**~~ *sigh* Oro....Ok, this chapter is not as it seems. It may seem as if
it's another of those, Kikyo with InuYasha, Kagome so sad and bla bla bla,
but dis time it's different...OOOooooo... -_- KK, keep on reading . Oh yah,
and I'm trying to update everyday, but my parents have restricted the time
I'm aloud on computer to type -_- and I'm trying to make my chapters long.
So a chapter would probably be updated....maybe every two or three days. Or
sometimes in a day V_V Dunno ^^~~**
VOTE:
Who wants Kikyo dead soon Who still wants me to keep up the love triangle Keep up the love triangle, but don't let Kikyo come back into the story for a while
============= Chapter Forty-eight =============
InuYasha felt cold sweat dripping down his face,
~Shit.....Kikyo probably thinks I've abandoned her....cuz I'm always with Kagome.....~
Kikyo stopped walking, sensing InuYasha getting closer.
~So you have followed....I have decided.....I will not endure this pain any longer~
"Kikyo....." InuYasha murmured.
InuYasha stared at the back of Kikyo.
"I've had enough of this waiting....choose now InuYasha, so that I may be able to either hate you or love you.....So that I may no longer have to torture my self with fake hopes and dreams if you choose other than me...." Kikyo muttered.
"Kikyo! I told you, I can't choose yet! I....just can't...I need more time" InuYashasaid.
"How much more do you want me to suffer.....InuYasha? Do you think I can bear it any longer to watch you say you love me and yet hold another in your arms...How much longer InuYasha?"
"I....don't know"
"Is it that hard to choose the one you love....?"
"I do love you!" InuYasha defended.
Kikyo spun around, her mouth raised in disgust, her eyes shadowed by a darkness.
"Disgusting....disgusting! You....you are...a liar. I cannot believe you anymore....." she hissed.
InuYasha clutched his hands into a fist and tightly shut his eyes,
"I.....It's cuz....I need more time.....to get....ready to leave...Kagome" InuYasha confessed.
Kikyo stood there, "I had thought of that possibility....but it hurts much more than I thought it would...." she whispered, " I cannot wait any longer, InuYasha. Decide, now...."
"Kikyo....isn't there any way where I can be with you....without going to....hell?"
"Yes...there is one.....but my heart never felt enough cold to do it..but now......I have no heart...... would you give up anything to be with me?"
Thoughts rushed through his head, ~Anything.....what does she mean by...anything....But I do owe Kikyo my love....~
"Yes......anything" he whispered.
The shadow lifted from her eyes, "anything......?" she whispered again.
InuYasha hesitantly nodded.
Kikyo's Shini-dama-chuu's wrapped around Kikyo.
"You said anything, and you said that you loved me....is that true?" Kikyo asked.
"Hai...."
"Fine, this is what you choose instead of hell...soot yourself. But you shall still be with me and be with the Kikyo with a heart"
InuYasha nodded and looked down as Kikyo disappeared, "Can i....still be with Kagome.....If I choose you?"
Kikyo's heart shook in cold anger and jealousy.
"What kind of stupid question is that...you chose me. That is it. No Kagome! I will be with you as a human"
"NANI?! Are you..going to take her.soul?!"
"Appreciate InuYasha! She is probably better off gone than enduring the suffering you give her when she sees you with me! I know how she would feel!!!" Kikyo said as she faded into the bright sky.
"KIKYO?! HOW COULD YOU?!" InuYasha cried out, but she didn't reply...
~I must get ready...to take her soul~ Kikyo thought bitterly.
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Kagome walked past the hut and towards the forest with the bone eater's well in it. She wanted to see the God tree, the place where she had first met InuYasha.
She walked through the night and continued walking. A voice in her mind told her to turn and walk back to the hut where Sango and them would be. The other voice said to keep on going, ~Do you want to be in the hut when InuYasha returns from his meeting with Kikyo?~
Kagome gritted her teeth, ~He is not yours Kagome!~
Kagome entered the woods, tired from the long walk. Her face wet with tears.
Myouga the flea had been traveling on a long journey in search of InuYasha ans saw Kagome walking towards him. He jumped up and down, swinging his arms in the air. But she didn't see him and stepped on him.
"Jeez.....people these say, don't even stop to say hi" the flat flee choked out.
She leaned against the God tree, she turned around and looked at the spot where InuYasha had been shot to.
Kagome reached out her trembling hands to where the spot had been,
"Inu...Yasha...." she whispered.
Kikyo watched from behind, watching Kagome with her glaring eyes.
Kagome fell to the ground and held herself.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried as tears rushed down her face, "InuYasha...."
Kikyo could feel her cold eyes getting blurry...in bitter tears. ~I know what this girl is feeling....the pain she is feeling~
Kagome stared blankly out at the trees around her, ~InuYasha.....~ She shot her head around hearing someone approaching her.
"Kikyo......"
"Kagome....."
Kagome quickly stood up, she could feel a bit of fear in her, ~She is so...perfect..now in a dark way....that I feel fear when I see her cold calm eyes..that holds no emotion~
"......I pity you Kagome....so get out of here now. I shall spare you.....get out of this world....and never return" Kikyo murmured, ~My heart still cannot do this....~
Kikyo pointed to the direction of the bone eaters well.
Kagome shook her head, "I can't....I can't just leave....InuYasha!!" she cried.
"GET OUT OF HERE! Do not speak of InuYasha as if he were yours!!! He is not!! You do not belong in this world! Leave now!" Kikyo yelled.
Kagome stared at Kikyo, never having once seen Kikyo talk with emotion...
Kagome tightly shut her eyes, "even though I do not belong here.....I want to stay beside InuYasha....."
"Do you wish to stay, thinking that you can win his heart?! Why would he choose you! You are nothing but a cheap imitation of me, I am the suitable woman to walk by his side. Not you.....he has chosen me from the beginning.....I am the one he loves most......not you......accept that fact"
"Liar! I am ME, InuYasha said so! And I HAVE accepted the fact that I'll never be the one InuYasha will choose! But I can't leave InuYasha! I.....love him! I'll be miserable without him"
"You are me....thus you love him. But is that the love you have for him? Is it fine for you to be happy by his side and forever hinder him from the happiness he can have with me? The one he loves?"
"In HELL?!"
"I would take your soul.....to make me human....to regain back my human heart......But I'm not that dark enough yet! I shall let you go, and do as I want with InuYasha! Appreciate that I haven't stolen your soul! Leave!"
"NO....." Kagome cried, ~Me....I make InuYasha sad......he just told me that I wasn't an obstacle to his happiness.......that I made him happy, though. But....he probably lied.....how can anyone be happy without the one they love........~
"I was even going to marry InuYasha......" Kikyo said.
Kagome looked up, "Na- nani...."
"I told him that once I become a normal woman, and he a human by the power of the Shikon no Tama, that we can live together. I implied marriage... whether he got it or not.......we were going to be together...... We were meant to be......YOU ARE MAKING HIM MISERABLE!"
Kagome shook her head, "No.no.....it can't be...it's you!" Kagome cried but then stopped, ~That's only because he doesn't want to go to Kikyo to hell....just the hell part.....but he wants to be with Kikyo in another way~
Kagome looked down, "Then......what if.....I gave you.....my soul"
Kikyo looked up in shock, ~This girl.....is so strange....I'm offering her life and yet she rejects it.......now......she is giving me her life....to make InuYasha happy~
Kikyo slapped Kagome hard across the cheek, knocking her to the bark of the God tree, "BAKA!" Kikyo cried, bitter tears flying off her cheeks.
~No one..is supposed to love InuYasha...more than me....~
Kikyo raised her hands as her soul snatchers wrapped their bodies tightly around Kagome,
Kikyo walked up and pushed Kagome's chin up with her cold finger,
"Is this your final answer.....to give up your soul.....Or I can let you back off and return to your world and never come back"
"Final....answer....."
"Humph, why? If you go to your world you will live....."
"If I go.....you'll take InuYasha to hell" Kagome said, her mind set.
"So......this is what you chose....for your body, mind and heart to sleep forever in a nightmare........Heh, fine" Kikyo said bitterly as she swung her arms in the air, blue mist appearing, creating Kagome's scent to disappear so that InuYasha wouldn't find them.
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InuYasha sped towards the hut, hoping Kagome would be there before Kikyo.
Kagome wasn't there.....
InuYasha sniffed the air, trying to find her scent, but he couldn't scent it. He ran over and asked Sango and the rest if they had seen Kagome, they all shook their heads.
The day had turned into night.
Sango looked over at Miroku,
"Houshi-sama......I cannot go sleep....." Sango whispered over at Miroku.
Miroku opened one eyes, "eh?!"
"I cannot go sleep!" Sango whispered again.
Miroku shot up, his face beaming with joy, as he pulled his blanket covers open and patted his mattress,
"Come sleep here! I'll lullaby you to sleep" Miroku said, his heart beating fast, ~FINALLY she has given into me!!!! WHA- HOOOO ~
Sango had a stress mark on her,
"Baka....!" She hissed. Shippo and Kilala stirred in their sleeps.
"Yum yum yum" Shippo muttered in his sleep, "what kind of food is this? InuYasha! DON'T you DARE take it!"
Sango and Miroku stared at Shippo in a strange expression.
"I meant to say, I'm worried about Kagome and InuYasha...something is amiss" Sango muttered.
Miroku frowned and walked out towards the window and looked out, "yes....I had sensed it too......a bit"
Sango walked towards Miroku,
"InuYasha looked as if he wanted to die when he came running madly towards us"
"Yah....I wonder what's up" Miroku muttered.
"Huh...?!" Sango had millions of stress marks all over her head, Miroku's hands were rubbing her bottom.
"There there, we shall go help if anything is wrong" Miroku assured.
"Get your filthy hands OFF me!" Sango yelled as she slapped Miroku hard on the face.
"I'm surprised I haven't gotten used to this....." Miroku groaned in pain as he rubbed his burning face.
InuYasha gritted his teeth and desperately looked around him, nowhere.
"Kagome....."
He felt something tickling his neck, he pulled it off his neck to see it was Myouga the flea.
"InuYasha-sama! I have been looking through heaven and hell for you!"
"Keh, not hell, you wouldn't even think twice about going near hell. You'd run away! Now leave me alone!"
"InuYasha-sama, what's up?!"
"I...need to find....Kagome" InuYasha whispered.
"AHHhhhhh, I saw her"
InuYasha froze, "You....saw her?"
"Yes, just.....about ten minuets or so, I tried to call out for her. But I believe she was headed somewhere and VERY depressed, then I found a ride and came here"
InuYasha flicked Myouga away and ran to where the forest was.
~Kagome....please hang on.....~
InuYasha jumped through the air, his heart beating fast.
"Kagome!" he cried out in pain, ~It's all my fault......Kagome....what if I'm too late.......~
He could feel his eyes getting blurry in tears that burned his cheeks.
"Kagome....don't go......." InuYasha whispered.
InuYasha entered the forest and ran around looking everywhere for her, but her scent was strangely not there.
Kikyo through green plant dust on Kagome as she put her hands together and started to chant a spell with her eyes closed.
Kagome's wide eyes watched Kikyo doing the ritual. Her heart beated fast.... She suddenly could feel something ripping out of her, she gave a cry of pain as her mind started to glow back. She could feel herself falling through a black hole.
"InuYasha....There....I've finally sacrificed something useful for you....I've sacrificed my soul for you....be happy InuYasha....don't make my sacrifice useless" Kagome said with a sad smile, as her voice echoed in the black hole. She felt herself awake....
"Huh....what just happened?" Kagome muttered as she got out of the well. She looked around for InuYasha, he wasn't there as usual waiting for her...
She looked around and finally saw him.....with Kikyo in his arms..she watched as he kissed her....
Kagome slammed her fist onto the ground, her heart ripping in pain. "InuYasha..."
~ This is what you chose......for your body, heart and mind to sleep forever in a nightmare~
Kikyo saw the blue glow of light appear out of Kagome. Kikyo chanted some more spells so that the souls would go into her without rejecting her, she had learned that Kagome's soul would try to escape her and return back into the owner's.
The blue glow slowly entered Kikyo, she gasped at the pure and strong soul entering her.
~She has..too much soul in her...I can't....take it all in....~
Kikyo sighed, as her hands dropped to her side.....Kagome's soul had been absorbed into her.
"It is over"
She closed her eyes, but frowned, she could still feel her heart cold. ~It will melt....my heart needs time. I am now....human.....But even though I am complete....Kagome has a drop of soul left in her. But it wont matter, it is of no use~
Kikyo bent down and took Kagome's Shikon Shards, "this is now mine...."
She smiled feeling the strength she hadn't felt for 50 years in her, "Finally.....after so long.....I am human"
InuYasha felt more tears running down his cheeks, his heart sinking deeper and beating faster when he heard Kagome's cry.
He ran after her voice that echoed in the air and found Kikyo's back to him. Standing in front of the God tree, with something lying under her feet.
"So....you have come....InuYasha" said Kikyo said as she turned and stared at him and walked away.
InuYasha stared at the person lying lifelessly on the ground.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried as he ran over to her and dropped to his knees. He shook her shoulders, but her body moved lifelessly. He looked down at Kagome's eyes that stared vacantly up at the sky.
"KAGOME! Wake up!!!!!" InuYasha cried staring at Kagome in unbelief.
"KISAMA!" InuYasha called at Kikyo, "what the hell did you do to Kagome?!"
"You said....anything....Kagome's soul...is now mine. Her body, mind and soul will forever sleep in a nightmare" Kikyo whispered, her heart hurting from InuYasha's tone against her, "this is the cause for betraying me...InuYasha"
"But KAGOME didn't deserve this!!!" InuYasha yelled.
"Or...maybe she did. To you she did not deserve, but to me, she did. Her soul belongs to me...."
"No....You had your chance in life....But you blew it! It's Kagome's turn to live! Give her soul BACK!"
"I blew it for YOU!" Kikyo cried.
InuYasha turned away and looked down at Kagome's face that had sorrow written all over it.
"She was willing to give up her soul....to make you happy with me...the person you've chose....do not waste what she sacrificed" Kikyo whispered.
"Her sacrifice was useless...With her gone....how can I be happy...." InuYasha whispered as bitter tears ran down his face as he held Kagome tightly in his arms, "I love...Kagome...I love her...I love her so much"
Kikyo cringed her face, "this is what you caused from being in love with two people and not deciding soon enough. InuYasha, you will love me!"
"I DID love you! But the love I felt for you...it was a love that couldn't grow. That bit of love was ALL I could give you....but...Kagome...is different"
"Well she is GONE! Let us start a future together!" Kikyo cried, ~and then I shall betray you...and watch you suffer as I have~
"No..no...I have no future with you. It all ended 50 years ago" InuYasha growled in anger, "so give her soul back and go to hell!"
"InuYasha......" Kikyo whispered as she backed away in pain.
InuYasha looked up, he saw the Kikyo he had loved, but he felt nothing.
"Kikyo....gomen....." InuYasha whispered, "but...please give back Kagome's soul....What do you want for her soul....i'll give you anything"
"You cannot give me anything. You cannot even give me your heart...."
"I'll go to hell with you..."
"No.now is the chance I have been waiting for all my life, to live as an ordinary woman" Kikyo said.
"With another person's soul?! You're....disgusting" InuYasha coldly whispered.
Kikyo walked over to him and cupped his face,
~Her hands....are warm~ InuYasha thought.
She looked at him and warmly smiled, "we will be happy together....sacrifices must be made" and then she walked away.
"Sacrifices...." InuYasha whispered as he held his hands into a fist, his claws digging into his palm,
"I'd have rather....sacrificed Kikyo.....for Kagome....I wanted to be with....Kagome......"
InuYasha tearfully looked down at Kagome's eyes that had no life or joy in it, she was in a deep nightmare she'd never wake out of unless she had her soul back.
"Kagome....Kagome...." InuYasha kept whispering painfully.
"You're the one....that I truly loved...but why..did I have to find out like this?! With you suffering because of it?! KAGOME! GOMEN!" InuYasha cried as he continued to hold her tightly in his arms,
"I'm never going to leave you....I'm going to stay right here....holding you"
*****Flashback*****
InuYasha ran slowly, pulling her along.
"InuYasha! You're still wounded!" Kagome yelled.
"I'm fine! Come! I want to show you something nice"
"Huh? Where are we going?!"
InuYasha stopped when they got to a lake.
Kagome looked out at the lake that glittered in the moonlight as fireflies danced around the night sky.
"Waaaaa....it's so nice!" Kagome gasped.
"Keh, I told you it was something nice"
Kagome sat down and gazed out at the lake, as she listened to the sound of the night.
*****End of Flashback*****
Kagome's pale face lay in InuYasha's arms, as his tears dripped onto her face.
Kagome's voice echoed in his mind, a voice that would never leave him,
"Do you think you can catch me a firefly?" Kagome asked.
"Is that a dare.....?"
"I guess...."
*****Flashback*****
Kagome still had her head peacefully resting on InuYasha's chest, as she listened to the sound of his heat beat
She could feel InuYasha' s thumb stroking her wet cheeks, to calm her down. Kagome closed her eyes, she felt so at peace.
"I wish.....time would freeze....so that we can stay like this forever" InuYasha whispered.
Kagome's heart beated fast, she could feel her face flushed.
"So......that I can feel that you didn't leave me" he said, his thoughts far away.
Kagome clutched InuYasha shoulder,
"You won't leave me, will you?! You'll live....right?" Kagome suddenly asked, in a tearful voice.
"Hai......I'll always be by your side......as you have been be mine"
*****End of Flashback*****
"I'm a liar....." InuYasha whispered, " I said I'd always be by your side.....but I left you to find Kikyo......."
InuYasha rested his head on Kagome's and closed his eyes,
~Kikyo.....how could you do this....damn you.....~
****Flashback****
"InuYasha" Kikyo said in a warm voice, cupping his face, ~Her hands so warm like before~
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"You've betrayed me...this time for sure.......Even though you're the Kikyo I used to love....my heart has changed......."
~But you'll never be able to forget Kikyo.....~ said a cold voice in his mind.
"Shut up" InuYasha hissed.
Rain started to suddenly pour, as InuYasha continued to hold Kagome. The cold rain splashing onto him as he covered Kagome's soulless body from the rain.
"Kagome......." InuYasha whispered a softly.
~You're right here......and yet you feel so far away....~
~But you'll always be in my heart......as I hope I am in yours......Kagome...This is a promise I will keep.....i'll get your soul back....I promise~
*~~OK, seeeeeeee it's different. ^^ Dun worry, if you don't want, Kagome wont stay lifeless like this for long......ya. N KIKYO'S GOIN DOWN! Lol.....yah....I said I'd make my chapters long, but I had to cut it off here ^^ gomen if you wanted it longer~~*
VOTE:
Who wants Kikyo dead soon Who still wants me to keep up the love triangle Keep up the love triangle, but don't let Kikyo come back into the story for a while
============= Chapter Forty-eight =============
InuYasha felt cold sweat dripping down his face,
~Shit.....Kikyo probably thinks I've abandoned her....cuz I'm always with Kagome.....~
Kikyo stopped walking, sensing InuYasha getting closer.
~So you have followed....I have decided.....I will not endure this pain any longer~
"Kikyo....." InuYasha murmured.
InuYasha stared at the back of Kikyo.
"I've had enough of this waiting....choose now InuYasha, so that I may be able to either hate you or love you.....So that I may no longer have to torture my self with fake hopes and dreams if you choose other than me...." Kikyo muttered.
"Kikyo! I told you, I can't choose yet! I....just can't...I need more time" InuYashasaid.
"How much more do you want me to suffer.....InuYasha? Do you think I can bear it any longer to watch you say you love me and yet hold another in your arms...How much longer InuYasha?"
"I....don't know"
"Is it that hard to choose the one you love....?"
"I do love you!" InuYasha defended.
Kikyo spun around, her mouth raised in disgust, her eyes shadowed by a darkness.
"Disgusting....disgusting! You....you are...a liar. I cannot believe you anymore....." she hissed.
InuYasha clutched his hands into a fist and tightly shut his eyes,
"I.....It's cuz....I need more time.....to get....ready to leave...Kagome" InuYasha confessed.
Kikyo stood there, "I had thought of that possibility....but it hurts much more than I thought it would...." she whispered, " I cannot wait any longer, InuYasha. Decide, now...."
"Kikyo....isn't there any way where I can be with you....without going to....hell?"
"Yes...there is one.....but my heart never felt enough cold to do it..but now......I have no heart...... would you give up anything to be with me?"
Thoughts rushed through his head, ~Anything.....what does she mean by...anything....But I do owe Kikyo my love....~
"Yes......anything" he whispered.
The shadow lifted from her eyes, "anything......?" she whispered again.
InuYasha hesitantly nodded.
Kikyo's Shini-dama-chuu's wrapped around Kikyo.
"You said anything, and you said that you loved me....is that true?" Kikyo asked.
"Hai...."
"Fine, this is what you choose instead of hell...soot yourself. But you shall still be with me and be with the Kikyo with a heart"
InuYasha nodded and looked down as Kikyo disappeared, "Can i....still be with Kagome.....If I choose you?"
Kikyo's heart shook in cold anger and jealousy.
"What kind of stupid question is that...you chose me. That is it. No Kagome! I will be with you as a human"
"NANI?! Are you..going to take her.soul?!"
"Appreciate InuYasha! She is probably better off gone than enduring the suffering you give her when she sees you with me! I know how she would feel!!!" Kikyo said as she faded into the bright sky.
"KIKYO?! HOW COULD YOU?!" InuYasha cried out, but she didn't reply...
~I must get ready...to take her soul~ Kikyo thought bitterly.
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Kagome walked past the hut and towards the forest with the bone eater's well in it. She wanted to see the God tree, the place where she had first met InuYasha.
She walked through the night and continued walking. A voice in her mind told her to turn and walk back to the hut where Sango and them would be. The other voice said to keep on going, ~Do you want to be in the hut when InuYasha returns from his meeting with Kikyo?~
Kagome gritted her teeth, ~He is not yours Kagome!~
Kagome entered the woods, tired from the long walk. Her face wet with tears.
Myouga the flea had been traveling on a long journey in search of InuYasha ans saw Kagome walking towards him. He jumped up and down, swinging his arms in the air. But she didn't see him and stepped on him.
"Jeez.....people these say, don't even stop to say hi" the flat flee choked out.
She leaned against the God tree, she turned around and looked at the spot where InuYasha had been shot to.
Kagome reached out her trembling hands to where the spot had been,
"Inu...Yasha...." she whispered.
Kikyo watched from behind, watching Kagome with her glaring eyes.
Kagome fell to the ground and held herself.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried as tears rushed down her face, "InuYasha...."
Kikyo could feel her cold eyes getting blurry...in bitter tears. ~I know what this girl is feeling....the pain she is feeling~
Kagome stared blankly out at the trees around her, ~InuYasha.....~ She shot her head around hearing someone approaching her.
"Kikyo......"
"Kagome....."
Kagome quickly stood up, she could feel a bit of fear in her, ~She is so...perfect..now in a dark way....that I feel fear when I see her cold calm eyes..that holds no emotion~
"......I pity you Kagome....so get out of here now. I shall spare you.....get out of this world....and never return" Kikyo murmured, ~My heart still cannot do this....~
Kikyo pointed to the direction of the bone eaters well.
Kagome shook her head, "I can't....I can't just leave....InuYasha!!" she cried.
"GET OUT OF HERE! Do not speak of InuYasha as if he were yours!!! He is not!! You do not belong in this world! Leave now!" Kikyo yelled.
Kagome stared at Kikyo, never having once seen Kikyo talk with emotion...
Kagome tightly shut her eyes, "even though I do not belong here.....I want to stay beside InuYasha....."
"Do you wish to stay, thinking that you can win his heart?! Why would he choose you! You are nothing but a cheap imitation of me, I am the suitable woman to walk by his side. Not you.....he has chosen me from the beginning.....I am the one he loves most......not you......accept that fact"
"Liar! I am ME, InuYasha said so! And I HAVE accepted the fact that I'll never be the one InuYasha will choose! But I can't leave InuYasha! I.....love him! I'll be miserable without him"
"You are me....thus you love him. But is that the love you have for him? Is it fine for you to be happy by his side and forever hinder him from the happiness he can have with me? The one he loves?"
"In HELL?!"
"I would take your soul.....to make me human....to regain back my human heart......But I'm not that dark enough yet! I shall let you go, and do as I want with InuYasha! Appreciate that I haven't stolen your soul! Leave!"
"NO....." Kagome cried, ~Me....I make InuYasha sad......he just told me that I wasn't an obstacle to his happiness.......that I made him happy, though. But....he probably lied.....how can anyone be happy without the one they love........~
"I was even going to marry InuYasha......" Kikyo said.
Kagome looked up, "Na- nani...."
"I told him that once I become a normal woman, and he a human by the power of the Shikon no Tama, that we can live together. I implied marriage... whether he got it or not.......we were going to be together...... We were meant to be......YOU ARE MAKING HIM MISERABLE!"
Kagome shook her head, "No.no.....it can't be...it's you!" Kagome cried but then stopped, ~That's only because he doesn't want to go to Kikyo to hell....just the hell part.....but he wants to be with Kikyo in another way~
Kagome looked down, "Then......what if.....I gave you.....my soul"
Kikyo looked up in shock, ~This girl.....is so strange....I'm offering her life and yet she rejects it.......now......she is giving me her life....to make InuYasha happy~
Kikyo slapped Kagome hard across the cheek, knocking her to the bark of the God tree, "BAKA!" Kikyo cried, bitter tears flying off her cheeks.
~No one..is supposed to love InuYasha...more than me....~
Kikyo raised her hands as her soul snatchers wrapped their bodies tightly around Kagome,
Kikyo walked up and pushed Kagome's chin up with her cold finger,
"Is this your final answer.....to give up your soul.....Or I can let you back off and return to your world and never come back"
"Final....answer....."
"Humph, why? If you go to your world you will live....."
"If I go.....you'll take InuYasha to hell" Kagome said, her mind set.
"So......this is what you chose....for your body, mind and heart to sleep forever in a nightmare........Heh, fine" Kikyo said bitterly as she swung her arms in the air, blue mist appearing, creating Kagome's scent to disappear so that InuYasha wouldn't find them.
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InuYasha sped towards the hut, hoping Kagome would be there before Kikyo.
Kagome wasn't there.....
InuYasha sniffed the air, trying to find her scent, but he couldn't scent it. He ran over and asked Sango and the rest if they had seen Kagome, they all shook their heads.
The day had turned into night.
Sango looked over at Miroku,
"Houshi-sama......I cannot go sleep....." Sango whispered over at Miroku.
Miroku opened one eyes, "eh?!"
"I cannot go sleep!" Sango whispered again.
Miroku shot up, his face beaming with joy, as he pulled his blanket covers open and patted his mattress,
"Come sleep here! I'll lullaby you to sleep" Miroku said, his heart beating fast, ~FINALLY she has given into me!!!! WHA- HOOOO ~
Sango had a stress mark on her,
"Baka....!" She hissed. Shippo and Kilala stirred in their sleeps.
"Yum yum yum" Shippo muttered in his sleep, "what kind of food is this? InuYasha! DON'T you DARE take it!"
Sango and Miroku stared at Shippo in a strange expression.
"I meant to say, I'm worried about Kagome and InuYasha...something is amiss" Sango muttered.
Miroku frowned and walked out towards the window and looked out, "yes....I had sensed it too......a bit"
Sango walked towards Miroku,
"InuYasha looked as if he wanted to die when he came running madly towards us"
"Yah....I wonder what's up" Miroku muttered.
"Huh...?!" Sango had millions of stress marks all over her head, Miroku's hands were rubbing her bottom.
"There there, we shall go help if anything is wrong" Miroku assured.
"Get your filthy hands OFF me!" Sango yelled as she slapped Miroku hard on the face.
"I'm surprised I haven't gotten used to this....." Miroku groaned in pain as he rubbed his burning face.
InuYasha gritted his teeth and desperately looked around him, nowhere.
"Kagome....."
He felt something tickling his neck, he pulled it off his neck to see it was Myouga the flea.
"InuYasha-sama! I have been looking through heaven and hell for you!"
"Keh, not hell, you wouldn't even think twice about going near hell. You'd run away! Now leave me alone!"
"InuYasha-sama, what's up?!"
"I...need to find....Kagome" InuYasha whispered.
"AHHhhhhh, I saw her"
InuYasha froze, "You....saw her?"
"Yes, just.....about ten minuets or so, I tried to call out for her. But I believe she was headed somewhere and VERY depressed, then I found a ride and came here"
InuYasha flicked Myouga away and ran to where the forest was.
~Kagome....please hang on.....~
InuYasha jumped through the air, his heart beating fast.
"Kagome!" he cried out in pain, ~It's all my fault......Kagome....what if I'm too late.......~
He could feel his eyes getting blurry in tears that burned his cheeks.
"Kagome....don't go......." InuYasha whispered.
InuYasha entered the forest and ran around looking everywhere for her, but her scent was strangely not there.
Kikyo through green plant dust on Kagome as she put her hands together and started to chant a spell with her eyes closed.
Kagome's wide eyes watched Kikyo doing the ritual. Her heart beated fast.... She suddenly could feel something ripping out of her, she gave a cry of pain as her mind started to glow back. She could feel herself falling through a black hole.
"InuYasha....There....I've finally sacrificed something useful for you....I've sacrificed my soul for you....be happy InuYasha....don't make my sacrifice useless" Kagome said with a sad smile, as her voice echoed in the black hole. She felt herself awake....
"Huh....what just happened?" Kagome muttered as she got out of the well. She looked around for InuYasha, he wasn't there as usual waiting for her...
She looked around and finally saw him.....with Kikyo in his arms..she watched as he kissed her....
Kagome slammed her fist onto the ground, her heart ripping in pain. "InuYasha..."
~ This is what you chose......for your body, heart and mind to sleep forever in a nightmare~
Kikyo saw the blue glow of light appear out of Kagome. Kikyo chanted some more spells so that the souls would go into her without rejecting her, she had learned that Kagome's soul would try to escape her and return back into the owner's.
The blue glow slowly entered Kikyo, she gasped at the pure and strong soul entering her.
~She has..too much soul in her...I can't....take it all in....~
Kikyo sighed, as her hands dropped to her side.....Kagome's soul had been absorbed into her.
"It is over"
She closed her eyes, but frowned, she could still feel her heart cold. ~It will melt....my heart needs time. I am now....human.....But even though I am complete....Kagome has a drop of soul left in her. But it wont matter, it is of no use~
Kikyo bent down and took Kagome's Shikon Shards, "this is now mine...."
She smiled feeling the strength she hadn't felt for 50 years in her, "Finally.....after so long.....I am human"
InuYasha felt more tears running down his cheeks, his heart sinking deeper and beating faster when he heard Kagome's cry.
He ran after her voice that echoed in the air and found Kikyo's back to him. Standing in front of the God tree, with something lying under her feet.
"So....you have come....InuYasha" said Kikyo said as she turned and stared at him and walked away.
InuYasha stared at the person lying lifelessly on the ground.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried as he ran over to her and dropped to his knees. He shook her shoulders, but her body moved lifelessly. He looked down at Kagome's eyes that stared vacantly up at the sky.
"KAGOME! Wake up!!!!!" InuYasha cried staring at Kagome in unbelief.
"KISAMA!" InuYasha called at Kikyo, "what the hell did you do to Kagome?!"
"You said....anything....Kagome's soul...is now mine. Her body, mind and soul will forever sleep in a nightmare" Kikyo whispered, her heart hurting from InuYasha's tone against her, "this is the cause for betraying me...InuYasha"
"But KAGOME didn't deserve this!!!" InuYasha yelled.
"Or...maybe she did. To you she did not deserve, but to me, she did. Her soul belongs to me...."
"No....You had your chance in life....But you blew it! It's Kagome's turn to live! Give her soul BACK!"
"I blew it for YOU!" Kikyo cried.
InuYasha turned away and looked down at Kagome's face that had sorrow written all over it.
"She was willing to give up her soul....to make you happy with me...the person you've chose....do not waste what she sacrificed" Kikyo whispered.
"Her sacrifice was useless...With her gone....how can I be happy...." InuYasha whispered as bitter tears ran down his face as he held Kagome tightly in his arms, "I love...Kagome...I love her...I love her so much"
Kikyo cringed her face, "this is what you caused from being in love with two people and not deciding soon enough. InuYasha, you will love me!"
"I DID love you! But the love I felt for you...it was a love that couldn't grow. That bit of love was ALL I could give you....but...Kagome...is different"
"Well she is GONE! Let us start a future together!" Kikyo cried, ~and then I shall betray you...and watch you suffer as I have~
"No..no...I have no future with you. It all ended 50 years ago" InuYasha growled in anger, "so give her soul back and go to hell!"
"InuYasha......" Kikyo whispered as she backed away in pain.
InuYasha looked up, he saw the Kikyo he had loved, but he felt nothing.
"Kikyo....gomen....." InuYasha whispered, "but...please give back Kagome's soul....What do you want for her soul....i'll give you anything"
"You cannot give me anything. You cannot even give me your heart...."
"I'll go to hell with you..."
"No.now is the chance I have been waiting for all my life, to live as an ordinary woman" Kikyo said.
"With another person's soul?! You're....disgusting" InuYasha coldly whispered.
Kikyo walked over to him and cupped his face,
~Her hands....are warm~ InuYasha thought.
She looked at him and warmly smiled, "we will be happy together....sacrifices must be made" and then she walked away.
"Sacrifices...." InuYasha whispered as he held his hands into a fist, his claws digging into his palm,
"I'd have rather....sacrificed Kikyo.....for Kagome....I wanted to be with....Kagome......"
InuYasha tearfully looked down at Kagome's eyes that had no life or joy in it, she was in a deep nightmare she'd never wake out of unless she had her soul back.
"Kagome....Kagome...." InuYasha kept whispering painfully.
"You're the one....that I truly loved...but why..did I have to find out like this?! With you suffering because of it?! KAGOME! GOMEN!" InuYasha cried as he continued to hold her tightly in his arms,
"I'm never going to leave you....I'm going to stay right here....holding you"
*****Flashback*****
InuYasha ran slowly, pulling her along.
"InuYasha! You're still wounded!" Kagome yelled.
"I'm fine! Come! I want to show you something nice"
"Huh? Where are we going?!"
InuYasha stopped when they got to a lake.
Kagome looked out at the lake that glittered in the moonlight as fireflies danced around the night sky.
"Waaaaa....it's so nice!" Kagome gasped.
"Keh, I told you it was something nice"
Kagome sat down and gazed out at the lake, as she listened to the sound of the night.
*****End of Flashback*****
Kagome's pale face lay in InuYasha's arms, as his tears dripped onto her face.
Kagome's voice echoed in his mind, a voice that would never leave him,
"Do you think you can catch me a firefly?" Kagome asked.
"Is that a dare.....?"
"I guess...."
*****Flashback*****
Kagome still had her head peacefully resting on InuYasha's chest, as she listened to the sound of his heat beat
She could feel InuYasha' s thumb stroking her wet cheeks, to calm her down. Kagome closed her eyes, she felt so at peace.
"I wish.....time would freeze....so that we can stay like this forever" InuYasha whispered.
Kagome's heart beated fast, she could feel her face flushed.
"So......that I can feel that you didn't leave me" he said, his thoughts far away.
Kagome clutched InuYasha shoulder,
"You won't leave me, will you?! You'll live....right?" Kagome suddenly asked, in a tearful voice.
"Hai......I'll always be by your side......as you have been be mine"
*****End of Flashback*****
"I'm a liar....." InuYasha whispered, " I said I'd always be by your side.....but I left you to find Kikyo......."
InuYasha rested his head on Kagome's and closed his eyes,
~Kikyo.....how could you do this....damn you.....~
****Flashback****
"InuYasha" Kikyo said in a warm voice, cupping his face, ~Her hands so warm like before~
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"You've betrayed me...this time for sure.......Even though you're the Kikyo I used to love....my heart has changed......."
~But you'll never be able to forget Kikyo.....~ said a cold voice in his mind.
"Shut up" InuYasha hissed.
Rain started to suddenly pour, as InuYasha continued to hold Kagome. The cold rain splashing onto him as he covered Kagome's soulless body from the rain.
"Kagome......." InuYasha whispered a softly.
~You're right here......and yet you feel so far away....~
~But you'll always be in my heart......as I hope I am in yours......Kagome...This is a promise I will keep.....i'll get your soul back....I promise~
*~~OK, seeeeeeee it's different. ^^ Dun worry, if you don't want, Kagome wont stay lifeless like this for long......ya. N KIKYO'S GOIN DOWN! Lol.....yah....I said I'd make my chapters long, but I had to cut it off here ^^ gomen if you wanted it longer~~*