A/N= Gosh I don't even care about reviews anymore. I am just writing this so I will find out what happens next. (Ok that's a lie, but I do want to know what happens next.) Well I don't own Inuyasha…But I wish I did! *SOB*
One Soul to ShareChapter six: Inuyasha Learns the Truth (Can he accept it?)
Kagome rested her head on the rock that held tight to her neck. 'Oh if only to be free,' she thought and opened her eyes to see Sota sitting against the wall and a young girl wrapped in blankets in her cave. "Hello." She said in her normal friendly tone.
Sota looked up and reveled a wide smile on his face, "Well, I can't see how you can sleep when tied to a wall." He said joking with her. Oh how she's missed him. Unlike Inuyasha's state her sleep was not instant. She could hear, feel, and sense the things going on around her. She technically lived those 30 years of her life. Oh how she longed to see Inuyasha's face again, to hear his words whispered in her ear. How desperately she wanted him, and yet could not have him.
"I manage." She said, pulling her thoughts away from Inuyasha. "Who's she?"
"Don't know. I found her in the woods." Sota said. He went to the girl and leaned down next to her. Kagome felt her connection with the girl and knew whom she was. A smile crossed her face, 'Freedom, soon I will be free…'
"Wake her," Kagome said. Sota gently shook the obviously sick girl. She moaned and slowly opened her eyes. "What is your name?" Kagome asked, becoming worried for the girl.
"Kikyo," the girl managed to say before becoming unconscious again.
"Kikyo…" Kagome repeated. So this is the other half of her soul. Kikyo. When they unite Kagome will be free and Kikyo will no longer be sick. Then Kagome remembered, 30 years ago, the day Naraku had tied her to the wall, the pain she had felt, it felt as if someone had shot an arrow through her chest. "Inuyasha?" Kagome asked Sota.
"It is confusing." He said. He stood and walked in front of Kagome. "He is pined to a tree with one of you binding arrows. He has been asleep for 30 years. Then when I went into the woods, he was awake. Though he is unable to pull the arrow out. You must do that." He looked at his sister for a moment. "Kagome why did you shoot Inuyasha?" She looked at him shocked.
'It,' She thought, 'Must have been Naraku…disguised as me.' "Sota," she said, "It must have been Naraku."
"Oh," he said remembering what she had told him about Onigumo. "I see."
"You must go and tell Inuyasha." Kagome said. Tears were beginning to well in her eyes. "He must know the truth, and that I would never do such a thing." Sota nodded and trotted off to Inuyasha's forest, just as a particular sick girl started to wake. "Hello Kikyo, my name is Kagome."
"Inuyasha listen to me!" Sota nearly yelled at the half-breed. Inuyasha's face was turned away from Sota and his expression was that of anger. "Kagome did not shoot you with that arrow!"
"Whatever." Inuyasha said. Sota could tell he was getting nowhere.
"She is bound to a wall." Sota paused, Inuyasha didn't show any sign of believing, Sota continued anyway. "By the same person who has bound you to this tree." Inuyasha turned and faced Sota.
"Why don't you just shut up, okay? Go and get 'your sister' and have her set me free, so I can seek my revenge." Inuyasha said.
"So you believe me?"
"My revenge, on your sister!" Inuyasha growled. Sota sighed and sat down at the base of the tree. 'This is going to take awhile,' He thought.
"Who are you? Where am I? Why are you tied to the wall?" Kikyo asked. She was backing up slowly against the far wall of the cave.
"Like I said my name is Kagome. And, well, to sum things up in five words or less, we share the same soul." Kagome said.
"Your crazy."
"Do you wonder why you are always ill?" Kagome asked maneuvering around in her restraints.
"I was born this way!" Kikyo coughed and slumped down closer to the floor.
Kagome sighed, "Let me explain, 30 years ago, someone cast a sleeping spell on me, but the only way he knew how to perform such a spell was by killing half the soul." Kagome paused to make sure Kikyo was listening. "That explains your end." Kagome said and Kikyo nodded. "Now there is a very powerful jewel called the Shikon. It holds the power of one wish. Can you see this faint glow emitting from my chest?" Kagome asked. Kikyo again nodded. "And from yours?" Kikyo looked down and indeed there it was. "That is the jewel."
"So we are the same soul." Kikyo said touching the glow.
"Yes," Kagome said. "And if we return to one body we can stop the man who did this to us."
Kikyo looked up amazed, "What would happen to me?"
"You are from the future? Right? Well I guess you will be born in the future as my reincarnation." Kagome said. They could not become one unless this girl agreed.
"Oh I see, so I will not remember any of this?"
"Probably not."
"Good. And I won't be sick anymore?"
"Not anymore than any normal person."
"Okay, lets fix this mess and get that guy." Kikyo said.
"Inuyasha," Sota tried again.
"GO AND GET HER!" Inuyasha yelled.
"No, Inuyasha not until you believe me!"
"GO AND GET HER OR I WHEN I GET DOWN FROM HERE I WILL RIP YOUR THROAT OUT!" Inuyasha struggled wildly.
"Oh that's inviting." Sota rolled his eyes. This demon was such a nuisance. Inuyasha growled. "Now Inuyasha can't you feel it?"
Inuyasha sniffed the air. 'What is that scent?' he thought. Then it hit him like a bat out of hell. He COULD feel it.
One soul forced to be two.
So Sota was telling the truth. Inuyasha wasn't about to give in though; he wasn't going to let Sota think he was an idiot.
"Yeah so what?" Inuyasha huffed. Sota just rolled his eyes again and began to walk away. "Hey where are you going? Don't just leave me here! HEY!"
"Suck on a melon, Inuyasha." Sota muttered, but Inuyasha still heard him.
"HEY!" He yelled.
Sota was already gone.
"Dammit." Inuyasha let his feelings be known. "I'm never going to get off of this tree!" He reached for the arrow but was unable to get close to it. "Kagome." He said. He looked up at the many branches of the tree. "If only we could go back in time."
"Okay, Kikyo, the only thing you have to say is, let us be one again, over and over." Kagome said, a wide smile on her face. 'I can't wait to see my beloved Inuyasha.' She thought.
A/N= Well 'phew'! That chapter took me forever and a day to write! I had to go back and change things. I got so many reviews for chapter 5 that I just had to hurry up and write 6. So if I get enough reviews for this chapter I will post another chapter! The next chapter will be the reunion of the souls and Inuyasha will finally be set free. That is if I get enough reviews!
