Inuyasha the story 10
(Inuyasha)
I watch as Kagome sits upright so fast that not even my eyes can follow.
"You did what?" She practically screeched, her arms flailing wildly as she scooted back against the head board.
"Yep." I told her. "I drained 'em all. Fortunately, you don't find many pure ones around here anymore." I looked at her; she wasn't scared, not like she should be, anyway. No, she was angry. Her smell is what gave her away more than anything. She was furious.
"You drained innocent people? To become a monster? How— how dare you! Those poor people! And you talk about them like they're nothing!" She spat.
I nodded. This was not something I liked talking about, but, now there was no avoiding it. "Yeah, Kagome, I kill. So what? I could do worse things, and you know it."
Kagome was suddenly towering over me, standing on the bed with her hands planted firmly on her slim waist. She was bent slightly, so that her face was mere centimeters from mine.
Being a vampire, I wasn't intimidated easily. Usually, everyone cowered in fear of me. But this girl…. She seemed to stand without reason. And I was terrified.
"There is nothing. Nothing! Worse than taking the life of someone else, Vampire. Nobody, not even an egotistical maniac like you has any right to choose who lives and who dies. Those poor people were sacrificed for no reason. They had lives, families, people they cared about who cared about them in return! You took that all away from them! They had a heart beat, they had a brain, and they were alive! And now they have nothing! Not even their lives to call their own!" She pushed past me, stomping over to the window and crossing her arms, glowering down at the ground two stories below us. "Nobody has any right over another. Not one claim. It isn't right."
I frowned. I hadn't really thought about it before. Thinking now, though, I guessed she was right. It wasn't right. But I hadn't a choice. I needed blood to live. I needed their blood to become a full vampire. I just couldn't be stuck in between like that anymore.
Now that wasn't right.
"Kagome." I put a hand on her shoulder, trying to turn her to face me. Her nose wrinkled in distaste and the petite girl stayed put. I sighed, and instead opted for trailing my fingers down her arm, trying to comfort the agitated woman. "Kagome, the people whose lives I took, I did it selfishly, yes, but I had to."
"I don't get it." She growled. "You don't have to do anything. There's always a choice."
I shrugged. "Maybe. But if there was, I couldn't find it."
"Like you'd care even if you could."
"Your right. I probably would have done nothing differently. I probably would have slaughtered those people down within minutes without blinking. I'd be able to do it now, if I really wanted to."
"You're sick, you know that?"
"I was desperate, Kagome. I was stuck in a hole so deep you couldn't see any light. I was put in that hole at birth, and I was desperate to get out."
"What do you mean?" Kagome glanced at me out of the corner of her eye.
"I was born a half breed, Kagome. I wasn't human, and I wasn't a vampire. I was just stuck. Right there. In the middle. With no way out. Vampires hated me because my human blood made me weak, and humans hated me because my vampire blood made me dangerous. I was alone. So I did the only thing I could. I changed."