InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Death of the Moon ❯ Showdown (pt. one) ( Chapter 6 )

AN: So what do you think about it so far? I don't own Inuyasha so please R&r.

Showdown

(pt. One)

Inu Yasha suddenly slowed. "What's wrong?" Miroku asked.

"She knew my parents..." he said with sudden realization, the image of the crimson and ebon clad youkai flashed through his mind. "... My mother told me about her once, not long before my parents married, there was a youkai who wanted to marry my father for the power she would attain by his side. She was so angry she planned to kill my father and her. But Sesshoumaru overheard and she was punished. They basically made her a wandering soul. With no body and no way of moving on"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"By what my mother said... she looked like the one we fought the other day."

"So she's been possessing people through the years in order to stay alive?"

"Not just that, mother said she vowed to kill all of my father's line."

"Wow alot of people want to kill you huh Inu Yasha?"

Everyone tired to ignore the fox.

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Rin was going through her jewelry, Tsukinoshi didn't really mind, it kept the brat quiet, as long as she didn't break anything. Finally she felt like herself again in her own clothes, the girl's odd kimono had been cast aside and she did not really feel like doing anything about it right now. She looked at herself in the mirror and examined the three shikon shards on the chain. She went to grab them to embed them in her for power but they reacted violently to her. That girl! Even now she is keeping the shard's pure! They are right infront of me and I can do nothing with them!

"Tsukinoshi-sama!"

She sighed, "Yes Rin?"

"Where is the flower patch you told me about?"

She knelt infront of the child, her eyes changing to the pleasant blue eyes. "How about we do that later? Why don't we play a game now?" Tsukinoshi cursed, Kagome was taking control again, lucky for her the girl was too confused to know what was really going on. And, not wanting to frighten the child she seemed happy to entertain the brat, at least that meant she wouldn't have to deal with her for a while. Well not directly anyway. "We're gonna play Hide and go seek." Oh great.... that didn't sound too good.

"Ohh Riiin? Where are you?" Tsukinoshi was pissed. Kagome had that girl hiding out in the woods and now she had to find the little brat. She sniffed the air and cursed. This body had not completely changed to suit her yet, her sense of smell had not completely recovered, and it annoyed her that it was always one of the last. Kagome smiled as she heard a rustling off to the side. What am I doing? I should be trying to find Inu Yasha not playing. He probably doesn't even know where to start looking for me. She ran and grabbed the child after a short chase and picked her up in the air.

"Now you go hide Tsukinoshi-sama!" Kagome paused and looked at the girl, what did she call her? Her eyes changed and Kagome felt things get dark and clouded again.

"How about I show you to that flower patch now?" NO! Kagome screamed in her mind, not truly knowing what this beast had in mind for the girl. 'Don't you worry miko, she won't die yet... I still need her alive.' "It's right here." The demon in Kagome's body touched a finger to the child's chest and she slumped over asleep in her arms. "Dream of your little flowers child it's the last time you'll see any."

"Who are you what do you want!?" Kagome screamed from inside as her body took the girl back into the demoness' hideout.

"I want to kill the sons of Inutaisho."

"What?"

"Sesshoumaru and the hanyou Inu Yasha. Thanks to your memories I don't have to look so hard anymore. I know exactly what to look for"

"But how did you find Rin? I didn't know about her!?"

"Grrr, you ask too many questions! Sesshoumaru is possessive, anything he considers his he will look for on principle. I was looking for Jaken, but I opted for Rin instead now SHUT UP!" The youkai put Rin in a cage and left her hideout. "First Sesshoumaru then the runt," she grinned studying he oni blade in her hands.

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"Sesshoumaru!" The demon prince brought up Tenseiga in just enough time to block his own demon blade. The demon prince did not fear Toukujin's force attack, the blade knew who its real master was.

"Hello Hinako I see your fashion sense hasn't changed."

"So you remember me then?"

"Where is Rin?"

She grinned, "If I told you I'd have to kill you." The two jumped back away to opposite sides of the clearing, eyeing each other. "Of course that's the idea."

"Human bodies suit you well, too bad you weren't just born one."

"If I had been maybe you're father would have married me instead." Sesshoumaru attacked without another word. "Of course then I would not have to have send him off to be killed."

"What?"

"You don't think Ryukotsusei really cared about your father's human wench? A mere thirty years and she would have died of old age. Three decades was nothing to him, and neither was a human." She laughed as Sesshoumaru backed off into a guard posistion. It only showed in his eyes but the prince was quite surprised. "I was the one who sent word that the great dragon Ryuukotsusei was after that human whore. And of course your great father would let no one touch his woman." She laughed harder, "So he died for no reason, not even love! Because the threat was all a lie!"

Sesshoumaru charged him and, as quite a surprise to her, knocked the weapon from her hand then sheathing his sword with blinding speed and lifted her from the ground by her neck. "Where. Is. Rin."

A chuckle escaed her lips, "I have actually angered the stone faced Sesshoumaru? If you kill me you will never find her. At least not before the dear thing starves to death."

Frustrated enough to forget about the human body Sesshoumaru threw her up against a tree. Her eyes and mouth were wide in pain when her body made contact, she fell limply to the ground. "Se...Sesshoumaru."

He turned from picking up his tokujin. "Where is Rin witch?"

"Oh god..."

Her voice.. it's different somehow.

"Sessh..oumaru. You can't l...let her... Kill me!"

"The miko? Where is Rin tell me!"

She smiled weakly, "You.. care for the little girl?" She coughed, "I knew you coulnd't be that... bad a guy."

"Where is she!"

"She's... she.. NO!" her eyes flashed back and forth, "She's in- You won't have her! She's... sleeping- I'll kill you then I'll kill the brat!- I can't.. keep con..tr- Then I'll kill that human spawned brother of yours!- HELP ME!"

Sesshoumaru reached over with his clawed fingers towards her neck, but stopped just as his nails came incontact with her skin. He should just kill her and get it over with! He could find Rin without her, right?

He heard her laughing again, "Should you kill her? I can see the conflict in your eyes. You could find Rin on your own right? But would it be in time? But then you can't kill her anyway... why not? Surely it' not because you care that her brother will miss her? It's the same reason you don't kill Rin. I know you hate humans, or you think you hate them. So why did you stop killing them so randomly? Or do you just like this body?"

Sesshoumaru tapped the back of her neck, the mocking stopped and the wounded form slumped over in unconciousness. Then he pulled out his sword. Tenseiga, can you bind Hinako for now and let Kagome speak? It was half command, half request. He waved the sword over Kagome's body and wrapped her in his tail, in case she awoke with the less helpful of personalities. Her wounds healed and Kagome's eyes opened with a gasp.

"Where is Rin?"

She blinked at Sesshoumaru. "Oh you really pissed her off." He stared at her confused and impatient. "It took us an hour to get here, It was a secrect place in a mountain, by a forest... North east of here I think" He gave her a look that asked for more specific details on threat of death. "Look I don't know! I wasn't completely aware of everything. I think I'd recognize it if I saw it though... I don't know what she knows." He narrowed his eyes at her and flew into the air, her still in his tail. "Uhh could you maybe..."

"No."

"Why not?"

"If Tsukinoshi takes control again it would be best if I already had a handle on her."

"I need to find a way to destory her for good, I can't let her kill you and Inu Yasha." Sesshoumaru did not miss that little slip up(?) about letting her kill him. "There has to be something I can do. I mean I'm the most difficult possession she's had, she's been complaining about that, and she still can't use the shikon shards. Maybe if I can develop my miko powe-" "Stop thinking outloud."

"Well gee EXCUSE ME if I thought you might have some ideas to help out, after all she's a threat to you too ya know." "Not that much of a threat."

"You'd think so but since she doesn't die she has plently of time to learn and then years later you letting her get away is gonna come back and bite you on the butt!" He cast Kagome a queer look. "Hey I just figured since you have a healing sword there might be something you could do!"

"I'm not doing it to help you."

"Of course not. It's payback for helping you find Rin."

"No. Letting you live is your reward."

"That's right getting rid of Tsukinoshi is in your own intrests, right?"

"Right."

"And if you kill me you don't know which body she'll inhabit later so you need me alive to keep track of me...err her."

Does she have to keep spouting such obvious nonesense?

Kagome looked down at her snow white bindings, "Hey you're tail is really soft... and fluffy too." She felt his tail twitch slightly at that remark but he did not say anything. She kept her giggle inside but with his grip on her he could feel her body convulse with even the slightest laughter. Then she felt a slight squeeze on her ribs and abrutly stopped.

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