InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Night Both Would Remember ❯ Kouga's Visit and Sesshoumaru's Agitation ( Chapter 9 )

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Turtlequeen2: We’re back once again!

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Chapter 10

Kouga’s Visit and Sesshoumaru’s Agitation

The wolf prince was currently running hell bound towards the Inu-Tachi. He smelt Sesshoumaru’s scent and he was worried about Kagome. His last encounter with the lord made him none to happy.

He remained in confusion over the fact he still had his jewel shards in his possession. He thought back to earlier in the week. ***FLASHBACK (No one’s POV)***  

Hakudoushi laughed as he stood above the unconscious wolf. The incarnate already knew that Kagura made her escape but didn’t care less considering that she was going to die soon anyways.

“Now what to do with your shards…” Hakudoushi trailed off in a smirk. His eyes trailed down to Kouga’s legs, where the shards lay. The incarnate reached down to make a grab for them. His small hands were an inch from the shards when he suddenly paused. He heard a faint buzzing from the air and he turned his gaze skywards.

It was the damned Saimyoushou. Keeping calm, Hakudoushi gave the insects a level glare of his own. “You expect me to believe that Naraku wants me to leave the shards to the wolf?” he demanded to the hell bugs. His tone was one of disbelief but still was cold.

In a language only Naraku’s creations could understand, the Saimyoushou explained their master’s reasoning. After hearing of the plan, the youkai gave a ghost of a smirk. “Is that so?”

This seemed to convince the insects, seeing as they turned to leave. After the bugs disappeared into the horizon, Hakudoushi’s smirk turned to that of a scowl.

“What is that bastard thinking?” he demanded to no one in particular. “Even if the wolf had the shards in his possession, Sesshoumaru still can kill him.” He nearly rolled his eyes at Naraku’s “plan.” Nevertheless, he withdrew; standing up, though he was none happy.

He turned to leave, but suddenly stopped in his tracks when he heard the wolf youkai stir. “Don’t you know when to stay knocked out?” he nearly shouted, not in the best of moods.

As if Kouga had heard the remark, he groaned in response as he started to sit up. The wolf didn’t notice Hakudoushi standing on the side of him. He didn’t notice the frown placed on the child-like demon’s face as he held up his spear. “This should do nicely,” Hakudoushi remarked coldly as the light struck Kouga.

The wolf gave a shout of pain and then became silent, once more knocked unconscious. The light from the attack illuminated Hakudoushi’s eyes, making them gleam with malice. Without a mere word, he turned and walked off. He wanted to have a nice little talk with Naraku.

A few hours after the incarnation left, the wolf slowly regained his consciousness. He began to sit up, blinking a few times. He then stared down at his wounds. They were already starting to heal, but he was still injured nevertheless. He held his head from a sudden wrack of pain going through his body. “D..dammit…” he growled out in agony.

With the little strength he had, he still managed to make a realization. Looking down, he saw the shards still gleaming in his legs. The same place where they were left. “What the hell?” Kouga muttered in shock. At the very least he thought that Hakudoushi would take his shards for Naraku considering that the bastard is ALWAYS after them. He knew that something wasn’t right.

He would’ve thought of it more, if his head wasn’t hurting so damn bad at the moment. “T…that bastard will pay…” he snarled out, still in pain. ***END FLASHBACK***  

Speeding along to where he knew Kagome was, Kouga growled out his frustration with Naraku and his pets. Add in the fact that Mutt-face couldn’t protect his woman all that well and his frustration turned to anger. Another, deeper growl tore passed his throat as he called upon the power of the shards to give him more speed. ‘Mutt,’ he thought to himself. ‘If anything happens to her before I get there, you will be dead. I promise you that.’

******With Inuyasha and Sesshoumarus’ Groups******

The group was still trying to leave, but Inuyasha was still upset at what Sesshoumaru did last night with the tree. Currently, our favorite hanyou resided in a branch of yet another tree. Everyone else was still asleep excluding Sesshoumaru of course.

Crossing his arms with the sleeves of his haori, Inuyasha gave a snort of annoyance. He was beginning to loose his patience with the group’s “beauty sleep.”

He gave up trying to hold in his patience and sat up in his perch, ready to jump off to wake them all up.

Sesshoumaru watched the play of emotions across his brother’s face. He found it amusing that Inuyasha could not hide behind a mask like most inu-youkai could. But then again, he was nothing but a half-breed. Seeing Inuyasha ready to drop down from his perch, he thought it was time to make the hanyou aware of a few things. “Hanyou,” He said coldly, “My ward is asleep directly under you. If you wake her, you will not have need of this truce, since I will kill you myself.” Cold eyes burned into his brother’s startled gaze. A very soft snort of contempt escaped when he saw the hanyou once more settle down to wait for the others.

Of course Inuyasha couldn’t leave it be as others would smartly do. Instead, still sore from last night’s actions from his brother, he muttered,” Fucking bastard,” under his breath. And with that, he averted his glare from Sesshoumaru’s cold stare. Being careful not to waken Rin from her slumber, he jumped from the tree and went marching off into the forest.

Throwing over his shoulder a look of disgust, he told his brother. “They need to eat,” as a way of explanation.

“Why the hell else do you think I’m going?” Inuyasha demanded in a low growl, careful not to wake anyone. “Of course, the great bastard Sesshoumaru is too damn high and mighty to get his hands soiled, trying to feed lowly humans,” he added as a retort. Inuyasha stomped off, not giving Sesshoumaru any chance to reply.

As quiet as the brothers had been, they had managed to wake Shippou. As he watched Inuyasha stomp off, he muttered,“ Baka.” Rolling over, he noticed that Rin had not moved, and keeping an eye on Sesshoumaru, he moved off of his usual spot on Kagome’s sleeping bag, and over to Rin. Softly telling Sesshoumaru that he would not wake the girl, he curled up and covered the girl with his tail, warding off the early morning chill before once more falling asleep, knowing that he did not need to worry about a grumpy hanyou, thumping him on the head to get him moving again.

******With Inuyasha******

Inuyasha was beyond irked. He was annoyed at the whole ordeal. From Sesshoumaru to Naraku’s “perfect timing” to everything else fucked up in his life. He needed time to himself. Well to destroy stuff anyways…

“Bastard!” Inuyasha shouted as he shred his claws through a tree. He pretended it to be Sesshoumaru. “SANKON TESSOU!” he yelled at he shred through another towering tree. “When Naraku’s finally dead, I’ll be sure to kill you!” he proclaimed to himself.

******With rest of group******

THUD! A sound of falling timber sounded all the way back towards the camp. Kagome was the first to be rudely woken up from one of her good dreams. She grumpily sat up in her sleeping bag and stretched out. She rolled her eyes, knowing who exactly was the one causing the falling trees. “What a nice day it is today. Instead of an alarm clock, I get woken up by an irritated inu-hanyou who should be a lumberjack,” she commented with a good deal of sarcasm.

She looked around, still groggy from sleep. She, then spotted sitting near the group, the Taiyoukai and suddenly smiled at him. “Good morning Sesshoumaru!” she called cheerfully. The lord only ignored her, making the miko sigh.

“Kagome-chan?” Sango’s voice called out sleepily.

“Sango-chan? You awake?” Kagome asked. The taijiya sat up slowly in response. Kirara, who slept next to her companion, went over to Shippou and laid beside the kitsune.

“I’m sure. Good morning,” Sango said, a slight smile coming over her face. She glanced slightly over towards the monk, who was lightly stirring.

Miroku sat up, and smiled at the ladies beside him. “Good morning beautifuls,” he said with a too much happiness. Kagome and Sango’s response was a roll of their eyes.

“Good morning, Houshi-sama,” Sango said in a blunt tone.

“Sango-sama, how joyous it is to see your beautiful face this gracious morning!” Miroku exclaimed. This caused the taijiya to lightly blush while she was still glaring at him. Since the monk was beside her, he began to move his hand behind them both, but moving it down towards Sango’s backside.

Sesshoumaru had been watching the group interact as they woke. When the monks hand started to move down to the exterminator’s rear, he decided to put a stop to that kind of foolishness. Using all of his demonic speed, he moved. The next thing the monk noticed, was five claws slowly sinking into his skin, and a set of eyes blazing with cold fury. “I, Sesshoumaru, will only tell you this once. If I ever see you touch her or any other female, that is under my protection, you will not live long enough to take your next breath. Do you understand me?”

Miroku immediately stopped his moments and his eyes widened in shock at the sight of Sesshoumaru. He did the only thing he could do at times like these. “S…sesshoumaru-sama. I didn’t notice you there,” the monk stuttered out, laughing nervously. “I assure you that I meant of no harm.”

“Just see that you heed my warning. I WILL not tell you again.” The cold look that he directed to the monk made him pale. Nodding his head in agreement, Miroku felt the claws leave his wrist. Still staring into the cold eyes of the Taiyoukai, he was extremely relieved when Sesshoumaru broke eye contact and moved back to his original spot.

He wasn’t relieved for long though. He felt chill run up a spine, that he knew not to be of Sesshoumaru.

“HOOUUSHIII-SAAMAA!!!” Sango exclaimed in furious anger. Her eye twitched the whole time she watched the conversation between him and the Taiyoukai. To say that she was mad was an understatement! She grabbed a hold of Hiraikotsu, which was laying beside her.

“S…sango,” Miroku gulped in obvious fear.

“I think it’s time that you take a nap,” she growled out inhumanly. Using her weapon, she forced down a hard hit unto the monk’s poor head, knocking him unconscious for a time. Smirking after the job was done, she turned her glance towards Kagome again. Kagome stifled a small laugh at the monk’s expense.

Sango’s attack on the monk was enough to wake up Rin and Shippou. And upon hearing the impact of Hiraikotsu to the monk’s skull, he muttered,” Baka monk…” under his breath.

******With Inuyasha******

Inuyasha was now calmed a little from his torrent attack on the trees around him. He was resting against a trunk of another tree, preparing to get up. He already got the food for the group and was ready to head back.

Still gripping his kill of a few rabbits, he turned towards the camp. Before he started off, he stopped in mid-step. His eyes narrowed and let out a growl of annoyance. “Just fucking great. Another thing to add to my list of the fucked up things in my life at the moment,” he snarled out in irritation.

He dropped the food he had onto the grass and turned towards the direction where he was coming from. He saw the whirlwind of a tornado coming towards him. He stood his ground and waited for the youkai to stop.

It was Kouga. Inuyasha let out a sigh of aggravation. The wolf was glaring daggers at him and he only knew to glare back. “What the hell do you want, wolf?!” the hanyou demanded in his usual “greeting.”

“What the fuck are you doing leaving My Woman unprotected asshole?!” Kouga snarled at Inuyasha. “Your brother is around, and that mutt is just waiting for a chance to also kill her. I can’t believe you could be so stupid.” It was taking all of the Wolf Prince’s self control not to shred the stupid hanyou before he got answers.

Inuyasha’s eye twitched in quick rising anger. “Who are you callin’ an asshole, you bastard?! And for the thousandth time, Kagome’s not your woman! As for my brother, we’re at a truce at the moment and I know him well enough not to go back on his promises,” he explained.

“A truce!?!? Are you telling me that the great Taiyoukai of the Western Lands, actually lowered himself to agree to a truce with a bastard hanyou?!” Kouga asked in disbelief.

Inuyasha growled dangerously now. Calling him a bastard hanyou of all things! He instinctively made a grab for Tessaiga, but realized that he left it with Sesshoumaru’s swords. ‘Shit! I have to get Tessaiga or I’ll become full-youkai!’ Inuyasha panicked in his mind.

Kouga had also noticed the reach for the missing Tessaiga and smirked. ‘Now for a bit of fun,’ he thought to himself. “What’s the matter Mutt-face? Afraid to face me without your fang?” Kouga taunted to Inuyasha.

The hanyou narrowed his eyes. “No I don’t need my sword to kill your sorry fucking ass. And with Kagome not around, I can finally kill you!” he shouted, charging towards the wolf with his claws bared. “SANKON TESSOU!”

Kouga used the power of the shards to dodge the blades headed towards him. He made a snort of annoyance. “Is that all you got mutt?” came Kouga’s shout as he made a quick punch towards the hanyou.

Inuyasha jumped over Kouga, being as fast as the wolf when he had to. “I don’t need damn shards to kick your ass!” came Inuyasha’s shout as he landed a kick on the wolf. Kouga flipped backwards and idly rubbed away the bruise.

Inuyasha let a smirk come onto his face. “Don’t rejoice just yet Inukkoro!” Kouga shouted in anger as he made a quick charge for the hanyou. Wind whipped around the wolf’s fist as he made a lucky shot towards Inuyasha’s chest. The hanyou’s widened as Kouga’s fist went through his chest!

The hanyou clutched at his torso and he still stubbornly glared at his opponent. His fury rose to dangerous levels as his blood began to drip out. With one of his claws dripped into his wound, Inuyasha let the crimson soak into his talons. Inuyasha sneered dangerously as he pulled out his claw.

“What the hell are you doing?” Kouga demanded in disgust.

“HIJIN KESSOU!” Inuyasha only shouted as he flicked his claw towards the wolf. The blood was made into blades that flew fast towards Kouga.

The wolf barely managed to doge the red blades going at him. Jumping from side to side, the wolf got away from most of them, but still couldn’t doge all of them. A few dug into his side, but he didn’t let himself cry out in pain. He knew that doing it in front of the mutt would be humiliating. He simply cringed, but Inuyasha could clearly see the grimace on his face.

“You baka bastard,” Inuyasha taunted.

“D…damn you!” Kouga managed to growl out, still holding his side as his own blood starting leaking out. He let a bitter smirk linger on his face. “So tell me mutt, you think that after you kill me, you’ll get Kagome?”

“What the fuck are you talking about?!” Inuyasha demanded, beginning to feel the pain in his wound. “Don’t you dare bring Kagome into this!”

“Why not? She is what we’re fighting about. So you really think that she’ll accept you?”

“What?”

“You heard me! Or are your deformed dog ears deaf?” Kouga said cruelly.

“You’ll regret saying that you prick! You’re really starting to piss me off!”

“Why? Is it because I speak the truth? You’re a hanyou! Kagome doesn’t deserve someone like you! At least I’m not stupid enough to leave her alone! At least I can protect her better than you do; half-assed. Although it must be in your nature.”

“Keh! I may be hanyou but every other demon who called me that didn’t live long to tell about it! I never run from a battle unlike you! You may be right about Kagome not deserving someone like me, but don’t you EVER say that I don’t protect her!” Inuyasha trembled with anger. He never knew the wolf to sink this low.

Kouga was about to tell the hanyou just what he thought about the kind of protection that leaves Kagome vulnerable when Inuyasha went after that dead wench, when he felt the tingle of a different yet at the same time familiar youki. At the sound of a deep growl, Kouga’s head snapped up as he locked gazes with a set of now blood red eyes. ‘Oh shit!’ was the only thing he could think of.

At the same time Kouga noticed the change in Inuyasha, his brother also felt the same thing. “Kuso,” he muttered under his breath before standing and striding over to Kagome. “Miko. I am in need of your assistance. Please take up Tessaiga, so that we can bring that baka hanyou back under control.” Although his voice was cold and unconcerned, inside he was cursing the Kamis, wondering what precisely had set Inuyasha off.

“W...what?!” was the only thing Kagome could managed, glaring back up at the Taiyoukai in shock. He asked her to bring Tessaiga to Inuyasha?! That was a first for her to hear! But then that meant… “Wait, you don’t mean…” she trailed off, starting to feel panicked.

The rest of the group turned their attention to the two. “Does that mean that Inuyasha transformed?” Sango demanded, walking up to them.

“What could make him do that?” Miroku asked. The monk followed Sango’s movements and advanced towards Kagome, trying to stay away from Sesshoumaru, still not over the incident from earlier.

Kagome, knowing that the group was right, ran over to the clearing where the swords were. She carefully moved Tenseiga from overtop of Tessaiga, making quick grab for Inuyasha’s fang. ‘Please hold on Inuyasha,’ she pleaded in her mind.

“Miko, you do not have time for this foolishness. I can smell his blood on the air, and feel his true demonic presence. Grab both fangs and lets go.” Sesshoumaru--even though he wouldn’t show it--was starting to get worried, and this wench was starting to slow him down. As soon as Tessaiga was removed, he grabbed his own sword, slid it into place, and then reached around and grabbed hold of Kagome. Gathering his Youkai Cloud around him, he rose in the air an called back to his servant, while ignoring the humans’ reactions. “Jaken, take Rin and the pup and hide them well. There is no telling what That Baka will do.” Before he could hear the whine from the imp, Sesshoumaru used all of his speed to reach his brother, before too much damage was done.

Kagome was too shocked to even get word out. She was surprised to even be touched by the Taiyoukai, much less held by him! ‘Oh my god! I can’t believe this is happening!’ Kagome exclaimed in her mind. She would’ve blushed if she wasn’t so mad at him for taking her without her questioning. She, instead, focused her energy to getting to Inuyasha. She was even more worried that he mentioned his blood. What the hell was going on?!

By then, Sango and Miroku was already riding on Kirara in her larger form below them. The two were also put into a state of shock when they realized that Sesshoumaru was carrying Kagome. Miroku would usually make a pervert comment at such a sight, but he held his tongue since he was still worried at Sesshoumaru would do to him. “I never though I’d see the day when Sesshoumaru would ever touch a human!” Sango gasped in disbelief. Miroku only nodded dumbly behind her. He knew that anything he would say at the moment would be taken the wrong way so he decided to keep his mouth shut.

Kagome was pulled out of her state of shock by the low, vicious snarl coming from the Taiyoukai. When Sesshoumaru saw the fear in her eyes, he cut of the snarl and said quietly,“ That Damn wolf managed to piss off Inuyasha. I will set you down near my brother. Try to get his attention so you can give him Father’s fang.”

Kagome nodded to him with determination. After he sat her down on the ground, he handed her Tenseiga as well. “Use this to protect you from harm,“ he added.

She nodded again and ran to see what was going on. Her mouth went agape at the sight she saw before her. Inuyasha’s haori was shred, revealing the huge hole through his chest. His upper body, claws, and some of face was covered in blood. From both himself and Kouga. The wolf was greatly injured was the now, Youkai, Inuyasha.

She glanced back to Inuyasha, whose eyes were a deep crimson. The color of blood. “Inuyasha,” she gasped in a whisper. She gripped Tessaiga tighter in her hands.

Gathering up her strength and courage, she managed to run towards him. Unblinking, she shouted,” OSUWARI!!” bringing the hanyou to the ground as the powerful subjugation beads glowed with a relentless fury.

He let out an inhuman snarl as he hit the dirt. She felt a little ebb of fear rise in her, but she held it down. As he began to get back up, she shoved Tessaiga in his hands. “Inuyasha! Change back please!” she pleaded in tears. She noticed his immediate tightened hold over the hilt of the sword, meaning that he was starting to regain his sanity. Trying to speed up the process, she dropped Tenseiga to the ground and put her arms around him in a tight embrace.

Inuyasha, still in his youkai state, growled, struggling with his human blood. Tessaiga worked to calm his soul. Still griping onto the fang, Inuyasha’s other hand dug into Kagome’s side, making her cry out in pain.

She still stubbornly clung to him. “Inuyasha I know that you can fight this! Please!” she cried out as tears began to weld up in her eyes. She stared up at his face, noticing that the redness in his eyes was starting to fade. She felt the length of his claws in her side, start to shorten.

His jagged markings began to fade away as his eyes began to regain his golden color. “K…kagome?” he managed to whisper in pain.

“Inuyasha?” she asked in hope. “Are you back to normal now?”

His eyes bore into hers, showing his pain and guilt for hurting her. His only response was to drop Tessaiga to the side and crash his arms back around her, returning the embrace. “Kagome, I’m sorry for hurting you,” he whispered to her.

“It’s not that bad,” she lied, trying to make him feel better. She began to cry again. “Oh Inuyasha! I was so worried about you!”

“Kagome…” was all he could manage in shock. “I’m sorry,” he repeated. His arms tightened around her. The miko, still crying against him, opened her eyes in shock. It was very rare when the hanyou expressed affections towards her. She breathed out his name again.

Kouga was livid. That bastard, Sesshoumaru had set down Kagome, within reach of Inuyasha while he was in the middle of a blood rage. How dare he place her in harms way?! Turning to face the Taiyoukai, he gave voice to his own rage. “What the fuck were you thinking?! That mutt could have killed My Woman! I’m guessing stupidity runs in the family…” and that was as far as the wolf got.

Sesshoumaru’s eyes narrowed in cold fury. How dare this insignificant wolf talk to him like that! Feeling his youki take over, he turned on the wolf. “Silence!” he thundered. “This Sesshoumaru will not listen to your pity voice any longer. Either hold your tongue or I will remove it. I have sworn to protect my brother and his group. I did not place the Miko in harms way. She was holding Tessaiga and Tenseiga. Both swords combined would protect her from everything. Do not presume to speak about my family in that matter again. You will regret it. The blood of my father runs through Inuyasha. And he is no Bastard. And what right do you claim Kagome for your own? It is obvious to all that she does not care for you in the same way.”

Sesshoumaru’s eyes had started to bleed crimson when he started in on the wolf. Now all you could see was blood red. With every new sentence, Sesshoumaru’s transformation became more evident. How dare this wolf claim an unwilling female? It went against pack law. As the Miko’s protector, it was his duty to make the wolf pay for his actions. As his face started to elongate, his fury would no longer allow him to speak and all he could do was growl. Inuyasha and Kagome had split apart, and once again in the space of less then an hour, Kagome was faced with an (almost) transformed inu-youkai. When Inuyasha fully realized what was going on, he drew out Tessaiga and stepped between the two youkai. Facing his brother, he did not allow any submissiveness to show.

Kagome, hoping she was doing the right thing, stepped up to Inuyasha’s side and raised Tenseiga before her. Walking forward, she placed the sword in the Taiyoukai’s hands and slowly reaching up, she stroked the markings along one check. “Please Sesshoumaru, you need to calm down. It would not be good for Rin to see you like this.” These words, unlike any other, allowed Sesshoumru to pull his youki back in control. As he returned to normal, he gave the miko a small nod, and once more faced the wolf. “If you wish to live, leave. Unless you have a real reason to be near my pack, I will not hesitate to kill you.” Giving the wolf one more glare, he waited to see what would happen next. It was no surprise to any of them, when Kouga pulled himself together and pulling on the power of the shards in his legs, left, as fast as he could.

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To be continued…

Oh my, what a return from Kouga! We took extra long to bring you this longer than usual chapter because we made you wait for so long!

Translations:

Inukkoro - “dog-turd” or “dog-face”

Youki - demonic energy

Kami - God

Sankon-Tessou - Soul Shatter Claw or “Iron Reaver Soul Stealer” (dubbed version)

Hijin-Kessou - “Blades of Blood” (dubbed version)

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