ICKY was originally posted on 1/8/11 a few months ago, but I had a thought that took this story in a whole new direction, and instead of just going back and updating all the chapters, I decided just to take it down and start fresh. Things are definitely going to be different, but still kind of the same. I'm sticking with my original plot and characters, I'm just... Moving some things around and throwing in a few more twists. Plus, with my OCs and their background stoires, I figured why tell when I can show? That's the thing about being a writer, sometimes you have to know when to show and when to tell, and I was telling when I so clearly should have been showing. Anyway, here's what I posted when I posted on 1/8/11, following that will be changes I've made, then the QOTD and SOTD, the disclaimer, then chapter one of the new and improved I Can't Kill You-ICKY for short-and an A/N:
"It's a new year and I've decided to do things differently this year. For starters, I'm not going to worry about what others think of me or my work. I'm going to do things at my own pace and in my own way. I plan on working on multiple stories at the same time so not everything will get updated at the same time. I'm going to work on what I want to work on when I want to work on it, I'm going to make it as long or as short as I want to, I'm not going to check my traffic, I'm going to write the stories I want to write, and not focus on my readers. I don't know how that comes across to those of you reading this right now, but I think that writer's write better when they write for themselves... I honestly don't know where I'm going with this, but rest assured, I will write to the best of my ability and proof-read everything three times at least before I even think about posting it. That being said, I am still human so I will miss things and I will make mistakes, but when/if I catch them, I will fix them, so do me a favor and don't bitch about grammar or spelling or punction mistakes, it won't make much difference if I myself don't catch it.
Now that I've got that out of the way, here's something else you probably don't need to know but that I'm going to tell you anyway:
Every day I am going to have a word of the day, a song of the day, and a quote of the day.
My word of the day isn't going to be like you'd expect a word of the day to be, it's going to be a word that I select randomly from my pocket dictionary then write for a half-hour about/around. Now, while what I post may or may not be based on that word of the day, I've never been very good with chapter names, so for multi-chapter fics, I'll be naming the chapters after my word of the day, and if I update more than one multi-chapter fic a day... I guess those chapters will have the same names.
My song of the day will be the first song I listen to after I wake up, and my quote of the day will be a quote that I really like. It's very likely that I'll state what my quote of the day is and you'll recognize it from my profile.
I will state all three before the disclaimer of each chapter/story I put up here, and maybe on Fiction Press, too, I'm not really sure yet.
I don't really know what I can tell you about this story without giving too much away. I have a few OCs in it, a few love triangles-I'm not sure why they're called love triangles since most of the time one side is left open, but whatever, who am I?-and a few things that are-I hope-unexpected. That's what I try to do with my writing sometimes, throw in the unexpected, that is. I go back, read what I have done so far from an outsider's POV, and see where I'm expecting it to go, and take it in the opposite direction. Other times, however, the expected is good, the expected gives you hope. And sometimes the expected turns out to be what you were expecting all along. Now I'm looking at the word "expect" and how many times I've typed it and for some reason, I don't think I spelled it right. I know I did, but it just looks wrong, so I'm going to stop using that word before I go completely nuts.
I started out with this with the idea that Naraku is trying to kill InuYasha so he can consequently get to an emotionally unstable Kagome and get her shards of the Shikon no Tama from her so he can be more powerful. But the thing about writing is that you can start out with one little sentence, and the very last sentence is one-hundred percent not what you originally had in mind. What I'm trying to say is: I had one story idea in mind, and it turned into this. Now this isn't so bad, in fact, it's a little better than what I started out with, and yes, I've had to tweak a few things, and no, I'm not done with it, I still have a lot to get typed out, but this is a good starting point.
And for you smart-asses who would love to point out that Naraku is no longer, and neither is the Shikon no Tama, and everyone pretty much got their happy ending: This takes place before the end of the manga. I don't have an exact location or issue number for you, but somewhere in the middle-towards the end-ish...
Hmm, I believe that's it for now..."
Most of that is still true, except for the Word of the day thing. I'm still doing one, I'm just not gonna make it the title of the chapters for ICKY. I'm not even going to include it in the chapter. No, instead, I'm going to make my SOTD the title of the chapters for ICKY. Any objections? No? Good.
Song of the day 4/5/11: "Brought Up That Way" By Taylor Swift.
Quote of the day 4/5/11: "Never trust a grown man who says "LOL"."
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha. I'm not that good at drawing things and I honestly wouldn't have thought him or his story or anything up. And if I did own InuYasha... Things would be different. Oh, would they be different...
In the middle of the night in a dark castle illuminated only by a cresent moon, Naraku sat with an evil smile and mailce in his eyes as a girl kneeled before him. Though all that could be seen of her in the darkness were her blood-red eyes, Naraku had seen her face only hours ago when the battle, as it were, had taken place. When he'd found out about this girl, he'd just known he had to meet her-What better way to get to InuYasha, after all?-and so he had her watched. He studied her every move, learned who she cared about, how she fought, what she was after, what her goal was... He knew every move she made when she made it. And then he used this new-found knowledge to set up a trap for her.
Remembering it, he smirked into her eyes, she had absolutely no idea what was happening until it was too late. That was good for him, good for his plan. Not so good for her, of course, but hey, he didn't care, he was Naraku; it wasn't his job to care.
Still, he did have some pity for the girl that kneeled before him, it wasn't entirely her fault she had been so easy to manipulate, so easy to capture; she didn't choose to have that human blood course through her veins. If it weren't for that fact, he'd almost say she was... Well, pretty. And strong, and brave, and maybe not such a worthless half-breed...
"Can you kill InuYasha?" Naraku questioned, mainly to distract himself from where he was afraid his thoughts were going. It was queer thinking like that, he thought his human heart only had feelings for Kikyou, and he had sealed that away eons ago. What was going on here?
The girl's eyes flashed to purple and she fell forward; three Shikon no Tama shards were embedded in her to keep her under his control and she was still able to fight it!
"No... I cannot kill NuYa..." She muttered, almost as though she was in pain. She balled her hands into fists and hugged them to her chest as she curled up into a ball right there on the floor in front of the bastard. Even if it killed her she would not lay a finger of ill-intention on him. She would fight this with every fiber of her being and she would not go anywhere near anyone she loved until she took care of this punk. She would not lose, not to this guy.
Naraku narrowed his eyes and regained his hold on her, causing her eyes to flash back to the unnatural shade of blood red that usually signaled her losing control to her demon side, but in this case signified her will being under Naraku's control. She was going to be a tough one to control for long, so if he wanted to do this, he had to do it fast before she broke his hold again.
All he needed was for her to take care of InuYasha, and he could handle the rest, because once InuYasha was out of the way, Kagome would be vunrable in more ways than one. She would be the one he would have to take out immediently, for he had heard the wind whisper that she was capable of trancending time and traveling to a place that was beyond his reach, and if she escaped there with her shards of the Shikon no Tama, he would not be able to complete it and gain all that power. He wasn't an idiot, after all. He knew that if InuYasha was gone and she knew Naraku was trying to take her shards, she probably wouldn't come back anytime soon, and that was not an option. So he asked again as she returned to her kneeling postition before him almost as though she hadn't refused him a moment ago, almost as though she hadn't just humiliated herself by showing such weakness, almost as though she respected him:
"Can you kill InuYasha?"
And then she answered in a cold voice, almost as though she had forgotten everything that mattered and everyone she cared about. Almost as though Naraku had truly bested her:
"Of course, Master." He chuckled evily at her words. Once InuYasha heard her talking like that, once he saw the coldness and distance in her eyes, once she tried to kill him, once he realized what happened and what was going on, his heart would break, but even then he wold not be able to bring himself to take her down, and as a result, he himself would perish.
And who knows, maybe after all was said and done, he would allow her to keep her life; she seemed to be growing on him. She would have to remain under his control, of course, lest she try and kill him. If she tried to kill him after the job was done, he'd definitely have to kill her, and he didn't want to do that. No, he wanted to keep her around for as long as possible, maybe one day he'd even mark her as his own. That didn't seem to be a thought Naraku would normally have, but...
The girl that kneeled before him...
Maybe she wasn't your ordinary hanyou. Maybe there was something else to this girl's story that not even Naraku's stalking could figure out...
Maybe...
No, he had her under his control, there was no need to worry about that.
Still...
She should be watched. Lest she betray him as Kagura, and even Kohaku had in the past. Her betraying him, him losing his control over her, would make him angrier than all of Kagura's feeble attempts at freedom and Kikyou still being alive combined ever had.
"Good, then go. Hunt him down and stop at nothing to kill him. Make sure his blood paints the girl he's with. Make sure she sees you kill him. Make sure she doesn't get out mentally unscratched. And make sure he doesn't see it coming. Do you think you can handle that? Or do I need to send help with you?" No matter what she said, he was still going to send someone with her. Kagura, to be exact. Although he trusted Kagura about as far as she could throw him, he knew she would obey orders this time. Because this time, he was offering something she had always wanted, something she was after, something oh so very important to her: Her freedom. If she went with this girl and made sure she killed InuYasha, he would give her her heart back and she would be free. Now who would turn that down?
Uh-oh, what's wrong with Naraku? He seems to be taking a liking to this girl who's name I don't think I've mentioned yet. But how is that possible? He's Naraku. How do you think it's possible? Hmm, how curious...
Anyone care to guess how this girl knows InuYasha and what she is to him? Will the answer upset Kagome? Will she sit him for it? I would, I'd abuse the fuck out of being able to do that.
Everytime InuYasha came within ear-shot of me or did something I didn't like or disagreed with me or even looked at me funny I'd be all: "Sit! Oh, you think that's-sit-funny? Well-sit!-I-sit!-don't-sit!-think-sit!-it-sit!-is!-Sit! Sit, sit, sit! Do you-sit-think-sit-this-sit-is-sit-funny? Sit, sit, sit!" Seriously, I'd be able to entertain myself for hours doing that.
I'd abuse that, I would. I don't have anything against InuYasha, it's just Kagome doesn't do that often enough, and I like it when she does. If that were me-which, sadly, it isn't-I'd do things differently than Kagome does. How so? Let's just say: He's lucky that isn't me. He's lucky Kagome's in love with him. He's also lucky that no one else but Kagome can do that to him, otherwise...
Anyway, there's no InuYasha or Kagome or anyone but Naraku and this girl in this chapter, and I hate Naraku just as much as I hate Kikyou, but I had to put this chapter in; I just needed him to get the ball rolling, if you will.
Anyway, Peace out
~Hisa-Ai~
