InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bewitched ❯ Chapter Eight-B ( Chapter 10 )
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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: 11.19.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 420 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Angst / / Suspense / Romance / Hentai / Drama / Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 11.19.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 420 | Status: Completed
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HEY I'M BACK! lol This ended up being 7 pages on microsoft word processor on size 10 font, so yeah it was a bitch to finish and I would love some feedback on what you think.
Bewitched
By Miztikal-Dragon
Part B
InuYasha didn’t waste any time as he advanced on the young boy, he needed to be taught his place and there was only one way that he could think of. The boy known as Koga refused to cower in InuYasha’s presence but it became clear who was superior. The first punch was thrown by Koga, though it was never landed. InuYasha was stronger, faster, smarter, and more cunning than the poor boy and Koga paid the price. Kagome’s hushed pleas were ignored as the older boy beat the other senseless. It was a horrifying sight as Koga collapsed to the ground in a mess, the blood trickling down his lip and his nose. The boy was defeated and left with a little prize, his arm was definitely broken.
“Please InuYasha,” Kagome cried for some kind of reply. “Stop you’re making it worse. Please stop! InuYasha no more complications go! I don’t want you to get caught, please I’ll wait, just go before it’s too late… Please InuYasha!”
An angry growl escaped his throat and turning his head to look at Kagome, his anger temporarily subsided. He hadn’t meant to make things worse, but he couldn’t just let the filthy piece of shit in front of him get away without some kind of punishment. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts he kicked the younger boy in the ribs one last time before going back to Kagome and pulling her close one last time. He would take her advice and go because it was what she wanted, he didn’t like the idea, but it was what had to be done. Kissing her forehead, InuYasha looked down at the girl he’d fallen in love with, he promised that he wouldn’t abandon her in the time of dire need, he refused to let her die.
“I’ll come back for you,” he told her as he released her. “I won’t let anything happen to you I promise just don’t give up hope Kagome. I love you.”
Giving a threatening glare to the boy laying on the ground, InuYasha faded into the shadows of the prison cell and disappeared into the night. Things had to be thought through and as weird as it had become, he knew that the only way he’d get his way was by death. There was no other way. Running faster than the wind, he let his silver hair fly behind him as he headed into the depths of the forest, the end was coming faster than he had originally anticipated but he was more than a hundred percent sure that he’d be the one who would hold the victory. He was betting his life, his very existence on it.
~~oOo~~
It was the silence that unnerved Kagome as she watched the outside through the barred cell windows, nature was laughing at her in a way, teasing her with hope and then snatching it before she could get a good grip. It was absolute torture. A defeated groan from the floor brought Kagome back to her senses as she glanced over to the boy trying to get to his feet with rather unsteady movements. Deep down in her heart she knew that Koga deserved what he received, but another part of her told her that the extremities that InuYasha went to was a little uncalled for.
“Koga, don’t mind InuYasha,” she said as if he were nothing but a misbehaved child. “He’s a little rough around the edges, but he has a good heart. You went a little too fa-”
“I don’t care,” His tone was gruff and demanded her to cease. “You shouldn’t have chosen a demon over a man and its not my fault why you are here now.”
Koga’s words were like ice, but their meaning was clearer than day he was mad for losing against something “inhuman”. Kagome sighed heavily as she retreated to her hay bed. If he wanted to vent his anger then she would let him. She had no strength left to fight him, it was completely useless to try. His cold eyes made her feel even more helpless than before but it didn’t matter as long as he left her to her thoughts she would be okay. As long as he didn’t try to play innocent she would be able to remain in control.
“Why don’t you leave as well?” She asked lifelessly switching her gaze to a near by corner. “I’m not in the mood for company anymore and I’d appreciate it if you go back to your home before the town decides that I am using my ‘evil powers’ to try and corrupt you and make you sign your name in the book of Satan.”
“I didn’t come here to make you look worse and I won‘t leave until what I want to say is said. ,” Koga replied nursing his arm, watching her intently with his blue eyes. “All I ever wanted was to be by your side for an eternity, I loved you Kagome but I know that you’ve made your choice. Destiny cannot be changed no matter how hard we pray to God, the only thing we can do is pray and stay true hoping that what we wish for will be granted. Obviously our lives can’t cross paths in this life and they probably won’t ever, but that doesn’t mean that I like it at all. That demon shouldn’t be the one who deserves your love, he shouldn’t be the one who is allowed to win because what hope can we hold onto if the precious things in life goes only to the demons? How can good prevail when there is never a chance for it to blossom?”
Koga continued on his undirected insults, but Kagome listened none the less. His words struck at the nerves of her heart, but he didn’t understand. InuYasha wasn’t the demon, if anything he was the one who deserved more than she had to offer him. There was always two sides to ever story, a good and an evil with important facts ignored. She wanted to scream her frustration at him, yell at him until she was blue in the face only to make him realize that he was being selfish, but it didn’t matter because it wasn’t like he would change. Unbroken habits are the worse to set right, a person wouldn’t change if they didn’t want to. She could lead a horse to water but it wasn’t like she could make it drink.
She didn’t know just exactly how long he ranted to her, his eyes not wavering with his convictions, but she made no attempt to stop him, it was pointless. Minutes droned on like hours as his words became more venomous, he was pouring his entire heart out to her, his frustration and anger, his sadness and his hate and it would never be enough. When Koga was finished he was breathing heavily, everything was put out on the table and she realized that everything he was trying to say was all the same. Pity, sympathy, regret, in his own way Koga was apologizing for everything that he had done wrong, begging for some type of forgiveness that could never be given.
The arrogant couldn’t be saved, there was no such thing as forgiveness from a broken soul.
Kagome could tell that Koga was near tears as he stared helplessly at her and she wanted to tell him that everything would be alright, but the truth of the matter was that it wouldn’t. Not all mistakes could be fixed, nobody was allowed to have a second chance in life if they didn’t try. Removing her eyes from him and onto her feet, Kagome wrapped her arms around her chest and turned away from the boy beyond the bars, she couldn’t help him. In a way she didn’t want to. Angry tears threatened to fall from her own eyes as she listened to Koga let out a strangled apology, his voice like a helpless child trying to revive a dead animal they had killed.
“I’m tired,” It wasn’t a lie, but she wanted to be by herself. “You should leave before somebody finds you here talking to me. Leave me alone Koga, you can’t beg for forgiveness when there was no sin committed. The evil will be waiting in the darkness no matter what, we cannot save everybody. I just want to be left alone right now, so go and leave me to myself.”
“Kagome, please!”
“NO!” She said angrily in a hushed growl, “Get on with your life Koga, grow up and be a man. Leaders are people who rise above the clouds and take control, they are not the sniveling boys who cry over a scraped knee. I’m not yours to claim, to pray for. Don’t make things harder than they have to be and just leave. If you don’t I will scream and wake up every damned person in the village. It’s either get out of here now and forget about me or take the risk to keep your life for another day.”
Koga left the small prison stomping away childishly, it was the only way that Kagome knew how to get rid of people but her heart was already breaking. She believed that life was different that the kind hearted and pure would rise above and save the weak, but not everything was all peaches and crème. Waiting until she was sure that he was actually gone, Kagome covered her mouth as the ragged coughs overtook her body, her chest ached as she clutched the hay with her free hand. She hadn’t been sure if she could have made it long enough, but Kagome was thankful that she did. When her coughing fits ceased and the blood was wiped from her hand, Kagome laid on her side and curled into the fetal position trying to preserve the warmth that was non existent around her. Soon it would be all over and she would either be dead or somewhere that would be as close to heaven as anything she could hope for.
Closing her eyes she was able to drift away from the reality into a dream world that never knew of misery or unhappiness, a place where there were no such thing as sorrow or pain.
~~oOo~~
The sun had yet to rise, but the small group of village men were waiting patiently in the fading darkness, their guns and pitchforks waiting for the hunt that was sure to come. Naraku came a few minutes later dressed in all black, his eyes cold and unyielding as he glanced around the crowd, they were all willing to purge the evil that corrupted the innocent. Those kind of blinded fools were perfect and soon enough things would take a turn for the best and everyone in Salem would know just how ignorant they truly were.
Instructions were given and torches lit as the men began their way into the forest, they would not come back without the demon’s head or they wouldn’t come back at all. It was just as simple as that. The men that were chosen to stay behind waited for their orders and soon enough they were off to go build the stake, Naraku of course was to supervise and make sure that everything was perfect for the spectacle. Sure there was still a chance that nothing would happen, Naraku had made sure that it was still possible for his little lost pet to reconsider her decision and agree to join him in ‘holy’ matrimony.
If she married him, then she wouldn’t have to die and the both of them already knew that. Of course what she didn’t know was that he was making it his priority to ensure her words of defeat, he was going to take away everything that she had left. InuYasha would be dead before the time for her punishment and he would make her understand that there was no such thing as happiness or hope. There was no point in believing childish fantasies, women were defenseless against the power of men, she would learn her place and if not she would die a slow and painful death.
Laughing maliciously at his own thoughts, Naraku watched the small town of Salem patiently, it wouldn’t be long until the preparations were done and everything would be ready to go. He would smile his infamous smile as InuYasha lost what he loved yet again, Naraku would laugh because he was the one to do it. He was the one who made InuYasha what he was, a demonic being, a danger to everything and everyone. Minutes passed like seconds and hours like minutes and hearing the affirmative from the village men that the stage was set, Naraku turned and headed for the jail. It was time to teach the innocent that nothing would be left untainted by him. Evil would triumph over good no matter what the outcome.
~~oOo~~
The sound of metal clinking together woke Kagome from her death like sleep, she wished that she wouldn’t have to wake. There was nothing left as the footsteps became louder and closer to where her prison cell lay, she had the sinking feeling that all her hopes would be shattered. At first she refused to move from her spot, keeping her eyes closed and hoping that the sound of impending doom was just a figment of her imagination, some horrible nightmare plaguing her mind. That however was not the fact of the matter as cold hands seized her shoulders and flung her to the floor. A mix between a cry of surprise and a scream of terror was ripped from her throat as she collided with the floor like a rag doll, her body rolling to a stop once it hit the cold metal bars of her cell.
Dark black eyes gleamed down at her and Kagome gasped audibly before she was forced onto her back where a few men held her down as they tied the rope around her wrists. There was no reason to be gentle since she was the guilty one, and she could feel the bruises beginning to form. Two men heaved her up to her feet none too gently and her hair fell over her face in a greasy thick mess, she looked like death, and she was pale enough to let anyone know the sickness forming inside. Kagome didn’t want to look at him as his evil eyes roamed her body, the shudders of fear running through her body as his long fingers wrapped around her upper arm and pulled her to him with an eerie strength.
Time was going so slowly as they guided her from the cell, the bright sun beating against her face and making her shy away from it. She had been kept from the sun and now it was almost burning her sensitive eyes, one of the things she had loved with her heart was hurting her like everything else had. Kagome kept her eyes on her feet, her head bowed down as she walked, she needn’t see the looks on the people’s faces as she passed them because she already could feel their cold eyes piercing through her body. Her feet were covered in dirt and her once white night gown was gray, she was ashamed of herself, she was nothing but a pathetic excuse for life.
It was Naraku’s interruption that had brought Kagome from deep within her head as he violently cleared his throat. His eyes were staring at her, into her soul as he ordered the village men to take her to the wooden stake. Everything was ready. Moving her head slowly to the side, she gazed down at the small crowd that had began to form, they were looking at her with such hatred, such pure hatred that it was like stabbing her with hundreds of pins. One man towards the steps leading to where she now stood surrounded by the golden yellow hay held a burning torch in his hands, seemingly pleased with his task. They were all so eager to burn the innocent, to purge themselves of what they thought was evil. They were blind.
Lolling her head to the other side, her blood ran cold. Her mother stood there not too far off in the distance with her grandpa, they were holding each other as if they were each other’s life lines, their eyes burning with something that Kagome had almost forgotten. It was sadness, the love that only a family knows, and one other emotion that she couldn’t place, but their tears spoke larger than anything else. It was her looking at them longingly that made the tears prick at the back of her eyes, what made her let out a quiet sob that wrenched at her heart. She shut her eyes to block their faces out of her mind, she didn’t want to see them, she didn’t want them to know how much they were killing her on the inside by being there.
“It is time Kagome,” Naraku’s soft voice danced in her head, his cockiness making her fill with loathing. “You’re killing them you know. Your family has gone through so much, the death of your grandmother and your pathetic father’s choice for treason. This can all still be salvaged, and you can put their minds to ease. Just say that you’re guilty, say that you want the lord back in your heart and I’ll set you free. However, you’ll have to pay a price that is, because nothing comes for free. You’ll have to be my bride Kagome, can you do that? Sacrifice yourself for your family’s grief or protect yourself from everything and give it all up for a demon’s love? It’s your choice, so make it quickly but think wisely.”
“I can’t,” her words were barely a whisper. “I can’t choose because either way I’ve chosen death. I would rather die and give my family closure than to become your wife and show them slowly that saving myself was pointless. I won’t let you break me Onigumo, I won’t let you take what’s not yours.”
His laughter was cruel and it made Kagome’s skin crawl as if she was about to be slapped in the face while he screamed “WRONG”, but it didn’t happen. His pale fingers touched her chin and brought her tear-filled eyes to meet the gaze of his own cold and calloused ones. In them she saw a hidden truth that was longed to be spoken, it was something that screamed of doom and hopelessness. It threatened to consume her and tearing her face away she let out a growl, she wasn’t going to let him win.
“I should tell you my pet,” he cooed almost sweetly. “Your demon will not come to save you if that’s what you’re hoping for.”
“What do you mean?” Her heart was beating quickly in her chest at his tone, her breath shortening as she thought of the different possibilities.
“Some of the village men set out early this morning with their shot guns, pitchforks, and other things into the forest.” Naraku said viciously. “They won’t be coming back until they have his head, and I sent Koga with them. He won’t disappoint me, or this village and I presume that they are on their way back as we speak since I received the signal earlier that they found your poor InuYasha.”
It was his words that was the last straw that broke the camel’s back, and she could feel the hot tears running down her face in defeat. Because of her InuYasha was being hunted down like some animal, and only to be skinned alive and beheaded. Something was breaking inside of her and if she hadn’t been supported by the ropes now tired around her chest, she was certain that she would have fallen to her knees. It was all very surreal to her and she didn’t know if she could handle it all. Kagome wanted to believe that InuYasha would survive, hell he was strong enough and yet the image of at least twenty village men with shot guns and pitchforks made him look so small in her eyes.
The man holding the torch came to Naraku’s side and handed over the long piece of wood caught aflame, it was his duty as a ‘messenger’ of god to rid the earth of the tainted, to purify the evil from within humans and beings in general. Willing her tears to stop, she bit down on her lip, Kagome wanted to show Naraku that she wasn’t going to lie down and let him take everything away from her, she wasn’t going to show him what he wanted to see. Glaring at him as he smirked his arrogant smirk, Kagome thought that she saw Naraku’s eyes narrow menacingly until a shot rang out from the forest and she felt her heart skip a beat in fear.
“Do you have any last words my pet?” He asked as an eerie wind blew her matted and tangled hair from her face.
Kagome nodded her head, and took a deep breath, fighting against the aching in her lungs, and she screamed the first word that came to her lips.
“INUYASHA!”
~~oOo~~
InuYasha had been sitting impatiently at the same spot waiting for the gray wolf, but she was late again. He needed advice on what to do, yet everything was quiet. Sure InuYasha knew that she wouldn’t come to see him again, it was her nature to only appear when there seemed to be no hope left, when everything around him was about to break. Yet he didn’t understand why she wasn’t there with him telling him what he should do. He needed her dammit so why couldn’t she get off her old mangy ass to help him!
Angry amber eyes glanced around with paranoia, the night had gone by quickly and now that morning was upon him he had the feeling that something wasn’t right. The forest was usually so filled with life, with the sounds of animals and bugs, or the singing of the trees as the birds told of the better days. However it was deadly silent and it gave InuYasha the creeps. He had been living in the forest long enough to know that the stillness usually meant that a bad omen had just been prophesized, evil was lurking in the darkness and that he had to stay on his toes unless he wanted to get caught up in the whirlwind of it all.
His nerves were on the edge and by the time he was near the river kneeling down to take a quick drink, he was positive that by the end of this ordeal he would develop a nervous tick. He wanted to smile at seeing himself twitching like a crazy, but now was not the time for laughter, he had to be serious and think of something that would give him Kagome. The white dog ears perched on top of his head swiveled at the sound of trees rustling and his eyes narrowed, someone was there and he had the gut feeling that it wasn’t the welcoming committee either.
InuYasha waited until the rustling stopped to let his heart begin to beat again. He could feel his adrenaline being to rise and his blood rushing in his veins, it was a type of excitement that he never felt before and it unnerved him, yet brought a sick pleasure to his heart. There was something happening to him on the inside, something horrible and even though he couldn’t place where it started, he knew that it had something to deal with his new beginning forty years ago.
The snapping of a twig threw InuYasha from his thoughts and his head snapped to where the sound came. His amber eyes were dark with malice and his silver hair framed around his face making him look even more evil to the small group of men now merely a yard away. To them he looked like a feral dog, crouching down so close to the ground it looked as though he would easily pounce and rip their throats out in only a blink of an eye. However it wouldn’t matter if only one of them was taken out, because they had come prepared, Naraku had given them a strategy that would not lose. Not when they were messengers of heaven, they couldn’t lose.
InuYasha glanced impatiently back and forth between the four men, they acted so tough with their weapons of death, yet they didn’t understand just how much he wanted to laugh at them. They could push him up against a wall and corner him but they wouldn’t be able to cage or control him, the men would be lucky to have their lives intact when he was through with them. Shifting himself a little InuYasha let out a loud growl of warning, he wasn’t going to go down easily and promised to take every last one of them with him if they persisted.
A snap of metal made InuYasha shift his eyes behind him and his growl grew louder ten fold when he spotted an old ‘friend’. Koga stood there looking as though he was authorities, the man next to him pointing the shot gun in InuYasha’s direction, they had him completely surrounded without him even noticing, smart start, but could they hold onto the advantage they were having. He had a large grin on his face and InuYasha wanted to swipe it off the boy’s face with his deadly claws, then see who was left smiling.
“You’re not so tough now are you demon?” Koga’s voice was filled with amusement and it only gave way for more anger. “There’s no way that you can get away from us, we will have your head.”
Koga’s companion fired a warning shot next to InuYasha’s body and he was ready to attack, his fangs bare and his eyes narrowed evilly, they all would get their just desserts. Digging his claws into the ground, InuYasha smiled and was about to kick up the dirt when a scream rang through the forest trees and he stopped what he was doing immediately. His blood ran cold and he felt every feeling of hatred and death to the men around him instantly die away, it was all a distraction. Kagome! How could he forget that she needed him? How could he let them take advantage of time and let them try and take away what was rightfully his.
InuYasha attacked. His fists flew like the bullets from the shotguns, but it was his flesh that left the marks. His growl of rage was louder than ever before and he tackled Koga, digging his claws down the arms of the boy as he smelled her blood in the air, they were hurting her and he would hurt them. This boy would live with the evidence that he pissed of something not of this world but yet of this world all the same. He would bare the mark of the damned. Once all the men were either on the forest floor unconscious or running away from the scene with their tails between their legs, InuYasha took off to the sky. His hair flying frantically as he jumped from tree to tree with the ferocity for the wind, he wouldn’t let them succeed in harming her. He would save his Kagome and make sure that Onigumo, or now “Naraku” would pay for every last thing that he had done. He would pay for everything.
~~oOo~~
Naraku frowned as he watched the girl bound to the stake, she had called out the demon’s name in front of the crowd, incriminated herself and now no matter what she was guilty and would die. He could hear the screaming of her mother as the men tried to drag her away, it was the name of an ill-fated love that struck memory lane, her daughter was entwined in an age old story of love, lust, and death. Turning his attention back to Kagome, he raised his eyebrow at her haggard coughing, screaming had not been such a wise decision, but the blood that trailed down her pink lips proved that she was hoping for more than just a miracle. Laughter rang from his mouth as he narrowed his eyes at Kagome, the time had come.
“So be it.”
And he dropped the torch on the hay.
~~oOo~~
E/N: Okay that's it! Please tell me if you liked it or hated it! There's only one chapter left and I'm working on a small story called "Lyrics of Lust" It probably won't be a fanfic, but if it does well it won't be posted on ff.net due to the title and the contents. It's actually a really dark story about rape, lust, and psychotic nature. HOPE you'll read it once it's posted! I <3 you all!
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HEY I'M BACK! lol This ended up being 7 pages on microsoft word processor on size 10 font, so yeah it was a bitch to finish and I would love some feedback on what you think.
Bewitched
By Miztikal-Dragon
Part B
InuYasha didn’t waste any time as he advanced on the young boy, he needed to be taught his place and there was only one way that he could think of. The boy known as Koga refused to cower in InuYasha’s presence but it became clear who was superior. The first punch was thrown by Koga, though it was never landed. InuYasha was stronger, faster, smarter, and more cunning than the poor boy and Koga paid the price. Kagome’s hushed pleas were ignored as the older boy beat the other senseless. It was a horrifying sight as Koga collapsed to the ground in a mess, the blood trickling down his lip and his nose. The boy was defeated and left with a little prize, his arm was definitely broken.
“Please InuYasha,” Kagome cried for some kind of reply. “Stop you’re making it worse. Please stop! InuYasha no more complications go! I don’t want you to get caught, please I’ll wait, just go before it’s too late… Please InuYasha!”
An angry growl escaped his throat and turning his head to look at Kagome, his anger temporarily subsided. He hadn’t meant to make things worse, but he couldn’t just let the filthy piece of shit in front of him get away without some kind of punishment. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts he kicked the younger boy in the ribs one last time before going back to Kagome and pulling her close one last time. He would take her advice and go because it was what she wanted, he didn’t like the idea, but it was what had to be done. Kissing her forehead, InuYasha looked down at the girl he’d fallen in love with, he promised that he wouldn’t abandon her in the time of dire need, he refused to let her die.
“I’ll come back for you,” he told her as he released her. “I won’t let anything happen to you I promise just don’t give up hope Kagome. I love you.”
Giving a threatening glare to the boy laying on the ground, InuYasha faded into the shadows of the prison cell and disappeared into the night. Things had to be thought through and as weird as it had become, he knew that the only way he’d get his way was by death. There was no other way. Running faster than the wind, he let his silver hair fly behind him as he headed into the depths of the forest, the end was coming faster than he had originally anticipated but he was more than a hundred percent sure that he’d be the one who would hold the victory. He was betting his life, his very existence on it.
~~oOo~~
It was the silence that unnerved Kagome as she watched the outside through the barred cell windows, nature was laughing at her in a way, teasing her with hope and then snatching it before she could get a good grip. It was absolute torture. A defeated groan from the floor brought Kagome back to her senses as she glanced over to the boy trying to get to his feet with rather unsteady movements. Deep down in her heart she knew that Koga deserved what he received, but another part of her told her that the extremities that InuYasha went to was a little uncalled for.
“Koga, don’t mind InuYasha,” she said as if he were nothing but a misbehaved child. “He’s a little rough around the edges, but he has a good heart. You went a little too fa-”
“I don’t care,” His tone was gruff and demanded her to cease. “You shouldn’t have chosen a demon over a man and its not my fault why you are here now.”
Koga’s words were like ice, but their meaning was clearer than day he was mad for losing against something “inhuman”. Kagome sighed heavily as she retreated to her hay bed. If he wanted to vent his anger then she would let him. She had no strength left to fight him, it was completely useless to try. His cold eyes made her feel even more helpless than before but it didn’t matter as long as he left her to her thoughts she would be okay. As long as he didn’t try to play innocent she would be able to remain in control.
“Why don’t you leave as well?” She asked lifelessly switching her gaze to a near by corner. “I’m not in the mood for company anymore and I’d appreciate it if you go back to your home before the town decides that I am using my ‘evil powers’ to try and corrupt you and make you sign your name in the book of Satan.”
“I didn’t come here to make you look worse and I won‘t leave until what I want to say is said. ,” Koga replied nursing his arm, watching her intently with his blue eyes. “All I ever wanted was to be by your side for an eternity, I loved you Kagome but I know that you’ve made your choice. Destiny cannot be changed no matter how hard we pray to God, the only thing we can do is pray and stay true hoping that what we wish for will be granted. Obviously our lives can’t cross paths in this life and they probably won’t ever, but that doesn’t mean that I like it at all. That demon shouldn’t be the one who deserves your love, he shouldn’t be the one who is allowed to win because what hope can we hold onto if the precious things in life goes only to the demons? How can good prevail when there is never a chance for it to blossom?”
Koga continued on his undirected insults, but Kagome listened none the less. His words struck at the nerves of her heart, but he didn’t understand. InuYasha wasn’t the demon, if anything he was the one who deserved more than she had to offer him. There was always two sides to ever story, a good and an evil with important facts ignored. She wanted to scream her frustration at him, yell at him until she was blue in the face only to make him realize that he was being selfish, but it didn’t matter because it wasn’t like he would change. Unbroken habits are the worse to set right, a person wouldn’t change if they didn’t want to. She could lead a horse to water but it wasn’t like she could make it drink.
She didn’t know just exactly how long he ranted to her, his eyes not wavering with his convictions, but she made no attempt to stop him, it was pointless. Minutes droned on like hours as his words became more venomous, he was pouring his entire heart out to her, his frustration and anger, his sadness and his hate and it would never be enough. When Koga was finished he was breathing heavily, everything was put out on the table and she realized that everything he was trying to say was all the same. Pity, sympathy, regret, in his own way Koga was apologizing for everything that he had done wrong, begging for some type of forgiveness that could never be given.
The arrogant couldn’t be saved, there was no such thing as forgiveness from a broken soul.
Kagome could tell that Koga was near tears as he stared helplessly at her and she wanted to tell him that everything would be alright, but the truth of the matter was that it wouldn’t. Not all mistakes could be fixed, nobody was allowed to have a second chance in life if they didn’t try. Removing her eyes from him and onto her feet, Kagome wrapped her arms around her chest and turned away from the boy beyond the bars, she couldn’t help him. In a way she didn’t want to. Angry tears threatened to fall from her own eyes as she listened to Koga let out a strangled apology, his voice like a helpless child trying to revive a dead animal they had killed.
“I’m tired,” It wasn’t a lie, but she wanted to be by herself. “You should leave before somebody finds you here talking to me. Leave me alone Koga, you can’t beg for forgiveness when there was no sin committed. The evil will be waiting in the darkness no matter what, we cannot save everybody. I just want to be left alone right now, so go and leave me to myself.”
“Kagome, please!”
“NO!” She said angrily in a hushed growl, “Get on with your life Koga, grow up and be a man. Leaders are people who rise above the clouds and take control, they are not the sniveling boys who cry over a scraped knee. I’m not yours to claim, to pray for. Don’t make things harder than they have to be and just leave. If you don’t I will scream and wake up every damned person in the village. It’s either get out of here now and forget about me or take the risk to keep your life for another day.”
Koga left the small prison stomping away childishly, it was the only way that Kagome knew how to get rid of people but her heart was already breaking. She believed that life was different that the kind hearted and pure would rise above and save the weak, but not everything was all peaches and crème. Waiting until she was sure that he was actually gone, Kagome covered her mouth as the ragged coughs overtook her body, her chest ached as she clutched the hay with her free hand. She hadn’t been sure if she could have made it long enough, but Kagome was thankful that she did. When her coughing fits ceased and the blood was wiped from her hand, Kagome laid on her side and curled into the fetal position trying to preserve the warmth that was non existent around her. Soon it would be all over and she would either be dead or somewhere that would be as close to heaven as anything she could hope for.
Closing her eyes she was able to drift away from the reality into a dream world that never knew of misery or unhappiness, a place where there were no such thing as sorrow or pain.
~~oOo~~
The sun had yet to rise, but the small group of village men were waiting patiently in the fading darkness, their guns and pitchforks waiting for the hunt that was sure to come. Naraku came a few minutes later dressed in all black, his eyes cold and unyielding as he glanced around the crowd, they were all willing to purge the evil that corrupted the innocent. Those kind of blinded fools were perfect and soon enough things would take a turn for the best and everyone in Salem would know just how ignorant they truly were.
Instructions were given and torches lit as the men began their way into the forest, they would not come back without the demon’s head or they wouldn’t come back at all. It was just as simple as that. The men that were chosen to stay behind waited for their orders and soon enough they were off to go build the stake, Naraku of course was to supervise and make sure that everything was perfect for the spectacle. Sure there was still a chance that nothing would happen, Naraku had made sure that it was still possible for his little lost pet to reconsider her decision and agree to join him in ‘holy’ matrimony.
If she married him, then she wouldn’t have to die and the both of them already knew that. Of course what she didn’t know was that he was making it his priority to ensure her words of defeat, he was going to take away everything that she had left. InuYasha would be dead before the time for her punishment and he would make her understand that there was no such thing as happiness or hope. There was no point in believing childish fantasies, women were defenseless against the power of men, she would learn her place and if not she would die a slow and painful death.
Laughing maliciously at his own thoughts, Naraku watched the small town of Salem patiently, it wouldn’t be long until the preparations were done and everything would be ready to go. He would smile his infamous smile as InuYasha lost what he loved yet again, Naraku would laugh because he was the one to do it. He was the one who made InuYasha what he was, a demonic being, a danger to everything and everyone. Minutes passed like seconds and hours like minutes and hearing the affirmative from the village men that the stage was set, Naraku turned and headed for the jail. It was time to teach the innocent that nothing would be left untainted by him. Evil would triumph over good no matter what the outcome.
~~oOo~~
The sound of metal clinking together woke Kagome from her death like sleep, she wished that she wouldn’t have to wake. There was nothing left as the footsteps became louder and closer to where her prison cell lay, she had the sinking feeling that all her hopes would be shattered. At first she refused to move from her spot, keeping her eyes closed and hoping that the sound of impending doom was just a figment of her imagination, some horrible nightmare plaguing her mind. That however was not the fact of the matter as cold hands seized her shoulders and flung her to the floor. A mix between a cry of surprise and a scream of terror was ripped from her throat as she collided with the floor like a rag doll, her body rolling to a stop once it hit the cold metal bars of her cell.
Dark black eyes gleamed down at her and Kagome gasped audibly before she was forced onto her back where a few men held her down as they tied the rope around her wrists. There was no reason to be gentle since she was the guilty one, and she could feel the bruises beginning to form. Two men heaved her up to her feet none too gently and her hair fell over her face in a greasy thick mess, she looked like death, and she was pale enough to let anyone know the sickness forming inside. Kagome didn’t want to look at him as his evil eyes roamed her body, the shudders of fear running through her body as his long fingers wrapped around her upper arm and pulled her to him with an eerie strength.
Time was going so slowly as they guided her from the cell, the bright sun beating against her face and making her shy away from it. She had been kept from the sun and now it was almost burning her sensitive eyes, one of the things she had loved with her heart was hurting her like everything else had. Kagome kept her eyes on her feet, her head bowed down as she walked, she needn’t see the looks on the people’s faces as she passed them because she already could feel their cold eyes piercing through her body. Her feet were covered in dirt and her once white night gown was gray, she was ashamed of herself, she was nothing but a pathetic excuse for life.
It was Naraku’s interruption that had brought Kagome from deep within her head as he violently cleared his throat. His eyes were staring at her, into her soul as he ordered the village men to take her to the wooden stake. Everything was ready. Moving her head slowly to the side, she gazed down at the small crowd that had began to form, they were looking at her with such hatred, such pure hatred that it was like stabbing her with hundreds of pins. One man towards the steps leading to where she now stood surrounded by the golden yellow hay held a burning torch in his hands, seemingly pleased with his task. They were all so eager to burn the innocent, to purge themselves of what they thought was evil. They were blind.
Lolling her head to the other side, her blood ran cold. Her mother stood there not too far off in the distance with her grandpa, they were holding each other as if they were each other’s life lines, their eyes burning with something that Kagome had almost forgotten. It was sadness, the love that only a family knows, and one other emotion that she couldn’t place, but their tears spoke larger than anything else. It was her looking at them longingly that made the tears prick at the back of her eyes, what made her let out a quiet sob that wrenched at her heart. She shut her eyes to block their faces out of her mind, she didn’t want to see them, she didn’t want them to know how much they were killing her on the inside by being there.
“It is time Kagome,” Naraku’s soft voice danced in her head, his cockiness making her fill with loathing. “You’re killing them you know. Your family has gone through so much, the death of your grandmother and your pathetic father’s choice for treason. This can all still be salvaged, and you can put their minds to ease. Just say that you’re guilty, say that you want the lord back in your heart and I’ll set you free. However, you’ll have to pay a price that is, because nothing comes for free. You’ll have to be my bride Kagome, can you do that? Sacrifice yourself for your family’s grief or protect yourself from everything and give it all up for a demon’s love? It’s your choice, so make it quickly but think wisely.”
“I can’t,” her words were barely a whisper. “I can’t choose because either way I’ve chosen death. I would rather die and give my family closure than to become your wife and show them slowly that saving myself was pointless. I won’t let you break me Onigumo, I won’t let you take what’s not yours.”
His laughter was cruel and it made Kagome’s skin crawl as if she was about to be slapped in the face while he screamed “WRONG”, but it didn’t happen. His pale fingers touched her chin and brought her tear-filled eyes to meet the gaze of his own cold and calloused ones. In them she saw a hidden truth that was longed to be spoken, it was something that screamed of doom and hopelessness. It threatened to consume her and tearing her face away she let out a growl, she wasn’t going to let him win.
“I should tell you my pet,” he cooed almost sweetly. “Your demon will not come to save you if that’s what you’re hoping for.”
“What do you mean?” Her heart was beating quickly in her chest at his tone, her breath shortening as she thought of the different possibilities.
“Some of the village men set out early this morning with their shot guns, pitchforks, and other things into the forest.” Naraku said viciously. “They won’t be coming back until they have his head, and I sent Koga with them. He won’t disappoint me, or this village and I presume that they are on their way back as we speak since I received the signal earlier that they found your poor InuYasha.”
It was his words that was the last straw that broke the camel’s back, and she could feel the hot tears running down her face in defeat. Because of her InuYasha was being hunted down like some animal, and only to be skinned alive and beheaded. Something was breaking inside of her and if she hadn’t been supported by the ropes now tired around her chest, she was certain that she would have fallen to her knees. It was all very surreal to her and she didn’t know if she could handle it all. Kagome wanted to believe that InuYasha would survive, hell he was strong enough and yet the image of at least twenty village men with shot guns and pitchforks made him look so small in her eyes.
The man holding the torch came to Naraku’s side and handed over the long piece of wood caught aflame, it was his duty as a ‘messenger’ of god to rid the earth of the tainted, to purify the evil from within humans and beings in general. Willing her tears to stop, she bit down on her lip, Kagome wanted to show Naraku that she wasn’t going to lie down and let him take everything away from her, she wasn’t going to show him what he wanted to see. Glaring at him as he smirked his arrogant smirk, Kagome thought that she saw Naraku’s eyes narrow menacingly until a shot rang out from the forest and she felt her heart skip a beat in fear.
“Do you have any last words my pet?” He asked as an eerie wind blew her matted and tangled hair from her face.
Kagome nodded her head, and took a deep breath, fighting against the aching in her lungs, and she screamed the first word that came to her lips.
“INUYASHA!”
~~oOo~~
InuYasha had been sitting impatiently at the same spot waiting for the gray wolf, but she was late again. He needed advice on what to do, yet everything was quiet. Sure InuYasha knew that she wouldn’t come to see him again, it was her nature to only appear when there seemed to be no hope left, when everything around him was about to break. Yet he didn’t understand why she wasn’t there with him telling him what he should do. He needed her dammit so why couldn’t she get off her old mangy ass to help him!
Angry amber eyes glanced around with paranoia, the night had gone by quickly and now that morning was upon him he had the feeling that something wasn’t right. The forest was usually so filled with life, with the sounds of animals and bugs, or the singing of the trees as the birds told of the better days. However it was deadly silent and it gave InuYasha the creeps. He had been living in the forest long enough to know that the stillness usually meant that a bad omen had just been prophesized, evil was lurking in the darkness and that he had to stay on his toes unless he wanted to get caught up in the whirlwind of it all.
His nerves were on the edge and by the time he was near the river kneeling down to take a quick drink, he was positive that by the end of this ordeal he would develop a nervous tick. He wanted to smile at seeing himself twitching like a crazy, but now was not the time for laughter, he had to be serious and think of something that would give him Kagome. The white dog ears perched on top of his head swiveled at the sound of trees rustling and his eyes narrowed, someone was there and he had the gut feeling that it wasn’t the welcoming committee either.
InuYasha waited until the rustling stopped to let his heart begin to beat again. He could feel his adrenaline being to rise and his blood rushing in his veins, it was a type of excitement that he never felt before and it unnerved him, yet brought a sick pleasure to his heart. There was something happening to him on the inside, something horrible and even though he couldn’t place where it started, he knew that it had something to deal with his new beginning forty years ago.
The snapping of a twig threw InuYasha from his thoughts and his head snapped to where the sound came. His amber eyes were dark with malice and his silver hair framed around his face making him look even more evil to the small group of men now merely a yard away. To them he looked like a feral dog, crouching down so close to the ground it looked as though he would easily pounce and rip their throats out in only a blink of an eye. However it wouldn’t matter if only one of them was taken out, because they had come prepared, Naraku had given them a strategy that would not lose. Not when they were messengers of heaven, they couldn’t lose.
InuYasha glanced impatiently back and forth between the four men, they acted so tough with their weapons of death, yet they didn’t understand just how much he wanted to laugh at them. They could push him up against a wall and corner him but they wouldn’t be able to cage or control him, the men would be lucky to have their lives intact when he was through with them. Shifting himself a little InuYasha let out a loud growl of warning, he wasn’t going to go down easily and promised to take every last one of them with him if they persisted.
A snap of metal made InuYasha shift his eyes behind him and his growl grew louder ten fold when he spotted an old ‘friend’. Koga stood there looking as though he was authorities, the man next to him pointing the shot gun in InuYasha’s direction, they had him completely surrounded without him even noticing, smart start, but could they hold onto the advantage they were having. He had a large grin on his face and InuYasha wanted to swipe it off the boy’s face with his deadly claws, then see who was left smiling.
“You’re not so tough now are you demon?” Koga’s voice was filled with amusement and it only gave way for more anger. “There’s no way that you can get away from us, we will have your head.”
Koga’s companion fired a warning shot next to InuYasha’s body and he was ready to attack, his fangs bare and his eyes narrowed evilly, they all would get their just desserts. Digging his claws into the ground, InuYasha smiled and was about to kick up the dirt when a scream rang through the forest trees and he stopped what he was doing immediately. His blood ran cold and he felt every feeling of hatred and death to the men around him instantly die away, it was all a distraction. Kagome! How could he forget that she needed him? How could he let them take advantage of time and let them try and take away what was rightfully his.
InuYasha attacked. His fists flew like the bullets from the shotguns, but it was his flesh that left the marks. His growl of rage was louder than ever before and he tackled Koga, digging his claws down the arms of the boy as he smelled her blood in the air, they were hurting her and he would hurt them. This boy would live with the evidence that he pissed of something not of this world but yet of this world all the same. He would bare the mark of the damned. Once all the men were either on the forest floor unconscious or running away from the scene with their tails between their legs, InuYasha took off to the sky. His hair flying frantically as he jumped from tree to tree with the ferocity for the wind, he wouldn’t let them succeed in harming her. He would save his Kagome and make sure that Onigumo, or now “Naraku” would pay for every last thing that he had done. He would pay for everything.
~~oOo~~
Naraku frowned as he watched the girl bound to the stake, she had called out the demon’s name in front of the crowd, incriminated herself and now no matter what she was guilty and would die. He could hear the screaming of her mother as the men tried to drag her away, it was the name of an ill-fated love that struck memory lane, her daughter was entwined in an age old story of love, lust, and death. Turning his attention back to Kagome, he raised his eyebrow at her haggard coughing, screaming had not been such a wise decision, but the blood that trailed down her pink lips proved that she was hoping for more than just a miracle. Laughter rang from his mouth as he narrowed his eyes at Kagome, the time had come.
“So be it.”
And he dropped the torch on the hay.
~~oOo~~
E/N: Okay that's it! Please tell me if you liked it or hated it! There's only one chapter left and I'm working on a small story called "Lyrics of Lust" It probably won't be a fanfic, but if it does well it won't be posted on ff.net due to the title and the contents. It's actually a really dark story about rape, lust, and psychotic nature. HOPE you'll read it once it's posted! I <3 you all!
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