InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bewitched ❯ Chapter one ( Chapter 1 )
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By: MIztikal_Dragon 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Angst / / Suspense / Romance / Hentai / Drama / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.29.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 1.2K | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Angst / / Suspense / Romance / Hentai / Drama / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.29.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.1K | Visits: 1.2K | Status: Completed
Hey there...Yes I know I'm starting yet another story.. This is not going to be really long like "through the well" I probably will have a bout 10 chapters max...It's a small series until I can get back onto track with all my other stories.. I hope you like it!
This story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts around the year 1692.. The year of all the Witch hunts. :) It starts off as an InuYasha and Kikyo story..but things will change.. Please review and tell me what you think of this story... SO ON WITH THE STORY!
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, but I do own the plot to this story and everything else that hasn't got to deal with InuYasha and co.
Bewitched.
By Miztikal-Dragon
"Confess!" The man growled angrily as he slammed his hands down on the oak table, "Confess to the sin of witchcraft!"
"But I'm not a witch!" The girl of only nineteen years cried.
Kikyo was her name, and yes she was too was accused of witchcraft. Her long black hair and dark eyes weren't ordinary among the townspeople, but she wasn't ordinary. Thus being the reason she was being tried for one of the worst sins of the century. There had already been twelve convictions in the last month alone, and all of them barely mature woman of no older than twenty.
"SILENCE!" The man yelled again, "We shall not here such blasphemy in this court room!"
Whispers wrung throughout the room, condemning the young woman of her horrible crimes, but she didn't hear a single word. Kikyo sat erect in her chair with her hands clasped firmly in her lap. Her dark eyes carefully surveying the room for the one person in particular, for the person who she had grown to love. Spying his shoulder length black hair, she closed her eyes and sighed heavily. She knew she was going to die because of Salem's greedy townspeople, but as long as she could spend the last of her days looking at him nothing mattered.
"Do ye confess Lady Kikyo?" the man known as Onigumo asked calmly his tone. He was the counsel man of the courts and her accuser. "Do ye confess to the crimes accused?"
"No," She whispered fighting back the need to glare at the man before her, "I am not a witch!"
"LIAR!" A member of the audience cried hysterically, "Then why is it that yer corn is golder than mine? Why have yer cows not died during the heat wave? Why is it that yer skin is whiter than snow and yet ye do not have a slave nor a man working all day on yer lands?!"
The trial had lasted about another hour or so longer with endless badgering and yet Kikyo didn't budge, she didn't confess. All in all, they had her sent to the jail until her punishment for not confessing to a crime she didn't commit could be thought of. There was nobody standing watch and yet if she was a witch, the young woman could have easily escaped; but she wasn't so she couldn't.
Sitting down on the small cot which people called appropriate bedding for a criminal, she watched the night sky through the barred window. Tonight would be a cloudy night and she would calmly accept her fate. Switching her gaze to the celled bars that held her captive, she let a small smile creep onto her face as she saw his from coming into view. She was glad to see him.
"Ye came InuYasha!" She said softly getting up and going over to him.
He had a depressed smile on his face as he held her close through the bars, for InuYasha loved the woman before him with every ounce of his being and he would rest at nothing to make sure that she didn't die in the morning. His violet eyes dropped to the ground as they parted, and immediately she knew that the news he held wasn't good.
"What did they say? What is thy punishment?" She whispered in a small voice.
"It's not too good my love," He replied taking her small hands into his, "Onigumo has found it fit to take ye to the frozen lake in the marrowIt's a test, but if ye pass it.. I don't want to think of a life without ye by my side."
There was a pregnant pause between the two of them, and Kikyo turned her back on InuYasha, her eyes drifting to the world outside her cage. She hugged her arms through the thin material that they called a clothes and reluctantly glanced back at him just once.
"If it is the only way to prove my innocence," Kikyo coldly stated, "Then I shall willing plunge to my death in the murky ice cold waters of the forgiving waters.. God will see the injustice done to me by those ravishing pigs and they will pay for what they have done"
InuYasha felt the anger bristling into his body as he listened to her. How could she just give up like that? Why was she just throwing his love away? Biting back a sarcastic and hurtful remark, the young man of twenty-one stormed from the room and out into the crisp cold night. He was going to try and bribe Kikyo's life from her death sentence, he was going to try and make a deal with Onigumo so he could have the woman of his dreams next to him for the rest of his life.
An ominous fog crept throughout the small town of Salem, Massachusetts and not a soul was found lingering outside. Rubbing his clothed arms, he let his loose black hair flutter as he kept a steady pace to the center of town. That's where Onigumo was most likely to be found, he and his bible placed sadistically in his long and pale fingers. Coming to a halt a few minutes later at the door of the wealthy middle aged man, InuYasha knocked loudly before sighing heavilyHe could already see his white puff of breath in the cold air.. Something wasn't right with the weather.
Knocking yet again, the young boy waited patiently for an answer of some sort. Hearing the shuffling of feet nearing the wooden door, he feverishly rubbed his hands together, followed by exhaling from his mouth to his hands, trying to warm up the unnervingly numb appendages. Knocking yet again, InuYasha was about to turn away when Onigumo appeared on the other side of the door, an annoyed look on his face as he glared at the young boy with height of six feet.
"What is it that ye want InuYasha?" He asked dripping with venom. "Tis late to becoming at one's door dun ye think?"
"Yes, yes I do." InuYasha replied as he was led into the rather big home, "But I have come on very important matters and I wish to speak with ye before the sun has risen."
The two men had talked for what seemed like hours, InuYasha trying to find some way in which Kikyo could be pardoned of her accused crime and set free, but Onigumo held headstrong with his decision. It soon became apparent that the town leader wasn't easily swayed from his important decisions as a counsel man, preacher and a man of the court. Sighing heavily, InuYasha ran his slender fingers through his shoulder length black hair and fixated his gaze onto his feet.
"Is there any way that Kikyo can be saved?" InuYasha asked his voice cracking, "I would give anything just to have her back in my arms"
An infamous smile crept on to the elder man's face. His black eyes lit up and InuYasha had this unnerving feeling welling up in his stomach. After a while longer of merciless negotiation, they two gentlemen had reached a compromise. Shaking hands, InuYasha pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over to Onigumo; it was the deed to his land, the young man was giving up every ounce of material belonging besides the shirt on his back to save his precious Kikyo. Everything seemed right again.
Stepping out into the cold late night scenery, InuYasha breathed deeply as a genuine smile came to his face, he had never been this happy in his life. Practically skipping to his house in glee, he failed to hear the monotone laughing from the dark depths of Onigumo's home. Nope he didn't, the young man was caught up in his world of an unimaginable fantasy and he didn't plan on coming down any time soon.
~~O~~
As soon as the sun rose, he was awake and waiting patiently for the soft knocking of his door signaling that Kikyo was there, but it never came. He didn't hear the loud whispers of the villagers no did he hear anything else for that matter, he was caught up in his own thoughts that would serve to be his downfall. Getting up to his feet, InuYasha left his home and went directly to the jail, it was empty. A frown covered his features as he stopped a elderly woman known as Kaede, her old features curved into a sullen smile as she looked upon the young man before her.
"What has happened to Kikyo? Do ye know where she is?" He asked curiously.
"Did ye not get the news of her execution being this morning young lad?" The woman said, shaking her head.
"But" He stuttered, "She's not supposed to be executedOnigumo said he'd pardon her.."
"I'm sorry my child but Onigumo was found dead a few hours ago in his house.." Kaede told InuYasha, "The villagers thought it would be wise to commence with the sweet young lass' punishmentThey tis heading towards the lake as we speak to 'test' the innocent soulSuch a waste of life if ye ask me.."
His eyes grew wide with fear as all the energy left his body. They were going to execute her because Onigumo had not told them about the pardon, he had died before he could. Dashing off in the direction of the lake, InuYasha ran as fast as his legs could carry him, praying that he wasn't too late.
'Please god!' His mind screamed, 'Lend me yer strength so I can make it to Kikyo before she is taken from this worldLet me get to her before she dies!'
~~O~~
The ground was cold beneath her tired feet, the shoes that they had given her had holes and gave no protection from the harsh snow covered ground. It looked like a winter wonderland, the way the trees and everything around her was hidden under a layer or two of pure white snow. Her tangled black tresses blew in her face, sticking to her dry lips everything was going as it had been scheduled. The forest had an eerie silence to it as she kept her dark eyes fixated on the ground just before her feet. The long itchy gray dress that she wore fluttered, and chaffed against her pinkish skin, she was going to freeze before they could "test" her.
It seemed like an eternity before they finally reached the lake, her cheeks flushed red from the immense cold, her wrists tightly bound by a very sturdy bundle of knots and clever rope tying skills that surprisingly one of the village men knew how to make. Sighing heavily, Kikyo stumbled as two rough hands pushed her out onto the thin frozen ice that blanketed the icy cold lake raging like a sea serpent underneath.
~~O~~
What did you think? I will get the next chapter as soon as possible, so UNTIL next time, Krystal.
This story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts around the year 1692.. The year of all the Witch hunts. :) It starts off as an InuYasha and Kikyo story..but things will change.. Please review and tell me what you think of this story... SO ON WITH THE STORY!
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, but I do own the plot to this story and everything else that hasn't got to deal with InuYasha and co.
Bewitched.
By Miztikal-Dragon
"Confess!" The man growled angrily as he slammed his hands down on the oak table, "Confess to the sin of witchcraft!"
"But I'm not a witch!" The girl of only nineteen years cried.
Kikyo was her name, and yes she was too was accused of witchcraft. Her long black hair and dark eyes weren't ordinary among the townspeople, but she wasn't ordinary. Thus being the reason she was being tried for one of the worst sins of the century. There had already been twelve convictions in the last month alone, and all of them barely mature woman of no older than twenty.
"SILENCE!" The man yelled again, "We shall not here such blasphemy in this court room!"
Whispers wrung throughout the room, condemning the young woman of her horrible crimes, but she didn't hear a single word. Kikyo sat erect in her chair with her hands clasped firmly in her lap. Her dark eyes carefully surveying the room for the one person in particular, for the person who she had grown to love. Spying his shoulder length black hair, she closed her eyes and sighed heavily. She knew she was going to die because of Salem's greedy townspeople, but as long as she could spend the last of her days looking at him nothing mattered.
"Do ye confess Lady Kikyo?" the man known as Onigumo asked calmly his tone. He was the counsel man of the courts and her accuser. "Do ye confess to the crimes accused?"
"No," She whispered fighting back the need to glare at the man before her, "I am not a witch!"
"LIAR!" A member of the audience cried hysterically, "Then why is it that yer corn is golder than mine? Why have yer cows not died during the heat wave? Why is it that yer skin is whiter than snow and yet ye do not have a slave nor a man working all day on yer lands?!"
The trial had lasted about another hour or so longer with endless badgering and yet Kikyo didn't budge, she didn't confess. All in all, they had her sent to the jail until her punishment for not confessing to a crime she didn't commit could be thought of. There was nobody standing watch and yet if she was a witch, the young woman could have easily escaped; but she wasn't so she couldn't.
Sitting down on the small cot which people called appropriate bedding for a criminal, she watched the night sky through the barred window. Tonight would be a cloudy night and she would calmly accept her fate. Switching her gaze to the celled bars that held her captive, she let a small smile creep onto her face as she saw his from coming into view. She was glad to see him.
"Ye came InuYasha!" She said softly getting up and going over to him.
He had a depressed smile on his face as he held her close through the bars, for InuYasha loved the woman before him with every ounce of his being and he would rest at nothing to make sure that she didn't die in the morning. His violet eyes dropped to the ground as they parted, and immediately she knew that the news he held wasn't good.
"What did they say? What is thy punishment?" She whispered in a small voice.
"It's not too good my love," He replied taking her small hands into his, "Onigumo has found it fit to take ye to the frozen lake in the marrowIt's a test, but if ye pass it.. I don't want to think of a life without ye by my side."
There was a pregnant pause between the two of them, and Kikyo turned her back on InuYasha, her eyes drifting to the world outside her cage. She hugged her arms through the thin material that they called a clothes and reluctantly glanced back at him just once.
"If it is the only way to prove my innocence," Kikyo coldly stated, "Then I shall willing plunge to my death in the murky ice cold waters of the forgiving waters.. God will see the injustice done to me by those ravishing pigs and they will pay for what they have done"
InuYasha felt the anger bristling into his body as he listened to her. How could she just give up like that? Why was she just throwing his love away? Biting back a sarcastic and hurtful remark, the young man of twenty-one stormed from the room and out into the crisp cold night. He was going to try and bribe Kikyo's life from her death sentence, he was going to try and make a deal with Onigumo so he could have the woman of his dreams next to him for the rest of his life.
An ominous fog crept throughout the small town of Salem, Massachusetts and not a soul was found lingering outside. Rubbing his clothed arms, he let his loose black hair flutter as he kept a steady pace to the center of town. That's where Onigumo was most likely to be found, he and his bible placed sadistically in his long and pale fingers. Coming to a halt a few minutes later at the door of the wealthy middle aged man, InuYasha knocked loudly before sighing heavilyHe could already see his white puff of breath in the cold air.. Something wasn't right with the weather.
Knocking yet again, the young boy waited patiently for an answer of some sort. Hearing the shuffling of feet nearing the wooden door, he feverishly rubbed his hands together, followed by exhaling from his mouth to his hands, trying to warm up the unnervingly numb appendages. Knocking yet again, InuYasha was about to turn away when Onigumo appeared on the other side of the door, an annoyed look on his face as he glared at the young boy with height of six feet.
"What is it that ye want InuYasha?" He asked dripping with venom. "Tis late to becoming at one's door dun ye think?"
"Yes, yes I do." InuYasha replied as he was led into the rather big home, "But I have come on very important matters and I wish to speak with ye before the sun has risen."
The two men had talked for what seemed like hours, InuYasha trying to find some way in which Kikyo could be pardoned of her accused crime and set free, but Onigumo held headstrong with his decision. It soon became apparent that the town leader wasn't easily swayed from his important decisions as a counsel man, preacher and a man of the court. Sighing heavily, InuYasha ran his slender fingers through his shoulder length black hair and fixated his gaze onto his feet.
"Is there any way that Kikyo can be saved?" InuYasha asked his voice cracking, "I would give anything just to have her back in my arms"
An infamous smile crept on to the elder man's face. His black eyes lit up and InuYasha had this unnerving feeling welling up in his stomach. After a while longer of merciless negotiation, they two gentlemen had reached a compromise. Shaking hands, InuYasha pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it over to Onigumo; it was the deed to his land, the young man was giving up every ounce of material belonging besides the shirt on his back to save his precious Kikyo. Everything seemed right again.
Stepping out into the cold late night scenery, InuYasha breathed deeply as a genuine smile came to his face, he had never been this happy in his life. Practically skipping to his house in glee, he failed to hear the monotone laughing from the dark depths of Onigumo's home. Nope he didn't, the young man was caught up in his world of an unimaginable fantasy and he didn't plan on coming down any time soon.
~~O~~
As soon as the sun rose, he was awake and waiting patiently for the soft knocking of his door signaling that Kikyo was there, but it never came. He didn't hear the loud whispers of the villagers no did he hear anything else for that matter, he was caught up in his own thoughts that would serve to be his downfall. Getting up to his feet, InuYasha left his home and went directly to the jail, it was empty. A frown covered his features as he stopped a elderly woman known as Kaede, her old features curved into a sullen smile as she looked upon the young man before her.
"What has happened to Kikyo? Do ye know where she is?" He asked curiously.
"Did ye not get the news of her execution being this morning young lad?" The woman said, shaking her head.
"But" He stuttered, "She's not supposed to be executedOnigumo said he'd pardon her.."
"I'm sorry my child but Onigumo was found dead a few hours ago in his house.." Kaede told InuYasha, "The villagers thought it would be wise to commence with the sweet young lass' punishmentThey tis heading towards the lake as we speak to 'test' the innocent soulSuch a waste of life if ye ask me.."
His eyes grew wide with fear as all the energy left his body. They were going to execute her because Onigumo had not told them about the pardon, he had died before he could. Dashing off in the direction of the lake, InuYasha ran as fast as his legs could carry him, praying that he wasn't too late.
'Please god!' His mind screamed, 'Lend me yer strength so I can make it to Kikyo before she is taken from this worldLet me get to her before she dies!'
~~O~~
The ground was cold beneath her tired feet, the shoes that they had given her had holes and gave no protection from the harsh snow covered ground. It looked like a winter wonderland, the way the trees and everything around her was hidden under a layer or two of pure white snow. Her tangled black tresses blew in her face, sticking to her dry lips everything was going as it had been scheduled. The forest had an eerie silence to it as she kept her dark eyes fixated on the ground just before her feet. The long itchy gray dress that she wore fluttered, and chaffed against her pinkish skin, she was going to freeze before they could "test" her.
It seemed like an eternity before they finally reached the lake, her cheeks flushed red from the immense cold, her wrists tightly bound by a very sturdy bundle of knots and clever rope tying skills that surprisingly one of the village men knew how to make. Sighing heavily, Kikyo stumbled as two rough hands pushed her out onto the thin frozen ice that blanketed the icy cold lake raging like a sea serpent underneath.
~~O~~
What did you think? I will get the next chapter as soon as possible, so UNTIL next time, Krystal.