InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Numisma's Inuyasha Drabbles ❯ A Bargain With an Unknown Price ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Title: A Bargain With an Unknown Price
Genre: Drama/Angst
Pairings: none
Rating: PG for violent imagery
Summary: What you didn't see... while Kohaku struggles with his inner demons, someone offers him a way out
Word Count: 95

Date Composed: March 26, 2004


The grotesque visions flooded him. Flashes of individual depictions of what happened, what he'd caused, overwhelmed his conscience with guilt, traumatizing him. Images of his lifeless victims burned, tearing him apart.

No, what have I done? He silently pleaded for release. Why am I still alive? Images of himself and his aneue slumped together, both bloody and riddled with arrows, appeared. He sobbed and convulsed in sorrow.

A dark, eerily soothing figure behind him spoke. "I can take away all these painful memories… for a price."

The youth turned, studying him for a moment. "Please."

A/N: aneue is a formal term for "older sister" in Japanese. Also, this is an entry in the inuyasha_fanfic LJ community's drabble contest.