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Chapter 26: The Assassin And The Price of Power Part 1

"So what's next?" Kagome asked.

"We're going after Kouga's weapon. It's call Goraishi." Ryoko replied.

"That's the heirloom of my tribe!" Kouga yelled.

BAM! "Moron I know that!" Ryoko yelled whacking him on the head. "Now this task is for you Kouga, Hakkaku, and Ginta. We none wolves don't get to go."

"But I can," A voice said suddenly. It was a female's voice one that was unfamiliar to Ryoko, but Kouga was suddenly tense.

"Ayame," Kouga said with dread.

"Ayame?" Ryoko repeated and then she grinned up at the branch where the red head in white fur girl was standing with leafs floating gracefully around her. "Oh that Ayame... Hi I'm Ryoko. Inuyasha's and Kagome's future sister-in-law. How are you?"

"You're the Lady of the Southern Lands, Yuzumi's sister aren't you? You know their engagement was made public yesterday morning?" Ayame said then she paused. "How are you going to be... Kagome's sister-in-law?"

"Oh that? Well Kagome and Inuyasha are in love and it's a matter of time, you know?" Ryoko replied smirking knowingly.

Ayame understood then and smirked back. Ryoko meant that Kouga was free game and Ryoko was playing matchmaker. She giggled as she leaped from the tree and landed next to Kagome, who was blushing madly, and hugged her, "Congratulations Kagome! The thick one finally let you know how he felt, huh?"

"Yep... he required a bit of a push to tell Kagome how he felt too and it took him forever still! Trust me I saw and heard EVERYTHING!" Ryoko said and giggled.

"WHHHAAAAATTTT?!" Inuyasha yelped blushing.

"What? What, what? You know I'm you future sister-in-law and it's my job to spy on my little bro." Ryoko cooed teasingly as she pinched Inuyasha's cheek.

"Ow! Stop it! That hurts!" Inuyasha said as he struggled in Ryoko death grip on his cheek. If you haven't noticed yet Ryoko was in a bad mood. Reason was for that well was... because of... Miroku.

Yeah I myself was expecting it to be Inuyasha or Kouga, but NOOOOO it was bloody hentai Miroku! He was the source of Ryoko's anger because Sango, who Ryoko was eyeing from the corner of her eyes now, had swollen puffy red eyes. Miroku made her cry and Ryoko was there to comfort her and now not only did she lack sleep and kissie cuddle time with Kagewaki, but her friend was sad. So it's safe to say she was royally pissed off!

Of course Miroku at the moment possessed three large cartoon knots on his head brought to you sincerely by Ryoko. She glared dagger into Miroku's face as her head turned to him and he seemed to gulp nervously thinking, Did it get cold just know? Or do I feel a bad omen coming? Ryoko was not a happy dragon.

Ryoko slapped him a good one on the back of the head before she grabbed Sango and Kagome by the wrist and said, "We're not needed right know. Let Kouga and his boys handle it. Ayame? You coming with? We're going to the hot spring!"

"Kagewaki your mate-to-be scares me," Ginta said hiding behind Kouga while Ryoko, Kagome, Sango, and Tsukiyomi left for the hot spring.

"She's not scary at all. She just cares very deeply for her friends," Kagewaki explained with the smallest smile.

"Coming!" Ayame said running after them.

"Now that the women are gone we can move out," Kouga said arrogantly. "You com'n mutt face?"

"What so I can get you out of trouble again, you scrawny flea bitten wolf?" Inuyasha demanded.

"I don't have fleas! You ass licking dog!" Kouga yelled back.

Kagewaki sighed before giving a shadow smile, "Gentlemen... we don't want Ryoko getting angry at us do we? She's already upset with Miroku. Do you want her taking her anger out on the two of you?"

They both shuttered at the thought. Neither wanted Ryoko's wrath and they never thought it was possible for Kagewaki to be scary, but that shadow smile of his chilled them to the bone! "Uh... We're moving out! Mutt face can't come with us as it is." Kouga said before taking off.

"I guess we'll make camp... it's lunch time anyway, right?" Inuyasha asked.

Meanwhile...

Sesshoumaru left the castle alone early in the morning before sunrise to test his Tenseiga. Yuzumi was still asleep in Sesshoumaru's bed that would soon belong to the both of them. It had been about a week since he had received the reforged sword. Of course he was able to use the new ability with easily, but it was still not a full Meidou Zangetsuha which to his male pride was unacceptable.

He had spent most of the morning killing rouge demons with his new weapon, but he still couldn't produce a full Meidou circle that cut into the netherworld. Truth to be told it was getting on his nerves. How was he to be Yuzumi's protector and mate if he could complete what his father had asked of him? Inu no Taisho wanted them together and he Sesshoumaru agreed wholeheartedly, but he felt weakened without a truly mastered sword, but it wasn't like he was going to admit that allow. It'd ruin his image utterly.

"How to complete the circle?" he thought aloud as he rested against a tree to gather his thoughts. "The Meidou cuts open a path to the underworld, but it's hardly complete. What is it lacking?"

He stood there silent for a long moment then it hit him... his mother. She was an annoyance he rather not deal with. You'd catch more flies with honey compare to that woman, but his father trusted her with many secrets though she was rather selective in the ones she wished to tell... like the time demons was after Inuyasha's mother. It was her fault that he wasn't in time to save her and Inuyasha blamed him for it... damnable bitch.

Sesshoumaru gave a soundless sigh before returning into the air on his youkai cloud and returned home to see his mother and Yuzumi bickering.

"Old hag!" Yuzumi yelled at her.

"Tramp!" His mother yelled back.

"Heartless, useless bitch, who can't for the love of God keep her man!" Yuzumi growled hitting his mother blow the belt figuratively of course.

"Why you, filthy harlot!" She yelled as she jumped Yuzumi her claws out and all.

Yuzumi dodged yelling, "Bring it, hag!"

Sesshoumaru folded his arms, "It's nice to see you two ladies getting along so well." he said coldly, but he was clearly being sarcastic.

Yuzumi smirked as she replied in a false sweet voice, "Isn't it? She just all smiles and wrinkles."

"Wrinkles?! I'm a Inuyoukai I don't get wrinkles!" She screamed outraged.

"You sure about that?" Yuzumi asked innocently, "I thought I saw some crow's feet near you're eyes. I think your getting old."

"Impossible! Sesshoumaru, darling, must you marry such a disrespectful, trashy, and whorish woman?" she asked pleadingly. "She isn't worthy of you my dear."

"Don't speak of my mate-to-be that way," Sesshoumaru said his voice deadly calm.

"Um... I'm a virgin. How am I whorish? You should be able to smell my innocents on me. Is your nose not working? You must be getting old like I thought. Next thing you know you'll go blind. I hear old people loose there eyesight and hearing when they turn into old hags like you are, but that humans. Maybe it's an Inuyoukai thing. Eitherway next thing you know you'll loose you looks and everyone will be calling grandma or baba (rude term for 'old hag' in Japanese)." Yuzumi said.

"Damn you!"

"Enough," Sesshoumaru said not knowing to be amused or annoyed for both feelings were there. He was amused by his mate-to-be, but annoy by his mother who insulted his Yuzumi. "Mother we have much to discuss."

"What about, my pup?" she asked then glared at Yuzumi.

"Tenseiga," Was his only answer.

"Is that so?" she smiled darkly. "You're father knew you'd ask me this. Eat first then met me in my palace. I'll leave first."

Sesshoumaru gave an irradiated sigh. He's mother always made things harder than they had to be. "Sesshoumaru?" Yuzumi asked after his mother had left.

"Hn?"

She hugged him then, "Calm down, love." she whispered against his chest. "I've been having a bad feeling all day. I don't like it."

He nodded as he held her back, "You are safe with me."

"I know that," she said as she looked up at him and smiled. "Come, your mother is right we need to go eat breakfast, but after we'll see what the hag has to say."

"Agreed,"

After eating Sesshoumaru, Yuzumi, Taro, Rin, Jaken, Ah-Uh, and Entei left the castle leaving there other companions including Doll who was in the middle of a Miko lesson with Kikyo, while Akuma watched... well he watched Kikyo with adoring eyes.

They arrived at Sesshoumaru's mother's palace not thirty minutes from leaving home. They touched down and entered the over decorated palace that was nearly as large as Sesshoumaru's home. His mother sat upon a large red velvet throne looking down on them. Mischievousness was clearly in her light golden eyes.

"Well you wanted to know-" His mother began to say before she was interrupted.

"The Meidou Stone around her scrawny little neck was given to her by Inu no Taisho for he knew you'd ask her about it!" Yuzumi interrupted already annoyed.

"How do you know that?" She asked wide eyed.

"I have father-in -law-to-be Toga's memories in my head through Sounga. You might remember him." She said turning slightly.

"Oh hello Lady Stick-up-her-ass," Sounga greeted.

"He told me everything. That's how," Yuzumi said crossing her arms. "I know your, mate better than you do. As I said before Sesshoumaru I hate keeping secrets from you! Poppy pisses me off!"

Sesshoumaru nodded as he watched Yuzumi bit her inner lip. She wanted sooo badly to tell him, but she couldn't. "Yes he was always a clever man and into more mischief than I ever was, but before that... as I recall Sesshoumaru you use to despise both humans and half-breeds... yet you have one of each at your side clinging to you're future mate. Also you have a undead Miko and her adopted human daughter in your house hold. Has your heart changed?"

"He's our father that should be enough for you to understand," Rin stated.

"Yeah! You shriveled up prune!" Taro added.

Yuzumi had to bit her tongue to keep from laughing. Sesshoumaru smirked and his mother glared daggers at the children. Yes the one thing Sesshoumaru's mother valued over power was her vanity unlike Inuyasha's mother Izioyai who was a natural beauty and cared little for her looks. Izioyai was just purely kind and all heart. Something Inuyasha had inherited when he wasn't being an ass ninety-five percent of the time!

Either way the kids and the mate-to-be were all dogging on Sesshoumaru's mother. She hated them all! "Hmph! Filthy children!" She said with her tiny nose in the air as if they were beneath her.

"What did you just say?" Yuzumi demanded.

"They are below us foolish girl. So of course they're filthy." She said smirking.

Yuzumi's eyes turned red as she stomped forward. She was about to kill a bitch, but Sesshoumaru grabbed her by her belt and held her back. "What does this Meidou Stone have to do with learning Meidou Zangetsuha?" Sesshoumaru inquired while holding Yuzumi back as she struggled.

She smiled darkly then and then laughed as she held the stone in her hand, "Well... how about we find out? Yes?"

Then a black spirit like Inuyoukai burst out from her amulet. Sesshoumaru quickly let go and drew his sword slashing at the creature while Yuzumi grabbed onto his mother, who just smiled and said, "Oh Yuzumi..." she paused as her eyes glanced at the children with joy filling her eyes, "you should save the children, the Meidou doesn't work on the youkai from the netherworld."

Yuzumi turned her head and gasped as she saw the youkai get past Sesshoumaru and aimed straight at the children. Yuzumi let go of the hag and threw herself between them. Sesshoumaru had no other choice other than to watch the demon swallow his love and dragged her into the netherworld.

"Mama!" the children cried out.

"Yuzumi!" Sesshoumaru called out.

"Oops," Sesshoumaru's mother said with false pity but her eyes revealed her gloating smile.

Sesshoumaru bolted forward then into the path into the netherworld after his love, while leaving a messenge behind for his mother, "If she dies so do you..." Yuzumi had taught him love was a strength not a weakness and he was not going to loose her now...

Elsewhere...

While Kouga and his group where after the Wolf Tribe heir loom and Sesshoumaru went after his love the girls rested in the hot springs until... Ryoko suddenly gasped and grabbed at her heart as if in pain. "Ryoko!" Kagome yelled concerned. "What's wrong?"

"Yuzumi... she's..." Ryoko tried to say as she felt as if she were chocking. What wrong with Yuzumi?! Ryoko's mind roared. What happened to her?! Why does my heart hurt so much?!

'Yuzumi! Yuzumi where are you?!' Ryoko called through there mental connection a bit frantic.

'R... Ryoko?' Yuzumi's barely heard and pain filled voice replied.

'Where are you? Are you okay?' Ryoko demanded worried out her mind.

'I don't... know. It's dark. I think I'm okay, but I'm beat up a bit. Damn my head is pounding!' Yuzumi replied. 'I can see shit! Where the hell am I?!'

'How do I know?! I'm not the Wizard of Oz!' Ryoko said as she stepped out the water to dress.

'Shut up!' Yuzumi replied.

"Ryoko?" The girls called from the hot spring.

"I'm fine," Ryoko said. "Yuzumi got hurt, but she's fine. I'm going back to camp. I need to be with Kagewaki and I need to speak with Miroku now that I'm calm."

Kagome nodded before chilling back into the water. Sango looked at her concerned of about what Ryoko was going to do. She was very angry earlier, but now she looked... calm and worried.

Ryoko walked back into camp and walked straight to Miroku and slapped him then grabbed his right arm pulling down his sleeve. Ryoko's eyes narrowed dangerously as she saw the miasma damage on his arm. "You... fucking... moron! Why didn't you tell me?! Or Sango?!"

Miroku wiped the blood from his mouth, "I didn't want to worry you, but I didn't want Sango to worry most of all."

Ryoko stood there for a long moment, "You dumbass! That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. This hole in your hand is what you broke up with Sango for?! Did you even consider that a moment of memories with you would be better for her than never having any?!" She demanded. "Even if you do die... it's better than nothing at all! Did you even think of how Sango feels?!"

"I did..." Miroku said looking away sadly.

Ryoko's eyes narrowed, "You are a fucking baby! Stop with this pathetic self pity and make up with Sango before I kick your ass! Dammit! Did you know that I don't age and my mate-to-be is mortal?! I didn't even know about extending his years! Yet I still wish to be with him! A few decades with Kagewaki would had made the rest of eternity worth while! Man up!"

She turned away from him and sat next to Kagewaki. She sighed and relaxed next to Kagewaki, "Did you know?" she asked calming a bit.

"I figured as much but he doesn't show any pain. Inuyasha is the one who gave it away." He told her as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders in a comforting way. Ryoko sighed as she slowly closed her eyes.

Yuzumi held her soar head. Oh it was pounding hard enough that she thought her eyes would pop out her head! What the hell happened? She thought to herself. Last thing I remember was... the children getting attacked and the fear in Sesshoumaru's eyes. Then after that everything went black and I passed out.

She stood up slowly as she stretched he arm forward and slowly walked forward trying to find a way out. Then she tripped, "Ow... dammit!" she growled.

"He he," Sounga laughed. "Having a hard time, Aijin?"

"Sounga... you're an ass and I'm not in the mood." Yuzumi growled at him as she stood up. Then she was a light. It was circled in shape. It was black in the middle and ominous red around the circle. She felt a shiver go down her spine. "I don't like this."

"I don't like it either that's the path underworld!" Sounga said. "You have a right not to like it."

"I wish I could at least see something!" Yuzumi said before tripping again, "Son of a Bitch!"

"Ha ha he he!"

"Stop laughing like a school girl, you dick," Yuzumi growled at the sword.

"Sorry," he said laughing again, "no I'm not sorry at all. This is halarous!"

"Ugh! You are such an ass!" Yuzumi yelled. "Can you even help?"

"Yes, drawl me," he told her.

Yuzumi drew Sounga and a bright red light gleamed of the sword, "Cool, now I can see a path way. Let go the opposite way from that freaking path. Sesshoumaru should be here soon anyway." Yuzumi said as she walked in the opposite direction. Ten minutes later... "Goddammit! Seriously?! Everything I try to go in the opposite direction I suddenly end up right in the say spot! Dammit!"

Sounga laughed as hard as her could, "Yuzumi stop it your killing me! Well if I could die! Ha ha!"

"Damn you!" Yuzumi yelled when suddenly the ground shook. "What the... What was that?"

"Something big is coming... obviously!" Sounga said sarcasticly.

"Just shut up!" Yuzumi yelled.

The shacking increase to the point that Yuzumi fell on her but, "Ow..."

A black fifty feet tall creature in the shape of a man stood before her. "Yuzumi!" Sesshoumaru called.

"Sesshoumaru!" Yuzumi called back as she turned toward his voice and smiled at him, "I knew you'd come!" Then suddenly she was grabbed by the large creature as surprise took over her face. "Let me go!" Yuzumi yelled as she tried to stab his hand with Sounga, but the blade wouldn't pierce the creature. "What the hell?! Sesshoumaru!"

The creature squeezed Yuzumi him his grip. She grunted as she passed out dropping Sounga. "Yuzumi!" Sesshoumaru growled as he rushed forward but suddenly both where gone. "Damn..."

Sesshoumaru took two steps forward when a portal opened before him, "Sesshoumaru, come back! She's not worth your life. Don't waste your life for her. Come back." his mother's voice said.

"Hn," he said as he walked off the path and walked around the portal. He picked up Sounga and without a world placed the blade in his belt before continuing on his way.

Sesshoumaru arrived at the edge of the path he looked down seeing many piles of corpses as his eyes scanned for Yuzumi. Were was she? His eyes scanned the creature and saw Yuzumi in his hand. Sesshoumaru leaped into the air after it and drew Tenseiga using healing. The creature was cut in half and it released Yuzumi who plummeted to the ground with a thud.

He landed next to her as he sheathed his sword and lifted her into his arms. "Yuzumi... Yuzumi!" he called to her as he shook her.

She didn't response. She wasn't breathing and there was no... heart beat. "Yuzumi wake up!" Sesshoumaru said his voice filled with sorrow.

Sesshoumaru's heart sank and he laid her on the ground and unsheathed his Tenseiga. The creatures of the underworld were nowhere to be found. "What is the meaning of this?" Sesshoumaru demanded of Tenseiga, who was silent.

Yuzumi laid dead in front of Sesshoumaru. How... how did she die? No how could Sesshoumaru let her die? He wasn't strong or fast enough to save. Sesshoumaru dropped Tenseiga in his grief before lifting Yuzumi in his arms. Suddenly the corpses around them crawled toward Tenseiga and reached out for Tenseiga as if to plead to be saved.

Sesshoumaru stood with Yuzumi in one arm as he picked up Tenseiga as it pulsed. "You all wish to be saved?" he questioned and he paused for a moment then swung his sword.

He appeared back in his mother's palace with Yuzumi in his arms. He knelt as he held her close. He couldn't move. "How is she not alive?" his mother questioned. "You never used the Tenseiga on her that only brings one back once... hmm. Tell me imp has she ever been part of someone else?"

"Yes, Lady Yuzumi is the Double Dragon. She became two different people." Jaken replied as he teared up.

"I see so the Tenseiga will not work on her." she said.