InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ unreturned love ❯ my burden ( Chapter 1 )

On a hill lies a castle shrouded in miasma; is where our story begins to unfold. The lord of this castle stood watching as the groups of soul collectors surrounds the castle. Each of the soul collectors arrive bearing souls for its master, but none succeeded in bringing the souls into the castle. The castle was shielded with a demon's barrier. The lord continues to watch as he recalls the incident of fifty years ago. Yes, the incident that gave him this mighty body and at the same times a wrench burden. It was the desire of a pathetic bandit to obtain the shikon jewel and the pure priestess; that had made this body. The lord clenches his hand as he return to the present to feel the burning in his back. He walks over to the woman lying on the futon. “It is she that has been plaguing me with this burden” he moves his hands closer to her neck. But for some reason the burning feeling on his back got more intense. He stops his hand from approaching any closer. The woman slowly opens her eyes; “your disguise is fine Onigumo”. “That name brings me back to fifty years ago. That useless bandit that you nurtured had infused his body with many demons, thus forming me, Naraku” the man said. “So that's, what has become of him” the woman stares into the man's scarlet glaring eyes. “Kikyo, you were once upon the living, so filled with pureness compared to now, nothing but a composition of clay and ashes" Naraku mocks. “Naraku, you are nothing but a half demon” Kikyo counters. Naraku grasps Kikyo by her neck and lifts her from the ground with one arm. Kikyo struggles to break free but Naraku's grip on her was too great. She no longer struggles; her hand falls down by her side and her breath begins to slow. The burn feeling on his back surge upwards again; and this time it had become more troublesome. He loosens his grip. He gently places the unconscious maiden back onto the futon and sat beside her, watching.

“Kagura, how long do you plan on standing there” a woman from the hallway enters the room. “Naraku, what are you planning this time? And who is this woman?” Kagura mind wanders. “Go to the far west of this castle and there should be an abyss filled with my toxic miasma. Take this shard and give it to the demon there. Wait there, and bring this with you” Naraku gives Kagura a shard of the jewel and a hive of the poisonous demon bees. Kagura flies out the window and heads west just like what Naraku had ordered. “When you expose your weakness will be the day that you will die, Naraku” Kagura said to herself. Naraku carry on what he was doing before he was interrupted by Kagura. “You're helpless without the souls of the dead” Naraku said quietly as if he's trying not to wake the sleeping priestess. ”The reason why you are still here is because you wish to kill me. And because of that you never cease to think about me. Kikyo, it's your hatred for me that had made you to always think about me” Naraku reasoned. A desire of wanting to touch Kikyo stirs up inside of Naraku. He reaches for the tip of Kikyo's hair. Kikyo awakens, she grips onto his wrist and purify it quickly before he gets the chance to pull it back.