Ch66 Sesshōmarus Return #2
Sesshōmaru frowned as she caught and arrow in her left hand before it could strike her shoulder and tossed it into the ground. Remaking her whip and vanishing once again.
I tried to locate her, only to yell in pain as it cut across my nose and forearm!
"Damn it!" I shouted, clutching my nose and dropping Tessaiga.
Turning back into it's rusted form, Sesshōmaru dispelled at whip and rushed forward as we both reached towards Tessaiga.
"Inuko get down!"
Quickly ducking down as Y/N sailed over me, swinging Shūsui as it was covered in a mass of ice right into my bitch if a sister's gut before she could reach Tessaiga.
Smiling at seeing her doubled over and knocked her back a bit.
(Y/N POV)
I panted a little when Sesshōmaru jumped back, a massive number of Yura's hairs wrapped around her leg. Twisting and wrapping around it as Yura jerked both her arms back hard and sent Sesshōmaru spiralling into a nearby tree on the cliffside.
Shifting the ice off Shusūi as Yura landed next to me, quickly reshaping it into more of a rounded stone she flung at Sesshōmaru.
Hitting her stomach and cracking a few branches as she disappeared from view.
At best that bought us probably a few moments before she attacks again.
"Inuko?" "I'm fine, just need a few seconds." She said cutting my off as she stretched her arm out a little.
Nodding as Inuko picked up Tessaiga and heated onto her shoulder and Yura landed next to us.
"Master it seems like the monk and kit have cleared up the town closest us and that mountain, can't seem sign of them." Yura said, getting Inuko to sigh.
"At least Shippō is safe, could care less about Miroku unless she is actually going to help." Inuko said irritably.
"Probably coming up with a plan right now." I said, taking a look around.
Only been three days now but enough to figure Miroku was working or possibly enacting a plan right now. Even then with the Kazaana I'm not sure how effective that can be.
We catch Sesshōmaru by surprise their might be a chance, but with the cures susceptibility to poisons doing so could possibly kill Miroku. Unless Sesshōmaru kills her first, so that is definitely a last resort.
Far more important things to worry about...
I spotted Kagome hiding on a rooftop, going to notch an arrow from where Sesshōmaru disappeared.
"Much as I don't like the monk all that much I agree with master." Yura said, breaking me from my thoughts as she looked at Inuko. "But for now we have to keep that sword out of your bitch of a sister's new hand."
"No matter what kind of arm it is this thing is useless to her." Inuko growled out as she turned to look for Sesshōmaru.
"Sadly we don't think so, it's a human's arm." I said, Inuko's ears shooting straight up. "Why else would she come to us with a jewel shard embedded in it so it wouldn't rot or break from her power. Or why she possibly cut off your arm besides payback, you couldn't smell the difference?"
"Reeks of her scent and something anything but human!" Inuko snarled out.
"Either it's from the shard or how I recieced the arm, don't care."
She's behind us!
By the time either if us could turn Sesshōmaru simply ran back in a blur with only the sound of her whip cracking the ground.
The oni let out a loud roar as it got up and lunged it's hands forward in an attempt to squash us.
Yura pulled my back and Inuko jumped aside as the oni slammed it's hands down and shook the ground. As it raised it's hands I noticed that Jaken was clinging to the shoulder, swinging the Nintōjō as flames spewed from the old man's head in an attempt to keep us away.
As I began to generate more mistook my body the oni moved a hand to swatt at Inuko, only to growl in pain as an arrow landed in the fold between it's finger and nail and a small burst of reiryoku as it took a step back.
I smiled at seeing the damage, looks like Kagome was getting better at aiming at least.
(Kagome POV)
Okay I was not expecting that.
Was trying to aim for the hand at least...
I began to reach for another arrow and felt being pulled back to another while keeping an eye out for where Sesshōmaru had disappeared to again.
(Yura POV)
The oni roared in pain as I swipped my fingers and lifted us higher in the air to avoid it swipping at us, balancing it me and master in the air as Inuko landed on it's gand.
It moved to try and crush Inuko, only to to yell in pain as she slashed off a piece of it's finger.
Roaring clutching it's finger as she jumped away and I threw Benigasumi into it's open wound.
No wonder this oni was sleeping under a mountain. All it has was it's size and strength.
The oni roared in pain and took a step back as it clutched it's hand, the imp holding on to for dear life before the oni froze up again.
The bitch was right behind it, but where...
Feeling a few hairs shifting, I curled my fingers to get a better reading...there!
Balling my hand into a fist where I gueeses Sesshōmaru was I felt one of my hairs clip something but missed.
She's close by.
"Master, ready?" I asked, getting him to nod.
"Just guide me where Yura." He said with a smile, getting me to smile back at him.
Until I felt some of my hairs burn away.
Found her.
Simply jerking him back, Y/N created a large ice pillar that I wrapped my hairs around and flung it at the only's left shoulder as Sesshōmaru emerged from behind it. Her poison instantly melting through it and jumping off.
Inuko leapt off the oni's leg and at Sesshōmaru, slashing at her with Tessaiga.
Unlike last time she didn't try to wretch the sword from her, instead Sesshōmaru swung her foot put and used her damned sister as a springboard and sent her plumenting to the ground..
If she wasn't going for Tessaiga now...
For Chirizuka Kaiou's sake, not again!
Quickly extending hairs to pull master back towards the ground and away from her...plus the bitch can complain to me latter. Using my hairs to launch myself at Sesshōmaru, slashing at her with Benigasumi.
Leaning her head back the blade only nicked her and I yelled in pain as she swiped a chunk out of my right arm!
Fuck!
She made to jump off me...only to be slammed into by a growling Inuko dragged by her ankles.
My right arm went slank and the hairs holding her and master loosened, him falling and barely landing on the ground as Inuko tossed Sesshōmaru to the ground and fell after her.
I winced at the burning pain and saw her poison was eating away at my arm pretty fast.
Already had my body completely eaten away by this damned stuff once before, even now it is going to be a pain to recreate a new arm even then.
At least I can have one more use for it.
(Y/N POV)
Okay not the best landing...
Standing up I saw Sesshōmaru pick herself off the ground and jumped away from Inuko as she dove down and swung Tessaiaga into the ground. I rushed forwards as Sesshōmaru looked between the two of us. Turning to me with her claws raised and ran towards me.
Until a half rotting arm fell between us connected by a few strands.
Sesshōmaru was uncaring as the hand and arm erupted into strands all over the place and swinging her claws around blindly to melt them.
"Oni-bi Gushi!" Yura shouted as the hairs lit aflame and I jumped back, some coiling around Sesshōmaru and then forming into several small tendrils as Yura smirked. Swiping her remwining hand and lashing out with the tendrils as Sesshōmaru broke out of the remaining ones.
Not caring at all at getting singed as she charged forwards lashing out with her claws as I gathered mist at my feet and started to muster as much yoki there and my free hand.
Slashing at the flaming hairs and the air around her...wait she was aiming for Yura's other hairs around. Trying to dissolve whatever could she before they fall back down to the ground. Looks like she wasn't going to let Yura take here by surprise this time.
Her face growing a little annoyed as an arrow into her right shoulder, weaving under a flaming strand and ripping it in a blur.
I winced as something cut my cheek and Inuko jumped back before the arrows shaft could cut her foot.
Okay that was the arrowhead then.
Freezing the wound shut, Yura threw Benigasumi that Sesshōmaru shifted to deflect the blade off her armor. Trying to move towards me only to slash apart more hair tendrils trying to bind her. With Yura quickly pulling a good number of her hairs behind the daiyokai as she tan towards me.
Now or never.
Releasing all the built up yoki and creating a massive ice mass shooting at Sesshōmaru like a battling. Holding on and keeping steady as it Sesshōmaru slashed at it with her claws and Yura lifted my up with her hairs.
Panting a little as the ice started to shatter and melt, but part of it crashed into Sesshōmaru and caused her to step back a little.
Yura closed her hand and Sesshōmaru was bound in a net of hairs and the remaining flaming tendrils. It wouldn't hold her long and she was already starting to tear them apart.
Gripping Shusūi's handle with both hands, Yura removed her hairs from me as Inuko iumped from the side swing Tessaiaga while I did fell down and pulled my sword back.
Sesshōmaru looked between the two of us as I pulled Shusūi back, to my surprise her lips quicker up a little before vanishing.
To mine and Inuko's shock she actually jumped up and both Tessaiga and Shusūi struck her mid-swing. Her claws catching Shusūi as it hit her right palm while Tessaiga hit her shoulder in a deep gash.
Wincing a little before she smiled and I got a bad feeling crawling up my spine.
"Not bad." Sesshōmaru said, before her fangs peeking out of her mouth. "But not good enough."
Before I could say anything, I could only yell out in pain as Sesshōmaru jabbed her free hand forward and my shard felt like it was on fire!
(Sesshōmaru POV)
"Y/N!" Inuko shouted as she pulled Tessaiga back to my relief, grabbing him and tossing him back as my tail fully manifested from my shoulder.