Calculating Life: A Nightmare of Disaster and Death
A Bird Trapped in a Cage
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-
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.
-CURRENT-
Sesshomaru awoke in his bedroom to the sound of a thunderstorm. "How bothersome," he muttered, putting his hand against his forehead with an exasperated sigh. He pulled his silk blankets away, revealing his lean muscled bare chest. He stood, pulling baggy gray sweatpants on over his boxers and walked downstairs to have his daily brunch. He arrived in the breakfast nook, seeing InuYasha sitting there, angrily chomping his cereal, his attire very similar to his elder brother's. "Oh, stop eating like a hungry dog." Sesshomaru scolded cooly, raking his clawed fingers through his long, white-tinted, silver hair.
"Shut the fuck up, you fluff ass faggot." InuYasha growled, shoving more cereal into his mouth and chomping it to get on Sesshomaru's nerves.
"Well, well, someone needs to get laid." Sesshomaru said, taking eggs out to make an omelet.
"We don't all wanna contract every STD in existence by fucking hoes." InuYasha retorted.
"They aren't hoes. They are just experienced." Sesshomaru said, beating the eggs. "Okay, so they're hoes."
"And you're a man whore."
"Was that supposed to be an insult?" the older demon asked, while trying to figure out what to do next. "Yuki!" Sesshomaru called for the maid. "Make my omelet." He walked over to the breakfast bar where InuYasha was seated and snatched the cereal box.
"Hey!" InuYasha yelled, cereal flying out of his mouth.
"You'll get fat." Sesshomaru stated simply.
"Fuck you."
"One: That is incest. Two: That is gay. Three: I'm sure you'd rather fuck Kagome." Sesshomaru said.
"Don't joke about Kagome like that!" InuYasha growled as his eyes flashed red.
"No, I saw her last night. We were in the red light district and I saw her on the street. So, I mean, you know how Kagome is beautiful. We went to a love hotel, of course, I didn't know it was her at the time. We were up against the wall and whatnot when she attempted to kill me for no reason. Then she destroyed the building and sent me home. The end."
"You saw her body? Dammit! You should have followed her or brought her home or something!" he yelled.
"I told her she needed to come with me but she talked about the "Kagome we knew" and "Master" and nonsense. Maybe she's gone crazy." Sesshomaru said.
"No, she, in soul form, left her body because Naraku, aka "Master," wanted to take her soul to control the world. So now he has her body as she's stuck god only knows where!" InuYasha bellowed, throwing his bowl into the dishwasher and storming towards his room.
"Where are you going?" Sesshomaru asked, taking his plate with the omelet from Yuki and following after him.
"To find Kagome!" InuYasha yelled, pulling on some holy, faded jeans and a white, tight, v-neck teeshirt and some white basketball shoes.
Sesshomaru put the omelet in his mouth and went to get dressed. He put on a blue wife beater top, pulling it up a little on one side to expose him stomach. He also pulled on dark wash jeans with white and blue basketball shoes. He pulled his hair into a high pony tail and jogged downstairs, following InuYasha and eating the omelet. "Well of course I am coming with you." Sesshomaru muttered, finishing his brunch.
"Feh." InuYasha replied, walking outside, getting into his Veyron, Sesshomaru following suit. "Where should we look? We can't get to her if she is in hell, but she may be out on a killing spree."
"We should wait and go to Kabukicho tonight. We could search Harajuku, maybe." Sesshomaru replied as InuYasha headed there. They parked and walked into the mass of people. Looking around, they saw cosplayers and bands and stores. They searched there for a good two hours before moving on to the next place. It was ten o'clock when they went to Kabukicho. They split up and walked around, looking for any sight of Kagome. As soon as they met back up, they heard some noise from the alley way as a group of men came out, the Yakuza of course.
"Look, we're looking for someone. Get the fuck out of my way." InuYasha said angrily.
"And if we don't?" one asked smugly.
"I'll fucking kill you." InuYasha retorted.
"Now, now." Sesshomaru said cooly.
"You kill us? Ha, guys, the kid thinks he's so big and mighty." laughed one.
"You and what army?" another one chuckled. A form jumped from the roof of a building and landed behind the men. Before they could turn around, their necks were snapped. The girl with butt length black and platinum blonde hair that fell in soft spirals looked up, revealing bright violet eyes. "Yo." she said.
"Kagome?" InuYasha asked, shocked. "What did you do to yourself?"
"You do not like it? Too bad.." she muttered.
"I like it, it's just different." he shrugged.
"Kay, thanks. I have work to do, see ya." she said and made an attempt to jump onto the building overhead. InuYasha caught her wrist before she could.
"Nope. You're staying with us." he said. She huffed and glared at him.
"Let me go or I will kill you. Simple." she warned coldly.
"As if." InuYasha replied, rolling his eyes.
He yelped in surprise as Kagome's hand hooked onto his wrist and she pulled him towards her, his back facing her. She took her foot and kicked him in the back, sending him into the garbage cans up ahead. He jumped up heatedly as he saw her jump onto the roof of a building, running. He and Sesshomaru made a mad dash after her, hopping from rooftop to rooftop. Eventually they caught up to her as she crouched down, clutching her foot.
"What's wrong?" he asked, approaching her, taking notice of the knee high bandages on her feet. He watched as she pulled the bandages off. They were blood covered.
"Master punished me," she said simply.
"Bastard! Dammit to fucking hell! Why aren't you healing?" he bellowed.
"It has come to my attention that I do not have a soul, yet I am a miko. Without my soul, I do not heal as quick, but still quicker than a human. My feet refuse to heal because I do not get a break from this and I am always running," she replied, taking new bandages out of her kimono sleeve. He then noticed her wrapped wrists.
"How badly did that idiot beat you?" he shouted, walking closer. She put her head down as she bandaged herself again.
"It was my fault." she said, standing unsteadily on her badly injured feet, clutching her ribs a little.
"No it isn't your goddamn fault! What pissed him off so fucking badly that he fucking felt the need to break you into fucking pieces? Huh? What, were you three seconds late getting back to hell? This is fucking ridiculous! Bullshit! You're not going back there!" he growled out loudly, jerking her into a hug, clutching her tightly.
"You are hurting my ribs." she said, simply. "It was my fault because I disobeyed master. And now, I am disobeying him again. I must leave. I am not allowed to associate with you."
"The fucking hell you are!" he yelled, grabbing her before she had the chance to run away from him. "I'm not losing you, wench. You'd better think again if you think i'm letting you go. You are sick, you are injured, you are getting too skinny, and you are murdering."
"If you wish me to get better, I could always drink the blood of a demon." she said, her eyes darkening to a different shade of violet, a red ring forming around them. Kagome licked her lips hungrily.
"Has he turned you into a vampire now? Wonderful. Another thing to deal with." Sesshomaru stated in a cool voice, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"No, not a vampire. Blood is just a good source of fast energy. You drink it and you absorb the life energy that is in the blood. Easy." she said, eyeing InuYasha's neck.
"Kagome, Kagome, Kago no aka no tori wa. Itsu, Itsu deyaru? (Kagome, Kagome. The bird in the cage, when will you come out?)" InuYasha said. "That's what you are, Kagome. A bird trapped in a cage. You have potential and you are amazing, but you cannot show this potential for all of the bad things surrounding you. You are caged by lies and deceit. You have been backstabbed by the mysterious person from behind. Just like the game. And like in the game, you will fall unless the mysterious person is guessed. Can you guess the mysterious person whom is behind you, little caged bird?" he asked.
"You." she answered, her voice like a beautiful, yet dangerous, silver bell's chime.
"Try again." said Sesshomaru from behind her.
"The koala bear?" she asked.
"…What?" InuYasha asked. Kagome pointed behind him to a koala bear sitting there, minding its own business. "Ignore that. Try once more." he replied with a sweat drop.
"Master-sama?" she asked, looking at her wrists.
"Yes, Naraku. He is the mysterious backstabber. Kagome, he is using you." he told her.
"You are wrong. Master-sama would never…" she said.
"Never what? Never force you to kill? Never beat you? Never make you work yourself until you collapse? He would never do those things? Really?" he yelled, glaring into her soulless eyes, trying to make her see and understand the truth.
"No! Stop!" she screamed. "Master-sama!" she cried as he began to clench at her heart, miasma stinging inside of her blood. She rose and jumped from the building, disappearing into no where. InuYasha growled in frustration, anger, and sadness.
"DAMMIT!" he roared, punching the roof of the building, making a hole. He yelled out a string of obscenities as Sesshomaru jumped from the building, walking back to their car.
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