Wow its been quite a while..*coughs* um..yes..if you want an explaination check out my newest addition to Inuyasha: A Victorian Love Story! Um…quite sorry for the long delay. You forgive me yes? No? Well..FINE THEN! Take…take this! *showers readers with Inuyasha and Lord of the Rings gifts* Take that! ^.^
Chapter 2: The Fallen Warrior
Kikyou looked up at him. She didn't say anything and she didn't smile. His smile faded. The routine was almost over, what was wrong with her?
"I…I'm sorry…Inuyasha…" Kikyou said, her face not expressing anything. Inuyasha's eyebrows furrowed, in mere seconds he was going to fling her to the other bar and he would jump after her, and she would catch him like she always did and they would end the routine and go back to one of their dressing rooms and talk…like they always did…
"K-Kikyou?" He didn't understand.
"I'm sorry…" She let go.
Inuyasha's eyes widened and his breath hitched in his throat. She let go of his hand! They were so high up! There were no nets to catch her!
"Kikyou!!"
She smiled as she saw the horrified expression cross Inuyasha's handsome features as she let go of his hand. He tried to reach for her again but the gap between them quickly became bigger and she finally felt at peace when she had let go. She had let go of him and everything else all at once. All of her troubles were solved, and she gave in to the darkness that filled her senses as she fainted before her body hit the ground.
"Kikyou…Kikyou! KIKYOU!!!" Inuyasha cried, almost dropping to the ground himself as he scrambled to turn himself upright and get down from the great height.
The crowd went into a horrified silence as every man, woman and child saw Kikyo let go of Inuyasha's hand and fall to the hard ground below. No one had been able to scream. The only sound that rang out was Inuyasha's cries of her name as she fell.
A crowd of some of the performers came and enclosed around Kikyo before Inuyasha could reach her. He hand climbed down the ladder as fast as he could, skipping some of the steps and jumping the last ten before tearing into a run to the middle of the floor. He pushed past the performers who had gathered and stopped cold when the ringmaster checked for a pulse before standing and shaking his head slowly.
Immediately Miako's cries filled the quiet arena, and she collapsed into another performers arms and he held her tight, turning away with a grim expression.
"No…no…no!" Inuyasha cried, shoving the ringmaster away and kneeling down to Kikyou's body. He dropped to his knees and held her up to his chest, tears threatening to come but he would not let them. "Kikyou…Kikyou why?! WHY KIKYOU?!" He cried, gritting his teeth as he rocked back and forth and clenching his eyes shut. Images of their times together flashed through his mind like wildfire and it broke his heart even more to think that she hadn't been happy. Then it hit him like a ton of bricks. It had been his fault. Kikyo killed herself because of him, because he could not make her happy.
He clenched his jaw tight and fought like the warrior he had always been to keep the tears from coming. He would not let them come!!
"Kikyou…why? Why didn't you say anything…why couldn't you just tell me?" He whispered, his voice shaking, threatening to help in the onslaught the tears were doing to his eyes. He shut his eyes tighter.
She would never answer though, and he probably would never know the answer.
His beloved Kikyou was dead.
"KIKYOU!" Inuyasha shot up, eyes wide and breathing hard. A dream…it had all been a dream! He wiped his forehead and kicked the sheets from his legs. He was covered in sweat. "A dream…" He whispered.
Kikyou wasn't dead. In fact, it was her who stirred next to him in his bed and mumbled in her sleep, something that sounded like 'Inuyasha shut up.' He smiled to himself as his racing heart slowed to a steady beat and reached over, plucking Kikyou from her side of his bed and into his arms. She uttered a cry of surprise as her back was smashed against his chest and his arms around her waist, gripping her like a vice.
"Inu…yasha?" She questioned groggily, unsure of what was going on. Her vision was kind of blurred after being awakened so suddenly.
"Shh…" Inuyasha whispered, tucking his chin in the crook of her neck. He sighed and smirked as he felt goosebumps popping up on her where their skin touched.
"Kikyou…I…I wanted to tell you something…" Inuyasha said, closing his eyes and tightening his hold on her causing her to gasp.
"Inuyasha, wait you don't-
"Shh..Kikyou..i just want to tell you…I wanted to tell you before we performed the big show tomorrow night…I…I love you, Kikyou." He said, wispering the last part.
Kikyou went stiff and Inuyasha waited as he felt her tense. Would she refuse him? Would she accept? It had taken him so long to be able to open up to her. She had shown him kindness and understanding. She taught him how to trust, and to love.
"Inuyasha…I…I don't love…I can't love you.."
Inuyasha's heart stopped and his eyes shot open. How…how could she not accept? After all they had been through? When she had taught him how to love, didn't she at least expect that one day he would give that love to her?
"Kikyou…b-but..I…" He stammered, at loss for words. His lifted his head and his arms went slack. "Kikyou…"
She grabbed his arms and pushed them away from her and shot away from him to the edge of the bed and turned around.
"That's just it Inuyasha…" Kikyou said, and he raised his heartbroken eyes to her, getting the shock of his life.
"I'm not Kikyou."
Ah this one is kinda short…this isn't like me to have such a short chapter! What's going on here? But don't worry, for your enjoyment I have another one just itching for you to get to! So go ahead and hop to it, you don't HAVE to review if you don't want to, it's not like I'm going to come to your door with my spork army and take you into captivity and torture you with feathers and other such tickly things until you give in and review…heh heh heh chapter 3 will be out soon!
