InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Nightwalker ❯ Nightwalker EXTRA: To the Moon and Back ( Chapter 41 )

Here's a little teaser. Back when Nightwalker was still a one shot, I thought about making a sequel to that one shot. It was a little similar to the story of nightwalker, but I went back and tweaked it. If the story had stayed a one-shot, this is how I planned to make it turn out. Just think of it as an alternate ending/extra. I can't believe how excited I was when I was writing this, maybe because I'll be writing about a certain someone again.

Disclaimer: I don't Inuyasha, nor do I claim credit for Romiko Takahashi's genius!

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Nightwalker Extra: To the Moon and Back

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Kagome yawned as she got off the train and started walking down the streets toward her apartment. School was hell. She had been up since six in the morning working, studying, volunteering, running around campus and going to lectures. At least it wasn't snowing tonight, she thought. The streets were crowded with people walking home or driving. It was only eight in the evening and yet there was a large full moon hanging overhead. The sky was clear. If she weren't so tired Kagome would have stopped to enjoy it, but her only thought was getting home and getting to her bed.

“Oh come on, I'm hungry!” Kagome blinked as a pair of people walked down the street in her direction. She tried her hardest not to stare at the couple, but their strange appearance didn't let her look away. A tall, muscular, bald man with several tattoos and piercings on his face and ears walked next to a cute, petite, teenage girl. Her flamboyant, rainbow colored outfit drew Kagome's attention the most.

“Claire, you just ate!”

“But I want more meat! Come on, Bill. There are SO many people here, we can sweep them up for a meal.” The girl whined to her friend.

Kagome moved out of the way as the couple passed her, wondering if they knew how strange they looked. Were they tourists? Shaking her head, Kagome continued her walk. At the intersection, someone bumped into her. “Oh, excuse me.” Came a silky voice and Kagome looked up to see a woman with beautiful golden hair. A man stood next to her. He had a calm, handsome face with grey eyes and black hair, but Kagome was sure he wasn't of Asian decent. More tourists. “I didn't hurt you did I?” The woman asked kindly. “N-no.” Kagome said.

“Well then, I'm glad.” When the light at the intersection changed, the young woman and her partner walked gracefully across the street and Kagome couldn't help but feel a little jealous at the way that they held hands. Shaking her head, Kagome turned to walk away when she noticed another strange pair: a boy with sandy colored hair and a woman with dark skin and black eyes, definitely foreigners. “Do they really have no problem letting us walk so freely now?” The boy asked.

“Well, now that the danger is passed, I doubt there's any reason to worry about that.” The woman replied.

“Yeah, but you'd think the family head would be a little cautious after everything we've been through.”

The woman shook her head. “Albier, just enjoy this one moment of peace for what it is, all right?”

The boy shrugged. “Fine, so let's go gorge ourselves on some fish.” He said. The woman sighed but smiled as she and the boy went passed Kagome.

So many strange people out tonight, Kagome thought. Soon the street was all but empty as more and more people were heading home to rest. Kagome passed an alleyway, yawning. A warm bed sounded so nice, she thought.

“So, they let you run around freely tonight without a chaperone?” Came a smooth voice. Kagome felt chills just from listening to it. She turned to look down the alleyway. A woman was staring at the man who had pinned her against the alleyway wall. He leaned his body closer to hers. Kagome rolled her eyes, sensing a lover's spat, and turned to leave but stopped she saw the woman shove the man away.

“I don't need a chaperone to deal with you.” The woman hissed. “Why don't you crawl back into the hole you came from? I'm not in the mood to deal with traitors. Leave or I promise I will tear you to shreds.”

“So bloodthirsty.” The man laughed. With movement so quick, Kagome hadn't seen it happen, he pulled the woman against him again. “I'm almost tempted to force you into keeping that promise, just to see what you'll do.”

That was it! Kagome stomped into the alley. “Hey!” She yelled. The man looked at her and the moment Kagome saw his appearance, her breath escaped her. There was something ethereal about him. He was tall and slender, with black, wavy hair, and eyes so green it was like they weren't eyes but emeralds. He would have been the most beautiful man she had ever seen if it wasn't for an image of another man that sprang to her mind, a man with silver hair and golden eyes, the man she'd seen in her dreams.

“Yes?” The man said.

Kagome straightened her stance. Beautiful or not, he had no reason to manhandle that woman like that! “The lady said to leave her alone, so I suggest you do what she says.” Kagome said, bringing up her fists. She hated using her self-defense abilities for violence, but she hated men who couldn't take a hint even more.

The man laughed and Kagome felt hypnotized by the sound of it. There was something about him, a certain dangerous charm. “Are you going to fight me? Believe me girl, you don't want to get involved in this so I suggest you leave before you get hurt.”

Kagome glared at him. “What? Are you afraid to lose to a girl?”

The young woman shoved the man away from her and faced Kagome.

“While I hate to agree with him, I suggest you leave as well.” She said. When Kagome looked at her closely, she looked a lot like the man assaulting her: beautiful with long, black, curly hair, shining, green eyes and peach skin. Were they siblings?

The man behind her laughed. “Oh, why not let her stay. I could use a drink.” He said.

Kagome clenched her fists. “Excuse me?”

The man faced her. “Narek, don't!” The woman yelled. Kagome prepared herself when he lunged but he flashed away from her sight and a second later he was behind her, holding her arms behind her back. “You're scent…” the man breathed into her neck.

Kagome clenched her teeth. She stomped on his foot. The man, recoiled but he didn't let her go. “You smell like him, he's touched you, hasn't he?”

Kagome felt her heart swell with heat. “What are you talking about?”

“Let her go Narek. She's not apart of this.” The woman said.

Narek laughed, his nearness sending vibrations down Kagome's spin. “I wonder what a certain someone in you're family will say when I bring her to him.”

“Let her go.” The woman charged and Kagome ducked her head when she came toward her. Suddenly, the man let her go and Kagome fell to the floor. She turned to see the pair struggling for a while and was surprised to find that woman moved just as fast as her male counterpart. The fight ended quickly with the man grabbing both her wrists and holding her close again. “By all means, I'd rather be holding you instead. Come with me?”

“Don't flatter yourelf. You.” The woman faced Kagome. “Leave, I can handle him. Don't interfere in our affairs.”

Kagome stood and looked at the pair. “If this asshole hurts you-”

“He won't.”

“Not physically anyway.” The man smirked darkly.

“LEAVE!” The woman snapped and the force in her voice made Kagome rush to the end of the alley. As she was running she heard the man call from behind her, “He'll find you again! We nightwalkers always do!”

Kagome stopped running on the street. Nightwalkers, nightwalkers. She'd heard that word before. But when?

“I'm a nightwalker.” He had said slowly.

“What do you want with me?”

“That depends on you.”

Kagome swayed suddenly and she held onto a street lamp to keep her balance. The dream she'd had almost four months ago. It was real, they were real, he was real! “No way. That dream, then he really, we really…”

“He'll find you again. We nightwalkers always do.”

Suddenly Kagome didn't feel very safe. She looked left and right and found that she was alone on the street. Her winter coat suddenly felt really warm and Kagome reached into her pocket to get her phone.

“Is there something wrong Miss?” Kagome looked up. A woman with flaming red hair was looking at her. Her eyes were red and she had an eerily calming aura around her. She wasn't human. Kagome slowly backed away, trying her best to smile. “I-I'm fine. I'm just tired that's all.”

“You look like you're about to faint. Here, let me help you.”

“No, I'm okay. I called my mom, she'll be here soon.” Kagome lied.

The woman continued to advance and Kagome suddenly felt an urge to run. “I wouldn't want you to collapse on you're way home.”

“It's okay, my home is close.” Kagome said as evenly as possible. She walked passed the woman and tried to turn the corner.

“I thought you said you're mother was going to come get you.”

Kagome ran. She turned the corner without looking back. A figure was walking in her direction and the more Kagome ran down the street, the more the figure began to look like the red-haired woman who she was running from. Kagome skidded to a stop, gasping. She turned around to run in the other direction, but suddenly the woman appeared like she had materialized from thin air.

“Now, now, you look pale. Don't make this so hard on yourself, human. One bite and you'll be asleep…forever, but I promise it won't hurt.” She reached for Kagome and Kagome grabbed her arm and flipped her over her shoulder.

The woman gasped. She fell against the floor. Kagome began running, but suddenly she was jerked back. The woman held her close. “That was a surprise.” She heard the woman say in her ear. “I wonder…what does your blood taste like?”

“Let me go!” Kagome kicked and squirmed but it only made the woman's arms tightened around her. She felt pain as the woman bit into her neck. She felt blood tickle its way down her shoulder. The world began to blur and Kagome felt all the warmth leave her body. All she could do was hold still as the woman drank from her.

“Fenrir, is that you?” Kagome opened her eyes and stared at the figure that was walking toward them. Green eyes? Anyone but him.

The man, Narek, stopped several paces away from them. “I thought you died in the fighting.”

Kagome felt the woman pull her teeth from her neck. “I wasn't going to die for that Bastard King.” She said.

“Let her go, Fenrir. You and I have some catching up to do.” Narek came closer.

“One more step and this girl will lose much more blood then her body can handle.” Kagome felt sharp points on her neck. Looking down, she saw the woman's hand: claws. She looked at Narek, begging him not to come any closer with her eyes.

“I don't take orders from you.” Narek said.

“Very well then.”

Fire erupted on Kagome's neck and chest. She fell forward, holding onto the wound. NO! Her mind screamed. Not like this! Somewhere in the distance, she heard ferocious screams and explosions but all Kagome could do was see her memories flash in front of her eyes. She collapsed on the floor, her head spinning, her arms grasping for something, anything and then, just once, her world game back into focus and she saw him, Narek, leaning over her.

“You've lost more blood then I can heal.” She barely heard him say. “You're dying.”

Kagome, weak and desperate, grabbed onto his shirt with bloody hands. “You want to live?” He asked. “If I gave you a second chance, no matter how maimed and different you will be from how you are now, would you take it? Would you make a choice to survive no matter what it costs you?”

Kagome pulled him close, she felt her heart slowing, she felt her breath flying away, and she nodded her head. “I…want…t…live.”

Narek nodded. “Remember, you made this choice.”

Kagome heard the sound of fabric ripping, saw his head descend on her chest and her world went black.

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He had been walking the streets enjoying his freedom. For the first time in nearly two hundred years, he could walk without worrying about fighting for his life. He breathed in the cold, winter air, watching the people walk down the street. Several of them paused to stare at him; they glaced at his silver hair. Some were brave enough to comment on whether it was real or not. He smiled, enjoying how the people found his appearance fascinating. It was a mark of his kind after all. She had enjoyed it too.

He stopped walking. Why, he wondered, did she come to his mind? It had been almost four months since he saw her last. He didn't know why he had joined with her, why he had wanted her, or why he couldn't get her off of his mind. Maybe it was the area; perhaps it was because he and his family had come back to Tokyo with a feeling of victory. The war was over, no one was lost, and life could be peaceful now. He could go back to living calmly.

But soon his tranquil feeling escaped him. He felt a familiar aura approaching, a hated aura, a scent he knew all too well. It was that traitor's scent and it was close. He hated that he let that traitor escape. Yet…he breathed in again. There was another scent, one that was familiar and yet not. Looking around, he walked down the street and slipped into the shadows, following the scent to its owner. He came to an empty street. One of the streetlights flickered in the night and, in the shadows of a tall building, he saw the figure of another nightwalker. The traitor.

He began to walk toward him. He could smell it. The scent of blood, nightwalker blood, permeated the air, but there was also…human blood? Why was that scent so familiar? He noticed the body of a nightwalker on the floor. “Fenrir.” He said. Then where was the scent of human blood coming from? The traitor stood and finally came into view and he froze.

“Evening Inuyasha.” The traitor said.

“Narek. What did you do?” Inuyasha asked. Narek was holding someone, a woman. She was covered in blood and she smelled of death.

Narek's smirk disappeared from his face. He looked at Inuyasha coldly. “I did what I had to.”

Inuyasha squinted, squinting at the woman Narek was holding. Her face, though bloody was familiar. Instantly, he recognized her, the girl who wouldn't leave his mind. He bared his teeth at Narek. “You…” He charged. Narek carelessly threw the girl and Inuyasha forgot his target. He jumped to catch her instead. When he landed, he found that Narek was gone. He looked down at the woman in his arms. She didn't move, he wasn't even sure she was breathing and he felt guilty, suddenly.

What happened here? Fenrir was dead but her scent covered the girl. Narek's scent was one her too. Suddenly, Inuyasha heard it. Tough slow, her heart was beating, and, the more he looked, he discovered that the wound on her chest was slowly closing. Inuyasha closed his eyes, gritting his teeth out of frustration. “Narek, you bastard.”

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Why did it hurt? Her body ached all over, did that mean she was awake now? She remembered dreaming. It was a horrible dream, a painful dream that seemed to last forever. She opened her eyes. Her vision was blurry, but she managed to see the ceiling of her apartment. She rolled over, wincing at the pain that came with the movement, and tried to remember where she had been before she had fallen asleep.

“You're awake?”

Suddenly she flashed to sit upright, and regretted the sudden movement a second later when her body pulsated with pain. “Who's there?” She looked around her bedroom, ignoring the pain in her neck. Someone stood in the corner of the room, by the sliding, glass, doors that led to her balcony. She could see his figure clearly, even though he was completely hidden by the shadows: the man from her dreams.

“You.” She growled, feeling a strange mix of fear and anger.

Instantly he was beside her, pushing her back down into the bedding. She was too weak to fight him and he was insistent. She tried to scream, but he covered her mouth with his hand. She tried to struggle, but her body throbbed with pain with even the simplest of movements.

“Relax. I'm not here to hurt you, or do anything to you for that matter, but you're in a bit of a compromising position right now, and I can't leave you alone until I've explained a few things.” He stared at her for a long time. He didn't touch her and she waited for him to do something. After a few minutes she guessed that he was waiting for her to give him a signal that she understood. She nodded.

“Did you come for round two, you sick bastard?” She hissed when he took his hand off her mouth. “I swear, this time I'll call the cops if you don't leave!”

“I'm afraid I can't let you do that.”

“And why the hell not?” Her heart began to beat furiously, and the pain she felt in her body only increased with each beat. She could feel herself shivering from his nearness. “The last time you came in here, you attacked me, sucked my blood and then left just like that! How do I know you won't pounce on me this time!”

“You're too weak to handle me right now. Plus, I have to explain a few things to you, because I'm sure you'll notice at some point that you're not exactly you anymore.”

“What the hell are you talking about? And stay the hell away from me. If you're going to talk, do it from all the way across the room.”

He stood, walking across the room to lean against the opposite wall. “Happy now?”

“Yes. So what do you want?”

He sighed. “You're name is Kagome, right?”

“R-right. You never told me you're name.”

“Inuyasha.”

She laughed. “Fitting for a dog.”

He narrowed his eyes, but didn't retort. “Put it behind you, wench. You enjoyed it just as much as I did.”

Kagome felt her body burn with heat. “Shut up! It still didn't give you any right to do what you did, get out!”

“I can't.”

“Why the fuck not!” With strength she didn't know she had, she flew at him, knocking him back against the wall as she hit him in his middle a few times. He caught her wrists and pushed her back onto the bedding. She fell on the mattress with him on top, straddling her waist and holding her wrists on either side of her head. “Listen to me.” He huffed.

“Why should I?” She bucked and squirmed under his hold.

“Because you're one of my kind now.”

She stopped. “I'm what?”

“A nightwalker, just like me.”

“N-no way. You think I'm going to fall for that? And let me go!”

“Not if you plan to try and hit me again.”

“You deserve it, let go!”

He took her right hand and guided it to her chin. “Open you're mouth.”

“What? Y-” Before she could say more, he placed her index and middle finger into her mouth and that's when she felt it. Her teeth, her canines, they were longer. “Wh-wh-what?” She traced her fingers over her teeth, her eyes widening with the revelation. Suddenly she noticed her senses. She could hear his heartbeat, his breathing, and her heartbeat, her own breathing. She heard the sound of people talking in the distance, of cars speeding down the streets outside. She could smell him, and his musky scent, combined with her own spicy one made her dizzy.

Her body felt warmer then usual, as though she had a fever. What was more, she wanted, she needed, she felt the strong desire, to grab his neck and sink her teeth into him. “No…no way.”

He sighed. “You believe me now?”

“You did this to me?” She said, feeling her eyes sting suddenly.

“No. If I had my way, you and I would have never met again. It was one of my enemies that changed you.”

Green eyes flashed in Kagome's mind and suddenly she understood. “But he said he'd give me a second chance at life. He didn't say-”

“Did you make the choice?” Inuyasha said suddenly.

Kagome looked at him nervously. “I was dying…I wanted to live.”

“Then becoming a nightwalker was the only way you would have lived.” The moment he finished his sentence she saw him grimace, and she didn't understand why until she felt tears sliding down her cheeks. He let go of her wrists and got off the bed. “I'm sorry.”

Kagome shivered and looked down to see that she was naked. She squealed and curled into a ball. “Sorry about that.” She heard Inuyasha say. “I had to undress you to clean the blood off your chest and legs. And the heat from the rebirth would have driven you nuts if I hadn't.”

Kagome didn't reply. She pulled her blankets over her body and lay there for a while, starring at her wall, listening to him breath from across the room, and emptying her mind of all thought. Finally, she said, “What's going to happen to me now?”

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Inuyasha walk toward her balcony. “Every new nightwalker that's born has to learn to control their bloodlust, their desire to feed. Nightwalkers live in families. Narek, the man who changed you doesn't have a family. That fucker betrayed my family a long time ago. You'll need someone to teach you how the rules that nightwalkers follow, how to control you're bloodlust, and tell you about your new nature.”

“I'm guessing that you're going to do that?” Kagome peeked at him.

“Maybe, maybe not.” He came to sit by her bedside and held her hand. “I have, in the past, made three humans into nightwalkers. All of them had been willing. They joined my family. I didn't make you, but I can't leave you alone, especially since there are things you have to know if you're going to live as you are. But, I will tell you this: once you're a nightwalker, you're dead to the human world. Humans can't know we exist, that's one of our laws. You'll have to cut all you're ties if you're coming with me.”

Kagome felt the urge to cry again, but she pushed back the tears, her throat throbbing. “What will happen if I don't come with you?”

Inuyasha's eyes darkened. “Would you rather face the nightwalker world all on your own?”

The thought was more frightening then cutting her ties with all the people she knew. “No.”

Inuyasha let go of her hand. “We'll take it slow. You don't have to sever yourself from humans completely, at least not in the beginning. I can understand how hard the change can be.”

She sat up. “Tell me one thing.”

“What's that?”

She looked away from him, a fierce look of determination in her face. “Will I be able to have my freedom, even if I come with you and join your family?”

“As long as you know who you are and abide by the rules, there's nothing that can deny you that freedom.”

She took in a long breath and faced him. “Then, Inuyasha, let's go.”