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Chapter 121: A Horrible Past Unveiled; New Attack

(In the forest; the next morning)

Around the late morning in the forest, we find the two young dog hanyous, Inuyasha and Melody, assemble in front of their elder half-sister, Zera, and half-brother, Kenochi, waiting for them to teach them a new attack.

Inuyasha calls out, seriously, "Ane-ue, you promised you'll teach us the Blades of Blood trick!"

Melody says, seriously, "Yeah! We want to learn it!"

Zera says, with a sly smile, "You really want to learn it! But first, you'll have to learn this technique, before the Blades of Blood!"

Inuyasha and Melody ask curiously, "What is it?"

Zera tells Kenochi, pointing at a nearby tree, "Kenochi, please destroy that tree!"

Kenochi says, with a sly smile, "Sure!" Kenochi cracks his claws, dashes towards the tree, and yells out, strongly leaping forward, "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Kenochi slashes the tree, destroying it with yellow demonic energy, surprising Inuyasha and Melody.

Inuyasha says, surprised, "What was that! Ani-ue just slashed that tree into pieces with a single slash!"

Kenochi tells Inuyasha, "That, little brother, was the Sankon Tesso or Iron Reaver Soul Stealer! The way that you do it is to channel your yokai to your claws and it's powerful enough to slay an enemy in two! This will be your first attack that you'll learn before you learn the Hijin Ketsuso or Blades of Blood!"

Zera says, pointing at the two trees, "Okay, you two, pick one of these trees and that will be the tree that you'll cut down with your claws."

The two young hanyous walks toward their respectable trees and Inuyasha yells out, leaping forward, "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha tries to slashes the tree, but he couldn't make a mark on it. Inuyasha yells out, stunned, "That wasn't supposed to happen!"

Zera says, with a giggle, "You're supposed to place your yokai first, baby brother that way even your small claws can destroy a tree that size!

Melody says, as her small claws grew, "Like this, Ane-ue! Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Soon enough, Melody's claws slashes her tree, destroying it with red demonic energy, surprising everyone that she was able to get it on her first try.

Kenochi says, with a warm smile, "Good job, little sister!"

Melody says, with a wide smile, "I did what you told us to do and went with it!"

Deciding not to let his sister show him up even though she was older than him by two seconds, Inuyasha tries to imitate Melody, but all he got was small claw marks on the trunk of the tree. Inuyasha yells out, stunned, "No fair! Melody was able to do it in her first try!"

Melody says, with a sly smile, "Maybe it's because I'm older!"

Inuyasha yells out, annoyed, "That doesn't mean anything!"

Zera says, breaking them up, "Okay, you two! Melody, you did a good job on your first try and for that, you'll get to learn the Blades of Blood technique while Kenochi stays here with Inuyasha so he could finish his training." Soon enough, Zera walks off with Melody following her leaving Kenochi with Inuyasha.

Inuyasha says, with disbelief, "How did she do that on the first try! There's got to be something wrong here!"

Kenochi says, walking closer to his younger half-brother, "That's because just now, little brother, that Melody maybe able to pick up things to its smallest detail."

Inuyasha says, annoyed, "Oh man! That's not fair!"

Kenochi says, with a sly smile, "Well, it looks like you've got your work cut out for you!" Inuyasha then turns to the tree, cracks his little claws, and he calls out, leaping forward, "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha then tries to slash the tree in half with his small claws, determining to destroy it.

(With Melody; at the same time)

At the other part of the forest, we find Melody watching her elder half-sister fighting a red ogre type demon which ended with Zera slicing its head off with a purple version of Sesshomaru's Whip of Light, killing it as the whole body fell to the ground with a loud thud. Zera picks up the red ogre's head with her right hand easily and tosses it towards Melody as it crashes to the ground near her.

Zera tells Melody, in a serious tone, "Okay Melody, first dip your claws into the opened neck of that demon to get a handful of its blood!" Melody then did what Zera told her to do and Zera says, in a plain tone while pointing at a huge boulder, "Then, like the Iron Reaver Soul Stealer, use your yokai to harden the blood and then, use the blood and your yokai to throw them and split that boulder in half!"

Melody says, taking out her hands from the ogre's head, "Okay! Blades of Blood!" Melody throws the pieces of blood as they turn into yellow energy from her claws at the boulder, making huge dents on them.

Zera tells Melody, "I said, split the boulder, little sister! Like this…!" Zera then places her right claws into the ogre's head and she calls out, strongly, "Blades of Blood!" Zera then throws a barrage of dark violet-colored yokai energy at a random tree, cutting it down into pieces.

Melody exclaims, seriously, "Ane-ue, I can't do that!"

Zera says, with a serious glare, "What have I told you about the word 'can't', little sister!"

Melody says, while unnerved by Zera's glare, "The word 'can't' isn't in a woman's vocabulary!" Zera then walks towards her younger half-sister, knees down to her height, and she tells her, warmly, "Melody, do you remember the feeling that you experienced when Megumi, Holly, and your mother died?"

Melody says, solemnly, "I never wanted to experience that feeling ever again! It was too horrible when that happened!"

Zera says, in a plain tone, "Well, your mother entrusted you as well as Kenochi and I to Inuyasha's safety since you're the older one and you can't protect him when you have doubts in your mind. If you do, then you'll lose him, do you want that to happen?"

Melody then remembers on how she lost her mother and sisters, that horrible night where the Spirit World Defense Force took them away from her which got a horrible feel in her stomach and heart. Melody yells out, seriously, "No! I don't want that to happen ever again!" Melody then grabs a fistful of the ogre's blood and she yells out, strongly, "Blades of Blood!" Melody then fires a barrage of yellow yokai energy at the boulder, getting to cut it in half.

(Back to Inuyasha and Kenochi; in the late afternoon and early evening)

With Inuyasha, we find him trying to destroy the tree that he was assigned to cut down, but so far, he only got to major cuts onto it, but couldn't destroy it.

Inuyasha then crashes on his back and he yells out, exasperated, "This has got to be impossible! That big is just too big for me to cut down! Maybe, I'm not cut out to have this attack like Melody has since she was able to do it in her first try, but I'm not! I just can't do it! I'm just a little kid and Melody is older than me!"

Kenochi walks towards his younger half-brother and he asks, crutching down to him, "Little brother, what did I always tell you about the word 'can't'?"

Inuyasha says, worn out, "The word 'can't' isn't in a man's vocabulary, but Ani-ue, you at it! That tree is just too big for me to cut down! I'm just a kid!"

Kenochi says, in a plain tone, "But you wouldn't be a kid forever, you know. Suppose Melody, Yukiko, Sonoko, and Milo are in trouble and Ane-ue, Korvo-onii-chan, Suzame-onee-chan, and I aren't around, then what you do? You've got claws for a reason and it's to protect someone that you love and are you going to allow them to die like what happened to your mother, Megumi, and Holly?"

Inuyasha jumps onto his feet and he yells out, seriously, "No way! I don't want that to happen again!" Inuyasha jumps forward and he yells out, strongly as his small claws grew, "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha slashes his little claws as they glow golden onto the tree and miraculously cuts the tree in half, sending the piece of the tree down. Inuyasha exclaims, excitedly, "I did it! I finally cut that stupid tree down!"

Kenochi says, with a wide smile, "Good job, Inuyasha! Now, for your Blades of Blood training!"

Inuyasha says, with a nod, "Okay!"

Just then, a familiar female voice calls out, excitedly, "Good job, Inu-chan!" Inuyasha and Kenochi turn to see Suzame walking towards them.

Inuyasha exclaims, excitedly, "Suzame-onee-chan, did you see it!"

Suzame says, with a wide smile, "I sure did, kid!" Suzame then tells Kenochi, plainly, "Hey Kenochi, it's your turn to watch the kids in the castle!"

Inuyasha tells Suzame, with a child like pout, "But Ane-ue was going to teach me the Blades of Blood technique!"

Kenochi says to Inuyasha, motioning him to come over, "Inuyasha, come here!"

Inuyasha runs over to his older half-brother and Kenochi says, with a smile tapping Inuyasha's forehead, "Sorry little brother, maybe next time!"

Inuyasha says, rubbing his forehead, "Ow!" Inuyasha then glares at Kenochi's departing back as he leaves.

Suzame tells Inuyasha, with a kind smile while opening her arms, "Hey Inu-chan, come here!" Soon enough, Inuyasha runs forward to her, wraps his small arms around Suzame's slender waist and presses tight to her as Suzame falls towards another tree, sitting underneath the shades, and wraps her arms around the small hanyou's body, pressing him against her body.

Inuyasha says, lowly, "I miss mother!"

Suzame says, while brushing Inuyasha's hair with her hand, "I know, Inu-chan! I miss her too! She was like a second mother to me when my parents died against one of the wars with your father, who was a second father to me. You know why?"

Inuyasha asks, curiously while looking up at Suzame, "Why's that?"

Suzame says, with a wide smile, "Because you're like the little brother that I never had!"

Inuyasha places a wide smile on his lips and he says, snuggling against Suzame's chest, "Thank you, Suzame-onee-chan! You're like another big sister! Promise me that you'll never leave us!"

Suzame says, with a warm kind smile, "You know the answer to that question! I'll never leave you! I'll never someone that I love!"

Inuyasha says, with a smile, "Thank you, Suzame-onee-chan! I love you, my big sister!"

Suzame tells Inuyasha, with a kind smile, "And I love you too, my little brother!" Suzame leans down and press a kiss to Inuyasha's forehead.

Just then, a familiar female voice calls out, "Lady Suzame!" Inuyasha and Suzame turn to see Sonoko running towards them with a fearful and worried expression on her face.

Suzame asks, curiously, "What's wrong, Sonoko-chan!"

Sonoko tells them, with a worried tone, "It's Yukiko! I can't find her!"

Inuyasha says, pulling back, "She couldn't have been lost! She knows her way around here!"

Sonoko tells Inuyasha, worriedly, "That's the thing, Inu-kun! We can't find her! She's been gone since earlier this afternoon! She was gone for hours!"

Suzame says, shocked, "She was gone that long!" Inuyasha jumps away from Suzame's arms and he yells out, seriously, "We have to find her!"

Suzame tells Inuyasha, seriously, "Inuyasha, you go with Sonoko! I'll go get your sisters and inform them about this!"

Inuyasha says, with a nod, "Okay!" With that, Inuyasha and Sonoko rush away in one direction and Suzame runs to the direction to find Zera and Melody.

(Near a village; at the same time)

Near a village, we find the young fox hanyou, Yukiko, wondering out of the forest with a worried look on her face while carrying a doll with blonde hair, big blue eyes, and wearing a yellow and blue kimono in her arms. For the past few hours, Yukiko was chased by oni type demons and she managed to lose them, but she also managed to lose her way from Zera's territory, which got her worried. Just then, she bumped into something and a young boy's voice calls out, "Hey watch it!"

Yukiko looks up to see a human boy around the age of 10 with black hair and brown eyes and he wears a grey kimono and green pants while she sees other 10 year old boys wearing red kimonos and blue pants.

Yukiko says, worriedly, "I'm so sorry!"

When the three boys take a good look at Yukiko's fangs, they were overtaken by fear and they yell out, horrified and chorused, "A demon!" The three boys took off running away from Yukiko.

Yukiko calls out, pleadingly, "No wait! I was lost!"

Just then, Inuyasha's voice calls out, "Hey Yuki-chan!" Yukiko turns to see Inuyasha and Sonoko running towards her.

Sonoko exclaims, seriously, "Yukiko, where were you!"

Yukiko says, worriedly, "I'm sorry, onee-chan! I was chased by demons and I managed to lose them."

Inuyasha says, seriously, "Now, let's get out of here! Suzame-onee-chan went to get Ane-ue and Onee-chan to help look for you!"

Just then, the young boy's voice calls out, "There it is, father! That's the demon!" The three young hanyous turn to see the three young boys along with their fathers following them with weapons like pick axes and shovels walking towards them.

Another one of the boys yells out, nastily, "That's right! It looks like it brought more of its friends so they can attack us again!"

Yukiko yells out, pleadingly, "That's not true!"

One of the fathers says, nastily, "Don't you dare lie to us, you lowly, disgusting half-demon!"

The first boy says, perplexed, "Half-demon!"

The first father says, in a serious tone, "That's right, son! You can tell by the ears on their heads and they look more human than demon. Half-demons are the lowest of the low and will never be accepted by humans and demons alike since they're tainted! They were born as mistakes!"

The young hanyous winches at the hurtful words that we thrown at them and the second father says, with a sneer, "Now, let's make them pay for what they did to our sons!"

Just then, a familiar female voice calls out, strongly, "You touch them and you'll regret the day that you were all born!" Just then, Zera and Suzame appear in front of the group of humans, glaring at them with deadly serious tones that made them winches in fear.

The third father yells out, shocked, "Demons!"

Suzame says, while cracking her claws, "I'm giving you people the count of three and if you're still here, then I'll make your deaths very slow and very painful!" Without a word, the human group runs away from them not wanting to find deaths so soon. Soon enough, the two female dog demons turn to the young hanyous and Zera asks, with concern, "Are you three okay?"

Inuyasha yells out, seriously, "Ane-ue, those human boys lied about Yuki-chan attacking them! Yuki-chan would never do such a horrible thing!"

Sonoko says, angrily, "This is one of the reasons why I hate humans with the exception my dead papa!"

Suzame says, in a plain tone, "I know how you all must feel! Humans fear what they can't understand. They're just plain ignorant that's all! Just don't let them get to you, okay!"

Zera says, in a serious tone, "Now, it's late! I think that we should head over to the castle! Let's go!" With that, the two dog demons and three young hanyous walk towards the direction where Zera's castle was at.

(Five days later; the morning by Zera's castle)

It's been five days since Yukiko was found after getting lost and we find the young Inuyasha practicing his Blades of Blood technique as he grabs a fistful of blood from a severed oni type demon's head. Inuyasha was very envious of his older twin sister, Melody, for finishing her Iron Reaver Soul Stealer and Blades of Blood training, because she has a ability to pick up things to the smallest detail and able to finish her training of those techniques a lot faster than he could.

Inuyasha says, grabbing other fistful of demon blood on his hands, "Okay, here goes! Blades of Blood!" Inuyasha rushes over to a random tree, slashes the air, which turns the blood in his hands into red slash arcs, cutting the tree with ease. Inuyasha yells out, excitedly, "I did it!"

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, "Good job, Inuyasha!" Inuyasha whip his head to see Korvo walking towards him.

Inuyasha says, with a smile, "Hey Korvo-onii-chan!"

Korvo says, with a kind smile, "I see that you've managed to fully mastered your Blades of Blood technique!"

Inuyasha says, with a pout, "Yeah but I wasn't able to get it down fast like Onee-chan did!"

Korvo says, with a small laugh, "Don't let that get to you!" Korvo crotches down to Inuyasha's height level and he says, with a smile, "They are some people who are born with different types of talents!"

Inuyasha says, annoyed, "But why does Onee-chan have to be born with a talent that could make her finish her training faster than mine! It's not fair!"

Korvo says, with a sad smile, "Well, sometimes life can be very unfair, Inuyasha, but that doesn't mean that you should give up! Didn't you just finish your Iron Reaver Soul Stealer and Blades of Blood training just now?"

Inuyasha says, lowly, "Yeah, but it's more embarrassing that she's a girl and she beat me even if she's older than me than three seconds!"

Korvo then let's out a laugh and he says, with a smile, "The inferior younger sibling thing! Yeah, I think I've been down that road before."

Inuyasha says, perplexed, "You have?"

Korvo says, with a sad smile, "Yeah! My older sister! She used to beat me in everything, fighting and hunting! It infuriated me to no end to where that I wished for her to disappear forever!"

Inuyasha asks, curiously, "What happened?"

Korvo then gains a solemn expression and he says, sadly, "Ane-ue was killed along with my parents by a skilled demon slayer while protecting me! Just as that demon slayer was going to kill me, you father saved my life while killing the demon slayer. My sister died protecting me while she was alive, I hated her for being so perfect." Korvo then tells Inuyasha, plainly, "Don't you see, Inuyasha? Sometimes having an older sibling that's a little bit stronger than you isn't exactly a bad thing, it's just someone to surpass in time."

Inuyasha asks, curiously, "So did you surpass your sister?"

Before Korvo could respond, Melody's voice calls out, "Korvo-onii-chan!" Korvo and Inuyasha look to see Sonoko and Melody running towards them.

Korvo asks, curiously, "What's going on?"

Sonoko calls out, worriedly, "It's Yukiko, again! We can't find her!"

Inuyasha says, surprised, "She left again!"

Melody says, in a serious tone, "Yeah! I can't pick up her scent!"

Korvo says, in a serious tone, "I can! It's not a good sign since I smell a few humans with closing in on her!"

Sonoko exclaims, worriedly, "We have to find her!"

Korvo stands up and he says, seriously, "You kids stay here!"

Inuyasha tells Korvo, seriously, "Korvo-onii-chan, I want to come with you too! Yuki-chan is my friend too!"

Melody says, seriously, "Yeah and a few humans aren't going to stop us! We're half-demons and I know a few new tricks that Ane-ue taught me to get them to back off!" Unknown to Melody, Inuyasha winches at the thought that his older twin sister knew new tricks from his elder half-sister.

Sonoko says, seriously, "And I want to find her too!"

Korvo says, in a sigh, "Zera's going to kill me!" Korvo says, in a plain tone, "Okay, you guys can come but when it gets too dangerous! Get back okay!"

The three young hanyous yell out, in unison, "Yes!"

(With Yukiko; at the same time)

At another part of the forest, we find the little fox hanyou, Yukiko, picking up wild berries in a bush, with a smile on her face and Yukiko says, happily, "I like these!"

Just a male voice calls out, "There she is!" Yukiko turns to see the same three human fathers that she along with Inuyasha and Yukiko met five days ago and with them was a priestess.

This priestess was a young woman around 18 years old with long black hair and narrowed brown eyes and she was wearing a black and dark violet priestess uniform. In her right hand was a red spear.

The first human father tells the priestess, in a serious tone, "Lady Nula, this is the same little dirty half-breed that attacked my son and his friends!"

Yukiko exclaims, seriously, "I didn't do anything!"

The priestess, Nula, says, with a harsh snort, "And why should I believe you, little vermin!"

Yukiko says, seriously, "I didn't do anything to him! I just bumped into him!"

Nula says, preparing her weapon, "Don't speak lies, half-breed! Prepare yourself!" Nula charges after Yukiko, ready to kill her, but Yukiko quickly moves out of the way, only to be scratched at her left side by the blade of Nula's spear. Soon enough, Yukiko starts to winches from the cut and she falls to her knees, while holding her injury.

Nula says, with a sly smile, "It seems that you were cut from my spear! This is a special spear made from Priestess magic that would fatality injure anyone with demon blood. If it cuts a half-demon like yourself, just once, it won't be as fatal of, but it will stunt you for an hour and for a second time, it will be just as fatal. So, half-breed, any last words before you leave this world?"

Just then, a familiar male voice calls out, strongly, "Get away from her!" Just then, Nula was kicked away from Yukiko by Korvo's foot, throwing her the ground. Just then, Korvo appears in front of Yukiko while glaring at the humans.

Yukiko calls out, happily, "Korvo-onii-chan!"

The second father yells out, shocked, "It's another demon!" Just then, Inuyasha, Melody, and Sonoko come in to Yukiko's aid and Melody asks, with a concern, "Are you okay, Yuki-chan!"

Yukiko says, winching from her injury, "I'm fine!"

Nula jumps on her feet and she yells out, angrily, "You're going to pay for that, demon!"

Yukiko yells out to Korvo, seriously, "Korvo-oni-chan, don't get cut from that weapon of hers! It'll kill you at the first cut since you're a full fledged demon!"

Korvo yells out, shocked, "What!"

Nula says, with a sly tone, "The little half-breed is telling the truth, demon! One cut from my Gamigiri spear will instantly kill you!"

Korvo asks, seriously, "Why are you attacking Yukiko? She's done nothing wrong!"

Nula says, in a serious tone, "On the contrary, these men told me that half-breed fox attacked their sons! That can't be forgiven!"

Inuyasha yells out, seriously, "That's not true! Yuki-chan would never do such a thing!"

Korvo says, in a serious tone, "That's true! Yukiko is a kind hearted girl and would never do that!"

Nula says, with a snort, "So you say, demon! I've got a question to ask you! Why a demon like yourself would protect half-demons! They're the lowest of the low! They're dirty, lowly, disgusting, pathetic, and worthless creatures!"

The young hanyous winches at the harsh words and Korvo says, in a serious tone, "The reason why I protect them is that they need me! That's all the reason to protect them from people like you! These children need guidance like any other children, human, demon, and half-demon!"

Nula says, in a snort, "I guess that beasts will be beasts! It doesn't matter to me! You beasts will die today!" Nula then charges after Korvo, but Korvo quickly moves out of the way, but when Korvo sees the sinister sly grin on Nula's lips, he realized that it was the young half-demons that she was after all along.

Korvo yells out, seriously, "Everyone, get out of the way!"

Nula yells out, strongly, "It's too late! They die!" Just as Melody was to stop her, Yukiko grabs onto Melody's kimono top and throws herself in front of her as Nula's spear hits Yukiko's chest and back, fatality wounding her.

Inuyasha yells out, horrified, "Yuki-chan!"

Sonoko and Korvo yell out, shocked, "Yukiko!"

Melody yells out, enraged, "You're going to pay for that! Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" Melody lunges after Nula without even giving Nula time to notice as Melody's claws, ripped through her shoulder, giving her more than a fatal wound and cutting her in half.

The third father yells out, shocked, "The little half-breed killed Lady Nula!"

The second father calls out, seriously, "Let's get out of here!" The three human men run away from the young half-demons, but Melody wasn't going to allow them to leave.

Melody yells out, strongly, "You're not going to leave here alive!"

Korvo yells out, pleadingly, "Melody, stop!" However, it was too late, as Melody calls out her second attack.

"Blades of Blood!"

Melody uses Nula's blood that was on her small claws to turn them into yellow shrunken of light, quickly cutting the three humans down into pieces. The others were shocked and horrified of this action caused by their friend and sister. When Melody came to her senses, she discovered the scent of Nula's blood on her claws and the cut up bodies of Nula and the three humans on the ground as well as their blood staining the ground. When she looked at this, Melody had a horrified expression on her face and she asks, lowly, "Did I do this!"

Inuyasha says, taking a step further, "Onee-chan…"

Melody says, horrified, "I did, didn't I? I was the one who killed these humans."

Korvo says, plainly, "Melody, you…"

Sonoko's voice calls out, horrified, "Yukiko!" Everyone turns to see Sonoko cradling the dying body of her sister and Inuyasha yells out, horrified, "No Yuki-chan!"

Sonoko yells out, seriously, "Yukiko, please hang on!"

Korvo crutches down, places his hand onto Sonoko's right shoulder, and he tells her, solemnly, "I'm sorry, Sonoko, but…!"

Yukiko says, in a dying tone, "On…onee-chan…it…looks like I'll be going to see mama and papa soon!"

Sonoko yells out, pleadingly, "Don't say that! You're going to be okay!"

Inuyasha thinks in his mind, angrily and solemnly, "It's happening again! I'm losing all of my loved ones! Just like mother, Holly, and Megumi!"

Yukiko says, with the last of her dying breath, "I…love you…onee-chan…!" Soon enough, Yukiko's body went limp as she closes her eyes, forever, drifting away from this world.

Sonoko yells out, horrified, "YUKIKO!" Sonoko then sobs onto her sister's form while Inuyasha and Melody were also shredding tears and Korvo was doing his best to prevent shredding his tears. Just then, Zera, Suzame, and Renta came running and Zera asks, curiously, "What's going on!"

Melody tells Zera, solemnly, "Ane-ue…Yu…Yuki-chan…she's gone…!"

Zera, Suzame, and Renta looks at Yukiko's dead body in Sonoko's arms while Sonoko was sobbing and Renta yells out, horrified, "Yukiko-chan! What happened!"

Inuyasha says, angrily, "The humans that Yukiko met with five days ago, Renta! They called a priestess and she killed Yukiko, but Onee-chan killed her and the three humans that were with that priestess!"

Suzame says, horrified, "Oh no!"

Renta yells out, angrily, "I can't believe this happened! Why Yukiko-chan! She didn't do anything wrong! She would never do anything wrong!"

Inuyasha says, angrily, "No! She wouldn't! But those human boys lied about her attacking them! It wasn't fair!"

Zera walks over to Sonoko sobbing form, kneels by her, and she tells her, soothingly, "Sonoko, I'm sorry for your loss. I know that it wasn't fair that your sister was taken away." Sonoko looks at Zera with tear stained eyes and Zera says, in a soothing tone, "Come on! Let's head back!"

Sonoko nods while she sniffs and she carries her sister's dead body, bridal style, and follows the others back others back to the direction to Zera's castle. Far in the distance, we notices a pair of human eyes that had a grief and terrified glint at the site of Nula's cut up body.

(Later on; in the night)

On the steps of Zera's castle, we find Melody sitting there with a solemn look on her face at the events that happened earlier. After they arrived at the castle, Zera gave the news about Yukiko's death and everyone was real sad about it, even NekitaKariba found out when Kenochi snuck into her village and told her the news. She was horrified about the news that she went to Zera's castle to comfort Sonoko as best as she can.

Melody thinks in her mind, horrified, "I can't believe that this happened! I killed those humans without hesitation at all and to top it all off, Yuki-chan was killed! I couldn't handle mother's, Megumi's, and Holly's deaths and I don't think that I can handle me killing those humans either."

Just then, Zera's voice rings from behind, "There you are!" Melody turns to see her elder half-sister walking behind her and sits by her.

Zera tells Melody, in a plain tone, "Inuyasha told me what happened! You killed those humans with the attacks that I taught you."

Melody says, in a plain tone, "I'm sorry, Ane-ue! It's just when I saw Yuki-chan getting killed by that priestess and those humans allowed it, I got angry and killed them. Those human boys lied about Yuki-chan attacking them. She would never do that!"

Zera says, with a sigh, "I know, Melody, but that doesn't make what you did, right!"

Melody says, in a plain tone, "I know! Mother would say the same thing too! She got mad when I beat up the human boys from our home village for picking on Holly."

Zera places her right arm around Melody, pulling her close to her, and Melody tells Zera, while at the verge of tears, "I was going to take the hit but Yuki-chan pulled me and got hit herself! If it wasn't for me, then Yuki-chan wouldn't have died!"

Zera tells Melody, seriously, "Don't say that, Melody! Yukiko really cared for you and she didn't want you to get hurt! You were like a sister to her and she couldn't bear it if you got hurt! She also cared for Inuyasha, Renta, and Sonoko! Right now, Sonoko needs our support since she must feel that she's alone in the world after losing her parents and sister."

Melody wipes her tears away and nods in reply saying, "I'll go see her." Melody gets up from the stairs while Zera follows her inside and when they got to the back, they see Inuyasha, Sonoko, Renta, and NekitaKariba kneeling down towards Yukiko's grave, where they managed to find some stones and follows for her grave. Melody slowly walks towards them and the young hanyous picked on her scent as they turn to her.

Sonoko says, croaky, "Mel-chan…!"

Melody says, in a plain tone while her eyes were gaining tears, "So-chan, I'm…sorry…Yuki-chan wouldn't have died if it hadn't been for me…"

Sonoko says, wiping her tears away, "Don't say that, Mel-chan! I don't blame you for that! Yuki-chan would have wanted you to live!"

Inuyasha tells Melody, plainly, "Onee-chan, besides Ane-ue and Ani-ue, you're the only one family that I have left! I've lost mother, Megumi, and Holly and I don't want to lose you."

Renta says, with a sly smile, "Yeah! Who would I make fun of or insult if you're gone?"

Melody's solemn expression turns into an annoyed one and she yells at Renta, angrily, "Now, I've gotten me into a worse mood, you jerk!" Melody then says, in a plain tone, "That doesn't change that I'm going to let Yuki-chan's death be for nothing."

Sonoko says, with a kind smile, "I'm glad, Mel-chan!" Sonoko then hugs Melody with her arms around her neck with a smile on her lips while Zera was looking at this with a smile on her face.

Just then, Kenochi comes in and he asks, curiously, "Who's she holding up?"

Zera says, with a smile, "I don't think that we have to worry, Kenochi! Melody's a strong girl and she won't let anything get her down when she has friends like them."

Kenochi says, with a smile, "I'm glad that she's okay, Sissy!" Just then, Zera's fist crashes onto Kenochi's head causing a lump to take place on his head and Zera says, with an annoyed look, "I thought we agreed for you not to call me that!" Kenochi feels his head with aching pain while he watches his younger half-siblings like with their friends with a smile on his face, without knowing that the future of Inuyasha and Melody will take the worst turn when their friend, Yukiko, was taken to death's door…

To be continued…

~Next time~

Inuyasha: It's been eight years since Yuki-chan's death and Onee-chan and I are helping Ane-ue with the new half-demon children.

Melody: There's a priestess killing half-demons at sight! I'm starting to hate this girl!

Sonoko: Next time: A Horrible Past Unveiled: Death and Betrayal

Renta: Why have you turned on us!