Chapter 3: Kaede (Written to Hybrid Theory, altho I usually skip 5, 6 and 13)
(Well not exactly overwhelming chapter 2 feedback, but I'm just bitchin, thank youand so I hasten on, this chapter will be sorta trickyexcept today I bought the 6th manga! And read all the ones between it and 3! I'm SO set5 minutes. On the outside, that's how long it'll take me to read. But I like Inuyasha, even if this fic is worrying me slightly, so you'll get some more Inuyasha and Kagome, even if I won't until I find some more moneyEnjoy!)
By the time he got to the village, Inyuasha was in one of the more confused and angry moods of his entire existence. I was so sure that Kikyo was telling the truth, all the chances she had to kill me, why wait until she did? Maybe she was some kind of sadistic bitch, you've met plenty of thoseshe WANTED to torture you like she did before she finished you. But then why did she die that day? I know I didn't hurt her, no matter how I tried it never seemed it could until I didn't want to anymore
Inuyasha was so set on getting some answers from Kaede that when he kicked in the sliding paper door it went through two walls behind it. "What is the meaning of this Inyu-hck!" Unfortunately for the concept of ploiteness, Inuyasha was not in the mood for any bullshit while he extracted his information. Kaede dangled slightly off the floor as he explained the situation.
"I broke your pretty little beads, and I'm here to talk about the day your sister died. Lie or piss me off and I'll snap your frail old neck like a twig."
Kaede had never seen him THIS angry, when he was with Kikyo or Kagome he was usually much better, after all they were-Inuyasha squeezed her neck slightly. "Understand?" She shook her head, hoping he could feel her trying to signal yes. "Good."
He lowered her slightly. "Why was Kikyo wounded that day? I know I didn't do it!" "Butshe said you had attacked her, stolen the jewel, and then run off to attack-agh! It's true!" She was dangling even higher now. "LIES!!" Inuyasha screamed. "She attacked ME! She attacked me, and when I tried to simply take the jewel and run she KILLED ME! THE BITCH KILLED ME!! Oh I came back though! I came back, and so did she, and now it's time to give her what I should have the first time!"
"ButKikyo never attacked you before" Kaede was choking to death, and quickly, how could she make him believe? "Sheloved you"
Inuyasha tossed her through the hole her door had made with no apparent effort, and smashed it down after her as he followed. "What did I say about lying!?" He snarled, and got a two handed grip on her throat after flexing the claws on both hands. "If she loved meshe wouldn't attack me, she wouldn't set her sister to lie for her after deathand she wouldn't have tried to kill me." His claws kracked menacingly.
"The" Kaede passed out. "Her pyre? What about it? ANSWER!!" It was no use, Kaede would be lucky to ever wake up again. He resisted the urge to use her to dig her own grave, and simply dropped her as he stalked out of the holed house, and glided through the night to the pyre where Kikyo's ashes, a revered relic of the village, stood.
Who cares? She died. End of story. She betrayed you, lied to you, now she's dead, this one at least, so let's go deal with the new bitch! No. If Kikyo had something, anythingit just doesn't make sense, and that smell when she attacked me those 50 years agoplease let there be something.
He kicked open the box, and smashed the urn, picking through the debris. Nothing, humans will say anything to save their own lives. Wait. In the slowly settling cloud of dust, there was an inscription on a small marble tablet, the Kanji characters forming the image of a face.
Inuyasha's face.
It read: Inuyasha, my beloved, when this someday sits in some shrine honoring me in death, I hope that you will be with me, that you do what you promised. I could never trust a Youkai, but once you're human, once the shikon jewel is gone, we can be together
He couldn't read any more. He wept, softly at first, then louder, great sobs, dripping tears onto the cold stone and bones. He cried until there was nothing left in him. Neither his human of his demon side spoke.
It was an hour before he could feel anything but numb. It was true. It was a trick- IT WAS TRUE. There's no other reason for her to have made this. All that hate I felt
The night wore on, and thunder rumbled, nearby. Inuyasha stumbled for it, leaving behind the smashed remnants of Kaede's house, and his love's shrine, and the striking image on the marble within. He seemed to simply lack the will to stand, but equally the will to sit, or even slump to the ground and never rise again. He wished he were human, a mortal, so that death would be as simple as throwing himself from a cliff.
As a half demon of course it would not be so easy, but he tried anyway. When it failed, he tried to drown, but his hanyou self was to strong. Eventually he washed ashore, damming everyone and everything he could think of to all the hells, punishments, and pain his twisted and tortured mind could imagine. But still what had happened to him seemed worse.
Kagome doesn't even want me, not now even if she ever did Who cares? This crime, find who IS responsible if it isn't Kikyo, and- Shut UP!! I don't WANT to kill people! I want to be HUMAN, I don't want to be an animal. I want to be with her, be with KikyoI never really wanted anything else.
He wept, and he was sure that he would never stop.
(Did my chapters ever used to be, I dunno LONGER!? Sheeshbut if I tried to get any more in tonite you'd never get an update, altho I have doubts there'd be any weeping. Ah yes, poor Inuyashahe's a tad OOC, but it's understandable, this is JUST A BIT of a shock, ya know? Anyway, if you guys want another chapter after the next speak NOW, or forever hold your peace, this is a pretty fun fic but it isn't dragging down many reviews, and I have MANY other projects to work onso please gimme a vote (This is easy, yes Jack please write us more or No Jack, we hope you die). Sorry, it's late, I'm tired, and writer's cramp is totally KILLING my mind. Farewell, dear readers.)
