I don't own Inuyasha or anything having to do with this show. I also don't own anything else quirky that may show up. (Including the movie Little Nicky.) I only do this for entertainment purposes, (and an excuse to avoid my homework:). So don't sue and enjoy the fic!
The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...
By: Msmelanie
Chapter Sixteen: All Hell is About to Break Loose.
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A little before 11:00 P.M. Inuyasha and the others met Sesshoumaru at the rendezvous point...
Sesshoumaru watched the confused expressions on everyone's face as he held his cellphone up to his ear.
"What are you doing?!" Inuyasha barked angrily. "Where is Naraku?!"
"I'm calling him." Sesshoumaru replied calmly.
Everyone looked at Sesshoumaru with a strange expression.
"How is he calling? He is not yelling." Miroku pointed out.
"By magic means of that black rectangular object he has to his ear." Sango explained.
'Close enough.' Kagome thought.
Kawayou growled. If this was supposed to be a serious battle, why were they CALLING the enemy to show up? "Hey you, what the hell is going on?! Why are you-?!"
Sesshoumaru put his finger up to his lips as he started to talk on the phone. Everyone watched as he seemed to start talking to himself. "...perhaps. Maybe.Yes, I am. Yes, the usual. Yes, now. Perhaps, perhaps not."
Inuyasha was getting tired of Sesshoumaru's tactics and grabbed his phone. He yelled "Hey you bastard! Get over here and show your face right now, so I can pulverize it!"
Sesshoumaru took his cell phone back, but let it drop to the ground when he realized it was covered in spit.
Sesshoumaru looked angrily at Inuyasha. "Why did you have to do that?"
"Why the hell didn't you call him earlier?!" Inuyasha barked angrily.
Sessoumaru glanced at Inuyasha calmly. "He will be caught off guard. He expects Kawayou and I to be here. Maybe Kagome and apparently you now, but none of the others. If I called him sooner, he would have had time to investigate and prepare."
Inuyasha huffed, a little peeved that his answer made such sense. 'Catching the enemy off guard. Damn, I shoulda known that.'
Sesshoumaru turned his back on Inuyasha. "Wait. He will arrrive soon."
Everyone waited patiently for their life-time rival to show up. Kawayou continued to hold his mother's hand tightly, and looked at the flea on his shoulder. It was ignoring eye contact with him, and looked like it was trying to find the safest way to get away.
Just then, out of the shadows, Naraku started to walk toward them. He frowned as he looked at the number of people who had shown up. "I thought you said this would be a friendly fight for my Kagome."
Inuyasha growled. "What?!"
"Correct." Sesshoumaru replied. "If you end up winning you can have the human woman. I've no need for her anymore."
Kagome was about to rebuttal, but Inuyasha did that for her. "Why you fucking piece of shit! I oughtta-!!"
"If you kill Inuyasha again I guess." Sesshoumaru corrected himself. "Now..." He lowered his gaze to the ground, but still kept his eyes on Naraku. Everyone slowly started to get into position. Kagome had started to stand behind Kawayou while Inuyasha unsheathed the transformed Tetsusaiga and stood in front. Kouga moved toward the left of the boy, while Miroku moved to the right.
Sango pulled out Hiraikotsu and stood her ground beside Miroku while Shippou stayed tensely on her shoulder. Kirara stood firmly below her, her hair standing slightly on it's end.
Sesshoumaru's eyes came up slowly to meet Naraku's. "...your time is over!" he announced his eyes growing wider with his declaration.
Just then, Naraku watched as everyone seemed to spring out at him all at once. He dodged the Hiraikotsu with ease, but found the wolf was already behind him. He swiftly jumped up into the air, but Inuyasha had already jumped up there anticipating Naraku's move. He was grinning as he was about to swing the Tetsusaiga when he suddenly felt himself being blown backward. He landed hard on the ground, but quickly sprang to his feet to see what had happened.
Naraku grinned. "I had a feeling you were going to try and surprise me." he said as he looked up into the night sky. Kagura and Kanna swiftly moved down and stood in front of Naraku.
"Seems the playing field is a bit more even." Naraku grinned.
Inuyasha looked at the women in front of him. "Get out of the way or I'll tear you in half with Tetsusaiga!"
Neither Kagura or Kanna listened and instead both started to attack him simultaneously while Sango, Miroku and Kouga started to attack Naraku again.
Sesshoumaru felt like frowning. 'Damn. He's going to block Inuyasha off with those two and start fighting us.' He looked back at Kawayou who was still just watching everything. 'When will my creation figure out it's powers?' He looked at Kagura and Kanna. 'This fight is not in good standing with those two involved.'
"Dammit!" Inuyasha yelled as he barely managed from accidently dropping Tetsusaiga to the ground. He was heaving. "Why aren't you any weaker?!"
Kagura and Kanna looked at each other, then Kagura looked at Inuyasha. "We came from Naraku and so are not really full youkai's...or half youkai's. Apparently to the jewel, we weren't even considered as creatures of any kind. Therefore, our power was never tampered with."
Kagura pointed an accusing finger at Inuyasha. "Therefore, we CANNOT allow you to kill Naraku! I very much ENJOY living in this time, and will not risk losing myself!"
Inuyasha swung at her with Tetsusaiga, but she ducked. "Then what the hell are you doing here now?!"
"We have no clue what will happen if Naraku dies, and personally we don't want to find out!" Kagura yelled as she started to blow Inuyasha back again.
Sesshoumaru watched both fights. He, Sango, Miroku and Kouga were trying to fight Naraku with little success while Inuyasha was barely keeping the women he was fighting at bay. He quickly glanced over at Kawayou who was still just standing there in front of Kagome whom was once again trying to fire one of her arrows at Naraku.
'This is tough!' Kagome thought. 'One inch off and I hit someone!' She silently wished she hadn't quit taking archery lessons.
Naraku also noticed Sesshoumaru's quick glances at the child. 'What is going on? Why did he bring the child in the first place?'
Naraku watched as Kawayou suddenly looked around. His ears snapped back as he sensed a new presence approaching from behind. He also noticed Kagome hadn't sensed it. Kawayou extended his claws and quickly jumped behind Kagome while another creature also jumped soundlessly from the boy's shoulder.
Kagome looked at his sudden movement. She put her bow and arrow down from the distraction. "Kawayou, what is it?"
Yura suddenly came swinging out of a tree on her hairs. "My goodness. What? A genuine fun fight and no one bothered to invite me?"
'Hmm. How did that little demon sense her? Even I can't sense her...' Naraku thought as he batted away another attempt of Sango's Hiraikotsu. Naraku grinned and realized only one person at the time could protect the boy, and SHE was out of her element. He quickly ignored Sesshoumaru's attack and jumped in the air, sending a swirl of miasma straight at the little demon.
"Kawayou, look out!" Kagome yelled as she suddenly grabbed Kawayou and made him hit the floor. Not completely in time though, for the miasma had nicked his right shoulder.
Everyone stopped their fighting for a second, but quickly started fighting again as their opponents had tried to sneak attack them.
Inuyasha tried desperately to get away from the girls, but not only had they kept their original power, they had 500 years of extra experience on their side. 'Dammit, get out of the way!' "NARAKU, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PUP?!"
Naraku grinned as he continued taking the offense in the fight. He was still glancing back at Kawayou to see if his hunch was right. He watched as Kagome had picked him off the ground while he grabbed his shoulder.She looked back at his shoulder, and she smiled. Although Naraku couldn't see, he knew his own powerful miasma attack must be healing in order for her to smile like that.
Sesshoumaru barely registered what Naraku was doing, since he himself had been stealing glances at the boy. 'Oh no. He knows why the pup is here now.'
He quickly started to run away towards Kagome and Kawayou, leaving his allies to deal with Naraku.
"That jerk!" Sango yelled. "He ran off to leave us!"
"Sango! Look out!" Miroku called as another shot of Miasma had started to come straight toward her. She fell to the ground just in time to ignore it.
While in a difficult battle of his own, Inuyasha was very uncomfortable as he saw Sesshoumaru running toward Kagome and Kawayou. He quickly tried to run away again, but was stopped by Kanna while Kagura suddenly started to run away.
Sesshoumaru quickly ran up to Kagome and grabbed her hand angrily. "Why haven't you taught the pup how to fight with his powers yet?!"
"I can't!" Kagome rebuttaled. "It is something he has to learn to do on his own!"
Kawayou growled at the way Sesshoumaru was holding his mom's hand, but didn't get a chance to yell at him as he was suddenly yanked away.
Kagome reached out for him, but Sesshoumaru held his fingers in front of her.
"W-wait...y-you said you lost all your dangerous powers!" Kagome shouted in shock. There was no way he could be capable of his poisonous claw attack now, could he?
Sesshoumaru frowned. It was apparent his bluff hadn't worked, so instead he dropped his fingers, pulled something from his pocket, dropped Kawayou to the ground and ran behind Kagome with a metal syringe at her neck.
As Kawayou realized what was happening he quickly got to his feet, but didn't try to run for the syringe. 'I'm fast, but there is no way I'm THAT fast.'
"Smart boy." Sesshoumaru replied to Kawayou's growling. "Now, you have to the count of three to figure out your power before we find out what exactly is in this syringe. One..."
Kawayou's eyes went wide and his heart started to beat rapidly. He quickly looked at his hands, trying to figure out what he could do. Just then, he sensed someone coming up from behind him. 'Dammit, if I run mom's dead!'
"Two..." Sesshoumaru said as he held the syringe next to Kagome's throat tighter.
Kawayou looked at his hands and tried to think of what to do. The only thing he could think of was "MOMMY!!!!!!"
Just then, he felt himself being lifted off the ground.
Sesshoumaru watched as Kagura had run away with Kawayou. He briskly let Kagome go and watched as Kagura took his possession away.
"KAWAYOU!! KAGOME!!" Inuyasha shouted out as he finally got away from Kanna. He had been running toward them as fast as he could but had arrived too late. He looked angrily at Sesshoumaru and raised the Tetsusaiga to strike him when...
He heard Kawayou's yelp. He looked up at the sky and quickly ran to the left of himself to catch Kawayou. He looked at his pup's side.
"NARAKU!!" He yelled, his anger overwhelming his physical thought. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PUP?!"
Naraku would've 'Ku ku ku'd' a response, but did not like the results he saw. Kagura had sliced open the boy's side to extract the Shikon jewel that should have been there. 'His extra high senses... his healing powers...it should have been there?!' "WHERE IS MY SHIKON NO TAMA?!"
Just then, Kagome caught up to where Inuyasha and Kawayou were sitting. Kawayou was already healing again. "Ow! Dammit, that fucking HURT!"
Kagome held Kawayou close to her, and surprisingly, Inuyasha held her close and growled protectively. 'How the hell did this happen?! Where were Miroku, Kouga or Sango at?' Inuyasha growled his disapproval as he realized they were ALL fighting Naraku at the same time.
Sesshoumaru came towards them, causing Inuyasha to growl lower and pull Kagome and Kawayou closer to his embrace.
"Don't overreact." Sesshoumaru replied. "I simply wanted to speed up the process." He held up the syringe and pushed it up. Nothing came out.
"You kept me hostage with nothing but an empty syringe?!" Kagome cried out.
Sesshoumaru just ignored her.
Inuyasha continued to growl. Between having Sesshoumaru's trick and Naraku's vicious attack, he was getting very angry. VERY angry.
Naraku looked back at Kagome and the others in frustration. He thought the kid must have had the shikon jewel. But if it wasn't in his side, where was it? 'Fine then. I'll just have to rip him apart piece by piece until I find it.'
Inuyasha noticed Naraku's glare and stood protectively in front of Kagome with the transformed Tetsusaiga. 'No way is he getting near MY pup again!'
Then Kagura and Kanna came flying out of nowhere and suddenly attacked Inuyasha, trying to get to Kawayou.
Kagome quickly saw what was happening and grabbed an arrow from its holder on her back and put it quickly inside her arrow. "Move and you are dead!" She cried out as she held her arrow straight in the direction of Kagura and Kanna.
They stopped. They knew better than to mess with Kagome's arrows.
Kawayou just watched as he slowly stood up, his side slowly starting to heal. 'I don't get it. They fought pops evenly, but they're not moving because of mom's arrow? Just how powerful is it?' Then he noticed that the arrow was emitting a powerful aura. "Hey mom, how are you doing that?"
Kagome didn't glance at Kawayou as Inuyasha quickly came over to guard them from any attack by Naraku. "I'm concentrating on my arrow."
Kawayou looked at his hands. 'If I concentrate on my hands, could I help any?'
Sesshoumaru wanted to grin, but he didn't. He looked at Kawayou who was continually looking at his hands. 'I think he's starting to figure something out.'
Inuyasha also noticed it. 'I think the pups starting to figure out his power.' He looked at Naraku. 'but should I leave them and fight Naraku? Dammit, why is EVERYONE out there fighting?!'
"I'll watch them." he heard from behind. He swung his head around to see Toutousai with Kirara near him. "I've nothing else to do."
Inuyasha looked back. Kirara wasn't transformed, but if she was Kagome and Kawayou could get out. "Will you get Kagome and my pup out of here?"
Toutousai looked at him. "Are you sure? I thought they were supposed to-"
"-they were UNTIL the pup suddenly became the target!" Inuyasha barked. He looked at Kirara. "Now transform and get them out of here safely! I'll take care of everything else!"
"Uhhh...mom?"
"Inuyasha, I'm not leaving!" Kagome shouted at the Hanyou.
"M-mom?"
"Hell, this is getting TOO out of hand Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted back.
Kagome glanced back quickly still keeping her bow on Kagura and Kanna. "Kawayou's leaving, yes! But there's no way I am!"
"MOMMA, I DON'T LIKE THIS!" Kawayou shouted.
Kagome and Inuyasha turned around to see that Kawayou's hands were glowing a bright pulsing blue.
"I DON'T WANNA DO THIS ANYMORE! IT'S STARTING TO HURT, MAKE IT STOP!!" Kawayou yelled as the blue started to pulse brighter and faster.
Kagome looked at Kawayou's hands. They were starting to shake. "Oh no!" She turned back to Inuyasha not realizing that Kagura and Kanna had long since left. "Inuyasha, I don't think he can handle his powers yet!"
"Well, don't yell at me!" Inuyasha barked. "Help him!"
"I don't know how!" Kagome yelled back.
"MOMMY!" Kawayou cried out, tears starting to emerge on his cheeks. 'Hell! I thought having my side cut hurt! Compared to this it was just a fucking scratch!' "MOMMMMMMYYYYYY!!!!! MY CHEST REALLLY HURRRRTS!"
Kagome tried to grab his hands, but they stung her fingers before she could even reach out to them.
Inuyasha and Kagome were so busy listening to Kawayou's cries that they didn't know that the battle behind them had dissipated. Naraku, Kagura and Kanna were long gone and only the allies remained watching helplessly behind them.
"THIS POWER HURTS! I DON'T WANT TO HOLD IT ANYMORE! GET IT THE FUCK OUT!!" Kawayou screamed out loudly to the night.
You could still hear his painful echo as he slowly hit the ground. He could feel his moms embrace around him and the deadly smell of his dad's breath on his face. His hands were still tainted blue and shaking, but his eyes were unfocused, trying to imagine if what he saw was real...
The thing that had come out of his hands...
Everyone stared on in shock. Right there beside the almost unconscious Kawayou was...
half...
of the long lost Shikon No Tama.
Unfortunately, in this state of shock only one person recovered fast enough to make their move. Before anyone knew what was happening, Yura had swung out on her hair strands and grabbed it.
Then she threw it straight at Sesshoumaru who was a good distance from the crowd. "Now fix what you messed up like a good boy!"
Sesshoumaru quickly caught the Shikon no Tama before anyone started to run toward him. He quickly swallowed it and said the words that would change the life of mankind forever. "Give every youkai back their true full powers so we may rise above mankind once again!"
The wind slowly stirred the leaves on the cold forest floor. The signal...
that all Hell was about to break lose.
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Next Time On The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...
He looked down at Kagome, who looked as if she were made of stone. Her body was unmoving, and even her eyes...her beautiful eyes were switching to that of a dull grey. 'I have to go after Sesshoumaru, but I can't bring them. Kawayou looks like he's already-'
Miroku looked below at the ground as they took off toward the well. "Tell me Sango. How do you think these people will fare against Youkai's holding a 500 year-old grudge?"
Kagome looked at Inuyasha. Yes, they were cruel words, but he did speak the truth. The truth she didn't want to believe about her son. Her son or her family. It was a choice that no one should have to make, but Inuyasha had made it for her as he carried Kawayou in one hand, grabbed hers and jumped into the well.
Yep, that was Chapter 16! Anyone surprised by the outcome of events? I hope you were. I know I can't do battle scenes, I'm sorry. I really did try, but as you can tell it wasn't the battle that ended up being important.
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