Author's Notes: Thank you to anyone and all who read my fanfict thus far. I know it's only 1 chapter long so far, and it hasn't been up very long, but there was a good turn out of about 50+ people who read it. However, regretfully, I didn't get any reviews. So please give me your praise and criticism, and just take a little bit of time to write me a review. After all, you already took the time to read it this far, right?
Now, more about the fict. I appologize for my lack of detail in my first fict and the lack of depth in my writing in it. I was writing it the day before my vacation, after watching a whole bunch of the last episodes, and so needless to say, I didn't have much time to dottle around with it. lol. However, I'm going to leave it like that because I sort of like the way it flows as an introduction. Due to the lack of depth, it makes it a quick read as though you were actually watching the anime as fast as you were reading it and a lot was going on in a short amount of time just like in the introduction of one of the movies before it gets into the main part of it. In fact, I might even incorperate it into a technique eventually.
Also, as for the future of this fict, everything in the description is still going to take place as promised. In fact, I have plans for much MUCH more than just that. However, I was never expecting the anime series to end like it did, and so I have to first close up the main story of the anime before I get into what my real idea for this fict is because as you might know, the last episode of the anime isn't quite the end of the story (and I fear them never completely ending the story). However, I will make it well written and won't just quickly take care of it. On the other hand, I won't make it take too long either (especially in perspective of you hard-core fict readers).
Again, I recommend you play Inuyasha music with this. If you want to make it really cool, you can set up a playlist and change songs like different charecters' themes in the background during different parts. And if I get enoug requests, I'll even add in little parts that tell you to change the music and to what. And I can even put the music on my website to download (they are all small, short clips of music).
Now, it's time for INUYASHA!
Chapter 2: The Battle With The Tree God
"Dammit! We still haven't gotten any closer to finding where Naraku's heart is!" Inuyasha complained.
"Calm down, Inuyasha," assured a certain monk. "It won't be long before we find out where he has been keeping it."
"Well we aren't getting any closer to finding it by sitting around." Inuyasha crossed his arms in looked the other way with a discontent look on his face.
"Perhaps we should investigate this tree youkai thing," Kagome suggested. She pointed her index finger up as though she were making a point. "Maybe we'll find out something about Naraku."
Inuyasha, with a stubborn look on his face, replied, "Whatever. We don't have time to be wasting on such trivial things. We're never going to find Naraku if we keep on dealing with stupid problems."
This time Sango stepped into the conversation. "Well, it's our only lead for right now, Inuyasha. We might as well go check it out."
"Whatever," Inuyasha replies with a bored look, finally giving in.
Kagome got on Inuyasha's back, and Sango, Shippou, and Miroku got on Kirara. "Where are these youkai, anyway?" Inuyasha asked Miroku.
"We found out from the villagers that the forest is just East of here."
"Fine," he said still looking pissed off that he has to waste his time on this. "Let's get this over with quickly so we can get back to searching for Naraku."
"Right."
Inuyasha took off in the direction of the forest, and Kirara wasn't far behind. In a matter of minutes, they could see the forest getting closer and closer. "Wait, Inuyasha!" cried Miroku. "This isn't any ordinary forest; it's a forest made up of tree youkai. We'll have to be on our guard when we go in because we'll probably get attacked."
"What are you talking about, Miroku. These guys wouldn't even be a challenge for me." He let Kagome down and walked over to the edge of the forest. As he arrived he heard someone speak to him.
"Who are you? Why do you come to our forest?" It was one of the trees.
"Keh, like I need to tell you anything."
The tree opened it's eyes and some facial features could be made out in the tree. "Are you, perhaps, the one they call, Inuyasha?"
"You have a problem with that?" Inuyasha said, as he pulled Tetsusaiga out of its seath.
"Inuyasha! Watch out!" Kagome screamed.
A tree branch suddenly extended toward Inuyasha. Inuyasha quickly jumped back and dodged it. Then another came. This time he side stepped to the right, and it went right passed him. Branch after branch came as he kept dodging. It wasn't long until he started getting bored of the game. "Enough of this!" He swung his gigantic blade over his head in mid air. A flow of energy suddenly began to circle the blade. "Kaze no Kizu!" With a downward slash of his blade, his kaze no kizu tore through the air toward the tree branches, ripped right through them, and headed straight toward the trees. There was a flash of light followed by smoke. And after the smoked cleared, there was nothing left but torn up tree limps and four distinct cracks in the ground caused by the tetsusaiga.
The other tree youkai stood as though they, too, were ready to fight Inuyasha. However, they all began to go the other way as a rumbling came from the ground. "What is that?" Miroku thought allowed.
"Is it an Earth Quake?" Sango suggested.
Huge cracks started developing under their feet, and suddenly they were turning into small canyons. A crack started forming from the ground and broke away right under Kagome's feet, causing her to fall in it. "Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted, running to catch her. However, he, too, was subjected to these cracks in the ground. He fell through the ground and was immediately met by what seemed like a giant root. Before they knew it, they were all captured by the grasp of giant roots that came from the ground. Then, from in between all of them, a gigantic tree began emerging from the ground.
"This must be their leader," Kagome observed.
It spoke. "You are the one who attack my forest?" It interigated Inuyasha.
"Heh, you damn fool, you've only been tricked into thinking it was me. I'm not the one that attacked your forest." He suddenly got a determined look in his eyes. "However, if you don't get the hell off of me, I'm going to tear you to shreds!" He pushed out with his arms trying to break the roots, and finally got free with a mild struggle by cutting the roots away with his tetsusaiga, which he still held firmly in his hand.
"You will die!" It shot out it's limbs at Inuyasha from all angles. Inuyasha quickly did a wide swing around the entire circumfence of his body, effectively destroying most of the attacking limbs and did the same with another large swing in the other direction.
"My turn!" He held his hands tight around the handle and swung it behind him. The entire blade began to turn diamond. "Koun Gou Sou ha!" He swung his large sword visciously over his shoulder and toward the giant tree. As he did so, Giant spikes of diamond flew from the blade and headed toward the tree.
"Fool," the tree cried out as it attempted to block it. It sheilded itself with hundreds of roots, branches and vines, but the crystals tore right through it and pierced into the body of the giant youkai. "What is this?" Inuyasha just "Keh'd".
The giant tree youkai was quickly learning the power of Inuyasha's sword. He decided that he had to get it away from him. It was the only way he could stand a chance against him. "What's the matter?" Inuyasha taunted. "Didn't have enough? Well, let me show you some more of my power! Kaze no kizu!" Again, the tree tried to block, but with little success.
Roots quickly appeared from the ground behind Inuyasha. Hundreds of roots quickly surrounded him. "You will be powerless to defeat me without your sword." It grasped the sword with large bundle of its roots and tried to pull the sword away from Inuyasha and a deadly game of tug-a-war.
"No you don't!" shouted Miroku, finding an oppertunity to contribute to this battle while he was binded by the tree's roots. "Kazaana" He opened his wind tunnel and started sucking the roots toward him. However, it only took applying more preasure to the roots that binded him in order to foil his efforts.
"Miroku!" Inuyasha shouted. In a sudden moment of concern for his friend, he lost the battle for control of the tetsusaiga. The sword flew away and landed in the ground steaming from transforming back.
'Oh no,' thought Kagome. 'Without the tetsusaiga, Inuyasha can't control his transformation.'
'I have to get tetsusaiga back,' Inuyasha thought. He tried to make a quick dart for it, but he, too, found himself once again tangled in roots. He struggled to get free. Pushing and stretching the roots around him, but as he did, the tree just pulled tighter. Soon, it was only a matter of time before it was pulling so tight before it was getting hard to breathe. 'I can't breathe,' he thought to himself. 'But somehow I have to get out of this and get tetsusaiga back. I can't allow myself to die. I have to... protect... everyone.' Then, he passed out. A matter of minutes he was concsious again. 'What's that... smell?' He took a deep breath. 'It smells like blood. Youkai blood.'
The wind started picking up and a powerful aura started to feel the air. "What's going on?" the tree asked aloud. "What is this?" The roots it was holding Inuyasha with suddenly became warmer, and eventual became hot. There was a destinct change in power and the youkai was strucken with an intense fear when Inuyasha revealed his blood red eyes.
'Oh no, Inuyasha has transformed,' Kagome thought to herself. "Inuyasha!" she screamed, but he couldn't hear her. Her cries seemed faint and all that was on his mind was killing the closest thing in front of him, the tree youkai.
Inuyasha began laughing maniacly. He stretched out his claws, and with a single sweep he tore through the roots. "Prepare to die!" He rose his hand up in the air. As he swings it down toward the tree, a strong, red energy come off and heads for the tree.
The youkai suddenly became strucken with great fear. It desperately tried to sheild itself from the awesome force of the blow, but it was no use, even while trying to move out of the way, as fast as a tree youkai could, the impact of the blow was too powerful and severly damaged the youkai. In pure reaction to the immense pain it was feeling at the moment, the youkai tightly cluched all of it's roots squeezing the victims it held in it's roots. "Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted out as loud as she could. This time, she was heard.
Inuyasha responded. "Kagome," he said. 'I must save... Kagome!' He began to over come the trance. He immediately began to head for the tetsusaiga. The tree tried to stop him, but it was already too late. He grasped his hands around tetsusaiga, and a barrier immediately formed around Inuyasha, made by tetsusaiga. It transformed in his hands, as he pulled it out the ground, and he sliced through the roots around him with a golden blade of energy that came off of tetsusaiga as he swung it up and over his head.
He quickly made a dash over to Kagome and sliced her down. Then he went and freed everyone else. The tree was near death and still fairly convinced that Inuyasha was the one who attacked the forest. With its last efforts, it made one last attempt on Inuyasha's life, but Inuyasha took its life first with a single Kaze no kizu.
With a sigh of both relief and disappointment, Miroku declared, "I guess this turned out to just be a waste of time. We couldn't find out anything from this."
However, he didn't realise that they still had more to take care of. An entire forest, in fact. "Doesn't this ever end?" Inuyasha complained, taking a look around with his tetsusaiga ready. "Listen, if you guys don't want to die like your leader, listen to what I have to say: We've been set up by Naraku and they made you believe that I attacked you."
"Who is this Naraku?" replied one the trees. This tree seemed older and wiser than most of the other trees, perhaps even more rational as well. "Why would he want to turn us against you?"
Miroku butted in. "We all have our own reasons to try and kill Naraku, and he was trying to use you to get rid of us. Please, just tell us where we can find Naraku and we will no longer bother you."
There was lots of commotion amongst the tree youkai. However, after a few moments, it seemed that a decision had been reached.
"We feel as though we can trust you," reported the elder tree. "We believe your story about Naraku and we are sorry for attacking you. I have heard rumour from the others that there is a cave up in the side of the mountain with a white haired girl and a young child living there. Perhaps that will give you some clue to what you are looking for."
"Could that be Kanna?" Miroku inquired.
"We'll have to go check it out to find out," Kagome added.
"Well thank you for you help," Sango said to them. "We'll be sure to take down Naraku and avenge your comrades as well."
As they were leaving and headed toward where the trees directed them, Miroku made an observation, "It seems like the tree youkai believe our story after all."
"They were probably just afraid I would kill them all," replied Inuyasha.
"You're probably right," Kagome agreed.
Author's Notes: Not much to clearify this time, but I wanted to make sure to clearify that I wasn't too sure I had the little white-haired girl with the mirror's name right because it just didn't come to me at first as I was writing this. However, sometime, when I feel I have the time, I will check back with the anime to make sure I didn't give her the wrong name.
Anyway, thank you for reading my fict. It's much appreciated. I hope you enjoyed it so far, and I hope that you continue reading it and continue to enjoy it. As always, reviews and comments are much appreciated. After reading my first two chapters, you might as well go ahead and review since you took the time to read it at all, which probably took you a lot longer than it would take you to fill out a review. Just let me know how you felt about it, comments, suggestions, criticism, random stupidity, praise, death threats, or any other sort of written review would also be very much appreciated. Also, if you're a dedicated reader and reviewer, chances are that I will probably read and review your ficts at some point, if they are any good.
That's all for now, mata!
Sesshoumaru