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Web of Lies (Naraku/OC/Kagewaki Hitomi)	By : Crystal_Tsukino Category: InuYasha > General > DarkFic Views: 903 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and it's characters does not belong to me, only the OCs that will appear in the story are mine, yet I have no personal interest of profit with it. It's free entertainment from a fan to fans.

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Annabelle's eyes grew wide till her mouth frayed and reverberated a strident scream, making the windowpanes shake.
"Calm down." The figure cautiously rose and walked towards her slowly. One step after another, with his arms half lifted in an attempt of showing harmlessness.
The farmer lass threw herself behind and her back hit against the wall. She gasped, visibly confused and frightened.
Standing in front of the woman, Naraku held her stiffened hands and calmly brought them to his chest.
Anna instantly felt a heart wavering fast there. In a first moment, a smile opened up, curving her lips and her face flushed. Yet, soon the rejoice gleaming on her semblance faded away and her hands slipped from the hanyo's skin to touch her own cheeks.
"I am losing my mind..." She concluded apprehensively.
"No, you are not!" He cupped her face between firm fingers and leaned down, so their eyes could reach the same level. "It is me, Annabelle!" Then the arachnid smiled, filled with satisfaction.
"But... how?!" Still aloof, she squeezed his arms to be certain. It felt so real!
"You." Naraku untied the cloth covering the ginger locks and took it off her head. Then, he brushed the coppery fringe which now reached her chin. "Everything happened because of you."
"I... I don't understand!" The woman shook her dizzy head, gazing at him, then looking around while she was almost biting her nails of nervousness. It felt like if she blinked, Naraku would disappear as if he never has been there to begin with.
All of sudden, Anna recalled the birth of her child and how the tiny thing looked like - a purple pulsing mass. Then, she remembered finding Kiseki in the swamp, but not holding her offspring anymore. At last, Annabelle relived the scene when the hanyo emerged from the mud as his limbs were being regenerated and her eyes almost fell from their orbits. The lass' trembling hands touched her belly, squeezing the dress.
"My baby..." She whispered. "Was you?!" Then shouted.
The pair of rubies didn't oscillate, they remained locked on her visage, a smile still sparkled on his lips, as if he felt proud of his lover for her sagacity of reaching such conclusion without needing any further explanation.
Belle covered her mouth and got up at once. Her shoulder bumped on his, then she sought for balance leaning on the table right ahead.
"I felt all symptoms of a pregnancy!" The lass exclaimed, panting. "What were those nausea, those vertigos?!"
"Your body reacted this way because your brain believed your womb was carrying a child, when in fact it was protecting my heart." He told, still on his back, looking at the ceiling.
"You made me believe I was pregnant..." She clasped a hand on one of her warm, pinkish cheeks. "Everything I felt and dreamed for this child..."
"I can give you as many children as you desire." The hanyo came to her, getting close enough to touch her arms.
"I thought you were dead..." Anna didn't seem to listen him, words sounded tremulous and very low, inconstant.
"But I am not, don't you see?" Naraku rested his chin upon her shivering shoulder. "I am right here."
"It was a lie, it was all a lie..." She shook her head, dragging her nails over the wooden table, then she dodged rapidly to the side, running from the hanyo's touch. "Will you never get tired of playing with my feelings?!" Between tears and fury, Annabelle's reaction was to start throwing objects in his direction. Plates, candles, ornaments, any trinket at her hands' reach she aimed at him, the Spider managed to evade almost everything, just one or two flying things hit an arm or a leg of his.
"Liar, bloody liar! I lived in hell for your sake!" She vociferated. "And now you tell me you have been here this whole time?!"
"Enough!" Naraku held her arms and induced the woman to walk back to the bed, where he made her sit and he kneeled in front of her.
"I could have died because of this madness!" She insisted on shouting.
"I would never let this happen." The hanyo said vehemently, his hands restraining those which were trying to slap him.
"How could you do anything, if you were just a piece of flesh pulsing inside of me?!" Anna struggled.
"It's not true, Annabelle. I looked after you until the end." He frowned, getting annoyed.
"What?" She shook her head again, suddenly the sky-blue eyes blinked and her face blushed one more time. "Kiseki?!" The turquoises widened wildly. "You were Kiseki?!" Anna inquired in a tone even more severe, and mostly embarrassed. His discreet smirk was a proof the hanyo knew her cheeks were flustered because she thought of a kiss into a caravel's cabin. Profoundly ashamed, Anna pulled the sheet beside and covered her head. "Unbelievable!" The complaint sounded muffled.
After briefly chuckling, Naraku pulled the sheet off her head and arranged some ginger strands which got disarrayed. Finally, he held her long braid and put it upon her throbbing breast.
"Why did you lie to me again?" Speaking a bit lower, the melancholic woman asked.
"I didn't, Annabelle." His fingers rubbed against the borders of her crying eyes, wiping them. "I just omitted a truth that sooner or later you would find out, and I did it to protect you."
"Or did you do it to protect yourself?" Her whole constitution was shuddering, feeling hot and cold at the same time.
"Maybe both..." The hanyo sighed and lowered his gaze for some instants.
"You will never change." Her head shook negatively as she murmured the conclusion.
"I was ready to die, Annabelle, it is a fact!" He squeezed her knees, staring at the lass again and this time he sounded harsh. "Then you wanted to meet me in that cave and told me things that shattered my resolve. You gave me a reason to wish to live, and because of that I have been reckless and inserted my heart inside of you. When I recovered my reason, I wanted to take it off your womb, I regretted leaving you in such situation, yet you resisted. Am I lying?" Naraku confessed, his fingertips pressing against her knees, carving the lass in place.
Belle, on her turn, evaded his direct gaze, feeling numb and speechless. Her answer came as waving her head, denying this inquire. As much as she felt confused, the lass remembered well when Byakuya met her in Jinenji's house and was ready to do the dirty job, then Naraku himself insisted on freeing her from the burden and she didn't accept it, believing to carry his baby into her womb. What if she knew it was his heart instead, would she have acted differently?
"Why haven't you told me?" She covered her forehead with a hand first, then the eyes, massaging the eyelids.
"I didn't know if it would work, it was a desperate measure. I didn't want to fill you with hopes and make you suffer later, as I already did so many times. I might not have survived. In fact, death embraced me twice, however your light brought me back." Carefully he took the hand pressing the sheet, beside her leg, and used his thumb to stroke her palm, rough for working daily on the land. "But, Annabelle, when you came to my encounter before coming to this place, I gave you a clue. Don't you remember?" The arachnid smiled.
Sobbing, she squeezed his hand firmly, wavering while recalling the terrifying farewell hour. The pain which has tormented her in the period of three years still ached intensely within.
"You are my heart, Annabelle Rose." Naraku quoted himself, his smile diminished first, then faded. The deep, so direct hoarse timbre melted her down. At last, the woman remembered and almost lost the air. He wouldn't stop there. Naraku laid her hand upon his chest once more, and stuck on her sorrowed features, he kept on confessing:
"You are my heart, not only because you have sheltered it inside of you, but also because if there is any good feeling blossoming within me, it is all for the sake of you. Before I met you, I didn't care about anyone but myself, I couldn't bear to witness other people's happiness, I wanted them all to suffer as much as I did and even more. So I found amusement in the pain of the others, I disdained every bonds I couldn't have, and I let the Jewel convince me that all I needed in life was power. Ah, yes..." The spider sighed and narrowed the rubies. "The more powerful I would be, more distant from the human essence I hated so much I would become."
"Naraku..." Anna felt his heart pounding and got worried. She has never seen him on such conditions before, kneeling humbly on the floor while talking so much about himself.
"No, I ask you to not interrupt me." His gaze raised on the turquoises' direction, Naraku pressed her shaking hand against his chest once more, keeping it there. "For the first time I found courage to speak these things to you, let me finish." He got her other hand and also laid it over that chest that moved up and down anxiously.
Annabelle took a deep breath and stood silent, attentive on the arachnid's languid semblance.
"As you are aware, I have born from a fusion between a bandit obsessed with a priestess and countless malignant yokai which took advantage of this condition. What I knew about love, or what I thought I knew, was the putrid Onigumo's feeling towards Kikyo. Love, to me, was merely the desire of possessing, and wanting something impossible to have was a great weakness. I should care only about myself and no one else, so I would become undefeatable. Although thinking this way, still..." He paused to let out another sigh, "I couldn't help feeling envious of Inuyasha because he managed to get close of Kikyo. Since I couldn't have her, I decided to do what I did, you know... and I destroyed the future they planned building together."
Anna bit the lower lip, a strong bitter taste came up her throat and she almost failed on swallowing it back. In the way he was kneeling and affectionately holding her hands over his anguished heart made him look another person, not the one who has committed such horrid atrocities. However, the hurtful arachnid's words marked the past as a tattoo, permanently there painted on his fair skin.
"Fifty years passed, Inuyasha has been sealed, Kikyo died and I hadn't Shikon no Tama in my grip. In the beginning I was furious, revolted, and then seasons changed and I lived as a hiker, always devoted to seek for power, if it wouldn't be through the Jewel, I would achieve my goal using other methods then. I acquired some abilities absorbing several demons, I cursed many people's lives till one day I heard the Jewel has regressed to this world... Kagome, the girl from the future, brought it back to this time." His features looked irritated, Anna couldn't guess if it was because of the girl, or for Shikon no Tama itself. Well, she didn't question, for he wouldn't stop talking anyway:
"It was around this time that I saw you into that forest, surrounded by light, like a star shinning in the middle of the nature."
At last Naraku released her sweaty hands to caress the dark-blue and green tartan covering her thighs. Scarlet pools twinkled.
"That unknown power attracted me and I longed to learn more about it. So I infiltrated myself in that castle as the counselor of Hitomi Kagewaki's father." He noted the lass wilting even more and realized that bringing back those memories would do them no good. Therefore, the hanyo skipped some facts and went on speaking:
"You fascinated me, Annabelle. First because of your power, then for your unique beauty and behaviour. I wanted to have you anyhow, it did not matter what I would have to do to succeed..." He held her head, making her bend ahead, provoking the meeting between their foreheads.
"Although I denied any sort of human instinct, I did with you what I didn't dare to do with Kikyo. I took you in my arms, convinced that when finishing to satiate my lust that fever within me would cease..." His fingers ran down her nape, underneath the braided locks. "Yet I just wanted you more and more, I longed for your skin, for your scent and for your gift. I thought if I had your body and your power I would feel satisfied. Your presence in my life came to overshadow Kikyo's relevance. In other words, everything about you was convenient to me. You were a valuable trump that I had in hands."
Indignation flourished into her depths and Annabelle grasped the hanyo's wrists, trying to undo his touch and move away from him. Each one of those sayings, uttered with such passionate emphasis, were striking the lass like daggers piercing deeply into her belly. So was that what she meant to him, a prize?!
"Then, you tried to kill yourself in that river..." He held her shoulders and pulled Annabelle even closer, not letting the woman have a chance to escape, he needed her to listen it to the end, so the arachnid proceeded with his speech: "and for the first time, I felt that pain that comes from within. You see, when Kikyo died I felt enraged, because when sacrificing her own life, she prevented me to achieve my goals, it was like stealing a candy from a child. Yet, when I thought you were dead, I got desperate." He swallowed and closed the eyes a bit before continuing, everytime the image of her pale soaked forms crossed his mind, it was like living that nightmare all over again.
"You have been the first person who treated me with compassion, you were the first to see through me something beyond than a hideous monster, even when facing my true essence and knowing the terrible things I have done. A part of me resented you for pitying me, and the other – which I denied the most I could – grew warm and grateful, I dare to say. When I took you from the water and saw you weren't breathing, I felt terrified, not only for the possibility of losing you, but also for the visceral pain I was feeling." His nose rubbed against hers while the small rubies shut firmly, wrinkling. His breath went out heavily from his nostrils and parted lips.
Anna moaned a lament, incapable to hold the warm storm pouring down her face, dripping over the skirt. She covered her mouth with one hand, pressing fingers against the trembling gap, still there was no way to silence the moans to come.
"And you, with your kind, sheltering gestures, didn't realize you were destroying the stone wall I have built around my humanity. I didn't know how to deal with something so new, and I didn't want to give up on the plans which I dedicated myself for my whole life. I did what I knew to do so well. I shattered you, and for the first time, I felt the weight of remorse crushing me." Once more it felt hard to push the bitter taste on his tongue down, Naraku almost grunted in discomfort.
He silenced for a while to wipe her cheeks with his cold, gentle fingertips. Then, the hanyo arranged her bangs behind. Seeing the pair of clear watery pools detailedly, he kept unveiling his soul:
"Suddenly, possessing your body, your power and even your mind wasn't enough. Deep inside, I yearned I could brighten your face with a smile, as Hitomi Kagewaki once did. What was the point of having you on my bed every night if I couldn't make you happy? I will not lie, I couldn't care less about the things I did to other people, their suffering is irrelevant to me." His last comment sounded as natural as if he was mentioning an ordinary matter.
She shrunk, shaking her head frantically until the hanyo restrained it, then uncovered her lips from her sweating hand to contour that rosy soft skin with his index finger.
"Your sadness, however, If I could, I would turn back in time just to undo the wrong I have caused you. You can't even imagine how much I regret everything I have put you through. You may not have hated me, yet I did, and still do, for being the one who has wilted you so, for stealing your dreams away."
Speechless and deeply moved, Belle subtly embraced the Spider and stroked his vast dark locks exasperatedly.
"Look at yourself, even now trying to solace me, forsaking your own pain." A sad smile appeared on his complexion as Naraku softly retrieved the enlace, ghosting his hands over Anna's back, which was arched ahead.
"I didn't believe I would ever be what you needed, I am a half-breed demon and you a human, time runs differently for the two of us. Besides, my enemies wouldn't stop chasing me down, they could only rest after the reckoning. Immersed in desperation, I would do whatever it took to numb all the pain I felt, because you were right. At the same time as I felt tempted to enjoy my humanity by your side, I also feared the suffering, I wanted to evade from this situation in the same way I ran from all others. Still, by that time, even if I wanted it with all my strength, I could no longer act so selfishly. Don't you ever think it has been easy to send you away from me, Annabelle."
Naraku pressed the woman against himself, their cheeks compressed against each other and her tears marked his pale skin.
"I lied about my feelings and sacrificed my will, believing that would be the best for you, for I knew you deserved better than anything a bastard as myself had to offer and I acknowledged that keeping you by my side would put you in great danger. That was how I found what real love is, because I didn't see you as something I wanted to possess, but as someone I needed to protect, even from my very self, though I was certain you would never love me back. Whichever signs that you showed me, I read them as acts of benevolence and pity." As his words kept coming out, Naraku gradually broke the enlace and just held her arms, caressing their extent, trying to ease her tremors.
The woman breathed in, between sobs, seeing Muso through Naraku, holding her by the legs while uttering confessions that now she finally understood. The urge to question why she didn't respond different, why she didn't realize her own feelings sooner was tearing her core. At last, Anna could notice how Naraku has suffered in silence, she engaged so much on his misfortune that left her own behind for a while.
"But I have failed, haven't I?" Although Naraku chuckled, all his features denounced how disgusted he felt. His fingers poured from her arms. "Every path I decided to trail has made you suffer again in a neverending cycle and I..." his voice wavered a bit, and Naraku needed to clear his throat before continuing: "I gave in to my resentments, made you suffer again and even lost you to death. If it wasn't for Sesshomaru, you..." a feeling of suffocating made him clench the jaw and grit teeth.
Remembering their meeting into Onigumo's cavern and still being able to feel the warmth of his exasperate embrace, Annabelle also felt the air fleeing from her lungs. If the arachnid was managing to restrain the storm longing to descend the eyes, the lass has already been drowned by her own salty cascade and couldn't stop shivering.
"Shikon no Tama has it's part on it, I must say." A bit calmer, he resumed to speak. "The souls of a thousand yokai were tormenting me from the jewel's inside, they fed on my dark thoughts and helped me to plan even worse schemes. I cannot absolve myself of guilt, however I have to admit that I didn't act alone and, fatally, like many other fools, I let myself be seduced and was manipulated by the jewel."
"I knew it!" Annabelle scoffed, squeezing and scratching her shirt. "If only you had listened to me..."
"I had past the point of no return. I couldn't get rid of that stone even if I wanted. My soul was already doomed." He tried to relax her stiffened fingers with soft caresses. "Shikon no Tama couldn't grant my one true wish, and I was already convinced that it would be better if I simply vanished from this word, but not before getting revenge on the ones who have stood in my way." There was still a glimpse of resentment into his tone and gaze.
"What have you done to them?!" The question echoed across the chamber. The hanyo could see in her widened eyes and pale complexion how she cared for his enemies. Red eyes seemed darker.
"I confess I made them suffer a great deal," Naraku's timber sounded deeper, disturbingly stern, "but I didn't achieve to kill them," he sighed then, "so rest easy now."
Relieved, Annabelle rubbed her eyes, trying to look less vulnerable she straightened her posture and asked, breathing deeply: "What happened after you sent me away, Naraku?" The time gap between her sobs increased as her tears and tremors started to calm down.
"When you showed up, Sesshomaru had already started to open way into my body with his new sword, Bakusaiga, which blade is so strong that every piece of flesh it touched couldn't regenerate. Meanwhile, a piece of me was confronting Inuyasha and Kagome." He smiled discretely while recalling the moment of truth, the turning point.
To be continued...
XXX
Hey, everyone!!!
If you still have doubts about what happened, in the next chapter Naraku will finish his explanation. Hope you're enjoying the story though, I had to cut this moment in two parts or the chapter would be far too long. So, what are your impressions till now? Please share with me :3
See ya soon, then.
Kissuuuuus!!!
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