Chapter 24
Here we go, folks.....Kiaku has taken Inuyara with him through a rip in time....Is Inuyara really gone? You're just gonna have to read on to find out, aren't ya now? hehehehe Tonyf
"Girl, you need to get a hold of yourself. We don't know what happened to Inuyara yet. We weren't there to see it, so we don't know anything for sure. He could be dead, but he could also still be alive. Hell, he could even still be fighting, for all we know." Sesshomarai pointed out, trying to be comforting. Caring. Even COMPASSIONATE. These were traits you wouldn't find in Sesshomarai, even a couple of weeks back. Sesshomaru took notice of this, and he felt proud of Sesshomarai. Proud of his son, for the first time in his lifetime. "Teaming him up with Inuyara and Saroko was a good idea, after all. They've changed him, for the better. He might be able to do good things in his lifetime, now. Even if Inuyara can't. His life signal has disappeared from this realm. Poor girl." Sesshomaru thought to himself, glancing at the still-sobbing Saroko.
"No, Sesshomarai. Inuyara and I have been close our entire lives. We know everything about each other, things no one else could ever know. He means everything to me, and I know that he looks at me the same way. It's almost like we have a connection of some sort. I can feel it, Sesshomarai. He's.......gone." Saroko whispered, her voice shaking. Sesshomarai looked over towards his father, and saw a subtle nod. "No. Why did this have to happen to this girl? She doesn't deserve this. And Inuyara was a good man. Someone I actually could have befriended, in time." Sesshomarai thought to himself, shaking his head in disbelief. Even the rock-solid Inuyasha, not one to show his feelings, quietly sobbed as he pounded his fist against a tree. He could also sense that his son's presence had disappeared. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku were all still blissfully unaware of what had happened, and Inuyasha planned to keep it that way (for now). "Let's go." Inuyasha growled, wiping his eyes with his haori. He lead the way, as the others followed (except Saroko and Sesshomarai).
"Please, Sesshomarai. I need some time alone." Saroko pleaded, her eyes swollen from crying. "I'm not leaving you here alone, girl. Not now. When grieving, it can help to have someone there with you." Sesshomarai mumbled, blushing at how "goody-goody" he sounded. "What the hell do you care, anyways? You still would be our enemy, if you didn't want to save your own ass. You don't care about anyone but yourself!! You don't know love....You couldn't know how I feel about Inuyara; what he means to me. He's all that I ever wanted, in this life. How am I supposed to go on.....without him?" Saroko sobbed, the emotions pouring out of her. The only man she could ever love was gone, and all Saroko wanted was for death to embrace her, as well. She curled up into the fetal position, rain drenching her vulnerable body. Sesshomarai, 'cold-hearted' as he was, couldn't handle watching this anymore. Even his icy heart was tugged at by this display of grief. "Please, girl. You're going to get sick, like this." Sesshomarai whispered, trying to hold back his own emotions. He took off his robe (is that what it would be called? If not, what would you call it?), and draped it over Saroko. She looked up at him, not sure what to make of his gesture. Still, she was too distraught to put up any fight. Sesshomarai sat down next to her, both warriors COMPLETELY soaked at this point. Saroko didn't know what to do anymore, what to think. All she knew was that her entire world was torn apart, and she didn't know what reason she had to keep on living. Sesshomarai inched closer to her, wanting to comfort her. To his amazement, she actually buried her face into his shoulder, crying uncontrollably. "Shhhh. It'll be okay, Saroko. I promise, everything will turn out okay." Sesshomarai whispered, gently rubbing her head. "Did he just call me by my name?" Saroko thought, in between sobs. Shortly thereafter, the completely drained girl drifted into a restless sleep.
"It's so dark here. So empty. Where the hell am I?" Inuyara asked, as he slowly opened his eyes. "I don't know where WE are. All I know is that it's far away from everyone you care about." Kiaku rasped, his evil laughter surrounding Inuyara. "You bastard! How dare you do this? Take me back home NOW!" Inuyara yelled, jumping to his feet. "Fool. Why in the hell would I do that?" Kiaku asked. "I'll kill you myself if you don't. Very, VERY slowly." Inuyara growled, unsheathing his Tetsusaiga. Kiaku just laughed at this. "Down, boy. I'm the only company you'll have here, so you had better keep me alive. You don't want to be all alone, do you? I mean, I'm sure I could make you into my apprentice. It'll be wonderful, Inuyara. Then, when you are perfectly ready to take over for me, I'll send you back home." Kiaku explained. "No, you son of a bitch. That isn't happening. You have no intention of sending me home, and I have no intention of keeping you alive. Your reign of terror is over, monster. Taking me away from everything I love was your last act of evil." Inuyara growled. With that, he blasted a MONSTROUS shot of energy from the Tetsusaiga (using the windscar) straight at a mortified Kiaku. The blast was huge, and even Kiaku was unable to move in time. "No! What have you done, fool? You'll never get home now........" Kiaku yelled, as the blast engulfed him. "It's over." Inuyara mumbled, as he watched Kiaku turn to dust. Daylight suddenly burst into view, and Inuyara realized that he and Kiaku were in a house of some sort. The blast from the Tetsusaiga had destroyed the house, and showed Inuyara that he was somewhere very familiar. "Is that....Kaede's house?!?!?!?" Inuyara gasped, looking across the way.
"I can't believe this! I'm in the Kaede's village. There is the forest named after my father!" Inuyara exclaimed, looking towards the forest. He ran towards Kaede's house, but found no one there. In fact, no one was in the village at all. Or the forest. There wasn't even as much as a single animal or insect. "I don't get it." Inuyara muttered, looking towards the stormy sky. The rain began falling, and Inuyara could feel it pelt his skin. "This isn't all an illusion. What the hell is it, then?" Inuyara wondered. He sat on the ground for a few minutes, trying to figure things out. After a short time, impatience won out over thought. Inuyara decided to try the method that had worked so long for him and his father - hack and slash. He just began swinging his sword around, firing blasts with the windscar towards everything in site. Inuyara figured that maybe this would help him to somehow open a rip in time, similar to the way Kiaku did. After about 15 minutes, everything in the village was completely destroyed (and there was no one around to CARE). No hole in the fabric of time, though. "You'd think it would be easier to rip a hole in time, if the bastard I DESTROYED could do it." Inuyara grumbled, surveying the destruction in front of him. A bolt of lightning shot from the sky, blasting the some nearby rubble. Finally, it dawned on Inuyara. "That's it!!!!" Inuyara yelled, a huge grin on his face.
Inuyara realized that Kiaku's dark energy had drawn it's power mostly from electricity, somehow. After all, Kiaku was always generating electricity whenever he powered up. So Inuyara concluded that the electricity must have been the key to opening a hole in the fabric of time. "I'll do this!" Inuyara exclaimed, to no one in particular. He quickly set up a metal pole (hey, there was a metal pole CONVENIENTLY just lying around ) to serve as a lightning rod, and waited. After a short amount of time, the lightning finally hit the pole, and Inuyara used the Tetsusaiga to suck in the energy. "Okay, here goes!!!" He yelled, using the windscar along with the lightning to fire a HUGE blast of energy. The blast was powerful, and amazingly, it WAS enough to tear a hole in time. Inuyara noticed the hole, which was small but visible. Because he had just been taken to this time (dimension, whatever) by a rip in time, the hole that Inuyara just opened would certainly lead him back home. ( My logic for this? Well, Kiaku had just recently ripped a hole in time. Although it is difficult to figure out exactly where you will end up when ripping a hole in time, the pathway from the dimension Inuyara is currently stuck in and his home dimension is still kinda "loose", because it hasn't had a chance to COMPLETELY close yet. Get what I'm saying? If not, PM me and I'll try to explain it more thoroughly. ) Inuyara jumped through, praying all the while that he was doing this the right way. "I need to be with Saroko. Please, god.....Take me home to her." Inuyara whispered, as he floated through the hole.
That's all for this chapter......For all of you who are thinking Sesshomarai was just trying to take advantage of Saroko's grief to get into her pants - You are WRONG.....He was just showing some compassion towards her.....During his time with Inuyara and Saroko, he has softened considerably.....Believe me, I have absolutely NO plans to get Saroko and Sesshomarai together....But don't worry, Sesshomarai fans....I'll get him a girl soon....Cuz I'm nice that way........Kiaku is FINALLY dead.....Gone, disintegrated, blown up, defeated, crushed, kaput......You get the picture.....Will Inuyara get back home? You're going to have to WAIT till the next chapter, to find out....hehehehe....Oh, and PLEASE review!!!!! I'll love you all if you do!!! Tonyf
Here we go, folks.....Kiaku has taken Inuyara with him through a rip in time....Is Inuyara really gone? You're just gonna have to read on to find out, aren't ya now? hehehehe Tonyf
"Girl, you need to get a hold of yourself. We don't know what happened to Inuyara yet. We weren't there to see it, so we don't know anything for sure. He could be dead, but he could also still be alive. Hell, he could even still be fighting, for all we know." Sesshomarai pointed out, trying to be comforting. Caring. Even COMPASSIONATE. These were traits you wouldn't find in Sesshomarai, even a couple of weeks back. Sesshomaru took notice of this, and he felt proud of Sesshomarai. Proud of his son, for the first time in his lifetime. "Teaming him up with Inuyara and Saroko was a good idea, after all. They've changed him, for the better. He might be able to do good things in his lifetime, now. Even if Inuyara can't. His life signal has disappeared from this realm. Poor girl." Sesshomaru thought to himself, glancing at the still-sobbing Saroko.
"No, Sesshomarai. Inuyara and I have been close our entire lives. We know everything about each other, things no one else could ever know. He means everything to me, and I know that he looks at me the same way. It's almost like we have a connection of some sort. I can feel it, Sesshomarai. He's.......gone." Saroko whispered, her voice shaking. Sesshomarai looked over towards his father, and saw a subtle nod. "No. Why did this have to happen to this girl? She doesn't deserve this. And Inuyara was a good man. Someone I actually could have befriended, in time." Sesshomarai thought to himself, shaking his head in disbelief. Even the rock-solid Inuyasha, not one to show his feelings, quietly sobbed as he pounded his fist against a tree. He could also sense that his son's presence had disappeared. Kagome, Sango, and Miroku were all still blissfully unaware of what had happened, and Inuyasha planned to keep it that way (for now). "Let's go." Inuyasha growled, wiping his eyes with his haori. He lead the way, as the others followed (except Saroko and Sesshomarai).
"Please, Sesshomarai. I need some time alone." Saroko pleaded, her eyes swollen from crying. "I'm not leaving you here alone, girl. Not now. When grieving, it can help to have someone there with you." Sesshomarai mumbled, blushing at how "goody-goody" he sounded. "What the hell do you care, anyways? You still would be our enemy, if you didn't want to save your own ass. You don't care about anyone but yourself!! You don't know love....You couldn't know how I feel about Inuyara; what he means to me. He's all that I ever wanted, in this life. How am I supposed to go on.....without him?" Saroko sobbed, the emotions pouring out of her. The only man she could ever love was gone, and all Saroko wanted was for death to embrace her, as well. She curled up into the fetal position, rain drenching her vulnerable body. Sesshomarai, 'cold-hearted' as he was, couldn't handle watching this anymore. Even his icy heart was tugged at by this display of grief. "Please, girl. You're going to get sick, like this." Sesshomarai whispered, trying to hold back his own emotions. He took off his robe (is that what it would be called? If not, what would you call it?), and draped it over Saroko. She looked up at him, not sure what to make of his gesture. Still, she was too distraught to put up any fight. Sesshomarai sat down next to her, both warriors COMPLETELY soaked at this point. Saroko didn't know what to do anymore, what to think. All she knew was that her entire world was torn apart, and she didn't know what reason she had to keep on living. Sesshomarai inched closer to her, wanting to comfort her. To his amazement, she actually buried her face into his shoulder, crying uncontrollably. "Shhhh. It'll be okay, Saroko. I promise, everything will turn out okay." Sesshomarai whispered, gently rubbing her head. "Did he just call me by my name?" Saroko thought, in between sobs. Shortly thereafter, the completely drained girl drifted into a restless sleep.
"It's so dark here. So empty. Where the hell am I?" Inuyara asked, as he slowly opened his eyes. "I don't know where WE are. All I know is that it's far away from everyone you care about." Kiaku rasped, his evil laughter surrounding Inuyara. "You bastard! How dare you do this? Take me back home NOW!" Inuyara yelled, jumping to his feet. "Fool. Why in the hell would I do that?" Kiaku asked. "I'll kill you myself if you don't. Very, VERY slowly." Inuyara growled, unsheathing his Tetsusaiga. Kiaku just laughed at this. "Down, boy. I'm the only company you'll have here, so you had better keep me alive. You don't want to be all alone, do you? I mean, I'm sure I could make you into my apprentice. It'll be wonderful, Inuyara. Then, when you are perfectly ready to take over for me, I'll send you back home." Kiaku explained. "No, you son of a bitch. That isn't happening. You have no intention of sending me home, and I have no intention of keeping you alive. Your reign of terror is over, monster. Taking me away from everything I love was your last act of evil." Inuyara growled. With that, he blasted a MONSTROUS shot of energy from the Tetsusaiga (using the windscar) straight at a mortified Kiaku. The blast was huge, and even Kiaku was unable to move in time. "No! What have you done, fool? You'll never get home now........" Kiaku yelled, as the blast engulfed him. "It's over." Inuyara mumbled, as he watched Kiaku turn to dust. Daylight suddenly burst into view, and Inuyara realized that he and Kiaku were in a house of some sort. The blast from the Tetsusaiga had destroyed the house, and showed Inuyara that he was somewhere very familiar. "Is that....Kaede's house?!?!?!?" Inuyara gasped, looking across the way.
"I can't believe this! I'm in the Kaede's village. There is the forest named after my father!" Inuyara exclaimed, looking towards the forest. He ran towards Kaede's house, but found no one there. In fact, no one was in the village at all. Or the forest. There wasn't even as much as a single animal or insect. "I don't get it." Inuyara muttered, looking towards the stormy sky. The rain began falling, and Inuyara could feel it pelt his skin. "This isn't all an illusion. What the hell is it, then?" Inuyara wondered. He sat on the ground for a few minutes, trying to figure things out. After a short time, impatience won out over thought. Inuyara decided to try the method that had worked so long for him and his father - hack and slash. He just began swinging his sword around, firing blasts with the windscar towards everything in site. Inuyara figured that maybe this would help him to somehow open a rip in time, similar to the way Kiaku did. After about 15 minutes, everything in the village was completely destroyed (and there was no one around to CARE). No hole in the fabric of time, though. "You'd think it would be easier to rip a hole in time, if the bastard I DESTROYED could do it." Inuyara grumbled, surveying the destruction in front of him. A bolt of lightning shot from the sky, blasting the some nearby rubble. Finally, it dawned on Inuyara. "That's it!!!!" Inuyara yelled, a huge grin on his face.
Inuyara realized that Kiaku's dark energy had drawn it's power mostly from electricity, somehow. After all, Kiaku was always generating electricity whenever he powered up. So Inuyara concluded that the electricity must have been the key to opening a hole in the fabric of time. "I'll do this!" Inuyara exclaimed, to no one in particular. He quickly set up a metal pole (hey, there was a metal pole CONVENIENTLY just lying around ) to serve as a lightning rod, and waited. After a short amount of time, the lightning finally hit the pole, and Inuyara used the Tetsusaiga to suck in the energy. "Okay, here goes!!!" He yelled, using the windscar along with the lightning to fire a HUGE blast of energy. The blast was powerful, and amazingly, it WAS enough to tear a hole in time. Inuyara noticed the hole, which was small but visible. Because he had just been taken to this time (dimension, whatever) by a rip in time, the hole that Inuyara just opened would certainly lead him back home. ( My logic for this? Well, Kiaku had just recently ripped a hole in time. Although it is difficult to figure out exactly where you will end up when ripping a hole in time, the pathway from the dimension Inuyara is currently stuck in and his home dimension is still kinda "loose", because it hasn't had a chance to COMPLETELY close yet. Get what I'm saying? If not, PM me and I'll try to explain it more thoroughly. ) Inuyara jumped through, praying all the while that he was doing this the right way. "I need to be with Saroko. Please, god.....Take me home to her." Inuyara whispered, as he floated through the hole.
That's all for this chapter......For all of you who are thinking Sesshomarai was just trying to take advantage of Saroko's grief to get into her pants - You are WRONG.....He was just showing some compassion towards her.....During his time with Inuyara and Saroko, he has softened considerably.....Believe me, I have absolutely NO plans to get Saroko and Sesshomarai together....But don't worry, Sesshomarai fans....I'll get him a girl soon....Cuz I'm nice that way........Kiaku is FINALLY dead.....Gone, disintegrated, blown up, defeated, crushed, kaput......You get the picture.....Will Inuyara get back home? You're going to have to WAIT till the next chapter, to find out....hehehehe....Oh, and PLEASE review!!!!! I'll love you all if you do!!! Tonyf