HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Guess what? I'm at another WRITER'S BLOCK for My Father's Will and Snow Pearl is still at a standstill PLUS there was a virus on my computer so my dad had to reformat the whole computer and my files just happened to be in there! Unfortunate as it is, I have to start over from where I left off from what I last put on here. Anyway, since I'm so dead brained on the other two, I decided to start a new one, hopefully, it won't be as bad as the other two. Blah.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and friends belong to Viz, the great one ---> Rumiko Takahashi and many others. As always, this story is mine, mine, mine!
Tomorrow's Promises of Innocence
by PhoenixBlade
"What… am I?" I had asked my mistress so long ago, swaying with the grace of one who had never walked before.
She caught me as I stumbled. She threw her large outer robe around my naked form.
"You are power," she answered.
"Power?" I asked, unknowingly.
She nodded.
Words seemed to have escaped from me. It was the day of my birth.
"Mistress, why did you create me?" I asked her one day as we were separating herbs.
She chuckled.
"Mistress? What is so funny?" I asked her.
She turned away from her pile of herbs and smiled at me.
"Why do you wish to know?" she replied.
I scratched my head feeling confused, "Can I not ask why?"
She chuckled again, "Children ask the same kinds of questions to their parents."
"Do you see me as a child?"
She laughed out loud. When her laughter died down she answered, "Perhaps."
She never answered the first question, nor did I ask it again.
"Mistress, why must we read books?" I asked her after we had read for a bit while in the library.
"To learn," she answered without looking up from her book.
"What do we have to learn?" I asked her further.
"Everything," she replied.
Her short answers irritated me, "Why?"
"So you won't have to ask me questions like that," she answered, finally looking up from her book with a smile on her face.
I sighed in defeat and returned to my book. The library grew larger with more books later.
"Mistress, why do we dream?" I asked her as she tucked me into bed.
"So you can sleep," she answered me as she stood up.
"But why do I need sleep?"
She sighed and smiled, "So you can dream."
She left the room and I fell asleep soon after. I slept often.
"Mistress, why do we eat?" I asked, sneaking a piece of dough into my mouth.
"So we don't have to be hungry," she answered as she broke off a piece and rolled it into a ball in her hands.
"Why do we get hungry?" I said with another piece in my mouth.
"Because we need energy," she answered as she broke off another piece.
"What do we need energy for?" I asked with my hand going for a third piece.
She slapped my hand and I backed off, "So that we have the strength to do things."
We enjoyed the cookies after they were done baking.
"Mistress, why do we need the sun?" I asked as I stuck my head out the window.
"So we can wake up and see," she said as she handed a basket of sun-dried herbs to me from outside.
"What do we wake up to see?" I asked after I placed the basket down
"A new day," she answered as I grabbed another basket from her.
We put out new herbs to dry afterwards.
"Mistress, why do we have emotions?" I asked as we were coming home from picking herbs.
She paused in her steps before continuing on, "To feel."
"Why do we feel?" I asked.
She stopped and looked at me with something like a sad smile on her face, "To be human."
We continued the rest of the way home in silence.
"Mistress, why do we live alone here?" I asked her after the stranger left.
She sat down at the table and sighed in exhaustion, "Because the outside world is a bad place."
"Why does such a bad thing exist?"
"Because people are not happy," she answered with another sigh with annoyance and rubbed her temples.
"Why are they not happy?" I asked.
She banged her hand on the table and looked at me angrily, "Because they aren't!"
I left her alone for the rest of the day. I felt guilty.
"Mistress, why do people fight?" I asked her after overhearing the conversation between my mistress and the stranger who had just left.
She seemed surprised that I had eavesdropped, but sighed sadly, "Because they are greedy."
"What are they greedy for?" I asked.
"Useless things," she sighed again and left for bed early.
I went to bed earlier that night and pondered. I avoided asking her anything for the next few days.
"Mistress, why do I look like her?" I asked after finding a picture of someone in her room while cleaning.
She looked at the picture and gasped.
"Mistress, who is she?" I asked her.
A sad look appeared on her face, almost grief stricken with a tinge of fear and guilt.
Curious, I persisted, "Mistress..?"
"…Kagome, my sister…" she choked.
She broke down and cried. I ran out of the house and stayed away for a week before returning.
"Mistress, where are we going?" I asked when we left the house.
She stopped and looked back longingly at the lonely dark house, "Away… far away…"
"Why?"
She sighed sadly and continued on with me behind her, "…To fight their war..."
"Will we return home afterwards?" I asked, hoping that her answer would calm my hidden fears.
She remained silent. I suddenly wanted to run back and hide myself under my bed covers.
"Mistress, why must we kill?" I cried to her as the sounds of dying soldiers echoed around me.
"To save and protect others," she replied sadly, holding fiercely to my shaking, bloodstained form.
"But why must we?" I sobbed.
"To survive…" she sobbed with me.
We cried together. I reeked of the blood and sweat of battle for days on afterward.
"Mistress, why do they celebrate?" I asked as she came out to meet me in the battlefield.
"Because they have won," she replied with a smile.
"Is that… a good thing?" I questioned.
Her eyes softened in a strange way, not really telling me if it was good or bad. She smiled and nodded at me.
The soldiers danced and beckoned us to dance with them. We danced.
"Mistress? Why do they bind us and lock us up?" I asked in anger after they threw us into a dark locked room.
She sat down, shackled from head to feet, "Because they fear us."
She tried to calm me down, from my anger and from using my power against them.
"Why? Why do they fear us?" I demanded to know.
She sighed sadly and wiped away a fallen tear, "Because they hate us and our power."
"Mistress? Why do you wake me?" I yawned after she shook me awake.
"Can you promise me something?" she asked.
"Why do you ask mistress?"
She seemed intent on an answer, "Kagome, please?.."
"…What is it?"
"Promise me that you will protect them with your power…" she replied
"Why?" I jumped back angrily.
"Because I want you to," she answered.
"But they have harmed and made my mistress suffer so!" I retaliated.
"Promise me!" she begged.
"…I promise," I finally said.
There was a long silence before the large doors opened, revealing soldiers and men in large capes with books and amulets in their hands.
"Can you forgive me…Kagome?" my mistress asked me before we went outside where there was loud cheering.
"What am I supposed to forgive you for, mistress?" I asked before the soldier behind me shoved the hilt of his sword into my back to be quiet.
"For everything and anything that you may hate me for," she replied, stumbling as we went.
I failed to answer her as we were pushed out into the light and into the deafening sound of people jeering us.
"Mistress! Why must you leave me?" I cried out, almost running to her if not for the wards binding me to where I was from the sorcerers and wizards.
The sounds of the crowd grew louder and more deafening by the second. She smiled at me warmly with tears flowing down her pale skin as the axe came down and took off her head in one heavy blow. I screamed as the tears fell down my cheeks like a flood as the noises quieted. There was complete silence. Her head fell and rolled away. When it stopped, the silence of the crowd was broken with maddening cheers and jeers to my mistress.
"Mistress… WHY?" I screamed.
Suddenly, all the suppressed pain and power inside of me rushed out to greet those who had caused my mistress and I anguish.
"Mistress, why do we bleed?" I asked no one in particular as sad tears ran down my bloodstained face.
The remaining magic users who had survived my explosive power had me chained down to their binding spells. They chanted in an ancient language that I understood. The binding wards around me grew brighter and brighter by the second, sending me closer and closer to the darkness.
I let out a shaky breath, "Mistress… do you know why we bleed?"
They were shouting their spell now and the wind picked up around us all, rushing around us madly.
I breathed in another shaky breath as the light was almost blinding and the wind was so heavy it could knock someone out.
"We bleed… so we can die…" I answered and closed my eyes, letting the tears fall down my cheeks.
Suddenly, everything faded away as I fell into the darkness…
Well, that's it for there so on to next chappie! ()