@ I don't want to hold you back, so I'll be brief! Review and help me keep the flow… @
Kikyou had waited a long time for this in many ways. Waited a long time for Inuyasha to become human. Waited a long time for the opportunity to make him hers forever. Waited oh so long to be able to get Kagome out of the picture. And now, she had the opportunity… He was human, by some method, he would be hers, that had been seen to… And Kagome was whisked away by Naraku. Too bad for Naraku that Inuyasha had more of the Jewel than Kagome… He could reclaim it from their corpses.
She stared at him, wounded in the chest, weak from battle, and utterly prepared to go rescue Kagome. She followed as he ran through the woods in the direction Naraku went, waiting for him to overexert himself. Waiting had become so habitual for her, chasing after the same man, looking for the perfect opportunity. But it didn't matter that he could still run like this for days, didn't matter that he had not even glanced at her, his eyes locked on Kagome, his throat paralyzed from shock. He would be hers.
He stopped to rest, and she sat down silently beside him, conjuring an image of Kagome to surround herself.
"What's wrong Inuyasha? Are you daydreaming?" She said, imitating the innocent sickly sweet tones that grated at her whenever Kagome spoke. The idiot girl presumed to love the man who only used her to gather shards, who only cared that she held the soul he loved. When Naraku killed Kagome the soul would return, and then she would exact her revenge and love upon foolish Inuyasha.
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Inuyasha chased after Naraku, cursing himself for not having kept her safe. He should never have let her fight, never have gotten her into this mess, and again it would be his fault if she were hurt or… If she hated him for not stopping Naraku, for letting Naraku take her away. He fretted as he ran, breath coming in gulps, lungs on fire, heart nearly pounding out of his chest. Finally he came to a pause, and he dreamt Kagome sat next to him, only she spoke as if she were a love-smitten village girl…
"What's wrong Inuyasha? Are you daydreaming?" A forced smile accompanied the words. Was this how girls in Kagome's time acted? He ignored the apparition for a moment, then remembered what Naraku had said… "I promised you to someone else…" It was Kikyou he suddenly realized, and her guise vanished.
"I followed you all this way. As soon as Kagome dies, and my soul is returned, we'll depart together, and share hell for an eternity. We won't have to worry about the Shikon jewel anymore. We can have peace." She looked old then, as if the fifty years really had passed, and she wore the skin of a younger girl. Repulsed, Inuyasha stood and backed away.
"Kagome isn't going to die…Not today, and not because of me!" He told her, and he dashed onward, black hair streaming…
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Kagome was a bit shocked to be whisked upwards by Naraku, and a bit afraid. But mostly, she was angry. He comes, he bars her way home, and just as they're getting close to the well, HE comes along. Bringing Kikyou, no less. So basically, the first thing she tried to do was beat him until he let go of her. The first thing he did then, was drop her. She fainted on the way down.
He must have broken her fall, for when she awoke, she wasn't hurt. At all. Her shoulder wound, gone. So, he did something, the Shikon shard did something, or she'd been there a long time. She wasn't sure which it was, when she noticed Tetsusaiga in her hands. From the bruises on her hands, it looked like someone tried to pry it out of her grasp, and couldn't, so that mostly ruled out the passing of a large quantity of time.
Intuitively Kagome knew the Shikon shard had done something to her. She just hoped it wasn't going to go further, if it was what she thought it was…
Her introspection was interrupted by the opening of the door. Kagura stood in the doorway, her fan out.
"You will give me the Shikon Shards and the sword, and then you will die, you filth…"
"You certainly are quite a windbag Kagura. I'm not going to do either. You're going to give me the keys to every door in the house, after you taste the Steel Cleaving Fang!" And Kagome drew Tetsusaiga, which transformed at her will.
@ Tetsusaiga's new wielder… The Priestess of the Youkai blade! @