Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
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Inuyasha continued to have his
bewildered look playing across his face as he stared at the cook, the
annoying little rat child, and his cousin. The three named people
continued to sit on the ground and look up at him with odd looks on
their faces.
Inuyasha finally threw his arms up into the air,
"Why the hell are you still in my room?"
Sango,
Miroku, Shippou, and even Kagome jumped and looked at Inuyasha.
Growling like a dog, Inuyasha pointed an evil glare at the three
occupants who were standing/sitting amid the broken shards of
glass.
"Ok. Let me say this in a way you might
understand. Get. Out. Of. My. Room. Now!" Inuyasha picked
up Shippou and flung him out the door, Miroku and Sango exchanged
looks and then left as well, muttering about Inuyasha and not enough
coffee.
Kagome watched them go with mild interest. She turned
to Inuyasha with a smile, "Ok, I told you about me being a miko,
now you have to tell me something!"
"Oh great,"
Inuyasha said sarcastically, "What, pray tell, is it that you
could possibly want to know?"
"Why are you a
hanyou?" she asked, Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock and then he
grunted, flopping down onto his bed and staring up at the ceiling, a
pained expression dancing across his face.
Kagome bit her
bottom lip, she hadn't meant to make Inuyasha feel uneasy, and
certainly not pain, and she lowered her gaze and turned to seep
through the floor.
"It only happened about a month ago."
Kagome jumped and looked at Inuyasha, who was staring at his now
transformed claws, smiling sadly he flexed the claws, allowing the
nails to trace his palm lightly, "I wasn't always this
way."
Kagome looked at him sadly and then sat herself at
the foot of the bed. Not saying a word, in case he didn't want to
tell her much.
Inuyasha didn't shift his gaze, kept staring at
the same spot on the ceiling, "believe it or not, I used to be
fully human."
Turning back to his human form he stared at
the dull human nails, blinking his amethyst eyes he smiled the same
small and sad smile, "I was normal."
Kagome blinked
but still sad nothing.
"I lived a normal life with my two
parents and I was happy," he closed his eyes as if trying to
push the painful memories back, "But that all changed one
day."
"What happened?" Kagome whispered
silently.
"I met a youkai," Inuyasha stated as if it
were the most simple thing in the world, "of course, I didn't
know he was at the time."
He sat up now and looked at the
wall with the peeling paint, "I pissed him off somehow, I don't
know, maybe he just was in a bad mood, but when I got home I saw him
sitting on my roof, damn it, at the time I had no idea why the hell
he was up there, he said something about the roof being the perfect
home."
Kagome suddenly got a feeling in the pit of her
stomach.
"Anyways, I ran inside my house and found my
parents gone. Just gone. Nothing was left behind, it was a totally
empty house," he rubbed his head irritably, "I ran back
outside and asked the bastard youkai what the hell he did, and he
only said 'you shouldn't mess with the best' and I was about
to call the police when he made a deal with me."
"A
deal?"
"He said if I did something for him I'd bring
my parents back."
"And what did you do?"
"Do?
Kagome, what else COULD I do? I wanted my parents to be safe, so
being the fool that I am, I agreed."
"Oh..."
"Yeah,
he brought my parents back, but they weren't the same. My father was
cold and icy, and my mother, my mother was the worst, she didn't
speak, she didn't eat, and I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't
breathe. She just wasn't alive anymore."
"I wanted
to back out of the deal, seeing my parents that way was too much,"
he clenched his fist, "but that bastard. He didn't like people
backing out of deals, so he punished me."
"...By
turning you into a hanyou?"
"Yeah." He said
sadly, "when I came to, my parents were gone, and I ran, I ran
as far as I could, I only wanted to be human again. And when I awoke.
Lo and behold, I was human, and I was happy. But then I turned back,
and that's how I discovered I could give myself a sealing spell. I
called Sango the next day and she took me in."
Kagome and
Inuyasha sat in silence for a while until Kagome said, "I'm
sorry."
"I don't want your pity, bitch, I don't even
know why the hell I told you all that."
"Maybe
because we're kindred spirits," Kagome said softly, Inuyasha
looked at her, sighed and got up to leave.
Kagome
sat as Kikyo in the garden, watching the roses sadly, she heard foot
steps behind her and she looked back only to see Miroku standing over
her.
"Why, if it isn't you Kikyo-San, why may I ask are
you residing in Sango-Sama's rose garden?"
Kikyo smiled
sadly, "Roses bring back painful memories."
"Yeah
that explains a lot."
Kikyo rolled her eyes, "I
suppose not."
"Well, if I could rearrange the
alphabet I'd put 'U' and 'I' next to each other."
Kikyo
raised an eyebrow and rose from her bench, "That was worst than
the angel pick up line."
Miroku shrugged, "Do your
legs hurt?"
"Huh?"
"Because you've
been running through my mind all day."
"That was
even worst!"
"I'm just trying to make you smile Lady
Kikyo, you would look better," Miroku turned and walked back
into the house, seemingly oblivious.
Kikyo scowled at his
retreating back but sat back down in a huff on the bench, staring at
the white roses painfully.
A few minutes later another person
sat next to her on the bench, thinking it was Miroku she scowled
deeper and turned, "Leave me alone you hentai."
Chuckling
made her realize that it was Inuyasha sitting near her, he smiled at
her but she could see sadness in his eyes, 'Must still be sad
about telling me about what happened.' She thought sadly.
Trying
her best to smile she fiddled with a petal of the rose, "Good
afternoon."
"Had better," he replied but
watched her look at the rose gardens, "What are you doing
here?"
Kikyo closed her eyes and exhaled deeply, "Your
house has lovely roses, I am sorry for intruding."
"No,
it's fine I was just wondering."
Sighing lightly Kikyo
looked at the roses; fingering the soft, velvety petals gingerly she
soon became lost in the smell of the roses. True, Kouga had given her
roses many times before, and afterwards she'd been too depressed to
even look at roses without burning them. But now, she felt a sudden
calm sitting in the rose patch, or maybe it was because of a certain
hanyou?
