Unknown Royalty
Lost Friendship
AN: Hey, thank you so much for all the reviews. I needed them, definitely a boost of self-esteem. I wont stop the story, so yeah. Thanks for answering my personal question. I know it's not an uncommon thing, but losing him…ya know, it's hard. Anyway… I got another chapter. Hope you guys like it and R+R!!!!!! Also, I know it may seem like Inuyasha and Hokara have a little more than a friendship, but don't worry, Inuyasha loves Kagome. Hokara… well you'll have to read more on that later, but not this chappie! Byes!
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Hokara opened the door and waved at Kagome. Kagome waved back. Hokara walked down the old wooden stairs onto the dew filled grass. Inuyasha watched her dark figure walk across the glistening path lighted by moonlight. She walked into the forest and slowly disappeared into the fog. ' It couldn't have been her…it couldn't have…but…' Inuyasha jumped off his tree and ran after Hokara. He started to see her figure emerge.
Inuyasha ran through the fog caught up with her. " Wait!" he yelled to Hokara.
She raised her head up. ' Inuyasha?' she thought. She turned her head around only to see the shape of a man with claws and dog-ears headed towards her. She chuckled and said " Why is it that every time I try to leave, you're always right behind me, delaying me further?"
He looked blankly as he thought to himself; he hadn't noticed it before. " Actually, I have a question and it may seem kind of impossible, but…" he paused " Are you that girl? I mean; I over heard you talking with Kagome. You said that a woman and her son found you, and took you in. It's just, when I was about 4 years old, I vaguely remember finding a hurt young girl by the riverbank. She was my first friend. Once my mother died, she left. I never trusted anyone fully again. I figured by now she was dead or quite old, me being around 70 years old. You just are unbelievably like to her. There's no way that you could be her…could there. I just hoped…that's all. To see her one more time." He turned around facing the fog. "Sorry to bother you Hokara."(AN: I know, it's a little out of character.)
Then, the most unexpected thing happened. Hokara let out a faint yelp. She looked down at her arm; it was spontaneously pulsing. She grabbed it with her good arm. ' Uhh…god… what's wrong with my arm…ow it really hurts.' She thought as she started to cringe.
Inuyasha quickly spun around to face Hokara. " What happen?"
She faintly smiled as sweat dripped down her face. She walked up to him. She put her arms around him in an embrace. " You remembered me Inuyasha. I thought you never would. I missed you so much. You were always my best friend for life."(For all of you wondering, Kagome and Inuyasha are in love NOT Inuyasha and Hokara, don't worry. Inuyasha and Hokara are just old friends.) She said still embracing him. She let go. Her arm was still pulsing rapidly now.
Inuyasha stood there staring at her and her arm. He was in shock.
Hokara let out a yelp of pain once again. It was burning and stinging her arm. It felt like knives piercing through her skin.
Inuyasha still finally snapped out of his gaze. He looked at her and said " It was you… after all these years… it was you Hokara."
" Ahh." She screamed. Her other arm started pulsing at an increasing rate. Eventually, her eyes went completely black. Both of her arms flew back real fast and stopped when they reached her sides. They rose and leveled off with her head. Hokara looked like she was in invisible shackles. She slowly spun around in a circle while rising a couple inches off the grassy forest floor.
Inuyasha stood there in shock. He looked at her; she appeared to be unconscious. " Hey wake up!" He yelled to her. He walked up towards her and grabbed her arm. " Hokara can you…"
Hokara's eyes flung open. A light emerged from her body encircling her in vast white warmth. She screamed and lighting shot from her body and struck Inuyasha. He then flew back into a tree. She continued screaming. She finally settled down. Her breathing was staggered.
Inuyasha looked bewildered by her sight. All he could manage to say is " What do I do now?"
Hokara was still raised above the forest floor. The light was still wrapped around her lifeless body. She didn't move on the outside, but she was still thinking in her mind. ' Oh no! Inuyasha, what have I done to him.' She tried to move towards Inuyasha and call out his name, but nothing happened. ' What's wrong with me? I can't move or speak! Why am I like this? What is happening to me?' she thought as she continued to try and move, but her tries were futile. She closed her eyes as tears streamed steadily down her cheeks. ' Why is this happening to me?'
" You don't remember your past do you? I can help you to know if you accept me. I know who you were and are. I knew your parents, very well."
Hokara slowly opened her eyes. She looked around, but instead of seeing the forest and Inuyasha; all she saw was a never-ending blanket of white. It was like a room, that didn't stop. She could move again where she was. Hokara spun around to see a form of life, the speaker of the voice. She abruptly stopped. She saw a black orb floating in front of her. Her eyes glazed over as she stared at in without blinking.
" So your past intrigues you? As suspected, you don't remember your past do you?" the voice said as in echoed through the white nothingness.
" What do you mean 'my past'? Who the hell are you and where are you?" Hokara asked in a quite demanding way.
" I am only a person trying to help you to understand your past; for you to remember it." The voice said.
" Who are you?????" Hokara yelled as she drawled her sword.
But, the voice only continued " There is no need for your sword, it wont do u any good with me!" The voice lowered its voice and continued again " If you desire to know your path, touch the orb Hokara."
Hokara blankly stared at the orb. It just floated and didn't move. The colors of black and deep purple swirled in the center. She slowly stepped towards the orb until the point she was standing right in front of it. Hokara raised her hand to touch it, but she quickly pulled back.
" Touch the orb Hokara, it's your past! Touch it and remember your true essence of being; your meaning of life!" the voice shouted as it rung through Hokara's ears.
'What should I do?' Hokara thought as she replayed the words spoken by the voice. Hokara couldn't resist the temptation. ' For the first time in my life, someone in the world has a clue, about me and my past… hopefully.' Hokara reached out her hand above the orb. ' Here goes nothing.' Hokara thought as she took in a deep breath and set her hand down upon the orb.
The voice started to speak again, but this time the voice had a deeper, darker tone to it. " Heh heh heh heh heh heh!!! Now you will witness true darkness.'
The orb cracked down the middle, and opened. The darkness crept out of the orb and spread throughout the white nothingness, turning it into a complete shadow. Hokara tried to breath, but she was unable. The darkness was suffocating her. She was being swallowed by it.
Inuyasha had been staring at Hokara. There hadn't been any sign of movement. Inuyasha took a step forward, she suddenly she gasped for air. She was breathing heavily. 'Is she ok?' Inuyasha wondered. He just watched her trying to breath. Then she gradually stopped and started to breath at a normal pace again.
Hokara was in a battle of light and dark in her own mind. She was losing. She didn't know what to do. ' Inuyasha.' She thought. Then it hit her, ' Inuyasha, I'm in pain because you says my name! Every time he speaks my name it gets worse!' The only thing sustaining Hokara in this atmosphere is her desire to live.
Inuyasha went in the direction of the frail Hokara.
With the little bit of self-control that Hokara had left, she tried to speak although the attempt was useless.' Don't speak my name Inuyasha.' Hokara pleaded.
Inuyasha gazed at her. His mouth opened to speak. Hokara knew what was coming. She cried in her mind when she heard the breath escape from Inuyasha's lips. She knew that once her name was said, she would be consumed. Tears ran down her tender cheeks. Hokara seemed to be hearing her name in slow motion. She knew there was no hope for her.
Inuyasha let the words crept slowly from his lips" Hokara?"
Hokara's tears stopped streaming. They ceased to exist. Her face had a look of acceptance on it. She knew it was over once she heard his first breath. The darkness spread throughout her mind completely.
Hokara started to rise even higher off the ground and her eyes slowly drifted shut. Inuyasha hadn't seen anything like this before. He just stood there in absolute amazement. ' What's happening to her?' he thought wide-eyed.
Hokara's white light was gradually transforming into a swirling black glow with deep purple streaks running through it. She was completely covered by the energy. All that could be seen of her was a shadowy outline of her figure.
The orb surrounding her was growing stronger. Hokara's figure started getting fainter. Then, two read spots appeared through the glow. " Heh, heh, heh... " A voice cackled from inside the black energy. The evil light disappeared into nothing. Hokara uncurled herself from her crouched position and placed her foot on the wet forest floor. The red spots, which were revealed as her eyes slowly faded until they were back to there previous cold, black eyes. Hokara looked at Inuyasha as though she was analyzing him " Pfft… weakling." She murmured under her breath. Hokara tried to walk past Inuyasha.
Inuyasha finally snapped out of it " What happened? What's happened to you?" Inuyasha asked in a very confused voice.
Hokara didn't even acknowledge him; she just continued in the direction she was headed.
" Hokara!" he yelled angrily.
She rapidly spun around when she heard her name from him. It burned her body from the inside out. There was nothing she could do to protect herself from it. Hokara grabbed her sword from its case and raised it above her head.
'Hokara!' She flinched and put down her arm. The voice had returned. It seemed only she could hear him, for he was talking in her mind.
She spoke to him the same way 'Yes, what the hell do you want?' she replied arrogantly as she put the sword back into its proper place.
' Don't you speak to me that way, I'm your master!' He barked.
' Yeah, well what do you want?' she said still not caring much.
' I want you not to have any concern for that boy over their and his friends.' The voice said. Hokara pursued forward again.
' Hokara,' the voice said once again, but more solemn this time. He continued 'don't get involved with them…but, if they get in the way of fulfilling your mission…annihilate them.'
Hokara stopped abruptly and looked at Inuyasha. It seemed that Hokara was trying to remember, but having no success in doing so. ' Where do I know him from? Who is he?' She thought secretively to herself. She blinked and with a cold glance she looked directly at the stunned Inuyasha. ' I will… Master Okono.' She continued forward, not daring to even look at Inuyasha. She feared that is she looked he would speak. She didn't ponder on the thought any longer.
Inuyasha didn't understand anything. He was completely bewildered. He sniffed the air ' Her scent, it's different some how.' He ran right in front of her and grabbed her bare arms. He gazed into her eyes; they had no life of her own, none that was ever hers at least. As he looked away, he realized the chill coming from her arms. Her body had no warmth. Almost like her soul was gone, or sealed deep within her. Inuyasha frantically searched for an answer, but nothing came to mind. He didn't know what to do. It was just too unnatural to be that cold. Inuyasha raised his hand up to her forehead. ' Her head is just as cold as her arms." Inuyasha noticed. He just shook his head in disbelief. " What now?" Inuyasha questioned as Hokara just looked up to Inuyasha in a clueless gaze.
"Who are you? Get off me!" Hokara demanded as she pushed Inuyasha off her.
Inuyasha raised his head to meet Hokara's gaze " You really don't know who I am do you?" Hokara asked as his soft golden eyes glistened in the moonlight.
Hokara just stood there with a stern face and replied. " No, I don't."
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AN: thanks for all the reviews again. Oh and a special shout out to angelfoxeyes. Thanks! keep reviewing and tell me how I'm doing. Ok? Well, chapter 5 shouldn't be too long. Ok well don't wanna make this too long so byes! R+R!!!!!!
