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-Raven
Where Did We Go?
(A Remake of "Kanna's Emotions and Inuyasha's Past")
"I'm never alone, I'm alone all the time. Are you the one, or do you lie?"
~Glycerine - Bush
If only she could tell Kagura how gorgeous the night was.
The stars resembled fireflies that she'd stare at for hours on end in the summer, the sky was the perfect shade of indigo, the moon looked like a perfectly rounded rice cake, and the light from it made diamonds all over the snow-covered lands. . .
But who was she to say that the night was gorgeous?
She was just an emotionless tool.
Just a nobody that was enslaved to a spiteful man that lost his heart to envy.
That's right. . .
"Kanna, are you in here?" The scarlet-eyed vixen she called her sister slid open the door, looking in. Her only response was a soft nod as she sat on a stool in front of the window. Kanna's room in Naraku's lair wasn't much: A simple grey-black futon on one side, a large, ornate mirror on the other, and next to the window, a desk with the gardenias she adorned her head with every day laid neatly on top of her powder-white kimono.
Kagura paused a moment, and sighed, walking over to her. Her eyes instantly darted to Kanna's thin nightgown and the open window.
"Hey... you're going to catch a cold like this, you know."
Kanna made no movements to stop her as her younger sister shut the window.
Kagura ruffled her hair and smiled.
"Man, you really have to stop growing; Naraku won't keep making you new kimonos, you know."
It had been almost seven years since their last encounter with Inuyasha and his friends, and the once-child was now an almost-woman. Her hips had grown out, her height...had only really increased by a half-foot or so...her chest was almost that of her sister now, and her hair was down to her waist.
Kanna swallowed hard, holding back miniscule tears as Kagura turned to leave.
"Wait..."
"What is it, Kanna?"
"Look outside."
".......na..."
Then Kagura would walk over to the window and open it to see the picture-perfect night...then she'd shake her head and look for anything suspicious.
"What am I supposed to be looking at?"
"The night."
"........anna...."
Then Kagura's voice would soften a little, knowing that she's not supposed to feel such things either.
"...What about it?"
"Its pretty."
"...Yeah...I guess it is..." Then the sisters would both smile and watch the night until the sun rose...
"KANNA!"
The pale girl gasped a little as she was torn from her daydreaming as she turned to look at Kagura.
"Yes...?"
"Naraku wanted to see you; he said it was urgent."
She gulped a little, nodding, her hands instantly becoming clammy, though her sister didn't notice. In the recent years, Kanna noted a change in Naraku's attitude towards her. He now looked at her with a strange hunger in his eyes that sent a chill down her spine she wished to avoid.
Kanna nodded and left the room, her perfectly-feigned blank look plastered on her face.*
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The young woman knocked before entering Naraku's lair, her heart racing.
"Enter. . ." Cooed a voice from inside, and she proceeded to walk inside, shutting the door behind her.
Kanna took three steps forward and sat on her knees, as she always did, her head bowed in respect.
"My, my, Kanna, must you be so formal all the time?" Naraku purred as he sat, a bottle of sake in one hand, his Shikon shards illuminating his figure in the darkness. He motioned with his hand for her to come closer.
She slowly stood up and took another three steps before he patted the space next to him. Suspiciously, she walked to him and sat down, averting her pitch-black eyes from his. He smirked and took a large gulp of the sake before taking a lock of her hair in his hands and lifting it to his face.
The naiive girl looked up at him and tilted her head. "Master... what are you doing?"
He looked at her and chuckled. "You smell like apple blossoms, dear Kanna..."
"Is that bad?"
"No. . .I must say, it is a very delicious scent for such a delicious tool. . ." He tilted his head back and laughed, leaning back a little. It then occured to her that he had been drinking too much. She stood.
"If you'll excuse me, it is very la--" Kanna let out a shriek as he tackled her to the floor, his eyes suddenly full of rage.
"Don't you walk away from me!!" He roared, pinning her wrists to the ground, his breath heavy with the scent of sake. She instantly shook with fear and confusion as he bit her neck. "M-M-Master. . .?!"
He shivered, snarling, pinning her wrists with one hand as his hands began to wander. It all clicked in her mind and she screamed.
"Kanna?!" Kagura slammed open the door, her jaw instantly dropping.
"MASTER!!!" Her younger sister ran to them, yanking Naraku off her. Kanna's face was full of tears as she scrambled to her feet, her entire body shaking.
Kagura hissed, holding the drunken Naraku back as she watched the young girl run out of the room.
Kanna closed and locked the door, gasping, her heart racing, tears still streaming down her cheeks as she listened to Naraku scream at Kagura. Suddenly, she heard a noise so sickening, she turned paler than she already was.
"KANNA, RUN!!!" Kagura screamed weakly.
Her eyes widened a little and she grabbed her sandals, bolting out of the mansion and into the gorgeous night.
Dark?
You bet.
Morbid?
A little.
Good?
I think so.
Let me know what you think.
Good night.
P.S.: Don't do drugs and stay in school.