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Previously on Great Dog's Devotion:
("Kohaku...Are you alright?" I asked him unsurely as I look to Rin, I was not sure what to do.)
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Sesshomaru P.O.V.
Naraku stalled on his attacks as if he was waiting on something...but what? Then Naraku's smirk turned into a grin as something started to occur. I didn't notice the pieces of Naraku that I hacked off of him were near by were starting to shift around but stilled when Naraku turn to look out from the castle.
Naraku seemed distracted and lost that grin on his face as if something is coming to interfere with our battle. "Naraku, you seem to be preoccupied with what's outside these walls." I said to him, getting his attention back on me.
"Lord Sesshomaru...I'm afraid that I'll have to cut our battle short... I will have your power...every last bit of your demonic power." He said as I felt the shift in the air. Suddenly the pieces of Naraku started to come at me on all sides and surrounding my body.
"And I'll have it all to myself." He said as I look at the pieces forming into a one large piece as it quickly wraps around me tightly to a point where I couldn't fight anymore. I looked to him with no expression on my face, unsure what to do at the moment as the tendrils started to crawl up and engulfing me into darkness.
Then I felt the tendrils starting to shift turning my prison into a pulsating cocoon...
For a few moments, I only heard the pulse of the cocoon around me and then I heard voices on the outside of the cocoon. One was Naraku's and another...was Inuyasha.
They were talking to each other for a moment. Then I felt the ground shaking underneath me...I assumed that Inuyasha was using Tessagia against Naraku carelessly and Naraku fighting back.
After a few moments of yelling at each other, I felt the ground shaking more violently then before. Inuyasha must of used the Wind Scar on Naraku and the cocoon seems to be weakened.
Now was my change to escape and finish off Naraku, so I raised Tokijin over me and it struck the cocoon. It busted into a million of pieces, I stepped out and looked at the damage surrounding me as if Naraku was torn from the Wind Scar attack.
"Lord Sesshomaru!...You're alive!" Jaken shouted. I stepped forward crushing one of the pieces under my feet, emphasizing of what I'm about to doing to Naraku.
"Heh...Naraku...Ironic isn't it?...To think that the flesh had bound me to you, would shield you against Inuyasha's Wind Scar." I said as I had Tokijin ready to destroy him. Then Inuyasha was in front of me with an angry look on his face kind of like a child wanting something but the parent denied what it wanted.
"Move it! I'm the one whose taking Naraku down!" He said with Tessagia ready to strike. I look at Inuyasha with distaste.
"No...Naraku belongs to me." I argued with Inuyasha and we continued to bicker who gets to take down Naraku. Naraku started to rebuild his body again, as I notice moment at the corner of my eye and look to him as he started to laugh and grew bigger.
"I shall absorb both of you, while you two bicker." He said as he was getting ready to strike. Inuyasha turned to him with a angry look on his face.
Inuyasha angerly shouted at Naraku as he started to attack us. Me and Inuyasha avoid his attacks but one can only can take so much evade them.
"You can't be able to escape my attacks forever." Naraku said as he used his tendrils at us. Me and Inuyasha had enough this squabble and started to attack Naraku at the same time.
Which had surprised Naraku as he was falling apart piece by piece until Inuyasha had struck him with the Wind Scar once again, leaving Naraku only half his body.
"One more should do it!" Inuyasha said as he was going to deliver the final blow but I was right next to him wanting to finish Naraku off. "I told you to let me take him." I said to him.
Inuyasha wasn't having it. "Back off Sesshomaru." He said but it was too late, I already brought down Tokijin using it attack on Naraku. However, it wasn't enough.
Naraku was in the air as the miasma burst from his remains. Naraku was in the sky covered in a miasma cloud protected by the demon wasps surrounding it.
"Lord Sesshomaru...I shall withdraw for now." Naraku said. I can not let Naraku escape this time...not when I'm so close to ending him. I had enough of Naraku's games it time to end this once and for all.
I felt the demonic aura within me flow as I let myself start to shift into my true form. "You fool!...Don't you think you can ever escape my grasp." I said threateningly as growled at him with hatred.
I heard him laugh as if my threat means nothing to him. "Lord Sesshomaru...rather than transforming and hunting me down...Shouldn't you be rushing to the side of that young mortal woman and little girl of yours?" He said as those word stilled my anger and stilled me for a moment as I turned back to normal.
"Nikko...Rin" I thought as their faces appeared in my mind. "Your companions Nikko and Rin is with a boy named Kohaku...Inuyasha even you should realize the implications" Naraku said as he vanished into thin air.
That's why he abducted Rin and Nikko...not to get me to come here for in exchange of them but to buy himself some time, knowing I would go after them.
Naraku had escaped this time... next time...he won't
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Nikko P.O.V.
"Kohaku?...What's the matter?" Rin said as she was by my side. Kohaku was still like a statue in a crouching position.
Suddenly something seemed off of Kohaku but I wasn't sure what. "Kohaku?" Rin said a little scared.
Then he turned to us with a blank stare in his face and his eyes seemed to be gazed over as if he had no soul. It scares me a little as I held Rin close to me, unsure what he will do from Sango and Kagome had told me.
If something happens I'll be ready to protect Rin even at the cost of my own life. Kohaku lightly grabs my hand as I have Rin holding on to me, so I had no choice but to follow him.
He takes us to the back of the hut cuts open the hut with his weapon and leads us to out where there's a light gray dragon demon that appeared to be waiting for us. "Get on" Kohaku said numbly as he gets on first, then I put Rin on behind him and myself holding her steady.
"Well... there is a first time for everything." I thought as the dragon demon started moving, flying away from the hut and my friends as they were fighting the demons. After five minutes of flying we stopped in the middle of the forest and we got off the dragon demon, then it flew away.
Kohaku grabbed Rin's hand and we started walking as I followed along side her. "Where are we going Kohaku?" Rin ask as we were walking in the forest at night with only the moonlight guiding us.
For a few minutes of nothing but silence, the only thing we heard was the wind blowing and grass rustling as we walked to an open field. Then he stopped for a moment and still had a hold of Rin.
"Kohaku?" I whispered as I got close to Rin, keeping an close eye on Kohaku. It seems that there was a shift in the air... something wasn't right.
He stood there stiffening for a second as his hand started to shake, as he brought Rin closer to him, he raised his weapon up towards Rin. Before I knew what my body was doing before my mind can process what was happening, I grabbed Rin's hand, pulling her back from Kohaku as I lifted my right arm up from where Rin was.
He brought his weapon down, as it hit it's mark but... it wasn't Rin. It went across my forearm making it bleed harshly. "Ahhh!" I shouted as I moved back holding my arm as blood begins to seep through my fingers.
"Kohaku...Why are you doing this!" Rin said as she felt betrayed by him. "Rin move away! Kohaku isn't his right mind!" I shouted to her as she ran back close to the forest line.
Kohaku moved at a fast pace, trying to slash me again as I dodge his attack, but I can't evade him forever. "Where are they? I don't I can hold him off much longer...Even with the skills I have...He has the leverage with that weapon of his, I just need to hold him off for as long as I can until they arrive." I thought.
However, it didn't last long, when Kohaku hit me on the side of the head with the brunt of his weapon. I fell down to the ground with my body first then my head, bouncing on the ground. "Rin" I whispered as I tried to fight to stay conscious and trying to get back up.
Then I saw Kohaku stopped, turned and went after her. He used the chained end of his weapon and launched it at her. The chain wrapped around her ankles and pulled, as he did she shrieked for a moment as she fell down face first.
After that, she didn't move and he went towards her. My heart was pounding in my chest as ice cold fear went through my veins, as he knelt next to her and flipped her over.
I finally got up as my head was pounding, my vision blurred and my arm bleeding. He raised his weapon over Rin as if he was going to strike.
I ran towards him hoping to get there in time. Suddenly, I felt the tangible connection pulsing through my chest and I stopped for a moment as my vision cleared, I saw a sight that I thought I couldn't be more glad to see...Sesshomaru. Apparently, Kohaku sensed it something and looked behind him, seeing him as well.
Slowly, he got up and was in a fighting stance, ready to fight Sesshomaru. "Oh...? You turn your blade toward me?" Sesshomaru asked as he lifted his hand up, ready to challenge Kohaku.
"Kohaku!" Inuyasha shouted as punched Kohaku in the face, disarming him as Kagome went to Rin and I rushed to get to her. Kagome held her lap, looking at her as I knelt down close to her, holding my breath.
"She alright...she just unconscious." Kagome said then she looked and saw me with relief in my eyes, letting a breath out. "Nikko! We've been looking for you...Oh my gosh...What happened to your arm, your bleeding!" Kagome said.
I stiffen as I realized I was still bleeding and looked to Sesshomaru. His eyes shown relief but then he looked at my arm...I saw fierceness in them.
I knew what he was going to do. "Oh no... not again! I have to do something before it's too late." I thought I got up and walked towards Sesshomaru.
"You heard her...the girl is fine and Nikko is wounded but Kagome will take care of her...Let the boy go." Inuyasha said. Sesshomaru looked at Kohaku with intent as Kohaku got up with his weapon in hand.
"Stay out of this Inuyasha...It is useless to try and interfere, This boy is compelled beyond reason to die by my hand." Sesshomaru said. Then Kohaku launch his weapon at Sesshomaru but it was blocked by Inuyasha's Tessagia which disarmed Kohaku.
Which gave Sesshomaru an opportunity to grab Kohaku by the neck, holding him in mid-air. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha argue for a moment as I went up to them.
I saw that Sesshomaru tightened his grip on Kohaku, staring at him. I grimace at Sesshomaru holding him like that but I must to get through to him to letting Kohaku go.
So I lifted my unharmed hand and touched his shoulder. He stiffen under my hand as he turned his head to look at me.
"Please Sesshomaru...Let him go...He has no control over himself...Please... You're better this." I said softly. He looked at Kohaku for a moment as I held my breath.
Then he released Kohaku onto the ground as I gave out as sigh of relief. The harshness of these events were over...For now. Kohaku got up and ran into the woods as Rin awoke and went to Sesshomaru.
Suddenly, I felt my energy starting to leave me, I was getting woozy and my vision started to blur again. "Sessho-" was all I said as I started to fall.
The last thing I saw was Sesshomaru reaching for me...