InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Legend of the Nephilim ❯ reunion ( Chapter 16 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, or any other character belonging to the series they are the genius work of Rumiko Takahashi I simply use them for my stories; I also do not own anything related to the fallen trilogy belonging to Thomas E. Sniegoski; the original characters in this story, and original plots, are mine.

Wow everyone thanks so much for the reviews! And as promised here is chapter 16! Keep those reviews coming and maybe you will get some lemony goodness in chapter 17.

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~Reunion~

“Smoke, just like my dream.” Whispered Miroku.

Sango took one more look at the chard ruins around her and collapsed to her knees.

“Kagome,” she trembled. “We're too late.”

Adara put a hand on her shoulder and wept along with Sango and Kikyo. “This is impossible, how did Yuma find it?” She asked.

“There has to be more than meets the eye sister,” Haru said from behind her.

“Yes, we should fan out and see if we can find anything.” Suggested Kisho.

Miroku and Inuyasha exchanged glances and went to look as well.

As they walked the ashes of what was once the breath taking garden Haru and Yukio searched about the rubble.

“Have you noticed there are no bones?” Asked Yukio.

As Haru looked around he noticed his friend was correct, there wasn't a bone in sight. That would mean only one thing.

“They knew this attack was coming…they evacuated!” He said to Yukio.

“Who evacuated?” Asked Kisho and he neared the two.

“Look there isn't a bone in sight; they must have anticipated the attack and got out before the attack even started.” Yukio responded.

“Over towards the eastern side there looks to be the remnants of a camp,” said Miroku.

“And here is a trail leading towards the west,” came Inuyasha's voice.

“We should follow it.” Said Sango. The others nodded their head in agreement.

“But what if the trail leads to the people who attacked the fort and not those who evacuated it?” Asked Kikyo nervously.

“We will have to risk that option. Just keep out of sight while we follow the path and see where it leads,” answered Haru.

They all looked around at each other sharing knowing looks of agreement and headed out towards the west silently.

Inuyasha took one last look around the ruins before he followed his mismatched group of companions. A crooked smiled crossed his mouth as he remembered how this all came about.

~start flashback~

He and Kikyo were taking a stroll in the gardens talking about their up coming mating plans. He couldn't help but feel guilty that Kagome was not around to share their happiness. Kikyo understood his feelings;they were talking about how much Kagomewould enjoy the planning and the ceremony itself when Miroku and Sango had found them.

They had just announced their engagement to one another. All four exchanged congratulations and after a while they were all worried and thinking about the same thing;Kagome.

It was then that Sango came up with a plan.

“We should get Kisho, Adara, Haru and Yukio to take us to the elders.” she had said.“If she isn't there anymore perhaps they could tell us where she has gone, we have to explainour actions.”

After a few hours of calculating and convincing Haru, Kisho, Yukio and Adara had agreed. They left at sunrise the next morning.

It had been odd at first,traveling with Kagome's nephilim friends; the newer ones at least. Kisho and Adara had been around the western palace long enough to make friends with the others there. Adara especially, she had become close friends with Kikyo and Sango, and Kisho had spared with Miroku and Inuyasha many times. In fact he had taught Inuyasha how to dance for Sesshoumaru's coronation.

But it wasn't long until they were all talking and joking like old friends. Haru and Yukio had also taught them how to defend themselves against an oni-tenshi attack; while Kisho and Adara had made them enchanted swords of copper.

They were all shocked to say the least, they were told copper cold harm nephilim and oni-tenshi alike.

“We could hurt you with such swords as well!” Sango had stated.

“Yes you could, but you are now our friends. We trust you with our lives.” Kisho had responded calmly.

~end flashback~

And ever since then the eight mismatched companions had become the best of friends. It had been a long fourteen days since that had happened; somehow the loss of Kagome had driven her closest friends together in a determined plan to find her.

Inuyasha sighed; the blood bond they had once shared was no longer. He couldn't feel her emotions, or her life force. The only one who could wasn't saying anything. No, his stubborn brother was acting like nothing at all had changed.

His foolish brother was hurting, almost driven mad with grief, but he was too proud to show it.

What a fool.

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Sesshoumaru paced the room for what seemed like the millionth time that night, Kami, what had he done?

He went about his every day life, seeming as if all was well. He showed his inner torment to no one, but somehow he knew that his father and brother knew all too well that he was suffering.

But it couldn't be helped.

At night he was plagued with her scent, her bright violet eyes, her smile that warmed his ice cold heart and her laughter that set his soul ablaze, everything that was her.

He remembered how he had held her that distant night when he had given her his blood to survive. Kami how he missed the way she fit in his arms.

I want to be yours she had once said to him, and he had ended up driving her away with his pride.

He looked at her bed and felt his inner beast ache at the fact that her scent was nearly gone. To think he had once just believed her to be a servant with miko powers. How wrong he had been about his Kagome.

Kami he would give anything to have her back, to hold her in his arms and never let her go.

She was hurting and frightened; he could sense that from their withering bond. He could also tell she was many miles from him, but still in the western lands.

Maybe she would return to the western palace of the moon, maybe some day.

He collapsed on his knees as he looked at the rising moon. Kami what had he done? Why had he allowed his pride drive her away? He needed to see her, and soon.

Inuyasha should be sending word soon on their progress. Once they had found her he was going to go to her, on his knees if he had to. He would do anything to get her back; pride be damned.

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Silence surrounded the courtyard and she could feel the hundreds of eyes on her, but she didn't care. She watched as the servants to the underworld were destroyed. Good at least their souls would remain long enough for her to say goodbye.

She knelt next to Rin and bowed her head in defeat as tears made their way to the ground below.

Then she heard it.

“Gome?” It was faint, almost too quiet to, hear but it was there.

“Rin?” she whispered, as she watched her face.

Her heart nearly jumped out of her chest as Rin's honey brown eyes looked up at her. She looked to her right and realized Kouga was now blinking as well, hand still firmly linked with Rin's.

“How?” Kagome asked as she looked up at Alexander for an explanation.

“Your mother was the giver of life Kagome, a part of her is in Tenseiga,” he explained. “It seems that you are able to command it as well.”

The words she heard earlier repeated in her mind It will do your will it had said. The voice was the same as the woman's in her dream. Kagome's eyes widened as she realized something she had previously over looked. The woman in her dream was her mother.

She had to be, she was to one who lead her to Tenseiga in the first place. It was the same voice that told her to command the sword. Not to mention she had seemed so familiar to her, Kagome knew she had known the woman from some place before.

“What happened?” asked Kouga as he helped Rin stand “I was sure I was a goner”

Kagome smiled at the pair; at least someone had gotten their happy ending.

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It had taken them five days before they realized where they were heading; it had been Kikyo who had been the first to point it out.

The western fort, they were headed to the northern people. The thought was both exciting and foreboding.

If the elders had managed to make it there in time perhaps Kagome was there as well, and safe. If it was Yuma's trail they were following however, all seemed lost.

As the came to the top of the mountain they all held their breath. Yuma's people surrounded the entrance and from the look of the entrance, there had been a recent battle. They stayed in the shrubbery as the worked their way around the camp site, trying to stay as silent and as invisible as possible.

Inuyasha lead them to the back side of the fort and headed even further west, the others gave him a questioning glace but followed just the same. With in moments they were in a large cave.

“We used to come here as kids, Sess and I. I spent most of my time exploring the surrounding forest and the castle. Then one day I found this cave and I found this,” he said as he lifted his hand to the seemingly flawless wall.

Moments later the wall shifted and creaked opened to reveal a hidden hallway. It was dark and damp but with a snap of Yukio's fingers the rock surrounding them began to glow.

After they had all entered the hallway Inuyasha resealed the door. “This was the original palace of the western lord, he had this installed for emergency reasons. I guess he was smart after all,” he grinned.

“Where does it end?” Asked Haru.

“It comes up right into one of the bed chambers” he responded “I always made sure to beat everyone there and claim it as mine”

“I can understand why, nothing ruins the excitement of a hidden passage like a royal pop-cicle.” Joked Miroku.

The others tried their hardest not to laugh out loud at the monk's brash humor, but chuckles were heard just the same.

As they came to a large stair case Inuyasha placed his index finger over his lips telling the others behind him to remain quiet once more. He held Kikyo's hand as they walked up the large winding stair case. On the other side of the walls they could smell cooking food as they passed through the kitchen walls and the sound of joyous laughter as they passed, what they assumed, was the dinning room.

“Just a little further,” whispered Inuyasha as they neared another stone wall.

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Kagome sat on her bed and looked out at the moon, it was almost full. Just a few more days, she told herself.

She wished things were different; she wanted her friends there with her fighting along with her to destroy Yuma once. Above all, she wanted Sesshoumaru.

She laid back on her bed and stared at the ceiling and stilled as she heard the sound of stone on stone. She slowly lifted from the bed and spun around only to be confronted with a shocked set of golden eyes.

“Inu?” She asked.

With in seconds she was being smothered in an iron grip “Kami Kags, we were worried sick about you!” He exclaimed.

“Yeah don't do that again!” Said Sango just as passionately.

“Sango, Miroku, Kikyo!? What are you doing here?” She cried.

“We came to find you and drag your stubborn ass home” said Adara as she wrapped Kagome in a tight hold. “We were so worried we had lost you,” she said as tears came forth.

“The old palace was nothing but ash, we thought…we thought…” But Kikyo couldn't finish.

“I'm sorry,” whispered Kagome, now feeling extremely foolish. “I just needed time away.”

“Well have you've had enough, `cause we are going crazy with out you!” Said Kisho as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.

She smiled and nodded her head.

Soon they were all talking and laughing about old times. Sango and Kikyo had told her about their engagements and the reasons behind their leaving. When she had asked how everyone had gotten together and formed such an odd group of friends they had all laughed and told her their strange story.

Earlier the next morning she had taken them to Kouga and his intended, Rin. Everyone was shocked to say the least, but happy for the couple. They had spent all afternoon training and learning how to use their weapons, Alexander was an excellent teacher. Once the day had died down, and the girls had spent hours in Rin's personal hot springs, everyone headed off to their rooms. Sango however had stayed behind to talk with Kagome.

“I just wanted to make sure everything was okay,” she said. “I mean really okay.”

“Everything is fine Sango, I just miss…”

“He misses you too,” Sango said. “He may act fine on the outside, but he's a mess on the inside. Did you know he ends up in your room almost every morning?”

“He what? But why?” Asked Kagome.

“Because his beast is sick with the pain over losing you Kags, you have to talk to him. You were meant to be together.” Said Sango.

Once Sango had left Kagome watched to moon once more. Another day gone and another day closer, she thought.

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Inuyasha looked at the letter once more and hoped to whatever Kami was listening that Kagome didn't kill him. Instead of just sending a letter to his father, which he had also done, he had sent one to Sesshoumaru as well. It was a simple letter; it merely explained that they had found her and that they were staying until the final battle during the blood eclipse…and that she was a wreck with out him.

In his father's letter he had explained the lay out of the enemy camp, the location of the hidden hallway and the request for aid. They would need all the help they could get.

The eclipse was only six days away.

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