InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Power ❯ The Powers and Another Tragedy ( Chapter 8 )
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Chapter 8: The Powers and Another Tragedy
The pitter-patter of rain hitting the old well house matched the rate of the tears streaming down Kagome's face. She felt the jewel, now whole, under her skin just beneath her collarbone. She had the jewel, so she should be able to get back! She climbed to the top of the latter and stared at the bones at the bottom of the well.
"Here goes nothing!" She whispered and dropped from the top of the well. The first thing she noticed was the pitter-patter of rain on the rooftop of the old well house. The next was how much her legs hurt from hitting the ground. When she looked up she did not see blue skies but the ceiling of the building and the ladder that went into the well in modern times. Missing was the fresh air, the shining sun, and the vines running into the well in the Sengoku Jidai. Grief filled her. She couldn't get back! She couldn't see if Miroku and Sango got together, or if Inuyasha would better his Tetsusaiga. She wouldn't be there when Kaede died, or to see Shippou grow up. She wouldn't see Rin grow into a beautiful young woman and… Sesshou-chan! She sobbed aloud. She would never see Sesshou again! She already missed his impassive face, his golden eyes, the rare occasion when he gave her a real smile.
"Sesshoumaru!" She screamed, then curled up into a little ball and sobbed for a long time until exhaustion overtook her and she fell asleep.
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"Kagome?" A sweet, gentle, loving voice pushed through the fog inside her head.
"Mama?" She whispered. Slowly the fog cleared and realization replaced it. There was a tightness in her chest, a loss she had never felt before. She opened her eyes and saw she was on her familiar bed inside her room. Her mother was smiling down on her from where she sat on the bed.
"You've been sleeping all day. We found you at the bottom of the well when Buyo wouldn't get out." Her mother was giving her a questioning look. Kagome's eyes filled and she threw herself on her mother as she let out a great sob.
"Oh Mama!" She cried on her mother's lap. Her mother held her until the storm passed. Slowly she pushed her daughter into a sitting position. Kagome sniffed a few times, trying to get ahold of herself. The rain outside of the house slowed but the clouds did not lighten.
"What happened?" Kagome's mother probed gently. She wondered what could make her little girl so distraught. `Not so little, my Kagome is soon a woman.' Mama thought.
Haltingly Kagome unwound her tale. She started right at the beginning with Inuyasha and Kikyou. Then she went on to how Sesshou saved her and how he had taken her to his palace. She blushed when she remembered how forthright she had been and how sweet his kiss was. She turned even redder when she told her mother of her first time with Sesshou, expecting her Mama to be mad. But she just nodded and Kagome went on about the next morning and how Rin was kidnapped. She had to explain who Rin was and then how she had killed Naraku. Her mothers understanding face finally showed an unreadable emotion when she said this.
"You have some sort of supernatural powers?" She had on an expression Kagome couldn't decipher.
"Yeah. I've always been able to shoot purifying arrows and purify the jewel, but I just got control of my powers to use them at will." She told her mother.
"Could I see?" Her mother requested. Kagome nodded and they went outside. Kagome concentrated and her eyes caught the lavender hue. She pointed at a large rock and shot a purple flash at it. It was surrounded in purple light and when the light faded the rock was gone.
"Kagome, that's awesome!" Her mother smiled. "Lets go sit under the God Tree and you can finish your story." Kagome followed her mother to the tree, noticing the rain had stopped, but the clouds still swirled darkly. Kagome looked up at the God Tree and guilt seized her. Poor Inuyasha! The clouds in the sky swirled darker.
Under the magnificent tree Kagome resumed her story, going to how horrible she had felt when she told Inuyasha and Kouga she loved Sesshoumaru. She told next how she had retrieved all the jewel shards and returned to Sesshou's palace with him. Then how she had fused the jewel together and… A lump hit her throat and she swallowed.
"Oh, Mama! The jewel planted itself inside of me and sent me here." A single tear cursed down her cheek. It began to sprinkle all around the tree. Mama noticed but said nothing for the moment. "Mama, I'm stuck here, I'll never see any of my friends from the Sengoku Jidai again!" She whispered, the tears quickening down her cheeks, and so did the rain. "Sesshou-chan wanted to mate with me. He hated humans and yet he loved me! He never loved anyone besides his mother. His mother and father died and now I left him too and now he's all alone!" Her tears turned into a flood and the gentle rain turned into a full-blown storm. She sobbed uncontrollably and the thunder rolled around them.
"Kagome, can you try to stop crying?" Mama asked. Kagome looked at her confused. There was no harshness in her voice, only curiosity.
"Why, Mama?" She asked. Didn't her mother want her to grieve? The rain slowed from the reprieve of distraction.
"Oh My God, Kagome your controlling the weather!" Mama exclaimed. Kagome was so startled by that her tears stopped abruptly, the rain mimicking, a bit of sun peeped from behind not so dark clouds.
"What?" Kagome said in disbelief. Controlling the weather, but how? Unless… the Shikon, now that she could control her own powers, she could also control any powers the Shikon might give her.
"Kagome, you have quite the extraordinary gift. I hope you use it carefully." Her mother smiled at her. Kagome stood up suddenly with her hand just above her heart, over the deceitful jewel.
"No Mama. It's not a gift. It's a curse. The damned Shikon No Tama." Her mother gave her a confused look. "I'm just controlling its powers." She told her mother, with as little emotion as Sesshoumaru would show. The sky was now a nondescript gray, covering the sun but with no sign of rain. Kagome walked with stiff steps toward the house, her mother following with a worried expression soon after.
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Sango knelt over the body of her dead brother. Anger penetrated her very soul, and with it loss. She did not see or hear anything around her. Kouga had told her everything he could about the moment the boy died. `He gave his life in order to save others.' She thought. `He pried the jewel out of his back so Naraku couldn't make him kill anymore.' Her eyes filled with hated tears as she knelt there, head down to cover her face with her bangs. That damn Naraku! Every time problems always lead back to him. And now he's dead. Sango rose to her feet. `Don't worry Kohaku, You won't have to travel the spirit world alone!' She yanked her sword from its sheath at her waist and held it above her.
"You won't go alone, Kohaku! I will join you!" With that, she plunged the weapon into her chest, turning it sideways to fit between her ribs and pierce her heart. She fell slowly to her knees as the last breath left her body and she fell forward. The blood drops from her wound descended before her.
Miroku didn't stop running until he was kneeling by her side. He had thought to leave her a moment of peace with her brother and had gone a good distance away. He looked up at her promise to her younger sibling and saw a sight that would haunt his dreams for a very long time. Her holding that deadly blade above her and thrusting it into her heart. He rolled her over to see blank eyes staring back at him.
"No!" he screamed and held the lifeless body to him. It was his fault, he should have gotten there sooner, or he shouldn't have left her alone knowing the way she felt. She was the only woman he had ever really cared about, the only one he had really loved. She couldn't be dead.
"Sango, please, I love you! Please don't be dead." He chanted the last phrase over and over as the sun set and night descended around him. Stars shone bright in a dark sky that no one would notice on this night.
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Modern Times, about ten months after Kagome returned…
Kagome swept the shrine steps deep in thought. She had managed to gain full control of her emotions after a while and with it the weather. She could make it rain, be cloudy, or sunny, all at will now. There were many less natural disasters this year. The only time she couldn't stop them was when she slept. She couldn't control her dreams.
She felt a tug at her conscious and a cloud covered the shining sun. She stopped a moment and closed her eyes. Damn, she hated it when that happened.
Their psychic connection would last even through time is what Sesshou had told her. It ripped her heart out every time. `Never to see him again.' She clenched her jaw and concentrated until the sun appeared from behind the disappearing clouds. She slowly relaxed and blew out a breath. A little breeze blew the rest of the dirt off the shrine steps. She walked back up and headed toward the house. She hated it when she felt him. Then again, she loved it too. It was the only connection to her past besides the lump below her breastbone and the forgotten love in her heart. She also knew that the day she couldn't feel them through their link would be horrible indeed. The only thing that would ever break their connection was death. She shook her head, hoping that day would never, ever come.
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The tall black-haired man watched the beautiful woman with the wild raven hair. Nothing had changed in her countenance, except her eyes. Her blue-gray orbs held a slight tint of purple in them, but that wasn't what disturbed him. Her vibrant eyes now lacked the life and vitality they had once held. Now they were cold and empty. He had seen the change start the day she had discovered her powers. His heart constricted every time he saw her.
His manner had changed little in the last five hundred years. He was of course, much more compliant towards humans from seeing them slowly take over the world and realizing he had to live with this. It had angered him greatly but he suffered and changed with it to await the day he would see her again. He had seen many, many humans grow and die, including his beloved Rin. Kagome's friend Miroku, the monk, had lost much of his charm after the youkai exterminator had died. Little Shippou had been homeless for a half a year after Miroku died. Sesshou saved him twice before taking the pup into his castle to keep Rin company. He hadn't done it out of kindness; he just couldn't kill the little pup. Every time he tried, a certain face jumped into his memory. So he had kept the little fox-pest and now the Kitsune was the same age he had been when he exiled Inuyasha all those years ago. It still bothered him that the half-breed had followed the miko-witch to the afterlife, hell.
Jaken had died a century ago now and Sesshoumaru missed the old toad. It had amused him to see the toad cower in fear or surprise sense he smiled easier. But Jaken was also gone now so the only thing left from that time was Shippou. He had slowly grown fond of the little kitsune that adored Kagome so.
Sesshoumaru watched the first time Kagome had gone to the Sengoku Jidai. He had to exert more self-control than usual to stop himself from stopping her from going, knowing what she would suffer through. Then the final time when she had the completed jewel in her body. He watched her powers form and how she learned to control them. He saw and heard her toss and turn in her sleep sometimes screaming for him, sometimes apologizing to him, Inuyasha and even Kouga. He had to hide his presence so she wouldn't know he was there. But he had to see her.
When she entered the house he walked away down the road to the expensive new-model car parked there. He got in and drove until he reached his home on the outskirts of town.
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Kagome awoke to the screeching of her alarm clock. She lifted her arm and hit the button to make it go off in another five minutes so she didn't fall back asleep. She sank tiredly back into her bed to try and remember her dream. Every morning she went through this routine and every time she came up with nothing. All she knew was that it left her with a hollow, desolate feeling. Every morning she woke to feel lost and alone after having dreams she guessed accurately were about the past. She jumped when her clock resumed it's loud screeching and sighed, turning it off. She took a quick shower and was dressed in fifteen minutes. Coffee and sugar coated cereal finished her awakening process before she headed for school.
As she walked down the street that weird feeling hit her again. She turned around despite the fact that she had done it hundreds of times before and there was always no one there. Except, of course, the other million people in Tokyo. She flung her hands out in annoyance and saw a tall, black-haired man watching her. Hey, she had seen him before; he was always out when she went to school in the morning. He wasn't an ugly guy, with long black hair tied back in a thong and gold tinted brown eyes. In fact, he reminded her a lot of… She shrugged the whole thing off as coincidence.
She felt something move on her hand and saw her mothers ring slip off of her finger. "Oh No!" It rolled into the dark alleyway. The ring was just about to be fitted, tomorrow actually. She worriedly ran after it as it rolled deep into the alleyway, completely unheeding of her surroundings. It never occurred to her to use her powers to bring it back, or maybe it was just fate. She caught the ring and placed it back on her finger. Now she was sure to be late for scho…
"What the hell is she doing here?" a crackly male voice reached her ears. Ut-Oh.
"Silly girl." She looked up to see a crowd of people looking malevolently at her. "Silly of you to enter here, all for that precious ring." A dark man stepped out of the shadows, an evil look about him. The rest of the group were desperate druggies who needed what that man had to give them.
Oh the luck! She just walked right into the middle of a drug deal in progress. She sighed. Well, as long as they didn't shoot at her she'd be fine. She did think of her powers this time and remained motionless. The dark-skinned leader nodded and two of the guys lunged at her. They wondered why she didn't try to run away. She let them grab her and bring her closer to their leader He used a finger to tip her face up and look her directly in the eye. She stood unflinchingly before him.
"Brave, I see, a pretty young thing too. We will see how brave you are when my boys are through." He waved a hand at them. "You can have her." They all looked at her with lust-filled grins. A few chuckled. Huh, see what they would get.
"You're supposed to ask before touching a girl." She said coldly to one of the ones holding her arm. His grin widened, and then disappeared completely. He yanked a burnt hand away from her, surprised it was red and blistering.
"What the hell!" he spat at her. The others turned to see what was wrong with their Conrad and the leader stopped and turned to regard the girl in wonder.
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