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~Half demons and fighting~
When Kagome woke up he sky was pale and the air was filled with a gray mist. The men worked to get the dogs ready, they looked like ghosts. She lay in Kaedes sled, bedded down under several layers of skins and fur. InuYasha slept in the snow not far from her but Kaede was up and about. She saw that Kagome had woken up and came over to talk.
Kaede looked at Kagome and by the sad look on the old pristess face she knew something was wrong.
"What is it?" She asked the conserned Kaede.
"I'm deeply sorry to say this Kagome, after all you whent throgh. The little boy died an hour ago. The ground is too hard for a grave so we decided to burn his remains." Kaede sighed heavily. ´"You did a brave and kind act and I'm proud. We know what they are doing to the poor children, so now we'll stop them from ever doing it again."
Kagomes eyes held tears but they didn't fall yet.
"Where is he? have they burned him yet?"
"No, he's over there." Kaede said and pointed.
"I wanna see him." Kaede knew it was pointless to argue with her when she was this determined. The boys body lay under a blanket next to the treck, she fell to her knees beside him and lifted the blanket. She looked at him for a long while and then returned to Kaede who gave her hot soup to eat.
"What are we gonna do about the demons?" She asked but got no anser from the pristess.
They soon had to be on their way again. The food made Kagome stronger and the cold she felt inside began to sip away. But first they burned the poor boy and as soon he was kremated they continued. It was a ghostly trip since the snow fell early and soon all they could see was the shadows of the dogs and feel the movements of the sled. The icecold and a neverending whirl of big snowflakes that where just a little darker than the sky and just a little lighter than the ground. Threw all of this the sled-dogs continued to run, with their tails high and their breaths as mist around them. North and more north they whent as the pale midday passed and turned to twilight. They stopped to eat, drink and rest in an opening between the hills.
Kaede spoke with Miroku for the best way to use his baloons. Kagome took this opportunety to learn more about InuYasha.
She ploped down next to him in the snow where he was gnawing on a frozen piece of deermeat hard as wood. It reminded her about the first time she had seen him.
"InuYasha do you ever feel alone?" She looked at him as he stopped eating and thought for a moment.
"Alone?" He repeated. "I don't know. Demons dosn't live in pacs."
"But what about the demons taking children?" She said thinking. "They must be many to pull off something like this."
InuYasha remained silent but ripped his meat in two.
"I'm sorry InuYasha." She said. "I'm just curious about you."
"I don't know, I am not a demon." This surprised Kagome a great deal.
"But Kaede said..." She was interupted by InuYasha.
"But Kaede said! dammit! do you think everything that comes out of that old hags mouth is true?! I've never been fully demon since I am just a simple fucking half-demon!!"
He continued gnawing on his meat but slightly more vicious than before but Kagome didn't notice since she was so caught up in her own thinking.
"Do they have a king or something, theese demons?"
InuYasha snorted at her question.
"There is this demon, who calls himself Naraku. What he really is a struk up idiot who can be easily mislead and falls for simple flattery!" He said and started eating again.
"Can demos ever be defeated?" She asked.
"Keh! bya huwman? No bay!" InuYasha anserd with his mouth full.
"Or fooled perhaps?" Kagome ponderd.
InuYasha stopped eating and looked straight at her with his stunning golden eyes.
"You'll never be able to fight them. You have seen me fight, a real fullblooded demon is alot stronger than I'll ever be." He let go of the meat and showed Kagome his deadly claws.
"One blow will crush a skull." He said. "Or cracks a humans spine or takes off a limb. I can bite, I have my sword to - Tetsusiga." He showed his fangs to Kagome who looked amazed.
"Enough about strength, lets talk about tricks. You cannot fool a demon, you want proof? Take a stick and fight me."
Kagome was curious to try and broke of a branch from a nearby bush, she tested it by swinging it from side to side. When she felt ready she turned to him, but she didn't really wanna hit him.So she tried to fool him by making a fake attack to his left then to his right but InuYasha didn't move. She then dared to front-attack to his stomach but her wheapon got pusched away. Surprised she tried it again only to be met again. He moved much faster and more confidient than her. She now tried seriously without any luck. He semed to know what she thought before she'd even done it. When she tried hitting his head he stopped herbut when she tred bluffing he didn't move. Kagome got annoyed and tried something more fierce. She didn't however make any contact with his body other than his arms he used to block her with. She was frightent so she decided to stop, sweating and tierd she sat down beside the unaffected InuYasha. Even if Kagome had a real sword he'd be unharmed.
"I bet you can catch bullets." Kagome said as she got rid of her stick - whepon. "How did you do it though?"
"By not being human..." InuYasha said."You can't fool a demon because they trust their instincts. Just like your powers to sence the Yuki or demon-power."
"But that's not the same is it?" She said, she had more respect for InuYasha now.
"It's the same thing." He said and sat down in the snow again to eat the remains of his meat. Kagome had opend her coat earlier but now the cold came back and she had to close it again.
Soon it was time to resume their travel, Kaede had agreed with Miroku to send him up to spy when they stopped to rest the next time since they where getting closer to their goal.Kagome would have liked to go with him up into the sky but Kaede would never let her do that so Kagome decided to rest instead and slowly fell asleep rocked gently by the sleds movement and for every step the dogs took they where gettinge closer and closer to the experiment-station...
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