Chapter 11-Return of an old enemy...and Master
Inuyasha traveled for days to the spot he felt was an appropriate burial place for Callisto to be place. The spot he chose was the cave he had entered during the storm and began his transformation before he had met Callisto. The cave was as he remembered it. Dark, untouched, and empty like the feeling inside his body at that moment as he put Callisto down to create the oval shaped hole for her body to be placed in. When Inuyasha finished he placed Callisto's body in gently and refilled the hole carefully covering her body up to the head where he gave her one final kiss on her forehead and the covered her entirely. "Goodbye Callisto," said Inuyasha as he finished padding the dirt and started exiting the cave.
"HAHAHAHAHA! So you think your all alone now Inuyasha? You couldn't be more further from the truth," said a voice that was all to familiar to Inuyasha as he ran out of the cave to see a familiar figure wearing baboon fur and pelt laughing at Inuyashas expense.
"Naraku! I don't know and I don't care how you survived all this time, but this time I'll make sure you stay dead...permanently," said Inuyasha as he drew Tetsuigia from his sheathe.
"You fool I am dead, but part of me still lives...inside you!" said Naraku pointing to Inuyasha who looked at him with disbelief and anger.
"WHAT?" said Inuyasha as he found himself hesitating to attack his former master.
"It's quite a remarkable thing actually. You see right at the point of the explosion from the spider amulet that you used to try and kill us both part of, but considerable size of my mind as been lying dormant inside yours. Preferably the sub-conscious part of the mind gathering strength for the day I may awaken. During the time period of a little over years I have bee resting and watching all that you have done the entire time you were away from your friends. Due too me being in the sub-conscious part of your mind I was able to stay your beloved as she look through mind of her love that was...you!" said Naraku as he smiled behind the baboon mask.
"How is it you're here though? If you claim to be what you say you are then your not a hallucination of my mind," said Inuyasha as he left his attack stance and stood up straight.
"I'm projecting my physical image through your eyes my boy and my voice that now echoes from your mind you can hear from your demon ears. How else can you see, hear, and talk to me...face to face?" said Naraku who removed his baboon mask to show Inuyasha that it was in fact him.
"What do you want? You didn't just appear just for the hell of it. So why now?" said Inuyasha as he kept retightening his grip on the Tetsuigia as he stared into Narakus evil eyes.
"What I want Inuyasha...is my old apprentice back that I see still lives in you...just as I do," said Naraku who looked at Inuyasha with an evil smile that matched his eyes.
"That part of me is dead and has been for two years. It seems you've been in my mind for two years for nothing," said Inuyasha who cracked a smile of his own.
Narakus smile however, did not leave his face. In fact it only grew in size. "You may want to make yourself believe that Inuyasha before you tell that to others. Or don't you remember what the snake demons said about you smelling like miasma. You won't admit my former apprentice, but deep down even now you enjoyed being what you were. It was a thrill for you wasn't it? A thrill you cannot deny to yourself even now. Not when you need now more then ever," said Naraku who stared at Inuyasha angry blood red eyes.
"I don't need it anymore Naraku. Callisto fused my demon and human sides together to make me whole inside. You know that," said Inuyasha as he let out a threatening growl under his breath.
"True, but now she is dead and there is hole in your heart where she was though it's not as a deep a hole as I expected it would be however, it will do. For you see Inuyasha I intend...to fill it with what I had taught you...before," said Naraku as his eyes seemed to glow more red as he seemed to walk towards Inuyasha.
"I won't go back to being your little puppet anymore like you forced me to become last time," said Inuyasha as he tried to retreat backwards, but found his legs not responding to him.
"I don't want you to be my mindless puppet Inuyasha. I want you as my apprentice again and successor all that I once was. However, I don't have much time in here left since...my time is only temporary in your body," Naraku whose smile shortened a little.
"What are you talking about you've been in my body for two years. That's not what I call temporary Naraku," said Inuyasha as they were now face to face with each other.
"That was to conserve my strength so I could teach you all that I know. When I have given you all that I had had and once was I will be...no more. Even if I don't teach you the part of me that exist in here will not last long and I will finally...die," said Naraku whose smile on his face turned to one of sorrow.
"So before you die you want to pass down everything to me like before except...without any strings attached this time," said Inuyasha who felt that deep down Naraku was actually telling the truth for once.
"Correct. All I want right before I die his empower to you and you alone all that I once was that's inside you still that you have left behind. Don't you want to see Sesshomorru and Kikyo suffer for what they did?" said Naraku who put a hand on Inuyashas shoulder.
Inuyasha nodded. "I want to them to feel my suffering. I want to hear their despair as I take away from them that, which is valuable to them...their lives," said Inuyasha as he felt his rage growing inside himself.
"Let me help you. You have been through enough pain already. Let me take some of the weight off. Do it for Callisto and that she was," said Naraku in a gentle voice that Inuyasha had never heard before.
"Yes. I will be your apprentice once more...so…so that I may have my vengeance upon those who destroyed MY future. The ones destroyed MY love and MY treasure that was Callisto. I am yours...to command again...master," said Inuyasha as he kneeled before Narakus image staring at him with a purpose.
"Good. Now lets begin. There is so much to teach you again and so little time to do it in. After all...death waits for no one. Not even family," said Naraku as he placed his right hand on Inuyashas head and began teaching Inuyasha through his mind.
(At Kaede's village)
"YOU DID WHAT?" said Kagome who was nearly speechless as was everyone else at what Kikyo and Sesshomorru had told them about what they had done to Inuyasha and Callisto.
"We had to unfortunately kill them both to ensure they wouldn't produce offspring that would one day bring suffering top others," said Sesshomorru calmly though deep down he hated killing Inuyasha like that.
"Considering that both were each a different variety of half-breed if they were to mate they would produce a child of great and terrible power. In no time at all the child's powers would have surpass the parents and if that happened. We would have had a half-demon with enhanced dark powers that would have killed all in its path. We had no choice," said Kikyo who hid her smile at the satisfaction of Callisto dying.
"They could have produced a half human or half demon with light spiritual powers too you know," said Kagome who was angry that Inuyasha was now dead.
"We couldn't risk it. One or both of them had to die and unfortunately...they both died in the fight we had with them," said Sesshomorru who had the sound of guilt somewhere in his voice.
"Lord Sesshomorru!" came the voice of Rin who had grown considerably in the two years since everyone had seen her last.
"Yes Rin," said Sesshomorru as he turned to face the child with a panting Jaken trying to catch up behind her.
"I just went to the spot where you said Inuyasha and that priestess lady were and...and...," said Rin who was little nervous as Sesshomorru looked a little angry at her.
"And what Rin?" said Sesshomorru in a serious voice.
"And well...Inuyashas not their and neither is the priestess that was supposed to be with him," said Rin whose voice was now filled with fear.
"WHAT? That's...impossible!" said Sesshomorru as is eyes went wide with fear as he looked around for Inuyasha who could have been hiding anywhere around them and not have realized it.
Kikyo herself was also looking around for Inuyasha or Callisto depending on who had survived the attack. "I don't understand they both should have been bound and died together when I hit them with the arrows," said Kikyo as she readied an arrow into her bow.
Out of nowhere the sky turned dark and black as it suddenly started to rain with thunder coming soon after as if the sky itself was angry...like an animal. "I don't like this," said Miroku as the storm started to pick up intensely.
"What's that?" said Shippo squinting in the heavy rain pointing to something wearing a white furry looking coat walking casually through the storm as if it were nothing.
"If that's who I think it is then were in trouble," said Sango who readied her boomerang despite the storms intense winds making it hard for her to see clearly.
Sesshomorru however, didn't need to squint his eye to see clearly who it was as he grabbed Rin and moved the child in back of him with Jaken running to Sesshomorru's side for protection and intimidation at the same time. The figure stopped walking when it was several feet away from Sesshomorru and raised its right clawed hand, which caused the storm to stop almost immediately. "What's wrong...brother? Can't say high to family without stabbing them in the back...with your sword? I thought you would be glad to see me up and about considering you...and Kikyo completed what you set out to do," said Inuyasha in a dark and evil sounding voice as he stared into Sesshomorru's terrified eye.
"Inuyasha what has happened to you? You're wearing Narakus baboon fur. Your face is scared with marks that look like spider webs. What did you do to yourself?" said Kagome horrified as she sensed an evil wind blowing around Inuyasha
Remember? One or both of us had to die that day correct? Well...Callisto is dead. My love is DEAD! Everything that is good in my heart...IS DEAD! My love for you as a brother...IS DEAD! Everything about you and Kikyo I had respect for and loved...IS DEAD!" said Inuyasha ignoring Kagomes words as he continued to stare at Sesshomorru with a sadistic smile with a hunger in his eyes...a hunger for vengeance.
"Inuyasha...please! You must...understand what we did was for...for the good of everyone everywhere in Japan. What we did was for the good of every human, demon, and half-breed of future...future generations. If we hadn't...," said Sesshomorru but was interrupted by Inuyasha who was in no mood to hear an explanation he had already heard before.
"SHUT UP!" said Inuyasha who ran at unprecedented speed and punched Sesshomorru right in the face sending him flying passed everyone into one of the small houses.
"Inuyasha stop this! This isn't you," said Kagome as she ran up to and grabbed his fur pelt with tears in her eyes.
"Really? What makes you think you...you a mere human could understand what I...I a half-demon like myself has gone through," said Inuyasha as he looked down at Kagome and grabbed her by the throat and threw her to the side walking towards Rin.
"Back fowl being or you shall have to contend with me," said Jaken trying to protect Rin from Inuyashas advance with the fire from his staff.
"I spared your life once Jaken. I don't spare lives TWICE!" said Inuyasha as he ran at the same high speed before and sliced Jakens Staff of Two Heads as well as Jakens head clear off from each other.
Rin screamed as Jakens blood stained her body. She tried to run only to find that she ran into Inuyasha. "In...Inuyasha?" said Rin curiously as she stared at the half-demon who two years ago had been honorable to her and somewhat kind.
"Hello Rin! You've grown since last I saw you two years ago," said Inuyasha whose voice was less evil sounding when he spoke to her.
"Yes sir. Lord Sesshomorru has been very kind to me like a father," said Rin very politely as she always did.
"Really? Well that is unfortunate then that such a relationship between you and Sesshomorru has to end. Because just as your...father took away someone away from me I have to take you away...FROM HIM!" said Inuyasha whose voice became evil sounding again as he raised his clawed right hand over his head ready to strike a now terrified Rin.
(A/N: Sorry to leave it at a cliff hanger, but I felt it was for the best. Makes you guess what's going to happen. Don't forget to review now!)