InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Shippo's Betrayal ❯ The Doors Open the Other Way ( Chapter 3 )

A/N: Hey guys…hope you like this chapter, and I promise the plot will come together soon. Remember, reviews help me write more!

Disclaimer: Does anybody read these? I don't own Inuyasha. There. *runs off crying* Ooh! I think I own the spider demon but the name sounds vaguely familiar…sorry if anybody already has it.

~devil_kitsune

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Shippo closed the door after her, and climbed back onto the bed with the sandwich in his teeth. Within a few moments the food had been demolished, and Shippo sat on the bed, brushing a few crumbs off of his front. His stomach was satiated now, but still hungry. He stood up, and found that his weight had left a rather deep indentation in the thick blue and gold covers. Shippo pondered on what to do for a minute. Pch. What the heck, he had an hour to kill. He crawled under the warm covers and fell asleep.

Shippo's Betrayal: The Movie

Chapter Three

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The Doors Open the Other Way

It was a battlefield, raging with both demons and humans clashing weapons. Shippo looked around and found he was in the midst of a large, incredibly enormous army.

Sesshoumaru's army in fact. He stood on top of a nearby hill, clad in all his finest armor, and wielding both Tenseiga and Tokijin. The few beams of light that managed to penetrate the thick grey clouds illuminated Sesshoumaru's face.

Shippo shuddered. His cold unblinking expression was enough to strike fear even into Inuyasha's heart. Speaking of which, where was he? His attention was quickly diverted by Sesshoumaru beginning to speak.

"Today we fight. Many of you do not know for what we fight today. We fight not to purge the world of human blood, that will come later, but we fight for the Shikon no Tama and its power. Have no mercy. But remember, we are fighting alongside the hanyou and the miko."

Whoa. Since when did this happen? Inuyasha and Kagome fighting along with Sesshoumaru? Or did that mean Naraku and Kikyo….

"Yes, the miko does have the Shikon shards,"

Nope, Inuyasha and Kagome.

"But do not kill her. I will deal with the matter after this…war…is over."

He drew Tokijin and let out a blood chilling war cry. The forces of thousands of demons charged forward into the whirling maelstrom of blood and clashing metal. Shippo half expected to be crushed under their feet but found that even though he seemed to be being trampled, he felt nothing and found to his delight he sent quite a few tripping down the hill and heard one mutter, "Damn rock." Shippo lifted his head up cautiously and heard a familiar cry.

"KAZE NO KIZU!" Inuyasha sliced along an invisible path, striking a large nasty looking boar demon that was about to run him through with its tusks to the ground, and sent shockwaves rippling through the ground, felling other demons as well. Shippo cheered him on, but found no sound came out. He tried again, but to no avail, and pouted angrily. He would have had a different reaction had he not realized that he could not be hurt, so it all cancelled out.

`God, I'm becoming Myoga, little coward,' he thought.

His eyes flicked around, searching for the others, and settled on Miroku and Sango, standing back-to-back fending off a swarm of demons closing in on them from all sides. The monk had a mixed expression of fear, hate, and love on his face, as copious demons fell victim to his Kazaana, widening the curse ever so much. Sango decapitated a row of youkai with her Hiraikotsu and it slashed through the backs of a few others on its return. Numerous wounds adorned both their bodies like flowing red tattoos.

Shippo was beginning to get scared now. He had never seen so much bloodshed, nor had he witnessed what seemed to be the beginning his friends' end.

`Please let this be a dream…please…'

As he prayed his eyes left the pair and searched for Kagome. However, she was nowhere to be found. Shippo continued searching, and again spotted Inuyasha. He saw him deliver a killing blow to a snake youkai, only to have a pair of claws grip his neck from behind.

It was Sesshoumaru.

`Huh? I thought…isn't Sesshoumaru fighting with them? Why is he trying to kill Inuyasha? Hm…maybe just instinct. He's been going at his throat every time he sees him for the past fifteen or so years. Sesshoumaru wouldn't kill him now…he said not to…'

He was quickly distracted by a series of painful blows and poundings to his head.

His last thoughts were `Dammit Inuyasha do you always have to try to kill me?' and then he passed out.

~*~*~*~*~

Thud. Thud.

"Shippo, Master Sesshoumaru has called you to eat," a voice said.

"Mmph." Shippo's eyes snapped open and he sighed in relief when he discovered that no one was dying and Inuyasha was nowhere to be seen. However he had a splitting headache. `Must be because of Inuyasha killing me.'

Thud.

"Shippo?"

"Urgh…"

"Hello?"

Thud thud.

He yawned widely. "What?" He sat up, stretching and yawning again, but fell back again into the luxurious sea of feather comforter.

"Lord Sesshoumaru has requested for me to inform you that it is now dinnertime."

"Eh…sure."

Oh. Right. Apparently his hour of time had been killed thoroughly so now he would have to find a way to get off the bed. Shippo found it quickly enough, but not quite the way he had intended. While trying to lower himself down onto the chair, he slipped, bounced off the armrest, and landed facedown on the floor. Getting back up, Shippo smoothed his clothes and opened the door. Obviously the voice had left, so he stepped outside and looked around for someone to direct him to the…uh…where was it that he was supposed to go? Shippo furrowed his brows for a few moments, trying to remember, but he was quickly interrupted by a young Inu youkai dashing around the corner. He collided into Shippo and they fell to the floor in a gasping heap. Pulling himself out from under the Inu demon, Shippo wheezed a bit and muttered, "I've got to stop doing this."

He was sore all over from the numerous times he had been injured in the last, what…two days?

The Inu youkai had by this time gotten up, apologized hastily to his hit and run victim, and proceeded to run off again.

Shippo, suddenly remembering something, yelled after him, "Wait!"

"What?" The young youkai skidded to a halt and spun around, long white hair flipping over his shoulder.

"Could you tell me the way to the…uh…place where you go eat?"

"The dining hall? Sure. Just go straight ahead there," he pointed, "take the second right and go down two flights of stairs, out the double doors to your left, past the stables, the oak door in front, take the first right and it's through the big portholed doors on the left. The Inu youkai drew a deep breath and exhaled.

Shippo stared at him.

He stared back. "Or you could just go the other way, first left, down two lights of stairs, and straight ahead until you find the doors."

Shippo sighed in relief. "Ok. Thanks."

The youkai nodded to him briefly and sprinted towards wherever he was going, his bushy tail slightly trailing along the floor, and then twitching upwards to wrap around his shoulder.

A rather familiar tail…Shippo shook his head mentally, and tried to remember the directions. "Ok…left, stairs…one, two, three, four…"

His eyes occupied with the job of counting the stairs, his foot missed the twelfth one.

"OW!"

He ended up at the bottom of both flights, now with several throbbing bumps on his head.

`Thought you said you were going to stop.'

`Thought I told you to shut up.'

The voice `hmmph'ed.

Shippo stood up once again and rubbed the back of his head gingerly, wincing with the pain that shot through his skull.

"Ok…doors…doors…"

He followed the hallway along a couple of turns and finally came into a large area with three sets of doors.

"Crap," he muttered, a word he had picked up from Kagome whenever Inuyasha was mad, for whatever reason, whether there was no other Ramen or he was chasing her while she ran to the well.

He cracked open the first pair, from which a tantalizing spicy scent was emanating from, and found a noisy room full of seemingly impatient short-tempered cooks and banging pots and pans. A pot flew across the kitchen and knocked a cook unconscious. Shippo winced.

"CUT!!!" Medics appeared out of nowhere and began tending to the injured extra, who sported a large red mark and a purpling bruise on his cheek and jaw, which tilted a bit to the side at an odd angle.

Toshaki groaned. "Hey, you. Yeah, the one in the blue shirt. We need more extras."

Inuyasha, Kagome, and the others, sitting on the side sipping water and the odd beer had burst out laughing at the casualty. The stretcher carrying the victim passed by them, and the medics shot them angry glares, muttering things like `Spoiled ingrates' and `Stupid brats.'

Meanwhile the offending extra was blubbering on to Toshaki about how he was so sorry and didn't mean to do it. Toshaki wasn't listening at all, and was calculating how much the lawsuit would cost.

The man in the blue shirt returned with an extra from a later scene, and hurriedly plopped a chef hat on his head. He was explaining to him that all he had to do was stand there, yell, and dodge the pot. The extra didn't look too happy. The blue shirt sighed, and shoved him into place, as fading ambulance sirens raced off to the nearest hospital.

Toshaki finally took notice of the blubbering man and shoved him back to the set.

"I hate this job. Action!"

He cracked open the first pair, from which a tantalizing spicy scent was emanating from, and found a noisy room full of seemingly impatient short-tempered cooks and banging pots and pans. Shippo shut the door quietly and winced as a heavy pot missed its intended target and crashed against the door dangerously close to where his head had previously been.

"Must be close then."

He looked to his left and saw the same massive doors that he had come through…or were they?

"Kami. Not even two hours in here and I'm lost already."

Shippo cracked them open and saw a pitch-black room. He cautiously poked one foot in, testing to see if there was a hairy youkai lurking in the dark shadows waiting to pounce on curious little kitsunes. He wiggled his foot. Nothing happened. Slowly placing it down, he jumped as it made contact with cold concrete floor. Shippo crept in warily, and murmured, "Foxfire." A small ball of blue fire floated above his hand, illuminating the area surrounding him. He didn't notice the heavy door closing silently behind him on well-oiled hinges. The fox tiptoed across the surface, exploring the room whose walls appeared to be made of a luminous, coarse red material. He suddenly came across a dull white object, its shape indiscernible in the insufficient lighting. Shippo, curious little fox that he was, crept a bit closer, and allowed his foxfire to shine upon the thing. His eyes widened as he realized what it was. A skull.

"AAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

Shippo raced towards the doors, and pushed on them with all his might, but they wouldn't budge. He began pounding on them in panic, screaming at the top of his lungs, his foxfire dissipating and plunging him into total darkness.

"KAAAAAAGOMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! HELP MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

~*~*~*~*~

Somewhere in the depths of Sesshoumaru's castle.

~*~*~*~*~

"Jaken."

The green toad hopped to his feet and scurried towards the large cushiony chair his master sat in at the head of the dining table, which was laden with an abundance of food. Most of it never got eaten anyway.

"Yes sir?"

"Go and find the kitsune, tell him to come down and eat. And don't attack him this time."

"Yes sir, your humble servant will do as you wish," he said, backing away quickly from the chair and out the doors. (Hey I don't know how he talks so back off.)

Jaken scuttled down the hall, past the kitchen. A faint screaming reached his ears, seeming to come from the thick doors on his left.

"KAGOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Hmm…" The toad reached for the door handle, but he was too short to reach it, so he hurried on back to Sesshoumaru.

"LEMME OUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!!"

"Master Sesshoumaru! I could not find the kitsune, but I believe he is behind the doors of your potion room."

`Foolish kitsune,' the lord thought. `He won't survive for five minutes if Takia's awake…'

He stood up suddenly and walked out of the room.

~*~*~*~*~

Shippo's `prison' room.

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"HEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Shippo ceased screaming for a moment to catch his breath. In those few moments, he heard a nearly silent scratching, scuttling noise. He inhaled sharply and twitched his ear back to listen, his eyes trying futilely to see through the thick blanket of black engulfing his body. The scratching came closer. Suddenly numerous large, blood red eyes pierced the darkness, staring hungrily at him.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LEMME OUT!!!!!"

Shippo pressed his back against the door, as the eyes slowly drew closer. His own eyes were darting around frantically for another exit and glanced over another patch of red. As it became visible in the darkness, he saw it was a mark in the shape of a spider.

"Crap," he muttered. He started screaming again.

~*~*~*~*~

Somewhere in the hall.

~*~*~*~*~

Sesshoumaru sped down the hall at a rapid pace, almost a run.

"Stupid kitsune," he muttered.

His sensitive ears picked up the sound of Shippo's incessant screaming. He finally reached the doors and rapped on them sharply, saying, "Shut up, you fool."

Shippo stopped and whimpered quietly, mumbling incoherently.

"Takia! Stay where you are. This one is not food."

From inside the room, Shippo heard a hiss and saw the red, glowing eyes disappear back into the darkness.

Sesshoumaru pushed open the doors with ease, to let out a near-hysterical Shippo come tumbling out.

"Fool, did you not think to open the doors?"

"She…you…it…Naraku…that thing…it's one of Naraku's guys…you're…"

"What is the meaning of all this?" Sesshoumaru was puzzled, why was he babbling on about Naraku, when assuredly he had nothing to do with the current situation.

"You…you're working with Naraku…it had the sign…spider…" Shippo fell to the ground in a dead faint. He regained consciousness a few moments later, got up, and shrank away from the confused demon lord.

"So…you are saying that the youkai in there is a minion of Naraku's…correct?"

Shippo nodded and shrank even more against the opposite wall. Sesshoumaru sighed, and opened the door. The kitsune cowered.

Sesshoumaru took Shippo by the scruff of his neck and stepped in. The kit was too scared even to move, but whimpered when he saw the murderous eyes glare at them. The youkai lord gestured to the mark on its back.

"It's no spider mark, you fool."

The mark had now turned into a red hourglass shaped mark centered in the middle of the thing's back. Sesshoumaru walked out of the room again, accompanied by a low hiss emitted from the thing, and set him down.

"You were hallucinating, little kit. As for my earlier question, did you not try to open the doors?"

"I-I did, I was pushing on them, but they wouldn't open!" Shippo spoke in a complete sentence for the first time. The door swung closed again behind him.

"They open inwards."

Sesshoumaru wondered at the little fox's stupidity.

"Oh. Oops."

"It will do you good to avoid that room from now on, unless you have a death wish. Takia is a spider demon, my alchemist. She will not hesitate to eat you if you disturb her again."

Shippo eeped quietly and shrank from the doors.

Sesshoumaru sighed and picked the kitsune up by the scruff of his neck once again, and carried him back down the hall to the dining hall, muttering to him as he stalked across the floor, "If you keep doing stupid things like this I'll have to kill you personally. And where did all those bumps come from?"

By this time Sesshoumaru was carrying a lump of fur and tail. The lump shivered and emitted another quiet whimper, accompanied by some faint poundings coming from an unknown source. When they reached the doors, Sesshoumaru tossed Shippo into the room, aiming for a pulled out chair, but Shippo decided to unfurl at that moment, changing his direction slightly, and landed in a large pot of rice.

"Ooof!"

Shippo extracted himself slowly from the food, bits and pieces of the sticky cooking clinging to his body.

Sesshoumaru let out a long, slow breath, and massaged his temples as he walked stiffly across the hall to his large chair.

"Oops. Sorry."

Shippo clambered out of the pot, his body now warmed from the rice, and stepped cautiously back across the table to his intended chair, avoiding the numerous dishes of steaming food.

"So…uh…how's it being Lord of the Western Lands?" Shippo asked nervously, twiddling his small fingers.

Sesshoumaru glared. Shippo shut up and stared intently at a small lump of rice in front of him that had fallen off of his tail.

At this point Sesshoumaru noticed that Jaken was not in the room where he had left him.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Near Sesshoumaru's castle, a few minutes back.

~*~*~*~*~*~

One of Inuyasha's eyes cracked open, the afternoon sun infiltrating underneath his eyelid, causing his pupil to narrow sharply. The other followed suit. He slowly became aware of a warm wetness on his leg, and an odd floating, bobbing sensation. As his eyes adjusted to the light, a flood of memories came back to him.

Kagome was dead. And then they, he and the monk, had decided to do something. What it was was eluding his mind for the moment.

Then a grey stone turret came into his view, connected to a large castle. Finally realizing where he was, Inuyasha stretched, careful not to disturb whatever it was resting on his knee, untangling his fingers from the mess of raven hair.

"Kagome…" he whispered. The blood had spread on her clothes and his pants leg, drying to an ugly rusty brown color. Her hair was matted, a few leaves sticking out at random places.

"Fuck, Sesshoumaru, you better not slam that door in my face," he muttered. "Oi! Monk!" He slapped the dozing monk upside the head, waking him up effectively and almost toppling him off of the neko youkai.

"Hmm," he grunted, squinting his eyes at a fuzzy blob of white and red. "Oh…lemme `lone…sleep…" He slurred, his eyes falling closed again.

"YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS LYING DEAD NEXT TO YOU, YOU BAKA, WAKE UP!"

Kirara hissed at the assault upon her ears, and flattened them against her skull.

"Whatha…hmmm…Sango?" Miroku's eyes snapped open. "Where's Sesshoumaru."

"We're almost fucking there." Inuyasha was never in a good mood to begin with, and Kagome being dead wasn't helping much. He felt an unfamiliar pricking behind his eyes, and blinked savagely. Tears. He hadn't cried since his mother died and he had lost the one person he really loved. He didn't love Kagome, and he wasn't going to cry now.

`Yeah, what was that about `You're all I have…'?'

`Feh. That's cause it was true. Doesn't mean I love the bitch.'

`You have Miroku.'

`Pervert.'

`Shippo?'

`Annoying brat.'

`Err…Sesshoumaru?'

`What the hell?! I oughta run you through right now...'

`Hm…Sango.'

`She scares me.'

`Huh?'

`What?'

`Erm…'

`Forget I said that.'

`Forgotten.'

"Inuyasha…"

"What?" He snapped bitterly.

"Uh…we're here…" Miroku looked worriedly at Inuyasha, having seen a torrent of love, disgust, annoyance, and confusion whirl across his face in less than a few seconds.

"Feh. I knew that." Inuyasha carefully placed Kagome over his shoulder and lowered himself from Kirara's back, Miroku doing the same with Sango. As soon as they dismounted, Kirara reverted back to her normal state, fire disappearing and tail splitting in two, panting heavily from her long journey.

Inuyasha trudged slowly over to the large doors, ordering Miroku to stay behind. He complied quite easily, and sat down, cradling Sango in his arms. Kirara trotted up to them and curled up in her mistress's lap, licking her lifeless hands every now and then.

Inuyasha slipped Kagome down from his shoulder to carry her bridal style to the doors, reluctant to actually ask his brother for help. He held her in one arm and pounded on the door with his free hand.

"Open fuckin' up you bastard! I know you're in there!"

Silence.

He pounded again, rattling the doors on their hinges slightly. His keen ears soon heard a voice wheezing for breath, and the patting of feet, along with a high-pitched, "Jaken-sama, who is it, Rin wants to know!"

Jaken wheezed some more and panted, "Rin, I don't know, be quiet."

"Hmph. Rin thinks Jaken-sama is being mean to Rin."

"Ow! Stop that at once! Ow!"

The door finally opened, revealing a small human child tugging on Jaken's leg.

"Where's the bastard."

Jaken sighed, and hopped back the way he came from, dragging Rin along with him.

"Jaken-sama, who is it?!"

The toad youkai bit back the urge to strangle the girl, knowing that if he did, Sesshoumaru would most likely kill him, very slowly.

"No one…"

The door shut in Inuyasha's face, only to be re-opened by a stone-faced Sesshoumaru.

"What do you want."

"What the hell do you mean, what do you want? I've got two fucking dead girls here and I…uh…needyourhelp." Inuyasha choked out the last few words in a rush.

Sesshoumaru began to look amused.

"Oh…really now?"

"Fucking bastard…"

"So I presume that you want me to revive these two ningens with my Tenseiga, correct?" The demon lord smiled inwardly.

"Sure fucking seems like it, doesn't it?"

Sesshoumaru took a step forward and suddenly grabbed Inuyasha by the throat, lifting him up a few feet in the air.

"What would make you think that I would ever help you. You. Are a hanyou. I. Do not aid hanyous."

During this whole ordeal, Inuyasha had managed to keep his hold on Kagome. Sesshoumaru tightened his grip slightly, penetrating the back of his neck enough to start a faint trickle of blood, but not enough to let the poison seep into his bloodstream.

"You will be gone from here by sundown," he commanded, and let Inuyasha fall to the ground with a thud. He turned on his heel and slammed the large door behind him.

Inuyasha immediately set Kagome down carefully, and leapt to his feet, resuming his pounding on the doors.

"COME BACK HERE YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" He tried ramming his way through the doors, but was jolted back a few yards by a newly constructed force-field type spell, and was accompanied by a long string of curses emitted from his mouth.

Inuyasha repeated this process several times, getting fried each time, and finally slumped down in defeat, recradling Kagome in his arms.

"I'm sorry Kagome…"

~end~

A/N: Hope you liked that chapter! Once again, I'm incredibly sorry for any OOC of Sesshoumaru, Jaken and Rin. And sorry for the lame chapter titles.

Review count so far: 2. I'm not complaining or anything, but more reviews would be nice. And from different people. I'll stop bitching now. Next chapter up soon, hopefully.