InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Feel Like Makin' Love ❯ The Sealing of InuYasha ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 6

 

The Sealing of InuYasha

 

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If I had those golden dreams of my yesterday
I would wrap you in the heaven, but they lay dying on the way

Feel like makin'...
Feel like makin' love, feel like makin' love
Feel like makin' love, feel like makin' love to you - Bad Company

 

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The air was warm and sultry as the group flew over the Kiso Mountains. These mountains had been decided on for their remote location. In the lead was Sesshomaru, with InuYasha at his side. Behind them flew Kirara with Miroku and Sango, with Shippo struggling valiantly not to fall too much to the rear.

 

Conversation was not really possible at these heights, so InuYasha was left to reflect on the things that had been discussed during the last two intervening days.

 

“Where exactly will you be sealed in the Kiso Mountains?” Sango had asked the first night.

 

“I've been told it would be a cave, somewhere towards the mountains peaks,” InuYasha had replied.

 

“I think it would be best if we set up a shrine there,” Miroku said thoughtfully. “Our descendents will be its keepers, and because it will be a sacred place, it should be treated with respect and undisturbed.”

 

`A shrine,' thought InuYasha, smirking as he gazed over the green mountains around him. `How ironic - I wonder what Kagome would think of that, if she knew.'

 

Lost in his thoughts and imagining what such a shrine would look like, InuYasha almost missed it when Sesshomaru changed direction. Damn him, they were traveling close enough that he could have given him a signal! Then again, he had not been really paying attention. But he looked over his shoulder to be sure his friends were following, and Miroku gave him a friendly wave to let him know they were aware of the change in altitude.

 

They came down among the trees on the slope of the mountain side, landing in the same order they had been flying in. InuYasha touched down lightly beside Sesshomaru, and then turned to watch his for his friends, who quickly came to his side. Without a word, Sesshomaru led them away, to a break in the trees.

 

“This is the cave?” Shippo said, looking at the small, crumbling entrance in the rocky cliff face with a baffled expression.

 

“Not a very convenient place for a shrine,” said Sango thoughtfully.

 

“We can work with it,” said Miroku, inspecting the surroundings with his hand to his chin.

 

“Where the hell is Shimazu?” InuYasha said peevishly, looking around with his arms crossed.

 

“He will be here,” answered Sesshomaru in a tone of voice that broached no contradiction.

 

Everyone except Sesshomaru milled around, and Miroku and Shippo began discussing how they would construct the shrine. Sango finally found a rock and sat listening to Miroku and Shippo talk, petting Kirara in her lap. InuYasha only listened with half an ear, and paced back and forth impatiently.

 

“We can cut down the surrounding trees and use them in the shrine's construction,” said Miroku. “I do believe it will be easier, and it does not look like anything we need can't be found here.”

 

“Yeah, but I think we will have to make the cave opening bigger,” said Shippo. “I'm afraid it just might cave in if we don't.”

 

“InuYasha, I think you should stop pacing,” Sango said, and when InuYasha turned to look at her, she gave a meaningful nod towards Sesshomaru.

 

A quick glance at his brother's expression showed InuYasha that he was getting on his brother's nerves. With a sigh of disgust, he threw himself down and sat next to Sango. Suddenly, Sesshomaru looked up over the cliff above the cave. Catching his brother's intent look, InuYasha got up in time to see a dark-haired, blue-eyed youkai in flowing purple silks floating slowly down to them. Miroku and Shippo broke off their conversation and looked up as well, as did Sango. His face was ageless, but you could tell he was old by the expression of his eyes - profound and otherworldly, even more so than Sesshomaru.

 

“Sesshomaru,” said Shimazu in a deep, mellifluous voice.

 

“Shimazu,” replied Sesshomaru, as the older youkai approached him.

 

“About time,” muttered InuYasha as he got up and went with the others to gather around the two older Taiyoukai.

 

As InuYasha approached him, Shimazu turned to regard the former hanyou. He looked at InuYasha with a mild curiosity, noticing the dog ears that were a remnant of what InuYasha used to be. InuYasha had to steel himself to withstand this scrutiny, no one dared look at him this way in the fortress or they would deal with his brother's wrath. But Sesshomaru made no motion to intercede, but rather seemed to show the older youkai a modicum of deference that InuYasha had never seen before. Yet only another Taiyoukai may have been able to pick this up, or someone who had tried hard to understand the inscrutable Inu Youkai Lord.

 

“I presume this is your brother, InuYasha,” said Shimazu, turning to Sesshomaru once more.

 

Sesshomaru inclined his head slightly in affirmative.

 

“Hey, you can talk to me directly you know,” said InuYasha wryly.

 

“Yes,” said Shimazu mildly, and turned to look at InuYasha's friends who had gathered nearby, but had not completely joined the three of them. “And the humans and kitsune?”

 

“They are Miroku, Sango and the kitsune is Shippo,” said InuYasha. “They and their descendants will be guarding my resting place while I am sealed.”

 

“I see,” said Shimazu, his eyes flicking back to the assembled group again. “Follow me.”

 

They followed Shimazu to the cave, and he gracefully bent down and entered the opening. When everyone had entered, it was small and cramped inside, but there was a niche against the far wall that was big enough to fit someone in a prone position.

 

“It's quite dark in here,” said Sango, as she bumped up against Miroku's back.

 

“It's too damned dark,” said InuYasha irritably as he bumped into Sesshomaru and got a face full of fur, making him sneeze. “And tight.”

 

“Watch it,” said Sesshomaru warningly.

 

“Quiet please,” said Shimazu, and there appeared a flowing white-blue orb of light over his palm.

 

Everyone complied, and Shimazu gestured for InuYasha to come closer to him. He pulled a flask from his robes and handed it to InuYasha.

 

“Drink this, and then lie down in the niche,” said Shimazu.

 

“That's it?” InuYasha said looking at the flask in his hand quizzically.

 

“Once you are under, I will seal the opening so no one will know you are there,” said Shimazu. “When it is time for you to wake, the seal will disappear.”

 

“Will anything be needed to wake him up?” Shippo asked.

 

“No, the potion wears off on its own,” said Shimazu. “All there will be for him to do is assimilate into the world of the future.”

 

Those last words of Shimazu had an ominous ring to them, and everyone was quiet a moment. But InuYasha was restless, and eager to begin. He had no fears, only a burning desire to see Kagome - the future be damned! He would deal with it as he had to, and nothing was going to make him fear or doubt his choice. All that mattered was being reunited with Kagome.

 

“So, this is it,” said InuYasha. “Good-bye, everyone…and thanks.”

 

“Good-bye, InuYasha,” Miroku said hesitantly and sighed. “Say hello to Kagome for us in the future, and tell her she was missed.”

 

“Yes, give her our best, and good luck to you,” said Sango, smiling, but tears were coming to her eyes.

 

Miroku turned and put his hand on Sango's, and gave her a rather forlorn smile of encouragement. A feeling of sadness and loss emanated from them, and InuYasha began to feel guilty. There were those who would miss him here, and he had not really thought about it.

 

`I was stupid,' InuYasha thought. `I'm lucky my friends are standing by me. Kagome would probably be disappointed at how I have ignored them. But there is nothing I can do now, it's time to sleep - and when I awake I will find Kagome!'

 

“'Bye for now,” said Shippo, grinning. “I plan on being there when you wake, but if I'm not on time, you better wait for me!”

 

Sesshomaru just nodded his head and then looked steadily at InuYasha a moment before speaking.

 

“Good-bye, little brother.”

 

`Yeah, and he is probably thinking good riddance,' InuYasha thought and tried not to sigh.

 

Swiftly, InuYasha downed the potion, and then went and lay down in the niche. Everyone gathered round as his eyes closed, and then with a wave of his hand, Shimazu made the niche disappear, as if the rock wall went all the way to the ground.

 

`Don't worry Kagome,' was InuYasha's last thoughts. `I'll be there soon…'