Chapter 12
Even the best fall down sometimes
Kagome woke up and she looked around her cell. Suddenly she was struck by memories of what she had done to Inuyasha. Kagome looked at her hands as she shook. "I killed him. I killed Inuyasha!" She yelled as she cried hysterically.
She curled up and cried for her lost love. "NO!" She screamed. She heard footsteps and she looked up to Akumu standing at her cell door. She ran over and wrapped her hands around the bars as she became angry at him.
"How could you make me do this!? How could you make me kill the man I love!? After I spent three years away from him!" Akumu laughed.
"Because you are weak Kagome. And it was fun. I still can't believe that you are the one that destroyed the jewel. You are the weakest miko that I have ever come across. Your mind was so easy to invade and take over."
"You have so much guilt and pain in that head of yours. And I was able to fins the one thing that you fear the most. And that's the death of Inuyasha due to you not being strong enough. And that's what happened. You were too weak to protect that hayou. And now he's dead. And now you will spend the rest of your life with me."
"This will be where you will spend eternity. But no one will look for you. You killed the man you loved. You killed one of your companions. You will not be missed. You are not loved. You are hated for the heinous act that you committed." Kagome's eyes filled with tears as she slid down the bars.
Akumu laughed as her sobs echoed the hall as he walked out. Inuyasha's eyes opened to Sango and Miroku looking over him. He groaned in pain as he put his hand gently on his chest wound.
"You're lucky that you are alive." said Sango. Inuyasha sat up and he looked at his bare chest wrapped up. "The arrow was seeped in some kind of poison. If you didn't have demon blood, you would have been killed on the spot." said Sango.
Inuyasha looked around. "Where is Kagome?" Sango looked at the ground and back to him. "She's still with the demon. He summoned her back. Inuyasha nodded. "I see." They looked at him.
"Inuyasha, you know that she didn't mean anything that she said. That wasn't her." Sango said. Inuyasha nodded. Inuyasha put pressure on his wound. "Kagome was trying her hardest to fight that demon. I could see it in her face. She was crying as she tried to fight shooting you." said Sango.
Inuyasha nodded. "You think that she meant to do this to you don't you?" asked Sango with anger. Inuyasha looked from the demon slayer to the ground. Sango got angry. "If you weren't hurt I would kick your ass!"
Inuyasha looked at her with surprise. "Kagome has been there for you through everything that you have gone through. She has put up with you when you were trying to figure out what to do with Kikyo. That girl has been by your side since day one. She gave up her era for you! And you don't think that she loves you anymore!?" She yelled.
Inuyasha flinched from her yelling. "Why is it so easy for you to accept that Kagome doesn't love you?" asked Miroku as Sango stormed off in a huff. "Because Kagome can do so much better than me." Miroku sighed and put a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Kagome chose you Inuyasha. She chose to give up everything for you. You have to believe that you and her are to be. Didn't you even say that you were born for her after you returned from the meido?" Inuyasha looked at Miroku.
He nodded. "Good, now you have to rest a little. Your wound needs to heal a little." Inuyasha shook his head. "I have to go after Kagome." Miroku sighed. "There's no stopping you till we get her back so let's go." said Miroku.
Inuyasha nodded and he hurriedly put his haori back on. Kagome opened her eyes and she sat up. She had cried herself to sleep again. She couldn't live with herself. She let herself kill Inuyasha.
She wasn't strong enough. Akumu put a bowl of rice at her cell door. "You have to keep eating. I need you at your best soon your companions will be back to avenge the hayou." Kagome looked at Akumu and looked away from the food. Akumu rolled his eyes. "You will eat eventually."
He walked away from her cell. Kagome looked at her food and she rolled back into a ball as she let her guilt eat her alive. Inuyasha walked around, trying to catch a scent of Kagome. All he could smell was Akumu.
He could smell him all over the area. "I can't catch a scent of Kagome. It's almost like she's cloaked by his scent." said Inuyasha, annoyed. "Well remember, he probably thinks that you're dead. He's not counting us being able to sniff her out." said Miroku.
Inuyasha nodded and sighed. 'I hope you're alright Kagome.' They walked through the woods. They stopped at the clearing where their battle took place just hours earlier. He sighed as he looked in the direction Kagome came from.
Kagome sat up and she rested her head on her arms. 'Why would Miroku and Sango come here other than to avenge Inuyasha? I killed him. They won't be coming here for me. They must hate me.'
More tears filled her eyes. Inuyasha stopped as they got closer. "What is it?" asked Miroku. "I can smell her tears. She's crying." said Inuyasha as he took off running. Akumu opened her cell.
"We have visitors. It must be the monk and demon slayer." Kagome looked away from him. Akumu grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of the cell. Kagome fought Akumu as she tried to get free.
Akumu laughed. "Come on Kagome, it's time to kill your other companions." Kagome shook her head. "NO! Let me GO!" she yelled. Inuyasha stopped as he heard his love scream. He looked at the others.
"Inuyasha, why don't you stay here and Sango and I will go after Kagome." Inuyasha looked at him with anger. "Have you lost your mind?" Miroku shook his head. "Inuyasha, the demon thinks that you're dead. That can be our secret weapon."
Inuyasha sighed angrily and nodded. "Fine." he said with anger. They took off. They stopped as they see Akumu with Kagome. Miroku got his charms ready and Sango got into her fighting stance. Akumu laughed. He held up Kagome and Kagome looked at the ground in shame. "Let her go!" said Sango.
Akumu laughed. "Kagome, why don't you go on ahead and go after them again." Kagome shook her head. "Please, run away!" She begged. She felt Akumu take over. Her eyes glazed over. Her black bow and arrow appeared again.
'Please, don't do this to me! Don't make me kill them too! PLEASE!' She took aim and Sango jumped out of the way. "Kagome, you have to wake up!" she yelled.
'I'm trying Sango! Please get out of here!' She begged. She threw them both unconscious to the ground. Kagome fought as she took aim at them again. She shook as she tried to fight her body.
'Go ahead, deliver the finishing blow.'
'NO!'
Akumu focused and she started to feel pain in her chest. 'If you don't deliver the blow then you will die.'
'I would rather die than do this. I have nothing more to go back to. Inuyasha is dead.' Akumu started to squeeze his hand and Kagome felt as though her heart was being squeezed. She dropped her bow and arrow and she dropped to the ground. Sango sat up and she gasped.
"Kagome!" She yelled as she tried to get over to her friend. Kagome looked at Sango. "It's alright Sango. I deserve it." she said as she struggled to breathe. "No you don't!" She looked over at Inuyasha.
She gasped. There he was. He was alive. Kagome smiled as she saw her love standing there. Tears fell from her eyes. 'You're alive...' She lost consciousness.
