Chapter 9
Taiketsu (Showdown)
Disclaimer: Aiko's MINE!!! *grabs Aiko*
Aiko: Ow, you're choking me!
Mojobubbles: In the last chapter, Aiko turned human and her claws were gone. But later, when she first meets Sesshomaru, it says she tries to attack him /with her claws/, which are kind of gone. This was brought to my attention by shadowspinner. Good catch, shadowspinner!!! So anyway, I fixed it and just thought you'd all like to know.
Kagome: Hm, I guess people like this story more than you thought.
Mojobubbles: Yeah, 48 reviews!!!!! One of my other stories started in November and ended in late February with 14 chapters and it recently got 50 reviews. This story was started in very early March and it has only eight chapters and nearly 50 reviews already!
Inuyasha: Not to get your hopes up or anything, but what will you do if you get up to, oh, say 90-100 reviews?
Mojobubbles: Scream and run around and circles. And maybe go into cardiac arrest. Although it's pretty impossible for that to happen on this story, 'cause this is the second to last chapter. ;_;
Review responses (Whoo, got a lot of these):
Code name: Anrui Yuy: Yes it did make me happy! She's 11, but I might make her older. I doubt there'll be Aiko/Shippo, but I guess it's a possibility. I'll be adding a lot of more characters about her age in the sequel, and she'll probably get in a romance with one of them.
d.g. and crew: Well, yeah, Myoga is a flea, but he's realllly funny. And the question - what you said was: "Brat: But I know one thing that's better than this fic, well, lots of things really, but the best thing of all time is the next Inuyasha episode in twenty minutes!" And that was on Friday March 14. Heh, I bounce around and review stuff a lot too. And some of them are so pointless............
shadowspinner: Thanks for catching that! The other mistake I made on that was that when the demon is bringing Aiko, Sesshomaru is outside and I put something like "Sesshomaru stood there, blinking in the bright sunlight" when the scene is taking place at night. ^_^U But I caught that one before I posted it.
LilacRose23: Hellllllooooooo, new best friend!!!! ^_^U
Kamilah: Hey, no sucking up to your reviewers!
Mojobubbles: *blushes* Anyway.......Me and Kamilah are the one who are recording the episodes. See, she's the darker half of my soul, so...... Wow......1-102?! What's your favorite?
YamiNeko: Oh, I get it......it means "dark cat".......coolness. Yeah, ff.net is doing that to me too. It says "site experiencing overload....come back in a few minutes". Then I yell at it. ^_^
applejacks: *shrugs* That may be true, but they're better than nothing, right?
Mistuko Maxwell: *grabs C. IY and C. S from Kagome and Rin* MINE!!! Um, I'm not exactly sure if you're going to like this fic, 'cause I have S fall in love, and then there's the stuff that happens this chappy, and then he has a hanyou son in the sequel........
Mystic Ice: You hope nothing horrible happens? *shifty eyes* Um.........
Oh, BTW - we wrote a songfic called "I Hope You Dance" yesterday. Just to warn you though, it's quite a tearjerker.
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Symbol thingies:
(me popping to either annoy you or explain something)
'thoughts'
"dialogue"
*~*Flashback*~* or *~*End flashback*~* Kinda self-explanatory, right?
~~song lyrics~~ (No these are not set to songs like the other chapters, but at random times I may stick random song lyrics where I think they fit.)
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"Ah, little brother. It's been a long time, hasn't it?"
"Cut the crap, Sesshomaru. Where is Aiko?" Inuyasha snarled.
"DADDY!!!!!!" Aiko screamed, racing toward him. Sesshomaru reached out and that gold-whip thing and hit Aiko with it. She stumbled, and fell. (Ok, so I know it's probably not called gold-whip thing, but the Internet is all stupid and I can't get on to look it up.)
Rin winced, especially when she saw the expression Kagome's face.
"What do you want?" Inuyasha asked, his voice trembling slightly.
"The Tetsusaiga," Sesshomaru answered simply.
"But you can't wield it!" Inuyasha yelled in frustration and confusion.
"Well, things have changed, little brother," Sesshomaru answered calmly. Rin mentally slapped herself multiple times.
'It's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault.......ow.'
The sky was lightening, so Rin figured it was about 5:30 in the morning. The sun would rise at 6......it was Inuyasha's only hope.......
"Father meant for me to have the sword, not you......" Inuyasha said, choosing his words carefully.
"Well if you will not give it to me, I suppose I will just have to kill your daughter."
"YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!!!!!!!!" Kagome screamed, finally snapping and charging towards Sesshomaru, but Sango and Shippo caught her and held her back.
"How would you feel if I killed Rin?!" Inuyasha spat. Everyone froze. He had gone too far.
"This will not involve Rin. Just you and I," Sesshomaru said, venom oozing from every word, the kind of venom that kills silently, unnoticeably......
(o_O that was poetic......too much rock music I guess)
Sesshomaru waved his hands and about 70 demons surrounded them in the blink of an eye. Inuyasha looked around, adrenaline flowing through his body, realizing too late he was completely defenseless.
"Kill them," Sesshomaru hissed, (hey Kirstie, he's a thnake! Tttthhhhhh!) and they all came charging forward.
Rin stood frozen in place, unable to move.
Sesshomaru looked to the side and saw his charge standing there, paralyzed, with fear? Or with something else?
Sango and Miroku, along with Shippo and Kagome sprang forward and helped attack the demons.
"Aiko, move!" Inuyasha roared. Aiko dodged a bolt of lightning coming from one of the demons and dove behind a rock.
No one noticed that Sesshomaru gestured to the leader of the demons. "See that no harm comes to the smallest human girl," he said dangerously. "Or else." He didn't know why, himself, why he was ordering the demons not to attack Aiko. Maybe......it was something about the terror in her eyes......
"Sango, what are these things?!" Shippo asked, karate kicking away one of the demons. (GO SHIPPO!!!! KICK THEIR ASSES!!!!!!!)
"They're the nemaki demons," Sango huffed, whacking one over the head with Hiraikotsu. "You've gotta doge their inazuma (lightning) attacks!"
(Ok, if you thought flagpole demons were bad enough, nemaki means nightgown. They're fighting nightgown demons. LOL)
The fight continued on and on, and soon the group was growing weary. Since the fight with Naraku was over, Miroku had had his curse lifted, meaning he couldn't suck the demons into the air rip. (Boy, are they screwed or what?)
Rin looked anxiously toward the horizon. The sky was even lighter now.......yes, the sun would be up in only a matter of minutes. He held her breath. If only they could hold out.........Inuyasha certainly didn't look like he could. He leaned against the ground, breathing heavily. Aiko was still hiding behind the rock when it happened.
Inuyasha didn't see the demon hurtling toward him. But everyone else did. But Aiko was the only one to react.
"NOO!" she screamed, shoving her still-human father out of the way, as the demon's inazuma attack hit her.
(MAJOR MAJOR ANGST WARNING)
To Inuyasha, she fell slowly. It was like everything had stopped. She finally collapsed on the ground, eyes blank and vacant.
"Oh my gods......" Miroku whispered. "She's dead."
Kagome stood there, motionless, trembling, Miroku's words echoing in her head.
'She's dead....she's dead.......dead......dead.....dead........'
Kagome collapsed onto her knees, her eyes shut tight against the horrible scene in front of her. Sango and Shippo were down at her side in an instant, their arms wrapped around their friend.
Inuyasha dropped to his knees and pulled Aiko's body into his arms and buried his head in her hair, his body shaking with silent sobs.
Rin looked over at Sesshomaru, and stepped away, frightened. He was positively radiating with anger. She hadn't seen him that pissed off in a long time. He turned to the demon in charge of the nemaki demons. (Nightgown demons......heh.)
(D.g. of d.g. and crew, this part's for you!) "I told you," he hissed, his voice deadly calm, "to see that NO HARM CAME TO THE GIRL!!!!" He reached out and ripped the demon's arm from the socket. The demon collapsed, twitching, in a pool of it's blood, Sesshomaru standing over it. "Incompetent bastard....." He was about to start mauling the other demons when the sun came up.
"We only needed one more minute," Inuyasha murmured after he had changed back to a hanyou and trying to control the tears enough to speak sensibly. "One more minute, and she would've changed back, and maybe survived......."
Sesshomaru marveled at how cruel fate was. "Sesshomaru....." He turned to Inuyasha, who stood, impatiently brushing the tears off his face.
"I will give you Tetsusaiga if you-" But he was cut off when Sesshomaru stepped forward and crouched next to Aiko.
Kagome heard a clinking sound that she knew very well. It was the sound of a sword being removed from its scabbard.
"Tenseiga........." Sango whispered. Kagome's eyes flew open.
Without a word, Sesshomaru healed his niece. Aiko blinked slowly. "What happened.....?" she mumbled. Inuyasha swept her into his arms.
"You're alive...."
"Kagome," Shippo whispered. "She's alright......Aiko's alright......"
Kagome slowly lifted her head, and was greeted by the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. She leaped up, sobbing, and threw herself into the Inuyasha-Aiko hug session.
"Sesshomaru," Inuyasha said finally, his arms still firmly on Aiko's shoulders.
"Yes?"
"I......I won't forget what you did," Inuyasha said quietly. Sesshomaru nodded silently, then turned to go back inside.
"Our father.....he'd be proud of you, little brother," Sesshomaru said, as he and Rin walked inside.
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Preview of: Tesuto (Test)
Kagome bit her lip as she, Aiko, and Inuyasha went to the well. She looked back to Inuyasha, and said in a falsely cheerful voice, "we'll see ya tomorrow!"
But was that true? Would the well really let them back through? Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, Kagome grabbed her daughter's hand and they both jumped.
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Mojobubbles: That was-
Inuyasha: YOU MADE ME CRY!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *is about to maul Mojobubbles*
Kagome: SIT BOY!
Inuyasha: *THUMP* ........ow.
Mojobubbles: *to Inuyasha* You know what? Today was one of the crappiest days of my life. I don't give a damn what you thought about the chapter, got that?
Inuyasha: ^ o_,__,_o ^ *nods*
Mojobubbles: I mean, first I nearly threw up the other morning, then other random things happen, we have an insane amount of homework because my teachers are all heartless $%&@$, which is really bad because my friend Gina who I never get to see 'cause she and I go to different schools invited me to go to the mall and I DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sobs*
Kamilah: *hugs Mojobubbles* *to readers* Uh, she needs her emotional space right now, k? BTW, the next chapter is all ready to be posted, but it's not going to be up until we get at least 5 reviews. Only 5, that's all we're asking!!!
Taiketsu (Showdown)
Disclaimer: Aiko's MINE!!! *grabs Aiko*
Aiko: Ow, you're choking me!
Mojobubbles: In the last chapter, Aiko turned human and her claws were gone. But later, when she first meets Sesshomaru, it says she tries to attack him /with her claws/, which are kind of gone. This was brought to my attention by shadowspinner. Good catch, shadowspinner!!! So anyway, I fixed it and just thought you'd all like to know.
Kagome: Hm, I guess people like this story more than you thought.
Mojobubbles: Yeah, 48 reviews!!!!! One of my other stories started in November and ended in late February with 14 chapters and it recently got 50 reviews. This story was started in very early March and it has only eight chapters and nearly 50 reviews already!
Inuyasha: Not to get your hopes up or anything, but what will you do if you get up to, oh, say 90-100 reviews?
Mojobubbles: Scream and run around and circles. And maybe go into cardiac arrest. Although it's pretty impossible for that to happen on this story, 'cause this is the second to last chapter. ;_;
Review responses (Whoo, got a lot of these):
Code name: Anrui Yuy: Yes it did make me happy! She's 11, but I might make her older. I doubt there'll be Aiko/Shippo, but I guess it's a possibility. I'll be adding a lot of more characters about her age in the sequel, and she'll probably get in a romance with one of them.
d.g. and crew: Well, yeah, Myoga is a flea, but he's realllly funny. And the question - what you said was: "Brat: But I know one thing that's better than this fic, well, lots of things really, but the best thing of all time is the next Inuyasha episode in twenty minutes!" And that was on Friday March 14. Heh, I bounce around and review stuff a lot too. And some of them are so pointless............
shadowspinner: Thanks for catching that! The other mistake I made on that was that when the demon is bringing Aiko, Sesshomaru is outside and I put something like "Sesshomaru stood there, blinking in the bright sunlight" when the scene is taking place at night. ^_^U But I caught that one before I posted it.
LilacRose23: Hellllllooooooo, new best friend!!!! ^_^U
Kamilah: Hey, no sucking up to your reviewers!
Mojobubbles: *blushes* Anyway.......Me and Kamilah are the one who are recording the episodes. See, she's the darker half of my soul, so...... Wow......1-102?! What's your favorite?
YamiNeko: Oh, I get it......it means "dark cat".......coolness. Yeah, ff.net is doing that to me too. It says "site experiencing overload....come back in a few minutes". Then I yell at it. ^_^
applejacks: *shrugs* That may be true, but they're better than nothing, right?
Mistuko Maxwell: *grabs C. IY and C. S from Kagome and Rin* MINE!!! Um, I'm not exactly sure if you're going to like this fic, 'cause I have S fall in love, and then there's the stuff that happens this chappy, and then he has a hanyou son in the sequel........
Mystic Ice: You hope nothing horrible happens? *shifty eyes* Um.........
Oh, BTW - we wrote a songfic called "I Hope You Dance" yesterday. Just to warn you though, it's quite a tearjerker.
**********************************
Symbol thingies:
(me popping to either annoy you or explain something)
'thoughts'
"dialogue"
*~*Flashback*~* or *~*End flashback*~* Kinda self-explanatory, right?
~~song lyrics~~ (No these are not set to songs like the other chapters, but at random times I may stick random song lyrics where I think they fit.)
***************************************
"Ah, little brother. It's been a long time, hasn't it?"
"Cut the crap, Sesshomaru. Where is Aiko?" Inuyasha snarled.
"DADDY!!!!!!" Aiko screamed, racing toward him. Sesshomaru reached out and that gold-whip thing and hit Aiko with it. She stumbled, and fell. (Ok, so I know it's probably not called gold-whip thing, but the Internet is all stupid and I can't get on to look it up.)
Rin winced, especially when she saw the expression Kagome's face.
"What do you want?" Inuyasha asked, his voice trembling slightly.
"The Tetsusaiga," Sesshomaru answered simply.
"But you can't wield it!" Inuyasha yelled in frustration and confusion.
"Well, things have changed, little brother," Sesshomaru answered calmly. Rin mentally slapped herself multiple times.
'It's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault it's my fault.......ow.'
The sky was lightening, so Rin figured it was about 5:30 in the morning. The sun would rise at 6......it was Inuyasha's only hope.......
"Father meant for me to have the sword, not you......" Inuyasha said, choosing his words carefully.
"Well if you will not give it to me, I suppose I will just have to kill your daughter."
"YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!!!!!!!!" Kagome screamed, finally snapping and charging towards Sesshomaru, but Sango and Shippo caught her and held her back.
"How would you feel if I killed Rin?!" Inuyasha spat. Everyone froze. He had gone too far.
"This will not involve Rin. Just you and I," Sesshomaru said, venom oozing from every word, the kind of venom that kills silently, unnoticeably......
(o_O that was poetic......too much rock music I guess)
Sesshomaru waved his hands and about 70 demons surrounded them in the blink of an eye. Inuyasha looked around, adrenaline flowing through his body, realizing too late he was completely defenseless.
"Kill them," Sesshomaru hissed, (hey Kirstie, he's a thnake! Tttthhhhhh!) and they all came charging forward.
Rin stood frozen in place, unable to move.
Sesshomaru looked to the side and saw his charge standing there, paralyzed, with fear? Or with something else?
Sango and Miroku, along with Shippo and Kagome sprang forward and helped attack the demons.
"Aiko, move!" Inuyasha roared. Aiko dodged a bolt of lightning coming from one of the demons and dove behind a rock.
No one noticed that Sesshomaru gestured to the leader of the demons. "See that no harm comes to the smallest human girl," he said dangerously. "Or else." He didn't know why, himself, why he was ordering the demons not to attack Aiko. Maybe......it was something about the terror in her eyes......
"Sango, what are these things?!" Shippo asked, karate kicking away one of the demons. (GO SHIPPO!!!! KICK THEIR ASSES!!!!!!!)
"They're the nemaki demons," Sango huffed, whacking one over the head with Hiraikotsu. "You've gotta doge their inazuma (lightning) attacks!"
(Ok, if you thought flagpole demons were bad enough, nemaki means nightgown. They're fighting nightgown demons. LOL)
The fight continued on and on, and soon the group was growing weary. Since the fight with Naraku was over, Miroku had had his curse lifted, meaning he couldn't suck the demons into the air rip. (Boy, are they screwed or what?)
Rin looked anxiously toward the horizon. The sky was even lighter now.......yes, the sun would be up in only a matter of minutes. He held her breath. If only they could hold out.........Inuyasha certainly didn't look like he could. He leaned against the ground, breathing heavily. Aiko was still hiding behind the rock when it happened.
Inuyasha didn't see the demon hurtling toward him. But everyone else did. But Aiko was the only one to react.
"NOO!" she screamed, shoving her still-human father out of the way, as the demon's inazuma attack hit her.
(MAJOR MAJOR ANGST WARNING)
To Inuyasha, she fell slowly. It was like everything had stopped. She finally collapsed on the ground, eyes blank and vacant.
"Oh my gods......" Miroku whispered. "She's dead."
Kagome stood there, motionless, trembling, Miroku's words echoing in her head.
'She's dead....she's dead.......dead......dead.....dead........'
Kagome collapsed onto her knees, her eyes shut tight against the horrible scene in front of her. Sango and Shippo were down at her side in an instant, their arms wrapped around their friend.
Inuyasha dropped to his knees and pulled Aiko's body into his arms and buried his head in her hair, his body shaking with silent sobs.
Rin looked over at Sesshomaru, and stepped away, frightened. He was positively radiating with anger. She hadn't seen him that pissed off in a long time. He turned to the demon in charge of the nemaki demons. (Nightgown demons......heh.)
(D.g. of d.g. and crew, this part's for you!) "I told you," he hissed, his voice deadly calm, "to see that NO HARM CAME TO THE GIRL!!!!" He reached out and ripped the demon's arm from the socket. The demon collapsed, twitching, in a pool of it's blood, Sesshomaru standing over it. "Incompetent bastard....." He was about to start mauling the other demons when the sun came up.
"We only needed one more minute," Inuyasha murmured after he had changed back to a hanyou and trying to control the tears enough to speak sensibly. "One more minute, and she would've changed back, and maybe survived......."
Sesshomaru marveled at how cruel fate was. "Sesshomaru....." He turned to Inuyasha, who stood, impatiently brushing the tears off his face.
"I will give you Tetsusaiga if you-" But he was cut off when Sesshomaru stepped forward and crouched next to Aiko.
Kagome heard a clinking sound that she knew very well. It was the sound of a sword being removed from its scabbard.
"Tenseiga........." Sango whispered. Kagome's eyes flew open.
Without a word, Sesshomaru healed his niece. Aiko blinked slowly. "What happened.....?" she mumbled. Inuyasha swept her into his arms.
"You're alive...."
"Kagome," Shippo whispered. "She's alright......Aiko's alright......"
Kagome slowly lifted her head, and was greeted by the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. She leaped up, sobbing, and threw herself into the Inuyasha-Aiko hug session.
"Sesshomaru," Inuyasha said finally, his arms still firmly on Aiko's shoulders.
"Yes?"
"I......I won't forget what you did," Inuyasha said quietly. Sesshomaru nodded silently, then turned to go back inside.
"Our father.....he'd be proud of you, little brother," Sesshomaru said, as he and Rin walked inside.
**************************************
Preview of: Tesuto (Test)
Kagome bit her lip as she, Aiko, and Inuyasha went to the well. She looked back to Inuyasha, and said in a falsely cheerful voice, "we'll see ya tomorrow!"
But was that true? Would the well really let them back through? Closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, Kagome grabbed her daughter's hand and they both jumped.
*************************************
Mojobubbles: That was-
Inuyasha: YOU MADE ME CRY!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *is about to maul Mojobubbles*
Kagome: SIT BOY!
Inuyasha: *THUMP* ........ow.
Mojobubbles: *to Inuyasha* You know what? Today was one of the crappiest days of my life. I don't give a damn what you thought about the chapter, got that?
Inuyasha: ^ o_,__,_o ^ *nods*
Mojobubbles: I mean, first I nearly threw up the other morning, then other random things happen, we have an insane amount of homework because my teachers are all heartless $%&@$, which is really bad because my friend Gina who I never get to see 'cause she and I go to different schools invited me to go to the mall and I DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sobs*
Kamilah: *hugs Mojobubbles* *to readers* Uh, she needs her emotional space right now, k? BTW, the next chapter is all ready to be posted, but it's not going to be up until we get at least 5 reviews. Only 5, that's all we're asking!!!
