Chapter 11: Not a Fairy Tale
"Tenseiga?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Why? There is no one in pain.
"Kagome! Kagome!" Sesshoumaru turned to see his brother crying over the dead girl. Gesshoku's eyes closed. She raised her right arm quickly and snapped herself away from Sesshoumaru by pushing his arm into a painful position and kicking off the ground with both feet.
"Ah-" Sesshoumaru said before receiving a kick in the mouth from Gesshoku, which set him plummeting into the ground.
She seemed afraid of tenseiga, even though she's used it once before. Why?
Sesshoumaru gazed up at Gesshoku unsurely. Why did his sword wish to cut her flesh? Would it some how save her from Naraku?
That must be it! Since she's under Naraku's control, she's afraid of being set free of him. In other words, Naraku is afraid of losing her, so he's making her face and feelings look afraid! I must save her!
In an instant, Sesshoumaru had jumped by Gesshoku's side and drawn tenseiga, slashing at her.
"NO! Sesshoumaru, please, STOP!" She screamed. He swung at her again.
"Don't worry, Naraku's grip over you will soon go away!" Sesshoumaru cried out.
"Sesshoumaru..." Miroku said, looking at the frenzy in which the young demon Lord had so quickly become.
Didn't she say that she wasn't under his control? If so, why is she scared of tenseiga? It would only cure her of Naraku's spell. I know there is a spell. There is a magic presence around her.
Miroku looked at Sango, who was still unconscious.
"Kirara!" He called. Kirara came at once. "Please, "Miroku continued, "take Sango and the young ones to a safe place until Sango wakes. I suppose then she'll want her revenge. If something goes wrong, leave immediately and as fast as you can!" With that, Miroku threw Sango, Shippo, and Rin onto Kirara and she flew away.
"KAGURA!" Naraku yelled. "Don't let that miko escape again!" With that, Kagura flew after Kirara until she pulled suddenly out of her feather.
"WHAT?" She cried. Her body was flung towards the ground, toward Miroku.
NO! I can't die! Not here; not working for Naraku!
"I - I don't want to die." She whispered. Silent tears slid up her face, since that was the motion she was moving away from, yet they were pulled beneath her and sucked into Miroku's wind tunnel.
And in those tears were fear. Terrified of her destiny, Kagura saw one last figure.
Se-Sesshoumaru!
She cried, reaching out for him. He turned, as if hearing her. He saw her weakening figure. Sesshoumaru had no choice. He flung tenseiga right at the monk's hand, piercing through it.
"ARGH!" Miroku yelled as his hand was being purified.
"NO!" Naraku yelled. His curse was lifting off the monk's hand. Naraku stretched out his own arm and knocked tenseiga out of the way, grabbing the monk by the throat. Miroku coughed violently, clutching his enemy's arm. His small human nails digging through the digested skin of Naraku's demon arm. He was interrupted as Sesshoumaru's body was blasted into his side, along with a ball of purifying energy.
Gesshoku ran forward and grabbed tenseiga. Suddenly, the Wound of the Wind was ripping through the ground. Gesshoku blocked it off with tenseiga.
"Inuyasha." She said. Inuyasha's face was streaked with tears full of blood and hatred.
"DON'T ... CALL ME THAT ... YOU WITCH!" Inuyasha roared as he unleashed his sword's power once again. Gesshoku dodged and Naraku got hit on his re- grown side, which Kagome had dissipated in her final arrow.
"YOU MURDERER! HOW DARE YOU KILL THE ONE I LOVE!" Gesshoku's eyes went wide with shock.
One who I love
Who do I love?
Love
Love
Who is it?
In my mind...
Silver hair, golden eyes...
Inuyasha? A gengetsu... (Remember what gengetsu means) Is it you?
Gesshoku slumped to the ground. She raised her hands up to her face and watched the dried blood flake off with every shiver she gave. She looked over Inuyasha, to see Kagome's body upon the grass. An eye – chilling look was on her face. One of betrayal.
"Kagome..."
I do deserve to die...
"Inuyasha, stop!" Miroku called, sucking Inuyasha into his wind tunnel but closing it of right before his body got sucked up. Inuyasha's weight knocked both him and Miroku over. It was all Miroku's body could take and he lost concious.
"Miroku..." Inuyasha said.
You wanted me to stop, why? Why must Gesshoku live even though what she's done?
"Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said, blood dripping from his mouth. "You mustn't kill her. She is under Naraku's control."
Gesshoku started crack her knuckles.
"But...but I'm not. I was always free." Both brothers stared in shock.
"There are too many questions. I will just sum up what's happened. I am living off of my soul from my childhood. I made a deal with Naraku, knowing that you would all die."
Sesshoumaru looked at Gesshoku in a horrified way.
"Can't you see? I am only destroying you all."
"That's enough to tell, Gesshoku." Naraku said, his guts and demon pieces everywhere.
"But I did not know how much pain it would bring." She continued.
"I said that's enough!"
"NO!" Gesshoku screamed, tears tugging at the corner of her eyes.
"Naraku told me he would resurrect me if I killed you all, namely Kagome, and when the job was completed, he would resurrect Gengetsu. But now I know that it will never happen."
Naraku attacked the nearest thing next to him, which was Inuyasha. Caught off guard, Inuyasha was easily knocked off his feet. He turned around to swing tetsusaiga when a tentacle pierced right through his chest, puncturing his lungs.
He made a gurgling sound, as if underwater. The truth was that he was drowning in his own blood. He clutched his chest.
"Kagura finished him off." Naraku said. Kagura looked painfully at Naraku. She nodded and jumped to Inuyasha's side. He turned away from her and walked towards Kagome's body. A single wind blade cut his leg and he slumped to the ground.
He got up again, and walked towards Kagome some more when another blade of wind cut his other leg. Yet he stood again and finished his way to Kagome's side. He slumped to the ground, next to his beloved.
Kagome...I love you. I'm coming.
Suddenly the wind blades ceased to be. Inuyasha looked up at Kagura, who was suspended in mid air, eyes full of pain, clutching her chest, gasping for air.
"Don't." Gesshoku said. She raised tenseiga to bring her child back. But nothing happened.
"What? Why is this not working?" She cried.
"Tenseiga..." Sesshoumaru said, "Is used for good..." He could say no more.
Her intentions are greedy, that's why tenseiga rejects her pleas.
Sesshoumaru once again tried to get close to Gesshoku, watching Naraku airily as well. Kagura was released from the spell that Gesshoku had put on her.
"You can't escape!" Kagura cried to Inuyasha. He looked up at her. She was shocked to see tears in his eyes.
"You...don't want to escape?" Kagura asked him. Inuyasha continued his blank look at her.
"You won't escape." Inuyasha bent over Kagome, kissing her cold, frosty blue lips, as if trying to warm them once again. But this was no fairy tale. Kagome was dead.
And in the next few moments, so was he. Sesshoumaru spun around as soon as he heard the slush and caught within the corner of his eye his brother's head fall to the ground.
"INUYASHA!"
"Tenseiga?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Why? There is no one in pain.
"Kagome! Kagome!" Sesshoumaru turned to see his brother crying over the dead girl. Gesshoku's eyes closed. She raised her right arm quickly and snapped herself away from Sesshoumaru by pushing his arm into a painful position and kicking off the ground with both feet.
"Ah-" Sesshoumaru said before receiving a kick in the mouth from Gesshoku, which set him plummeting into the ground.
She seemed afraid of tenseiga, even though she's used it once before. Why?
Sesshoumaru gazed up at Gesshoku unsurely. Why did his sword wish to cut her flesh? Would it some how save her from Naraku?
That must be it! Since she's under Naraku's control, she's afraid of being set free of him. In other words, Naraku is afraid of losing her, so he's making her face and feelings look afraid! I must save her!
In an instant, Sesshoumaru had jumped by Gesshoku's side and drawn tenseiga, slashing at her.
"NO! Sesshoumaru, please, STOP!" She screamed. He swung at her again.
"Don't worry, Naraku's grip over you will soon go away!" Sesshoumaru cried out.
"Sesshoumaru..." Miroku said, looking at the frenzy in which the young demon Lord had so quickly become.
Didn't she say that she wasn't under his control? If so, why is she scared of tenseiga? It would only cure her of Naraku's spell. I know there is a spell. There is a magic presence around her.
Miroku looked at Sango, who was still unconscious.
"Kirara!" He called. Kirara came at once. "Please, "Miroku continued, "take Sango and the young ones to a safe place until Sango wakes. I suppose then she'll want her revenge. If something goes wrong, leave immediately and as fast as you can!" With that, Miroku threw Sango, Shippo, and Rin onto Kirara and she flew away.
"KAGURA!" Naraku yelled. "Don't let that miko escape again!" With that, Kagura flew after Kirara until she pulled suddenly out of her feather.
"WHAT?" She cried. Her body was flung towards the ground, toward Miroku.
NO! I can't die! Not here; not working for Naraku!
"I - I don't want to die." She whispered. Silent tears slid up her face, since that was the motion she was moving away from, yet they were pulled beneath her and sucked into Miroku's wind tunnel.
And in those tears were fear. Terrified of her destiny, Kagura saw one last figure.
Se-Sesshoumaru!
She cried, reaching out for him. He turned, as if hearing her. He saw her weakening figure. Sesshoumaru had no choice. He flung tenseiga right at the monk's hand, piercing through it.
"ARGH!" Miroku yelled as his hand was being purified.
"NO!" Naraku yelled. His curse was lifting off the monk's hand. Naraku stretched out his own arm and knocked tenseiga out of the way, grabbing the monk by the throat. Miroku coughed violently, clutching his enemy's arm. His small human nails digging through the digested skin of Naraku's demon arm. He was interrupted as Sesshoumaru's body was blasted into his side, along with a ball of purifying energy.
Gesshoku ran forward and grabbed tenseiga. Suddenly, the Wound of the Wind was ripping through the ground. Gesshoku blocked it off with tenseiga.
"Inuyasha." She said. Inuyasha's face was streaked with tears full of blood and hatred.
"DON'T ... CALL ME THAT ... YOU WITCH!" Inuyasha roared as he unleashed his sword's power once again. Gesshoku dodged and Naraku got hit on his re- grown side, which Kagome had dissipated in her final arrow.
"YOU MURDERER! HOW DARE YOU KILL THE ONE I LOVE!" Gesshoku's eyes went wide with shock.
One who I love
Who do I love?
Love
Love
Who is it?
In my mind...
Silver hair, golden eyes...
Inuyasha? A gengetsu... (Remember what gengetsu means) Is it you?
Gesshoku slumped to the ground. She raised her hands up to her face and watched the dried blood flake off with every shiver she gave. She looked over Inuyasha, to see Kagome's body upon the grass. An eye – chilling look was on her face. One of betrayal.
"Kagome..."
I do deserve to die...
"Inuyasha, stop!" Miroku called, sucking Inuyasha into his wind tunnel but closing it of right before his body got sucked up. Inuyasha's weight knocked both him and Miroku over. It was all Miroku's body could take and he lost concious.
"Miroku..." Inuyasha said.
You wanted me to stop, why? Why must Gesshoku live even though what she's done?
"Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said, blood dripping from his mouth. "You mustn't kill her. She is under Naraku's control."
Gesshoku started crack her knuckles.
"But...but I'm not. I was always free." Both brothers stared in shock.
"There are too many questions. I will just sum up what's happened. I am living off of my soul from my childhood. I made a deal with Naraku, knowing that you would all die."
Sesshoumaru looked at Gesshoku in a horrified way.
"Can't you see? I am only destroying you all."
"That's enough to tell, Gesshoku." Naraku said, his guts and demon pieces everywhere.
"But I did not know how much pain it would bring." She continued.
"I said that's enough!"
"NO!" Gesshoku screamed, tears tugging at the corner of her eyes.
"Naraku told me he would resurrect me if I killed you all, namely Kagome, and when the job was completed, he would resurrect Gengetsu. But now I know that it will never happen."
Naraku attacked the nearest thing next to him, which was Inuyasha. Caught off guard, Inuyasha was easily knocked off his feet. He turned around to swing tetsusaiga when a tentacle pierced right through his chest, puncturing his lungs.
He made a gurgling sound, as if underwater. The truth was that he was drowning in his own blood. He clutched his chest.
"Kagura finished him off." Naraku said. Kagura looked painfully at Naraku. She nodded and jumped to Inuyasha's side. He turned away from her and walked towards Kagome's body. A single wind blade cut his leg and he slumped to the ground.
He got up again, and walked towards Kagome some more when another blade of wind cut his other leg. Yet he stood again and finished his way to Kagome's side. He slumped to the ground, next to his beloved.
Kagome...I love you. I'm coming.
Suddenly the wind blades ceased to be. Inuyasha looked up at Kagura, who was suspended in mid air, eyes full of pain, clutching her chest, gasping for air.
"Don't." Gesshoku said. She raised tenseiga to bring her child back. But nothing happened.
"What? Why is this not working?" She cried.
"Tenseiga..." Sesshoumaru said, "Is used for good..." He could say no more.
Her intentions are greedy, that's why tenseiga rejects her pleas.
Sesshoumaru once again tried to get close to Gesshoku, watching Naraku airily as well. Kagura was released from the spell that Gesshoku had put on her.
"You can't escape!" Kagura cried to Inuyasha. He looked up at her. She was shocked to see tears in his eyes.
"You...don't want to escape?" Kagura asked him. Inuyasha continued his blank look at her.
"You won't escape." Inuyasha bent over Kagome, kissing her cold, frosty blue lips, as if trying to warm them once again. But this was no fairy tale. Kagome was dead.
And in the next few moments, so was he. Sesshoumaru spun around as soon as he heard the slush and caught within the corner of his eye his brother's head fall to the ground.
"INUYASHA!"
