Luna: 28
Veron: Woo hoo!
Jareth: What is this Kill Bill Volume 1 you speak of?
Luna: A very good movie.
Veron: VERY good movie
Jareth: Hm…interesting…
Disclaimer: I own the story. Not the characters. ((Sigh))
Chapter 28: Not All Trips Through Memory Lane Are Pleasant…
Inuyasha's ears perked at he noticed the absence of heat beside him. Groggily, he opened his eyes, the amber color glowing as he scoured the room for traces of the missing temperature. The white sheets were rumpled and scrunched at the foot of the bed, tossed aside like a rag doll, and Kagome's body was no where to be found. With a jolt, the hanyou sat up a frown imprinted on his features as he quickly slid out of bed and put on a pair of jeans.
Stepping out of the room, he sniffed his eyes locking on where he smelled Kagome's scent. With a growl of annoyance, he straightened from his crouch and silently crept up behind her form on the porch steps, her arms bringing her knees up to her chest.
" Inuyasha?" She whispered softly, her voice calm and unstrained floating as a lithe dancer on the ocean's wind.
" Yeah?"
" What are we going to do?"
Inuyasha's brows furrowed as he gave a quick glance over to the cabana next door. No signs of the inhabitants or their belongings, the two men must've left while they had been at the noodle restaurant. He sat beside her, not letting himself look at her face.
" About what?"
He smelled the anxiety and frustration in her scent, the tension in her body making her body taut as her bowstring. Slowly, the hanyou placed a reassuring on her right shoulder and squeezed. Inuyasha blinked as all of the stressful emotions and stances flowed out of her body at his touch.
" About Naraku's death."
Naraku…died?
" When I performed the spell to speak to Inuyasha-kun, Onigumo interfered. If your soul did not go into the space between death and life with me, the spell would void and I would not be able to speak with him."
The miko paused.
" Onigumo knew that. He also realized, that since Inuyasha-kun would not be there, essentially I would be defenseless and caught off guard. Since I was expecting your incarnation to be there, I would not have arrived with any of my weapons and most of my spiritual energy would be focused on working the spell. He used that lapse of my attention to act."
" How would Naraku be able to die, if you never performed the spell with him in mind?" Inuyasha murmured, still going through the shock of the news of his co-worker's death.
" Onigumo's skull is the cause of Kagura and Naraku's disappearance. He controls them both and ordered them to kidnap Kanna because she was a witness and most likely has her under his control as well."
" But why would he need them?"
" He needs a host. A body, no one can function from a mere skull. He needed power to take full action of Naraku's body once he was dead. That was where I came into play. If he had the chance to use my powers for even a brief moment, he would control Naraku's body totally and would no longer need his skull."
" So, Onigumo used your powers when he trapped you in the realm."
" Yes…"
The miko trailed off; the pain flashing in her eyes as dark memories played in her mind. Making the woman instinctively near closer to Inuyasha, her eyes a murky gray as the horrors made their way into words and slipped passed her lips making the stunned hanyou boy finally understand the terrors that had occurred.
Onigumo laughed as he watched her power circulate around him. When a form appeared behind him, her eyes a pale red as she moved emotionlessly behind Naraku's possessed body. A knife appeared from her kimono sleeve, it's edge digging slowly into the flesh of his throat. The crimson fluid slid sluggishly down his lifeless flesh as it splattered onto the ashen color of Onigumo's skull.
With a sickening thud, Naraku's head fell to the ground. His eyes dead and unclosed as they stared hopelessly at Kagome's distraught form.
" No…"
Kagome felt the tentacles move beneath her, moving her directly before Naraku's fallen head. One tentacle shifted from her right thigh to his head, wrapping delicately around it as if it was a china doll. It lifted into the air, making his eyes bore into Kagome's tear filled ones.
" I can only use his identity once he has a blessing."
Kagome refused to let the tears fall; it would show her weakness to this man. This abomination of humanity that held her in his grasp. The miko strained at her constraints, her blouse ripping, revealing her bare skin, blood oozing from her bruises.
' Must get free…'
Her eyes snapped open as she felt cold flesh press against her lips. As the head pulled away, her stomach lurched at the sheer disgust she felt. With a gurgled cry, she felt her insides push up through her throat and out of her mouth.
The skin began to peel from the dismembered head as she spat out the taste of her lunch. It peeled down, layer after layer until it was merely bone. The skin and nerves floated around Onigumo's skull, the bone still held by the headless body of Naraku. A flash of light, a blood filled scream and Naraku was whole once more.
Only his once kind brown eyes were placed with bright red ones, filled with malice and pleasure at his victory.
" I win."
" He killed Naraku right in front of you?"
" Yes…then you know what happened after that. He didn't return my powers until after, he was through with me." Her voice turned cold and harsh, her stormy eyes unyielding as she glared murderously out into the horizon.
As if remembering the pain, her features turned into a wince. The warm blood that stained her inner thighs, his brutal harsh voice panting in her ear, screaming as he continued his act, no sign of stopping until he was done. His last words to her before releasing her from the realm and her power…
"You are mine!"
Shove.
" Not that half breeds!"
Plunge.
" Or his reincarnations."
Gasp.
Shove.
Blood.
Pain.
Plunge.
" Mine, you miko bitch. And only mine. Humans…only belong…
…
…With humans."
Scream.
Chuckle.
" You know this as well as I do."
Rip.
Blood.
Scream.
Plunge.
" My miko."
Shudder.
Scream.
Spasm.
Blood.
Sigh.
Whimper.
Defeat.
Victory.
" My Kagome."
Kagome shuddered and whimpered softly, her nails digging into her calves through the fabric of her large T-shirt. The familiar sharp pains between her legs flooded her body, her heart racing faster as the his lust filled orbs of red flashed above her, his fangs glistening before bending down to ravage her mouth again. Her eyes snapped open in shock as a pair of warm arms wrapped around her body and brought her to its chest. Kagome's tear filled eyes closed softly as she felt the warm trails was water fall down her face, melding into her blouse. Turning, she buried her face into his chest, crying her heart out as she clutched to his shoulders like a lifeline.
Inuyasha pulled her close and let her cry, rubbing reassuring circles on her back.
" It's okay, no one is going to hurt you anymore."
Kagome sniffled and kept her tight hold on him, the tears continuing to fall. The boy made his head fall beside her ear, whispering to her, trying his damnedest to calm her down.
" No one can hurt you. Rin, Sango, Miroku, Sesshomaru and even Koga will make sure of that. You're safe now."
A small feminine voice reached his ears, the words in a pleading voice.
" Will you hurt me?"
He gave a humorless chuckle.
" You know I can't."
Kagome stiffened for a moment before sighing as she felt her impulse to cry fade away.
" Will…you protect me?"
She felt a clawed hand cup her chin and make her face him. Her stormy eyes puffy and misty as she bit her lip, gazing at him confused.
" I have to. I'm your lover's reincarnation aren't I?" He murmured softly, the defeat in his posture and pain in his eyes bringing new tears to her eyes.
Without a warning, she wrapped her arms about his body and hugged him tightly, her only words making his heart lurch as she kept him in her embrace.
" I'm sorry…
…
I wish…
…
…That it could've been different."
una: FINISHED!
Veron: Angsty fluff…sorta…
Jareth: Does such things even exist?
Luna: They do now.
Jareth: ((sweatdrop))
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