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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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"Naraku...What were... what were you even trying to accomplish?" In that instant when his whole being was already crumbling, Kagome sincerely asked.
"Huh? Kagome..." Confused, Inuyasha looked at her so surprised as the very spider hanyo did, hanging upon a resistant web preventing him to be engulfed by the Meido Zangetsuha.
"The whole time you've been fighting against us, it's always the same thing, over and over again! First you tore Kikyo and Inuyasha apart, forced Sango and Kohaku to fight against each other – and now, you're trying to use the love between Miroku and Sango to destroy them!" In the same moved tone, the girl enumerated his wicked deeds. Brown eyes flickered. "You can't stand love and friendship, so you've devoted your entire life trying to break people apart! But why?" With the inquiry, her voice sounded firmer. "Is that all you really wanted?"
It was impossible to hear those comments and questions without remembering the Scottish lass, which another piece of him was talking with right that moment, into some compartment of the giant spider that composed him. A cold, bitter chuckle echoed from his shattering lips.
"Why ask me now?" His broken, pale complexion no longer hid the grief on it's features. Anyone could say, while staring at him, that Naraku himself was on the verge of accepting defeat.
"You couldn't have done any of those things without understanding the human heart. The pain of loss wouldn't mean anything to you if you didn't know what it felt like to have a bond with someone, and I know that because I saw how tormented you were when seeing Annabelle dead. You know quite well how important those bonds are!" Not even she knew well from where the courage to speak all of that was coming.
And then, in synchrony with that unnerving conversation with Kagome, his other "Ego" finally heard Annabelle's confession and, suddenly, every inch of himself has vibrated, from his biggest part, shrinking between it's eight legs and almost hollow inside, to his tinniest, hidden within the ginger lass' womb.
"Nothing will ever satisfy you, because the Shikon Jewel didn't grant your real wish!" Without blinking, very direct, the girl pointed in one breath.
Scarlet gleaming eyes widened, yet in his thin lips a little smile formed.
My real wish, she says? Naraku thought of the fairies' descendant one more of endless times, then he sighed, seeking each memory he kept of her; the way the woman used to smile, how she walked, dressed, how her fingers slid through flaming locks of hair while brushing them, how she used them to delicately swing the harp's strings, the way she nestled upon his chest before sleepytime, and how she has confessed her love for him, between shouts and whispers.
Annabelle's heart. There it was, and he has conquered it at last. However, there were still unending obstacles to overcome and he had a debt yet to settle with that Jewel from hell.
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"A debt with the jewel? How so, Naraku?" Anna asked, feeling confused.
"Shikon no Tama does not grant powers for free. When I found that out, my very soul was already linked to the stone. As soon as I would die, I would share the same fate I imposed to Kagewaki. I would be locked into the jewel and would be forced to join a war between a legion of demons and a priestess for all the eternity. That is what happens in the depths of that preciosity, don't you know?" He stared at her, still afflicted by the past terrors. "That was why I delayed to merge with it the longer I could, even because after everything I lived with you, it has been a while since I wasn't sure if I really wanted to embrace my yokai nature completely. You did so much that you managed to make me appreciate my human side." His fingers ran down her coppery braid, reached the ribbon and untied it calmly, starting to undo the union between the locks. "But, in that moment, although my heart was in your care and I had sent you away, I was unsure about what would become of me. One more step and I could fulfill my deal with the jewel. In other words, to take Kagome's soul along with me."
"What have you done?!" The lass subtly moved away, hitting her back against the wall again. "You said you didn't kill them, so what happened to Kagome?!" Her hands first clasped on her own face, then covered her lips as her head and shoulders shook in horror.
Naraku has promised to be frank, therefore he told everything that succeeded then, that was how Annabelle learned about the new technique Meido Zangetsuha, first improved by Sesshomaru's Tenseiga, and finished by Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga after. She came to learn the arachnid's plan, which counted with Byakuya's aid, and how the inuhanyo and the highschool girl ended into that abyss where time seemed to be eternally frozen in pitch darkness; the pinkish pearl's depths.
She trembled while listening to him telling how Naraku had deformed from inside out when he finally absorbed the jewel. The descriptions of pain, of anguish were so vivid... The hanyo's semblance jaded, still haunted by such event. He dared intending to throw his spider carcass over the village where his journey has begun, so huge were his anger and the bitterness into his core. There was no more consciousness to make him stop, to help him remembering the consequences could be disastrous even for himself. Luckily, no one but he got harmed. Kagome vanished with the hanyo's last particles through an arrow which stroke him and the gemstone at the same time.
"... and that was how she got locked into that dimension, and so did I." Naraku sighed. "Inuyasha came right away." Ruby eyes closed for a while, then slowly unsealed blurred, lowered down. "That was the first time I have died."
"During the voyage, in the middle of a storm, I've felt the life inside my womb extinguish." She laid a hand upon her belly.
"To me, it felt as if I had slept over a century, Annabelle. There was nothing more than darkness, and darkness alone. I could hear everything, but not react at all. How ironic, you see..." He chuckled a bit, not looking so unsettled though, his features were serene, almost resigned. "If I hadn't taken Kagome with me, she wouldn't have made the right wish and the Jewel of Four Souls would continue to exist in this world."
Annabelle caught his hands firmly, anxiously waiting for the rest of the explanation.
"The jewel's goal was to chain Kagome inside of it, making of her something similar to priestess Midoriko, the creator of the stone. Kagome only had to make a desperate, futile wish and then she would be locked inside Shikon no Tama as I already was. But that girl... she surprised me one more time..." He smiled. "Even lost in the dark, yearning for Inuyasha to save her, Kagome wished that Shikon no Tama disappeared forever. If she hasn't made this choice, even if my heart was inside of you, I wouldn't have survived. Kagome has set me free, and also..." The redness of his pools oscillated, the hanyo's arms went down and his fingers rubbed against the floor.
It's true! Anna parted her trembling lips, recalling Hitomi's visit in her slumber. It has been three years, but if felt like happening a millennium ago. Naraku's tale matched with the Young Master's words in the end. In the rainy night when the ghost of a past love revealed to the lass the succession of events, the spider beheld the thread of his life break apart.
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As the blood-red eyes opened, they captured the golden luminescence contouring everywhere around, making the infinity of yokai gradually vanish. The web sustaining his head began to break as it's strands were fading, swallowed by light.
"It feels so warm..." Naraku resignedly embraced the warmness. He struggled so much to survive, yet it didn't seem to be his fate. "So this is how it feels to be in peace..." Then the hanyo, resumed to a head hanging into the shining vastness remembered the times he has felt something alike, always with the same person by his side. "Although you have allowed me to enter your heart, I cannot be by your side as I longed so. Forgive me, Annabelle Rose..." The rubies closed, surrendered.
Inuyasha and Kagome weren't there any longer, Midoriko had already sheathed her sword to find her own eternal rest, the monstrous creatures like Naraku disappeared one by one, but suddenly a voice caught the hanyo's attention, preventing him to let the light take him away:
"Do you truly believe it will be that easy?" A silhouette evolved by misty whiteness emerged in front of him. The ephemeral peace was gone and scarlet eyes widened apprehensively.
"Kagewaki?" He murmured. The aurum light once so sheltering now was burning his sight, along with the milky clarity around the spectrum of his rival.
"I told you we would meet in this place, remember?" As much as Hitomi's timbre was softer than Naraku's, the resentment in his speech made the young master sound dreadful.
"Have you come to carry out your revenge?" He smiled. Showing no malice nor debauchery, the floating head just lowered lightly.
"And would you do nothing in response?" The man stepped a little closer, his hands retained Naraku's floating head and lifted it, making almond and crimson gazes reach the same level.
"I will take whatever comes, Kagewaki. I have nothing else to lose." He affirmed resolutely, uncomplaining.
"You have no right to rest while she is in suffer." The human sentenced as his fingers pressed the corners of that squalid face so similar to his own.
"Go on with it then, make me pay." The hanyo looked directly at his mirror, never blinking.
"I have hated you like I never hated anyone in my life, Naraku. And, locked inside this hellish labyrinth, I have been forced to watch your every move and my hatred increased so much that it blinded me. My spirit darkened within, I did not bear to be tormented alone, so I began to terrorize Annabelle's dreams when that shard was into her chest. Before I knew it, I caused as many sorrows to her as you did, or even more. I myself poisoned the love she felt for me, I have made her so fragile to the point of her heart coming to open for you." He breathed in deeply, even not having lungs needing to be filled with air to allow him to continue. "You do not deserve her, she is definitely too good for someone like you!"
"Rejoice, Young Master. It seems my endeavors have been useless, I cannot be with Annabelle as well." His long raven hair, waving to every sides, started to become dust.
"You have the duty to stay with her." The ghost spoke demandingly. "Do you hear me?"
The hanyo's eyes dilated in surprise, he mumbled, yet the sound was unable to form any sense.
"My time is extinguished, there is nothing to be done about it." Hitomi proceeded placidly. "And what I want is not crucial in this moment, but what is good for Anaberu."
"What do you mean?" Naraku raised his tone.
"She needs you." He revealed sadly, without pauses, without hardness. "And you need her."
"Kagewaki, you..." At last the fading arachnid began to understand where the man was going to, and when noting the gleam into the rounded, twinkling almond pools, Naraku felt genuinely moved.
"Then, don't you dare to die in here and leave her alone!" The ghost demanded once more, contrasting with the docility which belonged to him in life. "You have to take care of that woman till her last breath, you must give your everything so she never suffers again. To make her happy is your obligation, have I been clear?" He shook the head in his hands.
"Yes." The hanyo answered humbly and fast, astonished with the sudden behavior of the lad whose he used to give some awful advices. Hitomi Kagewaki certainly was a better counselor than him.
"Good." The fingers slid upon the half-breed skin, and as they moved away, their length began to fade.
As Hitomi was disappearing, Naraku felt palpitating. The whiteness, before embracing Annabelle's first love, evolved him and finally took him away from that place.
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"I didn't bring you back by myself..." Anna rested a hand over her throbbing chest, she smiled and cried at the same time. "Hitomi guided you to me..." But, if Hitomi was locked inside the jewel when he died, why didn't happen the same to me that time? She wondered, remembering the day her gift saved Ailyn's life, and soon the dreadful sensation of flames consuming, melting her flesh and bones emerged, her joints stiffened as Annabelle realized something: Maybe I just escaped one hell and went to another, probably we'll never know... A thankful thought was spared to Sesshomaru then, the savior of her soul. There were so many conflicting sentiments flowing within, she trembled a bit, captured into them like a butterfly inside a glassy bottle till fingertips rubbed over her fist resting against her pounding chest. Sky-blue met the troubled redness, she inhaled, relaxing the shoulders then the hand, which lowered on the bed again, being held between the spider's fingers. Naraku waited until she looked a bit calmer, so he released her hand and followed with the revelation of truth:
"My heart was but a tiny piece of a whole, and Kiseki, the yokai you met, was another part of me, a protector of my memories and feelings towards you. In the right moment, this another "me" which I entrusted to care for you needed to return to my heart so I could reconstruct myself. A lot of me has been lost in that battle, I was weak, therefore, my heart stopped for a second time and you brought me back again. The regeneration process has been slow, dangerous. Success has never been a certainty and right now I am almost human." He told. "As I eventually found death, the Kazaana curse is undone and now the monk is free to live beside the demon slayer. Inuyasha and Kagome will be able to get along end everyone who I harmed may follow with their lives normally. We are free, us and them." The bare shoulders moved up and down, synchronized with a long sigh. Naraku finished the explanation and was staring at the lass, longing for her understanding.
The woman looked at him fixedly, speechlessly. Dizziness was evident in the lass crying in silence. The hanyo gazed at her patiently, bravely controlling his anxiety for an answer. His fingers climbed her skirt, stopping by her thighs, that has been his one single movement. Then, the reborn spider kept kneeling in front of the moth, fixated on the so melancholic figure.
"You have always been meticulous..." After such sepulchral silence, the apathetic lass said. She retrieved his gaze in the same intensity, yet her thoughts were divided into different poles. He said a great deal, Anna felt moved by some of his deeds, but inevitably questioned others. As much as she loved him so, the lass could still see some suspicious nuances, and certain wounds from the past came to reopen once and a while.
"You believe all I have done wasn't for you but for my own sake, am I wrong?" Naraku spat what she didn't have the courage to utter. His lips formed a faint smile, the deep voice sounded resigned. "I cannot blame you, it's natural that you see me this way."
"You should have told me, it would have spared me of much pain and suffering." She spoke frankly, as the hanyo was doing. "Didn't cross your mind that maybe I wasn't strong enough to stand this calvary? Perhaps you would return and don't find me anymore."
"I trust on your strength and determination, Annabelle." The hanyo said, unblinkingly convicted. "After all, you taught me to have hope." His hands turned, showing their palms, asking for the lass' touch.
Her shivering fingers found his, they entwined softly.
"Answer me with all sincerity," Naraku asked and she agreed. "Do you still love me?"
"Very much." The woman responded right away.
"Do you trust me?" He pressed the hands into his grip.
Belle opened her mouth, but she couldn't answer immediately. "I..." she hesitated, choosing words carefully. However, the delaying was already disconcerting her beloved arachnid. Then, sighing, the lass confessed: "I don't know."
Dreary crimson globes flickered, the translucency of his sorrow was moving. The arachnid's fingers unmade the grasp around Anna's, then they slipped from her reach.
"I see..." Unlike the grief mirrored in his eyes, the hanyo smiled and got up at last.
"Naraku..." She also stood on her feet, her womb was revolving in cold from within. To see him in such condition was too painful, so she stepped ahead and made them close again. Cautiously, Anna raised a hand and stroked his unconsoled face, Naraku's skin grew warm with the contact and those eyelids painted in light blue sealed.
"My dear Annabelle..." The spider murmured, then took the fingers gently caressing him, kissed them and moved away. "I cannot blame you for closing yourself to me, I deserve no less." He resumed to stare at her. "Even if I have spoken all of this in vain, I still have a few things to say."
"It wasn't in vain..." She sounded hoarse, with her agonizing heart feeling weakened.
"When I ordered Byakuya to gather resources to send you here, it wasn't a part of my plans coming together with you," he proceeded, not giving attention to the voluminous voice of the White Rose. "My goal was to keep you safe, and as you always said you wanted to come back to this place, I believed this would be the best solution so you could have a decent life and be happy. Then..." the air felt scarce, that bitter taste on his tongue made him clear his throat before going on: "you cried for me, you made me believe that you wanted to build a life by my side, and I, in my weakness, has let myself be leaded by that moment, so I did what I did. Not to get away, as you might think. And, when I was ready to remove my heart from your depths, when I was resigned with the idea of dying, you just said what I most wished to hear. My one true wish was to be loved by you, and you fulfilled it right in that day. If profoundly wishing to live by your side till the end is selfishness, then I am a selfish one. However, the last thing I want is to force you to deal with an unwanted situation." The pair of stern rubies stuck on the trembling, confused woman's forms. "If you still want me, I am aware that my words don't worth much, but I promise to entirely dedicate myself to recover your joy, I promise to work on becoming a better person, not only for you, but because I really yearn to do so and I believe I am capable of." He touched her shoulders, massaging them. Their foreheads touched and the black curly strands of hair blended with the coppery ones. "I can give you how many children you want, I didn't do it before because I didn't think it would be convenient to you carrying any legacy of mine. Unlike the other yokai and hanyo, I can choose if my seed will bear fruit or not. So, I promise to make you my wife, so we can start our family..." Naraku daydreamed that future while closing eyes, restraining his fastened breath and the water forming in his eyelids as his gasps mixed with hers and their lips exchanged the heat of blowing air. "And if you don't want me, what is understandable, I promise to leave forevermore. I will respect your space, I shall comply whatever decision you make," His fingers once again contoured the wet face, marked by salty drops, his thumbs circled her cheeks in a light caress. "Because I love you. I love you deeply."
Annabelle's arms wrapped around his neck in the right time, or she would have fallen otherwise, for so vertiginous she felt hearing his confession.
"And as I said before," the hanyo went on, trying hard to maintain his resolve, having her so near. "I just want you to be happy. Do you think you are capable to be happy by my side? Do you think I can earn your trust?" His lips brushed against hers, yet the meeting didn't come. Instead, Naraku lingered a kiss on the corner of her parted mouth. "No, don't rush..." His index finger laid on her wet lips. "I will give you some time so you can think carefully about this conversation we had."
"What?" Dazed, she blinked slowly while the hanyo walked towards the bed and pulled a checkered fleece blanket to cover his naked body. "Where are you going?" She ran to the arachnid and asked hysterically.
"Don't worry, I am not going far." He said, resting against the doorframe. "I saw the ruins of a big house this hill below." Naraku could hear her heart fastening when he mentioned the place. "I want to ask you to use this afternoon to think about everything I told you." Already on his back, gazing the landscape out there, he asked.
"What is the point of it?" The lass grabbed his arm, the hanyo looked over his shoulder at her fragile figure.
"You need a time to consider your thoughts and wishes for yourself, I do not want to interfere with your choice. Only you can judge what you feel. So, please reflect on the questions I asked, and if at the end of the day, when the sun will be setting behind the hill, you feel certain that you really want me, find me there then. I will wait for you until the last ray of sun still illuminates this land." At last, the hanyo initiated to step out of the cottage.
"Until the sunset then?!" She yelled from the door, watching him wander through the high grass.
"Yes," Naraku stopped for a while, "after the sunset I will be gone", he turned to the house and stared the lass at the distance. His vast dark hair waved with the cold wind. "But Annabelle, I do insist, only come if you truly believe being capable to give me this chance. If there is any doubt still residing in you, when the time comes, don't show up."
"Alright..." She couldn't deny that request, not after seeing the sincere smile he has shown before swirling his body to the other side and vanishing down the hill. Naraku's efforts to control his impulses and not trying to manipulate her with his words, as he usually did, were as clear as the sky.
Annabelle closed the door and leaned her back against it, holding the latch and closing eyes tightly. The lass suffered bitterly during the years she has been separated from him, she longed for Naraku day and night, not thinking about past mistakes and bad possibilities of future. Even when she had suggested to him to run away together, Anna didn't consider if her idealizations would be functional, or if they were nothing more than mere fantasies. His questions were pulsing into her head, the woman walked all along the small room her house was, it would be a long afternoon.
To be continued...
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In the next chapter we'll finally reach the end! I'm already missing to translate this fic :'(
You probably have recognized the dialogue between Naraku and Kagome in the begining. It's mostly from Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen, The Final Act. Episode 24, Naraku's Uncertain Wish. (Of course I gave myself the poetic license to change his one true wish here, LOL). In fact, we have a lot of references to this arch here, so if you don't remember so well what happened in Kanketsu-hen feel free to ask me, because I summarized the already existent scenes the more I could when writing the chapter. As I changed Naraku's wish, I also decided to "adapt" some facts, like the possibility of dividing his conscience into his huge body. In the series, the characters confront illusions of him created by Byakuya, but in here I decided that those shadows were like copies of himself, for all the scenery around was Naraku nonetheless. And that was how he managed to appear to Annabelle, when she got into the giant spider, while he was already facing Inuyasha and Kagome. Got it? Hope I had chosen the right words for my explanation x.x
Alright, now that we reached this point, I can reveal the meaning of Kiseki's name. Kiseki means "miracle" in Japanese (well, says Google). ;)
Hope you have enjoyed the ride so far, and that Naraku's fancy plan now is clear to everyone. Too crazy? Too unthinkable? Or do you think that was something Naraku could do? Well, I'll let my final considerations in the last chapter, but please share your thoughts with me, it will make me very glad. :3
See ya soon, kissuus!!!!
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