InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Perish Once More ❯ Chapter Nine: Timpani ( Chapter 9 )

To Perish Once More: Chapter Nine: Timpani

-Jasmine Fields

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His frowned deepened.

Admittedly, the boy was nearly enough nuisance for him to yield to the lure of this enticement.

Oh yes, the seduction was there.

…but he did not, in fact, know the fool or the intention that lay therein. He was not one to trifle smidgen matters against his patience.

His patience, today, was not winsome.

Briefly he bolstered his guard, surveying the region.

He knew he heard running in the distance.

They aren't very far away, but currently pose no threat…

Maybe three…

He would slaughter them if the servant and child were harmed. As a matter of fact, he would extricate their bowels and rupture their gizzards before paring skin and chucking his fury through their blood pounding hearts.

With scarcely a flick of wrist.

In the blink of an eye.

They will wish for death.

I will do it.

The boy sniveled, protests buried as the argument against Naraku's spawn-woman passed from existence.

What was the argument again?

Oh, how he unquestionably spited the woman's following. If not for her persistence and underhanded loyalty to the prey he sought to defeat, he would not have allowed such...

Impudence…

He calculated.

Definitely three…

His thoughts turned to the more immediate matter.

Kohaku's master, although aware of his absence, did not either recognize or appreciate the wholly restored memory.

He already knew the boy's ailment.

He was acquainted with the knowledge of the detriment that befell the exterminators' village shortly before his newly acquired enemy ascended to his self-proclaimed throne.

He did not share the sentiment of the woman; nonetheless, he commiserated her heart's loss.

Though he could not feel remorse for the extinct village, he did not condemn the endurance solidified in her character.

His eyes glanced toward the forest line.

They were closing-in and he assessed no damage was done against his willing followers.

He grunted.

Neko…

The cat launched from out of the tree line first to Kohaku's right side.

It strengthened the boy's resolve.

Kohaku sought something greater than the cowardice within him self.

The other two are nearing…

Rin and Jaken cleared the edge of the forest.

Jaken was berating the child again…then in the confused battle acknowledged stumbling upon his lordship - oh, how he loved the title of adulation - conducting business.

Kohaku inhaled the entirety of his fear.

One down…

His servant, if one might think the toad, had been ambushed by the whimsical previous turning of his mind. She stood next to Rin.

Taijia.

Kohaku forced his stomach down as he prostrated his body to the ground.

Quite the highest form of exoneration, if he, him self, might boast.

One to go…

Jaken, in his lost wits and fright, stood blind-sided behind the exterminator-woman and made clumsy use of the staff…charring limp tree branches.

Thwack.

The boy nearly strangled his will under this intrusion. He quickly regained the passing failure of words and proceeded to beseech his final request.

He abandoned his guard.

It was pointless.

The smoke is suffocating the human.

When would she learn?

He held his wavering attention on the boy as Kagome broke free from her grated prison.

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