A Gift From A Curse

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and its characters don't belong to me they belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

By Skye-Chan

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Chapter 9: DOWN!

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The village was just ahead she could hear the sounds of the villagers waking up and starting their early morning work.

She could also hear they angry boy behind her. She felt that he was stupid to attack her because she smelled like some one that he knew, but maybe he was stupid.

Kagome ran strait into Kaede's hut. The old woman was sitting at the fire again.

"A Demon keeps on chasing me." She gasped out, stopping at the doorway to catch her breath.

"Yah!" Shippo chiped in as he jumped off of Kagome, "He's trying to kill her because she looks like someone named Kikyou."

Kaede looked at them with shock, "this demon, what did he look like?"

"He has long white hair and two dog ears. He has yellow eyes and long claws." The Kit responded for Kagome.

"That is impossible! InuYasha was sealed to a tree 50 years ago! There is no way that he could have gotten free!" Kaede said.

Kagome looked down at her feet in guilt. * Had she said InuYasha? Why does that name seem so familiar? * She thought.

"I'm sorry Kaede, this is my fault. When I was battling the Centipede Lady, I got crushed around a big tree where a boy was sealed, only he was awake. He asked me to pull the arrow out and I did. He destroyed the centipede lady and then started chasing me. I ran to your village, but when I got here he turned around. I ended up blacking out at the doorway of your hut." Kagome told Kaede her story for the first time.

Kaede just looked at her with shock and disbelief.

Kagome decided to speak again, "I know that if I go out again, he will try to kill me because I look and smell like this Kikyou person. Do you know who she is?"

Kaede sighed, "Kikyou was my sister. She died 50 years ago after sealing InuYasha to a tree. The reasons for him attacking you are the same reasons for why I took you and the Kit in. You DO greatly resemble my sister and because of that he probably thought that you were my sister. He wouldn't come close to this village because it was her village. He probably doesn't know that he has been sealed for 50 years." The old women explained.

The old woman started to go out side, "We had better stop him from attacking you though." She sighed and kept on walking to the edge of the forest, Kagome with Shippo on her shoulder followed close behind her. She started looking for something in her robes when she found it she was already in the trees. She looked back at Kagome and asked, "Would you mind bring InuYasha out here?"

Kagome nodded, knowing what she meant. She walked ahead and jumped into a tree up ahead, making herself seen allover the forest. She sat down and waited.

She didn't have to wait long. InuYasha had seen them go into the forest. He had followed them and had seen her jump into the tree. * She's mocking me! * He thought angrily. He couldn't hold himself back any more he launched himself at her.

Kagome gasped, InuYasha's tackle had hit her square in the stomach. She fell to the ground, InuYasha still on top of her. She was able to struggle out of his grip before they hit the ground. She struggled up and noticed that Kaede was muttering something. She had a feeling that it had to do with getting this stupid demon to stop attacking her.

InuYasha started to rise from his fall. Kagome knew that it wouldn't be long before he realizes what Kaede was doing. She then jumps onto a near by tree, InuYasha on her heals. When he was 2 feet in front of her she jumps to another tree. This pattern keeps up for some time until he finally caught her and through her to the ground painfully. She gasped as he stood over her with an evil smile on his lips.

Suddenly a light appeared around InuYasha's neck and a rosary necklace appeared around his neck.

"What the F*ck!" he shouted as he tried to take it off as a magic aurora surrounded the necklace making it so he couldn't take it off. He looked pissed but he didn't let it bother him too much. What good could a necklace do her?

"Kagome, say the subduing word!" Kaede yelled.

"What?!" Kagome said, "What does she mean by a subduing word?" She muttered.

InuYasha was looking at the old woman with a look of puzzlement on his face. He shook it off and went back to attacking Kagome, who dogged all of his attacks.

* Ok, lets think here. He is a dog demon, a subduing word for a dog would be sit, or rollover, right? It's worth a try I guess * She took a deep breath and shouted, "Down Boy!"

"NANI" InuYasha yelled as the necklace forced him into the ground.