CH. 11: My living Nightmare and the IMPOSTER!
The door flew open, three boys staring a giant orb of what seem to be darkness, and the girl that was their friend was no where to be found. No one seemed to be able to move or say anything. They just continued to stare until Kurama spoke up. "What is going on? Where is Isabella", he asked looking at all the confused faces in the room. Hiei, however did not even have answer for this, and he was the one that was laying beside me before I managed to pull my disappearing act. "I think she is in the the orb of the darkness", Hiei said speaking up. "You are correct, Hiei, she is in that orb. She is having a nightmare, and no one can bring her out until she wakes up. Not even your Jagan eye can penetrate the darkness that she lives in. However, you can view it and we probably all need to. I am going to ask you to lay down on the bed and allow us to use these plugs to monitor your thoughts as you watch her nightmare", Koemma said as he walked in and sat down in a chair across from the bed. "Won't that be like spying? I don't feel comfortable doing that", Kuwabara said sniffing and wiping his nose. "It must be done, or we may never know what all darkness plagues her soul", Koemma said sternly.
Everything was set up and Hiei was laying down with his purple Jagan eye out and searching through my nightmare to find the cause of my pain. Once he was in a nurse attached the brain plugs to him, and my nightmare was coming up on the screen. Inside my dreamland the first thing that popped up on the screen was me chained up and naked. This caused every guy in the room to blush. They kept watching though, and they saw a shaded figure enter the room and put his hands all over me and rape me. "Sensui", Kurama growled under his breath but everybody heard him. This vision went on for about an hour, and they saw the torture he put me through, and then switched to when I was tied to the chair watching chapter black over and over again. The nightmare seemed to go in order until it took them back a few years where they saw an older couple speaking to one another and three babies in bassinets. "What are we going to do Mercutio", the lady asked to what seemed to be her husband. "I don't know, Rose, we can't keep our daughters. If we do they will surely kill them when they kill us", the man said taking his frightened wife in his arms. The gang then saw the couple placing them around human world and Mercutio taking one to his former friend Sensui. The nightmare then changed to when Sniper had me at his mercy, and after that vision passed, they saw where Koemma had found me, and he was once again taking to the demon now known as Mercutio saying that he would take care of the girls as his own. The man spent the last few minutes apologizing over his daughter's body saying that he was so sorry that he left me in the care with the man who he thought to be his friend. The vision then changed to the older couple again being slaughtered at the hands of some ugly demon familiar to all of them, Yomi.
My nightmare finally ended and everybody looked shocked at what all they had just witnessed. They just saw all my darkest moments, and they felt the need to sympathize for me. Though I was not awake, the orb had disappeared from around me. They saw, with horror struck faces, my bruised and beaten body laying limp on the bed. "Do her nightmares usually do this to her", a horror struck Yusuke asked. "They are only like this when her nightmares are this bad, or if she is under a lot of stress. However, she is both right now. So, with this being said, She is more weak then if it was just one of those options", Koemma said. Everybody began to walk out of the room leaving Koemma and Hiei alone again.
"Hiei, did she give you the decision she made concerning her daughter", Koemma asked solemnly. It took a moment of silence but finally he spoke up, "Yes, she did, but I think its best that we let her wake up and think about her decision more", Hiei said quietly. "Yes, I would agree with that, however Naomi cannot just sit in that jail cell. If she keeps doing this she will begin to get restless and start to reek havoc again", Koemma said. "Then I guess we go with her original plan. Kill the child", Hiei said with little regret. Just then I shot up scarring the life out of both of them. "YOU WILL NOT KILL MY CHILD WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR", I said yelling at the both of them. "Yes Mam, but you are not supposed to be up", Koemma said frightened. "So you were just going to kill her before I had the chance to say goodbye", I asked full of rage. "No, we just can't let her stay there in that jail cell Isabella. Hiei please calm her down", Koemma said putting his head in his hands obviously frustrated. Hiei walked over to put his hand on my shoulder but stopped when he saw my death glare. "DON'T TOUCH ME, YOU WERE GOING TO LET HIM DO IT" I said basically screaming at him. He backed up and walked out of the room.
When me and Koemma were left alone I calmed down a little bit but was still very agitated. "I want to see her. I want to give her one last chance. I will see if I can change her mind", I said still slightly agitated. "What will happen if you can't Isabella then what do we do", He said giving me a sympathetic look almost as if he knew I was going through. "Then I will end her where she stands", I said looking down with my bangs covering my eyes. "Isabella, I will not allow you to do this. I know what is going through your head, and I will not allow you to do that", He said giving me a stern look. "Don't worry I will not end myself afterwards, and I will not hang my head in guilt towards me being the death of my daughter. The only thing I will hang my head in guilt over, is the fact that I was weak enough to get raped and have her in the first place, and that is something I already do. So, no need to panic. Let me do this my way", I said.
He said nothing, so I made way down to spirit world prison. No one was down there except a few guards who moved out of my way and let me through to the cells that prisoners were kept. I walked passed at least twenty cells on each side of me so that made forty cells in all, and I ignored all the remarks being made to me, and stood in front of my daughters cell. I looked down at her with no emotions showing in my eyes. "Naomi, you need to listen to me, and listen to me good. I am going to give you two choices here, and you get the chance to chose your fate. You will either listen to the one who gave birth to you and stop all this foolish killing, or will you die by the hand that gave birth to you. Your choice", I said still holding back all emotions.
"Mother dearest, you should know by now that the daughter you are searching for is not me. Did you ever think that I would be yours, no. However, I have seen your daughter! Ha ha, boy have I seen your daughter. She is being held with Lord Yomi, and is probably dead by now", the girl said and as she said it she turned into this big ugly green demon. "So you are not my daughter, huh? Well that makes me feel better about killing you, and this also means my quest continues. You, however, will still die by my hand for impersonating my daughter, but before I do tell me why you did", I said through clenched teeth. "I did it because Lord Yomi wanted to see if you would kill yourself, and now we all know you won't just lay down and die because things didn't turn out your way. I bet your wondering how Yomi got your daughter", the demon said now using its regular demonic male voice. I nodded waiting for his response. "He got your daughter after your team defeated Sensui. You didn't think to stop and check around for her did you? Well, he did and he found her. Such a lovely young child, and has a beautiful heart, will keep having one until Yomi changes her", he said. "How long do I have", I asked calmly. "He never gave me a specific date", He said. "Good to know. Now I can destroy you. You have no information left for me", I said readying my attack. "No, please! Have mercy on me! I told you everything I know", he said begging for his life. "You are sitting here begging for your life, do you know how pathetic that makes you", I said while my eyes turned a void black and shot a flaming arrow straight through his heart and he fell to the floor dead.
"And thats how you kill a mocking bird", I said walking out of the prison doors. I went straight up to Koemma's office. "That was not my daughter. That was an imposter. He told me that my daughter was in Yomi's hands", I said looking at him with eyes back to normal now. "What happened to him", Koemma asked. "I killed him. He deserved to die after what happened", I said. "Well go to bed Isabella, we will discuss this in the morning", he said quietly. After this was said I walked up to my room and laid down on the bed. As soon as my head hit the pillow, the tears just flowed. I stopped crying however to a knock on my door. "Who is it", I said trying to make my voice as strong as possible. This, however failed miserably as my voice seemed to crack. "It's Hiei can we talk", he asked calmly assuming that I had been crying. "Go away. I don't want your sympathy right now", I said coldly. He walked in anyways, and as he did he noticed the redness in my eyes. "It wasn't her, was it? It was an imposter am I correct", he asked solemnly. "You are right, however that gave you no right to end the life of what could have been my daughter", I said giving him a look of pure hatred. "The team and I will help you search for her. We all know how you feel", he said obviously ignoring the look I was giving him. "You have no idea how the fuck I feel", I said turning away from him. "Yes, we do actually. It is because we can see your emotions in your eyes. Did you already forget what Kurama told you? You need us as much as we need you. Get used to it", he said. "Fine, but at least get out of my room so I can go to sleep", I said. "Fair enough. Get some sleep we will discuss this tomorrow morning when you wake up", he said and walked out.
I honestly didn't care to tell him that I already had to go see Koemma in the morning. Though, this honestly did not matter because more than likely they would also be called into the office with me. I just decided to lay there and attempt to fall asleep, and when I couldn't I walked over to the black desk that held the sheet music for a song I used to love to sing. I looked at it very carefully and it read 'So Far Away by Staind' I decided to open it up and sing it.
This is my life, it's not what it was before
All these feelings I've shared
And these are my dreams
That I'd never lived before
Somebody shake me
'Cause I, I must be sleeping
Now that we're here, it's so far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
An' all the mistakes one life contained
They all finally start to go away
An' now that we're here, it's so far away
An' I feel like I can face the day
An' I can't forget that I'm not ashamed
To be the person that I am today
These are my words
That I've never said before
I think I'm doing okay
And this is the smile
I've never shown before
Somebody shake me
'Cause I, I must be sleeping
An' now that we're here, it's so far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
An' all the mistakes one life contained
They all finally start to go away
An' now that we're here, it's so far away
An' I feel like I can face the day
An' I can't forget that I'm not ashamed
To be the person that I am today
I'm so afraid of waking
Please don't shake me
Afraid of waking
Please don't shake me
Now that we're here, it's so far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
An' all the mistakes one life contained
They all finally start to go away
An' now that we're here, it's so far away
An' I feel like I can face the day
An' I can't forget that I'm not ashamed
To be the person that I am today
I finished singing the song, and it wasn't until after I finished that I realized the door that Hiei had shut was cracked. "Okay idiots, fun is over. Come on in and maybe I won't kill you", I said slightly agitated. In filed Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei. "I thought all of you were in bed", I asked with a raised eyebrow. "Well, we were but then we overheard you yelling at someone, and well, we woke up", Yusuke said grinning ear to ear and scratching the back of his head. "Let me guess all of you but Hiei eavesdropped on that conversation in which I was yelling, weren't you", I asked calmly. "Well, yes, but how did you know Hiei was not", Kuwabara asked. "Because, my sweet genuine Kuwabara, HE WAS THE ONE I WAS YELLING AT. Now would you please explain to me what you four were thinking spying on me when I was singing", I asked full of rage and Kuwabara seemed to cower into a corner mumbling something about me being scary when I'm angry.
"Well, Isabella we noticed Hiei coming out of your room, and then we heard you start singing. Your voice was just so beautiful that we had to listen, I am so sorry", Kurama said also looking worried that he had crossed a line. "Thank you, but please don't spy on me again" I said calming down and looking out the window. "May I ask why you chose that song", Kurama asked. "It was a song that I used to sing to myself when I felt the need to cry", I said calmly. "Why would you...", Kurama started but Hiei cut him off. "Kurama she just found out that what was supposed to be her daughter was an imposter. I told her that we would be here for her to help her through this", Hiei said closing his eyes and then opening them to look straight at me. "Yes, well as touching as this all is, I would love to go to sleep now", I said looking at everybody pleadingly. We all said our goodnights, and out the door they went leaving me in my room to sleep. After about twenty minutes of laying there, I was out.