Chapter 13 - Illusions
Inuyasha sat in his room, he stared at the wall, that's much what he does everyday. Izayoi had gone out to gather some herbs. Inu no Taisho had gone out in search of the demon with his army, rarely home. Sesshomaru closed himself in his room. Kiyoshimaru walked around the castle, she couldnt stand the mood, it's all too depressing.
"My plan is at work." The demon who killed Inuyasha snickered as it waved it's hand on a large bowl of water. "Batsura!" He called out.
"Yes? My lord?" Batsura, another demon faded in front of the demon. Batsura had his long black hair tied into a ponytail, his eyes glowed in amber red, flinging is kimono around, he bowed down to greet his lord. His pointed ears perked up at his lord's voice.
"My dear Illusionist" The demon came up to Batsura, it lifted his head and whispered in his ears. "I have a job for you." it grinned.
"Inuyasha, Inuyasha!" Izayoi yelled as she ran as fast as could. Inuyasha's ears twitched as he heard his mother's panic voice. Quickly he exited the room and saw his mother running from....
"Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha looked in confusion at the scene infront of him. Sesshomaru lifted his claw up behind Izayoi and Inuyasha gasped. "Mother!" he dashed to protect his mother but he wasnt fast enough as he watched in horror as Sesshomaru's claws turned green and a whipped formed that hit Izayoi, cutting her, blood splattered around. "Mother!" Inuyasha screamed.
"Sesshomaru" Inuyasha glared at his brother, his breathe heavy as he bared his fangs and readied his claws, his eyes changed from red to yellow. He was so angered that he didnt notice Izayoi's body was not there as he lunged at Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru dodged and ran, Inuyasha gave chase. As Sesshomaru reached his room he dissapeared, though Inuyasha noticed that, he was to in rage to notice the confusion. Inuyasha slammed open Sesshomaru's door and attacked.
Sesshomaru was in his room reading when Inuyasha came in and attacked him. Sesshomaru manage to dodged the little pup's attacks like they were nothing to him.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Sesshomaru demanded an answer but non came as Inuyasha continued to attack him.
"How could you!" Inuyasha screamed as he claw around, though missing all his attacks.
Sesshomaru had had enough, he dashed at Inuyasha and grabbed the pup's neck, easily pinning him to the ground. He raised his claws, but stopped as he saw Inuyasha stared back at him in fear, but mostly Inuyasha's staring at the claws in fear.
"Inuyasha?" Izayoi came back from her herb gathering and found Inuyasha missing. She dropped the herbs and quickly looked for Inuyasha. She bumped into Kiyoshimaru who asked her what's wrong. When she explained, Kiyoshimaru took a sniff and immediately know where the little pup is.
"Come, he's with Sesshomaru." Kiyoshimaru ran towards her son's room, Izayoi following close behind. When they reached Sesshomaru's room, both mothers rushed to their sons. Kiyoshimaru quickly pulled Sesshomaru away from Inuyasha and Izayoi embraced her son.
"What the hell happened here?" Kiyoshimaru demanded
"The pup came in and attacked me!" Sesshomaru protested.
"What?" Izayoi blinked, she looked down at Inuyasha, who's staring back at her, looking very confused and afraid.
"M...mother?" Inuyasha stammered "B..but Sesshomaru...he..he killed you, I..saw it" The others looked at Inuyasha, then the little pup dashed out the room.
"Inuyasha!" Izayoi ran after him, Sesshomaru and Kiyoshimaru decided to followed.
They found Inuyasha infront of his room looking around frantically as if looking for something or someone. Then Sesshomaru and Kiyoshimaru tensed when they took a sniff of something unfamiliar. Sesshomaru waved his claws and whipped something on his right, Batsura appeared and dodged his attack, everyone turned their attention to Batsura.
"A demon?" Izayoi gasped. She stood infront of Inuyasha, protecting him. Kiyoshimaru and Sesshomaru readied their claws and growled.
"My my, the whole family to greet me?" Batsura said calmly "But where's the father?"
"What do you want?" Kiyoshimaru questioned.
Batsura looked around then his eyes landed on Izayoi and Inuyasha, he grinned. "You'll have to ask my lord, I'm just following orders." Batsura glared at Inuyasha when he emphasizes the the my lord. Sesshomaru noticed it and Inuyasha flinched upon hearing that.
"Inuyasha." Sesshomaru called out suddenly, causing Inuyasha to jumped. "Who is this lord he's talking about."
Inuyasha noticed all eyes are on him. He didnt even noticed that he's trembling. The images from when he was attacked flowed into his head.
'Flashed back, The demon grabbed Inuyasha and threw him on the ground hard then started clawing him, inflicting pain.'
Inuyasha gripped his head and whimpered.
'Flashed, The demon bent down and licked the blood on Inuyasha's face then whispered something into his ears.'
"Noooo don't hurt me!!" Inuyasha screamed "It hurts huuurrttss...no...no!!" Quickly Izayoi embraced Inuyasha.
"My lord did a good job on that young pup eh?" Batsura laughed.
Sesshomaru glared at Batsura, enraged. He lunged at the demon and sliced him into half.
"Cut all you want, you're merely killing my Illusions." Batsura's laughter boomed from every direction. Sesshomaru growled, he tried to sniff out Batsura but something's blocking the demon's scent.
"Sesshomaru, we need to find the real Batsura." Kiyoshimaru exclaimed.
"He's not here, not anywhere near here." Sesshomaru said calmly
"Playing safe eh?" Kiyoshimaru closed her eyes and concentrated. "Think I found him, Sesshomaru stay with Izayoi." Kiyoshimaru dashed off.
Sesshomaru observed Inuyasha, the little pup was in his mother's arm, whimpering and muttering incoherent words. Sesshomaru was distracted when his mother returned.
"He escape." Kiyoshimaru walked towards Sesshomaru, then take a look at Inuyasha. "Poor pup, what happened to him...."
"He wont say anything..." Izayoi explained, tears formed in her eyes as she tried to comfort Inuyasha.
"Batsura...." Sesshomaru muttered. "This lord he spoke of..." Sesshomaru looked down at Inuyasha. "Only Inuyasha can tell us"
"I agree, but he did something to Inuyasha, the pup wont talk." Kiyoshimaru pointed up.
'and to attacked when father's not around...' Sesshomaru thought deeply 'There's more to this'
"Ahh, Batsura, you've returned." The demon lord greeted Batsura. "Did you get what I wanted?"
"Oh yes, but I failed to have some bloodshed" Batsura laughed "seems you're right, the young pup struggles with his demonic side."
The demon lord snickered as Batsura approached him and hand him one thin line of silver hair. The lord demon sniffed the hairs.
"Hmmm gooood" The demon lord walked towards a small pool of water in his cavern. He dropped the hair into the water, immediately the water defiled and turned dark purple. "We're ready." The demon lord looked around and grinned "Rise, my fellow friends!!" it roared. Batsura stood back and watched as the earth in the cavern started to cracked, poisonous miasma shot out from the cracked and four demons appeared from the fog of miasma. "It is time for our revenge..."
The four other demons bowed before the demon lord, their eyes glowed green. Batsura couldnt see clearly from the miasma, but he felt the strong demonic aura that made him shuddered in delight.
"Wow, I'm loving this." Batsura grinned, making eye contact with The demon lord who mirrored his.