Title: Kaishi

Author note,

yeah I'm back, just to let you know, this one is going to be different. I told you this was going to be a big fight one but... any way here ya'll go XD

VampireYoukai

Kaishi

Chapter two: Enemies of thought

Inuyasha never sleeps, he would doze off for a few hours. But that was about it, he had the 'excuse' of saying he wouldn't sleep because there were demons lurking constantly. Of course his friends would sigh and shake their heads.

Sometimes Inuyasha would just sit and watch the night sky. The stars, the diamonds of the sky. There were so many sizes, so many different sparkles. He would try and count a small group of stars, but lose track of what he had counted.

But who cares? Who really can look at the stars, and think how beautiful they are? The answer was locked away in time, Inuyasha saw it in Kagome's time. He could smell dead and dying plants. He could smell the dirty air, he could tell that when he saw the light in peoples eyes, that it was just artificial lights. They looked up at the stars un interested, although it would be hard to be interested in something they could barely see.

If, there was a world. Where nothing would be taken for granted, or people would actually put them selves in other people's point of view. Perhaps that would solve everything. no, not everything. In Kagome's time, there was no scent of other youkai. Perhaps this world was just not meant for man and beast. Inuyasha inhaled the clean air into his lungs, his whole body absorbed the virgin air, untainted air by pollution.

If this quest were to end soon, what would he do then? Become demon and kill every innocent being that crossed his tainted-heart path? Ever since he had met this new group of people, it had changed his perspective on life. But he was still unsure what he wanted. He had three options, become a youkai, become a ningen, or stay a hanyou. Sometimes, like these nights. He would think 'Yes, I could become a ningen, yes I will!' But thoughts ran through his head that objected this idea. Other nights 'A demon? Isn't that what I have wanted?' But his friend's faces ran through his head. Like tonight, he was thinking about staying the same. 'I'm strong aren't I? Haven't I killed all these full youkais who thought could beat me?'

Inuyasha shook his head. He sighed through his nose, he wanted to ask. He wanted to ask what he should do. But who? Who could tell him that one of the choices, was the right one? Ah, there was noone. His group would all say the same. They didn't want him to become a full demon. They wanted him just the way he was, to be able to talk to him and not get their limbs ripped off.

Sometimes, though he wont admit it. He was afraid to be a youkai, he was afraid to be something of destruction. He didn't want to kill everything. He just wanted to be strong so he could protect himself. No, that was only the half truth. He wanted to protect those that needed his protection. It made him happier to know he was protecting someone.

There were times it had been so close, where his friends nearly died because he couldn't protect. Every time he remembered the time where he had thought Kagome and the other's died by The Band Of Seven. He had held Kagome and fought back the tears, he blamed himself. But luckily Myouga had sucked the poison from their blood. To his surprise, Kagome called his name. He had to let her down and quickly turn his back. Shippo had stepped in front of him and saw the tears in his eyes, and when Inuyasha turned to deny the tears. He had them in his eyes, and Kagome had seen them.

He had never been more scared. If they had indeed had died, he wasn't sure what he would have done. Probably gone into himself, cried possibly. Shippo would be there with him to mourn. The thought of Kagome being cremated, and watching. Made he shake and feel sick. Sometimes when she was asleep, he would walk over to her to make sure she was still alive. And he wouldn't leave for a couple of minutes. Inuyasha once thought he had been caught, he heard Shippo squeak, but only in dream

If there had been anything such as a demon, he was scared he couldn't sense it. The book Kaede had given him had some Japanese, but very little. In it, it had said a demon was going to coming and death and destruction would follow. No man or beast would be saved. One inscription had him most worried. And it made him sick to think about it.

In time there has been great evil. In the future there is great evil. When the birds stop their singing of lullabies, when the ground turn black and unfertile, when the butterflies wings turn to dust, when the mortal's offspring stop laughing, stop crying, when the trees lean and turn white, when blood runs through the flowers. A demon will rise, his lair will be made of only flesh and blood. Will kill us all.

And then it would be more symbols. It frustrated him! Why could it be in one language? Inuyasha stared into the darkness, he began to wonder what kind of demon group, would want this book? Perhaps to rise and serve this demon. To gain immortality? He shook his head, perhaps he was worrying too much. Keade had told Inuyasha to be careful with this book, it could drive him insane. He smirked, perhaps he was already insane. But, he was having strange dreams lately.

He would be walking over a hill, and over this hill would be covered in blood. Bodies were rapped by vines and strung to trees. Their own blood made a puddle underneath their feet. Severed and decapitated heads lay every way. A fence was made with head stuck on the top, their mouths wide open, almost yelling out to him. But to say what? Little children were not spared either. They stood still, parts of their bodies were missing. In his dream, he would walk up to one girl who's short hair was in her face, her head bent awkwardly. Inuyasha would touch her shoulder. The girl's arm snapped up to grab his. It hurt badly, like a iron burning into his flesh. Her head would lift for him to see her distorted face. Half of her upper lip would be missing, showing her bloody teeth, part of her lower jaw would be hanging from her face, only by skin. her tongue wiggled and a centipede would shoot out.

Tears of blood would be streaming from her eyes. Inuyasha could do nothing but watch, he would try to escape but she held on. Her hand burnt more into his flesh, she would open her mouth to let her bloody tongue jiggle, a horrible garbling sound came from the back of her throat, it was almost like she was just trying to say 'help' but he couldn't tell. He would watch in horror as the girl's only remaining jaw would unhinge, her remaining lip would curl into a sneer. She would scream, looking into his eyes.

Then he would wake up. Sweating, his body would be dripping with perspiration. His hands would shake uncontrollably. But what was scary, was him arm would hurt. He would lift his arm to find a blood red mark of a hand. This happened almost every time he fell asleep. Even when he wasn't the remembrance of the dream haunted him.

Inuyasha scolded at the sky. He growled, if this were to happen, he had no doubt his friends would end up victims. It scared him, it truly did. He's had bad dreams but, never like this. Where he could actually feel the dream. Inuyasha shook his head and jumped from his tree. He would check on Kagome again, make sure she was still alive, make sure she was not hanging from a tree.

When he saw her, he bent over to her lips. He heard her breaths, he sighed through his nose. Relieved that his friends were still alive, he went back into his tree. Where he began to count the night's dimonds.

Hey all!

I've updated both my stories now, and I've put up a one-shot.

Happy now? J.K.

By: Vampire Youkai (don't copy this poem)

Kaisi

Haunt

The more you wish and cry,

The more you wish you would die,

There aren't many things that can console

These feelings inside you wish you could control

There are too many sorrow feelings ahead

That make you scream at the taunting voices in your head

The haunting in your mind is eating at your spirit

A hand is trying to reach you but you are too numb, to feel it