Disclaimers: I do not own Inuyasha, although I do own a toy of him.
So this is my first fanfic, but I have been reading them for forever so I finally decided to give it a try. I'd appreciate very much any reviews including critiques or praises. Enjoy!
Ch. 1- The Betrayal
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Insignificant drops from the faucet slowly gave way to gravity's hold and tumbled into the body of water made up of thousands of these insignificant drops. They rippled throughout the previously still water, causing a chain reaction of waves to hit the deadly still figure sitting in this water. As they reached her, lifeless brown eyes stared unblinkingly at the white wall ahead. She noted that the wall was made up of insignificant tiles just as the water of insignificant drops. What's the point of it all? Everything was so minimized in the daunting face of the whole picture.
She slowly allowed herself to sink to the bottom of the tub, closing her eyes and praying for her breath to stop, for her heart to suddenly stop beating, for her mind to stop tormenting her with every thought associating itself to a certain hanyou. What's the point? Her eyes clenched as emotional pain shot like a thunderbolt through her exhausted system. This kept happening whenever she though to much about…him. And his betrayal.
A soft knock came from the other side of the plain wooden door- timid and silently praying that everything was alright since the girl in the tub had not made one noise since she got in.
"Kagome, darling? Is everything alright?" an anxious voice that could only belong to a mother whispered through the doorframe.
The girl was submerged, still hoping to stop her body from functioning when she heard the soft voice of her mother. Damn…I can't let her worry about me. With seemingly all the effort she could muster, she dragged her body out if its own accord out of the warmth into the slightly chilly air, causing small goose bumps to cover her alabaster skin.
"Yes mom. I'm fine. I'll be out in just a bit."
"Would you like something to eat dear?"
Her stomach growled of its own will, it hadn't been fed in days now. But the girl just did not feel like eating. Kagome's life for the past days consisted of sitting, staring lifelessly at whatever was in front of her and trying to keep her thoughts on anything besides him.
"No thanks, mom. I'm not hungry."
"But…Kagome, you haven't eaten in days. I'm worried about you." Her voice held so much tension in it that Kagome felt wretched simply for making her mother so worried about her wellbeing.
"I promise I'll eat breakfast tomorrow. I just want to go to bed now."
With another burst of energy, she pulled up the drain, leaving her cold form open to the chilly air that acted as an overwhelming force, attacking her nerves on every inch of skin so that she was now covered in goose bumps. Grudgingly, she stood and grabbed the comforting blue towel that had worn patches all over from extended use- it was her favorite towel and used to always make her feel better. Used to.
She slip open the plastic curtain and stood on the rug, holding her breath knowing that she would have to confront the mirror some time or other. Kagome could see the outline of it against the wall, tempting her to step forward a few steps and finally face her reflection. She took one last breath and sighed it out. Have to see myself sometime I guess.
Unfortunately, what Kagome saw staring back at her mystified yet scared her all at once. It was like seeing a different person. Her once naturally glowing skin had lost its radiance, it was now a flat pale of someone who hadn't seen the sun in months. Her once silky hair that had always fought her in waves was now hanging limply from her scalp. One of the most noticeable changes was her weight- she normally contained curves in all of the right places, but now she just looked like a walking skeleton. But the most unsettling were her eyes- they were black holes of despair and were eerily similar to that of the dead.
Oh God, I'm a mess.
Kagome turned away from the mirror and stalked out of the bathroom back into her room, which is the only other place she has been in these past few days. As she shut the door behind her, she forced herself against it, seemingly trying to keep something out that wanted to do her harm. But alas, she was too exhausted and slumped against the frame, letting her head fall between her knees and her raven locks cover the pain drawn all over her face.
At last, all of the pain she had been holding inside burst through its confines and violently racked her body. Crystal-like tears pour flowed from her now glistening eyes onto her hands that held her face as she sobbed into them. Every emotion she had been denying herself suddenly came forward as her sobbing and self pity seemed to swallow her.
"How could he!" Kagome cried to herself, her heart on fire from the raw emotions coursing through her.
Yes, Kagome had been betrayed by her first love- Inuyasha.
She crawled over to her drawer, carefully picking up a small vile that contained her only memory of the past. Inside, the small pink glass shard began to glow with her rising emotions and the warmth it gave off comforted her. Kagome knew that she would always be tied to this jewel and it would love her no matter what.
Slowly, Kagome picked her trembling form up and walked to her bed, shroud in a over stimulating pink comforter that seemed so out of place with her black mood. She limply fell onto the bed holding the shard and finally allowed sleep to take its hold on her.
I won't ever travel to the past again. I will never see my friends again. No more of her best friend Sango. No more of Miroku's ridiculous antics. No more of her adopted son Shippo. No more of the kind Kaede. And…no more Sesshoumaru, even though he had threatened her life on various occasions. All of my loved ones lost to me forever because of that bastard Inuyahsa. Damn him…
Exhaustion finally won its battle and Kagome drifted off into a restless sleep, replaying the scene that she couldn't bear to think about while awake.
…..Flashback…..
Kagome awoke with a start, nearly drenched in sweat she threw her hand around looking for comfort that should have been next to her but found none. Surprisingly, she was alone in the tent when there should have been another body lying asleep next to hers. Where the hell did he go?
Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, she shoved open the tent flap, gasping at what she saw and praying it wasn't reality. Above the horizon, a faint blue glow could be seen, and just as her fears were sinking in, a ghostly blue serpentine soul collector shot by her, heading in the direction of the blue glow.
Kagome squeezed her eyes shut, forcing back the tears that were already threatening to fall. She had always been one that was easy to cry and be overly emotional, but now was simply not the time these thoughts.
With a determined narrowing of her eyes, she marched forward to confront whatever mischief was going of behind her back. But as she started to trudge down the carved hill, she realized there was not enough light for just her single shard of the jewel she kept around her neck in a glass vile to illuminate. So she sighed and forced herself back to the tent.
She slowly opened the sturdy wooden box that was concealed in a small compartment of her oversized yellow backpack and took out the almost completed Shikon no Tama it held. It never failed, though, to slightly comfort her when it glowed in her presence. With revitalized determination, she marched back down the hill using the light of the much bigger jewel to guide her to her fate.
When Kagome finally approached the shrouded area containing the origin of the blue glow, she cautiously crept along the ground, knowing that any loud movement would giver her away to the hanyou's sensitive hearing. But even with all the emotional strength she had mustered, nothing could have prepared her for this.
"Inuyahsa…come with me to the afterlife. Forget this silly girl and follow me, whom you have loved for fifty years, to eternal peace." Kikyou's cold voice sent shivers down Kagome's spine. Even though she was her reincarnate, it didn't mean that Kagome had to like the woman one bit.
"But Kikyou, I have to complete the Shikon no Tama and unleash my full potential."
"Inuyahsa…do you truly love me?"
"Of course! But-"
"No, listen to me." Kikyou abruptly interrupted him. "If you truly love me, you would give yourself to me and follow me to the afterlife where we can be together forever."
Kagome's eyes widened when she saw that Inuyasha bewildered gaze had finally settled down and it appeared that Kikyou's coaxing was finally winning. Oh no…how am I going to get Inuyahsa away from her?
To nearly everyone's shock, Kikyou reached up and brushed her slender hand along Inuyahsa's face, tracing his jaw line with the tips of her nails. With the same hand, she reached around and took hold of his head, demanding control as she slid her other arm up the is back, pushing him closer and closer. Inuyahsa's eyes slowly shut, giving in to Kikyou's temptation. What did he care about anyone else? Screw them and that damn jewel, this is where I belong.
With unexpected passion, their lips locked in a crushing kiss, their hidden affections towards each other boiling at the surface where their lips met. Soon the kiss wasn't enough and each grasped the other, meshing their forms into one while the blue glow spread and formed a ring around them of what looked like blue fire.
Finally, Kagome couldn't stand it anymore. All she wanted was Inuyasha back at her side, wasn't she alone good enough for him?
"Inuyashaaaa!" The scream pierced the night and also accidentally captured the attention of a certain demon lord who happened to be walking in the vicinity of the tragic scene.
The hanyou barely glanced her way, too entangled with his tragic lover to be bothered by any outside interruptions.
"Inuyahsa come on! You know she's just tricking you again! You can't go with her!" Kagome pleaded with the unresponsive hanyou, trying to snap him out of the daze Kikyou had him under.
The blue flames started to grow in intensity and they mingled forms stated a slow decent into the ground. Nothing mattered anymore to them- they finally had each other.
"Inuyasha, stop!"
Finally, the dead woman cast a look so icy it would freeze hell over at the younger woman. "If you interfere once more, I will kill you."
"Inuyasha snap out of it! She's not the same Kikyou you loved! Get out of there!" Kagome was practically begging him with every ounce of emotion she had, and yet it still barely seemed to faze him.
Finally, the outside interruption had annoyed him enough to look where it was coming from. It was the girl he had become close with in the travels for the shards- Kagome. But what did she know about his complicated relationship with Kikyou? He would always love her above all and would never allow himself to forget her. Goodbye, Kagome.
"Leave." This single word was spoken with so much force and assertiveness that it stopped Kagome dead in her tracks. It was the word that had broken her heart and shattered her life in this era. This one word would haunt her for the rest of her life.
With the heart-breaking realization that Inuyasha actually meant it this time, she ran. She ran through the forest like there were demons on her heels. Ran from the pain of her loss and betrayal. Ran instead of thinking of the emotional pain she was sure to receive. Ran to channel her rage at him into every step she took.
Finally as she collapsed, Kagome found herself ironically outside the ancient wooden well that had started it all. Of course I end up here…where else do I have to go now?
As she glanced down, she realized that she held the almost complete jewel in her hands so tightly that her nails had dug into her flesh and caused small, bleeding moon-shaped marks on her palm. This damn jewel started it all…I just can't deal with this anymore, it's not my problem! And with this thought, Kagome flung the Shikon no Tama as far as she possibly could. With its fading glow shooting through the night's sky, a small part of her cried out in anguish as it left her possession, but she forced these feelings back along with everything else and hurled her body into the well, silently exiting the world she had made such an impact on.
Unbeknownst to her, a pair of golden eyes had watched the whole scene unfold and had followed her to the well. As he gracefully strode to the wooden structure, he eyes slightly widened in realizing that she was actually no longer there- it was as if she had simply disappeared. He furrowed his brow in thought, but gave up and stalked off.
As it happened, his stride took him to where the Shikon no Tama lied on the ground, a dull pink color now. He delicately picked it up with clawed fingers and gazed at it. This Sesshoumaru has no need for this false power…but will keep it for safe holdings so that filthy half-breed Naraku does not get his hands on it.
With that, Sesshoumaru headed back to where his two-headed dragon Ah Un was along with his little toad Jaken and the human girl he picked up, Rin. As he strode off, he thought once more about the human miko who had seemingly disappeared, but decided to not bother himself with petty ponderings and forgot about the incident and girl until much later.
…..End Flashback…..
A/N: So what'd you think? And yes, this is only the start and I have no clue how long it will end up. Knowing myself, hopefully it will go on for a while as the plot thickens. And it will be a SessKag, but I would never rush it. Please review!