Bonds- Chapter 1
"Look out!"
Sesshoumaru turned towards the source of the voice.
"Inuyasha?" He was surprised! What is that halfbreed doing here? Didn't i tell him to stay away? That insufferable wretch, he'll get killed at this rate!
And then suddenly, he sensed Ryouku charging towards him with a malicious smirk on his face, fangs gleaming under the sunlight, sword raised- all prepared to attack him.
"Today shall be the day that I will finally defeat you, Sesshoumaru! The Western Lands will soon have a new leader. And that lovely lady Rin", he said with eyes and voice full of lust..."she will be mine!"
Upon hearing that, Sesshoumaru began to lose all manner of control that had taken him years to perfect. His instincts were nagging at him to save Rin! Save Inuyasha! Protect them!
Protect?
Since when do I protect others? Rin maybe, but...Inuyasha? At that moment, he saw a glimpse of himself in the past with his father before he died a long time ago, his father asking him,"Tell me Sesshoumaru, have you someone to protect?"
Father, I Sesshoumaru have no need of such.
Without warning,Sesshoumaru suddenly felt a terrible pain on his right shoulder and he was flung back towards the tree behind him. That bastard!
This sesshoumaru was distracted by the past, he grimaced. It was then that the wretched Miko who was working with Ryouku chose to send a purifying arrow towards him.
Sesshoumaru felt an intense pain coursing through his entire being. The pink light from the miko's arrow had managed to hit his injured shoulder, rendering his right arm weak and useless. Seeing Sesshoumaru in his weakened state, the miko then fired another purifying arrow at him. The arrow made a path of blinding pink light before it hit its target. The last thing he remembered was the image of Inuyasha, back towards him, tetsusaiga unleashing the Meido Zangetsuha and sending that miko to hell. And Rin... Rin!
"Lord Sesshoumaru!"
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Inuyasha flung his sword to the ground and cursed himself for allowing Ryouku to retreat with Rin while he was dispatching the miko to hell. "Dammit!" He began running towards where Sesshoumaru was lying, unconscious...or so it seemed. Don't you die, Sesshoumaru! Don't you dare make me feel guilty for the rest of my life! And as he came closer and finally had a good look at his brother, he began to panic at the sight before him.
"Sesshoumaru!", he bellowed. Kami please, protect him! I don't want him to leave me...Isn't the reason obvious enough? He's the only family that I have left... The only one left, he added.
He found his brother lying in a pool of blood, his right shoulder bleeding and eyes closed, face scrunched up in pain. No demon could ever escape a miko's purifying arrow alive. " Tell me this is just a nightmare. Please Sesshoumaru, say something! Anything!", he pleaded.
With a gentleness he never knew he possessed, Inuyasha lifted his brother's head and cradled him near to his chest. Seeing his brother lying so still against him and being able to touch him like that without getting a claw swiped in his direction; it was unnatural. Wiping away the signs of blood on Sesshoumaru's face, he tried searching for any sign of breathing. Just...say something to tell me that you're still alright, he prayed. I still need you, brother.
Eyes closed, Inuyasha tried hard to prevent the tears that were threatening to fall. He clenched his eyes as tightly as he could, knowing that he had to be strong for his brother's sake. And at that moment, Sesshoumaru's eyelids slowly began to slide open, revealing a pair of beautiful golden eyes. Those eyes that looked so much like his and were filled with disdain when directed at him. " Inuyasha...?" His voice had lost their usual calm and smoothness.
"I'm here, brother" Inuyasha said. He's alive, he thought. Thank goodness. He just knew that Sesshoumaru was too powerful to be killed by the likes of a Miko.
"Where is Rin?"
Rin... Inuyasha's relief was shortlived. Upon hearing Sesshoumaru's weak voice asking for Rin, it took everything in his willpower to not start bawling like a kid. How could he tell Sesshoumaru that he had failed? That the one thing Sesshoumaru had fought to protect, was taken away so easily? That she was crying and pleading for him to save her when she was in Ryouku's hands? And that Inuyasha couldn't even prevent that bastard from taking her away?
"He managed to get away with her. I'm sorry Sesshoumaru... I was a total failure. Tetsusaiga couldn't protect her. I couldn't protect her." and I... I had failed you.
Immediately he felt a sharp spike in Sesshoumaru's aura and he looked down, gasping as he saw Sesshoumaru, eyes bleeding red and fangs elongating, the twin pair of magenta stripes on his cheek becoming more jagged by the second. Sesshoumaru was on the verge of transforming into his true youkai form out of instincts. He needed to find Rin before that fool Ryouku could do anything else to hurt her!
Inuyasha couldn't stand to be in a close proximity with his brother's youki radiating off him in large deadly waves. He could feel the hairs on the back of his neck standing unnaturally upright. He couldn't keep himself from suppressing a whine to tell Sesshoumaru that his all too powerful aura was scaring him into submission. You're scaring me, brother! Calm down.
Hearing Inuyasha's intimidated whine brought Sesshoumaru back to reality. His transformation was stopped midway as he reverted back to his humanoid form in a flash of blinding white light that forced Inuyasha to lift his right arm and shield his eyes.
"Inuyasha. You worthless half breed! You couldn't even protect Rin! You.." He was cut off by a hacking cough that racked his entire frame. Sesshoumaru's vision began to blur as he tasted blood in his mouth. He needed to rest! His forced attempt to transform in his severely weakened state had used up every last bit of energy he had left in his body. And as his feet start to sway, knees weakened, head spinning dizzily, he barely noticed Inuyasha lunging forward to catch him as he fell to the ground in a graceful sweep.
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