Author's Note:
I dedicate this chapter to Bakura's girl 88, and Bangxyouxshotxme, for helping me come up with named for the swords, as well as some attacks… thanks again.
Chapter Seven: Hikaribatou, and Araumaeienbatou
Minutes before the blast collided InuYasha grabbed Kagome and jumped as far as he could away from the blast. Sango, and Kohaku were picked up by Kilala. Miroku was taken by Shippo who was really frightened as he transformed into his big balloon floating form. Ah Uhn flew over to Jaken and Rin and using their mouths grabbed Jaken and Rin by the collar, and thre them over onto their backs. Sesshoumaru merely jumped away without even a worry in his eyes… or was there? As the smoke cleared from the explosion their stood both brothers staring at one another with hate for what the other had become. They both lowered their swords and watched each other waiting for the other to move, however when no one did, Inutaisho raised his sword, Araumaeinbatou, but before he could strike down once more Inu Tatmaru spoke…
"Inutaisho, I, your brother know that my sword is more powerful then even that new sword that you have," said Inu Tatmaru laughing mockingly at Araumaeinbatou, however before he could finish his laugh a look of pain crossed his face. Looking down at his side… he saw a deep cut into his left thigh. Araumaeinbatou must have sent out one energy blast, but then manipulated the energy blast to split, allowing one to block his energy, and attack him at the same time…. "amazing" he thought.
"Well… brother, it seems you have underestimated my sword," said Inutaisho who went back over to where the two sheaths lay. Inutaisho then put the scabbards side bye side, but as he was sheathing the one sword into the two sheaths, the sword, Araumaeinbatou split back into two swords. The untransformed sword was just a plain sword, but as Inutaisho redrew one of them, it transformed into a resemblance of Tetsaiga. Knowing the power of Tetsaiga already he sheathed it again, and went over to where the dagger was. He tied the scabbards of Arauamaeinbatou onto his sash as well as Hikaribatou. Drawing the dagger out of its sheath, Inutaisho felt great power inside the tiny blade, but as he was thinking what capabilities such a small weapon had, the blade started glowing. Before Inutaisho realized it he wasn't holding a dagger anymore… but a spear. The design was magnificent as the blade, and the pole was metal, but the blade was designed to look like a dog demon. The poles end had a stone of some sort that sparkled like the moon. As Inutaisho looked at the magnificent work of Totosai, Totosai himself had his mouth wide open with confusion.
"Totosai, you have outdone yourself this time," said Inutaisho smiling at the sword smith.
"Aye, but how could you, Inutaisho already master the swords ways of transforming into different weapons?" asked Totosai.
"You mean this sword can heal, and be a weapon?" asked Inutaisho.
"Why yes, I made it like that seeing how Sesshoumaru dislikes Tensaiga, just because it can't kill," said Totosai, remember when Sesshoumaru first ordered him to make a sword that was stronger than Tetsaiga.
"I thank you old friend," said Inutaisho, as he glared back at his brother. His brother noticing the power of his brother's new sword, he retreated immediately, but he didn't get far. As Inutaisho saw his brother's eyes full of fear, he knew his brother was about to run. As his brother turned he quickly turned Hikaribatou into a bow and arrows. With only three arrows, Inutaisho picked up one, and fired it at his brother as he was about to run. Pang, went the silver bowstring as the silver arrow went flying, and into Inu Tatmaru's shoulder. This caused him to stagger, but he pulled the arrow out, and continued to run… Inutaisho just watched his brother run, as he went over to where the bloodied arrow lay on the ground. As Inutaisho picked up the arrow it immediately immediately went back to the where the bow, and the other arrows lay… as everyone watched the metal glowed briefly before they turned back in a dagger again. As Inutaisho picked up the dagger he sheathed it, and went back to where the others were watching.
"Father, please explain to us about the swords," said Sesshoumaru.
"Actually, I don't know that much about them yet, myself," said Inutaisho as he looked over at where Totosai was hiding behind his three eyed cow.
"Totosai, my friend, will you tell everyone here about your new swords?" asked Inutaisho.
"I would be honored to," said Totosai as he rose from his feet, and walked over to Inutaisho…
"Which one do you want me to explain first," asked Totosai.
"Araumaeinbatou," said Sesshoumaru glaring at the others, before they made their decision.
"Araumaeinbatou," InuYasha also said, with glee on his face.
"Hikaribatou," said Kagome because that sword was so small that she wanted to know why it was so powerful…
"Hikaribatou," said Rin as she smiled her big smile at Totosai.
"Araumaeinbatou," said Jaken knowing that if he disagreed with his master, then he would regret it for the rest of his life.
"Hikarubatou," said Miroku, because all the ladies wanted that one, so better listen to them than the demons…
POW!... seconds later there stood Totosai with a big bump on his head, and behind him… and angry Sango.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY HIRAIKOTSU!" yelled Sango staring at the boomerang swords, and two identical Hiraikotsu.
"I only made them better," said Totosai as he showed her what he had done.
"I thought you would want something better and lighter, so I took some light metal, and infused it with two of the quarter pieces," said Totosai before finishing, "try lifting it, it should be about half as light as it was before…" handing her one to lift.
"Wow, this is light, but what about those sword things?" she asked pointing at the blades that had a hilt on both ends, but were boomerang shaped.
"Those are blade boomerangs, that I infused a lot more metal into them," said Totosai, "you could say that seeing that you only have one blade I thought you could use these two blades right here, but the good thing is you can use one for defending and the other for attacking, if you have a lot of enemies to fight."
"Totosai, I'm sorry I hit you earlier, but I thank you for the new weapons," said Sango as she put her weapons together. However as she placed her weapons together everyone looked at her as if she was the one who could save the world, until she realized that the decision of which sword would be told about first was on her shoulders… however before anyone could say anything to her, she said three words… "I don't care."
This left everyone to argue. Finally, Inutaisho roared at everyone to stop arguing, and decided that the first sword that would be tested was Hikaribatou.
"Hikaribatou, which means "light sword" has many abilities. Now since this sword is a newer version of Tensaiga I made it more compact, and great abilities," said Totosai.
"One, the new Hikaribatou can save over one thousand lives in one swing, instead of one hundred like the Tensaiga," replied Totosai.
"Other abilities include, transforming into other weapons that will kill, teleportation, heals cuts, scars, ect, kills the body of the undead, transforms a pure demon into a mere mortal for a short period of time, and finally my favorite… it can absorb evil aura which can strengthen the sword," said Totosai, as he removed the sword from it's sheath. As everyone finally got a clear view of the sword it was quite magnificent actually. The blade was silver, but in reflecting light it seemed as if you could see fire on the inside of it. The handle was strapped with reddish brown cloth for a good grip. Finally the hilt was gold, but at the end of the sword handle was a blue jewel, that reminded Kagome of a sapphire.
"This stone is somewhat the main item on the sword that controls its powers… if destroyed catastrophic event will occur," said Totosai, with the look of seriousness in his eyes. After a few more looks at the Hikaribatou, Totosai sheathed the blade and handed the sheath to Inutaisho who tied it to his sash. Next Inutaisho handed Totosai the two swords that made up the power of Araumaeinbatou.
"This sword Araumaeinbatou, is a sword that is created by combining two swords together," said Totosai before finishing, "this sword is practically the same thing like as Inu Tatmaru's Helsaiga."
"Araumeinbatou, is a sword that can also split to create two similar versions of Tetsaiga, and of equal strength," said Totosai as he merged the two katanas together to show off Araumeinbatou. The double edged blade, was an even greater magnificent sight to see. The blade was black on one side, and the other was faintly light, but on inspecting closely you could see one was more of a gray than black. On the blade was an inscripted red dragon. The dragon however was faced both ways so in other words when the sword split, the dragon head was on two sides. The hilt was actually plain, with not fluff as the original Tetsaiga, but was violet, with a crescent moon in the middle. The hilt wrapped with blue silk that was spinned by demon silk spinners, was a demon barrier with the exception of the maker, and the one whos fangs came from it could hold it. At the end of the sword hand was a dog demon head to symbolize who the owner was, and what clan of demon it belonged to. As Totosai allowed everyone to look at the merged sword, he calmly placed it on the ground by the sheaths, and sheathed them. However, before anyone could whine about wanting the see it again, he unsheathed one, and before their eyes transformed into a resemblance of Tetsaiga. The blade was neither black or gray, but silver. On one side of the blade you could distinctly see half a dragon. Finally, the handle had returned to being a fluff, but the handle was black, like night. After everyone looked at the resemblance of Tetsaiga, Totosai sheathed the sword, and told everyone what capabilities it had.
"Araumeinbatou, a sword translated to be "Untamed blade of Eternity" has many capabilities," said Totosai, before finishing, "it has the same powers as Tetsaiga, only when combined it can slay over one thousand demons at a time."
"Other capabilities of this sword include teleportation, Judgment which means, that if the enemy is evil enough, then one touch of Araumeinbatou could kill them instantly," spoke Totosai.
"There should be others, but I forgot…" said Totosai, scratching his head… "oh yes, now I remember, another one is self destruction… the blade will self-destruct on the weilders command, and destroy the weilder along with his enemy, finally, there is one more ability… only Inutaisho, myself, and anyone with his blood that runs through his body, will be able to touch the Araumeinbatou." At these words, both InuYasha, and Sesshoumaru smiled with glee. However Inutaisho noticed that and told Totosai something.
"Totosai, the day I die, is the day you take back these swords, and break them in half…" said Inutaisho leaving Sesshoumaru, and InuYasha with there mouths open like… WHAT! However Inutaisho was just kidding around seeing what would happen if he said that… but all of a his cheerfull laughing face was gone, as everyone noticed he was snarling, they looked at him, and seeing his eyes were watching something they looked to see too… Kagura who could fly fast, went over to see what was happening, however she didn't return. Watching the feather, fly closer, and closer to its destination, they saw a figure on the feather fall… Sesshoumaru… the first one to see this, transformed immediately to his true form, and ran as fast as he could. As he got there Kagura safely landed on his back, when he noticed an arrow in her chest… carefully pulling it out without trying to hurt her he noticed that the arrow had the scent of dog demons on it... then he realized with horror what Inu Tatmaru had brought back with… Dog Demon warriors, guards, archers, as well as Naraku himself… Now they had a serious fight on there hands that involved hurting their own kind. Sesshoumaru, with Kagura on his back ran back as fast as he could to warn his father, InuYasha, and the rest of the group of the coming danger. As Inu Tatmaru's army finally got through the clearing of the forest there stood Inutaisho with his sons Sesshoumaru, and InuYasha, each standing side by side glaring at the odds of one to three hundred. However, unknown to the army the three dog demon unsheathed their powerful swords… Tetsaiga for InuYasha, Tokijin for Sesshoumaru, and Araumeinbatou for Inutaisho. Intaisho just looked as he was about to destroy his own people.
"Try to spare their lives," he said as he swung his sword lightly. InuYasha, and Sesshoumaru did the same, but they couldn't die… they were the only ones who could stop Naraku.
"Wind Scar!" yelled InuYasha swinging his blade down, causing gold light to erupt from the fang.
"Tokijin," spoke Sesshoumaru calmly as blue light erupted from the demon blade.
"Araumeinbatou," cried Inutaisho as a single tear fell from his eyes… as he watched his gold, and red blast follow his son's energy. The gold energy, and blue energy merged creating a green energy, until Inutaisho's energy engulfed their attack, and became a black energy. The black energy started taking shape as it became a life size dog demon in its true form. The energy then disappeared, but as the smoke cleared, the soldiers were unconscious not dead. Judgment had passed, and the creatures were innocent, but one was not. Lying on the ground dead was none other than Inu Tatmaru, his sword shattered to pieced, but before Inutaisho could destroy the blade for good, Saimyosho, picked up the remains to take back to their master… Naraku. As Inutaisho looked at his brother… his armor crushed, his face scars, and fluff slowly fading, the body became nothing more as a skeleton again… with a look of sadness in his eyes Inutaisho took the remains and buried them where his brother had died honorably before. As the army regained consciousness they realized that Inu Tatmaru had lied about Sesshoumaru, and InuYasha's death. As Inu Tatmaru's army greeted the sons, and the newly revived Inutaisho… Naraku appeared and before anyone could stop him he took the sharp point of Helsaiga and stabbed Kagome in the chest… as she fell he grabbed her Shikon shards from the necklace hanging from her neck. As he got the shards he also ran up to Kohaku who was still recovering from the new revival, but he couldn't move as Naraku grabbed the shard embedded in his shoulder. Once more Kohaku died, and now that Kagome didn't have her shards, he would stay dead. As InuYasha ran up to confront the murderer he ran off leaving InuYasha who could only murmur one thing on his mind "Kagome…" As he ran to where Kagome lay, her front was covered in blood, but by her scent… she was dead.
"NO! Narku… you bastard…" said InuYasha, who's eyes turn red with anger…as he transformed into a full demon… except this time… his transformation was different.. his ears were changing, they became more elf-like, and his eye turned from red back to their original… InuYasha had turned into a true full demon… out of his love for Kagome.
End of Chapter
Sneak Peak of Next Chapter:
Will InuYasha die or avenge Kagome? Is Kohaku, and Kagome really dead? Find out in the next chapter of New Enemies, and Unexpected allies.