It wont let me do the ruler! So you'll simply have to figure out which scene it is by PAYING ATTENTION. A lot to ask, but don't worry about that... Just read and review haha.
Pheonix: Alright, a review I got just the 12th inspired me to continue on with the story, as I have much more muse now than I did before for it.
Here is my reply to your reviews:
Icygirl2 – Well, my excuse is that he was worried over Rin so much that he became careless. Don't worry, he'll get his revenge
Cyclonegal12 – Well, you must know by now that I try to entertain myself while writing this, a little yelling from Sesshy never hurt And Naraku, well… I've never done Naraku before now, so leave me alone! (tear) lol I'll try better.
Zuko'sfirebendingirl – Where'd you get your name? o.o lol it is hard, apparently.
Thanks for the reviews!
Disclaimer – I don't own Inuyasha. Don't cry for me. No really, please don't.
And tea flew into the air as Saramaru gaped, astonished, at her daughter and her son in law.
"So soon after the last appearance? And he left Rin in a human village?" Kita had left that part out since her last visit to the village, feeling it better not to tell anyone. But now she was not so sure. By now, the rest of the group was in the sitting room with them, and Saramaru listened to murmurings of agreement.
"Yes, mother, Rejime and I sensed it while flying over the village. Naraku or his reincarnations are definitely there… And Rin is definitely there as well." She looked down, biting her lip. Was Rin ok?
Saramaru fought to get a grip on the situation, and finally her golden gaze hardened with determination.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go to the village." She got up, and motioned for everyone else to do the same.
Kagome hesitated.
"But what if it's a trap?" She pointed out, earthen eyes determined. "He's tried this before; we can't fall into it again!"
Saramaru's eyes softened. "If it IS a trap, Kagome, then Rin will have fallen into it already. We cannot let her be taken just because we were afraid to act upon a little woe."
'And if Sesshoumaru is there, he may be chosen prey as well.' She added to herself, worry for her cousin washing over her. She was the eldest cousin, wasn't she supposed ot keep things in order!
"Oh kami, hurry up!" She growled finally, as the whole group was staring at her. The sorceress turned with a flourish and stalked out the door, waiting for the others.
Everyone followed quickly, determined expressions on their faces, and stood beside Saramaru. A blue orb of energy surrounded them, and in no time they were flying past trees, on to the village only moments away.
When they arrived at the village, everything held an eerie silence to it. The blue orb dissipated, leaving the group standing in what appeared to be a desolate, abandoned village. Kita let out a small gasp, and Rejime squeezed her hand, silently pleading for silence. Kagome shrunk away from the scene, turning for a moment to catch her bearing before glancing at Inuyasha. The hanyou had a rather determined look on his face, golden eyes hardened into stone. If looks could kill, they wouldn't have very many enemies.
Sango's voice cut through the air, a quiet murmur. "What happened?"
Inuyasha's answer was immediate. "What the hell do you think happened? Naraku comes in, kills everyone, hides their bodies and takes over the place to make a new home. We must have just come in at a perfect time to evade his barrier." Oh how wrong the hanyou was.
Saramaru shot him a glance. "Think before you speak, Inuyasha. Naraku still has his own castle, a human village would be of no use to him. He wanted Rin, and Sesshoumaru wasn't there to stop him this time. In fact, I'd be willing to bet anything that Sesshoumaru is already here, looking for her." Saramaru seemed to be just a little more on the ball.
The headman's house, Saramaru noticed, held a faint smell of Rin, and she quickly stalked inside. Sesshoumaru? His smell haunted her nose, causing her to look back to see if Inuyasha had also noticed the smell. Inuyasha nodded silently, and she turned and walked forward. She opened door after door, five doors in sequence, before stopping at the end of the hall. Sesshoumaru had not walked out of this room yet, his scent told her that much of it. And Rin's smell was in here too… Along with Kanna's.
"Be careful, if anything happens, it happens now." She warned, and opened the door. First thing she did was check the corners, and she fought a surprised gasp. There was Sesshoumaru's body, eyes open and empty, crumpled against a wall. She heard Inuyasha grunt, not being able to discern if it was happy or confused, and she quickly glanced to the other corner. She raised a hand in reflex as Kanna's mirror flashed, and the reflecting was stopped by Saramaru's own magic mirror, reflecting Kanna's soul stealing back at her. Normally, if Kanna had had a soul, she would have fallen, but instead she merely turned her mirror and rubbed it against her chest a moment, as if to relieve it from the dust.
Everybody had turned to face Kanna by now, and Inuyasha growled. "Where's Rin?" Kanna glanced at him, completely uninterested, and turned her mirror towards him. He shielded his eyes, but finally looked when he realized his soul was still intact. Looking into the mirror, he saw Rin's face, scared and tear stained, inside the mirror, before Naraku's appeared a moment. Sesshoumaru had obviously met the same fate as Rin, then, Inuyasha concluded, but neglected to be shown in the mirror.
"Why don't you come out and show yourself, Naraku, you faceless coward!" Inuyasha snarled angrily, unsheathing Tetsusaiga. Saramaru shook her head, "Inuyasha, silence." The hanyou quieted, and Saramaru touched her hand to the wall.
"Sesshoumaru came in, looking for Rin. He was worried," She frowned as she recalled the happenings inside the walls of the house, "and didn't think to check the corner as we had. His soul was captured in the mirror, and not too long afterwards Rin walked much the same way into the trap set for her. Kagura came and took her body away." She allowed her hand to fall, and looked to Kanna.
"You are the weakest of Naraku's reincarnations, as far as I am concerned. He must have sent you here because he no longer has use for you. And neither do I." She raised her hand, and eyes narrowed in concentration, ripped the mirror from Kanna's hands with her magic. Kanna made no sound, merely opened her eyes slightly wider. Inuyasha charged at the demon with his Tetsusaiga, but Kanna disappeared before he reached her.
"Where'd she go!" He growled. Miroku frowned.
"Back to Naraku." He offered the simple, obvious answer to Inuyasha, who ground his teeth together and looked to Saramaru.
"Kanna can't fly, you dimwit, remember that Sorcerer that put Rin into a coma? This is his doing." She could see it all now. "He put a spell on Sesshoumaru when they first met, one to distract him and make him do all these crazy things. He must have, anyways. Sesshoumaru wouldn't have noticed it if carefully placed, and would have left it as a weak attempt to use magic. Then, of course, he (the sorcerer from before) must have placed this portal here for Kanna to use. Most of this has been planned, using doubt and reactions that can be foreseen judging their characters. It's obvious that if Sesshoumaru doubted enough, he would send Rin away because he desires power and the spell enforced upon him that Rin is weakness. So then Rin would come here, and Sesshoumaru would follow soon after, realizing his mistake. It's all been planned, and now we can only do our best to stop it. I can't bring Rin back without her body, no matter how hard I try, and Sesshoumaru's not going to come back unless he knows Rin is coming too. We have to get Rin's body." The group looked dumbfounded, and Saramaru stepped to the place where Kanna was moments before.
"Hurry, the barrier is weakening." She urged, and everyone grabbed her shoulders; Kita grimacing and grabbing Sesshoumaru's cold shoulder right before the transportation, taking him with her.
The room spun, and suddenly they were in a much darker field, Inuyasha's nose twitching attentively.
"What is this?" Saramaru's mouth turned grimly as Sango asked the question, not yet sure herself.
"It has the smell of Kanna and that fool sorcerer…" Inuyasha muttered, and Saramaru rolled her eyes. "I have a nose, now hush, all of you, please let me think!" At this polite but barking tone everyone fell silent, Inuyasha scrunching up his nose with distaste but allowing himself to calm.
A chuckle and a small glow, and Naraku was before them suddenly, Saramaru's snarls coming as an immediate reaction to his appearance.
"Naraku," Everyone seemed in chorus, their hissing voices and angry tones enough to make anyone except the one standing before them shiver.
"Good day, night, to you too." He smirked, and more light brought the illusion of a field crashing down, making Saramaru hiss with frustration. Naraku had to have powerful magic on his side to hide such a trick from her heightened magical sense, she was sure of it!
Rejime, however, was snarling at something else, and Saramaru followed his gaze and gasped. A dragon! A magnificently large white beast stood beside the castle entrance, a small girl, a doll in his large talons, grasped roughly between fingers strong as steel. The bloody jeer of sharp teeth, red stained, made Saramaru's heart jump, as she saw the dragon's mouth near to Rin's limp lifeless body, and sniff as if she were a delicious delicacy.
But what made Saramaru seethe most was the immense magical aura, matching her own, emanating off of the creature, or demon, whichever he was.
"Isidris!" Rejime's quavering voice was awe struck, humiliated, angry, all at the same time. "Our prophet, our trusted god…" His voice was shaking, and Kita released Sesshoumaru's shoulder to grab his reassuringly.
"Isidris?" Saramaru shivered at the golden eyes, so like her own, except with deep purple irises instead of black, so unusual… The dragons had sterling silver claws, which were indeed surrounding the young body they had been searching for.
Naraku resisted the urge to hurry along their thinking process, were they so slow? None of them had even said aloud 'It's a trap!' yet! Did they WANT to take away his fun? But no, he was having too much fun to have it taken away. His smirk didn't even fade as he waited.
Saramaru, Sango, Kagome, and Miroku were the most on the ball, and said in unison, looking at each other, "Trap."
Snorting, Inuyasha rolled his eyes at Naraku. "What more could we expect? What are the terms this time, you filthy bastard."
Smirking, Naraku obliged greedily, quickly laying out the terms of service.
"In order to have supreme conquest," At this Inuyasha had already gripped his Tetsusaiga with a more powerful fist, "I need one sword brought back from the dead so to speak. "Sounga." Kagome gulped, shuddering, remembering Sounga's powerful, but short lived, reign, if it could be called that.
"Isidris has so gracefully accepted my quest; Rin is my leverage." Naraku hadn't needed to say that, the look on his face and the appearance of the situation should have stated that clearly, but seeing as they had been so slow to declare the trap foolhardy, he had felt that a bit of explaining would be good.
"You will travel for me, to find the sword and find a way to bring it back, in exchange for Rin's life." Saramaru's eyes narrowed.
"And my cousin's life?" Her voice was frustrated, glancing from Rin to Isidris, Naraku, Rin, Isidris, and Naraku.
Naraku chuckled once more. "Spared as well, if you must. As more leverage, your very lives are at risk." Saramaru gasped as a small circle around them began to shine, and she shrieked with sudden, short lived pain as something burnt into her back. She didn't need to look to know that it was a symbol for death, stating the date on which she would die. She could tell from the burn in Inuyasha's fire rat cloth, no matter how powerful the resistance against heat from his clothing, it was no match for Isidris's marking spell. Her shriek was echoed by others.
"When your time runs out, that mark will send powerful magic," Naraku nodded to Isidris, who bowed with a sneer, "Into your innards, your heart, your brain, burning you from the inside out. Don't try it," He snapped at Saramaru, as the sorceress raised her hand, "Do and it will activate immediately." Saramaru allowed her hand to fall with a grudging mumble.
"Do not find the sword for me within six months, and you will all die, including young Rin and Sesshoumaru. They have been, forewarned, of this plan already."
The whole group was somber, Kita still wincing slightly, along with Kagome, at her new brand. Isidris chortled in that dragon way, a hind talon clicking on the ground as he sat like a bear would, perched.
Inuyasha growled defiantly, but with one pleading look from Kita, tears in the girls eyes, he seethed and turned away, a loud humph falling from his throat.
"Good." Naraku nodded to Isidris, whose large talon covered fist glowed a deep maroon as Rin came to, sputtering and sobbing in the same instant her lord's name. "Sesshoumaru!" Saramaru looked behind her and noticed the lord's eyes fluttering open. Sesshoumaru wasted no time in standing as Rin's voice hit his ears, and nonchalantly, but with a certain sense of hurry, he went to her, Isidris dropping her carelessly into the demon's awaiting arm. Sesshoumaru helped Rin to stand, only to be smothered by the small body sobbing tearfully into his chest, screaming at him and hitting him with fists for deserting her, and yet at the same time telling him how she had missed him, how much she had wanted to see him, how she had cried, as she was doing now.
Saramaru and Inuyasha turned away. "Sesshoumaru, go back to the western lands WITH your charge, and recoup. I'll see you in seven days." The large group waved goodbye, Saramaru silently noting that Isidris had spread his leathery wings and flown away, and Naraku was gone, his castle slowly fading as the devious hanyou moved to a new location. He had they're lives in his hands, but he was still worried for his safety.
This gave Saramaru hope, but not much.
Okay, so cliffy, and pretty short chapter, shortest yet? But I figured I might as well throw a not so heart breaking, but intriguing, cliffy in here and post it up while I go right on to the next chapter.
I don't have my aim working, my email works on one computer when it feels the energy to open up my mail for me, all I have is internet access. But I'm going to try to spend plenty of computer time doing this story, so I won't be on myspace or anything similar…
Please R&R, I hope you like this story and want to read more of it!