This is a new story! Yay! I have four chapters typed out and a bit more written down in a notebook. If you like this please tell me so I can publish more chapters! And if you have any questions, please review! I'll try to answer you as fast as I can. Warning: It starts out a bit slow, but I promise it will pick up in pace!
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Furuba or InuYasha. They do NOT belong to me.
Enjoy the first chapter. Unfortunately Furuba doesn't come up in this chapter, but it is important. I promise. Read, Review and enjoy!
It had finally come and gone: the deciding battle between Naraku and the rag-tag team of demons, humans, a dead clay-person, and an inu hanyou. The rag-tag team won. They had defeated Naraku and his minions, but now that it was over they were at a loss as to what to do. Kagome, who had been leaning heavily on her redwood longbow, sank to her knees in the dirt. She wasn't scarred from the bloodshed or gore. She had seen much worse in her travels through the feudal era and none of her friends had died or were in any danger of dying at the moment. They had all been prepared for this battle and their forces, despite being small in numbers, were much more skillful than Naraku's numerous idiotic demon minions. No, that wasn't what was bothering the adolescent priestess. What was bothering her was what she was supposed to do with the Shikon no Tama now. They had all the pieces, but she didn't want it. She wasn't scared of the power it held, not really, but she didn't want to be in charge of it. She didn't want to be the one everyone piled their hopes and expectations on because she was scared that she would fail them.
"Kagome?" a rough voice questioned as a clawed hand rested gently on her shoulder. Kagome raised her confused baby blue eyes to the golden eyes of the young hanyou man she loved. "Are you alright?" he asked.
Kagome tried her best to smile honestly as she grabbed his hand, pulled herself to her feet and wrapped her arms around his neck. He stiffened under her touch, but she didn't care. All she needed was to be held by someone; to be touched and loved even if he didn't love her the same way she loved him. As obtuse as InuYasha could be most of the time, he seemed to sense what Kagome needed and wrapped his arms around her shoulders and patted her head in a brotherly way.
"Kagome," he growled softly. "Let's get the rest of the jewel put together and finish this." Kagome whimpered pathetically, pushed her face into his hard chest and breathed in his forest-like scent. His arms tightened around her but his voice was firm as he said, "Don't be so pathetic wench. It's been a little longer than a year. Let's end it once and for all."
Kagome nodded softly and pulled back to peer deeply into the honey-gold eyes of the silver-haired hanyou. She let her eyes show how hurt, confused and scared of what she had to do when realization struck her. She cupped his face in her small, delicate hands as she finally accepted that he didn't love her. It felt like something bad was going to happen when she put the jewel together but she pushed the thought from her mind and convinced herself that she was just stressed. Nothing could be worse than fighting Naraku. "InuYasha," she whispered. "If something happens, tell Shippou I love him. I hope you have a good life with Kikyou." She smiled truthfully at him and turned to the rest of her companions: Kouga, Ayame, Ginta, Hakkaku, Sesshomaru, Kirara, Sango, Miroku, Totosai and Kikyou. "Thank you so much for fighting with me. It was an honor and just in case something happens when I put the jewel together, I wish you all peace, happiness and good fortune." She gave everyone a watery smile before Sango gasped. She realized what her "sister" was saying and she ran forward to embrace her. She whispered advice into the girl's ear before she could start crying.
"Remember all the training you have received from Miroku, Kikyou and me. Keep in shape and don't let your skills get weak. You might have to use them some day. Kagome, we love you." Everybody else also expressed that they would miss her if something should happen to her. Even Kikyou and Sesshomaru offered her advice and said their goodbyes except for InuYasha. He was back to being his usual, crass self.
"What the hell's everyone getting so sentimental for? Nothin's gonna happen." Everyone in the group except for Sesshomaru stared blankly at InuYasha and laughed in spite of themselves and the possible situation of Kagome leaving forever. "But," InuYasha interrupted. "If something does happen, Kagome, me, Sango, Kikyou and Miroku chipped in to get you something. Kaede-baba charmed them to the size they are and Shippou picked out the chain." From a pocket in his haori, InuYasha pulled out a necklace on a silver chain with four silver charms attached to the chain. InuYasha slipped the necklace over Kagome's head and stepped back.
"My sister charmed the charms so that if you push a little of your power into a charm it will grow to the size it's supposed to. To shrink them back you just have to focus a little bit on making them smaller. Try to take back the power you put into the charm," Kikyou said.
Kagome smiled so big her mouth and cheeks hurt, but at the same time she was trying not to cry. On the necklace was a Hiraikotsu, a staff, a Tetsaiga and a bow and arrow. "Thank you so much! I guess I better get this over with." With that Kagome walked to the center of the group and pulled out the shards of the jewel from the pouch in the pocket of her skirt. Kikyou walked toward her and put her hands over her reincarnations'. Both poured their power into the two parts of the jewel. There was no way Kagome could have fused the whole think by herself with only part of her soul. Kikyou had to help her if they both wanted to live. A pink light surrounded the two young women, completely cutting them off from everything except each other. Kikyou looked at the girl she now considered her younger sister.
"Kagome, you're going to be transported back to your time. You know that right?" At Kagome's unhappy nod she continued. "You won't be able to come back and there's no guarantee you will see anybody from this time again."
"I know Kikyou." Kagome spoke a little more sharply than she intended. "I know. But it was up to me. No one else could have done it. It was only our soul that could manipulate the jewel. Plus I want InuYasha to be happy. If you can make him happy, then I would easily go back home a hundred times over."
"Your power will also be weaker without the rest of your soul."
"That's fine. Are you trying to persuade me to take back what I have allowed you to keep? Besides, it was your soul first. I'm just housing it right now."
Kikyou smiled as if pleased with Kagome's answer and placed her palm on the younger's forehead. "I'm not trying to persuade you to take it back. I am simply telling you this so that you won't be surprised when you go back home and feel different, because I am giving you back your soul."
"What!" Kagome exclaimed. "Why? You're supposed to be there for InuYasha!"
"I know. But I am already dead. I should be where I am supposed to be, not hanging onto this world."
"Kikyou, stop! Nee-san!" But Kagome couldn't stop what Kikyou was doing. A clear, white light slid out of Kikyou's chest and into Kagome's. Kikyou had a small, sad smile on her face as a rose colored light exploded in the private barrier they were in. Then the room vanished.
When InuYasha saw the pink barrier vanish along with the two priestesses inside it he broke. Both of the girls he cared about had vanished. It felt as if someone had ripped open his chest and pulled out his heart with their bare hands, stomped all over it and stopped the hole from closing. This hurt worse than any of the wounds he had ever received in his entire life. He curled up in the fetal position while mumbling the names of the two people who meant the most to him: his lover and his best friend.
Kagome opened her eyes to find herself leaning against the Goshinboku with her necklace clenched in her fist. She could feel the jewel that was now nestled near her heart. She could also tell that she did indeed have her whole soul back. It was kind of like when having long hair and then cutting it really short. After a while the change becomes natural. Then instead of letting the hair grow back, getting extensions and finally realizing how much length actually was missing.
Kagome took a deep breath in through her nose, exhaled through her mouth and clenched the necklace even tighter as the reality of the situation and her sacrifice sank in. Her breath caught in her throat and hot tears seeped through the dam that was supposed to be holding them back. She would never see them again. Her brothers, InuYasha and Miroku, her sisters, Sango and Kikyou, and her son, Shippou were lost to her forever as were her friends from the wolf tribes and Kirara. And even though Kagome had thought something like this would happen, she hadn't realized how much this would actually hurt her. Spending more than a year with one group of people would tend to get anyone close to that group. Her mother heard her daughter's muffled sobs as she was washing the lunch dishes and she raced out to comfort her, her apron flapping in the wind.
"Kagome, baby, what happened?" Ms. Higurashi begged.
"I-it's over!" Kagome hiccupped, burrowing herself deeper into her mother's embrace. "It's over a-and now I-I'll never s-see them ever again!"
"Baby," crooned Ms. Higurashi. "Come on, let's get you inside and cleaned up. I'll make some hot cocoa and you can get some sleep."
Kagome walked like a zombie up to her bathroom, her blank eyes still spilling tears.
Kay! That was chapter 1! Please Review! No flames though, they hurt my feelings! Tell me what I can do better and what you would like to see. I might be able to make it happen. :)