InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Darkness Within ❯ Darkness ( Chapter 1 )

“Please, make it stop” was all Sango could utter out as she lay on the cold damp ground, tears pouring down her cheeks. She couldn't explain it, why or how it all began, but all she knew was she couldn't make it stop.

 

On their quest to find Naraku, multiple rumors of his location arose and the group, quite reluctantly, split up to uncover his location. Neither of them were to continue once they found him, merely trail behind unseen and send word back to the others. On her fourth day out, Sango had stumbled upon evidence of Naraku's presence and the presence of her younger brother. Realizing she had followed the correct lead, she sent Kirara off to inform the others.

 

Much to her dismay, her movements were not unseen, as Naraku led her back to the Forest of Sighs. Once there, she fell into his clutches as the vines tangled around her and her fears came to life.

 

“Now now, no use letting these plants devour you my sweet.” Naraku cooed in her ear, “I wouldn't want my bait dying on me now would I? Live bait truly is the best” he added, as a tainted jewel shards gleamed, before he set into a vine trapping her, and another into her chest. “Sweet dreams” he whispered as he disappeared into the shadows.

 

As the baboon faded away, a darkness enveloped Sango's mind and to her surprise, that was all that came. No horrific images of her brother being killed or killing, no deaths of friends or loved ones, only darkness.

 

A cold feeling that started at her fingers and toes crept up, through her body before it settled into her heart and every fiber of her being. The painful images were nothing to what she felt now. The tears flowed freely as she gasped for air, her body racked with sobs. She couldn't stop it, she just cried. Then it, the feeling that caused it all, loneliness. She felt so alone, so depressed.

 

She cried out as the sobs grew in volume and her body convulsed in pain - her heart was shattering. There was no one there, no one to comfort her, no one to tell her it would all be okay. There was no one.

 

Just then, images began flashing through her mind. Her father, Kohaku, her mother, all gone and faded into the darkness. Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippo and Kirara they too disappeared and as they did, another part of her being convulsed in pain.

 

Never in her life had she been so alone, so completely alone. The darkness was all around her, the silence, no wait she could hear something. A noise, a voice.

 

“Help me!” she cried out, as the sound got louder. And then she heard it, it wasn't rescue, or even a person, it was the sound of laughter. Cool, happy laughter, that wafted in on the wind to mock her. To sink her further into her despair.

 

Her cries grew out, “Please, just let me die” she begged the darkness, as the hours of torturous laughter and pain took their toll on her being. She tried to sleep, and as she woke, tears were still pouring down her face. “Please...just...make...it...stop” she pleaded between shudders.

 

Then she heard it. “Sankontessou!” echoed through the darkness, as she heard vines tear nearby, and voices called out to her.

 

“SANGO!!!” she heard Kagome yell.

 

“Please answer us” Miroku called after

 

“Help!” she tried call out, but it was barely above a whisper, her voice was now hoarse from crying.

 

“Mewl” she heard nearby, as she felt the vines that held her being tugged at.

 

“Inuyasha! Over there!” Kagome yelled, as she saw the faint glow of tainted shards and Kirara's body transform.

 

Running to Kirara's side, Kagome touched the vine, as the shard instantly purified, and broke free from the vine. Cutting the vines away in frenzy, the group was finally able to free Sango. Kagome reached forward to Sango's chest, as the shard purified and Sango let forth a scream.

 

Once the shard had been purified, her body was extruding the shard. The shard broke through her skin, as she reached down, to pull it out and handed it to Kagome.

 

“How did you know where I was?” she asked as they fled the area.

 

“Kirara. We followed her the entire way” Miroku replied from behind Sango, atop Kirara's back.

 

“Are you alright?” Kagome called overwhelmed

 

“Yeah, I'll be fine” Sango assured the group as she stared off into the distance. “And yet, why didn't Naraku attack” she whispered to herself. Why go to all this trouble for nothing, she thought as a tiny voice whispered in the back of her mind, and the laughter from before returned. The group flew on, as Naraku watched the image of the group retreat from within Kanna's mirror.

 

“The darkness I planted will never leave you dear Sango” he murmured into the mirror. “It will linger, and it will eat you inside until it destroys you.”