InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Prologue - A Test of Memory (The Coming of Rinkatsu) ❯ Koga and Sesshomaru ( Chapter 17 )

"Jaken..." said Sesshomaru cooly.

"Yes! Lord Sesshomaru!" replied Jaken.

"We are being watched," said Sesshomaru.

"But who would be such a fool as to spy upon you, my lord?" asked Jaken.

Sesshomaru didn't answer. He only stared into the trees. He was in a small clearing in the woods which the moon lit just enough to see ones hands. Jaken looked about to see who the spy was when suddenly he was surprised by a struggle from his masters direction.

Sesshomaru quickly unsheated his sword and turned in time to deflect the swift attack of a wolf demon. It was Koga.

"Foolish demon," said Sesshomaru dryly, "you seek death. You'd of been better to kill yourself, for I will not spare you the suffering." He swung his mighty sword, Katanakatsu at Koga.

"Me? Foolish?" laughed Koga as he dodged Sesshomaru's blade. "You're the idiot who kidnapped Ayame! Now give her back!" He lunged at Sesshomaru.

"You'd be best not to accuse... for it is you who is the theif... you took her now give her to me," said Sesshomaru as he dodged Koga. (He is referring to Rin)

Sesshomaru and Koga bouted for quite some time and yelled and accused. Jaken watched as his master dueled, and soon to leave the forest was Hakakka and Ginta who were hiding. Jaken spotted them, as did they to him. They shouted about their master's glories and eventually got to sparring.

Ginta gave Jaken a swift kick to the head, sending him backwards, close the the clearing boarder. When he began coming back to reality, he found himself looking up at a ghastly man. He screamed.

Sesshomaru and Koga stopped fighting inches away from giving each other a fatal blow. They stayed, frozen in position, and looked towards the scream. There were three bodies laying in the grass, covered in blood. One was small and the others were normal sized. There was also a man standing among this death.

"You should stop fighting each other... your strengths would do so much better if they were to assist me," said the man.

Koga and Sesshomaru remained silent.

"I would assume you search for these?" said the man as he made a casting movement with his hands towards the ground, like that which a geomancer would make. Up from the ground came to earthen cages holding two scared girls: Ayame and Rin.

Koga, overcome with anger, ran to the man ready to strike. "You bastard!"

The man made another movement with his hand in which he created a shield that stopped Koga and threw him back. Sesshomaru remained composed.

"It was quite simple... really... I sent one of my minions to create some quarrel between you two. He gave you false imformation about the disappearance of these two in which you kidnapped each other's women." He laughed. "Now, I give you two options: serve me or I kill them."

"Wha...what!" yelled Koga. "N-no!"

The man made a sword from a rock and acted as though he were ready to kill Ayame.

Koga yelled, "Stop! I'll serve you!... I'll... I'll serve you..."

The man cast a glance at the still composed Sesshomaru. "And as for you?"

Sesshomaru looked at him. He said nothing, but his response was obvious.