InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden no Ai ❯ A Brother's Sorrow ( Chapter 20 )

Now that I’ve got everyone’s hearts racing about what will happen to our beloved bishie, Hiten, I’ll get to the second part of the battle, I have no idea how long this is going to be, even though I JUST got finished watching these eps I’m already starting to forget.

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Chapter 20: A Brother’s Sorrow

Akina’s chest ached and her head spun from the lack of oxygen flowing to her muscles. She stopped, almost falling to the ground.

“I can’t stop running....” She said, to the point of tears. “I have to save you, Hiten...”

She took large, gasping breaths, coughing up some fluids from her body, and laying there completely tired.

She closed her eyes for a little bit to rest.

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Kagome and Shippou were running from the lumbering Manten, who still had an arrow stuck through his nose. The reptilian hobbled ever close to the frightened school girl.

Shippou decided that it was time for some all around revenge on the younger Raijuu brother and to save Kagome, of course. After all, Manten did wear the pelt of his father around his girth, like a trophy of their kill.

Shippou sent a magical top spinning on the balding head of the Thunder youkai, causing him to loose the one strand of hair he had left, and plummeting him to the ground. As soon as Manten was able to comprehend that it was nothing more then fox magic and fox magic was an illusion, he arose to his feet again, the one strand of hair falling past his view.

Tears came to the youkai’s eyes, as he found out that his last strand of hair, his only hope to attract females and to be as handsome as his brother Hiten were all taken from him.

“My hair...You took my last strand of hair...” He sniveled. Then a violent storm of rage began to seethe through his body, he could feel energy forcing it’s way through his mouth. He pulled his head back and released it into a beam of energy, destroying the land and trying to hit the girl and the kitsune.

Kagome and Shippou hid behind one of the dead trees in the region as the enrages Manten lumbered around, searching for them.

“I’ll use one of you for my hair potion and the other for a new pelt!” He said angrily as he blasted another part of the land. It seemed to hit Kagome and Shippou.

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Akina opened her eyes, her body still feeling weak.

“What am I doing?” She asked herself. “I have to get to the battle, I can’t waste time. How long have I been asleep?”

She looked up at the sky, it was still dark, filled with booming thunder and flashing lightning. At least she knew that the battle wasn’t over yet....

What was she thinking?

Of course it wasn’t over yet...

Hiten wasn’t so easily defeated.

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Inuyasha seemed to be distracted by Kagome being chocked by the younger brother, he turned his head to catch a glimpse of Kagome when he was stabbed in the shoulder by the Rageki-jin. He could feel the sharp blade pierce his muscle and flesh and let out a cry of pure agony.

Inuyasha fell to the ground, Hiten pointing the magnificent Rageki-jin just inches away from his wounded body.

“Pathetic, you don’t live up to your reputation. Feelings for women, or humans for that matter will be your own downfall.” Hiten glanced over to his brother, who was strangling the helpless Kagome. “What do you say, Manten?”

Manten agreed and both of them began to boast about how Manten would make earrings and pelts out of Shippou, like they had done his father. As the little kitsune stood there, balling his fists and becoming more and more enraged at every remark they made. He ran up to Manten and sunk his little fangs into the thick scaly neck of the younger Raijuu brother.

“I would let go if I were you, little fox tyke.” Manten warned. “Let go!”

The big lizard brought his fist down, striking Shippou in the head, all the while the little kistune refused to let go. He would rather die first.

“Keh! I’m innocent compared to you swine.” Inuyasha told Hiten. He reached into his wound and did his Blades of Blood attack. Hiten blocked it with his Rageki-jin.

“ Heh, now this is getting interesting.” The thunder youkai complimented.

While Hiten was distracted, The Tetsusaiga went flying from Inuyasha’s hand and landed on it’s target, though the chest of Manten, the younger of the two. He let out a horrid cry of agony and death, much like the cries of the people they had killed all of those years.

This sent a feeling up Hiten’s spine that seemed to snap something in his mind, a deep concern and sadness for his brother’s death. He had to go and see if he was all right. He turned and flew as fast as the flaming wheels could carry him over to his injured brother. He saw that the woman and the kitsune were in his way, and simply blasted them with the Rageki-jin.

The Thunder youkai flew over to his brother who was in much pain. He could hear the crackling breath and heaving of his brother’s weary body as he struggled to breathe. Hiten could feel a strange emotion, much like the one that he had expressed on the porch to Akina, that one day. He could feel the salty water push it’s way through his crimson eyes, their color swirling around in it’s red essence and he had wished that Akina was there to wipe away his tears.

He put his head on his brother’s body and silently cried for him. Manten could barely feel the wet tears on his skin, since his senses were fading out. He turned to take one last look at his brother’s face.

He began to say something to him about having hair and wishing that he looked as beautiful as Hiten had. This made the salty substance push it’s way through even more. Now his little brother would never get to witness the happiness he had always wanted to. His dreams were shattered, all because of that hanyou....

“It’s not what’s on the outside. “ Hiten’s forlorn voice quaked. “I love every last bald inch of you.”

“You know, An-chan. If I were to come back, I wished to be reborn again, as a fuzzy little caterpillar, covered in hair.....No, who am I kidding? “ Manten looked wearily over at his brother’s pained face. “If I had a wish, I’d wish to be bald again, if I could just be your brother. Wouldn’t that be nice, Hiten?”

“Manten...Please don’t die.” Hiten sobbed into his brother’s shoulder as his body deflated in one last final desperate breath.

“Say a prayer for me, An-chan.” he whispered then died with his final words.

Hiten buried his head into his brother’s shoulder a bit more, the only thing he’s ever cared about had been savagely ripped from him. His brother, the only one who understood him...He had no one now...No one except Akina...He would not let her go. He would avenge his brother’s death and make Inuyasha pay dearly for tearing them apart like that.

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