Hanyou Wars | By : inumom Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 3736 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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12. Salvation
A number of things happened simultaneously. A small ball of light emerged from the dead miko and returned to its true home in the body of the woman who hung suspended from the chains overhead. A large object came crashing out of the forest, shattering the clay body that had been grinding the hanyou’s wounded form into the dirt and covering the clearing with a thin layer of reddish-brown dust. A group of the slavers, attracted by the commotion, raced into the clearing, only to be beaten into unconscious by a Buddhist monk and a very angry youkai taijiya.
Satisfied that they had immobilized the leaders of the group, they were content to let their underlings flee into the forest. Shippou, who had been of little actual use in the brief fighting, recovered the hanyou’s clothing while Sango used the knife that had been used on her friend to pick the locks holding Inuyasha’s chains to his ankles and wrists, blushing furiously at the results of Kikyou’s spell.
Miroku and Takara went off in search of the cave in which the other hanyou children were being kept--considering the boy’s reaction at his first sight of Sango, it seemed best that way. After helping the hanyou to his feet, Sango stood nearby while he swayed in place for a moment before beginning to pull on his clothes, hissing as the fabric of his inner kimono rubbed across the wounds on his back.
Enormously grateful for the baggy hakama he wore, he staggered over to his mate, holding her up while Sango used the dagger to cut the ropes binding her wrists together. Wrapping her tenderly in his haori, he turned to the taijiya. “Use Kirara to take her back to our campsite, then send her back here--I don’t know what kind of condition the rest of the kids will be in.”
The feline youkai understood instantly, transforming to her larger size. The two women climbed aboard with only a little help, then the youkai rose above the treetops and turned to the south.
Weakened by hunger, thirst, and pain, he took a few moments to bind the slaver leaders securely before following his nose to where Miroku and Takara had found the place in which the bastards had stored their “inventory.” From the horrendous stench coming from the darkness in the cave, it was obvious that Takara had not been exaggerating the conditions under which the captured hanyou children had been kept.
Only a few minutes after arriving outside the cave, Inuyasha saw Miroku and Takara emerging, each of them assisting a weak, injured hanyou child. Once the pair deposited their charges on the grass near the cave entrance and returned inside for more of the injured, the adult hanyou gave the youngsters a quick examination to determine exactly how bad off they really were.
All in all, they recovered seven children from the cave. Though all bore old, half-healed injuries and were weak from hunger and long confinement in their tiny cages, none of them seemed to be hurt as badly as Takara had been. Still, it was nearly impossible to sniff out the details of their condition through the smell of the filth in which they had been kept.
Clearly, the first order of business would be a trip to the nearby stream so that the
children could get at least partly clean. Though barely able to stand himself, he helped the little ones down to the water. Once the worst of the grime was cleaned away, he realized that it was a very odd group indeed. Both the oldest and youngest of the children were neko hanyous--a little boy not yet out of the toddler stage and his older sister on the verge of puberty. There was a young boar hanyou girl, and a tall, slender eagle hanyou boy. The group also contained a short, broadly-built bull hanyou, a pale-eyed river hanyou, and a wolf hanyou.
“Can you guys walk?” At the silent nods he received, he slowly led the group back to the main part of the campsite. By the time they arrived at their destination, Kirara had returned to transport the first group back to their place in the forest. Anticipating the reactions when the children saw the taijiya, Miroku accompanied the first group of the most seriously injured. Shippou and Takara helped to keep the other children occupied by scavenging through the campsite for any food or medical supplies that could be taken back to their own camp.
Shippou accompanied the last of the rescued children while the two inuhanyous packed up the food supplies they had found so that they could be brought back to the camp for the long trip back to Kaede’s village.
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