~Chapter Four~ ~Lost~
Inu-Yasha ran away from the well with fear to go back. Never before had his heart felt so misplaced and betrayed. It was all his fault too! If he had told her how he felt in the first place, she would be kissing him and not the other boy he hardly knew, and had no desire to. He landed in a tree and stood up, looking off at the still distant dawn. What was he to do!? How could he live!! His soul would be lost, but as Kagome's had been!!! He no longer had the right to take her into his arms, because he knew she belonged to someone else!!! *Was that the way she felt when she knew Kikyo and I were still together?* He thought. It was hard to keep a stiff face as he sat down on the branch he was on, and stared down at the ground, having no reason to look up anymore.
Kagome climbed out of the well and looked around her. It was still really dark out, considering it was now 4:30 a.m. in the morning. She sighed and began to head for the camp her and Inu-Yasha had slept at just 5 hours before. Her fists tightened as she got closer. *I'm afraid. What if he finds out what happened, and thinks that I actually kissed Hojo on purpose!!! That would shatter my own life!!! Hojo, that basterd!!! I'll never speak to him again!!!* She told herself in thought. As she approached the camp though, a sudden fear entered her mind. It was such an eerie feeling that she almost decided to turn back, but she continued on. Continued on until…….suddenly a dark shadow leaped from the trees above her and grabbed her into mid air!!! It took her but one minute to realize she was being stolen by someone and she began to scream, but the shadow placed his hand over her mouth tightly, and snickered evilly. "I've finally captured the woman of Inu-Yasha's. Now I may find you out, little one!" He hissed in a freaky voice. Kagome shivered at the sound, and she realized she had never heard this voice before! He was not an enemy that she had heard, but maybe one she had seen!! She tried to looked up, and just as the dim moonlight hit his face, her eyes widened to see a clone of Naraku's carrying her away. She screamed out into the night one last time as it pulled her away. "INU-YASHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
All was quiet for a long while, and Inu-Yasha barley received the cry through his ears moments later. He knew the voice immediately. "What!? How can Kagome even be here right now!? Shouldn't she be back in her world with that other guy???" He exclaimed aloud. He wanted to run after the cry. He wanted to run as fast as his legs could go, and pull her away from that other boy, from what ever was taking her away. But as soon as he remembered the scene of Kagome and the boy kissing, he froze, and the pain returned. How could he live up to that boy now. How could he be that confident to know that Kagome would still even except him as a friend? After all he had done to her, he just wanted to die. He now knew how Kagome had felt when she saw Kikyo and him together those many times. *She thought she couldn't live up to Kikyo, so she hid, and she never came out of that hiding place, ever! I'm such a jerk! I should have let go of Kikyo many years ago, and just be done with it! But what's over is over, there's nothing I can do about it. But….that scream. I'll go after it. She may just be fooling me, making me feel bad for what I've done to her, but I'll see anyway. I have to look at her one last time, before she leaves me forever.* He told himself in thought as he forced his legs to move forward, into the early morning, towards the cry that had been just for him.
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