InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bits From The Big Yellow Bag ❯ Something Rings A Bell… ( Chapter 9 )

Something Rings A Bell…

 

Her eyes… they are filled with tears. How does she know my name? She shouts it and my heart hurts, like it's breaking. I don't know why.

 

I twirl my scythe. I'm skilled with it - but she's adept with her weapon, large as it is. Why am I hesitating? I've fought this woman before. She tried to kill me. That's a fact.

 

As I think this, I see my weapon breaking pottery off tall wooden posts. The woman who stares at me now is next to me, laughing, a small two-tailed neko youkai mewing her own encouragement. Why do I think these things? This never happened - I don't understand!

 

I look into her eyes again and something in me shatters as she calls my name again, her face hardening with determination. I can hear screams, distantly, as though they're hundreds of miles away.

 

“Snap out of it!” She leaps forward and I leap back, as though we are dancing a dance we've indulged in thousands of times before.

 

But we haven't. She's only an enemy, isn't she?  If she wasn't, wouldn't I know? Something would ring a bell - more than vivid daydreams and foreboding feelings I can't understand.

 

`Kohaku. Kill her.'

 

I always do what master tells me. If I refuse… he makes me think awful things.  I never remember what they are, but they always hurt.

 

I don't want to hurt any more.

 

But I don't want to kill her.

 

A/N:

Originally posted to LiveJournal on June 11, 2009

Word Count: 241

Prompt: “Bell”