Izayoi's white tomb
There were at least 20 monsters behind him, for sure. They didn't look very strong, but with all of them together it would be so difficult... Many people had already been killed at the village, and the smell of human blood spread all around made him painfully sick.
He looked to his own claws, and realized it had not been a lie after all... They were not sufficiently strong to deal with all those creatures, he didn't even know how to do it! Monsters like those ones were much different from fish and small birds. But he was bound to do something. He should attract all those creatures to some place far from humans.
Thoughts crossing through his mind wildly, InuYasha-chan run through the forest as fast as he could, hiding from time to time when he sensed their scent coming closer. Without even realizing his path, he had run into a lonely white tomb that stood like an island in the middle of the green, grass-covered field beside the river. Before the white tomb laid a few dead flowers and birds who flied away with the sight of him. At the tombstone a single name, inscribed in Kanji:
"Izayoi"
No dates, no other information.
His eyes became wet with sadness... How could he possibly live, from now on? Those youkais were coming closer and closer, but all he could hear was the sound of his own fast respiration. He was scared, as he had never been in his life. The was no way out of it, maybe it would be better if he...
Kneeled before the tombstone, thinking of all his mother had taught him, of all she had said to him before she died... NO! He would NEVER give up, as she had pleaded to him in her death. He shut the eyes closed feeling those monsters just behind him and gathered strenght from nowhere, ready to run even faster or fight to death, when he heard a cold voice beside him.
– How worthless. You've come to look for the help of a human corpse... o.õ
Sesshoumaru, the youkai brother revealed less than a year before, was distant only a few paces from him, staring with an iced expression. That face was clearly drawn in InuYasha's mind since their first and only encounter, and the hanyou had got used to the idea that he would never see him again. They gazed into each other's eyes, engaged in wordless confrontation.
Surprised by this sudden appearance, the youkai monsters who pursued InuYasha advanced toward Sesshoumaru ready to strike, but he simples closed his eyes and threw them a somehow bored arm movemente, slicing eight of the youkais at once. The others hesitated.
– What... – started InuYasha, surprised by the ease in which Sesshoumaru had destroyed half of the youkais he feared – what are you doing here? ó.ò
Sesshoumaru did not answer. He simply threw his whip of light once more, killing all the surviving youkais. With no patience or strenght to force an answer, InuYasha-chan threw one last sad gaze to Izayoi's white tomb and turned to leave. But before he could make his third step, Sesshoumaru cracked his whip of light in front of him, forcing him to stop.
– Do not think I've come here for your worthless life. u.ú pause Learn now, hanyou, or have a ridiculous short life: a youkai does not protect anyone but himself.
He turned to InuYasha and faced him, his expression even prouder and stonier than before.
– You are alone. You'll die alone.
"I am alone", repeated InuYasha in his mind, his eyes reaching the village far away. From now on, the forest would be his only home.
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Comments
Poor Inu... And evil sesshy! óò
InuYasha starts to understand the meaning of being a hanyou. I apologyse to those who tried to read it and saw a text in Portuguese, it was a mistake from my part when uploading the file -- and the upload was kind of crazy at that moment u.u
I look forward to read your comments, and please feel free to correct any eventual mistake in the translation into english Next chapter is coming!