Hero
Nghi
A/N: I blame this one on CK. :P It's really short, but I like it…. Muchos thanks to my best friend/almost twin/beta, M. I don't know I could pass this off without her help. :)
Disclaimer: I'll pass the copyright infringement.
Hero
Let me start by saying that I am no saint. I don't claim to be one, either. I have killed humans before. I have burned down villages that stood in my way. I have taken what is not mine before. So to reiterate, I am in no way a good person.
However, I am certainly not a villain. In my eyes, I am no criminal- a villain is one who kills for pleasure. A madman. I don't kill for fun- I kill for survival. If I don't hunt, I become the hunted. But sometimes, the hunter still becomes the hunted, and the only way he can survive is to eliminate his opponent. It may be cruel, but it is the only way to survive in this world and in this time era. The real menace in this story is my rival.
My enemy is despicable; his allies make it hard for me to obliterate him. They make a good team, blocking my offense and attacking simultaneously so effortlessly, that at times I have to pull back to save myself. I have no problem with retreating; when it comes to strength, he is the stronger one, but I am smarter.
I hunt for another reason besides survival: revenge. When I was dying, a woman saved me. Her name was Kikyou, the local miko who guarded the Shikon no Tama. She looked after me, caring for my wounds and interacting with me… something no one had ever done before. Her little sister, now an old hag, despised me, but I didn't care much for her. I fell in love with Kikyou, and she would have done the same, if it were not for him. He stole her away from me, and gradually, she came to care for him, too. I hated sharing her, and I hated knowing that she cared more for him than me. In the end, he was be the reason why she died.
I am a hanyou- half-youkai, half-human. It is a very dangerous liability for the sole reason that humans and youkai both look down on you as dirty and filthy. My opponent knows that very clearly, and he tries to use that to his advantage, attacking on the night that I become weaker, my body useless. I try to pick a different night each month to stop a pattern, but lately, it is getting harder to stop the breakdown from coming.
A few days ago, he discovered me in my weakest state and prevented me from absorbing a new body. I moved away to a new place; it is too risky to kill more youkai, as the hanyou and his allies are on high alert. I am waiting, and until then, I struggle to breathe each day.
The funny thing is that he killed in the past, too. He killed many people, and he tried to hurt each one of his allies. He stole from local fishermen and sent several villages crashing into flames. He took Kikyou from me while I was still human, and in the end, it was because of him that she died. He is after the Shikon no Tama like me… and he has tried, on many occasions, to take advantage of me, attempting to slaughter me when I can hardly move.
But in the end, Inuyasha is considered the hero of this story. A hero with a troubled life and many hardships, while I am the villain- the criminal with a troubled life and many hardships. We both killed, we both stole, we both sought after the same woman who died so long ago.
Who is the real hero now?
Finis