InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love, Interrupted ❯ Chapter 46 ( Chapter 46 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed,
"So you know our opponent, you say?" he asked, his tone showing a slight hint of interest.
"Yes." the woman purred, "And for the right price I will assist you."
"Price?" asked Sesshoumaru, unsheathing his sword and, with lightning speed, he was at the woman's side, Bakusaiga at her neck, "I do not pay any prices."
The woman laughed sensually, her voice rolling like silken threads, "You cannot hurt me. Even a great Daiyoukai like yourself is unable to hurt Cleopatra."
In a flash, the woman disappeared and a black cat began weaving itself around Anzu's legs, purring in contentment.
"So, you are a demon neko." said Anzu.
Cleopatra reappeared behind Anzu and then disappeared again as a lovely dove flew by Sesshoumaru. Cleopatra appeared again behind Sesshoumaru.
"She can transform herself at will." said Anzu, awe dripping from her voice.
"Huh! So what? You're a demoness with the power to transform. Is that supposed to impress us?" asked Sesshoumaru.
"Hmmmmm ... it impresses your mate here." Cleopatra said, oozing sexuality from her lips.
The demoness walked up to Sesshoumaru and laid her hands on his shoulders, running her hands down his arms sensually. Sesshoumaru shrugged her off violently and turned to face her,
"Do not touch me woman!" he demanded.
"HmHmHm." she laughed, "You are not in a position to demand anything, my. dear. Sesshoumaru." she stressed every syllable as she spoke, sex dripping off her tongue.
Jaken looked at the strange woman with fear in his eyes, 'This woman doesn't realize who she is dealing with.' he thought.
Sesshoumaru slashed at her with Bakusaiga, his aim straight and true. The woman merely caught the blade in her bare hand and held off his strength as easily as if she was holding a piece of paper.
"DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND FOOL!!! I AM STRONGER THAN ALL OF THE YOUKAI IN THIS LAND COMBINED!" she yelled, her voice sharp and pointed as she swiped her hand and sent Bakusaiga flying one way and Sesshoumaru flying the other way.
"MY LORD!" cried out Jaken in terror as he watched his master disappear.
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Inuyasha stared at the sight walking towards him. Kagome moved in front of him,
"It can't be. It just can't be." she exclaimed, shutting her eyes and opening them again as if to get the image to disappear.
"Kik ... Kikyou ..." Inuyasha spoke her name in a whisper "It can't be ... how can you ... how were you brought back?"
"Is she an illusion?" Sango whispered to Miroku.
"I don't know. Inuyasha commented that it had scent. The other illusions didn't have strong scents to him." he answered her.
"Inuyasha." spoke Kikyou "Yes, I have been brought back." she said, coming closer to Inuyasha.
She ignored all the others and only paid attention to Inuyasha. She came closer to Inuyasha, closing the space between them, her arms outstretched,
"Inuyasha, it's an illusion. I don't think she's real." warned Miroku, but his warning fell on deaf ears.
"Kikyou, you're back." said Kagome, but Kikyou did not answer her.
"Kagome, I think this Kikyou is an illusion of Ryouya's. But, it's only set up for Inuyasha." said Miroku.
Kagome and the others watched in horror as Kikyou enveloped Inuyasha in her arms, "You've missed me, Inuyasha. I can tell. I can feel it radiating from your heart." she said to him.
"Inuyasha!" warned Kagome.
But Inuyasha's eyes were glazed over.
"He's under a spell." said Sango.
"Snap out of it, Inuyasha!" Kagome said, getting in front of Inuyasha and attempting to move Kikyou away from him, to no avail.
Kikyou continued talking only to Inuyasha, "Inuyasha, you want me, don't you? You desire to be with me?" she asked.
"Yes. I want to be with you, Kikyou. Only you." he said, in a soft drone-like voice.
"This is what is truly in your heart, Inuyasha? Who is your true love? Your only love?" Kikyou said.
"You, Kikyou. Only you."
Kikyou turned her head and looked at Kagome, "You heard him. He does not desire my reincarnation. He wants the real Kikyou. Woman, you are no longer wanted or needed here."
Kagome backed up, shock and fear on her face, "Inuyasha!" she cried out.
"He does not hear you. You are only my imitation!" Kikyou said.
"That's not true!" Kagome retorted, "The real Kikyou understood what each of us meant to Inuyasha."
"I am the real Kikyou!" Kikyou responded, "And I will have Inuyasha!"
With that said, Kikyou rammed her hand into Inuyasha's chest and then pulled it out. In her hand was a red, beating object,
"That's ..." said Miroku.
"Inuyasha's heart!" finished Sango.
Kikyou laughed evilly, "Inuyasha now belongs to me!" she informed the gathered group, as she held the heart up high.
Inuyasha just stood there, like a zombie, his eyes dead and sullen,
"Come with me, Inuyasha. And have me the way you desire to have me." Kikyou said, as a ribbon of wind wrapped around her and Inuyasha, lifting them off the ground and into the sky and away, as Kagome cried out,
"NO!!!! INUYASHA!!! WAKE UP!!!" she cried, tears falling down her cheeks.
Miroku, Sango, Shippou and Kirara could only stare,
"It seems that Ryouya has no end to his devilish deeds." commented Miroku.
"What do we do, Miroku?" asked Sango.
"Only what we can do ... we follow in the direction she went to." said Miroku.
Kirara transformed and awaited her orders as Kagome stared at the sky in the direction that Kikyou had disappeared with Inuyasha,
'Inuyasha ... what have they done to you?' she thought.
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Cleopatra turned around and stared at Anzu,
"Will you fight me too?" she asked, her sexy voice back.
"I have no desire to fight." said Anzu, "There was no need to do that to Lord Sesshoumaru." she spat at the demoness.
"LORD? Sesshoumaru." Cleopatra spoke, icily "He isn't strong enough to be considered a daiyoukai. Maybe it's better if Bbwaddene takes over these lands!"
"What do you mean by that?" asked Jaken, waving the staff of two heads around in anger.
"It means, imp, that if the great Sesshoumaru cannot fight me then he is no match for Bbwaddene!"
Jaken and Anzu were taken aback by this statement. As their brains fumbled to understand her implications, Cleopatra raised her left hand and extended her arm. As ball of light appeared suddenly and slammed fast into her outstretched hand. The light turned into Sesshoumaru, who found himself on the ground and in pain that he refused to acknowledge,
"Back for another round, my dear Sesshoumaru." she spoke in her sexy purring voice, "Shall we have another go 'round?"
"Who are you exactly?" Sesshoumaru's eyes were red and his face was contorted in anger, "No one makes a fool of this Sesshoumaru."
"I just did." cooed Cleopatra.
Sesshoumaru growled as his eyes glowed a deeper red. His nose elongated as he began to transform into his true demonic form. This only caused laughter from the strange African demoness,
"TAKE ME ON, SESSHOUMARU! SHOW ME YOUR TRUE POWER!" she laughed as she roared out her statement.
As Sesshoumaru transformed into a huge demon dog, Anzu transformed herself into a smaller version. The two of them stood there, preparing for battle against the now dwarfed demoness,
"SO THAT IS HOW IT WILL BE, WILL IT?" she cried out, as the wind whipped around in a frenzy, sending anything not nailed down flying.
The woman began to transform, her size growing larger and larger, her body transforming into a huge hyena until she was looking down upon the daiyoukai dog and his mate. Her form was five times his size ... equaling the size of Sesshoumaru's own father ... maybe even beating his bulk by a half,
"SESSHOUMARU!" her voice echoed throughout the valley, "I WANT TO BEAR WITNESS TO YOUR POWER COMPARED TO MY OWN!"
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Ryouy a paced back and forth in the stale, dank room,
"Where is she?" he wondered aloud.
Ryouya stared out the window. He had mourned for his wife and the son he believed she had given birth to in the only way he knew how. By exacting revenge on his enemies. And what better revenge than to get the cocky half-demon under his control. He had essentially sold his soul to the devil for the power to rejuvenate the dead priestess ... and with Bbwaddene's power to see deep into people's minds and hearts ... he was sure there would be no stopping him now.
The northern lands gave up way to easy ... it wasn't even worth the effort. The demons in the far northern mountains fled farther north while the ones that stayed and fought dropped like flies. Then the wolves ... the wolves realized they were out numbered and ran for safety ... into the eastern domain where Ryouya stopped their fleeing with a single attack ... his illusions driving the wolves into a murderous frenzy so that they turned on each other.
He continued his frenzied pacing,
"Why isn't she here yet?" he said aloud, when the door opened and the priestess walked in, followed by a soulless Inuyasha,
"Ahhhh, you have succeeded priestess!" he commended her, "I finally have Inuyasha under my control." he laughed a wicked laugh.
Inuyasha just stared ahead, his eyes dazed, his mind empty ... a blank slate for Ryouya to manipulate.
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Kirara flew quickly in the direction taken by the priestess, Sango, Miroku, Kagome and Shippou on her back,
"Kirara, can you smell Inuyasha?" asked Sango.
The big cat growled.
"I take it that's a no." said Shippou.
"I'm afraid so." agreed Sango.
"So where do we go from here?" asked Miroku.
Kagome just looked down at the cat's back and her hands, worry etched on her face,
"Kagome?" said Shippou.
"I'm all right, Shippou, really." she tried to assure the kitsune but her words echoed hollow.
"Down there!" Sango shouted.
"What is that?" said Miroku, "A pack of dogs?"
Kagome looked up, "It's the dog demon tribe of the east." she said, then called out, "DAISUKE! WAIT UP!"
The elder dog turned around,
"Why it is Kagome." he said, as Kirara landed in front of the group.
"Great, she's riding a stupid cat." commented Yasunao, "Hey, Kagome, where's the akita mutt? He's not with you?"
"Akita?" queried Sango, Miroku, and Shippou,
"Mew." went Kirara.
"You know them Kagome?" asked Sango.
"Uhh, yea. Like I said, they are the eastern inu tribe ... they are a pack of Shibas." offered Kagome as an explanation.
"Who's the akita?" asked Shippou.
"Uhhh ... your pal ... Inu ... whatever his name is." stated Yasunao.
"Inuyasha." stated Kagome emphatically.
"Yea, yea. Whatever. What dipshit names his kid INU??????" Yasunao said, laying down and curling into a ball, "Let me know when you're ready to go father."
"Yasunao. Will you ever learn?" his father muttered, "Forgive my son, please." Daisuke offered.
"Nope. Don't forgive me!" snarled Yasunao.
"Shut up, Yasunao!" ordered his father.
"Daisuke, are you on Ryouya's trail too?" Kagome asked.
"Is that the vile demon's name that is after our lands?" asked Daisuke, as Kagome nodded "Then, yes, that is who we are after."
"Any ideas as to where you are heading?" asked Miroku.
"No, I'm afraid. I heard he headed north. That is all I know." said the elder dog.
"We feel Inuyasha was captured by Ryouya." said Kagome.
"Oh goody! The mutt got himself captured. Real smart of him!" answered Yasunao.
"Shut up, you mangy dog!" said Shippou.
"Hey, let's get one thing straight ... I ain't a mangy dog ... I am a PUREBLOOD ... just remember that!" Yasunao said, standing up and staring down the little demon.
"Yea," Shippou commented, with his hands crossed over his chest, "And you're the biggest embarrassment to us full-blooded demons I ever met!"
Yasunao swiped at the kitsune with his paw and sent Shippou flying into Kagome's arms,
"KAGOME!" Shippou cried.
"And you call me an embarrassment ... you run crying to a human!" said Yasunao, saying the word human like it was an oil slick.
"YASUNAO! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" bellowed Daisuke.
Yasunao stopped what he was doing and walked to the back of the pack, grumbling the whole way,
"You say Inuyasha was captured by Ryouya?" asked Daisuke.
"Yes. Ryouya created an illusion of Inuyasha's former love and that illusion put him under a spell." explained Miroku.
"This is bad." said Daisuke.
"Why is that?" asked a dog from the pack to his leader.
"Because that means that this demon is possessing some in fathomable power like I have never witnessed in all my 800 years!"
"We must hurry and find Inuyasha and Ryouya before more damage is done." said Miroku.
Kagome looked at the sky,
'Inuyasha. We have to find you soon. Even if you are under some one else's control ...if you do something terrible ... I know you will never forgive yourself.' Kagome thought.