As always I do not own Inuyasha…

This chapter is for pclark… wat u suggested is wat I needed for where I left off soooooo

Chapter 7: Abomination

Inuyasha ran off leaving Kagome.

Kagome walked back into the village. There she met up with Manamiko.

"Why do you look upset young one?"

"Oh Manamiko-sama, I don't know what to do… What I mean is, we been in the village for a few days now. We already took time off to train. I would like to find Naraku and get the shards of the jewel."

'She's not lying… entirely.' Manamiko looked at her pupil. "There is something else that is bothering you. What is it?"

"Nothing." Kagome said sheepishly.

"Kagome, what you need to understand is your miko powers feed off your emotions. I know everyone thinks that a miko has to stay pure to stay strong and have full range in her powers. That is not the case I promise. The miko's powers relay on emotions and confidence. If a miko doubts herself or is unsure, her powers will fail. Any strong emotion only feeds her power. Don't be like so many humans. They believe the miko has to stay pure therefore will never marry. Love is one of the strongest emotions. When mikos don't love and marry, they resent the gift they are given. Usually they lose their powers. I am telling you all this because I don't believe that it is the jewel and Naraku that is making you say 'I don't know what to do'. So figure out what is in your heart and feed that to your emotions. This is your next step in your training."

"Thank you Manamiko-sama." Kagome bowed down to her teacher. She turned to take her leave. She walked around aimlessly for a while thinking to herself.

'I do love Inuyasha, don't I? I know that when I am away from him he is all I think about. He has a certain way to making me feel special. He does protect me. In his own special way I suppose he cares for me, I mean look how jealous he gets when Koga is around. What did Momma say about jealously? Oh yea…Jealousy is not a sign of love, it is a sign of control. So what does that suppose to mean? What Inuyasha doesn't love me? That he only wants to control?'

Kagome reaches a stream. She looks at it and her reflection. After a while she starts to throw rocks into the gentle water.

'He called me Kikyo the first time. He would say I am not as pretty as her. How I am just a SHARD DETECTOR.' Kagome sighs to herself and remembers what her and Inuyasha been through. How even though he doesn't say the same things to her anymore. How he even said he likes how she smells. 'He still runs off to Kikyo though… wait am I any better? I kissed Sesshoumaru twice now! Not only did I kiss him I saw him naked! I never saw Inuyasha naked. Inuyasha's kiss doesn't hold a candle to Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru makes my heart stop when I think of him. When I am around him now, he consumes everything that I am. Is that suppose to mean that I love him? MOMMA I need you. You would know what to say and make sense of all this.'

*Manamiko*

After Kagome and her split ways after their conversation, Manamiko walked off towards the woods. She followed Inuyasha's aura. After a while, she came across a barrier. She laughed to herself. 'To Kikyo, again? I see Inuyasha, so you had Kagome along with you but you would run off to Kikyo. She has to old now. Wait… she died, around fifty years ago. What the hell is going on?'

Manamiko passed through the barrier with such ease, that anyone who happened to look would have thought there was no barrier.

When she made her way to find Inuyasha and Kikyo, she paused and waited for them to acknowledge her. She saw them sitting in front of each other. Neither one touching the other but they were talking.

Manamiko did not have the Inu or wolf sense of smell but she could read people's aura. Kikyo's aura did not make sense to her. 'She doesn't have an aura. Only the dead don't have auras. She is the first undead miko I ever encountered. I guess she retained her powers even in death.'

Inuyasha looked up all of a sudden. He got up from his sitting position. Kikyo looked at him funny and he ignored her.

"Manamiko, what are you doing here? Kagome is the only one who can break Kikyo's barrier and that is because they share a soul. So how did you get here?"

Manamiko ignored what Inuyasha had asked her. "Kikyo, what are you?"

"What I am is of no concern of you. You are an abomination! You don't belong here. Go now and leave this place." Kikyo could tell that Manamiko was a hanyo. The only way Manamiko could pass through her barriers is if Manamiko was miko. Not only was the hanyo a miko but a strong one. Kikyo did not like that at all.

"I am an abomination? Don't make me laugh! Look at yourself. You are not of this world, you don't belong with the living! Who do you believe you are? I am no abomination, I have lived centuries. All the females in my family are mikos on my mother's side. So I ask you again, who do you think you are telling me I don't belong here? I a living breathing being. You, you are dead, wishing to be part of this world again."

Manamiko was looking Kikyo dead in the eyes. The two mikos were moving towards another in the argument. Both held anger in their eyes.

Manamiko couldn't figure out how Kikyo is surviving among the living. The only way to be among the living and have any kind of power, a body would need…"Don't tell me that you are… that is against miko teaching! Mikos are suppose to protect innocence and put others before themselves! How dare you take their souls because you can't accept you are dead!"

"Don't judge me. My life was taken from me prematurely. I did everything I was supposed to do when I was among the living. To what avail? To be manipulated by a thief who turned to a half demon? I am living the life I should have. The souls I collect are a part of me and allow me to walk this earth."

Kikyo started to circle Manamiko.

"You are the true abomination. You are both a demon and miko. Two enemies in one body. How is it you are surviving? Half of you should be destroying the other. Your miko powers should be purifying your evil half."

At this point Inuyasha jumped in. "Evil half? Being demon doesn't make a being evil Kikyo. Its what they do with their power! Are you saying I am evil? Or that I am half evil? Look at the dark mikos like Tsubaki. They are mikos but are evil… How could you call any being evil by just what they are?"

"Inuyasha, you don't get it. Demons and half demons are born evil. Other beings are manipulated to be evil. That is why she is an abomination! The pure side is suppose to destroy her evil side yet here she stands!"

"Shut up! I am a half demon too Kikyo. Yet you love me. How could you love me if all demons and half demons are evil?"

"Why do you think I wanted you to be a full human! To save your soul and rid you of evil!"

"To save a soul? You're a dead being feeding of souls! Again I am not the abomination, you are!" Manamiko was pissed at this point. Not only was Kikyo insulting her, she insulted Inuyasha and every demon and hanyo.

Kikyo raised her hand and attempted to shoot a blast of purity to Manamiko.

At this point Manamiko had enough. She decided to allow Kikyo's purity hit her. Then she laughed. "I have to admit, you're strong. But not strong enough. Did you forget already that I am the strongest MIKO-hanyo? Purity wont effect me."

Manamiko said a soft prayer. Then she pulled out her sword out of her parcel. "Die now, let the souls you stolen be at peace and move from this world. You don't belong here." With the last word, Manamiko sliced at Kikyo.

With Kikyo head on the ground, separated from its body, Manamiko placed her sword back in its hiding place. Both Inuyasha and Manamiko watched as Kikyo's body turned to dust. At the moment that her body turned to dust, the wind picked up; carrying her ashes and spreading them over the land.

"Kikyo… She was not always like that Manamiko. She… She…" Inuyasha was besides himself in grief. He didn't want to fight for his ex-lover's death by Manamiko. Instead, he ran. He ran till he couldn't smell anyone or anything but forest.

"I am sorry Inuyasha." Manamiko whispered at his retreating body. 'She had no place in this world. The souls she stolen from its resting place can now move into the afterlife. I did not do this to hurt you Inuyasha, I did it to save the souls.'

*Kagome*

Continued to look into the stream and was day dreaming.

"Maybe I don't love Inuyasha like I thought I did. Everyone thinks that we are meant to be together. But…"

"But what miko?" Sesshoumaru had been watching her, AGAIN, and her speaking out loud to herself had him curious. He would have continued to watch her but he wanted to know the answer.

"Sesshoumaru! Why is it you always come out of nowhere? Also lately, when I am alone? What is up with you kissing me?" She was having a hard time controlling herself. She was demanding the answers with her eyes.

"This Sesshoumaru kisses you because I choose to."

"You can't just kiss someone!"

"You don't seem to mind this Sesshoumaru taking your lips. So when you were talking to yourself, what did you mean?"

"That is not any of your business!"

Before they started to argue, Sesshoumaru grabbed Kagome to him.

"Sessh-"

Before she could even finish his name, Sesshoumaru dipped his head down to kiss Kagome.

'Ours!'

They both got lost into the passion that consumed them.

When they finally broke for breath, Sesshoumaru whispered, "Kagome."

She was taken aback to hear her name from the demon lord.

Before she could say something to him saying her name, they were kissing again.

She was running her hands up his sides. When she came to his stub that was once an arm, she was saddened.

'I am truly sorry you lost your arm. If there was ever a way for me to help you, I would. I wish you had both arms!'

At that thought, something started to burn Sesshoumaru. He broke the kiss. He looked down at the remains of his left arm. Slowly his arm started to regenerate. After it was done growing, he flexed his arm.

Sesshoumaru looked from his arm to Kagome. "What happened?"

"I don't know! I was kissing you! And … and… and when I touched your arms, I wished you had both arms!" Kagome was officially freaking out and started to hyperventilate.

"This Sesshoumaru is grateful to you Kagome." He kissed her again.

Between kisses, he managed to say "If you ever need anything let me know and it shall be yours."

When they broke from the kiss that bruised both their lips, Kagome was panting.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, there is one thing."

"What is it?"

"Both our groups is in the hunt for Naraku…" there was a long pause before she continued. "Why don't we join together to find him and put Naraku in his place together?"

I honestly do not like the dead Kikyo… really she stole Kagome's soul and is stilling others souls? For what? So she can continue living? She is dead! To me she is nothing but a complication and I think that she should be out of the story

I am telling you, reviews is getting my muse to influence me! Thank you all so much for reviewing. This is the fastest I have posted chapters! I got the reviews this afternoon and was able to finish the chapter… So this humble writer would be eternally grateful for reviews!