Through the Eyes of the Betrayed

Chapter 6: Sought Decision

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha!

A/N: Okay this chapter I let my imagination get the better of me. I don't want reviews (If I even get any) saying that what I say in my story is not true or doesn't make sense with some theory you apparently developed while watching the show- Remember that this is my story and I can make up what I want, and everything is as I say it is in my story, so if I say bees hated flowers and honey, even though they really don't, in my story they sure as heck do! Thankies, please read it and pleeeease review! KISSES!

~Nina

-With Inuyasha-

Inuyasha sighed as he hopped back over the edge of the well. He had told Kagome to stay in her time for a week or so, for her to bond with her family and hang out with her present friends. Well, his real reason was so he could sort things out in peace. He needed time to think things over, re-evaluate his situation. A lot of time.

Inuyasha unsheathed the Tetsusaiga and laid it across his lap. Then he traced all the gashes and scratches his worn out sword had with his claw, admiring the weapon that made him and his father closer.

This sword, the Tetsusaiga, was given to him from his father after he died; he wanted him to have it. He doesn't really remember his father and his older half brother Sesshomeru would never ever sit down and tell him about their father. The Tetsusaiga was made of both his father's fang, and his own, which made it all the more special to him, though he would never admit it to others.

"Oh father," He whispered to himself. "What have I gotten myself into? Why must love be so confusing? I've loved Kikyou for over fifty years, but I just can't seem to let Kagome go and just be her friend. I'm in love with them both, and I don't know what the hell I'm going to do." Inuyasha's jaw tightened to ward off unwanted tears and his throat stung with the effort. "I wish you and mother were here…" He sighed and sucked up any emotion he was close to displaying and put his sword back in its casing.

"Inuyasha!" Sango yelled with her arm raised in the air as she ran towards him. Inuyasha stopped and turned around.

"What do you want, Sango?" He asked impatiently. Sango halted right in front of him and caught her breath. She heaved air in and out of her lungs; she had probably run nearly two kilometers from the woods. Inuyasha crossed his arms and huffed out his own air.

"Inuyasha, we've been looking for you!"

"Why'd you run all the way over here for then? Couldn't you have just taken Kirara?" He asked.

"That's what I am trying to explain to you if you would just shut up and listen! Kikyou had left Kaede's hut before she was healed, and they just had to rush her back, some man from the village she's been caring for had wondered into her woods to check on her because she had run off after a battle she had with some demon there, and they hadn't seen her since. He found her pale, feverish and out cold on the ground. They are still trying to wake her. Her temperature is through the roof! They were using Kirara to fly her over to the hut so they wouldn't accidentally hurt her. She's extremely weak and her bones are frail. She's been near-dying for a month or two now! You have to hurry!"

No sooner had she uttered her last syllable, Sango was yoked up into Inuyasha's arms and then thrown onto his back. Inuyasha sped off towards Kaede's hut.

-With Kikyou-

Bright orange sunset glow was over cast on the dock. I was smiling at Inuyasha as he met the edge and stood up to step onto the wooden port. I slowly stood, afraid I might fall which was silly because I could exterminate demons and heal the dying and yet I was afraid to drink a little lake water. I tried to get up but I tripped, my bow and I falling and colliding with Inuyasha's chest.

I looked up, embarrassed, and after a moment of awkward silence, we kissed for the very first time. Electric jolts had flowed through my body at the sparking intensity of that very innocent peck that was our first. I felt all warm inside. Icy cold swam over my entire body, I don't remember this feeling. My eyes snap open and immediately I have to gasp for breath and my back arches. I slam my eyes shut, awaking from such a lovely memory, to such a terribly nightmarish reality. The shock of being awoken by ice-cold water was shooting along with the utter agony ebbing from my side.

"It is infected too deep. The medicinal herbs weren't enough. I thought they would be enough since she was a priestess, but I was unaware of what a condition she was in. She was not strong enough to help the medicine battle the infection." I heard my sister's voice and it calmed my nerves but not my pain. So many people, so many, many people were surrounding me and I couldn't breath.

"Get…out…too…many…people." I groaned through clenched teeth and a bottom lip caught in locked jaws.

"Everyone but Kaede and that old man right there," Inuyasha pointed to the old man who was describing to Kaede how he found me. "Better get the hell out right now before my foot releases a whole lot of wrath up your ass so far that you'll taste my fury in your mouth!" I smiled softly despite the pain at his voice that soothed all my worries.

"Inuyasha, ye must not yell, sister Kikyou is in critical condition."

"Aye aye, Captain Carnation-face, I know that! I'm trying to help by getting all these fucking people out of here! Didn't you hear what she said?" Inuyasha shouted. My sister looked at him in confusion.

"My sister said something?" Inuyasha slapped his forehead and let his palm slide down the entire length of his face. He sighed, remembering that he had better hearing than others.

"Yes she said there is too many people in here and for them to all haul ass! Can't you see she's burning up and sweating, it's hot in here as it is and you have all these stank sweaty villagers in here!" Inuyasha growled at a man in his thirties and the man took off running out of the hut. "You all heard me, I know you did! Get the hell out, you damn bastards!" Within two minutes, Kaede, Inuyasha, Sango, and the old man that found me were the only ones left inside with myself.

Sango looked around awkwardly and then down at her position. "Well…I'ma go now…I was just the messenger…bye!" She shouted nervously and hopped off Inuyasha's back and outside. I groaned and tried to twist in pain but my sister held my arms at my sides.

"Sister Kikyou, ye mustn't move at all. If ye do, ye might pass out again." My sister poured arctic water over my body again and it was then that I realized what I was wearing. My shirt's sleeves were completely ripped off, and it was now just a tube top of cloth covering my bosom. My kimono bottoms were ripped up to above the middle of my thigh.

"Why are my clothes destroyed?" I groaned.

"Sister, ye were burning up, we had to keep ye as cool as possible, and also we need to be able to fully examine all of your wounds." Kaede answered. Inuyasha knelt down by my side and kissed my sweat-covered forehead and he didn't mind it. I could tell by the smoldering look he was giving me. He was sincerely worried about me.

"Kikyou, you're going to pull through this, you hear me? Don't you even dare think about giving up on me, you hear? Keep breathing, don't close your eyes, stay away from the light, yada yada yada, just don't die!" He said frantically, his hands roaming over my face and neck and shoulders. It was as if he was making sure I was still there, that I wasn't disappearing into thin air right before him.

I coughed and winced. "Inuyasha, it…it hurts so badly." I whispered hoarsely. He nodded and brushed my soaked bangs out of my eyes.

"I know, baby, I know. But you will get through this, and if you don't I'm going with you." He was grasping my hand as tight as if he were a woman during child birth. This only added on to his stressed promise to never let me go. He kissed the back of my hand and held it to the side of his face. His eyes roamed over my injuries yet again. "So?"

"So what? What do ye mean, Inuyasha?" My sister questioned.

"So, when are you going to fucking do something?" He shouted angrily. I whimpered and he grabbed a piece of my shredded shirt and dunked it in freezing water and placed it on my forehead and another on my neck. "Hurry, why are you just sitting there?"

"There isn't much we can do, sir, so we are evaluating our choices of what we can do."

"Don't fucking evaluate! Do them all! Do everything in your damn power to save her, there's no need for examining options!" He screamed, and I could hear the tightening in his throat. My snow pale hand weakly flitted up to cup the side of his face.

"Don't worry Inuyasha, I'll make it. And if I don't, I'll always be here; part of me is still in Kagome, part of my soul." I whispered and smiled, hoping I helped him, as his voice had helped me.

"That's it!" Inuyasha shouted and jumped up into a standing position.

"Oh dear, what ye up to now, Inuyasha?" Kaede asked.

"That's it: Kagome! She has part of Kikyou's soul! If we bring Kagome here and have her give it back, then she'll get better!"

"Inuyasha, having her full soul won't heal her."

"No, but it will make her strong enough to fight it off better!"

"You don't know what this means." Kaede shook her head sadly. Inuyasha stared at her confused, his hope falling from his cheerful face like tears.

"What are you talking about?" He asked slowly, not even sure if he wanted to hear whatever crushing news she had for him.

"My sister's soul is what makes Kagome her reincarnation. Without it, she won't be able to return to this time, even with the whole sacred jewel." Realization crashed over Inuyasha's already heartbreaking expression. His jaw tightened.

"But-" He started but my sister cut him off.

"No buts Inuyasha, ye will be taking away the ability to travel between these two times from all. No one, not ye, not Kagome, and not my sister will be able to travel through the well to present day Japan, because Kagome won't be Kikyou's reincarnation any longer if she doesn't have any part of Kikyou in her, and she will automatically return to her time and forever be shut away from us all and us from her. For if she is not my sister's reincarnation, and then she will have no necessary connection to our time. My sister may live, but there is a chance she may die. She still may die even with her full soul, and you will be losing Kagome forever."

Inuyasha's spine straightened. "Kagome does not belong in or tied to this time, and us the same with hers. If it gives us a better chance of saving Kikyou, and returning Kagome to a normal and healthy life where she belongs, then I think we should do it anyways. I'll go get Kagome."

"Inuyasha are you-"

"Yes Kikyou, I'm sure. She doesn't deserve to live in such hard and dangerous times anyways. Let her run around in her fancy malls and stores with her friends and tech-devices, that's how it was supposed to be. And you and I are supposed to be here, in our own time, together." He said and smiled down at me. He knelt beside me and kissed the corner of my mouth and walked out of the shabby wooden hut, the door shade swinging behind him until it stopped in place.

"Kikyou, ye finally got back the one ye love." My sister said as she smoothed down my hair that was let out of its ribbon. It fanned out around my head in a black entanglement of onyx swirls on the rickety floor boards. I closed my eyes and nodded slightly, and then spent the rest of my time keeping my eyes on the door that last saw my Inuyasha's departure.