Ok this idea came to me like a really really long time ago. Even before I wrote "Only Time Will Tell." It's a good story line so why not give it a try. There's not a whole lot of OOC, except maybe Naraku cause I don't know much about him, cept he's a bastard. Lol. Anyways enjoy. (Rating may go up later.)
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Inu Yasha. I do own characters I make up myself (not sure if any shall be in this story though).
Chapter One: Take Me Away
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Slowly the breeze drifted in through the hut swirling around it's contents. The people that sat inside were an elderly woman and a younger girl. The young girl was helping the elderly woman prepare a dinner for her friends.
Softly she pulled back her hair into a loose pony tail, using a piece of white ribbon given to her by the elderly woman. She pushed the wisps of raven black hair from her soft brown eyes and continued on with her work. She was kindling the fire while adding just the right amount of each ingredient to the boiling cauldron.
"Child, ye does not have to assist me." The elderly woman said never taking her eyes off her work of cutting up some dried meat.
"It's alright Kaede, I don't mind at all. Besides I'd rather be in here then out their with Inu Yasha. He's being a total jerk today." She spat out.
He was in fact being a jerk. All day he'd done nothing but bitch at her. She was growing utterly tired of his attitude.
"Kagome do ye not know what today is the marker of?" Kaede asked.
Kagome looked up from her work of stirring the food to stare up at the woman.
"No. What is it?" She asked quite interested.
"Today is the day that marks fifty-one years since the day that Inu Yasha was pinned to that tree by Kikyo. It was exactly fifty-one years ago that they departed."
Kagome fell silent. Had she known this earlier maybe she wouldn't have been so mean to him. Then again, she might have been even crueler. She hated Inu Yasha for loving Kikyo so much. Why she did, she didn't know.
'It's cause your jealous of his undying love for her.'
Kagome chased away the thought with a newer one. What exactly was Inu Yasha feeling right now? Anger? Remorse? Sadness? Perhaps he was just confused.
"I had no idea." She said and rose to her feet. "I better go apologize for my behavior earlier."
She ran from the hut leaving behind Kaede to tend to the cooking. As the woman threw in the meat and sighed softly stirring it she shook her head.
"Kagome, ye are truly unlike my sister Kikyo."
Kagome huffed slightly as she made her way up the hill. She was heading over to the forest where Sango had said she'd last seen Inu Yasha. Kagome giggled at the memory of that large red mark across Miroku's face. No doubt he had tried to achieve a free feel.
When she stepped into the forest she could immediately feel a change in the atmosphere. It felt cooler and more somber. The breeze seemed to be a comforting touch that was a welcome in the dark shadows of the trees.
Slowly Kagome walked noticing nearly everything about the forest. Every sound reached her ears, every touch and smell reached her nerves.
"Inu Yash—" She began to call out.
She fell short of her words when she spotted the blotch of red through a cluster of bushes. She pushed some back to find the hanyou standing in front of a tree. Not just any tree though, the Time Tree. His tree.
'Truly he is deep in thought or he would have heard me coming a mile away.'
Inu Yasha reached a hand up to run it down the rather large spot of softer colored wood on the trunk of the tree. He ran the tip of his finger around the small hole where the arrow had laid untouched for years. His ears were laid back on his head not moving at all. His hair blew slightly in the breeze catching rays of light that bounced over into his eyes.
Kagome stepped forward her heart over flowing with concern for her hanyou friend.
"Inu Yasha…" She muttered.
Inu Yasha turned his head. His first words were, "Kikyo."
Kagomes face flushed. She was NOT Kikyo. However, she didn't scream the usual "Sit" command like she normally would when called Kikyo. Instead she just stared at the hanyou in disbelief.
Inu Yasha's eyes were shining with what could be tears, or maybe it was just the light. He blinked softly before coming to realize who stood before him. It was only Kagome, her hair pulled back the way Kikyo used to have hers pulled back.
Why were the Gods tormenting him with such memories of Kikyo? Especially on this day, of all days.
"What do you want, wench?"
"Inu Yasha….I came to apologize. For earlier." She mumbled.
"……..yea…?"
"I didn't mean to be so bitchy. I didn't realize what…today was. So I can understand your being angry." She said adding a "Sorry." For making him remember what day it was.
Inu Yasha stared at the human girl for a few moments before looking back at the tree. He gave out a soft "feh" that sounded more like a sigh than anything else.
"Why should it matter what today is. So what, a stupid bitch pinned me to this tree fifty-one years ago at this very time of day. That means nothing to me." He muttered.
Kagome didn't have to be psychic or have the ability to read minds to know that Inu Yasha's own words had hurt himself. He didn't think of Kikyo as a bitch. If anything he though of her as a beautiful Goddess. She was the one he thought to be a bitch.
Kagome stepped forward to try and comfort him. She wanted nothing more than to maybe hold him or whisper to him that everything was fine. She needed nothing more than to know he was comforted by her simple words.
"Inu Yasha, everything will be fine." She said softly.
Suddenly the hanyou turned to face Kagome. He stared at her deeply in the eyes. They held so much emotion, so much care, concern. Kikyo's eyes had held that once. But only once in her life. Now they were filled with nothing but hate and anger. But back then….back then she had cared.
Without realizing what exactly he was doing Inu Yasha grabbed Kagome into his embrace. He pulled her close dragging one clawed hand slowly down her side. He softly nuzzled his head against her neck and even kissed lightly at her cheek.
Kagome was stunned. Why was Inu Yasha holding her in such a way? Truthfully she didn't much care why. The only thought racing through her mind was that of staying in this moment forever. Slowly she brought her arms up and wrapped them around him. As he softly nuzzled himself into her she brushed her face into his thick soft hair touching his ears slightly. They twitched a little, then fell still. His hand was stroking her side in a soft repeated motion. She wanted nothing more than to allow this moment to continue on forever and ever. Until, however, she heard….
"Kikyo.." He moaned out softly.
Her heart wrenched, it twisted inside of her in a cruel way. She wasn't Kikyo, yet that is what he thought her to be.
Kagome brought her hands up and laid them against Inu Yasha's chest, she softly pushed him back away from her. She averted her stare to the ground unable to look the hanyou in the eyes.
"I'm…not…Kikyo. I will never be…Kikyo." She mumbled softly.
Inu Yasha could only stand still. He hadn't meant to call her Kikyo. But she had looked like her for that one split moment. And he had longed to hold Kikyo for so long a time that his impulses had taken over him.
"Kagome..I--"
"Save it! I don't want to hear it okay?" She snapped and looked up at him. When next she spoke it was much gentler. "Inu Yasha I understand that you love Kikyo. But I cannot bear hearing you call her name when you are with me. I am not Kikyo, I will never be her no matter how much you may wish I was. I am Kagome. Just that. I guess…that Kagome just isn't good enough for you."
With that said she turned on her heels and sped away deeper into the forest. She left behind a very hurt and confused hanyou.
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Concealed by leaves and branches sat a figure watching over the two ignorant fools below. They knew nothing of his being there. They were far to busy living in their own little world. Not even the hanyou, so quick to always pick up his scent, had noticed him being there. The figured moved just slightly within the branches pushing back a few leaves to better see the two below. He breathed steadily through his mask. It was quite hot within that heavy furred baboon robe.
The human girl had grown angry at the hanyou, she had yelled a few things that Naraku didn't really care to worry about and then had left. From what he had gathered Inu Yasha had called the girl Kikyo. She was, however as the girl had so plainly stated, Kagome.
"The reincarnation?" He said softly to himself.
"Kagome…I'm so sorry. I care about you….more…than….." The hanyou began but then let out a long sigh. He stared off into the direction in whence Kagome had run off. He shrugged softly before turning the opposite way and heading back to the village.
After he was sure the hanyou was well enough away, Naraku leapt from the tree and stood before the giant tree.
"So this is where Kikyo pinned him fifty-one years ago? It shows well a mark where he had lain." He muttered.
Slowly a thought came to him. It came so suddenly and out of no where that he half wondered if someone had planted it in his mind. No, he was just a maniacal genius.
"That girl, that Kagome, could be the key to Inu Yasha's undoing. He seems to care about her a great deal. It'd be a shame if…something should happen to her." He said in a laughing tone.
The great Demon Lord kicked off the ground back up into the cover of the trees. He headed out deeper into the woods following the scent of a human girl.
Her face was puffy and her eyes red from crying. She sat with her back against a tree and her head deep within her hands. Softly she wept the sound drifted off with the breeze.
"Why can't he love only me?!" She choked out.
She knew why. Because he loved Kikyo to much. And why shouldn't he. She was his first love after all. She was nothing but a girl from the future. Just a jewel detector. Nothing more.
"Because your not her." A voice hissed.
Kagome quickly lifted her head to find the voice. She was suddenly alert and ready. She knew that voice. It was…him.
"What do you want!? I don't have the jewel shards." She hollered.
From the tree tops dropped a large figure. He stepped forward into a patch of light. He was wearing his baboon cover. It didn't much conceal his identity. They all knew who he was.
"I don't want the jewel shards dear, I want you." He cooed softly.
He pulled back the hood of the costume to reveal his frightening, yet well shaped, features. He smiled at Kagome with a malice all his own.
"Why do you want me?" She croaked out.
"Because you could be my only way of destroying that pesky little hanyou. He seems to care for you quite a lot."
"No he doesn't. He cares only for Kikyo…" Kagome said angrily. For a moment, in her anger, she had even forgotten who she was speaking with.
"How little you know child. Come with me, I shall show you."
"No! Stay away from me!! Inu Yasha!!!!"
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Inu Yasha's ears twitched. He had heard a slight screech flow through them. At first he thought nothing of it. Soon however he re-thought that. The scream came louder and clearer now that he was searching for it.
It was Kagome. She was in trouble.
Inu Yasha took off from his spot just outside the forest. He ran as fast as his feet would carry him. The moment he passed by the tree where him and Kagome had last spoke he picked up a heavy familiar scent.
Naraku.
Inu Yasha began to pick up speed as a new fear rose within him. What was Naraku doing here?
He stopped suddenly picking up the mixed scent of both Naraku and Kagome. It was heavy but led no where. Buzzing just a few feet away was one of Naraku's pesky Shikigami. It moved this way and that gathering Inu Yasha's full attention.
It buzzed softly speaking to him. To anyone without demon blood it would have sounded only as buzzing. But to Inu Yasha it was words. Meanings.
Slowly Inu Yasha's blood began to boil. How dare he.
"How dare he!!" He growled loudly.
He swung his clawed hand forward tearing the poor Shikigami in half.
"Inu Yasha, I have your precious human girl. She is in careful handling. I won't harm a single hair on her head. Unless, however, you refuse to hand over the jewel shards you have and your precious sword. Until then, goodbye."
"Damn him…..Kagome!" He hollered.
He turned around and headed back to the village. Naraku would not get away with this.
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So what did you guys think? To stupid, or really good. Do I need to fix anything or something? Did you like it! I think it's one of my best so far. Do R&R or I shall not update.