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Chapter 5: Massacre
"Lord Sesshomaru has changed so much. He longer tries to kill his half brother and he now has a family which he protects. Things were so much simpler when it was just me and Lord Sesshomaru." Jakken said as kicked a rock from his path.
"Do you wish for things to return to the way it was before that human child began to follow your Lord?" a woman's voice asked him.
"Who are you?" Jakken asked her as he held his staff, ready to attack her.
"A person that wishes to make your wish come true." she replied.
"How can you make my wish come true?"
"If they were all dead, Lord Sesshomaru would go back to the way he was before."
"Kill Lady Kagura and the children? I will not be responsible for their deaths." Jakken told her.
"Of course not, Inu-Yasha will be the one that will be blamed." she said.
"Inu-Yasha?" Jakken began to think about this offer. "What do you want me to do?" he finally asked. The woman smirked as she looked at Jakken.
Inside the castle, Kanna's magic was not working to revive Ketsuzen. "I do not know why this is happening, my magic should work." Kanna said as she threw out another flower of light. "Soon I will have no more flowers of light."
"This child's life force needs a plant stronger than the flower of light." a young woman appeared in the room.
"Who are you?" Kanna asked her, and then she recognized her aura. "Kaminari, you cannot mask yourself from me." Kanna told her.
"How foolish of me. I should have known the great Kanna could tell who I was despite the fact that I changed my face." Kaminari said as she stepped closer.
"Kaminari, I know why you have come here, and I also know that you will not succeed." Kanna warned her.
"So now you can see into the future?" Kaminari asked as she stepped up to Kanna and placed a dagger at her throat.
"I know Lord Sesshomaru will not allow you to hurt his children or my sister." Kanna said.
"But you he does not care for." Kaminari laughed as the slit Kanna's throat. "Your being alive was only taking energy from my son. Soon all Naraku's incarnations will be destroyed and my son will become too strong for even Sesshomaru to stop him." Kaminari thought as she stepped back into the shadows.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" Jakken walked into the room and was surprised to find Inu-Yasha was still there.
"What is it, Jakken?" he asked.
"I saw a strange woman wondering through the garden near the lake." he told him.
"I will go at once." Sesshomaru said as he stood up and walked out of the room.
"What are you still doing here?" Jakken snapped at Inu-Yasha.
"That's none of your business." Inu-Yasha said.
"Since you will be here for awhile, would you like something to drink?" Jakken asked.
"No."
"You must be getting thirsty. You have been here awhile. I will go fetch some water for you." Jakken said as he ran out of the room. "He will pay for his rudeness." Jakken thought as he poured a small vile of poison into Inu-Yasha's cup. "Here you are. A fresh cup of water." Jakken handed the cut to Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha gave him a weird look, and then took a sip of the water. "Are you alright, Inu-Yasha? You do not look well." Jakken asked him as he dropped the cut on the floor.
"Something's... wrong..." Inu-Yasha said as he passed out.
"Good, now that woman better do her part." Jakken thought as he cleaned up the cup and spilled water.
Upstairs Rin was tending to Sanyu and the twins. Tsuta had heard the sound of the cup shattering, so she left to investigate the noise. "Is Inu-Yasha asleep? No, something is wrong with him." Tsuta said as she stepped towards him.
"Tsuta... the first born of Sesshomaru and Kagura. It is nice to see you again." Kaminari stepped out of the shadows and towards the young girl.
"Kaminari! What are you doing here?" Tsuta asked her.
"Someone wishes for your death, as well as the death of your brother and sisters. I have come to grant their wish." she said as she pulled out the same dagger she had used to kill Kanna.
"That dagger smells of Kanna's blood, what have you done to her!?" Tsuta screamed.
"Do not worry; you will be with her soon." Kaminari lunged at Tsuta. Tsuta tried to dodge the attack, but she wasn't fast enough. The dagger was plunged into Tsuta's chest and she fell to the ground. "Jakken, I have killed her, now do as I instructed early. Cover Inu-Yasha's hands in her blood." Kaminari said as she turned and walked out of the room. Jakken slowly walked up to Tsuta's body with a cloth.
"What have I done?" Jakken asked himself as he looked down onto her face.
"Jakken!" Tsuta still have a little life left in her. "How... could... you... betray... my father?" Tsuta asked him with her last breath.
"I will die for this." Jakken said as he soaked some of her blood into the cloth and then rung it out onto Inu-Yasha's hands. As he finished, he heard the screaming of Rin and the children.
"Kaminari, leave them alone!" Rin screamed as she lunged at Kaminari with her katana.
"You foolish human. Do you really believe you can stop me?" Kaminari laughed as she threw Rin across the room, knocking her out. While Rin was trying to stop Kaminari, Kage had picked up Sanyu and ran out of the room with her. Kaze stayed behind to slow Kaminari down. "Get out of my way boy." Kaminari told him.
"I will not let you hurt my sisters." Kaze said as he seemed to control the wind around her with his hands. He thrust his hands out before him and Kaminari was pushed back into a wall by wind.
"Child! You cannot defeat me!" she screamed as she threw the dagger at him, hitting him in the chest. "Now for that girl." Kaminari pulled the dagger from Kaze's body and walked over to Rin, who was still unconscious. "Die!" Kaminari stabbed Rin in the heart and blood flew everywhere. "Jakken, the two girls ran off, but I finished off this young woman and the son. Do with them as you did with Tsuta." Kaminari commanded him as he stuck his head around the corner. Jakken quickly soaked up their blood with the cloth and ran back down stairs to the room Inu-Yasha was in and let the blood drip onto his hands.
Meanwhile Kaminari had left the room to look for Kage and Sanyu. "Where did they go?" Kaminari asked herself as she wondered through the castle.
"They are safe from you." Kagura appeared before Kaminari as she rounded a corner.
"So you are awake? You slept through the deaths of two of your children, but you woke up in enough time to try and save your last daughters?" Kaminari laughed.
"You will pay for what you did to my children!" Kagura yelled as she began her attack.
Kage and Sanyu had run into Kagura's chambers, waking her up. She had told them to stay there. Kage quickly hid her sister, and then ran over to her mother's balcony to look for Sesshomaru. "Where is he?" Kage asked as she searched the courtyard below, and then strained her eyes to see if he was by the river that passed through the garden. "Father!" Kage yelled at the top of her lungs for her father. Because Sesshomaru had great hearing, he heard her screams and began to run to get back to the castle.
"Sesshomaru is coming. I must get to the two girls." Kaminari said as Jakken soaked up some of Kagura's blood and ran back down stairs. "In here!" Kaminari through open Kagura's door and found Kage standing at the window. "Where is your sister?" Kaminari asked Kage.
"I will never tell you." Kage said.
"Then you will die." Kaminari threw the dagger and it hit Kage in the center of her forehead. Her blood dripped down from the crescent moon in the center of her forehead. "Damn. Sesshomaru is back. I do not have time to find the youngest child. Oh well, I have done enough damage for one day." Kaminari laughed as she disappeared into the shadows yet again.
Sesshomaru hadn't even noticed the scent of blood all over the place as he ran to Kagura's chambers, but on the way he found Kagura's body. "Kagura!" Sesshomaru ran to her side, but she was already dead. "I will kill who ever did this to you." Sesshomaru said, and then he remembered Kage at Kagura's window. He laid Kagura back down and ran to her chambers, only to find Kage on the floor, dead. "No!" Sesshomaru ran over to Kage and picked her up and laid her back down on Kagura's bed. Then he heard crying coming from the closet. When he opened the door, he saw Sanyu huddled on the floor, behind Kagura's kimonos. "Sanyu..." Sesshomaru picked her up and held her close to him as she began to cry. "Where are the others?" Sesshomaru thought to himself as he walked out of the room and down the hall to the children's rooms. As he reached the door, he found Kaze's bloody body on the floor. On the other side of the room was Rin's lifeless body. Sesshomaru turned away from the bloody room and began to walk down the stairs, only to find his eldest daughter's body on the floor, before Inu-Yasha, who had just come to. "Inu-Yasha! You killed my family!" Sesshomaru sat Sanyu down and charged at Inu-Yasha.
"Sesshomaru... I didn't kill anyone." Inu-Yasha tried to tell him, but Sesshomaru wouldn't listen to him.
"I can smell their blood all over you hands! You are covered in my children's blood." Sesshomaru pinned Inu-Yasha against a wall while he held onto his neck. "Now I will go to the slayer village and slay everyone there. You will know this pain I now feel." Sesshomaru said as he hit his brother, knocking him unconscious. Then Sesshomaru walked back over to Sanyu and picked her up. "I will make Inu-Yasha pay for what he has done to me." Sesshomaru said as he began to walk out of the castle. As Sesshomaru reached the door, he smelt Kanna's blood. "Kanna is dead as well? I did not smell her blood on Inu-Yasha." Sesshomaru turned and began to long walk down Kanna's hallway and slowly opened her door. There, on the floor, was Kanna's lifeless body. "I believe someone else is to blame for Kanna's death." Sesshomaru said, and then he smelt it. "Kaminari was here." Sesshomaru finally picked up on her scent. Maybe it was because it was Kanna's room and no one else was ever in there that he could pick up Kaminari's scent now. "She is the one responsible." Sesshomaru said as he carried Sanyu back into the great hall, where Tsuta's body was, along with an unconscious Inu-Yasha.
When Inu-Yasha woke up, Sesshomaru was sitting there, watching Sanyu play. "Sesshomaru... if you hurt anyone in..." he began to say.
"Calm yourself. I did not hurt your family."
"Sesshomaru... I didn't kill Kagura or your children. All I remember was Jakken giving me a cup of water, and then I passed out." Inu-Yasha explained.
"Jakken has been missing for some time. I noticed the scent of Kanna's blood..." Sesshomaru tried to tell Inu-Yasha, but Inu-Yasha interrupted.
"Kanna is dead? What about Ketsuzen?"
"Without Kanna your son will not return to life." Sesshomaru told him.
"Who killed her? I'll help you destroy them." Inu-Yasha offered.
"I will be the one to destroy Kaminari. Her scent was all around Kanna's body. She must have been the one to kill my family." Sesshomaru said.
"Everyone's dead?"
"All except Sanyu, my youngest daughter. Kage must have hid her away in Kagura's room so that Kaminari could not find her. If Kage had not hidden her, Sanyu would be dead with the rest of my children." Sesshomaru said. Inu-Yasha didn't know what to say. He had only lost a son, not his whole family. At least he still had Kagome, but Sesshomaru lost Kagura, so he would never have another child. "You should return to your village. Kaminari was here, but Naraku's offspring was not. He might have gone to your village." Sesshomaru told his brother.
"Right." Inu-Yasha turned to leave.
"Inu-Yasha..., take Sanyu with you. I am going after Kaminari and she will not be safe with me." Sesshomaru asked his brother.
"Of course." Inu-Yasha took the small girl into his arms and walked out of the castle.
"Jakken!" Sesshomaru yelled for the small demon and he came running into the room.
"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru?"
"Where have you been?"
"Outside, looking for you, my Lord. I saw Inu-Yasha go crazy and kill the children and Kagura." Jakken told him.
"How did you escape him?"
"He did not see me run from the castle to gather you, my Lord."
"Jakken..."
"Yes, my Lord?"
"You lie." Sesshomaru used his claws to cut Jakken in half. "I will not bring you back to life this time, Jakken." Sesshomaru said as he turned and walked out of the castle.