Invisible Inuyasha Story Part 12Me and You. . .And You too!
Note--I've changed the appearance of Yotobari. I wasn't pleased with it. He now has short white hair, neck length, with silver eyes and pale skin. I thought this would give him the more vampyric look we are all searching for.
Kendell told Inuyasha and the others that she was going to stay with Sesshoumaru for a while and she'd be back sooner or later to help them like she promised and to trust her. They couldn't say no. . .Literally. . .So they headed their separate ways. A week had passed since the little Yotobari incident and Kendell rarely talked to him. Sesshoumaru walked up to her one day and said that he was going on an important mission and that he'd be back soon as possible and he wanted her to stay there. At first, she was going to protest, but she saw at how much this meant to him so she agreed to stay and watch after Rin, Jaken, and the castle. "Bye Sesshoumaru!" Kendell waved. He just turned back around and stared at her one last time then he was off.
Kendell walked back into the castle, the doors shutting automatically behind her. "Um. . .I wonder what Yotobari is up to?" She questioned herself, utterly bored. She walked down to the dungeon, but no sight of him there so she started to walk out of there. She sensed him close by and peered down the castle window, and there he was, sitting in the rose garden, looking down at the ground as a wind blew the free rose petal around him in a circle. Kendell marveled in awe at how beautiful the site was. "Oh wow, he looks so much like an angel," she then started to walk down there. "Where are you going?" Rin had asked Kendell. "Oh nowhere Rin, um, hey, I have some toys for you in my room if you run there. . .You might catch them in time before they run away!" Kendell said. Rin squealed with glee and ran off.
"What are you doing here?" Yotobari asked without turning around, sensing Kendell's presence long before she got there. "And why did you tell Rin that lie?" He asked her. "Well. . .I'm here because I need someone to talk to, and I told Rin the lie because I don't want her here." This time Yotobari turned to face her. "Why do you not want her here?" He asked in a puzzled voice. "Because. . .We have hardly talk since the day you saved me from that Ishigami dude, and well, I just want to get to know you better."
Yotobari sighed cockily, making Kendell twitch her nose and sat down in the grass, then stared at Kendell. "Well, are you going to sit down or not?" He asked her. "Oh, Okay, hang on!" Kendell sat down beside Yotobari in seiza. "So, ask me whatever you want and I'll answer you." Yotobari said, looking up in the sky. "If you're a vampire, how are you able to sit out in the sunlight?" Kendell asked first. "A special ability that I've learned to do over the centuries," He said blankly. Kendell noticed that Yotobari's eyes started to fog up, almost as if he were reliving his past.
"Tell me. . .About your past." Kendell said. Yotobari closed his eyes and smiled just barely enough to show his face. "I was born into the World of the Damned. As we now call Vampires. I used to be young, relentless, violent, and any other bad thing you could think of," Kendell couldn't believe he was being so open about this. "Then one day. . .Something happened. . .And all my immaturity turned into reality and that's when I realized I had to grow up." Kendell leaned in, more interested now. "Tell me tell me! What happened?" She urged on.
"I met someone precious. She was the rose that blossomed everyday. She was the life that went on inside my dead body. I cursed myself." Kendell looked at him. "Why did you curse yourself?" She asked. Then she finally realized Yotobari. . .He looked more European than Japanese. "Yotobari. . ." She said, "What is your real name?" He looked at her. "How did you know this wasn't my real name?" She looked at him up and down. "Just a feeling." He laughed. "My real name is. . .Valerian." She was dazed by his real name. "Valerian. . .Such a beautiful name." He looked up at her. "Yes. . .I suppose it is." She snickered. "Well I like Valerian a whole lot more than Yotobari, so I shall call you that from now on okay?" He said it was fine with him.
"Now on with the story!" She urged more. "Then one day. . .The King of us Damned Ones took away my beautiful maiden, telling me vampires and humans are not meant to live in peace and harmony. I went on a rampage and slaughtered all of my kind. . .All but one. . .He was my best friend. . .His name was Vincent." Kendell made an 'O' shape with her mouth. "Wait, where's Vincent?" She asked him. "He's been sealed into a giant chunk of ice never to be revived again for the sorceress that can bring him back is long gone. So I am the only one of my kind. . .I have become dead inside. . .And I'm utterly alone." Kendell felt so bad for Valerian, but that wasn't the end. He told her more and more horrid and devastating tales of his life which brought tears to her eyes. "I'm so very sorry Vincent." She said. He looked at her.
"I have to show you something." She stared. "What?"
"You. . .Will be the only one. . .To see this. . .Other than Vincent."
"Why. . .Are you showing me? Why did you decide to show me?"
"Because. . .I trust you. . .Don't ask why. . .Be flattered, I never trust anyone."
Kendell nodded. "Okay, I'm ready." He started to take off his armor, and Kendell blushed, thinking she was about to see more than what she should have been looking at. To her relief, he only showed his upper body. He had whip mark and scars on his back and it sickened Kendell to look at the sight, but she couldn't stop because it entranced her at the same time. "Any marks on the front?" She had asked him. He turned around, "See for yourself." That's exactly what she did. He didn't have any marks on his front, but he had a belly button piercing and a little tattoo on his lower right hip. She didn't even know they did stuff like that back then, it took her aback. He was also very masculine.
Kendell turned him back around, and his eyes followed her. She hesitantly started to reach for the scars, but was afraid that he wouldn't allow her, so while her hand was reaching forward, it was also jerking back shakily. "Its okay, you can touch them, you are the only one who can touch my scars." She did so and they felt so different from anything she's felt before. As she blindly traced the scars on his back she started to cry like mad and she couldn't stop. Her powers allowed her to see visions of his dark past, and she heard screaming and crying and torture, and she also saw these things in great detail, she couldn't do it any longer but her hand wouldn't budge. "Ah," she sobbed, breathing heavily, Valerian saw she was struggling. "Is this part of her powers?" He said, amazed. "She defiantly is not human." He grabbed Kendell and pulled her close to him. "Its okay, shh, its okay, I'm here, I'm here," he stroked her hair lightly and kissed her on her forehead.
Sesshoumaru's never done this for me before, Kendell thought, but she didn't care what Sesshoumaru did or didn't do, all she cared about was happiness for everyone and anyone. "Thanks, but I'm good now," Kendell then pushed him away. "Um, you need better clothes." Kendell started to think of a long blood red trench coat and leather pants with leather buckle combat boots. Then, her powers, like always, summoned them. "Here, put these on, they would look much better on you than that, I won't look." She turned around and closed her eyes. "Tell me when you're done!" She continued to hum. Jaken watched them silently. "What's going on?" He whispered then he ran off into the castle.
Two weeks had passed, and still no sign of Sesshoumaru, but day by day Kendell and Valerian spent more hours together laughing and just talking. "You're a good friend." Kendell said one day, swaying her feet carelessly on the castle rooftop. "Oh by the way, I made this picture for you," Kendell said, handing him a picture. "This is what you were up all night doing? I look like a sex slave." Then he ripped it up carelessly and threw it. Kendell stared at the ripped up sheet of paper and she burnt it to smithereens as she glared into it. "Wow, scary!" Kendell slapped Valerian and started to walk off. "Jerk, can't you be happy?" She continued to walk. "Come back, oh!" Valerian said, tripping over some unknown force.
Kendell had done it unaware of the fact she had just did that. She turned around when she heard him gasp, and realized that it was her fault why he just got tripped. She reached out her arms to catch Valerian. She did catch him, but he bumped heads with her, and their lips met each other. Kendell stared into Valerian's silver eyes out of surprise. "Get away from her," a voice said icily at Valerian, who looked up. "Sesshoumaru, its not how it looks! This was an accident! A mere accident." Valerian said, pushing himself away from Kendell. Sesshoumaru grabbed Kendell's wrist and pulled her closed to him, and hissed in her face, "How dare you?" Kendell looked into Sesshoumaru's eyes. "I didn't mean to Sesshoumaru, please, believe me." Fear rose in Kendell's soul, the only reason why is because she thought she was about to lose her one true love. . .And she didn't want to.
Sesshoumaru's eyes searched Kendell's, and he knew she was telling the truth. He let go of her wrist and jumped down from the castle and landed on the ground, then walked into the castle. "Come on let's leave," Valerian. muttered. He picked up Kendell then jumped down on the ground and they walked into the castle. "Who gave you those clothes?" Jaken asked Valerian. "Who do you think?" Then Kendell jumped down and walked into Sesshoumaru's room. "I'm going back to Inuyasha and the others." Sesshoumaru looked at her. "Go." Kendell turned away and walked off. "I want to come with you," Valerian said. "Fine, come at your own will."