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Sesshomaru let out an agitated growl as he pounded his fist into the ground, biting down his need to kill something. The scent confused him again, he was sure that he had found the true scent this time, but the path came up with nothing.
He had followed the same scent four times now, and each landed to a dead end with a small doll. The doll had on button eyes and had its face cut in a wide slit that resembled a smile. On its chest was a note that read "Dead end! Try again!"
He pounded the ground once more venting out a little more anger before coming to his feet and sniffing the nearby air for a new path. He wasn't sure how many traps this demon had set up, but there had to be a limit. He wouldn't be stooped a fifth time.
The scent was leading him eastward, hopefully the right direction. He could hardly trust his senses anymore after so many mistakes. Maybe this was the trap in itself, to get him to stop trusting himself. He wouldn't give in to that; he'd follow as many paths as there were, as long as he got to Rin in time.
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Rin pushed against the demon's form as he placed her back on the stone table where the plants were inching closer to the middle, waiting for her.
"Look my dear, they've been missing you. Don't you feel terrible that you made them wait?" he asked as if he were speaking to a small child.
"Why do you want Mizu back so much? She went with Lord Sesshomaru, doesn't that say enough about her? She mustn't have loved you if she were so open with being with another man," Rin stated which caused the demon to pause.
"Don't say things that you don't understand. She loved me, enough that she was willing to marry another man to gain power so we could live in luxury with each other," he stated and Rin laughed lightly but with a bittersweet ring to it.
"Didn't it cross your mind that she might've just used you to get to Lord Sesshomaru? Maybe she wanted him all along, and used getting more power for the two of you as an excuse. Maybe she never wanted to kill him and be with you, just stay with him," Rin stated and inwardly cheered when she noted his jaw tightened, she had hit a soft spot.
He moved her from the table to the floor and gave out a loud growl.
"Do you dare talk about my love Mizu like that! She loved me, with all her heart, she told me so. I feel the same, how would you feel if you heard that the one you loved just used you to get someone else?" he asked and Rin noted how his voice shook and got caught on the word 'used'.
Rin suddenly felt for him, but for only a moment. If Sesshomaru had done that to her, she would never want to hear that he used her to get someone else.
"Sad," she murmured, the demon stared at her for a moment before whirling on his heel and walking into the shadows cast by the cave, and vanished.
She stared after his form for a moment before realizing that he hadn't placed her back on his trap to suck out the rest of her for his beloved Mizu.
"Rin, hurry while he's gone, get out!" Otaku begged in a whisper.
"He'll only come after me again, who knows what he'll do to me then," Rin stated still staring out in the direction where he had gone.
"We can't just stay here! Are you crazy, what about Lord Sesshomaru?" Otaku asked.
"We can't get out Otaku, we'll have to wait for him," Rin answered.
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Inuyasha paused in mid stride to sniff the air when a familiar scent caught his nose.
"What is it?" Kagome asked staring down at him from her perch on his back.
"I thought I caught a whiff of Miroku's scent, but I can't be sure," Inuyasha murmured as he turned to stare behind him where the scent was coming from.
"Should we wait for them to catch up?" Kagome asked.
"They don't seem to be far behind, so it would be a good idea," Inuyasha replied.
So the two stayed their ground and waited for the remainder of the team to catch up with them.
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Sango pulled on Kirara's fur lightly when she spotted Inuyasha's familiar red outfit.
"Look there's Inuyasha!" Sango pointed out to her comrades. Shippo and Miroku looked down and nodded in agreement.
Kirara growled and lowered the three down to the ground and stopped right in back of Inuyasha. The three got off her back and she transformed back into her little kitty form with a happy meow to Inuyasha.
The half-demon smirked and patted the little demon's head before standing back up to stare his three other team-mates in the eyes.
"We seem to be close to where Rin is, I can pick up her scent perfectly," Inuyasha stated and the other three nodded their heads with determination.
"We better get a move on then, who knows what kind of trouble she could be in," Miroku said and the team set off together again.
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The demon stared down at an identical table that was placed in the room beside this one. There sat a woman cloaked in vines her body almost done being created. Her eyes fluttered for a moment like she was going to wake, but then she went limp once more.
Her strength was hardly enough to even open her eyes, he thought in disgust. He would have to mark her soon; he could smell Sesshomaru was close. A smirk played across his lips at that thought. The demon could finally understand how he felt when he took his love from him. The pain would seep into his chest and he would have to live for eternity alone.
"Come my Mizu, wake up now," he murmured down to her. The woman's eyelids fluttered once more until she actually got them open. Her dark irises turned from the wall to him and she took in a surprised breath before pushing her body up into a sitting position.
"Hiroshima!" she cried barely above a whisper. Hiroshima smirked down at her before grabbing a lock of her hair and twisting her neck painfully.
"Miss me love?" he asked as the woman flinched in pain but glared out at him.
"How did you bring me back?" she asked.
"I used your reincarnation to suck your soul out of her," he answered and the woman stared up at him horrified.
"Why do you look so surprised? Did you think you would die and never see me again?" Hiroshima asked his grip tightening on her hair.
"I didn't think you'd be obsessed enough to bring me back from the dead," she murmured and Hiroshima threw her violently to the side letting go of her hair. She caught herself before she was thrown off the stone table and whirled around to glare at him.
"Don't you throw me around like some rag doll!" she shrieked holding onto the edge of the stone table her knuckles turning white.
"Don't fight me love, I brought you back from the dead because I could not bear us being apart any longer," he replied but spat the words at her.
"I can't be taken from the dead like this Hiroshima, no matter how much you love me," Mizu stated looking down at her hands as if they were disgusting bugs crawling all along them.
"You say that as if you don't love me in return," he observed and made a grab for her holding her close by a tight grip on her arm, "did you love Sesshomaru more Mizu? Answer me!" he screamed at her.
"That was years ago Hiroshima, I just want to lie in peace. Please let me go," she stated firmly.
"What about our everlasting love for one another? Your promise that we'd live together forever in each other?" he asked his voice rising with every word.
"That was because I was alive then. Now I'm so tired, and feel terrible," she answered.
"You want to lie in peace do you? Fine then, have it your way," Hiroshima stated bringing up a hand commanding his plants that were already poised under the table to attack.
They grabbed for Mizu's arms and legs and no matter how hard she tried to pull free they held firm and sprawled her against the table.
"I hope you're happy in death, for if I see you in the afterlife it'll be too soon," Hiroshima stated pushing her forehead down so her entire body was touching the table. Within a couple seconds a bright pink light covered the woman's body and once it dimmed her body lay motionless her eyes wide open and glazed over.
"If I can't have your soul any longer I'll keep your clone. She'll love me," he stated motioning for the plants to let her body go.
The plants slithered off the table and he gently grabbed her to rest her head against his chest. Her eyelids closed slightly and blinked before looking up at him. The glaze in her eyes never left, but she smiled at him winding her arms around his waist and held him close.
"Yes. She'll do," he added letting his hands run through her long dark hair.
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