InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Revelations ( Chapter 17 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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 Sixteen.

`Revelations'

“But it's dangerous to expose yourself that way. If he took your life again, I'd--!!”

“Don't worry, Inuyasha…I don't intend to make you go through something that painful again. Naraku won't be able to kill me…not as long as he still has inside of him…the essence and feelings of Onigumo”

`Eh?! Onigumo's heart still lives inside Naraku?' an eavesdropping Kagome wondered `But that means…¡¿Naraku's in love with Kikyo?!! That's the reason why Inuyasha's so--?!'

`…As much as I'd once hated to admit it, they werequite right'

`…this human heart, the very human heart to which I owned my existence, was the one weakness that made me vulnerable…'

`…I had to get rid of it'

`I never thought that,once I did, Kikyo would turnfor helpto the Great Priestess…'

“`Midoriko'? Are you talking about the Great Priestess who sacrificed her life after a battle that lasted seven days and seven nights, to finally expel her spirit from her body under the form of the Shikon no Tama?”

“That is right. Midoriko-sama gave her soul to bind the hideous demons she was battling, and from the formation of that bond between her spirit and theirs, from the formation of a bond between good and evil, was that the Sacred Jewel was born…But you're wrong, Midoriko-sama is not just a deceased, passive ghost nowadays; part of her soul continues to live and battle the demons from inside the very Shikon no Tama that was created from her spirit…It is said she continues her struggle against evil from the other world…

`Even in death, she still possesses her spiritual powers and will erect barriers around this very cave where her lifeless body remains, expelling from there all those who harbor impure thoughts towards the Sacred Jewel. Even if she's dead, I'm sure she's still very much aware of what happens in the world of the living, thus knows of Naraku's existence”

“Kikyo?! So it was you?! You're the one that entered this cave that serves as Midoriko's tomb? But why? Why have you sent your Soul Collectors to retrieve the last remnants of the Great Priestess' spirit?”

“As the true creator of the Shikon no Tama, she doesn't approve its misuse…that is why our souls, our goals and wishes have connected” the undead miko had responded “The intention of Midoriko-sama is the same as mine; to defeat Naraku. That is why… we are to become one”

“Do you mean to say that you'll absorb the remains of her essence… in a fusion of souls of some sort?”

“Yes. With this fusion of souls, our spiritual powers are too going to join, healing my wound, and we'll become powerful enough to purify Naraku”

`Inuyasha, Naraku can't be defeated with a sword, for it would only harm his body, which he is capable to regenerate. To destroy him completely, his soul must be defeated along with his body as well. That can only be done by means of the Shikon Jewel. That is… why I need Midoriko-sama's help”

`After Kagura's death, Kohaku who had regained his memories fled from me as well. It was then that the soul of Midoriko inside Kikyo's body had sent her Soul Collectors to guide himto that cave.

`Then that woman, Kikyo, became allies with that young taijiya…in order to destroy me'

“My name is Kohaku, and I overheard you talking with Inuyasha-san; I know the way to destroy Naraku is through the completed Shikon Jewel, that you intend to purify him along with it… and I want you to use the shard that I carry for that”

“I'd noticed you'd been following me for quite some time…Kohaku? However, are you aware of the consequences? Do you realize what it entails if I use your jewel shard?”

“Yes… Like I said to Inuyasha-san, this is not about me dying, but about defeating Naraku…That is why, I've been prepared to die since a long while…”

`That time when I absorbed Moryoumaru and the infant (Akago), Kikyo was there too…yet that woman didn't shoot a single arrow…'

`Like she was waiting for the opportunity to do something… It was suspicious'

`Then I noticed something else… Kohaku, who'd been taken in by Kikyo; his Shikon shard was emitting the most disgusting pure light'

`Had I taken it right then,and joinedit carelessly with the others in my possession, the light ofthat purified shardwould probably have overpoweredthe darknessof the rest of the tainted Shikon shardsin an instant'

`That was…when Ifirst realizedwhat she was planning to do'

`The reason she'd oncebeenhelping me gather the shards… She only wanted me to have the completed Jewel in my graspso she could destroy me.

`To putthe completed Shikon no Tamain my grasp, so she couldpurify me together with it……I was sure that'd been her true plan all along'

`Once more, she'd become a threat I needed to deal with'

`This darkness which I'd tainted my Shikon shards with; it was the source of my very being. I could never let her becomecapable to overpower it'

`I had no other choice…but to recover that bandit's essence. The human heart that I'd once so despised had become a necessity…'

`…just as Onigumo had predicted it would…'

`Evil thoughts, sinful desires, repugnant machinations…all of them traits of a twisted human heart… all of themconnectedtoKikyo'

`…all of them could grant my Shikon Jewel the power of darkness…enough to kill her'

`Once and for all'

`That is why I made my own plan'

`A trap for Kikyo, in which Kagome would also fall once she arrived with Inuyasha…That is why I sent that spider web to induce that memory dream in him: I knew he wouldn't be able to resist the need to check up on Kikyo, and that that girl, Kagome, would follow… I chose that human village for it had a solitary temple nearby and it was in Kikyo's path… I knew that, once I corrupted her, she would go to that temple to try to cleanse herself. When Kagome followed Inuyasha to that place, she wouldn't be able to shoot an arrow to purify the threads of the insideto free Kikyo…She would have no choice but to get closer to try do it by touch…and whenshe touched the threads, they would wrap around her and pull her inside, where thousands of more threads would be there, waiting for her… ready to taint her by manipulating the darkness in her soul by means of another troubling vision… of Kikyo and Inuyasha'

To Be Continued.

A/N: Say, fans of anime only, what was it for you to have Naraku himself explain the manga away for you? …Wasn't that informative? (chuckles)

Till the next post!