The 6th commandment

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an Inuyasha fanfiction

by

mkh2

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It's not that I want to say, it's just that I've been blackmailed. ::sighs:: Alright, Inuyasha doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Rumiko Takahasi. Happy now? ::stomps off::

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            In the Ten Commandments the sixth one tells us not to murder—it never said anything about killing. We are humans and we kill to defend ourselves, to defend others, to protect our country during times of war, to save humanity, to eat and to live. God granted us pass to kill, not pass to murder, and I'll be damned if I believe differently.

            A human isn't a human if they didn't feel remorse for killing. During, and even before, the killing, they might already feel pangs of remorse, a person might hesitate on taking human life, no matter how innocent, no matter how tainted. I used to wonder, when I was still so young, how the Israelites in the Bible must have felt after their purges of city life, the cities without their brethren. True, upon the mission given them by God being completed, they might have felt good, righteous even, that they had nothing to feel bad about because it's a God-given order, but if they were to stop and linger and look at the people, the woman late in pregnancy, the contents of her womb spilling out at her feet and her neck gaping, lying in a crumpled crimson heap on the ground, or the child who just learned to walk with the skull smashed in… Did they ever feel regret? Those children never had the chance to change. Also, what about the cattle and chickens and goats they were told to eliminate – didn't it seem a waste? Perhaps not to them (except for maybe the livestock), after all, weren't all those who were not of their blood considered less than human? Lower than dogs?

            You couldn't be human if you didn't think on these things afterwards.

            In less than one year I've gone from killing the occasional bug to killing those with humanistic qualities. I say 'humanistic' because no human, no one with a soul, could delight in such brutal, cruel things as they do… as they did. Unless, perhaps, the human is evil, or crazy, but then the one who is evil I no longer classify as a human and the one who is crazy… what it means to be human is lost on them.

            Many times, now, I've tried to kill Naraku and his minions; I've killed youkai by the tens, by the hundreds, by the thousands. I've thought of this many times, about the death of Naraku, and should I succeed in taking his "life" I wouldn't call it murder. Yes, it'd be another death, more blood to cover my once white hands, but it would be another killing. If I didn't have to I wouldn't touch him but so many people have died and suffered because of him and I don't want any more people, be it ningen or youkai or hanyou, to go through the same. I kill to defend my friends and family. I kill to defend strangers. I kill to save lives. I kill for loved ones and for those I can't stand (Kikyo.) Lastly, I kill for myself.

            After all, without me, who will purify the jewel that cursed us all?

            ~Owari~

Fin

Yet again, another one-shot from Kagome's point-of-view.

Ningen = human; youkai = demon (not necessarily in the Christian sense); hanyou = half-demon, one of both human and demon parentage.

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Try looking at my profile sometimes… it states which stories I've updated in case you don't see them in the Inuyasha listing (seriously, sometimes I post and when it shows up on the listing, it's often somewhere around 130, and who wants to look that far for a story?  Tippy: that would be Mikki.  Mikki: Quiet you!)

I've updated "Inuyasha and the Drive Thru of Doom".

I've also posted all of "Needed to Go, Wanted to Stay", the happier version, as a separate story. If you people didn't really want it up, don't review and I'll take it down. :þ

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Nyeh! Buh-bye.