Part of your world chapter 14
I'm changing the POV.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Miroku~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I didn't want to tell her. I didn't want to talk about it. They could have been
happy, not knowing. Except... he would ask about it anyways. He needed to know
about his past. And if it ws true that he had come from the past... he needed to
know what happened in case he ever wanted to go back. How was I to know that he
was so involved in it? I didn't mean to hurt Kagome so much... she looked so
happy. She was practiclly skipping, ready for Happily Ever After to begin. She
got us some tea, as was custimary, and they sat on the futon. I sat on a futon
chair, wanting some distence between me and them. Now her living room looked
like my office, with me in my chair and the couple in the loveseat. Or like a
scene from an american movie, with the government official visiting, about to be
the bearer of bad news. "We regret to inform you..."
I began to speak. "So... Inuyasha. You are an Inu Hanyou, correct? How much do
you know about your past?"
He looked bewildered. "My past?"
"your heritage. The past of your people." I pretended not to know about the
well.
"My.. what? I know all the youkai customs, if that's what you mean..."
"So you know the old stories, then?"
"What? Oh, those fairy tales and such?"
"Particularly the tale of the end of your people."
"The... end?" Now the dog boy was confused. Kagome looked perplexed, as if to
ask "why are you bringing this up?" it was a fair but unspoken question. I did
not answer her. I did not wish to reveal how much I really knew about body
language. I pretended to be confused.
"Of course! You may be the only hanyou left... no, you would have to have a
true youkai parent. Possibly the last... I was unaware that anywere left after
the Rebellion." I said it offhandedly, as though this was something everyone
knew. Kagome looked a little pained, suprising me. Could she know? But no, she
must just be feeling sympathy for him. But still... to this
"The last..." he trailed off, pained. I felt sorry for him. I looked aghast.
"you mean... but how could you not know?"
"He came through time, through a magical well. He doesn't know! He came from a
time in which Youkai were plentiful!" Kagome glared at me, defending him. She
leaned forward, her body trying to look imposing. I looked sad. Inside, I
wondered. Magical well? Could it be? Could this hanyou be...
"I'm sorry. You should know, though, if you are to stay in this time." I sipped
my tea and began my tale.
"So. Sesshomaru's Rebellion. Well, there is a legand of a youkai king named
Sesshomaru-sama. And they say he had a younger half-brother, a hanyou, though I
don't know how true this is. Most likely it is an attempt to justify the
unprevoked attack on the human villages. Well, they say this brother went away,
and was never seen again. They say he went to a village and fell in love with a
miko; impossible since he was 'never seen again'. Well, they say this Miko had a
gem to make him a full youkai. No such jewel is known to me, or mentioned in any
books written for a while. Well, they say someone tricked them and she shot him
and pinned him to a tree, possibly why he was never seen again to the king. They
say also that he went through a magic well, never to be seen again; impossible,
since he was pinned to a tree. Anyways, they say the miko dissapeared after she
pinned him to the tree, but she came back. She then went to Sesshomaru-sama and
told him that his brother had gone through a well and gotten lost, and he was
mad. She must have edited the story a bit, for he launched a huge attack on the
village near the well, demanding his brother of the well, preferably both. The
village seemed doomed."
"Keade..." he whispered. A completely illogical resopnce. He seemed all too
caught up in the story for someone who should be rejoicing that the youkai were
winning.
"Well, Kikyo, being human, didn't stand for that. She changed sides, and used
her powerful miko powers to save the village. Other villages nearby came to
help, and other youkai came to help Sesshomaru-sama. But the youkai couldn't
work together, so they fell to the humans. All were slaughtered.
But Kikyo wanted to kill Sesshomaru-sama herself. She challenged him to battle,
but he cheated and poisened her. She killed him, but she died as well. Her last
word was "Inu...". We think that she was cursing Sesshomaru-sama: he happened to
be an Inu youkai. After that, the people bore Kikyo to..."
"Stop it." Inuyasha whispered. I looked at him. He was crying. He put his hands
over his ears. "Stop it!" he shouted. "Stop it! She's not dead, she's alive, she
ran away, she didn't come back, she didn't, she waited for me, she married, she
had kids, she was happy..."
"Who, Kikyo? Ten or so years passed, she could have begat a line of mikos...
but where are they now? More likely she didn't exist. If she did, where are
these mysterious all-powerufl mikos? "
Kagome stood up. "Right here!" she exclaimed. "Me! In me!" I was shocked. That
was the last thing I had expected. But I kept my cool and nodded slowly.
"I see. Then where is this mysterious hanyou brother who started all of this?
Without him, Kikyo most likely had nothing to do with it."
Inuyasha looked pained. He sobbed. "Fluffy-chan... Kikyo... all dead, all
because of me... and her last words... what did you say they were?" He looked
up, through tears. I suddanly got it.
"MY buddha... you!" It was true! Magic well! He had come from the past! And
Kikyo had, a long time earlier, and begat Kagome, or her mother. Now I
understood. "Her last word was Inu... perhaps a curse on the inu youkai that
killed her."
"No." Inuyasha whispered. "No, not a curse... a cry, a plea, or a curse, but
not on fluffy-chan. On me. Inu... yasha." He stood up. "I have to go back." he
declared.
"Inu... Please, stay here, with me, be happy, please!" pleaded Kagome, tears
welling up in her eyes. "please.. I only just found you, I can't lose you
again..."
He turned a deaf ear to her pleas. He put something wrapped in tissue paper
from his pocket onto the counter. Then he left, heading out to the backyard at
super-human speeds. Kagome crumpled, just collapsed onto the futon couch,
weeping. "He chose Kikyo... when it really mattered he chose her..." she
whispered over and over. I put an arm around her awkwardly to comfort her, and
found a Shiki Buton in the closet. I had a feeling she should not be alone that
night.
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