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Flashback
Kichirou wondered through the long grass towards the sacred tree in a hurried pace. He was running late on meeting InuYuki to transform her into a full-blooded human using the shikon jewel. He had just been so nervous thinking about it the following evening and concentrating on purifying it, he had been unable to sleep.
His dark hair tied into a ponytail and waving behind him as he walked. His dark eyes filled with anxiety and yet hope to see the outcome of what would happen during the ceremony. As he reached the sacred tree he looked around curiously. InuYuki did have a poor sense of time and tended to get distracted by things, but he was rather early after all.
She may have still been fast asleep due to worrying about it just like he. This was a very big decision that she was making, to throw away her demon mothers blood to become a full blooded human like himself and her late father. To carry such thoughts in her mind and heart, how would anyone be able to sleep?
But then he wondered if he was in fact late and InuYuki had come before him and had become troubled. He wondered if she had become tired of standing around and gone to look for him. But then she would have picked up his scent and come back to find him, I mean her sense of smell was far stronger than humans.
Suddenly a demon appeared out of the long grass behind him and lashed at Kichirou digging its claws in. His shoulder aching and screaming in pain as his flesh and bone was torn by the claws of a demon. His eyes widened and a sickening feeling came over him. His body going into shock as pain washed over his body and blood pooled from his shoulder. His body going into complete shock.
Kichirou then fell to the floor at the impact, a deep wound now pierced into his shoulder. Blood pouring down his shoulder and staining his white priest robes with the crimson fluid leaking from his body. There was no way he would be able to recover from this wound, it was too deep and he would indeed perish.
His body collapsed to the floor and he gripped his hand into a fist and his body screaming in pain. The shock all but leaving him and the reality of the severity of the injury coming to light. The shock of the injury and the blood loss weakening him. He raised his head slowly as he tried to figure out just who or what had injured him so badly and for what purpose.
Suddenly InuYuki appeared from the shadows. Her silver hair flowing in the wind and her amber eyes filled with amusement and mocking. She was enjoying seeing him in pain. She approached the young priest taking in his wounded form. The smell of his blood strong on her claws. Her kimono as red as the blood pouring from his shoulder on onto the ground.
Kichirou weakly reached out to grab the shikon jewel that was within his reach. No matter what he must protect it from falling into the hands of a demon, it was his duty as a priest. He had to keep it pure and away from the hands of demons that would seek its power and taint it with their wicked influence and immense demonic power.
InuYuki stomped on his hand hard making pain shoot through his body. He winced in pain and clenched his jaw, a loud cry of pain escaping his lips upon the impact. "Fool. I have no desire at all to become a human" Naraku sneered in her InuYuki disguise. How she loved watching the priest Kichirou suffer and fall by her hands in such a disguise.
Kichirou's eyes widened in shock upon hearing these words. His heart shattering into a million pieces and hatred filling his heart. How could he have been so foolish as to believe her. Why did he believe that she would want to be with him, that she would make him her mate and bear his children as a normal human?
How could he have allowed a half demon to trick him, steal his heart and then steal the jewel from him? He never should have let her live, he should have killed her so he would not have been betrayed like this. It would have saved him this bitter heartache that he now carried deep within his chest and now broken heart.
InuYuki then collected the Shikon jewel from his fingers and inspected it in her clawed hands. Its pink light gleaming under the sun's harsh rays into her amber eyes admiring its beauty. "But I shall take the shikon no tama as a reward my dear. This jewel is about to absorb plenty of misery and bloodshed, once I use it to slaughter the villagers" she sneered.
Naraku then wondered off still using InuYuki's form and carrying the shikon jewel in his grasp. Leaving Kichirou to bleed to death in an open field, alone and filled with hatred. The strong smell of blood would soon lure demons to his location and in his current condition there was no way he would be able to fight them off.
Kichirou's gaze became a glare, his anger, hatred, despair and bitterness overwhelming him. He never should have trusted InuYuki would be anything but a demon. Manipulative and cruel, seeking only power and to cause more pain and bloodshed. Why had he believed she could be anything other than what a demon's pure nature truly was.
"You liar…" he whispered bitterly. All of it had been lies, she meant nothing to him after all as much as he had wanted to believe otherwise. She had used him to her own means and taken the jewel from him when he lowered his guard. She had probably planned this all along from the very beginning.
"LIAR!" he screamed angrily as the hanyou walked into the distance. He would never forgive her for this, for stealing his heart only to shatter it like glass. She would pay dearly for corrupting his heart and stealing the sacred jewel.
Kaede's eyes were wide with shock and disbelief upon hearing these words. There was no way InuYuki was capable of committing such an act towards his fallen brother. It didn't sound like something the Hanyou would commit. Her heart was not entirely pure, but she was not one to attack without reason or sense.
When Mistress centipede had captured him as a child in hopes of holding him hostage to claim the jewel. InuYuki had saved his life instead of allowing the demon to kill him. When he asked her about it she had simply stated that she did not want another demon claiming the jewel for their own, which he had found rather odd indeed.
"But Kichirou. I cannot believe that InuYuki could have committed such a brutal act" Kaede argued sternly. It was just not in her nature, to kill or hurt people in such a cruel way. Though she acted otherwise she was indeed a kind soul who had a tragic past, unable to find her place in the world and seeking her own home.
InuYuki's amber eyes darkened filling with rage and her hands gripping into fists. She glared at Kaede enraged that he did not believe her and was possibly believing these lies. "Are you seriously suggesting that I'm the one who betrayed you?!" InuYuki growled furiously. She still hadn't forgotten how he had aimed an arrow at her in the woods and told her to die.
Kichirou straightened up to face her, the pain of his past wound now gone. It had only been a wound memory; this body was no longer flesh and blood after all. His brown eyes cold and empty. "You know that it's true, that's why I concentrated the last of my strength and bound you to the sacred tree with my arrow" he explained bluntly his tone straightforward and stern.
InuYuki glared at Kichirou angrily as he approached her silently. She was ready for whatever he had in store, she would not allow him to hurt her all over again. Though she had indeed once loved this man and carried some affection for him, she could not forgive the heartbreak he had caused her in the past.
Kichirou's gaze was sad and longing as he approached the half demon girl. He only wished he could have spent more time with her before they had been torn apart. That he could have stayed in that happy dream with her where the betrayal had been lies. Where she had not slain him, and had never stolen the shikon jewel from his grasp.
"InuYuki" he said tenderly his tone sad. Though he hated her for what she had done, his heart still lingered with some other feeling for her. He could still feel the old affections lingering inside of him from their past, but he pushed them away. He could not allow himself to fall all over again and suffer at her hands once more.
InuYuki gave him a look on confusion upon seeing his expression. He sounded so sad and so lonely, not only that it felt so strange to look upon him again after 50 years of being bound to the sacred tree. It didn't feel real that he was now standing before her, looking exactly the same as he had back then when they turned enemies.
As he closed the distance between himself and the hanyou, he gripped the sleeves of the robe of the fire rat in each of his hands. The same robe her late father had given her many years ago. "You and I were fated to never see each other again" he said sadly. That day his life had not only ended, but his relationship with his once beloved lover, InuYuki.
He then gripped the robe of the fire rat tightly in his arms not letting go. He then concentrated his spiritual powers into his hands harming the Hanyou. She had to die, if not she would only deceive others as she had him and kill more innocent lives. He would not allow such a thing to repeat as long as he was able to stop her.
InuYuki screamed in pain as the flow of spiritual power surged through her body and burning the robe of the fire rat. She was then blasted back some feet away and landed face first on the ground. But what hurt most, was knowing the man she had once loved with all her heart. The second human next to her father to become close to, was now her bitter enemy.
