InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden no Ai ❯ Two Minds, One Heart ( Chapter 19 )

 Well, here it is everyone, it’s the fight, and just in time isn’t it? This is where a little plot twist comes into play, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, even though it’s probably not exactly what you bargained for.

Well, tell me what you think. I hope I got these right, I’m going by both canons and combining things I thought was better then the other. It’s easy to do it this way, and I think I’m going more by anime canon aside from a few things that I thought made Hiten look a little better in the manga, anyway here you go!

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Chapter 19- Two Minds, One Heart

** Hmpf!, I think I’ll get him while he’s still in bewilderment. ** Hiten thought to himself as he pointed the Raigeki-jin down at the hanyou below, nearly striking him with the massive lightning bolt produced by the Rageki-jin.

Inuyasha stumbled away from the blast, at the same time being flung forward by the momentum and force. Inuyasha turned and glanced up, surprised to see the human-esque thunder youkai looking down upon him, wearing his usual cocky smile.

“ Very impressive maneuvers, despite your unwitting conversation.” the red-eyed youkai boasted, knowing that Inuyasha had been arguing with his companions below. “ So you’re the reputed Inuyasha...”

“That’s Hiten, the elder of the Raijuu brothers.” Myouga warned the hanyou.

“Manten.” Hiten called to his brother, who lumbered slowly behind on the black storm cloud, carrying Kagome.

“Inuyasha!” The young girl cried out in disparity, wanting Inuyasha to save her.

“She speaks the truth.” Hiten assured himself. “So hand over the jewels or you’ll never see your lover again!”

Inuyasha had a dumbfounded look on his face. “See my....lover?”

“This is no time to get shy!” Kagome shouted, hoping that he would play along with her little charade.

Manten’s suspicions seemed to be proving right, Kagome was lying. This means that Akina was right as well...

“I knew you were kidding, you sly vixen.” Manten replied, as Kagome gave a nervous laugh.

“You’re clearly mistaken..” Inuyasha began to walk up to the two floating youkai with the Tetsusaiga swung over his shoulder.

Inuyasha and Kagome seemed to be acting on their own will, Inuyasha wasn’t about to except any speculations or show a weakness in himself so Hiten and Manten would have something else to gloat about.

“We ain’t lovers!” He retorted.

“So now you think some little jewel is more important then me.” Kagome tried to stay in character for the situation, but Inuyasha was being reluctant to go with her plan.

“Without love, the whole conversation seems to just FALL APART!” Inuyasha shouted back, obviously annoyed at Kagome’s persistence.

Hiten was beginning to be annoyed by their idle chit-chat and decided to take the battle one-step closer.

“Your Shikon Shards will be MINE!” He shouted as he drew the Rageki-jin back and flew down at Inuyasha with tremendous speed, the blades of both weapons clashed, causing the Rageki-jin to release a set of bolts of lightning surging throughout the land.

Inuyasha was trying to hold him back, not daring to let the Raigeki-jin touch him, or the lightning for that matter.

** No one can withstand my attacks for very long! ** Hiten thought to himself, assuring an early victory.

**I will win this battle, for you Akina. I’ll come back to you, this I promise myself. I’ll beat Inuyasha and then I’ll tell you what I feel and then we can be together, truthfully with no circumstances...** Hiten smiled to himself. ** You never questioned who I was, and you’ve always been there...I’ve been so blind, so blind and so ignorant, letting this power trip get to me, I still want the Shikon jewel shards, but now I think I’ve finally sorted it out. I know what I feel now, and no wretched hanyou will stand in my way now. **

Inuyasha felt a sudden bust of power surge throughout him and was able to push the thunder youkai back a decent way.

Manten and Kagome simply observed his brother’s fight from high in the dark sky, riding upon the fluffy black cloud.

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Akina hurried as fast as she could to get to the battle field. She ran until she couldn’t run anymore. The red haired maiden had already ran the horse as far as she could go, and now it was simply up to her to hope that she reached it in time.

She could see small flashes, it was hard to try and distinguish them from thunder, or beams from the Rageki-jin. If Manten was around, surely she’d see him riding atop his infamous cloud, but she saw nothing.

Perhaps the Raijuu brothers were battling near a bunch of rock formations, making it harder for her to see them clearly.

**Hiten...Why did you have to go? Why?...I know your fighting instinct and urge for these “Shikon shards” makes you obliged to search for more to become more powerful, but...you have the shards in your body and that would mean that if you lost....Inuyasha would get them, and take them from you...You’d be dead...and I don’t think I could handle that...** Akina stopped, out of breath, looking at the dark skies for some sort of sign, but found none.

She fell to her knees, out of breath and huffing and panting with all of her might. She was determined to get to Hiten before it was too late.

“ If I can save your life, Hiten...Then we could start over, and it would be worth dying for...Besides, I never told you all of how I felt...Guess you never know how precious something is to you until you’re being put through a time like this. I won’t let you die, I love you too much...” Akina could feel the tears flowing down her face. “ I don’t care if you love me back.”

She arose once more and took off running again, her body felt as if it was going to collapse, but her determination and desire fueled her body to go faster.

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Well, there’s the first part of the battle. Finally, the revelation, Hiten just had to be sure of what he felt for Akina, and so I decided to solve his problems, but as the battle rages on, will he be able to keep his promise to her?

Find out in chapter 20 and don’t forget to R&R!!!