Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own it.
*This story is for a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. I'm sorry Fate took everything away from you.
I Wish It Was Different
Ch. 6: "Two Different Stories"
She stomped through the forest, the sun was setting, causing a yellow-orange glow to come down to the earth.
*That Inu Yasha!* Her mind screamed. *I HATE him!*
She walked on some more until she came to a clearing. Her gray-blue eyes looked over the meadow's golden grass.
"Where do I go?" she asked herself.
Suddenly, this woman with long, flowing, jet-black hair came behind her.
"Perhaps I can answer that."
The other woman, who we all know now to be Kagome, was not the least surprised when she turned around and saw a mirror
image of herself, only she was wearing red pants.
"Kiyko." Kagome said in an unknown tone. "Was is it that you want?"
"A word with you."
Inu Yasha watched the sun set completely. The stars came out to play their games of night. The half demon sighed, his
thoughts falling on Kagome. *What was she saying?! I would NEVER say those things to her!*
The hanyou got to his feet, and brushed some dirt off his pants. He must head back to camp before the last rays of the
sun are completely gone.
When he got to camp, a fire was already started, food was being cooked, and Miroku was being smacked for being such a
pervert.
*Everything is normal here.* Inu Yasha thought as he took a seat by the fire.
Shippou absolutely refused to talk, much less look at Inu Yasha.
"What's your problem, runt?" Inu Yasha pestered.
"I'll tell you what's wrong!" Shippou yelled. "It's what Kagome said!"
"Let me tell you something--"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
Everyone turned and looked at Sanbi, who was looking at Inu Yasha with a horrified expression.
"I-Inu Y... Yasha?"
She stared at Inu Yasha some more.
"Nani?"
"Y-You don't have your ears.... and your hair is BLACK!!!"
"It's new moon."
"Eh?"
"Didn't..... Kagome tell you?"
Sanbi shook her head. "Not a word."
Inu Yasha frowned, then sighed. "In every half demon's life, they must turn into a human for one night, and it happens
once a month, every month."
Sanbi stared with an expressionless face, then stared cracking up. She held her arms around her waist as she sank to
the ground. Inu Yasha and the others looked utterly confused.
"What the hell is your problem, bitch?!"
Sanbi gasped for air.
"Monthly thing." the she laughed again.
This made Sango laugh as well.
"ENOUGH!" Inu Yasha yelled. "Now, back to what I was supposed to be saying, let me tell you something, Shippou! What
Kagome said--"
"Was that you are one mean hanyou!"
Inu Yasha smacked Shippou.
"No! It wasn't even me!"
"It sounded like something you would say!"
"It does, but I didn't even know what the hell she was talking about!"
"You said all that to Kagome?!" Shippou smacked Inu Yasha on the back of his head. "No wonder she acted like that! I
would hate you too!"
Inu Yasha smacked Shippou's face into the dirt.
"I would NEVER say those things to Kagome! I don't know what is going on here, but I sure as hell am going to find out!"
"Then if it wasn't you," Sanbi began. "What happened that night Anma-chan left?"
*Flashback*
Inu Yasha was resting up in his tree, when a familiar sent filled his sensitive nose.
"Hm? Kagome?"
The hanyou jumped down from his tree, and saw Kagome, with her overstuffed backpack on her back. Tears streamed down
her cheeks.
"What did I do this time?" Inu Yasha asked himself out loud.
He ran after Kagome, who seemed to know he was running after her, because her fast walking turned into a trot, then into
a full run.
Kagome jumped into the well, her sent following her. Inu Yasha was about to jump in as well, but a bright pink light
erupted from the well.
The hanyou couldn't believe it. Kagome was gone.
Forever.
*End of flashback*
Everyone had grave, thoughtful looks that played about on their faces. If it wasn't the REAL Inu Yasha who said those
things to Kagome, then who was it?
Inu Yasha could only think on one person who was cruel enough to do that, and the thought of him made him growl low and
deep, despite the fact he was human at the moment.
"What is it?" Sango asked.
"I'm thinking of one person like Inu Yasha is." Miroku exclaimed.
"Who?" Sanbi asked.
"Naraku!" Inu Yasha growled the name in a loathing sort of way.
"Okay, I'm officially lost!" Sanbi exclaimed.
"How can you be lost?!" Inu Yasha yelled. "You said Kagome told you everything!"
"Evidently, I thought she did. She did tell me about a demon named Naraku, how he came to be, and the whole break up
with Kikyo, but how he did it, I don't know."
"Naraku stole my form, and killed Kikyo. He must of stolen my form, yet again, and told Kagome what he did. But why is
what I want to know!"
"Matte, Inu Yasha," Miroku exclaimed. "We don't know if it is Naraku yet."
"Well, then, who else could it be?" Sango asked.
"Okay, so maybe it was him." Miroku continued. "However, how are we going to ask him? Walk up to him and ask?"
"He will find us." Sanbi told them.
All the group could do was stare at her.
"A word with me? If this is about who gets Inu Yasha, you can have him for all I care!"
"This does involve Inu Yasha, yes, but it also involves your feelings for him."
"I hate him, okay?!"
Kikyo looked at her reincarnation with dead eyes.
"How much?"
"So much that I don't want to kill him, but make his life miserable in every way possible that he will be begging for
death."
Kikyo was taken back by this, but she did not show it. *She hates Inu Yasha even more than I ever can imagine! All because
he said what he said?*
"What makes you hate him so much?"
"What makes YOU hate him so much?!" Kagome snapped.
"I thought he betrayed me."
"Well he DID betray me! He betrayed my heart, my soul--"
"He wasn't yours to begin with!" Kikyo interupted.
"But I gave him something you never had the guts to give him because you were afraid for your reputation!"
"How dare you! I loved Inu Yasha more than you can ever imagine!" Kikyo hissed.
"But were you afraid that everyone would find out about your love for him that you kept each other a secret?"
"I had a position to protect!"
"You had a reputation to protect! If you were truly in love with him, then you wouldn't have been afraid to tell, or show,
your love for him!"
"How did you love Inu Yasha?" Kikyo questioned Kagome further, iqnoring the fact that she just laid out.
"What do you mean by that?"
"What did you do to show your love for him? What is it that you did that I couldn't?"
"Is that what you came to question me about?"
"No. Something more. But I need to know where you stood with Inu Yasha then, and how you stand with him now."
"What is it to you? He was lonely, and I did the only act I could think of to help him from his depression over
you. As you and I both know, he is very stubborn, and he won't admit when something is wrong with him."
"Was is it that you did to 'cheer him up'?"
"And I ask again, what is it to you?" Kagome snapped, no longer afraid of this dead miko.
The main reason she feared Kikyo is not because of the time Kikyo tried to kill her, but because half of Inu Yasha's
heart belonged to Kikyo, and the other half belonged to her. She feared Kikyo because she was everything she was not,
and she had Inu Yasha's heart first. Now Kagome no longer feared Kikyo because she no longer held any love for Inu Yasha.
"I just need to know where you stand with him."
"I stand nowhere with that demon! Wherever he looked at me, he saw you! When he rarely spoke to me dearly, he spoke those
words to you! Whenever he held me, he was holding you! It was always you and it always will be you!"
This was exactly what Kikyo wanted to hear. Now she can play on her reincarnation's emotions, if she had any love for him.
*Now for a little test.* The dead miko thought to herself.
"Inu Yasha? Of course he always saw me. Now look at you! If you could have been mistaken for me then, now there is
no difference!"
"I realize that!" Kagome snapped, her sixth sense told her not to give into her tricks.
"I just want to know, did you sleep with Inu Yasha?"
"Did you?"
"I'll answer that if you answer me." Kikyo told Kagome. Kikyo was getting more desperate to know the truth.
"Hm. Inu Yasha.... he was lonely.... desperate for you. I gave him what you wouldn't because of your fear. I wanted to
show him that I wasn't afraid to love him the way a married woman loves her husband, just because I was a miko. But he
saw you."
Everything was siglence after the short story of the happenings between her and Inu Yasha.
"What if I told you that it wasn't Inu Yasha who told you those words on the day you disappeared from here."
"Who else could it have been?"
"Remember, Naraku tricked me and Inu Yasha into hating each other by taking his form and killing me. Obviously, we had
to have a strong relationship in order for him to trick us. But you? Naraku tricked you just by a few hurtful words?
Obviously, your relationship with Inu Yasha was weak because you let him love your body. You let him touch you in such
an intimate way even with your insecurities in the back of your mind. And you said so yourself, it was me, and it always
will be me. So he made love, not to you, but to me."
When Kagome didn't say anything, and Kikyo stared at her backside for the longest time, that was when Kikyo made her exit.
When the zombie left, Kagome turned and looked in the direction she left in with a murderous look in her eyes.
"Bitch." was all she could say.
"Well, did you have the talk with her?" A demon asked a woman who was wearing red pants.
"I did, Naraku." the miko answered.
"And?"
"She still hates Inu Yasha, but hates me more."
"Kuku. How do you know this?"
"I can sense it. She reeked with the smell of hatred and thirst for vengeance and death. Not toward me though, but to
Inu Yasha."
Naraku smirked. "I thought you said she hates you more."
"I did. But she is still blinded by her hate toward Inu Yasha to notice. Just like I was until I found out it was you
who killed me, not him."
"If you hate me so, then why do you work for me?"
"So I can get that girl out of the way, kill you, wish myself back to real life, and then live 'happily ever after'
with Inu Yasha."
"Kukuku, Kikyo. You really are a dreamer."
"Kagome-sama was wearing gray pants, and a white robe, ne?" Miroku asked.
"What about it?" Inu Yasha asked back.
"Gray pants and white robe symbolizes great miko power, does it not?" Miroku questioned further.
"Yes. It does." Sango told him.
"Keh! What do you know?! Kagome never held any great power!"
"That we know of." Miroku pressed on.
"Whoever brought her back was probably either demented, or thought she was Kikyo!"
Shippou smacked Inu Yasha on the head.
"She was completely different!" he yelled.
"I know that, runt!"
"The sun will be up soon." Miroku told everyone. "We should get what little rest we have left."
Everyone, except Inu Yasha, agreed.
Inu Yasha stared at the flames of the dying fire. Suddenly, someone wrapped in a blanket sat down next to him.
"Hello, Inu Yasha." Sanbi greeted.
Inu Yasha looked away from her.
"What did I do?" she asked.
"You told me that Kagome loved me."
Sanbi stared at the fire, guilty.
"She did say that. But I left out a part. She said--"
*flashback*
"I love Inu Yasha, hai, but... I hate him even more."
"Naze, Anma-chan?"
"We never were on best terms."
*end of flashback*
"She hated me..."
"She was just miserable. Her marriage to a complete asshole was really terrible. I'm sure she didn't mean it."
"Yea. Even after she tried to kill me, she didn't mean it." Inu Yasha's voice was on the edge of being sarcastic.
"But you were the one she mostly talked about. Just what was your relationship with her?"
"Why do you keep asking that?"
Inu Yasha's face was a deep crimson.
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"What was your relationship?"
Inu Yasha whirled around to face her.
"THAT ISN'T ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS!!"
Inu Yasha looked away again, and all fell silent. Sanbi took the hint and was torn between feeling sorry for both
Kagome and Inu Yasha, and being jealous because of what their relationship held. The most expressive form of love was
acted between the two lovers.
Sanbi found herself wondering what both lovers were thinking while they were intimate. How did they hold each other?
How much love was felt between them during such times? A sudden feeling of loneliness creeped up Sanbi's spine. *No! No!
I mustn't let that feeling over come me!*
The sun came up before they everyone knew it, and everyone started on their way.
"Inu Yasha?" Sanbi asked. "You back to normal!"
"Of course I'm back to normal, wench!"
"You say that like it's a good thing." Shippou told Sanbi.
Shippou ended up with a big welt on his poor head.
Sanbi was in the middle of laughing when she suddenly felt a great evil power hidden in the trees.
"S-Someone is over there!" Sanbi cried out, looking at a demon in a baboon pelt.
Everyone rushed over and surrounded the demon known as Naraku.
"Kukuku. Glad to see everyone here." Naraku proclaimed.
"Why do you always have to interfere with my life, you bastard?!" Inu Yasha barked.
"Kuku."
"Where you the one who turned Kagome against me?!" Inu Yasha yelled, very irritated.
"Yes."
"Why?!"
"Why can you never see through the plan? Every day, her miko powers got stronger and stronger, yet she never believed
in them, in great thanks to you. You always said she was nothing but a Shikon detector, therefore she believed you.
You never realized it, but she believed everything you told her, good and bad.
"Even though she was in love with you, her powers grew stronger, unlike Kikyo. She would have been the one to defeat me!
Because she had no reason to hate me. She never attacked me out of rage, or hate, but with a clear mind.
"I had to give her a reason to hate me, so I took your form, Inu Yasha. I told her those words of hate. Ha! She believed
them! She hated you, not me! Kukuku. She was as much of an idiot as Kikyo."
This time, everyone swirled with anger towards Naraku. However, being the coward that he is, Naraku slowly took two steps
back, looked to his left, then ran out of there before anyone could lay a hand on him.
Inu Yasha looked to where Naraku looked. There was a woman, dressed in a white robe, and gray pants. Kagome.
"Kagome?"
Everyone turned and looked. Kagome turned and looked at them.
"Pss." Miroku whispered to the group, except Inu Yasha. "Let's give them time alone."
"You?!" Sango exclaimed. "You, of all people, want to leave them alone?!"
Miroku gave the most serious expression he ever had. Everyone agreed.
"Kagome? You heard everything?" Inu Yasha asked.
Kagome walked up to Inu Yasha, her eyes on the ground, and she grasped something in her hand.
"Hold out your hand, Inu Yasha."
The hanyou obeyed. Kagome placed 10 shikon shards in his hand.
"W-Where did you find them?"
Kagome didn't answer, but instead, she turned and walked away.
"Matte, Kagome!"
Kagome stopped and turned around to face Inu Yasha.
"What is it?" she asked in a dead tone.
Inu Yasha opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Why did he ask her to stop? Was it because he wanted her to stop hating
him? When nothing came out of his mouth, Kagome turned and walked away again.
*Say something you idiot!* Inu Yasha berated himself. *Say something! She is going to leave forever if you don't! Wake up,
baka!*
"Matte! Kagome!" Inu Yasha called in a desperate tone.
Kagome stopped, but didn't turn around, so Inu Yasha talked to her backside.
"Did you hear what Naraku said?"
Kagome nodded her head once to confirm that fact.
"Do you still hate me?"
Kagome nodded again.
".....why?"
"It's complicated to say, but once you die hating someone, even when you know the truth, it is hard to get rid of the
feeling."
"Will you ever... stop hating me?"
Inu Yasha continued to stare at Kagome's backside as he waited for her answer. His answer came when she shrugged her
shoulders.
"I don't know, Inu Yasha. That is why I will go away for a while. Try to sort out my feelings, then I'll come back."
"I'll wait for you. However long it takes, I will wait for you."
"Aa."
Kagome stared walking away again.
"Kagome?"
She stopped again.
"Kagome, please let me hold you again. Let me hold you, and then you can go. Please."
Kagome turned around, looking deep into the hanyou's eyes. His face was expressionless, but his eyes betrayed him. The
golden orbs were filled with sadness, pain, and desperation. Kagome walked up to Inu Yasha, and nodded her head.
Inu Yasha closed the gap between them, and enveloped her in a hug. He held her and breathed in her sweet sent. Unlike
the times he held Kikyo, Inu Yasha did not smell the earth in her. A sign that she had all her souls within her body.
She was real and alive.
However, Inu Yasha noticed that Kagome did not hug back. Her arms pressed to her sides, and her body stiff, like she
resented being held by the half demon. So Inu Yasha broke the hug, but not with out kissing her on her forehead.
Kagome looked at Inu Yasha with an unreadable expression. And the demon gave her a small, sad smile.
"I must go." Kagome told him.
He watched her walk away until he could no longer see her.
To Be Continued....
Ch. 7: "After The Well Was Sealed"
"Kagome? I would like you to meet your future husband, Shiganashi, Nigura."
"Please to meet you." He extended his hand to her, which she excepted.
A feeling of dread filled her body.
AN: Okay, peoples! We are winding down to the completion to this story! And sorry for the delay! I've been packed with
homework! Gomen! ^_^()
REVIEWS:
Miyumi: Am I really THAT evil....? *reads what she just wrote* heh. ^_^() please don't hate me!!!!
Sundragon: Well, in the next couple of chapters, you will soon find out why!! ^_^
Rin-sama: Well, she did. Her souls (NOT KIKYO'S!! *ehm*) all returned to her, except the one Kikyo has. Which raises my
question: What soul does Kikyo have? You know, there are 7 souls? Love, life, ect. Well, which one does Kikyo have,
anyway?
QueenPiscies: I hope it is still good.... ^.^()
Sailor Silver Moon: Sanbi get in the way of Kagome and Inu Yasha.... hm.... I hope not either!! ^_^()
Ichigo: Yep! That's Sanbi for you!! ^_^
DemonBlade: You mean history repeating itself? Yep.
l33t 074ku : I'll try! And thanks!! ^_^
NickMancer D2 LoD (Nick): OMG!!!! EVERYONE LOOK!!!! MY BOYFRIEND RESPONDED!! NOW I WON'T HAVE TO KILL HIM!!! YAAAH!!! ^_^
*ehm* The "gene" section?? Did you forget all about what you learned in Biology class? Sanbi sings worse than me,
anata.... -_-() and it wasn't how she was singing, it was WHAT she was singing. What would I have done if you didn't
review?? Oh the possibilities!! ^_~
Animaniac Girl : Yes, I do know how much of a bastard Mr. Inu can be... *thinks of episode 47* BASTARD!! :(
*ehm* well, Kagome joining Naraku?? You'll see!! But first, you will find out what happened to Kagome, and why she
was so miserable after she sealed up the well!!! Kagome fans are going to kill me... -_-()
arctic: Yep... is it ok?
rEbEcCa: I have the ILTTIYS (I Love To Torture Inu Yasha Syndrome). The poor guy has been through hell and back in
my fics, and the ones I am currently writing, but I'll try to be better, ne? ^_^
Phlie: Kagome hate her Saiai-chan? I dun't tink so... but it would give the plot a more twist.... Miyumi is right...
I AM eviiiil.... *sob*
notaningen: As the chapter told you, yes it was. She just has to straighten some things out, and when she does, all
hell breaks loose!! Gyah!! I'm giving away the end of the story!!! WHAAAAA!!!
*This story is for a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. I'm sorry Fate took everything away from you.
I Wish It Was Different
Ch. 6: "Two Different Stories"
She stomped through the forest, the sun was setting, causing a yellow-orange glow to come down to the earth.
*That Inu Yasha!* Her mind screamed. *I HATE him!*
She walked on some more until she came to a clearing. Her gray-blue eyes looked over the meadow's golden grass.
"Where do I go?" she asked herself.
Suddenly, this woman with long, flowing, jet-black hair came behind her.
"Perhaps I can answer that."
The other woman, who we all know now to be Kagome, was not the least surprised when she turned around and saw a mirror
image of herself, only she was wearing red pants.
"Kiyko." Kagome said in an unknown tone. "Was is it that you want?"
"A word with you."
Inu Yasha watched the sun set completely. The stars came out to play their games of night. The half demon sighed, his
thoughts falling on Kagome. *What was she saying?! I would NEVER say those things to her!*
The hanyou got to his feet, and brushed some dirt off his pants. He must head back to camp before the last rays of the
sun are completely gone.
When he got to camp, a fire was already started, food was being cooked, and Miroku was being smacked for being such a
pervert.
*Everything is normal here.* Inu Yasha thought as he took a seat by the fire.
Shippou absolutely refused to talk, much less look at Inu Yasha.
"What's your problem, runt?" Inu Yasha pestered.
"I'll tell you what's wrong!" Shippou yelled. "It's what Kagome said!"
"Let me tell you something--"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
Everyone turned and looked at Sanbi, who was looking at Inu Yasha with a horrified expression.
"I-Inu Y... Yasha?"
She stared at Inu Yasha some more.
"Nani?"
"Y-You don't have your ears.... and your hair is BLACK!!!"
"It's new moon."
"Eh?"
"Didn't..... Kagome tell you?"
Sanbi shook her head. "Not a word."
Inu Yasha frowned, then sighed. "In every half demon's life, they must turn into a human for one night, and it happens
once a month, every month."
Sanbi stared with an expressionless face, then stared cracking up. She held her arms around her waist as she sank to
the ground. Inu Yasha and the others looked utterly confused.
"What the hell is your problem, bitch?!"
Sanbi gasped for air.
"Monthly thing." the she laughed again.
This made Sango laugh as well.
"ENOUGH!" Inu Yasha yelled. "Now, back to what I was supposed to be saying, let me tell you something, Shippou! What
Kagome said--"
"Was that you are one mean hanyou!"
Inu Yasha smacked Shippou.
"No! It wasn't even me!"
"It sounded like something you would say!"
"It does, but I didn't even know what the hell she was talking about!"
"You said all that to Kagome?!" Shippou smacked Inu Yasha on the back of his head. "No wonder she acted like that! I
would hate you too!"
Inu Yasha smacked Shippou's face into the dirt.
"I would NEVER say those things to Kagome! I don't know what is going on here, but I sure as hell am going to find out!"
"Then if it wasn't you," Sanbi began. "What happened that night Anma-chan left?"
*Flashback*
Inu Yasha was resting up in his tree, when a familiar sent filled his sensitive nose.
"Hm? Kagome?"
The hanyou jumped down from his tree, and saw Kagome, with her overstuffed backpack on her back. Tears streamed down
her cheeks.
"What did I do this time?" Inu Yasha asked himself out loud.
He ran after Kagome, who seemed to know he was running after her, because her fast walking turned into a trot, then into
a full run.
Kagome jumped into the well, her sent following her. Inu Yasha was about to jump in as well, but a bright pink light
erupted from the well.
The hanyou couldn't believe it. Kagome was gone.
Forever.
*End of flashback*
Everyone had grave, thoughtful looks that played about on their faces. If it wasn't the REAL Inu Yasha who said those
things to Kagome, then who was it?
Inu Yasha could only think on one person who was cruel enough to do that, and the thought of him made him growl low and
deep, despite the fact he was human at the moment.
"What is it?" Sango asked.
"I'm thinking of one person like Inu Yasha is." Miroku exclaimed.
"Who?" Sanbi asked.
"Naraku!" Inu Yasha growled the name in a loathing sort of way.
"Okay, I'm officially lost!" Sanbi exclaimed.
"How can you be lost?!" Inu Yasha yelled. "You said Kagome told you everything!"
"Evidently, I thought she did. She did tell me about a demon named Naraku, how he came to be, and the whole break up
with Kikyo, but how he did it, I don't know."
"Naraku stole my form, and killed Kikyo. He must of stolen my form, yet again, and told Kagome what he did. But why is
what I want to know!"
"Matte, Inu Yasha," Miroku exclaimed. "We don't know if it is Naraku yet."
"Well, then, who else could it be?" Sango asked.
"Okay, so maybe it was him." Miroku continued. "However, how are we going to ask him? Walk up to him and ask?"
"He will find us." Sanbi told them.
All the group could do was stare at her.
"A word with me? If this is about who gets Inu Yasha, you can have him for all I care!"
"This does involve Inu Yasha, yes, but it also involves your feelings for him."
"I hate him, okay?!"
Kikyo looked at her reincarnation with dead eyes.
"How much?"
"So much that I don't want to kill him, but make his life miserable in every way possible that he will be begging for
death."
Kikyo was taken back by this, but she did not show it. *She hates Inu Yasha even more than I ever can imagine! All because
he said what he said?*
"What makes you hate him so much?"
"What makes YOU hate him so much?!" Kagome snapped.
"I thought he betrayed me."
"Well he DID betray me! He betrayed my heart, my soul--"
"He wasn't yours to begin with!" Kikyo interupted.
"But I gave him something you never had the guts to give him because you were afraid for your reputation!"
"How dare you! I loved Inu Yasha more than you can ever imagine!" Kikyo hissed.
"But were you afraid that everyone would find out about your love for him that you kept each other a secret?"
"I had a position to protect!"
"You had a reputation to protect! If you were truly in love with him, then you wouldn't have been afraid to tell, or show,
your love for him!"
"How did you love Inu Yasha?" Kikyo questioned Kagome further, iqnoring the fact that she just laid out.
"What do you mean by that?"
"What did you do to show your love for him? What is it that you did that I couldn't?"
"Is that what you came to question me about?"
"No. Something more. But I need to know where you stood with Inu Yasha then, and how you stand with him now."
"What is it to you? He was lonely, and I did the only act I could think of to help him from his depression over
you. As you and I both know, he is very stubborn, and he won't admit when something is wrong with him."
"Was is it that you did to 'cheer him up'?"
"And I ask again, what is it to you?" Kagome snapped, no longer afraid of this dead miko.
The main reason she feared Kikyo is not because of the time Kikyo tried to kill her, but because half of Inu Yasha's
heart belonged to Kikyo, and the other half belonged to her. She feared Kikyo because she was everything she was not,
and she had Inu Yasha's heart first. Now Kagome no longer feared Kikyo because she no longer held any love for Inu Yasha.
"I just need to know where you stand with him."
"I stand nowhere with that demon! Wherever he looked at me, he saw you! When he rarely spoke to me dearly, he spoke those
words to you! Whenever he held me, he was holding you! It was always you and it always will be you!"
This was exactly what Kikyo wanted to hear. Now she can play on her reincarnation's emotions, if she had any love for him.
*Now for a little test.* The dead miko thought to herself.
"Inu Yasha? Of course he always saw me. Now look at you! If you could have been mistaken for me then, now there is
no difference!"
"I realize that!" Kagome snapped, her sixth sense told her not to give into her tricks.
"I just want to know, did you sleep with Inu Yasha?"
"Did you?"
"I'll answer that if you answer me." Kikyo told Kagome. Kikyo was getting more desperate to know the truth.
"Hm. Inu Yasha.... he was lonely.... desperate for you. I gave him what you wouldn't because of your fear. I wanted to
show him that I wasn't afraid to love him the way a married woman loves her husband, just because I was a miko. But he
saw you."
Everything was siglence after the short story of the happenings between her and Inu Yasha.
"What if I told you that it wasn't Inu Yasha who told you those words on the day you disappeared from here."
"Who else could it have been?"
"Remember, Naraku tricked me and Inu Yasha into hating each other by taking his form and killing me. Obviously, we had
to have a strong relationship in order for him to trick us. But you? Naraku tricked you just by a few hurtful words?
Obviously, your relationship with Inu Yasha was weak because you let him love your body. You let him touch you in such
an intimate way even with your insecurities in the back of your mind. And you said so yourself, it was me, and it always
will be me. So he made love, not to you, but to me."
When Kagome didn't say anything, and Kikyo stared at her backside for the longest time, that was when Kikyo made her exit.
When the zombie left, Kagome turned and looked in the direction she left in with a murderous look in her eyes.
"Bitch." was all she could say.
"Well, did you have the talk with her?" A demon asked a woman who was wearing red pants.
"I did, Naraku." the miko answered.
"And?"
"She still hates Inu Yasha, but hates me more."
"Kuku. How do you know this?"
"I can sense it. She reeked with the smell of hatred and thirst for vengeance and death. Not toward me though, but to
Inu Yasha."
Naraku smirked. "I thought you said she hates you more."
"I did. But she is still blinded by her hate toward Inu Yasha to notice. Just like I was until I found out it was you
who killed me, not him."
"If you hate me so, then why do you work for me?"
"So I can get that girl out of the way, kill you, wish myself back to real life, and then live 'happily ever after'
with Inu Yasha."
"Kukuku, Kikyo. You really are a dreamer."
"Kagome-sama was wearing gray pants, and a white robe, ne?" Miroku asked.
"What about it?" Inu Yasha asked back.
"Gray pants and white robe symbolizes great miko power, does it not?" Miroku questioned further.
"Yes. It does." Sango told him.
"Keh! What do you know?! Kagome never held any great power!"
"That we know of." Miroku pressed on.
"Whoever brought her back was probably either demented, or thought she was Kikyo!"
Shippou smacked Inu Yasha on the head.
"She was completely different!" he yelled.
"I know that, runt!"
"The sun will be up soon." Miroku told everyone. "We should get what little rest we have left."
Everyone, except Inu Yasha, agreed.
Inu Yasha stared at the flames of the dying fire. Suddenly, someone wrapped in a blanket sat down next to him.
"Hello, Inu Yasha." Sanbi greeted.
Inu Yasha looked away from her.
"What did I do?" she asked.
"You told me that Kagome loved me."
Sanbi stared at the fire, guilty.
"She did say that. But I left out a part. She said--"
*flashback*
"I love Inu Yasha, hai, but... I hate him even more."
"Naze, Anma-chan?"
"We never were on best terms."
*end of flashback*
"She hated me..."
"She was just miserable. Her marriage to a complete asshole was really terrible. I'm sure she didn't mean it."
"Yea. Even after she tried to kill me, she didn't mean it." Inu Yasha's voice was on the edge of being sarcastic.
"But you were the one she mostly talked about. Just what was your relationship with her?"
"Why do you keep asking that?"
Inu Yasha's face was a deep crimson.
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"What was your relationship?"
Inu Yasha whirled around to face her.
"THAT ISN'T ANY OF YOUR BUSINESS!!"
Inu Yasha looked away again, and all fell silent. Sanbi took the hint and was torn between feeling sorry for both
Kagome and Inu Yasha, and being jealous because of what their relationship held. The most expressive form of love was
acted between the two lovers.
Sanbi found herself wondering what both lovers were thinking while they were intimate. How did they hold each other?
How much love was felt between them during such times? A sudden feeling of loneliness creeped up Sanbi's spine. *No! No!
I mustn't let that feeling over come me!*
The sun came up before they everyone knew it, and everyone started on their way.
"Inu Yasha?" Sanbi asked. "You back to normal!"
"Of course I'm back to normal, wench!"
"You say that like it's a good thing." Shippou told Sanbi.
Shippou ended up with a big welt on his poor head.
Sanbi was in the middle of laughing when she suddenly felt a great evil power hidden in the trees.
"S-Someone is over there!" Sanbi cried out, looking at a demon in a baboon pelt.
Everyone rushed over and surrounded the demon known as Naraku.
"Kukuku. Glad to see everyone here." Naraku proclaimed.
"Why do you always have to interfere with my life, you bastard?!" Inu Yasha barked.
"Kuku."
"Where you the one who turned Kagome against me?!" Inu Yasha yelled, very irritated.
"Yes."
"Why?!"
"Why can you never see through the plan? Every day, her miko powers got stronger and stronger, yet she never believed
in them, in great thanks to you. You always said she was nothing but a Shikon detector, therefore she believed you.
You never realized it, but she believed everything you told her, good and bad.
"Even though she was in love with you, her powers grew stronger, unlike Kikyo. She would have been the one to defeat me!
Because she had no reason to hate me. She never attacked me out of rage, or hate, but with a clear mind.
"I had to give her a reason to hate me, so I took your form, Inu Yasha. I told her those words of hate. Ha! She believed
them! She hated you, not me! Kukuku. She was as much of an idiot as Kikyo."
This time, everyone swirled with anger towards Naraku. However, being the coward that he is, Naraku slowly took two steps
back, looked to his left, then ran out of there before anyone could lay a hand on him.
Inu Yasha looked to where Naraku looked. There was a woman, dressed in a white robe, and gray pants. Kagome.
"Kagome?"
Everyone turned and looked. Kagome turned and looked at them.
"Pss." Miroku whispered to the group, except Inu Yasha. "Let's give them time alone."
"You?!" Sango exclaimed. "You, of all people, want to leave them alone?!"
Miroku gave the most serious expression he ever had. Everyone agreed.
"Kagome? You heard everything?" Inu Yasha asked.
Kagome walked up to Inu Yasha, her eyes on the ground, and she grasped something in her hand.
"Hold out your hand, Inu Yasha."
The hanyou obeyed. Kagome placed 10 shikon shards in his hand.
"W-Where did you find them?"
Kagome didn't answer, but instead, she turned and walked away.
"Matte, Kagome!"
Kagome stopped and turned around to face Inu Yasha.
"What is it?" she asked in a dead tone.
Inu Yasha opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Why did he ask her to stop? Was it because he wanted her to stop hating
him? When nothing came out of his mouth, Kagome turned and walked away again.
*Say something you idiot!* Inu Yasha berated himself. *Say something! She is going to leave forever if you don't! Wake up,
baka!*
"Matte! Kagome!" Inu Yasha called in a desperate tone.
Kagome stopped, but didn't turn around, so Inu Yasha talked to her backside.
"Did you hear what Naraku said?"
Kagome nodded her head once to confirm that fact.
"Do you still hate me?"
Kagome nodded again.
".....why?"
"It's complicated to say, but once you die hating someone, even when you know the truth, it is hard to get rid of the
feeling."
"Will you ever... stop hating me?"
Inu Yasha continued to stare at Kagome's backside as he waited for her answer. His answer came when she shrugged her
shoulders.
"I don't know, Inu Yasha. That is why I will go away for a while. Try to sort out my feelings, then I'll come back."
"I'll wait for you. However long it takes, I will wait for you."
"Aa."
Kagome stared walking away again.
"Kagome?"
She stopped again.
"Kagome, please let me hold you again. Let me hold you, and then you can go. Please."
Kagome turned around, looking deep into the hanyou's eyes. His face was expressionless, but his eyes betrayed him. The
golden orbs were filled with sadness, pain, and desperation. Kagome walked up to Inu Yasha, and nodded her head.
Inu Yasha closed the gap between them, and enveloped her in a hug. He held her and breathed in her sweet sent. Unlike
the times he held Kikyo, Inu Yasha did not smell the earth in her. A sign that she had all her souls within her body.
She was real and alive.
However, Inu Yasha noticed that Kagome did not hug back. Her arms pressed to her sides, and her body stiff, like she
resented being held by the half demon. So Inu Yasha broke the hug, but not with out kissing her on her forehead.
Kagome looked at Inu Yasha with an unreadable expression. And the demon gave her a small, sad smile.
"I must go." Kagome told him.
He watched her walk away until he could no longer see her.
To Be Continued....
Ch. 7: "After The Well Was Sealed"
"Kagome? I would like you to meet your future husband, Shiganashi, Nigura."
"Please to meet you." He extended his hand to her, which she excepted.
A feeling of dread filled her body.
AN: Okay, peoples! We are winding down to the completion to this story! And sorry for the delay! I've been packed with
homework! Gomen! ^_^()
REVIEWS:
Miyumi: Am I really THAT evil....? *reads what she just wrote* heh. ^_^() please don't hate me!!!!
Sundragon: Well, in the next couple of chapters, you will soon find out why!! ^_^
Rin-sama: Well, she did. Her souls (NOT KIKYO'S!! *ehm*) all returned to her, except the one Kikyo has. Which raises my
question: What soul does Kikyo have? You know, there are 7 souls? Love, life, ect. Well, which one does Kikyo have,
anyway?
QueenPiscies: I hope it is still good.... ^.^()
Sailor Silver Moon: Sanbi get in the way of Kagome and Inu Yasha.... hm.... I hope not either!! ^_^()
Ichigo: Yep! That's Sanbi for you!! ^_^
DemonBlade: You mean history repeating itself? Yep.
l33t 074ku : I'll try! And thanks!! ^_^
NickMancer D2 LoD (Nick): OMG!!!! EVERYONE LOOK!!!! MY BOYFRIEND RESPONDED!! NOW I WON'T HAVE TO KILL HIM!!! YAAAH!!! ^_^
*ehm* The "gene" section?? Did you forget all about what you learned in Biology class? Sanbi sings worse than me,
anata.... -_-() and it wasn't how she was singing, it was WHAT she was singing. What would I have done if you didn't
review?? Oh the possibilities!! ^_~
Animaniac Girl : Yes, I do know how much of a bastard Mr. Inu can be... *thinks of episode 47* BASTARD!! :(
*ehm* well, Kagome joining Naraku?? You'll see!! But first, you will find out what happened to Kagome, and why she
was so miserable after she sealed up the well!!! Kagome fans are going to kill me... -_-()
arctic: Yep... is it ok?
rEbEcCa: I have the ILTTIYS (I Love To Torture Inu Yasha Syndrome). The poor guy has been through hell and back in
my fics, and the ones I am currently writing, but I'll try to be better, ne? ^_^
Phlie: Kagome hate her Saiai-chan? I dun't tink so... but it would give the plot a more twist.... Miyumi is right...
I AM eviiiil.... *sob*
notaningen: As the chapter told you, yes it was. She just has to straighten some things out, and when she does, all
hell breaks loose!! Gyah!! I'm giving away the end of the story!!! WHAAAAA!!!
