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WARNING: Extreme angst, no tragedy
============== Chapter Fifty-Six =============
InuYasha looked hopelessly around, more than one Youkai's fighting him. His hands weakly hitting away their blades.
He could feel his body shaking from wanting to collapse.
Naraku looked humorously with Kanna and Seiyamie by his side, Kanne, who was thinking sadly of Kagura. For the first time, she could actually feel pain.
"You two may leave" Naraku told them. And they disappeared.
InuYasha growled, he would get the shards. It didn't belong to him. If he didn't get it, Kagome would never be able to travel back and forth into her time (not knowing that Sango had the shard from Kohaku)
He pushed out of the pile of Youkais and ran towards Naraku with all the power he had and swung his Tetsusaiga at him. Cutting through his body.
Naraku's eyes widened in shock.
InuYasha grabbed the shard out of Naraku's pocket secretly, and back away with his sword in Inuyasha's hands.
Naraku turned around as the gash disappeared.
"Holy shit...." InuYasha muttered.
Naraku scowled and took out his sword,
"Die InuYasha from the strike of my powerful sword" Naraku hissed as he raised it in the air and brought it down.
But another strong force blocked it.
InuYasha and Naraku looked to see Seshoumaru's blade pushing against Naraku's.
"Seshoumaru....THIS ISN'T YOUR FIGHT!" InuYasha yelled in annoyance, "You think I'm that friggin weak?! Why the hell would you care?! If you think I'm gunu die, at least have the heart to let me die in honor in trying to kill this bitch!"
"You mean die in shame, and foolishness. You are not in the state to fight....and I have not come to fight him. I came because I am your brother.....and it would kill if you got hurt, and more so if you died" Seshoumaru confessed.
InuYasha stood in surprise.
"Well at least let me help you fight" InuYasha muttered.
"You are stubborn, I said I shall fight myself. You must escape"
"Keh, who do you think I am" InuYasha snapped.
Naraku's sword slowly started to push lower down against Seshoumaru's blade.
InuYasha got his Tetsusaiga and raised it in the air.
"You're not planning to kill me as well in your attack are you" Seshoumaru asked.
"Keh, no baka" InuYasha muttered as he clashed his sword against Naraku's, adding more strength to it.
Naraku backed off.
InuYasha smirked.
"Keh, were you scared that Naraku would kill yah?" InuYasha asked his brother.
"I was more afraid that you would kill me accidentally with your swing" Seshoumaru said calmly, looking at InuYasha's sword.
"Are you saying that I am poor at wielding my sword?!"
"In a way, yes" Seshoumaru said.
"Keh"
"Need there be two to fight me?" Naraku asked.
"If my brother was in a more fit state, I would not be needed here to waist my time" Seshoumaru replied. He coldly glared at Naraku.
"I see you no longer hate each other" Naraku muttered.
"I never said I liked InuYasha. But I have a duty as a brother to protect him"
"Are you saying that your babysitting me?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance.
Seshoumaru sweat dropped, "we are on the battle field. Do you usually always argue like that? By the time your done, you would probably be all sliced into dog meat"
"Keh, shut up"
Naraku swung his sword at Seshoumaru as their blades clashed together. They glared at each other closely in the eye,
Naraku smirked as the roots from him moved back, ready for it to pierce through Seshoumaru. But as it shot towards him, InuYasha cut them all away.
"Man, pay more attention next time!" InuYasha yelled at Seshoumaru.
"Will you shut up" Seshoumaru coldly asked in his calm tone.
"Jeez, I just friggin saved your ass" InuYasha muttered. InuYasha saw the youkais now slowly started to move closer to attack since it looked as if their master was having some trouble.
InuYasha faced them and smirked,
"I'll cut all your damn heads off" InuYasha said, ~Seshoumaru won't be able to handle both~
Seshoumaru had not noticed how bad InuYasha's wounds were and let him fight, or else he would have tried to take them both on.
He frowned, Naraku was very strong....
Their swords continued to clash at each others.
InuYasha ran, clutching his wounds and ran through the mob of demons. Running his blade across their heads. As bloody heads tumbled down.
The rest of the youkais felt more determined to kill him.
InuYasha flipped into the air and landed on a youkai with his Tetsusaiga through its neck. He now stood in the center of a circle of demons that were slowly moving in.
InuYasha looked around the circle as it got closer into him. They all raised their spears ,sword and other weapons and ran towards InuYasha.
"One....Two....Three" and InuYasha leaped very high into the air as the youkais slaughtered each other, "Stupid bitches"
InuYasha jumped onto one of the youkai, slamming it into the soil and stabbing it with his sword, then another youkai ran towards InuYasha as he continued to leap onto the demons and stabbing them.
One of the Youkai ran towards him with his claws, but InuYasha cut off its head as blood splashed out as the head tumbled to the ground. It's hands stretched out, InuYasha looked at the body still moving in horror and disgust. It grabbed the front of his Haori then fell back, ripping off the front of his Haori.
"Shit...." InuYasha muttered, he was no longer wearing his protective Haori and now only wore his normal white Hoari he had always wore under his red.
As InuYasha ran towards the last youkai, it sensed him and swung his axe at the blur of red light.
The blur of speeding red light formed back into InuYasha as he tumbled to the ground. His already wounded stomach bleeding even more. InuYasha could feel the dizziness in his mind getting worse.
It swung it's axe down at InuYasha, but he blocked it with his sword. The weight of the axe and the strength of the youkai combined pushed down on InuYasha's sword.
He could feel his strength running low. InuYasha got his legs and kicked the Youkai hard as he flew into the air and slammed into the ground as a thick cloud of dust appeared.
InuYasha stumbled towards it, and disappeared into it.....Then splashes of blood could be seen, splashing out of the cloud of dust.
InuYasha walked with his and the youkais blood smeared and dripping all over him.
He looked at Seshoumaru all wounded and still fighting, as for Naraku, he was just a bit hurt, but that too quickly disappeared.
Naraku tripped onto the ground from one of Naraku's roots. Naraku stabbed the sword at Seshoumaru but he rolled away and kept rolling as Naraku stabbed the sword into the ground. Seshoumaru tried to scramble up, but couldn't because of Naraku's speed.
When Seshoumaru had the chance, he jumped backwards and landed gracefully on the ground.
InuYasha sped up behind Naraku, he sensed InuYasha's presence and pushed back against Seshoumaru who slammed into the earth.
Naraku swung his sword at InuYasha, missing his heart by a bit and piercing it through InuYasha's shoulder.
InuYasha growled as he painfully tightly grabbed the blade of the sword, his flesh being cut as his blood smeared the sword and dripped to the ground.
Naraku looked at InuYasha in confusion as InuYasha pulled the sword deeper into him, and pulled Naraku closer to him. Then InuYasha got his hands and pierced it through Naraku's center chest area, his hands coming through his back at the center of the spider scar on Naraku's back.
Naraku's body shook in pain as he pulled back, clutching his wound.
"I'll...be back to.....kill you InuYasha" Naraku whispered in pain then disappeared into a mist of purple clouds.
"Keh, that got rid of him for a while" InuYasha muttered weakly. He glanced at his brother who watched in surprise at what InuYasha had done.
"Yah, see I'm not as weak as you think I am" InuYasha muttered as he clutched his wounds and started to walk away. His body shaking from pain and the lack of strength. His body wanted to give out and fall, but he wouldn't let that happen in front of his brother.
Seshoumaru stood up and walked towards InuYasha.
"Come with me, I shall help you to a near town where you can be tended to"
"No....I have to go" InuYasha replied stubbornly.
"To the human girl....."
"Keh, yah, whatever"
"Why.....she has abandoned you" Seshoumaru pointed out.
"No she hasn't, I told her to leave" InuYasha defended.
"Then let me at least follow you to wherever you are going. You'll probably die before you reach there any way" Seshoumaru said in an emotionless tone.
"Will you leave me alone?! I'm going ON MY FUCKIN OWN! I always have and I always will! I don't need your fuckin help!"
"I will not leave a person that is half dead and that is going mad on their own"
"And how exactly am I mad?!"
"A person who thinks they can reach their destination alone without help in this state is mad" Seshoumaru said.
"I don't need your help....don't you also have a human girl waiting for you" InuYasha asked bitterly.
"........"
"Yah, so go now. You never know if Naraku could be chasing after her right now"
Seshoumaru sighed, "Fine with me. If that is your choice, I shall leave you.....I should be ashamed of you, a low infatuated mad Youkai, but I am.....I am proud of what I just saw today.....I would never have expected a low half demon like you to damage Naraku that bad" "Thank you for describing me so clearly" InuYasha said, ~Why...is he acting like this?~
"Are you saying all these nice crap to me cuz you think I'm gunu die?! Your last words to me?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance, "Cuz I'm not gunu die!"
Seshoumaru turned and began to walk away calmly,
"I know....it is because I realize that I could have lost you. And for those few seconds I saw you looking almost dead....I realized that you weren't so bad after all......and so I am telling you now. Just incase you do die, so yes, maybe you are right" Seshoumaru muttered.
InuYasha's jaws slightly dropped in surprise, ~Am I just imagining thing....did this fighting get to my head.....or am I dead.....~
"Well, good luck. For you shall need it, a piece of blood pulp like you shan't go far"
"Keh!"
"Good bye....brother"
InuYasha watched as Seshoumaru disappeared. As soon as he was out of sight he fell to his knees and let out a slight cry from the pain he felt.
~Seshoumaru hadn't even noticed the pain I was in...Keh, I'm a good actor~
InuYasha had never in his life felt so much pain. He could feel his wounds burning and throbbing. He hadn't even been able to notice Seshoumaru's wounds for his eyes were so blurry from the dizziness in his mind.
InuYasha had a hard time breathing, each breath hurted the deep wound on his chest. InuYasha closed his eyes, still kneeling on the ground where a big pool of his blood was spread.
A picture of Kagome appeared in his mind. He used his sword to help himself up,
Even with his eyes open, he still had the image of her in his mind.
He walked, step by step.
Blood trailing behind him.
"Kagome......" InuYasha whispered.
He had barely left the battle field, and realized how far his destination was going to be....the hut was so far away. He entered a forest, his strength all gone from him. But the one thing that kept him going was the thought of Kagome....
Even death would have been better than this torturing pain, but he would go through that millions of time to see Kagome.....it was as if he as addicted to her. Unable to live without her...
InuYasha gave a slight cry as one of his wounds throbbed harder in pain. He grasped a tree and leaned against it.
The Picture of Kagome in his mind, slowly fading away. He looked out at the open, as he saw the earth slowly tilting downwards, then saw the ground right in front of his face. InuYasha lay motionless on the ground, blood surrounding him. Too out of strength to get back up, InuYasha just lay there. As his mind grew more and more faint.
His stretched out arms slightly moved, as he tried to reach Kagome inside his mind, fading away. But he never caught her. InuYasha's eyes slowly closed as he went unconscious.....
************************************************ Naraku returned back to the battle plain..... The place was covered in blood and dead bodies. He looked around in disgust and shame, these were his youkais...
He placed a glowing blue ball on the center of the field and disappeared into his purple clouds, ~I am ashamed of what is I see.....and wish to wipe it all away~
The ball glowed bigger and bigger and bigger. Suddenly a large light wiped across the field as everything turned into ashes. But the blood remained.
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The next day....
Kagome entered back into the hut after telling them that she had gone out to get some air, but really, she had gone out to cry, and saw that Kaede was rebandaging Miroku's wounds. Sango was laying back on the matt, her eyes filled with a mixture of great sadness and happiness.
~Why is she happy.....~ Kagome wondered.
When Sango saw Kagome, she rose from her spot, twitching a bit in pain. Kagome slowly turned and walked back out.
Sango ran after her.
They silently walked down the pathway, the weather getting warmer day by day. As the cherry blossoms began to bloom in some places.
They sat on top of a hill, gazing up at the blue sky.
"Houshi-sama said that he would go out back to the battle field on Kilala and look for InuYasha.....so we can.....burry him" Sango whispered, her heart paining from the thought that InuYasha was dead.
"He might still be alive..." Kagome said, giving herself hope she didn't believe in herself, but wanted to.
Sango sadly smiled, "Maybe.....there are miracles on this damned earth"
Silence.
"So.....why are you happy a bit as well?" Kagome asked.
Sango blushed,
"He....told me that he loved me at the battlefield yesterday and again today"
"That's great Sango!" Kagome said with a sad smile. Kagome knew that she must be depressed greatly about her brother.....and she knew how it felt to loose someone you loved......she had lost InuYasha.
"Sango-chan....Your brother has been properly buried...... and is at peace" Kagome whispered. A tear ran down Sango's cheek as she rubbed it away,
"I know...I know" Sango said, trying to act strong. There had been one more thing that had been bothering her.....it was what had happened from before, when Kagome had told her that InuYasha had betrayed her. And InuYasha had suffered not knowing what he had done.
"Kagome-chan.....did you tell InuYasha that you had forgiven him for what he had done?" Sango asked.
Kagome remembered that InuYasha had been too in pain to concentrate on her words,
"No" Kagome whispered in pain, "I wish InuYasha would have just trusted me! I wouldn't have gotten mad at him or anything....."
"Kagome......you say...that he his trust in you was so weak.....and yet.....you are....as bad.....you lost trust and faith in him so fast. You so easily lost trust in the person you loved and believed Kikyo. She may have told what she believed in, but what if there was something more than we knew of" Sango asked, "but I really don't mean to say you are bad or anything" she added quickly.
Kagome looked down, her heart filled with guilt, ~I am....equally as bad...or it might not even be true, about InuYasha betraying me...No, I believe Kikyo. How could there be anything else. If one makes love to someone, they know it......and Kikyo isn't the type to lie~
Sango watched as Kagome stood up and walked away,
"Kagome....." Sango called, but she never turned and kept on walking her way.
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Naraku returned to Kikyo who lay asleep.
He woke her awake.
She looked up at him and saw the wound on his bare chest,
"What has happened.....Have you won? Where is the shard"
Naraku's eyes widened, when he had taken off his robe, he had not noticed or sensed the Shard, thus had forgotten about it.
"InuYasha must have somehow taken it.....Hah, but he shall die. With wounds like that, he will not live to walk out of the field I swept up of every living thing" Naraku smirked.
Kikyo's eyes widened,
"YOU KILLED HIM?!" Kikyo cried.
Naraku sat down on the mat,
"And so what mistress Kikyo" Naraku asked in his cold tone.
"He was not for you to kill" Kikyo said ice coldly.
"You are mine, not his so do not talk about him as if you belonged to him and he was yours to kill" Naraku muttered.
"HAH! You.....bastard. I do not belong to you, it was InuYasha I belonged to first. You were NOT my first!" Kikyo said, waiting in pleasure to see Naraku's fury. But it never came.
"You are mistaken, I was your first"
"No you were not...."
"The day before InuYasha betrayed you, but really I disguised in his form, you had become one with him......it was also I......disguised in his form" Naraku confessed.
Kikyo's eyes widened, ~I never belonged to InuYasha and he never had belonged to me.....No...~
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Kagome sat at the river banks, when Miroku appeared, looking sadly at her.
"Where have you been?" Kagome asked.
".........to the battlefield"
Kagome's heart started to beat fast, ~please tell me you found him alive and well~
"And.....?"
"He's dead...." Miroku said in a strained tone, as a tear ran down his face.
Kagome shut her eyes tight, as tears built up in her eyes,
"I don't believe you!" Kagome cried, "stop lying! I don't like it! He's resting in the hut isn't he?!!!"
"Kagome...please.....the whole place was wiped out by some kind of strong energy. Every thing there was turned into ashes......and Kilala had picked up InuYasha's blood in this one spot....and there was a lot. It trailed all over the place.......and....the only thing that survived the energy wipe out......was this" Miroku whispered handing Kagome a teared piece of InuYasha's Haori, all covered in dried blood.
"Gomen...." Miroku whispered.
Kagome could feel her neck tighten. She let out a scream, unable to bear her pain. She held the material close to her, as she wept onto it.
Miroku hesitantly stretched out his hands and stroke her shoulder,
"I'm so sorry.....we'll all miss him.....a lot"
"I never could imagine the day when he would die...he seemed so...indestructible" Kagome cried.
"I know.....but.....things like this happen. It is life and we must bear it....."
After a moment, Kagome seemed to want to have some privacy, so Miroku sadly turned and walked away.
Kagome looked up, everything blurry from the tears in her eyes, she looked at the river rushing buy,
"The river......I remember....." Kagome sadly whispered with a sad smile formed on her lips.
*****Flashback*****
"Let me SEE! I have to see if it's badly injured or not, or maybe it can get infected or something" InuYasha said, pulling her arms closer to him for him to observe.
"NO! I'm OK!" Kagome yelled. Pulling back.
"Let me SEE!"
"NO!"
"Shut up! You'll regret it when you have something wrong with your arms" InuYasha threatened.
"I'll check myself! And how would YOU know if it's infected or not?!"
"I would know!"
"No you wouldn't " Kagome snapped.
"Let's see if I wouldn't!!!!" InuYasha said in annoyance, ~stupid girl, I just want to do a simple thing and check and she acts as if I'm trying to.....molest her or something~
"SIT!" Kagome yelled
InuYasha got up after being sat and groaned in pain.
"GOMEN!" Kagome cried touching his bare shoulders.
InuYasha glanced at her hands that were resting on his shoulder.
"Oh, Gomen" Kagome muttered, her face turning pink, ~No! Cheeks, don't turn pink!~
InuYasha could still feel the warmth of her hands on his shoulder.
He saw her arms, it had bruises and blood all over it from Seiyamie's torture. He pulled Kagome down to the river and crouched down next to her as he gently rubbed the blood from her arms and then tore off the remaining material from the top of his Haori. He wrapped it around Kagome's arms and tied it.
"There, that wasn't so bad..." InuYasha muttered.
Kagome smiled, "thanks"
*****End of Flashback*****
"InuYasha...." Kagome cried, she closed her eyes tightly, ~Never did I know how much it would feel.....to actually realize.....that you've lost the person you love so much.....forever.....It hurts so much. A pain that you know will never go away. I want to scream and cry.....I feel so lost~
*****Flashback******
InuYasha saw one not far from him, he jumped and cupped his hands around the firefly.
"InuYasha....look down...." Kagome laughed.
InuYasha was high up in the air, he looked down to see not land, but the lake.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" InuYasha splashed into the lake.
Kagome laughed like crazy watching InuYasha getting out of the lake with a pissed expression on his face.
"HAHA! For a dog you're strange. Dog's usually like the water
"Shut up wench!" he muttered in annoyance as he squeezed the water out of his Haori. He looked over at Kagome and grinned mischievously .
He walked over to Kagome and squeezed the water over her head.
"Keh, that's what you get for laughing" InuYasha laughed.
"BAKA!!!!!!!" Kagome yelled as she started to chase him all over the place, "I'm gunu say the word!"
"Oh, don't forget I'm hurt!" InuYasha pointed out.
*****End of Flashback*****
Kagome cried out in torment, and hit her head. ~I don't want to think of him, it hurts so damn much!!!! ~
Kagome lay back and stared up at the sky, her eyes getting blurrier by the seconds from the tear filling up, as it dribbled down her cheeks, outlining her face and down her neck.
"Stay with me Kagome.....forever" InuYasha voice whispered in her mind. Those words.....he had endeared to her....were now painfully meaningless.
She heard footsteps coming towards, she shot up.
"InuYasha?" Kagome muttered, but it was not him, but Kikyo. She looked at her with a mixture of disgust, sadness and hatred.
"So he is dead....." Kikyo whispered.
"What do you want from me, Kikyo?"
"I just came to tell you something...." Kikyo told her.
"If you are here to tell me some more horrible things about InuYasha, please don't. It's bad enough of what you told, if you tell me anymore, I'll kill myself"
"I was not InuYasha's first.....and he has not become one with any one....it was.....it was Naraku disguised as InuYasha who had been my first" Kikyo confessed then turned and walked away.
"Why do you tell me this?!" Kagome asked in shock, "Have you lied to me?!"
"No....I have just found out" Kikyo whispered, "and I told you.... For my sake. I would not have you think that InuYasha was my first...... that disgusting betrayer.....Now that I know it was Naraku all along. I feel more free. Though a little sad..... But I hate InuYasha and I am glad that I have never been his"
Then she walked away,
Leaving Kagome worse than she had left her from before.....
As Kikyo was walking away, she heard Kagome give out a scream of depression. She smiled, ~This is what happens to all the woman who fall in love with InuYasha, have a taste of the agony I had suffered. But now, no more females shall suffer from him, for he is dead~
Kagome stared at the grass, heavily breathing. InuYasha had never betrayed her, he had always trusted and loved her. It had been her all along....
Kagome covered her mouth with her hands as tears rushed down her cheeks.
"Oh my God....Oh my God" Kagome cried, she remember InuYasha's hurt face from before.....a face that was lost to why she was ignoring him and hating him (which she was not, but he had thought it).
*****Flashback*****
Kagome gave a quick gasp of surprise, feeling someone taking a hold of her wrist. She turned to see it was InuYasha.
"What do you want" Kagome quietly asked.
"What do I want? How did it come to needing a reason to just be with you? What's going on Kagome? Tell me what I did wrong" InuYasha asked.
"Kikyo told me everything......." Kagome whispered.
"Told you what?!" InuYasha asked in torment.
"You and her......never mind" Kagome pulled her wrist out of his grasp, "just leave me alone.....I'll get back to normal in time"
"Kagome!" InuYasha said in annoyance, "what did I do?! I'm sorry whatever it is, can't I make up for it or something......since you wont tell me"
"You can't make up for something that has already happened......"
"What already happened? Kagome, I'm lost" InuYasha said.
"Just...go away! Leave me the hell alone, OK! I don't need you !" Kagome yelled and hurried away.
InuYasha stood there, his heart ripped apart.
*****End of Flashback*****
"InuYasha...I'm so sorry" Kagome cried, her heart tearing apart. Never had she thought....of how InuYasha must have felt.
His face, looking at her in confusion and pain wouldn't fade from her mind.
Kagome screamed in pain, as the never ending tears poured down her cheeks as she ripped the grass out of the earth with her fingers.
She felt so tormented.
So agonized.
So empty.
Everything felt so ugly without InuYasha. Life now felt....like nothing.
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Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede watched Kagome all day in worry. She hadn't said barely a single word. She refused to eat. And now it was night. They all lay awake, secretly watching her. Kagome just lay awake, staring at her hands, and tears rolling down her face.
The next day, she refused to eat again.
Everyone became more and more worried as the time passed on to the afternoon. Kagome would go out many times, they would follow to see her weeping her soul out.
It was now a bit dark.
As more time passed, Kagome only got worse.
They all sat in the hut, staring at Kagome who was staring blankly at her school text book.
She stood up and walked out towards the entrance of the hut.
"Kagome-sama, where are you going?" Miroku asked.
"....A walk" Kagome replied quietly.
".....Don't be too long" Sango whispered. Kagome nodded and walked out.
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Right after Kagome left, Sango walked outside to see where Kagome was going. She was worried for her, Kagome was like her own sister...
She felt someone's hands gently resting on her shoulder.
She slightly gasped and turned around to see Miroku.
"H- Houshi-sama" Sango said in a breathless tone.
"You are still depressed over your brother" Miroku whispered.
Sango looked down,
"Hai....he was my only remaining family....."
She felt Miroku's warm arm wrapping around her....in a decent manner.
"You have a family Sango...we are your family....we may not be your family by blood, but isn't a family where we stick together through everything?"
Sango smiled as tears glittered in her eyes,
"Arigato....."
Sango closed her eyes, her heart feeling at rest.
"I love you Sango-chan...." Miroku whispered.
A tear streaked down Sango's cheeks,
"I love you too" she softly replied, ~I never knew this day would come...it feels as if it were just a dream....The day I met Miroku......if I had ever known that some day I would have fallen in love with a pervert, I would have gone mad. Wow, life is so full of surprises ~
Miroku turned her around, as they looked at each other deeply in the eyes. He moved closer and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
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Kagome entered the forest, wearing a dark blue Kimono Sango had bought for her at the village since her uniform had been covered in blood.
The Kimono brushed across the grass as she walked slowly through the dark woods. Everything in the forest look dead and gloomy.
~I've decided.....that I can't live like this.....with pain stored up in me like this.....I have to stop it~
Kagome walked on, she could see a lake in the forest. She walked slowly towards it.
~Life.....what is life without you...~
~I don't deserve to live....after the pain I have caused you~
Kagome stepped into the cold water, as a cold shiver ran down her back. Cold as her heart felt.
She closed her eyes as she walked deeper into the water,
She could imagine InuYasha's kisses and caresses as if it were yesterday...but she couldn't feel it, though she could remember it.
She wanted it from the actual person, not out of her mind.
The water now reached her knees. ~I'll drown out my pain....~
She walked deeper...
Suddenly.....she stopped. She felt something in her heart....her heart that had not beated....now beated. She slowly turned her head......
She saw InuYasha standing slumped against a tree, with his head just hanging weakly as he slowly looked up.
"Don't......" he whispered weakly.
Kagome stepped out, just staring at him....unable to believe. It had been almost two days.....when they thought InuYasha had died.
He weakly gazed at Kagome.
She looked at him, blood streaking down his face from his head and lips. Blood all over his 'white' Haori.....that was half ripped revealing a bit of his shoulders, that had a big deep gash in it.
InuYasha clutched his stomach and unsteadily walked towards Kagome.
"InuYasha....." Kagome cried as she ran towards him. He stumbled and fell into her arms.
Tears rushed down her face.
He lay in her arms, taking little breaths, and shivering in cold and pain. Kagome could feel his blood soaking into her. He was practically almost dead. It had been two days....and he had been dragging himself here.....with the thoughts of Kagome in mind. She had been his only reason for not giving up.......
"I thought I'd never make it back alive...." InuYasha whispered.
"Wakatta" Kagome cried, holding InuYasha as if she'd never let him go.
"What ....the hell were you trying.....to do" InuYasha weakly asked, trying to act normal.
"I...I thought you were really dead.....I couldn't....stand it!" Kagome cried.
"Your life....is too precious.....to do such a foolish...thing like that. I would have wanted you to....go on.....and be happy"
"Without you? I don't think so" Kagome said unsteadily from the tears overwhelming her.
InuYasha raised his hands up and stroke her wet cheeks,
He looked at her sadly, as she could see pain reflecting off it.
"I'm.....sorry Kagome....about whatever I did wrong to ....hurt you" InuYasha said in a weak whisper.
Kagome started to cry more,
She shook her head,
"It was....all my fault.....Kikyo told me....that it was all a lie. I had lost trust in you....I'm so sorry!!" Kagome cried.
"What...was....it"
"I'll tell you when you're better" Kagome whispered.
InuYasha nodded. Kagome lifted her hands off from his chest to see blood dripping from her hands, she looked at him in shock,
"How did you survive Naraku and how did you survive back?" Kagome asked.
"My brother.....helped me....and....I came back thinking....of you-"
"Shhhhhh, rest, InuYasha. Tell me next time...." Kagome whispered.
InuYasha sadly looked away,
"What if....there will be no next time?" InuYasha asked in a weak whisper.
Kagome stroke his hair,
"You'll live....you will InuYasha, I know it..." Kagome cried.
InuYasha smiled,
"Keh.....course I will....if you're here...why would I want to..leave a wench like you......behind....." InuYasha whispered in an unsteady tone.
He handed her something. Kagome looked down at it to see the Tainted Shikon no Tama at it's almost complete form with two missing.
Kagome held it as it transformed pure.
"InuYasha, you have it" Kagome cried, "I don't want it"
"I...don't want it either....Kagome...." InuYasha whispered. He touched her cheeks and gently pulled her down, her lips brushing against his.
She could feel InuYasha's warm, but uneasy breathing.
She could feel his warm lips pressing closer to hers, burning as it had before.
Their kisses became deeper and more passionate.
Kagome bent lower and placed kisses all over his face,
"You'll be alright....."
Every so gently, he pulled her soft warm body into his embrace. Holding her, afraid that he would loose her again.
"I love you Kagome....so much"
"I love you too InuYasha" Kagome replied, trying to hold the many tears that wanted to rush out of her.
"My life......has become.....so complete and happy....when I met you....." InuYasha whispered softly against her cheeks,
"Me too, InuYasha....." Kagome whispered, ~the wish I wished on the shooting star has come true.....InuYasha is happy~
"You're happy Kagome?" InuYasha asked, ~my wish has come true....~
Kagome smiled and nodded,
"InuYasha....will you.....love me even though...Kikyo's better?" Kagome hesitantly asked.
InuYasha held her tighter,
"Baka, don't ask me that Kagome.....the person I love will always be the better one...and that's you" InuYasha said, he closed his eyes, as the pain in his body continued to throb.
~I love everything about you Kagome.....I can't describe why I love you so much.....I guess that's just how it is, you can't really describe love....it just is ~
"What about the thing you owe Kikyo...."
"Love can only be repaid by love.....but I can't owe her back love.....When it all belongs to you....."
He felt his body, mind, heart and soul at rest. This is what he a had wished for, to be in Kagome's arms, to feel her warmth, and to be draped with her sweet scent.
"I'm so glad" Kagome whispered, "I'm so glad that you came back to me...."
The moonlight shone softly on the couple that held each other dearly.
InuYasha held her closer,
"Kagome....." InuYasha whispered, "I never left...." he said, placing his hands on her heart.
"But still.....not my heart, but I need to feel you beside me to be happy"
"I'll always come back, Kagome.....always"
~Whatever happens....I'll always stay by your side.....My love for you is timeless and eternal.....Ashiteru.....my Kagome~
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~*~* Owari, The End *~*~
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**~~ To be continued in the Sequel......~~**
SORRY if the ending was a lido too... =P sad or somtin ^^"
Review for SEQUEL, no review, NO SEQUEL....maybe. No review, I'll jus be really sad, but I'll still write a sequel. But I'll post one up if you review ^^
DESCRIPTION OF SEQUAL:
Name: Timeless Love: Part Two
When will it come out: Some where in January 2004 ?_?
Characters (excluding the "main" charaters):
Kikyo: Most likely wont bother InuYasha and Kagome too much (kinda over Inu now)
Naraku: Main bad guy.... I think
Kouga: Do you wan me to add much of him?
Seshoumaru: deffinately.
WARNING: Extreme angst, no tragedy
============== Chapter Fifty-Six =============
InuYasha looked hopelessly around, more than one Youkai's fighting him. His hands weakly hitting away their blades.
He could feel his body shaking from wanting to collapse.
Naraku looked humorously with Kanna and Seiyamie by his side, Kanne, who was thinking sadly of Kagura. For the first time, she could actually feel pain.
"You two may leave" Naraku told them. And they disappeared.
InuYasha growled, he would get the shards. It didn't belong to him. If he didn't get it, Kagome would never be able to travel back and forth into her time (not knowing that Sango had the shard from Kohaku)
He pushed out of the pile of Youkais and ran towards Naraku with all the power he had and swung his Tetsusaiga at him. Cutting through his body.
Naraku's eyes widened in shock.
InuYasha grabbed the shard out of Naraku's pocket secretly, and back away with his sword in Inuyasha's hands.
Naraku turned around as the gash disappeared.
"Holy shit...." InuYasha muttered.
Naraku scowled and took out his sword,
"Die InuYasha from the strike of my powerful sword" Naraku hissed as he raised it in the air and brought it down.
But another strong force blocked it.
InuYasha and Naraku looked to see Seshoumaru's blade pushing against Naraku's.
"Seshoumaru....THIS ISN'T YOUR FIGHT!" InuYasha yelled in annoyance, "You think I'm that friggin weak?! Why the hell would you care?! If you think I'm gunu die, at least have the heart to let me die in honor in trying to kill this bitch!"
"You mean die in shame, and foolishness. You are not in the state to fight....and I have not come to fight him. I came because I am your brother.....and it would kill if you got hurt, and more so if you died" Seshoumaru confessed.
InuYasha stood in surprise.
"Well at least let me help you fight" InuYasha muttered.
"You are stubborn, I said I shall fight myself. You must escape"
"Keh, who do you think I am" InuYasha snapped.
Naraku's sword slowly started to push lower down against Seshoumaru's blade.
InuYasha got his Tetsusaiga and raised it in the air.
"You're not planning to kill me as well in your attack are you" Seshoumaru asked.
"Keh, no baka" InuYasha muttered as he clashed his sword against Naraku's, adding more strength to it.
Naraku backed off.
InuYasha smirked.
"Keh, were you scared that Naraku would kill yah?" InuYasha asked his brother.
"I was more afraid that you would kill me accidentally with your swing" Seshoumaru said calmly, looking at InuYasha's sword.
"Are you saying that I am poor at wielding my sword?!"
"In a way, yes" Seshoumaru said.
"Keh"
"Need there be two to fight me?" Naraku asked.
"If my brother was in a more fit state, I would not be needed here to waist my time" Seshoumaru replied. He coldly glared at Naraku.
"I see you no longer hate each other" Naraku muttered.
"I never said I liked InuYasha. But I have a duty as a brother to protect him"
"Are you saying that your babysitting me?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance.
Seshoumaru sweat dropped, "we are on the battle field. Do you usually always argue like that? By the time your done, you would probably be all sliced into dog meat"
"Keh, shut up"
Naraku swung his sword at Seshoumaru as their blades clashed together. They glared at each other closely in the eye,
Naraku smirked as the roots from him moved back, ready for it to pierce through Seshoumaru. But as it shot towards him, InuYasha cut them all away.
"Man, pay more attention next time!" InuYasha yelled at Seshoumaru.
"Will you shut up" Seshoumaru coldly asked in his calm tone.
"Jeez, I just friggin saved your ass" InuYasha muttered. InuYasha saw the youkais now slowly started to move closer to attack since it looked as if their master was having some trouble.
InuYasha faced them and smirked,
"I'll cut all your damn heads off" InuYasha said, ~Seshoumaru won't be able to handle both~
Seshoumaru had not noticed how bad InuYasha's wounds were and let him fight, or else he would have tried to take them both on.
He frowned, Naraku was very strong....
Their swords continued to clash at each others.
InuYasha ran, clutching his wounds and ran through the mob of demons. Running his blade across their heads. As bloody heads tumbled down.
The rest of the youkais felt more determined to kill him.
InuYasha flipped into the air and landed on a youkai with his Tetsusaiga through its neck. He now stood in the center of a circle of demons that were slowly moving in.
InuYasha looked around the circle as it got closer into him. They all raised their spears ,sword and other weapons and ran towards InuYasha.
"One....Two....Three" and InuYasha leaped very high into the air as the youkais slaughtered each other, "Stupid bitches"
InuYasha jumped onto one of the youkai, slamming it into the soil and stabbing it with his sword, then another youkai ran towards InuYasha as he continued to leap onto the demons and stabbing them.
One of the Youkai ran towards him with his claws, but InuYasha cut off its head as blood splashed out as the head tumbled to the ground. It's hands stretched out, InuYasha looked at the body still moving in horror and disgust. It grabbed the front of his Haori then fell back, ripping off the front of his Haori.
"Shit...." InuYasha muttered, he was no longer wearing his protective Haori and now only wore his normal white Hoari he had always wore under his red.
As InuYasha ran towards the last youkai, it sensed him and swung his axe at the blur of red light.
The blur of speeding red light formed back into InuYasha as he tumbled to the ground. His already wounded stomach bleeding even more. InuYasha could feel the dizziness in his mind getting worse.
It swung it's axe down at InuYasha, but he blocked it with his sword. The weight of the axe and the strength of the youkai combined pushed down on InuYasha's sword.
He could feel his strength running low. InuYasha got his legs and kicked the Youkai hard as he flew into the air and slammed into the ground as a thick cloud of dust appeared.
InuYasha stumbled towards it, and disappeared into it.....Then splashes of blood could be seen, splashing out of the cloud of dust.
InuYasha walked with his and the youkais blood smeared and dripping all over him.
He looked at Seshoumaru all wounded and still fighting, as for Naraku, he was just a bit hurt, but that too quickly disappeared.
Naraku tripped onto the ground from one of Naraku's roots. Naraku stabbed the sword at Seshoumaru but he rolled away and kept rolling as Naraku stabbed the sword into the ground. Seshoumaru tried to scramble up, but couldn't because of Naraku's speed.
When Seshoumaru had the chance, he jumped backwards and landed gracefully on the ground.
InuYasha sped up behind Naraku, he sensed InuYasha's presence and pushed back against Seshoumaru who slammed into the earth.
Naraku swung his sword at InuYasha, missing his heart by a bit and piercing it through InuYasha's shoulder.
InuYasha growled as he painfully tightly grabbed the blade of the sword, his flesh being cut as his blood smeared the sword and dripped to the ground.
Naraku looked at InuYasha in confusion as InuYasha pulled the sword deeper into him, and pulled Naraku closer to him. Then InuYasha got his hands and pierced it through Naraku's center chest area, his hands coming through his back at the center of the spider scar on Naraku's back.
Naraku's body shook in pain as he pulled back, clutching his wound.
"I'll...be back to.....kill you InuYasha" Naraku whispered in pain then disappeared into a mist of purple clouds.
"Keh, that got rid of him for a while" InuYasha muttered weakly. He glanced at his brother who watched in surprise at what InuYasha had done.
"Yah, see I'm not as weak as you think I am" InuYasha muttered as he clutched his wounds and started to walk away. His body shaking from pain and the lack of strength. His body wanted to give out and fall, but he wouldn't let that happen in front of his brother.
Seshoumaru stood up and walked towards InuYasha.
"Come with me, I shall help you to a near town where you can be tended to"
"No....I have to go" InuYasha replied stubbornly.
"To the human girl....."
"Keh, yah, whatever"
"Why.....she has abandoned you" Seshoumaru pointed out.
"No she hasn't, I told her to leave" InuYasha defended.
"Then let me at least follow you to wherever you are going. You'll probably die before you reach there any way" Seshoumaru said in an emotionless tone.
"Will you leave me alone?! I'm going ON MY FUCKIN OWN! I always have and I always will! I don't need your fuckin help!"
"I will not leave a person that is half dead and that is going mad on their own"
"And how exactly am I mad?!"
"A person who thinks they can reach their destination alone without help in this state is mad" Seshoumaru said.
"I don't need your help....don't you also have a human girl waiting for you" InuYasha asked bitterly.
"........"
"Yah, so go now. You never know if Naraku could be chasing after her right now"
Seshoumaru sighed, "Fine with me. If that is your choice, I shall leave you.....I should be ashamed of you, a low infatuated mad Youkai, but I am.....I am proud of what I just saw today.....I would never have expected a low half demon like you to damage Naraku that bad" "Thank you for describing me so clearly" InuYasha said, ~Why...is he acting like this?~
"Are you saying all these nice crap to me cuz you think I'm gunu die?! Your last words to me?!" InuYasha asked in annoyance, "Cuz I'm not gunu die!"
Seshoumaru turned and began to walk away calmly,
"I know....it is because I realize that I could have lost you. And for those few seconds I saw you looking almost dead....I realized that you weren't so bad after all......and so I am telling you now. Just incase you do die, so yes, maybe you are right" Seshoumaru muttered.
InuYasha's jaws slightly dropped in surprise, ~Am I just imagining thing....did this fighting get to my head.....or am I dead.....~
"Well, good luck. For you shall need it, a piece of blood pulp like you shan't go far"
"Keh!"
"Good bye....brother"
InuYasha watched as Seshoumaru disappeared. As soon as he was out of sight he fell to his knees and let out a slight cry from the pain he felt.
~Seshoumaru hadn't even noticed the pain I was in...Keh, I'm a good actor~
InuYasha had never in his life felt so much pain. He could feel his wounds burning and throbbing. He hadn't even been able to notice Seshoumaru's wounds for his eyes were so blurry from the dizziness in his mind.
InuYasha had a hard time breathing, each breath hurted the deep wound on his chest. InuYasha closed his eyes, still kneeling on the ground where a big pool of his blood was spread.
A picture of Kagome appeared in his mind. He used his sword to help himself up,
Even with his eyes open, he still had the image of her in his mind.
He walked, step by step.
Blood trailing behind him.
"Kagome......" InuYasha whispered.
He had barely left the battle field, and realized how far his destination was going to be....the hut was so far away. He entered a forest, his strength all gone from him. But the one thing that kept him going was the thought of Kagome....
Even death would have been better than this torturing pain, but he would go through that millions of time to see Kagome.....it was as if he as addicted to her. Unable to live without her...
InuYasha gave a slight cry as one of his wounds throbbed harder in pain. He grasped a tree and leaned against it.
The Picture of Kagome in his mind, slowly fading away. He looked out at the open, as he saw the earth slowly tilting downwards, then saw the ground right in front of his face. InuYasha lay motionless on the ground, blood surrounding him. Too out of strength to get back up, InuYasha just lay there. As his mind grew more and more faint.
His stretched out arms slightly moved, as he tried to reach Kagome inside his mind, fading away. But he never caught her. InuYasha's eyes slowly closed as he went unconscious.....
************************************************ Naraku returned back to the battle plain..... The place was covered in blood and dead bodies. He looked around in disgust and shame, these were his youkais...
He placed a glowing blue ball on the center of the field and disappeared into his purple clouds, ~I am ashamed of what is I see.....and wish to wipe it all away~
The ball glowed bigger and bigger and bigger. Suddenly a large light wiped across the field as everything turned into ashes. But the blood remained.
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The next day....
Kagome entered back into the hut after telling them that she had gone out to get some air, but really, she had gone out to cry, and saw that Kaede was rebandaging Miroku's wounds. Sango was laying back on the matt, her eyes filled with a mixture of great sadness and happiness.
~Why is she happy.....~ Kagome wondered.
When Sango saw Kagome, she rose from her spot, twitching a bit in pain. Kagome slowly turned and walked back out.
Sango ran after her.
They silently walked down the pathway, the weather getting warmer day by day. As the cherry blossoms began to bloom in some places.
They sat on top of a hill, gazing up at the blue sky.
"Houshi-sama said that he would go out back to the battle field on Kilala and look for InuYasha.....so we can.....burry him" Sango whispered, her heart paining from the thought that InuYasha was dead.
"He might still be alive..." Kagome said, giving herself hope she didn't believe in herself, but wanted to.
Sango sadly smiled, "Maybe.....there are miracles on this damned earth"
Silence.
"So.....why are you happy a bit as well?" Kagome asked.
Sango blushed,
"He....told me that he loved me at the battlefield yesterday and again today"
"That's great Sango!" Kagome said with a sad smile. Kagome knew that she must be depressed greatly about her brother.....and she knew how it felt to loose someone you loved......she had lost InuYasha.
"Sango-chan....Your brother has been properly buried...... and is at peace" Kagome whispered. A tear ran down Sango's cheek as she rubbed it away,
"I know...I know" Sango said, trying to act strong. There had been one more thing that had been bothering her.....it was what had happened from before, when Kagome had told her that InuYasha had betrayed her. And InuYasha had suffered not knowing what he had done.
"Kagome-chan.....did you tell InuYasha that you had forgiven him for what he had done?" Sango asked.
Kagome remembered that InuYasha had been too in pain to concentrate on her words,
"No" Kagome whispered in pain, "I wish InuYasha would have just trusted me! I wouldn't have gotten mad at him or anything....."
"Kagome......you say...that he his trust in you was so weak.....and yet.....you are....as bad.....you lost trust and faith in him so fast. You so easily lost trust in the person you loved and believed Kikyo. She may have told what she believed in, but what if there was something more than we knew of" Sango asked, "but I really don't mean to say you are bad or anything" she added quickly.
Kagome looked down, her heart filled with guilt, ~I am....equally as bad...or it might not even be true, about InuYasha betraying me...No, I believe Kikyo. How could there be anything else. If one makes love to someone, they know it......and Kikyo isn't the type to lie~
Sango watched as Kagome stood up and walked away,
"Kagome....." Sango called, but she never turned and kept on walking her way.
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Naraku returned to Kikyo who lay asleep.
He woke her awake.
She looked up at him and saw the wound on his bare chest,
"What has happened.....Have you won? Where is the shard"
Naraku's eyes widened, when he had taken off his robe, he had not noticed or sensed the Shard, thus had forgotten about it.
"InuYasha must have somehow taken it.....Hah, but he shall die. With wounds like that, he will not live to walk out of the field I swept up of every living thing" Naraku smirked.
Kikyo's eyes widened,
"YOU KILLED HIM?!" Kikyo cried.
Naraku sat down on the mat,
"And so what mistress Kikyo" Naraku asked in his cold tone.
"He was not for you to kill" Kikyo said ice coldly.
"You are mine, not his so do not talk about him as if you belonged to him and he was yours to kill" Naraku muttered.
"HAH! You.....bastard. I do not belong to you, it was InuYasha I belonged to first. You were NOT my first!" Kikyo said, waiting in pleasure to see Naraku's fury. But it never came.
"You are mistaken, I was your first"
"No you were not...."
"The day before InuYasha betrayed you, but really I disguised in his form, you had become one with him......it was also I......disguised in his form" Naraku confessed.
Kikyo's eyes widened, ~I never belonged to InuYasha and he never had belonged to me.....No...~
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Kagome sat at the river banks, when Miroku appeared, looking sadly at her.
"Where have you been?" Kagome asked.
".........to the battlefield"
Kagome's heart started to beat fast, ~please tell me you found him alive and well~
"And.....?"
"He's dead...." Miroku said in a strained tone, as a tear ran down his face.
Kagome shut her eyes tight, as tears built up in her eyes,
"I don't believe you!" Kagome cried, "stop lying! I don't like it! He's resting in the hut isn't he?!!!"
"Kagome...please.....the whole place was wiped out by some kind of strong energy. Every thing there was turned into ashes......and Kilala had picked up InuYasha's blood in this one spot....and there was a lot. It trailed all over the place.......and....the only thing that survived the energy wipe out......was this" Miroku whispered handing Kagome a teared piece of InuYasha's Haori, all covered in dried blood.
"Gomen...." Miroku whispered.
Kagome could feel her neck tighten. She let out a scream, unable to bear her pain. She held the material close to her, as she wept onto it.
Miroku hesitantly stretched out his hands and stroke her shoulder,
"I'm so sorry.....we'll all miss him.....a lot"
"I never could imagine the day when he would die...he seemed so...indestructible" Kagome cried.
"I know.....but.....things like this happen. It is life and we must bear it....."
After a moment, Kagome seemed to want to have some privacy, so Miroku sadly turned and walked away.
Kagome looked up, everything blurry from the tears in her eyes, she looked at the river rushing buy,
"The river......I remember....." Kagome sadly whispered with a sad smile formed on her lips.
*****Flashback*****
"Let me SEE! I have to see if it's badly injured or not, or maybe it can get infected or something" InuYasha said, pulling her arms closer to him for him to observe.
"NO! I'm OK!" Kagome yelled. Pulling back.
"Let me SEE!"
"NO!"
"Shut up! You'll regret it when you have something wrong with your arms" InuYasha threatened.
"I'll check myself! And how would YOU know if it's infected or not?!"
"I would know!"
"No you wouldn't " Kagome snapped.
"Let's see if I wouldn't!!!!" InuYasha said in annoyance, ~stupid girl, I just want to do a simple thing and check and she acts as if I'm trying to.....molest her or something~
"SIT!" Kagome yelled
InuYasha got up after being sat and groaned in pain.
"GOMEN!" Kagome cried touching his bare shoulders.
InuYasha glanced at her hands that were resting on his shoulder.
"Oh, Gomen" Kagome muttered, her face turning pink, ~No! Cheeks, don't turn pink!~
InuYasha could still feel the warmth of her hands on his shoulder.
He saw her arms, it had bruises and blood all over it from Seiyamie's torture. He pulled Kagome down to the river and crouched down next to her as he gently rubbed the blood from her arms and then tore off the remaining material from the top of his Haori. He wrapped it around Kagome's arms and tied it.
"There, that wasn't so bad..." InuYasha muttered.
Kagome smiled, "thanks"
*****End of Flashback*****
"InuYasha...." Kagome cried, she closed her eyes tightly, ~Never did I know how much it would feel.....to actually realize.....that you've lost the person you love so much.....forever.....It hurts so much. A pain that you know will never go away. I want to scream and cry.....I feel so lost~
*****Flashback******
InuYasha saw one not far from him, he jumped and cupped his hands around the firefly.
"InuYasha....look down...." Kagome laughed.
InuYasha was high up in the air, he looked down to see not land, but the lake.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" InuYasha splashed into the lake.
Kagome laughed like crazy watching InuYasha getting out of the lake with a pissed expression on his face.
"HAHA! For a dog you're strange. Dog's usually like the water
"Shut up wench!" he muttered in annoyance as he squeezed the water out of his Haori. He looked over at Kagome and grinned mischievously .
He walked over to Kagome and squeezed the water over her head.
"Keh, that's what you get for laughing" InuYasha laughed.
"BAKA!!!!!!!" Kagome yelled as she started to chase him all over the place, "I'm gunu say the word!"
"Oh, don't forget I'm hurt!" InuYasha pointed out.
*****End of Flashback*****
Kagome cried out in torment, and hit her head. ~I don't want to think of him, it hurts so damn much!!!! ~
Kagome lay back and stared up at the sky, her eyes getting blurrier by the seconds from the tear filling up, as it dribbled down her cheeks, outlining her face and down her neck.
"Stay with me Kagome.....forever" InuYasha voice whispered in her mind. Those words.....he had endeared to her....were now painfully meaningless.
She heard footsteps coming towards, she shot up.
"InuYasha?" Kagome muttered, but it was not him, but Kikyo. She looked at her with a mixture of disgust, sadness and hatred.
"So he is dead....." Kikyo whispered.
"What do you want from me, Kikyo?"
"I just came to tell you something...." Kikyo told her.
"If you are here to tell me some more horrible things about InuYasha, please don't. It's bad enough of what you told, if you tell me anymore, I'll kill myself"
"I was not InuYasha's first.....and he has not become one with any one....it was.....it was Naraku disguised as InuYasha who had been my first" Kikyo confessed then turned and walked away.
"Why do you tell me this?!" Kagome asked in shock, "Have you lied to me?!"
"No....I have just found out" Kikyo whispered, "and I told you.... For my sake. I would not have you think that InuYasha was my first...... that disgusting betrayer.....Now that I know it was Naraku all along. I feel more free. Though a little sad..... But I hate InuYasha and I am glad that I have never been his"
Then she walked away,
Leaving Kagome worse than she had left her from before.....
As Kikyo was walking away, she heard Kagome give out a scream of depression. She smiled, ~This is what happens to all the woman who fall in love with InuYasha, have a taste of the agony I had suffered. But now, no more females shall suffer from him, for he is dead~
Kagome stared at the grass, heavily breathing. InuYasha had never betrayed her, he had always trusted and loved her. It had been her all along....
Kagome covered her mouth with her hands as tears rushed down her cheeks.
"Oh my God....Oh my God" Kagome cried, she remember InuYasha's hurt face from before.....a face that was lost to why she was ignoring him and hating him (which she was not, but he had thought it).
*****Flashback*****
Kagome gave a quick gasp of surprise, feeling someone taking a hold of her wrist. She turned to see it was InuYasha.
"What do you want" Kagome quietly asked.
"What do I want? How did it come to needing a reason to just be with you? What's going on Kagome? Tell me what I did wrong" InuYasha asked.
"Kikyo told me everything......." Kagome whispered.
"Told you what?!" InuYasha asked in torment.
"You and her......never mind" Kagome pulled her wrist out of his grasp, "just leave me alone.....I'll get back to normal in time"
"Kagome!" InuYasha said in annoyance, "what did I do?! I'm sorry whatever it is, can't I make up for it or something......since you wont tell me"
"You can't make up for something that has already happened......"
"What already happened? Kagome, I'm lost" InuYasha said.
"Just...go away! Leave me the hell alone, OK! I don't need you !" Kagome yelled and hurried away.
InuYasha stood there, his heart ripped apart.
*****End of Flashback*****
"InuYasha...I'm so sorry" Kagome cried, her heart tearing apart. Never had she thought....of how InuYasha must have felt.
His face, looking at her in confusion and pain wouldn't fade from her mind.
Kagome screamed in pain, as the never ending tears poured down her cheeks as she ripped the grass out of the earth with her fingers.
She felt so tormented.
So agonized.
So empty.
Everything felt so ugly without InuYasha. Life now felt....like nothing.
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Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Kaede watched Kagome all day in worry. She hadn't said barely a single word. She refused to eat. And now it was night. They all lay awake, secretly watching her. Kagome just lay awake, staring at her hands, and tears rolling down her face.
The next day, she refused to eat again.
Everyone became more and more worried as the time passed on to the afternoon. Kagome would go out many times, they would follow to see her weeping her soul out.
It was now a bit dark.
As more time passed, Kagome only got worse.
They all sat in the hut, staring at Kagome who was staring blankly at her school text book.
She stood up and walked out towards the entrance of the hut.
"Kagome-sama, where are you going?" Miroku asked.
"....A walk" Kagome replied quietly.
".....Don't be too long" Sango whispered. Kagome nodded and walked out.
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Right after Kagome left, Sango walked outside to see where Kagome was going. She was worried for her, Kagome was like her own sister...
She felt someone's hands gently resting on her shoulder.
She slightly gasped and turned around to see Miroku.
"H- Houshi-sama" Sango said in a breathless tone.
"You are still depressed over your brother" Miroku whispered.
Sango looked down,
"Hai....he was my only remaining family....."
She felt Miroku's warm arm wrapping around her....in a decent manner.
"You have a family Sango...we are your family....we may not be your family by blood, but isn't a family where we stick together through everything?"
Sango smiled as tears glittered in her eyes,
"Arigato....."
Sango closed her eyes, her heart feeling at rest.
"I love you Sango-chan...." Miroku whispered.
A tear streaked down Sango's cheeks,
"I love you too" she softly replied, ~I never knew this day would come...it feels as if it were just a dream....The day I met Miroku......if I had ever known that some day I would have fallen in love with a pervert, I would have gone mad. Wow, life is so full of surprises ~
Miroku turned her around, as they looked at each other deeply in the eyes. He moved closer and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
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Kagome entered the forest, wearing a dark blue Kimono Sango had bought for her at the village since her uniform had been covered in blood.
The Kimono brushed across the grass as she walked slowly through the dark woods. Everything in the forest look dead and gloomy.
~I've decided.....that I can't live like this.....with pain stored up in me like this.....I have to stop it~
Kagome walked on, she could see a lake in the forest. She walked slowly towards it.
~Life.....what is life without you...~
~I don't deserve to live....after the pain I have caused you~
Kagome stepped into the cold water, as a cold shiver ran down her back. Cold as her heart felt.
She closed her eyes as she walked deeper into the water,
She could imagine InuYasha's kisses and caresses as if it were yesterday...but she couldn't feel it, though she could remember it.
She wanted it from the actual person, not out of her mind.
The water now reached her knees. ~I'll drown out my pain....~
She walked deeper...
Suddenly.....she stopped. She felt something in her heart....her heart that had not beated....now beated. She slowly turned her head......
She saw InuYasha standing slumped against a tree, with his head just hanging weakly as he slowly looked up.
"Don't......" he whispered weakly.
Kagome stepped out, just staring at him....unable to believe. It had been almost two days.....when they thought InuYasha had died.
He weakly gazed at Kagome.
She looked at him, blood streaking down his face from his head and lips. Blood all over his 'white' Haori.....that was half ripped revealing a bit of his shoulders, that had a big deep gash in it.
InuYasha clutched his stomach and unsteadily walked towards Kagome.
"InuYasha....." Kagome cried as she ran towards him. He stumbled and fell into her arms.
Tears rushed down her face.
He lay in her arms, taking little breaths, and shivering in cold and pain. Kagome could feel his blood soaking into her. He was practically almost dead. It had been two days....and he had been dragging himself here.....with the thoughts of Kagome in mind. She had been his only reason for not giving up.......
"I thought I'd never make it back alive...." InuYasha whispered.
"Wakatta" Kagome cried, holding InuYasha as if she'd never let him go.
"What ....the hell were you trying.....to do" InuYasha weakly asked, trying to act normal.
"I...I thought you were really dead.....I couldn't....stand it!" Kagome cried.
"Your life....is too precious.....to do such a foolish...thing like that. I would have wanted you to....go on.....and be happy"
"Without you? I don't think so" Kagome said unsteadily from the tears overwhelming her.
InuYasha raised his hands up and stroke her wet cheeks,
He looked at her sadly, as she could see pain reflecting off it.
"I'm.....sorry Kagome....about whatever I did wrong to ....hurt you" InuYasha said in a weak whisper.
Kagome started to cry more,
She shook her head,
"It was....all my fault.....Kikyo told me....that it was all a lie. I had lost trust in you....I'm so sorry!!" Kagome cried.
"What...was....it"
"I'll tell you when you're better" Kagome whispered.
InuYasha nodded. Kagome lifted her hands off from his chest to see blood dripping from her hands, she looked at him in shock,
"How did you survive Naraku and how did you survive back?" Kagome asked.
"My brother.....helped me....and....I came back thinking....of you-"
"Shhhhhh, rest, InuYasha. Tell me next time...." Kagome whispered.
InuYasha sadly looked away,
"What if....there will be no next time?" InuYasha asked in a weak whisper.
Kagome stroke his hair,
"You'll live....you will InuYasha, I know it..." Kagome cried.
InuYasha smiled,
"Keh.....course I will....if you're here...why would I want to..leave a wench like you......behind....." InuYasha whispered in an unsteady tone.
He handed her something. Kagome looked down at it to see the Tainted Shikon no Tama at it's almost complete form with two missing.
Kagome held it as it transformed pure.
"InuYasha, you have it" Kagome cried, "I don't want it"
"I...don't want it either....Kagome...." InuYasha whispered. He touched her cheeks and gently pulled her down, her lips brushing against his.
She could feel InuYasha's warm, but uneasy breathing.
She could feel his warm lips pressing closer to hers, burning as it had before.
Their kisses became deeper and more passionate.
Kagome bent lower and placed kisses all over his face,
"You'll be alright....."
Every so gently, he pulled her soft warm body into his embrace. Holding her, afraid that he would loose her again.
"I love you Kagome....so much"
"I love you too InuYasha" Kagome replied, trying to hold the many tears that wanted to rush out of her.
"My life......has become.....so complete and happy....when I met you....." InuYasha whispered softly against her cheeks,
"Me too, InuYasha....." Kagome whispered, ~the wish I wished on the shooting star has come true.....InuYasha is happy~
"You're happy Kagome?" InuYasha asked, ~my wish has come true....~
Kagome smiled and nodded,
"InuYasha....will you.....love me even though...Kikyo's better?" Kagome hesitantly asked.
InuYasha held her tighter,
"Baka, don't ask me that Kagome.....the person I love will always be the better one...and that's you" InuYasha said, he closed his eyes, as the pain in his body continued to throb.
~I love everything about you Kagome.....I can't describe why I love you so much.....I guess that's just how it is, you can't really describe love....it just is ~
"What about the thing you owe Kikyo...."
"Love can only be repaid by love.....but I can't owe her back love.....When it all belongs to you....."
He felt his body, mind, heart and soul at rest. This is what he a had wished for, to be in Kagome's arms, to feel her warmth, and to be draped with her sweet scent.
"I'm so glad" Kagome whispered, "I'm so glad that you came back to me...."
The moonlight shone softly on the couple that held each other dearly.
InuYasha held her closer,
"Kagome....." InuYasha whispered, "I never left...." he said, placing his hands on her heart.
"But still.....not my heart, but I need to feel you beside me to be happy"
"I'll always come back, Kagome.....always"
~Whatever happens....I'll always stay by your side.....My love for you is timeless and eternal.....Ashiteru.....my Kagome~
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**~~ To be continued in the Sequel......~~**
SORRY if the ending was a lido too... =P sad or somtin ^^"
Review for SEQUEL, no review, NO SEQUEL....maybe. No review, I'll jus be really sad, but I'll still write a sequel. But I'll post one up if you review ^^
DESCRIPTION OF SEQUAL:
Name: Timeless Love: Part Two
When will it come out: Some where in January 2004 ?_?
Characters (excluding the "main" charaters):
Kikyo: Most likely wont bother InuYasha and Kagome too much (kinda over Inu now)
Naraku: Main bad guy.... I think
Kouga: Do you wan me to add much of him?
Seshoumaru: deffinately.