InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Psychosis ❯ In Favor Of The Dark ( Chapter 6 )

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

Disclaimer: The Inuyasha characters were all created by the anime genius Rumiko Takahashi, I did not have any place in creating them, any other character in this story however is mine…
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Back in the Higurashi house, a day later:

Zach’s eyes opened slowly as an ache throbbed at his head, a blurry figure came into view. The hazy character seemed to be dabbing a rubbing alcohol soaked rag at what seemed to be a wound on his forehead. Finally, Zachary’s vision cleared up and he realized that Kagome had been tending him while he SLEPT. “Aw…I didn’t know you cared…” He said with a sarcastic tone while sitting up. Kagome’s eyes widened and she jumped back to a safe distance.
“Holy fucking hell, you’re awake!” She cried, dropping the rag, “You‘ve been out for two days straight and took a nasty fall, but since your powers weren‘t fully recovered when it happened, I decided to take care of you until you woke up. But you were asleep so long, it kind of took me by surprise when you just spoke out of nowhere!”
Zach couldn’t help but laugh at this, “You know…you should really make up your mind…” Kagome shot him a look that basically said she didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about. “Every time he pisses you off or you two fight, you come to me for answers, beg me to have sex with you then blame it on me, and now…you care for me while I was unconscious…what the hell’s up with that?”
She sighed and glanced away, staying silent for a minute or two until finally answering, “Zach…you don’t know how remorseful I am when I think about how I’ve been treating you…that’s why I’ve taken care of you for the past couple days. It was kind of like paying you back for everything you’ve done for me.”
Then…he had surprised her once more by smiling, “Thanks, nice to know someone likes me.” He said with the same sarcastic tone as earlier.
Kagome giggled and shook her head, “You know…I really don’t think Inuyasha’s coming back to me. I really don’t think I WANT him back, tell you the truth. He beats the living shit out of me, torments me, and then leaves…”
“No matter the human blood, he has youkai blood is well, hence why they call him a ‘HALF DEMON’. You see, everyone knows it is not wise to anger a demon…that is unless you’re ready to fight back. You cheated on him anyway, I‘m not saying you deserved it but what you did wasn‘t a very noble deed, either…” The seriousness laced with the truth in his words really got to her.Kagome sat down next to him and lowered her head, “Now, what am I going to do…the one man I loved has left me for god knows who, we’re at war with my psychotic ex-boyfriend, and on top of that…I think I have a couple broken ribs…” She let out a deep sigh, suddenly feeling an arm wrap around her and a hand stroke her cheek.
“No matter what the hell happens, Kagome, I will be here to protect you. Inuyasha has given his word to do the same, but that promise doesn’t seem to be valid anymore. So tonight, I want to provide you with my initial services, if you know what I mean.” He winked and gave her a seductive smile
Her face became beat red as he said this, “Yeah, I know exactly what you mean…so why don’t you do something useful with those services and do fucking dishes!” After that comment, she burst into laughter.
Zachary narrowed his eyes, “Yeah yeah, that’s fucking hilarious, but you know what I meant! Damn it all, Kagome you’re acting like Inuyasha!”
She chuckled a bit more and laid her head on his shoulder, “His smartass attitude kind of rubbed off on me, guess that’s what I get for hanging around him so much.” With that, she pushed Zach back onto the bed, lying on top of him, “Maybe we should stop talking about him…hey…here’s an idea, how’s about we go out to the shrine and you refresh me on how good your services really are!”
Zachary stood slowly and helped her up, motioning towards the door, “After you, my dear…”
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Deep within a dark forest:


A dead silence crept through the shadowy branches as an assailant lurked through them, his eyes glowing gold through the blackness formed from the enormous canopy of tree branches that literally blanketed the top of the whole area. Four kids, each about the ages of sixteen, walked carelessly with one of them carrying a flashlight. They were passing a joint around as they approached the tree near the clearing, where Inuyasha had been living for the past few days. After they sat down next to the tree and finished the joint, the one who provided the ganja pulled out his bag and rolled another one. Their actions were put to a halt as a blood-curdling growl sent shivers down all their spines. This was followed by a boy with silver hair as he dropped to the ground and stepped towards them, “Light it up and let me hit it, after all…you’re sitting next to where I live.” Hissed the Hanyou.
The kid with the joint laughed, “What, you think I’m gonna let some fucking freak like you hit up on my weed? HELL NO, GO FUCK YOURSELF!”
Inuyasha still approached them, “Tell you what, you little punk fucks…how about I make you a deal. The one who has the pot will roll two blunts and I will as well, then we‘ll each burn a blunt of our own and the other‘s. But there is one catch…one of you boys have a gun, don’t you? I can smell the gunpowder on one of you.” They all shook their heads except the one with the ganja, “Yeah, I got one…what of it?” The kid pulled out a shiny, black .45 and proceeded to wave it in the Hanyou‘s face.
Inuyasha started to laugh, “Alright then, we’re set. The object of this smoke down is to burn as much as you can without choking once or backing down. The minute either challenger does this, they will be killed immediately…and so is the way of the hardcore stoner.”
The group of boys’ faces went white, “W…what the hell…you’re fucking crazy, man!” The kid with the pot cried in fear.
Inuyasha began to roar in laughter, “Okay, fine then you pussy ass motherfucker, be a little bitch and wimp out. Why do you fucking carry that piece of shit around anyway, just to threaten little kids into giving you their candy?” Obviously, Inuyasha knew how to piss the challenger off because the boy flipped his lid.
“Look you son of a bitch, I’ll show you who’s a pussy!” And so the kid rolled the rest of his shit into a berry blunt wrap and a purple haze blunt wrap. When they were rolled, he exchanged Inuyasha the berry for a honey blunt wrap that the silver-haired kid had twisted off real quick. The Hanyou rolled for himself, a six-and-a-half gram blunt in a Tequila wrap while the other kid had a dime thrown into his honey wrap. This caused him to piss and moan, “Man, what the fuck?! A dime isn’t going to get me high!”
Inuyasha shook his head as he lit the other kid’s pot cigar up first, “This stuff ain‘t like nothing you‘ve ever smoked, son.”
The others watched closely as the challenger lifted the silver-haired kid’s ganja to his lips, puffed on it for a second, then just like that he began to wheeze heavily, his eyes suddenly appeared like they were bleeding and he seemed to lose his breath. When the boy gazed over at Inuyasha to see how he was doing, the challenger gasped in horror. The Hanyou had already finished the berry blunt and was now halfway down on the Tequila monster. It all happened like a dream after the last puff off the honey wrap dime blunt, which sent his head spinning as he hit the forest floor. When regaining consciousness, he stood up slowly and looked at Inuyasha in both hatred and fear, “Y…you laced my weed…”
The silver-haired kid shook his head, “Nope, that’s pure homegrown grass, buddy. Want me to prove it?” He opened up a freezer bag with about a half-pound of pure white weed that looked like it had little crystallized rocks the size of a one carat diamond thrown in. The challenger was enraged.
“See, I fucking told you man, all those rocks…I can’t believe you’re a meth head…but then again you DO look the part!”
Inuyasha cocked his head to the side, “What the fuck did you just say? Motherfucker, those are THC crystals, I told you it’s pure homegrown ganja, nothing else. I was going to let you slide because I felt bad about how fast you dropped to your knees and passed out, but now I’m overlooking that. DRAW YOUR WEAPON, NOW!” The kid quickly reached for his gun, but his hands were shaking and it took him a bit to get it. Once out, he pointed it at where Inuyasha was standing, but to no avail. The hanyou was nowhere in sight, until the kid looked up, which a dark, animalistic shadow with glowing golden eyes had then suddenly dropped down upon him. The creature bared resemblance to the silver-haired boy, but it was just too inhuman to be him. In a flash, the fiendish devil had the challenger by the base of the neck on the ground, slowly digging the claws on his thumbs into the poor kid’s shoulders, “ You‘ve disrespected me…doubted my power…and now you shall see who the dominant one is in the living category…ME!”
The boy thrashed uncontrollably as the youkai’s talon-like fingernails burrowed deeper into his flesh, causing him to cry out in anguish and pure terror, “P…PLEASE! No…more…I don’t wanna die…especially…not like this! I did nothing to you…I don’t even know who you are! Please…I’m begging you…I can get you anything you want, loads of money, heavy amounts of every drug known to mankind, thousands upon thousands of weapons, JUST DON’T KILL ME!” Tears began to flow freely from his eyes and a look of desperation suddenly overtook the challengers face.
The creature smiled wickedly as the kid finally acknowledged the nails completely buried into his arms, but by then it was too late. The hands that belonged to the vile beast twisted and pulled, entirely tearing off both arms and tossing them into the air. A shower of crimson erupted from the boy’s sockets like a volcano shooting lava as it sprayed Inuyasha in the face, this only fueling his love for torture and death. The discarded limbs dropped next to them, causing the sixteen year old to let out a cry that was almost animalistic in a sense once he had realized what the demon had done to him. That was the sound the dog boy was searching for, like the high-pitched shriek of a rabbit giving off its last yelp of anguish after being hunted down and shot. The beastly creature grinned nefariously, seeing the misery and despair that literally bled through the kid’s eyes. Inuyasha knew he had put the challenger through a lot of brutality just then, but it was obvious this little punk needed to suffer through more.
“Well…you seem to be enjoying yourself…so…let’s see how much fun you have without your eyes!” The armless bloody stump of a sixteen year old thrashed and rolled around for about fifteen seconds until Inuyasha reached around and jammed his index finger into the spine of the teenager. This action completely paralyzed the victim, the fact making itself known by his whole body going limp and staying stationary, “AH!!! MY BODY!!! It…it’s numb…I can’t feel anything…” The boy’s face was struck with dread as he said this.
Demented chuckling boomed and caused the immobilized boy to wince in ache, he had always figured if someone broke their spine, they would experience no feeling at all, “Just so you know, I destroyed every disc in your spinal cord that allows movement, you can’ t even blink by yourself! Which brings me to what I wanted to do earlier!!! The half-demon held out one claw and slowly cut away at the corner of the challenger’s left eye, letting blood squirt in a small stream and making the kid roar into futile bellows for help that would go unanswered. Inuyasha then shoved his claw deep into the rest of the teenager’s left eye and popped it out of socket, slowly pulling it towards himself. The eyeball was still attached to its optic nerves so the dog demon got a firm grip on the chords coming out of the kid’s skull and yanked hard. Red gorily pumped out of the empty eye socket, along with pieces of the prey’s brain, causing the agony to be too much for the boy.
He began to call out as loud as he could, desperate to reach someone, “ I WAS WRONG, I CAN STILL FEEL PAIN! MOMMY! HELP ME MOMMY, IT HURTS SO BAD!!! MAKE THE TORMENTING GO AWAY!” This made the youkai reach over and plunge three fingers into the other eyeball of the kid, crushing the right one into the back of his head. The challenger’s woe was way too heavy and it made him lose consciousness, but Inuyasha wasn’t going to allow the boy to die in his sleep, so he woke him back up.
“So sorry to tell you this…it’s been a blast, kid…but I’m afraid it’s time to say goodbye to your physical form… NOW DIE!!! ” His fangs gleamed from the little light available in the dark forest as he bit down into the boy’s throat and tore out his jugular.
As Inuyasha rose, his body reverted back to its normal self and he had realized the situation he was in. The other kids had already beat feet out of there, not even leaving a trace of their presence in the woods. Things would’ve been right, had the hanyou killed the challenger quickly and took out the others as well, but instead they had seen him slowly get tormented and murdered. The only good aspect out of this was that he was seen as a pure dog demon, not in his half-demon stage. “So…I bet people are gonna be thinking there’s some kind of monster out here…” Inuyasha sighed in annoyance, “Well…guess I could use the extra practice…”
A hardy laugh echoed from the skies, “Congratulations on your victory, son…but you do realize that your enemy is a full blown Vamp of Hades and your ex-girlfriend‘s ex-boyfriend, not a sixteen year old who doesn’t know how to use a gun…right?”
Inuyasha snorted, “Yeah, I know…killing him didn’t help my skills…but at least I got a free meal.”
The voice agreed, “Indeed…feed on his flesh and drink of his blood, draw from his life force to increase your own well being.”
And so that is what Inuyasha did. He jumped back into full demon and began tearing the corpse to shreds.
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Really early the next morning:

The carcass was now a bare skeleton, stripped of every single string of meat, tendon, and cartilage. Inuyasha lay slumbering against a bare limb high in an enormous oak tree when a spotlight shot through the forest and reflected off the dog boy‘s silver hair, catching the user’s attention. “Stop the fucking car…there’s something in that big oak.” A black armored SUV squealed to a halt as six fully armed Special Forces officers hopped out the back of the vehicle, each issued an SMG equipped with a flashlight and laser sight. The squad leader made a signal with his hand and nodded towards the oak, “THAT’S WHAT WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR BOYS, NOW PUT THAT MOTHERFUCKER TO DEATH!” This command sent the small platoon to rush towards the woods where the target slept.
Inuyasha was already awake, stirred by the sound of working brakes and the smell of burnt rubber. He reacted instantly, but it was obvious instantly wasn‘t good enough. A sudden barrage of hot lead ricocheted through the trees, a few bullets skipping across the dog boy’s left collarbone, left forearm, right leg, and right bicep. The resulting shock of pain triggered the half-demon to collapse before being able to transform, leaving him immobilized as he slept once more, this time in a pool of blood. The platoon leader lifted his hand into the air, commanding the SWAT members to cease firing their weapons, “It’s dead, now burn the body so there’s no evidence of this vile creature ever existing, whatever the hell it is. When asked by anyone about what killed the boy, we will simply respond by saying it was an escaped panther from the Tokyo Zoo, GOT IT?”
“SIR YES SIR!” Came a unanimous reply from the whole company. One officer ran to the SUV, returning immediately holding a flamethrower armed with a full tank of napalm.
The leader approached the seemingly dead beast, looking up at the stars, “Let this be a lesson to him and his kind…NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL YOU THINK YOU ARE, NOBODY FUCKS WITH MY CITY OR TOKYO SWAT!” The man laughed out loud, rather pleased with himself. He then turned his attention back towards where the body was, “Now torch this son of a…WHERE THE HELL DID HE…!” The squad leader couldn’t finish as an enormous sword was jammed through him, ripping the guy in half and covering his subordinates with scarlet fluids.
A SWAT member dropped to his knees and began to vomit at the sight of their leader being callously slain while they helplessly watched. Then…there came a deceptive solace that plummeted with such energy over the company that all of them shivered as it metaphorically glided through them. The only sound that could be heard was the man’s bile splashing on the forest floor. The officers sat, mouths agape, not sure what to think about what they had just witnessed. Then, a voice spoke out of the blue, causing the whole platoon to jump in unison, “Do you really believe it’s that easy to kill a demon? HA! You humans really are amusing! Tell you what…I’m feeling lenient today…so…if you can make it to that vehicle before I rip you all to shreds then I’ll let you live. Ready? GO!” The officers scrambled towards the SUV, tripping on their own feet. The most unfortunate one was the guy that had been throwing up, whose head was separated from his shoulders in a split second by the youkai’s gigantic cleaving sword.
The other SWAT members had made it inside the vehicle, but for some reason, as the driver turned the key it wouldn’t start. One guy looked out the window and cried in terror, “WE’RE FUCKING FLOATING!” The company’s dread was reassured as the beast approached them slowly, both hands raised in the air as the tattoo on either arm began to shine brightly. As he started to push both hands closer to each other, there seemed to be resistance. Every inch his hands would come farther together, the SUV would shake more and more violently.
A soldier dove out the window, desperate to escape his impending doom, but was suddenly suspended in mid-air, caught in a black and white energy wave that seemed to darken as Inuyasha’s hands neared each other. Finally, they touched, making the black and white waves collide as the demon howled, “INERTIA!”
The dog youkai created a vivid detonation that sent bits of gore, blood, limbs, and car parts soaring as far as the eye could see. Flames could be seen for miles, dancing in the Earth’s atmosphere and licking the clouds. The blast was truly devastating, but there was still one man left, not unscathed, yet still alive enough to crawl for his life as fast as he could. An eyeball had been completely blown out of his socket, multiple considerably large pieces of shiny shrapnel spattered with crimson jutting from his spine, collar bone, and both legs. The beast had now gone back to his hanyou form and was leisurely making his way toward the man at the end of his tether. This time, HE, instead of Inuyasha, was not fast enough.
“How does it feel to be hunted down like the sad excuse for human waste you are?” His voice was cold and uncaring, as if his heart had been sculpted from ice on the day of his birth. “Do you want me to show you how it is to be exterminated like a FUCKING COCKROACH?! HUNTED DOWN LIKE SOME COMMON GAME ANIMAL? DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND THE PAIN AND MISERY YOU HUMANS PUT MY KIND THROUGH WHEN WE ROAMED THIS EARTH?!?!”
The officer completely astonished Inuyasha with his reaction to the hanyou‘s words. With a tear running down his cheek, he gazed up toward his coming death and looked deep into the demon’s soul without a sign of nervousness, anxiety, or fear. “You are viciously haunted by the deeds done in your past life, but you hide the pain and dread with anger, arrogance, and drugs. I can see past your murky exterior…you’ve also recently acquired some crippling blows to your emotions…so she cheated on you, did she? And with THE Vamp of Hades?”
Inuyasha’s blood boiled, “How the fuck do you know what’s going on with me? STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD!” The enlarged canine teeth in his mouth began to grow longer until they hung over his bottom lip, signaling the start of his transformation.
But the dying man held out his hand, wanting to be heard, “Calm yourself, Inuyasha. If you keep shifting into that form, a great loss will befall you. Whether you want to stay that way or not, you will lose all sense of control and reality. You see…turning into that devilish creature is your body’s final defense mechanism, a last resort if you will, like when you are backed into a corner whether I am using this as a metaphor or not, this is its only true function. But for you to be interchanging from hanyou to full-out youkai or vice versa repetitively like you have been doing…let‘s just say it doesn‘t do well for your mental health. The transformation it…” The officer paused to catch his breath, “what I’m trying to say is, your mind isn’t used to the heavy strain put on it while trying to make your heart circulate pure demon blood. Long term on and off exposure to untainted youkai blood in a hanyou reveals that the blood actually possesses almost acidic properties. It slowly corrodes at a half-breed’s brainstem and sanity until they are no more than a forgotten prisoner, locked away inside an empty vessel that has become a slave to carnality.”Inuyasha sat there for a moment, incorporating the information he had just received. “So…if I keep changing into a full demon, my mind will be caught in a permanent psychosis?” He thought silently to himself, “It’s got to be some bullshit mind trick the guy is trying to pull so his life will be spared. But…then again…he seems to be accepting, hell, actually wanting to drop dead. But what I don’t understand is where the fuck is his source if this shit is true? How is he finding all of this out?”
Just then, the man interrupted the silver-haired boy’s contemplation, “Inu…Youkai…” This name jarred Inuyasha’s attention.
“My…father?”“Yes…”
& #8220;What about him? Did you know him?”
“No…but I spoke to him in a dream a LONG time ago. He informed me of all that is to come in your future.”
“But how? How are you able to see all these things and find all this information? And why the hell are you just focused on me?”
The officer paused, pulling his right sleeve up and exposing the skin from his shoulder down. This revealed six ink filled lacerations not unlike the ones on either of Inuyasha’s arms. On his shoulder, there was the Japanese character for mind and sitting under it was the character for time, there were others but the first two really drew the hanyou‘s concentration, “First off, you and Zach are not the only individuals who can use Runes. You’re still not very keen on all the Runic combinations, are you? Well, no matter…you’re new to it anyway. Mind and time characters combine to make the ability ‘Foresight’, which allows you to tap into the past, present, and future, giving you the observation powers that could superficially rival a god’s. I am able to see all, but the knowledge is limited to bits and pieces at once. Feeling, sight, hearing, smelling, and tasting. Even though all seem to play their part in the end and succeed while doing so, I still have no control of the otherworldly wisdom that flows in and out of my head. If you think about it, the images and experiences I see possess a mind of their own in a way of speaking.”Inuyasha lifted his eyebrow, “So…you basically know what the fuck is up ALL THE TIME?”
The man smiled, “To put it simply, yes.” Although Inuyasha was starting to understand things, this continuous chatter was beginning to piss him off.
“That still doesn’t answer why this knowledge is focused around me.” The irritation in his voice was starting to thicken.
“Ah yes…I have always known that my destiny was to aid you, ever since I was imbued with the power of Foresight. That is when I first spoke with your father. He advised me to seek out employment as a Tokyo SWAT member, that was where my purpose sat. He also informed me that the day I met you would be my last day on Earth. I wasn’t able to cope with it at first, but when you think about it, some of these humans will die without serving a reason at all, just poor innocent bystanders that were in the way, at least I was doing something for the world.”
Inuyasha looked down at the ground and sighed, “Fucking A…am I really THAT important to the earth?”The man nodded, “If only you had any idea…well kid…I’ve already said what I needed to say. It would go against Mother Nature Herself for me to reveal to you anything else…so please…dispose of me now. My goal has been achieved and I now grow tired of this physical existence. You will find that my Runes are still useful, take them as a gift and use them to your advantage. By the way…my name is Jeishua Teikakou, remember to never give up on HER…NOW PLEASE…KILL ME NOW!” Jeishua’s eyes filled with tears as Inuyasha placed his left hand on the poor man’s head.
“Goodbye my Guardian…thank you for your enlightenment you have provided me with and good luck on the Other Side…”
Following Inuyasha’s words, a flash of light erupted from Teikakou’s eyes and he gazed up at the half-demon for the last time, “Thank you, my friend…”
With that, his last breath was taken and the man’s life ended. Just then, six multicolored balls of light shot from Jeishua’s body and flew into Inuyasha. An intense pain overcame him as he was thrust backwards deep into the forest, flying into a tree and knocking himself unconscious.
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In the Higurashi Shrine:

Kagome leaned in towards Zach, giving a sexy grin as she took off her shirt, revealing a REALLY hot black and neon green lace bra. Slaughter returned the sensual smile and flipped his bangs out of his face to kiss her lips. Damn it all, her taste was so exquisite! Why couldn’t he have found her so much earlier? Like when he was in high school. A jolt suddenly took his whole body by surprise and a deep feeling of regret began to bubble in his gut. A girl’s face, long forgotten by Slaughter, quickly flashed in and out of his head as he shrieked out loud, doubling over in pain. “SHE…SHE‘S STILL ALIVE!” He manically cried, repeating the same thing over and over again.
Kagome became terrified, “Zach, please settle down! Who’s still alive? And why is she bringing you this much suffering?” But her words were futile, the panicked vampire kept thrashing and wailing as loud as he could, his eyes wearing an expression of a dead man, until finally receiving a strike in the nose from an infuriated girl. “ZACHARY! CALM THE FUCK DOWN!” The blow was weak, but it still bled and dripped off of Zach’s chin,
“I’m sorry…I can’t be with you…she’s still alive.” His words were still fragmented and the poor girl couldn’t make sense out of them. By this time, she was getting fed up with him babbling on like a patient-for-life in the mental ward and smacked him a good one in the chin.
“Look, you’re not explaining anything. You keep telling me she’s alive, BUT WHO THE HELL IS SHE?!?!” The shrine nearly shook as Kagome kicked Slaughter back into reality.
His eyes blinked back to their normal, but still eerie selves without warning and he finally spoke in understandable tongue, “Sapphire Zephyr…she’s the one I died protecting a couple years back. But…this is impossible! I felt the life flow out of her body, I was even there at her funeral…although no one saw me, but I still witnessed them putting her into the ground!”
Kagome scratched her head, still a bit shaken up by what just happened, “Hmm…maybe she did what you did to bring yourself back.”
Zach shook his head, “That’s just not possible…I gave my soul to the Dark Lord to revive myself and fight on…there’s no way in hell she would do something like that! Sapphire isn‘t that kind of girl!” His voice was thick with doubt.
She shrugged her shoulders, “Hey, obviously she’s back from the dead and was actually able to injure you with her mind, right? Definitely sounds like a vampire’s power to me. Come on, that has got to be what’s going on…a vampire’s brain is dramatically advanced compared to humans, and only other vampires or higher beings can break through it’s psychological barriers. But what I still don’t understand is…if you two loved each other, why is she trying to hurt you…oh wait…I see…” Ms. Higurashi’s head sunk, it all fit together now. This Sapphire girl is tweaked because Zach was trying to get with her.
“Man…the term ‘fifth wheel’ is perfect to describe what‘s going on right now.” She thought to herself.
Kagome let her head drop a little more, rising and letting out a deep sigh, “Hey Zach…I’ll leave you to yourself so you can think about how you’re going to find her. Night.” Her pride wouldn’t let Slaughter see the tears forming as she began to walk outside, but he knew what was up. The Hades Vamp stood and approached her, wrapping his arms around the poor girl and kissing her forehead.
“Please don’t cry Kagome…you and I both know that you have someone who cares about you more than he does his own life. Hell…I’ll even take the blame for what happened between you and I when he comes back for you. Look, when first seeing you two together, I realized that you and Inuyasha had something that I longed for to feel again. Something that Ms. Zephyr and I had from the day we met until the day of her death (two days after the day they met…). I just wanted to have that feeling again…knowing that someone will always belong to me and I will always belong to them. He loves you Kagome…with all his heart…and it’s my fault anyway why all of this bullshit happened. So in the morning, I will right what I have wronged.”
After Zachary’s words, Kagome dug her face into his shoulder and poured out every teardrop that she could. “Thank you Zach…but…you know damned well it was just as much my fault as it was yours. Hey…I’m going inside to talk to the others…you coming? Or do you want me to let you sit out here for a little while longer?”
He gave her a warm smile, “Go on inside, hun. I’ll chill out here by myself and think things over for an hour or two. I got to sort this shit out and think about how I‘m going to take care of this...”
She nodded and hugged him, walking completely outside, “Okay then, good night.” With that, she closed the door of the shrine. Even though things should have seemed right, they still didn’t and Kagome had no idea why. But then, the reason came in the form of a REALLY loud explosion accompanied by the sight of smoke climbing the pitch black sky.
Ms. Higurashi bolted inside and shook her best friend, who was leaning against Miroku, asleep on the couch. “Hey you two, GET UP!” The lovers awoke at the same time, both of their eyes being half-opened. “We got a problem out in the shrine! Where’s Dieter?”
Sango yawned and stretched her arms, “I think he’s sleeping on the steps in front of the house. Why? What’s going on?” Kagome didn’t waste time answering Sango, just grabbed the bow and a quiver of arrows off the mantle, dashed out the front door and ran down the steps until she found Mr. Faust sitting upright, arms crossed, and eyes tightly shut.
“DIETER, GET THE FUCK UP! WE GOT A SITUATION!” The Germanic assassin responded without delay, standing and using his Runic Energy to create a military SPAS-12 fully automatic shotgun.
“What are we fighting, miss Higurashi?” He questioned, pulling the black bandanna over the bottom half of his face. “Do I get to do battle with my first demon?!”
Kagome shook her head slowly, “No…I’m afraid it’s a lot worse than that…if I’m correct…we have a vampire waiting for us in…”
Dieter tightened his grip on the energy weapon, not letting Kagome finish, “A…v…vampire…?” His voice sounded unsure. “The Nosferatu (German vampire) have made themselves known to my comrades and I many a time…we were victorious every time our teams encountered one of the devils…but not without losing good friends and allies. But with my newfound strength, I‘ll send that blood-sucking beast back to Hell!”
Kagome swallowed hard, trying to get out what she had to say, “Dieter…this vampire…she…may be as powerful as Zach, if not more powerful…I don’t think we can take her down by ourselves. Even with our newly acquired abilities…I’m afraid her strength is just too much.”
Sango and Miroku darted outside, ready to clash with whatever came at them. “What the fuck was that explosion about, Kagome?” Sango shouted, holding onto the colossal boomerang which was ready to be thrown.
The priestess fitted an arrow into the bow, “It’s another vampire, and I have a strong belief that she is here to kill Zach! NOW LET’S GO!”
Miroku pulled out a disarming sutra from his robe, “If she has enough strength to take on Zach, then I’m sure we’ll need this bad boy to drop her supernatural shield.” Kagome nodded in response as she motioned for them to move out towards the back yard where flames were quickly swallowing the shrine.
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Back in the shrine:

A beautiful vampress dressed in a black leather cape with bone spikes jutting out the shoulders and the Japanese character for evil on her back hovered above Zachary, her eyes, draped with deep fuchsia hair, glowed livewire orange with determination to take his life. “Zach Slaughter…I am here to steal back the massive energy that was taken from my Lord Hades. The Dark One granted you life after death so that you may do His dirty work and keep the earthly sinners in check. But once you discovered how to use Runes, it warped His plans and you gained abilities of your own that protected you from His influence. You got too cocky, boy…all those stolen powers went to your head and now I will reclaim them for their rightful owner…” The girl looked EXTREMELY familiar and Slaughter was pretty sure he knew who it was…although her facial features were a bit different…the vampire could recognize his lost love easily.
He coolly approached her, stepping into the air and meeting her face to face, “Miss Zephyr…it’s been awhile…like…five years, is it? Time flies when you’re having a blast reaping human souls for your own benefit…”
The girl snarled hatefully and bared her oversized fangs, “You’re pushing your luck, Slaughter…you always were a smartass little punk!”
Zach sighed and shook his head, “Sapphire…you say these Runes and our Lord’s abilities have made me arrogant…but look at you…I believe you are still a vision of undeniable beauty…just a lot kinkier now that you got that vicious look of vengeance in those stunning eyes! But you act as if no one on Earth can stop you. Keep in mind, Hades can only give out a limited amount of energy at a time and oh…I know eleven Runes and they ALL counteract so…make your fucking move…”
Sapphire wasted no time after hearing Slaughter’s challenge. Her fists came at lighting speed, colliding a hundred times a second with his blocks until finally being answered by grabbing both of her arms and smashing his head into hers. (yeah…the lightning speed shit is overused but oh the fuck well, right?) The attack did nothing however, just pissed her off as she booted him hard in the chest. The male vampire slammed into the ground right as Ms. Zephyr made contact, but his body was up and in her face again. This time, he reacted with an obvious move…the Runes, of course. Light burst out from under his shirt as the top that clothed his muscular upper body disintegrated and revealed a large symbol meaning Hades in Greek that was carved into his back’s flesh by a Hell Hound’s claw, “You see, my dear…I still have ties to the Dark Lord that he cannot break…no matter if he sends one of his goons like you to do it or comes to take me to Hell, Himself. Besides…I have been in the shadows for my whole life…you just became accustomed with them your dying day…the odds don’t look so good for y…” His shit talking was cut short by a knee to his chin and an elbow to the back of the skull.
“That’s your problem, Slaughter. You fight hard, but you talk WAY too much. Besides…using your Runes is the stupidest and most predictable thing I’ve ever seen you do!” With that, she pressed her hands together and swished them in a spherical motion, conjuring up a green energy that slowly grew at her fingertips. When the green ball had reached a certain point, she broke into demonic chuckling, “My Lord came up with a spell for me, just in case you tried to pull some bullshit like this and use His Runes against me…NEGATION!!!”
The ball of green electricity flew with deadly accuracy and swiftness, finally colliding with Zachary and causing every Runic tattoo he sported to boil, burn, blister, and bleed until his body could take no more of the torment. Suddenly, he lost control and couldn’t continue hovering. This resulted in his body crashing once again to the shrine floor.
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Meanwhile, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Dieter were hiding at the front of the shrine with an invisibility charm that masked their presence. This kept them hidden from the auras of the two wicked leaches of life that were battling inside the burning shrine. The group’s plan would be ruined if any of them were to be spotted, so they kept a low profile and had a front row seat to what was sure to be an entertaining fight…
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Man…so much shit has gone on since I started writing this fucking chapter…too many crazy chicks…sex… too much drama…more sex…lots of bullshit…weed…countless arguments……quitting smoking weed…even more sex…disappearing for five days with fiancé…SO MUCH MORE SEX AFTER EVERYTHING SETTLED DOWN…okay I’ll just leave it at that…because…um…I think that’s why it took me so goddamned long to write this fucking chapter. Oh well…who gives a damn? I’ve been pretty high through most of this motherfucker…except the times when I quit smoking pot, but still you see how far that got me, right? I’m high as a fucking kite right now so smoke on, ROCK ON, and screw on!!!!! -Your friendly neighborhood stoner, Rob



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