"Burn it, burn it, burn it now!"
Running in terror with the little fox named Shippo on top of her head, Kagome Higurashi, the reincarnation of Kikyo and the one who seeks the shards of the Shikon Pearl, escapes from a strange red tentacle.
"Then stand still, can't you see it's only after you, woman!"
Keeping a stoic face worthy of the cold and regal Kikyo, a smile or two tries to escape Asahiko at Kagome's plight, but he manages to restrain himself and talk to her seriously.
"How am I going to stop myself? That thing. Ahh, here it comes, Asahiko, help, help!"
"Hahaha, okay, okay"
Laughing out loud in pure amusement, Asahiko forms a sword of white flames in his right hand and cuts the strange red tentacle in half.
Even after being cut in half by the flame sword, the tentacle still moves, though in a few moments the flames spread to those remains and set them ablaze.
"I should have chosen to go with Inuyasha..."
"I told you so too, ah, but you had to be the good one and keep me from meeting Miroku or harassing Hitomiko. ahh, did you just hit me with the bow?"
Staring at the bow that just hit the ground after hitting him in the forehead, Asahiko stares for a few moments in surprise and then a smile spreads across his face.
"Kagome pulls it r"
"Say it, Asahiko, and I swear you'll be a capybara before you even realize it"
"Wow, calm down. Love and peace, love and peace"
Taking a few steps backwards to protect herself, Asahiko raises her hands and starts waving them in the air, clearly she has surrendered. It was a smart thing to do, no one wants to suffer allied fire if it is possible to avoid it.
"Well done Kagome, you showed that furball who's boss!"
"Shippo, maybe it's not"
"Ahhh, let go, let go, fur ball"
"Oh, little tanuki, I'm finally going to make a cap out of your hair"
Flashing an ear to ear grin full of sharp teeth, Asahiko pulls Shippo close with one of his tails and fills him with dread. The fun was going swimmingly, at least for Asahiko, until some whispered words stop him in his tracks.
"I never thought I'd have to use it, but it looks like I should bring the camera next time. Let's see if he keeps behaving like that after that."
"Kagome... I'm a demon, I can hear you and sense the malice in your tone of voice."
"Hahaha, no such thing. The photo camera is to keep the memories of all of us, it's obviously a very good thing."
Asahiko may be playing dumb, but he is someone from high society, with studies and a complicated family... That is to say that if he wouldn't avoid reality he would be very smart, so he could easily notice that something is wrong here.
Thousands of plans seem to cross Asahiko's mind, from Kagome taking embarrassing pictures of him, to Kikyo sealing him with an arrow by seeing him flirting with other women.
"I, I... I'm going to believe you, clearly you've always been the nicest of the bunch, Hahaha"
"Kagome he's shaking?"
"Indeed... Shippo"
...Christopher/Asahiko pov...
Advancing underneath the reddish tentacle for an arm this undead has, I fix my stance after the dodge and with an upward swing of my sword cut off his arm.
Without expecting this thing to feel pain or anything like that, I explode the sword with flames and they completely devour our bodies.
"Do you always have to do that?"
"Of course I do, Kagome. Besides looking amazing engulfed in flames, these things don't seem to die until burned to a crisp."
Kicking at the charred remains of the corpse, from the broken houses to the sides more infected begin to emerge. Some maintain human form with minor changes, while others are a shapeless mass of flesh... It seems that before they died they did suffer.
"More are coming out from the back house, Kagome!"
"Thank you, Shippo"
Not doubting the tanuki's words one bit, Kagome does a quick spin, just as if she had eyes in her back, and with an arrow shot brings the infected down.
A normal arrow would do nothing to these infected, but Kagome's is a holy arrow... Well a proto holy arrow actually. Yes, she is improving quite a bit thanks to training with Hitomiko over the past few days.
"Don't be so confident, Kagome"
Pointing my finger at the newly fallen, a small flame rises above my head and forms a javelin, seeing that it's big enough, I send it to the infected.
The infected upon being pierced begins to let out some monstrous screams, but is quickly consumed by my white flames, which are more charged than normal to cause damage to curses or bad things.
"Aghh, again I missed with my arrow... I couldn't purify it completely"
"Easy, Kagome, it's not your fault"
"Shippo has a point, these things don't seem to be weak to purification... Just as if they were something natural and not supernatural"
Letting one of my tails stroke my chin unconsciously, I push a thought or two through, though none seem to give me a quick solution to the matter.
"A, ko, Asahiko, we're being surrounded!"
"Sorry, I have gotten lost in my thoughts. Diu, too serious an answer... Okay, let's end all this with a big boom"
"Kagome, I think this is a bad idea"
"Me too, Shippo"
...Time later...
"So you guys were responsible for the explosions?"
"Not us, Asahiko was"
"Wow if you rat me out like that being friends, I don't want to know if we were enemies"
Leaning against the ruins of an old building on the road, he took his eyes off the night sky and pointed out that Kagome is a snitch.
"You'd be full of arrows by now, do you forget how you carried me!"
"Don't let your imagination run wild, Inuyasha. She wanted me to take her on a horse, but I'm a married man, I can't do such things... Um, um, I'm a man with morals."
Nodding my head several times, I gave Miroku a thumbs up and made it very clear that nothing at all happened here.
"Master Asahiko is married?"
"I already told you that you don't have to call him that, Hitomiko. Besides he's not married, probably if Kikyo hears it Kikyo will probably stick an arrow in him."
"Wow, I can accept that I should call her by her name, but this is too much, every man wants to be called master by a beautiful young girl... What's next, are you going to steal her from me?"
Ignoring Miroku who wipes away his tears of pride silently, since I have completely accepted his philosophy of life, I swear I can hear the nuts in Kagome's head spinning.
"It's not a bad plan, since you're married you can't take her with you."
"Ha, I'm a demon, Kagome. Is Inuyasha's daddy could have several wives and the old feudal lords too, how can I not be able to do the same"
"That's right, Asahiko, nothing better than having a large and large family"
"You remain silent, Your Excellency!"
Watching as Miroku is grabbed by the ear and dragged into the ruins, I can only wish him good luck with the scolding in my heart. What? Did they think I was going to go help him, ha, he just brought this on himself.
Outside of that topic about the various wives, one that Inuyasha showed interest in until he was beaten by Kagome, we stayed up talking well into the night.
The ones who stayed to stand guard were Inuyasha and I, because Kagome punished him for talking about having multiple wives, while I just wanted to tease the idiot for the night.