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Suffering and Rebirth	By : scattered-dimensions Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Kagome > Sessh?maru/Kagome Views: 8846 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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“Kaze no Kizu!”
The blinding youki wave from Tetsusaiga ripped through the seemingly never ending herd of lower youkai. InuYasha fell back to protect his exhausted friends while Sesshomaru took over. He’d never admit it out load, but Kagome had been right. With Sango and Kirara protecting the villagers, they needed Sesshomaru’s assistance. There were just too many opponents to deal with safely.
A flurry of sutras proceeded Sesshomaru’s Bakusaiga. InuYasha watched in concealed respect and amazement as Sesshomaru cut through the horde like melted butter. He still thought his brother was a prick, but he did respect his fighting prowess and ability to think beyond his opponent’s next move. He had been the one to lure the majority of the attacking youkai away from the perpetual smorgasbord that was Edo.
Somehow they had ended up in the clearing around the well. It seemed that the demons were being drawn to something within the forest, not the village, which was odd, but that didn’t mean they would pass up a free meal. As it was at the moment, InuYasha didn’t have time to investigate the possible goings on in the village. He’d do that after this was all over and considering Sesshomaru’s progress it wouldn’t be too much longer. Sango and Kirara would just have to hold their ground until he got there.
Miroku fell back panting, his hands resting on his knees and his staff propped against his shoulder. He saw his friend raise his right hand and could guess where his thoughts had wondered. He was missing his Wind Tunnel. It was a hell of a thing to have during times like these, but having his friend around was more important. InuYasha stepped up and took point. A sacred arrow soared past him and into a crowd of demons that were trying to flank Sesshomaru.
“Move your ass, Sesshomaru!” InuYasha yelled lifting his fang.
“Kongosoha!”
Hundreds of adamant spears shot from Tetsusaiga the moment Sesshomaru dropped to the ground. InuYasha took off at a run passing his half-brother along the way. He smirked at the glare he got from the aristocratic dick head.
“Bakuryuha!”
“Bakusaiga!”
Green youki swirled with gold in perfect harmony lighting up the clearing. InuYasha had to squint against the intensity of the combined powers. There were screams and roars of agony from the offending youkai. When the energy died, there was nothing left but them. The battle was over.
InuYasha sheathed Tetsusaiga and stopped beside Sesshomaru.
“Show off.” He grumbled.
Lord Asshole didn’t even look at him. Typical.
Kagome came running up to him and he pulled her into his arms thanking the Gods she hadn’t been hurt. She pushed away and ducked her head hiding her face in her bangs. He brushed the obstructing curtain aside and caught a glimpse of the fierce blush on his beloved’s face. She was absolutely beautiful.
InuYasha’s head snapped up and he pushed Kagome behind him. He knew this aura and if Sesshomaru was correct in his suspicions, she was a threat. Could this be the cause of the demons’ attack? He didn’t know, but her aura had become nearly suffocating. How had he missed it when he first met her?

Noriko walked into the clearing, not even bothering to disguise her presence. Let them both know exactly what they were dealing with. She stopped, leaving a distance between the group and herself. Sesshomaru and the perverted monk stood beside the hanyou. Kagome peeked out from behind them with Shippo attached to her neck. Noriko frowned. This wouldn’t do. She had no desire to harm Kagome.
“Oi, what the hell do you want, wench?” InuYasha spat his hand resting on the frayed hilt of his fang.
“Are you always this rude, half-breed?” She asked with a smirk already knowing the answer.
“Half-breed, heh. Some nerve you got. What are you anyway?” InuYasha replied.
“Human.” She answered simply and began to circle the group in a wide arch.
They moved with her, everyone except Sesshomaru, who regarded her silently out of the corner of his eyes. Kagome pushed away from InuYasha and Shippo jumped to Miroku’s shoulder.
“Who are you and what is it you want from us?” Kagome asked, her tone serious, but respectful.
“For you to leave this place, my dear. My quarrel is with the dogs, not you and your other companions.” Noriko replied with an earnest smile.
She certainly hoped Kagome would heed her warning, but she seriously doubted her luck would extend that far and she was right.
“You still didn’t tell me who you are.” The tenacious girl said.
“My name is Noriko and I’m here for the sons of InuTaishio. That is all.” Noriko answered in the same way she had before.
Kagome gasped and fisted her hand over her heart. Noriko didn’t stop her trek until InuYasha grabbed Kagome’s arm and shoved her away finally drawing his sword. Noriko watched the fang transform and it brought back memories that just fueled her conviction. That fang had been created to protect a human woman, a human woman that had not been her.
“Get out of here, Kagome. You too, Miroku, and take the runt with you. You heard the wench. This is between us and her. Go!” InuYasha said never taking his golden eyes off of her.
Still Sesshomaru didn’t move. It was unnerving and reminded her of his father. She scowled; hate filling her body from head to toe. She wanted to tear the look off of his face.
Kagome retreated with her two companions, but Noriko sensed them come to a halt along the edge of the clearing. Damn. Oh well, if they knew what was good for them, they would stay out of her way.
“Alright, wench, you got us. Now what?” InuYasha growled.
Finally. Noriko didn’t answer. She simply smiled and conjured her dark magic. They needed to be weakened before the spell took hold and the horde of demons hadn’t done the job like she had hoped. There was no other way, but to attack. All she had to do was be faster than them and with the potion strong within her veins that shouldn’t be a problem.
She shot forth a wave of reiki and lowered her stance to sprint away if needed. InuYasha retaliated as she guessed.
“Bakuryuha!”
Not very original. She pushed off her heels, infusing her energy into her legs and was instantly airborne completely out of the path of the blast. She glared daggers at the stoic Lord who still hadn’t moved except to look on as if he were merely a spectator. He was a hard one to read, like his mother. How infuriating.
Noriko growled and twisted in the air calling forth a storm of energy to shield her body and plummeted back to the ground. Her impact shook the earth under foot and caused the ground to crack from the velocity. InuYasha was thrown off balance and Sesshomaru jumped closer to the Bone Eater’s well where the ground remained undisturbed. Still he made no attempts to attack.
“What’s the matter, my Lord? Allowing another to rid the world of your father’s dishonorable indiscretion for you?” She taunted mockingly.
She caught his eyes narrowing slightly before a flash of red pervaded her peripheral vision. She moved quickly to the right and narrowly escaped InuYasha’s claws. She skipped along the grass and launched back into the air. She could see InuYasha watching her carefully and Sesshomaru sifting his fingers through his hair like he was bored. Her next attack was aimed for the Taiyoukai.
She drifted back to the ground watching her purple energy ball block Sesshomaru from view. She felt his youki flare and smiled to herself. He had actually put forth some effort into protecting his own precious hide. The bastard.
Noriko didn’t let her defenses down. There was still another opponent lurking behind her. She waited until InuYasha started forward before blasting Sesshomaru again once he became visible. His sword was stuck into the ground and his chest was rising and falling swiftly. Once again he was obscured and this time she heard him roar. She smiled in satisfaction.
“Kaze no Kizu!”
Shit! It was coming from her left, not behind her. She flipped backwards and stumbled on her landing. She had gotten distracted and it had almost cost her everything. InuYasha now stood in front of her blocking his older brother from another attack, her reiki around the Taiyoukai fading rapidly. Noriko managed to get to her feet. She tried to keep her disappointment at the turn of events off of her face and casually brushed off her kimono.
“Such brotherly love. Warms the heart.” She said with a malicious chuckle that sounded deranged to her own ears.

Kagome watched from the bushes, her heart stuttering in an irregular gallop and her breathing labored. Who was this woman and why was she after them? She was a Miko and a very powerful one at that, but not all of her powers were spiritual. She was human, just as she had said, but there was no way a human could possess that kind of power.
A flash of green whipped through the clearing and around InuYasha’s body. It crackled and with the scream of pain that followed came the sound of ripping flesh. Sesshomaru had finally emerged from the purification bubble surrounding him and he was a sight to behold. Kagome was sure it would haunt her dreams for many years to come.
His face was distorted, caught in mid transformation. The lower half of his visage a partial muzzle, his lips pulled back exposing rows of jagged teeth with patches of fur sprouting in various places. His eyes were wide and swirling with molten crimson around the slits of his pupils. His silver mane whipped around him in the waves of youki that permeated the air causing Kagome to have to fight her own powers to keep from having a very unfortunate accident.
A vicious, deafening snarl echoed through the clearing and Kagome shivered. He was positively frightening. Even InuYasha cowered slightly. She wouldn’t have even noticed it had she not known him as well as she did. This was about to end very badly for Noriko.
The dark Miko shifted her feet and Kagome saw the blood covering the grass bellow her. Part of Kagome felt sorry for the woman, but she should have known better. Sesshomaru was not one to be trifled with, even she knew that.
Sesshomaru walked forward slowly, his crimson orbs boring a hole through the injured woman. It was the deadliest Kagome had ever seen him. InuYasha moved out of his incensed brother’s path and tightened his hold on Tetsusaiga keeping an eye on his brother just in case.
Kagome watched Sesshomaru stop then disappear. There was nothing but a blur of almost imperceptible white leaving a dizzying trail from where the demon Lord had once been. He rematerialized with his hand clamped around Noriko’s throat, her feet dangling off the ground. His face had returned to normal, but it was evident from the blood running down the woman’s throat that he was anything but calm.
“This Sesshomaru demands an explanation, Miko. Consider it your final words.” He spat, even irate and disgusted he still sounded dignified.
Kagome watched the suspended priestess’ shoulders begin to shake, the tremors traveling down her entire body. At first she thought the woman to be crying and she wouldn’t blame her, but when the hysterical laughter sounded, Kagome’s eyes widened. It was a trap!
“Stupid mutt. Just like your arrogant father. Kill me if you so please. It makes no difference.” Noriko wheezed venomously.
Kagome was moving before she knew it, trying desperately to stave off the attack she knew was coming. InuYasha was close enough to Sesshomaru that, if she could get to them in time, she could save them both.
Kagome felt the stirrings of power come from deep within Noriko, only this didn’t feel the same as her other attacks. It held an unimaginable amount of reiki that could easily purify them both and was infused with something else, something sinister. Kagome pushed herself harder.
“Fools! You will know the extent of my pain! You will know what it is to be weak and helpless against the world! You will suffer and despair!” Noriko’s voice boomed unnaturally through the clearing and Sesshomaru’s hand began to smoke where it clutched her neck.
Kagome saw InuYasha raise Tetsusaiga, but it wasn’t in time. A flash of black engulfed the priestess and Sesshomaru jumped back, his hand smoldering at his side, and a grimace on his face. Kagome was almost there, but her window of opportunity was growing thin.
“Thank your heartless father for the suffering when you meet him in the afterlife!”
Kagome could feel the tendrils of corrupted holy power licking against her skin. She rushed past Noriko as a massive orb formed between the woman’s hands the tendrils exuding from her chest. InuYasha rushed forward, his fang glowing poised to strike and Sesshomaru’s fingertips were lit up with his venom.
No! It was a trap! Couldn’t they see? Kagome didn’t have the oxygen to warn them; instead she flung herself into the foray crashing into the first brother she reached, knocking him off kilter.
For Kagome, everything in that moment slowed down. She could hear Miroku’s voice yelling her name and saw the fluttering of red from the corner of her eye crash into a tree. That’s when she realized that Sesshomaru had pushed InuYasha away from the blast and that they had been the ones to absorb the brunt of it.
Then they were falling into what felt like, an endless chasm with an intense pressure at her back pushing them along. She felt a blinding pain sear her flesh and her fingers clutched the Taiyoukai’s armor reflexively as she cried out, her insides lurching violently. He roared deafening her before her vision flared white then faded away.

InuYasha couldn’t believe what he was seeing. So much was going on that he hadn’t even sensed Kagome approaching, by then it was just too late. He watched the energy emerge from within Noriko’s chest, a smile on the woman’s face as the twisted reiki flew towards both him and Sesshomaru. He had been prepared to take it, but Kagome suddenly appeared and collided with Sesshomaru. At the same time, the arm of said demon Lord knocked him back several yards away from his woman and the expected attack.
The next thing InuYasha knew, he was sliding down a broken tree with Kagome and Sesshomaru screaming encompassed entirely in dark energy that reeked of purification. There was an explosion, he felt parts of his flesh sizzle and he bit his tongue to keep from shouting. He couldn’t sense them anymore.
No! It couldn’t be. Were they? No!
He didn’t even notice the dark Miko collapse after the energy faded. He rushed to the spot in front of the well where Sesshomaru had been standing and sniffed the air scrupulously. He felt the familiar stirrings from the well and without thought, jumped in only to be met with bones and dirt at the bottom of the dried up hole. No magic swirled about him and Kagome was nowhere in sight.
He jumped out in one bound and landed in a crouch on the grass. He tried again, but it still didn’t stir to life. He pounded the earthen wall with his fist and jumped back out. He continued to jump in and out of the well with the same effect each time. Absolutely nothing. He felt hands seize his shoulders and tried to shrug them off, but they remained steadfast.
“We must get her to Kaede’s. She may be the only way to get Kagome back.” Miroku said calmly.
InuYasha didn’t want to hear that. He wanted Kagome back where she belonged, by his side, and he wanted her now.
“Please, my friend. We need to move quickly, she is fading.”
InuYasha broke the hold Miroku had on him and stomped past a weeping Shippo. He stopped beside the kit and looked down.
“Suck it up, Shippo. I got to drop this bitch off, but I’ll be back. You keep watch just in case Kagome comes back through.” InuYasha commanded picking up his Tetsusaiga and sheathing it.
Shippo straightened himself to his full meager height and dried his eyes quickly.
“You got it, InuYasha.” He said before hopping onto the lip of the well his eyes staring down into the depths.
InuYasha’s eyes zeroed in on the crumpled form of his assailant. Once she gave them the answers they needed, human or not, she was going to die.
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