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“The Philosopher’s Diary”
“So . . . where is it?” Kagome asked InuYasha, referring to the diary, or journal of the legendary philosopher, Yokomuriko. Having
heard of it from a reluctant flea youkai as a source of information that may assist them in the defeat of Naraku, Kagome had been
more than willing to search for it. The search, however, hadn’t proven fruitful, and for the past week everyone, even Miroku and
Shippou, had been on edge. The possibility of never finding it hadn’t even occurred to her as of yet, but the feeling of doubt was
definitely already beginning to settle.
“Keh! How should I know? Besides, it doesn’t matter where it is, so long as we find the journal before Naraku finds out about it.”
“Yes, Naraku does have a knack for showing up where we least expect it.” Miroku added pointedly. He was trying to ease the
tension, that much was subtly obvious. And, he was recalling the bird youkai princess Abi, whose mother’s blood had become the
gateway to the netherworld when they had been searching for the final shard of the Shikon no Tama.
“Where do we even start looking?” Kagome threw in.
No one seemed to know. The faraway stares of her companions further served to discourage Kagome.
“Keh! I’ll find out where it is . . .” InuYasha snorted before turning on his heel and striding away.
“Huh? Where are you going, InuYasha?” Miroku asked. If InuYasha heard his question, he didn’t respond.
‘Where will he go? Does InuYasha know something that we don’t?’
“You comin, wench?” InuYasha shot over his shoulder.

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“Kaze no Kizu!” InuYasha bellowed as he slammed the transformed blade of the Tetsusaiga into the cold earth and the youkai
around him disintegrated. ‘Why in the hell are they after us? We don’t have the Shikon no Tama. Unless . . .’ he mused as his
eyebrows shot up in realization. “Kagome! Can you sense the sacred jewel?” he yelled back.
Kagome frowned. “Yeah, and it’s huge. It’s . . .” ‘It can’t be . . .’ “InuYasha it’s Naraku! He’s up ahead!”
“Meddlesome half-breed!” screamed a voice from below him. InuYasha dropped to the forest floor soundlessly and set Kagome
on her feet. Murky, grey eyes, straight, shining black hair ridiculed him from across the path through the e forest. The breeze
quickly picked up.
He suddenly found himself above the ground, fighting against the wind that oscillated every so often just to keep him from
avoiding the constant barrage of attacks upon him. Suddenly tossing him like a rag doll into a hut, the wind toppled the wood. “No
problem!” InuYasha smirked as he picked himself up, the wooden planks dropping off him as he gave Kagome one last emphatic
grin.
And he was once again in the air, agile as ever, with the grace of a god, the beauty of the canine he was shining through the
ominous clouds above him. Even the demon crushing fang, Tetsusaiga, radiated with awesome power as its white and yellow
flames of energy shot forth in a dazzling display of raw power and connected with the hovering barrier, knocking the falcon
youkai back into the forest.
Kagome’s worried expression faltered, giving way to another emotion that sent a chill down InuYasha’s spine. “His barrier is too
strong, isn’t it?” she asked, her terror palpable in the frigid night air as the minacious sphere of youki spiraled into the sky again.
“I-I’m scared . . .”
InuYasha flashed her a warm smile—one she hadn’t seen him use since he became human during their fateful night in
Tougenkyo—which almost seemed like a millennia ago. “Don’t worry, I’ll protect you with my life.” he remarked before he leaped
into the air to strike first.
“That’s what I’m afraid of . . .” Kagome whispered. Vague, withering, the memory of the nightmare returned to her. A sudden
flash of the hanyou’s blood stained across Goshinboku, red eyes glaring at her from afar. ‘InuYasha . . .’ How many times had
Kagome had that dream? Four? Five? She had lost count a while ago. ‘But it doesn’t matter. Because it’s only a dream . . .
right?’
“Kongousouha!”

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“I do not believe that is wise, Mistress Haru . . .” Amoriko admonished.
Letting her cloudy silver eyes narrow the slightest bit, she continued to stare at him. “Don’t you understand, Amoriko? I need to
see him . . .”
Amoriko heaved an exasperated sigh. “Your father wouldn’t approve, you know this.”
She shrugged. “I don’t care what my father believes. We are not above them.”
“You don’t think so?”
“No . . . I don’t . . .”
“Still . . . I really don’t think . . .” he shook his head. “ . . . I don’t think you should chase after someone you only met once . . .”
Shaking a strand of midnight blue hair from her face, Haru lifted her chin defiantly. “I’m not chasing him! Damn it, I love him!”
“That doesn’t matter!” Amoriko challenged, his dark brown eyes glowing dangerously fierce. “Do you know what would happen if
that vile hanyou were to get his hands on you? Do you!? Don’t be stupid!”
Haru stubbornly shook her head. “I don’t care, and you can’t manipulate me! I love him, and for love, I would risk anything . . .
anything . . .”

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“Up ahead? Are you sure?” InuYasha asked as he leaped off another tree branch and cleared the treetops. In the distance, a
glowing reddish-violet orb floated high in the sky. Dark clouds hung low overhead as InuYasha slowly descended, preparing to
sprint again.
“Yeah, I’m sure . . .” Kagome replied, not at all sure they should be doing this alone.
“Master InuYasha! Do not engage him!”
“Myouga? What are you doing here?” InuYasha asked sourly.
“Is that Myouga?” Kagome posed, peeking over InuYasha’s shoulder.
“Master InuYasha, you musn’t engage Naraku yet, he is too powerful!” Myouga wailed.
InuYasha scoffed. “And why shouldn’t I?” he growled.
“Because he is too powerful!”
‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Myouga’s never said we shouldn’t go after Naraku . . .’ Kagome mused. “What kind of power
has Naraku gained?”
“He’s gotten a hold of Souunga! He has it in his grasp!”
“Keh, I ain’t afraid of Naraku,” InuYasha snorted. “I’ve got Tetsusaiga . . .”
Myouga sighed as InuYasha landed amidst the copious green cover of the deep forest. “It is not enough. I’ve learned that
Yokomuriko’s journal has been housed in the temple of Seimouryamaru!”
“Keh, and?”
“And it is unattainable!”
InuYasha drew Tetsusaiga and looked it over. “So you’re saying I can’t beat Naraku unless that damn book is found?”
Myouga nodded exuberantly and InuYasha growled. “Yes, Master InuYasha! However, it may be better if you were to have
Kagome purify him for good. The Tetsusaiga, if it kills him, may absorb his evil youki and grow black.”
InuYasha narrowed his eyes. “Kagome ain’t gonna have to fight Naraku. She doesn’t have a reason to.”
Kagome looked worriedly in InuYasha’s direction. “But—.” she started. ‘Isn’t Souunga the youkai long-sword that was cast away
into the netherworld?’ she mused.
“No excuses, wench,” InuYasha interrupted. Even the news of Souunga’s return didn’t faze him. ‘Souunga and the Gokuryuuha
can’t be used unless Sesshoumaru or I use it. Naraku’s got nothing on us.’ he thought with slight satisfaction. But what of
Kagome? “I realize now that it might be a good idea for you to just stay back when the battle starts.” he said harshly.
“But InuYasha, I . . .” Kagome trailed off, her voice wavering as she glanced at Myouga. His head was hung low, shaking
disapprovingly.
“Are you certain, Master InuYasha?” Myouga asked as if the simple question would somehow alter his decision. “Even though
Souunga hadn’t been able to use its full power when you first encountered it, doesn’t mean that Naraku will be unable to use it.”
“But Naraku can’t use it. The sword will try to control him like it did me. After all, Naraku is just a hanyou . . .”
“Yet he is still stronger than you are right now! Master InuYasha, I beseech you! Please come with me to the insidious youkai
Ryunosuke! He has the means by which to make you stronger!” Myouga shouted.
InuYasha raised a questioning eyebrow. “What’s with all the urgency? You know something I don’t, nomi?” he said, his voice
suddenly more atrocious.
The ground shook quickly, a deep rumble following the agitation. “The hell was that?”
“It is Souunga!” Myouga cried.
“Where can we find him?!” Kagome shouted over the sudden gale of vigorous wind whipping violently around them.
“I must go with you! He will not accept you unless you can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that you are indeed the son of
Lord Inu no Taisho! Will you come?” he shouted to InuYasha.
“Keh,” he answered simply. His youki pulsed suddenly as the ground shook, rose above the ground higher and higher. “What the
hell . . . ?” he trailed off suddenly, his eyes widening as he watched the dirt kick up into the air and obscure Kagome from view,
as the ground tore apart and he lost his footing.
Kagome’s shrill scream resounded in his ears as he blinked in an attempt to rid himself of the haze muddling his vision.
“INUYASHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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He ostensibly drifted exultantly into the air . . . the steady pulse within him growing dimmer, then brighter in comparison to his
consciousness. Dozens of images flashed before him. “So . . . have you come to finish me off, eh, Kikyou?”
“Kikyou Kikyou Kikyou!!! I don’t know who this ‘Kikyou’ person is but I’m not her!”
InuYasha blinked and sat up, the now cold cloth falling off his forehead and into his lap. “So . . . you’re finally awake, I see . . .”
He still couldn’t see far enough for anything to make sense to him. What he could distinguish, was the smell of dirt, wood, and a
extensive measure of humans. “Where . . . where am I?”
“Toko village.” the girl answered simply.
InuYasha finally blinked away the daze and stood up. He shut his eyes quickly though, when his ears suddenly hurt. Instinctively,
he flattened them against his head. “What the hell was that?”
“What do you mean?” the girl asked, InuYasha realizing that the voice was coming from not far beside him.
‘That fucking hurt!’ he screamed in his head. ‘But sounds aren’t supposed to hurt like that, are they? And Kagome would—.’ he
stopped thinking. “Where the fuck is Kagome?” he innately began calling her name, disregarding the terrible pain his screaming
did to his ears.
“Calm down,” A palm pressed to his chest. “The girl you were with is in another room, speaking with my older sister Meiyo. You
two took quite a fall after you soaked up all the energy from the green light from the solstice.”
“Solstice?”
The girl giggled. “You mean you didn’t know that was the autumn solstice? It’s been over for about two days or so, but for some
reason, all the youkai had decided to flee from that area before you two came along.”
InuYasha grunted, ignoring the fact that he had apparently been out for the better part of two days. “Is Kagome all right?”
“Of course. Other than being scared out of her mind, she’s fine. When you absorbed all the energy from the moon, well . . . she
kind of fainted. I saw the whole thing— I couldn’t help but watch. Seeing a youkai traveling with a strange girl was odd to me.”
InuYasha snorted. “Keh, I ain’t youkai, dammit. I’m hanyou.”
“You sure? I mean, most hanyou couldn’t stand the beam of light from the solstice, let alone live to tell about it.”
“Keh! I’m hanyou, got it? And there ain’t nothing wrong with being a hanyou!” he defended.
“I never said there was . . .” she said slowly.
InuYasha vision slowly cleared. His first sight was the young girl—she couldn’t have been more than sixteen years old, but she
was human, definitely human. Her dark brown hair and light blue eyes bespoke otherwise though. “You ever been around the
Yourouzoku?”
“The ookami youkai tribe of the east? Yes, my family descends fro there. But one of the branches of the family broke off and
started mating with humans. My grandfather was ookami youkai.”
InuYasha growled, unflattering his ears, and slowly growing accustomed to the various sounds around him. “I gotta get Kagome
and go.” he said curmudgeonly, rising to his feet.
“You’re always welcome here. We do not discriminate.” she said, her words nearly lost on him as he disappeared around the
corner of the palace. She frowned in her seat beside the bed. ‘Where you all when I was a kid . . . ?’

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“You look . . . different . . .” Kagome drawled, her voice carrying with it a curiosity he hadn’t heard since she had first asked him if
she could touch his ears.
“Yeah, move it, wench. We ain’t got time to sit around.” he said, grabbing her arm and dragging her off the bed.
“Wait,” she protested, trying to pry her arm free. “Can I at least thank them for their hospitality?” she growled.
“Keh, no!” he shot back.
Sometimes he was just so stubborn! “Oswari!” she yelled angrily.
InuYasha cringed, waiting for the power of subjugation to take effect. The beads glowed a hot pink, burning his fingers as he held
onto them tightly, desperately. The plummet never came, and the beads’ power suddenly fizzled away. InuYasha popped his
eyes open and gave the beads a testing poke. A hesitant smile crossed over his features as he proceeded to pull Kagome down
the hall toward the front gates. ‘Stupid wench . . .’ he thought almost happily.
‘What happened? Why didn’t he hit the ground?’ Kagome asked herself, a hint of worry in her mind’s voice.
‘Good question. But here’s a better question: Where’s dog-boy taking us?’
The door swung open, revealing a bustling crowd of men busy trying to wrap up their work for the night, old women hurrying
home, and the absence of children altogether. The quarter moon hung loosely in the starry heavens, giving the village a quaint
sort of look. “Move it, wench, we ain’t got all day!” InuYasha said, his voice snapping her out of her musings.
She mindlessly tugged on her arm, his pulling finally beginning to wear on her nerves. “InuYasha!” she warned fruitlessly.
“Oswari!” she screamed again.
This time, the beads didn’t even glow. InuYasha smirked, modishly hiding it beneath the shadows cast by the moon as he
dragged her out of town.
“I don’t want to go yet,” she insisted, continuing to pull on his arm. He let go and she fell. “What did you do that for?”
“Keh,” he answered again, crossing his arms over his chest. “You want to go back? Then by all means, go back. Ain’t nothing I
can do to stop ya.” InuYasha said arrogantly, his eyebrows sequined, concealed beneath the thick fringe of his silvery bangs.
Kagome sighed and stood, pausing only to brush off her skirt and cast him a formidable glower before following his path into the
forest. “You coming, dog-boy?” she called after him.

A/N:

This is the last chapter for a while, I’ve decided to focus more on my other fic, “Synaesthesia”. Sorry to all those who’ve followed
this fic up until now, but I’m feeling the creative vibe for that fic more than this one. Don’t fret, though, you can still read the other
one, and this one won’t be left in the dark for too long, perhaps a week, two tops.

Disclaimer:

I do not claim any rights to InuYasha or any of the characters that I know Rumiko Takahashi has created. Though I do
appreciate her genius for giving birth to a great cast of opinionated characters to do with as I please.
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