InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Without him ( Chapter 18 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Inuyasha, or anything else that you recognize. I'm just using them to imagine a mixed story for my own personal pleasure.

 

 

Author's Note: SIX CHAPTERS in a row that's something good, don't you guys think? The deal of posting short chapters is so I can update faster. However, I would like if some of the people with the story alerts would tell me what you think of the way the story is going… I like criticism, I need criticism I CRAVE criticism! Both the good and the bad.

 

 

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Chapter Seventeen.

 

 

`Without him'

 

 

… “To corrupt me, and steal your spiritual powers at the same time”…

 

 

…“You stay with Kikyo, Inuyasha”…

 

 

… “Inuyasha, I am here..! … You can't see… or hear me?!”…

 

 

… “It was just as I thought. You truly… wish my death”…

 

 

… “Girl, I think you know it already… this priestess hates you”…

 

 

…“I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU!”…

 

 

… “I wonder what that was… It looked like the mountain was shaking”…

 

 

…“There's a past I could never be a part of…”

 

 

…“Are you saying… that you and I are the same?”

 

 

…“It's not the real Kikyo?!”

 

 

…“Kikyo-sama!” Miroku had shouted, watching as the threads around the priestess lifted her body away all of a sudden…

 

 

…“What does it feel? To die in the arms of the one you find so despicable?”…

 

 

…“your beloved Inuyasha's gone”…

 

 

…“ Houshi-sama!”…

 

 

…“ Will you truly use your wind tunnel now”…

 

 

…“Don't let yourself be captured!”…

 

 

…“Kikyo's not that person anymore”…

 

 

…“You knew what would happen yet you came at me just the same”…

 

 

…“Your hatred and despise for me”…

 

 

…“ GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER!!”…

 

 

He was pleased.

 

 

So very pleased, that he could almost attempt a happy dance, if he wasn't afraid his detachments might see, think he had lost it and try to betray him again.

 

 

―No need to say, if they did, he would finally decide to get rid of all of them… and make himself an army of Kannas …―

 

 

Now he could allow himself the indulgence of humor.

 

 

For it was done...

 

 

It was finally done.

 

 

That troublesome priestess was finally dead, and there was nothing Midoriko on her own could do to interfere with his plans.

 

 

Kagome had tried. Oh yes, she had tried with all her might to prevent the fatal outcome, gone to great lengths and put herself on the stake once more, merely to save her poor little hanyou the pain of seeing his fomer love die again at the hands of his worst enemy; why of all things she'd done that, Naraku could not figure it out.

 

 

Or may be he could. What he couldn't do was relate to it. If it'd been him that'd been in her place, he would have simply sat and watched as Inuyasha's previous lover died; been ecstatic at the chance to finally see her rival be moved out of her way… appreciated and taken the golden opportunity that life was giving her.

 

 

It really was a shame…

 

 

Evidently, Kagome'd never been that sharp; anyway. As the non-visionary creature that she was, always tailing after the hanyou, gratefully picking up the crumbs of affection that he would occasionally send her way; though disappointing, her behavior hadn't really been that surprising... What a pathetic little conformist. If he hadn't been so busy enjoying himself mocking her, he would have pitied her.

 

 

Still, all her efforts had been for nothing; Naraku'd been even able to see the match from up close and personal and talk with Kikyo for a little while, whispering sweet nothings to her as she was weakening… and wishing her a happy end…

 

 

…Sort of.

 

 

Oh, well; nobody's perfect… he had at least tried.

 

 

What mattered was that she was gone, and that he would miss her…

 

 

A little.

 

 

…Not really…

 

 

Because even when she was kind of pretty and the cause of his existence, to pursue Kikyo'd truly been a pain in the ass.

 

 

Besides…

 

 

Why miss that dead body so much? …When he had a very living one to play with?

 

 

`He, I might ask the dog-hybrid that sometime'

 

 

Just as he had whispered to an agonizing Miko:

 

 

“Isn't it beautiful, Kikyo, that because this human heart's become intrigued with someone else, I was finally made able to hurt you?”

 

 

It was true: the bandit hadn't put a word against her elimination this time. …He had to thank his white dove for that.

 

 

His prized possession.

 

 

Oh, the things he wanted to do to his little toy… He wondered if those lips were as luscious as they looked. He couldn't wait to taste them.

 

 

`Soon'

 

 

She wasn't ready yet. But she would be. Now that the little troubling issue of Kikyo was taken care of at last, he would be able to focus on her all that he wanted when he was at home.

 

 

His golden haired, precious Butterfly.

 

 

…Who didn't have any idea of how powerful she was.

 

 

Not yet.

 

 

First; he needed to have the complete Shikon Jewel, or he wouldn't be able to keep her under control.

 

 

…He already noticed his serene butterfly had a tendency to become a fluttering hummingbird every once in a while…

 

 

This reminded him…his old puppet, Kohaku, had escaped with the last remaining shard. He had sent Byakuya, Kagura's replacement after the boy but Seshoumaru had suddenly showed up and almost killed the detachment, who'd become squeamish about going anywhere near him ever since. From then on the intrusive Demon Lord had taken the taijiya boy in his custody and kept him with the rest of his group, who didn't separate from their Taiyoukai leader not even to follow Nature's call these days…

 

 

No matter; he would find a way around Sesshoumaru's constant vigilance.

 

 

On the other hand, his last twin detachments, Aku and Tsumi, would play an important role in strengthening the ties he had with his butterfly. They were actually vital for what he had in mind, so they weren't like other creations of his which had become quite expendable.

 

 

No. They were different… livelier. For starters, they hadn't been created the same way: they'd been a direct consequence of Usagi stumbling into his path, and as such they were part of his bond with her, even though Usagi herself didn't know it.

 

 

He would have to keep an eye on them, he realized; for now, he couldn't risk those two particular detachments getting hurt…

 

 

Also, he needed to figure out where the `Treasures' were…

 

 

… and for that, even though it was risky, he needed to let Usagi go to the outside without him…

 

 

… The twins would be able to help him with that…

 

 

To Be Continued.

 

 

GLOSSARY

 

 

`Houshi' means monk. `Houshi-sama' means `Your Holiness' or something like that.

 

 

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