InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Cold Heart For a Dead Soul ❯ Beginning Confession ( Chapter 1 )

Chap.1

Who ever said the dead had cold hearts was wrong. Hearts of our kind have been broken again and again. Each time they grow colder, this is true, but they were once warm. The human works like this too. It is a fault of their kind but an advantage of ours. If we have cold hearts we can fight with no fear but we can also not love. This is a confession not many will know, not many will hear, or read but it is important to write to down. Hearts grow cold without love and this tortures the soul which eventually dies. This is where my story begins…

My name is Kagome. I live in Salem, you know the town where `hauntings' happen. Yeah right, don't believe every thing you hear. The truth is Salem is truly `undead', filled with people of my kind. My life was gone long ago. I had a life, a mother, a father, a brother, and love. I am not a vampire, or do not refer to myself as one, I'd rather be called a Dark Lighter than vampire. Vampires are folklore, something I don't want to be part of. I live in between a grave yard and a shrine. Neither of them bothers me, as a matter of a fact I've actually helped the owners of the shrine keep it running while they went on trips. They are quite a sweet couple, a grandfather and his grandson, Souta. I have deemed them as my family but I don't usually introduce them to my friends, none of which I trust fully yet.

I moved here perhaps five years ago. It was a busy town then with tourists but it has settled down within the last few years. I have my morals, and stick to them especially within my own territory. No one has ever been killed by my mouth, nor my hand, unless I had to defend myself. A few years ago a hunter, Naraku, I believe he called himself came to my door. I allowed him in because I was foolishly young as a Dark Lighter. I killed him when he attacked me. That's how I met one of my best friends, Kagura, she was his `vampire' slave to tell him where others were when they crossed paths. She moved around a lot but usually visited me before she found a place.

I hunt tonight alone. Kagura left my home perhaps a day ago to Savannah, Georgia. Yesterday I had her to talk to but today I feel naked without her. I press on into the woods by the shrine usually I can catch an unsuspecting hunter prowling for deer. Dogs could be a problem but even then they lead me right to my prey. A small man, with his hounds is setting up camp for the night. The dogs are tied up to a tree as I approach. I take the man by surprise, whispering a simple word into his ear, "Sleep."

He falls into my embrace silently. The dogs are aware of me now, and start to bark. I feed, the blood entering my system with such a jolt I shudder at the pleasure. I raise my eyes to the growling mutts, not letting the man go. I finish licking the blood from my lips slowly. The dogs pull at their leashes with strained drawn out howl. As I start to walk away the leashes snap in two.

"Shit." I run quickly into the dense forest that I am accustomed to. My duster dropped off my arms a while back so I could run faster through the thick branches. The dogs follow my trail until I catch a low branch and flip into the tree a few limbs above. I sit silently watching the dogs sniff at the trail then giving up, heading back to their waking master.

I let out an unnecessary breath. I'm off the hook for the time being. I look at the moon, it is the dark crimson color of blood. "Have I angered you Father so that the moon shows your rage? Or is it you, Dark One, that I have angered?" I spoke to no one, but myself.

I return to my home after receiving no answer. I close the day curtains, though the sun does not effect my body as it does to some, I call them Nighters, because they are cursed to walk the night and sleep in the day. I only sleep in the day if I have spent the night out hunting, and even then I have to be up by three so Souta can come do his homework in peace and quiet. I told you I took them in as my family and I meant it, a heart without family is nothing.

Souta reminds me of my brother in so many ways I have not yet counted them. His hair and eyes are a factor, along with his mannerisms. He hugs me even though I have told him numerous times not to. He softens my spirits making me believe in a funny way I am alive again. Maybe not in flesh but in my soul. I fall into sleep and wake to a ray of sun hitting my eyes. My eyes fly to the clock to only find it is ten. My muscles relax, and my head falls back to the pillow.

I think for a few minutes about my family, grandfather and Souta, and then rise from my bed smiling. A white envelope greets me from my front doors window. I grab it tearing it open quickly.

Kagome,

My love goes out to you. I wish you well, because I have to leave this town. I can not stay here for much longer without strangling myself to death. You can visit me in Concord perhaps some time soon. Thanks for everything.

Kouga

I held it for another moment then let it slid from my hand onto the table. "Your welcome." I whispered. I had given this man a reason to live; I had given him my love. I smiled at this thought then sat. Kouga was a good friend like Kagura. He was muscular, dark, handsome, and could get a girl's attention, but he didn't know this until Kagome. I smiled at the thought of him lying in my bed with only the sheet on as I looked over his body after a long tiring night.

A knock on my door signals that I have wondered for too long in these idol thoughts and I pull myself from them to welcome Souta into the house for his study time. "What's got you so out of it Kagome? Usually I don't have to knock."

"I was still asleep, I had a hard night." I lied. He looked at my face as if trying to judge the story.

"Oh, well you know that's what an alarm's for." He said smiling and tugging my sleeve leading me into the house.

"What do you have today?"

"Algebra."

"Ewww…. Bad subject."

"Yeah I know." He said as he slipped into a dark red wood chair at the matching table.

"And what of your other subjects? Good, fair?" I asked sitting next to him watching carefully as he took out his books. He didn't answer right away but instead thought about it for a minute.

"My history is coming up but my biology sucks. I don't like science."

"Well I can't help you there but I can help you on your history so get it out." I smiled, thinking of how I don't usually talk this much even with Kagura in the house. His algebra was getting harder, but I knew most of it twelve times over. He was finished in a few minutes and then got out his history. "See Arnold was a traitor. He worked for the British also. And he was married twice not just once. How long does this paper have to be?"

"Well one page will get you a seventy, two an ninety, three a hundred and then for every page after that there's ten points extra credit." He grabbed a stack of lined paper from his back pack. "And I bet you're going to make me write three."

"You can write as many as you want. But I get to read it and if I say to rewrite it, guess what?"

"I get to rewrite it?"

"bingo." He rolled his eyes at me and then got started. Another knock at the door made me leave him at the table. I opened the door to see a silver haired hanyou. As soon as he saw me his eyes widened with fear. "May I help you sir?"

"Um… well… um…"

"Spit it out. I don't have all day." I hissed frustrated.

He licked his lips and swallowed. "I needed to ask you about some disturbances in the woods behind the shrine. I'm detective Inu-Yasha Tioshi. A hunter said he was attacked by a girl. His dogs got loose and chased her down but all that was left was her black duster. Do you know of anything?"

"No I'm sorry sir." Souta came to the door behind me and stuck his head under my arm to peer at the stranger.

"Cool ears." He remarked. I dropped my arm and smacked him upside the head.

"Souta Higarashi, I'm going to tell your grandfather you disrespected an elder!" I said turning to him as he grabbed his cheek in shock. He had his backpack on and ran by me before I could say anything else.

"I have to do my chores anyway, bye Kagome." He yelled back laughing as he ran across to the shine. I looked back at the officer who was staring daggers at me.

"What?" I asked rudely.

"You just hit him." His brows furrowed. I rolled my eyes.

"No I punished him. I'm his big sister. Please I didn't mean to be so rude, do come in." I moved aside of the door. This man was a spectacle to watch. He would be interesting to stalk. He sat on my old flowery pink couch and got right down to business.

"About the woods, have you heard or seen anything?" he asked looking around.

"No other than the dogs that usually bark no. The woods are silent unless a hunter comes onto my property, or near the shrine. If they were anywhere near hearing distance I would have known because I was up until about two in the morning last night."

"Can I ask your where abouts?"

"Here. I was here all night, except for when I went to eat around seven with a few friends." I said lying through my teeth.

"Can you tell me who these friends were?"

"For their sanity no. They don't particularly like cops." I stood from my seat. "I think it's time you leave sir."

"Well thank you Madame." He said standing, smoothing his uniform and heading out the door. I stood watching until he had driven off.

"That was interesting."

An: this story is probably going to be finished before my others but hey who cares it's a story right. And I know Kagome is always the `vampire', sorry but it makes for a good story line. Well anyway… fun times par-tae hardy man….