InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Sixth Sense ( Chapter 52 )

Disclaimer: Takeuchi Naoko is the owner of Sailor Moon; Takahashi Rumiko is the owner of Inuyasha.

 

 

Chapter Fifty One.

 

 

`Sixth Sense'

 

 

It was the vision of a village… in flames. She was right in the middle of it, standing on the blood soaked ground; the only silent, passive spectator of the massacre perpetuated by hundreds and hundreds of lesser youkai monsters, while peasants ran away screaming in sheer terror left and right.

 

 

…She remembered those monsters; they were the same kinds of monsters that had surrounded the palace where she'd been held captive when Kagura kidnapped her, that time when Naraku had tried to lure Lord Sesshoumaru into a trap in order to devour him whole.

 

 

They were `his'… …Naraku's monsters…

 

 

“What is this?!” the little girl cried in fear at finding herself so unexpectedly in the middle of such scenario… Where were Usagi-san, Kohaku and Jaken-sama!? “How… how did I get here!?”

 

 

“NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!” she unexpectedly heard a female's voice yelling. She recognized the voice. Looking in the direction of the voice, she realized she wasn't alone, she wasn't the only one watching…because Usagi was near; also watching the bloodshed with overwhelmed incredulity only a few feet away from where she herself was.

 

 

“So tell me, Totosai… you can't fix it?” At the top of the mountain, Sesshoumaru had gotten tired of the weapon-smith's endless blabbering and cut in to ask this.

 

 

“I'm afraid I can't” the other demon admitted. “Perhaps, if I see this woman you're talking about, I might be able to figure out the reason for the Fang's reaction” he murmured, scratching his chin in thought, “As your late Father's loyal friend and vassal, I want to see the person who did this… I'd like to meet this girl whose powers similar to a miko's caused such upheaval”

 

 

“Fine” the Demon Lord snarled, “If it means this way I will finally get you to repair the Tenseiga, then come with me… I'll take you with her”

 

 

“Oh…um, yes” the sword-smith blinked at him, surprised that he would agree so fast, “Just, um, just let me get Momo first”

 

 

“…`Momo'? Who are you talking about?”

 

 

“My, um…my flying youkai cow” the sword-master squeaked. After a dangerous glare that clearly meant to hurry up `or else', the Taiyoukai nodded in acquiescence, and then watched him go.

 

 

`Senile old man…'

 

 

He was still entertaining scathing thoughts about the older youkai when he heard it.

 

 

…A female's horrified scream in his mind.

 

 

Feeling quite startled, Sesshoumaru's golden orbs opened wide and flashed.

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile…

 

 

“Kaede-baba! Where are you?!? Kaede-baba!!!”

 

 

“Usagi-san??!” Rin called out, but the blonde just kept looking frantically around, as if she didn't see or hear her… `She can't see me? Is this some sort of illusion?!'

 

 

Then there was laughter…and two shadowy figures that approached them slowly. When they stepped into the light emitted by the fire, Rin was able to recognize one of them as Byakuya, Naraku's raven haired servant.

 

 

“We might have overdone it a little bit, don't you think?” …But when her gaze followed the new voice and moved towards the other, a lavender haired woman, she couldn't help but cry out in total surprise.

 

 

She looked identical to Usagi!

 

 

But she wasn't her…she couldn't be her…and she would be certain not only because the real Usagi didn't have lavender hair or bi-colored purple and red eyes… not only because the real Usagi, the blonde Usagi, was now standing right beside her watching what the male and her own “twin” were doing in absolute horror.

 

 

No.

 

 

Looking up at the cold eyes and cruel smile in a face totally identical to the one she'd usually only seen as gentle and warm, deep inside her Rin somehow knew at that moment that, were her real friend ever to change her hair and eye color to match those of this most contrasting woman… even if her real friend did that and then went to stand beside her look-alike, Rin felt she would still recognize the difference between them.

 

 

They were like the day and night.

 

 

“Tsumi…Byakuya… Stop!!!” the heartbroken murmur by her side brought Rin's attention back to the golden haired woman, “`What' are you doing??!!”

 

 

They didn't seem to hear her though, for they continued chatting as they watched the massacre happening all around them in detached interest. “What do you mean, `we'? It was you who got all carried away” Byakuya protested, “It wasn't like I got to do much. Besides…it's not like any of these people seemed to know where Usagi is” At those words, both the blonde and the little girl watching them gasped. “Therefore” he added “our mission here is done… The monsters will take care of the rest. Let's go”

 

 

With that, both he and a reluctant Tsumi got on Byakuya's paper plane and left… A disbelieving Usagi fell to her knees, hugging herself shaking.

 

 

“They…they were trying to find me?! Oh God!” she whimpered “…Oh my God!!”

 

 

Suddenly, her entire form became see-through.

 

 

“Usagi-san!” alarmed, Rin reached out to her with a hand, only to realize her own hand had become see-through as well. “Nani!? This…-?!? It was really an illusion?!” she said in surprise.

 

 

Looking up back at the blonde, she saw her disappear in a blinding light, the force of which pushed the child a few feet away…

 

 

And just like that, the vision was over…

 

 

…Rin was back in the valley by the mountain, with the others, getting up slowly from the ground and looking at the form of Usagi that had somehow stood up, still bathed in the same strange brightness.

 

 

“Wha?!! Usagi-san??! …What is happening to her??!!” the child heard Kohaku cry out from beside her, flabbergasted, whereas Jaken only groaned in astonished response as he very slowly got up from the floor where he'd been thrown too.

 

 

`This energy… it's so strong I can barely breathe!'

 

 

He could only gape at the older human female for several seconds as the intense light enveloping the female radiated such energy that it didn't allow anyone come any closer or even move from their place; a pair of huge feathery wings sprouted from her back and they heard her voice whisper “…I have to stop it”, before the blinding silhouette began to hover over the ground, then spread its massive wings… and dashed away.

 

 

Watching her gradually turn into a spot of light in the distance, Rin covered her mouth in dreadful realization.

 

 

She has said `I had to stop it'. Was she talking about that village? Did this mean…that the vision they had shared had been `real'??

 

 

“Oh no!”

 

 

“Usagi-san?!?…But… How?!?” a bewildered Kohaku exclaimed, staring up at the sky baffled. `I thought she was just human!'

 

 

“Not good… Not good…” the toad moaned, assuming the `prisoner' had probably just escaped.

 

 

“Oh no…Usagi-san!!!” getting up from the ground, Rin ran to the dragon in a flash, “Let's go, Ah-Un! We can still catch up to her!!” Obedient as ever, the beast immediately took off in the air too.

 

 

“What?! RINN?!!!?!!!” the taijiya and retainer shouted when they saw what she was doing, the young slayer immediately running in their direction to attempt to stop them “What are you doing? Rin! Come back!!”

 

 

“Don't worry about me; get Sesshoumaru-sama! Usagi-san may need his help!” the little girl argued as she and the dragon flew further and further away “I know where she went!” With those last words, Rin lead on the dragon in the direction of the speck of light in the distance, which she knew was her `fugitive' friend.

 

 

“Uh…” Jaken sweated in dread as he saw the dragon also disappear from their sight with the human child on its back, “…oh”

 

 

`This… this has just gotten worse…'

 

 

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`Those monsters……Thepeople of the villagearein terrible danger' the winged figure bathed in light thought as she flew. `I must go faster!'

 

 

She'd already learned not to question that unexplainable psychic sixth sense that sometimes was triggered out of nowhere and told her when things were going wrong… It was the same kind of intuition she'd had in the 20TH Century when someone she cared about was at risk; this odd sense of foreboding.

 

 

`Like when any of girls, specially Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury were in trouble… from the moment my powers had grownI'd eventually become capableof hearingtheir distressed auras often calling to mine'

 

 

Other times, it had been them who had been able to hear her despair with that strange sixth sense.

 

 

Now, it was the distant cries of the villagers that were reaching her heart.; she had to stop that massacre… She had to. The people of the village…the children could get hurt. So many of them had been so kind to her when she'd stayed there…

 

 

…She just couldn't sit down and watch this happen.

 

 

`Kaede-baba! …Ryuji-chan! Saki-chan! …Yumi! …Please be all alright!'

 

 

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Miles from there, that very same figure was the subject occupying a certain Dog Demon's thoughts, as he also took off from the ground to begin flying at top speed in the direction of the valley.

 

 

`That scream… …Was it `Her' that I heard screaming?' “MOVE IT!” he acidly barked at the cow and sword-smith following close behind him.

 

 

…Something might be going on with his pack…

 

 

―“NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!”&# 226;€•

 

 

…That familiar female voice had suddenly and so strangely begun screaming in his mind… Something wasn't right.

 

 

Something wasn't right with his pack.

 

 

Something wasn't right with his pack and as it was, Sesshoumaru was barely repressing the impulse to transform.

 

 

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“Not good…not good!” back at the valley, the green toad ranted on.

 

 

“Mister Jaken…”

 

 

“This is not good at all!” Jaken repeated in panic. “Sesshoumaru-sama…”

 

 

“Mister Jaken” Kohaku tried calling him again in vain.

 

 

“…He's gonna be `so'mad!”

 

 

“Mister Jaken, we have to help Rin!” Kohaku yelled to get his attention

 

 

“Do you think I don't realize that?!?” the angry retainer snapped.

 

 

“How do we get Sesshoumaru-sama?!” the boy snapped right back.

 

 

“..Eh?!!”

 

 

“Lord Sesshoumaru; …Rin said to get Lord Sesshoumaru, remember?” the young slayer grabbed the toad by his shoulders. “We must tell him that this happened, Mister Jaken! We must climb up that mountain and go look for him”

 

 

“Are you insane, taijiya?!” the youkai-servant said gasping, shrugging off from the human's grip, “You wouldn't survive the journey, and even if I did, without the dragon Ah-Un it'd probably take me ages!”

 

 

“But we have to do something!” Kohaku protested, and then it hit him. “Mister Jaken, listen! Can you summon Sesshoumaru-sama with your staff?!”

 

 

“Eh” the small demon considered this, “he's too far, though; I don't know if he'll hear it. But I…-I'll try”

 

 

“That will not be necessary…” a voice unexpectedly stated from behind them as a pristine figure landed near, along with Totosai, which in turn made Jaken instantly turn around, squawking in disbelief.

 

 

“M-mi…MILORD!!< /i>?!”