Ok so yeah its been awhile but yeah college does that to a person. Anyway hope you all enjoy another rather dark fic. =)
There had always been a darkness in her soul. Born of fear and sorrow the shadowy parts of herself had waited, bidding their time, watching for the tiniest crake in her will. When the others of their rag tag group had been ready to fight to the death, fight to what ever bitter end fate had in store for them, she had stood beside them, brave faced a bow in steady hands. Always ready for anything.
But inside she had truly feared the conclusion of everyone of those great battles.
When the final battle had been fought. When the last drop of blood for the shikon no tama had been spilled. When again a girls of 15, now a woman of 18, was again returned to her world.
The time traveling power of the well opened right there on the blood soaked earth beneath her feet, miles from its normal wooden structure, and swallowed her whole. The blue light had engulfed her. Blinding and deafening it had taken her. Just as quickly as it had come it was gone leaving her mostly blind, slack jawed, right in the well house doors.
The well had closed, after years of faithful service it had quit, leaving her stranded in her own time forever. Tears of sadness had escaped her eyes and cascaded down her cheeks then, as she had rushed out from beneath the cover of the well house roof and into the darken canopy of the heavens. She would never again see that beautiful dangerous land again, those friends she had gained through kindness and a mutual goal, gone forever more. She had screamed her grief and her rage to the heavens, cursing the gods of fate for their cruel whims, and collapsed into a boneless heap.
Several hours passed unnoticed to her as sat there, head in her hands, sobbing before the dark voices in her souls began to creep out of their dark depths and into the light.
'Is it really so bad Kagome?' they had whispered in a soft voice, smooth as silk and dark as night. 'Your alive aren't you?'
"Go away," she hissed moving her hands away fro her eyes to cover her ears.
'Why love? Do you wish to truly be alone?' a deep chuckled resounded in her mind. 'Isn't this what you truly always wanted? To live your own life in your own time?' She could see them then, dark cloaked forms hovering in the shadows of her minds eye. 'Your alive Kagome. Your free.'
For only a split second her will wavered but just long enough. The demons of her soul had pored through that crack and engulfed her. And as darkness consumed her whole relief had filled her being. She was free! No more jewel shards to hunt, no more blood thirsty demons raining down on them in pursuit of it's fearsome powers. Finally truly free to live!
Her family had rushed to her side then having finally noticed the hunched form of their beloved daughter and sister, only the creature before them now was no longer the girls they had known. The heavens let lose their fury then and rained down on this once pure woman turned monster. She started to laugh, a dark empty sound which to her family sounded like deep sorrowful sobs. For the first time in nearly three years, since the day the well had opened and dragged her, kicking and screaming into the past she was truly happy. Hysteric laugher had bubble up from the darkest corners of her soul, as she sat there, in the court yard of the shire that had been her families for generations clutching the black tainted jewel of four souls to her chest.
Lighting flashes, thunder rolled, as crystal droplets rained down to cleanse the world, as a demon lifted it crimson orbs to the sky and smiled.