I Wish For Tomorrow

A/N: Yikes. Been a while. x.x; Don't think I haven't been writing for lack of reviews; I've been working ohsohard to finish up YnU (another IY fic of mine) along with making a slight attempt at keeping reasonable grades so mum doesn't ground me from anime. O_O (She's threatened me WAY too many times on that. ; If I don't get a good grade in Biology, I won't get my temps in July OR be able to watch anime for a month. ;.; Omg, I'd die.) Anyways, I'll stop ranting about the evilness of my mom..(Hey wait a minute..I can still watch anime while I'm at my dad's..HUZZAH! D)

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Demo - But
Haori - That jacket thing IY wears
Nani - What

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Chapter V
Blind Truth and Inclement Lies

Kagome looked up as Inuyasha appeared through the shadows. She leapt up and was into his arms in an instant, awash with relief. "I thought..I thought.." she choked into the scarlet fabric of his haori.

Inuyasha gently stroked her hair. "Shh..shhh.." he purred quietly. "It's all right now. I'm here. You're safe." She sniffled quietly, fisting her hands in his haori, as if to prevent them from being apart again.

"I was scared," she murmured sadly. "I thought they were going to kill you...Kill me.." A vindictive smile curved onto Inuyasha's face, though Kagome was blind to it. "But..Where's Jikanjiku? What did they do with her?" She pulled herself away from him to look into the amber eyes of her love. "Why, if you're here, and I'm here, is she not?"

"Shh," he growled lowly. "Don't worry about her. She's a seasoned fighter. She's safe. Besides, we're together now, so it doesn't matter."

Kagome's eyebrows furrowed. "Nani? After all she's done for us, you can't possibly think of abandoning her." Her wings gave a slight twitch in her growing agitation. "What's going on Inuyasha?"

But he didn't give any answer. Instead, Inuyasha kissed her roughly, his arms pinning hers against her side. She gasped forced her face away from his. "What are you doing?" she asked, quivering with a new fear.

Again he didn't answer her, instead forcing her onto her back, forcing his tongue into her mouth as she tried to scream in protest. When tore one arm free and smacked him across the face, startling him long enough to escape his grasp.

"What the hell are you doing?" she screamed. "You're not the Inuyasha I know! Unless..." 'Inuyasha' smirked at her. "You're not Inuyasha.."

"Took you that long, eh, bitch?" he sneered as his form melted into a hideous Time Demon. "It's too bad for you, though. Your precious mutt is off somewhere else in Lord Jaki's web of dreams. I suggest if you want to see him again, you'd better run fast deary."

He seized her waist before Kagome could make a move, intending to finish what he had started in Inuyasha's form. "Imagine the look on the halfbreed's face when he learns his love has been claimed by another," he said, a thick and callous laughter ringing in Kagome's ears, filling her was grim anger. The Time Demon made no notice of her heated expression, and crept his hand up her thigh.

But the filthy Time Demon had underestimated the teenage girl, for she delivered a series of kicks, punches, and slaps. Kagome leapt up, kicked the writhing Time Demon in the skull once more, and ran off.

Inuyasha, wait for me..I'm coming!

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Inuyasha, meanwhile, was dealing with a reenactment from the past. Kagome was facing him, an arrow strung in her bow, pointing directly at him. Her face was knitted with anger. Inuyasha took a step back, recognizing this stance above all other things.

"Kagome," he uttered, a faint whimper in his voice. "What's wrong? What are you doing?"

"You betrayed me, Inuyasha," she growled, her expression never changing. "You betrayed me, just like you betrayed Kikyou. I wish you'd made that decision to go to hell with her. You wouldn't have hurt me like you did, then."

"But what did I do?" Inuyasha pressed, a pain tugging at his heart. Another, nagging feeling, also tugged at his heart, telling him something wasn't right.

"Don't play games with me Inuyasha," Kagome spat at him. "I've had enough of that. There was no Naraku to take your form and spread lies between us. It was you. I can always tell when it's you. I would know the difference between you and a fake. I know you too well." She smirked ruefully at this.

"D..Demo.." he pleaded desperatly. "I didn't do anything..I would know." He beat his wings against the air his wings in frustration. "I did'nt hurt you, I never would! I never could!" he screamed, suddenly enraged that this had happened to him twice.

Inuyasha! Inuyasha! a voice sceamed in his head, not his own.

"K..Kagome?" Inuyasha murmured uncertainly, a clawed hand feeling his forehead in confusion. "Kagome..is that..you?" he wondered out loud, uncertainly.

Inuyasha! the voice screamed again. Snap out of it, Inuyasha! Come on..It's just a trick! Please! Inuyasha!

Inuyasha's eyes widened and looked at the Kagome before him, then at the hand that had been at his forehead a minute ago. "Kagome.." he whispered, squeezing his eyes tight. "This isn't right. Kagome wouldn't ever do this to me. Kagome loves me with all of her heart. You aren't Kagome!"

The Time Demon screamed in anguish and dissolved in a column of steam. Inuyasha opened his eyes and found himself on his back, Kagome standing over him.

"Inuyasha!" she cried with relief, clinging to him. Inuyasha sat up, holding her back.

"It was a dream?" he asked urgently, needing that answer.

"The Time Demons.." she whimpered. "They did this.." She raised her head to look him in the eyes. "We have to find Jikanjiku, she could still be trapped in Jaki's web of dreams.."

"Web of dreams..?" Inuyasha questioned.

"That's what a Time Demon said that..place was."

"They attacked you too?" Inuyasha asked, suddenly worried. "What'd they do to you?"

Kagome looked away. "Nothing. It's nothing. We have to find Jikanjiku, in any case..This place is endless.." She stood up, and Inuyasha took her hand.

"I won't let them hurt you again," he said sincerely. "I don't know what they did, but you don't have to tell me. I'll punish them, regardless, for daring to touch you."

Kagome's eyes welled up with tears as she hugged him tightly. "Inuyasha," she sobbed. "I love you so much." Inuyasha held her back, and Kagome relished in this feeling of being so loved by someone you love with all of your heart.

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Aww. Sweet ending. Couldn't help it. XP I owed you something, for not updating in forever. x.x; I'll try to post in the next couple of days, but I can't promise anything.