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Chapter 33

Mitsuki's P.O.V.

Although I agreed to tell everyone how I got my wings, I still hesitated and looked at everyone's expecting eyes. Letting my view settle on Hikara, I internally smiled. I still can't believe I finally found her. I tried to let it consume my nervousness but to no avail.

"So, you gonna tell us or what?" I heard my brother's gruff voice ask. Guess I let my hesitation stretch on for too long.

I sighed shakily and glared at my impatient brother. "Yeah, okay, I'll tell you…but how to start…"

Flashback...

One of the guards harshly woke me up, telling me it was time to wake up and go to the lab.

'Hope Hikara's there today. Maybe we can talk some more,' I thought. Telling the guard to leave while I got dressed, I got out of the silky nightgown I was in and put on a red and white sundress. I had no shoes to wear so I shivered when my bare-feet padded across the cold pavement. But I shivered for another reason: it was another day of those horrible tests and shots. The guard escorted me to the lab and as soon as I entered, I smelled the Hikara's scent.

'Yay, she's here!' I smiled to myself. I searched around the room and stopped when my amber eyes met with her purple ones.

"Hey Hika."

She smiled. "Hey Mitsu. How are ya?"

"I'm good. Where's Natsume?"

"She wasn't allowed to come with me today and had to go back to the room. I heard they're doing these special tests on us that she can't know about."

My eyes widened. "Special tests?" I didn't get such a good feeling from that.

But before Hikara could reply, a voice interrupted, "Are you two ready for your tests?"

We both looked up at the same time to see Kagura and, my eyes widened, the president of the corporation himself:

Naraku.

Hikara's eyes were as wide as mine but filled with just as much fear.

Naraku snarled in his low voice, "She asked you a question, or did you not hear?" We gulped at Naraku's tone and nodded. Neither of us could find our voices anymore.

He smirked. "Good, because we have some very special things we must do today and we can't afford to waste time."

He took Hikara's hand and commanded, "My dear, sit over there." She was led to a bed like table and when she lay down, she got strapped down with wide leather straps. Fear churned my stomach uncomfortably. Something wasn't right.

"Hey, why am I strapped like this?" Hikara asked, voice quivering. She tried to struggle but she couldn't get free and neither adults bothered to answer her question.

Kagura turned to me. "Go over there."

I hesitated, unable to move my feet. Kagura's red eyes narrowed. "Go, brat."

Snapping out of it, I walked over to a similar table that was facing Hikara's. Before I knew it, I was tied down too.

As if I had the power to fight back.

"Let's start with Hikara," Naraku said to Kagura.

My eyes widened. "What are you gonna do to us?! What are you going to do with Hikara?!" I struggled against the straps that bounded my feet and arms to the table only to have them rub painfully against my skin.

Naraku smiled cold and evil. "First, we make sure she can never get away from me. After all, I can't have her rebelling against me, now can I?" He turned back to Hikara who had started to quietly sob. "This will hurt, my dear."

Kagura pulled out a needle containing some clear liquid and stuck it into Hikara's arm. I watched in horror as the liquid slowly went in. Suddenly, Hikara's eyes rolled back and she started to scream and struggle violently. I tried closing my eyes to hide from the horrifying display but that didn't block out the screams echoing into my ears.

Naraku chuckled. "If you ever get away, my dear Hikara, this will help me track you down. It will also allow me control you if I ever wanted to." Hikara's body stopped moving so violently and settled to a quiver here and there. When she finally calmed down, she glared at him with her tear-stained eyes.

Naraku just laughed. "Now onto the second step, Kagura." She took another injection needle, this time empty, and stuck it into Hikara. This time, she was sucking out Hikara's blood.

Watching the red liquid fill up the tube, I yelled, "Stop it! What are you doing?!"

However, Hikara's actions frightened even more. She wasn't struggling or even screaming defiantly. Instead, she just stared between the tube and Naraku in horror.

"You're not serious, right?" Hikara whimpered.

Why did I get the feeling she knew what Naraku was planning to do with that needle of blood? My eyes filled with tears knowing I couldn't help my best friend when she needed me the most.

Naraku chuckled as Kagura pulled out the filled needle and handed it over to him. "You're pretty smart for a little girl." Before either I or Hikara could protest, we watched as Naraku stuck the needle harshly into his neck and pressed the valve down.

Right before our eyes, the red blood disappeared and straight into his body.

He closed his eyes and shivered as if getting an excited chill and let out a content sigh. I noticed how his smell had altered into another, more powerful scent and a new surge of power illuminate from him. I bit my lip and held back my agonized cry.

"Now I'm half vampire," Naraku chuckled. "Thanks for the blood, Hikara. You've made me more powerful than I used to be."

Hikara glared at him weakly and said, "You bastard." But the man just laughed.

When Naraku gave a wave of his hand, gesturing to Kagura to move on to my test, Hikara regained her fighting spirit.

"Don't touch her!" she screamed. But Kagura quickly put a handkerchief over her mouth and made her black out.

Naraku sneered. "Now that she's quiet, we can continue."

I couldn't help but sob and it wracked my entire body.

Kagura narrowed her eyes at me. "Calm down, this will only take a moment." She took a needle with the same clear liquid as they put into Hikara and injected it in me.

As soon as the liquid went in I felt this shearing pain, like my insides were being chewed up several times over. My head was splitting open and I felt my back arch up in pain. Unable to stop it, my eyes rolled to the back of my head and I started having the same spasms as Hikara.

I started to scream. "MAKE IT STOP!"

However, when the needle was removed, the pain started to fade instantly. My body was still twitching uncontrollably but they came in segments and the white-hot pain was replaced by dullness. I mentally sighed in relief when the pain was finally gone.

Before I had time to recover, I saw Kagura take another needle containing red liquid from the corner of my eye. Without the strength left to struggle, I eyed the needle until it was stuck into my flesh and emptied. Strangely for me, right after she finished, Kagura unfastened my straps and let me climb back down the ground. Confused, I switched my gaze between the man and the woman. I had expected excruciating pain.

My expectation didn't hesitate to prove me wrong. The moment the thought entered my mind, my upper back burned with unbelievable pain. Screaming, I collapsed to the floor, curling up into a ball and desperately trying to clutch my back.

I could feel the flesh tearing apart in between my shoulder blades and the sensation of something growing, but before I could understand what was happening, I blacked out from being unable to withstand anymore pain.

Flashback End...

"Next thing I knew, I had woke up on my bed feeling good as new. I actually thought it had all been a nightmare…until I got up, looked in the mirror, and found these things on my back," I gestured to my wings. "Later I found out they had discovered some new type of demon they called angel and injected a sample of their blood in me."

Natsume gaped at me. "You mean, like, an actual angel? From…up there?"

I shrugged. "I have no idea. But to be honest I think it would kinda suck if a being from up there fell victim to Naraku's will."

"True…"

Hikara looked over at me. "Wow…you had it way worse than I did…"

I smiled. "It's fine. I'm okay now aren't I?"

Natsume sighed. "You wouldn't talk to us at all that day. I can't believe you didn't tell us about all the pain you went through."

"Yeah," Hikara agreed. "I had blanked out before it happened. I was pretty shocked when I woke up to see you with wings."

I sighed and tried smiling. "Sorry. I…just had a lot to think about that day…and I wasn't really in the mood." It was getting really hard to smile.

"I'm really, really sorry to hear that," Kagome spoke up. "But don't worry," she smiled reassuringly, making me smile back warmly, "we'll all get through it together."

"Thanks."

"However," Kagome suddenly growled, her voice turning dark. She turned to look at Inuyasha. "You, mister, had better do some explaining. I want a better reason as to why you never told any of us you had a sister."

I saw everyone in the room humorously shift away from my brother all frightened by Kagome's glare. The girl was literally on fire.

Oh boy, was she mad.

Again, sorry it took so long! I was pretty stressed these last few weeks since all my teachers wanted to be asses and dump assignments on us all on the same week…since it's before winter break and all…

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InuKag4evertogether (author) + WanderingDreamer4Ever (editor)