The Curse by Maria-Salvatore29

For You are My Worst Nightmare

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of its characters.

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Flashback: Two years ago…

“Souta, I am aware of your fondness of climbing trees but it is near dark. We need to get home,” Kagome told her younger brother exasperatedly. He is too stubborn. He doesn’t want to climb down from his “precious tree” as he put it.

“But—“

“Mother is expecting us for dinner. So does our father.”

“Just another moment and—“

A loud explosion stopped Souta in mid-sentence and both of them froze. Kagome felt goosebumps rise as fear gripped her heart.

“Kago—“ Souta whined, shaking and crying but Kagome signaled for him to be silent.

Kagome looked up to see the dark, yet fiery red smoke stained the air. The night is quickly falling so she had to strain to see in the dark.

That’s why when someone pulled at her hand, she almost screamed. “It’s me,” Souta reassured her in his tiny voice.

Kagome sighed. “Come on.”

At the outskirts of their village, Kagome saw the chaos and destruction, the panic and the stampede. The houses are burning and the children are dying. “Mother!” Souta shouted, panicked.

“Kagome-chan!” Sango’s voice reached her ears. She whipped behind her.

Sango, her best friend, is running together with her family, she is holding her brother tightly by her side.

“They are starting the burning once more, looking for those related to the Izayoi-sama,” Sango said, panting. “Let us go.”

She stared at her thoughtfully before turning to Souta.

“I’d go in,” she said, her voice firm but her heart is beating unnaturally fast.

“How about me? Where should I go?” Souta whimpered.

Crushing him to her chest, she whispered to her ten-year-old brother, “With Sango-chan, go on and be good.”

“Kagome…no,” Souta sobbed, his baby face crumpling.

“I’d come back!” She shouted, already running towards the village to find her family.

The roof of their home is already burning when she reached it. “Mother?! Father?! Grandmama? Grandpapa? My dear cousins? Where are you?”

She felt a presence behind her, someone with great youki, and someone evil. Before she could react, he had already kicked her with so much force; she literally flew towards the wall.

She groaned in pain. Yanking her face up by her arm, he slammed her against the wall. She felt dizzy, weak, and suffocated of the smoke but she still fought for consciousness.

With blurred vision, she registered angry golden eyes full of greed, long silver mane, and the color of red.

“Who are you?” The youkai snarled, gripping her arms harders, his claws digging into her delicate flesh, drawing blood.

“Damn you!” She muttered, coughing and choking. “W-where is m-my family?”

“Dead. I’ve killed them,” he replied, uncaring.

“Y-you thought w-we are I-Izayoi’s d-descen-ddants?” She asked, too weak to make any conviction. “Fool.”

“Are you not? You resemble her…Kikyou…” He growled the last name. “Why…?”

He trailed off while she is slipping away.

“I’d…never…forgive…you…youkai,” she whispered.

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“Are you having a nightmare, Kagome?” Sesshomaru purred beside her.

She blinked her eyes open, adjusting to the brightness of the room. She turned her head to a smirking Sesshomaru. “When you are involved, everything turns into a nightmare.”

That seemed to anger him a little too much as he sprang on her, pushing her down the mattress with a snarl.

“Is that what you think of me? Just part of a horrible nightmare, woman?” He growled, his crimson eyes filled of anger and…pain.

“I trained to become a powerful miko for two years just to avenge my family from you, beast. You are a monster, a horrible night—“ She stopped to try to control her exploding miko energy.

“I am the nightmare,” he hissed, his youki swirling around them in frenzy but never once touching her skin.

“You killed my family; of course, you are my nightmare—the worst.”

“So are you,” he snarled before kissing her vigorously, bruising her soft lips.

She responded with greed, seeking to punish him, hurt him in the way he’d done to her.

She had stayed in Sesshomaru’s castle for almost two months now. Arguing with him, and trying to take his life...but she remained unsuccessful.

“Kill me,” he whispered as he pulled away from her lips slightly.

“I’m working on it,” she muttered.

“I’d kill you.”

“Do it,” she challenged lightly. “I thought not killing one of Izayoi’s descendants would kill all the women in her kingdom?”

“You believed to be her descendant?” He asked with brows raised.

“They eliminated us, in hopes of putting a stop to the curse. So, yes.”

“Hmmm…” He kissed her neck, then her collarbone before going back to her cheeks.

“I wanted to keep you,” he told her possessively.

“I am not yours for keeping.”

“I could make you mine.”

“I hate you, Sesshomaru,” she pointed out.

“I hate you more,” he replied, a ghost of smile on his lips.

“Do you?”

“I do, you are creating much trouble in my life.”

Kagome stared at his impassive face which is now familiar to her and smiled softly before she can catch herself.

Inwardly, she hit herself. He is the greatest nightmare for he wreaks too much havoc.

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Prompt: Seven Deadly Sin –Greed

Words: 860