Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Rose that Binds ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Okay, here's chapter 3. I checked to make sure the chapter number at the top was right this time. I don't know if any of you noticed it, but oh well. Also, this is just one chapter, instead of 2 combined. I think this one was long enough. As I get further along, the chapters will more than likely get longer. At least…I think they do…Anyway, hope you enjoy, and I'd like to thank HeartStar and TheifLava for their reviews. Loved `em guys! If any of you have any questions, feel free to ask at any time. I'll do my best to answer.

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Chapter 3

 

 

"Lord Kishan wants you as his mate."

 

Keisu was frozen on the spot. Princess? What is this demon talking about? And who is this Kishan guy? I have no idea what's going on. But it's obvious she'll need help, so I'll stay. I need to return to the Sengoku Jidai more often. This is confusing.

 

All the while this was going through Keisu's mind, Shinogomaru was praising his "master."

 

"Lord Kishan is wonderfully evil. He kills anything and anyone with no remorse or fear of the consequences. Does it bring back old memories, Princess?" The beetle demon asked smugly.

 

Keisu looked at Saiyu. He was shocked at her transformation. Her eyes had turned even colder. They now looked like lavender pools of crystalline ice and her face took on an icy demeanor. He saw her reach a hand ino her hair and seemingly scratch her head. When she pulled back her hand, the strange decoration he had seen earlier was gone. She now held it in her palm, along with what looked like two ordinary seeds.

 

What does she plan to do with two seeds? Throw them in his eyes? He thought, bewildered and curious.

 

She tossed the seeds to the ground, where they landed just short of Shinogomaru's grotesquely clawed feet.

 

Shinogomaru laughed, his voice sounding like rocks grinding together. "Foolish girl. Those little seeds can't harm me," he declared and crushed them into the ground.

 

Keisu saw Youko Saiyu smirk and her eyes glowed faintly. She flicked her wrist ever so slightly. The seeds shot from the ground, only now they were vines with thousands of inch long, poisonous thorns. They surrounded Shinogomaru and wrapped around him, puncturing his flesh and releasing the venom stored within their needle tips. The demon let out an ear shattering scream. "Now you shall die," Saiyu stated before the object in her hand grew and became a deadly weapon.

The demoness brandished her weapon before her. Glancing at Keisu, she saw that he was covering his sensitive ears and staring at her with wide eyes. Then she felt a tearing sensation and knew that the horrid demon behind her had broken out of her Poisoned Ivy. The demonic vines recoiled and drew back to the side of their mistress, coiled and waiting to strike at her command.

 

He lunged at her, reaching with one of his claws. Just as he was about to strike a mortal blow, she raised her double-bladed staff, slicing his arm in two and causing the ruined limb to spred outward past her face in two bloody ribbons. Strangely, she got none of the foul liquid on her. Turning, she faced the beetle, who was holding what was left of his mottled arm against his chest.

 

"I. . .I don't understand. My Lord said nothing about that weapon."

 

"That is because he did not know about it. I call it the Shinaptra, do you like it? It is of my own invention and I have used it on few occasions. The demons he sent to subdue me all died at the edge of its blades. They did not have a chance to report it," she told the broken demon. "And with you it will be no different."

 

She raised the Shinaptra above her head, and in one quick blow, clove the beast in half. She shrunk her weapon back to its decorative state, returned the Poisoned Ivy to their seed form, and replaced both the weapon and the seeds to her hair. She then walked to the corpse, placed a new seed on the bloodied carpet of forest debri next to it and let the plant absorb a drop of her power. The plant grew and devoured what was left of Shinogomaru. Not even a drop of blood could be seen when it was finished.

 

Keisu just stared. He'd never seen anything like it. She had destroyed that demon with seemingly no effort at all.

 

She turned to the fox demon and stared right back at him. Then, before he knew what was happening, he was up against a tree with her hand pinning him there by his throat.

 

"Why was he going to kill you? Why would Kishan kill one of his own followers?" she demanded of him, unconciously squeezing tighter.

 

"What are you talking about?" he demanded. At least, that's what he tried to say. It really came out as a series of squeaks and gasps.

 

She loosened her grip just a bit.

 

He repeated his question. "What are you talking about? I don't work for this Kishan guy. I'm not even from this world."

 

"What do you mean, you are not of this world?" She dropped him and looked at him with her head cocked to the side, a curious expression on her face.

 

Rubbing his throat, the kitsune glared up at her. "Just what I said. I'm from another world. Well, not really another world, more like another time. . . I guess. I don't know, now you've confused me."

 

"I still do not understand."

 

"Maybe you should sit down. This could take a while." He motioned for her to sit in front of him, which she did. "I am the son of a kitsune named Shippou and his mate, Kuraiya. My grandmother, Kagome, was a great miko who traveled with a hanyou named InuYasha. They gathered the shards of the Shikon no Tama, which Kagome accidentally shattered on her first trip to this era. They fought an evil half demon named Naraku, who was also gathering the fragments of the Jewel. He had almost the full Jewel when they finally destroyed him. But they could never find the seven remaining shards.

 

“The group had met my mother, who was being chased by a mob of farmers. She had been caught stealing food after her previous village and family were destroyed by a mysterious light. Kagome, my father, and my mother all returned to Kagome's era. They had planned to stay only a short while, but I guess with the Jewel almost complete, the power of the Bone-Eaters Well decreased. They couldn't return. So Grandmother Kagome adopted my father as her son, he married Mother, and they had me. Now, after seventy years, the well has finally regained its power and I have returned to collect the remaining Jewel shards and complete the Shikon no Tama."

 

Saiyu stared at him, trying to understand all that he had told her. Then she remembered something he had said at the beginning of his tale.

 

"What was your mother's name?" she asked cautiously.

 

"Kuraiya, why?"

 

Saiyu paled. No, he cannot be. I cannot have a younger half brother. I am supposed to live out my existence alone, avenging the death of Youko. I. . . I do not need a little brother hindering me.

 

"Um, Saiyu? Are you all right?"

 

She looked at him. What was happening? His face was blurry and she felt the slight sensation of falling. One thought went through her head. I have a brother. Then there was only darkness.