chp 25

Midori walked through the corridors of the old temple, a dead corpse at her feet. Damn, there were none here at all...

She slashed through a support post with her Naginata, growling in anger. She conjured up a few light strands, and traveled back to Naraku's manor. She slammed her fist into a cement wall, and besides the dent in the wall, she only slashed her knuckles. She winced, and looked at the blood already pouring out.

DAMMIT!

She bit her lip, and frantically shook her hand. She balled it up, looking for something to wrap around it to stop the blood. She found an old rag in the nearby bathroom, and she wrapped it around her hand. The blood poured out, stinging the edges of the wound. She heard a knock on the door, and saw Bankotsu enter. She grimmaced, and put her hand under the faucet.

"Ouch, are you ok?"

"I'm fine..."She stated bluntly. She glanced at him, her eyes downcast towards his chest. He tilted her chin up, making her eyes look at his face...

"Are you sure you're ok?"

"Never better, just a scratch..."

He took her hand, and turned it over form the palm. He saw her bloodied hand, and shook his head,"You punched the wall wrong. You punch with these first two knuckles, not the fingers," He showed her, and helped her clean the blood off. He kissed the cleaned wounds, and helped her wrap them up nice and tight.

"There we go, all better."

"Yeh, thanks,"She smiled warmly. His dark grey eyes sparkled, and she felt those feelings rise up again. She watched his eyes, not letting them trail away. He blinked, and began to lean in...

She turned her head, so he only met the softness of her cheek. He glared daggars at her,"Why Midori! Why won't you just..." He trailed off suggestively.

"Because, I've watched what happens to girls who let their hearts be their guide, and the ending isn't pretty."

He tried to grasp her shoulders, tried to make her understand how he felt. She had no idea how perfect she was, how her soft grey-black hair was so alluring, her her jade green eyes bore into his soul. He wanted to kiss her, he wanted to love her, he wanted to see the world with her...

He wanted that special kinda love, the kind that lasted forever. And he seemed to have found it in her...

But how could they be together, he was a killer, and she was a slave. Unless Naraku died, she could never give her heart to a man. She could never love, or learn how to. He wanted her to learn the lightness he felt being around her, he wanted her to realize that life was more than killing and fighting...

But how could he?

He watched her seize back her hand, and trod out of the tiny bathroom. He turned to watch her exit down the hall, slamming the door to her room. He bit his lip, trying to understand her. He tried to understand how she could be so beautiful, and so amazing. Yet she could be so stuborn and hard headed, and yet so innocent and sweet. She had no clue how enfuriating, and yet how calming she could be.

She had no idea, how much and how strongly he felt for her. Her power vibrated the very foundation she stood on. Her eyes were the most intense thing about her, how they could see straight through to a person's soul, how they could tamper with your mind with a single glance.

He loved those eyes, how they made him stop in the hall ways when they past. How she always seemed to have their glance towards his way. Like she wanted to look at him, but not directly. He always felt that she wanted to look at him, like he looked at her. But like he'd stated before, she really didn't have a choice in the matter. She couldn't love, she couldn't give her emotions away, she couldn't live life how she dreamed.

He knocked on her door, begging that she would let him in. Slowly, the door creaked open, and she let him in. He sat beside her on her little grey cot, like always. He glanced over at her, knowing full well what was wrong...

"Did Naraku...hurt you..."

She looked at him, her eyes glazed over with something he had never seen before...fear...

"No...but he will. I couldn't find his treasure, so tonight...he will..."

"Midori..."

"I'm so afraid, Bankotsu...so afraid..."

She leaned into his open arms, feeling the arms of love around her. She refused to cry, she would save herself the embarassment of red blood tears. She looked at Bankotsu in a way she never had before, looking at his angelic face in a new light. What if he wasn't out to hurt her, what if...

"Midori, don't let him do that to you. Fight back, don't let him take you down..."

"Please, why do you care? I'm sure you'd do the same thing if you had the chance,"she rested her cheek on her palm, bored with this now..

"Midori, I would never do that to you. Not unless you wanted to..."

She looked straight at him, and he felt himself blush. Her eyes were almost trusting, almost believing. If only he could say something to make her believe him...

"I want to protect you, I know you don't really need it. But let me do my best to pull some strings with Naraku, and I'll get you outta this."

"You'd do that for me?"

"Of course I would..."

She felt her heart soften, if only for a moment. Was this happy? No it was too strong, what was this feeling, that bubbled inside her. It was firey in the deepest pits of her soul, yet branched out to every part of her body. She felt something she never needed before, something she didn't want to need.

"Kiss me,"he stated as though he could read her mind. She didn't have a second thought. She had never kissed a man before, and it felt akward at first, like she tried to taste the passion. But the way his lips moved against hers, it gave her a feeling of complete safety. He took her arms, and pulled her closer to him, cradling her. His powerful lips moved with such fluidity that she fear they would slide away. But they soft warm masses stayed there, continuing to kiss her. She sighed into his mouth, fearing he would dislike it. But the only reply she got back was the same reaction, only his breath tasted sweet and made her mouth water.

She raised her arms around his neck, holding him gently like he would break apart. He lowered her onto the cot, towering oer her, wanting her more with each passing moment. She felt tears beginning to well up under her lashes. No...please don't cry...please not in front of him, not now...

But the red blood tears fell, staining his loose white and blue shirt. She pulled away, using her hair to cover her face. She quickly got up,"I have to go..."

"Midori, please..."

But she exited the room, her heart swollen with a new kind of pain. This pain made everything she knew seem to disappear. She knew she couldn't love, she knew she couldn't feel...yet she knew she had to. Her body ached for him, begging for his touch. She couldn't have these feelings, not now not ever...

She ran down the hallway, letting her hands cover her face. She didn't care if she ran into a wall, if she embarassed herself to no end. She would give anything to have something to mask this pain. Something to take her mind away from it...

Was this the bitter sweet pain of love?

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Kagome felt her neck hurt like hell. All the morphine she was drugged up with only dulled the pain though. Her eyes were red, like she had got hammered the night before. She was so out of it, someone could shoot a gun and she wouldn't notice. She felt someone's hand snake their way under her waist, and felt herself being lifted, and then felt a deep sleep over come her.

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Inuyasha glided over the rooftops, running towards the hospital. He jumped, but felt something grasp his ankle. He was pulled down, his body slamming against the cement. He jumped up, and twisted around grabbing the hilt of hs sword to be ready to attack his opponent...

It was Midori..

"What do you want!"

"They've taken Kagome!"

She spat it out and yelled it at the same time,"I couldn't stall any longer. Naraku said this was the perfect opportunity, since she was so drugged up. "

Inuyasha felt his heart stop, and the blood drain from his face. At first he was in shock, feeling the coldness of his blood circulate through his body. After that...rage..

"That...fucking...bastard!"

After the switch from freezing cold blood to boiling blood, he felt somewhat dizzy. His body screamed with emotional pain, and his heart emitted a sort of energy that made his soul flame up. He screamed it,"I won't let him get away with this, not when she's sick. Not when she's pregnant, not ever again!"

"She's being held captive in a building, under my watch. But I won't get her til late tonight. I'll take her to safety, or you can..."

"No, I'm going to kill Naraku..."

"I promise, no I swear I will protect her with my life. You are the only one who has any chance of defeating Naraku, and if this is what it takes to destroy him and get my life back, then I swear it will be done."

"Thank you Midori..."

"The entrance is near the place where Ryukotsusei's body is. Once you reach it, head left. You'll meet an abandoned road, follow it and you'll come to a telephone booth. Go inside, and dial 798-6543, then the floor will buckle under, and become an elevator, then follow the scents..."

He put the number in his communicator on his wrist. He nodded, and sprinted off to find the entrance. Midori watched him..

Did he follow his heart? She knew he loved, she knew he had someone to love him back. But did he follow his heart...

She needed to know, if all the girls who found true love, kept it forever. She needed to know, if all these feelings inside would backfire, and if they did, was it worth the heartbreak.

"Bankotsu..."

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