Disclaimer: Not exactly an original tale but I like my way of doing things and no I don't own Inuyasha. Rumiko gave me a ramen cup not to buy it....
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Demonic Desires
Chapter Two: Life
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There are only so many tortures one can endure in life before sanity and insanity mix in the mind and confusion ensues. Shortly after reality becomes in-reality and insanity begins to take hold. Mental torture, physical torture, emotional torture, all of these could easily cause in-reality then insanity. Depression? Disillusional ideas of worthlessness caused by a nerve chemical imbalance. Causes anxiety, delusions, and suicidal thoughts or tendencies. Curable.
Does this mean all our emotions are curable? Sadness, anger, happiness...even love? Can one simple miracle drug make all the pain go away? Can it do the opposite and become a love potion? Scientists would like to think so, but if they had been through half of what Kagome Higurashi had been through they would throw out their lab coats and their degrees.
Things that go bump in the night are said to be nothing more then figments of our imaginations. Witches, warlocks, vampires, werewolves, demons...all accredited to someone's imagination. How can two hemispheres that never had communication with each other both produce the creature we today call a dragon? England and China both before the holy wars and discovering of each other created the dragon. Is this a sign? Is this some form of forewarning?
Kagome Higurashi would tell you that she has met demons, fought with them and against, loved them, became friends with them, and lost them all in the same insignificant instant. Kagome Higurashi would tell you that life is a bitch and that friends are simply creatures you are meant to loose and learn what pain tastes like. She would tell you that love is an emotion felt on a level deeper then any other emotion. It brings out the best and worst in people like nothing else can. However, it too is meant for you loose in the end and feel pain from. In our lives we are meant to feel only pain according to Miss Higurashi. And pain is what she has felt. But in the end, she was wrong. Pain is only weakness exiting the body. In time we grow hard and cold only to love again and understand the meaning of our pains and our tribulations.
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Long raven locks flowed in the breeze as she ran. Her breath was short and tired. Her sides screamed. Screamed for a break but received none. If she stopped now she would only fall never to get up again.
Miroku was gone now, his smile, his laughter, his light was forever gone. Her chocolate eyes filled with tears. Biting her lower lip painfully she continued to run. Her green skirt flowing with the wind and the pace of her strides.
Sango was gone too, her smile, her conversations, her light was forever gone. She had jumped into Miroku's arms as he died to be with him forever. Kagome let out a silent sob. She could still hear the sound of the roaring winds as it swallowed two of her best friends in the world. Two of the people who knew her best and had been there for her in the worst of times were gone. Her "friends" in the future would run leaving her to die if a demon had attacked them. Miroku and Sango would not have. They would've stayed and fought, but no longer. They were in heaven now, to be forever blissfully happy.
Shippo was horribly injured, cradled in her arms, staining her white shirt red with his blood. He had tried to protect her from the enemy and was so wonderfully brave. The adorable kitsune had always tried to take care of "mama". Tears began running down her soft cheeks, carving into her heart and soul the pain of ultimate suffering.
Hachi their dear raccoon friend. He had fought his cowardice and tried to help only to be strangled to death. Her breath was becoming more ragged as she attempted to keep running. It was impossible. She would never even get close to the well. She too would be joining Sango and Miroku. At least then they would all be together and happily talk about old times and make new memories while they sung their praises to the Almighty.
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The soft pink glow of the Shikon no Tama glowed beautifully in his calloused demon hands. He searched the surface of the jewel or any cracks or imperfections with his molten gold eyes. Not seeing any flaws he held the jewel up, his silver hair beginning to swirl in the wind caused by the pure power radiating off the jewel.
Blood poured from his arms and began to pool in his hands with the jewel. He too was fading fast. At least she would live. That was all that mattered to him. Her survival. He would find her. He traveled time to bring her to him so they could search for the same jewel that brought so much pain and grief so what could stop him from crossing heaven and hell to get to her any other time. He was Inuyasha damn it, son of the great demon of the western lands, Inutaisho and there wasn't anyone or anything that would or possibly could stop him. And that, was final.
The jewel began to pulse with his heart beat as he looked across the battle field to see all the bodies of allies that had come to fight Naraku with them. Painfully looking further he could see Kikyo smiling, absorbing the souls waiting to die so she would live. Pain glistened across his once handsome features that were now scarred and blood-soaked. He looked down at the jewel with a small glimmer of hope.
This is how he would cross the barriers of heaven and hell. This is how they would be happy again. All he needed was one wish. And that's exactly what he had.
"I want Kagome Higurashi to be happy, her up most desires to be granted in the favor of her happiness." His voice was soft, not even a whisper.
In one moment, a brilliant flash of light engulfed the entire battlefield. Souls were snatched from Kikyo's hands as a crater opened into a pit of the earth. Inuyasha smiled as the jewel silently slid from his hand and he fell soundlessly to his knees, then again to taste the earth of the Sengoku Jidai one more time.
Inuyasha brought in one more deep breath, so he would always remember the sweet smell of his home, his life, and of his love.... It was all done now… somehow, somewhere they would all be happy again...
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It wasn't so much as loosing her friends as it was to not be able to visit their graves, grieve over their lost lives, or recover from the strenuous overload of her emotions. How can someone be expected to lead a double life and just pick up where one left off in the other without so much as a thought? Kagome Higurashi could never do that. It was impossible.
Kagome jumped through the well quickly climbing the ladder begging for Shippo to stay with her just a moment longer. She ran across the short distance to her home and kick the door in, causing everyone in the home to jump to instant alert. Mrs. Higurashi went wide eyed when she saw the poor kitsune bleeding so horribly and the disarray that her daughter was in.
Mrs. Higurashi contacted a friend of the family who was convinced that he had treated many demons in his twenty-four years of veterinary work. This would concrete his claims and hopefully save Shippo's life. The man had never lost a patient, Kagome counted on that fact to pull her pseudo-baby through to his perfect health.
It was one o'clock in the morning when the screams of anguish and torture escaped the confines of the Higurashi household.
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Los Angeles, California, The City of Lost Angels. Home to many recording artists, starving artist, big corporate business men, and lots of has-beens and coulda-beens. Late on Friday nights anyone could go to the downtown club, Blood Circuit, and met the gangs who held all the power in the city.
If you weren't in a gang, rolling with a clan of sorts, or didn't have anyone there to watch your back it was likely you were a prostitute, looking to get laid, or a dead man walking. Blood Circuit was always very active in the day but at night when the Black Dragons rolled in, it was best to roll out unless you had some beef or some really pressing business… except of course, you were a friend of Dante Drakkar, leader and founder of the Black Dragons. Only then were you allowed to stay and play for a while before Dante went to race for a few hundred dollars.
Many would say that Dante was a spoiled rich kid looking for some thrills but in all reality he was a young man who had a mother with a habit of getting high and then practicing her bedroom finesse on anything that walked which Dante was rather sick of hearing night after night. His biological father, by affair, was a rich business man who refused to believe he existed until his limo was blown up as he walked away from it one bright Christmas morning. The man Dante claimed as his father, his mother's ex-husband, was an archeologist who wasn't around very often but was a sweet man who had been there whenever Dante needed him the most. His was the only kept in the dark about his involvement with the Black Dragons and it was going to stay that way.
The saddest day of Dante's life, however, occur while he was a simple minded middle school student who went to Japan with his father to look for artifacts of the Sengoku Jidai. There he met Kagome Higurashi and ever since then he has hated every moment of his life.
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A/N: So…any guesses on why Dante Drakkar's so important? I hope you're enjoying this story. It's kind of something that just hit me one day (just like wake me up) while I was riding my bike and again I was listening to rap…I'm going to have to start doing that more often…I rarely listen to rap while I ride my bike but every time I do I end up writing something and you end up reviewing! Imagine! LOL
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