InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkness of One's Heart ❯ Nightmare! ( Chapter 5 )

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Sorry if there was confusion on the yume youkai, yume means 'dream' in Japanese. So it's a dream youkai. I'll try and add a glossary at the end of chapters. I didn't spell check this chapter so sorry if the spelling and other stuff is bad.

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Nightmare!

Intaisho P.O.V.

I walked over to Umbri and picked her up. 'Looks like she exhausted herself again.' I looked her over to see if she had reopened any of her wounds, some of the bandages were slightly red. 'Kuso! She'll never heal if she keeps this up.' With those thoughts I started to walk her back to the hospital wing. When I laid her down on the bed I checked under some of her bandages to see how badly her wounds reopened. To my surprise I found that they were already sealing themselves. 'Her healing abilities must be coming back.' However it was obvious that it would still take at the very least two days for her powers to fully come back.

"Is she going to be alright?" I heard Haru ask.

"I believe so. Her healing powers are beginning to return to her. It shouldn't be long before she is fully healed."

"You do realize that she'll never be able to leave here? I'll make sure of that. With all the information she has on are castles she could have us all killed. And if you do not keep her locked up then I will." Ssekien growled as he stood by the bed.

Normal P.O.V.

Umbri had woken up as he said this, and before Intaisho could say anything to Ssekien, Umbri growled.

"Did you not hear what I said in the armory you baka? If I had wanted you guys dead you all would have been dead a long time ago."

"Hai I did hear what you said. But I also know that you must be lying. You said that a man had trained you for centuries. And then you said that you killed him a few centuries back, meaning that you must be at the very least 500 years old for these things to have happened. And anyone with eyes can see that you are not that old." Ssekien announced, proud that he had caught her lying. The other lords looked at Umbri questionably, as much as they hate to admit it Ssekien made sense.

Umbri started laughing. "None of you know any thing about the skumoni breed do you? If you did then you would know that our ageing can be drastically different from that of a normal youkai. Which would explain my age. My ageing process happens to be very slow at some times, like it is now, I've looked about 15 for about a century and a half. Or I can age really fast, like when I was a baby. I only looked like a baby for about two years and I was constantly growing during those two years, in fact by the end of them I looked about seven years old. Oh and by the way I'm a lot older then five hundred, even though I only look fifteen. However I'm still technically considered a child by skumoni standers, and will continue to be one until I look about eighteen." Umbri explained.

"How do we know that you're telling the truth?"

"You can ask anyone that has a fairly large amount of knowledge on the skumoni. So now if you're done trying to catch me lying I would be most pleased if you left me. I'm afraid that your idiocy will run off on me."

"Go to hell, bitch!" Ssekien yelled as he started to stomp out of the room.

"You shouldn't tell someone to go to hell unless you've been there before, and know what's it like. Or else you'll have no idea if that's what someone really deserves." Umbri said seriously. "Oh that reminds me! Ssekien!" Umbri yelled. Ssekien stopped at the door and looked at Umbri.

"What?"

"Go to hell."

Ssekien growled low in his throat, but saw the other lord's step in front of Umbri so he just stalked out of the room. "I will be going back to my lands now Intaisho." Ssekien said as he walked out. Intaisho nodded.

"Umbri didn't you just say not to tell someone that unless you've been to hell yourself?" Masaru questioned.

"I did, and I do not wish to talk about it, so leave. I'm tired and want to go to sleep." And with those words Umbri rolled over on her side facing away from the curios lords and tried to go to sleep.

Intaisho, Maseru, and Haru looked at each other before walking out of the room.

"Does this mean that she's been to hell before?" Haru asked.

"She must've, or else she wouldn't have said that. She could have been lying but the way she said those things… I don't believe that she lied to us." Maseru answered.

"I agree with Maseru. I don't think she was lying, besides I didn't smell any deceit on her." Intaisho said. And with those words the lords waked off to go to their rooms for a nights rest.

Yume Youkai P.O.V.

'The taiyoukai's have finally left it's about time. They know so little of Umbri; it's funny to watch them. If they had known anything about her they would have at least doubled security and been on high alert. Now I can have my revenge on Umbri for killing my brother! Although this will cost me my life because of all the energy it will take to get into her mind, but it will be worth it to see Umbri go insane.' The figure thought evilly to itself as it locked and put up a seal around Umbri's door. 'Hai, all those memories Umbri has are her weakness, and it appears that everyone but the lords know this. I will break her by making her remember all the things she's trying to forget, hai my death will be worth this.' As the figure thought this it slowly made his way towards Umbri. He stood at the foot of her bed and began to chant a spell. Slowly he started turning into a purple mist and started hovering over Umbri, leaking into her eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

(AN: because Umbri's mind is so strong the yume youkai will only get bits and pieces of different memories, they will not be in order, and will be mixed up. This could get really confusing)

***Umbri's Dream***

Umbri was once again under Akuma-sama's control. However she knew that this was just a dream, she dreamed this every night. She knew what was going to happen and when she was going to wake up, or at least that's what she thought. Suddenly her dream started changing and she could feel another presences in her mind. She was too weak to fight it off, Umbri knew that she was in trouble and had an idea of what was going to happen to her. But nothing could prepare her for the horrors she was about to go through. Umbri suddenly started seeing memories from her past, and her suspicions were confirmed.

Umbri was with one of the families Akuma had brought her to live with, suddenly there was a scream outside. They all ran out and saw that the village was under attack by youkai

"It's all your fault." Umbri heard a voice say out of nowhere

Then Umbri was with a great friend of hers. They were in a battle and Umbri didn't see the youkai lifting up his sword behind her. She was suddenly pushed out of the way, and looked just in time to see the sword go through her friends' heart.

"You don't deserve to live, it should have been you not her."

Umbri stood in front of a large family and slowly started killing them one by one. When she came to the last member, a 7-year-old boy, she slapped him and said, "May you live forever with the nightmares of seeing your family die before your eyes,"

"You're a murderer and you like it."

Umbri was standing in front of Akuma; he got mad at her for some reason and started to beat her.

"You're useless and deserved what you got."

People youkai and ningen alike were throwing rocks at Umbri, driving her away. Insulting her for her mixed heritage.

"You belong nowhere."

Umbri watched as a group of her so called "friends" turned on her, and left her to fight a group of strong youkai on her own.

"You're not worth the energy to help."

Umbri watched as a dragon used a lightning attack by the edge of a cannon and saw the edges of it start to break away. She looked around for her friend and love, Rico. She saw the ground beneath his feet collapse, along with the dragon. She ran to the edge to see if he was ok, and saw him holding on to a rock a few feet below.

"You could have saved him."

Umbri watched as more of her friends and family die or betray her when she needed them most.

"They will always betray you. You don't deserve a family or friends."

Umbri is standing in front of Akuma she's covered in blood, but it isn't hers. All around them lay the bodies of what looks like youkai lords soldiers. "Well done Umbri, today you get to sleep inside." Umbri only got to sleep inside when she did something really important for Akuma. (I'll let you guess the kinds of things he made her do to have the reward of sleeping inside, they weren't things that she's proud of)

"Once they find out what you did the taiyoukai's will betray you too. They're not your friends. They're trying to trick you; you know that they will find out. And when they do they will kill you for the crimes you've committed."

Umbri tries to reach down and grab Rico's hand but can't reach. The ledge that she's standing on is beginning to break off.

"You don't deserve happiness."

She keeps on reaching down for him, she's just milliliters apart from his hand, the ledge is about to break off, when suddenly…

"And you don't deserve life, die Umbri. Shin-e and make the world a better place. Your life has only brought the death of thousands. Shin-e and make us all happy."

'I didn't mean for this to happen. I didn't want to kill everybody. I'm sorry… I'M SORRY!!! MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!!' cried Umbri as more memories started going through her mind. She fell deeper into darkness.

"Your soul is dark, just like your heart. You are a creature of darkness. You can never make up for the things you did. The darkness will consume your heart. You can't stop it, and you deserve what's happening to you right now. May you never find peace in the insane this world that is your mind. Good luck getting out of it. Heheheheheh!!"

Intaisho P.O.V.

I woke up to a terrified blood-curling scream.

"That sounds like Umbri." Sakura said.

"Stay here."

I jumped out of bed and through a pair of pants on, and then I started running towards the hospital wing. I got there the same time Maseru and Haru did. I went to open the door but my hand was repelled back. "Kuso!" I swore. There was another scream on the other side of the door.

"There's a barrier." I informed them.

"Let me try, I'm good at these types of things." Haru said.

Haru P.O.V.

I walked over to the door and put my hand on it, and I was repelled back. 'I recognize this barrier. I know how to break it!' I started chanting a spell and the barrier started to weaken and eventually broke. When I felt it break I tried the door again but it was locked. Heh. Like a locked door was going to stop three taiyoukai from getting to where they want to be. With those thoughts I broke the door down. And what I saw made my heart stop.

Normal P.O.V.

Umbri was tossing and turning on her bed. Clawing at herself, and the bed that she laid on. She was talking, crying out, screaming, and whimpering in her sleep. But the thing that got the lords attention was the purple mist that was hovering over her.

"What is this?" Intaisho asked. He was furious, how could this thing have gotten into his castle?

"It's a yume youkai. The only way that we can get it out of her body is to wake her up." Maseru said as he made his way over too her. The other lords followed.

"Please stop!!" Umbri whimpered.

"UMBRI, WAKE UP!!" hollered Intaisho. But Umbri only kept thrashing around in her bed.

"WAKE UP!!!" he said again this time louder, he was shaking her as hard as he could. Umbri only started to fight against him.

"LET ME GO!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Umbri, as the three lords held her down, and tried to wake her.

***Umbri's Dream***

"UMBRI WAKE UP!!!!" a small, almost un-hearable voice called. Umbri felt hands on her so she started fighting them. "WAKE UP!!!!!!" another voice bellowed. They were getting louder, but the fog remained in Umbri's mind. Suddenly she felt like she was slapped across the face.

***End Dream***

Intaisho had, had enough. They had been trying to wake her for a few minutes but all she did was scream and try to claw them away. So he slapped her, and what do you know it worked. Umbri woke up, but soon the lords were going to wish that she hadn't.

Umbri laid there is a daze. She was in shock from all of her terrible memories. True she dreamt a lot of these things at night, but never all at once. All of her emotions were completely screwed up.

When Umbri had woken up the yume youkai had been thrown from her body and was soon pined by a very angry inu taiyoukai.

"What have you done to her?" Intaisho questioned. The yume youkai smiled.

"I just made her take a trip down memory lane. All it will take is one more bad event in her life, and then she will be lost in her mind until she can put the pieces back together, which is very unlikely." The yume youkai said with the last of his strength, he then disintegrated right in Intaisho's arms. At that same moment Umbri came out of her shock, Intaisho and the other taiyoukai went over to her bedside.

Umbri sat up on her bed and started rubbing her head. 'Wait! Bed? That means I must of… no, I killed Akuma a long time ago I can't be back at his castle.' Umbri then caught sight of the taiyoukai staring down at her. Her eyes widened and she remembered where she was.

"Once they find out what you did the taiyoukai's will betray you too. They're not your friends. They're trying to trick you; you know that they will find out. And when they do they will kill you for the crimes you've committed."

The voice that Umbri heard before in her dream repeated again.

'Maybe it's right.' Umbri jumped from the bed, and looked at them. 'They are my enemies. I cannot trust them, they will betray me, and they will try to kill me. I will NOT allow them to get close to me.'

"Umbri?" Intaisho asked as he took a step forward.

"Stay away from me."

"Umbri what's wrong? We want to help you, please let us help you." Intaisho almost sounded like he was pleading.

"LIER!!!! You're trying to trick me like everyone else. I won't let it happen again, I already have allies I can trust. I don't need you, nor do I want you're help. I'm leaving now and anyone who gets in my way will die."

"Umbri wait!!" Intaisho said as he took another step forward, the other lords not far behind.

"I SAID STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!!! Tsuki" Umbri called.

"Tsuki." Umbri called once again. Her eyes were beginning to glow light blue.

"TSUKI!" Umbri called a final time, and as she said it a weapon started to appear in her hand. It was at least seven feet tall, at each end of it there was a foot long blade in the shape of a jagged crescent moon made out of Umbri's own fangs, staff part was made out of a magical wood, and the middle part of it was made out of a very light but strong metal. (To try to explain it to you better I'll write down the words of how it looked, I know that makes no sense but when you read it hopefully you'll understand, each word is equal to one foot. Blade, wood, metal, metal, metal, wood, blade.) Umbri's original cloths and armor appeared on her too.

Intaisho, Maseru, and Haru started to go towards Umbri again, but Umbri saw them coming and grabbed a side table that was near her and threw it at them. While they were distracted she ran to her balcony, spread her wings, and flew as fast as she could towards the forest. It was raining so she didn't have to cover her scent. Umbri knew that she hadn't regained all her healing powers yet so the poison would be affecting her soon. She also used a lot of her energy summoning Tsuki. She could only hope that she could find the group of inu youkai that she was looking for, if she didn't she didn't want to think about the consequences, for Umbri knew who were waiting for her. She knew exactly what they wanted and what they would do to get it. 'They' were a group of male youkai that followed her in hopes of one day finding her too hurt or tired to fight them. They wanted her powers, they wanted her as their mate, and they wanted her virginity. So in short… they wanted to rape her.

End Chapter

Glossary -

Tsuki - moon

Yume - dream

Youkai - demon

Taiyoukai - demon lord

Shin-e - die

Hai - yes

Kuso - damn/shit

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