INUYASHA: I DON'T BELONG TO ANYONE BUT MYSELF!
Chapter Two: Soul-Stones and the Ultimate Attacks of the Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga
Sesshoumaru coolly glided into the classroom through an open window in his youkai ball form. The stench of humans made him sick to the stomach, but he didn't have much to do, and had no choice but to teach these filthy things about youkai. He couldn't believe that they knew nothing about youkai, he had a flip through the book that they were to use for the class and much to his distaste, humans had pretty much forgotten about the very existence of youkai to the point where they were considered a myth. Sesshoumaru glared around the room and found no signs of Sakura. He wondered where the woman was.
So far, the only faces he was met with were faces of awe. "If you continue to stare at me like that with your filthy mouths open, I shall rip your jaws out." He spat coldly glaring each and every one of the students down. The students up front shrunk into their seats, which lightened his mood considerably. Nothing was more satisfying to see the look of terror upon humans' faces. "Has any of you seen Sakura?" He added in clipped tones. Slowly some of the students shook their heads. "Then we shall…"
Sesshoumaru trailed off when he heard this clicking noise. He stared down at a student near the door, "I will only ask you once to quit making those ridiculous noises. If I am forced to ask you again, I shall slice you to pieces." The kid made motions to explain that it wasn't her and pointed to the tall redheaded boy he had met earlier. What was his name again? Rei? Royi, Ron? Yes, his name was Ron. "Ningen," he spat at the girl, "If you lie to me, you shall…" Sesshomaru didn't even have a chance to finish because he heard the dull thud of someone driving their claws through the strange block of wood in front of him.
The next thing he knew, he was able to see the tips of someone's claws, probably Sakura, since he could smell her nearby. The claws glowed green and the door melted down and vaporized. "Ah… well, we'll just need someone to do something about that." She said calmly as she made her way to the front of the class.
"Vile woman, do you have any idea how late you are?"
"I'm fully aware of that Sesshoumaru, it's just that I got lost and I couldn't find a way to open that strange door over there."
"Use the window." Sesshoumaru said carelessly. Sakura rolled her eyes at him. "You start the class." Sesshoumaru snapped before calmly leaning back in the corner. Sakura ignored him.
"So, I've heard that you all found this class very interesting, considering the fact that most of you are sitting up front. Please do not mind Sesshoumaru, he has some sort of mental problem that can never be fixed."
"Sakura, I asked you to start the class, not to insult me."
"If you think you're so great, then why don't you start the class." Sesshoumaru growled as he gave Sakura a "slight" push with his shoulder, but it wasn't slight enough to not have her stumble. Sakura shot Sesshoumaru her coldest glare, which, honestly speaking, made Sesshoumaru a bit afraid for a moment.
"I've skimmed through the pages of this ridiculous book, which so prides itself in calling it Defense Against Demonic Energy, when I fail to see any useful information on youkai. Thus, I shall dispose of it." With that, Sesshoumaru slammed his claws into the book making it melt into nothing but gaseous vapor. "We shall start anew. Get rid of those useless books and take out a clean sheet of rice paper…"
"Parchment." Sakura muttered, Sesshoumaru gave her his do-you-mind look.
"You shall be taking notes from me, Sesshoumaru. Before we start I shall give you a forewarning, and I will only tell you once. If I catch anyone cheating in anyway, I will kill you. And don't think you can fool this Sesshoumaru by copying from someone else's homework because I can smell your scent all over…" Sesshoumaru froze and glared around the room. "The person with the nasty case of grease in his hair, stand." He snarled glaring around the room, his eyes searching for the intruder. His golden orbs searched around the class until it landed on a platinum blond-headed boy in the back. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the creature. "You, boy, are the filthiest of the filthiest ningens I have ever met. The next time you come to my classes, wash your hair."
Sakura snorted into the textbook she was browsing through. Sesshoumaru glared at the hanyou. "Do you find me funny?"
"No, I find you just as ridiculous as most of those foolish humans that rush blindly at things that poses as a great threat to their lives."
"Are you comparing me to a lowly ningen?" Sesshoumaru snarled, his eyes flashing red.
"Technically." Was the reply he got from Sakura who just frowned down into the book. "And don't think you can change into your true form, Tenseiga will keep your from transforming upon anger instincts. She as right, because the moment Sesshoumaru bared his fangs at Sakura, Tenseiga pulsed twice and his red eyes returned to their normal amber ones. Most of the students had shrunk back in the seats regretting to have taken up the front seat. Sakura snapped the book shut and tossed it out the window, "You're right for once in your life, Sesshoumaru," She said as she released her light whip to shred it to pieces with several flicks of her wrist. At any rate, we are going to start anew. I shall dictate all the information we need for the introductory stages of youkai defending strategies. And the first one is, without miko or houshi powers, humans are generally defenseless towards youkai."
"The best thing to do when you see a youkai is to back away from it, because if you strike it, it will attack you back and kill you in the end, since youkais move very quickly. On top of that, they are generally very large, such as scorpion youkais, centipede youkai, inuyoukai, kitsunes, and whatnot. The taiyoukai are slightly different. It's a lot easier to avoid them, since they see humans as the dirt beneath their feet and generally ignore them. But if you anger a taiyoukai, even with the powers of a houshi, you are vulnerable to death. Actually, houshi are generally defenseless to taiyoukais. Mikos are different. At any rate, one of the best ways to avoid youkais is to back down."
"Youkais think they're better than us, huh? Well, we've got our wands!" The platinum blonde boy drawled from his spot in the room. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the thing.
"Another thing Sakura forgot to mention was that youkais are completely immune to your preposterous sticks that spurt a bunch of junk. If you do not believe me, I suggest you throw me one of your junks… the more powerful the better." The boy flew to his foot and whipped his wand out.
"Stupefy!" He shouted. A jet of red sparks shot out from his wand and hit Sesshoumaru directly in the chest. The so-called spell as the boy called it, shimmered around his chest before dissipating completely. Sesshoumaru was completely unharmed.
"In addition to that, taiyoukais are even faster than regular youkais, by the time you finished your incantation, they'd be right behind you, or they'd block it with whatever they have: barriers, dokksuki, poisonous miasma, absorption (in the case of Naraku), poisonous threads, or some, such as inuyoukais, by the simple swipe of their claws. Some of them may transform into their true form, which may have a hard shell where the spell would simply bounce off it. Probably the worst one of all of them would be absorption, since once the spell is absorbed, the youkai can fuse that as one of their powers.
"Another way that youkais fight is by fusing, or by absorption, as I said before. Once the youkai fuses into one, it becomes much more stronger, and harder to defeat."
"So you're saying we should just run from these youkai things?"
"We're not things." Sesshoumaru stated blandly, "We have much more capabilities than you weak ningens. We youkai have faster healing capabilities, and we live much longer than you."
"Well, if you're so much better than us, then why are you teaching us?"
Sesshoumaru glared at the blonde boy. The boy obviously needed to be put into check. So, without so much for blinking, Sesshoumaru casually let his poison light whip (Dokksuki) fly and slice the impudent thing's desk neatly into two. He raised his hand to bring the light whip down to slice the boy cleanly into two when another light whip wound itself around his. Sesshoumaru glared as Sakura. "Release my dokksuki at once." He said, his poker face not flickering the slightest. Sakura also looked dead serious. Her golden eyes pierced through his own. "You are nothing but Inuyasha's guardian, you have no right to stop me from killing the thing."
"Sesshoumaru, get rid of your dokksuki, now."
"Are you telling this Sesshoumaru what to do?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am, and if you make me really angry, I'll dissipate your dokksuki for you."
"Be my guest." Sesshoumaru said, his eyes hardening slightly. Sakura glared at Sesshoumaru before her light whip changed colors. The pink light whip glowed brightly as it clenched around his own green light whip. Before he knew it, the light whip vanished in a shower of green sparkles. Sakura said nothing as she yanked her light whip back to herself. The whip made swirling motions as the tip sliced off some of the humans' hats and cut up the walls before gathering around Sakura in an elegant flowing pink line with a bulb at the end of it. Flicking her arm down, the light whip shortened and vanished into Sakura's hand in a glow of pink, which faded to green and the green glow slowly vanished. Most of the students had looks of awe on their faces. How Sakura did it, they didn't know.
"How did you do that?" A sandy-haired boy asked wide-eyed.
"Foolish boy, you ningens do not have the capability to create dokksuki, only inuyoukais can create those. As for you, Sakura, I fail to see the reason behind your dokksuki, you are merely hanyou. Hanyou do not form dokksuki."
"As a matter of face, I'm four-fifths youkai. If hanyou has a little more youkai blood in them, they have inheriting rights."
"So your dokksuki was inherited from your father was it? Then how do you make it turn pink, that is not the capability of youkai, it is the ability of a miko."
"Technically… and in case you have forgotten I do have miko powers."
"Humph."
"Anyway, that's the end of the class, and I shall learn your names later next class, and don't think that you can ditch our class, because either Sesshoumaru or I can smell you clearly three miles away. You are dismissed."
"Today you shall be making Elymier's poison. The ingredients are wolf's bane, three unicorn hair, the poison of a cobra, the hair of an inuyoukai, and tarantula poison." Shippou sat in Snape's potions class next to Harry. Snape gave him the shivers and reminded him a little of Naraku. Of course he didn't have a calmer composure than Naraku since he saw him explode at the Gryfindors several times. As for the kid, whom Harry, Ron, and Hermione called "Malfoy" smirked at them before giving his wand a little flick. At first Shippou didn't know what he did until they reached for their matches to light their stove for their cauldron. Harry glared in Malfoy's direction, while Malfoy smirked as he tossed the box of matches in the air and caught it.
"Ah, I see Potter and Shippou had ate their matches, fifty points from Gryfindor and an F for the rest of the class."
'Wait! I can make a fire!" Shippou cried out. Snape sneered down at him while the other Slytherins chuckled. "I really can!" Shippou continued to protest ignoring Harry and Ron's pleas.
"Five more points from Gryfindor for talking back to me." Snape snarled. Shippou glared at him, "Another ten for glaring at a professor." A lot of the other Gryfindors grumbled around Shippou, then he heard a nasty comment from the Malfoy human.
"That stupid Squirrel thinks he's so great, he's nothing but a pot of dragon dung."
"NANI?" Shippou yelled jumping up on the counter, "Just because I'm a kid doesn't mean that I can't hear you calling me dragon shit!" All the other students gawped at the angry kitsune, who actually swore. He had learned that from Inuyasha. "I'll show you! Kitsune bi!" With one wave of his tiny hand a gush of greenish fire shot out from his hand and set Malfoy's robe's on fire. Malfoy ran around screaming that he was going to die so this girl that looked like a dog with it's face squashed in grabbed her cauldron and splashed cold water all over him.
"A HUNDRED POINTS FROM GRYFINDOR FOR HURTING ANOTHER STUDENT, NOW GET TO WORK!"
"I'll show that smelly slime ball once I turn two hundred… I'll slice him to pieces!" Shippou grumbled as he plopped down on his seat. Now everyone hated him, all because of some annoying Malfoy guy. How he wished that he were like Inuyasha or maybe even better Miroku so that he could suck Malfoy up with the wind tunnel. Shippou sighed again. Much to his surprise a lot of the Gryfindors were smiling and winking at him. Some even whispered that it served Malfoy right.
"Well, I guess that Keet-shun bee thing can make fire, so we probably won't be needing matches." Harry said as he started the stove "Can you do that again so we can light our stove?"
"Okay!" Shippou complied happily, "KITSUNE BI!" Pretty soon they had a nice fire going. Much to Shippou's relief, things went pretty peacefully except a round-faced boy had somehow melted his cauldron down while Snape glowered over him. Shippou and Harry's potion turned out perfectly, even rivaling Hermione's potion. After that, Harry scooped a little into a small vial and corked it before giving it a label and setting it in front of the table. While Harry was gone, Shippou sniffed the potion and stuck his finger in it because it smelled pretty good. Snape saw that and yelled at him to take his finger out, but it was too late. Shippou had stuck his finger into the cauldron and licked the potion off his finger. "Yummy!" He crowed. Snape snatched an antidote and ran to Shippou.
"Foolish kid! You're going to die now!"
"Huh? I am? I feel fine."
"What? Don't you feel your blood running cold or the stiffening of your muscles?" Shippou shook his head no. Snape slapped his hand over Shippou's forehead to find that Shippou didn't have a fever. "That's strange… does that mean that poison brewed by wizards and witches are ineffective for demons as well?"
"Can I have the rest now?"
"NO!" The grease ball yelled before flicking his wand at Shippou and Harry's cauldron to clean it. "You will not! Class is over now get out of here!"
Grumbling, Shippou hopped off his seat and followed Harry and Ron in Hermione's arms. "Wow! That poison didn't even do a thing to you!" Ron babbled, "I really liked the way you burned Malfoy's robes!" Hermione gave Ron a disappointed frown. "How did you do that? Is that the spell you use for fire to shoot out from your hands? Keet-shun bee? Wow! I wish we could do that! Keet-shun bee!" Ron yelled pathetically brandishing his wand around. Apparently, nothing happened.
"That's supposed to be youkai magic, so you can't perform it, Ron." Hermione told Ron dryly. "And it wasn't Keet-Shun Bee, it was Kitsune Bi, which means fox fire. Apparently it's a special characteristic of fox youkais."
"How come you know so much about these youkai things? We haven't even started the classes yet!"
"That's because she reads the textbooks before hand." Harry said, "But maybe Hermione's information might be a bit off-track." He added remembering what Sesshoumaru had told them.
"I even read that Kitsunes can form something called the Dokksuki as well…" Hermione continued. Shippou sighed, now that was definitely off-track.
"No, that's what inuyoukais can do, Kitsunes can't form the Dokksuki, only Kitsune Bi. We're usually famous for our tricks and illusionary magic."
"Wow! What do you mean by that?" Harry asked.
"Well, I can shape shift into different things and make small temporary illusions such as my fox top." Harry and the rest gave him a look of interest, "Umm… that means that I can change into different things, but since I'm still young, they don't last as long as they usually do or they're incomplete. See?" With that Shippou changed himself into Inuyasha. The three friends gawked at him. But it didn't last long because Inuyasha stomped over to him and punched him in the head with his fist
"You little runt! Stop imitating me!"
"Inuyasha!" Shippou cried out changing back into his normal form in a puff of pinkish-white smoke, "You're so mean! But I missed you!" With that he jumped on Inuyasha's head to chew on his ear.
"Don't even think about it you stupid fox!" Inuyasha yelled punching Shippou off his head. Shippou cried and started rolling around on the floor whining about Inuyasha being too mean. Inuyasha glared at the Kitsune on the floor and grabbed him by his tail angrily. "You should be in your next class, now go there!" Without further ado, Inuyasha dropped Shippou on his head and stomped away.
"Are you okay?" Hermione asked picking Shippou up off the floor. Shippou started yelling and squirming in her grasp shaking his fist at Inuyasha.
"You're so mean Inuyasha!"
"KEH!" Was the only reply he got.
"Come on, let's go to Defense against the Dark Arts class. I'd hate to see how Umbridge would treat us if we were late." With that, the quartet went off to their next class. Shippou immediately sensed how boring it was going to be. Umbridge was the ugliest of the ugliest human he had ever laid eyes on. In fact, she was so hideous looking that Shippou first thought she was youkai, but the lack of youki from her complied that she was merely human. She was ridiculously short, only a few inches taller than Sesshoumaru's human companion. Shippou gawped up at her. She didn't seem very pleased to see Shippou's bushy tail and his fox feet. Her head was enormous much like a frog's and her mouth was so wide that it literally stretched from one ear to the other. When she grinned Shippou saw a row of pointy teeth.
"Good morning class." She spoke. Her voice was high and squeaky like a girl's and made Shippou cringe, his tail bristling along. Nobody responded to the woman, or youkai, or whatever she was. The only response she got from them were silence, frowns, and grumbling. "Now, now, that was utterly pathetic of you. I require for you to respond with: 'Good morning professor Um—" She was cut off when Shippou raised his hand (he had learned to do that from Hermione before he started his classes). "Yes." She inquired her voice sounding sickeningly sweet.
"Are you related to Jaken in any way?"
"Excuse me? Who is this Jaken?"
"He looks like a toad... well, he's some sort of lizard youkai, but we're not entirely sure what he is, but you're youkai aren't you?" Shippou cocked his head to one side and sniffed the air. "You obviously don't smell like one, but there are plenty of youkai out there that can mask their…"
"Foolish half-breed, I will not…"
"But I'm not a half-breed, I'm a full fox youkai! I can't transform into my true form since I'm too young…"
"Really? Then what can you do?"
"Um… but I asked you a question, woman." Gasps spread around the classroom as Umbridge's bulbous eyes bulged. "Oh and you have similar eyes to Jaken too. Maybe you're his mate! I didn't know someone as old as Jaken would still be finding a mate. How old are you? Three thousand years old…"
"Silencio!" Umbridge said sweetly flicking her wand at the Kitsune. The spell hit Shippou in the forehead and hovered around him before dispersing into tiny explosions of blue sparkles.
"… Yeah, maybe you're three thousand years old! Eww! But I heard from Rin that Jaken was twenty thousand years old or maybe more! Gross! You wouldn't want to mate with someone seventeen thousand years older than you, now would you?" The class gasped again. The spell did not affect Shippou in any way. In fact, he kept on speaking as if nothing had happened. Umbridged looked shocked and flicked her wand at Shippou again, this time clearly pronouncing her spell. The Silencing spell hit Shippou who had gone on a rampant about how he had miraculously dodged Jaken's staff of heads.
"How could that possibly be? I just hit him with a spell and it didn't work!" She continued to try her spell on Shippou not realizing that the little fox youkai complained that the sparkles were annoying him. Umbridge looked annoyed and tried another curse on him, but that also dispersed into a shower of sparkles around Shippou.
"Can you cut that out, it's annoying." Shippou whined, and when she had tried too many spells, hexes, and curses on him, He shouted, "Kitsune bi!" And a blast of green flame turned Umbridge's wand into a pile of dust at her feet. Umbridge looked horrified and started shaking in sheer terror.
It was nighttime after classes and Inuyasha hated his conditions in this place. Couldn't everyone see that they had Naraku to kill? Obviously Shippou was too preoccupied in trying to practice his annoying illusionary tricks. He had just managed to get away from Shippou's giant pink ball, and Sesshoumaru was too much in his own little world with the exception of glaring at anyone who so much as looked in his direction. Kagome was too nice to refuse that crazy dimwit old fart, who was worse than Toutosai and Myoga put together, Miroku was preoccupied with asking the nearest girl if she would bear his child. Sango was busy glaring at Miroku and the Sakura woman was too interested in finding the rest of his souls.
In fact, she had just popped out in his face, scaring him senseless. She grabbed his arm and told him that one of his soul-stones were nearby. "So?" Inuyasha snapped as Sakura dragged him across the halls and down to a place where there was no one.
"So? It would be useful for you. The reason why I brought you here was to tell you about your five soul stones, with these, maybe you might get some clearing up to do." With one flick of her hands, Sakura created a barrier that repelled all sounds from the people outside of it. "Sit."
"I prefer to stand."
"Alright, do whatever." Sakura sat on the ground cross-legged. Although Inuyasha rejected her offer, he sat on the ground like a dog a little far from Sakura. "Now, to begin with, your father was a great inuyoukai and passed as one of the most powerful youkais in all of Japan. He was so powerful that his blood, which courses through your veins give even hanyou very strong powers even without the Tetsusaiga." She nodded towards the sword in Inuyasha's side. "Despite the fact that your mother was human, your father left you with immense powers, and no, they are not your Iron Reaver Soul Stealer nor your Blades of Blood. However, as a child your small body cannot withstand the powers and they will end up shredding you to pieces. Thus to prevent that, your father ordered me to split your soul into six parts and scatter them around Japan. Then he had Myoga leave you with the Tetsusaiga. Not only was the Tetsusaiga used to seal your youkai soul, but it was also served to make you stronger so that when you are ready to reunite all six parts of your souls, you will be able to survive. So far I understand that you know how to use the Kaze no Kizu without the aid of the youki from other youkai, the bakkurrya, and your diamond blast and finally the barrier shattering red Tetsusagia. These are enough to gather two of your souls, the soul of the youkai markings, which you are ready to inherit and your speed. There are a couple of powers to the Tetsusaiga. One of them is when the Tetsusaiga's blade would transform into dragon scales, which can actually do what Naraku usually does: absorb poisonous miasma, youki or youkai powers. But with out the fifth soul-stone, you cannot use it, for it will kill you."
"How do you know all of these."
"My father was Inutaisho-sama's right hand man. The two of them were very powerful inuyoukai, and they were like brothers. Like your father, my father had a tolerance for humans and he eventually married my mother, who was hanyou. Unfortunately, he was murdered along with my mother by dark mikos, who were trying to use his powers as well as my mother's. Although my mother didn't possess miko powers, her human side was a long line of very powerful mikos, more powerful than Midoriko herself. But it was only after every tenth generation. At any rate, that isn't important. When father and mother were killed, your father took me in as a child and saved me from being killed from the opposing miko powers and my youki. Once I was saved I took the place of my father.
"From that position, I learned many things about the Tetsusaiga and the Tenseiga. Both are very powerful swords. About the Tenseiga, let me tell you a little secret. The Tenseiga can kill, but, it can only kill evil, and Sesshoumaru does not know how to transform the Tenseiga into it's powerful form that can really save a thousand lives with one swing, even those who have long lost their souls from the spirits of the underworld."
"Okay, so what does the Tenseiga look like when it 'transforms'?" Inuyasha asked snidely.
"Well, it looks like the Tetsusaiga, only the hilt is different. They are, after all twin swords since they have been forged from your father's fangs. In addition to Tenseiga, it cannot kill you, since it still possesses the magic from your father and you are not evil."
"Are you saying that that bastard can kill Naraku with the Tenseiga?"
"Technically, but only with the ultimate attack of the Tetsusaiga. Anyway, Sesshoumaru doesn't know how to transform it… yet. He also does not know that it can kill evil souls."
"Then how come he saved Kagura with it?"
"The Tenseiga is the the life giving sword, it give life to anything it slices, evil or not. Besides, Kagura is not evil. She possesses some good in her."
"WHAT? Then why does she keep attacking us with her blades of wind and her dance of the death?"
"She does that because Naraku possesses her heart. At any rate, I am not here to give you a brief on Kagura or Naraku. I am here to tell you about your soul stones, the Tenseiga, and the Tetsusaiga."
"Well?"
"Well… about the Tetsusaiga, it has three more abilities after the dragon scale Tetsusaiga. These three also require the use of your fifth and most powerful soul. There is also an advanced version of the barrier shattering Tetsusaiga. This can be used on very powerful barriers such as Midoriko's barrier. The blade grows longer and a form of red mist forms around the Tetsusaiga as it glows. This is something you will need, because Naraku is using Midoriko's remains to form a barrier around his and Voldermort's whereabouts."
"Do I need a soul stone for this?"
"No, fortunately you don't. You simply need to shatter the barrier of a very powerful horse youkai. This horse youkai can create barriers that can actually destroy any weapons that touch it. But before you go off in a frenzy to find it, I must tell you that this horse youkai is in our own time. The next thing I must tell you is about your soul-stones."
"Okay…" Inuyasha grumbled as he flopped back down on the ground.
"Your five soul stones are scattered all around Japan. You need not to return to the past to collect them, but you will need them before we can go barging in on Naraku and his little friend. The first soul-stone, like I said before, gives you the rightful markings on your face that you do not have right now, it also gives you quadruple the speed which you can go at the moment, which I must sadly agree with Sesshoumaru, is agonizingly slow."
"WHAT?"
"Well, I move faster than Sesshoumaru, and I consider him slow, so what would you be to me?" Sakura pondered aloud tapping her finger against her chin playfully. "Anyway, it also gives you the ability to fly and become the youkai ball, you can also jump much higher. It also enhances your senses, for example you'd be able to smell much better as well as see through the dark better and hear sharper. You will also become stronger. Now the second soul-stone gives you absolute control over your youkai blood so that only when you are extremely, extremely angry will you transform into your youkai from, much like Sesshoumaru only you do not have the Tenseiga to pulse and bring you under control. However, do not think that it can save you from transforming into your youkai form when you drop the Tetsusaiga, because it cannot. It also gives you the power to heal faster than you can now, for example, the many holes you receive in your stomach would be considered nothing with this healing power. The third gives you the poisonous claws that your father had and it will give you the liberty to create the Dokksuki that Sesshoumaru often uses and once you receive this you will be able to keep yourself from transforming when you lose contact with the Tetsusaiga. It also allows you to elongate your claws so that they are three inches long and those claws can be used to slice through barriers, but not barriers as powerful as Midoriko's. The fourth soul-stone gives you get again twice the speed of your enhanced speed and it also allows you to change the color of your Dokksuki to the colors yellow, red, blue, and white. The yellow Dokksuki is used to slice through poisonous cocoons that spider and moth youkais often use. The red one is used to slice through magical walls that houshi and mikos use to trap you in a box like they always do. The blue one is used to slice fudras thrown at you and the white one shatters any special powers that both youkai and humans fire at you. Finally, the fifth soul-stone gives you the power to use the four ultimate attacks of the Tetsusaiga, and it gives you the ability to use your own fangs to create very powerful swords."
"Ha, ha! I was that powerful! I can now kill Sesshoumaru that bastard without a problem!"
"Unfortunately, you must show your worth to fuse those souls together. And I know that deep down inside the two of you still care about each other… and he also has those abilities… maybe with the exception of the barrier-shattering claws… that's a rare inheritance for even inuyoukai."
"Nani? NO WAY!"
"Hmm… considering the fact that I'm as old as Sesshoumaru is, I know about your cuddly young brotherly ways. Besides, I offered to protect you until you could semi-fend yourself from attacks."
"KEH! So when are we going to find this strong barrier horse youkai?"
"According to these people's time, several weeks later. The horse youkai, Erisai does not appear very much, and it will prove to be futile to look for him. I heard that he appears on the night of the new moon. As for the soul-stones, they come to you no matter where you are."
"YOU EXPECT ME TO FIGHT THAT THING IN MY WEAKENED FORM? ARE YOU CRAZY? AND WHAT IF SOME OTHER YOUKAI TRIES TO USE IT?"
"They can't. When I was ordered to scatter your souls across Japan, I placed an extremely strong barrier that not even the strongest barrier-shattering techniques can break… well, maybe with an exception of the Tetsusaiga, and please calm yourself, Inuyasha, if you somehow manage to survive the night, you can fight him during the day when you get your youkai powers back."
"I can't wait that long, woman!"
"Patience is virtue, Inuyasha."
"Really? Well, guess what? Patience is not my virtue! So what about Tetsusaiga's three ultimate attacks?"
"Well, you should remember that your father fell in love with your mother and created the Tetsusaiga to protect her. Well, the next attack after the dragon scale blade of the Tetsusaiga is the miko-power blade. This is used against extremely powerful youkai such as Mourymaru. It has extremely powerful purifying powers. This is from your mother's bloodline. Your mother offered Toutosai her blood to create the Tetsusaiga. Although he refused, she insisted and he had no choice but to fuse it with your father's fang. The love of your mother towards your father saved its miko powers from purifying the fang."
"Mom was a miko?"
"Yes, she was quite a powerful one as well. But after she sacrificed a lot of her blood for the Tetsusaiga, she lost her miko powers, but she said she didn't need it because she had your father by her side. So moving along, the third one is the barrier creating Tetsusaiga. Although it doesn't change colors, a ball of blue energy should form at the tip of the Tetsusaiga and with one mighty swing, you can create a relatively powerful barrier that will not break from purification or youkai attacks. Maybe if Kagome learns how to use her miko powers correctly she might be able to shatter it with one of her purity arrows. Anyway, the fourth and the ultimate attack of the Tetsusaiga is the glowing white fang. This can control the wind, water, fire, and earth. It is extremely effective, and while the kaze no kizu can destroy a hundred youkai in one sweep, this can kill ten thousand youkai with one grand sweep. It's very powerful. I daresay Kagura's fan will be of no match with this ultimate attack. You can choose to slice the earth up, send deadly wind waves, water blades, or fire blasts at your opponent. It can also deflect attacks very easily, such as the attack of the Tokijen. Sesshoumaru of course doesn't know about this." Sakura chuckled.
"Then how do you know about it?"
"I got Toutosai to tell me by lying that I wouldn't tell you. Obviously, Toutosai knows nothing about your soul-stones. At any rate, I'm finished with my dictation, and I have Kagome to dictate and train, since I am a miko myself. Remember, when you are ready, your soul-stones will return to you one by one. I cannot wait to give Kagome a lecture on her miko abilities. With these, she wouldn't need to use fudras or carry around quivers of arrows. Isn't that wonderful Inuyasha?" Inuyasha rolled his eyes and snarled that he was out. "Before you go, I must tell you something else about Sesshoumaru. Don't think that he's really trying to kill you, he's simply trying to make you stronger."
"KEH! What kind of load of crap is that? Sesshoumaru takes every advantage in killing me. He even drilled a hole in my stomach once, that nearly killed me."
"Trust me, Inuyasha."
"I'm out. If you think that barrier can keep me in, you've got another thing coming!" With that, Inuyasha grabbed the hilt of his Tetsusaiga and yanked it out of its scabbard.
"I'd love to see you try." Sakura said dryly.
"HAH! This is nothing! DIE BARRIER!" Inuyasha yelled his sword changing red. Sakura simply sweat-dropped behind him. With one swift swing, the blade of the red Tetsusaiga came in contact with the barrier, but it simply rejected both him and the Tetsusaiga, toppling them backwards. Sakura caught Inuyasha with her pelt, which she had used to wrap around his waist. She set him down on the floor. "WHAT! WHY DIDN'T IT SHATTER?"
"That's because my barrier are considered one of the most powerful barriers in the world. Now I will release you from your prison after watching your entertaining display. I have a miko to train." Swinging her arm so that her loose sleeve pushed back so her hands revealed themselves, she used her two fingers to create her light whip, which didn't need to glow green first. It simply glowed pink and a long wispy light whip slashed through her own barrier, shattering it. "You may go now."
He was awed by the amount of power he actually had. He grinned with childish glee. Now he was able to kill Naraku's ugly head. Laughing happily to himself and to no one in particular, he marched past a group of terrified third-year Slytherins. They had actually gotten a taste of his Hanyou Studies class, and decided not to mess with him after he nearly sliced a Slytherin to shreds with his claws when he was insulted. Inuyasha stopped laughing and glared at the group that sent them scampering away in fear. Feeling proud of himself, Inuyasha placed his hands on his hips and burst out laughing.
"You continue to make a fool of yourself."
"Shaddup Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha snapped whirling around to see his brother standing behind him. Suddenly Sakura's words clouded his mind. Although it may seem as if you hate each other, deep down inside you still care for each other. Inuyasha shook his head and thought, KEH! As if that's true! With that he stomped away from his brother once again returning to his usual foul mood.
"You feel good about scaring off a bunch of worthless ningens? Although you are the walking disgrace of our family, you still have father's honorable blood in your veins. Aren't you ashamed for the way you interact with ningen?"
"Shut up! How I interact with humans is none of your fucking business, now move before I remove you!"
"I'd gladly fight you, silly hanyou." With that, Sesshoumaru took out his Tokijen and the halls were erupted with the sound of fighting, and swords clashing. From time to time if someone was brave enough to walk near the two brother's battleground, the bullet-like energy from the Toukijen and some diamond spikes appeared.
Kagome actually liked Hogwarts. It was a generally friendly place, with an exception of Snape and the so-called Slytherins that were so nasty to her that she nearly fired one of her purity arrows at them. Other than that, the other students seemed to like her very much, since she did not heavily punish anyone, even the Slytherins. The teachers loved her as well and treated her very nicely and politely asking her about her bow and arrows she kept with her.
Kagome was resting in her room staring out the window at the full moon, when a slight knock came from her door. "Come in!" Kagome called. She shut her windows and turned to face Sakura who came into the room.
"Hello Kagome."
"How do you know my name?"
"I am Inuyasha's royal guardian until he can fend for himself."
"But Inuyasha can fend for himself."
"Well, not really, Inuyasha would probably tell you about it later. Anyway, you are a miko, I presume."
"Yes I am, aren't you one as well."
"Ah, so you do know how to use some of your own powers."
"What do you mean?"
"You see, Kagome, your mother's family line is a long lines of one of the most powerful miko in the world."
"Yeah, Gramps makes the perfectly powerful houshi…"
"Yes, your grandfather is not a powerful houshi, but the powerful houshi or in your case miko comes after every hundredth descendant. I would like to announce that you are the hundredth descendant."
"But I'm Kikyou's reincarnation."
"You may be Kikyou's reincarnation, but like you always say, you are Kagome, not Kikyou, and you are a very distant relative of Kikyou, Kikyou is not as powerful as you are, although she has remarkable miko powers. With the correct training you will have no need to carry around a quiver of arrows, nor would you need fudras that Miroku uses."
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, once you learn how to use your miko powers correctly, you will be able to use it to create arrows that can disperse a thousand youkai with one shot. You already know how to deflect attacking snake youkai, but you do not know how to deflect taiyoukai powers. Yes, Kagome, you can destroy taiyoukai as well, but you need training. Maybe once you have been able to resurface your true miko powers would you be of great help to Inuyasha."
"What else can I do?"
"You can create powerful barrier, more powerful than my own barriers. You can do many great things even without your bow and arrows. With these powers, it is virtually impossible for Naraku or any other foul creature to control you, for if they try to place a controlling spell on you, even when you are unconscious, your miko powers will repel against anything. In addition to that, with your enhanced powers, you can completely purify the Shikon Jewel so that it can only do good deeds. Finally, if anything evil touches you, you can use your miko powers to pulverize them and you can heal the wounded without the help of medicine or herbs."
"I can?"
"Yes. You just need training."
"How?"
"Well, there are some ways to that. Bring your bow and one of your arrows and follow me." With that, Sakura turned and left the room. Kagome followed her wondering where Sakura would take her. Sakura led Kagome to the dining hall where all the tables had been removed. "Here, you will start your first training. Up there were we usually sit to have our meals I have put up targets made from youkai. They are virtually harmless. Now I want you to fire one of your Purity arrows on them." Kagome nodded as she took her only arrow and notched it onto her bow. Aiming, Kagome released her bow, which hit the target dead in the center. The arrow glowed pink and when it hit the target the pink energy dispersed with a shower and sparkles. The target vanished.
"Pretty good for a beginner, now I want you to concentrate so that you will all your miko powers to your hand that holds the arrow. It should be hard, but you are a fast learner so it might not be too hard on you. Give it a try." Doubtfully Kagome concentrated, but nothing happened. "You need to clear your mind from all thoughts. In order to do that, you should meditate every night for one hour before going to sleep. It will help your miko powers become more lucid."
Kagome was determined to learn her new powers so she closed her eyes and concentrated, clearing her mind of all thoughts except an arrow. Kagome's arrow hand glowed pink flickering slightly, but it sputtered and flickered out. Growling in frustration, Kagome squeezed her eyes shut and concentrated on one single arrow. She began to picture a very long arrow, with a narrow, pointy, head with soft white feathers at the end. Suddenly, her arrow hand started to glow again, this time much stronger that before. It flickered once, but Kagome concentrated on the arrow's image in her mind, the pink glow started to form into a long shape and started to solidify until it formed a glowing pink arrow. The image of the arrow melted away from Kagome's mind and when she opened her eyes she found herself holding onto an arrow. An arrow she had willed on her own! It looked different from her usual arrows. It was sharper, longer, and narrower. The wood color was dark and smooth in her hand.
"Excellent, now try firing at that target over there and you will soon see how powerful your miko powers are. Kagome notched her arrow and fired. As soon as she released it, a long line of pink energy glowed around the arrow and started to crackle with white lightening. It slammed into the target but didn't stop there and hit the wall behind where the target once was. The pink aura around it glowed and spread out destroying all the targets. Kagome gawped at the arrow that was still lodged in the wall. It glowed pink and disappeared in a shower of sparkles.
She wanted to try it again and concentrated once more. The second time she tried it wasn't as hard and she managed to make an arrow faster than before. Having no other target she had no choice but to drop it at her feet to try again. An hour later, she had a huge pile of arrows at her feet. Sakura sweat-dropped. "Umm… okay…"
"Sorry," Kagome said laughing nervously, "I got a bit carried away." Shrugging Sakura released her pink light whip and the moment it came in contact with the pile of arrows at their feet, they vanished.
"Next, I will teach you how to form a bow so that when you are without a bow you can summon it whenever you want. Also, because your bow is made from your spiritual powers, only you can touch it… oh, you already made it."
"Huh?"
"There in your hands."
Kagome raised her hand that was holding a bow. It looked different from the one she had before. It was longer than she was, and the wood was made from a lighter wood. It was thick and looked like it was made from vine. The thread where Kagome would notch the head of her arrow was silver and looked as if it were made from Inuyasha's hair. "Hmm… I see you decided to use Inuyasha's hair as the bowstring. Which is technically a good idea since Inuyasha's hair is very sturdy."
"But I didn't even…"
"You were thinking about him, that's why." Kagome blushed slightly.
"Well, that's enough for today. Don't forget meditate for an hour every morning and night until your spiritual powers have become completely fluid so that you can use it anytime you need it. After this week, you will no longer need my help in learning how to manipulate your miko powers. From then on, you will discover your powers on your own." With that, Sakura left Kagome standing alone in the dining hall holding onto the new bow she had created from her spiritual powers. Then she felt some very horrible vibe having to do with Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha…" She muttered to herself, then she knew what it was, "INUYASHA!" She yelling rushing out of the dining hall out to where she felt his aura.
"YOU BASTARD!" Inuyasha yelled as Sesshoumaru swung the Toukijen mercilessly against the Tetsusaiga. If only I could use the dragon scale Tetsusaiga… then I can suck his Toukijen energy to use it against him… or maybe… the Bakuruuya! "Ha! You won't be able to stand a chance against this! BAKURUUYA!" Inuyasha sliced through the spot in the Toukijen's red blast creating a whirl on tornados, which blasted the halls shattering the windows and destroying the doors. Sesshoumaru just humphed.
"Is that all you can do?" He swung the Toukijen at the blast coming towards him and sliced it completely. "Fool. Of course that's all you can do, you worthless hanyou. You will always be a hanyou. You'll live as a hanyou and dies as one; you have half of everything I've got, half the wit, half the speed, half the strength, die."
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" Inuyasha gawped at Sesshoumaru who calmly flicked a bit of rock off his shoulder before swinging the Toukijen back at Inuyasha with all his strength. The blast hit him head-on throwing him out the huge hole in the side of the building an onto the ground with a loud sickening thump that would have killed any normal human. There were some students in the Hogwarts yard who were simply ogling at the huge hole in the side of the castles. Inuyasha lay on the ground. His eyes had a blank look in it and his fire rat haori was torn to shreds along with bits of his undershirt. He lay on the ground semi-conscious; the world around him seemed dim and blurry. He felt someone coming towards him, and knew it was Sesshoumaru.
"At last you are dead. I've waited for a hundred years to get rid of you and I finally have." Inuyasha made a blind grab for Sesshoumaru's ankle but felt a foot come down on his arm. "You are good as dead, so let me finish you off."
"SESSHOUMARU!" Inuyasha blinked, it wasn't Kagome for sure, but someone else. "You will pay for it!"
"INUYASHA!" Now that was Kagome. "Inuyasha! Speak to me! What did you do to him?" He heard her teary voice shout at Sesshoumaru.
"I have simply killed him."
"Why you…"
"Stop Kagome, I will be the one to deal with him. For now, stay with Inuyasha and try to heal him."
"But…"
"You don't want Inuyasha to die, right? Well, if you don't want him to die, try to heal him."
"Inuyasha… you baka! How could you be so stupid?"
The world seemed to be fading around him as his vision blurred more and more.
"Inuyasha? Inuyasha? No! You can't die now! You have to kill Naraku and we still have the Shikon Jewels to collect! Please don't die! Inuyasha, INUYASHA!"
"There's nothing you can do to save that half-witted brother of mine. He's good as dead anyway."
"Stop it!" He heard Kagome scream, which was surprising since there were numerous possibilities of what Sesshoumaru could do to her. "Just stop it! You think that by killing Inuyasha then it would erase your past? Do you? Do you think it would make your father happy? NO! It won't! IT JUST WON'T! YOU THINK YOU'RE SO GREAT WHEN YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN NARAKU! DID YOU HEAR ME? YOU'RE WEAK, YOU'RE WEEEEAK!"
"I'm sorry Inutaisho-sama, I have failed to protect Inuyasha." Another voice came from somewhere, probably from Sakura. And that was the last thing Inuyasha heard before his vision blanked out to blackness.
He was standing alone in the darkness wondering where he was. "Is this what death is like?" He wondered aloud. His golden orbs flicked across the empty space of blackness. A noise then set him on his edge. He placed his hand on the hilt of the Tetsusaiga. "Who's there?" He shouted. His voice echoed back at him through the darkness. Then he smelled a familiar scent, but he couldn't figure out who it was, all he knew what that it posed a threat to his life. So he pulled the Tetsusaiga out, expecting it to transform, but it stayed as it's rusty iron form. "What the hell? Why doesn't it change?"
"Because you are dead, son."
"What?" Inuyasha whirled around to face a man before him with the same golden eyes and silver hair, but it was put up into a ponytail with a blue cord and he had one thick purple stripe under each of his cheeks. He looked more like Sesshoumaru than himself, but his armor was heavier looking and his pelt was like a cape that hung down his back. The place where Inuyasha would have seen the Tenseiga, Souuran, and the Tetsusaiga was empty. Even if his father hadn't called him "son", Inuyasha would have immediately guessed that this youkai standing before him was his father, the great Inutaisho whom everyone praised highly. "You're… you're my old man."
"Yes, I am your father Inuyasha." Inutaisho responded as he glided towards Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, you cannot transform the Tetsusaiga when you are dead because you no longer possess the vitality of a living being. That vitality is the only thing that can transform the Tetsusaiga. Go back Inuyasha, now is not the time for you to die."
"But… but… I've waited so long, no! I've wished so long just to get to see your face! How could I possibly… what the hell?" Inuyasha touched his cheek to feel a teardrop on his face. The teardrop belonged to Kagome, since it had her scent all over it.
"Inuyasha, you swore that you would protect this Kagome miko, are you going to break your promise to her like you've done to Kikyou?" Suddenly, the blackness disappeared to all the times Inuyasha swore to Kagome that he would always protect her no matter what. The scene in Inutaisho's grave, the time where he was holding a weakened Kagome on his back when she had been controlled by Tsubaki and many more. When the scenes passed, they were engulfed in darkness once more. Inuyasha clenched his fist.
"You're right dad, I promised her, and I won't die until she dies and she won't die. Not now, not ever."
"You chose well, Inuyasha, now it is time to part."
"Wait! Let me ask you something!" Inutaisho stopped and turned to face Inuyasha. "I just want to know, but… why? Why did you leave Sesshoumaru with the Tenseiga and not the Tetsusaiga?"
"What? Are you not happy with the Tetsusaiga?"
"No, it's just that Sesshoumaru doesn't seem to go very well with it."
"Yes, it does seem as if Sesshoumaru doesn't blend well with the Tenseiga, but somewhere in a spot that nobody knows, not even his little human child that follows him, goes well with the Tenseiga. With that, Inutaisho turned and walked away, fading in the darkness. Another one of Kagome's teardrops landed on his hand. He wondered how he would get out, then the tear started to glow white. At first the glow was small then it started to get brighter and brighter as if lifted off Inuyasha's hand. By then it was glowing so brilliantly, the darkness had faded. The teardrop solidified slightly and grew until it was a huge glowing ball. It smelled familiar; in fact, it smelled like himself. Then perhaps this was… his soul-stone? Inuyasha slowly reached out to touch it. The barrier around it flashed and quivered before it melted away leaving a perfectly round, clear, white stone with a blue, misty soul encased in it. He gently touched the surface as he did, the blue soul seemed to glow stronger and grow bigger until the smooth stone casing shattered. Before he could do anything else, the soul slammed into his body and his vision turned white.
That's all for today... dun, dun, dun... what might happen next? Find out on the next chapter... I hope you're all on your toes waiting for the next chapter with anticipation!