InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Cold Heart For a Dead Soul ❯ A Furture Revealed ( Chapter 7 )

Chap.7

Waking up I didn't think anything was wrong but then I realized I was in bed with Kikyou again. "Stop doing this to yourself Inu… she is under the right age, Jesus Christ what have you done?" I whispered as I rolled away from the sleeping girl. Today she did not stir at all. Her even breathing filled my ears as I got ready for work.

I washed my face in the cool water of the sink and then looked into the mirror. Instantly I thought of Kagome. Kikyou stirred behind me but I walked out the door before seeing if she had woken or not. She would get me for it later, I knew. I kept my head down as I entered the office, hoping no one would notice. No such luck today. "Tioshi, there you are, what is the latest on the forest case?"

"Nothing yet, I have talked to everyone in the houses near there and nothing was heard nor seen. How's the hunter?"

"He died yesterday, in the North hospital, from blood loss. He had two kids and a wife, who would do this?" my boss was smiling sadly.

I had an epiphany then, and closed my eyes at the dizziness that came over me. "How could I not put it together!!? What have you done, girl? I'll be back later, I have business to take care of." and with that I rushed to the car down stairs my throat instantly dry from thinking she could have done it. The whole trip to the house across from the shrine was too long for my liking. It gave me time to think, too much time.

She had lied to me… how could I trust a creature of the night? I stopped the car and saw the thick curtains upstairs close as if someone was hiding. I knocked on the door letting the banging echo through the house at least three times before trying the handle. "Kagome!?"

I screamed at her through the door. I knew she was standing there; it was a hunter's instinct. "Kagome open this door…"

"And you'll do what kill me? I researched your family after meeting your brother. You're a hunter…" her voice broke, and was shaky. She had trusted me, why was it she had lied then?

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He beckoned to me. "Kagome I come in peace, please, I don't wish to hurt you."

"Is that what you said to my mother before you slaughtered her with my sister growing in her stomach? Or what about my brother who cried out that he was innocent of any crime as you slashed his throat, and then not finding what you wanted… you burnt the house to the ground. Don't even begin to tell me you won't hurt me because Inu-Yasha Tioshi… you already have." I had done my research; I had found that he was my family's killer as easily as I had cracked into the files of the Nighters Database. I was met with silence as I continued. "Then you came back when I was mourning, and attempted to kill me. You were there even before my greatest enemy showed his face and since then I never roamed here, where I had once lived because of you. The one person I am terrified of more than you I killed years ago, and regrettably I inform you I will kill you if necessary. Leave me in peace, and I will leave this town. Will you do this?"

No answer came for a minute. "Kagome Higarashi, I am a slayer that much I will say. But I do not want you to leave. I just want you to tell me one thing, are you the one who is feeding off of people in the forest?"

"Have you grown soft? Or is it just me?" I hissed at him angrily when I realized what he was getting at. I had heard the hunter I had fed from died early yesterday, never really cared.

"I'll take that as a yes… now tell me-" I cut him off there.

"You said one thing…"

He said nothing again, but this paused made me edgy. "Damn it Kagome! I just want to see your face again… just once. You're more beautiful than Kikyou, more beautiful than any rose in a garden of thorns. Please just grant me this wish…" he pleaded.

"You know I liked you… I really did. But fate has led us on the wrong path, you were the first to beg to be bitten by me, and I worship you for it but I can't let fate win because in the end if I do I will die. So I leave you with a decision. If you want me to leave, then don't come back tonight, but if you want me to stay, come to Amber Night… I look forward to you finding it." I turned away from the door but he spoke and pulled me back for a second.

"Kagome, if you wished me to do so… I would kill myself for you, just to prove a point. I don't remember your family's slaughter but I promise you I will not do to you what I did to them." I closed my eyes and continued up the stairs, throwing myself in my bed when I reached it. Damn hanyou will be the end of me; perhaps it is for the best. He will kill me tonight at Amber Night when he realizes I led him into a trap; love is so deep and yet so pitiful…

I fell asleep to those words repeating in my mind, I felt his aura leave my territory. For once I was not curious why it seemed so deadly to speak to him, I had done the research the moment I noticed the familiar look that Sesshoumaru carried with him. The dogs were an interesting pair, not one I would have put together but they were easily paired if you looked close enough. My dreams were scattered, then focused, then there was sound…

I held my stomach, my swelled stomach. The white hair of his head stood in front of me a blade coming through his shirt's back. I stared as the hunter pulled the knife away, but realized I was in range. Quickly as I could I left that place, warm tears trailing on my cheeks and welling in my eyes making my vision blur. I was in the forest where we had spent so many moments, lost moments. I came to the lake, black as the oblivion of space, and stopped there to look at the nearly full moon. I fell to my knees and wept until I could weep no more. The sun rose slowly over the horizon and I watched it with tender curiosity. If I wanted it to kill me would it? I looked to my stomach and decided I would not pray for death, I would pray that my child, our child, would live as normal a life as she could. I returned to the house to find it empty of hunters and full of death. I knelt beside my love. I grabbed his hand and to my surprise he squeezed back. "Kagome, be my angel…"

"I wish I could… my love…"

"Don't Kagome, just take our child and live. They will come back for you, just go. I will find you, I will." I saw his eyes close and I realized then it was a dream…

I woke in a cold sweat, sitting straight up, and nearly falling out bed when I realized whose eyes I had been looking at no more than two seconds ago were now staring at me. He had climbed in through my window, and was half way in when I woke. "I told you not to come back…"

"I'm not that easy to get rid of. The boy told me you leave your window open anyway. It's his fault." He shrugged continuing through the window.

"Go away, find Amber Night… I'll meet you at nine. Until then I'm catching up on sleep you cost me." I rolled over the hunter at my back.

"You can't even look at me right now, what did you dream?" he asked sitting on the edge of my bed. I rolled away from him.

"Why do you care, killer? Fate will happen whether my dreams tell me the future of us or not, and I will not tell you what I dream for it is not your right to know."

"You dream of me?" the question implied more than I wanted to think about. I felt a blush on my cheeks anyway.

"Occasionally, but that is none of your concern." I had almost let my defense down with him then he moved and I saw the blade against his side. I bit my lip growing nervous with him that near to me. He could kill me and I would not even be able to expect it if I was this close.

He had not talked for a few minutes. "Kagome do you really hate me so?"

"Yes, you took my family. Go please. There is another approaching and if he finds you here he will kill you. Go." I whispered sensing Kouga near my home. His hawk form glided by my window and to my back door, where he knocked. "When you see him step in, go down the way you came. Don't worry about him seeing you, he will be too busy with me."

Before I knew it he was closer than ever. He tilted my chin and our lips met briefly. "Be my angel…" and he returned to his watch. I shook away the recognition from the dream and went to greet Kouga.

An: Ta da!! I'm tired… it is nearly an hour before I'm supposed to wake up so I'm leaving to sleep!! I will start on the next chapter but beware my head is not what it is like when I am fully awake.