AvidReader: i'm glad my writting brings you such happyness... (if your crying for what happens to sess during the sixth chapter...i really don't want to know what you'll do to me for the 8th one...)
TinyClownBean1: (wow, 2 reviews) please write a story, i'd love to read it. and no, i can't write leamons, they're great in my head...but i'm kinda scared of my dad ever finding this...and i put it as r cuz i've read stories with less than this with an r so...
sesshy101: he is sexy isn't he?just read (no matter what happens, read)
Editor Crawl: SOMEONE ESLE WHOES READTHE BLACK JEWELS! reading my story...oh i feel specail (not many people know of those books) yeah, the high lord of hell thing was kinda simalir wasn't it? i was just thinking about...and trying to imagine a conversation between saeten and isitousai....it didn't go too well. as for isitousai knowing about them...no, not their dad, you'll see, and somkai are stonger all around, and To-mai's dead. dead and gone. i hope you do write your own fic (i feel so specail when people say my writings inspirered them...)
GoTrinba: hm...yes..that would fit in with my plan rather well...just proubly not this chapter...and not by isitousai...people should hate him enough already...i'm so glad you liked that last chapter, it seemed differant from what i usaully write and i was scared poeple wouldn't like it as much.
No matter what happens, keep reading this chapter, ok? no matter how pissed you get at me, finish this chapter before you storm off
now,
on to the chapter!
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CHAPTER SEVEN: Not a Hero Unless You Die
Inuyasha stared at the somkai. "W-what do you mean? H-he can't be...He..."
Isitousai smiled coldly, almost regretfuly. "You really are a fool...Inuyasha..."
"How do you know my name?"
"Your half-brother had some rather vivid memories of you...and some rather intersting dreams and thoughts..." The hanyou blushed, and turned his gaze back to his brother huddled in his arms.
Golden eyse looked back at him. "Inuyasha. Why did you come here?"
"I was following you..."
"Why? We hate eachother..."
Sesshomaru shock his head sadly. "Exactly." His gold eyes studied Inuyasha for a moment before he bowed his head. His entire body trembled. "Do you know that I once swore I would never cry for you again?"
Inuyasha simpley sat still, Sesshomaru's body in a tight ball on his lap. "I guess promises can't be kept, not even to ones made to one's self...promises are just words of comfort given to one, but they are never kept. Did you know you once promised me something? But you lied...You swore you'd never forget me, never forget what we...But you did, as it always is, that promise was just a lie. Only one promise has ever been kept, and that was our father's promise that I would never have what I wanted, and that I would never know happiness...I did..Once...But it was built on apromise, and it didn't last, promises never do..."
"oh..."
Sesshomaru shock his head. "Sh. I don't want words, they are just words, and are worthless."He looked up, and Inuyasha saw the tears in his eyes. His clawed hand reached down to wipe them away, but Sesshomaru tensed at the soft touch. Inuyasha realized that must have been something Isitousai had done, andwithdrew his hand quickly.
"Words are not worthless, and we do not hate eachother, i may have, but you never did."
Shock. "What do you mean?" Sesshomaru looked away. "I'm constantly trying to kill you. How could I not hate you..." If Inuyasha didn't know what to look for, he would have missed the slight wince, and the hidden pain deep within the sunlit orbs.
"Becvause you were angery at father, for protecting everything he had from you, so you could nver have it. And because you proubly couldn't stand my hatred of you... "
Sesshomaru's body ratiadted suprise. "How..." he gasped slightly, almost as if he couldn't breath, but wanted to say something. ""You...How can you know that?"
"Because Sess..." the hanyou whispered softly. His half-brother's eyes were wide in shock.
"You just...called me...But you haven't since...You..."
"I remember." Inuyasha leaned down slightly, so the two's nose's touched softly, Sesshomaru still curled in his embrace. "I love you."
Sesshomaru gasped, his hand reaching up to grasp Inuyasha's shoulder. "...I..."
"Sh. Don't speak..." the hanyou touched his lips to those of his brother. "I love you so much...And I am so sorry."
The tears of the two half-brothers mingled together, as Inuyasha let his brother know how sorry he was. Pulling away slightly, Inuyasha licked the salty tears of his bottom lip. Sesshoamru smile at him, causing the hanyou to wonder what had happened to reverse their roles so completly. Sesshomaru was the one to always protect him. But in a way, he liked be able to protect Sess, he never was allowed to.
"Ah, how touching. Now perhaps Sess can go to his death happy... For he still is dieing...Not even love can save him form that..." The two glanced at Isitousai, finallt remembering he still stood by the door.
As if his words were a prophecy, Sesshomaru cried out as pain rippled through him. "SESS!"
The smile to youkai gave him was small, sad, and acepting. "You said 'I love you' twice...and ...I love you too." He gave another small cry.
"Please Sess, you can't leave me...You can't, not after I just..." the hanyou sobbed. "You can't..."
Something shattered inside him. Almost as shattered as the suddenly lifelss body in his arms. His world froze for one second, momentarily stopping the pain. In some remote corner of his numb mind he knew as soon as the pian hit he'd proubly die of it. Not that that mattered anymore...Nothing mattered anymore...
His eyes snapped upward to glare at the, for some reason, almost ssad Isitousai. "You bastard," he hissed.
Isitousai spared him a glance.
"You, fucking, bastard."
Isitousai finally actuly looked at him. "That's why he died isn't it? Ah well...his soul were go to the realm his sword protects, so I won't get it...ah well..he was a rather amusing toy...And he did manage to last longer than most."
His mind was no longer numd, instead it was filled with a burning anger. But in that remote corner it ws screaming something at him. 'Sword! His sword!'
Yet, he wasn't listening to it. But it wouldn't give up, it kept sreaming about Sesshomaru's sword...
'His sword! His sword!'
'Yeah, what the hell about it?'
'The Tenseiga!'
'The...The Tenseiga!?'
Finally content that it's job was done, the corner of his mind shut up, leaving Inuyasha to his normal mind. The anger that had been building there suddenly cleared away. It really wasn't that suprising he hadn't thought of it instantly, but he still scolded himself for forgetting.
Isitousai frowned. "The Tenseiga? What about it?"
"You menchioed he'd go to the realm that his sword gaurded, did you not? So you know it's the blade of the heaven realm, but not what it can do? What a baka." Inuyasha sneered at the confused somkai. Gently he scopped up the still body of his half-brother, and willed Tetsusaiga to find were Tenseiga lay. Following the pulse of his sword, he walked from the small room, past the crumpled heap of to-mai's spaltered body, past the shocked Isitousai, down the long and empty halls, until he stood before a small iron door.
The door had several locks plastered all over it, some locked by keys, others by spells. He growled at the door. "Damn," he hissed. He whirled on Isitousai, who had followed him, and now was grinning in truimph.
"Foolish hanyou..."
"Unlock the door, NOW."
"Why?"
"Because if you don't I swear I will kill you."
"You are but a hanyou, and I am one of the great somkai!"
"Open. The. Door."
The complet sencerity of what Inuyasha said made Isitousai shake in fear. What if the hanyou wasn't bluffing...He proubly would, or he'd go down, taking as many others as he could...Shaking, the somkai shuffled forward, and began unlocking the many complex locks. Inuyasha stood impassivily, holding onto Sesshomaru's body like a life-line. What is the Tenseiga wouldn't obey him, what if it didn't work, what if Sesshomaru truely was dead, beyound him forever...?He knew Sesshomaru would go to heaven, but he was unsure of where he'd go after he died...
When at last all the locks'd tumbled to the floor, Isitousai turned and fled.
"Hm. Odd."
Carefuly, Inuyasha pushed the door open with his foot. Inside there lay several weapons, proubly from other youkai taken, and killed, here. There also were several articles of clothing. Inuyasha's main cincern though was the Tenseiga. He found it atop Sesshomaru's fluffy and armour.
He gently leaned the almost-cold body of Sesshomaru against the wall, and turned to look at the Tenseiga. "Please work..." he whispered. Cautionly, he reached out to pick it up. "Please..."
He unsheathed it, and turned to the body of his love. "Please..."
He was able to see smaal Jaken-like demons swarming over Sesshomaru's body. "Hm...Those must be..." He swung the sword, and the messangers eveporated.
Sesshomaru took one long gasp of air, only to be cut off by Inuyasha swooping down on him and kissing him as hard as the hanyou could. Not that thhe youkai really minded this that much...When at last his brother drew away, Sesshomaru realized he still had no clothes on since To-mai had torn them off, he had just died, Inuyasha must've used Tenseiga, it didn't hurt anymore, andInuyasha remembered!
Three of those things were good.
"Sess..."
The youkai smiled his first real smile in years, and suddenly he laughed. "Inuyasha..." He grinned. "Small one."
Inuyasha growled slightly in the back of his throat. Sesshomaru hoisted himself to his feet, but almost feel over. Mabye he had been wrong when he said it didn't hurt anymore...
The oain was back, while not as strong as before, it still hurt too much. He fell over again. "Damndamndamndamndamndamn..."
Inuyasha picked him up, bridal style. Ignoring the growls he got, the hanyou carried the weak youkai into the room he'd past when trying to find Tenseiga that looked to be a bathing room. He entered to find it was indeed a bathing room, and instantly plundged into the warmish water.
Sesshomaru gasped as the water washed over him, the pain a brief, voilent stabb. Inuyasha blushed slightly when Sesshomaru's body curled around his. He set his half-brother against the wall of the bath before climbing out.
"Where are you going?"
"To find you some clothing. I won't be gone five minutes."
Sesshomaru nodded, hopping nothing would happen to him.
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A few moments later Inuyasha came back, dragging Sesshomaru's fluffy, armour, and a pair of whitish pants and a dark purplish kimono. "Only thing I could find..." Inuyasha muttered. Sesshomaru smiled at him softly.
Inuyasha shed his outer kimono and slushed back into the swimming-pool bath. "Are you alright?"
"No. We're going to die. We're never going to possibly be able to get out of here, not with me like this..."
"It wasn't a problem for me to get here."
"Because the somaki wanted you here."
"What? Why?"
"I don't know, but....Teh only reason I got into this mess was because Isitousai told me not to inerfer with you...but then I did...and I don't know what's going to happen..."
Inuyasha looked worried for a few minutes, before sighing. "Sess, we will get out of this alive. And then we'll go and we'll find Rin and Jalen, and ambye go back to our father's, your, home, and we'll be together always. We'll go out and fight or whatever, and we'll come home, and nabye Miroku, Sango and Kagome will come, and We'll defeat Naruku, and then, and then we'll be together, forever, and nothing will ever tear us apart again....And we'll have eachother if nothing else, no matter what..."
"No matter what..." Sesshomaru repeated softly. Inuyasha nodded. "I could live with that..." He leaned forward to catch his half-brother's lips with his own, and the kiss they shared spoke of dreams, and plans for a happy future, where they would be together, and never again apart. A kiss that sang of hope and needs and wants that could be furfiled in the darkest hours of the night....
And it was a kiss that never truely died, but loved on in both of their hearsts as long as either one lived. A kiss that acted as a banner or symbol of their love, and the hope they shared.
YAY! the line thingys are working again! boo-yeah! so...still not over...it sounded like it's over, but it's not, i just wanted an almost happy ending to at least one of the chapters...i was eating a candy-cane while writting most of this....so i was on a sugar high...
