Miracle

Chapter One

July 24, 1495 Edo Kagome's (P.O.V.)

Life seems unimportant if your loved one is in danger… and some people like me acted and protected them without a second thought. The only thing that flew through my mind was that, I have to protect him. And that's what I did, but I sacrificed my own life for theirs… I wanted to tell them that they would have done the same thing, but the blast ended me right there in the clearing… I remember one of Richard Bach's sayings, "Here is the test to find your mission in life is finished… If you're alive, it isn't." But I guess mine is and that mission was to save the life I love and I did it with only one regret...

…I never told Inuyasha I loved him.

"Kagome! Hurry up; I want to get farther before the sun sets!" Inuyasha yelled impatiently from the front of the group, while Kagome was rolling her eyes and trying to hide the vein popping out on her forehead. "Yes almighty one." She said sarcastically under her breath hoping that Inuyasha didn't over hear. The little fox beside Kagome was a little afraid for Inuyasha, he was going to visit the ground very soon if he didn't shut up. He hopped onto Kagome's back pack and tried to comfort her, "You know Kagome, I think Inuyasha is trying to find a hot spring for you and he wants to get there early so you and Sango can soak for awhile." She looked at Sango whose hand was intertwined with the monks… She shrugged, "No, I think he just wants to walk us to death." She snared. "I heard that!" "Good!" Kagome yelled back, her face was red and she was going insane with the crabby Inuyasha always nagging. His has been like this since she got lost in the woods somehow and he found her with Koga… He just appeared out of nowhere and pledged his love for her all the while she was trying to drop him softly. That's when Inuyasha "caught them in the act" of nothing! What was he thinking? Thinking that she would leave with Koga? It was insane and completely idiotic. Kagome wished sometimes he didn't care what she did…

She walked into something hard and big…and she was frustrated by her clumsiness and looked up grinding her teeth. It was Miroku's back that she had walked into as the monk turned around he was meet by a red faced Kagome and he tried to hold back a laugh. Then Sango joined him in trying to hold back the giggles they had as Kagome gat even redder. They both stopped as they heard a low, dangerous, growl coming from Inuyasha, Kagome looked at Inuyasha she was shocked to say the least; he was in a half crouch position and his claws ready to strip flesh from bone, his eyes were wide and furious and that scared her because they never looked that murderous unless he was coming and that's when she felt them, she felt the shards… and they were coming inhumanly fast…

Inuyasha had Tetsusaiga out and ready and was standing in front of Kagome protectively; Kagome quickly had bow and arrow in hand and aimed toward the area where Inuyasha had his eyes on. She knew it was Naraku because of the amount of shards coming there way, and thought why would he come after five shards they had collected just last week. She heard him coming now and her grip on her bow tightened.

He burst out of the tree line and it wasn't his usually form… tentacles were reaching and grabbing things to throw at us, I quickly looked over at Miroku and Sango they were both armed and ready for the unexpected battle. Shippo was hiding from the danger, but he could probably see what was going to take place. Her head whipped forward when she heard flesh tearing and saw Inuyasha already acting on Naraku's arrival. Naraku wasn't paying attention to Inuyasha and was staring at her… just Kagome. Sango cried out in pain when a tentacle slashed her leg and arm and Miroku rushed to her side still concentrating on the battle before him. Inuyasha Hacking away flesh, limbs, and tentacles away from Naraku, but the more they all cut away the more that replaced them… one came at Kagome and she blasted it away with an arrow and quickly replaced it. Ready for the next whatever… but it all stopped.

Naraku stopped attacking and so did the group and Inuyasha spared a glance at Kagome, but that was what Naraku wanted and so his body started to change into one thing that Inuyasha couldn't fight and Kagome couldn't save him from her… Black silky hair, white and red robes were twirling in the wind as Kagome sucked in a rigid breath and when Inuyasha turned to face the 'creature' one word escaped his lips… "Kikyo?"

'Kikyo' was bloody and wounded and looked tired; bags were under her eyes. It looked like 'Kikyo' was the one that had taken the beating and not Naraku. She walked toward Inuyasha, but he started to jog over to her when Kagome yelled, "Inuyasha wait I don't think its safe!" Inuyasha replied angrily back, "Do you think she can hurt me right now, Naraku probably put a spell on her to make her change into him and fight us and so she could get killed." While Inuyasha was half way to Kikyo, Kikyo's dead eyes made emotion… and Kagome broke out into a sprint for Inuyasha… Kikiyo's eyes were dead and they never have emotion in them even if Inuyasha was by her side so that wasn't Kikiyo… Inuyasha apparently missed it and didn't hear Kagome running for him. She could hear the yells and screams from Miroku and Sango telling her to stop, but she didn't, nothing could stop her from saving Inuyasha, nothing…

Inuyasha was just a few feet from 'Kikyo' and that's when her hands started to glow a sickly blue and it rose to meet Inuyasha… 'Kikyo' grinned at Inuyasha and he stopped in his tracks like he was frozen and she slowly tumbled over to him her hand glowing brighter and brighter yet it was turning more black and dark… 'Kikyo' darkly murmured, "Die." Kagome reached them then and before neither 'Kikiyo' nor Inuyasha realized she jumped in between them. 'Kikyo's' hand pushed into Kagome and a force so strong it blew Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and everything in it's path away. It was different for Kagome, her body was glued to 'Kikyo's' hand. Her black tresses were flying in every direction, her pupils went small and her eyes wide, her clothes started to rip from the energy coming from the blast… where Kikiyo's hand was the skin started to peel and bleed and then everything slowed…

Kikyo laughed at her stupidity, but stopped short, because of the look Kagome had… tears were flowing down her cheeks, and she smiled and then the clearing was illuminated by bright blue energy, lightening started to strake everywhere in the clearing, but nowhere else… and then everything froze… and restarted…

There was only one body left in the clearing and nothing else… the blades of grass, the leaves from the trees that surrounded it, and the trees were scared and burnt and everything green and alive was dead… The birds were silent and so was the wind…the grey sky let little drops of rain fall until it started to pour… that's what woke Inuyasha, the cold rain felt like knives to his skin and the battle flashed before his eyes as he remembered what happened and he remembered Kikyo and… Kagome…

He jumped to his feet, his eyes wide and frantic looking from her trying to find her, to make sure she was unharmed and safe. He was surrounded by trees, he was not in the clearing, so he ran and ran until he broke through the line of blackened trees. His eyes examined the scorched clearing and his hope fell, his eyes still scanned it and they stopped, panic rose in them, and they widened even further. Raven black hair surrounded her beautiful pale face like a halo, her long lashes laid on her pale cheeks, a small smile on her pink lips, but the hand print on her chest was still there and the skin peeled and dry blood crusted to her school uniform… Inuyasha dropped to his knees… he knew she was gone he could smell the death that covered her sent. Tears were coming freely down his face onto Kagome's. He never cried like this never let anyone see him like this, but today he let all the pent up emotion out and just cried… he pulled her body onto his lap and just held… praying that she might come back to reassure him and make him feel wanted and a person… but more importantly he regretted that he was idiotic not to tell her that he loved her with all his heart and that he would protect her with all his strength, but he cried out in anger because his strength wasn't good enough. He buried his nose into her hair breathing in her beautiful scent and more tears overflowed. He brought her face to his, as the rain pelted down the blood started to smear on his hands and everywhere else… He looked into her closed eyes and mumbled, "Wake up… wake up Kagome… please…" the body didn't move nothing did, and he cried out again, "Please Kagome wake up! Please!" Nothing changed. He brought his forehead to hers and just continued crying; staring and praying that she would come back, he prayed and prayed…

He didn't notice Sango walk up and join him, she cried also praying that she would come back, but knew that was impossible, but she still prayed… She stayed there with him until she heard footsteps and she turned and saw little Shippo. His face scared and uncertain, his eyebrows knitted together and his eyes wide… he started to whimper, but then he hollered and cried Sango ran over to him swooping him up in a hug trying to bring comfort to him… Sango felt two arms encircle her and Shippo and knew it was Miroku, his robes protected them from the rain and she heard sobs from him and felt his body rock with each one.

The team didn't know what to do… they didn't know what to do from now. They stayed in that clearing for a few days crying and praying… on third day Inuyasha took Kagome's body in his arms and started to walk toward the village the others followed, but gave Inuyasha his space with her body, because when they tried to approach he snarled and growled them away… When they did get to the village Inuyasha disappeared into his forest and returned two weeks later without Kagome's body… he didn't speak to anyone and when they tried he either growled or ignored them. They were all hurting, but Inuyasha was the one that died that day too.