InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Chemical Romance ❯ The purple Dinosaur ( Chapter 7 )
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By: Ritalin_Writer 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance / Suspense | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.18.2006 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.1K | Visits: 269 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Romance / Suspense | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 09.18.2006 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.1K | Visits: 269 | Status: Work In Progress
Ritalin: Well my readers I would appreciate more reviews, give me an idea of what you want to see happen. Tell me if I sound OOC! Hell, tell me your sexual orientation for all I care just make some comments! Preferably no death threats but they will also be accepted!
~~~Last time~~~
“Seems like you’ve got a secret and now you’re going to tell us exactly who you were talking to! Why you were talking to them! And what you were talking about, alright?” Kagome said advancing on the girl with every word she ground out.
Little Kismet was up against the wall with an expression that said it all.
I’m in deep shit….
~~~now~~~
Sesshoumaru aimlessly wandered the corridors of the mansion that had been erected for Inuyasha and himself. He also housed his less than trustworthy advisor but as long as the demon remained obedient he had his uses. His usual attire shifted languorously with his elegant strides as he prowled the halls in his usual stoic silence.
“My, my, your grace never ceases to amaze me.” The syrupy tone of Naraku’s second incarnation came out of the darkness, leaning nonchalantly against the wall adjacent from the silver haired Taiyoukai.
Sesshoumaru looked towards the crimson eyed wind demon that was merely an extracted portion of Naraku’s flesh.
‘Though when on as lowly as he cannot mate due to the fact no female will touch him, one must create offspring somehow…’ Were his own thoughts as he spoke “Why does it intrigue you so? Are you jealous?”
Kagura shielded her lips partially with her fan as she smirked in an almost flirtatious manner. “I would not go so far as jealous but I envy your freedom. Either way that isn’t why I am here, Naraku wishes for you to join him.”
With that she strode past him and Sesshoumaru waited a moment in the deserted hall thinking on her words. What had she meant by envying his freedom, she was the wind itself, nothing can chain the wind?
“Fool, the wind is the most unhindered element what nonsense are you speaking of?” he growled.
“On the contrary my lord the wind can be halted.” Naraku’s voice penetrated the darkness and Sesshoumaru languidly turned around to see his advisor seep out of the shadows of the corridors.
“How long have you been standing there?” Sesshoumaru inquired not fully turned to the hanyou that had once more adorned that idiotic monkey pelt.
A deep chuckle seemed to resonate through the entire building. “Long enough to know that Kagura is being obedient. Now then shall I inform you on what I plan to do with our little dilemma?”
The dog demon’s brows furrowed. “It is no problem of mine it is you that believes she is a threat.”
“Very well then I had taken control of a few worthless humans days ago, your brother has a knack for rescuing our targets.”
There was silence on Sesshoumaru’s end as the hanyou notified him of his brother’s activities, though he vaguely noticed his brother’s absence he did have moments to ponder if his brother had died somewhere.
But those moments were often brief and fleeting.
“I’ve decided that I will create another incarnation to finish off the woman-” Naraku spoke though paused as another scent sifted through the air and soon accompanied by the dog demon in question followed by Kaira and Ketsumaru. The golden haired dragon looked rather ruffled as if he had been in a scuffle just moments before while Kaira appeared to be unscathed.
“Inuyasha it’s unusual for you to enter our grounds. What momentous occasion forces you to grace us with your presence?” Naraku said though the greeting was malevolent as ever. Inuyasha growled.
“I live here so I have every right to come and go as I please.”
“That is true but it is very rare that you do. Every few moons or so you return, however, by the next morning you vanish again.” There was a tone of sinister knowledge that made the silver haired hanyou tense and walk briskly pass the two.
“I will take my leave farewell my lords.” Naraku sneered before disappearing.
The two brothers stared one another down for a moment and Kaira seemed tense with the other dog demons in the vicinity glaring at one another like enemies even though they were biological brethren. She didn’t dare intrude or try to stop them if they fought, knowing both could over power her and she didn’t exactly have any plans to die soon.
Ketsumaru however was not in the least daunted by the inuhanyou and his brother even though he knew at least one the elder, could end him swiftly. “I will leave you as of now my lords.” He said casually grabbing hold on the red haired female beside him and dragging her further into the hall and away from the brothers that didn’t acknowledge them.
“Are you just going to stand there and look at me?” Inuyasha growled breaking the silence, golden eyes meeting identical orbs of gold.
Sesshoumaru didn’t even reply or show any indication that he had heard his comment as he moved to pass him, Inuyasha standing his ground.
“It’s a pity the wretch you seem obliged to, has a life expectancy that will be cut short in a matter of moments.”
(A/N: alright basically these are Fluffy-sama’s words in English “Go save your bitch bro.”)
Inuyasha seemed uncertain at his brother’s words until he finally understood what his stoic sibling was hinting at.
Kagome was about to be killed…
~~~~Elsewhere~~~~
Kagome’s hands were balled into fists, perched on each hip as she leaned forward. Kismet had been confined the conference room and was seated in a chair with Kagome’s eyes boring into her own. Sango had suggested tying her up but Hojo had prohibited any type of violation of her mobility.
Instead the three crowded around her making the girl’s anxiety sky rocket and making her sweat like an Olympic runner doing the 100 mile dash.
“So Kismet, who were you talking to?” Kagome asked her tone revealing nothing but curiosity though her facial expressions conveyed otherwise and that was what worried the mousy girl the most.
“I-I really was just talking to my dad!” she exclaimed exposing her palms to them almost submissively.
“Don’t give us that we heard you.” Sango interrupted “And what did you mean when you mean by it was just too easy getting in here?”
Kismet was shrinking in her seat under the older female’s wrath. And Hojo, being Hojo, stepped in.
“Now ladies I don’t think she was doing anything illegal. She might have actually been talking to her dad.” He insisted only gaining vengeful glares from both women and finding himself feeling rather inadequate.
Kismet’s shoulders began to shake as she balled her fists in her lap; head lowered so that her bangs obscured her eyes but there was a faint glimmer of tears.
The three looked at her simultaneously, uncertain if the emotion was artificial. “Why won’t you believe me? I really was just talking to my father and I wasn’t doing anything wrong.” She lifted her head her blue eyes suddenly a deep cobalt blue, dazzling with the shimmer of tears that fell in small torrents down her cheeks. She looked even more youthful while she was crying in front of them.
“This is a big corporate business,” she said “you guys have to have caller ID check for yourself!”
“Fine then don’t go anywhere.” Sango said as she exited the room but poked her head back in to look at Hojo. “Um, I need the authorization code to get into the mainframe, you mind?” she inquired and the brunette followed leaving Kagome and Kismet alone in the room.
The room became a lot more spacious with the absence of her boss and her friend and Kagome noticed how small Kismet was in this big room. She looked like a 12 year old crying in a seat almost bigger than her and a sudden unexpected wave of sympathy flooded her anger. She sighed lightly digging into her pocket and finding a handkerchief and offering it to the twenty one year old who gratefully accepted it silently.
“It’s true you know.” She broke out her sobs subsiding as she wiped her face. “I really was just talking to my dad.”
(A/N: insert dramatic sappy theme music here)
“You know I was actually born in Osaka.” She said tentatively, her voice had stopped quivering. Kagome was surprised at the information. Though she hadn’t reviewed Kismet’s portfolio, she knew people who were born in Osaka before or during the radiation period were often subjugated because of the rumors that every human had mutated. Unfortunately test results proved otherwise, but science can only make so many people believe.
“My mother was seven months pregnant with me when the radiation hit. She was terrified and so was my father who was one of the people that didn’t turn into a demon. I was born two months premature, do you know how scary that is for a mother especially a new mother?” her voice had decreased into a whisper as if the information was so forbidden that if ever spoken aloud it would be the end of her entirely. And in essence, it was.
“And then, when she got her first look at me, to find that my eyes were a different color, she thought I was demon too.”
Kagome listening intently had to question Kismet but before she could get the words from her head to her lips Kismet lifted her hand to her face and began rubbing at her right eye. Out popped a small almost translucent blue contact and Kagome got the first glimpse of her natural color.
A bright fiery gold, the color of burnt honey but bright none the less. ‘Just like Inuyasha’s. Could she be a half demon and not know it?’
“A few days later mother died the consequence for not only expending her strength giving birth to a baby naturally not ready to be born, and before that having to survive the pain of radiation. Her body couldn’t take it. My father and I moved to Okinawa but they weren’t very accepting of us especially because of my eyes, they didn’t trust us. My father struggled to try and make life work but it just seemed that wherever we went, things only got worse until he tried to kill himself. He was so close to death that I couldn’t help but think it was my fault. If I hadn’t been born the way I was mother and him would still be together. So instead I dragged him to a hospital and left him for them to find. I looked around the city for an eye doctor that I might be able to get help from but you know how it is now. People don’t help people that are different.”
“Kismet I…”
“It’s alright you don’t have to say anything. Anyway I found a solution, I was three years old when I broke into a store and stole a pair of contacts.” She laughed nervously at her own confession of theft. “It’s not something to be proud of but after that things ran a lot smoother. Dad got a job as a janitor in a local school and I was able to attend. To save me from embarrassment we kept it under wraps that we were related at all and to show him how much I appreciated him I worked to get all A’s in my subjects.”
Kismet looked vacantly at the ceiling making the blue eye crystalline and tranquil while the revealed gold eye was ferocious and burning.
“However things were difficult. I graduated every class with the top grades, valid Victorian up until college and was accepted with a full scholarship. I wanted very badly to be the best, go into a career that would give me enough money to make sure dad didn’t have to go into a nursing home and didn’t have to worry about finances. But when I went for the first time to take my final exam I failed. I didn’t pass it that ate at me for so long.” She’d begun to hold herself, a visible indication that she was drawing into herself. Kagome wasn’t sure to cry or console her as she stood watching as ever emotion of human life flickered through the woman’s gaze like the colors and shapes of a kaleidoscope.
“I couldn’t face my father and say that I didn’t pass. So I hid it and I tried harder, but the more I tried the less I seemed to accomplish. It seemed impossible. Until one day I was helping file the documents for the school, I helped the secretary all the time she was over worked and under paid. And I came across the answers for one of the subjects I was failing.”
She began to huddle now, curling into a ball even as she sat on the chair, her hair flooding over the confinements of the seat. “I knew it was wrong. I knew that stealing was bad and that I could go to jail, leaving my dad all alone. But for his sake, I would do anything. I took those files along with the other two subjects I’d been failing; photo copied them and left the originals in the schools directory. I pass all those subjects with top scores and a lot of people had gotten suspicious but I was smarter. I had shredded the copies and threw them into Osaka, there was no way anyone would find out.” She was hesitant at this statement and seemed to grow fearful but regained her composure.
Kagome noticed the sudden, brief alteration in her mood and wasn’t sure if it was the fear of letting her know so much or something else. Whichever it was she knew the truth when she heard it and this as tall a tail as it was, she believed her.
There was a soft knock on the door and the two brunettes walked back in looking a bit solemn. Either something had happened or they had listened in on the entire conversation. Kagome put her money on the latter.
~~~Elsewhere~~~
Souta smirked wickedly to himself he’s spent quite a bit of time on the town with the spare money he got as an allowance and had hung out with a few friends that shared in his ideals before he had decided to go home and watch television.
He easily walked back up and through the complex without running into anyone and was surprised that there wasn’t anyone around, but then again everyone was probably at work and school.
It was just too easy!
Finally reaching his apartment he instinctively checked the door and as expected it was locked, no surprise there. His smirked widened knowingly. “Sorry Kagome you might have been able to out smart me as a kid but not now I’ve got the mo-”
He stopped at the window he was so sure would be his ticket in….
Only to find it had been closed…
And locked…
With no hope of getting inside...At all…
“This sucks! I’m going to get in trouble now… The school calls in a half hour to tell the guardians that their kid missed school, if I’m not there to erase the message Nee-chan will find out for sure.” He yowled clutching his head and slumping to the floor as his mind descended in a downward spiral to hell and back.
‘If Nee-chan finds out then she’ll tell mom on me. Mom’s going to get mad and then I’ll have to deal with two angry women…Gramps isn’t going to help me he’d do anything to keep out of their way. Aw man this really bites…’
“What’cha doing?”
Poor Souta was terrified of the voice as it interrupted his downward descent and literally jumped so far he might have gone off the balcony if he’d gone a few feet higher.
He shuddered slightly sweating bullets and panting. He stared nervously at the fifteen year old blushing madly at the fact she’d snuck up on him and he was off guard.
Rin smiled charmingly looking rather sheepish herself as she wore a deep blue jean dress to her calves a white turtle neck that had blue sleeves and collar and a jean hand bag. She looked like she was dress to go out on the town instead of to school.
“Who are you?”
“I live right next to you, my name’s Rin Kiroshima.”
Souta nodded absently as he shouldered his discarded backpack, averting his gaze anxiously as he tried to regain his composure.
“I’m Souta Higurashi.”
“Kagome-san’s younger brother.”
Souta was slightly surprised then nodded again.
“Anyways shouldn’t you be at school or something you shouldn’t skip you know your educations important.”
She smiled and Souta hesitated. “I know but I just wanted one day to go out and have some fun. Beside,” she said with a little mischief to her smirk, “you seem to be contradicting yourself now aren’t you?”
Souta was taken aback and growled turning his back to her only to hear her giggle at his reaction and only to seethe a little more at her friendly taunting.
“Whatever do what you want.” He growled shifting through his back pack and pulling out a small portable radio. “Glad I brought batteries for this.” He muttered as he pulled out the pack and flickered through the stations until he found one that he wanted to listen to.
He got comfortable by slouching against the wall and closing his eyes though he was still completely aware that Rin had not left him and had now seated herself beside him. Needless to say he felt rather, well, heated with the close proximity but he tried to remain calm and unflustered.
“How old are you?”
“Sixteen”
“What’s your favorite color?”
“Blue”
“Do you like flowers?”
“No”
“Why not?”
“Cause they’re for girls.”
“Where’s your mom?”
“Dead.”
Rin jumped a bit at his remark looking at him sorrowfully but also surprised.
“Really!?”
“No”
“Why’d you lie to me?”
“I didn’t.”
“Well it wasn’t the truth.”
Souta growled. “Hey I didn’t ask for you to sit here and ask me questions! I-”
‘We interrupt this program for an important bulletin.’
Souta stopped mid sentence to look at the radio as did Rin as the announcer came on.
‘A giant demon has been spotted outside of Tokyo and authorities are expending their resources to halt its advance. However it seems to be penetrating every line of defense available.’
The two teens listened intently as the almost nonexistent thumps vibrated through the concrete floors.
‘Citizens are advised to enter their homes and remain calm.’
The faint sound of screaming had begun to rise in the afternoon air and there was a chill that could only be emitted by something nonhuman. Souta felt a shiver trail down his spine as he felt something seeping into his mind and looking through every memory, every thought he’d ever had even his current ones.
“Run.” He said in monotone, Rin looking up at him slightly worried as he snatched up his bag and the radio grabbing hold of her arm and pulling her up.
“Get up and run!” He said and for a moment time froze. Everything was still as he saw in a brief flash of light something enormous come crashing down a few feet from them. The force of the blow sent them flying, skidding against the concrete.
Rin slipped through his grasp and she was hurtled against a far wall, upon impact she released a mild squeal eyes closed tightly as she harbored most of the pain inside. Souta was flung inches from her and his attempt to get up was foiled as rubble bombarded his backside. He covered his head with his arms trying to protect one of the most vulnerable places.
When the hail of stone ceased he made another attempt to rise only to turn around in time to see a much larger piece of debris hurtling towards him. Fear clutched his heart and he felt his mobility fail as the giant piece of rock landed, on his leg.
A thousand needles descended on his left leg, and he felt every splintering incision where the fractured femur tore through ligaments and flesh.
A blood curdling scream was torn from his throat there wasn’t even enough thought to cry as he struggled against the pain.
“You will be going no where.”
The monstrous growl from the demon held a hint of pure satisfaction at the young boy’s pain. Rin immediately ran to Souta’s side in a vain attempt to free him. She hesitated enough to see the demon.
A heavily muscled ogre type demon, two horns protruding from it’s skull that was shaped like the cranium of a shark with rows of teeth that glistened with their deadly beauty. Bright crimson eyes staring vehemently at them and seething something that spoke of imminent destruction.
It was almost taller than the very building and had to bend down to see them in the small crevice that was the balcony. Its skin was tinted purple and a fleeting comment ran into their minds that Barney had gone homicidal.
Have you ever stared death in the face? To know that your weaknesses will eventually be exploited so profoundly whether by old age, sickness, or an outside event that enforced the simple law of humanity. Everything eventually dies. To suddenly realize such a factor in the midst of such an event that threatens your very life as well as another’s, you seem to gain insight to things that had been obscured before. The clouds that had once blocked your view are cleared. The calamity of every turmoil you ever faced seems to become irrelevant to the fact you are simply one out of many and only one. That though you may be unique your loss will be another’s gain and so and so forth.
Now Souta and Rin watched as a clawed hand came plummeting down on them.
“Die!”
~~~
Ritalin_writer: Now I could have extended this chapter. It was going over fourteen pages… But I decided to be a bitch and leave you hanging until I decided to put up the next chapter. Sorry for the lateness though had way too much stuff to do.
~~~Last time~~~
“Seems like you’ve got a secret and now you’re going to tell us exactly who you were talking to! Why you were talking to them! And what you were talking about, alright?” Kagome said advancing on the girl with every word she ground out.
Little Kismet was up against the wall with an expression that said it all.
I’m in deep shit….
~~~now~~~
Sesshoumaru aimlessly wandered the corridors of the mansion that had been erected for Inuyasha and himself. He also housed his less than trustworthy advisor but as long as the demon remained obedient he had his uses. His usual attire shifted languorously with his elegant strides as he prowled the halls in his usual stoic silence.
“My, my, your grace never ceases to amaze me.” The syrupy tone of Naraku’s second incarnation came out of the darkness, leaning nonchalantly against the wall adjacent from the silver haired Taiyoukai.
Sesshoumaru looked towards the crimson eyed wind demon that was merely an extracted portion of Naraku’s flesh.
‘Though when on as lowly as he cannot mate due to the fact no female will touch him, one must create offspring somehow…’ Were his own thoughts as he spoke “Why does it intrigue you so? Are you jealous?”
Kagura shielded her lips partially with her fan as she smirked in an almost flirtatious manner. “I would not go so far as jealous but I envy your freedom. Either way that isn’t why I am here, Naraku wishes for you to join him.”
With that she strode past him and Sesshoumaru waited a moment in the deserted hall thinking on her words. What had she meant by envying his freedom, she was the wind itself, nothing can chain the wind?
“Fool, the wind is the most unhindered element what nonsense are you speaking of?” he growled.
“On the contrary my lord the wind can be halted.” Naraku’s voice penetrated the darkness and Sesshoumaru languidly turned around to see his advisor seep out of the shadows of the corridors.
“How long have you been standing there?” Sesshoumaru inquired not fully turned to the hanyou that had once more adorned that idiotic monkey pelt.
A deep chuckle seemed to resonate through the entire building. “Long enough to know that Kagura is being obedient. Now then shall I inform you on what I plan to do with our little dilemma?”
The dog demon’s brows furrowed. “It is no problem of mine it is you that believes she is a threat.”
“Very well then I had taken control of a few worthless humans days ago, your brother has a knack for rescuing our targets.”
There was silence on Sesshoumaru’s end as the hanyou notified him of his brother’s activities, though he vaguely noticed his brother’s absence he did have moments to ponder if his brother had died somewhere.
But those moments were often brief and fleeting.
“I’ve decided that I will create another incarnation to finish off the woman-” Naraku spoke though paused as another scent sifted through the air and soon accompanied by the dog demon in question followed by Kaira and Ketsumaru. The golden haired dragon looked rather ruffled as if he had been in a scuffle just moments before while Kaira appeared to be unscathed.
“Inuyasha it’s unusual for you to enter our grounds. What momentous occasion forces you to grace us with your presence?” Naraku said though the greeting was malevolent as ever. Inuyasha growled.
“I live here so I have every right to come and go as I please.”
“That is true but it is very rare that you do. Every few moons or so you return, however, by the next morning you vanish again.” There was a tone of sinister knowledge that made the silver haired hanyou tense and walk briskly pass the two.
“I will take my leave farewell my lords.” Naraku sneered before disappearing.
The two brothers stared one another down for a moment and Kaira seemed tense with the other dog demons in the vicinity glaring at one another like enemies even though they were biological brethren. She didn’t dare intrude or try to stop them if they fought, knowing both could over power her and she didn’t exactly have any plans to die soon.
Ketsumaru however was not in the least daunted by the inuhanyou and his brother even though he knew at least one the elder, could end him swiftly. “I will leave you as of now my lords.” He said casually grabbing hold on the red haired female beside him and dragging her further into the hall and away from the brothers that didn’t acknowledge them.
“Are you just going to stand there and look at me?” Inuyasha growled breaking the silence, golden eyes meeting identical orbs of gold.
Sesshoumaru didn’t even reply or show any indication that he had heard his comment as he moved to pass him, Inuyasha standing his ground.
“It’s a pity the wretch you seem obliged to, has a life expectancy that will be cut short in a matter of moments.”
(A/N: alright basically these are Fluffy-sama’s words in English “Go save your bitch bro.”)
Inuyasha seemed uncertain at his brother’s words until he finally understood what his stoic sibling was hinting at.
Kagome was about to be killed…
~~~~Elsewhere~~~~
Kagome’s hands were balled into fists, perched on each hip as she leaned forward. Kismet had been confined the conference room and was seated in a chair with Kagome’s eyes boring into her own. Sango had suggested tying her up but Hojo had prohibited any type of violation of her mobility.
Instead the three crowded around her making the girl’s anxiety sky rocket and making her sweat like an Olympic runner doing the 100 mile dash.
“So Kismet, who were you talking to?” Kagome asked her tone revealing nothing but curiosity though her facial expressions conveyed otherwise and that was what worried the mousy girl the most.
“I-I really was just talking to my dad!” she exclaimed exposing her palms to them almost submissively.
“Don’t give us that we heard you.” Sango interrupted “And what did you mean when you mean by it was just too easy getting in here?”
Kismet was shrinking in her seat under the older female’s wrath. And Hojo, being Hojo, stepped in.
“Now ladies I don’t think she was doing anything illegal. She might have actually been talking to her dad.” He insisted only gaining vengeful glares from both women and finding himself feeling rather inadequate.
Kismet’s shoulders began to shake as she balled her fists in her lap; head lowered so that her bangs obscured her eyes but there was a faint glimmer of tears.
The three looked at her simultaneously, uncertain if the emotion was artificial. “Why won’t you believe me? I really was just talking to my father and I wasn’t doing anything wrong.” She lifted her head her blue eyes suddenly a deep cobalt blue, dazzling with the shimmer of tears that fell in small torrents down her cheeks. She looked even more youthful while she was crying in front of them.
“This is a big corporate business,” she said “you guys have to have caller ID check for yourself!”
“Fine then don’t go anywhere.” Sango said as she exited the room but poked her head back in to look at Hojo. “Um, I need the authorization code to get into the mainframe, you mind?” she inquired and the brunette followed leaving Kagome and Kismet alone in the room.
The room became a lot more spacious with the absence of her boss and her friend and Kagome noticed how small Kismet was in this big room. She looked like a 12 year old crying in a seat almost bigger than her and a sudden unexpected wave of sympathy flooded her anger. She sighed lightly digging into her pocket and finding a handkerchief and offering it to the twenty one year old who gratefully accepted it silently.
“It’s true you know.” She broke out her sobs subsiding as she wiped her face. “I really was just talking to my dad.”
(A/N: insert dramatic sappy theme music here)
“You know I was actually born in Osaka.” She said tentatively, her voice had stopped quivering. Kagome was surprised at the information. Though she hadn’t reviewed Kismet’s portfolio, she knew people who were born in Osaka before or during the radiation period were often subjugated because of the rumors that every human had mutated. Unfortunately test results proved otherwise, but science can only make so many people believe.
“My mother was seven months pregnant with me when the radiation hit. She was terrified and so was my father who was one of the people that didn’t turn into a demon. I was born two months premature, do you know how scary that is for a mother especially a new mother?” her voice had decreased into a whisper as if the information was so forbidden that if ever spoken aloud it would be the end of her entirely. And in essence, it was.
“And then, when she got her first look at me, to find that my eyes were a different color, she thought I was demon too.”
Kagome listening intently had to question Kismet but before she could get the words from her head to her lips Kismet lifted her hand to her face and began rubbing at her right eye. Out popped a small almost translucent blue contact and Kagome got the first glimpse of her natural color.
A bright fiery gold, the color of burnt honey but bright none the less. ‘Just like Inuyasha’s. Could she be a half demon and not know it?’
“A few days later mother died the consequence for not only expending her strength giving birth to a baby naturally not ready to be born, and before that having to survive the pain of radiation. Her body couldn’t take it. My father and I moved to Okinawa but they weren’t very accepting of us especially because of my eyes, they didn’t trust us. My father struggled to try and make life work but it just seemed that wherever we went, things only got worse until he tried to kill himself. He was so close to death that I couldn’t help but think it was my fault. If I hadn’t been born the way I was mother and him would still be together. So instead I dragged him to a hospital and left him for them to find. I looked around the city for an eye doctor that I might be able to get help from but you know how it is now. People don’t help people that are different.”
“Kismet I…”
“It’s alright you don’t have to say anything. Anyway I found a solution, I was three years old when I broke into a store and stole a pair of contacts.” She laughed nervously at her own confession of theft. “It’s not something to be proud of but after that things ran a lot smoother. Dad got a job as a janitor in a local school and I was able to attend. To save me from embarrassment we kept it under wraps that we were related at all and to show him how much I appreciated him I worked to get all A’s in my subjects.”
Kismet looked vacantly at the ceiling making the blue eye crystalline and tranquil while the revealed gold eye was ferocious and burning.
“However things were difficult. I graduated every class with the top grades, valid Victorian up until college and was accepted with a full scholarship. I wanted very badly to be the best, go into a career that would give me enough money to make sure dad didn’t have to go into a nursing home and didn’t have to worry about finances. But when I went for the first time to take my final exam I failed. I didn’t pass it that ate at me for so long.” She’d begun to hold herself, a visible indication that she was drawing into herself. Kagome wasn’t sure to cry or console her as she stood watching as ever emotion of human life flickered through the woman’s gaze like the colors and shapes of a kaleidoscope.
“I couldn’t face my father and say that I didn’t pass. So I hid it and I tried harder, but the more I tried the less I seemed to accomplish. It seemed impossible. Until one day I was helping file the documents for the school, I helped the secretary all the time she was over worked and under paid. And I came across the answers for one of the subjects I was failing.”
She began to huddle now, curling into a ball even as she sat on the chair, her hair flooding over the confinements of the seat. “I knew it was wrong. I knew that stealing was bad and that I could go to jail, leaving my dad all alone. But for his sake, I would do anything. I took those files along with the other two subjects I’d been failing; photo copied them and left the originals in the schools directory. I pass all those subjects with top scores and a lot of people had gotten suspicious but I was smarter. I had shredded the copies and threw them into Osaka, there was no way anyone would find out.” She was hesitant at this statement and seemed to grow fearful but regained her composure.
Kagome noticed the sudden, brief alteration in her mood and wasn’t sure if it was the fear of letting her know so much or something else. Whichever it was she knew the truth when she heard it and this as tall a tail as it was, she believed her.
There was a soft knock on the door and the two brunettes walked back in looking a bit solemn. Either something had happened or they had listened in on the entire conversation. Kagome put her money on the latter.
~~~Elsewhere~~~
Souta smirked wickedly to himself he’s spent quite a bit of time on the town with the spare money he got as an allowance and had hung out with a few friends that shared in his ideals before he had decided to go home and watch television.
He easily walked back up and through the complex without running into anyone and was surprised that there wasn’t anyone around, but then again everyone was probably at work and school.
It was just too easy!
Finally reaching his apartment he instinctively checked the door and as expected it was locked, no surprise there. His smirked widened knowingly. “Sorry Kagome you might have been able to out smart me as a kid but not now I’ve got the mo-”
He stopped at the window he was so sure would be his ticket in….
Only to find it had been closed…
And locked…
With no hope of getting inside...At all…
“This sucks! I’m going to get in trouble now… The school calls in a half hour to tell the guardians that their kid missed school, if I’m not there to erase the message Nee-chan will find out for sure.” He yowled clutching his head and slumping to the floor as his mind descended in a downward spiral to hell and back.
‘If Nee-chan finds out then she’ll tell mom on me. Mom’s going to get mad and then I’ll have to deal with two angry women…Gramps isn’t going to help me he’d do anything to keep out of their way. Aw man this really bites…’
“What’cha doing?”
Poor Souta was terrified of the voice as it interrupted his downward descent and literally jumped so far he might have gone off the balcony if he’d gone a few feet higher.
He shuddered slightly sweating bullets and panting. He stared nervously at the fifteen year old blushing madly at the fact she’d snuck up on him and he was off guard.
Rin smiled charmingly looking rather sheepish herself as she wore a deep blue jean dress to her calves a white turtle neck that had blue sleeves and collar and a jean hand bag. She looked like she was dress to go out on the town instead of to school.
“Who are you?”
“I live right next to you, my name’s Rin Kiroshima.”
Souta nodded absently as he shouldered his discarded backpack, averting his gaze anxiously as he tried to regain his composure.
“I’m Souta Higurashi.”
“Kagome-san’s younger brother.”
Souta was slightly surprised then nodded again.
“Anyways shouldn’t you be at school or something you shouldn’t skip you know your educations important.”
She smiled and Souta hesitated. “I know but I just wanted one day to go out and have some fun. Beside,” she said with a little mischief to her smirk, “you seem to be contradicting yourself now aren’t you?”
Souta was taken aback and growled turning his back to her only to hear her giggle at his reaction and only to seethe a little more at her friendly taunting.
“Whatever do what you want.” He growled shifting through his back pack and pulling out a small portable radio. “Glad I brought batteries for this.” He muttered as he pulled out the pack and flickered through the stations until he found one that he wanted to listen to.
He got comfortable by slouching against the wall and closing his eyes though he was still completely aware that Rin had not left him and had now seated herself beside him. Needless to say he felt rather, well, heated with the close proximity but he tried to remain calm and unflustered.
“How old are you?”
“Sixteen”
“What’s your favorite color?”
“Blue”
“Do you like flowers?”
“No”
“Why not?”
“Cause they’re for girls.”
“Where’s your mom?”
“Dead.”
Rin jumped a bit at his remark looking at him sorrowfully but also surprised.
“Really!?”
“No”
“Why’d you lie to me?”
“I didn’t.”
“Well it wasn’t the truth.”
Souta growled. “Hey I didn’t ask for you to sit here and ask me questions! I-”
‘We interrupt this program for an important bulletin.’
Souta stopped mid sentence to look at the radio as did Rin as the announcer came on.
‘A giant demon has been spotted outside of Tokyo and authorities are expending their resources to halt its advance. However it seems to be penetrating every line of defense available.’
The two teens listened intently as the almost nonexistent thumps vibrated through the concrete floors.
‘Citizens are advised to enter their homes and remain calm.’
The faint sound of screaming had begun to rise in the afternoon air and there was a chill that could only be emitted by something nonhuman. Souta felt a shiver trail down his spine as he felt something seeping into his mind and looking through every memory, every thought he’d ever had even his current ones.
“Run.” He said in monotone, Rin looking up at him slightly worried as he snatched up his bag and the radio grabbing hold of her arm and pulling her up.
“Get up and run!” He said and for a moment time froze. Everything was still as he saw in a brief flash of light something enormous come crashing down a few feet from them. The force of the blow sent them flying, skidding against the concrete.
Rin slipped through his grasp and she was hurtled against a far wall, upon impact she released a mild squeal eyes closed tightly as she harbored most of the pain inside. Souta was flung inches from her and his attempt to get up was foiled as rubble bombarded his backside. He covered his head with his arms trying to protect one of the most vulnerable places.
When the hail of stone ceased he made another attempt to rise only to turn around in time to see a much larger piece of debris hurtling towards him. Fear clutched his heart and he felt his mobility fail as the giant piece of rock landed, on his leg.
A thousand needles descended on his left leg, and he felt every splintering incision where the fractured femur tore through ligaments and flesh.
A blood curdling scream was torn from his throat there wasn’t even enough thought to cry as he struggled against the pain.
“You will be going no where.”
The monstrous growl from the demon held a hint of pure satisfaction at the young boy’s pain. Rin immediately ran to Souta’s side in a vain attempt to free him. She hesitated enough to see the demon.
A heavily muscled ogre type demon, two horns protruding from it’s skull that was shaped like the cranium of a shark with rows of teeth that glistened with their deadly beauty. Bright crimson eyes staring vehemently at them and seething something that spoke of imminent destruction.
It was almost taller than the very building and had to bend down to see them in the small crevice that was the balcony. Its skin was tinted purple and a fleeting comment ran into their minds that Barney had gone homicidal.
Have you ever stared death in the face? To know that your weaknesses will eventually be exploited so profoundly whether by old age, sickness, or an outside event that enforced the simple law of humanity. Everything eventually dies. To suddenly realize such a factor in the midst of such an event that threatens your very life as well as another’s, you seem to gain insight to things that had been obscured before. The clouds that had once blocked your view are cleared. The calamity of every turmoil you ever faced seems to become irrelevant to the fact you are simply one out of many and only one. That though you may be unique your loss will be another’s gain and so and so forth.
Now Souta and Rin watched as a clawed hand came plummeting down on them.
“Die!”
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Ritalin_writer: Now I could have extended this chapter. It was going over fourteen pages… But I decided to be a bitch and leave you hanging until I decided to put up the next chapter. Sorry for the lateness though had way too much stuff to do.