With Time Comes Changes

by Rayne-McVayne

Lies, Deceit, Betrayal, Love. With half the jewel in her hand and Naraku possessing the other half, the gang goes through some changes. The final battle is near, but what happens after that?

4. Getting Away

Title: With Time Comes Changes

Summary: Lies, Deceit, Betrayal, Love. With half the jewel in her hand and Naraku possessing the other half, the gang goes through some changes. The final battle is near, but what happens after that?

Pairing: Kouga and Kagome.

***CHAPTER START***

InuYasha took his hand away from Kikyo and took a few steps forward putting his right hand in front of his face in an evil intent and flexing his knuckles. "Oh I know that, Kagome. I will get that jewel. I will give it to Naraku. I will become a full demon." Kikyo readied her bow and arrows. "And Kikyo will have her soul back!" With that InuYasha launched himself at Kagome.

Everything happened so fast, it made Kagome's head spin. InuYasha came at Kagome with his Blades of Blood. She managed to dodge out of the way, but Shippo had not gotten to in time. Seeing InuYasha getting his Blades of Blood ready, Shippo had turned on Kagome's shoulder and was getting ready to leap away but one claw raked down his back sending him flying into a tree with a force that rendered him unconcious. Kagome looked at the fox kit and screamed, "SHIPPO!" She got up and ran over to the passed out fox. "Shippo. Please be okay." Kagome checked his pulse and found a weak one. She sighed and looked over his body in horror. He was laying on his stomach with a deep gash across his back. Blood coming from it, making his orange fur vest a deep red color. Tears came from Kagome's eyes as she looked at the blood on her hands. Shippo's blood. How dare he harm her kit she thought. This has gone too far!

Seeing red, Kagome snarled the most inhuman snarl she could make. She got up from checking on Shippo and seen InuYasha standing across the clearing, smiling. She took in his apperance and snorted with hate. He had harmed the one thing in this world you should mess with, a mother's son. Taking her bow and an arrow off her back, she notched the arrow and took a few steps toward the half demon with a goal in mind. Sango and Miroku were busy with Kikyo and Kirara went to protect Shippo's unconcious body. Kagome looked up and into the eyes of the half demon that almost took her life. He was standing across the field with Kikyo by his side. A malice smile on his face. "This didn't have to happen. Just give me the jewel Kagome."

Pulling back on the bow, Kagome readied herself as InuYasha came running towards her. She wasn't aiming to kill him, but was aiming at something else. InuYasha jumped in the air and as he was coming down on Kagome she released the arrow and sent it flying into InuYasha's side where he kept Tetsusaiga. The sword came off the landed several feet away. Kagome didn't have time to try to avoid InuYasha's attack. His claws raked through the side of her stomach to her hip. She landed on the ground and grabbed her bleeding side and coughed up some blood. She looked over to Sango and Miroku who were still busy with Kikyo, but they looked like they were doing okay.

InuYasha stood over Kagome and smiled. He looked from her face to the jewel. Kagome clutched onto the jewel and growled at InuYasha. "Your not getting it!"

InuYasha laughed and straddled Kagome's waist. He wrapped his hand around Kagome's wrist that was attached to the hand that held the half jewel. His other hand he brought up above his head, "Either let go of that jewel or I will cut every finger you have off."

Kagome snarled again and held the jewel tighter. The hand that held her stomach patted the ground next to her looking for an arrow that fell out of her quiver. "No."

InuYasha brought his claws down and slashed Kagome's knuckles all the way to her wrist. It was a deep cut, almost to the bone. Blood went everywhere. She grimiced in pain, but didn't give InuYasha the satification of hearing it. InuYasha let her wrist go and licked the blood off his fingers. This gave Kagome the opportunity to stab InuYasha in the gut with an arrow that had her purifying powers surrounding it. InuYasha went flying across the clearing and into a tree with a hard thump.

Kikyo stopped fighting Sango and Miroku and went to InuYasha's side. Kagome got up slowly and looked at them both. They came rushing over to her. "Kagome you have to get out of here. Now."

Kagome grabbed her bleeding side and coughed, "What about you two?"

Miroku spoke up, "We will take Kirara and distract them while you get away from here. You know where to go. We will find you."

Sango took Kagome by the hand and looked into her eyes, "Kagome, you can get away fast. Please."

Kagome looked at the both of them with worry. Her friends, she loved them, and they were hurting too. "You both can't take them on."

"InuYasha will be out of it since you hit him with the arrow with your powers." Miroku said. "We will meet up some day, but for right now you have to get out of here. You know where to go. Take Shippo and leave. You will make it. He will protect you."

Kagome sighed. She looked behind her at InuYasha who was passed out on the ground across the clearing with Kikyo tending to him. Clearly the arrow with her powers had taken alot out of him. A bright shine caught her attention. Tetsusaiga. She walked with a slight limp over to the sword and picked it up and put in her quiver. Kagome went back to where Sango and Miroku were and picked up her bow and put it in her quiver by the sword.

Kagome walked over to Shippo and picked him. Kirara had been licking his back to help heal his wound quicker. Kagome noticed it stopped bleeding. Kirara licked at Kagome's wound in hurried strokes. "Kirara saliva will help close your wound, giving you more time to run without worrying too much about bleeding." Sango put her hand on Kagome's shoulders. The white haori she wore was covered in her blood and Shippo's.

"Kagome you need to go now. You need to run as fast as you can. Find him, Kagome." Sango hugged her friend and Miroku gave her one after that. It was almost dark when Kagome took off running into the forest with an unconsious Shippo clutched to her chest.

Over the years Kagome has been in the Sengoku Era she has learned alot about her powers. Being able to put them into arrows was no big deal, but now Kagome could transfer them just about anywhere into her body. Her ankles started to glow a faded pink and it spread into her legs. Kagome ran faster than the average human. Almost at a speed that would put Kouga to shame. Well past midnight, Kagome came to a river and dropped to her knees. After taking a minute to collect herself, she took some cold water in her hand and dribbled some into Shippo's mouth to keep it wet. She laid him on the ground and took her red sash and dunked it into the water and rung it out over Shippo's wound. He was still passed out, but his pulse was getting quicker which is a good sign he's going to pull through. Kagome washed some dry blood off the wound on her stomach and sighed. She looked at her surroundings and took it all in. She knew she was somewhere in the eastern territory, close to where she needed to be.

Kagome had to get the jewel shards from Kouga before Narkau could. With his two shards being the last ones left, Kagome knew Kouga would hand them over and would even see to her's and Shippo's wounds. Dumping the sash into the water again, Kagome rang out the excess water and wrapped it around Shippo. It was summer so she didn't have to worry about it being too cold out, but she still needed to get to Kouga's fast. Kagome put some water in her hands and drank a few qulp fulls before picking up Shippo and craddling him. She stood over the river and was about to turn when she heard growl that made her heart want to stop.

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