InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Breathless ❯ Regret ( Chapter 33 )

Disclaimer: I'm not Takeuchi Naoko, and I'm not Takahashi Rumiko either. They're the owners of Sailor Moon and Inuyasha, not me.

 

 

Chapter Thirty Two.

 

 

`Regret'

 

A silver haired woman, so very like herself, raising a moon-shaped scepter high in the air, with a shinning stone engraved on it, shouting an unintelligible incantation to vanquish the hundreds of menacing shadows around the entire place… forfeiting her own life…

 

…Two cats, one white and the other black, just standing there, helpless, with their eyes wide… just watching.

 

…A chestnut haired teenage girl, with her hair in a ponytail, being constricted by dozens of vines wrapped tightly around her body, slowly suffocating her… as the she-demons around her looked on, and laughed….

 

…Another blonde haired girl like herself, with her brilliant mane tied in a red bow, throwing her out of the way as more vines shot from bellow the ground, raising her flailing form high up before quickly sinking back down, dragging the girl with the bow out of sight, underground, with them….

 

A blue haired young woman in what looked like a white swimsuit, screaming as some crystal shaped object was ripped from chest…then falling to the ground, unconscious….

 

…A pink haired little child, with a tender, regretful smile, crying silently as her body was fading….

 

…A proud brunette in a red pleated skirt, shielding her body with her own as flying yellow disks of energy impacted on them harshly.

 

…A charcoal-black haired, ocean-blue eyed older man, caressing her cheek fondly as his pulse slowly paused forever.

 

They died for me…

 

Even when she didn't remember their names, she knew the faces belonged to people who had died for her.

 

She hadn't been able to prevent their deaths.

 

The unnecessary killing.

 

She didn't know why she knew, but she knew, somehow, that it'd been her fault.

 

The mere thought of it had been so unsettling…

 

And now, someone close to her was going to die as well.

 

If something happens to Kanna, I will never forgive myself

 

 

“Kanna, wait! Wait, don't go!” she fell down to the grass, only to quickly rush to rise back up on her feet again “…Tell me why… I want to understand! You're saying that you're not coming back, that you're going to die… Don't leave me like this, Kanna, please!” the blonde girl cried out as she ran through the forest in the same direction that she'd seen the white haired incarnation take only minutes before.

 

 

… How had she so unexpectedly gotten so fast?!

 

 

The Kanna that Usagi remembered wasn't at all agile: she usually would require the assistance of Byakuya's origami paper plane, or any other detachment's help, to be able to travel across large distances, for she was naturally calm and quiet and had never counted with speed as one of her demonic abilities…

 

 

But now, completely out of the blue, the albino void child had just pulled a disappearing act on her, vanishing in a flash of light which the blonde had then seen shoot towards the West.

 

 

The West.

 

 

…Was there the place where Kanna would supposedly be fulfilling the mission which she'd been talking about, regarding Niraya-sama's enemies? But then that could mean…―

 

 

…Could it mean she was going to actually go and meet up with the enemies someplace in the West?

 

 

…Was this encounter the very event which she'd thought she wasn't going to survive?

 

 

Millions of thoughts like these were swirling in her head, making her dizzy.

 

 

`I can't… I can't stay in the village and not do anything! Not when, not when…she told me of her real feelings!'

 

 

…“Because I thought you'd be the only one…who would care…”

 

 

All this time…

 

 

`All this time… she had feelings… and I didn't realize it?'

 

 

Usagi was feeling so filled with guilt and regret now. She kept running across the forest, arms stretched forward to move the thick greenery out of her way, thorns of bushes and thin low brunches cutting her skin, bruising her, but she just kept running; she didn't care.

 

 

Because she had to catch up; she had to find her… she just had to.

 

 

“There's got to be something I can do to help!” …she just couldn't sit there and allow her to get her killed!

 

 

Not after… all this time… of being…

 

 

--Flashback--

 

 

“Are you insane?! Get that thing away from me!! ” the blonde yelled in fright, looking at the jelly, bloodied and moving eyeball on his hand in horror, and jumping to hide behind an unperturbed Kanna. “It's gross!!! I told you not to do that in front of me!!”

 

 

“Oh, but detaching organs from one's body, as you call it, is so much fun!” he loved making her squirm like this: it was the perfect cure for boredom…

 

 

“I'll tell Niraya-sama… you are crazy!” the girl cried as she crouched down, covering her head with her arms as she continued to hide behind the void incarnation. She could still hear the subtracted eye's sprouted bat wings flapping about as the other detachment roared with laughter.

 

 

“That's it, Byakuya” the void child finally intervened with an indifferent whisper “Put that thing back in so we can get back to what we were doing”

 

 

--End Flashback--

 

 

…blind…

 

 

Had Kanna actually… been trying to defend me… that time?'

 

 

`Why… why would she do it? Does it mean… that she was taking my side?'

 

 

Gasp.

 

 

`But that could only mean--?!'

 

 

So terribly, unforgivably blind…

 

 

That Usagi almost couldn't believe it.

 

 

`All this time… I had thought she was indifferent to everyone and everything… when she was actually a being capable of emotions, who could feel joy, and suffering, and feel for others… …and she never told anyone…'

 

 

`…I wasn't open enough to see… …what was right there before me…'

 

 

`I am… ashamed of myself'

 

 

“Usagi, YOU DUMMY!” she berated herself again. She would punch her own face if she could, but she had more important matters to take care of right now.

 

 

…Like finding Kanna.

 

 

Before it was too late.

 

 

To Be Continued.