InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Vengeance, Death, and Love ❯ Vengeance, Death,and Love ( Prologue )

I could still hear their laughter at me as I ran through the forest. Tears of betrayal and hurt flowed down my face in trails; the pounding of my heart ringing through the air. I had tried to reach the well but, it was no longer there, it was gone and I had no way of getting home. Pushing myself away from the well I ran towards the North not caring were I went as long as I was far away from the memories that clawed at my heart and mind. I ran for many days, never stopping never resting, I pushed myself to the brink of death but I continued on. After many days I reached the northern lands. My body was in pain and my heart was shattered into a million pieces in which I could not mend. My friends had betrayed me; they stole the Shinko-no-Jewel from me for their own desires. I had trusted them with my heart and in return they turned around and destroyed it. They used me for their own desires in order to obtain the Jewel and for that I blame myself. I was warned by Kikyo that they would betray me in time and I, being stupid, ignored it and for that I have paid the ultimate price…the price of Power and the life of my pup. The power of the Jewel shall condemn all those who wish and desire it, they shall suffer and die slowly and I will watch it unfold. I can do nothing to stop it. My powers have been stripped from me until my eighteenth year and until then I have trained myself into the ultimate killing perfection, in order to defeat the new darkness that has arisen from the ashes of the Dark One, Naraku. That new darkness was once my friends now they are my enemies and they shall die by my own hands. This is my punishment for failing my duty, for failing my duty of guarding the Jewel from darkness and keeping the world safe and for failing to protect my pup. As a guardian I have failed and I must correct that failure. This is my journey, this is my life, and this is the beginning of hell.