InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud ❯ My Fatal Flaw, Part Four ( Chapter 17 )

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

Chapter Seventeen: My Fatal Flaw, Part Four

"But you notice it, inside you that change feels like a world of difference. You hope this is it, that you'll never have to change again."- Gregory Smith as Ephram Brown from the WB show, Everwood.

"Why are you doing this?" she breathed. Kagome's wrists and ankles were tied to the stone coffin with strong rope and she had various abrasions from pulling at the tight bindings.

Katsuro lifted the hem of Kagome's dress shirt so that the pale flesh on her belly was exposed to him and a glint lit his eyes.

"I've always found it interesting, how a pathetic hanyou, his bitch, a youkai exterminator, monk, and kitsune were able to defeat me, even with the help of the abomination's brother."

"What are you talking about?"

"You won."

"Sesshoumaru helped us."

"He felt the need to protect his worthless half-brother."

Kagome struggled against the ropes, "He's not pathetic. If anything you are, we beat you, you said so yourself."

"Correction," the knife slid across her skin and beads of blood rose from her flesh. "You would have, the only way this Inu-yasha will defeat me is with you alive. How can the hanyou fight when his love is dead?"

"I won't die, he will come for me."

Katsuro looked at her from head to toe and sighed happily, "Kagome, this beauty is wasted on my enemy."

Her stomach was adorned with shallow cuts from the blade and her screams echoed throughout the room and she whimpered helplessly.

This vision of pure hatred and darkness loomed over her face and forced his lips upon hers harshly.

"Don't you know he's not coming for you? He's all alone, his miko left him for one he thinks to be a human. Funny isn't it? He'll think you left him because he's hanyou and he'll die believing it."

"Leave him alone, he'll win, he'll kill you."

"Foolish miko, you did this to him, in the end you will kill him."

Her blood dripped off her body and fell into the engravings, crimson rivers of life, and a purple glow surrounded the coffin.

"When you're bled dry an enchantment will be cast and never again will a woman be born who can defeat me."

He bent his head down and Katsuro's tongue lapped at Kagome's blood.

"The blood of the holder of the Shikon No Tama, an aphrodisiac, to bad I need it for the spell."

The glass of the high up windows shattered and a flash of crimson and silver fell into the room.

"You ain't going to touch her again, you bastard." Inu-yasha snarled.

"Doesn't it kill you, Inu-yasha? She choose me and not you. Your love abandoned you, no one chooses a hanyou not even Kagome. Isn't that what you thought before?"

Jagged violet stripes formed over his cheeks and the blood red color in his eyes overwhelmed the calming amber-forcing it back.

"But how…Tetsusaiga?" Kagome whispered. The pain in her abdomen was forgotten as she focused solely on Inu-yasha.

The hanyou's body possessed it's infamous grace as he jumped towards Katsuro, claws acting without a care in the world. They sliced through the air, creating whispers in the atmosphere. Katsuro plunged the blade in Inu-yasha's side but he continued as though all there was to do was fight.

The need for blood coursed through Inu-yasha's veins, "You took her away."

Katsuro smiled and laughed, "Doesn't it just kill you?"

Inu-yasha raced towards the picture of evil and shoved his claws effortlessly through Katsuro's gut and grinned. The talon finished hands dug into his enemy's throat and the other set to the chest cavity.

"Funny Katsuro, you aren't as strong as Naraku was."

Inu-yasha broke the half-demon, Katsuro, like a pathetic cheap doll. His clawed hands went through Katsuro's throat, heart, and brain.

Then for some odd reason his body turned to dust, ashes scatter across the room, then Inu-yasha made his way towards Kagome.

The miko didn't wince in fear as he raised the very hands that destroyed hundreds of demons, he would never hurt her, the hanyou sliced through the various ropes and lifted Kagome carefully into his arms.

Kagome's belly was filled with pain and she hissed as the flesh hit the fire rat haori on Inu-yasha's upper body.

The hanyou set her down with care on the roof of a nearby building, Inu-yasha smoothed the hair away from her face and tore off a long strip of Kagome's blouse.

She couldn't move, couldn't think. Her mind was dizzy and all she could do was whimper.

"Inu-yasha?"

Her voice barely audible as he wrapped the make-shift bandage across her waist, a grunt escaped the hanyou as he stared at his handiwork before deciding that it would do for the moment.

Inu-yasha lifted his head up to meet her gaze and before her eyes the youkai markings on his face receded. The miko reached out to trace the fading violet streaks and smiled at him, "You came for me."

"Keh, of course I came for you, stupid girl."

Kagome sighed happily before requesting that he take her home.

Rather than throwing her on his back in the normal fashion her cradled her to his breast and set off back to the shrine, near the well that separated them yet brought them together.

The miko nestled her faced into the fabric of the hanyou's undershirt and thanked whatever Kami there was that allowed her to meet Inu-yasha.

"I'd always choose you, Inu-yasha."

He wanted to reply but when he looked at the sacred girl in his arms her eyes were closed and she dreamt away.

"I love you, Kagome."

She turned in his arms and he saw the form of her house in the distance.

"Love you too, Inu-yasha." She mumbled obviously lost in her own world.

The hanyou held her closer to him as though she'd never be close enough.

I promise Kagome, I won't let you go not again.

A/N:

This is the last installment of the "My Fatal Flaw" section of the story. I titled each chapter "My Fatal Flaw" because that is the name of the essay that the character Ephram Brown played by Gregory Smith wrote on the show EverWood. I hope the you understood how the quotes are relevant to Inu-yasha and why I included them.

Don't worry, we're not done just yet.

Much love you all and hope you have an excellent day!

Quotes for the moment:

"You call it madness but I call it love."- Don Byas

"Love doesn't make the world go `round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile."- Franklin P. Jones