Vengeful Souls Never Die
Disclaimer: I do not own Inu-Yasha and all that jazz…
A/N: Alrighty well a big huge THANK YOU to Itsuko for reviewing. YAY!! On with the story!!
Chapter 4- Trees and lies
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When Inu-Yasha and Kikyo got back to the hut they went inside and found everyone soundly asleep. It didn't seem as though anyone heard or if they had didn't look around and just went back to sleep. "Oh yeah Inu-Yasha because they'll just worry so much" Kikyo said as she looked over the room. Not even the little kitsune woke up.
"Oi! I didn't know they all slept like rocks" Inu-Yasha defended
"Well, let's just go back outside. We might wake them up" Kikyo said as Inu-Yasha turned around. As he turned to go out the door her feet accidentally hit the doorway and Kikyo almost screamed but Inu-Yasha ran out the door before she could even open her mouth. "AAAAHHHHHHH!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT HURTS?" She yelled at the hanyou.
"No need to scream right into my ears" He said in a hurt voice
"Humph!" Kikyo breathed and turned her head away from him
'Eh? Isn't she going to scream SIT? There is definitely something going on here; Kagome is not being herself. The only person that ever said Humph when mad was…' Inu-Yasha thought but was snapped out of his thoughts by a screaming Kagome. They were hurtling towards a huge tree and about to hit it, when Inu-Yasha simply jumped up right before they made contact and settled on a thick branch.
"You shouldn't do that to people. It's really scary plus you were about a centimeter away from having me go smashing into the tree. Your shard hunting would really be on a delay if that happened" Kikyo said in a half whiny half sincere voice. She was becoming more accustomed to Kagome's speech and behavior patterns. She was not totally doing a great job of being this other girl but it seemed to be enough.
"Feh! You really thought I was going to smash into the tree? You really don't know me then; if I slammed into the tree the tree would fall" He said slightly arrogantly
"Then you didn't think of what would happen to me. As always you think about yourself and no one else; isn't that right Inu-Yasha? You wouldn't care if I was crushed by the tree; why would you? No one ever really cared about you, well except Kikyo and you went and betrayed her!" Kikyo said forgetting that he saw Kagome saying these words; her full anger burning in her eyes.
Inu-Yasha didn't fail to notice what hate was in her when she said this. "How dare you bring up Kikyo? You know as well as I do that bastard Naraku took my form and made us turn against one another" He spat out as if it were poison on his lips.
"Is that so?" she commented in a preoccupied tone "Or is that what you tell yourself to get through living each day; knowing what you did and resenting it"
Inu-Yasha was thoroughly shocked at what he was hearing Kagome saying. He didn't deserve this and she knew damn well that he didn't. So why was she saying it? 'She's not acting like Kagome. She's acting like Kikyo in more than one way; I should have picked it up sooner but there's no change in scent or anything. So how can she be Kikyo?'
After thinking on this for a moment he realized that he wasn't talking to his friend anymore he was talking to his sealer and lost love… Kikyo. "The only person that I could think of that could say such nasty things and mean it is Kikyo. What have you done with Kagome?" He said calmly to her. He had to refrain from pushing her out of the tree that instant; it would look bad.
"W-what are you talking about?" Kikyo said very nervously hoping he wouldn't go further with his assumptions.
"You heard me, what have you done with Kagome…Kikyo"
"Heh heh heh! Well, well I guess we have ourselves a little detective on our hands. I have done nothing to her. She's perfectly fine but I have a mission I must carry out before I can move on. I intend to carry it out because I do not like this girl or her body at all" Kikyo said calmly in her own true voice
"To hell you haven't done anything to her! If you're in her then where is she?"
"The same place I've been for countless years. In the back of her mind, all that has happened is we've switched places and now she's the little voice inside my head"
"How can I trust you? You after all were the one who sealed me to a tree for fifty years"
"Yes I was wondering how was it that you woke up. My spell should have worked so you never woke up"
"Kagome freed me when she came to this time. Turns out she's your reincarnation and looks a hell of a lot like you too"
"Really, I haven't seen my reflection yet. If you so much as utter one word to the rest I will seal you to that tree again. Isn't it funny how you were on a tree for so long yet still sit in them?" With that Inu-Yasha went crashing to the ground. "So that is the magic word then… very interesting"
As Inu-Yasha just lay on the ground fuming and wondering if it would be right to leave Kikyo up there; he felt a tremendous weight crash on him. "Thanks for breaking my fall Inu-Yasha, guess you were good for something after all" At that Kikyo hopped off in the direction of the hut to see if everyone was awake yet.
As she hopped she heard a rustling in back of her and turned around but it was too late; a huge bird Youkai was already upon her and there was nowhere she could go. The bird picked her up and carried her off while she struggled to be let go. "Help!! HELP HELP HELP!! INU-YASHA!!!" Her voice echoed through the forest and into the hanyou's ears.
"Nope, I'm not helping you this time. You sat me and then landed on me which wasn't very nice so no" He stubbornly said to himself as he started to walk back to the hut. "Doesn't she have our Shikon Shards? Damn it!!" He realized this and ran off in the direction of the sound of her screaming and her familiar scent.
He spotted the bird then saw Kikyo in one of its claws. About half of the Shikon-no-Tama was put together and he saw it shining around her neck. The bird obviously had a Shikon shard in it but it was no match for Inu-Yasha. He ran under it and unsheathed his sword (I can't spell the name of it) then jumped so he was at the bird's eye level. He ran the blade through the bird like the bird was water then caught the falling Miko.
A Shikon shard fell with a tink upon the ground and Inu-Yasha carefully picked it up then handed it to Kikyo. She looked at him with disbelief as he held it out to her. She slowly took it from his grasp and looked at the tiny piece. "Why did you give it to me? Aren't you going to keep it so you can become a full Youkai?" She asked quietly
"That's the difference between me and Naraku; I won't hurt the one I love for a stupid thing such as this jewel" He said this with hurt eyes then walked away "See you back at the hut" He soon disappeared into the forest leaving Kikyo to her own thoughts.
A/N: Ok so the longer thing didn't really work as well as I thought. But it seemed like a pretty good spot to stop. Hope you like it and as always R&R! Aufweidersehen! (Bye)