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Evil rising, Litch Queen of the western continent	By : dragondeedee3 Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 16208 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 3
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or anything pertaining to Inuyasha. Rumiko Takahashi dose. I make no money from writing this story, it is for hobby only.

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CHATER 13. This one's for the Felix fans.
“Come on Lilly. How long is this gonna take? I've been stuck with this stupid tail for like five whole days now.” Inuyasha griped.
“I can't concentrate with you looming over my shoulder like that, and rushing these things leads to accidents like the one that got you that tail in the first place.” Lilly snapped.
“If you keep bugging her she's gonna make us wait longer.” Chrono warned.
Inuyasha huffed impatiently and went back to pacing.
They had made it back to the dragon and piled into the gazebo-like structure hours ago. Now they were flying in a southwestward direction.
“Hey Sesshomaru, are we gonna go talk to the jackal demons and see if there is anything to that rumor Kadesh was talking about?” Inuyasha asked.
Sesshomaru looked annoyed by the question. “It would be beneficial to know the face of our target, however I have no desire to ask anything of those deficient mongrels.”
“Ya but, at this point we could walk right by that litch queen bitch and never even know it because we haven't got a clue what she looks like.” Inuyasha griped.
“He actually has a point there.” Chrono commented. Sesshomaru glared at the time shifter. “I'm just sayin, we should at least look into it.”
“What’s the big deal? You didn't have a problem asking Kadesh about the attacks and stuff.” Inuyasha asked.
Sesshomaru just sneered and turned away.
Chrono sighed. “The jackal demons are difficult to reason with. They literally think of themselves as godly beings and expect everyone else to do the same. Their loyal guards, the hyena demons, believe them wholeheartedly and worship the ground they walk on. You have to be high royalty to even think about speaking to their lord.”
“So they're a bunch of arrogant bastards, you should feel right at home with them Sesshomaru.” Inuyasha jeered.
“Do you enjoy provoking me hanyou?”
“Yeah, actually I do.”
Sesshomaru stalked up and grabbed him by the chin. “And I rather enjoy punishing you, so feel free to continue insulting me. I have no qualms about baring your ass right here and blistering it.”
That shut Inuyasha up. He knew damn well that Sesshomaru wasn't bluffing. While his logic told him it would be bad to receive one of Sesshomaru's spankings in front of everyone, there were certain other parts of him that thought it would be great. Therefore, he kept his mouth shut, so those certain other parts didn't get him into trouble.
Satisfied with Inuyasha's decision, Sesshomaru let go of his chin and walked over to the railing of their transport. “We will go to the jackal territory and ask about the witness.” He hated dealing with the jackals, however he had to admit, it would save a considerable amount of time if they knew at the very least what type of demon to be looking for.
Inuyasha walked over and leaned on the railing next to Sesshomaru, looking out at the scenery. “You’re so damn difficult, you could have just said that to begin with.”
“Perhaps.”
“Hey look, is that the Great Wall up ahead?” Inuyasha pointed out in the distance. It was dark the first time they had passed over it.
“Indeed.”
“Wow it just keeps going doesn't it, how far does it stretch?” Inuyasha asked.
“From the eastern coast it spans a distance nearly equal to the entire length of our island.” Sesshomaru answered.
“Wow.”
Inuyasha quietly watched the extensive wall slowly draw closer as they flew over the huge land mass.
“Ok you guys, it's finished. Who's first?” Lilly exclaimed.
Inuyasha and Chrono looked at each other warily.
“I'll be the guinea pig.” Chrono sighed.
“Ok stand right there and hold still.” Lilly instructed.
She muttered some strange words, there was a bright flash, a puff of smoke and Chrono was back to normal. No inu ears and no inu tail.
“Hey, it worked.” Chrono sounded relieved.
“Of course it worked baka. I spent a lot of time on this spell.” She grumbled. “Alright, next.”
Inuyasha walked over followed by Sesshomaru.
“Same deal stand there, don't move.”
“Yeah, yeah, just get on with it would ya.”
Lilly scowled at him for being rude, then reluctantly closed her eyes and started speaking the spell.
What happened next was nothing like what any of them had expected. At the same time that Lilly cast the spell, the dragon and the transport slammed full speed into an invisible barrier.
Just before the bright flash of magic everyone was thrown forward, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru crashed right into each other.
Everything happened so fast, the whole thing was falling out of the sky and the enormous dragon was coming down on top of it.
As soon as the magic dust cleared, it was Sesshomaru who grabbed Sango, Miroku and Kirara and leaped out, away from the falling beast. Inuyasha appeared to be in a daze and only got out at the last second.
Lilly, Chrono and Jaken all got out on their own, the first two landing gracefully on the ground, the kappa fell like a rock and face planted in the dirt. Kirara had transformed and landed on her own after Sesshomaru had scooped her up along with the ningen. The demon lord set Sango and Miroku down and stood looking dumbfounded at his hands.
“That was close, thank you lord Sesshomaru.” Miroku looked curiously at him. “Are you ok?”
“I'm not Sesshomaru.” Sesshomaru said and turned around to look at Inuyasha, who was crouched on the ground in shock, close to the wreckage.
“NEKO!” Inuyasha's voice growled out. “What is the meaning of this?”
Lilly was startled by the scolding tone and looked concerned from one inu to the other. Then her attention settled on Inuyasha. “Lord Sesshomaru?”
“Yes! What have you done?” Sesshomaru seemed to be trapped in Inuyasha's body and notably displeased about it.
Lilly looked to Sesshomaru's body. “Inuyasha?”
“Yeah.” Sesshomaru's voice answered.
Inuyasha didn't seem displeased at all, he was in awe of how much energy he could feel coursing through the demon lord's body. While Sesshomaru himself was still incredibly disgruntled, trying to adjust to the dramatic loss of strength and energy, being trapped in a hanyou body.
“Uh oh. I think you switched bodies when you crashed into each other while I was casting the spell.”
“What did we hit, anyway?” Chrono asked looking around. They had hit the ground right near the Great Wall. It was almost like they had flown into the wall itself, though, that wasn't possible because the wall didn't extend high enough up.
The giant dragon was shaking off the daze of it’s crash landing and getting up. It was pissed. It took a wobbly step towards the wall, then turned on the group, roaring ferociously. It looked like it was about to attack, but before it was able to, long necrotic looking arms appeared out of the great wall and latched onto the enormous beast.
The dragon shrieked in protest and began to thrash, attacking the arms. Everyone backed up away from the wall and the raging dragon. The attacks were useless, more and more arms emerged from the wall and began pulling the flailing beast into the massive stone structure. The feathered monster was being consumed as it was crushed into the stone barricade. Waves of power rippled out along the surface of the great divider and up into the sky as the enormous creature was sucked into the mass of rock and its magic barrier. One final shriek was muted as the dragon’s head disappeared into the ancient stone.
“What the hell?!” Inuyasha said. Which sounded incredibly strange coming from Sesshomaru's mouth.
“There appears to be a barrier going up from the wall. That must be what we hit.” Miroku explained.
“Yeah I see the barrier, I can handle that. Did you not just see the wall eat that dragon? Am I the only one a little creeped out by that?” Inuyasha asked in the demon lord's voice.
“No, you’re definitely not the only one creeped out by that.” Chrono assured backing further away from the menacing wall.
Those gangly, rotting arms were finished with the dragon and had started reaching out towards the disoriented group. Everyone was forced to pull back further and wearily reach for their weapons.
Inuyasha was expecting tessaiga when he grabbed the hilt of his sword, instead using Sesshomaru's arm he unsheathed bakusaiga. He stared down at the sword and felt an amazing surge of energy. Sesshomaru's body was unbelievably powerful.
“Alright, this wall is coming down.” Inuyasha declared before charging headlong at it.
“Wait, lord- I mean, Inuyasha. Damn it this is confusing already.” Miroku griped. “Does he know what he's doing?”
Sesshomaru sighed before unsheathing tessaiga. “Hanyou, if you cause my body to be consumed, I will kill you.”
“Just shut up and use the red tessaiga to get us through this barrier.”
“I have no need of your instruction.”
They both glared at each other before leaping at the wall, swinging their swords. Tessaiga blazed red as it slashed into the barrier and bakusaiga glowed green as it seared into the decaying flesh of those outstretched arms.
The barrier rippled from the blow, shimmering waves of energy flowed outward from the point of impact but still the barrier remained. Row after row of limbs were severed with blinding speed, yet more continued to sprout from the wall. There seemed to be an endless supply.
Bakusaiga was able to prevent flesh from regenerating, however these arms all belonged to separate bodies, when one fell there was nothing to stop another from taking its place.
Sesshomaru growled in frustration after his third attempt at breaking through the barrier. “I am unaccustomed to this low level of power. How do you accomplish anything in this body hanyou?”
“Hey shut the hell up about my body, asshole. You just don't know how to use it right.”
“You are doing no better with mine.” Sesshomaru irritably growled.
“At least I've accomplished something.” Inuyasha growled back, gesturing to the mounds of severed limbs.
Sesshomaru glared at him and gestured to the wall still swarming with out-stretched appendages.
“Shut up.”
They both fell back with the rest of the group.
“So now what the hell are we going do? Can't go over it and going through it isn't working.” Inuyasha griped, resting the blade of bakusaiga over the shoulder of Sesshomaru's body, out of habit.
“We are returning to the nearest town to obtain what is needed for a counter spell. Then Lilly will immediately correct this glaring error and return me to my proper form. ….. Stop standing like that in my body, you look ridiculous.” Sesshomaru growled.
Lilly shrunk back away from the angry demon lord, who managed to be his usual menacing self, even in the hanyou's body. The rest of the group also took a cautious step back.
“Oh shut up, I'm not hurting your stupid body. … So where is the nearest town?” Inuyasha asked.
Sesshomaru was still seething so Chrono answered. “The one we just came from.”
“Damn it, it’ll take days to walk back that far.” Inuyasha griped.
“That is why we will run.” Sesshomaru informed, and then he used Inuyasha's body to take inu form and started running back in the direction they had come from.
Inuyasha huffed in aggravation because Sesshomaru left without them and the rest of the group turned to him, for what to do.
“We can ride on Kirara.” Sango offered, gesturing between herself and Miroku.
“I guess that means you three are riding with me.” Inuyasha sighed, transforming Sesshomaru's body to it's inu form. He crouched down to allow Lilly, Jaken and Chrono to climb aboard. Then Inuyasha sniffed at the air. Sesshomaru's nose was incredibly sensitive. He sniffed again something smelled absolutely wonderful.
When he shifted his attention to the pleasant smell, he could see his own inu form darting off into the skyline. 'Do I really smell that good to him? Wow it smells so sweet and yummy I just want to lick it.'
“Um we're all on Inuyasha … You can go now.” Lilly urged, looking at the distracted inu.
Inuyasha shook the scent out of his head and bolted off after the demon lord. Sesshomaru's nose wasn't the only sensitive part of his body and the other part was really liking that scent. 'Damn horny bastard.' He growled to himself as he ran.
As he raced through the sky, Inuyasha was just amazed by the strength of Sesshomaru's body, he felt like he could run this way for days and never even need a break.
It was easy catching up to Sesshomaru while using his own body against him. The problem was, that Sesshomaru was pushing Inuyasha's body to its limit, going as fast as he possibly could and poor Kirara couldn't keep up.
Inuyasha slowed down to keep pace with the fire neko and her two passengers. Knowing full well his own hanyou body would give out from fatigue at some point if Sesshomaru continued over exerting it the way he was. Then it would be a piece of cake to track the stubborn bastard down.
For the most part everyone was quiet while they traveled. Some time during the run, Lilly reached down and stroked her fingers through the silky strands of fur she was sitting on.
“I'm sorry the spell got messed up Inuyasha. At least on the plus side, when you do get your body back it won't have a tail anymore. I promise I'll do my best to fix this as soon as possible.” The neko assured.
Inuyasha looked back over his shoulder and gave her a nod. He knew the spell would have worked if they didn't crash, plus it was kind of fun being Sesshomaru for a while, so he didn't mind. With all this power and all this energy, it was no wonder the arrogant bastard always acted so high and mighty — he had everything to back it up.
It wasn't long before nightfall when Inuyasha determined that the scent of his own body had stopped getting ahead of them, and shortly after that it stopped moving altogether. 'Damn, took him long enough. That stubborn baka will be lucky if all the muscles don't lock up on him.' Inuyasha thought to himself. He remembered the first time he had ever done that, pushed so far past his body’s limit that the whole thing gave out and seized up in cramps.
When they finally reached Sesshomaru, he was laying collapsed on his side on the ground. Inuyasha could see his chest rising and falling in pants but that was the only movement he saw and it looked like that little bit was painful.
Inuyasha crouched to let everyone off then went over to the incapacitated demon lord trapped in a hanyou body. He stayed in inu form and lay down next to him crossing his paws and resting his head on them. The orange glow of sunset, cast over both of them.
Sesshomaru chuckled weakly, “This body refuses my orders… even when I am the one who possess it.” He spoke with his teeth gritted against the pain.
“It locked up on you didn't it?”
Sesshomaru didn't move or respond. He wasn't at all sure of how to deal with this very foreign sense of defeat. The pain he could endure, however the humiliation of lying there helplessly immobile was something he had never encountered before. Even in its worst condition, his own body could at the very least defend itself. As he lay staring blankly out into the approaching night, feeling nearly deaf, blind, and paralyzed, he wondered how the hanyou had ever survived all these years.
As the sun began to slip below the distant mountains, Inuyasha timidly sniffed at the air, growing a bit concerned. With Sesshomaru's nose, he could smell the scent of his hanyou body changing; it was getting weaker. He could smell the demon in its blood fading.
'Oh no.' He looked up. 'The new moon.' Inuyasha transformed Sesshomaru's body back to normal.
“Shit, um Sesshomaru ... I don't know how to tell you this but … you’re about to turn human.”
Sesshomaru didn't say anything, though looked as if he had just received a blow.
'Should I feel relieve that it is not as I though. That I am not dying.' The demon lord scornfully mused.
He closed his eyes and the barest whisper of a whine slipped past his lips as the hanyou body shifted down to nothing more than a mere, defenseless human. Sesshomaru had never been so humiliated in all his life; he almost preferred death to this form of inability. Now the body literally was blind and deaf in comparison to his usual demonic senses. On top of that, it was now in even more pain and was even less capable of protecting itself.
Their group of companions was keeping their distance but it was written in the atmosphere that everyone was concerned.
Inuyasha had never seen Sesshomaru with such a look of anguish; even if it wasn't on his own face, it was still his own emotion. The hanyou hadn't even known that Sesshomaru was capable of feeling things like that. It was strange and he wanted to make it go away. So, he found himself leaning down and scooping the little human version of himself into his arms.
“What are you doing? Release me at once.” Sesshomaru snapped.
“Relax; I can smell a hot spring less than a quarter mile ahead of us. I'm just going to bring you there to soak those muscles so you'll be able to move them.”
“Then I will walk there, now put me down.” Sesshomaru growled demandingly, which sounded funny in Inuyasha's human voice.
“You can't even stand, let alone walk.”
“I will make this body walk.”
“And break something in the process! It's my damn body, just shut up and let me carry it.” Inuyasha huffed.
“I refuse to allow this. If I can not walk on my own then leave me here.” Sesshomaru snapped, making every effort to struggle and getting absolutely nowhere.
Inuyasha ignored his protests and told everyone he'd be back, before leaping off with his irate captive.
Soon he was comfortably settled in the steaming water of a nice hot spring, with Sesshomaru cradled in his lap.
“Do you have any idea how much I hate you right now?” Sesshomaru asked glaring up at his own face.
“Hate away, you'll feel a whole hell of a lot better when you can move your arms and legs 'again'.” Inuyasha didn't intentionally say that word, yet as soon as it left Sesshomaru's lips, Inuyasha's human body reacted. Against his will, the demon lord trapped inside moaned in response.
Sesshomaru gave Inuyasha a look that could kill.
“No, I will feel a whole hell of a lot better if you do not repeat that word and when you stop poking me in the ass with my own dick.” Sesshomaru barked angrily, his choice of words that time sounded much more natural coming out of Inuyasha's mouth.
“It's not like I'm doing it on purpose, your damn body is horny all the fricken time. What the hell do you want me to do about it?”
“Put me down and ignore it until it goes away.”
Inuyasha's human body was loosening up enough now that Sesshomaru was able to make it sit up without help. Consequently, Inuyasha set him down on the bank of the springs and waded into the far end of the little alcove where it was too dark for human eyes to see.
“What are you doing?” Sesshomaru grumbled.
“Taking care of it.” Inuyasha grumbled back.
The hanyou looked curiously over Sesshomaru's body. This would be the first time he had ever gotten the chance to really explore it. He curled his fingers around the swollen length and started stroking, while he used the other hand to investigate the foreign physique.
He was glad human hearing was so dull, when a surprised moan escaped him. Those stripes really were sensitive; he traced a finger along the set of markings on Sesshomaru's pelvic bone and nearly cried out in pleasure. Slowly he tested each small cluster of demonic markings, searching for the most sensitive ones. His stroking became faster and more intense as he moved from set to set.
It was the magenta bands gracing Sesshomaru's cheekbones that were the most sensitive. A few caressing touches there and Inuyasha nearly howled in pleasure.
Meanwhile, Sesshomaru sighed in aggravation, even with ningen ears he could hear that moan. It annoyed him beyond comprehension that the hanyou was taking liberties with his body. This whole situation was so miserably indignant. When he found the wretched bitch responsible for that barrier and their current condition, he was personally going to see that she paid dearly for it. He was going to sear the flesh from her bones an inch at a time.
Out of habit, he raised a human hand out of the water and flexed poison claws that were not attached to the fingers. Looking disdainfully down at the frail, claw-less appendage he noticed something strange. The skin had begun to wrinkle.
When Inuyasha had finished his task, he came back over and sat down beside the grumpy demon lord. Sesshomaru showed the rumpled skin to him.
“What is the meaning of this? Does your ningen body age and wither so quickly?”
Inuyasha looked at the outstretched hand and laughed. “No, that happens to humans when they stay in the water too long. It looks like we better get you out before you turn into a prune.” Inuyasha reached to pick Sesshomaru up again.
“I can do it my self!” Sesshomaru protested, trying to get the weak, stiff human limbs to cooperate with him.
Inuyasha ignore the disapproval and scooped him up anyway. He carried the contentious demon lord to shore and laid him down on their pile of clothing. Then he crawled over top of him and tucked moko moko around his shoulders, gently massaging the sore body.
“What do you think you are doing?” Sesshomaru irritably asked.
“Trying to help you and keep you warm, plus I thought we could … you know.”
Sesshomaru raised a human eyebrow at him.
“Well just look at it, what the hell am I supposed to do?” He gestured to the still throbbing erection on Sesshomaru's body.
“Not this! I refuse to allow you to mount me.”
“That’s ok I don't care if you’re on top.” Inuyasha rolled over so his human body was propped up, resting between his legs.
“I do! I will not enter my own body.” Sesshomaru disgustedly informed.
Inuyasha frowned, a never used before, expression of disappointment donned Sesshomaru's face.
“Well fuck you then, I'll do it myself.” He set the human form back down in the bundle of clothing and fur, then scooted over away from him.
Sesshomaru watched through human eyes as Inuyasha put his fingers into his mouth, wetting them and then moved them down the striped body.
“Absolutely not! Nothing is getting inserted into my body.” Sesshomaru hastily declared.
Inuyasha turned and glared angrily back at him. He used the demon lord's own demonic speed against him and had the ningen body pinned beneath him before Sesshomaru even knew he had moved. “Then what the fuck am I supposed to do? Your damn body is so horny I can’t even think straight.”
“Inuyasha don't you dare.” Sesshomaru growled, pressing the human arms as hard as they were able, against the broad chest bearing down on him.
Inuyasha pressed the hard line of the demon lord's arousal firmly against the human body and leaned down to gently nibble at the rounded shell of his ear.
“Come on Sesshomaru, please.”
“And what exactly do you plan to do when my yokai wants to rip this frail body apart and you can not stop it. Even if I were inclined to submit, which I am NOT, you lack the will required to subdue my yokai. Losing control of it in this situation could prove fatal to us both.”
“Is it that difficult to control, or do you just think that I'm weak?” Inuyasha asked, pulling back and sitting on the ground next to him.
Sesshomaru sighed. “I have known from the start that you are not weak hanyou, and you have proven it countless times. However you are not prepared to deal with the full burden of my yokai in lust.”
Inuyasha gestured again to the perpetual erection. “I think I'm dealing with it now.”
Sesshomaru leveled a serious glare on him. “Unless you are fighting off the urge to rend your claws through this flesh, until you feel hot blood gushing through your fingers or contort a limb until the bone splinters, just to hear the screams of this voice; then you know nothing of my yokai in lust.”
“It, it … wants to do that to me.” Inuyasha quietly asked.
Sesshomaru turned away. “Wants, is a mild way of putting it.”
Inuyasha noticed the human body shivering. “Hey why didn't you say you were cold?” He pulled the fire rat kimono and hakama out from under the pile of clothing and handed them to him.
“I am fine.” Sesshomaru insisted.
“No, you're human right this minute and even a little cold could kill you so put this on.”
Sesshomaru reluctantly took the fabric and started putting it on. “How is it possible that you have survived this way your entire life?”
“I just learned to deal with it, that’s all.” Inuyasha stood up and put Sesshomaru's silk garments back on his body, but wrapped moko moko around the shoulders of his human body. Sesshomaru glared at him yet kept it there. Next Inuyasha picked up the armor, looking unhappily at it.
“I don't know how you wear this damn thing all the time.”
“It is a sign of status, ones armor reflects their rank. Also it may not be required but it does offer protection to my body.”
“Yeah well, it's uncomfortable as hell.” He put it on and fastened it in place. “I guess we better get back to the others before anything else goes wrong.”
Back with their group of companions, camp was already set up and they had a fire going. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru sat down with everyone around the warm, crackling blaze. Lilly came over to Sesshomaru to offer him a steaming cup of tea.
“I asked Sango if the herbs would be safe for humans, it's to help with the muscle cramping.” She explained.
Sesshomaru took the tea but didn't say anything. He slowly sipped the herbal drink and pointedly tried to ignore everyone.
“I've been doing some research and it looks like all I'll need for a counter spell are some river stone runes and a drop of blood from each of you.” Lilly assured.
“Well that sounds easy enough.” Inuyasha replied.
“Yep, you two will be back to normal as soon as we reach Kadesh's territory.”
That night, much to Sesshomaru's annoyance, Inuyasha took inu form and kept the little human body tucked between his paws and nestled in the soft warm fur of his chest. Sesshomaru had refused to put any warmer clothing on and that was Inuyasha's answer to his protests.
“How long am I to be stuck in the contemptible form?” The demon lord impatiently grumbled.
“You'll be hanyou agai- uh I mean… by morning.”
Sesshomaru glared at him for nearly saying the command word again.
“Just relax and try to get some sleep, you'll need it if you want to make it back to Kadesh's territory before dark tomorrow.”
“Sleep is the furthest thing from my mind.”
Eventually morning came and the group set out, once again taking to the sky. This time Sesshomaru managed to do a better job, moderating the abuse he inflicted on the hanyou's body.
As the terrain changed and they entered the snowy tundra once more, everyone with the exception of the two inu bundled into their warmer clothes again. They had salvaged the garments, along with a few other small items from the wreckage the day before.
Noontime came and the group stopped at a frozen lake to allow everyone a drink. Kirara was exhausted from trying to keep up with Inuyasha and Sesshomaru so she very much appreciated the rest.
While everyone else relaxed, Inuyasha was pacing back and forth sniffing at the ground, then pacing some more and sniffing at the air.
“What exactly are you smelling, hanyou?” Sesshomaru asked, rather irritated that the body he was in couldn't detect anything.
“Well I can't really smell anything ….” He scented the air again. “…. out of the ordinary. I just have this bad feeling.” He turned around to look at Sesshomaru. “Does your body do that often?”
“When something is wrong.”
“So how do I know what's wrong?”
Sesshomaru gave him a blank stare. “I am dog demon Inuyasha, not a psychic.”
Inuyasha frowned at him for stating the obvious, then went back to sniffing.
Less than two hours later the party of companions was forced to take shelter in a cave from a raging blizzard that had formed. The wind was blistering cold and pelting huge chunks of hail. The snow in the air was so thick they couldn't see past the cave opening.
Everyone sat quietly, huddled around a small fire.
“I wonder when the storm will pass.” Sango said, adding another stick she had found to the fire.
“Hopefully before the owner of this cave returns.” Miroku answered.
“There are no current occupants.” Sesshomaru informed, all the scents he had picked up were old and fading.
“Well this sucks.” Inuyasha grumbled. “Guess we know what was wrong now… The funny thing is, that feeling hasn't gone away.”
“Most likely the storm is going to get worse.” Sesshomaru commented.
The blizzard outside continued to churn and did get even worse. However, as the group waited for the furious weather to ebb, Inuyasha noticed a scent that he had never smelled before and it was moving in their direction. As the scent got stronger, the bad feeling intensified and Inuyasha knew it hadn't remained because of the storm.
Sesshomaru could smell it also now. Both inu stood and walked over to the cave entrance.
“I think we're about to have company.” Inuyasha warned.
“What is it?” Miroku asked.
“Polar bear demon.” Sesshomaru answered.
Lilly moved up between the two inu at the entrance. “Maybe it will go away if it can't get in.” She held up her staff and cast a barrier, blocking off the opening.
“Hey, good thinking. Will that keep it out?” Inuyasha asked.
“Unfortunately my barriers are not very strong. It won't last long if that bear really wants in.” Lilly fell back with the rest of the group to keep from being in the way.
The bear in question slammed head first into the barricade and caused the entire ice and stone hollow to shake from the concussive impact.
“That's a big bear.” Miroku exclaimed with a bit of worry.
The agitated creature stood at least fifteen feet tall on all four legs. It began battering its enormous paws into the weak barrier.
“That storm must be pretty nasty if it wants in this bad.” Inuyasha mused, preparing himself to attack as soon as the barrier came down.
There was suddenly a thunderous boom from outside, like something very large just hit the ground and the bear became frantic, trying to enter the cave. A resounding roar was all the warning they got before the bear, the cave, and the barrier were all impaled with a hailstorm barrage, containing hundreds of thick, jagged ice icicles.
Lilly's magic crumbled under the attack and some of the frozen spears rained into the cave. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru took the brunt of it. Sango took care of the rest with hiraikotsu.
“What the hell was that?” Inuyasha yelled.
Just then, a giant, scaly, taloned foot came down on the enormous bear and sunk its huge claws into the fallen demon's body.
“Ice dragon.” Chrono answered.
The dragon lowered it’s massive head, began ripping chunks out of the bear and eating them. Both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru slowly backed further into the cave with the rest of their group. There was no sense in starting a fight with the creature if it only wanted a meal.
“Why can't I smell it?” Inuyasha asked. Sesshomaru's nose could detect things miles away, yet this creature stood right at the cave opening and he couldn't pick up any scent.
“It's because they only carry the scent of the blizzard. The storm is caused when the dragon flaps its wings. That's why you have to be careful this far north, you never can tell if the storm is natural or caused by one of these guys.” Chrono explained.
The group resigned themselves to quietly watching the magnificent beast eat it’s prey, hoping that it would leave soon and take the storm with it.
The dragon did eventually leave, and the storm passed with it. Being full from the bear, it didn't trouble itself with the smaller occupants of the cave, allowing the company of travelers to once again set out for Kadesh's territory. It was long past nightfall when they finally arrived and most everyone was exhausted.
Inuyasha was surprised that Kadesh and her pack didn't come out to greet them this time. He and Sesshomaru had been expecting her. They led their group into the town with no resistance and found the inu demoness and her pack about to leave.
From a distance, Inuyasha could see and hear Felix outside Kadesh's tavern. The little neko was on the ground at Kadesh's feet and seemed to be quite distressed about something.
“Please, I beg that you let me go with you, she's the only family I have.” Felix pleaded.
“You are weak and have no fighting skill. You will only be in our way. I told you before your place is here. Now go back inside and do your job.” The woman harshly scolded before transforming and dashing off with the rest of her inu pack.
Felix was bowed over on the ground sobbing when Inuyasha ran up to him, still in Sesshomaru's body. He crouched next to the young demon and put a hand on his shoulder. He had to resist the urge to drag Kadesh back and demand that she apologize for yelling at the little neko.
“Felix what's wrong? Where are they going?” The little neko was a bit startled to see the demon lord beside him. “It's ok, it's me, Inuyasha. We had a little accident and switched bodies.”
The boy wiped at his eyes, then wrapped his arms around Inuyasha. “My sister lives in the village north of here, and right now it’s being attacked by those undead monsters. Kadesh won't let me go, but my sister is all I have left. She's the only reason I even work here. I have to do something to try and protect her.” Felix wailed.
Inuyasha looked to Sesshomaru, who had come to stand next to them with the rest of their group.
“We can't just sit here and do nothing! The litch queen might be with the creatures attacking.” Inuyasha gruffly asserted. It was a perfectly logical reason to go charging into battle and it had nothing to do with the neko's distressed, pleading voice or big, teary eyes.
Sesshomaru gave the hanyou an amused look, knowing full well the reason why Inuyasha wanted to go running to the rescue. However, he still supplied a nod in agreement. Then Sesshomaru turned to everyone else. “Inuyasha and I will go, the rest of you stay here with Lilly while she makes the counterspell.”
He and Inuyasha changed back into their true inu forms. The later of the two grabbed Felix and tossed him up onto his back.
“Hold on and hold on tight.” That was the only warning the neko got before both inu tore off into the night.
Miroku turned his attention to Lilly. “Where do you suppose we'll find a shop open at this hour of night?”
“Don't worry it will be easy, demon shops are open at all hours of the day and night so they can better cater to their different customers.” She explained while leading the way through town to a shop that would sell magical items.
The village to the north was in complete chaos when Inuyasha and Sesshomaru arrived. Huts were ablaze, sounds of screaming, shouting, and roaring filled the air and swarms of the undead dominated the streets. A man lay on the ground, shrieking in pain as a crowd of the monsters tore into his burning body. A hut nearby collapsed in flames and inside someone’s screaming stopped.
“Oh God, Nanally?! Where are you? NANALLY!!!” Felix called out at the top of his lungs, desperately hoping for an answer.
The pestilent beasts had surrounded Inuyasha and Sesshomaru the moment they set foot in the village and started attacking. The pair of inu arranged themselves side by side and back to back. They slashed, ripped, tore, and maimed the creatures, while dodging, to keep from being bitten or clawed.
Felix leaped from Inuyasha back and ran off into the chaos, screaming Nanally's name as he hysterically searched for his sister.
“Wait! Felix, damn it.” Inuyasha used the demon lord's acid-poison, quickly clearing the masses that had encircled them, and then dashed off after the frantic neko.
Felix raced past mobs of the monsters; he was dead-set on making it to his house. She had to be there, she had to be alive, he knew she was. His little heart was pounding as he rounded the last corner and found their house to be one of the many ablaze. He dove in through a broken window because the door was in flames.
“NANALLY!!! Please, you have to be here. Nanally!” The smoke was making it hard to breath and the falling ash and embers were making his eyes blurry. They would probably sting pretty badly if he could feel it, but he had to check everywhere. “Nanally!”
Inuyasha couldn't believe how fast the little neko could run, as he bounded through the streets searching; he had to follow Felix's scent because the boy had flat out disappeared the second Inuyasha took his eyes off of him.
When he found Felix, the little demon was hunched over something inside a burning hut that was about to come down on top of him. Inuyasha hurled himself into the flames, grabbed both Felix and the body he was clinging to, then leaped out in the nick of time. As he carefully set his cargo down on the road, the building crashed to the ground completely engulfed in flames.
Inuyasha looked down at his friend; the boy had huge streams of tears running from his eyes. The body he clung to was another neko, she was ripped open from her neck, down across her stomach and into her thigh. Parts of her insides were missing and others were hanging out of her body.
“Felix, I'm sorry, but you have to get away from her.” Inuyasha gently urged. He wasn't sure how long the victims took to turn into monsters but with Felix's neck so close to the girl’s open mouth, he wasn't waiting around to find out.
Felix clung tighter. “Nanally.” He quietly sobbed.
As the little neko grieved, Inuyasha saw one of the girl’s limp hands twitch, and then her tail.
Inuyasha snatched Felix away and held him back. They both watched his dead sister convulse a few times on the ground then weakly struggle into a sitting position.
“NO!!!!” Felix screamed in horror.
Inuyasha readied himself to attack. “That’s not your sister anymore Felix.”
The girl got to her feet and charged at them roaring in a course demonic tone, through broken vocal cords.
“I'm sorry.” Inuyasha whispered before crushing her head and body under one tremendous paw.
Felix lay in a blank sort of shock, absently gripping the fur at Inuyasha's back. He was in an empty daze, blankly staring out at the blurry lights from the fires all around them, while Inuyasha continued to slash and batter through their enemies. He was alone now, with no family, no loved ones and his only friend, an inu hanyou he'd only known for one night, Felix had no one. His sister had been everything to him and now she was gone.
The tiny prick of small claws as Felix clung to him only drove Inuyasha to fight harder. He didn't know the boy very well but no one deserved this. What was the goal of all this killing? So many villages attacked only to create more bodies. Was the zombie bitch trying to build an army? It was like Naraku all over again, always someone else fighting, while he hid in the shadows, calling the shots.
Eventually between, Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Kadesh and her pack all the undead were destroyed. Unfortunately, not much remained of the little village or its people.
Kadesh shook the globs of body matter and blood from her fur, then sauntered over to Sesshomaru, his mate and the little neko.
“Tell me cousin, did you not leave my lands only days ago? Why have you returned so quickly?” She directed the question at Inuyasha because she didn't know about the body switch. Sesshomaru answered from the hanyou's inu form.
“I have a minor dilemma my healer is currently engaged in finding a remedy to.”
Kadesh looked inquisitively at Inuyasha's inu form, then at Sesshomaru's.
“Yeah I'm not him.” Inuyasha answered from Sesshomaru’s body before she could ask.
“How curious.” She mused. “I would ask how it feels to be inside a hanyou's body, but then you knew the answer to that before this situation, did you not?”
Sesshomaru growled, “Kadesh, if you value your tongue, and I am assuming you do for your lack of proper equipment to please a woman, then I suggest you keep it safely closed behind your teeth so I will not feel inclined to remove it from you.”
Kadesh seethed over that remark, though she wisely followed his advice. On the way back from the northern village, Sesshomaru gave her the clipped version of what had happened and informed her that they would be leaving as soon as the problem was resolved.
Once they reached the town, where they had left their companions, Inuyasha coaxed Felix down off his back and Lilly set up to cast the counter spell that would switch their bodies back to normal.
She made a circle on the ground with the stones and had Inuyasha and Sesshomaru stand inside. Then she pricked each of their fingers and had them put the drop of blood on opposite sides of her staff.
“Ok now I can't stress to you enough how important it is that you don't move. So if you have to sneeze, cough, or blink, do it now.” Lilly warned.
“I think we learned that lesson already.” Inuyasha commented.
“Good so stop moving your mouth.” She snickered at the glare he gave her then started casting the spell. The usual bright blue flash and explosion of magic dust followed. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru looked at each other for a moment then Inuyasha sighed in relief.
“Man it feels good to be home.”
Sesshomaru simply walked out of the circle with his usual indifferent expression perfectly in place. Both parties were very relieved to be in their own skin again.
With that taken care of, everyone was preparing to leave. Felix quietly came up to Inuyasha and Sesshomaru; the poor little neko looked heartbroken.
“You're going to kill her aren't you? The litch queen.” He looked up with tears streaking through the ash covering his face. “Please, take me with you. ... There is nothing left for me here. ... I can't fight, but I can cook and I will stay out of your way. I would rather die, trying to put an end to this, than sit here and dishonor my sisters by crying and doing nothing.”
Those big red eyes were fierce and burned with an anger Inuyasha didn't know Felix was capable of. The hanyou sighed, as if this was a hard decision.
“You know if you go with us you're going to have to stay and you'll be forced to take orders from this big asshole.” He jabbed a thumb in Sesshomaru's direction.
“I don't mind, I'll do anything you ask, just please let me come.” Felix looked to Sesshomaru for acceptance.
The demon lord turned and started walking away. “Do as you please neko.”
The group exchanged warm, knowing smiles and welcomed Felix to the pack.
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Evil rising, Litch Queen of the western continent