Chapter 9: Let it End
"HOW COULD YOU!" Kagome screamed. "HOW COULD YOU PUT PILLS INTO MY FOOD AND NOT TELL ME!"
Miroku turned his head from the blow to look down at the frail Kagome who stood there her face twisted in emotional pain and anger. Miroku's left cheek was burning from the blow and he looked down at Kagome who held the hand she used to slap him which obviously experienced a sting from the slap. "You…hit…me…" Miroku whispered in shock. Inuyasha, and Miroku looked shocked and Toru had a sad smile on his thin pale face.
"You were my cousin! And you drugged me! You would always tell me you checked the food to make sure it was the cleanest you could get; you would give it to me, knowing that you had tainted it! HOW COULD YOU!" Kagome screamed again.
Miroku recovered from the shock finally and glared defensively at Kagome. "I had to do it! You would never have taken it if you knew you had to take drugs to remain balanced!"
"You never gave me the CHOICE to take it or not! You're a monster! You even got your girlfriend, MY EX-BEST FRIEND to help you. What was her job, to crush the pills into my drink at sleepovers!" tears slipped down her cheeks as she stepped back from Miroku.
Miroku looked away ashamed. "We would have told you eventually…"
"When! When you had me committed!" Inuyasha's eyes widened at this and Kagome looked at him sharply as if sensing his shock. "That's right! I heard Miroku and his parents talking, they were going to commit me before I turned 18! They pretended to care, allowing me to go through high school even though in the end they knew I was going to end up in an asylum…"
"That isn't true! We wanted you to go threw schooling so that if you were ever cured you would have something to stand on in the real world!"
"Oh? So that is why you didn't want Inuyasha trying to help me?" Kagome asked sarcastically.
"No! I didn't want Inuyasha helping you because last time we tried to cure you, you developed schizophrenia! We didn't want it to get worse!" Miroku yelled.
"So I was just to get better on my own?" Kagome looked down at the ground. "I never ASKED you to help me when I was six-years-old, I ASKED Inuyasha to help me! You had no place interfering in anything in my life when you saw no problem in lying to me and drugging me! You're dead to me Miroku! I hate you!" Kagome suddenly ran from the room. Inuyasha watched her pass by him out the door and Miroku followed her.
"Kagome!" Miroku yelled. Inuyasha moved to follow them but as he tried to walk out of the door Kaoru came out of no where and pushed the hanyou back inside. She shut the door and locked it securely, leaving Toru and Inuyasha alone.
"What the hell are you doing! Let me out! Kagome needs me!" Inuyasha yelled to Kaoru on the other side of the door but she didn't answer.
"I need to speak with you Inuyasha, Miroku and Kagome need to work that out on their own." Toru said softly from his seat on the floor against the padded wall of his cell.
"What do you want old man?" Inuyasha growled…
Miroku saw Kagome burst threw the doors into the outside world it was pouring out and the gray murky world around her consumed Kagome as she ran.
She wanted the pain to stop, knowing the truth was too painful for her and she just wanted it all to end. You are close to completion… Kagome gasped as she heard the voice. Rain drizzled down her body, soaking her clothes and her hair. She paid no mind as the water cascaded down her face with no restraint.
"Who are you!" Kagome yelled and continued to run when she heard Miroku approaching. Kagome ran and ran threw the city people under umbrellas stared as she passed. Kagome ran into a back ally to hide and ducked behind a trash can. I am a lo tech…
"Lo tech?" Kagome questioned. Yes…you must end your pain child if you want to be free…
"Free?" Kagome whispered to herself. Yes…kill yourself and it will end… "What will end?"
The Fear…
"My mysophobia?" Kagome shivered from the cold and wrapped her self up in her arms.
Yes, once you do you will become us, free…
"What are you…?"
Hope for the Demon Race…
"What do you want old man?" Inuyasha growled…
"You want to help Kagome don't you…?" Toru said flatly. Inuyasha growled at the man and sat against the wall next to him.
"I'm listening ya old geezer so you better start talking or I'm leaving…" Inuyasha growled out gruffly.
"Kagome is not schizophrenic and neither am I…" said Toru. Inuyasha looked at him in surprise. "In your history book at school what does it say about demons?" asked Toru.
Inuyasha looked at him like he was crazy, no pun intended, and shrugged. "It says that they ruled the earth like ravage beasts destroying everything in their path but one day they all disappeared, probably in hiding and for 300 years there were no demons but then about 200 years ago they showed up again, what about it?"
"Do you think that the demons of now are anything like what the history book described demons back then? "ravaged beasts destroying everything?" asked Toru.
"No, they act the same as humans now..." Inuyasha wasn't sure where this was all going.
"Exactly! They have something different than what they used to have! A soul…"
"A soul?" Inuyasha questioned skeptically.
"Yes…"
"How can a whole race suddenly develop souls?" asked Inuyasha, not really sure if he should be encouraging this lunacy.
"Demons are supposed to be creatures devoid of a soul, but a higher power had other plans for them, they got a choice. Demons could never have developed to the point of humans if a God had not allowed it."
"A God?" Inuyasha asked curiously.
"The God…like that of the book of Revelations all demons disappeared, of course in Revelations all Christians disappeared, but any way…demons disappeared and without soul they just ceased to exist, neither in heaven nor hell, but…God wanted to give them that choice and so he created people like me and Kagome…priests and priestesses…"
"I don't understand…" Inuyasha interrupted trying to comprehend all this new information.
"We priests and priestesses are born with dual souls, which is why if you extracted our souls they turn out to be quite large. Well for every priest or priestess born there is a demon born too, but not at the same time. A demon is born when a priest or priestess loses a soul, unfortunately most priests and priestess die out completely because they lose their other soul with it…So when a priest or priestess died you were born somewhere with the soul that priest or priestess harbored. The same happened with your brother and father Inuyasha."
"How do you know about them!" Inuyasha demanded a little scared of the knowledge this crazy guy had about his family.
"The lo techs told me…the lo techs are the most powerful surviving priests or priestesses, they secretly run everything in this world and protect the priests and priestesses." Toru said. "Now…there was a price to pay for this process to continue…Everything has a price, like how Adam and Eve brought sin on the world after providing all man kind with choice. God did a similar thing for demons…
With the disappearance of demons went the disappearance of all of the true priests and priestesses, the reason this all happened is because of the choice made. God went to the most human like demon alive at the time, your father, he needed a human-LIKE demon because then they could make the choice for all demons, your father was in love with a priestess, he was the one demon born with a soul, he was sorta a prototype for what His plan would cause.
God went to these too and told him of the choice and God made it but said that there was a price to pay. The priestess your father was in love with went by the name Midoriko, she was so in love with your father she offered to be the sacrifice but it was not enough. So the sacrifice lives in all priests and priestesses.
Kagome and me just happen to have the same plight cause by this sacrifice, mysophobia…I went through a mental breakdown like Kagome has and I developed schizophrenia. I realized that I had to kill myself if I ever hoped to touch my love, Kaoru, and so I did, I slit my arm up with a deep gash, but while one of my two souls left I still lived on. Unfortunately my wife's family saw my symptoms, me talking telepathically with the lo techs, and had me committed against my will.
The lo techs wish me to be freed from this hell but they cant do anything for me at the moment. But I do not blame the Kazaana's for committing me, they thought they were doing the right thing, now they have done something terrible to Kagome…"
"What! What did they do!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"They have ruined her process, when they told my poor naïve wife to talk to that psychiatrist ten years ago they interfered in Kagome's development as a priestess. Priests and priestesses are not suppose to experience a mental breakdown because of their mental disorder/sacrifice until they are adults like I did but Kagome, she got it when she was six, she developed her powers far too early, if she lives she will be a very powerful priestess but…she will most likely die…"
"WHY! She can't die, I won't let her!" Inuyasha yelled standing up suddenly in alarm.
"All priest and priestesses that accidentally developed early died during the sacrifice, and none developed as early as Kagome did…she is most likely entering the sacrifice ritual as we speak…" Toru said in despair.
Inuyasha growled and ran at the door with super speed and rammed his shoulder against it. "LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Inuyasha screamed. Inuyasha continued to ram against the door and Toru and Kaoru watched in alarm as the door broke off its steal hinges. Inuyasha clutched his injured shoulder as he ran from the building and into the rain.
Inuyasha ran threw the rain, he never felt such pain before. The thought of losing Kagome was literally tearing at him. Inuyasha felt tears prickling in his eyes and he let them fall unhindered. "Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled into the rain. He couldn't pick up her scent but he felt her presence he followed his instincts. 'I would gladly live a life of chastity if it meant I wouldn't lose my love!' Inuyasha thought. "I don't care if you never recover from mysophobia! I'd gladly dedicate my life to you anyway! Just don't die on me kitten!" Inuyasha yelled, praying to God that she heard him.
Inuyasha came to a bridge that was packed with weather traffic and Inuyasha gasped, there standing in a strange eerie glow was Kagome. She was on the other side of the railing, over the rushing river. She was leaning all the way forward with the joints of her elbows locked. She was looking down at the water.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled desperately. And almost in slow motion Kagome's head turned up to look at him with glowing blue eyes. She gave him a soft loving smile and let go. "NO!" Inuyasha ran to her hoping to catch her but all that happened was he watched her drop into the black depths of the river. The splash it self would kill her form this high up. Inuyasha felt his legs fall out beneath him and he sat leaning on the railing. He vaguely heard screaming behind him and voices yelling about a girl committing suicide. "Kagome…"
A/N: dang, a very dramatic chapter! Hey! In case Toru's explanation was too confusing for you…the sacrifice for priests/priestesses is a mental disorder that affects their life until the day of their sacrifice, Kagome's disorder was mysophobia. When the priest/priestess experiences the breakdown that means their powers are developing and soon they will make the sacrifice, Kagome's had 10 years to develop and she began to experience more breakdowns (gym class) so her sacrifice has come, now that Kagome's extra soul is released I wonder what demon is meant to get it…hmmm evil grin I aint telling! Wondering if Kagome lives or not? Hmmm aint telling! BUWAHAHAHAHAHA! Bye everyone and PS REVIEW!