Beautiful Curse Payback

Chapter 14

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Again he crouched in the bushes and looked on the group. "InuYasha?" he whispered. He thought about the step-father who always showed him love no matter what. 'Maybe he'll still love me,' he thought.

"You don't need him anymore, you have your real father again. His blood gave you life, not the hanyou's," a voice whispered into his ears. He turned, but no one was there.

'It's right though. I have my dad again. And soon I'll be with my mom too,' he thought. He watched the youkai rock her baby. 'How do I kill it?'

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Ryu sharpened the tips of his arrows as he sat talking with Shido. "When I get home I'm going to ask to be homeschooled," he told the human.

"Why?" Shido asked as he slipped his stone over the tip.

"Because I don't ever want to leave my mom again. And when she finds out about...Chiann...she'll be heartbroken," he choked on his sisters name, almost like he didn't believe that it had been his sister who died. "Mom always was worried about us being killed by a car or kidnapped. I don't think she ever thought that we would die by our own brother."

"I know Dev and you fight much, but why did he...?" Shido finally asked the question everyone had been trying to avoid.

"He should have killed me instead. I should have been protecting her!" Ryu felt the tears start to fall again. He cried, and was happy when no one came over to comfort him. Shido just sighed as he watched his friend cry.

Kat looked over at the child crying. She sighed and rocked her baby as Camren slept. She looked over at InuYasha as he also just looked over at his son. He seemed to be fighting a battle inside himself. Should he stand and comfort him, or let the boy to his sorrow? He slumped his shoulders and looked at the ground. Miha poked the fire, and didn't even acknowledge that the hanyou child was sobbing. She seemed emotionless as she turned the logs over.

"Ryu, you couldn't have done anything," a deep voice said. They all turned and saw once again Sesshomaru come through the foilege.

"Uncle Sesshomaru?" Ryu sniffled out. The youkai didn't move. His non-expression face looked down at the small hanyou. "What are you doing here?"

He turned away from the boy and looked at his younger half-brother, "Just as I promised."

InuYasha stood, "Good. Did you find them?"

The two brothers came towards eachother. InuYasha stayed back a little to show respect, as he knew he should or get into a long fight with the older youkai. "I found Dev."

"Where is he?" InuYasha asked. Ryu and Shido came running to stand at InuYasha's side. They all looked expectantly at the white haired youkai.

"Here."

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Dev gasped when he heard Sesshomaru give away his position. 'Damn him!' he yelled in his mind. He still didn't move though, hoping that the man was just trying to lure him out. He could hear InuYasha ask his brother what he ment.

"He's hiding here. His father gave him another mission. I heard it all," Sesshomaru explained.

"His father's dead," InuYasha told him.

"No, I know who I heard," Sesshomaru informed. InuYasha thought about this information. He couldn't think how it could have been possible.

"How did you hear it Uncle?" Ryu asked. He looked up at the tall man.

"Don't ask again," Sesshomaru told the bou coldly. "I can't tell you."

"Okay, then what is the mission?" Kat asked. She had joined the group that now was all infront of Sesshomaru.

He looked right at her and said, "He's to kill a youkai. That's why I'm here."

Kat pulled Camren closer to her as he started to scan the bushes. Sesshomaru watched her, "He now has more choices."

Kat nodded her thanks. InuYasha looked around the bushes too, "Dev! Come out here now!"

Dev sat back. He wasn't going to come out there for him. 'He's not my father,' he told himself as an excuse.

Ryu looked around too, and started to walk the circle of bushes around the small clearing. "Dev?" he called out tentivly. "Dev, please come out. I can't loose another sibling."

Dev could feel his hear ache for the boy, but his dad told him to do something. And he really wanted to get back home. His brother called out for him again. Dev fought his feelings, but was loosing badly. 'No! I'm not coming out!' he told himself.

Just as he was about to loose and come out of his hiding spot, a demon attacked. He watched from the bush, and held his breath.

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The demon was overly large, with red eyes and swords for teeth. He didn't say anything as he attacked the small band. Sesshomaru brought out his whip and attacked the demon as it tried to eat Shido. Shido fell back and hit his head on a rock. His world went black. "Shido!" InuYasha yelled as he went to the falled boy.

"InuYasha, watch out!" Kat screamed as another demon came out of the tree line and went right for the hanyou's back. InuYasha turned just in time to see the demon. He used his quick reflexes to grab the human boy and jump out of the way. He looked and twisted himself in the air just in time to land on a branch. Kat sighed as she watched everything happen in faster then life speed. Her adrenaline started to pump as she brought Camren to her back, where he held on tightly. He watched without any emotions to the events happening. She ran into the thick of the battle.

Miha also started to fight the two large demons, but more started to show up. It was a demon hoard in only a few minutes. She stood next to Ryu as he also brought out arrow after arrow towards the demons. He made sure to miss his friends and family members as he attacked back. "Miha!" he yelled as another demon came out of nowhere and attacked the miko. She turned around and let an arrow fly into the demons arm, cutting it off totally. It screamed and came down upon her. Just as she was about to be eaten, Ryu let an arrow go. It flew right into the demons heart. "YES!" Ryu screamed.

Miha started fighting other demons again, helping out Kat from behind. They attacked two demons, watching eachothers back.

They all missed the human teenager coming out from the bushes. He walked with a purpose past everyone who battled to where the youkai female stood. He pulled a small dagger out from his pocket and raised it into the air. 'I'm sorry,' he said in his mind as he brought it down. An unnatural scream tore through the battle. Blood came from the back of the youkai, or at least that's what Dev thought. He heard crying, but it wasn't from the youkai female. He stepped back as Miha killed the demon infront of her and turned around to see Kat bringing the bundle that had lain across her back.

"No!" Kat screamed as she brought the cover from the cloth pack and saw Camren laying motionless in the bag. She turned and looked right at the human who had stabbed her child. Anger and madness filled her as Miha took the baby and brought him away from the enraged mother. "Dev...why him?"

Dev didn't say anything as he looked shockingly at the bleeding baby. He came out of the shock and stared at Kat. Without any words he attacked her and brought the knife down into her shoulder. "I ment to get you," he whispered to her when the dagger came through her shoulder and hit her heart. Her eyes widened as she relized she was going to die. She fell to the ground, right next to her child. Miha stared at both the mother and son. Dev tore the silver dagger out of the youkai and stabbed the miko right in the heart. "No witnesses."

InuYasha, with Shido still in his arms, Sesshomaru, and Ryu came running from where they had been battling the lesser demons. "Dev!" they all screamed out, except the still out Shido.

Dev turned and started to back up. He didn't want to get caught, but he really wanted to stay with his family. He stumbled and landed on the ground. He tried hard to get up in time, but InuYasha grabbed the front of his shirt. The hanyou picked the boy up and held onto him roughly. "What are you doing?" InuYasha yelled at the boy.

"Let me go InuYasha!" Dev yelled out. "Let me go!"

InuYasha was taken aback. Dev had always preferred to call him "father" or "dad." The hanyou's heart was tearing, but he knew it had to have been Ashi who told Dev to act like this. "Dev, stop it now! Do you know what your mother is going to say to this?"

Dev stopped struggling. He looked past the group standing infront of him and said, "Father." InuYasha knew he wasn't talking about him and he turned around to see the man he had killed years ago.

"InuYasha, you look like you've seen a ghost!" Ashi laughed. He brought his arms out and Dev struggled away from InuYasha to become embraced in them. Dev held the man close like a child afraid of the dark. "See, he loves me still. Your lies didn't work, hanyou."

"Lies?! I have never lied to my children!" InuYasha growled. He balled his fists at his side as once again he felt the urge to tear the man to pieces.

"Right. Even now you lie, and you know it," Ashi looked away from the raging hanyou to the little boy by his side. "Ryu. Do you love your brother?"

Ryu stepped forward. His face emotionless. "Yes."

"Then kill him," Ashi told the small boy.

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Thanks To: Elyndewen Startree, Elendil Star-Lover, Sailor Black 666, chickt56, mattielover, Trinity-33, kasia matsubishi, Serena63083, Inu22, Airen2, coolwolf22, LC WOLF, and CynicalSpiritValea

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A/N: I'm sorry this is out late. I worked really late on Thursdays and on Fridays. I sleep inbetween. Hopefully I will now just up-date on Wed. Okay? I hope so. So, new up-date day is Wed. until further notice...or until I get a new job.

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