The air fell still, small humming sounds could be heard by the drowsy Hanyou. Though he knew no one else was awake, he hesitated. He knew what she wanted, but how could he leave Kagome like that, he wanted to say good-bye but he wasn't ready. He had to tell her, tell her that he didn't want to leave tonight.
Her soul collectors streamed the night skies. Each one carrying a soul of the unlucky. He looked back at the hut, making sure everyone was asleep, his golden eye's floated to his companions that slept peacefully. He couldn't stand it if Kagome was to see this, to witness the promise he made to the one he loved.
A soul collector passed the hut and looked at him with empty emotionless eyes. Tell him that it was time, time to go. Inuyasha followed the snake, walking through the night, guided by the glowing streak and the orange moon. It would be a while, before he had found her, her scent was not anywhere that he could pick up, slowly he quickened his pace, as did the soul collectors.
Kagome stirred, a glowing soul collector wrapping itself around the girls petit body. 'Kikyou?' Kagome didn't struggle. Letting the snake carry her high above the ground. She could see the moon, wanting to reach her hand out to touch it, but knowing that it was impossible. A small sigh escaped Kagome's throat. 'Why would Kikyou want me? If this has anything to do with Inuyasha she can have him, I thought I told her that before.' Kagome's mind flashed back to a memory, remembering the warmth of his body, the taste of his lips. 'I just with that she would give him back to me.' A tear fell from Kagome's deep brown eyes. 'I want him to be mine. I want him to be happy.' The snake stopped, atop of a huge clearing in the woods. A large single tree stood in the middle. 'The sacred tree? What am I doing back at Inuyasha's forest.'
Inuyasha slammed on the brakes, looking around the clearing, watching the surrounding forest, just waiting for Kikyou's appearance. In three…. Two…. One…. -
"Inuyasha, you have come." Kikyou's body moved out of the patch of brambles. Her flawless body floated gracefully as she floated across the ground.
'Inuyasha?' "Inu-…" the snake wrapped around her mouth tightly, demanding her not to talk, just to listen, and watch.
Inuyasha shook his head. 'I could've swore I just heard Kagome, but I don't smell her, no she isn't here.' "Kikyou, I cannot come with you tonight. Please I just need a few more days. I just want to say good-bye-…"
"Good-bye to Kagome? Do you not love me Inuyasha? Do you not want to be with me?" Kikyou tried to act hurt.
"No Kikyou, I do, I want to be with you. I do love you it's just. It's just I'll never get to see my friends again. I want to just spend sometime with them, before I go to hell with you. Please, just a few more days." Inuyasha begged he'd do anything, anything for Kikyou, but Kagome. Kagome had taught him to love again, to trust people again. Kagome was special to him.
"A few more days Inuyasha. Then you will join me, and you-…"
'… -Shall be happy. She makes him happy, he is willing to go to hell for her, just so that they may be together. Oh Kagome what are you doing here. I want him to he happy too. But want can I do, I am just some stupid incarnation that shares the same soul-…my soul I can give her my soul so that she may live amongst the living again. The soul collector started to move, taking her back to where she once slept.
Inuyasha moved towards camp where the others slept. Well he hoped they still were asleep. He walked back to camp, the moon reflecting off his silver hair. Two days and he would leave them. Two days-…
"Inuyasha?" Shippou scurried out of the hut. His eyes were still sleepy. "Inuyasha, were is Kagome, I haven't seen her for the past few hours?" Shippou looked up at his role model. "Where have you been?"
"It's doesn't matter, where is Kagome?" Inuyasha was scared. Was that voice really hers.
"I don't know." Shippou said grumpily. "Where you off with-…"
"Shippou I'm over here!" Kagome, burst through the bushes, a fake smile plastered on her face. "I'm sorry I just went to see if I could gather some extra food, we're, uh. Running out of ramen." Kagome tried to make an excuse.
"But we just refilled three days ago!" Inuyasha snapped.
Kagome's face fell, "Oh, Inuyasha." Pushing tears back, Kagome tried again to put a smile on her face. "Well whatever. It doesn't really matter anyway I just thought that you might like something else to eat today." Kagome turned around. "I'm going to have a bath, I know I saw a hot spring in the forest somewhere." Kagome took off, wanting to her away from everyone.
A mile into the forest, Kagome sat sadly in a selected hot spring. Fidgeting with a necklace that she had bought back home. It was a cute heart that said 'always with you' and angel was engraved behind the words. Tears dropped on her hands as they shook with fear. 'Tomorrow I will do it, I will give Kikyou her soul back, but I want one more night with him-…'
"Kagome?"
Kagome twirled around, ducking her body deeper in the water.
"Kagome's it's ok it just me, Sango." Sango let out a little chuckle as the miko's face.
"Oh Sango, heh you scared me." Kagome dropped the necklace, allowing it to fall back against her throat.
"What are you doing so far away?" Sango questioned her friend.
"Just, you know, getting away from it all." Kagome sighed and pressed her back against the heated rocks.
"Oh ok, well Inuyasha is getting impatient, he told me to come find you." Another laugh escaped from Sango's throat.
"Okay, I will be there in a few minutes." Kagome dried her tears and dressed. Walking back through the trees. Calling out to her other part of her soul, trying, somehow to tell Kikyou that she needed to talk to her.