Disclaimer: Takahashi Rumiko-sama is the brilliant mind who has brought you Inuyasha. I'm just an aspiring fanfic writer who wants to capture what she loves with her own words.
Belonging nowhere
By miyamoto yui
Part 19 – Against all odds.
"KILL _US_ SETH!" the girl Rin arrogantly shouted at him. Seth looked at the girl that was as familiar to him as the intoxicating scent that blood gave to all youkai.
"Us…" he had thought.
Doki doki…
His heart was feeling unusually soft and nervous…
Why was he doubting his own instincts when she said 'us'? Completely losing his control of self by the minute, the psyche of Seth was taking over with the sword in his hand twitching to shut her up.
"I hate humans," he mumbled to himself and tilted his head at Rin to smirk.
"You can never hate me," she replied back to him.
It was then that Seth truly looked at Rin thinking she had completely gone mad in action. But he could see her clearly, through all the red in his eyes to kill her.
She still believed.
It was in her eyes.
For a moment, Seth blinked his own eyes.
I…
I've always hated that look of hers…
His eyes glanced at the emergency shack and he was turning around to face the multitude of people instead. Merodi slightly twitched.
"Even now, he would keep her alive and hate him?" she thought as she lifted the fan closer to her with her eyes darting towards Seth. "Why?"
Rin didn't lose her nerve. Taking one step forward, she took out something from her pocket. The fang whistle that Sesshomaru's mother had given him was her only weapon.
She began to blow it.
"I don't like being told what to do…" Seth lowered his head as he faced Rin again.
His eyes were wavering a bit from the sound that only he could hear…
He took the first step towards her and the henchman at the shed put their torches down a bit.
You stubborn woman…
Why do you believe?! This was who I was many, many years ago!! Why don't you fear me?!
Tap.
A cloud of dust rose and fell under his step as another sweatdrop fell from his face.
Even now, she doesn't fear me when she should…
After I have showed her the worst side of myself…
Tap.
"Kill her." His mind shouted and tortured him as he remembered Mari over and over. "Save the people!"
Tap.
Save Rin.
A smiling Rin came to mind with her saying, "Sesshomaru-sama!" She didn't know that whenever she shouted his name, he felt like he had finally understood the word 'home'.
Tap.
Kill Rin.
"You're not the one I am waiting for," he imagined her saying to him with vicious eyes.
Tap…
Sesshomaru shouted inside of his mind, "AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Bowing his head, sweatdrops fell to the ground and were absorbed the dirt. His face slightly grimaced.
He was holding his sword out to Rin as she saw his face darken with pain. Seth swung his sword back about to kill to her. He glanced at the glint of the sword and then smirked while looking into Rin's face.
Unchanging.
Courageous even until now…
Accepting death so willingly…
At that split second, he turned his elbow over and swung!
And he caught Rin's waist?!
Her eyes opened widely at him as she looked into his face and at the two swords grinding one another. With one leg up and leaning forward, Merodi's eyes became exceptionally small and dark as he scathingly looked at Seth.
He wasn't Seth anymore, though.
The determined and sharp eyes of Sesshomaru had returned.
"YOU!" Merodi shouted while taking out her own sword from her scabbard while holding her fan behind her.
"I made a mistake the first time because of the stupidity of youth," Sesshomaru said with a slight smile. "And I don't like doing things twice."
Rin just blinked at him in surprise as she held onto his arm. "Sesshomaru-sama?"
"BURN THE SHED!" Merodi shouted angrily to her henchmen.
Sesshomaru nodded at Rin and gave her a sincere smile while letting her go off to one side. "I'll only be a few minutes."
Rin, at seeing this, even at such a dreadful scene, giggled while trying to find a way to save the people, but without using too much of her energy.
As Rin was looking around her to run towards Kinnosuke's dwelling, a row of arrows came raining on the youkai in her way. When she turned around, Jaken was lifting his chin while sighing as he went to the henchmen. Rin went into the dwelling as Jaken said, "Wasting energy for bugs? Aww…"
The henchmen tried to attack Jaken, but he yawned as he said, "Well, I need the exercise."
Instead of using the staff to burn their heads off, he attacked all of them at once while spinning the staff. Sighing, he complimented himself while cracking his neck, "Work well done."
Sesshomaru was pushing his sword towards Merodi as she pushed her own sword towards him. The tips looked like a pair of scissors stained with a red substance. "Thought you could make me go crazy and just stay as Seth, didn't you?"
Merodi smiled. "After all, he's the one I want."
Kling! Klang!
They both jumped back a few paces from one another.
As Merodi looked around, all her men were down and Jaken was waving to spite her. The men Jaken had called to defeat the army on the way to the village had already left.
He was just waiting for Rin to come back out to get her back to safety along with the other humans.
Rin then came out of the shed. Even though she wanted to have a spar with Merodi, she winked at Sesshomaru. "Use this!"
She threw her sword to Sesshomaru. "Douzo."
That's my girl.
Sesshomaru smirked as he held both Rin's sword and Toukijin out towards Merodi.
"I never knew you could wield two swords," Merodi commented while smirking at the difficult time she was giving him.
Sarcastically, Sesshomaru remarked, "I never had a chance to."
As Rin was walking towards Jaken, Sesshomaru and Merodi continued to fight.
"I can't believe you're a fool, Sesshomaru!" Merodi laughed as she swung at him. "You would pick that _girl_ over ruling this world!"
He swung back and answered proudly and with his cool demeanor, "Who says I can't rule the fucking world?"
Merodi eyes blazed as she was about to jump and swing at Sesshomaru from above, she ran quickly to catch Rin in her arms. Pinning her to the ground, she shouted in desparation, "If it weren't for YOU!"
About to slice away the baby, Sesshomaru threw his swords to each side, and ran.
"Don't come any closer, Sesshomaru!" Merodi shouted while still holding onto Rin's wrists. "If I can't have you, I'll at least absorb the power within your unborn child!"
Rin's eyes became flustered as she struggled below Merodi.
In a blink of an eye, with his claw, he sliced through Merodi while shouting loudly, "I told you before, if you touched her, I'D KILL YOU!"
Rin and Jaken were taken slightly aback because they had never, ever heard Sesshomaru shout before. And that seemed much worse than a Seth running around…
Pushing Merodi out of the way, Sesshomaru hugged Rin, who was still on the ground. With blood splattering, Sesshomaru closed his eyes as he held her closer but blocked the blood of Merodi that was supposed to touch her. He didn't want anything disgusting tainting his treasure.
Jaken was watching avidly, making sure Merodi stayed in her place, or he would 'help' Sesshomaru-sama. But Merodi laid on the ground and turned her head towards Sesshomaru. While gasping, she asked, "Why?! Why do you love her so much, Sesshomaru? Why are you risking everything for a this _human_?!"
Sesshomaru turned his eyes towards Merodi, but was still holding onto Rin.
Rin looked at directly into Sesshomaru's profile, wanting to reach out him. She wanted to know if now, he would answer.
Then, Sesshomaru answered, "Humans want to survive."
Merodi just blinked at him not comprehending anything that he was saying, thinking he had truly gone insane because of the human he had fallen for. Her vision was failing, but she still couldn't accept the defeat.
For the first time, Merodi saw Sesshomaru's eyes soften.
Then, as her life extinguished, he finished,
"Rin understands my sorrow."
tsuzuku…
--
Author's note: Well, here's the latest chapter. I finally got back on my feet and my confidence level has gone up a few points. I know I was dragging this scene out, but I didn't want it anti-climatic. This is one of the most important scenes in the whole story, but I had to take extra care of this part even though I already had a draft at the time I wrote the last part 18. I'm sorry I'm sucky with fighting scenes though. Ahahaha.
As for this chapter, my only concern was that if this fic didn't fall into the Inuyasha facts such as if Sesshomaru loses Toukijin by the end of the series and such, but, oh well, thanks for reading! ^___^
And so…next chapter is it. ^_^ I'm very sad to see it end, but I'm happy it'll be done. Gotta get through the other multi-chapter fics.
Belonging nowhere
By miyamoto yui
Part 19 – Against all odds.
"KILL _US_ SETH!" the girl Rin arrogantly shouted at him. Seth looked at the girl that was as familiar to him as the intoxicating scent that blood gave to all youkai.
"Us…" he had thought.
Doki doki…
His heart was feeling unusually soft and nervous…
Why was he doubting his own instincts when she said 'us'? Completely losing his control of self by the minute, the psyche of Seth was taking over with the sword in his hand twitching to shut her up.
"I hate humans," he mumbled to himself and tilted his head at Rin to smirk.
"You can never hate me," she replied back to him.
It was then that Seth truly looked at Rin thinking she had completely gone mad in action. But he could see her clearly, through all the red in his eyes to kill her.
She still believed.
It was in her eyes.
For a moment, Seth blinked his own eyes.
I…
I've always hated that look of hers…
His eyes glanced at the emergency shack and he was turning around to face the multitude of people instead. Merodi slightly twitched.
"Even now, he would keep her alive and hate him?" she thought as she lifted the fan closer to her with her eyes darting towards Seth. "Why?"
Rin didn't lose her nerve. Taking one step forward, she took out something from her pocket. The fang whistle that Sesshomaru's mother had given him was her only weapon.
She began to blow it.
"I don't like being told what to do…" Seth lowered his head as he faced Rin again.
His eyes were wavering a bit from the sound that only he could hear…
He took the first step towards her and the henchman at the shed put their torches down a bit.
You stubborn woman…
Why do you believe?! This was who I was many, many years ago!! Why don't you fear me?!
Tap.
A cloud of dust rose and fell under his step as another sweatdrop fell from his face.
Even now, she doesn't fear me when she should…
After I have showed her the worst side of myself…
Tap.
"Kill her." His mind shouted and tortured him as he remembered Mari over and over. "Save the people!"
Tap.
Save Rin.
A smiling Rin came to mind with her saying, "Sesshomaru-sama!" She didn't know that whenever she shouted his name, he felt like he had finally understood the word 'home'.
Tap.
Kill Rin.
"You're not the one I am waiting for," he imagined her saying to him with vicious eyes.
Tap…
Sesshomaru shouted inside of his mind, "AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
Bowing his head, sweatdrops fell to the ground and were absorbed the dirt. His face slightly grimaced.
He was holding his sword out to Rin as she saw his face darken with pain. Seth swung his sword back about to kill to her. He glanced at the glint of the sword and then smirked while looking into Rin's face.
Unchanging.
Courageous even until now…
Accepting death so willingly…
At that split second, he turned his elbow over and swung!
And he caught Rin's waist?!
Her eyes opened widely at him as she looked into his face and at the two swords grinding one another. With one leg up and leaning forward, Merodi's eyes became exceptionally small and dark as he scathingly looked at Seth.
He wasn't Seth anymore, though.
The determined and sharp eyes of Sesshomaru had returned.
"YOU!" Merodi shouted while taking out her own sword from her scabbard while holding her fan behind her.
"I made a mistake the first time because of the stupidity of youth," Sesshomaru said with a slight smile. "And I don't like doing things twice."
Rin just blinked at him in surprise as she held onto his arm. "Sesshomaru-sama?"
"BURN THE SHED!" Merodi shouted angrily to her henchmen.
Sesshomaru nodded at Rin and gave her a sincere smile while letting her go off to one side. "I'll only be a few minutes."
Rin, at seeing this, even at such a dreadful scene, giggled while trying to find a way to save the people, but without using too much of her energy.
As Rin was looking around her to run towards Kinnosuke's dwelling, a row of arrows came raining on the youkai in her way. When she turned around, Jaken was lifting his chin while sighing as he went to the henchmen. Rin went into the dwelling as Jaken said, "Wasting energy for bugs? Aww…"
The henchmen tried to attack Jaken, but he yawned as he said, "Well, I need the exercise."
Instead of using the staff to burn their heads off, he attacked all of them at once while spinning the staff. Sighing, he complimented himself while cracking his neck, "Work well done."
Sesshomaru was pushing his sword towards Merodi as she pushed her own sword towards him. The tips looked like a pair of scissors stained with a red substance. "Thought you could make me go crazy and just stay as Seth, didn't you?"
Merodi smiled. "After all, he's the one I want."
Kling! Klang!
They both jumped back a few paces from one another.
As Merodi looked around, all her men were down and Jaken was waving to spite her. The men Jaken had called to defeat the army on the way to the village had already left.
He was just waiting for Rin to come back out to get her back to safety along with the other humans.
Rin then came out of the shed. Even though she wanted to have a spar with Merodi, she winked at Sesshomaru. "Use this!"
She threw her sword to Sesshomaru. "Douzo."
That's my girl.
Sesshomaru smirked as he held both Rin's sword and Toukijin out towards Merodi.
"I never knew you could wield two swords," Merodi commented while smirking at the difficult time she was giving him.
Sarcastically, Sesshomaru remarked, "I never had a chance to."
As Rin was walking towards Jaken, Sesshomaru and Merodi continued to fight.
"I can't believe you're a fool, Sesshomaru!" Merodi laughed as she swung at him. "You would pick that _girl_ over ruling this world!"
He swung back and answered proudly and with his cool demeanor, "Who says I can't rule the fucking world?"
Merodi eyes blazed as she was about to jump and swing at Sesshomaru from above, she ran quickly to catch Rin in her arms. Pinning her to the ground, she shouted in desparation, "If it weren't for YOU!"
About to slice away the baby, Sesshomaru threw his swords to each side, and ran.
"Don't come any closer, Sesshomaru!" Merodi shouted while still holding onto Rin's wrists. "If I can't have you, I'll at least absorb the power within your unborn child!"
Rin's eyes became flustered as she struggled below Merodi.
In a blink of an eye, with his claw, he sliced through Merodi while shouting loudly, "I told you before, if you touched her, I'D KILL YOU!"
Rin and Jaken were taken slightly aback because they had never, ever heard Sesshomaru shout before. And that seemed much worse than a Seth running around…
Pushing Merodi out of the way, Sesshomaru hugged Rin, who was still on the ground. With blood splattering, Sesshomaru closed his eyes as he held her closer but blocked the blood of Merodi that was supposed to touch her. He didn't want anything disgusting tainting his treasure.
Jaken was watching avidly, making sure Merodi stayed in her place, or he would 'help' Sesshomaru-sama. But Merodi laid on the ground and turned her head towards Sesshomaru. While gasping, she asked, "Why?! Why do you love her so much, Sesshomaru? Why are you risking everything for a this _human_?!"
Sesshomaru turned his eyes towards Merodi, but was still holding onto Rin.
Rin looked at directly into Sesshomaru's profile, wanting to reach out him. She wanted to know if now, he would answer.
Then, Sesshomaru answered, "Humans want to survive."
Merodi just blinked at him not comprehending anything that he was saying, thinking he had truly gone insane because of the human he had fallen for. Her vision was failing, but she still couldn't accept the defeat.
For the first time, Merodi saw Sesshomaru's eyes soften.
Then, as her life extinguished, he finished,
"Rin understands my sorrow."
tsuzuku…
--
Author's note: Well, here's the latest chapter. I finally got back on my feet and my confidence level has gone up a few points. I know I was dragging this scene out, but I didn't want it anti-climatic. This is one of the most important scenes in the whole story, but I had to take extra care of this part even though I already had a draft at the time I wrote the last part 18. I'm sorry I'm sucky with fighting scenes though. Ahahaha.
As for this chapter, my only concern was that if this fic didn't fall into the Inuyasha facts such as if Sesshomaru loses Toukijin by the end of the series and such, but, oh well, thanks for reading! ^___^
And so…next chapter is it. ^_^ I'm very sad to see it end, but I'm happy it'll be done. Gotta get through the other multi-chapter fics.
