**~~Man it's getting boring without Kagome T_T, let's bring her back
someday soon in this chapter, KK?!^^ And, from all the votes I've gotten of
what should happen to Kikyo, the votes down to....*drum role* .....DOWN
WITH KIKYO! And down with her soon...Some ppl said that Kikyo should die a
painful death, some say a peaceful, Since many some ppl want different
things, I'll kinda mix it up together. Hmmmmm *thinking* I wonder how many
ppl are even reading this fic??? HMMmmmmmm o_____O~~**
NOTE: This isn't my last chapter, but some of you MAY think it...I have many more chapters to write....yup yup
============= Chapter Fifty ==============
InuYasha's heart beated fast as he sat next to Kikyo, ~Kikyo's...reminding me of...Kagome....but not everything~
Kikyo looked at InuYasha,
"You do not look very well....if it because of me, because you are disgusted with me taking the soul of your lover...get out of my site" Kikyo said coldly.
InuYasha looked at Kikyo, ~No...Kagome would never say something like this~
"It's not that..." InuYasha replied.
Kikyo smiled warmly, "gomen....My heart feels so weak now...when it had been cold and frozen, it was hard for it to get hurt"
"Sorry Kikyo...for hurting you from before....does it still....scar your heart?" InuYasha asked.
Kikyo looked deeply into his eyes, "If....I can believe that we can be together...then the scars in my heart would no longer have any more meaning....and would heal"
InuYasha sighed, "Oh...I see..."
"LADY KIKYO!" a villager cried.
InuYasha and Kikyo stood up,
"What is it?" Kikyo calmly asked.
"A soldier that is very wounded has arrived here and needs your help!"
"OK, I shall be down soon" Kikyo replied.
"Hai!" the villager said as he rushed back down.
Kikyo slowly turned to InuYasha and walked close up to him. They gazed at each other, only but an inch away from each other. Kikyo slowly reached up her hands as she touched his face,
InuYasha's heart beated fast, ~These hands....feel like the hands of the Kikyo I had known 50 years ago...it really is her.....I'm glad~
InuYasha saw Kikyo close her eyes as she moved her lips closer to his. InuYasha closed his eyes,
~It feels...as it was Kagome near me....since Kikyo now has Kagome's soul.....It feels as if it's Kagome next to me when I close my eyes.....~
InuYasha felt Kikyo's lips gently touch his, as he kissed her back. Kaede had gone out looking for InuYasha to tell him that Kagome had woken crying then had fallen back to the dark world, but halted in her tracks seeing Kikyo in InuYasha's arms.....kissing. She looked away and ran back to the hut.
Their lips separated as they staid with their eyes closed, their face touching.
"InuYasha...." Kikyo whispered.
InuYasha's eyes shot open, ~This...isn't Kagome's voice though....~
"We will fall back in love..." Kikyo said as she kissed him for the last time on the cheeks and then departed.
InuYasha watched as Kikyo disappeared down the hill.
~Man...I never knew a day would come when I actually missed Kagome telling me to sit....~
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Shippo was out on a ride with Kilala.
Miroku glanced over at Sango,
"Well....guess were ALL alone!" Miroku sighed.
"And is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Sango muttered.
"Definitely a GOOD thing!"
"Um, no. It's a bad thing" Sango muttered. They sat on the floor, leaning against the wall. Miroku yawned as he stretched his arms and slowly moved one arms to wrap it around Sango's shoulder.
Sango hit it away,
"That yawning technique is really old" Sango muttered.
"Jeez...your strange for a woman, usually they like it when men flirt with them"
"I am not your typical woman. And they like when men FLIRT with them, not try to make them 'bear your child'" Sango pointed out.
"That's too bad" Miroku muttered, "you could have made me a great wife"
"Sure, sure" Sango muttered, a blush rising in her cheeks, ~the last time you told me something like that you made me feel like a complete idiot after~
"I know, you're too bossy to be my wife. My wife has to be the type that has no life and does whatever I ask them to" Miroku said as he dreamily looked out the window.
"Hah, then I really feel sorry for her....don't you want to marry someone you love?" Sango asked.
Silence.
"I guess I'll just have an affair with the one I love, and marry the one that'll do everything for me" Miroku answered.
"You're disgusting" Sango muttered, "If it had been me, I would have beaten you up. I think you should stay true to your wife, thus, marrying someone you love"
Silence.
Miroku glanced at Sango,
"I know...It just depends on what kind of wife I get...if I even get one. If..let's say, I married someone like you...I'd have to stay faithful in fear that you may find out and beat the living light out of me...and who wouldn't want to keep faithful to you, you're all a person could want, right?" Miroku said, ~Oh shoot...I think I said a little to much~
Miroku blushed, Sango felt very amazed to see him blush, she'd never seen him blush before.
Sango smiled and blushed as well,
"I'm sure you'll become a great husband" Sango said.
"Sango...I..."
Sango looked at him in anticipation, "You....what....."
"I...I..."
"Yah.....You what...?"
"I.....um....I" Miroku's face went redder, he gave a cough ~I love you...but it's hard for the damn words to come out of my mouth!!!! DAMMIT TO HELL!!!!!~
"I...." Miroku took a deep breath, " I - Lov-"
"MIROKU, SANGO!!!" Shippo yelled, bursting into the hut with Kilala,
"We're back!!!"
Miroku's face went dark, Sango had a stress mark on her head.
Kilala and Shippo looked at them in question,
"What did we do?! WAAAAAAAaaaa, I miss Kagome!" Shippo cried as he jumped into Sango's stiff arms.
She just stared at Shippo in a cold glare. Shippo started to scream and cry,
"Everyone's so scary without her here!!!!!" Shippo cried.
Miroku hit Shippo on the head with his staff in annoyance, ~just when I was gunu confess my love for her....jeez~
Shippo stared at Miroku with big tearful eyes.
Miroku gave into the big puppy eyes and rubbed Shippo's head.
"Ahhh, gomen, gomen" Miroku said.
Shippo smiled, ~he always gives into this..Humph, but never InuYasha!~
*****Flashback*****
Kagome came back from her world with a bag of her food. They all sat under a tree for a small picnic.
Kagome set the food on the picnic cloth,
"There, time to much!"
InuYasha looked down at the strange food, and poked it with his chopstick.
"What the hell is this" InuYasha asked.
"They're my food from I made from my world" Kagome muttered in annoyance.
"Well, anything that's made by Kagome must be good!" Miroku said as he picked a piece of food up and popped it into his mouth. "MMMmmm"
Kagome's brightened up as everyone started to eat. Kagome turned to InuYasha and Shippo who were munching down as if he hadn't eaten for years.
"Humph" Kagome looked at InuYasha in annoyance.
The container of fried octopuses was empty except for one. Shippo grabbed for it, but InuYasha grabbed for it as well. They both glared at each other. Shippo then looked at InuYasha with his tearful puppy eyes, but InuYasha hit Shippo across the head and popped the food into his mouth.
Later on, it was Miroku and Shippo fighting for the last bit of food as they glared at each other. Shippo looked at Miroku with his big puppy eyes. Miroku gave in as Shippo popped it into his mouth,
"MMmmmm, so good Miroku!" Shippo bragged.
Miroku looked at Shippo in annoyance as he muttered some words....
*****End of Flashback*****
Shippo sighed,
"I miss InuYasha as well....."
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Two days had gone slowly, and painfully by for InuYasha...
InuYasha sat next to Kagome, gazing down at her (as he had been mostly doing for the past days). He reached out his fingers as he moved a strand of her raven black hair from her pale face.
"Kagome....we'll be together again....right?" InuYasha asked Kagome in a whisper.
He wrapped her cold hands with his,
"We'll be together......"
An hour passed...
InuYasha was now laying next to Kagome, his hands still holding hers.
He looked at her lifeless, pale face....Something in his mind hit him hard,
*****Flashback*****
Suddenly InuYasha heard a thud. InuYasha saw the snow in front of him slowly turning red. His heart froze, as he slowly turned around. Kagome hung on the tree with a daggers pierced into her heart, one in her stomach and another through her neck. Her face was pale and lifeless with blood dripping down her lips. The blood poured down from her wound as in soaked into the white snow.
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha stared blankly at Kagome, his heart beating so fast he could hardly breath. His mind and heart ached in pain....
~Kagome...It's as if.....she has died, I don't see blood....but she might be bleeding in her dreams. Because I chose to go to Kikyo.....this is what happened. Because I didn't choose one person from the start...this is what happened. I just wish it hadn't been Kagome.....~
InuYasha stood up and walked outside, for some reason, he wanted to go see Kikyo.
~Why do I want to see Kikyo....Am I already attracted to her?~
He peeked into her window and saw Kikyo kneeling on the ground, and looking in pain. InuYasha dashed in to see if Kikyo was injured.
"Kikyo! Are you alright?!" InuYasha asked.
~The soul....why wont it stay?!~ Kikyo thought, "yes, InuYasha I am...."
Kikyo gave a cry of pain as she fell to the floor, she closed her eyes and chanted the spell quietly to herself, over and over again.
InuYasha stared at her in worry,
"Kikyo...." InuYasha murmured as he lay her head on his lap, "what's wrong?!"
The pain slowly started to die away, she opened her eyes and looked up at InuYasha, then closed it again, feeling comfort when she was close to him.
"I feel so safe when you're next to me...." Kikyo whispered.
InuYasha bit his lips, it felt as if Kagome was right there, watching him holding Kikyo. He wanted to let go of Kikyo, but his mind told him that he had hurted Kikyo enough. But his heart ached with pain, not wanting to hold anyone except for Kagome.
InuYasha gently carried Kikyo to the matt and lay her down there and then stepped back. Kikyo looked at him,
"Stay..." she whispered weakly.
"Gomen....I have to...go" InuYasha muttered as he turned and left.
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Shippo sighed again, "I really miss Kagome...." Shippo said literally for the hundredth time.
Sango cracked her knuckles,
"If I find out that he's fallen in love with Kikyo, I'm gunu KILL THAT BASTARED and I'll smash him to mush with my boomerang and I'll much him again and again until there's nothing left of him but dust then I'll stick it up that damn Kikyo's ass!" Sango yelled without taking a breath and then panted for air, "ah, now I feel much better"
"I really do think InuYasha has influenced Sango...a lot" Miroku muttered.
Shippo his in the corner, "that was very...graphical" Shippo stammered.
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"Mama, did you meet Lady Kikyo?" the little girl asked.
"Hmmmm? Oh yes, she is very nice, do you not think?" the mother asked.
"Yah!" the little girl cheered, "so nice and beautiful!"
"You know what?" said the older brother, "I heard that she used to be a Youkai that fed on human's dead souls!"
"I don't believe you!"
"Now, now, you know you shouldn't be making up lies!" the mother scolded her son.
"IT IS TRUE! You know Myougi, that girl from the other village?"
"The one you were to be married to when you were older?"
"Yes, that Kikyo lady was said to have killed her!" the boy said.[from chp.23]
"And how did they know?" the mother asked, getting a little worried.
"They saw lady Kikyo with blood all over her hands, the body of Myougi and the blood of a youkai. They say she killed both"
"I see...." The mother said in worry. She gasped, feeling the earth shaking. She ran out the window to see other villagers screaming the word "youkai". "Children! Gather at the corner far from the door!"
The boy and girl started to cry in fright. The shaking of the earth became more and more big.
The mother could hear screaming, she silently got up and ran towards the window to see what was going on, she saw a giant black spider with a red mark down its back with red eyes and blood dripping down its fangs. It used it's claws as it picked up a woman and through it into his mouth, and continued to smash down more huts and eat.
The mother backed away, and closed her eyes to try and calm down, she reopened her eyes again to see the spider looking through the window. Her kids started to scream.
"Shush!" the mother cried, ~I must protect my children....~
"I shall distract the youkai, and you kids must hide!" the mother cried as she ran out of the hut.
"MAMA!" the kids started to cry.
The spider hissed as it started to walked towards its prey. Before it could eat the mother, an arrow shot into it's mouth. It gave a scream of pain, as it turned to see another woman with a bow in her hands.
Kikyo stared at the youkai, her strength still not all restored from using up all her energy to keep the soul stored within her.
The woman thanked Kikyo and ran back into the hut. The villagers all ran around crazy.
The spider came over to Kikyo and knocked her down with its claw. Kikyo tried to stand back up, but the spider stuck its needle like claw through Kikyo's arms, pinning her to the ground.
Kikyo gave a cry of pain.
InuYasha heard the cry and quickly ran out of the hut to see Kikyo about to be eaten by the spider youkai.
~Damn...I can't use the Kaze no Kizu or my bakurraya [SP?] ~ InuYasha thought.
He ran up to the demon and was about to slash it through InuYasha, but the spider sensed a predator coming and spit out spider web that stuck InuYasha to the ground. InuYasha struggled to move but he couldn't.
Kaede shot an arrow at the youkai, it went through it's neck, but it didn't do much. The spider shot spider web at Kaede, also pinning her to the ground with it.
"InuYasha!" Kikyo cried in pain, as blood spilled out of her arms.
"Kikyo!" InuYasha cried, but still unable to move.
It's fangs clicked together, it sensed the Shikon shard in Kikyo's Haori.
"The shards" it hissed.
"You have shards?!" InuYasha asked.
"Kagome's! She didn't need it.....AH" the spider pierced its claws deeper into Kikyo's arms.
"Through it away!" InuYasha yelled.
"NO! I shall not give up!" Kikyo yelled.
*****Flashback*****
"Kagome! Just give him the shards!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Kagome lay on the ground while Seiyamie stepped on Kagome's arms harder and harder.
"NO!" Kagome yelled.
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha shook his head,
"KIKYO! Just do it!!!" InuYasha yelled" or you'll die!!"
Kikyo gritted her teeth, she used her right arms to take the Shikon shard out of her Haori and through it away.
The spider screamed as it chased after the shard that was tumbled away down the slope of the road.
Kikyo lay on the ground, shocked from the pain. A pool of blood surrounded her arms.
InuYasha continued to struggle,
"KIKYO!" InuYasha cried, seeing that Kikyo had fainted, ~damn....how are we gunu get out of here?!~
The spider ran after the Shikon shard, InuYasha's eyes slowly widened seeing where the shard was tumbling down towards.....the hut.....where Kagome was in.
"NO!" InuYasha yelled as he tried harder to get out, "KAGOME!"
Since InuYasha had good eye sight, he saw it drop into the hut as the spider ran towards the hut, getting closer and closer.
InuYasha looked desperately around, and saw many huts smashed into nothing.
"Kagome!!!" InuYasha yelled as he used all the strength he had in him to free himself. He sped towards the spider.
Kaede stared at InuYasha in amazement, ~He suddenly became so strong....~
The spider turned around and saw InuYasha high up in the air with his Tetsusaiga ready to slice through it. It spit out the web, but InuYasha cut right through it.
InuYasha cut off only one of its fang.
"Damn" InuYasha muttered, he made the spider follow him so it wouldn't damage the hut if it fell.
It spit out something liquidy green, poison. InuYasha jumped away, as it burned into the ground.
"Keh, is that all you've got? Some green poison and some web?" InuYasha asked.
It got its claw and through it front as sharp big thorns came out of its claws and crashed into where InuYasha had been.
"Shit.....OK, I guess you have more than that" InuYasha muttered.
More of the thorns targeted at InuYasha, one cut off a bit of his haori, and another gashed his chest.
InuYasha lifted his sword,
"KAZE NO KIZU!" InuYasha yelled as yellow light ripped across the earth, but the spider jumped VERY high into the air. InuYasha looked up but was blinded by the sunlight.
He heard something land behind him, then heard something gory. InuYasha looked down and saw blood splattering down below him.
InuYasha coughed as blood dripped down his lips,
~Why do I feel....something cold.....in my stomach~
InuYasha's strength was about to give out on him, but he felt something warm holding his hands.
He looked down at his hands to see a transparent hand holding his, he looked up to see Kagome smile at him. He could see right through her....as if she was a ghost.
"InuYasha.....stay alive....for me" Kagome said and than faded away.
InuYasha blinked,
"Get your dirty claws out of me you filthy piece of shit!" InuYasha growled as he pushed the claws away and jumped into the air and stuck his sword through it's head.
It started to shake as InuYasha held tightly onto the sword so he wouldn't fall off.
~I need to know where the Shikon shard is.....~
"KIKYO!" InuYasha yelled, Kikyo slowly looked up.
"Where the hell is the Shikon shard?!" InuYasha asked.
~How dare he use such vulgar words towards me.....~ Kikyo thought, "In his back!"
"OK!" InuYasha ran down its neck and towards the back and was about to cut the shard out but was flung off. InuYasha landed roughly on the ground.
InuYasha growled as he ran towards the spider again,
InuYasha raised his claws into the air and cut it through the youkai as it gave a cry of pain. A leg fell off.
"Keh, and I'll cut the rest of your legs off!" InuYasha yelled as he pierced his claws into the demon as blood squirted out and climbed it, then stopped so he wouldn't be flung off.
"Just jump onto it!" Kaede yelled.
"I can't! I'll probably fall of!" InuYasha yelled back in annoyance, "I know what I'm doing you old hag!"
"How rude....." Kikyo muttered.
InuYasha pushed his hands through the back of the spider,
"And I'll pull out your guts if you don't stop moving!"
InuYasha pulled out the Shikon jewel that was covered in blood,
"Ah HAH!.....waaaahhhh!"
InuYasha was again flung off and crashed down into the ground creating a big puff of dust. He wasn't able to see where the spider was. He rubbed his eyes and ran out of the dust to see the spider at the hut, it crashed as one of its legs hit the hut causing it to cave in and then crashed down next to the hut.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha yelled as he ran towards the hut.
Kikyo stumbled over to Kaede and cut her free.
"Villagers!" Kikyo called, "remove this body of the youkai at once!"
They all nodded and ran into their huts to get ropes and tools to help out. Kikyo looked at InuYasha who was stumbling towards the hut,
~Hm....I hope she has been crushed into dust~
InuYasha ran into the hut, and coughed from the dust in the air. He stumbled in some pile of fallen wood.
"Kagome!" InuYasha coughed, he didn't even feel the wound in his stomach.
He saw Kagome, only her arms looked wounded, but the rest of her was fine, only bits of wood covered her. InuYasha sighed in relief as he ran over to her. He kneeled next to her and brushed the wood off her.
He rested his head on hers and smiled, ~You're ok......~
"Kagome....." InuYasha whispered into her ears. He could still smell that scent of hers, the scent he so loved, and yet had always told her it was annoying (except that one time when he had turned human....)
InuYasha kissed her closed eyes and picked her up,
"Let's get you out of here" InuYasha muttered.
"Inuyasha.....don't die......" Kagome whispered.
"Kagome?!" InuYasha cried.
No answer.
He knew what dream she was having, it was the one where Naraku had tricked him into thinking that Kagome had died and had almost killed him, but Kagome had found him.
InuYasha frowned, ~Are the dreams exactly the same as it has happened.....or different?~
"No...InuYasha, I'm Kagome....." Kagome whispered. InuYasha looked down at her, ~What's going on now in her dreams?~
"I'll.....tell her....that you love her" Kagome whispered in pain.
InuYasha stared at her, "tell who?! Oh shit.....what kind of cruel dream is this?!" InuYasha thought.
He saw a droplet of tear role down her cheeks, but her face stayed emotionless.
~I probably died here.....~ InuYasha thought.
A villager ran up to InuYasha,
"Please, the least we can do for you is let you use our home, for the service you have done for us in slating that youkai"
"Thanks" InuYasha muttered.
They entered the hut,
"My family shall be gone for a while" the person said, "for we must travel to the next village where our other family dwells and tell them of the sad loss of our daughter"
"Yah, sure...." InuYasha said.
Kaede glared at him, "we are very thankful and I hope your daughter shall rest in peace"
"Thank you Lady Kaede"
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It was now dark, InuYasha felt his head throbbing in pain as he continued to watch Kagome.
~All he's been doing was looking down at Kagome.....~ Kaede thought, ~And yet he kissed Kikyo.....does he love both equally?~
"InuYasha, I believe that you should go outside for some air" Kaede suggested.
"I'm not leaving Kagome"
"Just for a while InuYasha......When she comes back to life, she'd want to see you well, not sick"
"Keh, whatever. I'm going out" InuYasha muttered as he stood and left the hut.
Kaede walked over to Kagome and sat down, she stroke Kagome's forehead,
"Kagome.......I wonder what sort of dark dream you are dreaming of.....It shall still be in your mind if you ever come back to life. You shall remember all the dreams you have dreamed of........" Kaede muttered.
InuYasha looked around the dark, he had heard Kagome's voice some where....calling for him.
"Kagome......"
He looked ahead to see Kikyo looking at him, just standing there. Her figure glowing in the moonlight.
"Kikyo.......what are you doing?" InuYasha asked.
"I just.....wanted to come and see you......." Kikyo whispered a reply.
"Um....is your wounds better?" InuYasha asked as he walked over to Kikyo.
Kikyo looked at InuYasha who was nearing her,
*****Flashback*****
Kikyo returned back to the hut to fix up her wound. After she had bandaged it all up, she felt Kagome's soul wanting to escape from her again, it was stronger this time,
The soul was crying for release,
~I don't get it......why is this soul not excepting me?!~
Kaede had been in her hut at that time to check up on her sister.
Kaede walked over and held her sister so that she wouldn't collapse. "Sister....."
"The soul.....why does it try to leave me.......this is not supposed to be!" Kikyo cried in pain, she closed her eyes and kept on chanting, but the pain wouldn't stop. The soul kept trying to burst out of her.
Kaede wondered as well, ~The soul...knows it's owner.....the only possible reason is that Kikyo's soul isn't pure enough........even when she's in her human state.....~
Kikyo gasped as the pain slowly faded,
Her eyes flashed in anger, ~It's that girls body....as long as it's here on earth......the soul will forever want to return!~
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha sadly looked at InuYasha, ~what am I going to do.......I want to live, so dearly.....~
InuYasha saw Kikyo slowly loosing her strength.
"Kikyo!" InuYasha ran towards Kikyo and held her in his arms before she fell, "what's wrong?"
"Will you have been happy........if it had been Kagome......you could have been with.....and not me?" Kikyo asked, ~Please don't stay silent......please....say that you are happy with me.....~
Silence.
"Your silence answers all........" Kikyo whispered painfully, she dug her fingers into InuYasha's shoulder, "KKkkk....WHY?! InuYasha......." she dried a whisper. Tears rushed down her face.
"Kikyo.....gomen....."
Kikyo unsteadily stood up, "don't say sorry to me when you don't mean it!"
She gasped when she felt InuYasha holding her,
"I am sorry......" InuYasha whispered, ~All I want for you is to be happy and to rest in peace. That's all I wanted. I only said that if it was fate for me to be with you, I would. But other than that, I just wanted you to go back to where you belong in peace~
"No....I don't want to hear you say sorry. All I'll accept is if you say you love me! Say it...SAY IT!" Kikyo cried as she moved away from InuYasha, who weakly let goed and looked down. Kikyo looked at his dark gloomy face, waiting.
She closed her eyes, ~I've always......just been waiting.....and waiting~
"I can't....." InuYasha whispered.
~And waited.......and this is what I get......~
"Sorry......Kikyo"
"But...give it more time....we will fall in love"
"No.....Time will only make me miss Kagome more..... Time cannot make a love that can no longer grow...grow.....just accept it Kikyo.....appreciate that I love you with all I can give"
"No.....I wont accept ad appreciate. I deserve more than your drop of love! I have waited! I have been patient! WHY InuYasha?! Why are you doing this to me?!"
"Because....I have to end this all.....i don't want to hurt you....but.....I really don't Kikyo....but you have to give Kagome's soul back....Kikyo you can't go on like this!"
"Watch me try!" Kikyo hissed.
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As usual InuYasha had sat on guard incase any Youkai were to come. All he could think of was Kikyo's face that looked at him in pain.
He slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Out of the dark, Kikyo silently walked into the hut. Her face emotionless,
~ I am the person I was 50 years ago......and yet InuYasha cannot love me anymore~
Kikyo walked over to where Kagome lifelessly lay, Kikyo glared at Kagome.
~You......you are the one who brought ruin onto me.....You are the one who really destroyed my heart and made InuYasha turn against me........you.....~
Kikyo grabbed Kagome and carried her out. She quickly took out a dagger and stabbed it into Kagome's arms,
She smiled feeling Kagome's blood on her hands.
She continued to walk through the dark in the direction that would lead to a cliff, Kagome's blood trailing the way they were walking.
~Come find us InuYasha......make your heart beat fast in horror as you see this blood and follow it. Come and see your dear Kagome die.....come and see me forever keep her soul~
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"InuYasha....." Kagome's voice echoed in his sleeping mind.
"InuYasha....."
"InuYasha......." the voice kept calling.
InuYasha looked at Kagome who stood in blackness. She reached out her hands,
"Come and save me......"
"Kagome?!" InuYasha cried, "save you from what?!"
"Whatever decision you choose.....whether you choose me or Kikyo, I'll always love you" Kagome said in a warm voice.
"What the hell are you talking about?! Kagome! What's going on?!" InuYasha asked.
"Let me at least have you near me one last time......Cuz I know......you're going to choose Kikyo......" Said Kagome.
InuYasha shot his eyes open,
"Kagome.....?" InuYasha looked around for Kagome but found her nowhere.
"Kagome!"
Kaede woke up, "what seems to be the problem?"
"I- I heard Kagome's voice a minuet ago.....and now she's gone!"
"Oh...I see......she must have talked to you through the bit of soul she had left in her.....you two must be connected by heart.....that's why wherever she is, you'll be able to hear her" Kaede said, and then frowned, "go find her, I have a bad feeling about this"
InuYasha stood up and ran outside, he saw blood trailing in a one direction. The blood glimmering in the moonlight.
His heart beated fast, it was Kagome's blood.
~Kagome.....who the hell would do this to you?! It doesn't make sense~
InuYasha ran after the trail of blood.
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Kikyo held Kagome's body with her, as she stood at the edge of a cliff,
"If he does not come......I shall just through your worthless body over......"
She held Kagome tightly, her heart aching in pain. ~So this is what becomes of a person like me......~
"Kagome.....damn you to hell......And at the end of my life......I hope we never again have to meet in afterlife. And if we do, I'll kill you again, and in the next and the next.....We were fated to hate each other even though we are the same person, as we were fated to love InuYasha.......If I had not died.....you would not even be here in this Feudal era. You would just be going to school as an ordinary fuckin whore.....This is what you wished for.....and this is what you will get!" Kikyo yelled.
InuYasha stared at Kikyo, ~this is what I've....done to Kikyo. I've created a monster out of her......why can't she just learn to accept things as they are as Kagome does?~
~because....she is not Kagome~
~It can't...be Kikyo...that poured Kagome's blood...can it?~
InuYasha stared at Kikyo that was dangerously close to the edge with Kagome.
"Die Kagome!" Kikyo yelled.
InuYasha's eyes widened,
"KAGOME!!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Kikyo stepped closer to the edge, cuts appeared all over her as blood spilled out.
~My soul.....her soul.....is trying to leave me~
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried, running towards her.
~STOP calling out her name! InuYasha! I beg you!~
"Release us......" Something inside Kikyo ordered.
"Ne...ver......." Kikyo whispered in pain. ~Her soul had purified most of my darkness.....but my true darkness was too much for it to purify me all......~
Kikyo looked at InuYasha....
The soul left her body and entered Kagome. But she did not wake.
Both Kagome and Kikyo' fell off the cliff.
"NO!!!!!!!" InuYasha cried as he ran for them,
~Decide....~ a voice echoed.
~Choose one, or loose both.....~
*****Flashback*****
"Whatever decision you choose.....whether you choose me or Kikyo, I'll always love you" Kagome said in a warm voice.
"What the hell are you talking about?! Kagome! What's going on?!" InuYasha asked.
"Let me at least have you near me one last time......Cuz I know......you're going to choose Kikyo......" Said Kagome.
*****End of Flashback*****
"Kagome......" InuYasha whispered, his hands automatically reached out for Kagome and grabbed her wrist before she fell off down the high cliff.
He pulled her up and her lifeless body collapsed onto him, knocking him to the ground. He caught a glance of Kikyo as she slowly disappeared over the cliff.
Kikyo and InuYasha, for one second looked at each other in pain.
~The moments we shared.....were meaningless?~
~Kikyo....back then.....it was different~
"I thought.....you loved me" Kikyo whispered as she disappeared.
Kikyo fell down the cliff with her hands stretched out.....waiting for the hands that would not reach out for her and save her...
Kikyo closed her eyes,
~ I am the person....that you loved 50 years ago......but you have found someone else~
~So......it all ends like this.....why......? My task......hasn't finished yet~
~All I wanted was your love.......InuYasha. I do.....love you. Sayonara.....for now....I haven't finished with you......... yet~
Kikyo hit the side of the cliff as she went unconscious......
InuYasha looked up to see blood splattering in the air.
InuYasha closed his eyes and looked away. He covered Kagome as the blood dropped onto him.
He could no longer hear the sound of Kikyo's body tumbling down.....
Silence.
He looked down at Kagome who still had her eyes shut. ~even last time when Kagome's soul had been stolen from her by that witch, it had taken a while for her to wake...~
InuYasha held her tightly.
~It's all done now.....See Kagome.....I've kept my promise~
His heart still pounded in horror at what had happened to Kikyo.
"Why did it have to end like this...." InuYasha whispered. He felt a tear drop down his face, "If only....you had been more accepting, Kikyo.....this would never have happened"
InuYasha tightly closed his eyes in pain,
~Kikyo.......~
He opened his eyes and looked down at Kagome who looked sad.
~But....it was all worth it....if this was the only way of getting you back.....no matter how expensive the loss was........~
Kagome slowly began to open her eyes, her body shivered. Her nightmares fresh in her mind.
She looked at InuYasha and backed away, knowing that he would hurt her again. ~This may be reality or another dream...~
InuYasha looked at Kagome who moved away from him,
He moved closer to her and explained all that had happened. She looked up at him, and saw blood splattered all over him.
"Who's...blood is that?" Kagome asked.
"K- Kikyo's......" InuYasha replied.
Something flashed through her fast, her soul was letting out so many things. So many pictures flashed through her mind. It felt as if she had been watching everything from Kikyo.
Kagome moved over to InuYasha and leaned her head against him and wrapped her arms around him,
"I'm sorry you had to go through this.....I just wanted you to be happy.....but then....now Kikyo is dead....." Kagome whispered sadly.
"No...it's not your fault. It was Kikyo's own darkness that led her to this.....anyway, it was mostly my fault, I should have chosen more faster, than none of this would have happened.
Kagome looked away painfully,
"You should have just saved Kikyo...." Kagome whispered as she stood up, held her hands and looked down at her shoes.
InuYasha stood up, standing close to Kagome. She looked up and saw his eyes glimmering in the moonlight.
He stood looking at her.
"What's life without you...it's a worthless hollow shell, cause once you've found love this true....... what's there to find than can beat the happiness with you. Kagome, you're the one I chose to save, the one I chose to be with. I need you with me Kagome " InuYasha whispered as he held her in his arms, " I said that I loved Kikyo....and....I do, but I never realized how much I loved you until I was actually with the Kikyo I had loved 50 years ago. I realized that the love I felt for her wasn't the true love I wanted......it was yours. You love was the only love I wanted, not her.....just yours"
Kagome held InuYasha tightly as she started to cry.
InuYasha moved back in shock,
"Why are you crying for?!" InuYasha asked, ~what if the dream had some affect one her?!~
"I....I....I'm so happy!" Kagome cried, "I really did think it was impossible that I'd be the one you love...."
InuYasha smiled down at her, Kikyo's sad face flashed through his mind.
"I love you Kagome......." InuYasha whispered, "and I'll try to forget about Kikyo"
"No....you can take as long as you want. Don't force yourself. I'll only accept it if it comes naturally......ok?!" Kagome said, feeling cheerful now. ~InuYasha loves me~
"Keh, whatever" InuYasha said, in his usual I-don't-give-a-damn tone, to cheer up the mood. ~times like this......when we act so freely makes me feel free.....and happy~
Kagome pulled InuYasha, "let's get going"
InuYasha's eyes widened as he pulled Kagome towards him. He saw very deep dagger gashes all over her arms, and it was still spilling with blood.
"Kikyo......did this?" InuYasha asked, his face going pale, ~I didn't want to believe, but I guess that was foolish.....~
Kagome closed her eyes, her soul showed her of how Kikyo took her out of the hut and stabbed her with a dagger. Then muttered how much she hated Kagome and stabbed her again.....
Kagome opened her eyes, and looked sadly at InuYasha.
"No.....it wasn't her....."
InuYasha didn't buy it.
"Really! It wasn't! Now let's go!!" Kagome said quickly.
"My ass!" InuYasha muttered, "I know it was her"
Kagome saw a flash of pain go through his eyes.
Kagome stopped walking and stood in front of InuYasha.
"Huh? What?"
Kagome walked closer to InuYasha and closed up to him.
"I'm not asking you to forget her......but....what Kikyo did was understandable. COME ON !!!! Don't look so depressed! I just like...came back from the dead! Let's party!!" Kagome said.
"You are the most....craziest person I've ever met. This is serious here....look what I've done to Kikyo and what I've done to you and your like all....." InuYasha jumped in the air acting all hyper active and giggling, "party, party, party. Happy, happy, happy"
"What was that?" Kagome asked.
"THAT is what you act like" InuYasha said.
"NO!"
"Yah!"
"Shut up" InuYasha muttered.
"Make me!"
InuYasha looked at Kagome and closed up his face to hers,
"Ok......that may work......" Kagome said nervously.
He kissed her warmly on the lips. Kagome's heart beated fast, as did InuYasha's.
Their lips separated as Kagome buried her head on his shoulder.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered.
~Kagome's voice......she's right here alive beside me......~
"Kagome......I was so scared I'd never see you again" InuYasha whispered, his neck tightening from the nightmare he had to go through, "how did you take the soul back from Kikyo anyway?"
"Me.....?"
"Uh......duh"
"I was.....in the darkness....then I heard your voice calling me.....Your love was what pulled me through the darkness...." Kagome whispered.
"So.....how was your nightmares?" InuYasha asked, " how bad was I?"
Kagome glared at him, "you were the exact replica of the devil himself!!!!"
"So, how was life without me?" Kagome asked as they continued to walk.
"Don't even ask" InuYasha muttered.
"I'm sure it was terrible, and you cried 24-7 for me and was all depressed and sad and all that. Right?" Kagome said cheerfully.
".....You're kinda over exaggerating..."
"Sure, sure, you're just probably saying that!" Kagome said.
"No, I'm not just saying that. Why would I cry?!"
"Cuz you missed me"
"OK, OK! Maybe I cried just a drop, that's all!"
"Sure. Sure" Kagome said.
"Oh MY GOD! You must be the most annoying wench in the whole world!!"
"You know what's weird?" Kagome asked.
"What?"
"After something really bad happens, we seem to act as if nothing happened after a while...."
"And that's how I like it!"
Kagome linked her arms with InuYasha's, and leaned her head against his shoulder.
Kagome sighed,
"I wish I knew what you thought of all the day I was gone for!"
"I wasn't thinking about you" InuYasha muttered.
"I bet.." Kagome said, as if she hadn't heard a word InuYasha had said, "that you dreamt of me all the time!"
"You think I'm THAT infatuated with you?!" InuYasha asked in slight annoyance.
"I wonder if Miroku dreamt of me....." Kagome muttered.
"I WOULDN'T go there....he probably dreams of every girl....in inappropriate ways"
"Do you ever?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha stopped walking, and tapped his finger at his head,
"Is your brain broken or something?! Where are you getting all these questions from?! I swear, you can go on and on and on and on and on....."
"I get the point!" Kagome said.
"Huh?" they both looked at the sky to see it slowly turning into morning.
"SEE, you delayed us again!" InuYasha blamed.
"I delayed?! Liar!!!!"
"Man, and to think we had been all mushy a minuet...no an hour ago!"
"I think it was romantic!" Kagome sighed wistfully.
InuYasha sweat dropped, "girls these days, only mushy stuff fills their peanut sized head"
"Shut up InuYasha, you know I'm smarter than you!"
"Right....and what did you get on those "test" things your always worrying about? A 45 percent on your math test....whatever they're called. All I know is that you made that grade seem as if it'll kill you.....so, you're not smart. I'd probably do good on it if I had gone to your so called school"
"InuYasha...."
"Wh...what?" InuYasha asked, he looked at her, he knew that look...
"Sit dog"
BAM!!!
"And to think I had once said I missed her saying this to me...."
"Oh, you missed it? Then, here, since I love you so much....Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit! I missed saying it too"
InuYasha lay whining in a deep whole, "I'm gunu KILL you Kagome!!!!"
"InuYasha, you wouldn't hurt a hair on my head!!!"
"I'm damn hurt too you know!" InuYasha yelled as he got out of the whole.
Kagome's eyes widened as she hurried over to InuYasha,
"How? Is it very bad? When did it happen? Was it a youkai? Did you beat it?"
"Um...and which question do you want me to answer first? Or should I do it by order? Oh, I forgot the many questions, can you repeat it slowlier, and I'm gunu need a pencil to write it down on" InuYasha said sarcastically.
"Let me see the wound!" Kagome demanded.
"No! It's just a cut on my stomach!!" InuYasha said, hitting Kagome's hands away.
Kagome glared at InuYasha, "I'm gunu tell you to sit!"
"Sometimes I think you must be the most scariest and craziest woman alive" InuYasha muttered as Kagome undid his Haori. InuYasha felt himself feel uncomfortable.
Kagome looked at the wound, "InuYasha!!! Your wound is really bad...well...not that bad. But if you get this infected....."
Kagome touched the side of his wound, "it's already a little infected"
"Will you stop touching me!" InuYasha said, he felt a blush on his cheeks. ~It's not that I don't want you to...no I do want..no....I mean...I do but I shouldn't....I don't know what the hell I'm thinking....~
Kagome wrapped her arms around InuYasha, her cheeks pressing against his chest.
InuYasha felt his red face turn redder,
"Um....Kagome...Uh...something.....wrong?"
"I just wanted to hold you.....My dream.....they're still continuing to haunt my mind" Kagome whispered.
"You'll get over it" InuYasha whispered.
The haunting dream flashed through Kagome's mind, and her soul felt insecure and unstable.
"I hope so...." Kagome said weakly, she felt herself go dizzy and fainted.
"That was....sudden..." InuYasha muttered as he picked Kagome up, a little worried, but he believed that it was because she was just tired.
**~~ There! I made it KIND OF a light ending for all you angst haters ^^ see how kind I am, and I made it kinda angsty in the middle of the chapters.... ^^ Sorry for you readers who wanted Kagome soulless for a little longer. I just couldn't bear to write anything without her liveliness.....it get's really boring without her to yell at InuYasha, and also, the longer Kagome's without her soul, the longer InuYasha is with Kikyo!!!!! OK, well....one thing...Kikyo fell off the cliff, blood splattered. It's not as it seems.....And since Kagome is back, action is bound to come sooner or later ^^ YAY for Kagome!! OH YAH, lol, and thank you to "yagirl-123" for letting me use her quote ^^ And to Jammies2000, your review on my story helped me organize how I'm gunu make InuYasha feel. AND THANKS TO ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY REVIEWED lol. ~~**
NOTE: This isn't my last chapter, but some of you MAY think it...I have many more chapters to write....yup yup
============= Chapter Fifty ==============
InuYasha's heart beated fast as he sat next to Kikyo, ~Kikyo's...reminding me of...Kagome....but not everything~
Kikyo looked at InuYasha,
"You do not look very well....if it because of me, because you are disgusted with me taking the soul of your lover...get out of my site" Kikyo said coldly.
InuYasha looked at Kikyo, ~No...Kagome would never say something like this~
"It's not that..." InuYasha replied.
Kikyo smiled warmly, "gomen....My heart feels so weak now...when it had been cold and frozen, it was hard for it to get hurt"
"Sorry Kikyo...for hurting you from before....does it still....scar your heart?" InuYasha asked.
Kikyo looked deeply into his eyes, "If....I can believe that we can be together...then the scars in my heart would no longer have any more meaning....and would heal"
InuYasha sighed, "Oh...I see..."
"LADY KIKYO!" a villager cried.
InuYasha and Kikyo stood up,
"What is it?" Kikyo calmly asked.
"A soldier that is very wounded has arrived here and needs your help!"
"OK, I shall be down soon" Kikyo replied.
"Hai!" the villager said as he rushed back down.
Kikyo slowly turned to InuYasha and walked close up to him. They gazed at each other, only but an inch away from each other. Kikyo slowly reached up her hands as she touched his face,
InuYasha's heart beated fast, ~These hands....feel like the hands of the Kikyo I had known 50 years ago...it really is her.....I'm glad~
InuYasha saw Kikyo close her eyes as she moved her lips closer to his. InuYasha closed his eyes,
~It feels...as it was Kagome near me....since Kikyo now has Kagome's soul.....It feels as if it's Kagome next to me when I close my eyes.....~
InuYasha felt Kikyo's lips gently touch his, as he kissed her back. Kaede had gone out looking for InuYasha to tell him that Kagome had woken crying then had fallen back to the dark world, but halted in her tracks seeing Kikyo in InuYasha's arms.....kissing. She looked away and ran back to the hut.
Their lips separated as they staid with their eyes closed, their face touching.
"InuYasha...." Kikyo whispered.
InuYasha's eyes shot open, ~This...isn't Kagome's voice though....~
"We will fall back in love..." Kikyo said as she kissed him for the last time on the cheeks and then departed.
InuYasha watched as Kikyo disappeared down the hill.
~Man...I never knew a day would come when I actually missed Kagome telling me to sit....~
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Shippo was out on a ride with Kilala.
Miroku glanced over at Sango,
"Well....guess were ALL alone!" Miroku sighed.
"And is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Sango muttered.
"Definitely a GOOD thing!"
"Um, no. It's a bad thing" Sango muttered. They sat on the floor, leaning against the wall. Miroku yawned as he stretched his arms and slowly moved one arms to wrap it around Sango's shoulder.
Sango hit it away,
"That yawning technique is really old" Sango muttered.
"Jeez...your strange for a woman, usually they like it when men flirt with them"
"I am not your typical woman. And they like when men FLIRT with them, not try to make them 'bear your child'" Sango pointed out.
"That's too bad" Miroku muttered, "you could have made me a great wife"
"Sure, sure" Sango muttered, a blush rising in her cheeks, ~the last time you told me something like that you made me feel like a complete idiot after~
"I know, you're too bossy to be my wife. My wife has to be the type that has no life and does whatever I ask them to" Miroku said as he dreamily looked out the window.
"Hah, then I really feel sorry for her....don't you want to marry someone you love?" Sango asked.
Silence.
"I guess I'll just have an affair with the one I love, and marry the one that'll do everything for me" Miroku answered.
"You're disgusting" Sango muttered, "If it had been me, I would have beaten you up. I think you should stay true to your wife, thus, marrying someone you love"
Silence.
Miroku glanced at Sango,
"I know...It just depends on what kind of wife I get...if I even get one. If..let's say, I married someone like you...I'd have to stay faithful in fear that you may find out and beat the living light out of me...and who wouldn't want to keep faithful to you, you're all a person could want, right?" Miroku said, ~Oh shoot...I think I said a little to much~
Miroku blushed, Sango felt very amazed to see him blush, she'd never seen him blush before.
Sango smiled and blushed as well,
"I'm sure you'll become a great husband" Sango said.
"Sango...I..."
Sango looked at him in anticipation, "You....what....."
"I...I..."
"Yah.....You what...?"
"I.....um....I" Miroku's face went redder, he gave a cough ~I love you...but it's hard for the damn words to come out of my mouth!!!! DAMMIT TO HELL!!!!!~
"I...." Miroku took a deep breath, " I - Lov-"
"MIROKU, SANGO!!!" Shippo yelled, bursting into the hut with Kilala,
"We're back!!!"
Miroku's face went dark, Sango had a stress mark on her head.
Kilala and Shippo looked at them in question,
"What did we do?! WAAAAAAAaaaa, I miss Kagome!" Shippo cried as he jumped into Sango's stiff arms.
She just stared at Shippo in a cold glare. Shippo started to scream and cry,
"Everyone's so scary without her here!!!!!" Shippo cried.
Miroku hit Shippo on the head with his staff in annoyance, ~just when I was gunu confess my love for her....jeez~
Shippo stared at Miroku with big tearful eyes.
Miroku gave into the big puppy eyes and rubbed Shippo's head.
"Ahhh, gomen, gomen" Miroku said.
Shippo smiled, ~he always gives into this..Humph, but never InuYasha!~
*****Flashback*****
Kagome came back from her world with a bag of her food. They all sat under a tree for a small picnic.
Kagome set the food on the picnic cloth,
"There, time to much!"
InuYasha looked down at the strange food, and poked it with his chopstick.
"What the hell is this" InuYasha asked.
"They're my food from I made from my world" Kagome muttered in annoyance.
"Well, anything that's made by Kagome must be good!" Miroku said as he picked a piece of food up and popped it into his mouth. "MMMmmm"
Kagome's brightened up as everyone started to eat. Kagome turned to InuYasha and Shippo who were munching down as if he hadn't eaten for years.
"Humph" Kagome looked at InuYasha in annoyance.
The container of fried octopuses was empty except for one. Shippo grabbed for it, but InuYasha grabbed for it as well. They both glared at each other. Shippo then looked at InuYasha with his tearful puppy eyes, but InuYasha hit Shippo across the head and popped the food into his mouth.
Later on, it was Miroku and Shippo fighting for the last bit of food as they glared at each other. Shippo looked at Miroku with his big puppy eyes. Miroku gave in as Shippo popped it into his mouth,
"MMmmmm, so good Miroku!" Shippo bragged.
Miroku looked at Shippo in annoyance as he muttered some words....
*****End of Flashback*****
Shippo sighed,
"I miss InuYasha as well....."
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Two days had gone slowly, and painfully by for InuYasha...
InuYasha sat next to Kagome, gazing down at her (as he had been mostly doing for the past days). He reached out his fingers as he moved a strand of her raven black hair from her pale face.
"Kagome....we'll be together again....right?" InuYasha asked Kagome in a whisper.
He wrapped her cold hands with his,
"We'll be together......"
An hour passed...
InuYasha was now laying next to Kagome, his hands still holding hers.
He looked at her lifeless, pale face....Something in his mind hit him hard,
*****Flashback*****
Suddenly InuYasha heard a thud. InuYasha saw the snow in front of him slowly turning red. His heart froze, as he slowly turned around. Kagome hung on the tree with a daggers pierced into her heart, one in her stomach and another through her neck. Her face was pale and lifeless with blood dripping down her lips. The blood poured down from her wound as in soaked into the white snow.
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha stared blankly at Kagome, his heart beating so fast he could hardly breath. His mind and heart ached in pain....
~Kagome...It's as if.....she has died, I don't see blood....but she might be bleeding in her dreams. Because I chose to go to Kikyo.....this is what happened. Because I didn't choose one person from the start...this is what happened. I just wish it hadn't been Kagome.....~
InuYasha stood up and walked outside, for some reason, he wanted to go see Kikyo.
~Why do I want to see Kikyo....Am I already attracted to her?~
He peeked into her window and saw Kikyo kneeling on the ground, and looking in pain. InuYasha dashed in to see if Kikyo was injured.
"Kikyo! Are you alright?!" InuYasha asked.
~The soul....why wont it stay?!~ Kikyo thought, "yes, InuYasha I am...."
Kikyo gave a cry of pain as she fell to the floor, she closed her eyes and chanted the spell quietly to herself, over and over again.
InuYasha stared at her in worry,
"Kikyo...." InuYasha murmured as he lay her head on his lap, "what's wrong?!"
The pain slowly started to die away, she opened her eyes and looked up at InuYasha, then closed it again, feeling comfort when she was close to him.
"I feel so safe when you're next to me...." Kikyo whispered.
InuYasha bit his lips, it felt as if Kagome was right there, watching him holding Kikyo. He wanted to let go of Kikyo, but his mind told him that he had hurted Kikyo enough. But his heart ached with pain, not wanting to hold anyone except for Kagome.
InuYasha gently carried Kikyo to the matt and lay her down there and then stepped back. Kikyo looked at him,
"Stay..." she whispered weakly.
"Gomen....I have to...go" InuYasha muttered as he turned and left.
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Shippo sighed again, "I really miss Kagome...." Shippo said literally for the hundredth time.
Sango cracked her knuckles,
"If I find out that he's fallen in love with Kikyo, I'm gunu KILL THAT BASTARED and I'll smash him to mush with my boomerang and I'll much him again and again until there's nothing left of him but dust then I'll stick it up that damn Kikyo's ass!" Sango yelled without taking a breath and then panted for air, "ah, now I feel much better"
"I really do think InuYasha has influenced Sango...a lot" Miroku muttered.
Shippo his in the corner, "that was very...graphical" Shippo stammered.
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"Mama, did you meet Lady Kikyo?" the little girl asked.
"Hmmmm? Oh yes, she is very nice, do you not think?" the mother asked.
"Yah!" the little girl cheered, "so nice and beautiful!"
"You know what?" said the older brother, "I heard that she used to be a Youkai that fed on human's dead souls!"
"I don't believe you!"
"Now, now, you know you shouldn't be making up lies!" the mother scolded her son.
"IT IS TRUE! You know Myougi, that girl from the other village?"
"The one you were to be married to when you were older?"
"Yes, that Kikyo lady was said to have killed her!" the boy said.[from chp.23]
"And how did they know?" the mother asked, getting a little worried.
"They saw lady Kikyo with blood all over her hands, the body of Myougi and the blood of a youkai. They say she killed both"
"I see...." The mother said in worry. She gasped, feeling the earth shaking. She ran out the window to see other villagers screaming the word "youkai". "Children! Gather at the corner far from the door!"
The boy and girl started to cry in fright. The shaking of the earth became more and more big.
The mother could hear screaming, she silently got up and ran towards the window to see what was going on, she saw a giant black spider with a red mark down its back with red eyes and blood dripping down its fangs. It used it's claws as it picked up a woman and through it into his mouth, and continued to smash down more huts and eat.
The mother backed away, and closed her eyes to try and calm down, she reopened her eyes again to see the spider looking through the window. Her kids started to scream.
"Shush!" the mother cried, ~I must protect my children....~
"I shall distract the youkai, and you kids must hide!" the mother cried as she ran out of the hut.
"MAMA!" the kids started to cry.
The spider hissed as it started to walked towards its prey. Before it could eat the mother, an arrow shot into it's mouth. It gave a scream of pain, as it turned to see another woman with a bow in her hands.
Kikyo stared at the youkai, her strength still not all restored from using up all her energy to keep the soul stored within her.
The woman thanked Kikyo and ran back into the hut. The villagers all ran around crazy.
The spider came over to Kikyo and knocked her down with its claw. Kikyo tried to stand back up, but the spider stuck its needle like claw through Kikyo's arms, pinning her to the ground.
Kikyo gave a cry of pain.
InuYasha heard the cry and quickly ran out of the hut to see Kikyo about to be eaten by the spider youkai.
~Damn...I can't use the Kaze no Kizu or my bakurraya [SP?] ~ InuYasha thought.
He ran up to the demon and was about to slash it through InuYasha, but the spider sensed a predator coming and spit out spider web that stuck InuYasha to the ground. InuYasha struggled to move but he couldn't.
Kaede shot an arrow at the youkai, it went through it's neck, but it didn't do much. The spider shot spider web at Kaede, also pinning her to the ground with it.
"InuYasha!" Kikyo cried in pain, as blood spilled out of her arms.
"Kikyo!" InuYasha cried, but still unable to move.
It's fangs clicked together, it sensed the Shikon shard in Kikyo's Haori.
"The shards" it hissed.
"You have shards?!" InuYasha asked.
"Kagome's! She didn't need it.....AH" the spider pierced its claws deeper into Kikyo's arms.
"Through it away!" InuYasha yelled.
"NO! I shall not give up!" Kikyo yelled.
*****Flashback*****
"Kagome! Just give him the shards!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Kagome lay on the ground while Seiyamie stepped on Kagome's arms harder and harder.
"NO!" Kagome yelled.
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha shook his head,
"KIKYO! Just do it!!!" InuYasha yelled" or you'll die!!"
Kikyo gritted her teeth, she used her right arms to take the Shikon shard out of her Haori and through it away.
The spider screamed as it chased after the shard that was tumbled away down the slope of the road.
Kikyo lay on the ground, shocked from the pain. A pool of blood surrounded her arms.
InuYasha continued to struggle,
"KIKYO!" InuYasha cried, seeing that Kikyo had fainted, ~damn....how are we gunu get out of here?!~
The spider ran after the Shikon shard, InuYasha's eyes slowly widened seeing where the shard was tumbling down towards.....the hut.....where Kagome was in.
"NO!" InuYasha yelled as he tried harder to get out, "KAGOME!"
Since InuYasha had good eye sight, he saw it drop into the hut as the spider ran towards the hut, getting closer and closer.
InuYasha looked desperately around, and saw many huts smashed into nothing.
"Kagome!!!" InuYasha yelled as he used all the strength he had in him to free himself. He sped towards the spider.
Kaede stared at InuYasha in amazement, ~He suddenly became so strong....~
The spider turned around and saw InuYasha high up in the air with his Tetsusaiga ready to slice through it. It spit out the web, but InuYasha cut right through it.
InuYasha cut off only one of its fang.
"Damn" InuYasha muttered, he made the spider follow him so it wouldn't damage the hut if it fell.
It spit out something liquidy green, poison. InuYasha jumped away, as it burned into the ground.
"Keh, is that all you've got? Some green poison and some web?" InuYasha asked.
It got its claw and through it front as sharp big thorns came out of its claws and crashed into where InuYasha had been.
"Shit.....OK, I guess you have more than that" InuYasha muttered.
More of the thorns targeted at InuYasha, one cut off a bit of his haori, and another gashed his chest.
InuYasha lifted his sword,
"KAZE NO KIZU!" InuYasha yelled as yellow light ripped across the earth, but the spider jumped VERY high into the air. InuYasha looked up but was blinded by the sunlight.
He heard something land behind him, then heard something gory. InuYasha looked down and saw blood splattering down below him.
InuYasha coughed as blood dripped down his lips,
~Why do I feel....something cold.....in my stomach~
InuYasha's strength was about to give out on him, but he felt something warm holding his hands.
He looked down at his hands to see a transparent hand holding his, he looked up to see Kagome smile at him. He could see right through her....as if she was a ghost.
"InuYasha.....stay alive....for me" Kagome said and than faded away.
InuYasha blinked,
"Get your dirty claws out of me you filthy piece of shit!" InuYasha growled as he pushed the claws away and jumped into the air and stuck his sword through it's head.
It started to shake as InuYasha held tightly onto the sword so he wouldn't fall off.
~I need to know where the Shikon shard is.....~
"KIKYO!" InuYasha yelled, Kikyo slowly looked up.
"Where the hell is the Shikon shard?!" InuYasha asked.
~How dare he use such vulgar words towards me.....~ Kikyo thought, "In his back!"
"OK!" InuYasha ran down its neck and towards the back and was about to cut the shard out but was flung off. InuYasha landed roughly on the ground.
InuYasha growled as he ran towards the spider again,
InuYasha raised his claws into the air and cut it through the youkai as it gave a cry of pain. A leg fell off.
"Keh, and I'll cut the rest of your legs off!" InuYasha yelled as he pierced his claws into the demon as blood squirted out and climbed it, then stopped so he wouldn't be flung off.
"Just jump onto it!" Kaede yelled.
"I can't! I'll probably fall of!" InuYasha yelled back in annoyance, "I know what I'm doing you old hag!"
"How rude....." Kikyo muttered.
InuYasha pushed his hands through the back of the spider,
"And I'll pull out your guts if you don't stop moving!"
InuYasha pulled out the Shikon jewel that was covered in blood,
"Ah HAH!.....waaaahhhh!"
InuYasha was again flung off and crashed down into the ground creating a big puff of dust. He wasn't able to see where the spider was. He rubbed his eyes and ran out of the dust to see the spider at the hut, it crashed as one of its legs hit the hut causing it to cave in and then crashed down next to the hut.
"KAGOME!" InuYasha yelled as he ran towards the hut.
Kikyo stumbled over to Kaede and cut her free.
"Villagers!" Kikyo called, "remove this body of the youkai at once!"
They all nodded and ran into their huts to get ropes and tools to help out. Kikyo looked at InuYasha who was stumbling towards the hut,
~Hm....I hope she has been crushed into dust~
InuYasha ran into the hut, and coughed from the dust in the air. He stumbled in some pile of fallen wood.
"Kagome!" InuYasha coughed, he didn't even feel the wound in his stomach.
He saw Kagome, only her arms looked wounded, but the rest of her was fine, only bits of wood covered her. InuYasha sighed in relief as he ran over to her. He kneeled next to her and brushed the wood off her.
He rested his head on hers and smiled, ~You're ok......~
"Kagome....." InuYasha whispered into her ears. He could still smell that scent of hers, the scent he so loved, and yet had always told her it was annoying (except that one time when he had turned human....)
InuYasha kissed her closed eyes and picked her up,
"Let's get you out of here" InuYasha muttered.
"Inuyasha.....don't die......" Kagome whispered.
"Kagome?!" InuYasha cried.
No answer.
He knew what dream she was having, it was the one where Naraku had tricked him into thinking that Kagome had died and had almost killed him, but Kagome had found him.
InuYasha frowned, ~Are the dreams exactly the same as it has happened.....or different?~
"No...InuYasha, I'm Kagome....." Kagome whispered. InuYasha looked down at her, ~What's going on now in her dreams?~
"I'll.....tell her....that you love her" Kagome whispered in pain.
InuYasha stared at her, "tell who?! Oh shit.....what kind of cruel dream is this?!" InuYasha thought.
He saw a droplet of tear role down her cheeks, but her face stayed emotionless.
~I probably died here.....~ InuYasha thought.
A villager ran up to InuYasha,
"Please, the least we can do for you is let you use our home, for the service you have done for us in slating that youkai"
"Thanks" InuYasha muttered.
They entered the hut,
"My family shall be gone for a while" the person said, "for we must travel to the next village where our other family dwells and tell them of the sad loss of our daughter"
"Yah, sure...." InuYasha said.
Kaede glared at him, "we are very thankful and I hope your daughter shall rest in peace"
"Thank you Lady Kaede"
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It was now dark, InuYasha felt his head throbbing in pain as he continued to watch Kagome.
~All he's been doing was looking down at Kagome.....~ Kaede thought, ~And yet he kissed Kikyo.....does he love both equally?~
"InuYasha, I believe that you should go outside for some air" Kaede suggested.
"I'm not leaving Kagome"
"Just for a while InuYasha......When she comes back to life, she'd want to see you well, not sick"
"Keh, whatever. I'm going out" InuYasha muttered as he stood and left the hut.
Kaede walked over to Kagome and sat down, she stroke Kagome's forehead,
"Kagome.......I wonder what sort of dark dream you are dreaming of.....It shall still be in your mind if you ever come back to life. You shall remember all the dreams you have dreamed of........" Kaede muttered.
InuYasha looked around the dark, he had heard Kagome's voice some where....calling for him.
"Kagome......"
He looked ahead to see Kikyo looking at him, just standing there. Her figure glowing in the moonlight.
"Kikyo.......what are you doing?" InuYasha asked.
"I just.....wanted to come and see you......." Kikyo whispered a reply.
"Um....is your wounds better?" InuYasha asked as he walked over to Kikyo.
Kikyo looked at InuYasha who was nearing her,
*****Flashback*****
Kikyo returned back to the hut to fix up her wound. After she had bandaged it all up, she felt Kagome's soul wanting to escape from her again, it was stronger this time,
The soul was crying for release,
~I don't get it......why is this soul not excepting me?!~
Kaede had been in her hut at that time to check up on her sister.
Kaede walked over and held her sister so that she wouldn't collapse. "Sister....."
"The soul.....why does it try to leave me.......this is not supposed to be!" Kikyo cried in pain, she closed her eyes and kept on chanting, but the pain wouldn't stop. The soul kept trying to burst out of her.
Kaede wondered as well, ~The soul...knows it's owner.....the only possible reason is that Kikyo's soul isn't pure enough........even when she's in her human state.....~
Kikyo gasped as the pain slowly faded,
Her eyes flashed in anger, ~It's that girls body....as long as it's here on earth......the soul will forever want to return!~
*****End of Flashback*****
InuYasha sadly looked at InuYasha, ~what am I going to do.......I want to live, so dearly.....~
InuYasha saw Kikyo slowly loosing her strength.
"Kikyo!" InuYasha ran towards Kikyo and held her in his arms before she fell, "what's wrong?"
"Will you have been happy........if it had been Kagome......you could have been with.....and not me?" Kikyo asked, ~Please don't stay silent......please....say that you are happy with me.....~
Silence.
"Your silence answers all........" Kikyo whispered painfully, she dug her fingers into InuYasha's shoulder, "KKkkk....WHY?! InuYasha......." she dried a whisper. Tears rushed down her face.
"Kikyo.....gomen....."
Kikyo unsteadily stood up, "don't say sorry to me when you don't mean it!"
She gasped when she felt InuYasha holding her,
"I am sorry......" InuYasha whispered, ~All I want for you is to be happy and to rest in peace. That's all I wanted. I only said that if it was fate for me to be with you, I would. But other than that, I just wanted you to go back to where you belong in peace~
"No....I don't want to hear you say sorry. All I'll accept is if you say you love me! Say it...SAY IT!" Kikyo cried as she moved away from InuYasha, who weakly let goed and looked down. Kikyo looked at his dark gloomy face, waiting.
She closed her eyes, ~I've always......just been waiting.....and waiting~
"I can't....." InuYasha whispered.
~And waited.......and this is what I get......~
"Sorry......Kikyo"
"But...give it more time....we will fall in love"
"No.....Time will only make me miss Kagome more..... Time cannot make a love that can no longer grow...grow.....just accept it Kikyo.....appreciate that I love you with all I can give"
"No.....I wont accept ad appreciate. I deserve more than your drop of love! I have waited! I have been patient! WHY InuYasha?! Why are you doing this to me?!"
"Because....I have to end this all.....i don't want to hurt you....but.....I really don't Kikyo....but you have to give Kagome's soul back....Kikyo you can't go on like this!"
"Watch me try!" Kikyo hissed.
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As usual InuYasha had sat on guard incase any Youkai were to come. All he could think of was Kikyo's face that looked at him in pain.
He slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Out of the dark, Kikyo silently walked into the hut. Her face emotionless,
~ I am the person I was 50 years ago......and yet InuYasha cannot love me anymore~
Kikyo walked over to where Kagome lifelessly lay, Kikyo glared at Kagome.
~You......you are the one who brought ruin onto me.....You are the one who really destroyed my heart and made InuYasha turn against me........you.....~
Kikyo grabbed Kagome and carried her out. She quickly took out a dagger and stabbed it into Kagome's arms,
She smiled feeling Kagome's blood on her hands.
She continued to walk through the dark in the direction that would lead to a cliff, Kagome's blood trailing the way they were walking.
~Come find us InuYasha......make your heart beat fast in horror as you see this blood and follow it. Come and see your dear Kagome die.....come and see me forever keep her soul~
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"InuYasha....." Kagome's voice echoed in his sleeping mind.
"InuYasha....."
"InuYasha......." the voice kept calling.
InuYasha looked at Kagome who stood in blackness. She reached out her hands,
"Come and save me......"
"Kagome?!" InuYasha cried, "save you from what?!"
"Whatever decision you choose.....whether you choose me or Kikyo, I'll always love you" Kagome said in a warm voice.
"What the hell are you talking about?! Kagome! What's going on?!" InuYasha asked.
"Let me at least have you near me one last time......Cuz I know......you're going to choose Kikyo......" Said Kagome.
InuYasha shot his eyes open,
"Kagome.....?" InuYasha looked around for Kagome but found her nowhere.
"Kagome!"
Kaede woke up, "what seems to be the problem?"
"I- I heard Kagome's voice a minuet ago.....and now she's gone!"
"Oh...I see......she must have talked to you through the bit of soul she had left in her.....you two must be connected by heart.....that's why wherever she is, you'll be able to hear her" Kaede said, and then frowned, "go find her, I have a bad feeling about this"
InuYasha stood up and ran outside, he saw blood trailing in a one direction. The blood glimmering in the moonlight.
His heart beated fast, it was Kagome's blood.
~Kagome.....who the hell would do this to you?! It doesn't make sense~
InuYasha ran after the trail of blood.
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Kikyo held Kagome's body with her, as she stood at the edge of a cliff,
"If he does not come......I shall just through your worthless body over......"
She held Kagome tightly, her heart aching in pain. ~So this is what becomes of a person like me......~
"Kagome.....damn you to hell......And at the end of my life......I hope we never again have to meet in afterlife. And if we do, I'll kill you again, and in the next and the next.....We were fated to hate each other even though we are the same person, as we were fated to love InuYasha.......If I had not died.....you would not even be here in this Feudal era. You would just be going to school as an ordinary fuckin whore.....This is what you wished for.....and this is what you will get!" Kikyo yelled.
InuYasha stared at Kikyo, ~this is what I've....done to Kikyo. I've created a monster out of her......why can't she just learn to accept things as they are as Kagome does?~
~because....she is not Kagome~
~It can't...be Kikyo...that poured Kagome's blood...can it?~
InuYasha stared at Kikyo that was dangerously close to the edge with Kagome.
"Die Kagome!" Kikyo yelled.
InuYasha's eyes widened,
"KAGOME!!!!" InuYasha yelled.
Kikyo stepped closer to the edge, cuts appeared all over her as blood spilled out.
~My soul.....her soul.....is trying to leave me~
"KAGOME!" InuYasha cried, running towards her.
~STOP calling out her name! InuYasha! I beg you!~
"Release us......" Something inside Kikyo ordered.
"Ne...ver......." Kikyo whispered in pain. ~Her soul had purified most of my darkness.....but my true darkness was too much for it to purify me all......~
Kikyo looked at InuYasha....
The soul left her body and entered Kagome. But she did not wake.
Both Kagome and Kikyo' fell off the cliff.
"NO!!!!!!!" InuYasha cried as he ran for them,
~Decide....~ a voice echoed.
~Choose one, or loose both.....~
*****Flashback*****
"Whatever decision you choose.....whether you choose me or Kikyo, I'll always love you" Kagome said in a warm voice.
"What the hell are you talking about?! Kagome! What's going on?!" InuYasha asked.
"Let me at least have you near me one last time......Cuz I know......you're going to choose Kikyo......" Said Kagome.
*****End of Flashback*****
"Kagome......" InuYasha whispered, his hands automatically reached out for Kagome and grabbed her wrist before she fell off down the high cliff.
He pulled her up and her lifeless body collapsed onto him, knocking him to the ground. He caught a glance of Kikyo as she slowly disappeared over the cliff.
Kikyo and InuYasha, for one second looked at each other in pain.
~The moments we shared.....were meaningless?~
~Kikyo....back then.....it was different~
"I thought.....you loved me" Kikyo whispered as she disappeared.
Kikyo fell down the cliff with her hands stretched out.....waiting for the hands that would not reach out for her and save her...
Kikyo closed her eyes,
~ I am the person....that you loved 50 years ago......but you have found someone else~
~So......it all ends like this.....why......? My task......hasn't finished yet~
~All I wanted was your love.......InuYasha. I do.....love you. Sayonara.....for now....I haven't finished with you......... yet~
Kikyo hit the side of the cliff as she went unconscious......
InuYasha looked up to see blood splattering in the air.
InuYasha closed his eyes and looked away. He covered Kagome as the blood dropped onto him.
He could no longer hear the sound of Kikyo's body tumbling down.....
Silence.
He looked down at Kagome who still had her eyes shut. ~even last time when Kagome's soul had been stolen from her by that witch, it had taken a while for her to wake...~
InuYasha held her tightly.
~It's all done now.....See Kagome.....I've kept my promise~
His heart still pounded in horror at what had happened to Kikyo.
"Why did it have to end like this...." InuYasha whispered. He felt a tear drop down his face, "If only....you had been more accepting, Kikyo.....this would never have happened"
InuYasha tightly closed his eyes in pain,
~Kikyo.......~
He opened his eyes and looked down at Kagome who looked sad.
~But....it was all worth it....if this was the only way of getting you back.....no matter how expensive the loss was........~
Kagome slowly began to open her eyes, her body shivered. Her nightmares fresh in her mind.
She looked at InuYasha and backed away, knowing that he would hurt her again. ~This may be reality or another dream...~
InuYasha looked at Kagome who moved away from him,
He moved closer to her and explained all that had happened. She looked up at him, and saw blood splattered all over him.
"Who's...blood is that?" Kagome asked.
"K- Kikyo's......" InuYasha replied.
Something flashed through her fast, her soul was letting out so many things. So many pictures flashed through her mind. It felt as if she had been watching everything from Kikyo.
Kagome moved over to InuYasha and leaned her head against him and wrapped her arms around him,
"I'm sorry you had to go through this.....I just wanted you to be happy.....but then....now Kikyo is dead....." Kagome whispered sadly.
"No...it's not your fault. It was Kikyo's own darkness that led her to this.....anyway, it was mostly my fault, I should have chosen more faster, than none of this would have happened.
Kagome looked away painfully,
"You should have just saved Kikyo...." Kagome whispered as she stood up, held her hands and looked down at her shoes.
InuYasha stood up, standing close to Kagome. She looked up and saw his eyes glimmering in the moonlight.
He stood looking at her.
"What's life without you...it's a worthless hollow shell, cause once you've found love this true....... what's there to find than can beat the happiness with you. Kagome, you're the one I chose to save, the one I chose to be with. I need you with me Kagome " InuYasha whispered as he held her in his arms, " I said that I loved Kikyo....and....I do, but I never realized how much I loved you until I was actually with the Kikyo I had loved 50 years ago. I realized that the love I felt for her wasn't the true love I wanted......it was yours. You love was the only love I wanted, not her.....just yours"
Kagome held InuYasha tightly as she started to cry.
InuYasha moved back in shock,
"Why are you crying for?!" InuYasha asked, ~what if the dream had some affect one her?!~
"I....I....I'm so happy!" Kagome cried, "I really did think it was impossible that I'd be the one you love...."
InuYasha smiled down at her, Kikyo's sad face flashed through his mind.
"I love you Kagome......." InuYasha whispered, "and I'll try to forget about Kikyo"
"No....you can take as long as you want. Don't force yourself. I'll only accept it if it comes naturally......ok?!" Kagome said, feeling cheerful now. ~InuYasha loves me~
"Keh, whatever" InuYasha said, in his usual I-don't-give-a-damn tone, to cheer up the mood. ~times like this......when we act so freely makes me feel free.....and happy~
Kagome pulled InuYasha, "let's get going"
InuYasha's eyes widened as he pulled Kagome towards him. He saw very deep dagger gashes all over her arms, and it was still spilling with blood.
"Kikyo......did this?" InuYasha asked, his face going pale, ~I didn't want to believe, but I guess that was foolish.....~
Kagome closed her eyes, her soul showed her of how Kikyo took her out of the hut and stabbed her with a dagger. Then muttered how much she hated Kagome and stabbed her again.....
Kagome opened her eyes, and looked sadly at InuYasha.
"No.....it wasn't her....."
InuYasha didn't buy it.
"Really! It wasn't! Now let's go!!" Kagome said quickly.
"My ass!" InuYasha muttered, "I know it was her"
Kagome saw a flash of pain go through his eyes.
Kagome stopped walking and stood in front of InuYasha.
"Huh? What?"
Kagome walked closer to InuYasha and closed up to him.
"I'm not asking you to forget her......but....what Kikyo did was understandable. COME ON !!!! Don't look so depressed! I just like...came back from the dead! Let's party!!" Kagome said.
"You are the most....craziest person I've ever met. This is serious here....look what I've done to Kikyo and what I've done to you and your like all....." InuYasha jumped in the air acting all hyper active and giggling, "party, party, party. Happy, happy, happy"
"What was that?" Kagome asked.
"THAT is what you act like" InuYasha said.
"NO!"
"Yah!"
"Shut up" InuYasha muttered.
"Make me!"
InuYasha looked at Kagome and closed up his face to hers,
"Ok......that may work......" Kagome said nervously.
He kissed her warmly on the lips. Kagome's heart beated fast, as did InuYasha's.
Their lips separated as Kagome buried her head on his shoulder.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered.
~Kagome's voice......she's right here alive beside me......~
"Kagome......I was so scared I'd never see you again" InuYasha whispered, his neck tightening from the nightmare he had to go through, "how did you take the soul back from Kikyo anyway?"
"Me.....?"
"Uh......duh"
"I was.....in the darkness....then I heard your voice calling me.....Your love was what pulled me through the darkness...." Kagome whispered.
"So.....how was your nightmares?" InuYasha asked, " how bad was I?"
Kagome glared at him, "you were the exact replica of the devil himself!!!!"
"So, how was life without me?" Kagome asked as they continued to walk.
"Don't even ask" InuYasha muttered.
"I'm sure it was terrible, and you cried 24-7 for me and was all depressed and sad and all that. Right?" Kagome said cheerfully.
".....You're kinda over exaggerating..."
"Sure, sure, you're just probably saying that!" Kagome said.
"No, I'm not just saying that. Why would I cry?!"
"Cuz you missed me"
"OK, OK! Maybe I cried just a drop, that's all!"
"Sure. Sure" Kagome said.
"Oh MY GOD! You must be the most annoying wench in the whole world!!"
"You know what's weird?" Kagome asked.
"What?"
"After something really bad happens, we seem to act as if nothing happened after a while...."
"And that's how I like it!"
Kagome linked her arms with InuYasha's, and leaned her head against his shoulder.
Kagome sighed,
"I wish I knew what you thought of all the day I was gone for!"
"I wasn't thinking about you" InuYasha muttered.
"I bet.." Kagome said, as if she hadn't heard a word InuYasha had said, "that you dreamt of me all the time!"
"You think I'm THAT infatuated with you?!" InuYasha asked in slight annoyance.
"I wonder if Miroku dreamt of me....." Kagome muttered.
"I WOULDN'T go there....he probably dreams of every girl....in inappropriate ways"
"Do you ever?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha stopped walking, and tapped his finger at his head,
"Is your brain broken or something?! Where are you getting all these questions from?! I swear, you can go on and on and on and on and on....."
"I get the point!" Kagome said.
"Huh?" they both looked at the sky to see it slowly turning into morning.
"SEE, you delayed us again!" InuYasha blamed.
"I delayed?! Liar!!!!"
"Man, and to think we had been all mushy a minuet...no an hour ago!"
"I think it was romantic!" Kagome sighed wistfully.
InuYasha sweat dropped, "girls these days, only mushy stuff fills their peanut sized head"
"Shut up InuYasha, you know I'm smarter than you!"
"Right....and what did you get on those "test" things your always worrying about? A 45 percent on your math test....whatever they're called. All I know is that you made that grade seem as if it'll kill you.....so, you're not smart. I'd probably do good on it if I had gone to your so called school"
"InuYasha...."
"Wh...what?" InuYasha asked, he looked at her, he knew that look...
"Sit dog"
BAM!!!
"And to think I had once said I missed her saying this to me...."
"Oh, you missed it? Then, here, since I love you so much....Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit! I missed saying it too"
InuYasha lay whining in a deep whole, "I'm gunu KILL you Kagome!!!!"
"InuYasha, you wouldn't hurt a hair on my head!!!"
"I'm damn hurt too you know!" InuYasha yelled as he got out of the whole.
Kagome's eyes widened as she hurried over to InuYasha,
"How? Is it very bad? When did it happen? Was it a youkai? Did you beat it?"
"Um...and which question do you want me to answer first? Or should I do it by order? Oh, I forgot the many questions, can you repeat it slowlier, and I'm gunu need a pencil to write it down on" InuYasha said sarcastically.
"Let me see the wound!" Kagome demanded.
"No! It's just a cut on my stomach!!" InuYasha said, hitting Kagome's hands away.
Kagome glared at InuYasha, "I'm gunu tell you to sit!"
"Sometimes I think you must be the most scariest and craziest woman alive" InuYasha muttered as Kagome undid his Haori. InuYasha felt himself feel uncomfortable.
Kagome looked at the wound, "InuYasha!!! Your wound is really bad...well...not that bad. But if you get this infected....."
Kagome touched the side of his wound, "it's already a little infected"
"Will you stop touching me!" InuYasha said, he felt a blush on his cheeks. ~It's not that I don't want you to...no I do want..no....I mean...I do but I shouldn't....I don't know what the hell I'm thinking....~
Kagome wrapped her arms around InuYasha, her cheeks pressing against his chest.
InuYasha felt his red face turn redder,
"Um....Kagome...Uh...something.....wrong?"
"I just wanted to hold you.....My dream.....they're still continuing to haunt my mind" Kagome whispered.
"You'll get over it" InuYasha whispered.
The haunting dream flashed through Kagome's mind, and her soul felt insecure and unstable.
"I hope so...." Kagome said weakly, she felt herself go dizzy and fainted.
"That was....sudden..." InuYasha muttered as he picked Kagome up, a little worried, but he believed that it was because she was just tired.
**~~ There! I made it KIND OF a light ending for all you angst haters ^^ see how kind I am, and I made it kinda angsty in the middle of the chapters.... ^^ Sorry for you readers who wanted Kagome soulless for a little longer. I just couldn't bear to write anything without her liveliness.....it get's really boring without her to yell at InuYasha, and also, the longer Kagome's without her soul, the longer InuYasha is with Kikyo!!!!! OK, well....one thing...Kikyo fell off the cliff, blood splattered. It's not as it seems.....And since Kagome is back, action is bound to come sooner or later ^^ YAY for Kagome!! OH YAH, lol, and thank you to "yagirl-123" for letting me use her quote ^^ And to Jammies2000, your review on my story helped me organize how I'm gunu make InuYasha feel. AND THANKS TO ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY REVIEWED lol. ~~**