The Music of Your Voice: Chapter One
Hi there! Welcome to my new story for Inuyasha! Mainly the pairing will be InuKag cuzzzzz lol. And It's also going to be a short story. Not sure how many chapters. Maybe 10. I am thinking 10 chapters lol. I will try and update when I can because I just started technical school for medical coding and I don't want Med Term or Anatomy to kick my butt lol.
Also I got a beta reader and she's really sweet and I am so thankful for her to take the time to beta read for me. She's really nice! So this chapter was beta by the lovely Fawn_Eyed_Girl
And This lovely story is forrrrrr NeutronStarChild cuzzzz she lovessssss Soulmate fics lol
As always, I do not own anything from Inuyasha.
It was the sound of a whispered voice that a person would hear and no one else could. It could come out of nowhere. It didn't matter if the person was busy or sleeping.
The voice of their soulmate.
At least, that was what Inuyasha's mother would tell him while she was telling the story of how she had fallen in love with his father that he would never know. He remembered the story well of how his parents found each other thanks to the sound of their voice inside each other's heads. It sounded almost like whispers; his mother would describe the voice of his father inside her mind. Soon after finding each other, they got married, and a year later, had him.
They were soulmates.
What a load of bullshit.
If soulmates truly existed, then why was this happening to Inuyasha right now? At this very moment? If soulmates were real, then why on earth was his longtime girlfriend breaking up with him?
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha, but," Kikyo was telling him, unable to look at him straight into his golden eyes, and looking down at the tiled floor underneath her heeled feet instead. Inuyasha ground his teeth together as he watched her worry her lower lip, trying his hardest not to do anything rash. "We have to end this. We both know that this isn't working," she told him, gesturing with her hands between them.
Inuyasha wasn't listening to her, even though his ears that were sitting on top of his head were flicking back and forth at her every word that she was saying, paying close attention.
If soulmates truly did exist, then why the hell was his supposed "soulmate" breaking up with him? Right when he was about to propose to her in a fancy restaurant that he had brought her to on the night of their five- year anniversary?
"Kikyo—" he started to hiss out, keeping his voice low enough just for her to hear. He placed a hand on his pocket of his jeans where the small jewelry box was located, gripping it tightly in frustration. "Why would you say something like that?"
Kikyo sighed, reaching over to take a small sip of her red wine as she ponders what to say to him. She wanted this to work- she truly did! But in the end that voice never came, no matter how much she tried to get it come. It just never did. "Tell me something, Inuyasha, and please be honest with me," she finally looked up at to meet his confused expression. "Have you heard it?"
Inuyasha knows exactly what she was talking about.
He could have lied and told her yes, that he has, in fact, heard her voice inside his head. He knows for a fact that Kikyo would know that he was lying thanks to his stupid hanyo ears, and they would betray him no matter what he said to her because of the flickering at certain things. Damn it, what should he do? He sighed deeply and he knew that there was only one thing he could do; tell her the truth, even though it would hurt him.
"No. I haven't," he told her finally after a few minutes of silence between them.
"Inuyasha, it's time to end this for the both of us. It's time to find our true soulmates. It's clear that it is not us. We haven't—" She looked away from again and Inuyasha could feel her scent changing into sadness and remorse. "We haven't heard each other's voices. I'm sorry, Inuyasha." She placed her napkin on top of her plate as she got up and grabbed her purse that was hanging on the back of her chair. "I can't do this anymore. Good-bye."
She turned to leave but Inuyasha wasn't done. He had to say something—anything-to try and make her stay. "Does it truly matter?" he asked lowly, causing her to look sideways at him. "Do you truly believe this whole soulmate bullshit? It shouldn't matter if we didn't hear each other's 'voices.' We've been together long enough. Isn't that enough for you, Kikyo?" he asked her, spitting out her name in venom. He wanted her to see that it shouldn't matter if they didn't hear each other's voice in their head. It didn't matter to him; that was why he was planning on proposing to her. He wanted her to see that.
"Inuyasha," she whispered, looking away from him, gripping the handle of her purse tightly in her hand. "I've found my soulmate. So yes, it does matter."
Inuyasha sat completely still in his chair, unable to move and unable to look away from Kikyo's brown eyes that were staring into his golden ones. He didn't want to believe it. It couldn't be true. Inuyasha leaned in closely to study her, listening to her heartbeat, wanting to know if it had skipped a beat after her confession just seconds ago.
She was telling the truth.
Soulmates apparently did exist.
And Inuyasha wasn't Kikyo's soulmate. She was someone else's. But…just who was it? Did he dare ask? He had a small inkling about who it could be, but couldn't bring himself to ask her, because he had trusted her well enough. However, that question was burning in his throat, making its way to the tip of his tongue.
She beat him to it.
"I heard Suikotsu's voice. I heard it loud and clear. It was like music to me. I know that was what you were wondering, Inuyasha." She shook her head when he was about to open his mouth to speak. "I'm leaving. Please don't follow me. Move on, Inuyasha. I pray that you'll find your own soulmate soon," she told him, leaving him alone in the restaurant and not one time did she look back at him.
How could she do this him? He thought that they were happy, even though when they first met, she didn't want to be with him because of his hanyo heritage. There were not a lot of hanyos around and Inuyasha knew this. In fact, he was friends with a few of them. But generally, it was uncommon for a demon and a human to be together.
However, Inuyasha kept pursuing Kikyo and finally, she gave in. They were happy together, even though not once did they hear each other's voices. He truly believed that they didn't need to hear them. But apparently, it was extremely important to her; Inuyasha didn't realize it at the time, and that was why this was happening to him.
"Fuck," he hissed out, grabbing a fistful of his silver bangs and pulled them roughly with his claws. "Kikyo—" He got up from his chair quickly, almost knocking it over, but he managed to grab the sides of it and sat it straight. His ears flickered around as he heard a few people make comments about his disruption, but he didn't care about them. "I need to get out of here," he muttered, digging into his back pocket to throw a few hundred-dollar bills on the table without waiting for the check as he thought about what he should do next.
He wanted to follow her to try and win her back, even though she told him specifically not to do so. He needed to do something, and he needed to do it fast. He made his way out of the restaurant. When he stepped outside, a blast of cold winter air hit him straight in the face. The cold never bothered him, except for when he was human during the new moon.
He knew for a fact that he needed to do something with the small jewelry box that was burning a hole inside his jeans. He needed to get rid of it. He could just simply return it, but honestly, he didn't have the patience for that. It felt like his skin was burning with each moment that the box was inside his pocket.
Without bothering to look both ways to cross the street, and without even looking to see if the blinking walk sign told him that it was alright for him to cross, he made his way into the street looking down at his feet and not at the road.
Then suddenly, a pair of flashing yellow lights came at him in full swing, making his world turn black in an instant.
Maybe he should've paid attention after all.
AN: Please let me know what you guys think!