Okay well I have updated again. At least it didn't take as long to update as last time. I actually spent most of my weekend writing a program for my CSE class. I actually made it that it that you can play Hangman. The catch is that the computer is the player and guesses the letters. you just tell it how many letters and the other info need as it goes along. Just like you would in regular Hangman. I spent so much time on that, that I forgot I had a Physics midterm as well as a Math presentation. I studied as I could for Physics and I hope for the best. As for math luckily my teacher allowed me to push it back.
Listen to me going on and on and you probably don't care. Most people probably won't even read this part. Oh well. Let's start the responses:
Sakume Nohara - In the future, Sesshomaru isn't doing much just hanging around. I haven't really given him a job or anything in the future cause that doesn't bear on the story at all. As for in the past, Sess is just wandering around with Rin as usual. He'll at least settle down later. As I mentioned he won't be seen until its time for the Sess/Kagura pairing.
iNULOVER - Inutaisho didn't want to kill Inuyasha then put a spell on him. He said he's help to seal the demon blood and lured Inuyasha out to the woods where he is now trying to kill Inuyasha.
Hikariko - I'm still not sure about a Tai/??? pairing. I don't think I'll really get into this. If he was with someone she should have been brought in by now and its a little late to introduce someone to pair with him. As for San/Mir descendants, you'll have to wait and see on that one.
Well I'm wasting enough of your time. You just want to see what's going to happen to Inuyasha. Well now you can. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I'm trying to kill IY because I can't have him. ha ha ha ha ha.
Chapter 39: Sealing of Demon Blood - Part 2: No Other Way
"Don't tell me you're saying what I think you're saying," Inuyasha said hard to believe what he was being told.
"I will kill you before you have the chance to hurt anyone again," Inutaisho said as he charged at his son.
Inuyasha couldn't believe his father's words. "This isn't happening," Inuyasha thought to himself. Unfortunately while he was in the middle of his thoughts, his father was getting closer and closer. Inuyasha luckily enough snapped out of his trance just as his father reached him. He then quickly dodged to one side but his arm was still cut from his father's claws. Inuyasha got a few feet away and looked at his arm in shock. It was bleeding though not too heavily. If he had waited any longer he could have been killed. "You can't be serious about this. I'm your son. You couldn't kill me, could you?" Inuyasha asked in total disbelief.
"It is because you are my son that I have to do this. Usually when a child grows up he becomes responsible for himself but that is no longer the case with you. Since you can't deal with your demon side I have no choice but to. And I don't have much of a choice but to kill you. I will not allow any innocent people to suffer from your lack of control," He told his son. "Now just prepare to die!" Once again Inutaisho charged Inuyasha. The son though stood his ground and blocked what he could. He continued to stay one step ahead of his father but just barely and his ground was slowly slipping away. Inutaisho showed even more speed and power as he caught Inuyasha off guard and just slammed him in the chest. This sent Inuyasha barreling through several trees.
Inutaisho could sense the hurt coming off of his son but he had no choice. "I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I don't want to do this anymore then you want me to but there is no other way. If there was I would do it."
"There is always another way. You could give me another chance to control my blood," Inuyasha seemed to try and plead with his father.
"No, you have had many chances already. You have failed each time so I must do what I have to do," he said as he once again descended upon Inuyasha. This time he caught him off guard and sent him flying off again. This time he was just out of Inutaisho sight. "Please don't make this any harder then it is already." The father slowly walked towards where he had sent his son. With a quick flash, Inutaisho saw something coming at him and tried to dodge it but was still caught in the chest. He looked down to see claw marks across his chest. He then turned to see a red-eyed, blood stained hands Inuyasha staring back at him. "So you have once again succumbed to the demon that is within you. So be it."
Inuyasha made the first move and rushed at his father. Inutaisho didn't have much time to avoid the attack. His son was much faster and stronger like this then before. As he dodged he attacked as well but to his surprise his attack missed. Inuyasha came back with his own attack. This continued in a cycle: dodge, attack, miss, repeat.
"I can't let this go on," Inutaisho thought. "If anything happens, I'm putting the people around here in danger. I have to end this now." Inutaisho started to run in the opposite direction of Inuyasha. He seemed to be running away and Inuyasha kept on his tail. He was so close that when his father turned around and made a quick lunge at him Inuyasha could do nothing to counter or dodge. Though his mind was totally irrational, Inuyasha could still feel the intense pain as he felt his father's claws rip into his midsection. These cuts were far worse than any time before. They had dug deep and much blood spilled onto the ground as Inuyasha fell.
Inuyasha slowly made his way to his feet. He mind was still totally filled with hatred and the need to spill blood but there was also the pain from his stomach. When Inuyasha finally looked up towards his opponent he got smacked right in the face but not by a fist. Some object had hit him. As if fell from his face, Inuyasha caught it. Instantly Inuyasha's mind emptied all the hatred and blood and was left with pain and confusion. As he looked down to his hands he noticed Tetsusaiga. He was totally confused as he looked up to his father, "What the hell is going on?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Now is not the time," Inutaisho said. "Draw Tetsusaiga."
Inuyasha decided to do as his father said. He drew the sword and held it out in front of him. "So now you want to fight me when I'm armed?!?"
"Just shut up and do what I say," his father ordered. "Drive the sword into the ground in front of you." Inuyasha wasn't sure if he should do it or not. His father wasn't in an attack stance but he still seemed to be tensed up. "JUST DO IT!" Inutaisho yelled at his son.
To be careful, Inuyasha only put a small bit of the sword into the ground just in case his father decided to attack. To his surprise, Inutaisho relaxed when the sword was in the ground. Inuyasha looked at the sword as it seemed to be colored red for a bit. He noticed that the sword was absorbing his blood which had been on the ground. "Will you please explain this, father?"
"There is a way to seal your demon blood, Inuyasha, and it has just been done. I apologize for the deception," he said truthfully. "You know that Tetsusaiga can absorb powers from its foes but absorbing the blood of the foe. By angering you enough to become full demon, your demon blood started to pump through your veins. You may think that the Tetsusaiga makes you more powerful but in actuality it does not. The sword is usually no more powerful that the energy that was put in to make it. When you at first found it, it was more powerful than you because it was created from me. You grew more powerful though and eventually mastered the sword by becoming as powerful as it. By having the Tetsusaiga absorb some of your demon blood, it makes the sword just a hair more powerful than you. You will never notice the difference but it makes it that it keeps your demon blood in check whether you have it with you or not."
"So this will seal my demon blood for good?" Inuyasha asked to make sure.
"Just as long as you don't break it again, it will. When you break the sword, it loses the powers that it had gained because it takes the sword as a whole to harness that power and when it breaks it can't hold it anymore. I didn't tell you of this method because I felt that if you knew my act to kill you was a fake you wouldn't be able to revert to your demon side. I apologize for this ruse but as I said before there was no other way. This is the only way possible and I don't want to ever have to do it again. Catch my drift?"
"Yes, I understand. I won't break Tetsusaiga again," Inuyasha said. He then felt a little weary and started to sway on his feet. He used Tetsusaiga to steady himself.
Inutaisho rushed over to his side. "You're still injured from that attack. Let's get you back to the village where I'm sure your mom or maybe Kagome by now will be able to patch you up." Inuyasha unsteadily sheathed Tetsusaiga and walked back to the village with the help of his father.
"I'd normally feel like I'm acting weak like this," Inuyasha thought. "But since I'm with my father it just seems okay." He had to admit, he liked having his father around.
A group of 3 people slowly approached the Sunset Shrine. They weren't in any hurry, they figured if their target wasn't there. They would wake for him. They were about to ascend the stair of the shrine but stopped when a voice called to them.
"Inuyasha and Kagome aren't here," the voice said. The three looked up to see a black haired man standing on one of the pillars. He then jumped down right in front of them. "They're not here so you might as well turn back," he said to the woman in the middle of the 3.
The other two quickly stepped in between the man and the woman. "You have no right to talk to her. Now move out of the way before we move you."
"Don't even try me," Tai said. "I want to talk to your boss not some low level flunky like you."
The yakuza flunky was about to attack Tai but the woman's hand on his shoulder stopped him. The two men stepped aside and she and Tai looked at one another. "You are definitely very courageous to step into a fight that is not yours," she told him.
"Not necessarily," Tai said. "Though I'm surprised you actually came here. To think that Kitiara, leader of the demon yakuza, would actually make herself known to deal with a lowly hanyou. I'm quite surprised."
"We both know he is no mere hanyou but I am also surprised. Not about this Inuyasha but instead by you. You seem to know much about me yet I don't know about you," Kitiara said.
"I don't care to tell you anything about myself. You have your resources. You should already know who I am and if you don't that's your fault," Tai said almost cockily.
Kitiara looked closely at Tai as if trying to find something that would help her. It was then that she noticed it. "I know who you are now. You're the Prince of the Western Lands, Son of the current Lord, Sesshomaru. If I remember correctly your name is Tai."
"Well you do keep yourself up to date pretty good. What gave me away?" Tai asked.
"It's the small streaks of silver hair. You are the only demon I know of to have black hair with streaks of silver in it," she told him.
"Damn, the hair dye must be wearing off. I knew I should have gone with the longer lasting stuff but anyway it did its job," Tai said, which had been to help conceal his identity from Inuyasha. In truth he had about 5 streaks of silver in his hair. One on the top and then two on each side as you went down.
"So what is it that you are doing here protecting them?" Kitiara asked.
"I have my reasons," he responded. "You won't find them not matter how much you look. They have gone on a bit of a journey and will return shortly enough. From you being here, I take it that you are looking to end this fight once and for all?"
"Yes that is true," the yakuza leader responded.
"Well how about in two weeks we meet in the rural area outside of Tokyo. That way you can fight as hard as you want and we should really have to worry about people getting hurt. In your logic, you wouldn't want to hurt your potential customers and victims."
Kitiara didn't like his smirk but she knew he had a point. "Fine, I will send further instructions. If they are not there, I will rip apart this city looking for them and kill everyone in my path. Understood?"
"Yeah, whatever," Tai said lazily. "You know you could have let this go long ago. You know as well as I that Mr. Higurashi wouldn't have said anything but no you had to go through with this and because of that you've lost many of your ranks. And now your pride won't let you back out. See you in two weeks."
One of Kitiara's guards wanted to go back and fight Tai but she forbid it and they continued to walk away. She didn't want to provoke the Prince of the Western Lands. While that was mainly just a title nowadays, he could still call upon hundreds if not thousands of demons to his aid. If it went this way, she was sure he'd continue being cocky and not bring much support for their battle.
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Kagome watched in a bit of horror as Inuyasha came back with his father. She had been worried when Izayoi had told her the actual way to reseal the demon blood within her lover. Neither Kagome nor Izayoi liked the way but there wasn't any getting around it. Izayoi had reassured Kagome that Inutaisho would do as least damage as possible to Inuyasha. In the meantime, Izayoi had been teaching Kagome some miko spells, which Kagome seemed to take pretty easy to.
As they got closer, they could see how bad the injuries actually were. "Inutaisho!" Izayoi seemed to yell. "What the hell happened? He isn't supposed to be this hurt."
"He has improved quite a lot more than I had expected. Can you heal him?" he asked his wife. Inuyasha slowly lowered himself to the ground and sat while leaning against one of the buildings.
"I could but I'm not going to," she said and shocked everyone. She then turned to Kagome who was still shocked. "You go ahead and try. I think you can do it."
"But what if I can't?" Kagome asked getting all worried.
"Don't worry, you'll do fine. If you don't I'll do it. Now go ahead and try," she said. Kagome got on her knees and leaned in to see Inuyasha's injury. She placed her hand over the wound, closed her eyes and started to concentrate as she had just been taught. It was hard seeing as how she had just learned this not even an hour ago and now she was using it on the man she loved. This only caused her to try harder. She could feel the miko energy running through her. She willed it to pass out of her hand and into the cuts. In her mind she pulled the injuries closed and when she finally opened her eyes she could still see blood. Luckily, that was only the blood from before and the wound was now gone. She looked up to Inuyasha and saw a smile on his face.
"Thanks," he told her. "That feels much better."
"Great job, Kagome," Izayoi told her. She then turned to her husband. "To heal that big of a wound can sometimes take a lot of energy. It kind of looks bad for me when she can do that kind of spell and still have much more power than I do."
Inutaisho looked a bit shocked at his wife. Obviously Kagome was even more powerful then he could have figured. "So what will we do now?" Kagome asked Inuyasha.
Inuyasha was about to say that they should head back to her time but his father spoke up first. "We would like you to say here for a while."
"Why?" Inuyasha asked.
"You are quite strong as a warrior, Inuyasha. The problem is though that you mostly jump head first into a fight. Because I was not around to give you any formal training, you learned what you could as you went along in life. I would like you to remain here for a bit and receive some training. In the meantime, I'm sure Izayoi could continue to train Kagome, right?" he asked his wife.
"I wouldn't mind. What do you say?" she asked.
Kagome and Inuyasha looked at one another for a second to decided and then Kagome spoke. "We can stay but not too long. Will about a week and a half to two weeks be okay?"
"It might be a little tough but I think we can handle it," Inutaisho said. "Let's not waste any time. Let's get started."
"I want to eat first," Inuyasha said. The others gave a laugh but agreed with Inuyasha to have lunch.
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Well is everyone happy now. IY isn't dead and he didn't die. I hope you liked the explanation. The next chapter might be a bit short, I don't know. I'm not going to go into the actual training or anything. Well as I said, there is about 5 chapters left until I take a break before doing the Sess/Kagura part. In the meantime, I might write a small mini-series and a one-shot just to get them out of my head. They are nothing like this story. The one shot is actually an AU as well as a song-fic. Well we'll see. Now for referral. I'm aware I referred this author before but I really like their new story:
It Takes Two to Tango by Inuyasha Loves Kagome 4391 storyid=1783252
Well that's about it. Join me next time for:
Chapter 40: Preparing for the Fight - ohh no, my story will be officially over the hill. lol.