Hey Guys! Here's chapter 9 like I promised. I do really hope you enjoy it.
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InuYasha jumped down from the tree where he sat his night through as light shone through the land beginning another new day. Two nights ago his two companions finally expressed their love for each other. He expected to have done a little working in order for them to admit it. But it happened a little too easily. This bought InuYasha a smile. He was happy that these two were not in the same complex situation that he was in. However, now a new dark void full of question got opened.
Why were these two going to a certain destination which he assumed a lake? What happened to these two which caused them to cross paths with each other? What mistake did Nobu make which he is going to undo? Where does Suzume stand in all this? What is her role? Does this action that they are going to do will really kill her? What business have the demons got with Suzume? Is Suzume even a human?
But those questions did not disturb him. Not that he cared what they did. But was he really their pawn in this whole journey? Should he really trust these two people? Was he going to be used? If he is injured fighting, would they leave him for the dead? These were the questions that disturbed him.
It has been quite some time since he travelled with these two. But he really didn't know anything about these two's past except cryptic hints they often gave. With every step more questions began arising. Right now there were more questions than answers. But they weren't ready to tell him yet and he had been a fool to agree to their no talk deal.
For that moment he just wished he could trust these two. But he really couldn't yet. Too much suspicion was held on his heart. Until, he was clear of everything he couldn't hold his trust yet. Ever since that night the two have been talking to each other even more. As for InuYasha he stood away from them. He wanted to give them privacy and not interfere between their love talks. Besides, looking at them only made him even more envious for the fact that he had nobody left in this world for him. On top of that his suspicion bested his heart as they had been hiding a lot of things from him.
InuYasha then went into the jungle and hunted down a few birds and rabbits. He came back cleaned the meat and started a fire on which he roasted them. It had been pretty much a norm for him to go into the jungles to hunt for animals. Obviously since those two couldn't do anything. The aroma woke up the two sleepy heads.
"Well, you two have been sleeping pretty well?" InuYasha asked.
"Why do you ask, haevn't you slept yet?" Nobu asked.
"I am a half-demon. I can go on for days without sleeping." InuYasha claimed proudly.
But that wasn't the reason why he couldn't sleep. He wanted to sleep soundly. But he just couldn't. Even a half-demon as powerful as him has a weak side on his heart, a side that fears.
Nobu may believe that, but Suzume couldn't. She clearly saw fatigue in the half-demon's eyes. But fatigue wasn't the only one. She could see fear, pain and uncertainty all in one. He really didn't trust them and that she clearly understood that. She then realized. The cold eyes she gave two nights ago were enough for him to not trust them. That certainly wasn't good. If he isn't around then who would going to protect them from demons? If they had to keep him around then they had to hold his trust.
"So you guys hungry?" InuYasha asked the two giving the two each sticks which had meat stuck on them.
"Sure, I'm starving." Nobu approached forward and took one stick.
After a while Suzume went forward and claimed her half as well. The couple ate in silence when they noticed something. The half-demon in front of them was not eating anything. He just turned away showing them their backs and looking at the sky.
Suzume gave a nudge to Nobu and he turned his head around. She pointed to InuYasha with her eyes. Nobu understood what she was trying to say. He then turned towards the half-demon.
"You are not eating anything. Here have some before we eat it up." He spoke up.
InuYasha snapping from his trance turned around.
"Then take it. You need it more than I do. I don't want to eat." InuYasha replied.
"Look, even half-demons need a source of nourishment. After all you are a half-human as well." Suzume said.
"I said I don't want to eat." InuYasha repeated.
"Look you can't fight if you go on like this. You've got to put some food in that mouth of yours." Nobu said.
InuYasha's patience snapped. These two couldn't really leave him alone. If he didn't want to eat anything then couldn't they understand? Why did they have to bug him constantly? Couldn't they leave him alone? Frustrated he began to yell.
"I SAID I DON'T WANT TO EAT ANYTHING. CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT? JUST LEAVE ME…."
"STOP CRYING LIKE A CHILD AND JUST EAT." Suzume yelled cutting InuYasha out.
InuYasha on the other hand jumped back in fright. She just suddenly snapped back at him. Why are they caring to make him eat?
At that moment Nobu moved forward and gave him his second stick. InuYasha tried to turn away in refusal but Suzume ate her meat while still staring at him with cold daggers. InuYasha stared at her in horror. He really didn't want to argue. He knew that she would yell at him for doing something that would offend her. But giving this deadly glare was something brand new.
Without arguing he immediately took the stick and quickly ate up all the meat on the stick.
"Thank you, now if you'll excuse me I'll come back in a moment." InuYasha said and within moments he was out of earshot.
The two looked at the half-demon run off. They didn't know what on earth he was up to. What the hell happened to him?
InuYasha ran a little farther away from their spot panting heavily. He wasn't panting with exhaustion, he was panting with fear. He stood there for a while as he really needed to forget that woman's face. He sat there and closed his eyes deep in thought. That woman looked like a being that is meant to be feared. These two humans would now keep him hostage. He had to get over this soon. He had to…
"Hey" he heard a voice.
"Yaaaa!" InuYasha jumped in fright.
"Woah! Didn't mean to scare you." Nobu panicked.
"What the hell are you doing? I told you to stay…" InuYasha asked.
"Please don't do anything. She's like that. I would like to apologize for her." He tried to reason.
"Stay with her. She might get kidnapped again." InuYasha suggested.
"OK, but don't take too long." Nobu said.
InuYasha just nodded. After Nobuhiro went back he just stared at the sky for a while. He looked at the round sun taking its place in the morning sky. For a while he calmed down, but then he realized something.
"Oh! Crap." He said to himself as he dashed back to the camp.
"Okay, pack up we need to get as far as we can today." He said to the two.
"Why? Something's wrong." Suzume questioned.
"Huh! Oh nothing's wrong. I just want to travel as far away as fast as possible." InuYasha replied.
They both agreed. But once more Suzume saw something in his eyes. It wasn't pain or anything. This time she saw fear and desperation. Something was wrong. He was hiding something very crucial.
The three packed up and went on with their journey. For the whole day InuYasha didn't talk with anybody. He just walked in silent. But he really seemed patient. It felt as if he just wanted to yell at them for being so slow. But somehow he restrained himself.
But as the day passed by, the half-demon became more and more impatient.
The dusk finally came and he was found to be at the peak of his impatience. It seemed like he just wanted to run away and hide in a pace. At that moment a group of humans were heard crying for help from a distance.
"What was that?" Nobu asked. "You, go and see what is going on."
"Dammit! What now?" InuYasha asked himself.
He jumped on top a top of a tree and surveyed the site. In a distance there was a group of demons attacking a group of humans. This certainly wasn't turning out to be good. The day was almost over and now a group of humans were being attacked.
"Why did it have to happen now?" InuYasha asked himself again.
He then jumped down the tree.
"What is happening?" Suzume asked.
"A group of humans are being attacked by demons." He replied. "Come on we got to go."
"What! We can't just leave them there." Suzume said in a loud voice.
"We gotta keep moving. After all we don't want dead people, do we?"InuYasha questioned.
Suzume understood what he was saying. The three then moved forward towards the battle ground. As they got closer the three hid behind a tree and surveyed the sight. There were a group of men fighting off the horde of demons.
"You stay behind here. I will go and finish them off." InuYasha said to the two.
The two nodded and they hid back.
"Here goes nothing." InuYasha said to himself.
He then went to battle ground. The two sides immediately noticed the half-demon and their battle came to an abrupt halt.
They were all staring at InuYasha. They stared at him as if he had something precious they had. InuYasha surveyed the sky. It was almost dark. He had to be fast and he had to end this quick.
"What are you all looking at?" InuYasha asked them.
"You are that half-demon that had the girl." One of the demons spoke.
InuYasha turned to the source of the voice. There stood the leader of the demon's group.
"Huh! You are that demon who was after Suzume." InuYasha spoke up.
"HELP US..!" The human yelled.
The demon nearby immediately slashed him dead. At that moment the humans stepped back. They knew this half-demon might help them survive. But that was a wrong decision to make. They were immediately surrounded by demons thus holding them captive.
"Shut up human." He said. "Well, isn't this a great turn of events. Since I promised that I won't allow you to have that girl, let's ask a question. Where is the girl?"
"She is not here." InuYasha replied.
"Well, aren't you great liar. I know she is here around somewhere." The demon said.
He then looked around the area.
"I know she is there." He said pointing to a tree in a distance.
The couple behind the tree gasped in surprise. He really knew where they were hiding. What was going to happen now?
InuYasha couldn't say anything. He just stood there gripping the hilt of his sword not able to make his move. A few moments later two demons went behind the tree and grabbed the couple who were about run away from their place.
"We need the girl. But the boy is of no use." The demon replied as he went closer. "However, keep him alive. We will make him suffer for hiding the girl away from us all this time."
"Leave them alone." InuYasha yelled back.
"Oh, you feel bad. Don't you want the girl? Or is it that she is your friend. How pathetic. A perfect thing like her being treated as a friend." The demon taunted the half-demon by running his claws down the girl's cheeks which caused InuYasha's anger to rise.
"Why don't you just shut up?" InuYasha replied.
"Why any problem you got... WHAT?" The demon tried to taunt more but was shocked to find the half-demon missing from the place where it was standing.
The demon then turned around to the couple who were held captive. But instead he found the half-demon standing in front of him shielding the girl behind. The couple's captors were found dead in two pieces. He just stood there looking at the half-demon's eyes which were fueled with anger.
"If you don't know how to shut then it looks like I will have to shut you up." InuYasha spoke up in a loud voice.
With his anger flaming high InuYasha immediately plunged his hand through the chest of the demon. The hand then ripped out from the back of the demon with the beating heart in InuYasha's hand. Showing no mercy he squished the heart. After that body then dropped on the floor lifeless.
"Why you…ATTACK" One of the demons commanded.
All the demons then lunged towards the half demon from the air. InuYasha drew out the Tessaiga.
"ADAMANT BARRAGE" InuYasha yelled.
In a matter of seconds a shower of diamond pieces shooted through the air impaling and piercing the enemies. Within moments there was nothing but pieces of flesh flying in the air landing on the ground below.
InuYasha looked into the sky. The sun was just inches away from sunset.
"We got to go." He said to the couple that was shielded behind him.
"HOLD IT" A voice spoke up.
InuYasha turned around and found the humans pointing their weapons at the trio.
"Give us the girl." The man in the front spoke up.
"So you are also after her." InuYasha said while gritting his teeth.
"Give us the girl and go free." He repeated.
"Shut up." InuYasha yelled.
Suddenly scales appeared in the Tessaiga and InuYasha swung it towards the humans. The humans expecting to get killed fell back. The force hit them but nothing happened. He faked an attack.
"AFTER THEM." The leader yelled.
InuYasha and the two couple ran through the woods after making an opportunity to escape.
Suzume and Nobu noticed something strange with the half-demon. He was not running as fast as he used to. He was slower. More like running with the pacing of the human. But it was now really dark to see anything.
They ran for a while until they were certain they were safe.
"Are both of you okay?" InuYasha spoke up from the darkness.
"We are fine, are you?" Nobu asked.
"Don't even ask." He replied as he came out of the shadows.
The couple stared at him with wide eyes. InuYasha stood there with his hair all black and his dog ears missing.
"What happened?" Nobu asked.
"You're asking me?" He asked back sarcastically. "The new moon happened, you got that?"
"So, right now it's time of your weakness." Suzume said as she looked into the black cloudy sky.
"How did you know?" InuYasha asked.
"I just know that every half-demon has a time of weakness." Suzume replied.
"Okay, why you did not tell us today was your time of weakness?" Nobu asked in a loud voice.
"What made you think I would tell you my time of weakness?" InuYasha asked back.
"So you don't trust us?" Suzume asked.
"I never trusted anybody in my life. That's the reason alone I am alive. There have been only five people in my life I have ever trusted with my soul." He replied in a low voice.
"And why don't you trust us?" Suzume said as she became surprised.
"Oh! God" InuYasha said as he slammed his face on his palm. "Well isn't it obvious. Why are you hiding things from me?"
The two stared at each other for a while. InuYasha gave a long sigh and stood up.
"Look we're sorry. We will explain…" Suzume tried to explain.
"Save it for later. For now we got to get moving or they might catch up with us." He replied.
As he took another step there was a loud crash and InuYasha's left foot suddenly got pulled up. The next moment he hit his head and after that he found himself hanging upside down as his vision became blurry and he fell unconscious.
In the middle of the night InuYasha woke up. He had somehow found himself on the ground with a knotted rope tied to one of his leg. He looked closer and found that the rope was cut. He looked around and found several bodies of soldiers. But Nobu and Suzume were nowhere to be found. Did those two do this? What the hell happened here?
InuYasha stood up rubbing the back of his head. Then he looked around at the massacre. He looked around even more. But there was no sign of the two.
"Looks like those two escaped huh!" InuYasha said to himself.
As he began to move away something caught his attention. A little farther away there was a body lying on the ground with almost a dozen swords impaled on its body. He began to move forward. He gasped at what he saw.
The body was of no other than Nobuhiro's. The swords were impaled so deep into the ground that it was near to impossible to pull them out. He was dead. There was no question about it. Nobody could ever take on that many swords, especially for humans like him.
They escaped. How wrong he could be? They probably killed Nobu and took Suzume as hostage. He was given one job. That was to protect these two. He failed. He failed because he couldn't tell them about the new moons night. He didn't tell them because he never trusted these two. Now because of his mistrust one of them was now lying dead. Kagome was right, he really had to work on his peoples skills.
"Sigh! Damn. What a waste." He said to himself as he put his hand over his forehead.
But then at that moment InuYasha was shocked with surprise.
Nobu's eyelids suddenly threw open revealing his white dilated eyes and the next moment his right hand rose in the air. Then his body rose slowly in the air as it ran through the sharp edges swords and through the hilt. The body then stood up on the two legs and the boy's eyelids were shut they opened as his eyes became normal again. Then he turned his head towards InuYasha.
InuYasha on the other hand couldn't believe his eyes. He looked at the now standing Nobu and the swords that were still impaled on the ground. He surveyed his body as he was shocked to discover that there were no holes at all. What was this boy? What on earth did just happen? What is going on?
"Wh… What are you?" InuYasha asked.
So that's it for this chapter guys. Please do feel free to leave a review since it would be lovely to communicate with you guys. Plus I forgot to mention in the last chapter that I boldfaced a couple of sentences in chapter 8. Can you guess why?Anyways thank you for reading and do feel free to PM me if you have any questions or leave them in the review. I will try to answer them and I will see you guys around.
