Chapter XIII: The Unimaginable Revelation

Suddenly while they were still talking, Inuhime woke and rose up screaming and crying, "No!" She was sweating and panting. She looked around while people was staring at her as if they were saying, 'Are you alright?' She quickly ran out of the hut. Sesshomaru followed not knowing that the rest did the same.

"Inuhime!"

"It was all my fault, Sesshomaru!"

"What was your fault?

"It was my fault that father died! I should had been the one dead; not him!"

"It wasn't your fault. Father chose to go there alone."

"That's where you are wrong, brother! Have you ever wonder where his body and his swords went to?"

"No matter! It was in the past. You need to let go, sister!"

"Why should I? I have no future. I can't even have pups because...*let out an exhausted sigh*... Because of Naraku."

Sesshomaru, Kagome, and her friends gasped in horror even knowing that Naraku is in Hell, where he belonged.

Suddenly, Inuhime was feeling some what of a pulse demonic energy concentrated around the area where the hanyou had died. She asked as she was pointing at the direction, "Is that where Inuyasha had fallen?"

Everyone at first hesitated and then Sango answered, "Yes, that's where he'd died. Why?"

"I am feeling a pulse of demonic energy from there. It isn't Inuyasha's either. It's a negative surge of energy."

She couldn't help, but walk over there like she was in a trance. As soon as she stepped on the exact spot where the dark energy was at. She began seeing the battle through his eyes. The only thing is that there seemed to be two pairs of eyes that she seeing through. One pair of eyes what she had seen through was looking at Inuyasha. While the other pair was looking at them in a different angle, where his eyes was able to see the Tetsusaiga and to where it would fall if the Hanyou would had lost the youkai sword. Sesshomaru was worried about his sister and so was Kagome. Inuhime was starring into oblivion without blinking her eyelids. After that seemed to take an eternity, Kagome starred into her eyes. Her eyes was distant and there was red flashing in her pupils. Then she touched her shoulder and Inuhime just collapsed. Sesshomaru then carried his sister back to the hut. He laid her down on her pelt; then he covered her with a blanket that Kagome brought from her birth era.

"Sesshomaru?"

"Hm."

"Is she going to be ok?"

"Yes, she'll be fine. She just needs to rest, Kagome."

"When are we returning home, Sesshomaru?"

"In the morning, at sunrise. You should get rest."

She nodded and lied down on the other side of Inuhime.

In the morning, the pack said their good-byes and making their way back home. Sesshomaru also had invited them to the palace whenever they are near the Western Lands. It would take about a weeks time to get to the palace. They weren't really in a hurry to get home. Rin really took a liking to Inuhime as she did with Kagome. All three would giggle talking about flowers and different types of plants that are for healing. Even when one that one could eat in such. Sesshomaru enjoyed their conversations at least until they wanted to braid flowers into Sesshomaru's long, beautiful, silver hair. HE glared at them.

He said, "No one will braid any flowers into this Sesshomaru's hair." Rin and Kagome pouted.

Inuhime thought, "We shall see about that little brother." With that she smirked inwardly.

It was now noon, Sesshomaru came to a halt.

"We will rest here while here while this Sesshomaru go hunting. Shippo, you are to gather firewood and have it ready before I return."

"Yes, my lord."

"This Rin will help you."

"Kagome, if you and the others want to wash up. There's a spring not far from here. Inuhime, watch over them."

"Of course, brother."

With that said and done, he ran and disappeared in the woods. It was about an hour or two when he returned with a buck deer. He had the buck skinned, gutted, and cleaned; he had it ready for the fire. They had already lit up the fire. Kagome and Sesshomaru began cooking it has Inuhime and the children were playing until the food was ready. Afterwards, they napped underneath a shade tree. Sesshomaru had his back against the shade tree's trunk as he embraced Kagome. She lied against his warm, well-toned chest as Rin and Shippo snuggled against Ah-Un. The two-headed dragon, itself, was lying down comfortably on the soft, green grass below.
All was seemed serene until the children and Kagome were startled by a horrible sounds screams and roars of horde of demons. Sesshomaru was displeased and noticed that Inuhime wasn't among them. He started growling, which really startled Kagome.

Kagome asked, "What's wrong?"

"Inuhime isn't here."

"What? She was here a while ago."

"I know. She…" he heard her screaming. His eyes widen in horror. Suddenly he realized that the screaming wasn't just anyone's but, hers; his twin. Kagome quickly sat up as he swiftly stood up and help his miko up in the process, which really took her by surprised how quickly that happened.

Sesshomaru said to Kagome, "Stay here and put up a barrier around the camp until I return."

As soon as he left the area to search for his sister, Kagome did as she told. Sesshomaru hurried across the forest. He growled as his inner beast was furious. The reason was because he smelled the blood of his sister. Extreme amounts of blood that he could smell; not just her blood, but her scent of fear. Then he finally had her in his sight. There were almost the same amounts of demons that attack the small village when the hanyou died. He snarled and bared his fangs at those damn demons that dare came only to harm him and his pack. He was enraged by the time he got there and used his own youkai sword, Bakusaiga. As quickly as they appeared, they disappeared as they all turned into ashes before him. He turned in looked at his twin. She was holding the only place that was wounded about two hundred years ago. He knelt down to her….

"Sister, what happened here?" She was just staring at him, but he noticed that it wasn't him that she was seeing in her eyes. It was the person who took Inuyasha's life and had taken the Tetsusaiga.

"Sister, snap out of it!" She blinked her eyes as if she has just woken up from a nap. Her eyes widen and suddenly winced at the pain that she felt from her wound.

Sesshomaru checked the wound and to his relief; it wasn't fatal, maybe more like a flesh wound.
He lift his perfect brow and said, "Sister, tell me what happened and why you were away from the pack?"

She looked at him with horror and guilt. She responded, "I don't remember how I got here. All I know is that I felt the same demonic aura that was at the village. I guess I had one of those visions." She laughed nervously.

"And you think this Sesshomaru finds it amusing to see his twin injured?"

"No! I know you find it amusing at all."

He sighed and said, "No matter. Just don't do that again. Come, we need to start moving." She nodded and returned back to the pack. They started back on their journey home once again.

Meanwhile, Kagome was under attack by another horde of demons.

She thought, "Thank Kami that I did put up a barrier after Sesshomaru left because I didn't sense this horde coming." Shippo and herself were killing demons left and right. Suddenly out of nowhere Sesshomaru and Inuhime came blazing out of the forest with their eyes glowing red and with their natural weapons flying everywhere. Sesshomaru's wipe was green and his twin's was violet. They gracefully and elegantly wiped out all the demons that were there. Kagome, the kit, and Rin watched in utter horror and in awe seeing all the gore and blood splashed and settled around them. Thank goodness that the barrier blocked that too because it was a bloody mess.

Afterwards, Kagome let go of the barrier as Sesshomaru went towards her. He gave her a deep and passionate kiss until they both pulled away gasping for air. Sesshomaru rested his forehead against hers and asked, "Are you and the children alright?"

"Yes, we are all fine."

He smiled at her and said aloud, "Good! We'll keep walking until dawn." With that said, they continued on...

At dawn, the pack made camp near a river. Rin and Shippo set up camp, while Kagome and Inuhime found some wild berries and vegetables for their coming meal. Sesshomaru went hunting and killed a healthy buck deer. He skinned, gutted, and cleaned the meat before making his way back to the camp. Inuhime used her claws to cut the deer in sections, and then she used a magical trick, that her father taught her when she was still a pup, to keep the meat cold and fresh. She also used some huge fern leaves to package them up. So that way, the blood won't drop anywhere or everywhere and had any influence on any carnivorous youkai or any other predators that could sniff them out. The deer should last until they reached the Western Palace.

Everyone was satisfied with their meal. Rin and the kit snuggled alongside of the two-headed dragon a sleep. Inuhime and Kagome were siting by the campfire, while the daiyoukai went to patrol around their had something back of her mind nagging the crap out of her.

She said, "Inuhime, I was wondering what you had seen back at the village. You seemed so distant. I was worried about you."

"Well, I had a vision on what had happened on that fateful day, but in deeper detail then my previous one. I saw through two pairs of eyes. Both pair is of the same person who had killed Inuyasha and had taken the Tetsusaiga. I had even seen the person who had done it. But unfortunately some parts of him were blurry and the others were clear. All I know is unless I get those images out of my head. I won't be able to have a dissent night's sleep."

"What about those two separate hordes of demons? What was that about?"

Sesshomaru suddenly spoke up and answer that question as the women were startled when he returned to the camp, "It seems to me that whoever our threat is… is after the both of you. Also it seems to attack while I am not around. Inuhime, I want you to stay close to Kagome, Rin, and the kit, while I am away whether I am patrolling around the camp, going hunting, or even going to bathe."

Inuhime said, "Very well."

"Good."

Kagome said, "How far is it to the palace?"

Sesshomaru answered, "About a week's time. The deer that I hunted earlier should last that long. That way, this Sesshomaru will be here whenever trouble commences. I will be here to obliterate the enemy before it could dare to do any harm to this one's pack." He said this with such a husky voice that it made Kagome shiver (in a good way, of course.)

Inuyasha (c) Rumiko Takahashi

Fanfiction & OCs (c) kamorris