Disclaimer: yeah, yeah, I took a photo, but it's not as good as the real thing...
Notes: Okay, I reread the story.. and this was the one and ONLY time Kikyou was killed off..sigh of relief Other than that.. a slight delay was encountered when my computer decided 46 viruses was more than it could handle and nearly fried if my dad hadn't saved it... yeah, it along with all the stuff I've typed. And just to add to it... punishment has been on an off like crazy, so this is the first real chance I have to update! Enjoy da chappy, and remember to review!
Read on Bunny n.n
Over the Edge: Chapter 40 - Loss and Gain
InuYasha cracked his knuckles as his feet dug into the earth in anger. The image of his first love shattered before him, and laughing mere feet away had been the huntress who he'd saved more than several times from herself and others. Thing was.. He wasn't about to save her from himself. '..She'll just have to deal with it. Not like she's a fucking little girl.'
With that, the two seemed to lunge at each other, crossing paths, but both deflecting the other's strike. The dagger shattered in Seiko's hand as she landed on a rock after flipping in midair, and her eyes widened before narrowing angrily. "..I liked that dagger, you should learn to play nice.."
InuYasha whiped the small splatter of blood off of his blade which refused to transform. 'Damn it... she's human..gah!' "Yeah?" He sceethed the useless blade back into it's scabbard and instead readied his claws. "Tell that to Kikyou."
...
Kagome had laid back on her bed, getting tired and seeing her comfy mattress as quite appealing. She had forgotten about the whip cream, about her childish plan to tease InuYasha, and was about to drift into dreamland when it felt like she'd been hit by a truck.
She felt dizzy, and opening her eyes, the room seemed to be tilting around her, like one of those swinging ship rides she'd thrown up on at the age of three when her mom took her to the carnival. 'Kami.. what was IN that soba?..'
After a moment Kagome figured she really was asleep, or just hallucinating, because there was a strange glow in the whole room and things began falling from her bookshelves. Not to mention the wave of dizziness wouldn't seem to go away. The glow soon faded and was replaced with a wave of shadows, coating the room in complete darkness for a moment before the stopped spinning and everything went back to normal.. except for the complete mess her room was in.
She rubbed her head, not wanting to know what had just happened, then got up and headed for the bathroom mumbling colorful words. '..I need an aspirin..'
All Souta could do was watch as the whole thing as gone on. The whole thing mesmerized him like it was a scene from one of his action/sci fi movies. He had been in the doorway, hoping to get InuYasha so he could show him the picture he drew, but when he saw his sister pass out with the hanyou no-where around he was practically frozen in the doorframe.
Then she had gone all freaky, her eyes glazed over and then a strange light came from her. Stuff started falling from there places, and Souta wanted to bolt like those idiots hadn't in 'Carrie'. But that was his sister, and he was worried, so when everything had gone all dark, and he could barely see anything at all, he was just scared. But what scared him the most was the way she got up and acted like nothing had happened after that.
What had just happened? The small boy had ran to his room before Kagome could see him in the hall. He bit his lip as he tried to think of what to do. Was she possessed with some demon? Was that kinda thing SUPPOSED to happen, like whatever she did in the Sengoku Judai and would never really say?
After a moment, Souta decided that he'd have to wait for InuYasha to come back.. or find him. He couldn't ask Kagome, not when she could be possessed by some evil. He couldn't tell Grandpa because he'd try and exorcize her, but if that was supposed to happen, he could kill her.. and his mom, he didn't want to worry her.. if she believed him that was. Besides, InuYasha was cool. He would know what to do.
...
InuYasha let out a snarl as one of the huntress's blades caught his back when he had turned to do a scissor kick, but landed it halfheartedly, sending the young woman back against a tree as he reached back to pull the blade out himself. He dug his claws into the gash, ready to use his blood blades, and only got angrier as the bitch smiled from her tattered position at the base of the tree.
Somewhere in between all of the fighting, they had managed to move out of the welcoming field, and where instead knocking around in the dense trees of the forrest. He let the blades fly and a few of them cut her, but she acted as though they were nothing, composing herself before advancing on him once more.
"You can do better than that puppy-chan.."
InuYasha sniffed, catching another scent on the breeze and drew testusigia. '..Fuck this. I'm tired of playing games..' With that thought, he brought the fang down on the scar of the wind, doing his best to concentrate on the demonic power he knew was within her.
...
Sesshomarou reached the other side of the mountain and it wasn't hard to find a trail of blood from there. Some was his half-brother's; and some of it, to his dismay, was Seiko's. He picked up the pace and sprinted into the mass of trees, using the scents to guide him around trees as he was nearly on a horizontal pushing of them into the woods. Whatever was going on, it was not good for his mate, or the brother who had watched over her for a while.
...
Naraku smiled wickedly as he sensed the hanyou's aggravation with the situation, and the anger that tainted his energy was just..yummy. So much better for him to see Kikyou 'die', than just betray him. That whole betrayal thing was old, he didn't open up enough for it to particularly mess him up enough. but bringing his worse thoughts into actions...Oh, that was fun.
But this was the perfect combination. He'd already known the huntress, and for her to 'kill' of the undead wench, it was almost poetic as it unfolded at his hands. The only thing that worried him, was that Seiko didn't seem to have all the force that she'd had when she'd faced him. The spark wasn't there..perhaps he'd let her go on her own accord for a while...perhaps.
...
As his blade was forced downward, about to catch that which was the scar, the fang clashed with that of another sword. Tensigia. Sessoumaru had appeared almost out of thin air and had raging eyes narrowed upon InuYasha as he blocked the hanyou's view of his mate.
"And just what is this?" He remained composed as InuYasha took in his situation and his expression hardened as he began to circle the mates, while he noticed Seiko remained on the ground, hiding her face with her veiling bangs.
"Why don't you ask your bitch what she did?" A growl began to rumble deeply in his throat.
...
Oh, Naraku was shaking with laughter as the possessive mate entered the scene. The only thing that faltered in his mind was that he was suspicious upon their little meeting... and probably wouldn't let him have his fun with the fucking hanyou. The only thing that kept his smirk was that he detached his control from the huntress... he'd tune in and find out how things were in a moment, but wanted to see what she'd do..... or rather, what the two inu youkai would think of it.
...
Kagome had dosed off, and the young boy sat against the wall of her room, watching her sleep peacefully. He hadn't said anything to him when she'd gone back to her room and he was by her door, and Souta was really beginning to think she didn't know what had happened. But she seemed so...normal, nothing was really different from any other time he'd seen her in coming home. He was just worried.
Where had InuYasha gone off to?
...
Shippou had woken up in the night as a near silent noise found his ears. It had been a while, but he noticed it as Seiko's fire hawk. It had returned... before her, and what was that about. An unspoken urgency in it's eyes made Shippou turn to wake up Sango and Miroku.
Groggily the monk blinked his eyes before they widened suddenly. "It was not just a dream."
Sango too stirred, and looked all the more concerned at Miroku's words. "The ora is strong isn't it? Even I can feel it."
"Yes.. it is Naraku's shadow.." He cracked his back in getting to his feet and cleared the last bit of sleep from his eyes, heading out of the hut hurriedly as the fire hark took flight from the window which it entered.
It was heading back towards the mountain.
...
Sessoumaru couldn't watch. He fled from the scene as his instincts willed him to turn back immediately and protect his mate from danger he knew was there. But reason conquered back his youki, and he headed a safe distance away. He was almost to the mountain again when he noticed the hawk approaching his general direction... and four familiar figures trailing it.
...
Kagome stirred in her sleep and Souta, who had been dosing off himself, scrambled to leave her room before she noticed he had been in there. She sat bolt right-up in bed, panting as a cold sweat glistened over her skin.
She had a bad feeling about something..and he still wasn't over by her window as he usually was, sat up against the wall. "INUYASHA?!"
...
"BAKA! You don't get it! I didn't do that!" Seiko lunged at him, trying once more to get things in her favor, but he was too stubborn to have her pin him, or otherwise even land a strike.
"I fucking saw you bitch! I know my eyes don't lie! Not this time..." He swung the untransformed blade in her direction, and she evaded it, but he kept coming at her until she had backed herself into a tree.
"She was dead anyway.." It was almost a whisper as the huntress thought aloud, not dismissing the rage in the hanyou's voice and actions. She was about to tap into her youki when something of her energy faltered, and she felt the familiar sensation of Naraku's spell griping her.
But she had already said those fated words and the hanyou snapped, plunging the rusty shadow of a blade through her stomach, and it wedged into the aged wood of the tree she was against. Her eyes were wide as the pain came into her senses, then faded away, only managing two more words before losing herself.
"..remember... baboon.."
InuYasha's eyes went wide in shock as he backed away from her, stumbling on the roots. Naraku had tricked him last time... and now it only made sense. HE was the one who was manipulating her like a puppet.. and now he had just skewered her to a tree because she wasn't fighting back like he knew she could.
The emotionally stressed hanyou was about to turn and run.. just run until everything would go away from his head, but the most disturbing thing of the entire night happened...
She should have been dead, having been in her human form... but she was there, against the tree with the tetsusigia through her stomach, and blood seeping out steadily... laughing. Laughing that evil kind of laugh that every villain seemed to get, just as the hero thought he'd won.
Her face was shadowed, her hair falling in her face shaggily, and a smile so timelessly malicious and satisfied was on her lips. She slowly raised her head, as InuYasha could only stop and stare with wide eyes from several yards away, and her eyes were glowing a ice blue with red branching through it.
She just kept laughing, laughing as his eyes narrowed at her once more, knowing it was truly Naraku behind her mind, and laughing still as she reached out with her own two hands and slowly etched out the blade from the tree and her stomach. InuYasha winched inwardly after seeing it slip in those hands of hers after it came free from the wood, and only her flesh was surrounding it.
And then she wielded it, as though none of the blood-loss mattered, as though none of their fighting had happened and hadn't left any fatigue behind.
Lifting the blade up, it transformed into the fang and she eyed it in the moonlight, her own blood still glistening on it. "What a pretty weapon... shame YOU couldn't use it on me... let's it will work the other way around, hmn?"
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ok ok ok, I'm sorry it couldn't be longer.. and YES, it's coming to an end, and YES all this shit should make sense before I say it's over. I hope you liked it, and don't hate me... PLEASE review! I need input!
-Bunny
Notes: Okay, I reread the story.. and this was the one and ONLY time Kikyou was killed off..sigh of relief Other than that.. a slight delay was encountered when my computer decided 46 viruses was more than it could handle and nearly fried if my dad hadn't saved it... yeah, it along with all the stuff I've typed. And just to add to it... punishment has been on an off like crazy, so this is the first real chance I have to update! Enjoy da chappy, and remember to review!
Read on Bunny n.n
Over the Edge: Chapter 40 - Loss and Gain
InuYasha cracked his knuckles as his feet dug into the earth in anger. The image of his first love shattered before him, and laughing mere feet away had been the huntress who he'd saved more than several times from herself and others. Thing was.. He wasn't about to save her from himself. '..She'll just have to deal with it. Not like she's a fucking little girl.'
With that, the two seemed to lunge at each other, crossing paths, but both deflecting the other's strike. The dagger shattered in Seiko's hand as she landed on a rock after flipping in midair, and her eyes widened before narrowing angrily. "..I liked that dagger, you should learn to play nice.."
InuYasha whiped the small splatter of blood off of his blade which refused to transform. 'Damn it... she's human..gah!' "Yeah?" He sceethed the useless blade back into it's scabbard and instead readied his claws. "Tell that to Kikyou."
...
Kagome had laid back on her bed, getting tired and seeing her comfy mattress as quite appealing. She had forgotten about the whip cream, about her childish plan to tease InuYasha, and was about to drift into dreamland when it felt like she'd been hit by a truck.
She felt dizzy, and opening her eyes, the room seemed to be tilting around her, like one of those swinging ship rides she'd thrown up on at the age of three when her mom took her to the carnival. 'Kami.. what was IN that soba?..'
After a moment Kagome figured she really was asleep, or just hallucinating, because there was a strange glow in the whole room and things began falling from her bookshelves. Not to mention the wave of dizziness wouldn't seem to go away. The glow soon faded and was replaced with a wave of shadows, coating the room in complete darkness for a moment before the stopped spinning and everything went back to normal.. except for the complete mess her room was in.
She rubbed her head, not wanting to know what had just happened, then got up and headed for the bathroom mumbling colorful words. '..I need an aspirin..'
All Souta could do was watch as the whole thing as gone on. The whole thing mesmerized him like it was a scene from one of his action/sci fi movies. He had been in the doorway, hoping to get InuYasha so he could show him the picture he drew, but when he saw his sister pass out with the hanyou no-where around he was practically frozen in the doorframe.
Then she had gone all freaky, her eyes glazed over and then a strange light came from her. Stuff started falling from there places, and Souta wanted to bolt like those idiots hadn't in 'Carrie'. But that was his sister, and he was worried, so when everything had gone all dark, and he could barely see anything at all, he was just scared. But what scared him the most was the way she got up and acted like nothing had happened after that.
What had just happened? The small boy had ran to his room before Kagome could see him in the hall. He bit his lip as he tried to think of what to do. Was she possessed with some demon? Was that kinda thing SUPPOSED to happen, like whatever she did in the Sengoku Judai and would never really say?
After a moment, Souta decided that he'd have to wait for InuYasha to come back.. or find him. He couldn't ask Kagome, not when she could be possessed by some evil. He couldn't tell Grandpa because he'd try and exorcize her, but if that was supposed to happen, he could kill her.. and his mom, he didn't want to worry her.. if she believed him that was. Besides, InuYasha was cool. He would know what to do.
...
InuYasha let out a snarl as one of the huntress's blades caught his back when he had turned to do a scissor kick, but landed it halfheartedly, sending the young woman back against a tree as he reached back to pull the blade out himself. He dug his claws into the gash, ready to use his blood blades, and only got angrier as the bitch smiled from her tattered position at the base of the tree.
Somewhere in between all of the fighting, they had managed to move out of the welcoming field, and where instead knocking around in the dense trees of the forrest. He let the blades fly and a few of them cut her, but she acted as though they were nothing, composing herself before advancing on him once more.
"You can do better than that puppy-chan.."
InuYasha sniffed, catching another scent on the breeze and drew testusigia. '..Fuck this. I'm tired of playing games..' With that thought, he brought the fang down on the scar of the wind, doing his best to concentrate on the demonic power he knew was within her.
...
Sesshomarou reached the other side of the mountain and it wasn't hard to find a trail of blood from there. Some was his half-brother's; and some of it, to his dismay, was Seiko's. He picked up the pace and sprinted into the mass of trees, using the scents to guide him around trees as he was nearly on a horizontal pushing of them into the woods. Whatever was going on, it was not good for his mate, or the brother who had watched over her for a while.
...
Naraku smiled wickedly as he sensed the hanyou's aggravation with the situation, and the anger that tainted his energy was just..yummy. So much better for him to see Kikyou 'die', than just betray him. That whole betrayal thing was old, he didn't open up enough for it to particularly mess him up enough. but bringing his worse thoughts into actions...Oh, that was fun.
But this was the perfect combination. He'd already known the huntress, and for her to 'kill' of the undead wench, it was almost poetic as it unfolded at his hands. The only thing that worried him, was that Seiko didn't seem to have all the force that she'd had when she'd faced him. The spark wasn't there..perhaps he'd let her go on her own accord for a while...perhaps.
...
As his blade was forced downward, about to catch that which was the scar, the fang clashed with that of another sword. Tensigia. Sessoumaru had appeared almost out of thin air and had raging eyes narrowed upon InuYasha as he blocked the hanyou's view of his mate.
"And just what is this?" He remained composed as InuYasha took in his situation and his expression hardened as he began to circle the mates, while he noticed Seiko remained on the ground, hiding her face with her veiling bangs.
"Why don't you ask your bitch what she did?" A growl began to rumble deeply in his throat.
...
Oh, Naraku was shaking with laughter as the possessive mate entered the scene. The only thing that faltered in his mind was that he was suspicious upon their little meeting... and probably wouldn't let him have his fun with the fucking hanyou. The only thing that kept his smirk was that he detached his control from the huntress... he'd tune in and find out how things were in a moment, but wanted to see what she'd do..... or rather, what the two inu youkai would think of it.
...
Kagome had dosed off, and the young boy sat against the wall of her room, watching her sleep peacefully. He hadn't said anything to him when she'd gone back to her room and he was by her door, and Souta was really beginning to think she didn't know what had happened. But she seemed so...normal, nothing was really different from any other time he'd seen her in coming home. He was just worried.
Where had InuYasha gone off to?
...
Shippou had woken up in the night as a near silent noise found his ears. It had been a while, but he noticed it as Seiko's fire hawk. It had returned... before her, and what was that about. An unspoken urgency in it's eyes made Shippou turn to wake up Sango and Miroku.
Groggily the monk blinked his eyes before they widened suddenly. "It was not just a dream."
Sango too stirred, and looked all the more concerned at Miroku's words. "The ora is strong isn't it? Even I can feel it."
"Yes.. it is Naraku's shadow.." He cracked his back in getting to his feet and cleared the last bit of sleep from his eyes, heading out of the hut hurriedly as the fire hark took flight from the window which it entered.
It was heading back towards the mountain.
...
Sessoumaru couldn't watch. He fled from the scene as his instincts willed him to turn back immediately and protect his mate from danger he knew was there. But reason conquered back his youki, and he headed a safe distance away. He was almost to the mountain again when he noticed the hawk approaching his general direction... and four familiar figures trailing it.
...
Kagome stirred in her sleep and Souta, who had been dosing off himself, scrambled to leave her room before she noticed he had been in there. She sat bolt right-up in bed, panting as a cold sweat glistened over her skin.
She had a bad feeling about something..and he still wasn't over by her window as he usually was, sat up against the wall. "INUYASHA?!"
...
"BAKA! You don't get it! I didn't do that!" Seiko lunged at him, trying once more to get things in her favor, but he was too stubborn to have her pin him, or otherwise even land a strike.
"I fucking saw you bitch! I know my eyes don't lie! Not this time..." He swung the untransformed blade in her direction, and she evaded it, but he kept coming at her until she had backed herself into a tree.
"She was dead anyway.." It was almost a whisper as the huntress thought aloud, not dismissing the rage in the hanyou's voice and actions. She was about to tap into her youki when something of her energy faltered, and she felt the familiar sensation of Naraku's spell griping her.
But she had already said those fated words and the hanyou snapped, plunging the rusty shadow of a blade through her stomach, and it wedged into the aged wood of the tree she was against. Her eyes were wide as the pain came into her senses, then faded away, only managing two more words before losing herself.
"..remember... baboon.."
InuYasha's eyes went wide in shock as he backed away from her, stumbling on the roots. Naraku had tricked him last time... and now it only made sense. HE was the one who was manipulating her like a puppet.. and now he had just skewered her to a tree because she wasn't fighting back like he knew she could.
The emotionally stressed hanyou was about to turn and run.. just run until everything would go away from his head, but the most disturbing thing of the entire night happened...
She should have been dead, having been in her human form... but she was there, against the tree with the tetsusigia through her stomach, and blood seeping out steadily... laughing. Laughing that evil kind of laugh that every villain seemed to get, just as the hero thought he'd won.
Her face was shadowed, her hair falling in her face shaggily, and a smile so timelessly malicious and satisfied was on her lips. She slowly raised her head, as InuYasha could only stop and stare with wide eyes from several yards away, and her eyes were glowing a ice blue with red branching through it.
She just kept laughing, laughing as his eyes narrowed at her once more, knowing it was truly Naraku behind her mind, and laughing still as she reached out with her own two hands and slowly etched out the blade from the tree and her stomach. InuYasha winched inwardly after seeing it slip in those hands of hers after it came free from the wood, and only her flesh was surrounding it.
And then she wielded it, as though none of the blood-loss mattered, as though none of their fighting had happened and hadn't left any fatigue behind.
Lifting the blade up, it transformed into the fang and she eyed it in the moonlight, her own blood still glistening on it. "What a pretty weapon... shame YOU couldn't use it on me... let's it will work the other way around, hmn?"
.
.
.
ok ok ok, I'm sorry it couldn't be longer.. and YES, it's coming to an end, and YES all this shit should make sense before I say it's over. I hope you liked it, and don't hate me... PLEASE review! I need input!
-Bunny