InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkness of One's Heart ❯ Insanity ( Chapter 6 )

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Insanity

Normal P.O.V.

Umbri continued flying as fast as she could through the rain as it pored down on her. She kept on trying to reassure herself that her allies would help her but the voice had not left her head. It kept telling her that they would betray her too, and that she should just give up.

"They will leave you. You know that and I know that. The second you ask for their help they're going to tell you that they aren't going to help you and leave you there for your "admirers"."

'No they won't they'll help me! They said that I could always trust them. They hadn't betrayed me yet so why start now?'

"Because they now know that you attract trouble like a magnet."

Umbri choose not to say anything more to the voice after that. But even though she didn't respond to it anymore the voice kept on speaking to her, giving her more and more doubts.

Umbri was beginning to get tired. She still hadn't fully healed from the attack of the wolves so she had to land, however she kept running. She knew that the taiyoukai's were after her and if they didn't find her, her "admirers" would.

"Where are they? I know that they should be around here somewhere." Umbri said to herself. The group of inu youkai that she was looking for was one of the two allies she had. Well actually she had three allies but she wasn't ready to face her third allies yet. Going to them would mean going back to places that brought back bad memories, memories that she wasn't ready to face.

Suddenly Umbri saw the group of inu youkai that she had been looking for. She could feel the poison and her tiredness beginning to catch up with her and was glad that she was finally safe.

"Shita." called Umbri.

Intaisho P.O.V.

'Where is she? How can she just disappear? And what's wrong with her? I will find out what that yume youkai did to her and I will make her better. That is once I FIND her!!!'

"I think I found her scent!" Intaisho heard Haru say.

"Where?" Maseru and Intaisho asked at the same time.

"Over here. It's heading north."

"Let's go." Intaisho yelled.

Umbri P.O.V.

Umbri watched as the group of eight inu youkai stopped and turned towards her. "Shita I need your help." gasped Umbri as she fell to the cold, wet, and muddy ground from exhaustion and poison.

"Umbri we've been looking for you. We need to talk." said Shita, neither she nor any of the group made a move towards Umbri to help her.

"Now is not the time, I need your help, please!" Umbri gritted out. Oh how she hated asking for help, especially when she was weak.

"Well you see," Shita started "it is. We were looking for you to call off the alliance. We're sorry Umbri but you just bring trouble. We're constantly fighting off your enemies and your "admirers"; it's just not worth putting the whole pack in danger. You should have told us about all your enemies, if we'd had known than we never would have excepted the alliance and you wouldn't have been hurt." explained Shita.

"I DID TELL YOU! I told you beforehand that the world was against me. How can you say I didn't warn you? I'd say that saying the worlds against me would have told you something you traitors!" yelled Umbri. 'How could they do this to me? I've always been there too, helping them fight off my never ending list of enemies and my many "admirers".'

"I told you, you couldn't trust them. They betrayed you just like the rest." snickered the voice that had yet to leave her head.

"Normally we would kill youkai or whatever you are that we break alliances with, but seeing as how you're hurt and will most likely die anyways it would be dishonorable for us to attack you in your weakened state." Shita said.

"You lost your honor when you broke the alliance for your own selfish reasons you hiretsukan!" screamed Umbri.

Shita narrowed his eyes at Umbri. "You have one hour before your "admirers" get here. We just fought off a group of them but they've probably smelled you and know that you're weak. I suggest that you get out of here before they find you." Shita said as he turned around and started walking away, the group followed. "If we ever see you again we'll kill you." Shita said over his shoulder.

Umbri set her head down on the ground and closed her eyes. 'The voice is right. No one care about what happens to me.' Umbri bitterly thought to herself, but she suddenly heard footsteps walk up right next to her. Umbri lifted her head to look at the intruder.

"Here you go Kitty. These will make you feel better." Said Aka. He was one of Shita's pack members. Only about five in human years. "I still like you Kitty." and with that he turned and ran back to the pack.

If Umbri had been in a better mood she would have told him not to call her 'Kitty' not that it would do anything. Umbri always wondered why all small children call her 'Kitty' she looked nothing like a cat in any of her forms and yet all small children would call her 'Kitty' it truly was a mystery.

Slowly Umbri got to her feet using Tsuki for support and ran further into the forest. Soon she would collapse again and she didn't plan on getting up. The voice was still talking to her she could feel her mind start to go and hide inside itself. She knew that she would have to find a safe place or else her "admirers" would come and find her, then have their way with her. 'Fat chance.' Umbri thought to herself bitterly.

"Stop running it doesn't matter any more you and I both know that. Just lie down and let your mind close in on itself. You'd be out of your pain."

'I know, I just need to find a safe place then I can get away from the pain. I'm sick of being in pain; I just want it to stop.

Umbri soon came to a small clearing near a river. She stuck Tsuki in the ground in front of the tree. 'Please protect me from them.' Umbri asked Tsuki. It glowed in response. "I know I can trust you dear friend." Umbri said before her mind closed in and she collapsed by the tree. Her eyes grew dark and lifeless as she fell deeper into herself. Umbri didn't have time to notice the many lustful pairs of eyes that were looking at her.

Intaisho Group

"She was just here, and she stayed here for awhile. Along with group of inu youkai, however they went separate ways." Intaisho said. "She's now heading east."

Maseru and Haru nodded and soon they were off again. They soon came across a small clearing and in it was Umbri with her weapon 'Tsuki' stuck in the ground in front of her, Umbri was leaning on a tree. They immediately noticed a large amount of youkai in the area all with the scent of lust, sometimes the youkai would come out and try to get near Umbri and step out into the clearing, but after they took a couple of steps they would turn around and run back into the nearby trees.

"What are they doing?" Haru asked.

"I don't know, it's like they're scared of Tsuki." Maseru answered.

"Well, well, well. I never thought that three of the taiyoukai's would be reduced to this. How did you find out about Umbri? You are here to try and get her power right?" a

voice from behind them said. They all turned around and came face to face with a tiger youkai. He had black hair and a black tail, green eyes, was about six feet tall and had no markings. "My name is Kuro, I guess you could call me the leader of this youkai pack that's around you."

"What do you mean by that?" Intaisho asked.

"Well technically none of these youkai will listen to me if I tell them to do something, however I'm the only youkai that's managed to live this long doing what we do." Explained Kuro.

"And what is it you do?" Maseru asked.

"We wait for Umbri to become weak or tired then we try to mate with her to get her power."

Intaisho, Maseru, and Haru had to hold themselves back from killing the tiger from where he stood.

"What?" Intaisho said in a deadly voice.

"You heard me," Kuro said, however he also realized that his life was in danger so he quickly added, "but no one has ever come close to succeeding thanks to that stupid weapon."

"Tsuki?" Haru questioned.

"Yeah, it's impossible to get any where near Umbri when Tsuki is guarding her. How are we supposed to mate with her and get her to bare our pups if that stupid weapon won't let us touch her"

"Well she probably doesn't want to mate with you if she sets Tsuki on guard. Hey wait a minute how can a weapon guard someone who's unconscious?" Haru questioned.

"How can she not want to mate with us? What a silly question. And as for Tsuki, you obviously don't know a lot about Umbri." smirked Kuro.

'So far we've gone through sex crazed, can't get a clue, dumb, and big egos. I think that's all the personalities they've shown so far…' thought Intaisho. At that moment Intaisho saw some beast looking youkai roll in some mud, another one was drooling on himself as he looked at Umbri, others were slumping down on the ground when they were supposed to be watching Umbri. 'and gross and lazy.'

"Is Tsuki magic?" Maseru asked.

"To tell you the truth none of us really know how Tsuki works, I say that you can't really explain it. However I can show you how it works in just a moment."

"How are you going to do that? No youkai will go near Umbri or Tsuki." Intaisho said angrily. 'Tsuki wouldn't have even had had a chance to do anything because if any of those youkai so much as lay a finger on her I'll kill them!'

"You think that we are the only ones who chase after her? No we're just the more experienced ones, that's how we got here so fast. The youkai that are coming are new to this… hobby. They don't know about Tsuki's powers yet."

Just as Kuro finished speaking a group of extremely ugly youkai came breaking through the tree line. They were heading towards Umbri. Intaisho, Maseru, and Haru watched with interest as Tsuki started glowing the same light blue as Umbri's eyes turned when she threw Ssekien out of her room. Suddenly a shape of a man started to form to the side of Tsuki; there were no details to his face or body. (so in other words he kind a looked like a ghost) He picked up Tsuki and slashed it across the group of youkai that was now about a foot away from Umbri. All the youkai were dissolved instantly. None of them laid a finger on Umbri. The figure went on to attack all the youkai that had unfortunately for them wandered to close to Umbri. When it finished it went to stand by Umbri.

"What is that?" Intaisho breathed.

"It's more like who. And that my friend, is Tsuki." answered Kuro.

"That's Tsuki?" Haru said as he pointed at the figure.

"That's what we figure. Umbri doesn't exactly discuss these things with us, but if you want to know what I think I'd be more than willing to tell you… actually I'll tell you anyways. I think that Tsuki is the spirit of Umbri's father who has passed on, after all he protects her like a father would."

At this point Tsuki was attacking anything that moved by umbri, you could tell that he was sick of fighting off the clueless males. Suddenly he started glowing brighter.

"Oh crap. Uh run!" Kuro said as he dashed away.

Intaisho, Maseru, and Haru looked back at Umbri just in time to see a bright light expanding towards them, they watched as the youkai that got trapped in the light turn to ash. There was no time to run, the light was getting closer and closer. Finally it reached them… and nothing happened to them. All other youkai around them turned to ash while they were perfectly fine. After the last of Umbri's "admirers" left or turned to ash the light resided. Tsuki was still standing there and he was looking straight at the taiyoukai's of the greater lands.

"Know this, you survived because I let you don't get any ideas that you're not affected by my power. I let you live because I believe you can help my mistress." Tsuki said.

"Intaisho, that weapon is talking." Haru gasped.

"Weapons are not supposed to talk!" he continued.

"You said something was wrong with Umbri. How can we help her?" Maseru asked.

"No not here. Take her back to the castle, but keep her in the garden she doesn't like to be indoors. I will explain the problem there. And know this if you take her to your home there is no going back, I trust you to save her and help her after this is done. She will be very… different when this is over. And if you betray her I WILL kill you." and with those words Tsuki disappeared.

Intaisho walked up to Umbri and picked her up along with Tsuki.

"Let's go."

And with that they were off. When they reached Intaisho's castle he set Umbri down by a tree with Tsuki beside her, and took a step back by the other lords. Tsuki started to glow and once again the figure came out.

"The yume youkai caused Umbri to relive many of her past terrors and tragedies. As you know the soul is made up of the emotions you feel, and when you combined those emotions together you have a heart. I guess you could say that the soul lives inside the heart and that they are one. By making Umbri go through some rather painful memories the yume youkai hoped to make Umbri go insane, but instead reliving her past terrors has caused all her emotions to split up and seperate. Which basically means Umbri is trapped inside her mind. In order to help her you need to go inside her mind, find her different emotions, put them together, and take them to her heart to be absorbed." sighed Tsuki.

"How are we supposed to get inside Umbri's mind? She has extremely strong mental barriers." Intaisho asked.

"I can get you inside Umbri's mind, the weapon in which I come from is made from Umbri's own fangs which makes me a part of her. She also trusts me so I should be able to get you in there somewhat easily."

"Ok let's do it!"

"But before you go in I need you to swear by your position as a taiyoukai that you will never use the things you'll find out about Umbri in there against her. There will be some things that she'll manage to keep a secret from you but most will be open." Tsuki said to all of them. He then turned to Intaisho. "And since she likes you the best you must also promise that afterwards you will take care of her and won't betray her. You'll understand when this is done; I'll also be there to explain a little after this is over. I won't be able to go in there and help you but I will leave you with someone who can. Now do you swear?"

'She likes me?!?!?!' (Can you guess who thought this)

"I swear by my right as the taiyoukai of the north/east/west that none of the memories that we get from Umbri's past will be used against her in any way." Intaisho, Maseru, and Haru said together. "I also swear that I will take care of Umbri and shall not betray her trust." Intaisho finished.

Tsuki nodded, and told them each to take a hold of Umbri. When they all were holding her they started to glow and then the taiyoukai's all saw black.

Tsuki watched the taiyoukai's. They all looked like they were possessed or something, all they're eyes were dull and lifeless.

"I pray that you can save Umbri taiyoukai's of the north, east, and west, save her from herself and that endless torture chamber that is her mind." 'Or at least they better because I forgot to tell them that the only way to get out of there is to restore Umbri's heart and soul' Tsuki thought to himself as he faded away into nothing.

End Chapter

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