Ch66 Sesshōmarus Return #3
Swatting her aside with it as I hide my wince.
She cut deeper than I expected, should have focused more on her than Y/N. Can already feel it starting to heal and the cut on my palm was healing nicely.
Glancing down at my left hand the miasma was melting off the ice that now coated it slowly. Not as pontent as previous arm, it should have melted by now.
Was trying to see if I can cut through that shard of his, but I was not expecting this kind of resistance.
Y/N picked himself up with a grown as my tail waved behind me.
Just another disspointment right now...he better have a good reason on why he has another one there...
Or it wasn't because he wanted to.
But it could explain a few things.
(Y/N POV)
Ow...
Okay the pain was starting to die away, think I blocked out how much it had hurt the last time she sliced my shard apart...
Grunting I got up to see she melted a small hole through my kimono and it was covered in an entire layer of frost. Quickly reaching through it I winced as I felt my shard repairing itself and grabbed Yura's comb, breathing a sigh of relief to see it undamaged and frost free.
Only for my eyes to widen as my fingers traced over it.
Cracked, a thin line but it was cracked.
How?
Last time she cut it in half and it fixed itself is no time at all...
No, I can focus on that later.
Sesshōmaru's tail lashed out at me before an arrow struck it, creating a small burst of reiryoku as Yura's hairs reached out for me.
Stretching my arm up to the nearest hairs, they yanked her comb back as Sesshōmaru's tail wrapped around me and lifted me up.
"Don't even try to freeze anything, the slightest bit of my fur affected and I'll know." Sesshōmaru said before looking over to Yura and Inuko. "Try anything and I'll make sure we'll regret it. I'll give him back in a minute."
That wasn't exactly reassuring to hear...
(Kagome POV - Nearby Roof)
What was she planning now?
I frowned as I went to draw another arrow before Yura's hairs yanked it put of my grasp.
"Sorry but I'm going to need that, take this in exchange." Yura said as one of her hairs depositing her comb into my hand, half her right forearm growing back. "You got plenty more."
"Not enough to deal with Sesshōmaru." I grumbled as I drew another arrow. "You have any idea why she is grabbing Y/N?"
"If it is what we suspect, maybe not even she knows what she wants with him. Except she seemingly doesn't want to hurt him, she could have gone for Inuko or you otherwise." Yura said, getting me to nod and sigh.
Glancing down to Inuko pacing around her and Sesshōmaru's tail dropping Y/N off and retracting into her shoulder...kind of freaky to see honestly.
"Make sure to make that shot count." Yura said as I pocketed her comb and walked to the edge of the roof.
"Planing on dealing as much damage to that flat chested bitch as a I can." I said honestly, getting Yura to smirk.
"Happy to hear it Kagome." Yura said, jumping off as I notched the arrow and began to channel reiryoku into it.
Honestly the fact I'm going to enjoy this means I've probably been hanging around her and Inuko too much. Then again Sesshōmaru keeps calling me a harlot and has been trying to kill me.
If I can't take out that damned arm of hers better make sure to make this land any way I can.
(Y/N POV)
I winced at watching her tail retracting into her shoulder, vanishing alongside her fangs.
"Does that bother you?" I couldn't help but ask.
Heard of plenty of yokai can do this with their tails but it is usually out the back, turning a leg or both, or in some cases of snake yokai their stomach. Yet this was a first.
"No, but a shoulder wound does increase the discomfort." Sesshōmaru said, rolling her shoulder and giving her sister a pointed glance.
"Glad to hear it." Inuko said with a smirk, taking a stepping towards her only for Sesshōmaru to flex a claw upwards alongside the yoki whip.
The oni took a step forwards as Sesshōmaru dispelled the whip.
"Take another step Inuko and the harlot will be first." Sesshōmaru said as Yura landed nearby me.
"Like you wouldn't be targeting her first otherwise." Yura snapped at her, getting an icy look from Sesshōmaru who gave a slight nod after a moment. "What are you doing and not trying to kill us except him."
"As Y/N's vassal I'll extend that courtesy to you as well. I just wished to make my dissipointment clear. But chiefly I do wish to know...was the second shard not your doing." Sesshōmaru said, giving me an icy glare as an oppressive aura crashed down on me.
Kind of hard to breath and I placed a frost covered Shusūi to steady myself.
"Right, just something from my own accursed shard. Every time we overcome or find one I loose a little more of myself, that was the only one out of five they couldn't stop. Been trying to stop it, but there is nothing so far...much like accepting that arm from whoever offered it too you."
I said, getting the aura to immediately fade away to my relief.
"Fair enough." Sesshōmaru said with a simple nod, getting a shiver down my spine as she smiled. "Would have ripped it out if it didn't kill you. I will do the same for this accursed arm."
...Okay that wasn't reassuring but I get the feeling she would trying to be.
Still a human arm, did she get it with the jewel shard already inside or not.
"So that damned arm was given to someone and you immediately decided to come after us, is that why your dissipointed." Yura asked, crossing her arms as her hand partially reformed.
Hairs surrounding me and one already drawing Benigasumi.
"Not quite, I have been laying in wait for a few days for Y/N specifically. When I heard about him, I wanted to see him again and claim Tessaiga." Sesshōmaru said cooly
...What?
Inuko and Yura mirrored my shock and in the distance I think I glanced in the distance Jaken's mouth hung open too...
Her lips twitched up in a small smile as I felt a chill down my back.
A frog stared at by a snake.
That proverb immediatly popped into my mind, with the snake being her.
Though unlike that and I really hope that she isn't looking at me like prey, was more or less the same disturbing look she gave me and Yura those weeks ago but more curious than anything.
Still trying to figure out if that was making me more nervous or not...
Yet she was here because of me mostly...okay not sure how to feel about that...
"What did you hear?" Yura asked, moving closer as she snapped me out of my thoughts. "You heard about the shibito didn't you?"
"Myōga might be loyal to you, but his words carry like the wind amongst father's territory and former servants. One Jaken has taken over listening too, admittedly searching for Tessaiga to care much except matters important to me."
Sesshōmaru said emotionless, giving her right shoulder a slight shrug before her lips twitched into a small frown.
"You do have my condolences about your mate Kikyō Inuko, it was dishonorable what that cur Urasue was doing. I do hope she was able to pass in peace. That is the only pleasantries you will receive from me."
"And they better be, keep Kikyō's name out of your kami forsaken mouth!" Inuko snarled out, balling her fists and preparing to charge forward.
Only stopping when Sesshōmaru gave her an annoyed glance and the oni took another step.
"I'll forgive this outburst as she was your mate, but another step and as much as I admire Y/N we both will regret my next actions." Sesshōmaru said icy as she extended her her claws. "You will have him back unharmed in a minute, unless you test me."
"Not exactly reassuring, you heard about me and Ryūma." I asked figuring how she heard about me. "The only human warrior your father ever respected."
"And you heard about Zero's little test already?" Yura asked with a glare as Sesshōmaru simply nodded.
"Jaken informed me last night, the test was meant for either you or Inuko. Inuko's whole existence especially being my fathers child is enough of a reason, but Y/N...your a complete unknown.
Yet you have earned the same respect from the man whose blade you now wield and the attention of those who father regarded for reasons unknown..."
Sesshōmaru said, sounding almost wistful in her tone for a second before shaking her head.
"Ryūma is the reason I decided to lie in wait around these parts, but that news of this trap convinced me not to simply camp out at the village Inuko seems to be fond off by now."
Inuko snarled and lunged forward, swinging Tessaiga at Sesshōmaru as she blitzed her, brifly vanishing from view most exploded off my feet. As Yura jumped in, I raised Shūsui and Yura used her hairs to help adjust my position.
Just as Sesshōmaru stopped her claws an centimeter from gouging my shard out and me from cutting into her right eye. Yura training Benigasumi at her side with Sesshōmaru's feet encased in ice and surrounded by hairs.
Trying my best not to waver as she let out a crushing aura for a few moments before smiling, stepping back and breaking the frost and hairs. Ducking under Inuko slashing at her with Tessaiga. Pulling back her left hand and twisting her body back a little.
Driving her hand back forward with a single step of her, getting Inuko to double over and get sent flying until Yura caught her in her hairs.
"You okay?" I asked as Yura lowered Inuko down as the pressure disappeared.
"I feel a lot better when either of us cut her apart Y/N." Inuko growled out as I just nodded.
I'll take that as a yes.
Sesshōmaru's expression changed back to her emotionless one as she still stared at me.
Honestly I couldn't tell if she was actually goug out my shard or not. She damn well could have snapped through the ice and hairs in an instant if she didn't slow down a split second.
Best not to think about it too much.