INUYASHA: The War Beyond Realms

Chapter One: The Descending Darkness

"Priestess Kaede! Look up towards the sky above the mountains!" A villager pointed towards a black cloud moving rapidly from the mountains.

The old lady tilted her head up to the quickly approaching darkness and murmured, "Oh my."

The cloud approached the village rapidly and the villagers ran to take shelter, screaming. Priestess Kaede steadied her arrow on her bow, ready for what she felt, a powerful demon. Sure enough, the demon revealed itself—Naraku. He approached the town quickly, and with a new companion. The new creature had the appearance of a human but its crimson red hair flowed to a few feet behind him. On his hair tips, silver spikes merged with the flowing wave of piercing red in the pitch black sky. He flew forward with an evil smirk on his face and a glimmering silver eye. His other eye pierced through the air with a blood red glare and a midnight pupil. With fear trembling fingers she let the arrow go, but to no prevail. Naraku laughed his evil laugh, "Ha, Priestess Kaede. I think it is time now you join your sister in the earth!"

"Hold on, Naraku," the accomplice snarled, "This priestess will be useful in luring my enemy into a trap."

"Fine, have it your way, for now," Naraku replied as he whipped out his hand to snatch Priestess Kaede. She braced herself for the impact of the whip, but noticed that the impact never occurred. Kaede looked up from the ground to spot a dog-demon in front of her. Instead of the familiar red-robed Halfling, she found the white kimono of Lord Sesshomaru in front of her.

"Thank you very much, Sesshomaru," Priestess Kaede thanked the Halfling's brother.

"Don't bother. I just want to take care of Naraku for good this time. Jakan?"

A green demon with wide eyes replied, "Yes, Lord Sesshomaru?"

"Take Rin and keep her safe."

"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru," the green demon remarked as he took a little girl's hand, "C'mon now, Rin."

The little girl smiled and skipped off with the toady-like creature. Sesshomaru turned his attention to Naraku, "When will you stop hiding behind your minions and fight me yourself?"

Naraku stared coldly into Sesshomaru's eyes, "Well, well, here only a few moments and you think you can control the show. Rorikon, take care of my enemy."

"Naraku. I will kill your friend and then I will hunt you down. The day will come when you will not be able to run any longer. And when that time comes, you will be weak from your constant cowardliness."

Rorikon lunged forward and slashed at Sesshomaru with a double-sided axe. Sesshomaru dodged quickly and the creature missed, but as Rorikon's hair followed, the spikes slashed the gut of the dog-demon. Sesshomaru fell in agony and winced in pain. Rorikon walked towards the crippled Sesshomaru and rested the axe tip on the back of his neck. Naraku smiled, "Sesshomaru, I thought you would put up much more of a fight. Did I forget to mention my friend's special ability? He isn't a demon at all, but an enhanced human with incredible powers. One of which, is an anti-demon aura, it will cripple any demon, any demon that is except for one with a more powerful aura. As much as I would like you dead right now, I would like it even more for you to suffer. Rorikon, grab the Priestess and we will leave this place. And while you're at it, go get that Rin girl and the frog-demon."

Sesshomaru stared in dismay, unable to speak as Rorikon transformed into a similarity of the dog-demon. "He's pretty good, isn't he?" The dog-demon fainted and plopped to the ground. The last thing he could recollect was Rin screaming for her hero Sesshomaru to save her. Naraku laughed towards Rorikon, "So, how did you put the dog down so easily?"

"Hmph, just a little of my virus. I got it from an old friend," Rorikon replied.

"Any chance he'll side with us?" Naraku asked.

"No, he's a goody-goody. No problem though. He doesn't know how to transfer through realms."