InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Heart & The Only One Who Can Save Him ❯ Chapter NineTeen ( Chapter 19 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

He stood outside of the cave, his arms crossed, his pale tresses swaying gently with the breeze as his penetrating blue eyes looked off toward the east as the form retreated toward the plains of Musashi. (did I spell that right? You all know the place where the bone eaters well is…if I got it wrong lemme know I‘m goin by what I heard in the 3rd movie….)It had been a trying day, he had tried to convince Artemis to stay with him, he told her that he’d protect her but she’d insisted that she go alone to the village that harbored the bone eaters well. Thinking back, he now realized it had something to do with Naraku and his plans for her.
“I need to leave soon Koji.” Artemis said, looking from her position at the mouth of the cave.
“Why?” Koji questioned, his blue eyes staring strait into hers, trying to gain some kind of answer, “Where are you going?”
“I need to go to the bone eaters well.” she said simply, her eyes full of pain.
Koji saw this and said, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, there’s just something I must do, I’ll be back as soon as I can.” Artemis said, absent mindedly reaching to touch the spot in her back where the shard was imbedded.
“I’ll go with you then.” Koji suggested.
“No I need to go alone.” Artemis said.
“At least take Shiizu or Taru with you.” Koji pleaded. “I want you to be safe.”
“I know but I want you to be safe also.” Artemis responded.
Koji walked toward his future mate, wrapping his strong arms around her small frame he said, “Why would you say something like that? You’re not going to do something dangerous are you?”
Turning around in his grasp, resting her head on the young leader’s shoulder she said, ’What I must do you aren’t to know about. Just have faith in me and I’ll be back as soon as I am able, all right?”
“I always have faith in you Artemis.” Koji whispered, leaning to look into her eyes. “and I trust you with my life.”
Leaning down, Koji captured her lips, pulling her as close as possible towards him. A few moments later they broke apart, the need for air making their lungs burn.
“I will return in about two days.” Artemis said, breaking his grasp she made her way out of the cave and headed to the east.
“I’ll hold you to that.” Koji called to her retreating form.
She simply smiled and waved, adjusting her armor to fit better as she walked, the faded image of a white wolf following close behind her.
“You do realize there’s not reason for you to be so worried Koji?” said the red headed wolf demon, she walked up beside him and placed a hand on his tense shoulder. “If I know my cousin, which I do very well, she won’t get into too much trouble or danger with out kicking some serious ass before hand. She’s tough, and I’m sure whatever she’s gotten herself into she can get out of it.”
“I’m not so sure about that Ayame.” replied Koji, “If you got mixed in with Naraku, would you be able to get out of it so easily?”
Ayame gasped, “What do you mean?”
“You couldn’t smell it on her?” Koji asked, turning his gaze to the young tribe leader, “Naraku’s foul stench was all over her. I have a bad feeling about this.”
“As long as the mutt doesn’t catch wind of her she should be fine.” came a deep voice from the mouth of the cave.
“That’s right, InuYasha and his group are in the village near that well aren’t they Koga?” Ayame asked.
“Yeah.” Came Koga’s response.
“Lord Koji!” came a shout from the inside of the cave as one of the guards emerged from the dark interior.
“What is it Taru?” asked Koji.
“Lady Artemis forgot this.” Taru said, out of breath as he lifted a rather old looking sword in a black sheath.
“Shit.” Koji cursed, knowing exactly what could happen if she didn’t have her sword and Naraku chose to attack her.
Taking the weapon he began to run in the direction he had seen the young woman go.
“You’re in charge of the den Ayame.” Koji shouted over his shoulder before his form was consumed by the trees of surrounding forest.
“She’ll get killed for sure if Naraku attacks.” Koji thought as he ran as fast as he was able toward the small village.

Kane walked down the halls of his castle, heading out to the main doors which led outside, he began to walk toward the training field he quite often used. Over the past couple of days, ever since he felt that strange sensation coming from the north, he felt as if something big was about to happen and he for one wanted to be prepared.
Reaching the top of a rather large hill, he looked down into the small valley below where he trained, one side surrounded with a thin layer of trees. In the small valley was a young woman, her black hair was pulled into a high pony tail, the tips a blazing red. Her fox-like ears twitched often as her orange, gold speckled eyes darting side to side as if looking for something. A throwing star was sent in her direction. Jumping out of the way to avoid it, her short black kimono which she used in training getting cut slightly from the narrow encounter.
Kane watched as his mate fought in the small clearing, waiting to see just who she was fighting against. He had seen her fight on several occasions and knew that if it came to a life or death situation, he wished he would not be the one fighting her. Watching her actions, he also couldn’t help but notice the skillful level of her opponent.
Breathing heavily, the young maiden called out to the small patch of trees, “That’s enough now, I’m done.”
Kane looked on in amazement as his mates opponent emerged from the line of trees. His jaw dropped when the figure approached his mate. There standing in front of her was a mirror image of herself. The two bowed and in a puff of smoke, the figure from the trees disappeared.
“Was there something you wanted Kane?” came the woman’s voice.
“Well I was going to train until I found you here before me.” Kane replied. “You take the sense ‘fighting with yourself’ way to literally don’t you Bakari?”
Bakari just glared at the young man before her, her hands on her hips, “Well you told all of the guards they weren’t to lay a hand on me and the others who do want to just want to kill me because I’m a half-breed, I can‘t win either way.”
“You should have come to me, I would have trained with you.” Kane said, reaching where his mate was standing.
“But you’ve been too busy to train me since you got back. All you’ve done is work with the armies.” Bakari pouted.
“Well I’m free now.” Kane said, leaning down to place a kiss on her cheek.
“But I just got done training, I’ve finished mine for the day.” Bakari said, looking up into the glowing red eyes of her mate. “And besides, it’s almost night, it’ll be too dark to train soon.”
“Well then you can help me train until the sun goes down, how about that?” Kane questioned.
“Fine.” Bakari said as they both headed to a rather tall tree with a thick trunk. Engraved on it was a silhouette of a wox. Kane reached a hand up and placed his palm over the mark. It began to glow an immense shade of red before engulfing the whole tree in fire. Soon, the fire began to reseed and then a four foot by six foot square was left in the thick trunk of the old tree, almost as if it had been burned out. Inside was an array of weapons, both two hand and throwing.
Kane reached in and firmly grasped his hand on the weapon he normally used in battle. Pulling out a large two handed sword, he brandished it before his mate. It was an obsidian color which from deep in the blade, more toward the center held a flame of fire, It blazed a brilliant shade of red, the brightest you’ve ever seen. His mate had tried to convince him to weald another weapon because it just seemed awkward to her that Kane weald a weapon that was larger than he was.
“Are you just going to stand there or are you going to get your weapon?” Kane asked, making his way back toward the other end of the field and taking a fighting stance.
“I’m going, just cool it.” Bakari said, “You seem to be so full of it today.”
She reached inside the trunk and pulled out two swords, almost identical to Kane’s only a great deal smaller. The blades were about four times thicker than a regular Katana swords’ but their actually length was the same as a normal swords. In all honesty, it looked more like the young hanyou was wielding two large scimitars, both of which blazed with the same flame as her mates’.
“Ready?” she asked the demon at the other end of the field.
“Yes.” Kane said, “Now are you sure you’re not too tired, if you are we can stop right now.”
“Now I know you’re getting too full of yourself.” Bakari said, raising her blades to attack her mate.
“The GO!” Kane shouted as he grabbed his sword with both hands and attacked the young hanyou.
Adjusting her stance to a defensive one, Bakari crossed her blades to block the oncoming attack of Kane’s two-hander.
The clearing echoed with the sound of clashing steal as the two continued with their mock fight.
Kane narrowed his eyes as he saw his mate disappear into relatively thin air. He looked around and couldn’t see hide nor hair of her. Dropping his guard slightly, he scanned the clearing, then snapped his head up to look above him as a figure came down at him.
Kane raised his sword and was able to narrowly block the attack of his mate.
“I thought you were good at anticipating moves Kane.” Bakari said slyly. “Yet you couldn’t tell I was going to come at you from above?”
“I dropped my guard for a moment, a costly mistake I admit.” Kane said, pushing away his mate, shrugging his shoulders, “Even I have my faults.”
“Really.” Bakari said sarcastically, twisting around and attacking Kane once again. “Never thought that for a moment.”
Kane chuckled slightly as their fight began to wind down, the sun setting below the horizon. “We better hurry this up don’t you think?”
“Yes I do.” Bakari said, standing upright and pulling something out of one of the pouches she kept at her waist.
Pulling out a grey sphere, she quickly tossed it toward the unsuspecting Kane, who raised his sword to counter the attack. It landed at the feet of the young lord and exploded, sending a thick cover of grey smoke around the demon.
Once the cover had been set, she pulled out five throwing knives from her back pouch and launched them toward the lord.
Kane, having no way of blocking them, jumped up from the fog, his sword protruding from the ground, surrounded in the layer of fog.
Landing behind the fog, Kane began to cough.
“That was a dirty trick Bakari.” Kane said between coughing fits.
No sooner had he said that was he pushed down to the ground, two edges of razor sharp blades pressed almost to his neck.
“Well, wasn’t you who told me that ‘All’s Fair In Love And War’?” Bakari said, thinking she had the upper hand in the situation.
“I also said that common sense is the best weapon against the enemy.” Kane said in a mater of fact tone, “That the cunning of a fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf…” He stopped his statement as he lifted his knee with great precision and speed, pushing the hanyou off of him. Taking his now free hands and knocking away her weapons, Kane pinned the now unarmed Bakari to the ground, leaning down to speak into her ear, “Now, how did the rest of that go?”
“And we ought to guard equally against both.” Bakari recited. (sorry guys…I thought that was a good place to put a Thomas Paine quote…get it? Common sense..oh well Kane‘ll explain it for ya.)
“Yes and sense I’m half wolf and half fox, I’m a force to be reckoned with.” Kane sneered.
“Show off.” Bakari muttered, turning to get up. “Well I’m done for the day.”
“So you’re saying you forfeit?” Kane asked, mock innocence in his voice.
“Yes, you win Kane.” Bakari said, as she retrieved her weapons as looked over toward her mate who was doing some absurd dance he always did when he won something.
“Honestly, you’re like such a little kit sometimes.” Bakari sighed as she made her way toward the castle.
“Hey…” Kane whinned, pulling he sword from the ground and fallowing his mate, waving a hand behind him to close the tree which housed their weapons.

Kage trotted along a dirt path toward a small patch of trees where Tori practiced her archery. Bending down as low as possible, Kage gave a soft whinny to signal Tori it was all right for her to dismount.
Slipping off, Tori pulled her bow and quiver from the back of Kage’s saddle and then patted his muzzle.
“Thank you Kage, you know you won’t have to be like this much longer.” Tori said sweetly. “The baby will be here any day now so you’ll have another little one running around here soon.”
Kage looked at her with his bright red eyes, nudging her hand with his large nose in understanding. Some how, he knew what was going through his companions mind, he had a feeling that she would not be around much longer.
Turning around, Tori faced the direction of her target and getting about twenty feet away, knocked an arrow and shot. Bulls eye.
She practiced shooting for a while until she heard someone clapping behind her.
“By Joe, I think she’s got it.” came the rough voice of a man standing next to Kage.
“Ha, ha. Very funny Sayo.” Tori said, looking back toward the man next to her companion, “You know I can shoot better than you.”
“This is true.” Sayo said as he made his way down toward the young woman. “But I’m much better with a sword than you are.”
“This is true.” Tori mocked as she turned and began to walk to meet up with her mate.
“I’m done training for the day, and I think the troops are ready and raring to go.” Sayo said, wrapping an arm around the young maiden and placing a soft kiss on her lips.
“That’s good, we’re going to need them sooner than we think.” Tori said, staring off into the distance away from her castle home and off toward the distant plains of the Musashi kingdom.
“I’m not going to even ask how you know these things.” Sayo sighed, knowing that somehow, his mate was right.
“What can I say.” Tori shrugged, “It’s a gift.”
Sayo gave a small laugh, “Whatever you say.”
“Are you going to go and talk with the demons again?” Tori asked, looking up into her mate’s eyes.
“I guess I’m gonna have to huh?” he said dejectedly.
“Yep.” Tori responded.
“I suppose, when should I go.” Sayo questioned.
“Honestly, the sooner the better.” Tori said, reaching Kage and mounting him.
“But you just got back.” Sayo whined. “It’s like you’re punishing me for something. I never get to see you any more these days.”
“And I’m sorry for that, I truly am.” Tori apologized, “But you know what needs to be done and how much work it takes to rule a land.”
“Yeah, and I only did it for a little over a week.” Sayo said.
“Well the sooner you go, the sooner you can come back.” Tori reasoned.
“Fine.” Sayo sighed, reaching up he grasped one of his mate’s hands, kissing it lovingly, “I’ll be back in no more than two days. I’ll just go and confirm some matters with the wood leader and come strait back all right.”
“That’s fine Sayo.” Tori said, bending down so she could kiss his hand in return. “Be safe.”
“I will.” Sayo said as he turned around and headed toward the forest and in deeper where the leader of the demons of the woods normally took shelter.
Tori placed a hand down over her stomach, she was glad Sayo had left because for a while she’d been feeling this awful pain shoot through her stomach, almost like someone was stabbing her. Then she felt it.
“Kage, run. Run back to the castle, hurry please.” Tori begged as she began to silently cry from her mount atop her companion, she needed to get Chiri in a hurry. It had finally happened, the young maiden’s water had broken.

Silence echoed through the clearing where Kikyou stood. The sound of her bow dieing down to but a soft vibration as the whole world witnessed what the hanyou transformed into a demon had just done.
As the arrow sped toward the injured reincarnation of the powerful priestess, InuYasha had gained control of his demon blood, yet it was too late to move Kagome out of the way.
Running as fast as his legs would carry him, which was a great deal faster due to his transformed state, he ran toward Kagome, shielding her from the powerful arrow heading toward her to end her life. The arrow connected with flesh and made a sickening thud as the body hit the ground, the stench of burn flesh in the air as the purifying arrow did it’s job on the hanyou.
Kagome could only sit there and watch as her hanyou was struck with the arrow.
“InuYasha.” Kagome said, tears building up in her eyes as she crawled the short distance to the fallen demon. Her gaze landed on his as she saw the red fade from his eyes and have them restored to their original resilient golden color.
Gently pulling the arrow out of his shoulder, she turned him so that he could lay his head in her lap. The wound in his back (shoulder area) was circled by a glowing pink outline as the residue from the arrow still lingered. Kagome had managed to get it out in time for the arrow to kill him.
“It’s a good thing you’re a hanyou huh?” Kagome said, tears streaming down her face, “If you were human that wound may just have killed you, even if it was suppose to purify you.”
InuYasha just gave a weak laugh as he looked up into Kagome’s deep brown eyes, his body beginning to glow a pinkish purple color, “I’m just glad you’re alright Kagome.”
Kagome shielded her eyes as the glowing began to get brighter, InuYasha fell unconscious. Once the glowing subsided, Kagome looked down to check on the hanyou. What she saw made her gasp. There in her lap was a black haired young man, no longer was InuYasha a hanyou but a human. Looking up toward the sky, searching the immense plane for the moon, she was utterly confused by her observations. InuYasha lay in her lap a human, yet the moon was almost full.
“It seems that my arrow didn’t kill him.” Kikyou’s cold voice came from the other side of the clearing, “More like only purified his demon half. But no matter, that wound he sustained will kill him if he doesn’t get it treated soon.”
“You make it sound like that’s a good thing.” Kagome chocked, unable to accept the fact that the woman before her who claimed to once love this man, would get happiness from his death.
“You forget that he will go to hell with me, one way or another.” Came Kikyou’s response as she began to walk closer to the two.
“Stay away Kikyou!” Kagome shouted, looking toward the dead priestess with all the hate she now harbored for the young woman.
“Why should I listen to you?” Kikyou taunted, “You don’t have the power to stop me, do you?”
Kagome’s fists began to glow with a pure pink light as she thought, “If only I had a bow. Something to protect InuYasha with.”
Kikyou stopped her advances about five feet from the couple, her face in complete shock.
“What have you done?” Kikyou gasped.
Kagome looked down to her right hand, there in it was a pink bow, one which she had managed to make from her miko powers. Some how she had managed to harness her powers to make a physical object.
“Something you could never do Kikyou.” Kagome said, her voice dripping with hate. “Protect the man I love.”
With speed that would rival Kikyou herself, Kagome picked up the arrow she’d taken from InuYasha’s back and knocked it in her bow, aiming it toward her incarnation.
Kikyou stared down at Kagome, she knew she couldn’t avoid he attack, even though Kagome’s aim wasn’t the best she was still with in point blank range from the arrow.
“You will never hurt InuYasha again.” Kagome said bitterly as she released the arrow and let it fly towards the dead priestess.
A blood chilling scream echoed throughout the land as the priestess was shot by basically he own arrow. The arrow pierced her heart, releasing all of the lost souls she’d kept within her. As soon as the final one left her imitation body, her eyes dulled and her body crumbled into dust. Her remains blown away in the gentle spring breeze.
Kagome dropped her bow which as soon as it hit the ground disappeared. She just stared at where Kikyou had stood moments before. No matter how much she hated her, she kept thinking, “Did she really deserve to die?”
“Of course she did, she tried to kill you on more than one occasion and InuYasha on several of those as well.” came her conscience.
Kagome, pulling her self together, gently shook InuYasha’s shoulders, “InuYasha can you hear me?”
There came no response from the now human InuYasha. Kagome knew what Kikyou said was true, if he didn’t get immediate attention he could die. Gently lifting one of his arms over her shoulder she was able to get them both towards the well. The only thing she could hope for was Her mother, Sota or her Grandfather to be on the other side of the well as she fell through it to be surrounded by the warm lights of the time portal.

Sesshomaru drove down a nearly empty street as he neared one of Tokyo’s oldest shrines, the very same shrine Kagome lived at.
“I can’t believe I forgot about tonight.” he said to himself.
Pulling up in front of the steps to the shrine, he quickly got out of his car and rounded the front of it, heading toward the stairs.
As the demon lord made his way up the towering stair case, he was passed by a young woman wearing a school uniform identical to the one Kagome wears. Her long black hair had silver tips at the ends, her grey eyes giving him one glance as she rounded the corner and headed off to where ever she was going.
“So it’s begun has it.” He said, making his way to the top of the stair case and sprinting to the doors of the well house to await the arrival of his injured half brother.