Wow… it's been a long time since I've written. I'm really sorry about that too. I started school again last week and my teachers don't like me so they assign lotsa homework. Anyways, this one is long and I hope it doesn't drag on too much. Just let me know!
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Chapter 6
Kagome opened her eyes. She was standing at the edge of a beautiful pond with the clearest water she had ever seen.
Somehow, she knew what to do. As if she did this kind of thing every day, she took a step foreword and placed her feet on the mirror-like surface of the lake and walked foreword even more to where she was dead center.
She turned around in a 360º angle to scan her surroundings.
"This will do well," she thought.
She heard a rustle and turned.
There was Inuyasha. But he didn't see her. He saw something beyond.
"Good," she thought.
She raised her bow and fitted it with an arrow.
This one was directed at the hanyou's heart. He'd not survive.
Then out stumbled… herself???
She couldn't hear them, but the girl was warning Inuyasha about something. Her.
So what? Ifd the girl got in the way, that was her problem.
Inuyasha turned and saw her.
She saw him and saw his eyes. His eyes were sad and disbelieving
Then… Kagome snapped back to her senses. She couldn't move. She was like a puppet.
She pulled the string of her bow taut.
"Where am I?" Kagome thought, "why can't I move? Why am I aiming at Inuyasha? Why can I see myself? This is freaky enough! I just want to stop!"
She let the arrow fly. It hit dead center.
"NO!" Cried out Kagome silently.
Inuyasha had flung himself in front of Kagome to shield her. He was staggering.
She knew that one more arrow would kill him properly.
She fitted another arrow. This was certainly going to be the final blow. She pulled it back as far as it would go till her muscles ached.
She counted down the seconds. 5… 4… 3… 2…
Inuyasha sat in his tree. He had been thinking. Thinking about what had happened in the well.
He had killed Kikyo who had almost killed Kagome. He'd killed the person he had loved. But he had loved her. When Kikyo hod rose again, she wasn't the same. She wasn't the same Kikyo he knew. The old Kikyo was gone and never coming back. But why did he feel so awful?
"Nothing has been going right," Inuyasha thought, "Why do things have to be so damn complicated?! I just can't sit here and watch Kagome die… but there's nothing I can do…" He leaned back. "Things will get better when Kagome wakes up. I just know it."
He sat in silence for awhile and listened to the world around him. Then a piercing scream ripped through the silence.
"INUYASHA!!!"
Inuyasha jumped.
"What the- Who the hell was that?!"
Then the answer came to him. He leaped from his tree and ran into Kaede's hut.
In the hut was Kagome sobbing into her pillow.
"Kagome…" whispered, but all that came to him was, "you're awake!"
Kagome looked up. Her stare was blank and the glimmer was gone from her eyes. Her long black hair was matted and greasy and she looked extremely pale and weak.
Inuyasha, who had been so relieved before, was shocked. Maybe he had thought that when Kagome woke up, she'd be the same again. That wouldn't be true. But he knew this was not the same Kagome. She wasn't smiling. She was sobbing. And for the second time, Inuyasha was afraid. Afraid he'd never see the same Kagome again.
"Inuyasha…" the word was spoken in a hardly audible whisper. Inuyasha could sense grief, fear, pain and relief all at one time.
Kagome, shaking with fear and lack of strength, got up with all her might and with her shoulder limp, threw herself at Inuyasha and sobbed into his front.
"You're… you're alive! T-thank god! I'd thought I'd…I'd never s-see you again. I was so sc-cared! I d-didn't want to believe that…"
"What are you talking about Kagome?!"
"I… I killed you!"
"You what?!"
"I d-did it! It w-was me. It was t-the w-worst experience of my entire l-life! Thank god you're still here." He noticed how quietly she talked. She was that weak… but yet she found a way to get up.
"Kagome…" he started, but stopped. Kagome might not have been her full self, but she was still there. She was still alive.
Inuyasha couldn't help himself. He wrapped his arms around her, carefully avoiding her shoulder and pressed her body against his.
"She's so cold…" he thought.
"You're all right now," he said everything's gonna be just fine."
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There was chapter 6! I had to add some fluff at the end because I couldn't wait to do that! Next time either more fluff or more action. Iono… you choose! Tell me kay?
Anyways! Until next time