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. |
"The shard... do you want me to take it off?" Kagome asked carefully.
Anna stood silent for a moment, thinking about such crucial offer. There was a time when Kikyo has suggested to do the very same thing and she didn't accept it, on that circumstance a part of hers was stubbornly fighting to keep her feelings and sensations towards Naraku alive. In the present though, the lass was no longer that woman. All she wanted was to be released from the chains which tied her to the hanyo. She would never be sure if what she felt was merely an illusion caused by the jewel shard as long as that piece of glass resided her bosom, and although Annabelle feared to discover, feared to lose, she wouldn't waste that chance again.
The foreigner nodded, closed her eyes and her arms rested straight down, hands pointing below, unmoving. Annabelle softened every piece of her body, surrendering to Kagome's powers, optimistic about the girl's skill being sufficient to break the malignant energy preventing the shard to be removed.
At first it wasn't an easy task. The priestess' apprentice touched the lass' skin and felt an electric discharge repelling her hand. So a pink halo contoured her fingers and Kagome concentrated on her goal. From the moment the luminosity covered her entire hand, the sparks from Naraku's power did her no harm. Her palm attracted the shard like a magnet. As soon as it touched the tiny glassy lozenge, the shadow once covering the gem faded away and the shard regained it's natural pinkish color.
When that hateful thing abandoned Annabelle's skin, she felt an instantaneous relief, like her body has gotten lighter. Although still feeling disconsolate, the anger wasn't pulsing inside as deeper as before. She felt dizzy then, and needed to seek support on the rocky wall behind.
"Thank you..." Anna whispered, filled by a sudden warmth, it should be Kagome's sacred energy. She couldn't help but embrace the girl to express her gratitude.
"How are you feeling, Anna?" Kagome retrieved the gesture.
"I believe I am reborn," she said. Will I be free from now on?
"Go and live your life with dignity. You don't need to get involved with Naraku's schemes anymore." Sango arranged her flaming hair.
"Inuyasha," Annabelle called. "I hope one day you can forgive me."
"Forgive what?" He stared at her, looking embarrassed, by then his sword was already sheathed and his arms were crossed. "You did nothing to me, stop that!" The inuhanyo gave some clumsy slaps on her back "Come on now, enough with this sentimentality or I'm gonna throw up!"
He doesn't hate me then. Moved, she sobbed twice.
"Oh, please, is crying everything you know to do?!" Blushing, Inuyasha complained. "Let's just leave this stinky cave!"
"Agreed!" Miroku raised the staff and smiled playfully.
They all left Onigumo's cave together, Kagome and Sango were holding Annabelle's arms, the basket and the fruits stood behind. When the group arrived in the village, the ginger lass thanked Kaede for hosting her for so many days, then she gave Shippo a last embrace. The little fox was reluctant to let her go at first, the big emerald eyes twinkled with teardrops forming on their corners, but Kagome got him into her arms and finally convinced the child that he must accept the foreigner's choice. So the school girl, the inuhanyo, the demon slayer and the monk reunited around her, their eyes looked peaceful in their own particular ways, still she could tell not a single one of them wish her harm or blamed her for any misfortune.
"Thank you all, for everything... my dear friends." Smiling tenderly for those people who saved her so many times, Anna said and then climbed Kirara, adjusting a bag with her belongings on her back finally she went away, vanishing between the clouds along the big feline of several tails.
"I hope she finds some peace..." Kagome prayed, staring at the orange twilight sky, then she looked at her dearest companion also gazing the heights. Inuyasha could be harsh on the outside, sometimes he was quite unpleasant, yet his eyes never lied, a deep empathy was shining within them. He didn't need to utter a word for Kagome to understand that he just wished the same for Annabelle in the end.
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Kirara was fast, it would not take long for them to reach the shore, but Anna didn't want to tire her travelling comrade, so she chose to stop by a stream where them both could ease their thirst.
When they were on the riverside, a noise sounded from the bushes, dark green leaves shook. Anna searched for any long twig over the grass to use as a weapon in case she needed. When finally reaching one, the lass looked to the direction where she has identified the strange movement and immediately gave up on catching the wooden stick.
Before her eyes he showed himself, as gorgeous as an entity descended from heavens, his whiteness illuminated the wood darkened by the lowering sun.
"Sesshomaru..." She murmured, a half-smile formed on her lips, her turquoise pools were as direct as his, but docile even so.
They stepped closer, stopping in front of each other.
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So now you are finally free from me... Naraku was watching everything through Kanna's mirror. Since he has returned to his hiding spot, his mood seemed worse than usual. Sitting over the wooden floor, he sighed from time to time. Behind him, on the other side of the door, the little boy with clear eyes and hair was peeking his actions while laughing inside.
"Till when do you intend to sneak around?" Naraku sounded annoyed. "I gave you a task to accomplish, remember?"
"Akago already has found some clues of how we can cross to the netherworld to get the last Shikon shard." He rolled his eyes while answering, visibly bored.
"Good, so say what you must and go find another thing to do then." The hanyo didn't bother to look back while speaking.
"Who is she?" The boy fixated his lavender eyes on the ginger woman's image.
"No one, Hakudoshi". Naraku's rubies closed while he waved one hand, pointing the door to Kanna, it was time for her to leave as well.
His new incarnation hummed, a smile grew on his infant lips as his gaze discretely narrowed. How many perverse ideas should be boiling into the little demon's conspirator mind?
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Kirara was tranquilly drinking water while Sesshomaru and Annabelle stared at each other in silence, gold contrasting with celestial blue. His sensitive hearing captioned her fastened heartbeats. The lass restrained her sharpen breath, keeping the control over her emotions, and with dewy eyelashes Anna finally said:
"Thank you!" A trembling smile lingered on her blushed face.
Something warm and soft touched his hand, it was her very own. Without squeezing, nor rubbing, it has been such a light touch that could barely be felt, and was so fleeting that Sesshomaru almost doubted it had happened.
He gave one more step ahead, studying the woman's state more precisely. She looked healthy, her fair skin flushed, full of life and youth. The moon carved in crystal was shinning in many colorful shades, and inside the lass' body there was no shard anymore, that was the so called difference he has noted since the beginning of their reunion.
Then, the yokai looked at the big demon cat on the riverbank. Soon he was gazing at Anna with an interrogation discretely drew on his features.
"Kirara will take me to some people that I know..." Like she could read his mind, Anna explained, still astonished when remembering the noble yokai's deed.
Sesshomaru hummed and nodded.
"I'm glad I have found you before leaving." She confessed serenely, yet still moved. The daiyokai, on the other hand, said nothing, just kept his eyes locked on her visage thoroughly. "So..." a bit embarrassed and sighing, the lass finished: "One more time, thank you very much for what you did for me. I am forever in debt with you." Her eyes lowered, focused on her feet.
"You will be Naraku's ruin." The white yokai sentenced at once, his aurum globes pierced over her vulnerable form.
"What?" Anna lifted her face slowly, looking at him confusedly.
"I always knew..." the slender demon leaned a bit, putting his fair face in the same height as hers. "From the beginning..." He went on speaking while his eyes rolled upon the foreigner's every feature. "Since I saw you both in the forest." His fresh breath caressed her chin, making her shiver. "You are his weakness."
Annabelle felt vertiginous and frightened, just like in that day when Kikyo's arrow was stuck in her thigh and the daiyokai has been the one who removed the blade sunk into her flesh. Aloof, the lass stepped behind and breathed in, drops of sweat dripped from her forehead and from the pale skin which the cleavage didn't cover.
Sesshomaru's words affected her in a cryptical way. Even without the shard into her chest, she couldn't even consider the possibility of Naraku's death. What the hell was that? Wasn't she free now?! Anna looked to the sides and her hands slid through her hair. She heard steps. Agitated, her head shook, then a hand suddenly held her face, the lass could feel sharpen claws softly rubbing upon her skin.
"There is something special about your eyes..." He said in the same unaffected manner. "Even those lower yokai of Naraku have noted, so did I." His fingers slid from her skin, one by one, till she was free from his touch. "Would that be what has captivated Naraku, to the point of making him almost beg for your life?" Golden eyes discretely narrowed as he wondered.
"Is that why you brought me back?" Anna retorted with another question. Tenuous irritation made her feel an inner heat and has instigated her gaze to keep focused on his, even though the lass' core still shook within. "Did you revive me because you believe I am Naraku's weak spot?"
"No." Silver eyelids blinked slowly.
"Why then?" Gratitude has turned into charge. "For Rin? I had the impression of hearing her voice that day. It was for Rin's sake, wasn't it?"
"No." He repeated in the same deep calmness. Of course the girl was a determinant factor, yet there was more behind it.
"Why?" Anna insisted, giving one step beyond to their closeness, diving her clear globes into the few features that yokai was showing.
"Because I wanted so." The answer sounded almost murmured, like his voice was a constant, soft wave, yet deep enough so no one's sight could reach what was underneath. Instead of clarifying things, he made her feel more lost and confused than before. Annabelle opened her mouth to ask another amount of questions, but a very known voice has interrupted her reasoning.
"Miss Anaberu!" Little Rin emerged from the bushes. When seeing that tiny dot in yellow and orange, Annabelle immediately threw herself on her knees, opened her arms and received the child with a tight embrace.
"Rin!" Anna couldn't restrain the emotion, so she raised, carrying the girl, and spun around with her. "I'm so glad to see you!"
"I thought we would never meet again!" Rin exclaimed, also moved by the moment, sinking her cheek on the foreigner's shoulder.
"As always, this useless woman has to trouble lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken, the daiyokai's shadow, came sinking his wooden staff in the sand.
"He says that, but lord Jaken cried with me when he thought you have died, miss." Rin whispered in Anna's ear.
Chuckling, Annabelle put the girl on the ground and then she held the tiny green yokai in her arms like he was a sort of pet.
"Hey, woman, I demand you to stop that right now!" He shook the arms till receiving a kiss on the forehead which made his face burn red instantly.
"I have missed you too, toad-face!" She filled his face with soft kisses, firstly making Jaken grumble, then sigh.
Sesshomaru watched them in silence from a certain distance. After teasing enough the daiyokai's servant, Annabelle talked a bit with Rin till look at him at last. With nothing more to say, the lass got up and walked towards the white demon. He stood on the same place, motionless as if someone has impaled him in there. Belle only ceased stepping when she was as close as before. Without smiling, without blinking, the woman just sighed before doing an unthinkable thing.
She embraced him.
Rin and Jaken freaked out together, the girl blushed while showing a large smile, her brownish eyes shimmered like sparkling stars. The faithful Sesshomaru's vassal, however, got pale like he has seen the most terrible haunting.
"He will kill her, this time she will really know the underworld!" Verdant hands squeezed scaled squalid cheeks while his yellow eyes looked bigger than usual.
Sesshomaru's pools, on their turn, widened just a bit. His arm raised discretely, then returned to it's place. He didn't retrieve nor rejected her gesture. Where his body was it remained, as if he was carved in stone. However, an observant person like Rin could notice how he got calmer in time, until his eyes almost seal.
This feeling of peace... is it part of her power? He wondered, reminding those instants when the desperate human has shown her talents.
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Although the light was so clear that his eyes felt like burning, there was a moment when Sesshomaru managed to have a glimpse of the ginger lass kneeling on the rising grass, her whole body was evolved by such luminescence, the flaming locks were gracefully waving to every sides as, on her back, translucent butterfly wings appeared as discrete and briefly as a mirage.
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"I don't care what your real motivation has been." Annabelle's murmur brought him back to the present. Her face was resting over his shoulder while her hand stroked his back gently. "I will never forget what you did for me." Fingers slid smoothly on his silvery locks, hovering upon his nape. "I know, Sesshomaru, that deep inside you did it because you have a kind heart." Oh, those dangerous words, if they were uttered by any other lips, maybe the cheeky one wouldn't survive to tell the tale. However, her timbre was so sweet and discreet, and the yokai was feeling such a warm aura contouring his forms along with hers, that every inch of his body has been pacified.
Anna loosened the embrace gradually, then she stepped behind. In the end, her fear vanished, allowing a tender smile to flush her face. The lass was already by Rin and Jaken's side.
"It has been a pleasure to see you all again, but now I must leave." She sighed.
"But why, miss Anaberu?" Rin whined "You could come with us!"
"Forgive me, little one..." The lass lowered down and touched the child's shoulders. "Some dear friends are waiting for me, I can't let them down."
"But..." she sniffed, restraining tears.
"Oh, don't be sad, you have your dearest Lord Sesshomaru to look after you, and you after him. Besides, the toad-face there needs some attention..." Anna murmured, pointing to the tiny fellow.
"Hey!" Jaken crossed his arms.
Though Rin deeply longed for her friend to stay, she ended up accepting that convincing the lass was out of the question.
"You'll become a great woman someday, I'm sure of it." Anna said, already walking to Kirara. "Take care of these two and Arurun, right?"
"Right." Brown eyes twinkled, holding tears, yet she smiled and her cheeks got pink while listening the foreigner's last commentary.
Annabelle jumped over Kirara's back and waved an arm before asking for her journey's companion to take flight. The trio watched her going away from below. That was the last view Sesshomaru had of her. Golden eyes followed the red-haired beauty in a clear-blue western dress elegantly riding the big cat demon.
You... The eyelids painted in red sealed for a moment, the afternoon breeze gently stroked his face. You were the reason. He kept for himself not only the motive, but also the awful sensation he has experienced while seeing her laying on the grass, pale and impotent, contrasting with the woman who moments before has united herself with Mother Nature as they were one, giving back not only Ailyn's life but also recreating all the ecosystem around. His pride hasn't blind him enough so Sesshomaru couldn't notice that Annabelle has changed something inside of him, into his very heart.
Rin stopped by his side, sighing. The daiyokai stared at the little girl and felt his chest warming. No, it hasn't been only the foreigner's brief presence in his life what has caused transformations, his heart already was facing a melting process for a while. The Universe itself seemed to conspire to spring overcome the winter within his soul, using the most unexpected ways.
To be continued...
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Hi, dear readers of mine! Hope you are enjoying the journey so far. I thought of writing Annabelle healing Sesshomaru's arm, but I left the idea because I didn't want to change the main story and how he finds Bakusaiga.
See you next chapter, please send a review so I'll know you are here with me, immersing in this story together ^_^
Kissuuus!!
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