When We Were Young-chap5

By: Kumiko Ikachi A.K.A BaX

I am soooooooo sorry that I haven't updated! Wow, I'm so surprised; normally I'm good at updating fast. But somewhere along the line I received an evil case of writers block....-skitch skitch- whatever, here is chapter 5.

-BaX

Over the next few weeks Kikyo found herself feeling an emotion she never thought she would feel. She found herself in love, in love with a man who was not her husband, in love with a youkai, in love with Tasho. Unfortunately the radiance of a woman in lovecannot be faked. Especially from a jealous husband harboring hidden feelings of unworthiness of their beautiful wife.

"Where have you been Kikyo?" Hiro slurred one afternoon.

"Just collecting some herbs," she replied pleasantly, nodding her head towards a half full basket of plants. She had indeed collected them this morning, after visiting Tasho of course.

"Why do you ask Hiro?" Kikyo turned, upon seeing her husband her eyes filled with worry. "Hiro? Have you been drinking?" In the years she had known him, he had never been much of a drinker, and he could never hold his liquor.

"Did you think that you could hide it from me?

"Hiro your drunk, here I have an herb for that." She turned away from her task to collect the mentioned medicine. When she came within arms length of her husband, he grabbed her neck with surprising strength and agility. As she was thrown to the ground, Kikyo let her miko energy flare. Yet her opponent was human, she was powerless.

"How could you betray me? How could you sleep with someone else when I am your husband? You belong to me!" Hiro made his point known on Kikyo's face. Letting his drunken rage control him, he ripped open her front, exposing her to his livid eyes. Believing another had seen his Kikyo this way he beat her with his fists, along with anything else he could grasp. He soon had Kikyo writhing with pain and terror.

"What do I do...? What Do I Do...WHAT DO I DO!" Kikyo's mind screamed. She normally felt powerful and untouchable but now, right now, she couldn't even fend off the attacks of a drunk man.

"It is best if I simply allow him to kill me." As her voice drifted away accepting her fate another voice spoke from inside her. "Now is not your time, you shall know when your time comes." With renewed vigor, Kikyo pushed her sniveling husband off her battered body and hastily ran out the door. She expected to see his drunk for shambling after her so she never looked back. She clutched her ruined top closed and ran faster and faster, harder and harder; she knew not where she found the energy but she also didn't care. When she finally did stop she was lost, lost in the same woods she had hiked through sense moving here. And now she was lost.

Tasho had spent most of that morning in the company of Kikyo; earning her trust, commanding her love. He could tell she was falling for him more and more each day they spent together.

"Ha, silly miko! I wonder if she knows that loving a youkai is forbidden." He said aloud that afternoon.

"The same question may be said to you Inu Tasho!" Surprised that someone had been able to sneak up on him, Tasho whirled around fangs bared.

"Keiko! Damn you, you should know better than to sneak up on me." Keiko Niko, the queen cat youkai, slunk towards Tasho. A purr on her lips, yet murder in her claws.

"Tasho," she cooed. "Why? Why would you choose a-a human, when you could have had me." She wrapped her leg around him, moving her clawed fingers skillfully across his skin. "You crave me Tasho; I can feel it in your moans." Her lips were heated and cruel stroking his neck, her fangs drawing trails of deep red blood that trickled down his bare chest. Her left hand snaked into his bound silver hair forcing his lips to meet hers. She hungrily sucked at the blood their unchecked fangs drew. Desperately clawing at the garments separating them, she unsheathed the weapon that would insure the dog demon never rose to full power again.

Artfully she placed the twisted dagger above his heart, thinking he was to far in pleasure to notice. Before she took her next breath, she felt a strange burning in her abdomen. She looked down and smiled. Tasho's arm had shot through her stomach.

"Baka niko, I will not be tricked by you again."

"Silly puppy," she breathed. "Do you truly love her so much?" As her lids slid closed, covering her violet orbs evermore, the cat demon died with a bitter smile on her lips. She died gazing at the shocked face of the one she had loved.

"Feh, love, a myth for humans nothing more." Tasho turned his back on the corpse, casually yet scornfully kicking dirt upon her. Suddenly his mind filled with Kikyo. Her nearness...her pregnancy......her blood, everything in him screamed for him to run as fast as the wind carries and take her. He wanted to obey his instincts so badly that he found himself trembling on the forest floor. "No something's not right." There was another scent engulfing his choice, a scent he barely recognized, the scent of tears. "Damn it! Now, now is the time to put my plan into action. If I don't act now I may never get this chance again!" So he ran to her.

When he reached her she was curled into a tiny ball. Her arms protectively covering her 6 month swollen belly. Though she had tears on her face and leaves in her hair, he though she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Nonetheless he still had a job to do. Carefully he scooped her into his arms. She responded by burying her face in his neck.

"There there Kikyo," he said huskily. "Tell me, tell me your troubles." Unable to resist his hypnotic voice, she broke. Kikyo hatefully snapped the Shikon no Tama off her neck and threw it to the woodland floor. Tasho jerked slightly but made no move to pick it up.

"It's all because of that hellish jewel! I am not allowed a normal life! I must always put the jewel first." Talking softly and placing a wistful hand on her unborn child, Kikyo continued. "What kind of life can my daughter hope for? And now I cannot even go home to a man that loves me!" As Kikyo sobbed her worries and fears away Tasho was struck by an ingenious plan.

"Kikyo," he breathed. Careful of his claws he held her chin between his thumb and index finger and forced her to look at him. "What are your feelings for me?" Kikyo's heart skipped a beat.

"Why? Why would he want to know this now?" What-what do you mean Tasho?"

"I mean that I love you, and I can make all of your problems go away." Kikyo, struck dumb by his sudden confession, only gaped at him unable to speak. So Tasho decided to talk until she came to her senses. "Don't worry Kikyo," he thought. "I shall make it fast, and then all your problems will truly be over." Out loud he said, "Let me make a wish on the jewel, I shall wish to be human. Than the demons will be struck with the same problem you face now. Then, as a human, I shall sweep you away and we can be happy! Come Kikyo, let us be happy." Yet through the façade of love and happiness, Kikyo saw a troubled heart. Smiling slightly she rose, walking to the jewel she picked it up and fastened it safely around her neck.

"Your offer makes me glad Tasho. But I cannot take it...not yet. Please wait for me for 3 months. On the night when the moon goddess does not look upon her children 3 months from now I shall wait for you here." With a careful hand on her unborn child, Kikyo walked away and did not look back. Tasho flexed his claws, still red from Keiko's death.

"I have waited this long, what's a few more months?"

Proud? You damn well better be! don't worry though chapter 6 shall be up soon! Though I'm not all that sure of 7... but guess what! This retarded flash back that has been controlling my muse is coming to a close! Hurray! Want to know something else? I am not a Kikyo fan but in my fic (when she is 200 years away from Inuyasha!) I absoultly love her! I think I put wayyyy to much my self into her.

Byez! BaX