Hello, me again. Sorry but this Chapter was tough to write and I had work and school too. Anyway, quick recap: Kagome woke up in a cave where the half-demon Inuyasha lived with his human mother and Kikyo 500 years ago and discovers she can't leave due to a barrier her incarnate put up before her death. Can she find a way to break the barrier on her own before Inuyasha can make her his mate? Find out in Chapter #7. Inuyasha doesn't belong to me but Ayumu and her granddaughter are my creations.
Chapter #7When Memories from the Past Return
Ayumu stared at the barrier that block the entrance of the cave. How could she not sense this before? She always came to this cave to pay her respects to Kikyo and Inuyasha like she and her ancestors did for centuries and never once did she sense a barrier
anywhere this area. Not even when she was younger. Did her ancestors' sister hide it so only her reincarnation can trigger it?
Her attention turned to the forest behind her when she heard sounds of twig snapping. Two teenagers appeared from the bushes and both look tired and covered in leaves and small branches due to walking through the dense woods.
"We got your message." Sango said as she pulled twigs out of her hair. "How's it going?"
"Not good." Ayumu replied. "This barrier is strong and I don't know if we'll break it in time."
"What do you mean in time?"
"This barrier is infused with a spell remember." Miroku explained. "A barrier like this would take hours even a day to break open."
"We can't think that. Kagome's in there with that dead demon and who knows what he's doing to her right now."
"Your right, we can't waste time talking. Here's what I need you two to do…"
Meanwhile, inside the cave, Kagome opened her bloodshot eyes to see the half-demon ghost tending a small fire in the middle of partly dark room. She lost time on how long she was out and all she wanted to do was go home to her family not be a prisoner
to this lovesick half-demon who mistaken her for his dead mate. The whole thing was stupid and unbelievable. When is she going to wake up from this nightmare?
Inuyasha stopped what he was doing when noticed he was being watched and turned to the girl who glared at her in return.
"Now, mate, don't be so angry." he said. "You'll love me again in time."
"I never loved you." she snarled. "I never known you or did I ever marry you! Now let me go home."
"You are home…"
"No I'm not! My home is the Higurashi Shrine!"
Inuyashas' golden eyes narrowed before flashing red. He got up and slowly made his way to the girl in the far corner. She watched in fear as his eyes flash red like they did earlier when she tried to leave. She laid there in fear as he kneeled down, grabbed
her by the upper arms and pulled her towards him, holding her close to him. Placing his lips to her ear, he said.
"You know I can ignore those words for so long, mate. But I'm getting sick hearing them now. Don't ever say those words in my presence again or I'll have to do something neither of us will enjoy. Do I make myself clear?"
Kagome tensed in his grip. Scared to moved or speak, but managed a shaky yes. Inuyasha grinned against her flesh and started to lightly nip and kiss her neck. The girl shivered as his cold lips brushed against her warm skin. The ghost stopped what he
was doing when he noticed his mate's reaction.
"Are you cold?" he asked. "Come and warm up by the fire with me."
"I don't…ah."
She was cut off when he picked her up bridal style and carried her towards the centre of the room where he sat down legs crossed and placed Kagome on his lap and held her close to his chest like a stuffed toy he had since childhood and never want to let
go and buried his nose in her ebony locks.
"You know." Inuyasha said as he started to nuzzle her head and neck. "I held the woman I loved like this when the nights are cold and long. I look forward to making you mine again, my love. Don't you feel the same way?"
"No…not really." Kagome said trying to find her voice.
"Still in denial, are we? I can fix that."
He reached into a pouch that rested next to his side and pulled out a small vial and a blood stone on a white stone chain. He undid the clasp and placed it around the girl's neck. Kagome looked at it confused as the jewel rested on her chest.
"Inuyasha, what are you…?"
She was cut off as she was pushed down to the ground near the fire pit. Not close enough to burn her hand but close to feel the heat. She watched in horror as the half-demonclimbed onto her and pinned her down.
"With this potion and the necklace I placed around your neck, you will remember your life as Kikyo and become my mate again. Now drink up."
He uncorked the vial and shoved it into Kagome's mouth. She gagged as the bitter-tasting liquid poured in and burned as it traveled down her throat. She tried to spit it out but Inuyasha rubbed her throat and made her swallow.
"That's it, love. Swallow for me." he purred as he rubbed her throat. He then pulled out the vial and threw it into the fire once she swallowed the potion. She sat up and coughed a few times before shouting.
"What the Hell are you doing, you…uuuhhh."
She stopped when she suddenly felt light-headed and fell back on the hard ground. She moaned as the effects got worse at an alarming rate. She looked up at Inuyasha with glazed over eyes as darkness clouded her vision.
"What…was…that?"
"Something that'll help you." Inuyasha answered. "That's all you need to know fornow."
Outside the cave, Ayumu and Kagome's friends finished setting up the ritual site and sat in the positions the elderly priestess told them sit.
"Now, everyone know what to do?" Ayumu asked as she stood in front of the barrier.
"Yes." Miroku and Sango said in reunion.
"Let's do it…huh?"
"What is, Ayumu?" Sango asked.
"Something's happening inside. We must hurry! Start chanting now!"
Inside the cave, Inuyasha sat patiently while waiting for his mate to wake up. The potion he found from Kikyo's scrolls he was given before being sealed was to bring the memories that lay dormant within a person's mind to surface for a short period of
time while the necklace he placed around her neck was to keep the memories out of dormancy as long as the drinker wears the jewel. He smirked at the thought. Once the girl wakes he'll activate the gem's powers and make her his. His lick his lips as
his mind became filled with the memory of the day he and Kikyo became mates the demon way.
"Mate, I want you…huh?"
He was pulled from his thoughts when the girl's body glowed a little and rose a few feet into the air.
"Finally, it's working. Now to activate the charms' powers."
He stood up and placed his hand on Kagome's chest and started chanting before sealing the power within the blood coloured stone glowed softlywith these words.
"Spirit of Kikyo, reborn as Kagome of this century. I ask you to appear whenever this gem is on your reincarnation. Hear me and grant my wish to be with you again."
The gem pulsed and glowed brightly as the magic energy gathered and sealed within the blood stone. He smirked as the jewel froze the memories of his love onto the surface of Kagome's mind.
"Yes, Kikyo. You've returned to me. Now awa…"
"Inuyasha, stop this!"
He turned when he heard footsteps and the voice of Ayumu and the aged priestess and the teens he saw his mate talking to earlier back at the shrine.
"Old Hag. You managed to get Kagome's servants to break the barrier for you?"
"Servants?" The teens said insulted.
"We broke it together, half-demon." Ayumu said, "That's not important now. Where's Kagome?"
"You're too late. Kagome is not here and she won't be for a while now."
"What are you talking about?" Sango asked. "What have you done with her?"
"I brought Kikyo's memories back."
"You lie, Inuyasha!" Ayumu retorted. "You don't know such magic!"
"See for yourself." Inuyasha said with pride as he stepped aside. "Kikyo say hello to your little sister's descendant."
The light subsided as the girl in question landed on her feet and stood there. Her bangs covering her eyes. The trio stared at her before Miroku spoke up.
"Kagome, are you there?"
The girl didn't answer.
"Say something."
The girl slowly raise her head and opened her eyes. The trio stared in shock as they saw the girl's eyes. They were brown and glazed over not blue and filled of life like Kagome's.
"Kagome?"
"Who are you?" The girl asked with a mature young woman's voice.
Inuyasha grinned as he the scene play out. It was amusing to see the group watch in dismay at his work.
"You see? Kagome is gone and only Kikyo is here as long as she wears this." he went over and fingered the gem while pulling her close to him. "A spell she gave me before I was sealed and she passed away. Now if you don't mind…"
"Inuyasha don't."
He stopped when 'Kikyo' spoke.
"What, why Kikyo? They're here to take you away from me again."
"No, they're here because they're concerned about my reincarnation's safety. You did bring me here unwillingly again remember?"
Inuyasha blushed at the memory. "I remember that day, my love. So, why don't you want me to send these people back outside the barrier so I can remark you again?"
"Because I don't want you to remark me like this. It's wrong."
"How is it wrong? You wanted this."
"No, Inuyasha. I wanted to be with you forever but not like this. If I was ever reincarnated I wanted to be remarked willingly not under enchantment. I only gave you my scrolls so I can be called upon when there's danger that requires my knowledge to
stop it. Please Inuyasha take this necklace off my reincarnation and take me home."
"But you are home."
'Kikyo' shook her head. "No, my home is the Higurashi Shrine."
Inuyasha stared at his love in disbelief. All his work was for nothing and his love wants to return to dormancy again? Why?
"No."
"What?"
"I said no."
"Inuyasha, don't be so selfish." Ayumu said. "You heard what she said. This isn't what she wants."
'But…"
"Listen to Kikyo, Inuyasha." Sango said. "And how can you mate with her? You're dead."
"No, Inuyasha is not dead."
Confusion filled the air as her words sank into the humans and half-demons' minds.
"He's…not dead?" Ayumu wondered. "How's that possible?"
"Yeah, Kikyo. I feel dead and I have the powers of a ghost."
"That's the affects of the Sacred Jewel when it broke in three." 'Kikyo' explained. "When I sealed you in stone with the Sacred Jewel and my Sacred Arrow, your body and soul was to remain in a dormant state and still among the living as long the jewel
remain whole. But when it separated, your body slowly started to awaken and die due to malnourishment and thirst while the remaining shard within you kept you tied to this world."
"You're saying Inuyasha is stuck between this world and the next?"
"Yes." Turning back to Inuyasha, she said. "Now take the necklace off."
"I can't do that, Kikyo."
"If you love her you'll respect her wishes." Miroku said. "Return our friend to us and let her go."
"If I remove gem, I will never see her again." The half-demon said as he pulled 'Kikyo' closer to him. "I need her."
"I need you too, Inuyasha." 'Kikyo' said "But not like this. Please Inuyasha take it off and take me back to the shrine. I'll visit Kagome in the dream world and talk to her. She'll listen, after all she's me and I'm her."
Inuyashas' eyes glistened as he heard that. "You'll talk to her?"
'Kikyo' nodded. "Yes." She reached up and kissed Inuyashas' cheek. "I love you, Inuyasha."
"I love you too, mate."
He reached and carefully took the necklace off. As the necklace fell into his hand, the girl's eyes turned back to blue and she passed out into the half-demon's arms. The teens were about to go over to see their friend when Ayumu stopped them.
"She's fine." she told them. "Spells like this takes a lot out of the victim the first time."
The group watched as Inuyasha picked Kagome up bridal style, walked past them towards the exit. Where he passed through the barrier that was slowly rebuilding itself after the ritual the trio performed to get inside the cave and took off towards the shrine.
"He must really love her if he went through all that trouble to bring her back." Sango said as she and the others watch the half-demon disappear into the night.
"Yes, Sango." Ayumu said. "Kikyo was his first love and the only one who cared about him was his mother. After her death, he didn't have anyone to turn to until he met Kikyo and Kaede. But what bothers me is what she said about him not being a ghost."
"What do you mean?" Miroku asked. "You didn't sense it?"
"I sense something was wrong when I first saw him with Kagome on the roof of my home." Ayumu explained. "Up till now, I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. Let's sleep on it for now. It's been a long night."
The teens nodded in agreement and started walking towards the forest.
Well there it is another chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it.
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