The Fall into Our Darkness | By : Kuronohime Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 12042 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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A a big, fat blowfly buzzed in the corner of the ceiling, its meaty body shining like an emerald armor in the light that bled from the jarred door. It skittered along the walls preening calmly its large transparent wings. It was readying itself to launch into flight again, to produce more that insufferable noise. Those thin, leaf-like wings that could beat hundreds of times per second sounded deafening in the silence of the small hut.
The demon laid wide awake with its mouth dry and eyes bloodshot, observing the small insect that prayed on his rotting flesh. Its hand twitched and the fly was zipped airborne. It circled around the convalescent's bed until the youkai could bear it no longer.
The demon laboriously panted through its gritted teeth and spent much effort trying to claw its way out of the bed. Slowly, inch by inch, it managed to lug its way, dragging its emaciated body, next to the wall. It dug its claws deep into the wooden wall for support, attempting to hoist its body up.
The blowfly waited.
The demon, however, was in much too weak a state. Its quivering body came tumbling down after it had managed to get itself into an upright position and put some weight on its legs.
It heaved, sweat glistening on its face. Defeated.
Its fist slammed the wall in angry frustration. Where was that human wench? It grimaced of the sudden jolt of pain that at this point seemed to be carved into its rotting flesh. The demon's fingers absent-mindedly brushed its mouth. It still burned.
***
"Please, m'child, listen. This is futile. Leave the lad be, this'll be only causing you pain." An older priestess tried, yet again, to compel her younger apprentice to give up on her efforts to nurse the demon back into health.
Kagome, who was at the river gathering drinking and washing water for Inuyasha, shot her mentor an aggravated look as she washed some of her cleaning supplies in the stream.
"And what? Let nature take its course with him? Allow him to starve to death?" Her hands angrily smacked the rags against the surface of the water as her heart pumped her anger to a peak. "I can't believe hearing something like this from you, Kaede. That is insufferably cruel."
Kaede knew her words to be harsh and were torn by the horrid insinuation of them, but she had no other way around it. She had already lived a similar situation.
"Kagome. I know it sounds terrible because that's whadit is." The older woman rubbed her tired face. "You forget that I've seen this already happen once. If my sister hadn't aided Onig-"
"Don't you even dare make that kind of comparison!" Kagome interrupted her mentor with a panicked shout.
"Inuyasha is not a monster like Naraku!"
Kaede could only stand there, in knowing loss, and watch over the girl with fire in her belly. She could not convince a young heart with reason.
She prayed Kagome's words to be true.
***
All the villagers avoided going anywhere near Inuyasha's hut. The demon was only contemplated by that fact. The only human it tolerated at its proximity was the young priestess who came in to nurse it. So, for now the priestess was allowed live. It would wait until being healed back to full health. The girl might even prove out to be of other use later. That powerful aura around her had not gone unnoticed by the demon. In fact, the girl's holy powers were so potent that her presence was almost painful to be at.
The demon licked it lips thirstily. That wench hadn't come to him yet and it was already past noon. It could then hear someone approaching, but whoever the arriver was, it was not the priestess.
The one approaching moved much quicker and seemed... smaller. A child.
The steps slowed down as they drew closer. The kid tried to sneak to the door but an anxious scream stopped the little twerp from peeking through the doorway.
"Niko, get away from there!" A worried shout commanded. It probably belonged to the child's mother who was also running to Inuyasha's hut.
"Awk, maaaa-a!" The boy whined, sounding disappointed. "I just wanted to take a peek."
"What an insipid thing to even consider! Haven't I told you it's dangerous!" She scolded him. The demon heard the footsteps rustling some feet away from its hut, then a dull smack. The mother probably had caught up to its offspring and had given him a parental punishment on the head. A sharp yelp and shufling ensued as the mother was dragging the boy away.
"The hanyou is crazy. He nearly killed that poor woman, Niko. What were you thinking, you stupid, stupid boy! You nearly got yourself..." The voice of the mother and the son began to fade until they were nothing but unintelligible murmurs in the distance.
The demon digested the short exchange he had been privy to.
Hanyou? A half demon?
The demon scratched its claws against the floor, wincing at the pain in its side.
It made sense as to why he hadn't healed after all this time. He was, in fact, not a full demon. He had human blood in him, he grimaced. His blood was soiled. Pathetic!
What kind of demon would lower its self-worth to copulate with a human?
An image, a vague reverie, flashed behind his eyes. It was of a woman, human woman. She had an sorrowful expression, but she was beautiful and had kindness in her eyes.
The demon grabbed its head and began spasming. The images distorted, changed rapidly to new ones that blurred and mixed. He could hear voices from far away. But now they did not come from outside, but rather from inside his own head. He trashed on the floor wanting to scream, but his throat was so dry he could only produce weezing.
***
Kagome trekked her way back to Inuyasha's hut and noticed the door was ajar. Left unclosed by her as she had bolted out the previous night, she remembered and blushed. She fixed the sack on her shoulder and briefly mused if Inuyasha had thought about their... latest encounter.
She pushed the door completely open, expecting to see the recouping hanyou on his futon, but the bed was empty to her very shock.
"Inuyasha!" A terrified wail came out of her mouth involuntarily. For a brief horrifying moment she recounted possible reasons for his disappearance. Maybe a villager, another demon, someone, had come in and hurt the inu youkai. Maybe Inuyasha had had enough strength to crawl out on his own – had he gone after someone?
None of the frightening scenarios gladly never came into fruition as on a second glance she spotted the hanyou next to the hut wall, slumped on the floor.
"Inuyasha!" She worriedly hasted to his aid, this time sounding softer in her words even though she was still noticeably agitated.
"What are you doing out of bed? You are not well enough to... to..." The tail of her sentence escaped her as she looked into those red orbs of the demon. They held an emotion in them. Confusion. He also looked hurt and tired, which was given due to the circumstances, but he had been in this condition for a long time and had never let her in on his discomforts.
"Wa...ter..." He croaked, his voice a dry whisper.
Nearly all color disappeared from Kagome's face out of sheer disbelief. Had he just spoken!
"Of... Of course!" She stammered and immediately began to rummage through the sack she had dropped on the floor. Her floundering hands finally found a leather flask and she pulled it out shakily.
"Here, let me help you."
The demon shook its head.
"No." He groaned and weakly grabbed the flask. He wasn't a nursing doll, may as he be half a weakling. But he had more pride than her kind.
Kagome watched in awe as Inuyasha greedily drank the water, some of the contents of the flask spilling from the corners of his mouth, dripping down his neck and collar. She pulled out some cloth from her sack to dry his neck, but the demon pushed her hand away.
When he had finished with the flask, a harsh fit of coughs raked his body. He dropped the flask which collided with a soft thump on the floor. The demon leaned its waned body against the wall and sighed.
"Tell me..." He began with a quiet, shriveled voice "... what is all of this?"
Kagome tried to help him sit up more comfortably, but he once again refused help, pushing her hands away. He didn't want her weakling palms running over his body, he could not bear her touches.
"No." He reprimanded her and glowered at her angrily. "Don't." He took a deep breath and tried to cough to get rid of his hoarseness. "Only tell. Who am I? Why am I... injured?"
Kagome tried to get past her own hurt of being rejected for helping. But she was more overjoyed by the fact that he was finally talking, communicating with her. As she had suspected, his injuries had affected his memory. That is why he had been behaving so strange. Everything must be very confusing for him now.
She nodded slowly and sat next to the demon. Pulling her knees up against her chest and leaning against the wall. She began explaining everything to him.
***
After hours had passed, Kagome had explained the demon everything she knew, everything she remembered. All about Inuyasha's life, Naraku and how he had become the threat he was, the great battle and Inuyasha's injury along with everything that had led up to that moment.
The demon remained quiet for most of the duration of her story. Only interrupting her on few occasions for further elaborations or asking her for some more water. On the whole, the demon now had a pretty cohesive picture of everything. The only thing the human woman had not completely disclosed was the nature of their relationship. She had told him how they met and how they had battled alongside each other, how she had helped gather the shards of Shikon no Tama. But it was a detail of unimportance. He was curious, but didn't want her to know this, so he didn't ask.
With all his newly learned information, he wanted to be left alone. He begrudgingly allowed her to assist him back to his futon for some slight inspections of his wounds. When she had patched him up, she left for the night, leaving him with water, some food and a chamber pot. She promised to be back by next morning. Kagome stood by the door, looking at Inuyasha as she was making her exit and could not hide her joy from the world. She practically beamed as she gathered the hem of her kimono and exited.
Pointless. The demon thought of her happiness.
It began dissecting all the information the human had given earlier.
The Shikon no Tama was destroyed. A jewel that was capable of making a half demon into a full demon. But it had been a miko who made the jewel. Maybe this young powerful priestess held similar powers that could turn him into a full demon.
It only now realized that its fingers had been rubbing on its lips while thinking of the girl. The unexpected incidence of the kiss plagued the demon. Why had it affected him so? Why did that insignificant human… He growled and punched his fist weakly to his bed-sheet. It was that accursed human side of his that caused this inner turmoil. He could not afford such thing holding any control over him anymore. It had to be eliminated. The very thing that had been the downfall of the previous hanyou - a heart. Of course the girl needed to be eliminated. He could not afford to have her around affecting his ability to make decisions. But yet… The big chocolate eyes filled with so much happiness haunted him. That little pink mouth. Not that he could bear to admit it to himself, but the feeling… Had been pleasurable.
His heart began to beat faster with excitement and anger. She was a weakness, a disease! He'd be damned to be a fool and pity her. But. If he couldn't, or chose not, as he tried to assure himself, to kill her, he would make her help him. She was the path he needed to take to become a full fledged demon. Once he succeeded and needed not her services anymore, he'd dispose of her. Separate the final shackle of humanity from himself.
And since his power would be greater than anyone's before him, he would be suited to become the leader of all demons. He could surely accomplish what that weakling, human, had failed to do. The priestess was the key. She would help him. They, together, would succeed in what Kikyou and Onigumo had failed in.
Satisfied with the plan, the demon relaxed. While she'd find a way to make him a full demon, he could surely find other useful purposes for her. A hot shiver shook him lightly. The thought full of possibilities.
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