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=============Chapter Twenty-Three=============
"Kagome....You can't say nothing's wrong. What were you dreaming about? It was something about me wasn't it? I heard what you muttered, are they true Kagome, what you had muttered, are they true?" InuYasha asked in calm sadness.
"What....did I say?"
"That.....you hated me"
Silence.
"Kagome!" InuYasha said, his voice sounding a little more desperate. "It's not true is it?!"
Kagome looked away, ~What am I supposed to say.....if I tell that I do care for him, I'll never be able to get over him. When I say I care for him from my own mouth, my mind wont be able to get him out. If he starts to think I don't care for him, then, maybe.....as I had fallen in love with him, I can fall out of love.....~
"Why would you care if I cared for you or not? As long as I help you find all the Shikon no Tama, isn't that all that matters? All you care of.......is if Kikyo loves you.......isn't it?" Kagome asked in calm bitterness.
InuYasha stared at her. Never had he seen Kagome using such tone, or having on such a bitter look. ~What did I do now.....is this what she really thinks I feel for her? She must really hate me......for ditching her again for Kikyo, and Kagome getting hurt again.....~
"Kagome......I promise that I won't run off to Kikyo any more"
"You expect me to say yes, to ask you to stay away from the person you love, in order to be with someone you don't. Isn't that a bit too cruel? If you saw Kikyo, you'd want to go after her, even a solemn promise can't keep you from chasing after her"
"Are you saying that I don't know how to keep promises?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance.
"I'd be keeping you against your will !! You think I want that?! Do what you want! You think I care?!" Kagome yelled, as a streak of bitter tear ran down her cheeks.
"Kagome!" InuYasha said, as he pulled her to him, holding her tightly in his arms. "I do care for you, you're not just a Shikon detector to me. Baka, how can you think I would think that of you after everything we have been through. I'm sorry for ditching you......Kagome, please, please don't hate me"he pleaded, a hint of despair in his sad tone.
Kagome was shutting her eyes tightly, as tears dripped onto InuYasha's Haori. ~Kagome~ said a voice in her mind, ~if you always give into these situations, you'll never fall out of love with InuYasha.......~
Kagome pushed away. "The person you should be hugging is Kikyo, not me. If you care for her so much.....you shouldn't be doing what you did" Kagome said bitterly, backing away.
Kagome took one last look at the hurt InuYasha started to walk away. InuYasha fell to the ground and continued to stare at the river.
~What did I do......what did I do wrong. It's all my fault....I should've chosen one person....but now.......by choosing both Kikyo and Kagome.....i've hurt them both. What a screw up.....if only.....if only it were that easy.....to let go of Kagome. Even for her sake.....my damn selfish heart wont let her go........~
~Kagome.....would it have been better....if you had never met me~ InuYasha thought sadly. ~Probably......~
InuYasha stood up and followed behind Kagome.
"Kagome! Wait, let's talk about this!!" InuYasha pleaded.
Kagome stopped in her tracks, turned around and told him to "sit"
**************************** Kikyo sat in a field of flowers with kids sitting next to her, picking the flowers.
"Kikyo-sama, is it true that this flower can be made into a powerful medicine?" a boy asked.
"Yes, Myougi " Kikyo answered warmly.
"Kikyo-sama, do you think it will help my Mama get well?" Myougi asked again.
"I'm sure it will" Kikyo replied with a warm smile.
"Kikyo-sama" Myougi sighed as he leaned against Kikyo. "When I grow up, I want to become just like you, and help the wounded and become a priest"
Kikyo looked down at the boy and felt her heart aching from the love the child gave her. "I am honored, Myougi"
"Were you born in this village Kikyo-sama? For you have been here for almost a year"
"No, I was not born here. But this is only one in a many village that would accept me to dwell in"
"Huh, why would someone not want YOU to stay with them"
"There are some thing, Myougi, that are better left unsaid" Kikyo replied.
"Hai"
**************************** "Takashi demon, come forth so that I may use you in my work" Naraku called
Kikyo was walking down the path at night, waiting for her Shinu-dama-chuu to arrive with her dead souls, when she sensed Naraku around.
She calmly walked towards the forest, where the evil aurora came from.
"Naraku, show yourself" Kikyo coldly demanded.
Instead of Naraku appearing, it was one of his youkai.
"I was hear to take the Shikon jewel from you" the youkai said. Kikyo looked at the youkai, it looked exactly like a human woman.
"No, I shall never give it to Naraku"
The human youkai smiled. "Why, why do you choose to live on this earth, rejected by many and suffer? I do not know why, Naraku never told me"
"I had something to finish before I left this earth. But now, seeing that I have a chance to live a happy life......I want it" Kikyo coldly replied, "now leave"
"Now that I've heard of it, I heard it being mentioned that you came here to take revenge on InuYasha?"
~I had, but now, my feelings for him is mixed with hate and love~ Kikyo looked straight at the youkai, "I said leave now, or you shall perish"
Myuogi looked out at the starry night sky to see many dragon like youkai's flying in the air with a glowing light of ball in its grasp. Myougi followed it, curiosity led her into a forest. She heard talking, thus hid behind a bush and peeked out to see Kikyo and a human lady.
The woman sighed, "so, it must be hard to see him hesitating between you and your reincarnation. How embarrassing!"
"So you know more than you speak of" Kikyo said coldly, stepping up towards the demon.
"I am here to kill you if you do not hand over the jewel"
"Naraku underestimates my power"
"You miko, must have a very tragic life" the woman said in a teasing voice.
"Me......a tragic life......" Kikyo muttered.
Kikyo looked around to see her Shinu-dama-chuu's flying around her, as the glowing lights of the dead souls floated around her. The souls slowly entered her one by one.
"Give up the jewel, and return to your world of the dead. You do not go well mixing with the living. You are unwanted here, you are rejected in this world"
Kikyo' s eyes gave out an icy flash of anger. She reached out her hands and wrapped it around the youkai's neck. "It is easy for me to kill Naraku's youkai. It is strange that he has sent such a weakling" Kikyo muttered as her grip around the youkai's neck tightened . The youkai started to choke out blood. Then, after a minuet or so, the human youkai stopped moving. Kikyo let go, the youkai collapsed to the ground. Kikyo stood there, blood dripping off her hand. Kikyo unribboned her hair, as her hair waved in the wind. She stood in the middle of the swarm of shinu-dama-chuu's as it deposited souls into her. She heard a slight rustle of leaves behind her. She swirled around to see Myougi. Kikyo slowly walked up and looked at the little boy in sadness and shock.
"Did you see it all?" Kikyo cried quietly, stepping closer to the boy to try and comfort him.
"GET AWAY FROM ME! You MONSTER! I NEVER, EVER WANT TO BECOME LIKE YOU! YOU'RE HORRIBLE!" the boy cried, backing away from Kikyo in fright.
"It was not as it seemed! That was just a youkai! Not a human!" kikyo said desperately, stretching out her hands to touch the boys cheek, but the boy screamed and Kikyo saw why. She had blood dripping down her hand and trickling down to the boys clothing..
"Nothing is as it seems. I do not believe you! You had said you were a Miko, I thought you were a human! But you're a horrible, murderous witch!"
"No" Kikyo muttered sadly, backing away, her hair blowing in the wind. A tear slid down her face. Suddenly she saw a flash of yellow light enter Myougi's soul.
"Huh?" Kikyo looked at the his eyes to see it look lifeless. He stepped out in front of her. A light flashed from his hands as a sword appeared. Kikyo just stood staring, not wanting to harm Myougi. He stepped up to her and swung the sword as it cut deep into her side.
"Myougi...." Kikyo muttered, collapsing to the ground and lay watching him. The boy crouched down and broke the Shikon jewel necklace off her.
A swirl of black clouds appeared as a figure formed in it. Kikyo strained her unfocused sight at the figure.....Naraku.
"Hmhmhmhmhm" Naraku evilly chuckled as he took the Shikon necklace from the boy. "No, Kikyo, it was YOU who underestimated me"
Kikyo glared hatefully at Naraku, as she lay in a pool of dark blood.
"Look at this, I have now 3 / 4th of the Shikon jewel. One more quarter to find, and I shall become a full youkai, ridding myself of the human heart, then killing you" Naraku said as he disappeared.
Kikyo gritted her teeth in bitter hatred. Then she turned her head to Myougi who was still standing, then fell to the ground on his knees. A yellow light left his body as his face turned pale and dropped to the ground.
~The body was so easy to control, his soul was so weak, I guess it was because he was a child. Kagome....I remember her clearly, I couldn't steal any of her souls as I did some with this kids. I feel much stronger now....~ Takashi thought as she flew away.
Kikyo weakly dragged her body to Myougi's side.
"Myougi" Kikyo whispered, touching the boys pale face.
"M......monster" whispered the boy with his final breath. Kikyo looked down at the boy. She could not sense any soul left in him. His eyes were now blank and still open, as his body lay lifelessly in the pool of Kikyo's blood. A tear dropped onto his face.
"Naraku, I hate you with all of my body.....and I will kill you some day. And when that day comes, I will torture you and then slowly start to kill you. You shall cry for mercy, but I shall grant you none, for what you have done to my life, for how you tricked InuYasha and I, for killing this innocent boy, and making him hate me....I will have my revenge!" Kikyo looked around the sky, she had no more souls, and needed some in order to move a little. She looked down at Myougi,
"I'm sorry, but I must do this "Kikyo muttered as a glowing light came out of the boys body and entered Kikyo. "I'm sorry" Kikyo quietly cried as a tear dropped.
**************************** "I wonder where Kagome could be....." Sango said out loud with a depressed sigh.
"Yah......by the way, where is InuYasha?" Shippo asked.
They both stopped seeing InuYasha lying face front slammed to the ground.
"InuYasha, what are you doing lying in a whole like that?" Shippo asked
Miroku crouched down next to InuYasha, "I know these signs..." Miroku sighed and stood up, "By the look of it, I should say that Kagome has passed by" Miroku muttered.
Sango sighed, "What has he done now....Kagome 'sat' him"
"Humph, he's always hurting Kagome's feelings!" Shippo cried.
InuYasha moaned and sat up, rubbing the wound on his shoulder he still had from last time which now ached even more because he had fell on it.
"InuYasha....InuYasha....InuYasha" Miroku muttered, tapping him on the head with his staff. "What have you done this time to hurt dear Kagome's heart?"
Sango marched up and pointed a finger at him, "What did you do?! She had not be gone back to her world!!!!" Sango said coldly.
Miroku pulled Sango away, "There are better ways to deal with situations such as these. It is required that a person is calm and composed in such cases"
"Shut up!" Sango said in annoyance.
InuYasha stood up, his whole body aching.
Miroku sighed, "you cannot go on like this InuYasha, choosing Kagome then Kikyo then Kagome then Kikyo"
"I suppose I can't......choose both? "InuYasha asked with his arms crossed, annoyed that they were getting into his own business.
"Hm, well that depends if you can keep it a secret from them that you are two timing. As long as they don't know, all is well" Miroku advised.
"Keh, that wouldn't be fair to them. Go mind your own business"
"Why are you choosing Kikyo, when Kagome is more important?!" Shippo yelled.
"I'll explain it to you when you're a little older, man to man" Miroku said.
"I am old enough, I am old enough" Shippo kept repeated, jumping up and down.
"Shutup brat" InuYasha muttered, hitting Shippo on the head.
"I'd really like to help you....we'd ALL like to help you, but it's something you and Kagome have to deal with. We have no way in helping. InuYasha, it had be best if you sorted out your feelings fast, it may cause some problems in the future" Miroku advised.
~He's right....~ InuYasha thought.
Sango looked at Miroku, "I think we should tell him" Sango murmured. Miroku nodded.
"InuYasha....we have been observing Kagome, and noticed that she is recovering uncommonly fast for a human. I also once sensed an evil aurora"
InuYasha froze, "Naraku......had been with her...."
Miroku and Sango frowned.
InuYasha turned and ran away, after Kagome.
"Well.....he's very moody today" Shippo muttered, not knowing what was going on.
**************************** Kikyo staggered in the woods, in search of anywhere place where she could rest. She stopped and leaned against a tree. She closed her eyes and tried to remember the times when she was alive, and accepted in the world, and thought highly of.......but couldn't.
Kikyo looked up, and saw Kagome who had been running, who also stopped. They stared at each other. Kagome slowly walked towards Kikyo.
~She looks so sad....and is hurt~ "You.....are hurt" Kagome said.
Kikyo stared at Kagome in shock. ~How could this girl....be so kind....Ha, I forgot that she does not know what I did to her....~
"Hm....."Kikyo muttered, she could sense InuYasha coming, even though he was far.
"InuYasha is coming" Kikyo muttered.
Kagome's heart froze, ~Go away InuYasha! LEAVE my life!~
~He is coming.....for her~ Kikyo thought bitterly. She walked up to Kagome and pushed her to a tree, as the Shini-dama-chuu's wrapped tightly around Kagome's body. "This will keep you silent for the time" Kikyo said, touching Kagome's forehead as a blue glow of light appeared.
~This is like last time.....when Kikyo did this to me and I had to watch InuYasha kiss Kikyo a year or so ago....~Kagome thought. "What are you doing?!" Kagome yelled.
"To make you watch how much InuYasha loves me. To once and for all, get it engraved in your mind that InuYasha loves me!" Kikyo said weakly, but coldly, as she held her side, as blood dripped to the ground.
"If I can't have your soul some how, then InuYasha will go to hell with me! I will not let InuYasha fall in love with anyone, even care for anyone than me! I will not rest until I get InuYasha's heart as my own, InuYasha belongs to me" Kikyo said bitterly.
"But InuYasha loves you! He loves no other! But can he not care for someone else? Caring is not the same as loving!" Kagome said loudly.
"Yes......50 years ago we were in love.....but it was a shallow love that was easily changed into hatred. I want more than that love, his heart did not wholly belong to me then, I want it all now. I will not rest until I have it all!!!"
"Is it not enough that he loved you and no other?! You are selfish!!!"
"I guess I am, I guess that is why I shall accept no other than InuYasha's full love for me"
"Why don't you just go back to hell where you belong!" Kagome yelled at Kikyo.
"Because....." Kikyo said, holding Kagome's chin up with her finger, "Either I die with InuYasha, or I take your soul. Every dead soul wishes to be with the living. To start again and fix what they had did wrong" Kikyo said, as she collapsed to the ground, "Like last time when I tried to suck InuYasha into hell, you interfered, but now I know that InuYasha truly loves me. Thus, your voice will no longer interfere, even if he hears, for the second time"
Kikyo looked up to see InuYasha running towards her.
"Kikyo! What happened to you?!" InuYasha cried, running over to her and holding Kikyo in his arms as the blood quickly spread onto him.
"InuYasha..." Kagome whispered, knowing from last time that he could not hear her.
"I have.....many things to confess InuYasha...." Kikyo whispered.
"What Kikyo?" InuYasha warmly asked.
"The time when Kagome got hurt.....and was stabbed with a dagger......the dagger was mine, the wound on her body.......was all caused by me....." Kikyo whispered weakly, "Hate me now InuYasha! Hate me as you had hated me 50 years ago!"
Kagome gasped in horror. ~She.....was the one~
~I did not wish to believe it was you Kikyo.....Now I'm afraid that I hardly know you.....Kikyo.....but it's my fault. I should have known this would happen, if I did not chose one you or Kagome. But I chose both......Kikyo....~
InuYasha held Kikyo tighter, "I can't hate you....."
Kikyo held him back, "I had...always wanted to hold you like this 50 years ago.."
Kikyo pushed away, as scenes of InuYasha with Kagome flashed through her mind. Anger, jealousy and hatred boiled in her heart.
"No......you do not care for me do you......I am just an obstacle to you.....With me away, wouldn't your life be more easier?! You want me dead DON'T YOU?!" Kikyo cried, as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"KIKYO! I never stopped thinking of you, not even for an instance!" InuYasha said, holding Kikyo back in his arms, ~She's so lonely while I'm with Kagome....and with Kagome here, she is in danger. If I care for Kagome, I should send her back....~
"Kikyo.....I'll send Kagome back" InuYasha whispered to Kikyo. "Don't leave me Kikyo....."
Kagome' s heart tore out. ~Just like the dream......he wants to send me back....to be with Kikyo....I......give in~ Darkness started to spread into her mind and soul as Naraku's evil laugh echoed in her mind, her soul too weak to resist the darkness and power of the tainted Shikon Jewel. Kagome gave a cry of pain as she felt the Shikon jewel burry deep inside of her. "I....give up....I....can't resist anymore" And Kagome's mind, soul, and heart no longer belonged to her. And no longer was there someone to call out InuYasha's name, to save him from going to hell......
"InuYasha......" Kikyo said, "come with me.....and live with me forever in a place where time never moves, where we can stay like this forever" Kikyo whispered, holding InuYasha tightly in her arms. The earth started to open, as a flash of light broke through.
"Come with me, come with me to hell" Kikyo whispered, as the hypnotized InuYasha and she were being dragged into hell. "Die with me......"
=============Chapter Twenty-Three=============
"Kagome....You can't say nothing's wrong. What were you dreaming about? It was something about me wasn't it? I heard what you muttered, are they true Kagome, what you had muttered, are they true?" InuYasha asked in calm sadness.
"What....did I say?"
"That.....you hated me"
Silence.
"Kagome!" InuYasha said, his voice sounding a little more desperate. "It's not true is it?!"
Kagome looked away, ~What am I supposed to say.....if I tell that I do care for him, I'll never be able to get over him. When I say I care for him from my own mouth, my mind wont be able to get him out. If he starts to think I don't care for him, then, maybe.....as I had fallen in love with him, I can fall out of love.....~
"Why would you care if I cared for you or not? As long as I help you find all the Shikon no Tama, isn't that all that matters? All you care of.......is if Kikyo loves you.......isn't it?" Kagome asked in calm bitterness.
InuYasha stared at her. Never had he seen Kagome using such tone, or having on such a bitter look. ~What did I do now.....is this what she really thinks I feel for her? She must really hate me......for ditching her again for Kikyo, and Kagome getting hurt again.....~
"Kagome......I promise that I won't run off to Kikyo any more"
"You expect me to say yes, to ask you to stay away from the person you love, in order to be with someone you don't. Isn't that a bit too cruel? If you saw Kikyo, you'd want to go after her, even a solemn promise can't keep you from chasing after her"
"Are you saying that I don't know how to keep promises?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance.
"I'd be keeping you against your will !! You think I want that?! Do what you want! You think I care?!" Kagome yelled, as a streak of bitter tear ran down her cheeks.
"Kagome!" InuYasha said, as he pulled her to him, holding her tightly in his arms. "I do care for you, you're not just a Shikon detector to me. Baka, how can you think I would think that of you after everything we have been through. I'm sorry for ditching you......Kagome, please, please don't hate me"he pleaded, a hint of despair in his sad tone.
Kagome was shutting her eyes tightly, as tears dripped onto InuYasha's Haori. ~Kagome~ said a voice in her mind, ~if you always give into these situations, you'll never fall out of love with InuYasha.......~
Kagome pushed away. "The person you should be hugging is Kikyo, not me. If you care for her so much.....you shouldn't be doing what you did" Kagome said bitterly, backing away.
Kagome took one last look at the hurt InuYasha started to walk away. InuYasha fell to the ground and continued to stare at the river.
~What did I do......what did I do wrong. It's all my fault....I should've chosen one person....but now.......by choosing both Kikyo and Kagome.....i've hurt them both. What a screw up.....if only.....if only it were that easy.....to let go of Kagome. Even for her sake.....my damn selfish heart wont let her go........~
~Kagome.....would it have been better....if you had never met me~ InuYasha thought sadly. ~Probably......~
InuYasha stood up and followed behind Kagome.
"Kagome! Wait, let's talk about this!!" InuYasha pleaded.
Kagome stopped in her tracks, turned around and told him to "sit"
**************************** Kikyo sat in a field of flowers with kids sitting next to her, picking the flowers.
"Kikyo-sama, is it true that this flower can be made into a powerful medicine?" a boy asked.
"Yes, Myougi " Kikyo answered warmly.
"Kikyo-sama, do you think it will help my Mama get well?" Myougi asked again.
"I'm sure it will" Kikyo replied with a warm smile.
"Kikyo-sama" Myougi sighed as he leaned against Kikyo. "When I grow up, I want to become just like you, and help the wounded and become a priest"
Kikyo looked down at the boy and felt her heart aching from the love the child gave her. "I am honored, Myougi"
"Were you born in this village Kikyo-sama? For you have been here for almost a year"
"No, I was not born here. But this is only one in a many village that would accept me to dwell in"
"Huh, why would someone not want YOU to stay with them"
"There are some thing, Myougi, that are better left unsaid" Kikyo replied.
"Hai"
**************************** "Takashi demon, come forth so that I may use you in my work" Naraku called
Kikyo was walking down the path at night, waiting for her Shinu-dama-chuu to arrive with her dead souls, when she sensed Naraku around.
She calmly walked towards the forest, where the evil aurora came from.
"Naraku, show yourself" Kikyo coldly demanded.
Instead of Naraku appearing, it was one of his youkai.
"I was hear to take the Shikon jewel from you" the youkai said. Kikyo looked at the youkai, it looked exactly like a human woman.
"No, I shall never give it to Naraku"
The human youkai smiled. "Why, why do you choose to live on this earth, rejected by many and suffer? I do not know why, Naraku never told me"
"I had something to finish before I left this earth. But now, seeing that I have a chance to live a happy life......I want it" Kikyo coldly replied, "now leave"
"Now that I've heard of it, I heard it being mentioned that you came here to take revenge on InuYasha?"
~I had, but now, my feelings for him is mixed with hate and love~ Kikyo looked straight at the youkai, "I said leave now, or you shall perish"
Myuogi looked out at the starry night sky to see many dragon like youkai's flying in the air with a glowing light of ball in its grasp. Myougi followed it, curiosity led her into a forest. She heard talking, thus hid behind a bush and peeked out to see Kikyo and a human lady.
The woman sighed, "so, it must be hard to see him hesitating between you and your reincarnation. How embarrassing!"
"So you know more than you speak of" Kikyo said coldly, stepping up towards the demon.
"I am here to kill you if you do not hand over the jewel"
"Naraku underestimates my power"
"You miko, must have a very tragic life" the woman said in a teasing voice.
"Me......a tragic life......" Kikyo muttered.
Kikyo looked around to see her Shinu-dama-chuu's flying around her, as the glowing lights of the dead souls floated around her. The souls slowly entered her one by one.
"Give up the jewel, and return to your world of the dead. You do not go well mixing with the living. You are unwanted here, you are rejected in this world"
Kikyo' s eyes gave out an icy flash of anger. She reached out her hands and wrapped it around the youkai's neck. "It is easy for me to kill Naraku's youkai. It is strange that he has sent such a weakling" Kikyo muttered as her grip around the youkai's neck tightened . The youkai started to choke out blood. Then, after a minuet or so, the human youkai stopped moving. Kikyo let go, the youkai collapsed to the ground. Kikyo stood there, blood dripping off her hand. Kikyo unribboned her hair, as her hair waved in the wind. She stood in the middle of the swarm of shinu-dama-chuu's as it deposited souls into her. She heard a slight rustle of leaves behind her. She swirled around to see Myougi. Kikyo slowly walked up and looked at the little boy in sadness and shock.
"Did you see it all?" Kikyo cried quietly, stepping closer to the boy to try and comfort him.
"GET AWAY FROM ME! You MONSTER! I NEVER, EVER WANT TO BECOME LIKE YOU! YOU'RE HORRIBLE!" the boy cried, backing away from Kikyo in fright.
"It was not as it seemed! That was just a youkai! Not a human!" kikyo said desperately, stretching out her hands to touch the boys cheek, but the boy screamed and Kikyo saw why. She had blood dripping down her hand and trickling down to the boys clothing..
"Nothing is as it seems. I do not believe you! You had said you were a Miko, I thought you were a human! But you're a horrible, murderous witch!"
"No" Kikyo muttered sadly, backing away, her hair blowing in the wind. A tear slid down her face. Suddenly she saw a flash of yellow light enter Myougi's soul.
"Huh?" Kikyo looked at the his eyes to see it look lifeless. He stepped out in front of her. A light flashed from his hands as a sword appeared. Kikyo just stood staring, not wanting to harm Myougi. He stepped up to her and swung the sword as it cut deep into her side.
"Myougi...." Kikyo muttered, collapsing to the ground and lay watching him. The boy crouched down and broke the Shikon jewel necklace off her.
A swirl of black clouds appeared as a figure formed in it. Kikyo strained her unfocused sight at the figure.....Naraku.
"Hmhmhmhmhm" Naraku evilly chuckled as he took the Shikon necklace from the boy. "No, Kikyo, it was YOU who underestimated me"
Kikyo glared hatefully at Naraku, as she lay in a pool of dark blood.
"Look at this, I have now 3 / 4th of the Shikon jewel. One more quarter to find, and I shall become a full youkai, ridding myself of the human heart, then killing you" Naraku said as he disappeared.
Kikyo gritted her teeth in bitter hatred. Then she turned her head to Myougi who was still standing, then fell to the ground on his knees. A yellow light left his body as his face turned pale and dropped to the ground.
~The body was so easy to control, his soul was so weak, I guess it was because he was a child. Kagome....I remember her clearly, I couldn't steal any of her souls as I did some with this kids. I feel much stronger now....~ Takashi thought as she flew away.
Kikyo weakly dragged her body to Myougi's side.
"Myougi" Kikyo whispered, touching the boys pale face.
"M......monster" whispered the boy with his final breath. Kikyo looked down at the boy. She could not sense any soul left in him. His eyes were now blank and still open, as his body lay lifelessly in the pool of Kikyo's blood. A tear dropped onto his face.
"Naraku, I hate you with all of my body.....and I will kill you some day. And when that day comes, I will torture you and then slowly start to kill you. You shall cry for mercy, but I shall grant you none, for what you have done to my life, for how you tricked InuYasha and I, for killing this innocent boy, and making him hate me....I will have my revenge!" Kikyo looked around the sky, she had no more souls, and needed some in order to move a little. She looked down at Myougi,
"I'm sorry, but I must do this "Kikyo muttered as a glowing light came out of the boys body and entered Kikyo. "I'm sorry" Kikyo quietly cried as a tear dropped.
**************************** "I wonder where Kagome could be....." Sango said out loud with a depressed sigh.
"Yah......by the way, where is InuYasha?" Shippo asked.
They both stopped seeing InuYasha lying face front slammed to the ground.
"InuYasha, what are you doing lying in a whole like that?" Shippo asked
Miroku crouched down next to InuYasha, "I know these signs..." Miroku sighed and stood up, "By the look of it, I should say that Kagome has passed by" Miroku muttered.
Sango sighed, "What has he done now....Kagome 'sat' him"
"Humph, he's always hurting Kagome's feelings!" Shippo cried.
InuYasha moaned and sat up, rubbing the wound on his shoulder he still had from last time which now ached even more because he had fell on it.
"InuYasha....InuYasha....InuYasha" Miroku muttered, tapping him on the head with his staff. "What have you done this time to hurt dear Kagome's heart?"
Sango marched up and pointed a finger at him, "What did you do?! She had not be gone back to her world!!!!" Sango said coldly.
Miroku pulled Sango away, "There are better ways to deal with situations such as these. It is required that a person is calm and composed in such cases"
"Shut up!" Sango said in annoyance.
InuYasha stood up, his whole body aching.
Miroku sighed, "you cannot go on like this InuYasha, choosing Kagome then Kikyo then Kagome then Kikyo"
"I suppose I can't......choose both? "InuYasha asked with his arms crossed, annoyed that they were getting into his own business.
"Hm, well that depends if you can keep it a secret from them that you are two timing. As long as they don't know, all is well" Miroku advised.
"Keh, that wouldn't be fair to them. Go mind your own business"
"Why are you choosing Kikyo, when Kagome is more important?!" Shippo yelled.
"I'll explain it to you when you're a little older, man to man" Miroku said.
"I am old enough, I am old enough" Shippo kept repeated, jumping up and down.
"Shutup brat" InuYasha muttered, hitting Shippo on the head.
"I'd really like to help you....we'd ALL like to help you, but it's something you and Kagome have to deal with. We have no way in helping. InuYasha, it had be best if you sorted out your feelings fast, it may cause some problems in the future" Miroku advised.
~He's right....~ InuYasha thought.
Sango looked at Miroku, "I think we should tell him" Sango murmured. Miroku nodded.
"InuYasha....we have been observing Kagome, and noticed that she is recovering uncommonly fast for a human. I also once sensed an evil aurora"
InuYasha froze, "Naraku......had been with her...."
Miroku and Sango frowned.
InuYasha turned and ran away, after Kagome.
"Well.....he's very moody today" Shippo muttered, not knowing what was going on.
**************************** Kikyo staggered in the woods, in search of anywhere place where she could rest. She stopped and leaned against a tree. She closed her eyes and tried to remember the times when she was alive, and accepted in the world, and thought highly of.......but couldn't.
Kikyo looked up, and saw Kagome who had been running, who also stopped. They stared at each other. Kagome slowly walked towards Kikyo.
~She looks so sad....and is hurt~ "You.....are hurt" Kagome said.
Kikyo stared at Kagome in shock. ~How could this girl....be so kind....Ha, I forgot that she does not know what I did to her....~
"Hm....."Kikyo muttered, she could sense InuYasha coming, even though he was far.
"InuYasha is coming" Kikyo muttered.
Kagome's heart froze, ~Go away InuYasha! LEAVE my life!~
~He is coming.....for her~ Kikyo thought bitterly. She walked up to Kagome and pushed her to a tree, as the Shini-dama-chuu's wrapped tightly around Kagome's body. "This will keep you silent for the time" Kikyo said, touching Kagome's forehead as a blue glow of light appeared.
~This is like last time.....when Kikyo did this to me and I had to watch InuYasha kiss Kikyo a year or so ago....~Kagome thought. "What are you doing?!" Kagome yelled.
"To make you watch how much InuYasha loves me. To once and for all, get it engraved in your mind that InuYasha loves me!" Kikyo said weakly, but coldly, as she held her side, as blood dripped to the ground.
"If I can't have your soul some how, then InuYasha will go to hell with me! I will not let InuYasha fall in love with anyone, even care for anyone than me! I will not rest until I get InuYasha's heart as my own, InuYasha belongs to me" Kikyo said bitterly.
"But InuYasha loves you! He loves no other! But can he not care for someone else? Caring is not the same as loving!" Kagome said loudly.
"Yes......50 years ago we were in love.....but it was a shallow love that was easily changed into hatred. I want more than that love, his heart did not wholly belong to me then, I want it all now. I will not rest until I have it all!!!"
"Is it not enough that he loved you and no other?! You are selfish!!!"
"I guess I am, I guess that is why I shall accept no other than InuYasha's full love for me"
"Why don't you just go back to hell where you belong!" Kagome yelled at Kikyo.
"Because....." Kikyo said, holding Kagome's chin up with her finger, "Either I die with InuYasha, or I take your soul. Every dead soul wishes to be with the living. To start again and fix what they had did wrong" Kikyo said, as she collapsed to the ground, "Like last time when I tried to suck InuYasha into hell, you interfered, but now I know that InuYasha truly loves me. Thus, your voice will no longer interfere, even if he hears, for the second time"
Kikyo looked up to see InuYasha running towards her.
"Kikyo! What happened to you?!" InuYasha cried, running over to her and holding Kikyo in his arms as the blood quickly spread onto him.
"InuYasha..." Kagome whispered, knowing from last time that he could not hear her.
"I have.....many things to confess InuYasha...." Kikyo whispered.
"What Kikyo?" InuYasha warmly asked.
"The time when Kagome got hurt.....and was stabbed with a dagger......the dagger was mine, the wound on her body.......was all caused by me....." Kikyo whispered weakly, "Hate me now InuYasha! Hate me as you had hated me 50 years ago!"
Kagome gasped in horror. ~She.....was the one~
~I did not wish to believe it was you Kikyo.....Now I'm afraid that I hardly know you.....Kikyo.....but it's my fault. I should have known this would happen, if I did not chose one you or Kagome. But I chose both......Kikyo....~
InuYasha held Kikyo tighter, "I can't hate you....."
Kikyo held him back, "I had...always wanted to hold you like this 50 years ago.."
Kikyo pushed away, as scenes of InuYasha with Kagome flashed through her mind. Anger, jealousy and hatred boiled in her heart.
"No......you do not care for me do you......I am just an obstacle to you.....With me away, wouldn't your life be more easier?! You want me dead DON'T YOU?!" Kikyo cried, as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"KIKYO! I never stopped thinking of you, not even for an instance!" InuYasha said, holding Kikyo back in his arms, ~She's so lonely while I'm with Kagome....and with Kagome here, she is in danger. If I care for Kagome, I should send her back....~
"Kikyo.....I'll send Kagome back" InuYasha whispered to Kikyo. "Don't leave me Kikyo....."
Kagome' s heart tore out. ~Just like the dream......he wants to send me back....to be with Kikyo....I......give in~ Darkness started to spread into her mind and soul as Naraku's evil laugh echoed in her mind, her soul too weak to resist the darkness and power of the tainted Shikon Jewel. Kagome gave a cry of pain as she felt the Shikon jewel burry deep inside of her. "I....give up....I....can't resist anymore" And Kagome's mind, soul, and heart no longer belonged to her. And no longer was there someone to call out InuYasha's name, to save him from going to hell......
"InuYasha......" Kikyo said, "come with me.....and live with me forever in a place where time never moves, where we can stay like this forever" Kikyo whispered, holding InuYasha tightly in her arms. The earth started to open, as a flash of light broke through.
"Come with me, come with me to hell" Kikyo whispered, as the hypnotized InuYasha and she were being dragged into hell. "Die with me......"