Wicked

Chapter 7: genesis

by Kayla Chavi

rating: R

email: kayla@wishing-blue.net

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Coming face to face with Kikyou for the first time since losing my virginity didn't go how I'd expected. Not that I thought it would be peaches and roses, but I didn't think she'd try to tear my throat out.

Maybe I should start from the beginning. Kagura was dying. Kanna was dead. Kouga was injured and missing a leg and a tail. Miroku couldn't use his hand and Sango was knocked out. And I was half naked. Apparently I'm in heat and all the male youkai think that's the best thing next to human flesh.

Inuyasha was almost feral. He didn't handle the attempted rape too well either. Then Sesshoumaru had showed up with that little girl that follows him around. Kagura had protected Rin from Kanna, but couldn't save herself from Kouga. It was a mess and there was more blood than what had become normal for us.

That's when Kikyou appeared. She took one look at me and literally reached out to rip my throat out of my neck.

Guess she saw the scar.

"You silly, stupid, little girl," she hissed. "You are worthless if you are tainted? Haven't you learned anything from our past?"

I didn't have the brains to form an answer. I was too busy trying to get out of her way. Her hands were glowing and I wasn't going to take any chances that I might be immune to her power.

"You're filthy now. Worthless and tainted."

"Yeah, well you have chunky thighs," I grumbled and desperately looked around for my bow. I may not be an master archer, but I can still shoot straight. Hopefully, anyway. I don't think she was expecting me to say that, for I had the supreme pleasure of watching a look of pure confusion flit over her face. "And I'm not tainted," I added haughtily. "Only two things can taint a miko. You have both."

Kikyou blinked at me and then narrowed her eyes. "I do not love that hanyou. I hate him."

"Wouldn't life be so easy if that's all that it was," I shot back and felt elation burst through me as I picked up my bow. Two perfect arrows laid in the bloody ground next to my weapon. Two shots. This was not going to be easy, especially when Inuyasha realized what was going on and tried to stop me. "He loves you, miko-slut."

"He's a youkai, they are incapable of love." Her power began to grow again and she fashioned a bow and arrow out of the dark energy surrounding her. A moment later she had an arrow. Damn. I'm going to die half naked in the dirt by my lover's love. They should make a soap opera out of this. It's perfect for it.

"He's hanyou," I corrected. "And more capable than you ever realized. You don't deserve that love. Hell, you don't deserve anything." As fast as I could I drew my weapon and fired, aiming for her heart.

Inuyasha deflected it and I knew, I knew I was dead.

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There was a very important advantage to having Kagome as my mate. Her power couldn't hurt me anymore. I moved into the path of her attack and pushed away the arrow. It burned a little but still glanced off the fire-rat skin of my haori. I tackled Kikyou to the ground, pushing away her attack as well. That one hurt a little more and I felt my youkai blood rise to the surface, pushing against the barrier that my sword kept in place.

Annoyed, I threw Tetsaiga away. Angrily, I looked into Kikyou's dark eyes and tried to find her. I wanted to find the girl that made me consider humanity.

And in those eyes I found nothing to lead me to believe Kikyou's soul was in that body of mud and bones. There was anger, revulsion, and hate. My human half would mourn her later, he would finally let go of the lie he had been clinging to for over three years now. But right now, I was more concerned with saving my bitch--Kagome.

"You're an animal." She spat at me, the saliva sticking thickly on my cheek. "Dirty, and disgusting. I should have put you down like the dog you are."

"Would that have been before or after you fucked me?" The faint thrum of calm worked through my blood. I could hear my heart pounding in my ears. Not too far away, Kagome's beat rapidly. She was afraid. My bitch was afraid.

"You made me believe that you loved me."

"I do."

"Yet you screw a little girl?" She reared up, trying to fight my hold. I slammed her back into the dirt and blood, banging her head against a rock. Her blood was black and smelled like the earth. There was no heart beat coming from Kikyou.

"She is my mate, Kikyou." I placed my hand on the breast over her heart. "You of all people know what that means." She made a sort of strangled sound, angry and still so hateful.

"You're revolting. You told a child. Pervert."

"And you're into bestiality, apparently," I growled back. "Stand down and leave us in peace."

"Never. I'll kill her and then you."

I growled and bared my fangs at her. I could feel the red strips burn into my cheeks and I knew that I had completely reverted. I didn't care. Kagome would be safe. She was mine to protect.

And then my hand was in her chest, forcefully ripping out what pretended to be her heart. I held the lump of clay in my fist and then crushed it with a simple curse. "Hijin Ketsusou."

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I screamed as pain flooded my senses. I hadn't been able to hear any of their conversation. Well, except for the bestiality part. Which if I hadn't been exhausted, would have disturbed me. All I knew was that he had pulled out her heart, said one of his simple attacks, and now I felt like I was being ripped apart and being put back together at the same time.

Light flooded my eyes, my ears. I breathed it in and it came out of me in sound. I felt a rush of wind go over me and for one moment, I hated Inuyasha.

Then it was gone and he was crawling over my severely weakened body. I couldn't move, couldn't feel anything but a gentle weight and tug as he sat me up and enfolded me in his arms.

"That hurt." I knew that I should have been more concerned by his appearance, but I couldn't find the energy. Besides, Tetsaiga wasn't too far away from us. We'd calm down and it would be fine. I just had to process that she was actually dead.

He had chosen me over her. I opened my eyes and looked up at the scarlet and azure eyes of the hanyou I loved and tried to speak. "Inu--"

New pain burst through me and I fell slack against his chest. Blood welled inside my mouth as I felt all my old wounds open. I fell to the dirt when a thud. Inuyasha screamed. I tried to make it out, but the comprehension didn't come until the blackness took me.

"Bakuryuuha!"

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