InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ You Darkness... ❯ Chapter 22 - Now We Hunt! - Inuyasha ( Chapter 22 )

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You Darkness
by Vyncent


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Chapter 22 - Now We Hunt! - Inuyasha



The mansion was huge. At least by the standards of the area in which it was located. It was three stories high, with tall arched windows, covered at least a two block area, had a 12 ft. stone fence, and looked like something that the Adams Family might find preferable as living accommodations. Not that Inuyasha would have understood the reference, but just because it looked like the perfect textbook example of a house of horror. All it needed was a stormy night. Thank the kami, it didn't.

A growl escaped his lips. His prey was no where near this huge structure, and by the scent trail present, it had been hours since he last was. This didn't set well with Inuyasha, however, just as he was getting ready to turn back he caught a whiff that gave him pause.

Kagome's friend, Ayumi, whom Inuyasha had met once, was the girl who was taken last night after Inuyasha rescued Kagome. Her scent was strong and clear on the west face of the house, and it could readily be followed to a basement window on that side of the house. A broken window permitted easy access to the building.

It was dark, and damp, but even in the dark, Inuyasha was able to see the stairs that used to lead to the upper floors of the long vacated house. To the right was a large wooden door, and the scent of Ayumi led right to it. There was also the traces of a number of other females with her.

Inuyasha caught the soft whimper of an onna from behind that door. Figuring that someone was being hurt or assaulted, he roared in anger and swiped at the door with his clawed hands and all of the anger he felt for the pain these ruthless cowards had caused. It seconds the door was just a mess of kindling on the floor and the sounds of muffled screams could be heard just beyond in a well lighted room.

There were several blood soaked, and filthy futons in the room. It was well kept otherwise, and had a table with the remnants of old food upon it, a couple of chairs, although one was broken, and lamps that hung from the walls and ceiling provding light for the room and its occupants.

Those occupants were scattered in various parts of the large room, and it took a moment for the hanyou to sort them out, and realize that there were six females in the room. All had been assaulted, each in varying degrees. The amount of torment and injury suffered by each girl made a fair indication of which of the joshi had been here the longest and who was the most recently acquired victim.

The scent of blood in the room was so thick that it was almost impossible to separate the identities of the various josh. Each was, thankfully blindfolded, which meant that they could not see what Inuyasha looked like and after that roar he let off, be afraid of whoever had entered the room more than they already were.

Unfortunately, seeing the condition of the poor girls before him, brought back too many images of Kagome. He spent long, precious moments fighting his anger and hatred towards the animals that took such delight in the pain that they inflicted on the weak, and innocent. If it were not for the gags that had been forced upon the bound joshi in the room, he was sure he would have been deaf. He was fighting hard to maintain his sanity, his growling filling the room.

He didn't want to scare these poor girls more than they had already been through. So he waited a few more moments to calm himself. When he stopped growling, and felt he could at least talk without the anger, he looked over the joshi once more.

"I am here to help you," he spoke in as soothing a tone of voice as if he were speaking to small children. They were scared enough, and to free them, he was going to need some of them to help. "I am a friend of the shrine not far from here. Is there one of you whose name is Ayumi?"

The joshi had quieted enough that they could hear him, and his words seemed to have the desired effect of calming them further. Over to his left, one of the girls in better shape that the others, tried to sit up. Quickly he moved to the side of Ayumi and the two joshi who lay near her.

One of them was unconscious and looked almost dead. For just a moment he put a hand on her chest to see if there was a heart beat and sighed in relief when a steady one met the sensitive touch of his finger pads. He turned back to Ayumi.

"I am going to remove your blindfold," he spoke, making sure the each of the girls could hear him. "As you are one of the least injured, I need you to help me with the others." He leaned close enough to speak softly in her ear so that no one else could hear, "you know me. This is Inuyasha."

As soon as he said those words, Ayumi's face lit up with hope and relief. She nodded her head quickly, and sat still while he removed the blindfold, cut the wires that bound her, and removed the gag from her mouth. "Can you stand?"

"Just help me get to my feet. From there I can do whatever it takes to get out of this place," she said with fire in her eyes. Inuyasha nodded his approval of her spirit and putting a hand under her arm, helped her gain her feet. She swayed for a moment, but steadied herself quickly, and with determination stepped off the futon.

Inuyasha spoke to her again, "When I have finished what I need to do, I will take you to where your parents are. For now, help me get these girls freed." She nodded at Inuyasha, who let her go to turn to the other girls in the room.

Ayumi wanted so badly to ask about Kagome. She remindered herself, however that there were more pressing concerns immediately to hand. She was not as injured as the others. She still had suffered from that hands of her captors, however, when they had taken her, she had over heard them say that they had lost their more recent 'pet'. From their words she figured that they were concerned that there were more people out looking for them, and had chosen to spilt up, and lay low for a time.

She had been beaten. That much was more than evident. She felt like it would be a miracle if there was a place on her that was not black and blue. As she looked at the other girls, she realized that she was lucky, as well as it appeared that she had been saved the hell of having someone try to learn how to be an artist with the blade of a knife on her skin. She was sure that one wrist was broken, and that she had at least two cracked ribs. Like all the others, she had also been violated, but they had apparently not had or chosen to take the time go to the extremes that the others had obviously suffered.

With tears streaming down her face, as she let herself quietly cry for each of the girls before her, she set quickly as she was able around the room, removing the blindfolds and gags. She didn't have enough strength to remove the wire being use to bind each of the girls, so she left that to Inuyasha, and instead tried to offer simple words of encouragement to each girl who could still hear.

Of the five remaining joshi in the room, three were conscious and able to stand. They were in a pretty bad way, but seemed to be determined and willing to hold their own until they could get out of the hell they were in. Two were unconscious. Whether because of having been beaten to such a state, or loss of blood, or as a way to escape the horrors they had suffered, could not truly be said. But Inuyasha could see the pattern that seemed to be common practice for these vile fiends, carved into the flesh of each onna in the room.

One of those who could stand, could not clearly see out of both eyes, but when others offered to aid her, she pushed back with determination, despite a broken arm, and at least two broken ribs, by the sound of her breathing, and insisted she would crawl out of this hell, if she had to. Two others had broken arms, one had a dislocated shoulder. Another suffered a broken ankle, but someone found a rod lying against one wall, and the gave it to her. She cringed when she felt the blood that was dried and caked to the offensive pole, but like the others, stood as tall as she could, and grabbed it with determination to use as an aid to get out of that room and to safety.

"If we all work together, I can get you all to safety," spoke Inuyasha once everyone seemed to be up and able to move. "I have friends waiting to help you all get your injuries treated, and to your parents and homes. I can only carry two of you, and as they are unconscious and in the worse shape, I will take the two who cannot walk. But you all need to help each other if we are to get you all out of here."

They all nodded understanding, and he was quietly proud to see that they all stood just a bit taller and despite the pain they all were in, and the nightmares their ordeal would cause them, they stood brave in the face of being able to escape their prison of hell.

"Tonight, you will all see sights that you have not seen before. But please, do not fear those who you see. They are my friends, and together we all are working to make those who committed these attrocities pay for their actions," he spoke. As he did, the girls could not miss the growl that unconsciously came with the words. Surprisingly, it didn't scare them, but offered them hope and comfort. This man, whoever he was, was going to help them, and he would see to it that they all got out safely. "I swear before you all that they will pay for all of their actions for the rest of their days."

He shook himself visibly, pulling back his anger. "My friends and I are...'more'...than we appear to be. Among us are those who are brother to the ookami. Do not fear them. They will approach you all, but only as a way of learning your scent, and identifying you as one of those we seek to help. If you remain calm, you will have nothing to fear."

"These ookami," Ayumi asked, "are they friends of the shrine?"

"Hai," he said in reply, without hesitation.

"Then I fear nothing while with you and them," she stated with such confidence the others took heart. Each turned to their nearest 'sister' and lent was aid they could to help them on their way. With some strips of the materials from the dirty blankets in the room, they were able to jury-rig suitable slings to allow Inuyasha to carry the two unconscious girls on his back. As a determined group, they all turned and followed his lead out of the room.

He neared the window where he had entered the building, and easily leapt out with his burden. He turned and patiently waited while the others climbed out at their own speed, making allowances for their pain and injuries. Once they all were together, and leaning on each other as the need called for, they proceeded in the direction of hope led by the silver hair rescuer before them.

Inuyasha had lead them about halfway to the clearing, where he knew his friends were, when several shadows joined them, and seemed to slink quietly along. He knew who they were, and barked a greeting. It was answered by several whines and yips from the shadowed figures. A familiar off white bitch approached him, and he spoke to her.

It amazed the girls as they watched the 'man' before them seemingly talking to a wild, ghostly white, ookami. Were these some of the friends he had spoke of? Some of them stared at first, and despite themselves fear began to make itself felt. Catching this in their scent, one of the shadows stepped forward, and whimpered softly both to the nearest onna and to Inuyasha.

"It is alright," he assured the joshi. "These are some of the friends that I spoke of. They are here to help and to protect you."

At his words, the shadows stepped forward resolving themselves into huge wild ookami. One was an immense beast, a black as midnight, and even up close it was difficult to see him clearly in the dark of the cloudy night. There were three all told, the third being a gentle brown and gray beast. This one chose to approach the girl with the broken ankle. He whined to her, and leaned a little towards her so this his fur brushed her good leg.

Inuyasha heard him, and yipped back in response. "Genya offers to carry you. He says that you have a fractured hip on your good side. He can hear the bone weakening."

The girl was hesitant at first, as the group stopped to give her time to accept Genya's offered assistance. But with Ayumi's encouraging smile, she let herself be helped up to lay a stride the ookami's back and sighed in relief at the small ease of some of her pain.

Inuyasha spoke to the off white bitch again, and she dashed off into the shadows ahead. Ayumi noticing this, as well as the other exchanges, could no longer hold back on her curiousity and asked the foremost question in all of their minds.

"Did you really speak to them and understand what they said?" she asked as they continued to walk.

"Hai!" was his simple response. Thinking for a moment he added, "I have sent Chiyuki ahead to bring more help. They should be here in a moment."

Even as the girls considered this, and were shocked and amazed that he was able to actually speak to the ookami, and trying to decide if he was for real or not, suddenly an even more amazing sight befell them. It was the sudden appearance of a huge two tailed neko, with blazing paws and tail, fangs that were easily a foot or more long, and eyes that glowed in the dark. Upon its back was a young woman. A woman who looked like she was prepared to fight anything and anyone if the need arose, and her confidence radiated around her such that no one doubted her ability.

"Inuyasha, it seems that Chiyuki spoke the truth," she said. "We currently have captured all but two of our prey, and have recovered twenty-one living victims. Unfortunately, the one that Ginta found died just moments before he arrived, and sadly one of our own was found dead at least a day before we came."

Her words struck the joshi like a knife to the heart. Being victims themselves, they were sisters with a like cause, and it hurt to know that two of their own had died from the nightmare caused by those whom they had never even known, and hoped to never meet again.

"Who is still out?" asked Inuyasha.

"Sesshomaru-sama! We have not heard from him, however, we have not been out more than a couple of hours so far, so there has not been a reason to worry so far," replied the woman who came with the neko. "I see that you have not found your target this evening."

"Hai, Sango-san," he replied with clear disappointment and anger in his voice. "I have, however, found Ayumi and as you can see, I have found more of those fiends' work. If you could take these two that I have, on Kirara, it would make our trek easier."

"Hai, Inuyasha," said Sango.

Between Sango, and Inuyasha they got the two unconscious joshi up on Kirara's back. Inuyasha took a look at the four remaining, noticing their injuries and taken into account their exhaustion and pain. There was still the one with the broken arm, and two broken ribs. She was leaning heavily on one of the other girls, however, she happened to be the one who face had so badly been beaten that her eyes were almost swollen shut, and if it had not been for the girl with her, she would not be able to see to get anywhere.

Seeing that Baku was still with them, Inuyasha barked at the huge black ookami. He calmly, with a grace that would have put any felines in the area to shame, walked over to the two girls and stopped just close enough that his fur touched the arm of the girl who could not see. Inuyasha calmly walked over, and lifted the onna, feeling the shudders of pain the coarsed through her body.

"Gomen nasai," he said soothingly, "but if you let Baku aid you, it will make it easier for you. He will not harm you, just take you to safety."

She nodded and let herself be placed on the back of the ookami she could not see, and greatfully leaned forward into his soft fur letting consciousness slip away gratefully. The girl with the broken ribs and arm, he lifted in his arms, holding her as gently as he could. They all turned once again, and headed towards the clearing where help for these poor souls awaited them.

When they arrived but mere moments later, the girls were all carefully put with the others who were found. Miroku and Shippo were kept pretty busy working on the worst injuries to the best of their ability. For the most part, they did their best to reset broken limbs, and stave off any blood flow from open wounds. Their primary goal was to ease the major injuries until they were done, at which point Hidenori's brother in the police force would be called in, to take over and bring an ambulance with proper medical aid for the girls to receive proper treatment.

Inuyasha pulled aside Ayumi, and called Kouga over.

"Ayumi, I know you are Kagome's friend, and I know why and how you got captured. You need to know that Kagome is safe. I rescued her last night, although not before she was badly hurt." said Inuyasha.

Ayumi could see the hurt and anger in this man that she knew meant so much to her best friend. It eased her pain to know that Kagome was safe, while it hurt her deeply to know she had suffered before help could arrive.

"This is another of Kagome's friends," Inuyasha continued after a moment. "Actually, more like a 'brother'. It is he that is brother to the ookami who have been aiding us this night. Kouga-sama, this is Kagome's friend, Ayumi, daughter to Mayuki and Hidenori."

Ayumi noticed that Inuyasha had called the dark haired, confident young man before her, a Lord and he had something of a feralness about him that left her in no doubt that he not only could talk to the ookami, but ruled over them as well. He bowed to her, and took her hand bringing the back of it to his lips briefly.

"It is a pleasure to make the aquaintance of one of our pack sister's friends," he said gallantly, as she blushed from the unexpected chivalry. "I would only have wished that we might have gotten here sooner and prevented you much suffering." He seemed so upset by all that he saw, and it puzzled Ayumi, until she realized that he had called Kagome his pack sister. What did he mean by that?

"Ayumi, you know that Kagome and I have known each other for along time," said Inuyasha. "There is much more to the two of us than you could possibly imagine, and at the moment, your mother and father are partially aware of that secret. We are entrusting you, as we have your parents, with some of Kagome's most important secrets, although we will not reveal all that is involved."

"Kouga will take you to your parents, but in doing this we are going to reveal to you who we are. Your parents have sworn an oath of secrecy on this, and while it pains me to have to do this, I must ask that you do so as well," he said.

"Anything for Kagome and you, Inuyasha. If it were not for you and her friends, I would probably be one of those who would not have lived. Not even Yuka, Ayumi, or Hojo will learn of anything you tell me," she assured the hanyou.

At that, he calmly reached up and removed the hat he had been wearing to hide his ears. Kouga pull back his long dark hair, to show his pointed ears. The actions of both, were done so that she could clearly see their claws, and as Kouga smiled at her, she saw the fangs that clearly showed that neither of the beings before her, were ningen.

"Ayumi, I am hanyou. Half ningen, and half inu youkai. Kouga is ookami youkai and Prince of the Ookami Tribe," said Inuyasha to the stunned girl before him.

"What of the others? Are they youkai, too?" was her response once she found her voice. Somehow it didn't surprise her that Kagome knew such people.

"Except for Sango, the woman with the neko mononoke, and the houshi, all but the ookami are youkai. There is still one other, but he has not yet returned from his 'hunt'. Once we are done, your father is to call your uncle with the police and they will bring others to take care of the joshi," said Inuyasha. "I thought you might prefer to be with your mother and father, rather than waiting here, and I know that they are anxious for your safety."

"Hai, Inuyasha," she cried, and quickly gave the hanyou a huge hug despite her injuries and the pain she was in. Inuyasha blushing, was not sure what to do at the unexpected move, but after a moment he returned the gesture being conscious of the onna's injuries.

"Kouga-sama will take you to the shrine. Tell them that we will be done soon," Inuyasha told Ayumi. "We are showing the 'Nightwalkers', what it truly means to 'Walk in Darkness' and to be one with the Night."

The smile that grace the hanyou's face was not one that Ayumi would want to have directed at her, and for just the briefest of moments she was afraid. But she remembered the times that she had heard Kagome speak of Inuyasha, and how protective he was of her, and the fear she almost felt, melt away before it could take root. Finally, the 'Nightwalkers' were going to be brought to justice and no more would joshi like her would ever again have to be afraid of the streets of the 'Nightwalkers' Graveyard.'

With that Kouga smoothly lifted her into his strong and powerful arms, and sped off into the night, taking her to the shrine. Taking her away from the nightmare, and the pain that had threatened her very existence.



Dictionary


Baka - Idiot
Daitoku - Priest
Fukurou - Owl
Hanyou - Half Demon
Higurashi-daitoku - Roughly: Priest Higurashi...I have chosen to use this instead of a name, as no name is ever cited in either the anime or the manga. Kagome's grandfather, and name used by those not of the family.
Higurashi-nisou - Roughly: Priestess Higurashi...I have chosen to use this instead of a name, as no name is ever cited in either the anime or the manga. Kagome's mother, and name used by those not of the family.
Hinba - Mare
Houshi - Monk
Inu - Dog
Joshi - Women
Kinmouno shishi - Golden-haired Lion
Kitsune - Fox Demon
Kobura - Cobra
Koruto - Colt
Miko - Shrine Maiden
Neko - Cat
Nisou - Priestess
Ojii-san - Grandfather
Ojika - Stag
Onna - Woman
Ookami - Wolf
Osuuma - Stallion
Oushi - Bull
Red Dragon - Ru-doragon
Sama - Lady or Lord - respectively
Shika - Deer
Shikon no Kakera - Shikon Shards
Shikon no Tama - Jewel of Four Souls
Shishi - Lion
Taijiya - Demon Exterminator
Taiyoukai - Demon Lord
Youkai - Demon

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