Att: This chapter has very brief gruesome images. For anyone with a very
weak stomach, I was just warning you. Most people, it wont bother. Its not
bad, but it would make my mother sick, so I decided to warn any of you that
have a weak stomach. Thanks!
A Dead Lovers Last Wish
Chapter 7
The Secrets Within
She ran from the lake. The gruesome image burned in her mind. Intent on finding the village and seeing him for her own eyes, just to make sure he was alive, she was oblivious to the outstretched branches that scraped her face, arms and legs. Her short skirt whirled around her legs as she ran, and her long sleeve shirt did nothing to cool down her racing body temperature. It wasn't true. She didn't kill him. She never would. It just couldn't be true.
She had gone the wrong way. This was the opposite direction back to the village. She didn't recognize any of this landscape. She pushed aside a thick lush of green that curtained her view of what lie ahead, and she stopped dead in her tracks.
A castle?....She took a step forward and almost fell, if it wasn't for her grabbing the lush that she just pushed aside. She looked down, the rocks that had caved under her weight, falling down the chasm. She didn't hear the thud that would let her know when the rocks hit the bottom.
"Oh great, a hole that never ends, that's just what I need." She said, sarcastically. Pulling herself up, she swung alittle to the right, and let go of the lush, falling unceremoniously on her butt.
"Note to self. Never fall down a cliff again." After walking around the big opening, she saw stairs that led to the doors of the castle.
She felt the thick negative energy as she stepped closer, and screamed in pain, as the energy seemed to be directed at her. It grew an unearthly red and black as it struck her, as it seemed to be creating burn marks across her exposed skin. But when she looked down, their were no marks. She stopped screaming as the energy abruptly stopped, but the pain from the seemingly invisible wounds stung badly.
Before she could say or do anything, she found herself teleported to another place, and she guessed by the way it looked, it was the inside of the castle. Suddenly, she found herself staring into the eyes of the man she hated more than anything in her life. His eyes were surprised, not by seeing her there...but he wasn't expecting her...he was expecting someone else...His hands were holding her arms down, and she screamed in pain, as it seemed his hands burned into her delicate skin. Yanking away from him, she examined her arms, and saw that his hand prints did burn into her arms.
"Naraku..."
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Inuyasha was thinking about Kikyo when he saw the exotic young girl from the future thrash in her sleep, and his ears flattened to his head when she screamed. Grabbing her gently by the shoulders he shook her awake, and watched as she sat up quickly, her breathing ragged and uneven.
"What...what happened?" Her voice and her eyes gave it away. She was thoroughly scared. And confused.
"What do you mean what happened? You tell me, you were the one trashing and screaming. I woke you up." Inuyasha looked at her, amber clashing with stormy midnight. Under normal circumstances he would have looked away from their heated gaze, but today he didn't. Something was off. In her eyes. She must have had the dream again...
She saw in his eyes that he knew what happened. She shook her head silently, then taking a deep breath she looked at him, amber regarding stormy midnight with curiosity.
"This one was different. I had already...." She threw up her hands. How the hell was she supposed to tell him her dream if she couldn't say it?..., "well, you know, but instead of watching me do it again...it kind of picked up where it left off."
The only hint she got that he was even listening, was the way his eyes were watching her. She felt unsteady under his gaze. Normally it was the other way around. She took a deep breath and then let it out shakily, and plunged into her dream,
"I...I was in the forest...the same exact spot where I..." She swallowed. She still didn't like saying it. "...killed you. And when I tried to run back to the village, to make sure...you were..you know, okay..I went the wrong way..and ended up at a castle. On my first attempt to get in the castle, I was blocked by a negative barrier of some sort. When I started to pass through it, it seemed to feed off of my energy...and then I was transported into the castle and Naraku was there..." She trailed off, knowing he would catch on, and the hard glint in his eyes told her he did.
Before they could discuss it anymore, Shippo, who had been laying next to her, awoke to the sound of their voices. Rubbing his eyes sleepily, he sat up and looked at his surrogate mother and then at Inuyasha.
"What's going on?" His voice was groggy from sleep, and his eyes were still glazed over but he could feel the tension in the air as soon as he woke up.
"...um.. nothing Shippo, everything is fine, go back to sleep." The night was still young, the only hint of the sun rising was the peek of sunlight. She watched as Shippo shrugged his shoulders, and curled up against her, promptly falling asleep. She looked back at Inuyasha, something was in his eyes that she couldn't identify, he was looking at Shippo. Before she could analyze it further, he looked back at her.
"I wont be able to go back to sleep now." She said softly, looking around. Miroku and Sango were still sleeping, and how they didn't wake up when she screamed was a mystery to them. Miroku had moved noticeably closer to Sango, and she smiled when she thought of the smack he was going to receive when she woke up. Kilala mewed, then came over and curled up with Shippo, falling asleep too. "But, I see im going to have to stay here, because they obviously don't want me to move." Smiling, she lay back down and Inuyasha sat down next to her, incase she did fall asleep and had the dream again. "Feh."
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Unfortunately, it picked up where it left off. She stood their stunned as she examined her arms...they burned like fire was licking at her....his hand prints were very visible. They were burned into her arms, every mark pronounced. She thought the pain would fade but it didn't.
Suddenly, she felt an arm wrap around her waist from behind, and another wrap around her neck. He leaned his face forward, his whispering voice in her ear sending shivers down her spine.
"You've never felt true pain miko...not like I have...now its your turn. Burn...burn until your skin falls off, and the pain is so excruciating you can't stand it anymore..."
The smell of burnt flesh was so overwhelming she gagged. His voice rang in her head, and his evil aura swam around her, thirsty, thriving on her fear and pain.
"Go on...scream miko...scream!" Her eyes opened wide in surprise...she knew who he was waiting for...she felt rage burn in her veins, and she felt her power grow. Not paying much attention to the surprise in his voice, she released her power, it surged through her and went into him, knocking him back and slamming him against the wall. She turned slowly, her eyes flashing dangerously.
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She woke up with a start. The sun shining bright in her eyes. She felt the familiar bundle of two warm bodies on her and looked down to see Shippo and Kilala still curled up against her, still sleeping. She smiled and looked around. Sango and Miroku were up. Sango was sharpening her katana and Miroku had a recent red mark across his face, and she guessed that they had just woke up a couple minutes before. But she was looking for Inuyasha. She found him sitting in the Goshinkbu tree, asleep, his head on his chest, his hair blowing lightly in the breeze. She smiled softly, he must have stayed up to make sure I would be ok, she thought.
Standing up, she yawned and then stretched, the two little fur balls rolling into the middle of her sleeping back, Kilalas tail wrapping around herself and Shippo against the chill that made its way when Kagomes body wasn't a barrier for the wind. She walked over to her two friends, Sango and Miroku looking up when she spoke.
"Hey you guys. Im going home for a while. Kaede said something about me keeping my distance from Inuyasha since he flares my attitude. I'll be back once I can get control of my emotions." Her voice was low, she didn't want Inuyasha to hear.
"Wait, Kagome, let me come to the well with you." Sango spoke first, her best friend, always to be counted on, and Kagome smiled.
"Hai, Ill come to Lady Kagome. But shouldn't you tell Inuyasha your leaving? You know how his temper is." Miroku looked at her, confusion evident on his face.
"His temper is the reason Im leaving. We shouldn't tell him." Gathering her stuff quickly and quietly, since his hearing was acute, she threw it into her yellow bag;. In a hurry to get through the well before he awoke. As they were standing by the well, she dropped her bag in first, the jewel fragments in it, and watched as her bag disappeared into the magic. She turned and looked at her two friends, and noticed a secret glance between the two. She smiled knowingly, but looked away as if she didn't see a thing. She turned back when she heard Sango speak, her voice low.
"Kagome, if your going to go, you better hurry before Inuyasha wakes up. More than likely he will come to your era to get you, but we will try to make him understand." Her voice was giving her away, she didn't think they could change his mind one way or the other as to if he should try to come get her.
"Thanks you guys." She smiled at her two friends, Miroku nodded in appreciation, and Sango, on impulse, leaned forward and hugged her. Kagome returned the embrace and without a word, turned towards the well and was about to jump in when she heard a voice behind her.
"Where the heck do you think your going?" Inuyasha was standing beside Miroku, arms across his chest, his eyes narrowed, and his stance set. He was glaring at her, and she felt her temper flare. Before she knew what was happening, she felt a tug between her soul and her mind. She knew what was happening; she needed to get out of here. Taking a step forward, to reassure him that she would be back as soon as she could, she faltered.
She stopped in her tracks, falling to her knees, her breathing ragged and uneven. She fought to maintain control, and finally realized how much effort it must take Inuyasha to regain control of himself when he turned youkai. She felt her body burn hot, as if she was blushing, the emotions battling to take over and do the one thing that she would never allow to happen. Even if they had to kill their carrier and take another, they wanted out. And they weren't going to take no for an answer.
She shook her head at the thought, and with all her strength she pushed aside the impulse to carry out her emotions wishes, and stood shakily, with the help of Sango who had dropped to her side. Her head was spinning wildly, and her vision was out of focus. When Sango let her go warily, Kagome felt her knees buckle, and Inuyasha shot his hands out, grabbing her forearms to help her stand, although his touch was gentle, she cried out in pain, and startled he let go and she fell to her knees once again.
...What?...Why does that hurt?....Her arms burned, excruciating pain shooting through her arms made her head spin even more. A thought struck her and she quickly but gingerly, pulled up the sleeves of her shirt. She heard her three friends gasp in shock, and her own heart beat wildly as she looked at her arms. They were there.
His hand prints were scalded into her flesh.
TO BE CONTINUED
(Heh, no preview...sorry...Oh yes! Everyone, please check out my brothers story. And please review. He needs some advice, and he wanted me to tell you all to check it out. His name is Inuyashafire. (Ironic isn't it? xD) Anyways, that's all for now. Hope my chapter was worth the wait! Please let me know what you think!
A Dead Lovers Last Wish
Chapter 7
The Secrets Within
She ran from the lake. The gruesome image burned in her mind. Intent on finding the village and seeing him for her own eyes, just to make sure he was alive, she was oblivious to the outstretched branches that scraped her face, arms and legs. Her short skirt whirled around her legs as she ran, and her long sleeve shirt did nothing to cool down her racing body temperature. It wasn't true. She didn't kill him. She never would. It just couldn't be true.
She had gone the wrong way. This was the opposite direction back to the village. She didn't recognize any of this landscape. She pushed aside a thick lush of green that curtained her view of what lie ahead, and she stopped dead in her tracks.
A castle?....She took a step forward and almost fell, if it wasn't for her grabbing the lush that she just pushed aside. She looked down, the rocks that had caved under her weight, falling down the chasm. She didn't hear the thud that would let her know when the rocks hit the bottom.
"Oh great, a hole that never ends, that's just what I need." She said, sarcastically. Pulling herself up, she swung alittle to the right, and let go of the lush, falling unceremoniously on her butt.
"Note to self. Never fall down a cliff again." After walking around the big opening, she saw stairs that led to the doors of the castle.
She felt the thick negative energy as she stepped closer, and screamed in pain, as the energy seemed to be directed at her. It grew an unearthly red and black as it struck her, as it seemed to be creating burn marks across her exposed skin. But when she looked down, their were no marks. She stopped screaming as the energy abruptly stopped, but the pain from the seemingly invisible wounds stung badly.
Before she could say or do anything, she found herself teleported to another place, and she guessed by the way it looked, it was the inside of the castle. Suddenly, she found herself staring into the eyes of the man she hated more than anything in her life. His eyes were surprised, not by seeing her there...but he wasn't expecting her...he was expecting someone else...His hands were holding her arms down, and she screamed in pain, as it seemed his hands burned into her delicate skin. Yanking away from him, she examined her arms, and saw that his hand prints did burn into her arms.
"Naraku..."
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Inuyasha was thinking about Kikyo when he saw the exotic young girl from the future thrash in her sleep, and his ears flattened to his head when she screamed. Grabbing her gently by the shoulders he shook her awake, and watched as she sat up quickly, her breathing ragged and uneven.
"What...what happened?" Her voice and her eyes gave it away. She was thoroughly scared. And confused.
"What do you mean what happened? You tell me, you were the one trashing and screaming. I woke you up." Inuyasha looked at her, amber clashing with stormy midnight. Under normal circumstances he would have looked away from their heated gaze, but today he didn't. Something was off. In her eyes. She must have had the dream again...
She saw in his eyes that he knew what happened. She shook her head silently, then taking a deep breath she looked at him, amber regarding stormy midnight with curiosity.
"This one was different. I had already...." She threw up her hands. How the hell was she supposed to tell him her dream if she couldn't say it?..., "well, you know, but instead of watching me do it again...it kind of picked up where it left off."
The only hint she got that he was even listening, was the way his eyes were watching her. She felt unsteady under his gaze. Normally it was the other way around. She took a deep breath and then let it out shakily, and plunged into her dream,
"I...I was in the forest...the same exact spot where I..." She swallowed. She still didn't like saying it. "...killed you. And when I tried to run back to the village, to make sure...you were..you know, okay..I went the wrong way..and ended up at a castle. On my first attempt to get in the castle, I was blocked by a negative barrier of some sort. When I started to pass through it, it seemed to feed off of my energy...and then I was transported into the castle and Naraku was there..." She trailed off, knowing he would catch on, and the hard glint in his eyes told her he did.
Before they could discuss it anymore, Shippo, who had been laying next to her, awoke to the sound of their voices. Rubbing his eyes sleepily, he sat up and looked at his surrogate mother and then at Inuyasha.
"What's going on?" His voice was groggy from sleep, and his eyes were still glazed over but he could feel the tension in the air as soon as he woke up.
"...um.. nothing Shippo, everything is fine, go back to sleep." The night was still young, the only hint of the sun rising was the peek of sunlight. She watched as Shippo shrugged his shoulders, and curled up against her, promptly falling asleep. She looked back at Inuyasha, something was in his eyes that she couldn't identify, he was looking at Shippo. Before she could analyze it further, he looked back at her.
"I wont be able to go back to sleep now." She said softly, looking around. Miroku and Sango were still sleeping, and how they didn't wake up when she screamed was a mystery to them. Miroku had moved noticeably closer to Sango, and she smiled when she thought of the smack he was going to receive when she woke up. Kilala mewed, then came over and curled up with Shippo, falling asleep too. "But, I see im going to have to stay here, because they obviously don't want me to move." Smiling, she lay back down and Inuyasha sat down next to her, incase she did fall asleep and had the dream again. "Feh."
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Unfortunately, it picked up where it left off. She stood their stunned as she examined her arms...they burned like fire was licking at her....his hand prints were very visible. They were burned into her arms, every mark pronounced. She thought the pain would fade but it didn't.
Suddenly, she felt an arm wrap around her waist from behind, and another wrap around her neck. He leaned his face forward, his whispering voice in her ear sending shivers down her spine.
"You've never felt true pain miko...not like I have...now its your turn. Burn...burn until your skin falls off, and the pain is so excruciating you can't stand it anymore..."
The smell of burnt flesh was so overwhelming she gagged. His voice rang in her head, and his evil aura swam around her, thirsty, thriving on her fear and pain.
"Go on...scream miko...scream!" Her eyes opened wide in surprise...she knew who he was waiting for...she felt rage burn in her veins, and she felt her power grow. Not paying much attention to the surprise in his voice, she released her power, it surged through her and went into him, knocking him back and slamming him against the wall. She turned slowly, her eyes flashing dangerously.
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She woke up with a start. The sun shining bright in her eyes. She felt the familiar bundle of two warm bodies on her and looked down to see Shippo and Kilala still curled up against her, still sleeping. She smiled and looked around. Sango and Miroku were up. Sango was sharpening her katana and Miroku had a recent red mark across his face, and she guessed that they had just woke up a couple minutes before. But she was looking for Inuyasha. She found him sitting in the Goshinkbu tree, asleep, his head on his chest, his hair blowing lightly in the breeze. She smiled softly, he must have stayed up to make sure I would be ok, she thought.
Standing up, she yawned and then stretched, the two little fur balls rolling into the middle of her sleeping back, Kilalas tail wrapping around herself and Shippo against the chill that made its way when Kagomes body wasn't a barrier for the wind. She walked over to her two friends, Sango and Miroku looking up when she spoke.
"Hey you guys. Im going home for a while. Kaede said something about me keeping my distance from Inuyasha since he flares my attitude. I'll be back once I can get control of my emotions." Her voice was low, she didn't want Inuyasha to hear.
"Wait, Kagome, let me come to the well with you." Sango spoke first, her best friend, always to be counted on, and Kagome smiled.
"Hai, Ill come to Lady Kagome. But shouldn't you tell Inuyasha your leaving? You know how his temper is." Miroku looked at her, confusion evident on his face.
"His temper is the reason Im leaving. We shouldn't tell him." Gathering her stuff quickly and quietly, since his hearing was acute, she threw it into her yellow bag;. In a hurry to get through the well before he awoke. As they were standing by the well, she dropped her bag in first, the jewel fragments in it, and watched as her bag disappeared into the magic. She turned and looked at her two friends, and noticed a secret glance between the two. She smiled knowingly, but looked away as if she didn't see a thing. She turned back when she heard Sango speak, her voice low.
"Kagome, if your going to go, you better hurry before Inuyasha wakes up. More than likely he will come to your era to get you, but we will try to make him understand." Her voice was giving her away, she didn't think they could change his mind one way or the other as to if he should try to come get her.
"Thanks you guys." She smiled at her two friends, Miroku nodded in appreciation, and Sango, on impulse, leaned forward and hugged her. Kagome returned the embrace and without a word, turned towards the well and was about to jump in when she heard a voice behind her.
"Where the heck do you think your going?" Inuyasha was standing beside Miroku, arms across his chest, his eyes narrowed, and his stance set. He was glaring at her, and she felt her temper flare. Before she knew what was happening, she felt a tug between her soul and her mind. She knew what was happening; she needed to get out of here. Taking a step forward, to reassure him that she would be back as soon as she could, she faltered.
She stopped in her tracks, falling to her knees, her breathing ragged and uneven. She fought to maintain control, and finally realized how much effort it must take Inuyasha to regain control of himself when he turned youkai. She felt her body burn hot, as if she was blushing, the emotions battling to take over and do the one thing that she would never allow to happen. Even if they had to kill their carrier and take another, they wanted out. And they weren't going to take no for an answer.
She shook her head at the thought, and with all her strength she pushed aside the impulse to carry out her emotions wishes, and stood shakily, with the help of Sango who had dropped to her side. Her head was spinning wildly, and her vision was out of focus. When Sango let her go warily, Kagome felt her knees buckle, and Inuyasha shot his hands out, grabbing her forearms to help her stand, although his touch was gentle, she cried out in pain, and startled he let go and she fell to her knees once again.
...What?...Why does that hurt?....Her arms burned, excruciating pain shooting through her arms made her head spin even more. A thought struck her and she quickly but gingerly, pulled up the sleeves of her shirt. She heard her three friends gasp in shock, and her own heart beat wildly as she looked at her arms. They were there.
His hand prints were scalded into her flesh.
TO BE CONTINUED
(Heh, no preview...sorry...Oh yes! Everyone, please check out my brothers story. And please review. He needs some advice, and he wanted me to tell you all to check it out. His name is Inuyashafire. (Ironic isn't it? xD) Anyways, that's all for now. Hope my chapter was worth the wait! Please let me know what you think!