InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Broken ❯ Damaged ( Chapter 2 )

AuthorNote:
Set in the Warring States Era of Japan.

Disclaimer:
InuYasha is not mine but I bought him into slavery! -Curls up in his lap.-
InuYasha: I've been so violated x____x

InuYasha and Co. ©Rumiko Takahashi
Storyline, Kokushibyou, Yuushishan ©Miiiiiiiiiiineeeeeee

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Broken
Damaged

He smelt…What?! Fear, hatred, pain, and … death? The hanyou was so confused by what his nose told him. He could smell many scents wrapped around these feelings, but why? Why was there death? Like a switch, there's no time to think about it!

The scent of death still plagued his mind but whom the scent belonged to sent him reeling. Feet lightly tapped the ground as InuYasha flew against the wind and towards the scents his heart denied to believe. `How is she there?' he thought.

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It was a cold wind, like death penetrated the humid morning air. Though along with it she felt hate, betrayal, and... sadness. `But how could this come from that being?' she thought. `They are youkai! I can feel it but it's different than Sesshoumaru's.' Kagome trembled as the cold began to seep through her clothing.

"Where is my half breed brother, woman?" came a stiff voice on the chill air. Golden eyes locked onto Kagome's shaking form moving not a muscle from where he stood.

Kagome fell silent, her comrades as well. Her own chocolate hues turned to view the demon lord's companion at his side. She stood just as tall as Sesshoumaru; her bluish white hair pulled up into a high ponytail to let the long locks cascaded behind her like a waterfall. The feelings…the emotions…they were coming from her! The hurt, betrayal, and sadness... It was the same feelings she got when she was around Kikyou but…the youkai was different. The demoness' skin was pale to the eyes although she might have been excellently tanned when she was alive and her amber hues glazed over with regret. Did she regret being there? Or regret living again? Kagome's eyes wandered to the clothing the woman adorned. `Samurai armor?' she thought, a look of surprise catching her face. The armor was intricately designed, protecting her arms, shoulders, chest, back, torso, and thighs with purple shading and silver trimming. If Kagome didn't know she was a demon she would of thought that the sight before her was a beautiful elven maiden, dressed in her warrior outfit.

Sesshoumaru hissed at the sign of his impatience, "Woman! Tell me where InuYasha is!"

The figure beside the dog lord visibly stiffened. "InuYasha?" came her soft voice; a small tear trickled down the demoness' face. The group was momentarily stunned. Sango never knew a demon could cry, it was always told in her village that they felt no feelings such as that kind of sadness to bring them to tears. "InuYasha…" she repeated again, looking over the companions longingly. The lady seemed to take an intake of breath through her nose and her eyes laid upon Kagome.

She could feel the cold in the area slip away under the gaze of the maiden, her own chocolate hues watching as the demon stepped towards her. It was in sweeping movements that the woman would slip away from the taiyoukai. Soft, kind amber hues played on Kagome's features as if trying to take in the strange looks the said girl contained.

Have you been taking care of him? Came a calm voice within the back of Kagome's mind. She silenced her breath. Who was that?

"SESSHOUMARU!!" a loud roar bellowed. A blur of red charged into the said demon sending both sliding across the ground. Dust accumulated across the clearing. The youkai could hear a deep growl and a soft snort of disapproval.

Kagome turned from the demoness to search the dust cloud with her eyes. "InuYasha!" she cried with shock but stopped herself from walking closer to them. The dust had settled revealing a scene of both dogs slashing at each other, neck and neck.

Kagome didn't like the way this was turning out. InuYasha wasn't letting up as if he fought in his youkai form but he looked normal, he even wore Tetsusaiga on his left hip. But the hanyou's rampage couldn't go unnoticed.

With his a strange feat of strength InuYasha's wild rage pinned the shocked dog lord to the ground. "What are you doing here?" he growled fiercely. He could not let his brother near his pack without his consent.

"Get off me, little brother, or have you forgotten a small detail?" Sesshoumaru raised his glowing claws to the hanyou's neck, poison hissing against the new flesh.

The glow of green caught his attention as it neared his neck; in a swift jump he let go of his elder brother and landed upon the dewy grass a few feet away. If pain existed along the tender flesh of his neck, he showed none of it. Golden hues stared down his opponent, claws flexing. "Why are you here?" he growled again, narrowing those hues.

The elder demon straitened when he stood, elegant tresses floating behind him. A clawed hand rested against the length of fur draped across his shoulder. "I thought it would be obvious," the demon replied without a hint of emotion. "Sad however, your own nose could not recognize something so familiar. Or is it the stench of death and the cold ache in your bones to not look in the direction in which it comes from?" Sesshoumaru amused himself to feed off the evident anger and resolution that etched along the lines of his young brother's face.

"I refuse to look that way. I refuse to know whom else you have tortured into a new life, Sesshoumaru. They are not of my concern." InuYasha shifted his eyes to check if his friends were all right, ignoring the hazy figure in the corner of is eyes. He couldn't look at the woman that stood there. It was hate and fear that kept him at bay. What he would see standing before him left unknown by his sense of sight but his nose had already told him who stood there.

Kagome strayed her vision from the lost look on the woman's features to her hanyou companion. It didn't take a few glances to see what he was thinking. He didn't want to look at the woman in front of him…he was afraid. `But of what?' thought the confused miko. A smile lightly caressed her face to reassure the hanyou. There was nothing to fear but he didn't seem relaxed only sad at her look.

The woman's eyes felt as if the penetrated her now, sending waves of emotions through that one look. She couldn't help but feel the hurt from the demoness. A sad expression had overcome her beautiful face, flinching with the words that the hanyou has said. `Did they hurt her that much?' Kagome thought softly, her feet taking her a few steps to the lady.

InuYasha watched Kagome before his attention was caught by his brother zooming towards him. "Keep your eye on your opponent, little brother," hissed Sesshoumaru, barely missing the hanyou's shoulder with his claws.

All thoughts of the battle faded from her instant memory. All she could think about strained on the youkai. The female held no body language for defense or that of an offense, she was nether afraid of anything that could or would attack her. But the miko could not help the feel of emotions. How could someone be hurt in such a way to be permanent on their soul?

The woman had turned her amber hues to InuYasha and Sesshoumaru by the time the miko reached her side. The brothers fought so fiercely but only some could see it as it was. It fought one-sided. The hanyou held despair, the fuel for revenge.

InuYasha stumbled backwards, falling to the ground. Exhaustion over took him but he couldn't give up, he had to fight! Lunging forwards he took a swipe at his elder, only to find himself gasping in pain when a hand shoved its way through the muscles of his arm then forcibly drawn out. He stood wounded. InuYasha grasped his useless arm; it would take weeks to heal…if he survived.

"Sesshou…maru..." he choked only to add to his brothers fair amusement. "Why…"

"To what you ask of is the true question. Why what? My dear brother," this was a time for celebration, he finally taught his brother of his adolescence. He would no longer be so stuck up and would regretfully bow before his superior. Stone gold eyes watched the hanyou shake as he bent before the taiyoukai.

"You hurt to many people…yet you feel no remorse…Are these the true successions of a youkai?!" the hanyou bursted out. "I want nothing of them!" he roared and jumped to his feet, plunging his own hand into the gut of his brother, pinning him to the ground.

"Is this what you call revenge, little brother? I feel no remorse for what I've done for it is the past," the taiyoukai spoke with the utmost strange calm…despite the fact he was bleeding freely from the hole in his gut.

"You were corrupted…you stole a life because you thought they would steal yours."

"InuYasha…"

The hanyou froze at the voice then whimpered as the owner's voice pulled him away from his elder brother. The youkai woman embraced the boy like he was a child, cradling him in the comfort of her arms.

"Miroku..." whispered the taijiya beside him. "Perhaps we should..."

"Hai, lets leave. Obviously this has nothing to do with our existence." Gently the monk guided Sango, Shippou, and Kirara from the battlefield and into the safety of the forestry. But Kagome did not follow. A pang of anger lashed in her heart. `Who was that woman to hold InuYasha as such?' Kagome narrowed her eyes but kept her distance.

InuYasha cringed but relaxed within the arms that held him. Why did he feel so safe? It was…nice. Until the body against him jerked, he could feel the soft liquid of blood that snaked its way from the heart of the woman.

"It's all your fault, InuYasha. I planned to let her live but now that she knows of your living…She will not cooperate with my motives."

It all came back in a jolt. The memories, the memories within his heart had been unlocked in his silent howl to the air. He whimpered, holding the dieing woman in his arms.

Kagome rushed towards him but all he could see of her was a blur; Just an outline in his memory.

And then they came…he remember all of them and every detail that came to pass.

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InuYasha: You…

Yes? I am You, all powerful person that is named…You. Fwa..

InuYasha: -Growls.- You took away my screenname..
I thought you didn't like it.
InuYasha: Just because it's called Hentai InuHanyou doesn't mean I can't cherish it…

It's because Katie's Kagome clings to you isn't it?

InuYasha: -Twitch.- …..Yes