Chapter4-The Half-breed Theory: Two People Misery Plus Suffering Equals Happiness For Them Both
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She awoke startled from her slumber covered in a soft blanket near a warm fire she heard crackling not far from her. She looked around and found it was night time through her other senses as she felt around and found that there was someone else in this little camp site. Though she was blind she could feel it was the same person as the one who saved her from the four men earlier. "Why did he save me? Who is he?" thought the priestess as she stared at him hearing the sound of his heartbeat to locate him.
She got up slowly after locating her walking stick and slowly approached the figure who was sitting near a tree sleeping. She knelt down in front of him and tried to touch his face. She didn't know why she had to, but she felt she had to touch his face and to feel it to know him better. "Your awake I see. I'm quite surprised I thought you'd still be asleep till morning," said the figure with a dark sounding voice surprisingly as he grabbed her hand gently before she could touch his face.
She moved away from him in surprise of him being awake. She felt a little flustered and thought she was blushing trying to hide her face. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..." said the priestess, but the figure cut her off.
"There is no need priestess. You have been asleep for nearly two days and did not know where you were and who was here with you. Sorry for what I just did by the way. It was just a reflex I sometimes have when I'm half asleep. Please sit down next to me. We have much to discuss," said the man as he motioned her to come over to him.
The priestess was reluctant at first, but decided to anyway so she could learn more about him if she did. She walked over to him and sat down next to him enjoying the roaring blaze of the fire in a moment of silence that seemed to last hours. "Thank you for stopping them," said the priestess out of nowhere to kill the silence.
"Someone had to stop them. I'm just sorry you had to witness their death like that, but they had no right to hurt you anyway," said the figure in a dark sounding voice.
The priestess gave a small nod as she felt the fire as she sat near her rescuer. "I can tell you're not human. At least you're not all human from the sound of your voice. I heard the words half-demon being I heard from what sounded like your voice," said the priestess.
That is correct. I am a half-demon dear priestess. Just as you are...well you know," said the half-demon figure.
"Blind!" said the priestess filling in the word the half-demon figure could not say.
"Yes. Forgive me. I could not say it because I felt it was beingdishonorable to you," said the half-demon voice.
"It is all right. Please tell me your name so I may address you by it," said the priestess.
"My name...is Inuyasha. I am the half-demon Inuyasha," said Inuyasha who continued to look at the fire and not at the priestess.
"That name is...beautiful. You should be proud of such a name," said the priestess as she heard Inuyasha speak his name as if he was ashamed of it.
"What is your name priestess?" said Inuyasha curiously since he gave his and did not know hers.
"My name is...Callisto. Though I do not think the name reflects me," said Callisto who sounded ashamed of her name.
"This coming from the same person who told me I should say my name with pride. Please Callisto when I look upon you I believe your name...represents what you truly are...beautiful in every way," said Inuyasha whose demon side didn't know what was coming over him. It was as if suddenly he felt happiness for the first time in a long time since he had control over the body even if it was only recent.
Callisto looked in his direction and heard Inuyashas heartbeat accelerate drastically indicating to her that not only was Inuyasha telling her the truth, but actually liked her. "There is truth in your words Inuyasha, but sadly I do not feel as you say I am," said Callisto who once more sounded sad to Inuyasha.
"Not everyone feels as they should Callisto. I know what it means to feel like your not what you should be. Because deep down you feel as if you need...more in your life. However, in the end...you never truly get what you want and if you do...it comes with a price. A price that can kill you or wish to the gods you had...when you pay it," said Inuyasha as he let out a small, but still hearable growl that Callisto could feel was filled with pain.
"I can tell from the pain in your growl and in your soul that you have felt things in your life only to have them taken away from you. And it sounds as if you have experienced this suffering that is required to pay such a price for what you want...only to turn it away," said Callisto who could feel more of Inuyashas suffering through the pulses of his heartbeat as they increased several times during what she had just said.
"There were times in my life I thought I had everything I ever wanted when it came to finding what I desired most. At one point I thought I had found love only to lose it and have it replaced by false vengeance. I thought I found it again 50 years later in my travels with one of my former companions several years ago only to find it was a false love that was never meant to be. Then roughly two years ago I nearly achieve a dark status, rank, and power over everything I once fought for. Only I found myself turning away from this dark power and killing my former master with the very tool he gave that allowed me to achieve that power...the Spider Amulet. Then my body, my mind, and my soul have felt strange...different even from what I once was. I have never spoken to my traveling companions for over two years. And I never will till I feel I am ready to knowing I have not put them in danger," said Inuyasha who could feel one of his old wounds reopening again as they had done randomly for the passed two years, but didn't show his pain as his wound started to heal as quickly as it opened.
"I see. Your pain far exceeds my own. My pain happened at birth when my mother who was one of the last dark priestess next to Tsubaki whofell in love with my father...a blind monk. She renounced all that was her darkmess inside her for him for reasons I still don't know. When I was born I could see for only a moment, but found that my sight was only temporary because the blindness my father had was now passed down to me. I was taught allofmy fathers holypowers...and all my mothers. When my father died protecting us from those who still felt my mother was a threat to them we tried to reason with them, but they wouldn't listen. They said my father had been corrupted by the dark one and they struck him down without hesitation for it," said Callisto as she felt the painful memory of feeling her fathers life voice die while she and her mother hid from the mob.
"Cowardly bastards! People are always afraid of things they don't understand. No one ever appreciated my father and mother for bring me into this world as well. They felt it was a mistake for my parents to bring me into this world and sometimes I almost believed they were right," said Inuyasha and Callisto nodded knowing the exact same feeling.
"My mother faked our deaths and we stayed away from other villages and she trained me and taught me everything she knew in combination with my father's teachings. She told me when my training was complete that I would now carry both light and dark powers inside me and what ever I decided to do with either side was my choice because of my spiritual half-breed status, but whatever I decided to do with my life I alone could only choose a path on how I lived. When she died I decided I would honor my family and what they taught me by helping others and saving their lives from demons and other things when I could. For a while...all was well as I saved one village after another in my family's name. But somehow they discovered who my parents were and believed I had brought the sufferings they had received upon them. Since then I have never been welcome by anyone in any village everywhere I go," said Callisto as tears rolled down her pale white eyes that seemed to glow with purity in the dark.
"They were fools to think that you of all beings caused their pain regardless of who you are and who your parents were. Such arrogance and stupidity makes me sick to my stomach," said Inuyasha angrily as he remembered from the past what it was like for him where ever he went into a village and saw how people ran, looked away, or at him as he walked in public as if he was welcomed when he was obviously not.
"May I ask a request of you?" said Callisto as she looked at Inuyasha with curiosity through her spiritual powers to see him from the inside the only way she knew how.
"What is it you request?" said Inuyasha with equal curiosity as his red eyes now stared into her pale white ones.
"I wish to touch your face. I wish to know the face of my rescuer as well as the man whose suffering is so much similar to my own. Please grant me this request so I may look upon you even for a moment," said Callisto.
"As you wish Callisto, but you may like you see," said Inuyasha who turned to face her as she did to now sit on opposite sides of each other at close proximity.
Callisto nodded as she let go of her walking stick and raised her hands to feel Inuyashas gentle yet strong hands at her wrist guiding her hands to his face. When she touched his face and moved her smooth hands over his features she gasped at what she felt his face and created the imprint of his face into her mind. "By the gods!" said Callisto when she saw Inuyasha's face. With her powers she lookedat whatwas his scarredsoul and let out another gasp, butneighterweregasps of horror...they were gasps of...understanding.
Callisto saw a sadden and blooded souledface full of pain from wounds that no blade from any weapon could ever do to him. Inuyashas eyes from his soul stared directly into her eyes as the blood from his soul came down his face. She moved in closer and closer till finally...out of nowhere they kissed each other on the lips. It was light at first, but then it turned into a passionate one. Before things went any further though they broke their kissing connection with each other. "Thank you for understanding me as I am Callisto. And not seeing me as a half-demon monster," said Inuyasha in a whispered voice.
"The honor was all mine Inuyasha," said Callisto in an equally quiet whisper as they cuddled up to each other basking in the fires dying, but still warn glow in the cold night and fell asleep by the others side till morning. It was the first sleep for the both of them that they felt whole inside as if each side was missing the other and were now one again.
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