Chapter 9: Gesshoku's True Past

WARNING: THIS CHAPTER AND THE FOLLOWING FEW CHAPTERS WILL HAVE GORE IN IT. THERE WILL BE A RED WARNING RIGHT BEFORE IT HAPPENS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Disclaimer: don't own...*mumbles*

Mika: thax for reviewing

To the readers: Demonique is Mika's character. I don't own her either...

Naraku's tentacles resumed their attack on Sango, Miroku, and Rin.

"Mommy!" Rin screamed. Gesshoku's eyes remained glazed.

"Mommy, help me! Mommy, please, don't let him hurt me!" A single drop of sweat ran down Gesshoku's face. Naraku noticed. Suddenly everything was in slow motion for Gesshoku.

"Don't let!!!" The voice was echoing in her head.

"Hurt me!!! Hurt me...me...me...me..." (I'm trying to use echoing here...) Suddenly she was falling into darkness, away from all light.

"Don't-hurt-me me me!" She felt so helpless.

"MOMMY!" Gesshoku's eyes snapped to reality. All she saw was the child in somebody's arms.

"Gengetsu?!" Gesshoku cried. She jumped in front of the child with inhuman speed. Naraku's tentacles parted, not wanting to injure his miko.

"What?" He cried. Gesshoku grabbed Rin.

"I won't let anything happen to you, my little Gengetsu."

"What?" Sango asked. "That's Rin, right?" Gesshoku looked in Sango's direction, but seemed to be seeing beyond her, as if through her.

"Inuyasha! What's happening?" Kagome cried. Her face had a hint of a bruise, but nothing else.

"I don't know. Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha called, getting his brother's attention.

Sesshoumaru glared. Naraku suddenly smirked.

"How dare you put her in her past." Sesshoumaru said. "I knew she had a child before that was killed in some way, but reenacting that is disdainful!"

"She was with child before?" Kagome asked. "How do you-?" Sesshoumaru looked at her.

"Don't you remember?"

"When Inuyasha's mind was taken. Gesshoku had evil energy about her. She was infuriated that Inuyasha still loved Kikyo."

"That doesn't-"

"I'm not finished." Sesshoumaru said, cutting her off. "On the third night with Gesshoku. Do you remember? The day she agreed to mother Rin."

*Flash back

"Rin, come here." Gesshoku said tiredly, opening her arms to her adopted child.

"Okay." Rin got up and went to her mother's arms. Gesshoku got into a comfortable position on the ground before Rin snuggled to her mother's warmness.

"My mommy, she used to hold me like this. I ... miss her." The child said. All mommies hold their kids like this, Rin", Gesshoku said before the child fell asleep. "All mommies hold their children like this..."

*End Flash back

Kagome's mouth was a little open with shock. Gesshoku was only as old as herself!

Wait. That's not true. Gesshoku is...really old, isn't she?

"Those bastard village boys... impregnated her?" Inuyasha yelled. The only reason she lived...was because she thought I would return to her. And I forgot...I even forgot my Kinpa's name!" He yelled to himself, slamming his face through a still standing wall.

Kagome cringed. Gesshoku hugged Rin.

"Don't worry, Gengetsu, I won't let anything happen to you. No one will take you away from me."

"Gesshoku! That is Rin! Try to remember, that isn't Gengetsu!" Kagome cried to her newfound friend. It was amazing really. This was only the fourth day of Gesshoku's presence and they were pretty good friends.

Gesshoku didn't hear. She was already gone. She was back. Back in the past once again.

"Now, why don't we just watch?" Naraku said triumphantly. "Why don't we make things clear?"

"You know what to do, Demonique." Naraku said, eyeing the air behind him. A girl's outline appeared, although she was totally in shadow. The evilness radiated off of her so thickly that even Naraku's hairs stood on end. She floated forward, into the light. Her blue eyes shown bright and here black short hair swished in her movement. She was rather thin and tall. She was obviously a wolf demon.

"Of course." She said, her voice somewhat raspy but had a purring tune to it.

Blackness suddenly erupted from her outstretched hands. Nobody got away from it. Naraku smirked.

"Let them watch. Let them watch each other's nightmares. Perhaps with grief they will even end up killing each other." Demonique nodded, her short strands bouncing.

"It was pretty smart of that woman, though." Demonique said. "The one called Kagome. When you ordered me to take the priest and demon exterminator as prisoner and give Kagome that vision, I never knew she could tell that it was someone stronger than yourself."

Naraku looked a Demonique unsurely.

You will die soon enough...

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They were all floating in a meadow, everyone right next to each other. Everyone except Gesshoku. Gesshoku was in a meadow. The others watched intently. She was holding a young kid, looking a bit more than a year old. The small child looked at her mother.

"Mommy!" She said clapping. It was the only word she knew. Gesshoku smiled.

"That's right! I'm your mommy!" Gesshoku picked up her daughter and hugged her tightly.

"My little Gengetsu, I won't let anything happen to you." Suddenly, her baby was knocked away from her.

"UAA!" Gesshoku cried, being knocked forward by the impact.

"Mommy! Mommy!" Gesshoku quickly got up to see a snake looking youkai clutching her baby.

"Let her go!" The young mother cried.

"A little child how nice..." The snake hissed. "Not a very filling meal, but you'll be next." Gesshoku ran up to the enormous snake and started pounding it with her fists, but to no avail.

Suddenly, another demon appeared, of equal stature. It lunged for her baby. Gesshoku screamed.

"Mommy! Mommy!" Gengetsu started wailing. The new demon grabbed her child's legs and tried to yank her away from the snake.

WARNING: RATED R FOR VIOLENCE

A small battle ensued. One that took the life of little Gengetsu. The snake bit the little girl's head, ripping it off, ceasing her wails.

Gesshoku screamed very loudly.

"GENGETSU! GENGETSU! GENGETSU! GENGETSU!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed in pain, fear, morning, and anger. She fell to her knees, helpless to her already dead baby. The demons continued battling, ripping at what was left of the baby. Blood spattered everywhere.

"How dare you ruin my meal!" The snake hissed, punching the other demon, which proved to be some sort of beetle. Some intestine hung from the beetle's jaw. Gesshoku was sick and threw up again and again until she was just frothing at the mouth, nothing left in her stomach to give up.

The beetle staggered a bit before slamming the snake in the stomach, making him loose his meal. Gesshoku jumped out of the way before it hit her. She turned to look at it and then screamed again. Her daughter's lifeless eye stared back at her. Her daughter's decapitated head, mixed with blood, guts, and other previously eaten things' smell nauseated her even further.

"Gengetsu..." Gesshoku said, terrified. Her daughter's head had been chewed before swallowed by the snake demon. Teeth marks crossed her one joyous face. Her daughter's face was drawn up in a slightly surprised look. One of the snake's teeth had (oops... snakes don't have teeth... heh heh...) punctured through the back of Gengetsu head and had come out through her eye.

From above, Kagome turned and buried herself into Inuyasha's chest, Miroku pulling the sobbing Sango into his own. Rin was shaking in terror. Sesshoumaru's... tail wrapped around her and pulled her to his chest, so that she wouldn't see.

The image faded. Gesshoku was suddenly by them, crying.

"Who wants to be next?" The purring voice said. A black hand tore Sango away from Miroku's strong grip.

"Houshi Sama!!!!!!!!" She screamed as she too, was sucked into darkness, her most pained moment in her life about to be exploited to her comrades. She would have to live through it...again. It was time for her to now relive her past just as Gesshoku had relived her own.