The Love Between Hanyous
Chapter 1
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It was a peaceful day outside, gorgeous in every sense of the word with a slight breeze that always seemed to accompany the early spring. Inuyasha and the group walked under the canopy of trees known as Inuyasha's forest. Sunlight filtered down through the massive branches and birds sang their songs above them. No one was saying anything, simply walking the dirt path, glad for silence and the chance to revel in their moment of brief serenity. Moments later the skies grew dark and heavy with rain clouds and all noise from above stopped. Miroku broke the silence. "Inuyasha, can you feel the demonic aura?" He locked eyes with the hanyou who only nodded his reply. "It feels similar to Naraku's!" Sango said, immediately out of relaxation with her hand on her Hiraikotsu; ready to attack should the presence they were all feeling truly be him. Inuyasha could feel him too and immediately pulled Tetsusaiga from its sheath. "His scent, it has to be him!" He scowled and bared his fangs. Kagome held shippou close to her and Kirara transformed to stand in front of them. All of them looked around, unsure of the direction their enemy would come from, with questions running a steady course through everyone's head. Was their enemy Naraku? Was it Kagura? Or perhaps a new incarnation of Naraku's? Whatever it was, they were prepared to fight with everything they had. An instant later, there were no more questions to ponder; they all spotted their foe behind them and turned around in unison.
"He he he, so you must be Inuyasha." Spoke the demon. He was an older man that looked to be around 50 in human years. He had grey blue hair with eyes that sparkled like sapphires. The demon wore rather elaborate armor in different shades of blue, patterned like foamy waves on his muscular frame. He held a dark blue staff in his left hand and pointed it toward Inuyasha and the others. The scent of wolves and sulfur plagued the air in the opposite direction. Inuyasha turned and saw a female around Kagome's age standing in front of three snarling wolves. "Don't forget about me, Inuyasha." She was quite beautiful considering, with long dark red hair and black strands on the top of her head done up with a comb. She had glistening ruby red eyes, a Kimono of black with red sakura, and a bright red halberd clutched in her right hand.
"Naraku seems to find you quite the nuisance, dog boy." She smiled, her silky voice still lingering in their ears. She jumped over them and did a flip so that she landed by the old man. Back to back the two stood, pointing their weapons toward the group. "Just who the hell are you and what business do you have with us!" Inuyasha demanded rather angrily. He was caught off guard by that girl; in fact he hadn't even been aware of her. If not for her scent she could have hurt Kagome and that made him quiver with anger. "My my, such a mouth on you young man." The older man shook his head with closed eyes and opened them to speak once more. "My name is Hageshii." he said, "And mine is Mizu" the girl introduced herself. "We were sent by Naraku with the promise of jewel shards if we could kill you, dog boy." She spoke with disgust and contempt for the group in her path. "Of course, why would we refuse to kill a half breed? That's easy enough to do and there is one less neusance in the world." She grinned at the fixed stare Inuyasha held for her. "Heh, we'll see about that. I see Naraku failed to mention that I've beaten him and his incarnations countless times before, so I can assure you this will be no different." "Ah, but of course we are not his incarnations, nor are we Naraku himself. Don't worry, you and your little friends will have plenty to deal with." Inuyasha had had enough talk and charged the two. "Fire!" Mizu's halberd began to glow at its tip and a moment later a fireball hurdled toward Inuyasha. He dodged it with a jump and the others scrambled to get out of its way. "Inuyasha," said Miroku "Be careful you idiot! Are you trying to let her hit us!" Inuyasha landed next to Kagome. "Ah quit your whining monk, you can take care of yourself." Kagome let go of shippou and grabbed his arm worriedly but she was quickly brushed away by the infuriated hanyou before she could open her mouth to speak.
"Inuyasha, Miroku is right! You need to be more careful!" said Sango angrily. "Naraku is behind this, so these must be formidable demons or else he wouldn't have sent them." He knew she was right. "Leave this to me." Miroku said, and held out his right hand. He tugged at the prayer beads. "Better think that over young man." said the older, more silent of their opponents. "Naraku said we should watch out for you, so to make sure you don't try and use that air rip of yours, we brought along a little preventative." He gestured toward the treetops where the saimyoushou flew overhead. Miroku let go of the beads and glared daggers at the two demons in front of him. Inuyasha lowered his voice for a plan of attack. "Miroku, you and Sango take care of the wolves, Kirara, stay and protect Kagome and Shippou. I'll take these two." Miroku and Sango nodded, almost having forgotten about the mutts behind them. Kirara hunched down and growled low in her throat. "Heh," said Inuyasha "I'm not gonna let you two bastards get the best of me, let's get this over with." Inuyasha held his sword over head, and used the wind scar. This was the signal to attack.
Sango turned immediately to one of the off gaurd wolves and threw her Hiraikotsu, cutting it in half. With the fight being one on one, they stood better odds. The other wolves became more hostile after the death of their comrade, and leapt at Miroku and Sango. Miroku held up his staff and lodged it in one wolfs open mouth to stop it from getting hold of him, but the impact caused him to fall. The wolf above him clawed at his flesh and Miroku screamed in pain. Sango turned to see Miroku's leg bleeding badly and moved to help, but the wolf she was fighting jumped, landed in her path and charged. Sango shielded herself with her hiraikotsu, and pushed it back causing it to slide in the dirt and stop several feet away. This gave Sango the room she needed. She ran to Miroku and stabbed the wolf on top of him in the side with her sword. It fell over dead. The last remaining wolf had long since began its run toward them and jumped at Sango's back. It bit into her right shoulder with its sharp fangs. She cried out and dropped the hiraikotsu but managed to swipe at it with her sword. It only grazed its muzzle, but it was enough to make it let go of her. She dropped her sword and slumped on the ground in pain. Her arm was immobilized and the wolf growled and charged her; Miroku wasn't going to just sit by and watch her get hurt again. He stood on his injured leg. Sango had tried to protect him, and now it was his turn. He managed to stand on his wounded leg and used his wind tunnel despite the saimyoushou being close by. He drew in the remaining wolf and several of Naraku's insects, but Sango was safe and that was all he cared about. He closed off the hole in his hand and slumped to the ground, no longer able to stand with his wound and such a quantity of poison running through his body.
Inuyasha was having a rather difficult time of things with the two demons, Hageshii and Mizu. Hageshii was proving to be rather formidable himself, maybe even more so than the girl. His staff generated water attacks that seemed to freeze whatever it touched, and with age on his side, he knew many moves and attacks which made it difficult to know what his next plan would be. Mizu seemed to be in perfect sync with him, attacking while Inuyasha was dodging or when he tried to move on the offensive. Hageshii would distract him, and then Mizu would attempt to incinerate him, but the workout was exhausting, and he couldn't think of any way to get past their defense. By now he was breathing hard and the two demons hadn't even broken a sweat.
Kagome had not been permitted to aid Sango and Miroku, because Kirara felt the situation was too dangerous for her. After Miroku fell to his knees she immediately grabbed her bag from the back of her bike and ran to her friends. Kirara let her go but stayed close by. Miroku had fallen unconscious from the poison and pain in his leg and Sango was desperately trying to wake him. "Miroku! Miroku please, you must be alright!" She shook him, but her efforts were in vain. "Why did you do that, you knew the insects were close by! Why!" She began to cry. Kagome finally reached them and got out the antidote that she always kept for an occasion such as this. "Will you be alright?" She asked and held out the antidote."I've got to try and help Inuyasha." Sango nodded. She took the medicine, sat Miroku up and poured the liquid into his mouth. He swallowed as a reflex. "Shippou," Kagome said urgently, "there should be some aspirin and bandages in my bag, give the pills to Sango and do what you can with the gauze to stop the bleeding from her arm and Miroku's leg." Shippou said "Okay" and began rummaging through her bag.
Inuyasha was still not making any headway in his battle, and after staving off several fire ball attacks he was losing his grip on the Tetsusaiga. Mizu thrust her halberd at him and Tetsusaiga went flying. It transformed back into a rusty sword as it stuck in the ground several feet away. She held the sharp point of her weapon to his throat and the tip started to glow, "I'm so sorry Inuyasha, it's been fun, but unfortunately its time for you to die." Before she could finish her attack something sharp pierced her back. She cried out as Kagome's purification arrow began melting her flesh. Hageshii starred wide eyed at his companion then turned his attention to Kagome. He started toward her. Inuyasha used Mizu's distraction and pain to run to his sword. Before Hageshii could use an attack upon her, Inuyasha threw Tetsusaiga at the old man stabbing him through the back and out his stomach. He dropped his staff and gingerly touched the blood flowing steadily from his wound. "I'm sorry, Mizu" and with that, his eyes glazed over and he dropped to the ground. His body virtually disintegrated; his staff along with him in blue sparkles. Inuyasha picked up his sword and turned to Mizu whose jaw couldn't possibly have been any lower. Her eyes misted, and her mouth curved, she was no longer in a toying mood, she was out for blood. Inuyasha never took his eyes off her but said "Kagome, thank you…" She strung another bow, ready to shoot it at the other demon. "Give me a sec, I can kill her!" Inuyasha shook his head slowly and told her not to bother. "Kagome, she isn't playing around anymore, its too dangerous for you to get involved, you should go tend to Sango and the others, I'll take care of this wench." Kagome unstrung her bow and put away her arrow. She knew he was right, nodded to his back, then turned on her heal and began jogging to her injured friends.
Mizu looked at the ground, a few tears running down her pale cheeks and said, "She'll pay for what she did, TO MY FATHER!" Mizu ignored her wound and charged Inuyasha. She used her weapon to once again knock Inuyasha's sword from his hand by her shear force. She kicked her leg into his side and he slammed into a nearby tree, too disoriented to get up. The Tetsusaiga wasn't far from him, but far enough that he'd have to run to get it. Mizu's anger seemed to make her faster and she turned after the sprinting Kagome. Inuyasha looked up and called to her, but when she turned around, all she saw was a flash of red. Everyone stared, horrified at what lay before their eyes, Kagome had been pierced by the halberd, and blood gushed from her abdomen. Kagome's eyes unfocused and she began to feel weak as a hot fire ran through her stomach then through her entire body. Inuyasha was the one who lost all control now; he abandoned his sword and used his claws to slice Mizu into pieces. "It doesn't matter;" she said "I die knowing that bitch will too. My halberd's tip was poisoned and so I have avenged my father…" Her last words were a whisper before she too disappeared like Hageshii. Kagome fell to the floor, unable to stand any longer. She tried her best to get breath into her lungs. The pain wasn't so bad, it was almost like it wasn't there, she was almost too numb to feel it. Almost. Sango and Shippou were in shock. She picked up Shippou and held his head away from the scene in front of them. She had seen what images like this could do to the young and pure of heart, and she wouldn't put him through that. He gave up trying to control his tears and sobbed into her blood stained garments.
Inuyasha helped sit her up, and blood trickled from her mouth. "Inuyasha," she said while valiantly struggling to stay conscious, "I'm sorry- I…." she stopped, and tears began to roll from her eyes. "Shut up you idiot, you shouldn't talk, I've got to get you to Kaede" he stood and held her bridal style in his arms. "Inuyasha, if I never see you again, I wouldn't be able to rest in peace if you didn't know…" her voice was barely a whisper, but he could hear her perfectly. "Know what?" he asked, trying to keep his voice from breaking. "I love you. I have for the longest time…" she couldn't stay conscious any longer and slumped against his chest. Inuyasha's heart skipped a beat, and he felt the worst he ever had in his life. He turned to his battered friends behind him and said "I've got to get her to Kaede's hut, she'll know what to do, you catch up." He dropped his sheath from his belt and threw it on the ground. Sango knew what he wanted her to do. Pick up Tetsusaiga and bring it when they came. The urgency in his voice left no time for arguments and none could have been made before he jumped into the trees with Kagome in his arms. "Please Kagome, you've got to live, just hold on." He ran fast, as quickly as possible while from the trees below, hidden in the shadows, a pair of soulless eyes watched.
A.N. - So what did you guys think? Any comments, constructive criticism or praises are of course, welcome. If you liked this chapter, please keep an eye out for others!