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============= Chapter Twenty-five =============
"Come with me, come with me to hell" Kikyo whispered, as the hypnotized InuYasha and she were being dragged into hell. "Die with me......"
InuYasha could think of nothing in his mind, all felt blank, but he could here Kikyo's voice, the tone sound as it had 50 years ago. Kind, gentle and warm.
"Come, come, leave with me......." he heard her voice say.
"Kikyo........I'll go anywhere you go" InuYasha muttered.
A scene flashed in his mind........of Kagome with tears in her eyes crying, "InuYasha! Never leave me again!"
InuYasha's eyes snapped open, and saw that he was being pulled down into hell.
~Just like last time.......where is Kagome? I can sense her presence somewhere!~ InuYasha thought as he got out of the glowing pit.
"Kagome!" InuYasha called out, "KIKYO! Where is she?!"
"InuYasha......she is fine.....but......do you care for her......more than you care for me?" Kikyo asked sadly.
InuYasha turned to Kikyo, and said nothing but, "Kikyo......."
"If she is whom you chose to be with, I cannot change your heart....." Kikyo said sadly as she came out of the pit to hell.
"Kikyo......it's nothing like that!" InuYasha cried.
Her Shini-dama-chuu's unwrapped around Kagome and wrapped around Kikyo as she disappeared into the night.
"Remember InuYasha.......everything I told you was true......of how I felt for you.......but even if I love you, I can still hate you" Kikyo said, her heart shattering into pieces.
InuYasha just stood, watching Kikyo disappear, then he turned to see Kagome's body lifelessly sliding down the tree and collapsing to the floor.
InuYasha gasped and ran over to Kagome. ~No......did Kikyo do this to Kagome......why is Kagome all lifeless like this?!!!!! No, I can detect an evil aurora in Kagome.........what the hell is going on........was Miroku right.........?~
InuYasha looked down at Kagome, looking very worried. ~What did I do now.......~ InuYasha gently shook Kagome, but it continued to be lifeless. Then he saw Kagome's eyes open slowly.......to reveal the same look Kohuku, Sango's young brother, had when he had been controlled by Naraku and still was, wandering somewhere out in the world. Her eyes looked vacant and lifeless.
"Inu.......Yasha......"she said quietly. It was so quiet that InuYasha did not realize that the tone of her voice was bitter than her usual warm tone.
~Kagome.....I thought I was going to lose you....~ InuYasha thought as he held Kagome tightly in his arms, "Kagome....I love" InuYasha stopped his sentence right there. ~What the hell was I just going to say?! It came out so automatically~
"Kagome" InuYasha called out at her, "wake up" he said, gently stroking her cold cheeks.
Kagome pushed InuYasha away and stood up.
"Kagome......" InuYasha said in surprise.
"Naraku.....my master" Kagome muttered as she started to walk somewhere.
"What the hell....."InuYasha muttered as he stared at Kagome inpain and confusion.
"Naraku....."Kagome muttered again, a dark swirl of clouds appeared. It was one of Naraku's puppets again.
"Kagome.....come to me" Naraku said as Kagome walked up to Naraku and stood next to him.
"What the hell Kagome!!! What are you doing?!" InuYasha yelled as he stood up, clutching his side, for he could feel the sharp ache of his wound that had not fully healed.
"She is no longer yours. She is mine, under my control" Naraku said humorously.
"Give her back!!!!!!!"
"You think she would want to return to this world? She could if she wants to you know, right now she is sleeping peacefully in a dark pit inside her soul......but that would be hard, since her soul at this moment is weak and my tainted Shikon fragment, and she has no wish to return. But to be rid of this jewel in her, she must purify that grudge she has against you......"
"What grudge?! She has no grudge against me!"
"I'm sure she doesn't. Not after she saw all the time with you and Kikyo together......and how you always ran after Kikyo, leaving her all alone. Of course, why would she have a grudge against you?"
~Today......she really did act as if she hated me......no......not another person. First Kikyo, and now Kagome.......~ InuYasha thought.
"Oi, InuYasha, don't look so sad" Naraku said in a sarcastic tone. "I'll take better care of Kagome then you did. And also, you'll have Kagome out of the way and Kikyo would be free to you"
InuYasha gripped his hands into a fist, ~It's not like that!~ InuYasha took out his Tetsusaiga and ran towards Naraku, but he disappeared. With Kagome as well.
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!"
**************************** Shippo and Kilala lay asleep. Sango and Miroku watched InuYasha and had been watching him for the past hours. They too were worried about Kagome, but it was too dark in the night to go in search of her.
Sango sighed and looked down at InuYasha, "He is so depressed"
"Yes, though one should not be surprised. He did deeply care for Kagome......though, of course he told none of us, and is stupid and keeps the truth from Kagome which has caused this problem" Miroku replied.
"He hasn't even told us what exactly had happened in the woods" Sango muttered.
"But we must know if we are to decide what to make of this situation" Miokru said.
"InuYasha, what EXACTLY happened in the woods?" Miroku asked.
"Keh, Why should I tell you?!" InuYasha said dryly.
"It is for Kagome's sake that you do"
Inuyasha paused for a second, "Kikyo and me were having a chat, I didn't know Kagome was there under Kikyo's spell....."
"So you and Kikyo only 'talked'" Miroku asked suspiciously, "If I recall correctly, the only thing you told us of was Kagome's giving into the tainted Shikon no Tama's dark power. She gave into the darkness In her heart. And that darkness must have been something caused by you, since she gave in at that time she saw you with Kikyo. So what are you NOT telling us?"
"InuYasha....." Sango said suspiciously.
"Me and Kikyo did what Miroku does with any woman" InuYasha grumbled.
"KYAAAAAAA!" Miroku cried, falling to the ground from what he had heard, "how terrible it must have been for Kagome to watch you to.....do that! Even if a person like Sango, who doesn't even love you, saw you do such thing in front of her, I'm sure she would have done anything to have disappeared from the horror, which was exactly what Naraku offered to Kagome. I can't believe it, you did it in front of Kagome?!"
"What do you do with woman's any way? I was just referring to hugging.....NOTHING MORE INTIMATE THAN THAT, YOU PERVERTED ASS BAKA!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Miroku stood up and coughed, "yes, of course. That's what I meant"
Sango glared at Miroku coldly, "you implied that you got more intimate to a woman then just hugging and kissing? Even kissing is a little too intimate! MIROKU!!!!!"
"Haha, what can I say, for a person of my looks. It can't be helped" Miroku said with a big nervous smile.
"KISAMA!" Sango yelled in jealousy.
They both stopped arguing when they saw InuYasha standing up and leaving the hut.
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InuYasha sat on the tree branch he always liked to rest on and looked up into the starry night sky. InuYasha's silver hair blew in the cool wind, as his gold, cat like eyes glittered in the moonlight.
InuYasha sighed and leaned back against the tree, closing his eyes, he could hear Kagome's cheerful voice telling him to sit echoing in his mind, and the times he would allow Kagome to twitch his ear, something she loved to do and the reason he did not know why. He would just sit on the grass, crossing his arms in annoyance. InuYasha sadly smiled at the memories.
"Kagome......." InuYasha murmured. ~Wherever you are......please be safe. I will come and find you.....I promise~
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"Stupid Miroku, he thinks he's all that. But he really is not, he's just a piece of crap "Sango muttered as he glared at Miroku from the corner of her eyes. Jealousy written all over her face.
"Do you think........That InuYasha left us for a reason?" Miroku asked as he slid over to Sango.
"Of course" Sango muttered, "he wants to be away from your annoying voice and wants time in peace"
"Other than that......you think.....that he wanted us to be "together"? As we always do for him and Kagome?"
Miroku fell back with a red finger print imprinted brightly on his face. Sango stood up and stepped on Miroku as she walked over to her sleeping bag,
"You were in my way" Sango said.
Miroku sighed, "I like playing hard to get"
Sango's face darkened. She walked up to him and took holed of Miroku's shoulder and started to shake him,
"I'm not hard to get, I'm a never to get woman! I may be a hard to get woman to other men, EXCEPT YOU!!!!!!!" Sango yelled.
Miroku pulled Sango towards him and held her tightly in his arms. ~Sango....I may act if you were just another of the ladies I meet off the road......but you're not. You're different. When I think of all the times you risked your life for me.......my heart feels a warmth I have never felt before.....it's just that.......I have never felt such feelings......thus, I do not know how to express it........~
~Why is he holding me like this.......for some reason, this doesn't seem like one of his playboy moves to get a woman into his bed....."
"Houshi-sama......" Sango muttered breathlessly as her cheeks turned red. "Wha-what are you....."
"Sango.....I...I think I'm.....in lo-"
Miroku stopped his sentence when InuYasha came into the hut.
Sango quickly pushed away. She turned and looked away from InuYasha and Miroku to hide the color of her bright red cheeks.
"So I see you were trying to take advantage on Sango while I was gone" InuYasha muttered. "You guys should go to sleep, we're gunu have a long day tomorrow. Searching for Kagome and all......." InuYasha muttered in a depressed tone.
Sango and Miroku watched as InuYasha walked over and sat on the floor, leaning against the wall.
"InuYasha, you always stay up all night guarding. You are weak and still wounded. I'll take over" Miroku said.
"No.....It's alright...." InuYasha replied in a vacant tone. ~Kagome....she might.....come back~
"If your thinking, Kagome might come back, think again" Miroku muttered, annoyed that InuYasha offered to suffer, when it was alright with Miroku to do the guarding.
"Eh?" InuYasha looked up, "how did you know I was thinking that?!"
"Training as a monk comes with many, many benefits" Miroku replied.
"Still.....I'll guard, I always do"
"Well....I think I would do a better job at it, since I'm in good shape"
"Keh" InuYasha muttered in a depressed tone.
Miroku looked at him in wonder. ~ If InuYasha had been in his normal state he would have gone all pissed.....InuYasha must be very depressed~
Sango went over to InuYasha and crouched near InuYasha and placed a hand on his shoulder's.
"InuYasha.....don't worry. I'm sure Kagome will be alright. She doesn't give up a fight that easily. You really should get some rest if you're planning to go out in search of Kagome. You will need all your strength" Sango said warmly.
InuYasha looked at Sango, a little surprised. ~She's acting so out of character~ InuYasha thought.
Sango looked at InuYasha in some annoyance. ~Psh, he is looking at me cuz I was being nice.....MAN! Don't they think I can be nice! I can be if I want! It's just that a situation never arose till now. With theses two guys, they're all full of crap and it wouldn't have made sense if I were being nice......ERG! He's still staring at me! It's really getting on my nerves. If sentimentality and patience doesn't work.....Miroku's way, then.....I'll go with my way. It always seems to work.......~
Sango pulled InuYasha's two front hair, "GO TO SLEEP! If you don't....."
And Sango continued to go on and on of the consequence InuYasha would get if he did not go sleep.
~Now that's the Sango I know.....~ InuYasha thought as he easily gave in and let Miroku go on guard, because his body ached like hell, and his eyes lids were heavy with sleep.
Sango dusted her hands and walked past Miroku, "My way always works" she said to Miroku. She felt her hands accidentally brush against Miroku's hand. A deep spot of crimson red appeared on both her cheeks.
InuYasha lay down. All his mind could think of was Kagome....
~Kagome.......you're soul was so strong and pure. Did I hurt you so much that even your soul could no longer take it and gave into Naraku's power? Kagome.....my heart aches when I think of all the hurt I must have given you. I would give up anything to have you happy again.......I miss you.....already.......holed on Kagome.....I will come and find you....~
"Kagome........it's all my fault" he sadly whispered as he fell to an unpeacefull sleep.
============= Chapter Twenty-five =============
"Come with me, come with me to hell" Kikyo whispered, as the hypnotized InuYasha and she were being dragged into hell. "Die with me......"
InuYasha could think of nothing in his mind, all felt blank, but he could here Kikyo's voice, the tone sound as it had 50 years ago. Kind, gentle and warm.
"Come, come, leave with me......." he heard her voice say.
"Kikyo........I'll go anywhere you go" InuYasha muttered.
A scene flashed in his mind........of Kagome with tears in her eyes crying, "InuYasha! Never leave me again!"
InuYasha's eyes snapped open, and saw that he was being pulled down into hell.
~Just like last time.......where is Kagome? I can sense her presence somewhere!~ InuYasha thought as he got out of the glowing pit.
"Kagome!" InuYasha called out, "KIKYO! Where is she?!"
"InuYasha......she is fine.....but......do you care for her......more than you care for me?" Kikyo asked sadly.
InuYasha turned to Kikyo, and said nothing but, "Kikyo......."
"If she is whom you chose to be with, I cannot change your heart....." Kikyo said sadly as she came out of the pit to hell.
"Kikyo......it's nothing like that!" InuYasha cried.
Her Shini-dama-chuu's unwrapped around Kagome and wrapped around Kikyo as she disappeared into the night.
"Remember InuYasha.......everything I told you was true......of how I felt for you.......but even if I love you, I can still hate you" Kikyo said, her heart shattering into pieces.
InuYasha just stood, watching Kikyo disappear, then he turned to see Kagome's body lifelessly sliding down the tree and collapsing to the floor.
InuYasha gasped and ran over to Kagome. ~No......did Kikyo do this to Kagome......why is Kagome all lifeless like this?!!!!! No, I can detect an evil aurora in Kagome.........what the hell is going on........was Miroku right.........?~
InuYasha looked down at Kagome, looking very worried. ~What did I do now.......~ InuYasha gently shook Kagome, but it continued to be lifeless. Then he saw Kagome's eyes open slowly.......to reveal the same look Kohuku, Sango's young brother, had when he had been controlled by Naraku and still was, wandering somewhere out in the world. Her eyes looked vacant and lifeless.
"Inu.......Yasha......"she said quietly. It was so quiet that InuYasha did not realize that the tone of her voice was bitter than her usual warm tone.
~Kagome.....I thought I was going to lose you....~ InuYasha thought as he held Kagome tightly in his arms, "Kagome....I love" InuYasha stopped his sentence right there. ~What the hell was I just going to say?! It came out so automatically~
"Kagome" InuYasha called out at her, "wake up" he said, gently stroking her cold cheeks.
Kagome pushed InuYasha away and stood up.
"Kagome......" InuYasha said in surprise.
"Naraku.....my master" Kagome muttered as she started to walk somewhere.
"What the hell....."InuYasha muttered as he stared at Kagome inpain and confusion.
"Naraku....."Kagome muttered again, a dark swirl of clouds appeared. It was one of Naraku's puppets again.
"Kagome.....come to me" Naraku said as Kagome walked up to Naraku and stood next to him.
"What the hell Kagome!!! What are you doing?!" InuYasha yelled as he stood up, clutching his side, for he could feel the sharp ache of his wound that had not fully healed.
"She is no longer yours. She is mine, under my control" Naraku said humorously.
"Give her back!!!!!!!"
"You think she would want to return to this world? She could if she wants to you know, right now she is sleeping peacefully in a dark pit inside her soul......but that would be hard, since her soul at this moment is weak and my tainted Shikon fragment, and she has no wish to return. But to be rid of this jewel in her, she must purify that grudge she has against you......"
"What grudge?! She has no grudge against me!"
"I'm sure she doesn't. Not after she saw all the time with you and Kikyo together......and how you always ran after Kikyo, leaving her all alone. Of course, why would she have a grudge against you?"
~Today......she really did act as if she hated me......no......not another person. First Kikyo, and now Kagome.......~ InuYasha thought.
"Oi, InuYasha, don't look so sad" Naraku said in a sarcastic tone. "I'll take better care of Kagome then you did. And also, you'll have Kagome out of the way and Kikyo would be free to you"
InuYasha gripped his hands into a fist, ~It's not like that!~ InuYasha took out his Tetsusaiga and ran towards Naraku, but he disappeared. With Kagome as well.
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!"
**************************** Shippo and Kilala lay asleep. Sango and Miroku watched InuYasha and had been watching him for the past hours. They too were worried about Kagome, but it was too dark in the night to go in search of her.
Sango sighed and looked down at InuYasha, "He is so depressed"
"Yes, though one should not be surprised. He did deeply care for Kagome......though, of course he told none of us, and is stupid and keeps the truth from Kagome which has caused this problem" Miroku replied.
"He hasn't even told us what exactly had happened in the woods" Sango muttered.
"But we must know if we are to decide what to make of this situation" Miokru said.
"InuYasha, what EXACTLY happened in the woods?" Miroku asked.
"Keh, Why should I tell you?!" InuYasha said dryly.
"It is for Kagome's sake that you do"
Inuyasha paused for a second, "Kikyo and me were having a chat, I didn't know Kagome was there under Kikyo's spell....."
"So you and Kikyo only 'talked'" Miroku asked suspiciously, "If I recall correctly, the only thing you told us of was Kagome's giving into the tainted Shikon no Tama's dark power. She gave into the darkness In her heart. And that darkness must have been something caused by you, since she gave in at that time she saw you with Kikyo. So what are you NOT telling us?"
"InuYasha....." Sango said suspiciously.
"Me and Kikyo did what Miroku does with any woman" InuYasha grumbled.
"KYAAAAAAA!" Miroku cried, falling to the ground from what he had heard, "how terrible it must have been for Kagome to watch you to.....do that! Even if a person like Sango, who doesn't even love you, saw you do such thing in front of her, I'm sure she would have done anything to have disappeared from the horror, which was exactly what Naraku offered to Kagome. I can't believe it, you did it in front of Kagome?!"
"What do you do with woman's any way? I was just referring to hugging.....NOTHING MORE INTIMATE THAN THAT, YOU PERVERTED ASS BAKA!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Miroku stood up and coughed, "yes, of course. That's what I meant"
Sango glared at Miroku coldly, "you implied that you got more intimate to a woman then just hugging and kissing? Even kissing is a little too intimate! MIROKU!!!!!"
"Haha, what can I say, for a person of my looks. It can't be helped" Miroku said with a big nervous smile.
"KISAMA!" Sango yelled in jealousy.
They both stopped arguing when they saw InuYasha standing up and leaving the hut.
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InuYasha sat on the tree branch he always liked to rest on and looked up into the starry night sky. InuYasha's silver hair blew in the cool wind, as his gold, cat like eyes glittered in the moonlight.
InuYasha sighed and leaned back against the tree, closing his eyes, he could hear Kagome's cheerful voice telling him to sit echoing in his mind, and the times he would allow Kagome to twitch his ear, something she loved to do and the reason he did not know why. He would just sit on the grass, crossing his arms in annoyance. InuYasha sadly smiled at the memories.
"Kagome......." InuYasha murmured. ~Wherever you are......please be safe. I will come and find you.....I promise~
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"Stupid Miroku, he thinks he's all that. But he really is not, he's just a piece of crap "Sango muttered as he glared at Miroku from the corner of her eyes. Jealousy written all over her face.
"Do you think........That InuYasha left us for a reason?" Miroku asked as he slid over to Sango.
"Of course" Sango muttered, "he wants to be away from your annoying voice and wants time in peace"
"Other than that......you think.....that he wanted us to be "together"? As we always do for him and Kagome?"
Miroku fell back with a red finger print imprinted brightly on his face. Sango stood up and stepped on Miroku as she walked over to her sleeping bag,
"You were in my way" Sango said.
Miroku sighed, "I like playing hard to get"
Sango's face darkened. She walked up to him and took holed of Miroku's shoulder and started to shake him,
"I'm not hard to get, I'm a never to get woman! I may be a hard to get woman to other men, EXCEPT YOU!!!!!!!" Sango yelled.
Miroku pulled Sango towards him and held her tightly in his arms. ~Sango....I may act if you were just another of the ladies I meet off the road......but you're not. You're different. When I think of all the times you risked your life for me.......my heart feels a warmth I have never felt before.....it's just that.......I have never felt such feelings......thus, I do not know how to express it........~
~Why is he holding me like this.......for some reason, this doesn't seem like one of his playboy moves to get a woman into his bed....."
"Houshi-sama......" Sango muttered breathlessly as her cheeks turned red. "Wha-what are you....."
"Sango.....I...I think I'm.....in lo-"
Miroku stopped his sentence when InuYasha came into the hut.
Sango quickly pushed away. She turned and looked away from InuYasha and Miroku to hide the color of her bright red cheeks.
"So I see you were trying to take advantage on Sango while I was gone" InuYasha muttered. "You guys should go to sleep, we're gunu have a long day tomorrow. Searching for Kagome and all......." InuYasha muttered in a depressed tone.
Sango and Miroku watched as InuYasha walked over and sat on the floor, leaning against the wall.
"InuYasha, you always stay up all night guarding. You are weak and still wounded. I'll take over" Miroku said.
"No.....It's alright...." InuYasha replied in a vacant tone. ~Kagome....she might.....come back~
"If your thinking, Kagome might come back, think again" Miroku muttered, annoyed that InuYasha offered to suffer, when it was alright with Miroku to do the guarding.
"Eh?" InuYasha looked up, "how did you know I was thinking that?!"
"Training as a monk comes with many, many benefits" Miroku replied.
"Still.....I'll guard, I always do"
"Well....I think I would do a better job at it, since I'm in good shape"
"Keh" InuYasha muttered in a depressed tone.
Miroku looked at him in wonder. ~ If InuYasha had been in his normal state he would have gone all pissed.....InuYasha must be very depressed~
Sango went over to InuYasha and crouched near InuYasha and placed a hand on his shoulder's.
"InuYasha.....don't worry. I'm sure Kagome will be alright. She doesn't give up a fight that easily. You really should get some rest if you're planning to go out in search of Kagome. You will need all your strength" Sango said warmly.
InuYasha looked at Sango, a little surprised. ~She's acting so out of character~ InuYasha thought.
Sango looked at InuYasha in some annoyance. ~Psh, he is looking at me cuz I was being nice.....MAN! Don't they think I can be nice! I can be if I want! It's just that a situation never arose till now. With theses two guys, they're all full of crap and it wouldn't have made sense if I were being nice......ERG! He's still staring at me! It's really getting on my nerves. If sentimentality and patience doesn't work.....Miroku's way, then.....I'll go with my way. It always seems to work.......~
Sango pulled InuYasha's two front hair, "GO TO SLEEP! If you don't....."
And Sango continued to go on and on of the consequence InuYasha would get if he did not go sleep.
~Now that's the Sango I know.....~ InuYasha thought as he easily gave in and let Miroku go on guard, because his body ached like hell, and his eyes lids were heavy with sleep.
Sango dusted her hands and walked past Miroku, "My way always works" she said to Miroku. She felt her hands accidentally brush against Miroku's hand. A deep spot of crimson red appeared on both her cheeks.
InuYasha lay down. All his mind could think of was Kagome....
~Kagome.......you're soul was so strong and pure. Did I hurt you so much that even your soul could no longer take it and gave into Naraku's power? Kagome.....my heart aches when I think of all the hurt I must have given you. I would give up anything to have you happy again.......I miss you.....already.......holed on Kagome.....I will come and find you....~
"Kagome........it's all my fault" he sadly whispered as he fell to an unpeacefull sleep.