InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud ❯ My Fatal Flaw, Part Three ( Chapter 16 )

Title: The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud

Chapter Sixteen: My Fatal Flaw, Part Three

"When we finally do change I don't think it's like an earthquake, or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't notice, unless they looked at us real close. Which, thank God they never do."- Gregory Smith as Ephram Brown in the WB show, Everwood.

Kagome's with that bastard and there's not a thing I can do about it! I should've kept the fucking wench locked up back in Sengoku Jidai!

Inu-yasha paced across the carpet of Kagome's bedroom and felt the urge to break down the walls of the very house out of sheer anger, but that wouldn't sit well with any of the Higurashi members so he let he hand clench repeatedly near Tetsusaiga's hilt.

I can't leave to get her now. Her scent is too muddled with the city I won't be able to find her before she gets back here.

The hanyou heard the sobs coming from the lower part of the structure, in the living room. It was Kagome's mother.

A sigh left him, I can't bear to see-or hear a woman cry.

The irritated hanyou went down the steps to the elder woman and frowned at the full assault the scent of her tears scent to him nose.

Why is she crying? Did something-no nothing could've happened to Kagome. I would've sensed it.

"Something the matter?" his tone was gruff and not in the slightest scent comforting-and he knew it, but it couldn't be helped by the way he was feeling. Every single nerve ending in his body told him to go-go to Kagome, and for no reason other than he needed her to be with him-him alone.

Inu-yasha could see Ms. Higurashi as she jumped, startled by his presence.

Inu-yasha felt a painful tremor run through him when she said "no" too quickly.

"One of Kagome's friends died and there's not a trace of him."

The half-dog youkai stared at the crushed papers in the woman's grasp and took them from her. Inu-yasha concentrated on the pages before him and saw in the corner of the photograph showing the burnt house-Katsuro.

She's out there with him. I knew he couldn't be trusted. I have to get Kagome, even if it takes forever to find her.

"I'll go get her."

Before the young miko's mother had an instant to reply the hanyou was out the door with a sole mission, to find Kagome.

"So Kagome, how long are you going to be here?"

Kagome turned to face her date, and confusion washed her face.

"What do you mean? Where else would I go?"

"Back to see your friends" Katsuro stated like it was obvious and questioning her state.

"I'm sorry, my mind is leaving me tonight."

"Did you have a fight with your friend?"

"Who?" she breathed, startled when he placed his hand in hers. It was so different when she touched him, so different from Inu-yasha.

Inu-yasha was warm and bright, but Katsuro, he was cold.

"Inu-yasha, your friend, did you two have a disagreement?"

"It wouldn't be anything new."

Crimson rushed to her face and left lasting color on her cheeks, "I didn't mean anything-"

Katsuro looked at her, his dark eyes hypnotizing and deadly. There was no emotion beneath his gaze, nothing but death.

"You shouldn't be with someone who hurts you, Kagome."

She shook her head rapidly and felt the air leave her lungs as Katsuro backed her into a tree, in the center of the park.

Night had fallen and the fear pulsated from her body.

Katsuro's dark hair flowed around him and cloaked him from the pure light of the moon, it was as though the slightest form of good would be wasted upon him.

"Someone might think they can take advantage of you."

Kagome tried to push him away from her but when his hand wrapped around her throat she could do nothing, nothing but whisper the one thing that made any sense, "Inu-yasha."

Katsuro laughed when the miko fell unconscious and he loosened his grip in her throat, "He won't come for you."

Damn it Kagome, where are you? If he touches you I'll shove my hand so far down his throat and yank his fucking heart out of his chest cavity.

Inu-yasha raced through the city on the tops of buildings and couldn't find her scent anywhere, the mix of lavender and roses all of it was out of his reach.

Kagome, stupid girl stay safe a little longer. I'll find you, by Kami, I'll find you.

I thought I'd have the chance to tell you someday. Someday I'll tell her-I thought-I'll tell you Kagome, I promise, just make sure you're there for it.

Suddenly he stopped, nearby the park, Kagome had been there. He leapt to the ground and ran to the center-- she had been there only a while ago.

I'm coming for you, Kagome. I'm coming.

Kagome woke with a deep pain radiating from her entire body, every breath she took felt as though a knife were passing down through her mouth and tears spilled like rain.

"So you've awaken have you?"

Kagome's looked around the room from the stone she lie upon, it was carved like a coffin but patterns were engraved intricately along the surface. Her fingers danced over them and choked on her breath.

A laugh came from Katsuro as he sensed her pain.

The room was bare and freezing but that was the least of Kagome's worries, on the far off table were various knives and weapons.

"Who are you?"

"Katsuro, your boyfriend." He laughed.

"You're not my boyfriend. Who are you really?"

"You don't remember me? You should, we've met so many times over these last five hundred years."

"Five hundred years?"

"Are you getting the hint, bitch?"

"Naraku"

Katsuro nodded once and smiled, "Clever girl, Houjou always thought so."

"How do you know him?"

"I am him-well partly."

"How?"

Katsuro walked to her and ran his cold hand down the side of her face, "You just don't get it do you? I am Naraku's reincarnation, so Houjou is…"

"Onigumo's"

"Precisely, you threw your hanyou away for me. Funny isn't it? He is the one person who would protect you from me."

He walked to the far off table and took a large knife into his hands, the blade glowed with an evil that couldn't be measured.

"He will come for me. Inu-yasha will come for me."

A/N:

Well, well what will happen next I wonder?

Smiles evilly, "Ha ha ha ha ha!"

I'll see you soon! :-)

Quote of the moment:

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live, now."- Joan Baez