InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Never Ending Fanfic ❯ The Never Ending Fanfic ( Chapter 8 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

SesshoMaru finally stopped travelling as the sun began to set, stopping in a small cave to lay Kagura down. He frowned as he sniffed slightly, trying to determine her status through the rank scent of drying blood. Luckily, he could not smell fresh blood anymore, which meant that she was healing.

But why was she alive?

SesshoMaru had caught Naraku's scent and, not without a moment's wonder as to why Naraku would be so lax as to let his scent leak out, followed it cautiously. As the scent grew in strength, mixed with the thickening odor of blood, SesshoMaru realized... he knew this place...

The first thing he saw was Kagura, sprawled on the grass, and bleeding as if she was freshly injured. He could barely believe that she was alive. How? Tenseiga had failed before- what had happened?

And then he saw the hole in the sky above her, that she must have fallen from. Through it he could see only blackness, much like the Meidou Zangetsuha, but with red mist pouring from it. He knew something was wrong. That hole...

But when the beast fell from it, leaping on Kagura, he didn't even think before he whipped out Tenseiga, reasoning that this was not a creature of his realm...

SesshoMaru looked at the Tenseiga. Kagura should not be alive, should she? he thought, almost questioning the blade. That is why the creature came. But why did the hole appear...?

Even if SesshoMaru hadn't been so lost in thought, it would have been difficult to scent the stranger sneaking up to the cave through the scent of Kagura's blood. Which was just what the visitor was counting on...