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Chap 1o- Past Secrets
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Dirty hands glided softly on the cover of a book. She slipped her fingers under the cover and slowly flipped the book open. The pages were all blank for a few moments until lighted and red letters began to form words.
Slowly at first, then quickly, the blank pages were filled with words then sentences.
'Release me...'
'I WANT OUT...'
'I wish for the death of the man who killed me...release me so I can feed on his blood and devour him...'
So many sentences or quotes of killing filled the book, but the last few pages, remained blank. The girl flicked out a feather, dipped in blood and started to write in the book.
'I wish to be freed...'
She read what she wrote and closed the book, hiding it under a loose board in her house as she heard her mother call for her father, but no one called for her. No one at all.
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Her eyes snapped open as she remembered the book she created and forced all souls that bothered her into that object. 'So long ago...'
"Get up Rin, the dead do not sleep," the masked man commanded and watched the lying spirit slowly get up, her head -for once- attached to her neck, although lopsidedly.
'Why does this thing have such power over me?' Rin asked herself and grabbed her doll.
"Tell me, how did you die?"
Well, that was unexpected...
"Why do you want to know?" Rin asked, clutching her doll closer to her chest.
"That was not a question, it was a command."
Rin glared at the masked man and began talking, "I killed myself, that you know. I was born with the ability to communicate with the dead. People were afraid of me, my own parent's were terrified of me.
I was alone. I had no one and no one wanted me. In a fit of rage and depression, I accidentally opened a portal between the living world and the world of the dead. Many people died from being possessed by evil souls.
I managed to close it and my family and I were banished from the village, and the lands. We walked many miles, yet everyone knew who I was and refused to help us. My parent's didn't abandon me, that I was grateful, but I should've ran away..."
There was a silence as Rin tried to continue on, but the day, the horrible day, still was vivid, like she was reliving the whole experience all over again.
"My parent's tried to kill me. They managed to injure me, but did not kill me. I ran and never did I turn back around. I was alone, until I pass this village and they did not know who I was. They gave me food and a home.
I made some friends and one even gave me her favorite toy, this doll I have right now. Good things never last for long and youkai started to attack the village I resided in, killing many. I once again, in a fit of anger and deepression over the loss of my home and new friends, opened another portal.
It was too big and too strong for me to close. I didn't know how to handle my powers properly and I lost it. I couldn't handle being all alone in my life and I...killed myself. You found me haunting the house my parent's lived in, ruining their lives as they did mine," Rin finished.
"Then you moved on did you not?"
'Yes, I did. When my parent's died, they were sorry for trying to kill me, they realized their mistakes a few seconds before they died and that gave me peace...until you came along and ignited the hate within me once more and brought me here to the world of the living, making me do you biddings!' Rin thought angrily. "Yes, I suppose so..."
'I was supposed to be free...'
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She ran. Where? Why? She doesn't know the answers to those questions. All she knew was that she has to run or else something bad might happen. After being pulled in the mirror, the girl ended up in another dimension. Blood smeared handprints were all over her skin and clothes, but she ignored the itchy feeling of the drying blood and continued to figure out why she was here and with whom. Distinctly, she could hear another pair of footsteps behind her and she sped up, trying to outrun him or her.
She ran in the never-ending inky blackness until she came to a full stop in front of a long plane mirror. It looked normal. Her reflection did what she did and looked like what what she looked like with the blood and all.
As the footsteps came closer, the reflection moved on its own accord. It smiled and fangs poked out of its mouth as its nails lenghthened into claws. Its eyes turned from the different coloured eyes to pure scarlet red as the whites of its eyes turned a shade darker. It lifted a hand out and it came out of the mirror, ripples circling around its arm.
Kagome gasped and backed up, but bumped into something. It was smooth, cold to the touch and glass. She turned around and was met with another reflection of herself, but when she was ten years old. The ten year old Kagome smiled up at the eighteen year old Kagome as she did card tricks. The hand from the other mirror grabbed the confused girl's shoulder and pulled her until her back was lying flat against the surface of the mirror.
"You use to be like that," the thing in the mirror whispered spitefully and used her other hand to point at the care-free child in the other mirror.
Kagome winced when the arm snaked around her neck, slightly choking her, but she was still able to breathe.
"Now look at you now," with those words, the child Kagome grew older, her shoulders slumped, bags under her eyes, pale skin and the fire in her eyes were gone. Dimmed, yes. Distinguished, almost.
The footsteps sounded louder, meaning the person is closing up on Kagome. The said girl struggled against the thing that was keeping her against her will.
"Let me go," she rasped out.
The thing laughed darkly and said, "Don't you see girl? There's no hope for you! You can't save yourself or any of the souls trapped here!"
Kagome ignored the thing and struggled against it. Her throat was hurting from all the screaming she's been doing and the pressure on her throat didn't help matters when the footsteps came closer. "Let me go!"
"You are already on your way to be trapped in the darkness of your heart! You no longer are the sun Kagome, with yor bright smiles and cheery laughter. No, you're slowly losing it and you'll be a hollow shell of what you once were..."
'No...' Kagome thought sadly, stopping her struggling all together.
The thing smirked and the reflection of Kagome twisted into something else. A faceless woman appeared with dark brown, almost black, short curly hair.
Kagome gasped when she recognized a small scar on the faceless woman's cheek. "Mom...?"
The faceless woman nodded and slowly creeped out of the mirror, one hand reaching out for the shocked teenager in front of her.
"Welcome back to the family sis," a demonic voice said.
Kagome craned her neck and saw her brother, or what looks like her brother standing there, white fangs poking out of his lips as they twisted into a sneer.
"Souta..."
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She sat on a rock, staring at the water, sighing. "I should never have done what I did, but the human heart is a complex thing, especially when mixed with emotions of abandonement and depression..."
"What did you do in the past?"
Izayoi yelped and turned around, seeing it was only Sesshomaru, she calmed down.
"It's all my fault we are were we are now. If I hadn't done what I did, we would not be here. We would be free and in peace..."
"Did what in the past?"
Izayoi looked in the water once more before whispering one word, which made Sesshomaru look at the woman he called 'mom' as a child with disbelief and shock.
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"It's been a long time eh?" Souta said and slowly walked towards the slumped body of his sister.
Kagome didn't respond and bowed her head in defeat.
"How's my dear sister doing? Well I hope."
'Fight back...'
"Well I'm doing splendid! I have these magnificent powers and sis, check out my claws!"
'Don'te let him win...'
'I can't do this no more...what's the chance of me saving all these souls?'
'High, if you just believe. Please Kagome...do not let the deaths of Sango, Miroku and Kikyo and many others be in vain...believe...'
Kagome slightly lifted her head and glared at the smirking boy in front of her. "You are not my brother and I refuse to accept the fact that it is hopeless!"
"It is hopeless sister dearest. Only you can help yourself, the rest of the souls here cannot do anything to help you, for they are afterall...dead."
The fire that welled in Kagome was once again dimmed and the girl hung her head once more.
"You're wrong," another voice whispered.
Kagome lifted her head up and another soul appeared behind Souta. A female wolf youkai.
"The dead can help those in the living if they choose to and I choose to help!" the wolf youkai shouted and the mirrors broke, releasing Kagome as she fell to her knees. The youkai grabbed the fallen girl by the elbow and started dragging her, Souta's angered voice yelling in the background.
"Thank you, but it is hopeless," Kagome whispered as she followed the youkai.
"Really? Listen up girl. You will not allow the previous deaths be in vain! They died for a reason and it is up to you to prove why they died! They died protecting you so you can help all these tortured souls move on!"
Kagome gasped, "You were the voice in my head back there!"
"Yeah, the name's Ayame. I'm Kouga's fiancee."
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An object that has been in hiding for many decades glowed faintly, as words started to form on a blank page.
'The love we thought we had, was never there to begin with. The love I had with another man is what I have been looking forward all my life, but I ignored the fact that our forbidden love would eventually kill us in the end and those we hold dear to our hearts...'
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