Chapter 20: Journey for the Cure
Little did Inuyasha know about the herb that he must find in order to cure Kagome's paralyze state, his brother made a promise to his father to look after his little brother when he passed away 7 years ago. He goes into his office and heads to his bookshelf on the side of the room. He points his finger a straight line horizontal to scan which book he wants to read through. He pulls out a book with Herbals written on it. He checks the index pages on the back to find which herb that Inuyasha must find. The herb is extremely rare, that it's one of 50 chance to find it, even for a demon to go. He takes his cell phone and dial's Inuyasha's number
Inuyasha/Sesshomaru
Hello?
Inuyasha, I witnessed Kagome's condition over your camera and I know where to find the herb.
Really where and what is it?
It's on the rim of Mt. Fuji's peak. The herb is called the heavenly flower.
The heavenly flower. Could you describe its abilities?
It can cure any poison, paralysis, burn, any injury there is. It's pedals are as white as the clouds of Heaven.
Okay, I am grateful for your assistance. Miroku and I will take it from here.
By the way, make sure you get there before the third day's sunset. Because if it's picked from it's roots of the mountain, it'll wither and its effect will dissolve. So you have until then.
Okay thanks.
Inuyasha hangs his phone and puts it back into his jacket's pocket. "We have to go to Mt. Fuji." He tells Miroku as they leave the mansion. "And we have to make sure that Koga doesn't get it before we do." He adds as they get to Inuyasha's garage. They walk up to Inuyasha's red Porsche. Inuyasha gets in the driver while Miroku gets in the passenger side. "How long will it take us to get to the mountain peak?" Miroku asks as they get out of the garage of the car repair shop. Inuyasha pulls out his dashboard full of buttons. He smirks as he first pressed the invisibility button. "First we have to make sure we're not detected." He reminds him and soon pulls onto the street and head down south of the mountainous roads that heads to Mt. Fuji.
Meanwhile Sesshomaru is keeping a close eye on Inuyasha as his camera is on the engine grill. "You have to hurry Inuyasha." Soon the door blasts open. Sesshomaru immediate stood and stand his ground. "Mr. Takahashi, I cannot allow your assistance to help Inuyasha get the Heavenly Flower." A male voice rashly said to him as the shadow come out of the smoke from the explosion that broke down the door. "Naraku, I should've known it was you who paralyzed Kagome." Sesshomaru accused him. Naraku just chuckles, "Not me, one of my accomplice paralyzed her, and he's on his way to Mt/ Fuji as we speak, decreasing your brother's chance to cure Kagome." Naraku mocks. Sesshomaru simple narrows his eyes. "How is it that you know about this?" He asks the man in front. Naraku walks to one side of the room, "Have it ever occur to you that one of your own workers would also work on my side as well?" Sesshomaru looks beyond the opened doors to see Hakkaku looking through it and knows what he has gotten himself into. "As you can see Sesshomaru, Hakkaku was doing work as in to track down her when Koga ambushed the mansion and abducted Kagome to bring her back to her family." He explains with an evil grin. "So I have to believe that I've been deceived by one of my own workers?" Sesshomaru asks him bluntly. Naraku chuckles, "That's right. And ever since Inuyasha took her back to his mansion, I for one even helped Kikyo and her mother to get Kagome back as well." He adds as well. "In other words, you gave them access to Inuyasha's barrier, as hackers." Naraku's grin widens, "Now you're catching on. Even for a smart intelligent man that you are, you can be quite pathetic once in a while." Naraku comments darkly. Sesshomaru slightly growls as he moves in the blink of an eye, and has Naraku's neck choking from Sesshomaru's tighten grip. "I'm going to say this once, you are hereby forbidden to ever encounter my family, and my brother's friends. If you go against my word, you will regret it." Sesshomaru warns him. He then does the unthinkable; he throws Naraku out of his office's window and watches him fall. Knowing him Naraku disappears without of a trace. "He's not finished with my brother." Sesshomaru said to him as he goes after Hakkaku and brings him into his office as the doors close themselves. "Hakkaku, I want to know why would you go behind my back and work for that bastard instead of me?" Hakkaku stays calm as he can in front of Sesshomaru's face of betrayal. "I'm waiting Hakkaku, why did you?" Sesshomaru asks again but a little bit more serious. "Because my brother Koga forced me to join him in order to protect me." Hakkaku answers at last. Seeing that he is telling the truth, Sesshomaru keeps his emotionless eyes, but yet attentive. "Hakkaku, I'm quite disappointed that you turned against me, but you should consider yourself lucky that I'm not going to fire you. What I want from you is to tell me where your brother is." Sesshomaru demands as he rests his chin to his intertwined fingers on his desk, looking quite understanding. Hakkaku hesitates, "I want to my brother not to go to the wrong way. He's been that way since Naraku manipulated him to get Kagome as his mate. Let's just say he's using him as it is." He answers as he picks something out of his pocket. Sesshomaru narrows his eyes taking a closing look. Hakkaku is holding a tracking device. "I can let you use to find him. I have his DNA on it so it won't be a problem looking for him." He said as he gives it to him. Sesshomaru nods, "Thank you Hakkaku, you can resume you job. Leave everything else to me." He finally answers as he it starts the tracking device and enters Koga's DNA information. The beeping shows where he, but not that far from him, but heading southwest of the city, seems to chasing Inuyasha in the process.
Kagome moans from the paralysis in her body. "Are you okay?" Sango worryingly asks he as she looks after her while Kaede puts a cold clothe onto her forehead because she's having a fever. "I'm fine." Kagome replies weakly to her. She looks to see what day of the week is. It's only Wednesday and tomorrow night will be the New Moon. But she has never seen Inuyasha in his human at all. 'Inuyasha, please hurry.' She begs in thought as she tries to get some rest.
Inuyasha and Miroku hike up Mt. Fuji's slope. "Inuyasha do you know when you transformation is?" Miroku gasps out of breathe because of the altitude. Inuyasha looks up to the sky to see the moon as it dies down to a very old crescent. "I'm aware of it Miroku. And even though I'll turn into a human, I never give up." He conflicts Miroku's paranoia behavior. He looks up to see they're getting close to the rim of the volcano. "We're getting warmer, Miroku." He happily said and turns around to see Miroku collapse onto the gravel. "Miroku, are you alright?" He rushes down to him turning him around. "I'm fine, it's just hard to catch my breath." He replies as he lays down onto a boulder. "I'll wait here. Just go and get the Heavenly Flower." Miroku yells as he can. Inuyasha nods and jumps boulder after boulder.