A/N: yo sorry for the last chap i didn't intend for it to really be so much like a prologue, it just happened. y'know how it goes riiight? /gets bricked
anywho, not much to put other than there's more action in this chap so enjoy! xD
disclaimer: i don't own InuYasha; my OCs belong to me.
Chapter 42: Monster - Ur a Warrior
All the slicing his claws were doing was beginning to get on her nerves.
If he keeps this up, they'll just keep coming, she mused, stepping forward. "Let me handle them." She declared, placing a hand on his shoulder.
He made a face but allowed her to work nonetheless, stepping aside as her aura spiked and she crossed both arms over her chest for the briefest moment before swinging her arms out like a blockade; a ring of blue fire ignited the walls that harbored the menial demons, destroying them as they came out, growls of pain echoing around them.
She dispelled the fire as easily as when she'd started it, flexing her claws before placing her hands in the sleeves of her kimono.
"Remind me not to ever make you too angry." He muttered as smoke rose up from the walls she'd burned, sweatdropping.
"Sesshomaru?" The voice of the priestess sounded behind them, making his ears twitch as she looked over at the once-unconscious girl.
Her brown eyes roamed from the silver-haired male to his companion's slightly surprised silver eyes. "Getsu?"
She smiled in relief, stepping away from his side to help the girl sit up. "Glad you're still among the living." Her kind silver stare faltered when she saw the blood stain on her right sleeve, a frown furrowing her brow. "Hold still for a minute." She instructed gently, taking the girl's wrist in the same gentle manner and rolling the sleeve up to the shoulder, her free hand's palm glowing lilac before it hovered over the wound and she began healing her.
Your kindness towards humans ceases to amaze me, he mused with an instinctive eye-roll at her actions.
"Getsu, have you two been slaying the demons all this time?" Kagome wondered when the deed was done, rolling her sleeve down her arm and looking at the older female.
"Well, Sesshomaru started it but I ended it; seein' him flick his wrist so nonchalantly was starting to get annoying…" Getsu offered, flashing a sheepish smile.
"That explains things." Sesshomaru grumbled, making her cringe; he shook his head and glanced at the girl. "That wound you had, was it InuYasha's doing?" He asked, his answer confirmed for him with her silence. "Being a simple baka-hanyou, I would imagine Naraku's darkness overcame his human heart." He guessed grimly.
Kagome blinked before the memory flashed in her mind and she lowered her gaze, rubbing her mended arm gingerly. "No, that's not it!" She protested, making both daiyokai's ears twitch.
She looked at her and her eyes softened slightly as she realized she was trying to justify the hanyou's actions. A priestess indeed, she mused, perking up as he tugged on her sleeve and dragged her with him. "H-hey!" She barked.
"If we keep dawdling we're bound to run into more demons and I'd rather not waste more of mine as well as your energy slaying mindless pieces of Naraku." He reasoned calmly.
She sighed in reluctant defeat. "C'mon, Kagome." She beckoned.
She's not seriously dragging her with us… He inwardly groaned, throwing a look over his shoulder to see the aforementioned priestess hurrying after them until she was walking behind both he and his mate; he felt like slapping his forehead.
'Of course she's serious.' His inner demon hummed, seeming to find his annoyance at her generosity highly amusing.
Shut your mouth, he inwardly growled, hearing it snicker.
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Korihime glared at the gray-blue walls around her as she kept walking.
She'd been separated from InuYasha and Kagome not long after they'd ran into a few appendages of Naraku's body, having tried to chase both hanyou and priestess into a deeper level of the body before she was forced to find a different path due to several large stinger limbs dividing her from them.
So now she was alone, keeping an arrow in her bow and said bow in hand at the ready in case anything should pop up and try to scare the shit out of her.
God please let those two be safe, she thought for what felt like the thousandth time within the enumerable hours she'd spent walking alone inside the body of a giant spider.
It's not like she expected to be killed just yet; Naraku was after her sister's powers, not hers. It was her powers he'd coveted for over a century, the powers she'd inherited from their daiyokai father and by birthright belonged to her solely.
Not that he would ever GET those powers… at least not with Sesshomaru around.
Nii-san, are you two okay? Have you found Rin yet? She wondered.
A soft blue glow came from ahead, jerking her attention away from the walls surrounding her; her eyes sharpened as she saw the glow radiating around a vision of the girl.
"Rin!" She gasped, growling under her breath and taking off in the direction of the vision.
The closer she got, the farther the vision seemed to get; she gritted her teeth and picked up the pace, vainly praying that she would find someone, anyone, when she reached that vision of Rin.
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"Sesshomaru, your nose is as keen as InuYasha's, right; aren't you able to locate Rin?"
He didn't answer.
His companion sweatdropped; great thinking, trying to start a conversation with Mr. Ice King, she mused with an outward sigh.
"What about you, Getsu? You're a wolf demon so your nose should be keener than Sesshomaru's, right?" She looked at the quiet female walking at her side with her arms in the sleeves of her kimono.
She nodded. "Yeah it is, but I wouldn't put it past Naraku to put up an illusion that affects the nose as well as the eyes; considering he knows Sesshomaru and I have sharper noses compared to InuYasha's, he'd try and pull something to throw us off the scent." Her silver eyes looked at the silent male and she flashed an apologetic smile at the girl walking at her right. "Please forgive him if he's not so… talkative; he's been pissy since Magatsuhi fled the gorge the other night." She added.
His brow twitched in slight annoyance.
The girl sweatdropped and smiled sheepishly. "It's okay, I understand. InuYasha's kinda like that too when he's mad." She assured.
He snorted, breaking his façade of emotionless apathy. "It figures a baka-hanyou like him would behave like that, given his short temper." He muttered.
She deadpanned. "Like you're any different. You two are still brothers no matter how many times you deny the fact that you've saved his ass on the past few incidents we ran into him." She reasoned patiently.
"So you're implying that I'm just as idiotic and brash as him?" He all but seethed; she was right in saying that he had indeed saved his brother's ass recently, for some reason only God knew of, but the fact that she was comparing him to his idiot half-brother made him bristle and his aura spike in annoyance.
"Not really, but you were considered a jackass when we first met long ago." She shrugged innocently.
Sesshomaru humphed and stuffed his hands into the folds of his kosode sleeves. "You're delusional." He grated.
"Temper, milord." Getsu chided, smirking cheekily at his pissy tone: he was amusing when he was pissy.
A disgruntled growl came from between his teeth before he said no more.
"Karma is a bitch indeed." She mumbled.
He huffed. "Piss off."
The priestess sweatdropped. Now I see; a short fuse really does run in the family, she mused, making a mental note to ask about the wolf demon's lineage later on when this was all over.
Rin whimpered a little as she backed away from the sight.
InuYasha growled and flexed his long claws, eyes bled red as they narrowed at the sight of the fearful child; his ears twitched and swiveled a little.
A thundering growl sounded before a blur of blue crashed into him from the side and sent him crashing into one of the walls.
The girl's brown eyes widened in relief and surprise. "Kori-onee!"
Korihime leveled the possessed hanyou a cold scowl before she turned to the girl, her blue eyes softening. "I'm glad I found you, Rin." She smiled and pulled the girl into a tight hug.
"Kori-onee I'm so glad you're here!" She declared as she hugged her babysitter's neck and buried her face into her shoulder; she smiled again and sighed aloud in relief.
A low growl sounded, perking her ears, before she felt him coming at her from the side; she leaped out of the way and took the girl with her, drawing back against the far wall and glaring at his red eyes.
"Kori-onee," Rin began quietly when she set her down and stood tall infront of the growling half-breed, seeing her flex her claws as she bristled defensively.
"Don't move from that spot." Korihime ordered softly, cracking her knuckles before she flashed her teeth and stiff-leggedly circled the hanyou, watching him follow suit and bare his teeth, reminding her of a wild dog; she flew at him.
InuYasha snarled and swung his clawed hand at her throat, his opponent side-stepping and then landing a sharp kick to his gut, sending him flying before he bounced on the balls of his feet against the wall and flew at her with his claws drawn and fangs bared.
"Your fighting style still sucks, even when transformed." She growled, her body weaving around his fury swipes with fluid ease before she ducked on the last swipe and kicked his legs from beneath him, letting him drop before he twisted and sent a foot into her jaw, knocking her back.
"Kori-onee!" Rin exclaimed.
Korihime staggered back and grimaced, rubbing her jaw gingerly before growling and flashing her teeth, showing that her fangs had grown, watching him lunge for her neck again; she ducked in time, pile-driving a hard fist into his lower belly.
InuYasha yelped and drew back as pain radiated from the blow before he leaped at her and threw a foot into her gut from the side.
She flew back, crashing into a wall.
He lunged and went for broke.
"No!" Rin cried.
Korihime grimaced as her head spun, blearily seeing the advancing hanyou. "InuYasha…"
"Get away from her." A thundering growl rang out before a pale fist crashed into his jaw, sending him sprawling.
Her eyes widened in surprise before the same hand extended to help her up; her eyes traveled up the arm to meet a pair of familiar serious gold eyes. "Sesshomaru?" She took his hand and let him help her to her feet, seeing him nod a little.
He smiled slightly in relief, lifting her chin to inspect the scratch on the left side of her jaw before he growled, sending a scowl over his shoulder at the hanyou regaining his footing from the punch he'd delivered. "Other than that, are you alright?" He asked, perking her ears.
She nodded, smiling slightly. "Yeah, thanks."
"L-Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin's cry sounded before they both looked to see the aforementioned girl be swallowed up by the floor of the body.
"Rin!" Korihime rushed to her side, diving for her hands as she went below them and missing; she growled and cursed under her breath, straightening just as InuYasha tried to slash at Magatsuhi's face before said face possessed him. "Damn it all," she muttered.
The now-possessed InuYasha leveled the male daiyokai with a glare and bared fangs.
"Sesshomaru!" He glanced back to see both his mate and the priestess arrived on the scene, both brown and silver eyes looking upon the sight of the possessed InuYasha.
"InuYasha," the girl began softly.
"Getsu, put up a barrier around the three of you." He ordered quietly, perking her ears.
She nodded, slipping her katana from her sash once her sister was at her side, placing her katana's hilt bottom and tip of the scabbard together to form an oval-esque blue barrier.
"Magatsuhi, you chose the wrong person to possess." He growled as the hanyou drew Tetsusaiga, his own hand drawing Tensaiga from its scabbard. "I'll slay you along with InuYasha." He lunged.
"Nii-san!" Korihime exclaimed.
"Meido Zangetsuha!"
"InuYasha no!" Kagome barked.
Getsu gritted her teeth and dug her claws into the fabric of her hilt and wood of her scabbard, fighting to keep from defending her mate. Sesshomaru…!
The trio of females looked surprised to see that the void had narrowly missed him.
"Damn, wasn't that a clever trick." Magatsuhi mused, glaring at the daiyokai.
He could've sent him on a one-way to the underworld, but he didn't… Getsu mused.
"Onee-chan, he didn't hit him on purpose… Is it because of Tetsusaiga?" Korihime asked quietly, perking her ears.
She nodded a little and kept her eyes on the battling siblings, bristling on reflex when Sesshomaru dodged a swipe only to return it sharply to his opponent. That explains a lot in regards to Tetsusaiga, given that Inu no Taisho gave it to InuYasha to control his demon blood; Tetsusaiga is the only thing standing between InuYasha's soul and Magatsuhi's total control over him. If he lets it go, there's no stopping him! She growled a little.
Korihime perked up when Tetsusaiga was punted out of his hands and sent flying up onto a higher ledge, rendering the mighty heirloom into the form of a rusty old katana. "Shit," she growled.
"Now that Tetsusaiga isn't around, I have total control over InuYasha." Magatsuhi cackled, cracking his knuckles.
"InuYasha!" Kagome began worriedly.
"Stay back, you'll interfere in the fight. Getsu, keep the barrier up… No matter what." Sesshomaru quieted her, his tone softening when referring to his mate.
Getsu nodded again. "Don't overdo it." She advised quietly, watching InuYasha lunge at him before he flew forward, knocking him back with a sharp punch, both brothers reverting to their claws and brute strength instead.
Korihime scowled slightly at the fight, her own claws flexing at her sides before her hands crumpled into fists. "This could go on forever unless we do something… One of us has to get Tetsusaiga from where it was thrown…" She perked up as Kagome slipped out of the barrier and hurried to do just that, climbing up to get the fang. "Kagome!" She exclaimed.
"Idiot," Getsu muttered, slipping the scabbard back in her sash and sheathing Mangetsuga reluctantly, looking over at the brothers as Sesshomaru leaped onto one of the higher ledges with InuYasha giving chase.
Korihime growled reflexively.
"Interesting; now that your mind and body are in demon form, you're a bit tougher than usual." Sesshomaru mused after leaping away, scowling over at the hanyou behind him.
Magatsuhi sneered, "showing no mercy to your own brother, you must really hate InuYasha." He cracked his knuckles and lunged again.
Sesshomaru drew Tensaiga, scoffing as he bristled. "I feel nothing of the sort; and I've never considered that lowly baka-hanyou to be my brother!" He flew at him before the hanyou caught the blade of Tensaiga in his hand, gripping it tightly.
"Damn it," Getsu hurried down to her mate's aid as Korihime followed shortly.
"Both of you stay back." Sesshomaru ordered sharply, making their ears twitch.
Kagome yelped as she fell before stabbing the blade of Tetsusaiga into the wall, stopping her fall as she dangled in the air.
"Kagome!" Korihime leaped up to her side as Getsu skidded to a halt, her hand on the hilt of Mangetsuga.
"Sesshomaru," she began.
"Hang on, I'll help you," her sister declared as she used her long bow to reach the girl. "Grab onto it!"
Kagome lifted a hand to try and grab the bottom of the bow, yelping as she almost lost her grip on the hilt of the katana and gripping it with both hands. "I-I can't reach!"
"I know you can; you're not a weak human, you can reach! Kagome!" Korihime exclaimed, digging her claws into the wall before shrugging her bow onto her shoulder, scaling the wall to try and help her better, extending her hand out.
Kagome grunted and reached for her hand, grabbing onto her fingers and holding onto them tightly. "I'm bringing Tetsusaiga to you, InuYasha!" She exclaimed.
Magatsuhi sneered, "I'm afraid you're too late; I, Magatsuhi, now have control over every corner of InuYasha's heart. Tetsusaiga can no longer reach him; he's lost to you, now!"
"Don't give in you idiot!" Korihime snapped as she scowled over at the hanyou. "InuYasha!" She cried.
"InuYasha, don't give in!" Kagome cried, trying to get to where Korihime was before she let go of her hand to climb; she yelped when her hand slipped and she fell.
"KAGOME!" Korihime shouted, leaping down after her.
"Help me, InuYasha!" Kagome shouted at the top of her lungs.
His red eyes widened as Tetsusaiga pulsated. "Kagome…"
"Tetsusaiga…" Getsu grunted and leaped over to where the fang was, digging her claws into the wall and looking at the fang as Magatsuhi tried to keep his control over the hanyou. "This is for trying to kill my pack," she grabbed the hilt with both hands; sparks erupted from the barrier that rejected the touch of the powerful daiyokai, making her growl and grit her teeth, fangs sharpening as she fought the ripples of pain the barrier caused. She yanked it out of the wall sharply just as the hanyou was trying to return to his senses. "Head's up!" She tossed the fang at him.
InuYasha grabbed the hilt, the fang pulsating in his hand and transforming back into its better form, sending a Wind Scar at the wall before he flew down after the girls.
Smoke rose up from her palms; she scowled at the burnt flesh of her palms before flicking her wrists and watching Sesshomaru drop down after the hanyou once Magatsuhi had been forced out due to InuYasha's demon vortex. She flew down after them, landing nimbly on a higher ledge than the ones Sesshomaru and InuYasha occupied.
Magatsuhi roared angrily at being caught before Sesshomaru lunged with Tensaiga swinging down sharply. "Tensaiga!"
The evil face cried out in agony at being felled at last, fading into the air.
Korihime's eyes widened slightly as she realized that she couldn't smell his stench anymore. "You did it!" She cried, leaping up to his ledge as he sheathed Tensaiga and throwing her arms around his neck.
Sesshomaru stiffened slightly at having her hug him before he smirked slightly in defeat and hugged her waist, letting her slip free. "I told you three to stay in the barrier." He replied as everyone gathered noticed the walls started to shake with tremors once Magatsuhi had been vanquished for good.
Getsu punched his shoulder affectionately, seeing him wince a little before she smirked. "Y'should know by now that we only half-listen." She teased with a reflexive bump to his hip from her own.
Sesshomaru rolled his eyes and pulled her to his side by an instinctive grab on her waist, squeezing. "Don't remind me." He grumbled, looking down at catching the sight of burn marks on her hands; he lifted her right hand gingerly turning it over so the palm showed slight burns on her skin. His gold eyes tightened before he sighed patiently. "Reckless princess." He growled.
She blushed meekly and elbowed his ribs, holding his arm to her waist out of reflex. "Pack helps each other out, no matter what. You know that." She defended quietly.
"Getsu," both daiyokai looked at the hanyou and priestess; she blinked as she noticed the former's demon blood had receded so he looked like how he normally did. "Thanks for the help." He smiled slightly.
She shrugged out of her mate's arms and smiled sheepishly. "It was no big deal." She replied with a reflexive rub to her neck.
"Your hands," Korihime began concernedly at seeing the burn marks on her sister's palms.
Getsu shrugged innocently. "That barrier sure was strong; it's a wonder I was able to grab Tetsusaiga's hilt without being completely injured by the barrier." She replied.
Kagome frowned slightly before noticing the slightly pissy look the older of the two inu-yokai bore on his handsome face; she sweatdropped.
"We're going." Said Inu-Daiyokai declared, hooking his arm around his mate's waist and taking off into the rest of the body as it continued to shake.
"Sesshomaru!" Korihime sighed and scowled after him. "Jerk. Well, guess I'm staying with you two until we end this." She mused, rubbing her neck and looking at the hanyou and priestess.
InuYasha smirked at her before looking off where his brother went, scowling slightly. "Might give him time to cool off." He muttered.
Both females nodded sagely.
Getsu shirked out of his arms again and flew at his side instead. "Sesshomaru," she began.
"What is it?" Sesshomaru glanced at her.
She leaned in to kiss him, surprising the male, before he kissed back and let her slip away with a slight growl. "You did great; but you're being jealous." She declared quietly, smiling patiently.
Blush stained his cheeks pink before he snorted and looked away, allowing another growl. "How so?" He grated.
"Just because InuYasha paid me a compliment doesn't mean I don't love you; I always have loved you, you prat." She explained, keeping the same patient smile on her full lips.
Sesshomaru snorted again, glaring at the wall near him. "I should've just killed him with Bakusaiga when I had the chance." He growled.
Getsu shook her head softly and lifted a hand to pat his cheek. "You're brothers whether you like it or not, love. Remember that." She sighed.
He scowled in reluctant defeat at her words, lifting a hand to hold hers to his cheek, his gold eyes softening a moment later. "I hate it when you're right."
She smiled and felt him squeeze her hand. "Get used to it."
A/N: things are winding down kiddies. will Getsu and Sesshomaru find Rin? will Getsu and Korihime avenge their clan's death..? and will Naraku finally be slain?
until next chap, see ya! thanks for all the views and reviews; they really help spur me to write more. xD