The Dream Of Sorrows
No Yume Wa Kanashimi
Chapter One Nightmare's Prey
Akumu Wa Emono
By Inuyashas Youkai
Sometime ,during a battle, the others seemed to be distracted in, to lend a hand the young priestess drew her bow . Kagome soon found though she couldn't make her
body move from the spot, where her bow was drawn taunt. A unknown outside force had her frozen helpless to her oncoming attack . A tentacle quickly ascending upon her still form , above firmly attached to the body of a large infamous spider . Too late for her hanyou or the rest of her friends to stop or thwart the impending injury she felt coming.
Though contrary to popular beliefs ,as numerous gasps filling the deadly silence ,nothing came. Without Kagome's will or control ,a barrier encased around her blocking the outstretched appendage .Relief escaped her and those around her , as the protruding offender crashed into the wall of the barrier .Thus, allowing the piecing roar to sound from the spider in annoyance .
It was then ,Kagome felt it ,a feeling of dread come over her like a thick blanket intensified by pure evil. A shiver escaped down her form ,when she looked to her friends,she knew this was real .By the look on their faces, she knew that they had felt the horrid emotions that emerged within her ,caused by the aura passing in close proximity to hers. Miroku and Kagome felt two spirit ,both Naraku's incarnations,one of the wind and one of the void. It was now known to them as to who was lurking in the shadows ,it was Kanna and Kagura. Followed by their recognition a loud devious shrill of laughter carried thru the area they now occupied. "KukUkUkUKUkUkUkUkUkUkkUkUkUkU"
was the sound alerting them back to Naraku's presence. Moments transcending , a sudden burning enveloping her soul set itself aflame. Kagome looked to her right drawn to the presence of the new obtrusion to her sight ,only adding to complicate her plight.
There standing stricken by death ,only allowed to walk the life of the living was that of her Shinidamachi or soul collectors ,supplied her with lost souls. Kikyo, slowly sauntered toward her future incarnation, allowing the scorching of Kagome's soul to intensify. The hanyou ,Inuyasha tried to gain a closer position to the feuding Miko, however was thrown back as fast as he came by the barrier now around the two. Miroku attempted to use the wind tunnel shrouded by his sacred beads wrapped around his hand. This attack by Miroku only resurfaced the never ending risk to himself ,the Saimyosho or Naraku's hell wasps, began to fill their poison into the opening of his hand . Miroku soon fell to his knees in result of the pain from the effects of the poison. The sight of the Monk falling assured the rushing of his secret love to his side,while the others continued their fight.
Inuyasha tried again, seeing as Kikyo strengthened her hold onto Kagome's soul in attempts to crush her will, in order to allow Kanna and Kagura to join in their efforts. The hanyou raised the Tessaiga over his head encircling himself in a half crescent shape above ,with quickened movement bleeding crimson. Following ,Inuyasha brought down Kaze No Kizu, "The wind Scar" with swift precision .The effects would be dire to the tightly knitted barrier blocking him to protect his priestess if Kanna wouldn't have sucked up the blast and threw the attack back to it's original owner . The hanyou knew that his approaching close proximity to the girls wouldn't allow him to escape the brunt attack in time. Especially ,now that Kikyo sent him flying attaching him to a trunk of a tree to keep him from interfering, the blast certainly found him head on .
Miroku had met his fate's end as the poison had nearly overcome his system ,it was evident with the growing purple trails emerging from the origin of his wind tunnel, stretching outward through the rest of his body. The monk through squinted eyes scanned over the area, he noted that the situation was falling out of control rather quickly..The hanyou, he noticed was affixed to a crushed tree , splintered with the limp for of the weakened half demon draped over the severed stump. Kagome was seemingly out of their reach while trapped inside with the women companions of their foe. Sango ,was in no shape even with no injuries to endured the brunt of this massacre on her own . With devastation known to him he reached for his cursed hand that carried the wind tunnel ,feeling the winds coming from it began to swirl around him uncontrollably,abruptly tearing himself and away from his companions ,Sango as well.
Sango with a practiced hand summoned the demons of her Hirokotsu as she threw the oversized,bone made boomerang towards the girls huddled over Kagome in order to stop what they were planning to do with the girl, knowing whatever it was couldn't be good. If only other than to distract them to buy time she felt that she had to result in stalling as she yelled for Inuyasha . Sango's summoning the hanyou only resulted in more of the evil cackling resounding in her eardrums .as the evil monster Naraku redirected his attentions onto her. In the coming moments ,she found herself faced with the answer ,of her calling of the hanyou . Though she wasn't completely sure if Inuyasha had noticed her because Inuyasha was no longer Hanyou ,but appeared that of a full demon like his older brother Sesshomeru .The demon standing in her presence
had the eyes that screamed their desire for blood, Sango only hoped that it was her's that the beast n front of her desired.
Kagome now fallen limp into the cursed embrace of her captor Naraku, while the encircled group of girls followed .Among them with Kikyo at the head concentrating her efforts within the sight of the near completed Shikon Jewel.. The tainted soul of the older priestess seemed to further defile the once pure orb ,while with her fingers. From Inuyasha's standpoint through his full demonic eyes that something had to be done,now knowing Kikyo's choice,he made one of his own . Inuyasha knew where his alliances lied ,they definitely weren't with the one of his past love ..Kikyo ,where he had once believed his place to be ,even when she had awakened hating him. Over time those truths were no longer ,they faded into the growing affections of her reincarnation,Kagome. Thought a little late,as the timing was off ,while the dire ending of their annihilation .was coming to a close. The hanyou turned demon with renewed determination , rose to gain thundering speeds,while accepting fully of the known consequences shattering the barriers hold with his own body,Inuyasha would be purified of worse . Nothing else mattered other than the fact remaining that she wasn't going to die, he wouldn't allow them to take her away from him. The demons body tore threw the strings holding the now frayed protective circle around Kagome,as they were not needed ,it was not of him that she needed protection but the other way around.
The injury of deep welts and extreme burns riddled his body as his demonic nature assumed its defiant position within their midst . The actions of Inuyasha served two purposes, one destroy the barrier and two to distract them long enough to attack Naraku for the retrieval of his priestess Kagome. Once the barrier was torn down he gave no hesitation to use the blood from the hole reopened in his chest from Sesshomeru long passed .Then with the blood dripping from his claws ,Inuyasha whipped his sharp appendages back out tossing a roar of words from his lips ."Hijin Kesso !",or Blades of blood released suddenly from the life force in the blood on his claws, the attack shredded through the arm of Kikyo, across the chest of the spider Naraku,and across the lower abdomens of the wind sorceress and the mirror void. This wasn't a attack that he used to really cause real harm to them because he knew it had not . In attempt to stun them long enough to be distracted to release Kagome was all he hoped for . In a second after the attack was unleashed ,with quick ,fluid movements move in close proximity to snatch Kagome's slacked form away for the group ,pulling her into his awaiting arms ,then dashing themselves away from the immediate area. Inuyasha knew that if Naraku didn't want the hanyou to have the priestess back ,he wouldn't have allowed him so easily,so deep down he knew the truth. The truth was this was far from over, he mused noting the change of her orbs fading to the color of the Shikon Jewel.
Preparing himself for the unknown yet to come, Inuyasha never expected of what had occurred from within his embrace. In slow motion movements Kagome rose the direction of her gaze to lock with his, in her teary glaze he saw the struggle fighting within them. The battle raging within her soul to prevent the inevitable causing her body to slightly shake, Kagome slowly rose her hand to his cheek ,allowing her whisper to reach his ears "Inuyasha , I need you to know that I tried to fight .I am sorry that Ia m so weak . I understand now why my feelings of love towards you aren't returned but linger with Kikyo ,but with that I cannot do what they desire for me to do .I can't kill you, so I made my choice , farewell Inuyasha . I love you. " In the passing moments Kagome 's hand returned with one of her "Hama No Ya ", or Sacred Arrows. Then Kagome accurately pulled the tip of it to her chest with a thrust ,stabbing the arrows point deep within her flesh straight for her heart. "Noooooo ! Kagome, Why?" Inuyasha yelled into the air as the wind was knocked out of him slightly by her action. A long moment came and went before Kagome responded to Inuyasha, though she did. Still in the arms of Inuyasha she looked deeply into his now saddened eyes and told him"Inuyasha it is because of my deep love for you that I wanted to save you ,so instead I gave up mine to give yours for your own. I am sorry though I wish I had more time ...with..you..Then she became silent .
Shaken from the nightmare from his sleep Inuyasha woke up with a sorrowful expression,while soon scanning the area to ensure what the images were ,were in-fact just a bad dream. Though the groups presence safely back at the village of Kaede's to prove that it was all but a nightmare. There was something about it that within his mind he couldn't shake and it scared him. Maybe it wasn't a nightmare nor a vision to remind of what's past ,though to warn them of what's yet to come for them .
To be Continued...