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A/N:I know I took longer than expected and I apologize I was working on school and it's really evil X.X also I'm working on some art mainly chibis in case you want to see I'll leave the adress at the end n.n
Aslo I've noticed some mistakes on the documents, tough I ran the corrector on it, weird... I'll correct them again anyway n.nU
Thanks again to Ryo-chan wolfgir for all her reviews n/n
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any other element related to the series (such a shame) but I do own the OCC
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Chapter six: Freedom to choose
"I've paid the price of our freedom…" she said weakly and then went unconscious. The sun was finally coming out ready to take his place on the sky and Inuyasha's transformation began; his dark hair turning again silvery and his eyes featuring again their golden color. It would all seem to last so long for none dared make a sound all of the wolves paid no attention to them for their concern was their leader. Never had they seen such a wounds on their kind before.
"Finally" said Kagome noticing how exhausted she was form not sleeping. "not let's get the Shards back." She tried to stand but all of her strength suddenly vanished and she fell on her knees exhausted.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha was barely able to catch her, he was now worried about her. "Wake up! Are you alright?" he got no response.
"It's the Grand Nightmare!" the pink haired girl curled behind Shinnosuke in fear. The large male wolf growled at the figure recognizing the scent of their leader's blood on its claws. He didn't care about their deal or anything he just wanted that thing to pay for hurting her! Such a horrible creature it would stand like a human in two strong compact legs, its torso was extremely thin and it had long arms like reassembled the tree state it was concealed long ago; the skin was dark and it had the texture of dry crackled land.
"Foolish creature…" finally the bright red eyes glared directly at him, somehow they were very similar to the third eye their wolf kind had developed. "You should learn some respect from your leader…" the creature grinned for the first time allowing a unexpected sight of his shark like fangs aligned in many lines like saws that would triturate any creature.
"Give me the shards now!" demanded Inuyasha as he stepped forward between the wolves and that creature. Now he was at full strength and without any doubt he'll win the shards back.
"Stay out of my way hanyou… this insult to out leader can not be forgiven not even to the Grand Nightmare I shall be the one to honor her." The large black wolf walked to his side never really loosing the eye contact with the creature.
"You wolves are all like that, messing into somebody else's business…" they were all just like Kouga the wolf demon he was forced to save and his rival for Kagome's love.
Inuyasha was the first to attack the creature, with a strong swing he was ready to cut the creature but much to his surprise the creature wouldn't move. It would just stare at him like if he was a bothering buy or some short. His sword that once had sliced right trough hundreds of enemies was unable to harm this creature and could only cut a few inches into the creature's thick strong skin. "What the hell is this thing?" the hanyou tried to pull his blade out but the creature used this opportunity to punch him sending Inuyasha flying towards some trees. The creature despite his size was fast, enough to reach him before he could react; before he could even blink the claws imprisoned his neck in a deadly grasp. 'It's so strong…' within a few seconds his beck would be broken, Inuyasha tried desperately to scratch or punch the claw but it was no use.
Then it happened in less than a second, the black wolf made a violent jump catching the creature's wrist within its jaws. Unlike his sword the fangs easily find their way into the flesh allowing a dark greasy liquid to flow freely. Inuyasha twisted his mouth in disgust for the scent was most nauseous. The hold on his neck loosened enough and he easily pulled away. The creature had lost any interest in the hanyou, he was now focused on the black wolf clingin from his wounded claw. It used the other free claw to punch the wolf but it wouldn't let him go. "So you're challenging me… interesting" The creature said no more and continued to punch the smaller demon, one time after another but Shinnosuke wouldn't let him go.
"Let him go Brother!" the pink haired girl cried, the other wolves just stared at the creature with pure hate as if they wanted to rip him apart themselves. Kagome was impressed for such a display of devotion and union, she knew wolf demons were different because they remained united and together. At the time Kagura killed Kouga's comrades he went on a quest to avenge them.
Another unusual thing happened Nashira woke up, her blue eyes opened adjusting to the daylight. The female wolf worked on her mind the previous events and the new invading signals of a fight. The scent of blood and that creature…'Could it be? The Grand one is fighting my kin?' slowly she turned around noticing the other wolves growling at the dark creature and the human girl as she went to the side of the wounded hanyou.
"Let me go Kagome!" the hanyou picked up his sword ready to try other kinds of attacks one by one until they could harm that powerful being.
"Forget it! You're too wounded!" she cried while clinging to his bloodstained clothes and refused to let him go to battle again.
'I won't allow it, for as long as I live it's my duty to protect them all.' Ignoring the pain caused by the wounds inflicted on her Nashira slowly got up leaving a bloody ground below.
Inuyasha prepared another attack this time sending a wave of energy towards the creature and just like before the hit only caused some minor damage on the awful creature. 'Is it all useless?' doubt slowly filling his mind, he tightened the hold on his sword and prepared to attack again, he'd try and try until he succeeded. This time the sword didn't even scratched the creature, it bounced back violently unable to penetrate the solid black skin. Using his wounded claw the creature slammed the wolf against the hanyou and with a cry it finally released from the deadly bite. Inuyasha tried to stand but found that the hit had been stronger than he expected as he was unable to move his right arm. He felt blood dripping over his chest and finally noticed it was not his but from the wolf demon. The large male wolf was right over him trying to stand and the horrible creature was right in front of them, the large shadow covering them like a veil.
"You both don't get it do you? I can't be defeated like that…" the creature flexed his wounded claw and the hanyou stared amazed how the dark flesh renewed instantly. He tried to move and attack but both his wound and the weight of the wolf demon didn't allow him to. All he could do was to glare with his fiery golden eyes at the horrible creature. And then it happened, the large claw that was now completely healed fell upon both of them and everything went black.
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"Inuyasha? Are you feeling better now?" this girls voice was so familiar to him, his head hurt and his shoulder did too. He tried to sit but a pair of warm silken hands softly pushed him back. Inuyasha opened his eyes to found himself in Kagome's room.
"What happened?" he tried to recall the past few hours but found out he couldn't, mixed images danced some blurry some quite dark but none was enough for the confused hanyou. "how long have I been like this?"
"That creature nearly killed you, you've been like this for a few hours…" her stare trailed down to the floor where his discarded clothing laid covered in blood, the look on her concerned face made him realize something.
"How did you bring me here by yourself?" there was no chance she could have carried him all the way to the forest to her own room.
"I didn't it was…" her answer was cut out by Mira, the young pink haired hanyou shyly entered the room. The door was open so she considered coming into would be no offense.
"Could you spare me some more bandages please? Sister Nashira isn't doing any better…" that last part came out almost like a whisper, the girl's blue eyes refusing to look at any of them. Then Inuyasha remembered…
'She… she saved us… she saved me at that time' he hanyou turned to Kagome as she left the room followed by Mira.
All the images came clearly to his mind now, as the claw gaze at them something caused the creature to retreat leaving the damage at the minimum. The reason to make it abandon the wounded prey was her. A large beam of red energy flashed over the hanyou and the fallen wolf the force of the energy sent them flying away a few feet away from their original position. The large female wolf waited for the darkness creature to attack, the hit from the severed claw sent her back but this time she used that impulse to bounce back and sent the creature down with a thud. Again she prepared to attack the third eye on her forehead opening revealing a malicious red eye glowing with the same intensity of her rage. "You dare to rise against me! FOOL!" the creature lunged another attack but it was useless, for this wolf was much faster and managed to avoid the claw as it flashed over her head. With the claws extended there was an opening she'd use, successfully she pierced one of her dark tusks into the stomach of the creature. With a violent move she pulled back taking some of the flesh and skin as well. The creature fell, his body moving in strong spasms as in pain and from the severed flesh the organs began to grow pulsing with a new strength. Soon they formed new limbs that took the shape of wings like those of a bat. "Very well done…" said the horrible creature as the wigs flapped taking the damaged bloody body of the ground. "You are very worthy of your life and for such a reason I'll forgive this impertinence… but there won't be a next time!" the creature's voice was tainted with hate as it gazed down at the fallen hanyou and wolf. And it left floating away from their reach…
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She had never attended before any wound inflicted on animals, when Kirara was hurt it was Sango the one to heal her. Kagome was amused by this creature in such a wounded state it was able to fight that creature. After changing some bandages she patted the wolf gently impressed by the softness of the black fur. At first the creature shrugged at her touch, it was the first time she had ever been touched by a human hand.
"You shouldn't do that?" said shyly the pink haired girl while she cleaned the bloodstained bandages. "The others might not like it when a human touch her, they… don't even like it when I touch her…" she lowered her gaze and continued her doing.
"What will happen now?" Kagome sat in the floor near the girl watching as she finally extended the clan bandages. But the girl refused to answer not even looking back at her.
"The Grand One will consume the darkness in the human hearts…soon his powers will be completely restored and all will fall into his sick will." Said Nashira as she finally came back from the unconscious state. "The time of the humans is over…"
"There's must be a way to stop him!" Kagome demanded an answer to the wolf demon forgetting that despite being wounded she could easily kill her.
"None…" said the wolf trying to stand "strong spiritual powers concealed it long ago, hundreds or more priests gave their lives and power to that cause in this time where faith takes such a small role there is hardly any chance at all." Finally the creature was able to walk, it walked towards the exit trembling a little while still some blood dripped from the bandages.
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Inuyasha glared at the wolves and they did the same not losing sight of him not even for a second. He hated that and could even smell their disgust for him only because he was hanyou, at least he supposed. However he didn't feel like attacking them or forcing them out of the place, he had no reasons at all now. Finally one of the spoke to him, it was the one who fought by his side against the creature of darkness. "You were on my way…" he said calmly.
"It defeated both of us…" said the hanyou roughly sending a glare towards the wolf male. "Your leader saved out guts. She's the only one worthy among you." That instantly made all of the wolves go around him in a circle, growling fiercely, he had unintentionally hit the bottom of their patience.
"Quit all of you…" it was her, the owner of that unique demanding and cold tone. They instantly jumped back allowing her to approach the hanyou. "You have no right to insult my kin hanyou, I kept my promise to have both of you safe and until now I've shown mercy towards you and your woman…" Inuyasha backed a few steps when he met her icy gaze with his very own golden orbs.
"I didn't ask for it…" replied the hanyou regaining his usual mood. "If not for you, I would've won that fight! I still some lessons to teach to that creature!" he tightened his fist angrily releasing all at the wolf leader. 'If I had been alone I could've tried harder until I defeated it!' She just smiled teasingly.
"Really? Then why don't you try teachin' me something?" Her mocking tone got the best of his temper, did she actually thought he was a joke?
"But you are wounded Sister Nashira!" instantly the pink haired girl went between them trying to make both change their minds.
"I'm enough for this puppy!" she said pushing the girl aside in a soft motion, Mira knew it was useless to argue anymore. "So, what're you going to teach me, uh?" Inuyasha growled at her, he knew she was powerful and there was no point in holding back.
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A/N: Well I'll return with the usual rythm now, this chapter was a bit slow but it was again to explain many things, now I'm thinking about teaching Inuyasha not to think so badly about wolves, they're not so bad, I love them...
and about the art the adress is /zerxes. in case anyone wants to see :)
yours; zeva
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