InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Uptown Girl ❯ Chapter 59 ( Chapter 60 )

Chapter 59

 

Inuyasha's head snapped up from the fire as he heard gravel crunch under the approaching tires. “Damn near `bout time,” he growled, as his eyes landed upon the blue Bronco. Before he'd even had a chance to move from the fire where he'd dragged the unconscious Muso, the mournful howls of pain assaulted his ears. Looking toward where the sound came from, Inuyasha thought, darkly, “That bastard will pay for what he's done,” as he also took off, following his brother and the wolf easily over the unleveled ground.

 

 

In the cave, completely consumed by her feral side, Jade wrapped her legs in a crushing vice-like grip around Naraku's head, his teeth still firmly sunk into the flesh of her thigh. With a powerful toss, she whipped his body savagely against the rock hard wall. Naraku crashed heavily against the walls of the cavern with a sickening crunch. Her claws worked at the thick leathery manacles, the prickly black thorns poking into her flesh, as she attacked with the red hot fury of a thousand rabid wolves flowing radiantly through her body, Jade roared in anger at being restrained.

 

She gnawed at his thick tentacles, her teeth sinking in further as the unfettered streams of his blood rolled across her tongue, and her mouth tingled with sensation as she puckered her gums, thoroughly enjoying the bitter taste of it. Naraku held her down, having trouble keeping a firm grip because of the slipperiness of his own blood flowing slowly from him, but he managed to grab her and toss her aside, frighteningly looking at his torn and damaged body. He cringed in anger.

 

"How dare you... ..you dirty blooded cunt." Jade simply growled at the comment as she cracked her claws and licks the blood off, giving Naraku a cold leer.

 

Naraku shook his head in distress as he regained his breath. “What the hell?” he thought, as he stared back, his crimson eyes glaring towards his prey. Lurching to his feet and storming over to the enraged girl Naraku snarled, “What the hell are you doing?! You're supposed to play the helpless victim… Not fight back!” He grabbed her face with his claw like hands, roughly bringing her to his level as he ground out between clenched teeth, “You will submit to me in EVERY way. Understand… bitch?”

 

Jade glared at the monster, her mind only understanding that her body was writhing in pain and hurting her. Her limbs twitched as oxygen was cut off from different parts of her body, and she shook violently trying to free herself from the agonizing feeling in her limbs. Jerking her head back from the vile beast's hand, Jade roared in defiance as she delivered a round house kick to his head as another sickening crunching noise echoed throughout the dense cavern walls. He slammed into the rock wall, and the manacles tore free, dropping Jade roughly to the solid floor. Her eyes wandered briefly around the confined space, landing for a second on the beaten and barely breathing body of Kagome. Jade moved tentatively towards the woman, recognizing her for a brief second before she was tossed back into the air by tentacles that had driven through her arms.

 

“You've defied me for the last time… Die!” Naraku said with creases forming in his face from losing so much energy. He shot out his tentacles and they undulated from his body, whipping tiny cuts into Jade's already wrecked flesh, as blood rained out in hundreds of drops from her body.

 

Furious at his actions Jade roared as her claws slashed at the tentacles that held her to his body, as all sense of reason escaped her as she lunged for the monster. With claws extended she reached for his throat, slashing at every surface of his body, yearning to have the blood from his neck on her hands, and taste more of the bastards red life draining down, through every bite she inflicted on him. Her claws left horrible trails of ragged claw marks from his hips to his chest, cutting him deeply, leaving gaping wounds in their wake, blood dripping down as he panted for life, clinging to the world as long as he was able.

 

Seeing that this bitch was not as obedient and fragile as he had thought, Naraku tossed her as far from his body as he could, trying to rework his plan, only to have her launch another vicious round of attacks onto him, biting into his skin.

 

 

Koga made it to the cave system a good distance ahead of the dog demon, following the howls of pain, anger and scent of blood. “Please be safe Jade,” he thought as he ran, his feet barely touching the ground in his race to the cave. As he entered, the gruesome sight before him nearly crushed him. His beloved Jade was completely enwrapped in Naraku's tentacles, literally fighting for her life as he constricted the appendages around her lithe frame. Blood seeped through the tentacles, though he couldn't say for certain whose blood it was. Naraku was just as injured and tainted with wounds as Jade was.

 

He dashed out in anger toward the demon, slicing his claws through the tentacles that were wrapping tighter and tighter around his beloved Jade. As his hand reached toward Jade to pull her from the spider demon's grasp, she ran her own claws down his arm, leaving a quintet of blood trails in their wake. Roaring out in pain and confusion, Koga grabbed her harshly and pulled her from Naraku's grasp, trying to ignore the pain that she inflicted upon himself as he tried to save her.

 

Once he got a grip on her arms, holding them behind her back, his blue eyes looked into hers, only to find that she'd gone completely feral. “What happened to you?” he whispered as he gently turned her head to face him.

 

Jade glared at the new threat, fighting the vice grip of his hand upon her arms as she jerked her head away from his gentle and caring touch. Images of her last assault that had caused her going feral flashed through her mind, especially the male at the end who she'd attacked. As the images once more raced through her now impure mind, Jade growled, as she quickly fought once more with the only weapon she had left, her legs. She'd hit him square in the groin, before bringing her knee into his face with a sickening crunch.

 

In a howl of pain, Koga released his hand from upon her arms to cover his sensitive nose for what was again broken. Jade quickly backed away from the wolf demon, her inner turmoil still raging as she decided which demon to attack. Suddenly her eyes widened as once more as Naraku's arms stabbed through her body, the tiny prickles of the tentacle tearing bits of flesh, attaching to the arm, drawing her back toward the hideous spider demon. She glanced down at her leg and saw the wriggling black appendage piercing the flesh, before she lopped it off in one swipe of her razor sharp claws. Her eyes locked onto the demonic spider with a green fire burning behind them, and wrath, hatred, and ferocity burning inside her heart as she launched her final attack on him.

 

 

Ban writhed in pain while dragging his body to the caves, screaming out with every cut, stab, and claw mark that Jade received. His face was blue with lack of oxygen as his body suddenly appeared as if it were being constricted by some python. Jak stood nearby, nearly in hysterics as his brother went through the torture of his connection to Jade. “What can I do?” he kept asking himself when he saw Inuyasha running toward them.

 

Waving down the hanyou, Jak showed him his pain wracked brother. “What is causing this?” he asked, clearly concerned.

 

Kneeling next to the writhing man, Inuyasha quickly moved the neck of his shirt as he replied, “That is your problem,” as he pointed toward the inflamed bite mark on his shoulder. “Where did he get that?” Inuyasha demanded as he looked back toward the effeminate man.

 

“I don't know… he never said,” Jak replied in hysteria.

 

Inuyasha growled in frustration as he threw Ban over his shoulder, grunting slightly under the weight as he replied, “That mark is connected to Jade and unless we can get him to her, he's going to die!” With eyes widened in fear for his brother, Jak quickly followed the hanyou as he took off once more toward the caves, following the scent of the wolf, his brother and a cavern, filled with the all too familiar scent of blood.

 

 

 

Sesshomaru arrived at the cave, just as Koga had been attacked by Jade. He pulled the wolf from the cave as he calmly said, “She doesn't recognize you. Can you not see that she has gone feral?”

 

Koga looked at the demon lord in shock before he looked once more toward Jade, once more fighting for her life at the tentacles of the demonic spider. “I… I didn't even think that was possible,” he stammered before his inner demon once more roared to be loosened upon the vile monster.

 

“It's a rather common occurrence among half-breeds, though I've never seen one like this before.” Sesshomaru commented as he saw the wolf demoness once more turn the attack on the demon spider.

 

Looking over the cave, Sesshomaru's eye landed upon the crumpled form of Kagome, up against the far wall. In a flash, oblivious of the spider demon behind him, Sesshomaru was by her side, pulling her into his chest before going past the battle once more. Running his clawed hands through her tangled, blood stained hair as he looked upon her battered and broken body.

 

Koga's eyes never left the battle that raged between his beloved Jade and the demon Naraku. A sense of helplessness struck his heart as he saw her battling for her life against the stronger demon. “How can I stop her from self destruction?” he asked with a whimper.

 

Turning toward the wolf demon, Sesshomaru saw the concerned look and love in his eyes. “To stop her would be to claim her,” he replied, turning back to the unconscious Kagome.

 

Furrowing his brow, Koga looked at Jade as she continued to fight for her life. Thinking over what Sesshomaru had said, he thought back as well to what Ban had said. “She bit him when she wasn't in her right mind,” he mumbled. His eyes turned once more toward Sesshomaru as he asked suddenly, “You mean like the mating mark?”

 

“Yes,” he replied. “Exactly like the mating mark. Only her mate would be able to keep her from killing herself,” he continued. Looking once more toward the battle he commented, “And from the looks of it you'd better hurry or there won't be much of her left.”

 

Whirling around, he saw that Jade was nearly covered in blood, though he wasn't sure if it was hers alone. The hackles at the back of his neck raised once more as his inner demon roared for its mate. In a matter of seconds, Koga entered the fray once more, claws inflicting more damage to the already injured spider demon.

 

 

Turning back to his beloved Kagome, Sesshomaru looked more fully over her bruised and broken body. His eyes narrowed as he traced lightly the bite and claw marks that the bastard had left upon her flawless skin. As the air drifted slightly past his nose a scent so faint assaulted his senses. With a quirked eyebrow, he sniffed at his intended once more, confirming that she'd endured the most unspeakable torture imaginable. As the knowledge of her horrific nightmare seated itself into his mind his own demon roared to life.

 

Anger, tragedy, broken romance, and the fine scent of blood overwhelmed the cavern, as the dog demon lost his calm demeanor, and his apathetic nature vanished.

 

His love, his Kagome, had been harmed. Now...

 

Revenge was all that mattered.

 

 

 

At the moment Sesshomaru loosened the bindings of his inner demon, changing rapidly into his horrific dog demon form, Inuyasha entered the cavern, dropping Ban nonchalantly on the floor. He turned his eyes from the writhing, contorted man on the floor toward the woman lying near the entrance. His eyes softened as they took in the wound littered body of his future sister-in-law. Looking toward the oversized Great Pyrenees dog demon, currently savaging a huge demon spider as if it were just a mere chew toy, Inuyasha thought, “No wonder Sesshomaru has released his inner demon,” as his eyes quickly roved over the battle.

 

When his eyes landed on the wolf demons locked in combat with each other and the occasional stray tentacle he roared out, “Get her out of there you damn wolf!” He charged out toward the couple hoping to be able to save the woman who'd he'd fallen for, if only to save her from the pain that she was currently in.

 

“Stay back,” Koga said, spitting between clenched teeth, trying to conceal the pain in his voice as he locked his hands once more around her blood slicked arms. “She's gone feral you damn mutt!”

 

Stopping dead in his tracks, Inuyasha stared wide eyed at the fighting wolf demons as he processed the information. Looking back over at the convulsing foreman he thought, “He's in no condition to do what's needed to calm her.” He looked toward the horrified Jak as he yelled out, “Help Koga subdue that bitch before she kills him!”

 

Shocked form his stupor at the amount of violence that was going on around him by the harsh words of the silver haired hanyou before him, Jak snapped, “Just because you're cute doesn't mean you can call my friend a `bitch'!”

 

Inuyasha rolled his eyes as he pointed out the facts, “If you don't help Koga subdue Jade shortly, she'll bleed to death, kill him and go after us or your brother will die a horrific death by her own claws! Now get your prissy ass out there and help him or stay here and watch your brother die!”

 

With a smirk upon his pouting lips, Jak thought, “So he did notice my ass," before snapping him self to action. Quickly unwrapping his serpent skin whip from around his waist sighing, "I normally save this for the really cute guys,” he winked toward Inuyasha before his eyes turned hard, continuing, “But I'll make an exception.” Jak sprinted into the fray, his whip lashing out now and then to deflect the twitching tentacles of the struggling spider as he moved closer toward the death locked wolf demons.

 

Koga looked over his shoulder, having caught the sound of Jak's whip connecting with each body part that it struck. A shiver ran down his spine at the fleeting memory of his night at the hands of the psychotic man before he turned back toward his current problem. Grinding his teeth in an effort to fight the pain raging through his body, Koga's inner demon cried out in frustration that his perceived mate was fighting them in such a fashion. “Why is she doing this?” he thought as he dodged another attack thrown at him, narrowly missing her razor sharp claws.

 

 

Jade roared in rage as Koga slipped around her defenses once more to twist her arm painfully behind her back while he held the other tightly across her chest. She kicked with all her might at his legs, hoping to catch a break as her body continued to writhe in his grasp. Koga moved his nose close to her ear, shushing in a soothing fashion to try and reach her buried conscious. “I know that you're in their Jade… my true love,” he soothed, trying to lull the feral demon into a sense of familiarity.

 

A wicked grin crossed Jade's crazed lips as she threw her head back, connecting solidly with Koga's skull, knocking them both a little from the assault. Koga growled deep in his chest as he glared once more toward his feisty mate-to-be. “That wasn't nice,” he glowered as he nipped at her neck lightly.

 

“Ug… you two should get a room,” Jak blanched as he moved closer toward the couple as he saw Koga nipping her neck.

 

Glaring at the psychotic man, Koga snapped, “You mean like that little escapade that you tried with me last night?”

 

“What the…” Jak called back clearly confused as to what the wolf demon was talking about. “I don't remember anything after going to bed last night,” he cried out. “Besides, this isn't about me right now, but her and I'm here to help you!”

 

Seeing what Jak had in mind, Koga loosened his grip on Jade to allow Jak a chance to entrap her in his whip. Feeling the grip on her arms loosen, Jade twisted in Koga's encircled arms before dropping to the blood covered ground. As she was about to sprint back into the fight between Naraku and the transformed Sesshomaru, Jade slipped on the slick rocky floor, just as Jak flicked out his whip, wrapping both of her legs in a binding that would never break. Giving a little shout of joy, Jak quickly pulled Jade back toward the safety of the entrance, as Koga quickly followed.

 

Once they'd reached the entrance Inuyasha looked from Jade to Koga then to Ban who had finally come to some form of his senses. Jade tried to claw her way through the thick snake skin whip that had been wrapped around her ankles only to be subdued even more by Koga who had straddled her waist, his hands wrapped around her wrists as he held them above her head.

 

“What now smart ass?” Koga ground out as Jade continued to fight against him.

 

Ban turned his worried eyes toward his friend, sadness evident as he took in her feral condition. Sighing he said, “Take her… Koga. Make her your mate for I'm not strong enough to stop her this time,” looking away from his battered love.

 

“But how do you know that I'm the one who can do this?!” he blurted back, afraid that Ban would lay claim to her based on the mark at his neck that she'd previously given him.

 

Turning his now burning blue eyes back toward Koga he practically yelled, “She's already said as much that she's yours, Koga. I told you that I won't claim her as is your custom because of this,” gesturing to the still enflamed bit mark on his neck. “I want her to be happy and she is when she's with you.” he finished, before moving closer to the struggling couple. Getting right up to his ear, Ban seethed, “If you don't do something fast, she could die and you and I both know it!”

 

Koga looked into the foreman's blazing eyes, seeing the determination there as well as the love and sadness in knowing that he was about to loose his woman, he nodded once before turning his attention toward the woman writhing beneath him. With Jade subdued as much as possible, by Jak's whip around her legs and her wrists held firmly in Koga's strong grip, he looked at her angry vivid green eyes.

 

His worried blue gems searched for even a hint of recognition in her face as he said softly, “I know that some where in you're mind that you know me and you know how much you mean to me. I've done a lot of things that I shouldn't have… and not trusting you was one of them.” Looking away toward where the battle raged on between Sesshomaru and Naraku, he continued, “I nearly lost you… more times than I can count. And I don't plan on loosing you again.” A smirk crossed his lips as he thought of all the times that he'd have to make up for what he was about to do. A low rumbling growl resounded through his chest as he felt his fangs elongate. In a flash he turned from the fight to the juncture of Jade's shoulder, piercing her flesh with his teeth.

 

 

Reeling at the excruciating pain of her shoulder, Jade roared out, writhing against her bindings even more to get away from the perceived attack. With her only weapons left to her, she sunk her fangs as well into Koga's exposed shoulder, locking her jaw to the thick muscle. As the blood of Koga's wounds flowed over her tongue a new sensation took over her body. With that taste of the scarlet elixir of Koga's blood, her entire world turned, as all knowledge turned to instinct, and murder turned into survival.

 

Lapping at the flood of warm blood that flowed over his tongue, Koga loosened his inner demon upon that of Jade. A smirk crossed his lips as he felt her own inner demon fight with his. He looked into her eyes, watching them change rapidly from green to blue then back again, never taking his fangs from the juncture of her neck. “We're going to have to finish this at a later time,” he thought with a sly grin, knowing that he'd enjoy that more than what was going on now.

 

 

As Koga's fangs slipped into Jade's flesh Ban screamed out in pain once more, gripping the angry bite mark that he'd received from Jade all those years ago. Through his connection to her, Ban felt the struggle between the inner demons. As the demonic fight continued, Ban's muscles twitched, contracted, and contorted into horrific configurations. Seeing that he was right, Inuyasha quickly slammed Ban's body into the rock floor, knocking out the foreman so as to spare him from the affects of the mating that was taking place.

 

Jak looked at the silver haired hanyou as he asked, “What did you do that for?”

 

“Their demonic blood fight would have killed him. By knocking him out, he won't feel the full affects of the mating. Hopefully once they're joined, his mark will either vanish or just remain as a scar… reminding him of what he had,” Inuyasha explained as he moved away from the unconscious foreman, though not really wanting to watch the mating fight between the two wolf demons either.

 

 

After a few minutes the power of wills finally surpassed, with Jade's inner demon submitting to the overpowering essence of Koga's. She whimpered after a bit, her eyes once more the stormy blue that he'd come to love. Slowly, almost hesitating to remove her fangs from his shoulder, Jade pulled back from her life source, averting her eyes from his face.

 

“Are you okay?” he asked quietly once he'd released her shoulder, nuzzling her neck slightly before lapping at his mark, trying to stem the flow of blood.

 

Turning her head toward the disheveled Kagome, whom was being taken care of by Jak, she just nodded in response, refusing to look at her mate. Seeing her submitting to his will, Koga released her hands, as he slowly moved to a sitting position across her hips. He gently turned her head to his direction as he said, “I'm sorry for what I've done to you in the past, Jade. Know that I've never meant you any harm.”

 

When here eyes landed upon his loving ones, tears sprung to her eyes as she quickly glommed onto his chest, crying into the remnants of his shirt. Slowly, compassionately he enwrapped her into a loving embrace, holding her to his heart as she cried, knowing that this is what she needed.

 

 

Slipping unseen into the raging battle between Sesshomaru and Naraku, Kikyo sneered as she pulled her katana from its sheath at her waist. Moving faster than anyone thought possible, she launched her own deadly attack on the spider demon. She slashed at the tentacles that sought her flesh, cleaving them to where they would not regenerate as they previously had.

 

Naraku roared in pain as Kikyo's blade glowed a faint pink color, denoting her priestess powers that negated his demonic aura. Sesshomaru's giant red eyes widened slightly at the small lithe woman moving quickly toward the heart of the demonic spider. He sneered as he assisted in clawing open the chest cavity of the hanyou spider, exposing his entrails to the seeking blade. A cry of rage mixed with pain and remorse sounded through the cavern as Kikyo shoved her glowing blade into the beating heart of the demon.

 

“I hope it was as good for you as it was for me,” she sneered before pulling out her blade from the blackened organ.

 

Sesshomaru reverted back to his human looking form as Kikyo finished off the vile beast. He moved swiftly toward his intended, scarcely noticing the wolf demons or the others as he pulled Kagome's unconscious body to his chest. Without a word he carried her from the cave, moving to fast for even the Koga's eyes to follow him as he sought out help for his beloved.

 

Turning back toward the ashen body of the infamous Naraku, Koga said, “It's finished.”

 

 

Sirens rang through the air, drowning out the sound of foot falls on sand and rock as the cavalry arrived. Miroku shot through the cave entrance with Sango hot on his heals. Looking around at the blood bedewed rock cavern, Miroku let out a low whistle before asking, “Is everyone all right?”

 

Looking down at Jade who had snuggled deep into hiss chest, Koga's replied softly, “I think that we'll be fine, though we should have the medics look over our wounds first.”

 

“I'm glad to see that you two managed to work things out,” Miroku commented as Koga moved to envelope Jade once more into his arms, carrying her to the waiting ambulance.

 

“Yeah… that we did,” Koga thought slyly, knowing that the best was yet to come.