InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Leiko ❯ Despair of the Hanyou ( Chapter 29 )

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Despair of

the Hanyou

 

Leiko stood in the rain panting. She watched as the remainder of the Soul entered the Jewel. When all was inside, the hanyou whirled to face her friends. They were all staring at her. None of them seemed to be breathing.

"Kari, take me to the well." Leiko said and quickly retrieved Yakeima from the mud.

She leapt onto Kari's back and the two of them flew off. Leiko looked down in time to see the others heading towards the village they had left four days before. They would wait for her there. Kari flew as fast as the rain would allow her. It seemed that even with the demise of the fourth Soul that the storm was not letting up.

It took what seemed like hours to reach the well. When Leiko caught sight of it through the falling sheets of rain, she leapt from Kari's back and into the yawning maw that was the mouth of the well. Lights surrounded her as she passed from one time to the other. Once she was sure she was home, Leiko leapt out of the well and past the wreckage of the well house.

The hanyou sprinted across the yard and into the house. She was soaked and covered in mud from her battle with the angel. When she burst into the house, no one was there. Leiko ran up the stairs and stopped short. Her mother stood to one side of the door of Akira's room and Inuyasha was kneeling in the darkness beside Akira's bed. Leiko held the Shikon no Tama in her hand.

"I can bring her back." she said.

"No, that is the one thing the Sacred Jewel cannot do." Kagome said.

Leiko tore it from around her neck and threw it against the wall. "Why in the hell not?!" she demanded. "It made me a hanyou! It can bring back Akira! It can!"

The hanyou hit her knees and fell to the floor in the hall way. Kagome knelt beside her oldest daughter and tried to comfort her. Leiko threw off the comforting hands and ran to her own room.

Days crept by with no scence of real time. Kagome brought Leiko food and drink, but she barely touched either. Finally, the day of the funeral came. Leiko refused to leave the house. She couldn't accept the fact the her baby sister was really gone. When her parents were gone, Leiko rose from her bed as if in a trance.

Her feet brought her to Akira's door. She opened it and hoped that she would hear Akira laughing inside. All she saw was an empty room. Leiko stared into the darknesss. She walked in slowly and stood in the middle of the room. As she looked around, anger began to fill her. Before she knew what was happening, Leiko was clawing at the frilly pink curtains that hung in Akira's room. She tore them from the walls and slung them away from her. Leiko whirled around and tore the stuffed animals off of Akira's bed. Her claws ripped out stuffing and tore off heads, arms, legs, or whatever else she got a hold on.

When she took hold of the worn teddy bear she had given Akira, Leiko stopped. Her silver eyes stayed on the button eyes of the teddy. Akira had love the old thing because it had come from Leiko. She let it fall from her trembling hands. In the corner she caught sight of the glowing orb she had discarded days earlier. She bent to pick it up and clenched it in her hand. Her claws bit into her flesh as she tightened her grip. Leiko closed her eyes and tears ran down her check. Her eyes shot open suddenly and she glared at the reflection of herself in Akira's window. Leiko ran at the window and burst through the glass. Shards bit into her skin as she flew through the air. She ran to the well and disappeared into the feudal era. It was time to finish it.

 

She stood there and stared at the large trees. The wind blew lightly and the sun was begining to set. Leiko hadn't taken much notice to the sky turning in her era. She looked towards the village, then decided to go off on her own. There was no need to tell them that she was back. She had stayed away for nearly a week. They probably thought that she wasn't coming back.

Leiko moved through the woods until she came to the river where she had first met Yamainu. She looked at the soft grass along the bank and smiled softly. Leiko could still see how scared that hunter had been. The hanyou gathered what little drift wood there was on the bank and made a small fire. She sat on the very edge of the bank, letting the heat from the flames warm her back. Pulling her knees up to her chest, Leiko prepared to wait out the night alone. As she stared up into the starry sky, tears began to fall down her cheeks. The death of her sister was the only despair she had ever known and she knew that it would be her undoing.