11-16-09: Okay either last time I did a really great job at revising or I have no enthusasum to think of anything better to add.. I changed the song this time.. I can't seem to make up my mind. But this one should stick. Link to the song is on my profile. 3
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I Do Not Own Inuyasha
"Talking"
4. Breaking The Shikon No Tama
The zombie boss grabbed me by the neck and lifted me over his head, chuckling deeply. I scratched and pulled at his thick monstrous hands, but it was useless. I was no match for a man this size.. I was barely even a match for anyone in that matter. He ripped the Shikon No Tama off my neck, the silver chain snapping once more. I growled, if this keeps up, my precious silver chain will be beyond repair.
The zombie boss gazed over the pink glowing jewel in his hand, and a sinister grin grew over his face. He glanced back to me, his expression twisting to one of disgust, then tossed me effortlessly into the wall beside him. I hit the wall shoulder first, and I heard a snap, and pain shot through my arm like wild fire. Tears welled up in my eyes, as I slumped to my knees, trying to ignore the agony but I didn't cry out. It would be better not to draw attention to myself, unless I wanted to die.. But I wasn't looking forward to going to hell to meet an angry older sister..
Seconds ticked by and I waited for the rest of the pain, but it never came. I guess they have no interest in killing me just yet. But just as I was about to relax, I saw a sharp pointed object flying toward me from the corner of my eye. I jumped out of the way, ignoring the throbbing pain. The sharp, pointed silver, was the zombie boss's sword. He stood, his hand on the handle, while the sword stuck out of the wall where my head had been seconds before. I swallowed the lump in throat, and I felt beads of sweat trickle down my forehead. I had to do some quick thinking, or else I'd be dead momentary.
"Re..." The boss hissed, pulling his sword out of the wood. "Restrain her."
I gasped, and backed away from the advancing bandits. I didn't feel like dying today so I'd have to appeal to their better nature somehow.. So they won't wanna kill me. "Hey! You don't wanna kill me.." I smiled nervously. They stopped and looked at each other agreeing with what had I said.
"It would be a waste.." One of them sighed. He was bald, and muscular, and had scars all over his face. Obviously this man had seen a lot of battles.
"Yeah! Yeah! It would be a waste! I.. I can.." I stuttered. I had forgotten my strategy! Ugh, I was truly hopeless! "I.. I can perform for you!" I regretted those words as soon as they left my mouth. I couldn't sing..! Not as far as I'm aware of anyway..
"Perfect! The boss loves performances, don't cha boss!" One of the men called back. The zombie-looking boss smiled and sat down facing toward me. I almost fainted at the pressure and how easily they were manipulated. If this was all I had to do to save my skin, then by god I'll do it!
But my courage vanished just as it had come and I found myself staring blankly into the eyes of the waiting bandits. If I don't do this, I'll die. If I don't do this, Inuyasha will never come. If I don't do this, they'll get to keep the Shikon no Tama. If I don't do this.. I'll die! I closed my eyes, and suddenly, courage and self-confidence filled me. If I wanted to live and avoid meeting my deceased sister I'll just have to sing then.. I heard the melody to the song play in my head. I opened my eyes, and noticed the bandits staring at me with eyes full of wonder and amazement.
I looked down at myself and saw that I was glowing. White light shone off my skin, and the melody didn't seem to be playing in my head any more.. it seemed to be floating around in the room, like a invisible stereo had been turned on. I smiled and began.
"i do not mean to
make you unhappy"
My voice echoed across the forest with such clarity, and volume, that I almost didn't believe it was me.
"tamerau nami mimi wo sumasete"
For a strange reason, I felt power building up inside me. My body held the glow and slowly, as the power built, it became more intense. Until pulses of light started cascading from me, covering the hut in large ripples of light.
"kiss me forever
raindrops kaze ni fukarete nagareru kawa to natte
and it all dies in the sea
kiss me forever
lemondrops kuchi ni hirogari e no naka no yuki ga toke
and eventually go to sea
"i come from venus
and you come from venice
"kokoro to kasu anata no egao
"kiss me forever
teardrops hoo ni koborete daichi wo uruoshite
and it heads off to the sea
kiss me forever
moondrops furisosoide hikari kagayaki tsuzukete
and it lights up the sea
"kiss me
kiss me
kiss me
anything oh kiss me
"kiss me forever
raindrops kaze ni fukarete nagareru kawa to natte
and it all dies in the sea
kiss me forever
teardrops hoo ni koborete daichi wo uruoshite
and it heads off to the sea
kiss me forever
moondrops furisosoide hikari kagayaki tsuzukete
and it lights up the sea"
I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye, and looked over toward the zombie boss. He was on the ground, his body unmoving and lifeless, a katana with hair tied around the hilt pulling away from his chest. A three eyed, sleek, black crow crawled out from the whole, the shikon jewel in it's beak. Strands of raven hair was tied around the tips of it's wings, and around it's body as well.. It looked like it had been caught in a web.. Every time one of the ripples of light hit it, one of the strands would break away and the bird would tremble. There was something strange about this awakened power.. The bird jumped into the air and flew out the window, wobbling a bit due to the injuries the light had given it.
I noticed the music had stopped, and the glow around my body stopped sending out ripples and faded away. The bandit men stood up and looked toward their boss, with faces full off hope for the decision of killing me to be taken back. But instead their faces filled with rage and surprise as they took on the lifeless image of their boss, on the hard wooden floor.
"What the hell did you do, witch!?" One of them shouted. Two slammed me against the wall, bending my arms around my back, breaking my right arm even more. Tears once again weld up in my eyes, from the pain, and I watched as a blurry silver object came flying toward me. I closed my eyes tightly, letting no light through, waiting. But nothing happened. The men's grasp on my arms were forced away, and I started falling forwards, having no strength left to stop myself from hitting the floor. Whatever had happened while I was singing, had drained almost all of my energy.
I felt two stronger, yet gentle hands grasp my shoulders, and sit me down on my knees. I struggled to stay conscious but that, too, was draining away my energy.
"Kaori!" Inuyasha's voice hissed in my ear, and I felt the sudden urge to get up. I hated showing any weakness in front of him. I had grown up watching him hide his weaknesses from everyone and everything, including my sister, and as I watched him fight with his immense strength, it had occurred to me that if you wanted to be strong, you mustn't show your enemies, your weakness. So had I worked hard, keeping a straight face in a fight, but being injured or showing any kind of weakness in front of the greatest fighter in, my head, at the time.. was very embarrassing. I didn't want him to see me as a dumb human who always needed protecting. I wanted him to see me as a equal.
"Are you alright!? Where's the Shikon no Tama!?" He demanded. "Do you have it!?"
I growled. Of course the shikon no tama was of more importance to him than his lovers little sister. That was his first priority! Himself and the jewel sat on the top next came whatever was important to him. But I knew that I always had, and always will sit on the very bottom. The only reason why he'd ever paid any attention to me before was because I was Kikyou's little sister. If I had been anything other than that, then he'd never give me a second glance, no matter how loyal I'd be.
I opened my eyes, and glared at him "For your information-" I pulled away from his grasp and he let go of me. His face was full of confusion, but I didn't care. The fact that I was at the bottom of the list of his priority's really ticked me off. "I am perfectly fine! And while I was acting out my plan which, by the way, would have worked perfectly if you hadn't arrived, the stupid boss guy turned out to be a zombie with a youkai crow in his heart, being controlled by hair! It took off with the damn jewel! Are you happy now!?"
He looked back at me, shock carved into his features. But the shock quickly changed to anger. "Why.. the hell.. would.. I.. be.. happy.. when you let a demon take off with the JEWEL!!" He shouted.
"Because! Now you don't have to worry about sticking around me all the time, which I know you hate, and you can go get the jewel from that pathetic excuse for a youkai! I don't care! I'm going home anyway! That stupid bone-eater's well will take me home! Actually, since I'm weak, why don't you just kill me now, so I'll never get in your way! Your always talking about how you hate us sisters!" I yelled. But I regretted my words as soon as I said them. I was to harsh, and he did ask if I was okay before he asked about the jewel.. I knew he never actually meant what he said when he claimed that he hated us.
I looked away from him, around the hut. I couldn't look at him.. not right after I said that. In the small shabby wooden hut, covered with vines and moss, the unconscious bodies of the bandits cluttered the floor. My heart gave a painful lurch. He had come to save me...and the way that I repay him was by snapping and making false accusations. I sighed, I was really a nasty person, aren't I?
I felt the ground disappear below me, only to be replaced with Inuyasha. With some quick, unseen, movement, he had managed to pull me onto his back, and now he was running through the forest at an inhumanly speed. I wrapped my arms around his neck, and watched as the forest whizzed past us, in a green and brown blur.
"You're forgiven.." He said, shocking me. I looked down at his face, but he looked forwards, his eyes full of concentration.
"Eh?" Was all I could manage. This wasn't the Inuyasha I knew. He should be pissed off at me for yelling and saying such things. .not.. not forgiving me!
"Your injured and weak.." He said, keeping his eyes forward.
"No..really?" I replied sarcastically. "Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Mr. I-have-a-million-different-personalities."
He growled, and I stifled a laugh. "You were always in a bad mood when your were hurt or exhausted, when you were little. Obviously nothings changed." He replied, with a slight smirk. My eyes narrowed and I looked away.
"Keh!" I scoffed. It surprised me. The way I said that was identical to the way Inuyasha did. I think I should stop hanging around him...next thing you know I'll be walking around in a red fire-rat kimono...
He leaped into the air, and I caught sight of the demon crow. It swallowed the pink jewel in it's break, and I heard Inuyasha curse under his breath. His feet touched the ground, and he continued to run through the forest. We ran past the Goshinboku, and a couple of tethered horses.
It wasn't until Inuyasha shoved a bow and a quiver of arrows in my hand, did I realize that he had been thieving items from the horses as we ran by. I groaned, and clutched the weapon in my hand tightly.
"And you think I can use a bow, when I have a broken arm, because..?" I asked, reminding him that I was a crippled person here, with absolutely no strength what so ever.
"If Kikyou can do it, then you can as well, idiot." He answered. I growled at him and moved my broken arm, causing it to send waves of fire up my arm.
"Stupid, I am as much like my sister as you are to French toast." I muttered, watching the Goshinboku pass for the second time.
"Keh! Your such a idiot!" He replied, leaping into the air once more. "What the hell is French toast anyway?"
I burst out laughing at his ignorance, but scanned the sky for the demon bird. Of course he wouldn't know what French toast was, I lived in a totally different era than he did, but I could stop myself from laughing.
I pulled back the string on the bow, ignoring the stabs of pain coming from my arm, and shot it at the black dot, which might I add, was glowing a slight shade of pink. The arrow, glowed a purplish, blue colour, and pierced the bird exactly where the pink glow was the strongest.
The sound of shattering glass echoed across Japan, and glowing pink streaks scattered across the sky. "Oh, shit.." I whispered, as one of the glowing streaks flew past me. A shard scrapped against my skin, cutting through the flesh. I had broken the shikon no tama!
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO IT!?" Inuyasha shouted as we landed on the forest floor. He let go of me and I came crashing down into the mud, my cheek now bleeding. The dirt made it sting so much more, and my arm was hurting so much I felt as though I would pass out.. but I growled and got to my feet.
"It's not my fault! You made me use a bow with a injured arm! Maybe that's why the shikon shard broke!"
"YOU BROKE IT!?" He shouted. Opps.. I guess he hadn't known. He grabbed my shoulders and started shaking me violently. "WHAT THE HELL, WENCH! YOU BROKE THE SHIKON NO TAMA!? HOW THE HELL COULD YOU BREAK IT!! YOUR SUCH A USELESS GIRL! YOU BROKE THE JEWEL!!"
"Yes!!" I shouted back, trying to wriggle free. He had an iron grasp on my body, but something told me that this was only a fraction of his real strength. "I broke the jewel! I don't need to be reminded you stupid idiot! I know what I did but it's not my fault!"
"IT IS YOUR FAULT!" He shouted, as I continued to struggle. I hated this, I was so weak compared to him, he didn't even fumble, or sway despite my violent thrashings. He was perfectly still, not a hair on his head moving, while I used up all my strength trying to make him let go.
He looked at me, strangely, like I was doing something unheard of . "What are you doing?"
I gave up, and stopped struggling, my strength was drained anyway and I was hurt. I wasn't the strongest person in the world, and actually I was weak. Weak in combat, weak in health, weak in overall strength. It was that reason why my mother worried for me so much, it was also for that reason, that I yearned for power. My attitude, and my spiritual powers, gave me strength, but still not enough to even match a regular human being.
"I was trying to make.. you let go." I wheezed, gasping for air. I waited silently for his witty response, but when it didn't come, curiosity took over and I peeked up under my lashes toward him.
He wasn't looking at me. His eyes were cold, hard, cautious, fixed on something behind me. He growled, and pulled me closer to him, his iron grasp now becoming harder on my injured arms. I strained my ears to hear whatever it was that Inuyasha thought to be dangerous, but I didn't hear anything. Not the sound of the leaves crunching under the other persons feet, not the sound of its breathing, nothing. I didn't even feel that person's presence behind me. Maybe it was because the sound of my heart hammering in my ears, or the low ragged breathing of the boy in front of me, that made it impossible for me to detect another.
Inuyasha growled again, and he stepped back, pulling me closer. I knew this procedure, he used to do this when I was younger, when there was something dangerous, when it was already too late for me to flee. But there was one difference. I may have been injured but I was older now, smarter, faster, not as fragile as I had been when I was six. Also before there was always a sign of the youkai behind me that I couldn't see, but now it was like being deaf and blind, being helpless, not knowing what dangers had their eyes on you at that moment.
Then I heard it, the sound of wire being stretched. Something razor sharp suddenly ran against my cheek, cutting me deep once more. I flinched away from it, and turned my head toward the object. I saw a thin strand of.. thread? No.. hair, in fact there was a web of hair all over the forest. The same hair that had controlled the sword and the crow..
I looked up at Inuyasha, wondering if this was the reason why he was so hostile. But it didn't seem to be the reason, fore his eyes were still fixed on something unseen behind me. "Inuya-"
In one quick movement, just like before, he tossed me onto his back, and we were running through the forest again.
"Inuyasha? W-Where are we going?" I asked, as I noticed more webs of hair, the deeper we went into the forest. We were headed away from the village..
"You said the bone-eater's well would take you home?" He asked.
"Well.. at least I think so.. It's where I came here from.. But where are we going? You didn't answer my question."
"First of all.." He mumbled as we came into a clearing, the bone-eaters well sitting in the middle. He picked me up and stood me on the edge of the well, a look of determination on his face. "We're getting rid of you."
He shoved me back, causing me to fall into the depths of darkness.
End Of Chapter 4
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