By Request: Tainted Purity for dreaming_trees

[luxken27]

See, I haven't forgotten about those personal challenges! :P If you'd like to give me a specialized request, please see this thread for details.

Title: Tainted Purity
Rating: X
Warnings: Violence, rape, character death
Word Count: 7605
Summary: She was his angel, his innocent, his beautiful purebred saint. He was her worst nightmare made flesh, one from which she could never escape.

Author’s Note: Written for dreaming_trees, who requested “Naraku/Kikyo” during my call for challenges.

This is actually a bit of a special case for my "By Request" collection. The rating and content leave me comfortable with only posting the piece at Media Miner, so you can click here to read the story. Because of its length, and the extended warnings I felt befitted the content, its posted separately from my "By Request" collection.

It seems like, with every darker piece of fic that I write, I keep saying, "This is the darkest thing I've ever written. This is the darkest thing I've ever written." Well, nothing I've produced and shared thus far holds a candle to this piece. It was an interesting, gut-wrenching, and strangely empowering experience, to write about things that personally disgust or horrify me.

I'm a firm believer that darkfic is good for the soul, and hopefully getting this out of my head will allow lighter fare to take up residence.

This was written after a two-day binge on 48 Hours Mystery and Most Evil, sparked by accounts of the Kissel murders. Thank Jeebus for streaming video to feed curiosity, and my muses.

Comments

[kmoaton.livejournal.com]

ooooo...WOW! I can see the influence your tv viewing has had on you. (love those shows, by the way ^-^) This was dark and creepy and ooooo. I think I need to go find something happy to read. The images you portrayed are so vivid! I know I might see this one tonight in my dreams! Way to go, Steven King! LOL

[psyco_chick32]

Mmmm - love those shows!

I'm commenting as I go so... ^_^ this could be surprising.
I love the background you've set up for this - nods to canon in AU always make me sorta giddy, LOL

Kaede's reaction is very interesting, as well. Kids see a lot that adults don't - even if they can't always explain it.

OMG
I actually had to stop reading for a moment at the scene with Kaede... I seriously wasn't expecting it at ALL. It just spiraled out of control from there - I'm absolutely shocked and amazed. I didn't expect any of where it was going, but loved every second of it (in a creepy, can't-stop-watching way, of course!)

[landofthekwt.livejournal.com]

Glad I do not watch those shows. Your story was very good even though if was so dark. Your Naraku is the true epitome of evil. Much worse than RT's character who she thinks could have been saved. I like your canon references It gives it that IY feel.

[piratequeen0405.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I loved the end (as hard as it was to read)--you didn't flinch. A happily-ever-after conclusion would not have fit in with the chilling, tragic tone you set up and kept going throughout the piece. And great job with a totally depraved villain--sick, evil, unredeemable.