==========Chapter Ten============
------------- "So, InuYasha has the jewels. It's no fun trying to steal it from that girl. Taking it from InuYasha will be fun...hmhmhm...I have the perfect idea of how to steal it.." thought Naraku. ~No, I know a way to make the Shikon jewel more powerful, more evil....but not now. First I want to torture InuYasha, and that Kagome who has strange power... powers of a young miko(priestess)~ -----------
"Ah!!!!!" said Miroku, as he walked over to a group of ladies, joining in their conversation. Kagome looked to the side to see Sango who was burning up in... ~What is this I see? Burning up in jelousy? Surely, Sango can't..... have feelings for that pervertes ass ?~ thought Kagome.
Kagome felt as if her eyes had just opened to Sango. ~My God, it's so obvious. Sango ..does have feelings for Miroku-sama. But.....does he have feelings for her?~
Kagome and Sango went to the river. They sat there and looked at the clear blue sky, listening to the sound of the river rushing by.
"Sango-chan..."
"Hm?"
"Be honest with me.......do you.....like Miroku-sama?"
"EH?! Wha-what are you talking about?! Why would I like a pervert like him?" Sango replied as a blush appeared on her cheeks .
"Ahhh......Sango-chan. You do like him"
Sango sighed and looked away. "Yah, I guess I do....a little....Heh, but he has many girls. I only want to like a man who is devoted to one."
"He's probably like that because he has not found someone who would be devoted to him back....I'm sure he likes you, Sango-chan. I see him peeking at you many time."
"Eh?" Sango said in surprise as a blush reappeared on her cheeks. "Me? But...I- I'm so tough on him...I'm not like the other girls who giggle and flirt"
"Maybe......that is why he may like you. You're different"
"Hm", Sango smiled to herself. ~ I still have hope. Kagome-chan.....thank you~
"So Kagome, how's it going with InuYasha?"
"Nani? HIM? I have no feelings for him than of a friend."
"Sure, sure. I can see love written all over your face when you look at him" Sango said with a smile and stood up and left.
~Why is everyone saying that? Did InuYasha notice it too? I'm not in love with him...I don't want to be. I don't want a broken heart.~ Kagome thought.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Help me win his heart" Kikyo asked Naraku.
"Of course, Kikyo. Anything that has to do with destroying any of IuYasha's friend, I'll do" Naraku replied.
~And when I have my beloved InuYasha by my side, I shall kill you, Naraku~
~Hmmmm....Now I doubt myself. Does Kikyo, in a way, love InuYasha?~
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InuYasha, Kagome and Sango were walking down the road when out of nowhere a big flying Youkai came and knocked InuYasha over. It got it's claws, ready to rip InuYasha to pieces when an arrow pierced through the Youkai.
~Kagome?~
They looked towards the person who shot the Youkai.
"Kikyo....." Kagome whispered.
"KIKYO!!!!!!" InuYasha cried as he scrambled up and started to run towards her, ~it's Kikyo, she has saved me....~
~InuYasha....~ Kagome sadly thought as she continued to watch InuYasha running towards Kikyo who turned and disappeared. ~Kikyo saved InuYasha from pain....she has forgiven him...she does love him. They were....meant to be~ Kagome's heart beated painfully fast, *thump, thump, thump*
InuYasha fell to the ground,
"Kikyo...."
Kagome turned and walked away.
"....Kagome..." Sango whispered, ~I pity her....falling in love with someone who is already in love with another..~
Sango turned and left, leaving InuYasha kneeling on the ground, his face faced down, sulking.
~Kikyo....come back..~
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~I can't stand it. I can't stand this! I can't stand to watch InuYasha sulking over HER! Thinking about HER! And loving.....Kikyo.....I can't stand it when the truth keeps piercing me, InuYasha loves Kikyo. Love.....why does that word keep bothering me.....~ Kagome thought, tears running down her face as she headed back to town where Miroku and Shippo was.
She couldn't feel the pain of her nails digging into her flesh. All she could think of was, ~Kikyo loves InuYasha, InuYasha loves Kikyo. Nothing is separating them now to be together~
Kagome blinked the tears out of her eyes. ~No time for crying. I can't let anyone know that I care for him. I don't want any pity~
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InuYasha returned to the hut late that night, looking depressed.
"Poor InuYasha" Miroku said to Sango, "sulking over the person he loves..."
"I don't give a damn. He can die, for all I care. Him dying may rid him out of Kagome's mind. Damn InuYasha, that friggin two-timer" Sango said angrily.
"No, he was never a two-timer" Kagome joined in, "he was always loyal to Kikyo"
"How can you say that?! He cared for you!!!" Sango cried in anger at what Kagome had said, "he made you fall in love with him! If he had been loyal, he wouldn't have always wanted to protect you. If he had been loyal, he wouldn't have counted the days until you returned from your world. I KNOW IT, he CARES for you deeply!"
"As a friend" Kagome muttered and walked out of the hut.
Sango glared at InuYasha with visible tears in her eyes, ~if it hurts to see Miroku, the person I just have slight feelings for, with other ladies. It must kill to be in love with a person that would never love you back.....to watch that person sulking over another. It must hurt a lot.~
Sango got up to go after Kagome, but Miroku held Sango back.
"She needs time to think...."
"You mean time to feel pain?! To feel loveless?! I have to go after Kagome!" Sango cried.
InuYasha' s ears perked up when he heard Kagome's name. Her name seamed to have smoothed his depression. ~Where's Kagome?~
Sango noticed that InuYasha was looking around for Kagome, he stood to go out and look for her.
"Don't even think about following her. The last person she wants to see is YOU" Sango said bitterly.
InuYasha glared at her, ~what did I do now?!~ InuYasha ignored her and went out in search of Kagome.
"Kagome, where the hell are you?" he muttered as he looked around in the dark.
He continued to search when he saw someone walking in the forest, dressed as a miko ; red top and white bottom. . ~That's what Kikyo wears~ InuYasha thought, walking towards the person, ~damn, but I should go in search of Kagome~ he thought as he was about to turn but the person called at him.
~That voice...KIKYO!~ InuYasha dashed towards her.
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Kagome looked around at the dark woods, barely able to see anything. She saw a spot that was lit by the moonlight not far away from her. She walked towards it, but there, standing together in the moonlight was .....Kikyo and InuYasha.
Kagome stepped back and hid behind a tree. ~I don't want to watch or listen, but if I run away, they might hear and think I was spying on them. I must stay here. Oh, but God, I'm gunu be able to hear every word they say~
"Kikyo...." InuYasha said as he moved closer to her.
Kikyo walked over to InuYasha and took InuYasha' s hand in hers.
He looked down at her hands holding his in surprise.
Kikyo looked up at InuYasha with a look of annoyance, anger, and sadness in her eyes. "Do you still care for me?"
"Kikyo....I still care for you, I'll care for you forever.....and I haven't lived a day when I forgot about you. You're imprinted on my heart. I'll never let you go again!"
"InuYasha...I....I... I forgive you"
His heart froze. ~Kikyo....I've missed you. You're your old self again...~
He grabbed Kikyo and hugged her. Kikyo looked shoked.
"Do you accept me, even if I am not human?"
"Yes, I accept you however you are" he replied.
"Oh. But do not worry, I shall become human. InuYasha...I do believe you. But I cannot believe that you love me. Do you care for my reincarnation more?" Kikyo asked cold, and quietly.
"Ki..Kikyo...."
"But maybe you love her because she is like me?"
"She's nothing like you. Kikyo... You know I care for you"
She gently pulled away and looked up at him. "I know". She looked up and kissed him.
Kagome felt as if her heart would rip out, as she watched with her jaws slightly dropped. She felt pain stabbing her heart. ~He's kissing her....~
"InuYasha..." Kikyo whispered.
"Kikyo...." he replied in a bit of shock.
InuYasha caught Kagome standing up to run away. He turned away from Kikyo and just stared at her in what seemed to be shock.
"Kagome...I...."
~Don't look at me, InuYasha!~ Kagome painfully thought.
Kagome turned and ran away, tears streaming down her face. ~ I do love him, I love InuYasha.....why him. Why did I have to see that?!~
"Poor girl" muttered Naraku, "having to find out that you love someone like that. Hmhmhm." he laughed, but it faded away. ~KIKYO! Why did you...KISS InuYasha!~ he thought to himself. "Huh...damn it, Onigumo's human feelings"
Kagome ran on and on, unable to stop herself from crying. InuYasha hugging Kikyo, then kissing her stayed imprinted in her mind.
*****Flashback*****
"Kikyo....I still care for you, I'll care for you forever.....and I haven't lived a day when I forgot about you. You're imprinted on my heart. I'll never let you go again!"
*****End of Flashback*****
The moon disappeared, as gray clouds covered the sky and it started to rain. Her crying became muffled by the sound of rain pattering on the ground. She sat down on a rock and sulked.
"Why are you crying" said a cool voice.
Kagome turned around to see a man with long, black, wavy hair and a sophisticated expression looking down at her.
"My name is Naraku.....and I know who you are, Kagome"
Kagome at first stared at him in shock. ~It's his true form~. "You're in your true form"
"I do not need to have a puppet to come and see a scrawny girl" Naraku said with a smile. (Naraku uses puppets under his power, so if the puppets get killed it is not him that dies)
Kagome shot up from her spot, with her hand reaching back to get her arrows.
"No need, Kagome. I am not going to hurt you...yet. I know why you are crying, it's because the person you loved loves another....and you finally realize that you love him. How sad that you must realize that way. But you knew all along that he cares nothing for you, he only is protecting a weak human jewel Shard detector, baka. Or, if he does care for you, it's because you look like Kikyo"
"Shut up!!!!!" Kagome cried, not wanting to listen....to the truth.
"If it hadn't been for me, Kikyo and InuYasha would have been happily married..or something. Life is a tragedy, isn't it. Don't you just hate InuYasha now? If he hadn't acted as if he cared for you, you would never have fallen in love with him. If you join me, I promise to help you get rid of InuYasha, or if you want, Kikyo" Naraku said, doing his usual to poison peoples mind. ~If I get her to hate Inuyasha, it will make the Shikon Jewel more powerful~
"No......i will not do such thing. He loves her, and is happy with her. And since I do love him, I will try to be happy for him. If he is happy.....then I am happy. I will not hate him......or Kikyo" Kagome said, trying to hold her tears. ~Kikyo..~ Kagome thought.
~This girl....her love for him is very strong......the stronger, the funner it will be for me to destroy. But still, her mind, soul, and heart is strong for a mere human girl...even stronger than Kikyo, even if she could be Kikyo's reincarnation, which I do not believe. But...it could be true. She's more dangerous then I thought~
"Fine then, suit your self" Naraku said. "But you will never be happy, your feelings shall never die away, it will only eat you up until you have nothing left in you. Ha ha, while you are sulking away, InuYasha will be be happy with Kikyo, raising childeren's, while you turn into an old hag. He won't even know you exist... Hm, a tragic story. So sad. I bet you do hate him now"
"STOP IT!" Kagome cried out as tears rushed down her cheeks, "you may think that, but love can never hate...even if they betray you....even if they hate you, I will NEVER hate InuYasha!"
"Just like InuYasha, even when he thought Kikyo betrayed him, he still loved her. Even when she hated him and tried to kill him, he still loved her" Naraku teased, "fool" he said wrapping his cold hands around her neck, "It's better to hate then feel the pain of love....He loves Kikyo with all his heart, he has no room to care for you in the way you want. First love can never be forgotten..."
Kagome's arm inched slowly towards her arrow.
"Hm" he said as he reached out and wrapped his hand around her neck. "But in your case.....death would be better". His nails dug into her flesh, as it went deeper and deeper, a trickle of blood ran down her neck as she tried to gasp for air.
Naraku was about dig his nail deeper which would put the poison from his nail to a more dangerous area in her neck so she would die, but a sudden resemblance of Kikyo flashed through his mind. He let go and backed off in shock.
"Onigumo!!!!" he yelled in anger, as he clutched his heart. ~Kikyo...i mean Kagome wont die with my slight poison I dissected into her, Onigumo! She is NOT Kikyo!~
~Onigumo? Wasn't he the human who had fallen in love with Kikyo?~ Kagome thought as she held her neck.
( Onigumo was a human who had been badly burned. Kikyo had taken care of him and he fell in love with her. He wanted her so much that he sold his soul to a demon (or something like that) which created Naraku. Thus, Onigumo still remains in Naraku, thus he is only a half Youkai. He wants to get rid of Onigumo, to do so, he needs all the Shikon jewels. If not, a human feeling and strencth will always be in him, which gets in the way of all his evil plans)
Kagome watched as Naraku disappeared.~Is...Naraku thus in love with Kikyo?~. She remembered what Naraku had said. The thing he said that hurt her the most was when he told her, "He loves Kikyo with all his heart, he has no room to care for you in the way you want. First love can never be forgotten"
~It's true I guess......~ Kagome thought. She looked down at the puddle.
"Kikyo......I wish you were dead. I wish it was I who had met InuYasha first....I wish you were dead" she said in anger. Her hateful expression suddenly changed to shock as she looked down at the water puddle. ~That look....that was me......so hateful. I shouldn't hate Kikyo.....I can't hate her for owning InuYasha's heart. I have no right......~ Kagome kicked the puddle and saw a blood from her neck drop to the puddle. ~I better go clean this wound up before anyone sees~
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InuYasha stood where he was even after Kikyo left. She seemed to have gotten a little angry when he had looked away at Kagome. He absently reached into his pocket and felt something delicate, he pulled it out. A flower. It was all dried up.~A flower?oh......it's the one Kagome had given me....~ he thought. He held it tight, making his hand into a fist as he tightely shut his eyes. Pain and confusion rushed through his mind. ~I should be happy...Kikyo has forgiven me. But seeing Kagome.....Her sad face...I can't bear to see her sad. Why was she sad? It's not like she loves me. Why was she sad? No, how could I think of her, Kikyo would be sad if she knew I was thinking of Kagome.~ He realized that he was holding the flower to tight. He opened up his hand to see it shattered, the wind blew it away. "It's raining" he mumbled, finally realizing that he was soaked. "Kagome had better have gone back. I'm not gunu go searching for her. I don't think I could face her..I don't want to be more confused"
~I hope Kagome understands. I have chosen to protect Kikyo, she is too vulnerable in her state. But....how will she ever become human as she said she would? Kikyo is too kind hearted to steal it from a living a living person, Kagome~
He sighed and slightly smile. "Kikyo....you have forgiven me."
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Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were sitting on the floor of the hut.
"GAH! I have to go to the washroom!" Shippo cried as he ran out of the hut.
"Hn~n?", Miroku looked out at the door Shippo ran out of and then looked at Sango. Miroku noticed Sango slightly shivering. "Sango, you are in danger of getting a cold"
"I'm in more danger of being alone with you than catching a cold" Sango muttered dryly.
He sighed and leaned back on the wall. " I was only trying to be nice" he said looking rather sad.
Sango gazed over at him. ~ I guess that I was rather too mean.....~
"Oh yes, you are the only person I haven't asked this very important question to...." said Miroku.
"Hnn ?"
"Will you bear me a child?"
"EH?! PERVERT!" Sango yelled, ~Heh, me being rather too mean. How could I have thought that of a guy like that?!~
"I did not want to leave you out. I've asked every lady I met except you. It's only fair for you" he said. "Hm....I wonder where Kagome and InuYasha could be, gone this late at night?.....Oh ho....do you think that they...." Miroku smiled, "Think they're TOGETHER?"
Sango sighed, "all that tiny head of yours can come up of is indecent thoughts...."
Kagome came running in, all soaked as she ran into another room. Crying.
"Well, there you go. Kagome and InuYasha were together....but not in the way I thought." Miroku said.
"Huh? How do you know they were together?" Sango asked
"Heh, she's crying. And when she cries, you think, InuYasha did it. Gets quite predictable when you are with them for a while. I'm surprised you did not know my theory"
"Bastard" Sango muttered as she walked to the other room where Kagome was.
"May I come in?"
"NO!" Kagome replied, "please, I need time to myself..."
Sango sadly nodded and walked away.
Kagome gripped her neck, something was hurting there. It wasn't the gash Naraku had created, but she could feel something painful, but slight, spreading through her body. It was both painful and dizzying.
~This must be the poison from Naraku......am I .....going to die?~
*****Flashback*****
"Hm" he said as he reached out and wrapped his hand around her neck. "But in your case.....death would be better". His nails dug into her flesh, as it went deeper and deeper, a trickle of blood ran down her neck as she tried to gasp for air.
*****End of Flashback*****
~Am I .....going to die? Did he put the poison needed already before he let go of my neck?" Death..... no. I can't die. I.... just can't. If I die, Kikyo would get my soul and live with InuYasha. He would forget me.... I just wish I had a little place in his heart, just a little....~
------------- "So, InuYasha has the jewels. It's no fun trying to steal it from that girl. Taking it from InuYasha will be fun...hmhmhm...I have the perfect idea of how to steal it.." thought Naraku. ~No, I know a way to make the Shikon jewel more powerful, more evil....but not now. First I want to torture InuYasha, and that Kagome who has strange power... powers of a young miko(priestess)~ -----------
"Ah!!!!!" said Miroku, as he walked over to a group of ladies, joining in their conversation. Kagome looked to the side to see Sango who was burning up in... ~What is this I see? Burning up in jelousy? Surely, Sango can't..... have feelings for that pervertes ass ?~ thought Kagome.
Kagome felt as if her eyes had just opened to Sango. ~My God, it's so obvious. Sango ..does have feelings for Miroku-sama. But.....does he have feelings for her?~
Kagome and Sango went to the river. They sat there and looked at the clear blue sky, listening to the sound of the river rushing by.
"Sango-chan..."
"Hm?"
"Be honest with me.......do you.....like Miroku-sama?"
"EH?! Wha-what are you talking about?! Why would I like a pervert like him?" Sango replied as a blush appeared on her cheeks .
"Ahhh......Sango-chan. You do like him"
Sango sighed and looked away. "Yah, I guess I do....a little....Heh, but he has many girls. I only want to like a man who is devoted to one."
"He's probably like that because he has not found someone who would be devoted to him back....I'm sure he likes you, Sango-chan. I see him peeking at you many time."
"Eh?" Sango said in surprise as a blush reappeared on her cheeks. "Me? But...I- I'm so tough on him...I'm not like the other girls who giggle and flirt"
"Maybe......that is why he may like you. You're different"
"Hm", Sango smiled to herself. ~ I still have hope. Kagome-chan.....thank you~
"So Kagome, how's it going with InuYasha?"
"Nani? HIM? I have no feelings for him than of a friend."
"Sure, sure. I can see love written all over your face when you look at him" Sango said with a smile and stood up and left.
~Why is everyone saying that? Did InuYasha notice it too? I'm not in love with him...I don't want to be. I don't want a broken heart.~ Kagome thought.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Help me win his heart" Kikyo asked Naraku.
"Of course, Kikyo. Anything that has to do with destroying any of IuYasha's friend, I'll do" Naraku replied.
~And when I have my beloved InuYasha by my side, I shall kill you, Naraku~
~Hmmmm....Now I doubt myself. Does Kikyo, in a way, love InuYasha?~
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InuYasha, Kagome and Sango were walking down the road when out of nowhere a big flying Youkai came and knocked InuYasha over. It got it's claws, ready to rip InuYasha to pieces when an arrow pierced through the Youkai.
~Kagome?~
They looked towards the person who shot the Youkai.
"Kikyo....." Kagome whispered.
"KIKYO!!!!!!" InuYasha cried as he scrambled up and started to run towards her, ~it's Kikyo, she has saved me....~
~InuYasha....~ Kagome sadly thought as she continued to watch InuYasha running towards Kikyo who turned and disappeared. ~Kikyo saved InuYasha from pain....she has forgiven him...she does love him. They were....meant to be~ Kagome's heart beated painfully fast, *thump, thump, thump*
InuYasha fell to the ground,
"Kikyo...."
Kagome turned and walked away.
"....Kagome..." Sango whispered, ~I pity her....falling in love with someone who is already in love with another..~
Sango turned and left, leaving InuYasha kneeling on the ground, his face faced down, sulking.
~Kikyo....come back..~
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~I can't stand it. I can't stand this! I can't stand to watch InuYasha sulking over HER! Thinking about HER! And loving.....Kikyo.....I can't stand it when the truth keeps piercing me, InuYasha loves Kikyo. Love.....why does that word keep bothering me.....~ Kagome thought, tears running down her face as she headed back to town where Miroku and Shippo was.
She couldn't feel the pain of her nails digging into her flesh. All she could think of was, ~Kikyo loves InuYasha, InuYasha loves Kikyo. Nothing is separating them now to be together~
Kagome blinked the tears out of her eyes. ~No time for crying. I can't let anyone know that I care for him. I don't want any pity~
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InuYasha returned to the hut late that night, looking depressed.
"Poor InuYasha" Miroku said to Sango, "sulking over the person he loves..."
"I don't give a damn. He can die, for all I care. Him dying may rid him out of Kagome's mind. Damn InuYasha, that friggin two-timer" Sango said angrily.
"No, he was never a two-timer" Kagome joined in, "he was always loyal to Kikyo"
"How can you say that?! He cared for you!!!" Sango cried in anger at what Kagome had said, "he made you fall in love with him! If he had been loyal, he wouldn't have always wanted to protect you. If he had been loyal, he wouldn't have counted the days until you returned from your world. I KNOW IT, he CARES for you deeply!"
"As a friend" Kagome muttered and walked out of the hut.
Sango glared at InuYasha with visible tears in her eyes, ~if it hurts to see Miroku, the person I just have slight feelings for, with other ladies. It must kill to be in love with a person that would never love you back.....to watch that person sulking over another. It must hurt a lot.~
Sango got up to go after Kagome, but Miroku held Sango back.
"She needs time to think...."
"You mean time to feel pain?! To feel loveless?! I have to go after Kagome!" Sango cried.
InuYasha' s ears perked up when he heard Kagome's name. Her name seamed to have smoothed his depression. ~Where's Kagome?~
Sango noticed that InuYasha was looking around for Kagome, he stood to go out and look for her.
"Don't even think about following her. The last person she wants to see is YOU" Sango said bitterly.
InuYasha glared at her, ~what did I do now?!~ InuYasha ignored her and went out in search of Kagome.
"Kagome, where the hell are you?" he muttered as he looked around in the dark.
He continued to search when he saw someone walking in the forest, dressed as a miko ; red top and white bottom. . ~That's what Kikyo wears~ InuYasha thought, walking towards the person, ~damn, but I should go in search of Kagome~ he thought as he was about to turn but the person called at him.
~That voice...KIKYO!~ InuYasha dashed towards her.
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Kagome looked around at the dark woods, barely able to see anything. She saw a spot that was lit by the moonlight not far away from her. She walked towards it, but there, standing together in the moonlight was .....Kikyo and InuYasha.
Kagome stepped back and hid behind a tree. ~I don't want to watch or listen, but if I run away, they might hear and think I was spying on them. I must stay here. Oh, but God, I'm gunu be able to hear every word they say~
"Kikyo...." InuYasha said as he moved closer to her.
Kikyo walked over to InuYasha and took InuYasha' s hand in hers.
He looked down at her hands holding his in surprise.
Kikyo looked up at InuYasha with a look of annoyance, anger, and sadness in her eyes. "Do you still care for me?"
"Kikyo....I still care for you, I'll care for you forever.....and I haven't lived a day when I forgot about you. You're imprinted on my heart. I'll never let you go again!"
"InuYasha...I....I... I forgive you"
His heart froze. ~Kikyo....I've missed you. You're your old self again...~
He grabbed Kikyo and hugged her. Kikyo looked shoked.
"Do you accept me, even if I am not human?"
"Yes, I accept you however you are" he replied.
"Oh. But do not worry, I shall become human. InuYasha...I do believe you. But I cannot believe that you love me. Do you care for my reincarnation more?" Kikyo asked cold, and quietly.
"Ki..Kikyo...."
"But maybe you love her because she is like me?"
"She's nothing like you. Kikyo... You know I care for you"
She gently pulled away and looked up at him. "I know". She looked up and kissed him.
Kagome felt as if her heart would rip out, as she watched with her jaws slightly dropped. She felt pain stabbing her heart. ~He's kissing her....~
"InuYasha..." Kikyo whispered.
"Kikyo...." he replied in a bit of shock.
InuYasha caught Kagome standing up to run away. He turned away from Kikyo and just stared at her in what seemed to be shock.
"Kagome...I...."
~Don't look at me, InuYasha!~ Kagome painfully thought.
Kagome turned and ran away, tears streaming down her face. ~ I do love him, I love InuYasha.....why him. Why did I have to see that?!~
"Poor girl" muttered Naraku, "having to find out that you love someone like that. Hmhmhm." he laughed, but it faded away. ~KIKYO! Why did you...KISS InuYasha!~ he thought to himself. "Huh...damn it, Onigumo's human feelings"
Kagome ran on and on, unable to stop herself from crying. InuYasha hugging Kikyo, then kissing her stayed imprinted in her mind.
*****Flashback*****
"Kikyo....I still care for you, I'll care for you forever.....and I haven't lived a day when I forgot about you. You're imprinted on my heart. I'll never let you go again!"
*****End of Flashback*****
The moon disappeared, as gray clouds covered the sky and it started to rain. Her crying became muffled by the sound of rain pattering on the ground. She sat down on a rock and sulked.
"Why are you crying" said a cool voice.
Kagome turned around to see a man with long, black, wavy hair and a sophisticated expression looking down at her.
"My name is Naraku.....and I know who you are, Kagome"
Kagome at first stared at him in shock. ~It's his true form~. "You're in your true form"
"I do not need to have a puppet to come and see a scrawny girl" Naraku said with a smile. (Naraku uses puppets under his power, so if the puppets get killed it is not him that dies)
Kagome shot up from her spot, with her hand reaching back to get her arrows.
"No need, Kagome. I am not going to hurt you...yet. I know why you are crying, it's because the person you loved loves another....and you finally realize that you love him. How sad that you must realize that way. But you knew all along that he cares nothing for you, he only is protecting a weak human jewel Shard detector, baka. Or, if he does care for you, it's because you look like Kikyo"
"Shut up!!!!!" Kagome cried, not wanting to listen....to the truth.
"If it hadn't been for me, Kikyo and InuYasha would have been happily married..or something. Life is a tragedy, isn't it. Don't you just hate InuYasha now? If he hadn't acted as if he cared for you, you would never have fallen in love with him. If you join me, I promise to help you get rid of InuYasha, or if you want, Kikyo" Naraku said, doing his usual to poison peoples mind. ~If I get her to hate Inuyasha, it will make the Shikon Jewel more powerful~
"No......i will not do such thing. He loves her, and is happy with her. And since I do love him, I will try to be happy for him. If he is happy.....then I am happy. I will not hate him......or Kikyo" Kagome said, trying to hold her tears. ~Kikyo..~ Kagome thought.
~This girl....her love for him is very strong......the stronger, the funner it will be for me to destroy. But still, her mind, soul, and heart is strong for a mere human girl...even stronger than Kikyo, even if she could be Kikyo's reincarnation, which I do not believe. But...it could be true. She's more dangerous then I thought~
"Fine then, suit your self" Naraku said. "But you will never be happy, your feelings shall never die away, it will only eat you up until you have nothing left in you. Ha ha, while you are sulking away, InuYasha will be be happy with Kikyo, raising childeren's, while you turn into an old hag. He won't even know you exist... Hm, a tragic story. So sad. I bet you do hate him now"
"STOP IT!" Kagome cried out as tears rushed down her cheeks, "you may think that, but love can never hate...even if they betray you....even if they hate you, I will NEVER hate InuYasha!"
"Just like InuYasha, even when he thought Kikyo betrayed him, he still loved her. Even when she hated him and tried to kill him, he still loved her" Naraku teased, "fool" he said wrapping his cold hands around her neck, "It's better to hate then feel the pain of love....He loves Kikyo with all his heart, he has no room to care for you in the way you want. First love can never be forgotten..."
Kagome's arm inched slowly towards her arrow.
"Hm" he said as he reached out and wrapped his hand around her neck. "But in your case.....death would be better". His nails dug into her flesh, as it went deeper and deeper, a trickle of blood ran down her neck as she tried to gasp for air.
Naraku was about dig his nail deeper which would put the poison from his nail to a more dangerous area in her neck so she would die, but a sudden resemblance of Kikyo flashed through his mind. He let go and backed off in shock.
"Onigumo!!!!" he yelled in anger, as he clutched his heart. ~Kikyo...i mean Kagome wont die with my slight poison I dissected into her, Onigumo! She is NOT Kikyo!~
~Onigumo? Wasn't he the human who had fallen in love with Kikyo?~ Kagome thought as she held her neck.
( Onigumo was a human who had been badly burned. Kikyo had taken care of him and he fell in love with her. He wanted her so much that he sold his soul to a demon (or something like that) which created Naraku. Thus, Onigumo still remains in Naraku, thus he is only a half Youkai. He wants to get rid of Onigumo, to do so, he needs all the Shikon jewels. If not, a human feeling and strencth will always be in him, which gets in the way of all his evil plans)
Kagome watched as Naraku disappeared.~Is...Naraku thus in love with Kikyo?~. She remembered what Naraku had said. The thing he said that hurt her the most was when he told her, "He loves Kikyo with all his heart, he has no room to care for you in the way you want. First love can never be forgotten"
~It's true I guess......~ Kagome thought. She looked down at the puddle.
"Kikyo......I wish you were dead. I wish it was I who had met InuYasha first....I wish you were dead" she said in anger. Her hateful expression suddenly changed to shock as she looked down at the water puddle. ~That look....that was me......so hateful. I shouldn't hate Kikyo.....I can't hate her for owning InuYasha's heart. I have no right......~ Kagome kicked the puddle and saw a blood from her neck drop to the puddle. ~I better go clean this wound up before anyone sees~
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InuYasha stood where he was even after Kikyo left. She seemed to have gotten a little angry when he had looked away at Kagome. He absently reached into his pocket and felt something delicate, he pulled it out. A flower. It was all dried up.~A flower?oh......it's the one Kagome had given me....~ he thought. He held it tight, making his hand into a fist as he tightely shut his eyes. Pain and confusion rushed through his mind. ~I should be happy...Kikyo has forgiven me. But seeing Kagome.....Her sad face...I can't bear to see her sad. Why was she sad? It's not like she loves me. Why was she sad? No, how could I think of her, Kikyo would be sad if she knew I was thinking of Kagome.~ He realized that he was holding the flower to tight. He opened up his hand to see it shattered, the wind blew it away. "It's raining" he mumbled, finally realizing that he was soaked. "Kagome had better have gone back. I'm not gunu go searching for her. I don't think I could face her..I don't want to be more confused"
~I hope Kagome understands. I have chosen to protect Kikyo, she is too vulnerable in her state. But....how will she ever become human as she said she would? Kikyo is too kind hearted to steal it from a living a living person, Kagome~
He sighed and slightly smile. "Kikyo....you have forgiven me."
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Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were sitting on the floor of the hut.
"GAH! I have to go to the washroom!" Shippo cried as he ran out of the hut.
"Hn~n?", Miroku looked out at the door Shippo ran out of and then looked at Sango. Miroku noticed Sango slightly shivering. "Sango, you are in danger of getting a cold"
"I'm in more danger of being alone with you than catching a cold" Sango muttered dryly.
He sighed and leaned back on the wall. " I was only trying to be nice" he said looking rather sad.
Sango gazed over at him. ~ I guess that I was rather too mean.....~
"Oh yes, you are the only person I haven't asked this very important question to...." said Miroku.
"Hnn ?"
"Will you bear me a child?"
"EH?! PERVERT!" Sango yelled, ~Heh, me being rather too mean. How could I have thought that of a guy like that?!~
"I did not want to leave you out. I've asked every lady I met except you. It's only fair for you" he said. "Hm....I wonder where Kagome and InuYasha could be, gone this late at night?.....Oh ho....do you think that they...." Miroku smiled, "Think they're TOGETHER?"
Sango sighed, "all that tiny head of yours can come up of is indecent thoughts...."
Kagome came running in, all soaked as she ran into another room. Crying.
"Well, there you go. Kagome and InuYasha were together....but not in the way I thought." Miroku said.
"Huh? How do you know they were together?" Sango asked
"Heh, she's crying. And when she cries, you think, InuYasha did it. Gets quite predictable when you are with them for a while. I'm surprised you did not know my theory"
"Bastard" Sango muttered as she walked to the other room where Kagome was.
"May I come in?"
"NO!" Kagome replied, "please, I need time to myself..."
Sango sadly nodded and walked away.
Kagome gripped her neck, something was hurting there. It wasn't the gash Naraku had created, but she could feel something painful, but slight, spreading through her body. It was both painful and dizzying.
~This must be the poison from Naraku......am I .....going to die?~
*****Flashback*****
"Hm" he said as he reached out and wrapped his hand around her neck. "But in your case.....death would be better". His nails dug into her flesh, as it went deeper and deeper, a trickle of blood ran down her neck as she tried to gasp for air.
*****End of Flashback*****
~Am I .....going to die? Did he put the poison needed already before he let go of my neck?" Death..... no. I can't die. I.... just can't. If I die, Kikyo would get my soul and live with InuYasha. He would forget me.... I just wish I had a little place in his heart, just a little....~