InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Same soul as mine ( Chapter 16 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Sailor Moon or anything else that you recognize. Only a few fragments of this chapter are translations I extracted from the Inuyasha manga. I'm not making any money out of this; the writing of this story is just to vent some stress and for my personal pleasure.

 

WARNING:Major MANGA SPOILERSin this chapter. Read on at your own cost…

 

 

Chapter Fifteen.

 

 

`Same soul as mine'

 

 

`Niraya-sama?! Please don't do this!' an aghast blonde screamed inside her slumbering mind.

 

 

What were these terrible, sinister images that her mean subconscious was showing her? Why couldn't it let her sleep in peace?

 

 

It was as if she was having a horrible nightmare… watching some sort of distorted reality.

 

 

…In which the person she most trusted in the world was capable of the most appalling, cruelest things…

 

 

 

 

“I know you hate me, Kikyo'

 

 

`…and I don't care anymore… …because I have Her…”

 

 

So,this meant…that he cared?

 

 

That he `had' cared if she hated him, at some point?

 

 

…Unconceivable!!

 

 

…After all he'd done to her..?!

 

 

“You have no shame” she told the malevolent presence invading her thoughts.

 

 

How dare he?! How darehe pretend to be the victim in this?

 

 

Besides…

 

 

“`Because I have Her'?! What do you mean, Naraku?!” the trapped priestess demanded, but got no reply.

 

 

“NARAKU!”

 

 

But she finally realized… that he wasn't going to answer.

 

 

`Who was he talking about? …A woman? …Is that it? Did he mean to tell me that he's found another woman?'

 

 

But that was just—preposterous! Who in their right mind would choose to be willingly with someone like that—it had to be someone as much or even more twisted than he, it had to be.

 

 

Unbeaten, the mere idea gave her shudders…

 

 

“I can't believe he would tell me this… What is he expecting to gain from it? Could it be-- that he's told me this in order to humiliate me? Does he think-- that the thought he's found another woman is going to affect me? May be…make me jealous, even? Hence, all the more tainted and vulnerable to this attack?”

 

 

`Is he really that blinded by his madness?'

 

 

Unless… unless that he meant something else by that.

 

 

“…and I don't care anymore… …because I have Her…”

 

 

At a sudden thought she froze.

 

 

Even when she swore it could not be; that there was no way the vile hanyou could have been referring to the person she thought, she couldn't shake the dreadful feeling that, despite the complete and utter outrageousness of it perhaps he considered it achievable, conquerable in some remote, distant future… and that he would pursue it.

 

 

Another woman… …her substitute.

 

 

The one that'd make the most accurate replacement for She whose love Onigumo'd never obtained…

 

 

The only one that'd be like a slap in her face…

 

 

The only name that would truly affect Kikyo.

 

 

“…Kagome…”

 

 

 

 

 

“Stupid Inuyasha!” protested a little kitsune while nestled on the shoulder of one Buddhist monk who was behind Sango, both of them riding Kirara “we'll never catch him like this!”

 

 

“I'm sorry for you having to carry me like this, Kouga-kun” a slightly mortified Kagome apologized “Inuyasha is the one that normally does it, but since he's run off… Poor Kirara can't fly with the three of us on her back”

 

 

“That's okay, Kagome” an ecstatic wolf demon answered her I could get used to this!”

 

 

“Say guys, do you believe that priestess who passed by that village was really Kikyo?” Shippo asked Sango and Miroku.

 

 

“I think so” replied the monk.

 

 

“It's always quite obvious, judging by Inuyasha's behavior” added the demon slayer.

 

 

“Kami, what an idiot! How dare he leave Kagome to go after his previous woman!”

 

 

“Kouga! Stop saying that!” the small fox-demon yelled at him.

 

 

“That is Shippo's line, usually…” Miroku tried to explain the kit's passionate reaction away to a flabbergasted okami.

 

 

Meanwhile, a preoccupied Kagome was immersed in her own thoughts.

 

 

`I think Inuyasha was hiding something, something that he refused to tell us about. It must have had something to do with that spider web I saw'

 

 

 

 

`Kikyo…I just need to find out if you're alright!'

 

 

`Where are you?!'

 

 

“The scent…it's coming from that deserted temple”

 

 

 

 

“Gasp! Even though I keep puryfing these threads, there just appear more and more!”

 

 

`I can't let him win! I can't give up!'

 

 

“KIKYO!”

 

 

“Huh?” `That voice…'

 

 

“KIKYO! ARE YOU IN THERE?” someone called as a familiar red-clad figure entered though the door.

 

 

The priestess' usually silent heart swelled with emotion as it recognized the voice.

 

 

“Inuyasha…” she whispered. She was already feeling so weak…

 

 

“Kikyo?!” the voice repeated when golden eyes settled on her “What's wrong? Are you sick?”

 

 

`Oh no! He can't see the threads either!' “GET OUT OF HERE, INUYASHA!!”

 

 

It was all she managed to shout before the spreading wounds in her body caused her to whimper.

 

 

 

 

“He's not going to make it” the dormant Usagi mumbled.

 

 

 

 

“THERE!! INUYASHA, YOU'RE IN THERE AREN'T YOU?!”

 

 

“KAGOME!” the half-demon exclaimed.

 

 

`Kagome… is out there?' Kikyo thought `I can sense her arrows attempting to purify the threads from outside…She can see them!'

 

 

`Can she see them because…she has the same soul as mine?!'

 

 

`No… it's not just for that; Naraku said this trap was intended for her too.'

 

 

`That means… that if Kagome tries to help us get out by reaching out to purify the threads of the inside with a touch of her hand, she will--!!'

 

 

“KAGOME! DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!!”

 

 

But the warning had come too late…

 

 

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“Hehehe… Excellent. Now the threads have also pulled Kagome inside” crimson eyes flashed in satisfaction “and she's become tangled. Soon the web will also corrupt her mind”

 

 

 

 

`Oh no! They can't get out! This horrible, terrible nightmare! Why can't I wake up?!'

 

 

To Be Continued.

 

A/N: Sorry for the little Kagome/Naraku jab, I just had to put it in, I couldn't resist!