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AN: Uh… I didn't really make the Rin/Sesshomaru thing really obvious, did I?
Well, I'm pretty sure that the couple wouldn't be doing anything too fast, and
just be a really slow kind of a thing, you know? But that one chapter where I
first introduced Yasuo, the one that was all Sesshomaru and Rin, That was when
they became mates. And mates in here don't mean that they are, you know…
official, okay? I'm using it for a lack of better words ^^ I really want to
stay away from the words 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' here. Oh, and thanks for
the reviews!! I forgot to mention last time but I've made it past fifty!! ^^
Icari
Chapter 26
Inuyasha woke up to see Sesshomaru
looming over him, eyeing him curiously. His brain slowly began to process the
events earlier on, and his hand went up to his waist, feeling for Tetsusaiga.
It was still there. He opened his mouth to ask his brother.
"Duh?" Sesshomaru looked down at
Inuyasha, wondering why he had come up with that idiotic syllable. In the end,
he reached down and tried to pull the boy up, but noticed as his head slumped
abruptly before shooting up. He was drifting in and out of consciousness.
"What the hell did you do to get so
tired?" Inuyasha fell back down with a thud, and Sesshomaru went to check the
other men. The water demon who was infatuated with this sister was getting up,
but the monk was still sound asleep. Shippo had fallen unconscious when
Sesshomaru had knocked him out for crying, and Jaken busied himself with
finding firewood.
"Sesshomaru." The demon turned to face
his brother, who was staring at the starry sky. "I- it really happened, didn't
it? It wasn't a nightmare…" Sesshomaru nodded his head and the hanyou groaned.
"Why did you help me?"
"We're alone now. We have to work
together." Sesshomaru answered with a scowl. Inuyasha smirked at his sister's
words, and turned his head to his brother. A shiver took over his body before
patches of darkness appeared in his vision. He closed his eyes in an attempt to
save energy.
"Funny, isn't it? All that time, Father
and Icari tried everything to tell us that, but we only learn when they're
gone. What took so long?" Inuyasha opened his eyes, only a bit startled when
Sesshomaru appeared in front of him, leaning against a tree nearby.
"Responsibility. We never were
responsible for anything but empty promises." For a moment, it looked like they
were going to actually talk, be the youkai's eyes flashed with realization, and
he turned to the hanyou.
"What did they take? Besides the women?"
The words were unexpected, and Inuyasha started.
"The talismans. But, does that mean…?"
They both stood, Inuyasha ignoring the throbbing in his head, which quickly
healed anyways. Yasuo from nearer the fire looked at them as they came up.
"Naraku… he knows how to use the
talismans, or else he wouldn't of taken them." Inuyasha gathered the kitsune
and knocked over the pile of firewood as he went to Miroku. "Kirara!" The large
cat demon emerged from the trees, already transformed. Inuyasha placed the two
unconscious people on her back.
"Take them away, to Keade's, safely.
When they wake up, if they want to come, just follow our scents to where we
are." After making sure the two wouldn't fall off, the hanyou jumped off, only
to find that the fire was already out, and Sesshomaru was waiting for him, with
Jaken on the dragon.
"Let's go." Yasuo emerged from the
bushes also, and swung the bags up on Kirara before joining the group not so
far away. They nodded and turned, following the scents of their mates.
*~*~*~*~*
Kagome, Rin, Sango and Icari were
thrown into the room carelessly. The three humans writhed in their bonds as
their hit the down, pain shooting throughout their bodies. Icari landed rather
elegantly on her feet, though lost her balance quickly and fell to her knees.
All four were gagged, although Icari's was already chewed, and it wouldn't be
long before she got through with her fangs.
'Never could go down without a fight.'
She thought to herself as she slid into a more comfortable spot on the ground.
It had been difficult to tie her up, too, before, but he was weakened by
several well-placed punches.
"Got it!" All looked at her as the brown
rag fell from her mouth, and she hopped forward, on her knees, towards Sango,
the closest to her. "Hold still while I chew through your ropes."
The demon exterminator looked at her
skeptically, but Icari simply opened her mouth to show off her fangs, which
were glowing faintly, rather bright against the moonlight streaming down from a
far window.
"The boys had deadly claws, I've got
killer fangs." She grinned before her head disappeared behind Sango's back, and
a few moments later, Sango's arms sprung free before going up to untie the rag
around her mouth.
"It's good to be free." She sighed as
Rin's hands sprang free too. They went to help out Icari as her acids burned
through Kagome's bonds, and soon they were all free, besides the ones at their
feet. Those were done easily enough.
"Icari, can you control those fangs of
yours?" She scoffed and nodded towards Rin.
"Of course, why do you ask?" She
fidgeted, as if trying to his something, before making it seem like she was
stretching. The youkai eyed the young woman curiously.
"Oh, nothing… why didn't you use them
for the rag?" she scoffed again, never sounding any more like her two brothers.
"And accidentally get acid all over my
mouth? Then I'd be handicapped, and then I couldn't help you." Rin nodded, and
looked at the door, their only way out. The window, though close, was way too
small for all of them, being a mere tiny square. Icari had also already tried
breaking the walls, but that only led them to be tied down for the rest of
their trip. It hadn't even left a scratch though.
"Hey, anyone have any idea why we're
here? And why the baboon wants the talismans? I thought they were a puzzle
pieces, and needed Tetsusaiga, Tenseiga, Tensinshi and Tekaiga or something…"
"Icari, we're all a bit annoyed and
confused, but I have the feeling that… everything will work out in time."
Icari, Rin, and Sango all looked at Kagome, who was fiddling with the jewel
around her neck, and staring into it. Odd how it was intact, and that Naraku
hadn't taken it yet… but Kagome's behavior was a bit scary too.
"What makes you say that?" Sango looked
curiously at her long-time friend, not know what was making her at so
strangely. She had almost a dreamy look
on her face, a blank look. And blank eyes. "Kagome!" Hands flew to shake her
friends, and a fiendish laughter came from outside. Kagura's.
"My, that was fun. But for now, Naraku
has come to speak with you." The door opened, and Kagura, Kanna,
and Naraku all stood there, close enough to touch each other. Somehow, they
figured, they had managed to combine powers to allow them to control Kagome.
"Ladies." All eyes turned to him, then
to his hand wear the three talismans he had stolen were held by two fingers
each, fitting right into the bit of skin from one finger to the next. He
grinned through his baboon pelt.
"It's a shame that I didn't get the last
one, though it will be satisfying when I do, from Sesshomaru's carcass." Icari
growled, and stood in a fighting stance. However, Naraku's smirk grew and he
held the talismans onto his other arm, as if to place them there. They melted
into his body. "Stupid children; never could figure out how to do anything
without me."
His arm extended to face his palm at
Icari, and a purplish-green ball of light collected at his hands. It grew,
becoming laced with red all over, before it flew from Naraku's open palm and
narrowly missed the dog demoness, who had just jumped
out of the way. Naraku's evil laughed came loudly out of his throat.
"And that's not all these talismans
allow me to do." A green, ghostly whipped materialized from his palm, and Icari
immediately recognized the aura that surrounded her own sword. The dark demon
lifted the ghostly figure above his head, ready to strike down on Sango and
Kagome.
"Watch out!" Both girls were pushed out
of the way by her, and the whip crashed into the ground, hitting a bit of moss.
The green stuff grew, until it was at least twelve times older than before.
They watched as the green whip retracted, and a red one took its place. Tetsusaiga.
"Now!" a floral/black ball rushed
through a small hole in the three demons in front of them as Rin's earlier
cries echoed the walls. They turned in shock, Letting Icari pounce over them
with Kagome, and kept them down long enough for Sango to run through the door.
All three ran down the halls before finding themselves lost, in a place hey had
no sense of direction in.
Kagura made to run after them, but
Naraku's hand stopped her. She looked at him questionably.
"The hanyou and youkai princes are
coming this way, Master, and should arrive soon." Kanna
watched the mirror in her normal, emotionless mask as Naraku nodded.
"The wenches have done their part; they
are leading the brothers here. We will kill them afterwards." Kagura nodded
solemnly, though wishing she could run. Right now, her freedom was still under
Naraku's grasp, and she wanted bloodshed to help heal her misery.
*~*~*~*~*
"We're close." Sesshomaru informed him,
making Inuyasha give him a quick look.
"I can smell it too, you know."
Sesshomaru grunted as they kept on running through the forests, searching for
their lost ones. Yasuo was overhead, traveling through the clouds as a mere
wisp of air. Inuyasha noted how lucky he was that it wasn't Kagome's time; and 'air-o-plan'
could've shred him to pieces by now.
"Inuyasha, pay attention!" A clawed hand
grabbed the side of his haori pulled Inuyasha away from the path that led into
a tree. Instead of putting him down, though, Sesshomaru hefted the hanyou onto
his back and continued to run, only a little faster.
'He'd been running slow
so that I could keep up.' Inuyasha thought, bewildered. For the first time,
Inuyasha realized just how different things would be from now on, now that
things were actually going as their family had hoped.
"Stay awake; I don't want to have to
drag your dead ass to your mate if we get attacked." Ah, maybe he was nicer,
but he was still hesitant on actually calling by name. He had been addressing
him lees and less lately…
*~*~*~*~*
Yep, end of another chapter! I really wanted to thank everyone who's been
telling me not to worry about my updates, and assuring me that my chapters didn't
turn out as bad as I had thought (I'm a bit tough on myself. Probably not healthy,
but…) Thanks again for all the lovely reviews! I wonder if I'll hit 100 before
the end? Meh, thanks again!!!!
(I'm really grateful)