Another chapter...
Disclaimer: Don't own them, and I'm pretty sure I won't ever own them....
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Inu-Yasha wore a cynical smile. He ripped his arm from the lifeless body, and looked from his hand to the blood riddled body that now lay on the floor.
All Miroku and Sango could do was stare; stare and hope that this was only a nightmare.
Kagome inched over to Shippou, looked at his face, etched in pain.... then up at Inu-Yasha. An anger burned in her that she had never felt before. Anguish filled her soul.
"...You... You KILLED him!" She yelled, hot tears falling down her cheeks. She was disgusted at Inu-Yasha's bored expression... "I HATE YOU INU-YASHA! I hate you....." She cried softly, holding Shippou's body tenderly.
For a moment... hesitation came across Inu-Yasha's face. All at once he fell to one knee, crippled with pain, his hand held his head as an immense pounding shot threw it. As soon as it had come it left. And he looked up at them, smile back in place.
He stood and leaped backwards, taking his place beside the throne once more.
An echoing applause could be heard around them, "I loved the show, when will the next act be written?"
Kagome shook with hatred, and pain... This THING had taken too many people that she loved from her... And she wasn't going to allow it any more. She set Shippou down softly, taking in his face once more, and then stood.
Miroku and Sango stood with her, and they all anticipated what the next few moments would bring.
The silence hung in the air.... they all searched the room. Their eyes darting from guard to guard until they eventually landed on the throne that was directly in front of them.
A door to their right creaked open and echoed in the large room. A man carrying a wound up whip stepped threw, accompanied by a few others.
'NO!' Miroku thought franticly... 'Please do not let them take her!'
"That man... Miroku..." Sango said, quietly looking at the person in front of her. The gouges in his back were scabbed and bloody... *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
(Present.... a few weeks ago...)
Hojo sipped his newly acquired, Grande, Double shot, light on the syrup, Mocha Vanilla Latte, as he read the latest issue of 'Sick N' Us' magazine. 'Can't be too careful! Though Kagome hasn't been sick for a while, another illness could beseech her at any time!' is what he always thought... always be prepared... Hojo took another sip as he walked along the side walk, being very involved with what he was doing... he didn't notice that he was walking closer and closer to the edge of the sidewalk....
For a moment he looked up and found that he had passed his house a few yards back and shrugged his shoulders and started walking across the street as he turned to the next page in his oh-so-interesting magazine.
Too bad for him he didn't notice the recently stolen car that sped toward him... Too bad the robber driving had no intention of stopping...
(Sorry! I was dying to kill him! I had to.... I HAD to.... and if I ever write another Inu-Yasha fic... I will HAVE to kill Hojo in that one too! ^__^")
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(Back to the past)
6 youkai filed into the room after the man holding the whip. Two went to hold either side of Kagome, and two went to hold either side of Sango. The two girls struggled, but their strength was nothing to the iron grip of their holders.
The remaining two moved to hold Miroku to the ground....
"No!" Sango cried out. Tears forming in her eyes. 'I can't watch him... I can't watch him suffer like that!'
The most evil laughter filled the once still room. "Well now, lets see, what can I do with this?"
"You bastard..." Kagome said, quietly seething with hatred for this monster.
"Why thank you, I try... hmm, you see, I need some information." He continued.
"We won't tell you anything, assho----" a choking noise emitted from Sango's throat, and suddenly her legs could no longer hold her up and the guards holding her arms had to support her. She gasped and held her neck as if something was blocking the air.
"I wasn't talking to you, now was I Miss Sango?" Genku Shinai smirked.
"Stop it! Stop it now!" Kagome pulled against her captors. "How do you even know that I will even have an answer for you?!" she glanced quickly at her dying friend, "Please! Stop this now!" She was about to collapse as well... she heard Sango gasp and take a breath of air into her hungry lungs.
Kagome breathed a sigh of relief... Thank goodness... I don't know what I would do if... She shook her head, this was in no way over, and it was no time to feel relieved.
Miroku looked as if he was not completely here, or maybe wishing that he wasn't. His eyes were closed tightly shut and he looked as if he was talking quietly to himself, though no words were heard. Perhaps he was praying...
"This is how the game is played Miss Kagome Higurashi, I ask you a question, and for every wrong answer I receive, so your friends will also receive an equally disappointing conclusion. And who would want that?"
"But that's not fair! What if I don't know the answer?!" She looked franticly at her friends.
"Well then that is disappointing, as I have said, and your friends will agree with me on that." The master spoke with fake pity and understanding. He was mocking them...
"Now," he continued, "I would like you to tell me what happened on the 5th of March 2003..."
"What kind of question is that?!!"
"That is not the answer I'm looking for, Miss Kagome... You will have to do a little bit better then that if you are to spare your friends from the pain that will surely accompany these next few hours."
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(Present)
"Kagome... I remember; she came to me that day. I still don't know why I haven't thought of this before now. She was in hysterics, running blindly threw the forest. I can't imagine how she had the will to continue on, after running into my arms she collapsed, crying, shaking.... I could tell she was drained of energy and had some minor injuries, but most of all I could sense the burning anguish that she felt."
Sesshoumaru looked up from his tea at Kouga's pause. Kouga was staring off into space as he searched the ceiling, as if playing the scene over in his mind.
"She slept for a few days, I don't quite remember how long... But when she finally did re-awaken, Kagome never talked, never ate, never drank. She tried to kill herself more then once. I tried to talk reason with her; telling her that death wasn't the answer did nothing. She held the eyes of someone who had bitter resentment, and revenge behind them. It had been at least a week since the pain had left them, to be replaced by this evil."
"I knew though, I knew.... She was grieving.... I could hear her every night. She went down to the nearby stream, sitting on the same boulder, moonlight shining on her hair. Every night she would go there and cry. It was the only noise she made."
Kouga continued on, "by the third week, I couldn't take it any more. I had to do something, comfort her, anything! Slowly I walked up to her and sat, placing my arms around her. She didn't move, and didn't acknowledge my presents. Her tears were silent, but after just moments, she fell into my embrace, and I held her. No words were needed, I just held her. Kagome seemed so frail, so small, so broken; nothing like the strong girl I had admired before. After that, she would greet me, or say her 'thank you's' nothing much more. She only stayed another week, and it was a good thing she left when she did... They came looking for her..."
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(Past)
"Stop it! I told you! That was the day I hit Inu-Yasha's reincarnate! I hit Konte! The day that you screwed with everything! I gave you the answer, why are you still doing this?!
"Oh, but that isn't the correct answer, Miss Kagome. Besides, I never said that I wouldn't inflict torture for correct answers! Or perhaps I did... Well, either way, you have said the incorrect thing, therefore... Inu- Yasha?"
Inu-Yasha smirked in the faint light. He sprinted forward with increasing speed toward Miroku. Upon reaching him, Inu-Yasha pulled him up by his hair and punched him in the face. The force sent him backwards, sliding across the floor. Miroku did not move as Inu-Yasha went to attack once more, he did not even try to stop Inu-Yasha in any way, and that ticked him off.
Inu-Yasha growled deeply as he pulled Miroku up again, "Fight back, monk! Arrrrrrrr! FIGHT BACK!" He threw him against the wall, causing large cracks to spread warily out from behind Miroku's back.
Miroku was still as he slid slowly to the ground. Sango was in shock, her eyes wide with fear, worry and disbelief. Kagome was crying freely now, 'what am I supposed to do?!'
"WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM ME?!" she yelled out, face in her hands.
"I just want you to realize that because of you, they will die, and because of you, everyone you hold dear... will die, and because. of. you. You, yourself, must die...."
"WHY?! WHAT HAVE I DONE?" Kagome screamed. "What have I done..." She shook her head and rocked back and forth softly.
The last things she heard before the darkness over took her was the piercing scream of a dying girl in the distance. She was falling, falling further away from the final, echoing scream and closer to the laughter. The cynical laugh that had haunted her for more then too long of a time; the darkness, the laughter, Inu-Yasha....
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Kagome awoke to a dimly lit room. Looking about, she found that the room was made of carved stone, and rugs covered the floors. Her bed was made of furs and cloth, very comfy she might add. The room led to another she guessed, seeing light emitting from it. From the sound and smell of it all she could tell that someone was cooking.
The entire room, as well as blankets smelled of cedar and spices, a warm comforting smell... and she knew who it belonged to....
Kouga walk into the room, carrying another blanket and some water, he stopped as he noticed that Kagome was awake.
Calmly he walked over to her side, laying the blanket over her.
Kagome sat up slowly, holding her pounding head.
"You know, you had me worried for a while..." Kouga said gently as he tried to give her the water. Kouga was more then a little shocked when she denied the water and quickly turned away from him. Kagome laid down, pulling the covers up to her shoulder and closed her eyes without a sound. The memories rushed threw her mind's eye, ensuring the nightmares that night....
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Author's note:
Well... I am not quite sure what I am going to do. I planned only one more chapter after this but now I think I will make it into 2 chapters... I have had a lot of difficulty with the ending because there were different two ways I could end it and I had decided on one, but that one gave me a GREAT idea for another story. So I am using the other one... I still don't know. I think you are gonna hate me.... if you don't already lol
Disclaimer: Don't own them, and I'm pretty sure I won't ever own them....
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Inu-Yasha wore a cynical smile. He ripped his arm from the lifeless body, and looked from his hand to the blood riddled body that now lay on the floor.
All Miroku and Sango could do was stare; stare and hope that this was only a nightmare.
Kagome inched over to Shippou, looked at his face, etched in pain.... then up at Inu-Yasha. An anger burned in her that she had never felt before. Anguish filled her soul.
"...You... You KILLED him!" She yelled, hot tears falling down her cheeks. She was disgusted at Inu-Yasha's bored expression... "I HATE YOU INU-YASHA! I hate you....." She cried softly, holding Shippou's body tenderly.
For a moment... hesitation came across Inu-Yasha's face. All at once he fell to one knee, crippled with pain, his hand held his head as an immense pounding shot threw it. As soon as it had come it left. And he looked up at them, smile back in place.
He stood and leaped backwards, taking his place beside the throne once more.
An echoing applause could be heard around them, "I loved the show, when will the next act be written?"
Kagome shook with hatred, and pain... This THING had taken too many people that she loved from her... And she wasn't going to allow it any more. She set Shippou down softly, taking in his face once more, and then stood.
Miroku and Sango stood with her, and they all anticipated what the next few moments would bring.
The silence hung in the air.... they all searched the room. Their eyes darting from guard to guard until they eventually landed on the throne that was directly in front of them.
A door to their right creaked open and echoed in the large room. A man carrying a wound up whip stepped threw, accompanied by a few others.
'NO!' Miroku thought franticly... 'Please do not let them take her!'
"That man... Miroku..." Sango said, quietly looking at the person in front of her. The gouges in his back were scabbed and bloody... *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
(Present.... a few weeks ago...)
Hojo sipped his newly acquired, Grande, Double shot, light on the syrup, Mocha Vanilla Latte, as he read the latest issue of 'Sick N' Us' magazine. 'Can't be too careful! Though Kagome hasn't been sick for a while, another illness could beseech her at any time!' is what he always thought... always be prepared... Hojo took another sip as he walked along the side walk, being very involved with what he was doing... he didn't notice that he was walking closer and closer to the edge of the sidewalk....
For a moment he looked up and found that he had passed his house a few yards back and shrugged his shoulders and started walking across the street as he turned to the next page in his oh-so-interesting magazine.
Too bad for him he didn't notice the recently stolen car that sped toward him... Too bad the robber driving had no intention of stopping...
(Sorry! I was dying to kill him! I had to.... I HAD to.... and if I ever write another Inu-Yasha fic... I will HAVE to kill Hojo in that one too! ^__^")
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(Back to the past)
6 youkai filed into the room after the man holding the whip. Two went to hold either side of Kagome, and two went to hold either side of Sango. The two girls struggled, but their strength was nothing to the iron grip of their holders.
The remaining two moved to hold Miroku to the ground....
"No!" Sango cried out. Tears forming in her eyes. 'I can't watch him... I can't watch him suffer like that!'
The most evil laughter filled the once still room. "Well now, lets see, what can I do with this?"
"You bastard..." Kagome said, quietly seething with hatred for this monster.
"Why thank you, I try... hmm, you see, I need some information." He continued.
"We won't tell you anything, assho----" a choking noise emitted from Sango's throat, and suddenly her legs could no longer hold her up and the guards holding her arms had to support her. She gasped and held her neck as if something was blocking the air.
"I wasn't talking to you, now was I Miss Sango?" Genku Shinai smirked.
"Stop it! Stop it now!" Kagome pulled against her captors. "How do you even know that I will even have an answer for you?!" she glanced quickly at her dying friend, "Please! Stop this now!" She was about to collapse as well... she heard Sango gasp and take a breath of air into her hungry lungs.
Kagome breathed a sigh of relief... Thank goodness... I don't know what I would do if... She shook her head, this was in no way over, and it was no time to feel relieved.
Miroku looked as if he was not completely here, or maybe wishing that he wasn't. His eyes were closed tightly shut and he looked as if he was talking quietly to himself, though no words were heard. Perhaps he was praying...
"This is how the game is played Miss Kagome Higurashi, I ask you a question, and for every wrong answer I receive, so your friends will also receive an equally disappointing conclusion. And who would want that?"
"But that's not fair! What if I don't know the answer?!" She looked franticly at her friends.
"Well then that is disappointing, as I have said, and your friends will agree with me on that." The master spoke with fake pity and understanding. He was mocking them...
"Now," he continued, "I would like you to tell me what happened on the 5th of March 2003..."
"What kind of question is that?!!"
"That is not the answer I'm looking for, Miss Kagome... You will have to do a little bit better then that if you are to spare your friends from the pain that will surely accompany these next few hours."
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(Present)
"Kagome... I remember; she came to me that day. I still don't know why I haven't thought of this before now. She was in hysterics, running blindly threw the forest. I can't imagine how she had the will to continue on, after running into my arms she collapsed, crying, shaking.... I could tell she was drained of energy and had some minor injuries, but most of all I could sense the burning anguish that she felt."
Sesshoumaru looked up from his tea at Kouga's pause. Kouga was staring off into space as he searched the ceiling, as if playing the scene over in his mind.
"She slept for a few days, I don't quite remember how long... But when she finally did re-awaken, Kagome never talked, never ate, never drank. She tried to kill herself more then once. I tried to talk reason with her; telling her that death wasn't the answer did nothing. She held the eyes of someone who had bitter resentment, and revenge behind them. It had been at least a week since the pain had left them, to be replaced by this evil."
"I knew though, I knew.... She was grieving.... I could hear her every night. She went down to the nearby stream, sitting on the same boulder, moonlight shining on her hair. Every night she would go there and cry. It was the only noise she made."
Kouga continued on, "by the third week, I couldn't take it any more. I had to do something, comfort her, anything! Slowly I walked up to her and sat, placing my arms around her. She didn't move, and didn't acknowledge my presents. Her tears were silent, but after just moments, she fell into my embrace, and I held her. No words were needed, I just held her. Kagome seemed so frail, so small, so broken; nothing like the strong girl I had admired before. After that, she would greet me, or say her 'thank you's' nothing much more. She only stayed another week, and it was a good thing she left when she did... They came looking for her..."
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(Past)
"Stop it! I told you! That was the day I hit Inu-Yasha's reincarnate! I hit Konte! The day that you screwed with everything! I gave you the answer, why are you still doing this?!
"Oh, but that isn't the correct answer, Miss Kagome. Besides, I never said that I wouldn't inflict torture for correct answers! Or perhaps I did... Well, either way, you have said the incorrect thing, therefore... Inu- Yasha?"
Inu-Yasha smirked in the faint light. He sprinted forward with increasing speed toward Miroku. Upon reaching him, Inu-Yasha pulled him up by his hair and punched him in the face. The force sent him backwards, sliding across the floor. Miroku did not move as Inu-Yasha went to attack once more, he did not even try to stop Inu-Yasha in any way, and that ticked him off.
Inu-Yasha growled deeply as he pulled Miroku up again, "Fight back, monk! Arrrrrrrr! FIGHT BACK!" He threw him against the wall, causing large cracks to spread warily out from behind Miroku's back.
Miroku was still as he slid slowly to the ground. Sango was in shock, her eyes wide with fear, worry and disbelief. Kagome was crying freely now, 'what am I supposed to do?!'
"WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM ME?!" she yelled out, face in her hands.
"I just want you to realize that because of you, they will die, and because of you, everyone you hold dear... will die, and because. of. you. You, yourself, must die...."
"WHY?! WHAT HAVE I DONE?" Kagome screamed. "What have I done..." She shook her head and rocked back and forth softly.
The last things she heard before the darkness over took her was the piercing scream of a dying girl in the distance. She was falling, falling further away from the final, echoing scream and closer to the laughter. The cynical laugh that had haunted her for more then too long of a time; the darkness, the laughter, Inu-Yasha....
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Kagome awoke to a dimly lit room. Looking about, she found that the room was made of carved stone, and rugs covered the floors. Her bed was made of furs and cloth, very comfy she might add. The room led to another she guessed, seeing light emitting from it. From the sound and smell of it all she could tell that someone was cooking.
The entire room, as well as blankets smelled of cedar and spices, a warm comforting smell... and she knew who it belonged to....
Kouga walk into the room, carrying another blanket and some water, he stopped as he noticed that Kagome was awake.
Calmly he walked over to her side, laying the blanket over her.
Kagome sat up slowly, holding her pounding head.
"You know, you had me worried for a while..." Kouga said gently as he tried to give her the water. Kouga was more then a little shocked when she denied the water and quickly turned away from him. Kagome laid down, pulling the covers up to her shoulder and closed her eyes without a sound. The memories rushed threw her mind's eye, ensuring the nightmares that night....
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Author's note:
Well... I am not quite sure what I am going to do. I planned only one more chapter after this but now I think I will make it into 2 chapters... I have had a lot of difficulty with the ending because there were different two ways I could end it and I had decided on one, but that one gave me a GREAT idea for another story. So I am using the other one... I still don't know. I think you are gonna hate me.... if you don't already lol