InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 52 ( Chapter 53 )

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

There is a god after all guys. Basically my computer caught a virus…. Not a nice one either… But thanks to the fact I think someone felt guilty…long story…she went and got me a new one for Christmas. YAY! So this chapter will be the first on a BRAND new PUTER!

Author hugs Taro plushie that she made while anxiously waiting for drugs to kick in…Got to love cold medicine from doctors…I call them Happy pills :D

I don't own Squat

Aketsu Speaks Part 4…All is revealed

Kouga just looks up at the Elder wolf demon in complete surprise. “I see you are in shock my Prince. But yes that is supposedly what Heaven's Light can do.Come with me and allow me to show you something.”

“Such as?” Hequestions as he gets up.

“You shall see, leave the demoness, she will be safe.” The old wolf replies gently, as Kouga reaches for her. Bristling at the thought, his senses whirl as he hears Aketsu speak in a language that could only be that of the Fox demons. Suddenly two come forth from out of now where forcing him back and into a fighting stance.

Identical in stance and bearing, these Foxes were regal as they approached.

“Do not fret Wolf.” One started.

“We will watch over her.” The other replied.

“After all you and her still have.”

“Your roles to play….”

Confused at the back and forth of the words between the two foxes, Kouga allows himself to be pulled away. Despite his better judgment, he feels nothing amiss though as his power feels these two out. Then he simply nods his head and turns to go after the elderly wolf demon.

“Tell me Wolf Prince…what do you know of the great battle between the Lord of the West and the Demon Moth King from the Mainland?”

“That many had died human and demon alike. It took the great Dog Lord getting involved before Hyouga was defeated and sealed.”

“True wolfing, that si very true despite recent events.. Come let me show you the destruction the results of the battle between the great Taiyoukai…”

Following Aketsu, Kouga began to stumble as something akin to great pain embraces his senses. Sharp and stabbing, like a blade through the heart, the Wolf Prince collapses to his knees as he attempts to shake it off.

“I would not bother wolfing. The pain you are feeling will not disappear.” Aketsu said quietly as he waited for the Prince.

“What do you mean this pain won't disappear?”

“Get up and follow me…there your answers will be given.”

Growling in irritation, he with some careful maneuvering and concentration upon his part. He proceeds to separate himself from the pain as best he can. Now as the trees began too become fewer with each step and the sounds of life distance and shadowed.

The pain grows even more intense with each step he takes…then that's when he forgets all else….

Aketsu has stopped, and moved to the side, to show Kouga something that would explain much of what he has seen in his recent travels. A long stretch of land…dead…nothing growing around it….

The earth is like sand…gray and powdery. What little trees that are in it are like rock. Petrified into stone…corpses of many demons reside here and there. All dead…frozen where they stand in stone.

When demons fight one another, their energy their aura…will mingle. Unlike the mating urges that they all have and must go through. That is when their energy is safe. For it is searching for something to join with.

On the other hand…when it is fighting…

It does not seek to merge…it seeks to destroy.

“Yes it does….” Aketsu murmurs quietly as he remembers the once vibrant priestess. “According to the Fox Lord, this is where the battle between Inutaisho, the Great Dog Demon and Hyouga of the Mainland Moths fought. What you see now is primarily what is left of that great battle….This is what is left of the scar that the battle left upon the land's surface.” Aketsu murmured sadly. “And what's worse…we almost came close to this so long ago in that cave….”

Ducking yet another set of claws swiping at him, Aketsu fought as hard as he could, through the multitudes of demons that stood in his path. This cave in the middle of nowhere held someone precious to him.

He remembers arriving in the town where, she was supposed to have been, only to find the villagers in a frenzied state. These villagers, these demon slayers had angered many demons in their choice of occupation. And unlike the priestesses or others of their own kind, they were more vulnerable then most. Some of their children had been taken and the demons had simply stated a life for a life.

So one by one some of their best fighters had gone in to save these children and each time. One child would come back…without the adult and covered in blood. The demons were keeping their word all right. They were returning the little ones whole…

But in such a state that it would be years before they returned to normal. One of the mothers, lamenting the loss of her husband, had contacted a priestess seeking Midoriko's help. Although she had her child, what she had gone through, compounded with the loss of her husband. The poor woman did not wish that on anyone.

Therefore the priestess had agreed to deliver the request to his beloved Miko. And of course, she could not say no to people in distress. Especially ones she had helped in the past. These villagers had become inspired by her work, and her words in no due part to the trouble they have had before. Now having fashioned armor of a sort from the bones of the dead demons, they were actually surviving and becoming quite a threat.

The Local demons had decided to do something about it…and there were hundreds of them involved…perhaps even a thousand that had come to either aid or witness this. The thought that had been shared amongst them….

That it would serve the humans right and that this village was going to serve as an example….

So instead of running into the village as he should have done when he first arrived for support. He had run off towards the cave, intent on pulling her out as well as the children. Only to find that halfway there, a ragtag bunch of children, their clothes halfway torn and with scratches running and Kirara running beside them.

Running as if their very lives depended on it….

“Please don't hurt us Mister!”

“Don't make us go back there!”

Screaming and pleading, it takes Abetsu about 10 minutes to find one who was willing and brave enough to talk to him out of the 20 kids. A teenage girl of about 12….

“Who are you girl?”

“I am Aosina …did you come to kill us?” The young one eyes him bravely. Although the Wolfish part growls as it takes her stare for a challenge, the part of him that is demon respects her for it.

“No I did not. I have come you help young one…you will find the village is that way. Tell me though where is Midoriko…”

“The priestess?” Aosina asks quickly.

Nodding his head, he takes off in the direction the young girl points, the direction of the cave. “Please you must hurry! They were starting to merge when we fled with her friend.” The child yells as Kirara growls for her to move, as the sounds of demons begin to approach.

An unspoken sense of communication happens that moment between the wolf demon and the fire cat. With a growl and a roar of gentleness yet order, the feline ushers the children out of the way. The eldest, the one Aketsu had been speaking with resisting. Her words haunting him….

They were starting to merge….

A Recombinant demon was next to impossible to kill. It would not only have powers of its own, it would have the powers of all that he or she…or possibly even it destroyed.

So he continued to run…run and leap

Run and duck…

Slash and swipe….

He did so much, that when that strange light started to emit from the direction not only did he stop. So did his enemies. It was bright…and it was beautiful beyond belief. Shining white and brilliant in its etherealness, it took only a moment. A moment before he realized what that was…

And that is when he heard her voice is his mind….

“AKETSU RUN!”

Without a second thought, he did just that. He ran. He ran back towards the humans, he ran towards the village to escape what could now only be called an immense purification. Behind him, he could hear the screams, the rages of pain and anger….the death cries of fear at what could only be Midoriko's power.

What frightened him though was the intensity of this power and he grew afraid. Afraid for her…to expand this much energy….

Suddenly risking it all he began to run back. Run back in the direction of the cave. Run back to where she had to be…hopefully alive.

But the closer he got, the more his body started to bleed…

He was bruised and battered from the fighting he had done…but why now? Why was he body doing to this to him?

“It is because of her soul…wolf demon.”

Whirling around faster then he should have, he winced in obvious pain at the sudden voice from behind him. Although, he could have sworn no one else was in the area with him, there now stands a human. Tall about 6 feet with brown hair and a beard, he looked quiet and regal. But it was his eyes that stood out…

They were an unearthly blue…

“Who are you?” Aketsu whimpered out in pain. “And what do you mean by her soul…”

“I am no one that concerns you….just know this…your Priestess is gone.” The man said gently. “And right now and for some years to come, you can not go any further in this land. The residual effects of her powers will kill you before you can step even one foot in there.”

“Bullsshii…ttt”

“Trust me on this Wolf, your priestess tried to call the Heaven's Light to save not just herself but all the villagers in the area. But the recombinant demon, as you called it although nowhere near hers…in her state….”

“No…No…” Aketsu worded out silently as he shook his head.

The other looking down sadly as he picks up the wolf demon with ease. “Its energy overwhelmed her, surprised her…so she did the only thing she can do as it started to swallow her whole, she tried to kill it…and the energy…reacted. She paid the price for that much power.”

“The price…” He whimpered out.

“This Wolf …” The man whispered quietly. Opening his palm, Aketsu looks at a glowing jewel. Round and white, it pulses with a pure light...and that's when he senses it. With an inhuman burst of energy he reaches to snatch it out of the man's hand.

“Give it to me please…give it to me so I can release her!”

“You can not Wolf, it is not meant for you to do so…”

“GIVE IT TO ME!” Aketsu screams as despite his already bleeding and broken body, he tries to swipe it again. Only to be frozen in please, as the man lifts a hand…

“I can not, for in your desire to free her Wolf…it will only entrap her even more…see for yourself.”

Now as the man unfurls his hands, the once white jewel no more then a second ago, glows pink.

“Desire and Lust will destroy, what is left of her wolf. Would you do that?” The ethereal eyed man asks quietly. “What life she had left in her after she created this, she used to restore the land to heal it from the damage that had been done. That is why you can not enter this area for a while demon. Her powers are infused into everything here right now…you can not enter…”

“To not be able to see her body…to not even be able to touch what is left of her soul?” Kouga said with a touch of pity and understanding in his voice. “That is something that I would not wish on anyone. But I do not understand? What has this got to do with the jewel, with this Heaven's Light or with anything going on?”

“It is because of Naraku…” A feminine voice replies. Turning around rapidly, the two wolf demons look to find the foxes from before, on either side of the Eagle demoness. Her white eyes glowing with intense power, as she studies the two wolves in front of her. “The battles that have been fought against him are reminiscent of the times before the balance was done. Before the four greater tribes arose in power…”

Quietness filled the air as the Wolves listened. Even the foxes looked at her in a mixture of fear and awe as the Eagle demoness, known as Mimori, continued to speak. Her voice light her clear, her pure white eyes pulse, with a glowing light as each word erupts from her lips.

“Events these past 50 years have thrown the balance of life amongst the four tribes out of sync. The jewel had only made it worse recently with the rise of the power known only as Naraku. When the jewel was whole and uncorrupted, it was peaceful it could still be salvaged by us and humans. But when it shattered, the balance it helped to maintain was gone. The one's who could restore it, did not care.”

“DID NOT CARE!” Kouga yelped in anger, and as he is about to react the demoness raises a hand and a pulse of white golden light erupts flinging him into the trees.

“You did not care Wolf, nor did your father…as by the two shards in your legs. It is the same as with many in three of the four clans that control the land.Even the Foxes will admit that a few of their own have surrendered to a desire for a shard. And paid for it with their lives… All save onetribe has desired that power that one could give them…”

“You lie, Inuyasha hunts for them even now.” Kouga growled out.

“True he may hunt for them, but have you seen him use them?” The seeress worded softly. “And with my powers, I know the human girl he travels with is the one who holds them. Could he not simply take them away from her regardless of her control?”

Making sounds of disbelief as her words hit home, Kouga realized that despite being a hanyou, Inuyasha had immense power to overwhelm her commands. Those that he loves so much to watch.

“Yes, Inuyasha had the power to break the beads around his neck all this time, because Wolf Prince…he is a Taiyoukai as well, just like you.” Mimori replied quietly and with a seriousness that could not be denied.

“No…” Kouga shakes his head in disbelief. “Mutt-face can not hold that much power!”

“He does, Wolfing.” Aketsu stated softly. “My time with the foxes had allowed me some of their time control. I have seen what they see; his father was one of two who had done this damage that you see behind me. His brother is known as the Arisocratic assassin…and the current Lord of the Dogs.”

Paling at this information, Kouga shudders in further denial. “No it can't be...”

“Deny it if you wish,” Mimori whispers softly. “It is true, your rival is realizing his true power now. What held him back was how he was treated. The love of the human girl with him, is healing his soul. His body for the first time is agreeing with his heart and his mind Kouga. The next time you see him…he will be different…radically different.”

“HE won't…he won't!'

“He will wolf prince…he will…because for the first time...Inuyasha will be whole…and in control of his full power.”

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There I hoped that answered several questions tee hee. As well as leave a whole lot more in your minds!

I know I'm evil, but I wanted to start off my hiatus with a bang…did I succeed…I think so…

Remember though guys, this is a STORY! It is not meant to stick to the actual storyline or anything…I do not want another round of emails from people stating I wasn't sticking to personalities or something…THIS IS A STORY!