Author's Note: Enjoy second story!
Part Two: Love and Hate
Japan: 1931
Chapter One: A Wife's Tale: Rebirth of the Innocent
Five minutes after midnight, the small village where Kagome was burnt, was destroyed. It was blown up by Inuyasha's anger. He had risen quietly into the air until his figure was seen clearly in the middle of the moon, and released a ball of energy into the village. It was big enough to destroy the whole village, but not enough to destroy the trees surrounding it. And when Inuyasha was done, fifteen people were only killed. That didn't satisfy him though, because more than fifteen villagers were responsible, and he was going to pay them back, including his Aunt, if she was wrong about Kagome.
Inuyasha had come a long way, born in the late 1300s, he had seen and heard many things. He had also seen how far these mortals have gone; how far they had changed. He had grown sick of them, no longer thirst for mortal blood, and he had gone into hiding. It had been after the death of his father.
Had he known the kind of trouble his mother was in at the time he went underground, he would have never gone into hiding, but he had disappeared, deep into the ground and had never awaken until the early 1400s.
By then, he had found out he had a stepfather and a very young stepbrother, whom he had grown to love and care for. Sesshomaru was a curious child, always on the run, always curious about life. Inuyasha was practically his hero, and Inuyasha was always bringing home candies and toys for Sesshomaru to play with. He admitted, he spoiled Sesshomaru pretty badly. Up until Sesshomaru's thirteenth birthday, he was the same boy…and then one day, he changed.
Inuyasha came home after Sesshomaru's fourteenth birthday only to find him waiting. They had gotten into a heated argument since Sesshomaru had found out from their mother that Inuyasha was not solely, completely human. Sesshomaru had then done some researching and had found so much information about Inuyasha's kind and the Vampires that Inuyasha had forgotten all about. After the heated argument, stepbrothers were then enemies, and though Inuyasha had tried his very best to warn Sesshomaru about the path he had taken, Sesshomaru had refused to listen.
Finally, after eight years of jealous, hurt and anger, Sesshomaru had gotten himself turned, at the young age of 22, into a Vampire. Inuyasha had been so angry he had almost killed his very own stepbrother. Thankfully, his mother stopped them. Ever since that day, the words family…loyalty…stepbrothers, no longer held any true meaning, no longer meant anything to the both of them.
His mother died of a broken heart, and his father…well, he killed himself a week later.
"T'is sad to think of naught, but the past." The voice appeared out of nowhere.
"What are you doing here, Mamoru?" Inuyasha questioned without turning around to look at his friend.
"You goddamn destroyed the whole village."
"Yeah, so?" Inuyasha grinned bitterly." Most of them escaped."
"Revenge is not the answer." Mamoru placed a gentle hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.
Inuyasha shrugged Mamoru's hand away. "Try telling that to me when your Aninoko gets killed."
Mamoru opened his mouth to argue, but it was the truth.
"If you need my help, my friend, you can ask me."
Inuyasha smiled at his friend, but with no true emotion. His friend would do anything that was asked of him. They have almost, practically grown up together since their fathers were so close, but Inuyasha had disappeared until a century ago—and they had picked up their relationship as friends—where it was left off.
"This is not your problem, so I ask you to stay out of this. I will handle this myself."
"Where are you going—what are you going to do?"
"Revenge," his eyes glittered as he said that. "Until we meet again."
"You are leaving?" Mamoru questioned.
"I am going under."
Mamoru's eyes widened in surprised. "Again? But you just came out a century ago!"
"Until Kagome returns." Inuyasha answered truthfully. "If I do not want the beast to consume me."
Mamoru nodded and watched his friend disappeared into the night.
"Darling, what are you doing out here all by yourself?" The soft husky voice came through the silent night.
"Nothing," Mamoru said silently as he held out his arms. Aninoko silently stepped into his arms.
"Where is Inuyasha?"
Mamoru sighed as he pulled her close against him. "He won't be back for a long while…"
"What do you mean?" She lean her head against his shoulders.
"Until Kagome returns."
Aninoko sighed sadly. "You do not know what you have until you lose it."
"Thank God I did not lose you."
"Would you have gotten revenge for me?" Aninoko grinned.
"Hell yeah," Mamoru growled, remembering the human who had stabbed Aninoko almost to death.
"Stupid Prince," Aninoko put her arms around Mamoru. "Revenge is not the answer."
Mamoru grinned. Aninoko had heard everything, yet she would like him to think she had not. "Try telling that to yourself when someone kills me."
Aninoko chuckled. "Come, let us go inside so you can prove how much you love me."
Mamoru grinned wickedly. "Yes, let us…"
Aninoko laughed gently and kissed Mamoru on the lips, and they made their way back into the forest that was almost burnt beyond recognition.
"The Vampires were of a different race than the Vampils. Since the beginning of time Vampires and Vampils hated one another for each were determined to be the stronger one. Many battles were fought, gruesome battles in secret places unknown and unheard of in the human world. Many Vampires and Vampils killed fighting for the right to be stronger than the other and this battle lasted more than a hundred years.
"Until finally, one day, the leader, the Queen of the Vampils grew tired of the war, the long and quiet war in the human world, and so she devised a plan. A plan to seduce the King of Vampires, then kill him when his back was turn. The plan worked, everything went the way they expected it to work, except for the fact that they were married. The King married her and though the young Queen still wanted peace for her kind, she could no longer kill the King because she had grown to love him. She had grown to see the man, to admire, and adore him. And when the time came to kill him…she could not.
"Thus the Queen had felt she had failed her dead family and her kind and proceeded to kill herself. Did she or did she not succeed in killing herself? The question will never be answered, but the marriage forged a bond ever. Ever since then, there had been less fight and more talk of peace and a great hope for peace in the bleak future ahead.
"Yet, there were still many who rebel against the marriage, many who wanted to be the all powerful and the war still rage on. No matter how many Vampires and Vampils fought, the Royal Family refused to lose hope. They tried to stop the fights that break out, and they tried, but their soldiers were murdered, and the great King was going to give up hope—but he had one last weapon—a Vampire assassinator who killed without mercy and brutally. He was known as the Chosen One.
"The Chosen One assassinated all the leaders of the rebel group. He killed the leaders of the Vampires and the Vampils alike, to him; they were just one and the same. He sliced their heads, stabbed them through their hearts; he put fear into the hearts of rebels everywhere and took the rebels to the King to be dealt with. Everyone called him the very Devil, the Stone Heart because he spared no one any mercy—and rumor has it—not even to the women and children.
"When peace came at long last, the Chosen One was given a reward. He was given a rich mansion and almost a thousand acre of land. There, he created his own village, took care of his own and all he asked of those who came to live in his village was that they be loyal and cause no trouble.
"The Choson One lived alone for many years, and at last, he took a mistress. It was rumored that he took a Vampil mistress—but he took a human mistress who later gave birth to a son. Though the son was a bastard, the mistress did not care. She did not want to marry the Chosen One, but she loved him very deeply and would gladly risk her life for her love and her child.
"Eventually, the villages and the people who the mistress thought were her friends betrayed her. She was kidnapped while her child had disappeared. They did this so the Chosen One would come after her, and he did. Rescuing his only love had cost him his life. His son returned and killed those responsible for his father's death, but it could not bring his father back. The Chosen One became a legend, putting fear into the hearts of many young Vampires and Vampils today, and his son…his son became a favor of the King and he took over his father's job. He became The One; he dealt with those who did not follow the laws of the V&V (Vampires&Vampils) and watching silently, over the humans, who the V&V have haunted for many generations….
"He was Inuyasha Kuyashi…"
Inuyasha went after the escaped villagers. He spared no one alive—killed without mercy to ease his pain, but the more he killed, the more pain he felt. He kept seeing Kagome's face, and every time he stabbed someone, every time another blood got on his sword, her face would turned anguish, as if in pain herself, and Inuyasha felt like she was stabbing Kagome instead of the villagers.
Ever since he took his father's job, his oath, he had promised himself that he would do all in his power to protect the humans, to serve and guard them from the thieving powers of the bloodlust V&V. He had never thought that the humans would turn on him after all that he had done; he had never thought that he would go back on a promise he made, but here he was now, killing humans. It was wrong, he knew he had no right to play God with peoples' life, but what can he do? They played God with a mere innocent girl's life. Had someone told him a century ago that he would kill not because it was his duty, but because he was killing for his own personal perverse pleasure: revenge, Inuyasha would have bashed that person head against a tree trunk and laughed at the mess he had created, but not now, not when it was actually happening for real.
Inuyasha sighed. The image of Kagome's pained face crossed his face each time his blade went through another body. When he could stand it no more, he dropped the bloody sword down on the ground and found himself a river. Without another ounce of thought on his clothes, he jumped into the deep lake and closed down his system. It was time to sleep for the day; he didn't have to breath for a whole twelve hours.
That evening, Inuyasha came out of the river with his wet clothes on, but he felt no coldness, no nothing. He picked up his sword, which was covered in dried blood and threw it into the cold river. Fifteen minutes later, the sword came flying out and into Inuyasha's hand, clean and shiny as new.
"That is not how you clean yourself."
Inuyasha stiffened. "I just want to get rid of the blood."
"Why did you kill them?"
"Why did you take them with you?" Inuyasha countered.
"I cannot just let them die like that. Their deaths will be on my Inuyashal."
"What is one more added when Kagome's death is already on your Inuyashal?"
"You are a selfish bastard."
"Thank you, my good Aunt." Inuyasha told her coldly. "But I care not what you think of me."
Inuyasha took a step, and then another, walking away from his Aunt.
"Inuyasha."
He stopped, but didn't turn around to look at his Aunt. The Aunt he thought he knew…the Aunt he thought he cared for….
"Where are you going?"
"Nowhere that concerns you," he answered truthfully.
"Master."
Inuyasha stopped at the voice. "Seki."
"Will you be returning?"
"Once Kagome is back," Inuyasha answered truthfully.
"Very well, I will be awaiting for your return then." Seki bowed.
"Take care of yourself," Inuyasha told him. "And the others."
"Very well, sire."
"And while you are at it, get yourself a family." Inuyasha turn to look at Seki. "I will see you."
Seki bowed and disappeared into the night, just as Inuyasha did.
"The Vampires, they were a small race, but slowly rapidly growing. The Vampils, they were a big race, but slowly they were rapidly decreasing. Less and less were they willing to mate with humans after the disappearance of Inuyasha, the Chosen One, after his father. There were many rumors surrounding his disappearance. Many said he died by human hands, by the hands of the mysterious young girl whom he had rescued. Others say he was still alive and can be seen, sometimes, walking alone, as if searching for someone…something. Some say that he had fallen into the deepest and oldest of trap: love. He had let his lover destroy him.
"Nevertheless, his disappearance brought about a great change in the V&V life. Those who live in fear of being hunted down and killed by Inuyasha now reemerge, more powerful than ever, and more determined to rebel against the peace of the V&V. They took advantage of his disappearance, killing both humans and the V&V. However, their rebellion only lasted a few months, and then they retreat, into hiding again. The reason of their retreat was unknown, but there was proof now, more than ever, that Inuyasha did not fall into the oldest trap of love and that he was still very alive and well, and ready to keep his promise, ready to do justice upon those who were doing injustice."
"We cannot keep up this pretense much longer," Mamoru sighed warily as he leaned back against the chair.
"You mean, I cannot keep up this pretense much longer," Seki grinned at Mamoru. "What makes you say that?"
"I do not know." Mamoru sighed. "If anyone ever finds out, we will be in deep trouble."
"Ah, but they will not find out, besides, you are the King you know?"
"Not the true one."
"Hah, you have royal blood in you, you are a good King, believe me."
"I do not see why you have to act in Inuyasha's place."
"You know why." Seki seated himself across from Mamoru. "Inuyasha is gone, disappeared. I cannot contact him, I have tried to locate him, but it is like he has disappeared from the face of the earth, just like Sesshomaru. Have you seen him or heard of him?"
"Who? Sesshomaru or Inuyasha?"
"Both."
"No. I have not heard from both of them."
"I begin to suspect that Sesshomaru has also gone into hiding, but he has gone to train to become more powerful."
Mamoru sigh. "So both of them are gone?"
"Yes, and I have a feeling when Kagome is back, Dimen will be back as well."
Mamoru didn't say anything for a long while, and then he look at Seki and asked, "Why are you doing this?"
Seki grinned. "You are not going to let me be are you?" He shook his head. "I feel guilty. Inuyasha had made me Kagome's guard while he is gone, but I failed him."
"Inuyasha does not blame you though." Mamoru told him.
"Still, I need to do this for him, after all, he has watch over me, now it is time for me to repay him."
Mamoru shook his head. "Where could Inuyasha have gone that we cannot even sense him, contact him…?"
"That, I do not know, sire, that I do not know…"
Japan: Tokyo
1983
"Congratulations, Mr. Mitsushi, you have a girl."
"Thank you, thank you," Mr. Mitsuhi grinned proudly as he gently touch the face of his newborn daughter, and smiled at his wife, who was looking at him through tired eyes. "Wife, we have a daughter."
"And a good time to have a daughter, too," Mrs. Mitsushi closed her eyes as she told her husband. "She is born under the protection and love of the Boar."
"Great wealth and success," Mr. Mitsushi smiled. "What shall we name her?"
"Suki Mitsushi."
"Suki it is…"
And as if the baby knew her name, it started to cry out for food, for protection from its love ones.
On November 25th, 1983, at eight-thirty pm, Suki Mitsushi was born.
Not far from the city of Tokyo, in the mountainous side of Japan, in the deepest, darkest and coldest corner of a small cave, a pair of dark black gleaming eyes opened at the Inuyashand of the baby's crying. His mouth curved slowly into a smile, and his mouth opened. Only one word was heard in the silent cave: "Kagome…"
Not far from the cave, buried deep in the ground, a pair of golden eyes opened….
Suki knew her mother by sight, and she knew her father, but she knew this stranger was neither her parents. This stranger was staring at her with deep black eyes, and Suki didn't like it one bit, that was probably why she opened her mouth and filled with quiet night with a loud cry. She wanted to be in her mother's arm, she wanted to feel safe, and she didn't want that strange pair of eyes looking at her. She was young, but that didn't mean she was dumb.
"Turn on the lights," Mrs. Mitsushi yawned. "I need to feed her, she's crying."
"I'll get her for you," Mr. Mitsushi eagerly went to pick up his daughter, any excuse at all to hold his first baby in his arms. "She looks so much like you."
Mrs. Mitsushi smiled. "She has your nose."
He gave Suki a small kiss on the cheek. "Go to your mother now, and be a good girl."
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"The Vampires, the Vampils, they were forgotten in this year where magic no longer exists, where science seem to have an explanation for everything. Medicines were developed, new technologies were made day in and day out and while people were busy with their daily, now busy life, there were those who remain in the night, those who watch and prey on human life, on human blood. These V&V were forgotten, and were told only in legends, in movies. They were told as stories to scare little children and to keep them from being naughty, but what they do not know, they do not fear.
"However, there are still many who made a life of the human ways, many who live by the human rules and feed only by night. Many live in fear of ever being found out and hunted down like before in the past. But this did not prevent them from trying to live a quiet, peaceful life, and when the time came, once again, to rebel against the peace that is now permanent in the V&V community, they will do so, rising once again to defeat the King, whose whereabouts were unknown.
"But until then, many are doctors, who drink the blood of their patients at night while others are businessmen who hold fortunes enough to make a king weep. They are few in numbers, but their strengths match those of a hundred men, and they are real. They are very real, only, they have been forgotten, and that will a mistake the humans will never forget once this city is done with them….
"In this city, anything can happen, and while you're trying to decide who to trust and who is who, keep a lookout from behind because anything can happen, in this big, busy city of Tokyo…."
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