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A Twist in the Myth
By : Dunkelgelb
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A Twist in the Myth
Chapter 39: Leaving the Mountain

Chapter summary: InuYasha and pack emerge from Kuno’s cave after screwing each other’s brains out overnight in an orgy driven by the newly ‘ascended’ daihanyou’s mating pheromones combined with Sesshomaru’s. Outside, InuYasha and Sesshomaru find Kuno’s body in the mutilated state they left it in before entering the oni’s cave and move to bury him properly, in order to avoid a potential ‘Shichinintai’ situation with him later on. To this end, they enlist the village lord Saito’s help, burying Kuno in the cemetery of the lord’s village to ensure that the oni’s grave is cared for and re-consecrated on a regular basis, thereby preventing his demonic spirit from rising. Finally, recognizing that their struggle against Naraku has stalled, Kagome explains to her friends her intention to seek the help of the Avengers, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
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            In Kuno’s cave, InuYasha and his pack woke in the late morning after having slept in, each member needing the extra rest following the previous night’s amorous activities. Amusement struck each pack-member as they discovered Jaken still mounted on Shizu’s rear and back. Blushing, the imp demon slipped out of his new mate sheepishly, having returned to his normal, diminutive size and his cock-knot having withdrawn into his body. After that, Kagome, Rin, and Shizu explained to the others that they had become pregnant a second time, by Sesshomaru, InuYasha, and Jaken, respectively. They decided that going forward, any further sexual encounters between any of the now-pregnant pack members and any of the males would still need to be protected by contraceptive sutra.
            Sexually-satisfied for the time being, the pack started to re-dress themselves. InuYasha reabsorbed the large, coil-like blanket of Mokomoko fur he’d spooled out of himself, then Sesshomaru did the same with his own, which the pack had been using as their shared bed. As they all re-dressed, InuYasha found that his new Mokomoko prevented him from donning his white kosode and red haori as normal, so Kagome helpfully took a pocketknife and cut a large, oval hole in both garments, under and slightly behind the right sleeves so that his Mokomoko could slip through them. This was only a temporary solution – eventually, the new holes in both garments would need to be hemmed around their circumferences to prevent fraying.
            Sesshomaru smiled as he watched his brother arrange the long pelt of cream-white fur over his clothes for the first time, seemingly deciding on how best to carry it. He recalled a very proud moment from his own life, when the Inu no Taisho had him fitted for his first set of daiyoukai armor. Then, the armorers had to solve the problem of accommodating Mokomoko into the armor’s design, as Kagome had just done with InuYasha’s kosode and haori.
            InuYasha looked over to Sesshomaru and observed how the daiyoukai wore his own Mokomoko, routed out in front of him outside his armor and curled up over his shoulder to flow down his back. He reproduced the style with his own demonic pelt and Sesshomaru nodded his approval, clearly taking some prideful satisfaction from it. Then, he, InuYasha, and the rest of the pack shared breakfast from the remainder of the food Saito and his wife, Keiko, had given them, then finished collecting their weapons and belongings. Even as they busied themselves with eating, they could feel their bodies gravitating to one another with ongoing, mutual physical attraction, which they chose to resist this time.
            As the pack left the main chamber of the cave that had been their bedroom and entered the tunnel leading outside, they encountered Kirara and Ah-Un sleeping together on the tunnel floor, with the big, double-head dragon demon curled up around the neko, still in her ‘Battle Cat’ form. The scent of dragon-on-neko sex hung in the air for the more sensitive-nosed members of the pack to detect, leading them to smile and chuckle amongst each other. Ah-Un and Kirara woke up and grew very still as they discovered the entire pack looking down at them, leading InuYasha to ask: “Are we going to have a litter of, I guess, kitten-hatchlings from you, in a few months?”
            In response, Ah-Un gave a snort from their twin snouts and Kirara rolled her demonic feline eyes silently. Sesshomaru re-affixed Ah-Un’s armored muzzles to his snouts and Kirara returned to her housecat-sized form to conserve her youki, having remained in her Battle Cat form overnight to provide larger, warmer partner for Ah-Un to sleep with. Myoga was still present in the cave tunnel – he had found a deep pockmark in the tunnel wall to sleep in, so as not to interfere with the demonic animals’ sexual play overnight. Conversely, they had kept their activities quiet to avoid disturbing his rest. Now that he was awake, he felt his flea demon stomach grumbling and he jumped onto InuYasha’s left shoulder from his recessed vantage point.
            “Master InuYasha!” Myoga greeted. “You look well. Rested. It would seem that Lord Sesshomaru’s venom has healed you completely.”
            “Healed me, and more,” InuYasha replied, gesturing to his new Mokomoko.
            “Indeed. You look even more like your father now, rest his soul,” Myoga noted. “May I…have some of your blood? I’d like to taste it for any trace of the venom that Kuno, that monstrous oni, put into you. I’m also quite famished.”
            InuYasha smiled and tilted his head to one side to expose his neck to Myoga while the rest of the pack looked on. “Help yourself.” Eagerly, the tiny flea demon leapt onto the daihanyou’s neck, painlessly grabbing onto the hot, smooth skin there, and maneuvered himself onto his pulsing carotid artery, so as to taste the oxygen-rich blood destined for his brain. Myoga’s flea demon instincts began to scream in silent delight as he felt InuYasha’s pulse hammering beneath him, rocking his entire body. Already, he could feel the concentration of new youki in the hanyou-turned-daihanyou’s blood. He plunged his sharp, blood-sucking proboscis into InuYasha’s flesh and thrust it home to tap into his bloodstream, then took in only a small amount of blood, tasting it carefully as he had said.
            Myoga was pleased to detect no trace of Kuno’s venom in InuYasha’s blood – Sesshomaru’s venom had purged it completely. Beyond the absence of oni venom, the flea demon found InuYasha’s blood more delicious than ever, and he tasted the chemical ‘echo’ of the immense pleasure the daihanyou warrior had been indulging himself in with the females of the pack. He drank his fill and separated himself from InuYasha’s artery in a state of visible, full-body engorgement.
            InuYasha cupped a palm to his neck and Myoga dropped himself into it, allowing the daihanyou warrior to hold him. “Better?” InuYasha asked.
            Myoga slapped his blood-filled belly happily. “Very much so. I give you a clean bill of health, as well.”
            Relieved, InuYasha returned Myoga to his shoulder and stepped forward into the morning light outside the cave tunnel’s entrance, with the rest of the pack following behind him. He squinted as his eyes adjusted to the daylight’s brightness and his other senses were momentarily overwhelmed. Somehow, colors were more vibrant and seemed to ‘taste’ better to his brain, and the same was true for smells. He ascribed it to his ascension from hanyou to daihanyou, and now that he knew how his new body performed during sex, he couldn’t wait to get into the other type of ‘action,’ against Naraku and his demon hordes.
            Before that, however, InuYasha felt it would be prudent for him and his pack to return to Saito’s village, in order to let the village lord and his family know that they had survived the night, and to assist with repairing any damage they had caused. InuYasha recalled Kagome telling him that Sesshomaru had been forced to throw him through a man’s house, that of Keiji, the village healer.
(Soundtrack: Overkill – The Mourning After/Private Bleeding)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bHO_q-MZts
            Then, InuYasha’s sensitive nose allowed him to catch the scent of blood in the air as the mountain breeze changed direction. There was a lot of it, and he recognized it as that of an oni - Kuno’s. As he and his pack walked down the mountain’s forested slope, they encountered the huge, totally wrecked chasm in the trees that Sesshomaru’s Bakusaiga had cut during the battle with Kuno, and InuYasha stopped, again confronted by the distressing fact that he remembered almost nothing from the battle after Kuno bit him, right up until when he came back to full consciousness after Sesshomaru counteracted Kuno’s bite with his own. Several hours were almost totally missing from his memory, only brief, jumbled and frightening images left behind where continuous time should have been.
            The pack stopped with InuYasha and the daihanyou turned to Sesshomaru. “Sesshomaru. Come with me, would you? Everyone else, please stay here.” On his last instruction, he handed Myoga off to Shippo, so that the flea demon also would not see what lay deeper in the forest.
            The pack obeyed and stood fast as InuYasha and Sesshomaru turned and began to walk along the Bakusaiga-carved chasm in the forest. The chasm was at least a hundred yards long and the rising, falling shape of the mountain slope’s terrain ensured that the chasm’s end was not directly visible from where the pack was standing. At the end, InuYasha blanched as he and Sesshomaru come upon Kuno, or what was left of him.
            Kuno’s big, heavy body, shrunken down to its ‘normal’ but still thoroughly musclebound size, lay on the ruined forest floor in two lifeless pieces: body and severed head. His body had a hideous hole in its chest, where InuYasha had dug his way inside him and destroyed his heart, at the very moment Sesshomaru decapitated him with his youki whip. Beyond that, several large chunks of flesh were missing from him, seemingly bitten away. “Shit…” InuYasha cursed to himself as he forced himself to look at Kuno’s mutilated form. “Did I do this?”
            “We did this,” Sesshomaru replied, as if to console InuYasha somewhat. “At least, partially. The head was my doing, the heart was yours. It would seem forest scavengers have been at the body in the meantime.”
            InuYasha thought very hard, struggling to recall a single clear moment of killing Kuno. Again, he could not. “I…I don’t remember.”
            “You were in quite a state, addled with oni venom and consumed with your youki, which arose to protect you,” Sesshomaru said. “If you’re concerned about the violence with which you acted, you were at least in a verbal state throughout, and if not ‘under control,’ then always aimed in the right direction.”
            “And what about later on, when I became a ‘hulk,’ like Kuno?” InuYasha asked. “Then, there was no one to be ‘aimed’ at, except for you or the others.”
            Sesshomaru was silent for a time, then admitted: “You did attack us, then. But ultimately, you caused no serious harm. In my case, I may have injured you more than you did me.”
            A brief image of Kagome’s face, twisted into an expression of pure terror, flashed through InuYasha’s mind. In it, she appeared so small, so…puny from his perspective, and he felt his stomach churn. “Even if I didn’t hurt anyone, I’ve got this rotten feeling I almost did, badly,” he scowled. “I almost killed Kagome, didn’t I?”
            Sesshomaru sighed, then admitted again: “Yes.” He felt InuYasha’s spirit sink with that one word. “You might have crushed her, with your giant green fists.” To add some levity, he quipped: “And then Tenseiga would have had quite the job.”
            InuYasha wanted to laugh, but couldn’t, especially not with Kuno’s corpse stretched out before him. He grit his teeth and crouched on his haunches to look over Kuno from a lower angle. “This ape made me almost kill Kagome,” he reflected aloud to Sesshomaru, as if amazed with the idea by hearing it in his own ears. “She didn’t say anything about it to me, and she probably won’t. That’s just like her, trying to make me feel better and all. Still, I wonder if, or how long it’ll be before I’ll lose control of myself like that again, and actually succeed in killing her, or someone else I care about…”
            Sesshomaru stepped up behind InuYasha and grasped his shoulder, the one not covered with Mokomoko fur, to reassure him. “You won’t lose control again. You are daihanyou now, and your youki is much more stable than before. I feel it.”
            “I guess we’ll see,” InuYasha pondered, with audible pessimism. “Meanwhile, we should probably do something about Kuno’s body, instead of leaving it here to be picked apart.”
            “A wise idea,” Sesshomaru agreed. “Oni have very angry spirits. If not buried properly, his spirit could haunt this mountain for centuries, and still cause considerable harm to whoever comes near it. But where to bury him?”
            Right then, as the pack waited for InuYasha and Sesshomaru, the demon or half-demon members heard the sound of a group of men walking through the forest underbrush nearby, approaching them up the mountain’s slope. Then, they spotted the men – Saito and a small escort from the much larger force he’d led up to Kuno’s cave the previous day. All of them were armed and armored for combat.
            “Saito-san!” Kagome greeted to the distinctively red-armored village lord, raising her voice to call to him from several yards away.
            “Kagome-sama!” Saito greeted back, visibly pleased to see her. He and his men had been carrying themselves with defensive postures, and seeing that there was no danger now, they relaxed. Once he was close enough to Kagome and her friends, he stopped, removed his helmet so that his face was fully visible to all present, and bowed deeply, and his men did the same. Kagome was, after all, dressed as a miko. “We’ve come to check on you. I must admit, we feared to come up the mountain during the night, after hearing the terrible sounds coming from it. The tower guards on the edge of my village reported seeing a large, white demon dog flying around over it, as well.”
            Kagome and the others smiled. Seeing Sesshomaru in his ‘true’ form was good reason for any man to keep his distance, and they may have seen InuYasha in his oni hulk form, if only briefly. “That’s perfectly all right,” she pardoned to Saito. “And thank you, we’re all fine, all things considered.”
            Saito noticed that InuYasha and Sesshomaru, the main agents in ridding his village of Kuno’s threat in addition to Kagome, were absent. Before he could ask about them, they returned from their short venture to where Kuno’s body lay. The village lord greeted the demonic warrior brothers with a bow equal to the one he had given to Kagome. “InuYasha-sama, Sesshomaru-sama, I’m very happy to see you well.” He paid particular attention to InuYasha, having seen him afflicted with the beginnings of his oni hulk transformation, noticing the Mokomoko fur on his shoulder and his overall seemingly greater height, and heavier muscular build. “In fact, InuYasha-sama, you’re looking very well…”
            InuYasha finally forced a smile after the gloomy thoughts he’d had while inspecting Kuno’s body. “Sesshomaru was very successful, last night.” Furtively, thinking of the children that had been conceived, he added: “Actually, a lot of things were very successful, last night.”
            Saito smiled and blushed a bit, not unaware of the sexual magnetism that existed between each member of the pack before him. That they were all lovers was clear to him. “Oh, my. I think I’ll not ask for details…”
            Sesshomaru gave a stoic smirk, looking to Rin and Kagome, each of whom he had potently impregnated, then to the other females he’d had the honor of bedding, Sango, Shiori, and Shizu. “Probably for the best,” he said, seeing the women blushing as his golden eyes flashed mysteriously.
            “So, what will you do now?” Saito asked, mainly to InuYasha, Sesshomaru, and Kagome, as they were apparently the leaders of the pack and would best know the pack’s present goals. “Do you need more food?”
            “No, we’ve eaten, thank you,” InuYasha declined politely. “But there is something you could help us with. Does your village have a cemetery?”
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            Over the next few hours, InuYasha, Sesshomaru, and Saito worked together to construct a burial shroud for Kuno, making it out of large sections of canvas sewn together. Leaving InuYasha to guard Kuno’s body from further scavengers, Sesshomaru ferried Saito and the few men he’s brought up the mountain with him back down to his village, by air. Then, Saito went about making arrangements to open a grave in the village cemetery, while Sesshomaru gathered the necessary amount of canvas and heavy thread from the village’s storage, taking it up to Kuno’s body by air. Throughout the process, only InuYasha and Sesshomaru had direct access to Kuno’s body, with InuYasha requesting that the pack stay away from the body until the shroud was complete, so as not to see the gruesome damage he and Sesshomaru, and the forest scavengers had caused to it.
            Saito was initially unenthused at the idea of interring Kuno in his village, given the specter that the marauding oni had been casting over him and the village residents, not to mention the special offense of him kidnapping his daughters – he would have preferred to let Kuno rot where he lay. InuYasha convinced him otherwise, citing the danger of Kuno’s ghost rising up later on to haunt the mountain, and possibly his village along with it. Then, the haunting would have ceased to be physical and become spiritual, and then be much harder to deal with.
            The rest of the pack agreed with InuYasha’s reasoning, quietly recognizing the potential for another ‘Shichinintai’ situation later on. The last thing they needed right then was a super-powered oni-hulk version of Bankotsu, the Shichinintai’s handsome, yet bloodthirsty leader, rampaging through the countryside.
            Further, InuYasha’s decision of burying Kuno inside Saito’s village was deliberate, for reasons of convenience. The demonic nature of Kuno’s spirit meant that his grave would need to be consecrated, then re-consecrated regularly by a suitably-skilled priest, priestess, or monk. It would be easier to convince travelling monks and priests/priestesses to do so if the grave was located conveniently in the cemetery, instead of several hundred yards up difficult mountain terrain.
            Soon, the burial shroud for Kuno’s body was completed and InuYasha applied the last stitches to it personally, setting the severed head inside just before sealing it. Sesshomaru used his youki whip as a tether and wrapped it around the reunited body and head, combining it with his ability to fly to lift the body straight up out of the forest, then carefully transport it down to Saito’s village. By then, Saito’s men had excavated a suitable grave in the cemetery and Sesshomaru lowered Kuno into it, then Saito’s men covered the body up with the excavated soil.
            Sesshomaru, Shippo, Kirara, and Ah-Un transported InuYasha and the rest of the pack down to Saito’s village by air. There, InuYasha found a decently-sized stone from a nearby field and used Tetsuseiga to cleave it in half, then charged a clawed fingertip with his youki and used it as a stylus to etch Kuno’s name into the newly-flat stone surface of one half – a headstone. He planted it firmly into the earth at the head of the oni’s grave, then he and his pack took up respectful kneeling positions around the grave’s foot, beginning to pray in earnest. Saito did, as well, with Keiko, Yume, and Jun joining him – the Saito family forced themselves to let go of whatever hatred they carried for Kuno, and their forgiveness was as a powerful spell that would keep the oni’s spirit under control until it passed on to the next world.
            Being especially spiritually sensitive, Kagome and Miroku felt Kuno’s spirit raging silently, lingering about his dead body underground. He had lived a violent life and died a violent death, and even in death he embodied violence. Nevertheless, as Kagome and Miroku tapped into their respective spiritual powers, then directed that combined power at Kuno’s spirit through prayer, it began to calm. Soon, it was fully at rest, and would remain that way as long as the grave was re-consecrated properly. To this end, Miroku advised Saito on the technique and frequency with which the re-consecration should be performed, and slyly suggested that he and Kagome could perform it themselves on a future visit, in exchange for a small fee.
            At last, the Inu pack’s business at Saito’s village was concluded: they had killed Kuno and rescued Saito’s daughters from him, dealt with the secondary effects of Kuno infecting InuYasha with his venom, then finally disposed of Kuno’s body in such a way that Saito, his family, and the residents of his village would not be threatened further. The pack escorted Saito and his family back to their home, then bid them farewell and took their leave of the village.
(Soundtrack: Rage – Long Hard Road)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEMm9E9KOQ
            The pack departed Saito’s village on foot, then once they were sufficiently out of the village’s sight and hearing, they gathered under a big oak tree to plan their next move. “So,” InuYasha began, joining the sleeves of his red Fire-Rat haori together in front of him, his customary ‘thinking’ pose. He sat on one of the tree’s big roots, as part of a larger circle with the pack. In this way, they conferred as equals. Starting from InuYasha’s left, the circle was arranged as: Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Shiori, Shizu, Jaken, Rin, and Sesshomaru. Kirara was perched on one of Sango’s shoulders, in her tiny housecat form again, Myoga sat on one of Shippo’s, while Ah-Un sat on his reptilian haunches, overlooking the circle. “We’ve got the Kuno business settled, but now, Kikyo and Kohaku are Naraku’s prisoners. Who knows what he’s doing to them, now?”
            Sango’s fists tightened on her upper thighs as she sat in traditional Japanese fashion with the other members of the pack. She’d been able to put Kohaku mostly out of her mind overnight, using the hard sex she’d had with Miroku, Sesshomaru, and Jaken in his ‘sexy’ form as a way to forget temporarily. They hadn’t been able to leave the area of Saito’s village until InuYasha was over his oni venom episode, and after that, not until their collective sexual urges, driven by the infectious sexual energy of InuYasha’s new daihanyou form, had been adequately sated. “I’d like to find Kohaku as soon as possible,” she said at last. “We shouldn’t leave Kikyo with Naraku, either. We should start looking for them right away.”
            “Yeah,” InuYasha nodded. “I just wish he they hadn’t insisted on traveling on their own. With just the two of them, out there all alone, they’re vulnerable, so this was bound to happen sooner or later. But where to start? Byakuya said Naraku’s castle is at sea…”
            “We can’t just ‘search’ for Naraku,” Kagome postulated. She looked up into the canopy of the oak tree above her, as if seeking guidance from its natural beauty. “If we were to head out to sea, in the air like we usually travel, or in a boat of some kind, Naraku will see us coming. And then, while we’re fighting off the demon horde he sends after us, he could slip away and move somewhere else, taking anyone he has prisoner with him. It would start all over again after that. Naraku can be found only when he wants to be…or if we find a way to neutralize his ability to both run and hide, find out exactly where he is, and then move on him in such a way that he has no idea we’re moving until we’re right on top of him. Not exactly simple, I guess.”
            InuYasha saw that Kagome was fidgeting a bit, so he could tell she was about to say something very important. “Do you have any ideas?” he asked to her.
            Kagome thought very carefully on what she was about to say, wanting to not offend the pride of her friends. They’d been tracking Naraku and fighting with him for a long time, and final success against him seemed further away than ever. “I’ve got one,” she began. “Would you say we could use some help, in this situation?”
            “Hell, yes, I would,” InuYasha replied heartily. He looked among his friends, thanking God for their number and the relationships he had with each one. “We’re one pack, now, and we’ve never been stronger. But Naraku is always two fucking steps ahead of us. We’ve been playing ‘catch-up’ since this all started, and every obstacle he puts in our way puts us further behind. And now we’ve got kids on the way…”
            Kagome smiled, relieved that InuYasha was agreeable to the idea of getting help for their pack. The others seemed to hold the same sentiment, or at least they didn’t immediately object. “There are some…extraordinary people in my time. Heroes…I guess you could call them ‘super’ heroes? I think they may have the means of helping us to find Naraku, get close to him, rescue his prisoners, and kill him, or maybe even imprison him, somehow.”
            “Are they warriors?” Sesshomaru asked, his interest piqued by the notion of these ‘superheroes’ that had impressed Kagome so. He wondered: if they were warriors, how did he compare to them? What weapons and what styles of fighting did they use?
            “Oh, yes, powerful warriors,” Kagome confirmed confidently, thinking especially of the hunky blonde-haired Avenger with the unstoppable hammer, the hunky blue-armored one with the unbreakable, physics-defying shield, and the monstrously hunky, big and angry green one that unsettlingly reminded her of InuYasha and Kuno in their oni hulk forms. “But also great minds,” she added. In the latter case, at least two of the heroes she had in mind were world-class scientists – hopefully, at least part of the solution to their Naraku problem could be found within their scope of knowledge, or in the technology they had access to. “They’re called the Avengers. Instead of going to look for Naraku now, we should head back to Edo. I’ll go back to my time, then I’ll try to contact them.”
            “Wait,” Miroku interjected. “Kagome-sama – why are you telling us of these ‘Avengers’ just now? If they are as powerful as you say, we could have used their help any number of times before. Against the Shichinintai, for example. That Mukotsu, alone, almost killed us.”
            “They are powerful warriors, but their power is so great that it requires supervision and control, from the kind of large, powerful national government that exists in my time,” Kagome explained. “When I contact them, I’ll be making them and the government that supervises them aware that a link exists between the future and the past, through the Bone Eater well. I thought about contacting them as soon as I heard about them, but I didn’t want to reveal the secret of the Bone Eater well, because I didn’t want to risk the consequences of doing so, as long as there was a chance we could solve Naraku ourselves.” Then, she laughed softly. “I don’t know if they’ll even believe me when I tell them about…all this.”
            “And what would this mean for you…if the Avengers and their government do believe you?” Sesshomaru asked to Kagome. “I take it that you are the only one in ‘your time’ that can travel to this one? That would make you a unique asset to them. If the governments of your time are anything like the daimyo that rule this land now, they will seek to control an asset such as yourself, make use of it for their own purposes and guard it jealously.”
            “I guess…I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it,” Kagome said. “I don’t think there’s any other option, now, unless anyone else has a better idea?”
            InuYasha, Sesshomaru, Miroku, and the others looked amongst themselves, and were silent. “Well, that settles it,” InuYasha said. As the only other person in the Sengoku Jidai that could travel through the Bone Eater well and back (which begged the question, if they agreed to help, how would any of the Avengers make their way to the Sengoku Jidai, if not through the well?) he suggested: “I’ll come with you to your time, though. We’ll meet the Avengers together – they might be more inclined to believe you if you had me with you, as living proof of your story. And if it looks like they or the ones that control them are going to do anything except help us, I can help you get away from them.”
            Kagome blanched as she thought of the fallout that would ensue from InuYasha going all-out Sankon Tessou or Kaze no Kizu on Thor or Captain America, or anyone associated with them. In such an event, she and InuYasha would be the target of a worldwide manhunt, and even if she and InuYasha made it back to the Sengoku Jidai, her family on the other side of the well couldn’t, and then they would be potential targets of either the Avengers or the U.S. or Japanese governments. “That’s…not such a good idea,” she declined to him. “No, I need to do this alone. I’ll try contacting them remotely, first. Telephone or Internet, maybe, and anonymously if possible.” The words ‘telephone’ and ‘Internet’ meant nothing to most of her friends, so she glanced at InuYasha, continuing: “You know what those are, right? Communication methods available in my time – I’m sure Sota showed you Internet a few times, at least. If those don’t work, I’ll try in-person, but have an escape plan ready.”
            InuYasha looked over to Sango – she was quietly, yet visibly upset that they wouldn’t be immediately setting off to look for Kohaku. “Sango,” he addressed to her with a compassionate tone. “I know how worried about Kohaku you are. I’m worried about him, too, him and Kikyo both. This may not be much consolation, but if Naraku wants to kill them, we’re already too late. Since he went to the trouble of having Byakuya and Kagura take them prisoner, then we’ve got some time.”
            “But how much?” Sango asked rhetorically. “And perhaps he’s not going to kill them, but condemn them to a fate worse than death?”
            InuYasha’s stomach clenched within him by the fear he could feel flowing off Sango. He hated it when any member of his pack was unhappy, and then he had yet another reason to punch Naraku in his face. Beside her, Miroku reached to her and squeezed one of her hands to reassure her. “I’m sorry, but I think Kagome’s right. She’s usually right in these cases, isn’t she?”
            Sango swallowed thickly and nodded, answering: “Yes, she is.”
            “I’ll get the Avengers on our side as soon as I can,” Kagome promised to Sango. “And if I can’t, I’ll return as soon as I can, then we’ll start looking for another way to Naraku.”
            Sango seemed to accept this, and InuYasha stood up from his seat on the tree root, with Sango and the rest of the pack standing with him. “Okay, then. I think it’s decided now, isn’t it? Shall we get going?”
            The pack agreed and left the shade of the oak they’d been conferring under. They set themselves up into their flight configuration, with Shippo taking his Fire Fox form so that Kagome, Shiori and Shizu could mount his magically-conjured saddle. Sango and Miroku took their seats on Kirara’s back in her Battle Cat form and Rin and Jaken did the same with Ah-Un. Finally, Sesshomaru bound InuYasha’s body to his through an invisible stream of his youki. Eventually, the daihanyou would likely be able to use his own, newly re-manifested youki to fly on his own, but he would need considerable practice to achieve such an ability – Sesshomaru saw that this was something he and InuYasha could work on together as they waited for Kagome’s return, a good way for them to bond.
            Now that they were ready to go, the pack lifted off from the ground and threaded their way through the trees above them to get to the open air. They resumed the course they had been following before, which had originated in Sayaka’s village and took them toward Edo. They blasted off with greater speed now, needing to make up for lost time.
            Kagome had a date with the Avengers!

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A Twist in the Myth	By : Dunkelgelb Category: InuYasha Crossovers > General Views: 18090 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A Twist in the Myth