Reality
Kagome's eyes fluttered open, seeing a fuzzy green image in front of her eyes, "Where am I?" she asked herself in a raspy voice. She lifted her Hand to her eyes and rubbed them, lightly. Taking her hand away from her eyes, she could vaguely make out the image of grass. When she looked up a little, she could see trees and bushes. "The forest?" she asked herself, tiredly, "What am I doing here?" She rolled onto her back. The sun shined fiercely in her eyes, "Ow" she lifted up her right arm to block the bright light from her eyes, "What time is it?" She lifted herself up with her other hand. Now sitting up strait, Kagome looked over to her side and noticed her bow and quiver lying on the ground, "Why're those out?" Then, Kagome heard a soft, rhythmic "dip-dip-dip". Kagome spun around to face what was making the noise, and then she saw it.
Her eyes went wide with shock, Gasp She cupped her hands around her mouth "O-oh, g-g-god." Was all Kagome was able to say. She lowered her head brought one of her hands to her chest, trying to comfort herself. She thought that she was going to be sick, really sick. "This isn't real, this can't be real." She told herself over and over again as she looked up again. What she saw was Inuyasha pinned to the God Tree with arrows sticking out of him, a lot of arrows. One in each shoulder, one in his left side (just under his ribs), one just left of the center of his chest, one in his stomach area, one in the neck, and one dead in the center of his face. Blood was splattered all over him, the area around him, and a puddle surrounded his dangling feet.
Kagome lowered her head again, her hands still over her mouth and heart, "This is just a bad dream, just a really bad dream. All I have to do is wake up and it will all go away." She was sat there for several seconds, blinking rapidly, muttering the phrase "Just have to wake up" repeatedly, trying to wake herself up, groan "Did It Work?" She whispered to herself as she lifted her head up, slowly, praying as she did, to see if she had 'woken up' from this nightmare. She had her answer quickly. Inuyasha was still pinned to the God Tree, 7 arrows sticking out of him, and blood everywhere.
"What's going on? How did this happen? Who would do something like this?" Kagome asked herself shakily. Gasp She snapped her head around again to see if what she thought was right. "Oh-no," She saw her bow and empty quiver lying next to each other on the ground, " I - I didn't. No, There's no way. I couldn't . . . " She lifted her right hand away from her chest and opened it in front of her face. She saw red indentions on the insides of her fingers where she usually put the bowstring. "Oh, God, no." She felt hot tears stinging at the corners of her eyes.
She let her arms fall to her side and her head dangle. She sat there for a while, dead in a way. She was still trying to figure out if this was reality or just a really bad dream. A thousand questions were racing through her mind at a hundred miles a second.
She didn't know exactly how long she had sat there, but, once she got her wits together, and looked up at the sky, she saw faint stars in the orange sky. It's almost night she thought weakly to herself. Gerrr she groaned loudly to herself, "Why'd this have to happen, why? Why would I do such a horrible thing? To . . . t-to Inuyasha . . ." Tears slowly started swelling in her eyes.
Then, a thought suddenly struck her. Oh, no, what's going to happen when my friends find me here? I'll be sitting here, my bow out my quizzer empty an-'sob'-and Inu-Inuyasha 'sob sob' pinned to the tree. This time Kagome fell to the ground, clutching her sides, and brought her knees to her chest and cried. The tears stinging as they fell from her eyes.
Finally bringing herself together as best she could, Kagome brought her hands up to her face and wiped away the tears from her face, "No, sniff no, I can't let them see this," she said to herself as steadily as she could, "I can't let anyone see what I've done." Then Kagome brought herself up into a sitting position and put on as strait a face as she could, tears still running down her face, and tried as hard as she could not to beak down again.
"Ok, I can do this," she looked back up at the body, and fought back the urge to just turn around and run away. "I have to do this." She then got up and shakily walked over to Inuyasha's dangling corps. Each step, for her, seamed like an eternity . . . one painful eternity after another. She put one foot in front of the other, always fearing the next. One foot after another, towards the thing that had plagued her worst nightmares.
Once she was about a foot or so away, her foot caught on a rock and she lost her footing. She struggled to keep her balance, but to no good. She fell forward and grabbed the first thing she could to try to keep her self from falling. When she lifted her head, what she saw was her hand grasping onto bright red cloth that had blotches of darker red, almost black, splattered all over it.
Kagome gave out a small scream and pushed backward and fell backwards onto the ground. Ignoring the pain in her rear, she kept herself propped up with her left hand with her right one clutching her chest. Panting hard, she tried to keep her heart steady.
When she had finally calmed herself down a little, heart beat and breathing back to normal, she attempted to pick herself back up again. She put her right hand to the ground and oushed up on either side of herself. But, when she did, her right hand gave out from under her and she fell to her side. Closing her eyes quickly, she fell hard with a loud 'thud' followed by a small, sort of, 'splash'. She didn't dare open her eyes. She was to afraid because, it seamed, that bad things happened every time she did. She cringed at the sudden smell that filled the air and the sudden wet feeling all over her body and face. Gathering up all the strength she could draw together, Kagome slowly opened her eyes. She felt a sudden stinging feeling surge through her eyes, but she didn't close them. At the moment, she was numb to the pain. She was numb to all feeling. What she was seeing was stunning all of her senses. What she saw was . . . red. Everything she saw was a dark shade of red. Kagome had slipped in Inuyasha's pool of blood.
A darkness started closing in on her, until, there was nothing.
(End Chapter One)
A/N: Yo! My first posted story! Awesome! Anyways, please r/r. Flames, praise, whatever. Depending on weather or not you guys liked it, the next chapter will be up soon. And . . . umm . . . thanks for reading!