InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Truth's Tears ❯ Purple Haze: Part One ( Chapter 6 )

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Chapter Six ~ Purple Haze

Part One

His mother paused, her eyes closing as she reminisced to herself. A smile briefly touching her lips before she opened her eyes, unshed tears glimmering in the bright light. Taro watched as she turned her head away from him and stared at the stark white walls of the hospital room. One aged hand gripping at the stiff pink blanket around her waist, slowly her tired, sad eyes turned to him once more. Taro knew, in that instant, that what she had to say next was the cause of her life long pain, the reason he barely ever saw a smile light up her face and for some reason watching her Taro felt his heart break with hers.

"Taro, we won but we lost as well...."

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"Inu Yasha!"

Kagome fought the darkness coiling around her mind, she watched helplessly as Kanna sucked enough of her soul to leave her powerless. She had been trapped, caught unawares whilst lost deep in her thoughts. She instantly knew that this was a fight she was not going to win, and now with her eyesight fuzzed and her heartbeat slowing she was frightened.

"Well, well. It seems your hanyou protector isn't around to rescue you this time. Ah well, it makes our job easier." Kagura's honey-sweet, caustic voice broke through the last barrier of Kagome's conscience-ness.

Kagome struggled to open her eyes, the darkness of Kanna's magic swirling in her mind and spreading throughout her limbs. She had to stop them, she had to fight this and warn everyone, she had too....

The darkness wrapped Kagome into its embrace, stealing her away from the reality

beyond her closed eyes. And yet even in its fierce hold, Kagome could still make out Kagura's

haunting laughter and mocking words.

"We have completed our mission, let us let the boy finish the rest before he dies."

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Miroku stood frozen in place, his eyes wavering between the slouched form of Sango and her brother.

`He's going to die before this is finished,' Miroku thought sadly. He wanted to comfort Sango, to let her know that he understood the pain she was going through, but he couldn't force his body to move a single inch. Closing his violet eyes Miroku turned away, Sango would be alright, she'd live on and in doing so Kohaku would live on as well.

"Lady Sango, its time." His words were softly spoken.

Sango nodded her head while she tenderly caressed Kohaku's cheek before leaning down and whispered softly into his ear.

"Live a bit longer for me, brother. I will avenge our family, everything will be fine."

Kohaku stayed motionless, his face pale and peaceful as he rested upon the borrowed mat. Sango pressed her lips to his brow in a gentle kiss before she turned and offered her thanks to the elderly couple that would be watching over Kohaku.

Sango rose stiffly from her brother's side and turned her gaze to Shippo's worried face. She forced a gentle smile to her lips before speaking to the scared kit.

"Don't fret Shippo, we will be back shortly. With Kagome...and...Naraku's head."

Shippo merely nodded his little head, hot tears streamed down his cheeks as he gave up trying to look strong. He wanted to go along. He wanted to help save Kagome but he respected everyone's unspoken wishes to stay behind and care for Kohaku. It's what Kagome would have wanted him to do, to care for another instead of risking his life where he would do no one any good.

Sango quickly grabbed her bone boomerang, stepped outside into the early light and stood behind Miroku. Wordlessly they moved forward, going in the direction Inu Yasha had bounded off in, mere moments after they had heard the news. The final battle had come.

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Soft sounds drifted through her hazed mind, bringing Kagome back from the darkness. Eerie melodic sounds, voices whispered just above her, drawing her further from the peacefulness of the black she was now in. Her mind fuzzy, and her body was suddenly overcome by a strange shiver. She wasn't cold, in fact she was quite comfortably warm so why was she shaking so badly? The voices quickly became louder as she struggled back to conscience-ness, only then to realize she was unable to move.

Bright eyes flew open. Jewel shards, Naraku had all of the jewel shards, Kagura had kidnaped her while she had been lost in thought. The strange cold shiver increased sharply forcing Kagome to gasp lightly, the same eerie whispered sounds drawing her eyes to their source.

Dark walls draped beyond a heavy mist, crisp shoji doors stood bright against the gloom of the room. Her eyes slowly landed on a shadowed figure resting against the brilliant reds of the horizon beyond the window.

Naraku!

A startled gasp broke from her immobile form as her eyes widened, gazing at the evil beauty that was Naraku. His deceptively soft eyes retained her gaze as he continued to murmur softly into the room.

"Show me your darkness, Kagome, show me your pain."

Kagome whimpered as her entire body throbbed with an unusual bitterness, her heart quivered with his words and her mind slowly excepted the strange chant.

Kagome fought against the weakness of her body brought on by the thick miasma of the room, she had to escape. She had to get away from the bitter-cold, from Naraku's soft gaze, she had to get away!

"Inu Yasha! Help me! Where are you, Inu Yasha?" Her mind screamed as she fought another wave of Naraku's bitterness trying to grasp at her heart.

Images of Inu Yasha rushed her confused mind. Images she had carefully hidden away from herself and the world. Inu Yasha cradling Kikyo against his chest, Inu Yasha holding her only to push her away and into the well, Inu Yasha gazing at her with a sorrowful expression.

"Show me your darkness, Kagome, show me your pain and I will ease it."

Kagome cried out suddenly, thick miasma filled air rushed into her lungs as she continued to fight the battle between her mind and heart. A new sensation flooded her body and burnt its way from behind her heart.

Kagome writhed pathetically against Naraku's influence in her heart, pushing her back into the dark recesses of her own mind.

"No!" Kagome cried out weakly, moments before the burning sensation completely overtook her body sending her back to the land of dreams.

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Naraku ended his soft chant his cold eyes regarded Kagome's dulled ones, her pain and darkness had been difficult to find. For it was the same as her light and life, delicately stored away and protected. The hanyou Inu Yasha.

"I have great things planed for you, my dear little miko." Naraku murmured softly before he rose and stood above Kagome's prone form. A smile full of malice touched his lips as he beckoned her to rise, "Great things indeed."

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A dark cloud rose higher into the sky, spread out almost as if a bird were stretching it's wings. Naraku was sending his darkness over more of the land, his evil enveloped everything.

Inu Yasha growled low in his throat, the tree tops flashed quickly under his feet as he leapt through the dense canopy.

"You bastard! You fucking bastard!" Inu Yasha cried out at the purple haze before him. Lines of worry and anger etching themselves deep into his forehead as he fought the fury burning through his veins.

It was all his fault! If he hadn't taken Kagome, if he hadn't given in to his own emotions she would still be safe and sound. He should have never slept with her, claimed her!

Stopping in his flight of fury, Inu Yasha clenched one clawed hand and struck the tree nearest him. Bits of wood flew into the air and landed in his milky hair, but Inu Yasha paid them no mind as his head lowered, hands clenched tightly at his sides while he continued to berate himself about his actions.

How could he have been so stupid! Hadn't he learned his lesson with Kikyo, with Kouga and Ayame? Naraku preyed on the love of others and used it against them, and he had once more caught Inu Yasha.

Muted, Inu Yasha sank down onto his haunches, his hands slackened to his sides and his head slumped against his knees. He had failed. He had proven unable to protect Kagome like he had once promised to do. If he hadn't been so torn with her emotional breakdown, if he hadn't felt the pain she showed stabbing him in the chest, he wouldn't have given in to the passion in his heart. If he could have only pushed her away like he had done before then she would be fine, she wouldn't be in that bastard's care. She would be yelling at Miroku for groping her, laughing at Shippo's antics, conversing with Sango or testing to see how close to the other side of the world she could sit him.

A small glimmer of light flinted off of Inu Yasha's cheek as he brought his head up and looked at the bright sky. By meeting him, releasing him, she had been fated to a horrible future; one she shouldn't have anything to do with in the first place. But she had released him and had accepted her fate to follow along his side looking for the shards of the shikon jewel.

And now Naraku had her, using her like he used Kikyo. Putting in order some twisted plot only he understood, a plan that would eventually end with the loss of someone's life.

"Kagome." Her name fell from his lips heavy with untired emotion as he continued to stare bleakly at the sky.

"Please be safe."

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Seeing with unseeing eyes. Everything was vivid yet dark at the same time, pictures of faces floated before her. Feelings withered and yet flamed deep within her heart. Hatred and passion mingled as one, leaving her confused.

Yet Kagome knew she was still alive, she could feel the warm breeze brush gently through her hair. She could taste the acidic flavor of Naraku's heavy miasma and she feel the cold pressure of Kagura's hand on her forearm. And yet her heart felt heavy and cold in her chest as Kagura lead her through the courtyard. Where they waited for Inu Yasha and the others to arrive. Where they waited to fulfill the last part in their plan.

Fresh tears flowed down Kagome's cheeks. The bow in her hand rose upon its own accord, they were going to kill him and by killing him they would kill her. By her hands Inu Yasha would be slain, her hands would be bloodied and her soul would shatter.

"Miko, are you ready to slaughter those you love?"

tbc...

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