Inuyasha: A Story Between Brothers

Lazarus Rising: The Return Of A Vengeful Kikyo

"Inuyasha..." Kikyo was back after being revived by the magic of Urasue. Before Urasue could order Kikyo around, Kikyo turned Urasue into nothing but dust. Then she set her attention on the name she spoke softly out of her mouth. "How are you still alive? I bound you to the sacred tree."

"That's Kikyo?" Koshawn asked Inuyasha

"Yeah." He replied. "That's her. And you're right Kikyo, you did bind me to a tree for 50 years. But now I'm back and better than ever. And I'm ready to take you on again."

"Um...You might want to reconsider the last part in your sentence." Yoshua told Inuyasha.

"Yoshua's right." Elihu replied. "I never felt a spiritual force like this before. She must be one if not the top priestess of all time."

"I despise you," Kikyo snarled. "You loathsome halfman." Kikyo approached Inuyasha, but the moment she made her tenth step towards him, She began to bleed out from a hideous gnash wound on her left shoulder.

"Gotta problem Kikyo?" Inuyasha taunted her.

"Augh...WHY DID YOU BETRAY ME INUYASHA?!" Kikyo shouted, her hand covered in the blood that came from her wound on her left shoulder.

"I'm confused." Elihu said to Inuyasha. "Didn't you say that she betrayed you?"

"What are you talking about?!" Inuyasha replied. " Of course I did! She's the one who tried to kill me first!"

"But that wound on her shoulder..." Koshawn noticed, "That wasn't made by an animal...That was made by a hybrid with claws."

"What are you trying to say Koshawn?!" Inuyasha assumed. "That I was the one who injured Kikyo all those years ago?!"

"Can we just skip the drama please?!" Yoshua demanded. "At this point, it doesn't matter who betrayed who. At the end of the day, the fact of the matter is that we need to get the whole story. From BOTH sides. If that's agreeable, then let's drop the whole dramatic scenario and get down to business."

Kikyo and Inuyasha eyed one another. Yet, they both agreed. 

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Because Kikyo was one with the Jewel of Power/Shikon No Tama, she healed herself of her wounds. Inuyasha told his side of his story. Kikyo told her side of the story. An argument took place. Until... "From what we're being told, it sounds like both you and Kikyo were set up to fight each other to the death." Elihu said to Inuyasha and Kikyo.

"But why?" Kikyo questioned. "How can that be?"

"Was there anyone who wanted you or Inuyasha dead? Someone who saw you as their queen or their ruby in the rye? Someone who wanted to steal you from Inuyasha, even if it did cost you your own life?"

Kikyo thought about it. She knew the answer. She knew who it was that desired her hand. But for the sake of Inuyasha's "Feelings" She decided to play amnesia. "No..I-I don't think so."

"Uh-Huh." Yoshua crossed his arms, knowing Kikyo was lying. "Well Inuyasha knows that he doesn't have any enemies who know about you. And You seem to not know who your enemies are. I guess we'll come across your opposing forces when the time's right. Until then, since you and the Jewel Of Power are one and the same, I suggest you hand it over so our brother can become a pure blood."

"I will not do such a thing." Kikyo replied. "Inuyasha, were you not the one who told me that you wanted to become a human? That your reason for becoming a human was to be with me?" She asked Inuyasha.

"Kikyo..."

"That was before you tried to take our brother from this world." Yoshua replied. "Hand over the Shikon Ms. Kikyo, or we will be forced to take it from you. Your choice"

"I would love to see you try." Kikyo tensed up, allowing her energy to surge through her body, and created an outburst that pushed The brothers as far as the edge of the cliff. When Yoshua, Elihu, Koshawn, and Inuyasha got their foot holding on solid ground, they saw that Kikyo was gone.

"She vanished!" Elihu told his brothers. "Dammit!"

"I was expecting this." Yoshua told Elihu, Koshawn, and Inuyasha. "Don't worry. We have her scent and we can sense her spiritual energy. Well...She'll probably mask her energy, but we have her scent. Finding her and taking the Jewel of Power from her should be easy-"

"Hold on a moment." Inuyasha interrupted Yoshua. "Maybe it's better this way."

"Come again?" Elihu and Yoshua remarked

"Look," Inuyasha told them and Koshawn, "I told you guys how much I hated Kikyo for what she did to me."

"Hate?" Elihu replied. "Hate is an understatement. Inuyasha, she placed you under a slumber spell for FIFTY years. FIFTY YEARS. Hate is way beneath what you should be feeling against her."

"I know-I know, okay?" Inuyasha told Elihu. "But Kikyo and I were set up. Just like you said. Yoshua. Koshawn. You three told us that we were set up. And if that's true, then I need to find out who did it and avenge our relationship-"

"Whoa-Whoa-Whoa." Elihu stopped Inuyasha. "Just so we're clear, you're aware that the relationship with Kikyo was doomed from the start, right? You're also aware that She's a wild card. She cannot be trusted. You are aware of all of this. So with that being said...What relationship do you have with someone like THAT?"

"You wouldn't understand, brother." Inuyasha sighed. "I know you could, but my relationship with Kikyo was more than what you have seen and said. Way more."

Elihu sighed. Yoshua and Koshawn felt their brother's pain and desire to love what he thought was lost. "You're right." Elihu told Inuyasha, patting him on the shoulder. "I don't understand. I never fell in love before. None of us have. We've been busy traveling the world just to find our father, who we know now is dead as a dead flower. You have to understand Inuyasha, you're our brother. For the first time, we found out that we have a brother. And the first thing that we want to do for you, our brother, is to protect you and apologize for not knowing about you soon enough to come and find you. You may not have mattered or you have felt like you didn't matter to some. But...But you matter to us. And on behalf of my brothers, I'm so sorry. All we want to do now is help you become the best version of yourself that you can be. That's the only way, in my humble opinion, that we can make up for lost time."

Inuyasha eyed Elihu. His glance went over to Yoshua and Koshawn. He smiled and returned the gesture that he was receiving from Elihu. "Well...Being the best version of myself isn't going to be that easy." Inuyasha told Elihu and Yoshua and Koshawn. "I'm not saying that I can't do it alone, I can, but I'm going to need help. And since I have a family I need to get me to where I need to be...I might as well not take them for granted." That was more than enough to gain Inuyasha a group/family/brotherly hug from his older brothers.

Little did they know...Outside the lands of Japan, there was another brother. Inuyasha's other older brother. And his name...Was Sesshomaru.