[Inuyasha] Spider Silk

There is a tree planted in the courtyard. In spring, the petals bloom like pink clouds. In winter, the leaves fall and the branches are covered with white snowflakes.

Fine snowdrops fall from the gray sky, and there is no sound in the silent forest.

Saori let out a breath slowly, and the hot air she exhaled turned into white mist in the cold air. She took out an arrow from the quiver on her back, and skillfully drew the longbow, the bowstring was stretched into a full moon-like arc.

With a clear whistle that tore through the air, the long arrow suddenly left the string——

Benedict.

The hare was frightened and jumped out with a whoosh.The arrow feathers were still humming, but the prey was gone.

Yarn stood still for a moment, then slowly put down the longbow in her hand.

... This is already the third time.

As if realizing something at that moment, she looked up at the sky, soft snowflakes brushed her cheeks and turned into cold water droplets on her eyelashes.

The heavy city gate opened slowly with rumbling noises like a tired giant beast.

The attendants guarding the door changed from batch to batch, this time it was a young face who was a little strange, greeting her energetically.

Saori rode on the horse and tried hard to recall for a while, but she couldn't remember the young man's name, so she could only fool it with a sincere smile perfunctorily.

With such a distraction in her thoughts, she didn't pay attention when she got off the horse, her feet were caught in the stirrups, and her body that lost her center of gravity swayed suddenly.

Out of the corner of her eye, she seemed to catch a glimpse of the tree in the courtyard. With a snap, the thin branches were suddenly broken by the boundless snow.

There was a cold and heavy breath coming from behind, Saori hadn't moved yet, and the next moment she was firmly embraced by the other party.

As the snow fell, there was an empty echo in the courtyard. The big monster who had been standing under the eaves appeared quietly, and his eyes looking at her were colder than in winter.

Saori was silent for a moment, and told him very seriously:

"...It's just occasional, slippery feet."

Saori's tone was very hard, but her body was not up to snuff. It took nearly a month for the bruises on her ankles to dissipate.

"Hey," Leaning in Naluo's arms, Saori had to admit later, "Time is not forgiving."

I think she used to be able to kick all kinds of superstitions in the feudal society, punch all kinds of monsters and ghosts in the Warring States Period, and her life was so beautiful.

... Her current life is quite beautiful.

Naluo threw down the city, and casually threw the seat of the city lord to a retainer, not appreciating the bloody storm caused by his sudden abdication, and simply disappeared from everyone's sight.

Saori said she wanted to revisit her old place.

Decades ago, before settling down in the human city, the two had a brief honeymoon period.

At that time, the sights that were already considered boring, now I visit again, maybe a layer of time filter has been added, and even the moon immersed in the sea has become more quiet and beautiful than usual.

After the sun goes down, the high tide sea sweeps in, the vermilion torii gates stand in the water, and the silvery white moonlight breaks into sparkling waves on the sea surface.

The shrine with winding corridors looks like it is floating in the sea.

Saori stared at the lights not far away, and the trainee priestess who lit the lights walked through the corridors, unaware of the existence of the two of them.

Obviously, beside her is an evil...and a big monster with a pretty face.

Too dangerous.

It is simply a disaster level among hazards.

Saori: "When people see the two of us, they must think that I am powerful and rich."

She is an out-and-out rich woman.

With the passage of time, she is no longer young, but the time of monsters is different from that of humans. Naraku is still the same as when she first met him, with a pale face, deep red eyes, long black curly hair as thick as seaweed, beautiful monster It's so strange that people can't take their eyes off.

The moonlight is ups and downs in the sea, and scattered snowflakes are falling from the night sky.

Saori embraced the warm baboon skin, and heard Naraku say to her, "Curse me."

"...?" She almost thought she had misheard.

"This scenery should be said "the moon is so beautiful", right? "

Holding her face with cold palms, Naraku lowered her eyelids to cover the dark blood in her eyes.

"I said, curse me."

Naraku whispered: "Share half of my life with you."

Take it from him, take it from him.

Saori looked at him for a long time, already determined not to let the atmosphere become sad, the corners of her mouth curled helplessly, and finally she couldn't help showing a wry smile.

"……what are you talking about."

They had quarreled on and off for nearly a lifetime about this matter, and now that she was old, she had neither the strength nor the desire to continue arguing with him.

Saori had already thought about how she wanted to spend her final days.

The green bamboo forest swayed in the wind, and the warming sunlight illuminated the new shoots on the branches. The familiar mountain village was located at the foot of the mountain. Just like the ten years she lived here, only the villagers who lived here changed.

According to the standards of the Warring States Period, Saori lived a long life. Most of the villagers she knew before are no longer alive.

fair enough.

The days seem to be back to the beginning, the ordinary and monotonous is satisfying, the only difference is that there is an extra monster beside her who is angry and refuses to talk to her.

Spring goes to autumn, and the mountains are covered with heavy snow after the leaves are gone. In the coming year, the snow melts, and spring branches emerge from the cracked ground again.

The one who came to see her most often was Kanna. The snow-white little girl held a mirror and sat obediently in a corner, watching her chop wood and light a fire, and decorate the window with the colors of the four seasons.

During this period, Kagura came several times, and Shirodoji also came once, unceremoniously throwing down the bloody monster corpse.

Sazhi didn't move the disemboweled corpse, of course, Bai Tongzi's expression seemed to say that she really didn't know what to do, Sazhi bent down and hugged him, and said with a sigh: "Hey, why haven't you seen it after so many years?" grow taller."

Bai Tongzi was so angry that he didn't show up again for several months.

As for Chizi, Saori was worried that he would stay in the form of a baby for the rest of his life, but fortunately he has grown up gradually in the past few decades, and the task of raising the child somehow fell on Bai Ye.

He might be too tired, he didn't talk to her much after coming here a few times, just looked at her silently for a while and then left.

The spring breeze blows over the window, the gauze is covered with white baboon skin, and the swaying bells are faintly heard in the wind.

Ping Dang - Ping Dang -

It seems that the wind chime she hung under the eaves in the previous life is slowly turning in circles under the blue sky.

Saori turned her gaze and looked at the figure standing beside the backlight.

"do you hate me?"

Naraku didn't answer.

The illusory wind chime made a soft sound, without looking, Saori knew how bright and splendid spring was outside the window.

"You should hate me."

The cold monster hates his human heart very much, and is eager to get rid of useless feelings.

Compared to accepting his own heart completely, he seemed to be defeated, because he couldn't break free, because he couldn't escape, so he had to surrender to his heart in the past few decades.

The monster she met back then... no, that half-monster didn't want to fall in love with anyone.

"Sorry for delaying you for so many years."

She was finally letting him go now.

The monster's lifespan is so long, I hope he will not be so narrow-minded, blaming her for occupying decades of his life.

"If you have time in the future, if you don't hate me so much, please help me to see the spring every year."

Saori stretched out her hand from under the baboon's skin and found cold, pale fingers.

She gently hooked Naruto's hand.

What does she look like to him now?

She couldn't see clearly anymore.

"...the flowers outside the window are blooming." Saori smiled and said to him, "Can you pick one for me?"

"As a thank you, I can sing to you when you come back."

The spring flowers on the branches are bathed in the sun, and Kanna is standing under the tree, the wind is blowing, the cloud-like flower branches are swaying in the light and shadow, and the fine petals fall like fine snow.

When Naluo returned to the door, Shazhi was lying by the window with her head tilted slightly, as if she had fallen asleep in the spring light.

Time stopped for a long time, and Kanna saw Naraku walking into the house.

The green bamboo beside the hillside was bent over by the sound of the wind, making a crunching sound, and the shadow on the ground expanded for a moment. At first glance, it looked like a spider opening its fangs to eat.

In the second year, when the spring flowers on the branches bloomed, Naraku did not come back.

In the third year, the empty house was covered with dust, and vines grew in the crevices of the stones.

In the fourth year, Kanmu heard that the human city fell to the flames of war, and the Tokugawa family established a shogunate in Edo, officially drawing the curtain of the Warring States Period.

In the fifth year, the wood began to rot, but the spring flowers outside the window were still in full bloom.

In the sixth year, Kanna sat on the roof holding the mirror, and the mirror demon broke off a flower and handed it to her silently.

In the seventh year, Kanna discovered that his heart had returned.

Not only Kanno, Bai Tongzi, Chi Zi, and even Bai Ye all found their hearts returned to their bodies.

When Kanna came to the decayed and collapsed wooden house, the spring flowers bloomed silently in the rain, and the cold raindrops fell along the petals. Although the breath of the rain was well hidden, she could still smell the graveyard in the dirt.

It didn't take long for Naraku's existence to be known to the world again.

The big monster who committed a heinous crime was chased and killed by both humans and monsters, but neither the witch nor the mage could do anything about Naraku's strong evil spirit.

It is said that he opened the way to the other world at this time, and wanted to drag the world of the living into the underworld. The noble son Sesshomaru of the Western Kingdom arrived at the last moment, sealed the door to the other world, and severely damaged the catastrophe the culprit.

Naraku has disappeared so far, and the witches and mages who guard the human world have not given up and have been looking for his whereabouts.

People say that the insidious and cunning monster must have been hidden, and it will make a comeback as soon as the injury recovers.

People were panicked for a while, but in the remote mountain village, in the shaded forest, the girl who was being chased by monsters knew nothing about it.

Tripped by a tree root under her feet, the girl fell unexpectedly, and her knee was scratched by the gravel. The blood oozing out caused the monster behind her to let out a long howl of excitement, and her sharp teeth shed foul-smelling mucus.

Before she had time to think whether this was just a nightmare, the girl hurriedly got up.

When she was about to die from exhaustion, her eyes suddenly opened up. She didn't know when she ran to the open river beach. The lush trees on the mountain wall covered most of the sunlight. The vines hang in the water, and the cold water is as clear as flawless jade.

There was a loud sound of trees snapping behind her, and the girl jumped into the river without hesitation, wading through the river up to her waist, and ran to the vicinity of the gravel-filled cave.

The moment she entered the cave, the daylight suddenly dimmed, and an inexplicable coldness came over her face, and the hair on the back of her neck stood on end.

But the strange thing is that the monster who wanted to eat her didn't come after her.

The cold cave cut off the outside light, the girl walked cautiously into the depths of the cave, holding on to the rock wall.

"……who is it."

Something in the darkness opened its eyes.

The girl froze suddenly.

Those eyes were blood-red, embedded in the pale face, and the long black hair was as thick as seaweed. The head was hanging in the air, and what should have been connected to the neck was only the cervical nerve-like tentacles, which were obviously long. It looked like a human face, but exuded a cold and inhuman aura.

Frozen in place by instinct, the girl couldn't move.

The monster looked in her direction, his cold gaze seemed to pause slightly.

"You are not from this era."

A word made the girl whose breath was seized by the fear of death gasp again.

"...you know?" Her eyes widened in disbelief.

She was obviously just looking at her mobile phone while walking on the road, but when she looked up, she found that the world around her had changed completely. The primeval forest was lush and lush. She accidentally bumped into a monster eating people, and she was so scared that she almost burst into tears.

"Shut up." The monster with only one head left gave her a gloomy look.

The perception shielded by fear slowly realized that the cave was filled with the lingering smell of blood.

The girl spoke cautiously: "...Are you going to kill me?"

The red-eyed monster made a mocking voice, and threw back her question:

"Are you afraid of death?"

"Isn't that natural?!" The girl stuck to the rock wall behind her, ready to run away at all times, "Is there anyone in this world who is not afraid of death?"

But for a long time, there was no sound from the darkness.

"If you don't want to die," the monster with only one head left suddenly lowered its voice, "just sing."

"... what... what?"

"I'll let you sing." The voice said coldly.

The head floating in the darkness seemed to be trapped in some kind of distant memory.

"... Red Dragonfly." She heard the other party say in a trance, "Sing a song about Red Dragonfly."

In the girl's memory, she only knows one song about the red dragonfly.

……

"The red dragonfly in the evening glow,

Where are you, I met you in my childhood,

what day was that

Take the little basket and come to the mountain,

The mulberry tree is as green as shade, and the mulberry fruit is picked and put into a small basket,

Could it be Mengying.

15 year old young lady,

Married far away, farewell to my hometown and unable to return for a long time,

The news is also slim.

The red dragonfly in the sunset,

Where are you, resting on the tip of the bamboo pole,

It is the red dragonfly. "

The girl sang with bumps and bumps, her nervous voice trembling slightly.

To be killed—this thought kept echoing in her blank mind, but until she stopped, there was no sound from the darkness.

After singing the song, the girl waited for a long time.

The monster with only one head left, slowly closed its eyes, and silently turned into a pile of ashes in the dark and cold cave.

The girl waited for a long time.

She finally waited for a group of witches and mages.Those people wandered cautiously outside the cave for a long time, and when they saw the girl standing in front of the ashes, they all showed expressions of astonishment.

Those people told her that Naraku is an evil monster that is rare in a hundred years. As a collection of "evil", it cannot be purified by anyone. It reappeared after many years and caused a terrible disaster in the world.

They carefully re-confirmed that the monster named Naraku was indeed dead.

There will be no resurrection, nor will new limbs grow.

The monster "Naraku" will never appear in this world again.

"What did you do?" they asked her incredulously. "How did you destroy that evil monster?"

The girl was at a loss.

"...I really didn't do anything," she said finally.

"I just sang him a song."

That's it.

The author has something to say:

The girl is not a reincarnation, but an ordinary passerby.

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I have basically finished writing what I want to write, and I suddenly feel a little emotional. I also thank everyone who has followed me all the way here. You are the reason why this article exists. The comment area is the source of my happiness. Everyone is the best angel.

There may be an epilogue [?

If this side story is too cruel, I might consider writing another chapter, although it would be nice to end here, but... who makes me soft-hearted cough

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