So many times now,I've stood at a cliff,and looked down at the jagged rocks below.Knowing that with one movement,I could drop and never rise again.It doesn't scare me anymore.I welcome death with open arms.Anything to stop the emptyness inside of me from spreading.It's empty because you aren't here anymore.You haven't been here for a long time now.
Chapter 2----Mirrored Arrow
Kouga jumped for Naraku,legs aiming for the nearly-complete Shikon no Tama around the hanyou's neck.Only Kouga's fragments were needed, a fact the ookamiyoukai was blissfully unaware aware of.It would have been better if he had known, because then he could have run and hid in the furthest corner of the planet, never to be seen again, instead of jumping straight at a manical hanyou with dreams of world domination.
Kouga continued forwards,forgetting what powered his muscular legs,forgetting what Naraku was after.Naraku flashed his katana in a single movement.Twin trails of blood spilled into the air as Naraku snatched the shards with a flick of his fingers.He ducked gracefully to avoid Kouga's dismembered foot as Kouga plowed straight into the earth,creating a huge hole in the blood-soaked dirt and rocks.
There was a scream from the pit,one that wrenched Inuyasha's heart,even though he pushed it behind him.And it ended in a second,silence blanketing the field.No-one knew whether it was death or lack of conciousness that ended his screams.
Kikyou could have cared less about that cocky youkai.It was his own stupid fault for what he did.It didn't matter if one more person was killed.As long as she lived,she would save the rest of the world,as no-one else could.She flipped her thick hair back behind her ear.
Breathing heavily, she sat back on her heels to survey her work.She had succeeded in securing the mirror shard to a sturdy stick.She used her own hair,thickly matted with blood, to tie it, so already the arrow looked like it had passed through someone and been yanked out again.But it's still usable.She grabbed her bow,thankfully undamaged,and stood to take aim.Only then did she realise exactly what she missed in the past crucial minutes.
Inuyasha was falling into the pit that Kouga plowed,Naraku laughing.The baby, lost until these moments, floated high above,Naraku's heart once again phasing into his small form.The baby is laughing too.Because it thinks this is the end.
How very naive, thinks Kikyou as she pulls the bow string tight.This will be too easy.
And she let the arrow fly.And the baby turns around, to see it scream towards him.But the look on its face is far from horror.It is mocking pity.Because the arrow has stopped.
"Sorry Kikyou."the baby just said,that look of mocking pity still evident on its distorted face.And then it smiled.
But it can't be called a smile.Because a smile is a thing of innocence,and a way to tell people just how much you love them, and being around them.And all the baby had on its face was malice,complete and evil.
And then the arrow had turned back.And it went through her,freeing the trapped souls.And her eyes went black.The baby was laughing, and laughing, and then it wasn't.And it gazed in wonder at the arrow through its chest.And in one instant,there was a great flash and a boom of thunder,and Naraku and the baby were gone.
Kagome just stood there panting,her bow still raised to the sky.