Eyes of a Hunter

Chapter 10:

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Chapter Ten. Of Blood and Tears

Entering the silent house, eyes blinded through her heart wrenching sobs, she walked as if possessed to her room where she flung herself onto the bed letting the sorrow rack her body. Images played behind her eyes unrelenting as her throat caught with the tears fighting to get out. Her chest heaved in sorrow. It over powered her. She wanted to scream out at how unfair it all was.

All those years of doubting her sanity. She would have preferred to live in the delusion that to face reality. Her lover, the man who had claimed her body so unrelentingly, so passionately was not a man. But a youkai whom she had met in a time she had not believed existed.

Where is Inuyasha? she wondered. But she couldn’t dwell on it

As the sun began its languid decent to a waiting horizon darkness began to crawl into her cool room. She shivered at the events of the day. Kicking off her shoes she welcomed the crouching darkness into her heart. Pulling the covers over her to warm her skin she felt pained. Her head and heart pounded together in utter pain.

She should have known. She should have realised that a Taiyoukai could never really care for a human, especially a former Miko who was trained in their extermination. When this had started she should have stopped it. She shouldn’t have given in. Regret settled on her chest and she wanted to scream in the frustration of it all.

She did not understand why it hurt so much. It had barely been a week since their affair had started, yet it felt like a lifetime to her. It had not just been mind-blowing sex. She had felt connected to him. Like she mattered. She had thought… But that’s not it. She had always had this attraction to him. Even in those feudal days, had he asked she would have given herself to him even then. Curling under the covers she shivered as her brows became damp with sweat. She couldn’t seem to care. Her thoughts left her wallowing in the pathetic state that was her life.

She stayed in bed even when her body protested for nourishment. She didn’t want to eat she didn’t want to do anything but cry. Several times the shrill of a persistent phone penetrated the silence of her home but she ignored it. She knew that it was him calling her and she did not want to see him. Ever. She wanted him to disappear. Her face was streaked with tears. The reason behind her tears were lost but that did not stop them from coming in ferocious waves that racked her entire body

Again the phone rang. She ignored it, tried to tune it out. On it went.

On and on…

Over and over…

Finally she heard silence and she breathed a little easier as another thick teardrop from her red eyes, dampening her stained cheeks and clamping lashes. Her pillow had gone cold from the tears that poured onto it but she hardly cared anymore. Then a deep voice came through her doorway and her heart slammed in her chest in alarm.

“Kagome. I know you’re in here. I can smell your tears. Forgive me for causing them. Let me in.” It was a quiet command, but a command none the less. She held still hoping that he would go away. Of course it was quite silly as he could find her scent anywhere regardless of her actions. Still she said nothing. She did not want to speak to him. Just the thought of him made her heart hurt.

“Kagome. Open the door before I break it down,” he threatened half-heartedly. He knew that he couldn’t follow through with that threat.. She was already in too much pain. He could feel it rolling off her in waves and it made him feel … he couldn’t understand it.

She affected him so much.

With a defeated sigh, he rested a clawed hand against the wooden barrier that separated him from the mate of his body and heart. His shoulders slumped; he left her hoping that on the next day she would be more composed.

He walked the short distance from her home to his building suit with the sound and scent of her tears assaulting him. It wrenched at his heart, made him feel helpless that she was in so much pain. He had been insufferably cruel to her but it was his way. He had always attacked when he felt cornered or threatened. Too many people had hurt him that he had made it instinct to try hurting them right back. That was how his world worked. The weak perished so that the strong could survive.

He should never have attacked her. It does not matter that she was in league with his brother. Suddenly even her betrayal did not matter. He didn’t care if she was selling secrets to the worthless hanyou, her responses to him had been genuine. The hurt look on her face had been genuine. Her confusion had been genuine.

That was all that mattered. He wanted her to forgive him and that thought scared him more than anything else could. Never had he wanted anyone’s forgiveness. But then no one had ever had someone look at them the way she had. The betrayed feeling in her eyes had torn at his soul.

With a growl he called himself a hundred kinds of fools for caring what a worthless ningen felt. He said thought it. He said it out loud. Yet no matter what he tried to convince himself of he knew that she was not just a worthless ningen. She had touched something inside him. Something that he had not realised still existed after all those centuries.

As he entered his office / suite, he felt a revulsion. He had violated her in here. She had asked him to stop, she had begged to stop and he had not listened. He had taken her up against his office door, fucking her like an animal.

He felt sick.

She was the one that his body wanted and he had treated her like a common…

A wounded sound escaped his lips followed by irrational anger. Years of repressing the emotions riding him just seemed like a to take its toll. He felt his anger rising. It was pointless and had no substance to back it up but it had the fire and with a fierce deadly roar he let himself go for the first time in years. Control slipped from fingers that had held it so strongly in check before.

Unable to control it, he felt the cloudy crawl of blood lust invade his eyes as the demon took over him. He felt his claws elongate and he just closed his eyes and let it take over him. He was more than over due a temper tantrum after all this time and so with angry relish, he completely destroyed his office. Hour after hour he let his fury on the furniture and equipment that could not defend itself.

Finally spent, he left so that he could spend a night at his estate in rural Japan. He had not gone home for over a month and he needed the peace and quiet to think about life and his place in it. More important than that he needed to know whether or not he could make a place for him and Kagome. He couldn’t even find the company important anymore and so he entered his room and fell asleep.

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She woke up to impossible pain. Her eyes shot open as it raked through her body, rushing through her veins like lava. She screamed. It felt hot and fiery. Her heart was racing at a painful speed. It slammed within her chest forcing her to take deep breaths. The world spun as another way assaulted her, tears reached her eyes as she lay in bed suffering. She couldn’t move.

Oh my God! Am I dying?

She was so afraid but that fear was swept away by another wave of blistering pain. It contorted her body in her way that it should not have been able to make. She screamed again as sharp shards of pain assaulted her stomach. She could feel perspiration drenching her body. She was so afraid.

Stay still… She repeated over and over again through deep calming breaths, but it did not work. The pain within her body continued on. It was almost unbearable. Dragging her body to the ledge of her bed, she dry heaved over and over again, the reflexive gags taking away her control, causing the pain in her stomach to intensify.

I don’t want to die alone, She was sobbing as she took the miniscule movements to a phone that shouldn’t have been that far away. Sobbing she raged as she felt the knife-like stabs within her body. It was searing. Never had she felt so much pain. Her hands shook as she tried to pick up the phone, only to have it fall onto the floor. Crying in frustration she had to lay her head on the bed for several pain filled minutes before she attempted again to reach the phone on the floor near her bed

Struggling to reach the instrument with as little movement as possible she almost laughed through the pain until she felt it again, several piercing stabs through her body sending liquid pain through her veins.

With shaky hands she tried to dial the only number that came to mind, but after several failed attempts hysteria was starting to set in and her fear rose, as did her sobbing.

When she heard the first few rings followed by the, “Hey girl, why aren’t you at work?” of Shiori’s voice she could only sob in relief.

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Walking into her office at the Taisho Company, Shiori couldn’t help checking out the tight gluts on the new security officer of the building. I wouldn’t toast him out of my bed for eating cookies, she thought. Then her phone rang. As soon as she picked it up she saw the caller ID of Kagome’s home and answered in her usual way.

“Hey girl, Why aren’t you at work?”

Shiori felt fear trickle through her body as she heard the tearful sob of her best friend. “At. Home. Come. Quick,” was the stifled response before a loud clattering assaulted her ear which she assumed was the phone falling. She was about to say something snide and chastising as she usually did until she heard the pain filled scream. Without a second’s thought she ran out the building and into her car. As she broke speed limits to reach the house five minutes away she was busy calling 911. She did not know what to expect but she did not like to be unprepared.

As she drove a billion thoughts entered her mind of what could be wrong and the sound of her friend’s scream kept playing trough her mind. She was so scared that she didn’t even realise that she had started to cry. Please be alright she said over and over again. “Why won’t this stupid thing go any faster!” she all but screamed as she gunned it down the street.

Breathing a sigh of relief as Kagome’s home came into view, she jumped out of the car, the engine barely off. She was frantic as she struggled to find Kagome’s house keys among the hundred others in her key ring. Another scream met her ears and she started to cry even more. There were a few people gathering on the street expressing concern as they too knew Kagome but she didn’t care about them.

She rushed into the house as the keys finally allowed her entrance. What she saw she would always remember. Kagome lay on her bed, her skin ashen and she was sobbing as her body shook and shuddered from spasms of what could only be unimaginable pain. The scent of blood touched her nostrils. Then she saw it. There was a growing pool of blood beneath her friend

“Shi-shio-Shiori.. I-I’m s-sc-scary,” She whispered through her tears and the shaking of her body

Dropping her things on the floor, Shiori ran to the bathroom soaked up a bath cloth and rushed to her friend. She knew what she was seeing but she couldn’t accept it. She entered the room quietly; sitting with her friend she hugged her wiping the sweat from her body. She whispered soothing words to her as the sounds of sirens drew near. “It’ll be alright Kagome. I won’t let anything happen to you.” She said fiercely as a man and woman entered the open door

They took in the situation and quickly ushered Shiori out of the way as they check her Kagome’s vitals. Giving her a needle so she could escape the pain they quickly placed her onto the stretcher and rushed her to the vehicle. Hopping into the vehicle with them, Shiori would always remember the fear she felt that day as she heard the machines flat line.

She only caught bits of what they were saying as they tried to revive Kagome. “…pregnant... youkai… too much blood… miscarriage... die,” She started to sob as she dialled numbers of friends and family…