SECRETS, LOVE, AND DEMONS
Chapter two: The Fight
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru sat in a dark room awaiting their last fight. Actually Sesshoumaru sat; Inuyasha was pacing back and forth. Sesshoumaru had his usual expressionless face on, even though he was seething in anger on the inside. He watched his half-brother as he paced back and forth in front of him. He had been doing this since they got the news that they would become slaves again after this fight. That was five hours ago and he was starting to back an impression in the stone floor.
"I cant believe it" said Inuyasha, for the hundredth time "why are they making us become slaves again Sesshoumaru, why!"
Sesshoumaru gave an exasperated sigh.
"As I have told you a hundred times, Inuyasha, it is because they fear our power."
"They?" asked Inuyasha "I assume you mean the Mikos who imprisoned us in the first place."
"Yes." Said Sesshoumaru simply
"I can't believe this!" yelled Inuyasha "Have they already forgotten what WE did for them all those years ago and the deal they made?"
"They may be Mikos, little brother" said Sesshoumaru "but they are still only human."
"Meaning?"
"Meaning that they, like the rest of the human spices, have no honour. They tend to forget deals, when they fail to benefit from them. In fact they have even altered history to stay out of the deal."
"What do you mean 'altered history'?" asked Inuyasha angrily
"I managed to get my hands on a copy of 'The War That Saved the World'" said Sesshoumaru pulling a leather bound book from inside his kimono throwing it to Inuyasha he added. "Page 120, fifth paragraph down."
Inuyasha, grabbing the book, flipped it open and read. Silence, then…..
"WHAT THE HELL!"
"Exactly, little bother, is that what happened?"
"Hell no" said Inuyasha tossing the book back to Sesshoumaru, who used the ascetic poison in his claws to disintegrate the book in midair "that is defiantly not what happened. We helped those bastards at….."
Whatever Inuyasha was going to say was forgotten as a door opened at the far end of the room. The silhouette of a man stood out from the light now flooding the room. The man did nothing for a second then spoke.
"Its time." He said simply.
If the two didn't know better it would have sounded like someone telling someone on death row that it was time to go get the lethal injection (an American tradition). After the man said this he simply turned and left.
Standing up Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha with his monotone look. Inuyasha nodded and the two of them walked out into the brightly lit catacombs of the coliseum which would lead them to the entrance of the arena, to their opponents, to their re-enslavement, to their new masters.
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru slowly made there way down the long and winding catacombs of the sublevels of the coliseum they knew so well. Over the last 97 years this place had become home. They were given food, shelter, even were allowed to pick out their own cloths. The people here had respect for them because of their power and because they themselves showed them respect for being kind. It would take some getting used to having the collar put back on their necks after this fight, to return to a life they had won freedom from almost a century ago. They even helped the Miko order by preventing any other demon winning their freedom, and yet they were going to be forced to return to a life of slavery.
They both sopped a few feet away from the large steel doors separating them from the large force of demons standing in the arena. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had smelled them as they neared the door, 179 demons where all that stood against them.
"Only 179" said Inuyasha, sounding almost disappointedly "I was hoping this would be a good last fight."
"Oh well" said Sesshoumaru "We might as well show off for are new masters."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I sense the power of two Miko's on the other side of that door."
"So they came to watch their new salves fight." Said Inuyasha in disgust
"It would seem so. So why do we not put on a show for them?"
"A show?" asked Inuyasha confused, then it hit him "Your going to go dog aren't chya?"
"I was entertaining the idea"said Sesshoumaru with the smallest smile on his face"shows are new masters what they are getting into."
They said nothing for several seconds, then the steel doors in front of them opened onto the arena were the 179 demons stood awaiting their opponents. Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru casually walked into the arena. With the barest hint of doing so, Sesshoumaru scanned the room for the Mikos he had sensed earlier. He found them.
On the highest level of he stands stood three women, two of which had Miko energy repealing off them. Of course the energy was invisible to the senses of a normal human, but to a demon it stuck out like a blinding light in a pitch black room. Using his demon eyes Sesshoumaru literally zoomed in on the two. They looked similar so they must be sisters. One, what looked like the older of the two, had dark raven air that went down half her back, her eyes were brown and she showed an air of amazement as she gazed at him and his brother, she wore a pair of black jeans with a dark blue long t-shirt. Turning his attention to the other sister his eyes opened a fraction of an inch in shock. This girl looked familiar, but were and how he knew her he couldn't remember. She was a few inches shorter than the other girl, who stood five nine, best he could tell, she had light brown hair that descended just past her neck, on the top of her head she wore a sort ponytail which pointed up. Her eyes were brown as well; she wore blue jeans and a loose fitting grey shirt with a white open sweater over it. Instead of having an air of amazement, like the other girl had, she had one of joy? There was nothing but over whelming job radiating off this girl, why?
"I think I have found our new masters Inuyasha."
"Let me guess far right, at the top of the stands?"
"It appears you're ahead of me."
"Is it just me or do they seem familiar?"
"You to I see" said Sesshoumaru "Indeed I have noticed that they do have a…familiar aura around them, yes."
"What do you think?"
"I think we should show our respect to are new masters."
With that Sesshoumaru turned to face the two Mikos, Inuyasha followed suite. In unison the two bowed to their new masters. After a second they straitened their backs and turned to their opponents once again.
"You want to go first?" asked Inuyasha, who was finally starting to have a good time
"I think you can go first, little brother" said Sesshoumaru, but as Inuyasha was about to jump at the enemy he added "just don't kill them all."
Inuyasha grunted and jumped forward at the enemy in front of him. As he came down he flexed his claws and snarled. As he landed on an unsuspecting male wasp demon he dug his claws into its collar, it through its head back and gave a tremendous scream of pain, seeing the wasps neck he did what most dogs would do in a situation like that. In a flash he had brought his head to the wasp's neck using his canine fangs to cut into the jugular veins on either side of his oesophagus. Biting down he quickly severed the demons main blood supply to his brain. Blood oozed out from the small cuts in the demons neck. The blood flowed so quickly that it soon filed his mouth and covered the ground beneath him in a small pool. With a red hue in his eyes, the first sign of a blood lust, he bit down harder on the wasp's neck he pulled back, pulling most of his throat with him. Spitting the wasps throat and blood in his mouth it the ground he gave a load animalistic growl and bark.
All the demons around him backed off in mixed emotions of shock and fear. Inuyasha gave an evil smirk; showing off his blood stained fangs, and then lunged at a female snake demon. The demon was a real looker, she had the upper body of a human but the waist down was a snakes body and tail. Her whole body was covered in acid green scales, her hands had long black claws that were dripping poison, her mouth didn't have any lips covering her yellowing pointed teeth, she didn't have a nose, instead she had to slits which flared every so often, were a nose should have been, her eyes had no lids and were the general colour of vomit with a black slit for a pupil and her hair was made up of a hundred black snakes.
Inuyasha lunged at her and with his claws he sliced of her head in one felled slice. Her body remained vertical for only a second, as her head fell to the ground, but when her hideous head hit the ground the body slipped forwards. Straightening up Inuyasha looked around him. The demons looked around at one another and as one nodded. In unison they charged Inuyasha.
The now bloodlust Inuyasha stood and smirked at the idiots that were attacking him. Flexing his claws his nails grew in length five times, and he chuckled. Lunging forward he tore the throat out of a male horse demon, basically a man but with a horses head. When the demon fell dead Inuyasha turned and sliced the gut of a female Centipede demon (think Mistress Centipede). The demon howled in pain before Inuyasha rammed his claws through her jaw and up into her brain. She, too, fell dead. This brutal killing continued for the better part of half an hour, Inuyasha getting more and more brutal as time went on.
Kagome and Rin watched on in horrid fascination as the younger brother butchered the demons. He tore, ripped, disembowelled and burned his way though over three quarters of the demons, with each kill he got more and more vicious. Just when Rin felt like she was going to be sick the older brother, who had for the most part just leaned against the back wall, occasionally killing any demon who tried to run with an energy whip from his hand, yelled at his younger brother.
"That is enough Inuyasha."
Inuyasha stopped instantly turning to face his brother as the other demons backed off in fear. With a large, very evil, toothy grin Inuyasha jumped into the air and landed on the top of the Coliseums lowest wall. And watched as his brother stepped into fight.
"Ah" said the women next to Kagome "Now things will get interesting."
"What do you mean?" asked Kagome, from what she sensed from the older brother he was weaker than the younger one "He fells weaker than the younger brother."
The women laughed loudly.
"Weaker?" she said between giggles "No, no my dear. He is not weaker than ANY demon."
"What do you mean?"
The women looked at her with an all-knowing look; leaning forward told Kagome something in a whipsper.
"You know the stories? About Sekigahara?"
"Yes" replied Kagome in a whisper "Who doesn't?"
"Well you know the leader of the Inu-Youkai? Inukai.The women looked around to make sure
"Yes what about him?"
"Well he was the most powerful demon ever to exist, right?"
"That's the story yes. So?"
"Well he" said the women pointing at the taller dog demon, who was now surveying the remaining demons in the arena "Is the son of Inukai, as is the other."
"WHAT!" yelled Kagome before she realised what she had done. Looking around she noticed that no one was looking at them so she continued.
"How do you know that? There's nothing that proves that Inukai ever had a son."
"He told me."
"And you believed him?"
"He also told me something that only someone who was at Sekigahara could have known."
"Which was?"
The women looked around to make sure that no one was watching and then leaned forward and whispered something into Kagomes ear. 1 Kagome was frozen in shock at what she was told. It wasn't possible for someone who wasn't on the battle field to know that. So here she was. Standing not fifty meters away from the sons of the most feared demon that ever lived.
"Oh shit." She said numbly.
"Er…Kagome." Said Rin suddenly
"What is it?"
"Look at the demon. He's changing."
And indeed he was. The eldest brothers body had begun to elongate, his face grew into a snout, his hands and feet into massive paws. His body became covered in a thick white fur that looked like white flames. His eyes bled red, and the symbol on his forehead enlarged with his body. It was a blue crescent moon.
'So it is true' thought Kagome 'that symbol is the symbol of Inukai's bloodline. I think we're in trouble.'
Finally the demons transformation was complete. He stood forty feet tall (sorry couldn't fined actual height) the markings on his face were now elongated and jagged, his fur was thick and white as snow, save for back and chest which where a light grey. His eyes were blood red and his pupils were a dark purple. The saliva that oozed from his mouth was acid green, and apparently was acidic for it melted the ground that it touched. His massive claws dug into the ground as he slowly approached his prey.
"I don't believe it" said the women next to Kagome "He must want to show you what his power is truly like, both of them in fact, if he transformed."
"Does he do that often?" asked Rin in fascination never taking her eyes off of the demon.
"No." said the women "from my understanding the only other time he transformed was in his first fight. Guess he wants to go out in style."
A painful yell drew their attention back to the arena where the demon had just pounced on an unsuspecting bat demon and bit his upper body off. What happened in the next ten minutes can not be adequately described…or can be described and keep someone from going insane. But, for matters of understanding Kagome felt that going to the deepest, darkest level of Hell, with all the pain, torment, little horned red demons with pitchforks and tails for the rest of eternity would seem like nothing, NOTHING, compared to being in that arena facing the demon. By the time he was done with the demons half of the audience had left out of fear, the other half had ether fainted or had thrown up so much that their bodies could no longer take it and passed out in their chairs.
The only people that were still standing, instead of unconscious…or dead, were Kagome, Rin and the desk lady. They watched, to stunned to move, as the demon morphed back into his "human" form and jumped up to join his younger brother, who was beside himself with joy.
Down in the arena Sesshomaru walked over to his younger brother who was now leaning against the wall with a large toothy grin on his face.
"Way to go" he said happily "I think, with luck, that you might have just scared the humans out of buying us."
"Do not be so foolish little brother" said Sesshomaru calmly "they would not be put off so easily."
Inuyasha lost his grin.
"Wait" he said trying to figure it out "if you didn't do that to scare the humans out of enslaving us…again. Then why were you so…so…"
"Brutal?" finished Sesshomaru. Inuyasha nodded "I was so brutal, little brother, because I was angry." He said in his normal emotionless voice.
With that he jumped up into the stands and walked in the direction of the two Mikos. Inuyasha remained where he was nodding and allowing the information to sink in. Then something hit him.
"Angry?" he said dumbly "Hey! Wait a minute" he jumped next to Sesshomaru and walked with him
"Angry? I didn't think that you felt anything?"
"Just because I do not act like you, little brother, does not mean that I do not feel."
Inuyasha nodded.
"So what do I act like?"
"A fool." Said Sesshomaru simple, stopping in front of the two stunned Miko's and the human female that worked the front desk.
TBC
1 Sorry I couldn't think of anything that would work in that situation. So you can use your imagination. If anyone can think of anything that would work PLEASE tell me and I'll change it. If not oh well.
K chapter done. Errrr. Sorry it took so long. Well hope you like it I have NO idea when the next chapter will be up so...yeeeeeeah. K buy