Inuyasha and Petshop of Horrors
Chapter 1: Final Parting
"Na…Na…ra…ku…I…will never hand the Shikon no Kakera over to the likes of you!" she spat at his face.
The spat hit him on his left check while the tentacles held her up around her waist, clamping her hands by her sides tightly. Another tentacle went around her neck choking her supply of oxygen. On his face was an impatient look of annoyance of not being able to fully gather the Shikon no Kakera when it is right before his very eyes.
No, in his mind, he was annoyed as to how much longer the miko is going to break and scream out for her precious Inuyasha to come and save her. "Such pity, to waste such a
pretty face…" he said while bringing up a tentacle to brush against her face stained with blood both fresh and dry. What satisfied him slightly was her reaction to his touch.
Recoiling, she tried to jerk her head away from the tentacle from his body from touching her. However, in doing so, she is also choking herself with the tentacle that is wrapped tightly around her neck. Struggling with whatever strength that she had left within her, she prayed silently for the strength that she need to get free.
Like the first time when her hand touches the centipede youkai's face, his tentacle that is wrapped around her waist strapping her hands to her side seemingly disintegrated. A look of anger flashed across Naraku's face, as his other tentacle by reaction of the pain caused released Kagome.
She fell to the ground while she coughed out and gasping for air at the same time. The necklace with the small jar containing the Shikon no Kakera feel to the ground alongside of her not far. The sound of Inuyasha voice calling out for Kagome came closer. A growl could be heard from Naraku as he glared in the direction of Inuyasha, before scowling at Kagome. It was just when he saw the bottle of Shikon no Kakera on the ground. With great speed, a tentacle shot out and grabs hold of the jar.
"No…!" she shouted, but was too late when Naraku he took out the Shikon no Kakera that he had collected. He fused then together, and the Shikon no Tama turned a glowing tainted hue of black. Smirking, another tentacle of his shot out to grab hold of Kagome as a sharp spider leg of his made a huge gash near the junction of her arms and legs. The intensity of the pain causes her to let out a cry as tears started to flow from her eyes rolling down to mix with her blood.
The Shikon no Tama was her responsibility and her fate was sealed since the day she went through the well and the Shikon no Tama being tore away from her. Crying, Naraku brought her closer to him, while he licked on the sharp end of his spider leg that still have her blood on them. Plastered on his face was a look of satisfaction when he brought the Shikon no Tama to her let her blood dripped onto it.
At first, the Shikon no Tama turned black in color then to the color of a black opal. Naraku thinking that he had already won the upper hand in the battle of gaining the ultimate power laughed evilly as the miasma that emitted from his fortress seem to increase suddenly. Just when he was about to pollute the Shikon no Tama further with the blood of Kagome, it started to glow faintly of the pure pearlescent pink before the glowing became stronger.
The light soon covered the whole area, stunning everyone and putting a stop to the battle. When the light faded, Kagome opened her eyes to find herself in a whitewashed place. Everything was gone. She found the wounds that she received were no longer there and as she started to walk forward, she saw the image of a peaceful place. A garden of sort where the grass was ever green and the scents of the flowers in bloom even the scent of grass drifted to her nose. She felt peaceful and felt all her problems slowly dissolving away from her mind till she was blank of all worries and fears.
There she touched the image as she saw the rippling of the surface of the image. Sticking a hand in, she felt nothing. Cautiously stepping across into the boundary of the image, she felt the warmth of the sunlight, the sound of nature amplified and the sound of running water. Walking towards the sound of waters, she saw someone sitting on the rocks there with her back facing to her.
Not really knowing what to do, she walked up towards her without a sound, and saw that it was a woman dressed in a warrior outfit that seemed all too familiar and sitting around her were animals. Demon animals to be exact and they were watching Kagome walking towards them. While in the lap of the woman was a fox like creature being pat by the woman.
"I have been waiting for you. Nice here isn't it?" she said in a soft tone that drifted to my ears carried by the wind. I saw her picking up the fox gently cradling it in her arms while she walked over to me. On her forehead was the familiar marking that I saw in the cave near the demon exterminator's clan. Her outfit too bore the similar resemblance. Finally realizing who the woman in front of her was, she felt herself feeling rather awkward as to not knowing what to do.
She could hear the soft chuckling coming from Midoriko herself as she stood in front of Kagome. "Kagome, you need not be afraid of me. I am merely just part of you like the jewel, as we continue our everlasting battle with the demon souls that are caught within the Shikon no Tama itself. Here is a gift for you." She said as the fox white as snow with silvery blue eyes gazed out to look at Midoriko before jumping lightly into the arms of Kagome. Its fur soft and silky as a feather, its color the purest of white with hints of silver and gold mixed into it that seemingly gave off a glow to illuminate itself.
"Thanks, however doesn't it belong to you? You are the rightful owner." She asked slightly caught off guard when the fox jumped into her arms.
"She is yours to keep, protect and care for now. She too will show the same attention of love and care, she is very loyal. Take good care of her. In time you will discover something that you yourself have to figure out more about. Take care, it is time for me to leave you. Yirashi will be your guiding star if ever you find doubt." With that last word, Midoriko seemed to slowly fade away while Kagome saw that blinding white light again to slowly dissolve and show her the scene of Naraku gone along with the other demons attacking them.
In place of where the half demon Naraku stands, is himself in his human form and seemed to be confused as to what just happened. His snarling could be heard from where I stood even though he was snarling under his breath. When he tried summoning himself into his demonic form, a clawed spider leg seemed to sprout from his back, yet only to disperse into dust like particles after a while. The sound of Inuyasha rushing with giant strides through the corridor of Naraku's mansion, soon came to a sharp turn into the room that I was in and jumped up high to strike at Naraku with all his strength. Kagome realizing it a bit too late was half swept to the side of the room to hit against the wall hard.
Usually in this kind of situation, she would feel the excruciating pain sweeping through her, yet this time, she felt the pain not as excruciating. It felt more like when she scrapped her knee hard against the side of a bench coming away with some of her skin peeled though not enough to cause her to bleed. Meanwhile her eyes flew wide open to look at where Naraku was to see him holding onto his injured right shoulder that is bleeding profusely now. It was a good thing that he managed to dodge Inuyasha or the blow might have caused him a very fatal mortal wound enough to kill him. However due to his bleeding shoulder, his agility at dodging Inuyasha's attack was weak.
Kagome rushed to Inuyasha pulling him back telling him to stop his attack, yet Inuyasha continued to scream away at attacking Naraku especially when he is weak. True it is a blessing, yet Naraku himself was tempted by the hatred and weakness that he had created himself to swallow him whole and be consumed by a power hunger soul.
"Inuyasha no, he is weak. There is a pureness in his mind, I am sure I can reach it please give him another chance. It is not his fault for him to become what he is today." She desperately pleads and felt the pureness within of Naraku's mind stirred a bit yet seemingly shrunk into the darkness again.
He loosened his grip on the hilt of Tetsusaiga but prepared to attack if Naraku was to make a move. Kagome going towards Naraku, knelt beside him while he looked at her with his red eyes showing contempt at her. Her hands looked as though they were glowing itself as she reached out towards Naraku only to have him flinched away from her touch. She could feel his pureness stirring trying to get through the darkness in his mind now, her hand reached for his and she clasped both her hands around his while concentrating trying to break the pureness in him free.
She nearly succeeded when she felt an excruciating pain at the side of her abdomen. Opening her eyes, she saw the red glowing eyes of Naraku part of it in triumph yet the other half of it holds pain and innocence. Bringing her hand slowly to where she felt the pain, she felt the wetness of it through her school uniform. The sound of Inuyasha screaming her name was heard when Kagome heard his hand tightened on his grip of Tetsusaiga and attacked Naraku with his intended finishing blow.
His eyes were wide open with shock, red eyes dilated to the impossibility of the human's eye. Slowly as he was about to croak out a strangled cry of help or perhaps his last few words, his body slowly disperse from the bottom to the top as he slowly turned into ashes.
"Feh… I knew I should have gone ahead and killed that bastard when I had the perfect opportunity to just now." Inuyasha said offhandedly as he hurried over to Kagome side to support her back gently so as to not make her wound open any wider.
His sword transform back to its original katana state as he slide back into its scabbard. Carrying Kagome bridal style, he hurried her back to the nearest village where she could get treatment first before bringing her back to Kaede's village.
Her injury healed up just nicely and perhaps too fast for a mere human even though she posses the powers of a miko. At their final partings, Shippo cried and begged her to bring him along with her into her time, Sango and Miroku are both happily engaged to one another. Miroku still felt odd without his wind tunnel even though it has been about a week or so. However, he still have his bad habits with that roaming hands of his and Sango is always there to teach him a lesson should it ever occur to anyone of his unfortunate victims.
Inuyasha he did not demand for his wish like what Kagome had expected, instead, he gave her a katana short sword about 15inches long with a black varnished outer appearance. Its appearance sleek and stylish, along it came a mysterious aura that seemed to hum a gentle tune when she took it in her hands before the humming died as warmth seemed to spread through her body.
"I got Totousai to craft this for you. It is bonded to you with your blood and allows you to easily channel you miko powers through it." He said while looking away embarrassed as his cheek turned a slight pinkish tint.
"He forgot to mention that Kagura the wind youkai has some contribution into the making of this sword and not to mention Sesshoumaru. Kagura contributed her feather and Lord Sesshoumaru contributed a scale from his dragon and a fang from himself." Sango added in softly while she watched Kagome sliding the sword out of its scabbard examining it closely with tears of happiness and awe in her eyes.
"Thank you everyone. Kagura too have made a lot of sacrifice from helping us time to time. I wish she was here to enjoy her freedom at last without Naraku controlling her. Help me thank Lord Sesshoumaru too and Rin. I wish I could see them both again before leaving here." She said softly not trusting her voice much longer as she felt tears rolling down her cheeks silently.
Just then she heard the sound of the nearby bushes rustling. Sesshoumaru came out gracefully while Rin run ahead of him to hug Kagome as his dragon followed behind its master meekly while Jaken was running after to catch up with them.
"Rin, goodbye, I have to go now." She said while stooping down to give her a hug
"Rin wants Kagome nee-chan to stay here a while longer. Please Kagome nee-chan." She pleaded looking up at Kagome with a sad face.
"Thank you Sesshoumaru sama for the contribution into the making of this sword." She said bowing to him while he looked at her in the same cold manner.
"This Sesshoumaru thanks you for the return of an arm lost. Come Rin, do not bother her for she have to go back to where she came from." He said coolly waiting for Rin to go to him.
"Yes Rin, be a good girl now. I have to go already goodbye." She said giving her a last hug before letting Rin go as Sesshoumaru waited patiently for Rin by his dragon. Jaken was puffing up his cheeks in disgust but nonetheless dare not make a comment that might embarrass himself in front of Inuyasha and everyone else present there.
"Goodbye Sesshoumaru sama, perhaps we will meet again." She said with a bow to him as she watch him walk away slowly back into the forest towards his lands.
Turning she faced her companions and gave them all a hug each while Miroku got a little carried away with the hug and was slapped in the face hard by Sango with a few hard hits to his head. Shippo was crying in Sango arms as he wept at the leaving of Kagome. Kaede was the last of them as she presented to Kagome a bow and a quiver full of arrows, to top it off Kagome was also given a miko outfit that fitted her perfectly.
The last thing she heard was them saying bye to her and the sound of Shippo's crying before the bright light engulf her and she appeared in the well of her own time. Coming out of the shed, her brother was the first to see her and went shouting to their mother and grandfather of her return.
The final partings in the village were unbearable and she missed them fiercely, yet she knew deep down along with the others that once Naraku is destroyed, there is no returning back into the past. The Shikon no Tama is now within her body where is safe for the time being and away from any further destruction. She brought the gifts she had gotten from her friends in the past to her chest tightly treasuring what they gave her.
A/N: This is just the first chapter so don't go judging it and saying that it has nothing to do with PSOH now. And be patient, I am having my big big exams now. -.- Sad part of life as a student.Oh I am taking a break from my other fanfics need to have more ideas for them. Enjoy :x