Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha (but i have really cool Voss (thats a brand of water) with glass water bottles! (Today during the fashion show rehearsal someone broke theirs! ^_^)
Posted: 03/02/10
(I have updated the following chapters: 2,5,6)
I had planned on joining Kagome and Kikyou again like i did in chapter seven of the KouXKag version BUT! i decided that i'd do this and make you all wonder what's going on at the battle ^_^ If i continued i'd have to add what's going on while Kagome explains and that was supposed to take an hour-ish SOOOOO! Here is your entirely Sesshy Chapter! (Except for the little time reference)
Chapter Seven
A tall regal male walked slowly with long steady strides through the forest. The silence and serenity of his surroundings were pleasing to his senses. He enjoyed his solitude. However, although he preferred it, there were some whose company he did not detest. He took no displeasure in the sound of his ward's chatter, but his retainer's voice was highly irritating
A moon ago he had set out from his shiro to go on a patrol of his lands, his ward, retainer and beast of burden, in tow. Nothing was out of the ordinary. The occasional wild youkai wreaking havoc on a human village. Those, both ningen and youkai, who sought to hinder him on his journey. How dare they forget of his lordship over their person.
'They shall not make that mistake again.' Indeed, they were currently unable to do so, seeing as how they all lay unmoving in their graves. They were truly foolish to believe that they were worth notice, let alone to believe that he may, for some unforeseeable reason, view them as a threat. While he had no aversion to killing those who disrespected him the carnage becomes tedious.
He had left his ward and retainer in a clearing some few days ago before seeking out a mole youkai that had been causing trouble in a few of the human villages on his lands.
He held no love for humans nor any regard. They were filthy beings with no morals or sense of honor. there was perhaps one exception, Rin. Upon their meeting, shortly after him having been hit by the Kaze no Kizu, he had not spared her a glance. She was nothing more than an urchin who seemed unable to recognized danger. It was tenseiga's interest in the girl that caused him to consider her and he found, eventually, that he was not disappointed by what he saw.
While a sword doesn't speak in words it is simple to understand it's desires. He had learned to interpret and understand, however he still didn't understand the nature of tenseiga's desire for her resurrection. It was very particular about whom it saved.
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He had been staring down at her lifeless body, the highly offensive stench of wolves in the air. He had planed on simply leaving her there.
'that would be unwise' tenseiga had told him.
'why?'
'you shall regret it.'
'hn.'
'even if you do not regret leaving the girl to the elementsy ou shall regret not taking this chance to test my abilities.'
He knew that to be true. Even if he had no care for whether the girl lived or not he would not waste such an opportunity.
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He had become partial to her during her time following him.
When Naraku had first kidnaped her he truly had not cared much except for the fact that kidnaping Rin was a slight against himself. The girl had simply done as she pleased, as he had told her to do, and had followed him. He was not obligated to protect her. In the end he rescued her and things had only progressed from there.
He had come to care for her to some degree.
He had been off killing some rouge youkai when the Ongokuki had taken her from camp. He had watched as several monks wearing muddy brown robes, purified the demon and released the children. They had been planning on taking her to a human village to be raised by her own kind but she had not desired to do so.
"Lord Sesshomaru will come for me! I NEVER want to go back to a village to live with humans!" she had said. He had been surprised when she had chosen to stay with him. He had felt .... proud .... when she stood for herself.
Normally those monks would have met his poison for attempting to purify him, as futile an attempt as it was, but... he hadn't wanted to scare rin. "Follow me if you so please" he had told her. And she followed.
Some time later she had spoken to him. "Um... i was wondering Lord sesshomaru"
"What is it?"
"If, i die one day, I was wondering... would you, would you always remember me?
He had honestly been surprised by her question. "Don't say such silly things" and he truly found it silly. Though she was human he would do all in his power to help her survive when she could not take care of herself.
That plan had eventually failed...
He had gone to the underworld to strengthen his Meidou Zangetsuha when it happened. Rin and Kohaku had followed him. Kohaku had been fine, the jewel shard embedded in his neck had ensured the preservation of his life. Rin however...
Over the many moons since she had chosen to follow him he had never heard he silent. When she was not talking he could hear her humming or fidgeting. Even in sleep she was never silent. Her heartbeat and the rise and fall of her chest were constant reminders that she was indeed alive and well...
He had journeyed through the underworld to find the power he sought. He had done as expected and received his power. It just wasn't the power he expected.
He had felt..... he had felt...... nothing.
Not that he hadn't felt anything, because that was not so......
....... He could feel the absence of Rin...
He had been relieved when his mother had resurrected Rin for him when Tenseiga would not.
He vowed he would never fail her again.
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He stopped his musings when a most unpleasant scent reached his sensitive nose. What made it unpleasant was not that it smelled of unpleasant things but what the scent signified was unpleasant. It meant Naraku had lowered his barrier.
Golden eyes narrowed as Sesshomaru took of running at a moderate pace slow enough that he would expend hardly any energy, but fast enough that he would arrive at Naraku's location within a very short space of time.
He flared his aura slightly as he stepped through the trees gracefully and faced the edge of the cliff several paces away where Naraku's scent was most pronounced.
"I'm here because of Inuyasha. He--" She immediately stopped talking and forced herself not to react to the sudden increase of shouki she could feel not to far from their current location. She saw that Kikyou had noticed it as well.
"What is it? What are you looking at?" Kikyou turned her head to face her reincarnation once again.
"It matters not. It is of no consequence. Now, Answer my questions girl. Who are you and How do you know my Inuyasha?" Kagome said nothing. That energy had felt very familiar... She sighed. 'oh well'
Either he had been overestimating his opponents intelligence or Naraku had some sneaky little trick up his sleeve, there was no tactical advantage to choosing such a battlefield. The trees covered most of the land at the top of the cliff leaving a space into which only 5 or 6 huts would fit. Then at the base of the cliff a dense forest, leaving just barely enough maneuvering room.
'What is the kumo planning with this stunt i wonder...'
Blacklight: wow.............wow......... THAT"S A LONG CHAPTER! (well it's not really but it is compared to the other chapters in my story. I had originally planned on making all of the chapters about this long but that kinda failed.) SO sorry about the delay. I kinda, maybe, sorta, almost, possibly forgot that i was writing fanfiction..... -_-""
Kouga: Kinda? sorta? maybe? you didn't even THINK about this fanfic for nearly as long as Kagome's been missing!
Blacklight: (ignoring Kouga) I decided that because i made you wait for so long i'd throw in a nice long Sesshy section even if he's thinking about Rin. I put this in though because even though it's mostly about rin i feel that it's important to the story. wanna know why? if you do i'll tell you in a reply cause i'm not gonna spoil it here for those who don't. ^_^
SO SO SORRY! (i'm already working on the next chapter)
FOT HOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW: Inuyasha: The Final Act is the continuation if Inuyasha following the manga story line after the 167th ending episode. It can be watched at and is currently still airing. There are 22 current episodes as of Monday March 1st. There are only 4/5/6ish more episodes left to air. And a new episode is released every monday night.
Superscripts: (for the benefits of those who only watched the English Dubbed version of the Anime (which ended at episode 167), or those who have never read the manga.
The Meido Zangetsuha was discovered in the anime by Sesshomaru in episode: ___ (aka. "Inuyasha: The Final Act" episode: ____) Conduit: Tenseiga. It is an attack that creates a direct portal to the underworld and consumes that which was cut by tenseiga in the attack. Originally Sesshomaru's Meidou Zangetsuha was the shape of a crescent (with the opening pointing downwards). Over time and through trial it became a full sphere as it was meant to be. The explination of the Meidou Zangetsuha's origins is in episode: ____ (aka. "Inuyasha: The Final Act" episode: ___)
