Hanako's Deep Slumber: Arrival to a New World

(NPCing as Dream Inuyasha Iramasha, 3rd born son of Hanako and Koichi.)

Inuyasha bit his right thumbnail, his palm facing outwards from him. He was sitting with his knees pointed to the skies on a large, flat rock. He watched as the battle between the two raged. Plick. Plick. Plick. Plick. Hmm... Weird stuff has been going on since Lord Ketsu reached that Sky Terror crystal... Plick. Plick. Plick. Plick. But... Is it truly the right thing...? Sometimes I just don't get what Lord Ketsu and his court are thinking, same as Madame Iramasha. He moved his hand down from his mouth for a moment, looking back at the fight, seeing the arrancar beginning to lose the upper hand. Who looks much like this stranger, I must admit. He decided, leaping down as he saw the arrancar disappear. He landed, his black robes that went up to his neck and down to his feet not obscuring his boyish face and his dirty blonde hair. He lowered his arms, which he had let behind him as he descended, and walked towards the strange woman.

"You know." He began in his soft voice, looking on intensely as he came to stop in front of her. His gaze was downwards; she reminded him of Madame Iramasha, whom he never looked in the eye. "There really was no point to killing him." He spoke mysteriously, looking up at last, meeting the woman in the eyes. He nearly flinched as he did so, but prevented himself from doing so, gripping his fists within his robes out of site. "He should have known that as well, but Arrancar aren't exactly the smartest of tools..." He finished, raising up his right arm. He turned his arm, pointing his palm at the sky, fully revealing the limb. It was covered with scars; from the wrist all the way to the shoulder. He began charging up a mass of Chaos Energy, moving at high speeds behind the woman at first, then from all 8 sides. Then he shot up dark flare, a brownish-black sort of color, that rose high up into the sky.

It exploded, revealing the form of a Lion. The Lion was growling, its face and mane forwards in front of the rest of its body, ready to strike. It was quite large, but then steadily shrank and ran down from the sky, coming underneath Inuyasha's waiting right hand. He stroked its mane, looking down at it. "You know, Lord Ketsu seemed to be waiting for this. He has never had us go on patrol like this before. Even me and my brothers and sisters. Normally he doesn't send us out unless there's a crisis going on, like right before he deployed his Air-Ship." He was talking Idly; simply waiting for someone to find the flare. He didn't really have anything against the woman; in fact, she intrigued him. "I don't personally mean any harm against you. HE" He spoke, pointing at the rubble that was left of the explosion. "Just jumped into the fray without thinking. Fool." He finished, reflecting on this woman. She was fierce, like his Mother, but yet seemed shocked when she had placed the explosive on the arrancar that was eventually his doom in the battle.

He looked at the ground again, thinking some more. Then he looked up, realizing something. "Your clothes are really weird. You're not from the Outer Realm, are you? Tell me, where ARE you from?" Inuyasha knew that everyone in the Outer Realm of Lord Ketsu wore robes similar to he: white for the lower classes, shadowy black like his own for the middle/higher, and a dark ebony for the highest. It was how they proved their class: as his robe told, the arrancar had been in a low caste as well as not very smart. He eagerly awaited her reply, she fascinated him, like his mother, and yet... much... different...

Different...

Inuyasha raised his eyebrow as he watched the woman's reaction. His right hand, which was still stroking the lion, went down to just one finger tapping on its head. It had its eyes closed; Inuyasha wasn't sure WHY it liked that, but it did. How can she be hesitant...? Does she not...

"I- I don't know. Last time I remembered was sleeping and then here I am."

Inuyasha opened his eyes wide, raising both eyebrows. "how... How can you not kno-" He was cut off as the woman spun around, kicking into the sand. He threw up both arms, defending himself from the resulting explosion. His lion was standing there, roaring and growling at the fleeing woman. Inuyasha frowned, his eyebrows lowering above his eyes, and pressed down on his right foot. Inuyasha vanished, using a chaos warp, grabbing ahold of his lions fur. He appeared next to the woman, on her left side. He realized that he would have to detain the woman, or give away that he let this woman escape. His lion appeared on the woman's right side, away from Inuyasha, and he threw out his left hand. He charged Chaos Energy within his hand, and his lion's mouth was widen open as it ran, level with Hanako. His hand glowed a dark ebony, and the space in his lion's mouth did the same.

"LION'S ROAR!"

He cried, releasing his Ramnyaku. Let's see how she deals with this. She may look like Mother, but I highly doubt that she has the same amount of ability... The blast went out, right at Hanako's direction, 5 feet in diameter with his hand as the epicenter. A similar blast as large as his own shot out from his lion, colliding with his own. It created a large blast in the shape of a cymbal, 10 feet in radius to its sides, moving as they ran and kept with Hanako for 5 seconds. He and his Lion leapt forwards, landing in front of Hanako.

Inuyasha began using a form of Taijutsu of sorts, performing a straight chop with his right hand at her shoulder level, trying to hit her in the neck and end things there. However, he had seen her last fight, and doubted that would do it. Inuyasha's Lion leapt forwards, moving its right paw in a swipe at her stomach, trying to claw her side. The Lion did this as Inuyasha' weight came down on his right foot, regaining his balance from the chop. Then, in the same motion, he brought up and back his left foot, shooting it forward at her stomach level, trying to knock her off balance from the strike. Then his lion leaped, trying to pin her down, bringing down all four paws outstretched in a leap. What a shame, hope Leo doesn't rip that nice coat... the errant thought crossed his mind as he brought up his right and left arms, pushing his weight downwards, his knees pointing straight out and level with his waist.

"Chaos..."

He began, bringing the arms into the air. He shut his eyes tight and a scowl crossed his face, bringing all the energy into his hands. He wasn't that old, but he had experience, and he knew this task would require a bit more energy than normal. Inuyasha's lion leapt off into the air, a good 2 feet, knowing what was about to happen. It leaped just moments before Inuyasha pushed down, activating his attack.

"SHATTERING!"

Inuyasha yelled, pushing his hands onto the ground. His hands pushed through the desert sand, as the Chaos Energy spread from him. It disturbed the sand, rapidly shattering the hard bits within it, sinking the two of them deep into a crater. Due to its sinking and loss of stability, anything that touched it would quickly be sucked up to their knees, depending on their weight. The crater was 10 meters across and 3 meters deep, with himself and Hanako at the center. Inuyasha looked up, one eye momentarily closed as he began to recover from the shock of chaos shattering. While it was used, it would have rumbled the ground around them, making movement difficult and perhaps disorienting his opponent. Inuyasha prepared himself; he still wasn't sure what to make of this strange woman, but he was decidedly ready to be prepared. He wasn't about to let her just run away, after all, it was theortically his job. That's all. She's certainly not Mother, and I'm just doing my job...

Just doing my job...