Scroll
Chapter three
this marked black cream scroll
shall remind the future of
past and present struggle
-haiku an original
I didn't think it was possible, but there she was the woman from my nightmares.
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'Where am I? what is this place? why do I feel so angry, so panicked, and out of control?' darkness, blurry purplish gray darkness envelopes me like a haze of arsenic. I can't move correctly, as if someone was doing it for me, moving my body. My hands are ghastly white, the only white in this place…wait… the haze thins to a raggedy old village, huts, fields, dead people and blood is everywhere. And monsters! So many monsters with bloody fangs, claws and eyes. I try to grab my head, it's like a jackhammer is tearing across my brain pounding mercilessly.
The worst monster of all though, is the giant spider one with a dozen beady red eyes and razor sharp jaws the size of city buses. his face, a dark shade of a funeral black and his markings are in a jadedly cruel purplish red. his jaws move and hiss out with unfathomable command and power.
'kill them all, obtain the ultimate power'
'kill them all, obtain the ultimate power'
'this dream, I know this dream, I've had it before, let me get out! Let me out!' The sinister voice repeats over and over in my head and I begin to do something uncharacteristic, I panic and try to run, but my legs stand still, and my arms lift upwards to the sky. I yell out as my body begins to burst outwards of my skin and a dark purple void appears, and all the monsters warp and get sucked into my forehead. I scream, I cry I feel myself lose every ounce of my sanity, but nothing is audible, my mouth is being controlled.
And that is when I feel a light streak across the ground, and I look up to the only clear figure standing in a forest green uniform, unruly hair blowing and her chocolate eyes afire with such a livid light she must be evil. Her bow and arrow point at me, I mutter a few words that I cant hear, but that is it, then the dark purple is replaced by a glowing lilac, and all I feel is this humongous weight lift from my shoulders, and my head no longer pounds. Yet. somehow I know that I am dead.
I snap back into reality, I notice that she even had a bow and arrow, the same as some of my nightmares, and of course, she is always angry, her eyes are always livid to lay themselves on me. I reach out my hand in protest, why is she doing this, how does she know me? Such things that I have always in the deep recesses of my mind have wondered, but never let surface, but now I see that they will finally be answered whether she wants them to be or not.
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"Who are you?" I growl out as I straighten myself to a proper standing position, my almost curly ebony hair thrashes in a breeze that doesn't seem to come from the sky, it seems to coil from Kagura, but that is not of importance now. I study the woman's facial expressions, noticing that a small amount of confusion flitted through her chocolate brown eyes before becoming more angry. I snort mentally, she was the one shooting arrows at me, if anyone should be angry, it should be me.
"Don't play those stupid games Naraku, tell me how you two got to this era!" She shot another lilac arrow at me, and I dodge it with relative ease, my reactions and movements are agile and precise, not to mention the fact that I can apparently change the form of my body. I lengthen my fingers and clench them in a fist. I had not forgotten the very informal way of addressing me.
"Stop shooting those things you crazy bitch! We aren't playing any damn games, we don't know who you are!" I roll my eyes to Kagura's outburst, she sure knows how to be blunt and rude at the same time. I turn to her, still getting used to the fact that my sister now has pinky scarlet eyes and almost black purple hair.
"Kagura don't you dare start. How could you forget killing all those people, and Naraku, how could you forget all the pain you caused by torturing and killing my friends? Is this some sort of joke to you? You remember; you are just trying to catch me off guard!" I shutter, pain? I know I am not what you might say a model citizen, but I have never killed anyone, and I have certainly never met her before. I look out of the corner of my eye to Kagura who looks stunned and confused.
"Look wench, first of all, address me by Ichiku. Second, you have us confused with some other people. We aren't murders. Now answer my question." I hiss through clenched teeth, giving her a blood chilling glare that renders my fellow classmates unable to speak for a good half hour. However, she is unfazed and continues to knock another arrow, this time pointed at Kagura and as she pulls back the string and lets the arrow fly she looks at me with a malice that could rival everyone's in Tokyo's combined.
"I don't have answer a thing, you murdering spider! You are the worst type of person that crawls this planet and I will rid the earth of you once and for all!" The arrow flies to Kagura, and in response she swats at it with the back of her hand as a reflex and a gale of red wind sweeps from Kagura's body, flinging the arrow useless to the side, rendering Kagome, and Kagura speechless. Kagura smirks maliciously and raises her hand to continue the attack.
"Stop this." calls a feminine monotone voice from behind the tree, and to my surprise I see the psychotic albino girl creep barefoot in her school uniform from behind the tree, her almost black eyes peer aimlessly at the tree of us in a scolding expression. I am completely non-plussed, what in the hell is going on?
"Kanna! You are here too! I'll just finish you all!" the woman with the unruly black hair and chocolate eyes calls. She obviously knows this woman, could this be some set up? I glare to Nameki Kanna for an explanation, while Kagura seethes watching the young teen get between her and the annoying girl with the bow and arrows.
"These two people and I are not who we seem. We are reincarnations. Foolish girl." She announces the fact as if she were stating that the sky is blue. Reincarnations? What on earth is going on here? Then things started to fall into place, the dreams of the warring states era, transforming into youkai, the girls obvious hatred of Kagura and I, but never meeting her before, and the questions she asked. She obviously thinks that we were the people who murdered some people in the past. I turn to the girl in the sea foam green outfit and she lowers her bow just slightly.
"Reincarnations? Why were they reincarnated! They are evil, vile disgusting people! What purpose could…they……possibly…." Her voice trailed off into an inaudible murmur, which is quite interesting considering that I can hear and feel almost anything. then she walks over quite confidently to me and stands a few feet from my face, her large brown eyes twinkling in a pensive state.
"If you are really a reincarnation, then you would know the answer to this question, who is the Prime Minsister of Japan?" I roll my eyes and fight the urge to backhand her across the face for insulting my intelligence, but if it will shut her up and get us out of some really nasty trespassing violations then ill answer. My black wavy, almost curly hair floats in Kagura's breeze and for a moment, I feel that this woman standing in front of me in the breeze is less loathing than first anticipated.
"Do not insult my intelligence stupid witch. Yoshiro Mori is the prime minister and the emperor is Akihito, now answer my question." My eyes burn a lucid color red and she backs off confusedly, happy and irritated at the same time, she looks to Kagura, who is busy figuring out the red wind she can create, and the stoic face of kanna staring blankly at her.
"I'm Higurashi Kagome, and the rest about your past I can tell you on the way." She picked up her bow and then proceeded to put on her enormous yellow backpack. She turns and walks away from me to an old well house and I quirk an eyebrow at kagura who just shrugs, mouthing 'crazy ass bitch'. However, Kanna begins to follow the crazy bitch, Kagome to the well house and I watch them in utter disbelief.
"Do you actually believe that I would follow you anywhere? You presume too much, I'm leaving." I turn, Kagura turning as well, she isn't the type to hang around crazy people like her any more than I am. Still, what about this new power?
"Aren't you curious, I mean about your new powers, I saw you guys transform just now outside my window. You guys are both Hanyou now." I narrow my eyes, I am a half-bred thing now? I snort and fold my arms to my chest, it figures that we wouldn't be fully youkai. Unbeknownst to me, my body begins to follow this crazy girl into the well house with Kanna by my side silent as ever.
"Hanyou…once I figure out how to harness my ability, my yakuza troubles will be a thing of the past." I mutter, clenching and unclenching my fist, manipulating the flesh to become harder, perhaps as hard as steel. A steel hard punch, I could be a boxer.
"Yakuza, so that's who was trying to kill you, how were you involved with the yakuza?" The kagome girl asks in an innocent tone and I merely scoff and glare her down, she tries to defiantly stare back, but she backs down. No one asks about my life and expects and answer, except the few time with Kagura. I look back to see Kagura standing behind me smirking
"Don't let these new powers and my new hair color go to your head, I can still kick your ass big brother." She flashes a fanged grin and I fight the urge to punch her to kingdom come, yet Kagome laughs quietly, an ironic laugh if I dare say.
"C'mon, we are going down there." She points to the well and Kagura and I sweatdrop, we turn to Kanna unexpectedly, who goes up to the well and puts her small white hand on the worn ledge of the well, her almost black eyes were as wide as saucers as she put a dainty foot up on the ledge and then the other to stand on the ledge.
"This was in my vision." Kagome looked at her quizzically and then to us. Kagura shrugged and flipped up onto the well ledge too. To my indefinite surprise, Kanna grabbed Kagura's hand either for support or comfort I will never know, because Kagura didn't shove her hand away, but nor did she return the warm favor. We have never been treated warmly, so Kanna caught Kagura off guard.
"Darn, not a single coin to see, I would have thought at least a few stupid American tourists threw a few down there!" Kagura yelled out, inspecting the bottom of the well. Then an idea came to mind, with a swift motion, I pushed Kanna into the well, Kagura tumbling in after her with her hand clasped.
"You bast—" her voice cut off, and I wouldn't have been surprised if a blue light hadn't engulfed them both and they both vanished from sight. My ice blue lidded eyes became slits of merlot as I glared at the bystander Kagome and I felt my aura rise up around me.
"Where did they go? Was this some sort of trick?" I grabbed her by her shirt collar and shoved her roughly up against the well house with enough force to get the point across that no one crosses Ichiku Naraku and ends up unscathed. Her pained face tries to retain the stubborn fire.
"That's the portal to the past, and I would have told you about it before going in, but you pushed them in you hot head!" She shrilly yelled indignantly. I kept my grip on her shirt and in one fluid motion I jumped in after the strange albino and my stupid sister. The blue light was amazing, I felt like I was floating in a pool of water, but not underwater. And with a thump we both landed on the other side and I automatically felt a wave of familiarity wash over me.
I knew this place.
"Can you let go of me now!" Kagome interjected and I let her go and jumped out of the well, leaving her to climb out on her own. Don't expect any chivalrous acts out of me, especially if you tried to shoot me with an arrow before. I looked around the area, and didn't see Kagura or Kanna. I frowned, to my left I felt a strangely familiar aura, not evil, but a strong one. and that is when I saw a flash of purple and red. My sister was battling someone. In an instant I was at the battle scene where my sister was currently evading blind attacks by a silver haired hanyou with dog ears.
"I told you! I don't know you, I just recognize you!" My sister gasps out in between dodges and throws another volley of red wind at the silver haired hanyou who manages to dodge it and attacks again, almost taking off Kagura's arm with a devastating blow. She is flung back into a tree and immediately regains her footing, standing with support from the tree. Weaponless and with unknown powers and untrained, she won't win this battle, yet I continue to watch from the sidelines, like I care if she gets hurt.
"What a load of bullshit! You know who I am, you tried to kill me and somehow you are back! Now it's payback time!" He lifts up his almost oversized sword and brings it down to the ground with a loud thump. Yellow wind like ki emits from the sword as he simultaneously screams "Kaze no Kizu!". That's when I realized that Kagura was in trouble, but I was too far away to help in any way. I just had to watch my sister get annihilated by some stranger.
"No fucking way!" Kagura's eyes glow a threatening red and she puts her hands out, palms facing the silver haired idiot, the base of the palms touching with fingers facing left and right horizontally. When the Kaze no Kizu struck the seemingly defenseless Kagura, the attack was thrown to either side of her, causing no damage at all to her body. Inuyasha was slightly confused as he stood there.
"I am a reincarnation you stupid bastard! I only recognize you from my nightmares; you tried to kill me too! So don't get all self righteous on me, I hate people like that." Kagura paused in her tirade, looking at the other Hanyou who lowered his sword slightly and began to walk towards Kagura. He stopped halfway and looked into the fiery red eyes of Kagura framed by her violet bangs held back in a short high pony tail.
"Personally, I don't give a rats ass if you are a reincarnation or not, you are still gonna die." The silver haired hanyou announced who took another offensive stance. Kagura was just about to unleash another backhand of the razor wind when the girl Kagome came running out from behind me of breath to the battle scene.
"Inuyasha sit!" and immediately the hanyou Inuyasha plummeted to the ground leaving Kagura wide eyed and laughing. I simply shrugged it off, what do I care the relationship between this Inuyasha and this girl, he has never been in any one of my nightmares. Though I already knew that Kagura's nightmares and mine differ slightly. She would always describe two males, one she could see the face, amber eyes and dog ears, the other was simply a glowing white figure and the only reason why she knew he was a male was by the deep sound of his cold voice.
"Kagome! What was that for, don't you see, this is Kagura the wind witch, she is back! I wouldn't be surprised if Naraku and the others were back too." Inuyasha jumped from the small crater he unwillingly created as I saw my queue and stepped into the clearing, wearing a dissatisfied sneer.
"Will you shut up? Your voice is quite irritating." My claret eyes gorged into his amber ones like sais into honey. He took a half-step back before regaining his lost composure, his eyes narrowed into slits and he bared his fangs and readied his sword. I simply stood; I haven't done a thing to piss this hanyou off. What is with these people anyway, who was I in the past that required so much malice to refer to? I didn't really care; I didn't come here to find out who I was before I was born. I came here to hone my skills.
and of course, to make sure that Kagura wasn't dead, she could be a useful sparring partner.
"Why you son of a fucking bitch I'll slice you to ribbons!" He charged at me, his eyes glowing an electric shade of yellow when the girl Kagome put herself between me and Inuyasha. Her arms were spread out wide and Inuyasha's eyes went from slits to circles in a mere second as he slowed down. His confusion and irritancy was quite evident.
"Inuyasha, look at them, they aren't the same, they aren't evil reincarnates. I didn't believe it at first, but just read their jaki, it just doesn't seem evil! And look, obviously Kagura isn't the same!" Kagome protested loudly, her high pitched voice reverberated against the trees.
"This has to be some sort of trick! Obviously he brought Kagura back from the dead, and he is masking his jaki, it's that simple. Kagome, don't fall for their tricks!" Inuyasha yelled back, and I was beginning to get bored, Kagura stood next to the tree, with Kanna now who found someone who looked a bit familiar. He was a young boy with freckles, and hair that was tied back, he also had a skin tight black uniform and a throwing sickle.
"I saw them transform into Hanyous in my time! Believe me Inuyasha, I don't want to believe they are good either, but think about it, they are the closest shot we have to finding the shi—the you-know-what!" By that time, I lost interest in Inuyasha completely, and Kagome's voice seemed just like a background noise as I stepped slowly towards the boy who seemed to be very wary of me.
"You look familiar boy…Who are you?" I spoke in a cold voice, but before he could answer, I felt something very fast come up from behind me. I looked to Kagura and her red eyes were wide in fright and all she had time to do was point before I whipped around to see what it was. I turned around just in time to see a silvery haired man shoot from the sky with his claws out stretched out before him streaming an acidic green poison.
"Die." the deep cold voice was all that I heard before I crossed my arms in attempt to block the killing blow he delivered.
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