"Argh!" The pain filled dying screams escaped a female Kino demon. A powerful bird like demon. She'd had the last shard of the jewel that had been shattered once again, resulting in another long journey to find and make the jewel whole. This time at least there was no Naraku to bother Inuyasha and Kagome's journey.
"Yes! Finally! The final shard is ours!" "Took nearly four years to finally get the dang thing back." "Yeah, no thanks to me or Kikyo." "Yeah, well, at least we've got it now." Kagome nodded, "Yes, we have it now, now lets get back to the hut." "What...but..." "Inuyasha, you've waited this long, can't you wait for one more night?" "Feh! I suppose." Inuyasha lifted Kagome onto his back and they headed off back to the hut they'd been staying in throughout the new journey. Along the way Kagome fell asleep.
"Ha, I guess she would've been too tired to make the jewel whole and do the incantation." Inuyasha sighed as he lifted her off his back inside the hut and laid her gently in her sleeping bag, then sat down in a corner.
"Hm...finally, after waiting for so long...I'll finally get what I've always wanted...huh?" He turned to Kagome, who'd stirred in her sleep and he sighed and went to sit by her side.
"Hm..." He wasn't sure what would happen once the jewel was whole and a wish made upon it. Would Kagome be allowed to stay with him? Would she be instantly transported back to the future as soon as the wish was made, or what. These thoughts kept racing through Inuyasha's mind and it made him think back to when he'd first met her.
Flashback:
Kagome is running as hard as she can, wondering if anyone will save her. The centipede demon is right behind her. "Anybody, help!!" Kagome yells out.
In the forest, we hear a heartbeat and see Inuyasha. Suddenly, he flexes his claws. "I can smell the girl who killed me!" he says, lifting his face and hand. He tries to take the arrow out, but he can't. There's a spell on it.
Kagome is still running with the centipede demon right behind her, yelling for the shikon no tama. Kagome insists that she doesn't know what she's talking about. The centipede attacks, causing Kagome to fly through the air and land at the foot of the sacred tree. "Hey Kikyo!" She hears above her. She looks up and sees the boy, looking down at her with amber eyes. Kagome stares at the boy as he continues talking to her, calling her Kikyo the entire time. When Kagome gets angry and starts telling the boy that she's not Kikyo he says, "It comes."
The centipede demon forces Kagome away from the boy. Suddenly, arrows appear in the demon's side. The villagers have come. They pull the centipede away from Kagome. The boy laughs at Kagome, still calling her Kikyo. Kagome's had enough. She gets up and tells him that she's not Kikyo. "No other girl smells this disgusting except you!" The boy replies. Then slightly surprised he sniffs the air. "You are...not Kikyo?" he says. "My name is Kagome! Ka - go - me!" The centipede demon comes in from behind and grabs Kagome who in turn grabs the boy's hair.
A villager yells to Kaede. "Inuyasha has awakened!"
The centipede yells for the Shikon no Tama. That gets the Inuyasha's attention. The centipede lunges at Kagome with huge teeth. She puts her hand out in front of her and yells out. Lights comes from her fingers, blowing the centipede back. Three arms fall to the ground and Kagome remembers that this also happened in the well. The villagers are shocked. Kagome wonders how she's able to do this thing. Something in her side begins to glow. The centipede attacks, knocking Kagome into the air. Kagome's side bursts open and a small-ish purple ball comes out of her side. It's the Shikon no Tama.
Kagome falls to the ground, along with the Shikon Jewel. Inuyasha yells at her to give it to him. But the centipede demon wraps its body around them and squeezes Kagome to the tree where Inuyasha is pinned.
The centipede mocks Inuyasha, referring to him as a hanyou. Kagome asks Inuyasha if he's strong. He looks at her wide-eyed but doesn't reply. The centipede keeps mocking him. Then the centipede uses its extremely long tongue to take the Shikon no Tama in. Its arms return to its body. Its skin then falls away from its body, revealing a hideous monster underneath. It squeezes Kagome tighter.
Inuyasha asks her to pull the arrow out. She reaches for it. Kaede yells at her not to pull it out since it is Inuyasha's seal. Inuyasha yells at Kaede that if the centipede completely absorbs the Shikon no Tama, it's the end. The centipede's body is pulsing with a strange reddish glow. "Do you want to die here also?!" he yells at Kagome. She pulls herself up and grabs the arrow. With a yell she pulls on it as purple light glows all around it. Then it vanishes.
Purple light comes from Inuyasha. His whole body pulses like a heart. "Inu...ya...sha!" Kagome says, disbelievingly.
Inuyasha laughs like a maniac. The centipede squeezes her body onto him tighter still but he breaks free with a flash of yellow light. With one slash of his claws, he destroys the demon. "Heh!" he says as the demon falls apart behind him.
"He...he really is strong..." Kagome manages to say. Beside her, a part of the centipede twitches. Kaede and the villagers run over to her. Kaede asks her if she sees a glowing lump of flesh. She tells her that the Shikon no Tama should be inside. They have to extract it or the centipede will revive. Kagome looks around frantically and sees it. Kaede takes it out and the centipede's skin melts away, leaving behind nothing but bones. Kaede hands the Shikon no Tama to Kagome and tells her that she's the only person who can use it. Kagome wonders why it was inside her body.
Inuyasha steps forward, stepping on the bones of the dead demon. He tells Kagome that that kind of thing is useless for a human, so she better hand it over if she doesn't want to die.
End Flashback:
"Hm...I was really mean that night..." Inuyasha fngered the rosary around his neck. "If it hadn't been for these beads...I ay have ended up killing Kagome right there, that very night." He looks at her, while she sleeps. "Hm...I used to hate these things, but thinking about it now, I don't hate them anymore...not that much anyway." He sighed and laid down next to Kagome, leaning on his arm and just enjoying watching her.
While he watches her, several memories came flying into his head.
Inuyasha is sitting in a tree. He's thinking about Kikyo and how she's dead. A piece of fruit comes flying at his back and he easily catches it. Kagome is standing under the tree, laden with fruit and vegetables that the villagers have given her. She invites Inuyasha to come down so that they can eat them together.
Kagome is sitting calmly, eating, while Inuyasha glares at her. She asks him why he doesn't like her. She's not Kikyo, she's Kagome! Inuyasha drops the vegetable he was eating and jumps up into his tree. She asks him to be more friendly with her. "FEH!" He doesn't care who she is, he wants the Shikon no Tama. Kagome reminds him that she can just say, "sit" and Inuyasha falls face-first out of the tree. "Sorry sorry cancel that."
Inuyasha thinks back to when Kikyo was brought back to life. He's sitting under a tree and thinking, when Kagome comes up to him and sits with him.Kagome tries to talk him into it and when he doesn't answer her she rants about how he can't look her in the eyes because she looks like Kikyo. He says, no and grabs her hand. Slowly, he leans in as if to kiss her.
Inuyasha then thinks about all the times he nearly lost Kagome, due to his infatuation with Kikyo.
She'd almost lost her soul when Kikyo was brought back to life by the witch Urasue.
Nearly killed due to Kikyo, and several others.
The one thing that Inuyasha still had so much trouble not thnking about, was how Kagome was poisoned by Mukotsu, the poison brother of the band of seven. She along with Sango, and Miroku were badly poisoned and the while fighting Renkotsu, the temple they were supposed to be recovering in was a blaze with fire.
Inuyasha managed to get to them, but had learnt from Shippo, that they'd all stopped breathing. After making sure they were far away from the firey temple, Inuyasha lifts Kagome and holds her tightly to his chest, appoligizing for not being there to save her. Tears are seen in his eyes when she speaks, saying that she's sorry she worried him.
"Ha...so many times...then that time that Hakudoshi, the little sack of shit! Had Kagome kidnapped, and tried to make her hate me, just to control her." Inuyasha watched Kagome for a little longer then he himself began to fall asleep.
Before he did he touched the jewel and noticed that just by being in Kagome's care, it was whole again. "Hm..." He smiled lightly, then heard something. Kagome was saying the incantation in her sleep.
Inuyasha was now asleep and dreaming of what he'd wish could happen.
During the night a bright light lit up the entire hut, then was gone, leaving Inuyasha and Kagome alone together in the hut.