InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 49 ( Chapter 50 )

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

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Aketsu speaks...Part 1

As Sesshomaru, learned to regret his actions, and a hanyou converses with his best friend. Other things were happening.

Instincts had risen and a call for one of its own was scent.

And it was answered.

Power rolled off in waves, and it responded finding the source of its summoning. Bending its will in time to protect one of its kind. Flaring intensely all around and eliciting a scream from those outside its confines.

Protecting what is within is wake...

And as Kouga watches in awe, a path opens up from behind him, his senses searching and feeling within the path...

He finds nothing wrong...

Dragging the seer behind him, a she has now almost driven herself into a catatonic state, he follows the path given to him. Running as the wind takes him. His senses following the trail of power that calls to him. Although, he now knows he initiated this run, he is intrigued despite the fact that the seer is no longer in full control of herself.

Something is happening in the land, and things are changing. Normally he would simply adapt as his wolves do, but this change it was different.... It invoked to many different feelings, to make him comfortable.

Especially the feeling of fear....

Yet at this moment, something else was overwhelming him even more then fear. And it was avid curiosity.

Since he had met up with the demoness, a sense of protection had come from nowhere out of him, as well as a sense of need.

A need to know her....and a need to know what was happening to his world.

So he followed that path of power, seeking answers and holding tight to the vulnerable demoness in his arms. Eventually after what seemed like hours of running, he came to his destination....

Only to be surrounded by a venerable army of Spirit Fox demons, each one flaring up to strike at their intruder with their demonic aura....

“Do not worry my friends, he simply seeks me out.” Came a voice from behind them. His own power on par with theirs, an elder wolf demon steps out from behind the small army of fox demons. Hair that is almost as pale as theirs now, he walks slowly towards the wolf prince who is in shock at his appearance. Scars crisscross his body, in every which way possible. What once could have passed for a tail in the beginning was more of a stump, then a wolf's pride and joy.

One eye seemed to be gouged out and the other...was of the palest blue that Kouga had ever seen.

“Never seen a old banished wolf alive, have you cubling ?”

Giving a little growl, at a name reserved only for Wolf cubs, the foxes and he are both surprised at the full throated laugh that erupts from the old demon's lips. It was a mixture of happiness...as well as regret...

“It has been a long time since I have heard a fellow wolf, my prince...do forgive me?”

Nodding his head, the foxes approach and reach for the seer in his arms. But hold back as an instinctive growl of protection erupt from Kouga's lips. In response, the others almost smile and look to the elder wolf, for confirmation of their thoughts.

Nodding his head gently, one by one they disappear. Their powers concealing them from sight. Now looking at the younger wolf, who has a guarded expression his face, he shakes his head gently as if soothing a child.

“Wolfing do not worry, they are simply guarding us from those who pursue you. It is they after all, who control these woods...now what is it that you wish of me Prince?

Ignoring the question for a moment, having seen the power of the trees and bushes, protecting what is within. The wolf relaxes a little bit, while at the same time remaining alert. But now looking back at the elder, his blue eyes narrow in suspicion... “How did you get here? I know the Foxes of the South trust no one...”

“Hmmm that is true, they do not. They have good reason as you well know not to...”

“Their ability to manipulate time...”

“Yes wolfing, the reason they allowed me to come here, was because of what is going on now.”

“I see...just what is going on now?”

“History...we are now at a pivotal point in history. She could not do it, because it was not the time to do so. From what the I understand via the Fox scouts, it is coming close to the time where someone can. Who I have no idea....”

Perplexed by the cryptic answer, the Wolf Prince just looks at the old wolf, with confusion. Then clarity strikes home....

“You are Aketsu....how can this be?”

Shaking his head, muttering at the denseness of his people sometimes the elder wolf, sits down upon a rock bed. Gesturing for the younger to lay out the comatose demoness beside him, he gets comfortable. Then making a motion to sit down, the elder begins to speak.

“I hold many of the answers that you seek, Wolfing.... Because of my associations with the Foxes, I have obtained some measure of their sensitivity to the Earth. And it is indeed crying out in pain...so much to the point that by now I am sure, you feel a restless fear and have been regardless of the rumors, in your soul do you not?”

Shocked by the elder's intuitiveness, Kouga nods his head and continues to listen. Unaware as are many others in that glen, that someone else is listening. Via his tiny...and strongest poison insect.....

“What you feel is the land dying wolfing, and only the Gods themselves can heal it.”

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At that exact moment, elsewhere in the western lands, a Miko from the future passes out, alongside a fire cat whose memories now return with full force....

Further away and more towards the North.... A young man screams in agony as a painful memory rips through his mind, forcing his one demon companion away in fear. Afraid of what could only be described as a purifying energy erupts from his body, before he to collapses into unconsciousness.

And all over, Taiyoukai young and old, stop as the Earth itself beckons for them to listen...

The truth about her is finally about to be told....

The story of what happened that fateful day and why Midoriko died...and the Shikon Jewel was born...