InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blinded ❯ The misterious demon ( Chapter 1 )

I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA. HE'S THE PROPERTY OF RUMIKO TAKAHASHI.

 

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In the shadows of a forest, a lone woman was running. She was fleeing from a dark figure. She passed through trees, onto twigs, through water, just to escape, but without a hope. The shadow still followed, his blood-red eyes glistening through the darkness, hunger present in them. The shadow threw his massive tail, breaking some trees. The woman dodged, falling on the ground, hit by the sheer force. Lifting herself, she saw the clearing like a way to freedom. With her eyes on her way out, she didn't saw the root that was on the ground and tripped. That was the time when the shadow made his final attack…

 

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Another shardless day for our group. It seemed that in the last period there wasn't any trace of them. Every time they heard about a demon attack, it all ended up as a false alarm. Neither of the demons they've killed in the last week held a single shard.

The sun was setting on the sky, painting it with red, orange and violet.

-“We should really find a nice place to sleep,” Kagome said, yawning. “It's almost dark.”

-“Kagome-Sama's right. It's getting pretty late. We shouldn't walk on dark. And it was a really tiring day. Don't you think, my friend?” Miroku asked Inuyasha.

-“Keh! I don't need sleep! I'm not weak as you humans!”

-“Hey!” yelled Shippou, running in front of them. “I can see a village from here!”

-“Really?!” Kagome cheered. “Finally, we could get a decent meal and a real bed. And I want to get a bath, too. I'm tiered of sleeping on the forest floor!”

-“Well, excuse me for letting you sleep on the ground!” Inuyasha said sarcastically.

-“Let's go!” Kagome said as the others followed her in the village.

As they arrived in the village, Miroku used his “a demon possesses your home” charm and got them a free night in the best inn in the village. After a decent meal, the girls went for a nice bath in the nearby hot spring while the others talked with the inn keeper, asking him if there was some strange demon activity in the region, cause of Naraku.

-“I do not know about this Naraku demon, but we have some demon problems of our own.”

-“If it isn't about Naraku, we're not interested!” Inuyasha said, not wanting to go after another wild goose chase.

-“Shush!” Miroku shushed him. Turning back to the villager, “Do tell.”

-“Well, it started about two weeks ago, when the animals from the west part of the forest began to disappear. We realized that this was the work of a demon, so we send a patrol to get rid of it, but it never returned. Most of all, the demon came closer to the village. We're afraid to go out to gather our fields, and the ones who do, are killed.”

Then, the bell of the village began to ring. Inuyasha and the others came in front of the house. A patrol holding something covered came by. Inuyasha picked up the scent of death and poison.

-“That's the 20th one this month. We can't live like this! In the end we'll all be killed!”

-“Fear not, my friend. We will kill the demon,” Miroku said.

-“Oi! I said that if this isn't a demon with a shard, I ain't gonna go after it!” Inuyasha yelled.

-“I really think we should help these people,” Sango said as she entered the room with Kagome. “If we don't help them, they would be killed.”

-“And I think that I feel a Jewel Shard, though it's very faint,” Kagome said.

Inuyasha's ear twitched at the information.

-“Okay, we'll kill the damn thing first thing in the morning. I won't let it escape with the Jewel shard!”

Before they went to bed, they talked about what they've found from the villagers. They found out that the demon killed his prey the same way. The victim always had terrible wounds around her eyes, and the contents of the victim were sucked from it, as a spider sucked the contents of a fly after it bites it.

-“Do you think it's a spider youkai, Sango?” Miroku asked her.

-“I think not, though it might be against the clues. I think that is a spitting snake youkai. That explains the burns around the victim's eyes,” Sango said with her experience of a tayjia. “It must have made a burrow close to the village. We should really kill it before it makes more victims.”

-“Plus, having the Jewel shard, it's more powerful than a normal one,” Kagome said.

-“Keh! I ain't afraid of no slippery snake, even with a Jewel shard with it! Tomorrow he will be dead meat! Killed by my Tetsusaiga!” Inuyasha said, holding his sword.

 

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The next day, our group headed to the place they were informed that the last attack was made.

-“Keh! What stench!” Inuyasha growled, holding his nose to block the horrible smell of corpses and poison. “That thing killed everything around here!”

-“Yes,” said Miroku as he approached the corpse of a cattle. “And it seems that these ones have the same wounds also. We should really be careful with this demon; we don't know what might happen.”

After a few hundred meters, they arrived at a cave. Everything around it was dead from the strong youki and from the poison that was in the air.

-“Stay back, Kagome. This will be dangerous,” Inuyasha said turning to her.

Kagome nodded and watched as he closed to the cave. Everyone prepared themselves for what might happen when the demon reveals itself.

-“Keh! Think that you can hide yourself from me? Get your ass out and fight!” Inuyasha yelled as he unleashed the Wind Scar on the large rock that protected the demon in her cave.

The rock was destroyed from the powerful blast of energy. Inuyasha had to protect his eyes with the sleeve of his haori from the blast of dust that followed. In the middle of the remains of the rock, a long figure raised.

-“So, you came out to play?” Inuyasha said. “Then let's play!” He lunged for the figure of the demon with neck-breaking speed. The creature's size grew as he came closer. The demon-snake opened his hood and also lunged at Inuyasha with his mouth open, ready to swallow him whole. Inuyasha easily dodged his attack, but was surprised when a spike on the snake's back scratched him on his upper arm.

-“Feh, you've got to do better than that to scare me!”

The serpent stopped a few moments to look at his prey. Inuyasha used the time to also look at his opponent. It was a massive snake with shiny grey scales, and on his back and on the tip of his tail there were big spikes. The snake opened his mouth to reveal several rows of needle sharp teeth and two large ones in front, from which the poison was dripping.

The huge snake attacked him again, but Inuyasha dodged this time as well and saw a good opportunity to attack him with his sword.

-“Here goes!” he yelled as he was about to cut it with Tetsusaiga, but when the blade touched the snake's scales, it bounced back powerfully into his chest, making Inuyasha fall to the ground.

-“What the-? His scales are like diamond!” Inuyasha said surprised. `It's using the power of the shard! This will be tougher than I thought! '

-“Inuyasha!” Kagome called as she ran to him.

-“Stay back! This is my fight!” he yelled and jumped back into fight.

Kagome looked at him as he was still trying to fight the youkai, but with every attack he was giving, the more wounds he was receiving from the scales on the snake's back. By now, his whole body was covered with bleeding wounds.

-“He's powerless!” Kagome said. “He'll get himself killed if we don't do something!” her heart almost skipped a beat when she saw the snake spitting a dose of venom directly at him. Inuyasha barely dodged it, but unfortunately, a part of it touched his arm. It burned like hell. Every cell of his skin was screaming from the poisonous fire from where it struck.

-`Shit! I have to kill it before it kills me! And fast!' he thought. “Kagome, where is the shard?!”

Kagome began to look on the snake's body, only to see a corrupted violet light on the snake's forehead.

-“It's in his forehead, between his eyes!” she told him.

-“Keh! Time to finish it for good!”

-“Wait, Inuyasha!” Sango tried to say something, but Inuyasha took the lead.

He leapt to the snake. The snake too rushed to him, mouth open. Inuyasha dodged and successfully grabbed a spike upon the snakes back. He waited until the demon calmed a little and began to run on his back. The snake swished and swirled, trying to get rid of him, but Inuyasha was holding on. He leapt into the air when he was close to the head.

-“Take this!”

-“Inuyasha, no!” Sango yelled, knowing from the snake's gestures what it had in mind.

-“KAZE no KI-ARGHHHHH!!!”

Inuyasha was unaware of what was Sango trying to say, before it was too late. As he was ready to hit him with the Wind Scar, the demon took his vulnerable pose with his arms up in his advantage, and spat a dose of poison directly in his eyes.

-“Inuyasha!” Kagome yelled as she saw the one she loved falling to the ground.

Inuyasha fell with a thud on the ground, yelling in pain. Never had he experienced such a pain. Not even when Sesshoumaru struck him through the stomach with his poisonous claws. His eyes were on fire, they felt like they were melting.

-“Inuyasha!” Inuyasha sensed Kagome calling for him and coming closer.

-“Stay back, Kagome!”

Kagome stopped in her tracks. She saw Inuyasha searching blindly for his sword until he found it.

-“I don't need my eyes to kill him!” he lunged again.

-“You baka!” Kagome cried. “You're going to kill yourself!”

-“The poison in his body will spread faster if he does such futile effort! The poison is very strong, even for a youkai, and even in small doses!” Sango worried.

-“Listen, Inuyasha! You have to stop!” tears were streaming on her cheeks now.

-“I'll go and distract the snake! Kirara!”

The nekomata came to the side of her master and in a second, she transformed into a bigger cat, with saber tooth fangs. After Sango got on her she took off.

-“Hiraikotsu!” Sango yelled as she threw her giant boomerang at the snake. The snake dodged the boomerang and turned around to spit in the air.

-“Go higher!” Kirara did so to escape the poison.

Inuyasha was still depending on his other senses to discover where the snake is but he slowly felt his body giving out. He could feel the poison spreading in his stream. The snake turned his attention to him, sensing that his poison made effect. He lunged to him. Sensing his approach, Inuyasha leapt in the air to give the final blow.

-“KONGOUSHOUHA!”

Diamond spears erupted from Tetsusaiga and went straight to the demon. Seeing this, the snake made one last effort to kill him. Swishing his tail, he threw a spike to him before the rain of diamonds hit it. The same time the diamonds hit the snake, the same spike that the snake threw pierced Inuyasha through the abdomen. A choking sound left Inuyasha's mouth before he fell to the ground.

-“Inuyasha!!!” Kagome screamed as she ran to him. Until she arrived, Inuyasha was already in a pool of his own blood.

-“Quickly! We must get the spike out!”

Miroku and Sango got the spike out. The hole was as big as Inuyasha's fist.

-“Shippou! Bring me the aid-kit! Hurry!” Kagome yelled, tears streaming on her cheeks, and covering the hole in Inuyasha's stomach with her small hands. She watched as Shippou ran to her backpack, and then turned to the hanyou lying in front of her.

-`You better hang on or I'll never forgive you for being such a baka!'