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Chapter Six
Kagome appeared out of nothingness, in a manner of speaking. 'I feel like I've always been here and yet I remember a time when I wasn't....so how did I get here?' Glancing around she found herself outside of Miroku and Sango's shrine in the dead of night. The full moon overhead gave off an early blue glow, but shone enough to illuminate her surroundings. She shuddered as her skin reacted to the cool breeze....cooler than it should be. Suddenly she noticed she wasn't wearing much. She had on a pair of jeans but her shirt was gone. The white bra covering her was stained red with blood from the wounds all over her body. Putting pieces together she keeled over as her body finally registered the pain that the wounds caused. She sat sharply on the ground and called out.
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" but he never came. Confused and dazed she finally struggled to get back on her feet and walk towards the shrine, each step getting easier than the last. She could hear mumbling coming from the guest home and so she headed there first.
"...seen Inuyasha as my father and Kagome, my mother. So I know it doesn't compare to your pain, but I feel like I lost my mother all over again Yami."
Kagome recognized the sorrow in Shippos voice as she went to the door of Maiyamis bed room. 'What does he mean, lost his mother?' she wondered, and knocked on her door, though it was already open. The instant she came within three inches of the door, it sent electric shock waves down her arm. She pulled away quickly and rubbed her fingertips. Deciding to ignore it, she stepped inside.
"Mai, what are you doing up?" she whispered. But received no response. The couple sat in the corner illuminated by the moonlight and continued to talk in whispered tones.
"Maiyami we watched her die...." Shippo began. " I don't want to think she's gone either but we have to face the fact."
"No!" Maiyami shouted, then quieted down. "That's not what I meant. I just...I don't know. Have some odd feelings."
"Lets just sleep on it Yami." Kagome watched as Maiyami let her hand slip down his back softly, and Shippo wrapped her in his arms. He stood straight ahead, almost as if he could see her.
"Shippo?" Kagome walked forward cautiously. He sighed in response. "Shippo can you hear me? What's wrong? Who's dead?." She gasped suddenly. "Don't tell me....am I dead? SHIPPO ANSWER ME!" Kagomes eyes darted around the room. "Where's Inuyasha Shippo? Where is he?!"
"Kagome if you're here," he whispered, not looking at her but looking out the window, "I've got Yami. You know how I feel about her. Go take care of your Inuyasha."
"Sh...hai Shippo." Kagome calmed down a bit. 'If I am dead, I might as well make the best of the time that I am still wandering. Maybe I can get through to Inuyasha.'
"Thank you Shippo." She took another look at her daughter, nuzzled in his arms, and smiled. "I knew he was your soul mate from the start Maiyami." Kagome stood slowly and painfully, and, noticing that he wasn't anywhere in the two houses, began to walk out the door towards the woods.
"Like I have any clue where he wandered off too." She spoke out loud to herself, walking along a new path. Wandering aimlessly for an hour, she finally found herself in the clearing where Inuyasha had found her body, though she didn't recognize it. She was exhausted and beat, but something inside gave her the feeling she should stay there, just for a short while. Sitting on a large rock she inspected her wounds further. "I guess there not too bad...just looks like scratches really. Maybe I was poisoned." Thinking aloud she realized that she couldn't remember much of anything. 'The last thing I remembered was sitting near the God tree and singing, waiting for Maiyami and Inuyasha...and then there was a flash of light.....and then I found myself in front of Sango and Miroku's in the dead of night.' She growled a little, frustrated and worried because she couldn't quite remember....
Suddenly a figure dashed from the other side of the trees. Inuyasha landed softly and crouched on his haunches in the middle of the clearing, rasing his nose in the air, searching for a scent. His eyes were melancholy, and lacked so much of the spark Kagome had fallen in love with. Growling loudly in frustration, he sat on the ground heavily and let his head fall into his clawed hands..
"Kagome.....why....." he whispered, voice quivering with the wind around them.
"Im here Inuyasha...Please don't be sad. Im so sorry....." Kagomes walked over to him quickly, eyes filled with tears.
"What the hell am I supposed to do now baka wench...." he clenched his teeth and shook a little with the wind. "We were supposed to die together remember? Remember when we promised the night we got married that we would haunt each other if ever the other one died so they didn't feel alone....how come I don't feel you Kagome?! Where are you? Why didn't you keep your promise?!
"I...I don't remember how I died.....but I know I never wanted to leave your side Inuyasha. That I promise. You know that! And I am haunting you! Why don't you feel me?" Kagome began to bawl at his feet.
"Its all my fault....just like you said..." Inuyasha let his face rise to the sky. "And now I can't even find who did that to you..."
"What?!" Kagome shouted and jumped up in front of Inuyasha. "What the hell do you mean its your fault?! No Inuyasha. No matter what happened to me I know it was not your fault!" she put her hands out to touch his face. Sparks flew off of the some sort of barrier all around him as she struggled to just touch him again, to comfort him.
"No its not true....please see me Inuyasha!!!" she shouted at his face and her hands pressed harder as the pain from the barrier increased. Suddenly Inuyasha looked right at her.
"Kagome?"
"Yes! Inuyasha you can hear me?!" Kagome pressed her hands harder and finally painfully rested them on his face. "I love you! Its not your fault!"
Light flashed in front of Inuyasha and an outline of a figure getting closer. Inuyasha panicked briefly, then studied the figure. So familiar....
"Kagome?!"
The entity in front of him seemed to get more excited and it became clearer. Dark hair and eyes shone in front of him, and he could suddenly feel familiar hands on his face. They were hers....his love, his life.
"No-....fault...." The figure seemed to be shouting but very little sound escaped the electric fog it was contained in.
"Kagome?!" Inuyasha stood.
Suddenly the figure began to fade, as if it reacted to his voice.
Kagome jerked as her vision went darker. "No! No please!" she screamed as his panicked face got cloudier and cloudier. "Please let me say goodbye! PLEASE!"
"Oh....you'll get a chance to say goodbye little Kagome...." a harsh voice whispered as dankness consumed Kagomes consciousness.
"Inuyasha....."
"Wait no! Don't go! Please!" he called to thin air. The light faded and again he rested his head on his knees in defeat. His heart told him that she was trying to tell him something, but his mind denied everything. "Damn now Im seeing things. I just wish I could find who did this...." He growled and screamed into the darkness. For the hundredth time he shouted. "COWARD! SHOW YOUR FUCKING FACE!". Nothing. Not a single noise was heard. Nor could he even smell the demon anymore. Bowing his head he started back towards the shrine with a heavy heart.
"Gomen Kagome....I love you...."
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Next chapter will be up soon! Who is the mystery voice? Well I know, because my whole story is already written out. Well pretty much. I mean written out like on paper. Now to put it on my computer.