Chapter 10-Signed Death Warrant
(A/N: This chapter will not be as long as last chapters because I need to save some room for next chapter. You'll understand later. Thanks! Don't forget to review.)
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Inuyasha in pain as the arrow sent a spiritual energy current through his body while pinned to the tree.
"Did you kill Callisto?" said Sesshomorru as he turned to face Kikyo and ignoring his brother's pain.
"No. She was able to get away from me by temporarily blind me when her attack hit with my own. I don't know where she is, but it doesn't matter anymore now that Inuyasha is about to die," said Kikyo as she took out another arrow and aimed it Inuyasha.
"Are you sure you want to get rid of Inuyasha and not Callisto?" said Sesshomorru as he watched Kikyo's movements carefully.
"Inuyasha is more dangerous then Callisto when infuriated. You above all others should know that. Besides if I can't love Inuyasha the way I want to then no one should have such privilege or the honor of doing so," said Kikyo who had a hint of anger in her voice.
"Just make sure you kill quickly before Callisto decides to interfere. I've had enough of betrayals for a life time," said Sesshomorru.
Kikyo aimed and tightened her grip on the string of the bow to fire. "I'm sorry Inuyasha, but this is for your own good as well as for everyone else," said Kikyo as she steadied her aimed at the center of Inuyashas chest.
"If you're really...so...so sorry then perhaps...you should...prove it. If you're really...so sorry then...go...go some place to die! As for what...is...is for my own...good...you...you...never knew what was...for my own...good. You only...only...knew what it meant to...to...be jealous and hate...others. So go ahead and...shoot the damn arrow...already! As long as...Callisto is safe...I can die...in peace," said Inuyasha who tried to fight off the pain being inflicted by the arrow in his chest as blood slowly came out of his mouth.
"I will die Inuyasha, but till after I send you to hell before me. Something we were supposed to do together. Remember?" said Kikyo.
"I...remember...that. However, that part of...of me is...DEAD! Just...like...YOU!" said Inuyasha as he struggled to get free despite the intense pain.
"Then die with me Inuyasha as I end your life here and now," said Kikyo as she fired her arrow at Inuyasha dead on.
"NOOOOOOOO!" said a voice from behind Sesshomorru who found himself being shoved away by a brown hair, blind eyed, and priestess clothed woman as she created an energy wall in front of Inuyasha causing the arrow to stop short of its intended target.
"YOU! You may have escaped Kikyo's arrows, but you will not escape my blade" said Sesshomorru as he swung Tokijin vertically and slicing her nearly down the center from the chest area on down as she turned to see the blade come down on her before she could react.
"CALLISTO!" said Inuyasha as he tried to grab her as she involuntarily staggered in front of him blood running down the front of her while he tried to reach her with his free hand. But Callisto was just out of range of his hand as her protective wall disappeared giving Kikyo another opening to shoot her arrow...at Callisto who had pain, fear, and sorrow all written on her face.
"At least now Inuyasha you and your beloved can die together. I'm sure that's what you wanted from the start right Inuyasha?" said Kikyo as she fired her arrow again this time hitting her in the left side of her back sending her forward into Inuyasha and pinning them together.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha, but it had to be done," said Sesshomorru as he left the area feeling somewhat disgusted by what he had done to preserve the future.
"Sesshomorru maybe sorry Inuyasha, but I'm not. However, I do hope you do will be happy dying together pinned to tree dying helplessly," said Kikyo with a smile on her face as she left the area as well considering she got everything she wanted...and then some.
"Callisto can you hear me? Callisto!" said Inuyasha as he used his free hand to support her more so the arrow in her would tear into her flesh anymore then it already was.
"I'm here...my beloved, but I...I don't think I...will be able...to...to be your loving...wife and you be my loving husband as we had both dreamed. Instead I...fear I will...not be much...of anything shortly...except a dead...and...and blinded priestess...in...in the arms...of...of the man she loves...before she dies...in his arms...saving his life from...a lethal imprisonment...to...to this tree," said Callisto faintly as she used her free arm and grabbed the arrow pinning Inuyasha to the tree.
"No...stop it. In your current condition you...you will die," said Inuyasha as the arrows spiritual power started attacking Callisto and was intensifying every time she held onto it.
"I'm already...dying Inuyasha, but I will not have...you die with me. You have so...much to protect that I...I could never have in my...life. As long as you...live I can die in peace. When I entered your...mind I learned many things about...you and what...what you are that allowed me to...to...fall in love with...you. The one part of...you above all others was...was your compassion and mercy...to...to others and to those you...love deep within your heart...like Kagome," said Callisto as she pressed her hear against his chest hearing his racing heart that was screaming inside.
"But...you have every right to be apart of my life as they do. I can't truly live without you in my life," said Inuyasha as tears ran down his face onto her brown hair now stained with traces of her blood.
"When I discovered that...you left them and...became alone to protect...them I knew I loved you...for what you did. To...to see someone show such...strength in giving...up so much that it would...weaken you touched my...my heart. I knew then that...I...I had to protect such...virtues that you had and...so I swore an oath to myself...that I would fight to protect you. That I would...die for you in...in order to protect you...no matter who...or what the threat was. Now...I have fulfilled my oath and yet...the only regret I have...is that...I have I will not become you're loving...wife," said Callisto as she kissed him at the same time she pulled out the arrow and it disintegrated surrounding them in a great light.
They both fell onto the ground forcing them both to break their kissed hold over each other. "No matter what you were always my loving wife whether it was official or not. You are the only love I could ever embrace as my wife," Inuyasha whispered as he stared into her eyes with sadness.
"Do not be sad my...beloved as long as my...spirit is with you...(coughing blood)...you will never...never have to...be alone...again," said Callisto with tears on her face as they embraced in kissing each other again not wanting to let go of the other knowing this was their last moments together until finally Callisto was...dead.
Inuyasha let go of her lips as drop after drop of fresh tears rolled down his face and onto hers as his breathing became weak with sadness. Inuyasha felt lost inside himself at that moment in time that seemed to stop just for him as he looked at his dead love in his arms. It was if he lost more then just Callisto at that moment. To Inuyasha it felt as if someone had just lost his soul. "I will have avenge you my beloved. For I too make an oath this day that will be sound of their own death warrant. I swear on our love and your name that the two people who did this to you will suffer and die in ways beyond imagination," said Inuyasha forcing his body up from the ground as Inuyasha carried Callsitos now bleeding and dead body away from the area and silently left the unholy battlefield with an angry demonic look on his face.
It was a look that made all the creatures he passed both big and small run for their lives in terror that Sesshomorru and Kikyo would see all too soon. You thought I was weak Sesshomorru for being human and showing mercy. When I get through with you and Kikyo you'll be begging for my human mercy as I take everything from you. EVERYTHING!" thought Inuyasha as his eyes glowed a dark blood red as his wounds slowly healed themselves.