InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Turn Around ❯ Chpt 23: Awakening; Soul Transferring ( Chapter 23 )
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By: AngelAnita 
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 11.13.2005 | Updated On: 11.13.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 265 | Status: Work In Progress
N/A.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 11.13.2005 | Updated On: 11.13.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.1K | Visits: 265 | Status: Work In Progress
Turn Around:
By: AngelAnita
By: AngelAnita
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE STARTING THE STORY:
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE STARTING THE STORY:
I do not own any of these characters in this FanFic. -Sigh- Although I wish I could, especially Sesshomaru...-giggle-
All lettering in ITALICS means the person is having these thoughts in their head. They are not spoken out loud.
Word Key: (Translation)
Arigatou - Thank You
Kami - God
Gomen ne/Gomen nasai - Sorry/Very Sorry
Baka - Idiot
Doushite - Why
Iie - No
Hai - Yes
Honto ne - Really
Onegai - Please
Doragon - Dragon
Gami - Toad
Ningen - Human
Nan desu ka - What is it?
Genki - Fine
Kudasai - Please
Yameru - Enough
Iku - Go
Nani- What?
Naze desu ka - Why?
Domo arigato gozuimasu - Thank you very much!
Matte - Wait
Ima Yameru - Stop it now!
Chikusho - Damn it!
Anata-no namae wa- What is your name?
Watashi no namae wa desu - My name is...
Do itashi mashite - You're welcome!
Damare - Shut up!
Ogaa-san - Mother
Otou-san - Father
Warawa nai - Don't laugh!
Masaka - It Can't Be!
Wakaranai - I don't understand
Bakayarou - Stupid Bastard
Kiesare - Get out of here!
Ano - Umm…
Oi - Hey
Chikusho - Damn it! OR Shit!
Kami - God
Gomen ne/Gomen nasai - Sorry/Very Sorry
Baka - Idiot
Doushite - Why
Iie - No
Hai - Yes
Honto ne - Really
Onegai - Please
Doragon - Dragon
Gami - Toad
Ningen - Human
Nan desu ka - What is it?
Genki - Fine
Kudasai - Please
Yameru - Enough
Iku - Go
Nani- What?
Naze desu ka - Why?
Domo arigato gozuimasu - Thank you very much!
Matte - Wait
Ima Yameru - Stop it now!
Chikusho - Damn it!
Anata-no namae wa- What is your name?
Watashi no namae wa desu - My name is...
Do itashi mashite - You're welcome!
Damare - Shut up!
Ogaa-san - Mother
Otou-san - Father
Warawa nai - Don't laugh!
Masaka - It Can't Be!
Wakaranai - I don't understand
Bakayarou - Stupid Bastard
Kiesare - Get out of here!
Ano - Umm…
Oi - Hey
Chikusho - Damn it! OR Shit!
TO ALL: PLEASE NOTE!The Word Key will slowly be updated as the story moves along.
OKAY, let the reading commence! Enjoy!
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THIS CHAPTER HAS NO ORIGINAL REFERENCE TO THE ORIGINAL INU YASHA SERIES. THIS IS SOMETHING I ADDED MYSELF. Please take note of these changes.
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Chapter 22 re-cap:
Miroku looked up, not knowing what had happened. Whoever it was had ruined things for him and Sango, and would pay dearly.
Miroku looked up, not knowing what had happened. Whoever it was had ruined things for him and Sango, and would pay dearly.
Inu Yasha.
God, he was going to kill that bastard some day, and right now didn't seem like a bad time.
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Chapter 23: Awakening; Soul Transferring
Hours later that night, at around 2am, Kagome was the first to awake. She was extremely sore in every place possible, so when she moved to sit up, she immediately slumped back down.
Damn, I haven't felt this much pain since…since ever…
She frowned, looking down at Rin's unconscious form, which looked rather strange…since when did Rin have four arms?
Kagome was ready to yell out in fright, but then she noticed Sesshomaru's form wrapped around her stomach, which was what had given her the illusion.
Sighing helplessly, she looked around the room, hoping to see someone nearby, other than the sleeping Sesshomaru.
No one was in sight, so yet another sigh escaped her lips.
In response, Sesshomaru's ears twitched, hearing the delicate noise.
So you're awake,” he stated in his simple yet cold voice.
“Apparently,” she snapped back at him, in an out-of-character way.
He raised his eyebrows at her tone, but ignored it. She was in huge amounts of pain and stress at the moment, so it could be forgiven.
“Where is everyone?” Kagome asked, whispering to his form in the moonlight room.
“Inuyasha is sleeping in that tree, and I believe Miroku and Sango fell asleep outside, nearby the lake. Do you need something?”
“No, not really; I was just wondering…”
Sadly, she looked down at Rin, who had much worse wounds than she did, and silently scolded herself.
How can I be complaining about my wounds, when Rin's are ten times worse?
Attempting to stand up once more, she sucked in her breath, ignoring the fierce pain in her arms and legs.
Managing to balance on her wobbly legs, she limped towards the hut's entrance.
“Where do you think you are going? You need to lay back down and heal, before you re-open all of your wounds, you stupid girl!”
“Kagura and Kanna are here; why didn't you tell me?” Kagome asked at the doorway, seeing the demon females' heavy breathing from their near lifeless forms on the grass.
“You are in no situation to help them,” he snapped coldly, without meaning to be.
“Their souls are being drained…Naraku's death must have done this to them…I must help them.”
“You baka! If you go and help them, you will surely die! You cannot give enough soul power to TWO FULL DEMONS in your current state! In fact, I doubt you could take care of ONE!”
Kagome was determined to prove him wrong as she made her way to their forms.
Lightly shaking them from their slumber, Kagome kneeled down beside them, and waited for them to awaken.
“Kagura…Kanna…I'm here to help you.”
After wiping the exhaustion from their eyes, they assessed Kagome's current physical state.
“In your current condition…don't even bother. We'd have to wait until you were more healed; we will die before then, I can promise you. Don't worry, Kagome; we're lucky to have lived at all.”
Kagura smiled a sad smile towards Kagome and her sister, sighing in helpelessness.
“There is nothing anyone can do…” Kanna said, trailing off into silence.
A moment later, Sesshomaru joined them outside the hut.
“Nobody can help you here, demons. It's a shame, because finally you're free…but you will die…what a sad irony.”
Naraku's previous hench-women looked up at him with tears in their eyes, but refused to let them fall.
“You are right, Sesshomaru…”
Or, maybe not.
Out of the darkness, Rin's weak form stumbled over to where the four were standing.
“I will help you.”
Sesshomaru looked over at her, and cursed himself for not noticing her awakening.
“Rin, Iforbid you to do so.”
“Sesshomaru, I'll tell you this right now; I love you, and always have, with all of my heart. However, this is my decision, and I must save my friends. They helped me at the castle, and made my stay pleasant. Besides, two lives are worth more than just mine, or just Kagome's. They don't deserve to die, Sesshomaru…”
he looked pleadingly at her, the emotion clear in his eyes.
“But you don't deserve to die, either! Rin, we are finally together once more, and you want to risk all of that by saving their lives?”
Rin looked up at him, portraying the same emotions from her soul.
“I'd do anything to help them, Sessho.”
Silent tears fell down her face as she closed her eyes, concentrating her miko powers into her hands.
Rin's entire body began to glow in holy light as she joined her hand in Kagome's.
Kagome began to do the same, and slowly the two different coloured miko lights combined into once, making a purple-ish glow.
Crackling sounds like lightning began to radiate off of them, due to their magnificent power levels.
“RIN!” Sesshoumaru shouted over all the noise. “STOP WHILE YOU CAN!”
His words, however, fell onto deaf ears as the miko power began to change into an eerie white light.
The white light combined, was each of their souls.
In prayer, they began to chant the soul-transferring spell.
Give them my life,
I divide my soul;
Let themlive,
I am no longer whole.
Whatever happens,
I will not cry;
I will stay strong;
And pray I don't die.
With the soul transferring,
Which is now complete;
Let me rest,
And put me to sleep.
The girls chanted this two times as their hair was blown around from the harsh wind they created.
After the second chant, parts of their souls were transferred, and they collapsed once more.
Sesshomaru knelt down beside Rin, and put his head on her chest, listening for her human heartbeat. It was there, but it was very slow, and faint.
If she died from this, he would slaughter everyone that ever entered his path.
Kagura and Kanna looked at one another, and smiled.
However, Kagura suddenly fell onto her knees, gasping for air.
“What's wrong, Kagura?” Kanna asked frantically, kneeling immediately beside her hurt sister.
“The soul transferring…it wasn't enough…I needed more soul-power to sustain my being! It has merely prolonged my death…”
Kanna looked strangely at Kagura, but then things began to make sense.
Kagura was a much stronger demon than herself, so she needed the extra soul to keep living. However, Kagome and Rin automatically SPLIT the amount of soul given to each of them, which wasn't enough for poor Kagura.
She was going to die…
Kanna began to cry, looking helplessly up at Sesshomaru, and then back down at her sister.
“Don't…cry….” Kagura muttered before she coughed up blood.
“I've lived a long life, dear sister; I have nothing…to com…plain…about…” she managed to speak out before coughing up more dark red blood.
“You can't die!” Kanna screamed, waking up Inuyasha from the far distance.
“YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!!!” she yelled as desperate tears streamed out of her eyes.
“I don't…really have…a choice…” Kagura said with a forced smirk on her face.
Those were the last words she said, before fading away.
Her body immediately began to disintegrate into powder, and then was blown away by the wind.
Kanna tried to capture it in her hands, but it seemed to run away from her attempts.
“Why…why must this happen?” She asked out loud to no one in particular, and looked up to see Inuyasha's form towering over theirs.
“What the hell is going on? I heard screaming, so I ran over as fast as I could. Jeeze, couldn't somebody come and get me if something good was happening?”
Sesshomaru gave him an icy stare, which made Inuyasha shut up instantly.
After a few minutes, Sesshomaru spoke, retelling everything that had happened within the last twenty minutes.
Inuyasha sat down; hanging onto his brother's every word, not saying anything until the explanation was finished.
Brooding for once in his life, he sat and frowned, looking at Kagome's once again unconscious body.
Without saying a word, he picked her up, and bounced away with Kagome in his arms.
Kanna sat quietly crying to herself, hugging her knees in silence.
“I can't do anything for you Kanna, I cannot change the past, or tell you everything will be all right. However, what I can tell you, is that this isn't what your sister would have wanted of you.”
The teary-eyed Kanna decided to look up at Sesshomaru with questioning in her eyes.
“Kagura would want you to live a full life, not one that mourns her death. It's true that she just died, and it's okay to be upset, but don't let it control your actions and situations in the future.”
Looking down at Rin, he picked her up and brought her back into the hut.
Laying Rin back down on the mat, he curled behind her, and kept her warm. He stroked her hair, in what he hoped was a soothing manner, and closed his tired eyes.
Lately, he'd been under so much stress, that he hadn't been able to sleep.
Demons didn't need to sleep as often as humans, but on occasion, it was a necessary thing.
This, was one of those times.
His remaining thought before falling asleep was hoping for Rin's recovery, so that they could get on with their lives once more.
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Kohaku awoke with feelings of tiredness. He felt as though he'd only slept for a few hours, when in reality, he'd slept for DAYS. Two, actually; which was probably why he felt so tired and weak.
Crawling off the cold castle floor, he scrounged around for something to eat; anything to fill his empty stomach, really.
Finding nothing in the castle, he slowly trekked over behind the battlefield. Over there were bushels and bushels of blackberries, which he snatched as quickly as he could.
Gobbling them down in a distasteful manner, he kept searching for more, and ate until he could eat no more.
After having his fair share of berries, he realized how thirsty he was. Wandering around until he found a clean stream, he used his hands as a cup to quench his thirst.
Sighing as the liquid snaked down his throat, Kohaku looked at himself in the water's reflection. He much needed a bath, but there was something different about him.
A merely noticeable light was in his eyes, making him look livelier. Actually, except for sleeping on a hard floor and ruining his back temporarily, he even FELT a lot better.
Maybe that's because I'm not on the controlling spell anymore, and Naraku is dead.
Agreeing with himself, he skipped down into the forest, wandering around to try and find his way to where Sango was staying.
He knew that if he walked aimlessly, Sango's fire cat, Inuyasha, or Sesshomaru would eventually smell him, and come after him.
It was just a matter of time, really.
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A/N:
Eh…I don't have much to say…except this:
I went to my cottage for a month, and then I had writers block for the longest time. That's my excuse (which is really the truth), and that's all there is to it.
I hope people haven't COMPLETELY abandoned this story, or given up on me; it's ALMOST done, I swear. Only like 1-3 more chapters left, I promise!
Then, no one will have to worry about my slow updates!
Thanks everyone so much for your understanding and HUGE amounts of patience with me!
Chapter 23: Awakening; Soul Transferring
Hours later that night, at around 2am, Kagome was the first to awake. She was extremely sore in every place possible, so when she moved to sit up, she immediately slumped back down.
Damn, I haven't felt this much pain since…since ever…
She frowned, looking down at Rin's unconscious form, which looked rather strange…since when did Rin have four arms?
Kagome was ready to yell out in fright, but then she noticed Sesshomaru's form wrapped around her stomach, which was what had given her the illusion.
Sighing helplessly, she looked around the room, hoping to see someone nearby, other than the sleeping Sesshomaru.
No one was in sight, so yet another sigh escaped her lips.
In response, Sesshomaru's ears twitched, hearing the delicate noise.
So you're awake,” he stated in his simple yet cold voice.
“Apparently,” she snapped back at him, in an out-of-character way.
He raised his eyebrows at her tone, but ignored it. She was in huge amounts of pain and stress at the moment, so it could be forgiven.
“Where is everyone?” Kagome asked, whispering to his form in the moonlight room.
“Inuyasha is sleeping in that tree, and I believe Miroku and Sango fell asleep outside, nearby the lake. Do you need something?”
“No, not really; I was just wondering…”
Sadly, she looked down at Rin, who had much worse wounds than she did, and silently scolded herself.
How can I be complaining about my wounds, when Rin's are ten times worse?
Attempting to stand up once more, she sucked in her breath, ignoring the fierce pain in her arms and legs.
Managing to balance on her wobbly legs, she limped towards the hut's entrance.
“Where do you think you are going? You need to lay back down and heal, before you re-open all of your wounds, you stupid girl!”
“Kagura and Kanna are here; why didn't you tell me?” Kagome asked at the doorway, seeing the demon females' heavy breathing from their near lifeless forms on the grass.
“You are in no situation to help them,” he snapped coldly, without meaning to be.
“Their souls are being drained…Naraku's death must have done this to them…I must help them.”
“You baka! If you go and help them, you will surely die! You cannot give enough soul power to TWO FULL DEMONS in your current state! In fact, I doubt you could take care of ONE!”
Kagome was determined to prove him wrong as she made her way to their forms.
Lightly shaking them from their slumber, Kagome kneeled down beside them, and waited for them to awaken.
“Kagura…Kanna…I'm here to help you.”
After wiping the exhaustion from their eyes, they assessed Kagome's current physical state.
“In your current condition…don't even bother. We'd have to wait until you were more healed; we will die before then, I can promise you. Don't worry, Kagome; we're lucky to have lived at all.”
Kagura smiled a sad smile towards Kagome and her sister, sighing in helpelessness.
“There is nothing anyone can do…” Kanna said, trailing off into silence.
A moment later, Sesshomaru joined them outside the hut.
“Nobody can help you here, demons. It's a shame, because finally you're free…but you will die…what a sad irony.”
Naraku's previous hench-women looked up at him with tears in their eyes, but refused to let them fall.
“You are right, Sesshomaru…”
Or, maybe not.
Out of the darkness, Rin's weak form stumbled over to where the four were standing.
“I will help you.”
Sesshomaru looked over at her, and cursed himself for not noticing her awakening.
“Rin, Iforbid you to do so.”
“Sesshomaru, I'll tell you this right now; I love you, and always have, with all of my heart. However, this is my decision, and I must save my friends. They helped me at the castle, and made my stay pleasant. Besides, two lives are worth more than just mine, or just Kagome's. They don't deserve to die, Sesshomaru…”
he looked pleadingly at her, the emotion clear in his eyes.
“But you don't deserve to die, either! Rin, we are finally together once more, and you want to risk all of that by saving their lives?”
Rin looked up at him, portraying the same emotions from her soul.
“I'd do anything to help them, Sessho.”
Silent tears fell down her face as she closed her eyes, concentrating her miko powers into her hands.
Rin's entire body began to glow in holy light as she joined her hand in Kagome's.
Kagome began to do the same, and slowly the two different coloured miko lights combined into once, making a purple-ish glow.
Crackling sounds like lightning began to radiate off of them, due to their magnificent power levels.
“RIN!” Sesshoumaru shouted over all the noise. “STOP WHILE YOU CAN!”
His words, however, fell onto deaf ears as the miko power began to change into an eerie white light.
The white light combined, was each of their souls.
In prayer, they began to chant the soul-transferring spell.
Give them my life,
I divide my soul;
Let themlive,
I am no longer whole.
Whatever happens,
I will not cry;
I will stay strong;
And pray I don't die.
With the soul transferring,
Which is now complete;
Let me rest,
And put me to sleep.
The girls chanted this two times as their hair was blown around from the harsh wind they created.
After the second chant, parts of their souls were transferred, and they collapsed once more.
Sesshomaru knelt down beside Rin, and put his head on her chest, listening for her human heartbeat. It was there, but it was very slow, and faint.
If she died from this, he would slaughter everyone that ever entered his path.
Kagura and Kanna looked at one another, and smiled.
However, Kagura suddenly fell onto her knees, gasping for air.
“What's wrong, Kagura?” Kanna asked frantically, kneeling immediately beside her hurt sister.
“The soul transferring…it wasn't enough…I needed more soul-power to sustain my being! It has merely prolonged my death…”
Kanna looked strangely at Kagura, but then things began to make sense.
Kagura was a much stronger demon than herself, so she needed the extra soul to keep living. However, Kagome and Rin automatically SPLIT the amount of soul given to each of them, which wasn't enough for poor Kagura.
She was going to die…
Kanna began to cry, looking helplessly up at Sesshomaru, and then back down at her sister.
“Don't…cry….” Kagura muttered before she coughed up blood.
“I've lived a long life, dear sister; I have nothing…to com…plain…about…” she managed to speak out before coughing up more dark red blood.
“You can't die!” Kanna screamed, waking up Inuyasha from the far distance.
“YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE ALONE!!!” she yelled as desperate tears streamed out of her eyes.
“I don't…really have…a choice…” Kagura said with a forced smirk on her face.
Those were the last words she said, before fading away.
Her body immediately began to disintegrate into powder, and then was blown away by the wind.
Kanna tried to capture it in her hands, but it seemed to run away from her attempts.
“Why…why must this happen?” She asked out loud to no one in particular, and looked up to see Inuyasha's form towering over theirs.
“What the hell is going on? I heard screaming, so I ran over as fast as I could. Jeeze, couldn't somebody come and get me if something good was happening?”
Sesshomaru gave him an icy stare, which made Inuyasha shut up instantly.
After a few minutes, Sesshomaru spoke, retelling everything that had happened within the last twenty minutes.
Inuyasha sat down; hanging onto his brother's every word, not saying anything until the explanation was finished.
Brooding for once in his life, he sat and frowned, looking at Kagome's once again unconscious body.
Without saying a word, he picked her up, and bounced away with Kagome in his arms.
Kanna sat quietly crying to herself, hugging her knees in silence.
“I can't do anything for you Kanna, I cannot change the past, or tell you everything will be all right. However, what I can tell you, is that this isn't what your sister would have wanted of you.”
The teary-eyed Kanna decided to look up at Sesshomaru with questioning in her eyes.
“Kagura would want you to live a full life, not one that mourns her death. It's true that she just died, and it's okay to be upset, but don't let it control your actions and situations in the future.”
Looking down at Rin, he picked her up and brought her back into the hut.
Laying Rin back down on the mat, he curled behind her, and kept her warm. He stroked her hair, in what he hoped was a soothing manner, and closed his tired eyes.
Lately, he'd been under so much stress, that he hadn't been able to sleep.
Demons didn't need to sleep as often as humans, but on occasion, it was a necessary thing.
This, was one of those times.
His remaining thought before falling asleep was hoping for Rin's recovery, so that they could get on with their lives once more.
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Kohaku awoke with feelings of tiredness. He felt as though he'd only slept for a few hours, when in reality, he'd slept for DAYS. Two, actually; which was probably why he felt so tired and weak.
Crawling off the cold castle floor, he scrounged around for something to eat; anything to fill his empty stomach, really.
Finding nothing in the castle, he slowly trekked over behind the battlefield. Over there were bushels and bushels of blackberries, which he snatched as quickly as he could.
Gobbling them down in a distasteful manner, he kept searching for more, and ate until he could eat no more.
After having his fair share of berries, he realized how thirsty he was. Wandering around until he found a clean stream, he used his hands as a cup to quench his thirst.
Sighing as the liquid snaked down his throat, Kohaku looked at himself in the water's reflection. He much needed a bath, but there was something different about him.
A merely noticeable light was in his eyes, making him look livelier. Actually, except for sleeping on a hard floor and ruining his back temporarily, he even FELT a lot better.
Maybe that's because I'm not on the controlling spell anymore, and Naraku is dead.
Agreeing with himself, he skipped down into the forest, wandering around to try and find his way to where Sango was staying.
He knew that if he walked aimlessly, Sango's fire cat, Inuyasha, or Sesshomaru would eventually smell him, and come after him.
It was just a matter of time, really.
XxXxXx
A/N:
Eh…I don't have much to say…except this:
I went to my cottage for a month, and then I had writers block for the longest time. That's my excuse (which is really the truth), and that's all there is to it.
I hope people haven't COMPLETELY abandoned this story, or given up on me; it's ALMOST done, I swear. Only like 1-3 more chapters left, I promise!
Then, no one will have to worry about my slow updates!
Thanks everyone so much for your understanding and HUGE amounts of patience with me!
AngelAnita