InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Heart Blood and Soul ❯ What's the plan? ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 7 -What's the plan?-
Emotions crashed on the youkai as he tried to escape the distractions. Anger was the most prominent feeling he was getting at the moment, that and fear. It was intoxicating him, he never experienced fear before and now that it was running through his veins he was getting annoyed.

Inuyasha blocked his way again, crashing tetsusaiga with dokkasou but he had to pull it back when the poison started to seep onto his blade. He felt bad for all the times he said Ryu couldn't handle the sword and that he should work harder, 'if I trained him anymore he'd have killed me by now,' he thought as he finally overpowered him enough to get a clean sweep in, knocking Ryu back and into a tree.

Kagome ran to Ryu's side the second he landed, "he's coming back to himself," she sighed, "thank kami."

Matsu stood still before looking at Shippo, "give me the jewel. It will be safe at the temple."

Shippo shook his head, "no it won't be, Kag-mama's the guardian of the jewel and it'll be safest with her. The jewel isn't going to be taken from us. We will return it Matsu, so don't worry your lecherous head off," Matsu merely looked at Shippo as if he was slightly insane.

"My lecherous head? I'm not a lecher," he protested, not catching the hidden meaning.

Ookami was looking in the direction Naraku headed with longing but was holding himself back, "don't we need a plan? I mean Kagome can see the jewel, great, just fucking great but that won't help us if Naraku's already killed Kaida."

"He wouldn't kill his own mate," Inuyasha said, "right now Naraku has two things against us, and he knows it. He'll use that to his advantage, just like he did with Kohaku. When we fight him, not only will we be fighting Sango and Rin, but Kaida as well," he looked at Ryu, "the first thing that needs to be done is get Toutosai to make dokkasou able to control Ryu's blood like tetsusaiga does for me."

Kagome sighed, "which means we have to go find him," she pushed Ryu's white hair out of his face, "and so our journey begins," she said with fake enthusiasm.

Inuyasha wanted to sneer but held his impulse back, "we can defeat with Naraku but we need to take precautions with some of us turning youkai, we injured him enough," Kagome cut him off.

"He'll just get a new body. This one didn't have many youkai fused with it. We don't have many youkai in our time, none that are strong."

Ryu stirred slightly drawing attention from everyone, Ookami looked once more in the direction that Naraku had headed before running to his friends side, helping him sit up. Shippo was by his brother's side as well. Inuyasha sighed and started looking around. Kagome noticed his distraction and after making sure Ryu was stable enough she was at her mate's side.

"Inuyasha what's the matter?"

"I'm looking for that damn flea. The danger is gone so he should be back here. We'll need him to find Toutosai."

"Can't we just go to Sesshomaru's that much faster? He's not out to kill us you know."

"It's not that I'm worried about, I'll just probably slip that Naraku is back. Sesshomaru has too many problems."

"What kind of problems?" she asked wanting to know what might stop Sesshomaru from helping them.

Inuyasha hesitated before finally giving up, "Rin use to be human. He mated with her, she's now a youkai, but some of his enemies, people against his reign, are holding it against him to question his power. Like they did with my father and mother."

"Except Rin is youkai?" Kagome asked as they stopped in a clearing.

"Hai, she chose to be youkai. My mother chose not to become youkai."

"Did I have that choice?"

He looked at her slightly hurt, "would you have chosen to be human, if I told you, you could have chosen?"

"Of course not, just when we mated you made it seem I didn't have a choice."

"Not if you didn't want to be my mate. I could have marked you, demo you couldn't have marked me. Therefore others could have claimed me," he said looking around, "Myouga is close."

Just as he said that Kagome felt the familiar bite in her skin and she grabbed the bug off of her neck, "I found him."

Inuyasha took his informant and squeezed him, "do you know where Toutosai is?"

Myouga gasped for breath, "if you let me go, I'll be able to inform you with much more ease."

Inuyasha sighed and put him on his shoulder, he needed this information, "get on with it flea."

"Well Toutosai is where he was last time. Near a volcano, so he has enough rock and fire to make swords."

"That would be where exactly?" Inuyasha asked, "Western lands, where?"

"The Northern lands Inuyasha-sama. You should be able to find him quickly enough when you get close enough."

"You will be accompanying us. Our first stop though is back to Kouga and Tama's. They would be an extremely valuable ally."

Kagome was nodding, "we better go back. I should hold onto the jewel, ne?"

Inuyasha sighed, "if Matsu hasn't taken it back already yep. You should."

"Will Miroku-san's grandson be joining you on your quest?" Myouga asked from Inuyasha's shoulder.

"No, he will stay and protect the village from stupid youkai thinking the jewel is still here. No need dragging him into this fight. Miroku and Sango had a reason to be angry and want to fight Naraku, he doesn't. I'd rather not bring him," he paused, "Kagome can you make it seem like that the jewel is still in the village? We don't want youkai knowing it's missing."

"I think so," Kagome answered.

Kagome and Inuyasha skidded to a stop in the clearing where Ryu now stood supported by Shippo and Ookami. Kagome approached them and reached her hand out, "Ryu, me and your father need dokkasou."

"Why?" he questioned trying to lift his head to look at them, but the strength he put out while as a youkai was taking a massive toll on him.

"We're going to fuse it with one of your teeth so that it will control your youkai blood."

"Oh," he sighed, "alright. Just let me get some sleep," his knees gave way and he collapsed, or would have if not for Ookami catching him and heaving him up.

"I'll bring him back to the cave. I don't think he had much sleep last night."

Inuyasha nodded as he picked up dokkasou so Kagome and he could take it to Toutosai, "koishii, could you get a fang from Ryu? You can catch up with me."
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Kagome reached Inuyasha at Kouga's cave just as they were exiting to go south towards their village. Kagome was given a quick hug from Tama and a look of reassurance from Kouga before Inuyasha and her ran to where hopefully Toutosai resided.

The place was just as Myouga said, right near a volcano. Inuyasha came to the cave and looked into it, "hey Toutosai! You in there?"

The old man walked outside and looked at Inuyasha, "Inuyasha, what may I do for you? Last time you were time it was with that brother of yours, oh hello, who are you?" he asked regarding Kagome with interest as to who could be willing to join the testy hanyou.

"I'm sure you remember Kagome, she is my mate," Inuyasha said annoyed at the man already, "can we just get to the point as to why I'm here?"

Toutosai looked at Inuyasha before attempting to hit him with his flaming hammer. Inuyasha blocked with tetsusaiga, "listen old man! I don't have time for this! Naraku's back, he's mated my daughter, my son needs dokkasou to control his youkai blood, and to top my rotten day all off, I had to go find your stubborn ass after fighting my possessed daughter and then my youkai son!"

Toutosai dropped his hammer and took dokkasou from Kagome's hands, "give me the fang and I'll see what I can do."

"Arigato," Inuyasha said before sitting down.

One meal and three arguments later Inuyasha and Kagome left Toutosai with the sword fixed to calm the youkai blood inside Ryu. They both stopped outside the cave when the sound of arguing came to their ears.

"Ryu! You can't leave!" Tama tried to reason.

"Why not?! I don't see the point of you waiting around for mom and dad to return! Kaida's gonna be broken by the time we find her at this pace!" Ryu shouted back.

"You can't do anything tonight, neither can your father so it doesn't matter," Kouga said with what seemed mild interest.

Inuyasha slapped his forehead, "oh shit, I forgot. Tonight is the new moon." That statement made Kagome's eyes go wide in fear.

"You mean we'll turn human tonight?"

"Let me guess, Naraku can't get ahold of her when she's human so when he decides to 'comfort' his mate she'll be aware of what he's doing?" Inuyasha demanded.

"No, he still has control it's just, that means we have to wait a whole night when we could be heading out! Naraku will get ahead of us," Kagome said looking helpless.

Inuyasha walked into the main room and handed Ryu his sword as he felt the changes start. All of the hair turned black, and the mens' eyes changed to violet. Their ears came down to the side of their heads and the senses dulled. Kagome sighed and entered after her transformation had completed, looking just like the human she once was.

"So, now that we have step one complete, what's step two?" she asked restocking the fire.

"Well, you can see the jewel, and we can all smell Naraku. I bet tomorrow he's going to get a new body, if he hasn't done so already. His moves are too predictable, since he doesn't have many," Inuyasha said sitting down crossed leg next to Kagome.

"Which means until we defeat all his bodyguards and deal with his traps, we won't get to fight Naraku personally," Kouga said clenching his teeth, "are they like Kagura or Kanna?"

Kagome looked at him before knowing who he was talking about, "no, do you remember, Kohaku? Sango-chan's deceased brother?" With Kouga's nod Kagome continued, "that's how I would compare them. They aren't his offspring. It's Sango and Rin, just with evil in their hearts."

Ookami stood up and walked into his room, where he and his parents would share that night. It smelled like Kaida, except tainted, "how'd Naraku get into your mind? I though my presence stopped him," he sighed, "or was the fight we had the only opening he needed?"

Tama watched her son berate himself in a silence that only now her, Kouga and Shippo could hear. She turned her thoughts away from him and studied what options they had. Not knowing what Naraku would do next, while he had a direct connection through Kaida to Ryu. She stopped, "Ryu. He's the answer."

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