This was inspired by Dark Shadows the 2012 film, the 1991 revival series, and the spin off movie House of Dark Shadows.
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Twenty year old Inuyasha waited anxiously in the shadows for the arrival of Lady Kikyo. He knew that every Sunday morning she took walks in the garden of Count Naraku's Manor so she could clear her head and he was hoping to get a chance to speak to the young woman without getting caught. You see Inuyasha had been in love with Kikyo ever since he first laid eyes on her and she returned his feelings unfortunately Kikyo had already been arranged to marry Naraku an extremely wealthy yet mysterious count. However despite their engagement, Inuyasha and Kikyo still continued to sneak around and see each other in private. But recently Kikyo had decided that their relationship needed to end with her impending marriage becoming close at hand but Inuyasha was never one to give up.
When the beautiful seventeen year old noble woman with raven hair and ivory skin walked by where he was hiding the young man quickly pulled her to the side.
"Inuyasha what are you doing here?" She asked him.
"I need to talk to you."
"Inuyasha I already told you we can't do this anymore. I'm engaged to Naraku. The wedding is just a fortnight away."
"So you're actually going to go through with it?"
"Inuyasha you've known about our engagement for months."
"Yes but I was hoping after all the time we had spent together you would have changed your mind about it."
"I can't change my mind. I'm so sorry Inuyasha but like it or not, I am marrying Naraku."
"Because you love him?"
"He's my fiance."
"I didn't ask you if he was your fiance. I asked you if you loved him. You want me to leave you alone and end our relationship, fine I'll do it but on one condition. Look me in the eyes and tell me that you love him."
Kikyo tried in vain to lie to the blacked haired, brown eyes man she loved but she couldn't. For he was the man who held her heart and the only person that she could never lie to. So instead of saying she loved Naraku she just said.
"It doesn't matter if I love you and not him Inuyasha. If I refuse him my family will never forgive me. They'll disown me and I'll be left alone."
"No you won't because you'll have me. If they can't accept what you really want then let's just leave."
"Leave? But where would I go? Where would I live?"
"With me. You know that my business has been doing really well lately and I've made plenty of money, enough to take care of you and give you anything you need or want. I love you Kikyo, I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you'll have me then I promise that you'll always be happy."
Kikyo was speechless. Could she really leave her family and Naraku? Could she really just marry the man she loved and be with him forever? Such a thing would make her a shameful and disgraceful woman in the eyes of many. But suddenly she found that she didn't care. She didn't care what others thought. To be with Inuyasha, to live with him as his wife, it was everything she ever wanted.
"Yes Inuyasha." She said. "Yes I'll leave with you and I'll marry you."
The two lovers embraced and began to kiss passionately, their lips not breaking until they needed to breathe.
"When should we leave?" He asked her.
"In a week, when Naraku leaves for his business trip. Meet me in the woods at midnight."
"I'll be there."
"Good now go before someone sees."
"Wait I almost forgot. I got you something."
He handed her a small box with ribbon tied around it. Kikyo undid the ribbon and opened her gift to find a little music box inside. She opened it up and a lovely melody began to play.
"It's beautiful." She said.
"You like it?"
"I love it. I'll keep it with me forever."
"Whenever we're apart all you have to do is open that music box and listen to the song it plays, then you'll know that someday we'll be together again."
They shared another kiss then went their separate ways. For the next week, Kikyo was overwhelmed with happiness. She was always smiling and humming to herself and every night before she went to bed she would open the music box Inuyasha gave her and listen to the tune it played.
"You seem very content this evening Mistress." Her maid servant Tsubaki said as she prepared her bed. "Could it be because your wedding day is drawing near?"
"You could say that."
"Well it would seem that you have come to love Naraku after all."
Kikyo cringed when Tsubaki said that. The truth was, Kikyo despised Naraku with every fiber of her being. He was a vile, cruel, and wicked man. The very thought of becoming his wife repulsed her in everyway. She knew that she could never love such a man. Just then there was a knock at the door.
"Come in." Kikyo said.
Entering the room was Kikyo's intended fiance Count Naraku. A thirty year old man with oily black hair and blood red eyes. He was extremely rich and probably one of the most well known aristocrats but his wealth and status were his only good qualities. He truly was a wretched creature and he had been lusting after Kikyo ever since he first saw her because she had been blessed with or rather cursed with as she saw it with surpassing beauty. Beauty that Naraku wanted to keep all to himself.
"May I help you Naraku?" She asked him.
"I've just come to deliver your wedding dress."
Some maids followed behind him pushing in a mannequin that was modeling Kikyo's wedding dress and veil.
"Just think of it, soon you will be all mine." He said running his fingers through her hair which made her want to gag. "I know that our engagement as made you melancholy but eventually you'll come to love me."
She wanted to spit in his eye for touching her but she just looked away from him and said nothing. Naraku then left her bedroom with the other maids following him.
"Mistress what is wrong? Your happiness seems to have faded. I thought you had finally accepted your bethrothal to Naraku." Tsubaki asked her.
"Tsubaki you are my closest friend correct?"
"Yes and your most loyal servant."
"Then can I trust you to keep a secret?"
"Of course Mistress."
"I have no intention of marrying Naraku."
"Mistress I do not understand."
"In three days Inuyasha and I are going to run away together and marry."
"But Mistress where will you go?"
"We'll live together in his mansion and he's made plenty of money from his business. Oh Tsubaki I know it's improper for a woman of my status to break an arranged marriage but I love Inuyasha and he loves me. Oh please don't say anything, please Tsubaki."
"I promise I won't say a word."
Little did Kikyo know that she had made a terrible mistake telling Tsubaki her plans. You see while Tsubaki acted as if she was a trusted and faithful servant and friend to Kikyo the truth is she hated Kikyo and was jealous of her. Jealous of her wealth, jealous of her beauty, jealous of her love. When she had learned that Kikyo was in love with Inuyasha she had gotten the young man drunk and tricked him into sleeping with her all to spite Kikyo. She persisted in trying to convince him to be in a more serious relationship with her but he saw third brief affair as nothing more than a mistake, swearing his heart to Kikyo. But Tsubaki wouldn't give up and tonight she tried to talk him out of eloping with Kikyo.
"Leave me alone Tsubaki!" Inuyasha said trying to get away from her.
"How can you marry her when you love me?" She asked.
"I don't love you! What happened between you and me was just a mistake I made under the influence of too much rum."
"No! It was more than just a drunken state! You wanted me! You loved me!"
"I love Kikyo and as long as she lives on this Earth I shall love no other."
Alas Tsubaki didn't stop there. She had a dark secret. One that she shared with Naraku. Naraku you see was a vampire who had sold his soul to the devil to become such an evil creature and Tsubaki was a skilled witch who could cast many curses. She went to Naraku and told him Inuyasha and Kikyo's plan. Naraku then thought of a horrible plan. With Tsubaki's help, they cast a terrible curse upon Inuyasha.
On the night he went to meet Kikyo the young man felt his body start to change. His black hair turned white, his brown eyes turned gold, he grew fangs and claws.
"What's happening to me?!"
He had been changed into a vampire.
"Like your new appearance Inuyasha?" He heard the wicked voice of Naraku chuckle.
"Naraku?" He asked confused.
"Yes it's me."
"What... What's going on? What the hell did you do to me?!"
"Technically it's what Tsubaki did but that aside you we're trying to take Kikyo away from me and I now I have seen to it that you have become a creature so horrifying that she cannot bear the thought of being with you."
"That's a lie!"
"Is it now? You're a vampire now Inuyasha which means you need flesh and blood to survive!"
"Naraku you bastard! This won't change anything!"
"If you're so sure of that then go on. Go to your precious Kikyo and see how she reacts."
Inuyasha did exactly that, meanwhile Kikyo waited patiently in the middle of the woods for her true love to come.
"Kikyo." A voice in the wind whispered.
"Who's there?" She asked.
"Mistress Kikyo."
"Tsubaki is that you?"
"Yes Mistress it is I."
"Where are you?"
"Nevermind that, I have come to warn you."
"Warn me? Warn me of what?"
"Inuyasha is not the man you think he is."
"What are you talking about?"
"He is a vampire my mistress, a bloodsucking creature of the night."
"No! You're lying!"
"I speak the truth and there's more. Tonight he plans to kill you and then turn you into a grotesque monster just like him."
"That's not true! Inuyasha loves me!"
Suddenly Kikyo saw a horrible vision. Her beloved Inuyasha now with white hair, red eyes, fangs, and claws, looking completely monsterous as he tore through her flesh and drank her blood. Then Kikyo saw herself change into a creature ten times as monsterous and grotesque as him.
"No! Stop it! Stop it!" She screamed.
"Kikyo are you alright?" Inuyasha asked arriving.
As soon as she saw his white hair, fangs, and claws she became hysterical with fear.
"Don't come near me! Don't touch me!"
"Kikyo I can explain."
"No! Don't come near me! I know what you are! I don't want to become like you! Please! I'd die before I let that happen!"
She ran from him. Inuyasha chased after her, determined to explain that despite his transformation he was still the man she loved. But Tsubaki's spell had traumatized Kikyo so much that she just became desperate to get away. But in her haste to flee she did not notice that she was heading straight for a cliff and she threw herself off while letting out one final scream of terror.
"No! Kikyo!" Inuyasha howled when he saw her dead body lying on the rocks below.
That only marked the beginning of Inuyasha's misery for shortly after Kikyo's demise, Tsubaki turned the people of his hometown against him and sealed him away in a coffin to be buried and forgotten for all time.
Note: The song that the music box plays is Futari No Kimoch/Kaoru Wada