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Moonlight's Shadow	By : northstar Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Naraku/Kagome Views: 40637 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter List
- 6
- 7
Disclaimer: The
characters of InuYasha are not mine,
they are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan,
Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of
this story.

Warnings: NC, Minor
(Kagome�s fifteen btw :P), violence, language

[A/N] I�m going
to ramble a tiny bit. Feel free to skip if you want.
First
of all, typo warning.
This is not beta�d. It will be in little while.
Alright~~>the
pairing will ultimately be Kagome/Naraku. There will
be mentions of Kagura/Naraku, Inuyasha/Kagome,
Inuyasha/Kikyo, and Sango/Miroku.
The only lemon we might see of these pairings is Kagura/Naraku,
but I doubt it. If you wanted Kagome to end up with Inuyasha,
I suggest that you find another story. There are plenty of stories out there
featuring this pair. For those of you that are die hard Inuyasha and die hard
Kikyou fans, I also suggest that you find another story. Don�t get me wrong; I
like Inuyasha and I like Kikyou
(except for the role she is cast in as the third person in a love triangle�I
really think she deserved better than that). However, both of those characters
will not be depicted as likeable characters in this story. As for Kagura, I like Kagura and
have a feeling that she will play a good part in this story later on, so plz keep the bashing of her to a minimum.
Some of you
mentioned that Miroku showed depth of character and
that might be because of someone in his past being raped. I hadn�t really
thought about it that much. Based on when Miroku
comforts Sango during her being depressed about her
brother being with Naraku, I think that he showed
this kind of depth of character.
Warning
also�there�s some, um, squeamish parts in this chapter.

=#= I would
also like to thank CiraArana for nominating
Moonlight�s Shadow for Best Dark Fic at IYFG =#=

Ch 7 Treacherous Wind

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Kagome stood out in the darkness, out in the light,
drenching rain. Her face was lifted to the sky, letting the cool drops run down
her forehead and cheeks. She was already soaked; but she didn�t mind. There was
a kind of purity, a kind of impersonal but kindred sorrow as the sky wept its own
tears.
Ten steps.
That�s how far she was from the door of Kaede�s
house. That was all the farther her fear and anxiety would let her go from the
protective presence of her friends. She wanted, desperately, the soothing
warmth of her mother�s arms. She wanted to fall through the bone eater�s well
and to return to the complete safety of her own time. There, she could go back
to being a regular high school girl, where the scariest thing she had to worry
about was exams. The part of her that enjoyed the adventuring, that felt
responsible for shattering the Shikon no Tama, had
been effectively exorcized by Naraku�s brutality. Kikyo was here, perfect, cold, undead Kikyo,
and she, Kagome, was only the flawed, untrained, misplaced high school girl
that stood between the undead miko and Inuyasha. The only part of her that truly belonged here was
the part that had been resurrected with Kikyo. She
had served her purpose; all she was now was a complication.
She wanted to go home.
All she had to do was venture out into the darkness, into
the rainy, shadowed forest beyond the village. All she had to do was face down Inuyasha, who was waiting out there, somewhere in the dark
branches of the trees.
Simple.
Where had she ever gotten the courage to do such a simple
thing? A small request from her, and Kirara would
take her to the well. One or two good sits and Inuyasha
would not be able to bother her.
Except the hanyou
could follow her to her time. And she didn�t know enough to effectively
seal off the well.
Useless.
Why had she never realized how helpless she was by herself?!
Sango, Miroku, Kirara, even Shippo; they all
could defend themselves more effectively than she could. Yet she, Kagome, was
the one with the exceptionally strong miko talent. Sango had no innate ability; her wielding of her giant
boomerang came from years of extensive weight training and hard work.
Sango was far more capable than
she was herself at killing youkai. If it were Sango, she would have bothered to develop and
hone the miko talent. Kagome realized now how thin
and insecure the excuse she always used was. So what if she would be compared
to Kikyo? Her miko
talent was powered by the extraordinary soul housed within her living,
breathing body. Kikyo�s miko
power ultimately came from the collection of stolen souls stored within her
clay body.
Being able to shoot arrows accurately just wasn�t enough.
Some of the training was useless on the battlefield, but how many times would
her being able to construct a simple barrier have kept the situation from going
from bad to worse? Looking back, she could think of several times when being
able to cast a barrier around their small group would have kept the others from
being injured. Would have kept Inuyasha
from being injured.
Would have kept her safe from Naraku.
Naraku.
Just his name was enough to make her knees go weak and her
eyes fill with tears. She wished, fervently, that it was just fear that invoked
that reaction. She hugged herself against the illicit and unwelcome shivers that
danced up and down her spine.
Naraku.
She hated the way her mind curled around that word, hated
the dark, exciting memories that name resonated with in the depths of her mind,
hated the way her traitorous body became languid and pliant at any thought of
him.
She hated him.
But to be able to feel such ecstasy
just one more time�
It would never be worth the risk of tangling with Naraku again, but�to feel something could wash away
the pain, the guilt, the shame�there was an attraction in that like none she�d
ever felt before. Where there had been order and reason to her inner being,
there was now chaos and confusion. She was no longer sure exactly what
she was feeling beneath all of the numbing, dampening weight of emotional hurt
in her chest. The only thing that could pierce through it was that pleasure;
the only one capable of giving her such a clean, simplistic feeling was Naraku.
She hated him; because she feared him.
She hated herself; because she feared her weakness to his
touch. She imagined him doing that to her again and the idea repulsed
everything that was left of the confident, strong willed, good intentioned
girl she had been. The idea captivated the part of her that was ruled by
emotions and instincts; by whim and by feeling. She could not stop thinking
about how it had felt, how it had made her toes curl. She was terrified; but
she could not stop the tingle that danced in her abdomen.
She rubbed at the bandage that covered the spider mark on
her chest.
She knew he would come for her again. It was inevitable; it
was something, deep down, she had already accepted and even expected. It
frightened her like nothing else could. And secretly, quietly, covertly; she
felt the tiniest prick of anticipation inside herself at that thought.

Kagura trembled in the darkness,
the wet sounds of things going plop into the slime at her feet more
unnerving than any silence.
She had promised to obey.
She was still being punished.
Naraku, as a hanyou,
lost his youki for twelve hours each month. Unlike Inuyasha however, Naraku could
choose when his time of vulnerability was because his body was made from a
melding of many youkai together. The problem was,
when Naraku lost his youki,
his body literally fell apart. Always before, Naraku
would retreat into the safety of the chambers below his castle. This time,
however, Naraku had been forced to retire into one of
the hidden caves that riddled the mountain where the temple was built. Usually,
Kanna was the only one he trusted enough to be near
him while he was weak, but the mirror youkai was off
searching for the missing Shikon no Tama.
She was here instead. Naraku
was not about to let her have that much freedom right after her disobedience.
He was keeping her close both as insurance against discovery by one of his
enemies and so he could keep a watchful eye on her.
Something else slithered over her foot and a wet, gelatinous
drop went splat against her cheek.
She hated it.
He knew that one of her deepest fears was that he
would become greedy for the power he had given her and gobble her back up into
the wretched, writhing mass inside of him.
A deep, disembodied chuckle resounded through the small dark
cavern.
�Kagura�� a husky voice
moaned through the background noise. �Feisty Kagura. I wonder how you would taste��
A tentacle wrapped around her ankle. She gave a small squeak
of surprised panic.
�Kagura��
She opened and snapped her fan shut loudly, shaking the
loose grip of the tentacle from her leg.
�You still need me. Remember?� she stated into the darkness,
the echoes of her voice overly loud in the cramped space.
�I am sure I could do without,� Naraku
purred as his voice gradually started to sound normal.
The ankle deep sludge decreased as the various pieces and
parts of him crept their way towards the vital parts of Naraku.
Slowly, agonizingly, with wet sounds, his body reformed as his youki returned in force.
Kagura shivered, desperately
grateful that the dark hid the worse of the sight from her eyes. Yet she dare
not turn her back to him. She looked down at a rather unusual mass that was
oozing by her foot and gave it a swift kick.
�Kagura,� his voice held a
wealth of warning in its tone.
�Aren�t you done already?!� she asked impatiently.
Being in the same chamber as Naraku with all his
slimy bits put her in a foul temper; and when she was in a foul temper, she
couldn�t mind her mouth to save her life.
�Patience wind child. I will attend to you in good time.�
Kagura�s gut immediately churned
with dread. She knew, on a basic, instinctual level, that she did not
want Naraku to �attend� to her in any way shape or
form. With razor sharp regret, she wished she had kept her mouth shut.

With amber eyes that saw the forest in the stark relief of
shadow and darker shadow, Inuyasha watched from above
as Kagome inched her way towards the bone eater�s well. He ground his teeth in
irritated frustration as she, body stiff and movements jerky,
make an awkward little march through the woods.
Idiot, he thought down to the dark haired girl. Don�t
you know better than to wander off in the dark by yourself?!
He would have confronted her by now, but beneath the very determined
look in Kagome�s eyes was an underlying vein of desperation. Any attempt
to stop Kagome from whatever goal she was set on achieving would result in a
very, very harsh sit.
He might be a little dense sometimes, but he wasn�t that
stupid.
He leapt to another tree branch and settled himself against
the trunk. By his estimation, she had only come about the fourth of the way into
the woods and would not make it to the well until after midnight. For a long time, she had dallied just within
sight of the lights of the village fires. He had almost spoken to her then, but
her tears had started again and he had figured that she wanted some time alone.
Well, almost alone. He wasn�t about to let her out of his
sight for a moment right after she�d gotten taken by Naraku.
Odds were, the bastard still wanted something to do with her and would try
again.
Still, she should have better sense than to go this far into
the forest alone. He could only figure that her destination was the well, but
why was she going now without Kirara�s or his help?
Maybe she was trying to sneak off without him knowing.
He snorted.
As if that would ever happen.
But she might think she could.
He pondered that thought for a moment.
What was so great about her time? Why was she going now?
They needed to stop Naraku.
Shouldn�t she understand that best of all, having just been kidnapped by him?
Which brought him back to his core
problem. She had been kidnapped by Naraku
before.
But something about this time was different.
She was different.
And no one would tell him why.
What had Naraku done to
her?!

Kagura perched on the edge of the
well, wondering to herself why there was a well out in the middle of a forest.
She had spotted Kagome, with Inuyasha tailing her
above, and had decided that this spot, for whatever reason, was the girl�s
destination.
She looked down into the barren bottom.
What did they call this place?
Ah yes. The bone eater�s well.
Did this place have some connection to Kagome? The girl had
always seemed a little�different to Kagura. It would
make sense, on some level, if the girl was from somewhere else.
Like a different time.
There was a crash as Inuyasha
sprinted out of the forest, Tessaiga drawn. Kagura rose to her feet and opened her fan, discarding her
wayward thoughts as she prepared for battle.
Inuyasha raised the blade and Kagura tensed to dodge the impending attack.
That never came.
�Sit!� Kagome�s voice shouted from under the trees.
With a loud thud Inuyasha�s
chin hit the ground. The hanyou struggled to rise.
�Sit,� Kagome said again, appearing from between two tree
trunks.
Growling curses under his breath, Inuyasha
began to extract himself from his crater.
�Mou!�
Kagome made the sound in exasperation. �Inuyasha, sit!�
This time, the hanyou did not get
up.
Kagome turned to Kagura, a sad
smile on her tired looking face.
�I�m sorry,� she said quietly.
Kagura flicked her fan in Inuyasha�s direction. �Can I get one of those for Naraku?�
The wind witch flinched as the friendly light in Kagome�s
eyes died. She looked away from the raw emotions on the young girl�s face.
�Never mind. Bad joke.�
�Thank you, for helping me, at that time,� Kagome started
hesitantly. �It must have been hard for you.�
Kagura stifled the guilty flinch
that threatened to betray her. Her heart twisted with self loathing at what she
was about to do.
Idiot, she chastised herself. You don�t have
a heart. Naraku has it.
�Kagome�� she started and fell silent. Partially
because guilt was eating away at her; partially because she knew how to play on
the girl�s feelings.
�Yes?� Kagome asked; her dark eyes wide and guileless. She
didn�t suspect a thing. Even now, after Naraku had
raped her, she still trusted so easily.
Naraku will break her of
that, Kagura thought to herself.
Aloud she said, �Kagome, the thing is��
She fell silent, called to mind the latest memory of Naraku �attending� to her, and let the abject fear and
torment of those moments wash over her face.
�I�came to say goodbye,� she finished, letting the anguish
of her existence seep into her voice.
�Goodbye?� Kagome exclaimed, her face shadowed by panic and
worry. �What do you mean, goodbye?!�
�I�ve finally pushed Naraku too
far. He�s already decided he�s going to get rid of me; but he�s given me an
impossible task to complete first. He�s toying with me, Kagome! He wants just a
few more cheap thrills from torturing me before I�m gone. I�ve always
been his plaything. Unlike you, there is no escape for me!�
Kagura watched as Kagome�s hands
flew up to cover her open mouth, her eyes wide with shock and pity.
Gotcha, Kagura smirked
quietly to herself, grim amusement warring with the guilt and shame from her
heavy, non-existent heart.
�You can�t know that for sure! Kagura,
there has to be a way for you to be free!�
Kagura almost blinked in
disbelief. Yes, what she said was absolutely true, but she hadn�t really
expected Kagome to care so much. She had thought she would have to take
Kagome by force. Naraku had assured her that tricking
the girl like this would be enough.
She hated to be wrong.
In some ways, simply snatching the girl was a more honest
kind of betrayal. This deviousness was beyond Kagura;
only Naraku would play this kind of twisted
mind game and gain such amusement from it.
She, herself, was single mindedly ruthless and selfish when
it came to her own self interest, but she was always direct and to the point
about it. All others were ultimately secondary to herself,
but usually she faced her enemies head on in an honest, face to face battle.
But Naraku�Naraku loved
nothing more than breaking those that fascinated him. He loved the
deception within deception. And Kagome�s fragile and ill placed trust in her, Kagura, was an excellent tool as far as he was concerned.
Damn the girl for being to gullible. Damn the
girl for expecting some kind of loyalty and trust from her based on one gesture
of kindness.
Kagura clenched her teeth and
forced herself to follow through to the end.
�There is,� she said quietly, playing her part perfectly. �I
could die, before he has a chance to make it more painful for me.�
Kagura gave Kagome a sad and
suffering look. She let her voice tremble with her next words.
�I�don�t think I can do it myself. Do you�do you think you
could help me?�
Kagura smiled inwardly as Kagome
reeled back in affronted shock.
�I would never help you kill yourself!� the girl
protested.
Kagura gave a soft sigh. �Then,
I�ll tell you goodbye.�
�That�s it? You�re just going to give up?!�
Kagura started at Kagome�s
passionate response. She had expected the girl to protest, but from the way the
girl sounded, it made Kagura want to believe the girl
could really help her.
Which was impossible, of course.
She placed the edge of her fan against her lower lip in a
pose of thoughtfulness.
�I doubt there is anything you can do to free me from Naraku. But�if I had your help, then the task Naraku commanded me to do might not be impossible,� she
said slowly, as if wondering aloud to herself.
Kagome took the bait.
�What task is Naraku making you
do?� Kagome inquired.
Kagura opened and closed her fan.
She looked at Kagome if considering.
�Ever since�the Shikon no Tama has
been missing. Naraku has bid me to find it and
retrieve it for him, but I have no way to find it and no idea where to start
searching. Kanna has already tried looking for it,
and if Kanna can�t find it, I doubt I can�� she
trailed off, gave Kagome a half hearted, hopeful look. �Do you think you can
find it?�
�Of course,� Kagome replied confidently.
Kagura hid her triumphant smile
behind the folds of her fan.

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[Ending notes] Just out of curiosity, and to get a feel for
future lemons for this story, who likes/is open to/prefers tentacles used
during sex? Is anyone strongly against it? It�s Naraku
my dears, there�s all kinds of kinky possibilities�.
Also, for Naraku and/or yaoi fans, I am working on a yaoi/tent
oneshot between Kohaku and Naraku called Dark Comfort. There is a teaser segment in my
LJ if you�re interested. J
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