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A Twist in the Myth
By : Dunkelgelb
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A Twist in the Myth
Chapter 17: Hanyou Ascension – pt. 2

Chapter summary: InuYasha succumbs to the transformation caused by the oni Kuno’s venomous bite, becoming a massive bipedal, green-skinned demonic beast that Kagome compares to the Incredible Hulk of her own time. Per Myoga’s advice, Sesshomaru takes drastic action to spare InuYasha from a life as such a creature, and to prevent him from harming anyone…
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(Continued from pt. 1)
            A terrible, powerful roar, distressed rather than menacing, resounded from the mountain where Sesshomaru had tossed InuYasha just a few moments before. Great flocks of birds, sleeping up until that moment, fled their nests by its report. To Sesshomaru and all the others, InuYasha sounded to still be in great pain. The daiyoukai knew he had to act immediately and he looked down among InuYasha’s pack gathered around him. He focused his attention on Kagome. “Kagome. The subjugation necklace that InuYasha wears – you can activate it, correct?” he asked.
            “Yes,” Kagome answered truthfully, yet anxiously.
            Sesshomaru extended a hand toward the miko from the future. “Good. Come with me.”
            Kagome turned to Miroku and handed Myoga off to him, then faced Sesshomaru again. With only a little hesitation, she stepped closer to the demon lord, taking his hand as he offered. Grasping Kagome’s hand securely, Sesshomaru spoke to the rest of InuYasha’s pack. “The rest of you, follow as quickly as you are able. Kagome and I may need all of your help before this is over.”
            With that, Sesshomaru scooped Kagome off her feet and summoned his youki to rise into the air, high above InuYasha’s other friends and the surrounding village. Once he felt he had reached an appropriate altitude, he remembered how Saito reacted to what he was about to do, and he warned to Kagome: “Brace yourself.”
            Kagome barely managed a ‘What?’ before Sesshomaru morphed them both into a sphere of demonic light, as he had done earlier with InuYasha and Saito. Moving as sentient ball lightning, they accelerated toward the nearby mountain, with Sesshomaru guiding them to roughly the spot where he saw InuYasha land after hammer-tossing him out of Keiji’s house and Saito’s village. Descending through the ragged hole that InuYasha’s body had made in the mountain forest canopy, the daiyoukai reverted himself and his miko passenger to humanoid form, setting her down onto the forest floor carefully and not releasing her completely until he was sure she wasn’t going to collapse from sudden nausea.
            Fortunately, Kagome had a much stronger stomach than Saito, having developed it from years of riding on InuYasha’s or Shippo’s backs, during hard maneuvers in and out of battle. She experienced only momentary dizziness and steadied herself upon her feet to immediately find the crater that InuYasha made in the forest floor when he crashed through the canopy above. A trail of broken trees led away from the crater, creating a jagged fissure in the canopy. It was as a path for her and Sesshomaru to follow.
            “Look,” Kagome pointed to the swath of destruction in front of her.
            Sesshomaru nodded. “Yes. Follow me,” he said, deliberately placing himself ahead of Kagome in order to be the first presented with danger, if it appeared.
            Together, Sesshomaru and Kagome moved on foot through the dark mountain forest, the only light being that which shone down through the ruined canopy from the waning half-moon above. Sesshomaru limited his speed so that Kagome could keep pace. Wisely, Kagome wore not the wooden sandals of a 16^th-century miko, but a pair of hiking boots from her own time, ones that allowed her to move over the uneven terrain relatively quickly and with good stability.
            The path that InuYasha inadvertently left for Sesshomaru and Kagome took them toward the summit of the mountain and soon, they could hear the hanyou warrior’s voice resounding through the forest before them. It had become even more warped, bestial, and animalistic than before, the pain and desperation in it gnawing at Kagome’s heart. Reaching the summit, they found InuYasha sitting on his knees in a grassy clearing there, the waning half-moon hung directly above them all.
(Soundtrack: Darkane – Wrath Connection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zt-5YarEk
            InuYasha hunched over, clutching at a bare side with his one, normal-sized arm while he used his giant, oni-sized one to claw at the ground. The oni transformation continued to ravage his body, and Sesshomaru could hear a series of unsettling, cartilage-cushioned creaks and pops emanating from his skeleton. He and Kagome watched with mounting horror as the hanyou warrior’s entire body grew before their eyes, just as Kuno’s had. What had begun in Keiji’s house a few minutes earlier was about to reach completion. Stumbling clumsily as he forced himself onto his rapidly-expanding feet, InuYasha gave another earth-shaking roar, howling to the starry night sky and the moon as his overall skeletal and muscular structure quadrupled in size and mass in a matter of seconds. His shoulders, ribs, and arms bulked out in erratic, asymmetrical spurts of growth, the rest of his body following suit. When the growth finally evened out and ceased, he stood nearly ten feet tall and weighed more than a thousand pounds, not nearly the size of Kuno, but still relatively huge.
            The red Fire-Rat hakama InuYasha wore fit quite loosely for his legs’ normal size, but in his hulking oni state, it could barely contain them. His legs became as tree trunks made of solid, green-skinned muscle and his hakama stretched taut, ripping open around their incredible girth. Similarly, the growth of his waist had broken the ties that held his hakama above his hips and now, his hakama remained in place by sheer friction alone. His ivory mane grew to match his new height. In his normal form, his mane had been four feet long against his overall height of six feet. Now, his mane alone was six feet long, a great mass of ivory hair that shimmered in the moonlight and billowed in the gentle mountain breeze.
            InuYasha’s subjugation necklace of enchanted beads, made by Kaede years earlier, sensed the changes in the size of its wearer’s body and changed its own size to match. If it hadn’t, it wouldn’t have been so much a necklace, but a collar for an especially unusual kind of very large, coatless, green-skinned dog. By the effect of Kaede’s miko magic, the cord binding the beads extended in length and the beads themselves scaled up in size so that no gaps between them existed.
            The transformation complete, InuYasha felt his bizarre growing pains ease and he grew strangely quiet, standing up straight to reach his full, ten-foot height. The whites of his eyes glowing bright, demonic red and his irises as vertical slits that glowed incandescent green, he stared up at the moon as if in wonder, its silent rays seeming to speak to him. His breath flowing in and out of his nose in loud, vigorous movements of air, his transformed heart beat potently in his enlarged, furry dog ears, a hard, rhythmic, incredibly powerful ba-BUMP, ba-BUMP that both Sesshomaru and Kagome could feel. Then, after a few moments of silence, his upper lip curled back over his sharp incisors and his whole squarish, hulking green face contorted into an enraged sneer as he snarled out at the moon, the sound his mighty lungs produced seeming to shake the mountain beneath him.
            Seething with irrational, moon-induced rage, InuYasha stomped over to a nearby tree, his giant feet pounding upon the ground by their size, weight, and the power of the muscles driving them. Sinking the massive, clawed fingers of both hands through the tree’s outer bark and into the wood within, he heaved upward with a deep grunt, the vast amounts of muscle in his arms, chest, and abdomen bulging with unimaginable strength as he ripped the tree right out of the ground, roots and all. The sound of the tree’s roots snapping was that of hundreds of matchlock muskets firing in a single, thunderous volley. Balancing the entire tree upon one giant hand, a fully-grown oak that weighed perhaps thousands of pounds, InuYasha turned, then jogged forward and cast the tree at the moon as an ad-hoc javelin, seeking to knock the moon out of the sky.
            Strong as he might be, even InuYasha couldn’t accelerate an object like an oak tree to sufficient velocity to actually hit the moon. If he had, the tree would have simply burned up in the air well before making it out into space. Still, the tree flew an impressive distance, leaving a trail of leaves fluttering in the air behind it as it arced back down to earth and crashed into forest some hundreds of yards down the mountain slope.
            Sesshomaru and Kagome were both suitably impressed with InuYasha’s display of raw physical strength. The daiyoukai was seriously wary of his brother’s abilities now, while the miko from the future was mildly terrified. Perhaps more worryingly to Kagome, InuYasha reminded her of someone she had seen before, or at least seen and read about through televised news and the Internet during her periodic visits home. It was an idea that had been on her mind since she first witnessed Kuno in his super-oni form. She was reminded of a person from her own time, a certain American man who could supposedly transform into a giant green, rage-filled brute and throw things, hit things, run and jump further, faster, and with far more destructive power than any ordinary human and maybe some youkai she’d met. The TV and Internet news identified him as U.S. nuclear physicist Dr. Bruce Banner, attaching a catchy moniker: The Incredible Hulk.
            Kagome wondered: if InuYasha was now the 16^th-century Japanese analogue to her time’s Incredible Hulk, what should she call him? The ‘Incredible InuYasha?’ ‘Oni-Yasha?’ The ‘Inu-credible Hulk?’ Or simply ‘InuHulk?’ Whatever term she decided on, she knew that she and Sesshomaru had to get him under control before he could hurt anyone.
            InuYasha sensed Sesshomaru and Kagome’s presence and whirled around with a deep growl to put them directly in front of him. Now they could see the dramatic effect of the oni transformation on his face. To Kagome, the hanyou hulk looked very much like the Hulk from her time, animalistic yet strangely, ruggedly handsome at once. His skull and facial bones had enlarged, his face becoming broader and more as a rounded, sloping square toward the chin. Generally, his facial features had all scaled up, yet spaced out to a greater degree, his wide mouth separated from his seemingly scrunched-up nose by a very tall, smooth upper lip. His brows had swelled up and bulged out in Neanderthal fashion, casting his eyes in deep shadow and accentuating their demonic glow.
            Looking upward from InuYasha’s brows, Kagome took some small relief in finding that his furry white dog ears, perhaps her favorite part of his unique half-demon appearance, had remained largely intact. They had grown along with his ivory mane, protruding up and out from his hair by the same relative amount as before and retaining their own fine, white hair. Their pink interior had become a light shade of green. Had the situation not been so dangerous, Kagome might have marched forward, tugged InuYasha’s head down by one of his ivory forelocks, and started playing with them!
            For his own part, Sesshomaru was less concerned with the finer points of InuYasha’s new appearance than he was with the sheer amount of muscle the hanyou warrior had put on. His neck alone looked like a short, squat green mountain. Kuno had been trouble enough on his own, so Sesshomaru couldn’t predict how he would measure up to an oni-fied, hulked-out InuYasha. He stepped forward cautiously, gesturing for Kagome to remain behind him. “InuYasha,” he spoke, gauging the hanyou hulk’s reaction to his own name. InuYasha’s big white dog ears twitched and rotated with interest, focusing on Sesshomaru as the daiyoukai drew closer. “Do you recognize me?”
            “Rrrr…” InuYasha vocalized, his vocal cords seeming to have been warped in his throat. Words were clearly difficult for him. “Sssss…’Shomaru…”
            “Yes,” Sesshomaru encouraged to his hulking brother. The violent madness InuYasha exhibited in Keiji’s house seemed to have passed, leaving him in a childlike state – unstable, prone to violent outbursts, but generally calm. Carefully, without making any sudden movements, Sesshomaru slipped Tetsuseiga out from under his obi, glancing down at it as he held it crosswise in his hand. It pulsed insistently within its scabbard, sensing its master’s plight and eager to be reunited with him. “Your sword calls to you, InuYasha. Take it.”
            Sesshomaru held Tetsuseiga out to InuYasha and with visible hesitation, the hanyou hulk crept forward on all fours as a huge, feral animal, his nose twitching as he constantly sniffed the air for danger. He came within feet of Sesshomaru, easily dwarfing him, and the daiyoukai stood his ground boldly, lifting Tetsuseiga until it was level with the hanyou warrior’s glowing eyes. InuYasha reached out with a single, massive green hand, closing his fingers around Tetsuseiga’s long hilt and completely covering it. The great fang spoke to his blood, calming it in his veins.
            InuYasha closed his eyes, crooning as if in relief as Tetsuseiga worked its effect on him. He opened his eyes again and his green, slit-like irises widened into ordinary circles, their color shifting back to gold, still surrounded by glowing blood red. “Sess…Sesshomaru!” he struggled, not truncating Sesshomaru’s name this time. His voice remained very deep, rasping, and gravelly, like that of Kagome’s ‘Hulk,’ but now, there was some measure of sanity behind it.
            “Yes, InuYasha, I’m here,” Sesshomaru comforted to his brother. “Kagome is here, as well. The others are on their way.”
            “Sesshomaru…help. Help me!” InuYasha pleaded.
            “I will,” Sesshomaru promised. “You’re in this state because the oni bit you. Myoga says I can cure you of this…condition…with my own bite. Do you understand?”
            “Bite,” InuYasha repeated, screwing his eyes shut and shaking his big green, ivory-haired head from side to side. The hanyou warrior’s mind was scrambled by the oni transformation and the word ‘bite’ conjured mental snapshots of the moment when Kuno opened his mouth to reveal his hideous fangs, followed by the mind-bending pain of those fangs plunging into his flesh and unleashing their venom. He opened his eyes again and their golden irises reverted to incandescent green slits. His lips curled back to bare gleaming white teeth as he roared into Sesshomaru’s face. “Grrr…bite. Bite! NO BITE!”
            Stripping Tetsuseiga from Sesshomaru’s grasp, InuYasha shot up into a standing position before the daiyoukai, towering over him by three whole feet. Angrily, he cast Tetsuseiga off into the forest and raised both massive arms high, clenching his clawed hands into hard fists and slamming them back down to try and drop them right onto Sesshomaru’s head. Sesshomaru leapt back out of the way and InuYasha’s fists bore down into the ground where he had just stood, crushing the solid earth in with ease.
            Kagome felt the shock of InuYasha’s double-fisted blow travel through the ground, shuddering past her beneath her feet. Keeping himself between her and InuYasha, Sesshomaru glanced at her over a shoulder. “The necklace,” he said, returning his attention to InuYasha as the hanyou hulk lumbered forward at him, moving and speeding up to attack again. “Use it!”
            Seeing InuYasha’s violent disposition, Kagome hardly needed Sesshomaru to tell her a second time. “InuYasha!” she called, the tone of her voice speaking not only to the hanyou hulk, but also to the enchanted necklace he still wore. The necklace’s beads began to glow softly, as if Kagome had alerted them to stand by for the dreaded ‘S’ word. “SIT!”
            InuYasha leapt at Sesshomaru and the beads in his subjugation necklace glowed much more brightly as Kagome spoke the activation word aloud. Together, they yanked all thousand-plus pounds of him downward by the neck mid-leap, causing him to nosedive into the ground with a loud cry and dig out a long, deep trough in it by the sheer speed and power with which he had been moving. He came to rest at Sesshomaru’s booted feet, snarling and clawing as a very large, powerful, and thoroughly wild animal, but otherwise restrained by his necklace.
            With InuYasha flat on his face for the moment, Sesshomaru saw an opportunity to give the hanyou hulk his bite. He summoned two glowing orbs of his youki into each of his palms and cast them down at InuYasha. At the end of the orbs’ flight, just before they contacted InuYasha’s green skin, they changed shape, becoming as short segments of their creator’s youki whip. They curved into open-ended, ‘U’-shaped shackles and slipped over InuYasha’s wrists and ankles, their ends sinking deep into the earth and flaring out at sharp angles to firmly bind the hanyou hulk to the ground.
            Sesshomaru jumped onto InuYasha’s broad, muscled back. Even with his arms and legs shackled to the ground, the hanyou hulk still fought to shake the daiyoukai off him. Undaunted, Sesshomaru shoved InuYasha’s giant ivory mane to one side to expose a shoulder and part of his neck, then willed his upper incisors to lengthen. “Forgive me for this,” he said, just before he lowered his head to InuYasha’s shoulder, near the place where Kuno had bitten him, and sank his teeth into the hanyou hulk’s green flesh.
            And Sesshomaru’s teeth bounced off!
            Sesshomaru recoiled from the strange sensation of almost the full force of his bite reflecting off InuYasha’s green, muscle-filled skin and traveling back up into his gums. Stunned for a moment, he closed back in and bit down much harder, struggling to break through his brother’s tough green hide. Driven by the pain of Sesshomaru gnashing his teeth into his shoulder, InuYasha began to fight back far more violently, his transformed voice producing one unintelligible bestial expletive after another. The ground surrounding one of Sesshomaru’s youki shackles securing InuYasha’s arms failed abruptly, and while wearing a clod of that crumbling, youki-bound earth around his wrist, the hanyou hulk reached back to grab the daiyoukai by a silk-clad leg. He ripped Sesshomaru off his back and as if throwing a child’s toy, he flung his roughly 300-pound armored body off into the nearby trees.
            Breaking himself free from Sesshomaru’s remaining shackles, InuYasha forced himself onto his feet, the power of Kagome’s first ‘sit’ fading quickly. Kagome’s heart pounded as InuYasha looked squarely at her, bloodthirsty rage glowing in his eyes. She had no idea where Sesshomaru was, at that moment, so she knew that like InuYasha against Kuno earlier in the day, she was alone in facing her hanyou love. Clearing her throat, she spoke the activation word again before InuYasha could move. “Sit!”
            The subjugation necklace glowed and yanked InuYasha down by his neck again. This time, he seemed to anticipate it, bending his knees and extending a huge green palm toward the ground so that the necklace pulled him into a kneeling position, instead of onto his face. He stood again, visibly slowed by the necklace but overcoming it bit by bit. “Nnngh…” he grunted as the necklace tugged continuously at his thickly muscled neck. Right then, he resisted a force equal to several times that of Earth’s gravity. “Woman say ‘sit,’ make Inu fall. Inu SMASH Sit Woman!”
            InuYasha charged at Kagome and with his subjugation necklace no longer having much effect, the miko from the future knew she stood no chance of outrunning him. Crouching and summoning her reiki about her, she formed a shimmering, spherical barrier of it around herself and ducked her head, squeezing her eyes shut as the hanyou hulk bore down on her. His giant green fists slammed into her barrier, seriously straining it as the shock of the double blow blasted out into the surrounding forest, shaking the trees in a radial pattern.
            Kagome shrieked as InuYasha snarled and pounded away at her barrier. She could feel it weakening rapidly, requiring her to feed reiki into it constantly to keep it up. “InuYasha, stop!” she begged of him. “Stop, please!”
            InuYasha’s shattered Kagome’s barrier without much more effort. As it collapsed around her, she fell onto her rear, scrambling back away from him. He advanced upon her, looming over her with his incredible size, and he twisted his enormous upper body to one side as he drew a hand back. He wound up to deliver a vicious, utterly brutal backhand to her terrified face, one that could easily shatter her jaw and break her neck.
            Then, several glowing bolts of magic green fire seared down from the sky above the mountain, raking over InuYasha’s chest and abdomen and exploding forcefully to knock him away from Kagome. Kagome cried out, covering her face with one of her haori’s white sleeves to shield it from the blast and the heat. With Shizu and Shiori riding on his back, Shippo dove down on her and InuYasha in his Fire-Fox form. Once close enough to the ground, Shiori reached down to snatch Kagome up by the rear collar of her haori, her hanyou strength allowing her to easily haul the stunned miko onto Shippo’s saddle. As InuYasha reeled from his Hard Fire blasts, Shippo zoomed back up into the sky, taking himself and his passengers well out of the hanyou hulk’s reach.
            “God, Kagome!” Shizu exclaimed, looking down at InuYasha in awe and terror of his new appearance, then back behind her at her miko friend. Kagome was visibly pale by how close InuYasha had come to killing her. “Are you all right?”
            Kagome couldn’t find the breath to say anything in reply. From her new vantage point in the sky, she looked down at InuYasha as Shizu did, contemplating him for the mindless beast he had become. Now, the capacity for indiscriminate violence of his full demon form had joined with Kuno’s brutish oni size and strength. Sesshomaru had tried to give him his bite and apparently, the daiyoukai had failed. She wondered: what could they do for him? What?
            InuYasha clutched his smoldering chest where Shippo’s fire bolts had hit him, and through his tussled ivory bangs, he glowered at the Fire Fox as he and his passengers orbited the mountaintop high above him. Baring his teeth, he crouched low, aiming his entire body at Shippo, then leapt. His thousand-pound form shot through the air as a giant green missile, his ‘ordinary’ superhuman hanyou agility vastly amplified by the oni transformation.
            Kagome, Shizu, and Shiori all saw InuYasha flying toward them as they rode Shippo’s back. “Shippo, climb! Climb!” Kagome cried out to the fox demon carrying herself and her friends. Swiftly, Shippo nosed upward and accelerated hard, causing InuYasha to pass just underneath him. All three of Shippo’s passengers clung to his saddle for dear life as he ascended, the pitch of InuYasha’s hulking voice snarling past them seemingly raised, then abruptly lowered by the ‘Doppler’ effect.
            Missing Shippo narrowly, InuYasha fell back down to the forested mountain beneath him, his huge, heavy body crashing through its trees and totally demolishing a few of them. Sighting Shippo in the sky through the hole in the canopy he made, he jumped after him again, but as he cleared the canopy, his sensitive hanyou ears cocked to one side, allowing him to hear the distinctive, cycling whoosh of Sango’s Hiraikotsu spinning through the air. The great bone boomerang skimmed the tops of the trees and angled upward in the last few yards of its flight to slam into InuYasha’s side. The hanyou hulk turned mid-air and slapped it away from him with a deep grunt, deflecting it in such a way that it continued to fly on a different path.
            His momentum interrupted, InuYasha landed in the clearing at the top of the mountain again, forgetting about Shippo and focusing his attention on Sango. Riding Kirara with Miroku sitting behind her, Sango guided the big neko to intercept and recover Hiraikotsu. The beautiful taijiya reached out to the boomerang and caught it with a single hand, pulling its leather hand loop to her shoulder as if to throw it again. Wisely, she and her houshi lover kept close watch on InuYasha, preparing to evade as the hanyou hulk jumped after them.
            Just as InuYasha’s big green feet left the ground, a rope of glowing green youki coiled around one of his ankles, arresting his flight and bringing him back down to the ground with an unceremonious thud. It was a youki whip, and Sesshomaru held the other end of it.
(Soundtrack: Edguy – Under the Moon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3_Jw5-pvJQ
            His clothes and armor a little scuffed up from being tossed through three or four trees, Sesshomaru’s golden eyes glowed with determination as he reeled his youki whip in to drag InuYasha across the grassy ground. “InuYasha. I don’t know if you can understand me, but I won’t let you hurt your friends, especially your women,” he said, pulling InuYasha toward him. “If you’re going to fight someone, fight me.”
            With Sesshomaru’s youki whip still wrapped around his ankle, InuYasha sat up upon the ground and took hold of his end of the whip, rising onto his feet to pull it taut and engage in the ultimate ‘tug of war’ with his daiyoukai brother. Sesshomaru felt his booted feet sliding across the dewy grass and he erected an invisible, immovable wall of his youki in front of him to give himself the resistance he needed. He ceased to slide and he grit his teeth as he pulled on his whip with both hands, the tension in the whip building ever higher. Now, it was InuYasha’s feet that slid across the ground. Sesshomaru’s humanoid body concealed enormous strength and with non-Newtonian friction on his side, even the great, terrible InuHulk couldn’t budge him.
            InuYasha dug his feet into the ground, the blood vessels in his arms and neck straining as he reared back, pulling with all his might, and Sesshomaru’s eyes gave a mysterious flash. The daiyoukai’s youki whip snapped at his silent command, causing InuYasha to stumble backward with a cry, completely off-balance. With blinding speed, Sesshomaru dissolved his invisible youki wall and rushed forward. Crossing several dozen yards of open grass in less than a second, he planted the heels of both feet against InuYasha’s face, giving his kick a youki boost to knock the hanyou hulk clean off the whole mountain.
            Sesshomaru kicked InuYasha down the side of the mountain opposite Saito’s village, and he watched the hanyou hulk fall into empty forest. For what the daiyoukai planned to do next, it was vital that he and InuYasha were as far away from innocent bystanders as possible. He began to move forward again, his youki aura flaring out for Kagome to see and feel.
            By Kagome’s instruction, Shippo landed on the grass near Sesshomaru, in front of him and off to one side. “Sesshomaru!” Kagome called, dismounting Shippo from between Shizu and Shiori. She jogged over to the daiyoukai’s side. Initially, she thought to ask him about his own well-being, as she had seen InuYasha throw him through several big, sturdy trees, but the intensity and the unique spiritual ‘wavelength’ of his aura changed the topic on her mind. She realized that she had felt such energy from Sesshomaru once before, back in the extra-dimensional tomb of the Inu no Taisho. “What are you going to do?”
            Sesshomaru stopped and looked down at Kagome. “I won’t kill InuYasha,” he assured. “But the only way to turn him back from this…hulk…is to give him my bite. For that, I need bigger teeth.”
            Kagome watched as Sesshomaru’s eyes flooded over blood red, his golden irises turning glowing green. His handsome face began to warp and elongate, his mouth stretching out and filling up with very long, razor sharp teeth. His skin became as white fur. Kagome turned and ran from him, not necessarily out of fear, but out of wanting to simply get out of his way. Jumping onto Shippo’s back again, she ordered to her Fire Fox friend: “Fly, Shippo!”
            Shippo rose into the sky, pulling back to a safe distance to allow himself and his passengers to watch as Sesshomaru gave himself over to his ‘true’ form. His body dissolved into a cloud of luminescent pink gas, coalescing into a dense, sentient projectile that danced and trailed around the mountain clearing. It shot up into the sky, then slammed back down to the ground to expand to a width of several dozen yards, flowing away to reveal a white, shaggy-haired dog.
            A demonic dog that weighed 10,000 pounds – five whole tons - and stood thirty feet tall!
            His giant, white-haired canine head reaching well above the top of the forest canopy around him, Sesshomaru howled at the moon above, his transformed voice shaking the entire countryside and surely reaching InuYasha’s ears. He took off running, bounding down the mountain’s forested slope and making his way to the place he had kicked InuYasha a few moments before.
            Peeling himself out of the crater his body made in the forest floor when it landed, InuYasha heard Sesshomaru’s howl and stood up to see the transformed daiyoukai heading straight for him. Sesshomaru moved at top speed, dodging and weaving around some trees, knocking others over completely. InuYasha met him head-on, charging across the ground and leaping with fists held high.
            And with a big, white paw, Sesshomaru smacked InuYasha aside like a hulking green insect. Helplessly, InuYasha tumbled along the ground by the force of the blow, and by the time he righted himself, Sesshomaru was already upon him again. Pawing along on all fours, the giant dog demon lowered his head close to the ground and captured InuYasha’s midsection in his huge, fanged mouth. Clamping down hard enough to hold InuYasha securely without biting him in half, he turned his head toward the sky and leapt into it, out of the forest. Using his youki, Sesshomaru ascended at a steep angle, accelerating to the point that a ‘shock cone’ of rapidly-condensing air formed around his muzzle as he broke the speed of sound.
            All the while, InuYasha pounded upon the side of Sesshomaru’s long snout with both fists as he tried to escape. The daiyoukai resisted the mounting pain with steely discipline, continuing his climb until he and InuYasha were thousands of feet above the ground. Slowing down in the air, he flipped himself end for end and dove, breaking the sound barrier again and this time, going so fast that he could feel heat building up on his triangular dog nose.
            Less than a second before hitting the ground, Sesshomaru opened his mouth to release InuYasha and ‘braked’ by turning his body perpendicular to the airflow. Screaming, the hanyou hulk dropped away from him and augured into the earth, his body smashing the dirt aside until he was submerged in it up to his knees, starting from his head. Sesshomaru landed near him and with a soft bite, the daiyoukai tugged him out by a flailing ankle, dropping him onto his back.
            Sesshomaru kept his promise to Kagome, for InuYasha continued to breathe. Planting a paw over the unconscious hulk’s lower body, Sesshomaru shrunk himself down until he was around a third of his maximum size. He matched the width of his canine jaw to the width of one of InuYasha’s oni-sized shoulders, planting his long, dog demon teeth there and biting down.
            This time, Sesshomaru’s teeth broke through. His upper incisors reaching maximum depth in InuYasha’s green flesh, the venom-filled glands at their roots contracted potently, driving their contents down through the fangs’ venom channels and out into the hulking hanyou’s blood. InuYasha came awake at the pain of such a deep, hard bite, seeing nothing but open sky and white fur. Soon, his whole world began to spin inside his head as his brother’s venom reached his brain, attacking Kuno’s venom at the molecular level and repairing the damage it had done.
            Riding Shippo, Kagome, Shizu, and Shiori reached the skies above Sesshomaru and InuYasha, followed by Miroku and Sango atop Kirara, then Jaken and Rin atop Ah-Un. Myoga clung to Miroku’s houshi robes, climbing over their various wrinkles and creases to catch sight of the inu brothers far below. “Look! He’s done it!” the flea exclaimed in jubilation at Sesshomaru’s success.
            Shippo, Kirara, and Ah-Un swooped down together to allow their passengers a better look without getting too close too soon. Having given InuYasha a full dose of his venom, Sesshomaru released his jaws from the hanyou warrior’s shoulder, backing away to observe the results. Sure enough, InuYasha began to change, the color of his skin reverting from olive green to that of his ordinary, bronzed flesh. His muscles and bones shrank inside him, his whole body shedding mass – nearly 800 pounds of it - in the form of vast amounts of heat. Soon, he lay on the ground as normal, drenched in sweat and wearing a stretched, ripped version of his red hakama, but otherwise normal.
            After a minute or so, InuYasha opened his eyes, blinking to focus as intense dizziness continued to ravage him. “Ungh...” he groaned. As his sight cleared up, he saw Sesshomaru standing over him, still in his demonic dog form. No longer a mindless oni hulk, he tried to sit up, but every single one of his muscles protested at once and he sank back down to the ground. “Fuck…Sesshomaru? Is that you?”
            Sesshomaru studied InuYasha closely, his giant red eyes searching the hanyou warrior up and down for any trace of green. He found none. He snorted in acknowledgement, then changed back to his humanoid form for InuYasha and every member of their two packs to see. Kagome and all the others took this as a sign of safety. Shippo, Kirara, and Ah-Un landed nearby to let their passengers dismount, and Kagome ran the fastest, rushing to InuYasha’s side.
            “InuYasha! InuYasha!” Kagome cried as she pulled her hanyou love into her lap, squeezing him to her.
            For his own part, InuYasha gave a pained laugh, enjoying Kagome’s warmth and scent as his abused body cried for mercy. “Kagome…ungh. Heh…let up, will you? You’re killing me!”
            Kagome released InuYasha just enough to let him breathe and as Sesshomaru had done, she frantically searched his body for any patches of green. This led InuYasha to ask: “What the fuck just happened?”
            InuYasha’s friends looked among themselves, not knowing where to begin. “Let’s start with what you remember,” Sesshomaru suggested.
            Sitting up with Kagome’s assistance, InuYasha thought carefully. “The last thing I really remember is that oni, Kuno. I was fighting him, and then he bit me. He fucking bit me! After that, I don’t remember much, just bits and pieces.”
            “Kuno did bite you,” Kagome confirmed. “You had a very…pronounced reaction to his venom. You became oni.”
            InuYasha looked at Kagome, seeing utter seriousness in her ethereal blue eyes. “Oni, as in the same…thing that Kuno turned into?” he asked. Kagome nodded and all of InuYasha’s other friends added their confirmation. The hanyou warrior realized he was naked from the waist up, and he looked down to find his Fire Rat hakama stretched out and ripped as if Kuno had tried to wear them in his oni hulk form. In a sense, that was exactly what happened. Worriedly, InuYasha asked further: “Did I hurt anyone?”
            “Thankfully, no,” Kagome said to InuYasha’s relief, before anyone could say anything else. A ‘no’ was true enough and right then, InuYasha probably didn’t need to know how close he had come to smashing her into paste.
            “Oh, shit,” InuYasha cursed as the reason he fought Kuno in the first place returned to his mind. With great effort, he forced himself onto his feet, bunching part of the stretched-out waist of his hakama into a hand to keep it from falling down. “Saito’s daughters! How are they?”
            “They are unharmed,” Sesshomaru said. “Shippo took them directly to their parents.”
            “And Kuno?”
            “Dead, and in two pieces.”
            “Good,” InuYasha exhaled, nodding at Sesshomaru and Shippo in approval. Looking around him for a moment, he saw nothing but unfamiliar forest. “Where are we, anyway?”
            “We’re on the other side of the mountain near Saito’s village,” Kagome answered. “When you went ‘oni,’ Sesshomaru kind of had to throw you out of the village. He cured you of Kuno’s venom with his own, and it was a wrestle to get it into you. This is where you ended up.”
            InuYasha looked straight at Sesshomaru, then felt the point on his bare shoulder where the daiyoukai had bitten him. It still throbbed with some pain, but that minor pain was hardly the point of it. He could feel the stiffness in his muscles flowing away, replaced by a pleasant warmth as the daiyoukai’s venom worked within him. It was as if the venom could recognize, taste InuYasha’s tissues as being descended from those of the Inu no Taisho, causing the stuff to repair the damage Kuno’s venom had done. “Sesshomaru, you fucking saved my life.”
            “Of course,” Sesshomaru said flatly, with visible satisfaction. “You are my brother.”
            InuYasha smiled, then returned his attention to the stretched-out hakama he wore. “Well, my hakama’s ruined, and I have no idea where my other clothes are,” he lamented, though in overall good spirit. “They’re probably in Saito’s village. Do you think they have a tailor there?”
            Kagome bit her lower lip in worried contemplation. “Maybe…maybe we shouldn’t go back there, just yet,” she suggested.
            InuYasha cocked his head. “Why’s that?”
            “I said that when you transformed into an oni, Sesshomaru had to throw you out of Saito’s village,” Kagome explained. “Well, he may have thrown you…through a man’s house, too.”
            “I wouldn’t think they’d be too sore about it,” Miroku comforted. “Saito and Keiji seem to be quite reasonable, and we can help them rebuild.”
            “Kagome is correct,” Sesshomaru added, to everyone’s interest. “We should not return to Saito’s village, not immediately. My venom seems to have had the intended effect on you, InuYasha, but you should not go near humans until we are certain you will not relapse.”
            “So, we shouldn’t go back to Saito’s village, and we probably shouldn’t head on to Edo, either,” InuYasha reasoned. “Where, then?”
            Sesshomaru looked away from InuYasha and over a shoulder at the mountain standing behind him. “The oni’s cave,” he said. “It is far enough from Saito’s village for the villagers’ safety, and we ourselves will be safe there.”
            “If I shouldn’t go near any villagers for a while, does that also mean all of you shouldn’t be near me?” InuYasha asked of all his friends at once.
            “We trust you, InuYasha,” Kagome said, on behalf of the rest of the pack. “I trust you. We’re not going to leave you alone for anything.”
            Keeping his ruined hakama up with one hand, InuYasha slipped the other around Kagome’s waist, pulling her close. “I fucking love you,” he whispered to her, giving her a short, sweet kiss.
            Together, InuYasha and his pack began the hike to Kuno’s cave, eagerly anticipating some much-needed rest.

-To be continued-
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A Twist in the Myth