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some action. Do you guys want some fluff between Sango and Miroku??????
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==========Chapter eighteen==========
"KAGOME!!!!!!" InuYasha yelled.
InuYasha ran to Kilala who had defrosted, InuYasha, looking clearly in pain, got on Kilala. "FLY DAMN IT!"
InuYasha flew on Kilala, who had not reached her normal state from being frozen , chasing after Kagura who had taken Kagome.
Kagura looked back and saw InuYasha. "Damn it....he's following us....I'll have to attack, Naraku"
~If you attack, InuYasha will attack. If by chance he hits the feather you're traveling on, you all are goners ~ Narku's voice said in her mind.
~Then I'd better try to get this Shikon jewel in....or Naraku may get mad at me....and end my service for him.....!~
~You'll be able to insert the jewel by finding the dark part in her heart...and it has to do with InuYasha. I'll leave the rest to you~ Naraku's voice said again.
"Always leaves us to do all the damn work" Kagura muttered.
"Kana, look into this girls soul, search for any darkness in her"
Kagura looked back, InuYasha was catching up fast.
~Naraku, why do you want this girl and make me go through so much trouble?!!~ Kagura asked Naraku angrily through her thoughts.
~She has the power to wound me greatly if she learns how to use her true powers....and she resembles Kikyo. One Kikyo is enough for me~
~Then why not I just kill her here?!~
~If I can get my shikon jewel into her, I'll be able to control her..she has the power to detect a shikon jewel from a far....and she and Kikyo have the only power to do that....she may come in handy....~
Kagura looked at Kagome and hit the mirror away from Kana.
"ENOUGH" Kagura looked back at Kagome. "This girl has the power to possibly kill Naraku...if that is so, I shall let her go...if Naraku is defeated I shall be free.."Kagura muttered quietly.
Kagura looked back at InuYasha. ~He'll be able to catch her....~
Kagura remembered the time when she tried to escape Naraku "Don't you dare disobey me again, must I remind you that I have control over your heart. If you dare disobey me, I shall end you most painfully"
Kagura clutched her hands into a fist. "I shall escape..."
"Kana, return this girl's soul back....."Kagura ordered. She slipped her hands into her Kimono and secretly took out a bottle of clear liquid.
~With this potion that I stole from a witch to use some day, I'll be able to seal this wound in her neck up and quicken its pace in healing...I can't let Naraku get his hands on her. She may be the only hope of destroying Naraku quickly....And InuYasha may be able to destroy him....the more strong people against Naraku, the better~ Kagura thought as she looked at Kagome who had her full soul back. She moved a bit, but looked in slight pain from her neck.
Kagura secretly dripped a bit of the potion onto Kagome' s wound. Kagome' s eyes shot open, and screamed. She rolled off the feather and was falling towards the ground.
"Kagome!!!" InuYasha yelled as he headed towards her. He caught Kagome just in time before she hit the ground. ~I was almost too late~ he thought, his heart beating uncontrollably fast, as he wiped the sweat off his face.
"InuYasha...." Kagome said weakly, and fainted from shock.
InuYasha looked up to see the white youkai flying down towards them.
~Damn...she wasn't supposed to go attack. But if I prevent it...Naraku might find out.....~Kagura thought. "Let's get out of here" Kagura muttered as she flew away.
"HEY! YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME!!!!!" the white youkai yelled. She turned away and looked at InuYasha. "I'll first defeat you, then leave, you basterd!"
InuYasha got off Kilala. "Protect Kagome. Get her away from here....but not too far away"
InuYasha stood, clutching his wounded shoulder.
"Keh, who you callin bastard" InuYasha said as he raised his Tetsusaiga to attack, but his strength left him as he fell to the floor, his Tetsusaiga dropping to the ground near him.
"Hah, I see that your wounds are very bad. This will be easy to take care of" the white youkai said. She blew out white air from her mouth as it turned into sharp ice crystals. InuYasha clutched his sword and jumped out of the way. "Well I see you have SOME strength left" the Youkai said.
She blew again, as it again formed long, sharp ice crystals. InuYasha jumped out of the way again and started to run as more were shot at him. InuYasha ran as fast as he could with the remaining strength he had left in him, he looked behind him to see the ice crystals being shot closer to him every time she blew it.
"Damn..." InuYasha muttered, the pain throughout his body increased as he continued to run away. ~I'm goin to be running till I'm dead if I don't fight back..SHIT!~ The long ice crystals shot right in front of him, tearing a bit of his Haori off. ~Close call..~ InuYasha thought, as he felt dizziness swimming through his head.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome and Miroku yelled. InuYasha turned to see the Youkai getting ready to blow straight at him. Suddenly, and arrow shot out, hitting the Youkai in the shoulder as it gave a cry of pain. The youkai turned and looked at Kagome.
~That was the girl Naraku asked to bring, that she was dangerous. Now I see why. If that arrow had shot my heart.....I would have died.....~ the Youkai turned away from InuYasha who was using his Tetsusaiga to lean on, and ran towards Kagome. Miroku untwinded the rosary from his hands as he tried to suck the Youkai up with his black hole. Out of nowhere, The youkai blew out a boulder of ice as it blew up a whole in the earth as it landed. Chunks of rocks flew at Miroku.
"There are too many rocks to suck them all up...." Miroku yelled as he had to wind the rosary back around his hands and jumped away from the rocks.
The youkai continued to run towards Kagome. ~I shall most likely be rewarded by Naraku for killing this girl....~. The youkai took a deep breath when she was a few meters from Kagome, and let out those long, sharp ice crystals. Kagome screamed and shut her eyes tight.
"KAGOME!!!!" InuYasha yelled, his voice near by.
Kagome opened her eyes, not yet feeling the ice crystals pierced in her. All she saw was InuYasha jumping in front of her, being pierced by the attack that was meant for her, and toppled to the ground. A pool of blood started to form around him.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried as she dropped down to his side.
"Ka..go...me.." he muttered in pain, pulling out the long ice from his stomach, he gave a cry of pain and pressed his hands on his wound to stop it from bleeding.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried, then looked up at the Youkai angrily.
"YOU BITCH!" Kagome screamed as she shot an arrow straight towards the youkai's heart. It hit her target as the Youkai shattered into millions of small ice fragments with a loud scream.
"InuYasha!" Miroku yelled in concern as he ran over with Kilala who was carrying Sango, and Shippo.
"Ka....gome..."InuYasha murmured as his mind started to swirl from the pain, and blackness took over him.
Miroku croached down near InuYasha. "He's unconscious.....and very wounded..."
********************
A shadow lingered behind a tree.
"....So he does have feelings for her...he would not give her up back to her own world...."Kikyo said coldly.
"I was a fool to give in to InuYasha so easily. I was not acting like my true self. But no matter what, I will have InuYasha....his life is mine....it is not Naraku's to end....but mine, if it is my wish." Kikyo placed her hands on her heart, ~ All my life I was trained to be and try to be, perfect. But I feel jealousy..... I guess I have not succeeded in becoming perfect yet...InuYasha, you once told me that I was the only one whom you could ever care for....You denied betraying me before, and you were right, you never did betray me ...~
"But this time, you cannot deny it now, for I saw you betray me with my own eyes"
Kikyo closed her hands into a tight fist, as a cold tear ran down her face. "Why do you hurt my heart so much if you love me....why.....why!!!!! AND WHY DID YOU HAVE TO START TO CARE FOR MY REINCARNATION?!! Kagome...i guess I hadn't told you, in your face, to not interfere between me and InuYasha..."
~What does InuYasha see in my reincarnation that I do not have.....Is my love not enough?~ Kikyo painfully thought as more tears ran down her face. She fell to her knees. "InuYasha!!!!"
******************** Kagome and Miroku were about to haul InuYasha onto Kilala, when he slightly moved.
"Kikyo...Kikyo...." He muttered unconsciously .
Miroku glanced over at Kagome, and seeing her sad expression, he seriously didn't care whether InuYasha was at the brink of death, but wanted to hit him on his head with his staff.
"Let's get him and Sango out of here" Kagome said with a sigh.
Miroku sighed too. "Hai"
************************* Kagome watched as InuYasha woke up from his black out.
"...Where the hell am I?! Kikyo, where's Kikyo?!"
Kagome sighed sadly. "You blacked out"
She looked down at InuYasha angrily and pulled the two locks of his hair.
"BAKA! BAKA, BAKA, BAKA!!!!!" Kagome yelled. "You could have died! Why did you take my shot?! I could have managed!" she cried, ~and why did you think of KIKYO?!!! Would that have been the first person you would have thought of if you had died? Would you have thought of me?!!!!~
InuYasha looked up at Kagome in annoyance. "KEH, you'd have probably died..." he said as he held her hands to pull it off his hair.
But suddenly his expression changed, instead of letting her hands go, he held it, "I wouldn't have been able to bare it if you had died, Kagome...I thought I would be too late to save you"
Kagome quickly pulled away, blushing, and looked down at the hands he had held. ~He does care for me..~ Kagome shook her head, ~You fell for this once, Kagome. Just cuz he cares for you doesn't mean he loves you. Get a damn life~ her consciouns said.
InuYasha sat up. "Is that neck wound of yours better?" he asked as he moved her hair away to get a view of her neck. Kagome blushed furiously.
"It's gone...." InuYasha muttered, as he touched the place where he had seen the wound before. Then he quickly pulled back and slightly blushed.
"It's....gone?!" Kagome cried in surprise. "THAT"S GREAT! What a relief" Kagome sighed.
"K-Kagome...how did you get the wound in the first place?"
Kagome looked away. It had happened the day she had seen InuYasha and Kikyo embracing each other.....
"Oh, haha, I just accidentally met Naraku....HAHA, it's nothing...really"
"Kagome, tell me!" he demanded.
"No, I told you, I got it from Naraku one day. What more do you want to know?!"
"I can sense it, Kagome. There was more" InuYasha said, looking at her suspiciously.
"Just stop asking, InuYasha" Miroku said as he placed a wet cloth on Sango's head. "You really don't know when you're starting to piss Kagome off, don't you?"
"Keh, she's always getting pissed at me! Little bitch" InuYasha muttered in his usual teasing voice.
"I am not!!!!" Kagome defended, who always took his teases seriously.
They all stopped arguing when Sango started to wake up, and groaned a bit from pain.
"Miroku...." Sango muttered.
"Sango!" Miroku said worriedly as he went back over to her and held her hand.
InuYasha and Kagome watched Miroku comforting Sango with kind words.
Kagome sighed and InuYasha looked at Kagome in confusion of why she looked so dreamy.
"He better not be thinking of taking advantage over Sango just because she's weak" InuYasha muttered.
"You always come up with these indecent thoughts InuYasha!" Kagome whispered loudly, elbowing InuYasha on the side.
"AOW!"
"Oh! Sorry!" Kagome cried, having elbowed him when he was badly wounded.
"How am I thinking of indecent thoughts when it's true?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance.
"Don't you see?! Look how he's taking care for her!"
"Wut....he's holding her hands, and is very close to her.....oh, I see, he's trying to find away to touch her ass" InuYasha said as if it were obvious.
"INUYASHA! SEE, I told you that your thoughts were indecent. You can tell that Sango has feelings for Miroku, and now you can see that Miroku clearly has feelings for Sango..."
"Miroku having feelings for Sango is understandable...But SANGO?!"
"WHAT? How is it understandable for Miroku to have feelings and not Sango?!"
"Miroku has feelings for every lady..."
"THEY MIGHT BE IN LOVE!!!!!" Kagome yelled.
"Love?! Keh, my ass. Why would Sango love a pervert. And I can't imagine Miroku having one single DECENT thoughts as love"
"Love can be strange....You really don't know what love is, don't you?, even if it's right under your nose, you wouldn't notice it until it like..punched you in the face. But even then, you probably wouldn't notice it" Kagome said, annoyed with InuYasha.
"Keh, I'm the one whos been in love here. Not like you've ever been in love" InuYasha snapped.
Kagome looked down at her hands. ~You didn't need to remind me that you've been in love. I guess I was right....you wouldn't know love if it was right under your nose..like my love for you~ Kagome looked away and silently sighed.
InuYasha looked, ~She...was in love...with...who? Could it be...Kouga?~ For some reason he his heart got heavy.
"Kouga?" he muttered.
"Kouga what?" Kagome asked.
"You're in love with Kouga?"
Silence.
Kagome looked angrily at him with tearful eyes.
"No.." she replied bitterly. ~Damn him....damn him...I feel so foolish now. I feel as if my love had gone to waste. When I loved him, he didn't even get the slightest idea that I could have loved him.....~
"Kagome...naku na(don't cry)" InuYasha said, confused at her sudden change of mood.
~It's over, get over it. It's not his fault that he doesn't love you, nor is it his fault that you love him. Don't get him all depressed because of your foolishness~ her mind told her.
Kagome smiled. "HAHA, it was nothing! Just some sad memory...nothing really. Um, you wanna eat something?"
InuYasha looked at her in a bit of annoyance. ~Her moods change so quickly. But this...is an artificial mood covering up her real mood...she's sad at something, but what? I know her well enough to tell...But, I guess I have no right to question her....~
"Um...sure....I'll go and help Miroku out..." InuYasha muttered.
******************** "Kagura" Naraku called in his usual cold voice.
"Naraku, I am sorry I was unable to capture Kikyo's reincarnation" Kagura said , standing a little distance from Naraku who was sitting down, leaning against the wall.
"Remember last time, when I chained you up for disobeying me?"
Kagura's face went a little white.
"Must I remind you again how it will end with you if you disobey me again?" Naraku asked.
Silence.
Naraku closed his hands tightly into a fist.
Kagura cried out in pain as she pressed her hands onto her heart, trying to stop the great pain in her heart.It felt as if a knife had stabbed into her.
"I control you, I own your heart. As quick as I made you, I can as quickly destroy you" Naraku released his hand.
Kagura dropped to the ground from the remaining pain, "Yes, Naraku"
"Good"
"NARAKU!" said a cold voice.
"Ah, Kikyo" Naraku said.
"You tried to kill InuYasha, in order to get that girl" Kiko said coldly.
"Wasn't it your wish as well as mine to kill him and the girl?"
"I do not care for the girl. But InuYasha, his life belongs to me and no others" Kikyo said bitterly.
"Of course. Whatever you ask, Kikyo" Naraku said. ~you can believe whatever you wish, but InuYasha's life is free to anyone who wishes to kill him~
********************
InuYasha sat on top of the fence as he watched Kaede tending the vegetable field.
"So InuYasha, you have decided to let Kagome stay?" Kaede asked.
"Keh"
Kaede sighed. "InuYasha....you still love Kikyo, don't you?"
Silence.
"She is your past, InuYasha. You must move on"
"You old hag, she's alive now!"
"But you cannot be with her..."
"And why can't I ?!" InuYasha asked, getting a little annoyed.
"She is a dead corpse, with only her soul in it. She cannot become a full human, without Kagome's soul. Is that what you want?"
InuYasha frowned and looked away. "So....that will be the cost to have Kikyo...Keh, she wouldn't do that....taking Kagome's soul. She wouldn't" InuYasha said a little desperately.
~Are you sure about that InuYasha?~
"The only way to be with her, without harming Kagome is to go to hell with her. Her hatred for you will still remain no matter what, it has become engraved in her heart..she will take you to hell, she wants to be with you...."
InuYasha looked far away at the mountains. "If that is my fate....then I will follow it. I wont let Kikyo go again. I owe Kikyo a lot. If going where she goes means that it will pay off my debt. I'm ready to do it"
********************
"Well, we'd better get going on our journey" Miroku said as he thanking Kaede for letting them stay at her place as usual.
"Until we meet again Lady Kaede" Sango said as they all left waving.
~So, InuYasha,.....you were unable to leave Kagome for Kikyo..~ Kaede thought with a slight smile. ~InuYasha...Kikyo....once the red string of fate is broken, it cannot be bonded back together. Yours had broken 50 years ago with Kikyo...if you love her, InuYasha, let her go in peace, find a way to do that. Only more tragedy will befall you if you don't~
They reached a small village.
"Where are we to stay now?" Kagome asked.
"Just camp outside" InuYasha muttered. Not in a very good mood from Kaede's conversation with him.
"Ah" Miroku said, spotting a little temple.
"You think they'd let us stay cuz you're a priest?" InuYasha asked coldly.
"Just watch" Miroku said, as they walked to the temple and came upon an old man. The man looked up to see Miroku frowning a bit.
"You are a priest!" the man said.
"A perverted one" InuYasha muttered.
"I sense an evil spirit in your temple" Miroku said.
"That is possible. For I own this temple, and I wasn't able to keep up the work in purifying it"
Miroku asked them to stay behind, he walked into the temple and looked around. ~This temple is really, really small...if it wasn't for half the place full of garbage...it would be ok....but with all these junk stored up in many rooms, we'll only have one room to rest in that will be smaller than Kaede's hut...BUT, I guess it will do. The smaller, the better when Kagome and Sango is around~ Miroku thought as he examined the place.
He finally came out.
"I have took out all the evil spirit from your temple" Miroku said to the old man.
"OHHHHH, thank you, thank you, please, stay for as long as you want along with your friends, that is the least I can do. I have a little room. But it will do" the old man said. He looked at Sango who looked a little weak from the wound, who was standing next to Miroku. And Kagome, who was standing close next to InuYasha.
"OH-HO. You two must be married" the old man said pointing at Kagome and InuYasha, "And you two must be married" the old man said again pointing at Sango and Miroku.
InuYasha, Kagome, and Sango all turned bright red in embarrassment. Miroku only smiled widely and rubbed Sango' s bottom. Sango shot around and slapped Miroku on the face. "NO I'm NOT. WHY would I want to marry this perverted player?!" "SEE, doesn't seem like Sango loves Miroku" InuYasha whispered to Kagome, who was still blushing.
"Oh, I beg your pardon. Oh, Is this your child?" the old priest asked Kagome and InuYasha, looking at Shippo .
Shippo screamed and ran behind Miroku, knowing what InuYasha's reaction would be.
InuYasha turned red in anger. "KEH, I'm not married to this girl over here! And I'm a damn half demon DOG not a damn demon FOX you moron. What the hell..."
"Sit" Kagome said.
BAM!
"Sorry, priest for his rude behavior. He's always like that" Kagome said with a big embarrassed smile.
"BAKA!" InuYasha yelled at Kagome, "Why did you SIT me for?!" Kagome just turned and followed the rest into the temple.
"Keh" InuYasha muttered as he walked behind them. "Me, married to Kagome. KEH. That's bull...." InuYasha quietly muttered to himself. ~Living with Kagome...wouldn't be ALL that bad...!!!~ InuYasha wanted to kill himself right there. ~Where the hell did THAT idea come from?!~
******************** "Go to sleep!" InuYasha said to Kagome in annoyance. "It's way past midnight and all you've been doing was looking around the friggin small room!" InuYasha said as he crossed his arm and leaned against the wall. He sat sitting and stared down at Kagomewho, for some reason was blushing every time he looked at her for the whole day. "Ka-go-me, Sleeeeeeeeep" he said.
"InuYasha, maybe it's because she has to sleep right next to you" Sango muttered sleepily.
"Hey, you can come over here" Miroku said happily, patting a spot right next to him.
Sango moved towards him, he looked up at Sango,
"And you're welcome here as well, Sango"
"I just came to do this" Sango said, hitting him on the head.
"THAT's why?! That's the only reason why you can't sleep!!! That's stupid" InuYasha
~I, married to InuYasha...The thought makes my head swirl....and when I actually do see InuYasha, I get reminded of how foolish I am of thinking that~ Kagome thought as she closed her eyes.
"What's up with her?" she heard InuYasha say.
Kagome opened her eyes to see InuYasha's face close to hers. Kagome gasped a bit.
"You all right?" he asked.
Kagome looked away, "it's nothing" she saw at the window, Kikyo looking straight at her.
==========Chapter eighteen==========
"KAGOME!!!!!!" InuYasha yelled.
InuYasha ran to Kilala who had defrosted, InuYasha, looking clearly in pain, got on Kilala. "FLY DAMN IT!"
InuYasha flew on Kilala, who had not reached her normal state from being frozen , chasing after Kagura who had taken Kagome.
Kagura looked back and saw InuYasha. "Damn it....he's following us....I'll have to attack, Naraku"
~If you attack, InuYasha will attack. If by chance he hits the feather you're traveling on, you all are goners ~ Narku's voice said in her mind.
~Then I'd better try to get this Shikon jewel in....or Naraku may get mad at me....and end my service for him.....!~
~You'll be able to insert the jewel by finding the dark part in her heart...and it has to do with InuYasha. I'll leave the rest to you~ Naraku's voice said again.
"Always leaves us to do all the damn work" Kagura muttered.
"Kana, look into this girls soul, search for any darkness in her"
Kagura looked back, InuYasha was catching up fast.
~Naraku, why do you want this girl and make me go through so much trouble?!!~ Kagura asked Naraku angrily through her thoughts.
~She has the power to wound me greatly if she learns how to use her true powers....and she resembles Kikyo. One Kikyo is enough for me~
~Then why not I just kill her here?!~
~If I can get my shikon jewel into her, I'll be able to control her..she has the power to detect a shikon jewel from a far....and she and Kikyo have the only power to do that....she may come in handy....~
Kagura looked at Kagome and hit the mirror away from Kana.
"ENOUGH" Kagura looked back at Kagome. "This girl has the power to possibly kill Naraku...if that is so, I shall let her go...if Naraku is defeated I shall be free.."Kagura muttered quietly.
Kagura looked back at InuYasha. ~He'll be able to catch her....~
Kagura remembered the time when she tried to escape Naraku "Don't you dare disobey me again, must I remind you that I have control over your heart. If you dare disobey me, I shall end you most painfully"
Kagura clutched her hands into a fist. "I shall escape..."
"Kana, return this girl's soul back....."Kagura ordered. She slipped her hands into her Kimono and secretly took out a bottle of clear liquid.
~With this potion that I stole from a witch to use some day, I'll be able to seal this wound in her neck up and quicken its pace in healing...I can't let Naraku get his hands on her. She may be the only hope of destroying Naraku quickly....And InuYasha may be able to destroy him....the more strong people against Naraku, the better~ Kagura thought as she looked at Kagome who had her full soul back. She moved a bit, but looked in slight pain from her neck.
Kagura secretly dripped a bit of the potion onto Kagome' s wound. Kagome' s eyes shot open, and screamed. She rolled off the feather and was falling towards the ground.
"Kagome!!!" InuYasha yelled as he headed towards her. He caught Kagome just in time before she hit the ground. ~I was almost too late~ he thought, his heart beating uncontrollably fast, as he wiped the sweat off his face.
"InuYasha...." Kagome said weakly, and fainted from shock.
InuYasha looked up to see the white youkai flying down towards them.
~Damn...she wasn't supposed to go attack. But if I prevent it...Naraku might find out.....~Kagura thought. "Let's get out of here" Kagura muttered as she flew away.
"HEY! YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME!!!!!" the white youkai yelled. She turned away and looked at InuYasha. "I'll first defeat you, then leave, you basterd!"
InuYasha got off Kilala. "Protect Kagome. Get her away from here....but not too far away"
InuYasha stood, clutching his wounded shoulder.
"Keh, who you callin bastard" InuYasha said as he raised his Tetsusaiga to attack, but his strength left him as he fell to the floor, his Tetsusaiga dropping to the ground near him.
"Hah, I see that your wounds are very bad. This will be easy to take care of" the white youkai said. She blew out white air from her mouth as it turned into sharp ice crystals. InuYasha clutched his sword and jumped out of the way. "Well I see you have SOME strength left" the Youkai said.
She blew again, as it again formed long, sharp ice crystals. InuYasha jumped out of the way again and started to run as more were shot at him. InuYasha ran as fast as he could with the remaining strength he had left in him, he looked behind him to see the ice crystals being shot closer to him every time she blew it.
"Damn..." InuYasha muttered, the pain throughout his body increased as he continued to run away. ~I'm goin to be running till I'm dead if I don't fight back..SHIT!~ The long ice crystals shot right in front of him, tearing a bit of his Haori off. ~Close call..~ InuYasha thought, as he felt dizziness swimming through his head.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome and Miroku yelled. InuYasha turned to see the Youkai getting ready to blow straight at him. Suddenly, and arrow shot out, hitting the Youkai in the shoulder as it gave a cry of pain. The youkai turned and looked at Kagome.
~That was the girl Naraku asked to bring, that she was dangerous. Now I see why. If that arrow had shot my heart.....I would have died.....~ the Youkai turned away from InuYasha who was using his Tetsusaiga to lean on, and ran towards Kagome. Miroku untwinded the rosary from his hands as he tried to suck the Youkai up with his black hole. Out of nowhere, The youkai blew out a boulder of ice as it blew up a whole in the earth as it landed. Chunks of rocks flew at Miroku.
"There are too many rocks to suck them all up...." Miroku yelled as he had to wind the rosary back around his hands and jumped away from the rocks.
The youkai continued to run towards Kagome. ~I shall most likely be rewarded by Naraku for killing this girl....~. The youkai took a deep breath when she was a few meters from Kagome, and let out those long, sharp ice crystals. Kagome screamed and shut her eyes tight.
"KAGOME!!!!" InuYasha yelled, his voice near by.
Kagome opened her eyes, not yet feeling the ice crystals pierced in her. All she saw was InuYasha jumping in front of her, being pierced by the attack that was meant for her, and toppled to the ground. A pool of blood started to form around him.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried as she dropped down to his side.
"Ka..go...me.." he muttered in pain, pulling out the long ice from his stomach, he gave a cry of pain and pressed his hands on his wound to stop it from bleeding.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried, then looked up at the Youkai angrily.
"YOU BITCH!" Kagome screamed as she shot an arrow straight towards the youkai's heart. It hit her target as the Youkai shattered into millions of small ice fragments with a loud scream.
"InuYasha!" Miroku yelled in concern as he ran over with Kilala who was carrying Sango, and Shippo.
"Ka....gome..."InuYasha murmured as his mind started to swirl from the pain, and blackness took over him.
Miroku croached down near InuYasha. "He's unconscious.....and very wounded..."
********************
A shadow lingered behind a tree.
"....So he does have feelings for her...he would not give her up back to her own world...."Kikyo said coldly.
"I was a fool to give in to InuYasha so easily. I was not acting like my true self. But no matter what, I will have InuYasha....his life is mine....it is not Naraku's to end....but mine, if it is my wish." Kikyo placed her hands on her heart, ~ All my life I was trained to be and try to be, perfect. But I feel jealousy..... I guess I have not succeeded in becoming perfect yet...InuYasha, you once told me that I was the only one whom you could ever care for....You denied betraying me before, and you were right, you never did betray me ...~
"But this time, you cannot deny it now, for I saw you betray me with my own eyes"
Kikyo closed her hands into a tight fist, as a cold tear ran down her face. "Why do you hurt my heart so much if you love me....why.....why!!!!! AND WHY DID YOU HAVE TO START TO CARE FOR MY REINCARNATION?!! Kagome...i guess I hadn't told you, in your face, to not interfere between me and InuYasha..."
~What does InuYasha see in my reincarnation that I do not have.....Is my love not enough?~ Kikyo painfully thought as more tears ran down her face. She fell to her knees. "InuYasha!!!!"
******************** Kagome and Miroku were about to haul InuYasha onto Kilala, when he slightly moved.
"Kikyo...Kikyo...." He muttered unconsciously .
Miroku glanced over at Kagome, and seeing her sad expression, he seriously didn't care whether InuYasha was at the brink of death, but wanted to hit him on his head with his staff.
"Let's get him and Sango out of here" Kagome said with a sigh.
Miroku sighed too. "Hai"
************************* Kagome watched as InuYasha woke up from his black out.
"...Where the hell am I?! Kikyo, where's Kikyo?!"
Kagome sighed sadly. "You blacked out"
She looked down at InuYasha angrily and pulled the two locks of his hair.
"BAKA! BAKA, BAKA, BAKA!!!!!" Kagome yelled. "You could have died! Why did you take my shot?! I could have managed!" she cried, ~and why did you think of KIKYO?!!! Would that have been the first person you would have thought of if you had died? Would you have thought of me?!!!!~
InuYasha looked up at Kagome in annoyance. "KEH, you'd have probably died..." he said as he held her hands to pull it off his hair.
But suddenly his expression changed, instead of letting her hands go, he held it, "I wouldn't have been able to bare it if you had died, Kagome...I thought I would be too late to save you"
Kagome quickly pulled away, blushing, and looked down at the hands he had held. ~He does care for me..~ Kagome shook her head, ~You fell for this once, Kagome. Just cuz he cares for you doesn't mean he loves you. Get a damn life~ her consciouns said.
InuYasha sat up. "Is that neck wound of yours better?" he asked as he moved her hair away to get a view of her neck. Kagome blushed furiously.
"It's gone...." InuYasha muttered, as he touched the place where he had seen the wound before. Then he quickly pulled back and slightly blushed.
"It's....gone?!" Kagome cried in surprise. "THAT"S GREAT! What a relief" Kagome sighed.
"K-Kagome...how did you get the wound in the first place?"
Kagome looked away. It had happened the day she had seen InuYasha and Kikyo embracing each other.....
"Oh, haha, I just accidentally met Naraku....HAHA, it's nothing...really"
"Kagome, tell me!" he demanded.
"No, I told you, I got it from Naraku one day. What more do you want to know?!"
"I can sense it, Kagome. There was more" InuYasha said, looking at her suspiciously.
"Just stop asking, InuYasha" Miroku said as he placed a wet cloth on Sango's head. "You really don't know when you're starting to piss Kagome off, don't you?"
"Keh, she's always getting pissed at me! Little bitch" InuYasha muttered in his usual teasing voice.
"I am not!!!!" Kagome defended, who always took his teases seriously.
They all stopped arguing when Sango started to wake up, and groaned a bit from pain.
"Miroku...." Sango muttered.
"Sango!" Miroku said worriedly as he went back over to her and held her hand.
InuYasha and Kagome watched Miroku comforting Sango with kind words.
Kagome sighed and InuYasha looked at Kagome in confusion of why she looked so dreamy.
"He better not be thinking of taking advantage over Sango just because she's weak" InuYasha muttered.
"You always come up with these indecent thoughts InuYasha!" Kagome whispered loudly, elbowing InuYasha on the side.
"AOW!"
"Oh! Sorry!" Kagome cried, having elbowed him when he was badly wounded.
"How am I thinking of indecent thoughts when it's true?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance.
"Don't you see?! Look how he's taking care for her!"
"Wut....he's holding her hands, and is very close to her.....oh, I see, he's trying to find away to touch her ass" InuYasha said as if it were obvious.
"INUYASHA! SEE, I told you that your thoughts were indecent. You can tell that Sango has feelings for Miroku, and now you can see that Miroku clearly has feelings for Sango..."
"Miroku having feelings for Sango is understandable...But SANGO?!"
"WHAT? How is it understandable for Miroku to have feelings and not Sango?!"
"Miroku has feelings for every lady..."
"THEY MIGHT BE IN LOVE!!!!!" Kagome yelled.
"Love?! Keh, my ass. Why would Sango love a pervert. And I can't imagine Miroku having one single DECENT thoughts as love"
"Love can be strange....You really don't know what love is, don't you?, even if it's right under your nose, you wouldn't notice it until it like..punched you in the face. But even then, you probably wouldn't notice it" Kagome said, annoyed with InuYasha.
"Keh, I'm the one whos been in love here. Not like you've ever been in love" InuYasha snapped.
Kagome looked down at her hands. ~You didn't need to remind me that you've been in love. I guess I was right....you wouldn't know love if it was right under your nose..like my love for you~ Kagome looked away and silently sighed.
InuYasha looked, ~She...was in love...with...who? Could it be...Kouga?~ For some reason he his heart got heavy.
"Kouga?" he muttered.
"Kouga what?" Kagome asked.
"You're in love with Kouga?"
Silence.
Kagome looked angrily at him with tearful eyes.
"No.." she replied bitterly. ~Damn him....damn him...I feel so foolish now. I feel as if my love had gone to waste. When I loved him, he didn't even get the slightest idea that I could have loved him.....~
"Kagome...naku na(don't cry)" InuYasha said, confused at her sudden change of mood.
~It's over, get over it. It's not his fault that he doesn't love you, nor is it his fault that you love him. Don't get him all depressed because of your foolishness~ her mind told her.
Kagome smiled. "HAHA, it was nothing! Just some sad memory...nothing really. Um, you wanna eat something?"
InuYasha looked at her in a bit of annoyance. ~Her moods change so quickly. But this...is an artificial mood covering up her real mood...she's sad at something, but what? I know her well enough to tell...But, I guess I have no right to question her....~
"Um...sure....I'll go and help Miroku out..." InuYasha muttered.
******************** "Kagura" Naraku called in his usual cold voice.
"Naraku, I am sorry I was unable to capture Kikyo's reincarnation" Kagura said , standing a little distance from Naraku who was sitting down, leaning against the wall.
"Remember last time, when I chained you up for disobeying me?"
Kagura's face went a little white.
"Must I remind you again how it will end with you if you disobey me again?" Naraku asked.
Silence.
Naraku closed his hands tightly into a fist.
Kagura cried out in pain as she pressed her hands onto her heart, trying to stop the great pain in her heart.It felt as if a knife had stabbed into her.
"I control you, I own your heart. As quick as I made you, I can as quickly destroy you" Naraku released his hand.
Kagura dropped to the ground from the remaining pain, "Yes, Naraku"
"Good"
"NARAKU!" said a cold voice.
"Ah, Kikyo" Naraku said.
"You tried to kill InuYasha, in order to get that girl" Kiko said coldly.
"Wasn't it your wish as well as mine to kill him and the girl?"
"I do not care for the girl. But InuYasha, his life belongs to me and no others" Kikyo said bitterly.
"Of course. Whatever you ask, Kikyo" Naraku said. ~you can believe whatever you wish, but InuYasha's life is free to anyone who wishes to kill him~
********************
InuYasha sat on top of the fence as he watched Kaede tending the vegetable field.
"So InuYasha, you have decided to let Kagome stay?" Kaede asked.
"Keh"
Kaede sighed. "InuYasha....you still love Kikyo, don't you?"
Silence.
"She is your past, InuYasha. You must move on"
"You old hag, she's alive now!"
"But you cannot be with her..."
"And why can't I ?!" InuYasha asked, getting a little annoyed.
"She is a dead corpse, with only her soul in it. She cannot become a full human, without Kagome's soul. Is that what you want?"
InuYasha frowned and looked away. "So....that will be the cost to have Kikyo...Keh, she wouldn't do that....taking Kagome's soul. She wouldn't" InuYasha said a little desperately.
~Are you sure about that InuYasha?~
"The only way to be with her, without harming Kagome is to go to hell with her. Her hatred for you will still remain no matter what, it has become engraved in her heart..she will take you to hell, she wants to be with you...."
InuYasha looked far away at the mountains. "If that is my fate....then I will follow it. I wont let Kikyo go again. I owe Kikyo a lot. If going where she goes means that it will pay off my debt. I'm ready to do it"
********************
"Well, we'd better get going on our journey" Miroku said as he thanking Kaede for letting them stay at her place as usual.
"Until we meet again Lady Kaede" Sango said as they all left waving.
~So, InuYasha,.....you were unable to leave Kagome for Kikyo..~ Kaede thought with a slight smile. ~InuYasha...Kikyo....once the red string of fate is broken, it cannot be bonded back together. Yours had broken 50 years ago with Kikyo...if you love her, InuYasha, let her go in peace, find a way to do that. Only more tragedy will befall you if you don't~
They reached a small village.
"Where are we to stay now?" Kagome asked.
"Just camp outside" InuYasha muttered. Not in a very good mood from Kaede's conversation with him.
"Ah" Miroku said, spotting a little temple.
"You think they'd let us stay cuz you're a priest?" InuYasha asked coldly.
"Just watch" Miroku said, as they walked to the temple and came upon an old man. The man looked up to see Miroku frowning a bit.
"You are a priest!" the man said.
"A perverted one" InuYasha muttered.
"I sense an evil spirit in your temple" Miroku said.
"That is possible. For I own this temple, and I wasn't able to keep up the work in purifying it"
Miroku asked them to stay behind, he walked into the temple and looked around. ~This temple is really, really small...if it wasn't for half the place full of garbage...it would be ok....but with all these junk stored up in many rooms, we'll only have one room to rest in that will be smaller than Kaede's hut...BUT, I guess it will do. The smaller, the better when Kagome and Sango is around~ Miroku thought as he examined the place.
He finally came out.
"I have took out all the evil spirit from your temple" Miroku said to the old man.
"OHHHHH, thank you, thank you, please, stay for as long as you want along with your friends, that is the least I can do. I have a little room. But it will do" the old man said. He looked at Sango who looked a little weak from the wound, who was standing next to Miroku. And Kagome, who was standing close next to InuYasha.
"OH-HO. You two must be married" the old man said pointing at Kagome and InuYasha, "And you two must be married" the old man said again pointing at Sango and Miroku.
InuYasha, Kagome, and Sango all turned bright red in embarrassment. Miroku only smiled widely and rubbed Sango' s bottom. Sango shot around and slapped Miroku on the face. "NO I'm NOT. WHY would I want to marry this perverted player?!" "SEE, doesn't seem like Sango loves Miroku" InuYasha whispered to Kagome, who was still blushing.
"Oh, I beg your pardon. Oh, Is this your child?" the old priest asked Kagome and InuYasha, looking at Shippo .
Shippo screamed and ran behind Miroku, knowing what InuYasha's reaction would be.
InuYasha turned red in anger. "KEH, I'm not married to this girl over here! And I'm a damn half demon DOG not a damn demon FOX you moron. What the hell..."
"Sit" Kagome said.
BAM!
"Sorry, priest for his rude behavior. He's always like that" Kagome said with a big embarrassed smile.
"BAKA!" InuYasha yelled at Kagome, "Why did you SIT me for?!" Kagome just turned and followed the rest into the temple.
"Keh" InuYasha muttered as he walked behind them. "Me, married to Kagome. KEH. That's bull...." InuYasha quietly muttered to himself. ~Living with Kagome...wouldn't be ALL that bad...!!!~ InuYasha wanted to kill himself right there. ~Where the hell did THAT idea come from?!~
******************** "Go to sleep!" InuYasha said to Kagome in annoyance. "It's way past midnight and all you've been doing was looking around the friggin small room!" InuYasha said as he crossed his arm and leaned against the wall. He sat sitting and stared down at Kagomewho, for some reason was blushing every time he looked at her for the whole day. "Ka-go-me, Sleeeeeeeeep" he said.
"InuYasha, maybe it's because she has to sleep right next to you" Sango muttered sleepily.
"Hey, you can come over here" Miroku said happily, patting a spot right next to him.
Sango moved towards him, he looked up at Sango,
"And you're welcome here as well, Sango"
"I just came to do this" Sango said, hitting him on the head.
"THAT's why?! That's the only reason why you can't sleep!!! That's stupid" InuYasha
~I, married to InuYasha...The thought makes my head swirl....and when I actually do see InuYasha, I get reminded of how foolish I am of thinking that~ Kagome thought as she closed her eyes.
"What's up with her?" she heard InuYasha say.
Kagome opened her eyes to see InuYasha's face close to hers. Kagome gasped a bit.
"You all right?" he asked.
Kagome looked away, "it's nothing" she saw at the window, Kikyo looking straight at her.