Chapter 41
Oh wow I feel like this is getting difficult now. Not because the story is hard to finish, it's just... I don't want it to end. But here I am writing up the final battle, all that will be left is the loose ends that need tying up and that's it! Waa! I have such a great following on this story, I don't want to loose it!
Siiigh, I digress, it'll be a few chapters but it is ending little by little. And Naraku is still a slimy creep. He will be until he's reincarnated anyway. Then he's just this nice guy that has horrible karma, resulting in Sonya being sent back to his first incarnation and ends up helping his destruction so he can be reincarnated into her father... Agh, self-fulfilling prophecy.
Oh well, it's been awesome though, I just hope the battle I have planned next will come out as well as I'm imagining it in my head. Because if I somehow manage to write what I'm seeing up here, it'll be totally epic. Like, movie-worthy epic.
Onward!
-I do NOT own Inuyasha or it's characters
-I DO own Sonya and the plot
~TL S0nya
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Faint yelling.
A pounding in my head.
The sounds of fighting.
What is this..?
The feeling of being underwater surrounds me. Chokes me. Consumes me.
I feel like I'm floating. But alone, so alone.
Mother, Father... All my brothers. They all smile at me sadly then fade away into the dark abyss I am trapped in.
'Sonya...'
A voice?
'Sonya, listen to me.'
Who are you?
'I am the one you belong to.'
Be... Belong to?
'Yes. You wish to be cherished? You desire to be wanted. You want to be surrounded by family?'
Yes! Don't leave me!
'Do as I say and kill whoever threatens to take that away from you.'
Kill?
'Yes, they wish me dead. If you do not want to be alone again. Kill them.'
The voice fades away, but not without bringing me from the darkness I float in. Blinking my eyes against the painful light pouring into the room I'm laying in, I sit up and look around in confusion. It's cold and stone, chains on the wall but the door is open. The sounds of a fight flooding through it.
I must kill them. They want to take away the one person who stays with me!
Getting to my feet, I stumble through the door, ignoring the burning pain in my neck as I make my way through the hallways, following the battle, following that voice.
His voice.
"Naraku!" Inuyasha shouts, swinging the Tetsusaiga down and sending a wave of energy towards the spider hanyou with a vicious snarl on his face, Sesshomaru adding the energy from his own sword to aid in his destruction.
But to their frustration, he merely sheds the body parts that began to wither away and moves out of the line of fire, carefully placing himself in front of the estate, knowing full well none of them would dare use a powerful attack and risk destroying the building with Sonya inside.
"Where is she, Naraku?" Kagome demands hotly, arrow strung and pointed dead center in his chest with a gleam in her brown eyes. All the years she had known Sonya, she had protected her without a single thought of her own safety. Now it was her turn to return the favor, no matter what the cost.
"Ah, the wolf. Sonya." He nearly purred in delight at the thought of her, preening slightly at the deadly look he received from Sesshomaru from just saying her name. "She'll be out here shortly." He said with a wave of his hand before glancing over his shoulder with a wide sneer on his face. "Speak of the demon, and she shall appear."
All eyes were turned to the opening of the house, watching a lone figure emerge from it's shadows to reveal Sonya, dirty, several bruises and newly healing cuts littering her arms and face. But nothing as visible as the palm-sized, red spider standing out against the pale skin on point where her neck and shoulder meet.
A low growl rumbled through the air, making the pack members turn to look at Sesshomaru cautiously. His eyes locked on the mark she wore as they flickered between their normal gold to demonic red.
"Sesshomaru! Don't, you might hurt her!" Sango shouted from above where she rode on Kirara, trying to bring the lord to his senses before he changed forms. The last thing they needed was an enraged demon dog stomping all over the estate in an attempt to crush Naraku only to end up hurting their friend in the process.
Hearing Sango's words, Sesshomaru forcefully bit back the fury roiling within him, slowly calming the beast inside until it settled back down to hum in the background instead.
With a sly smile on his face, Naraku reached out and wrapped an arm around Sonya's waist, drawing her to his side and dipped his head down so he could run his nose along the mark on her neck. "Sesshomaru, your taste in women leaves much to be desired. However I will concede she is powerful." He called out, making the Inu clench his fists, frustrated beyond rational belief that he couldn't do anything while the spider held her.
"She has a fire in her that just won't go out. Even now, she's struggling against the mark. Straining against it and wearing herself down, little by little. I can hear her screaming, such a beautiful mind brought to such a pitiful position." He continued, flicking his tongue out to taste the mark before pushing her forward lightly. "Go on then, mate. Take care of them." He ordered abruptly, watching with sharp, red eyes as the wolf walked towards the small army in front of him with even steps, the sparkle in her blue eyes flickering in and out as she fought for control over her instinct.
"Sonya..?" Kagome asked hesitantly, lowering the arrow a notch as the wolf came to a stop in front of them, one fist clenched tight enough to draw blood, the other hanging loosely at her side. "Ka... Go...Me..." She uttered painfully, her face screwing up with effort as she struggled. "Run..."
"No! I'm not leaving you here! You're always protecting me, now it's my turn!" The Miko declared, earning a pitiful look from the woman before instinct reasserted control and left the flicker in her eyes to die slightly. "So be it then." Her voice changed from it's strained tone to one of cold calculation.
Blue eyes flicked over each face there, analyzing carefully before she dove at Inuyasha, knowing he was the destructive force behind the attacks. While the taller of the brothers was stronger, Inuyasha's instinct drove him to continue using powerful attacks without reprieve, leaving little space for a counter-attack.
"Damn it!" He swore under his breath, sheathing his sword and choosing instead to grapple with the wolf hand-to hand as she strove to separate his head from his shoulders without a single change in her expression. Almost a morbid curiosity painting her face as she attacked him, as if she was genuinely curious as to what would happen if she did manage to behead him.
A dark laugh echoed behind her, drawing the other's attentions back to Naraku where he stood on the stairs before them, a satisfied look on his face while he watched the wolf attack Inuyasha ruthlessly. "Vicious, isn't she?"
With a dangerous look on his face, Sesshomaru jolted forward, spurred to kill the spider more than ever while his brother distracted Sonya from what he was doing. As long as she continued to fight him, then Naraku was left open.
Instead of looking around for help, Inuyasha focused fully on Sonya as she dove, jumped and weaved about him with her claws extended, managing to catch him a few times in the chest and arms as he ducked and blocked each time she came at him. A dim memory of her attempt at training him surfaced as she suddenly appeared beside him, one foot swinging to his face and he shifted his arms into the position she nearly beat him into remembering, successfully blocking the heel and grabbing her ankle with the other hand to fling her away.
"You taught me that, damn wolf!" He shouted, advancing on her as she climbed back to her feet, seemingly unphased with his counter. "Don't you remember? You kept slapping me every time I got it wrong!"
A small spark shone in her eyes as she looked at him, the expression morphing from curiosity to outright pain and sorrow before it was forced back again along with the ember, leaving the cold countenance once again.
Sango stayed overhead, watching the fight between Inuyasha and Sonya with a small frown of concentration on her face before veering away and heading for Kagome. "Think of something?" Miroku asked from behind, peering over her shoulder to see where they were going.
"Just an idea." She replied, jumping off of the twin-tailed cat's back before they landed and ran over to Kagome. "Kagome! I think I know something that might work!" She cried out, catching the Miko's full attention. "Listen before you ask anything okay?"
With another grunt of frustration, Inuyasha flung Sonya away from him by her wrists, trying not to hurt the wolf as she continually sprang at him with deadly intent in her eyes. "Remember how you helped me and Kagome?!" He shouted, making the woman stop mid-swing and stare at him in confusion for the first time. "Yeah! Yeah, you helped me realize Kagome was the one I wanted, right?" He added hastily, pleased to see something other than sadness or cold curiosity on her expression.
"You... And Kagome..?" She asked haltingly, as if trying to make sense of what he was saying.
"Sonya!" Kagome's voice broke out over the noise of battle, making both Inuyasha and Sonya look over at the miko as she fired a sacred arrow at her.
"Kagome, what the hell!" Inuyasha shouted, preparing to jump and push Sonya out of the way only to be stopped by Sango. "No!"
Blinking, Sonya turned to jump out of the way too late, the arrow not piercing the skin, but instead slicing across the mark on her neck and over her shoulder to stick solidly into the wall behind her.
"Ah!" She cried out, clutching the wound in pain as she collapsed to the ground, prompting the friends not fighting Naraku to rush over and inspect the wolf as she curled on the ground in a fetal position.
"Don't worry about her, I've got this. You guys go take care of Naraku!" Sango prompted, reaching down to help Sonya to her feet and slinging one of her limp arms over her shoulders and drug her over to where Kirara waited, draping her form over the cat's back before sending her up into the air again for safe-keeping. "I hope it works..."
Turning as one, they all raced back into the fray, dodging blows from the spider and adding their own slices into his hide, one by one. Naraku, dazed by the sudden pain that shot through the bond he forced on the wolf, couldn't do more than erect a barrier and hope for the best.
Reaching out through the connection, he cursed under his breath when he found it broken, purified by the power of the miko's arrow. Had he known it would have been broken so easily, he would have completed the bond instead of being satisfied by his mark.
Turning his attention back to the fighters, he opted for Sesshomaru, who was doing the most damage with his sword that withered his flesh away with each cut made. Before long, he wouldn't have enough to regenerate if he didn't take care of the taller out first.
Aiming one tentacle at him, he distracted the Inu enough to sneak another in and wrap around his frame tightly, intending to break something inside by squeezing tight enough.
With a gloating cackle, his eyes gleamed while he watched the Inu Lord faintly struggle to get from his grip, if he had not been the one holding him, he wouldn't have noticed the miniscule movements he made.
"How the mighty have fallen, Sesshomaru." He taunted, drawing him closer so he could look him in the eye as he dyed only to be stopped by a sudden searing pain in the same appendage that clutched the lord, severing it completely from his flesh.
"What!" Turning to face the attacker, he snarled, red eyes meeting a flaring grey. "So, you've broken my bond." He growled, watching as the wolf crouched slightly in front of him, chilling grey eyes locked onto his form. Before he could say anything more, a dangerous smile spread across her lips, revealing sharp fangs that glistened in the light.
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