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InuYasha › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
13
Views:
1,167
Reviews:
13
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own InuYasha, nor make money from this story.
Six Degrees of Difference
Chapter 2: Six Degrees of Difference
The poison was enough to kill a hundred men, but he had experienced worse. The shadowy figure’s legs felt weak, his breathing constricted…the effects of the last was wearing off.
So, he dutifully pulled out the small phial from his leather belt and took a swig. It wasn’t the finest tasting of things but it had its uses; immediately his breathing normalized, his strength returned.
Gracefully, he hopped over the corrosive pools of liquids unknown and in no time, he stood at the mouth of an enormous skeleton.
‘The old man…how could he ever live here’
Slowly, the man crossed the threshold of the odd dwelling. As he entered, he saw the hazy outline off an old man working away at his craft. The minute he noticed the intruder the old man shook with a start, immediately reaching for his weapon, but he was too slow.
In a flash a sword was drawn, pressed hard against the old man’s neck.
“So, you have been expecting me, have you…Totosai, thought those little surprises you left outside would stop me?? Or maybe you wanted to kill me you cowardly bastard!”
Totosai fumbled with his words, the man he saw looked like a ghost…unreal, yet he knew him from before…far too well.
“Y-you…w-what are you doing here?”
“You know who I seek”
“I-I haven’t the slightest clue where he is. I…um…I see you still use the same blade”
Totosai follower the slender curve of the katana hoping against hope that the man would leave him be, his eyes finally resting on the magnificent pearl hilt.
‘No coincidence there’
The man too followed Totosia’s gaze, his eyes halting on his own reflection in the blade.
‘Abomination…ghost, the insults were never ending. How wrong they were, see where I have come mother, I have proven them wrong…just as I promised.’
“No more evading Totosai I must know where he is”
But Totosai-for the life of him- did not know…finally, giving up this futile chase for knowledge; the man left Totosai, his task enormous.
But there were always other ways of finding his victim…
***
“Kagome, you and Miroku Stay back!! I’ll handle this one”
Miroku and Kagome cautiously stepped away from the fray, their wounds still not completely healed.
The creature before them was unlike one they had ever seen…an odd sense of déjà vu capturing their minds as they stared on.
The creature was hideous, a mere human skeleton, its bones a rotten brown. Where one would see toes and fingers there were slick sharp claws. Its skull was that off a demon, small horns protruded from hits scalp, fangs threatened from its gaping mouth.
Kagome was strongly reminded of the remains Hosenki as she watched the creature before her; it wore a sort of leather armor upon its torso, its color a faded red. The armor became a flowing robe below the waist reaching just a little above the beast’s ankles. Two cuts on either side to allow unrestricted movement of the legs during battle.
“What do you want, tell me now!!!”
Inuyasha’s temper…as always, seemed to cause an already delicate situation to deteriorate further.
The village the group was passing had spoken of a dark force in the surrounding forests and as usual they’d gone and helped out…and as usual Inuyasha had protested…to no avail. But they’d expected-at most-some small petty demons causing trouble around the forest borders, never in their wildest dreams had they expected the beast that now stood before them.
The demon seemed to survey his surroundings with sightless eyes. With a voice of pure dread it finally spoke
“Mal annfurtun?”
“Thrak annfurtun-izish”
“What the fuck are you saying you stupid bastard!! Speak properly or I’m gonna rip you face off!!”
Inuyasha prepared his tessaiga…
“Wait Inuyasha, I think he’s asking us something. Please calm yourself mighty demon, what is it that you want”
Miroku-as always-had the composure about him to sort things out rationally. But the beast continued to speak in his foreign tongue.
“Nutu batarub ghash
Agh niinu kulub grish
Amukh brus annfurtun”
“That’s enough off your babbling I’m tearing you apart!! WIND SCAR!!”
The mighty wind hit the beast with its full force, yet to everyone’s surprise it seemed to have little effect on the demon. It was merely pushed a few yards back…why it didn’t even loose its footing.
“Inuyasha!! It deflected the wind scar”
Shippo was as surprised as any, it was only his youthful ignorance that caused him to blurt out the obvious.
“But it doesn’t seem to have any barrier around it, I mean you did hurt it Inuyasha”
Sure enough the monk was right, small chunks off rotten bone and leather seemed to have been scattered around the creature. It had finally run out off patience…
“Matub”
The group didn’t need to try and interpret the demons words…its meaning clear.
The demon moved with incredible speed towards Inuyasha, with a forceful strike he knocked the tessaiga aside…lunging for Inuyasha’s throat. But Inuyasha jumped back extending his claws, he swiped at the beast taking most off its arm with him.
Jumping to the side Inuyasha picked up tessaiga and making sure that the others weren’t in the way slammed it hard against the ground.
“KONGOSOHA”
The spears of diamond erupted from the sword as they had many times before. The spears tore through the body of the demon, slowly bringing it to the ground.
But with one final lunge the demon now leapt for Kagome, it seemed it lived only for death…weather it was of others or its own.
But before it reached its mark a streak of black cut across its path, the glint of silver was seen as the demons head rolled slowly off its shoulders.
Sango breathed slowly, composing herself…the move was completely fueled by adrenaline.
Ensuring that the beast was dead the group prepared to return to the village to inform the people of the accomplishment. But before that, Miroku gave the beast a small ceremony…he understood the power of weary spirits only too well.
“Well, it won’t be troubling anyone anymore”
Slowly Miroku placed two fudas upon the body, immediately the burned a deep red, disappearing instantly.
Unnerved by the hollow stare of the beast’s empty eyes the group was content with burying the beast. Slowly, they returned to the village, unsure off what they had witnessed.
On reaching the village head…and convincing him that his house was home to numerous…‘unseen’ and ‘hidden’ spirits, Miroku was able to give the group sufficient lodgings for the night…where they all fell asleep instantly…silently, unaware of the world that spun around them…chaos upon the horizon.
***
The scene before him was as magnificent as any could imagine. Brilliant white and silver citadels seemed to float on clouds as they reached far into the azure sky.
Abrasiel stared out from the veranda of one of the more lavish citadels of heaven. Footsteps from behind introduced the master of the castle.
“Lord Khadriel, congratulations upon your new appointment”
Abrasiel bowed gently as the high lord entered the porch.
“Thank you Abrasiel, how go the fares of the light?”
“Nothing out of the ordinary my lord. The frontiers are holding…the shadow is keeping its truce. The fringe dimensions continue to remain divided, they can be bent to our will with ease”
“And what off the Braxon rebellion”
This seemed to throw Abrasiel off for a moment…
“My lord…I am impressed by you awareness. The rebellion is still peaceful, but we fear that the shadow is attempting to instigate a more violent separatist movement…but we’re holding them there as well. Speaking off which, have you heard of the happenings on Mortality?”
“Yes Abrasiel, that is why I have called you. The bizarre happenings have allowed for me to take a great load off my back, it is why I have called you”
Abrasiel was slightly confused but he heard his superior out.
The angel led him into his library; there he was shown an ancient document…he read…
Slowly he put the document aside staring blankly at Khadriel as he spoke to him
“You understand the repercussions of such news getting out don’t you?”
Did he ever…
***
***
AN:
Apologies for the loooooooooooooooooong wait for this chapter. I had a severe case of writers block. I mean I spent hours pacing about my house trying to think of a title for the chapter. I mean hell I’m not even sure what the title means. Maybe it does mean something…I don’t care.
But yes ive also been slacking off a little. I watched two U2 concerts, a Coldplay concert and a Dream Theater concert (DVD’s)
Also the bastards have stopped showing Inuyasha on TV (animax just decided to cancel the damn thing) what kind of cruel bastard does that…
TO MY CRITICS
Ginny:
Im glad youre back for the sequel and just a short note…im still trying to get around the last post on Raidrops what does that mean!!!
SapphireBlade
plz give feed back. J
The poison was enough to kill a hundred men, but he had experienced worse. The shadowy figure’s legs felt weak, his breathing constricted…the effects of the last was wearing off.
So, he dutifully pulled out the small phial from his leather belt and took a swig. It wasn’t the finest tasting of things but it had its uses; immediately his breathing normalized, his strength returned.
Gracefully, he hopped over the corrosive pools of liquids unknown and in no time, he stood at the mouth of an enormous skeleton.
‘The old man…how could he ever live here’
Slowly, the man crossed the threshold of the odd dwelling. As he entered, he saw the hazy outline off an old man working away at his craft. The minute he noticed the intruder the old man shook with a start, immediately reaching for his weapon, but he was too slow.
In a flash a sword was drawn, pressed hard against the old man’s neck.
“So, you have been expecting me, have you…Totosai, thought those little surprises you left outside would stop me?? Or maybe you wanted to kill me you cowardly bastard!”
Totosai fumbled with his words, the man he saw looked like a ghost…unreal, yet he knew him from before…far too well.
“Y-you…w-what are you doing here?”
“You know who I seek”
“I-I haven’t the slightest clue where he is. I…um…I see you still use the same blade”
Totosai follower the slender curve of the katana hoping against hope that the man would leave him be, his eyes finally resting on the magnificent pearl hilt.
‘No coincidence there’
The man too followed Totosia’s gaze, his eyes halting on his own reflection in the blade.
‘Abomination…ghost, the insults were never ending. How wrong they were, see where I have come mother, I have proven them wrong…just as I promised.’
“No more evading Totosai I must know where he is”
But Totosai-for the life of him- did not know…finally, giving up this futile chase for knowledge; the man left Totosai, his task enormous.
But there were always other ways of finding his victim…
***
“Kagome, you and Miroku Stay back!! I’ll handle this one”
Miroku and Kagome cautiously stepped away from the fray, their wounds still not completely healed.
The creature before them was unlike one they had ever seen…an odd sense of déjà vu capturing their minds as they stared on.
The creature was hideous, a mere human skeleton, its bones a rotten brown. Where one would see toes and fingers there were slick sharp claws. Its skull was that off a demon, small horns protruded from hits scalp, fangs threatened from its gaping mouth.
Kagome was strongly reminded of the remains Hosenki as she watched the creature before her; it wore a sort of leather armor upon its torso, its color a faded red. The armor became a flowing robe below the waist reaching just a little above the beast’s ankles. Two cuts on either side to allow unrestricted movement of the legs during battle.
“What do you want, tell me now!!!”
Inuyasha’s temper…as always, seemed to cause an already delicate situation to deteriorate further.
The village the group was passing had spoken of a dark force in the surrounding forests and as usual they’d gone and helped out…and as usual Inuyasha had protested…to no avail. But they’d expected-at most-some small petty demons causing trouble around the forest borders, never in their wildest dreams had they expected the beast that now stood before them.
The demon seemed to survey his surroundings with sightless eyes. With a voice of pure dread it finally spoke
“Mal annfurtun?”
“Thrak annfurtun-izish”
“What the fuck are you saying you stupid bastard!! Speak properly or I’m gonna rip you face off!!”
Inuyasha prepared his tessaiga…
“Wait Inuyasha, I think he’s asking us something. Please calm yourself mighty demon, what is it that you want”
Miroku-as always-had the composure about him to sort things out rationally. But the beast continued to speak in his foreign tongue.
“Nutu batarub ghash
Agh niinu kulub grish
Amukh brus annfurtun”
“That’s enough off your babbling I’m tearing you apart!! WIND SCAR!!”
The mighty wind hit the beast with its full force, yet to everyone’s surprise it seemed to have little effect on the demon. It was merely pushed a few yards back…why it didn’t even loose its footing.
“Inuyasha!! It deflected the wind scar”
Shippo was as surprised as any, it was only his youthful ignorance that caused him to blurt out the obvious.
“But it doesn’t seem to have any barrier around it, I mean you did hurt it Inuyasha”
Sure enough the monk was right, small chunks off rotten bone and leather seemed to have been scattered around the creature. It had finally run out off patience…
“Matub”
The group didn’t need to try and interpret the demons words…its meaning clear.
The demon moved with incredible speed towards Inuyasha, with a forceful strike he knocked the tessaiga aside…lunging for Inuyasha’s throat. But Inuyasha jumped back extending his claws, he swiped at the beast taking most off its arm with him.
Jumping to the side Inuyasha picked up tessaiga and making sure that the others weren’t in the way slammed it hard against the ground.
“KONGOSOHA”
The spears of diamond erupted from the sword as they had many times before. The spears tore through the body of the demon, slowly bringing it to the ground.
But with one final lunge the demon now leapt for Kagome, it seemed it lived only for death…weather it was of others or its own.
But before it reached its mark a streak of black cut across its path, the glint of silver was seen as the demons head rolled slowly off its shoulders.
Sango breathed slowly, composing herself…the move was completely fueled by adrenaline.
Ensuring that the beast was dead the group prepared to return to the village to inform the people of the accomplishment. But before that, Miroku gave the beast a small ceremony…he understood the power of weary spirits only too well.
“Well, it won’t be troubling anyone anymore”
Slowly Miroku placed two fudas upon the body, immediately the burned a deep red, disappearing instantly.
Unnerved by the hollow stare of the beast’s empty eyes the group was content with burying the beast. Slowly, they returned to the village, unsure off what they had witnessed.
On reaching the village head…and convincing him that his house was home to numerous…‘unseen’ and ‘hidden’ spirits, Miroku was able to give the group sufficient lodgings for the night…where they all fell asleep instantly…silently, unaware of the world that spun around them…chaos upon the horizon.
***
The scene before him was as magnificent as any could imagine. Brilliant white and silver citadels seemed to float on clouds as they reached far into the azure sky.
Abrasiel stared out from the veranda of one of the more lavish citadels of heaven. Footsteps from behind introduced the master of the castle.
“Lord Khadriel, congratulations upon your new appointment”
Abrasiel bowed gently as the high lord entered the porch.
“Thank you Abrasiel, how go the fares of the light?”
“Nothing out of the ordinary my lord. The frontiers are holding…the shadow is keeping its truce. The fringe dimensions continue to remain divided, they can be bent to our will with ease”
“And what off the Braxon rebellion”
This seemed to throw Abrasiel off for a moment…
“My lord…I am impressed by you awareness. The rebellion is still peaceful, but we fear that the shadow is attempting to instigate a more violent separatist movement…but we’re holding them there as well. Speaking off which, have you heard of the happenings on Mortality?”
“Yes Abrasiel, that is why I have called you. The bizarre happenings have allowed for me to take a great load off my back, it is why I have called you”
Abrasiel was slightly confused but he heard his superior out.
The angel led him into his library; there he was shown an ancient document…he read…
Slowly he put the document aside staring blankly at Khadriel as he spoke to him
“You understand the repercussions of such news getting out don’t you?”
Did he ever…
***
***
AN:
Apologies for the loooooooooooooooooong wait for this chapter. I had a severe case of writers block. I mean I spent hours pacing about my house trying to think of a title for the chapter. I mean hell I’m not even sure what the title means. Maybe it does mean something…I don’t care.
But yes ive also been slacking off a little. I watched two U2 concerts, a Coldplay concert and a Dream Theater concert (DVD’s)
Also the bastards have stopped showing Inuyasha on TV (animax just decided to cancel the damn thing) what kind of cruel bastard does that…
TO MY CRITICS
Ginny:
Im glad youre back for the sequel and just a short note…im still trying to get around the last post on Raidrops what does that mean!!!
SapphireBlade
plz give feed back. J