A Little Too Late
~ Chapter Fifteen~
Thus Lay Hidden In Darkness, Indeed May Soon Rise To Fall,
Then Follow It's Passing
By Inuyashas Youkai
Separation lingers amongst the greatest foes , and magnificent heroes, but what lies within the ties that brings our never-ending victory, grows strongest inside the smallest of hearts.
Darkness breeds chaos within even the simplest forms, evil lurks in the smallest of shadows , and the only light guiding the lost on their way is the lone spark, of a oblivious moon , traveling upon its own path, but... What would occur if the only guardian leading the blind home, was snuffed out, and now in it's glowing hue , bled the color of crimson.
For this shall bring the beginning of an end , and start anew a world covered in chaos , death, and darkness, drenching itself in the lost , soaking in it's life-source.
Thus time has come...
In a room , shaken with bitterness , and turmoil, had now reached it's end , and now in it's place emerged a silent calm, frozen in stillness, at least for the moment . Pair's of eyes meticulously scanned round the room until all found them coming upon the two lying thrown , encased in one another on the floor. To the one's looking the two merely appeared to be dead, but only one knew better , for that one's senses told otherwise. Unsteady hearts slowed to rhythmic beats, following the shallow , rushed breaths evening to calmer pants , but all who was in that room knew that this was only the calm before the storm. In due short time the numbing quite would end , by the one whom saw the end coming.
"Out Now !" A fierce growl rattling the walls , spat from the one with bleeding eye's , Sesshomeru.
Without pause , after the knowing jump that each form possessed once hearing the howling yelled command , could'nt disobey even if one wanted to , because within , the words held finality. Loud , thundering footstep's crossed the threshold , leading into the room , and only stopping shortly on the way out in the realization that the barrier keeping them from the two, covered within copious amounts of blood, but the Inuyoukai lord wouldn't have it , for what direction this path was leading. Therefore the eldest of the two demon kin, Sesshomeru snatched up the remaining two , the kit , as well as the slayer ,dragging them out kicking and screaming , slamming the door shut, locking it firmly behind them.
Hushed barks, and pants then followed, going unheard, unless youi were of that of a demon.
"I've done all I can little brother , the rest is up to you ..Choose well Inuyasha, or all of this can very well be the end of us all. Make no mistakes.." Sesshomeru's words cloaked in a hidden language between brother's fallen from his lip's flowing behind him , as he lead the others to safety.
The grounds soon violently shook, walls rattled , and the stone's that once held them both together, then crumbled. A fiery gleam unshielded itself from within the glory of one's once golden orbs, glaring at nothing in particular , but vengeance for the loss of one of his. At the moment everything that moved was a enemy for what had been done, nothing was innocent in his eye's . The only thing remained beneath the being that now reigned within the beast , one single thing that still gave proof that the monster that now stood was still that of the hanyou inside, Inuyasha, and that was the snearing retort to that of his brother.
" Don't I know it asshole , never fret though I'll see ya ice cube factory on the other side ,along with my mate. "
Other than those words shielded within the speech of canine's , Inuyasha looked no different than from what he appeared on countless occasions when he lost himself to his demon counterpart. The flames in his eyes, the growing sharpness of his elongating fangs , the blades coming forth from his fingertips growing ever so sharply, the jagged angry streaks of violet raging against his flesh, just beneath his twin orbs of wicked flames, were all them , and the same within the visions of the past. Although before the transformation allowed was complete , the floors gave out from under them , and both plundered into the ensnaring darkness.
Though before they hit the bottom of the blackened abyss a blinding whistle , exploding forth with a outwards beam , and tossing each form onto the wet, hard , concrete trapped within shadows. The beast righted himself after catching the limp body that was now held within his arms , pulled close to his chest tightly , before laying her gently upon that of his haori , that was laid out for her first on the ground. Turning towards the heavy weight down at his side, a pressure that was now felt upon his side sharing the place of his Tetsuseiga, and was also bearing the temporary home of two others: The Tenseiga , and the Sounga.
Knowing that much had to be done still , the monster containing the hanyou held back on his celebration at least for now, because now he had to care for his mate alone, and soon fight for the birthright of keeping her. With that in mind , the demonic form of Inuyasha began a fire , and tended to Kagome's wounds from the fall. Lightly stroking through her hair with that of his claws, as they grazed over her bruised , and bloody skin of her face. Speaking to her, in the only way that he knew she would understand ,now that the remaining part of her human soul had already left her, as the scars that torn through her flesh were all but healing proved it, as well as the searing marks upon her face that appeared in their place.
" Awaken , Kagome... Rise my mate , and remember what it means to fall."
TBC...