Chapter 7
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My mouth moves as I try to call out to Inuyasha, but no sounds comes out. How was I going to warn him?!
'If that isn't his Mother, then who is she?!' I ask Mayumi, continuing to struggle.
'She's Mu-on'na, the Unmother.' Mayumi explains gravely. 'A demon born through the grief of a mother suffering the loss of her children from famine and war.' My eyes widen in disbelief hearing her.
'How does that happen?'
'No one really knows.' Mayumi replies. 'They absorb the souls of the living to try and fill the void from loss.' If I wasn't already frozen I would be, my gaze locked on Inuyasha.
'She's going to try and take his soul?!'
'At this rate she won't try, she'll succeed. Inuyasha is blinded by his love for his Mother, and the loss he has felt over the years from her death. He was only a child when she passed from sickness.'
'Sickness?' I frown inwardly. It was all coming together. Inuyasha's Mother had died because she was human, from something that a demon could have easily healed from. 'He doesn't resent humans for their weakness, he's afraid for them.'
"Inyasha." Mu-on'na speaks through his Mother's body. "I must return now to the Netherworld."
"D-do you have to?" Inuyasha asks, and my heart aches at how vulnerable his voice sounds in that moment. Mu-on'na reaches up with both of her hands, summoning what looks to be a pink lotus between them. She guides it to the water, allowing it to fall apart as the petals hit the surface.
'The petals. Look into the water." She commands gently, Inuyasha moving to the edge of the bank and doing so without question. His expression goes to one of slight surprise as he looks on at the surface, but I can't tell what he's seeing.
"That's me, back when I was still small." Inyasha states in awe, and I can only imagine what he's seeing as Mu-on'na comes to stand behind him. She slowly wraps her arms around him, pulling him back against her.
"You remember! That's good." Mu-on'na says, sounding genuinely relieved. "As a child I often held you that way." Inuyasha leans back in, his face soft as he looks over his shoulder at what he thinks is his Mother's face. "I held you to my heart, just as I am doing now." He hums, closing his eyes and turning around to lean into her, hugging her back. Mu-on'na hands reach around, before I feel fear grip me once more as I see her fingers slowly disappearing into Inuyasha's back.
'Can't he feel that?!' I think frantically. His face shows discomfort, but he doesn't move.
"I'll never let go, not now, not ever." Mu-on'na promises, and Inuyasha's head falls limply to her shoulder.
'I've got to move!' I struggle once more, before my eyes widen as suddenly a chain appears over my arm. 'What?!' I gasp, the little toad like creatures slowly appearing around me as the scene disappears.
'Mu-on'na created the scene to trick Inuyasha into fully believing she was his Mother. It's one of the tricks an Unmother has up her sleeve.' Mayumi frowns as the green grass fades away to dirt ground, and soon the real scene reveals itself. We're on the edge of a pond, but it's not nearly as beautiful as the scene we had just left. In fact, the pond looks polluted, filled with the bones of dead animals that had drank the poisoned water.
"Yua! You need to snap out of it!" A familiar voice suddenly echoes in my ear. "It's me! Myoga the Flea!" I can feel him jumping around on the side of my face, but for some reason I still feel frozen. Had I been drugged?
Then suddenly the damn flea bites me.
I bring my hand up and smack the side of my face, and as soon as I do the little creatures go running away from me, my chains loosening. I sit up, letting Myoga go with slight annoyance.
"What had I said about biting me?" I snap at him irritably as I pull my hand from my face, the flea demon squashed against my palm.
"A thousand apologies, Yua." He replies weakly, before popping back up, seemingly fully restored from the slap. I frown, before turning onto my knees as I push the chains as quietly as I can off of my form. Crawling over towards a nearby boulder I hide behind it as I gather my bearings.
'Inuyasha!' His body was half enveloped into the chest of the Mu-on'na. 'Mayumi, what do we do?' Before she can answer me Jaken appears, rushing forward and striking the Unmother with his staff.
"No soul sucking till I tell you!" Jaken exclaims, his voice grating on my nerves.
"Sorry!" Mu-on'na apologizes, and stops pulling Inuyasha further into her body.
"You can have your way with him later! After he tells us how to find the tomb of Lord Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's Father!" He promises her.
'Not if I have anything to say about it.' My eyes are drawn to his staff, remembering how the male face had appeared to be some sort of feudal flame thrower before. I look to where Myoga now settled on my shoulder. "What's with his staff?"
"It's called the Staff Of Two Heads, and it's a powerful weapon. It pulls most of it's power from the elements of water and fire." Myoga explains. "You must be careful."
'If the male's head produced fire, then the female's will no doubt produce water.' Mayumi chimes in.
"Inuyasha? Your Father's tomb, where is it? Please tell me." Mu-on'na speaks to him then, and I move quietly around from behind the boulder.
"I don't know." Inuyasha responds weakly.
"Then think harder! Let me see into your heart!" Mu-on'na replies urgently, before gasping "What's that?"
"Black pearl, on the right." Inuyasha replies weakly.
"What black pearl?! Where?! We need more than that! Go deeper!" Jaken exclaims impatiently.
"But, Lord Jaken, if I delve deeper his spirit will be broken." Mu-on'na pleads.
"I don't care. Do it!" Jaken replies callously. I frown deeply, summoning my energy to create a bow and arrow. "What's taking so long?! Get a move on before Sesshomaru comes back a-" I pressed the hazy purple tip of it against Jaken's head.
"Let Inuyasha go." I command in a hard voice, glaring down at the back of his head. "Let him go, or you'll end up with an extra hole in your face." Jaken stills for a moment with that threat, clearly uneasy. I look up towards the Unmother then. "Go on, order her to let him go!"
"Do as she says!" Jaken suddenly cries out as I press the arrow's tip harder against him. "Let him go!"
"No!" The Unmother cries out in defiance, quickly moving away. I panic, kicking Jaken to the side without a second thought and sending him flying before I rush after them. Inuyasha's body was slowly disappearing into her, only half of him left visible. I come to a stop yards away, an image in a large puddle catching my eye. It was an image of Mu-on'na holding a child version of Inuyasha!
'An illusion like the one before! Break it and we can save him!' Mayumi cries out. I release my arrow into the puddle without a second through, the entire thing evaporating as my energy meets the water.
With a scream the Unmother thankfully releases him.
Relief flood through me as Inuyasha sits up on his own, breathing heavily. I kneel beside him, my hands instinctively reaching out to touch him, to make sure that he was actually here and safe. I could feel his racing heart with my hand on his back, the other gripping onto the sleeve of his kimono. He closes his eyes tightly, as if trying to ground himself too, before they snap open as alert as ever.
"How dare she?!" His amber eyes glare at the Unmother, looking absolutely betrayed and heartbroken. "You pretended to be…I fell for it! I can't believe I thought she was my-!"
"I'm so sorry, Inuyasha." I frown squeezing his arm gently with my hand. "It was Jaken and Sesshomaru. They put her up to this."
"What did you say?!" Inuyasha snaps, his amber eyes blazing as they turn to look at me. I know he heard me the first time.
"Inuyasha." Sesshomaru's voice carries over us then. In the tall grass his half-brother emerges from the haze. "I know where it is now." He states confidently as he strides towards us.
"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha yells, turning towards his brother. Quicker than my eyes could catch, Sesshomaru speeds across the distance between us. Just as suddenly as he appeared, he was there clutching at Inuyasha's throat. I feel rage that I know is all mine hot in my stomach.
"Let him GO!" I shout, my hand glowing purple as my energy spikes. I grab onto the forearm of the hand Sesshomaru was currently using to hold Inuyasha, the smell of burning skin quickly filling my nose.
Sesshomaru hardly flinches.
It happens before I can react, his other arm easily swiping me to the side and sending me flying through the air.
"YUA!"
I skid along the ground yards away, groaning as burning hot pain runs up my right side. My right shoulder had taken the impact of my landing. I brace my hand against it as I slowly sit up, seeing the angry burn mark in the perfect shape of my hand on Sesshomaru's forearm.
'That barely touched him.' I think in disbelief, eyes wide.
"Of all the places for him to hide it." Sesshomaru continues as if nothing had disrupted him. "All this time beneath our very own noses, or above them as it were." He goes on cryptically, lifting Inuyasha by the neck up higher into the air. "Right above, one might say."
What the hell was he going on about?
"Father was determined to keep it a secret, which is why he chose here to hide it." Sesshomaru states with slight humor.
"What are you talking about?!" Inuyasha demands, grabbing at his injured forearm with his own hand. "You're making no sense at all!"
"Well then, little brother, since it was obviously done without your knowledge how would you like to come with me and find out?" He responds, raising his left hand now and slowly moving it towards Inuyasha's eye as the half demon struggles in his hold. I stand up slowly, trying to reach for my energy but finding it nearly depleted.
'What am I going to do now?' I ask myself in panic as I intently watch Sesshomaru's left hand. He points two clawed fingers right at Inuyasha's right eye, a yellow static energy coursing from his fingers. I stumble back towards the brothers as Inuyasha's cry of pain echoes throughout the clearing.
'I-it's like he's trying to damage his eye. Why do that?!' I frown, letting my shoulder go and clenching both of my hands into fists. I felt so useless as he slowly draws his fingers away, the static light seemingly pulling something from Inuyasha's eye as he continues to scream in pain. A small glowing orb comes directly out from his iris, and Sesshomaru drops him carelessly as he stares at it in his hand. As quickly as possible I come to Inuyasha's side.
"Are you alright?" I ask in genuine concern as he covers his damaged right eye with his hand.
"No wonder searching for it beneath ground was useless." Sesshomaru speaks up, redirecting our attention towards him. My eyes widen as I see a black pearl, not unlike Inuyasha's real iris, held between his index finger and thumb. It glowed faintly and I felt a shiver rush down my spine as the energy from the tiny orb washes over me. "Seeing, yet not seen. Protected, yet never known to it's protector." He quotes those lines from before, and it all starts to piece together.
Inuyasha's Father's tomb had been locked away in his eye?
"Our Father's tomb hidden inside a black pearl deep within your eye." Sesshomaru confirms.
"All this for something like that?" Inuyasha shouts in anger, standing slowly. "You pretended she was my Mother!" He cries out, hurt clear in his voice. I stand with him at his side, frowning as I notice the Unwoman slowly raise her head from where she laid on the ground.
"You're not amused?" Sesshomaru asks, a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"No, I'm not." Inuyasha growls lowly, before launching forward with his clawed hand extended. "You bastard!" Sesshomaru evades the attack, launching himself up into the air.
"Die." He seems to simply command, the whip he had used from before on his monster reappearing as he snaps it at Inuyasha. I watch intently as he dodges the first few strikes, before being hit directly in the chest and sent to the ground.
'NO!' I gasp, feet already moving in his direction as Sesshomaru makes his final attack.
Suddenly Mu-on'na leaps in front of Inuyasha, taking the hit for him and exploding into pieces with a blinding light. I stop in shock, eyes wide with disbelief.
She sacrificed herself for him.
"Demon spirit or not, she still had a Mother's heart." Myoga comments as he lands on my shoulder, clearly taking in my surprise. "Isn't protecting her child something a Mother can't help but do?"
'Not always.' I can't help thinking as a frown slowly creeps onto my face, thinking of my own Mother.
"My boy…" The Unmother's voice echoes around us, still sounding like Inuyasha's Mother. It catches his attention as he looks from the scrap of her kimono that had landed on his shoulder towards her severed, faceless head. He's regarding her with uncertainty and shock.
And then Sesshomaru makes quick work, using his whip to disintegrate her head altogether.
What a heartless bastard.
"Jaken! Jaken!" Sesshomaru calls for his henchman as I reach down to try and help Inuyasha to his feet. He brushes my hands away stubbornly, getting up on his own.
"Aye, milord!" Jaken's voice calls in return as he appears, staff in hand. He rushes up to Sesshomaru, raising the staff up towards him. Sesshomaru takes the staff, before looking at the pearl in between his thumb and finger.
"At last the moment has come." His lips turn up, almost in a grin, before he drops the pearl onto the ground. In one smooth motion he brings the point of the staff down onto it, and a blast of energy rushes outwards with a blinding light. An eerie laughter can be heard, and it takes me a minute to see that it's the male head on the staff making that noise.
"The old man laughs! It means the tomb will open!" Jaken exclaims in joy. Inuyasha takes a step forward, bringing his left arm up in front of me and pushing me back. I glance up to him, but his eyes are trained on his half brother. A vortex appears beside them, like a black hole.
"I thought I'd seen everything." I mutter to myself, the hair on my arms standing on end. Sesshomaru and Jaken disappear into the void without a word more, and I look to Inuyasha as he stands just slightly in front of me. He wasn't moving.
"Well? Are we going or not?" I ask, frowning.
"We?" He repeats, surprise in his voice. I lift an eyebrow at him.
"You honestly don't think I'm letting you go in there alone, do you?" I reply easily, before gently pushing his arm down from in front of me and stepping towards the void. I turn to him, our eyes locking as he stands there staring at me. "Inuyasha?" I ask, reaching my right hand out towards him then. This seems to snap him out of whatever daze he was in.
'Maybe he's nervous? This is his Father's tomb after all, and his brother is a little psychotic.' I think as he hesitantly reaches out, taking my own hand in his. I try to ignore the butterflies in my stomach that flutter as I feel the warmth of his hand, and the strength in it as it firmly closes in around mine.
"Let's go." He nods, guiding me on into the void.
I'm not prepared for what I see on the other side.
A sense of weightlessness takes over me as light spills through the opening on the other side of the portal. Inuyasha's hand gently tugs me into his side, letting me go long enough to instead wrap his arm around my waist.
"Hold on." Inuyasha cautions. I immediately reach over to grab onto the front of his kimono with my left hand, the one closest to his body going to his back and hanging on there. We fly through the portal, and I realize why I had felt so weightless.
We were literally falling form the sky!
"Is that your Dad?" I ask in astonishment as I see the remains ahead of us. The remains of Inuyasha's Father were sitting down, almost seeming to relax against the rocky hills behind him. He was wearing armor, his skull the only visible part of his actual body. The deceased dog demon looked monstrously large, even when sitting. He had to be at least a hundred feet tall!
"That's the old man." Inuyasha confirms easily, his arm tightening around my middle. "Brace yourself, it might be a rough landing." He warns then, and at that point I look down to the rocky landscape below. I grip onto the material of his kimono tightly as the ground continues to get closer, before suddenly we both hear a bird's call behind us. I don't even have time to turn to see what made the noise before it's under us and carrying us towards his Father's body. Inuyasha slides his arm from around me when he knows I'm steady.
"What is this thing?" I frown, looking down at the bones below me of this massive bird-like creature. When Inuyasha doesn't answer I look towards him. His eyes are focused ahead on his Father's remains, an unreadable expression on his face.
'This is the first time Inuyasha has ever seen his Father. At least, the first time he'd remember.' Mayumi explains then, my eyes widening in shock.
'What a way to meet him.' I think sadly, looking back to the dog demon's massive remains. 'Why is he so big?' I can't help asking.
'Inu no Taisho was Lord Of The Western Lands, and he was as large as his title would suggest. Sesshomaru has now taken up his place in the Western Lands as his full-blooded son. What you see right now is Lord Inu no Taisho's demon form. Full-blooded demons can sometimes change their physical appearance by will. Inuyasha's Father could morph into a large dog during battles, but was most often in his humanoid form. Sesshomaru would be the best example of what Inu no Taisho must have looked like in his human form.'
I blink in surprise, before a worrying thought hits me.
Does Sesshomaru get that big when he's in his dog demon form? If so, we were definitely in some trouble.
We circle the remains, before flying down towards the mouth and entering it as if we were heading into a cave.
"His fangs are three times my size!" I can't help observing as we fly by them.
"He himself was of incomparable stature." Myoga speaks up from where he sits on Inuyasha's necklace. "Here he is in truest form, undisguised. The treasure sword embedded in his bones. That is what Lord Sesshomaru is after." Myoga explains as we fly down the throat.
'This is creepy.' I can't help thinking dryly as the darkness closes in. I don't want to say it out loud, this is his Father's body after all. However, that doesn't stop the chill that runs down my spine as we continue down his throat, my hair standing on end on my arms. 'I can't imagine what Inuyasha must be thinking as we fly through his Father's remains.' As we fly through the opening from his throat into his stomach the bird below us hovers, rather than moving in closer. Without a second thought Inuyasha grabs me around the middle once more, leaping off of the bird and onto one of his Father's many rib bones. Sesshomaru is easily visible as he stands at the bottom on the numerous remains that layered the base of Inu no Taisho's midsection.
'Is that the sword?' I think with a confused frown, seeing the rather beaten up looking weapon sticking out from some sort of block. Sesshomaru was just standing there, looking at his hand as we make it to just above him.
"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha shouts angrily as he lets me go. "We're not finished yet!" He cries out, before leaping down and towards his half-brother. He swipes at him, but Sesshomaru moves faster. Instead Inuyasha lands hard among the bones, the sound of them shattering beneath him echoing in our surroundings. Hardly flinching the silver-haired half demon stands at the ready, Sesshomaru nowhere to be seen. "Where did he go?" Inuyasha growls impatiently, hands up and at the ready.
"Be more respectful. It's our Father's tomb." Sesshomaru's voice echoes, and my eyes snap to where he now stands above Inuyasha on one of the ribs.
'Holy crap he's fast!' I think in amazement, before frowning as I look from Sesshomaru to the sword.
Why hadn't he picked it up yet?
"Look who's talking! You're the one who's here robbing his grave! Why not respect him by leaving?!" Inuyasha retaliates.
"Lord Inuyasha, look back, look back!" Myoga calls to him as he lands on his shoulder.
"Look back where? How come?" He questions the flea, even as he turns back towards the sword.
"Don't you see it? The blade from your Father's fang!" Myoga replies with excitement. "Tessaiga!"
'Tessaiga? That's certainly an interesting name for a sword.' I muse, tilting my head in curiosity as Inuyasha approaches it.
"What, you mean this?" He asks doubtfully, obviously taken in that battered appearance. "What a piece of junk. Tessaiga-what? It wouldn't even cut paper wet!" He criticizes.
Then why did Sesshomaru want it so badly?
"Lord Inuyasha, you must draw the sword. Please!" Myoga pleads with him nonetheless. "And you, Lord Sesshomaru," he turns his attention to the older demon who is watching on intently, "you couldn't pull it out, could you?" My eyes widen slightly in realization.
'That's why he had been staring at his hand. It had looked a little burnt.' I think back on it now, realizing that smoke had been drifting up from the palm of his hand.
"Are you saying that Inuyasha can?" Sesshomaru asks curiously.
"Of course. It was always intended that Lord Inuyasha should inherit it." Myoga states confidently, before suddenly the flea seems to get nervous under Sesshomaru's stare, slowly back around to hide behind Inuyasha's neck. "H-he was entrusted with the tomb, wasn't he? That should be proof enough if you ask me!" He weakly defends, before dodging completely out of view. "Now hurry, hurry! Claim what's yours!" He cries at Inuyasha from his hiding place.
Inuyasha looks down at the sword, his face still showing his surprise at being told that his Father had left it to him specifically. He looks away then, expression dropping into disbelief.
"What entrustment? What inheritance? For all I care he can keep the rusty piece of junk!" Inuyasha shouts out.
'He resents his Dad.' I realize then with shock. 'Before today I would have thought things the opposite; that he'd favor his Father over his Mother because his Father represents the strong side of him.' I frown.
'Inuyasha had always felt abandoned by his Father. His Mother was the one that cared for him alone until she died.' Mayumi replies softly, her voice showing how much her heart was aching for Inuyasha in that moment. 'He would hardly even talk about his Father to me.'
"What I do mind, though, is all the other stuff!" Inuyasha moves from the sword, pointing up at Sesshomaru now. "Good thing you are in a grave, because you're going to die!" He proclaims angrily up to his half-brother. Sesshomaru hardly looks phased, even as Inuyasha jumps up to launch another attack.
'That was sloppy.' I think with a frown. 'He's letting his emotions get the best of him.'
"Now, was that aimed at me?" Sesshomaru teases as he lands down below, turning to look back towards Inuyasha confidently. Inuyasha doesn't miss a beat, coming down after him and swiping at him. He makes attempt after attempt to hit Sesshomaru, but the older demon seems to dodge each attack with ease.
"He's playing with him." I realize as Inuyasha misses him again, instead punching into one of his Father's ribs. He falls to the ground from the impact, leaping back up almost immediately.
"Damn." He growls, Sesshomaru landing directly behind him.
'Inuyasha needs to get over his pride and retrieve that sword! It might be his only chance against his brother.' Mayumi calls out urgently, and my mind spins trying to think of what I can do.
"You fight as though you are still a child." Sesshomaru criticizes as he gazes at Inuyasha calmly.
"You can't fight him unarmed! Get the sword! The sword!" Myoga pleads with Inuyasha.
"You shut up!" He shouts at Myoga in return, and I groan in frustration.
"Don't be a little brat! Get the sword!" I call out to him as I lean against a large vine that had grown down into Inu no Taisho's body. "Stop being so stubborn about it! What if you can pull it out and Sesshomaru can't?! Wouldn't you like to see the look on his face if that happens?" I appeal to Inuyasha's ego, hoping he'd take the bait. Judging by the smirk that slowly works its way onto his lips, I'd say it worked.
'Well played, Yua, well played.' Mayumi hums in pleasant surprise.
"I get it." Inuyasha chuckles, grinning then as he glances towards the sword before looking back towards his half-brother. "I'll do it." He walks over towards the battered sword then, Sesshomaru's gaze narrowing even as he doesn't respond. Inuyasha jumps up onto the block, taking the hilt of the sword in his hand. "This is going to be more fun than I thought." He comments egotistically, and I inwardly groan.
'Enough with the chit chat, time for some action.' I frown, watching intently now as he moves to pull the sword out.
"N-n-n-no! Inuyasha is immune to the spell that thwarted Sesshomaru!" Jaken's voice suddenly echoes through the cavern as he emerges from under a pile of bones.
"I knew it! Tessaiga is fated to become Lord Inuyasha's!" Myoga reappears in that moment as well, Inuyasha pulling up hard on the sword. I could see his arm shaking with the effort, but the sword wasn't budging yet.
"It must really be stuck in there." I mutter lowly.
As Inuyasha yells a light erupts from where the sword's tip was stuck in the block. He continues to grunt with effort for a few more minutes, before the light slowly fades.
And the sword remains firmly stuck in the block.
'Uh, Mayumi?' I reach out to my predecessor I confusion.
'Yeah…I got nothing.' She answers, equally as confused by what had just happened.
"Huh?" Inuyasha frowns, smoke billowing out around him as he stares down at the sword dumbfounded. His expression quickly turns to one of annoyance. "Yo." He calls to Myoga as the flea bounces on his shoulder.
"Yes?"
With lightening fast reflexes Inuyasha grabs the flea and brings him to face him, squeezing Myoga between his index finger and thumb. "I couldn't pull the sword out. Could I?" He questions with barely concealed rage. His eyebrow even twitches.
"I don't know what happened." Myoga squeaks out, Inuyasha letting him go with an irritated scoff.
"Are you done?" Sesshomaru asks then coldly, clearly not impressed either. No doubt he had hoped to overpower Inuyasha when he released the sword so he could take it for himself. "I am." He moves quickly across the cavern, a blurry streak of white, red, and yellow, swiping at Inuyasha. Inuyasha dodges, this time on the defensive.
'Yua, climb down there.' Mayumi speaks up, and my eyes widen slightly.
'What for?' I ask, even as I move to climb down to the next rib.
'I want to try something.' Mayumi answers cryptically. I inwardly groan, starting to get rather annoyed with her nasty habit of not fully answering me. As Sesshomaru and Inuyasha continue their fight in the distance I finally make it to the bottom, doing my best to ignore that I'm currently stepping on dead bodies.
'This is the stuff nightmares are made of.' I can't help thinking as I look down in disgust at a skull that was looking straight back up at me.
'Head for the sword. We're going to try pulling it out.' I do pause at that.
'Say what now?' I ask, eyes wide. I look over to Inuyasha, my heart leaping into my throat as I see him pinned to a rib.
"I don't think you've met my poison claws." Sesshomaru states coldly, before the hand he wasn't using to pin Inuyasha starts to glow a sick green color. Inuyasha just barely misses the attack, melted bone remaining where his head had just been.
'Yua! Get to the sword! This might be the only way to help!' Mayumi shouts then. 'Our powers, even combined, are no use here.' I frown, before rushing for the platform as Inuyasha takes hit after hit from Sesshomaru's whip. His kimono was his only protection.
'It won't be if this works.' Mayumi urges on. I stand on the block, gripping onto the handle of the sword then.
"NO! Get away from that sword!" Jaken's voice suddenly calls out, and I turn just in time to see a ball of fire heading straight for me. I raise my hand up, calling on my energy to create a barrier in front of me. It works, just barely, as I can still feel the heat of the flames before they extinguish. With a blast of my energy I send the toad clear across to the opposite wall of ribs, effectively knocking him out.
'Fucking pest.' I frown, before suddenly I hear Inuyasha crying out in pain. My gaze snaps over to him, freezing as I see Sesshomaru has the claws of his left hand dug into his chest. He launches them into the air, his right hand glowing that same green color from before.
His poison claws.
"Inuyasha!" I can't help crying out in fear for him, my instinct causing me to move to try and reach him in time.
Only I had forgotten to let go of the sword.
I gasp, stumbling slightly as I was momentarily stopped in my forward motion, the tension quickly letting go as the sword actually pulled free from the block! I stumble, looking down in dumbfounded shock at the sword now in my hands, before looking towards the demon brothers in front of me. Both were staring at me. Inuyasha in surprised confusion.
Sesshomaru with deadly intent as he was frozen in place, clawed hand hovering just above Inuyasha.
'Oh, he's pissed.' I think frantically to Mayumi, feeling unsure of what to do next. I pick up the sword in both hands, still surprisingly heavy for how fragile it looked. I gaze at it in wonder, reaching out for Mayumi once more.
'So…what's the next plan?' I think nervously.
'Let me get back to you on that one.'
Hope you all liked this chapter! I know it's a little shorter than the others I have written so far. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts all the same!
Until next chapter!
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