InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Life Begins With Love.........And Ends InTragedy ❯ I never told..... ( Chapter 10 )

I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA

 

“No one knows, huh?” Sesshoumaru's voice came from the doorway. They all turned to look at him.

“Do you Sesshoumaru-sama?” Kagome asked. He looked around the room briefly, before answering her. His eyes paused on a photo in a frame. He speechlessly moved across the room, fear written all over his features as he crossed his mother's chambers. He picked up the photograph. Turning around, he showed it to them. It was a photo of a cheerful woman who looked similar to Naruca and two children; the children, the group inferred were Sesshoumaru and Aradia. He put on his familiar air, of cold tension and emotionless tone as he explained.

“This woman was what my mother truly was. She is my mother. That portrait is what became of her after my grandfather on her side told her that being our mother would cause her to lose the very core of who she was. She became cruel and took my sister down that very same road. My sister followed mother into the depths of Dark Magic. I was too scared of her to follow her by then. But then, she admitted something to the two of us that changed my outlook on her completely.” He placed the photograph back on the ledge he had taken it from. Shesse was stunned.

“You never told me that Maru-chan....What was the confession she gave you?”

“Well.....She took Aradia and I into this room.....” He shook nervously, “Its been left as it was then....But moving on, she took us into this room and told us to stand where that table you all are sitting around is now. Then she said to us....”

 

FLASHBACK

 

“I feel forced in everything I do. It feels like chains bind me to you both. Your grandfather has told me I'm not your mother, that you are my enemies, I wanted so badly to prove him wrong. My children are not my enemies, but I have come to believe what he has said. I wanted to be a mother, with endless devotion to you, but now I have none. Its a fraudulent persona, one that I have created for myself for your sakes. Its something that has been forced on me by my own power. However, I don't have the energy to assume it. Thats why....” Naruca paused and tearfully looked at her son and daughter,

“......I have.....to kill you.....so I can prove that this identity is false, to appease my wandering thoughts,” Her children drew back in fear, mouths gaping at their mother's horrid announcement. She ignored their actions and continued, “I have to kill you because no real mother would kill her own children. And as long as you children are alive, these thoughts will torment me and try to make me into a real person, someone who actually cares. My own father's reasoning is at war with my own. And he's winning. I can't allow myself to love you. From this point forward, I will always hate you for doing this to me!” as she said that last thing, she sent a bottle of acid hurtling towards her son, Sesshoumaru. The horrid liquid washed itself in to four lines on his face, and burned the flesh. The 7 year old winced in pain at the burning sensation. But when he heard is older sister scream he looked over and she was skewered to the wall with a large glass fragment.

“Big Sister!” He yelled. His mother once again turned on him, but he pulled out a knife that he'd been hiding and stabbed her with it. She laughed as she threw him down off of her and pulled out the knife.

“Silly boy! The final evidence will come of how much I hate you when you realize how little I truly care for you.” She hit him in the arm with a sharp object. His own knife. The gash was deep and he could see the bone in his arm. He screamed in pain, but words that could only be understood by the High Lord, only a few yards away as the boy knew, the Witch Demons did not speak Japanese.

“Taisketei! Otou-sama!!!!”* Inu no Taishou perked his ears. Why did his son sound so frantic? He didn't dare stay where he was to think about it and bolted to the tower where the sound came from.

“Sesshoumaru! Sesshoumaru! Where are you son?!?!” He listened again, and sure enough his son yelled again,

“Taisketei! Honegai** Otou-sama! Taisketei!” Inu no Taishou looked to his left to see his son running towards him like a crazy child. He knelt down and took his young son into his arms protectively.

“Sesshou-chan, where are your mother and sister?” Sesshoumaru was more scared of his mother to tell his father the truth than if his father found out about what happened later, so he lied.

“They are doing some sort of witch craft. I yelled for you to save me because they wanted me to be the subject of their violent spell.” He looked over at his arm, “And as you can see from my face and arm, it worked for a moment. I didn't know what else to do, so I called for you.”

 

END FLASHBACK

 

“Father never found out the truth. I never told him what really happened to Aradia. I never told him what really happened to me in there, and I never told him what Mother said to us before she tried to kill us. She kept trying to kill me until the day she died...... 7 years later,” He sighed, “When Father asked Mother what had happened to Aradia, she lied and told him that Aradia's magic wasn't strong enough to resist the dark spell and so the darkness sucked her in and destroyed her. I don't know how mother got rid of the body, but I'll assume she burned it.” he said, looking at the wall his sister died on. “I felt horrible about lying to father about Aradia's death, and it made it worse that I told her before she died that I hated her and I hoped she would die a horrible death. Now I can never apologize to her.” For the first time, Rin and Kagome saw a side of Sesshoumaru that they thought impossible of him. Rin saw regret on his face, Kagome saw tears in his eyes. The tears began to run down his face and he said one last thing to them, “I can't stay in here and not feel remorse. As I have said, this room, is stained with my blood, Aradia's presence, and my mother's belongings. Left just as they were 23 years ago.” he ran out of the room not turning back. They all watched him leave and then turned to Shesse.

“Now you know the truth behind Sesshoumaru's decision. But now, it's Inuyasha's turn. His reveal is a bit less serious than Sesshoumaru's, but its still quite a tragedy.”

 

 

*Save me Father!

**Save me! Please Father!