Chapter Twenty: Confrontation
A/N: Edited on 9/2/15
Sesshomaru stared at his servant. Of all the foolish things to do was to leave Rin in InuYasha's hands. Sesshomaru suddenly picked up Rin's scent in the wind and also the demon exterminator's. Suddenly a demon cat flew into view and landed softly on the ground. The exterminator looked half dead, blood leaking out of her mouth.
"Sango!" The monk screamed. He ran over to Kirara and grabbed the woman off the demon cat's back. "Sango! No!"
"What happened!?" The wolf demon shouted.
"Inuhidoi..." The exterminator moaned. Sesshomaru snapped up, So InuYasha was nearby was he? Sesshomaru felt InuYasha's evil presence behind him. He slowly turned around to see two red eyes staring at him through the trees.
"Face me brother."
"I'm not your brother Sesshomaru."
The priestess screamed. "InuYasha, InuYasha!" She ran towards the eyes, but Sesshomaru would not let her make the same mistake again. He flew with great speed and grabbed the priestess by the arm and literally threw her backwards.
"Foolish, stay out of my way human."
"Sesshomaru stop it's..." The priestess yelled. Sesshomaru paid no attention. He stood and looked into the red eyes that stared down at him.
"Show yourself Inuhidoi."
"Forget something Sesshomaru?"
Sesshomaru saw quick movement; he reacted thinking Inuhidoi was going to attack when a small human body came flying in his direction.
"Rin!"
The Demon Lord caught the girl and moved away. He felt his anger burn that to think Inuhidoi could have just killed the small girl by breaking her fragile body against his.
"Shit!" The wolf yelled. He ran up behind Sesshomaru.
"InuYasha!" The priestess came running back. She apparently did not care about her life at all. Sesshomaru could not reach her this time with his arm, since he was holding Rin. He could do nothing to stop the running priestess.
"Stop her wolf!" Sesshomaru hissed at Kouga. The wolf didn't need too think twice and raced over, grabbing the priestess who thrashed against him screaming in protest.
"Koug! No, let me go!"
"Damn it Kagome! That is not mutt!" The poison shot towards the two of them and Kouga, with his boosted speed, managed to dodge the red blades.
"SANGO!"
Sesshomaru ran over near the monk who was cradling the exterminator in his arms. The Demon Lord placed Rin down gently by Ah-Un and Jaken.
"Protect her with your life." Sesshomaru hissed at his servant. Jaken gulped and nodded in reply.
The wolf's pack was at the monk's side trying to help the injured women. Sesshomaru could smell the poison leaking off her body. He did not know the extent of the poison's strength, but he knew it was powerful enough to easily kill a human women.
"Monk, get the flea. He may be able to help her." Sesshomaru said.
The monk turned to him, tears falling down his face. "Thank you Lord Sesshomaru."
Sesshomaru ran reaching for his Tokijin. He ripped the sword out and froze. Sesshomaru had forgotten that it was no use anymore. Bent in that shape he would not be able to release its demonic power properly. Growling in anger he sheathed Tokijin and ran towards InuYasha. His poison claws stretched and ready to attack, he swung his poison whip. The whip connected with a tree and bounced away, Sesshomaru growled, he had just missed him.
"Inuhidoi do not hide from me." Sesshomaru glared around. It was silent, too silent. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes; he smelled Inuhidoi's scent everywhere making it harder to locate him.
"Shit, he disappeared!" The wolf sneered.
"InuYasha, InuYasha!" The priestess kept screaming in the wolf's arms. She kicked him hard in the forearm and wolf yelped and released the girl.
"Kagome!"
"No, I'll stop him!" The priestess ran blindly into the woods.
"Foolish women!" Sesshomaru growled. He ran after her, she was getting extremely annoying to have around.
"Fool you should be more focused on me, not her."
Sesshomaru froze, then felt a heavy weight fall on his back. He reared back scratching with his poison at the figure. Sesshomaru landed back on his feet and glared at his enemy. What he saw shook him. His brother stood there almost a foot taller then himself, and with two black dragon wings stuck out from behind him. They were enormous.
"What have you done to the half-breed!?" Sesshomaru hissed.
"You fear my appearance Sesshomaru. Yet you deny it."
"Silence!" Sesshomaru felt these emotions running through his head that he had never felt before, and one made him furious. Fear. He would not fear Inuhidoi even if it killed him. He felt his eyes burn their red core as he began to seize the one emotion he would cling to, his anger. Sesshomaru growled, aiming his poison claws at InuYasha's chest, he lunged. InuYasha moved quickly, he literally disappeared before Sesshomaru's eyes. Sesshomaru swung around, eyeing for movement, smelling the scent that was near.
"Do not hide from me!" Sesshomaru growled and sniffed the air. It appeared that Inuhidoi had vanished, but Sesshomaru was not letting his guard down. Not even for an instant. "Vermin."
Sesshomaru carefully walked back to the others. He eyed the tree tops were Inuhidoi had surprised him by dropping on him from above. Inuhidoi knew how to hide himself well; he left his scent fresh and everywhere. It was so fresh it felt like Inuhidoi was standing right next to Sesshomaru himself. He heard the cries of the monk and the yelling of the wolf up ahead. He entered the clearing to find the monk begging the exterminator to wake up. The flea had nearly tripled his size; the monk had taken Sesshomaru's advice and had let the flea help him.
"Sango, please wake up!"
"Help Sango needs help!" The young fox demon came scrambling up towards them when he stopped and stared. "Sango...?"
"Lord Sesshomaru?" The little voice pierced his ears like a sword and he swung his head around to see a conscious Rin. She was held up by Jaken, rubbing her eyes with her small hands. "Lord Sesshomaru, something is wrong with Lord InuYasha."
"Rin." Sesshomaru was just glad the little girl was alright.
"Sesshomaru!"
He turned to see the monk's eyes begging him. "Please...bring her back with your Tensegia."
Sesshomaru sniffed, he still smelled life in the women. Of all the humans he had seen, she was one of the strongest to fight such deadly poison inflicted by a demon.
"She's still alive monk."
"But, she's not going to last..." The monk broke back into tears again.
"KAGOME!" The wolf's voice yelled. He was running in and out of the woods searching for the missing priestess. "KAGOME!"
Sesshomaru muttered to himself, he did not stop the priestess from interfering. Of all the people to help his brother's soul it was that priestess. If Inuhidoi hurt her, Sesshomaru knew it would break the half-demon's soul. Sesshomaru sniffed the air for her, but too much of Inuhidoi's scent leaked around the whole clearing. It was hard to tell whose scent was whose now.
"Where the hell is she!?" The wolf yelled at him. He ran up and got right into Sesshomaru's face. "You were in there! Where the hell is Kagome!?"
Sesshomaru would have usually stayed calm and would have threatened the wolf not to do that again, but instead rage boiled over his senses. "That women was stupid and foolish, she is not my responsibility!" Sesshomaru hissed. Kouga growled and pulled away from him, his focus was more on the priestess then getting into a fight with Sesshomaru.
"Sango...please hang on." The monk whispered in the exterminator's ear. "Master Myoga, please is there any more you can...?"
"No Lord Miroku." The flea muttered. "If I take any more I'll die of this poison and she will die of too little blood."
"Is there anything more we can do?" Hakkaku asked.
"Kagome can purify the poison!" Ginta explained.
"I'm still looking for her you idiot! Why the hell are you not helping!?" The wolf yelled. He sniffed the air, but shook his head. The wolf was running into the same problem that Sesshomaru had, Inuhidoi's scent was too fresh and to much around them.
"Sango..." The young fox demon mumbled. "I'm sorry. I ran as fast as I could." He wept and the cat demon knelt down trying to comfort him. She purred sending vibrations throughout the clearing.
Sesshomaru knew Inuhidoi would find the priestess faster then wolf. This meant she could be injured or even dead at the moment.
"Monk..?"
"Sango!"
"I'm starting to feel much better." The exterminator said and smiled at the monk. She stopped and stared. "You're crying monk. Why...?"
"I thought I had lost..." He couldn't finish and fell on top of her in a fit of tears. He hugged her tightly and rocked her back in forth. In response, she hugged him back.
"It's okay monk..." She looked at the flea. "Thanks to Master Myoga."
"I'm not feeling to good right now." The flea moaned.
"Damn it! Where is she!?" Kouga hissed. He had run past the clearing more then twenty times now his face had completely gone red. "KAGOME!" He gasped for breath, holding his throat.
"Kouga?" Hakkaku asked.
"My throat is sore it's nothing." The wolf grumbled.
"Is Inuhidoi gone?" The flea asked.
"Yes. And so is the priestess." Sesshomaru said.
"Lord Sesshomaru, what is wrong with Lord InuYasha?" Rin asked.
"Girl, that couldn't have been that half-demon!" Jaken snapped.
"It was." Sesshomaru said.
"No it wasn't Sesshomaru." Sesshomaru turned to see the exterminator glaring at him, her hand on her injured neck, her eyes like ice. "That was not InuYasha. He would never have those..." The exterminator looked at him. "You saw them, didn't you?"
Sesshomaru knew what she was talking about, those wings. Sesshomaru had come across winged demons that had similar characteristics, but seeing them on his brother's back had struck a nerve. InuYasha may be a disgrace to the dog demon bloodline since he was half-demon, and Sesshomaru never wanted to admit that his father's blood ran threw InuYasha's veins. But it made Sesshomaru furious to think that his brother had those wings on his back. He was a son of an dog demon, not an evil God.
"You knew didn't you flea?"
"Knew what Lord Sesshomaru?"
"About Inuhidoi's appearance." Sesshomaru decided to not let the others know what he knew.
"What about his appearance!?" The flea coughed when he yelled.
"You know Master Myoga." The exterminator said. She sat up, with the monk's help.
"Know what Sango?" The monk asked.
"About his wings."
"WHAT?!" The flea rolled over on his side. "NO! IT CAN'T BE!"
"Master Myoga, please. What wings Sango?" Miroku asked.
"We shouldn't be here sitting! We have to find Kagome!" The wolf roared.
"InuYasha took Kagome!?" The exterminator gasped.
"No, the foolish women ran off on her own."
"You!" The wolf shook his fist at Sesshomaru. "Kagome is not a foolish woman! And use her name, damn you!"
Sesshomaru felt his emotions back under control, and ignored the wolf.
"There is one way to defeat Inuhidoi." The flea suddenly said. Sesshomaru glared at him his eyes looked at the flea with curiosity. "You must use the Dog's Soul, from Tessaiga. It was how The Great Dog Demon Lord defeated him last time."
"Tessaiga?" Miroku asked.
"Lord Sesshomaru, I think the reason why Inuhidoi did not take your body is because you can't wield the Tessaiga. But Lord InuYasha can." Myoga declared.