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============= Chapter Forty-Four =============
Shippo glared at Tomo who was pulling his cheeks.
"Kawaii, kawaii, kawaii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tomo screamed, "waaaaaa!!! You look like a cute little fox!"
Shippo crossed his arms, "I am a fox, but I don't know about the small part"
Miroku sighed in relief, ~I'm free~
"So, these are the beautiful entertainers you were talking about" Sango said.
"W- W- WHAT?!!! No...I thought...he meant beautiful, not ugly!!!" Miroku defended.
"Man, Houshi-sama, you have bad taste"
"K-k-k SHUT UP!!!"
"Sure" Sango muttered.
"Help, Help!!!" Shippo screamed. Kilala tilted her head as she watched Shippo being tortured.
"Prrrrrrrrrrr"
"Kawaii !!!!!!!" Tomo cried as she chased Shippo around the hut.
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InuYasha looked at the place where Kagome and the other person had disappeared into the dark.
~Why would that lady ask for help to search for the river when the river is so obvious to find~ InuYasha thought.
"Now here's my chance...." Tsubaki muttered.
"Oh oh oh!" Tsubaki cried, tripping purposely to the ground. "Owe my ankle!"
"Huh.." InuYasha turned to see her on the ground, clutching her ankles. "What are you doing here?"
"Me? Oh, I was worried about you, so I came to check and I tripped on the rock" Tsubaki told him.
InuYasha raised an eyebrow, ~I don't think I should leave Kagome alone with that freaky lady~
He scratched his head, "Um...I'll get some help"
"Oh InuYasha!" Tsubaki cried, "it hurts so bad, can't you just stay here for a while, I'll get better soon"
InuYasha looked at where Kagome had disappeared to, ~A second wouldn't hurt~
"I have to tell you something.."
InuYasha sighed, walking over to her, "what?"
She pulled InuYasha to the ground next to her, he had a strange, shocked look on his face.
"Wh- wha?!!!!"
"Oh InuYasha, I'm so lonely! When I saw you, my heart started to beat so fast, I knew you were the one!" Tsubaki whispered into InuYasha's ear.
"Holy shit! You're freaking me out!" InuYasha cried as he scrambled up and backed away, "is something wrong?!"
Tsubaki had a blanc look on.
"........"
~Oh God, I feel sick......~ InuYasha thought, "I..have to go find Kagome....BYE!"
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"There, here's the river. It's gunu be really cold...." Kagome said.
The lady stood watching Kagome, Kagome started to sweat.
"Um.....what's your name?" Kagome asked.
"My....name...." the lady murmured, "what's .....my name"
Kagome felt herself go cold, ~Maybe the injury got to her head~
"What happened to your neck?"
~I need her to get close to me....She might have a secret weapon I do not know of~ the girl thought.
She stretched out her hands, it held a peace of the Shikon Jewel. Kagome noticed that there were claws on the ladies hand, but it faded away.
"Ah.....Ah..." the woman held her hand out, with the shard on her palm, "ah.....take"
~I need a new body...this is too weak~
"Ah......"
"Um....Is that....real?" Kagome asked.
"Hai"
Kagome stared at the woman, that stood in the mist. Kagome slowly walked towards the woman.
"Ah....."
Kagome looked at the girl, her eyes flashed red. Kagome gasped, and hesitated to move on.
"Please...." she whispered.
InuYasha walked towards where the river would be, ~Huh....I sense a youkai near by....KAGOME!~
Tsubaki skipped after InuYasha.
Kagome now stood in front of , as she slowly reached out her hands to take the Shikon Jewel,
"Why....are you giving me this?" Kagome asked. Suddenly, the eyes of the girl started to turn red, and her brown hair silver.
Kagome slowly moved her hands away, but the girl grabbed her wrist. Kagome gasped, as claws started to appear on her fingers, and her teeth turned into fangs dripping with blood.
"Give me your Shikon jewel" it whispered.
"Kagome!!!!!!!!" InuYasha yelled, "let go of her you bastard!!"
Tsubaki watched from the bushes, ~Wow.....does InuYasha know how to fight well?~
The girl moved away from Kagome and looked at InuYasha.
"You....are InuYasha?" the wolf asked in the voice of the girl.
"Keh, yah. Have a problem with that?"
"You...are the one who killed so many of my friends.....so many Youkais....when you yourself are one too......And you killed...the one I loved....."
InuYasha took out his Tetsusaiga, "and would you like to join the person you love in hell?"
"I will get all the Shikon Jewel and will bring him back alive....."
Kagome stared at the woman who had blood dripping down her neck, her face with a dead expression, her eyes glowing red, her silver hair flying in the air.
It started to growl as the a wolf appeared out of the woman, and the corpse of the dead woman dropped to the ground.
A wolf stood growling ferociously, with red saliva drooling down it's mouth. It's silver fur seeming blue in the moonlight.
"I will have my revenge"
"I don't remember killing any Youkai wolves in the first place!!" InuYasha snapped.
" He wasn't a wolf Youkai....do you remember Gogotsuma....." (from chap.13)
"Oh....the one who tried to kill Kagome?! Keh, I'm glad he's dead"
"You'll pay dearly!!" the youkai growled, it breathed out as a flash of blue light struck the spot InuYasha had been standing, leaving a big statue of ice. InuYasha landed on the ground behind the wolf.
InuYasha ran towards the Youkai with his sword in the air, but the youkai jumped away before the sword sliced through her body.
"Kaza no Kizu" InuYasha yelled as the Tetsusaiga had mist forming around the sword as he struck the ground and yellow light sped towards the demon. The land blew up on where the wolf had been standing. Even though it had jumped away, it hadn't been far enough.
The youkai smashed into the tree from the force of the attack as a big piece of earth smashed into its face. The wolf fell to the ground.
"Keh, that was easy" InuYasha muttered as he brushed his hands together.
The wolf suddenly started to laugh,
"Do you think you can get done with me that easily when I am a FULL youkai and also possess a shard"
"Damn..." InuYasha muttered., "keh, don't worry, you'll be with your lover soon enough"
Kagome frowned, ~Poor thing....loosing someone she loved~
The youkai sped towards InuYasha, and swung its claws at him, but InuYasha swung his sword, hitting the claws away...but barely.
"InuYasha! The Shikon Shard is in the youkai's arms!" Kagome yelled.
InuYasha started to run as spear like ice crystals were shot at him. One came straight at him, but he smashed it with his sword.
~I can't run forever....~
The youkai got ready to attack again but InuYasha disappeared in a flash. It looked up to see the moon and a dark figure high up in the air, holding a sword and coming down towards her.
~I don't know what to do....~ Kagome's heart beated quickly, feeling the youkai's loss. ~How would I have felt....if I met the person that had killed the person I loved.....~
Kagome bit her lips and took out two arrows and her bow.
InuYasha gasped as an arrow shot his sword to the side, only hitting the youkai shoulder. The youkai was about to run it's claws through InuYasha, but an arrow shot its arms, causing it to stumble back.
InuYasha stared at Kagome, "why...."
He stared at her in a mixed look of annoyance and anger. He turned and looked bitterly at the youkai,
"Don't worry, I'll finish you this time" InuYasha growled as he cracked his knuckle, ~why the hell did Kagome do that?!!!!~
He glared at the wolf that had blood smeared all over its face and shoulders.
All Tsubaki could see of InuYasha was a streak of red light speeding towards the youkai, as she watched in awe with her jaws dropped.
"Kyaaa!" InuYasha yelled as he swung his sword as it sliced through the youkai's back. It yelped as it jumped high into the air.
"Come back here you bitch!!!" InuYasha yell as he jumped into the air as well. "Take that!!!" InuYasha yelled as he clawed the youkai across the neck then the arm as a Shikon jewel dripping with blood cut out of the wolf's arm and dropped to the ground.
InuYasha's bloody hands clutched the wolf's neck as he tightened his grip, still in the air. It coughed and clawed InuYasha's face.
InuYasha landed hard onto the ground, the youkai smashed into the ground from all its wound.
InuYasha stood up as he wiped the blood from his lips, red claw marks on his cheeks.
The wolf weakly stood on its four legs, whimpering from its pain.
"Keh, you're not that strong"
"My mind.....is too full of Gogotsuma that I cannot concentrate on fighting" the youkai whispered.
Kagome felt her heart beat in pain, ~So sad~
"That excuse wont do" InuYasha said coolly as he raised his Tetsusaiga to attack.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried.
InuYasha turned and looked at Kagome, "what?!"
"D- Don't !!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!!!!!!"
"I- I- feel sorry for her"
InuYasha glared at Kagome, "for her? The person who's trying to kill you?!"
"Think of it! She lost the person she loves!"
"So you're saying that we should give up all our shards and make myself die?!" InuYasha asked.
"no...."
"Well then, I'm gunu have to kill this youkai. I don't have much choice"
Suddenly, InuYasha felt something cold pushing him to a tree. InuYasha looked down to see ice wrapped around his neck and holding him to a tree and a big chunk of ice freezing his legs to a tree.
He could feel the Tetsusaiga dropping out of his hands.
"No!!!" InuYasha yelled as it dropped to the ground.
The youkai evilly laughed, "Thank you girl, now I can kill him. I could tell you were a girl of soft heart, so I had planned this whole story out. Gogotsuma was my lover, but I am too evil to feel love in the first place....."
The youkai picked up the bloody Shikon fragment. "Now I'll freeze you InuYasha and you shall die from the cold!!!!"
It breathed out a flash of blue light as it sped towards InuYasha.
InuYasha stared at the light coming towards him in horror. "Shit...."
"InuYasha!!!!!!" Kagome cried as she jumped it front of the attack and dropped to the ground, as the attack froze her left foot and slowly started to move up.
"So...cold..." Kagome murmured as the ice was now frozen up to her shoulder.
"Well.....I was going to kill her anyway......" the youkai muttered.
"Leave her alone!!" InuYasha yelled, "it's me you want, not her!!!!!"
"Well, it is her I want as well.....and even if I wanted to, I cannot reverse my attack unless I die......which is unlikely now"
"Kagome!!!!!!!!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Kagome could feel her body shaking from the cold.
"She has such a warm heart, but now it'll be a heart of ice" the youkai laughed, "girls with soft hearts are so vulnerable"
InuYasha tried to break free of the ice but it was too strong.
He saw the ice slowly creeping up Kagome's neck.
~It's so.....hard to breath.......~
Something in InuYasha started to beat, he could feel his whole body beating. He looked down at the ground, he had felt this before......
The youkai frowned as she watched InuYasha who's face was unseable. ~I could feel his aurora changing......~ A strange wind started to blow, as InuYasha's hair blew in the wind. He looked up, his front hair covering his eyes. InuYasha's hand shaking, his claws extended. The wind blew again, lifting InuYasha's front hair away from his eyes, revealing evil red eyes.
InuYasha started to growl, as the ice around him started to shake, then broke into thousands of little ice fragments.
He ran towards the youkai, "need blood......"
He ran his hands through the wolf as it cried out in pain. He pulled his hands out, hands that were dripping in blood.
"Need....more......."
"....Inu.....Yasha......." a voice whispered in his mind.
InuYasha turned to see a girl frozen in ice. Kagome could feel her heart wanting to burst, her head feeling as if thousands of knives were piercing it. Suddenly, the ice broke from Kagome.
InuYasha fell to the ground growling, his mind fighting against something.
Kagome lay on the ground shivering.
InuYasha looked down at his hands that were dripping in blood, "I need.....blood......I need to kill......."
"InuYasha......." the voice whispered again in his mind.
InuYasha clutched his head, and ran his claws across the earth.
"InuYasha......." Kagome whispered.
InuYasha struggled to look up, he saw a blurry figure of a girl laying on the ground with ice fragments surrounding her with cuts all over her skin.
InuYasha crawled unsteadily towards Kagome and raised his claws at Kagome, "I smell......blood....."
He tried to bring his claws down, but it wouldn't.
"InuYasha....come back......." Kagome whispered, as she placed her hands on his hands that were clutching the grass on the ground.
InuYasha stood up and backed away, his claws digging into his palm.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered as he collapsed to the ground. Kagome weakly dragged her shivering body towards InuYasha.
She fell next to InuYasha and reached out her hands and touched his cheeks. He looked up and saw her, his red eyes gone and his golden, cat like eyes back to normal.
"Kagome!" InuYasha cried as he held her in his arms, "what....." He saw the cuts all over her skin, ~these cuts are to small to be mine........or is it......~
"Di- did I.....do this?!"
Kagome looked up and smiled, "no"
"Are you hurt bad? What happened?"
"I'm fine, and you turned into a full youkai......."
InuYasha looked away, "sorry"
"Don't worry, you wouldn't have been able to help it, and you saved me too"
"Are you SURE you're fine?"
"Yah, just a little cold that's all"
InuYasha took off his Haori, wrapping it around her and lifted her off the ground and ran back towards the hut.
Tsubaki stared at the ground in amazement, ~I want him so bad......he's so strong.....I can show him off to all my friends..... But...that Kagome girl. He doesn't love her.....Me and InuYasha were meant to be.......~
She stood up and skipped towards the hut, ~ InuYasha does love me! I'm so beautiful, master told me so, and said that all men were in love with me!!!~
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InuYasha entered the entertaining room with Kagome in his arms. The room was dark and empty.
~They must have all went to sleep.......but I don't even know where that is~ InuYasha thought as he lay Kagome gently on the ground.
He walked over to the table which had a candle and lit it up.
InuYasha ran over to where blankets were stored up in and took a couple out and wrapped it around Kagome.
He crouched and gazed down at Kagome who looked as if she wanted to fall asleep.
"You shouldn't fall asleep.....I don't think it would be wise......." InuYasha pointed out, He bit his lips not knowing what to do next, ~Do I need hot water or cold water to put on her forehead........damn, I never observed Kagome and Sango doing things like this cuz I never knew I'd need it. Damn. Maybe I should go wake Sango up........~
Tsubaki watched through the window, ~InuYasha seems to like girls that help out a lot. Kagome seemed like those kind of girls, and Kikyo was definitely one.........~
"Oi!"
InuYasha turned to see Tsubaki, he sweat dropped.
"What?" He muttered in annoyance.
"Here, let a woman take over this job"
InuYasha looked suspiciously at her, ~A trap.....Hm....this woman is really freaky~
~Oh! He's gazing at me!~ Tsubaki thought as a blush appeared on her white powdered cheeks. ~I know I'm too beautiful to resist.....But still, it would be wrong to do it here with a hurt person at present~
"I'll get the hot water" Tsubaki said gently, "make sure she does not fall asleep or she may never wake up"
"Hai"
Kagome looked up at InuYasha sadly looked at him, "are you still mad at me?" she quietly asked.
InuYasha looked at her in surprise, "w....why would I be mad at you?"
"For....preventing you...from killing the youkai......"
*****Flashback*****
InuYasha gasped as an arrow shot his sword to the side, only hitting the youkai shoulder. The youkai was about to run it's claws through InuYasha, but an arrow shot its arms, causing it to stumble back.
InuYasha stared at Kagome, "why...."
*****End of Flashback*****
"I'm not mad....anymore. But.....why did you do it in the first place?"
"Because....I knew how the youkai felt....loosing someone you loved. Cuz me....I couldn't have the person I loved, and the time when I thought you'd die. I just thought....that...I...felt pity for her. But because of that, you almost died! I'm so sorry InuYasha!" Kagome whispered as a single tear ran down her cheeks.
InuYasha could feel his heart pounding painfully, as he held Kagome gently in his arms,
"No...don't be sorry....you felt the right way....I'll wont be able to feel like that....my heart is too dark...."
"You can change a dark heart" Kagome said.
"You already have started...." InuYasha whispered.
Kagome held InuYasha back, ~I love you so much.....but I don't want to tell you, I had made my sacrifice....and it wasn't for nothing~
Tsubaki entered the room and froze, seeing them holding each other. She coughed loudly as the two of them separated with faint blushes on their cheeks.
"Here's the water" Tsubaki said coldly as she turned and hid behind the wall, clenching her hands tightly into a fist.
~I'm going to stay here and see if I still have a chance....before I go to my last plan~
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InuYasha sat, leaning against the wall. Every second he made sure that Kagome wasn't sleeping.
"InuYasha....." Kagome called.
"What?"
Kagome started to laugh, "I...I think that Tsubaki girl is in love with you!"
"Shut up" InuYasha muttered in annoyance.
"Oh InuYasha, I'm so lonely! When I saw you, my heart started to beat so fast, I knew you were the one!" Tsubaki whispered echoed in his mind. A shiver ran down his back.
"She seems very attracted to you..." Kagome muttered.
"BAKA! SHUT UP!" InuYasha hissed, his face turning a bit red.
"I wonder what she sees in you" Kagome said.
InuYasha went over to her, "Holy shit, you must be the most annoying girl in the whole world!!!"
"HAHAHAH, InuYasha and Tsubaki sitting in the tree K, I, S, S, I, N,G. First comes love, then comes marriage then comes....um....Shippo in the baby carriage!" Kagome sang.
"BAKA!!!!!" InuYasha yelled his hands wanting to strangle her. "Keh, you wouldn't mind if I married her?"
"......."
InuYasha sighed and sat peacefully down in victory. "thought so"
Kagome went silent,
"InuYasha...."
"Yah?"
".....Do you ever want to get married?"
InuYasha completely freaked out, "MARRIED?! You're only...what only turned 16 and you're thinking about that....crap?!"
"It's not CRAP! And of COURSE I think of these stuff, I'm a girl!!!"
"Yah..girls do think about a lot of crap" InuYasha muttered, "and I'm a GUY so I don't think of those things........"
"And besides...." He added quietly, "My future probably wont even go that far....."
"What......do you mean"
"Either I'll get killed by Naraku, which is most likely NOT, or I'll be in hell with Kikyo.....which is most likely....." InuYasha muttered darkly.
~Kikyo.......why do you torture InuYasha like this.....~ Kagome angrily thought. Thinking of her future without InuYasha made everything seem so cold and empty.....She felt sadness fill her heart.
InuYasha looked down at Kagome,
"Don't look at me like that....."
"Look at you like what?"
"Look as if I hurt you or something...." InuYasha muttered.
"You didn't hurt me....Just thinking of my life in the future without you seems......never mind" Kagome said, ~Remember your sacrifice Kagome!~
"Seems what? Empty, cold, and lonely? And......painful? You're not the only one feeling that way Kagome.....we're in this together...remember?" InuYasha assured.
InuYasha placed his hand on her heart, "I'll always be here.....In your heart"
Kagome looked up at InuYasha, her heart beating fast.. She could feel his lips getting closer to hers. The closer it got, the faster her heart beated.
He kissed her....
She could feel his hands holding hers.
~I'll always remember this.....every time I close my eyes I'll remember your scent, the feeling of your lips against mine, the warmth of your gaze.....so that even if I'm away from you....You'll be right beside me~ InuYasha thought.
A faint image of a dying woman flashed through his mind, "InuYasha....I thought you loved me...."
"Kikyo" InuYasha gasped as he sat up, dropping Kagome's hand. He felt cold sweat all over him.
"Traitor" her cold voice echoed in his mind.
InuYasha clutched his head, "I'm sorry Kagome....."
Kagome looked sadly at him, "Just choose her.....I can't bear to see you being tortured like this...."
"It'll be even more torturous to try to forget about you Kagome....." InuYasha said in a struggling voice.
"Go out and take a breath of air, you need it. I'll be fine....." Kagome assured.
He looked sadly at Kagome, "I'm really sorry....."
"Don't be InuYasha.....like I said before.....be free"
InuYasha sighed, "I can't be free when there is Kikyo.....I'm sorry. Maybe I should go out for a while"
Kagome watched as InuYasha ran out of the hut.
She closed her eyes as tears rolled down her cheeks, ~This sacrifice I made feels too hard for me to bear....What if I DO have a chance with InuYasha? But...again, I don't. How can InuYasha pick me over the person he's loved for so long........~
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Tsubaki peeked from behind the wall and glared at Kagome who was closing her eyes in thought, her cheeks wet from tears.
Her vision was blurry from tears. She felt humiliated....
She had heared everything they had said, Kagome had been teasing her love for InuYasha, making him embarrassed of it. ~But he's not....~ she convinced herself of it.
A sharp knife shone in her hands from the moonlight.
She walked over quietly to Kagome and raised it over her, but suddenly a big flying object knocked it out of her hands. The knife stabbed into the wooden floor.
"A boomerang?" Tsubaki muttered in confusion.
She turned to see Sango standing there, glaring angrily at her. Kagome gasped as she shot her eyes open, but Sango and Tsubaki didn't notice.
"What the hell is wrong with you, you mad woman!" Sango hissed, anger flaring in her eyes.
"What are you doing here?" Tsubaki asked coldly.
"Same question, I just came to check up on Kagome since I woke and noticed her missing"
"I'm here....because she stole.....InuYasha"
Sango's hateful expression quickly lessoned, ~Oh gosh......~
"He was hers from long ago"
"Still.....I can't help but want him. I knew he was the one at first sight! The only person I fell in love with!!!"
"How do you know if InuYasha returns his feelings to you?" Sango asked.
"Because, master told me that I was the most beautiful girl and that everyman would love me. That's why I work for him"
Sango sweat dropped, "maybe he's the one in love with you" she muttered.
"Oh really! You think so?! Oh my! I never thought of that possibility!" Tsubaki gasped, "him...In love with me?! Poor man, he must have been very jealous to see me flirting with InuYasha!"
"Sure, sure" Sango muttered, "if you touch one hair from Kagome ever again....you won't live to see another morning!"
"Hai, hai, hai" Tsubaki muttered, but then she frowned, "Humph, from what I heard of InuYasha's choice dilemma thing, between Kikyo and Kagome.....I don't think Kagome loves InuYasha that much, making it more hard for him to choose when she knows that he'll never be hers"
She turned and walked away, leaving Sango a bit surprised ~How did she know all that?~
Kagome sat up, staring at Tsubaki's figure fading away into the dark hallway. What she had said.....hurted a lot. Even she knew the right way, to let go of InuYasha. ~I love InuYasha...so I really have to let go of him.....completely. I keep forgetting this....when he's near~
Sango turned pale seeing that Kagome was up.
"Kagome......did you hear? Of what....she said.....about"
"Yes, I heard, but I already knew it myself before.....that I had to let go of InuYasha. Wanting him......only hurt him more, and will hurt me a lot if....I don't let go of him now"
"Kagome!" Sango cried as she crouched down next to Kagome, she placed her hands on her shoulders, "don't give up that easily!!!"
"It's something I have to do Sango, for the best of us....."
InuYasha walked up to the door to enter the room Kagome was in, but heard her talking with someone.
"He loves Kikyo......more than me. Why hold on to him when I know he's gunu choose Kikyo in the end....He'll be more happy with her" he heard Kagome say.
"Stop putting yourself down like that!" Sango cried.
"WILL YOU STOP IT! Stop giving me hope when there is no hope.....it's so obvious"
InuYasha fell onto the steps, ~I must make Kagome really miserable~
"But you see......" Kagome continued, "even though I know he wont choose me......He told me that he loves me. And that's all I can ask for. If he's happy, I'll be happy... He makes me so happy....when I'm with him. And I don't know how I'm going to bear being without him.....but I have to l leave him, so he can easily choose Kikyo"
~Me.....I make you...happy?~ InuYasha felt a deep pain inside him heal. ~Wakkata~
A certain peace rested over his tired soul, knowing that he made her happy....He had always thought that Kagome had just said that he didn't make her miserable just in pity of him......but it was true.
~Kagome....the person I love more is......~ InuYasha suddenly had a flash of Kikyo dying in his mind, "I though.....you loved me"
~Whoever it is you love most.....you must choose Kikyo. Think of all the things she has done for you...the sacrifice she has given for your sake~
InuYasha gritted his teeth angrily, "And what about Kagome..." he asked himself quietly in anger,
"Didn't she sacrifice a lot for me as well? Didn't she do a lot for me? Wasn't she the one who always stood by my side? The one who'd never hate me? Why MUST I choose Kikyo?"
*****Flashback*****
InuYasha got out of the boat, and stood back for Kikyo to step out. She stepped out, but stumbled on the deck.
InuYasha caught Kikyo before she fell, he looked into her eyes, and dropped the rowing stick and held Kikyo tightly in his arms.
They held each other under the sunset.......
*****End of Flashback*****
~Are you that cold hearted as to abandon the person you caused to love that easily? Is it fair to choose Kagome, when you'll never be able to forget Kikyo's face.....If you think that lowly of going to hell.....that is the place you deserve to go. Kagome is to pure for you. You deserve to be with the person you tore apart......the person who's heart you made into dark, bitter ice. And it is Kikyo you love most~ a voice told him.
"I love InuYasha...." he heard Kagome say, "so whatever he chooses....I'll still love him. He'll never be alone as long as I do"
"Kagome......." InuYasha whispered, "Kagome"
**~~ GOMEN! Was this chapter too angsty? I tried my best not to make it so, but....always get carried away ^^;; Hey, I was gunu make the end of the chapter sad or somtin, BUT since I have mercy, I lightened it up a bit. But it's not light enough, is it? I'm trying to keep in balance!!!!!! Bear with me!!! And tell me if you guys want me to keep Tsubaki and Tomo and their master in, or get rid of them~~**
============= Chapter Forty-Four =============
Shippo glared at Tomo who was pulling his cheeks.
"Kawaii, kawaii, kawaii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tomo screamed, "waaaaaa!!! You look like a cute little fox!"
Shippo crossed his arms, "I am a fox, but I don't know about the small part"
Miroku sighed in relief, ~I'm free~
"So, these are the beautiful entertainers you were talking about" Sango said.
"W- W- WHAT?!!! No...I thought...he meant beautiful, not ugly!!!" Miroku defended.
"Man, Houshi-sama, you have bad taste"
"K-k-k SHUT UP!!!"
"Sure" Sango muttered.
"Help, Help!!!" Shippo screamed. Kilala tilted her head as she watched Shippo being tortured.
"Prrrrrrrrrrr"
"Kawaii !!!!!!!" Tomo cried as she chased Shippo around the hut.
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InuYasha looked at the place where Kagome and the other person had disappeared into the dark.
~Why would that lady ask for help to search for the river when the river is so obvious to find~ InuYasha thought.
"Now here's my chance...." Tsubaki muttered.
"Oh oh oh!" Tsubaki cried, tripping purposely to the ground. "Owe my ankle!"
"Huh.." InuYasha turned to see her on the ground, clutching her ankles. "What are you doing here?"
"Me? Oh, I was worried about you, so I came to check and I tripped on the rock" Tsubaki told him.
InuYasha raised an eyebrow, ~I don't think I should leave Kagome alone with that freaky lady~
He scratched his head, "Um...I'll get some help"
"Oh InuYasha!" Tsubaki cried, "it hurts so bad, can't you just stay here for a while, I'll get better soon"
InuYasha looked at where Kagome had disappeared to, ~A second wouldn't hurt~
"I have to tell you something.."
InuYasha sighed, walking over to her, "what?"
She pulled InuYasha to the ground next to her, he had a strange, shocked look on his face.
"Wh- wha?!!!!"
"Oh InuYasha, I'm so lonely! When I saw you, my heart started to beat so fast, I knew you were the one!" Tsubaki whispered into InuYasha's ear.
"Holy shit! You're freaking me out!" InuYasha cried as he scrambled up and backed away, "is something wrong?!"
Tsubaki had a blanc look on.
"........"
~Oh God, I feel sick......~ InuYasha thought, "I..have to go find Kagome....BYE!"
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"There, here's the river. It's gunu be really cold...." Kagome said.
The lady stood watching Kagome, Kagome started to sweat.
"Um.....what's your name?" Kagome asked.
"My....name...." the lady murmured, "what's .....my name"
Kagome felt herself go cold, ~Maybe the injury got to her head~
"What happened to your neck?"
~I need her to get close to me....She might have a secret weapon I do not know of~ the girl thought.
She stretched out her hands, it held a peace of the Shikon Jewel. Kagome noticed that there were claws on the ladies hand, but it faded away.
"Ah.....Ah..." the woman held her hand out, with the shard on her palm, "ah.....take"
~I need a new body...this is too weak~
"Ah......"
"Um....Is that....real?" Kagome asked.
"Hai"
Kagome stared at the woman, that stood in the mist. Kagome slowly walked towards the woman.
"Ah....."
Kagome looked at the girl, her eyes flashed red. Kagome gasped, and hesitated to move on.
"Please...." she whispered.
InuYasha walked towards where the river would be, ~Huh....I sense a youkai near by....KAGOME!~
Tsubaki skipped after InuYasha.
Kagome now stood in front of , as she slowly reached out her hands to take the Shikon Jewel,
"Why....are you giving me this?" Kagome asked. Suddenly, the eyes of the girl started to turn red, and her brown hair silver.
Kagome slowly moved her hands away, but the girl grabbed her wrist. Kagome gasped, as claws started to appear on her fingers, and her teeth turned into fangs dripping with blood.
"Give me your Shikon jewel" it whispered.
"Kagome!!!!!!!!" InuYasha yelled, "let go of her you bastard!!"
Tsubaki watched from the bushes, ~Wow.....does InuYasha know how to fight well?~
The girl moved away from Kagome and looked at InuYasha.
"You....are InuYasha?" the wolf asked in the voice of the girl.
"Keh, yah. Have a problem with that?"
"You...are the one who killed so many of my friends.....so many Youkais....when you yourself are one too......And you killed...the one I loved....."
InuYasha took out his Tetsusaiga, "and would you like to join the person you love in hell?"
"I will get all the Shikon Jewel and will bring him back alive....."
Kagome stared at the woman who had blood dripping down her neck, her face with a dead expression, her eyes glowing red, her silver hair flying in the air.
It started to growl as the a wolf appeared out of the woman, and the corpse of the dead woman dropped to the ground.
A wolf stood growling ferociously, with red saliva drooling down it's mouth. It's silver fur seeming blue in the moonlight.
"I will have my revenge"
"I don't remember killing any Youkai wolves in the first place!!" InuYasha snapped.
" He wasn't a wolf Youkai....do you remember Gogotsuma....." (from chap.13)
"Oh....the one who tried to kill Kagome?! Keh, I'm glad he's dead"
"You'll pay dearly!!" the youkai growled, it breathed out as a flash of blue light struck the spot InuYasha had been standing, leaving a big statue of ice. InuYasha landed on the ground behind the wolf.
InuYasha ran towards the Youkai with his sword in the air, but the youkai jumped away before the sword sliced through her body.
"Kaza no Kizu" InuYasha yelled as the Tetsusaiga had mist forming around the sword as he struck the ground and yellow light sped towards the demon. The land blew up on where the wolf had been standing. Even though it had jumped away, it hadn't been far enough.
The youkai smashed into the tree from the force of the attack as a big piece of earth smashed into its face. The wolf fell to the ground.
"Keh, that was easy" InuYasha muttered as he brushed his hands together.
The wolf suddenly started to laugh,
"Do you think you can get done with me that easily when I am a FULL youkai and also possess a shard"
"Damn..." InuYasha muttered., "keh, don't worry, you'll be with your lover soon enough"
Kagome frowned, ~Poor thing....loosing someone she loved~
The youkai sped towards InuYasha, and swung its claws at him, but InuYasha swung his sword, hitting the claws away...but barely.
"InuYasha! The Shikon Shard is in the youkai's arms!" Kagome yelled.
InuYasha started to run as spear like ice crystals were shot at him. One came straight at him, but he smashed it with his sword.
~I can't run forever....~
The youkai got ready to attack again but InuYasha disappeared in a flash. It looked up to see the moon and a dark figure high up in the air, holding a sword and coming down towards her.
~I don't know what to do....~ Kagome's heart beated quickly, feeling the youkai's loss. ~How would I have felt....if I met the person that had killed the person I loved.....~
Kagome bit her lips and took out two arrows and her bow.
InuYasha gasped as an arrow shot his sword to the side, only hitting the youkai shoulder. The youkai was about to run it's claws through InuYasha, but an arrow shot its arms, causing it to stumble back.
InuYasha stared at Kagome, "why...."
He stared at her in a mixed look of annoyance and anger. He turned and looked bitterly at the youkai,
"Don't worry, I'll finish you this time" InuYasha growled as he cracked his knuckle, ~why the hell did Kagome do that?!!!!~
He glared at the wolf that had blood smeared all over its face and shoulders.
All Tsubaki could see of InuYasha was a streak of red light speeding towards the youkai, as she watched in awe with her jaws dropped.
"Kyaaa!" InuYasha yelled as he swung his sword as it sliced through the youkai's back. It yelped as it jumped high into the air.
"Come back here you bitch!!!" InuYasha yell as he jumped into the air as well. "Take that!!!" InuYasha yelled as he clawed the youkai across the neck then the arm as a Shikon jewel dripping with blood cut out of the wolf's arm and dropped to the ground.
InuYasha's bloody hands clutched the wolf's neck as he tightened his grip, still in the air. It coughed and clawed InuYasha's face.
InuYasha landed hard onto the ground, the youkai smashed into the ground from all its wound.
InuYasha stood up as he wiped the blood from his lips, red claw marks on his cheeks.
The wolf weakly stood on its four legs, whimpering from its pain.
"Keh, you're not that strong"
"My mind.....is too full of Gogotsuma that I cannot concentrate on fighting" the youkai whispered.
Kagome felt her heart beat in pain, ~So sad~
"That excuse wont do" InuYasha said coolly as he raised his Tetsusaiga to attack.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried.
InuYasha turned and looked at Kagome, "what?!"
"D- Don't !!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!!!!!!"
"I- I- feel sorry for her"
InuYasha glared at Kagome, "for her? The person who's trying to kill you?!"
"Think of it! She lost the person she loves!"
"So you're saying that we should give up all our shards and make myself die?!" InuYasha asked.
"no...."
"Well then, I'm gunu have to kill this youkai. I don't have much choice"
Suddenly, InuYasha felt something cold pushing him to a tree. InuYasha looked down to see ice wrapped around his neck and holding him to a tree and a big chunk of ice freezing his legs to a tree.
He could feel the Tetsusaiga dropping out of his hands.
"No!!!" InuYasha yelled as it dropped to the ground.
The youkai evilly laughed, "Thank you girl, now I can kill him. I could tell you were a girl of soft heart, so I had planned this whole story out. Gogotsuma was my lover, but I am too evil to feel love in the first place....."
The youkai picked up the bloody Shikon fragment. "Now I'll freeze you InuYasha and you shall die from the cold!!!!"
It breathed out a flash of blue light as it sped towards InuYasha.
InuYasha stared at the light coming towards him in horror. "Shit...."
"InuYasha!!!!!!" Kagome cried as she jumped it front of the attack and dropped to the ground, as the attack froze her left foot and slowly started to move up.
"So...cold..." Kagome murmured as the ice was now frozen up to her shoulder.
"Well.....I was going to kill her anyway......" the youkai muttered.
"Leave her alone!!" InuYasha yelled, "it's me you want, not her!!!!!"
"Well, it is her I want as well.....and even if I wanted to, I cannot reverse my attack unless I die......which is unlikely now"
"Kagome!!!!!!!!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Kagome could feel her body shaking from the cold.
"She has such a warm heart, but now it'll be a heart of ice" the youkai laughed, "girls with soft hearts are so vulnerable"
InuYasha tried to break free of the ice but it was too strong.
He saw the ice slowly creeping up Kagome's neck.
~It's so.....hard to breath.......~
Something in InuYasha started to beat, he could feel his whole body beating. He looked down at the ground, he had felt this before......
The youkai frowned as she watched InuYasha who's face was unseable. ~I could feel his aurora changing......~ A strange wind started to blow, as InuYasha's hair blew in the wind. He looked up, his front hair covering his eyes. InuYasha's hand shaking, his claws extended. The wind blew again, lifting InuYasha's front hair away from his eyes, revealing evil red eyes.
InuYasha started to growl, as the ice around him started to shake, then broke into thousands of little ice fragments.
He ran towards the youkai, "need blood......"
He ran his hands through the wolf as it cried out in pain. He pulled his hands out, hands that were dripping in blood.
"Need....more......."
"....Inu.....Yasha......." a voice whispered in his mind.
InuYasha turned to see a girl frozen in ice. Kagome could feel her heart wanting to burst, her head feeling as if thousands of knives were piercing it. Suddenly, the ice broke from Kagome.
InuYasha fell to the ground growling, his mind fighting against something.
Kagome lay on the ground shivering.
InuYasha looked down at his hands that were dripping in blood, "I need.....blood......I need to kill......."
"InuYasha......." the voice whispered again in his mind.
InuYasha clutched his head, and ran his claws across the earth.
"InuYasha......." Kagome whispered.
InuYasha struggled to look up, he saw a blurry figure of a girl laying on the ground with ice fragments surrounding her with cuts all over her skin.
InuYasha crawled unsteadily towards Kagome and raised his claws at Kagome, "I smell......blood....."
He tried to bring his claws down, but it wouldn't.
"InuYasha....come back......." Kagome whispered, as she placed her hands on his hands that were clutching the grass on the ground.
InuYasha stood up and backed away, his claws digging into his palm.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered as he collapsed to the ground. Kagome weakly dragged her shivering body towards InuYasha.
She fell next to InuYasha and reached out her hands and touched his cheeks. He looked up and saw her, his red eyes gone and his golden, cat like eyes back to normal.
"Kagome!" InuYasha cried as he held her in his arms, "what....." He saw the cuts all over her skin, ~these cuts are to small to be mine........or is it......~
"Di- did I.....do this?!"
Kagome looked up and smiled, "no"
"Are you hurt bad? What happened?"
"I'm fine, and you turned into a full youkai......."
InuYasha looked away, "sorry"
"Don't worry, you wouldn't have been able to help it, and you saved me too"
"Are you SURE you're fine?"
"Yah, just a little cold that's all"
InuYasha took off his Haori, wrapping it around her and lifted her off the ground and ran back towards the hut.
Tsubaki stared at the ground in amazement, ~I want him so bad......he's so strong.....I can show him off to all my friends..... But...that Kagome girl. He doesn't love her.....Me and InuYasha were meant to be.......~
She stood up and skipped towards the hut, ~ InuYasha does love me! I'm so beautiful, master told me so, and said that all men were in love with me!!!~
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InuYasha entered the entertaining room with Kagome in his arms. The room was dark and empty.
~They must have all went to sleep.......but I don't even know where that is~ InuYasha thought as he lay Kagome gently on the ground.
He walked over to the table which had a candle and lit it up.
InuYasha ran over to where blankets were stored up in and took a couple out and wrapped it around Kagome.
He crouched and gazed down at Kagome who looked as if she wanted to fall asleep.
"You shouldn't fall asleep.....I don't think it would be wise......." InuYasha pointed out, He bit his lips not knowing what to do next, ~Do I need hot water or cold water to put on her forehead........damn, I never observed Kagome and Sango doing things like this cuz I never knew I'd need it. Damn. Maybe I should go wake Sango up........~
Tsubaki watched through the window, ~InuYasha seems to like girls that help out a lot. Kagome seemed like those kind of girls, and Kikyo was definitely one.........~
"Oi!"
InuYasha turned to see Tsubaki, he sweat dropped.
"What?" He muttered in annoyance.
"Here, let a woman take over this job"
InuYasha looked suspiciously at her, ~A trap.....Hm....this woman is really freaky~
~Oh! He's gazing at me!~ Tsubaki thought as a blush appeared on her white powdered cheeks. ~I know I'm too beautiful to resist.....But still, it would be wrong to do it here with a hurt person at present~
"I'll get the hot water" Tsubaki said gently, "make sure she does not fall asleep or she may never wake up"
"Hai"
Kagome looked up at InuYasha sadly looked at him, "are you still mad at me?" she quietly asked.
InuYasha looked at her in surprise, "w....why would I be mad at you?"
"For....preventing you...from killing the youkai......"
*****Flashback*****
InuYasha gasped as an arrow shot his sword to the side, only hitting the youkai shoulder. The youkai was about to run it's claws through InuYasha, but an arrow shot its arms, causing it to stumble back.
InuYasha stared at Kagome, "why...."
*****End of Flashback*****
"I'm not mad....anymore. But.....why did you do it in the first place?"
"Because....I knew how the youkai felt....loosing someone you loved. Cuz me....I couldn't have the person I loved, and the time when I thought you'd die. I just thought....that...I...felt pity for her. But because of that, you almost died! I'm so sorry InuYasha!" Kagome whispered as a single tear ran down her cheeks.
InuYasha could feel his heart pounding painfully, as he held Kagome gently in his arms,
"No...don't be sorry....you felt the right way....I'll wont be able to feel like that....my heart is too dark...."
"You can change a dark heart" Kagome said.
"You already have started...." InuYasha whispered.
Kagome held InuYasha back, ~I love you so much.....but I don't want to tell you, I had made my sacrifice....and it wasn't for nothing~
Tsubaki entered the room and froze, seeing them holding each other. She coughed loudly as the two of them separated with faint blushes on their cheeks.
"Here's the water" Tsubaki said coldly as she turned and hid behind the wall, clenching her hands tightly into a fist.
~I'm going to stay here and see if I still have a chance....before I go to my last plan~
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InuYasha sat, leaning against the wall. Every second he made sure that Kagome wasn't sleeping.
"InuYasha....." Kagome called.
"What?"
Kagome started to laugh, "I...I think that Tsubaki girl is in love with you!"
"Shut up" InuYasha muttered in annoyance.
"Oh InuYasha, I'm so lonely! When I saw you, my heart started to beat so fast, I knew you were the one!" Tsubaki whispered echoed in his mind. A shiver ran down his back.
"She seems very attracted to you..." Kagome muttered.
"BAKA! SHUT UP!" InuYasha hissed, his face turning a bit red.
"I wonder what she sees in you" Kagome said.
InuYasha went over to her, "Holy shit, you must be the most annoying girl in the whole world!!!"
"HAHAHAH, InuYasha and Tsubaki sitting in the tree K, I, S, S, I, N,G. First comes love, then comes marriage then comes....um....Shippo in the baby carriage!" Kagome sang.
"BAKA!!!!!" InuYasha yelled his hands wanting to strangle her. "Keh, you wouldn't mind if I married her?"
"......."
InuYasha sighed and sat peacefully down in victory. "thought so"
Kagome went silent,
"InuYasha...."
"Yah?"
".....Do you ever want to get married?"
InuYasha completely freaked out, "MARRIED?! You're only...what only turned 16 and you're thinking about that....crap?!"
"It's not CRAP! And of COURSE I think of these stuff, I'm a girl!!!"
"Yah..girls do think about a lot of crap" InuYasha muttered, "and I'm a GUY so I don't think of those things........"
"And besides...." He added quietly, "My future probably wont even go that far....."
"What......do you mean"
"Either I'll get killed by Naraku, which is most likely NOT, or I'll be in hell with Kikyo.....which is most likely....." InuYasha muttered darkly.
~Kikyo.......why do you torture InuYasha like this.....~ Kagome angrily thought. Thinking of her future without InuYasha made everything seem so cold and empty.....She felt sadness fill her heart.
InuYasha looked down at Kagome,
"Don't look at me like that....."
"Look at you like what?"
"Look as if I hurt you or something...." InuYasha muttered.
"You didn't hurt me....Just thinking of my life in the future without you seems......never mind" Kagome said, ~Remember your sacrifice Kagome!~
"Seems what? Empty, cold, and lonely? And......painful? You're not the only one feeling that way Kagome.....we're in this together...remember?" InuYasha assured.
InuYasha placed his hand on her heart, "I'll always be here.....In your heart"
Kagome looked up at InuYasha, her heart beating fast.. She could feel his lips getting closer to hers. The closer it got, the faster her heart beated.
He kissed her....
She could feel his hands holding hers.
~I'll always remember this.....every time I close my eyes I'll remember your scent, the feeling of your lips against mine, the warmth of your gaze.....so that even if I'm away from you....You'll be right beside me~ InuYasha thought.
A faint image of a dying woman flashed through his mind, "InuYasha....I thought you loved me...."
"Kikyo" InuYasha gasped as he sat up, dropping Kagome's hand. He felt cold sweat all over him.
"Traitor" her cold voice echoed in his mind.
InuYasha clutched his head, "I'm sorry Kagome....."
Kagome looked sadly at him, "Just choose her.....I can't bear to see you being tortured like this...."
"It'll be even more torturous to try to forget about you Kagome....." InuYasha said in a struggling voice.
"Go out and take a breath of air, you need it. I'll be fine....." Kagome assured.
He looked sadly at Kagome, "I'm really sorry....."
"Don't be InuYasha.....like I said before.....be free"
InuYasha sighed, "I can't be free when there is Kikyo.....I'm sorry. Maybe I should go out for a while"
Kagome watched as InuYasha ran out of the hut.
She closed her eyes as tears rolled down her cheeks, ~This sacrifice I made feels too hard for me to bear....What if I DO have a chance with InuYasha? But...again, I don't. How can InuYasha pick me over the person he's loved for so long........~
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Tsubaki peeked from behind the wall and glared at Kagome who was closing her eyes in thought, her cheeks wet from tears.
Her vision was blurry from tears. She felt humiliated....
She had heared everything they had said, Kagome had been teasing her love for InuYasha, making him embarrassed of it. ~But he's not....~ she convinced herself of it.
A sharp knife shone in her hands from the moonlight.
She walked over quietly to Kagome and raised it over her, but suddenly a big flying object knocked it out of her hands. The knife stabbed into the wooden floor.
"A boomerang?" Tsubaki muttered in confusion.
She turned to see Sango standing there, glaring angrily at her. Kagome gasped as she shot her eyes open, but Sango and Tsubaki didn't notice.
"What the hell is wrong with you, you mad woman!" Sango hissed, anger flaring in her eyes.
"What are you doing here?" Tsubaki asked coldly.
"Same question, I just came to check up on Kagome since I woke and noticed her missing"
"I'm here....because she stole.....InuYasha"
Sango's hateful expression quickly lessoned, ~Oh gosh......~
"He was hers from long ago"
"Still.....I can't help but want him. I knew he was the one at first sight! The only person I fell in love with!!!"
"How do you know if InuYasha returns his feelings to you?" Sango asked.
"Because, master told me that I was the most beautiful girl and that everyman would love me. That's why I work for him"
Sango sweat dropped, "maybe he's the one in love with you" she muttered.
"Oh really! You think so?! Oh my! I never thought of that possibility!" Tsubaki gasped, "him...In love with me?! Poor man, he must have been very jealous to see me flirting with InuYasha!"
"Sure, sure" Sango muttered, "if you touch one hair from Kagome ever again....you won't live to see another morning!"
"Hai, hai, hai" Tsubaki muttered, but then she frowned, "Humph, from what I heard of InuYasha's choice dilemma thing, between Kikyo and Kagome.....I don't think Kagome loves InuYasha that much, making it more hard for him to choose when she knows that he'll never be hers"
She turned and walked away, leaving Sango a bit surprised ~How did she know all that?~
Kagome sat up, staring at Tsubaki's figure fading away into the dark hallway. What she had said.....hurted a lot. Even she knew the right way, to let go of InuYasha. ~I love InuYasha...so I really have to let go of him.....completely. I keep forgetting this....when he's near~
Sango turned pale seeing that Kagome was up.
"Kagome......did you hear? Of what....she said.....about"
"Yes, I heard, but I already knew it myself before.....that I had to let go of InuYasha. Wanting him......only hurt him more, and will hurt me a lot if....I don't let go of him now"
"Kagome!" Sango cried as she crouched down next to Kagome, she placed her hands on her shoulders, "don't give up that easily!!!"
"It's something I have to do Sango, for the best of us....."
InuYasha walked up to the door to enter the room Kagome was in, but heard her talking with someone.
"He loves Kikyo......more than me. Why hold on to him when I know he's gunu choose Kikyo in the end....He'll be more happy with her" he heard Kagome say.
"Stop putting yourself down like that!" Sango cried.
"WILL YOU STOP IT! Stop giving me hope when there is no hope.....it's so obvious"
InuYasha fell onto the steps, ~I must make Kagome really miserable~
"But you see......" Kagome continued, "even though I know he wont choose me......He told me that he loves me. And that's all I can ask for. If he's happy, I'll be happy... He makes me so happy....when I'm with him. And I don't know how I'm going to bear being without him.....but I have to l leave him, so he can easily choose Kikyo"
~Me.....I make you...happy?~ InuYasha felt a deep pain inside him heal. ~Wakkata~
A certain peace rested over his tired soul, knowing that he made her happy....He had always thought that Kagome had just said that he didn't make her miserable just in pity of him......but it was true.
~Kagome....the person I love more is......~ InuYasha suddenly had a flash of Kikyo dying in his mind, "I though.....you loved me"
~Whoever it is you love most.....you must choose Kikyo. Think of all the things she has done for you...the sacrifice she has given for your sake~
InuYasha gritted his teeth angrily, "And what about Kagome..." he asked himself quietly in anger,
"Didn't she sacrifice a lot for me as well? Didn't she do a lot for me? Wasn't she the one who always stood by my side? The one who'd never hate me? Why MUST I choose Kikyo?"
*****Flashback*****
InuYasha got out of the boat, and stood back for Kikyo to step out. She stepped out, but stumbled on the deck.
InuYasha caught Kikyo before she fell, he looked into her eyes, and dropped the rowing stick and held Kikyo tightly in his arms.
They held each other under the sunset.......
*****End of Flashback*****
~Are you that cold hearted as to abandon the person you caused to love that easily? Is it fair to choose Kagome, when you'll never be able to forget Kikyo's face.....If you think that lowly of going to hell.....that is the place you deserve to go. Kagome is to pure for you. You deserve to be with the person you tore apart......the person who's heart you made into dark, bitter ice. And it is Kikyo you love most~ a voice told him.
"I love InuYasha...." he heard Kagome say, "so whatever he chooses....I'll still love him. He'll never be alone as long as I do"
"Kagome......." InuYasha whispered, "Kagome"
**~~ GOMEN! Was this chapter too angsty? I tried my best not to make it so, but....always get carried away ^^;; Hey, I was gunu make the end of the chapter sad or somtin, BUT since I have mercy, I lightened it up a bit. But it's not light enough, is it? I'm trying to keep in balance!!!!!! Bear with me!!! And tell me if you guys want me to keep Tsubaki and Tomo and their master in, or get rid of them~~**