InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The power wihtin ❯ The saddest day ever. ( Chapter 1 )

The Power Within

By Tati86

A.N.: This is my first fanfic. I'm a non native English speaker, so if you want to point out grammar and spelling mistakes I'll appreciate it. (Don't be too mean. ^_^). This is an A.U. A world in which you can find some youkai and humans living together, castles with royalty, high buildings, cars, and other stuff. Weird combination, isn't it? Remember: Kikyo was a normal girl before she died, just a bit cold. She was not the heartless person we all know from the anime.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

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Chapter one: The saddest day ever.

The sky started to fill with rain clouds; the wind blew quickly rocking the branches of trees.

--This can't be good. -- said the hanyou dressed in red with long silver hair and golden eyes. He was on a high branch of a peculiar tree, the Goshinboku.

"Maybe I should get her, she could get sick. She didn't bring her umbrella to school." Inuyasha thought. The strong figure got to the ground and started running to the school where he knew his love was.

He was getting near it, and he started to pick her scent up. It was kind of cold with a bit of wild flowers, but that wasn't what he was scenting. It was an iron kind of smell, a familiar scent. Blood. Miko blood.

"It can't be happening. No!!!." he shout mentally.

He ran faster than he had ever ran before, cursing himself the all time. "How could I let her go alone? How did she convince me of such thing? I turn out to be great bodyguard, didn't I?"

He could smell her close to him, but where was she? Soon he found her answer. She was laying on the street not far away from her school. A string of blood was trickling from her mouth. Her legs and arms where spread in odd angles. Her eyes were shut. This told him that she had fallen from a building.

He got closer to her, still in shock. Her hearth was beating slowly, and her breathing shallow. He sat next to her and held her to his chest.

--Please, open your eyes. Don't leave me, Kikyo!!! --He shouted --I need you to stay with me. This can't be true.--He caressed her check with golden eyes filled with tears. -- Come on, wake up.

Her eyes opened slightly. -- Inu…yasha…I…-- She whispered in gasps. He could see that she was in extreme pain. -- Don't speak you have to save your strength, Kikyo. -- he replied.

--I...love…you-- she said closing her eyes again.

--I love you, too. Kikyo, can you heard me? KIKYO!!! -- he said desperately. --Please, don't die. Don't you remember what you told me this morning? You told me that this afternoon you were going to make a wish to the Shikon no Tama, to make me human. We were going to run away and get marry. We were going to leave that stupid simple life you wanted so much. You said we were going to be happy for the rest of our lives. Kikyo, you have to survive. I promise I'll stop calling you bitch. I know you hated that I called you like that even when you never said anything about it. I'm your bodyguard, where am I going to work if you die? Who will hire a bodyguard that lets his employer die? -- A small smile formed in his lips when he said that, but it banish almost immediately-- Seriously, Kikyo you can't leave me. You're the only woman I had ever loved. I need you with me. -- She seemed like she didn't hear anything he'd said. She was dying in his arms. He buried his nose in her hair to smell her scent one last time. It had started to smell like death, but something was wrong. There was another scent mix with hers. Naraku's scent.

--That bastard did this to you. Damn him. He's going to pay for this, I swear to you, Kikyo, or I'll give my life for it. -- He couldn't think of Naraku right now; he had to take Kikyo to medical attention.

Inuyasha knew that the best physician lived in her castle, so he pick her up as gently as he manage, and started running to what she called home. By the time they reach the Goshinboku (it is located near the castle), the rain started to fall washing his tears away.

Her hearth stopped. Kikyo wasn't breathing anymore. Inuyasha stopped running, and leaned into the god tree. His arms tighten around her fragile figure.

--Kikyo-- he whispered, unable to say anything else. He was soaking wet, cold and so sad, he felt like he was falling into a big dark hole. He wasn't aware of what was happening around him; he didn't notice the hanyou getting close to them until he spoke.

--Inuyasha, the all mighty bodyguard got blind by ambition and killed Kikyo attempting to steal the Shikon jewel. That's so mean, don't you think? -- Naraku said with a cocky smile.

--What the fuck are you talking about? You are the one who killed her; I smell you on her bastard. -- Answered the silver hair boy with a string of red in his amber eyes.

--Maybe, but that's not what I told the castle soldiers that are on their way here. They're precious miko princess killed by a low half-breed. I think they were pretty pissed with you. -- Naraku's smile got bigger.

--Fucking liar. What made you think that I'll stay until they get here? --

The smile on Naraku's face became a smirk-- I'll make sure you'll stay!--as soon as he finished that sentence, the roots beneath Naraku's body attacked Inuyasha.

He couldn't react in time to stop it; all he did was protect Kikyo's lifeless body taking the impact on his back. They ripped his haori and skin leaving deep cuts on his back and legs. Those pinned him down to the ground along with Kikyo, the one he refused to let go. The rain got thicker, he couldn't see Naraku anymore, but he could hear his evil laugh.

Some minutes later, the castle soldiers and the guardian monk got to the Goshinboku. They saw Kikyo's dead body and the "body guard" of hers that held her with his bloody claws. Both of them soaking in blood (Inuyasha's blood, but they didn't know that.). They assumed that Naraku's story was true.

Inuyasha was badly hurt; he couldn't move nor speak to defend himself. He knew what they'll do to him. This was a peaceful kingdom; they wouldn't give the death penalty no matter what the offence was. The monk will seal him forever, and this could be worst than death. The person that was sealed will be conscious, but would never be able to move, hear, breath, see or talk again, just like been dead, but even worst he'll be able to think. He'll be left alone with his thoughts, and he'll probably go insane.

--Let's do the spell here. That freak spent a lot of time on this tree. --said one of the soldiers.

--Yeah! Let's see how much he loves it after being stuck in here for the eternity.--said another soldier with disgust.

--Very well, we better start the spell right away otherwise he may recover from his injures--said the monk nervously.

They dug a hole next to the god tree, laid the hanyou in a coffin without putting the cover on, and putted it into the hole.

The pain made breath and think accurately a hard work. He could not stop the sad thoughts from invading his mind. All trace of happiness had been wiped away with her death. He didn't have a reason for being alive anymore, not without Kikyo.

"I wasn't there for her. I couldn't save her. I was useless. I didn't avenge her. I didn't help; it's my entire fault and Naraku's. After all, he was the one who killed her." While he thought that, pure rage was pumping through his veins making his eyes red again. Immediately, he felt sad and empty; even if he had been able to kill Naraku she wasn't coming back.

--Do you have any last words? --asked the old monk to Inuyasha. The hanyou barely heard him; his ears were ringing with his inner thoughts.

A tear managed to slipped from his left eye making his way along his cheek --I'm sorry Kikyo--Inuyasha murmured before the mans putted the cover of the coffin on.

Everything went dark, he could manage to hear the monk chanting, but he knew very well that soon he won't be able to hear anything at all. After some time that seemed like forever to Inuyasha, the monk finished the spell, and Inuyasha was left to himself until the end of the world.

This was definitely the saddest day ever. The beloved miko princess of the Tokyo Kingdom had died, and an innocent hanyou was punished for something that he'll never think of: kill the person he loved the most.

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A.N.: That's all for now. I hope you like it. Please R&R. I want to know if you like it, so I can keep writing. ^_^