InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Heart & The Only One Who Can Save Him ❯ Chapter Seventeen ( Chapter 17 )

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The two humans made their way up toward the castle that loomed in the horizon.
The man, his short hair moving slightly as his head turned and leaned down to be able to look upon his mistress. He was a good foot or two taller than the woman and he wore garb which signified he was close in power to the lord and lady.
“I take it the meeting went well?” the man asked.
“Yes Naito, it went much better than I expected anyway.” Lady Tori said as he unseeing eyes scanned the area as they passed.
“Did you find out when the attack will be?” Naito questioned.
“Yes, however I feel that the time Lord Sesshomaru estimated will be inaccurate. I voiced that I had a strong feeling that it will be much shorter than the week and a half to two that he said.” Tori replied.
“How can you tell?” Naito questioned, curious as to why his Lady would question the Lord’s assumption.
“Well, for one the rise in demon activity in our region the past few months and what is now going on the North.” said Tori.
“I see.” came Naito’s response.
“So has everything really been in chaos while I was gone?” Tori questioned, “And has someone been taking care of Kage for me?”
“I have been taking care of him personally milady.” Naito said, his chest puffing out slightly with importance. “the servants wouldn’t go near him, so I took care of him. We didn’t quite get along at first but I think he accepts me now.”
Tori laughed, she knew how hard her companion could be, and the fact that he was at least ¼ demon didn’t sit well with most, but hearing that he and her most trusted friend had gotten along in her absence reassured her. “Well I’ll go see Lord Sayo and relieve him of his temerity post so he may go and rest up a bit.”
“I’m sure he’d appreciate that, he’s been anxiously awaiting your return.” commented Naito as he bowed slightly, then turned to look at the top of a set of giant wooden doors that blocked their entrance.
“Oi, open the doors already, the lady has returned.” Naito shouted to two guards hidden behind a few stone blocks, their job was obviously not being done seeing as how the gigantic doors were still closed shut.
“Sorry milady, many apologies.” came the squeaky reply from one of the guards.
“That’s quite all right.” came Tori’s response as her and her companion made their way through the castle in search of the young lord.
Running at a rather brisk pace was a small woman, maybe to be around the age of fourteen or fifteen, her height not even reaching five feet yet. Her chestnut hair billowed behind her as she ran, her apron she wore over a faded pink dress ruffling as she ran.
“Milady…” She panted, the run tiring her out. “I have awaited your arrival, we must see to some business.”
Tori’s foggy gaze looked over toward where the voice had come from and replied, “Chiri? What business do I have to attend to so soon upon my arrival, I have yet to grace the lord with my presence.”
The young woman composed herself and stared pleadingly with her auburn eyes, “ Milady, it is of matters regarding what is to arrive at the castle very soon.”
Tori’s eyes widened with realization, “Yes, I will find the lord and then meet you in the east wing, will that due?”
“Yes milady.” came Chiri’s response as she bowed before the young woman and turned on her heal, reatreating from where she had emerged.
“If you do not mind my asking Lady Tori,” Came Naito’s voice from the left of her, his eyes holding a sense of suspicion, “What matters must you and Miss Chiri attend to?”
“Oh.. She just requested I talk with Lord Sayo about getting some new supplies for her to use, you know she said she was running low and I fear we may need them very soon.” Came her reply, waving a hand to signal no more questions were to be asked on the matter and that she wanted to continue on.
“Yes Milady.” replied Naito as he led Tori to a large set of magnificently carved oak doors and opened then to reveal the young lord sitting on a bench toward the center of a gigantic garden.
“Thank you Naito, that will be all.” Said Tori as she watched Naito bow and retreat to oversee the other parts of the castle.

A young man sat in the center of a large garden located off to the east side of the castle. He sat with his head in his hands, his indigo eyes staring out across a small pond located about a few feet from his position. His short sandy hair moving slightly as gentle spring breezes passed, playing with the short locks. His pointed elf ears hearing footsteps approaching and said, “I was wondering if you were ever going to get back.”
Two slender arms wrapped around his neck as Tori replied, “Well Sayo, it took longer than I expected, there was a lot to talk about you know.”
Grabbing Tori by the wrists, Sayo turned around and pulled the young woman into his lap in one fluid motion. “And what exactly did you talk about?”
“Well, for one we discussed what our course of action was to be against Naraku.” Tori replied, looking lovingly into her lord’s eyes. “But I fear the battle is approaching sooner than we had anticipated.”
“What do you mean?” Sayo looked concerned, “You didn’t get another vision again did you?”
“No Sayo, just a feeling.” Tori replied, she had told the lord of her visions, however she neglected to inform him of the cause.
“Well what did the lords have to say?” questioned Sayo curiously.
“Well for one Kane and Koji say hi.” Tori said, laughing slightly, “And from then Lord Sesshomaru began to go into detail on how we were going to go about killing Naraku.:”
“So what’s the game plan?” inquired Sayo.
“Well, we are too meet up with Lord Sesshomaru, Kane and Koji with our army in about a week to a week and a half, however I want our men ready to go in ½ that time.” stated Tori, “And I want you to talk to the demons to see if they will be of any aid or if I need to take care of it.”
Sayo laughed, “For a blind person you sure do talk big.”
After the last words left his mouth his was on the ground in a flash. There he was on the ground with Tori above him, startling his waist with two throwing stars pressed against his throat.
“You were saying?” Tori said, raising an eyebrow.
“I take it back, I take it back!” Sayo exclaimed.
“thought so.” Tori retorted, placing her weapons back in their pouch and rising from her position atop Sayo to sit on the bench.
Sitting up, folding his legs to sit Indian style, Sayo asked, “So I imagine you want me to go and inform the troops then?”
“Yes, have them ready to go as soon as possible.” Tori said, rising to leave the enclosed garden.
“Where are you going?” Sayo asked.
Tori froze, turned slowly to look at the young man on the ground who was now giving her a suspicious look.
“To see Chiri, she wanted to ask me about something.” Tori blurted out.
Sayo raised an eyebrow, “Okay, well I’ll go talk to the troops but I’m not to sure the demons will listen to me.”
“Why not?” Tori asked.
“they don’t’ take to kindly to my kind you know.” Shot Sayo.
This was true, unlike Hanyou’s who have amazing demon abilities, Sayo was only ¼ demon. He only had a few qualities as well as strength, but only slightly stronger than a humans.
Tori gave him a soft look, “Don’t worry you’ll be fine.”
“IF you say so.” Whispered Sayo under his breath.
“And I do.” Said Tori happily, walking over toward the young man and brushing against his lips teasingly.
“I wish you wouldn’t do that.” Sayo said, “You know we can’t do that here.”
Tori smiled, “I know.”
Turning, she made her way out of the garden and heading toward east wing and off to find the young woman who’d approached her earlier.

She came to a room on the east wing, she knew this was where Chiri was because of the strong sent of medicine, and she didn’t need demon senses to tell either.
“Hello milady.” said Chiri as she looked up as the figure of her mistress came through the door. “Lets get down to business shall we.”
“Yes,” Tori said, her expression becoming serious. “How much more time do I have?”
“I’d say about a week or so.” said Chiri thoughtfully, then gasped, “You didn’t walk all the way to the Western Lands in your condition did you?”
“Oh heavens no.” responded Tori, “Lord Sesshomaru lent me his two headed dragon and it dropped me off a short distance away from the castle.”
“Good,” Chiri sighed, “Now I need you to remove your cover spell. It’s amazing Lord Sayo hasn’t discovered what’s going on, but we’re almost home free now.”
“Yeah.” Tori said, reaching for a slip of paper she placed on her back under her shirt.
“You haven’t told him yet have you?” Chiri asked, “Milady, he has a right to know.”
“I know but,” Tori said sadly, “I’ve foreseen what is to happen and it must be done. Years from now there will be another threat and the people of that time will need Sayo’s help. If he’s worried about me the whole time, he is in greater danger of getting killed and I can’t let that happen.”
“I understand, so he is not to know until he returns from the battle?” came the down heartened voice of the young woman, “Just know you will be missed.”
“yes.” Tori stated, removing the spell and revealing her true shape. She till looked the same only her stomach was extremely large for a normal woman.
‘He isn’t to know about this,’ Tori thought, ‘He is not going to know I’m pregnant, not yet anyway.’

The room was silent with only two people currently occupying it. A small puddle of blood had accumulated around the couple as one was lying on the floor, his head positioned in the females lap while the said female was slouched over resting her head on his chest.
The mans blue eyes opened to see the unconscious form of the woman he loved resting over him. Wrapping an arm around her protectively, he rose to a sitting position, his wounds almost completely healed as he rested the young woman in his lap and began to stroke her hair lovingly.
Her deep grey eyes fluttered open as she noticed she was no longer sitting. Shooting up she noticed the man before her as conscious and she whispered, “Koji….”
Koji wrapped his arms protectively and lovingly around the young woman as she launched herself into his arms and began to cry.
“I thought I had killed you…I was so afraid.” She said between sobs.
“Shhhh.” Koji cooed. “Everything’s going to be all right Artemis, relax. I’m okay. I told you I wasn’t’ going to die, I made a promise to you and I’m not going to break it.”
Artemis looked up into his azure eyes, her sobs subsiding. “I love you so much…”
She was interrupted as Koji leaned down and captured her lips in a heated kiss. They broke apart for a moment in need of air only to have Artemis return the favor.
“Just do me one favor.” Koji said once they had broken apart.
“Yeah?” said Artemis, tilting her head to the side.
“the next time you try to kill me, aim for the organs that aren’t too important.” Koji laughed, but stopped when he noticed the hurt look on Artemis’ face.
“I didn’t mean anything by it Artemis.” Koji said, pulling her into another embrace, running his hand in circles on her back. His hand went over the spot where the tainted shard was embedded and it began to glow a soft pink tint.

The moon was high in the sky now, it’s almost full form shining down on the quite villages of Feudal Japan. The villagers fast asleep in their huts as the last of the lights went off.
The sky began to fill with unnatural white orbs as long light blue demons began to fly up and capture them. The figure of a priestess emerged from a dense part of the forest, her cold brown eyes trained on a hut at the base of a set of stairs, a large red shrine gate hovering above it.
The woman was dressed in the traditional garb befitting for a priestess, her ebony tresses flowing behind her from their tied position in the back. As she neared the village, the strange demons followed her, dropping the orbs towards her as they merged with her cold body.
“It’s time InuYasha.” She whispered, her voice as cold as ice.