"What's so funny? Every time one of us dies, you take the shikon shard...You where just using us!"
-Renkotsu.
The Darkness Within Our Hearts: Chapter 20 - The Feelings I Had For You.
Slowly wobbling around the edges of the lake, a dark figure caught Rei's eyes. Whatever it was, was floating in the water, she sqwinted her magenta eye alittle, trying to make-out the floating figure, the moment she figured out what it was, memories of her duel came back into her mind. That thing was her hated enemy, laying face-down into the cold water, weather he was alive or not was still unknown to her, and the water around him was a redish-pink color. Blood.
"B...Bankotsu...!" Her eyes widened in distaste. Bankotsu's body lay face-down in the water and Rei winced in disgust. "That bastard better be dead!" Was probably her thoughts. But...she couldn't help but feel this strange feeling of guilt and pity in her. "Why?" She thought, why would she feel sorry for a runt like him? "Why? Why? WHY?"
But it just hurt her to see him like that; helpless and unable to comprehend what could happen to him, but she didn't know why. "What should I do?"
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"Ow!" Anika whined. "Stop pushing me around Kagome! I said 'I was sorry', ok?" Anika sweatdropped when turning to look at Kagome, but she just glared back.
Scary...
"If Inuyasha and Kouga don't get turned back to normal...I'll never forgive you...!" Kagome stated.
Anika sighed. "Yeah, whatever. I already TOLD you that there's a cure...so quit bitting at my ass, ok?"
"I have to 'keep bitting at your ass' to prevent you from forgetting or running away!" Kagome yelled. Kagome yelled at Anika as she would to Inuyasha. Anika was like the female version of Inuyasha!
"Ha! Me? Run away? Very funny, mortal!" Anika spat out. "Like a powerful demon, like myself, would never run from HUMANS!"
Kagome just reacted funny to this. "SIT!"
Anika...she sat down like a obedient dog. She made a funny face right after she sat down. "Wait a minute..."
Kagome sweatdropped. "Wow. Your really are a dog, it's surprising how obedient you are..."
The red fire dog demon stood up again. "S-shut up! Y-you cast some weird spell on me! Y-you crazy miko! No-- you not a miko...y-your a WITCH!" Anika shuttered pointing a finger at Kagome.
Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara on the other hand just watched from a distance. "...?"
"K-Kagome..." A voice called from behind. Kagome turned around and saw Inuyasha on the ground. He was walking behind Kagome and the others until she told Anika to 'sit'.
"Oh! Inuyasha I'm so sorry!" Kagome ran over and helped Inuyasha get on his feet.
Inuyasha went all...sparkly eyed and cupped kagome's hands with his. "It's ok Kagome. I doesn't change the feelings I have towards you..."
"U-umm..." Kagome sweatdropped. "S-sure..."
Suddenly a giant spider demon came out of nowhere! "I scenes the power of the shikon jewel!" It hissed. "Give it to me...along with your lives!" It's mouth opened up and shot out a thick web, everyone jumped away and the spider's attack missed and hit some trees and bushes, but the web that had touched the living plants...soon rotted and died from contact with the web.
"Watch out!" Sango yelled. "It's Poison Touch!" Obviously this means the web that touches you, will either kill you or seriously poison you...then you will die.
"Inuyasha! Kouga!" Anika yelled. "Come help me fight this thing!"
But due to the affects of the Feather of Reflections, Inuyasha and Kouga were whimpering and cowering and fear together. "D-don't kill it!" Inuyasha cried. "It's a living creature! It doesn't deserve to die!"
Oh, my god.
"Shit!" Anika hissed. "Useless!" She was starting to regret. She jumped up and sent a powerful kick in the head and the spider went flying back. "You want some? Come and get some!" Anika smirked and cracked her knuckles.
It roared and shot out some more poison web, Anika stood her ground and sliced up the web with her nails. "Your weak demon powers won't affect me!" Anika then consentrated and red fire aura glowed around her. "Spirit of fire...come to my aid and give me power..."
The spider tried to physically attack Anika, Sango stepped in and threw her massive boomerang. "HIRAKOTSU!" Her weapon easily chopped though four of it's right legs.
"...And turn my enemies into ashes with your fiery rage...!" Anika opened her eyes after she finished chanting. "...Flare!" From under the spider a strange seal was created and a massive explosion fired off and blowed off the rest of the spider's legs along with half of it's body.
"Aghhh! I...won't forget this!" The spider screeched and disappeared. It fleed from battle.
Anika smirked. "Ha! Pathetic fool...! And Sango, thanks for the back up."
"I'm glad your on our side." She smiled back.
Then suddenly Anika got angry and turned to Inuyasha and Kouga. "You idiots! Now you really ARE making me regret using those feathers! DUMBASSES! YOU TURNED PATHETIC AND ARE A BUNCH OF LITTLE SISSYS! NOW I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF YOU WEAK FU--"
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Meanwhile with the rest of the Shichinintai.
"Heave-HO bitches!" Jakotsu yelled in their last attempt on Bankotsu's beloved Banryuu. And...success! They FINALLY got Banryuu aboard Ginkotsu's large metal body. Jakotsu, Renkotsu, and Suikotsu plumet to the ground and let out gasps and wheezes. "Finally...done!" Jakotsu coughed out.
"Now...to...find...Bankotsu." Renkotsu choked out in between breathes.
The Shichinintai- or what was left of them, all aboarded on Ginkotsu's body and they drove off, heading down river...
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Rei placed her hand over her heart, it was pumping in and out of her chest. "What...should I do?" Suddenly the faces of Karen and her little brother: Yusuke appeared within her memories...what would they want?
Suddenly Rei found herself diving into the water and swimming after Bankotsu. She reached over and wrapped her arms around his waist and swam back to shore. The water level slowly lowered until she was able to touch the ground, the closer she got to land, the harder it was to carry Bankotsu. "He's heavy!" She thought as she embraced him from behind and she stepped back and dragged Bankotsu to land.
After she got a fair distance from the water, she fell down to her knees and lightly gasped for some air. When she realized it, Bankotsu's head was laying on her lap. She blushed. "What is...this warm feeling?" But she decided to ignore this feeling and gently took Bankotsu's head off her lap, she need to see if he was breathing...
She went over and checked...he wasn't.
Rei placed her hands over his chest and compressed some presure and pushed down several times, and tilted his head back and breathed air into his mouth, and she reapeated. Soon, Bankotsu coughed out water and was breathing again.
"..." Did Rei just...save her enemy? She got up and went looking for some wood to burn for fire...nightfall was coming. She went around the area and found some wood on the ground, as she was picking the wood up in silence, and then it just hit her! She dropped all the wood she had collected and her face turned a crimson red and her eyes were wide with shock.
"I-I just...gave CPR to Bankotsu...!" Rei thought. "I-I just...gave him my first kiss...!" Rei felt herself go dizzy, she felt like fainting. "I-I can't believe I was SO stupid and careless! I should of just...just...pucnhed him in the stomach and he would cough out the water in his lungs...but no! I had to--NO! It's doesn't count! It doesn't count!"
Rei stopped wobling around and collected all the pieces of wood again and headed back to Bankotsu's location it was getting late, as she walked she placed the tips of her fingers on her lips. She couldn't stop herself from blushing. This...was the feeling she was feeling earlier...she wanted it to stop, but it wouldn't go away...
She was so caught up in her thoughts, she already made it back to Bankotsu's location. She couldn't bring herself to look at him for some reason. Instead she turned away and placed some wood and some dry grass together. Searching though the sleeve pockets in her kimono she pulled out a charm with red writing upon it. "I'm glad it didn't get washed up from the water..." She slapped the charm on her wrist and then...she snapped her fingers and small sparks were made from the friction of her fingers and the the sparks caught on the grass and a fire started.
The charm she used had a magic seal on it, a small gift some Anika, it isn't as powerful as Anika's real fire snapping attacks but it was enough for Rei to use to make fires easier.
Rei got up and went over to Bankotsu's unconsious body and pulled him over, getting him closer to the fire, they were soaked up with water...and need the warmth, Rei...gently placed Bankotsu's head on her lap...getting a closer look at his face she realized: "He's...just a kid...! He looks no older then 18...two years older then me..." Rei looked at him alittle closer and began tracing her fingers around his face. Her fingers sweeped over his chin and then slowly cross his lips...
That warm feeling was coming back...
She touched the purple cross on his forhead and wondered, where and how did he get this, it seemed like a scar or something...
Rei looked at Bankotsu's long hair, she picked up the end of his hair and played with it: twirling it around with her fingers. "Look at those split ends...!" Focusing on Bankotsu's split ends and had paid no attention to Bankotsu.
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"So...warm..." Bankotsu thought feeling the warmth of fire and...something else. "Someone saved...me?" The leader of the Shichinintai slowly opened his midnight blue eyes, to look up at someone he didn't expect. "...!"
End of Chapter 20.
Aiyanami(Author): After my break, it's time to start working on my fic. again.
Anika: Kill the spider!
Kagome: We gotta get the Star Fruit of Heaven and Hell!
Sango: HIRAKOTSU!
Inuyasha: I wanna learn the language of flowers!
Kouga: Review. Or Aiyanami won't update.
Miroku: I just wanna go home and eat chips...
Translation:
Inuyasha - Dog Demon.
Jaken - Wicked.
Kouga - Steal Fang.
Miroku - The buddhist Messiah.
Myouga - Divine Protection.
Naraku - Hell.
Kikyou - Chinese Bellflower.
Onigumo - Spider.
Kaede - Maple Tree.
Rin - "Bringer Of Light."
Sango - Coral.
Sesshoumaru - Destruction of Life.
Shikon no Tama - Jewel of four souls.
Shippo - Animal Tail or seven jewels.
Tenseiga - Heaven Life Fang.
Tetsusaiga - Iron Breaking Fang.
Kirara - Mica.
Kohaku - Amber.
Ayame- Iris.
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The Darkness Within Our Hearts: Chapter 20 - The Feelings I Had For You. Complete!
Date posted: August 01, 2005
Disclaimer: Does not own InuYasha.
Copy Right of author, Rei Aiyanami.