InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Humanity's Valor ❯ Catholicism ( Chapter 7 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
so im going to TRY and get some more chapters in soon. All this info about the Maleficarum is going to be hard to fit in in all the spots.
MUSE: yeah what she said.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Miss Takahashi’s and never will. I do not own anything associated with The Malleus Maleficarum (?still don’t know if I need to put on here for it?).

I will say though that since it is very hard to put this stuff in my own writing style, so if you have looked at any of the websites previously listed, you will see a LOT of similarities in how the sentences are worded. Please don’t crucify me. Not all of the Information in here is true though, some I added in. If you want to know what is what, send me an email or ask me to in a review please.

Houshi- monk, priestSama- lord, ladyChan- umm……I think this is just a formal name given to people that other’s respectOba- elder brotherInu- dogKitsune- foxTaijiya- demon-slayerYoukii- a youkai‘s territorial marking (sp?)Youkai- full demonHanyou- half demon
Omoi- mind, heavy, thought, massive~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Yes sir. Do you know how I can get back into my body?” Kagome asked while Inuyasha spoke for her.

“I do. It is a long process, over which time you will experience things no being has ever experienced. There will be pain and agony, misery and sadness. Do not trouble yourself; you are a strong woman, and have great friends to help and guide you.”

Some misinformation has been given to you. What the monk has said is not true. You do not have a limited amount of time. You do not have to take a potion. You have unlimited time. Nevertheless, your soul will begin to deteriorate as soon as the mark begins to spread. However, there is only one thing that could make that happen.” Daiki Sensei replied.

“Those that counteract the pain and misery would be true happiness and laughter. The true happiness can only be experienced in certain times. Those times of which I speak, I have limited knowledge. However, I am sure you will find them out in due time. Moreover, laughter, for you, comes often, fortunately. The mark will stay small as long as there is an almost constant state of mirth proceeding. The mark will grow when there is pain in any of the group, when tears are shed, when combating with enemies or each other for practice. Those are a few of the many downfalls and upsurges of the mark. During any of these upsurges, the mark will grow exponentially.”

“Ok, so how again does she get back into her body?” Inuyasha snapped.

“Calm down, hanyou. Let him finish, he’s just telling us the basics. Please continue, Daiki Sensei,” the houshi told him.

Inuyasha grumbled in the corner at Miroku’s comment.

“Humans cannot gain happiness through war or savagery, but they gain it through peace and civility. Since our world cannot be without war, this comes just short of impossible. Kagome cannot return to her body unless peace and civility reign in the world. It is necessary for peace to govern. Her time and our time are still in the same world, and as she is connected to both, both affect her. Whether there is peace in one, and war another, the war in the other will still affect her. There are rules that you must follow however. If Kagome is in the world with the only or most fighting for too long, the mark will entirely cover an extremity. Every little bit of hostility counts as a decimeter in growth. Mind you, this mark is affected on a worldwide scale. The worst thing that could possibly happen would be for Kagome to be in the middle of a struggle for power or wealth or vengeance while the same battle rages on in the other time. Never must you let it happen.”

The group contemplated what he said. Because they were constantly at war with Naraku and his minions, Kagome could never be with them. And both of the times she was connected to were too dangerous, no matter what time she was in. So, in order to save Kagome’s life, she would not be allowed to stay with them?

Suddenly, Inuyasha spoke, “Before, you said that the world being without war just came short of impossible…that means there’s another alternative!” He twisted his head around to stare at Kagome’s body.

He looked at her body slowly, and turned around to face Daiki Sensei. “What is it? What’s the other alternative.”

Daiki Sensei did not answer right away. He looked into the fire and his face curved into a grim look.

“The other alternative was to have Kagome’s soul touched by the one who deserves to touch it, while her mind experiences true happiness by the same mind who wants to give her true happiness. Those are the complications of this alternative. Her body only has to float in a lake of pure water, unclothed and unharmed. She must be free from anything constricting her movements, clogging her pores, binding her hair or feet or hands, or anything like such. The person who can provide her with these things must have his or her soul and mind separated from their body, just as Kagome’s was. The individual must have complete focus and determination on the sole purpose of replacing her soul and mind into her body. Then this person will be pulled automatically back into their own body once true happiness is achieved. Also, you have all the time in the world for this. It is crucial that it gets done in a short amount of time. No more than a week.”

Sango and Miroku shared a look, knowing what the other was thinking, then looked at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha stared at the ground. Sango and Miroku couldn’t tell if he knew what he had to do, what this meant for him. Should they tell him?

Kagome, as her body shivered slightly, looked on at the group and Daiki Sensei. She floated over to him and roamed his mind.

Kagome quickly found that it was empty. His three mental bodies sat exactly the way he did, relaying no thoughts between each other. His youkai body looked partially the same as his hanyou body, but with more scars. She wondered why this was. His human body looked so.…human. He had a very thin, very scrawny body, with light brown hair and green eyes. No chains were connecting any of his mental bodies to his real body.

This amazed Kagome. She had never seen a person who was as completely free as Fuzenakki Daiki.

Kagome shook her head to clear her mind, even though she was the complete form of her mind.…just habit, she guessed. She refocused on the matter at hand.

Kagome had no idea how she would achieve true happiness…who could want to give her true happiness, anyway? Unless he…No. Yes. Maybe. She didn’t know!

Who knows what he would do! He’s Inuyasha!

But Kagome looked at him, looked at his mental physiques. They all were silent. No movements, barely breathing, just…there. What was he feeling?

She looked at Sango and Miroku, and both of their personas were reaching for each other, grabbing at the air, trying to enact what their bodies were thinking. Ew. She grimaced at their minds. Their physical bodies were stock still, fists clenched, and slightly sweating. They really didn’t know what the other felt, did they?

She looked at Shippo, he was partially asleep, though valiantly trying to stay awake, for the sake of knowing how to save Kagome. His mental body showed Kagome that he imagined himself chasing Kirara’s tail, but saving Kagome at the same time. ‘How sweet,’ she thought. She smiled at him.

Her smile faded as Daiki Sensei began to talk again, and the group released their thoughts and returned their eyes to his mouth.

“Because one such person will not show their self, she may be consumed by the tattoo out of sheer loneliness and regret. Eventually, the same will happen to her true bringer, though not separate from their body.”

Inuyasha’s eyes shifted downward again, and no one noticed except for Kagome. She gazed at his personas.

His youkai body was growling softly, scratching at the air in front of him, trying to move forward or something, Kagome couldn’t tell, while his human body sat with his head in his hands looked ready to cry. His hanyou body was doing so many things at once. ‘Inuyasha has so many conflicting feelings,’ Kagome thought, ‘I never knew. I don’t think anyone knew. Not even Kikyo…Why would he want to keep it all in like he does?’ Kagome continued to watch his hanyou body, which was prancing through the air as joyous as he had ever been, but then stopping suddenly and staring off into nothing. He got a look on his face that told Kagome something was horribly wrong, that something could never be found out. Like a secret was about to be revealed and he didn’t want it to be. That kind of ‘horribly wrong.’ It reminded Kagome of when she first saw Inuyasha’s demon side, when he had turned back to normal and would barely talk to her, not even look at her. He stared at the ground with such a look…It was an ashamed, hated, shattered look.

It was a look that made Kagome’s heart break.

Sango spoke, “Daiki Sensei, we still don’t understand how this happened.”

“Basics first, my dear. The question is, what is and what makes a devil?”

The group looked around each other and returned to Daiki Sensei with questioning looks.

“Devils are by nature impure spirits, yet not so unclean as to extinguish their good parts; subtle in wickedness, eager to do harm, swollen with pride, etc. These performances in them are due to sin or to punishment. Where the sin is greater, there is the punishment greater. Where there is no discipline or obedience, there all work without distinction, and that there is no discipline or obedience among devils, and no agreement. This means that Kagome must have done a horrible thing to receive such a punishment, and as she is such a fiery and rebellious young woman, she has little discipline or obedience to those other than her birth parents and elders, the people who she respects. That does not mean she does not respect you, it means she will take orders from those who have a higher perspective of things such as war and love. A rebellious and sinful spirit of life is subject to an obedient, virtuous and just spirit of life.

“Among the proud there is always contention. Examples such as this are between Kagome and Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango, Inuyasha and his brother Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and the wolf demon Koga, Inuyasha and Jaken, Inuyasha and-”

“Ok ok I get it, it’s a sin to be proud,” Inuyasha grumbled.

“We have never read that there is equality in account of emancipation, therefore neither is there equality in the matter of duty and temptation. Houshi, this is your downfall. Your duty is to preach the lords and refuse temptation, neither of which you can achieve.

“Leviathan, a book you, Kagome, may be familiar with, signifies the members of the devil, and how one smites to another. There is among devils both diversity of order and action. You know Lucifer as the ultimate devil, the leader of all devils. In your time, the devils are called demons, and are thought of as a faux. The only devil in your time is Lucifer, and when his demons walk the Earth, it is titled the Apocalypse. This brings to point that this time has demons roaming the Earth, and as Naraku is the leader of most demons, he shall be known as Lucifer. Does this imply we live in an Apocalypse, or that an Apocalypse is upon us? The Jewel of Four Souls is the ultimate power source. Those so attracted to it to sell out friendship, life, love, and family for power are those devils closest to the devil. Demons in this time are separated: some are good, and helpful towards humans or stand on the sidelines and do not take a side, or some are bad, where they use power to destroy and gain what is wanted. The good demons may be considered angels in your time, for the practice of these abominations as bad demons do is for the most part foreign to the nobility of the angelic nature, for they harmonize with their nature, with the Divine wisdom, and their own wickedness. Angels are ministers of the Divine wisdom, so of course there seems to be some negligence among them. Divine wisdom permits certain evil to be done by bad angels or men, for the sake of the good the Lord draws wherefrom, so also the good angels do not altogether prevent wicked men or devils from doing evil. For sin does not take away their nature, and the devils after the Fall did not lose their natural gifts, as has been said before; and the operations of things follow their natural conditions. Therefore, in nature and operation the angels are various and multiple.

“As to the demons of this world being higher than humans: since the lower bodies are by natural ordination below the celestial bodies, and their actions and motions are subject to the actions and motions of the celestial bodies, and since the devils, as has been said, differ among themselves in natural order, they also differ among themselves in their natural actions, both extrinsic and intrinsic, and especially in the performance of the abominations in question. That which is ordained is ordained by God and since devils were deputed by God for the temptation of men and the punishment of the damned, they work upon men from the outside by many different ways. For since they are at war with the human race, they fight in an orderly manner, so they think to do greater harm to men, and so they do. Humans are weaker than demons in strength and speed, hearing and sight. But when it comes to willpower and emotions and sometimes even thought, a man can out do a demon any day, if they have enough fight within their hearts.”

So in human actions, the foulest and beastliest acts are considered by themselves, and not in relation to the duty of human nature and procreation.” Daiki Sensei finished.

“In other words,” Kagome said, Inuyasha speaking for her, “because humans feel guilt and remorse, they go against their nature?”

“In a way, yes.” Daiki Sensei replied.

“Lemme get this straight old man. Demons like me and Koga and Jaken, Kirara and Shippo, and even Sesshomaru would be considered angels to the people in Kagome’s time? And Naraku is this Lucifer dude, and all the evil demons we kill are devils in this time but actual demons in her time? And we live in the end of the world, or close to it? Wow…that’s some messed up shit. Where are you getting all this information from anyway?” Inuyasha guffawed.

“It’s called Catholicism. It’s a religion in America and Eastern Europe mostly,” Kagome provided for Inuyasha.

“Shippo, tell the others what Kagome said,” Inuyasha ordered.

“I didn’t hear anything though!” Shippo cried out.

“Gah, fine. Kagome said it’s a religion called Catholicism practiced in other countries. Not ours. And, if we don’t practice this religion here, then why do we need to know about it?”

“Because it is what will save her life. It is a 15th century dual volume collection. The spell Mikuro used was from this time, and it was Catholic. That is why you need to know it. Fellow hanyou, mind your tongue. It is bothering my thoughts,” Daiki Sensei warned.

Kagome could tell he was getting ticked off at Inuyasha, so she told him to hold his retorts for a bit because we still needed help understanding.

Inuyasha tensed up suddenly as his hand shot towards the sword at his side. Kirara bristled and growled next to her master, making Sango and Miroku aware of the danger.

Something was lurking right outside the window.

A/N: Thank you for the reviews. Once again, and I don’t know how many times im going to say this, im sorry. Prepping for college and ACTs and sports and family is getting to me. I cant seem to find time for this. Thank you again for reviewing, I hope your still hanging on.