Fading Away
~ Chapter Two ~
Premature Restraints To The Other Side
By Inuyashas Youkai
* Still don't possess the tasty demons yet , but we all know that , and realize that this won't change anytime soon even if we tried, not that I would want to, but for him to spend a day with me , would be heavenly.. All rights still belong to its original, talented creator Rumiko Takahashi ..
Growling frustratedly from his perch , Inuyasha defeatedly resisted the urge to allow himself the disappointment of jumping in the well for the umpteenth time, and only to find that the stupid contraption still wouldn't grant him access to the other side . Instead , the hanyou sulked within the boughs of the said tree that he at the time chose to occupy, and even though the signs were screaming loudly that Kagome was gone.
Although , somehow deep inside he knew otherwise. It was something that couldn't be explained , but a instinctual feeling that his miko was still alive ,and for some reason the well to the other side just simply shut himself out. It was also known by unknown means that Kagome had indeed been injured , badly , but realized at the present moment that she was still living somewhere, if only just barely.
The fact that he couldn't find her , and that Inuyasha , himself couldn't pass through the well to the other side only angered him more because the hanyou wasn't able to be at her side when she needed him most, and now Kagome needed , not to be alone. Alone , meaning that she was now somewhere , without him..
To him , it was something , that his choice to prove his love worthy to the other miko , after her demise had abruptly altered ,once the other within his heart just faded away from his side , and it was then he discovered something that was at one time hidden .
Inuyasha was in love with Kagome , not because of her connections to his past love but that the hanyou saw her for what she was , and that was the miko he traveled with for sometime now , one that loved him , regardless.
More than that , deep inside him, it was already known as a fact , but the hanyou fought for it to be ignored for some time, and now ,Inuyasha felt what that ignorance had done , not only to himself , but to the miko's themselves. It was cruel, but with honorable intentions that the hanyou stood by the love of his past , although the downside was that he was only fooling himself that Inuyasha could ever separate himself from the one who, for as long as he could recall ,once he chose to acknoledge it , held his heart.
Leaning back with a sigh, against the tree's trunk ,Inuyasha lost the fight to keep his eyes open , and fluttered closed to face the sight, bleeding into his closed orbs , one that had him awaken abruptly with a start. Breathing heavily in response , and in result forcing his body to settle, so that his racing heart rate , would calm itself back to normal , but at the time went unsuccessful. Leaping down to the forest floor , Inuyasha broke out into a rushing sprint to clear his head after the images, only now just privy to him had shown.
~ On The Other Side ~
The woman lying unconsciously on the dirt floor inside the well hadn't moved since the moment whatever force had placed her there, and although she had fought , but her body wouldn't do as her mind wished it to at the time. It felt as though her mind was trying to pound her way out , but everthing else was frozen silent , so whatever she was attempting fell to the wayside because nobody would know that she needed help without someone to be alerted that she was , where ever she was now.
Not long after odd indistinguishable noises came to join in with the earlier loud pulsing beats within her mind , and then it seemed that her body seemed as though it was floating , at least to the feminine voice inside her head mentioned of how it felt .
After what had seemed like forever , only drifting along, the woman had felt light pressure being placed in different spots of herself, unmethodically , and then began feeling a certain pull towards a unknown direction. Although , the only thing that her mind registered , as her body was held towards that certain spot that in her mind she could see ,but didn't recongnize , with the exception of one thing .
Red Eyes.
Those red eyes looking at her , creepily without a head within her mind, as she felt like she was moving again towards them, but somehow knowing that her body was still refusing to move, the woman hadn't known why she knew them , only that she had and wasn't afriad. Still when the thought of those orbs being placed intentively on her ,with the knowledge of some odd feelings emerging when they were first exposed to her, and brought along with it , a sharp pain within her chest.
Not knowing how or why , and to tired to fight any longer to find out , for the exhaustion was getting to much to ignore, the woman soon fell back within the dark.
~ Mistaken Prolonged Assumptions~
Watching through the mirror , while another woman flew ,as though she was lighter than a feather, soaring through the winds breeze with the one who summoned it's cause, and so they could proceed to return to their master in hiding. To the older one controling the direction of their flight, as she appeared to the young child -like presence in white ,almost as though she was slightly confused for what the mirror had shown , but while she had no need for such emotions , it was clear that this revelation wasn't something either would expect , and let alone what explosive reactions would come from the one who had demanded such a watchful eye over their enemy .
It had seemed as though , from what they had gathered from observing them, and had used against them was normally something they had achieved against them with elaborate schemes , at least having some negative effects on their opposing standing , but this , what had happened not so long ago , etched in the mirrors glass , was something that would change the way the miko would be tainted .
Although not entirely , but it would be difficult , unless that is ,they could find a way to the whereabouts of the location the miko had been sent, and by one who they had least expected with the newfound cause nobody had reasons to predict , nor the means neccessary to make one just disappear without a trace.
~ Mirror Image ~
A woman cloaked in garments worn , coinciding with the the the path of a miko , but walked alone in the way of the undead , with her occompanying Shinidamachu , slithering around her , as they followed the master's descent towards the hanyou that had now crept in her thoughts, because the last time that they had met she hadn't yet been able to question the motives that Inuyasha had outwardly, and ferally expressed before his enraged form fled from sight.
Days had passed , although nothing came out of her search for the one she had intended to find , but the estranged priestess still persisted in locating the aura she still felt , even if it was somewhat muted , as if somehow it was being sheilded from her sight.
TBC...
Authors Note : Indeed this tale is told in tidbits from many of the characters involved in the story, and with every chapter , clues are left cast aside for the one's eager to pick up to discover the truth.. Enjoy the ride, though the end may shock you ... Reviews are enjoyed , but not required.. Though please no flames , if you don't like it don't read it , but if you do let me know, even it is a mere two words it would be happily appreciated .. ;)
