Hm...hello again. How has everyone been as of late? I've been updating this
story more than the other one, possibly because all the chapter workings
for "What I Would Do" are in my computer which is down as of now. Sorry
about that. Well, I just want to get that out, but not really. I'm just
making excuses.
Sorry it took me so long to type out this chappie; blame the demon French teacher's project and an English essay and biology in general...
Yay review responses!!
ValarSpawn-Yes, Naraku is rather joyous that his son's following in his dear daddy's footsteps. Yay Sesshomaru! He's on the winning team. It's okay, I don't know how I became anyone's fave either. The sane side of my brain (if there is one) says it's statistically impossible...SHOWS WHAT IT KNOWS! Nah, Kikyo was just there to reinforce the idea that Naraku was involved in case it wasn't blaringly clear. I just don't like Kikyo. But it would be a good idea, nonetheless. Thanx bunches!
KougasMyMan-Aw, are you sure I can't have him? On loan maybe? PLEASE? I felt a little sorry for Saru too as I was typing out what'd happen to him. But obviously not bad enough to omit it. Yay it was a good chapter! I hope to keep up the good work! Thank you for reviewing!
In case anyone can't tell, I love to tell everyone who reviews thank you. It must be an odd habit. But I figure it's a not a vice, at least, unlike SOME other things. Such as a whole lot of obsessive compulsive anime buying. Hehe, guilty as charged.
Now, I know you guys can remember pretty far back, right? Do you remember the term known as DISCLAIMER? Of course you do; it means that YOU DO NOT CLAIM AND OR OWN SOMETHING. Look, as much as it saddens me, I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA. I certainly wish I did, though. Then I would be making millions and be able to speak fluent Japanese.
This chapter's going to be a tad long. I thought it'd be over at one point, but I decided I'd just make one giant, super-long one. Have fun reading!
The Child Within-Chapter Six
The whole 'family' looked at Saru differently. Kagome and Inuyasha looked at him so sorrowfully that he thought HE might cry. Miroku and Sango just wouldn't even meet his gaze. Miroku would occasionally glance up and then quickly lower his eyes to anything. Sango stood up in the middle of dinner and walked out, Miroku following soon after. He mumbled something about "going to go to a nearby village for the night" before he completely left. Then it was just Inuyasha, Kagome and Saru.
"So..." started Kagome feebly. "I-uh, well, I-" She looked at Saru, smiling weakly. "You do realize that I still think of you as the same kid, right?"
Saru picked at his food weakly. "Don't even bother." He looked at her, clearly depressed with an underlying confusion. "I know what happened, Mom, and I know it has something do to with my dad. If you don't want to tell me, fine. I'll sort it out on my own." He stood up and walked out into the cool night air. He decided he'd just go a little down the dirt path coursing through the village and sit down to look at the stars.
Kagome looked at her mate meaningfully. "I should go talk to him. He needs some parental guidance, and apparently you're having trouble telling him anything."
He glared at her. "So are you; you didn't even tell him about Naraku or how he was conceived." His eyes softened. "Look, I'm sorry. I shouldn't get so pissed, but-"
"It's okay. I'll talk to him. If I don't come back in 15 minutes, you can come after me." She nodded and smiled imperceptibly (yea thesaurus), and she walked through the open door.
She found her son lying in the dirt path, hair strewn about his head like a fan. He was gazing at the stars, hands resting behind his head so he could see well. She snorted softly and then broke through the noise of the night insects. "What're you doing, Saru?"
He shifted his eyes to his mother without moving any other part of his body. "I dunno, looking at the stars, I guess." He returned to doing just that.
"Look, I know you have questions that you want answered. It's just that Inuyasha and I would rather not dredge up the past; it was rather upsetting." She plopped down next to him. "Must have been for you as well, I suppose."
"Yeah, it was." He kept his eyes sturdily on the sky, never faltering to anything else. "I just feel so awkward around everyone, since it's obviously something bad. I guess it came from Dad, right?" He spat the word "dad" out like it tasted foul on his tongue.
She chuckled softly. "Yeah, that was all your father. I hated him, but even though he shared half the genetics I had you because I loved you." He snorted disbelievingly. "Yes, before I even knew you, I knew I did."
"That is SO sappy, Mom." He didn't put much heart behind it. His eyes were dark and misty as he lay there, trying not to cry. He couldn't, he decided, because that would mean he was weak. He was not. His body stiffened as he gathered up his courage to give hell to whatever was in him for all their sakes.
Kagome sighed as Saru sat up. While he still did not ask her any questions, she knew he was dying to. He just didn't know how to phrase them. She longed to hug her son and put him on her lap like she used to. Now he was too big and wouldn't put up with it.
"Mom, I have some questions that I need to ask, but I don't quite know how to say them without sounding awkward." Kagome burst out laughing. She just couldn't hold it in, even though it was probably really confusing to Saru. She had known exactly what was going on in his head, and she hardly ever knew what was ranging through hers. It just struck her as funny.
"Mom?" asked Saru. He was a little uneasy from his Mom's reaction, and he felt like he had said something odd. Either that or she had just launched off her rocker. "Are you okay?" He stood up, watching his Mom just sitting there with tears from laugher streaking her face.
Wiping her eyes, Kagome stood up as well. "I'm sorry, I'm not nuts. I was just thinking you were going to say that, so I don't know." Her laughter had tapered at last. "I thought it was funny."
Saru forced a smile, but as he continued to watch Kagome holding in her giggling he began to chuckle as well. She started once he did, and soon enough they were both just standing there laughing and laughing under the night sky.
Resting her hands on Saru's shoulders, Kagome smiled. She has such a flirty smile, he thought, feeling his lips pull back in once as well. So that's where I get it.
That was all he thought before his demon side took over.
Kagome stiffened as her son's mouth closed over hers. Her mind was whirring but not making any sense. She tried to back away gently but Saru's vice- like grip had encircled her. He stabbed his tongue in between her pursed lips and she felt nauseous. Attempting to twist around, Kagome still couldn't get away because her strength was draining-fast.
"SARU!" Inuyasha ripped Saru away and flung him to the ground heavily. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" He was answered by a low growl emitting from Saru, who was now sitting upright.
"Saru?" asked Kagome weakly. Her knees were a little wobbly. Inuyasha placed himself between her and her son, growling as well.
Convulsing, Saru groaned in pain, and clutched his head. He tottered over again, moaning. After a few moments, he sat back up, glistening with sweat and shaking his head dazedly. "Huh?" He tried to stand up but fell back down. He looked like a piece of rubber flailing about. "What did I do?" She could tell he was gazing at her. "Mom?"
"Saru-" She tried.
"You were bloody glomping your mother!" Inuyasha raved (a/n: a glomp is the same as a snog, in case you didn't know). He was twitching thorough his clothes and his voice was cracking.
Saru froze. "I what?" he asked, not daring to breathe.
"You can't even control yourself, can you? You can't contain Naraku's damn demon blood." Inuyasha cursed another blue streak.
"I-"
"You bastard, and I mean it. You fucking bastard, I'm going to rip your guts out."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome was shocked he'd say that. He ignored her.
He began to advance on the frozen half demon. "You want to know who your friggin father is, right? Well I'll bloody well tell you. He was a goddam bastard, just like you are. He fucked up everyone's lives and laughed the whole while. He raped your mother and despite anyone else's warnings she had you anyway. That's why we all look at you funny. Every time I see you I see Naraku staring back at me." He spat on the ground, close to Saru's limp figure.
Saru sat there with his mouth agape, not knowing what to say. He was shaking slightly.
"And now you've gotten too bloody dangerous to keep around here. I want you to leave, Saru, or I'll have to make you leave." He was bristling and his ears were against his head.
Saru chuckled softly and stood up, staring at Inuyasha and smiling. "Oh c'mon, you've gotta be kidding. How can you just cast me off like that, after all we've been through?" He laughed nervously.
Inuyasha's expression didn't change; it was just as hard as it had been. It was obvious he was serious.
"Mom?" Saru stared at his mother pleadingly. "Is all that true?" His moonlit eyes begged her to say it wasn't.
She just turned her head downward. She could not meet her son's eyes.
He hesitated, and then looked down as well. "So it is true. All he said, it was all true." He looked up at Inuyasha, eyes misty. "So I suppose I will have to leave, won't I?" He smiled weakly, a tear leaking out his eye. He looked at his mentor, with his face frozen in a frown like it had been carved. He put his hand out as if to touch his friend, but drew back as he thought better of it.
"Goodbye," he said softly, and then leaped away down the path.
"Saru-" Kagome tried after her fleeing son.
"Let him go, Kagome," Inuyasha said, finally turning around to face her. "He's a problem, and he just can't be near you anymore. You see what happens."
"YOU IDIOT!" she screamed at him. This caused Inuyasha to blink quickly a few times in surprise. He hadn't expected an outburst like that. "YOU STUPID, STUPID IDIOT! DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE?" Her eyes were huge in the light and her fists balled in rage as she shouted down the flinching dog demon. "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO MIGHT FIND HIM?"
An image of Naraku flashed across his mind, and he felt like hitting himself in the head for how brash he'd been.
"Oh shit," was what came out.
"Oh shit is right, Inuyasha! You cast my son into hell!" she burst out crying and slumped to the ground, too weak to stand anymore. She began wailing "Saru" steadily, like a chant.
Inuyasha wanted to crawl into a hole and die. How stupid he had been! He shook his head and had an idea. "I'm going after him."
Through all her sobbing he didn't think she'd really heard him. As he opened his mouth to say it again, he heard her whisper, "Save my son."
He nodded slightly and leaped off after the runaway.
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Saru had no idea where he was running. He just kept pushing himself to go as fast as he could go, and was breathing heavily and sweating enough to fill a glass. It was late morning now, and he could no longer feel his muscles. Everything was just moving on its own, as if while he still ran his head couldn't concentrate on the sting of last night. He tripped over a root and slapped onto the ground, momentarily stunned.
Once he had gotten enough energy to breathe correctly and control his weighty body, he rolled over onto his back and sat up. Feeling his ankle, Saru decided it wasn't badly hurt and he could keep moving.
Right as he was about to leave, he heard a voice behind him. "You okay, boy?"
He whipped around with his hips and felt pain shoot up his side. Groaning, he placed a warm hand on his dirty clothing, trying to ease the pain. "Who're you?" he asked the odd man perched on a nearby boulder, looking at him curiously. He had on all white and an odd animal mask shaped like a balding badger.
"Just some villager. It's more interesting to ask who're YOU. It looks like you've been running all night long, son. You're as white as the underside of a dead frog." He fished around his voluminous robes, finally finding a flask. "Here," he said as he handed it to Saru, who took a huge draught before he realized it tasted funny.
"Erg, what is that?"
"My own concoction. I made it last night and was going to take it fishing with me, but it looked like you needed it more." He cocked his head at Saru. "Where're you running to?"
"It's more like what am I running AWAY from." He sighed and shook his head. "Look, thanks and all, I just gotta get going." He tried to stand up but had to sit back down again; his stomach had lurched when he had tried to upright himself.
"What's wrong with you?" the stranger asked. The eyeholes were locked onto his face.
"I don't think you're drink sat right." Saru clutched his belly, trying to calm it. He thought he could feel the demon stirring, and he wanted to get away from this man as soon as possible before it fully awoke.
"Or it could be that you've been runnin' all night." He chuckled deeply, like a deep-voiced songbird. "But I will say that my drink doesn't sit right with a lot of people. I guess it might be the Kingswort (a/n: this is SO a fake plant, so don't even bother applying it anywhere else but here.)"
Saru's eyes widened. "Isn't that plant poisonous?" His stomach already was having a gymnastics practice and it had just fallen off the high beam.
"Well that would be why it doesn't sit well with people." The man's voice had dropped and had gained a more commanding tone. What the hell? Saru thought.
"Are you trying to poison me?" His fingers flexed in preparation for a slaughter.
"I know all about you, Saru, and I wanted to see if my genetics truly passed onto you." The man removed his mask and Saru was seeing a mirror image of himself.
Spluttering, Saru's mind was flooded with memories. He remembered how his mother had been screaming, how a stranger who seemed like him had been leading him away. He remembered how a light had flared around him and ate through the man's arm. "Naraku?" he heard himself ask.
"Of course it's Naraku. Now so you won't be confused, I gave you some of my miasma. It should eliminate all of your purification powers, seeing as you already have enough evil in you. But if it doesn't, don't worry, you'll just die." He chuckled like a James Bond villain. "Best of luck," Naraku said as he raised his flask. "Cheers." He took a huge swig of his miasma brew and chuckled as his son's eyes rolled up into his head and slumped onto the forest floor.
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All those who actually care, I was on the verge of tears when I was typing out how Saru had to leave. Listen, things have hit rock bottom. Therefore, they can only get better. Please keep reading! Hearts! R & R!
Sorry if you feel I've wasted you time. I wasted my own time, unless you enjoy my writing, then it was time well spent! TTFN!
Sorry it took me so long to type out this chappie; blame the demon French teacher's project and an English essay and biology in general...
Yay review responses!!
ValarSpawn-Yes, Naraku is rather joyous that his son's following in his dear daddy's footsteps. Yay Sesshomaru! He's on the winning team. It's okay, I don't know how I became anyone's fave either. The sane side of my brain (if there is one) says it's statistically impossible...SHOWS WHAT IT KNOWS! Nah, Kikyo was just there to reinforce the idea that Naraku was involved in case it wasn't blaringly clear. I just don't like Kikyo. But it would be a good idea, nonetheless. Thanx bunches!
KougasMyMan-Aw, are you sure I can't have him? On loan maybe? PLEASE? I felt a little sorry for Saru too as I was typing out what'd happen to him. But obviously not bad enough to omit it. Yay it was a good chapter! I hope to keep up the good work! Thank you for reviewing!
In case anyone can't tell, I love to tell everyone who reviews thank you. It must be an odd habit. But I figure it's a not a vice, at least, unlike SOME other things. Such as a whole lot of obsessive compulsive anime buying. Hehe, guilty as charged.
Now, I know you guys can remember pretty far back, right? Do you remember the term known as DISCLAIMER? Of course you do; it means that YOU DO NOT CLAIM AND OR OWN SOMETHING. Look, as much as it saddens me, I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA. I certainly wish I did, though. Then I would be making millions and be able to speak fluent Japanese.
This chapter's going to be a tad long. I thought it'd be over at one point, but I decided I'd just make one giant, super-long one. Have fun reading!
The Child Within-Chapter Six
The whole 'family' looked at Saru differently. Kagome and Inuyasha looked at him so sorrowfully that he thought HE might cry. Miroku and Sango just wouldn't even meet his gaze. Miroku would occasionally glance up and then quickly lower his eyes to anything. Sango stood up in the middle of dinner and walked out, Miroku following soon after. He mumbled something about "going to go to a nearby village for the night" before he completely left. Then it was just Inuyasha, Kagome and Saru.
"So..." started Kagome feebly. "I-uh, well, I-" She looked at Saru, smiling weakly. "You do realize that I still think of you as the same kid, right?"
Saru picked at his food weakly. "Don't even bother." He looked at her, clearly depressed with an underlying confusion. "I know what happened, Mom, and I know it has something do to with my dad. If you don't want to tell me, fine. I'll sort it out on my own." He stood up and walked out into the cool night air. He decided he'd just go a little down the dirt path coursing through the village and sit down to look at the stars.
Kagome looked at her mate meaningfully. "I should go talk to him. He needs some parental guidance, and apparently you're having trouble telling him anything."
He glared at her. "So are you; you didn't even tell him about Naraku or how he was conceived." His eyes softened. "Look, I'm sorry. I shouldn't get so pissed, but-"
"It's okay. I'll talk to him. If I don't come back in 15 minutes, you can come after me." She nodded and smiled imperceptibly (yea thesaurus), and she walked through the open door.
She found her son lying in the dirt path, hair strewn about his head like a fan. He was gazing at the stars, hands resting behind his head so he could see well. She snorted softly and then broke through the noise of the night insects. "What're you doing, Saru?"
He shifted his eyes to his mother without moving any other part of his body. "I dunno, looking at the stars, I guess." He returned to doing just that.
"Look, I know you have questions that you want answered. It's just that Inuyasha and I would rather not dredge up the past; it was rather upsetting." She plopped down next to him. "Must have been for you as well, I suppose."
"Yeah, it was." He kept his eyes sturdily on the sky, never faltering to anything else. "I just feel so awkward around everyone, since it's obviously something bad. I guess it came from Dad, right?" He spat the word "dad" out like it tasted foul on his tongue.
She chuckled softly. "Yeah, that was all your father. I hated him, but even though he shared half the genetics I had you because I loved you." He snorted disbelievingly. "Yes, before I even knew you, I knew I did."
"That is SO sappy, Mom." He didn't put much heart behind it. His eyes were dark and misty as he lay there, trying not to cry. He couldn't, he decided, because that would mean he was weak. He was not. His body stiffened as he gathered up his courage to give hell to whatever was in him for all their sakes.
Kagome sighed as Saru sat up. While he still did not ask her any questions, she knew he was dying to. He just didn't know how to phrase them. She longed to hug her son and put him on her lap like she used to. Now he was too big and wouldn't put up with it.
"Mom, I have some questions that I need to ask, but I don't quite know how to say them without sounding awkward." Kagome burst out laughing. She just couldn't hold it in, even though it was probably really confusing to Saru. She had known exactly what was going on in his head, and she hardly ever knew what was ranging through hers. It just struck her as funny.
"Mom?" asked Saru. He was a little uneasy from his Mom's reaction, and he felt like he had said something odd. Either that or she had just launched off her rocker. "Are you okay?" He stood up, watching his Mom just sitting there with tears from laugher streaking her face.
Wiping her eyes, Kagome stood up as well. "I'm sorry, I'm not nuts. I was just thinking you were going to say that, so I don't know." Her laughter had tapered at last. "I thought it was funny."
Saru forced a smile, but as he continued to watch Kagome holding in her giggling he began to chuckle as well. She started once he did, and soon enough they were both just standing there laughing and laughing under the night sky.
Resting her hands on Saru's shoulders, Kagome smiled. She has such a flirty smile, he thought, feeling his lips pull back in once as well. So that's where I get it.
That was all he thought before his demon side took over.
Kagome stiffened as her son's mouth closed over hers. Her mind was whirring but not making any sense. She tried to back away gently but Saru's vice- like grip had encircled her. He stabbed his tongue in between her pursed lips and she felt nauseous. Attempting to twist around, Kagome still couldn't get away because her strength was draining-fast.
"SARU!" Inuyasha ripped Saru away and flung him to the ground heavily. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" He was answered by a low growl emitting from Saru, who was now sitting upright.
"Saru?" asked Kagome weakly. Her knees were a little wobbly. Inuyasha placed himself between her and her son, growling as well.
Convulsing, Saru groaned in pain, and clutched his head. He tottered over again, moaning. After a few moments, he sat back up, glistening with sweat and shaking his head dazedly. "Huh?" He tried to stand up but fell back down. He looked like a piece of rubber flailing about. "What did I do?" She could tell he was gazing at her. "Mom?"
"Saru-" She tried.
"You were bloody glomping your mother!" Inuyasha raved (a/n: a glomp is the same as a snog, in case you didn't know). He was twitching thorough his clothes and his voice was cracking.
Saru froze. "I what?" he asked, not daring to breathe.
"You can't even control yourself, can you? You can't contain Naraku's damn demon blood." Inuyasha cursed another blue streak.
"I-"
"You bastard, and I mean it. You fucking bastard, I'm going to rip your guts out."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome was shocked he'd say that. He ignored her.
He began to advance on the frozen half demon. "You want to know who your friggin father is, right? Well I'll bloody well tell you. He was a goddam bastard, just like you are. He fucked up everyone's lives and laughed the whole while. He raped your mother and despite anyone else's warnings she had you anyway. That's why we all look at you funny. Every time I see you I see Naraku staring back at me." He spat on the ground, close to Saru's limp figure.
Saru sat there with his mouth agape, not knowing what to say. He was shaking slightly.
"And now you've gotten too bloody dangerous to keep around here. I want you to leave, Saru, or I'll have to make you leave." He was bristling and his ears were against his head.
Saru chuckled softly and stood up, staring at Inuyasha and smiling. "Oh c'mon, you've gotta be kidding. How can you just cast me off like that, after all we've been through?" He laughed nervously.
Inuyasha's expression didn't change; it was just as hard as it had been. It was obvious he was serious.
"Mom?" Saru stared at his mother pleadingly. "Is all that true?" His moonlit eyes begged her to say it wasn't.
She just turned her head downward. She could not meet her son's eyes.
He hesitated, and then looked down as well. "So it is true. All he said, it was all true." He looked up at Inuyasha, eyes misty. "So I suppose I will have to leave, won't I?" He smiled weakly, a tear leaking out his eye. He looked at his mentor, with his face frozen in a frown like it had been carved. He put his hand out as if to touch his friend, but drew back as he thought better of it.
"Goodbye," he said softly, and then leaped away down the path.
"Saru-" Kagome tried after her fleeing son.
"Let him go, Kagome," Inuyasha said, finally turning around to face her. "He's a problem, and he just can't be near you anymore. You see what happens."
"YOU IDIOT!" she screamed at him. This caused Inuyasha to blink quickly a few times in surprise. He hadn't expected an outburst like that. "YOU STUPID, STUPID IDIOT! DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE?" Her eyes were huge in the light and her fists balled in rage as she shouted down the flinching dog demon. "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO MIGHT FIND HIM?"
An image of Naraku flashed across his mind, and he felt like hitting himself in the head for how brash he'd been.
"Oh shit," was what came out.
"Oh shit is right, Inuyasha! You cast my son into hell!" she burst out crying and slumped to the ground, too weak to stand anymore. She began wailing "Saru" steadily, like a chant.
Inuyasha wanted to crawl into a hole and die. How stupid he had been! He shook his head and had an idea. "I'm going after him."
Through all her sobbing he didn't think she'd really heard him. As he opened his mouth to say it again, he heard her whisper, "Save my son."
He nodded slightly and leaped off after the runaway.
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Saru had no idea where he was running. He just kept pushing himself to go as fast as he could go, and was breathing heavily and sweating enough to fill a glass. It was late morning now, and he could no longer feel his muscles. Everything was just moving on its own, as if while he still ran his head couldn't concentrate on the sting of last night. He tripped over a root and slapped onto the ground, momentarily stunned.
Once he had gotten enough energy to breathe correctly and control his weighty body, he rolled over onto his back and sat up. Feeling his ankle, Saru decided it wasn't badly hurt and he could keep moving.
Right as he was about to leave, he heard a voice behind him. "You okay, boy?"
He whipped around with his hips and felt pain shoot up his side. Groaning, he placed a warm hand on his dirty clothing, trying to ease the pain. "Who're you?" he asked the odd man perched on a nearby boulder, looking at him curiously. He had on all white and an odd animal mask shaped like a balding badger.
"Just some villager. It's more interesting to ask who're YOU. It looks like you've been running all night long, son. You're as white as the underside of a dead frog." He fished around his voluminous robes, finally finding a flask. "Here," he said as he handed it to Saru, who took a huge draught before he realized it tasted funny.
"Erg, what is that?"
"My own concoction. I made it last night and was going to take it fishing with me, but it looked like you needed it more." He cocked his head at Saru. "Where're you running to?"
"It's more like what am I running AWAY from." He sighed and shook his head. "Look, thanks and all, I just gotta get going." He tried to stand up but had to sit back down again; his stomach had lurched when he had tried to upright himself.
"What's wrong with you?" the stranger asked. The eyeholes were locked onto his face.
"I don't think you're drink sat right." Saru clutched his belly, trying to calm it. He thought he could feel the demon stirring, and he wanted to get away from this man as soon as possible before it fully awoke.
"Or it could be that you've been runnin' all night." He chuckled deeply, like a deep-voiced songbird. "But I will say that my drink doesn't sit right with a lot of people. I guess it might be the Kingswort (a/n: this is SO a fake plant, so don't even bother applying it anywhere else but here.)"
Saru's eyes widened. "Isn't that plant poisonous?" His stomach already was having a gymnastics practice and it had just fallen off the high beam.
"Well that would be why it doesn't sit well with people." The man's voice had dropped and had gained a more commanding tone. What the hell? Saru thought.
"Are you trying to poison me?" His fingers flexed in preparation for a slaughter.
"I know all about you, Saru, and I wanted to see if my genetics truly passed onto you." The man removed his mask and Saru was seeing a mirror image of himself.
Spluttering, Saru's mind was flooded with memories. He remembered how his mother had been screaming, how a stranger who seemed like him had been leading him away. He remembered how a light had flared around him and ate through the man's arm. "Naraku?" he heard himself ask.
"Of course it's Naraku. Now so you won't be confused, I gave you some of my miasma. It should eliminate all of your purification powers, seeing as you already have enough evil in you. But if it doesn't, don't worry, you'll just die." He chuckled like a James Bond villain. "Best of luck," Naraku said as he raised his flask. "Cheers." He took a huge swig of his miasma brew and chuckled as his son's eyes rolled up into his head and slumped onto the forest floor.
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All those who actually care, I was on the verge of tears when I was typing out how Saru had to leave. Listen, things have hit rock bottom. Therefore, they can only get better. Please keep reading! Hearts! R & R!
Sorry if you feel I've wasted you time. I wasted my own time, unless you enjoy my writing, then it was time well spent! TTFN!