Chapter Nine – Sealing the Demon/Farewell/ The End
Battered and bruised Kagome fell to the ground, she didn't know how long they had been out there fighting by the position of the moon she'd say it was around midnight now. Finding the other two with her eyes she saw that they were just as beat up as she was, if not more, yet they were still in the fight, which has only been increasingly difficult. Not even twenty minutes ago they had thought that they'd won, seeing as Naraku's head was no longer attached to his body, but they had been wrong. His head some how turned into mulch and seeped into the ground as his body began to morph taking on another shape. And now they were fighting a giant hairy brown spider. Thing is despite Kikyo's nearly fearless attitude there was one thing, aside from losing her family, that she was scared of and that was spiders. Though unlike Kagome, Kikyo faced her fears head on it was one of the many qualities in her sister that Kagome admired. Yet here she was standing there thinking about how brave her sister was while she was currently safe.
"No no no, you stupid girl, you should fight with them instead of just standing here like an...AHHHH" She screamed as the spider shot was looked like a large needle at her from it's behind. Inuyasha was fast though and managed to get Kagome out of the way. Unfortunately it wasn't fast enough and he felt the sting of the attack as it pierced through his arm, including the bone.
"AHHH...Dammit...HELL." He yelled out as he landed firmly the ground and let go of Kagome so he could pull the large weapon from his arm.
"I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry. I'm Sorry."
"Will you shut up. It's not your fault. Though you shouldn't have just been standing there like an idiot." He winced as he started to pull more on the needle. "Look I made a promise to myself that I would protect you. So don't go saying you're sorry alright." A faint blushed crossed Kagome's face as she heard this.
"Look Out, Move." The two looked and dodged before running over to the alleyway that Kikyo was standing near. The opening looked to small for the large demon so they figured it was safe.
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Once they were all in, even if Naraku knew they were there and he did as the could still see him tring to get them from where he was, the relaxed slightly and Kikyo pulled them close. "I may have a way that will seal him up for good. But I need a little time to prepare it, can you two distract him, and injure him if possible while I prepare it."
"What do you think we have been doing all night. To be honest I figured you humans would have long since passed out from this." The two girls sent him twin glares and he shut up before heading back out to fight. Kagome followed him but was pulled back by her sister as she reached the exit.
"Kagome I need to tell you something."
"Yes."
"Look after Keade will you."
"What?" Kagome gave her a confused look.
\ "Nothing comes cheap and sealing away a demon that strong won't either. In order to save everyone someone must go."
"What are you...No. No I won't let you do that. You can..."
"I must. One life is nothing to the amount of people it will save. Kagome Good-bye." Tears started to filler her eyes as Kikyo handed over her quiver of arrows, save for one, to Kagome and motioned for her to aid Inuyasha so she did taking another look at Kikyo as she left.
"Bye."
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Inuyasha and Kagome worked well together once they figured out the other style of fighting. Kagome, despite never knowing, had some power that priestesses have and because of it, mixed in with one of Inuyasha attacks, they were able to actually damage the oversized pest that was trying to kill them.
Though they weren't the only ones causing damage as Inuyasha seemed to insisted on being Kagome's shield every-time Naraku tried to attack her. After nearly an hour Kikyo came out onto their small battle field. In her hand something seemed to glow. She whispered words as she walk towards the center of all of them. She opened her hands a spoke louder as many small brown beads glowed and floated in front of her.
'No.' Naraku panicked. 'Not again I refuse to be sealed again.' His next attack went straight for Kikyo in his attack but as he struck down Inuyasha got in the way and received the attack full force through his chest.
"NO!" He heard Kagome cry out as he fell.
Kikyo finished what it was she was saying and the beads took off surrounding both her and Naraku in a ring of light. Kikyo looked once more at Kagome and smiled as the light engulfed them both.
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Kagome ran over to Inuyasha as he lay on the ground. She knelt beside him and shifted his head onto her lap. Using one of her hand she moved his shirt up so that she could take a look at his wound, but there was only a whole, where the should be blood there was not and for some reason Inuyasha's body seemed to take on a slight glow and his skin began to shimmer. "Kagome." He whispered out as he used his uninjured hand to caress her face. I...I am sorry for everything I've put you through for so long."
"Inuyasha just stay quite please. I'll get you help just, you need to..." He placed a finger over her lips as tears continued to stream down her face.
"No Kagome, it's my time." Inuyasha laughed lightly but even that hurt him and he clutched his broken chest.
"It has long since been my time to go, but I don't regret my extended stay, at least this way I meet you." His eyes began to flutter closed and Kagome panicked.
"No, NO Inuyasha don't go. Please I need you. Don't go please I...I love...you...Inuyasha." She whispered the last part out as more tears fell onto Inuyasha as he lay in her arms. Where her tears hit his body began to fall apart. Shimmering pieces floated upwards into the clouds. "Inuyasha." His eyes finally shut and his skin got cold. "Inuyasha." She said a little louder. His body was nearly translucent and it was almost if no weight was on her at all. "INUYASHA!" She cried out as loud as she could pulling her arms around her from where he had just been seconds ago. Her face completely covered in tears now and they continued to fall.
She looked up to the sky, as if to ask why he was taken from her so soon, but when she looked Kagome saw more then just clouds and a blue sky. A faded image of a pale woman with long dark hair, dressed in a traditional Japanese gown sat off to the side and the face of a young boy smiled at her. His eyes the most beautiful violet ever and his long dark hair framed his rounded face. "Inuyasha." She called out softly once more. He smiled wider and mouthed to her words that made her heart leap before running over and embarrassing the woman as the too faded away completely.
Kagome sat there for a while longer. The words he had silently spoken to her ran through her head over and over. "I Love You."
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"The end." A pale-skinned brunet shut the laptop and pushed it into the center on the Library table.
"The end? That's it?" Her friend questioned.
"Yup." The brunet folded her arms behind her head as she sang a little tune in her head.
"But Rose."
"But what? Lynn." Roes' friend hit her playfully on the arm as she fake glared at her.
"You said this was supposed to be a romance. Isn't that what we agreed upon?"
"And it was. They were in love in the end where they not."
"Yeah but you can't kill the main character. You just can't." Lynn pouted.
"You obviously have never read Shakespeare have you?" Rose looked at her BFF questioningly.
"I have but that's different. Our goal was Angst and ROMANCE. Not Angst, and Tragedy."
\ "Its only a tragedy if it was a tragic flaw that ended the characters life. This was not." Lynn pouted some more ang crossed her arms over her chest.
"I still say that it should have had more romance in it."
"And I say," She paused and looked at the clock on the wall. "That it is time for class and I can't afford to be late for another one of Ulch's classes." Rose picked up her laptop and headed for the library door.
"Hey wait yup." Lynn called behind her and quickly snatched up her books and followed Rose out.
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Alright thats it. Please Review I it inspires me to write more. Oh and sorry for any and all spelling mistakes. I did go over it but I seemed to have missed some.
-Rose