One Last Chance at Hope by Kinyta

Chapter One

One Last Chance at Hope

By: Kinyta

Disclaimer: I wish I did, but sadly, I do not own any of the characters of

Inuyasha.

Author's Note: I warn you now this is so sad. I do not even know why I wrote

this. Anyway, this is an implied Kagome and Sesshomaru. That is about it. Bye.

She was running, to where she did not know. She could not see due to the tears

that were running down her face, and her own blue tinted raven hair. She was

looking for a way out of this horrible ugly monster that most called pain,

grief and life. If only she could just find a way out. Suddenly she ran into a

tree and fell to the hard, cold, and, seemingly, uncaring ground. Weeping she

did not even try to pick herself up from the way she landed looking up at the

cloudy sky. She had cuts up and down her body because of the branches of trees

and bushes that reached out to try to stop the lost girl whose eyes had once

been so bright. Brown eyes, that could have made even the sun envy because of

the happiness that shown though, that now looked dull and dead.

Her whole world was now gone. She had no hope left. She remembered how it all

happened.

*Flashback*

It was over, finally over. The quest, which she and her friends were on, the

search for the Shicon no Tama, was at last finally done with. Kagome decided

to go home to see her family one last time before she made the wish that

would finally end this whole thing. She did not know if she would be able to

get back home after the wish so she would go home now and return to make the

wish. She sniffed when she remembered the final battle and how Sango and

Mirako had both fallen when they took shots aimed at her. Shaking her head,

to clear it, she jumped into the old well.

Kagome got out of the old mucky wooden thing most people called the Bone

Eater's Well to see the roof of the well house. Something felt wrong. She

looked around for the source but she found nothing. Shrugging she walked to the

door and froze. Something was defiantly off. She got her bow and arrows off her

back and had it posed to the ground. Opening the door, she looked around once

more, nothing.

It was quiet, though, way to quiet. It unnerved her even more. `What is going on

here? Where are taa-san, jii-san, and Souta-chan?' She looked around once more

then walked towards the house. The feeling got worse as she got closer to the

house.

"Taa-san, you there? I'm home! Is anyone here? Jii-san? Souta-chan? Where are

you?" she called as she walked in the kitchen door, feeling much worse then

before. That was when she saw the note. It was on the table and had an old

handwriting on it. She put her bow and arrow on her back, and picked up the note.

It read:

" So the little miko finally comes home. I hope you like my presents. I sure had

fun giving them to you. Go upstairs to see what you got.

-Naraku"

She trembled. In the last week of his life, Naraku had found out her secret and

had used it. Now he left her "gifts," and she was afraid to find out what they

were.

Slowly she walked to the stairs, checking out the front room before turning to

the things that lead up to her "presents" from Naraku. The stairs seemed to take

forever to walk up. It was as if they were made longer then they actually were.

Finally, she reached the top. Then there was another note hanging on her mother's

door. She walked up to it and read:

"Now here is my first gift. Open the door to see. I think you will really like it. I

picked it just for you.

-Naraku"

"Oh no. MAMA!!!" she yelled opening the door quickly. The first thing she saw was

writing on the wall. That writing read: "Kuku kuku. Here is my first gift to you."

The writing was a dark crimson red. It looked like.

"MAMA!!!" She turned to her side to she the being she was looking for, dead. Her

mother's face was pale and she had a look of complete and utter horror plastered on

her face. Eyes still wide open, staring, for all eternity, at some unknown attacker.

She also had a rather large gape cutting across her stomach which was without a doubt

the source of the "ink" that was on the wall. Her mother still had on her nightgown on.

Kagome almost lost her lunch looking at the site before her. "MAMA!!!" she yelled choking

on sob. She was crying now, but then remembered that Naraku had said, "First gift." She

was scared for the rest of her family. What had Naraku done to them? She quickly got out

of the room and shut the door whispering, "Rest in peace, Mama."

She looked across the hallway to her grandfather's room. Reaching the door, she found no

note but she opened the door anyway. On the opposite, wall there was more writing. It said,

in the crimson blood of Naraku's liking: "Two presents down one to go."

Kagome almost though up once more for right underneath the writing was her grandfather's

body. It had its head in its lap with the same cut in its gut as her mother's body. He

was still holding his holy seals in one of his hands. Kagome quickly turned around so

as not to get sick. Besides, she already had the terror-stricken-severed head and stiff

body forever engraved in her mind.

"Two presents down one to go." That meant. `Oh no.' "SOUTA!!!" She ran as quickly as she

could to the room at the end of the hall. His door was already open, ripped from the wall

and shattered.

The last note was written in blood like all the rest but it was much longer, more like a

letter. It said:

"My final present for you. I hoped you like it. Now you know that you do not have to worry

about coming home. I will do to you what I did to them when we finally met. Now your brother

is on you left. Look at the last one you failed to protect. Kuku Kuku. Goodbye little miko.

-Naraku"

She slowly turned to her left to see her little brother. This time she fell on her knees

and did get sick. She could not help it. There, on the floor to her right, was her brother's

naked body, torn apart like a biology lab project, you know the ones were you dissect the

animals. His intestines were lined up in orderly line beside his liver, both one his right

side. His stomach and lungs were laying on his right. While his heart and penis were by his

feet. At his head were his brain, eyes, and tongue. It was a horrible site with blood all over,

soaking the whiter carpet a rich, blood, red.

Kagome used the last of her strength to crawl out of Souta's room. She had to get out of here.

The only place left to go was the past. She would go live her life in the past. She got up and

ran down the stairs as fast as her shaky legs would go. She ran to the well house and slammed

the door open, almost hard enough to break the door right off its hinges. Kagome stopped only

to look one more time back at her house. Then she was gone, leaving behind the feeling of

sadness and loss.

***

She could not get up. Laying her head down on her knees, she curled up into a futile position,

and cried silent tears of pain and loneliness. They were gone, all gone.

While crying she heard voices, they were somehow familiar. She listened to what they were saying

so she could get an idea of who they were. Her pain was forgotten for the time being.

"I-I don't know," one voice said, a masculine voice that was rich with feeling, "I should tell

Kagome, or at least Kaede."

"No, Inuyasha, we are going now," the second voice said emotionlessly. The voices' owners finally

click in her mind: Inuyasha and Kikyou. "Don't you want to be with me?" If the question hit Kagome

hard, the answer hit her core.

"Yes, Kikyou, of course. I just don't want the other's to worry about me to much."

"What is there to worry about? You'll be with me."

"Very well lets go."

Silence reins now. Kagome finally gets enough courage to look over the well's rim. When she looks

over the only thing left is a brown spot on the ground that looked like a grave. Her heart clenches

even more when she realized that now she was alone in the world, Kaede being the only one left alive.

She hoisted her body out of the well and started to walk towards the village. She saw the tentsiga lying

on the ground and picked it up.

"My last reminder of him," her voice trailed off.

Then she felt the felling again that something was wrong. She headed towards the village once more. This

time, though, she did not bring her bow off her shoulder. She wanted death, she would find it if need be.

***

She felt nothing. She looked over the burnt skeletons of the village she once walked though. There was

nothing left. Kagome started walking though what was once the center of a prosperous village, which was

tattering on the edge of being a town. The memories were strong when she looked at were Kaede's own hut

once was. Now, in it's stead was a black smug, that looked liked it could be anything.

Kagome started to run, not knowing or caring were she went. When she got to the edge of the forest, she

took one last look over the village and fled. As she ran she felt the prickle of shrubs, she ran though.

The pain set it off. She cried once more, not caring if anyone saw. She just had to get out of there.

*End Flashback*

A noise to her right sounded through the silence that seemed to fallow her. Looking that way all she saw

was a white blur. She blinked rapidly to try to get the rebellious tears out of her eyes. When they finally

cleared, she saw someone that she knew would grant her wish. It was Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's older, human

hating, half-brother. Her tears came again, vigorously. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha were so alike in appearance

that she could not help but remember her now dead friend.

`Why is this human crying? All other times I have seen her she has stood up to me.' Sesshomaru thought while

looking down at the messy bundle at his feet. That was when she talked for the first time.

"Please, Sesshomaru, kill me. Please." The whispered words left her mouth slowly as if it was a last request.

There was silence again and minutes passed before he answered her.

"Why?" the smooth voice, that never showed emotion, asked the weeping girl. He was still trying to figure out

what had happened to her.

The question caught her off guard but she answered anyway. "There is no one left and I don't want to be here

any more."

The sadness in her voice made something in him wince. He had no idea why but it did. He finally noticed the

tentsiga. Something clicked in his mind. `So the half-breed is dead. That is why she is crying.' he thought

looking at her body.

"I shall teach you how to use the sword," he stated unexpectedly. It caught both of them off guard but he

would not back down. "Then if you still decide you want to die then you will kill yourself. As you learn,

you will do as I say, and take care of my ward." Again, they were both surprised. He had no idea why he was

doing this but it made him feel. Wait a second `feel?' This was new. He put the thoughts in the back of his

mind to think of latter.

"You wont just take the tentsiga?" Kagome asked bewildered. "Why is he doing this?' her mind asked through the

fog that had surrounded it.

"That would be pointless seeing as how I cannot touch the sword." He stated pointedly. "Come. We must leave now."

Boredom was beginning to get to him. He watched as she stood on shaky feet. Again, he wondered at his own actions,

but stopped short as she began to fall.

Kagome stood up but found that her legs were too weak to hold herself up. She tried to steady herself but it did

not work to well. She started to fall. Closing her eyes she waited for the impact of the ground, which surly was

rushing up to, met her. It never came. Instead, a single arm came out of nowhere to hold her up. She opened her

eyes to see Sesshomaru holding her up.

"It will be faster to fly," he stated as if she did not matter. They flew up and into the setting sun. Him pondering

once more his actions, and her thanking him silently for giving her...

One last chance at hope.

THE END