InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Hidden Strength Within ❯ Chapter 11
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By: pandora-of-the-south 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Suspense / Mystery / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 11.23.2007 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 526 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Suspense / Mystery / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 11.23.2007 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 526 | Status: Work In Progress
With the image of the heavenly Goddess, from a foreign land, fresh in his mind's eye; Sesshoumaru took to the sky in search of his half-breed brother's pack.
'From what I can remember from her appearance last night, the heavenly Goddess could be her mother. I must ask her about that since she spoke of seeing visions through her Mother's eyes.' he mused as he flew through the sky.
He wanted to get this over and done with soon because he didn't exactly like the idea of leaving his young ward in the hands of his incompetent retainer, 'He couldn't protect a fly even if his life depended on it, so why do I insist on him trying to protect my daug...ward?'
Within two hours he finally caught the scent of his half-breed brother's pack and sped up a little more. 'There is a new scent to the pack and two familiar scents are amiss, though I am not quite certain which two are missing and who this new member can be. I wonder what the brass half-breed has done though?' he wondered as he tried to place who the scents belonged too.
Suddenly a purification arrow went flying by his head as he came upon the group and soon heard the words following the arrow, "I can take care of him without your help, Mate. Stay out of this, I don't need you getting hurt now that you are human again."
"Now that you are human again'...Hn who is he referring too? Yet he did call her his Mate. Could he have mated the young demigoddess last night after I left?' he wondered. 'No! Regardless of what the half-breed wold do, she would never be so hasty as to shoot an arrow at me without a good reason.'
He settled down in front of the pack and quickly noticed three things. First the young fox demon was amiss, second the young demigoddess, the fox kit's mother, was amiss as well. The last, and more surprising, was the formerly dead clay Priestess was no longer dead. He also noticed that she was not quite as powerful at Kagome was when she was human.
"How has this occurred wench? What deeds transpired to permit you to become human once more?" he asked completely void of all emotions except for the raised eye brow.
"How she became human is none of your business Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha stated. He didn't want his brother knowing about Kagome being a demigoddess and start to show interest in her because of the power she might possess.
Miroku raised an eye brow at Inuyasha, 'He didn't correct his brother for calling Kikyo a wench, how interesting. It would seem Inuyasha is loosing his interest for Priestess Kikyo once and for all.'
"First of all I am not a wench, Demon. Secondly that abomination, Kagome, finally released her hold on my soul, which has allowed me to once again walk the earth as a human. I give that demigoddess and fox kit a week at most before they are killed!" Kikyo laughed out while everyone else in the pack simply glared at her for her comment.
Sesshoumaru stifled his growl before he let on to the others that he did not like what the wench had just stated about the young demigoddess. "You would dare assume a demigoddess and fox kit would be weaker than you, a mere lowly human? Demons and Demigods are more powerful than anything a wretched human such as yourself could dream of accomplishing; even in this borrowed life Wench."
Kikyo glared at the demon Lord before her than to her Mate, 'To think that Sesshoumaru assumes me to be a mere weak human. Maybe I should awaken him to my full potential soon, but not right now. I need to wait for a more appropriate time when I can catch him off guard.'
The rest of the gang looked on in wonder. 'Did Lord Sesshoumaru just defend Lady Kagome and Shippo?' Miroku wondered.
"Feh, Sesshoumaru I think you might have hit your head recently; it almost sounded as if you were defending Kagome and Shippo there." Inuyasha stated rather shocked himself.
"Hn!" was Sesshoumaru's only response as he turned and walked away in the other direction from where Kikyo was leading the pack. 'No doubt that wench is leading them away from the demigoddess's location.
After the initial shock wore off of Miroku again, he walked up to Sesshoumaru and asked, "My Lord, I know you are not in search of Lady Kagome but if by chance you do happen upon her and young Shippo could you please portray my deepest apologies to the two of them for me?"
Sesshoumaru looked out of the corner of his eyes to the Monk and could tell that whatever he had done to the fox kit and demigoddess, that he was truely sincere in his apology.
"I will do as you have requested once I see them." he stated before continuing on his way.
Shocked again by Sesshoumaru's response Miroku found it hard to find his voice again. "My Lord...you might find it important that Priestess Kikyo has become weaker since the sun rose this morning. Therefore maybe Lady Kagome is human once more as well. I think that the night has some sort of bewitching spell on Lady Kagome; which is allowing her true form to finally take shape."
Sesshoumaru nodded his head to let Miroku know that he would take into consideration of what the young Monk spoke of. 'So whatever happened between Kagome and her pack, happened before she could explain what exactly has transpired.' he mused.
He paused suddenly in his track as a familiar scent came to him. He turned his head back to Inuyasha's pack and glared at Kikyo. "Priestess, you would do well to heed caution to the company you keep outside of your pack."
Sesshoumaru took one last observant look between the Slayer and the half-breek and shook his head mentally before returning to his patrol and "search" for the demigoddess and fox kit. 'I wonder why the monk shows such respect and admiration towards the demigoddess but holds none for the priestess within his pack now?' he trailed off musing.
Over head Kagura smirked as she realized what scent Sesshoumaru was associating coming off of Kikyo just then.
'Maybe it was a good thing to have Kanna start her mind link with that wench; for it does cause the priestess to lower her guard, therefore unmasking her scent to all beings that are more powerful than her. Sesshoumaru is the key to bringing down Naraku, as well as that wench Kagome; that has to be the reason why Kikyo wants her dead so bad. I must do whatever I can to help keep them both one or two steps ahead of Naraku if I ever want to be free of him once and for all.'
Kagura vowed to do whatever she could to make sure Kagome remained just out of Naraku's hands, even if it meant he would take his anger out on her. 'If I ever want my freedom than I must be willing to sacrafice something in the meantime.'
"Kagura, Kikyo says the Priestess Kagome has some how managed to be turned into a demigoddess. The pack threatened her last night which resulted in her and the young fox kit to run off on their own. They ran in the opposite direction of where the pack is headed now." Kanna said as she broke the mind link with Kikyo.
Kagura looked down at the pack on the ground and groaned when she realized that Sesshoumaru was headed in the same direction that they needed to go in.
"Well I don't wish to have a confrontation with Lord Sesshoumaru right now and since he is headed in the direction we need to go in maybe we should just wait a little longer before we go after the wench, she can't be that hard to find. We will return to Naraku and inform him of this information regarding Kagome and the fact that Lord Sesshoumaru knows of Kikyo's trechery." she stated as she turned her feather to head back to Naraku's hidden Palace.
'From what I can remember from her appearance last night, the heavenly Goddess could be her mother. I must ask her about that since she spoke of seeing visions through her Mother's eyes.' he mused as he flew through the sky.
He wanted to get this over and done with soon because he didn't exactly like the idea of leaving his young ward in the hands of his incompetent retainer, 'He couldn't protect a fly even if his life depended on it, so why do I insist on him trying to protect my daug...ward?'
Within two hours he finally caught the scent of his half-breed brother's pack and sped up a little more. 'There is a new scent to the pack and two familiar scents are amiss, though I am not quite certain which two are missing and who this new member can be. I wonder what the brass half-breed has done though?' he wondered as he tried to place who the scents belonged too.
Suddenly a purification arrow went flying by his head as he came upon the group and soon heard the words following the arrow, "I can take care of him without your help, Mate. Stay out of this, I don't need you getting hurt now that you are human again."
"Now that you are human again'...Hn who is he referring too? Yet he did call her his Mate. Could he have mated the young demigoddess last night after I left?' he wondered. 'No! Regardless of what the half-breed wold do, she would never be so hasty as to shoot an arrow at me without a good reason.'
He settled down in front of the pack and quickly noticed three things. First the young fox demon was amiss, second the young demigoddess, the fox kit's mother, was amiss as well. The last, and more surprising, was the formerly dead clay Priestess was no longer dead. He also noticed that she was not quite as powerful at Kagome was when she was human.
"How has this occurred wench? What deeds transpired to permit you to become human once more?" he asked completely void of all emotions except for the raised eye brow.
"How she became human is none of your business Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha stated. He didn't want his brother knowing about Kagome being a demigoddess and start to show interest in her because of the power she might possess.
Miroku raised an eye brow at Inuyasha, 'He didn't correct his brother for calling Kikyo a wench, how interesting. It would seem Inuyasha is loosing his interest for Priestess Kikyo once and for all.'
"First of all I am not a wench, Demon. Secondly that abomination, Kagome, finally released her hold on my soul, which has allowed me to once again walk the earth as a human. I give that demigoddess and fox kit a week at most before they are killed!" Kikyo laughed out while everyone else in the pack simply glared at her for her comment.
Sesshoumaru stifled his growl before he let on to the others that he did not like what the wench had just stated about the young demigoddess. "You would dare assume a demigoddess and fox kit would be weaker than you, a mere lowly human? Demons and Demigods are more powerful than anything a wretched human such as yourself could dream of accomplishing; even in this borrowed life Wench."
Kikyo glared at the demon Lord before her than to her Mate, 'To think that Sesshoumaru assumes me to be a mere weak human. Maybe I should awaken him to my full potential soon, but not right now. I need to wait for a more appropriate time when I can catch him off guard.'
The rest of the gang looked on in wonder. 'Did Lord Sesshoumaru just defend Lady Kagome and Shippo?' Miroku wondered.
"Feh, Sesshoumaru I think you might have hit your head recently; it almost sounded as if you were defending Kagome and Shippo there." Inuyasha stated rather shocked himself.
"Hn!" was Sesshoumaru's only response as he turned and walked away in the other direction from where Kikyo was leading the pack. 'No doubt that wench is leading them away from the demigoddess's location.
After the initial shock wore off of Miroku again, he walked up to Sesshoumaru and asked, "My Lord, I know you are not in search of Lady Kagome but if by chance you do happen upon her and young Shippo could you please portray my deepest apologies to the two of them for me?"
Sesshoumaru looked out of the corner of his eyes to the Monk and could tell that whatever he had done to the fox kit and demigoddess, that he was truely sincere in his apology.
"I will do as you have requested once I see them." he stated before continuing on his way.
Shocked again by Sesshoumaru's response Miroku found it hard to find his voice again. "My Lord...you might find it important that Priestess Kikyo has become weaker since the sun rose this morning. Therefore maybe Lady Kagome is human once more as well. I think that the night has some sort of bewitching spell on Lady Kagome; which is allowing her true form to finally take shape."
Sesshoumaru nodded his head to let Miroku know that he would take into consideration of what the young Monk spoke of. 'So whatever happened between Kagome and her pack, happened before she could explain what exactly has transpired.' he mused.
He paused suddenly in his track as a familiar scent came to him. He turned his head back to Inuyasha's pack and glared at Kikyo. "Priestess, you would do well to heed caution to the company you keep outside of your pack."
Sesshoumaru took one last observant look between the Slayer and the half-breek and shook his head mentally before returning to his patrol and "search" for the demigoddess and fox kit. 'I wonder why the monk shows such respect and admiration towards the demigoddess but holds none for the priestess within his pack now?' he trailed off musing.
Over head Kagura smirked as she realized what scent Sesshoumaru was associating coming off of Kikyo just then.
'Maybe it was a good thing to have Kanna start her mind link with that wench; for it does cause the priestess to lower her guard, therefore unmasking her scent to all beings that are more powerful than her. Sesshoumaru is the key to bringing down Naraku, as well as that wench Kagome; that has to be the reason why Kikyo wants her dead so bad. I must do whatever I can to help keep them both one or two steps ahead of Naraku if I ever want to be free of him once and for all.'
Kagura vowed to do whatever she could to make sure Kagome remained just out of Naraku's hands, even if it meant he would take his anger out on her. 'If I ever want my freedom than I must be willing to sacrafice something in the meantime.'
"Kagura, Kikyo says the Priestess Kagome has some how managed to be turned into a demigoddess. The pack threatened her last night which resulted in her and the young fox kit to run off on their own. They ran in the opposite direction of where the pack is headed now." Kanna said as she broke the mind link with Kikyo.
Kagura looked down at the pack on the ground and groaned when she realized that Sesshoumaru was headed in the same direction that they needed to go in.
"Well I don't wish to have a confrontation with Lord Sesshoumaru right now and since he is headed in the direction we need to go in maybe we should just wait a little longer before we go after the wench, she can't be that hard to find. We will return to Naraku and inform him of this information regarding Kagome and the fact that Lord Sesshoumaru knows of Kikyo's trechery." she stated as she turned her feather to head back to Naraku's hidden Palace.