This chapter almost made me cry! ( it's so sad!! Kikyou is a psycho! Grrr! Oh well! chap 4! Whoop whoop whoop! Warning: Inuyasha's death maybe a bit graphic...sorry if you can't take it! Read it out anyways! Don't forget to review! )
Chapter 4: The Heart Stone
"I don't want to hear this…" Came a soft voice from besides the two females. Kagome and Kaede turned to see that Inuyasha was already besides the window. She had never seen a different being, and wasn't sure how to react to what they felt. This was not a hard task however. Any one could see the small rolls of depression linger down his face. Kaede's hard features had smoothened.
"Maybe you should Inuyasha…it will help you to get over it better…" She whispered to him. Kagome just listened. She wanted so bad to run back home in the safe warm arms of familarness. She even wanted to pick back up her kinky shrine job again. And believe me, that was only 45 minutes of homesickness. Of all the craziness and abnormal-ness of being sucked down what seemed to be a normal well to a different time, she just needed to know why her. Of all people, why was she so important? Kaede continued starting off Inuyasha's story…
It was the year of 2008, in a neighborhood in Tokyo. Of all the houses that lay scattered apart from each other by hills and forests, one sat the highest on a hill. It was the biggest house that housed but two people. Strong hearted Kikyou, and the innocent Kaede, who was only 10 at the time.
The two sisters were outside at the bottom of their home and were now picking flowers for a vase in their home. Kikyou knealt down and took a handful of red roses. The color red. For reasons, it made her smile. Kaede glanced over at her and saw her smiling dumbly at the blood plant.
"Kikyou, why are you smiling?" She giggled. They older sister snapped out of her trance and just gave her a gentle smile back.
"Oh. It's just that red reminds of Inuyasha." She looked down at what she had picked and sighed dreamily. Yet again, Kaede broke her from her trance.
"Um Kikyou…"
"Yes."
"Do you plan on marrying Inuyasha?" The girl asked sheepishly swaying back and forth. Her anticipated answer was taken over by a long silent gap.
"…I….I…don't know….I just don't know Kaede…" The girl's heart sank. She watched as her only relatives face sank into a saddened sulk before she continued up the gazillion steps to their home. Feeling ashamed for her question Kaede felt tears of guilt spring into her eyes. She let her head hang down low and followed her sister back up the steps to their home.
After climbing the steps she found her sister sitting on the floor of their living room. She was holding something in her hands. Her sister watched her meditate, and put the flowers on the counter. Because their kitchen was connected to the living room, she was able to secretly watch her there. Kaede sat there watching her from the sink. Curiosity enveloped her, and she began to feel herself pull towards where she was sitting. Kikyou did not move even through the noise of her feet shuffling. Finally, she was sitting right besides her on the ground. Kaede gulped and sat so quietly, she thought that she would have to stop breathing. She wanted to tap her sister, but the consequences for that were too unknown for comfort. Thankfully Kikyou got to her first.
"Kaede, why do you come?"
"I just, wanted to apologize for making you feel bad." She sighed with guilt. There was yet another time block of silence.
"Do you know that he is not who he is Kaede…" The girl perked up. She figured that she was forgiven, but Kikyou had totally ignored her apology.
"What do you mean?"
"He is not a human…"
"Well of course he is!" She laughed. "What else can he be!" Her older sister opened one eye and gave her a serious look. She instantly stopped her giggling.
"Listen…the legends of super beings only seem to be just stories, but they are a lot more. They are true."
"How do you know this? How do you need if Inuyasha is a demon and not everyone else?"
"Because…coming from a line of priestesses, I can spot one right off the spot…I do study them you know." Kikyou was certainly right. She can go for days just reading myths and studying them…she even had read a spell that could be used to reveal a super being if she had to. Some thought she was crazy, others thought she was a savior. No matter what side it was flipped on, it was definitely not normal. Kaede began to put 2 and 2 together. "Inuyasha was a tricky one to find out about…but I found out eventually…"
"How?"
"It all depends on their behavior…like I have just noticed that he has never stayed here past midnight. Or noticed that he hates talking about his family. It's all too simple. He is not human…demons are very cautious about their spells. It makes a lot of sense."
"So what will you do?" Kaede asked cautiously. She gasped and watched a small silver tear slide down her check.
"What I have to do…the world can't live like this…"
Inuyasha walked up to Kikyou's lab in confusion. Why had she called him this late? He knew that she loved her job as a scientist, but staying at work this late was out of the ordinary. Inuyasha shrugged it off and entered her lab. He secured the ring box in his pocket. 'This is goona be good.' His mind cheered.
Kikyou was standing on the balcony like banister of the giant icy bio products. She pressed a few controls and made sure that the giant mixer would be secure. Before turning to see Inuyasha.
"Hey. You wanted to see me?" He asked softly. Kikyou smiled sadly taking off her glasses.
"Yes. I did." Kikyou took her glasses and put them in her lab coat. She looked up at him with hurt. "Tell me now Inuyasha, who are you?" Her question struck him like an 18-wheeler. Who else could he have been? He was Inuyasha. Inuyasha Sanyosho. What could she have meant?
"I don't understand what your saying? I'm me Kikyou." He frowned and moved closer to her to see if she was okay. "Are you okay-" Before he could reach her she shoved his hand away in a not Kikyou action.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" She snapped. Inuyasha pulled his hand away from her like if she had burned him. She did not burn him physically though. She burned him emotionally.
"Ki-Kikyou? What's wrong with you?" The male's face was full of shock and disbelief.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? ME? YOU'RE FOOLING YOURSELF! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU'RE FOOLING EVERYONE AND ME! SHOW YOURSELF YOU EVIL DEMON!" She yelled with rage. At first there was nothing. But then there was pulsing. A steady pulsing. It was rhythmic, and lasted but 45 seconds. And in 45 seconds stood silver haired, gold eyed, clawed hand and dog-eared Inuyasha. Kikyou's face stiffened as she saw his true form. The hanyou looked down at his hands in shock. Long claws. Not good. He looked up at her not knowing how to react. "So this is how you are huh? You lied to me…"
"I didn't lie to you Kikyou! This is what I have to live with! All demons must do this! This spell is the only way how we can live in this stupid world with out having to keep looking over our shoulders!"
"So your nervous?"
"What?"
"You have to look over your shoulder remember?"
"What are you talking about? No I didn't mean it like that-"
"SO YOUR EVIL! AND TO THINK THAT I TRUSTED YOU! I HATE YOU!!" Those words. They slapped him like a human hand. Through the events that just played through his thoughts, the words I hate you hurt like hell the most. He leaned against the railing soaking in the recent events as she watched him like a hawk. The hanyou sighed sadly and pulled out the ring box. Kikyou watched him. Her heartstrings pulled. He was about to ask her to marry him! Tears fought their way to her eyes. She clenched them tightly shut and tried not to watch. Her heart couldn't take it anymore.
"You know what Kikyou, I guess your right. You shouldn't have trusted me. SO YOU KNOW WHAT! THAT MAKES YOU A STUPID HEART STABBING BITCH FOR TRUSTING ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU LIED TO ME! YOU DON'T LOVE ME FOR ME! YOU LOVED ME AS A HUMAN!" He took the ring box and threw it harshly to the ground in rage. The box hinge snapped it two lying flat against the sterilized white floor. The beautiful golden band rolled to the ground like a nickel. The white sparkle of the diamond clanked stiffly. Kikyou fought her tears to the end. She finally lost and the liquid collected under her eyes. "SO YOU KNOW WHAT! IF YOU CAN'T TRUST A GUY LIKE ME, THEN YOU CAN GO MARRY SOMEONE ELSE! IF SO, I FEEL BAD FOR THE NEXT GUY! BECAUSE NO ONE AND I MEAN NO ONE DESERVES TO BE WITH A GIRL LIKE YOU KIKYOU KINOUSHI!" He began to lift him self from the railing when a sharp click made him look up. There stood Kikyou, wielding a long needle like tube with silver liquid in it. It looked like a large syringe. The needle was about 6 inches long too. Stainless steel. The hanyou watched her in confusion. Hard tears swelled down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha…" Before he could react, Kikyou had plunged the needle down into his heart. Hi s eyes widened as pain shot through him. His screams of agony slammed against the walls. The scientist looked away shutting her eyes tightly, as if to block out the horrible noises. She only sobbed and forced the weapon in more. Bright blood gushed from the puncture along with the metallic liquid. Kikyou pushed down on the syringe, and emptied it all in his chest before pulling it out quickly. Inuyasha held his wounded heart as the pain was ripping his body to shreds. He cried out in agony as the gaping silver and red hole leaked. Kikyou sobbed now in thunderous cries, falling to her knees at what she had done. Inuyasha leaned against the railing trying to support himself. He managed to hold off his heart wretched cries to look up at her weakly.
"Wh-wh-why? Kikyou? Why?" He managed to stutter through shaking and hyperventilating. His wound felt like acid, and his stabbed heart was beginning shut down. Metal tears rolled down from his eyes silently. Kikyou dug through her pocket and pulled out a 9 mm. She reloaded it with shaky hands and aimed it at him.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry…" She sobbed "I'll put you out of you misery." She pulled back the trigger and heard the bang. Kikyou heard the last whimper of pain before the breathing stopped and then there was a sliding noise. After the sliding noise came a loud splash. She opened her eyes to see that he was gone. The scientist stood up and walked over to the railing observing the tank below. There, in the blue neon liquid laid Inuyasha. His eyes were shut, and he looked extremely heavy. There was a silver streams of the injected metal running down his closed eyes. Tears of betrayal. The woman descended down the steps of her hidden lab and stood before the large tank with her fallen lover inside. She pressed her body against the glass and shook her head and kissed it.
"Please…forgive me…I had to do it…demons can't live in this world…" That was the last thing that she had said before she shut down everything running machine in her lair. All her work. All her findings. She looked back at the pitch-black room. The only light came from the fluorescent glow of Inuyasha's grave. She clutched her lab coat and threw it to the ground before shutting up the doors. Permanently…
UHUHUHU! So heart shattering! Poor Inu! But have no fear! Kagome's here! More clarity in the next chapter! Reveiw please! encouragement goes along way! )
