InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Those We Leave Behind ❯ I'm Never Gonna Dance Again ( Chapter 13 )

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Those We Leave Behind

Chapter Thirteen

I'm Never Gonna Dance Again

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She wasn't supposed to get this emotional. She wasn't supposed to snap, but it was too late. The damage had been done.

Oops.

Red began trickling into Sesshoumaru's normally icy demon eyes. He stood there unmoving, but she could see the palpable rage coursing through his body. She had to get away from him. As she started to slowly back away, he darted after her. She turned and ran and fast as her strappy silver sandals could take her, not caring about anything but escape.

She had to get away from him. This was not the man she had cared about. He was...something else. She tried to tap into any strength in her body, any purifying power to subdue him, but none came.

Suddenly, she felt her hair being painfully tugged back. She fell back, her head and almost completely bare back hitting the cold, stone floor. In her disoriented state, it was difficult to fight back. She felt not the gentle caresses he had once lavished on her, but the demanding, forceful claws that forced tears to leak out of her eyes.

He first straddled her squirming, defiant hips.

“NO! NO! Get off me! Help! Somebody save me!”

“Save you?” he asked in a cold, incredulous manner. “Who will save you, Kagome?” An air of superiority radiated off his body. He had now broken her and with each statement, he continued disrobing her. “My servants?” One of his clawed hands pinned both of her dainty hands above her head. Although they had been struggling to set her free, they did nothing to deter the sadistic maniac atop her. “Your friends?” He trailed one of his clawed fingers along the neckline of her dress. “No. No one will come for you. You belong to me.”

Sobs trembled through her body. He was actually going to do this. He was going to rape her. In addition to shattering her heart, he was going to defile her. Her last effort to save herself went to the Kami. She prayed someone would come.

As his demanding, heated eyes terrified her, his lips were descending. He was about to make contact when-

“Get you god damn hand off of her you sadistic son of a bitch. Don't you know you're supposed to treat women with respect?”

No, it couldn't be. That voice. It belonged to him. But, it was impossible.

“Human, this is your last chance to leave with your life.”

“Yeah, well same to you buddy.”

Kagome turned her head to see a figure with a glowing sword.

Kagome knew it had to be him. Her desperate voice cried out to him. “KAZUMA!!!”

“Don't worry sis. I'll make sure this creep never bothers you again.”

Sesshoumaru's eyebrow evilly arched upward. “Kagome has no relation to you human. I will kill for insulting her bloodline, if for nothing else.”

“In a manner of speaking, she is my sister.” Sesshoumaru gracefully raised himself off of Kagome. Kuwabara thought it was weird she didn't do anything but look at him. She didn't even move.

“Then, I have a proposition for you. The winner of a duel will decide Kagome's fate. Do you agree with such terms as her closest male kin? Or will you cower and back away in fear?”

Kuwabara looked back toward Kagome. She nodded.

“Alright. What terms?”

“Swords. The first to die or surrender loses.”

`Now I can show `em all that the Great Kuwabara can fight his own battles. And I get this girly lord outta Gome's hair. Then everyone'll be sorry.' “Sure, punk.”

“Stupid human. Normally I wouldn't lower myself to fight you, but the prize is more than worth the embarrassment.”

Another voice permeated the room. “Who the hell said you were fighting him, asshole? You hurt Kagome, and now you will pay.”

Something similar to fear crossed Sesshoumaru's face as he saw the owner of the new voice.

“Hey, no one's gonna defend her but me!”

“Stand down runt! This is unfinished business.”

At seeing Kagome nod, Kuwabara reluctantly stepped aside. It should have been him.

The battle started off far more quickly then the encounters they usually partook in during the Fuedal Era. There were neither quips, insults, nor bantering. Just the heated gazes between two bitter brothers and the anticipation of an overdue resolution to their sibling rivalry. It started out to appear as the most intense meeting of the two brothers.

The battle between the two warriors had been long and arduous, leaving Kuwabara in amazement as he tended to Kagome. She clung to him for dear life. They had finally found each.

The battle ended with Sesshoumaru knowing he would not win. He merely warned the other three in the room that he would have Kagome soon enough.

After Sesshoumaru had departed, the figure looked sorrowfully at Kagome.

She whispered his name and ran to him. “Inuyasha.” They met in an embrace. Unfortunately, not the type they both wanted, but a friendly embrace conveying how they had both been sorely missed.

He took a long hard glance at her face, finally able to see her before him. He couldn't take this. He had to leave before his heart rendered him unable to. But he had to have his goodbye. “I must leave. I have responsibilities now.”

She had nearly forgotten the long passage of time and the changes that must have taken place in her absence. “How is your son?” she asked him softly, disheartened with the knowledge that she herself would never be able to be with him and unwilling to blame the child for occurrences beyond his reckoning.

He smiled sadly at her. “All grown up.” He started to pull away from the familiar embrace they shared, the one he initiated.

“Don't leave...not yet. I haven't seen you in so long. I know you have to go back, but just stay a few more minutes.”

He released Kagome and looked toward Kuwabara. “Runt. Come here.”

After Kuwabara had approached her, Inuyasha whispered something to Kuwabara that was inaudible to Kagome. Kuwabara nodded to Inuyasha and left, silently.

Trying to process the sudden departure, Kagome's musings were interrupted. Suddenly, a song filtered through the air. One that Kagome knew quite well.

Tears once again streamed down her face as Inuyasha drew her close and wiped them away with his thumb.

“Don't cry. I always hated it when you cried.”

I feel so unsure,
As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor.
As the music dies...

Something in your eyes,
Calls to mind a silver screen,
And all those sad goodbyes.

They started to sway to the music. And, Kagome knew. This was goodbye. Although he would never say it, she knew. It was his way to act, not speak. So he let the music speak for him.

I'm never gonna dance again,
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool.

I should have no better than to cheat a friend,
And waste the chance that I'd been given.
So I'm never gonna dance again,
The way I danced with you.

Their movements, if they had been witnessed, would have been called enchanting. They looked like they belonged together. No one would have known that this would be the last they would ever see of each other. At least in person. He would forever torment himself with protecting her as he always had, protecting her like the watchdog he had become.

Time can never mend,
The careless whispers of a good friend.
To the heart and mind,
If your answer's kind...
There's no comfort in the truth,
Pain is all you'll find.

I'm never gonna dance again,
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool.

I should have no better than to cheat a friend,
And waste the chance that I'd been given.
So I'm never gonna dance again,
The way I danced with you.

“Kagome?”

What am I without your love?

“Yes Inuyasha?”

Tonight the music seems so loud,
I wish that we could lose the crowd.
Maybe it's better this way,
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say.

“I need you to know something. I have always loved you. Had I not made that stupid promise, I would have asked you to be my mate.”

We could have been so good together,
We could have made this last forever...
And now it's never gonna be
That way...

“You're so stupid!" She clutched him tighter as tears fell from her eyes. "Don't tell me that now. It just makes it hurt more.”

The music faded. As it did, so did the cherished movement and all hope Kagome had of ever being happy again. Fate was once again mincing, chopping, and grating whatever remnants were left of the broken heart beating in her chest.

“Goodbye Kagome. If you ever need me, you know where to find it. This was the only time I could ever help you directly. I'm not allowed to ever...physically see you again. If I did...it would be bad." He didn't know how to tell her this.

"Why?! What would happen?"

"You know what I am! What I became...the energy my body emits now...doesn't mix well with miko energy."

"Is that what happened to-"'Kikyo'.

"Goodbye, my Ka-go-me.” At that, his regret-filled face flinched at the pain in her eyes and unwillingly disappeared...forever.
Now that you're gone...
Now that you're gone...
Now that you're gone...
Was what I did so wrong?
So wrong that you had to leave me alone?

Kagome slumped dejectedly on the floor and cried. She continued even as the orange haired figure she so loved came to comfort her. He knew she must be suffering through agony. She had never cried in front of him, for when they were little, he would always call girls weak because they cried so much.

He had no way to help her. For the first time, he was willing to admit that he was helpless.

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