All right well I'd like to begin with MASSIVE apologies to each and every
reader who has been waiting for an update to this story.
I have no excuses. Inuyasha has lost its mysticism for me. I haven't watched the show lately because they just keep having reruns, and so, basically, I drifted out of the Inuyasha hype. Ah, but now its one in the morning and I'm typing the final chapter of this story..
I want to thank everyone who has read and/or reviewed this story. I had not stopped updating based on lack of reviews, sorry if that was the impression. I got more, really, than I could have hoped for. I'm just a lazy bum and I'm sorry. But I do appreciate you all.
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha then Kagome would have a better English voice actor, and would end up with either Sesshomaru or Miroku. Obviously that isn't happening.
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Her long lashes fluttered as she finally gained consciousness. I did not want to drag her into all this mess, but the stupid girl had to wake up, had to question me, threaten me, and then make so much freaking noise!
I had tried nice. I had tried mean. But force was the only way to silence her. I told her, I warned her, but she would not listen. I was forced to knock her unconscious and bind her. However, I knew she would tell them exactly what was going on if I left her. Now she's stuck in this stolen vehicle, riding with me to my destination.
I watched her as she looked from the gag in her mouth to over her shoulder, where her hands were tied behind her back. She noticed the bindings on her feet, and when she raised her eyes, it was then she noticed me.
I could tell she was yelling furiously at me by the way her face scrunched up and angry mutterings escaped the gag. I didn't like to see her like that, and I tried to focus on the road.
"I'm sorry, Kagome, but I couldn't let you stop me. I need to win Kikyou back and I need to kill Naraku and I can't let you get in the way of that."
She looked at me with sudden fear in her eyes, and her screams ceased. I could see the questions swimming in her tear-filled eyes, and it nearly broke my heart. It would have been as obvious as if she had blurted out those questions. She was afraid of me, and I felt utter guilt tear at my brain. A headache was forming fast.
The car stopped suddenly, and I watched as she glanced out the window. We were in town, near a decent few company buildings. I climbed out of the car, then ducked my head back inside.
"Kagome.. Kagome, please, just stay here and be quiet. If something happens to me, someone will find you soon enough, don't worry. People visit this area often enough in the evenings, if not sooner."
I wanted to say more, but held my tongue. I was here for Kikyo, I would not betray her by giving in to this strange pull from Kagome. I was not that kind of man.
"Please, don't come after me."
With that, I shut the door and locked it. With a small hesitation, I spun on my heel and walked decisively forward.
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Inuyasha..
He thinks he's so clever, so tough, but I saw the look in his eyes before he left. He was scared. I glanced wildly around, but I could find nothing that would release me from my bindings. The sun was slowly rising over the horizon and as I came to a sudden realization, I panicked.
He hadn't meant to do it, I could tell, but there was no window cracked, and no air conditioning. It was forecasted to be hot today. I could already feel the heat brushing my skin, could taste the thickness of the unfiltered air.
I was going to suffocate.
In a sudden bout of fright, I thrashed violently. I had to escape. I was working on the gag, with quick pressing against the seat behind me, moving the binding upward. I finally managed to slip it off, and looked frightfully at my feet. I moved my bound hands down my back, trying not to scream with frustration as the air quickly thickened, and finally got them around my backside.
My fingers deftly, though painfully slowly, wretched the rope off my ankles. That only left my hands. I tried to maneuver my fingers, but it took many horrifying moments before I finally got a grasp on an end. After much biting and tearing, I slipped those final binds off and leapt upon the door, fumbling with the lock and throwing it open in desperate need.
I tumbled from the car onto the hot pavement and gasped for air, the sudden rush giving me a headache and I slowly picked myself up before I got burned. It took me a moment to get a hold on myself before I wandered, suddenly very frightened.
I was an escaped convict. If I didn't return to the jail, my sentence would be extended, and I would undoubtedly be punished.
What of Sesshomaru? Had he received my note? Did he care? And what of Inuyasha? What did he think he was doing?
I didn't have much time to ponder it as my wrist was suddenly yanked and I was pulled mercilessly into the alley near where the car was parked.
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"Kaede, please! I must go! That foolish mutt has taken Kagome. I can find her, but you must allow me to do so!"
The woman nodded sagely, and gave a pointed look to her husband, who was quivering from the glares sent from a fairly furious Kouga.
"I do believe that in this case it is necessary for ye to conduct the search for Kagome and Inuyasha. However, I find it goes unsaid that if ye do not return, we WILL find ye, and yer sentence will be extended immensely. Do not fail me, Sesshomaru. Kagome's life depends on ye this day. As does yer brother's."
He nodded solemnly as he and Kouga exited the room. He was not immensely thrilled that Kouga was to join them, but it was inevitable, and he needed what help he could get. And it appeared that Kouga was not the only one deigned to join him on his desperate search.
"Keep your FILTHY hands offa me, you dirty houshii!"
"Ah, but Lady Sango, you entrance me."
SLAP
Miroku lay sprawled onto the floor, and Sango approached Sesshomaru and Kouga with an air of satisfaction.
"All right, let's get this thing done. I'm really worried about Kagome, and I don't want this hentai groping me all day."
The silver-blonde haired man nodded and they piled into the designated car for this trip. He was almost positive where his brother had headed, and so he drove, with Sango riding shotgun, and Kouga and Miroku in the back, though Sango had tried to stuff the monk into the trunk, he wouldn't quite fit.
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"Ahh, what a pretty little thing. But these clothes? Your shirt, a basic wife beater.. Boxers, property of a local prison? Escaped convict, eh? That's fine with me, I like 'em rowdy."
Kagome fought against the hands holding her arms relentlessly. Inuyasha had dragged her out in sleep apparel, and she now regretted her choice of clothes for the night. The filthy vagrant leant in for a nasty kiss, and Kagome grimaced most disgustedly.
Eyes closed, she braced herself for the inevitable, and slowly opened her eyes when the hands released her abruptly, followed by the sound of the slamming of clothed flesh against concrete.
Silvery blonde hair pooled lazily around the grubby man as a slim figure gracefully straddled the unshaven creature and began to beat the daylights out of him. Kagome jumped up and, still shaken, laid a hand uncertainly on the more attractive of the two.
"Sesshomaru.. Sesshomaru, we need to find Inuyasha. I think he's in trouble."
The beautiful man stopped him assault suddenly and looked up at her. With a leap, he ensnared her in his embrace and squeezed her tightly, as if uncertain if she were really there.
"Kagome.. Did he hurt you? Are you alright?"
She nodded, muttering, "I'm fine," but began to drag him out of the alley. Seeing the other three clambering out of the car, she grimaced as Miroku's intense look and Kouga's open rage. Sango looked merely worried.
Hauling them all in the direction Inuyasha had headed, she began to panic at what he might attempt. He even seemed uncertain of his own fate in the matter, and she did not want him to die, despite what he had done to her.
"He's going to try and kill Naraku and win back Kikyou.."
That earned a sigh of disbelief from the man of whose arm she clung to as she ran barefoot past buildings, and finally into an alley that eventually ended in a basic door.
"This must be it."
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There was his blood, everywhere.
Other blood mingled with it now, to the point where no one could discern whose was whose and no one much cared. Survival was all that really mattered. But now more than blood mingled together. Sweat and hair, silk and flesh, it all coated the floors.
Kagura was dead. She had escaped in the frenzy of the disappearances, but it had done her little good. She had stepped in the way of Inuyasha's fury, and he did not hold back. Kanna had managed her own escape, and watched blankly from the corner, with no more emotion than ever.
Naraku perched in the corner, under the mask of a baboon pelt, though his calculating smile was clearly visible, infuriating Inuyasha, and drawing him in. It was as a flutter of a silk kimono that caught his eye when Inuyasha began his dive for the notorious leader, but the sight stopped him short in his tracks.
Kikyo.
She did not smile, did not wave. But she.. she had to be happy to see him? He was her saviour, her godsend, why was she not pleased? She just looked upon him coldly, and he was devastated.
But.. It was another trick of Naraku's! He had certainly brainwashed her, to change her from the warm woman he had loved into this.. this cold, empty shell..
"Kikyou, Kikyou get back! I'll kill Naraku for you, Kikyou!"
He grabbed a decorative sword from the wall, and faced the man. However, a voice that sent shivers trembling down his back stopped him cold.
"Inuyasha, you are a fool."
She pulled a long, glinting knife from her belt and advanced upon him. He looked on, in the shock of one devastated by utter betrayal, and her knife came upon the unmoving victim until a door suddenly flung open.
He looked up, and slowly stood, uncaring of the knife aimed so near his broken heart, and stared.
There was Kikyou, before him, in all her elegance and beauty. Her cold, empty eyes and decorative kimono. Her flawless skin and flowing hair. And behind her, Kagome. Whose eyes were filled with warmth and.. tears? For him? Her strewn hair and wrinkled bedclothes..
It was then he realized just how different these two women were. On first glance, they could be twins, but they were nothing alike. They never were.
And it was then that it also dawned on him just how deep a place in his heart Kagome had placed herself. Kikyou had slowly slipped out of his inner thoughts, replaced by feelings for Kagome.
Both women stared at him, and he watched, in horror, as Naraku pulled two swords from his piles of robes.
"Choose you this day, Inuyasha, who will you serve?"
And he threw the knives in separate directions. One headed for Kikyou, and the other for Kagome, and there was no way he could save them both. He knew that, and he hated it. Hated himself, for causing this situation.
If it weren't for him, neither woman would be facing death at this moment. A tear slipped from his eye for the woman he once loved, and a sigh slipped from his lips. He knew that Naraku was counting on him to save Kikyou.
"That's what you think," Inuyasha whispered sadly.
He dove for her, bringing her down with him with a gasp onto the cold, hard floor, and the blade whizzed over her head, barely knocking a few hairs. The sickening sound of a blade entering flesh embedded itself permanently into his mind, however, as the knife severed the shell that once was Kikyou, and would never again be.
"Kagome.."
She threw her arms around his neck, stopping any words but a surprised grunt managed to escape his throat.
"I was so worried, Inu."
He buried his face in her matted hair, then slowly released her as he felt the presence of others entering, along with the fact that Naraku still remained alive. With a violence that wracked his very being to the core, Inuyasha tore the blade from Kikyou's lifeless form and swiftly drove it through the baboon-pelted man. He hadn't even the chance to blink as the lifeblood slowly ebbed from his body. Kanna had flitted out during the battle, and Kagome's happy exclamation caught his attention and he glanced up, with bittersweet disappointment, realizing Kagome rushed into his brother's arms, and he returned the embrace with vigor.
Kagome was never his, but neither was Kikyou. Kikyou was only the shadow of her former self, and it pained him to see it. He was selfish in saving Kagome, he admitted to himself, but deep in his heart he knew she would never be his and her reaction to his brother merely enforced it.
They all eventually clambered into the car and headed back to the prison. Upon their arrival, Kagome and Inuyasha relayed their parts of the story, and Kaede was most understanding. For killing the ultimate wanted man in all of Japan, they were justly rewarded.
"We're out. Sesshomaru, can you believe it?"
He smiled softly and kissed her on the nose.
"We can start all over, Kagome. We can live our lives normally. Together."
Two distraught, heartbroken pairs of eyes watched the scene, and each turned away.
There were more available women in Japan, certainly, as they both knew, but who wants to clutch a creature when you have held an angel in your arms?
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And so ends "That's What You Think". I just figured I'd wrap it up since I'm not much into it any more. Sorry it sucks so incredibly badly..
Cream Puffs & Cheesecake
Reiko
I have no excuses. Inuyasha has lost its mysticism for me. I haven't watched the show lately because they just keep having reruns, and so, basically, I drifted out of the Inuyasha hype. Ah, but now its one in the morning and I'm typing the final chapter of this story..
I want to thank everyone who has read and/or reviewed this story. I had not stopped updating based on lack of reviews, sorry if that was the impression. I got more, really, than I could have hoped for. I'm just a lazy bum and I'm sorry. But I do appreciate you all.
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha then Kagome would have a better English voice actor, and would end up with either Sesshomaru or Miroku. Obviously that isn't happening.
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Her long lashes fluttered as she finally gained consciousness. I did not want to drag her into all this mess, but the stupid girl had to wake up, had to question me, threaten me, and then make so much freaking noise!
I had tried nice. I had tried mean. But force was the only way to silence her. I told her, I warned her, but she would not listen. I was forced to knock her unconscious and bind her. However, I knew she would tell them exactly what was going on if I left her. Now she's stuck in this stolen vehicle, riding with me to my destination.
I watched her as she looked from the gag in her mouth to over her shoulder, where her hands were tied behind her back. She noticed the bindings on her feet, and when she raised her eyes, it was then she noticed me.
I could tell she was yelling furiously at me by the way her face scrunched up and angry mutterings escaped the gag. I didn't like to see her like that, and I tried to focus on the road.
"I'm sorry, Kagome, but I couldn't let you stop me. I need to win Kikyou back and I need to kill Naraku and I can't let you get in the way of that."
She looked at me with sudden fear in her eyes, and her screams ceased. I could see the questions swimming in her tear-filled eyes, and it nearly broke my heart. It would have been as obvious as if she had blurted out those questions. She was afraid of me, and I felt utter guilt tear at my brain. A headache was forming fast.
The car stopped suddenly, and I watched as she glanced out the window. We were in town, near a decent few company buildings. I climbed out of the car, then ducked my head back inside.
"Kagome.. Kagome, please, just stay here and be quiet. If something happens to me, someone will find you soon enough, don't worry. People visit this area often enough in the evenings, if not sooner."
I wanted to say more, but held my tongue. I was here for Kikyo, I would not betray her by giving in to this strange pull from Kagome. I was not that kind of man.
"Please, don't come after me."
With that, I shut the door and locked it. With a small hesitation, I spun on my heel and walked decisively forward.
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Inuyasha..
He thinks he's so clever, so tough, but I saw the look in his eyes before he left. He was scared. I glanced wildly around, but I could find nothing that would release me from my bindings. The sun was slowly rising over the horizon and as I came to a sudden realization, I panicked.
He hadn't meant to do it, I could tell, but there was no window cracked, and no air conditioning. It was forecasted to be hot today. I could already feel the heat brushing my skin, could taste the thickness of the unfiltered air.
I was going to suffocate.
In a sudden bout of fright, I thrashed violently. I had to escape. I was working on the gag, with quick pressing against the seat behind me, moving the binding upward. I finally managed to slip it off, and looked frightfully at my feet. I moved my bound hands down my back, trying not to scream with frustration as the air quickly thickened, and finally got them around my backside.
My fingers deftly, though painfully slowly, wretched the rope off my ankles. That only left my hands. I tried to maneuver my fingers, but it took many horrifying moments before I finally got a grasp on an end. After much biting and tearing, I slipped those final binds off and leapt upon the door, fumbling with the lock and throwing it open in desperate need.
I tumbled from the car onto the hot pavement and gasped for air, the sudden rush giving me a headache and I slowly picked myself up before I got burned. It took me a moment to get a hold on myself before I wandered, suddenly very frightened.
I was an escaped convict. If I didn't return to the jail, my sentence would be extended, and I would undoubtedly be punished.
What of Sesshomaru? Had he received my note? Did he care? And what of Inuyasha? What did he think he was doing?
I didn't have much time to ponder it as my wrist was suddenly yanked and I was pulled mercilessly into the alley near where the car was parked.
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"Kaede, please! I must go! That foolish mutt has taken Kagome. I can find her, but you must allow me to do so!"
The woman nodded sagely, and gave a pointed look to her husband, who was quivering from the glares sent from a fairly furious Kouga.
"I do believe that in this case it is necessary for ye to conduct the search for Kagome and Inuyasha. However, I find it goes unsaid that if ye do not return, we WILL find ye, and yer sentence will be extended immensely. Do not fail me, Sesshomaru. Kagome's life depends on ye this day. As does yer brother's."
He nodded solemnly as he and Kouga exited the room. He was not immensely thrilled that Kouga was to join them, but it was inevitable, and he needed what help he could get. And it appeared that Kouga was not the only one deigned to join him on his desperate search.
"Keep your FILTHY hands offa me, you dirty houshii!"
"Ah, but Lady Sango, you entrance me."
SLAP
Miroku lay sprawled onto the floor, and Sango approached Sesshomaru and Kouga with an air of satisfaction.
"All right, let's get this thing done. I'm really worried about Kagome, and I don't want this hentai groping me all day."
The silver-blonde haired man nodded and they piled into the designated car for this trip. He was almost positive where his brother had headed, and so he drove, with Sango riding shotgun, and Kouga and Miroku in the back, though Sango had tried to stuff the monk into the trunk, he wouldn't quite fit.
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"Ahh, what a pretty little thing. But these clothes? Your shirt, a basic wife beater.. Boxers, property of a local prison? Escaped convict, eh? That's fine with me, I like 'em rowdy."
Kagome fought against the hands holding her arms relentlessly. Inuyasha had dragged her out in sleep apparel, and she now regretted her choice of clothes for the night. The filthy vagrant leant in for a nasty kiss, and Kagome grimaced most disgustedly.
Eyes closed, she braced herself for the inevitable, and slowly opened her eyes when the hands released her abruptly, followed by the sound of the slamming of clothed flesh against concrete.
Silvery blonde hair pooled lazily around the grubby man as a slim figure gracefully straddled the unshaven creature and began to beat the daylights out of him. Kagome jumped up and, still shaken, laid a hand uncertainly on the more attractive of the two.
"Sesshomaru.. Sesshomaru, we need to find Inuyasha. I think he's in trouble."
The beautiful man stopped him assault suddenly and looked up at her. With a leap, he ensnared her in his embrace and squeezed her tightly, as if uncertain if she were really there.
"Kagome.. Did he hurt you? Are you alright?"
She nodded, muttering, "I'm fine," but began to drag him out of the alley. Seeing the other three clambering out of the car, she grimaced as Miroku's intense look and Kouga's open rage. Sango looked merely worried.
Hauling them all in the direction Inuyasha had headed, she began to panic at what he might attempt. He even seemed uncertain of his own fate in the matter, and she did not want him to die, despite what he had done to her.
"He's going to try and kill Naraku and win back Kikyou.."
That earned a sigh of disbelief from the man of whose arm she clung to as she ran barefoot past buildings, and finally into an alley that eventually ended in a basic door.
"This must be it."
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There was his blood, everywhere.
Other blood mingled with it now, to the point where no one could discern whose was whose and no one much cared. Survival was all that really mattered. But now more than blood mingled together. Sweat and hair, silk and flesh, it all coated the floors.
Kagura was dead. She had escaped in the frenzy of the disappearances, but it had done her little good. She had stepped in the way of Inuyasha's fury, and he did not hold back. Kanna had managed her own escape, and watched blankly from the corner, with no more emotion than ever.
Naraku perched in the corner, under the mask of a baboon pelt, though his calculating smile was clearly visible, infuriating Inuyasha, and drawing him in. It was as a flutter of a silk kimono that caught his eye when Inuyasha began his dive for the notorious leader, but the sight stopped him short in his tracks.
Kikyo.
She did not smile, did not wave. But she.. she had to be happy to see him? He was her saviour, her godsend, why was she not pleased? She just looked upon him coldly, and he was devastated.
But.. It was another trick of Naraku's! He had certainly brainwashed her, to change her from the warm woman he had loved into this.. this cold, empty shell..
"Kikyou, Kikyou get back! I'll kill Naraku for you, Kikyou!"
He grabbed a decorative sword from the wall, and faced the man. However, a voice that sent shivers trembling down his back stopped him cold.
"Inuyasha, you are a fool."
She pulled a long, glinting knife from her belt and advanced upon him. He looked on, in the shock of one devastated by utter betrayal, and her knife came upon the unmoving victim until a door suddenly flung open.
He looked up, and slowly stood, uncaring of the knife aimed so near his broken heart, and stared.
There was Kikyou, before him, in all her elegance and beauty. Her cold, empty eyes and decorative kimono. Her flawless skin and flowing hair. And behind her, Kagome. Whose eyes were filled with warmth and.. tears? For him? Her strewn hair and wrinkled bedclothes..
It was then he realized just how different these two women were. On first glance, they could be twins, but they were nothing alike. They never were.
And it was then that it also dawned on him just how deep a place in his heart Kagome had placed herself. Kikyou had slowly slipped out of his inner thoughts, replaced by feelings for Kagome.
Both women stared at him, and he watched, in horror, as Naraku pulled two swords from his piles of robes.
"Choose you this day, Inuyasha, who will you serve?"
And he threw the knives in separate directions. One headed for Kikyou, and the other for Kagome, and there was no way he could save them both. He knew that, and he hated it. Hated himself, for causing this situation.
If it weren't for him, neither woman would be facing death at this moment. A tear slipped from his eye for the woman he once loved, and a sigh slipped from his lips. He knew that Naraku was counting on him to save Kikyou.
"That's what you think," Inuyasha whispered sadly.
He dove for her, bringing her down with him with a gasp onto the cold, hard floor, and the blade whizzed over her head, barely knocking a few hairs. The sickening sound of a blade entering flesh embedded itself permanently into his mind, however, as the knife severed the shell that once was Kikyou, and would never again be.
"Kagome.."
She threw her arms around his neck, stopping any words but a surprised grunt managed to escape his throat.
"I was so worried, Inu."
He buried his face in her matted hair, then slowly released her as he felt the presence of others entering, along with the fact that Naraku still remained alive. With a violence that wracked his very being to the core, Inuyasha tore the blade from Kikyou's lifeless form and swiftly drove it through the baboon-pelted man. He hadn't even the chance to blink as the lifeblood slowly ebbed from his body. Kanna had flitted out during the battle, and Kagome's happy exclamation caught his attention and he glanced up, with bittersweet disappointment, realizing Kagome rushed into his brother's arms, and he returned the embrace with vigor.
Kagome was never his, but neither was Kikyou. Kikyou was only the shadow of her former self, and it pained him to see it. He was selfish in saving Kagome, he admitted to himself, but deep in his heart he knew she would never be his and her reaction to his brother merely enforced it.
They all eventually clambered into the car and headed back to the prison. Upon their arrival, Kagome and Inuyasha relayed their parts of the story, and Kaede was most understanding. For killing the ultimate wanted man in all of Japan, they were justly rewarded.
"We're out. Sesshomaru, can you believe it?"
He smiled softly and kissed her on the nose.
"We can start all over, Kagome. We can live our lives normally. Together."
Two distraught, heartbroken pairs of eyes watched the scene, and each turned away.
There were more available women in Japan, certainly, as they both knew, but who wants to clutch a creature when you have held an angel in your arms?
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And so ends "That's What You Think". I just figured I'd wrap it up since I'm not much into it any more. Sorry it sucks so incredibly badly..
Cream Puffs & Cheesecake
Reiko