A/N: Hello everyone! Hello to new, hello to old (if any)
Nearly seven years ago, I wrote "The Demonic Side". I was fourteen when I started it. Two years ago, I tried to rewrite it, and only reached chapter five, before I lost my work and gave up. Today, I try again, and I hope for everyone's sake that this is the last time I try and I do get it all out. There were chapters in the original that I may remove or change almost completely as appear, but that is because I do not think they hold much to the story line. And I will be cutting chapter titles. They were all pretty stupid.
In the original, I mixed both Japanese and English words and phrases, and lots of curse words, because I could in this outlet. Being a little older, I find it unnecessary to have Inuyasha say "fuck" all the time…. I will not mix phrases of Japanese into my English story, because it almost seems like the characters themselves are switching languages.
I will, however, keep "hanyou" (half breed), "youkai"(demon), "houshi"(monk) and "miko"(priestess) and the names of the attacks (because some of the English "translations" were just lame) in their Japanese terminology.
I will keep the original posting of this story up, because my 14-yr-old self was pretty hilarious in the author's notes, playing like I had the real Inuyasha and Sesshomaru in my house… It was actually quite entertaining.
Without further ado, I bring you "The Demonic Side: Revisited"
Disclaimer: I do not own "InuYasha". I did create the story line and a character seen in later chapters, Sherue.
'Italics' represents thoughts
Blocks of italics that are separated from the story by "~" are dream sequences
"~" also acknowledges a scene change.
*Chapter One*
The last beats of his heart were spent staring at his tattered old sword, just out of his bloodied claw's reach. He remembered willing himself to stretch just far enough to grab hold and transform Tetsusaiga into the feared blade once more.
But that was the last thing he remembered.
Inuyasha's life was ended before he could touch the hilt, when the youkai he had been fighting forced his bucket sized fist through his very chest. His heart was squashed, lungs had burst from the impact, and every rib had broken under the beast's hand. Blood, Inuyasha's blood, dripped from the fist as its owner began licking, savoring the metallic taste. A rumbling laugh coursed through the night as beady red eyes surveyed the rest of the scene.
Kagome screamed as she watched the last bit of life leave the hanyou's eyes, tears cascading like a waterfall down her dirty cheeks. She tried to get to her shaky feet, to make her way to the body of her fallen comrade, but it was too difficult to manage. Sango knelt beside her, holding onto the barely conscience Miroku, shaking with her silent sobs. 'No, this cant be…' she leaned her head against the houshi's shoulder as he lay, holding his sides in pain from his collision with a nearby tree.
The youkai, two stories tall and the color of shadows in the night, set his aim to the audience with a snarl playing on his bloody lips. Slowly, drops of water began descending from the sky, making the scales on his body shine, as he made his way over to the group. There wasn't a thing they could do. The Hiraikotsu had been broken in half by the demon's teeth and lay discarded ten feet from them; the sacred arrows had done nothing to purify it and stuck out at odd angles from it's flesh. Miroku's kazaana was no use with him in his injured state.
Kirara was knudged Shippo's limp, unconscious body, a little worse for wear but otherwise unscathed. The little fox had blacked out early near Kagome.
A flash of lightning lit the sky and engulfed their foe in light. Those red eyes held fast to Kagome's blue ones as fear struck every nerve in her body. They were going to die tonight. After everything they had been through, tonight was the night to end all. Inuyasha was dead, forgotten behind the enemy, and their weapons were powerless. The six jewel shards the youkai held attributed to his great strength and it was no wonder they couldn't stop it. Kagome had imagined what death would be like; she though of it all too often in the feudal era. Each battle over the last three years had left her wondering. She closed her eyes as the demon approached, waiting for the pain. Waiting to join Inuyasha. 'Just let it be quick, like his was,' she thought.
The blood came over her in a wave, drenching her face and most of her top. But there was no pain, no piercing of her delicate skin. Squinting through the thick, stickiness over her eyes, Kagome looked upon the head of the demon. It's eyes were wide, lifeless, and blood poured from it's base, the rest of the body in pieces around it. She screamed, drawing the attention of a new youkai. His knuckles cracked as he knelt over what seemed to be the torn-apart chest of the defeated foe. His head turned, silver hair shifting from one side to the other as his green eyes landed on the schoolgirl.
"A new victim," he snarled, twisting his lips into a cruel smile, revealing long, deadly fangs with blood dripping from them.
Sango watched as Inuyasha bound for Kagome, his claws flexed for attack. "Kagome! Use the command! NOW!"
She followed the gaze of the demon slayer to Inuyasha, growling as he flew through the air to her. In an instant, she registered the purple stripes along his cheekbones and the change in his eyes to blood red with green irises. Fear worse than before shuddered down her back as she realized this was no friend, not in this form.
"SIT!"
He crashed to the ground in a puddle of blood. Rain fell a little harder as Kagome got to her feet and helped her friend support the houshi, who was finally gaining a head on his shoulders. He looked weakly around them, spotting the crater that was the hanyou. He nodded and the three of them walked the short distance.
There were no injuries on his body. The damage to Inuyasha's outfit and the stains of blood were the only indications he had even fought this evening. Shippo stumbled his way over as Inuyasha gained his voice.
"Damn it! Why do you always have to use that word! How are we supposed to defeat-"
Inuyasha looked around as he sat up. There was no demon left to defeat. There were already-decaying chunks of what he supposed was the enemy. Rain was clearing the blood off of the grass. Inuyasha met Kagome's eyes, taken aback by the fear that he saw in their depths. "What happened?"
Miroku sighed heavily in Sango's arms. He never remembered what happened after his transformations. The other three times were the same way, with no recollection of what was going on after his eyes changed. The houshi stood up straight, testing his legs, as he held a hand out to Inuyasha, which he gladly took to get off of the stained red earth beneath him. Together, they all walked to the demon's head, where all six shards glistened under the flesh. Kagome took a deep breath and picked them out, where they were instantly purified. Tucking them away in the bottle around her neck, she turned to her friends with an exasperated sigh.
"Let's go home," she whispered.
Kirara transformed, a light, pained expression on her cat face; she knew she would be home soon. Sango picked up the two pieces of Hiraikotsu and attatched them the best she could to her back before crawling up beside Miroku on the large feline's back. Shippo jumped into the houshi's waiting arms, wanting nothing more than to sleep for three days on end.
Kagome shivered in the rain. It was really pouring now, but there was no more lightning or thunder. 'It's almost like nature knew to clean up…' she thought as she stared up at the sky. Inuyasha draped his red top over her shoulders before picking her up, bridal style, for the trip back to Keade's. With a nod to Kirara, he took off running, careful no to jostle the soon to be asleep woman in his arms too much.
His thoughts were heavy the entire way back. 'Why don't I ever remember? There have been moments where I have blacked out and woken up to see them all looking at me, horrified.' He kept catching Miroku's side glances towards him, a grim look on the young man's face. 'He's afraid. Sango still shakes with fear. And Kagome…' he spared a look into the raven haired beauty's face. Her eyes were closed, signaling that she was finally calm enough to rest now that the adrenaline was out of her system. 'I seem to scare her witless, yet she stays by my side. I can still smell how scared she was back in the clearing.'
Inuyasha set his brow to a furrowed line as he raced on though the night, the two tail by his side.
'Damn it… What did I do?'
*End Chapter*
Hope yall enjoyed it. It may not be too much longer than the original, but I feel like it's better. They should be longer and better as we continue on
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