Here's chapter 2: Bring Me to Life. This chapter focuses on the return of Kikyo. I know, I have this part in, like, all my InuKag songfictions.

Chapter 2: Bring Me to Life

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core,
where I've become so numb without a soul.
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home.

…

50 years ago, a young priestess, Kikyo, fell in love with a certain half-demon, InuYasha. This chapter is her story: a story of death, revival, betrayal, hatred, jealously, and love. Now, onto Kikyo's story: Bring Me to Life.

Kikyo sat on a hill with InuYasha, the half-demon that she'd come to know very well. She thought about him almost constantly, and this was another one of those times. Every time he looks at me, I swear that he can see into my soul, almost as if my eyes are the open portal. I never want to lose him. InuYasha, we'll be together forever.

Of course, that never happened. A couple days later, time stopped for Kikyo, InuYasha, and their relationship. 50 years later, the demon Urasue collected Kikyo's remains and brought the dead priestess back to life. There was one sight problem though. Kikyo's revived body had no soul. After a showdown with the now-awakened InuYasha at Urasue's cave, Kikyo left before Kagome, her supposed reincarnation, could draw back her whole soul.

A couple months later, InuYasha, after finding out that Kikyo was stealing the souls of young maidens to live, spotted Kikyo's soul collectors in the sky and he followed them to a nearby clearing. He spotted his former love lying on a tree branch. "Kikyo?" Kikyo looked down. "Oh, InuYasha, you've come," she replied in a not-so-nice manner. "Kikyo, you're nothing like you were fifty years ago. Why do you hate me so?" InuYasha yelled to Kikyo. "InuYasha, that 'Kikyo' no longer exists. She died fifty years ago by your hand. My hatred for your betrayal fuels this life. Remember, InuYasha, I never asked to be brought back to life."

Wake me up inside.
Wake me up inside.
Call my name and save me from the dark.
Bid my blood to run before I come undone.
Save me from the nothing I've become.

…

Though I have a physical body, I'm still dead inside. Nothing will save me from this fate. You can try to call my name, InuYasha, but nothing will happen. Maybe I don't want to be saved, but what if I do. I don't say anything, but I beg to bleed again. Please, InuYasha, save me from this nothingness.

Now that I know what I'm without,
you can't just leave me.
Breathe into me and make me real.
Bring me to life.

…

Suddenly, a noise was heard from the forest. It was composed of leaves crunching and twigs snapping. A face peeked out from behind a tree. It was Kagome and she saw the whole scene. The girl from the future took off into the woods and InuYasha made to follow her. "Kagome!"

"Wait, InuYasha," Kikyo called to the half-demon, "Is that girl more important to you than me?" InuYasha turned back around. "That's not it at all, Kikyo…"

Kikyo, jumping off the branch, cut off InuYasha's sentence. "I know what I'm missing now, InuYasha. I have no soul. You can't just leave me now. Help me to become real again. InuYasha, bring me to life."

Wake me up inside.
Wake me up inside.
Call my name and save me from the dark.
Bid my blood to run before I come undone.
Save me from the nothing I've become.

…

InuYasha ran off to find Kagome and make sure that she didn't get hurt. This gave Kikyo a lot of time to think. She thought about how she could save herself from this new fate. She wanted to be human again, but she also did not. Life is too complicated. This is why the dead should never be brought back to life.

Frozen inside without your touch, without your love,
darling, only you are the life among the dead.

…..

A month passed, and then finally, InuYasha sought out Kikyo again. He wasn't surprised to see that, even though a month had passed, Kikyo looked no older than when she'd died fifty years ago. "InuYasha, you wonder about my still-cold demeanor to you, do you not?" InuYasha nodded a little. "Then, I'll tell you. I am frozen inside. Your touch, your love, those were the fires of my life. Without them, you will never unfreeze me. My skin will remain cold to the touch, like that of the bones that my new body is composed of. InuYasha, you are the life among the dead. Without your love, I have no reason to even consider trying to live a normal life."

All this time, I can't believe I couldn't see,
kept in the dark, but you were there in front of me.
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems,
got to open my eyes to everything.
Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul,
Don't let me die here. There must be something more.
Bring me to life.

….

Kagome caught them again, because that always happens. Once again, InuYasha made to chase after her. Kikyo stopped InuYasha again. "I can't believe that I never saw it. All this time, I've been in the dark. These last fifty years have changed you, InuYasha. You no longer love me. You love that girl, Kagome."

InuYasha replied, "I really can't talk now, Kikyo. If Kagome were to get hurt because she followed me here, I'd never be able to forgive myself. I'll talk to you again later."

Kikyo watched the half-demon leave. I can't stop him. I have no thoughts, no voice, no soul. I don't want to die now. There is something that holds me back. My love for InuYasha and my jealously of "my reincarnation" for stealing his heart. Let me live just a little longer, so I can reclaim InuYasha as mine. Then we can go to the netherworld. Bring me to life.

I don't write in Kikyo's POV very much, so I hope that I kept her in character. Also, I couldn't really think of a good beginning or end to this chapter, so I hope that what I've written will be okay.

So, that's Kikyo's special chapter. She will get one more chapter (Tourniquet) in this story. Oh, yes, I should mention that Miroku and Sango technically have joined the group before this chapter, even though they don't appear in it. They will be in the next chapter.

Also, (I've using the "Series of Unfortunate Events" approach [I don't own that series. They're Lemony Snicket's (Daniel Handler, if you didn't already know, I think that's his real name) property) if you want to read a happy story or you expect one, don't. For those who want a happy story, close out of this one right now. Evanescence is a gothic band; therefore, their lyrics aren't happy. This will reflect in the stories that I write. If you want to continue reading, then, by all means do, but don't say that I didn't warn you.