The hill that Koga was to meet me on was relatively flat, though there were many spikes made of rock that surrounded this particular peak. The villagers referred to it as the demon ridge because of its appearance in thunderstorms which were known to stir up demon activity.
I heard wind stirring just over the ridge, this always made it obvious Koga was coming. Due to the jewel shards in his legs that I graciously let him keep, his speed always causes a whirlwind behind him. Koga ran into the plateau coming to a stop right in front of me.
Koga had blue eyes and black hair that was always tied up into a ponytail with a brown cord, not many demons get haircuts. He wore a brown wolf pelt. He had a tail that was like a bushy wolf tail, which was the same shade of brown, though it was in fact part of his body. Koga had a brown wolf fur head band, black hair, and wore silver and black armor. Koga also had brown wolf fur as shoulder plates. He carried around a sword, entirely for decoration. His ears were pointed like most other demons that take on a human like form.
"Koga, did you get my jewel shards?" I asked, due to the three shards that Koga always has on his person it was impossible to tell by just sniffing the air to find out if the mangy wolf had been successful. Of course, had he not been successful, the two in his legs would do just fine for me and I'd take the one in his arm for failing me.
"Naturally, what do you take me for? A half demon?" Koga asked producing a single shard and tossing it over to me. I caught it and examined it to make sure it was legitimate.
"Koga, are you stupid or something?" I asked putting away the shard. He was supposed to retrieve me two shards and all he surrendered was a single shard, at least it was genuine.
"What do you mean? I got the shards and you got your share, so what am I missing." Koga asked. This stupid mangy wolf may actually be disabled, I mean what made him think that I would be splitting the reward with him.
I reached into my coat opening a time rift just big enough for my hand outside of Koga's view. I felt around on the other side finding my karambit. "Well Koga, you see you were supposed to give me both shards. None of this splitting bull shit." I said adjusting the karambit in my hand still on the other side of the time rift.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize that that was the deal. However, it's too late for me to give it to you. It's already in my arm." Koga said stepping away from me, he could probably see the anger on my face.
"Oh, that's fine. I suppose I can just sniff out another shard to replace the one you so arrogantly took for yourself. In fact, I think I smell one now." I said smiling. I flashed foreword taking out my karambit, its curved gold blade shined in the sunlight. As I ran I spun it around my pointer finger allowing its momentum to drive it into Koga's left arm.
Blood shot out from the hypersonic speed of the impact. Within the blood my jewel shard, it glimmered with crimson and pink in the sunlight. Koga's face took on a look of shock and betrayal as I snatched the jewel shard out of midair with my free hand. I had half a mind to rip the bone out of his fore arm with my next move.
Once again, I showed the mangy wolf mercy by leaving his arm in one piece more or less. I ripped the karambit out of his arm widening the wound however, the bone stayed in place. I dropped the karambit to my side now that its usefulness had come to an end.
"Why did you do that?" Koga asked still in shock and falling to the ground at my feet. He was now back where he belonged, at my boots, of course the better option was under them but wolf demons have an irritating bit of pride that is impossible to crush.
"You don't seem to see the position that you're in. You took the second jewel shard thinking that it would be your reward, but for what reason would I reward you. If anything, you should be thanking me because I knew about your three jewel shards but I was merciful and let you keep them." I said, I shouldn't have to explain this to him but he has shown himself to be a special kind of stupid.
"My apologies, it didn't occur to me, the mercy that you've already shown was more than I deserved." Koga said finally accepting his place.
"Now, get lost before I decide that the shards in your legs are easy pickings." I said turning towards where I came. I could hear InuTrasha approaching with Kagome. Though I didn't think it possible, the mutt must've picked up my scent in the nearby town, my damn appetite led him to me.
Koga got up and ran, he left just as the mutt entered the plateau. "There you are, listen I'll give you one chance to walk away. Just hand over your jewel shards." InuYasha demanded, I can't believe my ears, has evolution gone backwards at some point without my noticing?
"You can't be serious." I said fully turning to the mutt. "Why do you want the sacred jewel anyway? Is it to become a full demon? Do you think they'll accept you then?" I started laughing to myself. InuYasha could never be accepted by demons or humans, his father was too well known. "Listen even if you became a full demon you'd be nothing compared to your father, let alone Sesshomaru. Hell, you wouldn't even be able to touch the Tessaiga so your potential would be greatly cut and if a simple priestess was able to defeat you then you need all you can get. Even if you did go through with it and took the Tensaiga you'd never be able to use its only offensive technique because it's based off the wielders compassion." I said, hopefully knowing this will make him back off.
"You don't know that. Besides I don't need any weapons like the Tensaiga and this Tessaiga thing." InuYasha said, clearly that old flea hasn't told him about his inheritance, perhaps I should do so it may make him an interesting opponent someday.
"I see, you don't know of your inheritance. Perhaps I should tell you of it, would you like me to?" I asked, changing the subject was my best go to right now I really didn't want to waste time with him again.
"Stop trying to change the subject, I'm taking those jewel shards like it or not." The mutt said. This time he showed off his claws preparing to attack. I began growling at his stupidity.
I didn't bother to respond. Taking that as an answer the mutt attacked. He clawed at me, I slipped out of my coat and dodged. His claws tore through the fabric which fell rapidly to the ground causing obvious marks on impact. Naturally with the whole coat weighing one hundred thousand tones the slashed fabric would cause some damage.
Now free of the coat that encumbers me normally I ran towards the mutt form behind jumping and kicking him hard in the side, I could feel bones break and his organs recoil from the impact. InuYasha was flung into one of the rock pillars that littered this hill. He struggled to his feet, faster than sound I ran jumping above him flipping and bringing my left leg down on his head, the impact alone displaced the ground. InuYasha ended up within a large crater.
Once again, he made the mistake of getting up. I was already in front of him, he tried to punch me with his right arm, I caught the punch in my right palm placing my left hand on his elbow. I grinned knowing that I won at this instant, I pushed my arms across my body forcing InuYasha's arm with them breaking it. I then moved my right hand to his wrist picking him up by his broken arm and slamming him into the ground.
I stomped on his back causing him to cough up blood. The sight of his blood excited me because it proved that he would never be a threat to me. The half god curse guaranteed that, I personally never saw it as a curse, it's more like natural selection, but sped up a lot.
"Stop!" Kagome yelled, I looked over to the insolent wretch. She was standing at the edge of the crater above me, she had a red long bow with and arrow pulled back. I hadn't cut her yet so she had the power to kill me with that arrow, however she wouldn't shoot InuTrasha.
"Go ahead try it." I taunted slipping a foot under the mutt's body. On cue she fired, my plan worked she would be the one to kill InuYasha. Ironic, the first human he trusted cast a spell of eternal slumber on him, the second will kill him. I kicked up his body at the last second allowing the arrow to punch through his front, as it flew through I kicked up a large rock to stop it entirely.
I began laughing as both the rock and InuYasha's body fell side by side, I had won and the girl learnt her place below me. I could see that InuYasha was still alive but there was no way of telling for how long.
"InuYasha! No!" Kagome yelled running down to him, she immediately took out a first aid kit and began work on him. Since he's a demon it is entirely possible that he recovers from this. I could use a cero and obliterate them both right now but there's nothing to gain from that.
I walked away, Totosai should have my order filled by now and I still needed to awaken my sharingan using the jewel shards. I took out my shards with my left hand as I walked the way Koga had went. I enclosed them in my fist gripping hard, pink light began shinning out of my hand. I opened it after the light had faded, the five shards had fused into one large shard. I sat down on a rock that was on the side of the path, I took the large shard and positioned it in front of my right eye. I pushed it in experiencing some resistance from the shard, as it slowly slid in immense pain pulsated throughout my body. The bulk of it was centered on my eye, I fell over from the pain holding my eye. The pain continued for what felt like hours but was probably just minutes.
When the pain faded I stood up, I could feel that the sharingan had formed. I picked up a rock and threw it up. Using the sharingan I altered my perception of time causing the rock to appear to drop slower then, faster, I reached out to where the rock had already seemed to fallen. The rock then disappeared from the ground and landed in my hand. Through use of the sharingan time gods possess the unique ability to see the near future of objects that are affected by them as well as themselves. Returning my perception of time to the normal speed I crushed the rock in my hand.
Dropping the pebbles, I continued down the path, this time I was moving faster than sound. The scenery was blurry but I was still able to tell where I was, I slid to a stop at the edge of a volcano. In the center of the partially molten surface was the skeleton of a large demon. I walked down onto the molten rock, it felt good under my feet, but I knew that my boots wouldn't thank me. I approached the open mouth of the skeleton, there was a note attached to one of the teeth. It read "Out gathering materials, be back soon." It was signed by Totosai. This irritated me, I walked inside finding his forging slab and many blades lining the ribcage. Any one of them could've been mine
"Hey Ben, is that you?" Gimmjow asked, I recognized his voice immediately. He was a childhood friend of mine, we met after I had fled my mother's territory.
Grimmjow was a tall, muscular man with light blue spiky hair and light blue eyes, the latter including green lines below them, similar to the eye markings on the Panthera genus of cats. His attire consisted of a black shirt which he kept partially unzipped, exposing a scar he received from his first encounter with a soul reaper. Over his shirt he wore a ragged white jacket with an upturned collar. The inner lining of his jacket was black and he wore it with the sleeves rolled up and open. He also wore black pants, with black boots, and two belts around his waist, with his zanpakuto sheathed on his left side along his top belt.
I turned to my friend, he was carrying a long package wrapped in white cloth that was tied shut with a black piece of fabric. "Is that for Totosai?" I asked walking out to him.
"Yeah, so where is the old bastard?" Grimmjow asked looking around. As per usual Grimmjow isn't the politest.
"According to this note he's looking for more material, I hope that doesn't mean that my sword isn't done yet." I said burning the note in my hand and leaning up against the mouth of the skeleton.
"What's it supposed to look like?" Gimmjow asked. It's an odd question, what does he have in his hand.
"I gave him no particular instructions so far as the appearance, just to give it demonic qualities so that I may take advantage of my demonic heritage." I said, that's why I gave the job to Totosai, a demon, compared to Genji, a god.
"Well, this is a sword that Genji finished for Totosai, he said that it's got some demonic properties to it. So much so that he had me take him to Hueco Mundo to work on it, he didn't want it near the Palace of the Gods." Gimmjow said, this worried me, not that I distrust Genji's work just I want the sword to be entirely demonic, I fear that if Genji worked on it then it would be a little bit less demonic.
"So, my sword may have gone to Genji to complete. That's a little worrying." I said voicing my concerns.
"Well, Totosai will be the one to confirm that, here he comes now." Gimmjow said pointing to the sky.
He was pointing to the flying bull that Totosai uses for transportation. It had three eyes but other than that it looked like a normal brown bull. Totosai was sitting on top of it cross-legged. He had the appearance of a thin old man. He had huge eyes with pinpoint pupils. Balding, Totosai had what remained of his hair tied in a topknot. He had a thin beard at the end of his chin with a mustache that was seemingly shaved in the middle. He wore a green hoari with black horizontal strikes on it, with matching hakama.
The bull landed not far from Gimmjow and I. He jumped off and walked over. "Grimmjow, is that from Genji?" Totosai asked pointing at the package.
"Yeah, here take it. I have other things to do." Gimmjow said throwing the sword to him still in its wrapping.
Totosai barely caught it, he unwrapped it revealing the appearance of the blade. It had a long black blade. The top of the blade was straight while the cutting edge was curved up and down. The blade was sheathed within the silver skeleton of a dragon. The mouth of the dragon was chained shut and it had ruby eyes. The swords guard was made of four prongs that jutted out in the shape of a manji. The handle was jet black with a silver skull at the bottom. The skull had ruby eyes and golden teeth.
"Oh, Ben, I didn't see you there. Here's your sword, built to your every specification." Totosai said offering the sword to me. The dragon sheath didn't surprise me, dragons are the signature of the Shimada clan.
I took the sword, it was built well. I secured the sheath on my belt at my back so that the dragon was right side up and the handle was at my left side. "Mind if I give it a test run real quick?" I asked pulling it out of its sheath with my left hand.
"Not at all, just don't hit my forge." Totosai said. He must be proud of this particular blade based off the confidence in his words.
I turned away from the skeleton holding the sword in front of me. I concentrated on the blade feeling its demonic presence and pouring my energy into it, the sword in turn poured energy into me. The resulting reaction caused black flames of spiritual energy to engulf the blade. Excess energy was flowing out at my feet causing rings of black flame.
I smiled as I swung the sword releasing the energy outward. The energy split the volcano we were on and a nearby mountain. It had cut into the earth's core causing magma to erupt along the slash filling it in for the most part.
"So, what do you think?" Totosai asked walking up to me.
"It's perfect, now you wouldn't happen to know where any jewel shards are would you?" I asked, at this point I'm out of idea's, the only one I know of is with Naraku and I'm letting him keep it so he can find more shards for me.
"I have no idea, but I did see Toshiro on my way back. Maybe he knows something." Totosai said, that was strange, Snowy never leaves the Palace of the Gods so something must be up.
"Where is he?" I asked kind of hoping I hit him with my test fire of the sword.
"That way, on the next mountain over." Totosai said pointing to the mountain next to the one I had hit.
"Ok, the next thing on my to do list is find out why Snowy is here." I said starting out toward the mountain Totosai had pointed out. "Gimmjow, you coming with?" I asked looking over my shoulder at him.
"No, I'd love to but I have other errands to run for Genji." Gimmjow said opening a portal to the Palace of the Gods. He walked though and the portal closed behind him. He's lucky he's an arrancar, if he were like me he wouldn't be allowed through that portal.
