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Chapter Five- Naraku, Reincarnation of Narikiu.
"Give me the dust of my father. Stand on the face of the ancients. Bare the
Secret flesh of time its self."
The light had been dampened, the curtains drawn, even the air held a thick ominous feel to it. Screaming cracked through the walls and echoed off the window glass. Not the type of screaming a dungeon would hold, or the type of tortured pleading. The type that would tear one in half as they listened, one that seemed to utter everything possible to confuse what was real. The kind that was shrilling loud and angry with a hint of misery.
It stabbed the comfort of silence without mercy and dragged its blade sluggishly across an unused chalkboard.
What do I do to ignore them behind me?
Do I follow my instincts blindly?
"What do you mean 'forget it'? You fucking slept with her Dashi!"
"Jasmine, don't start with me! I'm tired, I want to go to bed!"
"No! We need to talk about this! You do this every time I turn my back! That slut is pregnant because of you!"
"I don't give a shit! It's not any different than what you do, shooting yourself up with morphine! Whenever I go on a trip you're sleeping with some guy from the bar! So don't give me any lectures!"
"You bastard!"
The heavy echo of flesh gravitating toward flesh resounded up the stairs. The teenager stood from his bed, rolling his eyes at the distinctive and weekly sound of his father hitting his mother.
Do I hide my pride from these bad dreams
And give in to sad thoughts that are maddening?
Do I sit here and try to stand it?
His purple eyes stared out the nailed shut window in his dark room, watching as the half moon from the earth hung outside the station, stars littered the outside with a disgusting gleam of happiness. It sickened him to see something so optimistic. He tilted his gaze toward his ceiling, letting time stop for a few seconds as he pulled himself from the reality of the moment.
He knew who he was; he was the reincarnation of the great Narikiu. A half demon so purely evil it was frightening. The dark mans memory had spilled into his mind, filling him to the very core with anger and a grim satisfaction of getting another chance at life to do now what he couldn't before. He had been ten at the time. It was then he realized that he had not really changed much; he never cared for anyone, not even his parents as they slapped each other around and slept with other people or drank. And tonight he was going to further his future. Do something to get out there and take control.
Quietly he weaved down the stairs from his room to reach the front door, where the two could not see him but he paused at his father's deep and threatening tone.
"No, you know who the bastard here is, Jasmine."
Her head shook as she violet eyes widened in horror. She reached at the tall man across from her but he pulled back as if disgusted to have her near him.
"Don't you dare!"
"I think I will."
Or do I try to catch them red - handed?
Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness,
Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness?
The dark haired man turned sharply at the sound of a wooden creak, catching his son in the hallway, hand attached to the front door knob.
Naraku glared at him and straightened up before his father as the gruff man approached. Determined look on his face as his defeated mother lowered herself to the kitchen floor with quiet sobs.
"You want to know the truth, boy?"
Naraku simply stared at him, unmoving in any way.
"You're the real bastard here, you mom there was smashed up at a drunken party and had you before I even came into the picture! I just married the botch for her money. That's the truth."
Naraku raised a brow to the man then glanced at his fallen mother before returning his attention back to Dashi.
"You done now?"
"Yeah."
"Good."
Suddenly Naraku's fist smashed with painful contact to Dashi's face, the unmistakable sound of bone being crushed was heard as the older male tumbled back into the wall. Naraku stared down at him as his mother gasped and ran to aid her husband.
"I already knew that you idiot. And you,"
His cold gaze turned to the woman who conceived him, the very woman her cradled her bleeding, cheating husband and stared at her son with pure hatred. Naraku gave no indication that he cared of how they looked at them as he glanced at the blue metal bat leaning against the wall. He picked the item up, glancing it over as he began to speak to his mother.
"You whore, you were going to leave me out there, by myself to die. To rot in the gutters."
"I didn't want you to grow up without a father! I couldn't raise a baby on my own! Please understand Naraku!"
"I understand that you were stupid enough to let me live, and this ass was stupid enough to stay here."
Because I can't hold on when I'm stretched so thin
I make the right moves but I'm lost within
I put on my daily façade but then
I just end up getting hurt again
With a malicious grin Naraku raised the heavy weapon, watching with ill conceited satisfaction as his mothers arm rose to defend herself as horror spread across the irises that were a mirror of his own. He struck the bat down with perfect form.
"No!"
"Please Inuyasha?"
"I said no damn it! It's enough that I have to wear this stupid hat, I'm not wearing shoes!"
Kagome glared at the annoyed half demon, watching as he tried to adjust the skullcap in a position that wasn't bothering his ears. She sighed, her own annoyance dispersing at the violent show of his uncomfortabl-ness.
Kagome had to commend him though, he had put on the jeans, black wife beater and skullcap with only little fuss and he only needed one 'sit' to convince him.
"Alright then, I suppose it wouldn't hurt anything if ya went around without em. Well come on, we want to get there before the lunch crowd."
She grabbed his hand and dragged the scowling puppy down the stairs of the house, waving to her mother as she stopped at the door to put on her sandals.
"Bye mom! Be back in a few hours!"
"Alright dear, have fun!"
Inuyasha grumbled as they passed the third walk sign, he had almost given up and grabbed the humming girl to throw over his shoulder and just jump over to their destination, that was if she hadn't predicted him so easily and glared at him in advance. She was getting good at reading his emotions.
He had been able to postpone her little voyage to the mall with him for two weeks since she asked him Friday. It sounded okay at first, that was until she mentioned dressing him up in all these clothes he hadn't even heard of and looked small and uncomfortable. Surprisingly though, they weren't. The jeans she gave him expanded pretty good for something that looked rougher than rat fur. And the shirt gave his upper body more air and it showed off his toned muscles, something he had to grin about when Kagome noticed and blushed, stuttering madly because he had taken his inner haori off in front of her.
"Well, this is it. We should be able to find a lot of stuff for you and at a great price."
Inuyasha looked around curiously, racks of more of the strange clothing littered the entire building. Mirrors hung all around the walls and small rooms sat in the back. His brow rose as he sniffed at the area then covered his nose. Kagome blinked at him, touching his arm comfortingly.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?"
"It stinks in here."
"Err…just get in there and pick out some clothes to try on."
She growled and shoved him inside, passed the sliding glass doors that made him jump in surprise, though she did not have to shove when he noticed them and yanked her out of the way in a frenzied hurry.
Kagome blew at the insistent bang that dangled in her eyes. It was taunting her and she knew it. She glared at the offending strand before rolling her eyes as she realized just how childish she was acting and glanced at her watch for the fifth time since the hanyou had gone in the changing room. The door slid open and she snatched her eyes up, blinking in confusion as he walked out in the same clothes he entered the room in.
"What happened? None of them fit?"
"No, they all fit."
"Then why didn't you show me any of them? You know model them?"
He glared at her and shoved the clothes into her arms.
"I'm not a girl!"
"Jeez, if I knew you were that shy I wouldn't have bothered making you try them on."
Inuyasha's eyes snapped wide then glared at her back as she retreated from the argument to the register.
"I am not shy!"
"If you say so…"
"I am not!"
"Card or cash miss?"
"Card."
"Are you even listening to me!"
"Your total is three hundred and forty seven credits. Please sign the receipt."
"Oh, you have a pen?"
Inuyasha growled, his foot tapping in patiently as he stared at the back of her raven head. Clenching tightly to the bags the cashier had placed on the counter.
"Hey!"
"There ya go. Oh and keep the change."
"Thank you miss. Come back soon."
Kagome smiled gently and grabbed the two remaining bags, leading the way out and leaving Inuyasha to follow her, yelling at her from behind.
"Bitch, don't ignore me!"
"I'm not Inuyasha, I can hear you perfectly fine, I'm just not answering you."
"Oi! Well…stop it!"
"Alright then, what was it that you wanted to tell me then?"
The hanyou blinked as he tried to recall the reason why he was striving to get her attention, but for the life of him he couldn't remember.
"Uh… I'm hungry…Yeah! When are we going to eat!"
"well, there's this nice place down the street here, we'll have lunch in there."
He grunted in his usual response, letting Kagome know that he was fine with that idea as long as he got food in his stomach. She smiled as she walked down the sidewalk. She paused in mid step, she had the odd tingling sensation in her stomach, the kind that told her something inhuman was near. Near enough for her to see.
"Oi! Wench why did you stop?"
"I… I feel something."
"Like what?"
He became alert quickly, his eyes darting back and forth from street to small crooks between buildings. Kagome gasped as the feeling of thick and sticky air surrounded her, choking her in its presence, the strong aura that encircled its very being. Strong and dark, filled with a malevolent evil deep within. She became dizzy from the effect of lost oxygen to her lungs and Inuyasha twisted around in time to catch her as the girl searched blindly to hold on to something.
"Kagome! What is it?"
"I don't know, it's so dark, evil. It's like it's choking me. I've never felt anything like this before."
Inuyasha held her against him as he stood back up, keeping her feet planted to the ground as his eyes searched the area around him, his ears listening to the sound of the machine activated air and the other sounds of the city around him.
"Hello… Inuyasha."
I cannot take this anymore
I'm saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
The golden orbs widened in terror at the smooth cold voice that sounded deeply behind him. He turned slowly to face the tall lean figure before him, the mans waist length black hair waved down his back in ripples, his deep purple robes matched the violet of his cold and shallow eyes.
Inuyasha growled at the recognition of his enemy.
"Narikiu! How the hell are you still alive!"
"I'm not Narikiu, I'm the reincarnation of him. I am Naraku."
"You're still the same bastard! I can tell it by looking in your filthy eyes!"
Kagome stiffened, her hands clutching Inuyasha's arms tightly and he glanced down at the girl, keeping his other senses tuned to the man before him.
"Inuyasha, don't pick a fight with him. He's too strong."
"No he isn't. he's just a coward!"
Less I hear the less you'll say
But you'll find that out anyway
Just like before...
Carefully he set Kagome against the building side and stood in fighting stance, hand the hilt resting in its rusty sheath at his waist. Naraku grinned wickedly before Inuyasha growled darkly and jumped at the despicable demon, sword drawn and slicing down, but Naraku evaded the attack with a root reaching out from under his robes and striking the demon in the stomach, throwing him into the lamp post across the street. Violet eyes turned to the young unarmed miko staring from the injured Inuyasha to him.
"Inuyasha!"
Kagome glared at the demon and stood. Preparing to lash out at him when his hand snaked out with a vicious speed and attached to her throat, yanking her toward him quickly.
Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
"Kikyo…"
Kagome coughed under the pressure and opened her squinted eyes to stare at Naraku.
"No… not Kikyo… you are her reincarnation are you not?"
"I'm not…telling you anything!"
"A shame, you hardly match the power Kikyo had, but that is not the reason I have returned. I have come for the jewel. Give it to me."
Kagome dug her nails deeply into his skin, trying to pry him away from her vital point so she could regain some oxygen into her collapsing lungs.
"No!"
"Then I'll kill you before I take it!"
Her blue eyes widened in horror before squinting in preparation of the blow she knew to be coming.
"Put. Her. Down!"
The angry growl rattled through the air as the hanyou came slicing down with his sword, the weapon began to glow a deep red, smoke surrounding the blade until it suddenly transformed, becoming a larger newer killing weapon. But the hanyou took no notice to the effect as he dropped it down on the surprised Naraku. The creature was quickly split in half, the two halves shriveling like dry and wasted tree roots before becoming brown dust and leaving a twig with a black string wrapped around it, split in half.
The sword returned to it's rusted and useless state once the threat was over, Kagome held her throat as she stared at the pile on the cement.
"That…that wasn't him…"
"What!"
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
A/N- I know that this story's writing hasn't been up to par with my latest ones but that's because this is an earlier story that i had saved to my comp. The chapters after this one though, I swear, will be much more better and as good as my one-shots.
Mwahahaha!…whatever…. Dun Dun Dun DUNNNNN! Reviewies please!