Filthy Souls

Feet nearly bleeding from the amount of traveling they had done with little to no rest, Inuyasha gripped a large tree and huffed. The demon was running off of anger and worry alone. Neither of them had really slept for days and the farther they went the more Inuyasha was positive Rin was dead.

It was a hard fact to live with, but there was no way she was alive right now. Five days had passed since the moment they were notified and even the hanyou knew that in this world it would be a miracle if you could find a finger of hers. With demon's still a dominant species in Japan, it would be a fool's errand to look for an eleven year old human girl.

"Sesshomaru, we need to stop." The hanyou grunted, pushing off the tree and chasing his brother down.

The demon grunted in return and continued on, cutting branches out of the way with his strange whip.

"Sesshomaru it's been five days. She's gone. We should just go back!"

The demon stopped and whirled around. The crack of his hand meeting the hanyou's cheek echoed through the dense forest. Inuyasha's eyes widened and then narrowed, his face hardening to anger as he reached up and touched his aching face. He winced and glared up at the demon.

"Bastard!"

Sesshomaru roared and hit the ground hard, laying there motionless and possibly too weak to get up. The hanyou sighed and stumbled over to another tree, slumping against it and instantly falling to the forest floor. The sun poured through the thick brush and he closed his eyes, letting the rays hit his swollen face.

"Idiot..." He whispered, glancing over at his brother who still had barely moved an inch.

It was hours before Inuyasha heard the shuffling of his brother's robes. The heavy body of the demon pluncked down beside him and fell over, pressing as close as he could before he passed out again. It was obvious he wasn't sleeping as much as he should. Sure demon's could go for days, but you had to rest at some point.

Inuyasha sighed and brushed the demon's hair out of his eyes. "You work too hard...But you're still an asshole for this..." He whispered and was surprised when he felt a tongue run up his cheek.

"I apologize."

"Damn rights you do!" The hanyou sat up, pointing to the red hand print on his cheek that was really starting to look more like a massive welt.

Sesshomaru sat up, tired eyes staring into the hanyhou's before he kissed him tendering. "Again...I apologize for hurting you...Just...keep your mouth shut."

The demon got up and yanked his brother with him before letting him struggle to keep his balance as he walked away.

It was hours before they caught the scent of the little girl again. The forest had begun to shift and change as the sun began to set. The once green bushes now glowed blue in the fading sun light and the bark of the trees darkened to black.

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes and began to walk faster until he was making the hanyou run to keep up with him. He could smell a demon, something rotten and disgusting...Something like a Jikininki, a corpse devourer, or maybe even some sort of body snatcher. He looked around and then behind him, watching Inuyasha reach up towards a red hand hanging from a tree.

"Baka..." He snarled and slapped his hand away from the demon. "Do not touch anything. Especially those."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and continued to follow the demon until they came upon quite a sight. A dozen women and young girls hung from the trees by their ankles, many more below them, skinned and bloody. Just bags of decaying skin were left and the bones were probably stacked up somewhere else.

Sesshomaru reached up and touched one of the girl's wrists, huffing. "Alive...So I assume the rest of them are too..."

Inuyasha covered his nose and coughed. "It reeks...Can you smell Rin here though? Never mind the other girls, you were here for only Rin right?" He grumbled, turning to the tree and jumping up onto the branch the girl hung from.

The demon narrowed his eyes as the hanyou cut loose the vine holding her up, letting her fall right into Sesshomaru's arms.

He was saving them all. And he didn't even know who they were.

Inuyasha moved automatically, cutting free the girls and letting Sesshomaru catch them when he could and move them away from the scene. With twelve girls free, the hanyou then went about looking for the girl in the colourful kimono. His golden eyes narrowed as he looked around until he gazed down and ahead, spotting a sickly insect ripping open the body of a girl and pulling her skeleton out.

The organs were then pulled out and laid aside as the insect stepped into the skin and started to stretch it over his own structure.

"Hey!" He shouted, hopping down from the glowing tree and pulling out Tetsusaiga.

The sword grew in his grasp, clinking as he swung it aside and ran at the demon. The insect hissed and let the skin of the woman drop.

"You idiot!" Sesshomaru snarled, flying ahead of his brother and shoving him back. "A body snatcher isn't a demon you could ever handle!"

"I've handled bigger and worse than that!" Inuyasha shot back, shoving the demon as well before charging the insect.

The creature raised his razor sharp arms and began to slash forward, the hanyou barely managing to block the attack. He lashed out with his claws and then swung down with his sword, the ground rippling and ripping forward towards the demon.

The insect jumped and screeched as it flew down to Inuyasha, impaling his shoulder with one of it's bladed arms while the other one was simply blocked by Bakusaiga.

"I told you! You can't handle this!" Sesshomaru growled as he forced the demon back, Inuyasha hissing as the blade left his body.

"Excuse me, but I ain't that fucking weak!" The hanyou countered, pressing his claws to his shoulder and then swiping his arm across his body. "Blades of Blood!"

"No, but you are foolish and aren't watching the demon's movements!"

The insect cried out as the blades of blood hit it before he charged again and got a face full of Sesshomaru's fist. The demon twitched and slashed blindly at the two, barely hitting anything before the dog demon ripped the brain out of it's skull, crushing the matter in his hand.

"These things fight as blindly as you. Therefore, you were not fit to fight it." Sesshomaru murmured, shaking the organ from his hand before wiping it on his brother.

"Look, I'm just as strong as you! Stop insulting me! After everything we've done...Fuck!" Inuyasha winced and clutched his shoulder.

Taking his obi off, the demon sheathed Bakusaiga and began to wrap his brother's wound tightly. "Fool..." He whispered before planting a kiss on his forehead. "I smell Rin here...Stay still...Rest."

Inuyasha sighed and let the demon walk off, unaware of the bright blue eyes approaching him from the trees.

Sesshomaru walked a good hundred metres more into the forest where he found the poor girl hanging from a tree. He inhaled sharply, gently cutting her free and cradling her in his arm as he checked her for injury. She seemed clean and alright, a slight tender area on his head was all. He smiled a little and carried her carefully back to where he left Inuyasha, only to find the hanyou's sword and sheath on the ground and the boy slung over a tall dog demon's shoulder.

Her hair was long and put up into a high ponytail. Her armour was revealing and her sleeves long, a glint of a dagger hidden at her wrist. Piercing blue eyes bored into his own gold ones and he snarled.

"Izaya..." He hissed, hugging the child close.

"Oh Sesshomaru, It's been so long!" She chuckled and smirked, a long fang hanging over her plump lips.

"Put him down."

"Not even a warm welcome for your first?" She pouted and patted the hanyou's leg. "I can't do that and you know it. Unless you have a seal on him, he's fair game."

Had they really traveled this far? The demon snarled and his hand balled into a fist. "Put him down."

"You know he smells like you..." Izaya sniffed Inuyasha and smiled. "He's your brother isn't he. So cute...Too bad he wasn't younger...I'd buy him right away..."

"You sick bitch. Put Inuyasha down. Now." The demon lord commanded, baring his fangs as the child stirred in his arms.

"Calm down, Sesshomaru. Maybe if you're lucky you can buy him after we train him."

"I will do no such thing! I refuse to be part of that life style again. You scarred my life enough as it is...Give my brother back!" The demon roared just as a taller, buffer looking demon crashed through the trees.

"Well if it isn't Sesshomaru..." Katsurou purred, tossing his braid over his shoulder.

"Katsu..Did you know this little runt of a hanyou was Sesshy's puppy?" Izaya tossed the body of the hanyou to the larger demon and let her dagger slide into her hand.

Katsurou caught the half breed and chuckled, groping his ass a little.

Sesshomaru gently put Rin down on the leaves on the forest floor and drew Bakusaiga again. "Give him back."

"Or what?" Izaya cackled and let the demon charge at her before putting the dagger up, letting Bakusaiga hit it.

The dagger grew in size as she pushed Sesshomaru back. "Foolish boy!"

She charged at him, their blades clanging and smashing together, making her dagger grow to the size of a real sword. The demons snarled and slashed at each other before Izaya had had enough of her toy's anger and smashed the hilt of her sword into the side of Sesshomaru's head. He yelped, hitting the ground hard.

"Ugh...I wish he was a child again...I hate adults...They are so...unpleasant and boring..." She huffed and turned to her brother.

"Only you would find no joy in an older man, sister." Katsurou laughed and turned back to the forest.

"Well at least Father lets me have the children. Remember when we violated and broke the demon? Best day of my life."

"Only because you prefer children. I would rape his ass now if we didn't have to prep the hanyou for the Society."

Izaya frowned and lifted Inuyasha's bangs from his head. "He's kind of pretty...You think father will keep him or sell him off?"

"Depends on the fight the kid has. You know that. He loves the fighters, they give him a chance to abuse them." Katsurou grunted and shifted the hanyou on his shoulder.

The two demons stalked through the woods, discussing the cost, how much they would need to do and whether they'd get a good meal for the valuable find. It grew darker, the sun completely gone, leaving Sesshomaru and Rin unconcious on the forest floor.