Eyes to Life: Scroll 18

Kagome felt her entire body shot bullets through her system. His hand was on fire and she was doing nothing! Kagome surged towards her backpack and ripped out a full water bottle, emptying it rapidly onto InuYasha's palm.

 

Kagome leaned back, to examine her nurse work. InuYasha's skin was just a shade of pink, but it didn't look serious.

 

"You idiot!" Kagome snapped, hitting him upside the head with the water bottle, "Don't you know not to stick your hands into a FIRE!"

 

InuYasha either didn't hear her, or just plain didn't want to. His face plastered in a frozen state of confusion, as he just stared at his uninjured hand.

 

"Earth to InuYasha! Hello?!" Kagome snapped her fingers in his face, making him snap back into reality.

 

"What the hell wench!" InuYasha growled, his eyes giving her a rather angry, heated look.

 

"You were staring at your hand and were not listing to me!" Kagome huffed.

 

InuYasha snorted and brought his hand back into his lap. Miroku and Sango were still staring at InuYasha, opened mouthed.

 

"InuYasha-sama?" Myoga bounded on to InuYasha's nose. "Why did you do that?"

 

"I told you, the fire is acting weird, I didn't expect my hand to set on fire!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"What, your hand wouldn't burn when you DO stick your hands in flames?" Kagome mocked. "InuYasha, you know fully well that fire BURNS people."

 

"I know that wench!"

 

"Then why did you stick your hand in it, dummy!"

 

"It was acting…"

 

"InuYasha, you're the one acting weird around here!" Kagome snapped.

 

"Oh?" InuYasha sneered. "What the fuck is so 'weird' shall I ask?"

 

"One, you're a youkai, two, your seeing, sensing, whatever youki that isn't there, three, you stick your hand in flames, and four your claws made a horrible sound. Shall I go on!" Kagome let out a breathe. InuYasha stared at her, his eyes wide, and ears back.

 

"Well, that pretty much summed all that up." Sango muttered.

 

"And five, why is Sesshomaru still with us?" Miroku asked. Sesshomaru shot the houshi a cold look.

 

"This Sesshomaru is only interested in killing the youkai that caused Rin's nightmares." The Youkai Lord glared. "It is not this Sesshomaru's best interest to stay in a pack of youkai and humans."

 

"Keh, whatever Sesshomaru, you're as cold as they come." InuYasha snorted. Kagome sighed, she reached for InuYasha's hand, but he jerked away. "What?"

 

"Let me see it." Kagome said in a stern voice. InuYasha snorted and gave her his hand. She touched his fingers lightly, feeling over his red skin, hoping for some injury so she could preoccupy herself with. Nothing, InuYasha had healed, and Kagome dropped his palm with a slight groan.

 

InuYasha paid no attention to her, his eyes looking up at the moonless sky, his ear flicked. Kagome gazed at it; she had never seen his ears on such a night. The dark night sky showing out the pink insides, the silver, furry skinny, skin almost glowing with his long hair. Kagome realized something, he was just so astonishing to gaze on in the dark, his whole body glowed like never before.

 

InuYasha stood up and walked to the other side of the clearing, the fur blowing slightly in the weak night wind. He looked down at Tessaiga's hilt.

 

"Groan…" Kagome let out.

 

"Kagome, are you all right?" Sango asked.

 

"I'm fine, just…oh; it's just my position right now." Kagome pinched her face.

 

"Position?" Miroku asked.

 

"Being, you know, Miroku…" Kagome gave the young houshi a weird grin.

 

"Ah…" Miroku smiled. BONK! "Oh Sango, what was that for!"

 

"Stop you hentai, you're not helping." Sango glared, pulling her Hiraikotsu back over to her other side. She began cleaning the bone again; some of the youkai's blood still was stained.

 

Kagome giggled, and looked back over at InuYasha; he seemed to be fuming on what to do about Tessaiga. She could tell he was tempted to wield it, yet at the same time…almost afraid. Sesshomaru slowly walked over, Totosai's eyes following him.

 

"Is there…um…a problem with it?" Totosai asked, nervously.

 

"Huh!" InuYasha snapped his head around. "What do you mean wrong with it!" His hair flexed, making him looked like some sort of scared puppy.

 

"I…" Totosai frowned, "I did something different with it that's all."

 

"What! What the fuck did you do with MY sword!" InuYasha roared.

 

"It told me too." Totosai glared. InuYasha froze and frowned.

 

"Totosai, I already thought you were loony, but swords don't talk." InuYasha gave the sword smith an awkward look.

 

"No, they don't speak like we do, they tell us through its experience, it wanted me to change who wields it, and who does not." Totosai said in a matter-of-fact voice.

 

"What?" Miroku asked. "InuYasha is the only who can wield it in its true form."

 

"But, humans can hold it though…" Sango said.

 

"But we can't use its youki powers." Kagome shook her head. "Who did it say that can wield it?" She asked the old sword smith.

 

"Only InuYasha."

 

Everyone stared at the hanyou-turned-youkai. Sesshomaru slightly frowned.

 

"The miko said he was the only one to wield…" The Youkai Lord started.

 

"Yes, but now…" Totosai sucked in a breath, "Only InuYasha can even touch the handle, and I was against at first, since the purpose is to protect humans with it, but…" His large eyes blinked. "Something told me Tessaiga was warning me, and yet, I have no idea what it was warning me about." The old sword smith shook his head.

 

"What, what did it say!" InuYasha asked.

 

"It didn't 'say' anything InuYasha," Totosai said, "It just…refused my own hand, it gave me this." He held up his hand, burn marks ran over his palm.

 

"Tessaiga…denied you?" InuYasha questioned, "but you forged it, what the hell!"

 

"Totosai, does it hurt?" Kagome asked. She leaned forward, but Totosai pulled his hand away.

 

"No, I live in a very hot climate, burns such as this does not bother me such." Totosai answered her concern.

 

"And when were you going to inform me on this, Totosai!" Myoga squeaked form his shoulder. "How can Tessaiga deny you!"

 

"The sword didn't, but InuYasha's fang did." Totosai answered the other elder.

 

"Do not say that otouto's fang is more powerful then otou's." Sesshomaru glared. InuYasha gave a nasty huff from behind the Youkai Lord.

 

"Uhhh…well no, but, it was just very…different." Totosai mumbled. "That's how I got it done faster."

 

Kagome looked at her mate; he seemed very disturbed by the whole conversation. InuYasha's ear flicked as every comment on him and his sword that went flying through the air.

 

"Fine, will see how 'different' Tessaiga really is." InuYasha muttered. He grabbed the hilt of his fang and ripped it out with as much strength he had in just in his right arm.

 

Kagome watched as the mighty fang burst in a bright light that filled the night air with such light, she suddenly thought it was sunrise. Kagome covered her eyes and then removed her sleeve from obstructing her view.

 

THUNK!

 

"TOTOSAI!"

 

"I told you it would be heavy…"

 

"Not this heavy, you old gizzard!" InuYasha stood there, his right arm definitely holding a hilt, but the sword rested on the ground and by the shear look of it, it was a good quarter size bigger then what it used to be.

 

InuYasha looked like he had shrunk just a bit, the large Inu fang rested on the ground, the hilt coming up to probably where his elbow would be if his arm hung down. The sword didn't look visibly different, the steel, the fur connecting the hilt to the blade, but there was something coming from it, which Kagome couldn't quite figure out.

 

The youki coming from it was powerful enough, but there was something else there, but Kagome couldn't sense it. It felt like there was a youki there, but it had a fuyouheki around it, hiding its presence from her miko powers.

 

"Oh, wow…" Sango mumbled. "There wouldn't happen to be a youkai that InuYasha could defeat to make it lighter again, could there?"

 

"Not that I'm aware of." Totosai answered.

 

"Great…" Kagome sighed.

 

InuYasha spat and grabbed the hilt with both hands, barley hoisting it a foot in the air, when it came crashing back down to the ground with a strong 'thud'. Sesshomaru actually looked a little…displeased.

 

"Son of a bitch Totosai! Did you put all your land into my sword or what!" InuYasha yelled. Snarling, he let Tessaiga's hilt go and crossed his arms.

 

Kagome shook her head and yawned. It still was dark, and she hadn't gotten a wink of sleep. The night air seemed extremely calm for autumn, the cold slight breeze, and the leaves that started to flutter.

 

Kagome got up and picked up Shippo tucking him in her sleeping bag, Rin groggily woke up, and Kagome led her to the sleeping bag as well. Sesshomaru watched her with his golden eyes. Miroku and Sango adjusted there position, Miroku sighed and let his hand wander…a little too far.

 

SMACK! "Hentai!"

 

"But Sango…I need to be familiar with my future bride's…"

 

"Finish that sentence, there will be no future for YOU at all!" Sango smirked. Miroku immediately dove behind a small Kirara; she moved her head to the side and mewed in confusion.

 

"Totosai fix this now!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"InuYasha, some people are trying to sleep! Stop yelling!" Kagome huffed.

 

"Keh."

 

'Arg! He's so difficult sometimes!' Kagome thought, bitterly. She pulled her skirt further down and brushed it off. Now that Shippo and Rin were taking up her sleeping bag, she now had no where to sleep. Totosai shook his head.

 

"No can do, it is fixed, it is all up to you now." Totosai mumbled.

 

"How!" InuYasha growled, this time lowering his voice.

 

"I assume, defeating the youkai that cut it in half." Totosai responded, "The last youkai you killed was with your youkai blood and not using the Tessaiga. By the sounds of it, this youkai still is on the move, maybe if you kill him, and then Tessaiga might become lighter."

 

InuYasha's evil snarl fell completely from his face. "Kill the youkai?"

 

"Is there something you're afraid you otouto?" Sesshomaru asked.

 

"No! It's just…" InuYasha glared at Sesshomaru, "You can't even see it, yet alone smell it!"

 

"InuYasha are you positive you are not seeing an illusion?" Miroku inquired.

 

"Miroku, how the hell can an illusion cut my sword in half?" InuYasha spat.

 

"Point taken." Miroku said. "But even when Naraku uses his 'youkai puppets' they truly are not him, so I was just making sure."

 

"Trust me…" InuYasha glared, "This youkai is no puppet."

 

"Is it with Naraku then?" Sango asked, pulling her boomerang to the side as she wiped her hands.

 

"Ummmm, no." InuYasha shook his head, "He called Naraku, when I brought him up, a…'living thing'. Does that ring a bell to any of you?"

 

"Living thing?" Kagome frowned.

 

"Yea, he talked funny." InuYasha shook his head.

 

"Didn't you say he said you had something that didn't belong to you?" Kagome asked as she walked up to him, holding her arm up and touching his lower arm lightly.

 

InuYasha visibly flinched, "Something like that."

 

"What do you have that doesn't belong to you, InuYasha-sama?" Myoga bounded over, and Kagome saw him strap himself to InuYasha's nose, again rapidly sucking from the hanyou-now youkai's skin.

 

SLAP! "I'm not a drinking hole Myoga!" InuYasha roared. Shaking his hand he flung the small flea far away. Kagome sighed, when she heard that horrible ringing noise again. She clenched her eyes shut, and braced herself, but the noise only rose to a low tingling sensation in her ears. She opened her eyes and stared at InuYasha's hand, which he had put down to his side again. The claws, his golden claws looked like they were, moving, like a bending metal that just had been slammed to a counter top and was shaking from the vibrations. Kagome frowned; the sound waves were coming from InuYasha's claws, but how, and why? She grabbed his hand before he had a chance to protest.

 

"What are you doing?" InuYasha growled.

 

"InuYasha…just hold still." Kagome snapped. She moved her fingers over the claws, as they were before, cold. She flicked them, they didn't move, but it sent pain shooting up her finger. She bit her lip and ignored it.

 

"I asked you, what are you doing!" InuYasha snapped, jerking his hand away from her. He grabbed his hand with the other and looked at his claws.

 

"InuYasha…something is wrong with those claws." Kagome huffed. "I was just trying to figure it out!"

 

"Keh."

 

Kagome stomped her foot. Realizing 'osuwari' InuYasha here would do no good. She walked over to Totosai and tapped him lightly on the shoulder.

 

"Is something wrong Kagome?" The old sword smith asked.

 

"Yea, more with InuYasha but…can you look at his claws for me? They look like metal."

 

"Metal?" Miroku asked.

 

"Yea, they were vibrating a little, like a soft metal would react hitting a harder surface or bending, and they are cold. And InuYasha is giving off carbon dioxide so his claws should be warm, but they're not." Kagome sighed. She stopped and looked at all of them. By the looks of it, not one of them understood a word that she had just said.

 

'Sometimes, I DO pay to much attention in school.' Kagome thought, bitterly.

 

"Um, can you repeat that?" Sango asked.

 

"It's just…arggg…can you just look at his claws for me Totosai?" She asked again.

 

"Ummm," He looked behind her, "I can try."

 

"InuYasha will cooperate, or otherwise…" Kagome glared at him. He wasn't actually paying much attention to their small group, he was circling Tessaiga slowly, with Sesshomaru only a few feet away.

 

"Gahhh, something isn't right with my sword!" InuYasha snapped.

 

"Something isn't right with you." Sango mumbled. Miroku smirked, but InuYasha was too far away to hear Sango's comment.

 

Totosai and stood up and wobbled over to the Inu brothers, Kagome went right at his heels.

 

"You fixing it?" InuYasha grumbled.

 

"No, your mate here asked me to look at your claws..." Totosai began.

 

"What! Kagome, my claws are fine, it's my sword that…"

 

"Osuwari." InuYasha was planted into the ground hard. Kagome was suddenly regretting for 'osuwari' him so much; he went much deeper into the ground then before.

 

"Bitch…" InuYasha shot his head up and brushed off his armor and kimono. He gave her his glare saying 'you will regret that later'. Kagome sighed, sometimes he really didn't seem to care when she tried to help him. Since he had been half youkai, he thought he was better in everyway then her, a pathetic human, and now a full-fledged youkai, his stubborn behavior had spiked, making him so unbearable to even control.

 

"Why are you so difficult?" Kagome gave him the same stare.

 

"I'm not being difficult! There is nothing wrong…" InuYasha stopped when Totosai grabbed his hand and began to examine it. "Old man…"

 

"InuYasha, move an inch I will say it, five more times." Kagome snapped. InuYasha gulped.

 

Sesshomaru slowly came up behind her and close to InuYasha's side. She barley heard it, and wished she hadn't.

 

"Who is alpha here otouto? You or your bitch?" Sesshomaru slowly whispered into InuYasha's ear. Totosai had paid no attention to the two; he was too busy examining InuYasha's claws to notice.

 

Kagome felt her blood boil, and in two strides, she moved Totosai out of the way so he couldn't get plummeted into the ground, and shoved InuYasha hard in the back.

 

"What the hell…!" InuYasha snapped, his weight hitting Sesshomaru.

 

'Perfect.' Kagome smirked. "OSUWARI!"

 

The command sent both Inu brothers into a five foot deep hole. Kagome put her hands on to her hips and stared down into the crater. InuYasha was sprawled right over Sesshomaru, and the Youkai Lord did NOT look happy.

 

"Miko…" Sesshomaru hissed.

 

"Bitch, what the hell…"

 

"Osuwari."

 

"ARGGG!" She couldn't tell who yelled, but she kept her strong posture.

 

"Now listen here you two, I'm not a wench, a bitch and I'm not a something you can just talk hentai behind my back! You two got it, or do I have to teach you another lesson!" Kagome huffed.

 

InuYasha grumbled, and Sesshomaru stayed silent, but they didn't answer. Kagome turned her heel and walked away from the crater, an evil aura surrounding her, making anyone in her way, move.

 

InuYasha and Sesshomaru immediately jumped out of the hole that they both had created, both gave each other angry looks, but those looks went to her back, and she could feel them too.

 

"Don't even think about it!" Kagome huffed.

 

InuYasha grumbled, and turned his back. "Fucking…"

 

"InuYasha…"

 

"What!" He spat.

 

"Shut up."

 

InuYasha hissed, and Sesshomaru's golden eyes looked like he wanted to rip her apart limb from limb. She really didn't blame him, he had never been 'osuwari' before, but still he deserved it for calling her a 'bitch'!

 

"Ummm…" Kagome looked at the old sword smith. "InuYasha…those claws are indeed metal."

 

InuYasha stopped and gave Totosai a look. "What do you mean by that?"

 

"They're metal." Totosai said again. "A fine one at that, unusual color, and a very strong, smooth shell."

 

"Hue?"

 

"What he means InuYasha," Miroku said, "Your claws are an extremely strong metal."

 

InuYasha looked down at them, and frowned. "Mind explaining how part of my body BECAME metal?"

 

"No, but I think I know why they are." Totosai took out his mallet and walked swiftly over to InuYasha. The daiyoukai's eyes widen.

 

"Wha…what are you doing?" InuYasha backed away.

 

"Let me see your hand." Totosai glared.

 

"Not with that damn thing in your hand, NO!" InuYasha hissed. But Totosai was not taking 'no' for an answer. Neither was Kagome.

 

"InuYasha, Osuwari." Kagome snapped.

 

"WENCH!"

 

Sesshomaru glared at her. "Keep that up miko, and you may find yourself without a tongue."

 

"Don't you threaten me Sesshomaru!" Kagome snapped.

 

"This Sesshomaru is not, InuYasha will be the one ripping out your tongue, not I." Sesshomaru looked away and towards the crater, and the approaching Totosai.

 

"Tsk, tsk, that's what you get for being stubborn young one." Totosai shook his head.

 

"I do believe you have done enough 'osuwari' to him." Sango frowned. "He might end up breaking his back at this rate."

 

"Groan…I know Sango," Kagome sighed, "But how else am I going to get him to cooperate? He never listens to reason when I try."

 

"He's stubborn." Kagome noticed Jaken finally coming over; all the commotion must have woken the toad youkai up.

 

"Let go of my hand Totosai!" InuYasha protested. He tried to jerk away from the old sword smith's hand, but with a good bang on the head with his mallet, InuYasha's struggle became decreasingly less.

 

"This might hurt for a moment." Totosai said.

 

"I said…!" InuYasha yelled.

 

Totosai's mallet came crashing down on the top of InuYasha's hand. He yelped in pain and slammed his fist into Totosai's head, just as five streaks shot past all of them.

 

"Whoa!" Sango jumped up and pulled Hiraikotsu in front of her. Miroku sat spot sill, his eyes turning just to his right, then snapping his head back around.

 

Kagome felt her blood drain from her face; to her left and right were two straight golden streaks, both and three more leading back to the hand Totosai had just hit with his mallet.

 

"His claws…stretch." Miroku mumbled.

 

"Oh, shit!" InuYasha sneered. "What the hell did you think you were doing!" He roared at the barley conscious sword smith.

 

"Look at what I proved." Totosai mumbled. InuYasha snapped his face around, and the angry sneer fell completely. He blinked and jerked his hand that had all five claws stretching to every corner of the clearing.

 

Sesshomaru had moved and was examining his shoulder, Kagome noticed a fine red streak coming over his right kimono; Sesshomaru had been hit with InuYasha's thumb claw.

 

"Otouto…" Sesshomaru glared.

 

"Blame Totosai he made them do this!" InuYasha snapped. "Fix it NOW!"

 

"You can fix it yourself, they're your claws, it is you that have control of them." Totosai grumbled, "I just hit the nerves in your hands to make them move like that."

 

"What…" InuYasha stared down and followed each and every claw until his eyes met Kagome's. "Oh shit Kagome!"

 

Kagome let out a breathe, "I'm fine, they missed me."

 

"Just barley!" InuYasha snapped at her, "What the fuck do you think would have happened if they went right through her, Totosai!"

 

"InuYasha, I'm fine..." Kagome sighed, and walked over to him. InuYasha grumbled, and again jerked his stretched clawed hand. Taking a glare at Totosai, InuYasha hit the top of his hand with his free palm and the claws all at the same speed, and agility, shot back to a normal length. Kagome half expected the horrible ringing noise to return.

 

"We just find one more different thing after another about you InuYasha, don't we?" Sango asked, as Kirara hopped off her shoulder and curled with a sleeping Rin and Shippo.

 

"Keh." InuYasha smirked. "Totosai, how strong is this metal?"

 

"By first glance, I'm not sure." Totosai scratched hi head, "But it is a strong metal, I assure it could probably cut things that you used to could not."

 

"Like a fuyouheki?" InuYasha asked.

 

"Ummm, maybe a weak one, or a strong one, it could depend…" Totosai mumbled.

 

"Then you're leading us to that battlefield." InuYasha hissed. Totosai stared dumbstruck at him. "And if you argue, this little trick I just learned might end up sticking through you if you don't."

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome huffed.

 

"InuYasha-sama I beg you to reconsider, that place is evil!" Myoga whined.

 

"Forget it, I can handle whatever is 'dead' there anyway." InuYasha glared at the flea on his nose. "Besides, the so called 'curse' is probably gone, and all that's left is answer I need to find! So we're going, and there will be no butt's about it!"

 

"Since when have you become alpha of this pack?" Sesshomaru inquired.

 

"Sesshomaru, I'm not forcing you to go." InuYasha stared at him, "You can come if you want, but I'm alpha of MY group, got it?"

 

"ALPHA, Alpha, alpha!" Kagome yelled, "Don't tell me that's another youkai mating trait I'm missing here!"

 

"Kagome, it just means I'm leader of the pack, it's not that hard to figure out." InuYasha gave her a look.

 

"Oh." Kagome smacked herself; for once she felt just a clueless, as the others when she mentioned carbon dioxide.

 

"This Sesshomaru will accommodate you on one condition otouto." Sesshomaru glared.

 

"What condition?" InuYasha sneered.

 

"You will not use those strange claws on this Sesshomaru."