Inuyasha X
Chapter 10
"Pain and suffering"
By MEGAMANX411

Zero kept staring at Sigma, silent. Sigma finally spoke up.

"Why do you continually deny your destiny Zero?" he asked.

Zero tensed his body.

"Shut up!" he replied.

Sigma continued, with a massive grin on his face.

"You do not know your purpose," he said insultingly.

Zero spat in reply to Sigma's statement.

"I don't give a damn what you say!" he shouted. "I make my own life!"

Sigma continued, unwavering.

"Your destined to follow me, Zero..." he continued.

Kagome, tired of listening to Sigma's arrogance, finally stepped forward.

"That's enough!" she shouted. S

igma cocked his brow.

"Who are you?" he asked.

Kagome stood her ground, her resolve as strong as ever.

"My name's Kagome..and I'm tired of listening to you! You're just as bad as Naraku. Cruel and evil! You tried to have Iris kill Zero! And continually try to turn the favor of the fight by using foul tricks! You're despicable!" she shouted.

Sigma sighed.

"Humans," he muttered. "You have no reason to live. You should all be destroyed for the coming age of reploids."

Inuyasha followed Kagome's lead.

"I've had enough of you!" he shouted. "Who are you to toy with people's lives?! What makes you so damn special!? You can't just think you're superior to everyone and try to control everything!!"

Zero looked to his companion, almost completely speechless.

"Inu...yasha..." was all he could force out.

Inuyasha then shifted his attention to Zero.

"Y'know Zero, I think I do know what you mean when you were talking about this guy. He's a huge pain in the ass."

Sango, being one of the more reasonable members of the group,remembered thevillain they needed to apprehend.

"What of Naraku?" she whispered.

Miroku looked back to her.

"He seems to have fled..." he exclaimed.

Sigma heard the conversation, and was annoyed at the fact they assumed he would need help.

"I have no need of his help!" he shouted.

Zero shook his head.

"You're arrogance will be your downfall!" he threatened.

Kagome followed Zero's lead.

"How do you even know Naraku is helping you?" she asked in a condescending tone.

"He's probably conspiring to betray you right now!" she warned.

Sigma shook his head.

"Fools.." he muttered.

Inuyasha clenched his fists.

"What did you say?!" he screamed.

Sigma looked at the group and rolled his eyes.

"If Naraku ever had such a though, I'd kill him then and there..." he explained. "The second the idea enters his mind, I'll know."

Zero was a bit skeptical of Sigma's claims.

"How?" he retorted. "You're not telepathic! There's no way!"

Sigma sighed heavily.

"My body is made of demons and reploids..." he began. "In exchange, I allowed Naraku to use some reploid parts to enhance his own body."

Zero's eyes widened.

"Then that means...!!" he shouted.

Sigma nodded greedily.

"That's right. If he crossed me, I'd infect him."

Zero, having his fill of conversation, rushed into battle with his saber flying.

"Then I'll kill you myself!!" he shouted at the top of his lungs.

Sigma came stopping down at Zero with reckless abandon. The group managed to get out of the way of the attack. Zero and Inuyasha leaped onto Sigma from the sides, and climbed their way up to his shoulder level. They stabbed down at his body. Sango, riding Kilala, used her boomerang from afar as Kagome used her sacred arrows and Miroku used his staff.

Sigma was getting irritated.

"I've had enough of you!" he exclaimed.

Sigma quickly grabbed Inuyasha, and batted him at Zero, knocking them both off. He swatted his hand back to hit Kilala, and knocked Sango to the ground. Sigma then tried to pound Kagome into the ground, but he didn't expect something. Zero stabbed Sigma's left leg from behind with an electric stab, and caused him to stumble. Inuyasha quickly got in to get Kagome out of harm's way.

Zero glared at Sigma.

"That's it Sigma!!" he shouted. "I'm going to defeat you! Rakuhouha!"

Zero pounded the ground with all of his might, and created a huge shockwave of energy and thrust upwards from the ground. Inuyasha noticed something at that point.

Zero's attack..is creating a wind that is connecting with the demonic wind brought by Sigma's attack! Maybe I can use... Inuyasha wondered

Inuyasha got a plan.

"Zero! Stand back!" he warned.

He then raised his Tetsusaiga high, and began to focus his power for his ultimate attack.

"Backlash Wave!"

Inuyasha leaped in the air, and swung at the point where Zero's Rakuhouha met with Sigma, creating the Backlash Wave, the Tetsusaiga's ultimate attack. The resulting attack picked up a lot of dust and debris from the ground, creating a kind of smoke screen. From the wave, pieces of demon hides and reploid parts could be seen flying.

Kagome jumped up and down happily.

"We did it!" she shouted.

And then, something happened. From within the confines of the haze, something stirred. Sigma looked at the group with a baffled look on his face.

"Pardon me for asking, but what exactly do you think you managed to do?" he asked.

Sigma appeared before them. His body was pure reploid. Much smaller, but still surging with power nonetheless.

Miroku was almost completely stunned.

"What the?" he stammered.

"A failsafe," Sigma interrupted. "Every plan has one."

Inuyasha jeered.

"Then I'll just have to destroy you in this body!"

Sigma shook his head.

"I don't think so," he replied calmly.

Sigma aimed a laser mounted on his shoulder at Sango. The blaster fired a stun round which bound her in place. Inuyasha looked back in horror as he saw his frozen ally.

"Hey!" he shouted. "Leave her out of this!!"

Sigma fired at Shippo.

Zero was becoming enraged now as well.

"He's not your enemy!!" he exclaimed. "Leave him alone!"

Sigma then fired at Miroku. And Kilala. And Iris and Kagome. Zero was practically shaking from anger.

"Damn you!" he screamed. "Stop this!!"

Zero rushed over to Sigma, but was met with his attack. Inuyasha was down soon after. Sigma had a smile on his face, which only made him appear even more vile and wicked.

"You know, I think I'll have some enjoyment with you" he teased.

Sigma stood in front of Inuyasha and Zero with a malicious smile on his face. He walked over, bent down, and picked up Kagome. He slung her over his shoulder. He then walked over, and picked up Iris, and did the same. He placed them a little ways in front of Inuyasha and Zero.

Zero gritted his teeth angrily.

"What are you doing?!" he asked fervently. "Stop!!"

Sigma then placed Sango, Shippo, Kilala, and Miroku by Inuyasha and Zero. Sigma nodded to the group.

"You all need to watch", he explained.

Sigma threw Kagome and Iris to the ground with a hard thump.

Inuyasha looked at Sigma with rage.

"You bastard!" he shouted. "Leave them alone!!"

Sigma shrugged.

"Sure."

Sigma kicked Kagome hard in the stomach. She moaned in pain from the attack, trying to clench her stomach with her hands, but unable to do some from the stun effect of his weapon. Sigma kicked again. Kagome spat up a little blood from the injury, and was tearing from the massive pain.

Inuyasha was going absolutely wild.

"Stop it!!!" he screamed.

Sigma merely shrugged again.

"Alright."

Sigma then bent down and picked up Iris. Zero wasn't willing to let anything happen to Iris. He needed to do something, anything, even if was as useless as making threats.

"If you harm her...I'm gonna...!" he threatened.

Sigma looked at Zero curiously.

"Gonna what?" he asked. "If I do this?"

Sigma grabbed Iris by the throat, and raised her into the air. Zero could see Iris struggling against Sigma's crushing grip. With his other arm, he started crushing her left arm. Zero could hear and see her arm giving way to the crushing weight of Sigma's clenching fist.

"Leave her alone!!" Zero screamed.

Sigma only tightened his grip. Iris' arm was about to come completely off. But then he stopped. Zero sighed heavily. However, Sigma wasn't done. He grabbed the other arm.

Zero tensed his body, trying to move.

"Stop!!" he screamed. "You bastard, stop!"

Sigma threw Iris down to the ground hard. He kicked her hard with his right foot. He then looked back at Kagome.

"Don't think I've forgotten about you," he said.

Sigma started stepping on her hand. Inuyasha could hear the sound of the bones in her hand crushing.

Inuyasha was going insane from rage.

"God damn you!!" he shouted.

Sigma stopped what he was doing to Kagome, and then shifted his gaze back to Iris. He kicked Iris again, hard in the side of the face. Zero couldn't stand the sight anymore.

"I'll kill you, you bastard!" was all he could say.

Sigma just smiled.