Inuyasha's forest was quite still that day, only the odd breeze blowing through. It was in this forest that Kagome emerged from a well with a mystic hole through time. It was here, Kagome hoped as she reached the well, that the way back home was as well.
Kagome looked down the well mouth, and swallowed as she saw a pile of bones at the bottom.
"They call it the 'Bone-Eater's Well'," Kaede had said. "It is a dumping ground for the corpses of demons and monsters. Pass by a few days later, and the corpses will have vanished."
These are the bones of Mistress Centipede! Kagome thought. Her knees gave out, and she sunk below the lip of the well. No! No! I can't go in there!
*flappita-flappita* *splut*
Kagome turned at that sound, finding several sparrows had been cut into neat pieces at her feet.
"EWWWWWWWWW!!!" squealed Kagome, rising to her feet suddenly. In doing so, she felt something cut across her psuedoflesh shell at her cheek, drawing blood and making her flinch back in pain. She blinked, looking around her for what had cut her.
"HAIR?!" she gasped in disbelief.
"La? So you can see it, can you…" came a voice from above, sultry and feminine. Kagome glanced up to see a woman several feet in the air, standing on a tightrope of a single strand. "My hair net?" she concluded. "But simply seeing it will do you no good!"
"Who are you?!" asked Kagome.
"Yura of the Hair," replied the strange woman in a very abbreviated dress. "But I won't be offended if you don't remember it, for your life is about to end." The strange woman, Yura, drew one hand up, each finger wrapped with a single hair. The net seemed to come alive, attacking Kagome from all directions. Kagome guarded, letting the miko's clothing she still wore take the brunt of the damage.
"OH!" gasped Kagome as a single hair snagged the pouch she kept the Shikon jewel in away. The attack stopped immediately.
Yura caught the baggie, and took out the glowing jewel. "La! You have taken good care of this jewel!" she chuckled, slipping the jewel, back in the baggie, into her well-displayed cleavage.
"Give that back!" demanded Kagome, yanking at the hairs despite the wounds they caused to her pseudoflesh.
Yura smiled in a falsely sweet way, sliding down her tightrope of hair at a pretty good clip, fluidly unsheathing her sword and preparing to strike. "You may die now!" she declared, and slashed.
Kagome ducked the slash, arching back, then continued her arch to catch herself on her hands. Yura's strike was too enthusiastic, and she had overextended herself. Kagome took advantage of that overextension by kicking up her feet and using her legs to grasp Yura about the chest, pinning her arms to the sides. Kagome then slammed Yura's head against the lip of the well very very hard, thus completing her counterattack.
It was just by luck that the jewel back fell out of Yura's cleavage and dropped into Kagome's waiting hand. Really.
Yura fell bonelessly to the ground, her eyes a-twirly after being completely knocked out by a blow to her noggin. @.@ (Her soul may have been safely in a comb, but her mind was still in her head where it belonged.)
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