Blizzard: Crash and Burn

By Archerelf

Like I own Inuyasha. Sure….and I invented chocolate and the flying pig air squad!

Chapter 6- Requiem for a Dream, part Two

Brown. Brown mud and dirt streaked the blackness of Kagome's hair. Black. What Kagome thought she was experiencing. Red and Green. What you actually saw as she tumbled, due to cruel gravity to the ground below. Red and White, the colors of a protecting hanyou that jumped off the cliff into a free fall in order to save something he almost lost. Aren't colors great?

In all seriousness, Kagome's wide spectrum of encounters with the illusionary were every bit as terrifying and vivid as Inuyasha's were. They were real. They had to be. Time travel is a tricky and real looking as ever. The Verisimilitude in it is simply astounding. Kagome's familiar well traveling feelings were surfacing. Whenever she traveled back 500 years or so, she felt a accustomed tingle run a marathon through her body. Now, it felt cold and foreign; a bodily invader. A total mind Hijack. And a total eclipse of good life she used to posses. Before slipping into darkness, a tiny smile crossed her face. She remembered him. And now, she was going to die.

(authors notes: she thinks shes going to die and never see Inuyasha again. As if I would let that happen.)

Kagome could be described as tough. Balancing past, present and Inuyasha was a huge responsibility. She had fought countless demons with the crew and threw in some math in the meanwhile. Tough. Battle-scared. But with every human with sickness, a physical and mental mentality crossed herself. She was falling further from him. And there was nothing she could do but wait and land.

Naraku, back in his rat hole, chuckled sadistically. With one of them free from his grasp, there was no telling how badly he would torture the other. The girl would break . She was sick, weak and human. Nothing could hold out that long of a time with this type of burden suffocating her heart and befuddling her brain. He silently cursed himself for not making the ledge weaker. After he had earlier placed her on the rigged cliff the evil half demon had knelt down beside the besieged girl . In a sudden fit of rage, he backhanded the already unconscious girl to falling position. He felt a mental tug upon his brain. Inuyasha. The half breed didn't know when to give up, did he?

Of course not. And as the mental control of the unconscious miko tightened to a rigidly taut state, a silver haired, amber eyed half demon was streamlining his body down a cliff after his ramen providing, sit enforcing, dark haired reincarnation. He couldn't even imagine what was going on in her head.

Sirens. Red, blue, white screeching sirens. Sirens never mean anything good can come out of the situation. Sirens mean emergency. Sirens, simply put, mean death. Torrents of rain mixed with the blood stains on the ground, the running mascara on Kagome's mother's face and the greasy oil slicks formed by the two cars. Kagome had landed in the middle of the highway. What she thought she had suppressed forever had of course back again. And once again, she saw her dead fathers remains being pulled from a fiery mess. His neck had snapped, his spinal cord was demolished and with all the glass embedded in his face, dental records were one of the few ways to identify him, other than the gold band hanging from his severely broken fingers. At that exact moment, Kagome's mother fell to the ground. She remained comatose for the next two weeks. Kagome just sat down on the sidewalk. She had stayed there all night crying. Her daddy was gone, forever.

In the midst of a freefall, Kagome's body gave a distinguished shudder. Just as he caught her lifeless body he felt it rupture through her entire being. Good thing it wasn't snowing here. 'constant temperatures were a must' he reasoned as he nimbly landed outside of the tomb. It was its own little world.

Kagome's own little world was dissolving too. Into her own little world of night. Constant night. She wasn't going to wake up for a while. Her mothers streaming face remained a picture amidst the freefalling chaos. 5 words that had been sealed away in the back of her mind surfaced.

"Why did you leave me?"

Cradling the seemingly sleeping girl in his arms, Inuyasha thought he heard a few word escape from her mouth. It sounded like….Why….leave...me…?

"Kagome, I will never leave you. I swear it."

Her body was a mess. The white of her shirt was almost nonexistent now, only a faded gray and mud streaks lined it. A tiny blot of blood had made its way from her face downwards to a spot just above her breast. Her hair was tangled and dirt encased. She needed desperately, a good rinse cycle. And while his thoughts rested on her exterior welfaire, her brain was screaming for relief.

Instead of pavement, a cave floor found its way into her mind. Naraku smiled evilly.

"Lets see how she handles trust being ripped apart from her so called friend."

A cave floor. Littered with what? Skins… She was in Kouga's lair. Her body, especially lower, personal areas felt sore. Looking down at her arms she saw scratches and blood. Her mind put two and two together….

"Oh my God. I was raped by Kouga…. How could he do this to me?"

Bruising wasn't the only thing she saw. Her arms were tied together to prevent running. Kouga stepped into the room, with a mad look in his eye.

"Haven't had enough yet?"

With that final statement Kagome's mind started screaming. Screaming and sobbing.

" I trusted you! You were my friend! Why? Why did you do this…?"

"You were supposed to be mine. Now you are. And no pathetic half breed will save you now."

The illusion faded out. Kagome felt tired, nay, exhausted. She needed to cry badly with the heartbreak she just went through. And it was all real. All of it. Shadows clouded her thought, jamming logical thought.

On it went.

Without end.

With every landing a new beginning of pain and misapprehension besieged her body. On the outside of her cranial cavity, Inuyasha could only sit back and dress her wounds. He planted a kiss on her forehead. If she never woke up, she would die. Her mind would eat away at her conscious being. Her heart would fail, organs shrivel and if she never woke up, Inuyasha would die. She trembled slightly with a small frown replacing the normal smile on her lips. God only knows the horrors she felt.

What actually plagued Kagome was too numerous to count. Occasionally she saw her mom. She'd see Sango and Miroku leaving her, Shippo crying in their arms. The ones with Kikyo were the worst. She was the subject of being pinned to the tree. The pain had been worse than if she had been actually struck with the tip and the shaft. One she saw with herself as a child. Her friends had left her all alone. It had been raining. Little Kagome didn't know what to do. So, instead of running after them, she sunk down into the mud, letting its gooey coldness embrace her bare legs. And she cried. The rain soaked her hair and jacket, chilling her to her very core. She had no friends. She had no father. Her life was worthless.

In the midst of a descent into a unknowingly final freefall Kagome could hardly stand herself. All the pain inside of herself, only amplified by a spell was killing her. But as Inuyasha hadn't seen her, she hadn't seen him. He could set her free or set her mind off in a cataclysmic domino effect that would seal her fate. It all seems real when you can't control your mind.

'Its so real…Go away…just go…stop hurting me…'

On the outside Kagome was being carried. A strong set of arms were carrying her over to a small stream which formed a small but moderately deep pool. Casting off the red haori, he lowered them both into the pool. The water quickly rose to his waist. Supporting her head with his left arm, his right arm grabbed hold of a chunk of fabric around his wrist and pulled it free. Soaking it, he rinsed her face with the cloth and watched as some grime was rinsed by the white shirt. His pants, still encompassing her legs, were saturated. Her hair just seemed to flow in the water. It was cool, refreshing but the half demon took little notice. He just wanted her to wake up.

Kagome's mind seemed to black out and spiral into back flips. The pain from the arrow had been so real. Her uniform was stained in that spot with blood. The illusionary blood loss was perceived as a slow death in her eyes.

Red. Deep fire engine red. That's all she saw. Red: the color of blood. Red: the color of love. Red: the color of ultimate loss. It was like her earlier dream in the cave. They were all there. Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Inuyasha. Her Inuyasha. But one by one the seemingly perfect picture went astray. One by one, her friends burst into wounds. Sango first, then Miroku. Shippo gave a tiny shuddering cry as he bled . Then, those three faded out to darkness. Just leaving Inuyasha.

Kagome reached out to him. Within an inch of her touch blood burst forth from him, shattering his entire body with gaping wounds. They weren't closing and his red clothes deepened with the extensions of blood lost.

"Kagome…you killed me….you killed them all…I hate you…"mumbled the half demon.

"NONONONONONONO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! Just leave me alone…!" she sobbed.

Naraku laughed. She was breaking..

"Inuyasha don't do this to me! You promised me! You said you wouldn't never say you hated me. YOU PROMISED ME! YOU PROMISED! This can't be real….it just can't be. Bring me back to life…"

Naraku sat back. She too was testing him. A bright pink light shown through the orb he had been using for his experiments. As soon as the solitary spark touched it, the orb exploded, knocking him unconscious.

Kagome stirred, making ripples in the water. Inuyasha looked down incredulously, as he held her. Kagome's eyes fluttered open and she immediately saw silver.

"Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha didn't say anything. He just kept holding her, making everything alright.

Ok

I'm putting this to you. I could do one more chapter on fluff and what happened to Naraku

Or

Two plus more chapters I could squeeze out of it.

After this I'm moving onto Mirror Mirror.

I plan to do at least one more chapter for this one. Admittedly, I couldn't make her's as vivid as his…sorry but hey I've been busy two.

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