Eyes to Life: Scroll 21

"INUYASHA!"

 

Sango felt her body freeze, the blood, the scream, the horror, it all hit her like Naraku's miasma. Gripping Kirara's fur, Sango felt her stomach turn, she looked down at the youkai cat's back, praying that what had just happened, had not.

 

"Kagome-sama!" Sango heard Miroku cry, he grabbed the horrified miko and pulled her away from the skeleton youkai. She didn't care, Kagome didn't care what was in front of her, all she cared about was InuYasha, getting to InuYasha.

 

Sesshomaru had been pulled into the sea of youkai, though he didn't seem to be fighting back, he was looking up at the limp body of his otouto. Neither surprise nor horror was written on his face, it was eerily calm.

 

Sango had to do something, InuYasha was...she shook her head angrily. "Kirara let's go!"

 

Letting out a roar, Kirara leaped up and dove towards the hand holding InuYasha's limp body. InuYasha's eyes were glazed, his right arm dangling, and his upper body bending backwards over one of the youkai's bony fingers.

 

"How does it feel now, Sama?" The 'sama' was said with unnerving sneer.

 

"How does this feel then!" Sango yelled, "Hiraikotsu!" The boomerang flew towards the face, knocking it's attention towards her.

 

The bone flew back into her hands and she dove Kirara forward, slamming the Hiraikotsu into the middle of the skull. Grunting, she jumped off of Kirara's back and onto the shoulder.

 

"Human..." It hissed at her. Sango looked up and froze. It had eyes, two red eyes had filled up the empty sockets.

 

Shit, Sango thought, it must have absorbed InuYasha's arm. She jumped out of the way of the slow hand that was trying to grab and ran towards InuYasha.

 

"Fool." Sango looked up at Sesshomaru who still had bits of bone on him. He floated there, face to face with the large skeletal youkai.

 

"InuYasha!" Sango saw her frightened miko friend cry out. Miroku was having trouble with holding the small skeleton youkai and holding Kagome back so she didn't run into them.

 

"Die general." The large youkai hissed, swinging towards Sesshomaru, claws extended.

 

"InuYasha!" Sango cried. She ran up to his unmoving body and shook his shoulder. "InuYasha you need to wake up!"

 

Sango felt a small lump come up her throat, the left shoulder was covered in so much blood. Hoisting Hiraikotsu in front of her, she plunged it in-between the youkai's skeletal hand and InuYasha's body. Pulling the bone with all her strength Sango managed to loosen the hold the youkai had on InuYasha.

 

Suddenly she was jerked off her feet, he was moving the hand they were on! Sango screamed, as she felt nothing under her, and she grabbed for anything. She caught InuYasha's ponytail.

 

His head jerked back as his scalp took all her weight. Damn it InuYasha, Sango thought, I'm so sorry!

 

"Kirara!" Sango cried. Hoping InuYasha's hair could hold her until the youkai cat could get here. "Kirara!"

 

Kirara was in a battle of her own, she was to far away, battling tentacles of youkai that were wrapping around her trying to pull her down towards them.

 

"Sango...?" Sango froze to look up into InuYasha's golden glazed orbs. Sango felt her body go stiff. "Take...my hand."

 

Before Sango could protest, InuYasha lowered his only arm down to her. Sango grabbed his hand letting go of his hair, and probably a burning scalp. Pulling her body weight up she grabbed his fire rat sleeve, hoisting her body back up on the hand. Her leg got caught in one of the fingers, and the youkai started to squeeze.

 

"Oh! Shit!" Sango hissed, her leg was going to get broke! Ripping out the shell in her sleeve, she threw some poison powder on the bone.

 

"Argh!" The youkai bellowed. Its red eyes landed on her and InuYasha. "Foolish human!" With a shake of its hand Sango felt her body start to plunge, along with InuYasha's.

 

"Ugh!" Sango yelled. She grabbed onto InuYasha's armor and saw the ground rapidly approaching. They slammed into the ground, and Sango skittered off of InuYasha. He remained still.

 

"Damn it!" Sango hissed, coughing. She stood up and saw her Hiraikotsu had not landed far. Then she realized, they had fallen through the roof of one of the huts.

 

The walls started to shake, and Sango felt a hand grab her ankle. Sango hissed, and jerked her sword from its sheath and slammed it toward the youkai that were coming from the ground at them.

 

"Damn, all of you die!" Sango spat. She threw more poison powder, effectively forcing some away. Others continued towards her, despite the melting of their bones.

 

Sango backed up, the more poison she threw, the more came to replace the ones who had fallen. The powder was running out rapidly. Thinking quickly, Sango ran and grabbed Tessaiga's sheath and slammed it into the ground, and the fuyouheki shot them all away. Sango sat down, they were only safe...for now.

 

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Kagome felt her whole body become numb. The sight had horrified her, and now she couldn't do anything. Miroku wouldn't let her go.

 

"Miroku-sama, please!" Kagome cried. She pushed the desperate houshi out of the way. She had to get to InuYasha, nothing else mattered.

 

"Kagome-sama! You can't...!"

 

"I have too!" Kagome screamed.

 

Kagome scrambled passed Miroku and ran towards the hut that she had seen Sango and InuYasha plummet into. The dead youkai lunged at her, but she jumped on top of them, jumping from skull to skull. She could feel them trying to grab her, but with her adrenaline running, she was to fast for bones that were crawling there way out of the ground.

 

She could still hear the scream of pain InuYasha had let out just a few minutes before. Kagome felt her heart hammer hard, the picture was still detailed in her head. The blood, his arm...InuYasha's arm. Kagome felt the tears spill as she ran, almost floating over the bones and sand under her feet.

 

InuYasha...even if she wasn't his mate, seeing him in such distress, was painful. Kagome felt something wrap around her arm, but she jerked away and burst through the cloth hanging from the doorway.

 

Kagome felt the youkai turn their attention on her, and lunged. She screamed covering her face with her arms when sutras came flying from behinds her and a large boomerang came cutting though.

 

"Kagome-chan!" Kagome heard Sango cry. Kagome dove away from the skeleton hands and jumped towards her taijiya friend's figure.

 

"Sango!" Miroku shouted throwing more sutras toward the ground. He jumped through the doorway.

 

"Houshi-sama, put up a kekkai now!" Sango hissed. Kagome rushed behind Sango as Miroku jumped in front of the three of them and planting his staff into the sand. Kagome felt Miroku's spiritual energy surround them in a flash of white light.

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome cried. She raced over to him and pulled her arms around his pale face. His breathe was coming out in short gasps, but he was alive, that was all that mattered.

 

"Kagome-chan?" Kagome looked at her taijiya friend, she felt the tears leak down her face. "We need to...stop the bleeding."

 

Kagome nodded numbly, without even thinking she ripped off her shirt and began wrapping InuYasha's left shoulder.

 

"Kagome-chan!" Sango said, horrified. Kagome knew why, she had nothing on but a ripped bra, and a hentai houshi was standing right there. Kagome didn't care, InuYasha needed more care then she, she didn't care if she flashing Miroku at the moment.

 

"Uhhhh..." Miroku started.

 

"Pay attention to holding up your kekkai hentai!" Sango hissed.

 

Miroku numbly turned his head back around. Kagome felt a small cloth fall on her shoulders, she looked up at Sango.

 

"Thanks." was all she mumbled.

 

Kagome pushed some of InuYasha's bangs away from his sweating forehead. His golden eyes remained closed and tight, he was trying to block all the pain out.

 

"Killll..." Kagome looked up at the dead youkai clawing at Miroku's kekkai, their mouths open and eyes vacant.

 

"No." Kagome actually hissed. "You will not touch him." Kagome pulled her arms tighter around InuYasha's head. InuYasha let out a hiss of pain.

 

"InuYasha, I'm so sorry!" Kagome cried, she looked at him, his eyes remained closed, and he made no verbal response.

 

"General!" The shout came from outside the hut and before any of them could move the hut disappeared from around them. Kagome let out a gasp, the large youkai had found them!

 

Sesshomaru dodged the hut that was thrown and landed on a nearby tree. Kagome felt her anger grow, why didn't Sesshomaru make a better distraction of himself!

 

InuYasha let a hiccup on her lap, and winched. Kagome looked down at his shoulder, she could smell his blood, and so she pushed her shirt harder on his wound. He let out a hiss, but Kagome ignored him...so much blood.

 

It remained her of how InuYasha had cut off Sesshomaru's arm with Tessaiga, it scared her. How cruel, Kagome thought, I wonder if Sesshomaru is happy about this!

 

"Damn it!" Miroku shouted. Kagome felt a huge pressure suddenly surge onto Miroku's kekkai.

 

"He's trying to break in!" Sango shouted.

 

"Youkai," Sesshomaru boomed, "Do you wish not to fight, or are you a coward?"

 

"Call me a coward you foolish pup!" The large youkai took Sesshomaru's bait and let go of Miroku's kekkai and surged towards the Youkai Lord.

 

"Damn!" Miroku hissed, "My kekkai won't hold another front on attack like that again!"

 

"Keep trying houshi-sama!" Sango pleaded. "Kagome-chan...?"

 

"He not..." Kagome felt her blood rush to the ends of her feet...InuYasha wasn't breathing. "InuYasha? InuYasha!"

 

Kagome grasped InuYasha's head tightly closer to her chest. No! Why? Not now! Kagome felt the tears slip down her cheeks, why now?

 

What gave this youkai the right to take him away so early? Why, after he had finally given his feelings on how he felt about her. After he became what he had always wanted to be, a full-fledged youkai. WHY!

 

"InuYasha, please!" Kagome felt the sorrow hit her in the chest, but another emotion come creeping up. Anger, she wanted to kill that youkai, she wanted to shoot as many arrows as she could until the bones were dust.

 

But she had shot all her arrows, and had left her bow on top of the stairs in desperation to get to InuYasha. She could do nothing to back up her anger.

 

"InuYasha..." Kagome moved his bangs over his eyes. Suddenly he let out a cough and his body shook. Kagome's eyes widen, he was still with her!

 

"DRAGON STRIKE!" The whole ground shook as Kagome heard Sesshomaru let out his attack. She clung to InuYasha more tightly as the ground shook and swerved under the youki that had burst from Sesshomaru's Tokijin.

 

An angry bellow was heard, and Kagome saw the large youkai stumble back against Sesshomaru's assault. That's right, Kagome thought, die you horrible monster!

 

InuYasha let out a sudden whimper from under her. Kagome looked down and gasped dropping his head. Her anger had tried to purify him! His left cheek were her hand had been was slightly burned.

 

"InuYasha, I'm so sorry!" Kagome cried. She grasped his burned cheek and moved her hand over, hoping it would sooth the pain.

 

"Kagome-chan..." Kagome looked up at Sango. "Your shirt..." Kagome looked down at her white school shirt, only it wasn't white anymore. The green was now a dark, disgusting color of brown and her whole shirt was now dark red. He was still bleeding, and now there was nothing she could do to stop it.

 

"No, damn it!" Kagome looked up in horror to see more youkai swarm against Miroku's kekkai, and the large youkai locked eyes with Miroku. "Don't you even..." Miroku hissed.

 

"Move human!" The youkai bellowed, and its large hand slammed on top of the kekkai. Kagome let out a scream as the blind light cast over her eyes, and before she knew what was happening, she was thrown away from InuYasha and into the sea of dead youkai.

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome cried. She slammed into the bones, her whole body now bruised, and laid still. The hands started to grab her, and Kagome let out another scream, but everyone was having the same predicament, and InuYasha's body had disappeared, no one was going to help her.

 

"Let go of me!" Kagome hissed, she jerked one of her arms free and landed a strong punch to a skull that had just about to take a good chunk of her arm off. Kagome felt the pain shot through her fist and up to her head, a headache was starting to form, she was losing, she had no weapon, she had used to much of her miko power to the point of exhaustion, and her whole body was bruised.

 

Kagome felt the blackness of unconsciousness come over her as the dead youkai came in for the kill. Suddenly a loud 'bang' could be heard and before Kagome had the chance to confiscate on what it was, she was picked up with great speed and set down gently on the table that had once held the spear.

 

Kagome blinked, who had saved her? At that speed, it had to have been Sesshomaru. A flash of red caught her attention and the youkai that had grabbed hold of Miroku and Sango were thrown away like rags, disintegrating in a flash of light. Kirara caught both the houshi and taijiya and landed next to the table where Kagome had been set upon.

 

"Kagome-chan, are you alright!" Sango cried, she hopped off of Kirara's back and rushed up to the bruised miko.

 

"I'm fine..." Kagome looked down, and a large blush rushed up her face. Apparently one of the dead youkai had caught her bra, she was half naked. "AIEEEEE!" Kagome screamed and dove behind the table realizing a hentai houshi was looking straight at her.

 

"Hentai!" Sango hissed, hitting Miroku upside the head with her Hiraikotsu.

 

"Not my fault, she had nothing on!" Miroku cried, pleading for mercy.

 

"Here." Sango untied her obi and threw it around Kagome's chest and tied it tightly.

 

"Thanks Sango-chan." Kagome sighed. "Wait, where is...?"

 

"AUGHHH!" Kagome looked up to see the large youkai getting assaulted by Sesshomaru and then a flash of light. Sesshomaru reared back, as if he was surprised.

 

Kagome let out a gasp, Sango stiffened beside her, Miroku looked up and blinked a few times, but they all saw the same thing. InuYasha was floating there, Tessaiga in the only arm he had.

 

Sesshomaru looked at InuYasha in a very peculiar way, as if he were surprised to see InuYasha up at all. But what was even more strange, InuYasha was wielding Tessaiga as if it was a feather. It had been heavy before and it took two hands to even lift it a few inches off the ground, and now he was swinging it around with the only arm he had.

 

Kagome couldn't see his face, his back was to them, but she felt something completely off. InuYasha's youki seemed off, as if it wasn't him.

 

"Inu no Taishou..." The large youkai hissed, "Are you ready to lose your head as well?"

 

InuYasha gave no response. He simply charged with Tessaiga raised ready to strike the dead youkai down.

 

"Fool!" The large youkai bellowed, lunging at InuYasha with its large hand. InuYasha dodged the blow easy with speed Kagome had never thought InuYasha had, he was a blur. Before the large youkai knew what had hit him, a chunk of his skull fell off, and InuYasha was on top of a large tree.

 

"AUGHHHH!" The youkai hissed, "I will not let you kill me twice!"

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome called to him. She tried to look in his eyes but his bangs were covering them, his face was a shadow. Kagome felt every hair on body stand on end, InuYasha was not acting normal at all.

 

InuYasha surged forward again, a blur coming from the tops of the trees, and sliced at the dead youkai's ribcage, successfully slicing off a few ribs. The smaller dead youkai jumped to grab InuYasha on his decent, but he cut them all down as if they were ants.

 

Kagome felt her face go pale, InuYasha was fighting like Sesshomaru, no verbal to express his emotions, no temper flaring, it was a silent kill. He was just so...quiet.

 

Sesshomaru moved over to them, apparently not sure what to make of InuYasha.

 

"Sesshomaru...?" Sango started.

 

"This Sesshomaru does not know, taijiya." Sesshomaru interrupted her. "His scent is wrong."

 

"Is he possessed again?" Miroku asked.

 

"Uhnnnn..." Kagome felt all her blood freeze.

 

"Possibility," Sesshomaru answered, "But not the same as before."

 

Kagome watched as her mate delicately dodged the blows the dead youkai was now desperately taking, but he was backing up, unsure of what he was fighting anymore.

 

InuYasha suddenly surged back and floated much higher in the air. His missing arm not seemly slowing him down at all.

 

"Die." His voice cut thru the air.

 

Kagome felt the wind pick up and lifted her hair in her face. A bright flashed above the clearing and made Kagome clutch her hands over her head. Letting only one peek, she saw a golden snake light wrapping around Tessaiga, and she could have sworn a dragon's face was at the end of the light and then it blasted fast throughout the clearing.

 

The earth rocked and Kagome found her hands clutching the end of the table, holding on it for dear life. Sango fell down next to her and she grabbed on the other edge of the table.

 

Kagome looked at the scene in front of her, the golden light was slicing through all the dead youkai, their howls of pain were heard as all of the bones started disintegrate.

 

Kagome looked up at InuYasha, his silver hair blowing as the turret of youki rained down on the dead youkai.

 

"NO!" The large youkai bellowed. He tried to jump away, but the golden light swirled around his large targeted body easily, and began to spin so fast, Kagome had to look away, but she knew what happened next.

 

The scream was deafening, and then a large explosion. Kagome could feel hear the dying cry of the youkai that had not extracted their revenge, and then...it was all silent.

 

The earth lay still and the dust was starting to settle, Kagome looked up. The sun blinded her, but she shielded her eyes and stood up, the air felt much cleaner, even breathable.

 

"Guys, are you alright!" Kagome jerked her head around to see Shippo, Jaken, and Rin on Ah-Un's back coming toward them. Shippo hopped off the dragon's back and gasped.

 

"Sure thing Shippo..." Miroku smiled, ruffling his hair free of dirt.

 

"I thought you guys had..." Shippo started when something plopped in front of him, cutting him off. His green eyes went wide and he screamed, Kagome swore it was Rin and not Shippo.

 

The poor kitsune jumped into Rin's arms and curled into a ball. "Who's is that! Who's arm is that!" Shippo cried.

 

Kagome felt her face pale, and let out a gasp. An arm had indeed had just fallen, but everyone knew who it belonged to.

 

"Inu..." Kagome started to say, before a shadow casts over the sun and she looked up. InuYasha descended without a word, Tessaiga over his shoulder.

 

Kagome blinked, what had happened to the sword? It had a blue band wrapped around it now, where had that come from. InuYasha touched his feet to the ground and looked down at his missing limb.

 

"InuYasha...?" Shippo mumbled.

 

"Otouto..." Sesshomaru slowly approached, but a flick of InuYasha's golden claws order him to stop. Sesshomaru did, but he didn't back up.

 

"InuYasha...?" Kagome slowly made her way to InuYasha. His back was turned to her, and made recollection that he had heard her. "InuYasha...?"

 

His head tilted forward and in one sweep he held his arm with his hand. Kagome almost felt her stomach make a heave. He was going to make her lose her lunch!

 

"InuYasha, let me clean the wound, I..." Kagome was stopped short when he didn't answer. "InuYasha! Answer me damn it!"

 

The daiyoukai still did not listen, instead he put the torn limb back to his bloodied shoulder and waited. Kagome felt her eyes widen, what was he doing, he couldn't possibly...?

 

A burst of energy came from InuYasha and the same golden light surrounded InuYasha's arm and tied around his shoulder. Then the light was gone. InuYasha let out an irregular breathe, and clutched his chest for a minute, then straightened up and moved his once severed arm.

 

Kagome's legs melted from under her, he had just reattached his arm! How! I mean! Kagome was speechless.

 

So was everyone else, Miroku's mouth hung open slightly, Sango's eyes were huge, Jaken looked like he had fainted, and Shippo looked dazed. Sesshomaru's eyes had widened further then normal.

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome recovered from her shock and ran up and grabbed him by his fire rat. "InuYasha, how...?" She stopped when her eyes met his.

 

They were golden, his eyes were pure golden. There were no pupils, they were just blank, his eyes were that of a ghost, only gold.

 

Kagome reared back, backing away from him as if he had electrified her. "Who are you!" Kagome screeched. He looked slightly at her, making her back up more. She could feel her friends tighten their hands around their weapons.

 

"OUSWARI!" Kagome screamed, planting InuYasha as deep as the ground would let him.

 

For a minute there was silence, the sand cleared from the InuYasha crater, and then an irritated yell.

 

"What the hell wench!" InuYasha's face popped out of the crater, his golden orbs glaring at her, and his ears back. He jumped out of the crater and dusted himself off. "Sheesh, every time I turn around, you..."

 

"Oh InuYasha!" Kagome cried and collapsed on him. He seemed taken back and picked her up softly. She cried in his armor, she was just glad he was okay.

 

"Kagome, your hurt, what the hell were...!" InuYasha stopped himself, and looked at his left arm, a look of confusion was drawn onto his face. "I thought..."

 

"InuYasha-sama! Oh InuYasha-sama!" InuYasha turned to see a small dot on his nose sucking rapidly.

 

"Myoga!"

 

"That, InuYasha, was quiet impressive." InuYasha turned to see Totosai descend on his cow.

 

InuYasha looked at the sword-smith, then he looked at everyone else.

 

"What the hell did I do?"