InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Young Ones ❯ Chapter 16 - The Waterfall ( Chapter 16 )
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By: Inumimi 
The group must cross under the waterfall - and are changed!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.12.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 403 | Status: Work In Progress
The group must cross under the waterfall - and are changed!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.12.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.0K | Visits: 403 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahasi and her publishers. No profit is made from this story. No copyright infringement is intended.
Chapter 16 – The Waterfall
Practical as ever InuYasha was the first one to break the spell of the impossibly tall and beautiful waterfall. “Shit, I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years!”
Still awed by the sight the others could only nod in agreement.
The Kagome was the next to make a comment, thought in a totally different vein “Guys is it just me or is there lot of spiritual power coming from this waterfall?”
Yasha and InuYasha both looked oddly at Kagome with the younger hanyou’s reply beating out his elder “It’s not spiritual power its youkai power!”
Kagome looked from Yasha to her mate who nodded in agreement “He’s right its youkai power, don’t you sense the youkai power coming from the falls?”
Kagome shook her head “No not a bit of youki it’s all regular human spiritual power. This is very odd, why do we sense different power?”
Not being able to sense powers the way all the others could the princess thought for a moment and then commented “Perhaps you are all sensing your own kind of power in the falls. You know if you’re a human you feel human power, if you’re a youkai you feel youkai power and speaking of youkai, have you noticed we have not been attacked all the time we have just been standing here!”
“Maybe all those lesser youkai were guarding this, or perhaps they are scared of it” was Yasha’s thoughtful reply.
InuYasha, who was never terribly patient at the best of times, started to get antsy just standing staring at the magnificent falls finally voiced his opinion. “Listen, we can all stand here coming up with all sorts of ideas for the next week, but this waterfall must be the ‘The sky is dry, but water falls like rain’ that that Yasha mentioned before, the question is, are we supposed to follow this road that seems to lead right into the falls itself?”
Kagome finally decided to speak what she knew was on everyone’s mind “Listen, we all know that we have to go forward, I say let’s just go for it.”
With that proclamation Kagome slowly continued down the road towards the falls, the three others quickly following.
Within moments the quartet realized that the road really did not lead directly ‘into’ the center of the falls, instead the road disappeared behind the nearly solid curtain of water.
As they approached the falling water InuYasha stopped and peered intently at an oddly shaped moss coved rock that lay just outside the deluge. Turning and motioning for the others to stop, he proceeded to scrape at the moss reveling weathered carved kanji. After a few moments of scraping the entire inscription was exposed.
Gathering around the now visible words Kagome took it upon herself to read them aloud for the group. “Enter these falls of immortality if you dare. Eternal life or instant death. Love is the key.” Kagome took a deep breath and looked at her companions “Wow, do you think these falls really can grant immortality or death?”
InuYasha looked worried, they had to go through the falls to continue their quest, but how could he protect his charges from a magical waterfall? Turning towards the princess and Yasah he formulated his thoughts and then spoke “Listen, this could be dangerous and I don’t feel Kagome and I have the right to push you into this, this magical waterfall. It could kill all of us instantly or only let some of us survive. If you don’t want to go we will understand, we could continue on our own and come back and get you later. You could go back to that meadow by the brook and wait for us. I just want you to know your options.”
The princess looked towards Yasha who nodded; he would do whatever his mistress wished. The princess looked steadily at InuYasha and replied “Wherever you go we go; we are just as committed to this quest as you are. We both knew that this quest would be dangerous, we’re not stupid, quests would not be quests if they were safe. We’re strong, we will make it through these falls and we will complete this quest!”
InuYasah smiled, they were young, but these kids had what it took. “OK, but once we get into these falls, I want to know instantly if anything feels wrong to you – do you understand?”
Both the princess and Yasha nodded in agreement. Then InuYasha took Kagome’s hand and slowly walked into the dark passage that was open between the face of the cliff and the falling water that shrouded it.
Turning towards his mistress Yasha boldly took his princess’s hand and quickly followed the older couple into the darkness.
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Kagome was slightly relived, she feared the passage behind the water would be very dark, but the passage seemed to glow with an almost phosphorescent light. The walls were streaked with beautiful deep shades of blues, crysophase, and yellow. The light was bright enough that Kagome could clearly see InuYasha and the slightly damp path they were walking on. She was also surprised that the rushing water to her right was not louder; it seemed to whoosh by rather than make a crashing noise.
Kagome estimated that they were nearing the halfway point when InuYasha came to a stop. Directly before them the water seemed to be directed inward, causing a gentle but steady spray to fall directly onto the path they were treading.
Letting go of Kagome’s hand InuYasha cautiously edged forward, stretching out his hand he felt the water. Looking back he commented “It just seems to be water, it’s a little cold, but not bad and it’s not coming down very hard, I don’t think it should hurt any of us.”
With that he entered the spray of water closely followed by Kagome, Yasha and the princess.
As they progressed into the spray, InuYasha still in the lead began to twitch his ears about as if he were listening for something. Worried Kagome inquired “Is there something wrong? Do you hear something?”
Pausing InuYasha replied “I don’t know, but something feels odd, it’s like – I don’t know – I feel a little different, I can’t put my finger on it. It’s almost like I feel a little stronger or something.”
Suddenly Kagome stopped, slapped her hand to her mating mark and yelped “Something’s happening. My mark is tingling and it feels like something is entering me through my mark!”
InuYasha rushed to his mate’s side and taking her hand worriedly inquired “Kagome are you alright?”
Quickly wanting to assure InuYasha she replied “I’m fine, no I’m better than fine, I feel great! I feel strong, I feel” suddenly Kagome’s eyes grew wide “– oh dear Kami – I feel like I could live forever!”
The couple quickly turned to look at Yasha, who had reached the same spot as them. “How do you feel?” was InuYasha’s worried inquiry.
Yasha seemed to stop and think for a moment before he answered “I feel great, really strong!”
Before Yasha could continue the princess cried out in pain and fell to her knees, clutching first her head and then her chest as she moaned “I’m being crushed, I can’t breath!”
Immediately Yasha ran to his princess’s side and pulled her into his arms before turning stricken eyes to his elders.
InuYasha had to think fast, turning towards Kagome he stated “Kagome, you said you felt like something was entering you through your mating mark, right?” At Kagome’s quick nod he continued “What if these falls work via our youki, Yasha and I have lots of youki and you got some of mine when I marked you, but the princess doesn’t have any youki at all. There’s no way for this power to get into her, Yasha you have to mark her – right now!” At Yasha’s confused look InuYasha quickly explained “You have to bite her on her neck, right at the pulse point – then she has to bite you on your pulse point so she gets some of your blood into her system - do it now!”
Looking at his dying mistress, Yasha immediately bent over his princess’s neck and quickly bit her as InuYasha had instructed. The moment his teeth broke through her smooth flesh, the little princess’s eyes popped open, InuYasha quickly moved to the children’s side and pulling back Yasha’s long hair cut into the child’s neck, he then helped lift the princess’s head so she could latch onto her slave’s bleeding neck.
Kagome finally began to blush; the better part of a minuet had passed and the children had still not released each others necks. They seemed to be enjoying themselves a little too much. Deciding that they were much too young for this sort of thing to go on much longer the miko prodded her mate to separate the pair.
Grinning, InuYasha started to pull the pair apart. The princess and Yasha reluctantly released each others neck, both of them blushing furiously.
As Yasha helped his princess stand Kagome asked “How do you feel now? Do you still feel the pressure?”
The princess was still blushing, but replied “I feel great now, better than I’ve ever felt in my life, where Yasha bit me feels a little funny, it’s all tingly like the water from the falls is trying to getting into me somehow - but what exactly did we do?”
Now it was InuYasha’s turn to blush “I’m sorry I couldn’t think of anything else to do, Kagome said she felt the power going into her through her mating mark, so I had Yasah mark you, you’re sort of – mated now.” At the children’s panicked looks he quickly added “You’re way too young to really be mates, so till you’re older, it’s like you’re engaged only it’s an engagement that can never be broken. I’m afraid your father will have to give up his plans of marrying you off to some prince. Like I said, I’m sorry, I was afraid you would die if we didn’t do something fast.”
The little princess began to walk forward, then turned, smiled and stated “I think this was supposed to happen, the inscription outside said ‘Love is the Key’. I knew someday Yasha and I were supposed to be together like the two of you, now my father can’t ever separate us. I wonder, though, since this is called ‘the falls of immortality’ are we now all immortal?”
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IDoInuyasha31 - Thanks my dog is doing much better, but I have to keep a sharp eye on her all the time so she does not jump. this is slowing down my work on the story! Hope you like this chapter!
Chapter 16 – The Waterfall
Practical as ever InuYasha was the first one to break the spell of the impossibly tall and beautiful waterfall. “Shit, I’ve never seen anything like this in all my years!”
Still awed by the sight the others could only nod in agreement.
The Kagome was the next to make a comment, thought in a totally different vein “Guys is it just me or is there lot of spiritual power coming from this waterfall?”
Yasha and InuYasha both looked oddly at Kagome with the younger hanyou’s reply beating out his elder “It’s not spiritual power its youkai power!”
Kagome looked from Yasha to her mate who nodded in agreement “He’s right its youkai power, don’t you sense the youkai power coming from the falls?”
Kagome shook her head “No not a bit of youki it’s all regular human spiritual power. This is very odd, why do we sense different power?”
Not being able to sense powers the way all the others could the princess thought for a moment and then commented “Perhaps you are all sensing your own kind of power in the falls. You know if you’re a human you feel human power, if you’re a youkai you feel youkai power and speaking of youkai, have you noticed we have not been attacked all the time we have just been standing here!”
“Maybe all those lesser youkai were guarding this, or perhaps they are scared of it” was Yasha’s thoughtful reply.
InuYasha, who was never terribly patient at the best of times, started to get antsy just standing staring at the magnificent falls finally voiced his opinion. “Listen, we can all stand here coming up with all sorts of ideas for the next week, but this waterfall must be the ‘The sky is dry, but water falls like rain’ that that Yasha mentioned before, the question is, are we supposed to follow this road that seems to lead right into the falls itself?”
Kagome finally decided to speak what she knew was on everyone’s mind “Listen, we all know that we have to go forward, I say let’s just go for it.”
With that proclamation Kagome slowly continued down the road towards the falls, the three others quickly following.
Within moments the quartet realized that the road really did not lead directly ‘into’ the center of the falls, instead the road disappeared behind the nearly solid curtain of water.
As they approached the falling water InuYasha stopped and peered intently at an oddly shaped moss coved rock that lay just outside the deluge. Turning and motioning for the others to stop, he proceeded to scrape at the moss reveling weathered carved kanji. After a few moments of scraping the entire inscription was exposed.
Gathering around the now visible words Kagome took it upon herself to read them aloud for the group. “Enter these falls of immortality if you dare. Eternal life or instant death. Love is the key.” Kagome took a deep breath and looked at her companions “Wow, do you think these falls really can grant immortality or death?”
InuYasha looked worried, they had to go through the falls to continue their quest, but how could he protect his charges from a magical waterfall? Turning towards the princess and Yasah he formulated his thoughts and then spoke “Listen, this could be dangerous and I don’t feel Kagome and I have the right to push you into this, this magical waterfall. It could kill all of us instantly or only let some of us survive. If you don’t want to go we will understand, we could continue on our own and come back and get you later. You could go back to that meadow by the brook and wait for us. I just want you to know your options.”
The princess looked towards Yasha who nodded; he would do whatever his mistress wished. The princess looked steadily at InuYasha and replied “Wherever you go we go; we are just as committed to this quest as you are. We both knew that this quest would be dangerous, we’re not stupid, quests would not be quests if they were safe. We’re strong, we will make it through these falls and we will complete this quest!”
InuYasah smiled, they were young, but these kids had what it took. “OK, but once we get into these falls, I want to know instantly if anything feels wrong to you – do you understand?”
Both the princess and Yasha nodded in agreement. Then InuYasha took Kagome’s hand and slowly walked into the dark passage that was open between the face of the cliff and the falling water that shrouded it.
Turning towards his mistress Yasha boldly took his princess’s hand and quickly followed the older couple into the darkness.
****
Kagome was slightly relived, she feared the passage behind the water would be very dark, but the passage seemed to glow with an almost phosphorescent light. The walls were streaked with beautiful deep shades of blues, crysophase, and yellow. The light was bright enough that Kagome could clearly see InuYasha and the slightly damp path they were walking on. She was also surprised that the rushing water to her right was not louder; it seemed to whoosh by rather than make a crashing noise.
Kagome estimated that they were nearing the halfway point when InuYasha came to a stop. Directly before them the water seemed to be directed inward, causing a gentle but steady spray to fall directly onto the path they were treading.
Letting go of Kagome’s hand InuYasha cautiously edged forward, stretching out his hand he felt the water. Looking back he commented “It just seems to be water, it’s a little cold, but not bad and it’s not coming down very hard, I don’t think it should hurt any of us.”
With that he entered the spray of water closely followed by Kagome, Yasha and the princess.
As they progressed into the spray, InuYasha still in the lead began to twitch his ears about as if he were listening for something. Worried Kagome inquired “Is there something wrong? Do you hear something?”
Pausing InuYasha replied “I don’t know, but something feels odd, it’s like – I don’t know – I feel a little different, I can’t put my finger on it. It’s almost like I feel a little stronger or something.”
Suddenly Kagome stopped, slapped her hand to her mating mark and yelped “Something’s happening. My mark is tingling and it feels like something is entering me through my mark!”
InuYasha rushed to his mate’s side and taking her hand worriedly inquired “Kagome are you alright?”
Quickly wanting to assure InuYasha she replied “I’m fine, no I’m better than fine, I feel great! I feel strong, I feel” suddenly Kagome’s eyes grew wide “– oh dear Kami – I feel like I could live forever!”
The couple quickly turned to look at Yasha, who had reached the same spot as them. “How do you feel?” was InuYasha’s worried inquiry.
Yasha seemed to stop and think for a moment before he answered “I feel great, really strong!”
Before Yasha could continue the princess cried out in pain and fell to her knees, clutching first her head and then her chest as she moaned “I’m being crushed, I can’t breath!”
Immediately Yasha ran to his princess’s side and pulled her into his arms before turning stricken eyes to his elders.
InuYasha had to think fast, turning towards Kagome he stated “Kagome, you said you felt like something was entering you through your mating mark, right?” At Kagome’s quick nod he continued “What if these falls work via our youki, Yasha and I have lots of youki and you got some of mine when I marked you, but the princess doesn’t have any youki at all. There’s no way for this power to get into her, Yasha you have to mark her – right now!” At Yasha’s confused look InuYasha quickly explained “You have to bite her on her neck, right at the pulse point – then she has to bite you on your pulse point so she gets some of your blood into her system - do it now!”
Looking at his dying mistress, Yasha immediately bent over his princess’s neck and quickly bit her as InuYasha had instructed. The moment his teeth broke through her smooth flesh, the little princess’s eyes popped open, InuYasha quickly moved to the children’s side and pulling back Yasha’s long hair cut into the child’s neck, he then helped lift the princess’s head so she could latch onto her slave’s bleeding neck.
Kagome finally began to blush; the better part of a minuet had passed and the children had still not released each others necks. They seemed to be enjoying themselves a little too much. Deciding that they were much too young for this sort of thing to go on much longer the miko prodded her mate to separate the pair.
Grinning, InuYasha started to pull the pair apart. The princess and Yasha reluctantly released each others neck, both of them blushing furiously.
As Yasha helped his princess stand Kagome asked “How do you feel now? Do you still feel the pressure?”
The princess was still blushing, but replied “I feel great now, better than I’ve ever felt in my life, where Yasha bit me feels a little funny, it’s all tingly like the water from the falls is trying to getting into me somehow - but what exactly did we do?”
Now it was InuYasha’s turn to blush “I’m sorry I couldn’t think of anything else to do, Kagome said she felt the power going into her through her mating mark, so I had Yasah mark you, you’re sort of – mated now.” At the children’s panicked looks he quickly added “You’re way too young to really be mates, so till you’re older, it’s like you’re engaged only it’s an engagement that can never be broken. I’m afraid your father will have to give up his plans of marrying you off to some prince. Like I said, I’m sorry, I was afraid you would die if we didn’t do something fast.”
The little princess began to walk forward, then turned, smiled and stated “I think this was supposed to happen, the inscription outside said ‘Love is the Key’. I knew someday Yasha and I were supposed to be together like the two of you, now my father can’t ever separate us. I wonder, though, since this is called ‘the falls of immortality’ are we now all immortal?”
***
IDoInuyasha31 - Thanks my dog is doing much better, but I have to keep a sharp eye on her all the time so she does not jump. this is slowing down my work on the story! Hope you like this chapter!