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Okay…I lied in the last chapter. I couldn't wait!! I really wanted to post this chapter because it was so fun to write!
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Chapter 2: I Will Avenge You Kikyo!
"Are you feeling better, Kikyo?" Kagome asked her sister who had just woken up.
"Yes, much better. I wish not to smell that smell again." She remarked weakly. "I may not have much longer. Please, burn my body when I die." She requested.
"Don't talk like that Kikyo. You are just a little weak right now. It will all turn out later." She whispered to her sister.
"Kagome-sama! The youkai has moved from its place!" a villager informed her.
"Really? How odd." She got up from her place next to her sister and walked out of the hut.
The youkai, she and Kikyo had slain earlier, was, sure enough, crawling along on its front claws across the village floor. "How is he moving?" she asked herself. "Whatever. I'll kill it for sure." She said putting an arrow to her bow and letting it fly. It hit the youkai in the head and knocked him back down. "Stay down! I don't want to see you again!" she yelled at it and shot another arrow, hitting it in the chest. I thought it disappeared. Maybe it was its remains that we didn't destroy. Baka! She thought to herself. She walked over to the youkai and pulled an arrow out of its quiver. She quickly stabbed it in its forehead making it scream in pain. Finally the remaining pieces descended into the sky, leaving no trace of the youkai. "He had a strong will." She informed the village men that were meant to protect her.
"Kagome-chan, are you alright?" Sango asked the miko when she came running out of the forest with her brother close behind and their youkai cat Kirara.
"Sango-chan, Kohaku-chan, I'm fine. This youkai has puzzled me though." She replied. Sango and Kohaku looked at the ground where the youkai used to lay. "How did it still move? Its soul left its body." She whispered to herself.
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"I'm going to go for a walk, okay Kagome?" Kikyo asked her sister. She slung her bow and quiver over her shoulder and walked out into the forest.
"Alright. Be careful." Kagome called from her post on the outskirts of the forest. She was on duty to spot any youkai if they showed up. She was off in about five minutes so she could go and maybe sit out in the field.
Just then she saw something. It was a red and white blur. It dashed out from the forest and onto one of the hut roofs. She gasped and put an arrow to her bow and shot it at the hanyou.
He ran out of the village and into the fields. She shot four arrows in a row and pinned him to the farthest tree. He hung there by the fabric of his haori and looked at her. "Tell me what your name is?" she asked him. She had lowered her bow which still had an arrow to it. She was smiling slightly at him.
"Why would you care?" he answered rudely.
"I want to know the one who keeps trying to destroy my home." She said with her smile still pasted on her lips.
"I'm InuYasha." he whispered. He had turned his head away so he didn't have to look at her. When he turned back she was starting down the path back to the village. "Oi, take these arrows out! And tell me your name!" he yelled after her.
"Keep the arrows. My name is Kagome. I am the miko in the village down this path" She said over her shoulder. She then disappeared down the path.
What's with that girl? He thought to himself. He tried to get off the tree but only managed to rip up his newly mended clothing.
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While Kikyo was walking through the fields on her way back to the village a creature crept up behind her and sliced her shoulder. She fell and landed hard in the grass. Someone walked over to her and slammed her head with its foot into the ground. "Foolish miko. You should know not to walk around by yourself." A voice said to her through a laugh.
"Who are you?" she panted when she managed to turn her head up to the face of a black haired man who was wearing black and purple.
"I am the one who killed you. I will get your sister next." He growled and floated away into the sky.
Kikyo crawled over to where she dropped her bow and quiver and stood slowly up with the help of her bow.
She went back the short way to the village to inform her sister that she was in danger.
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"Kikyo-sama! That wound." Kagome heard some villagers cry.
She ran over to her sister to aid her in any way. "Please Kikyo. I can treat your wounds. Just stay still." Kagome offered. She felt tears well up in her eyes as she watched her elder sisters' face go pale and the blood come out like a river.
"There would be no need. I would already have been dead if my will hadn't something I needed to tell you." She replied thoughtfully. "There's a youkai out to get you. Please stay clear. I wish that you live long and happily. Please protect Kaede and this village and tell Sango and Kohaku that they need to be around more. Please burn my body when I die. That would be the best way to end this." She informed her. She winced and clutched her bow hard then with her last breath fell to her side.
"Ki_kyo. KIKYO!" she cried.
"NO KIKYO!" Kaede cried next to her.
"What's the matter…?" Sango said when she came up behind the two girls. "Kikyo. What happened to her?" Sango asked when she saw the dead miko.
"She's dead. She got killed by an evil youkai." Kagome informed the youkai taijiya.
"N_no. She can't be. I don't believe it… Why was it her?" Sango asked herself.
"Kikyo is dead? No… she can't be dead?" Kohaku whispered with tears overflowing his eyes. Sango comforted him while still looking at the fallen miko. Kagome held Kaede in her arms and looked out into the forest. She let go of her sister and walked toward her older sister. She picked her up and walked toward a white hut in the farthest part of the village. I will avenge you Kikyo. She thought to herself.
They burnt Kikyo on the pyre with Kagome doing the prayers.
"I'm gonna go look for someone." She told kaede, Sango, and Kohaku after the mass.
"Please be careful. Remember what Kikyo-sama said." One of the village men said to her.
"I know. I will be careful." She replied putting her bow and quiver over her shoulder.
"Here Kagome-chan. Please eat something." Sango said. She pushed a bowl of rice with some chopsticks into her hands.
"Alright, I'll eat it while I walk." She replied. She smiled at her to her friend and walked out of the door eating the rice slowly.
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Kagome walked to a clearing in the middle of the forest. She sat down and examined one of her arrows. It had the inscription of a promise that she made with Kikyo when she was ten. I read:
*I shall never tell my weaknesses and will be considered an abnormal woman.*
That was the simplest thing she had ever had to remember yet it always brought tears to her eyes when she read it.
"InuYasha? Please, come down and talk to me. We aren't enemies. At least I don't see us as enemies." Kagome called to the hanyou in the trees.
He jumped down and looked at her. "What are you up to?" he asked accusingly.
"I am up to nothing. I just wanted to talk to you alone." She replied smiling. She was sitting Indian style in the grass and looking up at the bewildered hanyou. She had her bow and quiver over her shoulder but she didn't seem to want to kill him. She had an arrow in her hand which had silver letters written on it.
He slowly and cautiously sat down a few feet away from her. She was looking at the sunset with a faint smile on her face. She looked over at him and smiled bigger.
"I would really like to know…how you see me. What I look like to you." She said to him.
"Feh! Your just a human." He said standing up and turning away.
"You're right. I am just a human but not an ordinary one." She said to his back.
"What?" he said unbelieving.
"I really would like to be ordinary but since my sister was killed I have to be the High Miko of the village. She will pass down her powers to me and then I will never be ordinary at all." She said looking down the hill at her village.
"Are you lookin' for sympathy?" he said.
"Not really. But if you keep trying to steal the jewel I won't be able to kill you. We aren't that different. Don't you see? We were never excepted as just human or for you just demon. We are like the other class. I know how you feel and I could never kill you. That is something that my body won't let me do." She said quietly. "I will see you again. I promise." She added. She stood up and walked down the hill to her village.
"She's so weird. Why can't I get her out of mind though? Ever since we first saw each other." He thought out loud.
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Remember, tune in next time for chapter3:
*Training the Young Miko*
Preview:
"Kagome…what do you want me to do?" Sango asked.
"Because you're like a sister to me I want you to help me train Kaede." Kagome replied as she tied her sleeves up and out of the way so she could carve her words of wisdom onto an arrow head for Kaede to remember.
She wrote:
Never lose sight of your goals and always hide your weaknesses. Keep it in you even to your grave. Protect the weak and help the sick.
"Here you go Kaede. Remember these words and you will be alright." Kagome said, handing the arrow to her young sister.