Eyes to Life: Scroll 19

InuYasha felt the wind blow his face as he scanned the terrain. Kagome was on his back; her body half sunken in the fur. He looked down, the aspect of flying was still fairly new, and it made his heart jump in his chest thinking he was going to plunge any second towards the ground.

 

Kagome's small hands were wrapped around his armor, though on occasion he felt her fingers tickle his ear. He guessed she was trying to soothe him from thinking about plunging.

 

InuYasha looked at the brown eyes, she was staring at the bright sun, the day had been nothing then heaving traveling by air, following Totosai's lead. Kagome seemed to be in a world all of her own, their fight yesterday had settled into smoke, the flames had burned out last night.

 

InuYasha looked at his claws, his fingers curling. Last night annoyed him, but more importantly, it had scared him. Smelling, felling his youkai strength, and seeing the darkest night of the month for the first time. InuYasha had always lived in fear of the new moon, turning human and weak, he could not use his claws, and once having Tessaiga, he could not wield its true form. He still acted uptight, his body flaring danger in every direction; he was still a hanyou, just not physically. Kagome had told to stay a hanyou inside, but could he? Live in fear for a night he wasn't even weak on anymore?

 

Kagome was everything to him, his heart, his spirit, his soul. She was his mate, but why? Why had his youkai side forced such a demand on her? And why wasn't he thinking of the consequences? If he was now youkai and she a human, those couples ultimately ended up in disaster, one dies and the other left in misery. InuYasha knew he would everything in his power to protect her, even if that means losing his own life, but would he be following his otou's footsteps? Leaving her without a mate, and if a child…

 

"INUYASHA!"

 

"What!" InuYasha stopped his flight and jerked his head around glaring daggers at his mate.

 

"You were zoned out." Kagome frowned. "Are you alright?"

 

"Not anymore women, are you trying to make me deaf?" InuYasha groaned, sticking a clawed finger in his ringing ear.

 

"Sorry." Kagome sighed. "Your face just showed a lot of worry."

 

"It's nothing."

 

"Right…" Miroku gave them both a look. He was seated behind Sango on Kirara's back, with Shippo curled into a sleeping ball behind the houshi's robe.

 

"So this battle zone," Sango frowned, "How exactly are we going to get through a fuyouheki as strong as Totosai was explaining?"

 

"Red Tessaiga." InuYasha said simply.

 

"You can't even wield it InuYasha." Miroku frowned.

 

"Keh, watch me."

 

"InuYasha…" Kagome sighed. "You are so stubborn."

 

InuYasha froze as he felt something suckling on the bridge of his nose. His annoyance rose.

 

"Myoga!" InuYasha roared, smacking his face before the flea could suck him dry.

 

"Ooohhh…InuYasha-sama, your blood is so tasty…"

 

"Quit it flea." InuYasha snapped.

 

"What are you doing over here Myoga?" Kagome questioned.

 

"Well, Kagome-sama, we are approaching…" Myoga bounded on InuYasha's shoulder. "I really don't want to be near that place once more…"

 

"What the hell is there? You said that everyone is dead, and my otou has…" InuYasha felt Sesshomaru's stare, "...has successfully passed on, there shouldn't be anything there."

 

"Ummm, even in death, youkai live on for vengeance, and revenge." Myoga mumbled.

 

"I'm not afraid of any dead youkai." InuYasha sputtered.

 

"You should be." Was all InuYasha heard Myoga say. Something in the old flea's sentence made a hive of goose bumps go up InuYasha's arms. He shook his head and looked forward. Totosai's cow was just ahead, and following close behind was Sesshomaru and Ah-Un, with the toad and the little girl on its back.

 

InuYasha was surprised his onii took the girl with them, usually he left the girl in Jaken's care, but for some reason, he had brought her to the place, according to Myoga, 'of unspeakable terror'.

 

InuYasha felt and sensed a dark youki coming from up ahead. They had passed over heavy wooded areas and gone into large hills. The youki was just ahead, and there the 'unspeakable terror' of place was. To InuYasha, it reminded him of Naraku's castle, but the youki was leaking thru…the fuyouheki.

 

"I thought you said the fuyouheki was strong?" InuYasha questioned.

 

"It was…" Was Totosai's bleak response. "Something isn't right."

 

InuYasha exchanged looks with his pack. He descended with Kirara right behind him and Kagome clinging fast onto his armor.

 

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" She questioned.

 

"Yes Kagome." InuYasha landed and looked at the so called 'strong' fuyouheki. The barrier wavered, it seemed like he could just punch his way through it.

 

"It seemed to have been extremely weakened." Myoga gulped. "What could have caused this?"

 

"Don't know." InuYasha smirked, "But we're about to find out." He stepped up and touched the fuyouheki with his hand, nothing happened. It didn't seem to have enough powers to throw him back. InuYasha tightened his hand and punched, as he expected he needed a stronger force to break it.

 

"Still, it seems incredibly strong; it's containing a massive youki by just scenting it." Miroku said.

 

"Indeed." Sesshomaru said, InuYasha felt his onii step up. Sesshomaru looked at the structure in front of him and then slashed with his poisoned claws. Even that didn't phase the weakening fuyouheki.

 

"Fine, I've had enough stalling." InuYasha huffed. He gripped the hilt of Tessaiga and ripped the extremely heavy fang out, and slammed it to the structure. That successfully threw him back.

 

"Idiot." Shippo mumbled.

 

"I heard that!" InuYasha shouted, heaving his body from the grass and shaking his had to get the dirt out of his hair. "Stupid fang, it's to damn heavy! If I only could use the Kaze no Kizu…"

 

"Well, you can't." Sango said.

 

"I could use my kazaana." Miroku said.

 

"No." Sango snapped.

 

"Why not my dear Sango?"

 

"Do you not sense this youki, you'll probably get poisoned and die you stupid houshi!" Sango snapped.

 

"Move." InuYasha sneered and sheathed his fang. If Tessaiga couldn't get through…he looked at his claws. The strange bending they did the other night fascinated him, how strong were they? Metal was already freaky enough, he was not a physical weapon, he was flesh and blood, but Tessaiga was made from his fang and transformed to the steel fang, maybe his claws were similar.

 

Tensing, he shooed Kagome back. "What are you doing InuYasha?" Kagome asked the hint of worry in her voice.

 

"Trying something." InuYasha mumbled. Flexing his finger he swung his arm and felt his claws shot out, they sliced through the air, racing towards the fuyouheki at breathe taking speed. InuYasha tensed his arm for the rebound, but it never came, they sliced clean through pulling his body forward, taking him completely off guard.

 

The fuyouheki swirled then shattered, causing them all to back up, before anyone could be hurt. InuYasha coughed. He looked at his mate who he had grabbed and tucked her close to him.

 

"You alright?" He asked her.

 

"Fine, you?"

 

"Could be better." InuYasha grumbled. Kagome giggled.

 

"Impressive." Totosai said.

 

"There is no time." Sesshomaru said. "Rin you are to stay here with Jaken and Ah-Un."

 

"What! But My Lord…!" Jaken started.

 

"Jaken…"

 

"Yes, My Lord." Jaken bowed to InuYasha's onii.

 

InuYasha snorted but looked ahead; the youki was incredibly intense now. Kagome coughed and fished in her pack, covering her face with a white cloth. Sango put her poison mask on, giving her spare one to Miroku.

 

"Shippo stay with Rin okay?" Kagome said to the kitsune.

 

"Okay." Shippo coughed. He bounded on to Ah-Un's back and the two-headed dragon disappeared over a hill out of the range of this dangerous youki. InuYasha felt his nose flare, this was antagonizing, even to his senses, but he wasn't going to show it.

 

InuYasha and Sesshomaru lead them into the place where the trees were nothing but black skeletons; the ground was scorched of any living plants or animals. The trees were dead, the earth was dead, the air was dead, this was indeed a place of 'death' but InuYasha saw nothing incredibly out of the ordinary. He felt the flea shake on his shoulder. InuYasha cocked his eyebrow, he had expected the flea to jump on Shippo and fly to safety with them, this was a first.

 

"Kami, this place stinks." Sango shook her head.

 

"You're the one wearing a mask." InuYasha grumbled, "So stop complaining about smell unless you want my nose." Sango gave him a look and hoisted her boomerang over her shoulder.

 

"I could give you a mask." Kagome said.

 

"Pass." InuYasha said quickly, he was NOT going to wear a thing like that in front of Sesshomaru; that would just make him look weak.

 

"Oh, this place gives me such bad memories." Totosai shook.

 

"Get over it." InuYasha scoffed. He pulled ahead of Sesshomaru, his eyes and ears alert. His hand rested on Tessaiga's hilt, ready for anything. He felt the skeletal trees starting to part and ahead, seemed to be a human village.

 

Just as Totosai had described, four huts were on his right and four on his left. They were built the exactly the same size, the wood old, and starting to mold, yet the structures still stood. Whoever lived here was long gone now.

 

InuYasha felt an ear twitch and a fuzzy feeling started to build in his head. Something was wrong. EXTREMELY wrong.

 

"InuYasha."

 

"Shit." InuYasha swirled his head around. "Who's there!" He snarled.

 

The others were already behind him, ready for battle. Kagome hitched an arrow, Miroku grasped his beads, and Sango hopped on Kirara's back, ready to throw her Hiraikotsu.

 

"What is it InuYasha?" Kagome asked.

 

"Someone said my name." InuYasha hissed.

 

"What!" His pack asked.

 

InuYasha ignored them, and moved forward between the large area between the line of huts. He waited for someone to pop out of the flapping cloth in the doorframes, but nothing appeared. His eyes scanned the terrain for anything suspicious, but the youki that was around the entire area was knocking all his senses in a loop.

 

"You want power, I can give that to you."

 

"Shut up!" InuYasha yelled. "Where the hell are you!" He cracked his knuckles and glared around the area, and then something caught his eye. The steps in front of him and at the top and black table with a single spear stuck into it.

 

Totosai has said the spear had 'told' the Southern Lord's son to take it for more power, leading to his demise. So that's what was talking, it was the center of all this youki.

 

"Well, well, a talking spear." InuYasha muttered.

 

"Don't touch it InuYasha-sama!" Myoga squeaked. "For if you do, whoever planted this curse will have control over your entire body!"

 

"Like I'm that stupid." InuYasha gave the flea a look; he was still surprised Myoga hadn't booked it yet.

 

"What is it saying InuYasha?" Miroku asked.

 

"It wants to give me power." InuYasha rolled his eyes, "Like I need it anyways."

 

Sesshomaru stepped up next to InuYasha and stared at the spear, InuYasha felt his gut drop. Don't tell HE is fooled by this stupidity!

 

"What are you doing Sesshomaru?" InuYasha glared.

 

"This Sesshomaru wants to destroy this spear before it possesses you." Sesshomaru said.

 

"Excuse me?" InuYasha huffed. "That look in your eyes was saying it was about to possess YOU."

 

"Nothing can possess this Sesshomaru."

 

"Prove it." InuYasha crossed his arms, "Take hold of it."

 

"WHAT!" Totosai yelled. "Are you both mad! Get away from there!"

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome snapped. "That's not fair to Sesshomaru!"

 

"I was trying to prove him wrong that's all." InuYasha rolled his eyes. "Like if Sesshomaru's arm even extended towards it, he would be armless."

 

"Is that a threat otouto?" Sesshomaru glared.

 

"Duh." InuYasha snapped. "Yes that was a treat; or are you that thick-skull-ed?"

 

"I can give you power to defeat him."

 

Why is this stupid spear just talking to me? InuYasha thought. "Shut up you piece of shitty wood. I'm not as stupid as you think I am."

 

"Otouto…"

 

"What?" InuYasha snapped. "You think since you're my…"

 

"Otouto!"

 

"What?" Suddenly felt his hand tingle and he looked down, alarmed. His claws were extended to the spear, and he wasn't the one doing it!

 

"What the hell!" InuYasha jumped back, but he felt his claws snag the spears body and pull him towards the table. "Shit!"

 

Suddenly his vision went white, then black.

 

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Kagome watched as the spear forced InuYasha's hand to grip it. Her mate collapsed, his red eyes blazing, and then he jumped out ripping the spear clean form the table, both of his eyes set on Sesshomaru.

 

"Run for it!" Totosai cried.

 

"No! InuYasha!" Kagome ran towards her mate.

 

"Kagome-sama, stay away from him!" Myoga squeaked form her shoulder, figures the flea had left InuYasha pretty close before InuYasha's claws snagged the spear.

 

Kagome froze and stared at her mate. His eyes were dead red, his fangs extending from his lips, his eyes not even turning to her, his attention was fully on Sesshomaru. But why?

 

Before she could take another breathe, InuYasha sped towards Sesshomaru with breathe taking speed and slashed with the spear towards Sesshomaru's neck. Sesshomaru easily dodged the death blow, but InuYasha was quicker. He swirled around slashing towards Sesshomaru again, a red spray of blood can squirting out of the Youkai Lord's cheek.

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome cried. "Stop!"

 

InuYasha snarled like a rabid dog and lunged for Sesshomaru again, as the two Inu's flashed in speed across the clearing. Sesshomaru seemed to be acting calm, but a bit of fear flashed in his golden eyes.

 

"Why is he after Sesshomaru?" Sango cried.

 

"Sesshomaru is the only daiyoukai around, the curse was to force daiyoukai's the kill on another, and if InuYasha succeeds, we're next!" Myoga cried.

 

"No!" Kagome watched as the two came above the dead trees, and hopped on the roofs of the huts. Sesshomaru turned around in one quick motion, taking Tokijin out and clashing against the spear in InuYasha's hand.

 

"Otouto…snap out it." Sesshomaru hissed. He was slowly being pushed back by InuYasha, and then he buckled forward, shoving Tokijin into InuYasha's arm. InuYasha showed no hint he was injured and brought his other arm up. Sesshomaru only had one arm.

 

Before Sesshomaru could react, InuYasha shoved Sesshomaru in the chest and all five claws shot out in a flash, all of them skewering Sesshomaru in the chest. Sesshomaru's eyes widen and he groaned and knelt forward and pulled the claws from this armor, jumping backwards onto the ground, clutching his wounds.

 

"We have to end this!" Sango yelled. She rode with Kirara and got in front of Sesshomaru, blocking InuYasha's access.

 

"Move human." InuYasha's irregular voice sputtered. Kagome felt her face paled, the spear had taken her mates mind.

 

In an instant InuYasha swung his arm, five deadly claws ready to slice apart whoever was in the way, both Sesshomaru and Kirara moved, just as the claws sliced into the ground.

 

InuYasha paid no attention to Sango and darted after Sesshomaru again, but Sesshomaru had other plans. He jumped back on to the top of a hut and swirled around ready to meet InuYasha's attack.

 

InuYasha swung the spear towards Sesshomaru's heart, but Sesshomaru grasped InuYasha's wrist before the death blow could be completed. Sesshomaru held his arm over his head, both using the youkai strength to keep the other from moving forward, but InuYasha's other arm was reaching for the kill.

 

To everyone's horror, Sesshomaru pushed his weight into InuYasha grabbing the spearing and tearing the tentacles that the spear had producing and tore them from InuYasha's arm. Then, they latched onto him.

 

InuYasha wobbled and then fell form the roof, sitting up completely dazed. "Ugh, what the fuck just…" He froze.

 

Sesshomaru stood up, and lunged towards InuYasha. Her mate wasn't expecting it, the spear pierced through his lower neck.

 

"InuYasha!"

 

"Fuck…" InuYasha gagged. He shoved Sesshomaru off, and rolled away, looking at his red-eyes onii's face. "I thought you couldn't get possessed jackass!" InuYasha clutched his throat and ran away from the others.

 

Sesshomaru was not far behind. InuYasha couldn't belive this, he had been possessed, now Sesshomaru, stupid! InuYasha jumped onto the table, and watched as his onii's speed was almost upon him, he shot all ten of his claws out to protect against the blow. It worked Sesshomaru was thrown back, but he landed on his feet. He snarled; something InuYasha had never heard come from his onii's mouth.

 

"Snap out of it Sesshomaru!" InuYasha yelled. Suddenly an evil smile came onto Sesshomaru's face, InuYasha felt cold sweep his body. That's going to give me nightmares for weeks, he thought.

 

"You have them." Sesshomaru smirked.

 

"I…what?" InuYasha blinked.

 

Before he could blink, Sesshomaru was above him, a pair of red glowing eyes, and before he could dodge the blow, the spear slammed into his chest, barley missing his heart. But the pain was all the same either way. InuYasha howled as Sesshomaru's youkai strength slammed the spear through his breast bone, shattering the top of it. Sesshomaru had pinned the spear to him, and straight into the table.

 

"INUYASHA!"

 

InuYasha could barley hear his mates scream of terror. He gripped the spear and looked up into his onii's eyes, the red cunning look wasn't Sesshomaru, it was something else.

 

"I'll take them now." Before InuYasha's startling eyes, an evil glow started to form around Sesshomaru's left shoulder, and in an instant, the arm he had cut off in their otou's tomb was there. The spear had grown Sesshomaru another arm.

 

"Fuck…!" InuYasha cried. The pain was horrifying, but he had to get the spear off of Sesshomaru. He grabbed the arm the spear had latched onto and began tearing the tentacles away. With the last of his strength he kicked Sesshomaru in the gut knocking him away, and the spear stayed.

 

Sesshomaru fell off and rolled down the steps, his eyes slowing starting to fade to gold. InuYasha felt his head hit the table with an effortless collapsed. The pain was spreading to every inch of his body. He could barley sense or see.

 

"Oh Kami, InuYasha!" InuYasha heard Kagome's voice, he winched.

 

"Kagome!" He heard Miroku's voice yell. InuYasha suddenly opened his eyes, he sense something else, something sinister.

 

"Your blood will feed them now."

 

"What…?" InuYasha jerked his head to the side, to his blood spilling over the table. How was he loosing that much! It was only a stab wound! He had to get the spear out now!

 

He grabbed the spear with both hands and twisted it, causing him to let out a snarl in pain. He twisted it more, only sending more pain over every corner of his body.

 

"Otouto!" Hearing Sesshomaru's voice seemed to be a relief, but his vision was blurring. Her felt two soft hands come over his face and weep on him.

 

"Kagome…?"

 

"He's loosing too much blood!" Sango yelled.

 

"No…" Totosai said, "The spear is taking the blood from every inch of his body and leaking it through that wound!"

 

"Then move!" Sesshomaru hissed he felt irregular; he looked at his left shoulder, realizing an arm was there. He would have to deal with the shock of his new arm later.

 

"InuYasha use your claws!" Miroku said. "I can get a grip on it with a sutra!"

 

InuYasha nodded weakly and gripped the spear, feeling the claws shot out, cutting the spear into as many pieces as he dared, and felt a spiritual tug. Screaming he jumped off the table, the sutra was him now. He collapsed; the sutra had made him immobile.

 

 

It was ripped off in an instant, but he could barley move, the feeling of having nearly no blood in your body made him feel extremely light headed.

 

"Oh no…" Kagome looked at Myoga.

 

"What…?" She stuttered.

 

"We have a problem…"

 

InuYasha's blood has seeped down the steps, and into the sand and dirt of the clearing between the huts. The ground was EATING it.

 

"What the…" Sango gasped.

 

"The dead! GAHHH!" Myoga yelled. "InuYasha-sama is a descendant of the Inu no Taishou! His blood will wake their anger!"

 

"WHAT!" They all cried. Sango looked down at the sand, slowly backing her way towards the step, when a skeleton hand shoot out, grabbing her ankle.

 

"Ahhh!" Sango yelled, as more reached out wrapping around her ankles and wrists. Kirara jumped away, when a skeletal tentacle wrapped around her mid-section pulling her towards the sand.

 

"SANGO!" Miroku yelled, he raced over throwing sutras everywhere on the ground. "Get away from her!"

 

Sesshomaru surged backwards as he felt the dead reach to grab him. InuYasha was unconscious, and the miko stood up putting herself in front of herself between the dead youkai and her mate.

 

She hoisted her arrow and stared at the moaning, groaning, fast moving dead youkai surging their way towards her.

 

"Hit…" Kagome, grinding her teeth, letting the arrow fly. The purity of the arrow incinerated the dead youkai in the path of the arrow.

 

Totosai and Myoga hopped onto his cow, and floated up in the air. Myoga shook from head to shoulders. The only thing the flea could mange to spurt out was…

 

"This is bad…"