InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Demonic Demons ❯ Through the Forest ( Chapter 36 )
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.09.2007 | Updated On: 01.25.2007 | Pages: 5 | Words: 4.9K | Visits: 899 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.09.2007 | Updated On: 01.25.2007 | Pages: 5 | Words: 4.9K | Visits: 899 | Status: Completed
Demonic Demons
A/N: So yeah, I was looking at FMA fan fic stories and found myself rather disturbed. There were so few ed/winry which was odd, but sooo many ed/envy. Does ANYONE know that Envy is really Ed's half brother? DOES NOBODY KNOW THAT?!?! LOL that's what we call incest, and we all don't live in the south now... lol. Anywayz I didn't update Love and Insanity first, like I normally do. There's just so much more to do, and I'm not exactly sure how I want it to go. I have that problem from time to time. However I do know exactly how I want this to go in this chapter, which is why it was posted first. I know its been a while, Life has gotten in the way of allot of things and i am sorry! You forgive me now don't you, because here it is! The next chappy! Enjoy!
Chapter 36
Through the Forest
"We still haven't seen any sign of your nephews, Inu yasha" said Hiten
He sighed heavily, "Those fucking brats are gonna get themselves killed... Well, keep an eye out for them"
Hiten nodded his head and walked away with his little sister by his side. Inu yasha pulled out a walkie-talkie from his pocket and spoke into it. "Fluffy... come in Fluffy" Their cell phones didn't have any service in the middle of the forest, so they had to go buy walkie-talkies before they left. They bought the really expensive high tech ones.
"(Sigh) what do you want?" answered Sesshomaru's voice from the other side.
"Still no sign of Ryoko and Roku"
There was a slight pause before he answered. "Well, since we split up the northern and southern groups, we'll be covering more ground. I'm sure we'll run into them, after all, we are all after the same target. They just want to help"
"Tell them next time NOT to help!!!"
"I did!!! Those children are unbelievable!!"
"We'll they're YOUR children, so it’s not surprising"
"Just like its not surprising that little Tsuki's gone crazy, just like you did all those years ago..."
"Yeah well, she is my daughter, and she takes after me a little to well. I sure hope Kaoru doesn't get into that. I wanted to be full demon, but I let that all go when I defeated Naraku... "
"Yeah, after you destroyed father's sword!"
"God damn it Sesshomaru it’s been like 400 years!!! LET IT GO!!"
"THAT WAS A SACRED SWORD!! We could have used it on this mission!!!"
"Yeah well, it's gone, so there’s no use crying over it"
"Whatever. Let me know if you catch them. By the way, We have already ran into 2 traps. One of my demons is dead, and another badly injured."
"We have no injuries here, we have been able to avoid all the traps thanks to the ore. Have you heard from Kouga?"
"Yeah, he's hit one trap so far, lost 2 wolf demons."
"Sheesh, I wonder how many traps Naraku planted!"
"Well, I really doubt that they are all gone... Make sure to watch out, you can't be to careful"
"Will do, thanks for the ore" Inu yasha replied as he put the walkie-talkie back into his pocket. He heard Sesshomaru's voice, muffled by the cloth of his pocket, "You need it more than I do".
"Keh"
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As the two young dog demons and the 5 Panther members ran closer Naraku's hideout, the air around them became thick. Ryoko stopped, and the others did so immediately. "Ryoko?" Roku turned to his brother.
"What's up?" Toran jumped down from a tree she had stopped in.
"Something isn't right... can't you see it?" Ryoko looked around, and it became even thicker, as if reacting to what he said. It was like a dark purple smoke, it began to surround them.
"Toran! What's going on? I can't see you!" Shunran cried out.
Ryoko, thinking it may be poison, immediately held his breath. "Hold your breath demons, and lets get out of here!" Toran's voice was heard firmly.
Thud
It seemed to be to late for one of them, as they all could hear the noise of a body clearly hitting the floor. "I'll take care of it, RUN!" yelled out Ryoko. He dropped to the ground and started searching with his hands where the person's body was as he held his breath. He soon felt a clawed hand and as he was picking up the body, he felt a tug on his shirt, from behind him. All Ryoko said was "RUN!" and he shut his mouth again. He and the other person who stayed behind ran side by side as fast as they could out of the purple misty fog.
As they ran, the other one tripped, Ryoko was sure of it. He didn't know who it was that stayed behind, but he paused for that person anyway. Once he heard her speak, he was sure it was Toran's stern voice.
"Here's another one! I'll get 'em! Go!" her voice muffled by her clothes.
He didn't need to be told twice, he was sure if he didn't get out of this purple haze, it wouldn't be long before he had to take a breath and also end up powerless like the unknown unconscious ones they had both picked up.
He closed his eyes as they started burning and picked up his speed, running through the forest faster than a bullet. When he could finally feel a breeze he opened his eyes and realized he was no longer running through the purple haze. He inhaled deeply as he dropped to his knees. He looked down to the person he had saved.
It was Shunran. Her teal eyes half open, rolling into her head. Her brown hair clung to her skin with sweat. Her breath seemed non existent. The miasma, still in her lungs, suffocated her and made her feel completely paralyzed at the same time.
The other cat demons that had already gotten out of the miasma (Bunza, Shuran, and Karan) ran to them.
"Shunran!" Bunza cried.
"Move!" The large teenage cat demon known as Shuran said in a dark voice as he pushed Ryoko away from her.
Shuran hugged Shunran close to his large body. "Her pulse is faint..."
He placed his hand on her chest and closed his eyes. A visible spark of electricity was clearly seen coming from him and into Shunran's body. Her eyes opened wide as she screamed out in pain. She could feel the electricity passing through her lungs, forcing them to open. The pain passed through her within moments and she inhaled deeply, finally able to breathe.
"Roku! Where's Roku!" Ryoko looked around frantically.
"He must still be in there!" Karan replied.
He felt his heart sink when he realized that was the person Toran had tripped over was Roku.
"Toran is in there too..."
"What!" Shunran sat up and looked to the somewhat distant purple haze. They all held there breath for what seemed like forever, waiting to see if they would make it out. Time continued to pass, the longer they were in there, the more their chance of survival decreased. Ryoko could feel his insides twisting with worry over his twin brother.
"I'm going in after them!" Ryoko said as he got back to his feet and started to run back towards the miasma. Right before he ran into the purple mist, He could see a shadow coming from it.
"Toran!" He yelled as she came through the miasma and dropped to the floor with an unconscious Roku in her arms. He ran up and pulled them both further away from the mist.
Toran was having a hard time breathing and Roku was convulsing and twitching, his breath was nearly gone, along with his pulse.
"Roku!" Ryoko went to his brother's side instantly. "SHURAN!" He yelled, hoping beyond hope that what ever he did to Shunran would help his brother too.
Shuran was already on his way, and was by their side within moments. He knelt down in between them, one hand on Roku, the other on Toran. "You might want to let go of him" he said to Ryoko, who had taken his hand back like it had been burned. Shuran's hands jumped with electricity running through them. Both Roku and Toran arched their back, and fell back to the ground.
Toran's eyes opened slowly as she regained control of her breath. She looked to Shuran, then to Ryoko and sat up. "Thanks Shuran, you are a true life savor" she smiled to him.
"Roku!!! Do it again! It didn't do anything to him!" Ryoko demanded of Shuran. He shook his head and complied, putting both of his large hands on Roku's small chest. Once again electricity shot through Shuran's hands and into Roku. His back arched again, his eyes shot open and he inhaled so loud it almost sounded like a yelp.
"Roku! You're ok! Oh thank god, that would NOT have been easily explained to father" he fell back in relief.
Roku steadied this breath before he replied, "Oh yeah, is that all you were worried about!! ASS!" he punched him weakly on the shoulder.
"We should move quickly, and we need to keep better watch of these traps." Karan said.
Ryoko nodded his head as he helped his brother up. "Lets move out"
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Naraku felt a demon presence approach his room as the door opened. "Naraku" Sorin bowed his head in respect.
"Sorin" Naraku bowed his head slightly as well.
"I've come to tell you, another trap has been activated. My suffocating miasma, to be more specific. When the smoke cleared though, there were none left behind."
"No matter, We both still have many traps set, they should pick a few more of their demons off. And Tsuki's cage is set to release her when demon or human life approaches it."
"There is another matter. It seems Inu yasha has a magical ore that can see though our traps. Many have already been completely deactivated. I don't think your traps will affect them."
"It's alright, I have things planned that they could never foresee..."
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As Inu yasha ran down the forest, his demon followers walked closely behind him. The sun shrank further bellow the hills, eventually out of sight, and darkness flooded the forest. They would walk for a few more hours before taking up camp, he felt maybe they should pick up the pace. Right as he thought this, another feeling came rushing in him, a really bad feeling. He checked his pocket, if anything magical was going on, the orb was going to sense it. Yet when he looked, it was not shining the way it normally did when they were getting close to magical traps.
"Hey Inu yasha" he looked to his right, as Shiori came up from behind him, her white hair blowing fiercely in the wind as she ran to keep up with him.
"Yeah?"
"Something doesn't feel right" No sooner did the words leave her lips that a loud low pitched scream was heard throughout the forest and many of the demons were splattered with blood.
"What was that?" Inu yasha and Shiori looked around. They looked to the floor to see Gyuoh's body split in two diagonally across his huge torso very cleanly. He then heard a swipe of wind, took hold of Shiori's arm and jumped, trying to dodge what ever it was he could hear coming at them. The demons behind them were unfortunately not so lucky. As they tapped back to the ground, they looked to the demons that they knew had gotten hit. They didn't move at first, or speak.
"Hey, are you guys ok?"
He could smell their blood. They made high pitched noises that almost sounded like soft screams as their bodies split into pieces and fell to the ground. "Go!!!" Inu yasha screamed out. He quickly checked the small orb in his pocket again, but still, it did not shine in warning. There was no time to think, he had already lost 4 demons, he had to get the rest of his demons out of there before anymore died.
The demons took off onward as fast as they could. As they ran, and some demons got sliced into bits, he began to see just what it was they were trying to get away from. "It's a wire!" he yelled out.
There was no way to fight back, no way to grab a hold of it to stop it. It came from everywhere. All they could do was run.
Soon, 3 more demons had died, then 4, then 5, all cut right through like butter. Yet no matter how far they ran, the wires seemed to almost follow them, or the trap just covered a very large amount of land, he wasn't sure which it was.
"It's all connected. We need to find out where it's coming from!" Shiori suggested.
"I'm two steps ahead of you!" Soten shouted as she ran past the both of them and unsheathed her sword. She ran right to a very suspicious looking tree with black leaves and sliced it down with one quick swipe of her sword. The tree fell over and it's leaves turned into dried up hair and burned to ashes.
Soten sheathed her sword with her head down.
Inu yasha looked at her, and scratched his head, "How did you-"
"Know? Hiten keeps some of these trees on the field at home because Manten use to grow them. They are called black hair trees."
"Creepy"
"Indeed, he insists on keeping them. But he takes good care of them, so they don't attack us."
Fortunately that was the last of the non magical traps on Inu yasha's path to Naraku's hideout. He was able to dodge the rest right up to the camp spot they had marked to set up close by Naraku's hideout.
They took camp to a cave not to far from the marked camp site. Inu yasha felt that the marked site was too out in the open, and wasn't safe. They took out their food and blankets and prepared for sleep. They had to wake up early the next morning and be ready to fight.
"I'll stay up and guard, should I ever feel the need to sleep, princess Abi will take my place"
"Oh Inu yasha, Please don't call me that. I haven't been a princess in ages" she blushed.
He smiled, "Sorry, not quite use to calling you Abi yet."
Once everyone was finished with their meals and laid down to sleep, Inu yasha stepped out and got comfy on a branch from a tree that came from next to the cave and hovered over the cave's entrance. He looked up to the moon, thinking of everything that has happened over the years. What Naraku did to Kikyo, to Tsuki, to his child that never even had a chance to know what life was before it was ripped away from her just moments after birth. It made him so angry, all he could think about was revenge. But what about Tsuki? If Naraku died, would he be able to figure out how to get her back to normal?
"Yo! Inu yasha!" he heard a whisper from bellow.
"Shiori, what is it?"
"Um, Can I join you? I can't sleep"
"Sure, I guess"
She jumped up to the branch he was sitting on quite easily. "So tell me, how’s life? I haven't seen you or even heard from you since you started getting into music. I didn't even know that Naraku was alive!. I thought you killed him ages ago."
"Yeah, I thought so too..."
"I remember the day I met you. When I was a little girl, and you saved me from being sacrificed to that nasty demon. After you killed the demon, and yelled at the villagers, they never picked on me ever again. That was so long ago. It seems almost as if you haven't even aged."
"Well, you sure have." She blushed and turned away.
Now that he had the chance to sit back and look at her, she was actually quite beautiful. Her dark tan skin didn't really seem to go with her white hair, but somehow, the odd difference made her look even more beautiful. Her bright purple eyes and white hair seemed to glow in the moonlight. He didn't normally save people or demons back in those days, but she reminded him a little of himself when he saw her. He knew right away she was a half demon.
There was a long awkward silence. Both of them squirmed a bit under the tension.
"So, how have you been?" Inu yasha decided to break the silence.
"Oh you know, surviving"
"Yeah..."
She looked at him with longing, and he could easily see it. He didn't want to hurt her, she was an old friend. He never even thought of her like that before. Even though he had to admit how beautiful she looked tonight. "Inu yasha, why didn't we ever... you know... get together?"
"I uhh don't know, I guess back then I was just to foolish to admit I could feel something for anyone else."
"Well-" she said as she scooted even closer to him, "How about now?" she asked with caution and hope.
"Listen, allot has happened since I last saw you. I have a wife now, and 2 kids. I'm sorry"
She blushed deeply as she looked away, "No, I'm sorry, I feel so foolish. It's just that, it's been so long and I always hopped, you know? I never forgot about you"
He looked at her with soft eyes. "Don't feel foolish. Your beautiful and I’m flattered, really! And If I wasn't married, I would jump at the chance to be with you. I hope this doesn't make things weird between us."
She smiled at him, "Let's just forget about it..."
They sat there for a bit, talking to one another, remembering the past, acting as if the whole scene hadn't happened.
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"You lost 9 demons?! What the hell did I give you that fucking ore for!" Sesshomaru shouted into the walkie-talkie.
"Shut up Sesshomaru, It was a non magical trap. It was a black hair tree, it didn't use magic smart ass" Inu yasha's voice replied.
Sesshomaru let out a huge sigh, "Sneaky... still, you should have seen it coming, weakling!!"
"Don't call me a weakling you fluff ball!"
"Wow, did that take you all day? So original..."
"ANYWAY, This camp is set, We have 8 demons here. Did you run into anymore trouble?"
"No, we were able to avoid the rest."
"What about Kouga?"
"He's got another demon injured, but nothing big, he has already set up camp as well."
"Alright then, it looks to me like we are set. Still no sign of the boys though..."
"Yeah, I have a bad feeling about this..."
"Maybe they wont know where the hideout is"
"I'm sure they do..." Sesshomaru replied.
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"It's not far now!" Ryoko said aloud as he put away the map.
"Thank god, these stupid traps have been such a pain." Shunran complained.
"Tell me about it" Roku sighed with a bit of pain still in his lungs, "That purple stuff felt like it made my lungs swell so bad I couldn't breathe!"
"Yeah well, we can't get caught up in such stupid traps like that again. This is what I get for associating myself with amateurs..." Toran huffed.
Ryoko and Roku both looked at her in anger. "I didn't see you coming up with any bright ideas!" Roku scathed.
"If it wasn't for MY cat demon, you would have been dead!"
"What's your problem?" Ryoko asked as he crossed his arms over his chest as he picked up his pace to walk by her side.
"I don't have a problem" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Oh really?"
"Really!" she shot back.
There was silence for a moment.
"I told you of the danger we would face! If I didn't know any better, I would say you're scared!" Ryoko snapped at her.
She simply rolled her eyes, "Give me a break. I'm just angry we got caught up in such a stupid trap. We all should be paying more attention! We put ourselves at unnecessary risk!" she snapped back
"We are fine now. If you don't want to face danger, then go run home to your mommy!"
She growled angrily, stopped walking, and shoved him hard, nearly knocking him over. He grabbed her retreating hand and pulled it to regain his balance, pulling her close to him. "What the fuck is your problem!?" he yelled in her face, looking at her dead in the eye.
She looked in his eyes for a moment before yanking her hand from his grip and walking back up the track, away from him.
He stood there for a moment, and the others, who had purposely tried to fall farther behind them, caught up with him. "Her mother was killed" Shuran woke him out of his daze with his deep voice. "Killed?" Ryoko looked curiously at him, "By who?"
"By Toran" he said as if it was something to be brought up in normal conversation. Ryoko looked up at him blankly, "Bu-Wha... Why?"
"I believe her mother tried to kill her or something. I don't ask her about it, it's a touchy subject with her, as you can tell..."
"I never knew... I mean, I knew something happened with her parents, but I assumed she just ran away or something"
Thud.
Ryoko looked to his large companion to see him face first on the ground. "Hey guys! Som-" He turned around to tell the others that Shuran just suddenly fell to the ground, when he saw Bunza, then Karan, then Roku, then Shunran all drop to the floor as well. Toran walked a few steps toward Ryoko, "I feel... strange" He just barely heard the words leave her lips, and the soft thud of her body hitting the floor before his vision went black and he fell too.
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Ryoko was suddenly in a dark open grass field. He couldn't see his companions, or smell them nearby.
"ROKU!" he shouted out. "Where did everyone go??!!"
"Ryoko?" he turned around to see Toran standing there. She was wearing a small red dress, and looking confused.
"Did you change clothes?"
"What are you talking about?" she answered with another question.
"What happened?" Ryoko asked.
She didn't say anything, just walked closer to him. His vision seemed to get blurry as she got closer. "I feel funny..." his eyes kind of rolled to the back of his head and his knees buckled under him. She ran to him and caught him before he fell. She fell under his weight, and ended up on the ground with his head resting on her legs.
They were so close. As he looked into her pretty dark blue eyes as they seemed to get closer to his yellow ones. "I always wanted to come back and see you" she said as she gently swiped away a stray hair in his face.
"I'm sorry about what I said, I didn't know-"
"Shhh" she said, putting her finger to his lips. She got closer, he blushed, becoming very nervous and closed his eyes. Nothing happened.
He blinked open his eyes and she was gone.
He sat up and looked around. He saw his brother, laying down beside him. He looked like he was sleeping, but he couldn't see his face. He got up and shook his brother.
"Roku, wake up, something strange is going on!" But he didn't budge. He rolled him over, his eyes were open, they seemed to look right at him.
"Roku?"
He was still. He started to get scared, his brother was so still. "Roku, this isn't funny!" he said, with a bit of panic in his voice.
"You're going to be ok" he heard a distant voice.
His world seemed to become blurry around him, fading, like a dream.
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He sat up fast, the pain in his head was almost unbearable. It WAS a dream...
"What's going on?" he rubbed his eyes. He could see someone, walking away. Once his vision came back completely, the person was gone. His companions were all lying down next to him, beginning to awaken themselves.
"What happened?" Roku said, rubbing his head.
"We must have passed out..." Toran sat up.
"Last thing I remember was talking to Ryoko" Shuran said as he pulled himself to his feet.
"Who was that?" Ryoko asked, still searching the distance where he saw the man disappear to.
"Who was who?" Karan asked as she scratched her head, a bit confused.
"There was a person, walking away. That I think helped us..." Ryoko replied, taking out his map. "Well, we're pretty close. We might as well camp out here and rest. I think we are going to need it."
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A/N: Wow, see there it is, and it only took me forever and a half to put it up! yay! lolol I really am sorry about my life getting in the way (and my video games) but I'll try as hard as I can to update more frequently. Next to be updated is love and insanity! I'm getting right on it... right now... see? I'm going!! bye!!! I'll update sooner I promise!!!
Arianna
A/N: So yeah, I was looking at FMA fan fic stories and found myself rather disturbed. There were so few ed/winry which was odd, but sooo many ed/envy. Does ANYONE know that Envy is really Ed's half brother? DOES NOBODY KNOW THAT?!?! LOL that's what we call incest, and we all don't live in the south now... lol. Anywayz I didn't update Love and Insanity first, like I normally do. There's just so much more to do, and I'm not exactly sure how I want it to go. I have that problem from time to time. However I do know exactly how I want this to go in this chapter, which is why it was posted first. I know its been a while, Life has gotten in the way of allot of things and i am sorry! You forgive me now don't you, because here it is! The next chappy! Enjoy!
Chapter 36
Through the Forest
"We still haven't seen any sign of your nephews, Inu yasha" said Hiten
He sighed heavily, "Those fucking brats are gonna get themselves killed... Well, keep an eye out for them"
Hiten nodded his head and walked away with his little sister by his side. Inu yasha pulled out a walkie-talkie from his pocket and spoke into it. "Fluffy... come in Fluffy" Their cell phones didn't have any service in the middle of the forest, so they had to go buy walkie-talkies before they left. They bought the really expensive high tech ones.
"(Sigh) what do you want?" answered Sesshomaru's voice from the other side.
"Still no sign of Ryoko and Roku"
There was a slight pause before he answered. "Well, since we split up the northern and southern groups, we'll be covering more ground. I'm sure we'll run into them, after all, we are all after the same target. They just want to help"
"Tell them next time NOT to help!!!"
"I did!!! Those children are unbelievable!!"
"We'll they're YOUR children, so it’s not surprising"
"Just like its not surprising that little Tsuki's gone crazy, just like you did all those years ago..."
"Yeah well, she is my daughter, and she takes after me a little to well. I sure hope Kaoru doesn't get into that. I wanted to be full demon, but I let that all go when I defeated Naraku... "
"Yeah, after you destroyed father's sword!"
"God damn it Sesshomaru it’s been like 400 years!!! LET IT GO!!"
"THAT WAS A SACRED SWORD!! We could have used it on this mission!!!"
"Yeah well, it's gone, so there’s no use crying over it"
"Whatever. Let me know if you catch them. By the way, We have already ran into 2 traps. One of my demons is dead, and another badly injured."
"We have no injuries here, we have been able to avoid all the traps thanks to the ore. Have you heard from Kouga?"
"Yeah, he's hit one trap so far, lost 2 wolf demons."
"Sheesh, I wonder how many traps Naraku planted!"
"Well, I really doubt that they are all gone... Make sure to watch out, you can't be to careful"
"Will do, thanks for the ore" Inu yasha replied as he put the walkie-talkie back into his pocket. He heard Sesshomaru's voice, muffled by the cloth of his pocket, "You need it more than I do".
"Keh"
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As the two young dog demons and the 5 Panther members ran closer Naraku's hideout, the air around them became thick. Ryoko stopped, and the others did so immediately. "Ryoko?" Roku turned to his brother.
"What's up?" Toran jumped down from a tree she had stopped in.
"Something isn't right... can't you see it?" Ryoko looked around, and it became even thicker, as if reacting to what he said. It was like a dark purple smoke, it began to surround them.
"Toran! What's going on? I can't see you!" Shunran cried out.
Ryoko, thinking it may be poison, immediately held his breath. "Hold your breath demons, and lets get out of here!" Toran's voice was heard firmly.
Thud
It seemed to be to late for one of them, as they all could hear the noise of a body clearly hitting the floor. "I'll take care of it, RUN!" yelled out Ryoko. He dropped to the ground and started searching with his hands where the person's body was as he held his breath. He soon felt a clawed hand and as he was picking up the body, he felt a tug on his shirt, from behind him. All Ryoko said was "RUN!" and he shut his mouth again. He and the other person who stayed behind ran side by side as fast as they could out of the purple misty fog.
As they ran, the other one tripped, Ryoko was sure of it. He didn't know who it was that stayed behind, but he paused for that person anyway. Once he heard her speak, he was sure it was Toran's stern voice.
"Here's another one! I'll get 'em! Go!" her voice muffled by her clothes.
He didn't need to be told twice, he was sure if he didn't get out of this purple haze, it wouldn't be long before he had to take a breath and also end up powerless like the unknown unconscious ones they had both picked up.
He closed his eyes as they started burning and picked up his speed, running through the forest faster than a bullet. When he could finally feel a breeze he opened his eyes and realized he was no longer running through the purple haze. He inhaled deeply as he dropped to his knees. He looked down to the person he had saved.
It was Shunran. Her teal eyes half open, rolling into her head. Her brown hair clung to her skin with sweat. Her breath seemed non existent. The miasma, still in her lungs, suffocated her and made her feel completely paralyzed at the same time.
The other cat demons that had already gotten out of the miasma (Bunza, Shuran, and Karan) ran to them.
"Shunran!" Bunza cried.
"Move!" The large teenage cat demon known as Shuran said in a dark voice as he pushed Ryoko away from her.
Shuran hugged Shunran close to his large body. "Her pulse is faint..."
He placed his hand on her chest and closed his eyes. A visible spark of electricity was clearly seen coming from him and into Shunran's body. Her eyes opened wide as she screamed out in pain. She could feel the electricity passing through her lungs, forcing them to open. The pain passed through her within moments and she inhaled deeply, finally able to breathe.
"Roku! Where's Roku!" Ryoko looked around frantically.
"He must still be in there!" Karan replied.
He felt his heart sink when he realized that was the person Toran had tripped over was Roku.
"Toran is in there too..."
"What!" Shunran sat up and looked to the somewhat distant purple haze. They all held there breath for what seemed like forever, waiting to see if they would make it out. Time continued to pass, the longer they were in there, the more their chance of survival decreased. Ryoko could feel his insides twisting with worry over his twin brother.
"I'm going in after them!" Ryoko said as he got back to his feet and started to run back towards the miasma. Right before he ran into the purple mist, He could see a shadow coming from it.
"Toran!" He yelled as she came through the miasma and dropped to the floor with an unconscious Roku in her arms. He ran up and pulled them both further away from the mist.
Toran was having a hard time breathing and Roku was convulsing and twitching, his breath was nearly gone, along with his pulse.
"Roku!" Ryoko went to his brother's side instantly. "SHURAN!" He yelled, hoping beyond hope that what ever he did to Shunran would help his brother too.
Shuran was already on his way, and was by their side within moments. He knelt down in between them, one hand on Roku, the other on Toran. "You might want to let go of him" he said to Ryoko, who had taken his hand back like it had been burned. Shuran's hands jumped with electricity running through them. Both Roku and Toran arched their back, and fell back to the ground.
Toran's eyes opened slowly as she regained control of her breath. She looked to Shuran, then to Ryoko and sat up. "Thanks Shuran, you are a true life savor" she smiled to him.
"Roku!!! Do it again! It didn't do anything to him!" Ryoko demanded of Shuran. He shook his head and complied, putting both of his large hands on Roku's small chest. Once again electricity shot through Shuran's hands and into Roku. His back arched again, his eyes shot open and he inhaled so loud it almost sounded like a yelp.
"Roku! You're ok! Oh thank god, that would NOT have been easily explained to father" he fell back in relief.
Roku steadied this breath before he replied, "Oh yeah, is that all you were worried about!! ASS!" he punched him weakly on the shoulder.
"We should move quickly, and we need to keep better watch of these traps." Karan said.
Ryoko nodded his head as he helped his brother up. "Lets move out"
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Naraku felt a demon presence approach his room as the door opened. "Naraku" Sorin bowed his head in respect.
"Sorin" Naraku bowed his head slightly as well.
"I've come to tell you, another trap has been activated. My suffocating miasma, to be more specific. When the smoke cleared though, there were none left behind."
"No matter, We both still have many traps set, they should pick a few more of their demons off. And Tsuki's cage is set to release her when demon or human life approaches it."
"There is another matter. It seems Inu yasha has a magical ore that can see though our traps. Many have already been completely deactivated. I don't think your traps will affect them."
"It's alright, I have things planned that they could never foresee..."
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As Inu yasha ran down the forest, his demon followers walked closely behind him. The sun shrank further bellow the hills, eventually out of sight, and darkness flooded the forest. They would walk for a few more hours before taking up camp, he felt maybe they should pick up the pace. Right as he thought this, another feeling came rushing in him, a really bad feeling. He checked his pocket, if anything magical was going on, the orb was going to sense it. Yet when he looked, it was not shining the way it normally did when they were getting close to magical traps.
"Hey Inu yasha" he looked to his right, as Shiori came up from behind him, her white hair blowing fiercely in the wind as she ran to keep up with him.
"Yeah?"
"Something doesn't feel right" No sooner did the words leave her lips that a loud low pitched scream was heard throughout the forest and many of the demons were splattered with blood.
"What was that?" Inu yasha and Shiori looked around. They looked to the floor to see Gyuoh's body split in two diagonally across his huge torso very cleanly. He then heard a swipe of wind, took hold of Shiori's arm and jumped, trying to dodge what ever it was he could hear coming at them. The demons behind them were unfortunately not so lucky. As they tapped back to the ground, they looked to the demons that they knew had gotten hit. They didn't move at first, or speak.
"Hey, are you guys ok?"
He could smell their blood. They made high pitched noises that almost sounded like soft screams as their bodies split into pieces and fell to the ground. "Go!!!" Inu yasha screamed out. He quickly checked the small orb in his pocket again, but still, it did not shine in warning. There was no time to think, he had already lost 4 demons, he had to get the rest of his demons out of there before anymore died.
The demons took off onward as fast as they could. As they ran, and some demons got sliced into bits, he began to see just what it was they were trying to get away from. "It's a wire!" he yelled out.
There was no way to fight back, no way to grab a hold of it to stop it. It came from everywhere. All they could do was run.
Soon, 3 more demons had died, then 4, then 5, all cut right through like butter. Yet no matter how far they ran, the wires seemed to almost follow them, or the trap just covered a very large amount of land, he wasn't sure which it was.
"It's all connected. We need to find out where it's coming from!" Shiori suggested.
"I'm two steps ahead of you!" Soten shouted as she ran past the both of them and unsheathed her sword. She ran right to a very suspicious looking tree with black leaves and sliced it down with one quick swipe of her sword. The tree fell over and it's leaves turned into dried up hair and burned to ashes.
Soten sheathed her sword with her head down.
Inu yasha looked at her, and scratched his head, "How did you-"
"Know? Hiten keeps some of these trees on the field at home because Manten use to grow them. They are called black hair trees."
"Creepy"
"Indeed, he insists on keeping them. But he takes good care of them, so they don't attack us."
Fortunately that was the last of the non magical traps on Inu yasha's path to Naraku's hideout. He was able to dodge the rest right up to the camp spot they had marked to set up close by Naraku's hideout.
They took camp to a cave not to far from the marked camp site. Inu yasha felt that the marked site was too out in the open, and wasn't safe. They took out their food and blankets and prepared for sleep. They had to wake up early the next morning and be ready to fight.
"I'll stay up and guard, should I ever feel the need to sleep, princess Abi will take my place"
"Oh Inu yasha, Please don't call me that. I haven't been a princess in ages" she blushed.
He smiled, "Sorry, not quite use to calling you Abi yet."
Once everyone was finished with their meals and laid down to sleep, Inu yasha stepped out and got comfy on a branch from a tree that came from next to the cave and hovered over the cave's entrance. He looked up to the moon, thinking of everything that has happened over the years. What Naraku did to Kikyo, to Tsuki, to his child that never even had a chance to know what life was before it was ripped away from her just moments after birth. It made him so angry, all he could think about was revenge. But what about Tsuki? If Naraku died, would he be able to figure out how to get her back to normal?
"Yo! Inu yasha!" he heard a whisper from bellow.
"Shiori, what is it?"
"Um, Can I join you? I can't sleep"
"Sure, I guess"
She jumped up to the branch he was sitting on quite easily. "So tell me, how’s life? I haven't seen you or even heard from you since you started getting into music. I didn't even know that Naraku was alive!. I thought you killed him ages ago."
"Yeah, I thought so too..."
"I remember the day I met you. When I was a little girl, and you saved me from being sacrificed to that nasty demon. After you killed the demon, and yelled at the villagers, they never picked on me ever again. That was so long ago. It seems almost as if you haven't even aged."
"Well, you sure have." She blushed and turned away.
Now that he had the chance to sit back and look at her, she was actually quite beautiful. Her dark tan skin didn't really seem to go with her white hair, but somehow, the odd difference made her look even more beautiful. Her bright purple eyes and white hair seemed to glow in the moonlight. He didn't normally save people or demons back in those days, but she reminded him a little of himself when he saw her. He knew right away she was a half demon.
There was a long awkward silence. Both of them squirmed a bit under the tension.
"So, how have you been?" Inu yasha decided to break the silence.
"Oh you know, surviving"
"Yeah..."
She looked at him with longing, and he could easily see it. He didn't want to hurt her, she was an old friend. He never even thought of her like that before. Even though he had to admit how beautiful she looked tonight. "Inu yasha, why didn't we ever... you know... get together?"
"I uhh don't know, I guess back then I was just to foolish to admit I could feel something for anyone else."
"Well-" she said as she scooted even closer to him, "How about now?" she asked with caution and hope.
"Listen, allot has happened since I last saw you. I have a wife now, and 2 kids. I'm sorry"
She blushed deeply as she looked away, "No, I'm sorry, I feel so foolish. It's just that, it's been so long and I always hopped, you know? I never forgot about you"
He looked at her with soft eyes. "Don't feel foolish. Your beautiful and I’m flattered, really! And If I wasn't married, I would jump at the chance to be with you. I hope this doesn't make things weird between us."
She smiled at him, "Let's just forget about it..."
They sat there for a bit, talking to one another, remembering the past, acting as if the whole scene hadn't happened.
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"You lost 9 demons?! What the hell did I give you that fucking ore for!" Sesshomaru shouted into the walkie-talkie.
"Shut up Sesshomaru, It was a non magical trap. It was a black hair tree, it didn't use magic smart ass" Inu yasha's voice replied.
Sesshomaru let out a huge sigh, "Sneaky... still, you should have seen it coming, weakling!!"
"Don't call me a weakling you fluff ball!"
"Wow, did that take you all day? So original..."
"ANYWAY, This camp is set, We have 8 demons here. Did you run into anymore trouble?"
"No, we were able to avoid the rest."
"What about Kouga?"
"He's got another demon injured, but nothing big, he has already set up camp as well."
"Alright then, it looks to me like we are set. Still no sign of the boys though..."
"Yeah, I have a bad feeling about this..."
"Maybe they wont know where the hideout is"
"I'm sure they do..." Sesshomaru replied.
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"It's not far now!" Ryoko said aloud as he put away the map.
"Thank god, these stupid traps have been such a pain." Shunran complained.
"Tell me about it" Roku sighed with a bit of pain still in his lungs, "That purple stuff felt like it made my lungs swell so bad I couldn't breathe!"
"Yeah well, we can't get caught up in such stupid traps like that again. This is what I get for associating myself with amateurs..." Toran huffed.
Ryoko and Roku both looked at her in anger. "I didn't see you coming up with any bright ideas!" Roku scathed.
"If it wasn't for MY cat demon, you would have been dead!"
"What's your problem?" Ryoko asked as he crossed his arms over his chest as he picked up his pace to walk by her side.
"I don't have a problem" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Oh really?"
"Really!" she shot back.
There was silence for a moment.
"I told you of the danger we would face! If I didn't know any better, I would say you're scared!" Ryoko snapped at her.
She simply rolled her eyes, "Give me a break. I'm just angry we got caught up in such a stupid trap. We all should be paying more attention! We put ourselves at unnecessary risk!" she snapped back
"We are fine now. If you don't want to face danger, then go run home to your mommy!"
She growled angrily, stopped walking, and shoved him hard, nearly knocking him over. He grabbed her retreating hand and pulled it to regain his balance, pulling her close to him. "What the fuck is your problem!?" he yelled in her face, looking at her dead in the eye.
She looked in his eyes for a moment before yanking her hand from his grip and walking back up the track, away from him.
He stood there for a moment, and the others, who had purposely tried to fall farther behind them, caught up with him. "Her mother was killed" Shuran woke him out of his daze with his deep voice. "Killed?" Ryoko looked curiously at him, "By who?"
"By Toran" he said as if it was something to be brought up in normal conversation. Ryoko looked up at him blankly, "Bu-Wha... Why?"
"I believe her mother tried to kill her or something. I don't ask her about it, it's a touchy subject with her, as you can tell..."
"I never knew... I mean, I knew something happened with her parents, but I assumed she just ran away or something"
Thud.
Ryoko looked to his large companion to see him face first on the ground. "Hey guys! Som-" He turned around to tell the others that Shuran just suddenly fell to the ground, when he saw Bunza, then Karan, then Roku, then Shunran all drop to the floor as well. Toran walked a few steps toward Ryoko, "I feel... strange" He just barely heard the words leave her lips, and the soft thud of her body hitting the floor before his vision went black and he fell too.
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Ryoko was suddenly in a dark open grass field. He couldn't see his companions, or smell them nearby.
"ROKU!" he shouted out. "Where did everyone go??!!"
"Ryoko?" he turned around to see Toran standing there. She was wearing a small red dress, and looking confused.
"Did you change clothes?"
"What are you talking about?" she answered with another question.
"What happened?" Ryoko asked.
She didn't say anything, just walked closer to him. His vision seemed to get blurry as she got closer. "I feel funny..." his eyes kind of rolled to the back of his head and his knees buckled under him. She ran to him and caught him before he fell. She fell under his weight, and ended up on the ground with his head resting on her legs.
They were so close. As he looked into her pretty dark blue eyes as they seemed to get closer to his yellow ones. "I always wanted to come back and see you" she said as she gently swiped away a stray hair in his face.
"I'm sorry about what I said, I didn't know-"
"Shhh" she said, putting her finger to his lips. She got closer, he blushed, becoming very nervous and closed his eyes. Nothing happened.
He blinked open his eyes and she was gone.
He sat up and looked around. He saw his brother, laying down beside him. He looked like he was sleeping, but he couldn't see his face. He got up and shook his brother.
"Roku, wake up, something strange is going on!" But he didn't budge. He rolled him over, his eyes were open, they seemed to look right at him.
"Roku?"
He was still. He started to get scared, his brother was so still. "Roku, this isn't funny!" he said, with a bit of panic in his voice.
"You're going to be ok" he heard a distant voice.
His world seemed to become blurry around him, fading, like a dream.
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He sat up fast, the pain in his head was almost unbearable. It WAS a dream...
"What's going on?" he rubbed his eyes. He could see someone, walking away. Once his vision came back completely, the person was gone. His companions were all lying down next to him, beginning to awaken themselves.
"What happened?" Roku said, rubbing his head.
"We must have passed out..." Toran sat up.
"Last thing I remember was talking to Ryoko" Shuran said as he pulled himself to his feet.
"Who was that?" Ryoko asked, still searching the distance where he saw the man disappear to.
"Who was who?" Karan asked as she scratched her head, a bit confused.
"There was a person, walking away. That I think helped us..." Ryoko replied, taking out his map. "Well, we're pretty close. We might as well camp out here and rest. I think we are going to need it."
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A/N: Wow, see there it is, and it only took me forever and a half to put it up! yay! lolol I really am sorry about my life getting in the way (and my video games) but I'll try as hard as I can to update more frequently. Next to be updated is love and insanity! I'm getting right on it... right now... see? I'm going!! bye!!! I'll update sooner I promise!!!
Arianna