Always there

"Over my dead body..." InuYasha said.



She stared at him.



"Well...that could be aranged..."



She extracted her swords from their sheats and put them in a protecting x-form infront of her chest. InuYasha answered by taking out tetsaiga. Then he smiled.



"Come on little girl...give me your best shot..."



Hideaki looked down on him.



"Pathetic hanyou...I have never lost a fight before. Im not starting now..."



She left those word hanging in the air and threw herself at InuYasha. Tetsaiga met her swords and the air got thicker. Hideaki got down on one knee, then she pushed herself into the air, vaulted and landed behind InuYasha then she smiled at Kagome and raised her swords.



"Night night sweetie..."



She layed an arrow on her bow and fired, it hit the ground far away from where they stood. InuYasha came out of nowhere and landed infront of her. The second she was going to let her swords go to kill Kagome, tetsaiga met them instead.



"Why don't you give up bitch?!" InuYasha said in anger.



She laughed.



"Because i always win..."



InuYasha kicked her over the legs and she fell to the ground.



"Not so cocky now, are we?"



She got up on her feet real fast and jumped backwards up on a rock.



"Enough! this game has been going on for to long! I'm gonna do what i came here to do!"



She started to rub the swords against eachother. Suddenly a firespark appeared between them, and the more she pulled them apart the bigger it went. Then she started to form it by the movement of his arms. It became a big ball of fire. Suddenly her eyes turned red and her hair got loose from braid it had been caught up in.



"Now...you....DIE!!!!!" she screamed at Kagome, and then she aimed at her and fired the giant fire ball.



InuYasha threw himself at her, pushed her away and got hit straight i his back.



"INUYASHAAAA!!" Kagome yelled in panic.



But he didn't move. She tried to find a way into him, but the ball had fallen to pieces and the grass was burning.



"No..."



Then she felt something pull her away from him and threw her at the ground. Hideaki looked at her with rage in her eyes.



"No, Let me go! He'll die!"



Once again she pulled her swords, this time she put them in a x-position with one sword on each side of her neck.



"He is a hanyou...I could smell his disgusting scent...That he is protecting such a filthy human like...It does'nt surprise me at all.

And now...I'll cut this pretty little neck of..."



She increased the preasure and Kagome felt how it was getting harder to breathe.



"Inu...Yasha..."



She looked up against the fire. Suddenly she heard a voice an Hideaki literally flew away from her by the touch of InuYashas hand.



"You stay the hell away from her!!"



She hit a tree and sunk to the ground.



"I'll give you one last chance to live before i kill you. Answer this: Why are you after her?"



"I..."



All of a sudden she stopped breathing, as if something was suffocating her.



"No, please..." she begged.



"I'm not gonna tell! N-nooo....!"



She leaned backwards at the treetrunk and faded away, along with the fire. He looked at her as she dissapeared. There was something very wrong here... He looked at Kagome.



"You ok..you're bleeding!" he said.



She lifted her fingers to her throat.



"It's just a scratch, nothing serious."



"Here...come with me. We'll have Kaede look at this."



He lifted her and walked a bit before he could start running. Who was Hideaki? And what...or rather WHO killed her? What did she want with Kagome?







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KAEDE'S VILLAGE

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InuYasha opened the door to Kaedes hut and walked in with Kagome in his arms. Everybody looked up.



"Kagome!"



"Kagome-chan!"



"What happened?"



The questions circulated in the room. And while Kagome was getting treated for her wounds InuYasha told them what had happened.



"I wonder who Hideaki was..." Sango mumbled.



"This sure is not good..." Miroku said trying to remember anyone by that name.



"Why send a killer after me?" kagome asked.



"Why not kill me on their own?"



"There must be someone in on this who doesn't want to be seen...If i din't know that Naraku was dead i could have swore that it was him. It also could have been Kikyo...But she still seems rather weak to me..."



"Maybe thats why she sends other people after her?" Shippou said.



"No..." Kaede said.



"She hates Kagome so much that she wants to kill her by herself."



"True..." he said.



"Well...i'm out of guesses" Kagome said and smiled.



"Aaaaw man i need to take a bath!"



"Sango, wanna join?"



She nodded and they went out the door. As soon as they left Miroku walked aginst the door.



"Hey...Hentai! where exactly are you going?!" Shippou said.



"Somebody...eh has to keep an eye on the girls..."



Wam! InuYasha smacked him in the head.



"Geez...Youjust never learn...You perverted monk..."



Miroku laughed nervously before he sat down on the floor and looked at InuYasha who had let his mind wonder to Kagome...Hideaki and everything that had happened during the day.



Who would want to kill her?







To be continued...