The Miko with White Hair

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha nor do I own the 'Bride with White Hair'.

Warning: this fic is rated R.

AN: This is a DARK fic.

Summary: Inu betrays Kag's heart, mad with grief she kills Kik. United with the lost and tainted part of her soul Kag's hair turns white as insanity and bloodguilt consume her. Will she find solace in the arms of another? Sesshomaru/Kagome.

Scroll One: -Sisterhood of Darkness-

Somewhere in the Fuji Mountains...

Snow sparkled like diamonds as the sun shed its rays upon an endless sea of white. Inuyasha wrapped his coarse, woolen cloak tighter around him as the snow continued to fall heavily from the gray sky above. He was so cold he could barely feel his fingers or his toes. And he couldn't seem to stop his teeth from chattering.

"Shimatta!" Inuyasha swore. "If it wasn't for this weak human body it wouldn't feel so fucking cold!" Inuyasha sighed thinking back to what happened ten years ago. The day he and Kagome had been played for fools at the hands of the dark hanyou Naraku...

Flashback...

Inuyasha was drawn towards the luminous lights that were hovering over the dark forest. They appeared to be detached souls, which could only mean one thing...

Kikyo.

Inuyasha felt something deep in his gut warning him that something wasn't right. Using his youkai speed he flew through the trees as fast as he could in the direction of where he smelled the undead miko, an unnatural scent of death and decay. Crashing through the trees into a clearing the sight that met him made his breath hitch in his throat...

There before him was the prone body of Kikyo lying on the forest floor, a pool of blood staining the earth around her. And there standing above her with bloodstained hands was...

"Kagome..." Inuyasha breathed in shock. Why? Why would Kagome do something like this!

He watched in horror as the captured souls continued to leave Kikyo's body now freed. He then noticed when the last soul stopped and hovered slightly over the body of the undead miko before Kagome reached her hands out towards it. It was the lost part of Kagome's soul. The part that was now tainted with bloodguilt from all the lives Kikyo had taken in order to continue her undead existence.

The lost soul fragment entered Kagome's body and tears of grief began to fall from Kagome's eyes. She suddenly sensed Inuyasha's presence and turned to face him. Inuyasha was bewildered by what he saw in Kagome's azure eyes-madness, anguish, anger, and hatred. The once innocent eyes of his beloved were now haunted with shadows. She gave Inuyasha a psychotic smile before beginning to laugh a horrible maniacal laughter with a hand upraised in front of her mouth.

"Inuyasha," She spoke in a voice thick with emotion. "You will pay for what you have done to me!"

"Kagome..." Inuyasha blinked back at her confusedly. "Wha?"

"Die Inuyasha!" Kagome drew her bow and aimed straight for Inuyasha's heart.

Inuyasha was too shocked to move as the spirit arrow surrounded by a pink-tinged aura flew in the air towards him. It pierced him directly in the heart. But Kagome didn't stop there and fired two more holy arrows towards Inuyasha. They also hit their mark burrowing their way also into Inuyasha's heart.

Inuyasha fell backwards to the ground and his body convulsed as the arrows began to purify his youkai energy. He felt like he was being ripped apart from the inside out. All of his youkai self was being attacked and was soon obliterated.

Kagome laughed a bitter laugh before leaving Inuyasha for dead.

Inuyasha blinked as he opened his eyes. 'Am I dead?' He wondered. No he was not dead but then what? Inuyasha tried to sit up but his body felt weak. He looked down at his hands...that no longer had claws. His eyes widened. He brought a lock of his own hair to inspect and saw that it was no longer silvery white but black. Realization struck Inuyasha as he realized what had happened.

He had been turned into a human.

"That bastard Naraku! This is all his fault!" Inuyasha yelled as he chaffed his arms.

For ten years Inuyasha had been cursed to live life as a human. And for ten years he had been there in the snow-capped Fuji Mountains waiting...for a miracle. According to legend once every decade the Bara no Chiyu bloomed within this area of the Fuji Mountains. The Bara no Chiyu was a mystical rose that could heal anything from a tainted soul to a bleeding heart. Inuyasha knew if he could gift his Kagome with the flower she would be freed from her bloodguilt and the madness that had consumed her.

"Kagome..." Inuyasha sighed with longing. 'I will save you.'

Kagome's Dream...

Kagome skipped her way through the open field of flowers breathing in their heavenly scent. She was filled with extreme happiness since just yesterday Inuyasha had asked her to marry him. He had made his choice and it had been her! She was so happy she was practically glowing. Of course, that wasn't the only reason she was glowing. After Inuyasha's declaration of love Kagome had given herself to him. She had given the man she loved her virginity. So now her body, her heart, and her soul all now belonged to him.

And she didn't regret giving herself to Inuyasha before her marriage night because she trusted and loved him with all her soul. They had been through so much and had loved each other for so long it had seemed only natural to finally be able to express their feelings in such a way. She had bestowed the gift of her virginity to Inuyasha, and they now had a oneness that could have been achieved no other way. She sighed thinking back to that night and how Inuyasha had been concerned over hurting her. He had been so gentle.

Kagome noticed a beautiful red flower and leaned over to pick it. She then began to pick the petals slowly one by one chanting. "He loves me...he loves me not...he loves me...he loves me not..." Kagome frowned that wasn't right. Inuyasha loved her and she knew that now.

Suddenly, storm clouds began to gather overhead blocking out of the sun's golden rays. A harsh wind blew disturbing Kagome's long black tresses; she tried to tuck a stray hair behind her ear to no avail. And then the harsh sound of thunder rang through the air making her jump.

Suddenly she heard the sound of musical laughter...a woman's laugh that seemed eerily familiar. Curiosity getting the better of her Kagome made her way towards the sound and hid behind a bush to spy on who it was.

Kagome bit her lip when she realized what she was seeing. There before her was Inuyasha and he was with Kikyo. But that wasn't all. To her ultimate despair they were making love in the grass...without a care in the world. They didn't even notice her presence. At that moment they only existed for each other. Kagome's heart shattered into a million pieces as she saw Inuyasha kissing, caressing...she couldn't watch anymore!

She ran. Kagome ran and ran until she couldn't run anymore. Somewhere she collapsed to the ground and cried until she had no more tears to shed. She was filled with utter sadness and despair where once their had been nothing but happiness. Inuyasha had betrayed her heart. She had given him everything she had to offer and still it hadn't been enough. She would always be second best when it came to Kikyo. She just couldn't compete with what they had together. She was nothing but Kikyo's reincarnation in Inuyasha's eyes.

Kikyo.

Kagome's feelings of sadness were quickly turning to hatred. How she hated Kikyo and wished for her demise. Kagome was surprised at the strength of her hatred but didn't seem to care anymore. Let her hate and feel angry. She was only human. So she let herself hate and hate until there was nothing left in Kagome's once pure heart but the dark emotion that seemed to want to drown her. Kagome knew what she had to do. She would get rid of Kikyo once and for all, along with Inuyasha. If she couldn't have him no one could...

Kagome woke panting for breath. She placed a hand on her face and peered through her fingers at the high ceiling above her.

'Will I ever get over this...?' She found herself wondering.

Suddenly there was a knock at her door.

"Come in," Kagome's voice was harsh from the aftereffects of sleep.

A woman in a black kimono wearing a gold obi entered with head bowed. "Kagome-sama, there is a woman causing quiet a commotion at the front gates. She demands an audience of you."

"Oh?" Kagome sat up in bed and raised an eyebrow at her sister, "Who is she?"

"She is a taijiya, who calls herself Sango."

"Sango?" Kagome's eyes widened. It had been ten years since she had seen her friend. She shook her head, now was not time for a trip down memory lane. "I will admit her. I shall receive her in the main audience chamber shortly."

"As you wish, my lady." The woman bowed once before leaving.

Kagome sighed wondering why now of all times Sango had come to see her. She wondered if this was going to be a friendly visit or if Sango was here as her enemy. Both were equal possibilities after everything that had happened. Kagome was no longer the innocent, schoolgirl she had been all those years ago. Now...she was someone else. Had she changed for better or for worse was still up for debate. At least she was no longer weak or unskilled. She had a new life now, a new purpose. A strange one, but it was still hers.

Kagome hopped out of bed and went to her armoire to choose what she was to wear. She had her clothes especially made for her based on designs that she had drawn herself. She soon selected a pair of black leather pants along with a matching corset. She sat on her bed and started to pull on her matching black leather knee boots that had buckles running up one side, these she also had specially made for her. Walking back over to her armoire she pulled out a long black leather jacket and swiftly put it on.

Kagome gazed at her appearance in her oval-shaped, full-sized mirror and sighed. So...this is who she had become. She could barely recognize herself. Kagome picked up a brush and began to comb her white locks of hair. She then tucked a stray hair behind her now slightly pointed ear. She didn't mind how her hair had changed all that much since it seemed to bring out her azure-colored eyes. On her forehead shown a blue, diamond-shaped symbol--the symbol of the Sisterhood of Darkness. Kagome then made her way over to her dressing table and pulled out her lipstick. She smiled in the mirror as she painted her lips solid black. There. She looked very Goth and Kagome was pleased she looked how she felt.

She knew she didn't belong in Feudal Japan...in that time. She was out of place and so decided she would look just as out of place as she herself felt. Even so she couldn't go back. Nothing good would come of it. She wasn't her mother's darling Kagome anymore...only in namesake. Her mother would only be saddened by what her daughter had become, and Kagome knew this. She decided to spare her mother that pain. It was better if her family thought she was dead. And in a sense Kagome Higurashi had died that day long ago...

Meanwhile in the Western Lands...

"Sesshomaru-sama!!!" Called the voice of Sesshomaru's retainer Jaken. "My Lord I have urgent news!"

Sesshomaru was busy going through his forms with Toukijin and was not pleased to be disturbed. In fact, he thought he had made it quite clear that he was never to be disturbed while he was refining his skills, so to speak.

Sesshomaru's eyes slightly bled with red as he turned towards the toad youkai. "What is so important that you've deemed fit to disturb my morning practice, Jaken?"

Jaken stopped dead in his tracks and took in his lord's murderous expression and began to stutter. "Well you see...uh..."

"Jaken." Sesshomaru's tone was deadly and he was already raising Toukijin.

"It's about the Sisterhood of Darkness!" Jaken spoke the words like a shield.

Now this caught Sesshomaru's interest and his eyes slowly began to return to their normal golden color. The Sisterhood of Darkness had been causing him some problems as of late. Several of his own men had fallen to the Sisterhood, in fact, for still reasons unknown.

"Continue," Sesshomaru said with a wave of his hand.

"It's about the group of twenty soldiers that you sent to the stronghold of the Sisterhood to avenge the deaths of your men. It seems they have all disappeared."

Sesshomaru growled low in his throat. "Disappeared?"

"Y-yes," Jaken wrung his hands noticing his lord was becoming angered once more. How he hated being the messenger where bad news was concerned especially if it involved giving that news to his Master. His lord wasn't known for his forbearance in such matters and had been known to shoot many a messenger for the news they simply bore. "I think...that perhaps...they have all been killed M'Lord!"

"I see..." Sesshomaru said calmly which only managed to freak Jaken out more. "Well, if you want something done right you have to do it yourself it seems." And with those cryptic words Sesshomaru left Jaken eating his dust.

Kagome idly drummed her fingers on her throne chair as she waited for Sango to be brought before her.

It wasn't long before two sisters opened the two Blackwood doors to the main audience chamber and Sango was escorted inside.

Sango began to walk forward when one of the sisters suddenly used a staff to hit the backs of Sango's legs causing her to fall to her knees. "Bow before the Lady Kagome and show the proper respect!" The woman spat.

Sango did as she was told. Head bowed she spoke, "Kagome...it's been a while."

"Ten years..." Kagome said softly. "What brings you here Sango?"

Sango looked up at Kagome and took in her friend's appearance. It was quite startling, to say the least, seeing her once innocent friend look so...threatening and otherworldly, but now at least she could understand a little bit of what drove her friend to this. With hurt-filled eyes Sango made her request. "I wish to become a member of the Sisterhood of Darkness."

Kagome raised a white eyebrow at her. "You wish to join my Sisterhood?" Kagome then broke out into merry laughter. It was several moments before she could get her laughter under control. Kagome wiped a single tear from her eye. "Oh, Sango you are quite the joker aren't you! A veritable Charlie Chaplin! You almost had me going for a second with that serious expression of yours!"

"Charlie who? Kagome...I'm serious."

"He's a famous comedian." Kagome's eyes narrowed as she looked at her friend as if really seeing her for the first time. She wasn't the same woman Kagome had befriended. She was different...just like her. Kagome understood. "Miroku." It wasn't a question.

"Yes," Sango breathed as she began to become choked up with emotion. "He...asked me to marry him...and I said yes. We even got married...it was a beautiful wedding. But then...he...with another woman. I can't forgive him!" Sango held a fist before her adamantly.

"So the houshi ended up betraying you." Kagome didn't sound surprised. "I expected as much. After all, men are the enemy of women. I'm surprised it took you so long to see that Sango. But that's what this Sisterhood is for. It's for women like you, who have suffered at the hands of men, and don't have the strength necessary to exact their revenge on their own. That's where I come in. I provide them the power they need. Is this what you truly desire Sango?"

Sango nodded vigorously.

"We have but one rule. We demand complete loyalty to the Sisterhood of Darkness. Meaning, if you betray us it will mean your death. So there is no turning back."

"I understand."

"Come here," Kagome beckoned to Sango and she stood and obeyed. Kagome reached one of her slender hands into her bosom and pulled out a jewel shard. The shard wasn't its normal pink hue but black, it was a tainted shard. Kagome then took a curved dagger from her belt and pricked her finger with it. She allowed three drops of crimson blood to fall onto the shard. She then handed Sango the dagger and motioned for her to do the same. Sango also allowed three of her own drops of blood to be added to the tainted shard.

Sango then handed the dagger back to Kagome. "Now I will use this dagger to make an incision on your forehead where the shard shall be introduced into yourself. As I do this you must concentrate on your hatred for Miroku. Understand?"

Sango nodded. Kagome then cut a small gash in Sango's forehead and then put the tainted shard to the wound and watched as the shard sunk into Sango's flesh.

"Now on your hatred for Miroku. Remember what he did to you. How he betrayed you with that other woman! How he broke your heart after everything you gave him. Embrace this hatred you have for him. Let the dark emotion consume you Sango. It's funny every time I do this I feel like Lady Macbeth!"

The shard in Sango's forehead began to glow with a dark aura and soon a blue diamond symbol appeared on her forehead.

Just as suddenly two sable-colored wings sprouted from Sango's back. Sango's ears were also transformed and looked more elvish shaped. Upon her delicate hands claws became extrended.

Sango gasped in shock.

"There now...not to worry. The hate you held in your heart has transformed you, using the demonic energies of this tainted shard, into one of us...a Succubus." Kagome smiled and motioned for one of her sisters to bring a goblet of wine. "Double double toil and trouble." Kagome grinned using the prick on her finger to add three drops to the wine and again motioned for Sango to do the same. "Blood of my blood...sisters we shall be. Blessed be." Kagome said drinking from the goblet and then handing it to Sango.

"Blessed be." Sango drank heartily from the goblet.

"Now we are truly sisters Sango. Welcome to the Sisterhood of Darkness."

To be continued...

Bara no Chiyu: Rose of Healing.

AN: So what do you think?! Let me know! This is my second Inuyasha fic so please let me know if I get anything wrong.

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