[Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Inu Yasha. Nope. Can't say I do.]
The Rain Has No Mercy
Chapter 7: Dark Reality
"Kagome?" Inu Yasha's hushed voice hit the young woman's ears. "Kagome, where are you?"
"In here," Kagome called softly, smiling warmly when her mate entered the room. "What is it?"
"It's . . ." Inu-yasha came over and sat down next to her on the floor, taking her hand in his. " . . . just that . . . I'm . . ." Inu Yasha's voice cracked with emotion, and he held his fingers to his throat to keep it steady. "I'm . . . going to miss you . . . when I'm gone . . ."
Kagome's heart almost stopped. She had almost completely forgotten that he had to leave in a year. But was it so soon? Weren't there many more days and nights she could spend with her love? Did he have to leave?
"But . . ." Kagome whined softly, trying to hold back her tears. "But . . ." her voice became high-pitched and she leaned closer to Inu-yasha. "But . . . how long . . . how long . . . do you have?"
"Less than . . ." Inu Yasha stopped and looked up into Kagome's beautiful face. "Less than a month . . ."
"No!" Kagome threw herself at him and began to crying so loudly, she was waking the children. But she didn't really care at the moment. All she wanted was Inu-yasha longer. "YOU CAN"T GO! PLEASE!"
"Kagome," InuYasha whispered softly, choking back his tears and running his claws through her hair. "Kagome, don't cry," he murmured against her raven hair. "Please. You know how much I hate it. Please, don't."
InuYasha heard the shuffling of feet and looked up to see each and every child in the doorway, concern in their eyes and faces, a few of them crying. Especially Hoshi.
"Mommy . . ." Hoshi cried like a beaten animal. "Where is daddy going? Why is he leaving? Mommy?"
Kagome looked up at her smallest son. She saw his face full of tears and let another loud sob rake her body. She called out to him and watched as him and all the other children stormed in the room and into the arms of their parents that still held each other dearly. Inu-yasha whispered good things to them and pet each of their heads with his soft hands. He kissed Hoshi, Anisan, Atarashii, and Imoto each on the forehead and hugged them tightly.
"Go back to bed," He said softly. "I'll explain every thing in the morning."
"But . . ." Hoshi whimpered. "Where are you going?"
"I'm not going anywhere, Hoshi," Inu Yasha smiled at the puny 1/4 demon.
"Promise?" Hoshi squeaked.
"I promise. Now go back to sleep."
"Come with me," Hoshi tugged at his father's yutaka. Inu Yasha looked around at Kagome who was still clutching close to him. She nodded and he walked each child to bed. You would think it would be an easy process, but all the children clung to him like a magnet. When he tucked each child into their futon, he heard a silky, familiar voice in his ear.
"So," the deep and appealing voice whispered. "if you're leaving, who will take care of the children; especially my beautiful Sakura?"
"What do you want, Sesshomarou?" he growled, swinging around to see Sakura clutching to Sesshomarou's waist. "And what did you do to Sakura?"
"I would never harm this child," he grinned and looked down at Sakura, laying a hand on her head and stroking her silver hair.. "She came to me. I'm glad, too. Now I know that your whole family will be defenceless once you're gone. Even Sakura's attractive mother. You know, brother, she may favour me over you once you're gone. We do have the same silver hair and long nails and seductive canine instincts. But I'm afraid a full blooded youkai gives much more pleasuring sex."
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" Inu Yasha screamed. "I SWEAR IF YOU TOUCH HER . . . I'LL . . . I'LL . . ."
"You cannot deny the truth, brother," Sesshomarou's amber eyes flashed. "I will have her when you're gone."
Inu-yasha instinctively reached for his Tetsusaiga, but then realized he did not have one anymore. He began to growl and flexed his clawed fingers. But then, he immediately remembered his father's words.
"Plus, you can't get into any fights. So if Sesshomarou comes to bother you, all you can do is run. That's just the way it is."
"Damn." he said and looked up at his brother. He reached inside his yutaka and pulled out the claw from his father's paw. "Here, Sesshomarou. A secret message from dad."
He flung the large claw at his brother as hard as he could out of anger, wishing it would stab him in the heart. But alas, he casually raised his hand and caught the claw between his fingertips.
"So I see," he studied the claw and bent down to gather Sakura in his arms not even looking at the girl. Bracing her up with his arm, she sat on it and curled her arms around his neck and buried her face into his neck. "Sakura and I will be leaving now. I hope you don't mind that neither you or your mate will see her again. She chose me over you. Your mate will follow in her footsteps, you know. I'm sure your other children will find some sanctuary somewhere. I don't know where, but you know, I don't really care. Farewell."
Before Inu Yasha could object, both Sesshomarou and Sakura were gone, and Imoto was crying.
"Sakura!" Imoto cried loudly. "NO! Sakura! Don't leave, please!"
Inu Yasha looked over at his other daughter with guilt. Imoto had been the only one who had really connected with Sakura. His father had never noticed that. He went over to Imoto and tried to comfort her. But the small child pushed him away.
"You didn't stop him!" Imoto cried in his face, waking Atarashii who went to his sister and hugged her tightly, calming her sobs. "You didn't stop him from taking Sakura because you didn't care about her!" Atarashii held tighter to his sister, mewling in her ear and nuzzling her neck until she stopped yelling so loudly. "You didn't care . . ." she sobbed and clutched at Atarashii, burying her face in his sleeping yutaka. "You didn't . . ."
"Thank you, Atarashii," he whispered to his son who had put Imoto to sleep.
But to his surprise, Atarashii bared his fangs with a growl and hissed. He quickly took Imoto back in his arms and backed away from him, his ears flat against his head. Inu-yasha had an instinct to growl back and tell him who was boss, but Anisan had also awoken and stood up, coming to his brother and laying a hand on his shoulder. Atarashii jumped when Anisan touched him, almost attacking him blindly, but then realizing who he was.
Balling his hands into fists, Inu-yasha stormed out of their room, slamming the door and rushing out of the house. He started running and crying. He ran blindly through the woods, letting the wind whip at his face. He didn't know where he was going, but all he wanted to do was get away from everything and everyone and away from his mistakes. It had been all his fault he had died, all his fault he came back and started a family, all his fault that his family would suffer and that Kagome may fall victim to Sesshomaru, all his fault Sakura had been taken by Sesshomarou. It was all his fault.
Before he could stop himself, Inu Yasha screamed so loudly, he probably roused every demon and human for miles.
"FATHER!" He cried to the sky. "PLEASE HELP ME! PLEASE!" Inu Yasha began to cry. "PLEASE! I WANT TO START OVER! I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN! I DON'T WANT . . . I don't want . . . I don't want any of this . . . I want . . . to start over . . . let me . . . please . . . start over . . . father . . ." he sobbed. "Please father . . . please."
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