Tschimaru: Heh, finally time for me….
Inuyasha: Geez! We have to keep these intros from getting so off-track! He doesn't own One Piece or Inuyasha already! Get that through your thick skull!
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Scroll Seventeen: Unbeatable Enemy: Tschimaru Revealed!
All eyes were transfixed on the pink shard Devon held in his hand, Miroku and Niri stood there in disbelief, while Tschimaru stood on the terrace of the mansion courtyard, grinning evilly from ear to ear. "Good Demon, now hand it over." The tall incarnation with long white hair smirked as he stepped out of the shadows.
"What about Austin? You and Naraku promised you'd give him back if I gave you the jewel shard." The blonde haired swordsman glared at the person opposite him.
"And of course, we live up to our word, demon." Tschimaru smiled a warm, yet creepy smile and gestured to the roof of on of the nearby mansion sections, pointing to two young boys. One was a young boy in a similar outfit to Sango, with the exception his armor was green where hers was pink. The other boy was Austin. The latter looked dazed, as if under some trance or spell, oblivious to any call the outside world might give. The former held a kusarigama sickle to Austin's throat, waiting for the deal to carry out.
"Devon you can't!" Niri shouted towards her nakama, "We all took a blood oath to stop Naraku together!"
"If you recall Niri, I wasn't there when you made that promise, and I never took that oath." Devon's eyes narrowed, never looking away from Tschimaru.
"And good thing you didn't or your brother might as well be dead." The white-haired demon laughed softly as he began walking towards Devon to take the jewel from him. "And don't even think of using your Wind Tunnel to try and destroy me Miroku." Tschimaru grinned towards the monk in the group and held up a small sphere in his right hand. The sphere had stripes across it as well as other markings, as well as holes throughout it that looked like some small creature could fit through.
"A Saimyosho hive!" Miroku shouted, taking his hand off of his prayer beads. "Damn, I can't suck him in, if that many poisonous insects are sucked into my Wind Tunnel, I'll surely die…" he muttered to himself.
"Good boy… this is what I like to see, everyone playing their part." Tschimaru smirked as he took the pink shard out of Devon's hand.
As soon as the shard left his hand, Devon drew both of his swords as fast as he could, slicing into the demon in front of him, severing his body in two and letting both halves fall to the ground. "No one messes with me and Austin…" he scoffed.
Kohaku tightened his grip on Austin, waiting to see what would happen next from the group. "Stop Kohaku!" A voice rang out, to everyone's amazement, Tschimaru's torso was still speaking while it was severed from his legs! "Tsk, tsk, tsk… I'm disappointed in you Demon…" The white-haired demon began to pull the two halves of himself together as if nothing had happened. "You really thought you could trick me with a fake shard of the Shikon no tama?" He smirked as he stood up.
"How'd you know it was a fake?!" Devon shouted, amazed that the demon was still alive.
"One, it doesn't give off the same kind of energy as the sacred jewel. And two, you just told me, you idiot!" Tschimaru shouted after righting himself again.
"Damn, me and Shippo made that, it was supposed to be a replica so you wouldn't notice I gave Kagome back her jewel shard while she was sleeping after the Wood Golem attack." The blonde swordsman muttered, still keeping his eyes on Austin and Kohaku.
"Don't worry, I won't harm your brother just yet, I was sorta hoping that something like this would happen, I've been in that egg since I was born and I haven't had any fun yet. I'll keep your brother alive until after the fight, then once I've bled you dry, I'll keep you alive just long enough so that your last dying vision is seeing your little brother be torn apart!" The white-haired demon laughed evilly.
"LIKE HELL!" Devon roared, spinning his blades and striking them into the demon's chest, spurting the blood of Naraku's incarnation over himself and the ground.
Tschimaru merely chuckled as he looked down at the dual blades in his chest. "You fool!" Both demons looked at Tschimaru's hand as it reformed and took the shape of a claw, looking like the claw of a scorpion. He brought the claw hard across Devon's chest, making his own blood erupt out. The swordsman fell backwards a few feet, letting go of his swords as they lay still sticking out of his opponent's chest. "Ah, such a good feeling, spilling the blood of others." The white-haired demon chuckled softly.
"Great… a sadist bad guy, as if I don't meet enough of them…" Devon coughed as he stood up again.
"Devon!" Niri shouted as her and Miroku ran up beside him.
"Are you alright?" The monk put a hand on his shoulder.
"J-Just p-peachy." The demon gritted his teeth.
"Allow me to explain to you what you are up against." Tschimaru grinned broadly, clearly enjoying seeing Devon in pain. "I am immortal, no weapon, no injury, no poison has the strength to kill me, no matter how you tear my body apart, I will still stand." He slowly reached down to his wounds and tossed Devon's swords aside, scooping up some of his blood with his scorpion claw. "In addition to this… my blood is very special." He quickly extended the claw and pierced Devon's shoulder, mixing the blood already on it with Devon's own, earning a small scream from the blonde swordsman as he winced at his new injury. "If I mix someone's blood with mine on my hand, any damage done to me with that hand is also done to the person's blood I used, observe." He scratched across his cheek, letting a small trickle of blood run down his face. The same exact cut appeared across Devon's face seconds later.
"And since I am immortal, I can simply strike my own heart and kill someone, while I myself remain alive." This earned a small gasp from the others as the evil demon smirked. "Of course I don't like to do this, I like to keep my opponents alive and watch them suffer." He licked his lips slowly.
"Could this guy get any more creepy?" Niri said giving the enemy a very freaked out look.
Tschimaru grinned broadly as he watched the Saimyosho buzz around him. "And I believe you know my other power…" he watched his other hand as it changed into a scorpion's claw like the first. He then used the bloodied claw to scratch deep across his knee, followed by a loud scream from Devon as his own leg was injured in a similar fashion. "Not going to fight back? I should just kill you now then!" Tschimaru put his claw to his chest, hovering over his heart…
BOOM!
The white-haired demon fell over in a bloody heap as numerous small bullets lodged themselves in his face. Niri stood over him, her shotgun smoking from the shot fired seconds before. "Go get your swords Dev, you're going to need them…" The dark-haired sniper blew on the smoking barrel.
"You have no idea how much that stings…" Tschimaru stood up, picking the bullets out of his face as the demonic flesh slowly reformed itself.
The blonde swordsman took this chance to crawl over and grab his two swords again, only to feel a searing pain in his foot as it erupted in blood. He looked back over to the fighters to see that Tschimaru had stealthily stabbed through his own left foot. "D-Damn… he's just picking off body parts one by one…" As he gripped the hilt of the Water Moon, his smaller sword of the two, he began to feel a warmth throughout his body as his injuries seemed to lessen. The demon slowly and shakily stood up again, clutching his blades loosely. "You coward! Fight me like a man!" he charged the demon, swords held high.
"Fool, I am more than a match for you no matter how we fight…" Tschimaru caught both blades with his claws and tightened his grip on them, throwing Devon back a few feet with great force.
"Begone Demon!" Miroku shouted, wielding his staff and swinging it down on Tschimaru seconds after his confrontation with Devon.
"Ah, who said Devon should have all the fun?" The white-haired demon caught the staff easily with his bloodied claw. "Let the monk join in as well!" He stabbed Miroku in the stomach with his other claw, quickly mixing it with his own blood and tossing the monk aside.
Miroku hit the patio of the mansion and broke through one of the fragile walls, hitting the wood floor with a loud thud. "Oh no…" he whispered and winced, limping back out to the courtyard.
"Now then, let's see how far that Wind Tunnel of yours stretches!" The demon used his flexible claw to piece itself, cutting into where the palm of the hand would be.
The monk screamed in pain as his hand bled, but also as the wind began to pick up around them. "Oh no! He's knicked the sides of the Wind Tunnel!" He held his arm tight. "If it expands any more, the Wind Tunnel will suck in everyone around here!"
"And I'll have killed so many of Naraku's enemies!" Tschimaru laughed evilly, preparing to slide his claw up more and slit open the Wind Tunnel in Miroku's arm.
CIIISSSSHHH
A burning sound came as it was Tschimaru's turn to scream in pain. A young looking man in white fur, with white hair similar to Inuyasha's and a purple crescent on his forehead stood in front of Tschimaru, his green glowing claw attached to the other demon's. "How do you like my poison claw?" The man said in a chilling voice as he used his green hand to rip Tschimaru's scorpion claw from his body.
"AAAAAAHHH! Sesshomaru… Naraku warned me you might interfere…" The white-haired incarnation panted.
The white-haired youth reached his hand down to his two swords, pulling out the one with a round ball at the end of the hilt and held it out. "Your blood doesn't work, if the arms are no longer a part of your body, the spell is broken." He slashed the sword down quickly on the other claw, severing the second appendage from the demon's body.
"Grrr…. You and your sword Tokijin… No wonder you are the biggest threat to Master Naraku… And with your tactical skills, I'm not surprised you were able to figure out my weakness."
Devon looked at the skirmish as he wrapped Miroku's arm around his shoulder. "That voice… it sounds so familiar…" The blonde swordsman commented. "Where have I heard it before?"
-flashback-
Devon was in a dark abyss, wandering freely with no direction or no clue where to go. "W-Where am I?" he blinked. "NARAKU! I was fighting Naraku! And he… killed me?" Devon reminisced he closed his eyes and began to think.
"It appears that Naraku isn't here anymore…" Came a cold voice from nowhere.
"Who's there!?" The blonde swordsman shouted.
"Tenseiga… do you wish to be drawn?"
"Show yourself!" Devon shouted into the darkness.
"Why do you wish to be used… to save this mere human?" The cold voice continued.
The next thing the blonde swordsman could tell, he was sitting firmly on the ground, with no one in sight, the wound from Naraku gone as if nothing had happened.
-end flashback-
"Was he the guy who saved me?" The demon swordsman blinked. "Hey Miroku, who is that guy?"
"That man is Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's older brother." Miroku sighed as he got his Wind Tunnel under control again, thanks to a slightly healing touch from Devon's Water Moon.
"Inuyasha's bro? I wonder if he's the one who healed me…"
"Doubtful, he does have Tenseiga, the sword capable of saving one hundred lives in one stroke, but he would never use it on a human, he hates everything except pure-blooded demons." The monk narrowed his eyes.
"Is that Tenseiga he's holding?" Devon asked, looking at the two white-haired demons who were in a standstill.
"No, that is Sesshomaru's sword for battle, Tokijin. It was made from one of Naraku's other incarnations by the evil swordsmith Kaijinbo."
"Hmph, I will ask you once more, where is Naraku hiding?" Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed on Tschimaru.
"Heh, you cannot force information out of me, no matter what you do, I cannot fall." The white-haired incarnation grinned.
"We'll see…" Sesshomaru swung his sword hard, releasing blue arcs of light from the blade, obliterating the demon's body into small pieces and destroying much of the mansion in that direction.
"Is it over?" Niri blinked as she stood behind Sesshomaru in awe of his power.
"Don't be a fool, it's not over by a long shot…" Sesshomaru snapped coldly.
"Hehehe… damn right…" Tschimaru's voice came out from the lumps of flesh that had been created by Tokijin's attack. "Sesshomaru… I will absorb you and give Naraku more power and one less enemy!" The lumps quickly attached themselves to Sesshomaru and spread across his body, covering his hand and dislodging Tokijin, causing it to stick into the ground a few feet away from the scene.
"SESSHOMARU!" Miroku, Niri, and Devon shouted at once as they watched Tschimaru devour him.
A stream of yellow light quickly came around Sesshomaru in the form of a whip, breaking Tschimaru's body even further and pushing him away from absorbing the dog demon. "Please… as if I would let scum like you absorb me…"
The lumps of flesh growled as they reformed again into Tschimaru, although he looked different than before. He had now lost his white kimono as scales covered his body, his legs had become sharper and pointer, his claws remained the same as well. He stood on all fours as a large scorpion-like tail came out of his back. "Sesshomaru… you cannot defeat me, I am immortal!"
"Immortal…" Miroku mumbled as he and Devon hobbled over to Niri. "Niri, how many Saimyosho do you think are in the area?"
"A lot… why?"
"I have a plan, at what speed can you shoot?" The monk winced.
"I'm a great sniper in the Grand Line, I can shoot pretty damn fast." The dark-haired sniper blinked. "Where are you going with this, monk?"
Miroku watched as Sesshomaru and Tschimaru squared off, the dog demon keeping the incarnation at bay with his whip of light, but not seeming to do any lasting damage. "I'm going to open my Wind Tunnel… Devon's Water Moon managed to fix the stitching job my master did a few months back, but it's still very much there. I'm going to try to suck Tschimaru in and I want you to use your sniper skills and shoot all of the Saimyosho that try to fly in so I don't suck in a fatal amount of poison. I'm trusting you on this one Niri."
"Alright, I can do that, but you'll have to be quick about it, don't hold it open any more than necessary." Niri nodded.
"I don't plan to…" The monk sighed and rested his hands on his prayer beads, pulling them off. "Wind Tunnel!" He aimed his hand at Tschimaru, the poisonous insects immediately began flaying towards the sucking wind.
The dark-haired sniper pulled out her pistol and shotgun and began firing away, picking off the Saimyosho a few at a time while the wind kept up, attempting to suck the demon in.
"What!?" The white-haired incarnation screamed before digging deep into the ground with his claw.
"Stop! It's not going to work!" Devon noticed the demon not moving after a moment because of his claw anchor.
"Damn, we have to dislodge him somehow." Niri cursed as the Wind Tunnel cut off.
"Leave that to me." Devon dashed forward as Sesshomaru kept hacking at Tschimaru with his whip. The blonde swordsman slashed at the anchoring claw, only to be blocked by the other one easily.
"Heh, you can't beat me with such a pitiful sword." The white-haired demon grinned and threw his opponent back a few feet before continuing to grapple with Sesshomaru.
"Damn… the Kitetsu isn't strong enough…" The blonde swordsman looked around before setting his eyes on the discarded Tokijin. "Keep him busy Sesshomaru!" Devon ran over to the sword and prepared to grab it.
"Hmph, a pitiful human like you would be killed by Tokijin's aura." Sesshomaru scoffed as he watched Devon.
Sparks flew as the purple aura emitted from the sword as the blonde swordsman gripped the hilt, his other hand on the Water Moon to keep from being hurt too badly. Devon winced and screamed as he attempted to pull the sword out of the dirt.
"Hehehe… someone like him can't wield that sword, not that it would matter, I've already survived that sword once before…" Tschimaru winced as he was hit once again by the whip of light.
"AAAAAAAHHH!!!" Please Tokijin.. help me… Devon closed his eyes as his eyes turned red and his nails grew out, he could feel his wings poking at the inside of his jean jacket. No… I can't transform here… they dismissed the other time as a jewel shard effect but if I do it again here… they'll all know… Tokijin! Please lend me your strength! Devon pulled the still resisting sword out of the dirt. "Listen up Tschi-whatever! You made a big mistake when you and Naraku decided to pick on Austin! He's the only family I have left, I made a promise to protect him… AND I WON'T LET HIM… DOOOOWWWWWWNNN!!!!" The demon swordsman yelled as he swung the sword, releasing blue arcs of energy from the Tokijin. The arcs cut through Tschimaru, severing him into several pieces and splattering parts of his body across the ground.
Devon collapsed and let go of the sword, right hand smoking and scarred from holding it. Impossible… He must be at least a half demon to wield Tokijin, even Kaijinbo, who forged the sword collapsed under its power. I have been the only one ever subdue its aura. Tenseiga, who is this person. Did you want me to save him back in the forest, knowing that he would be able to wield Tokijin and defeat Naraku's incarnation? Sesshomaru walked up to the collapsed Devon and picked up the sword laying beside him, sheathing it around his waist.
"Grrr… You fools!" Tschimaru's head shouted, he was still mostly attached to his torso but many parts of his flesh surrounded him. "I can still reform! You haven't won yet! I am immor- "
"Miroku, NOW!" Niri shouted as the monk reopened his Wind Tunnel and began sucking everything in the area in around him.
"WHAT!? NOOOOOOOO!" Tschimaru shouted as the pieces of his flesh were sucked up around him, eventually sucking him into the Wind Tunnel while Niri took care of the remaining Saimyosho.
"Whew, glad it's finally over…" Miroku sighed as he covered his Wind Tunnel once again and fell on his back.
"Miroku! Are you alright?" Niri bent down to help him.
"I-I think you missed one…" Miroku winced looking at his hand.
Niri bent over to help him. "Oh no! I'm so-" She shivered as she felt something on her backside. "So gullible for falling for that!" She hit him on the head with the end of her pistol. "Hentai Monk…"
"It's the hand! It's possessed!" Miroku whined as he felt the new bump on his head.
The sniper eventually helped Miroku up and the two began walking over to Devon and Sesshomaru. "Thank you for all your help Sesshomaru." The monk sighed.
The white-haired dog demon kept his eyes on Devon the whole time. "Don't fool yourself, I wasn't fighting to protect you humans, I was trying to find where Naraku is, looks like I have to start my search over again." He finally took his eyes off of Devon and gave the smallest of smiles to Niri before taking off in a blur and a flash of light.
"What was that all about?" Niri blinked at the odd look the dog demon gave her.
Devon slowly opened his eyes and stood up. "A-Austin… is he okay?"
"Oh crap, I forgot." Niri covered her mouth and looked up as Kohaku jumped down from the roof and landed in the courtyard, still holding his blade to Austin's neck.
"L-Let him go…" The exhausted demon wheezed between labored breaths.
Kohaku stayed silent as he held the sickle blade of his kusarigama high.
"I SAID LET HIM GO! DO IT OR YOU'RE DEAD!" Devon growled.
SHTINK!
The sickle blade cut through a hovering Saimyosho before returning to Kohaku.
"What? Isn't he supposed to be on Naraku's side?" Niri questioned.
"Please… Please Forgive me…" The boy said quietly. "I had to play along while Naraku's insects were watching, I would have never killed the boy." Kohaku looked up with sadness in his eyes. "Recently I have been able to free myself from Naraku's control, but I can't let him know I'm free, I have to be able to get close to his heart and kill him. It's the only way to atone for the things I've done…"
"I see… so you're one of the good guys after all." The sniper smirked softly.
"Whatever, just give me my brother back…" Devon sighed, obviously not caring.
"Of course…" Kohaku nudged Austin in Devon's direction, breaking him of the trance he was in. The mute boy quickly ran over and hugged Devon's leg.
"It's alright… you're safe now." Devon smiled tiredly as he knelt down and hugged his little brother.
Kohaku turned to leave, looking back only shortly. "I have to go back and report to Naraku now. T-Tell that woman… tell Sango that I'm alright…" He gave a soft smile and leapt away from the scene.
Miroku sighed. "Well I suppose we've done all we can do for now, shall we meet back up with the others?"
"Sure, I'm tired as shit, man." Devon yawned as he patted Austin on the head and the four exited the mansion and headed towards the meeting place for the others. Devon took one last look at the destroyed mountain mansion before continuing on.
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Hope it was good! This was the longest chapter yet, only a few left, next is the climactic battle with Naraku! Please dont be afraid to review!
Axe: So here's where you've been hiding… Naraku!
Inuyasha: No matter how you hide yourself, you'll always be that pathetic human Onigumo!
Naraku: You fools, you may have found me, but I have absorbed the power of the Yokai Ki no Ai, there is no way you can defeat me!
Kagome: Next Time: Evil Blossoms! The final battle Part 1!
Inuyasha and Axe: This ends now Naraku!