A.N. Mikazuki Tsuki here with another update! We're drawing closer and closer to the end guys! Three more chapters after this and it's the end! Ack! I'm tearing up lol...
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha—well just be glad I don't own Inuyasha...heh.
Warning: A lot on angst.
(Tsuki)
Italics —simply the continuation of Sesshoumaru's explanation.
(Tsuki)
Delightfully Disastrous
Chapter 18
Naraku chuckled darkly, "And it so begins..."
He turned to everyone in the room, "I expect at least half of you to kill at least one person..."
He smirked, "I want the scent of blood to flow through this place by sun rise, or I'll be very, very disappointed."
Kageromaru let out a high pitch wheeze, "I doubt that will be any problems in that area... I'm hoping to get my hands on at least two servants."
Kagura let out a shudder. Not just because of his appearance, but also what he tended to say made Kageromaru's presence definitely quite disturbing.
Naraku's eyes darted to each person, "Now go, and reek as much havoc as you can, incarnates... And Kanna?"
He looked at her with some barely concealed twisted humor, "Ready the cells...It seems were going to have a few guests tonight..."
(Tsuki)
It was now midnight and everyone, laughing and chatting began to leave. They threw compliments here and there stating that they had more fun in the last few hours then they had all year.
Inuyasha as he herded them off the property muttered, "I really don't find that hard to believe."
There were only a few stranglers but they also appeared to be leaving. Two of them were Bankotsu and Jakotsu.
They bade their good byes (Bankotsu's were surprisingly pleasant since he had actually had a good time). Jakotsu had exclaimed how the next issue would probably sell better than Pocky.
Kikyou had laughed and closed the front door. She started leaning down, all ready to pick Rin up into her arms to take her upstairs to her room, when the phone rang. Inuyasha groaned, "Who the hell could be calling now?"
Kikyou picked up the closest cordless phone, "Hello?"
A hoarse wisp like whisper of a voice sounded from the phone, "Can you put Sesshoumaru on the line?" It sounded more commanding than asking.
Kikyou furrowed her brows, "Who is this?"
"My identity is none of your concern... I would like to speak with Sesshoumaru."
Inuyasha's acute hearing easily picked up the conversation.
Something in his memory triggered.
His vision unfocused on Kikyou, as he drifted into the somewhat recent.
"Aniki...what are these 'incarnates' like?" This had happened the year before. He had been visiting Sesshoumaru while he was in 'vacationing' in the States.
Kikyou had stayed back in Japan.
Sesshoumaru had not looked up from the stack of work papers he had brought along, "I have only seen one, but Father had described them once to me."
"The first he spoke of is like death- she steals souls. She has the appearance of a young five year old child and her voice is but a whisper, soft and light. She had neither a scent nor yoki, to give her presence away so that it was just her voice you heard before your soul is captured and leaves your body—"
Inuyasha pulled Kikyou and Rin away, "Come on... let's get Sesshoumaru. I have a feeling that this is important."
Kikyou without question followed Inuyasha outside. If he said that it was important, then it probably was.
As they stepped outside it, the scene looked like something out of a horror movie. The remaining lights and music created such an eerie mood.
She shuddered, 'Inuyasha...what is going on?'
(Tsuki)
"—The next Father called a 'wind witch'... Her eyes were rumored to be the color of a burning ruby, her face holding an enviable and sophisticated beauty. She is a bitch who controls the winds, yet unlike the wind she can never have freedom. Ironic is it not?—"
(Tsuki)
Kagome pulled away from Sesshoumaru in a breathless stupor, she giggled and buried her face in his chest, "You know, Exposé's article on you was right..."
Sesshoumaru lifted a brow in silent prodding as his embrace tightened, "You definitely do get a full ten. You are a killer kisser..."
Sesshoumaru's chuckle mixed pleasantly in the night air with the crashing of the waves. Kagome hesitantly looked up at him, "Sesshoumaru... I just want to say that I—"
Suddenly Inuyasha, with Rin in his arms interrupted the moment, "Sesshoumaru... there's a call for you."
Kikyou was a bit of a distance behind, still unable to shake off her feeling of agitation.
Kagome's face flamed up at being caught in such an intimate position, but the look on Inuyasha's face made her suddenly uneasy.
Worry.
That was not something commonly seen in his countenance. If Inuyasha was openly worried, then something was terribly, terribly wrong.
Sesshoumaru seemed to sense his brother's apprehension quickly and did not even bother with becoming upset at the ruined moment, though he was a tad annoyed. But it was as if something unspoken between the two had occurred. He released Kagome. "You four get Sango and Mirouku and go inside." He paused, "And, tell Mirouku that he should be ready for anything."
Something was starting, and they would be better off together, and enclosed in the house. There was less protection outside and more dangers.
As he went to go inside, leaving the four to do as asked, he stopped, never turning around, "Also... Inuyasha, be on your guard."
Inuyasha in attempt to lighten the mood nodded, "You can count on it Fluff and Nutters," but he sounded less confident than he usually was.
Sesshoumaru called out orders to the remaining servants on the way to the house, calmly and quietly "Possibly code E. Go to the assigned room, knock on the remaining room doors and make sure there is no one unaware of the situation. But do so quietly."
With a few nervous nods they scrambled inside. Sesshoumaru checked for any strays on the platform. Finding none, he went to answer the phone.
A moment later, Mirouku entered the first, everyone else following with Inuyasha last to cover the rear.
They were just in time to see Sesshoumaru pick up the phone just as the last servant scrambled out of view in their hall.
"What is it?" His tone was clipped and cold. Sango shuddered.
On the other line, a cackled erupted. It was loud enough to be heard throughout the room, by both the humans and the demons. "Is that anyway to talk to an old friend, Sesshoumaru?" Naraku!
He had such gall to call his home and speak to him as if they were old acquaintances. Inuyasha also seemed angered at the other hanyou's light tone and wording.
Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed, "Just what do you want?"
Naraku's mocking sigh could be heard over the phone, "You would have thought that a youkai Lord would have more manners than what you're displaying." A low growl sounded in Sesshoumaru's throat.
"Calm down, Sesshoumaru-sama. I am getting to the point. I just wanted to give you a little warning."
His laughter sprang out anew. "It has begun..."
Rin screamed as the front door exploded in a shower of wood and hordes of hideous demons began to enter the room.
"And the only way for it to stop if to hand over the jewel..."
The phone clattered to the floor in unison with the hissing of a demon.
And then the light flickered once, twice, and died.
(Tsuki)
"—A mind reader, Father described. Undefeatable in a sense. Despite the fact that he is not too bright, he makes up for it in his speed and his abilities. He will get inside your head and find out exactly what you are thinking. Thought for thought. It is that reason why once up against him, you have no chance.—"
(Tsuki)
The house was a mess and it was hard for everyone to stay together and unharmed.
Most areas were under tight lock down, only the upstairs bedrooms and the front foyer where left completely open.
Because like Sesshoumaru had stated before, it was a code E.
An evacuation process in case of an attack that all house members knew and yearly practiced. ...
But of course this was no practice. It was definitely real.
And it was not going completely as planned.
Servants had ten minutes, once they flipped on the lock down switch, to reach their lock down room –a room that was located near the servant hall- before it completely closed off. It would stay closed until the main room unlocked it.
But of course, getting into the lock down room- that was hardly a problem seeing as how, there were only about two dozen that had to stay over- the rest had been allowed weekend leave- and they had gotten a head start.
For anyone else there, that was unfortunately left behind, there was a security safe room, and that was always locked. The only ways to it were certain tunnels that lead throughout the house, and one concealed password protected entrance in the foyer.
So any problems in the security lay with the tunnels, there were only four tunnels so there was the matter of where they were. It was after all a big house.
And in a big house, so much could be allowed to happen.
(Tsuki)
"—The next two were said to be a slightly disgusting case. The elder would stay dormant inside the younger one's stomach. The process in which to release him was supposea to be as painfully as ripping out an organ. Both were sadistic, but the elder gave new light to the word twisted.
I care not, however, for the elder. The younger one I despise. He was the one that killed my mother..."
(Tsuki)
Everyone had been forced to scatter as the horde of demons made their way towards them, and now each deeply regretted having to break up the small group.
Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had immediately cleared the back way upstairs and pushed everyone else towards it, but a stray demon had attacked Mirouku. Its razor sharp claws ripped deeply at his skin.
He had cried out before taking care of the demon, mashing a lamp against it and successfully knocking it out, but everyone had paused and a moment of hesitation was all that was needed for everyone to get separated.
Though Sango strayed behind in the group as they ran, she still was able to stay away from the main area where the demons were mostly attacking.
Sesshoumaru instantly took control of the situation and called out to Sango, "Do not dare come back to him. I will take care of him. You are all unarmed, and therefore in danger. Find the third room."
Sango was torn between disobeying, but she knew that neither Kikyou nor Kagome knew any of the tunnel entrances as she did.
She groaned in frustration.
The brunette with a determined look pushed on, "Alright, I trust you, Taisho, I'll see you guys soon!"
Sesshoumaru took Inuyasha by the arm and flung him towards the ceiling. Inuyasha body twisted in mid air from how he was flung. He had blinked in shock before screaming, "What the hell!"
Sesshoumaru gave him a pointed look. "Go to the third room and meet the rest, Inuyasha. Make sure they meet us at Lock-in."
Inuyasha nodded with understanding and before he rammed into the ceiling he broke through top of the first floor with his claws. A shower of debris and water from torn out pipes and the sharp sound of cracking wood was all Sesshoumaru needed to hear to know that his brother had made it on to the second level.
Sesshoumaru looked at Mirouku who tried to stop the bleeding of his arm. He started one handedly ripping off his tattered sleeve and tied it over the wound making a sort of make shift sling, "We need to get to Lock-in, and fix what ever problem is effecting the system from doing its job. These inconsequential demons are quite the nuisance and need to go."
All during the times Sesshoumaru spoke his attack was unrelenting on the minor demons that seemed to be as numerous as the stars.
Mirouku picked up a fallen pipe, and with his right arm swung it countless times against the skulls of various demons.
The scent of blood was overwhelming as they backed slowly to the location of the Lock-in. Lock-in was the name of the room that Mirouku had been fiddling in yesterday. It was a large room in the house that held all the security equipment and there were very few ways to get in, and once Sesshoumaru locked it up, there was no way out for two hours, unless one climbed back up the tunnels in which they came.
(Tsuki)
"—Then there is one incarnate that will steal your face... Either he rips it off and places it on his faceless one and will wear it, or he will study you for half an hour and your face and voice, will be his.
Unsurprisingly, he prefers the first method over the latter if he has the choice, just because he has a reason to kill—"
(Tsuki)
Inuyasha tried to gain his bearings as he tore through the second floor, "Idiot almost pulled my arm out!"
He flexed his arm, "Damn..."
The soreness in his arm faded. "People need to start warning me before they fling me through shit..."
Suddenly his ears swiveled to a sound behind him, and he flipped onto his hands. He moved out of the way just in time to miss the deadly swipe of a demon.
Inuyasha pressed off his hand and brought himself right side up to see what cowardly thing had tried to strike him from behind.
Inuyasha cringed, covering his eyes, "Oh my Gawd! What the hell are you?"
'It's hideous!'
In front of him stood was a purple-black colored creature that looked to be an overgrown lizard mutant with a steroid induced human body.
It growled, "I am not an it, I am a he and I'm sorry we can't all look movie star quality."
His voice was a deep and rough growl. Had not Inuyasha been human, he probably would have been cowering in his non-existing at the moment boots.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes, 'With a mug like that you should be...'
The thing roared, "Such insolence! I do not appreciate those comments of yours." Inuyasha sputtered, "I didn't say nothin'!"
'This guy's definitely insane...'
"Insane! Argh...how dare you! First you insult my appearance now my sanity! I shall enjoy killing you, hanyou."
"—He will get inside your head and find out exactly what you are thinking—"
Inuyasha put two and two together. "Aw fuck! You're that mind reader... The one that Sesshoumaru mentioned. Oi! Get the fuck out of my thoughts!"
Inuyasha covered his head with his hands.
A smiled crept onto its face, and rows of razor sharp looking teeth poked out from leather skin covered lips.
"That's right, hanyou... I am Goshinki- the reader of minds and no, I think I'll stay in your head. Though insipid, your thoughts will be very helpful in your destruction."
With that he charged at Inuyasha, with claws extended.
"You're dead, Inuyasha!"
(Tsuki)
"—There is another 'child' that looks the age of Rin, but of course unlike Rin he is as corrupt a bastard as Naraku. He takes advantage of the 'darkness in a person's heart'. He's a leech like the other incarnate but he steals abilities not appearances- temporarily but much to his vexation his hosts need to be alive."
"Any they, brother, are Naraku's incarnates. Those seven together could probably take both of us down, so let us hope that Naraku is too stupid to ever think of them banding together..."
(Tsuki)
Sango, Kikyou, Rin and Kagome, had stuck together despite the demons they ran into and they ended up upstairs, in an area, Kagome had never seen before.
Sango had taken lead since she was most familiar with the house, and had taken up a metal pipe that was strewn a top a pile of broken dry wall.
Water was spewing everywhere from the pipes soaking their feet and carpet.
Sango smacked her pipe against the head of a demon that came into their path, with as much force as she could. A sickening crack sounded in the hall. Kikyou shielded Rin from the sight of the dying creature.
Sango put a finger to her lips as the sound of a high pitched laugh echoed in the hall. It sounded like a child's voice, but she knew better.
She looked at Kagome suddenly, "Some guy's are coming our way, and he definitely does not sound friendly. Take Rin, and go your room. To get there, take a right through this door and it's straight ahead. When you get there, rip the wallpaper off the wall behind the armoire and enter that room. Inuyasha should be there if he's not, move the bed and there'll be an escape tunnel. Type in 51691 and slid it open and get in. Do not stop moving," she quickly instructed.
Kagome swallowed, "And what about you and Kikyou?"
Kikyou smirked, instantly picking up the plan, "We, Kagome-chan, are the diversions, so please keep Rin-chan safe for me."
To get to the Lock-in, there were less than a handful of entrances, if there was one further away than the third one, and they would take that one, to lead the whoever was coming away from Rin and Kagome.
Hopefully they would not get caught themselves.
Another high pitched wheeze of a laugh was heard in the background and Kagome lifted Rin into her arms and ran, though not before squeezing each girl's hand. "Be careful, you two!"
Sango and Kikyou gave Kagome a smile and as soon as they left, Sango made a small cut on her arm with the pipe.
She grimaced, calling out a tad loudly, though it was convincing, "Let's just hope Kagome and Rin serve as a good distraction. I don't think I can run that fast with my injuries."
Kikyou grinned at Sango and the two wasted no time in going the opposite way of Kagome and Rin, as the voices seemed to echo throughout the halls. "And injured too..."
There was a small slurp as if someone were licking their lips, "How lucky! Kageromaru, what will you do with your catch?"
"Me? Well...eat them of course. The women are always the best..."
Kikyou gasped and Sango pulled her on, insistent, "Hear that Kikyou? We can't stop for anything..."
To stop running is to be caught, to be caught is to die, to die is to stop running.
(Tsuki)
It could not have been more than few minutes after Sango and Kikyou had heard the voices of Kageromaru and the other demon, but it seemed like hours. The two girls never stopped running.
The both of them were exhausted.
Kikyou and Sango entered another bedroom and locked the door behind them.
They needed all the extra time they could get.
There was a bright flash of hot light that seeped through the cracks of the room and Sango pulled Kikyou with her, "Go!"
Kikyou needed no heeding as a deafening explosion sounded, and it rained fiery sharp splinters of wood. They were like a myriad of flaming knives.
Kikyou looked back to see smoking pluming from the doorway, and the silhouettes of their predators.
Sango winced as the wood showered down on them, burning and cutting into skin, but she did not falter nor did she end her relentless run.
If they stopped, they would die. There was no way in hell that she was dying that night. The same went for Kikyou.
They were not about to let themselves get caught nor were they being eaten. Not if they could help it.
Kikyou and Sango prayed that Kagome and Rin had gotten away safely to Inuyasha and that their distraction was not in vain.
They ran further into the thick black smoke that helped hide their silent, but quick departure. Both stifled their coughs.
Suddenly both girls heard a shrill laugh that was followed by a stomach churning wheeze, "Come out, come out where ever you are..."
The second voice, a high pitched wheeze, chimed in and Kikyou felt disgusted that she could even hear the smirk in his voice, "No... let them run for a bit more. The smell of their fear and blood is absolutely delicious."
Sango pushed on harder than before at that and suddenly pushed both girls into a bed room. Kikyou scrambled quickly to lock it and both started pushing the bed aside.
It took merely seconds.
Where the bed had been, there was a small trapdoor. Sango quickly typed something in and slid it open, and gestured for Kikyou to get in, "Just follow it through; I'll be right behind you."
Sango put a hand over her fluttering heart, "Just keep moving," she called down to the girl inside the tunnel.
Kikyou nodded but even thought it went unseen. Sango quickly jumped in, pulling the bed back into its place as best as she could and re-slid the door in its original position over the mouth of the tunnel. It locked with a soft click.
Even in the small tunnel, light and the sound of shattering wood still bled into it and Kikyou saw with the quickly fading light that they were passage way big enough for a person to crawl through. The wood inside the sand floored tunnel reeked of decay.
Sango urged her on, "We don't know how long it'll be before they find us, so we'd better step it up, Kikyou-chan. The faster were out the better. Hopefully the others are at the end of this damn tunnel and I can go back to breathing through my nose normally without feeling the need to vomit. The air in here is disgusting."
Kikyou smiled at Sango's attempt to lighten the mood and then wrinkled her nose. Ugh! It truly was disgusting!
She coughed out the rancid air and began breathing through her mouth. She groaned, "Eww! It's so strong I can even taste it! I guess that's the reason for the sand. Easy barf clean up..." Sango tried not to laugh, but ended up failing miserably.
There quiet laughter went unheard throughout the villa as they continued on their journey to the Lock-in.
(Tsuki)
Inuyasha cried out as Goshinki grabbed his arm and slammed his brutally him into the wall. A small crater was left in his place.
"Damn it," he coughed, "What is it with everybody and flinging me into shit? I'm no rag doll."
Goshinki snorted, "You couldn't have said that a second ago, Inuyasha."
The hanyou groaned and stood up. Goshinki delved into his mind as Inuyasha tried to collect himself. He cracked his knuckles, 'I need to stop thinking—'
"Impossible."
'—if I don't I'm dead—'
"I wonder how much your wench will get from life insurance..."
'—That. Is. So. Goddamn. Annoying. I've never wanted to rip off somebody's face more than this freak's!'
"Watch what you think, hanyou!" Goshinki's demeanor lost any and all amusement.
Inuyasha snapped his fingers, "That's it! If you weren't so repulsive I would kiss you!"
Goshinki frowned choosing to ignore the barb, "What's it?" But Inuyasha already had rushed forward thinking, 'When in doubt, copy some movie... I should probably get him on the ...left.'
He feigned going left and Goshinki with a sneer started to swipe downward, but Inuyasha moved quickly to the right and broke into the right hand wall.
Goshinki, being as fast as he was, recovered quickly and began probing Inuyasha's mind, he gave an inward, 'he hoping to hide in that little hole of his! And he had thought me a coward!'
He went to where Inuyasha's thoughts stated he was going and started clawing out the wall.
A second later and without his knowledge, Inuyasha snuck behind him and with two swipes of claws he had dismembered the beast's head.
Blood gushed every where and Inuyasha shrieked, fingering his now crimson, "Ugh! It's in my hair!"
Goshinki grasping to keep a hold on life sputtered, "How... I read...your mind...you"
Inuyasha smirked, "I thought the opposite of what I was going to do and," he paused, "Well really I have no idea what the hell I just did. I think I saw it in a movie somewhere."
Goshinki let out a sound that was between disbelief and a shriek as the last of his life's energy drained out of him.
His body and severed head slowly disbanded into dust and Inuyasha smirked, "One down six to go."
Inuyasha looked at the pile of dust suddenly stricken by concern, "But let's just hope Kikyou is not with any of those six."
He didn't have any more time to worry for his girl friend for a cluster of demons came flying at him.
He cracked him knuckles, and rotated his neck a few times, "You guys chose the wrong day to mess with me."
His fist connected with the first thing in range.
(Tsuki)
Rin whimpered, and clung to Kagome tighter, as she slipped into her bed room. Even in the dim light, Kagome was able to make out everything in the room. It was empty.
Kagome shut the room door and went directly towards the armoire. She moved the large piece of furniture with ease and started to rip down wall paper. Rin kept asking her about what was going on and Sesshoumaru's well being, whenever Kagome said it was okay to talk.
"Where is Sesshoumaru-btou-sama? Is he okay Kagome-mama?"
Kagome had no time to correct her. The fruits of her rushed toiling was a large door connecting to the other room. She flung it open and quickly threw the both of them into the guest room Sango had instructed her to get to. As her eyes adjusted to the dim light, she suddenly spotted Mirouku. He had his back to them.
She said a little prayer of thanks.
So grateful was she to have found another person that she did not question how he got to the room when he had gone in the other direction or why he was simply standing there and not acknowledging their presence.
"Mirouku, I'm so glad to have found you! Do you know where... Mirouku?"
Mirouku slowly turned around, an evil smirk lighting his face in the moon lit room, "What a pleasure it is to find you all alone. Kagome's your name, isn't it."
He gave a chuckle. "I've been looking so forward to seeing your face."
Kagome paled, "Mirouku please... if this is a joke. It's not funny. Not at all."
Rin frowned tearfully, "Roku-sama why are you scaring Kagome-mama?"
'Mirouku's' eyes flashed with interest and he began to slowly circle the two, "Oh! You have a little child with you. I didn't see her before. And she's such a dear one at that... I think I will enjoy the feel of her sweet blood running through my fingers."
Rin shrieked in fear, "You're not Roku!"
His violet eyes had turned to a hard steely black and Kagome's heart nearly stopped and she placed Rin behind her, "Who or what the fuck are you? Where is Mirouku?"
In a flash "Mirouku" was in front of her smirking into her face. "Tsk, my dear, such a pretty young woman like you should refrain from such language. Especially not in front of children. It's so vulgar for a woman to swear."
"I'm sorry... Um, is this better? Please do the world a favor, and go drop on a knife..." Kagome returned in a mockingly sweet voice. "Mirouku" slapped her once across the face. The place his hand had been stung and her face was jerked to the side. She brought her eyes back to his defiantly.
With each word his voice changed to a more muffled, deep voice, and his face looked less and less like Mirouku's. "One: No it's not. Two: know that I will be the only one to ask any questions... "
Rin whimpered, and Kagome continued to shield her from the impostor, "Fuck you."
"Mirouku" hit her once more, the noise resounding in the room. Her cheek burned again with fiery hot pain at the contact. "Do well to learn your place, bitch."
Kagome glared, and she sniffed in a low tone, "...Drop dead."
He was about to hit her again when a flash of red intervened with a yell of, "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer" and with an agonized scream followed. "Mirouku's" arm had been severed.
"You dare!" He clutched his bleeding elbow.
The flash of red that was Inuyasha looked a deadly as Kagome had ever seen a person, human or demon be they.
"I should be asking you the same question... What right do you have to touch a single hair on either of their heads?" Inuyasha looked absolutely livid especially when the demon began laughing.
The thing's face became a disturbing mix between Naraku's and Mirouku, "That is my right Halfling," he sneered. His face then fully morphed into Naraku's.
Inuyasha gave him a cruel smile before raising his claws, "Well then... you truly deserve to die."
Kagome pressed Rin further into her back and turned her head away from the sight. There was another scream of pure agony and then silence. The Mirouku imposter fell, never to awaken again and lay prone on the ground, now, with unbound inky black hair spread about its disintegrating body and it unlike before, had no face.
Inuyasha looked relieved, 'Two down...five to go...'
She looked up then and started to cry, "I-Inu...Yasha!" Inuyasha's eyes soften at the sight of the sobbing mess and hugged her to him, before scooping Rin into his arms.
"It'll be alright. I'm here now, and I'll get you both out of here..." Both of them nodded at the comforting words. Neither cared that he was covered in blood, and gusts, and debris- his presence was comforting enough.
For the moment, they were safe.
Carefully Inuyasha cradled Rin and whispered something into her hair. She fell asleep instantly. Kagome laughed, "You guys are gonna half to tell me how you do that. You know, for all those insomnia induced nights."
Inuyasha ruffled her hair with a chuckle, "Maybe when you're older kiddo..."
"Kiddo!" she huffed, "You're not that much older than me!"
Inuyasha snorted, "Feh! Help me with this bed..." Still with Rin cradled in an arm, he started pushing the bed.
She rolled her eyes and helping Inuyasha move the twin sized bed over. Inuyasha bent down to look for something.
Kagome took then to take a look around her. They were in the guest room that Sango had told them to run to, to wait for Inuyasha. She took a look at said person.
His clothing and hair was blood soaked, though Kagome knew for a fact that most of it (if not all) was not his.
Inuyasha was about to open the door to an emergency tunnel similar to the one Sango and Kikyou were in and at said moment journeying through, but there was suddenly a strong gush of wind, that pushed Inuyasha back.
Kagome shrieked, "Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha was blown with Rin into a wall, him taking the bulk of the blow for the blissfully unaware girl, and was helpless as he watched Kagome, get hit by a small desk, and crumple to the ground, unconscious. "Kagome!"
His voice sounded as smothered as he felt against the wall.
Her body suddenly lifted and blew limply into the awaiting arms of Kagura. The woman was wearing a kimono of her own, only it was more traditional. She smirked at Inuyasha's indignant sputters, "What the fuck! What the hell is going on?"
Kagura ignored him for the moment, her attention drawn to her fallen comrade who was slowly fading off into nothingness. She looked with disgust at what was left of him. "Such a waste of a life. Muso didn't even last a second..." The demoness sighed as she held Kagome bridal style, "But he was an effective distraction, I guess. You didn't even sense me coming, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha growled, "Kagura! I asked you a question."
Kagura pulled a feather from her bun and threw it into the wall next to the hanyou, "Poor puppy- confused like always...But then again stupidity does run in your whole damn family doesn't it." Kagura brusquely quipped.
Inuyasha struggled to move against the force of the wind but his efforts were fruitless.
Her eyes were rumored to be the color of a burning ruby, her face holding an enviable and sophisticated beauty.
'She controls the wind...'
He stared disbelieving at her, and his struggling stopped, "You're the wind witch, aren't you. The one who controls the wind..."
Kagura clapped her hands sarcastically, still holding Kagome, "Give the doggy a bone! He may not be so stupid after all."
Inuyasha started fighting the push of the wind, but he was still pinned, "Please Kagura... don't take her!"
Kagura bit her bottom lip and actually looked as if she were considering what he said, "I truly wish I didn't have to, Inuyasha. But I have no choice."
She is a bitch who controls the winds, yet unlike the wind she can never have freedom. Ironic is it not?
But what? What took away the freedom from those seven?
Why were they tied to Naraku so as they were forced to ignore what they wished so as Naraku received what he wanted?
A gust of wind crashed upwards into the ceiling breaking through everything that was in its path, before she plunked another feather out of her hair. Her ink black hair fell down to her shoulders.
This one, once taken out grew larger and larger with each passing second.
Only until, Kagura had completely vanished, did the feather fall from where it had been lodged. It turned to dust and the wind cease to blow. Inuyasha was free. He slid down the wall slowly, the wind gently lowering him and Rin.
He slammed his fist into the wall. He had failed his brother.
But most importantly, he failed a friend. He had failed Kagome.
"Fuck!"
(Tsuki)
If anything- though faced with dozens of relentless hordes of demons, Sesshoumaru was quite bored. He had expected more from Naraku. This was very disappointing. He was slicing though them all like they were little slips of paper.
He felt a yawn coming over him.
The demons had slipped through with him and Mirouku when they entered- not through the tunnels, but through an entrance area in the foyer.
Mirouku on the other side of the safe room babied his left arm where the demon had cut him and the other he used to try and reboot the security system. It was taking way too long. When they had entered, they had found it off, and Sesshoumaru had cursed enough to make a sailor blush.
More of Naraku's sabotage and he had not even sensed it. Mirouku had also said a few curses himself, because for but a second yesterday, he had left the room unguarded.
He was lucky, though, that nothing more had been done. All the machine had to do was turn on. If only it would, then these minor demons would be gone in a second.
He sniffed haughtily.
And Sesshoumaru had been wary of him modifying it up yesterday.
He shook his head of his distracted thoughts, and licked his dry lips. He groaned as he waited for the system to boot. "Eighty percent done," he complained with a hint of disbelief.
"Just one more minute, Sesshoumaru," he called out.
To him self, he let out another curse under his breath, tapping his pen against the desk, quietly ranting, "Millions of fucking dollars at your beck and call and you buy something that takes a frikkin' hour to load."
That was quite an exaggeration but it was taking an abnormally long time.
Sesshoumaru nodded distractedly to what had been called out, not noticing the small lizard youkai that was slowly crawling onto his back a miasma filled dagger poised. He did not scent it under all the blood that saturated the area.
As it was about to plunge the knife into Sesshoumaru's back, Mirouku breathed a sigh of relief. "There."
A light pink light flashed from Mirouku's point in the security area and every minor demon within the house and the property was destroyed. The dagger clattered to the ground and Mirouku quirked a mocking brow, "Dulling in your abilities, milord?"
Sesshoumaru glared at him, "It would not have harmed me. It was no matter to be concerned with." Before Mirouku could respond, Sesshoumaru sniffed delicately to his left.
His eyes narrowed, "Kikyou and Sango."
Mirouku blinked and asked anxiously, "What about them?"
His answer came, when both girls walked into the room. Both were holding their behinds.
"Who the hell's idea was it to add a slide to the emergency escape?" Sango asked weakly, her bottom lip quivering.
Both looked like nervous wrecks.
Sesshoumaru was on them in a second, "Where are the rest?"
Kikyou and Sango shook their heads. Both girls were covered in dirt and scraped up. Their clothing looked worn and tattered.
The stench of burning wood, blood, and smoke surrounded them.
"We don't know," Kikyou said quietly, "We distracted Kageromaru and this other... thing while they went to meet Inuyasha. We barely got away whole."
Sango winced in agreement as Mirouku brought out a first aid kit for both. The Lock-in rooms were like bomb shelters. They were just as fully supplies, and just as safe.
Sango instantly clung to Mirouku as if her she wasn't sure if he were real. She felt like laughing and crying all at the same time.
Mirouku ran a hand through her hair to comfort her. The sight of distressed Sango always unnerved him. She was, to him, the embodiment of strength and to see her vulnerable bothered him.
Sesshoumaru tried to calm himself, suddenly wishing he had at least one demon to take his anger out on nut suddenly before he turned away he inclined his head, "Thank you."
They had risked their well being to keep his soon to be adopted daughter and Kagome out of harm.
The three of them stared in surprise at the youkai before smiling.
"You're welcome, Sesshoumaru." Kikyou said softly. Sango tended to their wounds, having had been taught some bits here and there about medicine. Mirouku helped them and himself every once and awhile.
There was no need to say anymore.
Or rather, there wasn't, until Inuyasha slid into the room from a tunnel located in the right of the room, with a sleeping Rin. As he plucked himself from the floor, they all noticed a difference in his appearance. He looked defeated and worn.
Sesshoumaru looked and sniffed around with a little less delicately and inconspicuousness than before.
Kikyou knew all at once that something was wrong. "Inuyasha? Where's Kagome?"
The corners of Sango's eyes filled with tears, "Please say she's coming or that this is some stupid joke! Please..."
He stared at her with hooded eyes, "They took her."
Mirouku paled as Sango gave a strangled cry and fell into Mirouku's arms, "What happened? Inuyasha, tell us what happened."
Inuyasha gave Rin to Kikyou before collapsing onto his knees, exhausted and beat. "They took Kagome."
Sango choked back a sob, "No!"
Kikyou covered her mouth in silent horror. She buried her face in Rin's kimono.
Inuyasha looked Sesshoumaru dead in the eye and as one last explosion sounded in the villa with a several scattered laughs of mockery, "Kagura's going to give Kagome to Naraku."
An angry roar sounded throughout the burning house as two women sobbed and outside the music continued to play...
And remember Sesshoumaru... it's only the beginning.
To Be Continued
(Tsuki)
(That last bit was spoken by Naraku...)
I'm so happy to have gotten this out today! This morning I went through a bit of a scare and was almost certain that I had lost this and I was all mope-y. I had written this before the last chapter so the basic raw stuff I barely remembered. I was just ready to kill myself for being so careless, but I found a back up so it was all good -wink-
Man, I love this chapter! It's definitely a sharp change from the comedy and romance of the last one. It's all angsty and full of drama ... you guys must think me a bit deranged lol.
Also, please pardon the OOC-ness with the characters. I haven't watched Inuyasha for about a month and half (or whenever they showed the episode where Kikyou died. I remember that being the last one I saw, 'cause I always cry during major character deaths) so I'm a bit rusty with the characters and how they should be. I'm trying though for an anime crave full membership whatever, so I can watch the episodes there, but dad is a bit hesitant to let me sign up with (he does NOT trust me with money... not even my own) –sweat drop- and with my luck if I mail the money... it'll get stolen lol.
So any way... I have a new story line! It's based somewhat on real life and it's going to be quite fun! I'm sending a preview to anyone who sent a review to SB5 but shhh! Don't tell them I said that lol.
The answer to the last chapters question was Three Times a Lady by L O K I anyone who said It Changes Everything was sooo close, but I'm sorry that that was not it.
The preview was the
"And Sesshoumaru had been wary of him modifying it up yesterday. (to)...Sesshoumaru nodded distractedly, not seeing the youkai that was slowly crawling onto his back a miasma filled dagger poised."
Passage.
Have a happy and safe holiday vacation!
With love,
Mikazuki Tsuki