**~~~ People, people, people.....don't you worry, this fic AIN'T about
KIKYO!!AND INUYASHA! Wut kind of person would write a romance bout KIKYO?!
Though, I have to agree wit some ppl, I do pity her.....Just need you guys
ta see wut confusion InuYasha is in, choosing between Kikyo and Kagome.
LOL, n sorry for making Kagome always getting hurt.....jus can't help
myself. I love getting the ladies hurt n makin the guys sulk over them ^^
lol, yah....anyway, jus CHILL! IT's a Kagome+ InuYasha fic...for SURE ^^
Well, on with the story! ~~**
============= Chapter twenty-Eight =============
InuYasha lay tied up in a hut with Miroku and the rest sitting and watching him.
"We HAVE to go in search of Kagome!!!! We can't just sit here and wait, dammit!" InuYasha growled, struggling to get his legs and wrist out from the rope....but all in vein.
"You can't fight if you are wounded like that, InuYasha! You haven't even fully healed! We don't even know where to find her! If we follow your crazy Idea to go run around the whole world in search of her, we'll ALL die from your foolishness! We must organize this all out!" Sango yelled in annoyance back at him.
~He's really getting on my nerves. He's been yelling at us for the past hour we've tied him up......~ Sango thought as she glared down at InuYasha.
"You bitches! I swear, if I ever get out of these damn ropes I'll slice you guys all up! We have to go find Kagome!"
Miroku could no longer hold in his annoyance as he went over to InuYasha and stepped on his head, jamming his face into the mat.
"Fuck you!" came the muffled voice of InuYasha who continued to swear and threat at Miroku.
"Did you not hear what Sango just told us? It's very true. Do you expect us to run around the world like a crazy maniac, not knowing where to head?" Miroku asked.
InuYasha pushed himself away from Miroku's feet.
InuYasha fell back and sighed as he looked up at the ceiling....
Shippo came over and sat next to him.
"InuYasha.....I know you really care for Kagome.....and you must be really worried about her.....But for her sake.....we have to plan this all out and be patient"
"Very wise, Shippo" Miroku complimented, "you're becoming more like me"
"Keh" InuYasha muttered, ".....fine"
"Well then.....I believe that we'll be able to let the rope lose" Miroku sighed as he walked over to InuYasha.
Sango looked suspiciously at InuYasha, as he was being untied.
As soon as InuYasha was untied, InuYasha hit Miroku hard on the head.
"That's for stuffing my face in themat" InuYasha muttered as he walked to the end of the room and sat down.
InuYasha leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes,
~I will find you Kagome....I will go after you....I'm not going to wait. I'll run around the world, looking like a fool, and Miroku and the rest can do as they wish. I can't bear to think of you suffering....~ InuYasha thought as he clenched his hands into a fist.
"Humph...."Sango muttered, looking over at Miroku, "I told you that InuYasha loved Kagome...."
"......you may be right.....but what of that Kikyo-sama?" Miroku asked.
"Heh, that whore?"
"She is not a whore"
"To me she is.....trying to steal InuYasha away from Kagome and all"
"We must try and look at the situation between both of the two ladies" Miroku said.
"So you like her" Sango said, not revealing a bit of the jealousy she felt in her heart.
"No.....I'm not saying that I like her.....but as a monk, I must talk like that" Miroku said with a large smile.
Sango sweat dropped.
**************************** InuYasha peeked his eyes open to see them all asleep. He got up,
~Damn.....my wound has gotten worse from trying to get into the energy attack....~ InuYasha thought, he clutched his side as he silently stood up and sneaked out of the hut.
~I guess they were kinda right...I should have rested more....how am I going to fight when my body is all wounded up....~ InuYasha thought, ~But no way in hell am I going to leave Kagome for another day....~
InuYasha walked and walked then stopped, feeling very foolish.
~I don't even know where the hell I'm going....~ InuYasha looked at the sky that was turning orange, as the sun slowly started to set.
"Kagome......wait for me....." InuYasha whispered. Then he turned around, hearing something coming towards him. Kagura.
"What do you want?!" InuYasha asked, putting his hands to his Tetsusaiga, as he looked coldly at her.
"To give you some Information......follow the sun while it is setting. It shall lead you to Naraku's fortress" Kagura said as she plucked a feather out of her hair and through it into the air as it puffed into a big flying feather. She got onto it,
"Follow it and save her, InuYasha"
"Why the hell should I believe you?!" InuYasha growled at her.
"Do you really have any choice but to follow my information? It's not like you can do anything better than looking around the world. By the time you find her, she'd probably be wholly Naraku's. My way is much more convenient" Kagura said.
"Aren't you working for Naraku? Why are you helping me?" he asked suspiciously.
"Let's just say, that he is a threat to even his own creation' s lives...." Kagura answered as she flew away.
InuYasha looked up, the sun was rising. ~I have to make it there before sunset ends...~
InuYasha picked up his pace as he sped away. ~Kagome.....I'm coming~
**************************** Kagome looked down at her hands to see the open gashed in her hands closing. She knew that her real self was growing stronger. She now could think, without it being controlled by Naraku, and she had memories, and not all of them were depressing.
She stood outside in Kagura's balcony, where Naraku had commanded Kagura to keep gaurd on her, but Kagura later had left somewhere...
The wind blew at her hair, Kagome closed her eyes. ~I feel a little bit more free every hour....It feels as if my soul is able to fight back now....~
Every second she could feel herself battling against the tainted Shikon jewel inside her. She had remembered something Kikyo had said to her when Kagome had been fully possessed....
*****Flashback*****
"You'll keep fighting until you die, that is what happens to unfortunate people like you that doesn't have a soul strong enough to fight back against it!" Kikyo hissed as she looked coldly at Kagome who unsteadily walked towards a tree to lean against. Kagome felt no pain...only great power growing in her. All she had to do was restore her power by resting a bit.
*****End of Flashback*****
~I am nothing compared to Kikyo.....But I am always compared to her cuz I'm her damn reincarnation....~
Kagome went back into the room and looked down at a bowl of water, glaring at her reflection,
"What have you become, Kagome.....Why have I became what I am.....Naraku's worker......." Kagome whispered to herself.
~Because.....you were angered at InuYasha, and felt hatred for Kikyo. The darkness in you made you vulnerable to the powers of Naraku~ said a voice inside her, but not Naraku's cold voice.
Kagome sighed, "I was doing so well...hating InuYasha and all" Kagome muttered as she fell back onto the bed, "But I really can't help it......I can't hate him.......no matter what. And I have no right to hate him......when he never actually said that he would care for me more than Kikyo and never said that he had chosen me. He had chosen Kikyo, thus, if she had gotten hurt, Inuyasha would rightfully be able to take care of her, even if I was in danger....." Kagome muttered to herself. Kagome smiled, and closed her eyes, she had remembered what InuYasha had said to her before she had disappeared back to Naraku,
"Kagome....don't leave me....." InuYasha whispered in a strained voice, he shut his eyes tightly, "Kagome.....how could you think.....that I didn't care for you."
Kagome reached up into the air where InuYasha's face had once been, but now, all she could feel was nothing.
~I was the one poisoning my own mind.......even if InuYasha does love Kikyo.......he will still care for me......he said he did. I saw it in his eyes......I don't hate him.......But I still wish I could have more then his caring. I want the thing Kikyo gets.......love......that is....that is all I wish for in this world.......nothing else. Just InuYasha's love for me.....But it's something I can only dream about.......~
~I'm going to have to forgive InuYasha....though he has done nothing. The scar shall still remain, but in order to see InuYasha again......I have to get the Shikon jewel out of me........~
Kagome shut her eyes tightly, "I forgive him, I forgive him, I forgive him" Kagome muttered. She looked into the bowl of water, but she could still see the dark glow of the Shikon jewel in her neck.
Kagome sighed, ~Why isn't it coming out....I said I forgave InuYasha.....oh yah...." Kagome thought as she sadly walked back out to the balcony. ~If he said he cares for me........is he searching for me....or is he searching for........Kikyo.......~
Kagome looked down, all she could see was darkness. The whole fortress was on top of a mountain that went straight down, Kagome believed that if someone fell off, they would never reach the ground.
~If it wasn't so high, I would jump off and run away.....~ Kagome thought, she heard something headed towards her. "Kagura? She's back"
Kagura landed gracefully on the balcony.
"Naraku did not come, did he?" Kagura asked, trying to hide her fright.
"Nope......not that I know of" Kagome replied.
Kagura glanced over at Kagome, ~She talks so freely. Not as one would talk if they were under Naraku's power~
Kagome walked over and sat at the edge the bed.
"So....where did you go?" Kagome asked.
Kagura gave Kagome a cut eye. Worrying that Kagome was being controlled by Naraku to get information out of her.
~But it could not be....~ Kagura thought, ~I would have sensed Naraku's aurora..~
"I went to look around.....for InuYasha....." Kagura said, not telling the full truth, to be on the safe side.
"AND?!" Kagome asked, her heart suddenly speeding up.
Kagura felt strange......never in her life had she "conversed" with others.
"Was he...tending to....Kikyo?" Kagome whispered.
Kagura saw so much sadness in the girl's eyes that it surprised her, curiousity led her to sit a little distance away from Kagome.
".....Why do you care whether InuYasha is out searching for you, or if he's with Kikyo? Either way, he won't be able to save you, and you shall die here like the rest of us are fated to have" Kagura said in her usual cold and vacant voice.
"I know....." Kagome whispered, "but that's not the point....there are some things worse than death.....mine would be.....to hear that InuYasha was not out searching for me.......then I would know that he didn't care for me........that would be worse than death to me. I would die a million times if only he could love me....."
Kagome coldly laughed, "Love....such a foolish feeling. It makes one so vulnerable, as it is for Naraku"
Kagome sighed, "I guess it is.....Love also makes you feel like a fool"
Kagura looked away, unused to this type of talking. Something in her heart made her say what she said,
"I saw InuYasha searching for you......he probably still is.....following the path I showed him to follow that will direct him here" Kagura muttered.
All went silence, as Kagome tried to absorb all of what she had heard. Happiness filled her face.
"He...does truly.......care for me......he hasn't......ditched me for Kikyo........." Kagome whispered. The black faded glow on her neck faded into a pink light as it dropped out of her neck.
Kagura looked at Kagome in surprise. "The jewel......is out......"
Kagome ran to Kagura and hugged her. Kagura's heart thumped fast, having never been hugged by a person.
"Thank you......even if it wasn't meant for me.....thank you" Kagome said, straining her voice from crying out loud in happiness. Kagura moved back uneasily.
"Let's be friends" Kagome offered. Kagura turned pale.
"Friends.......? "
"Yes, friends!" Kagome said with a warm smile that "almost" melted Kagura's frozen cold heart.
Kagura backed away, "I do not accept friendship from a person that I will someday betray"
Kagome sadly smiled, suddenly, Naraku opened the door.
He looked casually at Kagura,
"InuYasha is coming......" Naraku coldly said to Kagura, "but I'm sure you knew that all along"
Kagura looked away, "I do not know what the hell you are talking about"
Naraku stepped gracefully up to Kagura, "what I mean is...." he whispered, as he gripped Kagura's neck, "that you disobeyed me...yet again....must I teach you the painful way?" he asked as his nails dug into her flesh, "that you are never to disobey me like that. Or it shall seriously be your last warning...." he said as he tighly held her neck. Sounds of Kagura choking could be heard.
"STOP IT!" Kagome yelled, running up to Naraku.
Naraku loosened his grip on Kagura after a few minuets of staring at Kagome. Kagura fell to the ground and lay motionlessly on the ground, only a heaving sound of breathing could be heard, as blood streaked down her neck.
"You....have escaped my powers.......what a powerful little girl" Naraku muttered, "InuYasha will be coming to save you soon.....I have left my place open to him.....and I shall take my revenge then......But how.....did you escape my powers?" Naraku coldly asked. Kagura weakly tried to stand, but Naraku stepped on Kagura's neck as he held her down,
"Did you help her? Why Kagura, you have changed a lot. I had never thought you to have human feelings........disgusting. Now I must move our fortress elsewhere because of your foolishness. I quite liked it here, but InuYasha knows now......" Naraku said. He stretched out his hands that held a necklace with more than a half of the Shikon Shard on it. The Shikon fragment from Kagome's neck flew towards Naraku as it became one with the tinted ones.
"Where......did you....get that? That necklace and part of the jewels combined in that thing is MINE!"
"I stole it off Kikyo.....what do you think? That she offered it to me?" he asked, as he stepped closer to Kagome, but Kagome backed away. She backed up onto the railing of the balcony.
Suddenly, a voice was heard from behind Naraku.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried, as he took out his Tetsusaiga, glaring at Naraku coldly.
"We finally meet face to face....." InuYasha muttered.
Naraku smiled, "well then, me and Kagura should be leaving now.......but before I do.....I have to get rid of some waist" Naraku said as he pushed Kagome, disappearing as well as Kagura into a gray swirm of clouds.
InuYasha ran towards Kagome, who was waving her hands in the air, losing her balance. She reached out her hands towards InuYasha, but fell over the railings.
"InuYasha!" Kagome screamed, and felt InuYasha's hand catching her fingers. She desperately looked up to see InuYasha's face all pale, and sweating.
"Don't let go, Kagome!!!!!" InuYasha yelled, holding onto Kagome as tightly as he could. Kagome hand slowly began to slip out of his grasp. InuYasha pushed himself a bit over the railing, trying to get hold of something else.
"STOP IT INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed, seeing that InuYasha was dangerously close to falling over the railing. "You're gunu fall over!"
"I'll......save you.....Kagome......I swore to myself.....that I would......."InuYasha said as more sweat began to appear, and a look of despair filled his face as slowly one finger by another began to slip out of his grasp.
Tears streamed down her eyes from fright that she would never see either her family, friends, or InuYasha....ever again. But she was more afraid that InuYasha as well would fall over.
"It's better that only one of us died, NOT both!" Kagome yelled at InuYasha.
"I'm not letting go!! Kagome try and grab my Haori!"
"No!" Kagome cried as she shook her head, "You'll seriously fall if I do!"
"I DON'Y CARE! TRY KAGOME! "InuYasha yelled, feeling his eyes moistening. "I'm not going to let you leave me!!!!!"
Kagome looked up, "be glad and ......give me up......I'm free from Naraku's powers......."
"I'm glad Kagome......But you DON'T deserve to end like this!!!" InuYasha cried.
Kagome shut her eyes tightly as a tear ran down her cheeks, ~ I know......that I'll never be good enough for you InuYasha.......like Kikyo.......but this is all I can do to show you my love.......~
Kagome looked up at InuYasha for the final time,
"You once told me to let go of you......last time when we were faced against the swamp demon......And now InuYasha......I'm asking you to do the same" Kagome whispered, as she shook her fingers out of his grasp as she was consumed into the pitless hole of darkness.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried, tears streaking down his cheeks, "KAGOME!!!! DON'T GO!!!" He yelled, his hands still stretched out to where he had held Kagome's hands. He held his hands into a fist, as his claws dug into his skin as blood dripped down.
He pulled himself back onto the balcony and tightly shut his eyes, as hot tears ran down his cheeks.......for the first time.......for the first time in his life had he had a single tear drip from his eyes.....
"KAGOME!!!!!!"
**~~ PLZ dun say "You made Kagome get hurt again!" CUZ WAIT N SEE!!!!! I WON'T disappoint you !! ^^ Hey, I have a question for those of you who have read my one shot "A second too late" I'm thinking about doing a sequel, do you want it a happy ending or a sad ending? Well, ja ne, I'll leave you ppl cliff hagin for now ^^ Sorry this chappy was kinda lame, I'm ran out of ideas in this chapter, hehe. ^-_-^ ~~**
============= Chapter twenty-Eight =============
InuYasha lay tied up in a hut with Miroku and the rest sitting and watching him.
"We HAVE to go in search of Kagome!!!! We can't just sit here and wait, dammit!" InuYasha growled, struggling to get his legs and wrist out from the rope....but all in vein.
"You can't fight if you are wounded like that, InuYasha! You haven't even fully healed! We don't even know where to find her! If we follow your crazy Idea to go run around the whole world in search of her, we'll ALL die from your foolishness! We must organize this all out!" Sango yelled in annoyance back at him.
~He's really getting on my nerves. He's been yelling at us for the past hour we've tied him up......~ Sango thought as she glared down at InuYasha.
"You bitches! I swear, if I ever get out of these damn ropes I'll slice you guys all up! We have to go find Kagome!"
Miroku could no longer hold in his annoyance as he went over to InuYasha and stepped on his head, jamming his face into the mat.
"Fuck you!" came the muffled voice of InuYasha who continued to swear and threat at Miroku.
"Did you not hear what Sango just told us? It's very true. Do you expect us to run around the world like a crazy maniac, not knowing where to head?" Miroku asked.
InuYasha pushed himself away from Miroku's feet.
InuYasha fell back and sighed as he looked up at the ceiling....
Shippo came over and sat next to him.
"InuYasha.....I know you really care for Kagome.....and you must be really worried about her.....But for her sake.....we have to plan this all out and be patient"
"Very wise, Shippo" Miroku complimented, "you're becoming more like me"
"Keh" InuYasha muttered, ".....fine"
"Well then.....I believe that we'll be able to let the rope lose" Miroku sighed as he walked over to InuYasha.
Sango looked suspiciously at InuYasha, as he was being untied.
As soon as InuYasha was untied, InuYasha hit Miroku hard on the head.
"That's for stuffing my face in themat" InuYasha muttered as he walked to the end of the room and sat down.
InuYasha leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes,
~I will find you Kagome....I will go after you....I'm not going to wait. I'll run around the world, looking like a fool, and Miroku and the rest can do as they wish. I can't bear to think of you suffering....~ InuYasha thought as he clenched his hands into a fist.
"Humph...."Sango muttered, looking over at Miroku, "I told you that InuYasha loved Kagome...."
"......you may be right.....but what of that Kikyo-sama?" Miroku asked.
"Heh, that whore?"
"She is not a whore"
"To me she is.....trying to steal InuYasha away from Kagome and all"
"We must try and look at the situation between both of the two ladies" Miroku said.
"So you like her" Sango said, not revealing a bit of the jealousy she felt in her heart.
"No.....I'm not saying that I like her.....but as a monk, I must talk like that" Miroku said with a large smile.
Sango sweat dropped.
**************************** InuYasha peeked his eyes open to see them all asleep. He got up,
~Damn.....my wound has gotten worse from trying to get into the energy attack....~ InuYasha thought, he clutched his side as he silently stood up and sneaked out of the hut.
~I guess they were kinda right...I should have rested more....how am I going to fight when my body is all wounded up....~ InuYasha thought, ~But no way in hell am I going to leave Kagome for another day....~
InuYasha walked and walked then stopped, feeling very foolish.
~I don't even know where the hell I'm going....~ InuYasha looked at the sky that was turning orange, as the sun slowly started to set.
"Kagome......wait for me....." InuYasha whispered. Then he turned around, hearing something coming towards him. Kagura.
"What do you want?!" InuYasha asked, putting his hands to his Tetsusaiga, as he looked coldly at her.
"To give you some Information......follow the sun while it is setting. It shall lead you to Naraku's fortress" Kagura said as she plucked a feather out of her hair and through it into the air as it puffed into a big flying feather. She got onto it,
"Follow it and save her, InuYasha"
"Why the hell should I believe you?!" InuYasha growled at her.
"Do you really have any choice but to follow my information? It's not like you can do anything better than looking around the world. By the time you find her, she'd probably be wholly Naraku's. My way is much more convenient" Kagura said.
"Aren't you working for Naraku? Why are you helping me?" he asked suspiciously.
"Let's just say, that he is a threat to even his own creation' s lives...." Kagura answered as she flew away.
InuYasha looked up, the sun was rising. ~I have to make it there before sunset ends...~
InuYasha picked up his pace as he sped away. ~Kagome.....I'm coming~
**************************** Kagome looked down at her hands to see the open gashed in her hands closing. She knew that her real self was growing stronger. She now could think, without it being controlled by Naraku, and she had memories, and not all of them were depressing.
She stood outside in Kagura's balcony, where Naraku had commanded Kagura to keep gaurd on her, but Kagura later had left somewhere...
The wind blew at her hair, Kagome closed her eyes. ~I feel a little bit more free every hour....It feels as if my soul is able to fight back now....~
Every second she could feel herself battling against the tainted Shikon jewel inside her. She had remembered something Kikyo had said to her when Kagome had been fully possessed....
*****Flashback*****
"You'll keep fighting until you die, that is what happens to unfortunate people like you that doesn't have a soul strong enough to fight back against it!" Kikyo hissed as she looked coldly at Kagome who unsteadily walked towards a tree to lean against. Kagome felt no pain...only great power growing in her. All she had to do was restore her power by resting a bit.
*****End of Flashback*****
~I am nothing compared to Kikyo.....But I am always compared to her cuz I'm her damn reincarnation....~
Kagome went back into the room and looked down at a bowl of water, glaring at her reflection,
"What have you become, Kagome.....Why have I became what I am.....Naraku's worker......." Kagome whispered to herself.
~Because.....you were angered at InuYasha, and felt hatred for Kikyo. The darkness in you made you vulnerable to the powers of Naraku~ said a voice inside her, but not Naraku's cold voice.
Kagome sighed, "I was doing so well...hating InuYasha and all" Kagome muttered as she fell back onto the bed, "But I really can't help it......I can't hate him.......no matter what. And I have no right to hate him......when he never actually said that he would care for me more than Kikyo and never said that he had chosen me. He had chosen Kikyo, thus, if she had gotten hurt, Inuyasha would rightfully be able to take care of her, even if I was in danger....." Kagome muttered to herself. Kagome smiled, and closed her eyes, she had remembered what InuYasha had said to her before she had disappeared back to Naraku,
"Kagome....don't leave me....." InuYasha whispered in a strained voice, he shut his eyes tightly, "Kagome.....how could you think.....that I didn't care for you."
Kagome reached up into the air where InuYasha's face had once been, but now, all she could feel was nothing.
~I was the one poisoning my own mind.......even if InuYasha does love Kikyo.......he will still care for me......he said he did. I saw it in his eyes......I don't hate him.......But I still wish I could have more then his caring. I want the thing Kikyo gets.......love......that is....that is all I wish for in this world.......nothing else. Just InuYasha's love for me.....But it's something I can only dream about.......~
~I'm going to have to forgive InuYasha....though he has done nothing. The scar shall still remain, but in order to see InuYasha again......I have to get the Shikon jewel out of me........~
Kagome shut her eyes tightly, "I forgive him, I forgive him, I forgive him" Kagome muttered. She looked into the bowl of water, but she could still see the dark glow of the Shikon jewel in her neck.
Kagome sighed, ~Why isn't it coming out....I said I forgave InuYasha.....oh yah...." Kagome thought as she sadly walked back out to the balcony. ~If he said he cares for me........is he searching for me....or is he searching for........Kikyo.......~
Kagome looked down, all she could see was darkness. The whole fortress was on top of a mountain that went straight down, Kagome believed that if someone fell off, they would never reach the ground.
~If it wasn't so high, I would jump off and run away.....~ Kagome thought, she heard something headed towards her. "Kagura? She's back"
Kagura landed gracefully on the balcony.
"Naraku did not come, did he?" Kagura asked, trying to hide her fright.
"Nope......not that I know of" Kagome replied.
Kagura glanced over at Kagome, ~She talks so freely. Not as one would talk if they were under Naraku's power~
Kagome walked over and sat at the edge the bed.
"So....where did you go?" Kagome asked.
Kagura gave Kagome a cut eye. Worrying that Kagome was being controlled by Naraku to get information out of her.
~But it could not be....~ Kagura thought, ~I would have sensed Naraku's aurora..~
"I went to look around.....for InuYasha....." Kagura said, not telling the full truth, to be on the safe side.
"AND?!" Kagome asked, her heart suddenly speeding up.
Kagura felt strange......never in her life had she "conversed" with others.
"Was he...tending to....Kikyo?" Kagome whispered.
Kagura saw so much sadness in the girl's eyes that it surprised her, curiousity led her to sit a little distance away from Kagome.
".....Why do you care whether InuYasha is out searching for you, or if he's with Kikyo? Either way, he won't be able to save you, and you shall die here like the rest of us are fated to have" Kagura said in her usual cold and vacant voice.
"I know....." Kagome whispered, "but that's not the point....there are some things worse than death.....mine would be.....to hear that InuYasha was not out searching for me.......then I would know that he didn't care for me........that would be worse than death to me. I would die a million times if only he could love me....."
Kagome coldly laughed, "Love....such a foolish feeling. It makes one so vulnerable, as it is for Naraku"
Kagome sighed, "I guess it is.....Love also makes you feel like a fool"
Kagura looked away, unused to this type of talking. Something in her heart made her say what she said,
"I saw InuYasha searching for you......he probably still is.....following the path I showed him to follow that will direct him here" Kagura muttered.
All went silence, as Kagome tried to absorb all of what she had heard. Happiness filled her face.
"He...does truly.......care for me......he hasn't......ditched me for Kikyo........." Kagome whispered. The black faded glow on her neck faded into a pink light as it dropped out of her neck.
Kagura looked at Kagome in surprise. "The jewel......is out......"
Kagome ran to Kagura and hugged her. Kagura's heart thumped fast, having never been hugged by a person.
"Thank you......even if it wasn't meant for me.....thank you" Kagome said, straining her voice from crying out loud in happiness. Kagura moved back uneasily.
"Let's be friends" Kagome offered. Kagura turned pale.
"Friends.......? "
"Yes, friends!" Kagome said with a warm smile that "almost" melted Kagura's frozen cold heart.
Kagura backed away, "I do not accept friendship from a person that I will someday betray"
Kagome sadly smiled, suddenly, Naraku opened the door.
He looked casually at Kagura,
"InuYasha is coming......" Naraku coldly said to Kagura, "but I'm sure you knew that all along"
Kagura looked away, "I do not know what the hell you are talking about"
Naraku stepped gracefully up to Kagura, "what I mean is...." he whispered, as he gripped Kagura's neck, "that you disobeyed me...yet again....must I teach you the painful way?" he asked as his nails dug into her flesh, "that you are never to disobey me like that. Or it shall seriously be your last warning...." he said as he tighly held her neck. Sounds of Kagura choking could be heard.
"STOP IT!" Kagome yelled, running up to Naraku.
Naraku loosened his grip on Kagura after a few minuets of staring at Kagome. Kagura fell to the ground and lay motionlessly on the ground, only a heaving sound of breathing could be heard, as blood streaked down her neck.
"You....have escaped my powers.......what a powerful little girl" Naraku muttered, "InuYasha will be coming to save you soon.....I have left my place open to him.....and I shall take my revenge then......But how.....did you escape my powers?" Naraku coldly asked. Kagura weakly tried to stand, but Naraku stepped on Kagura's neck as he held her down,
"Did you help her? Why Kagura, you have changed a lot. I had never thought you to have human feelings........disgusting. Now I must move our fortress elsewhere because of your foolishness. I quite liked it here, but InuYasha knows now......" Naraku said. He stretched out his hands that held a necklace with more than a half of the Shikon Shard on it. The Shikon fragment from Kagome's neck flew towards Naraku as it became one with the tinted ones.
"Where......did you....get that? That necklace and part of the jewels combined in that thing is MINE!"
"I stole it off Kikyo.....what do you think? That she offered it to me?" he asked, as he stepped closer to Kagome, but Kagome backed away. She backed up onto the railing of the balcony.
Suddenly, a voice was heard from behind Naraku.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried, as he took out his Tetsusaiga, glaring at Naraku coldly.
"We finally meet face to face....." InuYasha muttered.
Naraku smiled, "well then, me and Kagura should be leaving now.......but before I do.....I have to get rid of some waist" Naraku said as he pushed Kagome, disappearing as well as Kagura into a gray swirm of clouds.
InuYasha ran towards Kagome, who was waving her hands in the air, losing her balance. She reached out her hands towards InuYasha, but fell over the railings.
"InuYasha!" Kagome screamed, and felt InuYasha's hand catching her fingers. She desperately looked up to see InuYasha's face all pale, and sweating.
"Don't let go, Kagome!!!!!" InuYasha yelled, holding onto Kagome as tightly as he could. Kagome hand slowly began to slip out of his grasp. InuYasha pushed himself a bit over the railing, trying to get hold of something else.
"STOP IT INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed, seeing that InuYasha was dangerously close to falling over the railing. "You're gunu fall over!"
"I'll......save you.....Kagome......I swore to myself.....that I would......."InuYasha said as more sweat began to appear, and a look of despair filled his face as slowly one finger by another began to slip out of his grasp.
Tears streamed down her eyes from fright that she would never see either her family, friends, or InuYasha....ever again. But she was more afraid that InuYasha as well would fall over.
"It's better that only one of us died, NOT both!" Kagome yelled at InuYasha.
"I'm not letting go!! Kagome try and grab my Haori!"
"No!" Kagome cried as she shook her head, "You'll seriously fall if I do!"
"I DON'Y CARE! TRY KAGOME! "InuYasha yelled, feeling his eyes moistening. "I'm not going to let you leave me!!!!!"
Kagome looked up, "be glad and ......give me up......I'm free from Naraku's powers......."
"I'm glad Kagome......But you DON'T deserve to end like this!!!" InuYasha cried.
Kagome shut her eyes tightly as a tear ran down her cheeks, ~ I know......that I'll never be good enough for you InuYasha.......like Kikyo.......but this is all I can do to show you my love.......~
Kagome looked up at InuYasha for the final time,
"You once told me to let go of you......last time when we were faced against the swamp demon......And now InuYasha......I'm asking you to do the same" Kagome whispered, as she shook her fingers out of his grasp as she was consumed into the pitless hole of darkness.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried, tears streaking down his cheeks, "KAGOME!!!! DON'T GO!!!" He yelled, his hands still stretched out to where he had held Kagome's hands. He held his hands into a fist, as his claws dug into his skin as blood dripped down.
He pulled himself back onto the balcony and tightly shut his eyes, as hot tears ran down his cheeks.......for the first time.......for the first time in his life had he had a single tear drip from his eyes.....
"KAGOME!!!!!!"
**~~ PLZ dun say "You made Kagome get hurt again!" CUZ WAIT N SEE!!!!! I WON'T disappoint you !! ^^ Hey, I have a question for those of you who have read my one shot "A second too late" I'm thinking about doing a sequel, do you want it a happy ending or a sad ending? Well, ja ne, I'll leave you ppl cliff hagin for now ^^ Sorry this chappy was kinda lame, I'm ran out of ideas in this chapter, hehe. ^-_-^ ~~**