InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Curse: One of Life and One of Death ❯ Chapter 12

Onigumo came barging in through the door way after he kicked the door down. He noticed that Kagome was dressed now as well and looked at Kagura and Kanna. “Why was the door locked? Those are not the clothing you two were supposed to dress my Pet in! Wait a minute…you are a demon. How is this possible, you should at least be a half demon, your mother is human after all. Oh, Pet, you don't know how excited I am right now by just imaging all the different things that I can do to you. I will break you and remold you into the finest, most obedient demoness this world has ever known. Once I am done with you; no one, not even Lord Sesshoumaru, will want to touch you much less look at you. After all I am sure he will kill you now anyways, you are the reason for his father's death.”

 

Kagome continued to look to the floor while he talked and walked closer to her. When he was suddenly at arms length she shot her right hand around his neck and lifted him in the air. “I may be the reason you attacked Lord Maliki but you are the reason he is now dead, are you prepared to join him in death?” With that said Onigumo was able to fully take in her new appearance. She had grown a few inches to stand at 5'9” and her straight black hair fell to mid calf. Her eyes had taken on more of a silver look while there still remained speckles of brown in them. Unlike her father though, she had a mokomoko that was the purest of all blacks. On her wrist and ankles she had two maroon strips each, she had pointed ears like most dog demons and on her face she bore two more maroon strips on each cheek with red lines on her upper eye lid. On her forehead, were a star should have been to resemble her family's crest, bore the sign of the planet Pluto; which is often associated with the dead.

 

“What type of demon are you Pet?” he choked out between gasps of air. She smirked and replied, “We are no demon, rather an Angel! We have the bloodlines of a shadow dog demon, we are heir to the Eastern Lands, but unlike my sister we are the purest of all beings. We are that which everyone fears, yet shouldn't. Were my sister is the Goddess of Life; we are the Angel of Death! Are you prepared to fully see my wrath in all its glory?” When she finished she looked to Kagura and Kanna and said, “Leave now, nothing will happen to you unless you remain. We are prepared to meet our destiny head on; we no longer fear our path!” The two demonesses left very reluctantly but they knew she had to persevere.

 

Upon entering the main hall Kanna stopped Kagura, “The Goddess is trapped in her own trap. We must help her or the Angel will fall.” Kagura was confused, she had always thought that the Goddess was too consumed by power and control; never had she thought of the Goddess as being the puppet being controlled. Together the two demonesses went in search of the Goddess of Life. Kagura saw through Kanna's mirror that she was being chained up in Naraku's personal torture room. She knew all too well what awaited the young Goddess, “We have to hurry before it is too late. She will break soon and all will be doomed.” Kagura stated as they ran quicker.

 

Kikyo couldn't believe how her day was turning out. `How did my day go from trying to get to my sister to either rescue her or absorb her, if she had died, to becoming Naraku's new play toy? Since when did he have time to render me unconscious long enough to chain me up?' she thought as Naraku slapped her face and punched her abdomen yet again. With a pained smirk she spat out, “Is that the best you got? You hit more like a girl than my own Mother does! Ha-ha, am I actually supposed to be scared of you? Give me the best you can dish out already; stop tickling my senses!” “Bitch you would do well to not challenge me. What do you think; that Inuyasha or his brother will come and rescue you if you prolong this any longer? Don't make me laugh, their father is now dead because of Kagome and now they say you come inside here on your own free will. They will kill you, not save you my dear.”

 

She knew what he said was probably correct but she figured that her sister would not allow them to harm her; even though she would not have thought twice about watching Kagome die just so she could absorb her and become whole. Kagome wasn't like her though, she wouldn't allow her to die when Kagome could do something to prevent it; this much she did know. “Bring on your worse, you can't harm me you pathetic excuse of a half breed!” Suddenly she was engulfed in a bright pink aura as she said, “I give myself Goddess, and purify all that needs to be so we can be one finally!” `Yes Mistress, we shall be one finally. This filth will know what it is that he has awakened once and for all. No one else will fight to protect you but me.' “No Goddess others still fight for her!” Kikyo looked up to see who had spoken but she didn't recognize the demonesses that stood before her.

 

Kanna walked into the room completely after hearing what the Goddess from within Kikyo said. “Others still fight for the Angel and the Goddess; you only need but to ask. When given a reason all will be forgiven. Trust in your powers to keep you safe from all harm.” “Kanna what are you and Kagura doing here? Why aren't you with Kagome keeping her away from my father, he can take her once I'm done with her not before?” The two demonesses just looked at him as if he were nothing of importance. “We answer to the Angel now; you can't do anything to us anymore.” replied Kagura as she walked from behind Kanna; prepared to fight Naraku in order to protect Kikyo and Kagome.

 

Outside in the courtyards Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were fighting with a few of Onigumo's and Naraku's henchmen: Byakuya, Hakudoushi, Moryomaru, Goshinki, Muso, Kageroumaru, and Juuroumaru. Though they were highly out numbered neither brother felt defeated, rather they felt encouraged to keep fighting. Sesshoumaru knew that Kagome's beast had been fully awakened but he hadn't been able to sense her since he felt a male presence enter her room. He knew he had to get to her and fast. “I don't have time to waste on you filthy vermin.” he stated as he killed Goshinki and proceeded on to Muso. He looked over to Inuyasha and noticed that he was fighting Kageroumaru and Juuroumaru, 'So lil brother you have grown stronger indeed. To think, all you needed was someone to protect for you to become a great fighter.'

 

Inuyasha did not know where this extra energy or fighting skills were coming from; all he could assume was that it was from him being in his demonic blood beast state. He knew he had been relieved when Sesshoumaru told him, “Inuyasha it is my understanding that Kikyo is here for Kagome, whether to save her or absorb her is another story. She is merely playing Naraku; she had nothing to do with what happened to Father.” It was then that they saw the six demons, with the seventh wrapped around the neck and shoulder of one. Inuyasha could tell that they were all pretty powerful, but he knew he would defeat any that stood against him. It was at that time that Kageroumaru and Juuroumaru approached him. Flexing his claws he said, “Shall we get this party started Ladies?”

 

Juuroumaru looked a lot like Sesshoumaru only he was a few inches shorter with no markings and he doesn't speak. Kageroumaru looked to be a mix of a praying mantis and a snake demon, but Inuyasha opted for it just being of the parasitic genes. He was quick to learn of their abilities as well; where Juuroumaru's specialty lied in stealth, Kageroumaru's specialty lied in speed. `This is going to take a while if they are going to attack me together all the time.' he thought as they proceeded to battle to the death. He looked over a few times to see Sesshoumaru had defeated an ogre named Goshinki and was now fighting a demon that seemed to be able to regenerate no matter what you did. He knew his brother would succeed; he had to get to his mate, who was in serious danger inside the house.

 

Once Inuyasha was able to defeat Kageroumaru, he found it a lot easier to kill off Juuroumaru. When he went for the final death blow of Juuroumaru he looked up to see Sesshoumaru ripping out the heart of Muso and dissolving it with his poison claws. Sesshoumaru smirked evilly as he watched Muso suddenly drop lifelessly to the ground once his heart was quickly dissolved. With a flick of his wrist he dropped more poison on the body to make it dissolve as well as flicking off the entrails that clung to his claws. Inuyasha soon bounded to his side as their next opponents approached. They looked to be brothers, possibly twins, though one was trapped in a child like state or appearance while the other looked to be an adult. “My name is Hakudoushi and this is my twin brother Moryomaru, we won't be so easy to defeat.”

 

Sesshoumaru soon realized that the child was one of the demons he smelled around his father's accident. “Hakudoushi you were one of the demons that ran my father off the road, were you not?” “If you mean that pathetic excuse for a dog demon lord, than the answer is yes Lord Sesshoumaru!” Hakudoushi stated rather sarcastically. “Just so you know; my brother here was the police officer that wrote the report up as being a suicide. It should make for an interesting story with the news, don't you think?” “The twerp is mine!” growled out Inuyasha as his eyes glowed even redder. Sesshoumaru smirk, `So my plan did work. The only way my brother can possibly defeat either one of these demons is to make him even angrier; almost to the point of loosing control.' He then turned to the taller, quieter demon and smirked more, “So you were the idiot that forgot to cover up the evidence. You should know that your incompetence has made the police believe it was foul play and that you were a dirty cop that had something to do with this. They have decided to reopen the file and ruled it homicide.”

 

Both Hakudoushi and Moryomaru knew that even if they did survive the fight they would be in trouble with the law. Either way it wasn't looking too good for them. They knew that if they did survive this they would either have to leave the country immediately or they would have to get a concealment spell cast so they could avoid the law. This made Hakudoushi even madder now. Foolishly he charged Inuyasha full on without noticing that he was running right into Inuyasha's attack. Inuyasha had just finished embedding his claws into his wound on his left ribs and yelled out, “Blades of Blood!” He watched as blade after blade embedded into Hakudoushi. He smirked as he saw the twerp stubble back on his feet. “Are you ready for some more or do you need to go find your Mommy?”

 

Moryomaru wanted to help his brother; he knew that Inuyasha would kill him and that he was just playing with him right now; like a cat does with a mouse before it goes for the kill. However, Moryomaru had bigger issues to deal with, in front of him stood the most powerful demon of all beings and here he was standing between that demon and its mate. He didn't want to fight the demon lord; it wasn't his fight to fight, but he knew he had no other choice. Suddenly Sesshoumaru with a look of understanding vanished just to appear behind him and rendered him unconscious while saying, “I'll permit you to live for now. I know you are a servant to Onigumo but you will still have to answer the law for your part in all of this.” Sesshoumaru then looked to the last demon, “Shall we get this over with I have more important things waiting from me right now.”

 

Byakuya approached the cocky Lord and said, “I'm Byakuya; I took great pleasure in helping Hakudoushi in running your father off the road. You should know I am the most powerful demon here.” “Good that just means that once I defeat and kill you, every other demon that stands in my way will die with little to no effort on my part!” smirked Sesshoumaru as he unleashed his poisonous whips on the unsuspecting demon. He knew that this demon was an illusionist and that he needed to kill him rather quickly; before he would have time to conjure up an illusion. He watched as Byakuya unleashed pieces of origami and threw them at him. They were dodged with little to no effort put forth by Sesshoumaru. “You will not be able to kill me with your origami attacks or with your illusions that you are trying to conjure; you won't live long enough to unleash it.”

 

Once that was said Byakuya realized that he had somehow managed to get thrown in front of Hakudoushi, who was going for the kill on Inuyasha right at that moment. Hakudoushi realized too late that Byakuya was there. “You made me kill my friend; you will die for that you pest.” Again, so enraged, Hakudoushi charged straight to Sesshoumaru without paying attention to his surrounds or to his opponent. He simply stepped to the side and whipped out his poisonous whips, which encircled around the younger demon's throat. “My poisons are slowly seeping into your skin and soon your skin, muscles, and other organs in your throat will disintegrate causing your head to simply fall off, that is how you will die; if not from suffocation first. However, I can kill you quicker if you just tell me where my Mate can be found.”

 

Hakudoushi refused to betray his Master and Lord, so Sesshoumaru seeped more poison into his whips and together him and Inuyasha walked away while hearing Hakudoushi scream and yell in pain as the fate he chose came to past. `Huh I guess that little demon was stronger than I thought, he actually lasted until his head fell off; I'm impressed!' mused Sesshoumaru to himself. There attention was quickly diverted to a room in the back of the house were they heard a female scream. Not knowing who it was both brothers ran to the aid of the female. Upon entering the room they found Kikyo on the ground half naked, beaten, and in her full Goddess form. She had the mark of a true and powerful Priestess on her brow; the four pointed star that was hollow in the middle.

 

Sesshoumaru remembered the last Priestess to live that had that mark was none other than that of Midoriko herself. “So I see you have awakened Goddess, I will assist you but you must know I will not allow you to have my mate in any way!” It was at that time that the brothers saw Naraku torturing two demonesses. “Sess those are the two I sensed helping Kagome before the barrier was erected again. If they are here then that means that she is all alone with Onigumo. We need to hurry up and find her; we both know that Onigumo is worse than his own son especially when it comes to how they treat females at least.” He had to agree with his younger brother and together they approached Naraku and the two barely conscious demonesses. Naraku stood and faced off with Sesshoumaru while Inuyasha freed the demonesses from their chains.

 

Hokadashi tried his best to ease the mind of his daughter and son-in-law. They all could feel that both girls had fully awakened and were currently both in battle. They could only hope that they were both okay and neither one fighting the other. Sephiroth was especially beside himself because he didn't think that Kagome would be able to defend herself, she hadn't had enough training to know what her powers were. She would only be able to rely on her instincts and her beast to protect her; he could only hope they would be enough until Sesshoumaru got to her side. With Sesshoumaru, she wouldn't have to fight; taking that what Rei and Hokadashi told him about his marking and from the aura that he felt coming from Sesshoumaru, he was definitely the strongest of all demons.

 

“This is my entire fault.” Sephiroth said as he got up once more to start pacing. “What do you mean, Love? You had nothing to do with our daughters getting abducted.” Rei said as she too got up to comfort her mate. She couldn't understand why he was feeling so guilty all of a sudden. “It is my fault, if I hadn't told Inuyasha to tell Kagome to come home as a request from you; she and Maliki would be over here with his pups and together we would all be celebrating the girls' birthday. But no, I had to have her come home and now both of my girls are being held hostage and my best friend and fellow lord is dead because of me. How am I to face his pups much less my own after this is over?” Rei was at a loss of words, she knew that he wouldn't have been able to foresee this so she just told him to hush as she hugged him.

 

**AN**

 

Sorry for the delay but I think 3 chapters in one day is a good enough gift to you all for taking so long!!! Enjoy, read, and feel free to review. Let me know what you think either good or bad I care not, I just like to receive input and help me with deciding where the story is headed next. Thanks too all how have given me reviews I really appreciate it!!! Until next time, have a good time and I hope you all have enjoyed reading this as much as I have in writing it.