Title: The Enemy Within
Author: landofthekwt
Genre: Darkfic
Universe: Canon
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome
Rating:PG-13
Warning: Images of blood and extreme violence Written for Inuyasha Quotes Week 6
Summary: Inuyasha sits with Kagome at the end of Chapter 187 and realizes that the beast within him will consume his human heart and kill Kagome if he does nothing to stop it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or profit from him in any way. Inuyasha is owned Rumiko Takahashi and the various corporations which have rights to him.
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought. -Mahatma Gandhi
The blood, the blood, the world could be drowned in blood and it still would not be enough. The taste of it excited him and made him thirst for more. The taste of it was sweeter than anything in this world. When he licked his claws of the blood it aroused him like nothing ever had.
The joy, the joy, the sheer of joy of killing. Of seeing your enemy eviscerated, Of seeing the strong brought low. Of seeing the weak die just to see which way they would fall.
The freedom, the freedom, no rules, no boundaries, no father, no mother, no brother, no friends only victims to be killed to be maimed, to be mutilate.
The love, the love, the love of killing, to embrace the beast that he was without holding back.The feeling that only in killing others could he truly love himself.
The madness, the madness, the compulsion to kill and to fight, the feeling that all that there was in the world was killing and fighting until he was dead.
These feelings sickened him now and yet he could not erase them. No matter how much washed his hands he could not remove the blood. The stain would be on them forever.
He knew now that he was the monster that humans had always thought he was. He was the beast that mothers used to scare their children. The mothers in that village were right to fear him. If not for Sesshoumaru he would have slaughtered them. all.: bandits, villagers; friends even Kagome.
Kagome. The person who had awakened his human heart, who had taught him to trust, who had lightened his heart, who had loved him when no one else did, the one who saw good in him when no one else did. She was draped around him even now, holding his hand and telling that she understood how he felt.
Kagome. The beast wanted to kill her most of all. She was the light in the darkness that it craved. She treasured his human heart that the beast wished to erase. Before her arrival he had not given a second thought about the wrongness of killing human beings. Now somehow he had become the defender of humanity. The thought of killing even evil humans made him nauseous.
She was one who stayed by his side when all others deserted him. Even now when he was most dangerous to her she would not abandon him.
The beast hated her. It wanted to consume his human heart. She would not let it. If the beast had its way, Kagome would die and then the beast would consume him.
He would not let that happen. He would die before he hurt Kagome.
He had learned from Kagome that Tetsusaiga was used to seal his demon blood within him.
The demon blood he received from birth. From his father. Even his birth had been a curse.
If this is what it meant to be a youkai was, he did not want or need it.
Totosai would know. He would know how to prevent the demon from ever escaping again.
It was his only hope.
He knew that under his skin lived an enemy that hungered to devour him and everything he loved. He had to stop it once and for all or he would become the beast that lived for the joy of killing until he died.