I am now bowing down in worship to you all. I thank every single last person that has reviewed... (bow, bow, bow, bow, bow wow, bow, bow, bow, etc.)
Although it was kinda weird. One day I hade 330 reviews, the next 350, and now 327. I wish the damn thing would make up its mind.
I know, it's taking me forever to get these chapters up. I hate school and all this other shit that takes away from my writing time... (sniffle) So plz bear with me while I try to kill off all this stress and have enough time for myself. (takes out a bazooka and starts firing at a giant sign that says 'Stress')
By the by, in the wake of all of your WONDERFULLNESS (and my recent viewing of Moulin Rouge (Good movie. Love ze music)) I will be having several chapters as fluffy as Sesshomaru's tail thing.
Disclaimer -
Sangarouka- Dear God...
Good Felix- Told you it was bad
KungPowKitty- You didn't say how bad
Good Felix- Well now you know. Everyone has been turned into LAS VEGAS style stage performers
Sango- (runs up to the stage where Inuyasha has just finished his very stirring "Little Mermaid" solo) Inuyasha? Inuyasha, it's me, Sango. Wake up!
Inuyasha- Thank you, thank you, you've been a wonderful audience. Now may I present the next performer - Ka-HACK!-
Love Music- What are you doing to him!
Sango- (is strangling him) I'M STRANGLING HIM!
Sangarouka- We've established that
Shard- Why are you strangling him!
Sango- BECAUSE HE'S FREAKIN' ME OUT!
KPK- Out of curiosity, Good Felix, how did you manage to escape becoming (looks at Inuyasha and Sango) uh, like that?
Good Felix- (chuckles evilly) if only you knew
meanwhile---
(In a classic superhero's-arch-nemesis's-secret-lab room...)
Evil Felix- (is watching screen where Inuyasha is seen being strangled) Hmm... perhaps it is time to unleash the secret weapon...
Evil servant (who's identity shall be revealed later)- I thought you did that already... the giant robots of DOOM... (motions to screen where Strawberry is playing Chess against one of the robots; they're all a little bored with waiting)
Evil Felix- No...this shall be greater...
back to the cafe---
Sango- Inuyasha you dolt, I-
KPK- HOLD IT!
Sango- Leggo of me, what are you do...ing...
(the audience has gathered around them)
Sangarouka- (to Sango) Nice work, brainiac
back to lab---
Evil Felix- (into cell phone) RELEASE THE WEAPONS!
aaaaand back to the cafe---
Love Music- (looking at crowd) oh we're in trouble
(lights suddenly go out, except for stage lights aimed at lowered curtain)
Evil Felix (through voicebox-thingie) Be prepared, my friends
Shard- (starts to sing quietly the The Lion King song, "Be prepared")
KPK- (hits Shard) shut up
Evil Felix- for you, are about to face your doom! Bwa hahahahaha!
Sango- who's crazier, him or Good Felix?
Sangarouka- I'd hate to find out
Felix- IT'S THE END FOR US! RUUUUUUN!
(curtain begins to lift, music begins to play, aaand...)
(the group of other Inuyasha/Disclaimer characters are all dressed up...less than modestly, and are synchronized dancing to the pop music, with Miroku at the front)
Miroku- (singing, if you want to call it 'singing') The emptiness is killing me!
Shippou- Every night!
Miroku- I must confess, I still beliee-eve
Koga- Still believe!
Miroku- When I'm not with you I lose my mind! Gimme a siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiign! HIT ME, BABY, ONE MORE TIME! (rub, rub)
Sango- Gladly!
Wham!
(How I love to mock Brittany Spears (points finger at open mouth, showing disgust). And my apologies to anyone who does like her; you poor souls who lack intelligence (ducks from thrown pots and pans))
CHAPTER 29 - Senko Strikes: Part Three: Lost Boy
Now that Kagome looked at the girl before her, how could have she not realized that she was Sesshomaru's daughter? She had the same eyes, hair line, she was also not all that far off from being his height as well. And she could also see some bit of Inuyasha's side in there too (from being his niece), considering she had the same temper and ears. 'Hold it, why are the ears there?'
"DIE, YOU BASTARD!" Osoane screeched with tears pouring from her enraged eyes, shooting forward at the body of Naena. She did not unfold her fan, but instead took out what looked like sutras from her kimono. Latching one onto the green haired boy's forehead, she lunged backward and stuck two onto the foreheads of Ayumi and Yuka.
Crimson light shot from the three pieces of paper, hitting the other two with their own individual light. Tsumyena screamed in rage and pain as he attempted to pry the slip off, but it would not budge.
The light forced the three into a perfectly equal triangle, with a triangle of light itself forming in the middle of the original. On the outsides of the second triangle, more of the same shape appeared and continued like this until it was almost impossible to tell which shape was which anymore from the blinding light.
Inuyasha looked on with complete befuddlement. He watched as his niece floated up to the center of the mass of three pointed shapes, lifting her arms in the air. Osoane fixed her deadly look upon the demon brother that was her enemy. "Watashi wa..." she began. "ANATA NO TAMASHII O KAIFUKU SASERU! "
The crimson light engulfed the entire cafe. Sango, Miroku, and Shippou were blown back into the wall by the force, while Inuyasha had snagged Kagome just before the blast, and held her firmly and protectively against his chest.
And the red luster faded.
Naena's body lay on the ground shivering all over, while Yuka and Ayumi gripped their foreheads in pain. Three white puffs floated down from the ceiling, one going to each of the three.
Naena shot his eyes open and gasped for breath, coughing hard until the soul of Tsumyena shot out from his mouth. Yuka's head was thrown back, the veins and muscles in her neck tensing outward. She fell to the ground and gagged hard, feeling like bile was going to explode out of her stomach. And in a minute, Yuka hurled all over the ground before rolling over (away from the vomit) and shook violently.
Ayumi wheezed in brutally before she opened her eyes, and fell to the ground, her knees on the ground with hands supporting her up, clenching her eyes closed once more. She wanted to throw up, but the girl had a stronger stomach than Yuka did.
"Oh..." Ayumi groaned, placing a hand on her stomach. "What happened?... Wha-?" Her hand was wet. She opened her eyes up again, and saw the remaining hand on the ground holding a sai. Her hand and the weapon were covered in blood.
She rolled back to sit on her knees and slowly stood up, hands still clenching the dripping weapons. Almost as if she were having a seizure. Her eyes traveled downward to her stomach, where blood was staining its way into her school uniform. "Oh my god..."
Ayumi looked back up at the weapons in her hands, her eyes watering up as her jaw slacked. "Oh my god..."
She instantly dropped the Sais as if they were on fire, and backed away from where they landed. Walking slowly away from the crimson weapons, she held her hands out in front of her. "What have I done? What have I do- !"
She tripped.
Landing soundly on her butt, the girl looked at what she tripped over. It was Akutsuo, eyes glassy and kimono torn with red. Ayumi shook violently with fear, and scooted away from the dead boy's body. "Oh my god, what happened! WHAT HAPPENED! WHY DID I KILL HIM!" she screeched, petrified that she could have done such harm to any living being. "I DIDN'T WANT TO KILL HIM! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THIS GUY IS! WHO MADE ME DO THIS?"
"He did," Inuyasha said gruffly, nodding towards Tsumyena's floating soul.
Voice resonated from the white puff. "NO, THE BODY! HOW COULD YOU HAVE UNDONE OUR INCENSE!"
"Simple, really," came the 'voice' of Sesshomaru through his daughter's mouth. "Only a pure demon may hold their soul within a body when those Sutras are placed on them, which you most certainly are not..."
Kagome watched as Osoane's eyes closed and she, well Sesshomaru, shook her head. "After what you said. After wanting to kill that many people, demons and humans alike, how did you really expect for one like you to not be undone by the spell?"
Shippou was perched next to Miroku shaking the monk's shoulder. The blast from the crimson light had knocked Sango and he out cold.
Inuyasha wasn't buying it. Why would his brother actually care about anyone else but himself? 'Humans, especially. That can't be the Sesshomaru we all know and loathe...' "Keh, you talk big, but I ain't goin' for it."
Osoane and the others looked at the hanyou rather confused.
"The brother I knew and hated didn't give a shit about any other human being, let alone a large amount of them. No-"
"On the contrary, Inuyasha," Osoane's voice interrupted, the bitter rage and sadness returning to her face. "My father actually has a large percent of his staff that is human, not to mention my mother..."
Yuka tilted her head, still holding the wailing Ayumi. "Your mother?"
"Yes, I am a half-breed, the same as my uncle," She said proudly. The girl caught the soul of Tsumyena trying to sneak off, but she undid her fan in an instant. Whipping the fan around, the painted paper and wood glowed brightly before a full dragon shot out from the bowls. It wrapped its body around the demonic soul, making Tsumyena's voice yelp in pain.
"Finish our duty, Tako..." it whispered. The dragon bent down and breathed white hot flames onto the white puff, vaporizing it instantly, thus ending the Terror of Tsumyena.
The large dragon returned to the fan from where it came, and Osoane's body turned to face Inuyasha and Kagome. "Now that my daughter has taken care of one of these two demons," came Sesshomaru's voice. " I entrust the undoing of the other to you, miko. Your power will be more than enough to get rid of Tentsu Tako."
At this time, the elevator door opened and Eri and Hojo came back into the wrecked cafe.
"And demand from Tako that he tell you why he is doing this, what it is he is after," the dog demons' voice continued. "You might find it historic."
Without warning the dog bit of the insignia of Osoane's forehead faded, and the girl fell to the ground.
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Tako continued to chant away, reading the Juso inscription within the book of Kosenyu. The shards from the orb of corruption pulsated with light from each sentence of the incantation completed. Within the demon's mind, he snickered. 'Only one more paragraph until it will be irreversible... It is time for justice to come...'
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Shippou took a quick look at his small watch. 1:56 AM. (KPK- It is WAY past your bedtime!)
Osoane slowly got up from her landing spot, and crawled over to Akutsuo's side. Slowly she sat up, her legs underneath her, and raised Akutsuo's head onto her lap. Her silent tears rolled down burning cheeks, and splattered onto the dead boy's face. Guilt, pain, remorse, and self-deprecation delved into her soul, as she slowly rubbed her hands over the boy's hair. Osoane leaned his head up, and undid the long braid of hair at the end of his head, revealing that his hair was actually longer than Inuyasha's. She continued to pat her hands over his lifeless and soft hair, wondering what it could have been that she should have done to have kept him alive.
Ayumi had been taken by Yuka and Eri to try to calm her shivering form down, while Hojo dragged Miroku and Sango over near the elevator. Inuyasha began to try to find Tako's scent, while Kagome walked over to the girl of serpents.
Osoane felt a comforting hand on her shoulder, but gave no heed.
"Osoane...?"
Silence.
'I want to say something more...' the miko thought, kneeling down to the mourning girl beside her. 'But... what do I say? Well, I could say a lot of things, but they would be so rude, inconsiderate, or just plain stupid that I couldn't say them to her...'
"She didn't mean to kill him."
The miko was a little startled from Osoane's speaking, but got her breath back to her lungs. "Huh?"
"I mean Ayumi..." she said looking over at the bloody, crying, and trembling girl being escorted to where Miroku and Sango lay, Shippou nearby. "I can tell. Her eyes don't lie; she apparently is petrified of hurting anyone."
"Oh, yeah..." That was no lie. For as long as Kagome had known Ayumi, she had always been studious (and boy-crazy) and polite and such, but she never fully stood up for herself, or really hurt anyone. The only time she had gotten a bad grade was in Biology when she refused to dissect a frog.
"And Yuka exercises self restraint, even when she can't help it," Osoane continued. "There were a few times when she was going at me that I'm sure she could have killed me, but didn't. Even controlled, she won't let another force have complete control over her."
This was getting a little amazing to Kagome. She leaned back onto her feet, and looked behind her at Inuyasha, who was on haunches and sniffing the ground like the little puppy dog she knew and loved. 'Osoane certainly is a lot more than I thought...' her conscious resounded within her mind. 'Even after all that Ayumi and Yuka were just doing to her, I think she is actually FORGIVING them, and praising them! Whew, couldn't do that in a hundred years for Naraku... Definitely not Kikyo... And Chiaki would probably get hacked to pieces from a land mower.'
Kagome felt two spheres fall into her open hand. She looked down, and there were the orbs of water and serpents. "Give those to Ayumi and Yuka. They are now the holders of those orbs," she whispered.
Kagome almost fell over from shock. "WHAT!"
"Give the orb of water to Ayumi," she continued. "For just as the sea she will only rise up against her will from the power of another force such as the moon, and the orb of serpents to Yuka, for although she maybe unseen at first, she is a powerful adversary that knows restraint and when to use it, just like my legless friends..."
At first the miko didn't know what to do. She just sat there for a moment, watching Osoane's aura fade with her diminishing power. That is until Inuyasha interrupted. "Got 'is scent! He's up on the roof!"
Kagome stood, and stayed there for what seemed a very long time, just watching Osoane mourn with Akutsuo's head in her lap. She almost looked at peace, now knowing that her worst fear had come, and she no longer had to fear it.
The miko sighed before running over and giving the orbs to their new owners before going off with Inuyasha up to the top of the Tokyo Tower. And to the secret of the Sakura.
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By the way, there is an actual REASON why Tako and Tsumyena are doing all of this, including why they hate Inuyasha's family and such. There is so many subtle things in this plot that could completely give everything away in terms of the plot if I told you. I have no clue how I thought of it all.
Review?...
Also, in compliance with new guidelines, which I do agree with by the way, I do not own any of the songs that I have put in the lyrics for in any of my stories. If I have not disclaimered any of them in the past (I think I said I didn't make them... not sure), then I do that now. Although, I believe in the third story I might put one of my song ideas in there, but not sure for that...