Hey! Thanks for writing! Um, maybe I was a LITTLE enthusiastic on the last
chappie.sorry. I'm a weird one that way: I get excited over the weirdest
things. Oh, and it took me a little while to update. Whoops! I don't have
a.no wait, I can't say that (in Creative Writing, they say you can't have
any disclaimers of how b-d your writing is.) I'll try to get better over
time (give me 30 years and I think that will do it.). Oh, and it's kind of
like a soap opera, so.sorry! I'm sappy. So, hold your chocobos patiently
while I form words.
Disclaimer: How many times do I have to tell you people, I don't own Inuyasha or anyone else, so QUIT CALLING ME about it! Sheesh, really!
*Characters are a little OOC*
Chapter 2: Falling
Scene: grassy meadow, trimmed with forestry.
Inuyasha, after a few sits and swears, finally agreed to allow Kagome to treat his wound only because she said that it would help her in her medical training, even though it would be sealed by the time she got to it.
"Why are you always so eager to treat all my stupid cuts and bruises? I've told you, my body's special!" Inuyasha moaned. He was lying on his stomach with his shirt off while Kagome put salve on his lonely cut, although it already had a scab.
She said nothing to this, but concentrated on rubbing. Her smell indicated to Inuyasha that she was in one of her rare moods and was taking it out on his poor cut. Therefore, he decided not to irritate her, which, if he did, would mean.more sitting. So he fake-slept.
As Kagome was rubbing, suddenly Inuyasha's leg shot up, then fell back down. At first, Kagome was a little worriedly curious, so she rubbed the same spot (just beside the cut) and the same thing happened. Then Kagome grinned evilly. She had found his fiddle spot (spot on dogs where, when you rub it, they scratch the air with their leg and look at you like "Do you mind?"), and she was going to make the most of it.
Inuyasha woke up rapidly and groaned as his side was bombarded with Kagome's finger's mad rubbing, which caused his leg to flail. "Ah.Kagome, stop tha-ahhh-t! I don't li-ahhh-ke that! Really! Oh that feels so good, it's bad! Stop! ARGH, STOP!" He didn't put much heart into his suggestion, though. He swung out his arm to hit her just enough to get the message across, but missed since she jumped up.
"Ha, Inuyasha, I thought you were quicker than that! Bet you can't catch me!" Kagome yelled as she took off running.
"Oh really? You don't think I can? Well, watch me!" He did his super-fast run and got right behind her. Just as he leaped to tackle her, however, she jumped to the side.
"Haha, slowpoke! C'mon, keep up! I'm only human." She took off again toward the rest of the field.
Or what she thought was the rest of the field.
Inuyasha lay in the grass like a cheetah hunting its prey. However, Kagome thought that he was just being lazy, so she turned around.
"Inuyasha! What are you, a slug? I think you're getting lazy in your old age! Haha-ah!" Her face became instantly frightened as she realized that there WAS no rest-of-the-field. Quite contrarily, what she was standing (or balancing) on was the lip of a rather large drop into a thread of water. Not to mention she was losing her balance to the wrong side.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha called and sprinted to grab her around the waist. He hoisted her into the air and chucked her onto the grassy field like a sack of potatoes.
"Kagome, what were you thinking?" Inuyasha was staring at Kagome worriedly and he looked a little frightened. She looked genuinely frightened. She couldn't look at Inuyasha; all she could do was stare at the drop she might have made. "That wasn't there when I ran up to it."
"What? You aren't making any sense.how can something not there just suddenly appear?"
"Well, did you see it?"
Inuyasha thought about this, then said, "Actually, no, I didn't. That is really weird. But Kagome.you could have been seriously hurt, maybe even have died."
Now it was Kagome's turn to stare at Inuyasha. "Were you really that worried about me?"
Uh-oh, Inuyasha thought, Should I tell her how I really feel.? He decided that he might as well do it now, in case she goes off and gets hurt again before he gets the chance.
"Kagome, I.I really.um.look, I understand if you don't feel the same way or anything, but.I love you." He watched Kagome's down-turned face for any reaction. At first, she didn't do anything, but then a few tears dropped onto the grass. Inuyasha knew rejection when he saw it.
"I'm sorry I put you on the spot.." Inuyasha sighed, then stood up from his crouching position and began to walk away.
"I-it's just.I always.thought that you loved Kikyo."
This made Inuyasha turn around and stare at the top of Kagome's head.
She continued, "And I kept telling myself.that any loving attention you gave me was just because I look like Kikyo, and to not think that you cared about me, and that you only needed me for jewel shards." Kagome began to cry harder.
Inuyasha kneeled back down with her and pulled her into a hug. He leaned his head toward hers and closed his eyes. "How could you ever think that, Kagome? You are so unlike Kikyo. Sure, you make look kind of like her, but it's you that's different. You know, Kikyo kept trying to change me, and you never did. I really respected and loved that about you."
He pulled her back to look at her, as a father would to his son. Kagome's head lifted, and their eyes locked. Inuyasha leaned toward her, but jumped back quickly when he heard a crash in the trees. They turned to the direction of the noise, but as nothing presented itself, they turned back toward each other.
"We should get going," whispered Inuyasha as he realized how long they had been gone from the camp. Kagome sighed, nodded and got up. They began to walk back toward where they had abandoned Sango, Shippo and Miroku.
"Hey Inuyasha, I bet you anything it's going to rain," said Kagome happily as they walked along. Although it was sunny, she had the gut feeling that it was going to rain. Plus, a little bet never hurt anybody.
"Of course it is. I can smell it. I am part dog after all," Inuyasha said matter-of-factly. He was wondering why she was bothering to point this out.
"Right, right. But you know, I bet you can't tell when it's going to rain."
"Kagome, why are you telling me this? I really don't care. So it's going to rain. So what?"
She sighed dejectedly. "Oh come on, where's your competitive nature? Just say something!"
Inuyasha, while a little bit afraid of this gambling Kagome, decided to comply. "Okay.I think it will rain toward this evening." He said it to humor her, although he knew it was wrong.
Kagome giggled. "All right, it's a bet. Hehe." She began skipping ahead in her way-too-short green skirt. Inuyasha just sighed and kept his pace. He had been walking for a long time; he saw no need to rush now.
He was about to say something when he collided with a wall. "Oww.I don't remember that being there. Oh heck, my nose." he said into his cupped hands. When he looked up, though, he did see a wall: a spirit shield wall. What's a spirit shield doing here? Inuyasha asked himself mentally. Just after he questioned the shield, he realized Kagome was skipping away from him on the other side. "Kagome! Turn back around here! HEY!" he yelled to get her attention.
"Oh what now, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, a little annoyed. She turned around to face Inuyasha, and realized she had gotten into a bad situation. She yelped and ran toward Inuyasha's wall, looking for a way out. "Oh crud, how do I get out of this? Oh crud oh crud oh crud." she muttered anxiously as she turned around in place, looking for a way out. She had been sealed into a spirit shield dome: it had been created to keep only her in. Pounding madly on the wall, she feebly tried to break a way through the shiny colors.
In that time, Inuyasha just stood rooted with his mouth slightly open. His mind was drawing a blank as to what on earth was going on. Face suddenly transformed into a snarl, he put his hand on the hilt of his sword and swore.
Someone else was in that dome, and it was the worst person who would ever show up. That's right, the name we all cringe to hear.Naraku, the meddler in all that is decent.
Kagome wheeled around the second she saw Inuyasha snarl. Her face dropped, her color fled and her heart rate suddenly went from normal to way-too- stressed. "Wh-what.why.you." she tried to say something, but gave up as she realized her brain wasn't processing right.
Naraku's lips pulled into a demonic smile underneath his mask. "Oh, did I surprise you, reincarnation of Kikyo? I was so hoping that you would be glad to see me." he craned his head to his right and drawled, "I also see that we have an unexpected guest. Nice to see you again, Inu-endo (a gross misspelling of the word "innuendo"). How have you been with your collection of pots (Kikyo)?" Inuyasha roared at these insults and pounded the wall incessantly.
"What are you planning to do with me?" Kagome asked coldly now that her head was working correctly. Her eyes were lit and her fists clenched. She also wished she had her bow and arrows to shoot this annoying parasite.
This just made Naraku smile in a way that would make Caesar flinch. "You mean you do not know? Why, my pet, I plan to use you to track down the rest of the jewel shards. What else would I be after?"
"Gee, how original, turd. I'll have to answer with the first answer that came to my mind: THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD EVER HELP YOU PERIOD."
Naraku's smile lessened then grew back like a weed. "Then I will have to use my most effective way of persuasion," he sneered. He snaked a long tentacle out of his furry outfit.
Kagome thought his "persuasion method" would be torture. However, it wasn't what she'd guessed.
Inuyasha's pounding stopped as his body contorted with the horror he saw. Naraku had grabbed Kagome with one long, squid-like tentacle and was forcing her to endure a rather sloppy kiss. Naraku seems to be under the false impression that he is sexy. How sad. Inuyasha howled with enough force to tear down a small building and began to hack at the wall with Tetsusaiga madly.
Kagome had gone into a state of shock. Not only was this her first kiss, it was with a sliceable slimeball. She held down her natural reaction of retching into his mouth and just concentrated on how she was going to kill him after this was over. This proved difficult as he kept trying to shove his tongue down her throat and she had to keep struggling. Her lips began to burn with the contacted evil. Wait.thought Kagome; if I have purification powers and he's pure evil.oh will I have fun. She smiled internally and pulled Naraku's head closer to hers.
Inuyasha stopped cutting the spirit shield and just stared. This appeared to be an alternate reality where Kagome was willingly smooching the most evil and revolting thing he'd ever seen. Suddenly realizing what Kagome was doing, Inuyasha smiled slowly.
Naraku had also realized why Kagome was kissing him back, although a little too late. He tried to pull his head back, but Kagome's hands kept him in place. He tried to squirm, but the only thing that changed was the purification's speed seeping through his body. Panicking, he did the only thing that he could think of at that moment. He brought another of his tentacles out from his baboon skin, reared it back and ran it through Kagome.
Eyes widening, Kagome barely kept focused with the pain going through her middle. Have to kill Naraku.for Inuyasha.. She used all of her remaining strength to hold Naraku's tentacle in her. He gave a muffled wail and twisted his mutated arm around. Kagome pulled her head back and gasped with the burning. Being the coward that he is, Naraku dropped Kagome off of his tentacle and hightailed it out of there, although severely damaged.
Inuyasha sprinted to Kagome the second the shield fell. He flipped her right side up, and gasped with the sight he saw and the blood he smelled. Hugging her small body to him, he tried to get any sign of life from her. "Kagome, please don't die. We need you here. I need you here. Oh Kagome."
"Inu.yasha," Kagome said weakly into Inuyasha's right shoulder. This made him hug her closer, trying to protect her from death. "I'm not going to."
"Shh.You're gonna be okay, all right? Just hold on until we get Kaede." Inuyasha said in a comforting whisper. "Just hold on. You're strong enough to do this, Kagome. Hang on." He tried to keep himself calm for Kagome's sake, but his resolve was fading fast. "I'll pick you up, and then."
"I can't move. If you move me, I'll surely pass. Just.do one thing for me, Inuyasha." She could feel the life seeping from her rapidly.
"Anything," he said quietly into her hair.
"Will you tell me.when you first knew that you loved me? I've always wanted to know."
"Sure, Kagome. But you'll have to tell me the same thing after I'm done, okay?"
"Mmm." No longer did she have the energy to say words.
"Hmm, let's see.I think it was that fight with Yuna of the Hair. When she singed you, I was so worried that you'd died. You always seem to get into those situations, don't you? But we always get through them.but I was worried about you then, and then with the Thunder Brothers, when Hiten." he kept talking desperately, trying to keep his emotions under control. He was looking for any type of distraction.
As was Kagome. She could no longer feel anything except a desperate sleepiness that was seeping ever faster. In fact, the only thing keeping her conscious was Inuyasha's voice. She dimly realized Inuyasha's voice cracked, then let out a sigh and relaxed into Inuyasha's body.
He felt her go, and then he stopped rambling. He had failed in his one duty to protect her. He had promised her he always would, and when she had needed him most he had been utterly useless. A wave of sadness and desperation washed over him.
Inuyasha felt raindrops falling on him, but he no longer cared. Turning his head up to the sky, he howled with all his might; howling for the pain he had caused Kagome and others, for the pain he had to endure, and for his unspoken revenge on Naraku for what he had done to him again.
Then he rested his cheek on Kagome's forehead. Closing his eyes, he allowed himself to be shot with the full misery that was his. His tears mixed with the raindrops as he said sadly; "You were right, Kagome, it did rain today."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kikyo listened to her soul-carrying demon. Smiling evilly to herself, she sent it away. "Hmm, so Naraku finally did it? Good. For there can only be one Kikyo in this time." Laughing like a maniac (which she is, of course,) she walked on to the next town to heal their ailing inhabitants.
That's the end of the 2nd chappie! Wasn't it sad? Oh well. I told you that you needed Kleenex. Sorry if I dwelled on the death thing too much; it's what I felt the most emotion for. (Inuyasha: YOU KILLED OFF THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! YOU LITTLE. me: Hey, it's part of the plot, dimwad.) However, while this chappie may be a little.um.sad, it's okay! Because life always ends out okay in the end (I never said for whom!) Please R&R and tell me what you think!
PS-I'm having a contest: who can come up with the most creative idea for Kleenex (tissues and/or box)! The winner will be mentioned in my story.not kidding!
Disclaimer: How many times do I have to tell you people, I don't own Inuyasha or anyone else, so QUIT CALLING ME about it! Sheesh, really!
*Characters are a little OOC*
Chapter 2: Falling
Scene: grassy meadow, trimmed with forestry.
Inuyasha, after a few sits and swears, finally agreed to allow Kagome to treat his wound only because she said that it would help her in her medical training, even though it would be sealed by the time she got to it.
"Why are you always so eager to treat all my stupid cuts and bruises? I've told you, my body's special!" Inuyasha moaned. He was lying on his stomach with his shirt off while Kagome put salve on his lonely cut, although it already had a scab.
She said nothing to this, but concentrated on rubbing. Her smell indicated to Inuyasha that she was in one of her rare moods and was taking it out on his poor cut. Therefore, he decided not to irritate her, which, if he did, would mean.more sitting. So he fake-slept.
As Kagome was rubbing, suddenly Inuyasha's leg shot up, then fell back down. At first, Kagome was a little worriedly curious, so she rubbed the same spot (just beside the cut) and the same thing happened. Then Kagome grinned evilly. She had found his fiddle spot (spot on dogs where, when you rub it, they scratch the air with their leg and look at you like "Do you mind?"), and she was going to make the most of it.
Inuyasha woke up rapidly and groaned as his side was bombarded with Kagome's finger's mad rubbing, which caused his leg to flail. "Ah.Kagome, stop tha-ahhh-t! I don't li-ahhh-ke that! Really! Oh that feels so good, it's bad! Stop! ARGH, STOP!" He didn't put much heart into his suggestion, though. He swung out his arm to hit her just enough to get the message across, but missed since she jumped up.
"Ha, Inuyasha, I thought you were quicker than that! Bet you can't catch me!" Kagome yelled as she took off running.
"Oh really? You don't think I can? Well, watch me!" He did his super-fast run and got right behind her. Just as he leaped to tackle her, however, she jumped to the side.
"Haha, slowpoke! C'mon, keep up! I'm only human." She took off again toward the rest of the field.
Or what she thought was the rest of the field.
Inuyasha lay in the grass like a cheetah hunting its prey. However, Kagome thought that he was just being lazy, so she turned around.
"Inuyasha! What are you, a slug? I think you're getting lazy in your old age! Haha-ah!" Her face became instantly frightened as she realized that there WAS no rest-of-the-field. Quite contrarily, what she was standing (or balancing) on was the lip of a rather large drop into a thread of water. Not to mention she was losing her balance to the wrong side.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha called and sprinted to grab her around the waist. He hoisted her into the air and chucked her onto the grassy field like a sack of potatoes.
"Kagome, what were you thinking?" Inuyasha was staring at Kagome worriedly and he looked a little frightened. She looked genuinely frightened. She couldn't look at Inuyasha; all she could do was stare at the drop she might have made. "That wasn't there when I ran up to it."
"What? You aren't making any sense.how can something not there just suddenly appear?"
"Well, did you see it?"
Inuyasha thought about this, then said, "Actually, no, I didn't. That is really weird. But Kagome.you could have been seriously hurt, maybe even have died."
Now it was Kagome's turn to stare at Inuyasha. "Were you really that worried about me?"
Uh-oh, Inuyasha thought, Should I tell her how I really feel.? He decided that he might as well do it now, in case she goes off and gets hurt again before he gets the chance.
"Kagome, I.I really.um.look, I understand if you don't feel the same way or anything, but.I love you." He watched Kagome's down-turned face for any reaction. At first, she didn't do anything, but then a few tears dropped onto the grass. Inuyasha knew rejection when he saw it.
"I'm sorry I put you on the spot.." Inuyasha sighed, then stood up from his crouching position and began to walk away.
"I-it's just.I always.thought that you loved Kikyo."
This made Inuyasha turn around and stare at the top of Kagome's head.
She continued, "And I kept telling myself.that any loving attention you gave me was just because I look like Kikyo, and to not think that you cared about me, and that you only needed me for jewel shards." Kagome began to cry harder.
Inuyasha kneeled back down with her and pulled her into a hug. He leaned his head toward hers and closed his eyes. "How could you ever think that, Kagome? You are so unlike Kikyo. Sure, you make look kind of like her, but it's you that's different. You know, Kikyo kept trying to change me, and you never did. I really respected and loved that about you."
He pulled her back to look at her, as a father would to his son. Kagome's head lifted, and their eyes locked. Inuyasha leaned toward her, but jumped back quickly when he heard a crash in the trees. They turned to the direction of the noise, but as nothing presented itself, they turned back toward each other.
"We should get going," whispered Inuyasha as he realized how long they had been gone from the camp. Kagome sighed, nodded and got up. They began to walk back toward where they had abandoned Sango, Shippo and Miroku.
"Hey Inuyasha, I bet you anything it's going to rain," said Kagome happily as they walked along. Although it was sunny, she had the gut feeling that it was going to rain. Plus, a little bet never hurt anybody.
"Of course it is. I can smell it. I am part dog after all," Inuyasha said matter-of-factly. He was wondering why she was bothering to point this out.
"Right, right. But you know, I bet you can't tell when it's going to rain."
"Kagome, why are you telling me this? I really don't care. So it's going to rain. So what?"
She sighed dejectedly. "Oh come on, where's your competitive nature? Just say something!"
Inuyasha, while a little bit afraid of this gambling Kagome, decided to comply. "Okay.I think it will rain toward this evening." He said it to humor her, although he knew it was wrong.
Kagome giggled. "All right, it's a bet. Hehe." She began skipping ahead in her way-too-short green skirt. Inuyasha just sighed and kept his pace. He had been walking for a long time; he saw no need to rush now.
He was about to say something when he collided with a wall. "Oww.I don't remember that being there. Oh heck, my nose." he said into his cupped hands. When he looked up, though, he did see a wall: a spirit shield wall. What's a spirit shield doing here? Inuyasha asked himself mentally. Just after he questioned the shield, he realized Kagome was skipping away from him on the other side. "Kagome! Turn back around here! HEY!" he yelled to get her attention.
"Oh what now, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, a little annoyed. She turned around to face Inuyasha, and realized she had gotten into a bad situation. She yelped and ran toward Inuyasha's wall, looking for a way out. "Oh crud, how do I get out of this? Oh crud oh crud oh crud." she muttered anxiously as she turned around in place, looking for a way out. She had been sealed into a spirit shield dome: it had been created to keep only her in. Pounding madly on the wall, she feebly tried to break a way through the shiny colors.
In that time, Inuyasha just stood rooted with his mouth slightly open. His mind was drawing a blank as to what on earth was going on. Face suddenly transformed into a snarl, he put his hand on the hilt of his sword and swore.
Someone else was in that dome, and it was the worst person who would ever show up. That's right, the name we all cringe to hear.Naraku, the meddler in all that is decent.
Kagome wheeled around the second she saw Inuyasha snarl. Her face dropped, her color fled and her heart rate suddenly went from normal to way-too- stressed. "Wh-what.why.you." she tried to say something, but gave up as she realized her brain wasn't processing right.
Naraku's lips pulled into a demonic smile underneath his mask. "Oh, did I surprise you, reincarnation of Kikyo? I was so hoping that you would be glad to see me." he craned his head to his right and drawled, "I also see that we have an unexpected guest. Nice to see you again, Inu-endo (a gross misspelling of the word "innuendo"). How have you been with your collection of pots (Kikyo)?" Inuyasha roared at these insults and pounded the wall incessantly.
"What are you planning to do with me?" Kagome asked coldly now that her head was working correctly. Her eyes were lit and her fists clenched. She also wished she had her bow and arrows to shoot this annoying parasite.
This just made Naraku smile in a way that would make Caesar flinch. "You mean you do not know? Why, my pet, I plan to use you to track down the rest of the jewel shards. What else would I be after?"
"Gee, how original, turd. I'll have to answer with the first answer that came to my mind: THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD EVER HELP YOU PERIOD."
Naraku's smile lessened then grew back like a weed. "Then I will have to use my most effective way of persuasion," he sneered. He snaked a long tentacle out of his furry outfit.
Kagome thought his "persuasion method" would be torture. However, it wasn't what she'd guessed.
Inuyasha's pounding stopped as his body contorted with the horror he saw. Naraku had grabbed Kagome with one long, squid-like tentacle and was forcing her to endure a rather sloppy kiss. Naraku seems to be under the false impression that he is sexy. How sad. Inuyasha howled with enough force to tear down a small building and began to hack at the wall with Tetsusaiga madly.
Kagome had gone into a state of shock. Not only was this her first kiss, it was with a sliceable slimeball. She held down her natural reaction of retching into his mouth and just concentrated on how she was going to kill him after this was over. This proved difficult as he kept trying to shove his tongue down her throat and she had to keep struggling. Her lips began to burn with the contacted evil. Wait.thought Kagome; if I have purification powers and he's pure evil.oh will I have fun. She smiled internally and pulled Naraku's head closer to hers.
Inuyasha stopped cutting the spirit shield and just stared. This appeared to be an alternate reality where Kagome was willingly smooching the most evil and revolting thing he'd ever seen. Suddenly realizing what Kagome was doing, Inuyasha smiled slowly.
Naraku had also realized why Kagome was kissing him back, although a little too late. He tried to pull his head back, but Kagome's hands kept him in place. He tried to squirm, but the only thing that changed was the purification's speed seeping through his body. Panicking, he did the only thing that he could think of at that moment. He brought another of his tentacles out from his baboon skin, reared it back and ran it through Kagome.
Eyes widening, Kagome barely kept focused with the pain going through her middle. Have to kill Naraku.for Inuyasha.. She used all of her remaining strength to hold Naraku's tentacle in her. He gave a muffled wail and twisted his mutated arm around. Kagome pulled her head back and gasped with the burning. Being the coward that he is, Naraku dropped Kagome off of his tentacle and hightailed it out of there, although severely damaged.
Inuyasha sprinted to Kagome the second the shield fell. He flipped her right side up, and gasped with the sight he saw and the blood he smelled. Hugging her small body to him, he tried to get any sign of life from her. "Kagome, please don't die. We need you here. I need you here. Oh Kagome."
"Inu.yasha," Kagome said weakly into Inuyasha's right shoulder. This made him hug her closer, trying to protect her from death. "I'm not going to."
"Shh.You're gonna be okay, all right? Just hold on until we get Kaede." Inuyasha said in a comforting whisper. "Just hold on. You're strong enough to do this, Kagome. Hang on." He tried to keep himself calm for Kagome's sake, but his resolve was fading fast. "I'll pick you up, and then."
"I can't move. If you move me, I'll surely pass. Just.do one thing for me, Inuyasha." She could feel the life seeping from her rapidly.
"Anything," he said quietly into her hair.
"Will you tell me.when you first knew that you loved me? I've always wanted to know."
"Sure, Kagome. But you'll have to tell me the same thing after I'm done, okay?"
"Mmm." No longer did she have the energy to say words.
"Hmm, let's see.I think it was that fight with Yuna of the Hair. When she singed you, I was so worried that you'd died. You always seem to get into those situations, don't you? But we always get through them.but I was worried about you then, and then with the Thunder Brothers, when Hiten." he kept talking desperately, trying to keep his emotions under control. He was looking for any type of distraction.
As was Kagome. She could no longer feel anything except a desperate sleepiness that was seeping ever faster. In fact, the only thing keeping her conscious was Inuyasha's voice. She dimly realized Inuyasha's voice cracked, then let out a sigh and relaxed into Inuyasha's body.
He felt her go, and then he stopped rambling. He had failed in his one duty to protect her. He had promised her he always would, and when she had needed him most he had been utterly useless. A wave of sadness and desperation washed over him.
Inuyasha felt raindrops falling on him, but he no longer cared. Turning his head up to the sky, he howled with all his might; howling for the pain he had caused Kagome and others, for the pain he had to endure, and for his unspoken revenge on Naraku for what he had done to him again.
Then he rested his cheek on Kagome's forehead. Closing his eyes, he allowed himself to be shot with the full misery that was his. His tears mixed with the raindrops as he said sadly; "You were right, Kagome, it did rain today."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kikyo listened to her soul-carrying demon. Smiling evilly to herself, she sent it away. "Hmm, so Naraku finally did it? Good. For there can only be one Kikyo in this time." Laughing like a maniac (which she is, of course,) she walked on to the next town to heal their ailing inhabitants.
That's the end of the 2nd chappie! Wasn't it sad? Oh well. I told you that you needed Kleenex. Sorry if I dwelled on the death thing too much; it's what I felt the most emotion for. (Inuyasha: YOU KILLED OFF THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! YOU LITTLE. me: Hey, it's part of the plot, dimwad.) However, while this chappie may be a little.um.sad, it's okay! Because life always ends out okay in the end (I never said for whom!) Please R&R and tell me what you think!
PS-I'm having a contest: who can come up with the most creative idea for Kleenex (tissues and/or box)! The winner will be mentioned in my story.not kidding!