InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A winter of sorrow ❯ inuyasha's melancholy ( Chapter 2 )

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Wow....hope you enjoyed my first chapter i worked hard on it but it wasent as long as i intended it to be
+_+ well thanks to everyone for reviews on mostly my poetry ya know i do try. -^_^-.



Miruko and shippo were sound asleep when i got back, but sango was in the corner washing dishes. My presence seemed to startle her because she jumped quickly around to face me. "oh kagome your back" she gave me a fake smile, i could tell that she had been crying. "you should eat" she said with her back turned to me still washing the dishes. I wasent hungrey though i did eat some. The soup was thin and almost tasteless but we did what we could because it was winter and all of the village farmers who sold their stored vegtables in the winter had moved to the east like all the others. I thought of the man i had seen early today at the edge of the forest. He had been dressed like a priest but i knew he meant no good. I yawned and decided that it was time to take a much needed rest.
I could be with INUYASHA when i dreamed but i knew that it was just a cruel illusion. I lay my head on a soft rolled up blanket. The last thing i saw was inuyasha's blank, haunting expression.

(back in the forest)
The man began to approach the sacred tree. "inuyasha", he said in a quite,sinister tone. The man had heard the storys of inuyasha. The ruthless demon of the west. He had heard of the countless murders and how noone recieved any mercy. That he had crimson, menacing eyes displaying no feelings, absent of emotion. perfect. This would be great the man thought, inuyasha will serve me and i will rule japan. He walked to th bottom of the tree and chanted as he lit two black candles and sprinkled some powder like stuff around the base of the tree. It was now almost dark and the candles glow radiated off of both their faces. The man kneeled down in the snow while still chanting the wind picked up dramaticly and blew the candles out. The mans eyes widened and he ran into the shadows of the trees surrounding him. Into the pure,white field of snow.Through the village. And into a small cave. A light glew inside warmly. "it has been done" he said to another person. A woman. The woman who had brought kikyo back. "good, if the spell worked it has already taken effect." the man nodded." What exacly did you want with this demon, anari houshi" the woman asked while stirring something in a pot. The man dident answer her. Why should he let her know. He would someday rule her also. With the help of this legendary demon,
inuyasha.

(at the sacred tree(again))(inuyasha's pov)

The snow began to fall faster and the sky was grayer. I felt the cold working its way up my spine and into my heart but when it reached where i knew my heart was i couldednt feel it. I opened my eyes slightly feeling the frozen amber become fluid. The night was white and chilling. Small white flakes of december rain fluttered my my face. It was so white and i was used to a world so black and blank. Kagome. I remember now. Kagome saved me from becoming a monster. I felt..... i couldent feel. I knew that i had to find kagome. But i dident know why.
I had been in love with her but it seemed to me that in the night which had held me for so long i had lost myself.
Now i was just a hull a hull of what i once was. Why had i woken. Kagome had nothing to do with it im sure.
I dident want to be dead forever. I just wanted the end. Our end was always tragic. The worst thing that had come of it was, this time i was dead. I looked at my hand. It looked as white as the snow on the boughs of the trees. I was like kikyo. Dead but not gone. This wasent the fate i had hoped for. I wanted life, but life of all things was meant to be good. But i was grateful. I could not feel the sadness but i knew that it was there.
Being dead seemed to make living a whole lot easier. Kikyo was right, like many times befor. "to live, is to die, to die, is to live" I touched the arrow that held me to the tree. It faded leaving nothing but a scar. A scar that had been reopened. I began to walk feeling numb as i did but all of a sudden words started streaming through my mind words that were so familer but i was sure that i had never heard them before. "inuyasha, im so sorry,
this isent how it was suppposed to be, this isent the ending i had hoped for, it hurts me because im here so close to you, but your still so far away and i dont know.... if it would be wrong to say so long to you, or if i should hold on"
the words were kagome's. I knew then i had to find her and to let her know that this fairy-tale wasent over. To let her know that it was right to hold on. I hoped that she hadent already let me go. I ran into the dark of the forest in hope to pick up her sent. A loud unfamiler voice stopped me "you are the revived demon inuyasha are you not". I came to a quick stop. but i did not feel, i did not feel fear, i felt nothing.
" you being brought back is no accident, im anari-houshi and im the one responsible, you will serve me, but first there something's i need to tell you". who was this man. What did he mean that i will serve him. The man stepped out of the shadows. I took a sure step forward.


(back to kagome's point of view(in the hut)

I woke with something deep down, deep deep down in my core telling me that something had happened.
Beads of cold sweat rolled down my forehead. I had dreamt of inuyasha. The pale moonlight was washing over him turning him pale and his silver hair was swaying softly in the dark, breeze. i called to him but i could not reach him. I struggled and fought but a thick white cloud was seperating us. I finally mad it to inuyasha's arms, choking and panting and thats when his eye went crimson.
I had tears streaming down my face. It was like reliving what had happened last winter. crimson snow.
I rose from the pallet where i had slept and looked over at the smoldering fire in the center of the hut.
I could hear my freinds hushed breathing and my own squeaky footsteps on the ancient floor. I placed my finger
on the rough eged window pane and starred out into the snow storm. I felt like something was out there and its thoughts were focused on me. I pulled a large wool showl over my shoulders and felt lost in it warmth.
I knew what i was about to do could be dagerous and it was undoubtably foolish. I placed my hands on the door and felt the cold outside air making its way in. I pushed it open slowly and carefully so i dident disturb anyone.
The cold went right through the shawl but i kept walking. The cold bit at every inch of my body turning my face and legs numb. I looked up at the sky, a canopy of stars above shining almost amber. Amber like inuyasha's stubburn eyes. I had no idea where i was headed until i was directly in front of the sacred tree. I dident want to see inuyasha like this. I stared at the base of the tree for a long while in the biteing cold befor looking up to find........nothing inuyasha wasent there. I stood in shock for at least a whole minute. Could inuyasha of been rrevived. impossible. or was it?