Hi! I'm back with chapter 9!!! Whoo hoo!!! Ok, I seemed to be thrown off track because of the 9/11 thing. So sad… so sad what's going on around the middle east, I can't help but feel grief for those caught in the middle.
DICLAIMER: I don't own Sesshoumaru or Inuyasha or Kagome… sadly…
I make this brief so you can get to the reading… Thank you reviewers!!! I believe I have 64 reviews. Just want to say sorry for short chapters… I promise more longer chapters in the future… o^_~o
Chapter 9:
Inuyasha held onto his chest, jumping from tree to tree. He fled from the battle spot where he and his brother had fought. His brother was stronger than him. Inuyasha would have to train more. When Inuyasha was certain that Sesshoumaru didn't follow him, Inuyasha ceased his running. He fell to the ground, holding his injuries. He closed his eyes tightly and held his breath. The pain was almost unbearable. A huge shadow hovered over him. Inuyasha turned on his back to see who had approached him. He was too occupied to smell the figure out. He opened his eyes. Black hair and porcelain skin caught his eye.
"Kagome…" Inuyasha groaned before he blacked out, the shadow scooped his up on her back and she started to trek away.
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Kikyou silently watched Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru try to kill each other. Inuyasha finally got to fulfill his mother's wish and she and Inuyasha could be together again. She sat perched on a tree, the way she and Inuyasha use to do back when they were young.
~* Flashback*~
An eight year old Kikyou laughed and climbed the tree after ten year old Inuyasha.
"I'm king of the world!" Inuyasha roared, striking a pose on the top branch. Kikyou giggled.
"Then I'm Queen of the universe!" Kikyou exclaimed jumping onto the branch. Inuyasha lost his balance.
"Whoa…" Inuyasha wobbled back and forth. "AHH!!!" Inuyasha fell onto the ground.
"Kikyou!" Inuyasha stood up, glaring at Kikyou who was still on the branch.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha… I didn't mean to… But now I'm you're supreme ruler!!!" Kikyou exclaimed. Inuyasha pouted.
"Yeah right! I'm going to get you!" He laughed and started to climb after Kikyou.
"AHH!!! Help!" Kikyou screamed trying to climb up another branch.
"What? You want you're mommy?" Inuyasha taunted before he realized he made a mistake. Kikyou stopped climbing and she looked at Inuyasha hard. "Oh, I'm sorry Kikyou, I forgot you don't have a mommy."
"It's ok… Let's go back down." Kikyou said softly as she started to climb down, Inuyasha doing the same.
They sat down next to each other at the base of the tree. They were silent for a while.
"Inuyasha?" Kikyou said softly.
"Hmm?"
"Will you always be there for me?" Kikyou looked at Inuyasha for an answer.
"Yeah Kikyou." Inuyasha replied.
"Friends forever?" Kikyou said, smiling at Inuyasha.
"Yeah, friends forever." Inuyasha said, smiling softly at his best friend.
"You want to be blood brother and sister?" Kikyou asked. She raised her eyebrows at Inuyasha.
"Are you sure?" Inuyasha asked, pulling out a pocket knife.
"Yeah! We've been friends since we were little!" Kikyou reminded Inuyasha.
"Ok…" Inuyasha slit his palm. "Give me your hand." Kikyou held out her hand. Inuyasha took it and slit it. Kikyou winced a little. Then they both pressed their hands together, blood dripping from their palms.
"Friends forever." Kikyou exclaimed.
"Friends forever." Inuyasha repeated.
~*end of flashback*~
Kikyou smiled softly, fingering her scar on her left palm. She continued to watch Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. Kikyou noticed a girl traveling with Inuyasha but Kikyou was to far away to make out her features. Kikyou narrowed her eyes. Inuyasha had moved on without her. He promised he would always be there for her. He promised.
A single tear slid off her face. She wiped it angrily away when she saw Sesshoumaru's sword slash into Inuyasha's chest. Inuyasha was losing. He couldn't lose. He trained so hard for this day. He passed up days to play with her to train for this god damn day and he losing. Kikyou gripped the branch near her. She watched, her body growing tense. She broke the branch off, snapping it in two. She used every part of her body to stop her from running in to try to save Inuyasha. Then she saw Inuyasha flee from the area. He stumbled out, obviously in pain. Sesshoumaru had been left, in his garden wobbling toward a bench. He had been hurt too.
Inuyasha passed Kikyou's tree. He wasn't aware of Kikyou's presence. Foolish… he should be aware of everything especially when he hurt. Kikyou jumped off, running after him.
Kikyou had been running after him for a while until he finally fell to the ground. She approached him carefully. His eyes where closed and he had turned on his back because he had finally sensed her. He opened one eye and whispered someone's name before he blacked out.
Kikyou bended over to pick him up. He was heavy but somehow Kikyou manage to get him on her back. She slowly headed home with a hanyou on her back.
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Kikyou rubbed a damp cloth against Inuyasha's skin. She wiped all the blood and dirt away. When she was done, she put Inuyasha's clothes back on. His wounds had recovered on the way home that took all night. He was still unconscious though. The fight was very long and exhausting for him plus he had lost a good amount of blood.
Inuyasha stirred in his sleep. Kikyou jumped back a little. She was scared at the thought of how he would react when he saw her. Kikyou was in deep thought so she didn't realized that Inuyasha had woken up and was glaring at her.
"What am I doing here?" Inuyasha demanded. He jumped out of Kikyou's bed.
"You were hurt. I took you here." Kikyou replied. She tried to keep calm but Inuyasha already smelled her nervousness and fear.
Inuyasha looked around at his childhood getaway. Kikyou's cabin was where Inuyasha and Kikyou played and had fun. Inuyasha often visited Kikyou because she was lonely and he wanted to take breaks from his intense training. This hut brought back painful memories. Inuyasha grumbled and walked out.
"Don't follow me Kikyou, if you know what is good for you." Inuyasha said over his shouldered as he slammed the door behind him.
Inuyasha walked away from the hut, toward his home. His home wasn't far away. As he walked a familiar path, he had a familiar memory.
~*Flashback*~
"Kikyou come out! I want to talk to you!" Inuyasha yelled from outside the hut. No sound came out of the hut.
"Kikyou! What did I do wrong?" Inuyasha yelled again, growing nervous from the silence.
"You didn't do anything wrong." Kikyou yelled back from inside the hut.
"Then why won't you come out?" Inuyasha asked nervously. Now he was pacing back and forth.
"Just go away! And don't come back!" Kikyou yelled back. Her voice was shaky. Inuyasha could smell salty tears around the hut.
"But Kikyou… I love you!" Inuyasha confessed.
"NO! Don't say that!" Kikyou sobbed from inside. "Just… Just leave!" Kikyou shakily shouted.
"Fine but I'll be back tomorrow." Inuyasha said reluctantly walking away.
The next day Inuyasha came back with something in his hand. He had a present in his hand. It was the broken jade bracelet Kikyou had broken when she was young. It was her family emblem. Kikyou had cried and just threw it away. She claimed it didn't matter now that it was broken. Inuyasha had saved it and kept it in his room. Yesterday, Inuyasha had went to the village and asked a jeweler to fix it.
Inuyasha approached the hut. He knocked on the door. "Kikyou! Kikyou come out! I have something for you!" Inuyasha shouted but there was no answer. "Kikyou?" Inuyasha knocked on the door again. The door opened simultaneously. "Kikyou?" Inuyasha said again peering inside the hut. It was empty. The furniture was still there but all of Kikyou's belongings were gone. There was a note on the table. It read:
Dear Inuyasha,
I'm so sorry that things have to be this way. I didn't mean to and I'm sorry. I will be traveling to train myself mentally and physically. Recently, the village prophet had told me that I was destined to become a miko. I've decided to fulfill my destiny. Don't bother to find me, by the time you read this note, I would be long gone. It's best that we're apart. We were never meant to be and we will never because you're a youkai prince and I'm just a poor human. You and I will never be. We never existed.
Kikyou
Inuyasha dropped the note, his jaw open in disbelief. How could Kikyou say they never existed? After what they both been through. She promised to be his forever and she broke it. Inuyasha gripped the jade bracelet hard. Kikyou had left him alone. Alone with no one else. His mom didn't count.
~*End of flashback*~
Inuyasha growled at the thought of his mother. He would have to face his mother. How could he tell her he couldn't defeat his half brother and that he had to train more?
Inuyasaha remembered he still had the bracelet in his inside pocket. He took it out. Turning it in his hand, Inuyasha decided to give it back to his owner. He had been keeping it for so long. He ran back to the hut. Approaching the door, Inuyasha set the bracelet on the ground. He knocked on the door twice and leapt away into the forest.
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Kikyou opened the door, hoping it would be Inuyasha but no one was there. Kikyou stepped out, looking around. She stepped on something hard. She looked down. She gasped. It was her family's jade bracelet. She had broken it along time ago and she threw it away because when the bracelet is broken, it means you have betrayed your family. It made her upset because she didn't have a family to betray. Kikyou picked up the bracelet. She slipped it on her wrist. It fit perfectly now. It was too big for her when she was young. That's how it slipped off and broke.
Kikyou bursted in tears on her porch. She sobbed. Inuyasha must have fixed it for her and brought it back. After all these years, he still had it.
~* Flashback*~
"Girl, I suggest you stay away from my son." Jun hissed as she cornered a 14 year old Kikyou in her hut.
"But… Lady Jun… I love your son." Kikyou whimpered weakly. She felt ashamed to be so weak.
"That is the reason why Inuyasha is so weak! If you weren't in his life, he would be more focused. If you weren't here, he would have already been ready to kill his brother!" Jun raged at the poor girl.
"What do you want me to do about it?" Kikyou shouted back at her, trembling from anger. Why was it her fault?
"I want you to go away and don't come back for a long while." Jun said as evil flickered in her eyes.
"I- I can't do that!" Kikyou stammered, holding her ground. She wasn't about to leave without a good reason.
"Can't you see??? He needs to train without you! You're a distraction! Get out of his life before you regret it!" Jun said annoyingly. She pulled out a knife. "How would you like it if your pretty face was permanently scarred? That way Inuyasha would never love an ugly ogre. Either leave and still have your face intact or stay and become a horrifying sight!" Jun cackled evilly as she slowly approached Kikyou with the knife. The gleam of the knife reflected in Jun's eyes.
"Wait…" Kikyou stopped Jun. "I'll – I'll leave." Kikyou figured it would be better for her if she left then stay and be ashamed. Tears began to form in Kikyou's eyes.
"That's good." Jun smirked. She left the hut, laughing softly in triumph.
~-end of flashback-~
Kikyou manage to get back inside. It had almost ten years since that threat. She breathed deeply. Kikyou was just passing by when she came across Inuyasha yelling in a garden. Then all that happened and now she was back in her hut. Kikyou wondered if Jun would be true to her word. It didn't matter. Inuyasha hated her for leaving him and now he had a new woman. The girl who was with him but she had been knocked out during the fight. Kikyou narrowed her eyes and gripped something nearby. Inuyasha was supposed to be only hers.
Something caught her ear. Kikyou jerked up, listening. A figure swiftly ran by outside. Then it ran into the hut.
Kikyou narrowed her eyes at the newcomer. "What do you want Jin?"
"Feh… Kikyou you're not happy to see me." The male laughed at Kikyou.
"No… I'm always happy to see my friend but I know you have a message from his greatness. That's why I'm not acting happily."
"Kikyou, right. His greatness just wants to know where you are. He worries about you. You are his favorite pupil." Jin said. He took a seat on her bed.
"Whatever. How can I be his favorite? You and I are his top students. You are probably his favorite since you're stronger than me." Kikyou laughed as she brought out tea for her old companion since she left Inuyasha.
"You are! You always been smarter and quicker than me when we trained!" Jin exclaimed. "Remember how we met? I was there longer than you. His greatness just saved you from a pack of youkai wolves and brought you to learn from him."
Kikyou jumped in. "And we had to do all those training lessons. Me and you were the few that were left alive." Kikyou said sadly as she remember dodging arrows and the other kids her age being struck down before her.
Then Jin jumped in again. "Yeah, and we been training together forever!" He gladly accepted Kikyou's tea.
"Yeah…" Kikyou remembered all the abuse his greatness had put on her and Jin but she was grateful because he had saved her and she owed him her life. That's why she was a loyal member of the Dragon Clan. She served Naraku, his greatness.
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Whoa.. to many flashbacks today… if that keeps going we might get stuck in the past! Ha… So.. like this chapter? Kikyou and Inuyasha had a past..OoO… Omg.. Kikyou serves Naraku… ahh!!! Now don't hate her yet.. you don't know everything.. she didn't even know Naraku's evil… She just serves him because she was saved by him. I swear! Kikyou is good!!! She will not be evil in this story.. just cold and abused! Umm.. review!!!!! REVIEW!!! Umm.. like whatever number of reviews! Ok.. like 75 or 80…