Chapter3: Haunting past.
5, March 1968 out skirts of Hue, Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam
"Sir? Sir? Are you Okay? Sir are you Okay?" A soldier in green asked Inuyasha who was crouching on the tattered forest, his dress and bullet proof vest seemingly in a tor-burnt condition. There were other foot soldiers holding M4's and M14's covering the small cleared area.
"It's alright Coop. Just a bit dizzy. Order the troops to fall back. We are returning to base!" Inuyasha ordered while taking in heavy breaths.
Startled "You heard the man! Move! Go go go go!" the soldier identified as Coop ordered.
Inuyasha undid the straps on his head which was used mere moments, before to hold his helmet.
He stood up slowly. After gaining full height, he took deep breaths to calm his raging body. The company slowly made its way through the forest holding their weapons in ready position in case if some brave Viet tends to bring another grenade or an ambush.
"Psst..Did you see that? The commander was blown away by that woman…. She used that grenade on herself too to bring it close to him…" one of the soldiers whispered to another one.
"And yet… he is still walking…. What is he anyway?" The other added.
"Will you shut the fuck up!" the duo's small talk was halted by the very man they were speaking of.
Under normal circumstances, Inuyasha would have only given lots of cow shit, but he's really not in
a great mood today in fact he was not in a good mood for the past twelve years. But today was just frustrating, infuriatingly, dizzy and to round it off. A chick ran into him with a hidden hand grenade trying to kill him and herself, but sadly for the female who did this act did not realize he wasn't a human soldier and was turned to bits and pieces of burnt flesh.
But that wasn't the thing that made Inuyasha….so..so… Annoyed? It was the events that took place a few days ago. The Hue Massacre was the reason. For twenty eight days after the 31st of January 1968. The city of Hue was stained with bloods of innocents, not that the US army was doing the right things… but still… women, children, men and even infants were tortured to death or buried alive in the captured city. The reasons were simple. They came into contact with the Americans or they helped them in some way or they supported the no supporters of the new "Revolutionary government".The estimated death rate was between 2,800 to 6000 done by the Viet Cong. In a war these kinds of things happen, you cant blame the opposite team for doing so.
'I mean… what if the dead people stood for us? It would have led to the Viet disadvantage. No matter how much it would have benefited us we would have done the same given the situation to us..' Inuyasha sighed while walking swiftly in front of the small group.
But the thing was, Inuyasha was blown into a death pit with hundreds of bodies… rotting bodies of men women and children. And….. he had to fight the battle with all the stink that abused his nose and the reddish white fluids of the dead that covered him.
Overall… he was ready for a suicide. But after fighting fiercely for over a week for the lost city, they won. Although most of their aircrafts destroyed by the enemy and shortage of soldiers for aid was a major factor that made the odds against the U.S army.
At the base camp. Injuries were mended as quickly as possible, so as to use the soldiers a second time to fight. Inuyasha only needed some cool water and ramen, something he picked up from the base in the making of noodles in the Asian countries. And he needed the thing even if its in a pit filled with monsters that couldn't be described by any language, he would get it.
In normal cases soldiers are limited to certain items, but being the senior most and the final judge in these parts of the war, he was able to get his desired item even if its not worth the standard military food that was provided for him.
Besides he was…"Sir the General's online and orders your presence immediately!" a soldier with the Captain stripes marched up and said.
"Quit it J, you know I don't give a fuck if the fart wants to talk to me." Inuyasha said to the captain who warily smiled at his senior's way of putting their Generals position in his negative records.
"I know sir…" J groaned. J was a well built man with tan color and lots of scars in his face. He was a perfect soldier that Inuyasha assigned in his special team for conducting stealthy mission namely rescue missions.
"Then why bother?" Inuyasha asked nonchantly while slurping his noodles up.
"It's the only time you are at peace." J said sarcastically before Inuyasha dismissed him with a wave of his hand.
'Finally..some peace..' Just when he was about to start the second cup he heard the sound of laughter, and oh boy… he knew it all too well.
"SIR! DUCK!" a shrilling voice came in some what a little too over dramatic way. Within a second a rugby ball came flying at high velocity in his direction from the left side. A few seconds passed and nothing happened. The hard ball was caught in Inuyasha's left while he ate with his right from the table.
"Ah man!" a blonde haired woman who looked around twenty expressed her disappointment. A few other boys joined the small disappointment committee. The blonde quickly cleared her throat while composing her face into a neutral form before speaking.
"Sir that ba-" she was cut of by a crushing sound and saw…
"Oops." Inuyasha said while he destroyed the ball by crushing it in his arms
without even looking at his attacker.
"I told you not to bug me Jessica." Inuyasha said in his usual grumpy voice.
"Oh come-on! Don't say that you like only the war part! I mean these are the only things that we can do without bugging anyone… well maybe a little bit… I mean who would complain?" Jessica was a beautiful blonde who had crystal blue eyes that could bore into your back.
She walked over to the small table set up for Inuyasha and sat next to him…. Which was considerably impossible since Inuyasha wouldn't allow anyone to sit next to him unless its in the middle of a war.
Jessica was an average school nerd in everyday America. But that turned over when she heard the news of her father's death in Vietnam. She dropped out off school when she was sixteen and signed up for the United States Army intelligence. But after being recruited for the main front to fight against Vietnam two years back… she fell head over heels for the silver haired eye candy in front of her.
But that was not the only thing. She lost her vision of a bloody revenge and viewed the war from Inuyasha's point of view. Instead of torture, she also wanted end this war as soon as possible. And maybe then…she could ask Inuyasha out or at least say the
"Three wrecked word". Inuyasha knew what his companion told was absolutely correct; these small disturbances were the only thing that could make him relax.
29, April 1975 23:15pm
"(cough) hehe…haha.. I can't believe…(cough) it came to this… but I knew this would come…." A heaving Jessica joked. She was soaked in blood with the bullet wound on her shoulder and her gut. Inuyasha was sitting there holding Jessica in his arms.
"Stop talking…. You need to rest." Inuyasha said in his neutral voice and with no expression on his face. But the dying girl knew what was going through the demons minds.
"I….." She inhaled sharply while tears erupted from her eyes from the searing pain. Both body and mind, the bullets were taking their effects on the blonde while the thought of dying in the arms of the guy she loved for the past few glorious years of her life.
"….its….." again she breathed hard.
"Jes-" Inuyasha was cut off.
"Hush" Jessica hushed him while straining to put a finger to his lips.
"Just hold me…." She pleaded. Inuyasha held back his words before nodding and got into a more comfortable position and held Jessica to his chest. She tried to snuggle into his body but that resulted a wave of pain.
Inuyasha could feel her body growing cold. He knew she was fading away and he was powerless. The latest battle, which was the result of the scenery of his dead team around him with some in unrecognizable way. The attack was done by a monk, a powerful one. The monk was assigned to take Inuyasha only, and he did so with a huge army behind him which outnumbered his Battalion while he was down for a few minutes. Calls for back up were ignored and the troop of fifteen faced the wrath of the Viet Cong's.
But just when almost everybody in his troops were dead except for Jessica… Inuyasha's demon blood overpowered the sacred sutras placed on him and freed himself. But by then Jessica had five bullets in her body. His demon unleashed the pent up fury for centuries on the army in front of it.
Inuyasha could feel Jessica's heart rate slowing down rapidly. "Inu… she called him in short.
"Yeah?" Inuyasha asked with remorse.
"Will you kiss me goodbye?" she asked with a small sad smile.
"I.." Inuyasha began but Jessica cut him off.
"Please…" she begged. He didn't hesitate before dipping down and catching her lips with his own in a small passionate kiss, and then….
'Goodbye…. Jess…' Inuyasha knew what happened after their kiss. She passed on and she had a small smile on her beautiful face. "Hope you could rest now…" Inuyasha said while gently placing her body onto the ground before standing up.
He noticed a small white in her jacket which was lying a little away from her body. He picked it up. It was soaked in red but he could still read the content. He realized it was a letter and it was directed to him.
Dear Yash (Col)
I… i… don't know how to start this but if I I don't tell you this… Maybe you will never find out how I felt for you…(you are a blockhead! No offense) All these years of my life were my since I met you were the most wonderful days. Bugging you was nearly my greatest passion. But beyond that…. I love you. But you know what? You ignoring me and causing small-small embarrassing moments will never happen… which makes me sad…
But the thing is… if you have this letter, you know I am dead… so… as a final request… I want you to bury me with the rest of the boys. You know how much I hate to be alone, right? Besides… I want to feel the soil that my father rests… to see this country flourishing, I want to remain here, so I can have all my wonderful memories with me… that's all… but wait maybe you will never know. I might be alive and you won't read this.
All smiles.
With Respect
Captain Jessica Raynand, Green Beret
30, April 1975
"…..And hereby I declare the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam." Inuyasha watched from the top of a small hill as the assembly gathered there yelled out their victory for the protection of their people.
On the other side he could see the American Forces withdrawing themselves. "I guess you morons wanted to see this…." Inuyasha said with a bitter smile referring to his comrades who fell in battle.
Present time(way towards the heli lift)
Inuyasha jerked awake by soft pale arms touching his face. He opened his eye to meet with concerned ocean blue eyes. Kagome was sitting next to him with a small towel on one hand and the other on his face which she reverted back immediately while blushing hard.
He didn't say anything for awhile before asking. "Why aren't we moving?" he noticed the vehicle was motionless.
"We are here.." Miroku said while he moved his head to let Inuyasha see a small leer jet on the grassy plane. That's when he noticed the time… he was asleep for nearly five hours…. The longest he had ever slept. And he gave a silent thank you to the girl next to him because her aura made his mind flow through without any horrible sights….All the components in the jet got out and walked toward the jet waiting for them.
The small jet was traveling west. The complete master mind behind was Kagome. She was given authorization to do the retrieval mission on Chinese soil by the People Republic Government itself, they wanted to make sure that this operation must be done with extreme caution because if the media came to know of American soldiers in their soil, the situation will go on like a wildfire and they will have to give a detailed explanation on the danger that was set free by the Americans...with the help of Chinese..
'So here I am… with Kirara… and three new mortals, travelling back to my American nightmares….sigh….how much worse can this get?' Inuyasha thought while looking out the window with Kirara on his lap snuggling into his body.
'Fur ball…' Inuyasha thought as he saw Kirara's antics.
Usually for a mission in the army will not be provided with any forms of luxury. But that was not the case here…. The government couldn't afford to let the people see a military aircraft taking off from the forest and land on the airport… Moreover that they wanted to miss the eyes of the new generation media kids who have eyes everywhere. The day was turning to night. Most of the journey was spent on ground. Its just been about thirty minutes since they boarded the air craft.
But Kagome was feeling a bit suffocated. Even though she were in good terms with Sango and Miroku…. The third party was silent, which made the whole craft silent aside from the faint humming of the engine outside. To make the matters worse…. She was right in front of the silver haired man, slightly squirmed every now and then.
So as to let the tension slide off from her, she looked outside the window. The darkness inched closer towards the horizon, threatening to cover the day with another night filled
with shadows.
The last light of the sun shimmered in the distance, splashing the sky with an array of bright colors, before they vanished. The sun was at its lowest and within minutes it will be gone only to be engulfed by the darkness of the night. Kagome sighed before looking to the side to see Sango leaning on her seat.
She had a relaxed expression on her face. 'I wish that girl would find some real peace…' Kagome spoke in her mind while giving a small smile to the sleeping woman.
And then her attention turned to the other man, she shook her head lightly as she saw him sleeping in an odd fashion with his legs sprawled out and arms on either side with his right arm groping empty space.
"Why are you in the group of roughnecks?" Kagome was startled by the sudden masculine voice which undisputedly belonged to…
"..Excuse me?" Kagome asked not getting what the man in front of her said.
"Why are you here?" Inuyasha asked still staring out.
'Is it that obvious?' Kagome thought.
But as if reading her thoughts "Its not that obvious… CIA wont sent someone abroad without some personal intentions. So why are you sent on an highly dangerous meeting Agent?" Inuyasha asked.
'What the hell?' Kagome screamed in her mind.
"I-" Kagome began but was cut off by Inuyasha "Be aware that I can smell when you lie." He warned her.
'He's right… I might as well choose my words carefully or I will be facing a lot from an angry demon…' after all being raised by a family of religious people weren't for nothing. Kagome let out a defeated sigh and spoke.
"They want you to..help them…. That's all I can tell you. I am sorry." And she turned her gaze to the little fur ball that was now awake and boring eyes into hers.
"Ahh! That little guy's cute!" Kagome accidently squealed before composing herself and clearing her throat.
"I mean the cat is looking nice." She said in a composed voice.
"She… not he and her name is Kirara." At the mention of her name Kirara meowed.
"Can I … I mean can I hold her if its… okay… that is.." Kagome suggested nervously. For a moment Inuyasha was silent before he looked down to Kirara as if asking her.
She looked back up before jumping on to Kagome's lap. Kagome half expected this to happen…maybe a little less. She looked up to Inuyasha showing a grateful smile even though he was looking outside now and Kagome started to rub Kirara's ears.
