Chapter 14-The Traitor, the Betrayers, and the Betrayess
The Western Lands Castle was a buzz of activity as well as rumors of Inuyasha coming back to his right birth home. Some were overjoyed that Inuyasha was returning as not all of them hated half-demons like the vast majority of them all. As for the vast majority of those that disliked half-demons soon found themselves paling realizing that they had been cruel to the man when he was still a child who knew little to nothing of why he was hated or shunned by them.
They fully knew that if they were to escape any wrath produce by their newly announced and proclaimed Lord of the Western Lands that they would have to deliver tribute to the young Dog Demon Lord. They did exactly that as no less then the image of Inuyasha appeared in the clouds with the thunder and lightning did they prepare tribute for the half-demon and delivering them to Sesshomorru to deliver to Inuyasha when he enters the castle. "I will oversee my younger brother receives your tribute as proof of your loyalty to him once he returns," said Sesshomorru as the servants took the tribute to a room that Sesshomorru deemed they would be housed.
Sango, Shippo, Kikyo, and all the others all waited outside on the deck near the grass that was now stained red with dried blood that had fallen as rain fro the storm clouds above. In fact the area around the castle as well as other parts of others lands were so dark that the castle was lit all around with torches to create light for people to see. "You think Inuyasha will return soon?" said Shippo getting anxious yet nervous at seeing his still newly considered father back.
"Possibly Shippo, but like all of us you will have to wait," said Sango as Kilala came up to her asking for affection, which the demon slayer graciously delivered to the little cat form of Kilala by scratching her head behind her ear.
Just after Shippo nodded did it get even darker (if it were possible) and the torches around them and parts of the castle went out as thunder and lightning pierced the sky above them. "It appears Inuyasha has returned," said Kikyo calmly though deep inside she felt more happiness in her heart then possibly ever when she was alive.
No less then 10 seconds after Kikyo said those words did it get o dark around the castle you couldn't see you own hands in front of your face if you tried. It was then that the sky lightened and the torches throughout the castle were relit to their former brightness and Inuyasha appeared with Kohaku in his arms nearly asleep from the whole ordeal. "Hello everyone it's good to see you all," said Inuyasha smiling at their shocked faces including Sesshomorru who had made his way to the others after the "black out" all over the castle.
"Inuyasha?" said Sango disbelieving what she was seeing in front of her as part of her thought it was an illusion while another part of her screamed at her to go over their and kiss him right on the lips...among other things.
"I'm back Sango and...I brought someone with me here as a gift to you," said Inuyasha placing Kohaku on the ground gently in front of the space between him and the others.
"Kohaku!" said Sango as she looked at his breathing form now next to her and at the same time was curious about the weird blood smell filled symbol on her little brother's forehead.
As if reading her mind Inuyasha spoke as he could clearly see her worry and confusion on what he had placed on her once thought to be lost brother "A little over 6-8 hours ago I made a simple, but still quite powerful seal using my own blood to suppress Naraku's influence on him. It will be in effect till the sacred jewel shard he had in his back can be removed and he is restored again to his proper self," said Inuyasha as he gently ever so carefully covered Sango's hand that now lay on her brother's chest with his own demon clawed one.
"Really?" said Sango in disbelief as she would soon have her little brother back and she was actually in a dream only her mind could produce.
"Yes. However, we need my brother here with the Tenseiga to help the boy after we remove the jewel," said Inuyasha as the boy was now stirring awake.
Sango was more ecstatic then she had ever been as she jumped into Inuyasha's arms and kissed him with all she was worth tumbling on top of his now fallen form that hit the blood colored grown shocking everyone insight. "I don't care as long as my brother can be returned to the way he was before," said Sango after she broke the 5 minute long kiss.
"Glad to hear it however, I have more work to do that needs to be address as there is a traitor here that needs to be dealt with," said Inuyasha whose smile on his face slowly vanished and became one of pure seriousness.
"A traitor? Here? Who? How? When?" said Sango curiously as well as seriously as she feared for Inuyasha and Kohaku's safety.
"You leave the traitor to me as he is not far. Now as for you being on top of me," said Inuyasha showing Sango that she was in a compromising position with him making her blush a red that put the dried blood colored grass to shame.
Instantly Sango let out a squeak like noise of embarrassment and got of Inuyasha who could only smile as he picked up Kohaku and brought him inside with the others in tow behind him. "Inuyasha where to you wish to place the boy?" said Sesshomorru who soon had Voodoo floating in next to him.
"This room to my right will suffice however, after I do drop Kohaku to his room I need to speak with you Voodoo. ALONE!" said Inuyasha suddenly serious at the very end as he entered the room with Sango and instructed her to stay with him to give him the needed comfort of family, which Sango complied without hesitation.
When Inuyasha quietly left the room he shut the door with equal quietness as to not make anymore possibly loud noises then he would need to after this moment. "My Lord what did you wish to speak to me about?" said Voodoo who was slightly confused by Inuyasha wishing to speak to him alone only to become even more worried when Inuyasha's eyes started to glow red and baring his teeth at the head druid.
"Hold that thought Voodoo. Sesshomorru do you have a sound proof room Voodoo and I can speak...in private?" said Inuyasha in a dark voice as the torches around them danced dangerously around them.
Sesshomorru at the moment was more then a little hesitant to answer Inuyasha due to the power his younger brother was producing at that moment as he stared at Voodoo with his anger filled eyes. "Follow me I will show as it is not far from here and actually right next to the courtyard," said Sesshomorru as he escorted the two to a private room designed to have private conversations with family concerning secrets or allies in times of war.
They stopped at the door and Inuyasha slid it open hard as this feeling of hatred towards Voodoo was eating his sanity alive and needed to be fixed. "VOODOO! YOU! ME! WE TALK! NOW!" yelled Inuyasha pointing to the well lit room in a more then commanding tone saying it was not up for discussion or debate.
"Y-yes sir," said Voodoo entering the sound proofed room first followed by an extremely angry Inuyasha second who slammed the sliding door shut nearly destroying it and sound barrier around the room in the process.
'This whole thing doesn't sound too good and the conversation between the two hasn't even started yet,' thought Sesshomorru while Kikyo and the others went outside hearing the storm above them get nastier with each passing second.
'What's going on?' thought Kikyo and the others as the storm became suddenly violent as red lightning was now striking random things around the castle in a rage that could only come from Inuyasha's power.
(With Inuyasha and Voodoo)
"What did you wish to speak with me master?" said Voodoo though he secretly knew the truth behind the reason for Inuyasha's private talk.
"Voodoo...you...you...BACKSTABBING TRAITOR!" said Inuyasha running at Voodoo and ramming him with his right should sending into a nearby wall leaving a noticeable indentation from the impact.
"Was it something I said?" said Voodoo in a less questioning tone and more sarcastic voice then one would be a loud in front of the demon lord one serves.
"ERRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAH!" was all Inuyasha could say as he charged Voodoo again sending a solid punch from his fist of his right to the side of Voodoo's robed head.
(Outside with the others during that time)
"What do you think the two are talking about that could be so serious?" said Shippo to Kikyo, Rin, Kanna, and Kilala who had let her mistress be alone with Kohaku.
"I don't know Shippo, but from the fury of the storm I could clearly say it's not good for Voodoo," said Kikyo as red lightning struck the ground twenty feet away from them.
"I bet 50 ryo that someone goes flying through that wall and out here in a big mess" said one of the outside guards overhearing the conversation between the little group in front of them.
"I'll take that bet," said the second guard next to the first offering up 50 ryo to his fellow soldier as proof of the wager as did the first with his should he lose.
No sooner had the bet been made then a winner had been decided as a robed figure flew in-between the two after being smashed through the wall. 'H-how did you know?" said Voodoo coughing up some blood not that it was noticeable unless you take into account the noise he produce with the cough.
"It's simple really. When you tried to defend yourself Kane used the same techniques as you. That maybe a coincidence at first however, the thing is those were secret techniques involving manipulate metal, fire, and flesh only a Head Druid like yourself would know as they can only be used by someone in your druid family," said Inuyasha cracking his neck left and right still in the shadows of the smoking area around him.
"SO WHAT?" said Voodoo struggling to get up from the ground, but found the pain inflicted by Inuyasha was more severe then he thought.
"TRAITOR!" yelled Inuyasha as his rage grew even more.
"COWARD!" counter yelled at Inuyasha as he had always viewed his reincarnated master to be anything, but a warrior as he was too passive for his tastes.
"VOODOO! PREAPRE TO JOIN KANE! IN HELL!" yelled Inuyasha angrily as he pulled out Tetsuigia as he walked through the smoking clearing.
"YOU FIRST!" said Voodoo sending hooked chains of fire at Inuyasha and knocked them away with his sword like he did with Kane except this technique was altered to be deadly upon arrival.
"What's going on?" said Sango weapon ready as she heard the loud noise and rushed to its source to find a bloody druid that was Voodoo attacking Inuyasha.
"Figures doesn't it Voodoo? Only you would attack with such a technique that only you and your brother would know and then in a moment of desperation you would alter it to kill you lord and master," said Inuyasha ignoring Sango at the moment all the while red lightning struck the ground around them like an electrified barrier of sorts surrounding the two.
(A/N: If you haven't figure it out by now then I'm sorry to say you're kind of stupid. Sorry, but its true.)
"It makes no difference to me as I felt family should come first over everything," said Voodoo as his hood came down revealing a slightly deformed looking version of Kane with identical tattoos as Kane, but they were reversed left tot right or upside down.
"Even when it comes to the safety of everything around you?" said Inuyasha as he made quick lash cutting Voodoo's left arm off so he couldn't use the technique.
"Of course! Kane came to me long before you did with Rin seeking to fulfill you're destiny right after your fight above that waterfall. When I discovered he was my half brother I was bound by the duty of my family to help him. I secretly taught him how to use the techniques he used to try to defeat you even though I knew it put the prophecy in jeopardy. At that moment I didn't care about the prophecy, my loyalties, or YOU for that matter," said Voodoo spitting on the ground in front of Inuyasha.
"I see. Well then you can be with your brother again no problem. WHEN I SEND YOU TO HELL LIKE I DID HIM!" yelled Inuyasha right before he unleashed the one armed Wind Scar on a now screaming in pain Voodoo from the attack as his said body exploded with druid like energy in conjunction with the Tetsuigia's Wind Scar.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" yelled Voodoo in an echoing form that lasted till the barrier left and the area around Inuyasha was clear to see through.
"I HATE ALL TRAITORS!" said Inuyasha and then as quickly as he was there he was gone as darkness quickly consumed the castle and the surrounding area once more and then when the scenery brightened around them a second later Inuyasha was gone.
"Where'd Inuyasha go?" said Sango looking around the battle field in front of them of upturned landscape.
"Don't know, but that doesn't really matter as I won 50 ryo in a bet due to Inuyasha," said the soldier holding his newly acquired money in his hands.
"Sango! Sango! Kanna is gone!" said Rin looking around finding her companion that was right next to her now missing.
"What?" said Sango worriedly looking around finding that in truth Kanna was nowhere in sight as was Inuyasha.
"Don't worry Inuyasha knows what he is doing," said Kagura as she appeared out of the shadows of a wall as she watched the whole ordeal happen with Inuyasha and Voodoo.
"Kagura! Explain!" said Sango in a demanding tone that Inuyasha would have approved of had he been there to see it.
"Gladly demon slayer as you have been ever so polite to ask. Inuyasha is taking his little surrogate daughter with him to get his revenge on the three little pricks that hurt him the most. I think you know them very well," said Kagura smiling as she walked up right next to Sesshomorru and giving him a loving hug making everyone think it was a little weird at seeing such a thing.
"You mean...?" said Sango, but seeing Kagura nod just proved what she was going to say before Kagura interrupted her.
"That's right. Inuyasha is going to deliver some much needed punishment to that bitch of a girl, along with her demon lover, and that perverted monk with that Wind Tunnel of his," said Kagura who now saw Sango go from surprise to happy as the demon slayer could only smile at this.
"Good. It was long overdue," said Sango smiling a wicked smile of her own as she went inside with the others to check on Kohaku.
(Elsewhere in Kaede's Village with Kagome, Miroku, and Koga)
"Thank you for taking us in Lady Kaede. We really needed refuge due to the return of Inuyasha and the fact he is coming to exact revenge against us," said Miroku sipping some of his tea that Kaede provided for him and the other two.
"Ye misunderstand my intentions monk. I do not do this for you and for what you did to Inuyasha as I loved Inuyasha like a mother loves a son. I do this out of compassion for life even though all three of ye do not deserve it," said Kaede showing her frown of distaste with the choice of the monk's words.
"Kaede! Inuyasha is a filthy, lousy, and horrible half-demon whose sole purpose in life was to help us get the jewel shards and make the jewel itself whole again. What more of a purpose could such an abomination have?" said Kagome as she was surprised that Kaede would defend Inuyasha much less say she loved Inuyasha as if he were her own son.
"And I Kagome would like to know what right ye have to determine Inuyasha's purpose in life when it is not solely to help just get the sacred jewel shards?" said Kaede who had more then her fair share of venom in her voice.
"Hey listen you old hag of a priestess Kagome does not have to answer to the like of you. Especially when the topic at hand involves that lousy half-demon mutt Inuyasha," said Koga growling trying to intimidate to the old priestess though it seemed to have little effect on the elderly woman.
"Only one person has been ever been able to intimidate me you filthy wolf demon and right now he's not here...yet," said Kaede sipping her tea with strange glint in her eye telling them something was wrong.
"What do you mean by that you old hag?" said Koga sensing something was off and the sense of danger growing in the back of his thick skull.
"Inuyasha has already known ahead of time where ye are wolf demon and will no doubt be here soon shortly after he is done dealing with his other enemies," said Kaede smiling at them with glint in her eye more visible then before.
Before Koga, Kagome, and Miroku knew it or even react the room got noticeably darker a very tall figure followed by another shorter figure holding a mirror appeared in the hut. The taller of the two shadows was staring at the three with red glowing eyes and white teeth growling while the shorter one with doll like eyes walked over to Kaede bowed in respect and stood next to the still seated elderly woman. "My other enemies as Kaede has put them have been taken care of and Kohaku is now safe with his sister. All that remains to do before killing Naraku is to kill you two betrayers, and the one betrayess who would rather have me as a corpse then as free thinking half-demon," said the dark voice that was not doubt the voice of Inuyasha.
"Your death was long overdue Inuyasha. I should have left you pinned to that tree where you belonged!" said Kagome furiously at Inuyasha as she aimed a sacred arrow at him.
"Before you decide to end your life in an attempt to kill me look at Kanna's mirror as I have something to show you their. See if anything looks familiar to you three fools," said Inuyasha moving his left hand over to Kanna whose mirror glowed and was now showing them a familiar setting of a certain tree and a certain time traveling well.
"That's my way back to my home!" said Kagome realizing something bad was about to happen.
Correction Kagome…it WAS your way home," said Inuyasha raising his left hand over his head and as he did thunder and lightning could be heard as well as seen in Kanna's mirror making Kagome realize what he was about to do.
"Wait! You can't do this to me I need to be with my family. YOU LOUSY HALF-BREED BASTARD!" yelled Kagome at the end when she realized her pleading wasn't going to work so she yelled in rage at the demon lord.
"FOR TOO LONG KAGOME I HAD TO FELT YOUR WRATH! NOW YOU'RE GOING TO FEEL MINE!" yelled Inuyasha with all his anger towards them as he then dropped his left arm down making red lightning strike the well causing the spot where two worlds connect to explode with massive result destroying everything in a twenty foot radius.
"NOOOOOOOO! MY HOME! YOU TOOK MY HOME AWAY FROM ME!" yelled a now shocked Kagome whose shock soon became anger and she fired her sacred arrow at Inuyasha who destroyed with a demonic red barrier he generated from his eyes.
"NOW YOU HAVE NO HOME!" yelled Inuyasha as he pulled out Tetsuigia ready to kill all three of them here and now.
"RUN FOR IT!" yelled Koga as he punched through the wall behind them giving them an exit to make a break for it that the others immediately followed.
"Kanna stay here with Kaede while I finish these waste of space meat bags of flesh that are those three. Kaede I am sorry you had to be drawn into this. Forgive me," said a now slightly calmer Inuyasha.
"There is no reason to forgive Inuyasha I would have never tolerated Kagome's use of the rosary that she had on you for much longer as things currently were considering the falling out of your relationship with the girl. In fact had you visited me sooner I would have removed the rosary soon after you had arrived here. But now I see it is not the case anymore as you are free like you were always suppose to be. Now go and get the revenge that you so rightfully deserve Inuyasha," said Kaede who was now smiling at her strong surrogate son knowing that this was long overdue for the other three.
Inuyasha nodded and headed off to find the now three scattered little lambs that were now on the run from the now big bad dog demon that is now hungry for blood. 'It's now my time to have a little fun at their expense. Then I'll move on to the much BIGGER problem in concerns with my twin reincarnated brother...Naraku,' thought Inuyasha as he raced off to catch up with his prey.
(A/N: What do you think? Too much? Thanks to all those who did review before though none of you got the clues that I laid out for you guys. I know I know you're all thinking the same thing...how in the holy hell can Naraku be Inuyasha twin reincarnated brother? Well in order to find that out you just have to keep on reading and reviewing now won't you. HAHAHAHAHA! Sorry I'm being mean now. In any case I'm slightly disappointed as I got only 2 that's right 2 reviews from my last chapter when I as well as you fully well know I should have gotten MORE! WTF? Come on guys throw me a friggen bone here. Please review or no more chapters for you! THE STORY CHAPTER WRITER NAZI HAS SPOKEN!)