TITLE: DIRECTION OF THE HEART
This story starts after Naraku forced Kikyou down the cliff in the last chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Rumiko Takahashi's works though I wish so. This fanfiction is purely from my out-of-the world imagination, so plz don't sue me for anything you disagree.
Warning: This chapter contains spoilers from Manga #29. PG-rated for violence and language.
Chapter 1: New Moon Night
Kikyou, where are you? Why didn't you wait for me?
Inuyasha stared into the sky. Once again, images of Kikyou came back to his mind. He could see her sitting on a hill slope, her long hair swaying in the wind.
".The one who fails to save her is you, Inuyasha.." Sesshoumaru said
He was right, I'm such a failure, thought Inuyasha.
Afar, Kagome was watching Inuyasha's expression as she walked behind him.
'There's really nothing I can do for him?,' She thought sadly. She could not bear to see Inuyasha in such great pain, but she knew she could not do anything, except consoling him.
"Where are we going now, Kagome?" Shippou asked, feeling lost. Naraku had turned into a full youkai with the help of the almost completed Shikon no Tama.
"I don't know, Shippou," Kagome replied.
"We still have to look for Naraku, Shippou," Miroku said, "He is now so powerful, I fear that if we do not destroy him fast enough, he might develop his strength even further."
"Houshi-sama is right," Sango nodded slightly and fell silence. Her brother was still in Naraku's hand and she wondered if she would be able to save him. Naraku was too strong.
*****
In a palace, a young lord in purple robe stared out of the window.
I have fulfilled my wish and have turned into a youkai. Kikyou is gone now. What should I do next? What was my initial motive in the first place? He wondered.
Power, I want more power. A deep voice kept echoing in him. A bright light had eliminated the bandit's life and had sent him-Naraku into this world.
Is this the power of the youkais? Naraku thought.
The full moon shone in the horizon. After the moon reached its full, it would disappear totally. This is what the morals called-new moon night.
A new moon night?
~FLASHBACK~
Naraku soared across the sky, away from Sesshoumaru's attack. Suddenly, he caught sight of a familiar youkai lurking near an animal's corpse. It was a surviving youkai which he had once sent to save Kagura from Inuyasha's Tesseiga attack.
New moon night, it told him, Inuyasha would lose all his youkai power on every new moon night.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
This is the time for me to try something else, he chuckled.
*************
Sango followed closely behind Inuyasha. The white-haired hanyou was crawling on the ground, sniffing along the way.
"Inuyasha, let's rest today. Remember, tonight is new moon night." She said.
"SHUT UP! I'm going to hunt Naraku down at all cost!!" Inuyasha yelled furiously and resumed his hunt.
"Inuyasha.." Kagome protested. Inuyasha had no wink of sleep for nights and she was worried of him.
Inuyasha took a look at them in apology, feeling guilty in within. They were following him in the search for days and nights without much rest and he had thrown his temper once every while.
"I'm sorry, we'll find a camp to stay for a night." Inuyasha whispered.
A hand touched his forehead.
"Huh? That doesn't sound like Inuyasha," Miroku said sheepishly.
"Then what do you want?" Inuyasha growled.
"I'm praising you." Miroku said, "It is wise for us to stop now, I do not want Naraku to know your weakness."
"Why don't you admit you are exhausted?" Inuyasha said, staring hard at him.
"It's getting dark, are we going to camp here tonight. ?" Shippou asked.
"Seems that we have to." Sango said.
"Sango, will we be safe here? I have a bad feeling, shall we look for the nearest village?" Kagome asked. Sango examined their surrounding she felt nothing. The birds chipped merrily among the trees and there was water nearby.
Inuyasha leaped and stood tall before Kagome. "Oi, Kagome, what are you thinking of again?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome looked into his eyes passionately. "Inuyasha."
Kagome suddenly tug Inuyasha's dog-ears.
"OUCH!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING???!!!!"
"Hee! Hee! Feeling better?"
"BAKA! CHILDISH!"
"I'M TRYING GET YOUR ATTENTION FROM THAT INCIDENT!!"
"YOU..!!"
"Sigh! They are quarrelling again." Sango and Shippou sighed.
"That's their sign of affection." Miroku explained sheepishly, folding his arms with his staff in them.
The sky reddened as evening drew near. Inuyasha's hair started to darken and his dog-ears shrank into his hair. At the same time, a pair of human ears appeared.
The group wearily settled down for the night.
"Nah, shall we play a game?" Kagome exclaimed excitedly, digging into her big haversack for her poker cards.
"How's the game be played?" Miroku questioned.
"This game is called 'Heart Attack'," Kagome began: "We have to pass a card to the person next to us and if one of us got similar cards first, he/she will shout~.."
"HEART ATTACK!!!!!" Kagome suddenly shouted into Inuyasha's poor ears.
"OI, KAGOME!!!" Inuyasha yelled back in protest.
Ignoring him, Kagome continued: "then the rest of us will put our hands on top of one another. The person with similar cards will beat the pile of hands. GOT IT?" Turning to Inuyasha, "Understand, Inuyasha?"
"KEH!" Inuyasha folded his arms and turned his back at Kagome in protest.
... Time passed ..
"HEART ATTACK!!!" Sango shouted the fifth time.
"WHACK!!!"
"That's so unfair!!! Sango always get the opportunity to hit us and I'm always the one who got the highest number of hits!!" Shippou whimpered.
"That's because you are too slow, Shippou," Miroku said, his face showing a print of Sango's palm for touching her butt while she was not aware.
"Shhhhhh.. I can see a troop of people coming this way!" Inuyasha whispered from the branch of a tree. As usual, he insisted on keeping watch while the rest played the game despite Kagome's persuasion.
True enough, marching sounds of soldiers and horses' hooves were heard going towards their direction. Dogs barked from afar.
"They are marching here, let's get out to avoid getting ourselves in unnecessary troubles." Sango said swiftly and pulled up her belongings.
It was too late. The troops had advanced and surrounded the forest.
"Weird, have we ever offense them?" Sango muttered to herself.
"I suspect someone has sent them to seek trouble on us." Miroku whispered to her without looking.
Within seconds, the group found themselves trapped in a circle of soldiers.
"I believe we have some misunderstandings here. We are commoners. Perhaps you have seek the wrong people." Miroku questioned the person in lead.
"Hah! Commoners? You people look so indecent, you must have killed a lot of people along the way. ARREST THEM!" The general growled.
"HEY, WAIT!" But Miroku's words fell on deaf ears.
"WAHHH! DEMONS!!" Shippou screamed as he clanged onto Kagome.
"No, Shippou, they are normal soldiers," Miroku said, thinking: "There are too many of them for us to deal and Inuyasha has lost his youkai power. Who has summoned them here?"
"KIRARA!" Sango commanded. Immediately, her cat-youkai transformed into a big cat.
"She can't get fly fast with all of us! Miroku and I will fight with them for time being and you people get out of here! Quick!" Inuyasha yelled as he battled with the nearer soldiers using his Tesseiga.
"INUYASHA!!" Kagome screamed as Sango pulled her and Shippou onto Kirara's back and flew off.
"COME BACK AND LOOK FOR US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE....!!!" Sango's voice echoed in the breeze.
Suddenly, something hit Miroku's head harshly and he fell to the ground unconscious.
"MIROKU!" Inuyasha screamed and moved to his side to break a way to escape with him.
"GRAB HIM!" A general commanded. Several spears pointed and stopped Inuyasha's action. Inuyasha snarled and drove them off with his sword. A spear shot across his neck and pressed hard against his flesh, suffocating him. Someone drove the handle of his spear into Inuyasha's stomach. Tesseiga finally fell off from his hands.
"Take these two people and the sword away!" Inuyasha heard before he was tied and gagged onto a horse with a soldier. Afar, Miroku received the same treatment.
...
Where are they taking us...? Inuyasha thought.
This chapter is written on the night of 7th October 2002. "Direction of the Heart" to be continued. (P.S. I'll try to update my other fanfic 'Lost in the Past asap. :P)
This story starts after Naraku forced Kikyou down the cliff in the last chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Rumiko Takahashi's works though I wish so. This fanfiction is purely from my out-of-the world imagination, so plz don't sue me for anything you disagree.
Warning: This chapter contains spoilers from Manga #29. PG-rated for violence and language.
Chapter 1: New Moon Night
Kikyou, where are you? Why didn't you wait for me?
Inuyasha stared into the sky. Once again, images of Kikyou came back to his mind. He could see her sitting on a hill slope, her long hair swaying in the wind.
".The one who fails to save her is you, Inuyasha.." Sesshoumaru said
He was right, I'm such a failure, thought Inuyasha.
Afar, Kagome was watching Inuyasha's expression as she walked behind him.
'There's really nothing I can do for him?,' She thought sadly. She could not bear to see Inuyasha in such great pain, but she knew she could not do anything, except consoling him.
"Where are we going now, Kagome?" Shippou asked, feeling lost. Naraku had turned into a full youkai with the help of the almost completed Shikon no Tama.
"I don't know, Shippou," Kagome replied.
"We still have to look for Naraku, Shippou," Miroku said, "He is now so powerful, I fear that if we do not destroy him fast enough, he might develop his strength even further."
"Houshi-sama is right," Sango nodded slightly and fell silence. Her brother was still in Naraku's hand and she wondered if she would be able to save him. Naraku was too strong.
*****
In a palace, a young lord in purple robe stared out of the window.
I have fulfilled my wish and have turned into a youkai. Kikyou is gone now. What should I do next? What was my initial motive in the first place? He wondered.
Power, I want more power. A deep voice kept echoing in him. A bright light had eliminated the bandit's life and had sent him-Naraku into this world.
Is this the power of the youkais? Naraku thought.
The full moon shone in the horizon. After the moon reached its full, it would disappear totally. This is what the morals called-new moon night.
A new moon night?
~FLASHBACK~
Naraku soared across the sky, away from Sesshoumaru's attack. Suddenly, he caught sight of a familiar youkai lurking near an animal's corpse. It was a surviving youkai which he had once sent to save Kagura from Inuyasha's Tesseiga attack.
New moon night, it told him, Inuyasha would lose all his youkai power on every new moon night.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
This is the time for me to try something else, he chuckled.
*************
Sango followed closely behind Inuyasha. The white-haired hanyou was crawling on the ground, sniffing along the way.
"Inuyasha, let's rest today. Remember, tonight is new moon night." She said.
"SHUT UP! I'm going to hunt Naraku down at all cost!!" Inuyasha yelled furiously and resumed his hunt.
"Inuyasha.." Kagome protested. Inuyasha had no wink of sleep for nights and she was worried of him.
Inuyasha took a look at them in apology, feeling guilty in within. They were following him in the search for days and nights without much rest and he had thrown his temper once every while.
"I'm sorry, we'll find a camp to stay for a night." Inuyasha whispered.
A hand touched his forehead.
"Huh? That doesn't sound like Inuyasha," Miroku said sheepishly.
"Then what do you want?" Inuyasha growled.
"I'm praising you." Miroku said, "It is wise for us to stop now, I do not want Naraku to know your weakness."
"Why don't you admit you are exhausted?" Inuyasha said, staring hard at him.
"It's getting dark, are we going to camp here tonight. ?" Shippou asked.
"Seems that we have to." Sango said.
"Sango, will we be safe here? I have a bad feeling, shall we look for the nearest village?" Kagome asked. Sango examined their surrounding she felt nothing. The birds chipped merrily among the trees and there was water nearby.
Inuyasha leaped and stood tall before Kagome. "Oi, Kagome, what are you thinking of again?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome looked into his eyes passionately. "Inuyasha."
Kagome suddenly tug Inuyasha's dog-ears.
"OUCH!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING???!!!!"
"Hee! Hee! Feeling better?"
"BAKA! CHILDISH!"
"I'M TRYING GET YOUR ATTENTION FROM THAT INCIDENT!!"
"YOU..!!"
"Sigh! They are quarrelling again." Sango and Shippou sighed.
"That's their sign of affection." Miroku explained sheepishly, folding his arms with his staff in them.
The sky reddened as evening drew near. Inuyasha's hair started to darken and his dog-ears shrank into his hair. At the same time, a pair of human ears appeared.
The group wearily settled down for the night.
"Nah, shall we play a game?" Kagome exclaimed excitedly, digging into her big haversack for her poker cards.
"How's the game be played?" Miroku questioned.
"This game is called 'Heart Attack'," Kagome began: "We have to pass a card to the person next to us and if one of us got similar cards first, he/she will shout~.."
"HEART ATTACK!!!!!" Kagome suddenly shouted into Inuyasha's poor ears.
"OI, KAGOME!!!" Inuyasha yelled back in protest.
Ignoring him, Kagome continued: "then the rest of us will put our hands on top of one another. The person with similar cards will beat the pile of hands. GOT IT?" Turning to Inuyasha, "Understand, Inuyasha?"
"KEH!" Inuyasha folded his arms and turned his back at Kagome in protest.
... Time passed ..
"HEART ATTACK!!!" Sango shouted the fifth time.
"WHACK!!!"
"That's so unfair!!! Sango always get the opportunity to hit us and I'm always the one who got the highest number of hits!!" Shippou whimpered.
"That's because you are too slow, Shippou," Miroku said, his face showing a print of Sango's palm for touching her butt while she was not aware.
"Shhhhhh.. I can see a troop of people coming this way!" Inuyasha whispered from the branch of a tree. As usual, he insisted on keeping watch while the rest played the game despite Kagome's persuasion.
True enough, marching sounds of soldiers and horses' hooves were heard going towards their direction. Dogs barked from afar.
"They are marching here, let's get out to avoid getting ourselves in unnecessary troubles." Sango said swiftly and pulled up her belongings.
It was too late. The troops had advanced and surrounded the forest.
"Weird, have we ever offense them?" Sango muttered to herself.
"I suspect someone has sent them to seek trouble on us." Miroku whispered to her without looking.
Within seconds, the group found themselves trapped in a circle of soldiers.
"I believe we have some misunderstandings here. We are commoners. Perhaps you have seek the wrong people." Miroku questioned the person in lead.
"Hah! Commoners? You people look so indecent, you must have killed a lot of people along the way. ARREST THEM!" The general growled.
"HEY, WAIT!" But Miroku's words fell on deaf ears.
"WAHHH! DEMONS!!" Shippou screamed as he clanged onto Kagome.
"No, Shippou, they are normal soldiers," Miroku said, thinking: "There are too many of them for us to deal and Inuyasha has lost his youkai power. Who has summoned them here?"
"KIRARA!" Sango commanded. Immediately, her cat-youkai transformed into a big cat.
"She can't get fly fast with all of us! Miroku and I will fight with them for time being and you people get out of here! Quick!" Inuyasha yelled as he battled with the nearer soldiers using his Tesseiga.
"INUYASHA!!" Kagome screamed as Sango pulled her and Shippou onto Kirara's back and flew off.
"COME BACK AND LOOK FOR US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE....!!!" Sango's voice echoed in the breeze.
Suddenly, something hit Miroku's head harshly and he fell to the ground unconscious.
"MIROKU!" Inuyasha screamed and moved to his side to break a way to escape with him.
"GRAB HIM!" A general commanded. Several spears pointed and stopped Inuyasha's action. Inuyasha snarled and drove them off with his sword. A spear shot across his neck and pressed hard against his flesh, suffocating him. Someone drove the handle of his spear into Inuyasha's stomach. Tesseiga finally fell off from his hands.
"Take these two people and the sword away!" Inuyasha heard before he was tied and gagged onto a horse with a soldier. Afar, Miroku received the same treatment.
...
Where are they taking us...? Inuyasha thought.
This chapter is written on the night of 7th October 2002. "Direction of the Heart" to be continued. (P.S. I'll try to update my other fanfic 'Lost in the Past asap. :P)