INUYASHA
I'm not the proudest of this piece, but I did write it, and it isn't half bad. I've thoroughly dropped most dream scenes because of junk like this I wrote previously, though. Everything always came out with the same feeling, and I couldn't get anything new that way.
Dreaming Nightmares
Kagome was running along the beach, and her long black hair was on the wind behind her. She was wearing a long, pale pink dress, and she could feel the cool sand on her feet. And the sun on her face. And the wind in her hair. And the smell of the ocean in her nose. She could hear the waves crashing beside her, and the sound of her feet as they crashed down on the sand with every step she took. She was giggling. Then she heard someone come up behind her, and she turned to find Inuyasha running up towards her. He ran passed her, but as he did, he sort of pulled her down, so that they were both sitting on the shore. Both sitting and laughing. Laughing as the sun beat gently down on them.
Then Inuyasha took Kagome's hands in his, and looked down at them. When he looked up, he smiled as he said, "Look, claws. You're like me! Your ears are, too!"
Kagome looked down at her hands, and sure enough, on each of her fingers was a long, pearly colored claw. She took a hand and reached up to the top of her head, and felt the ears that were there, just like Inuyasha's. She smiled, too.
"Let's go out into the ocean!" she said, still giggling. So they ran out into the surf and then swam out as far as they could. For a few moments, Kagome just stayed in the same place, treading water, and looking out into the clear blue of the water that went off into the clear blue of the sky. It was beautiful. She looked around her and saw that Inuyasha was nowhere to be seen. Then she spotted him on the shore, so she began to swim back. When she was back on the beach, she went running up to him, and hugged him around the neck. Then they both turned back to the ocean and looked out over the water. Kagome held up one clawed hand and watched a drop of water drip down one of her claws. As she watched, it slowly turned red, as if it was being filled with food coloring. As she continued to watch, in horror, the drops of water dripping down her hand turned to drops of blood, and she turned to Inuyasha to ask what was going on, only to see him lying on the ground, with blood dripping from his mouth and the wound in his chest.
"What . . . what's going on!" she shouted, and turned away to run along the beach. When she turned back, she saw Inu-Yasha very far away, but she could still very clearly see his wounds and the blood that was dropping onto the sand. "What happened?" She looked down to the claws on her hand, still dripping blood. "Did I do that to him?" she asked. "But why!"
'Don't you remember? You wanted him dead, and killed him.' a voice said in her ear. Then it giggled. 'It was fun, too. You said so yourself.'
"But why would I want Inu-Yasha dead?" Kagome asked in horror as Inu-Yasha's body became steadily clearer, and she could see claw marks running along his arms.
'I'm not sure. You never said. But you said something about him stealing, remember? Stealing your power, I think it was. Whatever it was, he deserved to die. Because he stole your life.'
"What do you mean, 'he stole my life'?" Kagome asked. She slammed her eyes shut, but it was as if she could see through her eyelids, and the scene continued to grow clearer. Tears streaked down her cheeks as she fell to the ground, focusing on the sand.
'Just that, He stole your life away. He tried to kill you, and then kept you from going home, remember? He was trying to destroy your life back on the other side of the well.'
"Is that my real time?" Kagome asked, as the thought occured to her. "Was he trying to keep me out of my real time?"
'No, it's not. You belong here, but we need you there, too. That's why you can go back.'
"I . . . I think I see what you're saying . . . but I don't want Inu-Yasha dead!"
'Yes, you do. He only gets in the way. Now come along, let's go.'
Suddenly she felt hands on her shoulders, trying to steer her away from Inu-Yasha and the beach. She began pulling against them. "No!" she cried. "Inu-Yasha!"
'No! Come along, NOW!'
Kagome felt pain course through her, and she shuddered, but pulled harder.
"Inu-Yasha! Help me!" she yelled, tears falling as she tried to pull back towards the hanyou's body. "Please, no . . . Inu-Yasha!"
"Inu-Yasha . . . " Kagome muttered in her sleep. " . . . help . . . me . . . Inu-Yasha . . . "
"Kagome!" Miroku cried, shaking her shoulders. "Kagome, wake up! It's only a dream! Wake up!"
"What's wrong, Miroku? Why won't she wake up?" Sango asked. Then she gasped, and moved a hand to her mouth. "She's . . . she's crying!"
"Inu-Yasha . . . " Kagome muttered.
"Inu-Yasha! Where are you, dog! Kagome needs you!" Shippo cried into the night, clearly shaken by this turn of events. He was calling on Inu-Yasha for help!
Suddenly there was a rustle, and Inu-Yasha was beside them. He already had Shippo and was holding him up by his shirt. "What did you say, runt!" he cried.
The kit didn't struggle, but began to cry. "It's Kagome. I don't know what's wrong. She just started having a nightmare, I guess. She was turning, and then she started yelling for you. We can't wake her up! And now she's started crying!"
Just then Kagome's scent hit him hard. Fear? She was scared of something?
He dropped the kit and ran to Kagome's side. "Kagome! What's wrong! Wake up! Kagome!"
Kagome's face screwed up, and then her eyes flew open. "Inu-Yasha!" she cried, and wrapped her arms around him instantly. "I thought you were dead." she whispered.
Inu-Yasha looked around. Judging by the looks on the faces of his friends, they hadn't heard that. They were just happy she was okay. But he had, and he wanted to know what she meant.
"What do you mean?" he said, trying to look down at her, which was hard, since she was burried so deep in his haori he was scared she might not be able to come out.
"I dreamed . . . that you died." she said, loud enough for the rest to hear. But then she stopped. 'I can't just tell them that I killed him in my dream.' she thought, biting her lip. 'They would think I was crazy.' She shuddered, and pulled herself closer to him, which had seemed imposible only moments ago.
Inu-Yasha was stunned for a few moments, and it took a while for it to register to him that he was stroking her hair and whispering things to her, but once it did, he didn't stop.
"It's okay, everything's fine."
"No it's not!" she cried. "I thought that you'd...that you'd died! I don't think . . . "
"What?"
Kagome shook her head. "I think I should go home. I feel like it's not safe for me to be here."
Inu-Yasha was shocked. "No! It was just a dream! You're perfectly safe, and no one could ever kill me."
"But . . . I . . . Someone did, in the dream. I don't want to know that it's possible . . . "
"It's not." Inu-Yasha said, giving her a stern look. Not that she noticed.
"But I - "
"Kagome." His tone drew her attention, and she looked up to him, tears in her eyes. 'She's really worried . . . ' He smiled to her gently. "Please, don't worry. Everything will be fine. You should go back to sleep."
She nodded, but didn't make a move to get back into her sleeping bag, and he didn't make a move to leave. She took a deep breath, closing her eyes.
In her comfortable surroundings, she fell asleep imediately. She didn't haev enough time to wonder she felt so safe because it was Inuyasha's lap that she was in.
