Author's Note: Sorry for not updating as soon as many of you would think! School is such a killer, as a lot of you would know, and so should gladly agree with me. Must get good grades so I can drive though. And who the heck doesn't want that? Not me!
Anyways, onto a new and more important matter. This is all about Taisuke's past and how he knew Naraku. The demon sisters fight, but one will not be so lucky to see tomorrow. I won't tell you which one it is though, you may even be surprised by the outcome. Thank you for all the reviews! I love all of you, yup I do! Please read and review! Enjoy!
Important info: Ok, in this chapter, Taisuke's past will be revealed. I'll give ya a heads up now that it's all about him and Naraku. I know it's wrong and not true, but this is my story, so there. lol, so when you're reading it, don't be like, "Hey, that's not what happened to Naraku!"…I know…
lady kjerston of the western: No! I'll do anything please! ACK! They're (cough) choking me!...Ok, I'm kidding. Your freaks aren't here. But maybe they will be in my nightmares... (shudder), my freaks do... Ahem! Thanks for your review!
Somegirl1110: It's all good, no worries. So long as you review though, heehee. Thank you for your compliments! I've worked very hard to get this story in the right mood that I want to be in. Yeah, it's just a normal young boy and girl crush that are discovering these feelings and are confused about how to deal with 'em... Ah, how I remember those days... lol, man they sucked. And maybe I will write that second part. Yeah! Grand kiddies! And Inuyasha thought he could escape it, lol, nuh uh! Thanks for your review!
Suaru: Holy shit yeah! Damn, a lot of people really want Inu dead. huh..(ponders thoughtfully) but not us! We love him! lol, and yeah, you got it right. And sorry to confuse you, but it had to be done! Thanks for your review!
Miru Amai: Oh yeah. lol, I just had to throw that in the plot, I guess just to spice things up. Thanks for your review!
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Chapter Thirteen: Betrayal Is a Symptom pt II
"Tetsusaiga!" Inuyasha roared and swung his sword down with all his might. Reina didn't know what to expect, but when that large red blade made contact with the ground, a powerful energy wave went straight for her. At the last second, she got prepared.
She pulled out a fan that was similar to Kagura's, but was blue and a different design. Reina raised her fan and swung it across, "Frozen wind!" She summoned her attack and the wind had, as she predicted, frozen Inuyasha's energy wave, and now what separated them was just a jagged wall of ice.
The trees that had once been in their way had been ripped from the ground and flown elsewhere. So they were standing in a clearing now and not huddled under massive trees, though the gang kind of wished for them back now.
Through the crystal wall, Inuyasha saw Reina smirk, and he felt now that he had never been more pissed off in his life. How dare she just think she defeated him so soon?
No. Inuyasha had so much more power left that he almost laughed. 'So, she thinks she has gotten rid of me already. This stupid ice doesn't scare me like she thinks it does.'
Kagome and the others behind Inuyasha could only stare in shock at what this demon could do. Suddenly, the ice cracked slowly. With the ice being so large, you could hear the loud cracks from far away and it made Kagome shiver in fright, 'How can we stop her?' She narrowed her eyes. 'If she can do that to every attack we throw at her, then we could be in real danger. Hopefully my arrows' power doesn't fall short against hers.'
The ice broke apart and it all fell to the ground in many pieces large and small, they were instantly melting in the ground now.
Reina kept her smirk, "That will be you and your friends when I'm finished here." She announced.
"Over my dead body" Inuyasha muttered, but knew she heard him anyway because her smirk grew, "Yes, that's how I planned it."
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Taisuke watched Reina fight Inuyasha in his mirror. When he saw her overconfident grin he frowned, "Don't be a fool Reina. You're smarter than that. Don't show any signs of what you're next move will be to steal the sword." He glared at her, but he knew she would somehow do everything right. She always did just when he thought she wouldn't.
'Naraku, you're a disgrace. Being your younger brother, you should be so ashamed.' He closed his eyes. He remembered the times when he and Onigumo were young, playing together and everything in their lives were just too perfect to be true. But then, as they grew older, they grew more apart, realizing how different they were as time passed.
'I was only thirteen when they took you away.' Taisuke sighed, and it all came back to him.
-Flashback-
A sixteen year old Onigumo watched his younger brother play with a couple of other boys his age. He scoffed, 'He isn't special, I don't know why he isn't doing any of these chores.' He threw down the basket of herbs he was holding and walked away from his home.
He and his brother lived alone. Their parents died of a disease many years ago and Onigumo took care of Taisuke from then on. He felt he was prepared for that responsibility. He knew he had to be anyway, he was forced to take care of him under the final request of his parents. And plus, being so young when they passed away, how could he refuse something like that?
He walked on, but then turned back around to see that men on horses were suddenly raiding the entire village, and so he ran back to find his younger brother. "Taisuke!" He called once he reached the village.
The thieves on horses were everywhere now, he didn't understand how there could be so many. "Taisuke where are you?" He called and saw the thieves on the horses attack other young men his age and run off past the village.
Just when he saw Taisuke escape the grasp of one man who jumped off his horse, he was running toward him. Just then, Onigumo felt a hard tug on the back of his gi and he was lifted roughly on the horse, "Don't move or I'll kill you!" The thief shouted, but Onigumo wasn't listening. He kept looking around for his brother but he couldn't see him anymore.
"Onigumo!" Taisuke called out and dodged out of the way from stampeding horses. He saw his older brother being taken away and he ran after him, trying to catch up to the horse's speed and possibly save him.
Young Taisuke tripped on a hard rock, making his toe bleed, but he didn't feel it, "No, brother!" He called and reached out a hand toward Onigumo until he couldn't see him anymore.
-End of flashback-
"What an idiot." He muttered and clenched his fists. Years ago when Naraku still reigned, he heard about how he became a demon and Taisuke realized it wasn't much different than how he had become a demon also.
-Flashback-
Taisuke was seventeen now and traveling to another village since the one he and his brother lived in years ago was attacked by cat demons. They had claimed the land as their own and everyone left living in it had the choices of leaving right then, or be killed on the spot. Taisuke felt he had more to live for, so he just ran away. Away from his old home, his old life.
His footsteps felt heavy and tired. He honestly didn't know when he'd see another village again. He hadn't planned on going to a certain one; he had just run for his life.
'Ugh, this is ridiculous. There has to be another village around somewhere that I can stay in, if they let me that is.' He shivered from the cold winds and looked around the forest he was walking in. He just shrugged and continued walking.
About an hour later, he came into a clearing and saw a hint of smoke rising from behind some other trees that were a good couple of hundred feet from where he was. 'T-That must be a village there.' He though, now energized and the weariness he felt in his legs and feet faded away. He ran on the way to the smoke that looked as though it as pending from roofs of houses from their fireplaces. Winter was coming after all.
Once he made it there however, the fire wasn't from fireplaces. It was from all over the place. Demons were attacking the village, just like his was. Taisuke couldn't believe it, was every village being taken over and ruined by demons?
He figured it was because Naraku had gone into hiding again. And every time he did, the demons came out and wanted to have their fun before he would come back.
Just before Taisuke could run away and escape, one of the demons saw him and chased him just as he turned to make a run for it. Taisuke discovered that it was a bird demon now that it got close enough for him to see it. It swept down low to Taisuke's height and its clawed feet picked him up by the shoulders and flew away.
Taisuke kicked and punched the demon with all the strength he had left, 'No, I want to live.' He kept thinking to himself, and by some miracle, he had managed to make the demon drop him. Taisuke realized his mistake of not doing this when he was nearer to the ground, because now he was falling toward the tall trees underneath him.
Taisuke shut his eyes tight, preparing for the impact, even for death.
When he landed on the ground, he couldn't believe he was alive, and of how much pain he felt.
Both of his legs were broken, and so was his left arm. His face and especially his shoulders that the bird demon had grabbed him by were all torn and he bled from the severe wounds. That's when he thought of something, something he'd never thought he'd lower himself to do in his life. He called upon the evil demons to help him live.
Taisuke had heard of people doing this when they were injured and needed to live. But of course, he hadn't heard that you become a demon yourself when they take over your mind and body, creating a new being.
-End of flashback-
'I wonder what would have happened to Onigumo and I had the thieves not come.' Taisuke thought in question and shook his head, 'The past is the past, and nothing can be changed.' He reminded himself.
He watched Reina in the mirror again, waiting for her to attack once more and defeat Inuyasha before he would get angry and have to do it himself.
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"Inuyasha." Kagome murmured and saw his ears twitch. He heard her call out his name and he knew what she meant.
'I know Kagome. But I don't know what to do. We've never faced a demon like her before.' Inuaysha didn't make a move to turn to Kagome. Even though he wanted to hug her and whisper sweet words in her ear that everything will be ok, he couldn't. He longed for it, but knew he'd get the chance to later when he was done with this fight.
Inuaysha brought his sword back up again, preparing to jump up and fight Reina head on, 'No matter how powerful she may be, I'll take her down. A demon's power never scared me away before, and it's not going to now.' He raised Tetsusaiga and jumped up like he planned.
"Reina!" Hineto called and jumped off of Kira, the flying horse she had ridden on to get there. She stumbled off Kira and glared up at Reina, completely missing the fact for a split second that Inuaysha and his other friends with him were practically standing right alongside her.
"Reina! What the hell are you doing? You know this is my mission lord Taisuke had for me so go back to the castle. I'll take down Inuyasha myself." She shouted at her older sister.
Reina rolled her eyes during Hineto's speech. "After you pathetically failed the mission he sent me. So I suggest you get out of here before I have to fight you as well." She stated and closed her eyes in boredom.
Hineto gasped in shockat Reina's words, and after she recovered hurriedly she narrowed her eyes in hatred, "You wouldn't dare fight me, I'm apart of you. We're apart of each other… How could you betray me like this?" She clenched her fists.
"Because you're a damned fool who cannot do anything right." Reina said calmly and opened her eyes. She glared at Hineto with her ice blue eyes and felt her just about tremble under her deadly gaze.
Inuyasha and the others just watched with bewilderment as the two carried on arguing. The hanyou chose to just stay out of the way on this one. He decided to let the two fight so one can die and he'd just have to fight one like he planned, instead of fighting two. So, he let them try to kill each other first before he'd have to step in again.
The others behind him seemed to be thinking the same thing, and so just watched, with much caution though of course.
Reina had never really liked Hineto that much, but she never felt the need to kill either. Maybe this moment was a test. Was Taisuke watching them with a smirk on his face? Did he want them to fight?... Over being his 'right hand man er-girl?' Reina shook her head once. She knew her maser wasn't like that. He just wanted the job done, and so sent them to deal with it for him. And in return, they were able to live.
"Alright Hineto. You've gotten on my last nerve." Reina flicked open her fan and prepared herself just as Hineto brought out her blazing scythe.
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Taisuke wasn't happy. "What the hell are they doing?" He muttered, wanting to scream it instead, but stopped himself. He just sighed and in its place focused his mirror on Inuyasha and the others with him. 'What are they really after?' He wondered, his dark eyes searching for answers that he desperately needed.
'What's in the South that could possibly be so important to them that they'd travel this far?' He grit his teeth in anger.
After a few short minutes, Taisuke sucked in a sharp breath. 'No, it couldn't be that… could it?' He clenched his fists in excitement of finding out the truth.
He laughed. He started laughing and gazed into the mirror at Inuyasha's troubled face once more, "Inuyasha, don't even think about getting to those orbs before I do… They'll be mine."