Prophecy of Death
By: Abby Kitty
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha; please don't accuse me of it. Arigato.
Hay-o minna-san! I know It's taken me ages to write this next chapter and I wanted to put this thing up so badly that I decided to put this chapter up without very much editing. Please do not kill me if some of my spelling is off, like I know Jen will, I was anxious to put it up thank you very much.
To Jen: It's not my fault band and class has kept you to busy. I just didn't want to add more pressure on you're already stressful life.
So enough of my babbling.
On with the story! (
Chapter3
Mending
3 weeks later
Few clouds resided in the clouds on this fine October afternoon, which was strange, for the last few weeks had been nothing but rain. The storms had come from the northwestern part of the world. A few students blamed it on the new kid at the school; he was from London so he must have brought the storm with her right? After all, stranger things had happened in Jidai High, as the students would tell you. Fortunately ever since their Nurse Kimiko had come that had all changed. The nurse in question was looking out the window toward the front gate of the school, or more specifically a tree that was residing right next to the school gates. Her eyes narrowed and a look of extreme concentration adorned her usually optimistic looking features.
"It's almost time." She whispered.
What she meant would perhaps be revealed later. For now though we shall shift our view to the flock of students billowing out of the school building on lunch break. Let us focus now on a small group of youths as they in turn head out of the building at a more leisurely pace then the rest of their fellow students. Their names as we know it are: Inu Kamagoti, Sango Taijiya, Miroku Houshi, and last but most certainly not least, Kagome Higurashi. Their destinies would unknowingly shape the future of this ill fated world but we best not get to that until later as well. The four of them had become fast friends after their meeting three weeks ago, but ask anyone and they'd swear that the group had known each other their whole lives. Few secrets could escape this group and Inu was finding himself believing that maybe this group of people would be able to handle who he really was, or more to be exact, what he really was. He felt as though this group were almost like family. He hadn't trusted anyone in his life as much as he trusted them. He'd mainly encountered other demons and lots of vampires to the point that he was expecting a vampire to pop up at the last second to try to take a nice big bite out of his neck. This wasn't London; he kept berating himself. He was almost beginning to like Japan better then the dark corrupted city he'd practically grew up in.
"Oi, Inu-kun." Miroku had stopped and turned to his new best friend questioningly, "Daiboujdu?" (AN: Don't know if that's spelled correctly.. it's supposed to mean are you ok, but my spelling sucks so yeah..)
"Huh?" Inu was forced out of his reminiscing thoughts and looked at the lecher confused for a few seconds until he'd realized what he'd asked, "Hai." He said and caught up with his friends heading to a tree to eat.
As luck would have it, they just so happened to be sitting under a tree on the opposite side of the school from the gate. Now miracles in this world are few so when they do happen one should take them and cherish them. One never knows just when one will pop up and that goes to these four as well, for they had no idea about the tree by the school gate. This friends, was a miracle.
"Hey guys'," Kagome said while getting up with some of her trash in her hand, "I'll be right back ok?"
The others nodded their understanding and went back to tasking Inu some random questions about London. Inu watched Kagome head toward the trash can under the tree by the gate and got a strange feeling that he needed to be close to her as she neared the trash can and the dreaded tree. He felt as though the world was falling away as he watched her get closer and closer and soon he heard some violent whispering in a language he couldn't fathomed then as he listened closer the words became more intense and the verses were becoming easier to understand. Inu's hart seemed to be beating overtime and a great pain bombarded his chest and the necklace he wore with the strange sword dangling on it began to glow, of course Inu didn't notice the glowing for the necklace resided underneath his black school uniform shirt. Inu hadn't known he was running until the world came back into play around him. A horrible smell hit his sensitive nose and he immediately that if Kagome got closer to that tree, something unimaginable would happen. Then the voice intensified to the point where he could just make out the few words that wrenched his heart, "Rise, rise to kill!"
"Kagome!" He screamed, "Get the hell away from that tree!"
Everything seemed to go into slow motion as Kagome reached the tree and threw away the trash she had been carrying. First the ground around the tree began to shake as three figures jumped into the perimeter of the tree and created a sort of dog pile on top of Kagome. The tree began to glow and silence descended on the school. That's when all hell broke loose. Strange pulsating green roots shot out of the ground and began to whip other students who were now trying desperately to get into the school building. The now glowing tree branches retreated and tensed getting ready to whip the four occupants underneath the tree which on closer inspection revealed Sango, Miroku, Inu and of course, Kagome. Inu sensed the retraction of the branches and cursed. If all of those hit them at the same time then the humans would most definitely die on impact.
"Everyone scatter now!" He yelled in desperation.
Not knowing what was to happen, they quickly complied. The minute they moved away from each other the branches whipped down and decimated the spot they were currently sitting. Seeing the destroyed piece of dirt the three humans faces paled. The branches retracted again and started to build energy to strike them once again. Inu grimaced as an idea hit him, well he was going to have to tell them of his true form eventually, and now was as good a time as any. Man this was going to hurt, but unlike them he would be able to survive. Inu knew revealing his secret could save their lives so he quickly reverted to his true form. He heard a few collective gasps and grimaced.
"Behind me." He looked at his newest friends and noticed a lot more suspicion then he'd expected making his heart wrench, "Listen you don't have a lot of time dammit! Just get behind me NOW!"
Everyone quickly complied and Inu held out his arms wide in order to be able to protect the others better and the vines whipped his chest. The strength of the attack was so great that his shirt was ripped to shreds just by the air pressure alone. Inu fell onto his knees and yelled to the others to run unaware that the whole school grounds were under the attack of the deadly plants. When they didn't move Inu turned around and saw why they weren't. The school grounds were littered with injured and dead humans and the now revealed demons as well. His eyes instinctively shot up towards the school roof and he noticed the familiar figure of the psychopath that had entered his bedroom not so long ago, Naraku. He was on the top of the fence laughing as if this scene were the most hysterical thing he had ever seen. He then looked directly at Inu and grinned pointing at the tree behind them.
Inu turned toward the tree, "Oh." He turned back to his friends and jumped in front of them as the branches hurled him away from the tree creating deep welts in his back, "SHHHIIIITTTTTT!!!!"
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Hojo watched in horror and rage as one of his fellow students was just cut in half by a root slamming into them. He screamed in outrage as tears flew down his face. He ran at the "root" unintelligently and the root moved at the last minute and made Hojo trip and fall out of the gate. He hit the concrete ground with a thud and looked up. The root retracted back for the final blow and just as Hojo believed he was going to die the root hit an invisible barrier of some sort and the root disintegrated into dust. Hojo sat there dumfounded for a few minutes in stunned silence before his no- longer-that-naiveté mind began to process this newly found sanctuary.
"Oi!" He yelled desperately, "Oi!" He yelled again trying hard to be overheard amongst the horrible screaming and scrambling to get away.
Hojo stood helplessly and heard a new sound of screaming as the students that had been in the building suddenly began to run out with the demonic roots following them. Hojo tried again to get the students attention this time by jumping up and down waving his arms above him frantically. That's when he noticed the press had come and the police and firefighters were on their way. Hojo suddenly knew what he needed to do. When the firefighters had arrived, Hojo politely asked to use the megaphone that they carried in their van. They looked at him bewildered but gave it to him anyways.
Hojo muttered a thank you and turned to the terror stricken school and brought the megaphone up to his lips, "OI!" He yelled and everything stopped, "Ahem, EVERYONE GET THROUGH THE SCHOOL GATES NOW! THE EVIL ROOTS CAN'T PENETRATE PAST THIS POINT FOR SOME REASON. IF YOU ARE INJURED GET SOMEONE TO HELP! NOW, MOVE IT!!!!!"
Sango and Miroku were the first to make it through the gate and soon hundreds of others got out as well but many were still in there fighting for their lives. If anyone were Youkai then they volunteered to keep going in to the school grounds to get others more vulnerable, (mainly humans), out. Sango and Miroku kept looking for their two best friends but couldn't see them through the throngs of teachers and students alike. They both began to get worried and Miroku decided to help out with the paramedics, being raised as a monk, he knew a bit about medicine and first aid. Sango stayed at the gate and helped the other youkai get the injured through the gate; it was strange to see the true forms of many of her classmates whom she had grown up with.
She looked out at the yard worriedly and whispered, "Kag-chan, Inu-kun, where are you?"
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Kagome and Inu were in the now deserted school bolt panting heavily inside a closet on the third floor of the building. Almost everything in the school was either damaged of completely destroyed. In the large janitors closet alone there was a large whole in the floor and the body of a student who had tried to hide in the dark room was at the bottom of the hole that went down through the three stories to the ground. The dead students corps showed a large whole through their midsection that suggested that the root had come through the three floors and speared the kid through his midsection and pulled him back down the hole to his death. It made Inu's stomach turn to smell so many deaths at once, hell, the smell of his own blood was beginning to make him nauseous.
"Damn." He muttered as the pain in his chest doubled with the realization of so many deaths at once.
"What is it?" asked the timid girl next to him.
He looked at Kagome, her currently ocean-blue eyes looked at him in worry, no doubt she could sense his pain, "It's just," He stopped worried she might be frightened of what he was about to say but continued anyway, "there's so much death and blood, I can smell it and.it's intoxicating." He snarled.
Kagome looked at him confused then she remembered what he was and wondered briefly if she should hate him, "Why?" She asked hesitantly.
He looked at her in the eyes, gold clashing with blue, polar opposites in a way but wasn't that the same with their personalities? One brash and harsh, the other gentle and kind, but wasn't that how it's always been? Inu's eyes were like a cats and yet not. His eyes and ears were focused on her waiting for her to finish her question, but Kagome's eyes wandered from his face to the horrible wounds on his chest and then to the necklace. Kagome could almost swear that she'd seen the sword portrayed as a medallion on the silver chain around the boy's neck. Kagome then realized that as she thought about the puzzling questions resided in her mind, the young man in front of her was loosing his life force as it trickled down his chest and back, soaking his pants and the floor in the process.
Inu watched as the surveying girl suddenly jumped up and began to rummage through the contents in the small storage room coming back with a cloth, some bandages and a bottle of water. She quickly knelt beside him and Inu's confusion to what her intentions were became realization as she wet the cloth and then applied it to his chest causing Inu to his in pain. Kagome noticed his muscles contract and ripple under her fingertips. A warm feeling like fire ran through her body at the contact, causing Kagome to shudder involuntarily. Inu saw the shudder and turned his head away knowing now that he most likely repulsed the girl in front of him.
"Why didn't you tell me you were injured?" Kagome asked concerned.
Inu, not looking at her face took her concern for mocking, "Because." He snorted.
"Inu," She sighed silently, "I'm just tying to help."
"Why." He glared at her, "If I repulse you so much then why the hell are you touching me!"
Anger and hurt graced her features, "WHAT?" She yelled causing Inu to wince and bring his ears back, "Why on earth would I be repulsed by you?!" She asked a little more gently.
"Because I'm a damned Hanyou." He practically whispered.
Kagome was silent for a few minutes before she smiled dazzlingly at Inu, "Of all the." She began but had to stop herself as she began to chuckle, "Dose it look like I care Inu? Sure, you did lie to me in saying you were human, but you also saved my life. Even if you are a demon, or even part demon for that matter, you are first and foremost my .friend."
Inu looked at Kagome and felt as though he could fly. Every person he'd met, well except the people he'd worked for in London, had hated him after they had seen his true form. He knew that if he didn't stop himself he'd probably cry. then again. maybe not. Instead, he grinned at Kagome and muttered a quiet thanks as she smiled. Kagome continued to bandage Inu up.
For about an hour of silence between the two the screams became less and the sounds of the destroying roots became quieter signaling the end or maybe the beginning of something more terrifying then the couple could describe. Kagome sat next to the healing hanyou in silence with her knees up to her chest and her head resting on the arms that were holding them there. Inu was leaned against the wall with one leg cropped up and his arms lazily stationed at his side. His eyes were closed and his face relaxed making him appear to be asleep. It strangely seemed to calm Kagome down as well, to see such a pensive look on the half-youkai's face. The look gave the allusion that everything was all right and that maybe the terrifying things she had seen had been a horrible nightmare and nothing more. One look at the hole in the floor beside her made her believe otherwise though.
"Oi." Kagome jumped before she realized that Inu had just spoken to her.
"Hm?" Kagome looked at him a bit relieved.
"This is your first time huh." He asked.
"Nani?"
"This is you're first encounter with death isn't it?" He looked at her sadly.
"Yes." She looked at the hole, "It's not just that, but I knew most of the students that were killed. I hear about massacres everyday but." Inu looked at her torn; she shouldn't have to see such things. He thought as she continued, "But I never thought that this. This. How could this happen! When we were running all I could think of was how I was happy that I wasn't in their place!" she cried tears flowing freely down her ivory cheeks. Kagome buried her head in her arms and sobbed, "If I could have, I would have killed myself if it meant saving all of them, but then if the opportunity presented itself I don't think I could sacrifice myself like that! " She whispered softly, "I should have died. I must be a horrible person."
Inu's eyes widened and he quickly wrapped his arms around the breaking girl, "No damnit." He whispered, "You are not a bad person, did you know that when you walk into a room that your smile lights up everything and everyone in that room You are the least selfish person I have ever met and you're the first I'd ever trusted and I've only known you for three weeks! You can't help but believe that you should be down there dead with them but to do that would mean that you let those who are dead down. If you want to remember them, don't remember how they died but instead remember how they lived. If you do that and smile, then their souls will finally be able to rest."
"Thank you Inu-kun." She sniffled, "It sounds as if you've had more experience."
"Hai." He whispered, "I've seen far to much death in my lifetime."
Suddenly Inu tensed as he felt a strange vibration in the floor. He smirked ironically, "looks like our small moment of piece is over."
Everything was completely silent before crashing glass could be heard in the procession of one window after another starting on the fourth floor down. Then came the violent tremor as the roost under the building moved in a wave like pattern, lifting the building up and then dropping it again. Inu quickly grabbed Kagome and slammed open the door. He almost dropped Kagome several times before just putting her on his back. The halls lurched and the wood inside the building groaned from the force of the shaking and several times Inu was forced into the side of the building causing him and Kagome to cry out on impact.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" Inu yelled in frustration.
It was almost as if whatever was causing the damage in the building was following them. Inu cursed loudly after the umpteenth time of hitting the damn wall and suddenly began to run, no, (scratch that), fly down the halls. He began to attune himself with his surroundings and quickly found a pattern. Soon he knew when the floor would lurch underneath him and used that momentum to go faster. He felt a lurch and grinned. When the floor seemed to turn sideways, Inu jumped onto the wall beside him and pushed off only to run and repeat his actions on the opposite wall when the floor tipped the opposite way. Soon they reached the blocked stairwell and the unmoving elevator beside it. Kagome jumped off Inu's back and tried to help him move the huge piece of wood blocking the door. It wouldn't budge.
That's about the time the floor stopped acting like a wave and snapped. Inu and Kagome looked at each other before Kagome jumped onto Inu's back and Inu slammed open the door to the elevator sliding down the cable cord fire- fighter style. Inu's hands began to burn and he clenched his teeth trying to keep the pain out. Deciding that wasn't working, and they still had quite a way to go before they hit the bottom, Inu decided why not just let it all out in an old-fashioned war cry. Deciding that was the best way to get the stress of the day out he went for it. And damn did it feel good to do that just for the hell of it. The rush of the fall seemed to grow in intensity before it hit an abrupt stop causing the two teens to crash through the elevator roof. You can bet that that was not to fun for our hanyou friend I could tell you that. And all of that work and pain just went to show that they'd only reached the second floor. Damn whoever used the elevator last.
It was relatively quiet on this floor but the minute Inu's feet, added by the weight of Kagome, touched the floor it seemed to begin to crumble to dust. So naturally Inu ran as though all hell were after him. When he saw the window straight in front of him He immediately decided that that was his best choice for action. He shifted Kagome from his back to carrying her, much to her surprise, and jumped, also shattering the last window in tact in the whole building.
The reporters and all those people outside the gates watched in stunned silence as the two teens literally flew out of the window. Sango and Miroku knew who they were immediately and called out to them as they watched the shattered glass fly around them in a glittery cloud of deadly sharp-and- pointy objects as if in slow motion. When they touched the ground the roots were already rising to destroy the strange pair as they made a beeline for the gate like a blur of color.
As they reached the school gate several things happened at once. An unsuspecting root made it's way around Inu's ankle making him fall to the ground. Inu pushed Kagome as hard as he could into the throng of people gathered around the gate. The people grabbed Kagome to hold her back as the roots entwined around the struggled hanyou slowly beginning to suck his life's energy out of him. Kagome struggled against the throng of people to help him. It was useless and Kagome saw his face, which was slowly giving up and watched as his eyes held her and he muttered to her, "Smile, Kag, smile for me." Before his eyes closed and a bright light formed around the roots as they swallowed him up creating what looked to be a giant bud protruding out of the earth.
Tears streamed out of Kagome's eyes and she screamed at the top of her lungs, "INU YASHA!!!!"
Phew! That took me two days to type alone! It took me several weeks to get down on paper though and the next chapter is already started!!!! Yay! I am going to post the next chapter faster then this one! It's my Goal!!!!!!! Well that's it for the longest chapter I've done so far so please review and tell me what you think!!!! Arigato!
Ja ne!
-Abby Kitty
By: Abby Kitty
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha; please don't accuse me of it. Arigato.
Hay-o minna-san! I know It's taken me ages to write this next chapter and I wanted to put this thing up so badly that I decided to put this chapter up without very much editing. Please do not kill me if some of my spelling is off, like I know Jen will, I was anxious to put it up thank you very much.
To Jen: It's not my fault band and class has kept you to busy. I just didn't want to add more pressure on you're already stressful life.
So enough of my babbling.
On with the story! (
Chapter3
Mending
3 weeks later
Few clouds resided in the clouds on this fine October afternoon, which was strange, for the last few weeks had been nothing but rain. The storms had come from the northwestern part of the world. A few students blamed it on the new kid at the school; he was from London so he must have brought the storm with her right? After all, stranger things had happened in Jidai High, as the students would tell you. Fortunately ever since their Nurse Kimiko had come that had all changed. The nurse in question was looking out the window toward the front gate of the school, or more specifically a tree that was residing right next to the school gates. Her eyes narrowed and a look of extreme concentration adorned her usually optimistic looking features.
"It's almost time." She whispered.
What she meant would perhaps be revealed later. For now though we shall shift our view to the flock of students billowing out of the school building on lunch break. Let us focus now on a small group of youths as they in turn head out of the building at a more leisurely pace then the rest of their fellow students. Their names as we know it are: Inu Kamagoti, Sango Taijiya, Miroku Houshi, and last but most certainly not least, Kagome Higurashi. Their destinies would unknowingly shape the future of this ill fated world but we best not get to that until later as well. The four of them had become fast friends after their meeting three weeks ago, but ask anyone and they'd swear that the group had known each other their whole lives. Few secrets could escape this group and Inu was finding himself believing that maybe this group of people would be able to handle who he really was, or more to be exact, what he really was. He felt as though this group were almost like family. He hadn't trusted anyone in his life as much as he trusted them. He'd mainly encountered other demons and lots of vampires to the point that he was expecting a vampire to pop up at the last second to try to take a nice big bite out of his neck. This wasn't London; he kept berating himself. He was almost beginning to like Japan better then the dark corrupted city he'd practically grew up in.
"Oi, Inu-kun." Miroku had stopped and turned to his new best friend questioningly, "Daiboujdu?" (AN: Don't know if that's spelled correctly.. it's supposed to mean are you ok, but my spelling sucks so yeah..)
"Huh?" Inu was forced out of his reminiscing thoughts and looked at the lecher confused for a few seconds until he'd realized what he'd asked, "Hai." He said and caught up with his friends heading to a tree to eat.
As luck would have it, they just so happened to be sitting under a tree on the opposite side of the school from the gate. Now miracles in this world are few so when they do happen one should take them and cherish them. One never knows just when one will pop up and that goes to these four as well, for they had no idea about the tree by the school gate. This friends, was a miracle.
"Hey guys'," Kagome said while getting up with some of her trash in her hand, "I'll be right back ok?"
The others nodded their understanding and went back to tasking Inu some random questions about London. Inu watched Kagome head toward the trash can under the tree by the gate and got a strange feeling that he needed to be close to her as she neared the trash can and the dreaded tree. He felt as though the world was falling away as he watched her get closer and closer and soon he heard some violent whispering in a language he couldn't fathomed then as he listened closer the words became more intense and the verses were becoming easier to understand. Inu's hart seemed to be beating overtime and a great pain bombarded his chest and the necklace he wore with the strange sword dangling on it began to glow, of course Inu didn't notice the glowing for the necklace resided underneath his black school uniform shirt. Inu hadn't known he was running until the world came back into play around him. A horrible smell hit his sensitive nose and he immediately that if Kagome got closer to that tree, something unimaginable would happen. Then the voice intensified to the point where he could just make out the few words that wrenched his heart, "Rise, rise to kill!"
"Kagome!" He screamed, "Get the hell away from that tree!"
Everything seemed to go into slow motion as Kagome reached the tree and threw away the trash she had been carrying. First the ground around the tree began to shake as three figures jumped into the perimeter of the tree and created a sort of dog pile on top of Kagome. The tree began to glow and silence descended on the school. That's when all hell broke loose. Strange pulsating green roots shot out of the ground and began to whip other students who were now trying desperately to get into the school building. The now glowing tree branches retreated and tensed getting ready to whip the four occupants underneath the tree which on closer inspection revealed Sango, Miroku, Inu and of course, Kagome. Inu sensed the retraction of the branches and cursed. If all of those hit them at the same time then the humans would most definitely die on impact.
"Everyone scatter now!" He yelled in desperation.
Not knowing what was to happen, they quickly complied. The minute they moved away from each other the branches whipped down and decimated the spot they were currently sitting. Seeing the destroyed piece of dirt the three humans faces paled. The branches retracted again and started to build energy to strike them once again. Inu grimaced as an idea hit him, well he was going to have to tell them of his true form eventually, and now was as good a time as any. Man this was going to hurt, but unlike them he would be able to survive. Inu knew revealing his secret could save their lives so he quickly reverted to his true form. He heard a few collective gasps and grimaced.
"Behind me." He looked at his newest friends and noticed a lot more suspicion then he'd expected making his heart wrench, "Listen you don't have a lot of time dammit! Just get behind me NOW!"
Everyone quickly complied and Inu held out his arms wide in order to be able to protect the others better and the vines whipped his chest. The strength of the attack was so great that his shirt was ripped to shreds just by the air pressure alone. Inu fell onto his knees and yelled to the others to run unaware that the whole school grounds were under the attack of the deadly plants. When they didn't move Inu turned around and saw why they weren't. The school grounds were littered with injured and dead humans and the now revealed demons as well. His eyes instinctively shot up towards the school roof and he noticed the familiar figure of the psychopath that had entered his bedroom not so long ago, Naraku. He was on the top of the fence laughing as if this scene were the most hysterical thing he had ever seen. He then looked directly at Inu and grinned pointing at the tree behind them.
Inu turned toward the tree, "Oh." He turned back to his friends and jumped in front of them as the branches hurled him away from the tree creating deep welts in his back, "SHHHIIIITTTTTT!!!!"
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Hojo watched in horror and rage as one of his fellow students was just cut in half by a root slamming into them. He screamed in outrage as tears flew down his face. He ran at the "root" unintelligently and the root moved at the last minute and made Hojo trip and fall out of the gate. He hit the concrete ground with a thud and looked up. The root retracted back for the final blow and just as Hojo believed he was going to die the root hit an invisible barrier of some sort and the root disintegrated into dust. Hojo sat there dumfounded for a few minutes in stunned silence before his no- longer-that-naiveté mind began to process this newly found sanctuary.
"Oi!" He yelled desperately, "Oi!" He yelled again trying hard to be overheard amongst the horrible screaming and scrambling to get away.
Hojo stood helplessly and heard a new sound of screaming as the students that had been in the building suddenly began to run out with the demonic roots following them. Hojo tried again to get the students attention this time by jumping up and down waving his arms above him frantically. That's when he noticed the press had come and the police and firefighters were on their way. Hojo suddenly knew what he needed to do. When the firefighters had arrived, Hojo politely asked to use the megaphone that they carried in their van. They looked at him bewildered but gave it to him anyways.
Hojo muttered a thank you and turned to the terror stricken school and brought the megaphone up to his lips, "OI!" He yelled and everything stopped, "Ahem, EVERYONE GET THROUGH THE SCHOOL GATES NOW! THE EVIL ROOTS CAN'T PENETRATE PAST THIS POINT FOR SOME REASON. IF YOU ARE INJURED GET SOMEONE TO HELP! NOW, MOVE IT!!!!!"
Sango and Miroku were the first to make it through the gate and soon hundreds of others got out as well but many were still in there fighting for their lives. If anyone were Youkai then they volunteered to keep going in to the school grounds to get others more vulnerable, (mainly humans), out. Sango and Miroku kept looking for their two best friends but couldn't see them through the throngs of teachers and students alike. They both began to get worried and Miroku decided to help out with the paramedics, being raised as a monk, he knew a bit about medicine and first aid. Sango stayed at the gate and helped the other youkai get the injured through the gate; it was strange to see the true forms of many of her classmates whom she had grown up with.
She looked out at the yard worriedly and whispered, "Kag-chan, Inu-kun, where are you?"
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Kagome and Inu were in the now deserted school bolt panting heavily inside a closet on the third floor of the building. Almost everything in the school was either damaged of completely destroyed. In the large janitors closet alone there was a large whole in the floor and the body of a student who had tried to hide in the dark room was at the bottom of the hole that went down through the three stories to the ground. The dead students corps showed a large whole through their midsection that suggested that the root had come through the three floors and speared the kid through his midsection and pulled him back down the hole to his death. It made Inu's stomach turn to smell so many deaths at once, hell, the smell of his own blood was beginning to make him nauseous.
"Damn." He muttered as the pain in his chest doubled with the realization of so many deaths at once.
"What is it?" asked the timid girl next to him.
He looked at Kagome, her currently ocean-blue eyes looked at him in worry, no doubt she could sense his pain, "It's just," He stopped worried she might be frightened of what he was about to say but continued anyway, "there's so much death and blood, I can smell it and.it's intoxicating." He snarled.
Kagome looked at him confused then she remembered what he was and wondered briefly if she should hate him, "Why?" She asked hesitantly.
He looked at her in the eyes, gold clashing with blue, polar opposites in a way but wasn't that the same with their personalities? One brash and harsh, the other gentle and kind, but wasn't that how it's always been? Inu's eyes were like a cats and yet not. His eyes and ears were focused on her waiting for her to finish her question, but Kagome's eyes wandered from his face to the horrible wounds on his chest and then to the necklace. Kagome could almost swear that she'd seen the sword portrayed as a medallion on the silver chain around the boy's neck. Kagome then realized that as she thought about the puzzling questions resided in her mind, the young man in front of her was loosing his life force as it trickled down his chest and back, soaking his pants and the floor in the process.
Inu watched as the surveying girl suddenly jumped up and began to rummage through the contents in the small storage room coming back with a cloth, some bandages and a bottle of water. She quickly knelt beside him and Inu's confusion to what her intentions were became realization as she wet the cloth and then applied it to his chest causing Inu to his in pain. Kagome noticed his muscles contract and ripple under her fingertips. A warm feeling like fire ran through her body at the contact, causing Kagome to shudder involuntarily. Inu saw the shudder and turned his head away knowing now that he most likely repulsed the girl in front of him.
"Why didn't you tell me you were injured?" Kagome asked concerned.
Inu, not looking at her face took her concern for mocking, "Because." He snorted.
"Inu," She sighed silently, "I'm just tying to help."
"Why." He glared at her, "If I repulse you so much then why the hell are you touching me!"
Anger and hurt graced her features, "WHAT?" She yelled causing Inu to wince and bring his ears back, "Why on earth would I be repulsed by you?!" She asked a little more gently.
"Because I'm a damned Hanyou." He practically whispered.
Kagome was silent for a few minutes before she smiled dazzlingly at Inu, "Of all the." She began but had to stop herself as she began to chuckle, "Dose it look like I care Inu? Sure, you did lie to me in saying you were human, but you also saved my life. Even if you are a demon, or even part demon for that matter, you are first and foremost my .friend."
Inu looked at Kagome and felt as though he could fly. Every person he'd met, well except the people he'd worked for in London, had hated him after they had seen his true form. He knew that if he didn't stop himself he'd probably cry. then again. maybe not. Instead, he grinned at Kagome and muttered a quiet thanks as she smiled. Kagome continued to bandage Inu up.
For about an hour of silence between the two the screams became less and the sounds of the destroying roots became quieter signaling the end or maybe the beginning of something more terrifying then the couple could describe. Kagome sat next to the healing hanyou in silence with her knees up to her chest and her head resting on the arms that were holding them there. Inu was leaned against the wall with one leg cropped up and his arms lazily stationed at his side. His eyes were closed and his face relaxed making him appear to be asleep. It strangely seemed to calm Kagome down as well, to see such a pensive look on the half-youkai's face. The look gave the allusion that everything was all right and that maybe the terrifying things she had seen had been a horrible nightmare and nothing more. One look at the hole in the floor beside her made her believe otherwise though.
"Oi." Kagome jumped before she realized that Inu had just spoken to her.
"Hm?" Kagome looked at him a bit relieved.
"This is your first time huh." He asked.
"Nani?"
"This is you're first encounter with death isn't it?" He looked at her sadly.
"Yes." She looked at the hole, "It's not just that, but I knew most of the students that were killed. I hear about massacres everyday but." Inu looked at her torn; she shouldn't have to see such things. He thought as she continued, "But I never thought that this. This. How could this happen! When we were running all I could think of was how I was happy that I wasn't in their place!" she cried tears flowing freely down her ivory cheeks. Kagome buried her head in her arms and sobbed, "If I could have, I would have killed myself if it meant saving all of them, but then if the opportunity presented itself I don't think I could sacrifice myself like that! " She whispered softly, "I should have died. I must be a horrible person."
Inu's eyes widened and he quickly wrapped his arms around the breaking girl, "No damnit." He whispered, "You are not a bad person, did you know that when you walk into a room that your smile lights up everything and everyone in that room You are the least selfish person I have ever met and you're the first I'd ever trusted and I've only known you for three weeks! You can't help but believe that you should be down there dead with them but to do that would mean that you let those who are dead down. If you want to remember them, don't remember how they died but instead remember how they lived. If you do that and smile, then their souls will finally be able to rest."
"Thank you Inu-kun." She sniffled, "It sounds as if you've had more experience."
"Hai." He whispered, "I've seen far to much death in my lifetime."
Suddenly Inu tensed as he felt a strange vibration in the floor. He smirked ironically, "looks like our small moment of piece is over."
Everything was completely silent before crashing glass could be heard in the procession of one window after another starting on the fourth floor down. Then came the violent tremor as the roost under the building moved in a wave like pattern, lifting the building up and then dropping it again. Inu quickly grabbed Kagome and slammed open the door. He almost dropped Kagome several times before just putting her on his back. The halls lurched and the wood inside the building groaned from the force of the shaking and several times Inu was forced into the side of the building causing him and Kagome to cry out on impact.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" Inu yelled in frustration.
It was almost as if whatever was causing the damage in the building was following them. Inu cursed loudly after the umpteenth time of hitting the damn wall and suddenly began to run, no, (scratch that), fly down the halls. He began to attune himself with his surroundings and quickly found a pattern. Soon he knew when the floor would lurch underneath him and used that momentum to go faster. He felt a lurch and grinned. When the floor seemed to turn sideways, Inu jumped onto the wall beside him and pushed off only to run and repeat his actions on the opposite wall when the floor tipped the opposite way. Soon they reached the blocked stairwell and the unmoving elevator beside it. Kagome jumped off Inu's back and tried to help him move the huge piece of wood blocking the door. It wouldn't budge.
That's about the time the floor stopped acting like a wave and snapped. Inu and Kagome looked at each other before Kagome jumped onto Inu's back and Inu slammed open the door to the elevator sliding down the cable cord fire- fighter style. Inu's hands began to burn and he clenched his teeth trying to keep the pain out. Deciding that wasn't working, and they still had quite a way to go before they hit the bottom, Inu decided why not just let it all out in an old-fashioned war cry. Deciding that was the best way to get the stress of the day out he went for it. And damn did it feel good to do that just for the hell of it. The rush of the fall seemed to grow in intensity before it hit an abrupt stop causing the two teens to crash through the elevator roof. You can bet that that was not to fun for our hanyou friend I could tell you that. And all of that work and pain just went to show that they'd only reached the second floor. Damn whoever used the elevator last.
It was relatively quiet on this floor but the minute Inu's feet, added by the weight of Kagome, touched the floor it seemed to begin to crumble to dust. So naturally Inu ran as though all hell were after him. When he saw the window straight in front of him He immediately decided that that was his best choice for action. He shifted Kagome from his back to carrying her, much to her surprise, and jumped, also shattering the last window in tact in the whole building.
The reporters and all those people outside the gates watched in stunned silence as the two teens literally flew out of the window. Sango and Miroku knew who they were immediately and called out to them as they watched the shattered glass fly around them in a glittery cloud of deadly sharp-and- pointy objects as if in slow motion. When they touched the ground the roots were already rising to destroy the strange pair as they made a beeline for the gate like a blur of color.
As they reached the school gate several things happened at once. An unsuspecting root made it's way around Inu's ankle making him fall to the ground. Inu pushed Kagome as hard as he could into the throng of people gathered around the gate. The people grabbed Kagome to hold her back as the roots entwined around the struggled hanyou slowly beginning to suck his life's energy out of him. Kagome struggled against the throng of people to help him. It was useless and Kagome saw his face, which was slowly giving up and watched as his eyes held her and he muttered to her, "Smile, Kag, smile for me." Before his eyes closed and a bright light formed around the roots as they swallowed him up creating what looked to be a giant bud protruding out of the earth.
Tears streamed out of Kagome's eyes and she screamed at the top of her lungs, "INU YASHA!!!!"
Phew! That took me two days to type alone! It took me several weeks to get down on paper though and the next chapter is already started!!!! Yay! I am going to post the next chapter faster then this one! It's my Goal!!!!!!! Well that's it for the longest chapter I've done so far so please review and tell me what you think!!!! Arigato!
Ja ne!
-Abby Kitty