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Song featured: An excerpt from Walk Through the Fire and Rest in Peace from Buffy the Musical.

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Chapter 11

Rest in Peace

"I touch the fire and it freezes me.
I look into it and it's black.
Why can't I feel?
My skin should crack and peel!
I want the fire back!"

After Kikyo's song ended she sat by the fireside and sighed.

Another girl began clapping from behind her. "Bravo!" She said.

Kikyo turned around, startled. "Who are you?" She asked.

"Just a fan…you have a lovely voice." She smirked.

"I asked you a question." She got up. "And I demand a direct answer!"

"Oh my! Testy, testy…" She grinned and curtsied. "I am Sereene."

Kikyo looked at her.

"You know…Siren of the sea?"

She raised her eyebrow. "Ok…and what importance are you to me?" Kikyo crossed her arms.

SHE HASN'T HEARD OF ME EITHER! Steam came out of Sereene's ears.

"Hello…are you listening?" Kikyo asked.

"Oh yes…I see you've also been affected by my recent enchantment."

Kikyo's eyes grew dark and angry. "YOU! You are responsible for this!"

"What? You haven't been enjoying?" She pouted.

"Five innocent people in the local village died a horrible, sufferable at your hands! Do you feel no remorse?"

"I'm sorry…I had no idea this would kill people…I'm so very sorry. I can't even stop it." She said feigning innocence.

"You mean…this won't end ever." Kikyo looked down. "You witch!" She muttered.

"But it will."

Kikyo looked up. "What? How?"

"It's all quite silly actually, but the answer is true love's kiss." She smiled wide.

Kikyo raised her eyebrow. "I don't understand…"

"If two people who are truly, madly and deeply in love share a kiss then the spell will be broken. It's quite simple really. Well, except for the fact that true love is rarer than any precious jewel. Unless you have a true love Kikyo…"

Kikyo's eyes widened. "How do you know my name?"

"I a lot about you…and Inuyasha and that little pesky skank Kagome."

"How do you my history with Inuyasha?"

"I have a magic mirror." She smiled mysteriously. "Anyway I have my own little vendetta on the skank…and knowing her feelings for Inuyasha…"

"I understand. You believe Inuyasha and I are true and if we kiss and break your enchantment it would break her heart."

"Oh it would do a lot more than that Kikyo…it would kill her." She smirked evilly.

Inuyasha sat alone in his favorite tree looking up at the moonless sky, thinking about what had occured between him and Kagome just an hour before.

I almost kissed Kagome tonight. I mean…it's happened a few times, hell we kissed once before…though that was so she could save me from becoming a full-fledged demon. Still, tonight was so different. It felt so natural to just be with her. Maybe I should have kissed her any…

Inuyasha's thought was broken when he saw Kikyo and her soul collectors wanderin below him.

"Kikyo…" He whispered to himself. "KIKYO WAIT!"

He couldn't explain it, but he felt more drawn to Kikyo than he ever did before. He ran after her with great agility, finally stopping right in front of her.

"Hello Inuyasha." She gave him a wry smile.

"What are you doing here?"

"What? I can't enjoy a quiet stroll in the forest. Inuyasha you shouldn't assume anything, considering you're the one who followed me."

"I…uh…" He stepped backward, his face burning red.

"I best be on my way. Goodbye Inuyasha."

"Kikyo wait!" He called out.

"Stop following me Inuyasha I mean it!"

"But…"

Music started to play. Inuyasha was scared he would have to sing again, but the words came out of Kikyo's mouth instead.

Meanwhile Kagome was taking a walk of her own. When she saw Kikyo singing to Inuyasha she stayed close behind and simply listened.

"I died, so many years ago
But you can make me feel like it isn't so.
And why you come to be with me, I think I finally know, mmm"

She turned around and smiled at him.

"You're scared, ashamed of what you feel.
And you can't tell that girl you love, you probably couldn't deal
a whisper in a dead girl's ear, it doesn't make it real…"

She sighed and took a step toward him.

That's great, but I don't want to play
'Cause bein' with you touches me, more than I can say…"

She stretched out her hand and touched his chest.

"And since I'm only dead to you, I'm sayin' stay away…
And let me rest in peace!"

She stared him in the eye and then started singing to an angry chorus. She turned and paced around the area.

"Let me rest in peace! Let me get some sleep!
Let me take my love and bury it in a hole six foot deep!"

She picked up a rock and threw it at Inuyasha, who dodged it last minute. His eyes widened in shock as well as Kagome's.

"I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release!
So let me rest in peace!"

She sauntered toward him and dropped to her knees.

"You know, you got a willin' slave.
And you just love to play the thought that you might misbehave.
But 'til you do, I'm tellin' you
Stop visiting my grave!
And let me rest in peace!"

Inuyasha looked at her, he couldn't believe how she was acting. This wasn't the Kikyo he remembered. He suddenly got angry and decided to listen her.

He walked away, but she still followed after. Talk about mixed signals. He thought to himself.

Oh Inuyasha… Kagome never thought he would willingly leave Kikyo in a million years.

She began to sing again.

"I know I should go,
But I follow you like a girl possessed.
There's a traitor here beneath my breast…"

She touched her heart.

"And it hurts me more than you've ever guessed
if my heart could beat it would break my chest
But I can see you're unimpressed
so leave me be…"

She gave him the dark angry stare again and the angry music sounded once more. She started thrashing about and throwing things.

"Andlet me rest in peace! Let me get some sleep!
Let me take my love and bury it in a hole six foot deep!
I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release!"

She sang to him, inches from his face.

"Kikyo stop." He grabbed her by the shoulders to knock some sense into her.

"Let me rest in peace!"

He stumbled over a rocked and they both tripped and fell onto the ground.

"Why won't you let me rest in peace!" She sang, almost yelling it into his face.

As the music died out they stayed in their compromising position, both breathing heavily.

"Inuyasha." Kikyo whispered and then kissed him passionately.

Kagome shook her head, crying silently. No! I'm such an idiot…I shouldn't have tried…it was Kikyo and Inuyasha all along who could end the spell with their kiss. Not him and me…

She took a deep breath and ran off. Meanwhile Sereene watched from afar, looking into her magic mirror.

She smirked. "Everything is going splendidly! Better than I imagined! Soon Kagome will sing to the world about her heartbreak and then she'll become nothing more than ash.." She laughed to herself.

I know it's a little short, but I think it adds some good drama yes?

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