Chapter 3: Moniguo on the other world
Life is not so simple that you can just swing your sword and a destructive wave solves all your problems. If that was true, Inuyasha would be the happiest man alive, with no troubles and no worries beyond that of the imminent battle and the need to swing his sword. But life isn't simple.
If Inuyasha swung his sword, you can be sure a destructive wave would come. But it could be Kagome he was striking, and his problems would only increase. His destructive wave can't fix emotions, can't solve mathematical problems, and can't find the solution to a puzzle fast beginning.
It can't even tell Inuyasha who killed Kagome in this future world. Without Litera, he wouldn't even have known it was even happening. His destructive wave was only good for the thing it was made for. Protecting humans.
Before Inuyasha had his Tetsusaiga, Sesshomaru easily outdid Inuyasha in battle. But the blade, with Kagome in danger, Inuyasha knew almost no equal. In an emergency, Tetsusaiga thrived. In a battle of wits, Tetsusaiga suffered. In a battle of wits, Inuyasha relied on his anger, and in cases against evil, that righteous anger would be what gave him all the power to prevail.
But it was cunning with which Naraku had so harrangued Inuyasha and Kagome. It was cunning that outdid them every time. Naraku, however, had made one fatal flaw that would someday be his undoing.
He had let Inuyasha know his name.
Moniguo would not let that mistake be his. He would protect his identity well, he would not give Inuyasha the power he needed to let his instincts prevail. Moniguo was intelligent, cunning, but lacked one thing most enemies needed.
Most enemies.
Moniguo was weak against Inuyasha, he was no demon, he wasn't even a Blader. He was a mortal human, with a mortal body and no interesting powers. Except that of his mind.
He was a powerful fighter of the mind, with exceptional deduction abilities. Against Inuyasha he was confident he could win. He knew that he could even beat Inuyasha if he brought an army.
Moniguo even knew of Litera, and had an ally of equal power to be able to counter her.
While he didn't like a variable he couldn't fully understand, Judor had explained to him that if he countered her, it would be like she wasn't even there. Moniguo had always said that "It sounds like a battle of magicians while the swordsmen take the hurt."
Judor always laughed at that. All Moniguo knew of Litera was that she was grabbing allies from a similar world and that she had Mikarin, Kagome's daughter. Was she going to train him to kill? Was she using him to spark an interest in Inuyasha? Or was she bringing in a civilization of aliens who would fight for any child?
Moniguo stopped himself right there, he knew better then to allow paranoia to get the better of him.
Inuyasha was, however, allowing paranoia to control him to a peak. "Are you telling me-" he looked at Kagome while he said this, "that I am going to meet myself after grieving over a Kagome that is dead? And that Inuyasha has all the memories of how we beat Naraku, so I could come back here and beat him that much faster?"
Litera saw the question for what it was. He was asking if going to a world in a later time would alter history permanently, and also if he was allowed to. She sighed, "Inuyasha, your presense there will change everything, but remember that your future has not yet been planned and neither has theirs. You will see another Inuyasha, but he will not be able to fight, he is too weak, this is our battle, against a foe that was able to kill Kagome where Naraku could not. This enemy will be harder then Naraku."
Kagome balked at that, but Inuyasha lived for a higher challenge. He had once beaten the demon that had landed the blow that eventually killed his father. He had beaten a demon that had the power of over a million demons. He had the power to turn any demon's power back at them, increasing its power back at them in a powerful backlash wave. His defense is probably his least realized power. He could not only take a hole in the chest, his cloth of the fire rat is one of the strongest armors in existence. Inuyasha was a warrior not afraid of anything.
That was precisely the problem from Kagome's point of view. She turned to Litera and asked, "If he is that powerful, and we don't even know what he can do, how are we supposed to beat him? How?"
Litera looked her down, "Because we have to. Because his greatest power can't beat ours. And because we have the power, we just have to have the smarts."
Kagome looked a little unsure, "Smarts? You are saying he is intelligent?"
Litera smiled, "I don't even know his name."
Inuyasha frowned, "But then, how are we to find him?"
Again Litera smiled, and with that she looked at Mikarin closely, "Because he knows what our enemy looks like. Mikarin is the key to the whole puzzle. And luckily enough they don't even know he knows. So they hide stuff from us, but they don't know we have a solution for now."
She drew her sword then, her black sword she called "Seltel" and sliced in a cross that opened up lines of power. Kagome and Inuyasha stood silent at this, and Litera finally opened up the gateway and said, "It is safe to go through."
Inuyasha bounded in, and Kagome followed closely. Litera was the last in, closing the X in behind her, leaving Inuyasha's world with a Naraku that had no enemies to fight for a time. Litera would regret that later, but Naraku had no idea what Inuyasha had going, but he revealed himself and strove to find Sesshomaru, and take them down one brother at a time.
Judor screamed, "She is back!"
Moniguo held his breath. "What did she bring?"
Judor scanned with his seeing eyes, "I can't tell but it is two figures, plus her and the child. My guess is that she grabbed Inuyasha and Kagome from a world that came before we entered it."
Understanding dawned on Moniguo, "Of course, she is trying to even the playing field so that even if you hold her off then they have an even fight with me."
Judor grinned, "Sounds like her all right."
"Are you going to grab that cloth of the fire rat for me?"
Judor thought it over, "How many troops do you have for me?"
Moniguo threw a ring of keys at him, "They are in the basement, take as many soldiers as you need. Just make sure to have the Breather breath life into them before you go."
Judor smiled, "Of course." He went down to the basement, whistling all the way. Inuyasha and Kagome were in for a little surprise.
When they entered into the new world, Litera sensed it immediately. "They know I am here."
With that, Inuyasha drew his blade, fitted up his sheath in his other hand. Kagome was about to speak up when Litera whispered at her, "He knows the enemy is powerful, so the sheath is designed as a defense against any unknown attacks."
She gave a little, "oh."
Judor showed himself at the top of a nearby hill. He screamed out, "Why hello Litera!"
Litera drew her Seltel then, "I am ready Judor, you will get your rematch."
Judor laughed a great belly laugh, "Why, you do not want to fight me directly!"
She drew a little frown at that, "And why not?"
Judor screamed out again, "First you must face the 200,000 demons I have brought with me!"
Inuyasha whispered, "Damn, my Tetsusaiga can't take that many very fast. I will be sore pressed."
Kagome ran up to him and whispered, "You have me beside you." Inuyasha glanced over to her and said, "Why so strong now?" Kagome looked him in the eye and said, "Because I always worried about you, and now I know that we will be together, we even have a son in this world. Imagine what that means we will become. We will be strong and we will be stronger then this, my arrogant little hero."
Litera smiled and Inuyasha roared, "You got a problem with that?"
Litera whispered, "Nope. You just remind me of my dad."
And with that, she drove an orange flame at Judor, who disappeared long before it got close.