Kidnapped
A/N on the bottom!
Disclaimers: Inu and gang don't belong to me.
English translations for Japanese terms:
Youkai-demon
Hanyou-half demon
And Tetsuiga is the powerful sword, also known as the steel cleaving fang.
Tensuiga is another powerful sword although not in strength it holds the power to save a hundred lives.
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Sesshomaru stepped into the poor excuse of a shelter. He was near the western borders when he picked up his brother's scent, he being accompanied by that wretch of a woman. However, today his brother smelled even more odorous than usual but there was no mistaking the stench that came off both of them, the disgusting lowly creatures. A mistake mother nature obviously made. In a world of demons there was no room for weakness or vulnerability.
His cold golden eyes searched the misshapen room, a fire lit in the middle where his brother and that girl rested. Interesting they seem to be ready to copulate. He raised an eyebrow at his brother's position with the wench. Inu Yasha had put himself in front of the girl, arm extended as if to protect her. Interesting, he wanted to shield her from danger, but no matter it was all futile against Sesshomaru.
"Inu Yasha, have I interrupted an intimate moment between you and your woman?" Sesshomaru goaded his brother, like a cat playing with it's meal. A reddening of Inu Yasha's cheeks were seen, 'the filth obviously hasn't bedded her yet, to even blush at such a trivial thing.' He mused.
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"Kagome get behind me." I say as I hear the readying footsteps approach.
"Why? What's wrong Inu Yasha?"
"Never mind, He's here." I say as the door blasted open, in stepped my brother, my enemy the one who dug his hand through my stomach, marred my face countless times and even gored my eye out once ( You can probably tell that we're pretty close).
I suddenly felt a tug at my arm, and I sigh , Kagome was now safely behind me, well, as safe as you can get with Sesshomaru in the picture.
The bastard only stared at us, he didn't say a word, and no emotions played upon his face. I knew what he wanted, what he always came for. The legendary sword, my sword, Tetsuiga, the one sword which could slay a hundred demons in a swing. He had come for the power of the fang, claiming his other sword useless and obsolete.
His gaze never left us, the way he stared at Kagome made me shiver, something was going through that sick mind of his, and whatever it was I didn't want to know.
He spoke coldly: "Inu Yasha, have I have interrupted an intimate moment between you and your woman?" I look around to see what he meant. And then I saw that Kagome and I were in a very embarrassing position, let's just say we were very close at the moment.
I felt my cheeks glow warm. "What do you want Sesshomaru, Tetsuiga's mine and I'm never gonna give it up ." I growled, adrenaline was pumping through my veins, my instincts were kicking in, fight or flight. My choice, although it wasn't very wise fighting with Kagome so close to the potential battle ground.
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"If you just handed Tetsuiga over peacefully, then you wouldn't have to die, at least not as painfully." Sesshomaru cracked his knuckles, he should've guessed that the fool wouldn't give up without a fight. Venom traveled from his poison sac to his claws. The demon markings on his hand grew larger, and the poison in his hands were so full that it dripped off his fingers.
Now his brother stood up and reaching for the precious sword at his side, and unsheathed it. But the sword did not transform. Sesshomaru paused a second and then recalled once hearing from someone that a hanyou's would lose their powers once a month, either when the moon was full or when it shifted. Tonight's moon had begun a new phase. A cruel smile crept onto his face, his brother was powerless against him. He could now practically smell the 'human' coming from him.
"What's the matter Inu Yasha, are you not going to transform Tetsuiga and fight? Or are you afraid or possibly…human." He inwardly relished the shocked look on Inu Yasha's face when he spat out the word.
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How did he know? I myself had forgotten about the day of my weakness when I turned into a human. The Tetsuiga could not reactivate with just my human blood, it needed the blood of a demon too.
Whatever, I still have my claws and my fangs. I know I can't beat him with that alone but fuck what other options did I have? This would be like a kamikaze mission I was going to be killed for sure. But wait! Kagome's arrows! She had brought it with her while crossing the snow, it was that which slowed her down. I look from Sesshomaru to her and then nodded to the arrows when I caught her eye. She nodded in response, she had understood.
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"Way ahead of you dog boy." Kagome said letting go of Inu Yasha's arm. Inu Yasha was to distract his brother and I was to get my weapons. The only problem was that my weapons were right next to where Sesshomaru was. For god's sake his whole hand started glowing green a few seconds ago, and some kind of liquid dripping off his claws burned a hole into the ground, to approach him would mean death.
"Kagome hurry up." Easy for him to say, he didn't have to get close to that killer.
"Are you attempting to distract me?" Sesshomaru rushed at Inu Yasha, his movements were a blur and in less than a second Inu Yasha was knocked onto the floor.
Ok, maybe her task was a bit easier than his. She stealthily crawled her way across the room, laying her body flat against the creaking floor. He would be sure to hear her if she was this noisy. Only a few more feet and she would reach her goal. And….Yes! She got it. Taking her bow in hand she positioned herself and the arrow and aimed carefully, she needed it to hit.
"My, my, Inu Yasha you're as slow as ever." said Sesshomaru slugging his brother in the face. Inu Yasha flew off into the air and with a sickening crack slammed into the wall. He slid limply down onto the floor with blood trailing after his head. His head received the most damage from that injury. Blood was spilling from an open wound on his head, staining his white hair a shockingly gruesome color. The blood flowed freely creating a puddle around him.
His vision was getting blurry, and the face of his opponent was going in and out of focus, who was it? Sesshomaru, Naraku or Kikyou? He couldn't tell, his eyes didn't seem to work anymore and his nose, he only smelled the blood that was coming from him. Was he injured? 'Funny, I don't feel any pain.' He tried to laugh but only blood seemed to spill from his mouth.
"Inu Yasha!" He heard someone calling his name, her voice, it sounded familiar. 'But I couldn't see her, I couldn't smell her, this person who for some reason seemed to wipe the sleep away from my eyes. I lift my head up slightly revived, and everything came into focus; Kagome was standing behind Sesshomaru with her bow and arrow raised, and Sesshomaru didn't seem to notice because he was just standing there. Even in a situation like this, the firm and worried expression on Kagome's face shocked me. She looked so much like Kikyou…
"Fwishhhhh" Kagome released her arrow and it flew straight at Sesshomaru. The arrow which could purify anything, even Naraku's dark miasma. C'mon, C'mon! It had to hit, Inu Yasha was already losing so much blood, and if it missed, well she didn't have another chance, that was the last of the arrows.
Sesshomaru had heard it, he had even seen the girl pick up her silly weapon, but he allowed it, it was all futile, their efforts, their struggles. The arrow whistled as it flew at him and the sound annoyed him, she annoyed him. Without turning around he simply plucked the arrow out of the air.
"Too slow human." he said tossing the arrow aside. He turned to face her and began to walk towards the girl, he saw her eyes grow wide with shock. Sweat mingled in with her scent. But her eyes still showed defiance, and something else. She was not cowering in fright nor begging for mercy, she was not afraid of him and it angered him.
In a flash he was right next to her, his claws ran across her neck and stopped where an artery was. He smirked, she was trembling, her fear was sparked and accumulating, he heard her quickened heartbeat and labored breathing, she was scared.
"Get away from her." Rasped the voice of Inu Yasha, somehow he had gotten up and using his sword as support managed to stand up. But it was obvious that he could not fight anymore, he left a bloody mess behind him where he treaded.
The girl was crying, he smelled the salty liquid forming in her eyes before it had actually came out, tears.
"How much would it hurt you Inu Yasha, if I were to kill your woman right here in front of you? And for you to be helpless, a bystander of her death, unable to save her. Tell me, how much would it hurt you?" He said pressing his claws against her throat. A trickle of blood came out where his claws pierced the skin.
"Get the fuck away from her!" Inu Yasha yelled, this time he stood up straight and unsheathed Tetsuiga, even if it couldn't transform, it could still cut. And he would die fighting the bastard before letting Kagome get killed. He didn't want to see another woman die because of him.
Sesshomaru expressionlessly took his hand away from Kagome's throat and licked his claws, tasting her blood. He wasn't here to kill either of them really, he couldn't. If he had, then Tetsuiga would never accept him as it's master.
After a moment of tasting and thinking he finally proclaimed "Inu Yasha, she's delicious." He smirked at his brother, enjoying the enraged expression on his face, it was amusing.
Inu Yasha stood there for a moment, seething with anger, his blood boiled. "You'll die for that Sesshomaru." Inu Yasha said. His lower lip was bleeding because he had bitten it too hard trying not to lose control. He staggered forward more determined than ever but he abruptly stopped when Sesshomaru placed his claws on Kagome's throat once more.
"Come any closer and she dies." He said, he put his other hand on her waist, tightening his hold on her.
Kagome let out a sharp gasp, she had been holding her breath when the demon put his hands on her nearly beheading her, and now he was squeezing the bejesus out of her.
"She has nothing to do with this, if you want the Tetsuiga I'll give it to you, just let her go." Inu Yasha said desperately. He was willing to give his father's heirloom in exchange for Kagome's life.
"Throw the sword here."
Using what little strength he had, Inu Yasha tossed the sword to Sesshomaru, who caught it with his other arm. Smoke came out from the sword, Tetsuiga's barrier was blocking Sesshomaru from holding it.
'So dizzy, I feel so sleepy. Inu Yasha, save me.' Kagome closed her tired eyes.
As much as the sword burned his hand, Sesshomaru withstood the pain long enough to tie the sword to his obi therefore not having the barrier of the sword directly affect him.
"Now give me Kagome." Inu Yasha said glaring at his brother.
Unbeknownst to Inu Yasha, Sesshomaru was emitting a toxic gas from his claws right when he had caught his hostage. The girl just recently passed out. But because Inu Yasha was half demon the poison didn't get to him as quickly.
"I said give her to me!" Inu Yasha yelled, he tried to move but only collapsed onto the ground in pain, not from his head but something within his body.
"What did you do to me you bastard?!" Inu Yasha screamed in rage.
"I never agreed to hand the girl over." Sesshomaru said stoically, more vapors escaped from his claws, creating something similar to a smokescreen. Taking advantage of this distraction he took the girl with him and escaped.
Inu Yasha covered his nose with his hands, for a second there he felt like he was suffocating amongst the fumes. When the smoke cleared he uncovered his nose but didn't dare breathe, the vapors were only starting to disperse. He could still see though and what he didn't see shocked him most: Kagome and his brother had both vanished, leaving only the hole in the wooden ceiling as a reminder that they were ever there at all.
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I've decided to rewrite every chapter, but I don't think I will delete the story itself, just delete the chapters that hasn't been renovated yet. I know incredibly stupid of me seeing that I didn't even finish this story yet. I don't expect to much nice or any reviews at all. But hey this would change the story, a read is recommended.
~Kokonutsu bows her head in apology.
