InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ To Awaken ( Chapter 36 )

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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, InuYasha, Inu-Yasha… or however you want to spell it. I also don't own Beautiful Senshi Sailor Moon, Beautiful Soldier Sailor Moon, Pretty Guardian Sera Muun… or whatever you want to call it.

Warning: A bit of SPOILERS in this chapter.

Chapter Thirty Five.

`To Awaken'

Somewhere else… a similarly violent scene was taking place by a certain lake.

“Kanna's summoned… a giant monster youkai from her mirror to attack us, and then she just walked away?”

“She didn't go far… look! She's up there, on that cliff, watching us fight her puppet together along with Byakuya!”

“That thing… right after I tried slicing it with my sword… it also created a Tetsusaiga of its own! …What is happening?!”

“Inuyasha, watch out!”

“The wind scar?! That monster's sword has just been able to perform my technique of the wind scar with that fake Tetsusaiga?!”

“That is because the giant puppet made of crystal that Kanna summoned from her mirror, and out of the lake, is a mirror youkai, a mirror demon… it reflects all the opponent's attacks exactly like a mirror”

“No, it's not only the original Tetsusaiga's exact mirror reflection regarding just appearance… look; it's also copied its powers, and stolen them away! It's left my Tetsusaiga as a mere ordinary sword! However, I can feel it… Tetsusaiga hasn't given up yet! It is asking to borrow my youkai power. It wants to fight it along with me! …I will show that creature the truepower of Tetsusaiga… … …Ugh! I hit it with all I had with my sword, and it still didn't leave a mark on this monster!”

“Mhm, the view of the battle from up here is quite interesting, don't you agree? What do you think has happened to Inuyasha's face, Kanna? He looks like a full youkai…but he's still in full possession of his mind… Eh?! Kanna, that wound on your chest… in the same place where the mirror demon was hit by the hanyou! Does this mean, that you're receiving all the hits done upon your puppet, and taking its wounds into yourself?”

But Kanna never outwardly answered Byakuya's question. She didn't speak, or whimper, or cry in pain every time her puppet sustained another wound from the Tetsusaiga… not even when Inuyasha managed to strike one of the monster's eyes…

“What's this? Kanna… she is missing an eye?! The wounds in Kanna's body… are the same ones I gave the mirror youkai!” Inuyasha realized.

“Kanna, stop this please!” Kagome shouted “If you keep fighting, you will die!”

“Well, aren't you considerate, showing concern for your enemy?” Byakuya admonished mockingly.

“I'm only telling her to stop with this senseless fighting!”

“She's only obeying her orders… Honestly, what a funny group you are… if it'd been me” Byakuya told them “the moment I found that Kanna and her puppet were connected, I would have gone after Kanna without thinking it twice”

“Kanna… with the path you're taking, it will take only one attack more before you're destroyed!” Inuyasha tried to warn her, ignoring Byakuya “Don't give your life up for something like this! It isn't worth it!”

Meanwhile, something the Inu-tachi was not aware of was that their very enemy was listening into everything that was happening.

“Hehehe, fools… are they trying to feel for Kanna? They're only wasting their energy… for Kanna doesn't feel a thing. No pain, fear or sadness… nothing at all. Least of all is she able to react to someone else's compassion. Those things mean nothing to her... Don't give up just yet, Kanna, not until Inuyasha's sword is destroyed. You know this was the reason you were born...”

However, at the lake, the inuhanyou's group was catching things up fast.

“The mirror demon's fake Tetsusaiga has stolen my sword's youkai power… but myTetsusaiga is still a sword able to absorb the powers and techniques of the enemy… so, if I manage to cut that imitation sword in two, the Tetsusaiga's powers will surely be absorbed back into it!” Inuyasha reasoned aloud.

“That might be true, Inuyasha” Miroku warned “but Tetsusaiga's already received too many cracks and fissures from the mirror youkai, so you must hurry! If you don't; at the speed that this is going on, you and your sword are soon going to be done for!”

`Naraku… I'm sure his plan is for Kanna and Inuyasha to end destroying each other…' Kagome thought glumly.

Back in the other part of the forest…

“Please... I could not care less what you think. Do as you wish with me, but I can't and I won't allow you to hurt her!!” the second voice, the one of the newcomer, shouted.

That voice…

Despite her fogged up mind, she still was capable to recognize it.

She'd heard it before… many of times.

Some newborn spark of light began to shine in the depths of Usagi's deadened eyes. She felt herself become enveloped by an unknown though also strangely familiar power as well… her body starting to emit a brilliant, silver light.

`…Aku…?'

Slowly, the blond was returning back to consciousness as she heard her friend confronting the odd man of the mask.

Neither of them had apparently noticed that till just seconds ago, her entire body had been covered in a dim light… and Usagi hadn't either.

“I see you have been using the same technique as the Western Lord… Who are you?” Aku's voice demanded “why do you seek to hurt Usagi-sama?”

“Whatever connections I have with the Lord of the West, are for my knowledge alone, boy; so is my business with your precious Usagi-sama” the subject almost spit out the title, threateningly and despising “Who do you think you're talking to, insolent kid? You better step aside and let me deal with her, because you can not defeat the great Shishinki….you're way over your head”

Shishinki?… so this was the guy's name?

“I told you I will NOT let you touch her!” the male incarnation shouted.

“Fine, then… reckless twit. You WILL be punished!!!” the stranger, Shishinki, yelled as he waved his staff towards him, sending another of his electrical shocks.

Seeing the huge blast of electricity headed straight for him at unavoidable speed, the male incarnation had the time to let out a small gasp before it got him.

But then…

“AAAAAARRRRGGGGGhhhh!!!!!!!!!!”

“-AKU!!!” her dear friend's exclamations of pain were what finally got her fully awake.

However, even when she'd again become aware, she found that she'd grown so weak from the great amount of blood loss that it took all of her might just to be able to get up.

Clutching one of her wounded sides, she yelled at the masked man in total distress “S-STOP!!! Let him g-go! It's m-me who you want… is-isn't it?!”

This was all she managed to say before what little strength she had left abandoned her completely, making her fall straight back to the merciless, cold unforgiving ground as a result.

`I can not move… I can barely stand… NO!! How am I going to be able help Aku?! …But I HAVE to do something!!' she felt her growing fear as she watched him writhing in agony.

She couldn't bear the thought of one of her friends dying because he'd tried to save her...

This man… he was going to kill them both!

“Princess, I'm surprised to see you're still alive” the subject who called himself Shishinki said, dismissing the detachment's no longer restrained screams to glance lazily in her direction “I would have thought you would've already bled yourself to death” he told her condescendingly “now I am certainly going to have to deal with you; what a pity… it would have been a rather painless death”

Painless?

If it had been anytime, anywhere else, the mere suggestion of her current situation as 'painless' would have made her shudder with the idea of what other kinds of greater torture he could still have in store for her… but Usagi was feeling too worried about what could happen to Aku to no longer care about what could happen to herself right now.

She'd already failed terribly in her attempt to help Kanna… for she knew she was probably not going to get out of here alive, either…; she really felt she didn't need to put anyone else in danger too.

Besides…because Usagi was feeling so weak and helpless, having lost hope in her chances to save her other albino friend, that she felt like she also wanted to die.

She thought miserably that it surely was the least she deserved for that abominable failure...

“Do what you wish to me” she said weakly, echoing Aku's former request and trying not to shake in her resolution “…but please… whatever it is…leave him out of it”

“Oh, how touching” the man mocked her, snorting “however, what's the rush? You're not going anywhere in the state you are… I can always finish with you later… and since you seem to care deeply for this boy I guess could have a little fun with him, first… After all, he too has made himself deserving of a lesson” once again, he raised and waved his staff.

“NOOO!!!!!” the youth shouted when she saw another electrical bolt lunge for Aku, who could no longer muster the effort to needed to scream.

“…Are you enjoying this, Princess Serenity? Are you feeling great emotional ache? I crave to see you suffer… feel both physical and emotional pain before your soul parts for the Underworld… I relish seeing you in such torment”

At this cruel announcement, unexpectedly and without explanation… Usagi felt her body start getting very warm with a growing inner aura

`Nani?!'

Feeling stronger all of a sudden, her wounds miraculously healed, she realized that she could get up, and did so slowly.

“Ruuunnnn, U-usaaa-gii-saaamaaa…”she heard the voice of her beloved lavender-haired male friend begging of her.

“No… Aku…I can't leave you! …I won't!” she turned to him with despair.

She felt herself overwhelmed with an unquenchabledesire to protect.

“Ruuuuuuunnnn!!!!!!!” he insisted once more. Then he gave out, and fainted.

“Okay… Time to say good bye to our insolent young fellow”

Usagi paled as Shishinki began to conjure his infamous razors... her previous fear and despair succumbing to anguish.

This time, the attack he would send him was going to kill Aku for sure!

Aku was going to die… and all she could do was watch it!

…Just like the people in her blurred memories, Aku was going to die…

An unknown, though strangely familiar power began to awaken and flow through her veins with this unacceptable notion

Just like the people in her memories, he was going to die because of her being weak, useless and helpless.

…Just like Kanna was…

She could feel that power wanting to lash out

Aku was going to die…

Aku was going to die… just like some place else, Kanna was as well.

Aku was going to die…

...before her very eyes…

“Crescentâ€•”

“No…”

“â€•BLADES!!!”

“NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Finally, the power found an exit, and exploded…

Out of the blue, and triggered by her emotions, the entire area was washed by a blinding burst of sudden, amazing, beautiful Holy Light…

Not far from there, and hidden by the trees, the pristine, silent silhouette of the Taiyoukai of the West, Lord Sesshoumaru, stood watching.

To Be Continued.

A/N: Sorry it's taking so slow… but I wanted to describe the gradual progression of this event right… you see, this is no ordinary burst of Light that Usagi's just emited: it's the sign of a higher evolution.

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