InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Moon and Destiny: Tsuki to Shukuen ❯ Act 5 ( Chapter 5 )
[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
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Act 5:
Kikyo looked at Shippou, Shukuen, and Reichou and then she sat down on the wooden floor across from them.
“Let me tell you a story,” Kikyo said, “You all know of yin and yang; the darkness and the light that balance out the universe. With magical things, it is the same properties; without evil, there is no good. Before the Jewel of Four Souls, a jewel meant to bring peace and happiness, could be created, a talisman of evil had to be made. This talisman was like the Jewel of Four Souls, but it was it's opposite; it's brother. This was the Jewel of Four Angels,”
“Sounds harmless,” Shippou said.
“Don't joke about this, Shippou. It is very serious,” Kikyo said. Shippou was silent again and Kikyo spoke again, “The Jewel of Four Angels has enough power to bring about the apocalypse. Each angel represents what shall end the world - famine, pestilence, war, and death. Unlike the Jewel of Four Souls, which was forged from goodness and purity of a soul, the Jewel of Four Angels is made from flesh and blood, a source of sin and deceit.
“But when the priestess who created the Jewel of Four Souls was lost, so was the Jewel of Four Angels. It was lost for many years. Even I do not know what has happened to it, but it knows that the Jewel of Four Souls, its brother, is gone now and once it resurfaces, it will be stronger than anything else in this world,”
“…it?” Reichou asked.
“Unlike the Jewel of Four Souls, the Jewel of Four Angels has a will of it's own. It has a mind and it has it's own plans for it's own selfish gain. It cares not for mortals or immortals, so as long as it gets what it desires: power and the destruction of all worlds at it's hands,”
“A jewel born of both darkness and light. A jewel of both sorrow and joy. A jewel tied and created in the blood and flesh of one. A jewel that shall begin the end,” Shukuen recited. He then looked at Kikyo, “Those lines, priestess, where did you get them from…?”
“I created them,” Kikyo said, “when I saw my vision of the jewel,”
“But it says that it is bound to the blood and flesh of someone,” Shukuen pointed out, “Who is that one?”
“There is a legend of the Jewel of Four Angels,” Kikyo said, “It can only be born when the descendants of true good and true evil meet to form one being which shall be bound with the power of the Jewel of Four Angels, which the jewel shall use as a host body,”
Shippou gagged, “So what you say, priestess, is that a baby is going to born with the Jewel of Four Angels using its body? That's sick!”
“Yes,” Kikyo said, “it is very disgusting indeed. That is why I have tried to-”
Kikyo suddenly stopped talking. A silence filled the room.
“Preiste-” Reichou asked.
“Ssh!” Kikyo said. She crept carefully to the corner of the room and pulled out her bow and arrow. She then whispered to Reichou, Shippou, and Shukuen, “Get down on the floor. When I give the signal, you three run,”
“What? Why?” Shippou asked.
“Shippou, this is no time to argue,” Kikyo snapped, “Just do as I say. Get down on the floor and when I give the signal, run,” Kikyo strung her bow and aimed at the ceiling. Her body was tense - she was waiting for something.
Shukuen lay on the wooden floor. He coughed as some dust went up his nose. Shippou still didn't see the point of getting on the floor, but Shukuen and Reichou had obeyed. Kikyo was aimed the ceiling, still.
“What's going on-” Shippou began.
He didn't finished. At that moment, something ripped the roof off of the hut…something huge. A roar ripped through the air and eight red eyes were glaring down at them. Shippou could only stare back at the eyes.
A feeling of nostalgia came over Inu-Yasha as Miroku and him went to park and found the Bone Eater's Well. The cover had been tossed off.
Inu-Yasha sniffed the air, “Shippou and Reichou have been here,” He then added miserably, “So has Shukuen and Tsuki. Their scent is all over the well,”
“So they did go to Sengoku no Jidai,” Miroku sighed, “I suppose we'll have to go and get them, drag them back home, and then yell at them,”
“The job of a parent is never done,” Inu-Yasha concluded.
Inu-Yasha and Miroku jumped the well - no use for stalling.
“It's getting late,” Tsuki whispered.
“Don't tell me you're leaving me now,” Akumashugi answered. He was still kissing her neck, “It seems you just got here,”
“I like to leave before dawn,” Tsuki said, “so that the police doesn't catch me or anything. You know how people are. `Have your teenagers locked in their rooms after sunset, parents. You never know what boys might be after them'. Great advice my principal gave at the PTO meeting my Mom made me go to,”
“But do you have to leave now?” Akumashugi asked.
Tsuki smiled and gave him a gentle kiss, “Yes, I have to,”
“Then let me give you something,” Akumashugi said.
“Okay,”
Akumashugi then began to kiss and suck at Tsuki's neck. Tsuki suddenly felt a pang of pain from her neck and she moved away from Akumashugi.
“What was that?” Tsuki muttered as she rubbed her neck.
“A gift,” Akumashugi answered, smiling, “from you to me,”
Tsuki gave him a kiss good-bye, still wondering what Akumashugi's gift was. She stepped outside of the hut and looked around. The area was located in the woods and the hut was obscured from above view by the trees and vines that were enclosed around it. It would take her a while, but she would be able to get back to the village and the Bone Eater's Well within an hour or so.
Tsuki leapt up into the air and towards the trees…
Kikyo let her arrow fly loose. It went whistling into the air and stabbed the beast in one of its legs. The arrow remained there, like a stiffened hair, as the beast roared and began to spit out a greenish fluid. The fluid hissed as it touched the hut floors and ceilings, eating away at anything that was there - acid! Kikyo let loose another arrow, but this one too stuck to the monster like hair. The monster took no true notice of the arrow and began to rip the hut apart. It was looking for something…
“My sacred arrows…don't work?” Kikyo gasped as she withdrew her bow. She then looked at Shippou, Shukuen, and Reichou (who were frozen with fear), “Run! I can use some of my powers to divert this thing the village!”
Shippou and Reichou were up, but Shukuen was stuck to the floor. He was too busy shaking out of fear to move.
“Would you get up?” Shippou said as he pulled at Shukuen's arm.
No reply. Shukuen was too frightened to move or speak. His entire body had paralyzed itself.
The creature roared again as it looked at Shukuen with red eyes; oozing with bloodlust. It reached out two of its hairy legs towards Shukuen - ready to grab the young man, or rip him apart.
The forest had seemed to grow a little thin, or so it had to Inu-Yasha. It seemed like it was getting smaller and smaller and was loosing it's special touch. Miroku and him climbed out of the Bone Eater's Well and observed the area.
“Do you smell them, Inu-Yasha?” Miroku asked.
Inu-Yasha sniffed the air. He then stiffened, “Yes. Shukuen, Tsuki, Shippou, Reichou - they were all here,” He sniffed the air again. “Tsuki left the group and went someone else. Shukuen, Shippou, and Reichou are all together,” He then paused. “…Kikyo is here….”
The faint sound of roaring filled the air.
“What is that…?” Miroku said, “A demon? But doesn't it sense Kikyo's powers…?”
Inu-Yasha shook his head, “No, no this is different…this doesn't have the demonic sense,”
Miroku paused, “I don't sense a demonic aura either,” He then turned to Inu-Yasha. “We should go investigate anyways,”
“Right,” Inu-Yasha said, “Shippou, Shukuen, and Reichou's scent is coming from that village,”
When they arrived at the village, it was filled with panic and terror. Men, women, and children were yelling and screaming in all directions as they ran from the village and into the woods nearby. What appeared to be a giant spider was attacking a hut.
“What in the hells is that?” Inu-Yasha asked.
“I am not sure,” Miroku replied, “There is no demonic aura around it, but it seems to be some sort of foreign monster,”
“Whatever it is,” Inu-Yasha said as he clicked his claws, “It's destroying the village and Shukuen is nearby!”
Inu-Yasha leapt into the air and attacked the creature.
Tsuki was up on the treetops - she was close to home now. The wind was wafting through her long silver hair, carrying the scent of something…strange. It wasn't like a demonic aura, but it was some sort of presence…a very large presence that reeked of evil. It was coming from the village, where the Bone Eater's Well was.
The wind was carrying the scent of fresh human blood and of her father…and of Miroku…
Tsuki knew as soon as she had sensed her father, there would be trouble.
Shukuen was ready to die. His heart was ready to slip up his throat and onto the ground and his eyes were squinted closed. The creature let out a roar of pain and when Shukuen realized that he wasn't dead; he opened his eyes and saw a familiar figure on top of the creature, slashing at it with his claws.
Inu-Yasha. His father.
“Dad?!” Shukuen gasped.
Inu-Yasha looked at Shukuen. His gaze was a fatherly one - concern filled and one of those `you are in some much trouble when we get home' glares. Shukuen heart was pounding as his father slashed through one of the creature's leg, causing the leg to crash to the ground. The creature roared in pain, as ooze came from the wound.
“Akuryo taisen!”
Shippou and Reichou gulped as some very familiar sutras appeared on the creature, taking no effect. Miroku appeared a few feet away, clenching his teeth in frustration on seeing that his sutras were taking no effect.
Inu-Yasha took one swipe at the creature's neck and the head lopped off. It slowly stopped moving and it then melted away into a pool of black and red ooze. An ooze stained Inu-Yasha approached Shukuen.
“Shukuen,” Inu-Yasha said, “what do you think you're doing here and where's your sister?”
“I don't know,” Shukuen confessed. He felt like crying but held back the tears, “she just went off and…and…”
“Are you trying to tell me that you let your sister go out in the woods all alone?!”
Shukuen was shaking, “…I…I didn't want to…she just…”
“Inu-Yasha,” Kikyo said. She walked toward him, “it's been a long time,”
“Yes, it has…” Inu-Yasha answered, “…Kikyo, I know we haven't kept in contact since Kaede…passed…but we don't have to be complete strangers from each other,”
“No,” Kikyo said, “we should be. You have a wife and children now that I have been given a second chance at life, as I am to fulfill my duties as a priestess which I could not to do due to Naraku's interference,”
Inu-Yasha was about to open his mouth when he stopped. He then turned to the, now dilapidated, door of the hut with an angry look in his eyes. He looked at Shukuen, “Come on. We need to get home,”
“We should leave too,” Miroku said, “now that I have my boys,”
Shippou and Reichou were nearby, both feeling a little meek after being yelled at. The five of them left Kikyo in the hut, heading in the direction of the Bone Eater's Well.
Tsuki had decided to avoid the village and just go straight to the Bone Eater's Well. If she could somehow sneak home and say she hadn't left, but she was in the attic all the time, she wouldn't have to deal with her father. As soon as Tsuki was near the well, the scent of her father and Miroku came to her. Tsuki did her best to keep silent and removed the cover of the well. She carefully got into the well, one leg at a time…
“Going somewhere, Tsuki?”
Tsuki looked up from the ground. She had one foot in the well now. Her father was a foot away from her. Next to him was Shukuen, looking ready to cry, an angry Miroku, and a meek looking Shippou and Reichou. Inu-Yasha had had his glare of `you are in even more trouble than Shukuen when you get home'.
Tsuki looked away. Avoid eye contact, eye contact would make you feel meek - Tsuki had learned this after her father and her had had their first argument. “I was going home,” Tsuki said with a stuck-up attitude. The attitude always irritated her father.
Indeed, the attitude did irritate Inu-Yasha, “So are we,”
All of them went down the well.
It was about midnight, close to one in the morning, when all the yelling was done at the Higurashi home. The punishment had been delivered onto Shukuen and Tsuki: grounded for two weeks (though for Tsuki, it was four weeks by now), no television, no computer, no radio, no after school clubs, no telephone, no mall, no allowance, no radio, no CD player, no movies, no video games, no arcade, no comic books, no hanging out, no going out - just come home, do homework, and possibly read a book.
“So I'm technically grounded for a month,” Tsuki said, “Don't you think that's a little unfair?”
“Unfair!” Inu-Yasha snorted, “If I wasn't concerned about the other teenagers with you, I would have sent you to military school!”
“Oh, like that's going to stop me,” Tsuki answered as she rolled her eyes. She turned away and headed for the living room door, “I'll be up in my room,”
As Tsuki turned her back, Inu-Yasha glanced at Tsuki's neck, “Tsuki…what's that on your neck?”
Tsuki clasped a hand over her neck, ”Nothing,”
“Let me see,” Kagome said.
“Mom, it's nothing!” Tsuki said as she began to back away.
Kagome pulled away Tsuki's hand from her neck and she glanced at the mark, “Tsuki, you got a hickey?”
“…no…” Tsuki said. She knew what a hickey was, but she had never had one, until tonight. She had heard about it from some of the kids at school: an American trend, the lip marks on the neck, the proud girls, the enraged parents…something teenagers would do.
“You…got…a…WHAT?” Inu-Yasha yelled.
“Gotta go!” Tsuki said as she ran out of the living room, up the stairs, and into the bedroom. After a few minuets of awkward silence, Shukuen went to his room as well.
Inu-Yasha wore an expression of concern, but Kagome was thrilled, “Oh, Inu-Yasha! That's what this is all about! Little Tsuki must have a boyfriend! No wonder she's been sneaking out!”
“…boyfriend?” Inu-Yasha asked.
“Yes! Who else would have given her that?”
“Are you trying telling me that a boy…”
“…yes,”
“…a boy is putting his hands…”
“…yes…”
“…and lips…”
“…yes…”
“…on my little girl?!”
Kagome shrugged, “Yes, I would have to say so,”
Inu-Yasha went for the Tetsaiga, which was now placed over the fireplace like a family heirloom, “I'LL KILL HIM!”
