4. The First Kill
About a few years later, Inuyasha had moved from his clearing, far from his village he had lived in. He had heard that a demon, he assumed, Kihaki, had destroyed the village killing everyone in it, and then fled. Inuyasha would hunt Kihaki down now, and kill him for the murderous demon his was. Now Inuyasha regretted not killing him when he had the chance.
Now he lived in a forest that he had made his own. Of course it had barley any demons in it but the sad thing was, was that where was a village nearby. Inuyasha never went towards it unless he was stalking a demon to kill. Now he was older, much older. His strength had increased immensely.
Now at the age of seventeen, he had lived on his own, believing his mother dead, but unable to find her body. Now he stood in his forest, scenting the air for a demon that might be lurking about, but he found nothing. It had been a long while since he had seen a demon anywhere, but that didn't bother Inuyasha that much.
Walking quietly through his forest, he scented a human, but seeing as he disliked humans, he avoided her and went off to the west side of his forest. As he traveled, Inuyasha came across the fresh scent of a wolf demon. "It's Kihaki!" he growled to himself.
Inuyasha immediately began to follow the trail, his fingers flexing as he readied to find the demon and kill him once and for all. After a few minutes, he happened upon the new wolf demon camp, only to find them on the edge of his border, very, very close to the village. Inuyasha silently picked his way towards the camp, noticing that Kihaki was off to the side, practicing with a new blade. Inuyasha saw that it was swirling with demonic energy. Kihaki was wielding an evil demon sword!
Shaking his head, Inuyasha wondered how he was supposed to win against an evil demon sword. But it did not stop him. He stepped out of the bushes, right in front of Kihaki, but far enough away that the blade couldn't hit him.
Kihaki looked over at him and looked at Inuyasha in surprise. "I would have figured you would have been dead, Inuyasha!" he growled. "Did you like me killing your mother, Inuyasha? It was fun."
"You'll pay for that Kihaki!" Inuyasha snarled, brandishing his claws.
"Not likely, as you can see, I have a new sword. It is, as you might be able to see, and evil demon sword. Because I'm the evilest there is! I call my sword Lakita." Kihaki informed.
"I don't care about your damn sword!" Inuyasha snarled.
"Oh but you will once you're killed by it!" Kihaki snarled.
"Kihaki, we have found-" someone, Inuyasha guessed it was the girl who had refused to untie him six years ago, looked at him with a look of surprise on her face. "It's that stupid weak half-breed again!" she said.
"I told you you'd be the first to die," Inuyasha reminded her, "I wasn't lying!" With that he leapt at her, Kihaki wasn't swift enough, for he had just began wielding his sword a few weeks ago. Inuyasha slashed at the girl, and with one cut, she fell dead on the ground, lying in a poll of her own blood.
"You! You killed my daughter!" Kihaki raged.
"Your daughter? No wonder she looked so hideous!" Inuyasha insulted.
"Die!" Kihaki roared, swinging his sword at Inuyasha with such force that the blade cut right through the fire rat robes and through his skin. Inuyasha gave a slight yelp before drawing back, a snarl on his face.
"Iron Reaver!" he yelled, slicing through the air. He cut Kihaki, but most of it was blocked by his sword.
"Now you will learn how weak you are!" Kihaki yelled, raising his sword, a swirl of demonic power, red, wrapped around the long blade. Kihaki brought it down to the earth, slinging the energy right at Inuyasha. "Dragon Burner!"
"What the-Ahh!" Inuyasha yelled as the ripping power washed over him.
The fire rat robes protected him some, but not much. It felt as if his soul was being ripped right out of him. Inuyasha fell to the ground, the demon power still coming. He battled to stay conscious, but it was next to impossible. With the pain raking at him, he felt like he was burning by a dragon's fire, but ten times more powerful. Life was being zapped from him.
Inuyasha's eyes closed…No…I must…stay…awake… he thought, but he had lost all of his senses and consciousness.
"Dead, that was way too easy." Kihaki spat and then turned to walk away, when he heard something he had never thought he'd hear in his life from a dead guy.