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Awakened Dead
Chapter 11. November 25th
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"Hi Kagome-chaaan!" Squealed a joyous voice.
The teenage girl hadn't been expecting it, but she had been mulled as soon as she walked into the antique shop that Miroku works at. The sign had clearly said it was closed up for the night but Bankotsu had dismissed it and walked in. Apparently he was one of the owners of the shop along with Jakotsu.
"Get offa her!" Inuyasha howled in protest, ready to pry the piping boy off her himself.
"Uh ah, hi Jakotsu-san!" Kagome giggled nervously. 'I've only met him once and he's already using familiar terms with me? Weird.'
Jakotsu had bobbed his head up and looked back and forth, "Ooooh, where did that yummy voice come from? Hu? Ne ne, Kagome-chan, is he handsome? What's his name?" He giggled, clapping his hands together in excitement while Bankotsu merely sighed loudly on the sidelines.
"My name is Inuyasha, now get away from Kagome!" He snarled, shooting his evilest glares on the buoyant boy.
Kagome tilted her head to the side slightly, "Jakotsu-san, can you see ghosts?"
"No, my brother can't see them, only hear them," Bankotsu answered, standing next to his brother. "Though he's pretty useful when it comes to all the Latin banishment incantations and circles."
'I knew this place smelled a little too potent for just one hunter.' Inuyasha thought to himself with a distrustful frown. 'And if this guy is right, then that means his flamboyant brother can exorcise me in a blink of an eye.'
"Oh Ban-Ban, you make me blush!" Jakotsu smiled brightly, "Now Gome-chan, do you mind if I call you that? How does this Inuyasha fellow look like? Come on! Give me the juicy details! And when I mean details, I mean allll of them." He winked.
She flushed red instantly, 'Oh my freaking godly god. Is he referring to… t-to…!' She mentally squealed in mortification. "A-ah-a-uhmmm."
"Jak, he's Prince Inuyasha of the Western Lands. You've seen paintings, remember?" Bankotsu filled in.
"…" Jakotsu was quiet for a moment, then suddenly his eyes had brightened and hearts had formed all around him, "The Inuyasha? Oh it's our lucky day! Oh joyous day! You have such adorable ears! I just want to pet them all day long! Gome-chan you're so lucky you can see him and touch him!" He bounced up and down like a dramatic schoolgirl.
The hanyou had scrunched up his face and hid behind Kagome timidly, "Wench, keep this creep away from me." He grunted, jumping slightly when Jakotsu had turned and practically looked straight at him.
"I have expert hearing you know! You can't hide from me Inu-chan!" He sighed lovingly, hearts forming in his eyes as well as sparkles.
"Jak, wouldja settle down? We've got stuff to talk about," Bankotsu groaned slightly, tugging his brother away from Kagome and his 'dream guy'.
Kagome ignored Jakotsu's wailing and sweat dropped at his dramatic behaviour. Who knew this shop owner could be so emotional? He was even more expressive than any girl she could think of. 'Well, except Eri when she's got her time of the month, she gets a little out of hand sometimes. She could begin a world war three if she put her mind to it.' She mentally laughed, following the boys to the back of the shop.
Once there, they had opened a door that led down to the basement, something Kagome didn't think this place had. She was never fond of basements, and had even grabbed for Inuyasha's hand to give her some peace of mind as they went down the stairs. When they reached the bottom, a switch was flicked on and they were suddenly in a lovely furnished room complete with a television and a kitchen. Over to the side was a washroom and a few other doors, one of them completely made out of what looked like iron.
"Welcome to our home," Jakotsu sang, marching over to the iron door and tugging it open without even the slightest struggle.
Another hunter gene, Kagome assumed, was apparently a little bit of extra strength on top of extreme tolerance for pain. 'And Sango could potentially be like these guys? Miroku would get slaughtered if her blood was active.' She had felt her hand being squeezed and had turned to look at Inuyasha questioningly. Apparently he was worried about her and didn't want her to go past the iron doors.
"That room is entirely made of iron and salt. I can't go through there."
Bankotsu had rolled his eyes at the whining puppy and raised a brow, "You know, here I thought you knew everything about the supernatural. But I guess there are still some things that hunters naturally know more about than demons."
The dog demon twitched his ears and let out a threatening growl, "There weren't any rooms like this built in my damn time you jackass! So lay off!"
"Ban-Ban!" Jakotsu chided, "Be nice, he is our guest and obviously isn't all bad. Plus he's a priiiiiince!" He sighed dreamily for a moment before coughing, "Anyways! Gome-chan, just keep a firm hold on him. If Ban-Ban is right about your powers, you should be able to focus them into a barrier and drag him into this place without much of an issue." He said nonchalantly before jumping into the room, followed by a glowering Bankotsu.
'Focus my spiritual energy? Ha! I can hardly do that to begin with! But a barrier? Who do they think I am? Some freaking priestess from the Sengoku Jidai?' She turned to Inuyasha and smiled weakly, 'And if I make a mistake, I could accidentally purify him.' "Well, d-do you want me to uh… try?" She asked, clearly having no faith in her own abilities.
He could sense her discomfort from a mile away but absolutely refused to let her enter a place where he wouldn't be able to protect her from hunters. It was enough he had to run outside the damn car that was ghost proof, but this? No way in hell, even if he had to risk getting his fine piece of ass slightly charred, he'd do for her. "Just focus Kagome, and listen to my voice okay? Close your eyes and try to feel for your powers." He began to speak, grabbing both of her hands firmly while whispering the commands.
"Once you have a good grip on them, try to push them down through your arms to your hands, but not too hard or—" He yelped, sparks having been emitted in protest against his demonic hands and successfully burning them. He had leapt away from the girl almost instantly to blow on his smoking hands, waving them around as well to help cool them, "I told you not to push too hard woman! What the hell?" He bellowed.
Kagome had snapped open her eyes as soon as she felt him leave her and had narrowed them when he yelled, "Oh would you stop being such a baby? That was hardly anything! So get your stupid hanyou butt back here so I can try again!"
"What so you can burn that too?"
"You block head! Don't make me say it!"
"Argh! Fine, damn wench," He muttered the last part and grudgingly had given his hands over to her and watched her close her eyes to concentrate again, "Once you start pushing your powers through your hands try to surround me with them to create a bond. But you have to keep a steady amount this entire time until I'm completely covered, then you can slowly increase the strength to finally create a barrier around the two of us." He had flattened his ears and closed his eyes, knowing that the pain was going to come again very soon, except this time it didn't. Instead he felt a cool rush of embracing power course through him. Even his demon blood that had been gradually surfacing had settled down to a simmer. When he opened his eyes, he could see his body glowing faintly brighter with a pinkish aura.
"Am I doing this right?" Kagome whispered, trying her best to keep back most of her powers. She had never known until she found her inner source how powerful her abilities were. She knew that Inuyasha kept telling her how strong she was, but she honestly never believed him. And right now, she found it quite difficult only to use the smallest portion possible to create a connection with Inuyasha. 'It's so hard to just focus like this, it's too much.'
"Yeah, you have me completely covered Kagome. Now increase the bond at a steady pace," He answered, inwardly whimpering as he watched her struggle with her abilities. Her face was twisted in concentration, sweat forming on her forehead as proof of her effort. Suddenly, he felt a bran new feeling wash over him, and he heard Kagome gasp as her eyes shot open. He could feel every portion of his body react with an alarming jolt as Kagome accidentally let her spiritual powers slip. As a result, a tremendously thick and crackling barrier had formed around the two of them, something the hanyou had never seen before. 'Even Kikyo's barriers weren't a thing like this!' He thought.
"In-Inuyasha, are you okay? I let go by accident and—"
"Calm now woman, clearly I'm still standing. Though if we don't hurry and get into that damn iron chamber soon I think you may purify my demon side." He spoke a little jokingly, but he could see that Kagome had clearly taken it seriously and had pulled him along with her so that they could get into the room. He even noticed Bankotsu staring at him and Kagome very surprisingly as well as the weird Jakotsu guy.
"Oh my, that's very impressive Gome-chan!" Jakotsu fluttered his eyes at Inuyasha and sent him a wink, "Your barrier is so strong that it has completely blocked out the supernatural frequency that make spirits so difficult to be seen. Now even I can see him," He grinned, liking his lips.
"Aw god damn-!" Inuyasha let go of the girls hands instantly, "Get rid of it! Take the damn barrier away! Now! Do it!"
The girl had stared down at her hands and up at him, and thought that the connection should have been gone, but oddly enough she could still feel her powers enveloping the hanyou. "Uhm, h-how?"
Inuyasha screeched, something that he never thought he would ever do, and had hid behind Kagome as Jakotsu approached the crackling barrier, "Settle down your powers and let them dissipate. Oh god woman! Hurry up!"
Jakotsu had poked at the barrier, smiling evilly when it didn't reject him, "Here I come cutie!"
Honestly, this was a site to see. The miko had never thought she'd ever find a good weakness against Inuyasha and yet here it was. The key to everything. Besides the sit command now she had Jakotsu who could help her gain a little more leverage whenever she argued with the hanyou. 'Oh I am so evil,' Kagome mentally cackled, but then decided for now she should at least be nice and let the hanyou off the hook. So with a deep breath she had found her source of power within her and just settle them down.
Once the barrier was down, Inuyasha had disappeared from Jakotsu's eyes, which brought some dramatic tears, "Awe, how could you be so mean to me!"
"Jak!" Bankotsu had shouted, bringing his brother back to the real world, "Cut the antics."
"Right right, sorry," Jakotsu waved off, walking towards a bookshelf.
Kagome had finally been able to take in the room and make note of everything inside. There was a bookshelf, a desk and lamp, a bed and some chairs. Nothing special really, and of course the floor was completely cemented and had a drawn symbol of sorts on it. Looking up she also made note of the fan and ventilation system that had a grate over it and a metal pentagram as well on top of it. 'Wait the symbols in this room,' She looked around and down at the floor again, she was standing in the centre of the main symbol painted on the floor, 'This looks like a devil's trap.' She thought.
"That's a devil's trap," Bankotsu had confirmed for her. "It's purpose it to trap demons. There's no way for them to escape unless the circle is broken. In other words…"
"Out of all the places to let the stupid barrier drop, you had to do it here?" Inuyasha accused.
Kagome's eye twitched and she turned to the complaining half demon, "Excuse me? Who told me to drop it? Oh yeah, that'd be you. Gods you can be so unbearable sometimes! Just live with it! At least we made it in here, so stop complaining already!"
Bankotsu had sighed at them both, "Jeez, you guys seem to fight a lot—"
"Stay out of it!" Inuyasha and Kagome yelled in unison.
'Damn, now I know how that monk feels,' Bankotsu thought. "Well, since Inuyasha clearly doesn't trust us with you Kagome, you can stay with him and we'll bring the books over." He told the arguing couple, motioning for Jakotsu to bring over said books. Eventually the two had stopped arguing and Bankotsu had spread out the books in front of them on the floor and sat down cross-legged.
"The reason we brought you here was to tell you that we need to leave town for a while. Jak and I caught wind of some nasty spirits in the next town over and there have been some demon sightings," Bankotsu began.
"Demons? Like Inuyasha?" Kagome asked curiously.
"No honey, believe us when we say there aren't very many demons left in this world that are like Inuyasha. Not that we know of. Only Sesshy-chan has all the documents of the remaining demons. The others are ones that have clawed their way somehow out of hell and are beyond monstrous. They tend to cause havoc and kill innocent people in a blink of an eye. They also like to possess humans, which is why you need to know how to sight one." Jakotsu explained, the boy actually being serious for once.
"Well that's great, this sounds a lot like what happened five centuries ago to the village. Demons right left and centre were possessing humans and destroying homes," Inuyasha frowned, clenching his fists.
"Tonight you're here for a small lesson on demon possession. You should try to memorize the devil's trap so you can draw one at any given moment, also you can exorcise it with a Latin incantation," Bankotsu continued.
However Jakotsu had eyed Kagome, a secretive smile spreading across his lips, "Or, like a necromancer, you can send the demons back to hell with a single thought. Since the ones that claw their way out of hell don't have any physical bodies, they are much like spirits and can thus be either summoned or pushed away."
'He's referring to the book, the one he's given me,' Kagome thought, looking back at Inuyasha briefly.
"A necromancer? What does this have to do with anything?" The hanyou narrowed his golden eyes on Jakotsu, feeling like he was missing something crucial. 'What's with this guy? And why is he looking at Kagome like that? Is there something I don't know?'
"In any case!" Bankotsu coughed, "Take this book," He pushed a thick novel that looked fairly old to Kagome and was leather bound. "It has the Latin exorcism spell in it, as well as drawings for the devils trap and other anti-demon symbols for protection. You might learn a few things about spirits too. And as far as the recent ghosts, I suggest you get rid of them soon, other wise they may start to cause some trouble."
"They're already trouble," Muttered Inuyasha with a growl.
Jakotsu smiled, "I'm sure you can handle them Kagome-chan, but please be careful. They do tend to become very impatient and powerful. Even though you're trying to help them, believe us when we say that the best way to help is to send them on they're way."
"The other thing we wanted to tell you about was Sesshoumaru-sama," Bankotsu added, shooting glares at Inuyasha. "He's got a new branch here of his company that he's visiting for the next week. He's conducting an inspection with his assistant Rin beginning tomorrow. If you want to contact him, then I suggest you do it while he's in town. Unless you want to travel to western Japan to speak with him."
Kagome had brightened, "Great! That sounds perfect for us!" She looked over at Inuyasha again and squeaked, noticing the dark cloud hanging over him, "Uh…"
He was lost in his own thoughts, thinking of various ways of haunting his brother and causing all kinds of trouble for him while he was in town. Maybe even accidentally blow up his company, or maybe crack his skull open with a blunt object—"That bastard is goin down…" He lifted his head up and chuckled evilly, "I'll tear him to pieces, and he won't be able to do a damn thing to sto—"
"Sit!"
"Acck!" His necklace pulled him down in an uncomfortable position.
"You don't treat a brother like that! I'll be damned if I let you hurt your brother even if he did seal you away!" Kagome scolded, ignoring Bankotsu's chuckles of amusement and satisfaction from seeing the hanyou face plant.
Soon everyone had said their goodbyes, and Kagome had constructed another barrier to get Inuyasha out of the iron and salted room. When they got back home, Inuyasha was in a very foul mood and it was a little late in the night. Luckily no one had noticed Kagome gone and she had found her mother sleeping in her room already. So far so good. And now Kagome was in her room and digesting the information that had been given to her. The thought had also crossed her mind of letting Inuyasha into her room in the same manor as before with the barrier. It was quickly banished though when she figured it would be best for him to remain the night at Miroku's watching over the ghosts.
Which was where he was right now anyways, so it was best not to think of him. 'But I can't help it, I really want Inuyasha to keep me company, and to 'sleep' if that's what he does, next to my bed.' She thought, turning out her light after having changed into her pajamas for bed. She set her alarm on and sat on her bed, chewing on her bottom lip. To think that she was actually really enjoying the hanyou's company, and even craving it!
Standing up, Kagome had walked over to her window and opened the curtains, taking a good look at the moon. It was going to be completely full tomorrow night, a notion that worried Kagome. She didn't know what would happen, if Inuyasha would be able to control his blood or if she'd be forced to construct a circle of salt or even a devils trap to keep him from causing anyone any harm. 'Inuyasha, I wish I knew why this was happening to you. I know we've made the connection about your seal, but I just don't get how any of this is still affecting you. I thought I broke your seal from the sword, so doesn't that mean anything? Why aren't you free of all this turmoil?'
'Maybe Sesshoumaru can tell me a little more about the Tessaiga, and the spell he witnessed Kikyo casting on Inuyasha. Inuyasha…' She mentally sighed, deciding to finally turn in for the night. Placing her head on her pillow, she had almost fallen asleep when she remembered placing that book earlier under her pillow to hide it from Inuyasha. Lifting her head with a groan, she had pulled the book out and stuffed it under her mattress before finally going to sleep.
Unknown to her however, she had been watched this entire time by amber eyes. With a small rumble, the youkai had turned away from the window and dispersed.
-X-
She had woken up to rumble slowly forming into a snarl. Oh and her alarm clock being once again hurled across her damn room.
Really.
I mean really?
They had gone through this once before, actually twice isn't it?
Her alarm clock was in pieces on the floor and a new dent in her wall was created. She absolutely did not need to deal with this shit today, because today was suppose to be a good day to team attack Sesshoumaru. But nooo, instead Inuyasha had to magically poof into her room at the crack of stupid, growl at her like a vicious mongrel and break her alarm clock. Again. 'What is his deal?' Kagome mentally shrieked, sitting up in her bed to shoot her darkest glares at the youkai, "What was that for? What is your problem!"
"My problem?" Inuyasha shot back, his stripes having already formed on his cheeks, "What's your problem!"
Rolling her eyes she had crossed her arms, "I don't know what you're talking about, but I do know you are about to get your sorry ass sat all the way to hell for breaking my clock again!"
Inuyasha had backed away from her bed, crouched down and waved one of his clawed hands. Instantly, a book had dug its way out of Kagome's bed and landed in front of Inuyasha who eyed her in a distrusting manner, "You've been hiding this from me."
Kagome looked at it and blinked, 'How did he know about that?'
"To answer your question, you called me last night, so I came. I came in time to find you putting this book away under your bed!" He yelled, forcing the book to flip open, the pages flying by, "This book is where you got my beads of subjugation, isn't it? You've probably used it for other things too, haven't you!"
She gaped at him, "If you think I've been using this book, then you're wrong! Sure I used that one spell for your necklace, but I haven't used anything else! I've just been referring to it and learning from it. I swear Inuyasha, I was going to eventually tell you, but I just didn't know how—"
"The shit in this is bad Kagome! Even Kikyo didn't use it, she sealed it for a goddamn reason!" He roared.
Kagome had gasped in surprise, 'Kikyo? Does this mean that it's actually that old?' "Wait, so if Kikyo put the seal on it… Do you know who wrote it?"
His temper had calmed a little, but he was still livid enough to growl, "Priestess Midoriko had made this book during my father's rule to first make note of Miko's and Necromancers. In the end it turned out to be a gathering of incantations dark and light as well as the trade secrets of both the Miko and Necromancer. We found this book five hundred years ago in the hands of a powerful witch who nearly destroyed half of Japan with some of the spells in here."
She had no idea this thing was that powerful, not even the slightest. Sure, there were some creepy things inside, but nothing that could end the world. "So if that book is so dangerous, why didn't you destroy it?"
"Believe me when I say Kikyo tried. But she wasn't powerful enough to do it, so she sealed it instead and hid it away."
Kagome let this new information sink in for about two seconds before she got up and took the book back, "For now, I'm going to study it. There's some useful stuff in here that isn't so bad. And I might be able to use it for good, not evil." She ignored the protesting half demon and she stuffed it back under her mattress before turning dangerously. "As for my clock…"
He definitely had no right to be as ferocious as he was right now. And especially to her clock, so…
Screams and shouts of pure horror echoed in the house, though only a select few could hear the wailing, such as a sighing Souta all the way down in the kitchen.
-X-
"Wow, this place is huge!" Kagome gasped, looking up at the tall building in the centre of Tokyo and back down to the sheet of paper in her fingers, "It's definitely the place, Taisho Corp." She entered the building with a scowling Inuyasha right behind her, and walked up to the desk. She was on her lunch break and hoped to kami that she'd get back to school on time, other wise she'd be grounded even more. 'Not that that's stopping me from going out,' She thought mischievously.
She greeted the secretary with a warm smile, though despite that he hardly spared her a look and soon went back to taking phone calls. She frowned at him and looked around the desk for a nameplate of sorts but couldn't find any. Huffing she cleared her throat, though the man didn't get it and kept forming appointment after appointment until Kagome had all too kindly taken the phone away and hung it up. "Where can I find Sesshoumaru?"
The secretary gaped at the girl and narrowed his eyes, "Th-that's Sesshoumaru-sama to you, girl! And I won't tell you where he is because he doesn't need to speak with the likes of you."
"Jaken? You have got to be kidding me, this toad is still alive?" Inuyasha said in amazement, though the man couldn't hear him. "He's got a charm on to hide his demonic little green toad form."
Kagome raised a brow at Inuyasha and then returned her gaze at the secretary, "Jaken is it? I'll have you know that I have important things to talk to Sesshoumaru about."
"That's Sesshoumaru-sama and—" The secretary blinked, "H-how did you know my name?"
Kagome grinned, "Because Inuyasha just told me, so now if you don't mind—"
"In-Inuyasha?" Jaken blinked, then burst out laughing, "Ahahahahaha! Wahahahaha! That lowly half breed was sealed five centuries ago! Ahahahaha!" He laughed till tears came out of his eyes.
Deciding that he was getting her nowhere, she had gone ahead and walked towards the elevator. Though she heard Jaken shouting not to go any further, she ignored him and pushed the button to go up, assuming that up was the place to be for an owner. She only turned when she heard Jaken yell something about guards, but it was too late for them because the elevator had arrived, and she was in it in seconds and pushing the last floor button.
Next to her was Inuyasha, and he wasn't impressed with this elevator machine. "What's going on? What is this thing?"
"It's an elevator. It's going to take us up the building to the last floor." Kagome answered, watching the numbers go by. "When we get up top, I'm thinking there's guards. Any way you can take care of them?"
The hanyou snorted, "I can shove them out of the way with some minor telekinetic thing and create some demonic winds."
She shrugged, "That should be good enough." The elevator had finally stopped, and the doors had opened up. Yet to her surprise there were no guards. When they stepped out there was only one set of doors that looked fairly fancy, and Kagome figured them to be the correct ones. So she pushed one open and looked inside. The room was huge and extravagant, old paintings hung on the walls and couches and chairs sitting in front of an enormous desk. She could see at the very end of the room a person sitting at the desk that was busily typing away at a laptop and signing papers.
"Is that him Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered, pointing to the man at the desk.
Inuyasha answered with a grunt, "Get in, and stay near me."
Kagome nodded meekly and walked in, closing the door behind herself and shyly walking across the room until she was up in front of the one she assumed to be Sesshoumaru. He had silver long hair pulled back in a braid, and dark purple eyes and tanned skin. He was real handsome, but she failed to see any resemblance besides the hair colour, "Uhm, excuse me?"
"You don't have an appointment girl, nor do I have any interest in speaking with you."
Never mind, she totally saw the resemblance now.
"Jeez, Inuyasha why didn't you tell me your brother was such a prick?" Kagome turned to the growling hanyou angrily, "A little warning would have been nice!"
"He sealed me away, what more information do you need?"
"I don't know, anything really. And why doesn't he look like you? He looks pretty human to me, shouldn't he have dog ears too or something?" Kagome asked, placing her hands on her hips.
"He's got a charm on genius, like Jaken."
"Oh, I see. I should really learn how to spot these charms. And don't you mock me buddy!"
Sesshoumaru looked up from a paper he was holding and stared at the girl for a moment, debating throwing her out. Either this girl was crazy or she was actually speaking with Inuyasha. He did always tend to bring out the worst in people, but in any case… "Girl, I have no interest in listening to you argue with thin air. Leave."
Kagome turned briskly to him, "I have the Tessaiga. That good enough information to earn five minutes of your oh so precious time?"
The demon hadn't shown it, but he was fairly surprised by this girl's temper and her knowledge over the sword he had been searching for over the years. "The Tessaiga you say?" He narrowed his eyes on her, "Tell me, are you a descendant of the priestess Kikyo? The resemblance is astounding."
'I look like K-Kikyo?' She crossed her arms, "I don't know, all I know is that I have Inuyasha's sword, and I also might have broken the seal." She pointed to Inuyasha, "He's standing right here."
Inuyasha cracked his knuckles, "Kagome, this shit for brains isn't going to listen to us."
"I find that highly doubtful, now if you please, I have a lot of work to do." He sighed, looking back down at the page he held.
Inuyasha grunted, "Kagome stand behind me."
"Wha-? Why?" Kagome looked over at him and gasped. It looked like he was purposefully increasing his demonic aura to turn full demon. And since the full moon was happening tonight he didn't have much of a problem increasing his youki.
Unexplainable winds inside the office was causing stray papers to fly about, and if that wasn't enough, Inuyasha had approached Sesshoumaru desk with glowing claws and ripped through the wood with an iron reaver attack. He had shred through documents and made the desk collapse, allowing the laptop to slide down and get its screen cracked. Looking up he had glared red-eyed at Sesshoumaru, ready to slash again when his brother had finally spoken.
"Enough," Sesshoumaru hissed darkly. "If you destroy one more thing you mongrel I will personally see to it that your spirit is forced into the after life."
Kagome had smiled triumphantly, though it soon dropped when Inuyasha did not look like he was going to stop. 'Oh crap, he can't change back!' She mentally panicked, watching the demonic winds whip his hair around him easily. What was most frightening was the look on his face. Just like the other night, it was purely sadistic, and she couldn't stand it.
"I-Inuyasha! S-Stop!" She cried, holding out her hand to him, "Onegai, Inuyasha." She whispered, observing how his ears twitched in her general direction as she stepped closer to him. Even if he did tell her to stay away, she wouldn't because clearly he needed her to ground him. And when his red-blue eyes had turned to her, he had stood up straighter and ceased his growling. The winds around him dying down into a subtle breeze while his once flattened ears had perked.
Sesshoumaru had only moved slightly, but it was enough to make the hanyou turned youkai crouch somewhat again and growl warningly, the winds picking up again. However Kagome had motioned for the older brother to stay still while she ushered Inuyasha over, "Calm down Inuyasha." She smiled and took another step closer as he turned away from Sesshoumaru to near her instead.
"K'gome," He muttered, standing protectively in front of her. He gently brushed one of his clawed fingers against her cheek before leaning his forehead against hers. He inhaled deeply and managed to transform himself back into his usual hanyou self, using her scent to calm his youkai blood to just a bubbling temperature. His dark purple stripes were still very visible, but other then that, he was fine.
"Hn? So you've calmed him," Sesshoumaru raised a brow at her odd behaviour. "He had no need to use a demonstration, it was enough that I could sense his youki."
"Damn cocky bastard," Inuyasha cursed, leaning away from Kagome to flip him off. Even if his brother couldn't see it, he still felt better doing it.
"So you believe me?" The young miko asked as she pulled Inuyasha's arm down and gave him a small disapproving look. She had then laced her fingers in his and shook her head at Inuyasha before looking back at Sesshoumaru.
The demon had eyed the girl's hand and looked back up at her, "I would know his filthy youki, it was the same youki his body reeked of before I tamed him and assisted the miko who sealed him. However if you had indeed broken the seal I'd imagine that he would be completely revived, not only his spirit."
"Wait, what?" Kagome asked. 'Is he being serious? Did I miss something?'
Sesshoumaru stared blankly at Kagome, "My idiot half brother had his entire body and spirit sealed into the Tessaiga due to the fact that he had gone on a murderous rampage the night of All Hallows Eve five centuries ago."
"Then that means the spell to release him that I used was incomplete. I only released half of him."
"Correct, if he had been completely released this city would have been annihilated that very night," Sesshoumaru explained.
"I don't get it," Kagome frowned, feeling Inuyasha tighten his grip on her hand.
"Listen carefully girl, because I will only say this once. If my brother were completely released he would continue to slaughter humans and demons alike without a second thought just as he did five centuries ago," Sesshoumaru said evenly, regarding Kagome with his ever steady stare. "The reason for this is because the demon soul that possessed him at the time is still trapped within my half brother's body inside the Tessaiga."
Great, so her hanyou wasn't at all dead to begin with. In fact his sexy piece of ass could be brought back into this world. Too bad that meant the end of said world if it were to be done. Again, why did she have to be a curious baka and unleash this stupid and undeniably hotter then hell half demon spirit from a sword? Oh yeah, 'cause she's a silly high school girl who was hoping to find some truth in her grandfathers stories. Because she felt bad for the hanyou each time the story was told to her. Because…
'Oh my lanta, I think I'm falling in love with this blockhead.'
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A/N Ooooh, a new chapter! And again, yes I watch supernatural (did anyone see the season finale? Go Castiel with his super angel powers!) and another yes I did read the mediator series by meg cabot. But I wonder who will be able to guess the final ingredient in this wonderful mix of a story? I guess I'll eventually see if anyone gets its, hint hint its another book series. Anywho, R&R!