Summary: Having a blessing means that you will have a curse at another time in life. Protecting the jewel is no different. With the Curse of the Shikon No Tama- something unknown to those who haven't protected it -Kagome is starting to lose hope. If something isn't done soon, she may lose more than that... Sequel to The Games We Play
Rated M. Why? Because the first one was nasty and full of gore. This one is likely to be just as bad, maybe worse… Also because I have a twisted, sadistic mind…
"Talking" (duh)
'Thinking'
Dates Written:
July 26th, 2006
July 30th, 2006
July 31st, 2006
Sorry that I didn't post this for so long. I was procrastinating on it... I'm not too fond of this chapter, so a few (or a lot) of things might change. Oh, this is also pretty short. So, you'll have to forgive me. I just don't want people to attack me because it's taking me longer to update...
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The Hearts We Break
Chapter Five: The Curse
Edited By: InterwovenEmotions
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The Shikon No Tama... The Jewel of Four Souls... A glowing pink marble that held the power to grant any wish... Any wish from having mustard on your sandwich to having total control over the world. It was powerful, and everyone who heard of it longed to own it.
After all, who would want to pass up the chance to have their biggest dream and fantasy become a reality?
The jewel was formed out of a woman during feudal ages. It had been shattered and rebuilt with the help of a very unlikely group- a demon slayer, a monk, a miko, and a half demon. Legend has told the story throughout the ages. But, as time passed on and demons slowly began to conceal themselves, the story faded into what it is today. Legend.
Stories have attempted to tell what happened to the jewel. It was used by one of those who had helped restore it. It was stolen and never seen again. It had been burned with the body of the miko who had broken and repaired it. Many stories explained why you couldn't find it.
But it was right under everyone's noses. It was just waiting for someone to make a wish upon it so the powers it held would finally be used.
- - -
"I don't think Kagome would have done something like that, Sesshoumaru." Sango shook her head and looked at the worried demon sitting before her. She had never been able to read emotions on his face like Kagome could. But right now, she could. Perhaps his mask was slipping, or perhaps she was just starting to gain the extra knowledge; like Kagome had.
"But I saw her..." Sesshoumaru murmured. Kikyou came up, a nasty concoction in her hands and baffled Denny's workers behind her. Sesshoumaru scrunched his nose and looked away from her food dish. Her child was, most definitely, going to like food that everyone else deemed as gross.
"Saw who?" Kikyou asked. Sesshoumaru waited for her to sit down uncomfortably and start digging into the disgusting combination. He didn't even want to try to figure out what the ingredients were in that.
"Sesshoumaru thinks he saw Kagome lying in an abandon warehouse with some guy having sex with her... And he thinks she was enjoying it." Sango emphasized her points to prove that there was no way he could be right.
"No, I did see it. I saw a man pushing himself in and out of Kagome. She was moaning," Sesshoumaru snapped at Sango. Instantly after saying it, he lowered his head and sighed. "I'm sorry for snapping. I've been on edge about the whole thing." He murmured.
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Often times, when one heard about the Shikon No Tama, they heard only wonderful things about it. It gave you powers. It would grant you a wish. It would give you respect, since you could easily wish someone's death. It also granted you with a being stronger than any demon or human.
It gave you control over a monster that nothing could defeat. No demon, human, or machine could conquer it. That was a way of reassuring that the bearer of the Shikon No Tama could protect it.
But, when legends were told about it, you never heard about the curse of the Shikon No Tama. After all, how could something that seemed so wonderful bear a curse?
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Kagome moaned and rolled over in bed. Her head hurt, her ankles and wrists hurt, and she felt like she had something shoved in between her legs. They were sore... just as when she got raped.
Kagome instantly shot up and looked down at her body. She was dressed in what she had gone to the mall in... Okay, so she was dressed in the remains of the clothing, but she wasn't naked. As she began to look around the room, she found that she was in the apartment.
Had Sesshoumaru raped her or was her attacker kind enough to take her back? But what rapist would know where she lived and be caring enough to take her back?
'Calm down, Kagome... We'll sort things out later...' She reprimanded herself. She sat on the bed in silence before realizing something was terribly wrong.
"We? What we?" She questioned herself out loud. She had never had a voice in her head speak as if there were more than one of her. Was there someone else controlling her mind? Impossible. Her abilities as a miko wouldn't allow anyone to enter her mind unless she was willing.
So who was the other person in her mind speaking to her?
Kagome bit down on her lip and stood up quickly, causing all the blood to rush to her head. She fell down onto the bed and began shaking. What was wrong with her? Why couldn't she control what her body was doing?
'Yes. We will work things out... You've held me back for too long, Kagome. I'm bored.' The voice in her mind sounded as if it were examining its nails out of boredom. Kagome searched her mind for a possible explanation. That's when it hit her. There was only one thing in her mind she had been holding back...
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Kedamono. That was the name of the beast inside the bearer of the jewel. If you held the jewel, this beast would lay dormant in your body, waiting for a command. Waiting for the chance to protect the jewel it's heart had been trapped in.
But the lines of the legend run deeper, etching themselves into the jewel itself. Kedamono was the name for the beast. No one knew why, no one except her.
Priestess Midoriko was a woman from the age of war- swords, demons, and a clash between light and dark magic. In this time of war, she fought demons. The unknown power of the light was given to her. No one had seen it before; therefore, she was envied... As well as threatened.
Kedamono was the demon man who loved Midoriko. In his eyes, Midoriko was the only woman that was worth spending his life with. Although they never bore a relationship, he suffered when she fought demons days upon days. Priestess Midoriko finally could not handle the demons any longer and created the Shikon No Tama from her own body.
When Midoriko's entire being was trapped inside of the jewel to wage war forever, Kedamono was taken as well. Since he was unable to neither help nor fight against Midoriko, he became her protector. Each time the jewel would have a new home; he would become a part of them. Lying dormant and willing to do anything that threatened the woman that he believed to be his. Midoriko.
Much to Kedamono's dismay, he slowly began discovering the secret desires of these women. And the more he discovered, the more he lost himself and became like them. After having gone through several different protectors, he now had the twisted desires of every miko that had ever protected the Shikon No Tama.
And that left him with desires that he often had to force his host's body to fulfill. Often times, they wouldn't do it themselves...
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'Kedamono is what legends will call me. You've shown my form to your friend, have you not? I'm the one you say lives inside you to aid you in protecting the jewel...' The voice was clearly a man's voice now. It seemed as if he had regained his ability to sound different once Kagome realized that he wasn't a part of her. He was a different person living in her.
Kagome felt a numb feeling engulf her body as she struggled to do something. Hearing voices in her head was a first. She wanted so badly to be able to do something about hearing someone in her head, but nothing could be done. Slowly but surely, her body refused to listen to her. She didn't have to look down at her claws to know that the beast had come out.
She was lucky to still have her normal thoughts. When it came out, she generally lost control entirely.
Kagome's mouth moved, but she didn't form the words. That beast, Kedamono, was speaking with her body.
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But, things got much worse than just having a man trapped inside you, taking control without you even knowing it.
Of course, you'd never hear about this in a book that discussed the sacred Shikon Jewel. No one knew about the harsh end of the deal other than the protectors of the jewel. They were the only ones who were able to understand it.
They were the only ones who were able to understand that the Shikon No Tama carried an unmarked curse.
A curse wasn't placed on it when it was created. Midoriko didn't carry or create a curse. Kedamono didn't do anything, either. The curse of the Shikon Jewel rested with the power it carried.
If the jewel held no power, the curse would be stronger. If the jewel held no power, there would be no curse.
Everyone who had ever held the jewel died before the age of thirty. Was it merely a coincidence that everyone had short lives? No, it was not. The power that the jewel held fueled many people- demon and human alike -to seek it.
But how do you get the protector of something great to give it to you? You can't. The only way is to remove the protector and take the item before it passes on to the next protector.
That is what everyone did in the past. Jewel protectors lived short lives and had no friends simply because everyone was determined to get past them and get to the jewel itself.
And those who did befriend a protector ended up in their own perils. They would never understand the kind of stress that a miko had to go through in order to keep the jewel from falling into the wrong hands. They only knew a glimpse of the problems...
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"Well... I'm sure that she wasn't really enjoying it, Sesshoumaru." Sango was doing her best to be sympathetic towards the demon. She watched as his face flushed with emotion, remembering the look of his face. She was sure that, after this whole thing was dealt with and blown over, he would go back to being emotionless.
"Well... If you think you saw her enjoying it, then why don't you talk to her?" Kikyou asked, stuffing a large spoonful of her brown concoction into her mouth. Sesshoumaru eyed the food she was eating. Wouldn't she get poisoned from eating something that disgusting? He could smell how horrible it would taste.
"Have you heard Kagome talk to anyone? She won't talk to anyone about what she thinks on Souta's, Ophielia's, and her grandfather's death..." Sesshoumaru replied. He slowly sunk his head into his hands, letting out a long, depressed sigh.
Why wouldn't she tell anyone what was going on?
"So, she's trying to appear emotionless... She's probably doing it in hopes that it'll make everything go away." Kikyou mumbled from behind her food.
"Gee. Who do you think gave her that influence?" Sango questioned. She looked at Sesshoumaru, causing him to drop his head on the table. He didn't flinch, although the two girls did. Kikyou's place jumped up a bit, as well as her cup of soda. Sango watched the box of napkins do the same thing.
"Okay, I'm sorry for saying that... But, seriously, if you had been a little more open to her, do you think she'd be like this? I think she looked at you and saw that nothing ever seemed to bother you. She wanted that, so she tried copying it." Sango didn't know how accurate that was, but she hoped it was close. That way, Sesshoumaru could at least get her to talk.
"So... Neither of you girls know anything about her wanting to have an affair with me or anything?" He asked cautiously. He stood up, grabbing his coat from the back of the chair he'd been occupying.
"Not a clue." Sango looked at Kikyou, who was shaking her head and scraping the last bits from her plate.
"Then I'm going home to speak with Kagome." Sesshoumaru said. He waved bye to the girls and put some money in Kikyou's hand. She looked up at him inquisitively.
"I worry for the health of you and your child with the stuff you eat. This will help with doctor bills." He said. Sango snickered as Sesshoumaru stalked out of the mall. Kikyou watched him leave until he was out the door. She stuffed the money in her pocket and looked at Sango.
"What's wrong with what I'm eating?" She asked curiously.
"Orange chicken, three flavors of ice cream, ranch dressing, olives, ketchup, mustard, and enough salt to preserve a dead body for three years..." Sango raised an eyebrow as Kikyou looked at her empty dish.
"Are you upset just because I didn't get the blue cheese dressing?" She questioned. "Would have been nice, I think..." She added. Sango rolled her eyes and shook her head. She had to agree with Sesshoumaru- there would be serious health problems in her future.
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Ignorance is bliss? I don't think so. Ignorance is just innocence that asks to be destroyed in the most violent way possible... I can't believe I thought things were over with. Happy endings are only in stories, not in real life. Especially mine... I wish that all these problems would just... go away... And take the Curse of the Shikon No Tama with them...
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Review Replies:
TurtleHugs- Thank you for the wonderful things you said! I love hearing stuff like that from people... That sounds conceited, huh? Well, I'm glad that you like my story and I'm even more glad that I've made it to your favorites list!
raspberrysorbet- Would you like to have a chance to help murder Naraku or Andrew? I'm not sure which one yet (as I clearly point out, I don't plan things since it ruins stories), but I can offer you a job in that if you'd like!
SesshysRedAngel- I'm sorry that I confused you. But, yes, Kagome did see Andrew... Sorry, but it's so much easier using bad guys from the first one than having to make entirely new ones!
Veata- I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who has to go back and see what's going on... And, if Sesshoumaru had gotten mad at me, I would have done almost the same thing as you. Nice Sesshoumaru... I'm just going to leave now, okay Sesshoumaru? And... I'll come back when you're not angry... -Sesshoumaru snarls- Alright! I'm never coming back! Just don't eat me!
lovelandkiss- You're closest to knowing what happened... I think what you said is about all I've put together so far.
Kagome-chan88- YOU USED TO LIVE IN REDDING! How did you do it? My sisters can do it, and it still shocks me, even though they came up a little over a year ago. The heat is just killing me. I think I'll be charbroiled by the time I travel back down south.
InterwovenEmotions- Heh. I love getting your reviews, even though you've already read the chapter! And, no, it's not Kagome's subconscious... I'm still working on it...
Kira-Jayde- Heh. Well, if you guys really are stalking Kagome so you can rape Sesshoumaru, give me time to figure out how the emotionless man will react to something like that. I don't know if he'd be traumatized or... emotionless as always... And you mentioned my horse in your chapter. Hmm...
YoukaiMei- Yes, Kagome does need to get a clue. I'm sorry that things didn't go so well for your vacation. I wish I could help... But that would be creepy if I came out of your computer to help you. So, for now, I mourn... sorta... And thank you for the gifts. I think I need to document every thing you give me because it makes me laugh!
Inu15Kags- You're right; Kagome wouldn't do that...
DON'T LET KIRA-JAYDE TAKE SESSHOUMARU FROM ME! THINGS WILL SMOOTH OUT, I PROMISE! BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE HIM FROM ME UNTIL I'M DONE WITH THE STORY!
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