InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shigeru ❯ Into the Dreamworld ( Chapter 4 )
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By: Kaguras Man 
Desperate situations can often call upon strange alliances....
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Horror | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 214 | Status: Completed
Desperate situations can often call upon strange alliances....
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Horror | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 214 | Status: Completed
In the beginning Sango had thought of Inuyasha as nothing more than another monster. Of course she was still reeling from the death of her family as well as the destruction of her village. When Naraku told her that Inuyasha had been responsible she set out to slay him. So overcome with grief and rage that she even allowed herself to be empowered by a jewel shard tainted with Naraku's vile energy. Thankfully, her plan failed, and she learned that it had been Naraku who had killed her father and Kohaku as well as the rest of the demon hunters.
Still, even after discovering the truth, she still held such animosity for Inuyasha. He was a demon, half-breed perhaps, but demon nonetheless. She had been shocked at how easily Kagome and Miroku had not only allowed Inuyasha to travel with them, but also how they seemed to trust him....him....a demon! So she had set out to prove that they didn't need his existence, that with her skills alone they could find this Naraku person.
And then....during the encounter with the revived Kohaku it had been Sango herself that proved she was untrustworthy. She had stolen Inuyasha's sword....and for what? She knew that bastard Naraku had no intentions of relinquishing his hold on her brother. It was Inuyasha who had jumped in to protect her.
~Sango! You had better not die, woman! I still have to yell at you!~
So shamed by her actions afterwards she decided a departure was best. She was surprised when Inuyasha actually wanted her to stay.
~Face it, Sango. Your a good fighter so your staying and that's all there is to it.~ He scowled that obnoxiously cute scowl of his. It was one of his little quirks that she would later grow so fond of. ~Besides there ain't no way in hell I'm being left alone with these three brats!~
~Inuyasha, SIT!~
KA-THUD!!!
So she stayed and together they faced many hardships, encountered so many interesting individuals, and grew so much closer. Then somewhere along the way she began to develop these feelings. It had started innocently enough with their many battles. Sango had grown to admire Inuyasha's strength and unwavering confidence on the battlefield. His fighting skills had started off so wild and impetuous, gradually becoming more polished and refined as their journey continued. And he matured. The others may not have noticed it entirely but he was making decisions that he normally would have solved with the business end of his sword. Yes, he still had a habit of acting a bit pompous and childishly but Miroku and Kagome had that effect on everyone. Shippou seemed to notice it too, which was why the little fox-demon seemed to hang around Inuyasha much more as of late. Shippou continued to tease Inuyasha, but children were often known to follow and annoy adults they admired. It so reminded her of her own relationship with Kohaku.
Then there was that time she accidentally caught sight of him in the springs, and what had started as admiration had grown into something more. For many the nights after that incident did she find herself having very pleasant dreams. But as the days passed and she continued bopping Miroku on the noggin Sango would often wonder what it would be like if it was the silver-haired half-breed that was so casually stroking her bottom.
She made no mention of this to her best-friend, of course. Afterall, Kagome had a bit of a crush on Inuyasha, a fact that made Sango's situation even more difficult. Everytime her eyes wandered to catch a glimpse of that golden-eyed man or she awoke from another fantasy, starring hers truly she would feel all the more guilty.
But as she stood there on that hill overlooking a lake Sango came to a simple conclusion. So simple it was that Sango was frustrated with herself for not coming to it much sooner. An answer...so mind-numbingly easy that it could be summed up with just to words.
Fuck it.
Her nude body pressed against the clothed form of the man she had grown to love. Her lips hungrily captured his in a kiss as her hands tore at his clothes. If she wasn't touching his warm flesh soon she was going to go insane.
Fuck Kagome!
Fuck Miroku!
Fuck Shippou!
Fuck the Jewel of the Four Souls!
Fuck Naraku and this entire God forsaken quest that seemed to always end with her sport a few fresh new wounds.
She more than content with staying here in her man's warm embrace while being surrounded by nature at its most splendid. She didn't need anything else or anyone but the silver-haired object of her affection. "Inuyasha......" his name escaped her lips in an almost hypnotic slur. "Please....tell me you share my feelings. T-Tell me...please...that you love me." She glanced up, getting lost in his twin pools of gold. She felt his hold on her tighten ever so briefly. Then she felt a rush of cool air followed by her side connecting with earth, that now felt so unforgiving despite the soft grass.
He had shoved her.
"I-Inuyasha?" Her voice caught in her throat. His eyes, usually filled with such caring were reduced to narrowed slits filled with malice and disgust. Lips set in a menacing scowl, and his arms folded arrogantly across his chest. This was a glare meant for the likes of Naraku and Sesshoumaru, yet it was fixed on her. She could only stared in hurt and confusion as he opened his mouth and spoke.
~~~~~
Kagura muttered a curse, a curse that drifted off into the night's sky, unheard. "It's far too late at night for me to be patrolling! Naraku, you arrogant bastard!" She snarled as she soared over the lands aboard her feather. It wasn't her fault that Inuyasha had so easily dispatched Naraku's latest creation. Of course that didn't matter to her master, deciding to take his anger and humiliation out on the nearest living thing, and since Kanna was incapable of feeling emotions than guess who that left?
So after a stern talking to followed by an hour or so of discipline (i.e., torture) Naraku had ordered Kagura to patrol the skies. So angry he was that he didn't even bother to send his flunky demons and insects to spy on her. He simply wanted her out of his sight.
"Maybe next time Inuyasha will make my day and rip you to shreds!" A soft chuckle escaped her. Yes, that would most definitely make her day. Her crimson eyes lit up maniacally as she fantasized her tormentor's demise at the claws of his most hated nemesis. Then the wind howled the arrival of a familiar presence, causing her robe to billow. She smirked. "Speak of the devil!" She shifted her weight and the feather began its decent.
~~~~~
Inuyasha and Kirara were so busy following the flash of white that they almost didn't sense Kagura dropping in on the them, literally.
"Yo!" the wind sorceress chimed as dropped into a crouching position in front of him.
Kirara immediately morphed into her demon-cat form and hissed while Inuyasha jumped into a defensive position. "Kagura? What the fuck are you doing here?" Was Naraku somehow involved? He was picking up strange senses in this forest but nothing that reeked of Naraku's vile stench.
"I'll ask the questions here!" Kagura retorted, fanning her face. If needed she could instantly launch an attack. "Little Inuyasha, wandering the scary forest at night and alone no less!" She smirked that haughty little trademark smirk of hers. "What ever has become of your companions? Don't tell me you...." Her eyes narrowed at the childlike giggle that hauntingly echoed throughout the forest. The wind became stark still, and her blood felt as though it had been replaced with ice water. She also noticed that Inuyasha's and Kirara's gazes had fallen upon something else, something behind her. She spun, waving her fan. "HA!!!" Wind blades sliced through the air and cut cleanly into the little girl that had been standing behind her. Kagura's first actions were to gasp in shock, she didn't attack children, it was what separated her from Naraku, and that was something held onto very dear. The next was to gape in confusion as the trees behind the child collapsed into pieces even as she stood unharmed. Kagura silently thanked the gods that she hadn't taken the life of child, hiding her emotions behind a mask of indifference.
Kagura was far from being the only one confused. Inuyasha couldn't believe what he'd just seen. How could a human child survive......there! He finally noticed how bone-chillingly pale the girl was, her flesh as white as the clothes she wore with the exception of black splotches on her face and covering her upper torso. Three hideous scars adorned her figure, starting at her left shoulder and traveling diagonally to her right hip. The scars were deep, revealing bone in some spots though she didn't seem to mind much. Perhaps it something to do with the fact that Inuyasha could clearly see through her body and to the forest behind her. "A ghost!" Inuyasha deduced. "Your the one I sensed!"
To their surprises the little turned and sprinted off, passing through the trees as though they didn't exist.
Inuyasha and Kirara gave chase, brushing past a startled Kagura. "I don't have time for you, wench!" He yelled as he followed after the ghost. He didn't know why but he felt he had to follow her. It was a matter of life and death.
Kagura blinked in confusion then glared, realizing she had just been brushed off as nothing more than a nuisance. "How dare you not acknowledge me!" She spat, left eye twitching in annoyance before she gave chase herself. Kagura ran remarkably fast for someone wearing a robe and being barefoot, keeping up with Inuyasha as he bounded after the ghost child till she found herself in a clearing next to the bewildered half-demon.
"She's gone?" Inuyasha sniffed the air. "Something doesn't feel right!"
Even Kirara seemed a bit put off. It was as if there was something they were supposed to see. It was right in front of them, yet here they stood, blind to it.
Kagura of all people solved the puzzle. "A barrier." She smirked when Inuyasha jumped nearly ten feet.
"DAH!!! Kagura!? I thought I told you that I didn't have time to play with you! Just what the hell are you doing here anyway?"
"That's none of your concern. Besides.....if you want to break this demon barrier then you'll have to rely on my aid so you had better show the proper respect!" Kagura chided.
Inuyasha balked then seethed. "If you can dispel the fucking barrier than do it already!"
"Ask nicely!"
"The fuck you say?"
The wind sorceress glared at him. Crimson eyes clashed with golden eyes as two of the most stubborn and often immature acting beings in Japan battled for supremacy.
"Heh, your in for a long wait then!" Inuyasha smirked arrogantly. "I'm not about to beg."
"Then you don't get in."
"How bout I make you break the barrier!"
"Ha! I'd like to see you try!"
"Is that a challenge?"
"You bet, fluffy! Want to dance?" Her fan opened. "I'll more than oblige!"
"Oh yeah!?"
"Yeah!"
"YEAH!?!?!"
"YEAH!!!!"
Kirara glanced from one to the other incredulously. Could they not sense that there was something far more important than their pride? She not-to-gently nudged Inuyasha's leg, giving the half-demon a pleading look.
Inuyasha growled, clenched his fists, and relented. "Kagura.....would....would you...p-p-please help me break the barrier," the way he said it would make one think that every syllable that passed his lips hurt him.
Kagura grinned triumphantly. "See where manners get you." She waved her fan. "DANCE OF THE DRAGON!!!" Several mini twisters screamed through the air, slamming into the barrier that rippled with crimson power before a burst of white. The false image of a clearing vanished, replaced with an ominous looking cave surrounded by forest.
Children. Well over fifty children, ghosts like the little girl they had encountered earlier. They wandered aimlessly around the cave entrance, all sporting their own various wounds from puncture wounds to slash wounds and twisted, mangled limbs. They all reeked of a familiar stench.
"Shigeru." Inuyasha muttered. Just how long had the demon been terrorizing the land? How many innocent children had the bastard slaughtered? He didn't have to see Kagura to know she had the same grim expression he had.
Amongst the sea of white figures emerged the girl they had encountered earlier. "Your friends are in danger."
"Your friends are in danger...."
"Your friends are in danger...."
"Your friends are in danger...."
The children around her echoed her statement in perfect synchrony.
"Shigeru! He's after the others!" Inuyasha snarled, preparing to rush back to the inn.
"You can't save them there." The girl stated matter of factly.
".....can't save them there."
".....can't save them there."
In one fluid motion the children pointed at the cave entrance.
"It is a doorway to his world. The Dreamworld."
".....The Dreamworld..."
".....The Dreamworld..."
"The Dreamworld? Shigeru? Just are they going on about?" Kagura muttered.
"Destroy Shigeru's bridge to this world."
"....bridge to this world..."
"....to this world..."
"....this world..."
"And how do I do this?" Inuyasha asked, fingering the hilt of his sword.
"Take Shigeru's jewel shards. Without them you can strike him down in the Dreamworld. You can force him to this plane of existence."
Inuyasha nodded, eyes shining with that determination he held whenever he faced such a challenge. "Then that's what I'll do. I'll kill Shigeru and free every single one of you!" He glared at Kagura. "You stay put! I'll deal with you later!" With that said, he darted into the cave entrance.
Kagura watched the cave mouth glowed white as Inuyasha vanished inside. She didn't like being told what to do.
So naturally she followed anyway.
Still, even after discovering the truth, she still held such animosity for Inuyasha. He was a demon, half-breed perhaps, but demon nonetheless. She had been shocked at how easily Kagome and Miroku had not only allowed Inuyasha to travel with them, but also how they seemed to trust him....him....a demon! So she had set out to prove that they didn't need his existence, that with her skills alone they could find this Naraku person.
And then....during the encounter with the revived Kohaku it had been Sango herself that proved she was untrustworthy. She had stolen Inuyasha's sword....and for what? She knew that bastard Naraku had no intentions of relinquishing his hold on her brother. It was Inuyasha who had jumped in to protect her.
~Sango! You had better not die, woman! I still have to yell at you!~
So shamed by her actions afterwards she decided a departure was best. She was surprised when Inuyasha actually wanted her to stay.
~Face it, Sango. Your a good fighter so your staying and that's all there is to it.~ He scowled that obnoxiously cute scowl of his. It was one of his little quirks that she would later grow so fond of. ~Besides there ain't no way in hell I'm being left alone with these three brats!~
~Inuyasha, SIT!~
KA-THUD!!!
So she stayed and together they faced many hardships, encountered so many interesting individuals, and grew so much closer. Then somewhere along the way she began to develop these feelings. It had started innocently enough with their many battles. Sango had grown to admire Inuyasha's strength and unwavering confidence on the battlefield. His fighting skills had started off so wild and impetuous, gradually becoming more polished and refined as their journey continued. And he matured. The others may not have noticed it entirely but he was making decisions that he normally would have solved with the business end of his sword. Yes, he still had a habit of acting a bit pompous and childishly but Miroku and Kagome had that effect on everyone. Shippou seemed to notice it too, which was why the little fox-demon seemed to hang around Inuyasha much more as of late. Shippou continued to tease Inuyasha, but children were often known to follow and annoy adults they admired. It so reminded her of her own relationship with Kohaku.
Then there was that time she accidentally caught sight of him in the springs, and what had started as admiration had grown into something more. For many the nights after that incident did she find herself having very pleasant dreams. But as the days passed and she continued bopping Miroku on the noggin Sango would often wonder what it would be like if it was the silver-haired half-breed that was so casually stroking her bottom.
She made no mention of this to her best-friend, of course. Afterall, Kagome had a bit of a crush on Inuyasha, a fact that made Sango's situation even more difficult. Everytime her eyes wandered to catch a glimpse of that golden-eyed man or she awoke from another fantasy, starring hers truly she would feel all the more guilty.
But as she stood there on that hill overlooking a lake Sango came to a simple conclusion. So simple it was that Sango was frustrated with herself for not coming to it much sooner. An answer...so mind-numbingly easy that it could be summed up with just to words.
Fuck it.
Her nude body pressed against the clothed form of the man she had grown to love. Her lips hungrily captured his in a kiss as her hands tore at his clothes. If she wasn't touching his warm flesh soon she was going to go insane.
Fuck Kagome!
Fuck Miroku!
Fuck Shippou!
Fuck the Jewel of the Four Souls!
Fuck Naraku and this entire God forsaken quest that seemed to always end with her sport a few fresh new wounds.
She more than content with staying here in her man's warm embrace while being surrounded by nature at its most splendid. She didn't need anything else or anyone but the silver-haired object of her affection. "Inuyasha......" his name escaped her lips in an almost hypnotic slur. "Please....tell me you share my feelings. T-Tell me...please...that you love me." She glanced up, getting lost in his twin pools of gold. She felt his hold on her tighten ever so briefly. Then she felt a rush of cool air followed by her side connecting with earth, that now felt so unforgiving despite the soft grass.
He had shoved her.
"I-Inuyasha?" Her voice caught in her throat. His eyes, usually filled with such caring were reduced to narrowed slits filled with malice and disgust. Lips set in a menacing scowl, and his arms folded arrogantly across his chest. This was a glare meant for the likes of Naraku and Sesshoumaru, yet it was fixed on her. She could only stared in hurt and confusion as he opened his mouth and spoke.
~~~~~
Kagura muttered a curse, a curse that drifted off into the night's sky, unheard. "It's far too late at night for me to be patrolling! Naraku, you arrogant bastard!" She snarled as she soared over the lands aboard her feather. It wasn't her fault that Inuyasha had so easily dispatched Naraku's latest creation. Of course that didn't matter to her master, deciding to take his anger and humiliation out on the nearest living thing, and since Kanna was incapable of feeling emotions than guess who that left?
So after a stern talking to followed by an hour or so of discipline (i.e., torture) Naraku had ordered Kagura to patrol the skies. So angry he was that he didn't even bother to send his flunky demons and insects to spy on her. He simply wanted her out of his sight.
"Maybe next time Inuyasha will make my day and rip you to shreds!" A soft chuckle escaped her. Yes, that would most definitely make her day. Her crimson eyes lit up maniacally as she fantasized her tormentor's demise at the claws of his most hated nemesis. Then the wind howled the arrival of a familiar presence, causing her robe to billow. She smirked. "Speak of the devil!" She shifted her weight and the feather began its decent.
~~~~~
Inuyasha and Kirara were so busy following the flash of white that they almost didn't sense Kagura dropping in on the them, literally.
"Yo!" the wind sorceress chimed as dropped into a crouching position in front of him.
Kirara immediately morphed into her demon-cat form and hissed while Inuyasha jumped into a defensive position. "Kagura? What the fuck are you doing here?" Was Naraku somehow involved? He was picking up strange senses in this forest but nothing that reeked of Naraku's vile stench.
"I'll ask the questions here!" Kagura retorted, fanning her face. If needed she could instantly launch an attack. "Little Inuyasha, wandering the scary forest at night and alone no less!" She smirked that haughty little trademark smirk of hers. "What ever has become of your companions? Don't tell me you...." Her eyes narrowed at the childlike giggle that hauntingly echoed throughout the forest. The wind became stark still, and her blood felt as though it had been replaced with ice water. She also noticed that Inuyasha's and Kirara's gazes had fallen upon something else, something behind her. She spun, waving her fan. "HA!!!" Wind blades sliced through the air and cut cleanly into the little girl that had been standing behind her. Kagura's first actions were to gasp in shock, she didn't attack children, it was what separated her from Naraku, and that was something held onto very dear. The next was to gape in confusion as the trees behind the child collapsed into pieces even as she stood unharmed. Kagura silently thanked the gods that she hadn't taken the life of child, hiding her emotions behind a mask of indifference.
Kagura was far from being the only one confused. Inuyasha couldn't believe what he'd just seen. How could a human child survive......there! He finally noticed how bone-chillingly pale the girl was, her flesh as white as the clothes she wore with the exception of black splotches on her face and covering her upper torso. Three hideous scars adorned her figure, starting at her left shoulder and traveling diagonally to her right hip. The scars were deep, revealing bone in some spots though she didn't seem to mind much. Perhaps it something to do with the fact that Inuyasha could clearly see through her body and to the forest behind her. "A ghost!" Inuyasha deduced. "Your the one I sensed!"
To their surprises the little turned and sprinted off, passing through the trees as though they didn't exist.
Inuyasha and Kirara gave chase, brushing past a startled Kagura. "I don't have time for you, wench!" He yelled as he followed after the ghost. He didn't know why but he felt he had to follow her. It was a matter of life and death.
Kagura blinked in confusion then glared, realizing she had just been brushed off as nothing more than a nuisance. "How dare you not acknowledge me!" She spat, left eye twitching in annoyance before she gave chase herself. Kagura ran remarkably fast for someone wearing a robe and being barefoot, keeping up with Inuyasha as he bounded after the ghost child till she found herself in a clearing next to the bewildered half-demon.
"She's gone?" Inuyasha sniffed the air. "Something doesn't feel right!"
Even Kirara seemed a bit put off. It was as if there was something they were supposed to see. It was right in front of them, yet here they stood, blind to it.
Kagura of all people solved the puzzle. "A barrier." She smirked when Inuyasha jumped nearly ten feet.
"DAH!!! Kagura!? I thought I told you that I didn't have time to play with you! Just what the hell are you doing here anyway?"
"That's none of your concern. Besides.....if you want to break this demon barrier then you'll have to rely on my aid so you had better show the proper respect!" Kagura chided.
Inuyasha balked then seethed. "If you can dispel the fucking barrier than do it already!"
"Ask nicely!"
"The fuck you say?"
The wind sorceress glared at him. Crimson eyes clashed with golden eyes as two of the most stubborn and often immature acting beings in Japan battled for supremacy.
"Heh, your in for a long wait then!" Inuyasha smirked arrogantly. "I'm not about to beg."
"Then you don't get in."
"How bout I make you break the barrier!"
"Ha! I'd like to see you try!"
"Is that a challenge?"
"You bet, fluffy! Want to dance?" Her fan opened. "I'll more than oblige!"
"Oh yeah!?"
"Yeah!"
"YEAH!?!?!"
"YEAH!!!!"
Kirara glanced from one to the other incredulously. Could they not sense that there was something far more important than their pride? She not-to-gently nudged Inuyasha's leg, giving the half-demon a pleading look.
Inuyasha growled, clenched his fists, and relented. "Kagura.....would....would you...p-p-please help me break the barrier," the way he said it would make one think that every syllable that passed his lips hurt him.
Kagura grinned triumphantly. "See where manners get you." She waved her fan. "DANCE OF THE DRAGON!!!" Several mini twisters screamed through the air, slamming into the barrier that rippled with crimson power before a burst of white. The false image of a clearing vanished, replaced with an ominous looking cave surrounded by forest.
Children. Well over fifty children, ghosts like the little girl they had encountered earlier. They wandered aimlessly around the cave entrance, all sporting their own various wounds from puncture wounds to slash wounds and twisted, mangled limbs. They all reeked of a familiar stench.
"Shigeru." Inuyasha muttered. Just how long had the demon been terrorizing the land? How many innocent children had the bastard slaughtered? He didn't have to see Kagura to know she had the same grim expression he had.
Amongst the sea of white figures emerged the girl they had encountered earlier. "Your friends are in danger."
"Your friends are in danger...."
"Your friends are in danger...."
"Your friends are in danger...."
The children around her echoed her statement in perfect synchrony.
"Shigeru! He's after the others!" Inuyasha snarled, preparing to rush back to the inn.
"You can't save them there." The girl stated matter of factly.
".....can't save them there."
".....can't save them there."
In one fluid motion the children pointed at the cave entrance.
"It is a doorway to his world. The Dreamworld."
".....The Dreamworld..."
".....The Dreamworld..."
"The Dreamworld? Shigeru? Just are they going on about?" Kagura muttered.
"Destroy Shigeru's bridge to this world."
"....bridge to this world..."
"....to this world..."
"....this world..."
"And how do I do this?" Inuyasha asked, fingering the hilt of his sword.
"Take Shigeru's jewel shards. Without them you can strike him down in the Dreamworld. You can force him to this plane of existence."
Inuyasha nodded, eyes shining with that determination he held whenever he faced such a challenge. "Then that's what I'll do. I'll kill Shigeru and free every single one of you!" He glared at Kagura. "You stay put! I'll deal with you later!" With that said, he darted into the cave entrance.
Kagura watched the cave mouth glowed white as Inuyasha vanished inside. She didn't like being told what to do.
So naturally she followed anyway.