A/N: Thank you guys for reviewing! I really appreciate it the feedback from you guys. So now that Naraku knows what's going on, I think its time for Tsubaki to hit the road...
Naraku's POV
After the big blow up with Naima, I sped down the Brooklyn streets, on my way back to my apartment. I was brooding with anger and I had to calm myself down so I could get back to my place in one piece. However, I knew that my calmness would all go away once I saw Tsubaki again. How dare she trick me like that. Oh she was definitely going to get hers.
I swerved into the parking lot, jumped out of my truck, and stormed to the front door. When I got inside I saw that Tsubaki was now in the livingroom with Bankotsu watching television. "Hi baby. I mi..." she attempted to say, but I cut her off with a tight grip on her arm. She gasped loudly as I yanked her off of the sofa and gave her an icy stare.
"Do you want to tell me something, Tsubaki?" I growled at her, giving her one last chance to come clean before I went off on her. She stared up at me with so much fear in her eyes, but didn't say anything. "I asked you a question!" I snapped at the human female, "do you want to tell me something?!" I tightened my grip on her arm, which caused her to wince in pain.
"Ow Naraku. You're hurting me," she whined, squinting her eyes in an expression of pain.
"Then answer my question! Do you want to tell me something?!"
"Dude what is going on?" Bankotsu asked with wide eyes as he got off of the couch and stood behind me. I looked over my shoulder and at my friend.
"Why don't we ask my sweet girlfriend here! Tsubaki you better tell me what you did to my relationship with Naima and you better tell me now!" My grip around her arm became even tighter and a few tears were beginning to leak from Tsubaki's eyes.
"Ow Naraku please. You're really hurting me. Stop it, please." I let out a menacing growl as I released her arm and placed my hands on her shirt collar. I lifted her off of the ground and slammed her into the nearest wall. "Narakuuuu. Please, stop," Tsubaki begged me, even more tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Why, Tsubaki?! Why did you curse my relationship with Naima?!"
"B-Because I l-love y-you." I growled loudly as I removed one of my hands from around her collar and lifted my hand up to strike her, but Bankotsu stopped me before I could hit the deceitful woman.
"Dude stop!" Bankotsu cried as he held onto my wrist, "you can't hit a woman, no matter how bad she is. Naraku calm down, its not like you to hit a female."
"Dammit Bankotsu you better let me go right now!"
"No! No Naraku I can't let you hit her. Come on man just...just calm down for a second. Please." I narrowed my eyes at the woman and growled before I released my hold on her. She hit the floor with a loud thud.
"Why did you lie to me and make me lose the woman that I love most in life, Tsubaki?!"
"Because I'm the one who loves you, Naraku," Tsubaki replied, staring up at me with wet, fearful eyes. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you, but I couldn't have you as long as Naima was around."
"So you put a curse on us so I would lose my best friend?!"
"Naraku, please try to understand. I didn't want you to get hurt, I just wanted Naima out of the way."
"That doesn't make it any better Tsubaki!" I turned around and grabbed a vase off of the table and threw it into another wall. Little pieces of glass scattering all over the floor. Tsubaki jumped a little, seeing how full of rage I was at the moment.
"Naraku. You really need to calm down before you hurt somebody," Bankotsu pleaded with me.
"No! I'm not going to calm down!" I snapped back at Bankotsu, which caused him to back up away from me a little. I then turned back to Tsubaki and took a step closer to her. Her bottom lip was now quivering with fear. She hugged her knees closer to her chest, trying her best to get as far away from me as possible. "I trusted you and you go and do this?! How dare you!"
"N-Na-Naraku...I...I..."
"Y-You what?! Stop stuttering and own up to what you did! You never loved me! If you did you wouldn't have gone and did something like this! You only lusted after me and were jealous because I was giving all my attention to Naima! How selfish are you?!"
"Naraku I do love you! You don't know how much I love you! I even put up with your cheating ways! Even when we were together, you still tried to get back with Naima! I knew that you were always thinking about her! Even when you called out her name while making love to me, I forgave you!"
"I would feel bad about all of that if you hadn't done what you did! Besides I was always honest with you about my feelings toward Naima! I never once told you that I was over her and I told you that I still loved her!"
"But you're supposed to love me!"
"I don't love you, Tsubaki! Especially now! I never once told you that I loved you during our whole relationship, because I don't!" My last statement seemed to piss Tsubaki off a little.
"You jerk!" she screamed as she hopped off of the floor and charged after me. She tried to hit me in the face, but I caught her arms and held onto her wrists tightly. "I gave you my heart and you say that you never loved me at all?!"
"You knew that I didn't love you! That's why you cursed us! I could be happily engaged or even married to Naima right now, but you had to go and ruin it for us!"
"No Naraku! You ruined it yourself!" I let go of her wrists and gave her a confused look.
"What are you talking about?!" She panted hard as she wiped away some of the tears that continued to flow.
"My spells...my spells can only work if the person already has those negative emotions deep within their heart. They cannot put emotions into people, they can only enhance the emotions that are already there." I widened my eyebrows at this.
"What do you mean?" I asked, cocking my head to the side. She gave me a devious smirk.
"What I mean is that deep down inside, you really wanted to leave Naima all those years ago. You yourself wanted to leave or else my curse wouldn't have worked." I narrowed my eyes at her as I clenched my fists up into a ball.
"You liar! You lie!"
"No I'm not lying Naraku! You may act like you're all in love with Naima, but somewhere, deep inside that heart of yours, something held you back from her and wanted you to leave her. Your own emotions caused you to leave. My spell only brought those emotions out into the open. The same goes for Naima. Your little stupid friendship only broke because deep down, Naima hates you for leaving her. She just proved it tonight." I didn't know what to say to all of that. Was she serious or was she just manipulating me again?
"Get out, Tsubaki," I demanded in a calm, but threatening tone.
"Why Naraku? You can't stand to hear the truth?! You act like your relationship and your love for Naima is so perfect and pure, but in reality its just as flawed as it can be!"
"I said GET OUT!" I got off of the couch and grabbed her backpack and purse. I marched over to the door and threw her things outside of it. I continued to hold open the door and gave her a warning look. She gave me a shocked look back.
"You're throwing me out?! How will I get home?! I have no money!"
"Does it look like I give a damn?! Get the hell out right now!" She pouted again, but slowly walked over to the door, but stopped to give me one final message.
"You are too late anyways Naraku, because Naima loves Sesshoumaru. And she is NEVER going to leave him. You lost Naima of your own accord and one day you'll realize that you should have stayed with me."
"Just go!" I yelled at her as I slammed the door in her face. After locking it back, I turned around and walked back over to the couch and sank down on it. I buried my face into my hands, trying to regain control of my heavy breathing. I could feel Bankotsu as he sat down next to me.
"Dude are you okay?" he asked, patting my back.
"Does it look like I'm okay?" I replied, moving my hands so I could look at him. He just chuckled softly.
"No, I guess you're not."
"I can't believe this man! How could the same woman I sleep with be the same woman who made me lose my woman."
"Well, that's what happens when you let your dick overrule your head. I told you months ago that you should have just let that be a one night stand. You knew that you didn't love her. I mean, was the sex really that good?"
"Anything's better than my hands."
"Okay dude, too much information."
"Why didn't I just listen to Kikyo as soon as she told me what was up? Then I could have stopped this whole thing before it happened."
"Because you trust people too easily. Not everybody who smiles in your face is your friend, Naraku. You need to let your guard up more. I know that you didn't have many friends growing up because you are a half demon, but you can't just allow anybody to walk into your life. You need to be more careful."
"I know. I know. Still, I should have stopped this as soon as I was aware of what was going on. I shouldn't have waited."
"Something tells me that this is for the best." I gave him a very confused look.
"Don't tell me that you're agreeing with Tsubaki."
"No. No, I'm not agreeing with her totally, but she did make since Naraku. I mean, honestly, I still think that Naima does resent you for leaving her. You didn't see what we saw. When she said that she didn't come out of her room for most of that summer, she wasn't lying. She stayed in her house almost all day, every day. And even when she had to leave so she could go to school, she would cry when she came home because you wasn't around to go through freshman year with her. So do I think that the spell brought out her resentment towards you? Yes. Do I think that she hates you? No. Do I think that everything that the spell made her do came from the heart? No. All I'm saying is...is that whatever it was deep down inside of you that made you want to leave, you need to talk to her about it. Just like you need to talk about how she really feels about the day you left." I shook my head slightly.
"I don't think so 'B'. I think Naima really hates me. I mean, she called me a half breed and said that I wasn't even a real demon. I can't believe that she would say something like that."
"She wouldn't say something like that. That part must have been the spell. Just call her, tell her to come over and talk things out with her, because you two never really did that. You just assumed that everything between you two was okay. Look, I'll even leave for a while and go to my parents house. Just talk to her. Everything will be okay." I looked at him for a second or two before nodding my head. Bankotsu smiled and patted my back, before getting up and leaving the apartment. I hesitated for a few moments before I slowly pulled out my phone. If what Bankotsu said was true, then what part of that arguement was her and what part of it was the spell? I guess it never hurts to find out. I opened the phone and searched for Naima's name in the contacts, when a knock on the door stopped me. I sighed deeply, thinking that Bankotsu had come back to get his keys that he had probably left inside. I got off of the couch and slowly walked over to the door. My eyes widened when I saw who it was.
"Na-Naima?" I gasped, suprised that she was even over here right now. She gave me a weak smile through the tears that were falling down her face.
"H-Hey, Naraku. Ummm...c-can I come in?"
A/N: Gasp! Naraku and Naima all alone at night?! Uh ohhh, lol.
Well, what do you guys think will happen?...author nudges readers to leave a review
