InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Delusions ❯ Chapter 31 ( Chapter 28 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Author’s Notes: Happy Reading

 

 

 

Delusions

 

Chapter Thirty-One

 

Rated - M (for suggestive adult themes, references to some violence, and coarse language)

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

 

 

 

He quickly knelt down to retrieve the Jewel and he promptly felt pulled inside the Jewel. Presumably to where Kagome had been taken.

 

It was dark inside the Shikon No Tama. The surface of the Jewel belied its true nature. Inuyasha stared into the infinite darkness, feeling compelled to give up hope and return to the Outside. Every way that Inuyasha turned was a sea of blackness, except when he squinted, he thought he could see a small speck of light. Was that the sun? No. It had to be. Yes, Kagome! “Kagome! I’m coming!”

 

“Inuyasha,” a voice whispered.

 

“Kagome?” Inuyasha called, looking every which way, though he still could see nothing. “Is that you? Where are you? Keep calling out to me, I will find you!”

 

In the infinite darkness, Inuyasha floated. There was no ground, no sky, no top, no bottom. Just nothingness. He willed himself to move within this void. Towards the light that had to be Kagome. He wondered if the darkness weighed as heavily upon her as it was him, trying to push everything out but desperation. “Hang on Kagome!”

 

“Inu...yasha…” the voice sounded even quieter than before. Barely a whisper now.

 

He pushed himself forward to that light. It went on for eternity. Days had passed and he occasionally called out to her to wait for him or to not let go, coaxing her to stay in the light. Slowly, the light became brighter. He knew he was headed in the right direction. More days passed as he passed through the void. Once he heard her scream and he rushed even more through the infinite black. “I’m almost there! Please be strong!” he would plead.

 

Years had passed, surely, Inuyasha would think. The light was so close now, almost blinding him. The closer he got, the more voices he heard.

 

“Turn back.”

 

“There is nothing for you here.”

 

“She is ours now.”

 

“Leave while you still can.”

 

“I will never let her go!” Inuyasha would yell. He would continue onward, towards the light where he knew Kagome waited for him.

 

Finally, the light was overwhelming and it all was emanating from around Kagome, encasing her in a pillar of light. As he drew closer he could see that she looked almost as if she were asleep, her features peaceful. But, outside of the bright light were many hundreds of thousands of yokai...lingering yet menacing with their claws and fangs. As he drew closer, he could see the yokai all crawling around on top of each other in an effort to get closer to the light. They seemed to be drawn to the light, yet they remained just beyond where the light pillar concentrated. When he came upon their masses, they parted before him, staying just outside of his reach. That’s when he noticed that he, too, had a light emanating from him. He hadn’t realized it before. His light was nowhere near as bright as the one surrounding Kagome, but he had always believed his soul to be a little dark. It was brighter than he imagined.

 

Inuyasha stopped right outside of where the light pillar was brightest. Kagome floated in that warm light and her eyes snapped open at Inuyasha’s presence. She smiled and tears welled up in her eyes. “Inuyasha.”

 

“Kagome...I’m here.”

 

Though tears began to stream down her cheeks she smiled, “I knew you would come.”

 

“Yeah, let’s get the hell outta here,” he said and reached a hand towards the light. When he touched the light he sucked in a breath when he touched the light and it singed his skin. He drew it back quickly.

 

“Naraku is gone, Inuyasha, but the Shikon no Tama still requires a soul. It needs light to balance the dark.”

 

“Whatdya mean? That makes no sense, Kagome. Let’s go.”

 

Her tears flowed free and she sobbed a little before taking in a deep breath. “If I leave there will not be a soul to wage battle against these demons…” she looked around at the yokai surrounding them, “the jewel’s corruption will spread and know no bounds.”

 

“We can stop them.”

 

Kagome shook her head, “No, the very thing that we fought so hard against will wreak havoc om the world.”

 

Inuyasha stared at her for a moment.

 

“I’m a prisoner, Inuyasha…”

 

“No,” he said quietly but adamantly. “I refuse to let you go again.”

She gave a small smile of acquiescing, “You know I am to blame just as much as you are, Inuyasha, but I must stay here...For everyone…for our daughter...”

 

“No! Don’t you dare give up on me! There has to be another way. I will not allow this to be our future.”

 

“Amaya is our future,” Kagome told him solemnly.

 

“And she needs you. I need you. You can’t stay here.”

 

“Saying it over and over isn’t going to change my mind. We will figure something out. I’m not leaving you here and I am not gonna allow you to give up.”

 

Kagome regarded him quietly, “I’m sorry…”

 

Inuyasha growled, “For fuck’s sake woman! You always pushed everyone to never give in, but here you are going against your own creed. Don’t be a fucking hypocrite!”

 

Her eyes widened in offense, “Inuyasha, it has nothing to do with giving up. I could give up, but I have chosen to remain here to protect everyone I love. Don’t insinuate what you don’t understand.”

 

“I understand that this is not our only option.” He prepared himself before reaching inside the light pillar again. The pain was excruciating but he gritted his teeth, adamant not to show too much pain.

 

“No! Don’t! You’ll die!”

 

“No one is gonna tell me when I’m gonna die,” he said with effort through clenched teeth. He pushed through the pain and into the light. He could feel his skin disintegrating but he continued, bit by bit until he reached Kagome. He embraced her, even though it was agony to do so. “There is always another way. Amaya proved that much.” He could feel Kagome shift within his arms. He looked down at her and she looked up at him.

 

“I can make a wish,” Kagome said finally.

 

“That doesn’t sound like a wise decision, Kagome. The jewel is corrupted. It’s using you now, even.”

 

“It calls to me to make a wish. This entire time is has whispered to me to wish for you, wish for our family, wish for happiness. It always suggests something selfish. I thought it was a trick, but it’s actually the answer. I have to make a wish.”

 

“Make it,” he responded, softly.

 

She wrapped her arms around him. “I wish that the Shikon no Tama ceased to exist.”

 

The pain he felt quickly dissipated and the light expanded even brighter than he ever imagined it could, given that it already shone as bright as the sun. Clearly, he was wrong and this new light shone brighter than a thousand suns. He clenched his eyes shut to keep from going blind.

 

As quickly as it began, the light was gone. He wasn’t too sure at first and was fairly certain that he had gone blind because everything was so dark now. His senses began to regulate and he recalled that Kagome had been in his arms. His eyes snapped open and there she was, looking as if she were asleep. He let out a breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding.

 

“Were you worried?” Kagome asked.

 

Inuyasha smiled, “Why would I be worried?”

 

“No reason,” she responded. She pulled away a little but clutched his arms. She looked around, almost as if expecting to find everyone they had left behind waiting for them to reappear. “Where are we?”

 

Inuyasha looked around as well and inhaled, testing the air. “We’re...we...we never left the clearing where we went in.”

 

“Then where is everyone? How long were we gone?”

 

“I don’t know. I couldn’t tell time, it was so dark.”

 

“Long enough for everyone to leave. So, it must have been awhile,” Kagome reasoned. She sighed and relinquished herself to Inuyasha’s arms.

 

He welcomed her in his arms and made no move to let her go. They’d spent long enough apart for him to cherish these moments with her in his embrace.

 

“We should probably go find everyone. I’m sure Amaya is worried sick.” Kagome looked as if she were the one who was worried, rather than the other way around. She tensed to get up.

 

“What’s the rush?” Inuyasha questioned. He pulled her closer so she could not rise without breaking away. “They’ve waited this long. They can wait a little while longer,” he said sensuously.

 

Kagome’s cheeks flushed with heat, “Inuyasha!” she said in a playfully accusing way. “This is not the time or the place.”

 

Inuyasha looked down into her eyes, “Hmmph.” Their eyes locked and his blood coursed through his veins, pushed by the beat of his ever-increasing heart beat. As he stared into her eyes he saw all of her inhibitions melt away, the beat of her heart matching his own. His keen hearing picked up the tremulous breathing that parted her rose-colored lips and nothing could hold him back from this moment he had so long been denied. With obvious restraint, he cupped the sides of her face and teased her waiting lips with the pad of his thumb. “So quiet now. Nothing to say?”

 

He knew that she’d wanted to resist, that she was nervous at being out in the open, but his touch soothed her and she looked at him as if was intoxicating. He lowered his lips to meet hers. Her brief verbal protests stopped as he drew closer and claimed her lips with his own. Once their lips touched their breathing rose to rapid pants, matching each other in intensity.

 

They melted into one another as if they had been denied the joy of touch for centuries; for all, they knew centuries had passed but neither of them voiced that concern at this moment, nor cared. Inuyasha clutched Kagome’s body to his, feeling the rapid beat of her heat and deepened the kiss almost to the point of no return. Kagome pulled back, panting, “Inuyasha, if we don’t stop…” He pulled her back into the kiss and his hands began to drift…

 

Something somewhere pulled him back to reality. He had ignored the approaching footsteps he’d heard, hoping the intruder would have better sense than to interrupt. But the footsteps stopped just short of where he and Kagome were and stood to wait. The abrupt clearing of a throat pulled Kagome back into the moment. She nearly jumped out of his arms she was so startled. He held her tight, letting her know she was safe with him.

“I thought maybe I should go back to fetch cold water to throw on the two of you.”

Inuyasha’s eyes widened in mild shock at the sight of the person before them. “You…” he started but hesitated to focus. Suddenly he felt washed cold as if water had been thrown upon him.

“Been awhile, eh?”

Kagome’s mouth was agape and her brow crinkled in nervous recognition. “S-S-Sorin?” she asked shakily.

Inuyasha put an arm protectively in front of Kagome, looking at the man before him, for the boy he knew had grown, filled out into the man he now saw.

“Yeah,” Sorin said quickly, shrugging almost in a guilty gesture. “It’s just me. No one else.”

Inuyasha stood up, pulling Kagome with him and still pushing her behind him a little. “How?”

Sorin sighed, “I guess the simplest explanation is that I was purified.”

“But you’re not dead,” Inuyasha pointed out.

“Clearly,” Sorin said flatly. “It’s a good thing the others had a hand in raising me, otherwise, I would fear for my intelligence.”

Inuyasha scowled at him, feeling more reassured that this was not a trick through the jabbing words. Kagome pushed around his partially extended arm, “It’s him. There’s no taint, there’s nothing. He wouldn’t be able to hide that aura.”

His heart swelled inside him. The impossible had happened. There had been another way.

“Where’s everyone else? Where’s Amaya?” Kagome inquired almost breathlessly. She had noticed his aged appearance as well and felt alarmed.

“Waiting,” Sorin said. He nodded over his shoulder.

Kagome gave him a quizzical look, knowing that this area was nowhere near their village or the well. He saw her confusion and clarified, “Amaya and I stayed here after you both disappeared...in the estate. She refused to leave the area. It was days before we could coax her away from this clearing.”

“Sorin, you’re not answering the real question here,” Inuyasha said slowly.

Sorin put a hand behind his head and scratched absently, “Well, it’s been a little while since you disappeared.”

“How long?” Kagome asked abruptly.

“Five years…” he drawled, “give or take a year.” He seemed concerned that one or both would become frantic.

Kagome’s face remained still, “It seemed like longer.” She grabbed Inuyasha’s hand and looked up to him. “But as long as we have tomorrow…”

He tightened his hand around hers, “We will have much longer than that as long as we have each other.”

 

 

 

The End