Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
Kagome watched Inuyasha walk into
the house and felt her heart smash into tinier pieces, she felt
empty.
"He...didn't believe me..." she whispered
sadly as she felt tears run down her cheek.
Naraku stifled a
yawn and then turned to Kagome, "Come now, it is time to
go."
Suddenly, Kagome's anger returned, "Why did
you do that!"
Naraku smirked, "Because I own
you."
Kagome sobbed, "But you didn't have to ruin my
life..."
"Come now, Kagome-Chan, I'd be a much
better lover than him," Naraku boasted to himself and it took
all Kagome had not to reel back in disgust.
"I'll never
stoop myself so low," she muttered as she turned away from
him.
Naraku strolled over to her and slapped her. Hard.
"Listen, Bitch, I'm trying to be kind, but if you make this hard
for me, I might have to hurt you, now get the fuck up."
Kagome
cried out in pain as she gingerly touched her cheek, which was now
beating a dark red, "Never."
Naraku narrowed his
eyes from beneath his baboon mask, "Then you leave me no
choice."
He leaned over and punched her across the other
cheek, causing it to instantly swell and turn bluish black. Kagome
cried out in anguish as he picked her up by her hair, dragging her
feet along the pathway, her skull throbbing.
"Now, I
don't want to hurt you," Kagome snorted at that which resulted
in another punch, "but you'll be a good bitch and listen to me.
Now then, we're leaving."
Kagome cast her gaze towards
the house, a memory sparked in her aching head, "Sorry, but I
cannot leave the forest."
Naraku smirked, "Don't
worry I'll make sure the curse has no effect on you."
Kagome
stared at him from her hanging position, wondering how he knew she
had a curse that didn't allow her to leave the shadow of the forest.
She stared at the smirking man and gulped, hoping that someone would
save her soon.
Inuyasha walked slowly through the
house, his footsteps almost as heavy as his heart was. He'd trusted
Kagome, and she'd been with Naraku the whole time. Played him for a
fool. Hurt him...broke his heart.
Had he loved
Kagome?
Probably.
He leaned against his door, his
forehead resting softly on the wood, he forced himself not to cry,
though he felt his insides had been smashed and battered.
Turning
the doorknob lightly he slumped into his darkened room. 'That's
funny, I could have sworn that I opened my curtains...'
Suddenly
the light clicked on and Inuyasha whirled around to see...
"What
do you want Miroku?" Inuyasha groaned, walking towards the cook
to push him out of his room.
Miroku, however, had other plans
as he marched over to Inuyasha, grabbed his shoulder firmly and
knocked him to the ground, his eyes ablaze.
"What the
fuck?" Inuyasha yelled at the cook who was pinning him to the
ground.
"Inuyasha, I'd like to tell you something I saw
today," Miroku said coolly, him giving him a look that said
'don't you dare interrupt'.
Inuyasha glared as Miroku
allowed him to sit up, "What do you want?"
"Well,
Lady Sango told me to water the roses today, since the red ones had
seemed a little down lately, and I was walking along the path when I
saw you."
Inuyasha looked mildly surprised.
"Yes,
it was you, and you started talking to yourself, it seemed, and then
suddenly this weird monkey thing fell from the sky and you started
screaming at it. And then the most remarkable thing happened...Kikyo
appeared out of thin air, isn't that odd?"
Inuyasha
growled.
"You started to walk away and the girl
proclaimed her love to you, Inuyasha, I believe, but you didn't
listen, instead you left that girl to baboon boy, poor thing too,"
Inuyasha looked up and met Miroku's deep purple eyes.
"What
do you mean?"
"Well, baboon boy started beating up
Miss Kikyo, and he dragged her into the forest, the poor girl was
basically beaten to a bloody pulp..."
"Kagome..."
"Err...no
it was Kikyo, Inuyasha," Miroku said, a little confused and
wondered if Inuyasha was even listening.
"Kagome is
Kikyo...she tricked me..." Inuyasha stood up suddenly and
morphed into his hanyou form.
Miroku's eyes bugged out of
their sockets, "What the hell?"
Inuyasha
didn't pay him any mind, "She tricked me...but I was a fool to
not believe her when she said she was sorry, now she's gone." He
blabbed on to himself as he clenched a fist, drawing blood, he looked
up at the curtained windows, his eyes reflected an inner fire, "I
can't stay mad at her when she's in danger..." he looked down at
his clawed hands, smiling sadly, "You can't stay mad at someone
you love."
Miroku raised an eyebrow and watched as
Inuyasha flung the window open and hoped out towards the forest, "I
think he was talking more to himself than us, Sango, dear."
Sango
walked from the shadows and looked at the open window, "We
better follow him, he might need some help...besides I want to touch
those ears! "
"Would you want to touch my ears if
they were doggy like?" Miroku asked innocently.
"Of
course, now come on!" Sango grabbed Miroku's hand and whipped
out of the house.
Kagome felt her head go numb as Naraku
dragged her across the field. The field. The field that she'd seen
Inuyasha turn hanyou for the first time, the place brought back a
warm memory, before the pit of her stomach started to toss and turn
painfully as she remembered the look that Inuyasha had given
her.
She clutched her eyes shut trying to get rid of the image
of Inuyasha's cold amethyst eyes, she sniffed from the emotional and
physical pain that Naraku had inflicted on her.
"Do not
worry, Kagome-Chan, we'll be there soon," Naraku said to her as
he turned a corner in a long row of trees and a multicolored barrier
advanced on them, Kagome's eyes widened and Naraku chuckled, "welcome
to my domain, Koishii."
"Don't call me that,"
Kagome bit out angrily as she regained her composer, she jerked her
head to the side in hopes of loosening his grip on her hair, but only
resulted in making it throb painfully.
"I don't know why
you bother, Koishii, it's not like any one will miss you,"
Naraku smirked at Kagome's pained expression, "The only person
who knew you was Inuyasha, and he hates you now, how can you love a
man who trusts his parent's killer before the woman he loves?"
"He
doesn't love me," Kagome said softly, though, she couldn't help
think that Naraku was right...how could Inuyasha not believe
her?"
"How could I have not believed
Kagome?" Inuyasha yelled to himself as he paused in a field
to sniff out the smell of Kagome, the smell of roses drifted through
the air and it was mixed with a salty liquid...and her blood.
Inuyasha growled and continued searching for the direction Naraku had
taken Kagome.
He felt tears prickling his eyes as he thought
of what he had said to Kagome, "I'm such a cold hearted
bastard."
"Nah, you just always forget when it's the
wrong time to say something," a voice said behind him, he
whirled around to see Sango and Miroku standing and smiling
slightly.
"What are you two doing here?" Inuyasha
asked, slightly annoyed that he hadn't smelled them coming.
"We're
here to help..." Sango said softly, still smiling at her cousin,
"I feel like you've been so distant lately Inuyasha, all I want
is for you to be happy."
"Yeah, and we want to know
when you got white hair," Miroku put his two cents in, earning
two glares.
"It's silver." Inuyasha said flatly as
he collapsed to the ground, smelling the ground so as to get a better
whiff of Kagome.
Sango and Miroku watched in amusement as the
hanyou crawled around like a dog, his nose implanted to the ground,
he crawled around, resembling a crab until he ran smack dab into a
tree, grumbling his curses he stood up, "I know where she
is."
Naraku had dragged Kagome through a
barrier and was now standing in the courtyard of the castle that
belonged to Naraku.
"Now Koishii...I believe you have
something I want," Naraku said sinisterly as he slinked his way
over to her like a snake.
Kagome glared, "I will not
sleep with you."
Naraku chuckled, "That's not what
I meant, Koibito, I know you are a miko." Kagome's eyes widened,
"Yes, it's true you are a miko, and I could really use those
powers of you, in fact, you could make me even more
powerful."
Kagome glared, "No."
"Now,
now, let's not be coldhearted towards each other, Kagome-Chan,"
Naraku gripped her chin painfully, "you will give me the
power I need!"
"No."
Naraku smacked her
in the head, adding another bruise to her battered face, she cringed
and closed her eyes in pain, "I won't."
Naraku
snarled, "You're willing to let me kill you?"
Kagome
shook her head, "I'll be saved."
"You sound
very confident, after all Inuyasha hates you now."
"No
thanks to you."
"Yes that's true isn't it Koishii,
though I may be strong, my mind control will wear off soon, making
Inuyasha realize what he said...but by then it will be too
late."
Kagome's eyes narrowed into slits. "You
bastard," she hissed as she punched the unsuspecting Naraku in
the nose, causing it to break.
Naraku grasped his nose,
releasing Kagome to clutch the bloody appendage. He narrowed his eyes
dangerously as Kagome whipped down the staircase leading up from the
ground to the courtyard, jumping two steps at a time.
He
laughed bitterly, "Fine, try and run away, sweetie, you'll be
back."
Kagome ran towards the multicolored barrier and
was immediately thrown back from the translucent wall, she gasped in
pain as she clutched her burnt shoulder.
She ran towards it
again, only to be thrown back against a wall and knocked unconscious.
