Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but in this their personalities are MINE!
~*~Mel~*~
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Forgotten Lives
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter Eight: The Ball
Kagome Higurashi glared as Inuyasha went up the stairs to her grandmother's parlor. Smiling again
when Sango gushed over how her kimono looked absolutly gorgeous on her. Kagome ignored Inuyasha's
presence and went back to having her measurements taken.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Inuyasha bowed to the Lady Kaede with a grim face. She had called for him to give him his reward
money for returning her granddaughter to her. When Lady Kaede gestured to the money Inuyasha
shook his head.
"No? Ye've saved her life, and mine. And then ye return her to me ten years later. Yet ye
do not want the money. Why the change of mind?" Lady Kaede asked closing the box which held her
money.
"What I want, you can't give me. And its not a change of mind, more of a change of heart." he
said, bowed and left heading down the stairs and nearly coliding with Kagome who was heading up
to her new room.
"Oh, its you." Kagome said, her voice filled with bitterness, causing him to flinch inwardly.
"I'm sorry, your Highness." Inuyasha said and bowed leaving her there to stand glaring after him.
Inuyasha went to the boarding house and went into the room to see Shippo sitting on a table and
Miroku finishing with his kimono. Miroku turned to his friend to see him looking grim and upset.
Frowning to see his bestfriend like that Miroku wished he could change his mind about returning
to Norther Japan.
"Why don't you stay here? Maybe Kagome will talk to you again." Miroku said, trying to sound
optemistic.
"No, I have things to take care of. Besides I fulfilled my promise to her from ten years ago. And
also, Princesses don't marry kitchen boys." Inuyasha said and went over to Shippo giving him a
pat on the head and left for the train station, feeling emptier than ever.
"He'll never know if she felt the same way or not, will he Shippo?" Miroku asked the dog after
Inuyasha left.
Shippo merely whimpered and looked down at the floor as Miroku picked him up and carried him to
the building where he would meet up with Sango.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Kagome looked out behind a curtain to see Shippo looking boreder than ever beside her throne.
Sighing she pulled her head into the curtained off section and adjusted her crown of combs. Lady
Kaede watched as her granddaughter searched the people out dancing and awaiting her arrival.
"He's not out their child." Kaede said, knowing Kagome looked for Inuyasha subconsciously.
"He's probably too busy spending his reward money to even notice. I'm sorry, who's not out their
grandmother Kaede?" Kagome asked, blinking back into the real world.
"Ye know child, ye were born into this world, yet I wonder if this is what ye really want." Kaede
said.
"Of course I do grandmother Kaede. I found you, I have a family again." Kagome said, knowing that
part of what her grandmother said hit too close to home.
"He didn't take the money child." Kaede said hugging her granddaughter.
"He didn't take the money? Grandmother Kaede what are you saying?" Kagome asked, truly confused.
"Seeing ye makes my heart soar, but ye should go with ye'res(yours)" she said and went to sit out
in her throne.
Kagome became quiet confused and stood thinking over everything that her grandmother had said.
As she did she noticed Shippo had come out and ran past her outside, barking madly. She sighed
and chased after the dog, lifting up her kimono a bit so she could run better.
"Shippo! Shippo come back here!" Kagome called out and as she ran she didn't notice that the
hedges she passed closed behind her, magically.
Shippo stopped after a while of running, making it to a bridge where he stood growling at something
in the shadows. Kagome had stopped running and had turned around, wondering if Shippo had stopped
and hidden when she saw the hedges close blocking her way free. As she stood staring vines and
thorns started creeping up and started ripping her kimono from her shoulders and ankles.
Shrieking Kagome ran to where she heard Shippo growling. Kneeling behind the dog she picked him
up and looked around trying to see if there was anyway out. As she stood there she jumped when
a figure stepped out of the shadows cackling madly at her.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Inuyasha stood in line at the train station, waiting to get his ticket to go back to Norther Japan
when he pulled out of his bag the piece of paper Miroku had kept the score on. Sighing he threw
the paper back into his bag but was grabbed on the wrist by a pale woman who was holding a rather
large mirror.
"Hey, let go." Inuyasha said but stopped when he saw in the mirror, not his reflection, but a
picture of Kagome being killed by a man with a baboon skull around his waist which was glowing
green.
"What is this?" Inuyasha asked but when he looked up the woman just pointed to the door for him
to hurry. "Thanks." he said and ran off to the bridge he saw in the mirror, which wasn't to far
from where the train station was.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Kagome stared at the man with long dark hair, and dark evil eyes as he advanced on her. She
backed away a bit and then she remembered where she had seen his face before.
"That face...The plague...The voice...Naraku!" Kagome cried out and backed away again.
"Naraku! Ku ku ku ku...Very good you little bitch. Look what ten years has done to us. You a
beautiful young woman; me a wreck." Naraku said, glaring at her.
"Go away you monster!" Kagome cried out, her voice wavering in fear of what this man could do to
her.
"Now why does this scene look so familiar?" Naraku asked himself, just to tick her off. "Oh, I
know, because this is just like when I died, except for I took a swim under the ice. How about
you too?" he asked and used his magic to turn the water into ice.
Naraku laughed sadistically and used another dose of his magic to start breaking the bridge where
Kagome stood. Shippo growled, jumped from Kagome's arms and latched himself onto Naraku's ankle,
causing him to stop using his magic to try to get the puppy off of his leg. Kagome was screaming
her head off and trying to stay as still as possible when the bridge started to bend and fall
into the ice.
"NO!" Kagome heard a shout and glanced up in time to see Naraku get punched incredibly hard in the
face by Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha!" she called out holding onto the bridge as it fell.
Inuyasha looked over at her and dove to where she held on and reached his hand out to her. Naraku
had kicked Shippo away and used his magic to turn a stone pegasus from stone to horse to attack
Inuyasha. Inuyasha didn't see the large horse come at him, but Kagome did.
"Inuyasha look out!" she screamed causing him to roll to the side to just avoid getting slammed
down onto by the hooves of the pegasus.
Inuyasha had to keep away from the pegasus and try to save Kagome, but each time he got close to
where she was the pegasus would jerk him onto its back and buck him high into the air so he came
crashing down onto the bridge. Kagome had gotten ahold of the ledge of the bridge where it wasn't
falling and held on tightly, her knuckles turning white as she did so. Naraku watched her do this
and was about to step on her hands when Shippo attacked his ankle again.
Kagome swung her arm towards a pole that was sticking out of the bridge as what she held onto started
to fall. Getting her arm on it as Naraku was busy trying kick the puppy off of himself he didn't
notice this. Just as Kagome got ahold of the pole there was loud splash in the water.
Naraku who heard the splash had finally kicked Shippo off of his ankle. Inuyasha, who too had
heard the splash screamed and ran to dive into the water thinking Kagome had fallen into the water.
Just as he dove off of the bridge the pegasus slammed him back with his face and into a stone
pillar which had been where the pegasus stood.
"Yes! Long live the Higurashi's!" Naraku yelled, sarcasm just dripping off of his tongue when
he said the last little bit.
"Right!" came a grunt as Kagome pulled herself onto the bridge again.
"No...You're dead!" Naraku said backing away as she tackled him and he kicked her away.
Kagome fell to the ground hard as he pulled the baboon skull from off of his waist and pointed it
at her, the skull glowing green. Shippo who saw a sudden glowing jumped high into the air and
grabbed the skull from Naraku's hand throwing it to Kagome. Kagom saw it fall to her feet, when
Naraku dived for it she slammed her foot on it, the high part of her shoes digging into it causing
the pegasus to turn back into stone and explode, pieces of it hitting Inuyasha in the neck knocking
him unconscious. Kagome, who saw this, growled and pulled the skull back towards her body with
her heel.
"This is for my family!" she said digging her foot into the skull. "This is for Inuyasha!" she
said with another slam the skull started to crack into pieces. "And this, this is for you Naraku,
good riddance!" she screamed and slammed her heel into the skull destroying it causing Naraku to
scream in agony and turn to ashes blown away by the wind.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried out as she ran over to him, leaning over him.
Inuyasha lay stiff on the ground, his body just laying there scaring Kagome. She turned when she
thought he was dead, brought her knees to her chest and cried. When Inuyasha let out a groan
she spun around, her hand smacking him in the nose.
"Ow!" Inuyasha cried out, holding his nose.
"I'm sorry..." Kagome started but he stopped her.
"I know I know, I'm a big baby." he said.
"You didn't leave?"
"I knew something was going to happen, I felt it."
"You didn't take the money?"
"I couldn't..." he said about to kiss Kagome when Shippo barked holding up one of the combs from
Kagome's hair. "They'll be waiting for you..." Inuyasha said, the despair not able to be hidden
from her.
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Thats it for this chapter.
~*~Mel~*~
~*~Mel~*~
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Forgotten Lives
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter Eight: The Ball
Kagome Higurashi glared as Inuyasha went up the stairs to her grandmother's parlor. Smiling again
when Sango gushed over how her kimono looked absolutly gorgeous on her. Kagome ignored Inuyasha's
presence and went back to having her measurements taken.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Inuyasha bowed to the Lady Kaede with a grim face. She had called for him to give him his reward
money for returning her granddaughter to her. When Lady Kaede gestured to the money Inuyasha
shook his head.
"No? Ye've saved her life, and mine. And then ye return her to me ten years later. Yet ye
do not want the money. Why the change of mind?" Lady Kaede asked closing the box which held her
money.
"What I want, you can't give me. And its not a change of mind, more of a change of heart." he
said, bowed and left heading down the stairs and nearly coliding with Kagome who was heading up
to her new room.
"Oh, its you." Kagome said, her voice filled with bitterness, causing him to flinch inwardly.
"I'm sorry, your Highness." Inuyasha said and bowed leaving her there to stand glaring after him.
Inuyasha went to the boarding house and went into the room to see Shippo sitting on a table and
Miroku finishing with his kimono. Miroku turned to his friend to see him looking grim and upset.
Frowning to see his bestfriend like that Miroku wished he could change his mind about returning
to Norther Japan.
"Why don't you stay here? Maybe Kagome will talk to you again." Miroku said, trying to sound
optemistic.
"No, I have things to take care of. Besides I fulfilled my promise to her from ten years ago. And
also, Princesses don't marry kitchen boys." Inuyasha said and went over to Shippo giving him a
pat on the head and left for the train station, feeling emptier than ever.
"He'll never know if she felt the same way or not, will he Shippo?" Miroku asked the dog after
Inuyasha left.
Shippo merely whimpered and looked down at the floor as Miroku picked him up and carried him to
the building where he would meet up with Sango.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Kagome looked out behind a curtain to see Shippo looking boreder than ever beside her throne.
Sighing she pulled her head into the curtained off section and adjusted her crown of combs. Lady
Kaede watched as her granddaughter searched the people out dancing and awaiting her arrival.
"He's not out their child." Kaede said, knowing Kagome looked for Inuyasha subconsciously.
"He's probably too busy spending his reward money to even notice. I'm sorry, who's not out their
grandmother Kaede?" Kagome asked, blinking back into the real world.
"Ye know child, ye were born into this world, yet I wonder if this is what ye really want." Kaede
said.
"Of course I do grandmother Kaede. I found you, I have a family again." Kagome said, knowing that
part of what her grandmother said hit too close to home.
"He didn't take the money child." Kaede said hugging her granddaughter.
"He didn't take the money? Grandmother Kaede what are you saying?" Kagome asked, truly confused.
"Seeing ye makes my heart soar, but ye should go with ye'res(yours)" she said and went to sit out
in her throne.
Kagome became quiet confused and stood thinking over everything that her grandmother had said.
As she did she noticed Shippo had come out and ran past her outside, barking madly. She sighed
and chased after the dog, lifting up her kimono a bit so she could run better.
"Shippo! Shippo come back here!" Kagome called out and as she ran she didn't notice that the
hedges she passed closed behind her, magically.
Shippo stopped after a while of running, making it to a bridge where he stood growling at something
in the shadows. Kagome had stopped running and had turned around, wondering if Shippo had stopped
and hidden when she saw the hedges close blocking her way free. As she stood staring vines and
thorns started creeping up and started ripping her kimono from her shoulders and ankles.
Shrieking Kagome ran to where she heard Shippo growling. Kneeling behind the dog she picked him
up and looked around trying to see if there was anyway out. As she stood there she jumped when
a figure stepped out of the shadows cackling madly at her.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Inuyasha stood in line at the train station, waiting to get his ticket to go back to Norther Japan
when he pulled out of his bag the piece of paper Miroku had kept the score on. Sighing he threw
the paper back into his bag but was grabbed on the wrist by a pale woman who was holding a rather
large mirror.
"Hey, let go." Inuyasha said but stopped when he saw in the mirror, not his reflection, but a
picture of Kagome being killed by a man with a baboon skull around his waist which was glowing
green.
"What is this?" Inuyasha asked but when he looked up the woman just pointed to the door for him
to hurry. "Thanks." he said and ran off to the bridge he saw in the mirror, which wasn't to far
from where the train station was.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Kagome stared at the man with long dark hair, and dark evil eyes as he advanced on her. She
backed away a bit and then she remembered where she had seen his face before.
"That face...The plague...The voice...Naraku!" Kagome cried out and backed away again.
"Naraku! Ku ku ku ku...Very good you little bitch. Look what ten years has done to us. You a
beautiful young woman; me a wreck." Naraku said, glaring at her.
"Go away you monster!" Kagome cried out, her voice wavering in fear of what this man could do to
her.
"Now why does this scene look so familiar?" Naraku asked himself, just to tick her off. "Oh, I
know, because this is just like when I died, except for I took a swim under the ice. How about
you too?" he asked and used his magic to turn the water into ice.
Naraku laughed sadistically and used another dose of his magic to start breaking the bridge where
Kagome stood. Shippo growled, jumped from Kagome's arms and latched himself onto Naraku's ankle,
causing him to stop using his magic to try to get the puppy off of his leg. Kagome was screaming
her head off and trying to stay as still as possible when the bridge started to bend and fall
into the ice.
"NO!" Kagome heard a shout and glanced up in time to see Naraku get punched incredibly hard in the
face by Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha!" she called out holding onto the bridge as it fell.
Inuyasha looked over at her and dove to where she held on and reached his hand out to her. Naraku
had kicked Shippo away and used his magic to turn a stone pegasus from stone to horse to attack
Inuyasha. Inuyasha didn't see the large horse come at him, but Kagome did.
"Inuyasha look out!" she screamed causing him to roll to the side to just avoid getting slammed
down onto by the hooves of the pegasus.
Inuyasha had to keep away from the pegasus and try to save Kagome, but each time he got close to
where she was the pegasus would jerk him onto its back and buck him high into the air so he came
crashing down onto the bridge. Kagome had gotten ahold of the ledge of the bridge where it wasn't
falling and held on tightly, her knuckles turning white as she did so. Naraku watched her do this
and was about to step on her hands when Shippo attacked his ankle again.
Kagome swung her arm towards a pole that was sticking out of the bridge as what she held onto started
to fall. Getting her arm on it as Naraku was busy trying kick the puppy off of himself he didn't
notice this. Just as Kagome got ahold of the pole there was loud splash in the water.
Naraku who heard the splash had finally kicked Shippo off of his ankle. Inuyasha, who too had
heard the splash screamed and ran to dive into the water thinking Kagome had fallen into the water.
Just as he dove off of the bridge the pegasus slammed him back with his face and into a stone
pillar which had been where the pegasus stood.
"Yes! Long live the Higurashi's!" Naraku yelled, sarcasm just dripping off of his tongue when
he said the last little bit.
"Right!" came a grunt as Kagome pulled herself onto the bridge again.
"No...You're dead!" Naraku said backing away as she tackled him and he kicked her away.
Kagome fell to the ground hard as he pulled the baboon skull from off of his waist and pointed it
at her, the skull glowing green. Shippo who saw a sudden glowing jumped high into the air and
grabbed the skull from Naraku's hand throwing it to Kagome. Kagom saw it fall to her feet, when
Naraku dived for it she slammed her foot on it, the high part of her shoes digging into it causing
the pegasus to turn back into stone and explode, pieces of it hitting Inuyasha in the neck knocking
him unconscious. Kagome, who saw this, growled and pulled the skull back towards her body with
her heel.
"This is for my family!" she said digging her foot into the skull. "This is for Inuyasha!" she
said with another slam the skull started to crack into pieces. "And this, this is for you Naraku,
good riddance!" she screamed and slammed her heel into the skull destroying it causing Naraku to
scream in agony and turn to ashes blown away by the wind.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome cried out as she ran over to him, leaning over him.
Inuyasha lay stiff on the ground, his body just laying there scaring Kagome. She turned when she
thought he was dead, brought her knees to her chest and cried. When Inuyasha let out a groan
she spun around, her hand smacking him in the nose.
"Ow!" Inuyasha cried out, holding his nose.
"I'm sorry..." Kagome started but he stopped her.
"I know I know, I'm a big baby." he said.
"You didn't leave?"
"I knew something was going to happen, I felt it."
"You didn't take the money?"
"I couldn't..." he said about to kiss Kagome when Shippo barked holding up one of the combs from
Kagome's hair. "They'll be waiting for you..." Inuyasha said, the despair not able to be hidden
from her.
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Thats it for this chapter.
~*~Mel~*~