That you for the reviews on that last chapter...I almost cried when I went back and re-read it...sooo sad! Melody Dont Die!Breaks down
Kaede was sitting cross legged in an herb grove. The forest of Inuyasha was as calm as ever. The birds were chriping lightly, the wind was soft and sent her whispy grey hair to play. Wiping a bead of sweat from her brow, the old preistess grasped yet another plant and yenked gently close to the base. After all it was the roots she needed, not the leaves. They were poisonous.
The wind suddenly picked up dramatically. But died down as quickly as it came. Suddenly sensing two demonic auras, the old one looked up quickly and gasped. Naraku was standing there, stained scarlet, and smelling heavily of blood. Even Kaedes' old human nose could smell it. Laying rigid and unconcious in his arms, was the completely blood stained figure of a young girl. Hanyou by the looks of her ears and tail. Squinting her one good eye, she noticed that it was the young raccoon hanyou that had befriended Inuyasha and Kagome.
Not wantng to know what Naraku was planning, she dtood as quickly as her old limbs would allow, and was about to turn and run...but suddenly stopped. Turning slowly back towards the scarlet demons, her gaze suddenly softened as she looked at Narakus uncovered face. Crystalline tears were gliding down his stained cheek at a relentless pace, and his eyes held pleading.
Taking a few hesitant steps forward, Kaede noticed that the hanyous eyes brightened visibly, and he too walked towards the elderly preistess. Once they were near enough, Naraku managed to manuveur Melodys limp form halfway into the old preistesses arms, before he stopped. Looking down at the old ones eyes, he opened his mouth and said,
"Take good care of her." before he shoved her body the rest of the way away, and turned and ran, as fast as he could. He ran all into the night and the next day, until he was reduced to sitting on a felled log next to a slow moving river. Halted by his blurred eyes. His sobs held in, causing his body to quiver and shake. He had had to escape. To get away. Away. Away from his feelings. Away from those constricting thoughts of him and the troublesome raccoon dog. Away from everything he didn't understand. Away...from it all.
He knew now. Knew what that plagueing feeling of his was. And it was something he hadn't felt since his earliest years of human life... The one thing that he had tried to destroy in the hearts of so many... That powerful emotion... The one that held many captive, strangled as they were by their very heart. The heart. That kaniving, deceptive organ... Who needed it? Not him! He was the last person that that emotion was going to imprison.
Staring concertively at the ground, his eyes suddenly snapped up towards the moon. It was full. It's silver disk like appearence deceiving many into thinking that it wasa beautiful heavenly being. And yet if that was so... Then why it's domain shrouded in suck darkness. Guarding the time when beasts prey upon weaker beings, shedding blood upon the very face of its protector.
His gaze suddenly steeled over when he saw Melodys smiling face upon the moons surface. Her smooth skin. Her chocolate hair. And her eyes... The beauty of those eyes could not be spoken with words, written with script... There was nothing in any of the three worlds, that could describe those polished onyx orbs. Standing suddenly, Narakus eyes glowed red as he suddenly struck out at the nearest tree, felling it instantly. But that wasn't enough. Tearing from tree to tree, he'd knocked down almost half a mile of timber before he collapsed to his knees. Never had he felt so exhausted. Not even after one of his longer skirmishes with Inuyasha.
... He didn't need it... He didn't need it... He didn't need it...
... He didn't need it...
... he didn't need it...
... love...
Final chapter of this particular story... Sequal to be out as soon as I think of a title similar to this one...with the word Melody in it...help would be greatly appreciated and your name would be announced in every chapter of the continuation... which will have a full, long, juicey, lemon...for all you pervs and lemonheads out there ... just help me out here...I've already got the layout of the sequal planned in my head... Ja'ne!