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A Pained Heart meets a Broken One
By: Akiko
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Inuyasha reared his head, sniffing blood. It was humans, most likely from a youkai. Why should he care? Only, that scent…. it smelled…familiar…like…KAGOME!
The youkai rushed off, his hanori waving in the wind with his hair. His elfin ears fell behind the loads of hair, guarding the wind from coming at them. He leapt into the air, standing on a tree for the briefest moment before heading off and doing the same with the other trees. Finally he saw…nothing. Not even the smallest hint of blood. The grass seemed picked, and cleaned, and there was no body. He sniffed the ground, and smelled nothing but dead birds. He could have sworn he smelt Kagome.
The youkai walked off back towards Kouga's den. When he got there, Kouga wasn't. The damn wolf probably went for a little walk. Inuyasha sat down, finally falling asleep.
Kami was in the same position as her 'father' at that exact moment. Chi had her arms wrapped around her friend's neck as they sat in Shippou's underground house. Ryuu was helping him make tea in the kitchen as the girls played with the pups and talked to the female of the house.
"I've heard a lot about you, Kami," the female, Xiao, announced, licking her pup's head. "Shippou never got over the day you left."
Kami's eyes turned into a little hint of a glare, but quickly reverted back to their normal stage. "Your name, Xiao, its Chinese yes?" Kami questioned.
Xiao bit her lip, interrupted by Shippou and Ryuu coming in the room with tea.
They sat down and everyone was excused from the room except Shippou and Kami.
"Let me explain a few things. Last time I had pounded all that material onto you're head quickly," Shippou said. Kami nodded.
"Ok, you know about all the legends, correct?"
Kami nodded.
"Inuyasha's wife, Kagome had died of bringing forth a child. They said if they killed it, they could keep her alive, but she wanted you to live. Inuyasha however was more desolate then she hoped.
"So he thought you as a killer, still being young. He threw Kagome down the well, it closed up, and you were put in the woods. We were all asleep and knew nothing about it until daybreak when you just…vanished."
Kami sat there, even when the kitsune left. She sipped her tea, and just thought and thought.
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Akiko smiled when she watched the prisoner squirm. The youkai, finally snapping out of his trance, was now banging on the window of his cell, wanting to be free and join the prisoner.
Kagome lay unconscious on a table, under a big belt of metal, arms and legs pulled back and apart by bands of metal.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Akiko teased. "I finally get to meet the woman who was thought to replace my daughter. You stole his heart from her, and the child."
"What?" Kagome asked, utterly confused.
"The child, her name is Kami, correct?" Akiko asked. "Kikyou was supposed to have that child, not you!"
"Kami is mine and mine alone," Kagome stated, glaring at this woman.
"No, no, my dear sweet. Kami, your child and Inuyasha's, was supposed to be Kikyou's. Then Peace would erupt between all the kingdoms and countries. Then I could be the ruler of the world. But no, you had to come in and steal Inuyasha's heart from Kikyou! You took my kingdom away from me!" Akiko cried, quickly retrieving her silky speech and her serene look. "But I figured out a way to make it all better. Cast a spell on a dumb youkai," she waved her hand to Kouga, "Bring you here, make my daughter's presence known, and kill that Kami."
"Don't you lay a hand on her!" Kagome yelled.
"I'll do whatever I want, child, she's not yours," Akiko replied. "As I said, she was destined for Kikyou."
"It's not Inuyasha's! It's Sesshomaru's!" Kagome shouted. Akiko's eyes widened and Kouga stopped growling, just standing there. "A long time ago we made love, Kami is that child, not Inuyasha's."
"So…she's half demon, not quarter?" Akiko asked. Kagome nodded her tear-stained face. "Now this isn't what I expected. Either way, my plan is perfect for this occasion too. Kami would try to stop me, being the head-strong girl she is, and you would too," Akiko said, beginning to walk away.
"You won't win. Inuyasha will be loyal to me, every day, every hour, and every second of his life. He gave up on Kikyou a long time. When Naraku threatened her with me, he saved me! Not Kikyou, I, Kagome, was saved!" Kagome shouted. Akiko just ignored her hollow threat.
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To be continued…
Ooo…I already wrote the ending!!! –covers mouth- can't talk about it!