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Chap 11- Haunted
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He couldn't think. He couldn't do anything as he just floated there, disbelief and shock evident in his dead eyes. The other soul stared at the lake guiltily before she looked up into the eyes of her step-son.
"Sesshomaru," she started.
"I never thought someone so kind-hearted such as you would do something so...impure," Sesshomaru stated coolly.
"I felt abandoned and alone Sesshomaru, you have to understand that. I am only human! I am and never will be perfect-"
"Enough excuses," Sesshomaru whispered lowly, anger starting to creep into his transparent figure. "Does Inuyasha know of your...betrayal?"
Izayoi bowed her head and if she could cry, she would. "No. I never thought..."
"You didn't think at all you traitor."
Izayoi remained quiet, her hand lightly brushing the calm water. Sesshomaru growled before he turned and started to float away, but before he went, he asked another question.
"So the masked man, the one who killed all of us many centuries ago and brought us back to this world where this all started is-"
"...yes..."
"How long did you know?"
"I always knew...I didn't want you guys to know, for it would break you..."
"You are pathetic..." Sesshomaru stated before he finally drifted off, leaving the hunched form of the dead woman in the woods.
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He could feel himself slowly leaving this world. After burying the dead body of Kagome's mother, he immediately searched for the missing girl. He also told Kouga that Ayame was brought in this mess and Kouga too went to look for the dead female wolf youkai.
Too bad the masked man felt that Inuyasha was no longer needed and brought him to a room where peices of his soul are being slowly brought to Limbo. The dead hanyou couldn't move, couldn't even think as the searing pain of his soul being ripped apart dulled his ghostly mind.
The masked man stood in the middle of the room and watched the dead hanyou slowly disappear form the world of the living.
"This is what you get for attaching yourself to a living, human girl," the masked man retorted, crossing his arms. "I would've allowed you stay here, but your feelings towards the girl would ruin everything..."
Inuyasha did not respond, but focused on staying whole. Orbs of white light filled the room, but slowly disappeared, weakening the already weak and defenseless hanyou.
"Too bad you will not see your precious human girl die slowly as I will possess her and take her form..." the masked man grinned and continued to watch the slowly fading soul of the dead hanyou.
All of a sudden, small snipets of his previous life flashed in his corrupted mind.
The meeting of a beautiful inu youkai.
His first son.
The death of his mate.
The meeting of a kind-hearted woman.
His second son.
His mourning.
Her betrayal.
His killings.
"Inuyasha!"
He shook his head, ridding himself of these memories and and turned to greet the horrified woman whom he hates at the moment.
"Hello Izayoi dearest..."
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"You think you can escape this place?" Souta's voice bellowed in the un-ending darkness.
Ayame and Kagome continued to run.
"You can never escape this place..."
"Go away you stupid brat!" Ayame replied, glaring at nothing in particular.
"This is not a place...this is Kagome's soul..."
Kagome stumbled and fell to the floor, Ayame turning around to help the fallen girl.
"Kagome?"
"My...soul?" the shaken girl whispered, refusing to get up, even if Ayame threatened to haunt her.
The un-ending darkness.
The confusion.
Kagome's soul had lost faith in herself, too concentrated in the darkness she is being sucked in. Too much. It's just too much for an 18 year old to handle.
Too much...
Her mother's face creeped into her mind, her brother's carefree laughter tinkled in her ears, Yazi's kind yet strict persoanlity, Izayoi's help, Sango's and Miroku's bickering, Shippou's help, her father's apology, Kouga saving her life and Inuyasha.
Inuyasha. That one word brightened Kagome's soul and a bright streak of light pushed itself in the blank emptiness. He could've left her alone, but he remained by her side. Another streak of light. He stayed with her and comforted her in her time of need. A few more streaks of light.
Because of Inuyasha, she fought to free the rest of souls from their confinement to this house. More streaks of light.
"Kagome," Ayame whispered at the now glowing girl.
"What is this?!" Souta shouted in the brightening soul of Kagome.
"I am not the saviour, Inuyasha is..." Kagome whispered, a genuine smile on her face.
A flash of light erupted in Kagome's soul.
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She sat up, sighing in relief, until it dawned on her that her new companion had two ghost children surrounding her. One that looks eerily like Inuyasha and the other whom looks eerily like Kagome.
"Is he gone?" the small ghost girl asked meekly.
"Yeah...he is. He can see through my eyes, but we cannot contact each other for he is too far away..." the other child replied, caressing the uncouncious body of the older Kagome.
"Eh?" Ayame said aloud, capturing the attention of both ghost children. "Eh?"
Suddenly, winds picked up in the hallway, as a piercing scream was heard, making all ghosts present wince from the volume. Chains appeared and burst from the ground, linking itself to the shocked wolf youkai.
A hole appeared underneath the struggling dead female, who growled and yelped as the chains tugged her more deeper. The two ghost children sat there, watching with pity as the wolf youkai was unwillingly dragged away by the chains.
The hole and chains disappeared, but the winds grew stronger, and more growls were heard in the distance.
Sesshomaru and Kouga were taken away in the same fashion as Ayame. Only the two ghost children remained. The only ones who stand in between the masked man and his evil intentions. The winds still did not die, nor did the piercing scream.
Inuyasha growled when black petals appeared out of no where, floating lazily towards the ground as the wind slowly died. The scream slowly faded as the small and wounded figure of Rin appeared, along with her doll and a book.
Kagome's younger self gasped and Inuyasha stood in a protective stance in front of the unmoving body of the older Kagome.
Rin coolly looked at the two ghosts before her gaze settled on the teenaged face of Kagome.
"I am here to deliver a message for you..." and with that, Rin disappeared, leaving the book in the hallway.
'I want to be free...I want to be a child once more...'
Kagome gasped and she bolted upright, placing a hand on her chest as she tried to slow the fast paced beating of her heart.
"You're awake," Inuyasha said. "Are you okay?"
"Everybody's fading from this world Kagome! Soon, no one will be here to stop the masked man form getting you besides me and him!" Kagome's younger self cried out and pointed to herself and the younger version of Inuyasha.
"Fading? You mean...all souls are leaving this world and going to the world of the dead...right now?"
"Yes," Inuyasha clarified, nodding solmenly. "Inuyasha is already...gone..."
Kagome nodded and noticed the book lying in the hallway. She crawled towards it and opened the book. She skimmed the pages filled with phrases about death and revenge and envy. Her eyes widened some more.
'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...'
'More riddles. So, a woman fell in love with another man...how is that forbidden? Did their parent's hate each other? No, then the masked man would not kill her. Unless, she cheated on her husband with another man! Then, the masked man killed her and killed the people they cared for. Again, why does the masked man keep killing these people?' Kagome thought.
Red letters began to appear on a blank page.
'Sister, sister, where are thou sister?'
'Souta!' Kagome thought, as bloody and childish handprints started appearing on the walls.
'Why did you let them kill me sister? We are siblings, we are supposed to have each other's back's...forever...'
Kagome screamed when she fell to the ground, feeling a heavy and painful weight on her back. She screamed in agony as bloody scratches appeared on her back, as child-sized handprints started showing on Kagome's hunched figure.
"Kagome!" both ghost children cried out, tyring to locate the one who is giving the older Kagome pain.
'I love you sister...don't you love me?'
A heart shape wound was created on Kagome's back, slowly leaking out blood. Kagome continued to scream in pain, trying to rid the invisible dead boy on her back.
"Souta, please stop!" Kagome begged, crying out in pain.
The red letters stopped and Kagome felt the weight lifted off her back. She laid on the ground, twitching in pain as she wheezed. The two ghost children rushed to help the injured female, but a roar was heard before chains rushed upwards from the ground and dragged their screaming souls away.
"Kagome! Run! You don't have much time!" Inuyasha's younger self cried out before he was pulled away, leaving only the wheezing and injured girl in the hallway filled with bloody child-sized handprints and a book.
A note fluttered on Kagome's form as she laid there, trying to ignore the pain. The 18 year old weakly lifted an arm and with shaky hands, opened the new note and read, but dropped it and scampered away from it when done reading it.
Sister...remember when we were young, you were always afraid of monsters under your bed? Well I fought them for you...but they defeated me...
Kagome's eyes locked gazes with something in the corner. Souta's head with his jaw broken, as tendons of flesh was scattered gruesomely on his young face. That memory will forever be fresh in Kagome's mind.
I screamed for you sister... but you weren't there to save me...from the monsters under your bed...
The 18 year old couldn't tear her eyes away as an arm revealed itself from the corner, grabbing the head of Souta and a thing crawled from the corner. Nothing could descirbe the horrid creature as many horns poked out of its body and slowly dragged itself towards the whimpering Kagome.
The head was pushed aside by the creature, and the broken jaw of Souta dropped even further.
From the boogeyman...who will save you now, sister...here it comes...who do you scream for?
Kagome painfully scuttled away from the creature as it dragged its body closer to her body, until her back hit a wall. She clenched her eyes in fear, but opened them when she felt something drip onto her face.
The creature was towering over her form and a mouth appeared on the body, and rushed down, delivering the final blow.
We can finally be together...siblings forever...
A scream filled with fear and horror swept the house away, echoing in the dead of night.
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5 mins before Kagome was attacked...
Inuyasha slowly blinked. He was aware of what was going around him, but he can only make out voices. He saw two fuzzy forms of two souls across from him, arguing. He knew it won't be long before he disappears, forever this time. He also noticed chained souls beside him and internally groaned. Sesshomaru, Kouga and Ayame.
He closed his eyes and just laid there, accepting his fate. The intense pain of his soul being ripped was still there, but he learned to ignore it and focus on nothing. The agruing voices caught his attention as he tried to make out what they were saying.
"Le...im...go-o...I-I-n...ta...o-o...!"
"He-e...be..er...de-e..d...lo-o..e..."
"He-e-e...or...o-on!"
"I-I...o-oped...c-a...ing...lo-o-o...g...a...o-o..."
Just before he closed his eyes and let go, Inuyasha clearly heard his mother's sentence as shock and hatred filled his entire being, but the sentence will forever haunt him.
"Why do you do this Inu-tashiou?!"
'Father...?'
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OH SNAP! INU-TASHIOU'S (inuyasha and sesshomaru's father) THE MASKED MAN?!?!? dunna, bet you guys didn't think the great dog youkai would be the murderer eh? ^^
anywho, there was chap 11 of NOTES, tell me, how u guys liking this story? Do I need anything more to improve on? and and and, if u have any questions about the story, leave it in your reviews and i'll do my best to explain it =D
fare thee well...for now...
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