InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Back to you ❯ Chapter 18 ( Chapter 19 )
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By: MIztikal_Dragon 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.20.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 345 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.20.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 345 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: Oh, yeah I don’t own InuYasha but I do own the rights to this story save for the characters!
"No I don't wanna be I don't wanna be I don't wanna be a witness!" -Cyndi Lauper
Back to you
By Miztikal-Dragon
Chapter Eighteen: Back from the dead
Kagome groaned as she blinked, she was regaining consciousness and the lack of light stung her eyes more so than brightness would. She had no clue to where she was, but she couldn’t move her body and the dull throbbing pain in her shoulder let her know she wasn’t paralyzed like she had first believed. Not being able to rub her eyes, Kagome closed them and waited for them to adjust before trying to open them again. Thinking about what had happened, Kagome heard the shuffling of clothing, who ever it was had either shot the arrow that pierced her shoulder or someone who had found her; she was leaning towards the ladder.
“I know you’re awake,” a woman’s voice said rather irritably. “So don’t try fooling me girl, I’ve got a few questions to ask you.”
“Who are you?” Kagome asked glancing up at the woman.
“It doesn’t matter right now who I am,” Tsubaki replied. “What I want to know is if you aren’t the priestess Kikyo then who by chance are you and how are you connected to InuYasha?”
Kagome frowned somewhat confused by the curiosity of the woman before her. She immediately knew that the woman was obviously not one of the “good” guys so she wasn’t too sure if she should give away anything that could hurt InuYasha in the long run. Sighing heavily, Kagome looked away from the woman and tried hard to keep her composure because now wasn’t the time to break down.
“I’m no one,” Kagome whispered sullenly.
The woman chuckled as she forced Kagome to look her in the eyes. At first Kagome stared into the deep eyes of the woman until the red bled in and one name she never thought she’d say again fell from her lips.
“Naraku…”
The woman’s eyes narrowed accusingly as she stood up. Kagome could see the disgust the woman felt as clear as day and Kagome was a little afraid that the woman was going to do something that Kagome would later regret.
“Let’s not say that foul hanyou’s name in my presence,” She snapped venomously. “If you must know my name is Tsubaki. I was a priestess until InuYasha brought me down with his claws…”
The woman named Tsubaki would have continued with her story if she would have had the chance. Her eyes went wide as she clawed at her throat, something obviously wanted to come out by the baseball sized lump heading up her esophagus. Kagome wanted to scream in horror as the woman’s throat split open and a pale hand came out as if it was reaching for something. The dark miko’s body melted and the air smelt like burnt flesh as the purple smoke poured out from nowhere. Kagome coughed raggedly, the weird smoke hurt her lungs and she felt as though she couldn’t breathe.
A sinister laugh brought Kagome from her thoughts and her eyes directly to the figure of a man shadowed by the darkness and the smoke surrounding them. .She didn’t want to believe what her gut was telling her, but Kagome knew whose laugh that it belonged to. He slowly came towards her, his red eyes practically glowing with an evil light. He may have been stark naked, but it wasn’t the nudity in front of Kagome that made her faint, it was knowing who stood holding the world in his hands looming over her and the words he seemed to sing with malice.
“It’s been a long time hasn’t it Kagome…”
~~oOo~~
InuYasha couldn’t believe that Sango and Miroku weren’t on his side and it irritated him to no end. How dare they suggest that he would ever want a person like Kagome to stay with him, he was supposed to be with Kikyo and Kikyo only. These images he’d been seeing since Kagome had to be some sort of spell she’d placed over him while he was pinned to the tree. The monk and demon exterminator had to be wrong! It just wasn’t physically possible that he himself had killed Naraku with his bare claws and fallen in love with a girl, all of which he didn’t have any recollection of.
“WHY?!” He yelled running as fast as his legs could go, “why can’t I put this all together? Why can’t I understand?”
The wind didn’t answer his cries, but it blew comfortingly around him as he tried to find away to put his thoughts into something that would be easier to decipher. He may have wanted not to believe what his friends were saying, but he couldn’t ignore the fact that there was a rather large portion of his life missing and his heart yearned to find out what it exactly was that seemed to be missing. There would still be about a few hours left of daylight and he wanted to gather his priorities and set them straight.
The hanyou headed towards a place that he knew would be an easy place where the crickets chirped and that was about it. He wanted to be by himself because he knew that there were things going on that he wasn’t able to comprehend the things around pointed to the heavy air that screamed for chaos. Something was coming and no matter how unprepared he would later be, InuYasha was going to try and be ready for whatever was coming. InuYasha would eventually realize that all his answers had been directly in front of him since the very beginning, but the fact of the matter would he be able to find himself before he would lose it all?
~~oOo~~
Naraku loathed the human laying unconscious on the ground a few feet before him and smiled, she remembered who he was. It may have been a little more than ten years since his own demise, but it all had something to do with the woman that he now stared at with hatred. She was the reason why InuYasha was able to find the inner demon and strike the evil hanyou down so easily. Naraku wanted to make the human girl before him sufferer even more so than she currently was, he wanted to see the vision of death deep within her dark brown pupils as everything she held dear crumbled in her hands like a lump of dirt. He wanted to make her feel the pain he had when InuYasha had torn into his chest and ripped out his beating heart before squishing it like a bug.
“You might as well kill me now Naraku,” he hadn’t realized that she’d awaken, but he didn’t let his surprise show as his red eyes watched her.
“And why do you say such a silly thing like that my pet?” He said so sweetly that his tone sounded sickeningly sour, “don’t you want your precious InuYasha to come and save you?”
Kagome dryly laughed at his remark and he narrowed his eyes. She slowly licked her lips before she looked up at the evil hanyou with her dull brown eyes, they almost lacked all signs of life and it make Naraku curious to see what she meant and what she was planning to say.
“Because,” she started closing her eyes for a moment or two. “He won’t come for me… He’s already threatened to kill me himself so I have absolutely not value to you or you’re half assed plans to kill InuYasha.”
“don’t be too sure of that,” Naraku said emotionlessly as he picked at his fingers. “InuYasha will come to your aide. I will be sure of that… He’ll know my whereabouts soon enough so don’t worry your pretty little head just yet.”
~~oOo~~
He hid in the brush of the trees watching her as she ran, the tears in her eyes completely visible from where he hid. He was on the hunt and she was his prey. Many thoughts ran through his mind and even if he knew that what he was seeing was some sort of dream, it sure as hell looked real. She was wearing shorts and a shirt that was dark and had barely any sleeves, it was a type of attire that he’d never seen before, but it looked so good on her. InuYasha relaxed and decided to let his little day dream play out, it couldn’t be that bad could it?
“Wench, where do you think you’re going?” The voice inside his mind growled.
He could hear her faint gasp as he watched her turn to look at him. She looked as though she was afraid of him, but something about her face was different; she was younger.
“I--InuYasha?” She stuttered, he wanted to snort, but she continued shakily. “I-I am going home…”
“Did I ever tell you that you could go home?” The words sounded too harsh for his liking, but his body moved forwards, the younger version of Kagome.
“Well I don’t need your permission to go home! I am my own person!” Her voice was growing more confident as the anger flashed in her eyes.
“As far as I’m concerned wench you do!” His voice was threatening and as he hopelessly watched himself grab her wrist and practically throw her to the ground, he became uneasy. Something wasn’t right with this dream, but he was powerless to stop it.
And that’s where it all began to go downhill, he could only watch himself as he brutally hurt Kagome. Dragging his claws down the backs of her thighs, the blood spilling made the hanyou want to gag, but he was in shock and it still continued to get worse. InuYasha listened painfully to her screams of agony, but it wouldn’t stop.
“A woman always seems to look so radiant and fragile before she dies,” InuYasha was screaming at himself to let go, but he couldn’t.
“No, please… just leave me alone InuYasha, please,” she was begging through her tear filled eyes and he wanted to cry himself.
The hanyou was being utterlessly tortured by these seemingly never ending images, but the violence only kept going. He could hear his laughter and his mind began to focus. It was Naraku’s laughter, but it was InuYasha’s voice. InuYasha cringed each time he was forced to watch himself do unspeakable things to the girl who now looked completely defeated. He fought back to hold onto his sanity, the hanyou was watching himself killing Kagome. Every scratch, gash, and bruise he could see perfectly and it was then that he remembered the words he’d said to her before InuYasha turned his back on her.
‘I don’t want to see you again Kagome, so don’t follow me or I will kill you.’
He hated himself as the dream faded from his eyes and he found himself at the bone eater’s well where it all had transpired. Disgust ran through his blood as he stared down at his own claws. For all he knew they could have already been stained with Kagome’s blood, but he couldn’t be sure of it just yet. Still things seemed to be different and they didn’t add up. How could she still want to be with him if he’d tried to kill her?
It was then as he stood there did something finally go off in his head and the things he’d forgotten began to trickle back into his mind. He wasn’t too happy with what he was able to figure out and remember, but he had an overwhelming feeling that Naraku wasn’t dead and the single arrow that held both Kagome’s scent and that of something sinister only seemed to make these thoughts increase tenfold.
“I’ll be waiting for you InuYasha,” it was indeed Naraku’s voice. “I have something that belongs to you… So you’d better hurry up and find me before she loses the game.”
~~oOo~~
E/N: Okay so that's all you get for a bit! If it is confusing sorry, but sometimes I even confuse myself! The plot has thickened so REVIEW!!! lol Love ya' lots! Spiffy yet?
-Krystal-
"No I don't wanna be I don't wanna be I don't wanna be a witness!" -Cyndi Lauper
Back to you
By Miztikal-Dragon
Chapter Eighteen: Back from the dead
Kagome groaned as she blinked, she was regaining consciousness and the lack of light stung her eyes more so than brightness would. She had no clue to where she was, but she couldn’t move her body and the dull throbbing pain in her shoulder let her know she wasn’t paralyzed like she had first believed. Not being able to rub her eyes, Kagome closed them and waited for them to adjust before trying to open them again. Thinking about what had happened, Kagome heard the shuffling of clothing, who ever it was had either shot the arrow that pierced her shoulder or someone who had found her; she was leaning towards the ladder.
“I know you’re awake,” a woman’s voice said rather irritably. “So don’t try fooling me girl, I’ve got a few questions to ask you.”
“Who are you?” Kagome asked glancing up at the woman.
“It doesn’t matter right now who I am,” Tsubaki replied. “What I want to know is if you aren’t the priestess Kikyo then who by chance are you and how are you connected to InuYasha?”
Kagome frowned somewhat confused by the curiosity of the woman before her. She immediately knew that the woman was obviously not one of the “good” guys so she wasn’t too sure if she should give away anything that could hurt InuYasha in the long run. Sighing heavily, Kagome looked away from the woman and tried hard to keep her composure because now wasn’t the time to break down.
“I’m no one,” Kagome whispered sullenly.
The woman chuckled as she forced Kagome to look her in the eyes. At first Kagome stared into the deep eyes of the woman until the red bled in and one name she never thought she’d say again fell from her lips.
“Naraku…”
The woman’s eyes narrowed accusingly as she stood up. Kagome could see the disgust the woman felt as clear as day and Kagome was a little afraid that the woman was going to do something that Kagome would later regret.
“Let’s not say that foul hanyou’s name in my presence,” She snapped venomously. “If you must know my name is Tsubaki. I was a priestess until InuYasha brought me down with his claws…”
The woman named Tsubaki would have continued with her story if she would have had the chance. Her eyes went wide as she clawed at her throat, something obviously wanted to come out by the baseball sized lump heading up her esophagus. Kagome wanted to scream in horror as the woman’s throat split open and a pale hand came out as if it was reaching for something. The dark miko’s body melted and the air smelt like burnt flesh as the purple smoke poured out from nowhere. Kagome coughed raggedly, the weird smoke hurt her lungs and she felt as though she couldn’t breathe.
A sinister laugh brought Kagome from her thoughts and her eyes directly to the figure of a man shadowed by the darkness and the smoke surrounding them. .She didn’t want to believe what her gut was telling her, but Kagome knew whose laugh that it belonged to. He slowly came towards her, his red eyes practically glowing with an evil light. He may have been stark naked, but it wasn’t the nudity in front of Kagome that made her faint, it was knowing who stood holding the world in his hands looming over her and the words he seemed to sing with malice.
“It’s been a long time hasn’t it Kagome…”
~~oOo~~
InuYasha couldn’t believe that Sango and Miroku weren’t on his side and it irritated him to no end. How dare they suggest that he would ever want a person like Kagome to stay with him, he was supposed to be with Kikyo and Kikyo only. These images he’d been seeing since Kagome had to be some sort of spell she’d placed over him while he was pinned to the tree. The monk and demon exterminator had to be wrong! It just wasn’t physically possible that he himself had killed Naraku with his bare claws and fallen in love with a girl, all of which he didn’t have any recollection of.
“WHY?!” He yelled running as fast as his legs could go, “why can’t I put this all together? Why can’t I understand?”
The wind didn’t answer his cries, but it blew comfortingly around him as he tried to find away to put his thoughts into something that would be easier to decipher. He may have wanted not to believe what his friends were saying, but he couldn’t ignore the fact that there was a rather large portion of his life missing and his heart yearned to find out what it exactly was that seemed to be missing. There would still be about a few hours left of daylight and he wanted to gather his priorities and set them straight.
The hanyou headed towards a place that he knew would be an easy place where the crickets chirped and that was about it. He wanted to be by himself because he knew that there were things going on that he wasn’t able to comprehend the things around pointed to the heavy air that screamed for chaos. Something was coming and no matter how unprepared he would later be, InuYasha was going to try and be ready for whatever was coming. InuYasha would eventually realize that all his answers had been directly in front of him since the very beginning, but the fact of the matter would he be able to find himself before he would lose it all?
~~oOo~~
Naraku loathed the human laying unconscious on the ground a few feet before him and smiled, she remembered who he was. It may have been a little more than ten years since his own demise, but it all had something to do with the woman that he now stared at with hatred. She was the reason why InuYasha was able to find the inner demon and strike the evil hanyou down so easily. Naraku wanted to make the human girl before him sufferer even more so than she currently was, he wanted to see the vision of death deep within her dark brown pupils as everything she held dear crumbled in her hands like a lump of dirt. He wanted to make her feel the pain he had when InuYasha had torn into his chest and ripped out his beating heart before squishing it like a bug.
“You might as well kill me now Naraku,” he hadn’t realized that she’d awaken, but he didn’t let his surprise show as his red eyes watched her.
“And why do you say such a silly thing like that my pet?” He said so sweetly that his tone sounded sickeningly sour, “don’t you want your precious InuYasha to come and save you?”
Kagome dryly laughed at his remark and he narrowed his eyes. She slowly licked her lips before she looked up at the evil hanyou with her dull brown eyes, they almost lacked all signs of life and it make Naraku curious to see what she meant and what she was planning to say.
“Because,” she started closing her eyes for a moment or two. “He won’t come for me… He’s already threatened to kill me himself so I have absolutely not value to you or you’re half assed plans to kill InuYasha.”
“don’t be too sure of that,” Naraku said emotionlessly as he picked at his fingers. “InuYasha will come to your aide. I will be sure of that… He’ll know my whereabouts soon enough so don’t worry your pretty little head just yet.”
~~oOo~~
He hid in the brush of the trees watching her as she ran, the tears in her eyes completely visible from where he hid. He was on the hunt and she was his prey. Many thoughts ran through his mind and even if he knew that what he was seeing was some sort of dream, it sure as hell looked real. She was wearing shorts and a shirt that was dark and had barely any sleeves, it was a type of attire that he’d never seen before, but it looked so good on her. InuYasha relaxed and decided to let his little day dream play out, it couldn’t be that bad could it?
“Wench, where do you think you’re going?” The voice inside his mind growled.
He could hear her faint gasp as he watched her turn to look at him. She looked as though she was afraid of him, but something about her face was different; she was younger.
“I--InuYasha?” She stuttered, he wanted to snort, but she continued shakily. “I-I am going home…”
“Did I ever tell you that you could go home?” The words sounded too harsh for his liking, but his body moved forwards, the younger version of Kagome.
“Well I don’t need your permission to go home! I am my own person!” Her voice was growing more confident as the anger flashed in her eyes.
“As far as I’m concerned wench you do!” His voice was threatening and as he hopelessly watched himself grab her wrist and practically throw her to the ground, he became uneasy. Something wasn’t right with this dream, but he was powerless to stop it.
And that’s where it all began to go downhill, he could only watch himself as he brutally hurt Kagome. Dragging his claws down the backs of her thighs, the blood spilling made the hanyou want to gag, but he was in shock and it still continued to get worse. InuYasha listened painfully to her screams of agony, but it wouldn’t stop.
“A woman always seems to look so radiant and fragile before she dies,” InuYasha was screaming at himself to let go, but he couldn’t.
“No, please… just leave me alone InuYasha, please,” she was begging through her tear filled eyes and he wanted to cry himself.
The hanyou was being utterlessly tortured by these seemingly never ending images, but the violence only kept going. He could hear his laughter and his mind began to focus. It was Naraku’s laughter, but it was InuYasha’s voice. InuYasha cringed each time he was forced to watch himself do unspeakable things to the girl who now looked completely defeated. He fought back to hold onto his sanity, the hanyou was watching himself killing Kagome. Every scratch, gash, and bruise he could see perfectly and it was then that he remembered the words he’d said to her before InuYasha turned his back on her.
‘I don’t want to see you again Kagome, so don’t follow me or I will kill you.’
He hated himself as the dream faded from his eyes and he found himself at the bone eater’s well where it all had transpired. Disgust ran through his blood as he stared down at his own claws. For all he knew they could have already been stained with Kagome’s blood, but he couldn’t be sure of it just yet. Still things seemed to be different and they didn’t add up. How could she still want to be with him if he’d tried to kill her?
It was then as he stood there did something finally go off in his head and the things he’d forgotten began to trickle back into his mind. He wasn’t too happy with what he was able to figure out and remember, but he had an overwhelming feeling that Naraku wasn’t dead and the single arrow that held both Kagome’s scent and that of something sinister only seemed to make these thoughts increase tenfold.
“I’ll be waiting for you InuYasha,” it was indeed Naraku’s voice. “I have something that belongs to you… So you’d better hurry up and find me before she loses the game.”
~~oOo~~
E/N: Okay so that's all you get for a bit! If it is confusing sorry, but sometimes I even confuse myself! The plot has thickened so REVIEW!!! lol Love ya' lots! Spiffy yet?
-Krystal-