Magik
AN: Kagura's turn – inspired by the second episode of InuYasha: The Final Act. (:
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha.
X – Wheel of Fortune
Kagura
This isn't fair.
All I ever wanted was to be free… free as the wind…
Kagura sank to her knees, her blood-red eyes hazed with pain and her breath coming out in strained pants. She sucked in a breath and tasted blood on her tongue. Closing her eyes, she slumped forward, feeling her entire body pulse with pain.
Pulse… that was what I wanted all along, wasn't it? A pulse. A heart.
The cursed organ continued to beat a steady rhythm, pumping poisoned blood to all parts of her body. Kagura pressed weakly at her chest, at the hole created by Naraku's hated tentacles, and let out a strangled gasp of pain.
Curse him… to give me my freedom, only to snatch it away with death…
She opened her eyes and stared bleakly ahead, taking in the lovely surroundings through bitter, cynical eyes.
All my life, I've suffered… I stayed with Naraku, working for him, spying for him, even though I deplored him with all of my being… then that brat, Hakudoshi, came along… then InuYasha and his stupid, naïve friends… my every gamble has ended in ruin, and this will be my last mistake.
Her breath rasped out of her, and Kagura closed her eyes again.
Nothing I've ever done has turned out as it should have. My fortune has always been off-kilter – how cruel of Naraku to grant me what I wanted the most…
Kagura – strong, rebellious, cunning Kagura – felt her body shake in suppressed sobs.
It's not fair.
It's never fair.
Swallowing, tasting the bitter-salty taste of her miasma-poisoned blood, she opened one eye tentatively, half-wishing to see the dungeon of one of Naraku's hideouts.
She caught a glimpse of wide, billowing white pants, and her eyes flew open in shock.
Sesshomaru stood before her. His silver hair moved slightly in the faint breeze, and the expression in his golden eyes was inscrutable.
"Kagura." He acknowledged her.
"Sesshomaru… what are you…"
"I scented blood and miasma."
She let out a weak, harsh laugh. And even the demon I nurse such passion for comes to mock me before I die. "You must have thought I was Naraku, huh? I'm sorry to disappoint you," she replied, trying to inject a note of brashness in her tone.
Sesshomaru regarded her thoughtfully. "I knew it was you," he said slowly.
Her heart jumped. Kagura's disbelieving eyes rose to meet his. "You… knew…?"
Sesshomaru did not respond.
The corners of her mouth curled upwards in a smile. Fate has not been kind to me… but it is rarely kind to anyone. Perhaps it has been kinder than I thought.
Silence. Then –
"Are you leaving?" he asked in a soft voice. If Kagura hadn't known better, she would have thought he was being gentle.
"Yes," she sighed, feeling the pain ebb away. "This is enough for me."
She closed her eyes.
I would live this life over a hundred times, if only I would see you at the end of it, each time.
AN: I don't think I got the idea of 'The Wheel of Fortune' across quite well, but basically, Kagura's life has sucked. Seriously. So I was just trying to portray that although her life has sucked, and although she died after receiving the one thing she wanted most, the wheel of fortune doesn't always land on 'lose'. Eh.
My first time attempting a Sesshomaru/Kagura relationship.
500 words.
