InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayal's Gift ❯ Chapter 44
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By: ldymoon 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Hentai / Romance / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.30.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 209 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Hentai / Romance / Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.30.2007 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 209 | Status: Completed
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43
Inuyasha following his mates' scent came running to the well with his brother and Shippo beside him and when he got to the well he discovered that Hotaru's parents were back in his time. And it seemed as if they were trying to coax Hotaru to go back with them. Something in him snapped there was no way in hell they were going to take her. Anger bubbled up within him that when he began to talk it was as if his voice dripped with venom.
“Well, what a reunion we have ourselves here, what in the hell are you doing here? Where the hell do you think you're taking Hotaru?!”
“Inuyasha!” Both Kagome and Miroku let out. Hotaru turned around to see her husband looking at her parents and everything she's read flooded her brain. Hitomi opened her mouth to make her opinion known and Hotaru's entire demeanor changed with the personality change.
“You see Hotaru…he still loves Kagome, if he didn't would he want revenge on her so bad. Would he have used us to get what he desired?”
Hotaru's little white hands clenched her head and she doubled over as she walked up to Inuyasha and grabbed his hoari her head bowed like she was about to retch.
“Is that true? Please Inu…yasha…tell me…”
“I don't love Kagome…”
Hotaru looked at him hopefully, her eyes wide with expectation.
“But I did use you…Shippo told me I shouldn't, but, I have been waiting for the right opportunity…the night that you and I became mated is when my second wish was granted…but…I…”
Hotaru let her hands fall limply, her shoulders were humped over. Her spiritual energy began to rise and Sesshomaru drew his Tokijin and Shippo drew out a leaf and filled it with his ki.
“Damn it Hotaru you don't understand, you have to let me finish…” Inuyasha said drawing his sword to protect himself at all cost but trying to talk her from doing whatever it was she was about to do.
Stammering Hotaru drew her hands forward as if a puppet master raised them up as two different energies began to swirl.
“You…you…I can't believe…that you… betrayed me Inuyasha. I…I let…you in!”
“Hotaru don't do this, you can't kill him…” Kagome screamed out, tears in her eyes as she saw her daughter in so much pain. Hotaru let the blast go and it missed him but shot Sesshomaru in the midsection who had moved to cut her down while she was momentarily distracted.
Inuyasha growled as he saw his brother skid the ground and landed sitting up against a thick tree. He could see his brother was hissing with the spiritual energy that was still eating at his flesh.
“Stay out of this Sesshomaru this is my problem!”
Inuyasha raised his sword and was about to swing when Kagome shot her arrow at him.
“What the fuck! Wind Scar!”
Hotaru rose up above the blast and Miroku quickly put up a strong spiritual barrier around himself and Kagome.
“Inuyasha you can't kill her.” Kagome screamed out as she fell to the ground in tears.
“What do you mean…don't you see she's lost it…I have too.”
“No, you don't understand…Hotaru is…she is… Hotaru is the Shikon Jewel!”
“The What!!!” Inuyasha, Shippo and Sesshomaru said out loud.
Hotaru heard what she had said and looked at her hands.
“Yes, Inuyasha, when Miroku sucked up Naraku he also took with him the jewel of four souls, when he and I got together by the well, it was fate, the shikon wanted to come back. And in order to get back to its protector…”
“Than your saying that you and Miroku had betrayed Inuyasha because it was meant to be…in order for you to have it back…”Shippo said like someone who had just solved the biggest mystery.
“This explains her dual personality and why the second personality is youkai.” Sesshomaru put in as he made his way by Inuyasha again ignoring the slight pain of burnt flesh that was in the healing process. However, Inuyasha was growling.
“Is this the bull shit you came up with so that I wouldn't give you both what you deserved? You couldn't come up with anything better? Are you really trying to tell me that you didn't want to betray me that this all happened because the fucking jewel made you do it.”
“Inuyasha listen to Kagome, I didn't believe it when she first told me just moments before coming down into the well, but, it makes sense…Kikyo was entrusted to protect it…Kagome was born with it and this time around she was pregnant with it. In order for her to get it back I had to…give it back to her.” Miroku said holding on to Kagome.
However, a voice broke the argument in the air like the sharpest katana, yet, it was the softest to be heard.
“I'm a thing…an object? I'm…the thing that caused so much trouble years ago…it's all my fault this has happened…I'm not…human?”
Hotaru's lips were trembling as shimmering liquid gathered at the rims of her lavender eyes. So pale and small she began to resemble an expensive china doll that fell and broke to pieces. Looking at her hands she continued in that broken horror filled voice.
“This is why I am a freak…oh god…what am I? Are you saying that I am the evil jewel that…oh god…because of me…Inuyasha you were sealed to a tree…because of me…the first woman you've ever loved died…and daddy…because of me…your Sango died because essentially I killed her brother…I remember reading it all and feeling as if I were there…but I was there…I'm just an object…a jewel personified…I'm nothing and nobody I don't exist…”
She stood there shocked; her eyes loosing focus, her head swimming with broken images of her life up til this point. She remembered how she was lost in the blackness and then finding a subtle pink light that she floated too…she remembered feeling warm and peaceful…
Then a different voice filled the stale air. “Didn't we read in the diary that a an evil youkai existed and a priestess named Midoriko cast it away along with herself? So…if you're supposedly the good half than that means that I'm…”
The girl shot angry eyes toward her parents. “You never gave me a chance because I was just pure evil huh. I didn't have a choice because I'm not a human nor am I a youkai…I'm…I'm fucking stone that's what I am. Yeah, so everything I did is within my nature, huh, and all those times I've tried to make things bloom, makes things heal so that I could be like Hotaru and gain your love feeling guilty because I couldn't, feeling envious because I got the dark while she got the damn light. Huh I can't believe this shit. Well you know what…knowledge is power it truly is.”
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Everyone watched as Hotaru/Hitomi pulsed three times, Hitomi using the feeling of negativity within the soul she was in managed to free herself from Hotaru's body, yet she found herself at this point transparent. Everyone looked at the transparent girl and found that she was still identical to Hotaru all except that wild hateful look in her eye. Hotaru looked at her evil ghost of a reflection in horror. This was all too surreal, the image that Hitomi gave her a while back danced back into her head. Was it her time to see blackness, her time to not exist? But, she didn't really exist anyway right? She was nothing but a piece of jewelry personified.
“I need power in order to…live.” Hitomi said and with that she found the easiest target to take out. “How many times do I need to kill you? For a fox you sure do have nine lives, but, you come in handy when I need you.” She attacked him coming at him fast so fast that he had no time to take the defensive; however, Inuyasha saw the intention in her eyes and ran's toward his long time friend. Hitomi seeing him move to aid the cute fox blasts him with negative energy.
Kagome also seeing what was about to transpire wanted to help Shippo, tears in her eyes she starts to take action for after all he was her first albeit adopted he was her first child. “Shippo!” But Miroku places a firm hand on her shoulder and with pain in his tone of voice tells Kagome to stay her place. Inuyasha wincing in pain gets up to see Shippo held up with one transparent hand by the neck. Inuyasha growls as well as Sesshomaru; they both advance with their swords drawn, cold hatred pouring off of them, yet, when they advanced it was to find a barrier around her and the snarling fox. Inuyasha turns his blade red to break the barrier in spite of this it proved difficult. Instead of a swift cut, it was cutting so slowly, as if he was using a butter knife to cut through cement blocks.
“What the hell! Shippo! Shippo! Get your hands off of him, if you do anything to him I swear!!! Shippo hang in there!”
They all watched in horror as Inuyasha keeping eye contact with the kit hacked away at the barrier cursing and yelling out Shippo's name over and over again. They watched as Shippo was slowly turning to youkai dust right in front of their very eyes. Flash backs of when he was but just a child came to the fore front. When Shippo had first met up with Kagome stealing her shard so that he can defeat the thunder brothers who killed his parents, when Shippo had been possessed by that beetle youkai and defeated them all with his tricks just so that he can get Inuyasha back for being mean. When he would draw pictures for Kaede to help his friends get together and stop arguing. They remembered when he was so scared when he got challenged by the surviving thunder demon. His excited smiles when he had gotten candy from Kagome. Tears were falling from Kagome, Inuyasha and Miroku like the life pouring out of his soul.
All he had left to turn to dust was his shoulders and head. With one last look at his friend, brother and most importantly his father Shippo whispered out,
“Inuyasha kick her ass and take care of my kit like you did for me, I love you…father…..”
And like that he was gone all you could hear was Kagome's gasping sobs as Inuyasha stood there looking absolutely crazy with emotions he's never once felt in his life as Hitomi's body was now just as solid as all that were standing around her wanting her dead. Hotaru was already holding her heart crying on the ground looking at all the craziness she felt responsible for and not knowing how to fix it. The barrier around Hitomi dispersed and she laughed at them, laughed at all of them. “One down and…one…two…three…”
“You're going to die, that's a promise.” Inuyasha said in a very cold flat voice, a voice that matched his brothers on any given blood thirsty moment. Sesshomaru stood ready with his frigid beauty waiting for the right moment to land a fatal blow as well for the anticipation of killing her tasted well on his tongue.
Hitomi laughed, “bring it on inu brothers, I've been waiting to take you two down a hundred notches since I heard how you both wanted to take me out. I don't plan on killing you two just yet…I need good studs to produce strong youkai children to help me rule the planet now don't I?”
With fury backing them up they both attacked her now, using her powers she formed weapons in her hands and dodged every one of their attacks. Using the knowledge that she had gained from her father in karate and other forms of martial arts she easily used her power to make the two work hard. Smiling she finally used her ki to wrap around them and bind them.
“I am getting so bored, I don't have all day you know, I've got people to kill and a planet to rule. Now, sit tight boys and please don't move or fight the binds so much, for every effort you give the binds would suck your youkai energy and transfer it to…me and thus make me stronger and like I said, I would hate to have you both just die on me when I have plans for the two or you.”
Hitomi walks up to Inuyasha and runs a small hand over his jaggedly striped cheek. “And to think…I loved you…can you see me now Inuyasha…I mean really see me…I can do anything you want if you would love me, say you love me Inuyasha.”
Inuyasha stared coldly at her with his furious golden eyes. “I'd rather taste the flames of hell before I would love you; you are nothing like Hotaru, your nothing.”
Hitomi slapped him hard. Inuyasha smiled nastily in her direction as blood trickled his lip. “No matter what you do to me I love Hotaru, ya got that bitch, I love Hotaru, she's my mate.”
Hitomi looked at Inuyasha's golden hatred and let him see a black fire of her own. Masking her face in nonchalance she said something to him to make his and Sesshomaru's eyes widen out in panic, then she turned around and laid her concentration on a new target.
Hotaru heard him, somewhere from deep within her brain it registered. He loved her despite what she had unknowingly caused; she came to realize that Kagome was holding her head in her lap, crying for the loss of Shippo. “You heard that honey, your mate…he loves you.” However, Hotaru misunderstood her mothers' tears and her heart cried harder. “I'm sorry mother, because of me…because of me you betrayed him and…and…”
Miroku looked tenderly at his daughter. “Sweetheart, it's not your fault, we love you, you are our daughter Hotaru Higurashi.” Kagome looked at her daughter with tears spilling, but with a strong determination. “Hotaru, it is not your fault, listen to me, you were meant for him as I said. It was destiny it was fate, this is how it was supposed to happen. I am not mad at you or envious…I am happy for you… Hotaru I…”
But before she could say anything she was pulled from her daughter. The monster that was also her child had Hotaru by her hair. Kagome screamed as Miroku pulled into his robe and threw sutra's at them. However, Hitomi put up a barrier to take most of the sting from her father's spiritual spells. Miroku grunted and twirling his Shokanju he stabbed it into the soil and placing some signs with his fingers he stopped at the final chant and a bright purple light flashed from the tops of his fingers through his staff and onto the barrier breaking it.
Hitomi's eyes scowled viciously at her so called parents. Kagome notched a purification arrow and pointed toward her.
“Shoot me mother and you kill Hotaru as well, oh wait, I forgot, you don't give a damn about Hotaru anyway.”
Kagome faltered and lowered her weapon, she couldn't do it. Hitomi pulled Hotaru closer to her to ensure that if Kagome changed her mind the arrow would pierce Hotaru first. Hotaru tried to fight Hitomi, but she was too scared. It was like she was dreaming but it was a nightmare come to life. That day she huddled up on the floor when Inuyasha walked in on her she was seeing this moment this moment when Hitomi would kill her.
“You can't win Hotaru, how many times have you tried? Don't you remember Kikyo burned us, Kagome shattered us, and Miroku pulled us into the wind tunnel and all of those times, all the evil malice continued to concentrate and show itself. It succeeded in the death of Kikyo, it succeeded in destroying Sango, her brother, her clansmen which led to destroying your parents lives, your mates life, Shippo's life, your grandmothers life. You can never defeat me and now that we are finally separated you can never win.”
With that said Hotaru felt her eyes widen as she heard the collective sounds of gasps around her. She heard Inuyasha scream at the same time her parents screamed, the most shrill voice she heard was that of her mother's. She felt something pushed through muscle and bones and then pull back out of her chest cavity shocked from all the pain that she just experienced she slumped to the floor to watch her otherself laughing like some dark demented demon.
“I will make sure you never resurface again. And with that Hitomi took a bite out of the heart that still beat and watched it turn to dust and that was the last she saw. Kagome in an emotional mess surrounded herself in pink spiritual power, she was on fire and consumed with it. Her hair billowed behind her as she just looked in the direction where Hitomi stood. Tears of pain sliding down her face she waved her hand and energy went flying toward Hitomi. The dark young woman screamed out in pain as slashes of the energy began to bleed. Kagome using that strong outburst of power drained her and left her feeling as if all the bones in her body had vanished. Looking at her daughter, her most cherished treasure laying on the ground motionless Kagome slugged her way to her daughter barely breathing as tears distorted her face with pain and agony, finally making it over to Hotaru she began pulling the body up so that she could embraced the lifeless body.
Miroku sat there stunned as anguished tears slipped from his eyes. A crazy light filtered in his lavender orbs. Standing up he tore his robes in heart brake. Inuyasha watched horrified disbelieving himself that he just witnessed the grotesque death of his mate. Hitomi told him exactly what she was going to do, but to see it…and all he felt was numbness when he realized how much her parents loved her and she had no idea. It was partially his fault; they felt so guilty for what they had done to him that they screwed up her life.
They heard Kagome's keening, it was so heart retching that even the almighty Sesshomaru felt remorse, the heart he grew was being tested with emotions he didn't think he'd have. Determined to rid this world of this wicked creature he used the girls' distraction to loosen the binding from him. Meanwhile, Kagome's heart was to the point she couldn't take anymore pain as Miroku sat beside them howling out his sorrow.
Hitomi laughed in pure joy for their terror and suffering as she stood up licking at her own blood.
“You both got what you deserved; you all got what you deserved. Hotaru's sweet heart tasted like the finest candy…
She knelt down and filtered some of the dust between her fingers and licked at it.
This feels so good, it's better than killing you right off, it's euphoric. I feel as if I had a dose of LSG. Perhaps I should leave you alive back in your time to dwell on all this for a while before I go and release you from your misery.”
Kagome looked up at the stranger before her. “This fight isn't over.” Using what little she had left she felt her body tingling all over. “Baby…sweetheart…I love you…oh god…I am going to show you how much I love you…I'm so sorry I was a horrible mother…oh god… baby…please know that….I'm so sorry….”
Fat tears slid down her aged face while her body began to glow an immense pink. Miroku looked worriedly, no it was more with a rising terror building in his chest and going up through his throat. “Kagome? Kagome what are you doing?” Everyone had to shield their eyes as the light became intense. And soon the light was gone just like that.
“Where…where the fuck did they go?” Hitomi maddeningly shrieked as she kicked the dirt that they were just in moments ago. Miroku closed his eyes, defeat in his voice. She told him, she told him what she had planned to do if Hotaru had died. She wrote it in that damn crazy letter that he didn't understand. That she would sacrifice herself and make atonement.
“Kagome used all of her spiritual energy.” Miroku said falling onto his back, not caring anymore, all was lost, he lost everything.
“So, what is that supposed to mean.” Hitomi spat out.
Miroku looked up into the sky causing everyone to look there with him.
“She gave up her life to give life for what she treasured most, her daughter.”
“Well, what a reunion we have ourselves here, what in the hell are you doing here? Where the hell do you think you're taking Hotaru?!”
“Inuyasha!” Both Kagome and Miroku let out. Hotaru turned around to see her husband looking at her parents and everything she's read flooded her brain. Hitomi opened her mouth to make her opinion known and Hotaru's entire demeanor changed with the personality change.
“You see Hotaru…he still loves Kagome, if he didn't would he want revenge on her so bad. Would he have used us to get what he desired?”
Hotaru's little white hands clenched her head and she doubled over as she walked up to Inuyasha and grabbed his hoari her head bowed like she was about to retch.
“Is that true? Please Inu…yasha…tell me…”
“I don't love Kagome…”
Hotaru looked at him hopefully, her eyes wide with expectation.
“But I did use you…Shippo told me I shouldn't, but, I have been waiting for the right opportunity…the night that you and I became mated is when my second wish was granted…but…I…”
Hotaru let her hands fall limply, her shoulders were humped over. Her spiritual energy began to rise and Sesshomaru drew his Tokijin and Shippo drew out a leaf and filled it with his ki.
“Damn it Hotaru you don't understand, you have to let me finish…” Inuyasha said drawing his sword to protect himself at all cost but trying to talk her from doing whatever it was she was about to do.
Stammering Hotaru drew her hands forward as if a puppet master raised them up as two different energies began to swirl.
“You…you…I can't believe…that you… betrayed me Inuyasha. I…I let…you in!”
“Hotaru don't do this, you can't kill him…” Kagome screamed out, tears in her eyes as she saw her daughter in so much pain. Hotaru let the blast go and it missed him but shot Sesshomaru in the midsection who had moved to cut her down while she was momentarily distracted.
Inuyasha growled as he saw his brother skid the ground and landed sitting up against a thick tree. He could see his brother was hissing with the spiritual energy that was still eating at his flesh.
“Stay out of this Sesshomaru this is my problem!”
Inuyasha raised his sword and was about to swing when Kagome shot her arrow at him.
“What the fuck! Wind Scar!”
Hotaru rose up above the blast and Miroku quickly put up a strong spiritual barrier around himself and Kagome.
“Inuyasha you can't kill her.” Kagome screamed out as she fell to the ground in tears.
“What do you mean…don't you see she's lost it…I have too.”
“No, you don't understand…Hotaru is…she is… Hotaru is the Shikon Jewel!”
“The What!!!” Inuyasha, Shippo and Sesshomaru said out loud.
Hotaru heard what she had said and looked at her hands.
“Yes, Inuyasha, when Miroku sucked up Naraku he also took with him the jewel of four souls, when he and I got together by the well, it was fate, the shikon wanted to come back. And in order to get back to its protector…”
“Than your saying that you and Miroku had betrayed Inuyasha because it was meant to be…in order for you to have it back…”Shippo said like someone who had just solved the biggest mystery.
“This explains her dual personality and why the second personality is youkai.” Sesshomaru put in as he made his way by Inuyasha again ignoring the slight pain of burnt flesh that was in the healing process. However, Inuyasha was growling.
“Is this the bull shit you came up with so that I wouldn't give you both what you deserved? You couldn't come up with anything better? Are you really trying to tell me that you didn't want to betray me that this all happened because the fucking jewel made you do it.”
“Inuyasha listen to Kagome, I didn't believe it when she first told me just moments before coming down into the well, but, it makes sense…Kikyo was entrusted to protect it…Kagome was born with it and this time around she was pregnant with it. In order for her to get it back I had to…give it back to her.” Miroku said holding on to Kagome.
However, a voice broke the argument in the air like the sharpest katana, yet, it was the softest to be heard.
“I'm a thing…an object? I'm…the thing that caused so much trouble years ago…it's all my fault this has happened…I'm not…human?”
Hotaru's lips were trembling as shimmering liquid gathered at the rims of her lavender eyes. So pale and small she began to resemble an expensive china doll that fell and broke to pieces. Looking at her hands she continued in that broken horror filled voice.
“This is why I am a freak…oh god…what am I? Are you saying that I am the evil jewel that…oh god…because of me…Inuyasha you were sealed to a tree…because of me…the first woman you've ever loved died…and daddy…because of me…your Sango died because essentially I killed her brother…I remember reading it all and feeling as if I were there…but I was there…I'm just an object…a jewel personified…I'm nothing and nobody I don't exist…”
She stood there shocked; her eyes loosing focus, her head swimming with broken images of her life up til this point. She remembered how she was lost in the blackness and then finding a subtle pink light that she floated too…she remembered feeling warm and peaceful…
Then a different voice filled the stale air. “Didn't we read in the diary that a an evil youkai existed and a priestess named Midoriko cast it away along with herself? So…if you're supposedly the good half than that means that I'm…”
The girl shot angry eyes toward her parents. “You never gave me a chance because I was just pure evil huh. I didn't have a choice because I'm not a human nor am I a youkai…I'm…I'm fucking stone that's what I am. Yeah, so everything I did is within my nature, huh, and all those times I've tried to make things bloom, makes things heal so that I could be like Hotaru and gain your love feeling guilty because I couldn't, feeling envious because I got the dark while she got the damn light. Huh I can't believe this shit. Well you know what…knowledge is power it truly is.”
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Everyone watched as Hotaru/Hitomi pulsed three times, Hitomi using the feeling of negativity within the soul she was in managed to free herself from Hotaru's body, yet she found herself at this point transparent. Everyone looked at the transparent girl and found that she was still identical to Hotaru all except that wild hateful look in her eye. Hotaru looked at her evil ghost of a reflection in horror. This was all too surreal, the image that Hitomi gave her a while back danced back into her head. Was it her time to see blackness, her time to not exist? But, she didn't really exist anyway right? She was nothing but a piece of jewelry personified.
“I need power in order to…live.” Hitomi said and with that she found the easiest target to take out. “How many times do I need to kill you? For a fox you sure do have nine lives, but, you come in handy when I need you.” She attacked him coming at him fast so fast that he had no time to take the defensive; however, Inuyasha saw the intention in her eyes and ran's toward his long time friend. Hitomi seeing him move to aid the cute fox blasts him with negative energy.
Kagome also seeing what was about to transpire wanted to help Shippo, tears in her eyes she starts to take action for after all he was her first albeit adopted he was her first child. “Shippo!” But Miroku places a firm hand on her shoulder and with pain in his tone of voice tells Kagome to stay her place. Inuyasha wincing in pain gets up to see Shippo held up with one transparent hand by the neck. Inuyasha growls as well as Sesshomaru; they both advance with their swords drawn, cold hatred pouring off of them, yet, when they advanced it was to find a barrier around her and the snarling fox. Inuyasha turns his blade red to break the barrier in spite of this it proved difficult. Instead of a swift cut, it was cutting so slowly, as if he was using a butter knife to cut through cement blocks.
“What the hell! Shippo! Shippo! Get your hands off of him, if you do anything to him I swear!!! Shippo hang in there!”
They all watched in horror as Inuyasha keeping eye contact with the kit hacked away at the barrier cursing and yelling out Shippo's name over and over again. They watched as Shippo was slowly turning to youkai dust right in front of their very eyes. Flash backs of when he was but just a child came to the fore front. When Shippo had first met up with Kagome stealing her shard so that he can defeat the thunder brothers who killed his parents, when Shippo had been possessed by that beetle youkai and defeated them all with his tricks just so that he can get Inuyasha back for being mean. When he would draw pictures for Kaede to help his friends get together and stop arguing. They remembered when he was so scared when he got challenged by the surviving thunder demon. His excited smiles when he had gotten candy from Kagome. Tears were falling from Kagome, Inuyasha and Miroku like the life pouring out of his soul.
All he had left to turn to dust was his shoulders and head. With one last look at his friend, brother and most importantly his father Shippo whispered out,
“Inuyasha kick her ass and take care of my kit like you did for me, I love you…father…..”
And like that he was gone all you could hear was Kagome's gasping sobs as Inuyasha stood there looking absolutely crazy with emotions he's never once felt in his life as Hitomi's body was now just as solid as all that were standing around her wanting her dead. Hotaru was already holding her heart crying on the ground looking at all the craziness she felt responsible for and not knowing how to fix it. The barrier around Hitomi dispersed and she laughed at them, laughed at all of them. “One down and…one…two…three…”
“You're going to die, that's a promise.” Inuyasha said in a very cold flat voice, a voice that matched his brothers on any given blood thirsty moment. Sesshomaru stood ready with his frigid beauty waiting for the right moment to land a fatal blow as well for the anticipation of killing her tasted well on his tongue.
Hitomi laughed, “bring it on inu brothers, I've been waiting to take you two down a hundred notches since I heard how you both wanted to take me out. I don't plan on killing you two just yet…I need good studs to produce strong youkai children to help me rule the planet now don't I?”
With fury backing them up they both attacked her now, using her powers she formed weapons in her hands and dodged every one of their attacks. Using the knowledge that she had gained from her father in karate and other forms of martial arts she easily used her power to make the two work hard. Smiling she finally used her ki to wrap around them and bind them.
“I am getting so bored, I don't have all day you know, I've got people to kill and a planet to rule. Now, sit tight boys and please don't move or fight the binds so much, for every effort you give the binds would suck your youkai energy and transfer it to…me and thus make me stronger and like I said, I would hate to have you both just die on me when I have plans for the two or you.”
Hitomi walks up to Inuyasha and runs a small hand over his jaggedly striped cheek. “And to think…I loved you…can you see me now Inuyasha…I mean really see me…I can do anything you want if you would love me, say you love me Inuyasha.”
Inuyasha stared coldly at her with his furious golden eyes. “I'd rather taste the flames of hell before I would love you; you are nothing like Hotaru, your nothing.”
Hitomi slapped him hard. Inuyasha smiled nastily in her direction as blood trickled his lip. “No matter what you do to me I love Hotaru, ya got that bitch, I love Hotaru, she's my mate.”
Hitomi looked at Inuyasha's golden hatred and let him see a black fire of her own. Masking her face in nonchalance she said something to him to make his and Sesshomaru's eyes widen out in panic, then she turned around and laid her concentration on a new target.
Hotaru heard him, somewhere from deep within her brain it registered. He loved her despite what she had unknowingly caused; she came to realize that Kagome was holding her head in her lap, crying for the loss of Shippo. “You heard that honey, your mate…he loves you.” However, Hotaru misunderstood her mothers' tears and her heart cried harder. “I'm sorry mother, because of me…because of me you betrayed him and…and…”
Miroku looked tenderly at his daughter. “Sweetheart, it's not your fault, we love you, you are our daughter Hotaru Higurashi.” Kagome looked at her daughter with tears spilling, but with a strong determination. “Hotaru, it is not your fault, listen to me, you were meant for him as I said. It was destiny it was fate, this is how it was supposed to happen. I am not mad at you or envious…I am happy for you… Hotaru I…”
But before she could say anything she was pulled from her daughter. The monster that was also her child had Hotaru by her hair. Kagome screamed as Miroku pulled into his robe and threw sutra's at them. However, Hitomi put up a barrier to take most of the sting from her father's spiritual spells. Miroku grunted and twirling his Shokanju he stabbed it into the soil and placing some signs with his fingers he stopped at the final chant and a bright purple light flashed from the tops of his fingers through his staff and onto the barrier breaking it.
Hitomi's eyes scowled viciously at her so called parents. Kagome notched a purification arrow and pointed toward her.
“Shoot me mother and you kill Hotaru as well, oh wait, I forgot, you don't give a damn about Hotaru anyway.”
Kagome faltered and lowered her weapon, she couldn't do it. Hitomi pulled Hotaru closer to her to ensure that if Kagome changed her mind the arrow would pierce Hotaru first. Hotaru tried to fight Hitomi, but she was too scared. It was like she was dreaming but it was a nightmare come to life. That day she huddled up on the floor when Inuyasha walked in on her she was seeing this moment this moment when Hitomi would kill her.
“You can't win Hotaru, how many times have you tried? Don't you remember Kikyo burned us, Kagome shattered us, and Miroku pulled us into the wind tunnel and all of those times, all the evil malice continued to concentrate and show itself. It succeeded in the death of Kikyo, it succeeded in destroying Sango, her brother, her clansmen which led to destroying your parents lives, your mates life, Shippo's life, your grandmothers life. You can never defeat me and now that we are finally separated you can never win.”
With that said Hotaru felt her eyes widen as she heard the collective sounds of gasps around her. She heard Inuyasha scream at the same time her parents screamed, the most shrill voice she heard was that of her mother's. She felt something pushed through muscle and bones and then pull back out of her chest cavity shocked from all the pain that she just experienced she slumped to the floor to watch her otherself laughing like some dark demented demon.
“I will make sure you never resurface again. And with that Hitomi took a bite out of the heart that still beat and watched it turn to dust and that was the last she saw. Kagome in an emotional mess surrounded herself in pink spiritual power, she was on fire and consumed with it. Her hair billowed behind her as she just looked in the direction where Hitomi stood. Tears of pain sliding down her face she waved her hand and energy went flying toward Hitomi. The dark young woman screamed out in pain as slashes of the energy began to bleed. Kagome using that strong outburst of power drained her and left her feeling as if all the bones in her body had vanished. Looking at her daughter, her most cherished treasure laying on the ground motionless Kagome slugged her way to her daughter barely breathing as tears distorted her face with pain and agony, finally making it over to Hotaru she began pulling the body up so that she could embraced the lifeless body.
Miroku sat there stunned as anguished tears slipped from his eyes. A crazy light filtered in his lavender orbs. Standing up he tore his robes in heart brake. Inuyasha watched horrified disbelieving himself that he just witnessed the grotesque death of his mate. Hitomi told him exactly what she was going to do, but to see it…and all he felt was numbness when he realized how much her parents loved her and she had no idea. It was partially his fault; they felt so guilty for what they had done to him that they screwed up her life.
They heard Kagome's keening, it was so heart retching that even the almighty Sesshomaru felt remorse, the heart he grew was being tested with emotions he didn't think he'd have. Determined to rid this world of this wicked creature he used the girls' distraction to loosen the binding from him. Meanwhile, Kagome's heart was to the point she couldn't take anymore pain as Miroku sat beside them howling out his sorrow.
Hitomi laughed in pure joy for their terror and suffering as she stood up licking at her own blood.
“You both got what you deserved; you all got what you deserved. Hotaru's sweet heart tasted like the finest candy…
She knelt down and filtered some of the dust between her fingers and licked at it.
This feels so good, it's better than killing you right off, it's euphoric. I feel as if I had a dose of LSG. Perhaps I should leave you alive back in your time to dwell on all this for a while before I go and release you from your misery.”
Kagome looked up at the stranger before her. “This fight isn't over.” Using what little she had left she felt her body tingling all over. “Baby…sweetheart…I love you…oh god…I am going to show you how much I love you…I'm so sorry I was a horrible mother…oh god… baby…please know that….I'm so sorry….”
Fat tears slid down her aged face while her body began to glow an immense pink. Miroku looked worriedly, no it was more with a rising terror building in his chest and going up through his throat. “Kagome? Kagome what are you doing?” Everyone had to shield their eyes as the light became intense. And soon the light was gone just like that.
“Where…where the fuck did they go?” Hitomi maddeningly shrieked as she kicked the dirt that they were just in moments ago. Miroku closed his eyes, defeat in his voice. She told him, she told him what she had planned to do if Hotaru had died. She wrote it in that damn crazy letter that he didn't understand. That she would sacrifice herself and make atonement.
“Kagome used all of her spiritual energy.” Miroku said falling onto his back, not caring anymore, all was lost, he lost everything.
“So, what is that supposed to mean.” Hitomi spat out.
Miroku looked up into the sky causing everyone to look there with him.
“She gave up her life to give life for what she treasured most, her daughter.”