InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Psychosis ❯ The True Unveiling ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Their weapons disappeared as they jumped into Kagome’s Mustang, the shaded vehicle roared out of the alleyway and sliced through the blackened streets until being thrown backward by some sort light that laminated a midnight blue. The group hopped out of the car and stood in the middle of a deserted street while Ms. Higurashi pulled out the ignition key and joined the rest of them. When everyone was outside the black Ford, a flash of light overtook the six and in a split second, they were all dressed for battle and grasped their weapons. “What the hell was that?” She questioned.
Slaughter smiled, “Ah…battle costume runes…little trick I learned from some petty sorcerer who was obsessed with final fantasy…until I decapitated him…” He stated, shrugging his shoulders.
Just then, Inuyasha charged forward with his claws, ready to slash the glowing obstacle that kept them from advancing, but Zach blocked his path. “Inuyasha, draw your new blade. This is a magical barrier…pay attention and I shall show you a barrier-breaking technique that only you can do.” Inuyasha was reluctant to let Slaughter assist him.
“Back the fuck off, I don’t need your goddamned help! I‘ll use my new sword and destroy that fucking thing by myself!” And with that, he pulled the sword from it’s sheath and pointed it toward the barrier. Shock and confusion suddenly enveloped him, this piece of shit sword was all worn and chipped with rags wrapped around the handle. His eyes blazed with anger and frustration, “This is NOT the sword I held in my hands while we were in that other realm.”
Zachary nodded, “Of course not, you gotta transform it first. Do that by gripping it tight in your hands until you feel a pulse of power coming from the blade itself. After you get that pulsating feeling, loosen your hold on the handle a bit, this lets out a small amount of energy and the sword will transform into its true self.”
Inuyasha lifted his eyebrow, “Are you sure you know what you’re talking about? Fine…I’ll try it.” So he did do what Zach said…and by the gods it worked! The worn-out blade turned into an enormous cleaving sword that was larger than it’s wielder. Sango gasped as Inuyasha swung it towards her but stopped right before hitting her.
“INUYASHA, CUT THE SHIT!” She cried, smacking him in the head with her huge boomerang. He began to growl at her, but Zachary once again stepped in.
“Chill out you two, now your blade is no ordinary weapon Inuyasha. It was carved from the very fang of your late father Inu Youkai, many, many years ago and is known as the Tetsusaiga.” Inuyasha’s eyes widened.
“MY FATHER?! HOW DO YOU KNOW MY FATHER?! TO PUT IT MORE SIMPLY…HOW THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW ANY OF THIS TO BEGIN WITH?!” Inuyasha thundered, glaring at Zach.
Just then, a bunch of thugs wearing suits ran into the alleys, some of them grasping lead pipes and baseball bats. They forgot about the barrier for the time being and turned toward the attackers. Slaughter smiled and looked up as dual blades appeared in his hands, “ Don’t know who the fuck these cats are, but it’s time to show em` what you got, boys and girls!”
Sango slung the gigantic boomerang over her shoulder and whipped it at two people, cutting them both in halves. Next up, Dieter concentrated and formed an Rocket Launcher out of pure Runic Energy and launched it at four thugs, blasting their bodies to bloody bits. Kagome drew a bow and fitted an arrow, letting it fly through three people‘s foreheads. Her attack ended with a blast of purple light bursting from the purifying arrow tip sticking straight into the wall. Miroku’s move followed over them, with a swoosh of his hand, five charms attached themselves to the thugs in suits and began glowing. Then…like that they burst into flames and reduced the men’s skulls to black heaping piles of ash! Inuyasha and Zach were the last to attack as they backed themselves against the wall, twenty suits began crowding them and flailing their weapons. Zach looked towards Inuyasha and nodded, readying himself, “Let’s split this crowd in half!”
Inuyasha smiled and gripped the Tetsusaiga, nodding as well, “Hell yeah, exactly what I was thinking!” With that, he swung the Steel Cleaving Fang with all his might as the enormous sword plowed into the concrete, creating a fracture that was moving closer and closer to the unlucky thugs until colliding with ten of them. He laughed hysterically as the ten suits he attacked were ripped to bloody stumps and puddles of gore. The other ten, although shaken by the attack, pulled themselves to their feet and ran towards Slaughter who caught two and slid his blades through them. As he levitated into the air, the dual swords shone brightly and the two dead thugs suddenly evaporated into thin air. Just then…an inverted pentagram drawn in blood appeared behind the Hades Vamp and rotated slowly as he began to speak:
“O Dark Angel of the Lower Realm, Accept my Altar’s Offerings and Lend Me Thy Endless Pain and Torture to Obliterate ALL!” He roared, his voice turning echoing and burning. The pentagram stopped dead and pulsated slowly, the blood it was drawn with then began to drip off and absorb into Slaughter until the symbol etched into the top of each hand. His eyes went black and his lips an icy blue, “Prove to these fools your walls of pyre know no bounds, my Lord Hades…SHOW THEM THE VEINS OF HELL!” The marks on top of his hands suddenly became gateways to the underworld and bellowed walls of flames from either mark as Zachary hefted his arms into the air and crisscrossed them, incinerating the other eight thugs in suits. After Slaughter was sure their sorry souls were falling to the river Styx, he clenched his fists and the gateways vanished. The upside-down five-pointed stars did not leave however, they scalded away and scarred the tops of his hands brutally, leaving Zach to lie on the concrete and wail in agony while his skin sizzled. To all of them, the sight was obvious that the burns were painful…but he would soon see that this pain was nothing compared to what was to come…
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1:45 P.M. at Kagome’s house:

Zachary awoke to five worried faces staring at him right as he opened his eyes, scaring the holy hell out of him, “SON OF A BITCH!” He cried in both misery and surprise. Inuyasha grabbed him.
“Whoa, easy man, you’ll be alright. More importantly though, what the hell was that crazy move you pulled yesterday?”
Zach pushed Inuyasha off of him, wincing in even more excruciating pain but shaking it off, “It’s Demonic Runes, magic fueled entirely by Lord Hades himself. It gives the wielder full access to Hell’s secrets but brands into them the Marks of Hell (one of them of course being the inverted pentagram) the first time the user unlocks it. It is the wielder’s choice where their scars are by which spell they use their first time. But I believe this is the only Rune that puts the mark on you…usually you have to mark yourself with the magic‘s elements or acquire it from a stolen soul.”
Inuyasha marveled at what he was hearing, “Kind of brutal…but then again I love brutality! Anyway, I learned that barrier-breaking technique on my own so you don’t have to worry about teaching me shit anymore.” Zachary looked up at him and laughed.
“Oh is that so? Well kid, show me what you can do then.” He tried to stand but fell straight back down on Kagome’s bed, “HOLY SHIT! I can’t move my body!”
“Chill out drama queen, you just tired yourself out yesterday so you won’t be able to get up for a few hours. Anyway, how do you think we got through the barrier last night, you sure didn‘t magically break it while passed out on the ground!”
Inuyasha pulled a joint from his pocket and stood, about to leave for the shrine, “Come on Kagome, I gotta smoke some ganja, this fool’s gonna be hamming it up all day!”
But his words were in vain, because his very own girlfriend was kneeling at Slaughter’s side holding his hand in hers. He let out a menacing growl that got everyone’s attention although they knew nothing of why he did it or what it meant. But Kagome did, her boyfriend was PISSED. Extremely pissed. At her, no doubt, but what the hell did she do? Perhaps she would soon see when she follows him to the shrine…
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In the Shrine:

The lights were dim but Kagome could see Inuyasha’s eyes cut through the darkness like a razor-sharp katana through flesh and bone. His expression he wore was most unsettling, the silvery hair was strung out in front of his face which was staring halfway at the ground and her at the same time and the joint was blazing as he breathed rhythmically in and out. After every breath, more and more smoke was expelled from his lungs and the joint suddenly burned to a roach and sucked into his lungs. Inuyasha finally glanced up at her, “Kagome…” Her name quietly escaped his lips as he approached her, “Something‘s going on between you two…don’t try to lie to me I‘m not fucking stupid…!”
Kagome’s eyes widened, “What the fuck are you talking about, Inuyasha? And more importantly who the fuck are you talking about?”
Inuyasha’s temper erupted, “WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHIT?! I SAID DON’T INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE BY FUCKING LYING KAGOME!” His voice broke out into a devilish scream no different than a death metal growl. “Fine…you wanna know who the fuck I’m talking about? Zach, that’s who!” Kagome lifted her eyebrow.
“You think I want Zach? Bullshit, you’re too fucking jealous, Inuyasha!”
Inuyasha grabbed her by the throat and threw her against the wall, his eyes ablaze, “I can see your lies Kagome, these demon powers don’t just make me stronger they also make me smarter and it’s really hard to hide something like that from a demon. So confess to me now and I won’t eviscerate you!” Kagome looked up into her lover’s eyes as tears began running freely down her cheeks.
“INUYASHA! You’re so cruel, how can you even speak such words to the one you love?!”
His expression only got meaner, becoming even more filled with hatred, “TELL ME NOW, KAGOME! I knew from the second we met him you two were looking each other up and down, now FUCKING CONFESS!”
Kagome’s eyes streamed tears now because she knew her innocent act was not working. The reason she was crying was not because he was screaming at her, but because he was right. Everything he said was correct. She stared deeply into the frightening demonic eyes of Inuyasha and took a deep breath, “Inuyasha…I can’t lie to you…he and I…we had sex last night after you went to bed…”
Inuyasha smashed his right fist straight through the back wall of the shrine, “I FUCKING KNEW IT! WHY? WHY THE HELL HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME KAGOME?”
Kagome started to cry again, “Inuyasha, please listen to me!” She desperately screamed as glared threateningly at her. “Zach was talking to me about Hojo and I got WAY too into the moment and he started kissing me. One thing led to another and well…we fucked. Gods…I can’t even bear to live anymore, please forgive me Inuyasha…I love you so much…” Her screams turned into quiet sobs as she fell against his chest as the lyrics of “What Comes Around” by Ill Nino played in his head.
“You’re always thinking you’re so perfect, those thoughts drove me away from home. But if you put me through these tests then I will fade. I have nothing to say, but I feel like my mouth is open. Everything that is real, comes around, comes around…” Those few lines ran through his head as Kagome leaned into kiss him and he threw her into the wall , smashing open a hole and diving through it. Kagome slowly stood and looked through the opening, still bawling her eyes out. But he was nowhere to be seen.

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Back Inside the House:

Kagome stumbled in, badly bruised, catching everyone’s stares upon her broken body, “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED, KAGOME?” Sango asked, horrified. “Inu…Yasha…I…told him…and now he left me…all alone…” With that she fell towards the floor, unconscious. But before her body connected, Zach had jumped from lying motionless in Kagome’s bed to cradling her limp form in his arms. After he had laid Kagome down where he was seconds before, he checked her wounds.
“Evidence of demon claw marks around her neck, a few bruises from beatings and chunks of wall plaster from the shrine in the scrapes on her side can be seen. It seems she has told Inuyasha about mine and her little ‘affair’ last night…” Slaughter commented as he kissed Kagome on the forehead.
Dieter scratched his dome, “Wait a minute, I thought Inuyasha and Kagome were seeing each other, am I not correct?”
Miroku drew his staff and put it to the vampire’s throat, “Yes indeed, so what the hell do you mean ?”
Slaughter let out sadistic laughter and pushed the staff away with his index finger, “Well WHAT THE HELL do you think I mean? I said affair didn’t I? Isn’t that enough info for you guys?!”
Sango shook her head, “It doesn’t fucking matter what you say you MONSTER, Inuyasha will end your life for touching Kagome!”
Zach’s evil laughter turned into insane chortling and roaring chuckles that sent chills down everybody’s spines, “But that‘d be pretty hypocritical, since he was the one who hurt her. That is right. Your dear friend, Inuyasha did this to Kagome. HE is the monster!” The group looked at him like he was half-crazed with madness.
“Inuyasha would never do something to hurt Kagome, especially something as horrible as this!” Sango cried into Miroku’s shoulder. The monk kissed his girlfriend and looked straight into Zach’s soul, gasping in horror, “Zachary’s not lying Sango, it’s easy to tell if someone’s lying and he is NOT!” Zach smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
“Well…told ya…” He said with a smirk. Sango took a swing at him with deadly accuracy but missed to her surprise which caused Slaughter’s simpering smile to grow rapidly, “Easy now dear Sango, we don’t want you injuring yourself now, do we?” Sango took another but was caught by Miroku.
“It’s useless Sango, let’s focus on taking care of Kagome for now.” Reluctantly, she agreed…
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Somewhere in the forest:

The cold steel blade of the dagger slid smoothly through his flesh as he swiftly carved a symbolical rune into the top of both arms, his left arm bearing the mark of the sun, the right possessing the moon‘s. After closing off the last line he needed with a flick of the knife, he smiled and licked off the horrendous amount of blood that ran from his arms, “She betrayed me…everything I thought I knew about her was a lie…I bet she’s forgotten all about me and is with that prick Zach right now!” Inuyasha stopped and looked towards the sky with tear-filled eyes, “I bet I meant nothing to her…just another boyfriend that she could fuck over and use whenever she likes…but I won‘t be used anymore!”
An energy wave exploded from Inuyasha’s body and took down a number of large trees, sending them flying. The tears stopped as this happened, “Unbefuckinglievable…it worked!” Inuyasha cried as he arose. To test out something, he swiped his left arm at a nearby standing tree, this caused a widespread beam of light burst from his hand that literally melted a rock into plasma! Then came the right hand, swishing like his left, out of it went pure darkness that covered a tree and sent it to another dimension! Inuyasha then leapt into the air with a blazing fist combo that actually distorted the gravity around him, causing the air around his attacks to ripple.
“Beautiful!” Inuyasha cried, landing the combo and doing a side-spinning kick that sent a whirlwind of distorted space ripping through the woods. The gale of forest materials soared around and around in the air until nature balanced itself out and the cyclone faded. After landing once again on the ground, Inuyasha noticed that the slight pains stinging on his arms had totally vanished. He looked towards the gashes, gasping, “My runes…they’re fucking black!” He screamed, starting to panic. Inuyasha had figured that the black meant he was about to lose his arms…but suddenly realized what caused the darkness of runes…IT WAS FUCKING INK! He had no idea how, but the symbols had become tattoos!
Inuyasha looked around and scratched his head, “Son of a bitch…how the hell did I get tattoos when I carved them in…?” Then…out of nowhere his question was answered.
“It was me, Inuyasha…and I did it for a good reason. Do you not know that if you want to keep the magic you have to tattoo the runes to yourself?” The utterly confused dog boy frantically looked everywhere, searching for the source of the voice.
“Who the hell said that? Show yourself now!” He said menacingly, growling. The voice boomed again out of nowhere.
“My name is Inu Youkai…I am an ancient and powerful dog demon that has been watching you for quite some time and am actually very pleased that you didn‘t need me to interfere until now…well…besides giving you the Tetsusaiga anyway.”
Inuyasha gasped in horror, “Inu…Youkai…the Tetsusaiga…you…you’re my father!” The voice sighed happily.
“Yes, of course I am my son. I know it‘s hard to believe but your new sword was forged from my own fang.” Inuyasha’s father explained.
This was very puzzling to the young half-demon and it had seemed all lies to him but at the same he knew it was true. Inuyasha looked up at the sky, “I can’t fight on anymore, Father.” He said with a desperate tone in his voice, “How the fuck am I ever going to acquire enough of this mysticism in time to fight Zach…?” The elder dog demon gave a deep but friendly laugh.
“You must relax, my son. Learning AND mastering multiple magic elements is hard enough considering you’re going up against a real-time Hades Vamp by yourself. But think about it though, I will be guiding you through the rest of your training.”
Inuyasha nodded, ’True…I guess you DO have a point. But the guy’s a freaking tank, how the hell am I gonna stop him?” A large stone materialized directly in his path.
“Quickly Inuyasha, combine the powers of your two Runic symbols, it’ll shift all of an object’s weight to its top where the excess mass crushes the target. I like to call this move Inertia.” Excitement suddenly lit up in Inuyasha’s eyes.
“Are you shitting me?!” He cried, lifting both hands up in unison. The really big rock began trembling uncontrollably as both of his tattoos shone brightly until finally, he slapped his hands together and the boulder did just as Inu-Youkai had said right before detonating itself into billions of pieces. “Awesome…” Was all the half demon managed to say…
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The Higurashi household (a few hours after Inuyasha’s disappearance)

Kagome awoke in her bed, a slightly familiar scent wafting just across her nose, it caused her to think hard for a moment. To try and bring meaning to this strange smell and the painful sensations it came with, and soon her senses would slowly come back to life. The scent was blood, which shed light on the slightly agonizing fact that her body was littered with scrapes and cuts. And sleeping next to her was the cause of the whole mess, Zach…that fucking snake! If he hadn’t seduced her, she wouldn’t be in a situation like this, badly beaten to a pulp by her own damned boyfriend?! Kagome did NOT deserve any of this, so why was she being punished? Just then, it hit her… pretty damn hard and right in the fucking cranium. Zach had NOT raped her and she had NOT resisted his charm so it was mostly her fault. She needed to stop blaming everyone else and start pointing the finger at her own evil deeds.
“How the hell could I let myself be so egocentric…?” She thought silently, making an effort to stand with no success.
Outside, eight consecutive gunshots went off and brought Slaughter to his feet, “Sleep soundly, my dear Kagome…” The vampire’s voice was clouded with valor and pride, “Those bastards will be roasting in hell before they know it!” He had not even realized that Ms. Higurashi was awake in bed and hurriedly sped out the window with an athletic leap. After the overly self-absorbed Zachary was out of sight, Kagome looked outside to find none other than Faust, firing off another weapon he had created out of Runic energy, a semi-automatic SKS assault rifle.
Zach’s body hit the dirt hard as he blacked out. “You win the bet, Dieter. I should have known, he flew right out the goddamned window!” Miroku chuckled, his eyes starting to tear from laughing too hard. The boom of their scornful cackling sent Zach spinning into another world of the past…
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Yup...thats the end of the chapter...it was another short one but hey, at least i got it done, right? I was FUCKED UP when i wrote this as always so yeah...
Your friendly neighborhood stoner, Rob