Title: Back in Black
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Naraku (Inuyasha Songfics Bingo)
Word Count: 2024 including song lyrics in italics
Crossover: Inuyasha/ Elric of Melnibone
Genre: Songfic
Song: Back in Black by AC/DC
Warning: None
Summary: Stormbringer brings chaos to the Sengoku Jidai
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Elric of Melnibone. They belong to the persons who own or have the right to use them.
Inuyasha felt an unusual tug at his waist as his passed through the well. He passed it off as merely the currents of time and space which swirled through the well. It had never bothered him before something was different this time. Normally demons disappeared into the well and reappeared in another time That was the reason that it was called the Bone Eaters Well in the first place. Dead demons were tossed into the well and their remains would disappear over time. Neither he nor Kagome seemed to be affected by the swirling time stream. He could not claim to understand it. It just brought him and Kagome from her world to his and back.
Right now he needed to go home. Kagome was taking mock tests and claimed that he needed to go back and quit bothering her. It made him angry when she summarily dismissed him. She made it seem that what he was doing in his world was so much less important than what they were doing in his world. Like he was less of man than those who existed in her time He would show her. Naraku had taken all of her jewel shards. She would not be coming back until he was good and ready to forgive her. He emerged from the time stream and rocketed to the top of the well with one leap. That would show her that she could not ignore him, wouldn't it.
Back in black
I hit the sack
I've been too long I'm glad to be back [I bet you know I'm...]
Yes, I'm let loose
From the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I've been looking at the sky
'Cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse 'cause I never die
I got nine lives
Cat's eyes
Abusin' every one of them and running wild
Something was drawing him to this place of power. He could feel it swelling from the old well by the village where he had been born. Some part of him remembered the Bone Eaters Well. The place where youkai were discarded. He had never thought anything of the artifact until now. Now it was calling him. Telling him that untold power awaited him within the depths of the well.
He surged ahead of his incarnations and demons. This power was reserved for him. When he absorbed it he would ready to complete the Jewel. He would be at the zenith of his power. Nothing could match him then. Inuyasha would die and Kikyou would be his at would his at last. He was close he could almost taste. Kanna had showed him. The incarnations would die one by one. All traitors all unfaithful. None able to kill Inuyasha. It vexed him. The new instrument of destruction would be able to steal the souls of his opponents. Not even Kanna could steal the souls of demons. She foresaw a black sword which could steal the souls of gods.
Sucked in and gone forever. Not like his own power which relied on absorbing individual demons. His body had become unwieldy. It had a tendency to breakdown and it was getting harder to repair every month. The sword was now in Inuyasha's hands though he did not even realize it. The element of surprise was on his side if he could attack before Inuyasha realized what he had in his hands.
'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
(Well) I'm back in black
Yes, I'm back in black
Out of the woods they came by the thousands Inuyasha found himself pressed back against the wood of the well by the sheer weight of their numbers. He drew what he thought was Tessaiga and found instead a long blade blade which absorbed all light that was sent into its depths. The sword balanced. All those hours spent sparring with Sesshoumaru would not be wasted. What he had in hands was not Tessaiga, but at least it would serve until his true sword could be found. He sprang forward to meet the devils. Tessaiga had been a sword that cut. Always he had been able to defeat his more fierce opponents with one cut to a vital area which finished the battle. What would this sword do? Only time would tell.
The first cut surprised him. Just a nick and he felt the soul of a demon surging into his body. It took him aback, but he did not have any time until the next of its fellows was upon him. Again, as he slashed more power poured into him. The demon dropped with merely a scratch. Each one wailed as its soul passed into the waiting receptacle of the sword. He felt the viciousness of the sword. Its anger and hate was urging him to feed more and more of the demons to it. The more it fed the more power seemed to be generated.
Inuyasha had no clue what might sate the sword. Nor did he have time to think. Normally,he would have a monk with wind tunnel to absorb the swarm until the Hell Wasps arrived. A demon slayer to kill those who arrived the monk closed his wind tunnel and a priestess whose arrows could purify even Naraku. The tide of the battle had turned. Even demons and incarnations seemed to fear the loss of their souls. Soon they fled before until only the Avatar of Hell remained.
Well, I'm back, Yes I'm back
Well, I'm back, Yes I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Naraku frowned he had not anticipated this circumstance. When he attacked he assumed that without Tessaiga, Inuyasha would be easily overwhelmed and he would be able to seize the new weapon from the defeated hanyou. Instead, he found himself alone as his minions retreated in the face of the assault of the vengeful halfbreed. He would have to invoke his own cloud of miasma to escape to avoid death. It would enable him to live to fight another day. Luck was not with him that day. Inuyasha hurled the sword into the miasma. Despite the swirling and toxic gasses which emanated from Naraku. they could not save the minion of hell on this day from his appointed fate
The sword arced through the deadly fog and pierced the Avatar of Hell. He could feel his being dissolve as his soul fell into the cavern that the sword had carved. Soon he could not hear himself scream as he ceased to be as an independent entity. His tendrils crept toward the heart of the beast that inhabited the sword. The Jewel still pulse within him even though Naraku as such had ceased to be. Perhaps there was still a way to save the day from the intruder from the another reality. Perhaps another way to live another day. Even without a soul it could live on inside of the sword in hopes of taking control of it. In that manner its future was assured. Although Naraku as such was gone, his avatar remained inside of the Jewel awaiting revival at some future time. The sword had only taken the soul of Naraku. The Four Souls within the Jewel remained alive and as vibrant as ever. They waited the opportunity to reemerge
hooo yeah
Ohh yeah
Yes I am
Oooh yeah, yeah Oh yeah
Back in now
Well I'm back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back, I'm back
Back
Back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Inuyasha hefted the sword in his hand. What had just happened. He could not sense Naraku anywhere. The Sword still hummed with unbelievable power. What could it mean. Where had this sword come from. What had happened to Tessaiga. Tessaiga was his friend, his lover, his mate. He did not know or understand this sword. All he knew was that the sword had allowed him to access the very being of each soul that it absorbed. He had been filled with more and more power. In the end Naraku had no chance. He had turned Naraku's entire army against him using their power to steal his soul.
The war was over, but where was the Jewel. He had not seen it when the sword absorbed Naraku's soul. He was wary of proclaiming victory while the Jewel was still unaccounted. They had fought too hard and too long to just assume that Naraku was gone. Naraku had escaped death more than once by absorbing the beast which had swallowed. him. He had a bad feeling about the sword. It exuded the most evil aura that he had ever felt. The sword fairly hummed with the power that it had absorbed from Naraku. He had no outlet to bleed of this power. Quitely, he wondered if the sword should not be discarded. He remembered vividly when Tessaiga had nearly turned him youkai when he attached a jewel shard to the blade and it absorbed the jyaki from the stomach of the stone oni. The black blade had an evil aura many times even Naraku at his worst.
He headed toward the well. Perhaps if he tossed it into the well the currents would keep him safe from the evil. At the very least it would remove Naraku from this world which was a comforting. The only drawback was that it would lurk in the well against the day when it might return. The entity within the sword might resent what he was about to do. He made a decision. The sword had to go. He tossed it blithely toward the well. There was a flash directly over the well blinding him with its light. What on earth could have happened?
Out of the sight
When the dust cleared Naraku stood next to the well only yards from him. The dark hanyou dusted himself off and laughed.
" Now that was damned interesting. I believe that you and I have one final round. The being I swallowed wants me to eat your soul. Who am I to argue with it. Any last words."
Inuyasha pointed the sheath at the well and yelled " Come Tessaiga"
The message was heard loud and clear in another universe. Tessaiga changed itself to Black Tessaiga and opened the door to the meidou. Its master had called. It did not have time to throw its present user so it brought heim along with it. Hurtling through space the meidou, it flew out the well toward its master. It did not even notice Naraku standing between it and Inuyasha. It sliced cleanly with Meidou Zangestsuha through the Avatar of Hell and continued until it was cleanly sheathed. Naraku did not have time to scream. The meidou opened carrying the demonic parts of him into hell and leaving a badly burned man and a black sword lying on the ground.
When the sword sheathed itself, the present bearer of Tessaiga found himself sprawled across a
man in a red robe with silver hair, golden eyes, fangs and dog ears. He pulled himself up from the ground and picked up the black sword " Did you miss me, Stormbringer?"
The boy on the ground stared at the pale white haired man with red eyes dressed in yellow.
" Who in the world are you?"
"I am Elric, Emperor of Melnibone. I presume that the sword belongs to you. I was not able to use it. I am sorry for whatever difficulties Stormbringer may have given you. It is bad enough that my world has to deal with it, much less yours. If you will show us the way home, we will be leaving now."
Inuyasha nodded and opened the meidou with instructions to send them back to their home. He thanked the visitor from the next world and they were gone. Naraku and the Jewel had disappeared into hell leaving only Onigumo. covered with bandages and cowering in fear Inuyasha smirked at him " I wonder what I should do with you."
