Hi! Sorry for the slowness of update. I had exams, and was generally busy doing things. N E wayz, here's the chapter!
Ch. 12: The Story to Be Told, Part 2
Inuyasha could hardly believe what his brother had just said.
"Are you bullshitting?"
"I shit you not. How often have you known me to lie?"
"Not much," Inuyasha admitted.
"Good," Sesshoumaru said. Now, before you were born, Chichi-ue was an administrator for the World. After…"
Sesshoumaru gulped.
"…after Mother died, we ran into hard times, very hard times. I had to start cooking things at the age of six, because Chichi-ue couldn't tell a peanut from a potato. It was mostly microwaveable stuff, mind you. But anyway, we both suffered in other ways—I flunked kindergarten, for God's sake! Who actually flunks kindergarten! And Chichi-ue, he wasn't much better. He was demoted from an admin and nearly got himself fired. Then the best thing in the world happened. Izayoi, your mother, came into our lives."
"Mom?"
"Yes. Your ofukuro was kind, understanding, and conformable. Within two months of meeting, believe it or not, she and Father told me about you. That is, that Izayoi was pregnant.
"You can imagine the betrayal I felt. I was six, irrational. And so I hated Izayoi, even went so far as to refuse to cook for her. I could you a…a dirty half-blooded little brother.
"Needless to say, after you were born, I became distant. Dad didn't seem to notice. Nor did he seem to have told you what I did…"
"Sure he did," Inuyasha interrupted. "He told me you were hanging with your pals."
"Naïve Inuyasha. I hung out with my friends, all right. We did drugs, drank beer, and fought. It was all because I met that abominable little rat, Hondano. He kicked my little pansy 5th grader ass so many times that I took to admiring him. His balls to sass the teacher, his nasty attitude…you name it."
"You, Sessho? You joined a gang?"
"We could hardly call it a gang. Just a little group of troublemakers. You know how it is; the newest generations are always getting worse. But Hondano's attitude rubbed off on me, only I learned things he didn't, and by the end of the semester, he was looking up at me. I was eleven, I was your regular middle school badass, and with the worst temper. It became so awful that whenever a new child came up, I thrashed them into submission.
"Father found out about that, and he grounded me into kingdom come. But your ofukuro told him to bond with me and that would help. It did. They plunked me into a drug rehab center and after a year, I was healthy, happy, and clean. Dad started to spend time with me again. Then it went wrong.
"I started to get into the World. I had always had an account; I just never played as often. Well, me and Chichi-ue made ourselves names. We were the ones who invented the Inu-Youkai Blademaster."
"You invented that? Yeah right," Kagome scoffed.
"No. It is the truth. That was part of the corruption. We fought against a very powerful monster. We were already level 60 Blademasters, when we heard of an undefeatable monster. It was a virus ridden Green Wyrm. We killed it and CC Corp gave us special avatar updates. We told them what we wanted, and they did it. That's how the ultimate rare Inu Youkai series came into existence.
"But that's straying a bit far, so back to the story. When I first began to train again, Chichi-ue told me that he was looking for a girl. She had given him Sou'unga, he said. The sword of power. She had, however, taken his fangs in exchange. They grew back, so I didn't see anything wrong with that. I met her later, and she gave me Tenseiga, saying that we were destined to save the World with our swords, and that yet another was to appear. Yukina was her name.
"Now begins the secret. When I was thirteen (you seven) Chichi-ue and I went to a level known as Dog-Dancing Forbidden Holy Ground. It's blocked now, but that's where we met a dragon…the Data Drain Dragon…
"RAAARGHH!"
InuTaisho swirled the Sou'unga violently over his head in great circles.
"GOKURYUUHAA!"
This time, the dragon was sent sprawling to the ground. It recovered quickly and began to fight.
"What is this?" InuTaisho snarled. "My attacks…"
His sword strokes always missed, but the dragon's blows did not.
Sesshoumaru pushed himself up laboriously to see his struggling father.
"D-Dad…are you…"
Suddenly, the Dragon side-butted InuTaisho to the ground. His data shield was revealed and broken.
"What? Argh!"
InuTaisho began to levitate against his will and he fought as his limbs were forced into a splayed position.
Sesshoumaru's juvenile eyes widened as a ring of comprised data (or so it seemed) appeared around the dragon's muzzle.
"Dad…Dad NOO!"
With the last of his strength, Sesshoumaru sprang to his feet and began to run. However, the spurt of energy soon ebbed and he sunk to his knees. He looked up frantically and observed as a beam shot right through his father's chest.
"AAAAGGHHH!"
InuTaisho crumpled to the ground, groaning in pain.
"Unh…Sessho…maru…" he whispered. "I'm sorry…I w-won't be…going…home…"
"B-b-but Dad," Sesshoumaru began, tears running down his eyes. "You have to come back. You must!"
"Take care of Inuyasha…raise him well…"
"Dad, you said it yourself! You said it was only a game! Don't go away!"
InuTaisho turned to his on and his tears were visible as well.
"I'm sorry I can't see you grow up," he rasped apologetically. "But don't let Inuyasha suffer that fate…and for what it's worth…I'm sorry you were ignored…a-and I had some of the best yeas of my life…spending time and…getting to know…you…"
After a few more silent seconds, InuTaisho faded out, literally, to nothing.
"Dad…don't leave me alone…I don't want to be alone…"
Sesshoumaru's eyes turned a deep crimson and he growled in his throat.
"YOU!"
He charged, claws extended to their full length, at the dragon.
However, the dragon knocked him out with another side-butt.
Suddenly, a purplish cat with flopped ears gated the unconscious Sesshoumaru out.
R and R
