InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Hidden Strength Within ❯ Chapter 27 ( Chapter 27 )

Kagome was within inches of Sesshoumaru when she swerved her direction towards the other being in the room.

“You dare to presume to trick me over and over again with images of Lord Sesshoumaru. You dare to pretend to say things that you believe he would say. Lord Sesshoumaru does not need to tell one to stay out of a fight that is clearly theirs to fight; you have violated me and dare to think I have no right to fight for my honor back. I will relish the fact that I have killed you Onigumo; even if it is with my dying breath.” she barked.

“Enough!” Sesshoumaru’s booming voice broke the fight that was currently taking place. He did not like what his ward had just said; he was more than capable of taking Naraku out without her having to sacrifice her life in the process.

Kagome turned her head to him all the while slashing her claws across Naraku’s neck trying to dislodge his head it once more.

Red and silver eyes clashed with red and blue. “Are you going to stop me as well, my Lord?” she questioned.

“Naraku is mine to finish. You are a ward of mine and as such it was my honor as well that was damaged. If anything is left you shall finish that off. Now back off, demigoddess.” his voice boomed off the walls with power and authority.

Kagome had no choice but to submit to him, as was such a reaction of a demoness. Just then Kanna stepped into the room and pointed her mirror at Kagome and a sword appeared and flew straight at her.

She caught the sword but turned it on Kanna thinking that the void demoness had just tried to kill her, not realizing what sword she held in her hand.

“Give the sword to your champion, demigoddess.” the young void demoness stated, causing Kagome to falter in her attack.

‘M…my…champion?’ she thought silently while looking at the sword to realize which one it actually was.

“Sesshoumaru can’t handle Tetsasaiga; the sword rejected him every time in the past when he tried to take it from Inuyasha.” Kagome stated rather confusedly.

“The sword is for your champion to use to defeat the malicious half-breed without a heart; whom has destroyed the innocence of the god’s child. With the legendary sword in hand he will smite down the vile creature with the help of a void, the wind, and a prince. Give your champion the sword and all will go as it was written.” Kanna spoke of the prophecy she read a long time ago.

Kagome was confused but did what she thought she was supposed to; she walked up to Sesshoumaru cautiously.

When she was a foot away from him she held out the sword for him to take, however once his hand touched hers, she involuntarily flinched away; leaving the sword in Sesshoumaru’s hand without the burning of the barrier that was once there.

She stood there holding her hand as if she had been licked by the burning flames of hell. Kagome was in awe that Sesshoumaru had some how managed to get past the barrier the sword normally held but also hoped that he would give Inuyasha back his sword once this was over.

Sesshoumaru, with sword in hand, proceeded towards Naraku who finally dropped the disguise of his person.

Naraku mused that the sword had yet to transform into the fang that Inuyasha always swung around haphazardly.

“What is the matter good Lord, can’t even get the fang to transform for you?” he chuckled.

Sesshoumaru proceeded to stalk forward not even fazed by the lack of transformation with the fang; he held a purpose, he had someone to protect.

When the two were mere feet away from one another, Naraku suddenly felt fear and darted out the window in the room.

Sesshoumaru merely raised an eyebrow at the cowardice the half-breed had but continued to follow him, ‘It would be easier out in the open to use the fang on him.’

“Lady Kagome,” Koga finally stated as he entered the room just as Sesshoumaru left to follow Naraku. “It is time you start with your part in all of this.”

Kagome whirled around half expecting it to be Naraku, tricking her again, and half angered about what Koga had tried to do earlier.

“And what would that be, Wolf?” she growled.

He hung his head in defeat, ‘I knew it was too much to hope that she would have forgiven me.’

“You are the only one that can kill Onigumo once Naraku is destroyed. You must locate the heart that beats with his burning passion to have you. The heart is the key to all of his undoing.” Kagura spoke up finally.

Kagome knew immediately that Koga was sorry for what he had tried to do a few days prior and felt bad for how she just spoke to her friend.

“Koga I am sorry it is just I still have fresh in my mind what happened toppled with what he had tried…” she trailed off as she remembered all of the hell she had been through earlier this day with Naraku and his posing.

A fire immediately ignited in his crystal blue eyes, ‘That vile creature tried to rape her in my image, or worse did rape her as me; he will die for touching my sister.’

“Koga now is not the time, you will only die if you step foot out there now. The Champion will succeed where all others would fail; the time for the child of the gods to start her part is upon us. She must locate the heart that no longer beats within and only then shall there be peace upon the lands of ” Kanna spoke.

‘Once his heart is found Kagura can have her heart back as well.’ she thought silently for her sister. She knew that her sister’s heart was at the same place as Naraku’s.

“Very well but how do I even…” she paused as she heard an eerily thumping, ‘it’s like a heart beat.’

On that thought she proceeded to follow the sound out of the room and down a few corridors, never noticing that Kanna, Kagura, and Koga all followed her silently; none wanting to break her trance like state that she was currently in.

Finally they entered the thrown room; Kagome’s eyes surveyed the room but finally rested her eyes towards the floor.

‘How could it be down there, we are on the ground level floor.’ she thought, completely unaware of Kanna and her conjuring in her mirror.

Nightfall was still an hour away, the comet half an hour away but Kanna saw to that being fixed for now.

Kagome begun to glow blue as her Goddess form took over, her eyes darted towards the window to notice that sunset had not quite happened yet. Her eyes then darted towards Kanna and her mirror; staring back at her was the comet that would transform her and was silently happy to see it.

With her transformation complete she closed her eyes and concentrated on the object that she was searching for. In her mind she saw what appeared to be three hearts; one was black with a steady thrum, the second was almost ghostly looking, while the third was rotting and deteriorating with a fast pulse. She knew immediately whose hearts she looked at.

She opened her eyes and lifted a finger which caused the secret passageway to open up to her, but only her.

Once she was descending the stairs the opening closed off preventing the other three from following her. She knew what she needed to do from here on out and knew that once she finished here the ones she had previously been with would be different.

Koga turned to the window to watch the battle taking place. ‘Have to admit Sesshoumaru looks like a natural with Tetsasaiga, wonder if he will give it back to Mutt-face once this is over with.’ he wondered silently.

Naraku had not been able to regenerate his limbs as Sesshoumaru cut them away, but the demon lord had yet to use the wind scar either.

Sesshoumaru was becoming bored of the fight he was having; he felt as though he were a dog playing with a fly, a mere annoyance not worthy of his time.

He knew that he could easily finish this if he just used the Wind Scar but it seemed that the sword was waiting for something to happen, what exactly that was he had no clue.

“What’s the matter Lord Sesshoumaru, can’t get the fang to cooperate with you? Seems a shame that it will let you wield it now but you still can not bring about mass destruction with it!” Naraku laughed out.

“Silence and fight half-breed.” Sesshoumaru stated as he yet again charged on the slowly dying vermin.

As Kagome slowly walked down the stairs the candles seemed to light on their own. She slowly looked around only to come face to face with an apparition.

“Who…who are you?” Kagome asked uneasily.

“I am not important young one; however what I did is important for you to know. I was the one that removed the hearts of the three you wish to return the hearts too. I was a witch that Naraku used then killed; trapping my soul here until he is destroyed.”

“I don’t understand how he possible could have the power to trap your soul?” she asked.

“It is a matter that he absorbed my body while I still lived and my soul refuses to rest until I can bring him to hell with me. You are the one that I will teach to do exactly that; here you will have everything that you will need and you will repeat the spells as I tell them to you. No harm will come to any of you here only to that half-breed, Naraku.”

Kagome reluctantly nodded her head in acceptance of the vengeful spirits help; after all she had no clue as to how to start with returning the hearts to the ones that had none.

“Relax child of the God’s I have no need to taint your soul, this has merely all been written and is to come to past. The first thing that we will do while we wait for the waning moon to rise is to return the hearts to their owners; but to do such we will have to chant to the Gods of the Underworld.”

Together they approached the dusty alter only for Kagome to find out that the hearts and all sorts of herbs, candles, and incense were already present. ‘Well she did say she was a witch when she was alive.’ she mused as they began the preparation for the chant.

“It is important that you repeat the spell as I say it, or else it won’t work. Also when you explain why you have called on them make certain you explain in detail for they take the words literally and sometimes have been know to give strong results. Now close your eyes and listen to what they are telling you that these three hearts want.”

Kagome did as she was told and heard three distinct voices in her head.

‘I wish to be free of these binds; I am the wind after all and hate to be trapped.’

‘So dark and alone, nothing can help the broken heart that feels nothing.’

‘I wish for anything but death; must have power so I can live and take her all for me.’

Kagome’s eyes shot open; she knew what she had to do. ‘I only hope that it is the right course.’

“Do you have your explanations prepared? Are you ready to being?” the witch watched as Kagome nodded her head to continue forward.

“Alright first you must pick up the sword over there to the left of the alter. Once you have it tap three times on the alter and repeat after me.”

Kagome tap three times and repeated the chant.

“Now tap three more times and explain your needs carefully and precisely.”

Once she tapped three more times Kagome’s eyes opened and she spoke as if she were looking at the Gods of the Underworld themselves.

“I request for the one of wind to be free as such, the void to be filled with a life full of feelings to no longer miss what is currently missing, for the power seeker to regain what it wants the least; his heart and humanity.”

Suddenly all three hearts broke out of their containers and floated in the air above the alter and to Kagome’s surprise shot out for their destinations.

Kagura was the first to receive her heart back with the whispered words of Kagome’s request. Her eyes shot open as her body slowly started to become transparent and ghostly looking.

“Hey witch what is happening to you?” Koga barked out thinking that Kagura was going to run out on them.

“She has freed me from my confines and returned me to my true form, the Wind.” she stated as she turned her head to her sister who was no longer in all white.

Kanna was surprised when she saw her heart fly back into her body; she never knew that it was missing to begin with. Suddenly she was struck with realization, ‘I felt surprise, I can feel emotions once more.’

Her body collapsed to the floor as she transformed once more into an Earth nymph. Her body grew taller, while her hair grew longer as well as turning back into the deep brown color it use to be. Her clothing took on more of an earth tone while her skin tone tanned out.

Koga stared at the two females before him wondering why they no longer had the aura of demonesses like they had before.

“Why do you no longer have the aura for a demoness?” he finally asked.

“That is because we are not, we have never been demonesses, only when Naraku trapped out hearts in those containers our bodies were then able to change and he chose to make use into demonesses in his name. I am a Wind nymph while my sister here is an Earth nymph. It seems that the demigoddess heard our hearts wishes and returned us to what we use to be.” Kagura stated as she looked at her still unconscious sister on the floor.

“Take care of her wolf, I am needed outside. The poisonous miasma is killing the earth, which is causing my sister pain and I can not have her feeling such emotions now that she has her emotions back.”

With that spoken Kagura disappeared out the window and a huge tornado formed but it only served to suck up the miasma and disperse it in the clouds above.

Naraku looked on with widened eyes as he saw the Wind nymph in her true form. ‘So she has regained her heart has she?’

His thoughts were cut short as a small rotting and deteriorating heart floated right in front of him; almost as if it were debating returning to the body or not.

Sesshoumaru stood there watching the events taking hold in front of him and decided that he would see how this played out.

Suddenly the land started to tremble and a powerful aura seemed to travel below the surface from the palace; in its wake sprouted flowers and grass on the once barren land.

A giant hand and arm formed of nothing but dirt and soil appeared just behind the heart that floated in front of Naraku.

“Here is your just reward for the pain and suffering you have caused my Earth.” a female voice shouted with anger.

The hand slammed the heart into the body of Naraku and as he crumbled to the ground from the sudden attack a tall woman emerged from the ground smirking.

“Now the fun will begin and your body shall rot where it belongs.” she stated as she looked back to the palace as if she saw who she was looking for.

“Lord Sesshoumaru there is not much time left for you assistance in this matter but once you have defeated the demons within him, she will have the uneasy task of having to kill the human that has done her such horrible deeds. Be there for her for she is not sure she has the strength or conviction to face his true form; even now her heart is trying to find a way to forgive even him.”

Author’s Notes:

Okay first and foremost, I am not trying to spoil you guys with all of these chapters but like I said last time I updated I have gotten over my writers block and these are starting to roll out, though I am second guessing that this story is close to being over; yes the battle with Naraku/Onigumo is drawing to a close but I am not ready for Sess to jump Kagome…any who we shall just see how things turn out.

A friendly tip in regards to the spell/chant it is an actual one and it came straight from the book that I am using as research: ‘Celtic Magic’ By D.J. . I would strongly suggest not to play with these spells and chants that I have and will be posting in this story; you could open doorways that can never be closed and cause damage in some cases. I hope that you all have enjoyed and hopefully I have not scared anyone off with the chants/spells!!! Please feel free to read and review and again I hope you all enjoy all of these chapters that I have posted.

What did you guys think of me turning Kagura and Kanna in nymphs? What about the vengeful spirit of the witch under the castle lying in wait? Look for the next update within the next two weeks at most (hopefully)!!!!

Pandora