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Chapter 31
Running farther down the path, your sprint slows down to walk as you notice someone leaning on a tree far away from you. 'That could be Sesshoumaru's imposter... Kurayami...' You think to yourself as you continue to approach warily. 'No... That has to be someone else, what would he be doing sitting around out here...' You continue to walk closer and now getting a better view of the loiterer. 'Wait... That's Sesshoumaru!!'
Leaves crunch underneath your feet as you run closer to the dog demon, while becoming more and more panicky as you get closer to him. Kneeling down beside him, you frown as you notice his closed eyes.
"Sesshoumaru....?" You ask and gasp as you give his body a once over, noticing the stain of blood and gash on his shoulder trailing down his chest. "Sesshoumaru! Are you ok?!" You ask.
Receiving no response you quickly raise your hands over the gash and direct your ki into your hands and down into the gash. After what felt like a minute of trying to heal the wound you remove your hands only to see that it hasn't sealed up at all. Becoming more and more nervous, you quickly place your head against his chest. A cold tremor runs down your spine as your eyes widen and you freeze.
"Oh my god.... S-Sessh-shoumaru..." You whisper removing your head from his chest. You slowly moving away from him, you stare at his expressionless, pale face.
'Sesshoumaru... No... No... You can't be! Why?!' You think grasping the dog demon's bigger, cold hand as tears start to build up in your eyes. 'But, even if he's...'
"I can still bring him back!" You mutter and take the shikon jewel from around your neck.
Still holding on to the dog demon's hand and tightly onto the jewel you start to pray silently to the jewel. Before you know it you feel the jewel pulsing within your fisted. Slowly opening your hand you stare down at the glowing and pulsating jewel. 'I know you have the power... Please... Bring him back!' The Shikon jewel's light suddenly floods the area and you narrow your eyes as you feel the power of the jewel vibrating through you and around you.
As seconds pass by like minutes, the light fades away and you open your eyes. Your eyes land on the dog demon before you.
"...Sesshoumaru?" Receiving no response, you place your head against his chest once again. You receive no beat, thump or slow pound in respond and the tears that pooled in your eyes start to pour down. "It didn't work... It didn't work!" You mutter as you bury your head into the dog demon's cold neck. Sobbing you pull back and glare down at the shikon jewel in your hand. "Why didn't it work?!" You suddenly feel the shikon jewel release energy opposite of yours, which travels onto you. Just as the energy touches your skin, it feels like a thousand needles sticking into your every limb at once. You release a cry of pain falling backwards as a wave of dizziness washes over you.
"Damn... Damn it..." You murmur wincing and feeling your body numbing. You force yourself to bend upwards your eyes set upon the glowing and twitching shikon jewel, which was thrown away and then upon the lifeless dog demon. "...S-sorry... I couldn't-" You wince as the dizziness washes hits you in the face again. The world around you blurs as you feel yourself crashing down again.
The light around you slowly fades away and soon enough your left wandering in the dark once again.
Something cool slides down the side of your cheek, which drags you into consciousness. 'What-what the hell happened?' You think as you tiredly open your eyes, to find your being shaded under a tree. Suddenly a tall, green wearing person appears in your line of vision.
"...Shin? What the hell are you doing here?" You ask squinting up at the bat demon.
"For a person that almost died, you're being pretty snappy..." He replies frowning and brushing a wet cloth across your forehead. You pause frowning back in remembrance.
"Sesshoumaru! Where's Sesshoumaru?!" You ask frantically and jumping to your feet, starting to wobble.
"Will you calm down? Oh, yeah, him... He's gone..." He replies looking off into the distance and rubbing his chin.
"Gone?! What do you mean by that?!" You ask the bat demon as tears instantly start to pool in your eyes.
"What's with the tears? It's not like anyone died! He's gone, ya' know... He left." He replies pointing off into the distance.
"Oh..." You reply softly and sniff. "Why?"
"I don't know, exactly... I just ran into you two here some time ago... You, by the way looked pretty beat up and of all the time we've spent together... I haven't seen him that much pissed off..." He answers looking thoughtful. "And, also... Who the hell beat the shit out of you like that?" He asks scowling.
"...It's a long story, um, but which way did Sesshoumaru go?"
"That way" He replies pointing. "But, you don't plan on going after him do you? Because that wouldn't be entirely a good idea..." He replies.
"What do you mean?" You ask and glance to the side to notice a large ball of silver barreling toward you.
You quickly turn in its direction to then see that it's a large fox-looking demon. You quickly draw your sword the demon only to be stopped by Shin who pets it.
"Shin...? Is that your new pet or something?" You ask as you sheath your sword.
"No, I kinda thought it was yours, isn't it?" He replies rubbing the nape of his neck.
"Mine?" You frown and look closely at the large fox and your eyes broaden as you remember. "Oh my god! That's Tetsu! Damn, he's grown!" You say grinning as you approach the creature. "Welcome back to the group, Tetsu!" You give the fox a small hug and it mewls back in reply.
"Some owner you are, forgetting your own pet." Shin mutters folding his arms.
"You would, too if your last memory of him was him as the size of puppy... Compared to this now..." You reply gesturing to the large fox.
"Right, lets get going!" He says and turns around.
"Wait! Speaking of mini sized things, where's Rin and Ryochi?"
"Oh yeah! I left them with one of your friends!" He answers turning around and pointing his index finger up in remembrance.
"One of my friends? Eh, which one?"
"Hm, I think it was the blonde one..." He replies and in that second you gape at him in horror. "No, not her, but speaking of her Rin and Ryochi said some fox dude kidnapped her." You raise an eyebrow at the mention of this fox dude person.
"But, anyways where are Rin and Ryochi?" You ask pushing back a lock of hair that had fallen out of place.
"Well, I told them not leave the area around here, so you'll run into them eventually!" He replies sheepishly. "Anyways, lets get going, and maybe you should hitch a rise on the fox, so you won't get left behind... Or crushed." He says and spreads his wings. You shrug and climb onto Tetsu's back.
Shin lifts off the ground and just as soon Tetsu takes off after him. You hold on tightly to the fox as he soars over the trees. Just as you get above the trees you see two obviously large animal demons fighting in the distance.
"Holy shit!" You mutter as you look on at two demons.
"Same here, ya' know if those two had to fight over a steak you'd think they could resolve the problem peacefully!" Shin says flying beside you.
"Yeah, I'm sure, but seriously what's going on?" You ask biting your lip. "If you know of course."
"Well, if I know any better, that could be your dog demon and some fox dude..." He replies.
"Sesshoumaru?! That's Sesshoumaru?!" You ask gesturing to the huge albino dog demon who seems to be winning against the opponent, golden fur fox.
"I believe so, though I hope you weren't expecting a cute little puppy dog." He replies laughing.
"O-of course not! But, should we just let them keep fighting like that?" You ask.
"I don't know if we can do much with stopping them, but we can always try."
You two continue to get closer and closer fight while steering clear of getting in between. Just as you get around them, you see a village not far from where you are now.
"Hey, Shin, did you know-" You get cut off as Tetsu takes a hard dive and plummets into the trees below.
Tree limbs scratch and tear your clothes as you hold on tightly to the fox. You lower your head into the fox's mane for protection and just as soon as the offending tree limbs fade away you feel the fox's descent stop and you open your eyes to see you and the fox floating above ground. Your both then slowly lowered to the ground. You quickly hop off the fox as he collapses to the ground. You quickly kneel beside him.
"Tetsu! Are you ok?" You ask worriedly to the fallen fox and you stroke his mane. You glance upwards as Shin lands before you. "Is he going to be ok?"
"It didn't look like it was that harsh, with some rest he'll be fine." Shin replies kneeling down.
"That's good, but what happened?"
"Well, what could have happened was Tetsu here, could have been hit by an attack by that fox dude and I saved you before you both plummeted to your insect-like death." The bat demon replies and stands. As you take your hand away from the fox he suddenly shrinks back into his original pint-sized form.
"Poor Tetsu..." You mutter and pick the small fox up.
"(your name), c'mon! We can't keep on standing here!" Shin says and starts to drag you away.
"Why? We're far from the fight!" You reply and start to run at his pace.
"We were, but-" He spreads out his wings. "They're coming over here!" He finishes and puts his arm around your waist and pulls you up with him while you tightly hold on to Tetsu. Just as soon as he gets above the trees, you see the giant albino dog demon barreling toward you three.
"God, Shin hurry up!" You cry gaping in horror at the dog demon.
"I'm going as fast as I can!" He replies and is just in time to get out of the way.
He lands on a tree branch and you unattach yourself from him still holding the sleeping Tetsu tightly in your arms. Your attention then goes quickly back to the fight. The albino dog demon quickly gets back to his feet and charges its opponent, the flaxen fox, who on the other hand is nursing a wound. Just as the fox demon makes a move to retreat the dog demon pounces and bites the its neck. The dog demon holds on tightly to the fox's neck as the fox collapses under the pressure and thick blood start to ooze out from the bite.
The dog demon releases the fox and starts to circle it as if waiting for it to make another move. The fox struggles to stand and soon fails falling lame to the ground. As seconds pass away and the fox demon remains limp a small smile spreads across your face.
"Hell yeah! We won!!" You applaud and do a small victory cheer.
"Hey, (your name), isn't that your blonde friend?" Shin asks pointing beside you and you turn to the direction to see Adira jumping bounding from tree to tree toward you three.
"Shit! Shin, lets go! She wants to kill us!" You reply nervously to the bat demon.
"You don't have to tell me twice! But, why?" He replies spreading his wings and pulling you off the tree branch.
"I don't know, I think she's a schizophrenic!" You reply frowning.
"You think she's a schizo-what?"
"Never mind, long story!"
Shin continues to speed through trees, trying to lose your pursuer. After a few minutes Shin lands and releases you.
"I'm sure we've got time now, so can you tell me why we were running away?" He asks folding his arms.
"I already said why, she was going to try to kill us, er me, I suppose..." You reply and shift from foot to foot, getting ready to give an explanation. As you open your mouth to speak you see something out of the side of your eye, something shiny... "Shin watch out!!" You yell pointing out the shiny approaching weapon.
In another part of the forest four people walk down a deserted path, hopefully leading to a village.
"So, why do you guys look so alike?" Asks a small boy with bat-like wings and messy black hair on his head, also known as, Ryochi.
"I already told you, you little brat! And I'm not bothering to tell you again!" A teen with long black hair wearing black snaps.
"Heh, Kaori, um, he's a kid, be nice!" The identical girl wearing white beside her says. "Ryochi, me and Kaori are twins, alright?"
"Hey, look at the big doggy!" A little girl, by the name of Rin says, pointing up at a huge pooch and getting the other's attention.
"Holy crap! That's- It couldn't be!" Kaori cries.
"It is..." Naomi finishes.
A cling is all that's heard in the area and the bounce of sparks of weapon against weapon. You take a step backwards as you see Shin holding up his own to the blonde, Adira.
"Get out of my way..." The blonde mutters as sparks continue to bounce out from in between swords.
"Well, I would if your way wasn't killing me in the process." Shin replies back smirking.
"...Geez, Shin, throw me to the sharks and go about your business already." You mutter as irritation starts to crawl up your spine.
"Oh yeah, I'd like to know why you've been trying to rub out my friend!"
"Why I'm trying to rub out your friend is none of your business, but if you don't get out of the way, you'll be next!" The fair-haired teen replies as she jumps away and gets into a fighting stance.
"Friends don't let friends kill friends, blondey... But, I guess you never heard that rule because you probably killed all your friends..." Shin replies sadly. ", you should get going, I can take care of this!"
"But-" You pause as you remember your previous fight with the blonde. "...Are you sure?"
"Of course! No one tries to kill me then threatens to kill me, that doesn't make any sense and I can't let her get away with that!" He replies.
"But, Shin! She-she's-"
"Look, didn't you want to go to your dog demon? I can take care of myself."
"... Alright, but don't get killed!" You reply to the bat demon as you turn around and start to head off.
You sprint in the directions where rumbles are heard. As you slow down you pause when you see out the side of your eye a giant white paw shrouded with trees. You turn and cautiously go in that in that direction. As you get closer and closer the paw seems to be shrinking, then totally disappearing. Your cautious jog turns into a run when you see Sesshoumaru crouching beside a bunch of fallen trees.
"Sesshoumaru!" You fall into a crouch beside him. "Are you o-" Your breathe catches in your throat as in that moment he turns to you and looks at you with solid, blood-red heated eyes.
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Author's Notes
Well, that was a willy of a chapter, I hoped you enjoyed and will stay tuned! Also, I apologize if any of the Inuyasha version was mixed in as well. And, I just noticed that some of the bad grammar in the fic was written in on purpose...
Later!