InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 35 ( Chapter 36 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Yeah, some of you have asked me why these next chapters will be hard for me to write. Pretty much, I try to get involved with the story, and I really don't like these chapters coming up. Sent me bawling a few times as I was writing the outline in my head....

You will see and hear things I hope as I do this and if I do this right, whether I like it or not. They will make you cry, make you rage...and make you wish that this would end....

I don't own Squat...and just so you know except for an adult Shippo and taro, everyone in this chapter is the PAST version of themselves. Whether they be alive or dead...

Meetings....

Running into his lands, Kouga follows the scent of the east with a purpose. But as he stops, and looks up at the beacon of energy shooting into the sky. With every fiber of his being, the wolf's instinct near double in intensity. His tail swishing in agitation, as his blue eyes take in the scents and sounds of the forest around him.

“It begins...”

Whirling around, the Wolf Prince turns to find the scent of the east emanating from his visitor.

“What does...” He asks as he circles around, and spots the demoness who is stepping into the clearing. His instincts still hackled from the beacon of energy, he uses his common sense as he approaches the one who bears the scent of the east. He circles around so as not to get surrounded, but what is odd, as with each step he takes around.

She turns to face him... Her black hair long and shining, she wears a simple kimono of darkest green, trimmed with gold feathers all along the edges. It makes her pale skin, seem more translucent. More ethereal...her eyes though remain closed...

“My senses tell me you will be a part of it wolf.”

Knowing who she is, but not her name. Kouga stops pacing to look at her with an intensity, he reserves for those he does not trust fully.

“Part of what...Seer of the Eagles.”

Watching as she frowns delicately, he is surprised by her next few words.

“Do not call me that please...”

“Why not...it is what you are?”

“It may be, but it is because of that gift...that I live like I do...and why we do not come out as often from our lands. It is something I wish...I wish would go away”

“I see...” Whispers the Wolf Prince in silent understanding, having experienced that as he has grown up, he understands the cooped up feeling. In his case it was his parents need to keep him alive, because unlike the dogs who fight one another until they lose for leadership. The wolves...

They fight to the death...

His parents wanted Kouga to have a fighting chance, considering the other like him...was already an adult.

But that's another story...

“You still have not answered my question though...”

“It is because I do not know the answer...I just know that you will be a part of what is happening. I must continue on now, I must go south, then to the west.”

Puzzled for a moment by her words, he steps forward to stop her. Yet once again she speaks.... “I must, wolf, I alone may have a chance to stop this before it gets any worse. Would you prevent me from that?”

Shaking his head as he withdraws, the wolf turns back the way he came. “If I come with you it is less likely that you will be bothered...by others of my tribe.”

Chuckling softly, the demoness turns to look at him with a gentle smile. “Do not worry about me, Wolf Prince, I have protection a plenty. But if you must come, do be prepared...”

“For what?”

“Answers you may not like...”

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Elsewhere, high in the Western Mountains...

Sesshomaru, arrived with a cool presence on the outskirts of the ancestral lands of the dog demons. Though on the inside, if one was to look within, he was seething.

What he had been told by his bastard brother, and the others was enough to make him think. If it wasn't for the presence of the adult fox demon, who exudes the spiritual power of his clan, he would have accused his brother of lying and proceeded to kill him.

But that was not the case, much to his intense regret...

As he took one step, he could feel the magic of the council searching for his identity. Allowing his demonic aura to flare up as a signal to his presence, they immediately back away. It takes but a moment, for one of the others to come forth.

“Lord Sesshomaru, you were not expected for another year....”

“I have decided to come early, I will be staying a while...”

“What of your retainer and the little human?” The demon said with its head bowed. The obvious disgust at the toad demon and little human girl present in his voice.

“Jaken and Rin are none of your concern. IF you had bothered to notice they are not even here.” Sesshomaru replied coldly. “Now tell me, what is this of another who bears the same scent as I and that mongrel Kanaye?”

“There is another?”

Within mere moments, the demon finds himself hit hard and fast with a backhanded slap from the demon lord. The stinging sensation strong, as when Sesshomaru had done it, his hand had glowed green from the poison....

“Your ignorance will not save you. On my way here it has spread all over the western lands. And I know by now that he to will have heard of it. SPEAK!”

“My Lord I speak the truth! I have not heard of such a rumor! Nothing like that has reached here!”

This time hitting the demon hard, and without forgiveness. Sesshomaru watches impassively as the minor dog gets thrown clear across the field of their ancestral lands.

“Then you are a useless demon....you will listen to what is around you next time or die. Go now from my sight, the healer knows the antidote for my poison...take it. Fail me again and I will not be as merciful as my father would have been.”

“Yes Lord Sesshomaru...” The frightened demon answered. His own weak aura, bowing almost under the sheer weight of Sesshomaru's. Hastily and with any and all strength he has, the demon scrambles away in fear of his life. Thus leaving the Demon Lord to continue on deeper into his tribal lands....

Demanding answers to the questions that he has, and to the threat that someone here will make towards him. Because only one other, besides himself at this moment will the others follow.

Kanaye....

Unknowingly to Sesshomaru as well as others of his kind, Kanaye had found someone who was much like him in retrospect.

He had met this particular demoness in a gathering of his friends and allies. The ones, whom like himself, were not thrilled with the current leadership of the clan. He was a favorite among the traditionalists after all, and Sesshomaru the others felt were becoming to much like his father.

Jaken was the first strike against the young Demon Lord in their opinion. To them he was an annoyance, a pest a blot on their oh so perfect life. The main reason being is that HE ranked higher than them in Sesshomaru's circle. The old toad, was the Demon Lord's staunch ally and highest adviser.

Strike two?

That was the little human girl Rin.

Enough said...

So to them, Kanaye was someone they could nurture, mold in their own image.

And he was more then willing to comply, because it meant power. Power that he can use to take control of the West. It was at this gathering that he met her....

A unique and unusual beauty...a seer with power that she promises to use for him and him alone...Naoko

She told him something though as they talked, that was unusual. Because she had gone into a trance and her voice changed...

It drew others among his peers, to listen as she spoke...

You must take out your enemies sooner then what you had planned. History is changing now, what you once desired is now becoming out of reach. Should they reunite with their son, you will die.

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smiles and runs for the hills....

Guess, who's back......