Love is Love

Here is another chapter. Enjoy.

Love Is Love

“Where the hell am I? Where?” Inu Yasha yelled, grabbing hold of a man who passed by him. The man gave Inu Yasha a big smile, showing pearly white teeth. It gave Inu Yasha shivers, but he didn’t loosen his grip…He only tightened it.

“Why, good sir. You are in the town of Agaron. It is nice to have a new comer here. It has been awhile…” the man said, not even caring Inu Yasha was threatening him by looking as if he was about to punch him.

“Why the hell do you look the same? Why?” Inu Yasha yelled. He wanted answers, and fast.

“Why do you look different?” Was the reply.

Throwing the man to the ground he stalked around the town. It wasn’t huge, but it was a decent town. It was neat. It was White. It was cozy…Cozy if you liked the whiteness of it all. It wasn’t crowed, and it looked nicely constructed. The houses weren’t huge, they weren’t crammed together. It looked thought out…But that’s beside the point.

Everyone he asked, they all gave the same answer as the first man did. It got on his nerves after awhile. It wasn’t until he reached the center of the town, where on a platform stood a woman and a man, who looked different from the others. It wasn’t their appearance, but the feeling they gave off. They seemed more important than the others. ‘They must run this town, or something. I’ll go talk with them,’ Inu Yasha thought as he walked up the stairs to the level area of the platform.

When he got there, he saw all around were chairs, forming a circle around a whole in the middle of the floor. The whole, from what Inu could see was empty. At the end of the platform was a podium which overlooked the area, most likely where a speaker would lecture.

“Welcome! Welcome… I hope you don’t mind what we did to your clothes. You see, here we aren’t very fond of bold colors like the red. If you haven’t noticed, we took your sword, but we haven’t done anything to it. It looked so old we were afraid it would break if we did anything to it. So, here you are,” The woman said, picking up the sheathed sword from a chair and handing it over.

Taking it greedily, for he just realized it was gone when she mentioned it, and put it in its rightful place. “I have a few questions for you two. Where am I? Why do you look the same? Where is my friend? What’s with everyone here? Why aren’t there children? And finally what’s with this place here? Are you having a meeting here?” he asked, clearly wanting answers. His foot tapped impatiently on the wood waiting.

“Let us start off with our names!” bellowed the man spreading out his arms wide, giving a deep laugh. The woman laughed to, but not as loudly. “My name is Kirk, I am the Lord of this town, as well as the Handrak Desert and Bulkigtt Mountains. You should be very familiar with the desert, right?” Kirk said, chuckling at the end.

“Inu Yasha…” the half-breed grumbled.

“My name is Hannah, I am his wife. We welcome you to our town, but there isn’t much time to talk. Much is needed for tonight. Lots of things need to be done, like fix the chairs, make the ceremonial preparations, and much more. I can only spare a some time, Kirk, why don’t you take care of this? That way I suppose something will get done if I take him into our house to converse?” Hannah suggested.

Nodding, Kirk went to fix some chairs and Hannah led Inu Yasha away and into a house bigger than the other houses. She seemed different, different from the others, but very much the same. After sitting down in the living room on a big white chair, Inu Yasha leaned forward and looked Hannah straight in the eyes, snowy white eyes.

“Can you tell me where the hell I am?” he demanded. He was in no mood to wait.

Sitting down across from him, Hannah smiled and looked around the room they were in. “ Didn’t my husband already tell you we were in Agaron? If you mean what land, well we reside on Taiyou Island. It’s surrounded by the Krinon Ocean. To the north of here is the town of Skron, where Lord Skelous rules. He rules the Feltie Valley, and the Anokonion Forest. Nasty people, they are… Next question?” she stated, shifting in her seat.

“What’s so nasty about the guys up north?” Inu Yasha asked, forgetting all of his original questions.

“Hmm? Oh, because they are savages. They, unlike us, want to kill everything in sight that isn’t like them. We are at war with them, well were at war. We divided up the lands, they the north, us the south. Us being of this color making us able to pass through the desert without feeling the heat, and letting us blend into the mountain snow to hunt. They, being of a black color, didn’t mind it to much. Up there they say its better for them for odd reason. I don’t know,” Hannah replied.

“Why is everything White? Why is everyone the same? Don’t answer ‘Why are you different?’ or some crack ass answer like that. I’ll kill you on the spot if you do,” Inu Yasha growled, resting his hand on his swords hilt.

“No one knows why we are white and others are black. In another island, miles and miles away, Kirk sailed and sailed back, he did. He told me of an island almost exactly like ours, with two towns and all the same natural features. They were differently named, of course. The only difference was they two towns people were not black and white, but blue and purple. My quests is that there are many islands like us, but we are so far away from them it took Kirk one year to get to and from that island. I figure we are not meant to meddle with others from outside our island, but if we do get visitors, like you, we are to…Well, that shall be later, next?” Hannah said, leaning back in her chair.

Leaning back also, Inu Yasha thought over what he was going to ask next. “Why aren’t there any children here?” he finally said.

“Empress Lunette does not like children. She forbids any and all children. Any child produced is killed on the spot,” she said coolly, as if it didn’t bother her to say it.

“Why? How could you all still have people in your town if no one makes more people?” Inu Yasha asked, interested with this new information.

“People sort of show up, coming out of the Bulkigtt Mountains. We don’t mind, for I think Empress Lunette has people in her castle especially born for reproducing,” she answered.

“Who is this Empress Lunette?” Inu inquired.

“She, obviously, is our supreme ruler. No one has ever seen her, did you know that? Yes, we do go to her castle and ask for her advice or something, but she is always behind this curtain. We can hear her, but not see her. Sometimes, often now, she disappears for some time. She is a great ruler, but very mysterious.” Hannah, at this point got up and left the room. When she returned from the other room she carried out a tray of two lemonade glasses and a plate of cookies. “Take as many as you like. I do hope Kirk is doing fine without me. Oh well, take your time thinking. I’m sure he can do without me for now.”

Not really caring for cookies, Inu Yasha stretched his arms wearily and just thought of something. “You were once a child, so don’t you remember anything about it?”

“Nope, the farthest I remember was three years ago. Empress Lunette says that she put a spell on us because we got her angry. She said that both Kirk and Skelous murdered each others wives and Empress Lunette said it was unforgivable. I am guessing that is why we, and all the other people, are always happy. We want to make the empress see that we are good people, always doing good, so she could take off the curse so we can remember everything. Anyway, it was then, ashamed, Kirk left and came back one year later from the other island, and later re-married. I am the one e re-married. Luck me!” she said, letting out a laugh. Taking a sip of her lemonade, she looked at Inu Yasha expecting another question.

“Wow…That sucks…” he sighed… this place was to weird for him. ‘Spells, islands with different colored people, Empresses…Lunette…There is something fishy about this girl. Lunette…Lunar…It might be her in disguise! She is some sort of sorceress demon! She did something to these people and corrupted them! I need to get to her now, but first I should ask about Kouga. Maybe she would know where he might be..’ he thought. “Hey, umm, I have this friend, who is somewhere on the island. Do you think he is in the desert? Or mountains?”

“No, if you have a friend somewhere here he is not here. North, my best guess. After finding you, we sent out scouts to search for anyone else. We found no one. I am sorry, but if your friend is in the north he is most likely dead by now. We give anyone who is different chances to be with us. They, they kill anyone who is different, hence many wars we have had. Also, because of that we were put under a spell…It isn’t very thrilling.” she sighed, looking at the pained expression if the half-breed.

‘He wouldn’t be killed that easily. He is most likely killing each and every freak over there. Either that or running for his life. Yeah, that stupid flea bag is probably running away. I just hope he isn’t stupid enough to get killed. Maybe he would be smart enough to run to the castle…Its worth a shot to go there,’ he thought to himself.

“Why so quiet? Run out of questions?” Hannah asked, placing her glass back on the tray.

“One last thing…How do I get to the castle?”

“You have to make your way through the Mountains and then once you do that it should be in sight. You must get through a sort of challenge, though, if you wish to speak with Empress Lunette.” she answered.

“Challenge?” Inu Yasha asked, sort of agitated upon hearing he had to go through mountains and then do a challenge just to speak to the empress.

“I can’t say, it changes a lot. You just have to take it. You must stay, though…Tonight we are having a…special ceremony for someone special in our town. That’s what the platform was set up for. It would be really great if you could stay for that, besides you should leave in the morning. Get a fresh start? How about it?”

Something in Inu Yasha’s gut told him to leave now and not stay, but he went against it and agreed to stay. Happy, Hannah told him to stay in the house, so he wouldn’t wonder around town, and wait until she comes back to get him. Giving a ‘Whatever’ Inu Yasha watched as she left him alone.

Inu wasn’t to thrilled with being left alone in this freakish house, but he didn’t want to be outside either. Thinking it was a good time to catch up on some “z’s” Inu Yasha went over to a couch and lied down. It wasn’t to long after did he fall asleep.

……

Inu Yasha was awoken with a start. When he looked around the white room he found it dark. Getting up he looked out the window to see fires lit here and there, it being way past sundown.

“Sorry to start you, but the ceremony is starting and we need to take seats now.” Hannah said, guiding Inu to the door and outside.

When they got to the platform some people were already sitting in chairs, others still showing up. Hannah led Inu Yasha to a seat right in front of the whole in the middle of the floor. This time it was full of something; some kind of liquid. Being only lit on for sides by torch light, it was hard to see what it was. Inu Yasha knew for certain it was not water.

Hannah left him and went up to the podium to stand next to her husband. When everyone finally entered and seated he spoke. “Ladies and gentlemen! It has been a long time since we able to hold this ceremony. How long has it been? One in a half years? Seems right. I am hoping this goes splendidly, just as it did last time. Yes, well. The processes shouldn’t take to long, so there is no need to rush this. Willing or not, he will go through with this process.”

It was sort of confusing to Inu Yasha. ‘What are they talking about? Who is this… I think something is going to happen to me. What though? I have a feeling it has to do with that hole.’ the half-breed thought, eyeing the people around him. Some were staring at Kirk, others at him. It was then that he realized the ceremony was for him.

‘Damn it. I should start listening to my gut. Fuck this, I’m leaving.’

Before he could get up Inu was held down by the towns people around him. “Its rude to get up in the middle of a speech.” one said.

“Once dunked in the pool of sanctities he will be one of us! Every outsider is put through this! Don’t worry Inu Yasha…It won’t hurt. You might black out, but that is normal. So, shall we?” he asked, motioning to the men holding Inu Yasha down in his seat.

Inu was then grabbed and picked up into the air. All the chairs around went flying to the sides and they fought with the struggling half-breed. Nothing he could do could shake them off and he was frantic. He tried reaching for his sword; couldn’t. His hands were secured in someone’s grip. He tried writhing out; didn’t work. To many men holding onto him. In the end was out of ideas.

Giving up was something Inu Yasha would never do, though. It wasn’t until he was thrown down to the pool did he see a chance of escape. The second he was let go he used all he could to kick off of one of the men. It had worked, he grabbed hold of the other side of the pool and before he hit the water substance pulled himself to safety.

Standing up he was greeted by both men and women who were slowly approaching him.

“Come now, do not resist! It is pointless. We have you outnumbered, outmatched, and surrounded. Haha! Why not just dive in and save us the trouble?” Kirk boomed.

“Like hell I am going in there! I don’t give a rat’s ass if you want me to join your little society and become a clone like you! I’m leaving!” Inu Yasha yelled, taking out tetsusaiga. “Wind Scar,” he yelled slashing the blade down. The whole left side of the platform got destroyed along with many of the towns people.

Sheathing his sword he looked at the dead around him. He knew he shouldn’t have killed them, but it was necessary. Right?

He started to run before the others realized what he did and chase him, but his vision was captured by one of the dead lying on the ground. He looked dead, but he didn’t smell it. Non of them smelt dead, but they all were. Now that he noticed it, non of them bleed. Non of them were alive, even the ones still breathing. These people weren’t human, demon, animal or anything. They were fake.

‘That explains a few things, like how they don’t remember farther than three years and why they are of different colors. Also why there aren’t any children. That’s it, I need to speak with this empress,’ he thought.

He was bout to go into a run when someone got hold of his arm. It was Hannah.

“Let go you wench!” he yelled.

“No! Not after killing our people! You shall go into that pool whether you like it or not!” she screamed, pulling him closer to the pool. It was then that Inu Yasha was fed up with this and lost it. He took hold of her hair and yanked her off. Having pried her off he then threw her into the pool of sanctities and was horrified as he saw her skin started to melt of her from where the liquid touched her and sink under.

“No! Hannah! You filthy thing you! That was suppose to be you! You were suppose to die! You are the different one! Not her! Kill him!” Kirk shrieked.

“Time to go,” Inu Yasha stated as he turned around and fled into the night. He ran as fast as he could until he slowed to a stop when he felt a sudden change in temperature. It went from warm to freezing in a instant. It was then that he realized he was at the foot of the Bulkigtt Mountains.

TBC

Okay, I think this story might be a little longer than 25 chapters. I was going to have Kouga’s story in this chapter to, but Inu’s ran a little longer than planned. Oh well. REVIEW!!!