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Kinkatia - Awww, sorry that I killed them off on your birthday! Well, Happy Birthday anyway! Hehe, I cant help it, I dont like it when Kagura's all up on my man so I'm getting revenge...muahahaha! I'm evil...Glad you liked the chapter!
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The Dare 10
Back in the master bedroom of the Myer's Manor, Sesshoumaru's motionless body lied in a pool of his own thick, crimson blood. His dull honey eyes were wide open as blood slowly poured down his chin and onto the wet floor beneath him. The demon's chest had three deep wounds that seeped blood, and there was also another wound on his upper back where his spine was. Obviously, he was dead.
But appearances can be deceiving...
Abruptly, his wounds started to close, healing themselves as his brain worked to regain control of his tortured body. And there, his fingers twitched. His eyes returned to its regular, icy gold after he blinked a couple of times.
He groaned, unconsciously fisting his hands, and carefully lifted his heavy head. The dog demon licked his chapped lips a few times, and he tried to get rid of the horrible coppery taste in his mouth. Though, it was the least of his worries; he didn't let the aftertaste of blood bother him. And the signs of life were unmistakable--Sesshoumaru looked to be as good as new.
Again, appearances can be deceiving.
The silver haired demon stood up from the creaky floor, wiped the blood off his chin, and took a swift look around his current location. A bedroom, hmm, I recognize this one very well. He smirked, his pearl white fangs gleaming in the moonlight that shown through the bedroom as he flexed his cramped claws.
They're sharp, excellent. However, Sesshoumaru walked over to a large dark brown dresser in a far corner of the room and opened it only to pull out a silver hachet. He examined it closely, twirling the axe-like weapon in his right clawed hand. Not as sharp or deadly as the claws, but I like getting A's for effort.
"Heh, my dear wife and son are having too much fun on their own. It's time that I joined this little...party." He chuckled with evil mirth, and suddenly his eyes flashed as thunder sounded outside. Lightening striked dreadfully bright, and the silver haired dog demon trekked out of the room, indifferently stepping on his own puddle of blood.
Anyone who saw him would immediately note his vibrant, aquamarine eyes.
-XxX- Naraku and Kikyou -XxX-
...Recap...
Naraku remained deathly still. "Kikyou, whatever you do, dont move." Kikyou was utterly confused but stilled her movements, wondering what the hell was wrong with her boyfriend. He reached his hand over to where her creamy leg was and where something tenuous was dangled across it. When Naraku grabbed it, he was in semi shock as to what it was...
How hadn't he noticed it before...?
"Naraku?" Kikyou couldn't hold it any longer and turned around fully, moving her leg in the process. She focused her line of sight in the unbearable darkness, and only saw a huge black lump on the floor. What the fuck is that?
"What the fuck is that? It stinks like your shit." Naraku didn't reply otherwise and therefore the lack of response from the weak insult didn't satsify Kikyou. The smirk she had been wearing on her face slowy faded into a constricted frown. Something was wrong with Naraku. He looked pensive, much more than usual, and she could tell that he was twitching occasionally.
That was very unlike the spider demon...
"Kikyou...that's my twin brother Musou..."
...End Recap...
The ebony haired teenager stared at her boyfriend with shocked mahogany brown eyes. "Y-You cant be...M-Musou? Are you sure?"
"Positive."
Kikyou took one glance at the dead body, another at her still pensive boyfriend, and finally... "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH--"
"SHUT UP, BITCH!"
"How the FUCK am I supposed to shut up when all this time a dead body's been fucking TOUCHING ME!!!"
"Damn you, you fucking whore! Dont you think the fact that there's even a dead body in this manor is more important then screaming your ass off?!"
"ARGH! You're so infuriating, monkey shit!" Kikyou cursed, immediately moving considerably away from the dead body that had been touching her leg. Or as much as she could move being in the small closet with Naraku. The dark haired demon rolled his ruby eyes, refraining from strangling the whore in front of him, and returned his gaze to his twin brother's motionless body.
He took on a contemplated expression when he moved over to inspect the body only half inside the closet. How could this be? Who would kill Musou and how did he even get here in the first place? Wait, it looks like he was trying to come out of a hole in the wall.
True to his thoughts, the only things visible of Musou's dead body were his right arm and his head, both of which were practically soaked with blood. The demon couldn't fathom how he hadn't noticed the fact that there was a large hole in the wall even with his enhanced sight, but indeed there was and his brother had come from it. It looks as if he didn't have time to make it in here...obviously he's been like this since before Kikyou and I got trapped in here.
"W-What are we going to do now?" Kikyou hesitantly asked after she calmed down. She too had noticed a hole in the wall, but couldn't really see the dead body of her friend other than a huge lump on the floor. Naraku's glowing eyes glanced at her, and it seemed as if he were about to go inside the hole where Musou had come out out.
Is he insane? Kikyou surmised that he was.
"I dont know about you, but I'm not staying in here a second longer. Either you follow me or stay here with Musou. Your choice." He smirked, and if there had been any light in the closet, Kikyou would've noticed the way his fangs gleamed dangerously, nearly poking over his bottom lip--something that rarely happened since he already looked creepy enough with a simple smirk.
"What if whoever killed Musou is somewhere inside that hole?!"
Naraku's expression solemned. "Then I'll kill them."
"Dammit, Naraku! Who would kill Musou?! Even anyone in Inuyasha's group wouldn't stoop so low as to murder someone!" Kikyou shook her head, her voice almost trembling with her next statement. "Think about it. The rumors, the four teenagers missing, maybe all that stuff is real. You c-cant...you cant kill a ghost!"
"That's why I have you to purify them, or are you too tainted for that?"
"Fuck you, asshole!"
"Why dont you come here and do that for me, hmm?" The teenaged miko shut her mouth and glared at her 'boyfriend' before he crawled into the narrow hole in the wall. She gulped, staring at the body in the closet, and hugged her knees to her chest.
Does he expect me to crawl over Musou?! I'm so not going to get blood on myself! "Kikyou, hurry your fat ass up!" Gods damn that bastard to the firey pits of hell!
"Fine! Just keep your pants on!"
She heard him scoff in reply, and with another gulp and a nervous glance to a certain dead body, Kikyou squeezed her eyes shut and blindly crawled over to the hole. In a matter of seconds, she felt that she was crouched next to Naraku in what seemed to be a small, very humid and dirty tunnel. The young woman also felt something wet on her leg and noted that indeed she had gotten blood on herself.
"Great, now I'm more filthy than I was!"
"Do you mean physically or mentally? Or maybe both..."
"-sigh- You're really lucky to be alive, fuck-face."
"I know, dollar-hoe." Naraku then turned serious. "Alright, let's not argue over stupid things for once and concentrate on getting out of this fucking manor, got it?" He had to bite down calling his girlfriend another insulting name as a tagnote to his sentence. Eh, an insulting name, but so very true.
Kikyou rolled her eyes, instantly knowing that would be impossible. "Whatever, lead the way, and I'll follow behind you."
Naraku shook his head, restraining a number of things he'd like to say to the idiotic woman crawling behind him. Gods, bitch, dont you think I know you'll be behind me? You're too much of a cowardly whore to go in front.
But whatever I do, I will find out who killed my brother, kill them, and I'll solve the so called mystery of this haunted place once and for all.
Too bad his thought didn't hold as much vigor as someone else's...
Maybe then he would've at least...
-XxX- Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippou -XxX-
The trio of friends didn't move a bit as they stared down at the female body on the grime-covered ground. The woman's inky black hair, which had been in a neat bun during the start of the dare, was disheveled and...wet. Of course, wet with her blood. Her skull had been split wide open--the group could see the spongy mass of her brain precariously hiding beneath had-been white bone.
However, from the way she was sprawled on the ground, her arms attempting to reach out to an unknown haven, the friends could tell that she'd been trying to run away from something, or rather someone. Obviously, Kagura didn't have enough time to escape before a sharp object sliced into her cranium, effecteively killing her. The scene of the murder was a horrible sight, and Kagome didn't hesitate to bury her face into her boyfriend's chest.
Shippou sucked in a deep breath, moving closer to the couple standing in shock like himself. "I d-dont know what's going on in this place anymore you guys. A-All I w-want...all I want is to get the hell out of here before we're next." The kitsune wiped his eyes clean of tears, and he noticed that Inuyasha's golden eyes were unusually brighter than usual.
"Y-Yeah, you're right," Inuyasha whispered, stroking Kagome's hair as her body racked with restrained sobs. He kissed the top of her head, trying to offer some comfort as well as seek some for himself. The hanyou knew that wouldn't be possible. Not with all he had just witnessed.
Nothing will ever be the same again. This night will always haunt me, and the day I'll finally be free from this torment is the day die. He also added, Or the day I kill myself.
"Come on, we have to get moving before R-Rin," Inuyasha had to pause and gain control of his voice when it cracked, "or Deborah whatever, finds us here." Kagome nodded, slightly pulling away from him, and without a second glance towards the dead woman on the ground, the trio continued searching the place they were in for a way to escape their nightmare.
"I'm not trying to make us loose all hope, but if Kagura came from this direction, who knows if her murderer is still around here somewhere, just waiting to pounce on us? I have a really bad feeling about this place," Shippou commented, almost trembling at the thought.
His viridian eyes quickly scanned the dark, humid area but he couldn't see a thing that was out of place. He didn't know where they had plunged into, but wherever they were, it was giving him a very bad feeling. What if there's another dead body up ahead? That was a question the kitsune refused to ask--he fathomed that he wouldn't be able to bear it if he saw one more dead person.
Inuyasha grimaced, his own eyes copying what Shippou's had done. "I know what you mean. I also have a bad feeling, but it's either walk this way or turn back and face...her. If we do find the murderer, then we'll just have to kill 'em." The kitsune nodded in agreement, but Kagome shook her head.
"You guys, dont you get it?" The two teenaged boys shared a look and stared at Kagome with confusion lighting their eyes. The young woman sighed. "None of Naraku's friends would kill Kagura for fear of facing his wrath, no matter how much they might hate her. And I know our friends wouldn't do such a cruel thing." She paused, making sure that they were understanding her reasoning.
"Bankotsu and Sara are dead. Kirara was decapitated--who would kill them? But thinking back to Rin--how can you explain that? Her eyes were gray, s-she had k-killed Sesshoumaru, her own mate--fuck, Inuyasha, Shippou, this place is haunted!"
"Haunted..." Shippou repeated Kagome's last, shouted word and gulped. "She's right. This place is haunted. And we're all going to die. We'll be killed by some vengeful spirits before we take another step. Gods, we're all going to--"
"SHUT UP!" Kagome and Shippou blinked at their silver haired friend when he bursted angrily, stopping in their rants to listen to him. "Dammit, I know this place is haunted, but we have to stick together and find a way out! We will find a way out, got that?! There's no way in the fucking seven burning hells that I'm gonna let us die!"
"Inuyasha..." The two breathed simultaneously and smiled, taking the chance to pat him on the back. The hanyou cleared his throat, embarassed at how he had just blurted crap out like that.
"And to think I thought you were pissing yourself over there..."
"Fuck you, Shippou, I'm not the one bawling my eyes out and saying 'we're all going to die' like a damn zombie!"
"At least I dont look like a zombie, and smell like one, too, as a matter of fact..."
"WHAT?! Well I outta--!"
"Oh, whatever, let's just continue walking, ok you two?" The two demons growled at each other, but heeded Kagome, and together, they all walked deeper into the unknown area. All the while, their presentiment grew ten-fold.
It seemed like an eternity passed for them as they walked cautiously into unknown territory. The only thing they could hear was the occasional drip-drip of water somewhere, which was probably the source of the unbearable humidity in this place. The air was too thick to breathe, and the trio of friends had to say they were getting immensely tired. They were practically sufficating--being without fresh air for too long, especially for canine demons with heightened senses, was taking a toll on them.
Besides, the farther they plunged into the darkness, the more they felt like they were choking on thick air. Their lips were dry, beads of sweat rolled down the sides of their faces from their foreheads, their legs felt like heavy anvils--where the heck were they?! Pitch black darkness followed the friends as they continued down a mysterious path, and even if they had bright flashlights with them, it was still all the same. To some degree, it was like they were in a cave some sort...or more like a tunnel...
Finally, what seemed like years later, the path the three friends were following opened up ahead of them into what seemed like a round shaped room. The air arround them was still thick, and now it stank of something more putrid than before. Not one of them could name exactly what is was, but it was prickling Inuyasha and Shippou's sensitive noses to the point of feeling nausea.
"What the hell is this place?" Inuyasha stepped ahead of his two friends, yet he didn't dare enter the round room just yet. However, there seemed to be something large in the middle of it, something rectangular and reached approximately to his wasit. He couldn't guess what it was.
"I dont know. And here I thought the basement smelled bad." Shippou scrunched his nose, feeling a huge migraine coming on because of the overwhelming stench. Sheesh, I rather be in the basement with those mutant rats. Oh no, that thought just brought an image of his girlfriend, arguing about those same furry critters. He shook it away before tears pricked his eyes.
"Keh, shit smells heavenly compared to thi--" Inuyasha stopped in mid sentence when suddenly the lights in the room flicked on, and with a quick look to his right followed by Shippou, he noticed that Kagome had her hand over a switch. She looked just as surprised as they all did, because of course, why would there be electricity in a century old house?
"That was strange. I didn't think it was going to work, but I tried it out anyways." The raven haired miko shrugged and grinned. "Well, now we dont have to--"
"Oh gods..." When Shippou softly, almost breathlessly interrupted Kagome, the couple near him furrowed their eye brows and stared at him. His green eyes were wide in shock, perhaps even horror, and his body was slightly shaking. Although the light bidding away the former darkness was dim, Inuyasha and Kagome could tell that their kitsune friend's skin was pale, deathly pale.
"Shippou, what's wrong with you all of a sudden? You look...like..." At last, it dawned on the hanyou, and soon his girlfriend also understood. They didn't want to look behind them now. If what made Shippou appear like he died standing was that terrfiying...gods, they didn't even want to peek at it!
But Inuyasha couldn't take not knowing what had his friend nearly hyperventilating, so he turned around...
...and he had to grab on to some kind of surface to support himself.
"Oh shit...o-oh sh-shit..." He felt extremely nauseous. The world was spinning before his eyes, and everything began to meld into one bright color. The hanyou didn't know what he was doing, but he realized a certain wetness on his cheeks that wasn't sweat. He didn't...Rin, his brother, Kagura, Bankotsu, Sara, Kirara--six people...three horrifying sights...two terrors...one nightmare...
...One...
Breathe. His chest heaved, but no air filled his nostrils. More hot tears slipped from his eyes even though they were tightly squeezed shut to keep his world from spinning. Well, his mind was spinning and spinning...the sight of that in its glory...oh shit...
...Two...
Control. His hands clawed at the stone, russet wall that was his current support, and he numbly felt Kagome shaking his shoulders as she sobbed uncontrollably. He tried to get his body to respond, but it just...oh shit...
...Three...
Blood. Blood...it was everywhere...blood...thick, crimson liquid...dripping and dripping...painting the ground red...blood red...her blood...everywhere...choking him...oh shit...
...Four...
Reality. This was actually happening. This wasn't a horror movie, this wasn't just some prank that a group of kids would play on them. Naraku wasn't behind this. No one was. No one he knew would be capable of doing that, of even thinking of that. It provided all the proof he needed. And the blood...it was real. The blood was real. Blood cant be fake, right? He was living a nightmare he never thought existed. He was on a gruesome trip to Horrorland. Blood...gods...it was everywhere...oh shit...
...Five...
Kanna...
"Inuyasha! Come on, talk to me! Inuyasha!! Please!!" Kagome couldn't help the tears that freely flowed down her streaked cheeks, hell they poured in waves. She was sobbing, too, but was it her fault? Her heart pounded widly in her chest, she swore she must've looked like a mess--yet, did she care? She didn't stop shaking her boyfriend until he responded, which seemingly wasn't happening anytime soon; though, did she stop?
All the answers were no.
Inuyasha... Kagome had watched him out of the corners of her eyes when he turned around, and the variety of emotions that displayed on his face made her heart clench in apprehension. Then he had stumbled towards the nearest wall and stayed there, all the while his claws tried to dig into impenetrable stone.
Did she dare look around? How could she not if her boyfriend did and was now on his knees, trying desperately to dig his hands deeply beneath the solid ground? How could she not if her kitsune friend was reduced to a shocked zombie who hadn't blinked for minutes upon minutes?
And so, the teenager turned around and instantly regreted it.
The sight that greeted her had to be the worst one that night. It was so much worse than Kirara's bloody head, so much worse than Sesshoumaru's slashed up body, so much worse than Kagura's split-open skull...It was worse because it was mutilation...it was...
Kanna. The younger twin sister of Kagura, the girl the murdered woman had loved dearly, had now joined her sister in the afterlife. But it seemed that she had been tortured first. Each of her limbs...weren't attached to her body. Going even further than that, her limbs were cut into several pieces--each one had the same amount, which was seven. The semi-albino teenager's head was detached from her body as well...and then the most terrifying part...
She'd been gutted. Heh, exactly like a fish. Exactly like some poor animal. Kanna's inner organs were soft masses covered in clumps of bloodied flesh strewn all over the high altar she was displayed upon, and that was why blood was dripping onto the ground. Her large and small intestines, however, were used to make a crude message for whoever saw her mutilated state.
Kagome couldn't believe her eyes when she read it, precariously hanged on the wall behind the random altar for all to see. It was composed of simple words; precisely four words in length. And what did the message read?
THE MYERS NEVER DIED
"Inuyasha..." He didn't answer her.
"Someone's coming..." Kagome slightly jumped when Shippou callously said something, and she gasped when it sunk in. Someone was coming their way...it could be Kagura and Kanna's killer...
"What are we going to do? Inuyasha...he's not..." One glance a him and they both knew the hanyou wasn't going anywhere for a long while. He looked positively shocked and most of all sick; now they realized where the horrible stench in the basement had been coming from.
"We dont need to worry," he then added as an after thought, "much. I'm pretty sure--"
The kitsune was interrupted in his zombie-like explanation when the subject of their discussion finally arrived. The raven haired miko's eyes widened and an even larger stream of tears ran down her cheeks. Shippou couldn't even remain standing--the poor demon fell to his knees and crawled towards his friend, all the while trying to hide the sobs that threatened to overcome him. He shook Inuyasha's shoulders--gods he wanted so badly to scream at the hanyou to snap out of it!
But words died on his tongue at the new arrival...
Kagome was seconds away from falling into a black abyss...
And finally, Inuyasha did regain his self-control...
He turned his head around to merely catch a glimpse of the person, or rather people...
It cant be...no...gods, no... His golden eyes widened, and bile pricked at his throat...
"Hello, guests. I see you've witnessed my son's beautiul art work. Aren't you proud of him, dear?"
"I am very proud, my sweet. Though, I believe he could've applied himself more. As you know, I like getting A's for effort."
Sesshoumaru...
...12 Victims Remaining...
A/N: OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY CONCUBINE IS ALIVE AGAIN! Well, sort of...BUT I LOVE THE KILLER IN YOU ANYWAY! Oooh, I wonder where Naraku & Kikyou and Miroku & Sango are going to be lead to...HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!