Chosen by Aimee Blue

A real ominous presence

Chapter 1: A Real Ominous Presence

The huge boomerang soared through the air and sliced through the three sturdy thick bodied tree trunks as easily as if they were dandelion stems and sailed gracefully back to its owner who caught it with a dignified ease that suggested years of experience using the Hiraikotsu.

She was wearing a black latex suit that she used to practise in as it provided ease of movement.

Her ebony hair was tossed behind a shoulder and turned to look at her best friend as she stood on the porch of the shrine house with her bow string pulled taught as she focussed on her target.

She released the arrow and let it fly into the centre of the target yet again.  Her hair fanned out around her in a victory dance. She was not one to miss. She did not use her Miko energy though, that was besides the point she was merely practising her skills, not trying to purify anyone.

She smiled in satisfaction and tucked her long midnight wavy hair behind an ear before bumping fists with the Taijiya.

“Ne, Kagome-neechan do you think you’ve ever missed a target?” the younger brown haired boy on the porch steps sniggered as he stroked the cat in his lap

“Shut it Souta” she advised her blue eyes glinting dangerously

There was a slow and unexpected round of applause behind the two teenaged females and they turned to look at the intruder. His dark hair was pulled into a small ponytail at the nape of his neck and his violet eyes twinkled mischievously. He was dressed casually in a deep purple shirk and black jeans and radiated a lazy charm.

“Miroku-niichan!” both Kagome and Souta chorused as they ran to the newcomer practically tackling him to the ground as they hugged him within an inch of his life. He hugged them both back and winked at the dumbfounded Taijiya as she watched them in confusion. He smirked when she blushed as a result of his wink.

“Touch her I break your face” Kagome threatened low in his ear as she caught the direction his attention was focussed on. She knew her elder brother well and didn’t want Sango to kill her brother for his decidedly lecherous ways.

He chuckled lowly in return and released his two younger siblings before reaching forward to take Sango’s startled hand in his own.

“I am Miroku, Kagome and Souta’s elder brother” he smiled as she inserted her smaller calloused hand into his larger one, he brought said hand to his lips and she blinked in shock as a second later he was lying face first in the ground with a menacing Souta and Kagome standing above him.

“You never learn” Souta rolled his eyes and slipped the katana back at his hip as he had just used the butt of it to brain his elder brother.

“I warned you” Kagome muttered darkly as she kicked his leg

“Aw come on neechan, it was just a little harmless welcome” Miroku protested as he stood and went to hide behind Sango.

She was totally confused about her friends reaction, or overreaction and then Miroku cleared everything up for her as his hand began to caress her pert bottom.

He ate dirt again as Sango discovered her ancestral Hiraikotsu could be used on more than just demons; apparently it worked on lechers too.

Miroku grinned into the dirt, sure his head hurt like hell from the blows both Sango and his brother Souta had delivered to it, but it was worth it for the feel of that amazing ass, he could still feel it in his palm.

“Hentai” the other three chorused as they watched his hand twitch

***

“What happened to you three?” Mrs Higurashi asked as her two youngest children and Sango slumped in unison into seats at the kitchen table.

“Miroku met Sango-chan” Kagome explained

Mrs Higurashi chuckled darkly “Ah, yes my black sheep” she smiled reassuringly at Sango “I do hope you don’t take offense for his actions dear, he’s been like that for a while”

“At least he didn’t ask you to bear his child” Souta nodded at Sango reasonably

“Never say never otouto” said Miroku appearing in the back doorway to the kitchen and earning himself four dirty looks. He sniggered.

“Sango-chan is a guest in our house Miroku and I would appreciate it if you would treat her kindly” the twenty year old was scolded by his mother and he grinned sheepishly

“Gomen Okasan” he apologised before leaning back against the counter and surveying the kitchen in a musing fashion.

“So why have you decided to grace us with your presence?” Kagome asked as she untied her hair and ran her hands through it

“Yeah, aren’t you supposed to be in college?” Souta asked propping his katana by the door and straddling his chair again

“I was” Miroku frowned “but then I had this strange feeling of foreboding, and I knew I had to come home”

“Huh?” Kagome raised a delicate brow and Souta snorted

“Didn’t you use the same excuse to get into Ayumi’s house that night, or should I say, get into her pants?” Souta asked

“Souta!” his mother smacked the fifteen year old around his head with a tea towel

“He’s telling the truth though” Kagome said rolling her eyes

Miroku pretended to be wounded realised no one was buying it and settled for sheepish instead “Okay so maybe I did but this time I really mean it!” he exclaimed

“Tell it to someone who cares” Kagome muttered and Sango nodded in agreement

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“Ne, Kagome-chan, is your brother... you know... always like that” Sango asked as they sat on the swings in the local park together that night

“You mean perverted and unable to control his hands?” Kagome prompted

Sango blushed and nodded

“No”

“Oh”

“Usually he’s worse, he was on his best behaviour today because of Okasan” Kagome confided in the Taijiya

“Worse?” she yelped in shock

“Yeah, he was pretty mild today” Kagome commented as she swung off the swing and gestured for her friend to leave the park as it was getting dark.

“Mild?” she was incredulous, and rightly so as she had been groped at least ten times throughout the meal Mrs Higurashi had served them.

“Yep” Kagome made a popping sound on the ‘P’ of the word and walked backwards along the street so she could grin at her friend.

“Is it wise for you to walk backwards when you can’t even walk straight normally?” Sango teased

“I’m laughing hard on the inside” Kagome rolled her eyes and Sango chuckled as they reached the Taijiya street and split.

“See you tomorrow” Sango pledged

“Yeah see you” Kagome saluted her friend and turned down the other street with a slight skip in her step.

She crossed the road into Sora Street and frowned as the air took on a chill and cursed her bad luck for not bringing a jacket. She shoved her hands into her pockets and shuddered as she realised that it wasn’t just the cold air that was cooling her. She was aware of the presence of several Yokai up ahead and she prayed they were not aware of her.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t handle herself; rather it was more like she hated getting involved in altercations with Yokai as she more often than not came off with a bruise the size of Japan.

She continued walking along the street silently praying to Kami when she was met with the six Yokai she had sensed. Luck was not on her side she decided when she realised that not only were they panther demons, but they were also armed and pissed looking.

“Well, well, well” the panther leader crooned at her as he heaved himself up off the wall he had been leaning against “what do we have here?”

She pretended not to hear him and attempted to swerve around them before a clawed hand clamped down painfully around her upper arm with the claws biting into her skin as he threw her back against the wall and pinned her there with one clawed hand around her neck.

“Look let me go now and we can forget all of this ever happened” she pleaded and then frowned in confusion as the leader who had her pinned waved away the other advancing

 He was sniffing her right arm where his claws had drawn blood not a moment before. His tongue darted out and licked away the drops to her horror and she cringed as his rough tongue hit her soft skin.

“Wh-what are you doing?” she wriggled in his grasp and he glanced up at her curiously

“The blood of the shikon no tama onna?” he asked in shock and the other panther’s hissed in denial and shock.

They were confused and looking at each other for some kind of conformation. Kagome was also confused, but she didn’t have time to worry about that right now. She kicked the Yokai who was holding her in the stomach and then brought her fist up and into his face tearing through the cartilage that was his nose.

 She dropped gracefully to the floor on her haunches and put out a hand on the cold tarmac to steady herself as she looked up at the predators.

They had gone from being confused to abruptly being furious as they all launched themselves at her at once.

She ducked out of the way of her first assailant before bringing up her knee and smashing it into his gut and then bringing her elbow down onto the back of his head charged with a small amount of Miko energy that effectively knocked him out cold.

The boss man panther brought himself to his knees with his hand over his nose as he watched her dispatch two more of his pack with lithe ease that suggested training in this particular field.

“Take her down” he ordered the remaining two nasally “if we catch the shikon no tama onna we will be unstoppable!”

The two remaining panther glanced at each other and nodded before turning back to their prey who smirked slightly and held her hand out palm upwards and curled her fingers twice; inviting them forwards.

They came at her as one and she dropped and rolled to one side before kicking one in the backs of his legs reducing him to his knees, the other took a swipe at her head which she missed by inches and severed a part of her hair. The one on her knees took use of her distraction to take a swipe at her shoulder.

He landed the hit and his claws sliced through her fragile flesh earning a hiss of discomfort. She grabbed the offending wrist and twisted it behind the Yokai as she shot a bolt of purifying reiyouku at the other which knocked him unconscious and sent him flying into the alpha and they landed in a crumpled heap. The Yokai whose hand she was holding threw her from him harshly and she rolled across the gravel and winced as she landed hard on her injured shoulder. She stood shakily and barely managed to avoid his claws by an inch but was not as lucky as to avoid his foot as he kicked her in the gut effectively winding her and bringing her to her knees.

She gasped and panted as he grabbed her by her hair and yanked her face up so she was looking at him.

“Be a good Miko bitch now and I won’t have to kill you” he taunted

“Bite me” was her gasped reply as she shocked him with the last vestiges of her reiyouku

He slapped her openhandedly across the face and then sliced across the flesh of her collar bone with his claws effectively throwing her over onto her back. Her head slammed into the pavement and she blinked rapidly as spots of colour danced in front of her eyes and she tried to remain conscious.

It didn’t work very well and she watched with faltering consciousness as the Yokai brought back his bloodied claws and prepared to slit her throat.

Something green flashed in her vision but she was too far gone to open her heavily lidded eyes to see what it was. She was slightly surprised that she was feeling no pain and then, just before she let the black wall overcome her she heard a cold voice and a thump of skull cracking somewhere nearby.

“Pathetic”

A/N: We all know I don’t own Inuyasha and so I can’t pretend I do, but oh well. Anyway thanks for reading and review onegai.