Inuyasha FanFiction
Emotions In Time - Part 6:
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WARNING: THIS PART IS A BIT VIOLENT AND GOREY.
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"Rin!" Jaken cried, "Rin! Lord Sesshomaru! Where are you?"
"Master Jaken, we have to close the gates!" Kentaro shouted.
Jaken spun around to face Kentaro, the fox demon. "Not without Rin!" he yelled back.
A massive wave of flaming arrows came raining down at the open castle gates.
"Staff of Two Heads!" Jaken shouted, raising his staff above his head.
Fire lept from the mouth of the staff and incinerated over 40 arrows before they could hit the castle gates.
"Please Master Jaken," Kentaro pleaded, "The villagers will not be same until we close the gate! The Princess is with Lord Sesshomaru, she'll be fine."
Jaken racked his brain for what he should do. Finally her turned and said, "Close the gates, but I'm waiting out here."
Kentaro stared at Jaken with solemn eyes, but did not question his decision.
Rin and Yasuo ran as fast as they could, but they were a long ways from the castle. To make matters worse, they were being chased by six or seven soldiers, who continued to shout "Kill the Demons!" over and over again.
I may not be a Demon, Rin thought, but Yasuo is, and I can't let him die!
Rin took hold of Yasuo's hand and pulled him around a corner, into a hut, where they pressed themselves into the shadows and held their breath.
"Where'd they go?" Yasuo and Rin saw a soldier outside the doorway of the hut looking around, confused.
"They must have ducked inside one of these houses!" a second warrior told the others.
Yasuo cried quietly, obviously scared of being found. Rin held him in her arms to try and calm him.
I need to be strong... for both of us, she told herself.
"Burn them out!" another warrior shouted, and cold hard fear gripped Rin's heart when she heard it.
Within moments, the hut's roof was ablaze; the fire quickly making its way down the walls. Yasuo sobbed harder.
Rin had to think... either burn alive in here, or face the guards out there.
"Yasuo, follow me," she told the Demon Weasel.
Getting down on her hands and knees and staying below the smoke, Rin crawled out of the burning hut with Yasuo close behind.
Once outside the hut, Rin grabbed Yasuo's hand again and tried to run for it. The warriors were ready though; one man grabbed Rin by the hair, another grabbed Yasuo's Weasel tail, and the two friends were wretched apart.
"Let me go!" Rin cried as she grabbed at the hand that held her hair.
"Hey Boss!" her attacker shouted, "This one's human!"
A well armored man on horseback came over to where Rin was being held in the air. "Are you sure?' the man asked.
Rin's attacker nodded, "Positive. She's not even responding to the torture Sutra."
Looking down at her orange, yellow and green Kimono, Rin noticed a piece of paper was stuck to her clothing at the hip.
When did they put that on me? she wondered.
"Well this one is," a voice called.
Rin looked up at the voice of the second soldier from before. In his right hand was Yasuo; who writhed and screamed in pain from the Sutra on his shoulder.
"Stop! Please! You're hurting him!" Rin cried, "Please! He's only child!"
"They must have bewitched this one, Boss," Rin's attacker told the man on horseback, "Think she's a hostage or something?"
"I don't know," the man called 'Boss' answered, "Give her to me."
Rin was handed over to 'Boss', who placed her in the saddle in front of him and held her still with one hand.
"What about the Demon, Boss?" asked the warrior holding Yasuo.
Boss shrugged, "Kill him."
"NO!" Rin shrieked; but it was too late.
The crack of bone filled Rin's ears, and she watched in horror as the second soldier snapped Yasuo's neck like a small twig.
"Yasuo..." Rin whispered.
The last thing Rin saw before her eyes blurred with tears was Yasuo's limp body being tossed into a burning hut, right before it collapsed.
Sesshomaru crouched on the roof of a hut as twenty or thirty warriors came after him. In a attempt to get him down from the rooftop, the soldiers lit the hut on fire, but Sesshomaru just jumped to another roof.
When he landed on the roof of the hut behind the men, he swiftly took hold of Tokijin and left no one standing.
After jumping across a couple more houses, Sesshomaru reached the castle gates. Where Jaken was single-handedly trying to ward off fourteen soldiers and a battering ram. Using his Whip of Light, Sesshomaru sliced all fourteen men in half with a wave of his arm.
"Jaken," Sesshomaru looked down at the Imp, "Why aren't you in the castle?"
"They needed to shut the gates," Jaken explained, "I wanted to wait out here for you and Rin."
Sesshomaru's eyes widened, "She's not here?"
Jaken shook his head, "No, My Lord. I though Rin was with you."
Sesshomaru looked around the village, most of the huts were on fire, as were many Human and Demon corpses.
If her body burns to ash, I won't be able to bring her back, Sesshomaru's stomach lurched slightly at the thought.
Lord Sesshomaru lept from the ground and sailed across the sky above the village, searching for Rin.
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"Ow...ow... ow! " Inuyasha cried.
Kagome stamped her foot impatiently, "Oh, will you shut up!"
"You're hurting me!" Inuyasha whimpered.
Kagome rolled her eyes, "I can't believe you can tell me a hole the side of a volleyball in your abdomen is nothing, but you can't get your hair brushed without crying like Shippo with poison ivy."
"Well, my abdomen is stronger than my head."
"I don't see how that's possible," Kagome told him, "You've always been stubborn and hard-headed."
Inuyasha folded his arms and pouted.
Letting out a sigh, Kagome returned to brushing out the last of his tangles. When she finished, she rubbed his ears softly, just the way he liked it. Pretty soon she felt his body relax under her touch. Kagome returned the brush to her backpack and sat down next to Inuyasha.
"So... with all this talk about Sesshomaru and Rin... I've been thinking..." Kagome twiddled her thumbs as she spoke.
Inuyasha looked at her out of the corner of his eye, "'Bout what?"
"Well," Kagome began, "I want to do something nice for Sesshomaru." She paused, uncertain of how she wanted to say this, but ended up blurting out, "I want to give him his arm back," before she could stop herself.
Inuyasha raised his eyebrow, "How do you plan to do that?"
Kagome looked down at the ground. "The Sacred Jewel..." she mumbled.
"Mm... I don't think that's a good idea," Inuyasha explained, "The Jewel will be tainted if you use it to help a demon."
Kagome looked back up at Inuyasha, his eyes seemed miles away in thought, even though he was talking to her. "Yeah, but, the Jewel will still be in my possession, so I can just purify it again," she argued.
Inuyasha nodded once and closed his eyes, "That's true, but you need to think more of Sesshomaru. Do you honestly think he wants an arm back that his half-demon brother lobbed off?"
Kagome opened her mouth to tell him 'Of course', but after a second thought about it she just sighed and whispered, "I guess not."
"Sesshomaru is just as stubborn as I am, Kagome," Inuyasha explained, opening his eyes again, "That in mind--"
Suddenly, Inuyasha laid down and rolled around in the dirt, tangling up the hair Kagome had just brushed out.
"Inuyasha! You monster!" Kagome shouted, jumping to her feet, "Sit boy! Sit boy! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit boy!"
Inuyasha was repeatedly slammed into the ground by his enchanted beads. Each 'Sit!' command crashed him deeper and deeper into the ground with pain.
"K - Ka - gome... please..." he groaned.
Kagome's expression was hard and her eyes were mean, "You like the dirt so much? Fine. Sit boy!"
Inuyasha was smashed into the ground once more.
"Sango!" Miroku called as he ran to catch up with her.
Sango turned around to see the voice that called her name, "Miroku?"
Miroku came to a stop next to Sango. "You are going to visit Kohaku, are you not?" he asked.
"Yes... I am," she said nodding.
"May I join you?" he asked.
Sango took Miroku's hand in hers. "I'd like that," she told him.
Miroku liked it when Sango held his hand, it stopped him from doing anything lecherous to her, (which he had been trying to control for some time now, with extremely slow progress). He also liked the fact that he no longer needed to wear his prayer beads; now, he could feel her hand on his palm, where the wind tunnel had once been.
The two walked hand in hand, across a large field and over a hill, in silence. They were headed to a place of happiness and sorrow. The scene of Naraku's defeation.
A large crater laid at the bottom of the hill with a stone in the very center. The evil ora had dissipated lately, and the grass was finally beginning to grow over the black baron area.
Sango and Miroku walked to the single tombstone in the center of the crater and knelt down before it to pray.
Naraku had planned this all too well.
Inuyasha...Kagome...Shippo...Sango...Kirara...Miroku...Sesshomaru...Rin...AuUn...Jaken...Koga...Hakaku...Ginnta... all were in a fight to the death they might not walk away from.
All their strength was wearing thin, but Naraku was barely trying. Perhaps their efforts were in vain.
'Sango!' Miroku cried as he tried to suck Naraku's flesh off her body with his Wind Tunnel.
Kirara and Kagome were in the same predicaments... Inuyasha was crying out for Kagome, who was completely covered in bubbling flesh that was on the verge of consuming her; mind, body and soul.
'Miroku,' Sango struggled to breathe as the flesh constricted around her, 'go...save ka - gom... e.'
'No Sango!' Miroku said firmly, 'I'm not leaving you!'
Sango shook her head, trying to run the memories out of her mind, but they came back again.
Miroku and Shippo were captured now, and Sango was almost completely covered. Inuyasha was still trying to hack away at Kagome without hurting her, and Rin was using a stick to try to help him. Sesshomaru, who had been holding Naraku off for a while was suddenly caught in Naraku's grasp and lost his sword.
'AuUn!' Rin cried, 'Save Lord Sesshomaru!'
AuUn sliced through the arm holding Sesshomaru, only to be thrown against a rock wall by another one of Naraku's arms. Then, instead of going after Sesshomaru again, Naraku turned on Rin.
Rin tried to run, she no longer had Jaken, (he had been thrown against a rock and knocked unconscious earlier when he had tried to protect her), so she had to protect herself. Naraku smashed an arm into a rock cliff above her and rocks began tumbling down upon her. Sesshomaru, now barely able to move, plunged under the falling rocks and tucked her in in his arms when the rocks buried them.
'Sesshomaru! Rin!' Inuyasha shouted.
Naraku took advantage of Inuyasha's momentary distraction and knocked his sword from his hands before wrapping him in flesh.
'Fools!' Naraku said with a laugh, 'You actually thought you could defeat me?'
Kohaku was the only one of Naraku's slaves present, and he stood idly by, still locked in a trance as Naraku slowly killed them all.
'...rin?...sango?...' he barely whispered.
'Ko-ha-ku,' Sango choked out, 'I'm s-so sorry...I f-failed you.'
Suddenly, something in Kohaku snapped. Even though Naraku had erased his memories for the second time, the images suddenly flowed into every corner of his mind. He blinked a couple times, refocusing on the future.
'Er, Sango? SANGO, NO!' Kohaku cried as the last of his sister was covered.
Sango stood up and looked down upon the inscription on the tomb. 'Kohaku: beloved son, friend and brother... he will be dearly missed.' Tears filled her eyes and the smell of the burning incense filled her nose. She carefully placed one of Kohaku's secret flowers on the tomb.
Kohaku used his knife-chain to rip his back open and grab the Sacred Jewel Shard that kept him alive.
Before Naraku could stop him, Kohaku threw the Jewel Shard at the mass of flesh that contained his sister. On contact with the Jewel Shard, the flesh around Sango erupted from her and she fell to the ground gasping.
With a groan, Sango looked up to see Kohaku down on his knees now. 'Kohaku!' she screamed.
'Insolent bastard!' Naraku shouted as he raised Sesshomaru's sword to Kohaku's neck.
At that moment, time itself seem to slow.
'Sango,' Kohaku whispered, 'You didn't fail..."
Sango stared at her brother, paralyzed by fear.
Underneath Kohaku's name and stature were his last words.
'I will die remembering...'
And Kohaku's headless body fell to the ground.