InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Unexpected ( Chapter 42 )

Disclaimer: If I owned Sailor Moon and/or Inuyasha, I wouldn't be posting this here… I'd be making a new anime crossover series and become even more rich and famous (winks).

 

 

Chapter Forty One.

 

 

`Unexpected'

 

 

That was when he heard it, Jaken's signal: a loud stentorian yell from the Old Woman's head in the staff that he carried.

 

 

“Rin, go outside and stay with Ah-Un”.

 

 

…It was a detachment; if it'd been Naraku, the one to yell would have been the Old Man's head instead. Still, he was curious about what the incarnation wanted, in case they weren't stupid enough to ignore that he wouldn't stay far to let them, whoever they were, to take the taijiya's jewel shard.

 

 

Once he saw that his ward had obeyed, he turned back to look at the unconscious girl's lavender haired, blue clad partner with calm assessing eyes.

 

 

Frightened by that intense look, Aku began to worry.

 

 

“W-wha-what!?” he was actually afraid to ask. “…What did I do?!”

 

 

Apparently, he was right to be too, since right after he stuttered that word, he watched how the Demon Lord summoned his green energy whip.

 

 

“WAIT! No!!! What are you going to do?!!!!” He cowered seeing the Taiyoukai approach him. He couldn't add anything else because when he saw that he shoot his whip at him, cause he instantaneously doubled over as he awaited certain death…

 

 

“AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!” Aku allowed himself to scream like a girl. `I knew it! I knew he was out for my skin!' Lifting his arms to his head, he tried to shield himself and wait for the pain to strike.

 

 

…A pain that never came. Just something tight that wrapped around his wrists and ankles, slamming them together and swiping him off the floor. Popping one cautious eye open, the shocked half-youkai saw that the energy whip hadn't killed him, just handcuffed him and left him hanging upside down by hands and feet from the ceiling in a very awkward, undignified position; bouncing like a sack of potatoes.

 

 

`Grrrrrrrrr' He immediately glared at Sesshoumaru.

 

 

“I've made a little adjustment to the whip so that the poison doesn't connect with your flesh unless you try to break it… so I suggest you don't try to escape” the Inu Lord told him “I've never tried to keep prisoners before, so you'll have to excuse my lack of experience”

 

 

“Oh no; you're doing fine, I assure you…” Aku said sarcastically as he continued to swing about from the momentum. The Taiyoukai quirked an eyebrow.

 

 

“You better both be here when I get back”

 

 

And with a flip, he was gone.

 

 

He never saw that, while he and the `prisoner' were talking, the golden haired girl's eyes had snapped open.

 

 

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“Arrrgh! Enough!” Byakuya shouted, covering his ears the same as Kohaku while Jaken produced another infernal yell with his Staff “I am not here to attack you!”

 

 

“HA! Like I would believe you, Naraku spawn!” the toad demon countered, preparing to send another tortuous signal.

 

 

“If you dare to make that god awful sound again, I'll break your staff in half!”

 

 

“I'd like to see you try!”

 

 

“Jaken… that is enough”

 

 

“My Lord!” the servant youkai instantly bowed, stepping back. The Taiyoukai narrowed his eyes at the newcomer.

 

 

“What do you want, Byakuya?”

 

 

The raven haired detachment smirked.

 

 

“Ah, Lord Sesshoumaru; straight to the point as always” he nodded curtly “I am glad to see that your group's survived the weather catastrophe weeks ago. Isn't it horrible? …How you can't even trust Nature's proper functioning these days?”

 

 

Finding himself agreeing to that statement, the Taiyoukai also nodded civilly. The incident days prior had been a mystery after all, despite other circumstances.

 

 

“Hai… though I doubt that the wellbeing of my pack's been the sole reason for your coming” he noted. “Why are you here, detachment? Have you been sent by your Master?”

 

 

“As a matter of fact, he is not aware of this little visit” the incarnation reckoned “I'm afraid I can't stay long; otherwise he might order me to retrieve the boy's jewel shard… at the expense of my life”

 

 

Sesshoumaru's eyebrows furrowed.

 

 

“I take it you've begun doubting your situation?”

 

 

“In actuality, yes; the questionable disappearance of yet another one of us in a battle with your half-brother has proven to be very much …enlightening”

 

 

“Inuyasha has killed another one of your kin?” the Demon Lord stared at him, and Byakuya sighed.

 

 

“We don't even know” he admitted dejectedly, glancing down “She just…disappeared. We don't know what could have happened to her… the cataclysm has made Naraku unsettled; it's changed everything”

 

 

“How so?”

 

 

“He is different… Naraku's lost something rather valuable during the cataclysm… and he doesn't like it”

 

 

“So, you're afraid he might take his anger out on you?” the Demon Lord tilted his head, sounding amused. He could clearly see this obviously terrified detachment `attempting' to follow Kagura's example. “And… what can I do for you?” he offered promptly, wanting to see if the incarnation would confirm his thoughts.

 

 

Catching the undertone, Byakuya's black eyes returned to the Taiyoukai, as he readily composed himself. “Oh, that's generous of you, Sesshoumaru-sama…but I'm afraid not even you can do anything of use at the moment; with the exception, perhaps” he rushed to say when he saw Sesshoumaru's gaze darken “of keeping the taijiya boy” he gestured to Kohaku “right there where you are at all times”

 

 

“I…see” the Inu Lord frowned, watching the incarnation intently as it got back on his paper plane.

 

 

“Oh, and Lord Sesshoumaru” Byakuya added, turning around one last time before his paper plane ascended “if you happened to find a blonde haired certain something on your stroll in the forest during the cataclysm… I suggest you keep that to yourself as well… For it is certainly what Naraku's looking for” he finished cryptically, flying away…

 

 

…Leaving the Demon Lord to crease his eyes in wonder.

 

 

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“Usagi-sama?” the blue-clad boy asked again, watching as she slowly sat up and massaged her forehead.

 

 

“Aku…”

 

 

“Usagi-sama!” the half-youkai exclaimed happily “I'm so glad you're okay! I was starting to fear you'd never come to!” he heard her groan then.

 

 

“…Where are we?”

 

 

“In a cabin, I think”

 

 

“Huh?” turning to glance at him, her eyes widened “Aku?! What are you doing hanging like that from the ceiling?”

 

 

If she wasn't so damn dizzy, she would have found it comical...

 

 

“I'm a prisoner” the young detachment snorted, angry at being reminded this way “and so are you, I believe” he gestured towards her with his head.

 

 

The girl covered her mouth with a hand.

 

 

“…Prisoners? Of whom?” she inquired, almost afraid to ask. Had enemies from her time already found her?!

 

 

“Sesshoumaru's” Aku ground out “but he doesn't seem to want to treat you as roughly as he does me” he continued with a grudge “Just because I'm not a woman --”

 

 

“―Or merely because you've proven to be more of an annoyance” a cold voice finished his statement.

 

 

Instantly, both heads whipped around to gaze at the door in rather bafflement, startled at the interruption that was unexpected.

 

 

It was that moment where sparkling blue eyes met shinning golden.

 

 

“Sesshoumaru-sama…” the shocked blonde whispered.

 

 

To Be Continued.

 

 

A/N: There, she's awake… And the plot thickens, TRULY! Finally!