InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Never Stop Loving You ❯ Blame ( Chapter 6 )

Never Stop Loving You

Chapter 6- Blame

The apartment was dark. It was hot and humid outside, but Inu Yasha was unfazed. Curled up in the corner of his fire rat sofa, Inu Yasha was freezing-and he didn't even have air conditioning. The same phrase echoed ruthlessly in his head.

The girl was his.

His teeth chattered and a fuzzy feeling filled his legs indicating that they had become dormant-but that didn't matter…

The girl was his.

Air came to him in shaky, irregular gasps. And every so often, his body would convulse at the lack of blood flow and oxygen intake-but that didn't matter.

The girl was his.

His...

This was the girl who haunted his dreams. This was the girl who laughed when he wanted to kill himself.

…The same girl who had given him determination…

Purpose…

And hope…

Suteki…

Suteki Higurashi…

Suteki Taishou…

There was no mistaking it. She had his eyes… his hair…

Kagome's attitude…

A trait she could definitely do without…

But why didn't she tell him… he would rather hear that he had a daughter than "we're through"… She should have told him! He would have never left if he had known. He wouldn't care if his father burned in hell if he knew he was going to be a Daddy…

A picture formed in his mind eye. Suteki was back on the porch of the day care with confused tears in her eyes. Her lips forming four heart-wrenching words… "I Love You, Daddy…"

He muffled a sob as he bit into his arm until it was numb. How would it feel to be called "Daddy"? How would it have felt to have held her as a baby? To hold her, only the size of his forearm, close to his heart? To watch her waddle toward him as she took her first steps?

He suddenly caught a glimpse of something flashing in the moonlight across from him on the coffee table next to his sofa. He released himself from his position and crawled over to it. There, he found a picture of his deceased father, the words `In Loving Memory' engraved in the frame.

A new flame within him began to grow within Inu Yasha as he gazed into the morbid eyes if his father.

This was HIS fault!

"You…" he said maliciously. He picked up the picture frame, taking it as his prey. "This is your fault, you bastard!!" he hollered as he launched the picture frame at the opposite wall. The force of the collision shattered the fragile keepsake in seconds. The picture within floated down to the ground landing gently on the slivers of broken glass… but it didn't satisfy Inu Yasha.

He threw himself at the scene of the crime, taking the picture in his hand, his eyes, vengeful.

"Why did you have to die, huh? Couldn't it wait a year or two?" he said splitting the photo right down the middle. Then putting each of the halves together, he continued. "You never approved of us, this is your doing!" he tore the halves into quarters. Overlapping the quarters, he carried on. "Even in death you wish my unhappiness! I should have never pitied you!" The quarters were once again torn into eighths. Realizing he could rip no more he threw them to the ground each piece drifting lightly to the floor as they had done before.

One piece with a picture of his father's left eye landed right in front of him. And the giggling began. He winced knowing that he'd never forget her. The painful memory of one woman was enough. He couldn't handle another. Well, she wasn't a woman yet…she was just a child-his child.

He slammed his fist onto the piece of his father's left eye, in frustration. Then, suddenly, he felt a pang of pain in his fist. The giggling grew louder as he lifted his hand to see a sliver of glass buried in the side of his palm-a very friendly looking sliver of glass…

Flinching at the pain as he drew it out of his hand he realized something… Suteki would be so much better without him. She already lived four years without him… and it would be too much of a shock… right?

The giggling intensified until it was pounding… resounding… in his ears.

But Inu Yasha would not be swayed.

"Go away girl…" he told her. "You don't need me. You've already proven that!"

And the giggling stopped.

"See, Suteki…" Inu Yasha sobbed at the sudden silence. "You don't need me, girl." Inu Yasha lifted his hand holding the sliver of glass above him, ready to slaughter…

"Good-bye… my… baby girl…" he choked.

He screwed his eyelids together, preparing himself for the pain ahead. Time slowed as his arm swung downward the sliver of glass glinting in the moonlight… reaching closer… and closer to its goal…

But not before being caught by a strong pair of hands…

His head spun around to meet a teary pair of light brown eyes…

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Anifreakangel: ah HA!! CLIFFHANGER!!!

To whom does this pair of teary brown eyes and strong hands belong to? Will Inu Yasha see Suteki ever again? What's Kagome thinking?

Find out… next time on Never Stop Loving You!

Anifreakangel… OUT!!