Music in the Night
By Reverberating Silence
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Inuyasha, or anything like that. I'd love to get my hands on Tsubasa too…but, I fear nothing is mine…yet. :Cackles evilly: Oh, and I also don't own Evanescence!
Music in the Night
Chapter Six Paper Flowers
Kagome flew through her house, crying as she did so. She knew he was behind him, she knew he was coming for her. She also knew she should've expected him to be like this. Ever since they had first met, Kagome got the eeriest of feelings that the boy was someone she shouldn't mess with.
And yet she had, she had become his friend…his close friend at that. She had been too innocent, at the dear age of thirteen. The age where life flipped upside down and sent everyone who entered the unlucky number into a year of torture and confusion. She had fallen prey to such a curse. And the outcome of it all was banging at her front door.
She stood cowering in her kitchen, trying to get the phone in her hands but gave up when all she did was fumble it around. There was no one that could help her now anyway. It had been years since this first started. But she had been to blind to realize it. He had been nearly five years older than her, but she never thought twice about it.
Tears ran down her face as she remembered all they had been through. She thought back to the past they had shared together for the last four years. The close times, the silences that were appreciated, the fun explorations they shared. All of it had blinded her to what he really was. All of it had caused her to forget that one shard of evil that had imbedded itself in the young man's heart.
The banging stopped and Kagome looked up. Her eyes were wide with fear. Surely he wouldn't give up, she knew he was too desperate. Suddenly, she heard thumping on the roof. She screamed and ran to her bedroom, locking the door tight. It was now that she wished more than ever that they had bought a two-story house.
"That demon! Coming down the chimney of all things! He's too DESPERATE!" she cried, beating her head with her fists. "It's all my fault. They warned me. HE warned me! Why didn't I listen to any of them!" She let out anguished cries as she finally stopped beating herself. She looked at the bedroom door, seeing the knob being jerked.
"No…" she whispered, her voice hoarse from the cries. "NO! INUYASHA!"
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He opened his eyes and smiled down at her. She was laying on the grass talking to him, sitting right next to him, smiling with him. He had never felt such a strong peace before. Sure, he had other friends. But she was so special to him, so precious. He couldn't lose her, he never wanted to. He may seem selfish, but that's all he really wanted.
"Kagome," He whispered, tapping on her shoulder lightly. "Kagome, open your eyes. Look at me."
Kagome giggled and complied, her deep mocha eyes looking up into his own. "What is it, Inuyasha?" She felt so comfortable in his gaze, not like most other guys. She knew it had to be because Inuyasha was her best friend, and they had been together so long she didn't think twice about him looking at her.
"I know you're moving soon," he mumbled, looking down. The grin on Kagome's face fell. Why did he have to bring up such a sore topic? "Kagome, you know I'll miss you right?" She nodded slowly as he gazed at her with sorrow evident in his piercing violet eyes. She knew he had more to say, so she dared not to speak a word.
"I'm just scared that when you leave, you'll find someone better than me. You'll get a new best friend, maybe even a boy friend. I might possibly be tossed in your mind as just a fading memory. And…and it honestly scared me." He finally looked back up at her, having dropped his eyes when he felt his own tears. He took her hand in his, causing to look at him softly.
"What do you want from me, Inuyasha?" Kagome mumbled, tightening her own grip upon his hand.
"I want a promise from you," He whispered. "And I will promise the same thing. Promise me that you'll be by my side one day again. No matter what! Promise me that when we meet again, you'll have a spot saved for me in your life." He looked down, a few tears slipping from his eyes. "Promise me I'll be in your heart forever."
Kagome's face broke into a watery smile, tears finally escaping. Tears she had held in for what seemed like a lifetime. She quickly drew her hand away from Inuyasha's, replacing it by wrapping her pinky finger around his. "Inuyasha, I promise it and I swear it! No matter what you'll always have a special place in my heart and in my daily life."
Inuyasha smiled at her as well, pulling her into a tight and warm hug. "Then I promise you the same thing. No other girl in my life will ever be thought about the way I think of you."
Kagome smiled at his words and wrapped her arms around him, resting her head on his shoulder. She would see her friend again, she would see him if it was the last thing she would ever do.
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The door finally gave away under his strong grip, and Kagome fled to the opposite wall. She tried to pry open the window but a strong hand firmly pulled her away. She was thrown onto the floor and she could feel the boy pressing his foot into her stomach.
"Please, don't do this," she whimpered, tears pouring out of her eyes. The reply she received was a harsh laugh, a deep laugh that reverberated on her walls in an evil manner.
"Oh for God's sake, don't pull this on me. You KNEW this day would come," He said dryly, pressing his foot harder into her mid-section. "Everyone warned you, even your damn boyfriend warned you! You didn't listen, you got close. And now you have to suffer. How could you leave me?" By this time he had dropped to his knees and jerked her head to face him by pulling her hair.
He did not let her out of his grasp. Rather, he pulled her closer and wrapped one arm around her. "Sweet little Kagome, so innocent and beautiful. I was one blessed demon to have you come into my life. And now that I have you in it, I will NEVER let you leave."
Kagome whimpered and tried to pull away, but found it to be useless. Instead, she tried to talk reason into him. "Please, please stop! It's not my fault. My father has died and my mother has to move in order to sustain our family. I have a new baby brother who needs to be taken care of! If we don't find a suitable place to live he may die. Please understand my situation."
He spat in her face, jerking her head towards him again. "That's all bull, and I know it. You're leaving to get away from me. You've set up a way to escape and go off with another man. You're leaving me for someone else! How could you! How could you possibly betray me like that? After all that we've been through together!" He let out a cry and threw her back down to the ground. Walking across the room he stepped through the doorway.
"No matter. I will let you go, Kagome. But, believe me when I say that I'll be back." And then he was gone. Kagome sat up, huddled on the floor. How could she possibly leave the safety of her friends and home town when she had that threat upon her shoulders. Surely she would never forget such a harsh moment in her life. Surely there would be no other way. She was doomed. She was doomed to face the harsh truth that her life had been pulled by strings, and she would continue to be a puppet for the rest of her life.
She let fresh tears run down her face. Wrapping her arms around herself, she rested her head on her knees and whispered a soft, "Oh, Inuyasha…"
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Inuyasha looked up in surprise. His good friend Kouga stood before him with a sad look in his eyes. "You can't be serious, Kouga! Tell me you're lying!" Inuyasha sounded desperate, but Kouga didn't seemed swayed.
"Yes, Inuyasha, Kagome is in the hospital. I went to bid farewell to her family, only to find that they were in the South Odaiba Emergency Hospital. Her dear mother was petrified. Supposedly, someone broke into the Higurashi residence and attacked Kagome. And then, Kagome led herself to suicide."
Inuyasha fell back against the wall, sliding down it. "Oh my God…Kagome…" He looked up at Kouga, tears threatening to spill. "Why? Suicide? Kouga, are you sure it was suicide?"
Kouga nodded, leaning forward to stare at Inuyasha directly. "I am positive. I visited her as well, and just as her mother and the doctors had said she only remembers one face. One face and voice, that causes her to scream in anguish."
Inuyasha stared at his friend wildly. "Then…she has amnesia? My God! What the hell happened to her! I've got to see her!" He stood up abruptly, ready to make it way to the hospital and see Kagome. To comfort her, see if she knew who he was.
"I think not!" Kouga cried, shoving Inuyasha back against the wall. His voice was dark, and his eyes even darker. When he spoke his voice was so low Inuyasha wasn't even sure he was the same person. "I know it was you. Higurashi-dono spoke to Kagome about you. She bursts into tears and screamed, as if in pain. She drove herself mad thinking of you. YOU did something to her! I wouldn't dare let you in that room, and neither will anyone else. You sick bastard, it's all your fault!" He punched Inuyasha, who stared at him in shock.
"You think I did this! Kagome was my best friend. Why would I drive her to suicide! What on earth do you possibly think I would do!" Inuyasha was hurt. Kagome remembered him, but in a painful way. Did she not remember all the tender moments they had together? Did she not remember the way he would comfort her when she was sad or ill? Why did his name frighten her? Why did she want to not think of him.
Kouga broke him out of these thoughts by grabbing his collar. "Don't even play dumb with me, I know it was you. You're the only one with a house key to the Higurashi home, and you're the only one that would be allowed to get close enough to Kagome to hurt her! You're sick, and that's the end of it." Kouga threw Inuyasha to the ground with one last warning glare. He stormed away from the crying mess he left behind, satisfied by what he had accomplished.
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She had enough of all the pain he had put her through in the last few days. She had grown sick of being thrown around. Sure, she was moving, and sure she would never see him again. But then again, he said he would find her. He would get her back. That scared her more than anything else she had even come in contact with.
She finally decided she wouldn't handle it, she would leave. She would leave in her own way, a way that no one else would be able to follow. She would leave the same dimension all of her friends were in, she would leave her body an empty shell. She would leave all of her loved ones behind for the sake of her sanity. She knew it was selfish, but she saw no other way.
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clocks, screaming monsters
Calling my name
Let me stay, where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they're falling
Tell a story
She smiled softly and made her way over to her desk. This was it, her final goodbye. Her final letter. She ended up writing two. One was a simple letter addressed to all of her friends and family. A simple explanation of the fact that she could no longer go on living in constant fear. She gave away no names, hoping that no one would do anything after she had departed.
After writing the letter however, she found that she was unsatisfied, as if she needed to do one more thing. And then it hit her. She quickly picked up and pen and wrote one final note that explained the same thing the other did, but deeper and had one line in it that the rest didn't. One line that meant everything she had ever felt. One thing that would shine over the fear she felt constantly, and the betrayal that her best friend had caused her. She had written "I love you".
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I'd lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
And then she left her room, she left her house, she left her street. She made her way to the docks near the end of her neighborhood. She then crossed one of the many piers and sat down at the end. She had always loved the place. At sunset it would always melt her heart, taking any stress, pain, or fear along with it. It was her sanctuary, and the perfect place to rid herself of the harsh reality she had to face.
Slowly, after many long minutes of reliving her life until that point, Kagome stood up with tears sliding down her pale cheeks. Her hair flew carelessly behind her as the ocean wind picked up. This was the most beautiful place to ever see one fall. Even if death was a cruel and harsh thing, her empty body would look beautiful in the sun that would begin it's descend in only mere hours.
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this ramped chaos, your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world
To escape
Kagome smiled up at the heavens, thanking God one last time for the lovely life she had lived. And cursing him for condemning her to a horrid future. She then thanked him one last time for the chance to finally rid herself of the future, and for providing the perfect opportunity to do so.
With these final thoughts she lifted a gun to her head, no note of fear inside of her. She felt a strange peace as the cold metal of her father's gun caressed her flesh. It was a soothing touch, almost as if fingers were running through her long locks in a loving manner. Kagome could have it no other way.
She placed her hand on the trigger and looked up at the sky, intending for it's orange and red beauty to be the last thing she ever say. The trigger was halfway pulled when a voice yelled out. Kagome swore she missed her shot, but fell unconscious onto the wood below her.
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Higurashi-dono, also known as Kagome's mother or Kameko, sat at her daughter's side. She had never thought to be in a hospital under these conditions. Her beloved daughter, her pride and joy, had been darker than anyone had thought. Her sweet child had tried to rid herself of an unknown plague by ending it all.
Kameko let out an anguished cry as she saw her daughter's chest barely heaving. She did not know if her daughter would live, nor did the doctors. Lucky for them a young sailor has found Kagome in the midst of her suicide plan, causing her to slip up. Yet, the gun wound was still severe and they could only do but so much.
Finally, after long hours of waiting, Kameko found her prayers to be answered. Her daughter began to stir, and her eyes fluttered open. They looked dull and scared. Finally she turned her eyes to her mother, who was smiling with tears in her eyes.
"M…mother?" the girl said, uncertain. "You are my mother, aren't you?"
Kameko let out a cry and pulled her child close, as any mother would do after being in a state of so much fear. "Oh my darling girl, yes I am your mother! I was so scared for you, Kagome."
"Kagome," she mumbled, letting the feel of the name run across her tongue. "I take it that's my name."
Kameko looked at her child. "You…you do not know your name?" Fear was evident in her eyes and fresh tears of horror began to slide down her face.
Kagome shook her head. "No. And I know nothing of why I am here. All I remember is such a sad feeling, a horrible sadness. I know I have no father, and I have a baby brother. But, I do not remember anything else. I can't place any names with the faces I see."
Her mother let out a wail and went to find the doctors. Kagome was quickly diagnosed with partial amnesia. After fully waking up, she remembered her last name to be Higurashi, she remembered her birthday on December ninth, and she remembered very few other details.
She could now be seen with Kameko telling her all about her friends. Kouga and all the others who had ever been through her life. Kagome began to place the new names with the faces imbedded in her mind. Finally, Kameko got to one name that Kagome wished she did not recall…ever.
"And my dear, your closest friend was by the name of Inuyasha." Kagome's face paled more so than it already was, and she began to cry.
"My dear, do you remember? Do you remember Inuyasha?" It was then that Kagome screamed, covering her ears and willing herself aloud to forget the name. Kameko was scared beyond reasoning. She fled the room in search of a nurse or doctor.
Finally, the calmed Kagome by putting her to sleep. The nurse pulled the needle out of the girl's arm and apologized to Kameko. The doctor pondered the reaction, and then remembered the letter they had found. One letter that the dear Kagome had left in her room before the suicide attempted.
"Higurashi-dono, I fear that this Inuyasha person may be what drove Kagome to suicide. I would advise her not to see him. Not for a while, if ever." Kamiko nodded gravely, not believing that her daughter's best friend had done such a horrid thing.
The move took place sooner than planned, without any warning given to Inuyasha or his family. Kagome was out of his life forever, and she had been taken there behind his back.
Kagome awoke with a start. Her dreams had been growing longer and more in depth as November closed into the ending of the year. But, as always, the dreams would fade when she was fully into reality.
She looked around herself, mummbling softly, still half asleep. "What…what did the other letter say? Where did it go?" With that she fell back asleep, her dreams filled with black and red roses made of paper.
Songs:
Imaginary-Evanescence
Yes, this chapter was indeed a flashback chapter. And it is most important for the plot. And, hopefully it confused the crap out of you! Because, that's what I was trying to get at. This will definantly cause some disaray in later chapters, so be ready! Mwahaha! Oh, and Kagome's mother's name means "a symbol for long-life". I thought it sounded good with Higurashi in front of it, and I loved what it meant. I made up the hospital, for I was far too lazy to look into real Japanese hospitals in Odiaba. And finally, in the next chapter Inuyasha get's a good beating from Miroku and Kouga. What did he do to deserve it? And how pissed did he get by it? SORRY FOR THE LANGUAGE IN THIS CHAPTER! Review Responses:
Inuayshangel- ehehe, it rocks to see that I've got you thinking! I love making people think. And you've come up with some pretty good ideas as to what is going on with Inuyasha. I congradulate you on that. But as you know, I can't tell you if you are right or wrong. You'll just have to stick around! I'm glad I gave you good Phantom dreams, good Phantom filled dreams are some of the best out there! And yes, I have read your story. I don't know if I've reviewed, if not I'll be sure to do so. But, I have read it! It's really good! Thank you for saying my plot is great :blushes: I wouldn't say that, but the readers' opinion is what matters. Thank you again! I hope this chapter was enjoyable.
ChinaWings- ehehehe, I would LOVE to know what you think is going on! pouty face And I'm sure the other readers won't mind. For all they know, you could be wrong. 'Cuz even if you do get it right, I won't tell you until the end. lol. I am glad that you're thinking about it though. I'm hoping that this chapter throws you off though, so let me know! .
NBKitty- Oh my word, thank you so much for your comment! It was so sweet and had so much praise in it. :blushes: It was really nice. I know Inuyasha is creepy and cruel, but if you wait around you'll find that he kinda has a right to be acting that way. Or does he:giggles: Like I said, stick around and see. Thank you so much again for the comments, I love you for it:tackle hugs:
Catkin Blossom- ehehe, I confused you? Yey! Then so far the mission is going well. I want to confuse people so at the end they're like "OOOOHH!" I'm hoping people won't get smart on me and figure it out, ehehe. And yes, I'm hiding something. And as of late I've been cackling a lot. Even in real life people find me cackling, I'm not quite sure why though. I think I just need to get out more often. I'm going nuts. Japanese schools I also believe to be weird, but I'm afraid I can't really explain how they work. I did a paper on them last year, but I think I totally forgot everything. All I know is that they go all year around, and their breaks are way shorter than ours. They also have much longer days, and most students participate in cram classes that are as late at ten! I would HATE having that much school! lol. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter and hope it threw you off. (not to be mean) lol!
Siderous- lol! Thank you for saying so. And yes, I do believe Christine should've stayed with Erik, plastic surgery or not. Personally, I would find it more endearing if she stayed with him even IF his face could never be changed. But, yeah, I wrote a fanfic with my friend about Erik getting plastic surgery. lol. Good times. And, I revised the ending just for you! It's still a LITTLE sad if you look at it from one perspective, but it's definantly more happy than sad. I did it just for you too! I hope I don't dissapoint you with it. . And I read your story! yey! I don't know if my review went through or not because my computer has been all wacked out today. So, if it didn't: I really like the first two chapters! I can't wait to see what else happens! --breif summary of what I wrote. It was really good! I haven't read Spirited Away fics in forever! lol. I look foward to seeing more. Thank you so much for your awesome reviews, they're appreciated.
Thanks to all who's been reading and reviewing. I hope to have Chapter 7 up soon! Reviews will make it come faster! lol, I sound so selfish.
Obediently Yours,
R.S.
