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Kagome, Sango, and Shippo had returned from the hot spring and hour ago, and Inuyasha had returned from seeing Kikyo half an hour ago. Her words played like a broken record in his head. "I will not allow you to go off with my reincarnation. You cannot possibly want a mere copy of me. You will go to hell with me, even if it is by force." He had seriously considered this. He owed her his life. She followed him in death, how could he not go to hell with her? Kikyo had been the cause of all his happiness- she had brought him to Kagome. Kagome had turned his life around. She was his love. She was his hope. He would give his life for her. He would give her his all. But he owed Kikyo his life. This he hated the most, he would go to hell with Kikyo and leave Kagome behind. Oh, Kami how he didn't want to. He loved Kagome with all of his heart, leaving her would tear him to pieces.
But this was something he had to do.
Kagome was very quiet during their supper. While the others talked and ate, she just stared at her ramen. There was nothing to be said. Kagome knew he had gone to see Kikyo. She felt almost dirty, like she was being used. She had almost felt like taking another bath. She was snapped out of her trance by Sango screaming, "Hentai!". She looked up to see Miroku get a hard slap on the face. "He'll never learn." She thought to herself. Shippo spoke up,
"What do you think the chances are of Miroku giving up this perverted stuff ?"
"Oh, he'll grow out of it." Kagome mumbled softly. Still, everybody heard it.
"Yeah, and humans or demons will go to the moon." Inuyasha stated sarcastically.
Kagome chuckled.
"Actually humans will go to the moon." The entire campsite was silent and looking at her. "What? What did I say? Is something wrong?"
"Are you serious Kagome?" Miroku asked. He almost looked like a deer caught in headlights.
"Yeah," she said "It happened about forty years ago, from my era that is."
"Wow," they all said in unison, except for Kagome.
A little later at the campsite...
Inuyasha had smelled fear and sadness coming off of her in waves. She knew. She knew his intentions.
"I'm going back to the hot springs."
"But you just came back like two hours ago, are you going mad?" Miroku asked her .
"No, I just feel dirty all of a sudden. I'll go alone."
"No way in heck!" Inuyasha retorted.
"I'll bring my bow and arrows. I'll be fine." Kagome said all of this in a drained, deserted voice that held no emotion. She was scaring all of her companions, even Kilala.
At the spring
Kagome was again washing herself, scrubbing relentlessly all over. She could not clean this feeling off physically. She had to get rid of it verbally.
Inuyasha had followed her to the spring, to make sure there was no threat. He heard her say, "What should I do? He will go to hell with her." There was a long pause. She looked at the scars on her arms and coddled them. He watched her look longingly at them. "We have a special surgery in my time that allows you to get rid of scars." He remembered those words. "Why hasn't she gotten rid of those? She said that it was inexpensive." He knew why. He had heard her say it, well he guessed she said it. He decided it was time to tell her what he felt and what he intended to do about Kikyo. She spoke up.
"He is so ignorant."
"I am not!" Inuyasha jumped out of the tree he was perched in.
"How long were you there?"
"Long enough. Kagome we need to talk." She realized that she was naked in front of him and dunked her body below her collar bone into the water.
"I saw Kikyo today..." He was cut off by her.
"I know." She stated in a cold, harsh voice.
"I have decided to- wait, why do you have those scars, didn't you say that there was a surgery in your time that allowed you to get rid of 'em?"
"What have you decided?"
"Don't change the subject. Why do you have them?"
Kagome sunk lower in the water. She was on the brink of gushing out more than just tears. All she wanted to do was yell at him. She knew he had gone to see Kikyo that same day, and he said that he had "decided". She had assumed he was going to tell her for the second time that he could not see her any more.
She couldn't hold it in any longer. His eyes were piercing her with such an intensity that she couldn't not tell him.
"Tell me what you have decided first." Inuyasha looked at her for a moment before speaking.
"I have decided to go to hell with Kikyo." Inuyasha expected her to go into a temper tantrum and never look at him again.
She hung her head low, and walked out of the water toward him, not caring if she was naked or not. As she reached him, with her head still low, she gave him a tight embrace. Inuyasha smelt the tears, and felt them too. She was crying all over his haori. She looked up at him and he saw the pain and anguish in her eyes. "I love you."
"What?" Inuyasha had thought he heard her say it before but saying it to him was totally different.
"Inuyasha, you can't go to hell with Kikyo."
"You think telling me you love me will make me change my mind?!"
"Inuyasha listen,"
"No, you listen. When we defeat Naraku I want you to go home and never come back."
"God Damn it, Inuyasha listen!" He silenced.
"If you go to hell with Kikyo you both die right?"
"Yes," he said in an irritated voice, "What are you getting at?"
"That means Kikyo will die too."
"Yes."
"And I am her reincarnation, right?"
"Yes."
"Inuyasha, ask yourself, what will happen to Kikyo's soul?" At this he paused.
"I..." He was cut off by her.
"Her soul, or the part of me that is now her, will return to my body, regardless of how she dies." Inuyasha didn't know what to say. She was right, and he knew it.
"This means that if you go to hell with her, you will get there by yourself, 'cause her soul will return to me." She took a deep breathe for this next piece of information. "And I know Kikyo knows this because I have such little knowledge of hell, and since she is more powerful than me, and since she has been to hell before, here is no spot of a doubt in my mind that she knows this also."
"So this is all part of her plan for revenge?"
"I don't know about that, but it isn't in hope to go to the afterlife with you." Kagome wiped the remaining tears from her face. Inuyasha didn't speak until,
"Why do you keep those scars?" Kagome knew the question couldn't be avoided, so she answered in a hushed tone.
"Because they remind me of how we first kissed."
"What'd you say?"
"Because they remind me of how we first kissed." Inuyasha wasn't all that stunned, but this time he asked her a new question.
"Did you mean what you said about you being in love with me?" Kagome looked up at him with new tears brimming on her face,
"Yes." She said weakly. She was still holding him, so it wasn't all that hard to further their embrace. He whispered into her ear,
"I'm sorry for all of the pain I've caused you." He tightened his hold on her. "Will you be my mate?"
I could just stop it there, but I'll be nice to you.
This was how Kagome answered,
She brought her head up, and looked him straight in the eye. He returned the gaze. She freed herself from his embrace, and walked backwards into the spring, all the while keeping her gaze in line with his. When she was deep enough in the water, she said,
"Come."
The nicenessicity stops here. And here's your local anime fan fiction forecast with Jay Prater. (Yes, people from the Wichita area can laugh)
"Hey there Naoko, here's your forecast; sunny all next chapter, but that takes a slight turn for the sexy, when as you can see we will have a slight downpour of lemons and limes. All immature kids please go play with your dolls for this storm, 'cause you jus caint handle Le lemon."
Thank you Jay, now, back to what I was saying. Since you guys were sooo good to me, the number of reviews I am requiring is only four this time. It'll be easy enough.
'Till next chapter,
Naoko Kagome's miko friend
