Chapter 21
A/N: Well I hope you are all enjoying the story so far. Please let me know what you think and if you have any questions on the story please feel free to ask. The following that poem that was written by Leo112. I have gotten his permission to use his work as the opening of this chapter. I hope you enjoy the chapter and if you enjoy his work please let him know. And special thanks to Leo112 for allowing me to use his poem to open this chapter up. Now on with the story.
trial of poison that is due hold her tight and keep her warm
love and hope can see us threw
love of one can make you strong
will the loved one hear the gong
give her love that can transform
watch her heal help her mend
against the force she can't defend
As he heard the word begin, Inuyasha looked around in the darkness hoping to find the source of the voice he heard. He had no idea where he was or if he was even at home. Just a he was about to let out a low, dangerous, and warning growl, Inuyasha stopped when he noticed a light in the distance. He was not sure if he would find his answers there but it was the only path that lay before him. It was the only thing he could actually see and he was not going to risk taking long here when Kagome needed him now.
Protective arms will be her home,
Blood and poison is no more.
Let her wounds mend and bend
Tears of poison will be her end.
As he grew closer to the light Inuyasha could feel a demonic aura but had no idea whose it belonged to. He had never felt such a thing and was unsure of what it was or if it would attack him or not. The only thing that kept him going was the thought of Kagome in the arms of a demon she did not want to be with.
Come now, com and hear this song
Know the truth of her long lost blood.
Just as he entered the light, Inuyasha look around only to find himself on the ground of a shrine. It didn't look like one that was big or like one that was visited often. There was a main on the grounds and a big tree by the small buildings that were around him. Just as he had reached the tree, Inuyasha reached out to touch it as he heard a voice say, "The God tree, also known as the trees of ages. It has always been special."
"Who are you?" Inuyasha growled as he noticed the area on the tree that had a scar on it.
"I am someone that will give you some answers before you chose if you really want to be with my daughter or not." The women replied.
As he quickly turned around to face the woman that had stood behind him, Inuyasha growled out, "Tell me where she is. You know where she is don't you?"
"I do, but I will not tell you a word." She answered before jumping up onto the tree.
"You better tell me or else." Inuyasha warned as he flexed his claws.
"Or what? I am already dead. The last bit of my soul will fade away once I had told you what it is that make my daughter different from any other human alive." She replied.
"Izanami…you really were a demon weren't you?" Inuyasha asked as he jumped up to sit next to her.
"I was, but not a strong one like you or anyone else. I did not heal like a demon but I made up for it with my speed." She answered with a sad smile on her face.
"What kind of demon are you?" Inuyasha asked as he looked out onto the shrine so that he would be able to see if he had ever been to this shrine before.
"This was my home, before I became a yakuza. Most people don't know that I was just a regular girl. I went to a regular high school and hide the fact that I worked for the yakuza." She explained. "I wished I had a chance to tell my mother that I had a daughter, that she had a granddaughter."
"Unlike my daughter I gave a false name to the first yakuza family I had been working for. They knew what I was, they had known my father. But they wouldn't tell me how he had died. So I figured they would tell me once I had proven that I was on their side. But then I met him…I met Kagome's father and I fell in love. I loved him but I knew that I could never be with him."
"So why try?" Inuyasha asked thinking that she had been caught.
"I didn't, but when the time came that some of the gangs that I had taken care of had recognized me at school I figured I'd only safe my friends. But somehow they found out my love for him and tried to kill them. I didn't know it was my final test before I was given the information I wanted."
"You protected him and you were found out." Inuyasha whispered.
"Yeah, after saving him I ran because I knew he would only ask me question. He would only want to know who he could ask to have me. But when I got home everything was on fire, my mother and had been locked in that house and I had been forced to watch as she was burned to death." Izanami explained in a much colder tone that hide old pain.
Inuyasha watched as the peace full shrine he had been observing went up in flames, he watched as everything was burned to the ground and he heard the screams of the woman's mother from the burning house.
"After watching my mother burn and after her cries had died down, I took the weapons that belong to my father and went in such of blood." Izanami answered.
"You're the one…you're the one that killed off all of the serpent family?" Inuyasha asked in disbelief.
"Yes, after I had done so, I took the head of the bastard that had ordered such a thing and went to the dragon's family house and give it as a gift to the head of the house. When Kagome's father saw me he immediately asked for me to be his body guard and I accepted it." Izanami explained.
"Wait, if you killed them all how did you get your answers." Inuyasha asked in a confused voice.
"I never said that I didn't get my answers. I did, before I had removed the head of the serpent family." Izanami explained.
After a while of silence and after realizing that the hanyou was not going to say a word to her until she told him what exactly she was and what kind of hanyou Kagome was, Izanami took in a deep breath and said, "I am a child of a very old demon. Once that has not died down since my family, my blood line had been able to make sure we would always be born full demon."
"And what would that me?" Inuyasha asked.
"I'm not surprised that you were never told about my family since we were believed to be finished since the feudal era. But we are alive and we are hidden. I am a demon of demons."
"Wait…as in…" Inuyasha whispered.
"Yes, as in the fallen ones. However our blood is different from them." Izanami replied quickly. "Unlike the actual fallen, our blood has been weakened. We are alive because they replaced more than half of our blood with demon blood. We are faster and stronger because of this but because of our actions we will never heal like you do. We will never look like you do. We will look, and smell like human to stay hidden."
"In other words she'll age like a human and die with a human life time." Inuyasha replied.
"In a way yes, but if you really do want to be with her then while she is fighting, she would have to lose the other half of her old blood and you would have to replace it with you." Izanami explain. And if you did that, she would become an inu hanyou like yourself."
"But I'm not with her right now." Inuyasha growled. "Wait…who else knows this? Does Hiei know this?"
"No…he knows nothing, I never told him a thing." Izanami answered in a sad voice. "I never trusted him enough."
"Feh, so what now? He wants Kagome for himself." Inuyasha growled out in anger. "And I'm not going to let him have her."
"I know, that is why I told you all of this. While the others of my kind are very well hidden, I exposed myself to danger when I allowed my old blood to be used. If you can change her then she will have nothing to worry about. She will not have to worry about being found and used." Izanami said.
"Feh, then I'll protect her." Inuyasha growled as he jumped out of the tree as he noticed that everything began to fade away.
"You're being woken up…I guess this will be end of our meeting." Izanami replied as she also jumped down. "But there is one more thing that you have to know."
"What would that be?" Inuyasha asked.
"If she chooses to be what she is, if she chooses to keep the blood that flows through her vines, even if you die she will live as what she is. After becoming your mate, she will keep her long life of a demon that you would have granted and will only become that much closer to becoming something that she would not be. She is too pure to be tainted in such a way."
As Inuyasha thought about the song, he realized why it was that Kagome had been told she would have to be tested with her fathers and brothers blood. Kagome's father knew what she was, and the key to get her to get rid of her old blood was in his fathers and brothers poison. As he looked up to lock eyes with the fading woman Inuyasha whispered out, "Tears of poison will be her end."
With a sad smile on her face, Izanami nodded and said, "Yes, you'll find, just use your heart…you two were meant for one another."
As she sat in the corner of the room, alone and weak, Kagome could help but smile as she heard her mother's sad voice sing to her.
trial of poison that is due hold her tight and keep her warm
love and hope can see us threw
love of one can make you strong
will the loved one hear the gong
give her love that can transform
watch her heal help her mend
against the force she can't defend
Protective arms will be her home,
Blood and poison is no more.
Let her wounds mend and bend
Tears of poison will be her end.
"Oka…" Kagome whispered in a sad voice. "Oka he is going to find me isn't he…he will find me right…"
When she received no answer, Kagome looked down at the ground where her tears had follow and noticed that her blood had eaten through the floor. The poison was still working, it had been kept alive in her body and it had also been killing her until she would bleed out. With a sad smile on her face, Kagome realized what this meant; she found her way out of her mother's title, out of her mother's shadow and into the light.
(A/N: The following poem/song is something I came up with and thought it would go good with the ending of this chapter)
After taking in a deep breath, Kagome allowed her blood running tears to continue to fall as she sang:
Who can find me? Who will find me?
Who can save me? Who will save me,
from this hellish world?
Painful memories filled with sorrow that I've never felt before.
In a time long since pasted, when I find peace at last?
After repeating her small song a few more times, Kagome allowed her miko energy to fade away and fell asleep with her bloody tears all around her. She knew that she would be found, she knew that Inuyasha would come for her. She would wait and keep fighting until he would come for her. Until he would be able to keep her safe and hold her until she felt strong enough to face the world again.
A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. I know it's a bit shorter than the others but I promise that they will be a lot more interesting from here. Please let me know what you think and review!!!!! I will be finishing the story soon so please, I would like to know if you like it. REIVEW!!!!!
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