High School Drama

Chapter 36: Forbidden Spells

Recap

They were lucky it had been a week out of school, or esle, they would either miss it, or have to juggle it and trying to find Kagome. And that was just something that no one wanted to do.

"Are you positive that we have been to every possible place?" Sesshomaru tried again.

Sango nodded again. The only place left was...Sango shivered to think about it. She shook her head. There was no way that Kagome would go there. No matter how upset and scared she was.

End Recap

"If you do not tell me where she is, you will lose your life." Sesshomaru threatened Inuyasha.

He sighed. "And if I tell you where she is, I'll lose my life. So either way, it's a lose-lose situation for me...but I can't te-"

"Inuyasha." Sango's voice was deeper than any of them had every heard before. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru looked at her and saw that there were tears in her eyes. "Please..." she whispered, "if you know where she is...please tell me. There is only one place she can be and if she's there...nothing good can happen." Tears fell from Sango's eyes. "Please tell me..."

Inuyasha gulped. He knew that he had no choice but to tell Sango and Sesshomaru where Kagome was headed. He'd figured it out as soon as they began the search, since there was no other place in the general direction that she was headed. "I was going to talk to her last night...after she lied to both of you. Sesshomaru didn't catch the lie because Kagome hid it well...but I could sense that something was off. I didn't know what it was, but I just knew that it was something, so I followed her. She went to her house and packed a backpack full of clothes and some money, and then she called Sango and told her that she was staying with Sango. I tried to stop her when she was leaving out of the door, but she pushed me. We fought." Inuyasha paused when Sesshomaru growled. "It wasn't a bad fight. We yelled. She started crying and yelling that there was nothing we could do to help her. She went...she went to Kikyo's parent's house."

Sango nodded. She wasn't surprised because she had figured as much.

"Why?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Because the source of Kikyo's powers lie there." Sango answered.

"What do you mean?" He was confused, and he hated being confused, especially when it came to his miko. Sesshomaru was already upset because the half breed had noticed something about his miko that he hadn't.

"When we were little, Keade told us that every miko has a source of power. Kagome, being the miko of Love and Wisdom, her powers come from her heart. Keade said that since Kagome's power comes from within, Kikyo's has to come from another source. She said that she was bound to become a dark miko sooner or later." Sango wiped the tears from her eyes. "We have to go to her house."

"Isn't that dangerous?" Inuyasha asked.

"My miko is there and you are worried about the danger?" Sesshomaru growled.

Inuyasha knew that Sesshomaru was right. "Sango, do you know how to get there?"

She shook her head. "I forgot. Keade made it to where I couldn't remember how to get there."

"Why?"

Sango shook her head again. "It's not important." It was then that she felt a chill go down her spine. "We have to hurry. Something isn't right."

"What is wrong?" Sesshomaru turned to Sango.

"Kagome's doing something."

Sesshomaru nodded. He had felt it too, but he hadn't known what it was. He became paralyzed with a feeling that he didn't like...there was really something not right in the atmosphere.

"I'll drive. We need to get there fast." Inuyasha said. When Sesshomaru didn't move, he yelled at him. "Move Sesshomaru!"

Inuyasha's voice startled Sesshomaru out of the state of shock he was in. Sesshomaru nodded and got out of the car, letting Inuyasha get into the driver's seat. Inuyasha knew that it was serious because Sesshomaru had never let Inuyasha drive before.

In the back seat, Sesshomaru broke out in a cold sweat and began hyperventilating.

Kagome looked around her, checking to see if there was anyone else there with her. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw that she was alone. The house was empty and abandoned, as she was used to it. Kagome walked through the front door, and straight to the room she knew everything she needed was.

There was a black candle, half used, and many other purple, green, white, and red ones. Kagome took out her own candles from her bag and grabbed the black candle, and two red ones. She placed the candles around her in a circle, the black one directly in front of her, in the middle of the two red candles, with white ones surrounding them, completing the circle. She lit the black candle first, then sat in the middle. She closed her eyes and began to chant.

"A miko wandering these lands, thinks she has everything in her command, she has become a vision of evil, making a pact with the very devil. To bring her down I must become stronger, this weak little girl I will be no longer, please lend me your powers for she must be defeated, make my soul now fully completed!" The rest of the candles lit up and the fire reached the roof. Kagome's aura whipped around her, twisting and turning, and lashing about the room. A strange black mist crept into the room and united itself with Kagome's aura, causing her to scream.

Inuyasha was now driving, and Sango began to explain what they had learned when they were young.

"Keade said that Kagome and Kikyo were both reincarnations of a great miko named Midoriko."

"How can two people become the reincarnation of one?" Inuyasha asked.

Sango shook her head and shrugged, wiping the sweat from Sesshomaru's forehead. "She doesn't even know that. But she told us that Midoriko was a beautiful and powerful miko. She ruled the lands of Japan in the feudal era and she was coveted by many men, but she never took a husband. She wanted to remain pure to keep her powers in tact."

"But Kagome's had...you know...with S...you know...and she still has her powers." Inuyasha said.

"I know." Sango gave a weak laugh at Inuyasha's tactics. "But the mikos back then thought that in order to keep their powers, they had to remain pure. Since Midoriko was coveted by many, the many she refused held a grudge against her. Those that did hired demons to kill her. Soon, there were many demons after her blood. She fought with them for three days and three nights. Finally though, in a burst of power, she pushed her heart out of her body and created a jewel called the Shikon no Tama, said to contain her soul and the souls of all of the demons she was fighting with. Her soul was locked inside of the jewel for many many years, and it absorbed much of the evil in the souls of the demons. When the jewel was released into the world again, it was shattered and her soul was released, but into three separate pieces. Kagome was born with the purest of the three, and Kikyo was born with the evil one."

"What happened to the other one?" Inuyasha asked.

"It was said that Kagome wasn't born with a complete soul because every soul contains either mostly good and some evil, or all evil. Therefore the third piece of soul belongs to Kagome. It hasn't been reborn into the world because it's not big enough to sustain life."

"Where is it?"

Sango shook her head. "No one knows. Only Kagome to call it back to her, but Keade forbid her from using the spell."

"What is needed to use the spell?"

"Candles."

Inuyasha gasped. "She was packing white candles when I saw her."

Sango stopped wiping Sesshomaru, who was sweating profusely now, and looked at Inuyasha. "What?" She screeched, then paused and looked at Sesshomaru. He didn't move. This wasn't good. "Using a spell that Keade forbid is not good. She may not make it out alive."

Inuyasha's foot pressed the pedal harder. "Why not?"

"She isn't a dark miko. Kagome isn't evil enough to pull off a dark spell like that."

"But what happens if she is?"

The black candle flickered in the light breeze, then went out.

Sorry for the cliffie! The next chapter will be up pretty soon...please review! I love you all!

~KM705.M-san