Welt, I'm back with another chapter of this weird fic, eh? Not much to say, aside from this chapter has some youkai(demons) attacking villagers and being killed. Oh,And I know I haven't been updating this story recently so I decided to post two chapters this time.Let's get started...
(-ORCHESTRATED ATTACK?-)
)-Village Center-(
A youkai is just finishing killing and feasting on a villager, when it turns to another villager. The almost humanoid youkai (looks kinda like an Orc) drops the body of the villager it already killed and starts toward the other villager, who's cowering in fear on the ground. In the background, youkai are attacking and slaughtering the village's occupants. Just as the youkai lunges at the villager, it's kicked in the left side of its head and staggers several steps to its right as Toramaru lands infront of the villager, quickly drawing the Zanmato in an Iaijutsu-style nukiuchi slash to cut down the demon, the creature's blood staining the ground. ('Nukiuchi' - A way of drawing a sword to cut an opponent's waist).
"Seek shelter, quickly." Toramaru says calmly over his shoulder to the villager, who promptly follows Toramaru's instructions. 'These youkai reek of Naraku's scent...' Toramaru thinks to himself, as the Zanmato transforms into its larger form in his hand, "Let us begin, shall we?" he says, holding Zanmato up horizontally infront of himself with the side of the blade facing the horde of demons.
Just then, "Wind Scar!" Inuyasha's voice crashes in as Tetsusaiga's attack cuts through the battleground, slaying several of the demons.
Toramaru looks over to see Inuyasha and Kagome run up to the area.
"What the hell!" says Inuyasha, upon observing the decimation and the approaching demon-horde, consisting of everything from snake-like demons to more of those orc-looking ones(Oh, and there's gotta be some centipede demons in there, of course). "There's hundreds of them!"
Suddenly, Reika shows up around the other side of the battlefield area, pouncing on a youkai and abruptly jerking its head around backward, "Gotcha!" she states, dusting her hands off.
Before the girl knows what's happening, a serpentine youkai comes up behind her and the view switches to Sango, flying in on Kirara, "Reika, Look out!" she shouts, throwing Hiraikotsu which spins down and cuts the serpentine demon in-two before returning to Sango, who stops just above where Reika is standing, "Are you alright?" she asks the raccoon-girl.
Reika turns and looks up toward Sango on Kirara, "I'm okay! Thanks, Sango-chan!" she responds, waving her right hand.
"Stay alert, Reika!" Sango says, then looks at the numerous demons about, "There're countless demons around, I've never seen so many at once!"
"Alright!" responds Reika, then Sango flies off on Kirara to engage more youkai. Reika then jerks her right arm down, gripping her hand in a fist, 'Now's my chance to show Sango-chan what I can do!' she states to herself, determinedly, before drawing out her whip(been awhile since I've mentioned it, eh?).
View switches back to Inuyasha just as he cuts down two more demons, covering the ground in their blood. Kagome fires three arrows, one after another, hitting and destroying several demons due to her powers of purification.
Suddenly, "Kagome, Get down!" Inuyasha states, causing the girl to drop down and cover her head with her hands, just as Inuyasha performs a horizontal swing with Tetsusaiga to slash through the demon that was behind the girl. Inuyasha then spins back around, releasing another Wind Scar from Tetsusaiga to destroy many more demons, however, still more appear. "Damn! There's just no end to these things!" Inuyasha states.
"Wind Tunnel!"
The others look on as an indeterminable number of demons are drawn into the cursed hole in Miroku's right hand, however, something else appears that gets sucked into the Wind Tunnel as well, "What? Saimyoushou?" Miroku says, shocked, as he quickly closes his hand and wraps the prayer-beads back around it. He grunts slightly, "... phew. At least I managed to avoid drawing in too many of them..." he says, his face clearly showing the effects of their poison.
"Damn! Naraku's poison insects!" Inuyasha states, "So, This is more of that bastard's work!" he continues fighting demons.
Reika snaps her whip toward a youkai, wrapping the end around the demon's neck. She pulls the whip tight and grips a portion of the whip in her left hand, "Try this, ugly!" she states, then sends a wave of her youki through the whip into the demon, which causes the demon to implode, "Ha!" she says in triumph, as she jerks the length of her whip back to herself, coiling it in a loop.
Switch over to Toramaru as he spins Zanmato over his head repeatedly, creating a fiery whirlwind around himself, which burns up the nearing demons around him. The technique is called: Hijin Kaze, or Burning Wind. He glances toward Reika, 'Hm, She knows how to channel her youki...' he thinks to himself, 'Her skills are better than she claims.' He then spins and cuts down another demon, he then surveys the battleground, to see that each member of the group is separated out to themself... 'Hmph...' he says to himself, 'Quite the tactician Naraku has become...' (you're all probably wondering by now: How does Toramaru fight using his sword? eh? Well, He generally wields the Zanmato, transformed or not, with just his right hand. His left hand is used, at times, to punch the enemy with or to toss shuriken or kunai and to assist with techniques such as the Hijin Kaze -Burning Wind-).
Sango's shown as she throws Hiraikotsu, cutting its own path through the near-limitless number of youkai... but, the demon-horde's numbers don't appear to be decreasing at all. Sango and Kirara fly through a mass of demons, Sango cutting and bashing some with Hiraikotsu and Kirara is lending a hand by gnashing at some with her fangs and teeth.
Switch to Miroku, using his staff and sutras to fight off attacking youkai. He twirls his staff above his head with both hands and bashes an on-coming demon, then releases the staff with his left hand and swings it with his right hand to his right side to bash another youkai. Suddenly, He hears a scream off to one side and spins his head to see, "Koharu!" he shouts, running over to the girl's aid, 'What is she doing here?' He throws his staff almost like a javelin, which lodges through the youkai's neck that was about to devour Koharu.
Miroku stops infront of Koharu, who's sitting on the ground with her back partially against a wall. Miroku sees the approaching demons, "There's just too many of them! I've... got to use my Wind Tunnel..." he says, gripping the prayer-beads around his right arm with his left hand. After a moment or so of not moving or saying anything, Miroku pulls the string of beads off from around his right forearm and holds his right hand up toward the countless demons, "Wind Tunnel!" he shouts, as demons and saimyoushou alike start getting sucked into the vortex in Miroku's right palm.
Before too long, the poison starts dangerously affecting him and Miroku has no other choice than to seal up the Wind Tunnel as he drops to one knee, holding his right forearm in his left hand... "... I'm sorry, Koharu." he says, as another horde of demons starts approaching him and Koharu, "That's my limit..." "Huh?" he voices, as Toramaru steps infront of him, the shinobi's foot stirs up a bit of dust as he does, facing toward the approaching youkai.
"Do not over-exert yourself, houshi..." Toramaru says over his shoulder, as he sheathes the Zanmato and places it(in its scabbard) under his sash, "You have done your part. I shall handle these demons, myself..." he starts circling his arms up, "Rin, byo, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen!" he says and, as he says the last word, he clasps his hands together above his head, entwining his fingers except his index fingers which he presses the tips of together and pulls his clasped hands down infront of himself. A black-colored flame enshrouds his hands and he opens them as he thrusts them forward, allowing the flame to erupt from his hands and shoot up to vaporize the entire horde of approaching demons.
Miroku is wide-eyed, 'I've never seen a demon or half-demon with such strong spiritual power...' he thinks to himself, before grunting and collapsing onto the ground.
Back to Inuyasha, "I've had enough of these things!" he states, raising Tetsusaiga above his head. He then starts a downward swing, "Backlash Wave!" he shouts as he releases the Tetsusaiga's most powerful attack, eradicating the huge remainder of the demons... it's finally over.
)-Miroku's and Koharu's Place-(
Inuyasha and the others are gathered around the small fire near the center of the room they're in.
"Man!" Inuyasha says, slamming his right hand down against the hardwood floor, "Why would so many of Naraku's demons attack 'this' village?" he questions, angrily.
"Hmm..." Miroku brings his left hand up to his chin in thought, "Could it have been a mere coincedence?" he asks to no one in-particular. (By the way, if you're wondering, Toramaru is an expert on poison and medicinal herbs and he concocted an antidote to the saimyoushou's poison, that's why Miroku seems in fine condition now).
"'Coincedence'?" repeats Toramaru in monotone, standing in the room, leaned against a wall with his arms folded, his katana held at the side of his waist by his sash. The others look to Toramaru who, to this point, has been absent from the conversation, he has his head down with his reddish-gray eyes closed and his mask is pulled down. "That attack was no... 'coincedence'." Toramaru continues, his eyes remaining closed, "Naraku orchestrated it... he knew we were here..."
"Orchestrated?" echoes Sango.
(-TO BE CONTINUED-)
Ramblings: Well, Stay tuned for the next chapter, okay? Btw, Sesshoumaru will be in the next chapter, along with Rin and Jaken. Well, Ja!