============Chapter Eleven==========
--------- ~With the bit of poison that I put into her, it will make me able to poison her heart with painful feelings...and I'll know where she at anytime, until the poison wears off..~ Naraku thought, "But until then, I'll torture her. It's hard to enter her strong, pure heart and poison it with sadness, but I shall try. Each time I do, her wound will re-open and turn worse. But it is unlikely that she will die unless something really pains her unbearably, damn. I can't kill her as well with my own hands, maybe hurt her, but not kill. Onigumo won't let me...but maybe Kikyo could help since she does want Kagome's soul..~ -----------
Kagome woke up feeling the warm sunlight warming up her skin. She could still feel the poison inside her and the sting of the gash as she stretched. She looked into the mirror.
~Hmmmm..that's good, the gash is low enough to hide~ Kagome thought as she, for one, changed out of her school uniform into a simple Kimono.
Kagome looked into the mirror again, ~I will act normal as if nothing happened. When I see InuYasha, I will act as if I had seen nothing. He does not need to feel bad, it wasn't his fault anyway...You know what, why should I be so upset? Even if Kikyo and Inuyasha do get married or something, I'll still be able to be near him somehow, I'll find a way...even if he doesn't love me. It's my fault I fell in love with him, not him. I shall act normal....~ She thought, clenching her fingers into a fist in determination.
Kagome entered the room where everyone was seated on the floor for breakfast- including InuYasha.
~My heart...it's beating so fast again, and I can't help it....~ Kagome thought, faking a cheerful look.
"Good morning! Gosh, I must have slept in and forgot to make the breakfast, who made it?" Kagome asked as she sat in her usual spot beside Shippo. She noticed that InuYasha was staring at her. She looked at him and smiled, "good morning!"
InuYasha looked away in surprise, ~she's acting as if nothing happened yesterday. I had expected her to at least shy away from my stare.. she looked so sad when I saw her yesterday, how did she change so quickly?~
InuYasha was too busy thinking that he did not realize the slight sent of Naraku coming from Kagome.
"I made the breakfast" Shippo said happily, "Sango and Miroku wouldn't wake up to help, so I just made it. Doesn't it taste good?"
Sango and Miroku made a weird expression.
Kagome tried a spoon of a green mashed up food, the second the food entered her mouth, her expression changed to the one Sango and Miroku had on.
"...Mmm...Mmmmmm...so...so...g- good!" Kagome said as she forcefully swallowed it. "MY, I'm so full now!"
"Yay, you guys liked my food!" Shippo said happily.
Kagome suddenly froze, her heart felt as if it had gone cold. Her heart was thumping in an unusual speed. She could hear her heart beating, *bu-boom, bu-boom*
"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 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" echoed a cold voice
"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..." echoed the voice again.
"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!" echoed InuYasha' s voice.
Kagome looked around to see where the voices where coming from.
~The voices are within my mind!~ Kagome frantically thought as the pain of seeing InuYasha with Kikyo yesterday returned. She felt her wound re- opening as she felt the wetness of the blood on her skin.
Kagome gasped and ran out of the hut in shock, ~ I can't let them see...~
InuYasha looked at her running out in surprise.
~First I see her happy like usual, then the sad face I saw yesterday returned...And who was she looking for just now?~
"InuYasha....I am worried about Kagome" Miroku said.
"Yes, we saw her running into the hut crying at something and she also looked like she was in some physical pain" Sango said.
"What did you say to her?" Miroku asked trying to hold in his anger.
"I..she..she just saw me with Kikyo...."
"She wouldn't have been that upset! Did...did she see more then that?! Did you and Kikyo do more then TALK?! " Miroku asked angrily.
"Did you KISS Kikyo?!" Sango asked.
"YES I DID! You have a problem with that?! It's not as if I can't kiss her, we were in love, REMEMBER! And anyway, what's it to Kagome?"
They looked at him in shock and unbelief.
"You're unbelievable InuYasha" Sango whispered in anger, "do you care for her THAT little?! I can't believe Kagome could even want to stay with you, or even cry and worry about you when you are hurt. YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO HEART!!!! ALL YOU CARE FOR IS THE SHIKON JEWEL AND THAT DAMN KIKYO !!!!!"
Miroku shook his head and pulled Sango out of the room. Shippo came up to InuYasha and hugged his arms and left.
InuYasha felt his heart tighten in pain as he looked down at the floor. "I do care about Kagome....does she think that I don't care for her at all?" he whispered.
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Kagome leaned over at the river and washed the blood away as her face grimaced in pain.
~It hurts more than before...~ Kagome thought.
~InuYasha....I can't get him out of my mind. I SO DEARLY wish he loved me. But I guess I can't compete with Kikyo. She's beautiful, strong, sophisticated, and...she also died for InuYasha...she died along with him..I'll never be able to meet up to Kikyo's standard....but sure, I'd die for InuYasha anyday if it means that I can win his love~
InuYasha caught the scent of Kagome' s blood as he came running towards her. She was leaning over at the river and he could see blood smeared on her hands as she washed her hands. He watched as she pulled the collar of the Kimono higher up. She spun around at feeling someone watching her.
"H- how long were you here watching?" she asked in a panicky tone.
"I j- just came"
"Hm" she said and walked over to a tree and sat leaning against the bark.
"You were bleeding"
"Huh? Oh, haha" Kagome said nervously, "it was just a cut"
"You're lying" he whispered.
"Believe what you want" Kagome replied simply.
Silence.
"Kagome.....about yesterday......I'm sorry if I was the cause of your sadness. But you have to understand, I can't leave Kikyo, she is vulnerable living on dead souls..."
"I'm alright, seriously. I guess it was just a bit of a shock when I saw you kiss her. But I'm happy since you're happy. You're finally back with the one you loved so dearly. I guess you'll have a happy ending. Hm, I'm glad"
"K...Kagome....gomen nasai " he said quietly.
"Heh, sorry for what? You make me feel bad. You should be happy. You have Kikyo back" she said, "Oh, I'm missing the jar that contains that rest of the Shikon jewels..."
"I took it before, cuz you placed it out in the open so openly...Why do you think of it now?" he asked. ~Why is my heart warning me that something bad is going to happen?~
""Great. Then, here's the rest of the Shards. It's what you've always wanted since the day I first met you" she said handing him a necklace with the Shicon Jewel Shard hanging on it..
"Bu..but.... you need it to get back" he said hesitantly taking the jewel, "doesn't the Shikon jewel mean a lot to you? If I have it, you know I'll use it for evil!"
"InuYasha, I trust you. I know you have a good side deep inside of you. Anyway, Kikyo is here. She'll guide you in the right direction, and she's a jewel detector as well, so you won't need me. I'm just another obstacle in your way when you fight. It's better if I left. You won't need two jewel detectors. And InuYasha, if you can, stay as you are a half-youkai when you get all the jewel shards. If you turn into a full youkai......" she said
~Then you might forget about me...becoming a full youkai means that you'd loose all your feelings ~ Kagome sadly thought.
"And plus, that's what Kikyo probably wants as well" Kagome added.
"No, she wants me to use it to become human" he replied.
~Oh, of course. It would be easier to get married to your own species~ she thought.
"Well then, do as she tells yah to. But, remember that I like you just as you are. You better treat Kikyo nicer then you treated me. Hm, don't know how she's gunu be able to stand you for the rest of her life.....but of course you wont be mean. Be happy!"
~Me.....with Kikyo....~ InuYasha thought. ~Kagome....you and a few are the only people who accepted me as I am. Not even Kikyo could accept me...~
"Then.....you're leaving....forever?" he asked, his heart beating fast..
"It won't matter if I leave or not. I don't want to interfere between you and Kikyo. I just had a sense that Kikyo gets jealous pretty fast. But....even though you want me to leave, since it's gunu be my last time here I'm going to stay for a little while. A week maybe...."
"What if...Kikyo ......."
"KIKYO, KIKYO, KIKYO!!!! Don't mention her name to me. PLEASE! I....I...don't want to hear her name. Please, don't try to mention it until I'm gone. I......don't....SEE...this is why I must leave this place forever! I..." Kagome clenched her hands into a fist, ~I can't tell him why I can't stay or why I don't want to hear Kikyo's name....~
"Kagome..." he asked worriedly.
Kagome stood and ran away.
"Wh- what did I say?"
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The villagers screamed and shouted as a demon ran after them, ripping them apart with it's claws.
"AHHHHHHHH! A Youkai! Run for your lives!!!!"
"My baby! I can't find my baby! Help, my baby!!!!!" a woman cried in the middle of the running crowd.
InuYasha, kagome, Miroku, Shippo, Sango, and Kirara came into the village sensing a Shikon jewel.
"I'll go find the baby!" Miroku called to InuYasha. InuYasha nodded.
"Tetsuaga!!!!!" InuYasha yelled as the sword transformed. The demon stopped chasing the villagers and turned towards InuYasha.
"Eeeeek!" kagome shrieked as she looked at the demon that had no skin but red, bloody flesh with long sharp claws smeared in blood.
"InuYasha, give me the Shikon Jewels!!!!!" the demon growled.
"Never, you screwed face bastard!!!!!" InuYasha yelled as he ran towards the demon and pierced his hands through it's body. He pulled his hands out, "NASTY!" he said looking down at his hands that was dripping with blood.
"Huh?!" InuYasha cried as the whole in the in the demons body disappeared.
"Heh heh, I don't die that easily foolish half-demon" the demon laughed, as he slashed its claw across Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ah!" InuYasha fell to the ground holding his wound, "BAKA!" he yelled cutting the demon in half with his sword.
The demon's two half moved together back into one.
InuYasha stared in shock.
"Hehe" the demon laughed. It ran it's hand through InuYasha's stomach.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried as she tried to run to him, but Sango held her back.
InuYasha unsteadily stood and used his sword to create a cutting wind as a yellow light hit the demon shattering it. But it came back to one.
"I am too evil to destroy" the demon hissed as it pierced it's hand through InuYasha's side.
InuYasha dropped to the ground holding his side.
"I may be able to purify the demon with my arrow!" Kagome cried as she reached for the arrow. But she saw an arrow already headed towards the demon.
Kagome looked at the person who shot the arrow.
"Kikyo?!" Kagome cried in shock.
"InuYasha!" Kikyo said calmly walking gracefully over to InuYasha....
--------- ~With the bit of poison that I put into her, it will make me able to poison her heart with painful feelings...and I'll know where she at anytime, until the poison wears off..~ Naraku thought, "But until then, I'll torture her. It's hard to enter her strong, pure heart and poison it with sadness, but I shall try. Each time I do, her wound will re-open and turn worse. But it is unlikely that she will die unless something really pains her unbearably, damn. I can't kill her as well with my own hands, maybe hurt her, but not kill. Onigumo won't let me...but maybe Kikyo could help since she does want Kagome's soul..~ -----------
Kagome woke up feeling the warm sunlight warming up her skin. She could still feel the poison inside her and the sting of the gash as she stretched. She looked into the mirror.
~Hmmmm..that's good, the gash is low enough to hide~ Kagome thought as she, for one, changed out of her school uniform into a simple Kimono.
Kagome looked into the mirror again, ~I will act normal as if nothing happened. When I see InuYasha, I will act as if I had seen nothing. He does not need to feel bad, it wasn't his fault anyway...You know what, why should I be so upset? Even if Kikyo and Inuyasha do get married or something, I'll still be able to be near him somehow, I'll find a way...even if he doesn't love me. It's my fault I fell in love with him, not him. I shall act normal....~ She thought, clenching her fingers into a fist in determination.
Kagome entered the room where everyone was seated on the floor for breakfast- including InuYasha.
~My heart...it's beating so fast again, and I can't help it....~ Kagome thought, faking a cheerful look.
"Good morning! Gosh, I must have slept in and forgot to make the breakfast, who made it?" Kagome asked as she sat in her usual spot beside Shippo. She noticed that InuYasha was staring at her. She looked at him and smiled, "good morning!"
InuYasha looked away in surprise, ~she's acting as if nothing happened yesterday. I had expected her to at least shy away from my stare.. she looked so sad when I saw her yesterday, how did she change so quickly?~
InuYasha was too busy thinking that he did not realize the slight sent of Naraku coming from Kagome.
"I made the breakfast" Shippo said happily, "Sango and Miroku wouldn't wake up to help, so I just made it. Doesn't it taste good?"
Sango and Miroku made a weird expression.
Kagome tried a spoon of a green mashed up food, the second the food entered her mouth, her expression changed to the one Sango and Miroku had on.
"...Mmm...Mmmmmm...so...so...g- good!" Kagome said as she forcefully swallowed it. "MY, I'm so full now!"
"Yay, you guys liked my food!" Shippo said happily.
Kagome suddenly froze, her heart felt as if it had gone cold. Her heart was thumping in an unusual speed. She could hear her heart beating, *bu-boom, bu-boom*
"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 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" echoed a cold voice
"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..." echoed the voice again.
"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!" echoed InuYasha' s voice.
Kagome looked around to see where the voices where coming from.
~The voices are within my mind!~ Kagome frantically thought as the pain of seeing InuYasha with Kikyo yesterday returned. She felt her wound re- opening as she felt the wetness of the blood on her skin.
Kagome gasped and ran out of the hut in shock, ~ I can't let them see...~
InuYasha looked at her running out in surprise.
~First I see her happy like usual, then the sad face I saw yesterday returned...And who was she looking for just now?~
"InuYasha....I am worried about Kagome" Miroku said.
"Yes, we saw her running into the hut crying at something and she also looked like she was in some physical pain" Sango said.
"What did you say to her?" Miroku asked trying to hold in his anger.
"I..she..she just saw me with Kikyo...."
"She wouldn't have been that upset! Did...did she see more then that?! Did you and Kikyo do more then TALK?! " Miroku asked angrily.
"Did you KISS Kikyo?!" Sango asked.
"YES I DID! You have a problem with that?! It's not as if I can't kiss her, we were in love, REMEMBER! And anyway, what's it to Kagome?"
They looked at him in shock and unbelief.
"You're unbelievable InuYasha" Sango whispered in anger, "do you care for her THAT little?! I can't believe Kagome could even want to stay with you, or even cry and worry about you when you are hurt. YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO HEART!!!! ALL YOU CARE FOR IS THE SHIKON JEWEL AND THAT DAMN KIKYO !!!!!"
Miroku shook his head and pulled Sango out of the room. Shippo came up to InuYasha and hugged his arms and left.
InuYasha felt his heart tighten in pain as he looked down at the floor. "I do care about Kagome....does she think that I don't care for her at all?" he whispered.
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Kagome leaned over at the river and washed the blood away as her face grimaced in pain.
~It hurts more than before...~ Kagome thought.
~InuYasha....I can't get him out of my mind. I SO DEARLY wish he loved me. But I guess I can't compete with Kikyo. She's beautiful, strong, sophisticated, and...she also died for InuYasha...she died along with him..I'll never be able to meet up to Kikyo's standard....but sure, I'd die for InuYasha anyday if it means that I can win his love~
InuYasha caught the scent of Kagome' s blood as he came running towards her. She was leaning over at the river and he could see blood smeared on her hands as she washed her hands. He watched as she pulled the collar of the Kimono higher up. She spun around at feeling someone watching her.
"H- how long were you here watching?" she asked in a panicky tone.
"I j- just came"
"Hm" she said and walked over to a tree and sat leaning against the bark.
"You were bleeding"
"Huh? Oh, haha" Kagome said nervously, "it was just a cut"
"You're lying" he whispered.
"Believe what you want" Kagome replied simply.
Silence.
"Kagome.....about yesterday......I'm sorry if I was the cause of your sadness. But you have to understand, I can't leave Kikyo, she is vulnerable living on dead souls..."
"I'm alright, seriously. I guess it was just a bit of a shock when I saw you kiss her. But I'm happy since you're happy. You're finally back with the one you loved so dearly. I guess you'll have a happy ending. Hm, I'm glad"
"K...Kagome....gomen nasai " he said quietly.
"Heh, sorry for what? You make me feel bad. You should be happy. You have Kikyo back" she said, "Oh, I'm missing the jar that contains that rest of the Shikon jewels..."
"I took it before, cuz you placed it out in the open so openly...Why do you think of it now?" he asked. ~Why is my heart warning me that something bad is going to happen?~
""Great. Then, here's the rest of the Shards. It's what you've always wanted since the day I first met you" she said handing him a necklace with the Shicon Jewel Shard hanging on it..
"Bu..but.... you need it to get back" he said hesitantly taking the jewel, "doesn't the Shikon jewel mean a lot to you? If I have it, you know I'll use it for evil!"
"InuYasha, I trust you. I know you have a good side deep inside of you. Anyway, Kikyo is here. She'll guide you in the right direction, and she's a jewel detector as well, so you won't need me. I'm just another obstacle in your way when you fight. It's better if I left. You won't need two jewel detectors. And InuYasha, if you can, stay as you are a half-youkai when you get all the jewel shards. If you turn into a full youkai......" she said
~Then you might forget about me...becoming a full youkai means that you'd loose all your feelings ~ Kagome sadly thought.
"And plus, that's what Kikyo probably wants as well" Kagome added.
"No, she wants me to use it to become human" he replied.
~Oh, of course. It would be easier to get married to your own species~ she thought.
"Well then, do as she tells yah to. But, remember that I like you just as you are. You better treat Kikyo nicer then you treated me. Hm, don't know how she's gunu be able to stand you for the rest of her life.....but of course you wont be mean. Be happy!"
~Me.....with Kikyo....~ InuYasha thought. ~Kagome....you and a few are the only people who accepted me as I am. Not even Kikyo could accept me...~
"Then.....you're leaving....forever?" he asked, his heart beating fast..
"It won't matter if I leave or not. I don't want to interfere between you and Kikyo. I just had a sense that Kikyo gets jealous pretty fast. But....even though you want me to leave, since it's gunu be my last time here I'm going to stay for a little while. A week maybe...."
"What if...Kikyo ......."
"KIKYO, KIKYO, KIKYO!!!! Don't mention her name to me. PLEASE! I....I...don't want to hear her name. Please, don't try to mention it until I'm gone. I......don't....SEE...this is why I must leave this place forever! I..." Kagome clenched her hands into a fist, ~I can't tell him why I can't stay or why I don't want to hear Kikyo's name....~
"Kagome..." he asked worriedly.
Kagome stood and ran away.
"Wh- what did I say?"
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The villagers screamed and shouted as a demon ran after them, ripping them apart with it's claws.
"AHHHHHHHH! A Youkai! Run for your lives!!!!"
"My baby! I can't find my baby! Help, my baby!!!!!" a woman cried in the middle of the running crowd.
InuYasha, kagome, Miroku, Shippo, Sango, and Kirara came into the village sensing a Shikon jewel.
"I'll go find the baby!" Miroku called to InuYasha. InuYasha nodded.
"Tetsuaga!!!!!" InuYasha yelled as the sword transformed. The demon stopped chasing the villagers and turned towards InuYasha.
"Eeeeek!" kagome shrieked as she looked at the demon that had no skin but red, bloody flesh with long sharp claws smeared in blood.
"InuYasha, give me the Shikon Jewels!!!!!" the demon growled.
"Never, you screwed face bastard!!!!!" InuYasha yelled as he ran towards the demon and pierced his hands through it's body. He pulled his hands out, "NASTY!" he said looking down at his hands that was dripping with blood.
"Huh?!" InuYasha cried as the whole in the in the demons body disappeared.
"Heh heh, I don't die that easily foolish half-demon" the demon laughed, as he slashed its claw across Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Ah!" InuYasha fell to the ground holding his wound, "BAKA!" he yelled cutting the demon in half with his sword.
The demon's two half moved together back into one.
InuYasha stared in shock.
"Hehe" the demon laughed. It ran it's hand through InuYasha's stomach.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried as she tried to run to him, but Sango held her back.
InuYasha unsteadily stood and used his sword to create a cutting wind as a yellow light hit the demon shattering it. But it came back to one.
"I am too evil to destroy" the demon hissed as it pierced it's hand through InuYasha's side.
InuYasha dropped to the ground holding his side.
"I may be able to purify the demon with my arrow!" Kagome cried as she reached for the arrow. But she saw an arrow already headed towards the demon.
Kagome looked at the person who shot the arrow.
"Kikyo?!" Kagome cried in shock.
"InuYasha!" Kikyo said calmly walking gracefully over to InuYasha....