Youkai Yura of the Hair [Page 3/7]

Hair, hair! Long hair, hairy hair! Tight hair,shiny hair! Coiling hair, dancing hair! Hair, hair, hair!
Acknowledgement between partners also.
Grampa knocks:
Open this, Kagome!


Meanwhile, Inuyasha swipes athis hairy hair bonds.


Our hanyou's hair cuts swarm onthe ground, joining together.

Kagome:
Themore cut, the more comes back..there's no end...

The hairs coil in a big swirl,torrenting outto Inuyasha!Kagome sights something: That is...
A single hair spun from thewell!That'sit! That's the one controlling the rest!Inuyasha,this one!
Cut this hair!

Him: (fighting hair):
Where? Where?
She realizes that he can't seeit, so lifts it up and paper-cuts herself, dotting the strand withblood,
so Inuyasha can see it.


Our boy swipes it, and hishairy captors go limp,

and smoke away.


It's overnow. our hanyou says as Kagome rubs her hand.
Kagome:
Odd...ifwhat Yura wants is the Shikon no Tama shard, she already has it. Isshe...after me and Inuyasha?
Inuyasha,let's go back! Inuyasha:
Huh? You'regonna listen to me now?

Kagome:
I don'twant to, really.
Butif I stay here, Grandpa, Souta, and Mama will also be in danger...


Her thoughts are interrupted bythe cloak upon her head.




Inuyasha: It'smade of the Fire Rat's fur, he says; eyes to the well. That'll be stronger than any armour.Kagome: Thankyou. Inuyasha: Your skin looks veryfrail, he fehs.
Kagome:
You're the weird one here!
Inuyasha:
Well, I don't care. Let's go.



 
And together they jump






into the passage of time.Inuyasha has his arm around Kagome-first connect?
A reach forfriendship, or partners?


Yura waits and knows they'll beback soon.:
This time I'll have some real fun with them.

She pets a red skull.


In a clearing, Kaede's stillburied. Perhaps she speaks to keep her sanity:
 Do you understand, Inuyasha?
Kagome is thereincarnation of Kikyou-oneesama.
But sheherself doesn't realize her own power.
She needs your help!


And the two come peep out inthe other world.
Kagome:
Be careful! Even the well's surroundedby the hair.
Inuyasha:
You mean that Yura of the Hair's after us?
Kagome:
Yeah.She already has the Shikon no Tama shard,
butstill...
Inuyasha:
What? Wait a sec!
You lost it?!


Kagome looks at the woods:
Here...there are some strands of shining hair.

They mustbe the mainones. At their end must be
Yura of the Hair!


Overthere!




Kaede continues her soliloquy:
There's no time for fighting. You need Kagome, and she needs you!
You twomust overcome this together!The pup's a horse.



They spot a campfire as our boyruns/jumps through the woods.  Around it are decapitatedcampers,
wearing warrior armour andarrows.
Kagome:
They're headless!



Inuyasha walks over:
These runaway samurai must've been caught in the hair trap. They had noluck.
What areyou doing, crouched down like that? Don't tell me you wanna go backbecause your back hurts or something.She takes a bow and arrowquiver.



Kagome:
I'm borrowing this.
If we don't defeat Yura soon, more innocentpeople will get hurt.
 And later: Inuyasha:
What's the use?
You can't hit anything
with a bow.

Kagome:
Don't be so mean!
If Ipractice...
Inuyasha:
Practice? Did you?

They land upon a tree.



Kagome:
I'm starting now. I'll show you how good I can be!
Inuyasha:
This girl...she'suseless,
but she sure has backbone.
Kagome:
The main strands gather here. We're close!
Ever closer to their tree
draws shiny hair.