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The End?
(Hikari: -gasp!- "Really?! ALREADY?!"
Reiki: "Yep! We're wrapping things up for now!"
Hikari: "NO!! How the fuck do you expect to sum everything up in one last chapter!"
Reiki: "Well, see, that's the beauty of it..."
Hikari: "???"
Reiki: "I don't expect to..."
Hikari: "... Ooo-ho-ho-ho, you're a BITCH! NO CLIFFIES!!!"
Reiki: "Haha, we'll see.")
"Reiki, why did the sky just turn black?" Rin asked, not noticing the half-breed's tense posture and slight sheen of sweat.
"Um... That's just Sesshomaru showing your mommy how much he loves her!" she attempted to lie.
"I don't think so... It felt kinda evil."
Reiki sweat dropped and was about to reply when a very bloody, very naked Hikari stepped out of the forest, talking quite heatedly with her two children.
"Ah! Reiki! THERE you are! And you bring with you my first daughter! Come Rin! Mommy has a lesson for you!"
"How to turn into a nudist in just three days?" Reiki asked.
"No!" Hikari yipped.
"What happened to your Sesshy?" Reiki questioned, a hint of suspicion in her tone.
"Oh! That's just the lesson to be learned!" Hikari cheered gleefully.
"... How about you teach something like that to DEMONS, Hikari... I'm pretty sure altering the perspectives of this era's women could have long term effects..."
"Oh, come on, how bad can it be?"
"It would change the entire culture!"
"Good!" Hikari announced, propping her hands on her fists and regarding the children hanging from her claws against her thighs as much as she would rags. "Maybe then those guys won't go and start that war!"
"World War Two?" Reiki questioned.
"Yeah, that one!"
"That wouldn't help!" Reiki retorted.
Hikari paused and looked at her a moment. "... Why?"
"Well, if you were suggesting that women be stronger now so that they're stronger in the future and have an influence in a decision like that, it's won't work."
"I got that!" Hikari snapped. "I'm asking why it's won't WORK, you stupid lizard!"
"Stop calling me that! And the women YOU'D give rise to would be heartless bitches anyway!" Reiki closed. "So, it WON'T work!"
"Oh, sure, some friend," she scoffed "way to dash my hopes and aspirations in one fatal shot..."
Reiki was about to respond when Hikari pointedly turned her back, giving her the message that the conversation was over and an eyeful as to what had transpired not too far away.
"First things first," Hikari started, grabbing the attention of her two children and Rin. "Always remember that no matter what men say, women are always better in most ways. Especially war. All kinds of it."
"Mommy, if women are so much better then how come men are so much stronger?" Rin questioned.
"So they can serve their purpose as our slaves," Hikari responded with a dark look tinting her eyes. "And only the most suitable of males will be used for breeding!"
"Breeding? What's that mean?"
Hikari snapped out of her daydream and said, "Nothing you need to worry about for another few years..."
"Okay!" Rin said with total acceptance.
Hikari was about to continue when the approach of an all-too-familiar aura started coming there way. Growling low in her throat, she positioned the children so they wouldn't be in his direct view.
"Uh-oh," Reiki muttered. "I don't think this will end well..."
"You can use magic! All I have are my bare hands and a horn!!" Hikari screeched back.
"Are you KIDDING?!" Reiki panicked. "I'm a novice! I can't fight him off for you!"
"Every little bit will help!" Hikari snarled. Kari and Shitau began to snarl at the oncoming aura too.
"I thought you said it would be FUN to see their reactions to this morning!" Reiki whimpered, focusing for an attack.
"Oh, SHIT, I forgot about that!" Hikari gasped. "SHIT! He's going to be EXTRA pissed off!"
"We're going to die!" Reiki sobbed.
"What??" Rin asked shakily.
"Don't you listen to her Rin dear," Hikari giggled. "Remember what I said!"
"Women are better in battle!" she cheered.
"Exactly! Now, take the kids and run away."
"Will do!" Reiki replied, turning tail.
"YOU are STAYING!" Hikari ordered in a growling whisper, waving loving to the trotting off Rin as her nails dug securely into Reiki's tail to keep her there.
"Now," Kurai sighed, "ASIDE from this morning, what will I murder you for?"
A brilliant smile bloomed onto Hikari's face at his ignorance, but it disappeared when rapid scuffling came from behind her, and she suddenly found her legs spread at the ankles and, for lack of balance, she landed on Reiki, who half stood onto her knees and started pleading with "It wasn't her fault! I swear, we're innocent! We didn't even know you existed before she met him and kept him and mated him and-!"
"SHUT UP!!" Hikari roared, clobbering the hell out of Reiki. She then flickered her purple eyes curiously over to Kurai, who was smiling.
"You two are a piece of work," he commented. "Do you think I wouldn't notice that she's given birth after fucking her while she was pregnant for all those weeks?"
Reiki's tears evaporated, and Hikari's jaw dropped... He was right. What the HELL were they thinking.
"I don't trust you," Hikari grumbled. "You're being too nice for starters, and for finishers, you haven't tackled me for a fuck yet. ... And here I am being delivered on a messengers back to you naked!!"
"Well," he sighed, claws suddenly elongating. "I have a few mutts from hell to kill on my mind is all... Any animal mixing with unicorns really is just unforgivable."
Kurai, as though doing this was the natural and forgivable thing, began to calmly walk past Hikari and Reiki, but he was suddenly stopped by his partner's arm.
"Move it or lose it," he snarled.
"But it's just getting good!" Reiki complained as Nai dragged her off.
"No time, we have two babies to find and protect!" he hissed.
"Lose it, eh?" Hikari muttered with a cracked voice. Kurai spared her a look, and saw from behind her strands of silver hair an almost insane glare. "Oh, I've lost it alright!"
The wind shifted, blowing her hair over her face once more, and he smelled something... Odd. Her hair settled, and she grabbed the front of his shirt, and he could honestly say he knew fear when she brought her vicious full-demon face a mere two inches before his own. The whites of her eyes had turned black, and the irises and pupil white, and marring her cheeks were streaks of brilliant light.
"Welcome to hell!" she laughed.
"Note to self," Kurai thought, receiving, as his first treatment in hell, a swift kick to the groin which grounded him. "Do not anger mothers or threaten the lives of their children. SEDATE mothers first."
Hikari, instead of cutting him some slack like she did with Sesshomaru with the whole sit-on-chest-and-beat-in-face routine, picked Kurai up by the collar of his clothing.
"Guess what?" she demanded of him.
Taking it that he couldn't do much more than cup and count reassuringly the presence of both balls, she continued to say "I'm taking the very good guess that I have just turned full demon. And, to enjoy that fact, you are going to have to count more than just your balls. You're going to count cuts, bruises, teeth and BONES when I'm done beating in your worthless ass!"
"But..." he managed.
"What was that?" she asked teasingly.
"But they're tainted! They're worse than humans!"
"You know, I knew you were a dumb fuck to have fun dumbly fucking..." Hikari actually sighed with disappointment. "But are you really absentminded enough to forget that, for most of my life, I WAS A HUMAN!!!"
Kurai went flying, the sound crack of molars colliding taking the place of his very jaw snapping.
"You better get use to being part human!" Hikari laughed, darting under his sailing form to kick him square in the back and send him flying in another direction. "I mean, we're not THAT bad!" Again she appeared right next to him, and with one fist she slammed his sternum with enough force to crater him.
She caught his hand just in time, and he pushed her back, keeping up. Instead of being scared though, she just got more mad. "Shit," she thought, "he DID do it..."
"Did you really think," he began, brining his other hand in towards her neck, which she blocked, "that you stood a chance winning against my demon self?"
"Yes," she smirked. "I still do."
His face blanked for a moment, studying her.
"SIT YOU BASTARD!!!!"
"ACK!!"
She was highly satisfied to feel his demonic self whisked away.
"Now, you are not allowed to command me, Kurai!" she commanded, filled with victory and demonic aura. "And, you are going to regret ever threatening my children!"
He grumbled something from his position.
"What?" she asked. He did the same, and she bent a little to catch it. Before she knew it she was swept off her feet by a grass-skimming kick in the ankles. "You bastard!" she shouted, thoroughly pissed. "I'm going to-!"
Probably the last thing she ever expected happened then. He caught her shoulders, and before she could react he landed a lavishing kiss upon her lips. Her demonic aura melted right out of her, and for some reason the world spun, and...
Kurai sighed, holding a smiling and temporarily unconscious Hikari in his claws. "If only she weren't so cute and tasty..." An idea struck him, and standing (with some difficulty) he picked her up, and turned, and walked-
Into Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru stood there, glowering in his mild manner. "Hanyou," he said, "just what are your intentions towards this woman?"
Kurai gave him a flat stare. "Well, I intend to drop her in a river to wake her up, and then fuck her to raise the unicorn population, if you so needed to kn-"
He didn't finish his sentence though, as he kind of had to duck from an early death.
"Hey! What the-" but nothing else could be said as he was too busy dodging poison claws and whips.
"You would dare take something that belongs to this Sesshomaru?" said demon questioned as he managed to drag his claws across the half-breed's chest.
In his pain, Kurai dropped Hikari but couldn't correct his mistake as Sesshomaru began again to come at him relentlessly.
Hikari groaned as she hit the ground and yelped when something cold, hard and heavy struck her side. As she became more aware, she could feel the clash of two auras and was semi surprised to recognize the both of them. "Men are so fucking stupid..." she thought to herself while struggling to sit up. As a small breeze struck her skin she was harshly reminded that she was still nude. Her anger building, partly due to embarrassment, she screamed with the full force of her lungs, "BOTH OF YOU SIT!!!!!"
Two ear-pleasing thuds smacked the ground on either side of her. "And STAY!" she added, knowing all too well the obstinate ways of men. "You two are so fucking immature that I've absolutely HAD IT!!!! As of now I'm a lesbian!!!!!" Getting shakily to her feet she began to storm off on a windy path when she stopped and came back in the same manner. "And this lesbian desires to be clothed," she stated while ripping off Kurai's shirt and quickly covering herself with it. Before she could fully disappear she called, "And stay the hell away from me and my babies!!!!!"
She stalked off, leaving the once great demons to contemplate their statures as they chewed on the dirt. They were both shirtless, collared, and face down. But, that wasn't about to stop them from gaining SOME sort of an edge on the matter. There was a FEMALE involved!
"So..." Kurai began. "You think she's yours, do you?"
Sesshomaru snarled viciously and replied, "For you to assume any differently is treading on dangerous ground..."
"Nice metaphor there, mutt. I could barely catch it as you ATE that ground." Kurai enjoyed the snarl growing, and continued with "and of course I would claim her as mine. I am the one after all to have dealt with her and protect her while she was pregnant with some bastard's pups. Then again, that protection didn't come for free. We've done everything BUT mark each other, which I will amend once those pups are killed. Best she bear full demon unicorns anyway. Something natural."
Sesshomaru's growls faltered at the implications of his woman doing something of THAT nature with another male while PREGNANT, but then it grew twice fold with the comment on his pups. "You presume much, half-breed, to think that this Sesshomaru would stand idly by while a threat was made to his own flesh and blood..." When it was all said and done, Sesshomaru slowly began to regain his feet.
Kurai laughed, sensing his movement and doing the same. "No wonder she fancies you for a frequent bought in the bushes," he chuckled, straining more than the full demon to raise to his unsteady feet, "you're as stubborn and frigged as you look! She must come fleeing to me as often as she does for some FUN. What do YOU have to offer her that I don't anyway? I see no markings of power on you, only of birth rights. Are you not even great enough to claim those rights, let alone her while she walks off unguarded with your heirs?"
Sesshomaru's movements were suddenly free and unrestrained but he didn't wait to wonder how that was possible. Using all of his power, he sped toward his adversary and struck him in the stomach with his poison claws. "And what makes you think that she would desire the power of a HALF-demon as apposed to that a purebred?" He leaped back from Kurai's advances but not without a small wound to his person. "As for the heirs of this Sesshomaru, it seems that their mother is powerful enough to take care of them without any added assistance."
"I'm sure," Kurai bit out, aiming for the cocky bastard yet again, but again only attaining a grazing with his claws. "Yes, I'm sure that you're FULL OF SHIT!" He managed to dodge an attack save for a scrape, and got a good rib shot, but Sesshomaru kicked out of the serious follow through of the attack. "I know your type. You're a fucking DOG, and your nature would never enforce that you protect her! THAT, along with understanding and much more, is what I offer her which you never could." Sesshomaru faltered ever so slightly, and Kurai landed a sound punch against his cheek bone. Sesshomaru gained his footing quickly though, and bringing up his leg used the force of the attack and his own to swing his shin across Kurai's temple, sending them both off balance.
"If that were so, wretch," Sesshomaru began while snapping his whip, "then why is the scent of several females on your person?" His whip lashed out again, wrapping around Kurai's arm. Pulling the whip toward himself, Kurai lost his balance and Sesshomaru sped past to leave four claw marks across his chest.
They probably would have continued to slaughter one another alive, until a very shocking sensation struck.
"She's gone?" they both asked aloud to anyone who might have an answer, and they went speeding off towards where they last sensed her.
A bleeding and battle-ready Sesshomaru was greeted with the sight of Jaken juggling two demon babies, which were clothed in odd garb, as Rin poked at Reiki's abandoned backpack.
"Jaken!" Sesshomaru yelled, reaching down to pick up his children. A shock shot up his arm though, and he retracted his hand. Growling, he continued with "where is she!"
"Ah, my Lord Sesshomaru!" the toad wailed, having the babies removed and placed into more appropriate hands.
"They left," Nai stated, holding the infants. "Hikari came back and saw Reiki with this pile of baby-sized fabrics and trying them on the children. She then realized that some sort of 'hammer space' was in the backpack, cheered, and revoking her being a 'les-be-an' dragged Reiki into the backpack for a... a vacation? Is that what she called it?"
"You're trying to tell me," Kurai began in a sinister tone. "That she and Reiki disappeared through that tiny satchel?!"
"Yeah!" Nai laughed. "Pretty bizarre, isn't it?! The best part is that they locked it somehow from the inside!"
The unicorn hanyou turned to the demon. "This is all your fault!"
"This Sesshomaru disagrees!" he bit back as they continued their brawl. Nai, Rin and Jaken followed on Ah-Un, the dragon beast holding the napping pups by their scruffs in his mouths whilst dragging with them the year's supply of infant clothes and counted the days until the fighting would stop.
(Floating around... somewhere)
"This," Hikari began slowly, "is so FUCKING COOL!!!"
Reiki and Hikari stood in an abyss of nothing.
"Reiki! Think of anything you want!" Hikari suddenly ordered. "I would but I'm too excited to think straight!"
"I want my backpack..." she growled, and eyes widening in surprise she turned and saw it there on her back.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!" Hikari cackled in the most sadistic and empowered way one could ever imagine. "This is TOO good!! Alright! I want an inflatable Sesshomaru sex toy!"
Nothing happened...
As Hikari cursed and bitched and clawed at the nothingness around and under them Reiki simply said "I want a rule book for this Hammer Space."
It appeared before her, and ignoring her friend's livid spews she read the single page there was to it.
"Hammer Space," she stated, "is the essence of nothing containing everything. It is never filled, and never empties. Those who choose to manipulate these powers must keep in mind that nothing cannot be taken out if it does not currently exist."
"WHAT?!?!" Hikari seethed, grabbing the sheet and re-reading it.
"So, e-bay never lied to you it seems," Reiki smiled, her friend turning the page into confetti. "There really never WAS a Sesshomaru blow up doll!"
"FINE!" Hikari yelled. "Then I have something even BETTER! First off though, I want some appropriate clothes, I'm fucking naked still!!!" And so her 'appropriate' attire happened to be a very sexy pirate-like getup. "Come bitch, we are on a MAN HUNT!!!"
"Starting up that harem already?" Reiki asked, following as the scenery never changed. "So where do you suppose we start?"
"Right THERE!" Hikari yelled, pointing ahead. And, just like that, the inner zipper of the backpack appeared, and a zig zagging beam of light beaconed them to the other side.
(At Kaede's village)
"What do you mean they 'disappeared'?" Inu-Yasha asked skeptically, holding the backpack aloft and examining it like it was a prized snake.
"They just did," Nai explained, Sesshomaru and Kurai wreaking havoc through Kaede's village.
"Is everything alright?"
Nai looked to address Sango's father, who just appeared through the door not five feet away. He had decided to come with her and her brother to Kaede's village so that Sango could birth her first child with friends nearby.
"Um," Nai began, looking back to see small fires here and there as Kurai and Sesshomaru continued their battle, "as fine as can be expected, I'm sure."
"So wait, they vanished through here?!" Kagome asked, finally having waddled over, hugging her belly.
"... Yeah?"
She gave Inu-Yasha a glorious look. "Inu-Yasha, care to bury that thing?"
And so it was done. The backpack containing the hanyous who started this miserable era of feudal Japan was buried on the slope of the sacred Mount Fuji, and having a binding spell cast over it to negate their scent and forever hide the item the Inu-Yasha party was allowed a sigh of relief. Turning, they saw various fires for miles on end as the two testosterone driven males continued their battling across Japan.
They all looked at one another.
"Could be worse," Kagome suggested. "Now, let's all go home."
(End of final chapter!)
Hikari: -passes out from the shock of this finally happening-
Reiki: "Almost my sentiments exactly... However! We ARE continuing this series! We are going to 'pop up' in a different place now. One you may all be familiar with. Look for Volume II in my story lists if you want to follow us through our favorite movies, video games, anime, manga and more. If you don't think you'll like the other worlds, then look for our return to the Inu-Yasha realm in the future! Thanks for reading!"
Hikari: "I miss my sexy-Sesshy-kun already!"
Reiki: "Oh sheesh... Get over it."