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The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again...

By: Msmelanie

Chapter Fifty Two: Split Decision.

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//////Almost Five years ago...

Kagome looked up at her ceiling. "Shoot, why does that lame dog brain always have to tell me when and when I can't go home?!" she was quite annoyed with him still. Sure, he always tells her 'You Can't Go Home' but he never had the gall to say it when she first woke up in the morning!

She smiled to herself. 'At least I got him back! Spent the entire day here.' she grinned as she yawned to herself.

She was currently cuddled up in her sheets, waiting for sleep to come. Except tonight, she wasn't that tired. For some reason, she had grown accustomed to sleeping on the ground underneath Inuyasha.

Her bed just felt too foreign at times. She sighed to herself and, even though she was angry at Inuyasha, decided she'd try her usual way of going to sleep.

She started to ease into her bed as she counted...

not sheep of course. Inuyasha slaying demons. "One...two...three...

...94..." she mumbled in her sleep until she finally drifted off for good.

The next morning...

"Kagome!" Mrs. Higurashi called out to her daughter. She was surprised to see her daughter stay yesterday, and so she figured there must have been some major test she needed to take. Again. "Kagome, breakfast!"

Kagome grumbled as she looked at the time. 'That's right...I have a....test.....'

"Kagome!" Mrs. Higurashi yelled out again.

Kagome still didn't answer. 'Test...I have a test...what's a test...'

Mrs. Higurashi started to walk up the stairs. It wasn't like her daughter to stay in bed if she had a test to take that day. "Kagome?"

Kagome blinked at herself. 'I need to get up...where am I...I need to eat...what's going on...'

Mrs. Higurashi opened Kagome's door to see her daughter still lying down. "Kagome, are you alright? Are you feeling well?"

"Who's Kagome?" Kagome answered. "Fine mom, but my tummy feels weird."

Mrs. Higurashi examined her daughter's strange answer. "What was that, dear?"

Kagome started to get out of bed. She looked at Mrs. Higurashi as if she had never seen her before. "Who are you? I've not seen you around here before?" Then, Kagome looked back normally at her mother. "My brain feels kinda fuzzy."

Mrs. Higurashi just looked at Kagome. "D...Dad?"////

"Momma said I was acting like two different people, but I don't remember that." Kagome said as she explained to Inuyasha. "Grandpa thought it was some treacherous demon trying to devour my soul, but grandpa always thought like that." Kagome looked back at the hanyou, who was giving 100% of his attention completely to her.

"Well, momma finally convinced dad to listen to the other 'person' inside of me." Kagome continued. "And when he finally did that, they learned that it was Kikyou."

Kagome looked down at the ground. "Grandpa didn't have much experience with a divided soul, not that it would've done much good, so he contacted some very strong spiritual people. I didn't really know anything about them, but I'd say they were sort of like powerful present-day Miroku's, without the groping."

Kagome looked back at Inuyasha. It was strange to have the hanyou's undivided attention. "Yeah, so well then...." she tried to block his staring, but he was a little too close. "Maybe momma can explain this part better, I don't really remember it that well."

Inuyasha continued to stare at her.

"Stop staring at me!" Kagome shouted as she blushed and pushed the hanyou backward.

Inuyasha layed there for a little while, trying to put together what happened. "Tell me what's going on!"

Kagome stood up and dusted herself off. "I told you, momma knows it better than me." she tried to get herself to stop blushing. He had been right in her face....

Inuyasha growled his annoyance but got up and walked into the house with Kagome to go see Mrs. Higurashi.

"I knew he'd follow, but I didn't know what to do." Mrs. Higurashi apologized to her daughter.

"It's okay mom, he's not exactly the easiest thing in the world to control."

Mrs. Higurashi lifted Kawayou from her lap. "Let's see...what do I remember about that night...

//////Back to almost five years ago...

Mrs. Higurashi looked at the strange new visitors worriedly. "Why did you chain my daughter to the bed?"

They continued talking amongst themselves while Kagome/Kikyou struggled in the bed. "How dare you try to hold me down! Momma, what's going on, why am I chained to the be-release me this instant or you will be sorr-momma, what's going on already?!"

Mrs. Higurashi looked over at her father. "Are you sure you can trust these people, dad?"

Mrs. Higurashi's father grinned. "Completely confident my dear! These men are top notch! Why, they are so good that I was surprised that I could interest them enough to come here!"

Mrs. Higurashi looked at the men. "...Then why is the only thing they've done is chain Kagome to the bed?"

After talking amongst themselves while Kagome/Kikyou continued to rant, they stopped and looked at Mrs. Higurashi.

"Mrs. Higurashi. Your daughter seems to be having a conflict within her soul." one of them said to Kagome's mother. "She seems to have two different people inside of her."

"Is there any information you can tell us of the other 'person' inside of her right now?" another one asked. "Why it is that her soul seems to be against her?"

"Against her?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. "Kagome's soul is...against her?"

"Part of it." another man responded. "Please, is there anything you know that you could tell us? Anything at all?"

Mrs. Higurashi looked at them. "Well, you may not believe what I have to tell you."

One of the men just laughed. "Try us."

"Well, Kagome has been going back into the past during the Sengoku Jidai." her mother replied. "She's been gathering shards of a jewel she accidently broke."

The men looked at each other.

"It's true." Sota admitted.

"Well..." one of them admitted. "Stranger things have happened. Tell us, is there anything unusual that happened to her? Or to her soul?"

Sota looked wide-eyed at them. 'Stranger things have happened?' "Ummm...well, I bug Kagome a lot to tell me about what happens to her, but I don't always know if it's the truth or not."

Sota looked at the men and realized they wanted him to keep going. "Well, she said that one time this witch named...uhh..what was her name...oh urasue! Or something like that had kidnapped her and stole her soul to give to another person she used to be."

One of the men shook his head. "She is a reincarnation? Well, that's not unusual. Alright, continue."

Sota just looked at them. Wow, maybe they weren't going to be all talk like his grandpa. "Well, she said the next time she woke up, Kikyou was still running around. Her umm, former self?"

All the men took on very serious faces.

Mrs. Higurashi looked at their faces. "Is something wrong?"

"This...Kikyou..." One of the men finally responded. "This other woman, she stayed around AS herself? A part of Kagome's soul?"

Sota just looked at them. "Well, she got her soul back. But Kagome kept having troubles with her trying to send Inuyasha into hell."

The men all looked at each other again. "Did she remain as Kikyou? Did she remain with this one goal of sending this...Inuyasha....to hell?"

"Ummm...yeah, I think so." Sota replied.

The men seemed to be in deep thought for awhile as they looked at Kikyou/Kagome.

"Why do continue to stare at me? Do you think that it is funny that I am chained to this-Momma, how come you never answ-Well, you will not be amused for much longer, I assure you." Kikyou/Kagome replied.

One of the men looked at Mrs. Higurashi. "I'm sorry, ma'am, but right now there are two serious problems that must be solved to restore your daughter."

Mrs. Higurashi nodded. "I tried to send Sota over to the other side to get Inuyasha at first, but he couldn't make it through...and the boy never came."

"It doesn't matter at the moment." one of the men replied as he looked at Sota. "Your name was Sota, wasn't it? Can you tell us just how she removed your sister's soul?"

Sota scratched her chin. "Ummm...I don't know. I think it had to do something with mud creatures."

The men seemed to take a moment to look at each other.

Sota frowned. They kept looking at each other as if they were hearing and seeing the same thing?

Not a comforting thought.

"Okay, enough of the silence." Sota finally said before his grandpa could shush him. "What's going on with Kagome? Is she gonna be okay?"

One of the men scratched behind his neck as he looked at the others.

"Might as well." One of them replied.

The man stopped scratching his neck and looked at them. "This is not typical. This soul is part of Kagome's soul, but they have been broken apart for too long. It has the bitterness of this other woman inside of it. And even though most of this girl's soul is..." he pointed to Kikyou/Kagome. "...complete. It does not understand what is happening, so it is starting to adapt to the small portion that was missing. Ultimately, it is helping Kikyou keep Kagome's soul at bay."

Mrs. Higurashi and Sota's mouth fell wide open. "What?!"

"You mean Kagome's not gonna come back?!" Sota cried out.

"Now wait." One of them replied. "There is a chance we can help her, but in doing so, we shall have to...split the soul again."

"Split her soul?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. "You mean, seperate Kagome from this other woman?"

"No." one the men replied. "The harshness and bitterness have given the 'Kikyou' side malice and contempt. Almost all of Kagome's hatred went into this soul." He looked at Kikyou/Kagome. "We shall have to split the soul a bit more evenly."

"I don't like this." Mrs. Higurashi frowned. "Splitting a soul...you could lose my daughter all together."

"There is a chance that could happen." one of the men admitted. "But if we do not take it, then the 'Kikyou side' will take over. Kagome will be no more."

Mrs. Higurashi looked at the men seriously. "What are the chances Kagome will remain...Kagome?"

"About 30/70." One of them admitted sadly. "But most changes hopefully will be subtle. And you would see most of Kagome in the girl."

Mrs. Higurashi closed her eyes. But if she didn't do this, she could lose her entire daughter. "I hate you for doing this to her."

The men didn't reply to the question. Instead, one added a different comment. "Before we begin though, we must know what happened to trigger the entire soul coming back. If we don't, this could happen again."

"What do you mean?" Sota asked. "There was a trigger?"

"Yes, there must have been." One of the men responded. "Was she near death?"

Kagome's family shook their heads no.

"Did she long to have her soul back?" one of them asked.

"Uhh..I don't think so." Sota replied.

"Then is she pregnant?" another man asked.

"Pregnant?!" Mrs. Higurashi cried. "I...I don't think so. She's much too young."

The mean looked at each other, then continued. "Alright then. We shall discover the answer when we get Kagome back."/////

"And so, they took Kikyou out of Kagome with a different type of magic than from the old witches'." Mrs. Higurashi finished as she looked at all the ice-cream lovers. Apparently during the story, Sota decided they all had to have some ice cream with butterscotch topping.

Kawayou and Shippou found it the most fascinating.

Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku and Shippou just looked like they were in shock.

"You seperated her soul?" Sango asked again, almost tipping her ice cream bowl.

Mrs. Higurashi shook her head. "It's hard to say how much it affected Kagome. She is a little less happy than usual...but that was before she went back into the past. She also isn't as much of a romantic..."

"Okay, momma. You can end the story now." Kagome grumbled as she bit into another portion of ice cream.

"Not yet." Inuyasha said as he looked straight at Kagome. "What about Kikyou? Does she still want to drag me to hell? If not, why is she still here?"

"All very good questions." Mrs. Higurashi smiled. "Kagome?"

Kagome groaned. "Look Inuyasha, Kamira...err, Kikyou doesn't want anything to do with the past. She doesn't want to take you to hell, she doesn't want to go back through the well, she doesn't even want to be called Kikyou any more." she looked straight at Inuyasha. "You know how much she wanted to be just a normal girl, right? No worrying about the jewel or demons? Well, the split may have barely affected me but-"

"Barely affected you, please. You used to want to be by my side always, even when I told you that I chose-" Inuyasha interrupted.

"Okay, alright!" Kagome interrupted him. "Okay, so it changed me a little bit, but not as much as Kamira. In the end, she could've gone back through the well but she didn't. She didn't want to leave yet either." Kagome crossed her arms and sighed. "She just wants to have a normal life for a little while then go back to the spirit world, okay?"

Inuyasha continued to stare at Kagome.

"And since she got a better portion of the soul that stays with her, she doesn't collect them from dead girls anymore." Kagome added.

Inuyasha continued to stare at Kagome.

"But just in case she becomes downright evil again somehow, she won't be able to use her power against me." Kagome added again.

Inuyasha just continued to stare at Kagome.

"Mainly because the helpful men that came over that night made sure most of the power transferred over to me- Alright, why do you keep staring at me?!" Kagome said, quite fed up with his attitude.

Inuyasha licked the left corner of her right cheek.

Kagome just stood there, gawking at what he just did.

Miroku grinned "Well done, Inuyasha!" He looked at the ice cream in the bowl in his hands. "Perhaps this is an aphrodesiac of some kind?"

Kagome finally regained her wits and moved away from Inuyasha. "Hold on right there, what kind of girl do you think I am?!"

Inuyasha just looked at her. "One that's a messy eater, you had ice cream all over your face."

Kagome didn't know how to respond that, and instinctively blushed.

"Your worser than Shippou." Inuyasha said as he looked over at Shippou. "Wait, no not quite."

Miroku looked over at Sango. "You know, you have ice cream right-"

"You try anything and you die monk!" Sango said determinedly.

Kawayou just looked perplexed at his mom. He was currently eating beside Shippou, neither of them having clean faces. 'Looked like something dad would do. What's the problem?'

Kagome continued to look at Inuyasha, then at her mother.

Mrs. Higurashi looked at her daughter. "What's wrong, Kagome? Do you two need some privacy?"

"Score for Inuyasha." Miroku grumbled. "Why can't I think of something that inventive?"

"What's inventive?" Kouga asked as he came in from outside and went into the kitchen. He had already heard the whole Kagome/Kikyou story before.

"Nothing, I just licked Kagome's face." Inuyasha responded.

"Oh." Kouga replied as he grabbed a pop from the refrigerator. He went back into the living room.

"Oh?!" Kagome shouted at him. "What does 'Oh.' mean?! Aren't you supposed to want to chase him down yelling 'how dare you dog turd' or something?!"

"Means oh." Kouga popped open his pop. "You are very special and pretty, Kagome. But the competition's over, your dog turd's. Besides, you had a pup with him, and well-you...I don't know, reak of him now."

"Reak of him?!" Kagome shouted.

"Yes." Kouga frowned. "Has anyone ever told you you yell more than Inuyasha now?"

Kagome didn't know how to respond. What Inuyasha did and what Kouga was saying. "I DON'T YELL MORE THAN INUYASHA!!"

Kawayou just looked at his mom.

"What's going on with Kagome?" Shippou asked.

Kawayou just shrugged his shoulders.

Inuyasha tried to calm Kagome down. "Settle down, Kagome! It was just instinct, alright?! That's it, I wasn't trying to go for more pups yet!"

Kagome started to relax. "Really? It was just instinct? What do you mean 'yet'?!"

After Inuyasha calmed Kagome down some more, they sat back down on the floor.

Kagome started to eat her ice cream again. "Fine, I'll forgive you. But if you do it again-"

"Just get the food in your mouth then." Inuyasha replied as he looked at Kawayou. "Speaking of which, come here pup."

"What?" Kawayou asked as he finished licking his ice cream bowl. He looked over at Shippou. "Wow, your a mess!"

"He ain't the only one." Inuyasha replied as he grabbed Kawayou's ankles playfully and dragged him over. "I think you're hanging around Shippou too much."

Kawayou yipped as he felt Inuyasha drag him over to him.

"No, wait!" Kagome demanded. "Don't do that, Inuyasha! We have napkins, use a napkin!"

Inuyasha really wasn't listening as he grabbed a hold of Kawayou firmly and put his face up to his mouth. "Messy, messy, messy..."

"Like your any cleaner?!" Kawayou laughed.

Inuyasha was about to respond to that comment when out of nowhere the lights went out.

Inuyasha made to draw his Tetsusaiga, but right before the lights came back on...

He felt Kawayou's weight leave his hands.

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