Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, I just own the plot and maybe some characters that are invented along the way. I don't own any copyright song, poetry, etc that was used in my fic.
I want to apologise. It seems that a lot of people are confused as to what the heck is going on. This story is my experimental piece; it's my first time having poetry incorporated into my story…I have the A/N at the end that will explain the story lol
Whisper No More- Ch 4
Sunna: You never die, do you Uncle? People die, but you never do. Because how do you do that? Death is not being alive—and since being alive is what you know, experience, well how can you experience death? You can't. Because you aren't alive. So you never die. You can experience someone's death, you can know of his absence, but you, yourself, cannot die. So life is endless consciousness, right? While I'm alive, I'm the observer, I see things happen. When I die—well I don't die, the perception just changes. I'm no longer the observer, but the observed. Someone might witness my death, but I never die.
Unity 1918 (Act 1 Scene 1) by Kevin Kerr
By the time Kagome could get her mind to work again…it was already too late. The FedEx man was already in front of her, his hands trying to grasp her glass container...
When she tried to resist, he punched her hard in the gut.
Kagome coughed up blood.
He took it…the container…
Pain…
They say when you are about to die,
"I don't understand," Kagome pouted, clearly not enjoying the fact that she was being held down by her husband again. She lay still on the ground, indicating that she'd given up her struggle. "Why do I have to learn all these survival, self-defence stuff?"
Your life will be flashed before your eyes.
"It's for your own good Vicky," Vincent smiled a bit as he stood up, extending his hand for Kagome to take. He brushed his lock of blond hair out of his eyes.
To see what you have done in your time.
"Why though?" Kagome questioned, holding Vincent's hand as support to stand back up. She playfully punched his muscular chest. "You'd already know all this stuff. You'll be able to protect me. It's part of your job description as being my husband."
Give you one last chance to say good-bye,
Vincent's expression turned serious, "Kagome…I can't be with you forever."
To the people who you'll leave behind.
Kagome looked at Vincent inquisitively, the way he said it….Vincent didn't look at her, his mind seemed to be at some place else. He had a distant look on his face as he stood next to the window, watching the sun as it sunk below the horizon.
Will you leave this world with a sigh?
Maybe it was woman's intuition, or the fact that she'd known Vincent for so long. Something was bothering him…but he wasn't going to share it with her and she didn't want to pry. After all, she respected her husband's privacy. He might talk to her about it later…and she'll be there to listen when he does.
Will you leave this world with a cry?
Kagome walked up to him. Snaking her arms around his waist, she rested her head on his right shoulder. She was already five foot eight and he was half a head taller than her. As usual, he rested his arm over her shoulder. The scene in front of her was almost like a water painting, so many bright colours: red, orange, pink…all combined to create the beautiful sunset. Maybe it was the light; she could almost swear that his brown eyes had a tint of gold in them.
Will you have your angelic wings to fly?
"You are not trying to divorce me are you?" Kagome asked jokingly, her voice sounded a bit tense.
Will you fall to pits of hell in a dive?
Vincent looked at her for a moment. Then he poked her forehead with his index finger.
With all the mental preparation for death in mind,
"Foolish woman."
You realized you wanted to stay alive…
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!" Kagome yelled in her anger.
Past I lacked…
Present I feared…
Future is something I'd lost…
But not anymore!
Pink lights appeared at the end of Kagome's fingertips. She grabbed the FedEx man by the shoulder and he screeched…
In an inhuman way…
He sounded like someone was cutting a metal pipe with a saw. He sounded so painful and her ears hurt. Kagome almost wanted to let him go—to spare them both the agony.
The smell of burnt flesh was so overwhelming that despite she was a doctor, she wanted to puke.
She pushed him away from her, leaning herself against the closet to prevent herself from collapsing. Breathing hard, she tried to get more air into her lungs to smoother the pain. He punched hard damn it!
The FedEx man crashed into the wooden desk behind him. Immediately, he pushed himself up and rushed toward her again.
This time…Kagome was no longer in shock.
With the adrenalin pumping through her veins, she was barely able to duck and roll out of the way as the man smashed right into the closet. Kagome picked up the bow and the quiver of arrows that were on the ground. She ran past the desk so that there was something in between the man and her.
Kagome narrowed her eyes. Nocking the arrow, she aimed.
Neither of the two people moved.
"He attacked me first!"
He is the one at fault!
I'm innocent
"I'm just defending myself!"
"Fu…fucking Miko!" The man hollered, his voice sounded like a combination between a male and a female voice. Grabbing the left end of the desk, he flipped it over. He stomped toward Kagome.
Justice is on my side
I, now, have every right
To do what I want to—
Prevent myself from getting killed
And him from staying alive…
That was all the initiation Kagome needed to get her arrow fly. The arrow, without falter, went right into the hole in the FedEx man's chest.
Justitia…
The Goddess of Justice
On one hand she holds an evenly balanced scale
On the other she holds a sharp powerful sword
But…
She is also blindfolded…
A pink light exploded before Kagome, forcing her to slam her eyes shut. The man was screeching again, this time he sounded like fingernails dragging across a chalkboard…Kagome covered her ears with her hands.
She didn't know how long it took but then…
There was silence…
Kagome slowly opened her eyes, blinking a few times to get rid of the black spots in her eyes. She waved, trying to fan away the unwanted air, as she coughed; the air was full of specks of soot. As expected, the room was in disarray. The FedEx man was nowhere in sight.
She walked closer to the place where he originally stood when she released her arrow. The area was black and was covered in glue-like fluid. There was a pile of ash in the middle of the area; the glass container could be seen at the top of the pile. It was as if he…was burnt to ashes within a small time frame…
Crunch!
She stepped on something hard…moving her foot out of the way…she saw something white…
A piece of bone…
Immediately Kagome stumbled backward, through the doorway, till she hit the hallway wall behind her. She had read cases like this before…
It was…
Spontaneous human combustion…
But it is impossible! Kagome thought. Something like this only happens under a specific circumstance: the person as to be chronic alcoholic, standing near a fire, and was corpulent.
But the FedEx man did not fit the description at all, she didn't know if he was an alcoholic…but he was a lean person and there was no fire around here…
What could've caused…
BOOM!
Kagome's head jerked to her right and found her front door was knocked down. A group of man, each was fully equipped with armour, armaments, and a helmet, entered in an organized manner. There were five intruders in total.
"Drop your weapon!" One of the men ordered.
Kagome assessed the men, more like just looking at them. Things were happening so fast, she wasn't able to keep up with the changes. But she knew better than to go against the men with just a bow and a few arrows while they had semi-automatics.
Kagome slowly placed her bow on the ground and dropped her quiver next to it. A man on the left lowered his weapon; he nodded to the other men as they lowered their weapons also. He seemed to be the one in charge.
"We are not here to hurt you…Vicky," The man continued to talk. He took off his helmet as he raised both of his hands in a surrender fashion. His black hair was tied back into a ponytail; his bangs were pulled back by his brown hair-band. His blue eyes appraised her, looking at her from head to toe. Kagome didn't recognize his face so she didn't say anything.
Slowly, he walked toward her. "We are here to help."
Kagome shook her head as she backed away. When he tried to grab her by the arm, she shifted and karate-chopped him at the neck. He fell to the ground. Without hesitation, Kagome turned around, attempted to run to her bedroom and lock the door.
Something grabbed her from behind and she was shoved face-down onto the ground. She tried get out of the iron grip but failed miserably.
"That hurts you know Kagome."
Kagome grunted and refused to say anything. Wait a minute…how come he knows her Japanese name?
Someone grabbed her by her shoulders and flipped her over. Panting heavily, she turned face-to-face to the man who she'd attacked earlier.
"Is that how you treat your old friends?" The man smirked as he flicked his ponytail over his shoulder. Kagome felt her anger rising, his body was practically pressed up against hers! Old friend? She couldn't even remember seeing him anywhere in her life!
"There's no other trace of youkai nor youki here, Kouga." One of the men walked up to the pair. "She'd successfully annihilate the Demon Crow. The Shikon no Tama is recovered."
…Kouga?
A man that turned good because of you.
…Shikon no Tama?
A powerful jewel that broke because of you.
"We can do it, it's just Naraku! Then all we need is to get Kouga's and Kohaku's shards and we will be able to complete the Shikon no Tama! You will be able to become a full demon! Don't die on me…please!"
But it makes no difference…
Kagome froze.
Because you remember neither.
"Good job guys," The man, known as Kouga nodded. "Our Operation is going well, except the fact that we got our covers blown. But that's the least of our problem now, they are getting smarter, knowing how to throw us off track. Luckily we realized it before we fell into their trap or else…
He sighed, "Things are never this troublesome when he was still around."
The silver-haired man fell forward; she could practically hear the sickening sound of impact as he landed face down onto the ground.
The momentum of his fall only pushed the tentacles deeper into his body…
Kouga looked at Kagome, seeing that she'd given up her struggle, he got off of her.
Kagome didn't move from her spot. Her eyes widened and her breath quickened.
Since the sword did not have a scabbard, Kagome placed it down on the table gently, ready to call the police officer back to pick it up. When she got up from her seat however, something caught her eyes.
On the blade there was a light inscription saying:
"Tetsusaiga…"
"Hey, Kagome," Kouga tapped her on the shoulder, "Don't scare me."
There was another woman's face shown in the reflection beside hers...
The woman placed her hands on Kagome's shoulders. Kagome winced as she felt the nails digging into her shoulders.
Two more hands came into view. One of the hands grabbed onto Kagome's hair and pulled it back while the other touched her cheek. The woman opened her mouth wider…
Kagome screamed.
Kouga's hand jerked back as if he was burnt. He moved back quickly as he saw pink lights began to radiate off of Kagome's body.
"She's emotionally unstable!"
You are emotionally disturbed!
"If this goes on, she'll purify all of us!"
You are the bringer of death!
"Stop her!"
You must get disposed of quickly!
"Sorry Kagome…looks like you are not ready yet…"
No…my apologies….
I'm sorry for not being ready…
I'm sorry for not being strong enough…
It's always my fault
"I think I'm going crazy."
Darkness…
Kagome welcomed it.
Repeating dreams are realistic
Hallucinations are becoming solidified
A cursed jewel called Shikon no Tama
Demons do actually exist…
She no longer wanted to think…
Having the power to exterminate
Bring apocalypse to the whole demonic race
Protecting a jewel
That is wanted by everyone
The world will soon become a slaughterhouse
Kagome Higurashi
As a miko…
As a human woman with divine powers…
As a guardian for the Shika no Tama…
What will you do?
Parsnip: Yea, this story brings out the bitter side of me. Lol. Anyways, the poetries that are interspersed throughout the story are written by me. As for the stuff that aren't, I will have disclaimers written (so that they won't sue me).
Flaming Amber Rose: Yes, Kagome is Vicky. Since she is living in Canada, I think that it will be natural for her to have an English name in addition to her Japanese name. I'm sorry if it confused you. As for Vincent, he will continue to play a major role in Kagome's life. As the story develops, you will eventually find out who he is. But I can't tell you now or it will totally kill the plot lol.
And now to answer your and Tairoru-Chan's question regarding the prelude. (My boring theory behind the whole story)
The prelude is a description of the dream that Kagome has. It is also the same dream that she has been having for the past three months, as it was explained in the chapter 1.
I'm just playing with the notion that there are times when a person dreams, he/she will do things that he/ she wouldn't normally do. In equivalent, when a person dreams, he/she might see people he/she don't know in their life but can somehow manages to call out their names. Those people are, usually, someone who the person had seen in his/her life. There is something special about them that make the person to remember them subconsciously. However, consciously, the person might not recall them at all. Even if the person sees them again, he/she might just think that the people looked familiar to them somehow…somewhat like Déjà-vu. (I'm just totally playing with the idea)
It is just that Kagome is very disturbed by the dream, and there are reasons why she would be. Everything seems too real for comfort in her dreams. Usually your senses (such as your sense of smell, hearing) are not coherent with what you 'see' in your dream. For instance, you might 'see' someone cooking hamburgers in your dream. You don't really hear the sound nor smell the hamburgers as they are being fried. (some of you might totally disagree me. I don't have anything scientific to back me up with this idea but this is a story so just bear with me…)
However, in Kagome's case, she sees, she hears, she smells everything in her dream. It is as if she is there physically, she is consciously aware of her surroundings. Even though she knows that she'd never been to that place (the field) before—when she is consciously awake, that is.
Also, in that dream, it's like her present (26 years old self) is placed back into her younger body. Therefore, even though Kagome is a doctor now and have a lot of knowledge in the medical field, she isn't able to do anything to help Inuyasha in her dreams since she has no control over her younger self's body. Therefore, she can only watch as her 'body' screws up with the 'healing' process for Inuyasha. She's like watching a movie in first person, except that she can feel and sense what is happening.
Even so…that's not what pushed Kagome over the edge. After all, a dream is only a dream. But then she starts to see people in the street, people that she know should not exist in real life because of the way they dressed (the human side) and the way they looked like (the demon side). Then…the bathroom incident, where she sees someone standing behind her (by the way…did anyone realize that 'someone' is actually Mistress Centipede?) As usual, she thought she was hallucinating, but then she sees the wounds on her shoulder. That is why she thinks she is going crazy, and that's why she goes to see Henry, the psychologist.
Now, onto another topic.
Kagome does have amnesia because of the head injury…and she did get stabbed by Tetsusaiga. However…as to the question whether she DID go to Feudal era of Japan or not and as to who is the culprit for her injuries…read more to find out…once again…if I tell you…it'll ruin the plot lol. (a bunch of readers surrounds Cyberwing and beats her up) XX
Now if you are still puzzled, tell me specifically where you are confused. I'll try to explain it again in the next chapter ;p
