Inuyasha crossover Heart no Kuni no Alice

Chapter 25: Backlash

"Whoever sent me here, send me back,"

That new requested stunned them all, none of them said anything for a long moment until Kagome reminded them again about her wanting her memories back. In the end none of them did anything, but Kagome left them disappearing, but not before leaving word to mainly Nightmare and Joker to find her when they are ready to strike that deal with her.

For once Joker was at a lost, surprised that she wanted to go back, at first having her gone is what they had originally thought, and now with her own request, he along was not at all pleased and had been making those 'toys' a misery, including that of White Joker, his twin counterpart, who was fuming on the inside but did not show it.

"Kagome," Nightmare had made the hardest decision, but in a way it is also a relief to him.

What had kept her apart from Alice is her inability to return without the vial of liquid, unlike Alice who had it with her, Kagome does not have it and does not know of where it is. After explaining that he had told Kagome to lay on her bed, telling her to relax her body, but it made her feel uneasy at what he was instructing her to do so without knowing how things works here.

What Nightmare had in mind was mainly for her to get comfortable because of what he was about to do to her and what she will soon experience again. He looked at her painfully as he reached out with his mind to brush it against hers, placing a hand over her eyes as he began the process of helping her remember the memories which she had forgotten.

She was supposed to be dead, but by chance she was sent to Wonderland and was saved by them as they nursed her back to health. Her circumstances are a little different from that of Alice who was seeking a mean of escape from her own mind's prison and was brought to their World.

"We're not sure how to send you back without the consequences," Nightmare told her truthfully as he took a sit beside of her as she looked at him with a confused frown.

"I wish it were that simple this time, but there's complications that might involve your death," he continue to tell her.

"You in some ways, breathed your last breath of air from your World, and if we send you back there now, we do not know of the consequences," he told her sadly, watching her face intently to watch each of her expression changes.

"Here," he whispered softly, placing a hand over her waist to pull her gently against him, feeling her flinched and trying to move away from him, "Relax, I'm just going to unseal your memories, it might hurt a little," he whispered into her ears as he placed his head next to hers, closing eyes as he made contact with her mind.

"Just relax," he murmur into her ears again when he still felt the resistance in her mind as the hand resting lightly on her waist rubbed the area where his thumb is as he nuzzled her neck by instinct. "Relax and trust me," he told her again softly and gently.

Kagome at first resisted, taking a while for her body to get use to his touch and nearness as she battled with her own morals and conscious to have him sent flying far far away from her. When she finally did relaxed, it was a while late. At first there was nothing, then she felt it, that warm trickling feeling, then an itch and then that slow hot burning pain that kept on growing until it became unbearable as she nearly screamed it out.

"The pain is not real, it's just your memories," Nightmare's voice told her from a faraway distance that she thought it to be unreal until his voice became clearer.

"You're the master of this space, I'm just a guest, what you feel is entirely up to you," Nightmare assured her as he coaxed and guided the memories out despite of how draining it is on him, though if he so chooses to manipulate this space, it is still very much so easily.

He took her through the process, slowly helping her ease into those memories as the horror and nightmare of it starts to come forth, and along with it, gave him trouble to help control the intensity and the pace of the memories. Kagome on the other hand was not fairing just as well as blood slowly drain away from her face and cold sweat started forming at the back of her neck and her forehead.

Her voice was lost as she looked wide-eyed with fear in them as she felt her legs going weak, as it ended up giving way beneath her as she felt down to the ground landing hard on her behind that she felt that pain at first but she had long gone numb to those feelings, her mind only concentrating on those memories as her eyes were unable to even shift away.

Before all of her memories could play out, Nightmare cut it short immediately by vomiting out blood immediately as it sprayed out to the ground before of him. Kagome looked at her memories in frantic as she tried to capture it once again, but instead it slipped further away from her as she woke up with a shock to see the ceiling of her room in the Tower of Clover.

"Blearrghh," the sound of vomiting could be heard as she turned her eyes in the direction, skittish like a deer as she sees him looking the palest that she had ever seen and vomiting blood that one would most probably think that they had just let out all of his blood.

It was only for a moment that she was stunned silent and in a hazy state of mind from seeing her memories, but immediately rushed to his side as she worked up some of her healing side of abilities and sent it through his body trying to cure him whatever it is, but as things is in this World, it is more complicated than that and in the end she had somehow accidentally injured him again after a little of healing, which made her retract her abilities immediately.

"Nightmare-san…" Kagome asked worriedly hesitation in her voice as she reached over with shaking hand to touch his shoulder but afraid that her touch might injure him further.

Pain twisted his face as he looked weak from the loss of blood, face pale as he forced his face into a smile at Kagome. "I'm fine, this is really usual," he assured her waving it off as he tried to gather his little energy and compose himself enough to cheat her.

"…" She knows better and looked down, letting her bangs and hair curtain her face form him as she felt guilt ridden, but yet it could not overwrite the amount of hurt and pain that she was feeling, though it was not everything that she had remembered, but it at least was enough for her to feel shaken and scared.

Kagome swallowed, and tried pushing her memories aside as she reached out with shaky hands to help Nightmare up onto her bed. "Y-you should rest Nightmare-san, I'll go get you something hot," Kagome informed him as she made sure to have him resting on her bed properly before rushing out of her room to find Gray for the medicine and a hot drink for him.

When she was making tea, her mind drifted to the blood that Nightmare had vomited out and then memories that she had remembered started rushing back to her as she felt her body went cold her body frozen in that memory as it kept replaying in her mind. Gray who was going to the pantry to get himself a drink, saw Kagome there and had tried calling out to her, after calling out to her a few times and he felt that something was not right, Gray then took note of the difference in her.

Posture stiff, her face pale and without blood as she looked blankly in horror as the space in front of her. Had he not been by her side, he might not have noticed how minutely that she was shaking like a frightened rabbit. Reaching out to touch her, Gray felt her jumped back, the cup spilling it's hot content as it broke to pieces on the ground. However what he could not mistaken or ignore is that overwhelming sense of fear and horror in her that he is easily accustomed to in the past.

Had she found out about his past? Kagome covered her mouth with her hand, as she looked in surprise, unable to erase that fearful look in her eyes as she looked at Gray with wide watery eyes.

"I'm…I'm sorry, I'll have that cleared up immediately," she told him in a soft voice that shook as she knelt down to pick up the broken pieces with shaky hands that was made obvious by broken pieces in her hand.

"Kagome, did something bad happen?" he asked her in a tone of concern afraid of one too many possibilities.

She did not say anything as Kagome continued with cleaning up the ground, and turned a deaf ear towards him. Her mind was obviously not where it should be, and when Gray had called out to her but unable to get a response, he tried touching her again but this time her reaction was bigger and that worried.

"I…I'm sorry," she said in a broken manner as she turned away from him, hiding her face away from him.

The fear that he saw, it was not meant for him, and that brought him a sense of relief as Gray watches her again. She left hurriedly with a jug of hot water and two glasses on a tray, Gray was not far as he followed her back, not at all assured that she is fine. It was like her soul has left her, being so ghost like in behavior as she wandered lifelessly.

When she entered her room, the first thing he noticed was Nightmare resting in her bed.

"Lord Nightmare!" Gray immediately went into Mother Hen mode as he rushed over to his side, checking him over trying to determine what was wrong.

"Gray, I'm fine," Nightmare told his subordinate as he slowly turned his head in his direction, smiling weakly as he gave him a warning look, looking in Kagome's direction.

He had seen how Kagome had jumped visibly at Gray's reaction and in surprise, as though not realizing that he was even there. He saw her memories and had seen what had happened to the point that the memories were cut off and his health condition suddenly took on a worse turn. Kagome looked guiltily away as she place her shaking tray down on the bedside table, before standing beside of Gray his her hand clasped together so tightly until her knuckles turned white and her nails drew blood from where she had dug her nails into her own flesh.

With that direction in which Nightmare was looking worriedly, it was impossible for Gray to not notice as he turned his head to look at Kagome before looking at Nightmare almost accusingly. Nightmare seeing that fierce scowl on Gray's face immediately started frantically and silently shaking his head denying any relations to her current state of mind and expression. Though Gray seemed like he did not really believe it but could not do anything about it at the moment especially since there is the matter of his health as well.

She's afraid, of those memories, and it made her feel like it is harder to breath, and cold to the core, yet she dared not to voice it out or reach out for someone only to fall straight down fast and hard.

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