Heaven & Earth

Chapter 9: A Law Broken

“Look, I’m really sorry; I didn’t mean to scare you,” Inuyasha apologized to Kagome when he and Sesshoumaru found their group waiting for them.

“That’s okay, Miroku explained that the air is making it hard for you to control your youkai,” she blushed at him.

“Yeah, well it’s not an excuse.”

“Are you feeling okay now?” Kagome asked.

“Yeah, Sesshoumaru helped me,” Inuyasha replied, turning his head so she wouldn’t see the blush that came across his cheeks. He walked on ahead so she wouldn’t ask more. “I’m going to go on ahead to see if I can find Mitsukai.”

“You shouldn’t go alone,” Miroku exclaimed. “I’ll go with you.”

“No, Kirara and I will go with him,” Sango spoke up.

“Yeah, you stay here, Miroku, and watch over everyone.” Inuyasha glanced over at Sesshoumaru who was being fairly quiet. He frowned slightly in worry.

“Do not engage her, this is my fight,” Sesshoumaru finally spoke up decisively. He did not care to stay behind, but knew that Inuyasha would be able to locate her quicker than him. The sooner he found her the better.

“Keh,” Inuyasha returned, not liking the idea, but he would honour his brother’s wish if he could.

They continued down the road watching as Sango on Kirara and Inuyasha disappeared from sight. Shippo again hopped onto Sesshoumaru’s shoulder. Miroku and Kagome shared a confused look between them, but then shrugged their shoulders, deciding not to worry about it. Miroku glanced back again and noticed Sesshoumaru was limping slightly.

‘What did Inuyasha do to him?’ the monk pondered.

“What happened to your neck?” the little kit asked, noticing the marks.

“Something bit me,” Sesshoumaru answered shortly. “Are you feeling better?” he asked the small fox demon to get him to stop staring at the marks and questioning him further.

“I feel good, really strong.” Shippo flexed a muscle, which caused Sesshoumaru to smile, wincing slightly at the twinge of pain he felt in his cheek.

Shippo patted his cheek lightly noticing that the red mark was beginning to turn purple. “You’re going to have a really big bruise,” he informed the former demon. ‘That Inuyasha is really mean,’ Shippo thought to himself. ‘Sesshoumaru is pretty nice; Inuyasha better not hurt him anymore. Guess I’ll have to protect him since I’m the only full demon.’ Shippo sat up a little straighter, darting his eyes around, looking for trouble.

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“My lady…”

“I sense it, a demonic aura,” Mitsukai answered before the blonde Idaten male could finish.

“How could a demon be here?” a younger red headed male asked.

“Some kind of spell I imagine,” the angel princess hypothesized. She was silent for a moment, concentrating hard.

“My lady?”

She smirked slightly, “I recognize that aura, maybe now I can finish what I started.” She was talking more to herself than the dark winged males that surrounded her. ‘I wonder if his brother is with him, I’d like to see how arrogant he is now.’ She gave a short laugh, making all the Idaten nervous.

“We should greet our guests,” she grinned, gathering the Idaten to her. They flew off in the direction Inuyasha and Sango were coming from.

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“What’s wrong now?” Inuyasha groused as Sango stopped again.

“Kirara senses something, we should be careful. Something just doesn’t feel right.”

“Feh, nothing I can’t handle,” Inuyasha quipped. He was getting frustrated that they couldn’t seem to find the Tenshinoyounashoujo; in fact they had not seen anyone or anything since leaving their group.

He had no more than gotten the words out of his mouth than they were surrounded by many black winged male warriors holding large, sharp swords. Walking though their midst was Mitsukai, she stopped in front of Inuyasha, the Tenseiga in her hand.

“So where is your human brother? Feeling well I hope?” she asked sarcastically, grinning.

“None of your damn business,” Inuyasha answered, drawing and holding out Tetsusaiga. Sango had her boomerang in her hand defensively, ready if any of the warriors attacked.

“That’s my brother’s sword, give it back,” Inuyasha growled out at her.

“How dare you, this sword belonged to my father, therefore it is mine,” Mitsukai replied, narrowing her eyes and bringing the sword up to point at Inuyasha.

“Did being the operative word bitch,” the irate hanyou ground out, swinging the Tetsusaiga at her.

Mitsukai neatly stepped out of the way, laughing, “You’re no match for me boy.” She brought the Tenseiga back and caught Inuyasha across the rump with the flat side of the blade, making him fall hard on his hands and knees.

The Idaten were getting restless and began to encroach on Sango and Kirara. “Hey, she’s a mortal, we can’t fight her,” the young red head told the others around him.

“And why’s that?” Sango asked, getting a bit nervous; she was now cut off from Inuyasha.

“We are not allowed to interfere in the affairs of mortals, to kill you would be interference,” the boy answered, looking at her curiously. “I’ve never seen a real mortal before.”

“Get your head back in the game, young one,” Mitsukai warned from her position in front of Inuyasha, “The cat with her is not mortal and she is sneaking up on you.”

The young teen turned his head quickly, and with a beat of his wings rose into the air just in time to avoid being mauled by Kirara. Sango threw her boomerang and hit him from below, knocking him from the sky. The other Idaten jumped to his aid, easily overpowering Sango and holding Kirara tightly.

Kirara was fighting with them furiously trying to get free, growling and snarling. The eldest Idaten, hair as black as his wings, brought his sword up to cut the cat’s head off.

“Kirara! Don’t you dare hurt her or you will have to fight me whether you’re allowed to or not!” Sango yelled, struggling hard against the group of angels that held her.

Inuyasha saw the dark haired man and leapt up from the ground, swinging out his wind scar. He was surprised that the strength of his attack was not as powerful as normal. The swords abilities had been weakened because of the pure atmosphere and its attempts to keep Inuyasha from transforming when his youkai tried to come to the surface. The attack still managed to drive them back though, and Kirara flew into the air.

“Get the other’s Kirara!” Sango called out, watching her friend head back to where they had left the rest to follow.

Mitsukai swung the Tenseiga at Inuyasha and he felt the bite of the metal slice into his arm. ‘Damn it, since when can the Tenseiga cut?’ He asked himself, his eyes widening in surprise. He jumped back out of the way as she again tried to bring the sword to bear on him, blood dripping from his upper arm.

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“Look,” Shippou cried out, “It’s Kirara.” She dropped from the sky in front of them meowing.

“Something’s happened, they must have found Mitsukai,” Kagome worried.

“We better go with her,” Miroku said as he climbed on her back.

“Can the beast carry us all?” Sesshoumaru questioned dubiously.

Kirara meowed affirmatively and he also climbed aboard, Shippo still on his shoulder. Sesshoumaru reached his hand down to Kagome to help her on. She was surprised at the offer, but accepted as he lifted her to sit before him.

‘This is just so…weird,’ she thought to herself, wondering at the changes in Sesshoumaru. ‘I wonder if he was always this way, but just didn’t show it?’ She put her thoughts of him aside as they flew into the air.

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The group arrived to see Inuyasha on the ground bleeding from several different wounds, he was alive and cursing so Kagome’s heart rate settled somewhat.

Miroku saw Sango being held by the Idaten and he leapt to her defence throwing out ofudas and swinging his staff. His staff had more of an effect than his charms which just fell harmlessly onto the immortals.

‘They won’t work here against them,’ Miroku thought with concern. He managed to connect with a couple of the men with his staff and they fell, the rest flying back from his assault. ‘Why don’t they fight back?’ he wondered curiously.

Miroku saw a black haired Idaten holding tightly to Sango and came at him. He avoided the angry monk, backing up until Miroku was surrounded by the others of his team.

They came at him at once, overpowering the human monk with their numbers and holding him as well. He did manage to get in a few shots to his satisfaction, noticing that one of the winged men holding him had blood coming from his lip.

Kagome notched an arrow and pointed it at Mitsukai. “Leave him alone,” she cried out, trying to defend Inuyasha.

“This is between you and I Mitsukai,” Sesshoumaru stated, putting Shippo on the ground and stepping in front of Kagome. “Let the rest leave.”

“You would fight me in that form?” she asked, smirking. “You must wish for death.” Mitsukai moved quickly and slashed out at Sesshoumaru with the Tenseiga, cutting across his chest where his heart would be.

Everyone let out a gasp, nothing had happened. There was no blood, no mark whatsoever to say that she had just dealt a mortal blow.

Mitsukai, hesitating in surprise at what had happened, or not happened, gave Sesshoumaru those precious few seconds to pull Toukijin from its sheath. He struck her hard on the shoulder, causing a huge gush of blood to spurt into the air.

“Perhaps you will be the one to die,” Sesshoumaru gloated as he smirked at the shocked look on her face as she back-pedalled, holding onto her wounded shoulder. He advanced using his learned skills to keep her on the defensive, trying to find an opening.

She soon collected her wits and began to fight back, she hit him twice more with no effect and realized the sword would not hurt him. ‘Why? It worked fine on his brother, why won’t it work on him?’

“Stay out of this Inuyasha,” Sesshoumaru warned Inuyasha who was advancing on the pair as they fought. “I told you, this is my fight.” The former demon was concerned about the wounds he could see on his brother. ‘They should have healed by now, but he is still bleeding, I must keep him out of this.’

“The sword may have been forged by your father’s wing, but it was repaired by my father’s fang and passed to me. I have wielded that sword, it knows me as its master and therefore will not harm me,” Sesshoumaru taunted the female immortal, seeing her confusion.

‘Can this be true?’ Mitsukai was concerned that her wound didn’t want to heal. ‘I did not sense a demonic aura from the sword he has; in fact, I can tell it’s been sealed. What’s going on?’

Little did Mitsukai realize that because the Toukijin was sealed, it was now no more than a mortal sword, and a mortal sword could do damage to her.

“Mitsukai!” The form of a beautiful woman floated down in front of the two combatants. It was Joshin and all the Idaten bowed. She stood before her daughter, flashes of anger appearing in her eyes. “You have tried to kill a mortal. You know this is against our laws.”

“He is not, he is a demon,” the younger angle frowned.

“Not since you changed him,” her mother returned angrily. “We must go to the council; they will deal with this problem.” She motioned to the Idaten who released Miroku and Sango and ordered them to take hold of their princess.

“I can get there on my own,” Mitsukai told her mother disdainfully

Joshin nodded and the Idaten released her, collectively sighing in relief.

“You will accompany us to council chambers,” Joshin turned and told the group from earth.

“I thought you said you wouldn’t help us?” Inuyasha asked.

“I am not aiding you, when my daughter attacked Sesshoumaru she disobeyed our laws and that must be dealt with. I do not know if they will demand my daughter to return your brother to his former self or even if they will allow the Tenseiga to leave heaven. You will have to come and put forth your case.”

Joshin then noticed the wounds on Inuyasha and placed her hands on his shoulders. A soft glow came from her fingers and his wounds were instantly healed. She looked to her daughter, “We will attend to your wound upon arrival.” The whole group turned and followed the stately lady back to the castle.

REVIEW REPLIES
To ennov
I won’t ruin the surprise for you, but she does get her come uppance LOL.

To DemonGoddess061
Sesshoumaru is my favourite character in the Inuyasha series, but I agree, he is very difficult to write. Theres a lot of scraped chapters from this story because I didn’t feel I had caught his essence well. I’m so glad you think all my hard work paid off. ^_^