InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Another Opens... ❯ The Restoration ( Chapter 18 )
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By: Namiyo11 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.27.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 185 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.27.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.8K | Visits: 185 | Status: Completed
Chapter 18-The Restoration
No, I do not own Inuyasha or related characters, but I do own the Dokueki, Kokuzoku, and Yotogi...as well as the Hamayami.
Recap: Kagome’s assault has begun, and with a few new tricks up her sleeves. Tohan has made her choice, to free the Inu and hopefully end matters, saving her family and salvaging their honor in the process. Inuyasha has finally been told of Kagome’s deception. What happens now? Read on!
“Sister!” Natsu looked for Tohan, even as this-this mere little hanyou had seemingly gained an insane amount of power. But Tohan had vanished. For a terrible moment, she thought her elder sib had gone down, perhaps...but no. But where had she gone? Hazumi gasped and moved to distract Kagome from her task, and the fire panther swore. She and Aki moved to cut Kagome off, corner her, drive her. Even though she felt they could take her, fear crawled up her spine.
She wasn’t the only one looking at a disaster.
***
Ayami was lost. The perfect plan, it was in ruins! She’d intended to use them all to raise Naraku. Intended to gift him with the Panthers, Sesshomaru, and the fool Kokuzoku to strengthen him on his return...and now she had no wards to bind them, her Dokueki were scattered, and the hanyou bitch had managed to worm her way past her defenses! Tricked! Fooled! Bitch!
Breathing hard, she ran for the cells. Something had to be salvaged. Her beloved...her hopes had risen so high, borne by a Panther’s promises of restoration, and now this. It felt as if she lost him yet again! Now, unless she moved fast, her chance to again walk under the sun with her beloved would be lost forever!
Youkai lived for mates, killed for mates...and died for them sometimes.
But when she got there, only one Inu, a screaming, furious Kokuzoku, inhabited them at the moment. She skidded to a halt, smelling carefully. Not that she needed to, the former Lord was babbling so. Besides, there was a hole in the stone wall, and the acrid sting of poison lingered. Sesshomaru, she would wager, making his own doors through the Temple, with help. Sniffing... Tohan! She should have known, the little traitor would pay. Ayami growled softly, and stalked to his cell.
“Shut up!” she snapped, fangs baring.
“Ayami! Let me out!” he yelled, and she-didn’t.
“No. I warned you not to cross me, and you did. You will feed my Lord and Mate, feel fortunate that I still have use for you,” she said, and left, following the scents. She had to get them back and she began to call to her Lord‘s children, the Dokueki, to summon them home to her. Kokuzoku screamed again, madness lurking in his eyes.
Packless. Worse than death. He’d felt them die...felt the pack shatter into scattered remnants. He led nothing now, so empty...
***
“Stand aside,” the youkai said, again laying his hand on the wall. Inuyasha and Sango both gulped as acidic poison ate the wall away. Fortunately, these walls were not spell warded to prevent this as the cell had been. He waited a moment...and went first, checking as they took the shortest path to Kagome. He wasn’t wasting time with niceties, and it was letting him work off some anger. Tohan calmly followed, without a hint of expression.
So it was that they got outside, and saw Hazumi using her multiplication magic to befuddle Kagome. They attacked with supposedly many versions of Hazumi and Aki closing on either side. But Tetsusaiga was alive in her hand as she dodged a fireball that left scorch marks on the stone of the courtyard. Then the hanyou rolled to one knee and lifted the blade as Tohan darted forward to try and stop it. She didn’t know what the hanyou planned, but instinctively moved to break them up.
Natsu saw them and knew what her sister had done. Oh, yes, she knew.
“Traitor!” Natsu screamed, and the fire panther, fury and rage in her eyes-cast her flames at her own sister. Tohan had no choice, she lifted her staff and blocked, fire met ice...steam blurred her vision from their meeting, and tears, as they did her red-haired, fiery tempered younger sister. Natsu kept sending her flames.
“You cast off our honor and likely doomed us all, we must leave, Natsu! Cease this madness!” Tohan thundered, but it was all too late. Even as Inuyasha ran forward, as Sesshomaru drew his whip forth to protect his packmates, and Sango reached for a sword she didn’t have...Kagome’s lips skinned back from her fangs in a feral, angry growl.
The Tetsusaiga turned...strangely translucent. Almost gem-like as Hazumi laughed, there was no way Kagome could tell which one she was, and she reveled in it as her copies laughed with her, illuminated by the golden flames of the pagodas under the silver white of the moon...she moved to strike...Inuyasha felt something, something odd that emanated from his sword, no! From his own fang that had repaired it.
“Kongoukessou!” Kagome roared, snapping the blade downwards in a ritual strike she’d practiced repeatedly...and all of them stopped dead. Diamond like shards shot from the sword in a deadly, eerily beautiful cloud. The silvery, mocking laughter was cut short by a scream. Hazumi didn’t even hit the ground, vaporized as she was torn into shreds by the-Diamond Spear Blast??
Totosai hadn’t just improved Tenseiga. Inuyasha dropped Miroku in shock. What the fuck had she done to his damned sword???
Her new to them all whip sliced air as Aki desperately dodged, and Kagome sheathed the Tetsusaiga and yanked the Hamayami free over her shoulder as it retracted. She still needed to practice with the whip, it was harder then it looked to really direct it properly and consistently.
She wanted the Hama-ya.
That meant she had to use her beloved bow...and she did. The Seirei-ya struck Aki...and then she changed arrows as he dodged, supernaturally fast, trusting his strength and speed to protect him against her archery. But pegged with a Seirei-ya, she couldn’t miss, the spirit arrow drawing her bolts to the target. The hi-ya slammed into the big panther, and she launched herself at him, plunging the tip of her bow deep into his chest as her shocked friends and kin watched.
When she yanked it out, it glowed softly, blood droplets sliding down the string, and Inuyasha realized he’d done this as well. With Tetsusaiga-to strengthen it, as he suspected she had just done with the bow. But Kagome turned, and it was the past.
Limned by fire, she rose to meet her friends and foes. She ought to have looked foolish, dressed in a torn up, too small school uniform, puppy ears perked forward, filthy and covered with greenish smears and dust, in knee socks and holding a bow with two swords stuffed awkwardly through a sash at her hips. But what Inuyasha and the rest saw-what Sango finally let herself see...what made Sesshomaru’s heart warm with pride...what made Miroku gasp, air knocked out of him from hitting the ground, eyes full of disbelief...
Was Inutaisho’s adopted daughter.
A great and powerful Lady fighting for her pack and Clan, eyes blazing, power coursing through her, flames dancing along her claws that lit her movements. Inuyasha saw her-and it was as though it was for the first time. Seeing her with eyes unclouded by his old preconceptions, as she had once seen him in his lost lair. Clearly exhausted, near the end of her strength, she still stood, defiance in every line of her slim frame.
‘You had your brave little wench who was dependent on you, well you know what? She’s dead. She died last fall, and can‘t come back. I thought you understood... You’re going to need me as I am, packbrother...’ Higurashi Kagome, untrained Priestess from Tokyo, was dead. They all saw it now. All that was left was Kagome, Lady of the Inu. An entirely different person. Or-was she?
Inuyasha knew that look, that determination. He’d felt it fighting for her...as she did now for him, for Sesshomaru and their friends. Outnumbered, she’d come running, risking herself just as he had so often. As she had when she’d protected him as a mere mortal girl, the girl who’d wept for him, who’d traveled with and fought by his side for so long. Inuyasha wasn’t the boy he’d been last fall, or the foolish young man who had spurned her only days before. The hanyou ran again-but this time, to his packmate and beloved, not away. Only Kagome was as insanely brave as you had to be to pull crazy shit like this! His wench. No.
His. Fucking. Mate!
She saw them, and her eyes nearly glowed with relief. Tetsusaiga was pulled free from her sash and tossed, turning in the air, to be caught by her packsecond and beloved, who drew it with a growl and they stood, back to back. Sesshomaru moved to join them after helping Sango get her husband moving and out of the line of fire. Standing with his pack, all together, ready to face whatever came...Inuyasha was stunned.
Damn if it didn’t feel so very right.
“About damned time!” Inuyasha snapped, and Kagome grinned.
“Sorry, got held up,” she apologized, and they both glanced over their shoulders at each other. In that glance-a great deal passed between them.
“Pay attention,” Sesshomaru barked as she yanked Tenseiga free and returned it as well.
“I know. Here!”
“Toujikin,” he demanded, sliding the blade back into place.
“I don’t have it! Long story-we’ve got to take out the sanctuary and kill her!” It only took moments, that battle, yet changed so much.
Tohan and Natsu both screamed, and the fire panther turned fatally away from her sister. Who finished it. Sesshomaru’s eyes met hers for a moment. Again, something passed between them. It was as it was, though, as it had been on other battlefields, when they had always been on opposite sides...
“It is finished, Lord of the Inu,” Tohan said, face drawn with grief, but a shameful relief edged her voice. She had not broken with them, they had with her. Natsu had struck first...
“Go in peace, Daughter of the Panthers,” he answered. She took up her staff as Kagome stared after her sadly...and left alone. This place held nothing for her now. Nothing-she could take hold of, in any case.
“Hopeless,” Kagome muttered. She got a glare from her Lord as a large, black Inu leapt over the wall, with a fat old monk clinging desperately to his back, and a large, balloon like Hochi rose upwards into view, Kaede sitting on him like some ancient Queen.
“I smell more Dokueki on the wind, my Lords, my Lady, we must go,” Yotogi announced, ignoring his passenger’s terror. Riding a massive youkai Inu not much smaller then Sesshomaru in that form was not Mushin’s idea of a fun evening. That Yotogi also saw it as a bit demeaning was obvious.
“True. We haven’t got long,” Mushin answered, as Inuyasha caught the man when he slipped off the Inu’s neck and Yotogi transformed between one step and the next, walking forward and casually dusting off his kimono, flashing a wicked smile at Kagome.
“Oof! Thank you, Inuyasha,” Mushin managed.
“No. Not yet. Yotogi, conduct the mortals to a place of safety. This must be finished now,” Sesshomaru answered and Kagome nodded as Hochi landed and transformed.
“You’re still going to need us, Lord Sesshomaru. I work with youkai-I do not take orders from them,” Kaede replied, her good eye sharp as she looked at him with amusement, her bow ready as she got a good look at the weary Kagome. “Child, you’re exhausted-” she began and saw it. There it was again! Almost a whisper of aura. Kagome for her part, looked hard at her Hamayami...it was different. She felt it.
“I can stand, Kaede. That means I can fight.” A smile.
“Leave some for the rest of us, why don’t you?” Inuyasha grumbled, eyeing his Tetsusaiga with amazement. It felt lighter, and smelled slightly different. In truth he couldn’t wait to find out how to evoke it’s apparently new power, just handed to him on a platter. Kongokessou. So much sweat and misery learning and mastering the Sword, and she improved it then brought it to him. Kagome flashed him a tired smile. She knew, he realized. Knew what that would mean to him, to have his Sword back, especially with a new power.
Damn. Kagome did know how to give a...what did she call them? A ‘kiss and make up’ gift.
What was the appropriate present to give in return? Flowers? No...not flowers...a mark. Definitely a mark. One of those rings they gave in her time to wives...her mother had worn one, he remembered, and told him it was a ‘wedding ring’. Besides, no way he’d allow anyone else to think of courting his Kagome. If he could, he write ‘property of Inuyasha’ on her somewhere. Well-technically he’d be her property...but he really didn’t give a damn.
“Enough,” Sesshomaru sniffed. No Dokueki...yet. But they had little time. His own hand rested on the Tenseiga’s hilt and he smelled a subtle difference in the useless blade as well. A strangely familiar but unfamiliar scent.
His eyes flicked to Kagome as he wondered-and drew it. He wasn’t sure why, only that it bid him to. She bit her lip. How to tell him, well, that she’d given Totosai his Mother’s sword fang...to have it combined with Tenseiga to create the ability to kill? The Kuroi-yaiba was no more, there was only Tenseiga now.
“Kaede’s right. And so is Kagome. Time to go, my friends,” Miroku forced himself to his feet. He could stand, and would.
“Ayami’s probably hiding in there, waiting for her Dokueki,” Kagome noted.
“Meaning we have to find her and the Hiraikoksu,” Sango agreed.
“Yep.”
“Kagome, rear. The Priestess and the Monks will sense for her. We must find her, and swiftly,” Sesshomaru ordered as they turned to head inside the main Temple.
Author’s notes- Ahhh. We move onwards. I feel I ought to explain a term here. I used the Ear-tweak translation for what the Anime called the ‘Adamant barrage’. Here’s why. When I wrote this chapter, I had seen movie four, but I got the DVD with no English dub, just subtitles. Let me just say that the subtitles on it-read like someone was drunk when they wrote them. Hilarious! But not much help in actually finding the right name for the attack, and I had yet to watch the eps. where he gets the ability. I think it was listed as ‘King Kong Diamond’ or something in the movie. Thank goodness for Ear-Tweak‘s glossaries. So yes, I know it doesn’t match the anime and things, but I actually kinda like their translation better.
I also really still enjoy having the Panthers turn on one another. Thanks for reading, and please non-flame review!-Namiyo’
No, I do not own Inuyasha or related characters, but I do own the Dokueki, Kokuzoku, and Yotogi...as well as the Hamayami.
Recap: Kagome’s assault has begun, and with a few new tricks up her sleeves. Tohan has made her choice, to free the Inu and hopefully end matters, saving her family and salvaging their honor in the process. Inuyasha has finally been told of Kagome’s deception. What happens now? Read on!
“Sister!” Natsu looked for Tohan, even as this-this mere little hanyou had seemingly gained an insane amount of power. But Tohan had vanished. For a terrible moment, she thought her elder sib had gone down, perhaps...but no. But where had she gone? Hazumi gasped and moved to distract Kagome from her task, and the fire panther swore. She and Aki moved to cut Kagome off, corner her, drive her. Even though she felt they could take her, fear crawled up her spine.
She wasn’t the only one looking at a disaster.
***
Ayami was lost. The perfect plan, it was in ruins! She’d intended to use them all to raise Naraku. Intended to gift him with the Panthers, Sesshomaru, and the fool Kokuzoku to strengthen him on his return...and now she had no wards to bind them, her Dokueki were scattered, and the hanyou bitch had managed to worm her way past her defenses! Tricked! Fooled! Bitch!
Breathing hard, she ran for the cells. Something had to be salvaged. Her beloved...her hopes had risen so high, borne by a Panther’s promises of restoration, and now this. It felt as if she lost him yet again! Now, unless she moved fast, her chance to again walk under the sun with her beloved would be lost forever!
Youkai lived for mates, killed for mates...and died for them sometimes.
But when she got there, only one Inu, a screaming, furious Kokuzoku, inhabited them at the moment. She skidded to a halt, smelling carefully. Not that she needed to, the former Lord was babbling so. Besides, there was a hole in the stone wall, and the acrid sting of poison lingered. Sesshomaru, she would wager, making his own doors through the Temple, with help. Sniffing... Tohan! She should have known, the little traitor would pay. Ayami growled softly, and stalked to his cell.
“Shut up!” she snapped, fangs baring.
“Ayami! Let me out!” he yelled, and she-didn’t.
“No. I warned you not to cross me, and you did. You will feed my Lord and Mate, feel fortunate that I still have use for you,” she said, and left, following the scents. She had to get them back and she began to call to her Lord‘s children, the Dokueki, to summon them home to her. Kokuzoku screamed again, madness lurking in his eyes.
Packless. Worse than death. He’d felt them die...felt the pack shatter into scattered remnants. He led nothing now, so empty...
***
“Stand aside,” the youkai said, again laying his hand on the wall. Inuyasha and Sango both gulped as acidic poison ate the wall away. Fortunately, these walls were not spell warded to prevent this as the cell had been. He waited a moment...and went first, checking as they took the shortest path to Kagome. He wasn’t wasting time with niceties, and it was letting him work off some anger. Tohan calmly followed, without a hint of expression.
So it was that they got outside, and saw Hazumi using her multiplication magic to befuddle Kagome. They attacked with supposedly many versions of Hazumi and Aki closing on either side. But Tetsusaiga was alive in her hand as she dodged a fireball that left scorch marks on the stone of the courtyard. Then the hanyou rolled to one knee and lifted the blade as Tohan darted forward to try and stop it. She didn’t know what the hanyou planned, but instinctively moved to break them up.
Natsu saw them and knew what her sister had done. Oh, yes, she knew.
“Traitor!” Natsu screamed, and the fire panther, fury and rage in her eyes-cast her flames at her own sister. Tohan had no choice, she lifted her staff and blocked, fire met ice...steam blurred her vision from their meeting, and tears, as they did her red-haired, fiery tempered younger sister. Natsu kept sending her flames.
“You cast off our honor and likely doomed us all, we must leave, Natsu! Cease this madness!” Tohan thundered, but it was all too late. Even as Inuyasha ran forward, as Sesshomaru drew his whip forth to protect his packmates, and Sango reached for a sword she didn’t have...Kagome’s lips skinned back from her fangs in a feral, angry growl.
The Tetsusaiga turned...strangely translucent. Almost gem-like as Hazumi laughed, there was no way Kagome could tell which one she was, and she reveled in it as her copies laughed with her, illuminated by the golden flames of the pagodas under the silver white of the moon...she moved to strike...Inuyasha felt something, something odd that emanated from his sword, no! From his own fang that had repaired it.
“Kongoukessou!” Kagome roared, snapping the blade downwards in a ritual strike she’d practiced repeatedly...and all of them stopped dead. Diamond like shards shot from the sword in a deadly, eerily beautiful cloud. The silvery, mocking laughter was cut short by a scream. Hazumi didn’t even hit the ground, vaporized as she was torn into shreds by the-Diamond Spear Blast??
Totosai hadn’t just improved Tenseiga. Inuyasha dropped Miroku in shock. What the fuck had she done to his damned sword???
Her new to them all whip sliced air as Aki desperately dodged, and Kagome sheathed the Tetsusaiga and yanked the Hamayami free over her shoulder as it retracted. She still needed to practice with the whip, it was harder then it looked to really direct it properly and consistently.
She wanted the Hama-ya.
That meant she had to use her beloved bow...and she did. The Seirei-ya struck Aki...and then she changed arrows as he dodged, supernaturally fast, trusting his strength and speed to protect him against her archery. But pegged with a Seirei-ya, she couldn’t miss, the spirit arrow drawing her bolts to the target. The hi-ya slammed into the big panther, and she launched herself at him, plunging the tip of her bow deep into his chest as her shocked friends and kin watched.
When she yanked it out, it glowed softly, blood droplets sliding down the string, and Inuyasha realized he’d done this as well. With Tetsusaiga-to strengthen it, as he suspected she had just done with the bow. But Kagome turned, and it was the past.
Limned by fire, she rose to meet her friends and foes. She ought to have looked foolish, dressed in a torn up, too small school uniform, puppy ears perked forward, filthy and covered with greenish smears and dust, in knee socks and holding a bow with two swords stuffed awkwardly through a sash at her hips. But what Inuyasha and the rest saw-what Sango finally let herself see...what made Sesshomaru’s heart warm with pride...what made Miroku gasp, air knocked out of him from hitting the ground, eyes full of disbelief...
Was Inutaisho’s adopted daughter.
A great and powerful Lady fighting for her pack and Clan, eyes blazing, power coursing through her, flames dancing along her claws that lit her movements. Inuyasha saw her-and it was as though it was for the first time. Seeing her with eyes unclouded by his old preconceptions, as she had once seen him in his lost lair. Clearly exhausted, near the end of her strength, she still stood, defiance in every line of her slim frame.
‘You had your brave little wench who was dependent on you, well you know what? She’s dead. She died last fall, and can‘t come back. I thought you understood... You’re going to need me as I am, packbrother...’ Higurashi Kagome, untrained Priestess from Tokyo, was dead. They all saw it now. All that was left was Kagome, Lady of the Inu. An entirely different person. Or-was she?
Inuyasha knew that look, that determination. He’d felt it fighting for her...as she did now for him, for Sesshomaru and their friends. Outnumbered, she’d come running, risking herself just as he had so often. As she had when she’d protected him as a mere mortal girl, the girl who’d wept for him, who’d traveled with and fought by his side for so long. Inuyasha wasn’t the boy he’d been last fall, or the foolish young man who had spurned her only days before. The hanyou ran again-but this time, to his packmate and beloved, not away. Only Kagome was as insanely brave as you had to be to pull crazy shit like this! His wench. No.
His. Fucking. Mate!
She saw them, and her eyes nearly glowed with relief. Tetsusaiga was pulled free from her sash and tossed, turning in the air, to be caught by her packsecond and beloved, who drew it with a growl and they stood, back to back. Sesshomaru moved to join them after helping Sango get her husband moving and out of the line of fire. Standing with his pack, all together, ready to face whatever came...Inuyasha was stunned.
Damn if it didn’t feel so very right.
“About damned time!” Inuyasha snapped, and Kagome grinned.
“Sorry, got held up,” she apologized, and they both glanced over their shoulders at each other. In that glance-a great deal passed between them.
“Pay attention,” Sesshomaru barked as she yanked Tenseiga free and returned it as well.
“I know. Here!”
“Toujikin,” he demanded, sliding the blade back into place.
“I don’t have it! Long story-we’ve got to take out the sanctuary and kill her!” It only took moments, that battle, yet changed so much.
Tohan and Natsu both screamed, and the fire panther turned fatally away from her sister. Who finished it. Sesshomaru’s eyes met hers for a moment. Again, something passed between them. It was as it was, though, as it had been on other battlefields, when they had always been on opposite sides...
“It is finished, Lord of the Inu,” Tohan said, face drawn with grief, but a shameful relief edged her voice. She had not broken with them, they had with her. Natsu had struck first...
“Go in peace, Daughter of the Panthers,” he answered. She took up her staff as Kagome stared after her sadly...and left alone. This place held nothing for her now. Nothing-she could take hold of, in any case.
“Hopeless,” Kagome muttered. She got a glare from her Lord as a large, black Inu leapt over the wall, with a fat old monk clinging desperately to his back, and a large, balloon like Hochi rose upwards into view, Kaede sitting on him like some ancient Queen.
“I smell more Dokueki on the wind, my Lords, my Lady, we must go,” Yotogi announced, ignoring his passenger’s terror. Riding a massive youkai Inu not much smaller then Sesshomaru in that form was not Mushin’s idea of a fun evening. That Yotogi also saw it as a bit demeaning was obvious.
“True. We haven’t got long,” Mushin answered, as Inuyasha caught the man when he slipped off the Inu’s neck and Yotogi transformed between one step and the next, walking forward and casually dusting off his kimono, flashing a wicked smile at Kagome.
“Oof! Thank you, Inuyasha,” Mushin managed.
“No. Not yet. Yotogi, conduct the mortals to a place of safety. This must be finished now,” Sesshomaru answered and Kagome nodded as Hochi landed and transformed.
“You’re still going to need us, Lord Sesshomaru. I work with youkai-I do not take orders from them,” Kaede replied, her good eye sharp as she looked at him with amusement, her bow ready as she got a good look at the weary Kagome. “Child, you’re exhausted-” she began and saw it. There it was again! Almost a whisper of aura. Kagome for her part, looked hard at her Hamayami...it was different. She felt it.
“I can stand, Kaede. That means I can fight.” A smile.
“Leave some for the rest of us, why don’t you?” Inuyasha grumbled, eyeing his Tetsusaiga with amazement. It felt lighter, and smelled slightly different. In truth he couldn’t wait to find out how to evoke it’s apparently new power, just handed to him on a platter. Kongokessou. So much sweat and misery learning and mastering the Sword, and she improved it then brought it to him. Kagome flashed him a tired smile. She knew, he realized. Knew what that would mean to him, to have his Sword back, especially with a new power.
Damn. Kagome did know how to give a...what did she call them? A ‘kiss and make up’ gift.
What was the appropriate present to give in return? Flowers? No...not flowers...a mark. Definitely a mark. One of those rings they gave in her time to wives...her mother had worn one, he remembered, and told him it was a ‘wedding ring’. Besides, no way he’d allow anyone else to think of courting his Kagome. If he could, he write ‘property of Inuyasha’ on her somewhere. Well-technically he’d be her property...but he really didn’t give a damn.
“Enough,” Sesshomaru sniffed. No Dokueki...yet. But they had little time. His own hand rested on the Tenseiga’s hilt and he smelled a subtle difference in the useless blade as well. A strangely familiar but unfamiliar scent.
His eyes flicked to Kagome as he wondered-and drew it. He wasn’t sure why, only that it bid him to. She bit her lip. How to tell him, well, that she’d given Totosai his Mother’s sword fang...to have it combined with Tenseiga to create the ability to kill? The Kuroi-yaiba was no more, there was only Tenseiga now.
“Kaede’s right. And so is Kagome. Time to go, my friends,” Miroku forced himself to his feet. He could stand, and would.
“Ayami’s probably hiding in there, waiting for her Dokueki,” Kagome noted.
“Meaning we have to find her and the Hiraikoksu,” Sango agreed.
“Yep.”
“Kagome, rear. The Priestess and the Monks will sense for her. We must find her, and swiftly,” Sesshomaru ordered as they turned to head inside the main Temple.
Author’s notes- Ahhh. We move onwards. I feel I ought to explain a term here. I used the Ear-tweak translation for what the Anime called the ‘Adamant barrage’. Here’s why. When I wrote this chapter, I had seen movie four, but I got the DVD with no English dub, just subtitles. Let me just say that the subtitles on it-read like someone was drunk when they wrote them. Hilarious! But not much help in actually finding the right name for the attack, and I had yet to watch the eps. where he gets the ability. I think it was listed as ‘King Kong Diamond’ or something in the movie. Thank goodness for Ear-Tweak‘s glossaries. So yes, I know it doesn’t match the anime and things, but I actually kinda like their translation better.
I also really still enjoy having the Panthers turn on one another. Thanks for reading, and please non-flame review!-Namiyo’