InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ InuYasha Transformed ( Chapter 18 )

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Chapter 18: InuYasha Transformed

 

InuYasha was getting closer, he could feel it. Kagome's and Suoh's scents were getting stronger. He was panting from the run. He, InuYasha, was starting to lag behind. Miroku and Sango were easily running next to him now. Every muscle in his body ached, screamed at him for making him go further. He and the others came to a halt in from of a large cave, sealed at the entrance with grey stones and a large wooden door. InuYasha didn't hesitate pulling Tetsusaiga from its scabbard and aiming it to the door, breaking the small pathetic barrier protecting it.

 

“InuYasha, look out!” he turned to see what the exterminator was yelling about, only to be met by a series of flying claws. He stumbled backward, avoiding most of the attacks. He rejoined Miroku and Sango, seeing for the first time two youkai that stood between him and the cave entrance. Miroku readied his staff, Sango her Hiraikotsu.

 

“Kuma and Rini?” InuYasha knew their names from the flea-youkai's description of them. Kuma, a bear-youkai, and Rini, a rabbit-youkai.

 

“Yes. Good to hear you know of us. Too bad we can't invite you in for drinks, but our master said doggies aren't allowed inside the castle.” Rini stood, completely confident in herself. Kuma stood back, not really looking like too much of a talker.

 

“Keh! Where's Kagome!?”

 

“Kagome? Oh, you mean that little miko the master dragged in? I must tell you, she looked as if she had seen better days.” The provoking was working. InuYasha's grip on Tetsusaiga tightened until his knuckles turned white.

 

The three friends leaped into the battle at the same time, Miroku and Sango attacking Kuma while InuYasha took on Rini himself. Her sword met with his, clashing and clanging again and again.

 

“I don't have time for this!” InuYasha yelled as Tetsusaiga once again missed its target. Miroku ran over from Sango's side, coming to a stop beside InuYasha and pulling out two Ofudas.

 

“InuYasha, these will only hold them back for a few seconds. Can you make it on your own inside for awhile?”

 

“Keh, of course, monk.” He turned his eyes to Miroku. “What about you and Sango? Can you two handle it out here?”

 

Miroku nodded. “I think so.” He raised one of the Ofuda. “Get ready.” He threw the ofuda at the rabbit-youkai. It made its mark and Rini screamed in pain. InuYasha ran past the youkai, using Tetsusaiga to demolish the wooden door before running into a long corridor inside the cave. When the entrance was well out of his view, he returned his sword to its place by his side and slowed his run. He sniffed the air, getting hold on Kagome's scent. She was somewhere below.

 

He made quick work of finding a staircase leading down to lower levels. Coming to another level, InuYasha sniffed, noting that Kagome was still further down. He did this several more times before finally settling with the fourth level below, which lead to another long corridor with doors on either side. And, at the end, stood Suoh.

 

“Ah. I see you have returned and come for your miko.” InuYasha's growl was louder and more fierce then it had ever been.

 

“WHERE IS SHE!?”

 

“She is there.” Suoh pointed to a room to InuYasha's right. InuYasha shifted over to the door, looking through the bared window. Relief and horror invaded his mind simultaneously as he looked over the miko. She was alive, her chest was rising and falling and InuYasha could hear her heartbeat from where he was standing. But she wasn't responding to anything, lying on the cool stone floor unmoving.

 

“Kagome?! Kagome?!”

 

“She will not wake. Her energy is dwindling as mine increases. Soon I will have all her energy, as well as yours.” InuYasha turned again to face the youkai.

 

“You will die for this.” A red tint flashed in InuYasha's eyes. “YOU WILL DIE FOR HURTING HER!”

 

“Temper, temper, half-breed. How can you have feelings for a creature this weak? Honestly, I wouldn't mind having her for myself; she is beautiful, as humans go. But having …feelings for her is below even the foulest youkai.”

 

“THAT'S ENOUGH!” he lunged, with every ounce of his strength, with all the emotion, the pain, the adrenaline pumping through his veins. He was completely willing to go as far as he needed to, but his body said otherwise. His attack came to no resolve; leaving him open to any attacks himself. Suoh took the opportunity, leaving gashing claws marks across the hanyou's face.

 

InuYasha once again made it to his shaky feet, not allowing the door to Kagome out of his sight.

 

“Hmm. You know what is even stranger than you having feelings for a miko?” he slung InuYasha's blood from his claws. “Well, it's that you had feelings for yet another miko that you have seemed to have forgotten even exists.”

 

InuYasha's blood ran cold. “Kikyo! Where is she!?” The youkai pointed to another door. InuYasha looked through the bared window as he had done with Kagome. “Kikyo?! Kikyo?!” The room reeked of death. It was too late for her. InuYasha turned to face Suoh.

 

“I'm afraid it is too late for you to watch her die. I was going to wait, but the younger miko needed the other half of her soul back for me to gain the full benefits of her powers.” He chuckled.

 

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!” InuYasha was furious. Kikyo was leaving anyway, he knew, but not like this. She wasn't supposed to die again. She was supposed to go back to where she belonged, not forced there by this youkai. She was supposed to have spent her last days in this realm in peace, enjoying the sights and sounds for the last time as a living being. But the youkai had taken that peace away from her. And using him to get Kagome to her full power, making her bleed, making her suffer. InuYasha had had enough. He wanted Suoh dead, he wanted to smell his foul blood spread everywhere in his own castle. Tetsusaiga pulsed in its scabbard, keeping InuYasha from going over the edge. But something inside of him had been shattered. Something inside of him wanted out, and Tetsusaiga was powerless to stop him this time.

 

His anger raged, Tetsusaiga continued to pulse under his strength. But it didn't help at all. InuYasha's claws extended as youkai marks spread across his face. His shadowed eyes turned from their normal golden color to a blood red. He was transforming, and he knew it, but didn't want it to stop. He wanted this; he wanted all the power that came with his transformation, he willed his youkai to take over. InuYasha beckoned on his raw rage, all his anger, his hatred,…his love. Suoh would pay for hurting Kagome and Kikyo. All he could hear was the thump, thump, thumping of his enemy's heart. The sound irritated him; like claws being scratch across a piece of metal; he wanted the noise to stop, he wanted to squeeze the heart until it stopped beating. The youkai's stench was now so strong InuYasha could taste his sweat. A foul taste that lingered on his tongue, almost making him gag out of his own frustration.

 

“Youkai? How did you…?” InuYasha was on him in seconds. His youkai blood pushing him all the way.

 

Protect mate! His human side, though faint, was also there. Protect Kagome! InuYasha nodded to himself. His human blood and youkai blood do not usually agree, but both sides agreed that Suoh was to be destroy, that Kagome was to be protected.

 

“InuYasha!” a tattered Miroku came running down to meet him, followed by Sango. InuYasha turned and growled, stopping the two in their tracks.

 

“InuYasha…” They took several steps back. Miroku placed his arms out in front of Sango. InuYasha's eyes and ears were now darting back and forth from his friends to Suoh.

 

“Let's get out of here, Sango. He's confused of who the enemy is, we would just get in his way.” Sango nodded and the two left once again. Now that the two intruders were gone, InuYasha completely focused on Suoh, growling deep in his throat as a sign for a challenge. The youkai stood unmoving. He hadn't anticipated the hanyou being able to transform to a full youkai as himself.

 

With the hanyou as a youkai, the odds were even, even with his added power. The fight with InuYasha would be primitive, but that fact also made InuYasha twice as strong. His youkai didn't care if it survived, as long as it comes out the victor. That must be why he allowed himself to transform. Suoh thought to himself. He looked to the door. The miko was his bargaining tool. He had to use that against the rampaging beast of a hanyou. But how to get to her?

 

Using his flexible body and speed he made it past the hanyou, not bothering to even open the door but just plowing it over. InuYasha leaped at Suoh, then stopped himself after seeing Kagome in his hands.

 

“Any closer, half-breed and she dies.” He pressed a claw against her throat, allowing a nick to let blood flow to show he meant business.

 

Mate, trouble! Must save mate! Must kill!

 

Kagome! I've got to save her!

 

“Let her go.” InuYasha spoke in his youkai form, a booming, deep, stern but calm voice.

 

“Not until I am granted safe passage.”

 

A smirk crossed his face as he let out an evil sounding cackle. “I won't allow you through, oh no, not now not ever. I'm going to enjoy watching you die, listening to your last pleading breaths. Now let her go.” Drawing even more blood from Kagome with his claw was Suoh's reply. InuYasha's eyes lit with anger. He lunged, too quick for even the dragon-youkai to keep up with. He had his claws latched onto Suoh's neck in seconds. Suoh, out of surprise, dropped the miko and grabbed at InuYasha. Suoh tossed him into the stone wall, slamming hard but quick to stand, unfazed by the hit but bruised.InuYasha then stood between Suoh and Kagome, arms spread in a protective stance.

 

“You're blood bonded with her.” Suoh looked surprised at how much the hanyou knew about his powers, especially in the primitive state he was in. “The only way to release the bond is to kill you.” It was true, once his blood entered a human, it would keep draining energy from his victim until one or the other was killed. He sprinted for the door, strong hands gripping his shoulders and slapping his back against the wall.

 

“You're not going anywhere.” InuYasha was so close to the youkai that Suoh was breathing in his exhalation. InuYasha's claws gripped Suoh's neck.

 

Kill! His youkai blood pleaded.

 

His human side hesitated. …kill…

 

One more swift movement, one more ounce of his strength. InuYasha gripped the now whimpering youkai with his hands, and in one fluid movement snapped his neck with an intimidating crack. He didn't take time to admire his kill, or get over the thrill that shot through him after he killed. His number one priority now was his chosen mate, his Kagome. He stalked over to where she lay crumbled on the floor.

 

She was cold to the touch, and very pale. His youkai listened to her heart beating, slower than normal but not fatally so. He then used his claws to shred the binding rope from her wrists, inspecting the cuts in the process. Again, he didn't like the fact that she was injured, but the wound was no where near fatal. InuYasha in his youkai form couldn't figure out why his chosen mate hadn't woken yet.

 

InuYasha sat down, pulling Kagome into his lap. He nipped lightly at her neck and shoulders with his fangs, trying a rouse her from her sleep. His youkai was starting to panic. He couldn't understand why she wasn't reacting, why she wouldn't wake, why she wouldn't even move under his touch. He let out a soft whine.

 

Mate needs help!

 

Help Kagome! Get her to the well, to Kagome's family!

 

Mate pack, get to mate pack.

 

He stood with Kagome in his arms, running down the corridor, up the staircase, and out the entrance.

 

“InuYasha?!” Miroku saw a crimson and silver flash coming from the wreckage of the door. He stopped, and growled at the two. “InuYasha, we need to help Kagome.” Miroku took a step closer.

 

InuYasha growl intensified, slinging his arms, still holding Kagome, behind him in a very protective stance. “Stay back.” That same deep, calm voice commanded. Miroku did as he said, backing up to stand with Sango and Kirara. InuYasha rounded them, making sure not to trap himself between the outer wall of the cave and the two intruders, then leaped away in the direction of the well.

 

“Come on Miroku!” Sango held out her hand from the transformed Kirara. He complied by grabbing hold and heaving himself up.

 

“Can Kirara make it?”

 

“Yes, I think so. Kirara healed quite a bit already. As long as he gets some rest later it should be fine.”

 

“Then lets go!”

 

 

A/N: Ooo.. never get a hanyou mad…

 

Recap: just to straighten out a few things

Suoh used Nishi's special curse to figure out the best person to kill in order to

Get Kagome to use the jewel, which ended up being our poor InuYasha.

After she used a pure wish on the jewel, Midoriku transferred the last of her

Powers to Kagome. That's was Suoh was counting on, and why he killed

Kikyou. The more complete Kagome's power was, the more pure power he

Could absorb. Kagome's lack of training at the time made it easier for him to

Do so.

 

I hope that helped some people out a bit. Thanks for all the review! And don't start to think that the story is over, because we still have a little ways to go. More FLUFF is on the way!