InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dear brother ❯ Incisions and decisions ( Chapter 11 )

Dear brother

 

A/n: Yes, I know these updates are getting longer, that is why I am now going to do them all at once and alternate after each page, than they will get done faster. Sorry, don't be impatient though, it could be far worse! I could go a few months without much updates, like some authors. Don't like it? Well deal with it. You could always help co-write.

 

I guess I also get updates faster depending on reviews. Sometimes I don't always base it upon reviews, rather then what I left off with.

 

Thanks for all my reviewers and fans who have stuck with me through all the months I've been working on these fictions! You know who you are and I love you all ^_^

 

Thanks also for the great hints on the chapters to come. Trust me I know I will definitely use them. I really love them!!!

 

How about some more Kagome bashing!?--- Nah j/k… Not yet.

 

Chapter 11: Incisions and decisions

 

Watching the parasites squirming in and out of the heart muscle, the nurse couldn't believe how many worms there were. It was an almost overwhelming amount of stomach-turning creatures that had hooked themselves and burrowed deeper within her patient's heart, making her job a helluvalot harder. As for the ones that weren't burrowing themselves deep within his heart, they were trying to get into their attacker's flesh.

 

Ever since Sesshomaru was knocked out, InuYasha had been very tense in the new situation. It made her more nervous about his intentions. Kouga on the other had seemed to handle the situation much better than anyone else in the room.

 

“I think we're going to need to cut deeper as soon as we remove these on the top,” she said as she struggled to pull more and more off the poisoned heart and putting them in the bowl that would kill them off. “If they go any further, they may just take off through his veins. And that wouldn't be good.”

 

“InuYasha, maybe it might be best just to leave and go do something. Maybe we can go see Kagome,” Kouga said as he felt his friend tense.

 

InuYasha's eyes darted to his friend. He didn't want to be near the human. Kagome would just question him and most likely freak if she even heard about Sesshomaru's proposal to reconcile and become life long partners. “Are you joking?” he asked unblinkingly.

 

“Well, it seems that you're having trouble watching this.”

 

It was slightly true that InuYasha was having trouble watching what the nurse and the guards were doing. It made InuYasha's stomach queasy as they extracted the parasites. And the smell they were creating; partly because of the decay, was also adding to the churning of his stomach. Yet, he couldn't help but want to stay. His inner demon was fuming about what they were doing, and his human side was curious and hoping that they mistakenly something and hopefully killed him.

 

The nurse and guards listened as they made quick work ripping as many parasites out of Sesshomaru's heart as they could. They wanted to move on and get deeper before they ran out of time. “We need to get as many as we can, if we don't get them all, we can do it later. The important thing is to keep him alive,” she said in an almost inaudible whisper to the guards who caught it easily and just nodded as they picked up the pace.

 

Removing as many as they could in a short amount of time, they cut into one of the four chambers of Sesshomaru's heart. They didn't think it possible but they found the heart almost completely clogged with little white and plum colored parasites. They had thought the outside was bad when they had found half of the parasites wrapped around the heart like vines, choking the heart to a stop. Now they found it amazing their lord had lived with this for so long.

 

Of course InuYasha and Kouga had stopped talking about whether or not they wanted to leave and they watched the worms that clung to every part of the wall that was available, making it more difficult to peel back the muscle to remove the foul creatures. With such an amount it was much easier to grab and pull.

 

“Great Kami,” Kouga said, amazed. “How could he have lived?”

 

“No idea, but maybe they have just multiplied recently. It may have resulted from the starting phase of his heat, or recent activity. Usually when I see him about in the castle, he's relaxed. Now that InuYasha is here, he is more active trying to court him. It may just be that. That's my best guess,” the nurse replied.

 

“Wait, now you're blaming me?” asked InuYasha, angered.

 

“I'm not blaming anyone, InuYasha,” the nurse said, exasperated.

 

With a small growl, InuYasha quieted.

 

Dipping their hands again in the poison they grabbed and pulled at the creatures that sizzled and squirmed at the contact of their poison-covered hands. The potent poison dripped into the heart causing minor damage on the heart walls compared to the powerful effect on the worms. “This kind of reminds me of gutting out a pumpkin or a gored,” Daisuke said with repugnance.

 

“This is also going to take forever if we keep going like we are,” Kouhei commented as he watched with a wrinkled nose.

 

Pulling back, the nurse stared at the poison that filled the bowl and back at the wormy heart. “You're right,” the nurse replied, pulling back. “I have a better idea.”

 

Grabbing a sponge near by, she soaked the sponge in the poison and brought it over the infested heart. The poison that dripped off of the sponge hit the parasites, instantly sending them into a shriveling state of death or dying. Squeezing the sponge increased the death tolls of the creatures that were slowly sending Sesshomaru into a painful death as their poison covered the heart.

 

It seemed to work well the first time and the nurse repeated the action. The nurse only hoped that the parasites wouldn't flee further into Sesshomaru's body. Watching carefully the nurse looked for any remaining worms; removing any dead ones in the process, and started on the next heart chamber.

 

 

 

Sesshomaru floated somewhere in-between the land of the dead and the land of the living. He felt no pain. This sort of deathlike state gave him so much time to think of what he had done in his life. How much trouble he had caused his father and InuYasha.

 

Things he should have said and done.

 

Now he might not even wake up to try to make up for those lost memories. Sesshomaru wanted to make up for everything now more than ever after what he had seen and heard from InuYasha before going into a death state.

 

InuYasha had refused to say anything back, just: `I know you do, Sesshomaru.' And those words hit him like a punch in the gut. He knew that InuYasha wanted to say it; he could hear it in his voice. But he also knew that InuYasha had yet to learn to trust him.

 

It almost made Sesshomaru angry that his brother could be too dense to see that he was truly trying. `Maybe he does see,' his conscious mused almost in a distant whisper. `Maybe it's you, maybe you need to forgive yourself too and maybe just see?'

 

Sesshomaru scoffed. “Ridiculous.”

 

 

The further and further they cut, the more Kouga could feel InuYasha tense. He could see and hear the grinding of InuYasha's teeth as the nurse and guard worked and cut even deeper, pouring on the poison that thickened the air around them causing every demon in the room to wrinkle their nose in disgust. Kouga wondered how long it would take for InuYasha to loose it and attack.

 

Regardless to his friend's state, Kouga was sure that InuYasha would attack.

 

“InuYasha, do you think that Kagome has some weird medicine that could cure this in her time?” Kouga asked snapping InuYasha from his heavy stare at his brother's insides.

 

“Yeah, no doubt, but I'm not asking her anything. If I do, she'll start to question me,” InuYasha growled out moodily.

 

“Good point. She may find out that you're really with Sesshomaru,” Kouga said. Pausing long to think hard about how to get the medicine, he smiled and his cerulean eyes lit up. He remembered that one of his wolves in the pack was ill. He could make up an excuse for that and have Kagome go back and get some treatment for them. “I've got an idea!”

 

“What?” InuYasha asked as he watched the nurse mix up more poison.

 

“One of my wolves is sick. I can go back to Kagome and tell her I need some medicine for it. It should work because I did tell her that I had to go because one of my pack mates is down for a good while so she'll believe me. What do you say?”

 

The healer looked up, “Kouga, that may just work. If we do get a cure for this, than any that we miss shouldn't come back. I say you should go now; it probably will take you a while to get there. Daisuke can watch over InuYasha, I'm pretty sure that Sesshomaru's youkai is pretty dormant right now.”

 

Kouga got to his feet and stretched briefly before turning to InuYasha. “I'll try not to keep you all waiting, be a good mutt face and stay put.”

 

“I won't move a muscle,” InuYasha commented.

 

“Tell that to your grinding jaw,” Kouga said. “I won't be long. I'll be back with the medicine before long.”

 

“Safe run,” Kouhei said as he watched the wolf start to the door.

 

“Thanks. Happy cutting.”

 

 

 

 

Kouga ran, making his way in and out of the brush and into the forest, knowing that time was not going to be on his side. As soon as he left the castle's grounds he was able to run without the bustle of the crowds of humans and demons to get in his way.

 

If the healer didn't get all of the parasites, they could kill Sesshomaru sooner or later, and who knew when that would happen. Without a mate and the Western lands of Saigoku with no lord, all hell could break loose in a war over the ownership of the land, since they would most likely eliminate InuYasha without hesitation, just because he was a half breed demon with a human mother. That's all they would see InuYasha as; a tainted youkai, and not a son of InuTaisho.

 

Of course, Kouga thought that InuYasha just might have an advantage if a war broke out, and all youkais who had heard that the lord of Saigoku was dead and thought nobody was available to protect his brother who had recently been redeemed into his land. InuYasha's only advantage would most likely was to be his psychotic demonic side that he had witnessed a long time ago when his sword was broken. He was sure if his youkai totally bonded to Sesshomaru's and something wrong happened it would surely go insane.

 

However, Kouga had yet to witness that or even learn if it was feasible.

 

Bounding across a few logs that separated Saigoku from the Eastern lands, he knew he arrive in a matter of hours. If the pack of humans and two other demons hadn't relocated he was sure to find them right away in the same spot as before.

 

Suddenly recalling that Kagome was going back to her time for a bit of rest and relaxation, and that she would return within a day or two; Kouga shifted directions and headed to the sacred bone eater's well. There he hoped that he would meet up with Kagome. He could tell her to go right back in and get what he had come to get.

 

He knew that the bone eater's well was a lot closer, so he would be able to meet her sooner. The sooner the better and the faster Sesshomaru would improve.

 

 

 

An aura of lights surrounded the bone eater's well as Kagome made her way to the top of the well. She had had a nice relaxing day and had finally decided that she should come back to wait on InuYasha so they could continue on their way. But since Naraku was destroyed they had little worry about him getting the small sliver of the two remaining shards that were still lost. The group could relax more, and still know that the world would be a bit safer.

 

What she was expecting was for InuYasha to be waiting at the top of the well like he always was as she reached the top of the well. He usually was the one to escort her back or yell at her for taking so long. Then she remembered that InuYasha had left. So whose shadow was she seeing at the top of the well?

 

“Hello Kagome,” the voice greeted.

 

Finally reaching the top she found Kouga waiting for her. Why was he there? She thought that he was back with his pack taking care of business. Was he done already?

 

“Kouga, what are you doing here?”

 

“Come to see my princess,” he said not quite meaning it. “No, but really I am here because I need your help.”

 

Kouga helped her over the edge. Straightening up Kagome became curious to what the wolf was in need of. Kouga was a youkai and was able to handle himself quite well. “What do you need?”

 

“Well…” Kouga paused. “One of my wolves, they're sick. I think they have the worms.”

 

“What kind of worms?”

 

“I believe it's heartworm. I was wondering if you could go back and get some kind of treatment for him. Since you're from the future, I'm sure there is some kind of modern medicine for killing it off.”

 

“Heartworm… that's really expensive to treat, we would have to bring your wolf in to be treated. Could you bring him here?”

 

Kouga was hadn't expected to get that answer. He knew he couldn't bring InuYasha's brother over. And he wasn't about to bring his own wolves instead since they were wild and untamed and would most likely rip off anyone's hand. “No, I can't. Can you just go back and get something for it, and then I can bring it to him?”

 

Kagome scratched her chin for a moment in thought. “Well I can go back and try but there is no guarantee that I can get anything. Give me about a few hours and I'll return with what I can.”

 

“Thank you Kagome. This means so much to me. I owe you big time.” Sesshomaru and InuYasha owed her big time too. There was a lot riding on whether or not she could get the treatment that was needed.

 

Kagome smiled. “I'd be glad to help you, Kouga. Can you take this back to Miroku and Sango. It's some food,” Kagome said as she handed Kouga her yellow backpack. “Just wait there with them after you drop this off, I won't be gone too long.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

“What? What do you mean he won't give you any of it?” Kouga asked in disbelief.

 

After a long five hour wait Kagome had returned with disappointing news that would delay his return to InuYasha and his brother. He had expected his plan to be almost flawless. But now it was looking bleak.

 

“He wants to have me bring him in. Isn't there any way that you could bring him to me so I can bring him to the vet to see him?” Kagome asked. She was unsure of what Kouga was telling her. Kouga was loyal to his pack and would do anything for them, however what was making her skeptical was the fact that Kouga was becoming reluctant to bring his pack mate to her.

 

Kouga knew he wasn't going to able to pull out one of his wolves for this. He was going to either have to cough it out or come up with something quickly. The miko was smart and she was going to find out sooner or later.

 

Just as he was about to say something, he remembered that he had seen Sesshomaru's other form before. `Maybe if I go back I can convince him to shift to his demon form and bring him to Kagome. Sesshomaru has to have some control over his size of course so his massive form can be easily manipulated. But then there are his markings, those she would be able to recognize him by. Those can be covered up though… Hmm this may just be pulled off after all.'

 

“I think I can try,” Kouga said as he turned to look at Miroku and Sango who were standing about. “And isn't almost impossible for others other than yourself and InuYasha to cross over?”

 

Kagome shook her head. “Not entirely… InuYasha is using the jewel shards to cross over. I can lend some of my extra shards to you guys so you can cross over,” Kagome replied as she revealed the small jar on chain around her neck. It held four shards plus a larger pink semicircle of the jewel that she had yet to combine with the others.

 

 

Kouga smiled. “Good. That will help.” Looking over to Kirara, he said, “Do you think I can barrow Kirara?”

 

“Sure, I don't think she'll mind,” Sango said as she looked down at her fire cat who just mewed happily in agreement before shifting into her large fire cat form.

 

“I won't be too long I hope,” Kouga said as he hopped on Kirara's back. The trip would be a lot faster flying than running.

 

“I'll be here when you get back,” Kagome said as she watched Kouga and Kirara lift off from the ground.

 

 

Safely out of earshot from the humans, Kouga directed the fire cat west. “If you haven't noticed yet, we're going to Sesshomaru's place. And it is really Sesshomaru that I'm trying to get,” he told Kirara knowing that she would be listening. “He's been sick and we want him treated with modern medicine since we can't really treat it now.”

 

Kirara just looked back to question “why.”

 

“Don't know. We've had to cut him open to remove the parasites,” he said. “They're most likely from Naraku.”

 

Giving a small growl at Naraku's name, Kirara continued to listen as Kouga informed her of what was really going on. She knew that the situation was becoming dire, so she hastened towards the west. There their problems would become even more complicated then they already were.

 

When Kouga arrived, if Sesshomaru was awake he knew that the lord wouldn't appreciate being told to go through another time just to receive human help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sesshomaru could feel a pull. He wasn't quite sure if he wanted to go with the pull or just resist it; not being sure whether it was a good or bad pull. If it was a bad pull, he wasn't at the point of seeing his father yet, so he let it pull at his body for a bit before realizing that he didn't like where his situation was going.

 

But then everything dawned on Sesshomaru.

 

`This must be the end. Did they fail?' he thought to himself silently as his body remained floating in the dark abyss between the world of the living and the world of the dead. It was amusing to Sesshomaru how he didn't feel any resentment towards his attempted saviors as they tried to save his life. All he felt now could only to be described as: “carefree.”

 

It was a definite change to how he had been feeling a while ago when he was worried and quite saddened. As he felt so carefree he couldn't help himself and so accepted that he now was beyond anyone's grasp as he floated there for sometime.

 

Accepting the pull even more, he felt himself being sucked down by some unseen force that he was sure was pointless to fight any longer as his body was feeling heavier. His body then went light again before going brick-heavy and back to light once more, over and over again. It was if something was pulling on each of his sides in a tug-of-war, until it finally ceased and his body remained floating as it was before; confusing Sesshomaru.

 

Humming to himself, Sesshomaru searched his body with his mind. He could feel a growing pain where his heart was. Noticing that it rapidly grew in greater measures, he wasn't sure what to believe as he saw nothing but the darkness that had enshrouded him for the whole time. Not being sure why it was happening he accepted it.

 

He knew that he wasn't thinking correctly. Sesshomaru was aware that he wouldn't have given up so easily and without a fight. Before Sesshomaru had gone into this state, he told his brother that he'd be able to start his heart again, and something inside him told him now was the time to do so. Yet, he felt weak as his mind struggled to grasp the task. His body felt so paralyzed with the heavy limbs that felt like lead.

 

Seeking out his bloodstream that seemed to be so clotted, it seemed almost impossible for his mind to reach his heart. But he managed to somehow. But once his mind arrived there it didn't wish to focus on one spot. It was if he were in a dream where he couldn't command his body to do anything. Scowling, he put more force into it, giving his heart a nice squeeze; causing him to lose further strength.

 

Having done this before, he would have thought it would be a breeze. Then again it was a different situation this time and he was up against far more. If he didn't get it started now, he only could hope that his brother didn't fail at wielding his Tensaiga.

 

If he did, then it would be a true good-bye. `Good-bye, little brother. See you in the after-life,' he thought to himself silently.

 

 

 

The nurse had finished sewing her patient up. She had done the best she could. Now all they could do was to wait for Kouga who had been gone for about 3 hours now. And now she had no choice but to attempt to revive her lord who had been `dead' for quite some time now. Should she fail, she knew InuYasha would be more than pissed.

 

“It's time,” she said as she wiped her brow and reached over to her things where she got hold of a red velvet pouch. Feeling InuYasha's eyes weighing down heavily on her she pulled out a few green leaves and placed them in a bowl before reaching for another pouch.

 

“What is that?” InuYasha asked suspiciously. He could smell the bitter odor from the bed.

 

“A stimulant,” she replied simply as she poured a good helping of yellow powder and just a bit of red liquid into the bowl along with the leaves. “These will simulate his heart. And hopefully it should beat.”

 

InuYasha watched her grind the mixture into a fine paste and watched her sniff the mixture that seemed scentless to InuYasha. He watched as she opened his brother's mouth where she then lifted the textured tongue, and gobbed a good handful of the paste under it. She was sure this was the best place for it to be absorbed into his body then enter his blood stream and concentrate itself in his heart. The only problem that might occur was that Sesshomaru's veins might be too clotted to spread the stimulant to his heart.

 

Having done all that she could, the nurse sat back and set the empty bowl down. Wiping her hands down with her white apron she looked at the slightly nervous guards and InuYasha who was at the edge of the bed, ready to pounce to his brother's side at the first signs of life. “We have to wait a few minutes for the drug to try to pass through his system.”

 

InuYasha struggled off the bed and landed painfully on his knees, making his way over to the nurse and to his brother's side where he stared with an intensity that could break through stone. `C'mon Sesshomaru! Wake up!' he thought, but this time there were no other negative thoughts following from his conscious. It appeared to him that his youkai was fighting back any negative thoughts his human side put out.

 

Time seemed to slow down for everyone as they waited for any signs of life coming from Sesshomaru. And based on what signs they got, nothing was happening to Sesshomaru. This was what the nurse feared. Minutes had passed and nothing but hoping demons waited. Now she was at a standstill of what to do as she cupped her head in her hands, shaking her head of graying hair. “I'm… sorry,” was all she could say as she got up, prepared for the worse.

 

Those words sunk slowly into InuYasha's mind. He rolled them over and over again as he remained where he was, shocked by the healer's conclusion. Sesshomaru was dead. It took him a good minute or two before his shock turned into fear, causing him to shake as he sat back on his calves; ignoring the fire that shot up his body. Soon, that fear turned into rage as he broke the casts on his arms as he slammed them down angrily onto his brother's body. What ever had healed during that short period of time was now in vain as he came down again with them, ignoring the sickening pain, and furthermost, he ignored the guards as they had to watch the sickening sight of the rubber-like arms come down over and over again before they rushed over to stop him from doing more damage to himself.

 

“No, no, no, no!!!!” InuYasha howled, trying to fight off the guards from restraining him. “He can't die!”

 

“He's dead, InuYasha,” the healer said quietly.

 

“No, there's got to be another way!” InuYasha cried feeling his youkai snarl as it began to reveal itself further to the others as jagged lavender-blue markings started appearing on his cheeks. “Sesshomaru isn't dead!”

 

The guards looked at each other, and then at the nurse who noticed the inherited demon marks of InuTaisho on InuYasha's cheeks. The more enraged InuYasha got, the faster the youkai was emerging, regardless of the inherited sword that was to prevent this change, or at least keep it in check. Now they were sure nothing was going to stop the change from happening, except if Sesshomaru was revived.

 

“What about Tensaiga?” Kouhei said quickly, glancing over to the sword on the wall across the room.

 

InuYasha was seemingly not focused on the conversation as he continued to rage and fight the restrains of the guards as they battled to prevent any damage from being inflicted on any of them. Instead he focused on the burnt flesh where the nurse had seared it closed. InuYasha couldn't stop the anger as he threw the full grown youkai off him, and into the walls. They just got up and came off the wall to hold him again.

 

This time InuYasha showed he wasn't playing by growling, showing his half inch canines, causing the guards to hesitate slightly. Disregarding his broken limbs, InuYasha used their hesitation to his advantage as he stumbled forward in an attack. The pain now was in the back of his mind.

 

“Kouhei, grab the Tensaiga!” Daisuke said as he extended his razor-sharp claws, poised to defend himself.

 

The nurse wasn't sure what she should do as she stood there watching. She knew that InuYasha was doing more damage to himself then to anyone else around him. Sooner or later she knew he would feel it. When that came she would try to sedate him. For now, she had to prepare for that possibility.

 

Kouhei ran to the far wall, grabbing the Tensaiga that rattled on the rack as if it knew it was needed. Yet as soon as Kouhei touched the sheath it stung him, not painfully at first, but it increased rapidly. It was like holding a hot potato as he juggled it between hands. Who knew that InuTaisho would put such spells on his swords that would not allow others from outside the royal inu clan to touch them without feeling any sort of pain.

 

InuYasha, you need to use the Tensaiga. It may just be our last chance!” Daisuke said as he ducked InuYasha's useless arms as they swung at him.

 

InuYasha didn't hear him as he kept fighting Daisuke. The panther demon felt that InuYasha was going to continue to fight, even if it was the death of him. Something had to give soon. Again Daisuke dodged another attack, but miscalculated as InuYasha tackled him and forced him down, knocking the wind out of his lungs as InuYasha's full weight was set on his chest. All the youkai could do is snarl as his other form came out; shifting him into a large, angry black panther that hissed as InuYasha's fangs came closer to ripping out his jugular.

 

“Daisuke!” Daisuke's partner cried as he threw the Tensaiga down on the bed and shifted into a similar form, knocking InuYasha off Daisuke.

 

“That was close,” Daisuke said. His voice was rough and sounded more animalistic than his other youkai form. “Thanks, babe.”

 

“Anytime.”

 

“InuYasha! Listen to me! Use the sword to bring back Sesshomaru!” the nurse said as she mixed the drug that hopefully would sedate InuYasha for some time. Then when Kouga arrived he might have some restraint or some persuasion to use on InuYasha.

 

As injured as InuYasha was, he was just as deadly as he normally was. The nurse watched the panthers hold InuYasha off as much as they could. The nurse glanced at Sesshomaru's lifeless body, “Great Kami, please help us…”

 

 

 

 

 

A/n: How is that for a cliff? I was just going to kill off the story here but naw, I love this too much. So anyways, Hahaha! But this should spur me to write more sooner. Maybe I'll put a lemon in soon.

 

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