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Seisouhen
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Ch. 3: "I'm Back"
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.
.
Kagome landed at the bottom of the well rather roughly. When she landed, she stubbled a bit, then regained her footing. She
breathed rapidly a couple of times, then sighed.
.
The well didn't work.
.
Suddenly, Kagome started to shiver.
.
*Wait! Shiver?! It's in the middle of June!*
.
The woman looked up to see snowflakes falling, then landing on her face.
.
*I made it back?!*
.
Kagome was both excited, and scared. She couldn't say why she was scared, but she crasped the vines..... the frozen vines.
.
Now, Kagome had to be extra careful about climbing up. Since the vines are frozen, they could snap easily under a certain
amount of weight.
.
"Great." Kagome said to no one in particular. "And I'm twice the weight I used to be."
.
Kagome secretly wished Inu Yasha could smell her sent, then come and get her.... just like it used to be. But he probably
isn't even a hanyou anymore. He might not even be alive.
.
Kagome crasped the vines, her hands freezing on contact. However, she still held on, and carefuly climbed up the well. When
she got to the top, she fell over the well, and onto the green grass.... white, freezing snow, with powerful wind gusts that
cut her like a white-hot knife.
.
Kagome jumped up, and looked around. She couldn't see anything at all. So, here she was, trying to find her way through a
blizzard, wearing summer clothes.
.
*The things I get myself in to!*
.
But, Kagome knew this place like the back of her hand. And if she was correct, the village was south-east. But which way is
south-east?
.
*So much for that...*
.
So, Kagome just took a wild guess, and started walking in the direction she always went to when she came here. Hopefuly,
someone would find her before she got too lost.
.
*Or die of hypothermia.*
.
The wind kept blowing relentlessly at Kagome's exposed skin. It bit her skin like fire, and Kagome quickened her pace.
.
After moving frozen shrubbary around, Kagome saw something that looked like glowing, yellow lights in front of her. The
lights seemed to make a path in the darkness, and Kagome followed them.
.
When it finnaly came into view, Kagome saw it was indeed the village she was first taken to when she first came here.
Kagome quickened her pace, and immediately went to the one hut that she always went to.
.
Kaede's hut.
.
However, Kagome's hopes sank when she saw a board placed on the doorway. But then, why did she hear muffled talking, then
shouting, then a thunk, then laughter from someone else?
.
Kagome, almost half frozen, knocked on the wood. Her frozen knuckels shot in pain at the impact. She heard talking from
inside.
.
"Who could THAT be?!" a voice sounded from inside.
.
"Yea, expesially in THIS weather!" a male voice sounded this time. Though the voice sounded more like a boy sixteen, or
seventeen.
.
Footsteps sounded, and she heard some clanging sounds, like the wood on the doorway was held by metal, or something heavy.
.
Then the wooden door was removed.
.
Kagome stood there, momentarly blinded by the light eliminating from inside. The person who stood at the doorway didn't
make a single movement. Almost like they were afraid that if they moved wrong, then Kagome would suddenly disappear.
.
Finnaly, Kagome opened her now adjusted eyes to see the person in front of her. She stared in disbelife, as did the other
person in front of her. It was like they were mirroring each other's expressions.
.
What, or who, Kagome saw was a grown man, maybe twenty-nine, redish hair, male, blue kimono pants, and a redish tail
.
"Kagome....?" the man asked, whispering her name in utter disbelife. But at the same time, he said it like he was afraid
she would disappear once again.
.
Kagome frowned, still standing in the freezing cold, then finnaly, she reconized him.
.
"Shippou....?" she asked in a whisper just like the man's was.
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"Is it realy you?" he asked.
.
"Yes, is it really you?"
.
"How are you?"
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*Such a rediculus question, consitering he still hasn't let me in, and I'm standing out here, FREEZING MY ASS OFF!!!*
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Kagome shivered, and she felt her mussles contract, and tighten. She suddenly felt faint.
.
"I'm.... fine... consitering the fact that I'm a human icicle...."
.
Then Kagome fainted, and fell into Shippou.
.
.
.
*Inu Yasha..... please remember how we were..... back then.....*
.
Kagome opened her eyes, her vision very blury, and she was having a hard time remembering where she was. All she knew was
that she felt increadably warm. She felt pressed down by something heavy.
.
Her vistion cleared, and Kagome sat up, then looked around. She was laying on a futon, heavy, thick blankets that covered
her up now rested around her waist. She was placed next to a fire that was still burning with life, and accationaly snaped
and crackled.
.
Then Kagome noticed that she was the only one in the hut. So she stood up, and again noticed something new. She was wearing
a heavy winter male kimono. The pants where a light blue, and the shirt, or hamaka (AN: Did I get it right?) was a dark
blue.
.
Though it was freezing outside, Kagome could still hear the children playing and giggling outside. Then she heard the rhyme
that she always heard in elementry school.
.
Kagome, Kagome
When does the bird inside the cage come out?
At dawns and evenings
Kagome, Kagome
Who is in front of the back
Where the crane and turtle slipped and fell?
.
Kagome was about to walk outside, when a figure walked in, carrying a bundle of blankets. The two stared at each other, as
if trying to reconise the other.
.
"K-Kagome?" the male figure asked.
.
"Shippou?"
.
The two looked at each other, burning each other's appearance into their own memories. Finnaly, the kitsune dropped the
bundle of blankets, and walked to Kagome. Without hesitating, he wrapped her into his strong embrace. Shippou hugged her
tighter to him as if he was afraid she was only an illusion.
.
"Shippou...." Kagome whispered before hugging the kitsune youkai back.
.
Kagome felt the fox's shoulders shaking. Is he laughing? Shippou looked at the woman who walked out of his life when he was
still a pup. He wasn't laughing. He was crying. The tears flowed down his cheaks, and dropped onto his hamaka.
.
"I'm missed you so much, Kaa-chan."
.
Kagome's eyes watered up, and she started crying. Shippou called her mom, his way of fogiving her for what she had done to
her. Shippou pulled Kagome closer to him, then smelled her hair. Her own sent.
.
"I missed you too, Shippou."
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"So has Inuyasha."
.
"....."
.
Kagome gently pulled out of his embrace. The fox in front of her looked at his serigant mother.
.
*Inuyasha missed me?*
.
"How is Inuyasha and Kikyo doing?"
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Shippou was about to answer, when someone came inside the hut. The famous red fire rat kimono, the claws, the silver hair,
and the dog ears.
.
It was Inuyasha.
.
*Why is he not human?*
.
Shippou looked at Kagome, then at Inuyasha. Yet, both of them were looking at each other. The fox silently moved his way to
the door, and walked out. Inuyasha and Kagome still looked at each other. Memories flashed through their minds.
.
"Inu... yasha...?"
.
"..... Kagome."
.
Kagome promptly cried, and ran into his arms. Suprisingly, Inuyasha didn't hesitate to hug her back, and he pulled her
close to him. It was like how Shippou held her, only this was much more desperate, needing.
.
"Inu.... Inuyasha!!" Kagome cried into his shoulder.
.
She looked at the hanyou, whom had his eyes squeezed as tightly as they could.
.
"I.... I m-missed you... Kagome...." Inuyasha said in a choked voice.
.
This greatly surprised Kagome. Inuyasha never admited when he missed someone.
.
"Inuyasha...."
.
Both of them looked at each other once again, only did not last as long.
.
"Come." Kagome told the hanyou. "We have much to catch up on."
.
She sat near the fire.
.
"Inuyasha, sit."
.
Inuyasha's face met the floor. Literally.
.
"Oh, I'm sorry! I completely forgot about the spell."
.
Inuyasha picked himself off the ground.
.
"If only you forgot about it when we were still traveling together, bitch."
.
"That was impossible because you were constantly being a jerk. And stop calling me a bitch!"
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"I'll call you a bitch if I want to, bitch!"
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"Osuwari."
.
Inuyasha met the ground yet again.
.
"Inuyasha, let us just si.. stay here, and talk to each other like mature adults."
.
Inuyasha sat next to Kagome, his hands in his hamaka's sleeves.
.
"Keh. You're the one who is acting childish."
.
Kagome, for once, decided to iqnore that. They sat in silence a little while.
.
"So.... how have you been?"
.
Kagome shrugged.
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"Okay, I guess."
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*Just kept feeling like my heart would break one day, and I would finally be out of my misery.*
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Inuyasha nodded.
.
"I've been..... missing you...."
.
Kagome's eyes widened.
.
"You...."
.
"Kagome.... I-I couldn't do it.... I couldn't turn myself human."
.
"So, the Sikon no Tama...."
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"Is gone."
.
Kagome stared at the fire.
.
"You wished Kikyo back to life?"
.
"No.... I wished that she would find peace in her death."
.
Kagome turned to Inuyasha, wide-eyed and bewildered.
.
"But.. But Inuyasha, you were meant to be with her! You were supposed to be with her!"
.
Inuyasha snorted.
.
"That's what I thought."
.
Kagome was even more bewildered.
.
"She died a long time ago, Kagome. She was still thirsty for revenge. That was when I realised that wasn't Kikyo. She
wasn't the Kikyo I once loved. She was just a fill-in. A clay body that only had her memories. Not the real Kikyo inside
her."
.
Kagome fell siglent.
.
"She...."
.
"Sango told me." Inuyasha interupted. "She told me that all those times you and her were alone and I wasn't there. How she
tried to kill you when you tried to protected her from Naraku. How she himiliated you when you gave her a second chance
again (1)."
.
"I.... I thought... that...."
.
*I thought you would be sad, and that you wouldn't be able to go on without her.*
.
Kagome left that part unsaid.
.
"I thought you came back once."
.
"What?"
.
"I smelled your sent in the well. I went to the well as fast as I could. I wanted to see you so badly it hurt. I felt like
I was being ripped in two pieces. Have you ever felt that awful feeling, Kagome?"
.
*All the time.*
.
Yet, Kagome didn't say anything.
.
"I thought it was you. But, it was Buyo... wrapped in your school uniform."
.
Kagome swallowed the lump in her throat.
.
"I buried him... under Goshinboku. It was for you. His grave is still there if you want to see it."
.
Kagome nodded, then stood up and followed Inuyasha to Goshinboku.
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AN: Not done yet. Still not done. Oh boy... i promise i will get the next chapter out very soon!!! @.@;;;;;
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(1)SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! If you do not want a spoiler, than do not continue reading. Kikyo was killed by Naraku, after
he separated himself from Onigumo. Yet, Kagome saved Kikyo by purifying Kikyo's wound, and refilling her body with her
burial soil. Kikyo asked Kagome if she saved her by her own free will, and Kagome said she did. Then Kikyo (the bitch!!!)
said, "Then I won't thank you." Kagome ended up feeling like a complete idiot, and felt utterly himiliated.
.
.
.
.
.
Houkanno Yuuhou: well, you don't have to wait eternity for the next chapter! ^_^()
.
.
Jessica: yes, the well does let her through. ^_^
.
.
Just so im original: Kei: uh oh. What mistake? Please tell me! And i don't mind spoilers. I (sometimes) love spoilers! This
time, i don't mind a spoiler! Please tell me what it is!
.
.
ally: don't worry. Kikyo is gone! YES! ^_^
.
.
Nekoyasha: i continued, and i will continue with the next chapter! ^_^
.
.
Kagome14: thank you! ^_^
.
.
.
Seisouhen
.
Ch. 3: "I'm Back"
.
.
.
Kagome landed at the bottom of the well rather roughly. When she landed, she stubbled a bit, then regained her footing. She
breathed rapidly a couple of times, then sighed.
.
The well didn't work.
.
Suddenly, Kagome started to shiver.
.
*Wait! Shiver?! It's in the middle of June!*
.
The woman looked up to see snowflakes falling, then landing on her face.
.
*I made it back?!*
.
Kagome was both excited, and scared. She couldn't say why she was scared, but she crasped the vines..... the frozen vines.
.
Now, Kagome had to be extra careful about climbing up. Since the vines are frozen, they could snap easily under a certain
amount of weight.
.
"Great." Kagome said to no one in particular. "And I'm twice the weight I used to be."
.
Kagome secretly wished Inu Yasha could smell her sent, then come and get her.... just like it used to be. But he probably
isn't even a hanyou anymore. He might not even be alive.
.
Kagome crasped the vines, her hands freezing on contact. However, she still held on, and carefuly climbed up the well. When
she got to the top, she fell over the well, and onto the green grass.... white, freezing snow, with powerful wind gusts that
cut her like a white-hot knife.
.
Kagome jumped up, and looked around. She couldn't see anything at all. So, here she was, trying to find her way through a
blizzard, wearing summer clothes.
.
*The things I get myself in to!*
.
But, Kagome knew this place like the back of her hand. And if she was correct, the village was south-east. But which way is
south-east?
.
*So much for that...*
.
So, Kagome just took a wild guess, and started walking in the direction she always went to when she came here. Hopefuly,
someone would find her before she got too lost.
.
*Or die of hypothermia.*
.
The wind kept blowing relentlessly at Kagome's exposed skin. It bit her skin like fire, and Kagome quickened her pace.
.
After moving frozen shrubbary around, Kagome saw something that looked like glowing, yellow lights in front of her. The
lights seemed to make a path in the darkness, and Kagome followed them.
.
When it finnaly came into view, Kagome saw it was indeed the village she was first taken to when she first came here.
Kagome quickened her pace, and immediately went to the one hut that she always went to.
.
Kaede's hut.
.
However, Kagome's hopes sank when she saw a board placed on the doorway. But then, why did she hear muffled talking, then
shouting, then a thunk, then laughter from someone else?
.
Kagome, almost half frozen, knocked on the wood. Her frozen knuckels shot in pain at the impact. She heard talking from
inside.
.
"Who could THAT be?!" a voice sounded from inside.
.
"Yea, expesially in THIS weather!" a male voice sounded this time. Though the voice sounded more like a boy sixteen, or
seventeen.
.
Footsteps sounded, and she heard some clanging sounds, like the wood on the doorway was held by metal, or something heavy.
.
Then the wooden door was removed.
.
Kagome stood there, momentarly blinded by the light eliminating from inside. The person who stood at the doorway didn't
make a single movement. Almost like they were afraid that if they moved wrong, then Kagome would suddenly disappear.
.
Finnaly, Kagome opened her now adjusted eyes to see the person in front of her. She stared in disbelife, as did the other
person in front of her. It was like they were mirroring each other's expressions.
.
What, or who, Kagome saw was a grown man, maybe twenty-nine, redish hair, male, blue kimono pants, and a redish tail
.
"Kagome....?" the man asked, whispering her name in utter disbelife. But at the same time, he said it like he was afraid
she would disappear once again.
.
Kagome frowned, still standing in the freezing cold, then finnaly, she reconized him.
.
"Shippou....?" she asked in a whisper just like the man's was.
.
"Is it realy you?" he asked.
.
"Yes, is it really you?"
.
"How are you?"
.
*Such a rediculus question, consitering he still hasn't let me in, and I'm standing out here, FREEZING MY ASS OFF!!!*
.
Kagome shivered, and she felt her mussles contract, and tighten. She suddenly felt faint.
.
"I'm.... fine... consitering the fact that I'm a human icicle...."
.
Then Kagome fainted, and fell into Shippou.
.
.
.
*Inu Yasha..... please remember how we were..... back then.....*
.
Kagome opened her eyes, her vision very blury, and she was having a hard time remembering where she was. All she knew was
that she felt increadably warm. She felt pressed down by something heavy.
.
Her vistion cleared, and Kagome sat up, then looked around. She was laying on a futon, heavy, thick blankets that covered
her up now rested around her waist. She was placed next to a fire that was still burning with life, and accationaly snaped
and crackled.
.
Then Kagome noticed that she was the only one in the hut. So she stood up, and again noticed something new. She was wearing
a heavy winter male kimono. The pants where a light blue, and the shirt, or hamaka (AN: Did I get it right?) was a dark
blue.
.
Though it was freezing outside, Kagome could still hear the children playing and giggling outside. Then she heard the rhyme
that she always heard in elementry school.
.
Kagome, Kagome
When does the bird inside the cage come out?
At dawns and evenings
Kagome, Kagome
Who is in front of the back
Where the crane and turtle slipped and fell?
.
Kagome was about to walk outside, when a figure walked in, carrying a bundle of blankets. The two stared at each other, as
if trying to reconise the other.
.
"K-Kagome?" the male figure asked.
.
"Shippou?"
.
The two looked at each other, burning each other's appearance into their own memories. Finnaly, the kitsune dropped the
bundle of blankets, and walked to Kagome. Without hesitating, he wrapped her into his strong embrace. Shippou hugged her
tighter to him as if he was afraid she was only an illusion.
.
"Shippou...." Kagome whispered before hugging the kitsune youkai back.
.
Kagome felt the fox's shoulders shaking. Is he laughing? Shippou looked at the woman who walked out of his life when he was
still a pup. He wasn't laughing. He was crying. The tears flowed down his cheaks, and dropped onto his hamaka.
.
"I'm missed you so much, Kaa-chan."
.
Kagome's eyes watered up, and she started crying. Shippou called her mom, his way of fogiving her for what she had done to
her. Shippou pulled Kagome closer to him, then smelled her hair. Her own sent.
.
"I missed you too, Shippou."
.
"So has Inuyasha."
.
"....."
.
Kagome gently pulled out of his embrace. The fox in front of her looked at his serigant mother.
.
*Inuyasha missed me?*
.
"How is Inuyasha and Kikyo doing?"
.
Shippou was about to answer, when someone came inside the hut. The famous red fire rat kimono, the claws, the silver hair,
and the dog ears.
.
It was Inuyasha.
.
*Why is he not human?*
.
Shippou looked at Kagome, then at Inuyasha. Yet, both of them were looking at each other. The fox silently moved his way to
the door, and walked out. Inuyasha and Kagome still looked at each other. Memories flashed through their minds.
.
"Inu... yasha...?"
.
"..... Kagome."
.
Kagome promptly cried, and ran into his arms. Suprisingly, Inuyasha didn't hesitate to hug her back, and he pulled her
close to him. It was like how Shippou held her, only this was much more desperate, needing.
.
"Inu.... Inuyasha!!" Kagome cried into his shoulder.
.
She looked at the hanyou, whom had his eyes squeezed as tightly as they could.
.
"I.... I m-missed you... Kagome...." Inuyasha said in a choked voice.
.
This greatly surprised Kagome. Inuyasha never admited when he missed someone.
.
"Inuyasha...."
.
Both of them looked at each other once again, only did not last as long.
.
"Come." Kagome told the hanyou. "We have much to catch up on."
.
She sat near the fire.
.
"Inuyasha, sit."
.
Inuyasha's face met the floor. Literally.
.
"Oh, I'm sorry! I completely forgot about the spell."
.
Inuyasha picked himself off the ground.
.
"If only you forgot about it when we were still traveling together, bitch."
.
"That was impossible because you were constantly being a jerk. And stop calling me a bitch!"
.
"I'll call you a bitch if I want to, bitch!"
.
"Osuwari."
.
Inuyasha met the ground yet again.
.
"Inuyasha, let us just si.. stay here, and talk to each other like mature adults."
.
Inuyasha sat next to Kagome, his hands in his hamaka's sleeves.
.
"Keh. You're the one who is acting childish."
.
Kagome, for once, decided to iqnore that. They sat in silence a little while.
.
"So.... how have you been?"
.
Kagome shrugged.
.
"Okay, I guess."
.
*Just kept feeling like my heart would break one day, and I would finally be out of my misery.*
.
Inuyasha nodded.
.
"I've been..... missing you...."
.
Kagome's eyes widened.
.
"You...."
.
"Kagome.... I-I couldn't do it.... I couldn't turn myself human."
.
"So, the Sikon no Tama...."
.
"Is gone."
.
Kagome stared at the fire.
.
"You wished Kikyo back to life?"
.
"No.... I wished that she would find peace in her death."
.
Kagome turned to Inuyasha, wide-eyed and bewildered.
.
"But.. But Inuyasha, you were meant to be with her! You were supposed to be with her!"
.
Inuyasha snorted.
.
"That's what I thought."
.
Kagome was even more bewildered.
.
"She died a long time ago, Kagome. She was still thirsty for revenge. That was when I realised that wasn't Kikyo. She
wasn't the Kikyo I once loved. She was just a fill-in. A clay body that only had her memories. Not the real Kikyo inside
her."
.
Kagome fell siglent.
.
"She...."
.
"Sango told me." Inuyasha interupted. "She told me that all those times you and her were alone and I wasn't there. How she
tried to kill you when you tried to protected her from Naraku. How she himiliated you when you gave her a second chance
again (1)."
.
"I.... I thought... that...."
.
*I thought you would be sad, and that you wouldn't be able to go on without her.*
.
Kagome left that part unsaid.
.
"I thought you came back once."
.
"What?"
.
"I smelled your sent in the well. I went to the well as fast as I could. I wanted to see you so badly it hurt. I felt like
I was being ripped in two pieces. Have you ever felt that awful feeling, Kagome?"
.
*All the time.*
.
Yet, Kagome didn't say anything.
.
"I thought it was you. But, it was Buyo... wrapped in your school uniform."
.
Kagome swallowed the lump in her throat.
.
"I buried him... under Goshinboku. It was for you. His grave is still there if you want to see it."
.
Kagome nodded, then stood up and followed Inuyasha to Goshinboku.
.
.
.
AN: Not done yet. Still not done. Oh boy... i promise i will get the next chapter out very soon!!! @.@;;;;;
.
.
(1)SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER! If you do not want a spoiler, than do not continue reading. Kikyo was killed by Naraku, after
he separated himself from Onigumo. Yet, Kagome saved Kikyo by purifying Kikyo's wound, and refilling her body with her
burial soil. Kikyo asked Kagome if she saved her by her own free will, and Kagome said she did. Then Kikyo (the bitch!!!)
said, "Then I won't thank you." Kagome ended up feeling like a complete idiot, and felt utterly himiliated.
.
.
.
.
.
Houkanno Yuuhou: well, you don't have to wait eternity for the next chapter! ^_^()
.
.
Jessica: yes, the well does let her through. ^_^
.
.
Just so im original: Kei: uh oh. What mistake? Please tell me! And i don't mind spoilers. I (sometimes) love spoilers! This
time, i don't mind a spoiler! Please tell me what it is!
.
.
ally: don't worry. Kikyo is gone! YES! ^_^
.
.
Nekoyasha: i continued, and i will continue with the next chapter! ^_^
.
.
Kagome14: thank you! ^_^
