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. |
Hello, fellows!
When I was writing this chapter, I was hearing Eurielle a lot! If you don't know her work, I SUPER recommend it, and for what will happen lines ahead, if you want to dive into the moment just as I did while creating the scenes, there are three songs that inspired me very much. They are: Hate me, Rescue me and The Wish, all from the marvelous singer I mentioned above.
All said, let's go to the chapter! I hope you enjoy the reading ;)
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The couple found refuge inside a cave nearby the greenish meadow where they met a moment before. Naraku has put a barrier on the entrance, so no one would notice their presence around.
The western lass was sitting in front of a small fire pit which has been lightened up by her companion. Her palms were near to the flames, being warmed by the heat. For a while the hanyo has been sitting over one of the large rocks spread by the tiny space. Little drops of water were pouring of the humpy ceiling, forming puddles on the ground. Water's trickling sound was intoning mild melodic echoes like a lullaby.
Annabelle and Naraku weren't looking to each other, they would not dare. Both the hanyo and the human still were processing all their experiences together, the feeling of confusion was mutual. They couldn't feel more lost.
"Couldn't you stop this storm?" Examining the grout's entrance, Naraku ended that morbid silence.
"I could, but I don't want to" She answered, eyes focused on the dancing sparks of fire.
"Why?" Finally he looked at her.
"When the rain is over, I'll have to get out of this cave to face this situation, and I simply don't know what to do" She adjusted the pelt covering her.
"What do you want to do?" He asked firmly.
"I want to flee, to leave this place. I want to return to my homeland and pretend that none of this have ever happened". She just threw her answer away, without any care of exposing her vulnerabilities.
"You and I are not so different then" He got up and came to the Scottish lass, by her side the halfbreed demon sat, the two of them attentive on the flames' sight. "You would rather run than face your problem".
"It's completely different, Naraku. You cannot possibly be comparing"...
"No, it's not different at all" He interrupted her speech, staring at her visage.
"I never had to harm anyone to build my happiness" Although she could sense his eyes over her, Anna's view remained accompanying the delicate moves of the fire pit.
She heard him sighing, apparently impatient, yet in that moment Naraku did not seem to wish to start an argument. It was a relief he wasn't being ironic or sadistic, at least for a while.
"Whey you finally get the complete Shikon no Tama, what are you intending to do?" She asked, opening and closing her fingers, enjoying the warming sensation.
"I will ask it to make me a complete yokai" he was very succinct about the matter.
"And then?" Anna held her legs, resting her chin over the knees.
"And then what?" He asked, not giving much importance.
"You'll become a complete yokai and everything is over there, does your life come down to this"?
"When I become a complete yokai, I shall finally be free of my human heart" Naraku came a little closer to the flames and passed one palm over those ardent warmth. "I will be freed of Onigumo".
"All of that just to forget priestess Kikyo?" She gazed him sideways, a strange affliction revolving inside her belly.
"To release me of any kind of human feelings" His hand closed into a fist.
"Does it pains that much?" At last she turned her face and contemplated Naraku kneeling in front of the fire. The orange and yellow bright tones contorning his tormented features.
"You tell me. See how you look right now, still mourning Kagewaki's death, and shattered for losing your dearest friends since Inuyasha found out about our last encounter" So harsh, but frankly words his ferine tongue has spoken, yet he did not regret.
"It's true" Even if it was painful, she assigned. "Sometimes I wish I could forget everything, I wish it was possible to erase what I lived in the last months and return to be who I was. I wish I could retrieve my self-confidence, my hopes in better days yet to come"... As she was confessing her sorrows, her voice began to tremble.
"You can forget" The hanyo sat by her side again.
"But what would I be without those experiences? They are part of who I am" She put a hand over her chest. "If I get rid of everything I've been through, what will remain of my essence? If I just stop being able to feel, what will I be in the world? Will I be like a plant, like a stone? To stop feeling would be like ceasing to exist. Is that what you want Naraku?" Glaring into his rubies, her turquoises acquired a dark shade of anguish. "Do you wish to die?"
Naraku's eyes narrowed, analyzing her, perceiving in her features not only some expectation, but also an evident melancholy in her every part, and Anna indeed wasn't putting any effort on conceiling it.
"This look of yours, what is it?" Now it was him who was haunted by many questions. "I do not need anyone's pity Annabelle" He smirked even so. "The one who dedicates it's sympathy for me will certainly regret it in bitterness" Naraku inclined his body behind, almost laying upon the ground. His vast long locks were like a dark carpet thrown over the rocks. "I am not your Kagewaki Hitomi, never forget it".
"I know you're not him" Belle said confidently "The time when I would look at you and recognize someone else has already gone. I know who you are, as I know that when this storm is ended you will resume to do just the same atrocities. Maybe Kikyo is right and that is no healing to the stain in your soul... However, if you were so monstrous as people say, you wouldn't be here in this cave with me now, taking care of me, afraid that I may fall ill..." and she noticed him sitting abruptly, maybe would even get up, so she appealed "Oh, don't you start it right now. It's a little too late to play the role of indifferent" She crawled to his front and remained on her knees. "Don't you close yourself to me, not now" Her hand dragged upon the stony floor, till it reached one of his. "Trust me, I will never use it against you".
"Annabelle..." He pronounced her name in a warning tone.
"I cannot change your nature, nor mine, I cannot shape you as I would like you to be..." Anna's fingertips slithered softly over his.
"Are you so emotional just because I said that perhaps I care about you?" His voice resounded over hers, and then the hanyo pretended a false, but so false grin that Annabelle noticed immediately.
"Maybe I care about you as well, Naraku" She came closer still, eye on eye. "Maybe you're right about many things about me, as I am about you".
"Are you in love with me?" He curved his body a little ahead, this way his face got closer to hers.
Annabelle shuddered, frozen in place. She felt her cheeks getting warm, so did her quivering heart. In love? She wouldn't say that. Yet, was it only a willing to save his soul, like that miko suggested? Finding such answers was already a tough task, yet it became harder still when his hand softly reached her face and stroked it's blushed skin.
"Oh, Annabelle..." He whispered huskily, a smirk adorning his semblance. "You should have heard Kikyo" His thumb caressed her chin, and then her jaw. "She knows me better than anyone".
"No, she does not" Anna answered so fast, so confidently that made his eyes get a bit wider. "Not anymore".
"Oh" Naraku chuckled, yet she didn't seem to care about his mockery tone, and this time she was the one to decrease the distance between them a bit more. They were so close that her legs stood cornered by his. "Careful, Annabelle Rose" The hanyo warned, teasing her. Then, he felt those gentle hands seizing his face, fingers have caressed his cheeks and moved some dark locks of his hair away, arranging them behind his ears. His grin simply dissipated, Naraku remained quiet for a while.
What if I could reach his soul? Anna daydreamed while smoothing his pale countenance. Her fingertips contoured his nose first, then caressed his closed lips, and finally stroked his chin, analyzing every inch of his façade. What if that priestess is wrong? She wanted so badly to believe it. But why?
Naraku, in turn, did not dare to even blink his eyes, like keeping aware would prevent him to fall into some spell.
The pelt, once covering Annabelle, has slipped down and she trembled, feeling the cold. So, arms evolved her body, bringing her to the Spider's lap, sheltering the moth into it's embrace.
"You should take off this clothes, layers of soaked fabric will get you sick" He concluded while resting one hand over her wet back.
"It's so cold..." She moaned, tightening the grip around his waist.
"I borrow you mine" The hanyo suggested, as his hands were squeezing her back and arms, sharing his warmth with the human lass. What am I doing? He asked himself, though Naraku did not change his ways with her.
"Thank you" A discrete smile was hiding behind flaming locks. It was like they were two common people cherishing a moment, even if it was brief. She didn't know the reason why, but the fact was Anna has been feeling so comforted that no sorrowful memories were punishing her conscience in the present.
Naraku undressed the top part of his kimono while Annabelle was untying the ribbons in the front of her dress. He discretely glanced at her. Anna was on her back, to get some privacy. Sitting over the rock floor, she had to take off her chemise as well, every piece of fabric was still too wet, and the chilling cold blowing around was too much to stand, so the woman rubbed her arms, trembling a bit.
Suddenly, a firm chest pressed against her spine, arms entwined her shaking being, the heat of his body warmed her skin at the instant they entered in contact. His chin was over her shoulder, his deep, sharp breath ironically sounding within her ear like the most relaxing song.
What if I am special to him somehow? Turning to face her once worst nightmare, she wondered. Do I wish to be special to him? She slightly shook her head in denial What the hell am I thinking? What am I doing? Annabelle was almost laughing of her own despair when she felt the heavy, yet soft fabric covering her naked torso, and then, a white pelt delicately fell over her bare legs.
They communicated with each other only by gestures then. Both eyes locking gazes, while the White Rose has brought Naraku's hand near to her bosom and caressed it. He lowered his face, profoundly breathing, so his nose tip touched hers and there it remained as a silent request to her, from there on, take control of the situation. The halfbreed entity, filled of doubts, stood still like a marble statue, waiting for what it seemed to last a century to happen, as their lips kept almost rubbing their selves for a time, sharing the hot air, turning their breaths into one, untill Annabelle finally seal them in a tender osculation.
What are we intending with this? The hanyo had his persisting questionings as well. However his mind was pounding, his senses were doing a pretty good job on numbing it. His two precious scarlet gems were longstanding closed now, so he could concentrate his every piece on each sensation. Warm... His joints melted, yet the heat was different that time, it wasn't only about desire. There was something bigger, denser, a feeling he couldn't find a word to describe, similar to the serenity he felt when Annabelle gave up on killing him to save his life with her light instead.
At last, Naraku calmly parted his lips and tasted Annabelle's a bit. Her wet tongue's apex caressed the contours of his mouth, then it entered through that door without any rush, explored the space a bit, and retreated. Tremulous fingers have stroked the arachnid's cheeks, soon after they ran through those vast raven waved hair, till her hands rest over his nape.
"It's good, isn't it?" Anna asked while spreading soft kisses all over his face, affably holding him.
"It is..." Naraku hoarse murmured, dazzled by the amiable touches over his spider-shaped scar.
"I don't want you to give your heart up" She timidly confessed and released him from her arms, confusing not only her lover's murderer, but herself also.
"Would you love me?" Naraku firmly held her shoulders, maintaining their closeness. His eyes, his glare, his tone, all so intense that made Belle shiver.
Love? Mesmerized by his anxious gaze, her answer came as a question:
"And what is love after all?"
I wish you could show me. Maybe in another life, in another world, Naraku would have the necessary courage to speak such words, but in that place and time the further he could go was to follow his urges, and so the hanyo did. He pulled Annabelle by the back of her neck and returned to kiss her with the intensity which made justice to his torrid and inconstant behavior. What if she love him? Would he be able to leave all his ambitions behind just to share a common life with her?
Naraku longed to be loved by Annabelle, that was all he knew. In those instants of fleeting reciprocity, Naraku did not yearn to be parted from his human feelings, instead he relished on then like life itself was providing it's best treasures only for him.
They laid together while kissing, avid not for sex, but for sharing every thrilling sensation. They embraced one another, entwined their bodies, fitting their forms perfectly. Annabelle could swear she heard the exalted heart beats, not from Onigumo, but from Naraku itself.
To be continued...
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This was just another chapter that when I was translating from my original fic, I had to share into two parts and it's still a bit more longer than I would like, but I think there was no other way to make the division.
Hope you have enjoyed this rare moment when our favorite hanyo was being nice, even cute.
However, better have your hearts prepared for what will come next :X
See ya.
Kissuuus!!!
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