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SURVIVE	By : ajj77sunhawk Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 26393 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Hiiii.. yes, yes I am alive. Thank you everyone for sticking with me. I wrote the first part months ago and then was totally stuck on this story. My plot bunny seemed to be dying in the middle of a chapter, but the trickle of reviews kept the stubborn thing alive. FINALLY two days ago while I was driving a strange idea hit. Plot bunny was revived. With that I could finally move on with the story. Warning evil cliff hangers.
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Whom Do You Protect?
The war came faster than any one could predict. To the defenders it seemed that overnight the enemy had gone from small isolated attacks, to matching an army towards the Western Kingdoms. That the Shikon-no-Tama was the source of the war, was no longer a secret. Fear and apprehension swept the lands, as all, humans, Demons and Seraphim withdrew to safe and fortified locations to prepare.
The army of the Shikon however was focused. The army with chilling purpose matched from the human city to the Western Demon lands, destroying everything that stands in their path.
In the war chamber of the Western Demon Kingdom, the great battle map, showed the movement of the army from the City of the West. The dome powered by magic reflected the movements of the enemy in miniature. Like a relentless cancer, the darkness was spreading, making its way to the city.
"I do not understand it, the Shikon has never behaved in this manner." Bakusen'O said his aged faced concerned.
"Indeed, the Shikon unlike in the past, it is not sowing decent and fear before attacking. The Shikon is attacking head on before making any attempt to have the peoples at each other's throats. The magic that it is bringing to fore is historically what the Shikon only brought to bear when the High Kings faced the Shikon head on. That it is throwing so much power at us so fast…" Miyoga trailed off.
"Is only appropriate." Kouga cut in with a cocky grin. "Hey Lord Sesshoumaru and myself are of equal power to the High…. Or NOT!" The cocky grin disappeared as he got serious. "There is definitely something going on here. Maybe it is just a change in tactics. Perhaps the Shikon has learnt from its past failures. The cursed gem has been around long enough to not use failing tactics repeatedly. The innovativeness of this attack only means that we have to be more careful."
"While your rare humility is welcome, for once it may be misplaced." Shri Kaguya said softly. "You and Lord Sesshoumaru are almost solely responsible for the current peace between the Demons and the Angels. Lady Kaede is one of the few humans not from the City of the High human king that is respected by non-humans. Destroy us here, kill the three of you that represent the synergy between the races at the beginning of the war and the Shikon would effectively destroy one of the foundations of peace between the three kingdoms. If we fall here the task of the High Kings will be a great deal more difficult."
Bakusen'O nodded, "That is a good point. The Shikon has probably learned that in order to destroy the High Kings it needs to destroy their most trusted supporters first."
"Huh! The Shikon may learn as much as it likes, it will make no difference. The Shikon will be defeated." Sesshoumaru's tone was dry and aristocratic, his determination though was firm. "The Shikon is overreaching itself. Close analysis of the activities of our enemies shows that the Shikon's power in battle is erratic. There has to be some pattern to why at certain times the power of the Shikon is markedly less."
"I am of the opinion the Shikon has no idea that we can actually monitor and 'see' the Shikon's energy level. This is an ability that my family developed fairly recently, only two hundred years ago. I doubt that the Shikon or its human allies are aware of this ability, else the Shikon would be much more careful in maintaining a cloak to mask not just its numbers but its power levels as well." Shri Suijin said softly, her eyes tinged with fatigue. As one of the few in the whole of the Seraphim lands who knew how to 'see' and gauge the magical aura of others through the battle dome, the senior Seraphim had slept little since the enemy had left the human city.
"If we could figure out its why the enemy gets weaker, crack the pattern, we will be that much closer to defeating the enemy." Miyoga stated the obvious, and the others simply nodded.
:P :O "C
Far from the battle dome, white ears twitched. A clawed finger carefully ran down the printed characters, as Inuyasha carefully read aloud what was once indecipherable to him. Miroku nodded in satisfaction, his eyes glowed with pride as his grandson read the complex wording of the demonic history text. For one who had not been able to read his own name, to have come so far I such a short period of time was a testament to his grandsons' diligence and work.
The leaders were all being careful with the young one. Following the lead of the over protective Demon Lord, the others avoided embroiling Inuyasha in the details of the war. While Sesshoumaru could not stop Inuyasha from playing the guard dog for those around him, Inuyasha was still young, and the Demon Lord was determined to allow the youth to be a youth, and not bear the weight of the protecting the world on his too slim, too young shoulders.
This decision may have been unfortunate as if Inuyasha had been in the battle rooms, and not continuing his training, he could have solved the pattern that was currently confounding his leaders. He could have explained to them that the shikon's power waned every time the shikon tried to attack him in his sleep and lost the battle. If he had been aware of what was occurring in the war chamber, he could have explained this, but of course he was not. Inuyasha very conscious of not adding to his Lord's burdens kept the night attacks to himself.
It was surprising to Inuyasha how effective he had been at beating back the Shikon's periodic attacks. The Shikon was more powerful, but it was strategy and knowledge that won the battles. Inuyasha had come to realize that the Shikon could not 'see' or 'sense' Inuyasha's other aspects. Thus the Shikon could not predict or counter Inuyasha's attacks effectively. As the attacks were in Inuyasha's own mind the Shikon's limited perception could only recognize the Hanyou as a one entity and it was convinced that the unknown attacks were just a part of a new weapon or attack style the Hanyou had. So, while the Hanyou defended the gem's attacks head on, Inu and Yasha attacked from the side and back. The gem could neither sense nor counter those attacks, and this ultimately led to Inuyasha's continuous success.
That success could have had much more impactful, if Inuyasha had shared his success. The Hanyou however was unused to sharing his burdens and was too focused on protecting others, just as Lord Sesshoumaru was determined to ensure that his Hanyou's exposure to the horrors of war would be minimized. Thus in their mutual endeavor to protect each other, the defenders had inadvertently lost at least one tactical advantage.
The Shikon's army made its measured advance.
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The three aspects of Inu were in thick battle pushing the Shikon once again out of his consciousness. The three succeeded in ejecting the intruder with increasing effectiveness. When their mind was free of the intruder, instead of waking up, Inuyasha looked pensively at his other aspects.
"What happened earlier?" Yasha the teen demon aspect asked confusion clear on his face.
"Pup opened the sanctuary for a second during the fight and then closed it again. I doubt the Shikon even knows of the sanctuary. It definitely did not get in. But why did Pup open the door?" Inu replied his human face drawn with concern.
Inuyasha did not speak, he just nodded and in unison the three aspects moved to the inner sanctuary.
Pup stood just at the opening, his usually cheerful face serious.
"Pup?" it was all Inuyasha said, but they all saw the guilty look in their littlest aspects eyes.
"Pup hads to, Pup hads to open, just for a second. Pup was careful. But Pup hads to. We has to keep her safe. Its not right, we has to keep her safe!" Pup wailed his eyes pooling with tears as his little chin jutted out with determined stubbornness.
"What are you talking about Pup? We will keep everyone safe, that is our job." Inuyasha said softly and reassuringly. He knelt and stretched out a hand expecting Pup to hug him. But Pup hesitated, his hands behind his back, he looked at the ground as he drew semi circles in the ground with one foot.
"Yous promise, you promise to keep her safe?" Pup asked as he turned his head and looked at Inuyasha through the side of his big eyes.
"Who pup? We keep everyone safe. Who don't we keep safe?" Inu's words had a small bite to it, Pup's strange behavior was putting him on the edge.
"NO! You promise we will keep her safe!" Big golden eyes looked directly into Inuyasha's, Pup reached out and put a small paw on his dominant aspect's cheek. "Please, Inuyasha, please we must keeps her safe. Please Inuyasha. promise!"
Inuyasha leaned his cheek into the tiny hand, it was strange to feel so much warmth, from his own touch. A half smile of reassurance crossed his lips, "Pup, I will not lie, we cannot always save everyone, but as far as possible, if its someone you feel that has to be kept safe, we will do our best to make sure she is safe. I promise, okay? I promise we will try."
The smile that spread across pup's face made all of them feel better. "Okay. Thank you Inuyasha! You the best of the bestest! Better even!" Pup said and with his usual exuberance the puppy hurled into Inuyasha's chest for a big cuddle. After hugging Inuyasha, Pup HAD to hug the other two as well, hugs were essential in Pup's world. Once that important business was over, Pup seeming to have totally forgotten the earlier conversation. He looked around for a new game to play.
It was a good thing the adults had better memories.
"Pup, focus" Inu sighed and ran a hand through his jet black hair when all pup did in response was blink innocently. Inu shook his head in amused exasperation, "Pup, you were going to tell us why you opened the sanctuary during a battle and whom are we supposed to protect."
Pups' eyes widened. "Oh, yes. Why you makes Pups forget?" Pup glared at the three aspects clearly placing the blame for his short attention span on them. "Oks comes with me. Hurry, hurry. Yous so slow."Pup's grin flashed out again, rather used too his mercurial mood changes, the older aspects grinned at each other and follow behind pup.
The grins faded. Pup led them to an edge of the sanctuary. The Seraphic aspect, pressed his tiny paw at the sanctuary wall, a passage way emerged. It was a strange construct, while it existed inside their shared consciousness, the passage seemed external, almost alien to them.
'Pup, what is this?" Inu whispered, concern edging his voice.
"This is path. Path to other place."
"How can this path exist? Its part of us, and at the same time not." Yasha asked, a strange awe in his voice.
Pup shrugged. "Pups not know what Yasha means. Pup makes it. Pup hears calling for help, over and over… Helps, helps! Since the fighting when Pup is hiding, Pup can hear calling. Very noisy. Pups want to see who is calling, so Pup makes this."
He three adults glanced at each other, their unified acceptance of the statement apparent. The Seraphic aspect was the part of them that had created and maintained the sanctuary. While Inuyasha's will now controlled it, it was Pup that was the architect of their collective sanity. What Pup did was instinctive. There would be no explanation, and the aspects in truth required no further explanation. Pup made it.
The path opened up to what seemed to be a small room. The room was had a warm feeling to it. Potted plants lined the walls, a water fall and small pool feature took up once corner of the room. The furniture was simple a small table and a futon, piled with pillows and blankets. They could all see a small lump hiding curled up underneath the blankets.
"She really, really scared. When Pup sees her, she was trying to hid, but the power of the bad thing was eating her. Its could not finds her yets, but it was eating her. It hurts to be eaten." Pup's eyes were wide with horror and sorrow, he whispered loudly as he pointed at the lump. "First she very far away, and Pup's can see she cry and cry. But she too far, coming closer but still far away. Pup was thinking that she will be close enough soon, so Pup's make this, so she can hide from bad thing. Today she was close enough so Pup's went out and gots her. Pup finds her, not the bad thing. Pup brings her here, but she cannot stay." Pup's face had a look of miserable failure as he said those words. "She can only stay here like Inuyasha a short time, then she has to go back. Back to being eaten. Cannot, we cannot lets this happen. Please, please save her."
"Keh! Stop with the drama Pup, we are one, so of course we will save her." Yasha said getting tired of Pup's verbal barrage, he raised his voice to address the lump "Hey kid, come out of there, we may look scary.." Yasha absolutely preened as he said that line, "But we will not hurt you, we promise to try to save you so come out."
"YOU!" Inu screamed as the usually controlled human, teeth barred lunged forward, his hands stretched out to crush and maim. An arm wrapped around his middle and hauled him back.
'No! We promised!" Inuyasha said sternly, his face contorted with pain as he gently held his struggling human aspect.
The human fought against the dominant aspect, tiny hands caught his. "Inu hurts. Pup hurts Inu. Pup sorry, please Inu Pup is sorry. Pup breaks promise okay, we no help. Inu more important. Pup breaks promise and Inu can fell better and smile, okay? Please Pup sorry. Pup breaks promise okay? " Pup said earnestly, he had not expected this reaction and he could not bear it. Tears rolled down the small face. He would break his promise a million times if it would stop his human Inu's pain.
Sanity and calm returned to the human's troubled eyes, he tore his eyes from Pup and glanced at the shivering figure of the female huddled in the blankets. He blinked, and realized his shock had only allowed a part of the truth to register. It was not an adult who was huddled in the blankets, it was a child. A female child of perhaps nine years of age. He caught the child's eyes, and there was a moment of recognition. He saw in her eyes, a mirror of what he felt within himself. His rage disappeared.
His eyes closed as he relaxed into his dominant aspects touch. He felt Yahsa's clawed hand on his shoulder, and he leaned forward until his forehead rested on Pups. "No, we will not break the promise. We are one Pup, and your promise is our promise. We are one and I will be alright. There is no need to be sorry Pup, you are our light, and we will do what must be done." His voice gathered strength as he spoke.
As one the four aspects came together in a hug, their energies merging and aligning for a second. They needed the strength of their unity, to take the next step.
Inuyasha finally stepped towards the child cowering on the futon, the other aspects stood at his back in support. Inuyasha reached out an open palm. 'We have made a promise, and we will keep it. You do not have to be afraid, we will do all we can to protect you."
Big brown eyes looked at him, a strange sense of safety, overcame the child as she looked at the warm golden eyes. A small trembling hand reached for the large open palm. "Y..y.. you will protect me? Really?" Her voice was small, vulnerable and hesitant.
A small yet strangely blank smile crossed Inuyahsa's lips, he would do this, but he could not deny the shooting pain he felt as the small hand touched his. He employed every ounce of his considerable will to not jerk his palm back in disgust and revulsion. Always, he would do what he must. "Yes, I will protect you." Inuyasha said softly, his claws curled around the small hand. "Do not worry, I will protect you. In spite of everything, because you need me, I will do what is right. So don't worry, I will protect you, that was always my main task, was it not, Lady Kagome?"
:O :{ :P :B :X To be continued -
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