Inuyasha... is...not...mine...Wail!!!!!!!!!!!!! The story is, but not even one caritor belongs to me. sniff, sniff
"Who does she think she is!?!" Ranted a very angry half demon. "How dare she think she can break her promise to me!?!!!" Inuyasha fumed, letting lose a ragged growl as he grew ever more irate and belligerent. "Thinks she can tell me what to do! Thinks she can make promises and break them! Well I'll show her!!!" Having worked him self into a frenzy Inuyasha mindlessly reached into his robes and pulled out the Shikon Jewel. "I wish to be a full-blooded demon!" he snarled. The instant the words left his mouth he wished them back, but you only get one wish, and his had been cast.
Two hours earlier.
"Inuyasha I have to go home for a few hours, I need to tell everyone what's happened. They are going to be so happy to know we finally did it! Naraku is gone forever and the jewel's whole, Kaede has some ideas about how we can purify it, but I'm going to need to rest at lest a day before I can try anything. That battle took a lot out of me.'
Kagome shifted back and forth on her feet a few times before adding.
"Besides, you started this quest with me because you wanted the jewel for your self, not because you wanted to stop it from being used. I think you have earned the right to hold it for a while, at lest until I get back. I just hope you think about what, if anything, you really want from the jewel."
With a smile that looked a little forced Kagome dropped the Jewel of Four Souls into Inuyasha's palm. Giving his hand a squeeze she turned to go, but abruptly she paused and moved back until she stood in front of Inuyasha again. Some dark emotion was floating in the depth of her eyes. Clasping her hands together in front of her Kagome visibly braced herself and spoke.
"I am not going to tell you what to do Inuyasha, but I want to make sure you understand that if you do decide to become a full demon, you will lose me forever. I wont be able to stay by your side if you make that choice."
Kagome looked as if she would like to say more but giving a small shake of her head she turned, and with one last look, jumped into the well.
Inuyasha stared down into the now empty well and felt the first spark of anger. "Kagome, you promised to never leave my side, no matter what. Now you'd use it as a punishment if I don't behave?"
It didn't take all that long for him to end up doing what he did, he was always too quick to act without thinking things through.
"BITCH! Always trying to control me! Sit Inuyasha! Don't Inuyasha! Stop Inuyasha! She made me her dog, a cute little puppy to crawl at her feet!" Eyes glowing like embers the fully demon Inuyasha ranted, listing the many sins of the woman who would have broken her word, who would have betrayed him just like every other no good useless human in this world had. "Well time to show her I'm not her little lap dog anymore."
Setting out for the well Inuyasha marveled at his increased power; the raw potential to destroy that filled him was incredible. But some part of him wondered why that didn't make him happy, he felt nothing but anger. Shouldn't he be happy?
Unable to wait any longer Kagome was just climbing out of the well as Inuyasha arrived. Calmly she looked at his new form, while tears filled her eyes to fall in rivulets down her cheeks.
Something about the expression on her face gave Inuyasha pause, and to stall for time he taunted. "Thought you could wave the gift of your company under my nose and make me forget about what I have always wanted? Do you really think your that great a prize? Who would want a traitor at their side anyway? You said you would stay by my side always. But you lied! Bet you would've left me even if I hadn't made the wish. I bet that just as soon as that jewel was out of the way and you didn't need my protection anymore you would have taken off, and left me all alone."
Kagome flinched back from Inuyasha as if she had been struck, and he was left to wonder why he didn't enjoy the sight. When she straitened up, he relaxed, here came the yelling, an angry Kagome he could deal with. But she didn't yell, she slowly started to walk towards him, her eye's both excepting and sad. When she was within arms reach she lifted her hand to his face. It was only then that Inuyasha realized just how close he had allowed her to get without doing a thing. He had just stood there like some hound under a stay command. Panicked at the idea that even now she had power over him, Inuyasha thrust out his arm, pushing her away.
The smell was his first clue that something was very, very wrong . Inuyasha didn't understand why he could suddenly smell Kagome's blood, or for that matter, why hadn't she gone flying when he shoved her. Glancing down Inuyasha froze.
His hand was buried to the wrist in Kagome's chest. The new claws and strength had let it slide through her skin and bone, as easily as a sword cuts through air. Eye's wide he jerked his head up to look at her face.
Kagome still had that excepting, sad look on her face, though it was now tinged with pain. She lifted a hand to cradle his cheek in her palm. Too stunned to react, Inuyasha just stared as she forced her lips to curl into a faint smile.
"You Baka, I never said I would break my promise to you. I said..." Kagome gave a gasp as her legs buckled.
Without thought Inuyasha caught her and lowered her gently to the ground. He set her down carefully, leaning her back against the well. All the while keeping his other hand in place. The sensation of her heart beating against his fingers made him feel ill, but some part of him knew that pulling free would hasten her death.
After a few shallow breaths Kagome tried again. "I said you would lose me if you... did.. this.. but I... I.. was never going... to leave.. you. I...love...you... Inuyasha."
When Kagome's hand started to slip down his face, Inuyasha caught it and held it in place. Some deep part of his being was screaming, getting louder and louder, one scream after another... a name. "Kagome! Kagome!! KAGOME!!!!! KAGOME!!!!!!"
Fury stole through the tattered bits of his soul which had lingered in his now wretchedly pure demon body. Acting on pure instinct Inuyasha yanked his hand out of Kagome's body, and in a blur of motion, struck. One moment his hand was empty of anything but Kagome's blood, in the next it held the still beating heart of the monster who had killed her.
Gasping for air he could no longer use, Inuyasha placed the offering into Kagome's grasp, folding her slack fingers around the organ. He still had her other hand secured tightly to his cheek. Inuyasha shifted, and, pushing back the darkness the sought to steal sight from him, he lay his head in her lap, looking up at her still beautiful face...
I don't write things with sad endings often, generaly I like my tales to end with something close to happily ever after, but I want to cover all the 'what if's' floating around in my head for Inuyasha and Kagome and this was one of them. Though there is just a little more to say about this one, and that will be posted soon.
Ok I told myself that I was not going to beg for reviews, and I'm not, this is not me begging, this is me informing you that reviews give me the push to keep posting, and to finish in progress stories much more quickly. So if you want to keep my what if tales a'comin do your part... but I did not beg! No sir... tee hee... um... please?