InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Do I Loathe Thee? ❯ Eternal Slumber ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

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1. I loved one opinion in particular of why Kikyou sealed Inuyasha to the tree instead of killing him. I won’t say which one, but I will say that I loved it.

2. Aww, you all are no fun! Joking! : )

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In the realm of nothing in which he lies, thoughts ran across his minds eye. Everything to him was incoherent. Every so often a rational thought would cross his mind and it would generally pain him greatly only to know he would never see the outside world again.

There were moments when he was lucid, inside his own head, at least. That was when he would think about everything. About how insignificant his life had been and how better it was that he, a lowly half demon, should be pinned to the Goshinboku, never to again bother youkai or human. How his existence had only ended the live of a lovely maiden, the guardian of the Shikon no Tama.

How he wished to be free again. How he wished to run through the trees of the forest; to feel the wind whip his hair about him. How he wished he could feel his beloved in his arms again.

‘I miss her so much…’ the words echoed through his head as if it were void of all else.

‘Damn it Kikyou!’ He mentally screamed. ‘Why did you have to come there? Why did you have to come and fine me at a time when I had lost all of my control!?’ If it were physically possible, the abject hanyou would have cried. He would cry ‘til he could cry no more. Even then, he would cry still. He would until his eyes bled. He would cry as if tears alone could bring her back to him.

However, he knew better. He had learned at a young age, that crying did no good.

‘It didn’t bring mother back, did it?’ The echo was like a mock to him. He couldn’t stand this. Surly he would lose his mind wouldn’t he? Had he already lost it?

He knew not what day it was; or even the year.

Hours bled into days, and days to weeks; weeks to months; as months bled into years.

For years, decades, half a century, he dealt with the not knowing, the illogical thoughts; the wants, the needs.

‘All because I was born a hanyou…’ The words rang out, again and again, taunting him endlessly.

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Kaede’s young world shattered the day her sister left this world. Her sister had meant everything to her. She was all she had ever known. All she had left now was the small kitten her sister had given her for her birthday of her ninth year.

The feline was no longer a tiny kitten. In fact, he, Toshi, had grown into a fat house cat. He may not have been able to run with her in the wild flowers as he used to, but he provided comfort for the forlorn child. She loved her kitten, Toshi.

She visited her elder sister’s grave once a week. The poor child never knew the story of betrayal that had befallen the beaus. Therefore, she felt as though it was her duty to pay respects once weekly to the slumbering hanyou.

Kaede grew to take Kikyou’s place as the village miko.

For fifty years after the incident, she visited her sister and the hanyou in their eternal sleeps.

She grew old and watched as the people of her village fell in love and had families of their own. Knowing her sister would never have that.

And neither would she.

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How was that? Was that good enough to be the second chapter? Any grammar mistakes?

1. Does anyone know how Sango’s village was destroyed? I don’t think I know the whole thing….

2. Is everyone clear on what is going on?

Please review.

*.<-~Steffaniey the Lavishly Splendid~->.*