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The preistess and her neko

Time was standing still for InuYasha and his friends. They barely heard the villager's cheers of victory.

The only thing that they could do was stare at the miko who had fired her arrow.

Kagome.

The name kept on replaying through their heads, never stopping. It was Kagome before them. It had to be. She had the same hair, the same face, the same warmth in her eyes...though something was a little different. Her scent was also the same to the noses of InuYasha, Shippo and Kirara.

Reality came crashing down on them all however and broke them out of their temporary trance. Kagome was dead. There was no way that this girl could be her...could it?...

The girl infront of them turned around and began to walk away back into the forest.

" Ka..Kagome?... " Shippo whispered, reaching out a tiny hand in the retreating miko's direction, still unsure on wether his eyes decieved him or not.

While the others were on complete stand still, InuYasha slowly stood up from his spot on the ground. This miko...it WAS Kagome!

He could never mistake the way she looked at them. Only Kagome could look at someone like that, eyes so full of light and compassion...look at him with compassion...with care and with...

He brushed those thoughts aside, his senses awakening inside him once more. He had been so sure he'd seen Kagome die. There couldn't have been any way that she could have survived that fall...even if she had the wound Naraku gave her would have seen otherwise...

As the woman who looked so like Kagome began walking away from him, something inside him clicked.

He couldn't loose her again.

He didn't know for sure wether this girl was Kagome or not, but he would out. He had to know. If it was, he'd never let her go again. Ever.

He jumped forward and ran after her, ignoring the shouts from his friends.

Kagome walked along the forest path, hair blowing lightly in the breeze that surrounded her. Earlier she had decided to stick around the village who had been so kind to her for a while. For the past three days she had been sensing that slime demon and had known it was only a matter of time before it attacked.

When she managed to arrive at the scene, she recognised the villagers trying to fight off the demon. She didn't recognise, however, the group in the middle of the field defending the village aswell. Travellers. She had thought.

Then she had scensed the demonic aura emitting from three of the travellers. She had looked a little more properly at them from where they were and noticed that one of them was a nekomata...another a small kitsune, and the last...a dog demon?

There was somethin about that demon. The way he looked at her with those golden eyes...She had never seen such beautiful eyes...

She felt an uneasy presence about him, and she herself felt uneasy also. She was certain him and his friends were not a threat to the village though, infact they had been defending it from the demon, so she had decided to drop her curiousity and leave.

Now, though as she walked along the path, she sensed that golden eyed demon's presence once more. Was he following her?

She came to a hault when she heard a twig snap behind her, and whirled round to look behind her. That demon was there with her, probably hiding behind the trees...

InuYasha cuaght up with the miko. He knew she had sensed his presence and could smell the wariness emitting from her. He quickly jumped behind a tree as she turned round, her eyes darting around the place frantically. Her scent reached his nose. That was definately Kagome's scent! He'd know it anywhere!

It surprised him when she readied her bow and arrow, and pointed it in his direction.

" Come out, I know your there..." She said.

That was Kagome. That was Kagome's voice.

" Come out and I won't harm you, " She said again.

InuYasha felt very excited, but did his best to keep it hidden.

Slowly InuYasha came out from behind the tree and faced her.

She smiled at him, and InuYasha took it as a good sign. It was Kagome! She knew who he was!

" I thought it was you, why are you following me half-demon? "

What? Half-demon? Since when did Kagome ever call him that?

" Ka...Kagome?..." InuYasha asked with a hint of worry now.

" Yea...wait...how do you know my name? " She asked him back, fear etched into her voice.

" Kagome?...you mean...you don't know who I am? " InuYasha asked. She didn't recognise him?...

" I...Who are you!?! " asked Kagome with a bit more force.

" Kagome...it's me...InuYasha...please tell me you remember..." InuYasha pleaded with him.

The miko thought to herself. She was getting a little scared now. How did this boy know her name? Had they met before? She didn't remember...She couldn't remember anything before the four months she had been travelling...This boy...he could be a threat after all for all she knew...

" Please...leave me alone now and I won't hurt you..." she asked him.

InuYasha didn't want to believe it. It was Kagome infront of him but she didn't know who he was...

He looked deep into her eyes once more. He saw loss and insecurity for the first time...like she didn't know herself...

Kagome met his eyes and looked deep into them. They were soo beautiful...but scarred somehow...as if he was sad...or had lost something important to him...they did seem a little familiar. The feeling dissapeared and the fear came back to her again when he through himself over her in a haste embrace. She screeched in surprise and her fear grew when she felt him bury his nose into her neck. What was this boy trying to do?

" Kagome..." he began, " you have to recognise me..."

Kagome ceased her squirming when she heard that. His voice sounded so sad...

She felt strangely safe in his embrace...like nothing could hurt her...but she shrugged it off. She couldn't get attached like that to anyone...

" Please...I...I'm sorry...I don't recognise you...just let me go..."

InuYasha felt his heart brake in two, his hopes demolished completely. He didn't notice when she finally got out of his arms and began to run away from him.

When he did notice, he ran after her. Wether she recognised him or not, she was still Kagome. He was willing to do anything to help her remember him again, and made a promise to himself that he'd never stop until he got his Kagome back and safe in his arms...

Kagome ran as fast as she could away from the half-demon who called himself InuYasha. She didn't feel he was a real threat to her so she didn't want to hurt him, but she could feel his emotional pain and didn't like what she felt...such pain...anguish...

The miko could suddenly sense him following her again. She looked over her shoulder as she ran, and saw him running after her, calling her name. The wariness about him grew and Kagome suddenly felt very afraid of him. She didn't notice that she'd come to the edge of a cliff in the forest and sreamed when she slipped over the edge...

" KAGOME!!! " InuYasha cried in fear and he ran to the edge of the cliff where she'd fallen. He saw her sliding down the edge nad immediately went down after her and managed to grab her hand.

Kagome opened her eyes and looked up at the one who had saved her. Fear instead of relief filled her heart.

" Let me go!! " she shouted to him."

" Like hell I will!! " InuYasha shouted back to her, " if I let go you'll fall to your death! You might actaully...die this time..." How had she survived the first time?

That would have to wait, as Kagome's hand began to slip through his fingers.

" I...I won't die! " Kagome told him, " I know I won't! "

" You're kidding, right!?! " Kagome had lost her mind...

" No I am not! Let me go! You'll see! "

" No Kagome! I won't loose you again! " InuYasha hissed at her, " just hold on! "

Kagome wondered what he'd meant by again. Nonetheless, she brushed that thought away. There was only one way he would let her go...she didn't want to do it to him but he was determined to hold onto her hand...

She looked up at him and into his eyes.

InuYasha met her eyes as she looked into his. They were the same warm, brown eyes he remembered, the ones he had missed so much...

" Boy...InuYasha..." Kagome began.

InuYasha felt a jolt when she finally said his name.

" I..please...just let me go...I'll be fine..."

" Kagome...I can't...I..." InuYasha paused, " I really...I couldn't bare to have you taken from me again...to see you die..."

Kagome sighed lightly.

" InuYasha..." A voice called inside InuYasha's mind, " you must let Kagome go..."

" Like hell I will! " InuYasha snapped back at the mysterious voice in his head, not stopping to think about who it could be.

" InuYasha? I...I'm sorry..." Kagome whispered to him.

" What are you sorry fo-..." InuYasha began but stopped when he saw what she was doing.

She was forcing her wieght down and out of his hand, trying to slip out of his grip. What the hell was wrong with her? Did she want to die again?? InuYasha didn't let her go though, instead he held on tighter. She had to use force, but she still didn't want to.

She reached her other hand up and clutched the one holding her. She let out a small amount of spiritual energy through her hand, not enough to seriously hurt InuYasha, but enough to get him to let go. It worked.

Out of sheer surprise from the slight burning feeling he felt, he let go of Kagome. She fell.

" KAGOME!!! NO! " InuYasha cried.

Before he could do anything another voice cried out.

" MISTRESS KAGOME!! "

A giant neko flwe over his head and down to Kagome. It had large ears and a long tail. InuYasha sighed in relief when he saw the cat catch Kagome on it's back and take her to safety on the other edge of the cliff. Kagome slipped off the cat's back and gratefully stroked the cat behind his ear.

" Well done Kari, " She whispered.

Kagome turned back to InuYasha on the other side of the cliff. She looked sympathetically at him before whispering something in the wind to him.

" Forgive me, InuYasha, but you must not follow..."

InuYasha barely had time to react before she hauled herself onto the back of the giant flying neko and took off away from him once more.

" KAGOME!! " InuYasha ran alongside the cliff until she was out of view behind the trees, still searching for her. He found none, and nearly collapsed into despair.

" KKKAAAGGGOOOMMMEEE!!!!!!!!! "

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