannot stop me!” boasts Yura but then there is a bizzar tapping sound this sound causes Yura to freeze in her tracks. Everyone looks over and sees Kagome stabbing the red skull over and over again with one of her arrows. “It’s here, this red skull, the hairs are connected to her hand.” Yura immediately begins to freak out, “stop that, I’ll kill you!” Yura then throws her sword at Kagome but it doesn’t come close as Jin intercepts the blade by catching it in his hand. “Kagome now!” Kagome nods and then draws back her hand, and with one last blow spits the skull into several pieces, revieling a tiny object inside that immediately gets split in two from the arrows blow. Yura siezes up and then simply disitigrates leaving nothing but her clothes.

Kagome picks up half of the object that was hidden in the skull, a simple red comb. Inuyasha staggers up to Kagome and Jin, “so that’s what Yura really was.” Jin cocks his head in confusion, “Yura was a comb?” Inuyasha looks over at the armored warrior, “after everything you’ve seen and done here are you surpised? It probably got its power from combing the hair of the dead.” Kagome then walks up to Inuyasha to try and inspect his injuries, “Inuyasha, the stab wounds on your chest, you only got them because I have your kimono.” Inuyasha scoffs, “it’s no big deal, anyway what happened to the jewel.” Jin then walks up to Yura’s remains and picks up the pouch with the shard inside. “It’s right here dog boy.” Inuyasha then stands up and rushes up to Jin, “oh, no you don’t your scent now screams demon I wouldn’t trust you to even look at one of the jewel shards.” Jin growls angrily, “look here dog boy,” before Jin can finish his rebuttle the purple flames that catalized his transformation surround him again, and with a loud woosh standing in the demons place once again is the bespecticaled music loving Gaijin boy. “Aw, man I just getting used to that.” Kagome then walks up to her friend. “Well at least your back to normal now. What do you think made this happen?” “I’m not sure,” says Jin as he fingers the tuneing fork on his necklace, “but I’ve got a pretty good idea.” “Jin, Kagome, lets go.” Both members of the future population then look over to the half demon boy and stare at him, Inuyasha quickly becomes irate, “what?” Kagome then blinks, “nothing it’s you’ve never called us by our names before.” Jin then gets a goofy grin on his face, “aw, don’t you see Kagome, he’s finnally warming up to us.” Inuyasha then scoffs again, “yeah well don’t get used to it, only one of you has gotten less useless.” Kagome then slaps the demon boy on the back, “well next time remind me not to save you.” Inuyasha then frozen stiff by pain then topples to the ground like a tree gnawed clean through by a beaver. Kagome then fumes at the demon boy, “if it hurts so much why didn’t you say something.” “Aw, leave alone will ya.” Meanwhile a great distance away from the battlefield Kaede, waits in her hidding place, “Inuyasha, only by working together will ye succeed. Also don’t forget where ye buried me.” Kaede then sneezes sending several leaves flying to the air. Meanwhile a distance away a young man sits in an old temple, meditateing around his neck is a necklace similar to Jin’s but instead of a tuneing fork there is a small flute, he then breaks out of his trance, and scowls, “he has shown himself at last. So now I must wait until the time is right. And then the wind and the flame can once again clash.”

Well now its happened, Jin has finnaly transformed into his alter ego. How will this effect his relationship with the other jewel hunters. Stay tuned to find out.

Next time: episode 5, Aristocratic Assassin Sesshomaru, and the secret of the sound.