InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome and The Silver Hanyou ❯ Chapter 9

The entire journey to the town, even if it was for a few minutes, was a total nightmare for Kagome. She couldn't believe that this was happening. Inuyasha had just proposed to her and now, this was happening! They arrived at the port and saw that all was in flames. The people of the police were destroying the base and they were capturing everybody they found. The two hid themselves behind a bush.

-“They've found our base! But how is this possible? The island is protected by the kekkai!” Inuyasha said irritated. “It's impossible! Unless…”

-“Unless what?” Kagome asked.

-“Unless they've found a powerful enough wizard to destroy the kekkai!”

Kagome looked again to the flaming city. She felt that her heart was burning with him. Suddenly, her heart froze when she saw Miroku, Sango and the others from the crew, captured and beaten up.

-“Sango-ch…” Kagome whished to call her friend, but Inuyasha covered her mouth.

-“Be quiet, they'll also find us.”

-“But they've been caught!”

-“I know, but we've don't have a chance against all these people. It's better if we wait and see what happens next. And if something bad happens, I'll go and do something.”

-“Yes, but…”

-“Trust me.”

Kagome nodded and looked helpless at her friends. Kagome then froze when she saw who the leader of them was.

-“Sesshoumaru!” both Kagome and Inuyasha said in unison.

Kagome remained with huge eyes.

-“How do you know him?”

-“He's…my brother,” Inuyasha said not looking at her.

-“What?!”

-“I thought I got read of that bastard when we fought on father's ship. But it seems that he doesn't want to give up! I will make him leave! He wanted Tetsusaiga? He'll get it!”

He wished to draw the sword but Kagome stopped him.

-“No, Inuyasha! He came for me! If you let me talk to him, maybe I will convince him to leave!”

Inuyasha pulled his arm from Kagome's grasp.

-“That bastard won't even listen to you! All he wants is money and power! He'll do anything for them!”

-“But Inuyasha…”

Kagome stopped when she saw that Sesshoumaru was approaching their friends. The two came closer to hear well. Sesshoumaru came in front of Miroku who had his body covered with wounds and had a purple eye. Inuyasha began to growl. Sesshoumaru begun:

-“Where is Kagome?”

Miroku said nothing. He just watched him. Sesshoumaru slapped him.

-“I asked you where Kagome is! And it will better if you answer me!”

Miroku winced at the pain in his cheek but gave him a wicked smirk.

-“And why do you think that I will tell you?”

-“Because you won't catch the following day.”

Sesshoumaru begun to loose his temper. He took Miroku by the collar and looked him in the eye.

-“A told you to say where Kagome is, or you and your town will burn to the ground along with all citizens that are in it! I know that bastard of a Captain captured her! Now for the last time: where is she?!”

Miroku spitted him right in the eye.

-“Go to hell!”

Kagome couldn't believe that Miroku had done it. Sesshoumaru throw him to the ground.

-“Have it your way,” said Sesshoumaru as he whipped himself. “You will regret for your insolence. You could have lived.”

Inuyasha's, Kagome's and Sango's hearts froze when, with a single swipe of his sword, Tokijin, Sesshoumaru stabbed Miroku. Sango yelled his name and Kagome hid her face in Inuyasha's chest. Inuyasha couldn't endure it any longer. He wanted to get up and cut his head off his shoulders, but heard a cry:

-“Miroku!”

It was Kaname. She ran to Miroku's body and started crying. Her mother was behind her.

-“Come back, Kaname! Don't get close to them! They will-!”

She couldn't say everything because she was shot 6 times in the back. Kagome felt like she lost her soul. The same mother whose girl she had saved was killed by the people of the man that her father was trying to marry her to. The girl ran to her mother's body that was lying in a puddle of blood.

-“MOMMY!”

Sesshoumaru turned to his people.

-“Kill everyone. No one should remain alive!” he ordered.

His people prepared their weapons to shoot first the little girl that was crying on her mother's body. The bullets left the muskets, but, before she was shot, something took her from the bullet's range.

-“KAZE no KIZU!”

A powerful yellow light hit them. Sesshoumaru jumped from the attack's range, and elegantly landed. After the dust settled, the image of Inuyasha appeared landing on ground with Tetsusaiga drawn. Kaname slowly opened her eyes and saw that she was in his arms.

-“Captain?”

Inuyasha let her down and said to her:

-“Go and hide. I will take care of the bad man. You go to Kagome. She's behind that bush close to that old tree.”

Kaname nodded and went to that direction. Inuyasha remained with Sesshoumaru.

-“So we meet again, dear brother,” said Sesshoumaru with a smirk that didn't meant happiness.

-“Shut your yap, you bastard!” Inuyasha shouted. “If you came to die, I will pleasantly grant that wish!”

With that, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru ran to each other. Inuyasha hit Sesshoumaru with Tetsusaiga, but missed the attack, Sesshoumaru dodging. When Inuyasha missed, he fell to the ground. Inuyasha growled. Sesshoumaru took the advantage and attacked, but before he could reach him, Inuyasha got up and dodged the attack. Sesshoumaru was surprised about the power that his brother obtained in all these years of separation. He really cared for these people. He thought to use this as an advantage to kill him.

Inuyasha stroke again with Tetsusaiga. This time he managed to hit Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha smirked at his success. He knew that he had a chance against him because of Sesshoumaru`s distraction. Sesshoumaru just chuckled at the wound that the sword has caused. Inuyasha disliked the fact that Sesshoumaru was laughing at him and he lifted the sword to strike his brother again. Sesshoumaru noticed that.

-“That had to hurt?” Sesshoumaru asked.

-“Yes, it had to!”

-“Then, little brother, I will teach you a lesson and end this!” Sesshoumaru said before running at Inuyasha with a malefic smirk on his face.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome and Kaname. He reassured himself when he saw that they were okay, but when he looked at Miroku, he realized that he didn't have much time. Inuyasha turned his attention back to Sesshoumaru. Then he realized that he was running to him. Inuyasha gathered his powers and hit Sesshoumaru, but he missed, Sesshoumaru punching him witch throwed him in the tree next to Kagome. The impact force left him unconscious.

-“Inuyasha!” Kagome shouted running to him, not caring if she showed herself. She kneeled beside him, tears in her eyes. She took his head in her hands, blood dripping from his forehead. “Inuyasha? Inuyasha! Inuyasha, wake up!”

With a tug, Kagome was taken from him.

-“Let me loose, Sesshoumaru! You bastard!” Kagome flopped from his restrain.

Sesshoumaru remained speechless when he saw her change of attitude.

-“Kagome! Listen what you're saying! These pirates kidnapped you! You attached to them so badly? The one who kidnapped you is Silver Hanyou!”

-“I know and I don't care! He's much better than you! Every rumor about him isn't true. He told me that you whished the Tetsusaiga. You are a money hungered bastard!”

Sesshoumaru's face totally changed from amazement to emotionless. He started to grip harder Kagome's arm, making it draw blood.

-“Ow! Sesshoumaru, you're hurting me!”

-“Shut up, wench! You really are a foolish woman; I always knew that you had such a weak soul to believe anything. I don't deserve a woman like you. At least I will receive the money from that fool of a dad of yours for bringing you,” Sesshoumaru smirked. “You will come with me now!”

-“No! Let me go!”

-“Let her go right now, Sesshoumaru!” Inuyasha yelled, coming back to himself and getting up a little dizzy.

-“It looks like I didn't finish you, brother.”

-“That's right! Now let her go!” Inuyasha shouted running to Sesshoumaru and succeeding in wounding him along side his arm, succeeding also to free Kagome from his grasp. She went behind Inuyasha.

-“I can't believe that you did it again, Inuyasha. To love another human woman. You put to shame the youkai race! So did father,” said Sesshoumaru as he was healing his arm. “But it doesn't matter now. Vurumugum!”

Vurumugum appeared beside Sesshoumaru. He had a malefic smirk as he said:

-“Hello, Silver Hanyou. We haven't seen each other for some time.”

-“For two years since when I made you run with your tail between your feet when I killed your brother. So this is how Sesshoumaru found the island! You helped him! What now? You've came to take revenge? Come and get it!”

Inuyasha prepared Tetsusaiga, and Vurumugum begun a spell. Inuyasha prepared for anything, but froze when a tremor went through him. Then he felt like his whole body was pierced by thousand of needles. The pain was unbearable. Then, Vurumugum took out a mirror and direct it to Inuyasha's pained body, Kagome being aside him, not knowing what's happening. Inuyasha's picture in the mirror pulsed when Vurumugum said the last word of the spell, and Inuyasha numbed and fell almost unconscious.

-“Inuyasha!” Kagome shouted worried. “What have you done to him?”

-“Nothing, yet,” Vurumugum answered.

-“Yet?”

Suddenly, an aura came from Inuyasha and entered the mirror. Kagome looked at Inuyasha with big eyes. Inuyasha got up pretty groggy and was shocked at what happened. He didn't had the same silver hair, it was raven black, his claws disappeared and turned to nails, his fangs turned to teeth, his ears disappeared from the top of his head and turned to normal human ears, and his eyes weren't amber, but a pale violet. Kagome looked at him puzzled. Sesshoumaru laughed.

-“Little brother, now you have no power as long you are human.”

-`Human? Inuyasha's human now?' Kagome asked herself.

Sesshoumaru saw Kagome's face. It was like he read her mind.

-“That's right, Kagome. Inuyasha is a human now. Every half-demon has a night in which they turn human, but, thanks to Vurumugum's mirror, the demon side of Inuyasha was sealed, and now, Inuyasha can't turn back to the hanyou form.”

-“You bastard!” Inuyasha yelled as he ran to Sesshoumaru with Tetsusaiga drawn, but now it was just an old rusty sword because of the loss of demonic aura.

Sesshoumaru just smiled, and when Inuyasha was close enough, he punched him so hard that he flied and crushed into a wall, the force of the impact letting him unconscious.

-“Inuyasha!” yelled Kagome running to him. “Inuyasha, please wake up, please don't leave me!” Then she saw Sesshoumaru approaching. “Don't get any closer, stupid! Stay back if you don't want that something bad to happen to you!”

Sesshoumaru laughed.

-“What can a weak human do to me? You're powerless!” He took her by the dress and lifted her that she couldn't feel the earth beneath her feet. “Nothing can equal me!”

Then the demonic aura around Sesshoumaru intensified herself. Kagome went speechless at what she saw Sesshoumaru begun to grow. His hands became clawed, and his feet became paws. A silver hair covered his whole body. His face became long, becoming a dog's muzzle, which was armed with a set of sharp teeth, and his eyes were the same crimson red color as Inuyasha's eyes in his demonic form. Sesshoumaru gave a howl then looked at Kagome.

-“Now, bitch, do not interfere, or my claws and teeth will sink in your sweet flesh! You didn't want to be my wife, so be it. But no one will have you, especially my brother! I will take care that that doesn't happen, like I promised,” Sesshoumaru smirked. “No one will love a dead person.”

He breathed toxic gases at her that make her pass out. Sesshoumaru came back to his original form. He turned to Vurumugum.

-“Let's go now and bring that brother of mine to Kagome's parents.”

-“But wasn't Kagome the one you came for?”

-“Kagome wouldn't be faithful to me, now that she fell in love with my brother. But I will still receive the reward for Silver Hanyou. As to Kagome, I will tell her parents that he killed her. They're too naïve not to believe that. We will tell them that she was thrown to the jaguars. I will take the ring with the Higurashi Symbol and a piece of her dress, that I will stain it with blood. They won't even know the difference.” Then to his crew, “Take Hanyou and get back to the ship! And no questions! Leave the others.” Then back to Vurumugum, “You know what to do not to follow us.”

Vurumugum nodded and came to the group of pirates. He began a spell and a shield raised upon them.

-“This will stop you from escaping and following us, but it will also be your grave. Sesshoumaru liked the idea to let you die slowly.”

This was all he said and went to the ship that disappeared into the night.

 

 

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Kagome woke up after a few minutes after Sesshoumaru left. She looked around and saw that he disappeared with Inuyasha.

-“Oh, no! Inuyasha!” she cried, but stopped when she heard Sango.

-“Miroku, hang in there! Don't leave me! How can I live without you?”

Kagome came and inspected Miroku's wound. She was horrified of her gravity, because Sesshoumaru stabbed him close to his heart and he was abundantly bleeding. She couldn't give the bad news to Sango, but she tried to stop the bleeding with straps of her kimono.

-“We've got to get outta here!” said Riku. “We've got to save the captain before it's too late!”

He ran to the shield and hit it but he was thrown by a powerful energy that sends him numbed to the ground.

-“Riku-san!” Kagome shouted.

-“Dammed shield! If I only could…” Suddenly, he began to lose his breath. “I…can't…breathe…”

-“We…don't…have…air…!” said Hikaru. “It's the shield's fault. We've got…to destroy him…or else…”

They all began to chough because of the loss of air, falling one by one. Shippou, being the smallest, passed out the first. Sango hugged Miroku, and then passed out on him. Then the others fell to the ground. Kagome's sight began to blurry as she lay on the ground. She closed her eyes. She saw all the moments that she had with Inuyasha.

-“Inuyasha, I…I won't let…Sesshoumaru to win!”

She used her last powers to lift herself and grab Hikaru's sword. She ran to the shield and tried to stab the sword into it. An electrical current went straight through her, but she didn't give up.

-`I've got to get everyone out before it's too late! Inuyasha, give me power!'

Suddenly, Inuyasha's necklace began to shine like the time he opened the kekkai. Kagome looked at it.

-“What is…?”

A powerful light engulfed them, and in the second after, the shield was destroyed. Everyone began to breathe deeply, enjoying the air. Riku turned to Kagome.

-“Kagome-sama, you saved us!”

Kagome looked at him.

-“I did nothing.” She looked at the jewel. “The Captain's necklace saved us. It was his power.”

Sango woke up and looked at Miroku.

-“Kagome-chan!”

Kagome looked at Sango.”

-“Is something wrong with Miroku?”

-“No, look.”

All remained with huge eyes when Miroku's wound begun to heal, leaving no scar. Sango had her eyes filled with tears of joy. Even Kagome's eyes were moist. Miroku groaned and slowly opened his eyes to the others. Smiling, he said:

-“Hi.”

-“Miroku!” Sango cried as she throwed herself on him.

-“Miroku, you idiot, what was in your mind when you provoked Sesshoumaru?!” said Kaoru, another of the crew.

-“We've could all be dead if it wasn't for Kagome-sama,” said Hikaru.

 

-“Kagome you've saved us all!” said Shippou.

-“We've got to save Inuyasha! He was caught by Sesshoumaru and I don't want to think what he is doing to him!” Kagome cried in her hands.

Miroku put his hand on her shoulder.

-“Don't worry, Kagome-sama.”

Shippou jumped in her arms.

-“Yeah, Kagome. We will save the Captain!”

Sango hugged her friend.

-“That's right, Kagome. We're all with you.”

-“Everyone…” Kagome whispered, crystalline tears going down her cheeks.

-“Now we've got to ready ourselves. We have a hard battle in front of us,” said Miroku, as all of them left to plan the attack.

 

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Meanwhile, on Sesshoumaru's ship, Inuyasha was in the belly of the ship, in chains and beaten, most dead then alive. He was dreaming. It was the same nightmare about the day when Kikyou died. But he was awoken when someone pulled him and crushed him by the wall.

-“What do you want?!” Inuyasha groaned as his eyes focused. Then he growled, “Sesshoumaru…What do you want you bastard!?”

Sesshoumaru punched him in the face, making him spit blood.

-“Where's Tetsusaiga?”

Inuyasha remembered.

-`That's right. I left Tetsusaiga with Kagome…Oh, no! Kagome!' Then he yelled, “What did you do with Kagome?!”

Sesshoumaru smirked.

-“You don't have to worry about her. You will meet her in the Afterlife. Maybe she is already there and waiting for you.”

Inuyasha froze.

-“What do you mean by that.”

-“What I wanted to say, little brother, is that I've got rid of her. Kagome isn't making part of this world anymore, nor do your other friends. But don't worry; you'll meet all of them after they execute you. You will also introduce Kagome to Kikyou. I'm pretty sure that she will be very delighted too meet her.”

Inuyasha was too shocked to say something.

-Kagome…' he thought with pain. `No! Kagome isn't dead! She's too powerful to be!'

Sesshoumaru looked as if he read his mind.

-“Don't believe me? Look and see. Vurumugum!”

Vurumugum appeared and showed Inuyasha his friend's last moments. Inuyasha was in pure shock as he watched his friends fall one by one under the airless shield. But when he saw Kagome falling, that was the last drop. Vurumugum closed the mirror. Inuyasha went numb.

Sesshoumaru laughed at his expression and left. After he left, Inuyasha gave a pained cry that arrived at Sesshoumaru's ears. He smiled satisfied.

 

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On “ THE DEMON'S PRIDE” , without Sesshoumaru knowing that they were alive, Kagome explained everybody the plan to enter her house. She decided to enter through the secret way, under her house.

-“So you understand how we're doing it?” Kagome asked, looking at the map of the town Okinawa.

-“Yes, it's pretty simple to pass through it, if you say that it is unprotected,” said Miroku.

They got close to the cave but they heard a shot and one mast fell. A Marine ship was protecting the entrance.

-“Shit, they really don't want the Captain to be saved!” said Riku.

-“How could they found out this way?” Kagome said surprised.

-“Does it count now? We have to get rid of it! All men on deck and arm yourselves!” Miroku shouted. “We'll get the Captain outta there!”

The two ships came closer and a change of fires begun. Sango brought Kagome under deck.

-“You stay here, Kagome-chan, it's too dangerous! If something bad happens to you, then it's worthless to save the Captain.”

-“Okay, Sango-chan, be careful”

-“I will be, Kagome-chan.”

The two girls hugged themselves and Sango left. Kagome began to hear the war that was up deck. She felt like the time she was kidnapped. She held Shippou tight as the noise continued.

 

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Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru was already at Duke Higurashi's house. He found him walking back and forth, waiting for Sesshoumaru, knowing about his arrival. Sesshoumaru broke the silence.

-“Duke Higurashi!”

-“Sesshoumaru, you're finally here! Please, tell me the news about my daughter!”

his voice was full of anxiety and worry. Sesshoumaru begun:

-“Well, we have two news: we've captured Silver Hanyou.”

-“Well done! He will pay for his injustices. He will be hanged with the others. And the second news?”

Sesshoumaru masked a sad face.

-“Duke Higurashi, I'm sorry to say this, but I have to say that Lady Kagome has passed to the other world.”

The duke froze.

-“Wha…what do you mean by that!” he yelled.

-“What I meant to say is that Silver Hanyou killed her. It was too late when we arrived. The jaguars already jumped on her and killed her. I think that it had past several days since she was killed because we found nothing, just these…” He showed the duke her ring and the piece of dress stained with blood.

The duke held the blooded piece of cloth with wide eyes. They began to fill with tears, before he went angry and asked:

-“Where is Hanyou?”

-“He's in the belly of my ship. He will be brought to the jail. You can come if you want.”

The duke didn't say anything. He followed Sesshoumaru to the jail. There, in the deepest cell, Inuyasha was standing hanged by his hands, his mind darkened by pain, tears still falling on his cheeks. Sesshoumaru opened the cell's door. He smirked at his stage. The duke came in and was disgusted by the image of the one who killed his daughter. He came in front of him and smacked him.

-“You bastard!!!”

Inuyasha said nothing. He remained the same. The duke hit him with his. Inuyasha remained motionless, blood dripping from his mouth.

-“You animal!!!”

The same thing. Sesshoumaru just watched the show. The duke ordered:

-“Bring him to the torture room!”

Two men came and took him in the torture room, Inuyasha laying still.

-`What if they torture me?' Inuyasha thought. `If Kagome's dead, then I have no purpose to live. At least, I will meet her in the Afterlife.'

Inuyasha was brought to the torture room and chained to a pole. Jakken came and ripped the clothes off him. The duke removed his tail-coat and rolled up his sleeves. Then he took a whip and begat to hit Inuyasha with it. Inuyasha yelled with every painful whip. After 20 hits, the sweat was flowing from the duke's face. Inuyasha's back was red from the whips, in some places wounds appearing. The duke came in his face.

-“This torture is nothing compared with what you did to my daughter!”

Inuyasha didn't look at him. The duke' anger growed and he took a battle whip. It had numerous iron spikes on his whips. Even Sesshoumaru remained speechless at what the duke had chosen. The duke came in Inuyasha's face.

-“Feel more!”

He began to hit him again. Inuyasha's blooded screams could be heard through the entire house. Sesshoumaru had never seen the duke so angry. He hit him without ending. The floor around Inuyasha was stained with blood. Even the duke's white shirt was now stained. The whip's spikes jabbed in Inuyasha's skin and the duke pulled forcefully, making Inuyasha scream in pain, and then collapsing from the loss of blood. After they eliberated him, he was trown on the ground. Panting, the duke came and hit him on his chest saying:

-“This is for killing my daughter! You deserved worse! But you will get it!” Then to Sesshoumaru, “Sesshoumaru, ready the men for execution! This dog will be dead by sunrise!”

Sesshoumaru smiled.

-“Right away, Mr. Higurashi.”

Sesshoumaru left to announce the execution as the duke entered to announce the duchess about Kagome's death. On his way to the jail, Sesshoumaru thought:

-`Finally, I got rid of all the ones who could prevent me from reaching absolute power!'