InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ All Hallow's Evening ❯ Comfort Me ( Chapter 10 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

It's been so long... I hope people will still read this. I now now, I hate writers who update their stories once every year, but I honestly didn't know what I was writing anymore... but I think I've found my isnpiration again.

THIS HAS NOT BEEN proofreaded, if someone would do that for me I would be a very happy writer. My Office is broken and I don't have a spelling check... thingie (at least not in english, in spanish it works quite well! Go figure...)


All Hallow's Evening

Chapter 10: Comfort Me


Trying to hide the mark and avoid the curious looks left Kagome very annoyed by the end of the day, so when she heard Inuyasha arrive to his room late that night she didn't think twice before going out of the safety of her room to yell at him a little.


"What the hell were you thinking?!" she started. Inuyasha gave her an uninterested look and proceeded to throw himself on his bed. "Everyone has been giving me these weird looks all day, nobody talks to me! Nobody wants to be near me... Sango is the only one brave enough to approach 'Prince Inuyasha's property' " She finished stomping her foot on the floor.


"Good." Was everything he said, his face still bored as ever, eyes focused on his stone ceiling. He was exhausted after a long meeting with the heads of the village that were part of his Kingdom, those villagers were always asking for more and more! Keh, parasites...


"I hadn't made friends yet, and now... they don't want to have anything to do with me. Almost everybody in this castle knows about the damn mark and everyone is afraid of it!" She remembered Miroku hadn't heard yet, and she was grateful, she really liked that annoying priest and at least Sango and him were good to her. Sango had explained the mark was a warning, a warning that the prince didn't want anyone messing around with 'something' that was his, Miroku was the person that got closer to Kagome thanks to all the training and it was easy for Inuyasha to smell him on her, so if Miroku found out about the warning he certainly wouldn't want to be around Kagome, right? He could really loose his head.


Inuyasha remained silent.


"Look at me." Kagome demanded. After 10 seconds of uncomfortable silence Inuyasha lifted his head and looked into her very angry eyes. "Why? I just want to know why."


Inuyasha remained silent a while more and then answered with a blank tone. "I felt like annoying you." He explained. "Like you annoy me."


Kagome's eyes flamed as she approached him, nearly hissing. "What did I ever do to annoy YOU?" she demanded. "I try not to be in your way, it's been 4 days and I had hardly seen you, much less spoken to you!" She stopped to breath and looked away, she didn't want to look at his golden eyes anymore. "I accept you have my life in your hands. Why would I want to annoy you knowing that?"


"Maybe you have a death wish." He whispered to her ear, he was standing near her and she hadn't noticed. "Do you? Do you want to die?"


She stepped away from him and shook her head. "Not yet, Not yet."


"What if I said the only thing that can save you is letting me..." He brought a hand up to her face and twisted her head so she would look up at him. "touch you.... Would you rather die?"


"Yes!" She answered strongly and stepped away from him again.


"Then your will to live is not strong enough yet." He threw her a glance that clearly said he would be waiting, but she ignored it. She knew what he was doing, trying to give her false hope when she knew that once she was not a virgin he would simply hand her over to Seshomaru.


"Is that what you did to the other women? Tell them their only chance was to sleep with you and when they did... you threw them to the Harem?" She whispered and could almost swear she saw him flinch.


"They were easy to manipulate, the only thing they did all day was to shiver and cry, look up at me with scared eyes. They'd have believed everything I said." He snapped with what appeared to be total indifference.


"How can you stand there and tell me this?" Without feeling anything, she added in her mind.


"What do you want me to do? Lie?" He asked with a smirk, the distance between the two shortening again.


"... did you ever think about the people they left behind? Their mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers...? Did you even think about my mother, did you ever wonder if she is still crying over her daughter, taken away in front of her very eyes...?" She was wretched to hear her voice quivering, but didn't stop. "Because I do... I wonder... and it hurts." Tears started to come out of her eyes and she felt her barriers falling. 'No, no! I don't want to cry in front of him!' her mind screamed but it was a non-stopping flow of tears.


"I simply don't care." He hissed, trying not to notice the tears on her face.


"And the worst thing is that I believe you." He didn't flinch. He knew she believed it didn't affect him in the last. But why did he find it impossible to sleep at night then?


"Why did I have to come out at that second? Why did it have to be me? Why did it have to be you...? Why do I have these powers?!" She tried to control herself, she really did. But the sobs were almost choking her and the tears were straining her throat. Inuyasha couldn't do more than see her fail to stop the crying.


And strangely, he felt like he had to help her somehow. "Don't cry." He said faintly. Not you, you are not supposed to cry, he told himself, unable to open his mouth. "Don't you think I ever wonder why? Why do I..." He stopped himself. He wasn't ready to do this.


"What?" she asked, tears still framing her face.


"Why am I telling you this?!" The words rasped out of his throat and he felt tied again. "You have to face reality. You are trapped, you won't see your mother ever again, and the only hope you have to living longer is me."


She didn't answer, just started leaving and he let her go. A couple of steps before the door she turned back and asked: "You didn't tell me what annoyed you about me." She said surprising Inuyasha. He had thought she'd flee to her room like she always did.


"Your face annoys me." He answered. She frowned but didn't say anything, that was not the answer she was looking for.


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Inuyasha had practically disapeared the last few days, it had been 5 days and Kagome had hardly seen him, the only thing that make Kagome feel sure he was alive was hearing him arriving late at night and leaving early in the morning. Not that she cared much if he was alive and well... it just didn't feel right being ignored like this, after all, he was supposed to be trying to seduce her. Maybe this was his plan, to ignore her and make her nervous so she would cave in... it was working a little.


She woke up every morning when she heard him leave to wherever it was he was going, and she sat in her bed touching the mark she still had in her neck, willing it to disappear, while she thought about her family. It had been... 9 days, if she counted today. And the worse part was that everyday it felt more normal waking up and sitting on her bed, touch her mark.


That day Sango stopped by Kagome's room to wake her up, but she found herself with very ready Kagome.


"Oh, you are up" She said cheerfully. Kagome just nodded, not daring to tell her that she was up before dawn everyday. Sango seemed to have high hopes for her, Kagome knew her friend thought she was adjusting well and taking every advice she had given her. The truth was that she was not, she didn't think it was possible for her to have a future here, and it didn't matter how many times Sango told her she was trapped her, in Kagome's mind there still was a way to escape nobody had tried before... and it didn't matter if she had to survive until next Halloween to get out, she WAS going to get out.


"Shall we go?" Kagome said with a forced smile, every word was painful. Trying to appear happy was painful.


"Miroku is waiting" Sango said and opened the door.


They arrived to the courtyard and Kagome tighned up the scarf she had tied around her neck. The mark was still visible (She was beggining to think it'd never go away...) and Miroku was still oblivius of it and that was the way Kagome wanted to keep it.


"Lady Kagome, how lovely you look today." Sango fixed the priest with a death glare and crossed her arms over her chest. "Jealous, Sango dear? You are a lovely creature yourself." Said Miroku getting closer and closer to the girl that looked ready to bite his arms off.


"Oh, stop it you two" Kagome joked "The sexual tension is killing me" Sango went tomato red, murmured an apology and escaped from the Miko training room. Kagome smiled amusingly, feeling relieved at smilling like she really meant it.


"Ready to do some work out?"Miroku asked gently and put his arms behind his back, adopting a more serious image.


"Ready!" replied Kagome excitedly. She had been making some what of a progress lately.


"Now if you'd just accompany me to my room..." Kagome gave him a severe look and he sighed. "Or we could start training right here."


Kagome put herself to work, she streched her hand and started focusing energy into her palm, she was still unable to make a poweball, but the force surging through her was starting to feel more and more controlled.


The girl felt a tingle at the bottom of her stomach first, it travelled inside her, working its way up to her arm, until she felt it, at last, the power she had inside herself reached the surface and came out of her hand, showing itself in the form of a very bright, very blue powerball. Kagome couldn't supress a yelp that alerted Miroku, who stood watching excitedly from a distance. The ball kept growing and growing until it was too bright to look at.


"Now throw it away! It's too much power!" Miroku yelled instruction at her.


"How do I do that?!" The girl asked him, feeling a little nervous.


"Just throw it!" He replied and Kagome closed her eyes and proceeded to do just that, without looking where she was throwing to powerball at. A small commotion started when her power made a small table catch on fire.


Miroku ran to the fire and started to put it out, with the help of some other girls, while Kagome ran alarmed towars them.


"I'm so sorry... I didn't... know what to do!" She explained while helping him throw sand at the fire, which started to get smaller.


"That's ok, I wasn't very specific." He smiled at her. "That was a very good powerball. Impresive, really."


"Thank you." The young miko said. "It's a relieve I was finally able to do it. I'm not useless after all."


Miroku locked eyes with her, his eyes where dull, suddently without a glint of light. "You'll be very useful." She smiled without noticing the change in his tone.


The fire was out so the priest got up from the ground. "Enough distraction, girls, keep training." He said and the few girls that had gathered around the fire left.


Kagome suddently sat on the floor feeling tired. "I didn't know it was going to be this hard... I feel like I no energy left."


"And you probably don't" said the priest, sitting by her side. "If you push yourself too hard you could waste all your energy and that is dangerous. If that powerball was any bigger it could have hurt you." The man explained to the exhausted looking girl.


"But that powerball isn't enough to actually kill a demon, right?" She asked, pretending not to be very interested.


"No, that would only hurt a demon, but it could kill a man." Miroku shifted a little so he could look at the girl in the eye.


"But after just one powerball I feel exhausted, how am I supposed to fight?" She asked avoiding his eyes.


"You need more training to be able to make bigger, more powerful impacts." Kagome sighed and hugged her legs with both arms, resting her head on her knees.


"How long is it going to take me to be able to kill a demon?" She said and Miroku understood her intentions, even when her voice was empty of any emotion.


"It's impossible for one miko alone to kill a demon." Miroku felt Kagome froze and her breath caught in her throat. "You'd die trying..."


"I just need more power." She reasured. The priest shook his head.


"You won't be able to kill Inuyasha, he is one of the most powerful demons..."


"I don't want to hear it." Kagome interrupted. "I'll go train again." She was going to get up when Miroku grabbed her arm and sat her down again. He gently cupped her face in his hand and turned her face so she'd look at him.


"You won't kill Inuyasha even if you try." She looked away again, he sighed. "Your heart is too pure."


"I just want to believe... there is hope." She whispered.


"There is, don't worry." She leaned her head on his shoulder so he put an arm around her. They stayed like that for a while, oblivious of the young mikos whispering about the priest boldness for touching the prince's property.


Late that night Kagome was awake looking at her ceiling, contemplating the shadows the moonlight projected. The moon was almost gone tonight, the new moon was only in 3 days. There was a sound outside and she heard the door slam closed, Inuyasha had finally arrived. She had a sudden urge to tell him of her accomplishment today at her training but she dismissed it as an stupid idea.


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Three days later she had forgotten that that night was the New Moon until Kaede appeared at the training court that afternoon. She came directly to her and Kagome knew it was to speak to her about Inuyasha.


"Today is the New Moon." The old woman said. Kagome nodded. "Inuyasha won't go to sleep to his quarters tonight." The girl looked strangly at her, how was she so sure? Inuyasha always slept in his room, it didn't matter how late he arrived. "He sleeps in a separated room that night, far enough for anybody to see."


"See what?" Asked her curiously.


"See him... his weakness." Kagome stood there trying to figure out what she was saying. "He will be at the base of the tallest tower tonight. I want you to ask him about my sister."


Kagome stood quietly for a few seconds and looking at the face of the woman she understood her need. She needed to know too. "I will go to him at midnight." She reasured her.


The woman smiled and walked away leaving Kagome dreading what she was going to find out late that day.


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That night in her room Kagome was not surprised when she didn't hear a sound coming from the prince's dorm. What Kaede said was right.


When it was late enough she sat herself on her bed, put on her shoes and a cloak, ready to roam the halls of the castle. The tallest tower was the farest, coldern one, and she felt less than welcome when she arrived to it.


There was only one door and Kagome thought it could only led to the room Kaede had pointed. She walked slowly to the door and felt the cold doorknob in her hand like an omen. Slowly she opened the door and let herself in, overwelmed by the coldness. She could hardly see anything without the moonlight but by the light of a torch she could see a figure sleeping on the floor. She was sure it was Inuyasha.


She hesitated for a second but approached the figure, she got on one knee and touched him, trying to wake him up gently. She was surprised when two dark eyes greeted her. He looked at her like he was dreaming and whispered a name.


"Kikyo?" Kagome backed away a little but replied.


"It's Kagome." Inuyasha's face changed that instant, he supported himself in both arms.


"Get out" He looked more scared than scary. Kagome kneeled more comfortably, the nature of the figure slowly sinking in.


"You are human."


Inuyasha made an effort to sat down and leaned on the wall. "Get out, you are not supposed to see me like this." He replied angrily.


"This is what happens at New Moons? You become human..." Kagome inquired, the now human Inuyasha tried to growl.


"No one is supposed to know... who? Who told you?" Kagome approched him but didn't touch him.


"And yet... Kikyo knew?" She asked trying to guess why he hadn't been alarmed when he thought she was Kikyo.


"I told her..." He said more to himself than to her.


"Who was she?" The girl asked looking at him wildly. He murmurred something under his breath she didn't catch, so she leaned towars him. "Who was she?"


"I loved her" He said.


Kagome froze, not fully beliving what she was hearing.


"She was human." She said without thinking.


"She didn't love me..." Kagome stayed still, barely allowing herself to breath, afraid that a sudden movement would alert him of the things he was saying. He was not only human in appearances tonight, his emotions where human too.


Inuyasha's eyes moved to fix on hers, like he was hoping for her to understand. "She betrayed me."


"Why?" she asked in a whisper.


"If she had told me she wanted to be free I would have let her... " Inuyasha stopped talking and Kagome didn't dare to say anything. They stayed in silence for a few minutes that seemed like hours, the only thing to be heard was the wind outside.


"You look so much like her" Inuyasha said to no one. The girl didn't reply, she didn't want to.


He made some more effort to lay down again, Kagome couldn't help it and she helped him lay down comfortably without noticing she was resting his head on her lap until it was too late.


"Why are you so weak?" She asked him after a while.


"She made me like this." He replied closing his eyes. At that moment Kagome saw that this was the chance she was looking for, he was human a mere powerful would be enough, she could easily kill him right here, right now.



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For that reviewer who asked me: No, this will not be a chapter a day, I'm just lazy and I like making chapters short, but this one is going to double the size of all the others, I'll try my hardest u_u
Right now everything seems to be moving slowly but that is simply because a lot of important things happen at the beginning but then I'll cover longer periods of time... and this is just getting good lol... have patience, please!

Reading the reviews I saw this: "Why do the women die after one month?" Hum, they don't die. Inuyasha doesn't keep anyone more than a month, so he just uses them and throws them away (gosh, that sounds really bad... lol), and then they go to the Harem (that it's like this place full of women free for any men to 'enjoy' -this is so going to be R rated...) and the life expectancy in there is like 3 months, so yeah, pretty women have short lives in the Demon dimension (this is sounding weirder and weirder ¬¬ why do you people let me write this stuff? Lol).


And another: "What is the big deal about the mark?" I will explain this further in the story, it's not over yet... but the thing is that nobody wants to be around the Prince's Property, and the 'warning' (aka the hickey) is like screaming 'I have noticed someone is invading my property', so nobody wants to piss off the prince and... you know, die, so they keep away from Kagome.


And YES, YES I know it's supposed to be All Hallow's EVE but... I don't have an excuse for that, lol.


I will update!!!