InuYasha Fan Fiction / Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Sword of the Four Souls ❯ Chapter 2

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Chapter 1. Back in the Past.

Inuyasha was resting in the Goshinboku tree, the soothing aura of it surrounding him and offering him comfort. Comfort he refused to receive as his guilt, sadness and anger threatened to overwhelm him.

Inuyasha wondered why he returned to this tree; after all it was the place he was sealed to by Kikyo. All he knew was the tree called him to it especially when the human side of him overwhelmed him.

Apart of him truly knew why, it was because of Kagome, the tree was one of the strongest links he had to the girl from the future. A girl who he could say for definite was the first true friend he had ever had.

As he gazed over the quiet meadow staring at the well near by, for once he actually wanted to be in her time just so he could be near her. But for now he stayed because none of his cursing would be able to drag her back to this time. No he would not bring her back because of his selfish wants.

But would she want too, after all it was because of him that she is in that ‘hos-pit-al’. He was the one that had attacked her. No he didn’t blame her if she didn’t want to return.

Inuyasha stared down at his clenched hand, for he held within his tight grasp remnants of what had made him attack his best friend.

The shock of what had happened still lingered within his mind, for it would take along time for him to come to terms to it. The knowledge that the woman who he had loved and still did, no matter if it disturbed and disgusted the demon side of him, yes the knowledge that Kikyo the shrine priestess who he had said he would be human for fifty years ago before the betrayal caused by Naraku.

Kikyo had used him, yes used him like an animal. The side she could never come to terms with.

It was like he woke up from a long sleep which had started even before he was sealed to the tree by Kikyo. Because he wondered if Kikyo was using him then, though Kagome had never said anything, Miroku and Sango had certainly talked about his and Kikyo’s past, thinking that he couldn’t hear them but he had and ignored their whisperings.

He wished now that he had listened because of his unwavering trust and believe in Kikyo that she could do no wrong, that she would not betray him and still loved him even though she existed as the un-dead surviving on the souls of women. Well that trust in her certainly returned to bite him in the arse or as Shippo would do, on his ears.

The first few days after his attack on Kagome, he had refused to move from the Goshinboku tree as he had been lost and confused. ‘Why did it happen and how was it possible?’ This had just been one of the questions running around his brain.

It was Kaede in the end that brought him out of his mournful and deepening depression for she was the one who answered the question that the entire group had been asking.

Inuyasha couldn’t believe it at first when Kaede had told him. It was Kikyo who had actually made the subjugation necklace for him fifty years ago and because of this and the fact that she was linked through it because of her reincarnation Kagome. Kikyo was able to tap into the power of the necklace. A power that neither he nor the other actually had known existed but Kikyo had always been a powerful priestess.

Kikyo had tapped into the collar and had controlled him, not like Kagome though. No what Kikyo did was far worse than hated ‘sit’. Kikyo had controlled him like an animal and had made him attack Kagome.

She had made his mind go blank and controlled his body like it was one of Naraku’s puppets. His soul had been a bystander helpless to Kagome the one he had vowed to protect. His mind had raged and cried as he could do nothing while Kagome ran from him, Miroku knocked unconscious from a blow he had struck him with whilst Sango stood by in shock with Shippo and Kiara, her own capable fighting instincts momentarily disappearing as they all looked on with dumbstruck and in horror.

It was the scent of Kagome’s blood which had helped him break free of Kikyo’s hold, for it brought forth his strong demon as it overpowered his human side. The power of his father’s blood broke the necklace as he turned full demon.

All Inuyasha knew from deep inside his mind was his pack was hurt and the one who caused it shall die. It a matter of seconds he killed the one his human side had loved with out flinching an instant. And then he cradled the one he had hurt, her blood soaking his fire-rat hoari as he howled to the skies his remorse and it was her tears of pain breaking through that remorse which brought him back to his Hanyou side.

After that it was a blur to Inuyasha as he remembered rushing to the well with Kagome clasped tight to him to take her to her time where instinctively he knew that she could saved.

It was Kagome’s mother who he first came across as he burst into the house and it was Kagome’s mother who took control and phoned for help.

An am-bu-lance as Mrs Higurashi had called it came and took her away along with her mother while Inuyasha stayed at the shrine and waited. He had wanted to go but Kagome’s mother said it was best if he stayed at the shrine. If it wasn’t for his guilt he would have ignored her but he hadn’t.

It was after Kaede had talked to him and made him go to Kagome’s time that he finally got to see Kagome, his ears covered by the bandanna passed to him by Souta before they all left to see her. He hadn’t even used the entrance to the large building. In his anxious he had jumped up to the window ledge where the window had been left slightly open, her scent calling to him along with her soul.

And that was how it had been for over two months now, he alternated between his time and Kagome’s waiting for the day she would wake up and hopefully forgive him.

T.B.C

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