InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bits From The Big Yellow Bag ❯ The Beast Within ( Chapter 5 )

The Beast Within

Summary: While in the cocoon of the moth youkai leading the tribe of bandits, a fight rages inside InuYasha…

 

Purple crests carved high across his cheeks as his body pulsed in time with his heart… fighting the change…

 

`No! No, not again…'

 

Claws and fangs lengthened, sharpened… one wayward fang clipped his bottom lip. Blood pooled into his mouth. Coppery, tangy, delicious…

 

`Blood… kill… destroy that which has trapped us here…'

 

Red bled into his vision. Red… everywhere red.

 

Youkai vied with human in his veins, in his heart, in his mind…

 

Nostrils flared; the scent of the monk's pain, his friend's fear, an acrid accelerant to the youkai fighting for freedom.

 

`Free me… no, not again! Protect us… kill them…'

 

A scream, a woman brutalized. His mother, screaming for mercy for her child as she bled…

 

A snarl; the battle was won.

 

 

A/N:

First posted to LiveJournal on March 27, 2009

Word Count: 124

Prompt: “Switch”

 

Nominated at InuYasha Fan Guild First Quarter 2009 for Best Short-Short