Story Six: To Kill a Mother's Love
Featuring: Izayoi and Inuyasha
Song: X Japan Crucify My Love

Crucify my love - If my love is blind
Crucify my love - If it sets me free
Never know, Never trust
That love should see a color
Crucify my love - If it should be that way

I hold my baby in my arms, he is so perfect. He looks so much like his father, and that is the problem. My people and my lover's people were never that accepting. Here he is hated for his demonic blood, there; he would be hated for his human blood. I love him and I want to raise him well. He shall be cursed though, cursed because he will never be accepted anywhere, he will never fit in. That's why I cry at night, not for my own banishment but for his eternal banishment.

Swing the heartache - Feel it inside out
When the wind cries - I'll say good bye
Tried to learn, Tried to find
To reach out for eternity
Where's the answer - Is this forever

I know that the other women whisper about me, wonder why I would dare to let the child live, why I would bed with a demon. I loved him so much, though I suppose very few get to feel love and know that it makes you do things you would otherwise have reconsidered. My love was also handsome; it was something I knew would not be avoided. Someday, I hope demons and humans can have children and those children will grow up in a world where they are accepted.

Like a river flowing to the sea
You'll be miles away, and I will know
I know I can deal with the pain
No reason to cry

I carry my sleeping child down the hall; those who are in it either avert their gaze or stare at me with the coldest looks. Sometimes even I question my actions. I gaze at his perfect face, and those cute ears. I will never stop loving him, no matter what people say or do to me.

Crucify my love - If my love is blind
Crucify my love - If it sets me free
Never know, Never trust
That love should see a color
Crucify my love - If it should be that way

They can tell me to abandon him, to have him killed, to smother him, oh the list goes on. Each suggestion more disgusting than the last. What is so wrong with loving your child? Demon mothers love their children, the animals love theirs, and humans adore their children. I wish they could see he is a child like any other, I guess they only see the golden eyes, the white hair and the dog ears. I put him down to rest and gaze out at the garden.

'Til the loneliness shadows the sky
I'll be sailing down and I will know
I know I can clear the clouds away
Oh is it a crime to love

Some days the threats get worse, some days it is me not him. It makes me feel so terrible, like some sort of criminal instead of just a mother. Yet, they will come to my defense when the honor of our clan is questioned; at least they still have that much love for me. Even still, they find many ways to torture me. Last week, there were lumps of dirt in my soup and when I complained I was told they were dumplings and there was nothing wrong with it. What did I do other than create a new life with my lover, is that so wrong?

Swing the heartache - Feel it inside out
When the wind cries - I'll say good bye
Tried to learn, Tried to find
To reach out for eternity
Where's the answer - Is this forever
If my love is blind
Crucify my love - If it sets me free
Never know, Never trust
That love should see a color
Crucify my love - If it should be that way