InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Reversed ❯ The Poison Crises ( Chapter 6 )

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Reversed Chapter 6: The Poison Crises

Sunlight beamed gaily through the castle window as Lord Inuyasha sat within the throne room, apparently catching a migraine from the horrendous paper work. Being an impatient hanyou in his red fire rat kimono, he dropped the ink brush and began to rub small circles around his temples.

Before Inuyasha could ward off his tremendous headache, Eritri burst through the pair of shoji doors for his daily report of Sesshoumaru.

"You better make the report quick or you're dead," growled the lord, quite irritated.

"Hai, your half brother has not stopped his journey towards you, and his two companions did not cease to train the human girl, Kagome. Nothing is out of the ordinary, but they did end up rescuing a human female from an attacked village, and has taken her in due to Kagome's subduing spell over Sesshoumaru. If you don't mind me asking again, each day your nemesis inches closer towards you. Will you not rid him of this world?"

"Keh, I'd never thought to see the day when fluffy would be controlled by a wench and taking in a little girl at the same time. Anyway, he still has about a month and a little over before he arrives. That's plenty of time for me to kill him;" said the Western lord in an unworried tone of voice while smirking; headache promptly forgotten, "but I will send another greeting gift."

With a snap from the Lord's finger, a female demon, as well as general to Inuyasha, appeared.

"Yes, my lord, what shall I do?" inquired the beautiful demoness.

"Heh, Kayori, go to where my half-brother is and give him all you've got. Eritri will tell you where he is."

"Hai, Lord Inuyasha," replied Kayori, mischief stirring in her eyes.

With that decided, the ninja and the poisonous/darkness dog demon set off towards the Western Prince.

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"Kagome-onee chan, why is Sesshoumaru-sama always so cold and quiet," asked innocent Rin as the crew continued their journey.

"Um, well, I really don't know. I think it has something to do with his past. You'd have to ask him yourself."

Sesshoumaru overheard the entire conversation and felt that he did not want his past disclosed to anyone.

"Do not inform the girl of any false information, and do well to tell her that asking would be useless for I will not reply," stated the Western Prince harshly.

Kagome, who is in a very good mood at the moment, let Sesshoumaru go without the usual `down', and continued to amuse Rin on top of Ah-Un, a two headed dragon youkai that Sesshoumaru summoned using his abilities for Rin to ride on. Sesshoumaru also mysteriously came up with an orange kimono for the girl. If he hadn't, I'm afraid that his beauty would be permanently ruined by Kagome.

`Sesshou, do you not think that not pestering the girl will actually help in earning her love?'

`Yue, must you insist on upon intruding my mind. I do not care if I earn the girl's love or not. It matters none.'

`You have the ability to shun me, but you chose not to. It is but your fault. Hn, you may not seem to care or even love her at the moment, but that will change when she is gone completely. You are wise, do well to make the right decision.'

The short mental conversation ended as the group settled for the afternoon meal under an oak tree.

Sesshoumaru, who never eats human food, rested on a particularly high limb of the oak tree. He sat against the trunk with one leg against his chest and one leg laid out on the branch; suddenly looking very peaceful and calm and seemingly more beautiful than ever.

Below him, Yue set out for some game as the three girls talked merrily. Within thirty minutes, the male elemental demon returned with three rabbits in his grasp. Yuki and Kagome began to skin the animals immediately; leaving Yue and Rin to their own amusement.

An hour later, the fire blazed beautifully as the four began to barbeque the rabbit meat through wooden sticks.

Soon everybody's belly was full and all laid down on the lush green grass for a bit of rest.

With a sudden urge for a bath, Kagome decided to ask Sesshoumaru if she could bathe in a hot spring that she sensed was nearby. She looked up to the branch where the cold demon rested to find his eyes closed and seemingly sleeping gorgeously with a slight smile on his face.

`He looks really cute and hot when he doesn't have such a stoic face. Maybe I'll fall for him, but that's just impossible.'

Kagome finished her musing, and called to Sesshoumaru, knowing that he wasn't sleeping at all.

"Can I please bathe? It will only take thirty maybe forty minutes. I don't do this often so please," asked the young miko persuasively.

After resting serenely, Sesshoumaru seemed to be in a more agreeable mood and let Kagome have her bath.

The girl squealed in happiness and invited the rest of the females to join her. They both accepted and began to head for the spring immediately which only took five minutes to reach.

The girls began to shed their apparels hastily for the warm water seems inviting. Within minutes the three girls were happily surrounded by the spring water.

"Say, Kagome, don't you think Sesshy's cute, handsome, and hot?" asked an over curious Yuki.

"Um, well, don't all three adjectives mean the same thing? Anyway, I can't deny that he's all three though he has some serious attitude problems," replied Kagome as she stated to rub some soap that her mother so graciously put in her pack onto her arm.

"Then do you think you'll learned to love him?" inquired Yuki further, apparently hinting at something.

"Onee-chan, what does `hot' mean?" asked Rin.

"Nothing, Rin, it's a word you don't need to know yet. Maybe I will maybe I won't, but he does have a soft spot," replying to two people at once. "Now it's my turn to ask some questions. Why do you call Sesshoumaru Sesshy? Why doesn't he get mad or kill you for that?"

Yuki giggled before she replied, "Well, Yue and I were the first and last demons, friends, and companions Sesshy had when he left the castle. Ever since I learned his name, I apt to call him Sesshy, and all that was about a hundred years ago. It's not that he isn't mad when I call him that, it's just that I kept using that nick name for so long I guess he gave up on making me stop, but there are a few glares whenever I use that nickname."

"I see," was Kagome's quiet answer.

After the inquiries, the bath went on wordlessly and everyone found them selves drying off with one of Kagome's towel and then proceeded to dress.

When the girls arrived at the oak tree, Sesshoumaru demanded leave.

"Are you leaving so soon, Lord Sesshoumaru? Care to play?" asked a female demon coolly who is currently standing on top of a blue like cloud; her escort obviously gone to observe the on coming fight.

She had short, light, silvery blue hair in a `V' like shape with bangs as the tail to the `v' dropped past her shoulders. A few long strands of hair, framed both sides of her face. A shard like shape appeared on each of the demoness' face. The girl appeared to be around 16 and seemed to be a dog demon of Sesshoumaru's height, but short four inches. The female retained stunning blue eyes and is clad with a black metallic Chinese like kimono with a crescent moon pattern on her left shoulder, a split up to both sides of her knee, and a silver obi like sash as a blue string lay atop the obi/sash. She wore black, knee-high, battle boots and is visually equipped with all kinds of weapons as she wore armor similar to Sesshoumaru's though a bit more feminine with a crescent moon on the back and two slanted diamonds around a straight one on the front with the middle diamond slightly longer.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes menacingly at the demon while commanding his crew to lay low for he will have things taken care of.

"Who are you?" asked the inu youkai.

"Kayori, one of three generals who serve under the Western Lord," replied Kayori then added under her breath, "though he can be hot tempered and be really annoying as well as stupid, but that doesn't matter now."

Sesshoumaru smirked then set to reply, "So the fool has sent you as an early greeting, has he not?"

The general nodded her head in a positive way.

"If you are so incline on dieing soon then I will not deny you your wish."

With that, Sesshoumaru lounged towards Kayori as she did the same. Both demons quickly drew their swords; Sesshoumaru, his Tokijin, and Kayori, her Reishouji, one of her two katanas at her left side. The katana had a clear red blade and clashed quickly with Tokijin; creating bright flashes in mid air.

The two were practically equal in speed and manipulation of the sword with Sesshoumaru being faster and a bit more skilled.

Soon the duo settled for the ground and Sesshoumaru changed his weapon to his youki whip while Kayori stayed with her katana.

Being tired of not gaining any advantage, the female inu set a globe of darkness around herself and the Western Prince that even Sesshoumaru couldn't see, but what Kayori just did only excited the prince more as adrenaline coursed his veins.

The duo fought without their sight and each still managed to gain no upper hand, but Kayori did receive small amount gashes here and there from Sesshoumaru's whip. For his ability to wield the string of energy was hone to perfection as he stayed unscathed of wounds.

Flashes of light and energy clashing metal were all that was heard and seen for minutes until Kayori released a dark dragon from her katana.

Sesshoumaru was surprised that the female could create such attacks and lost his momentum, causing him to be unable to dodge the attack. So he braced himself to take as less damage as possible, but still end up being burned.

The dragon attack angered Sesshoumaru as well as irritated his skin and he unconsciously heightened his speed. Instantaneously, he appeared behind Kayori; giving her a huge claw mark on her back as huge dosages of poison seeped from the taiyoukai's claws and into the general's delicate skin.

The venom caused the girl to slow and bask in pain that made hell seemed welcoming. Yet, she is stubborn and refused to give up.

With most of her strength drained from the poison, she brandished her bow from her back and harbored her arrow that originated from her quiver on her right side towards Sesshoumaru. Kayori took precise aim and fired, letting poison film the entire arrow.

Sesshoumaru expected that dodging an arrow would be easier than killing a neko youkai. He stood still and waited for the weapon to reach him so he could just brush it away with his forehand, but just when it was a few feet from him, the arrow split into thousands. The turn of event stunned him. Yet, Sesshoumaru who always improvised, disappeared high within the clouds, thinking that the arrows should not reach him at his current height.

Under normal circumstances his theory would be correct, but what he is experiencing now is not normal. The arrows, which skillfully filled the sky, moved towards where he is and as if it were a crazy horse on a rampage, the arrows sped up and hit Sesshoumaru all over, injecting an unknown species of poison into him.

The look of Sesshoumaru's face from the pain marred his beautiful feature as Kayori grinned in finally defeating him then promptly fainted from exhaustion and the poison injected into her body. Eritri, who witnessed the whole battle was in awe, but dutifully ran towards the fainted general and escaped towards the Western Castle with such speed that no one quite saw him.

Meanwhile, the inu youkai still felt the pang of pain from the arrows and is now feeling the huge amount of venom inside his body eating away at him. No longer able to support himself in the sky, gravity took hold of him and he fell with Yue to catch him.

Once Sesshoumaru was settled comfortably [at least as comfortable as he can] under the oak tree, Yuki began at once to remove the arrows as Yue held on to his friend who was too stubborn to cry out in pain.

Kagome hid Rin from witnessing the battle as well as Sesshoumaru's injury. Feeling that it was proper, the miko set Rin on top of Ah-Un and commanded them to take her somewhere while telling Rin that she must go with the dragon to some place if she wanted to have fun.

As soon as dragon and girl left, Kagome quickly returned to Sesshoumaru, feeling very worried as well as another feeling inside her heart.

[Now just what can that feeling be? Anyway, back to the story.]

"How is he doing?" asked Kagome worry lacing her voice.

"Not too well. Sesshoumaru-sama is plagued with an unknown variety of venom. All we can do now is wait patiently for his demon blood to fight it off and comfort him as much as possible," explained Yue.

"But, but, he's a demon and shouldn't demons be able to fend off poison easily," cried the miko desperately.

"Kago-chan, demons may have a better immune system but we are not totally able to fight off poison. We are only able to be unaffected by types of poison that we have experienced before, and the type that Sesshy is feeling is totally different than regular ones," informed Yuki.

All the information that Kagome was told, she digested hopefully.

"Alright then, let me take care of him. You two rest," commanded Kagome with an unarguable tone as she laid Sesshoumaru's head onto her lap with some sort of unknown emotion taking over her.

"Ok, then what might we do for you before we try and relax?" inquired Yue.

"Um, well, get me water and a cloth if possible," answered Kagome.

Yuki obediently conjured up water as Yue manipulated the tree leaves into the shape of a bucket. Next, the female elemental demon pulled out a piece of handkerchief out of her breast pocket. Finally, all the required accessories was scattered around Kagome as sister and brother leaped into the oak tree for some well deserved rest.

Through most of the night Sesshoumaru twisted, turned, and yelled painfully, trying ever so desperately to overcome the poison, and through most of the night Kagome tried her best to calm the powerful demon to no avail. On a few occasions demon ventured towards the oak tree only to be killed by Yuki's favorite ice whip.

At last the poor girl fell asleep against the tree trunk during one of Sesshoumaru's break from his fits.

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"I am terribly sorry my lord, we have failed you," exclaimed Eritri with a terribly poisoned Kayori on his back.

"It's alright, I didn't plan on you guys winning anyway, but now is no time for apologies. Hurry, and send Kayori to the infirmary she's looking real bad," ordered the Western Lord hastily.

"Hai," answered Eritri.

Very quickly, Kayori found herself lying on one of the cots located inside the infirmary with a very frantic monk dressed in a purple and black robe with a golden staff running around to try and find a suitable antidote.

"Hurry, Miroku, the Lady General is in mortal danger," cried Eritri.

"I know, I know, I'm sure there's an antidote for Sesshoumaru's poison somewhere around here. Ah huh, I found it," yelled Miroku.

He quickly rushed towards Kayori, but in his haste he tripped over a jug of water and the cure dropped onto the cement, smashing into millions of tiny shards as the liquid inside leaked into the many cracks of the floor.

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