Chapter Seventeen: Crossroads

A/N: Edited on 8/31/15

InuYasha felt the wind take his hair and move to the side oh his head. The wind also whistled through his claws, and he curled his hand in annoyance. He felt the claws pierce his palm, but he felt no pain. There was just no pain to feel anymore.

"What's the matter InuYasha?"

"Shut up."

"You don't like being powerful do you?"

"I said shut up."

"Didn't you want to be a full-fledged demon?"

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

InuYasha grasped his head and bit his lip. Inuhidoi had been silent until now. InuYasha felt like ripping his own head off. Inuhidoi's voice was such a sick sound, it made InuYasha want to vomit.

"You are going to be difficult I see."

"Shut up."

"As that all you're going to say?"

"You're pissing me off."

"I am you now. And I don't plan to leave."

"No your not!"

"Then what are we InuYasha? We are two souls fighting for one body. One will break while the other takes what is rightfully his."

"This is my body! You break so I can have it back!"

"I can't break; I'm not what you think I am."

"Oh yeah? Then what the hell are you?"

"Why do you think that matters?"

"Because I want to know what the fuck your doing to my body!"

"Simple enough. I'm making it more suitable for my abilities."

InuYasha snorted. "Go find somewhere else to use them."

"You're using them, are you not?"

"No I'm not, asshole."

There was no response. Inuhidoi decided to be quiet for the moment, and InuYasha was glad. He reached back and scratched his back again. It didn't feel like skin anymore, it felt more like rubber. InuYasha removed his hand from his back sickened. He thought of Kagome, seeing her face in his mind brought him back to that terrible night that Inuhidoi had made him bite her. He remembered her blood in his mouth and how horrible he felt. It was disgusting to see that InuYasha could not protect her.

"Is that priestess that important to you?"

"Leave Kagome out of this, this is just between you and me."

"You're wrong InuYasha. It has more to do with everyone and everything."

"No it doesn't!"

"Oh? Isn't she the reincarnation of the bitch who pinned us to that tree for fifty years?"

"YOU LEAVE KIKYO OUT OFF THIS!"

"That bitch will be the first to die when you break."

"Kikyo is already dead. You'll be wasting your time."

"Don't play dumb InuYasha. I know all of your thoughts and memories."

"Kikyo died the day she pinned me to that tree."

"Her current body is made of dead bones and grave dirt, am I not correct?"

"So?"

"So, I can still kill that body she possess while you watch helplessly."

"Fuck you!"

"It was nice to see that she's back so I have another chance at killing her."

"You won't kill her! I won't let you!"

"Really InuYasha? I pathetic half-demon killed her without much thought."

"Naraku is evil. Just like you."

"Humph. And you think the same for Sesshomaru."

"This has nothing to do with Sesshomaru."

"Fool there is a reason why I didn't possess him."

"To strong for you? Or am I just weaker?"

"Because he can't do something you can."

InuYasha stopped. What could he do that Sesshomaru couldn't? InuYasha jumped from the tree, he barley fell. His feet hit the ground and his head was even with the branch that he had been on.

"Shit, what are you?"

InuYasha walked through the woods. His nose in the air hoping not to smell any of his companions nearby. No one. InuYasha let out a sigh of relief. It sounded more like a hiss then anything. InuYasha kicked a fallen branch with his foot and walked on into the night.

InuYasha found a small pond nearby with a small trickle of water running down some rocks. InuYasha knelt down and looked into the water. A face stared at him. The two red eyes looked even different then his own transformed eyes, his fangs were completely stretched down to his mid-chin. The stripes on his face were the most distinct of everything. There were four of them, they were jiggered like his just only black. They looked like four black snakes slithering across his cheeks.

InuYasha turned his back to see it a color of purple and black. The skin around it was dark red, probably from being scratched too much. InuYasha looked at his hair, it was mattered and disgusting looking. Kagome had washed it the day after he had broken his arm and made it look nice and smooth. Now it looked like a mane that had been ripped and hung up to dry in blood. Even his ears looked different, they were still dog ears but they had slightly moved down his head.

The marks across his chest stretched from his waist up and from his shoulders down, they seemed like a enormous black centipede that had wrapped itself around his body. InuYasha shivered.

How would Kagome look at him now? A monster? Could she even look at him? Would she even think that he was the same man she thought was her protector?

InuYasha moved his hand through the water and felt its cold blanket. Purify me, he begged the chilled liquid. The water made no reply and InuYasha sank his head below the surface, feeling the cold liquid suck him into the depths. InuYasha moved his hands up his arms and held his breath until he came up and laid his head on the bank.

"What are you doing?"

"Just go away."

"Are you hoping for something?"

"Go to hell."

Suddenly Inuhidoi's laughter erupted in his head. InuYasha sat up, his anger burning. "What the hell is so funny?"

"You."

"Go fuck yourself."

"InuYasha, I am from hell."

"Whatever."

"I am the son of a God from the underworld fool."

"You're a descendant from a God? Yea right."

"I am half dog demon and half God; you're half dog demon and half human. It's a shame people don't accept us creatures in the world do they? The say be pure or be nothing."

"You're nothing."

"Am I? What were you before you met that priestess InuYasha? You were nothing too. You were just a wandering half-demon with nothing to look forward to in life."

"Shut up!"

"Before you met that priestess, I had no plans to possess you again."

"Again!?"

"Yes, InuYasha again. Now it doesn't matter as long as your soul breaks."

"I won't break."

"InuYasha, I can make you break easily. I can start by killing your companions."

"No!"

"Then don't tell me what I can't do."

"You son of a bitch."

"Funny. Even though she's not technically a bitch, I would still classify your mother as one."

"FUCK OFF! My mother is not a bitch!"

"Your mother was nothing more then pathetic human to fall for a demon's advances."

"SHUT UP!"

"No InuYasha. You shut up." Suddenly Inuhidoi opened his eyes that would soon belong to him. He pulled himself out of the pond that InuYasha had sunken his body into. "Well InuYasha, it looks like you'll be joining that beloved dead priestess of yours soon."