InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Incarnations: Inuyasha 2030 ❯ In Demonic Hands ( Chapter 18 )

Chapter 18: In Demonic Hands

 

There are some swear words in this chapter. Please don't read if that offends you.

 

Inuyasha needed to while away the time until he could visit Kagome at the shrine. He figured that it would be about an hour before her father and grandmother went to bed. In the meantime he decided to play one of his favorite all immersive video games at one of the downtown Tokyo arcades.

 

He plunked in his debit card into the arcade game and then walked into the booth for `Final Fantasy XXXIII: The Clone of Sephiroth'. The booth itself looked like an old-fashioned 20th century phone booth, however when you walked inside a three-dimensional hologram displayed itself all around him. The illusion was completely immersive. Suddenly a scene formed before his eyes as a computer generated scene of green plains and a beautiful blue running river filled his vision. He felt the breeze of the scene brush on past him and could even smell the cleanness of the air and the subtle smell of grass. Ahead of him something was approaching low to the horizon. A blue-winged dragon was flying toward him. A large glowing sword appeared in his hand and he was momentarily disoriented. He forgot himself and tried to unsheathe his real Tessaiga instead of using his virtual sword.

 

“Oops,” he thought. However, he realized that since he was in human form, even if he had yelled out a “Kaze no Kuno” the Tessaiga still wouldn't cause any damage. Tonight was his human night and the Tessaiga was asleep. He could use the new `sacred sword' that Kagome had given him tonight, but he figured it was just a waste of time and money. He would make extra sure that Kagome never left her shrine while he was fully human. The pit of his stomach heaved slightly at the thought and he took it out by swinging the virtual sword at the dragon that had landed right next to him. He even jumped and the virtual figure he was impersonating jumped as well. As he sliced he noticed how the virtual sword looked like his fully transformed Tessaiga. He smiled to himself and thought, “This is going to be fun!” With several leaps and slices the Dragon that had appeared on screen fell to the ground and disappeared as 1,000 points leapt up from the dragon's body and added themselves to his score.

 

“Take that!” he yelled as he held his stance and prepared for the next monster to appear. Just as a group of mindflayers started to wander across the screen he heard his cell phone ring and Kagome's characteristic ring tone started to play. “I want to change the world…” jingled from his cell phone.

 

“Damn,” he yelled as he pressed a button to pause the virtual game. Though he was a little upset to have his game interrupted, he was happy to know that Kagome was thinking about him.

 

He tried to make his voice sound as smooth and sexy as possible, “Miss me already, koi?”

 

He wasn't prepared for Kagome's panicked voice on the other end of the cell line, “Inuyasha! It's Naraku. He has Hojo! I'm leaving to meet him at the Torii gates of my shrine. Use the GPS to locate me. My cell phone has a GPS on it.”

 

Her panicked voice gave rise to his own panic and his heart started to race. “What! Kagome! You can't leave the shrine at night! I forbid it! Wait for me!” he yelled.

 

Her voice lost an edge to her panic as she continued. “They'll kill him in one more minute if I don't show up. I love you, Inuyasha. See you soon.” He heard her cell phone click shut.

 

“Dammit!” he screamed as ran out of the virtual game booth. He was about to leap out of the arcade onto the nearest building so that he could get to her home as fast as possible. Then it hit him that he was a normal human tonight. No special abilities, no extra strength, no ability to leap from building to building, no special healing abilities, no increased sense of smell or sight. “I'm a fucking, normal human,” he thought. “Shit!” he yelled as he ran down the streets of downtown Tokyo and tried to call Kagome on her cell phone again and again. Her phone only rang, she wasn't answering…

 

“Damn!” he yelled again as the human masses on the streets of Tokyo looked at the youth with long black hair, hakama pants and two swords strapped to his side. The crowds naturally parted as the young man came barreling down the sidewalks. As he ran he thought that there were probably only a few people who could help him right now. He grimaced as he talked to his cell phone, “Call Sesshomaru”, he intoned as the phone started to ring in his ear.

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Inuyasha was panicking and breathing heavily when he finally made it to the steps of the Higurashi Sunset Shrine five minutes later. He looked up the steps to see Mrs. Higurashi crying into her apron under the Torii gates.

 

“Higurashi-san,” he said breathlessly. “Where is Kagome? What happened?”

 

Mrs. Higurashi sobbed and then stood up next to Inuyasha. She put a single wrinkled hand up against his chest. “You need to find Kagome, Inuyasha! You need to get her! She's been kidnapped.”

 

“What happened? She mentioned Naraku had kidnapped Hojo,” he asked. It was hard for him to maintain his composure when his senses were in `fight or flight' mode.

 

“Hojo kidnapped?” asked Mrs. Higurashi in confusion. “No, Hojo was the one carrying Kagome away. He was the kidnapper.”

 

“Hojo kidnapped Kagome?!” Inuyasha murmured in sudden confusion.

 

Mrs. Higurashi continued, “But he was also with some beings that looked demonic. There was a man with red eyes, long black hair and something that looked like tentacles coming from his back. Then there was another woman with red glowing eyes and she made a huge feather expand in front of us. Hojo and the woman with demon eyes took Kagome away into the sky.”

 

“What direction?” asked Inuyasha. Mrs. Higurashi tried to compose herself before pointing eastward into the sky.

 

“Damn. I have to wait for Sesshomaru to help track her. Kagome mentioned a GPS? She has a receiver on her cell phone?” asked Inuyasha.

 

“Yes, we bought her one of those cell phone's with a GPS transmitter on it so that we could always find out where she was. Souta is getting the coordinates now,” added Mrs.Higurashi.

 

Inuyasha was suddenly grateful for modern technology and for their paranoid foresight. They had always been overly protective of Kagome and it had riled him in the past. Now he only felt grateful.

 

“I have it! Inuyasha!” yelled Souta who was bounding toward them with a thin laptop in his hands. “I've already punched in the codes for Kagome's cell phone. As long as she keeps it with her we can find out where she is.” Souta brought out a laptop that was almost as thin as aluminum foil and pointed to the screen which had a map of Tokyo laid out. Inuyasha noticed a red triangular blip that was making it's way across the screen.

 

“Shit! How fast are they going?” he asked as he noticed the triangle rocketing towards the east.

 

“They appear to be moving at about 100 km/hour,” answered Souta. “They must still be airborne. Ummm...why aren't you going after them now Inuyasha? And why is your hair so black?”

 

Inuyasha sighed, “Of all of the nights to strike Naraku choose tonight. He must have known. This is my night of weakness Souta. The night I am human.”

 

“Oh Kami!” said Mrs. Higurashi in a sob. “He planned it well didn't he?”

 

“Inuyasha! Higurashi-san, Higurashi-sama!” yelled a voice.

 

Inuyasha turned to see Miroku and Sango bounding out of a car and running up the steps of the shrine.

 

“Thank the Kamis you are here,” said Inuyasha. “We have to wait for only one person now.”

 

“Who would that be?” asked Sango with her sais and a sword strapped to her side.

 

“I think that would be me,” responded an icy voice.

 

Mrs. Higurashi gasped as she first caught sight of the demon lord in all of his unconcealed grandeur. Icy golden eyes glared down at her and she felt a need to step back. He looked like royalty and it was not just because of his appearance. His very bearing, the very way he stood screamed that he was an aristocrat and certainly not someone to be toyed with. He stood tall and regal in his elaborate kimono and his long, flowing, silver hair. His impassive face bore a crescent moon on his forehead and purple stripes along his cheeks. On his chest was spiked armor and around his waist was a long yellow and purple obi. Then between his folded arms was something that looked like a yellow and black striped kitten.

 

Mrs. Higurashi looked up at the demon's stoic eyes. Even though she felt that she needed to fear him, the desire to beg him to help her daughter was stronger. “Please save my daughter, Kagome, please,” she begged.

 

The demon lord nodded and then turned to Inuyasha. “Son, do you know where Kagome went to?”

 

“Son?” asked Mrs. Higurashi and Souta in unison.

 

The demon let out a small chuckle as Inuyasha pointed to the laptop computer screen. “Eastward. She has a GPS homing device on her. We can follow it.”

 

The demon lord bent down and put the kitten on the ground. “Kira transform!” he commanded. Suddenly the small kitten changed into a ferocious tiger-like cat with fangs and fire that sprang from her paws. “You two,” he ordered as he pointed to Miroku and Sango. “You can ride Kira.”

 

Miroku gulped and Sango simply walked over to Kira in awe. They both started to mount the beast and were soon seated properly on its back.

 

“Humph. Get on,” he ordered to Inuyasha.

 

“Get on?” asked Inuyasha.

 

The demon lord grabbed Inuyasha and held him unceremoniously by his juban collar. “You can grab onto this pelt,” he said as he flung the long pelt behind him.

 

Inuyasha almost didn't grab the pelt in time as the demon lord took to the sky in a mist of clouds.

 

The sight was rather bizarre to see a man in a formal kimono flying away into the sky while Inuyasha was dangling behind him clutching onto his white pelt. And then to add to the bizarre image, Sango and Miroku were following with wide eyes as a fiery demonic cat took to the sky after the demon lord.

 

“She'll be OK, mother,” said Souta. “Inuyasha will make sure she's alright. He always rescues her…”

 

Mrs. Higurashi took a deep breath. “Yes, Souta…please bring her back to us, Inuyasha,” she asked to the night air. Then Souta put an arm around his mother and directed her back to their shrine to wait.

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On the eastern side of Tokyo Kagura landed with her two charges next to an abandoned building. They were in the warehouse district near the ports of Tokyo Bay. “In there,” directed Kagura as she pointed to the dilapidated building.

 

Hojo stepped away from the large feather that had carried them across Tokyo with Kagome in his hands. She was feather-light in his arms. Hojo could only assume that his half-demon powers had given him extra strength. He looked down at the girl nestled against him. The moonlight was shining down on her making her face and hair glow with ethereal beauty. Her long black eyelashes were like shadows on her eyelids and her perfect rose-like lips looked infinitely kissable.

 

“Kagome,” he murmured as he brushed one finger against her cheek and then moved his finger down to trace an “O” against her slightly parted lips. “I've always loved you Kagome, always.” He leaned against her to kiss her gently on the lips. The kiss seemed to have no effect as Kagome laid there limply in his arms.

 

Kagura humphed as she spoke, “Well, bring her into the building, Romeo.”

 

Hojo was momentarily taken out of his reverie as Kagura gestured to a door that was hanging off of its hinges.

 

“Yes, you are right,” murmured Hojo as he carried Kagome's body in bridal style. He walked past the broken door and into a dimly lit warehouse. It was large, cavernous and was strewn with broken parts and layers of dust. Parts of the ceiling had already caved in long ago and the only light you could see were beams of moonlight that fell from the sky, cascading down into the dusty interior.

 

Once Hojo's eyes adjusted to the interior of the warehouse he could make out Naraku standing in the corner near some very large writhing demonic shapes.

 

“What are those?” asked Hojo as he shrugged a shoulder towards the large shapes behind Naraku.

 

“Just the demons that I need to make the spell complete,” said Naraku with a sly smile.

 

“Why do you need demons to cast a spell to make Kagome mine?” asked Hojo in confusion.

 

“Do you want to have Kagome and live forever by her side?” asked Naraku.

 

“Yes, of course,” answered Hojo.

 

“Then do not ask me any questions and stand there next to the demons,” said Naraku as he pointed at the writhing shapes behind him.

 

Hojo gulped and then steeled his resolve to do exactly as Naraku had ordered. As he approached the demonic shapes he was relived to see the slithering forms weren't attacking him, but their red and green glowing eyes were looked at him hungrily.

 

“Did you bring us sustenance?” asked one demon who slithered like a large worm with a cat-like face.

 

“A human girl. Delicious,” intoned another demon that looked more like a squid, but with the gaping jaws of a spider.

 

“No you can't have her. She's mine,” said Hojo defensively.

 

“You want the human girl?” questioned one demon.

 

“That's because he's a half-demon,” added another demon shape.

 

“It's better to just eat the humans,” said another demon. “They are quite tasty and there are too many humans around as it is. Just think of it as population control,” said one as his mouth started to widen.

 

Hojo held Kagome to him with one hand and shoved his other hand out to block the imminent attack from the demon. He was surprised to see spider like thread erupting from his hand and encircling the demon in a tight vise.

 

“What?” asked Hojo as he stared at his own demonic hand.

 

“Enough!” screamed Naraku. “I need all of you in one piece for the spell to take effect”

 

“Yes, the spell,” answered the worm-like demon. “The one to make us powerful and to live forever.”

 

“No, that's not the spell,” answered Hojo with a sense of dread that was forming in his guts. “He was to cast a spell that would give me Kagome forever.”

 

Naraku laughed maliciously. “Ku ku ku, oh my spell will answer both of your wishes. You only need to wait.”

 

“Wait? Wait for what?” asked Hojo suspiciously.

 

“He means that you must wait for me,” answered a dark shape that slowly walked in through the broken doorway and entered the warehouse.

 

Next Chapter: The new villain is revealed and Naraku's spell takes effect…

 

Special Thanks to Theleb K'aarna who was my Beta for this chapter.

 

 

The Contest Continues:

 

OK folks. The contest continues since no one has made the correct guess so far. The contest is to guess who the next canon villain will be in this story. So it's not Kanna. I know, Kagura showed up so everyone was expecting Kanna. Well, let's see…I'll put little 10-year-old albino Kanna in an orphanage. She'll grow up, dye her hair cotton candy pink and join a rock band called `Naraku's Minions' as the bass player. There you go! Kanna gets a happy ending! :-)

 

Umm…so where was I? Yes, the contest continues. If you can guess the next canon villain who will show up you get the next unedited chapter before everyone else. Only one guess per reviewer please…

 

Author's Notes:

#1: Inuyasha has finally ended! The manga just ended with chapter 558! I don't want to spoil the ending for you, but please go and read it for yourself. Do a Google search for One Manga and look up the last chapter. Sob! Sob! The manga is now all over!

#2: As I mentioned earlier, this story is entering its final arch. I don't know how many more chapters I will write, but we're getting closer to the end.

 

Special thanks to the following reviewers:

Sofiakalaughable: Ah, sorry. No Kikyo in this story. Kagome and Kikyo's soul are the same in this story.

Blackdeathmessenger: I know, everyone thought it was going to be Kanna. But no, it's someone else. Care to try another guess?If you can't come up with a story idea, I can help you brainstorm.

Tsukihime nee: No sorry, no Kanna. Try another guess. I'm glad that you like the story though.

Inulover4ever: I'm gladthat you like the twists. I was just letting one thing fall naturtally after the next. I guess it helped that I hadn't read any other reincarnation stories before I started to write this one.