A/N: fndkjfndskfnsdjfdsnfsdjk yay, dates: sept 17-18 (only cause it takes place all at nighht timme) i just gave a hint to the chappter ]:
You're Kinda, Sorta, Basically, Pretty Much, Always On My Mind.
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I Do Not Own Inuyasha
8. Hanyo
My dream of becoming a hanyo had been shattered, then turned into a nightmare. Inuyasha had made it that way. Instead of him seeing me as an equal, I was dangerous to the village in his eyes. Someone that needed to be watched 24/7. Kaede, Shippo and Meoga had also made this worse for me. They acted like nothing had changed. They still treated me like I was still human. Their attitude didn't differ in the slightest from before.
I lay on the floor of Kaede's hut, staring at the gain in the wood above. Everything that my human eyes had missed these eyes picked up, noticed, caught. I didn't feel as tired as I used to be at this hour. I looked at my vibrant blue hair that sparkled silver were the moonlight hit. My hair was so different. My face was unfamiliar, my voice had changed slightly into a musical symphony. My body had changed, and my thirst for power and strength had been quenched. But the only thing that bothered me was.. Inuyasha didn't seem to trust me anymore.
He watched more carefully, cautiously, like I would snap any minute, and go rampant on the village. He looked at me like I was an alien, abnormal.. A freak. I looked toward his still form in the corner, expecting him to be asleep. But instead his golden eyes glowed in the darkness, studying every move I made.
I sighed and looked through the cracks in the roof. The only thing remaining of the moon was a tiny sliver. I got to my feet and walked outside, ignoring the glowing golden orbs following as I made my way across the room.
I inhaled the evening air as my naked feet touched the cool earth. I walked silently through the village, my white chiffon knee length gown rippling in the cool breeze. I got to the tree where I had been with Inuyasha earlier. I felt my face flush and I trailed my finger along the bark. His scent was still there..
I wondered.. How I had felt at that time when I first changed.. I was still trying to wrap my mind around that, but did Inuyasha feel like that always? I remembered how he trembled when he got so angry to a certain point.. maybe.. and.. well.. He wanted to become yokai right..? What will that do, make him stronger.. on the inside? I wondered if it was more than just physical strength he was looking for.. maybe he wanted to forget Kikyo..?
"What the hell are you doing?"
I spun around. Inuyasha was standing behind me, his glowing eyes watching me suspiciously.
"What the hell are you doing?" I repeated, "I guess you're spying on me, I suppose?" I jumped into the branches above.
"No. Who would spy on someone like you!" he replied, jumping onto the same branch.
"Then why are you here!" I snapped. He didn't answer. His expression hardened as he gazed at me. I growled and looked away. Why did he always have to stay silent and never answer me? Why was he so distant? Seconds ticked by and the silence grew uncomfortable.
"So.. what do you think?" I asked, "I mean I know it's a hard concept to grasp, you, thinking.. but just bear with me."
He growled, "About what, exactly?"
"What happened."
He was silent and didn't answer me. I wanted to tell him my theory, that someone had pretended to be either of them.. but.. for some reason it sounded almost silly.
A unsettling feeling, forced me to look into the sky. There was a carriage silhouetted against the moon.
Inuyasha abruptly jumped up, staring wide-eyed at the carriage. "O.. ofukuro?"
A angelic raven haired woman, looked out from the open back, looking down to the earth. I felt my ears turn to the sides in aggravation as I inspected the carriage in the sky. He'd called this woman 'Ofukuro'.. Rude slang for mother.. pfft, leave it to him to call his mother such a thing.
The woman's eyes widened in shock as she noticed us in the tree.. Her eyes were the same as his, except her eyes were warm brown instead of piercing amber.
"Inuyasha.." she whispered. Her gaze flickered to me, then back to Inuyasha.
I didn't get it.. I knew Inuyasha's parents were dead, Meoga had told me that when I was young, he had also told me her name. Izayoi. But.. how could she be his real mother when his real mother was dead?
Dark purple and grey clouds formed in the sky, and a huge green hand shot from the clouds...the hand seemed familiar in some way.
I felt a smirk appear on my face as I noted the similarities to this monster hand and my birthday present. But then my smirk was replaced with a frown of horror as the hand crushed the carriage that held Izayoi within. The monster that was attached to the hand, was gigantic. Dark green, red horns.. yellow glowing eyes. It grasped Inuyasha's mother in his hand, crushing her weak human body, which I could now see was bound by thick iron chains.
Inuyasha growled and shot forward toward the yokai. I followed after him. They couldn't do that to her. Flames appeared abruptly, shooting toward us. It whizzed past.. missing us by mere inches. I landed on the ground beside Inuyasha, staring in shock at the two figures standing casually on the yokai's shoulder.
One was a small green toad, with hands that had more a resemblance to my deceased present than the giant. The other a feminine looking man, with ankle length silver hair, high cheek bones, with eyes the same shade of gold as Inuyasha's although his were hard and cold.. Their scents were slightly similar, but the new man smelt more of yokai than anything.
"Jaken," the man breathed, staring down upon Inuyasha, "We'll talk first, kill later."
"Yes, my lord," replied the toad, holding a large wooden staff in his hands. The staff had two heads carved into the wood. One a human woman.. the other a old yokai man.
"Sesshoumaru! You bastard!" Inuyasha shouted, getting to his feet. The name was familiar.. Meoga had mentioned it once.. or twice in his stay.
"Oh..? Well done, it seems you've remember.." The silvered haired yokai said, his face slightly amused. "..the face of your elder brother."
Eh? Elder brother? INUYASHA HAD A BROTHER AND HE NEVER TOLD ME! God more secrets, I feel so betrayed.. again..
Sesshoumaru's eyes flicked to mine, and a smirk appeared on his pale face, "Well if it isn't another pathetic hanyo. Well I'll have to admit, little brother, you've finally done better. At least she's the improved version of the trash you used to be with."
My eyes narrowed and a growled escaped my lips. He was talking about Kikyo. Inuyasha glanced at me, then looked at his older brother again.
"Inuyasha, a hanyo whose mother is a vile creature like a human.." Sesshoumaru hissed, pulling on the chain wrapped around Inuyasha's mother's neck, "You have brought shame upon our family."
A low formidable growl spat through Inuyasha's teeth. "Sesshoumaru, you bastard.. Did you come all this fucking way just to say that?"
Sesshoumaru scoffed and folded his arms over his chest, "Moron.. I do not have that much spare time. I've come to ask you for the location of Chichi-ue's tomb."
"Oyaji's tomb!" He shouted back, "I dunno, I have no clue."
Wow.. despite their recent squabbles they seem to get along great!
"Is that so?" Sesshoumaru questioned, "Well then, it can't be helped.. your mother will just have to suffer."
The giant yokai crushed Izayoi harder in it's fist, and she cried out in pain. Uh.. I take back the 'getting along great' thing..
Inuyasha scoffed, but glared at Sesshoumaru, unmoving and still, "Keh! Think I'm stupid, you bastard! Ofukuro's been dead for years!"
Sesshoumaru chuckled, his face full of amusement, "What a moron you are.. When especially for your sake, your mothers soul.. was brought back from the land of the dead.. I even gave her a body."
Oh great! Another resurrected person! First it was the Centipede jourou, then Inuyasha, then Kikyo and now Inuyasha's mother! Who next! My pet goldfish, that's been dead for 8 years, is holding up his fin! Resurrect him next!
Izayoi reached out her hand weakly toward her son. "Inu.. Inuyasha.." she gasped, "Don't concern yourself with me.. as my body has died once already.." The green yokai dug it's claws into her flesh, and she cried out in pain.
"Shit!" Inuyasha shouted, jumping toward the green giant. "Sankon Testusou!" Gold light appeared from his claws and the yokai's hand was slashed to pieces. Izayoi plummeted toward the ground. I felt my heart skip a beat and I sprinted until I was directly under her, trying to catch her.. but I ended up sprawled down in the dirt, her landing on top of me. Ugh.. I was no good at this.
I heard Sesshoumaru chuckle, watching me carefully, "Your hanyo girlfriend is quite amusing Inuyasha."
"I'm not his girlfriend!"I shouted, helping Izayoi up into a sitting position.
"Inuyasha!" she shouted. I snapped my head up searching for the reason of her shouting. Sesshoumaru was shooting toward Inuyasha, who was under the feet of the green yokai. A blinding white light appeared between Izayoi's hands, and it grew to an enormous size, swallowing us in a vortex of white light.
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I opened my eyes to the blinding light above. I heard water, birds, and voices in the background. I smelt the scent of earth, sunshine, Inuyasha, and a mix of many more scents that I couldn't name. Everything scent here seemed to be mixed into another.. almost as if it were fake.
I tried to sit up. But it was like chains were binding me down. I felt a heavy weight on my body, and chaotic memories from my transformation flashed before my eyes. I banished the thoughts as quickly as my mind made it possible. I didn't want to remember the pain.. The pain had only made this nightmare worse. But the feeling of being tied up sent waves of hysteria through out my body. I couldn't calm myself down, when all I could think about that the pain and the razor sharp rope from before.
I looked across the small lily pond, my heart pounding hard in my chest. Inuyasha stood on the other side, facing his mother. But.. along with all the muddled scents in this place.. her's I couldn't even pick up. I didn't even remember her having a scent.
I looked into the water by their feet. I saw Inuyasha's reflection sparkling in the crystal clear water.. but his mother's was there with out a face. She was.. a yokai in disguise. I opened my mouth to call out to him, but sound wouldn't come..
My heart pounded in my ears and my breathing was quick and panicked. I couldn't calm myself down, the hysteria to intense. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, and Inuyasha's mother wasn't real. Maybe this is what Inuyasha had been so worried about with my transformation. I couldn't control myself as well as I had been when I was human. Instincts were constantly trying to take over, either ones to fight or to flee.
"Inuyasha.." the yokai spoke, a kind smile on its face as it looked at Inuyasha, "I must return to the other world soon."
"Y-yeah.. You're going then..?" Inuyasha stammered. Did he not realize that this woman wasn't his mother? Or was he in denial..? I guess seeing your mother for the first time would put you into denial if she wasn't who you thought she was.
The yokai cupped air in its hands and a glowing lily faded into view. She turned toward the water and slightly pushed it down, making the petals fall off as it drifted into the pond.
"Inuyasha, look at the water's surface," It said, turning it's head to look at Inuyasha. He obeyed his 'mother' and crouched down by the water's edge staring at his reflection surrounded by lily petals.
I couldn't see what he was looking at but his expression turned to one of slight surprise at what he saw. I had been hoping he'd see the yokai's refection.. but the minor surprise and no anger had proved he hadn't.
"Do you remember, Inuyasha? When you were very young..?" The yokai bent down behind him and wrapped her arms around him, "Mother would hold you, just like this..?"
Finally Inuyasha held the expression I had been hoping for. Deceived, betrayal, anger, hurt, shock, and sadness flashed before his eyes as he noticed her reflection. He looked up at her, "You.. You are.."
"My darling boy.." the yokai smiled, "There's a good child.. Let's hold each other close, to our hearts, okay?"
Inuyasha turned around, trying to push her away, "What the hell are you..!"
Suddenly her hands dug into his back, and he was forced closer to her, "I won't let you go.." she hissed, "Become one with me.."
I tried to move. She was pulling him inside her, and I was bound by invisible chains! It was hard to breath.. in no time we'd both probably be gone.
The heavy invisible silver chains became visible at that moment and appeared around my body and wrists. Little green goblins either pulled on them, or ran around me inspecting my body.. The crystal clear water from the pond became dark and thick. The sunny world around me became dark, barren, an evil place. I had been right. The place before was fake.. just an illusion.. just as Izayoi had been.
I struggled to move. Being bound made me think of the pain. I didn't want to remember. It was to terrifying.. and I had found myself wondering if my new found strength had been worth it all.. for it seemed nobody liked it.
"Kaori-sama!" I felt something small land on my cheek, "Hang on! It's me Meoga-jiji!"
He bent down and inspected the chains. "You poor thing.. you've been bound and can't move.. must be terrifying after what happened earlier.." he trailed off looking down at my exposed skin.
I snapped my hand up, and squashed the bug in my hand. I sat up, and glared at the cowardly flea, "Thanks.. It seems I can move now."
"Heh.. no problem"
I looked back toward Inuyasha, my instincts starting to gain control. He was halfway absorbed into her already. I growled and got to my feet.
"No Kaori-sama!" Meoga shouted in my ear.
"What!" I yelled back, feeling more and more aggressive as my animal instincts slowly took over.
"Don't fall prey to your instincts!" he shouted again, pulling most of my aggression away, "This was what Inuyasha-sama was worried about.."
"Huh?" Was all I could manage, as I tried to understand his words.
"If you let your instincts take control.. you'll end up like earlier, you won't be able to differ friend from foe. Inuyasha knew what was happening to you on the mountain, when you went to attack Kikyo-sama. You're still new at this and it may seem easier to fight when your instincts take over, but you may end up killing Inuyasha-sama instead."
I growled as I fought against my instincts and locked them up someplace secret. I couldn't kill Inuyasha, "So your saying I have to always use my brain when I fight and I'm not aloud to go rampant!What's the fun in that?"
"Well you have no control over them.. Kaori-sama.." Meoga sighed as I ran toward them, yanking on Inuyasha's hair.
"'Ey! What are you doing, you pathetic hanyo!" The green toad called Jaken screamed from beside me, "We're busy here!"
"The right.. black pearl.." Inuyasha murmured.
"The right black peal? What does that mean!" Jaken asked, shooting flames at me from his wooden staff. I wished I could go rampant on him!
"Jaken-sama.. To probe any further would break the child's soul.." The yokai said in a solemn voice, seeming completely oblivious to my struggles to get Inuyasha away from her.
"Break it then!" the green toad shouted, "If you don't find the location of the tomb I'll have to take punishment from Sess-"
"You stupid freaking toad!" I shouted, smacking him across the head with his own wooden staff, "Don't ever get in my way again!" I threw him into the air and swung the staff at him, making him go flying out of sight. Cool I could be in the baseball team.
I whipped around and grabbed onto Inuyasha again. "You freak yokai! Let go of Inuyasha!"
The yokai hissed and shot backwards pulling Inuyasha out from my grasp, "I wont!"
She pulled herself to the other side of the pond where it was shallow. I growled and ran through the shin deep water, splashing it everywhere, getting the bottom of my nightgown soaked. I grasped onto Inuyasha's arm but as soon as I did, he came out.
"Inuyasha!" I picked myself off the ground where I had fell, and crawled over to him. He was conscious again, "Are you okay?"
He glared at the ground, his hands clenched into fists, "Da.. Damn it.. Damn it!"
"Inuyasha.. I have figured out the location of the tomb.." A hand shot down and grabbed Inuyasha's neck and held him at eye level. Sesshoumaru.. "To think it would be in such a fantastic place.. that even this Sesshoumaru failed to perceive it."
I burst out into laughter, and fell to the floor. "That's rich.. I can't believe it.. 'This Sesshoumaru'? Gosh.. You're not a.. egotistical jerk now are you?" I said between laughter. I whipped the tears from my eyes, and motioned for him to continue. "Sorry, sorry I can't control myself, please continue."
"Uh.. Kaori-sama.. I don't think laughing at this time was the wisest of choices," Meoga stuttered.
"What-" Suddenly a neon green light lashed out toward me, and I jumped back earning a cut on my cheek from it. I felt hot sticky blood run down my face, and I scowled at the older brother. He has NO sense of humour.
Sesshoumaru glared back at me, then turned his gaze toward Inuyasha. "You should teach your girlfriend to keep her mouth shut, little brother."
"I'm not his girlfriend!" I shouted, getting to my feet.
"Sesshoumaru, you bastard.." Inuyasha gasped.
"But.. Chichi-ue certainly hid the tomb in a strange place," Sesshoumaru continued, falling back into his own little world again, "The right black pearl.. huh.. Perhaps, to prevent his corpse from being violated.. Chichi-ue packed and sealed his tomb in there."
"Bastard.." Inuyasha growled, trying to pry Sesshoumaru's arm from his neck, "What the hell are you blabbering about!"
"Was it entrusted to you without your knowledge, then? Well, in that case.." he plummeted two of his fingers into Inuyasha's right eye, "Why don't we pay a visit to Chichi-ue's grave together!"
I gasped and stumbled back a few steps. Blood ran down Inuyasha's face and dripped from Sesshoumaru's fingers. It was sicking.. It looked heart-wrenchingly painful. I felt the colour drain from my face as I stared at the small little ball between Sesshoumaru's fingers.
He threw Inuyasha to the ground, in a huff, and looked at the pearl. I ran over to Inuyasha, in a speed I didn't know I had. As soon as I had considered running over to him, I was already there. I fell to my knee's beside him, as he sat up, holding his right eye, glaring at his brother.
"Are you alright, Kaori-sama? You look pale.." Meoga said, hopping onto my knees.
"Well of course I would be pale! Look at what I just witnessed! But why are you worrying about me, he's the one who's injured!" I shouted.
"No wonder I couldn't locate it, no matter how much I scoured the earth.." Sesshoumaru mumbled, holding the pearl in his fist, "There is only one clue to the tombs where abouts.. 'A place one can see, but never be seen.. A place that the grave keeper can never look upon'. So that's it.. the black pearl was hidden in that bastard's right eye.."
"Bastard.." Inuyasha scowled again, "Just for that.. you went so far as to make that fake copy of my mother.." he leaped forwards his claws flexed, "I wont forgive you!"
Sesshoumaru dodged the attack easily, being faster than both me and Inuyasha put together, "I'm in a hurry.." he hissed, his claws tensed, "So if you get in my way, you'll have to die."
I couldn't fight it any longer. My vision blurred red, and I was on my feet in an instant. I didn't know anything.. just the danger that stood in front of me. The yokai's attack stopped, and he stared at me with blank expression.
"Interesting.. she denies the fact that she cares for you, little brother, and yet she gives in to her yokai instincts just to protect your pathetic existence."
I didn't know who he was talking to.. or about, his words a jumble inside my head. A growl ripped through my fangs, and his blank expression turned into an amused smile. He cracked his knuckled and jumped toward me, claws flared.
Blood lust boiled in my stomach and I growled again, the urge to kill the danger to strong.
I stepped forwards, my own claws ready to tear. But something grasped onto my tail and yanked me out from the line of fire. The feeling of something on my tail sent shivers down my spine and I fell backwards into a tree. I something pinned my arms to the bark and I struggled against it, trying to get away.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!" It shouted, "Are you mental? Do you want to die!"
The redness faded away, and my vision cleared. Blood lust was no longer a problem, nor where my instincts. Inuyasha had his hands around my arms, and he was staring at me with a angry, yet worried expression.
I swallowed nervously, I had never seen him look like this.. "Sorry.." I looked to the ground, my ears drooping. "I..I couldn't control myself.."
"Ah Sesshoumaru-sama!" The green toad was back. My eyes narrowed as I saw him pick up the wooden staff. "I-I have retrieved the Nintoujou!"
Sesshoumaru looked at him from the corner of his eye, "Lose it again, and I'll kill you," he snatched the staff from the toad's hand and looked at the pearl, "I'd grown tired of waiting for this.."
He placed the pearl on the ground, and raised the staff over it. He stabled the jewel, and the old man's head, on the staff broke into laughter.
"The old man's laughing!" The toad cried, "The tomb is opening!" A vortex of black light appeared from the jewel, and Sesshoumaru smirked. The black light swallowed them.. then they were gone.
"Inuyasha-sama.." Meoga shouted, hopping up and down on his shoulder. "Before the portal closes, quickly go in after.. Sesshoumaru-sama is going to monopolize your fathers treasure.."
Inuyasha snarled and turned away from me, "I'm not interested in that."
Meoga gasped, and fell on to his bottom, "No.. no way.. such a waste.."
"Shut up will ya!" Inuyasha snapped, "I didn't say I wasn't going!"
I pulled myself from the tree and ran over to the portal. I was half-way through when someone grasped my tail again. I gasped as another shiver ran through my body and my face filled with heat. I snapped my head back, to see Inuyasha glaring at me, the end of my tail clenched in his fist. Was this the reason why animals didn't like their tails touched?
"Where the hell do you think you're going!" he growled. I shook off the shivering pleasure and rolled my eyes. I grabbed onto his kimono pulling both him and myself into the portal.
"We're going after that mental, egotistical jerk, of course," I answered. We landed on skeletal bird, and I groaned in irritation, "Why does everything have to be skeletal.."
I glanced over toward Inuyasha, who was glaring at me grudgingly, "What?"
"I don't get you.." he answered.
"I don't get me either. I'm a mental half-monkey, half-dog human mutant thing remember?" I sighed.
He seemed to lapse into his own thoughts and I let the subject drop. Below was a mass of bone and skeletons, cluttering the misty earth. The bones stretched out for miles in every direction. In the middle there was a ivory white structure, with strange colours over it.
"Oyaji.." Inuyasha murmured, staring at mass of bone. Then I understood. Everything here.. wasn't many different skeletons.. it was all one piece. The mass bone structure was the torso. .the strange colours it's undecomposable armour.. This was Inuyasha's father.
"Wow.. It's so.. so.. huge!" I gasped.
"Well what did you expect! Something ant sized!"
"Actually yeah."
I tried not to barf as the scent of the dead and decomposing flesh suddenly hit my nose. It was horrible. The smell was like rotten meat, gym socks, and manure, all mixed together. The boy beside me seemed unaffected by the scent, but then again.. I had noticed it was easier to keep a straight face as a hanyo, and more so as a yokai.
"There's a treasure sword kept within your father remains.." Meoga spoke clearly, and calm. But his face showed that he was desperate to get Inuyasha interested in this sword of his father's. My mind wandered back to my two katanas in Kaede's hut. I still hadn't managed to use them since the battle with Yura. I had been half-conscious along the way to Urasue's place, and I didn't think I needed it when I went for my walk a few hours ago.
We hadn't had time to relax since I had gotten here.. It was always go, go, go! I think we deserved a day off.. or at least I did anyway. I had barely enough time to think before we were off fighting something else. I was still in my night-gown for heaven's sake! It wasn't dirty thankfully, only wet, but that could only last for so long.. I vowed after this, I was going home.. maybe to let Kagome force that birthday present on me.. oh yay a date with Hojo, whoopie.
"Sesshoumaru-sama is after that sword, and intends to snatch it away.." Meoga continued. Inuyasha had a look of minimal interest on his face. Why he wouldn't be interested in a treasure sword, I couldn't be sure, especially if it's his father's. I'd give anything to have something of my parents.. but our parents had died a long time ago.
But then.. there was something else I had been wondering about lately. If I was a hanyo.. then shouldn't my sisters be one as well? It doesn't make any scene as to why I'm part yokai and they're not.. since we are all blood related after all..
Inuyasha jumped from the skeletal bird, and into the skeletal structure of his father. I grabbed Meoga and followed in after, hoping that the speed of the fall wouldn't make me freeze up like it usually did when I was human.
Actually I enjoyed the fall.. the speed, the adrenaline that rushed through my veins as I sped towards the ground. It was quite easy to see why Inuyasha was always complaining about how slow human's are in travel. I just didn't know how I could have disliked this before.
I reached the ground shortly after Inuyasha, and already they had broken out into a fight. The smell of rot was worse in here. Maybe it was because we were in the middle of a decaying monster's body, or maybe it was because the floor was made up of human and animal bones. In the middle of the area, was a round golden pedestal. Words were carved into the gold, and I found myself trying to decipher what they meant. But on top of this golden art was something that seemed out of place. A sword.. A rusty, dusty, thin sword, that looked at though it couldn't even cut paper.
"What's up, Inuyasha?" Sesshoumaru said casually, avoiding another of Inuyasha's attacks, "Did you come just to dig your own grave? Or could it be that.. you came for a chance at.. Chichi-ue's fang-sword Tetsusaiga?"
Inuyasha stopped attacking and looked at the rustic old sword, "Tetsusaiga..?"
"Draw it out, Inuyasha-sama!" Meoga shouted, jumping up and down eagerly, suddenly on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Sesshoumaru-sama.. it must be that.. you couldn't draw Tetsusaiga, could you!"
Sesshoumaru stared at the flea unemotionally. "Are you suggesting Inuyasha can?"
I stepped closer to the sword, my curiosity getting the better of me. What was so special about this hunk o' junk? Why in the world would a great yokai like Inuyasha's father have such a sword? It would be embarrassing just to be seen with it.
"Of course," Meoga cried, answering the older brother's question, "That the tomb was entrusted to Inuyasha-sama is proof enough. Now, quickly, Inuyasha-sama.."
Inuyasha scoffed, and rolled his eyes at the sword, "Keh! I'm not interested in some worn-out old sword.. Sesshoumaru! You damn bastard.." he leaped forwards his claws flexed once again, "How dare you keep screwing with me like that!"
Sesshoumaru avoided, yet again, his attack, "Where are you aiming?"
"Shit!" Inuyasha whipped around and sprinted forward again, "You jerk!"
Dodged.
"Crap!" Inuyasha cursed looking behind him, at his smirking older brother.
"Heh. Your fighting style is as childish as ever.." Sesshoumaru informed him, a hint of smugness to his tone.
"You can't win unarmed, Inuyasha-sama.." Meoga was really crying this time, "The sword.."
"Shut up!" Inuyasha barked. I gave an over exaggerated sigh and grabbed onto his ear pulling him towards the pedestal, "What the hell, Kaori!"
"You shut up!" I snapped, "Now listen! If that egotistical jerk couldn't pull out this hunk of crap and you could don't you think he'd be crushed? Because his stupid younger brother-"
"Hey!" Inuyasha interrupted, glaring at me.
"Shut up! Because his brother can do something he can't!"
He looked at the sword, and the corners of his mouth turned up into a smirk. "I get it.. It would be really annoying for him, huh.."
"I bet you can't do it." Sesshoumaru replied, emotionless.
"Heh.. This is your payback.. I want to see you weep, bastard!" Inuyasha shouted, grasping the sword in his hand.
"As I thought.." Meoga declared. "The Tetsusaiga is destined to be in the hands of Inuyasha-sama!"
Suddenly yellow bolts of lightning appeared around the sword, crackling and spitting in all directions. The sword wouldn't budge. Inuyasha's face grew dark as he took his hand of the sword.
"Oi.." he said unemotionally. Meoga yelped and went to flee, but the glowering hanyo caught him between his fingers, "I.. can't.. pull.. it.. out.. can.. I!" He hissed as he swished the cowardly bug in his hands.
"I.." Meoga gasped, "I don't get it!"
"The farce is over.." Sesshoumaru said monotonously. In the blink of an eye, he was inches away from Inuyasha. "It seems Tetsusaiga wasn't meant for you after all, bastard.." he flexed his claws. "Now be evaporated by my poison claws."
He swung his arm forward, attempting to hit Inuyasha, but he had avoided it at last second. Sesshoumaru's claws sunk into the bone behind his brother and it soon melted away..
Inuyasha sprinted to the other side of the room, but Sesshoumaru was inches away again. "You won't get away."
"Hiiii heh heh heh!" The green toad know as Jaken crackled, pulling out his wooden staff.. Cool. "I'll assist you Sesshoumaru-sam-!"
I jumped in front of him, and he yelped in surprise, "Hello.." I said in a innocent tone, "Remember me!" I snatched the staff from his hand and smacked him across the head with it like earlier. He flew to the other side of the room, and hit one of the monster's ribs.
"Heh, Kaori 2, little green toad -2000." I tossed the staff to the side and ran back to Tetsusaiga. I waved my hand over the top. Nothing. What was it that made the sword so special? Something hard smashed against my head and I stumbled forwards, grasping the sword for balance.
I looked behind me to see the toad, with the staff in his hand, smirking at me. I growled and whipped around, tackling the toad to the ground, the sword inches from his nose. "Your gonna pay you stupid little.."
I heard gasps from around me and looked up. Everyone was staring at me in shock. Inuyasha was pinned the ground by Sesshoumaru, poison claws hanging over his face, but they seemed to be frozen. Their eyes transfixed on something in my hand.
"What..?" I looked at the sword.. then towards the pedestal, empty. I jumped back in surprise staring at the sword in my hand. "Um.. I can explain?"
"Im-im-impossible!" Jaken sputtered, staring at me, his large yellow eyes bulging, "Inuyasha's case is irrelevant.. as even Sesshoumaru-sama couldn't pull Tetsusaiga out.. How could that half-demon wenc-"
"Hey! You watch you mouth, or I'll kick your butt to China!" I shouted, kicking the toad across the room.
Sesshoumaru stared at me, his eyes hard and cold like ice. Inuyasha seemed to notice, for he glared at his brother. "Don't you go looking else where!" he shouted.
But as soon as his sentence left his mouth, Sesshoumaru was looming over me. I shrunk back against the wall, my tail was between my legs and I felt my ears pin back.. This person was scary up close. I held Tetsusaiga close to my chest as he continued to cast his icy gaze upon me.
"Who are you?" he asked, his icy voice sending shivers down my spine, "Why were you able to draw Tetsusaiga?"
"How am I supposed to know!" I snapped. But then my courage vanished again as his gaze became colder and my body resumed the frightened position.
"Don't you touch her, Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha shouted, racing towards us, "That girl has nothing to do with this!"
Meoga sighed from his shoulder, something that I wouldn't have been able to pick up if I had been human, "Good thing he's after her now and not us, hey Inuyasha-sama?"
Stupid, ungrateful, jerk! Once we get out of this I'll make him wish he'd never said that!
"Shut up!" Inuyasha snapped, "Sesshoumaru! Leave her alone, she's not evolved in this!"
Sesshoumaru crackled his knuckles, the tips of his fingers glowing bright green, "I disagree. For an unknown reason I was unable to touch Tetsusaiga, fortunately you were unable to draw it out either. It's obvious that she must die."
"You're right, it is strange that she could pull out the sword and we couldn't, but she's just a girl," he looked toward me, "Give him the damn sword, there's no other choice."
"What the hell!" I snapped, "Why should I? I rather like the fact that he wants something he can't have! It might help his personality. Besides, where does it say he gets the sword! He couldn't even touch it!"
"Don't be stupid! You're only a girl, so back off, shut up, and butt out!" he shouted.
My eyes narrow and I pointed the sword at him. "You stupid sexist jerk! Why don't you shut the hell up! Your the one who's screaming your head off! If I was over there I'd shove this sword up your a-!"
"Inuyasha.. your patience with this girl is astonishing." Sesshoumaru sighed, interrupting my rant. I'd beat him up too if I wasn't so scared of him! "You protect her, indulge her, and even seem to love her.."
I felt my face burn at these words. What did he know! He didn't even know how to display his own feelings. How could he read others emotions, when he couldn't even read his own! Besides Inuyasha loved Kikyo, he even admitted it yesterday!
"Certainly.." he continued, running his fingers trough his hair, "certainly these.. feelings of mercy, of yours.. isn't something I inherited from our great.. and terrible father.. It must have been that mother of yours.. that human mother. Who caused our father to meet his end in this ignoble place.. Her blood effects you as well. Is it that which so endears you to them?"
He glanced toward me, "I do happen to realize that this girl was the younger sister of that human woman you used to indulge yourself with. She had been human.. only until a few days ago. Her transformation seems to have effected you in a negative way, little brother. Maybe you had wished her to stay human.. for it seems you are attracted to them the most.. just like our father. But I, however.."
'Her transformation seems to have effected you in a negative way.. maybe you had wished her to stay human..' I knew that wasn't true. I knew Inuyasha had only worried about my lack of self-control, and probably was relieved that now I was a hanyo and wouldn't die as easily but.. the words Sesshoumaru had spoken still hurt.
He pointed his fingers towards me, and I felt the urge to flee, but I couldn't.. my body wouldn't move.. it wouldn't listen. I was like a deer in the headlights again, "bare no such weakness. Be annihilated.. by my dokkasou.. pathetic hanyo," he hissed.
Suddenly everything was dark. It was my calm cool darkness from before.. no pain. Not a single hint of pain like before. But.. It was like I was inside an air bubble under water. I heard the sound of crackling electricity, the everything was gone. The dark faded away. I found myself inside a blueish purple dome, staring at the claws of the yokai in front of me.
The mist poured from his hand, but it travelled over the dome, and I was unaffected from the inside. He stopped the poison mist, and my dome faded away. I quickly found my feet and sprinted past him, coming to a stop beside the shocked silver hanyo.
I pushed the sword into Inuyasha hands, and stood a few paces behind him, gasping. He blinked then whipped around, his face pale, "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!"
I crushed Meoga in my hand for getting calm when I was going to die, "I can't believe you were relived when that guy went after me!" I muttered, ignoring him.
"Hey..uh.. how come you're still alive?" Inuyasha asked, dragging my attention away from the disloyal insect.
I blinked, then stared at my hands, "If I knew everything, then my life would be a lot easier."
"I see.." Sesshoumaru said calmly, facing us, "The girl can create barriers.."
"Inuyasha-sama! No need to hesitate.." Meoga called, squirming out from my hand, "You should test Tetsusaiga's blade.. on Sesshoumaru's body!"
Sesshoumaru chuckled, as the whites of his eyes grew blood red, "How daring of you to say that.. We shall see, if a hanyo bastard like you can master the Tetsusaiga.. This Sesshoumaru would see that with his own eyes.."
Oh yeah! Well this Kaori would like him to shut the hell up!
Sesshoumaru's body was changing.. morphing into something more spectacular. Dark grey and white mist covered his body.. it cleared almost as fast and there stood and freaking HUGE dog! Like the size of a five story building!
"Oh my god.. That's a whole lot of angry dog.." I muttered, staring at the growling creature.
Inuyasha scoffed. "Keh! That bastards just shown his true form," he leaped toward the creature, "I'll cover this with your own blood!" he thrust the sword toward the monstrous dog, attempting to cut the flesh by it's ear. As soon as Tetsusaiga hit the scalp of the yokai it bounced back, not even leaving a mark behind.
"Oi Meoga-jijii.. What's the deal! This sword can't even bruise him, let alone behead him!" Inuyasha asked, dodging Sesshoumaru's poison claws.
"Erm.."Meoga answered whipping sweat from his brow, "Anyway Inuyasha-sama.. this sword is a memento of your father.. Believe in the sword's spiritual power! You must never abandon it! Well then.. if you'll excuse me.." he leaped from his shoulder and disappeared somewhere among the bones.
"Why you.." Inuyasha growled. He turned toward me, "You go find a place to hide or something!"
"What! Why should I!" I snapped, "I'm just as capable as fighting as you are!"
"Yes, you maybe capable, but it doesn't mean you know how!" he shouted, "At this rate your probably gonna die here anyways, letting you fight would just speed it up!"
I felt like someone had just slapped me across the face. Me being a hanyo was only more troublesome for him. He still wouldn't let me defend myself, and he still wouldn't let me fight.. My reasonable protesting where just irrelevant, annoying to him. I felt the tears well up in my eyes, and this time I didn't try to hide them.
"D.. D.. Don't cry!" he barked. His face was panicky like he didn't know what to do. But then that was normal . Kikyo had never cried, and when I had when I was little, one of the villagers helped me calm down. He had no experience, especially when it was him who made someone cry. The only reason he had such a cool face when I was with Koga because he KNEW what was wrong, most of the time, he didn't, "Shut up! I'm saying I'll protect you!"
Wrong. He was wrong. He thought I was upset over my death, but I wasn't. I didn't care if I died. I wasn't afraid. There could be nothing more painful then my transformation, so after that, death would be peaceful and painless to me, no matter how I died. But I stopped myself, just to give him that satisfaction. I'd go on a real crying spurt later, when there wasn't danger about.
"Jeez, just sit back and watch," he said, turning back toward his brother. Something pounded in my ears.. a heart beat. But it wasn't mine, nor any others in the room.. It came off Tetsusaiga.
I could hear it. Tetsusaiga's heartbeat. It beat just as strongly and steady as a yokai heart. Inuyasha stared at the sword in awe, he must've heard it too. This meant a change, a surge of power came from the sword, and even though I wasn't the one who held the sword in my hand, I could feel it too.
Inuyasha looked up toward Sesshoumaru, grasping the sword in two hands. He lept forward holding the sword horizontal. The rustic blade glowed as it sliced through the flesh of the dog form Sesshoumaru. I gasped in surprise. Only moments before the sword couldn't even cut a leaf, but now it had changed.. into a pearly white thick fang in Inuyasha's hand. Tetsusaiga surged with demonic power in it's true form.
Sesshoumaru stumbled in pain from his shoulder injury, and growled at his younger brother. I bet he's pretty messed up now, the transformation must have come as a surprise to him as it did to all of us.
"This is the end.. Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha shouted lunging forward. The sword sliced through the monsters arm, and sent him back. He fell through the bone wall behind him, out of sight.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Jaken squeaked, jumping to his feet, and out the broken wall after his lord, "Sesshoumaru-sama please wait for me!"
Inuyasha plummeted Tetsusaiga into the ground and chuckled to himself. "Thanks Oyaji.. You've left me quite a heirloom."
"Just like Inuyasha- sama!"
Meoga leaped out of the bones and back onto Inuyasha's shoulder, cheering loudly and proud, "I have always believed in you, Inuyasha-sama!"
Inuyasha raised his hand to slap the bug away but Meoga raised his hands in horror, "Wait a second! Look, look!"
We turned to look at a screeching bone bird landed in front of us.
"I was just trying to secure our way back! I wasn't running away. You finally trust me, eh?"
Inuyasha smiled.. it was almost creepy, "Then you really weren't running away?"
Meoga hesitated, "If you ask me with your face so trusting.." he fell to bow, "Forgive me! I thought you could never win against Sesshoumaru-sama, even by luck, so I ran away! I'm ashamed of myself for underestimating you, again, Inuyasha-sama and lying to you."
"Meoga!" Inuyasha picked up the yokai bug in his fingers, then squished him flat with an evil smirk.
"Well, anyways.. everything worked out.." the bug squeaked.
"Ehh, but how was I able to pull out the Tetsusaiga?" I asked.
"Hm.. well.. It's in my opinion that because of the history and past Inuyasha and yourself share you were able to," Meoga replied, "Originally, Tetsusaiga was belongs to Inuyasha-sama's father. It was his father's demon blade created for protecting his mother, who was a human. The sword that cannot be used without the heart which loves and is willing to protect humans.. I think that is the true identity of Tetsusaiga."
"But Meoga, I'm not human anymore.." I muttered.
"Ahh but you are! Though you are hanyo on the outside, and you have these demonic urges, on the inside you are still but a human girl, with human feelings, and emotions. The fact that you lived as one for your entire childhood, changes the rules a bit."
"I see.."
"And because at that time when Inuyasha said he would protect you, the sword reacted. However not having any mercy for humans, that's why Sesshoumaru-sama couldn't use the Tetsusaiga."
I giggled and pulled on the silent hanyo's ears beside me, "And here you thought being half-yokai was a weakness!"
