Calculating Life: A Nightmare of Disaster and Death
生命。
"Life."
SUMMARY: Sequel to Calculating Life: A Fairytale of Fire and Fantasy. After the "death" of Kagome, the Takahashi's adoptive daughter and InuYasha's fate-chosen mate, what will the world do? She had a power so divine that threatened the entire universe if wielded by the wrong hands, which is what Naraku is trying to do. When Naraku takes her body with those intentions, will he be able to destroy everything, or will Kagome's missing soul and the missing jewel cause problems for him? Can Kagome ever return to her one true love, InuYasha or will her soul not be able to return to her body like she had initially planned? Why are there so many recent murders in Tokyo? When the place Kagome called home for a short time is filled with such a nightmare of disaster and death, much like what happened to her prior home, the moon kingdom, what can she do? If Naraku controls her body with the power of his miasma, what will happen? Can the moon kingdom be restored to its original glory in such chaos?
DISCLAIMER: I do not own InuYasha and probably never will. :'(
-LAST TIME-
"Hm, it seems everyone is calling me this lately. But you may address me as Chi no tenshi." she said with a smirk.
"How…?" he questioned.
"My master saved me from death. But no one will save you." she replied, her eyes turning into solid, purple ice as she stared into his. He grabbed her arm and threw her into the wall. She swiftly jumped up and sprang towards him. She drew a knife and held it towards him. There was a clear opening, but she didn't take it. Instead, she threw the knife down. "Kill me." she said.
-CURRENT-
"This Sesshomaru will not." he said, pushing her into the wall and staring into her eyes with his hardened ones. She gazed back, her mind trying to process the things she was feeling inside of her frozen heart seeing as though she functioned quite robotically now. Her eyes began to flash between red and hardened violet, settling on violet with blood red flakes of color in them. She held her head in her hands.
"Kill him, tenshi." she heard Naraku say in her head.
"I…" she said aloud.
"KILL him. Do not disobey your master." he ordered inside of her mind, growling.
"Master…I cannot, Master. Kill him? Why?" she said in a cold and confused voice.
"Because I ORDERED you to!" he bellowed, causing her to grasp her head tighter.
"You are hurting me, Master." she said sharply with no emotion, referring to the miasma poison in her veins reacting to Naraku's anger.
"Good, you little bitch! You're disobeying me, you should DIE right now. But I have much more intended for you so I won't kill you." he replied, clenching his fist, causing her to scream as miasma pulsed violently and angrily to her non beating heart. "Kill. Kill! KILL!" he growled.
She looked up at Sesshomaru with empty eyes, drawing her katana. She swiftly swung it at him, hitting him in the side before he could react. He drew his whip and attempted to hit the sword but couldn't get past Kagome's aura. He jumped out of the way as her sword rushed towards his neck, which was located well above her head.
"Are you really allowing yourself to be so easily controlled, Kagome?" asked Sesshomaru, dodging yet another one of her swift attacks. 'Damn, I can't attack her and she's good.' he thought.
"Master said kill. I must kill." she answered, landing a blow on his upper left arm. She formed a fist and punched his hard abs. Her stone-like fist made a hard cracking noise as it broke in several places as it collided with his stone abdomen, which she ignored.
His words began to sink through the black and purple barrier guarding and freezing her heart. She slowed her attacks, the red slightly fading from her eyes. Her aura was intentionally weakened by her and Sesshomaru took this as an opportunity to try to knock some sense back into her. His acid whip hit her thigh three times in under a second as it moved upwards to her back. It struck her back and stomach several times, making slices in the already slutty kimono. Acid began to sizzle in her wounds, reacting chemically with the miasma. She stumbled once, falling into the mirror, causing it to shatter. Her aura became solid again as it expanded. She took a piece of glass and squeezed it, dark blood dripping down her wrist as she tried to regain composure. Windows and lighting exploded as her aura reached them.
"GO!" she yelled harshly as the building began to split in half and crumble.
"This Sesshomaru will not leave unless you come with." Sesshomaru said cooly.
"I am not your Kagome. Her existence is no more. Leave." she said blandly as a black rip in the air engulfed him, transporting him back to the Takahashi mansion.
"Kagome, dammit." Sesshomaru muttered, seeing where he was. "You better be alright."
Kagome calmed, jumping out of a window and standing on a high power line. She watched as the building collapsed, her eyes turning to stone as she began to run along the line. She knew she could run as far as her heart desired until Naraku sent a portal to claim her. She could run but never hide. A cat and mouse game. An endless torture as long as she lived, which would most likely be forever. She sighed and stopped as she reached the bridge over Tokyo Bay. She climbed to the top and sat down. It was so beautiful. The lights of Tokyo and the twinkling of stars in the night sky reflected off of the bay making it glow.
'Why do I live when i've killed so many? Do I simply live because i've killed so many? No, i'm not really living. Something is missing. Am I dead? Why is it like this?' she asked herself, staring below into the water. She stood and made a dive. The cool water caressed her skin as she went deeper and deeper. Her ink colored hair fanned out around her and made everything serene and mystical. She closed her eyes and waited for something to happen, something like death. A black and dark purple rip formed in the water near her. She breathed outward in a sigh, trying to swim away before Naraku got her. She wanted to see more of the world and experience better times. Too late. The rip angrily and quickly pulled her in before people above in Tokyo saw anything. She landed with a noise on her feet as she reached hell.
"Well, well, well, Tenshi." Naraku cooed in a rather angry voice. He stood and walked toward her soaking form. He threw a flame toward her, drying her off quickly.
"Thank you. I was cold, Master-sama." she replied icily.
"You'd be happier being cold than with what i'm going to do to you." he smirked as she took one step back. "You disobeyed. You will be punished." She solidified her aura, preventing him from attacking her. "I'll kill you with the miasma, tenshi. Don't forget who controls you, let down your aura, now. Strip to your panties." he threatened, smirking as she did, but with hesitation he noticed.
He slapped her across the face and had his slaves bring out several torture weapons. He took a knife and made a slice across her exposed stomach. His slaves and demons gathered around, watching lustfully. Kagome moved her arm to cover her bare chest. Naraku took a whip and repeatedly hit her with it causing angry marks to appear. He threw her small frame to the ground and got on top, harshly pressing his lips to hers. As he kissed her, he dug his claws into her side, twisting them. She began to gasp for air as he continued to kiss her. He shoved his tongue into her mouth and basically down her throat. He pulled away.
"You taste so good, tenshi." he said softly, jerking his claws out of her side. He straddled her tiny waist and made several blows to her rib cage, numeral cracks sounding. He then grabbed her tiny, thin wrist and clenched it in his hands, grasping it tighter and tighter until he felt it snap. The pool of blood that were his eyes glanced hungrily down her form. He looked from her full breasts to her stomach that was so flat that you could see her ribs and those bones at her hips (a/n: are those pelvic bones? Not sure), he looked at her slim and toned legs that bent at the knees, then down to her toes that were clenching and unclenching, seeing as though she refused to call out in pain. He stood and laid something out on the ground that she didn't bother to look at. He motioned her to stand and she did, looking at what he had laid out. Hot coals, great. She walked to the starting point and knew there was a catch. She could easily do this by taking small, light steps and Naraku knew that, so there must be something different about it.
"Begin." he ordered with a smirk. She took her first step lightly, then her second and third. She was halfway across with no problem at all until she felt an intense change in the gravity, it was for forceful, making her heavy and it hard to walk. She lifted a foot slowly with much resistance from gravity and put it back down again. By now, her feet were burning. After she made it across, she looked at her feet. They were burnt badly on the bottoms. "I hope you've had enough torture for one night. Disobey me again and it will be one hundred times worse than this." he said, throwing her a very short red and black silk robe with a dragon on it. She gave a small bow and turned, slipping the robe on and glaring. She walked into her sleeping quarters. Three people followed her inside.
"Jesus, Kagome." she heard a woman's voice say. "We've never seen anyone tortured like that. How did you manage to piss him off so bad?" the woman asked.
"Didn't you see it, Kagura?" asked the familiar voice of Bankotsu. "She refused to kill Sesshomaru, she ran around Tokyo wildly, then she tried to commit suicide by drowning herself in Tokyo Bay." he laughed. "It was pretty stupid to try suicide seeing as though you have no soul. Therefore, you can't die."
"I do have a soul!" Kagome shot back in her normal cold voice. "Right, onee-san?" she asked Kagura. She didn't respond. "Onee-san?" she asked again. Kagura looked back at her with sad eyes and shook her head. Kagome looked down. "Whatever. That just means I can kill all I want and nothing will ever happen to me. I am just fine with that." she said smugly and laid back on her bed, silently wincing.
"Don't act so tough, Kagome. You're hurt." muttered Bankotsu, taking a bandage and untying her robe. He wrapped it around her ribs and cut stomach. The silent white haired, black eyed girl, Kanna, began to wrap Kagome's wrists.
"I am fine." she said stubbornly and sat up, her unfinished ribs making another crunching noise. "Itai." she said.
"See? I told you." he chuckled. He continued with her bandaging, of course, copping a feel, to which she responded by slapping him. Kagura decided to join in and help to fix the broken form of the girl she considered a little sister. She bandaged her feet all the way up to below her knees, leaving her toes and heels out.
"Thanks." Kagome said and laid back down. Kanna and Kagura nodded and walked out as Bankotsu laid on the bed with her. "What are you doing?"
"Laying here."
"Why?"
"I'm too lazy to go back to my room….Annnd I wanna spend some time with you." he smirked.
"Leave."
"Nuh uh. Don't be such a bitch, Kagome." he laughed.
"I can be a bitch if I want. I do not have a soul." she said coldly, laying on her side, facing away from him.
"Oooh. That's the first time i've ever heard you curse."
"Yes. Living in hell does that to a person." she muttered.
"Well, just because you don't have a soul doesn't mean you aren't living. I'm sure your soul is out there somewhere. We just have to find it." he encouraged, wrapping his arms around her small body and molding his body into the back of hers.
"You are sweet when you want to be." she stated, putting her hand on his. She relaxed until he began to make a humping motion against her. "Leave." she said coldly.
"Kay, bye babe." he chuckled, exiting promptly, not waiting to feel her anger. She began to get tired and her pain started to fade.
"Training, tenshi." Naraku ordered from the doorway. Kagome put a pillow over her head. "Are you disobeying me?" he asked in a threatening tone. She got up and walked to her closet, putting on a red zip up exercise bra because she couldn't put a shirt on over the bandages. She also put on black short shorts, pulling her hair into a high ponytail. "Who bandaged you?" he asked.
"I did it myself. It hurt, master." she lied, not wanting to get them in trouble.
"Okay, come along." he said.
They walked into a fire surrounded dojo and began sparing. Kagome landed seventeen blows on Naraku in under three minutes. "Okay. Let's test your control skills now." he said, a group of slaves walking inside. A man was brought over. "Death by weapon, no usage of hands. Go."
Kagome looked over to a box of weapons and brought a knife out with her mind. The knife aimed and darted into the man's heart. Death in under 2 seconds. A woman was summoned. Kagome expanded her aura, the woman's heart stopping. K.O. Another man walked over with a gun in his hands. Kagome looked into his eyes, her's hard as diamond but lifeless as stone. He raised the gun to his head and shot himself. Dead. The next test dummy came over. Kagome looked at them. Her eyes widened a fraction for a moment, looking as if a spark had ignited in them. The slave combusting into flames. Kagome felt so guilty and terrible, but that feeling would only worsen in a matter on seconds.
Naraku motioned for the child to come over. 'No.' Kagome thought. "Take her life without touching her." he ordered. Kagome looked at her.
"I am sorry." she said so quietly that no one could hear her and the child looked at her with frightened eyes. Kagome looked into her eyes for a millisecond, the child's neck snapping as she fell over and died.
The next test subject was a guy that looked no older than 16. He was tall and very handsome, Kagome noticed. 'I am taking all of these innocent lives right now. How can I be so cruel?' she asked herself. "Make it a painful and gruesome death," Naraku chuckled evilly. Kagome looked into the guy's eyes, trying to calm him and let her thoughts enter his mind. 'I am going to make this as quick and painless as possible. Forgive me. I will rescue you, give it time. You will not stay dead.' she reassured him in his mind. She made a lunge for him, knocking him to the ground, her on top. She straddled his hips and leaned down towards his neck. She bit into his neck with her fangs and sucked. He hissed. She was gulping down his blood ounce by ounce. She moved her hand up to his neck, biting her hand and letting her own blood drip onto him. Some ran down his neck and some onto the ground. Her hair fell around them like a curtain. The dull sound of gulping and heavy breathing filled the room. She pulled away, raising her head to look at Naraku. Blood ran down her mouth in a rather sensual but cruel way. She stood.
"May we take a break, now, Master-sama?" she asked, licking her fangs with her small tongue.
"Yes, most certainly. You have proved yourself to me today." he chuckled, looking lustfully at her blood stained mouth. Kagome bowed and turned, walking toward the showers. She felt disgusting.
"Taking a life. What a horrid thing." she muttered to herself, undressing and stepping into the shower, trying to wash away her guilt.
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