InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ THE MIRROR OF SOULS ❯ CHAPTER 4 THE ENTITY ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

NOTE: Inuyasha isn't mine but the fantastic work of Rumiko Takahashi but I'd like Sesshoumaru to be mine!  

"Ow, dammit!" Kagome pulled back her hand and sucked the bleeding forefinger. Distracted as she was at the pain she didn’t notice how her blood on the mirror was glowing eerily as it spread. It started repairing the cracks and filling in the void on the mirror surface. She felt weird when her mouth made contact with her blood. He pulled her hand back and saw the swirling colors merging with her blood and quickly spreading from her fingers to her arm and to her whole body.

She felt her body stiffen when the colors finished its course in her body. It was as if she had been injected by anesthesia and she cannot feel or move her muscles one bit. She saw the mirror float in her field of vision. It was now whole and glowing with the same color that suffused her body. For a moment she saw her shocked expression from the mirror's reflection but it was gone as the mirror continued its ascent above her head.

Suddenly her body and the mirror pulsed as one and Kagome cannot even manage a scream as pain throbbed in every fabric of her being. With the pain came the loss of consciousness. The young woman didn’t even notice that her eyes were staring at the crescent moon moments before her brain shut down. The colors continued to swirl in increasing speed like a multi-colored tornado, it whipped the unconscious woman's hair and clothes and things around her. In a blink the mirror expanded and took the woman inside it in a pulse of light.


As the vortex of color wrapped itself around the young woman a strange high keening timbre began to thrum. Still unconscious, she didn’t know that her hair has gone from jet black to silver white. Delicate fingers developed razor sharp nails, the miniature form of the mirror emblazoned on her forehead, her form lengthened to become more statuesque. A pair of powerful white wings grew on her back, it flapped but like a mirage it vanished. Delicate but intricate dark blue tattoos appeared on both her arms like blue fire. As the transformation took place the deafening sound reached it's peak and in a flash of light and powerful explosion the young woman was released from the mirror.

The force of the explosion devastated the surroundings. Trees were reduced to ashes and 150-meter circumference of ground and grass was incinerated hollowing the ground. The denizens of the forest unfortunate to be within that perimeter were turned to ash instantly. As the shockwave abated it curled in on itself. Strangely the explosion didn't trigger a fire but only left a lingering scent of it. There was no smoke, not even an ember.

 A deafening silence reigned in the aftermath.

Then a multi-colored barrier shimmered and expanded crackling with power.


'……Kagome…..'

The voice whispered inside her head. It sounded like the wind.

"Who's there?" The woman opened her eyes after she heard the call the second time but there's nothing to see but a void in white.

'…I am called Kazumi… I am one of the souls in what you call "Mirror of the Souls"….'

"Where am I? What is this place?" Kagome felt a little scared since only her eyes can move.

'….Do not be afraid….you will not be hurt….'  

"Where am I?" Kagome asked again. She tried moving her hands but cannot even feel them if they are there. This paralysis is scaring her.

'….You are inside the mirror…..'

Kagome felt her heart constrict in her ribs. "What? Am I dead?"

Kagome felt something like amusement from the voice. '…you are very much alive…please trust me that I will not hurt you….'

"Uh-huh…but why am I here? What happened?" Kagome tried to close her eyes but she soon discovered that even with eyes closed she can still see the white surroundings. She sighed and decided to keep them closed.

'….do you not remember what happened before you opened your eyes?….'

"Uh…I was driving to camp and then the mirror…the mirror in my bag started pulsing…and then…" Kagome caught her breath. "I took it out and I cut my finger on the glass and then there were all these colors inside me…and then nothing."

'….Kagome, did your blood touch the mirror?….' There was an urgent tone from the voice.

"I…I'm not sure. I don't know…why?" Deep inside her Kagome felt a foreboding fear clutch at her.

'…what did you do when you cut yourself?….'

"Uh…I think I sucked my blood. My blood tasted weird." By now she's becoming nervous at the path this conversation was going. Call it instinct but from her experience questions like these mean bad news.

"Hello, Kazumi? Are you still there?" Kagome called out when the voice quieted.

'…I am still here, Kagome….forgive me…."

"Uh…Kazumi…so…how do I get out of this place? You're not Kanna are you?"

'…Kanna…Naraku's child…he made me his slave…they made me kill….'  Kagome felt an overwhelming wave of despondency from the entity.

"What? So the mirror wasn't Kanna's?"

'…no…I was but one of the many entities or souls that Naraku stole and enslaved…I was glad when your friend Inuyasha destroyed Kanna's link to me….'

"Oh yeah, now I remember. I feel bad for you, Kazumi. But…may I be blunt?"

The entity chuckled softly,  '….yes  you may Kagome.'

"What do you want? Do you need something from me? What do you want me to do? That is the reason why you were activated, right?"

'….I will not lie to you…yes, I need you for a purpose… I need your power to free me…would you help me, Kagome?…'

"Sure, I guess so. But what do you want me to do?"

'…I can only be released by a powerful miko like you…all you need to do is allow me to merge with you…'

"Merge…as in take over my body? As in possess me? Like a zombie or something?" Her voice was rising higher in stress.

'…I do not know what a "zombie" is…but from your fear I feel that it's not a good thing….no, Kagome…you would not be such one…I but need a vessel to leave this prison…'

If Kagome could even move her lips then she would have been biting her lips in desperation.
She doesn't like this idea one bit. She's not too thrilled at the "merging" thing. There's always a 99.9 percent hitch hidden at some point or another. Moreover, her previous experience with this mirror wasn't pleasant. But at this point she didn't have much of a choice.

"Uh…since you're in need of my help let's make a deal okay?" She'd be damned if she's going through this blind.

'…'deal'…an accord…?'

"Yes! An agreement. Well, you're gonna use my body to get out of this place and I need something in return."  Kagome made a figurative crossing of her fingers.

'…I understand your trepidation…I will do anything in my power to set your mind at ease…'

She can feel the sincerity of the invisible entity but Inuyasha's skeptical nature must have rubbed off of her.

"Okay, before we do this I need answers…."