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Natsuki/Bella POV
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My vision was a haze. The world only shone in black and red, but one soul stood out from the rest. It was bright pink, and it was what I wanted.
It was Kikyo.
I was going to kill her, and this kill I knew I wouldn't regret later. Kikyo's soul was worth nothing to me. But to InuYasha…my mind wasn't working that well though, and I found I couldn't care less what InuYasha thought. I was hungry…I was starving. I was going to get fed, and no one was going to get in my way.
I heard a high pitched noise behind me, and I turned to see odd snake-like flying creatures. Out of the crowd walked Kikyo.
Nothing made sense at that moment. If Kikyo was here, then why was her soul shining so brightly somewhere else?
Kikyo didn't seem surprised at all. She stood still and watched me with her cold, calculating eyes. "Natsuki, look what has become of you."
I snarled and crouched low, my hands hooking into claws. I bared my large fangs. My red eyes seemed to glow brighter with my anger, and my unusual demon marking on my forehead even seemed to flash; I could feel the heat from both.
"Poor, Natsuki," Kikyo murmured. "We share the same fate."
I glared at her and growled lowly. "You have no soul."
Kikyo laughed bitterly at my accusation. "Yes, that's true. I have no true soul. My soul now belongs to my reincarnation, Kagome. I live on others souls. You, however, don't have to steal souls forever. I hope soon you figure out how to break your curse."
I hissed as she walked away, but I didn't protest. I didn't come for a conversation. I came for a meal, and if she couldn't be it, I'd have to find someone else.
Luckily, that bright pink soul that used to be Kikyo's was still shining. I would take her. I would wait until she came for me, and my instincts told me that she would.
I glanced up and then jumped, landing on a branch above my head. I would wait patiently because that was the best way to catch my prey. She would come to me. She would come…and it would be soon.
"Kagome, be careful!" I heard someone shout, their aura a bright red and about fifty feet away. I tilted my head to the side and sniffed the air. I knew that person. It was InuYasha.
"I'll be fine," I girl retorted, making quite the disturbance with her rustling in the bushes as she came closer to me. This Kagome girl must be Kikyo's reincarnation, I realized. She had the same soul, so it was the only way.
I prepared myself as she came even closer. "Natsuki?"
Was she searching for me? Well, she was about to find me.
As soon as she was directly beneath me, I dropped down, knocking her onto her back roughly.
I heard her hiss in pain, and then she opened her eyes, gasping when she saw me. "Natsuki! What's wrong with you?"
I tilted my head to the side and leaned forward, letting my breath tickle her face. "I want your soul, Kikyo."
She started to struggle. "I'm not Kikyo! Let me go, Natsuki! Let me go!"
I chuckled darkly. This was Kikyo's reincarnation, and no matter what she did, she could never escape being Kikyo. "But you are, Kagome. You are Kikyo. It runs as deep as your soul."
Kagome shrieked in fear and tried to claw away from me, her breathing becoming pants of panic. "St-stay away from me!"
I ignored her and brought my fangs closer to her, their tips trailing along her neck. "Goodbye…Kagome…Goodbye…Kikyo…"
I opened my mouth wider, preparing to bite down, when I was suddenly thrown into a tree. My red eyes were met with bright gold ones. InuYasha growled in my face, but I didn't react other than to continue to stare at him with annoyance and indifference.
"What the hell, Natsuki!" he screeched, baring his own normal sized fangs.
My elongated canine teeth extended over my bottom lip, giving me a more wild and feral appearance that he had only seen once before. When I was like this, I wasn't afraid of him. Still I did not respond.
He let me go, and I stepped away from the tree, watching as he went to help Kagome up.
"S-she…she," Kagome tried to explain as she clung to InuYasha.
"I know," he whispered gently. He turned to me then, glaring with anger…and what appeared to be hatred. "Go away. Go away and don't you ever come back."
I gazed blankly for just a moment, contemplating what he had just said. Did he really want Kagome more than me? Did I really mean that little? I sneered, "You always did choose Kikyo." With that, I sped off, leaping into the treetops to propel myself further.
Even if I couldn't get Kikyo's soul, I would find a soul. I needed one…I could feel myself dying. I needed one soon before I was left to turn to dust.
I could still see InuYasha helping that girl up in my mind, and I seethed with anger. How dare he! He chose Kikyo again? He always chose her, and I was sure in the future it would be that way too. Well, he would pay for that. I would make him pay. Even if my other non-soul stealing side had nothing to do with it. Even if she didn't agree.
He had denied her love. He had denied our love. He had denied the whole of the being called Natsuki. I wasn't going to put up with it any longer. I would get revenge for what he did to me. I would get revenge for what he did to her. I would get revenge for what he did to us.
I would get revenge.