InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden no Ai ❯ The Fallen Youkai, Manten ( Chapter 21 )

Well, here is the other half of the battle, only it’s not exactly how you’d think. What do I mean? Well, just read ahead and see, here is chapter 21!!

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Chapter 21:The Fallen Youkai, Manten

“You wretches! You slaughtered my brother!” Hiten’s anger rose as he stood erect and pointed the Raigeki-jin at his brother’s murderer. The tears still evident in his crimson eyes.

He could feel another emotion, besides a deep sadness, but a set of emotions that seemed mixed; sorrow, heart-ache, anger, rage, the desire to kill, the lust of blood and the determination to avenge his brother’s death.

“Rest assure that we will always be together, An-chan.” Hiten turned to his brother’s corpse and reached into his open wound.

The hanyou seemed quite surprised at this sudden action, the last thing that he thought Hiten would do was stick his hand in his brother’s dead corpse.

Hiten pulled out Manten’s heart and began to eat it. Kagome’s face twisted into one of disgust.

“Hiten’s a....cannibal?”

“Not exactly, Hiten is combining the jewel shards, now instead of 3 he has the power of 5 jewel shards.” Myouga told the disgusted schoolgirl.

Afterwards, she and Inuyasha began to argue about Kagome’s absence during the course of events. As he and Kagome were arguing, he nearly gets blasted by Hiten’s Rageki-jin again.

Hiten refused to let Inuyasha forget about his presence. The youkai was quite angry with Inuyasha and wasn’t about to let him forget.

“ How dare you strike down my brother! I will not stop until I return the deed.” Hiten said, rage and hatred consuming his being, so much so, that it was blocking all other thought patterns.

“ Prepare to DIE!!!” The thunder youkai yelled as he blasted a huge ball of lightning from the Rageki-jin’s blade, down toward the hanyou.

Hiten was sure that he had succeeded in ridding himself of that worthless hanyou, Inuyasha. When the debris and smoke cleared, the hanyou was still standing there. He had blocked it was the hilt of his sword.

“Huh?” Hiten’s face contorted in disbelief.

As he was floating there, he overheard Inuyasha talking to some strange insect on his shoulder. He had mentioned a “hunch” , Inuyasha seemed quite angry that Myouga would gamble with his life relying only on a hunch, or rather an educated guess as the flea had called it.

** Keh! He got lucky that time! ** Hiten thought, powering up another huge thunder ball from the Rageki-jin.

He released the huge ball, downward towards the hanyou, who jumped up and blocked it with Tetsusaiga’s sheath. This time he was planning some attack of some type, so Hiten decided to turn it around.

He had managed to get behind the hanyou, pushing the Rageki-jin’s blade into his lower back, causing the hanyou to cry out in pain. The hanyou fell to the ground, Hiten flew after him, with the blood-tainted Rageki-jin grasped firmly in his hand.

He swung the blade downward, striking the Tetsusaiga sheath once again.

He had heard the schoolgirl state that Inuyasha was growing tired...Perfect opportunity.

** I’m wearing that half breed down. ** The murderous villain thought. ** If I can just hold out for a few moments longer, I know I can win. **

The hanyou decided to follow his instincts and take off running, but Hiten wasn’t about to let him go that easily. He quickly took chase, the extra shards of the jewel fragment increasing his speed.

Their blades clashed over and over again as the hanyou was wearing down.

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Akina put her hand up to her chest, her breath short and her body still weary. She could see faint flashes and hear people talking. The girl had almost made it to the battlefield, and it sounded as though Hiten was still alive and possibly winning.

Her eyes shone with hope for the youkai and she began to climb the rock formations. It seemed as if she was going to make it in time.

She finally made it over the rock structures and saw Manten laying on the ground.

“Manten.” She gasped lowly to herself, not wanting to interrupt the battle between his brother and Inuyasha.

She looked at the lizard youkai and her face felt hot, and she could feel something else that wasn’t quite placed. The red haired girl could feel a bit of water come to her eyes and see her visions blur.

Was she crying....for Manten?

Poor Manten.

Poor, poor Manten.

He had been killed by something or someone in a brutal way. Hiten must’ve been torn in half when whatever had killed him did. She felt so bad for him.

He already had a lot of pain and now it was amplified, it was as if someone stabbed him in the heart, literally. She laid a hand on Manten’s snout, feeling the now cold skin of the mighty Raijuu brother in sorrow.

Why?

Why was she sad for someone who had treated her badly in her previous encounters?

The Thunder Brothers had been the only family she had known during the course of time. Manten had been like an older brother to her at times. She couldn’t help but cry for him.

She sat by the large fallen figure and cried on his shoulder.

Over the distance, the blades clashing and bright flashes of lighting, in the midst of the battle, Hiten became distracted. Something was watching them, other then Kagome, Myouga and Shippou, but what?

Inuyasha saw that he had became distracted and swung the sheath of Tetsusaiga, missing his face by inches, but causing Hiten to stop in his tracks.

Suddenly, out of no where, an arrow hits left wheel and it shatters into a million bits. Hiten tried to keep in the air, the wheel on his right leg producing more fire to help him stay afloat.

Inuyasha, responding to Hiten’s shock, grabbed the Raigeki-jin by it’s blade, causing lightning to be sent out across the land.

Akina saw where the lighting had been coming from and rushed over to watch the battle of Hiten and Inuyasha, hoping that the end would not be so forlorn.

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Yeah, I know. I’ve interrupted the battle, not once, but twice. I’m so mean, I do thank you all so much for reviewing. Some of you asked about a sequel. I think I might make one. I had one planned, but it’s still a thought.

R&R!