I don't own any of the characters from the Inuyasha anime series; Rumiko Takahashi does. I just own Yume. Constructive criticism welcomed bashers ignored! Understand?
Translations:
Kuso - Shit
Nekoyasha - Cat demon
Miko - Priestess
Ningen - Human
Daijoubu - Are you okay?
Togire no Tenshi - Broken Dreams
Hanyou- Half demon
Taiyoukai - Ultimate demon
Yamero - Stop
Nani - What?
Ike - Go
Hakama - Pants worn in Japan
Haori - Shirt top worn in Japan
Baka - Fool, idiot
Inu Youkai - Dog demon
Ano - Umm...
Doshite - Why
Onegai - Please
Tatakau Kure - Save me
Wasurenee zo - I won't forget
Masaka - I can't believe it
Iiknasai - Go away
Iie - No
Dame kuru no sore - No good will come of that
Mata aou ne - We will meet again
Chapter 15
Without a word Sesshomaru unsheathed Tokijin and slashed out at Inuyasha and his friends. The blue energy flying right off his blade and at it's desired targets like heat seeking missiles as it neared them.
"Kuso!" Inuyasha cursed as he dropped Kagome and felt the attack.
"INUYASHHAAAAAA!" The Miko screamed as she fell from the sky.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled falling from the sky with his eyes on the falling Miko.
"Get Kagome Kilala!" Sango ordered. Her nekoyasha obeying her command as she soared down and after Kagome. Catching the Miko in mid air.
Her eyes opened to the sound of Inuyasha's falling body and the sight of an angered Sesshomaru with Tokijin in hand.
"I thought I told you to stay out of my way." Sesshomaru's formidable figure standing above the weakened hanyou.
"No, Sesshomaru!" Kagome yelled as she jumped off of Kilala and landed on her feet with bow and arrow ready.
"Kagome…!" Holding the handle of Tetsuaiga tightly as he spotted the Miko.
"Don't do it!" She replied in a strong voice; her grip tight on the bow and arrow as she made her threat.
"Shoot me with your arrow and I'll slice him in half." Sesshomaru growled; Tetusaiga at the base of Inuyasha's neck.
"Let him go Sesshomaru!" She yelled; refusing to lower her weapon.
"I'll kill you before the blade even pierces my…!"- "Silence!" Sesshomaru growled; punching Inuyasha away from him and into a pond. "Wretched half breed…" He growled as he directed the tip of Tokijin at Kagome's neck.
"Sesshomaru…" Her eyes filling with fear as she kept her hold on her weapon. "Please go…"
Smiling on the inside at the young girl's defiance his eyes narrowed.
"How strange…you ningens are…" Sesshomaru muttered; slowly as he sheathed Tokijin and turned his back and walked towards the entrance of the Togire no Tenshi.
Popping up out of the pond Inuyasha growls as he spits water out of his mouth and glares at his brother.
"Where do you think you are going Sesshomaru?" Gritting his teeth as he rubbed his sore head.
"Away from you…" Sesshomaru replied as he threw a stick at Inuyasha. "…Fetch!" The stick going in the hanyou's mouth as he fell back into the water on his head. "I have more important things to do miserable half breed."
"Damn it…!" Inuyasha growled as he spat the stick out of his mouth.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried as she wrapped her arms around Inuyasha's neck.
"Daijoubu Kagome-chan?" Inuyasha asked sternly as he held Kagome close to him and eyes his brother. "Stupid bastard…" Inuyasha mumbled under his breath. "You can't do this on your own!"
Stopping in his place he glared at Inuyasha out the corner of his golden orbs; keeping his annoyed and somewhat arrogant facial expression. "Watch me." He answered as he disappeared into the darkness of the Togire no Tenshi.
As the Taiyoukai exited the gang got together to regroup.
"…I'm doing this…because why?" He questioned in an annoyed tone as he got to his feet and shook off the excess water.
As he dried off he caught sight of Kagome's eyes. His feelings of detest and annoyance for his brother melting.
"Kagome…" He whined in a soft voice.
"We have to help him…" She replied in a stern tone of voice.
As the white wings of the shibito fell from the sky, Dark Lady remained in her stance. The Bloody Rose sword glowing an eerie red color as it proceeded to bond with her.
"Impressive…isn't she?" Yume replied; eyeing Sesshomaru out the corner of her demonic eyes.
His stone cold gaze on the woman dressed in blue with an overbearingly powerful sword in her grasp. "Dark Lady…" Her eyes opening to the sound of her master's voice.
"You have a visitor…" Out the corner of her dark brown eyes a shiver was sent up her spine as she eyed Yume and Sesshomaru.
"You have returned to battle me." She replied in a stern voice; standing up straight with her new sword at her waist. The white flowers falling from the sky now changing into blood red flower petals.
"The bond is complete Lord Sesshomaru…"
Not saying a word he walks past Yume and towards Dark Lady.
"Dark Lady is now one with the sword." A smile creeping towards her lips. "The sword has chosen her as it's rightful master."
Stopping in front of her he thought not to speak and allow his actions to speak for him as he gripped the handle of his weapon.
"Are you ready?" She asked as she unsheathed the katana from her waist & held it firmly in her grasp.
"Begin." His eyes focusing at the sound of Tokijin clashing with Bloody Rose as the battle began.
"Sesshomaru!" Growling as his ears recognized the voice. "Again with you half breed?" He thought; noting as Dark Lady lunged at him with her sword.
"Who are you to bring reinforcements?" She growled as she felt her sword come in contact with his own.
"I'd never!" He yelled as he attacked. "You know me better then that!" Almost impressed by how Dark Lady managed to counter each one of his lightning quick strikes.
"So why are they here?" She retorted; the middle of her sword slamming down onto Sesshomaru's. "Forget them!"
"Wasurenee zo!" She yelled; spinning as she brought her sword down towards the center of Sesshomaru's as she continued to defend herself.
"What power!" Miroku replied in amazement.
"I've never felt such strength…!" Kagura cried; her eyes widening as she took in Dark Lady's demonic aura.
"And you never will…" She replied as she enjoyed the fight between her apprentice and her enemy.
"Dark Lady's power is from her childish intent…" Yume replied. "She is unique in the fact that she wanted nothing more but to be the best…and in that I made her just that."
"You witch!" Kagome yelled as she sent an arrow flying at Yume; it flying and hitting her across the face.
"What…!" Her eyes widening as she realized the cut forming across her cheek. "…M-my…!" Seeing the blood drip into her palm in disgust.
Her sense of disgust turning into pure anger as she eyed the miko.
"Be still your helpless, human heart…" Her crimson colored aura rising off of her staff as she kept sight of the miko. "…as you suffer for your sins through paralysis…!"
Her bow and arrow hand quivering in fear as she felt herself being paralyzed by Yume's demonic strength. "I swear I'll chop your damn head off with my Tetsuaiga if you even dare to touch Kagome!"
"That protective side of him again…" Dark Lady thought as she overheard the hanyou talking back to her master.
"Enough Rin!" Sesshomaru replied as he held his offensive guard against Dark Lady.
"Don't call me that!" She yelled as she elbowed Sesshomaru in the face and swung at him with the blade; it's silver blade turning gold as she struck out at him.
"How dare you attack my beautiful face!" The blood red aura rising off her body as she launched a beam of black energy right at Kagome.
"Yamero!" Sesshomaru yelled.
"Make me!" She snapped. Her sword slashing at the material of Sesshomaru's right sleeve.
Seeing as anger overcame her own thought Sesshomaru took advantage and grabbed her sword arm and twisted it behind her back in an attempt to make her drop the weapon.
"Baka!" Kagura yelled. "You want us all to be killed?"
"SILENCE!" Her voice sounding god like as her arms stretched out.
"Relax…" Sesshomaru muttered; carefully guarding against Dark Lady's last attacks and forcing her into a restrained mode as he held her arms behind her back.
"Let me go!" She growled as she tried to wiggle her way out of his strong hold, to no avail as she felt a constant and painful sensation serge up her back as she struggled.
"The more you struggle…" He began calmly. "...the more it hurts…" His grip automatically strengthening as she continued to defy him.
"Damn it…!" She cried.
Not acknowledging her he simply kept his grip on her arms as she continued to move.
"Damn you…!" She whined; slowly giving in to the pain. Rolling his eyes he looked down at her somewhat grief stricken body.
"Now your holding me…" She mumbled under her breath.
Sighing he held her tighter. "Yume's attack will kill us…"
"Not me…" She responded in a neutral tone of voice.
"You'd think that…" He replied as he gazed back into the battle possessed eyes of evil. "…wouldn't you…" Dark Lady remaining neutral in the situation to avoid further hurt.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome replied; staring back at the battle ready hanyou as she gripped her bow and arrow. "Help me!" Her purified energy flowing into it.
"I'll hit her with the Back Lash Wave! He replied as he began to summon up all his strength. "Back me up with your Sacred Arrow!"
"Alright!" She replied as all of her mystical priestess energy continued to flow into the skinny projectile.
"Nice try!" Yume yelled as she released her energy onto the group. "But you WON'T be able to stop this!" Her dark energy beam heading straight for Inuyasha and his friends.
"BACK LASH WAVE!" Several torrents of wind flying off of Tetsuaiga as the move was called forth.
"My power thrives off of your inner weaknesses as well as strengths! The dark energy heading right for the on coming Backlash Wave. "You won't be able to defeat me!"
"Oh yeah?" Kagome yelled as she gripped her arrow through the string of the bow. "Lets find out!" Kagome replied strongly as she let her purified arrow soar through the air.
"I sense another power…" Dark Lady muttered as she looked around the trees for the other force.
As she caught sight of a woman with long flowing black hair dressed in a white haori and red hakama with a bow and arrow in hand she felt herself being pulled downward.
"Get down!" Miroku and Sango yelled as they grabbed Shippou and Kilala brought them to safe ground.
"DIE!" The guardian of the subconscious roared as she concentrated her dark powers into her fierce energy.
"Ike!" Kagome yelled as her arrow ran through the Backlash Wave and right at the dark energy beam.
"C'mon!" Sango replied.
"Kagome-sama's arrow must work!" Miroku replied in an assuring tone of voice.
"Not…!" Pausing as she felt an arrow fly right through Kagome's and pierce right through her staff.
"Evil seductress!" Replied a strong voice. "Be gone!"
"Masaka!" Yume yelled as she watched her dark energy beam disappear along with the Backlash Wave in a shower of soft colored purple crystals.
"Damn you!" Yume yelled as she caught sight of the provoker. "Kikyo!"
As they got to their feet Inuyasha looked back into the cold but focused eyes of Kikyo. Her long hair blowing in the wind as she held her bow and arrow forward.
"She helped us…" Kagome muttered in slight surprise.
"It will be the last time…I assure you." She replied as she disappeared into the night sky with her soul collecting snakes.
"Get back here wench!" Yume yelled as she disappeared into darkness. "I swear for this you will all suffer!"
"Kikyo…!" Inuyasha croaked; the pained look in his eyes melting as he turned to see the other demons leaving.
"Right…" Kagura muttered as Kanna disappeared into the shadows. "Whatever…"
"Is it over…?" Sango wondered as she got to her feet.
"Would you like me to hold you my lovely Sango?" Miroku asked; his devilish hand making it's way towards her round ass once more.
"No thank you." Sango replied as she kicked Miroku in his mouth. Got up and walked away from him.
"Is everyone okay?" Sango asked as she met up with the others.
After a brief check the gang remained silent as they laid their eyes on Sesshomaru and Dark Lady.
"What's going on?" Shippou asked puzzled by the sight of an unmoving Sesshomaru and Dark Lady.
"Maybe they're dead…" Inuyasha replied brazenly.
"Sit Inuyasha…" Kagome mumbled in a low voice to the screwy hanyou who fund his head being buried into the ground.
"Damn it…" He mumbled through a mouth full of dirt.
"It's not our fault that you are so light headed." Shippou added as he watched the Taiyoukai and demon possessed Rin interact amongst each other.
After the attack Rin was wrapped in Sesshomaru's strong embrace.
"Why are you doing this...?" She whispered in a weak voice.
Sighing heavily as he kept his hold on her.
"You protected me..."
"That is my job." He answered in a neutral sounding tone of voice.
Her heart calming as she remained in his arms. "Doshite...?"
"...Don't you remember..." He asked; her mind emptying itself of the current situation as her mind began to stir up things from Rin's past. "...Ano..."
Rin as a child sitting in Sesshomaru's lap, tears streaming down her face. "Sesshomaru-sama!"
"Stop wiggling and perhaps this won't hurt so much..." His slim fingers running through the little girl's long, black hair.
"...That girl is..." Shaking her head in slight confusion as the girl who looked similar to her appeared in her mind.
"Do I look pretty Lord Sesshomaru?" Dancing around in her new kimono.
"...He was so nice to her..." The Taiyoukai remaining silent as Dark Lady began to remember their past experiences.
"Your new appearance is quite flattering Rin-chan."
"Why do I remember this...?" Feeling as the memories tugged at her every heart string.
"Don't think too hard..." Looking up at the Cresent Moon in the sky. "What is your wish?"
Her eyes widening as she fought to remember her greatest desire. "...What wish..?"
"I wish…to be…" The memory of the dark waters enveloping her.
"...Water...?"
"Let Rin go wench!"
"You again?" Eyes glowing red as a beam of light was shot. A shadowed figure screaming in pain as it was emersed in the buring rays of light.
"That voice sounds familiar..." Putting one hand over her forehead while the other rested over heart. "But why can't I remember?"
"…with Sesshomaru…" A foce so great attching itself to the weak being.
"Everything is like a blur...!"
"…forever…" Breathing as the oncoming rush of the water entered her body.
"WHY...?"
Crying a weak cry from the memories that flooded her mind. "What do you want from me!"
Quivering at the sight of the stressed Ningen and his Lord Jaken took a moment to observe the situation.
"It seems that my Lord has shielded Rin from Yume's devastating influence." Jaken replied as he walked past Inuyasha and his group.
"…And you are okay with this?" Shippou questioned.
"NO!" Jaken protested; turning on his heels to meet with the little kitsune. "If it were up to me Sesshomaru wouldn't be anywhere near that filthy ningen!"
"So you're afraid to comment on Sesshomaru being with a human, huh?" Inuyasha questioned in a nonchalant manner.
"…Yes…" Jaken admitted shamefully as he watched Sesshomaru and Dark Lady converse.
"Stop looking at me like that...!" She growled as she struggled with the returning memories of Rin.
"I'm bored..."
"You want to play?" A smile reaching the girl's lips.
"These memories...!" Resting her head on his shoulder.
"They belong to you." The taiyoukai answered calmly as he ran a clawed hand through her long hair.
"...Ano..." Blushing a little. "He's so nice now..."
"Sesshomaru is uncaring!" Yume's voice sparking in her mind. "He can NEVER be nice!"
Her eyes sparking blue at the thought.
"You wanna die Sesshomaru…" She moaned in a low and annoyed tone of voice.
Chuckling softly. "Interesting how you make threats but can't back them up."-"Maybe I am just waiting for the right moment to kill you." Dark Lady interrupted in a bold tone of voice.
"Or maybe you just can't…" He replied in a clever tone.
"Silence!" She growled; struggling to move out of his grip only to feel more pain for her stubbornness.
"Do you enjoy being a glutton for punishment?" He asked as he tightened his grip on her wrists.
"…Stop…" She whined in a low, innocent toned voice.
Taking in her scent he sighed. Her soft response bringing him into a moment of nostalgia.
"What shall you do Master?" The toad demon with the Staff of Two heads questioned as he watched his Master draw his mystical sword of healing.
A black aura rises off the girl; revealing several hell demons.
"Look, demons!"
Golden orbs narrowing as a God like power turned the beasts that were about to steal a life disintergrate into nothingness.
"This pain in my chest..." Dark Lady replied in a whisper.
"Master?" Surprised by his Master's action as he watched him get to his knees and hold the girl in his only arm.
"So you feel it too?" His hand resting against the small of her back as the memory of Rin's revival was remembered between the two of them.
"She's been revived!" Shock overcoming the toad demon. "What will you do with her my Lord?"
"What did you do with her...?" She muttered in confusion. "...With the girl that you brough back to life..." The memory of what happened to Rin after her revival fading into darkness as she forced herself to recall it back.
"What do you think?"
Her eyes widening as she saw the small girl resting in the Taiyoukai's arm under a tree of falling Cherry Blossoms.
"...You couldn't of...!" Her eys widening at the thought of the girl being taken cared of by the taiyoukai.
His golden eyes searching her confused brown ones for an answer.
"...Nothing...you couldn't have been so nice to her..." Her eyes closing. "...You hate humans."
"Enough of this…" His arm wrapped tightly around her waist as he spoke. "…Rin…"
Her eyes snapping open as she detected the sincerity in his voice. "What are you talking about…" Looking away from him.
"You can't continue on like this." The red rose petals that fell after Dark Lady successfully obtained her katana began to fall softer then before as Sesshomaru spoke. "I won't allow it."
"Sesshomaru…"-"You must end these foolish games so I can restore you back to your normal self." He answered as he laid back on the tree they hid behind.
"…Normal…?" Sounding a little confused as she repeated what he had said.
"Let's end this…" He replied his tone of voice sounding trustworthy and his grip softening. "Return to me and Jaken."
"Sesshomaru…sama…" She replied softly as she felt some warm feeling overtaking her darkened heart. "I trust this man…" She thought to herself as she wrapped her arms around him. "Don't I?" Gazing into his golden eyes that illustrated conviction.
"He did it!" Shippou replied excitedly as he watched Dark Lady behave around Sesshomaru.
"I can't believe it…" Inuyasha muttered in slight shock at his older brother's kind hearted persuasion towards the youkai possessed ningen.
"Onegai…Rin-chan…" Sesshomaru replied in a calm voice.
Hearing him speak so kindly started to melt her possessed heart. As she began to speak it was Yume's angered voice that wrang throughout her head that made her go silent.
"Don't!"
Her eyes widening at the sound of her master's voice. "Yume-sama?" She muttered.
"You will NOT abandon me! Not now! NOT for that horrible Inu youkai!" Her screams ringing throughout her head.
"AHHHH!" Dark Lady screamed. "YAMERO! YAMERO, ONEGAI!" Hands on her head as she collapsed to her knees.
"What's going on?" Miroku wondered as he along with his friends watched the scene between Dark Lady and Sesshomaru.
"The spell of the Bloody Rose is overtaking her once more." Replied Myoga.
"Can't we stop it?" Miroku questioned as he watched the chaos between Sesshomaru and Dark Lady ensue.
"Only Sesshomaru can put an end to the horrible spell."
"Why him?" Sango questioned.
"Because he is the only one the spell was designed for to hurt most." Myoga replied informatively.
"Poor Sesshomaru…" Kagome thought as she hugged Inuyasha.
"Kagome…" Placing a hand atop of the ones latched around his waist as he watched his brother struggle to free Rin from the Bloody Rose spell.
"Come Dark Lady!" Yume's voice booming throughout her subconscious. "Return to me!"
"…Yamero…!" She cried; tears of frustration beginning to stream down her face.
"You want to be the best don't you?"
"Yes…" Crying in her mind as she answered Yume's questions.
"You wanna be loved don't you?" Hearing the voice of Yume while gazing up into the eyes of the one who protected her.
"Lord Sesshomaru..." Tears falling from her eyes.
"...Rin-chan..." His heart feeling as if it was being ripped out as he saw the pained expression in her eyes.
"Then forsake the Taiyoukai of the Western Lands and come back to me!"
"He can't lose her now!" Jaken thought as he sensed the struggle between his Lord and the girl that considered him to be the one and only other memember of her family. "Rin!" Jaken yelled as he sensed the spell's power over her strengthening.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin's voice rininging throughout Dark Lady's head. "LET RIN WAKE UP! LETS END THIS! PLEASE?"
"NO!" Tearing at the mental stress was enforced. "It hurts!" Her body going numb from the control of Yume and her body's own restraint. "It hurts so much!"
"WAKE UP! PLEASE! The child's voice sounding louder then ever in Dark Lady's mind. "TATAKAU KORE!" ONEGAI!"
"EEEEIIIYYYAAAAHHHH!" Her screams easily breaking the sound barrier of silence as she struggled with her concious.
"Return to me and I promise to make the hurt go away…" Dark Lady's brown eyes glowing an eerie red as her lids closed down and her body calmed.
"…Chaos is it at hand…" Myoga replied as he along with Inuyasha and friends watched on.
As her screaming stopped and her hands fell to her side with her eye lids closed Sesshomaru felt a chill down his back as he stared at the unmoving body of Dark Lady.
"Please do something my Lord!" Jaken begged as he watched Sesshomaru deal with the now intolerable Rin. "She is vulnerable to your every whim now!"
"Rin…" In his mind as he reached out for her hand. Feeling the wind pierce his chest as he dodged out of the way of the Blood Rose's blade.
"…Masaka…" He breathed; his eyes widening as he saw where Dark Lady's katana went.
"Iikenasai…" She muttered in a disturbing tone of voice as she pulled her newly acquired sword from the base of the tree Sesshomaru was resting upon. "Yurushite kudasai…" She muttered innocently; Rin's voice ringing throughout Sesshomaru's head as he heard her response.
"Iie…dame kuru no sore…" Her cold voice shocking Sesshomaru on the inside as he watched her back away from him. "Mata aou ne…" She replied as she disappeared in a torrent of tiny blue crystals.
"Hai…Dark Lady." He replied as he too took his leave into darkness with Jaken following behind him.
