Chapter 4-Unlikely Separation and Understanding
(A/N: Well I so far the votes are as of now: Sango 3, Kikyo 1, and Kilala 1. Just so you all know till I get more reviews.)
(Previously at the end of Chapter 3)
Just as he finished that thought though he along with everyone else watching were now completely shocked beyond belief. Inuyasha's Tetsuigia had just broken off one of two of Kane's blades. Kane in a last ditch effort tried to maneuver his other blade around to cut Inuyasha in half vertically only to have Inuyasha spin diagonally at the very last moment and pierced his Tetsuigia through the demon mercenaries back right through to the front. "It's over Kane. I WIN!" said Inuyasha in a darker voice that the other were not used to with his red demon eyes blazing with a fire only hell could match.
(And now Chapter 4)
No one moved. In fact no one dared to breathe as they saw the sight in front of them that was Inuyasha, a fallen Sesshomorru, and a demon mercenary by the name of Kane having Tetsuigia from the back go through his chest. "Well played Inuyasha. Well played indeed as now one has ever out matched me before. You are indeed strong," said Kane laughing slightly as couldn't help, but smile as he turned his head slightly to see Inuyasha holding Tetsuigia ready to pull it out once he had died.
"I would have thought you knew that before I killed you?" said Inuyasha smiling showing his fangs had grown out like a true demons would.
"Killed me you say? You of all people should know Inuyasha that someone is not dead till their heart stops beating. And as you can see I am very much alive!" said Kane who spun his blade back downwards before ramming it in back of Inuyasha's side making the half-demon scream in pain forcing to remove Tetsuigia and backed away soon after Kane dug his weapon in deeper into Inuyasha before removing it.
"What in the world? What gives? Inuyasha had him cold and beaten so why isn't Kane dead?" said Shippo who was surprised as everyone else.
"I don't know, but that just means there is more to this guy then meets the eye so we better be careful," said Sango as she readied her demon slaying weapon just in case.
"Surprised? You should be considering you don't know my particular species of demon that I originate from. You see I have the power to liquidate any internal part of my body that I see fit along with any and all the organs. Of course it all depends on where I am being attacked. By doing this I can surprise my enemies should this ever happen, but to be honest it never has...till now," said Kane as his upper body began to solidify around where Inuyasha had thrusted Tetsuigia proving his case in point.
"You...you tricked...tricked me," said Inuyasha who found that unlike Kane he could liquidate his own internal parts of his body to protect himself.
"Well when all else fails you use whatever tricks are left at your disposal, but you should really feel flattered. That this was the first time I've had to do it against a strong opponent of your caliber," said Kane spinning his bladed weapon around so it point up to the sky as he slowly walked towards an unstable in standing Inuyasha whose wound was making him lose a lot of blood.
'Is this it?' thought Inuyasha both ancient and half-demon as Inuyasha clutched the nasty wound on his side as he was now on one knee holing Tetsuigia for support.
"Leave him alone!" said Sango as she threw her giant boomerang at Kane who easily dodged as it swung around back to its master's hands.
"Tsk tsk tsk. I would advise doing that again if I were you as the next you try do that you could hit the log we are standing on this send all four of us into the waterfall and in their current condition (points to Inuyasha and Sesshomorru) they will not survive the fall," said Kane smiling knowing what he said was not a simple warning, but a simple fact.
Just as Kane finished saying that he moves slightly dodging a sacred arrow coming at his head that. The source of the attack is from Kikyo who readies another arrow into her bow to fire on the demon mercenary. "She may not be able to attack you, but I have no such problems," said Kikyo who fired again...and again...and again, but each time she kept missing as Kane would either dodge or surprisingly knock the arrows away with his weapon, which was now like a sword.
"Perhaps Priestess however, your strength lies in attacking at long range. How will you fair when your enemies are near you at short range?" said Kane as he rushed at her faster then she could anticipate his movements for firing another shot.
However, he never got to her as something grabbed him by the back of his neck and then proceeded to throw him into the middle of the crude bridge. He landed in the middle of the three hug boulders of stone were to Kane's surprise realized it was Inuyasha who had thrown him despite his injuries. "Maybe you should try to finish what you started with me before you go after someone else," said Inuyasha had left Tetsuigia in the log as he jumped and landed on the same boulder, but not before delivering a spin kick that Kane tried to block, but only cost the demon his weapon that fell down the waterfall mid way before embedding itself into a the sizeable rock being hit by the water.
From then on out it was sheer hand to hand combat as punches and kicks were thrown by each opponent knowing only one could win. Naturally Kane tried to go for Inuyasha's sword wound by delivering a solid punch to the said half-demon in order to throw him off balance, but Inuyasha saw it coming. Inuyasha then grabbed the enemy's wrist spun till his back was facing Kane and then proceed to elbow Kane repeatedly. "Let's see you liquidate your organs after this," said Inuyasha as he spun and gave Kane a massive fist to his face knocking him down.
"I don't have to use such a trick to beat you Inuyasha," said Kane who jumped to his feet, but crouched down and did a vertical spin kick knocking back Inuyasha who was sent back near the edge of the boulder they were both on, but he managed to hold on without falling over into the waterfall.
"Are you sure?" said Inuyasha who spit out some blood in his mouth and smiled at Kane while Kane just smiled back.
Meanwhile Rin was looking on at the fight periodically as she held Sesshomorru and realized that this fight could go either way. Granted she didn't trust Inuyasha enough since she saw him nearly kill her master, but he was clearly still better then the demon mercenary. "Rin," said Sesshomorru in a barely audible whisper.
"Lord Sesshomorru!" said Rin happily knowing her master was alive and conscious, which to her was a sigh that he would live through this.
"You see that rusted looking sword that was once a larger more dangerous sword?" said Sesshomorru who tried to raise his upper body with the help of Tokijin.
Rin looked toward what was a now rusted and old looking sword that she was once saw was a much bigger, meaner, more powerful looking one in the hands of Inuyasha. "Yes my Lord," said Rin looking from the sword back to Sesshomorru.
"Pick it up and throw it to Inuyasha. Don't ask why just do it," said Sesshomorru who was finally able to stand with the help of Tokijin.
"Yes my Lord," said Rin as she rushed over to Tetsuigia and pulled it out of the log with little trouble and rushed to throw it to Inuyasha per her master's orders.
Meanwhile Kagome was watching the fight and had her bow ready with an arrow, but unknown to everyone she was not aiming at Kane. Kagome...was aiming for the chest of Inuyasha with every intent to hurt if not kill. 'I know what you're up to Inuyasha. You're trying to get Kikyo to remove the rosary aren't you? That was why you went to this so called 'Anniversary of Reflection' so you could get Kikyo to remove the rosary and be with her. Well if I can't have you under my thumb then know one else can have you to love just the same. Lousy half-demon dog!' thought Kagome as she readied her bow to fire at the right moment before Kane was defeated by Inuyasha so it would look like she fired too soon and resulted in hitting Inuyasha instead.
As it just so happened the young girl of the future would soon get an opportunity that was about to arrive. Kagome secretly smiled to herself as she solidify her aim as she saw that behind a wounded Inuyasha was that of Sesshomorru's loyal follower of a child Rin. The child was running across the tree trunk holding Inuyasha's sword trying to give Tetsuigia to Inuyasha. "Lord Inuyasha I have your sword. Catch!" said Rin as she threw the sword with all the possible strength her child like muscles could produce.
Kane's face went from a confident smile to horror while Inuyasha had just plain smiled as both warriors knew when the sword transformed into its more demonic state...all bets were off. "Any last words?" said Inuyasha as he easily caught the sword and proceeded to swing horizontally at Kane.
"Yeah. I see YOU another day," said Kane as he leaped away just barely missing the attack from Inuyasha as he fell into the depths of the waterfall to fight another day.
At the same moment in time Inuyasha swung his sword and Kane leaped off the waterfall Kagome had fired her arrow. 'Die you miserable half-breed! Maybe now you'll learn that I am your master and you are the lowly dog...in hell!' thought a very happy Kagome as she now saw her sacred arrow fly true towards a shocked, tired, and above all wounded Inuyasha who was I no condition to fend off the arrow.
Inuyasha never saw the arrow coming. Nor did anyone else for that matter as no one had seen, heard, not spoken to Kagome during the entire fight with Kane. However, with that single shot that had all changed everything as the arrow hit dead on and pierced right into Inuyasha's chest. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screamed Inuyasha in pain as the sacred arrow hit him in the chest on his left side.
"What's going on? Who fired a sacred arrow at Inuyasha?" said Shippo as he saw that Inuyasha had been hit by an arrow and then looked at Kikyo who was just as surprised as him, Sesshomorru, Sango, Miroku, and Kilala.
Another sacred arrow shot out again moments later at a different area near the first hitting Inuyasha sticking out less then a few inches away from the one first one. Everyone was shocked again a second time and this time two screams were heard in that moment. One scream was from Inuyasha and other one was from Rin as she saw the pain filled face of Inuyasha less then a foot away from her with blood coming out of his side, his chest, and his mouth. It was like some kind of surrealistic nightmare come to life. Finally Rin had stopped screaming and ran Inuyasha to help him. "Lord Sesshomorru your brother needs you. He is being attack by an unseen force," said Rin as she helped Inuyasha try to crawl onto the log of the tree trunk.
Inuyasha with the support of Rin and Tetsuigia was able to stand only to stumble around making him an open target once more as a third arrow hit Inuyasha again. This arrow had hit Inuyasha in the left area of the chest just like the last two, except this one was slightly higher then the others. The arrow had hit right where Kikyo had hit Inuyasha all those years ago making the pain even worse to the half-demon due to the memories of the past. 'THE PAIN!' yelled Inuyasha in his own mind as Sesshomorru looked at the direction of where the arrow came from and found the source.
'HER? Why is she attacking Inuyasha? It makes no sense,' thought Sesshomorru as he saw Kagome ready another arrow and fired it at Inuyasha.
It never reached Inuyasha as Sesshomorru intervened and leaped in front of the arrow to knock it away with Tokijin. However, such actions did not come without consequences as the power of Tokijin combined with the sacred arrow created an explosion that sent Sesshomorru back to solid ground. At the same time it sent Inuyasha and Rin over the edge of the waterfall with Inuyasha holding onto Rin as the two fell into the blinding water below. "INUYASHA!" screamed Sango and Kikyo as the Inuyasha grabbed the rock base with Tetsuigia while Rin held onto his nearly numb and useless arm.
"Rin...whatever you do...don't look...down!" said Inuyasha who felt his left arm being torn inside from the weight of the whimpering little girl as she held onto Inuyasha's arm for dear life.
"Inuyasha grab my hand!" said Kikyo as she extended her hand to him in hopes he would try to reach for it...somehow.
"I can't! My left arm is nearly destroyed and is supporting Rin. The other is on the hilt of Tetsuigia that's imbedded into the rock edge here. I have no strength left," said Inuyasha as he tried to uses his right arm to lift himself and Rin up closer to Kikyo.
"You're almost their Inuyasha just a little bit higher!" said Kikyo as she was only able to grab onto his head at first and then the rosary around his neck.
"Kikyo...I...I'm sorry...for everything. I wish I could go...go with you to hell, but...now it looks like...I'm going on alone...one a...a one way trip. I...I'll see you...later Kikyo. Much later," said Inuyasha as he gave Kikyo his last parting gift to her before he felt Tetsuigia loosen in the rock edge.
He gave her kiss. A final kiss. A loving kiss. A kiss goodbye. And then he fell with Rin who was screaming as the rosary was now in Kikyo's hand. She had never let go of it when he fell still watching her and as Inuyasha fell he had a smile on his face as if he did something he had always wanted to do ever since he had been freed from that tree 52 years ago.
"NOOOOOOO!" said Sango and Kikyo as they could only watch in horror as Inuyasha fell with Rin into the water with loud "SPLASH".
Sesshomorru slowly got up from the ground where he landed after the explosion though his body was clearly protesting from the way he struggled to get up. "Rin...Inuyasha...I have to...to get to them," said Sesshomorru, but found his body could barely move much less stand.
"You are in no condition to find them Sesshomorru," said Kikyo as she approached the Lord of the Western Lands who gave her a nasty look as he put Tokijin away.
At that moment Kilala had landed next to them with Sango, Miroku, and Shippo getting off of the fire cat demon with anger, concern, and worry on their face. "What happened? Who fired those arrows at Inuyasha?" said Sango glancing over at Kikyo as if she was in fact responsible for him falling off the waterfall.
"I do not know I could not have attacked Inuyasha. I only fired at Kane and even then they were nowhere near as close to hitting Inuyasha as the ones that did hit him," said Kikyo who could not, but have worry in her voice for Inuyasha.
"It wasn't Kikyo demon slayer. It was..." said Sesshomorru only to be interrupted by the very person who had hurt Inuyasha.
"Hey you guys I finally caught up to you," said Kagome in her cheery voice as she went across the one log, hoped across all three boulders, and then madder her way to the last tree trunk log meeting her friends.
"You!" said Sesshomorru as he grabbed Kagome by the throat and lifted her into the air watching her choke as his eyes blazed with an intense fury.
"Sesshomorru put her down!" said Shippo who was no doubt scared at what he was seeing as was everyone else.
"Even if she is the one responsible for sending 3 sacred arrows into Inuyasha's chest?" said Sesshomorru squeezing tighter and tighter around her throat with his fury growing with each passing second.
"Wait! She is the one who hit Inuyasha with those arrows and not Kikyo?" said Shippo who was shocked beyond belief.
"Yes. I saw the direction of where the arrows came from and she is the one who shot him with arrows 3 times. Why?" said Sesshomorru as he let out a menacing growl.
"He...needed to learn...who his...master was," said Kagome who despite her being held dangling by the hand of Sesshomorru and choking on it she still gave a defiant stare at them.
"You little..." said Sesshomorru, but realized he would have to deal with her later as he needed to find Inuyasha and Rin to possibly restore them with Tenseiga.
"Consider yourself lucky we have to find Inuyasha and Rin Kagome or we would make our anger known. When this is over and if Inuyasha as well as Rin are alive will make sure Inuyasha takes his vengeance out on you," said Sango who glared angrily at Kagome who only scowled back as Miroku, Shippo, and Sango got on Kilala who took off while Kikyo ran to follow Sesshomorru to find Inuyasha and Rin.
Sesshomorru calmed himself through reason to then throw Kagome down as he picked up Jaken (who was still unconscious) and rushed to AhUn to find a path down the area of the waterfall. Meanwhile hidden from everyone Kanna, who had been watching all this happen was slightly disturbed by this turn of events. "Naraku will not be pleased at the fact that Kane has failed him and will most likely hurt me and Kagura. I cannot go back to that monster, but I dare not approach the group before me. My only hope is that I find Inuyasha and the girl before they do and ask for their help. If I am fortunate Kagura will somehow get away as well and follow me so we can protect one another," said Kanna as she too went in search of two missing people.
(Several miles down the river)
A blood stained demon clawed hand holding a massive blade of a sword stabbed the earth and climbed out of the riverbed with a certain dark haired child. With this cold, wet, and now fully shivering child still clutching to his bleeding and near uses arm he struggled to stand. "Are you all right Rin?" said a red eyed, dark voice, 3 arrows in the chest bleeding horribly Inuyasha as he struggled to breathe.
"Ye...yes, but...I...I'm scared...and cold," said Rin who was shivering even more now that she was out of the cold water since her clothes had little to no ability to keep her warm.
Inuyasha struggled with his upper fire rat shirt because of the three arrows lodged in his chest, but got it off all the same even if it tore slightly in getting it off. He then carefully put it over Rin and it nearly consumed her whole body. However, it got the job done in generating heat for her so there were no complaints from her. "There you go Rin. Now we just have to get out of here and meet up with the others," said Inuyasha as he put Tetsuigia away and carried Rin in his one good arm till his left arm healed, which would possibly take on god night to do.
'Hey my half-demon reincarnation you forgot about those 3 arrows buried in your chest,' thought the ancient Inuyasha who just happened to miraculously talk to his half-demon reincarnated self at that moment.
'Where have you been?' thought the half-demon Inuyasha who after walking for some slumped his bad arm and shoulder against a nearby tree ignoring the pain it gave him.
'Sorry, but I went so deep into the conflict with that demon mercenary Kane that I didn't see the arrows coming. In fact I got so deep into it as did you that you've already started to change physically,' thought the ancient Inuyasha.
"Physical change! What changes? How?" said a surprised Inuyasha out loud, but Rin was so tired she had gone to sleep and was in it so deep she didn't wake up much less stir to him speaking to the ancient spirit of his 1200 year old ancestor that was in his body.
'Relax. All you have to do is calm yourself. Your fight with Kane sped up the absorption process meaning your body and mind will transform sooner rather then later. However, as an unfortunate side effect of this quicker absorption process your...dark half of you that you couldn't control before is going to show itself soon meaning you're going to be quite grumpy long after Rin wakes up. Especially now that the damn rosary is gone from your neck curtsy of Kikyo your power will grow even faster. I guess that was why you gave Kikyo that kiss right?' thought the ancient Inuyasha smiling in his half-demon friends mind.
"Shut up! That kiss was a goodbye kiss. An end to what once was. Besides...I think I'm in love with another," said Inuyasha as growled at the ancient spirit in his head and the statement it made.
Even now as he walked for what seemed like our with Rin in his one good arm Inuyasha could already feel his demon side coming up from the back of his mind, but this time he had control now and he intended to use it. 'Really? Who? Well no matter. Fortunately, for you anyway I know this area as do you if you search through my memories. Several miles from here you will find a nearby cave that has inside of it a few dormant...friends of mine. They went into a hibernation of sorts till my reincarnated self that is you came here to pay them a visit so they could help you. The cave will be our sanctuary as well as the girls till the transformation is controlled, but it is still quite a distance to it with crude roads and jagged hill sides that I would consider to be very treacherous. Enjoy!' thought the ancient Inuyasha while his reincarnated self grumbled about "lousy spirits" and "troublesome damn demons", but after that the half-demon kept silent to let the poor girl in his arms that was Rin sleep.
(A/N: Well what did you think? I was listening to Disturbed and Metallica songs almost all day before I wrote this. As it stands now Sango is in the lead with 3 while Kikyo has 1, and Kilala still has 1 too. To be honest I expected more reviews and votes then this, but will continue to write this story to the end. After all if you can't finish a story you don't deserve to write it. Anyway keep on reviewing and for those just finding this vote NOW!)