InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shadows Fall ❯ One Condition ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: I hold no ownership over the InuYasha characters, however Ammon, Kisa, and Gabriel belong to me.

 

 

(A/N: I would like to may something clear before I start the chapter. InuYasha is not a vampire yet, neither is Sesshomaru however if you continued the story you will learn more. One more thing to clear up there are tons of vampire lore out there, I own some of the books, in light with that you'll just have to continue reading to find your answers. Thank everyone who read the last chapter and sorry for the long wait. However I hope you find that this chapter was worth the wait.)

 

 

Chapter 4: One Condition

By TaintedDarkInuShemeeko

 

 

 

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Sesshomaru remained posed and confident as he continued to speak with this so called vampire.

“There are many other creatures of myth that you might be pretending to be. However, it seems you are what you say you are. So tell me what it is that you seek from me.”

Menoumaru smirked as the words slid from his lips.

“Why, I seek to take your life of course.”

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There was no show of emotion on Sesshomaru's face as Menoumaru's words sunk in. This man, this creature, as he so seemed had every intention of taking his life tonight. However, Sesshomaru wasn't about to give this intruder the upper hand. He was going to make sure that he was the one with the upper hand.

 

 

Sesshomaru's voice was cold as he spoke to Menoumaru. Before he allowed this creature to try or do anything he had to ask him one thing.

 

 

“You tell me that you seek my life, but for what purpose? I do not know you so what harm have I done to you?”

 

 

 

Menoumaru just smirked at Sesshomaru, his blood colored orbs giving off a hint of amusement. It was a look that caused Sesshomaru to dislike him even more. Was he playing some kind of game with him? One thing was certain: Sesshomaru didn't trust him at all. However, he remained silent and unreadable as he waited for Menoumaru to speak.

 

 

“You are right; you haven't harmed me in anyway. However, you are the key to my successful destruction of an enemy.”

 

 

 

The words that Menoumaru spoke to Sesshomaru confused him a bit, causing Sesshomaru to question his words.

 

 

“A key you say, how am I a key to the destruction of one of your enemies?”

 

 

The small amount of naivety that Sesshomaru was showing Menoumaru seemed to delight him.

 

 

“There are many things that you don't understand yet, my dear Sesshomaru. However, don't worry, you'll understand soon enough.”

 

 

Sesshomaru was unsure of Menoumaru's tone, then again he was pretty sure that he didn't trust this so called vampire. This Menoumaru, this creature was starting to make Sesshomaru nervous. By now something inside was telling him to stay away from him to run, however his duty to his family kept him from running; even if he did find InuYasha annoying, he was still family, his only family.

 

 

Menoumaru was now circling Sesshomaru, as a pride of lions would after their prey was alone and wounded right before they would kill it.

 

 

“You are a stunning looking human, Sesshomaru in fact it has been centuries since I have seen a human as lovely as you and your brother. I am looking forward to having you in my flock.”

 

 

Sesshomaru felt his spine stiffen as he continued to watch Menoumaru circle him. This man seemed to want to devour him, yet for some unknown reason he was holding back. The man or was he really a creature, suddenly smirked at him as if Sesshomaru had impressed him in some shape or form.

 

 

“That's quite a wall you have built up inside of you. The coldness that seems to be pouring off of those brilliant honey brown eyes of yours is remarkable. How is it that you can be so cold?”

 

Menoumaru became utterly pleased when he seemed to find what he was looking for. He then started to wave a finger in front of Sesshomaru.

 

 

“Aren't you scared, come, there has to be even a small portion of you that is frightened of me. It's only human nature; then again your ancestors weren't that human were they?”

 

 

This not getting the rise out of Sesshomaru he had hoped to get before he killed him, so Menoumaru lunged toward Sesshomaru's neck. Just when there was only a small gap between them, Menoumaru let his fangs show, which caused Sesshomaru's eyes to widen in pure shock. The air in his lungs rushed out in one big gasp as he felt something sharp pierce the skin on his neck. There was pain at first before a calming sensation swept over him. A voice suddenly tore through the misty fog that was slowly building up in his mind.

 

 

“Get your fucking fangs off my brother, you damnable creatures killed our parents and you almost killed me. I ain't about to let you have Sesshomaru, too.”

 

 

Menoumaru couldn't stop the laughter that seemed to bubble out from within him.

 

 

“You simple minded human, I didn't almost kill you, I let you go. However if you are in such a hurry, I won't mind killing you first, InuYasha, the youngest of the Tokijin family.”

 

 

Sesshomaru wanted to do something to stop Menoumaru before he harmed InuYasha again, but his head was already starting to spin from the blood Menoumaru had managed to take already. However he was unable too as a voice of a female spoke to him.

 

 

“That's quite enough, Menoumaru; we have a use for both of the Tokijin brothers. So don't be stupid, just because the one has a tongue to himself.”

 

 

Menoumaru narrowed his two blood red eyes at the woman who was now standing behind him. Her violet eyes seemed to be sizing him up to see if he truly was a challenge at all.

 

 

“Touran, what are you doing here?”

 

 

Touran smirked as she walked farther into the room, her ice blue hair waving down her back as she walked.

 

 

“Is that something you really needed to ask? I've come to help you clean up the mess you made.”

 

 

“Damn her, I told Kirara that I had everything under control and that I would take care of everything.”

 

Touran continued to smirk at him, as she spoke.

 

“What you told Kirara and what she trusts are two different things.”

Touran had a point; Kirara only trusted Menoumaru so far, this was something that he was very aware of. Now that Touran was here, Menoumaru understood one thing. Kirara had never planned on letting him have either one of Toga Tokijin's sons.

“Damn, that bitch.”

Menoumaru froze as the familiar soft voice of Kirara echoed inside of his head.

`I'm anything but a bitch, Menoumaru. Bring Sesshomaru and InuYasha to me, I wish to study them before they under go any changes; if you don't, Touran will make sure that you do.'

Her voice was gone before he even got a chance to say another word to her. Touran just smirked at him as she walked toward InuYasha.

“You see, you don't wear the pants like you think you do. Now unless you want to get into trouble with Kirara, you'll do what you were told.”

InuYasha was preparing to fight back, even if it meant dying. However the minute her violet eyes locked with his honey brown orbs. He felt his body go stiff and then numb as he eyes rolled up into his head and darkness was once again his captor.

Sesshomaru was dumb struck as he watched the woman named Touranlift his little brother as if he weighed nothing. His head was still spinning as he felt Menoumaru lift him up into the air as well. When he tried to speak he found that his mouth was too dry to even try. That was when Touran spoke once more, “You better give him a small drink of water. We don't want him dying on the way.”

Menoumaru gave him as he was told which help with the dryness in his mouth. However it did nothing to explain why he couldn't speak. From the looks of the demons that were kidnapping them, they weren't about to explain things to him either.

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Sango jerked awake at the sound of chain scraping across the ground. She relaxed when she realized that it had been her father. Her sad eyes met the warm yet sad eyes of Miroku as he shook his head.

“He still hasn't eaten anything?”

This was so unlike her father, it was true that he was not much on human blood any longer yet he had never turned down a meal of rat's blood before. He had always eaten to keep her mother happy, to make her happy, so why was he refusing it now? As Sango walked closer to him she saw that he was twirling a strange charm around with in his hands.

She then remembered the first day she had seen and questioned him about the strange charm.

“Daddy, what's that strange charm you always have with you?”

Her father's eyes had been as sad then as they were now. Giving his daughter a small smile as he began to explain what the charm was for.

“This was given to me by a priestess, as a blessing or a curse you should say.”

“Why?”

This had been her only question, which had gone unanswered until she had grown older to understand everything about it, which even included herself.

That priestess, she had learned, had been her mother's sister. He had been out hunting one night when he had come upon her in the forest. Xethina's sister had found it strange that he had not attacked her, but had gone after a rabbit instead. Soon Xethina and Gabriel had fallen in love. To test this love Kira had thrown the pentagon on to Gabriel's chest. However, the pentagon only burned long enough to leave a pentagon on his right peck.

Shortly after Gabriel had passed out, as a blue light enveloped his body. The charm gave him control over his soul once more. The priestess Kira now knew that though a demon he was, his love for her sister was true.

So why did he have it out now after all of this years? Sango knew that her Aunt had told him, he might need it in the future, but how was that possible? So she decided to do something she had not done in a long time. She was going to ask her father about it.

“Dad, what's going on, why haven't you eaten anything today?”

The minute she reached out to touch him he shied away from her. Just why was he acting so strange toward her now?

“Father, what is it? What's going on here?”

The same short strands of dark brown hair fell against the sides of his face. His grey eyes almost looked silver, was he trying to kill himself slowly and painfully. A slow sigh slipped from his lips as he spoke to his daughter.

“There is a lot going on, Sango. Yet my greatest fear is that you will hate me once all of this is said and done.”

His words only served to confuse Sango more, just what was her father talking about? All wonder about just what her father meant by his words was swiped from her mind as something hard hit her in the back of the head. A tear of blood escaped from Gabriel's eye as he watched Sango fall into darkness. Gabriel caught her in his arms as he gently laid her down on the floor.

His now silver eyes looked up at Sango's attacker.

“That's was good enough, Miroku, now make sure she is restrained well. We don't need Sango killing our invited guest, now do we.”

Miroku answered him in a monotone voice that didn't even sound right on him.

“No, Master, we don't.”

He then picked Sango's limp body up in his arms, and carried her over to a set of special wrist and ankle restrains. Her head sagged forward in her unconscious state. In the years before Sango and her mother, Gabriel knew that he would have delighted in what he was about to help Kirara do. Destroying people's lives is what his undead life had been about, that had been his life before he had been cursed. However, with what he was about to do he wished that he was still that monster of centuries ago.

`My dear daughter, Sango, please forgive me for what I'm about to do. Though I know it is wrong to ruin another person's life, this is the only way I know how to save your mother and unborn brother.'

Gabriel then turned his grey eyes toward Miroku, whose own slate colored orbs were hazed over in a trance. After all these years of not using his dark gift, he found that he was still as good as the very first time.

“Miroku, our guest has arrived, why don't you invite him inside?

With a simple nod Miroku went to let their expected guest inside. There was one thing Gabriel was sure of; he would do any thing to protect Sango and Miroku from harm. Realizing that he was still shackled, he placed the suggestion in Miroku's mind to free him.

“Wait, Miroku, isn't there something else you should do first, son?”

There was no emotion in his eyes as he answered Gabriel.

“Oh yes, of course, Gabriel.”

Sliding a hand into his pocket Miroku pulled out a key, and then robotically placed it in the shackle lock. The chains and shackles then fell to the ground with an un-ceremonial clunk, clink. A few seconds later Gabriel's grey orbs were looking up into Kirara's bright ruby ones. As she spoke Kirara's words tumbled gently from her soft ruby lips.

“Gabriel, it is good to see you again.”

Her eyes then drifted to the unconscious half-breed vampire, which caused Gabriel to step in front of her.

“Sango was not part of the deal Kirara; no one in this room is to lay a finger on her or Miroku. If they do I will have to go against my word and not help you.”

A soft smile graced her lips as she replied to Gabriel's words.

“Now, Gabriel, you know me better then that. I'm not one to go against my word and you know it.”

Gabriel's eyes narrowed as he looked at the tall figure holding the eldest Tokijin brother. “What in all hells was he doing there?”

“What is he doing here? You can't possibly believe that you can trust him?”

A deep growl rumbled from within Gabriel's chest as he bared his fangs at Menoumaru. He trusted him as far as he could throw him, which was far, but not far enough.

His words caused Kirara to laugh wildly.

“Honestly, Gabriel, I trust him as much as you do, however, he wants Ammon destroyed as much as we do.”

Gabriel however wasn't sure what to think of what Kirara was saying. There were a few things that he was still worrying about.

“What are we going to do about Ammon's little prodigy, Naraku? He may be young, but he is not naïve.”

Kirara then turned to both Sesshomaru and InuYasha. A slight smile on her lips as she did so.

“That, my friend, is why we have these two. Their father's DNA had a positive response to our blood. It was very regrettable that he destroyed himself after he learned what he had become and that his wife was dead. He didn't think he could hide what he had become from his son's.

Gabriel wasn't sure if he was buying what Kirara was saying.

“How do you plan on testing your theory?

Kirara's ruby orbs gently stopped on Miroku as she gracefully made her way toward Miroku. Her movements reminded him of a cat graceful yet alluring in a strange and predatory way. Kirara gently slid a blacked gloved finger over his smooth skin.

“I'm going to test my theory by using your soon to be son-in-law's blood lab skills. Tell him what I want done, won't you, Gabriel?”

The sounds of a soft moan caused Gabriel and the other vampires to quickly glance at Sango as her head bobbed from side to side. Kirara was at her side in an instant and slid a needle into her neck, releasing a sedative into her system.

“That should keep her out for a little while. Now, where were we?”

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