InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forever a Shadow ❯ Eulogy for the Living ( Chapter 33 )

33.A Eulogy for the Living

 

 

 

Rin held the gun that Sesshomaru always had in the back, loaded, and as extra clip held in her left hand. Placing the gun to the side of her she gently stroked Kari, petting her thick main of snowy hair.

 

 

“Kari…Karisuma darling wake up.” Rin watched as another fireball came hurdling toward the car. From what she could see Katsuro was fighting a woman controlling a phoenix of flames. The other bodyguard was nowhere to be seen.

 

 

With urgency in her voice Rin shook the girl a bit harder. “Kari you must get up honey, now.” The child moaned and sat up rubbing her eyes. “Good girl, now you must listen to me. There is a bad person out there who is trying to take you away from us, but that will not happen.” Rin pushed the button to lower the privacy glass.

 

 

Yawning and rubbing her eyes, the sleepy girl looked as if she did not hear a word that was spoken. Her large amber eyes went wide when Kari heard a burst of gunfire. Rin was awkwardly climbed into the front of the car, nearly kicking her niece in the process.

 

 

Kari picked up the gun. “Auntie you forgot this.” Rin took the gun and felt all the idiot. Don't worry I won't tell my mom, she would totally freak.” Kari ran a hand through her messed ivory hair. “So now what? Do we sit here and wait to become roasted marshmallows or we gonna do something?” The child seemed unalarmed and more clam than her Aunt. “Do we wait or do we go get Uncle Shessy's bodyguard? I vote to save Kentaro.”

 

 

Rin looked at the girl blank faced and felt stupid, Kari was indeed her fathers' daughter. Rin could close her eyes and almost see Inuyasha. Another huge fireball burst, and Kentaro hit the passenger side door, his guise of the humans gone, replaced by the enormous bull youkai, his sharp tipped horns left Kari in awe.

 

 

“Dam he's huge! We gotta help him Aunt Rin.” Kari looked down at her caste arm and huffed. “Not like I'd be much help.”

 

 

Rin took a deep breath, trying to take control of her growing anxiety, and the fear nearly left the woman paralyzed if not for Kikyo's daughter looking at her as if all of the commotion was normal. “All right.” Rin started up the engine and drove directly at the fireball throwing youkai who was laughing in the glory of killing the bull. The powerful motor of the limo sent Rin back into the seat as Kari whooped, and laughed in excitement.

 

 

“You are your fathers daughter.” Rin herself was now smiling. The limo aimed directly at Abi who easily dodged, even when the huge vehicle turned around in a plume of gravel and dust.

 

 

Rin pulled the car right by Kentaro who was down on one knee, part of his face scorched. Lowering the window a few inches Rin screamed at him, “Get IN!!!” The door popped open and the battered youkai crawled into the passenger seat, slamming the door behind him. Instantly Kentaro passed out the car now smelling something akin to tanned leather.

 

 

“Yea Auntie Rin!!” Kari was now bouncing around on the seat.

 

 

“We're not out of the woods just yet kiddo.” The sentence barely came from her lips as a stream of flame came at the windshield.

 

 

Rin slammed on the brakes, and slowly opened the door, making sure to stand behind it, the gun in her right hand behind her back. “Excuse me, but I really have to get to the hospital, and you are impeding my progress with all of this mess. Do you mind?”

 

 

Abi smiled, as she seemed to juggle the fireballs in her left hand. “Oh am I keeping you from getting to the hospital??” Three fireballs came at Rin who simply ducked behind the door. “Don't worry bitch you'll be going to the hospital all right, just in a body bag.” Abi inhaled deeply and laughed. “Okay we have a barbequed bull, a little immortal human bitch, and…oh god, a hanyou of a hanyou. What the hell kinda family does this Sesshomaru have?”

 

 

Rin instantly became livid, standing back up to her feet, the gun in her hands, the sight trained on Abi's head, and she pulled the trigger. Not once but emptied the clip directly into Abi's brain. “No one, and I mean no one speaks ill of my family! Barbequed bodyguards or not.”

 

 

“Yea!! Auntie Rin you kicked her ass!” Kari was bouncing and laughing around on the back seat a huge smile on her face.

 

 

Rin deeply exhaled and sat back down into the car. “Kentaro do they come back if their heads look like swiss cheese?”

 

 

“Maim, not that I know of.” Sesshomaru's man passed out once again.

 

 

Rin closed her door dropping the gun into the floorboard at Kentaro's feet. “Lets get him to the hospital. And Kari if I ever hear you say someone's ass was kicked again I'll tell your mother.”

 

 

 

 

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The two brothers stood at the door listening for any sound of Naraku when the ring of Sesshomaru's cell cut through the thick air each person in the room jumped, save the CEO and his annoyingly calm demeanor, the air, which now was slowly mixing with the miasma of their foe.

 

 

Without even looking at the caller the annoyed Taiyoukai answered. “Now is not the time.”

 

 

He almost hung up. “Don't you dare Sesshomaru!” All in the room heard Rin's frantic voice.

 

 

“Rin. Are you all right? You sound like you're in trouble, where in the hell are my bodyguards? I'll personally rip them to shreds.”

 

 

“You wont have to. One is toast, literally, and Kentaro has become living barbeque! Some bitch named Abi ambushed us, never again will I bitch about the price of these cars---“

 

 

“Rin now is not the time—“

 

“Sesshomaru don't you dare cut me -“ Sesshomaru ended the call and quickly turned it off before his wife could call again. “I shall deal with this at a later time.”

 

 

“Will some one please stop and tell me who the fuck this bastard is!!!” Ayame nearly screamed the words echoing off the walls.

 

 

 

 

“I tried to get here sooner but—“

 

 

Yea guess that octopus on steroids would delay anyone.” Miroku chimed in trying to lighten the room. Miroku was quick to get a hit upside the head from Sango his loving yet strict wife. “Darling stop doing that, it emasculates me when you do that in public, in bed is different.” Miroku smirked and looked at his better half that was now turning red at the remark. “Dearest please no more violence, I'm sure we will see more by the time the sun arises through our cloud heavy rain.”

 

 

Inuyasha held the sheet clad Kikyo to his bloodied shirt, yet for the moment she could care less. Her head on his chest his heartbeat racing strong, and it was for her a small smile grew on her lips but was hidden from the others by a veil of midnight hair. Her clear eyes looking up into his sanguine and rain soaked hair, she ran her fingers through it as if there was nothing there; her husband was trickling blood from different injuries, and Inuyasha's face was bleeding badly from a wound over his eyebrow. Her husband, her Inuyasha fought to get to her shedding blood in her name. Yet one question ate at her, where was Kagome?

 

 

“Let me go Inuyasha I am finishing this, give me a gown, I'm the reason he's hear so let me go.” She roughly pushed Inuyasha away the sheet slid to the ground, no hint of embarrassment. Mirokus eyes tried to bug out of his head but Sango yanked him back. Kikyo turned to a confused faced Ayame.

 

Kikyo slid on two gowns, then locked eyes with Ayame. “He was my patient, actually my first youkai patient.” The memories flooded back in a torrent. “At that time there was still so much hatred that the demons let themselves been known but I didn't care. Onigumo was so alone, in so much pain humans soaked him with gas and lit him like a pyre, so I helped his recovery.”

 

Kikyo's eyes seemed to glaze over. “By the time he left he was infatuated with me and it was then I realized he was a split personality and I disappeared, soon after finding Inuyasha. Since I had never really seen Onigumo I never knew that was who I hired to find out…never mind, the point is Onigumo is dead, what you see now is the other personality that believes I am his. I'm going to give him what he wants.”

 

 

“The hell you are.” Inuyasha's eyes pleaded fighting back a tear, he still loved her, even if…even if she hated him.”

 

 

The smile on Miroku's face looked permanent, pissing off Sango to a near furry “If you want me to stop then you stop being a jackass all the time, and maybe you won't have so many knots and bruises on your head.” Sango brandished her weapon - her gun to his metal pole. “I got you beat once again baby.” Sango smiled lovingly at Miroku, they might bicker but true love was always apparent between the two.

 

 

“If we are done with the brevity we do have a unexpected guest trying to kill my clan. I can not allow you to go out there with that creature Kikyo.” Sesshomaru out of habit ran his hand through his silver hair as always it landed perfectly in its place. “I need my Tokijin.”

 

 

“What is it with you guys and this sixteenth century sword shit!!” Miroku yelled then shied quickly away from Sango.

 

 

Inuyasha held up Tetsusaiga. “Never done me wrong.”

 

Kikyo moved behind Sesshomaru and slipped out the door with a chorus of wait at her back. The dark halls with flickering lights from what power was left in the back up generators cast an eerie glow on the blood painting the walls. Bare foot she walked through a coagulating puddle, cold and now in the spirals of her bare feet, yet she walked on her heart was aching for the bodies of Sesshomaru's men. Dental records would be needed to identify quite a few, some hands still gripping their guns, others their faces frozen in horror, their empty eyes watching her pleading for help that would never come.

Death, in her line of work death was no stranger, yet now she had to protect her child, a ferocity was building in her blood as she made her way down the staircase to the next floor, she could hear Naraku's anger manifested, perhaps he found a few alive huddling in hiding somewhere. They were already dead.

 

Kikyo's stomach turned as she realized she had just stepped into the prenatal ward, she refused to look into the nursery, she heard a woman scream and a newborn howling wildly, she could save one. At a full run she raced through the gore her feet wet with the blood of those she forced her mind not to think of. Kikyo stopped at the nurses' station while she could still hear the screams.

 

 

“NARAKU!!! COME OUT YOU FUCKING COWARD!!! FACE ME!!!” Kikyo could see needles full of more than likely of Demerol, for new mothers pain she hoped not a saline push. She grabbed the two behind the counter, what she was going to do with them was a quandary, but better to be armed with something. “Needles Kikyo really.” She said under her breath. She suddenly noticed the intense burning running through her midsection; she knew without doubt the incision was tearing open, something warm was running down her left leg. “Not now. Why now.”

 

 

Out of a room down the hall came a man at least 6'7”, even in the flickering light a main of hair flowing behind his calves; it was the eyes, they glowed like backlit rubies in a jewelry store.

 

 

Thankfully the woman could be crying and the infant still howling. “Wow, you have changed Onigumo.” There was a sigh of relief that at least one mother would be with her newborn. The needles at Kikyo's side immediately caught Naraku's eye.

 

 

“Onigumo is dead my dear, call me Naraku; that pathetic heap of a man Onigumo, even married, can you believe such a thing? Just thank your brother-in-law for the strength I needed to kill that wretched husk.” He cocked his head and grinned even deeper at the needles. “And just what are you planning to do with those my love.” Naraku's eyes sparkled with what seemed childish fun with a spark of those damned fanged teeth in his mouth, that Kikyo couldn't keep her mind off. “I can smell your blood you know, I can smell your pup with that wretched half mutt. I can smell them all, have they abandoned you?”

 

 

At the word love Kikyo felt her stomach want to wretch, and her mind off of his appearance. She squeezed the syringes tighter as not to loose them, the blood; too much blood was no longer a trickle but a surge, her heart began to beat faster to keep blood to her vital organs. Where the hell was Inuyasha? Where was her Calvary?

 

 

It seemed in two steps he was upon her, Kikyo fought the urge to scream, and she could smell the overpowering stench of and flesh in his breath. “I forgive you for your copulation with the doggie clan, even your little girls, but do you know in the animal kingdom when a new lion kills the old weaker one he kills the cubs even eats them; isn't that just so interesting? Honestly it's a good idea, I'm sure your little Suki will be wonderful even if she is comatose and cant fight back, such a pity.”

 

“There is no way in hell you will touch my girls!” With what strength she had Kikyo stabbed him in the shoulder and pressed the plunger. “I love Inuyasha, I NEVER LOVED YOU!” Kikyo backed away making her way around the nurses' station.

 

“An just what do you think that will do?” Naraku could not help but laugh aloud, as the syringes were thrown aside.

 

 

“Well I figured maybe relax you enough for you to pull the stick out of you ass!” Kikyo glared.

 

 

Naraku put a fist through the nurses' station successfully turning it to tender. Kikyo stepped back and fell into a nurses rolling chair. The once upon a time Onigumo grabbed Kikyo by the arms yanking her to her feet forcing an unwanted kiss upon her, his tongue probing her mouth as those fangs cut into her lips and inner mouth. He threw her back into the chair with a smile and Kikyo's blood shining on his lips and teeth.

 

He laughed in triumph. “I always fanaticized how you would taste and you don't disappoint, I look forward to the rest of you.” Naraku raised his head inhaling deeply his eyes seemed to glow brighter, as he looked down to Kikyo who had the back of her wrist to her shredded lips. “Hear come the puppies.” Kikyo softly laughed, apparently Naraku didn't like it. “Can't have you running away.” Naraku backhanded Kikyo successfully knocking her to the floor unconscious.

 

“Come to me pups and die.” Naraku raised his arms in a stretch and stepped into the room directly across form where Kikyo lie; her husband of course would be beside himself bet Naraku would kill the pain. He wondered what it felt like to twist off a dog's head; he wouldn't have to long to wait.

 

 

A/N:I finally updated yea! For me!! I think??