Disclaimer: This is really getting old…sigh If I must, here it goes: All hail the mighty, imaginative Rumiko Takahashi, maker and keeper of all things Inuyasha (bows down and hails to computer) All must hail to me, the creator of Asaki! Ok… I'm done belittling myself now.

Are you tired of hearing me rant about how great all of you that reviewed my story are? I guess you can all get the point! Thank you all so much! Keep reading and reviewing! Lately since I've started this story, I've been neglected to the real world and am constantly at the computer, typing away. I'm in the process of finding more ideas of Inuyasha/Harry Potter stories that I will start immediately after this particular fanfic. But, since this story is about 60 finished, and I'm at a block so far to think of an ending, that won't happen until a few weeks or so. I might also start a one-shot fanfic manual on how to beat writer's block in Inuyasha fics! (I've had lots of experience for that!) Hope the last chapter didn't bore you to death! All right, enough of my ranting, here's the SIXTH chapter!


Chapter Six: The Illusive Demon

"Sango…Sango wake up!" The unnerved monk awoke the sleeping exterminator. She grunted at Miroku and rolled over to go back to sleep, but Miroku persisted on and shook her awake.

Bleary-eyed and annoyed at the monk, she gave up and looked at him. "Fine Miroku, what's wrong?" She noticed his eyes were wandering around the window, and his face looked unnervingly alert. Sango realized something must be wrong.

"Go wake up Kagome, Shippo and Kaede," He instructed her quietly, "I sense an ominous demonic aura coming this way." Sango agreed without argument and quickly shook Kagome awake. Miroku took his staff and ran outside Kaede's hut, where they had rested for the night.

It was early morning in the village. The air did not stir, as it was too heavy with a dense fog. Not a bird singing in the sky, nor the distant ripple of the small lake nearby could be heard.

Miroku was becoming blinded by the fog. Being not able to see the hut behind him, and barely the hand extended in front of his own face made him all the more agitated. The demonic aura was becoming closer and closer, yet Miroku didn't know what direction it was coming from. Miroku heard footsteps coming from behind him.

"Who's there!" He called out, trying to sound menacingly, readying his staff for an attack.

"It's us Miroku," A familiar voice said right behind him. Miroku recognized that voice as Kagome's. "We're all here." Miroku relaxed a little, but was still agitated at the thought of a demon still coming their way.

"This fog must have come from the rains yesterday," Miroku heard Shippo say. He turned around to the faint image of Sango, Kagome, Shippo and Kaede and Kirara in her transformed self.

"Kagome, do you sense any jewel shards?" Kaede asked. It was silent momentarily, as Kagome tried to sense anything that might be unusual.

"No, I don't sense anything," Kagome finally concluded.

"Quiet everyone," Miroku hushed, "I can see something coming ahead…" The group went as silent as stone. It was do deadly quiet, that one might have even been able to hear the fog.

The rest of the group saw a white silhouette ahead of them that almost seemed to cut right through the dense fog! It appeared to be a short woman, walking closer and closer to them. Each one of them at first glance could tell she was no human.

Kagome saw her long, silver hair and as she grew closer, Kagome saw her golden-amber eyes and knew they were too familiar to be coincidence. Could this be Asaki, the older sister of Sesshomaru and Inuyasha? But this girl looked barely older Inuyasha himself, let alone Sesshomaru…

The girl noticed the group and started walking over to them. Miroku readied his staff, and Sango held her Hiraikotsu close, yet they were unsure if weapons would be needed. This girl did not look as if she would harm anyone. She did not appear as if she was looking for a battle.

She walked calmly up to the group and stopped right in front of Miroku. She stood so menacingly close, that if she were to take half a step closer, Miroku's chin would be touching Asaki's forehead.

Miroku realized only then how short she was. She was a whole head shorter than him!

The girl glanced briefly at each of them, and told them, "I have no wish to fight, I bare no weapon, therefore am unable to fight. I simply wish to know if any of you have seen a half demon around here earlier. He goes by the name of Inuyasha."

Kagome knew it was Inuyasha's sister, but it hadn't been confirmed until that moment. She stepped in beside Miroku and replied, "Yes, we know him well." Sango and Miroku became a little uneasy when Kagome started giving personal information to a complete stranger, but Kagome was sure it would be fine. "Is your name Asaki?"

The girl nodded. "How do you know who I am?"

"Sesshomaru had come by yesterday to talk to Inuyasha about you. That's where we heard of your name. I thought the name he spoke of was you because you look like Sesshomaru and Inuyasha."

Asaki smiled when she heard this. "Where is Inuyasha then? I would like to see my brother." Kagome suddenly went quiet. She did not have the faintest clue of where he might've been at that time. He could've been in the forest where she had last seen him, or he could be anywhere in Eastern Japan by now!

Sango stepped in to talk to Asaki. "We're not sure where he is right now. The last place we saw him was in the middle of that forest, mid-day of yesterday," She told her, gesturing towards the sea of blurry green that was barely visible in the fog. Although the fog was slowly dissipating, it was still dense and barely visible past ten feet.

"Would you like us to escort you to the forest, Miss Asaki?" Miroku asked trying to swoon her, and reaching blindly in the fog for-

Sango sharply swiped Miroku's head with her Hiraikotsu before he did anything funny to upset her. Asaki could tell what he was trying to do, and gave a wry smile.

"Thank you for your offer, but I will decline. I think I can find Inuyasha from here. Much obliged to your help." Asaki gave a small bow to each of them and walked past them, to the blurry endless sea of green. Out of curiosity, Asaki channeled her mind to the funny hoshi's as she walked away, to find out just what was going through his mind:

"What a demoness. But I guess it is wrong for a human monk to go with a demon. Not to mention Inuyasha would kill me! Oww, my head! Why does Sango always have to hurt me? Maybe she cares that much…" There was silence behind her momentarily until she heard an annoyed yelp, followed by a deafening slapping noise. Asaki thought this was somewhat amusing, but decided not to interrupt any longer and go about her own business.

Asaki stepped into the forest, sniffing the air for any traces of her relative. She had sorely missed the smell of an old forest. She had spent most of her living days in them; sometimes with the child Sesshomaru, and sometimes by herself. She admired the forests. So majestic that seemed to last forever. Asaki felt that the trees would listen to her thoughts, and would be there for her in times when nobody was. That comforted her a lot. Asaki felt whole and at peace whenever she stepped into a kingdom of trees, a sea of leaves with rivers of blossoms…It was pure bliss to her.

After a vain moment of enjoying the forest's presence, Asaki began to smell the faint scent of a half demon nearby. She walked in the direction of the scent, until it became stronger and less distant. Not long after, she heard evened breathing high above her in a tree. Something was sleeping in a tree above her.

Asaki looked up to see a boy, dressed all in red with silver hair, sleeping in an upright position on a tall branch. A sword rest on his shoulder that Asaki immediately recognized.

"The Tetsusaiga! That is father's sword! He smells right…This must be Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha was awoken by a sound coming from underneath him. Perhaps it was Kagome trying to check up on him…But he couldn't smell Kagome anywhere around him. The scent was not from any of his friends either. Who was it? Inuyasha opened his eyes and looked down.

"I'm sorry, did I wake you?" A strange girl called out to him from below. Inuyasha quickly jumped down to take a good look at this person. He didn't reply to her question.

There was silence as Inuyasha stared at this girl. He didn't know who she was, but after a moment he could almost swear his scent was faintly familiar…

"Would you be Inuyasha?" The strange girl asked again. Inuyasha was hesitant to answer.

"Who's asking?" He gruffly replied, crossing his arms.

"I hear you've only just heard of me, if you truly are who I think you are. My name is Asaki." Inuyasha's ears perked up at the word 'Asaki'. His eyes widened.

"Y-you're kidding!" He stammered. Now he understood why her scent was familiar, it smelled a lot like his and Sesshomaru's! Her silvery hair and golden-amber eyes were also an inheritance he noticed.

Asaki stepped closer to Inuyasha. This was the moment she was waiting for. To meet her youngest brother. She had met him before, but never seen him or touched him. She had never smelled his scent or been able to have a normal conversation.

Each second passed with the time of an eternity. The two siblings said nothing, but surveyed each other. They both knew that the feeling of knowing someone all your life, yet never meeting them was mutual.

After what seemed like centuries of doing nothing but stare at one another, Asaki told him, "You must have a strong heart if you carry the Tetusaiga," she gestured towards the sword that lie on his belt, "Father must've known you would be the right heir for it."

Inuyasha grinned slightly, but was still at a loss for words. Asaki could still see the astonishment in his eyes. Had Sesshomaru really taken that long to reveal Asaki to him?

"W-why were you h-hidden from me all this t-time?" Inuyasha was finally able to form into stammering words. He had so many questions to ask, he wanted to know so much about her. Asaki had the luxury of knowing exactly what his father was like; she had probably known more about their father than Sesshomaru!

Asaki gave a small sigh and sat down on a fallen tree beside her. Inuyasha hesitantly followed, not taking his eyes off of hers. "I'm not exactly sure why I had been hidden from you," Asaki began, trying to rack her brain for answers, "Of course you know that I was sealed for about three centuries until last night, and that was long before you were born. But father couldn't tell you because he passed away not long after you were born. I'm sure you would know of Myouga and Toutousai? Father's vassals?" Inuyasha nodded at her comment.

"Well they knew nothing of me, because father nor I thought it would be best to tell them about myself,-"

"-But why was it best not to tell them?" Inuyasha interrupted.

"I think that's something you will find out soon. But anyways, I have no idea why Sesshomaru didn't tell you about me until yesterday. I told him to many times before, but I have no idea why he failed in doing so." Inuyasha looked disdainfully away at those words.

"If Sesshomaru can keep something from me, he will. He's always hated me and I've always hated him back," he told her with a surprisingly modest yet scorning tone. Asaki was actually surprised that Sesshomaru would do something like that to his own flesh and blood!

Asaki had always known there was something dark and undefined about her brother Sesshomaru, but she never paid much attention to it. Instead she would try and forget about it in the vain hopes that one day; the dark impressions that swam in Sesshomaru's mind would dissipate. Apparently after three centuries now, a dark flame still glowed deep within his heart. Further more, Asaki felt responsible for how her brother turned out to be. But remembering back in the cave, Sesshomaru was so kindhearted to her, and he was exactly how he was at the mere of a child… Perhaps, there were two sides to his emotionless face… Perhaps, there was something else Asaki did not know of that was compelling Sesshomaru to act different ways toward others.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha, I think it's my fault Sesshomaru ended up this way. It's my fault you didn't have anyone as a child after your mother passed away." Asaki lowered her head in resentment. Inuyasha frowned at her self-criticism.

"But you were there for me and him, even if you weren't there in real life! You even told me that our father was always with us all, and that my mother always was watching over me! How could you have helped any more?" That gave Inuyasha another question to ask her, "Asaki? When you were in the dream world, could you really talk to the dead?"

Asaki nodded, "Only if they were presenting themselves in someone's dreams. Your mother was in your dreams a lot when you were a child." Inuyasha's golden eyes widened. "M-my mother? You talked to her? What did she say?" Inuyasha persisted, absolutely thunderstruck.

Asaki was amused at his constant vigilance, "She never said very much. She was worried about you being all alone by yourself, but she was proud of how much you had grown up." She let Inuyasha have a brief moment of pause to think about his mother. She remembered how kind she looked, even as an image of death. His mother was so caring. So beautiful. Inuyasha was so fortunate to be born of a mother so warm-hearted.

Asaki decided to start asking Inuyasha some questions. She too was wondering many things about him. "I have many a question to ask you as well Inuyasha. But where to start… So, Sesshomaru told me you were on the road with some humans. What are you doing with them? Are they your friends?" Inuyasha began to tell her about the shikon no tama, how it fragmented into many shards. He told her of his own entrapment on a tree because of a miko that later deceased. He told her how he had to avenge her death. Inuyasha told her of Miroku's wind tunnel, and Sango's brother, and Shippo's father, and Kagome. Eventually he had been talking so long about his recent adventures that the fog had dissipated and the afternoon sunlight filtered through the trees overhead.

Asaki could tell in his eyes when he talked of this 'Kagome', that he had more than just a friendly relationship with her. Asaki grinned at the thought of her youngest brother finding true love. It sure looked like it; of course he tried to hide his sensitive feelings from Asaki, but she could easily see through his disguise.

"Is it noon already?" Asaki cheerfully raised her head to see the light beaming down on them from behind the trees. It was bliss to feel the warmth of the sun again.

"Yeah," Inuyasha said quietly. "Would you like to come back to the village with me? My friends probably want to formally meet you, now that I have. I'm presumably worrying them by now. So, what do you say?" Inuyasha looked up at her. She agreed enthusiastically.

Inuyasha at that moment felt whole. He felt as if the void he had always felt in his heart was somehow filled. He felt as though a warmth in his heart glowed as a flame. Nothing in the world at that moment could bring him down….until…

Inuyasha was walking back through the forest with Asaki in a most joyous mood, until something made him suddenly stand still. The hair stood on the back of his neck. He smelled a scent. A most disgusting scent that brought a great look of disgust and disdain to his face. This scent was coming closer to them, and rapidly.

"What's wrong Inuyasha?" Asaki asked her brother who seemed so merry not but a moment ago. He gave a low growl, and began to search the area around them for something. Asaki began to smell a scent as well, but she did not recognize who or what it belonged to. She turned her attention to his eyes. They had the look of unimaginable hatred. Hatred? To whom would this anger in Inuyasha's heart belong to?

"Naraku…" He growled viciously, answering Asaki's thoughts. Naraku? Yes, this was a demon that Sesshomaru had warned her of earlier. When Asaki listened to Sesshomaru's warning the previous night, she had remembered seeing a hot flash of hatred behind his eyes as well. What did this Naraku do to cause this much loathing against him?

As Inuyasha became more and more agitated and on edge, it began to scare Asaki. Perhaps she might put up a barrier to protect themselves against this person? She saw Inuyasha's clawed hand twitching towards the handle of their father's sword.

Before Asaki had time to put up a barrier to protect them both, she began to feel light-headed. Her knees started to tremble and buckle, as they were suddenly unable to carry her own weight. She tried to speak to Inuyasha, but her mouth began to fumble and shake. She was now unable to form words! Her vision grew blurry as she fell into unconsciousness before she could hit the forest floor.

Inuyasha had noticed the sparkling powder that began to lazily drift down on them before Asaki got a chance to. Inuyasha covered his nose with the sleeve of his haori.

"Asaki!" He cried out from underneath his sleeve. He too was beginning to feel weak-kneed. He tried to catch her, but was slowing down too much and fell to his knees. His hand began to fumble with Tetsusaiga's handle. He was unable to unsheathe the Tetsusaiga! What was happening?

Inuyasha heard a voice around him, a despicable, cold voice that seemed to come out of nowhere. "I will take your sister for safe-keeping for now. If you want her back Inuyasha, you will have to come and find me…" The voice was getting more distant. Inuyasha felt a sudden gust of wind. He looked frantically around to see what was happening, although his vision was becoming blurry. He could see no other body lying beside him! Asaki was missing! Inuyasha tried with all his strength to get up to rescue his sister, but he failed, dropping to his knees once more.

"Damn….you…N-narak..K..ku…." Inuyasha tried to say as he slumped down onto the forest floor, unconscious.


Muahaha-haaa! This must be the most suspenseful cliffy yet! I'm sorry for being so evil readers, but that's what makes it so fun, right? I'm sorry to say that even a glave or a knife will stop me Tohru-honda14! (Loved ur review! I guess that means you like it? Haha) I'm so glad you all like my story! I just finished this chapter after a two day creative slump (which was cured by a white-hot chocolate with whipped cream, and a day out at the mall with my bestest buddy Naomi!). Sorry for the wait for this chapter, but hopefully it was worth the wait? Review and tell me your thoughts! And just to tell you, in this story so I don't confuse you, Asaki can read people's minds and see their emotions through their eyes (even if the person is not showing emotions). The next chapter will be up very shortly, since right now I'm on a caffeine/sugar high, and I'm out of my "creative slump"! (Is it that obvious I'm a caffeine freak! That funny thing is…I hate coffee!)

Until the next Chapter,

Emily (MyLastFarewell)