Chapter Seven: A Glimpse of Gesshoku's Past
Disclaimer: I do hate these things. I never read them myself you know... but... I. Do...d-d-d-d do- do- -do-...I OWN EVERYTHING! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA! *Gets hit over the head by Rumiko Takahashi* wah... I'm sorry Rumiko!!!! I really am!!!!! I just wanted to be famous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Cries*
Sesshoumaru eyed the air and was about to take off when he realized he was still holding Kagome.
"What are you doing, Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha said.
I guess his hearing is back...
"I was caring her hear."
"Don't touch her!" Inuyasha yelled, jumping up to his brother, but Sesshoumaru's grasp only tightened around Kagome. Kagome was pulled against his chest and her eyes widened.
"Why? You don't seem to care for her that much. You've been eyeing nothing but Gesshoku lately." Kagome suddenly grew sad. Sesshoumaru was right...
"Oh yeah? Well... your mother was a bitch and deserved to die!" It was suddenly dead quiet. Sesshoumaru had thrown Kagome down and grabbed Inuyasha's throat in a matter of seconds.
"You never knew my mother, half breed. If she hadn't been killed the way she was, I would have still enjoyed human company. But I am now how I am because of what those humans did to her. Don't you ever insult my her!" Inuyasha's eyes widened.
Does that mean...Sesshoumaru once liked humans?
Sesshoumaru flung Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha got up slowly. Sesshoumaru turned around and started walking.
"Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Inuyasha." Kagome warned.
"How do you think I feel? My mother died as well by the hands of demons, but I have not killed them just for that reason, because they killed someone dear to me! You don't like me calling your mother names because she was a nice person to you, huh? How do you think I feel when people call me half-breed? Don't think that you're the only one in this world that has been hurt by what has happened in the past or present."
Sesshoumaru stopped walking.
"Look around you! Everyone is hurting deep down, even if they cover it up so well as you! Just because we show our emotions doesn't mean we're weak! It is our strength and our will to get up and fight, even if it is futile! But a cold, heartless demon like you wouldn't understand that level of emotion, would you?"
(A/N: Whoa, Inuyasha has a nice speech where everyone should applaud him in the end)
Everything was silent.
"Would you?" Inuyasha said again. Kagome looked at him. He was really something. Sesshoumaru turned and looked at them. A chilly wind blew his perfect silver hair from his shoulders and slightly across his face. Kagome stood up, smiling.
"Please, Sesshoumaru-kun, even if you do not know what the feeling is, please let us help you in going after Naraku. We have all tried by ourselves for the longest time, and have not managed to reach our goal in killing Naraku. But if we unite together, our forces against him will be stronger and we may win!" Inuyasha's arm snaked around Kagome's waist and pulled her close to him. Her eyes widened.
"And Kagome, please, I want you to understand something. No matter what I do, it is all actions of the past. When that is all settled, I really...want to be with you...more..." Inuyasha said, looking away, his face flushing. Kagome smiled some more and gave Inuyasha a hug.
*AHEM* they looked up to see Sesshoumaru with a quirked eyebrow, which had just cleared his throat.
"Ah." They said at the same time. Sesshoumaru suddenly looked behind them.
"Kagome." Shippo cried. "He took Rin and Gesshoku—I tried to stop him but he was really hard to fight." Shippo had a big slash across his chest and he was carrying Kirara, who appeared to have lost conciseness. Sesshoumaru drew tenseiga and cut Shippo and Kirara in half. Shippo screamed in terror.
"Get up, kitsune." Sesshoumaru said, "You have been healed, not killed." Shippo stood up shakily. Sesshoumaru turned and a cloud of stars and wavy stuff appeared at his feet, lifting him into the air. Inuyasha swung Kagome onto transforming Kirara as well as Shippo. He jumped on himself and then they were all off, following Naraku's trail.
"I'm going to kill Inuyasha and his mom today! Who's with me?" A bunch of older village boys said. Gesshoku had been caring water to her little home for her mother when she overheard this.
Oh, no- Inuyasha! I must warn him!
"No, we can't do that!" A different boy said. The others nodded.
"But we can kill Inuyasha!" Said another. The others agreed.
"But what of Gesshoku?"
"What about that little bitch? We'll just kill her if she gets in the way!"
"We'll be heroes for killing that half demon!" At that very moment, a shriek erupted from a corner of the village.
"DEMONS! TAKE COVER! DEMONS!" Within those vary moments, Inuyasha's mother, the widow of the former Lord of the Western Lands, was killed.
"Inuyasha!" She cried. Inuyasha had gotten there a second to late, killing the demons easily. The demon parts rained down on him, the villagers all scared and aghast of him. He ran to his mother.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I ...love-" But it was there she died, those being her last parting words.
"Mommy, mommy!" Inuyasha cried. He stood up and away from his mother's body and looked around wildly. He didn't know what to do. He ran and ran, never going to turn back. It was a few minutes later that Gesshoku spied the older teenager boys retreating in the direction Inuyasha had gone.
NO!
She ran up to them and in front of them, already deep into the forest and away from the village. Gesshoku was only 13 at the time, but faced them all bravely.
"I won't let you kill him!" She cried to them.
"Get out of our way!" They charged at her punching and kicking. It then lead to other things—more...private things...when they were done, they left her mangled body where it was, deciding not to go after Inuyasha at all, seeing how he killed those demons so easily.
(A/N: Err...yeah, Gesshoku was...bad boys...raped...)
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Gesshoku gripped the sheets she was on.
Sheets?
She slowly opened her eyes.
"Bad dream?" A person asked. Her eyes took a while to focus.
NARAKU?!
Then it all came flooding back to her. She went to find the kids, but then she was captured while trying to save Rin...and failed...again.
"You were just having a night mare. Who would know that your most horrible secret hidden deep down was connected to Inuyasha?" Gesshoku lifted her arm to strike him when she realized she couldn't move. She also realized that under the sheet, she was totally naked. Naraku smirked.
"I have poisoned your muscles. They have numbed and you are now unable to move." Naraku looked at her body intently, even though it was under a sheet. Gesshoku realized what was about to happen. He was going to rape her.
Not again...no...no!
Gesshoku focused her energy. Rage, sadness, happiness, calmness, loneliness; all her emotions gathered as one.
"WHAT?" Naraku yelled. "What are you doing?" The poison ebbed away and she clutched the sheet to herself, standing. Her eyes were closed.
"Where is my daughter?" She asked peacefully. Naraku did not answer. Gesshoku extended her hand and put it to his forehead softly, extracting all he knew. She wrapped the sheet around herself, ripping off part of the bottom to use as a belt. She opened a sliding door and walked into a different room, in which Rin was huddled in a corner. She looked up.
"Mommy! What happened to you, mommy? Where are your pretty clothes?" Gesshoku hushed her child and picked her up.
"We are leaving this dreadful place, Rin." She turned to find Naraku blocking the way.
"Don't think you can just walk out." Rin cried out in alarm. That was the man that took her!
"Rin, did he do anything personal to you?" Rin shook her head. At that moment, Sesshoumaru crashed in through the wall. It seemed to be in slow motion and his eyes locked onto Gesshoku's. Rin smiled, but Sesshoumaru wasn't looking at that. He was consumed with Gesshoku's attire- a near see through sheet.
Sesshoumaru landed gracefully of course. He was still looking at Gesshoku when a brilliant flash came erupting from behind him. He jumped out of the way and his eyes widened in shock when it suddenly turned a bit to the left and went for Gesshoku and Rin. Rin screamed but Gesshoku's face was as peaceful as ever.
"Rin Chan! Gesshoku Chan!" Kagome screamed as she, Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kirara finally entered through the broken down wall.
The light, which was a part of Naraku's body, surrounded them and they vanished from sight. All they could hear was Rin's terror.
"SESSHOUMARU SAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Disclaimer: I do hate these things. I never read them myself you know... but... I. Do...d-d-d-d do- do- -do-...I OWN EVERYTHING! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA! *Gets hit over the head by Rumiko Takahashi* wah... I'm sorry Rumiko!!!! I really am!!!!! I just wanted to be famous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Cries*
Sesshoumaru eyed the air and was about to take off when he realized he was still holding Kagome.
"What are you doing, Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha said.
I guess his hearing is back...
"I was caring her hear."
"Don't touch her!" Inuyasha yelled, jumping up to his brother, but Sesshoumaru's grasp only tightened around Kagome. Kagome was pulled against his chest and her eyes widened.
"Why? You don't seem to care for her that much. You've been eyeing nothing but Gesshoku lately." Kagome suddenly grew sad. Sesshoumaru was right...
"Oh yeah? Well... your mother was a bitch and deserved to die!" It was suddenly dead quiet. Sesshoumaru had thrown Kagome down and grabbed Inuyasha's throat in a matter of seconds.
"You never knew my mother, half breed. If she hadn't been killed the way she was, I would have still enjoyed human company. But I am now how I am because of what those humans did to her. Don't you ever insult my her!" Inuyasha's eyes widened.
Does that mean...Sesshoumaru once liked humans?
Sesshoumaru flung Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha got up slowly. Sesshoumaru turned around and started walking.
"Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Inuyasha." Kagome warned.
"How do you think I feel? My mother died as well by the hands of demons, but I have not killed them just for that reason, because they killed someone dear to me! You don't like me calling your mother names because she was a nice person to you, huh? How do you think I feel when people call me half-breed? Don't think that you're the only one in this world that has been hurt by what has happened in the past or present."
Sesshoumaru stopped walking.
"Look around you! Everyone is hurting deep down, even if they cover it up so well as you! Just because we show our emotions doesn't mean we're weak! It is our strength and our will to get up and fight, even if it is futile! But a cold, heartless demon like you wouldn't understand that level of emotion, would you?"
(A/N: Whoa, Inuyasha has a nice speech where everyone should applaud him in the end)
Everything was silent.
"Would you?" Inuyasha said again. Kagome looked at him. He was really something. Sesshoumaru turned and looked at them. A chilly wind blew his perfect silver hair from his shoulders and slightly across his face. Kagome stood up, smiling.
"Please, Sesshoumaru-kun, even if you do not know what the feeling is, please let us help you in going after Naraku. We have all tried by ourselves for the longest time, and have not managed to reach our goal in killing Naraku. But if we unite together, our forces against him will be stronger and we may win!" Inuyasha's arm snaked around Kagome's waist and pulled her close to him. Her eyes widened.
"And Kagome, please, I want you to understand something. No matter what I do, it is all actions of the past. When that is all settled, I really...want to be with you...more..." Inuyasha said, looking away, his face flushing. Kagome smiled some more and gave Inuyasha a hug.
*AHEM* they looked up to see Sesshoumaru with a quirked eyebrow, which had just cleared his throat.
"Ah." They said at the same time. Sesshoumaru suddenly looked behind them.
"Kagome." Shippo cried. "He took Rin and Gesshoku—I tried to stop him but he was really hard to fight." Shippo had a big slash across his chest and he was carrying Kirara, who appeared to have lost conciseness. Sesshoumaru drew tenseiga and cut Shippo and Kirara in half. Shippo screamed in terror.
"Get up, kitsune." Sesshoumaru said, "You have been healed, not killed." Shippo stood up shakily. Sesshoumaru turned and a cloud of stars and wavy stuff appeared at his feet, lifting him into the air. Inuyasha swung Kagome onto transforming Kirara as well as Shippo. He jumped on himself and then they were all off, following Naraku's trail.
"I'm going to kill Inuyasha and his mom today! Who's with me?" A bunch of older village boys said. Gesshoku had been caring water to her little home for her mother when she overheard this.
Oh, no- Inuyasha! I must warn him!
"No, we can't do that!" A different boy said. The others nodded.
"But we can kill Inuyasha!" Said another. The others agreed.
"But what of Gesshoku?"
"What about that little bitch? We'll just kill her if she gets in the way!"
"We'll be heroes for killing that half demon!" At that very moment, a shriek erupted from a corner of the village.
"DEMONS! TAKE COVER! DEMONS!" Within those vary moments, Inuyasha's mother, the widow of the former Lord of the Western Lands, was killed.
"Inuyasha!" She cried. Inuyasha had gotten there a second to late, killing the demons easily. The demon parts rained down on him, the villagers all scared and aghast of him. He ran to his mother.
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I ...love-" But it was there she died, those being her last parting words.
"Mommy, mommy!" Inuyasha cried. He stood up and away from his mother's body and looked around wildly. He didn't know what to do. He ran and ran, never going to turn back. It was a few minutes later that Gesshoku spied the older teenager boys retreating in the direction Inuyasha had gone.
NO!
She ran up to them and in front of them, already deep into the forest and away from the village. Gesshoku was only 13 at the time, but faced them all bravely.
"I won't let you kill him!" She cried to them.
"Get out of our way!" They charged at her punching and kicking. It then lead to other things—more...private things...when they were done, they left her mangled body where it was, deciding not to go after Inuyasha at all, seeing how he killed those demons so easily.
(A/N: Err...yeah, Gesshoku was...bad boys...raped...)
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Gesshoku gripped the sheets she was on.
Sheets?
She slowly opened her eyes.
"Bad dream?" A person asked. Her eyes took a while to focus.
NARAKU?!
Then it all came flooding back to her. She went to find the kids, but then she was captured while trying to save Rin...and failed...again.
"You were just having a night mare. Who would know that your most horrible secret hidden deep down was connected to Inuyasha?" Gesshoku lifted her arm to strike him when she realized she couldn't move. She also realized that under the sheet, she was totally naked. Naraku smirked.
"I have poisoned your muscles. They have numbed and you are now unable to move." Naraku looked at her body intently, even though it was under a sheet. Gesshoku realized what was about to happen. He was going to rape her.
Not again...no...no!
Gesshoku focused her energy. Rage, sadness, happiness, calmness, loneliness; all her emotions gathered as one.
"WHAT?" Naraku yelled. "What are you doing?" The poison ebbed away and she clutched the sheet to herself, standing. Her eyes were closed.
"Where is my daughter?" She asked peacefully. Naraku did not answer. Gesshoku extended her hand and put it to his forehead softly, extracting all he knew. She wrapped the sheet around herself, ripping off part of the bottom to use as a belt. She opened a sliding door and walked into a different room, in which Rin was huddled in a corner. She looked up.
"Mommy! What happened to you, mommy? Where are your pretty clothes?" Gesshoku hushed her child and picked her up.
"We are leaving this dreadful place, Rin." She turned to find Naraku blocking the way.
"Don't think you can just walk out." Rin cried out in alarm. That was the man that took her!
"Rin, did he do anything personal to you?" Rin shook her head. At that moment, Sesshoumaru crashed in through the wall. It seemed to be in slow motion and his eyes locked onto Gesshoku's. Rin smiled, but Sesshoumaru wasn't looking at that. He was consumed with Gesshoku's attire- a near see through sheet.
Sesshoumaru landed gracefully of course. He was still looking at Gesshoku when a brilliant flash came erupting from behind him. He jumped out of the way and his eyes widened in shock when it suddenly turned a bit to the left and went for Gesshoku and Rin. Rin screamed but Gesshoku's face was as peaceful as ever.
"Rin Chan! Gesshoku Chan!" Kagome screamed as she, Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kirara finally entered through the broken down wall.
The light, which was a part of Naraku's body, surrounded them and they vanished from sight. All they could hear was Rin's terror.
"SESSHOUMARU SAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
