As Naruko sniffed the ground and Kagome tried not to stare too much or say how simultaneously adorable and weird it was to see another girl with her buttocks in the air, said schoolgirl was tying fireworks to arrows. Naruko finally caught on to the blond boy's scent of salty noodles and turned to the dark-haired girl just as she finished readying her ammo.
"Are you sure you're her reincarnation?" she grumbled, "She just needed normal arrows, no toys from humans to make them heavier."
"It'll be better than nothing." Kagome replied and saw Naruko ready her back for her to get on, which she did, "Do you have any idea what we may need to do?"
"Cut off her head, and if that doesn't work then we find where the hell her real source of power is." Naruko said flatly, "Now don't go falling off and make sure you don't shoot me."
"I won't!" Kagome shot back, sighing at the end, "Listen, we saw what she's like. I can see where her hair comes from, so it's you who needs to be more careful."
"Just point me where to cut and I'll do so!" the white-haired hanyo snapped before taking off, feeling something on her back, "Huh…"
Kagome lifted a brow quizzically, "What is it?"
"Yours are smaller than hers and even tinier than mine." Was all Naruko said, and it took Kagome all her willpower not to smack her or shout the magic words, mainly because she reminded herself they were in the air. She made a mental note to try to take revenge for that line for later.
And then, it clicked, "Wait, how would you know that!?"
Naruko grew a pink blush, "None of your business!"
Kagome didn't know how to feel, "Did you and Kikyo... N-Not that there's anything wrong with that! At least where I'm from it's not that weird for two girls to be in lo—"
"It's not that, she always forced me to take baths with her to make sure I was clean!" the dog girl's face was as red as her kimono, and then she realized what she said, "Wait, was that why she always—Argh, look what you made me think about, woman!"
Kagome chuckled sheepishly, "I'm not judging..." she looked away with a small blush, "Although, that'd explain why you're so angry with me."
"Don't think anything weird!"
Currently in Yura's lair…
"Okay, drink this." Yura said as she held up a flask to Haruto's face. The currently rainbow-haired teen was staunchly refusing.
"No way!" He growled as Yura tried to shove the flask in his mouth, growing frustrated by his resistance.
"You don't have a choice. Drink!" She said as she kicked Haruto's gut, making him gasp with pain and allowing her to force the concoction down his throat. "There. Better?" She asked with faux kindness.
"No!" Haruto rasped, noticing Yura's look of mild surprise. "What now?" He groaned, waiting for another weird hair effect to be told to him.
"Hold on." Yura said before she quickly went behind him. Haruto heard a swish before feeling a bit lighter topside. Then he felt something being done to his hair. Yura then came back around and held the mirror towards him. "What do you think?"
Haruto was genuinely surprised to find his hair pretty much normal, except now it had a short spiky ponytail. It was a wild untamed tail of spiky-ness, the tip reaching a little below his shoulders.
"Woah, this is actually acceptable. Good job." He said with unexpected surprise.
"Thank you." Yura said with a small yet beaming smile. "This was my first time, so excuse me if I was a little sloppy." She said with a faint blush. It would've been adorable had the previous situations leading up to this hadn't occurred.
"Well, me too, so I can't really fault you." Haruto said kindly. For a few small moments, neither of them said anything, simply opting to bask in the quiet pleasure of the moment until Haruto spoke up. "Can I leave now?"
"Haha ah, no." Yura laughed out. "We're going to have children. Perhaps a platoon of them." She said while fighting off some chuckles, ignoring Haruto's looks of horror. "Now let's get your clothes off." She said as she reached towards Haruto, only stopping when she heard a faint whoosh sound.
Out of nowhere, an arrow came right towards her, almost managing to pierce her shoulder as she tried to leap away. Just as she leapt up to the safety of her hair above her lair she saw who it was. There they were, the human female in a red kimono and the modestly covered hanyo in her white undergarments, standing in front of her prize.
"I nearly got her!" Kagome wasn't sure whether to cheer or curse for that.
Yura was pissed, Dammit, I forgot to set up tripwires! I always get too careless when I'm giddy.
"What the hell man?!" Naruko growled out. "You let her do your hair!" She didn't mention this, but subconsciously, she found his hair in better taste.
"Kinda didn't have a choice." Haruto pointed out calmly, gesturing to his hair cocoon. Naruko simply "tched" dismissively in annoyance.
"I think it looks great on you." Kagome pointed, receiving a warm smile from Haruto while Naruko rolled her eyes, muttering under her breath.
"Hey!" Yura snarled, getting the attention of her rude and uninvited guests. "I don't know why you two bothered to come back for him after your defeat, but I do know this." She snarled as she flexed her hands with a smirk. Strands of hair flew like a web from different places, Kagome dodging with a slight "eep" to the side while Naruko barely paid it any mind, ignoring a slight scratch on her cheek. "I'm going to show you the meaning of bad hair day."
"Can you see what kind of torture I deal with?" Haruto quipped as he tried to break free.
Seeing that, Naruko flexed her fingers and ripped the hair cocoon to shreds, "Now run, you two. I'll kick her ass so hard her tongue will be my new pair of sandals." She readied her claws, but Haruto refused.
"After all I endured trapped with her? She ain't getting away without a decent punch from me." he took on an odd stance, his left hand lowered to his hip, his body's left side facing Kagome, and his right fist right at his chin's level. While Naruko found his pose confusing, Kagome—who had watched some of his matches thanks to her brother—knew what he'd do.
That stance … Yura thought for a moment until she shrugged off her curiosity, grabbing her wakizashi just in case anything got personal. She reigned in both her hands, unleashing four large tendrils of hair before making them crash down on the positions of her enemies.
Naruko pushed Kagome out of the way as she and Haruto dodged the hair tendrils. Kagome landed on her butt with her bow still in hand while the other two attempted to push forward. With a lunge, Naruko sent several claw swipes at Yura while angling her body to dodge a smaller tendril. Said hair yokai barely managed to dodge the projectile swipes, switching to blocking them with a massive hair tendril.
"You'll need to do better than that!" Naruko yelled as she shredded the hair and went after her, swiping wildly.
"Is that the best you—" she taunted, but paused after losing her sword arm before sending some hair out after the half-blood. "Little bitch!"
She slashed at Naruko, who ducked under the swipe, "Don't forget about me!" her failed attack left her vulnerable for the blond looking for payback, since she was now only a few feet off the ground.
Haruto jumped up with a left jab towards Yura's head, throwing his arm in a swift manner as if lashing out with it. She dodged a whip-like strike, his fist nearly brushing past her nose. She swore she could've felt something graze her. However, dodging the first strike, she was right open for Haruto's right hand as he spun around and delivered a swift punch.
"Yes, come to me!" Yura cheered as she raced at him, ducking under his punch to kick his feet in order to sweep him off the ground… only for him to stomp forward and deliver an upper-cut at her jaw!
Grinning proudly, Haruto watched the short-haired demoness flip three times in the air before she landed on her knees, where he proceeded to give chase with swift left jabs. Yura had to jump back and start dodging while Naruko joined the chase. The dog girl swiped fast but Haruto punched even faster, his left arm moving at blurring speeds while he tensed his right arm.
"You're mine!" the blond shouted, remembering what happened to him, what she did to the others, and he just wanted to end it with a straight right punch to her body.
Naruko would have kept swiping at the kunoichi, had she not seen something odd. "No way, is that—"
Both her and Yura felt the energy emanating from the boy's fist while Kagome saw it glow blue. It was moments before Haruto's hand lodged through her chest and this subsequently led to him falling on top.
"Oh my god!" Haruto gasped. He may have faced another demoness before and really disliked Yura, but sticking his hand through a still living kunoichi demon's chest was a very new experience.
"You're really sending me mixed messages." She quipped under him before kicking him away. That bastard could've taken my head off … Yura shook off her shock the moment she noticed the dog hanyo above her, apparently attempting maim her some more. With a smirk creeping on her lips, she roped in her previously severed arm in an effort to stab her from the side.
The blade would've made it, had an arrow from Kagome not struck it off course. "I-I actually got it!" the schoolgirl cheered as Yura panicked inwardly before she was diced up by Naruko's claws, momentarily out for the count as her hair moved to stitch her back together.
The trio watched the scantily clad woman's body move as if nothing had happened, not even a single stitch to be seen. Haruto cringed when seeing the spot his arm had gone through before staring at his fist, "Did I really do that?" he asked in both confusion and awe.
Yura smirked, "I knew I sensed something odd in you. What did you do just now?"
"Are you using some ki or something?" Naruko joined the interrogation, "Are you a monk of some sort?"
"I'm a boxer, I don't have any idea what I just did!" he snapped, feeling too confused, "I wanted to knock her lights out with all my might and then it just… clicked."
"So, you have untapped potential, good." Yura licked her lips, "What's making this change happen? Is it our time together or something else? Oh well, our children shall be an interesting bunch, to say the least."
She was going to taunt the other girls, but gasped when a stream of light flew at her, which she dodged only for an explosion of lights to make her regret not moving, "Got her!" Kagome said as she pulled a second arrow and lit the fuse with her mother's lighter. She also looked a tad angry.
Yura was blinded, leaving herself open for both the hanyo and the boxer. Haruto wasn't as quick as the white-haired dog girl, but he surprised her by being right behind her. When she slashed at Yura, forcing her to back away, Naruko could see that he packed quite a punch. Trying to remember the feeling of anger and determination flaring in him, Haruto lashed with his left arm at Yura five times in a split second. Without any way to protect her and not wanting to harm him for his precious hair, the hair demoness flipped back.
She thought she was safe, but hearing the loud stomp he gave to close the distance, she regretted it when receiving a haymaker that sent her flying back. Right behind her was Naruko, her claws ready and glowing. With a primal roar of anger, the dog hybrid clawed at the demon's back, making said yokai gasp as her body flew up like a ragdoll. She grunted and grit her teeth at the damage she was receiving. It was getting out of hand, not to mention that if they kept going, things could get messy. Thus, she raised her hands, her cocoon moving.
As the hair flew to repair the damage done to her nubile frame, she grinned, "This is actually getting fun." She licked her lips and observed the two… but noted something off, "Wait, where's the human."
Kagome had fired another loaded arrow, the typical explosion sending sparks that landed on Yura's moving lair, "I should've thought of this before!" she repeated the same motion, firing arrow after arrow with the clear intention of burning Yura's hair.
The yokai woman gasped as she observed the flames, and due to the fire eating her best weapon and means of transport, she started to fall, "No! No, no, no, no!" she ground her teeth and used her remaining hair to swing at Kagome, wakizashi ready, "You little bitch!"
However, the fire increased exponentially fast, making her land on the ground and skid to a halt before cold faced Haruto and a very pissed off Naruko, "So, mind if I call off the wedding?" he asked while cracking his knuckles slowly, getting her to sweat.
Naruko flexed her claws but said nothing, leaving what she had in mind to Yura's imagination, which made it much worse for her.
As her cries rang in the dark forest, Kagome observed and her face of determination changed into confusion, then worry, and then fear, "I-I am never ticking those two off…" she shuddered at the sight.