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Chapter 20-Broken Sakura
"Ahhhhhh!!!!!" screamed out Kagome (a/n: this is the last time you hear that scream…nervous laugh/smile) as sudden flaming pain enveloped her as she saw red form on the corners of her vision; back arched in pure pain as she was brought back from her sorrowful illusion to give way to the truer nightmare that leered down at her from above her shivering form.
To snuff out Kagome's screams of agony Naraku took Kagome's lips in his possession and felt her cringe in reaction. "She is now permanently mine; body, mind and soul" chuckled Naraku to himself as he drove himself further into her with no concern or mercy of Kagome's well being.
Kagome felt the throb in her abdomen and knew without any doubt what was happening and the pressure of Naraku's lips on her only increased this hellish nightmare that was all too real. More pain washed over her in agonizing waves as he moved above her and released her bruised wrists from his vice grip to trail his hands down her side digging his claws into her and hearing her ear splitting screams of pain filled the evil hanyou with pleasure as he took her faster and harder forcing more yells of pain form her already raw parched throat from her numerous other screams of bloody murder.
Kagome moaned as he arched her back as pain crashed down on her as more tears fell from her eyes. "Just let it be over" pleaded Kagome in the darkness of her mind as she strived to block all out, but the endless pain wouldn't leave her.
As Naraku finished his way with Kagome he saw the look on her face as he sat up but still startled her. "Her eyes are vacant except for the pain and heartbreak she feels tainting her pure heart" he thought seeing her turned away face that was flushed with the event done to her. "Such a beautiful thing to see something so pure broken, but even more so to know that I am the one who had done it" thought Naraku as he removed himself of her and the white furred covered bed that was in chaos of their struggle; the furs seems to caress her naked mournful form as blood splattered across the pure white. He left her there thriving in his glories victory of the conquering of the miko he's mortal enemy so loved.
Kagome didn't even take notice of the dark, cruel hanyou's exit as her disgust at herself threatened to consume her body and soul. Tears swelled to life once again in her eyes threatening to fall, but the young girl had already shed too many and refused to shed more; those simple droplets of salty tears fell of their own accurate so bitterly it may have even softened the heart of the great Sesshomaru ever so slightly.
"What am I now….?" Kagome asked herself starring up at the ceiling that gave her no answer. A chuckled rang out disturbing her thoughts. "Not you again; just leave me alone!!!"
"Yes, it is me and I will never leave you now that our master has finally taken us as his; I enjoyed it from my point but I would have enjoyed it more if I had been in control" said the cursed blood in Kagome's head.
Kagome pondered in silence for a time. "Why can't you?"
The blood huffed in frustration. "Your miko powers are still too strong, but not for long they are dwindling quickly due to our master's great power."
"Great power my foot!!" snapped Kagome clenching and unclenching her fists she was to sore to move anything else.
"He has great power to subdue one such as you" mocked the youkai blood.
"He's an hanyou while I'm just a human, I couldn't have beaten him…but I tried anyway…"
The youkai blood chuckled evilly as it rang inside Kagome's head. "But you're a miko, you could have purified him, but you didn't have the strength to do so...because of me" the blood laughed as it faded away finally leaving Kagome a piece and quite.
Kagome growled/snarled. "That youkai is going to get it!"
As she lined up with a groan she felt something lightly land against her breast bone and looked down to see the teardrop diamond with the swirl of crimson in it. Taking it carefully in hand, Kagome looked at it with a broken heart.
"He didn't come…maybe he's not here yet…" she trailed out load as memories of the betrayal at the base of the Sacred Tree. "That's right…he deserted me…yet I can't hate him for it……I love him too much…"
Soft footfalls rang in Kagome's ears; footfalls she shouldn't have been able to hear in the first place. With shacking hand the miko reached up to the top of her head and found the triangular ears. "Ahh" Kagome cried out half gasping and half squeaking she grasped the red haori and tugged it around her and raced to the nearest mirror that hung on the wall. As she gazed into her reflection she saw the ears that were much like Inuyasha's except that they were black with silver tuffs at the end.
"To soon" whispered the young girl in a pleading voice.
Kanna walked into the room looking for the transforming, failing young miko. "Come" she said in her hollow voice; Kagome followed not bothering to pickup the ruined kimono that lay on the bed and floor.
Kagome followed the young demon with her head hung ignoring all else, but the smiling face of her hanyou in her head. "He may have rejected me, but I won't give up on him; it's not in his nature to truly abandon me…" she asked herself.
"Kanna, bring the miko."
Kagome stopped dead with a gasp stuck in her throat as the voice of her most despised enemy rang out and shattered her already too fragile of thoughts. She shock as she looked up at him as he stood there some feet from her at the main entrance to the castle, still dressed in that baboon pelt of his.
Kanna walked forward but Kagome did not. She stood there still and fearful but she hid it as well as she could and glared at the man before her; her stubborn spirit determinate never to take unwanted orders…or any orders for that matter from the evil monster that just took something away she could never get back.
"Come now miko" he said his voice laced with frigid ice in a threatening tone.
"No" it left her as a whisper but still held firm and she took a few steps back and went to turn away when a rising flame pierced her back and drove her to her knees as she let out a silent cry of pain. "Bastard" she said under her breath as her new reformed ears were forced back against her head.
"Come! Or do I have to fetch you like a pack animal!?"
Kagome rouse her eyes to him as pure hatred flashed in her indigo orbs. Rising to her knees she walked forward; she wouldn't give him a reason to lay a finger on her if she could help it, and as she walked forward the pain emanating from her back eased slowly away.
Naraku waited for her as she slowly walked toward him and as she made it to the entrance where he stood she put as much space between them as she could as she stood before him head bowed averting her gaze from Naraku's. The evil hanyou smirked; fear swirled around the girl before him like a cloud but in her face and stature she hid it well he gave her credit for that. Turning his face to the courtyard and Kagome in turn did so. What met her gaze and what made the evil monster Naraku so furious in his aura met her shocked eyes.
Sakura trees grew in neatly orderly lines along the stone path that led to the entrance as they stood to the gate's some way off in front of them. It was like a small or medium sized orchard of full grown and gorgeous blooming trees. Kagome's feet left the entrance as she was drawn to the trees as she looked around, she was surrounded by sakura blossoms.
"Something's wrong…" Kagome whispered as she took a blossom in hand. "They're supposed to be a joyful pink, but these are a mournful deep purple…" she trailed out load as she thought and looked up at Naraku who looked down at her with annoyance riding his gaze. "What's wrong Naraku? You don't like flowers?" she said mocking him and watched as he struggled to hold back his anger; Kagome laughed at that.
"Quit woman! These trees are of your creation and I demand them to be gone…now!" and he went to turn away but a small word that was laced with death threatening ice.
"No" it was Kagome who stopped the evil hanyou in his tracks with one mere word.
Naraku turned slowly, he's anger's leash near the breaking point. "What was that?"
Kagome rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I said no; you deaf too?" Kagome stood there not a care in the world as she stroked the peddles of the blossom that had a splash of crimson in the center. She understood fully now as she gazed as it fully. "They grew from my grief and sorrow; my heartbreak and pain" she thought as she let the flower float from her cupped hands and watched it land there without a sound and then after a short length of time it dissolved into a small cloud of miasma.
"They will be gone with your hand or mine, but you will suffer my wraith as well, pathetic miko" Naraku snapped his patience wearing thin with this annoying creature before him.
Kagome spun toward him no hesitation in her gaze. "I said it once and I'll only say it one more time…NO!!"
Naraku was upon her in a flash of youkai speed and towered above her watching her recoiled away her courage gone in a flash of his mere nearness. The evil hanyou watched as he burrowed his crimson gaze into her own sapphire and watched as they glazed over and fogged with the memory of unpleasant images of a past even that would lead to more.
He lined down and whispered in her new fuzzy ear. "Don't argue with your mate; bad things will happen" he said mockingly yet there was power there telling the untrained miko.
Kagome grew rigid from anger, and then shoved away from him. "When Hell freezes over that's when I'll call your disgusting hide mate! YOU RAPED ME YOU ASSHOLE!!!! She screamed with fury and the hanyou say the fire in her eyes as her demonic aura grew and it thrilled Naraku to no end.
Naraku raised his clawed hand to strike her and show her just what position she was in and Kagome shrieked away waiting for the coming blow but it never came. Opening a cobalt eye slightly what she saw made her stare dumbfounded. There standing there before her was Naraku but struggling against a vane/branch thing that was wrapped around his wrist that was raised to strike her; the vane came from the sakura trees around them both.
"What kind of trickery is this!?" he growled snapping the vane that was only replaced by two more.
"Hahaha" laughed Kagome in a sadistic voice. "Is the big, bad, power-hungry hanyou having troubles with some mere offending trees?" She merely laughed again at the look on Naraku's face as she said that; it was priceless. He was insulted and angry but none above how embarrassed he was underneath that pale-pasty mask from being stopped by mere trees.
Naraku growled as she kept laughing and sprang at her but was held back as more vanes and branches latched themselves onto his person. "Wench! You dare make a mockery of me!!?"
Kagome smirked, an evil smirk; something in her told her that this was something she should not be doing, it wasn't her. "What is this feeling? Why am I acting so strange…what's going on with me!?" Kagome thought as she looked down at her hands…they were clawed tainted jet black. Looking around her, her vision became sharper as well as in vision and color; she didn't need a mirror to tell her that her once sapphire orbs had turned deep miasma purple with flicks of sliver and indigo.
"It's you again" seethed Kagome sneering in her head as she ignored the hanyou struggling against he branches and vanes holding him back before her.
"Yes, and the feeling you are having is the sense of power; you like it!"
"NO! No I don't!! THIS ISN'T ME!!!"
The blood laughed sadistically. "Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it."
"I won't do it!!"
"Then he'll kill us both" this time there wasn't any mockery, no evil cheerful laughter; the blood spoke the truth and looking at the furious Naraku before her Kagome shivered in slight fear. "He may have marked us as mate, but that doesn't prevent him from killing us."
Kagome looked back at her hands and saw the three jagged strips down her wrists. "I look like Sesshomaru" said Kagome to herself mentally laughing at the thought of the ice cold, strong, emotionless, killing perfectionist himself; the her laugh died knowing she had better things then laugh at the thought of Sesshomaru seeing her like this. "What do I do?"
"Just follow your instincts" and the youkai blood faded out leaving Kagome to fend for them both, but her youkai powers remained, everything was there except for the tail.
"Right" Kagome said under her breath then looked up at Naraku just in time to see a freed fist flying toward her and hitting her across the jaw. "Ahh" yelled out the miko as she was flung back where she hit the stone once and corrected herself with a back flip and landed in a cat-like crouch. "You'll have to do much better then that."
"Retched girl!!" yelled Naraku as her released his mass of collected bodies making Kagome make a disgusted face.
With the flare of his aura all the vanes were through aside like paper. Kagome threw her arms to cover her face and her miko powers flared to life from deep insider her but was easily over come; should her youkai power ever deplete she was dead for sure.
"Run baka!!!" cried out the youkai blood within Kagome and she spun and ran for her life.
"You can't escape me" yelled Naraku has he shot out tentacles and claws and whatever else she had for limbs. Kagome sensing the closeness of his attack she leapt into the air turning to face him smashed her claws into her palms and blood flowed easily drenching her hands and arms in blood.
"BLADES OF BLOOD!!!" she screamed out remembering Inuyasha's attack and how well it worked in situation like this.
The scarlet flying claws met the tentacles, branch-things, and claws met and the remnants of Naraku's limbs fell to the now blood tainted alabaster stone. But due to the Shikon no Tama the evil hanyou was able to regenerate quickly if the Shikon wasn't removed.
Naraku snarled but he grin was created from it. "You think you can defeat me, when your precious inu pet can't even do it!? Don't make me laugh!!!"
Kagome blinked twice confused as she stood slowly. "Have you ever laughed outside hysterical evil laughter?"
Naraku chuckled and narrowed his eyes and Kagome saw it just in time to jump aside from the attack so she wasn't impaled on a tentacle but it did make a large gash on her thigh.
"What can you do now with a wounded leg?" snickered Naraku as he watched the scarlet liquid trail down Kagome's leg like he was ready to drink the liquid till she ran dry.
Kagome saw the look in his eyes and she was disgusted. "I can do this!!!" she yelled flinging out her hand palm facing him as vanes and branches came from the earth and sky to impale his large form. Kagome heard his groan of pain as he fell to pieces.
Seeing that he was barely moving Kagome leapt out of the tree favoring her wounded leg but not enough to show him that it hurt more then she showed. As she walked up to him she kept her distance remembering how many times he had tried to absorb the people she knew; Sesshomaru and Inuyasha mostly.
Naraku lifted his head his wavy brown hair falling about his sickly pale disgusting face. He glared up at her and Kagome read the look in his scarlet eye; it read of most certain death. "She's far stronger then I expected" he thought looking up at her expressionless face. "But still stupid."
"You still have strength left; I'm surprised" she said smirking standing from him.
"You surprised me and not many do; I've miscalculated one to many time with you and it will not happen again" he snapped and tentacles from every direction came at Kagome.
"Ahh" she gasped as cleaved many in half but was caught none the less. "Bast…" but she was cut off as Naraku squeezed her fragile form that was in his clutches. "Ehh" Kagome groaned as eh squeezed her further.
"Do you really think that I, Naraku am so weak as to meet my demise at your hands let alone one of your weak attacks!?"
"Yes" she said smirking receiving only another tight near bone crushing squeeze from Naraku. "Argh" yelled out Kagome furiously trying to cover up her scream of pain with a cry of rage.
Suddenly out of no where a flying projectile flew at the tentacles that curled themselves around Kagome cutting them in half or just into fleshy ribbons, but soon more and more flew. They landed with a slight thuck and Kagome and the dark hanyou saw that they were the poison sakura blossoms. One final flurry of sakura blossoms Kagome was free and she leapt away into a tree and grabbed more blossoms that hardened as if medal in her hands and she flew them at the dark hanyou who took them in the gut spurting blood.
"Face me wench!!!" he yelled furious and annoyed.
Kagome snarled and grinned. "You want me then come and get me!!" she yelled and vanished into the endless cloud and lines of the sakura orchard behind her.
Naraku took on his more human form and followed the young girl willing to play her game knowing that she had baited him know he was to proud to literally follow her. What Kagome didn't know was that was exactly what Naraku had been planning on.
He growled deep in his chest. "She will pay for her impudence!"
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Kagome raced through the orchard of mournful sakura trees hoping Naraku would be to proud to follow in this game of cat and mouse and she hoped to Kami he wasn't following. The youkai strength in Kagome was fading and she had so little of her miko power that it didn't even matter anymore. "Great! Both my powers are failing and I have that big muck ball looking for me!!!" she thought as she looked over her shoulder to see if there was a flash of a white pelt and blue mask, but nothing was there.
Looking back forward just in time to be able to jump into the nearest sakura tree before she ran face first into the chest of the figure of Naraku and he wasn't happy that she had run off on him his eyes glowed scarlet and Kagome suppressed a shiver.
"DAMNIT!!!!" Kagome yelled at herself as she starred down at him not knowing what to do.
"What now?" he asked smirking turning slightly so he could straight up into her face. "Your powers are fleeing rapidly leaving you defenseless to my wrath."
Kagome said nothing to the figure below her but her mind screamed with panic and rage. "DAMNIT WAKE UP!!!" but there wasn't an answer in the darkness of her mind and soul. "Damn it" she growled softly under her breath her eyes flashing back and forth in thought to get out of the mess she was in.
So suddenly then she could react to Naraku leapt up into the tree she was in and threw her down to the dark, dead earth. He stood above her painting and quivering form that had so little energy left as cuts, gashes and bruises marred her once perfect skin.
"Ehh" groaned Kagome every so slowly making it to her knees, but was flung further back by a back hand that smashed across the side of her face, but from somewhere found the strength to stand on her own. "Bastard" she snapped softly through her labored breaths.
Naraku merely laughs slightly in amusement as he once again charged the defenseless Kagome forcing a fist into her stomach to the point where she coughed up blood.
"Pathetic" Naraku said under his breath as he watched Kagome slump to her knees holding her stomach and coughing harshly. Naraku went to punch her again but she leapt away from him to slump against a tree gulping for breath as pain washed over her in unbearable waves forming from her side which she held.
Looking up with narrowed and pain filled eyes Kagome saw Naraku standing there. She hardly had strength to stand up with the help of a tree let alone try and leap away again; she merely starred back. He raised a hand as to strike her and she looked away waiting for the pain to come but after a time it didn't come. Opening a single sapphire jewel of an eye Kagome met nothing but the orchard, Naraku was gone.
"Where……" she trailed moving one foot slightly forward and only received agonizing pain leap through her body like a wild fire as she collapsed to the ground painting for breath through her pain. "I just got the tare beat out of me" she whispered out load to nothing in particular. "I can just hear Inuyasha now" she said smirking letting her lids fall absorbing the happy memory.
"Damnit wench, you're so weak!! You can't do anything without me!!!" he'd yell thought Kagome as she smiled remembering how he always raved about how worthless and how much of a weak human she is, but they both knew she was the just as important as the rest of the group.
Kagome let herself fall back into the memory of Inuyasha's constant yelling and raving and how it would get worse when she rolled her eyes and ignored him making him even more furious.
"Oi, wench! You listening!!?"
"No" she whispered out load as the face of her precious hanyou faded. "It seems so long ago since I've seen them all realistically, but it's only been a week or so; that itself feels like a eternity."
Kagome looked up at the branches of the tree she lines against and saw the leaves though green did hold a slight purple hue to them. The urge to sing consumed her and the young miko wished to with all her heart, but what to sing was the hard question. A vision of Inuyasha's face came to her making her eyes water giving way to salty tears.
Tell
me babe, how many times do I shed my tears? Was afraid of darkness cause I felt that I was left
alone Round
and round the planets revolve around the sun Show me now, what kind of smile do I come across Someday every heart's
gonna be free and easy Goes and goes, the time goes on we
are not alone There are the
warm heart places on my mind Round and
round, the planets revolve around the sun Goes
and goes, the time goes on we are not alone
EVERY HEART, every
heart is not a gentle yet
Shall I do, I can never say my
loneliness
EVERY HEART, doesn't know so what to say or what to
do
So I prayed for help to distant million stars
And we always seek
after love and peace, forever more
Growing, growing, woe baby we
can work it out
Look up at the sky, every heart is shining on
today
EVERY
HEART, every heart can take a step towards the dreams
All of us,
what to take a lasting happiness
Whenever you feel sad, I wanna
hold you and give you a sound sleep
We have peace of mind
Someday all the
people find the way to love
We live on together and we will find some precious
things
Sometime we will smile sometime we will cry somehow
Don't
forget believing yourself, tomorrow's never die
In my earliest day's there and it's
SO SWEET,
There are many stars they have talk with me so kind
They
say yes always time's a friend of mine, so shine
And we always seek after
love and peace forever more
Growing, growing, woe baby we can work
it out
Look up at the sky every heart is shining all today
We live on together
and we will find some precious things
Sometimes we will smile
sometime we will cry somehow
Don't forget believe in yourself,
tomorrow's never die
Kagome's song ended but the tears still fell and the miasma color of the sakura blossoms wept as well. "I don't care if you hate me Inuyasha………I just…miss you………so much" and she wept into her hands and wept the rest of the day in her orchard of weeping sakura trees.
A/N: Ooooh…so sad…I think, my opinion but yea I hope u guys are like this story cause I'd hate it if you didn't and don't forget to review I love reviews and always looking for new readers to tell me what they think…(sweet smile on her face)…so review love'em and I'd like to get a hundred before I'm done typing the story but yea…(light bulb goes off)…yea and my regular readers…THE REVIEWS ARE THE SAME FOR YOU:D
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P.S. - I'm sure every 1 knows the song but so it doesn't cause me problems later…the song is Every Heart and it is an ending theme song to the anime…u happy now:D