Two Bodies, Four Souls
Chapter one: An Emotionless Face
The group stared in wonder at the scene before them. The jewel shard started to glow and change its shape. By an unseen force it was thrown off the necklace that Kagome had attached it to. The jewel shard fell onto the rocky cave floor and into two halves. One of the halves flew out of the cave and disappeared into the dark sky. The other piece, still glowing, released a furious light filling the room. When the light faded a woman was sitting on one of the caves many jagged rocks that jutted out from the cave walls where the jewel piece had come to rest. The jewel fragment had lost its glow and was now lying on the ground next to the woman's feet. Wearing next to nothing, the woman's pinkish-orange eyes and very long black hair made her look radiant in the dim light of the cave.
At this realization Miroku became interested immediately. "Why my dear lady," he said smoothly, walking toward her, "Why are you here all alone?" with that he smiled slyly and sat down next to her.
The woman looked at him emotionlessly. Her eyes were unmoving and seemed to stare straight into his soul. She then placed her right hand on his chest where his heart was. "You have suffered much, but still your heart remains light and in happiness. How tragic...that you now carry a burden that you were never suppose to bear," she said with a solemn voice.
His eyes wavered at her words. He could feel himself fall into her eyes. They were beautiful and easy to get lost in. He shook himself, "I've made this mistake too many times..." he thought.
She returned her hand to its original place and stood, "How did I come to be here as a human?" she asked in a tone of supremacy.
The others simply stared at the woman; they didn't know the answer to her question themselves.
Inuyasha spoke with a slight irritation in his voice, "We wanted to know the same thing!" his gruff voice sounded into the cave. He put an extra emphasis on the words "we" and "same thing".
When his words had echoed and faded, the woman seemed to become annoyed at the demon's tone. Her eyes became glazed over and she spoke with more vengeance this time, "How dare you raise your voice to one of the four souls of the Shikon jewel, demon!" She spat at him as a pure red light surrounded her and forced Inuyasha to fall to his knees. Her hair began to lift from where it had rested on her back so neatly only a few minutes before. Suddenly the light faded and the woman's appearance fell back to the innocent-like disposition they had encountered previously. She seemed to sadden at her act of violence.
Miroku, who had seen the display from behind, had noticed that the thin brown robe that she wore had been slashed in the back. The robe had a silver and blue lining on the tattered sleeves. It also ran down the entire floor length sides. He also noted, being the lecherous monk he was, that the slash had spread from the bottom tip of her shoulder blade to dangerously low on her back. The strange part was she had a sliver on her back where the infliction had also slashed her skin, but she wasn't bleeding. He thought that she should have died of blood loss by now.
Sango noticed that she had an ancient insignia on a red-tinted stone hanging from her neck. Sango swore she had seen it before. "But where?" She asked herself out loud.
Kagome took the silence as a moment to speak, "We're not here to hurt you in any way. In fact we are just as stumped as you are about your presence here." She then realized that the Shikon jewel had lost its glow. She was about to walk to it when she sensed something that was all too familiar to her. "The jewel...but it's not coming from the fragment?" Kagome thought. The answer came to her in an instant, "THE WOMAN IS THE SHIKON JEWEL!"
The woman focused her bright eyes on Kagome almost the instant she had thought the words, "It is true," she said sadly, "I am part of the Shikon jewel itself." She stared straight at Kagome and began walking toward her with her right hand outstretched. The woman suddenly wrenched forward and fell to the ground holding her head and screaming, "GET OUT OF ME! GET OUT OF ME YOU WRECHED SOUL!" She commanded her unknown attacker. She started to glow a red color again. This time she lost control and red flames shot out in all directions. As the cave's walls started to crumble, a white orb flew out of the woman and was shattered as a rock crush it with its weight. And the woman seemed to disappear.
Inuyasha swept up Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo as he rushed out of the entrance of the cave.
As they were at the entrance of the cave Kagome thought she heard Inuyasha laugh in a sinister voice that was not his own. She looked up at him and he was grinning.
From a long distance away they could still feel and see the collapsing cave. When the cave crumbled to rocks and boulders, Inuyasha said coldly, "Poor thing..." as he gave out a smug laugh, "brought the cave down on herself."
Kagome and the others all looked at Inuyasha in horror at what he'd just said.
Inuyasha simply smirked and walked away from them.