InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fallen ❯ Elimination ( Chapter 5 )

NIGHT FIVE: ELIMINATION

Naraku sat silently besides the window with a sword-Tetsusaiga by his side. He would not let any other people touch the sword. Very slowly, he lifted a hand and gazed at it as he turned it around. The touch of Inuyasha still lingered on him. He had wanted the Inu hanyou to be his and now his little prey was in other person's hand. He swore he would get Inuyasha back. A little smile played on his lips. He thought of a plan, an unexpected one……..

"Kagura," Naraku called.

"What is it?" A feminine voice replied coldly as a lady with paper fan in her hand entered while she pushed the bamboo curtain aside.

"I have a mission for you." Naraku continued: "It is like this…….."

Kagura's ruby-red eyes narrowed.

It was truly a very cruel plan.

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Sunlight streamed like shiny waterfall through the bare trees. Withered leaves was piled high on the barren forest ground. The air was getting chiller and crisp day by day. It was almost close to the end of autumn.

In the heart of the forest was a roaring waterfall. A white figure sat on a huge rock at the edge of the winding river, pondering in his thought. White hair cascaded down his back to his waist and his sliver armor glittered under the sun. His elf-like ears did not moved even though splashes of water from the waterfall hit them occasionally. He was like a stony statue.

It was Sesshoumaru.

Several months had lapsed since the fateful event in Naraku's palace. Inuyasha's tummy did not bulge as what he had expected. Perhaps Naraku's curse was a false alarm after all. Or, the symptoms in having a Naraku's offspring differed from normal pregnancy. Anyway, he did not tell Inuyasha about it.

Over the time, Inuyasha's features transformed more and more human. His fingernails became blunter. Several times, Inuyasha questioned his elder brother what had happened to him, but he kept quiet. Frustrated, Inuyasha started to spend more time sitting on the tree branch, keeping to himself.

Sesshoumaru lifted his head to observe the rainbow streaming out from the falling water. His nose suddenly stiffened. A dead human corpse's scent! Something had happened in the forest! Sesshoumaru leaped and ran towards the scent…………….

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The sun shone upon him like rays of shining arrows. Lifting his face, Inuyasha glanced at the withering trees around him. The hot summer had passed. Soon, autumn would soon be over. Time passed fast since his last fight with Naraku…. He thought of his friends. What were they doing now? Were they well? Would Naraku attack them? Inuyasha was worried. But he could not do anything in his almost human form and Sesshoumaru would definitely pull him back.

Just then, he caught a familiar figure struggling towards his direction. He had been with this person many times and could even recognize him with his eyes close.

Miroku!

The Buddhist priest staggered unsteadily over the yellow leaves on the ground and fell. Very quickly, Inuyasha leaped and held him before he hit onto the ground.

"Naraku………….. He is holding Sango and Kagome-sama as hostage in a palace near a village at the foot of that mountain in the North……….." Miroku whispered, pointing at a faraway mountain. His breath stopped and fell onto Inuyasha's arms, dead.

"Mi………." Inuyasha stammered, disbelieved: "Miroku…………….? Wait….. You are just pulling my legs, right? Wake up, don't close your eyes, Miroku…" Inuyasha could hear his voice shivered.

Miroku did not stir, did not breath, not to say flutter open his eyes to say that it was just a surprise.

Agony surged up Inuyasha's mind. His first meeting with this perverted monk, his times of battling against youkais with his friend and advisor---Miroku……

"MIROKU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha's screams raked into the air. Black crows flew and scattered in flock from the clawing trees.

Sesshoumaru flew across the tall yellowing grass, his ears stiffened to pick further sounds. He could smell Inuyasha's scent fading further and further away from where he was. Suddenly, a patch of grass rustled in a distance.

Quick as lightning, he pulled a small brown figure out. It was the fox kitsune in Inuyasha's previous group---Shippou.

"Inuyasha, is….. that….. you……..?" Shippou whispered in a trembling voice. He was cradling something red in his little arms. Inuyasha's red fire mice coat. His friends must have met Naraku a few moments ago.

"No, why are you here?"

"Everyone's dead, DEAD!!!!!" Came the little kitsune's fearful reply.

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The ghostly looking mountain loomed in a distance as Inuyasha ran towards it. He could not run fast like usual. He knew his youkai power was fading fast although he did not know why. Sesshoumaru had reassured him that it could be temporary, but he did not know when he would regain his past strength. Nevertheless, he must save Kagome and Sango from Naraku's grip.

Anger continued to sweep up his mind as he ran. How dare Naraku touch his friends, his most precious friends??!!! He had already left the group, what more did he want?!

Unknown to him, his strong emotion was causing him to change faster. His dog-ears were shrinking into a human like ones and his hair was darkening.

"Naraku, I'll make you pay for this!" Inuyasha snarled as he ran.

Suddenly, he felt wind swaying at his direction from his side and he leaped off just in time. He had lost his sense of sharp smell and hearing and he could not feel where his unknown enemy was located. All he could now depend on was his human instinct. A huge boomerang suddenly appeared before his face, barely crashed into him if he had not duck just in a nick of time.

"Prepare to die, Inuyasha!" A familiar feminine voice growled deeply.

"S…. Sango?!" Inuyasha stared at the black figure before him, shocked: "Aren't you supposed to be in Naraku's hand?"

"Maybe………, but you don't have to know the reason, because you are going to die soon!"

"Sango!" Inuyasha yelled as she swayed another blow at him. He ducked, but she pulled out her sword and slashed against his shoulder. A long cut was drew across his arms and blood started to seep out. Inuyasha grabbed the nearest tree branch and knocked another blow of her boomerang out of his way. He ducked, grabbed Sango by her shoulders and pushed her onto the ground. True to her identity as a youkai eliminator, Sango was much stronger than Inuyasha who was fast losing his youkai strength and was bleeding heavily from her fast attacks. She pushed Inuyasha's hands away and stabbed him in his abdomen with her sword. Inuyasha jumped away, but his waist could not avoid the sword. He gritted his teeth as he felt the cold blade shot through his body and pain overwhelmed him.

"S….Sango………. I do not know why you attack me………, but you must have a reason.. to do this….. What has happened…?" Inuyasha clenched his wounds and pressed his back against a nearby tree for support. He noticed Sango's eyes were dull and listless. She must have been possessed by Naraku's force. A little light shone behind Sango's back. A Shikon no tama shard!

Sango stared at him with her icy eyes, but made no advance movement.

"Sango, remember your dream to release your brother from Naraku's control? We have always fought a number of battles together…….. don't you remember that?"

"Yes, I remember, but past was past. Where are you when we need you most? Where were you when we fell, one by one from his attacks, WHERE?!" Sango suddenly snarled and ran forward to Inuyasha, her sword clenching in her hands. Inuyasha caught her wrists and forced the sword down, his blood still flowing.

"Where? I was driven by you people and was caught by Naraku, then my brother saved me. I had lost all my youkai power and I do not know how to look for you without my sharp senses and I was afraid to be rejected by you people again until Miroku looked for me!" Inuyasha retorted back.

"Then why DIDN'T you look up for us if you know it's Naraku's plot??!!! Why didn't you clarify with us??? You know that you were part of our team and you are supposed to protect Kagome or help us. Where are you when we were battling with Naraku???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Yes, I did not protect you all when you need me. I did not look up to you all when I am supposed to do so. I am a coward and I did not have the guts to face defeat and rejection. You all have more than enough reasons to hate me!!!" Inuyasha felt his voice shaky and tears started to well up his eyes. Ducking from another attack, he swung a blow at Sango's fist and hit her sword away.

Sango stood, staring at the almost human friend before her. Inuyasha moved forward to grab her by her shoulder.

Sango felt a surge of tiredness. Her strength seemed to drain clean from her body. Collapsing in his arms, she started to sob uncontrollably: "It was so horrible, everyone is dying around me, we tried to find you, looking for you everywhere, any place we could think of but you were not there! Where have you been?!"

"Yes, I know, I know…" Inuyasha whispered, cuddling Sango in his arms: "I know I was wrong to abandon you all like that…" Yes, no words could describe how sorry he felt now.

"What happened next?"

Sango continued: "Naraku's puppet suddenly appeared with your red fire mice coat and Tetsusaiga. We thought you were caught and ran to look for Naraku…….. we couldn't see you with him… Miroku was killed on the spot, then I fell, Naraku revived me and………"

Suddenly, a tentacle flew at her back, pulling the shard from her body. Life was leaving her. Her only drive was the shikon no tama on her back and her initial hatred….. for Inuyasha's disappearance. Inuyasha stared wide-eyed in horror as Sango fell forward in his arms, dead.

"Your job is over, Sango." A voice said.

"Naraku!"

"Have you finished your touching conversation, Inuyasha?" The voice chuckled as Naraku stepped out into the opening, still with his baboon skin wrapped around him.

Shakingly, Inuyasha placed Sango's corpse on the ground and stepped up to face his enemy.

"Na……. Naraku, it's you again…………." Inuyasha growled slowly as he clenched his bleeding wounds, advancing threateningly towards the baboon skin covered man, ignoring the fact that he was no longer strong like before. Unfortunately, realty was going against him. Blood was oozing from his wounds heavily, staining his white kimono red. His vision, his last bit of consciousness was fading and was fading fast. His almost human body could no longer support the blood loss. Naraku's image swam in his eyes. He was reaching his limit.

He fell.

Naraku's figure loomed before him as he collapsed into his wide-stretched arms….

"Inuyasha, my beloved Inuyasha, you're finally back again." Naraku ran his fingers down Inuyasha's darkening hair, as Inuyasha lay cradled in his arms unconsciously.

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Sesshoumaru flew across the air with Shippou holding tight on his shoulder. His huge fluffy boa fluttered at its end behind him.

"Everyone is dead………." Shippou's terrifying voice echoed in his mind.

Everyone? Meaning Miroku, Sango and Kagome?

What a perfect plan for Naraku. Only he could do that.

Following the scent of the dead corpse, he saw Miroku's body with heaps of dead leaves on top. Inuyasha might have buried him in a hurry before running off.

Sesshoumaru sniffed. Kagura's scent still lingered on the corpse. It must be Naraku's plot again. He might have used Miroku's corpse to deliver a message to Inuyasha.

No time to lose.

Pulling Shippou, who was still wailing over Miroku's death, onto his shoulder, he ran off, searching for his now almost human half-brother, Inuyasha.

Unfortunately, Naraku had expected his coming and sealed off Inuyasha's scent as soon as he entered somewhere near his boundary.

'Don't you dare to lay your filthy hands on my little brother, Naraku,' Sesshoumaru hissed to himself.

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The warmth on the lips woke Inuyasha. Startled, he opened his eyes and met Naraku's. Using as much force as he could muster, he pushed Naraku aside and rolled away from him. A searing pain shot through his waist, he paused and looked down on his body. His white inner kimono was slightly ajar in the front. Bandages were carefully bound around his wounds.

"What are you up to again, Naraku?" Inuyasha hissed, a hand on the ground to support his injured half kneeling body. Secretly, he heaved a sign of relief. Naraku had not assault his body during his coma.

Naraku was wearing a loose dark purple kimono with a slight opening at the front so that his chest was revealed. Smilingly, he approached Inuyasha who started to back step by step at each of his advancing movement.

"Don't come near me," Inuyasha growled threateningly.

"I'm the only one in the world to show concerns for you, my Inuyasha," Naraku smiled causally, he reached out a hand and fondled Inuyasha's smooth chin: "You look so scared, my dear….. that's why I love you so…. Much….."

"Cut it out! I know what you want!" Inuyasha slapped his hand away angrily.

"Have you forgotten why you are here? Or," Naraku's grin widened: "Do you want me to remind you?"

Inuyasha's face froze. "Where is Kagome? Bring me to her first, how would I know if you are cheating me?" Inuyasha hissed.

"Mmmm, trying to act intelligent?" Naraku smiled: "But you are no match for me in your full human form…."

Inuyasha stared back in a quiet stun. Quickly, he took a glance at a lock of hair on his shoulder. Instead of snow white, it was now as black as midnight. He gasped silently in shock. Trying not to reveal his fear, his eyes directed back to Naraku immediately, trying to maintain a calm look on his face: "So what?"

After several past battles with enemies, Inuyasha knew that confidence was very important, especially when he knew he was in a worse situation.

"I see that you are trying to negotiate with me…." Naraku's face neared Inuyasha's, his breath blowing into Inuyasha's human ear: "Too bad, there's no room for your rights here. Firstly, you have no strength to resist me. Secondly,……."

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"Naraku has sent his puppet to us with Inuyasha's red mice coat…." Shippou began as Sesshoumaru ran with the fox kitsune on his shoulder.

"We ran after the puppet and met Naraku, Kagura and Kanna….."

"They attacked us and Miroku was killed instantly. Sango lunged forward trying to revenge for him and got killed instead. Kagome threw me to a bush, calling me to escape…. And then…." Shippou's voice choked.

Sesshoumaru glared at Shippou questioningly.

"Kagura forced Kagome…… down the….cliff………" Shippou continued painfully. Tears ran down his face in flows.

"I can still hear her shrieks till now… it's…….. it's……. sooo horrible….!!!!"

"I ran….. and ran…… for months until I saw Miroku's corpse walking in a direction and I followed him here……" Shippou wailed.

"All of them except this little fox youkai are all died?" Sesshoumaru's eyes widened in his thought.

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"……………And secondly, your beloved woman is gone from this world…..I have instructed Kagura to push her down a cliff….." Naraku continued, observing Inuyasha's reaction.

"You are lying…." Inuyasha stammered.

Naraku paced to the other part of the room and pulled out a familiar shoe from a drawer. It was a modern shoe and a modern tape recorder. They were all Kagome's possessions from her world.

"Let's see how this little hard thing works." Naraku smiled and pushed a 'play' button down.

Immediately, Kagome's fearful shrieks filled the room: "Inuyasha, where is he? Where have you keep him? Inuyasha….!!!!!!!!!" Her voice became more and more unsteady and desperate, mixed with some sounds from Kagura's wind blows using her fan. The tape finally ended with Kagome's fearful scream, as they grew fainter and fainter.

"Do you want to keep this as your souvenir?" Naraku tossed the tape recorder into Inuyasha's hands.

"And I found this on the edge after she tripped over down the cliff. I don't think I need this anymore." Naraku continued causally and threw the shoe to Inuyasha as well.

Inuyasha's face remained stunned when Naraku moved his hands round Inuyasha's smooth cheeks.

"And she's gone… forever…..?" Inuyasha muttered to himself.

"Too bad, you can't play your hero role." Naraku chuckled, moving closer to Inuyasha. He cuddled Inuyasha in his arms. His hands found their way into the white kimono and all over his smooth back and chest. Inuyasha was still in his state of shock and did not response. Naraku pulled his hands out. A hand encircled Inuyasha's waist so that he could not slip away while the other hand slowly found its way down and pushed into Inuyasha's pants.

Suddenly, a pain shot through Inuyasha as two fingers pushed themselves through his tight little hole, moving around inside him.

Inuyasha hissed painfully, his hand pulled behind him, hoping to get Naraku's fingers out of his hole. Naraku knew. He quickly released a hand from Inuyasha's waist and pulled his wrists together before Inuyasha's front, while thrusting his fingers deeper into the hole. Harsher. Naraku grinned and scratched Inuyasha's soft inside with his sharp fingernails. The pain was too much. Inuyasha screamed.

"Ah…… Don't you always like this feeling?" Naraku sniggered close into Inuyasha's sweating face, his warm breath blowing on Inuyasha's tender cheeks: "Doesn't your elder brother always fuck……." He thrusted and rubbed his rough fingers inside harder.

"You….." Harder.

"Like……." Yet harder.

"This?" And harder.

Inuyasha could feel tears rolling about in his eyes. He fought back his tears, so that none of them would fall.

Naraku pulled his fingers out of Inuyasha's hole and examined it. There were bits of blood on his sharp fingernails. It might have resulted when he scratched Inuyasha's walls while the fingers were still in the hole. He smiled and shot his hand at Inuyasha's throat, pulling him closer and screaming into Inuyasha's face furiously: "Why don't you cry? Cry! I tell you to cry!" Suddenly, a faint smile drew over his thin lips: "Ah, I know, you must be screaming deep inside for your hero elder brother to come and rescue your poor little soul……., am I right?"

"I-will-not-cry-in-front-of-you, Naraku….." Inuyasha hissed weakly, trying to recover from the pain. Naraku's strong hand was still gripping his wrists. Very slowly, Naraku released his fingers, one by one from Inuyasha's tender wrists. Red finger marks were imprinted deeply on his flesh.


Suddenly, a sound punch echoed in the air as Inuyasha flew his fist across Naraku's face. Very quickly, Inuyasha pulled himself up and flew his legs at his enemy. Even in his human form, he must kill Naraku to avenge for Kagome, for Miroku and for Sango. Then, he would commit suicide, so that he could meet them and tell them how sorry he was.

Hate and remorse filled in Inuyasha's mind and heart as his past memories raced in his mind eyes. His first meeting with Kagome when she hugged tight onto him as the centipede youkai curled around them. His battle with many youkai throughout the time when he fought with Miroku and Sango by his side, assisting him….

Miroku's pale face full of death walking unsteadily towards him…..

This was too much…..

Sango's terrified face as Naraku's tentacle pulled the only thing that kept her alive from her back…

Unforgivable…..

Kagome's screams ringing in his ears….

Hate, hate… HATE!

Inuyasha felt his eyes blurred, but he did not care. Flying his kicks, he felt his strength draining from his body and something glowed in his stomach. Something was trying to force itself out, pushing and hitting Inuyasha's inside. Inuyasha felt himself falling forward, clenching his stomach in pain. A pair of hands clasped on his shoulders, holding him still.

"Ahhh…. It's going to come out, my new offspring…." Inuyasha heard Naraku chuckled. Cuddling Inuyasha in his arms, Naraku laid him on the mattress gently. In his pain and anger, Inuyasha almost thought he misunderstood Naraku's words.

"Offspring….. our offspring, born and feed with your hanyou strength and most importantly of all," Naraku whispered into Inuyasha's ear: "…your hate and despair. No one suits more than you do, my love."

That beast……..

Naraku kissed Inuyasha softly on his lips: "I shall start the operation right now. This may hurt a while……."

What is this nonsense? I must be dreaming. Yes, maybe everything's just a dream; maybe I will wake up soon with Kagome by my side, laughing at me for sleeping so long and being the last to get up to look for the shikon no tama shards. Miroku would most probably be smiling sheepishly, pretending to talk to me, ending up touching Sango's butt instead and got smacked by her. Shippou will be teasing me and playing tricks on me again in his pinkish balloon form. Inuyasha thought as his mind went blur and hazy.

A hand reached over to Inuyasha's sash that bounded his pants together and pulled them away, pulling his pants down to his knee level. Lips brushed across his abdomen and kissed his groin gently.

"Let's start here, shall we?"

A searing pain spread through the lower part of Inuyasha's body. He felt the opening on his manhood expanding… wider and wider…. His abdomen swelling…… what was going on?

Inuyasha screamed in pain. Naraku pulled his legs open and grabbed him firmly by his knees with a hand and pulled his crotch with another. Inuyasha clenched and unclenched his fingers on the mattress, gritting his teeth tightly.


It must be a dream, a terrible nightmare……….

A dream……..


A force emitted through Inuyasha's screams.

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Sesshoumaru looked up into the sky. Shippou had gone towards other direction, saying that he needed to search Inuyasha in other areas, hoping to find him in a shorter time. Now, Sesshoumaru was traveling all alone.

He could feel a strange force in the air. The force weakened Naraku's shield that sealed Inuyasha's scent from emitting through his boundary. Inuyasha's scent!

Sesshoumaru quickened his pace towards that direction.

Inuyasha. He could feel Inuyasha's agony in the force.

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In his confusion, Inuyasha saw something white, but yet soaked in his own blood crawling out of his body. Inuyasha almost fainted from shock and pain.

Naraku cuddled Inuyasha in his arms. The white and red thing turned to look at them with its blood-red eyes.

"This is our offspring, see?"

Inuyasha only stared at it wearily through his narrowed and exhausted violet grey eyes. Naraku looked up to the thing: "We have a company. Deal with the intruder, my child, he will be your meal today." The thing growled in reply and leaped off agily.

"Let's continue from where we have stopped, Inuyasha, nothing can disturb us now……." Naraku whispered and cuddled Inuyasha from behind, sinking his face into his long midnight black hair from behind. His opening had contracted and his swelling subsided. Inuyasha's limp body lied back in Naraku's arms, spent and exhausted. He glanced back at Naraku, confused and did nothing, letting Naraku roam his hands all over his body.

He was too weak to resist……….

tbc