Illusion

Illusion.

Summary: While just about to confess to InuYasha, my feelings, Naraku showed up, resulting in the final battle. We all defeated him, and I finally go to tell InuYasha my feelings. But, he only rejected me in the end. I ran away and ended up meeting someone, more than I could ask for. He was more than I could ever imagine. Matter-a-fact, I hadn't even thought of us ever being together… Odd, ain't it?

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any of its characters… However, in my mind, I –always- will. So, now what, eh? :D

So, I'm making another InuYasha story, hopefully it'll actually last this time, eh? Ha-ha.

The pairing is Sesshoumaru and Kagome. And honestly, point blank, I hate Kikyou. I won't bash her too much in this fan-fiction, but she will be considered the bullshit girl, who everyone thinks is a dollar-whore or something to that effect; more or less. So, if you don't like it, then this story -really- isn't the fantasy for you.

However, I might switch it up a bit, so that Kikyou may be on of the good people to look up to. Just depends on the mood I'm in when I finally get to that part.

Ha-ha. I decided to put a little twist in the story. I hope you like it. :D

Kagome's vision quickly became clouded when she got closer and closer to the well. Her head started to spin, and her throat dried up. Once she finally reached the well, she climbed in and then dropped, falling backwards. In a few seconds she was home and she had to climb out of the well. For some reason, the top of the well's mouth looked quite far away. However, she had to get out, so she could ask her mom or perhaps her grandfather for help. With shaky legs, Kagome got up and then braced herself on the wall, before she started to climb up the well's ladder one by one, slowly. However, she lost her balance as she finally succumbed to the sleep she so well wanted. Kagome fell backwards and hit her head on the ground of the well; successfully knocking her out and putting her to sleep.

Chapter 3: Home Sweet Home and Attempts to Forget.

-- In Kaede's Hut, the night when Kagome left. --

"InuYasha you need to go and speak with Kagome!!" Sango yelled at him, while Miroku held her back from trying to beat InuYasha into a nice bloody pulp. "InuYasha, after ALL that Kagome has done for you, all you say is that you that this is best for her?! You fucking IDIOT!" Sango bit out. She tried to pull away from Miroku's embrace, however, she couldn't, yet she still tried. Kagome was like a twin she never asked for, yet she still got her. So, that made her even more special. Sango would never forgive herself, if something dire happened to Kagome.

Miroku sweat-dropped and tried his best to keep Sango down. The girl was strong, and it as taking Miroku a lot of energy trying to keep her down. He just got out of the E.R., what he needed now was some rest and relaxation; not the stress of having to hold down his fiancée because InuYasha was being is usual asshole self. The only thing he could thank for right now was that Sango wasn't pregnant. If she was, then he'd be so screwed for trying to hold her back. At the moment, she was as strong as an ox, but Miroku was the ox, therefore making it hard for her to overpower him. 'Confusing..? Exactly.' Miroku thought to himself, as he tried to remember exactly what he thought.

InuYasha sat in the room all the while taking all the abuse that he should have gotten; which, in fact, he was getting. He held his head down with his ears basically plastered to the side of his head. 'Gah… Maybe I should go back and get her so that we could talk things through...' He thought long and hard after hearing Sango speak. 'But then again...' "She did say that she didn't want me to come, and it looked like she was madder than she usually gets." He said finishing off his thoughts aloud so that they could all hear.

The young demon slayer's eyes snapped open, as she sat next to Miroku, trying to calm down. She growled quite inhumanely and she picked up one of the heaviest pots in the room. Sango stood and then threw the heavy pot at InuYasha's head. She panted and then walked over to InuYasha and grabbed him by his collar.

"Oi! Get off of me!" InuYasha growled out.

"Or what; you asshole?! You're going to leave me for Kikyou?" Sango spat. "Look here you, if any-fucking-thing happens to my sister, you'll be hearing from my fucking mouth and my Hiraikotsu! Do you understand me? Because for 4 years, four years, Kagome had stood by your side 'till the very end, just so that she you aid all of us, mostly you, in trying to defeat Naraku!" Sango let go of him while pushing him backwards. "Come to us when you have a better fucking excuse, for letting someone so good leave, without one single regret." Sango pushed him again, but this time out of the hut. She gave him one last good glare before going back inside. "And you better have a good one before Kagome comes back. If not, I will never forgive you ever again, InuYasha!"

InuYasha stood outside the door of the hut with his head down and his ear lowered even more than before. Sighing, InuYasha jumped up into the tree that rested right outside of Kaede's hut. He stretched his muscles and then winced at the wound on his arm. In that instant, he remembered, "Kagome…" He breathed out with a sigh. InuYasha rested his head back on the tree and stared up at the night sky.

-- Morning arrived; Modern Day Tokyo. --

Kagome laid one the bottom of the well, and her eyes fluttered open and she looked up above her. Her head felt as if it was hit with a hammer 101 times, before she finally woke up. She slowly sat up in her "seat" and leaned against the wall of the well. "Where am I…?" She slowly said to herself. Then, the memories of last night came into play. A minute or two later, she sighed and then slowly stood up. Her ears twitched and she heard Souta and her grandfather arguing about his spiritual charms. Kagome smiled and she quickly climbed up the ladder, "They must be right outside the well house… I'm home and the idiocy in my family will get my mind off of InuYasha and this menacing headache I have…" She said as she finally climbed up the last few steps of the ladder to swing her legs over the ledge and sit on it. Kagome rubbed the back of her head and she felt the pain come on again; when she removed her hand from the back of her head, she saw dried blood. "Ah… Well, it seems I almost gave myself a concussion." She said with a sigh. "At least I'm alright..." With that, Kagome left the well house and made her way to her home.

Once inside, she slid off her shoes and dragged her feet on the ground to go up to her room. She sniffed the air and then, she licked her lips, and lazily brought herself to the kitchen. "Mama… Are you making… Udon?" She asked, her stomach starting to growl quite loudly. Just at the thought of her mom making Udon, her mouth almost watered.

Her mother turned around and looked to Kagome, and almost dropped her plate. She had noticed a few differences in her daughter's appearance; she didn't seem to be much of herself anymore. "Um… Sweetheart I made Udon, last night. And I haven't warmed up any leftovers yet… Are you sure you're feeling yourself, hm?" Her mother said cautiously, while going to press a hand gently to her forehead, taking the chance to inspect her oddities some more. She made her eye movement subtle as ever, so that she didn't notice that she wasn't checking for her temperature.

Kagome raised a slender eyebrow to her mother's sudden weird-ness since she walked in the house, "Well, that's odd… I could've sworn I smelled something like Udon in this place… Anyways, mom could you heat some up for me, I'm gonna take a bath and then I'll be back down here soon." Kagome went on her toes and leaned forward to give him mother a peck on the cheek. She moved from the kitchen's doorway, and skipped upstairs.

Her mother tilted her head to watch her daughter skip up the stair case. "Hm… I wonder if she and InuYasha finally went on with the mating ceremony and she inherited some of his… traits…" Her mother quietly said to herself, and a grin quickly made its way onto her face, as she skipped back into the kitchen, to heat up her daughter's food.

As Kagome made her way upstairs, she realized that her grandfather and younger brother were not down by the well house. "That's strange; I heard them as if they were close by… And I hear them now, but they are being too damned loud…" She growled lowly as she made her way to the end of the corridor to Souta's room. First, her head started to pound and a whole bunch of voices and smells came into play. Kagome started to feel uneasy and she slowly made her way back into her room. Once she got in her room, she stuffed the underside of the door, and closed the windows. The raven-haired girl fell back on her bed and then she sighed in content at the peace that she had felt for the first time since she got here. Smells started to die down and all sounds were muffled. Kagome opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling in her room. "This is really weird… I'm hearing and smelling all there different things around the area, that I have never heard or smelled before; Gas, birds in the distance chirping loudly, body odor, and etcetera… What could this be the cause of…?" She thought to herself.

Soon after a few moments of thinking and resting on a soft bed, Kagome finally arose from her bed, retrieved her bath toiletries and headed towards the bathroom. Kagome slid the door open to the first "line of defense" in the bathroom. She took off her clothes and dumped them into the laundry basket. Then she opened the door to the bathroom itself, walked in, and closed the door behind her. Kagome turned n the pipe and let the bath fill, as she dipped her toes in the water to feel the temperature. Seeing that is was an okay temp, she sat in the bath, and just waited 'till the water filled while she was in the bath already. A few moments later the bath filled up and she turned off the water, deciding just to sit in the bath and soak for a few moments. "Time to think…" She said as her submerged her head under the water, just enough so that her whole scalp would be under water. 'InuYasha…" She thought to herself.

--Back in Sengoku Jedai.--

InuYasha sat in the tree and sneezed twice, "Someone is talking about me… Maybe it's Kagome…" He said to himself, as he raised his head to this sky. The young demon sighed and jumped off of them tree branch and slowly headed off into the forest. And as if by magic, Sango and Miroku walked out of the hut with a basket full of nothing. As soon as they saw InuYasha, Miroku looked to Sango, and Sango 'hmph'd and then when on her way, brushing past InuYasha as if she hadn't seen him. Miroku sighed and nodded to InuYasha an apology before he disappeared with Sango into the bushes. InuYasha's eyes lowered, as he went in a different direction, to go and find Kikyou.

A few minutes after walking into the forest, he saw Kikyou's light shining brightly in the forest. He smiled only a small bit. It wasn't like the smile that he would get when he was with Kagome. When he was with Kagome, his eyes would light up and his heart beat would increase. And even if it was only a little that increased, it still did. 'Why am I thinking so much about her..?" InuYasha thought to himself, as he walked closer and closer to the light. 'The only person on my mind should be Kikyou, and she should be able to make me happier than I ever felt before.' After a few moments, before you knew it, he had arrived to where Kikyou had rested at.

Kikyou sat at the base of the tree. Her eyes were closed and her head rested on the trunk of the tree. Her kimono top slid off her shoulder only a bit, as she shifted on the tree's large roots under her.

InuYasha quietly walked over and admired her ghostly beauty. He kneeled at her side and brought a hand up to gently stroke her cheek. The only thing that he could feel was rough skin and cold earth. When he stroked Kagome's cheek, what he felt was warmth and soft skin. InuYasha mentally sighed at his mind's futile attempts to compare and contrast the two priestesses. Finally, he sat on the ground, and leaned forward towards Kikyou.

Brown eye fluttered open and she saw her first love before her. Kikyou smiled as she brought a hand up to caress his cheek. She dragged a finger down his jaw line lazily before she sat up. Kikyou leaned forward and caught his lips with her own. Her eyes remained open, however, InuYasha's eyes closed as he wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her closer to him. Kikyou mentally smirked and she draped her arms around his shoulders. She parted her lips and willed him to explore her mouth.

After a few minutes, they pulled away only to stare at each other panting slightly. InuYasha pulled her closer and put his head to rest on her shoulder. "Kikyou…" He breathed out.

"Yes, my love?" Kikyou replied as she twirled few strands of his hair around her finger.

InuYasha parted his lips to say something, but nothing came out. He just closed his mouth, inwardly sighed and shook his head to indicate a nothing.

Kikyou smirked once again she nodded at him.

--Elsewhere; With Sesshoumaru.--

Sesshoumaru was in his office and he sat comfortably on his futon. He was reading one of his scrolls that he obtained. Kanji big and small was scribbled elegantly on to the paper. Closing his eyes, he put the scrolls down on the table before him and he leaned back unto the wall behind him; his hands behind his head. A few short minutes later, he opened his eyes and looked to the ceiling, as his mind drifted to the final battle he had participated in. Sesshoumaru inwardly sighed and then thought about how easily Naraku died, to the Meidou Zangetsuha. "Maybe… The battle was just an Illusion… Naraku could have done this so that he could see us use our strongest attacks. That way when he does decide to come over to start the actual final battle… He could perhaps anticipate our attacks, how they were used, and what he could do to deflect them..." Sesshoumaru filled his mouth with many interrogative theories, which could happen to be a possible lead on the "fallen" Naraku.

"However… If that is the case it will take a long time of preparations and studying, if he would want to try and defeat this Sesshoumaru's Meidou attack…" He said simply to himself with a bit of a smirk. But, as soon as he got the smirk, just as fast it faltered and left. "Although… cannot trust my ego and say that he can't. Naraku has proved himself to be a formidable enemy, countless times before." Sesshoumaru countered himself, and then had questions to go along with his current statement. "…Perhaps I need to speak with InuYasha about this matter… In about a week I shall go and visit that mutt and see what he has to say about this." Sesshoumaru nodded to himself, and retrieved a piece of paper, from inside of his book pile, and brought it back to the table.

With a brush and what looked to be ink, he wrote "7 weeks- Visit idiot brother for talk about Naraku". Taking the piece of paper, Sesshoumaru got a demon bird's feather and stuck the paper in the wall with it. "Now all we have to do is wait…"

-- Back to Modern Day Tokyo; In Kagome's Bathroom…-

A loud scream was heard as she looked at herself in the bathroom's mirror. "OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!" She shrieked as she slid down the wall, only to have her hand go up to the sides of her head. Nothing but hair from her hair could be felt. Her ears weren't moving, but instead, they had located to the top of her head. Kagome then slowly dragged her hands to the top of her head to feel the two triangle furry appendages. Kagome let out another scream, but it was a scream of… cute…? She was happy that she finally got her own pair for cute on tope of her head, because it was hard to get to rubs InuYasha's own, because he didn't like people to touch them. Now she could touch at anytime she wanted. (Author's Note: People, please, I hope you didn't skip some word just to get down here. It is because if not read from the beginning of this paragraph, you would think something completely different.)

The door to the bathroom busted open and you could see Souta and her grandfather bust in. "I heard it come from in here…!" Souta yelled looking back at his grandfather, but as soon as he opened the door to the bathroom, he looked forward to see what had happened. Souta looked forwards to see his older sister. But this time his eyes drifted to the top of her head. "Ka…Kagome? Is that you…?" He called out to her.

Kagome nodded and then realized the current situation in the bathroom, after a few moments of being stared at.

Her mother smiled downstairs as she counted down in her head. 'Three… Two… One.' She thought, and as if by magic, you heard items being thrown. Groans and grunts were heard from upstairs, but then after that, nothing. Shortly after, you could see Kagome stomping out of the bathroom, fuming, as she headed to her room. Her face was upturned into a scowl and she slammed the door behind her as she entered the room. Her mother giggled quite cutely and whilst doing so, she headed back to fixing her daughter's meal for the morning.

Kagome fell backward unto her bed and her hair lengthily followed from in front of her. And instead of it being curly, jet black and medium length, it was straight, jet black WITH dark midnight blue highlights, and it was long enough to touch her butt. "What the hell is going on here…?" She said to herself. Shortly after, she put on a white spaghetti strap shirt and blue jeans, while deciding that she should try and figure out what was going on. And on that note, Kagome got an idea. "I wonder." She thought to herself, as she left her room, brushing her "new" hair; heading for the bathroom.

Once reaching the bathroom, Kagome put down her brush and then, washed her hands. A minute later, she had her mouth open with, while she inspected her teeth. "I nu et!" She tried saying while closing her mouth and washing her hands again. She finished brushing her hair and she put up her brush, before heading downstairs to go and get something to eat.

"Food should calm me and allow me to think rationally…" She smiled brightly and went to the kitchen, "And maybe I can take a nap, afterwards. Then tomorrow, before I go back, I can hang with my friends, including Hojou…" Kagome sighed at the Hojou, because immediately reminded her of the time, when InuYasha came over and he saw Hojou. Aw man, if Kagome didn't catch InuYasha, Hojou would have been beaten to a bloody pulp. Kagome shrugged off her thoughts as she sat down at the table, and watched her mother bring her, her meal.

--Back in Sengoku No Jedai; With Sango and Miroku; Sunset approaching--

Sango sighed wistfully as she watched the sun begin to set once again for the umpteenth time that week. Well, not the umpteenth time, but it sure seems that way, to her. She picked up the basket from the ground, with the collected vegetables inside. She looked to Miroku and awaited for him to get up and continue walking with her. Miroku finally rose and walked beside her. He wrapped a hand around her shoulders and she leaned into him.

Miroku looked down at Sango as he heard a distressed vocal sound come, from her. He stopped and turned Sango to make her face him. "Love, what is wrong..?" He asked gently, while taking her hand, to stoke the back of it softly. "You seem very distressed and you cannot be this way before our wedding. I want you to be happy these two weeks."

Sango seemed to have missed the fact that Miroku planned that they would get married in two weeks, because she just answered the question. "Well… I'm just sad about the fact that Kagome has go through this, because of InuYasha." She said softly, wit her head down.

Miroku sighed and nodded. Yes. He was sad that one of his best friends had to go through this, but knowing Kagome, she was strong; nothing really bothered her for that long. The monk smiled and then looked to Sango. He tilted her chin up and then ran a finger over her lips. "Well, I know one thing, when she comes back, we can't show her our sympathy, but instead we show her a good time. I mean Naraku is dead, after all. So, this calls for celebration; not sorrow. OK?"

Sango smiled at him then, put the pan of vegetable down on the ground. Standing closer to him, she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply. Miroku wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled her closer to his body. A few minutes later, Sango quickly pulled away and stared wide eyed at Miroku. "Did you just say that we are getting married??" Sango queried, quite interested.

"When; just now?" He asked.

"No, not just now. Like 3 minutes ago, you said we were getting married in two weeks."

"Ohhhhhh. Yes we are."

Sango stared at him for quite a long time. As she tried to fit the pieces together, from what he said just now and what he said before. 'He did… He really wants to marry me…' She thought. Sango's eyes started to water and then she held her head down, and let the tears go. Two tears rolled down her cheek and then off her face, into the dry soil.

Miroku stared at her and became panicky. What did he do wrong? Was he not supposed to indicate to her that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her? "Sango… I thought you did want to get married…" He said while rubbing her back in small circles, tying to calm her.

Sango smiled teary eyed and looked to him, "I'm sorry, I'm just really happy, that you want to marry me." She said cheerfully while pouncing on him to kiss him deeply and passionately this time. "Mine…" Was her final words before taking his lips with hers.

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