Hi, all! Well this is my first fan fiction, and I'm going to try and keep the characters as true to themselves as possible (don't get mad at me if I fail horribly)…I also want to make this as realistic as anyone can with demons and mikos…
*I don't own InuYasha or any of the characters from it*
"Sesshomaru's beast talking"
"The jewel speaking"
Chapter 1: Letting Go
Her eyes widened at the sight before her. This wasn't the first time it had happened…no it wasn't the first time. The first time she forgave him, the second time she once again placed her trust in his hands, but the third time…it made her think. Was this truly what she wanted out of life? To keep chasing after someone that only saw her as someone else? Was it worth the pain to make him look at her?
Shaking her head, she allowed her feet to take her from the sight before her and walk back to where the others waited. As she walked the trees began to blur as her tears fell from her eyes and her breathing started to become painful. At that moment she decided she would no longer allow herself to be a used simply because she looked like someone. Especially, when the other person was nothing but bones and graveyard soil. Who needed souls to survive. It was time to let him go.
She looked to the sky and whispered "InuYasha, I give you up. I know longer wish to love you." With the final words leaving her lips she collapsed to the ground in violent sobs and wails. Beating her fists into the ground until they began to bleed, the pain in her hands nothing compared to the pain in her heart.
Roughly 400 feet away a small child, stirred from his sleep looking for the warmth that was normally right there. Realizing that he was alone in the sleeping bag, he got up and looked around. Not seeing his mother-like figure, he began to panic. His forest green eyes started to water and he let out a yell, waking his companions.
"Shippo, what is wrong?" Asked the man in robes of a monk rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
"Kagome, she…she… is gone." Wailed the little fox demon Shippo
As the young fox continued to cry and wail, the sleepiness left the bodies of the now awake man and woman as the jumped to their feet and looked around the make-shift camp. It was then they realized that the young one was right…Kagome was nowhere in sight.
A young woman with long brown hair and brown eyes turned to the fox known as Shippo and asked "can you smell her?"
Shippo lifted his nose into the air trying to stop his tears and took in a deep breathe hoping to caught even a small trail in which to follow. It took several minutes, but he was able to find a very faint trace of her scent leading to the north of their camp. It bothered him greatly that he hadn't noticed the lack of warmth much sooner. He was a demon after all he should know when something changed around him. It was then he also noticed that one other person was missing from the group.
Shippo turned to the woman and said "Sango, I smell her but it's very faint. And where the heck is InuYasha? He is supposed to protect the camp."
Sango looked to man standing next to her as her eyes widened in realization. The inu - hanbun akuma* was not where he was when they had fallen asleep earlier that night.
"Miroku, Shippo is right. What is going on? Kagome never leaves camp without telling Shippo where she is going…this is not like her at all."
"My dear, Sango maybe her and InuYasha left for a romantic walk under the stars." Miroku replied.
"If you believe that then you are truly a fool. Romantic and InuYasha do not belong in the same sentence." Sango snorted. Rolling her eyes at the monk and walking to Shippo.
"Shippo, lead us to Kagome if you can. I don't want her out there when we don't know what is in this forest. Plus she is carrying the jewel shards and you know how much those demons would love to get their hands on them." Sango said.
"Your right, she also forgot her bow and arrows. She could be dead." Young Shippo cried as his eyes were once more beginning to fill with tears. If she was dead, then he would completely alone. Yeah, Sango and Miroku would watch over him but it wasn't the same…Kagome was his mom.
"You can't think like that Shippo. I'm sure she is just fine. Maybe she headed back home." Miroku said kneeing in the dirt in front of the little fox kit, gently brushing the tears from his cheeks.
"Shippo, she is smart and powerful…granted she doesn't have control of those powers but she knows how to get herself out of trouble. You have seen it time and time again. Have faith in her. Just like we do."
Shippo nodded his and held his nose high in the air taking another deep breathe, he took off running. Without looking back, he took off in the direction that the scent was coming from. With speeds that no human could possibly follow, the monk and slayer climbed onto the fire cat's back. They sped thru the trees almost like they weren't there at all. Until they came to a small clearing, were a small figure laid on the ground.
With a small whimpering noise the small kitsune ran to the figure. He leaned down and checked to see if the person was alive. But as he looked closely he noticed the blood staining the ground in small pools. The smell was so strong that it couldn't have been long sense the blood had been split. Still the figure did not move. Even when with the sounds that the group had made the woman-child had not even flinched.
"Kagome…? Please Kagome, answer me." Shippo said as he began to shake the figure on the ground. Still she would not move, nor did she respond to the small kitsune. He started to get worried. He had already lost his parents; he couldn't lose her as well. It would be too much. He had just begun to let the pain in his heart heal, thanks to the young woman lying on the forest floor.
Sango and Miroku walked to the tiny kitsune trying to see what was going on. By the time they made it to Shippo's side, they were overwhelmed with fear. They could clearly see their young female friend lying on the ground, curled in on herself. However, they could see the rise and fall of her chest. So, they knew that she was alive at least.
Kagome's mind was flashing through all the memories of her and InuYasha. Some of them were good memories. However, the bad memories vastly out-weighted the good ones. She began to question what see ever saw in InuYasha. These thoughts weighted so heavily on her mind that she didn't hear the voice of the little boy who she saw as her son speaking to her, let alone touching her. Just as quickly as those thoughts entered her mind, they vanished leaving nothing but darkness in her mind.
The young fox kitsune lay down next to his mother and curled into her as best he could. Rubbing at his eyes, trying to stop the tears that fell down his cheeks. However, it was a useless endeavor the tears were not stopping.
The monk and demon slayer didn't know what to think. Their friend was in pain and they didn't know why. And it ate away at their hearts as they too began to cry. It was almost like Kagome's pain was being passed to them.
