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Love\'s Consequences	By : Sylean Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Naraku/Kagome Views: 10437 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Love's Consequences
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha nor do I make any profit from this story.
Warning: Spoiler alerts! Just make sure you've seen the whole series, Final Act and Movies included, for I touch upon pretty much everything at one point or another.
Warning: There will be lemons in this story later on. Also, there will be character deaths in this story at a later time.
Previously:
Panic at seeing Naraku injured, Kagome reached behind her shoulder, as she had done so many times before, to retrieve an arrow, but due to her lack of practice lately, she fumbled and it fell to the ground. Retrieving her weapon and trying to nock it onto her bowstring as quickly as possible, she desperately tried to defend Naraku in the only way she knew how. She was sure Magatsuhi was going to see her and stop her arrow from being let loose, but he did not. Instead, he merely let her miss, and laughed at her pathetic attempt. It felt like when she had first been learning to fight; those years without danger, focusing on her education, took more of a toll on her archery than she expected. She so foolishly had rushed into battle while being rusty; assuming that since her previous enemy had been made ally, that she wouldn't need to fight anymore. It would seem there would always be someone to fight, if she wished to keep the peace.
"This body is inferior; it would not be much of a loss to have it destroyed," Magatsuhi commented, speculating on if she had been able to strike him with that arrow. "You know full well I am only borrowing this body. So go ahead, kill the wolf." His fearsome eyes connected with hers and she froze in her movements to draw her bow again. He was right; he was in Kouga's body, and if she purified him, she would also purify Kouga. She promised Ayame she would bring Kouga back alive, but did she really have the capabilities to do that?
In her indecision, Naraku moved to block Kagome and thus preventing another attack in her direction. "How pathetic you have become," Magatsuhi cackled. "You will not be able to expel me from your mind this time, Naraku. You have no choice, either let this wolf demon kill you, or become a prisoner inside your own body when I take control of your very soul. Either way," he paused and allowed a twisted grin that did not fit the body he manipulated, "I will see that little slip of a woman's blood on my claws before this day is over."
Chapter 19: Transformations
Naraku heard Kagome gasp in fear behind him, the thundering of his own heartbeat in his ears, and the rage that consumed every one of his senses and left only the desire to destroy. The words that escaped his clenched jaw where barely discernable, "You will not touch her." Kagome had seen him transform into all sorts of different things, including the times when he was basically disassembled, but she had never seen him utilize his true form; she had never seen him turn into the massive spider that he was, until now. Enlarging and twisting columns of flesh and bone became recognizable moments later as eight legs, protectively arranged to keep her out of harms way, no matter which direction an attack originated from. His screeching roar shook the earth underfoot.
"Hmm, is that how it is," towering at thirty feet high, Magatsuhi appeared more intrigued than frightened by Naraku's size and appearance, "I've been wanting to try this out."
An ominous air swirled around the body of Kouga just as his eyes bled fully red. Fur erupted over his cracked, tan skin and Kagome could hear the sounds of bones cracking as his body distorted. Unlike Naraku's smooth transition, this one looked forced, irregular, and spasmodic. In a matter of seconds, the black, bestial demon stood growling before then; the fur on his back was standing straight up and his lips drawn back to reveal razor sharp canines. Throwing his head back and letting out an ear-piercingly eerie howl, Kagome watched in terror as the few battered, but alive bodies of wolf demons that had been watching the whole ordeal, were thrown into their own transformations. Stalking towards them as if hypnotized under a spell, Naraku was swiftly surrounded on all sides by snarling, transformed, wolf demons.
"Interesting, isn't it," Magatsuhi's voice echoed from the largest black wolf even as his jaw remained closed, standing around twenty-five feet high as opposed to the fifteen feet that his men averaged, "the amount of control the alpha wolf has over its pack. They just can't resist his command." No longer were they facing a single adversary, but an army of ensorcelled wolves.
The ground trembled from Naraku's countering roar and the whole pack leapt at him to attack. Maws latched onto any piece of flesh they could gain purchase on, shredding and digging sharply into his body without reprieve. Trying to shake the wolves from his back and snapping at them with massive mandibular-like fangs, Naraku made little progress against the horde and only lost his footing with one leg at a time. Kagome's eyes frantically searched for a way to help him, but came up without a solution when three, far too familiar wolves stalked up behind Naraku. The white wolf, blood dripping down its right shoulder was what revealed to her just who they must be: Ayame, with Ginta and Hakkaku on either side. Magatsuhi's howl must have bewitched them as well! She had not a second to react as they slipped from behind through the protective cage of legs and lunged at her, fangs and claws poised for blood. Was this it; was this the end?
A shrill scream burst from her throat and her arms blocked the oncoming attack, only to be followed by yipping and a strong gust. Daring to peer out of her flimsy defense, Kagome was all at once shocked and grateful for what she saw, "Inuyasha?"
"I couldn't let you have all the fun," Inuyasha remarked to Kagome. But in truth, he had been too worried about Kagome to stay away. It seemed his instincts had been right on this time. The stunned girl could only nod, for Inuyasha not only blocked Ayame's attack, but then went on to also cast the rest of the pack off of Naraku with the broadside of Tessaiga before landing back on the ground next to her. "So, what's up with wolf boy?" Even possessed as he was, that stench was unmistakable, he knew exactly who each of them was, and made sure to use just enough force to not kill them.
Finding her tongue, Kagome gave him the run down of what had been going on, "Magatsuhi has taken control of him, we need to get the jewel back to save him."
"Say no more," Inuyasha interrupted cockily, shouldering Tessaiga. "I'll take care of this."
The break in battle that Inuyasha allotted them gave Naraku the time to transform back. "What are you doing here? I fight alone," Naraku practically hissed out as Inuyasha walked rather casually up beside him. Residual wounds from the numerous gaping maws oozed and slowly sutured themselves up.
"Yeah, and we saw how well that was working for ya," Inuyasha retorted. "Someone has to protect Kagome," his callous remark had a growl building up in Naraku's throat, "and if you should die," Inuyasha held up Tessaiga to let it take on a dragon-scaled shell, "I'm the one that will have to see her tears."
For the first time, Inuyasha succeeded in derailing Naraku's mind, for instead of the typical, "Once you die, she will be mine," threat he was expecting, it was, "If you die, she will be sad." Inuyasha was thinking about this from her perspective, trying to do anything he could for her, even if that meant helping him. Kagome had been right all along, she was the connecting factor; they had all been brought together, fighting side by side, because of her, and for no other reason. "Did you come here to fight, or talk?" Naraku jabbed with a non-malevolent grin on his face.
"Just try and keep up, Spider," Inuyasha smirked. For the time being they were allies, even if it was out of necessity.
Inuyasha's arrival signaled a change in the tide of battle, allowing them to successfully defend not just themselves and her, but much to Kagome's surprise, each other. Even so, all this would be for naught if they couldn't get the jewel from Magatsuhi, whom neither of them could get at without killing the innocent members of the wolf pack. Kagome fisted her bow, knuckles turning white from the frustration of being unable to do anything to help, when the whisper tickled at her senses. Whipping her head around and finding no one near enough only proved to confuse her more, but the incoherent whisper did not cease, only gained in volume until the words could be discerned.
"Shoot your arrow," the unfamiliar, airy voice beckoned, somehow, directly into her mind.
"What? Who?" Kagome responded with uncertainty.
"Shoot your arrow," the now identifiable voice of a female repeated patiently, yet urgently.
"At Kouga?" Kagome questioned. That was exactly what she was trying to avoid; she didn't want to resort to killing him, or anyone, for that matter, but the situation would only deteriorate as her mate and friend tired out. "I don't want to hurt him."
The voice paused briefly, and Kagome wondered if she would hear it again, before it issued one last piece of guidance, "At Magatsuhi."
"But, they are in the same body," Kagome hesitated, but raised her bow anyways. Lack of action was just as bad as the wrong action, but how was she to know if she could trust that voice to begin with; who was it that spoke to her? The voice was unfamiliar, someone she had never spoken with, but in her gut she felt it was someone she could safely heed. Focusing in the battle, Magatsuhi, still in Kouga's transformed body, had gotten ahold of Inuyasha's arm with his jaw, but sprung away when he swung Tessaiga towards the massive body. Kagome gasped loudly as the fire rat robe darkened with blood. Was she really going to have to choose between lives; Kouga's or everyone else's? Wasn't there some way to save everyone?
Magatsuhi caught on to her inner struggle from a distance with amusement, it mattered not what she chose, for if she decided to favor one life over another, killing her friend in the process with one of those noxiously pure arrows, her very soul would be corrupt and her powers would no longer be a threat. His plan had been laid well, and there was nothing Naraku, or that priestess, could do to stop him this time. Even if his current body were destroyed, his tainted spirit would live in the jewel and consume whoever so foolishly thought to gain possession of it afterwards. A momentary setback in exchange for elimination of a greater threat was thoroughly worth his time.
Naraku jumped in to block an attack on Inuyasha, taking the damage himself, as Kagome's eyes searched frantically for a solution. The jewel, implanted in the black wolf's chest, swirled a dreary black, almost glowing from the cursed power it exuded, but at its core, a sparkle of pink; a light that refused to be snuffed out. Could that be? It was then that she realized the only possibility for that voice; it had to be Midoriko. Her spirit was in the jewel too, and given life by the recent hopeful turn of events, mustered the power to project her voice out to Kagome; it was the only explanation. Understanding dawned, she was to shoot to kill, and protect, in one arrow, just as she had done in the past when she tried to keep a jewel shard from Naraku, but not hurt him at the same time. And if she waited much longer…
"Protect Kouga," Kagome whispered to the arrow, her voice filled with intense emotion, "and return Magatsuhi back to where he belongs."
The flare of holy power drew Magatsuhi's attention, but he made no move to avoid it. Satisfaction flared as he registered the attack as being the priestess's last move against him, but what he did not expect, what he would never be able to comprehend, was holy powers doing anything besides harm to a demon; that was his experience with Midoriko. Holy powers protecting a demonic entity, it was an unfathomable concept for the evil jewel spirit.
An explosion of light marked the impact of the charged arrow colliding with the tainted Shikon jewel, swirling tendrils of purity warped around the dark fissure before rendering it into nothingness, engulfing the darkness, and drawing the soul of Magatsuhi back into the jewel where it belonged. When the light shot away from Kouga, into Kagome's closed fist, both figures collapsed to the ground from the exertion. Naraku was at her side instantly, with Inuyasha trying his best not to limp or jostle the injuries he'd sustained holding off the wolf pack. Naraku had already healed from most of the damage he sustained, the amount of which, would surely have killed any other demon.
After verifying she was unharmed, with the nearly complete jewel in her possession, they turned their attention to the rest of the wolf tribe. They had all been forcibly transformed back when Magatsuhi was pulled from Kouga, and suffered from many wounds from the brutal fight they unwillingly took part in. Some seemed confused and others regretful, but Ginta and Hakkaku, who had been informed of just what they were going up against, only looked at Kagome with shame at having been unable to stop themselves from attacking her, their pack sister.
"It wasn't your fault," Kagome murmured, her voice suddenly weak.
"We didn't mean to," Ginta whimpered.
"We tried to stop, but the call…" Hakkaku kept his gaze downward in utter submission.
"I know, Boys," she smiled, trying to cheer them up. It was Magatsuhi's doing, not theirs. A grunt drew her attention and she spied Kouga regaining consciousness. Many of his pack rushed to his side, but backed off when they saw Kagome pulling herself up and walking unsteadily towards him.
"What? What happened to me?" he mumbled, seeming to be the only one who didn't recall the events as detailed as the rest.
"You don't remember?" Kagome kneeled down beside him, with Naraku not far behind. Until he was sure she would be safe, he had no intention of leaving her alone with Kouga.
"Ka-Kagome?" his eyes grew wide. "What are you-" His soft beginning turned hard when he also saw Naraku there, "What are you doing here?" He tried to get up, but his legs felt like lead, that was when he noticed that he no longer possessed the jewel shards. Naraku must have come to take them from him! "Why you, I'll-"
"Stay still," Kagome halted his attempt, "you're injured and need to rest." Injured? He didn't recall getting into a fight. Glancing around, he registered his pack in shambles; nearly every wolf had lacerations or puncture wounds, some with diamond spikes imbedded in their flesh like that of porcupine quills. A growl rumbled up in his throat but Kagome stopped that cold, "Don't you start growling, Mister." Her fists anchored to her hips and her aura resurfaced with her scolding.
"But they-" he complained, motioning towards Naraku and Inuyasha.
"They saved you, and your pack," Kagome corrected his misinterpretation of the evidence. Seeing that she had his full attention she started from the beginning, with Ginta and Hakkaku running to her for help, up until the time he just woke up. Kagome had never seen Kouga remain quiet for so long, but she couldn't blame him; he just learned he had gone mad and started killing his own pack, and it was his sworn enemies that saved them all. If it wasn't for Ginta and Hakkaku verifying her account, and adding more of his misdeeds to it, he might have thought it a trap by the spider demon still looming over his weakened form.
"I did that?" he finally spoke up, his voice quivering.
"It wasn't your fault, Kouga," Kagome rested a hand on his shoulder. "I should have taken the jewel shards earlier; I should have foreseen Magatsuhi trying to escape through your shards, but-"
"No!" he nearly shouted, making her pull back and Naraku step forward. Kouga's tense posture almost immediately slumped back down, "I am to blame. I put my own desires above that of my pack. They'd be better off without me."
"I've heard enough of this," Inuyasha stomped over, punching Kouga right in the head with his good arm. "Hey Numbskull, you may think your pack would be better off without you, but leaving them leaderless at a time like this will be even rougher for them. If you truly regret your actions, you'll stick it out and make it up to them."
"Please don't go, Kouga," Hakkaku chimed in.
"Don't leave us," Ginta pleaded, as did the rest of the pack in their own ways. Kagome smiled at the outpouring of support and affection, they would need to stick together to make it through this.
Kouga finally let a small grin crease his lips, "I guess I'm outnumbered."
Pushing herself to her feet, Kagome was met face to face with Ayame and wondered how this encounter was going to go, keeping in mind Ayame's previous aggressive manner. "Thank you, Kagome," Ayame's gentle voice professed, taking Kagome by pleasant surprise. "You kept your promise and brought Kouga back for me. If you ever need anything, you can call upon our clans to come to your aid in turn."
Kagome nodded happily that everything was turning out well, "How is your shoulder?"
"It's fine; it's not as bad as it looks," Ayame cradled the wound, but knew it would heal, as would those of the rest of the pack. They would live.
As Kagome and Naraku prepared to leave, Ginta and Hakkaku sat on a stone whispering to each other, "I never thought I'd say this, but those three really work well together."
The other nodded, "I was thinking the same thing; they made a lethal team."
As constant as the lunar cycle, Sesshomaru persisted in his ways. With Naraku destroyed some years ago, lesser demons came out of hiding in droves, only to be cut down by poisonous claws or disintegrated by Bakusaiga. The population of such useless scum was finally dropping, allowing the land to become abundant once again with natural resources. An empire needed rich lands in order to thrive, and he was ensuring his would have such.
He allowed frequent breaks from his constant patrolling, primarily for Rin's sake, since she still trailed after him three years past her revival. She had grown taller, but still retained her childish ways at the age of 11. Her love of flowers had yet to wane, and she frequently wore the newest blossoms in her hair. Her body was showing the first budding signs of sexual maturity, although she still had several years to go yet. The changing scent tickled at his long buried instincts, and he could already foresee the role she would have at his side, when she was ready.
Faithful and constantly trying to do anything to serve his lord, Jaken rambled on about the news in the area, "At that last village I heard tell that there was news of another war involving the wolf tribes in the east, but then again, when aren't they at war with one clan or another, but supposedly, they actually mass transformed this time, and you know that only happens about once every century." He animatedly described what he had been told, eager to get even the slightest reaction from Lord Sesshomaru. "The reason behind it was not clear, however, some claimed it was another wolf tribe, and others thought it had to do with some kind of possession, but the most preposterous theory wa-"
"Oh Master Jaken, these flowers would make you look so pretty," Rin interrupted, unintentionally making Sesshomaru just barely miss the vital info of Naraku being alive. For if Jaken had been able to finish, he would have said, "the most preposterous theory was that Naraku still lived and was spotted in the midst of the battle. Ridiculous rumor, seeing as we saw him die by your sword. There is no denying you strength, perfection, and magnificence in…" Of course, there was no guarantee that Sesshomaru wouldn't have just tuned out his jabbering anyways.
(A/N: So now Kouga is considered an ally again. I hope these last two chapters where clear enough; I never feel like I give battle scenes that feeling of heart-pounding desperation they need. I would much appreciate reviews on the quality, good or bad; my goal is to improve, learn, and grow as much as possible.
Also, I felt Inuyasha was due for a little "good publicity." I have nothing against him at all, but obviously, he would be a little upset with how things turned out. I feel his reactions are justified and am glad to finally get him turned around.)
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