Disclaimer: Nope, I don't own InuYasha. I wish…
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Kagome opened her eyes, and looked around confused. She didn't remember falling asleep, and she could swear she remembered seeing Kikyo… Maybe her dream. She said slowly, "InuYasha?" Than it hit her, she remembered what had happened. Her eyes narrowed she looked around, she tried to lift herself, but she couldn't move much.
Her breathing quickened, she couldn't move! Slowly, somehow, she got herself to sit up. Though her legs, no matter how much she tried, won't move. Her hands and arms didn't have much movement left in them either, and she felt still quite tired. She wouldn't mind going back to sleep… She shook her head, to clear her mind.
Where's Kikyo?… She was with me… Looking about her, she finally noticed she wasn't in the same place she had been taken before. I've been moved… Where am I now? She turned to look at her shoulder, through the rip that the ice-arrow had caused she saw that the crystallization had turned a deep shade of blue-purple
"What about InuYasha?" She thought out loud. Kagome knew that he too had been struck by the demon's arrows. Was he immobilized as well? She doubted it; he wouldn't let something like that take him down totally. But it might have made him much weaker…
She sighed sadly, and her eyes always looked around her. She kept expecting someone to pop out, or that this was all actually a dream. Kagome than noticed she was shivering, she started wondering if she never had stopped shivering in the first place? She shrugged to herself.
"I wonder if they're okay? InuYasha, Miroku and Shippo…" Kagome asked herself through chattering teeth. She hated the absolute silence of the forest-field she was in. There were no birds, not squirrels, not bugs. Nothing making a scratching sound. Just herself. It creeped her out.
"I guess if InuYasha's okay he would be coming to get me soon enough… but what about if he isn't okay? What about if he's hurt, or if…" She couldn't bring herself to say it.
"Dead?" Said a voice behind her.
Kagome snapped her head towards the unknown voice, her head turning back forwards as it moved in front of her. It was the ice-demon from before, but she had a healing slit on the side of her pale neck, "I... I thought you were dead! And where's Naraku? You working for him?"
The demon laughed, "Working for him? Like I would waste my time on that human-made demon? Never. Sure… I told the stupid cat-demons that I worked for Naraku, since they had a strange fear for him. And I can imitate my voice like his… Interesting, eh?"
Kagome's eyes narrowed, and she asked quickly, "Than what do you want? The Shikon Jewel? I know you have some shards with you anyways…"
"Aye, I do want the Jewel. But I also thirst for some entertainment. And I heard about the…problems between the hanyou InuYasha, a human girl and a dead priestess. Of course that caught my attention," She lifted her hand, and closed her fist, than opened it. An ice ball with spikes all around it formed, "So. I wanted to play."
Kagome wondered if the demon knew that she had fragment, not InuYasha. But she wasn't about the point that out, might slow down things a bit, "So what did you do with Kikyo? I saw he r before," she questioned her. She was eating up time, but also was curious.
"Kikyo? The Priestess? She's quite far from where we are. I'll visit her soon enough, heh. She's in the same condition as you, but I don't think she's cold. If she can feel anything at all. Well, my dear. You know what's happening yet?" The ice-demon asked her with a smirk.
"Other than your holding me captive, no," Kagome snapped back.
The demon let the ice-sphere fall to the earth, and it shattered. The grass, which any piece touched, turned black as coal. Than she said, "Well, my brilliant arrow actually had poison. If you hadn't already figured that out, and it's working its magic on you, InuYasha and Kikyo," she cracked her right hand's fingers, than continued, "Yours and Kikyo's are fatal. Not InuYasha's though."
Kagome stopped her teeth chattering, quite surprised, "What?"
"Aye. And the hanyou can only save one of you; after all, the poison slows him down. He cannot possibly save both of you, there isn't enough time. By the time he reaches one of you, the other is dead. As for the young fox and the monk… If they were to spilt, the two are too slow, InuYasha's just barely fast enough to save one of you."
She than gave a small wave, and she jumped into the air, and started flying off in a light blue cloud, leaving Kagome alone in fear. Kagome than started staring off into the empty darkness. I saw him choice Kikyo… Guess… I guess this means my death. I didn't even get to say good-bye to the others and my family…
She lay on the ground again, and closed her eyes. No point sitting up, just watch the sky… It was night? If she died, she guessed Kikyo probably would regain her entire soul back again. And she could be with InuYasha, "At least he'll be happy."
~Back with InuYasha~
They kept hurrying as much as they could, but soon enough Miroku and Shippo would be too far behind and InuYasha would stop, waiting, "Jeez, you'd think a swine could be faster," InuYasha complained to the two, as they finally came in view. He crossed his arms, golden eyes looking at them angrily.
"You know, the longer you take the more danger she could be in," InuYasha said, meaning Kagome. Still though, he wasn't sure if he really wanted Kikyo to die. But Kagome? It made his head hurt, why did he have to make that choice? Would Kikyo even want him back in the first place, he told her he had chosen Kagome…
"Yes, and there is no way we can match your speed. You may go on without us, you'll reach her quicker," Miroku decided, and told InuYasha. He rubbed his chin with his left-hand, than lowered it back to normal position. He could also tell there was another level to this problem.
"Fine. If you say so," He jumped back into the trees, and quickly jumping from branch to branch. Who should I save? I should really now by now…
He kept going, than suddenly, he tripped on a branch, "Damn it!" InuYasha than remembered about the arrow-shot. Finally started working. He started up again, but a much slower pace. His fists were clenched together so tightly; his knuckles began to turn white.
"I-I hope I'm not too late… For whoever I chose…" He muttered to himself, "Maybe there's a way to save both Kagome and Kikyo, but what is it?!" He growled loudly, his eyes narrowing slightly. He almost crashed into a trunk, missing the branch. His reflexes were getting slower.
He jumped down onto the ground, he couldn't risk being up there. He jumped/ran as fast as he could, which still was faster than a human's pace, but much slower than when he could normally. Wonder if the old hag could have somehow cured off the poison? That way I'd would have been able to save both.
InuYasha knew he should have been lost by now, but an unknown force seemed to show him the way. Finally he reached a fork, and he slowed to a stop. He looked at the two; he knew which path led to Kagome and which to Kikyo. He couldn't than just guess…
Still he looked back and forth between the two. InuYasha had to pick than which of the women would die… and which would live. He didn't know. Finally, he turned and started walking on a path, before turning into a full-run, his heart pounding so hard against his chest.
Sorry for such a short chapter, I seem to be in a details-block. :P