Intro
Been awhile...been as long while. Got sidetracked by gods know what all...but I'm back. I'm going to pick up the pace and finish this fic for you people. I promised I'd have it done, and damnit, I will.
Chapter 10
***Part 1: Healing***
Light peered into Inuyasha's chamber in Sesshomaru's castle as the sun crested over the nearby mountains. A beam flowed directly into the closed eyes of the young half demon. Slowly he stirred and rolled onto his side, slowly opening up his eyes. His first sight was Kagome, sitting at a stool right next to his bed. She had been sitting by his side since the guard brought the unconscious Inuyasha back to the castle grounds.
"K-Kagome?" Inuyasha spoke wearily, as he began to sit up in the bed. "Wha...what are you doing here?" He spoke as he leaned his head down lightly as to look into her face which was resting on the back of a chair she was sitting backwards in. She was asleep.
Inuyasha sighed lightly and yawned, lying back in the bed, looking up to the ceiling. "How did I get here...." He muttered lightly to himself, not remembering most of the night before. "I...I was taking a walk, and...I heard a voice?" He questioned himself lightly and shook his head. A light dizziness overtook him as he turned some, and stood from the bed.
He sighed some and rubbed the side of his head lightly, and looked around a bit, before looking back down to Kagome, who was beginning to stir from her sleep. "Kagome?" He poked her shoulder lightly, awaiting a response.
Kagome rolled her shoulders lightly and stretched some with a yawn, and immediately looked to the bed, where Inuyasha was no longer laying. Her eyes widened some, thinking something bad has happened, but not really knowing that her beloved Inuyasha was actually standing right behind her.
"I...Inuyasha? Inuyasha!" She looked around some, shouting out his name and stood up, turning around. She collided with Inuyasha's chest and fell back into her chair. She looked up some and saw him, and smiled lightly. "Oh...there you are, silly." She stood and hugged him tightly. "Do you really think you should be up? Maybe you should lie down for a bit longer...?" She looked to him with a bit of worry in her eyes.
"I don't see why I should..." Inuyasha spoke a little questioningly. "It's not like anything happened...right? Last I remember...I was walking through the woods...and then....it all goes blank..." He held his head with one hand lightly, while blinking his eyes a few times.
"I heard that one of Sesshomaru's guards found you out in the middle of the woods with blood all over your hands, and a large demon's body near you."
Inuyasha was trying to remember what she was talking about. Quick flashes of the battle would fly through his head, but vanish just as fast. Sighing some, he turned from Kagome and started walking to the door.
"I'm going to talk to my brother...maybe he can fill me in..." Inuyasha turned to Kagome for a moment, and then stepped out of the room.
***Part 2: The Demon Sword***
Sesshomaru walked along a rough dirt path through the forest, carrying a large object behind him. Sighing some, he looked around for a moment, and spotted a pinpoint of light in the distance.
"Ah...just what I was looking for..." He grinned some, and turned towards the light, and started walking again. Jaken followed close behind his full blooded master, along with his Staff of Heads.
"Master..." The small imp began, while resting the large staff on his shoulder. "Are you sure this Kaijinbo will accept your request? Humans should not be trusted with such important matters."
"He will accept, Jaken. Even a human knows when to agree or die." Sesshomaru spoke with complete confidence, as he drug the heavy object behind him.
"As you say, milord." Jaken nodded to his humbly, and continued following.
Some twenty minutes later, the two arrived just ten feet away from a small hut out in front of a large swamp. There were light rustling sounds coming from both the swamp and hut alike. Without hesitation, Sesshomaru walked to the hut and stepped in, throwing a large demons head on the ground; Goshinki's head.
A rather ugly human with pointed teeth and a lightly graying mustache turned to Sesshomaru, and looked at the head. "What do you want, demon?"
Sesshomaru chuckled lightly and looked to who he presumed was Kaijinbo. "You were apprentice to he who crafted the Tetsusaiga, correct?"
"Yeah, I was the gopher for that fool Totosai. Thankfully, I am now out from under his moronic tutelage. Now, what do you want with me?"
"I would like you to craft me a blade like Totosai did the Tetsusaiga. Make me a blade with this demon's teeth." Sesshomaru gestured at Goshinki's severed head.
Kaijinbo kneeled beside Goshinki's large head and looked it over. "Such power....such evil this demon possessed. it would have made a fine sword....but there is one problem. I cannot make a sword from the fangs of an already dead demon. Life must flow through the fangs, else the sword will be completely mundane."
The silver haired demon scoffed some and unsheathed the Tensaiga, driving the blade directly into the forehead of the head. Moments later, the once lifeless eyes of Goshinki's head glowed with a deep red. It was alive again.
"What?! How can this be?" Kaijinbo jumped up for a moment and looked to Goshinki's living head, then to the Tensaiga, and finally, to Sesshomaru.
"That is irrelevant. The beast is alive again. Make me the sword. I'll be back by days end." Sesshomaru turned from Kaijinbo and stepped out of the hut, where Jaken was waiting.
Inside, Kaijinbo sighed some, and began to work on the new sword.
***Part 3: Inspecting the Troops***
Inuyasha wandered through Sesshomaru's keep's hallways for several minutes before finding his way to the main hall, where most of the hallways generally led to. He walked into the large room and took a peek out one of the larger doors. There was a sight unlike any other out there.
Hundreds, even thousands, of different demons were training with one another for this war. Inuyasha was used to mindless lesser demons killing each other over nothing. Never before had he seen such a spectacle of demon camaraderie.
"What the hell is this....?" He spoke to himself in a puzzled manner, and then walked over to the open doors, taking a closer look at these training demons.
Any demon capable of holding a weapon and wearing armor was. They trained with one another as if they were actually friends. This truly puzzled Inuyasha. There were no guards apparently forcing them to train with one another. It seemed as if they were doing it out of sheer free will.
Inuyasha laughed some to himself, and turned his back from the training best, and plopped down on a nearby couch, which was lavishly made of the finest furs and the like. He leaned his head back on the arm of the chair and looked to the ceiling.
"Well, seems you're feeling better, Inuyasha." Miroku's familiar voice met Inuyasha's ears, and the young monk sat down in a chair across from Inuyasha's couch. "Gave us quite a scare, coming in a bloody like that. Kagome didn't know what to think."
Inuyasha sighed some and looked to Miroku. "I don't even remember last night...but...I'm sorry for worrying you guys. I really am." Inuyasha sat up and faced Miroku.
"Well, that's an odd change of pace. Why apologize, Inuyasha? You never apologized to anyone but Kagome in the past." Miroku looked to Inuyasha with concern. "Are you worried about this battle or something? Giving out your final words before the big day or something?"
"A lot of things are gonna change, Miroku...and if something does happen, I want to remembered as a....good person. We've been together for some time...and I'm glad to have friends like you." Inuyasha smiled some and stood up, looking up to the ceiling, and then to Miroku. "Promise me something."
"Just name it, Inuyasha." Miroku was quick to respond.
"If something does happen to me, take Kagome out of here. Send her back to her own world. I wouldn't want her here if she'd only come to mourn my death, you know?" Inuyasha stared at Miroku with concern heavy in his eyes.
Miroku smiled some and stood up. "I'll make sure of it." He nodded some to Inuyasha with a smile. "Speaking of Kagome..." He turned his head slightly as footsteps could be hears. He knew Sango was asleep, and Shippo definitely wouldn't make that kind of sound. It was obviously Kagome.
She ran up to the both of them, and started breathing heavily. "Geez, just leave me there, why don't you! I've been running around this castle forever looking for you!" She yelled some, but obviously wasn't actually angry.
Miroku laughed some and looked to Inuyasha, and nodded to them both. "Well, I'm going to go prepare some healing salves and a spell scroll or two...can never be too prepared for a war...talk to you two later." He smiled some and walked down a nearby corridor.
Kagome caught her breath and sat down on the couch, just as Inuyasha sat down beside her. She sighed some and looked to him. "Did you find Sesshomaru?"
"Nah...one of his goons said he and that imp of his went somewhere...but would be back later tonight. Guess I'll have to talk to him then." Inuyasha leaned back some, with his hands behind his head, resting.
Kagome leaned into him and smiled some. "I'm sure we're going to be ok..."
"What do you mean, Kagome?"
"I head what you and Miroku walked about. Nothing's gonna happen to you. I know it. You're gonna beat him, and it'll be like a storybook! We'll live happily ever after!" She had a gleaming grin on her face, but Inuyasha has sort of a puzzled smile.
"If you say so Kagome. If you say so." He hugged her tight, and closed his eyes, resting his weary mind.
***Part 4: Retrieval***
The sun had fallen from the sky, and moon was in clear view. Sesshomaru and Jaken were on their way back to retrieve the new sword forged of Goshinki.
As Sesshomaru and his imp companion neared the hut of Kaijinbo, it was covered in a deep red aura of darkness. Ignoring it, Sesshomaru still walked forward, but gestured that Jaken stay where he was. His imp servant did as commanded.
Sesshomaru was about to enter the hut as the swordsmith Kaijinbo burst from it; a glowing broadsword in hand. "I take it that's my sword, swordsmith?"
Kaijinbo burst into laughter and swing wildly as Sesshomaru. The smith didn't seem to know how to swing a sword however, fro he missed Sesshomaru by a longshot every time. Sighing some, Sesshomaru prepared himself to dispatch the opponent.
Holding out his claws, Sesshomaru grinned some and let out the deadly poison spray. Kaijinbo seemed helpless to move, as the poison hit him with full force. As the green mist washed over Kaijinbo's seemingly possessed body, his flesh melted off of him, leaving a tarnished skeleton with bits of flesh still hanging on. A moment later, it fell over.
"Well...that was a waste of my time." Sesshomaru sighed some and walked over to the corpse to gather up his new blade.
As he got within reaching distance of the blade, however, a hand grabbed hold of his ankle. To Sesshomaru's mild surprise, Kaijinbo's skeletal hand was the attacker. A moment later though, the skeleton was reduced to ash, seemingly unable to cling to life any longer.
"Wh...what WAS that, Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken yelled out as he ran to his master. "No-one can survive your poison claws!"
"Yes...it seems...maybe..." Sesshomaru looked to his new sword, the Tokijin, and noticed it's awful aura still remained. "Maybe the demon had possessed him...and was sustaining his body even after the attack. The skeleton alone, however, was incapable of withstanding such power."
Sesshomaru chuckled some and leaned over, picking up the sword. The crimson aura shot down the swords blade and up Sesshomaru's arm, but stopped at near the elbow point. Soon after, the aura receded back up the blade, and then vanished altogether. The Tokijin had chosen Sesshomaru as it's master.
End of Chapter 10
Well, only took me forever to get this going, and I think it turned out OK. I'm going to immediately start of chapter 11, and maybe 12 tomorrow. Hopefully this will be done soon. Sorry for the wait. I really am.
Been awhile...been as long while. Got sidetracked by gods know what all...but I'm back. I'm going to pick up the pace and finish this fic for you people. I promised I'd have it done, and damnit, I will.
Chapter 10
***Part 1: Healing***
Light peered into Inuyasha's chamber in Sesshomaru's castle as the sun crested over the nearby mountains. A beam flowed directly into the closed eyes of the young half demon. Slowly he stirred and rolled onto his side, slowly opening up his eyes. His first sight was Kagome, sitting at a stool right next to his bed. She had been sitting by his side since the guard brought the unconscious Inuyasha back to the castle grounds.
"K-Kagome?" Inuyasha spoke wearily, as he began to sit up in the bed. "Wha...what are you doing here?" He spoke as he leaned his head down lightly as to look into her face which was resting on the back of a chair she was sitting backwards in. She was asleep.
Inuyasha sighed lightly and yawned, lying back in the bed, looking up to the ceiling. "How did I get here...." He muttered lightly to himself, not remembering most of the night before. "I...I was taking a walk, and...I heard a voice?" He questioned himself lightly and shook his head. A light dizziness overtook him as he turned some, and stood from the bed.
He sighed some and rubbed the side of his head lightly, and looked around a bit, before looking back down to Kagome, who was beginning to stir from her sleep. "Kagome?" He poked her shoulder lightly, awaiting a response.
Kagome rolled her shoulders lightly and stretched some with a yawn, and immediately looked to the bed, where Inuyasha was no longer laying. Her eyes widened some, thinking something bad has happened, but not really knowing that her beloved Inuyasha was actually standing right behind her.
"I...Inuyasha? Inuyasha!" She looked around some, shouting out his name and stood up, turning around. She collided with Inuyasha's chest and fell back into her chair. She looked up some and saw him, and smiled lightly. "Oh...there you are, silly." She stood and hugged him tightly. "Do you really think you should be up? Maybe you should lie down for a bit longer...?" She looked to him with a bit of worry in her eyes.
"I don't see why I should..." Inuyasha spoke a little questioningly. "It's not like anything happened...right? Last I remember...I was walking through the woods...and then....it all goes blank..." He held his head with one hand lightly, while blinking his eyes a few times.
"I heard that one of Sesshomaru's guards found you out in the middle of the woods with blood all over your hands, and a large demon's body near you."
Inuyasha was trying to remember what she was talking about. Quick flashes of the battle would fly through his head, but vanish just as fast. Sighing some, he turned from Kagome and started walking to the door.
"I'm going to talk to my brother...maybe he can fill me in..." Inuyasha turned to Kagome for a moment, and then stepped out of the room.
***Part 2: The Demon Sword***
Sesshomaru walked along a rough dirt path through the forest, carrying a large object behind him. Sighing some, he looked around for a moment, and spotted a pinpoint of light in the distance.
"Ah...just what I was looking for..." He grinned some, and turned towards the light, and started walking again. Jaken followed close behind his full blooded master, along with his Staff of Heads.
"Master..." The small imp began, while resting the large staff on his shoulder. "Are you sure this Kaijinbo will accept your request? Humans should not be trusted with such important matters."
"He will accept, Jaken. Even a human knows when to agree or die." Sesshomaru spoke with complete confidence, as he drug the heavy object behind him.
"As you say, milord." Jaken nodded to his humbly, and continued following.
Some twenty minutes later, the two arrived just ten feet away from a small hut out in front of a large swamp. There were light rustling sounds coming from both the swamp and hut alike. Without hesitation, Sesshomaru walked to the hut and stepped in, throwing a large demons head on the ground; Goshinki's head.
A rather ugly human with pointed teeth and a lightly graying mustache turned to Sesshomaru, and looked at the head. "What do you want, demon?"
Sesshomaru chuckled lightly and looked to who he presumed was Kaijinbo. "You were apprentice to he who crafted the Tetsusaiga, correct?"
"Yeah, I was the gopher for that fool Totosai. Thankfully, I am now out from under his moronic tutelage. Now, what do you want with me?"
"I would like you to craft me a blade like Totosai did the Tetsusaiga. Make me a blade with this demon's teeth." Sesshomaru gestured at Goshinki's severed head.
Kaijinbo kneeled beside Goshinki's large head and looked it over. "Such power....such evil this demon possessed. it would have made a fine sword....but there is one problem. I cannot make a sword from the fangs of an already dead demon. Life must flow through the fangs, else the sword will be completely mundane."
The silver haired demon scoffed some and unsheathed the Tensaiga, driving the blade directly into the forehead of the head. Moments later, the once lifeless eyes of Goshinki's head glowed with a deep red. It was alive again.
"What?! How can this be?" Kaijinbo jumped up for a moment and looked to Goshinki's living head, then to the Tensaiga, and finally, to Sesshomaru.
"That is irrelevant. The beast is alive again. Make me the sword. I'll be back by days end." Sesshomaru turned from Kaijinbo and stepped out of the hut, where Jaken was waiting.
Inside, Kaijinbo sighed some, and began to work on the new sword.
***Part 3: Inspecting the Troops***
Inuyasha wandered through Sesshomaru's keep's hallways for several minutes before finding his way to the main hall, where most of the hallways generally led to. He walked into the large room and took a peek out one of the larger doors. There was a sight unlike any other out there.
Hundreds, even thousands, of different demons were training with one another for this war. Inuyasha was used to mindless lesser demons killing each other over nothing. Never before had he seen such a spectacle of demon camaraderie.
"What the hell is this....?" He spoke to himself in a puzzled manner, and then walked over to the open doors, taking a closer look at these training demons.
Any demon capable of holding a weapon and wearing armor was. They trained with one another as if they were actually friends. This truly puzzled Inuyasha. There were no guards apparently forcing them to train with one another. It seemed as if they were doing it out of sheer free will.
Inuyasha laughed some to himself, and turned his back from the training best, and plopped down on a nearby couch, which was lavishly made of the finest furs and the like. He leaned his head back on the arm of the chair and looked to the ceiling.
"Well, seems you're feeling better, Inuyasha." Miroku's familiar voice met Inuyasha's ears, and the young monk sat down in a chair across from Inuyasha's couch. "Gave us quite a scare, coming in a bloody like that. Kagome didn't know what to think."
Inuyasha sighed some and looked to Miroku. "I don't even remember last night...but...I'm sorry for worrying you guys. I really am." Inuyasha sat up and faced Miroku.
"Well, that's an odd change of pace. Why apologize, Inuyasha? You never apologized to anyone but Kagome in the past." Miroku looked to Inuyasha with concern. "Are you worried about this battle or something? Giving out your final words before the big day or something?"
"A lot of things are gonna change, Miroku...and if something does happen, I want to remembered as a....good person. We've been together for some time...and I'm glad to have friends like you." Inuyasha smiled some and stood up, looking up to the ceiling, and then to Miroku. "Promise me something."
"Just name it, Inuyasha." Miroku was quick to respond.
"If something does happen to me, take Kagome out of here. Send her back to her own world. I wouldn't want her here if she'd only come to mourn my death, you know?" Inuyasha stared at Miroku with concern heavy in his eyes.
Miroku smiled some and stood up. "I'll make sure of it." He nodded some to Inuyasha with a smile. "Speaking of Kagome..." He turned his head slightly as footsteps could be hears. He knew Sango was asleep, and Shippo definitely wouldn't make that kind of sound. It was obviously Kagome.
She ran up to the both of them, and started breathing heavily. "Geez, just leave me there, why don't you! I've been running around this castle forever looking for you!" She yelled some, but obviously wasn't actually angry.
Miroku laughed some and looked to Inuyasha, and nodded to them both. "Well, I'm going to go prepare some healing salves and a spell scroll or two...can never be too prepared for a war...talk to you two later." He smiled some and walked down a nearby corridor.
Kagome caught her breath and sat down on the couch, just as Inuyasha sat down beside her. She sighed some and looked to him. "Did you find Sesshomaru?"
"Nah...one of his goons said he and that imp of his went somewhere...but would be back later tonight. Guess I'll have to talk to him then." Inuyasha leaned back some, with his hands behind his head, resting.
Kagome leaned into him and smiled some. "I'm sure we're going to be ok..."
"What do you mean, Kagome?"
"I head what you and Miroku walked about. Nothing's gonna happen to you. I know it. You're gonna beat him, and it'll be like a storybook! We'll live happily ever after!" She had a gleaming grin on her face, but Inuyasha has sort of a puzzled smile.
"If you say so Kagome. If you say so." He hugged her tight, and closed his eyes, resting his weary mind.
***Part 4: Retrieval***
The sun had fallen from the sky, and moon was in clear view. Sesshomaru and Jaken were on their way back to retrieve the new sword forged of Goshinki.
As Sesshomaru and his imp companion neared the hut of Kaijinbo, it was covered in a deep red aura of darkness. Ignoring it, Sesshomaru still walked forward, but gestured that Jaken stay where he was. His imp servant did as commanded.
Sesshomaru was about to enter the hut as the swordsmith Kaijinbo burst from it; a glowing broadsword in hand. "I take it that's my sword, swordsmith?"
Kaijinbo burst into laughter and swing wildly as Sesshomaru. The smith didn't seem to know how to swing a sword however, fro he missed Sesshomaru by a longshot every time. Sighing some, Sesshomaru prepared himself to dispatch the opponent.
Holding out his claws, Sesshomaru grinned some and let out the deadly poison spray. Kaijinbo seemed helpless to move, as the poison hit him with full force. As the green mist washed over Kaijinbo's seemingly possessed body, his flesh melted off of him, leaving a tarnished skeleton with bits of flesh still hanging on. A moment later, it fell over.
"Well...that was a waste of my time." Sesshomaru sighed some and walked over to the corpse to gather up his new blade.
As he got within reaching distance of the blade, however, a hand grabbed hold of his ankle. To Sesshomaru's mild surprise, Kaijinbo's skeletal hand was the attacker. A moment later though, the skeleton was reduced to ash, seemingly unable to cling to life any longer.
"Wh...what WAS that, Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken yelled out as he ran to his master. "No-one can survive your poison claws!"
"Yes...it seems...maybe..." Sesshomaru looked to his new sword, the Tokijin, and noticed it's awful aura still remained. "Maybe the demon had possessed him...and was sustaining his body even after the attack. The skeleton alone, however, was incapable of withstanding such power."
Sesshomaru chuckled some and leaned over, picking up the sword. The crimson aura shot down the swords blade and up Sesshomaru's arm, but stopped at near the elbow point. Soon after, the aura receded back up the blade, and then vanished altogether. The Tokijin had chosen Sesshomaru as it's master.
End of Chapter 10
Well, only took me forever to get this going, and I think it turned out OK. I'm going to immediately start of chapter 11, and maybe 12 tomorrow. Hopefully this will be done soon. Sorry for the wait. I really am.