Naraku Rewrites the Stars

Ch. 7 Singing Together

Author's Note: I already added a video of Rewrite The Stars in chapter 6 but too unsure everyone who doesn't know the song gets a chance to hear it, I thought I should add it here too. And, yes, Naraku is singing the female role while Kagome is singing the male role. I decided swapping their roles would fit the story better. 

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Previously, Kagome has finally discovered the man who has been following her the whole night and that he's the last person on Earth she'd want to see her in such a vulnerable state.

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Ah, her shocked expression plastered with fear and rage is priceless...

"No one can rewrite the stars.

How can you say you'll be mine?

Everything keeps us apart

And I'm not the one you were meant to find..."

Kagome had thought that nothing could make her speechless again tonight, but she was wrong. She was so wrong. In front of her was Naraku singing. Singing!

I have to run! Now!

Kagome immediately got up from sitting position and was about to run for her life. However, the moment she took her first step away from him, with his half-demon speed Naraku was already right in front of her.

And he continued to sing.

"It's not up to you

It's not up to me..."

With Narku right in front of her, Kagome was too frightened to move. Too frightened to breathe. Too frightened to even look away from his ruby eyes.

Okay, calm down Kagome. Just calm down. If he wanted to kill you and take the Sacred Jewel shards he'd done it by now. You need to make the right moves if you want to make this out alive. And no matter what, you're not going down without a fight.

Naraku knew Kagome was very afraid of him. He could see how she was trembling in fear and could not get enough of the smell of fear radiating off of her. But the raging fire in her sapphire eyes did not go unnoticed by him either.

Even in a situation like this, while she is trembling with fear, she still has a stubborn gleam in her sapphire eyes...

"When everyone tells us what we can be..."

Narku what game are you trying to play with me? Why are even singing in a moment like this? If I've learned anything from being here in the Federal Era is that you, Naraku, are no simple man. Well more like half-demon, but that's not the point. And now that I think about it, how do you even know this song?

Naraku took a pause and nodded his head to Kagome. At first, Kagome did not comprehend what he was trying to communicate to her, but after a few moments of silence, she understood.

Does he actually want me to sing with him? And does he think I would sing with him? Naraku you must have hit your head or something because all I want to do is be a million miles away from you. You, the incarnation of the evil!

"How can we rewrite the stars?"

Again Narku took a pause.

At this moment Kagome did not know what to do. All of her mind, screamed at her to get away from him, but a small part of her heart is hesitating.

What is my heart even thinking? Oh yeah, right it doesn't think at all! Since meeting Naraku for the first time, I hated him! And I still hate him! Naraku he's pure evil! Manipulative! Sadistic psychopath! He's a ruthless abomination of everything bad combined! He's... He's hurt so many people... Inuyasha, Kikyo, Sango, Miroku, and even my little Shippo suffered because of him! I hate you, Naraku! And if it wasn't for me not being strong enough yet, I'd literally purified you to smithereens by now.

"Say that the world can be ours... Tonight..."

What will the Wench do? Will she try to run, again, or will she stay?

"All I want is to fly with you..."

Does he know this song is meant to be sung as a duet? How would he even know that? And with him?! How can he still has the audacity to keep singing! What game are you trying to force me to play, Naraku?! Argh! Just, argh! I can't even think straight at this point!

Kagome remembering losing her head meant death at the hands of Naraku tried her best to calm herself.

Breathe. Just, breathe...

Closing her eyes, taking a couple of deep breaths and focusing on the sound of rain helped Kagome calmed her nerves, if not a little.

I have to live. At the very least, not hand over the Sacred Jewel Shards to, him. And to do that, I have to play my cards just right... I can't believe I'm gonna do this.

Kagome opened her eyes and narrowed them on the person standing in front of her.

Naraku seeing the stubbornly determined look on Kagome face knew she had picked her poison, so he continued to sing.

"All I want is to fall with you... So just give me all of you..."

Kagome then accidentally sung Naraku's line, "It feels impossible."

Be that as it may, Naraku was able to smoothly and expertly take on the responding line "It's not impossible."

Kagome putting more heart than she meant to, continued, "Is it impossible?"

In which Kagome and Naraku in surprising harmony together sang, "Say that it's possible!"

Okay, what's going on? Why does it feel so good to sing... with Naraku? Narku! The half-demon who ruined tens of hundreds of lives of demon, half-demons and humans alike?! Like even though I loathe him with every cell of my body, I can't deny the warm tingly feeling I'm getting in my chest. Like... like? What is this feeling? So familiar yet foreign?

Kagome being too distracted with her thoughts did not notice Naraku had taken off his baboon mask. To call Kagome's attention back to him Naraku continued to sing on his own.

"How do we rewrite the stars?"

Which did the trick because Kagome soon took on the next line.

"Say you were made to be mine?

Nothing can keep us apart.

Cause you are the one I was meant to find..."

When did he take off his mask?

"It's up to you, and it's up to me.

No one can say what we get to be.

And why don't we rewrite the stars?

Changing the world to be ours."

This should be the end of the duet... I wonder if he'll finish the song the way it's meant to be finished...

And Naraku does, but not in the way Kagome thought he would. As Narku started singing the final lines of the song with his half-demon speed and gentle strength he pulled Kagome in his embrace.

"You know I want you.

It's not a secret I try to hide..."

While looking into Kagome's sapphire eyes he did something he did not aspect himself to do. He sang the last few lines of the song with all of what is left of his human heart, Onigumo.

"But I can't have you.

We're bound to break...

And my hands are tied."

Never... Never in a million years... I even imagined Narku could sing with such sincerity and... and... well, something so close to love. And his eyes, his ruby eyes for a second, flashed blue, and I swear, he looked so tired and heartbroken like an abandoned child. It almost made me... feel bad for him. What was that saying again? Monsters aren't born but created? If that's true... Then, Naraku what did you have to go through to become the horrible monster you are today?