InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Ninja ❯ A Secret Revealed ( Chapter 14 )

CHAPTER 14: A Secret Revealed

 

Naraku was quite pleased with himself. He had gotten rid of both miko's and he had immensely enjoyed the look on Inuyasha's face when Kikyo had turned to dust. Just priceless he smiled malevolently. He walked over to a box that was sitting on the table by his large bed opening it and taking out the heart inside. Still grinning madly he squeezed the heart and was gratified when he heard a scream from the other side of the room.

 

Kagura was writhing on the floor in front of the door.

 

“Who said you could leave me?” he asked gritting his teeth together.

 

“My lord”, Kagura gasped out. “I am sorry, forgive your lowly servant, I was afraid.” Kagura groaned as she squirmed before Naraku, prostrate on the ground.

 

Naraku gave the heart one more squeeze and then put it back in its little box. “Do not forget this Kagura you will not leave me again.”

 

“No, never again” replied Kagura clutching her chest panting hard. She wondered as she crawled out the door if that meant she would be his forever.

 

Naraku now only needed two shards. I must get those shards. I know where they are now perhaps I should just go and destroy that village until I can attain them. He rejected that idea. He needed to get the brothers apart first. He had come close to being destroyed at the well and only escaped because they had not combined the powers of their swords. He needed to come up with a plan to separate them. His binding chains were gone, broken at the hill of the wolf demons. He had come so close to attaining the shards then. With the wolf in their protection he was loath to try a frontal attack. Naraku realized he had to destroy one brother or the other. He did not want to destroy Sesshoumaru until he had a chance to degrade him. He's so proud, to break him, ahh that would be lovely. Naraku was getting quite hard thinking of the screams he would elicit from the demon lord. Naraku knew it would be difficult to get to Sesshoumaru but then something hit his mind. That girl that little human girl if I could get her he would give himself to me willingly to protect her. With that in mind he sent out his spies to find the child.

 

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Everyone was sitting at the village on the grass in front of Kaede's hut shocked at what Sango had just proposed. Her plan was simple, use Kouga as bait to bring out Naraku and then destroy him.

 

“We can't do that, if Naraku gains the shards we will be done for” said Miroku.

 

“What if Kouga gets hurt or killed” asked Ginta.

 

“Do you think I could be killed so easily” shot back Kouga huffily.

 

“He could just send his puppets or demon's to overwhelm us” said Kai, “we can't take the chance.”

 

Inuyasha was quite surprised this had come from her. She would want us to put someone purposely in danger? This did not seem like the Sango he had come to know.

 

Sango had pretty well reached her limit. She did not want Kouga to be hurt but they had to destroy Naraku. Besides, we'll all be there surely he couldn't defeat us all.

 

Kouga and Jaken had thought the plan a good idea. Kouga felt he could defeat anything Naraku dished out. Jaken thought better Kouga than his lord not that Sesshoumaru-sama couldn't take care of himself but the imp was protective of his lord and did not want him to endanger himself.

 

They argued back and forth until finally Inuyasha said “We can't do this, we'll think of another way.”

 

“You can't tell me what to do” said Kouga stubbornly.

 

“Kouga” said Kai, “We are a team, if we split up Naraku will be able to pick us off one by one. We need to stick together.”

 

“She is correct” stated Sesshoumaru.

 

“Naraku will make a move against Kouga anyways” Miroku said. “He has the final two shards. We will stay together, that will give us the best chance to defeat him.”

 

“Naraku knows where we are, we should leave” said Kai. “We'll be putting the whole village in danger.”

 

“Why can't we bring the fight to him” asked Kouga.

 

“Kagome is the only one who could sense the shards, without her we can't track where he is” answered Sango sadly.

 

“I can sense the shards” replied Kai. Everyone looked at her surprised. “I can't see them like Kagome can and I can't purify them as I'm not a miko, but I can feel their aura and the general direction they would be in.”

 

“Well that's that then, lets go” said Kouga.

 

Inuyasha tended to agree with him. “Yeah, let's get the bastard” he said venomously.

 

“Inuyasha, you are forgetting something”, said Sesshoumaru.

 

“What? What am I forgetting?”

 

“You cannot leave tonight.”

 

It suddenly dawned on Inuyasha. Damn, it's the night of the new moon, hey, how the fuck did Sesshoumaru know about that? He thought as his eyes got larger looking over to his brother. Sesshoumaru gave no indication of anything but Inuyasha knew. He knows that I turn human, who told him, how long has he known?

 

“Why can't he go” asked a confused Kouga.

 

“You should tell them” said Sesshoumaru.

 

Inuyasha did not want to tell anybody anything, especially his most secret weakness. He could see the ones that didn't know looking at him curiously.

 

“You can trust them Inuyasha”, said Miroku putting his hand on his shoulder.

 

Sango nodded her assent.

 

Inuyasha gave a sigh and then surprised everyone by telling them his long held secret.

 

Kouga was very interested to see what he would look like.

 

Ginta and Hakkaku couldn't see what the big deal was. It was only one night after all.

 

Kai was surprised. Sensei-sama hadn't mentioned this when she told her of what her mission would be. She was also interested to see this transformation.

 

Jaken couldn't believe that his lord had chosen not to share this information with him. He looked at his staff of two heads and thought, if he's human, he won't be as strong maybe I can give a few lumps to him. Sesshoumaru noticed the little imp grinning happily and scowled at him. Jaken immediately stopped grinning but thoughts of hitting Inuyasha on the head were still running through his mind.

 

Inuyasha felt conspicuous but also like a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He trusted his friends to keep his secret from his enemies and to protect him. He could not believe that he thought of Sesshoumaru and Kouga as his friends.

 

As everyone got up and drifted off into smaller groups walking around the village and talking. Inuyasha approached his brother. “How long have you known?” he asked.

 

“Since you were small” was all Sesshoumaru would say.

 

Inuyasha was shocked. He knew all that time and never let on?! He could have killed me at any time, why… It suddenly dawned on Inuyasha and his jaw dropped He didn't want to kill me. That time when I was younger and I found that food, that was him, he left the food. Inuyasha thought back to all the times when he had been chased by demons only to find that he had lost them, or so he thought at the time. I couldn't have just lost them by hiding they would have smelled my scent. It was Sesshoumaru, he protected me. Inuyasha was amazed that his brother could still surprise and shock him.

 

Sesshoumaru saw all the emotions flick across Inuyasha's face. He's finally figured it out, he still didn't know why he had helped his brother so much so long ago. You loved him, you still love him, that's why you agreed to join him, said Sesshoumaru's little voice. This Sesshoumaru does not love he argued back to himself. Funny, he couldn't seem to convince himself of that.

 

Just before the sun started to set, Kouga, Rin, Shippo, Kai and Miroku had gathered at the guy's hut staring at Inuyasha who was just inside the open door.

 

Shippo was giving Rin a running commentary of how Inuyasha transformed and the little girl's eyes were large and curious as she kept looking at him.

 

Kouga, Kai and Miroku were on the step talking to Inuyasha and asking him questions.

 

“Does it hurt to change?” asked Kai.

 

“No, sometimes I don't even realize it.” Inuyasha was not enjoying this at all and finally he snapped “This ain't a freak show you know, why don't you guys just beat it!”

 

The sun dipped down below the horizon and Inuyasha's hair began to turn black. His eyes darkened to a deep brown, puppy ears disappearing, reappearing on the side of his head as human ones. Inuyasha hated that his senses went dull. He relied on his sight, sense of smell, strength and speed so much that he was feeling very vulnerable. Thank the Kami that his brother had gone somewhere else and wasn't around to gawk at him with the others.

 

Rin clapped her hands in delight. “Oh, Inuyasha-sama, you're so handsome.” Inuyasha blushed at the compliment from the girl.

 

Kai had to agree with Rin, he made a great looking hanyou but also a great looking human. Kai could see why Kagome looked at him so much when she thought no one was watching her do it.

 

Kouga smirked at Inuyasha, “Guess I'll be the one baby sitting you eh?” he said laughing.

 

Inuyasha snarled at Kouga “Shut-up you mangy wolf, I'll let Naraku cut your damn legs off.”

 

Kouga just laughed harder and walked away from a steaming Inuyasha. Miroku was grinning as he held the now human hanyou back.