Sequel to "The Return of Kikyo: Part One"
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For the ppl who have not read PART ONE of this sequel, I'll introduce myself, I am an angst, romance, action/adventure writer that is trying to keep my fic in balance b/w lightness and angst. I also try to add a lot of fluff...but not too much that it's out of character.
Question: is the Hakama wut InuYasha wears under his Haori???
*** Fifty years ago, a tragic history had occurred between InuYasha and Kikyo. Now, that tragic history is fated to occur to Kagome, since she is the reincarnation of Kikyo. Time....do not underestimate it. Time has the power to break apart love, to kill and create. Time will throw many problems at InuYasha and Kagome...will their love endure....can it change the course of the fate they are bound to go through? **
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------ Timeless Love: Part Two -----
Whatever happens....I'll always stay by your side.....My love for you is timeless and eternal.....Ashiteru.....my Kagome -InuYasha [from 'Part One']
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============= Chapter One =============
Tears.
Pain.
Tragedy.
It's all worth it if you have,
Love
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The sky was dark, filled with glittering stars. The moon shone from above down at the two people that held each other tight, murmuring soft and loving words to each other.
One had tears pouring down her face, the other covered in blood. Blood all over his wounded body, and streaking down his face.
His breathing short and weak.
The cool wind of the night brushed gently against them, as her silky black hair brushed against his wounded self.
"Kagome...." InuYasha weakly whispered.
"InuYasha....do you think you can walk back to the hut? It's not that far" Kagome said, still crying from joy, relief and sadness. It hurted to see InuYasha like this, but she was glad that he was alive.
"Keh, I'm not that hurt" InuYasha weakly muttered, sitting up from Kagome's lap, then hissed from the pain that shot through his wounded body.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried, as she held him, "God, you're so stubborn, and you're half dead......" she said in a shaky tone.
InuYasha turned and glared at Kagome.
"Well...... you are. You look just like a pulp of blood" Kagome added in tears.
"I'm alright....Kagome" InuYasha said through his clenched teeth as he stood up. The pain throbbing throughout his body. He unsteadily started to walk.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered in worry.
InuYasha bit down on his lips from the pain he felt. He placed his weight heavily on Kagome's shoulder that were the only things holding him up.
"I'm not gunu stay here to rot.....we have to get back" InuYasha pointed out.
"Hai" Kagome whispered.
InuYasha gave a small whimper, the pain overwhelming him.....
He suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding his wounded body. He could feel his body trembling from the pain and lack of strength.
His mind was still just a blur, with an image of Kagome clearly imprinted in it.
Kagome.....she was the only thing that kept him away from the pulling of death.
Kagome covered her mouth with her hands, trying to keep herself from crying.
~InuYasha, you're so hurt....~
***Flashback***
InuYasha tried to unloose the thin tight whip that was wrapped around his neck, but he couldn't.
Seiyamie pulled his whip high into the air, and slammed it onto the ground, causing InuYasha to crash deep into the earth.
Seiyamie raised his whip high up, InuYasha coughed from the whip tightly wrapped around his neck, it cutting into his skin, as blood streaked down his neck.
Kagome watched in horror, trying to go and help InuYasha, But Naraku had some kind of roots holding in her place. And had put a slight spell on her so that she wouldn't be able to speak or cry out his name.
"Showing him that you cared would have helped him a lot....." Naraku told Kagome coldly.
~InuYasha!!!!~
"So sad....having to depart with him on such bad terms..... InuYasha probably thinks that you don't love him anymore....."
***End of Flashback***
Kagome slumped over InuYasha, with her face buried on his shoulder,
"InuYasha, get up....tell me that you're ok" Kagome cried in a muffled tone.
"I'm....ok" he said in a whisper that was barley hearable.
"Don't leave me.....not again..." Kagome cried, looking into his distant eyes.
***Flashback***
As Miroku lifted Kagome up onto Kilala, she felt InuYasha near her. She slowly opened her eyes to feel herself being carried up. She grasped InuYasha's bloody hands in confusion.
He looked sadly down at her.
"Kagome....." InuYasha whispered, he looked down at her pure hands that were holding his bloody hands. InuYasha closed his eyes, ~Will this be the very last time I see you.....~
"Go" InuYasha whispered.
Everyone stared sadly down at him as Kilala slowly began to rise into the air.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried out loud, still holding onto his hands tightly, "don't let go, bring me down with you, I want to be with you!!"
Their hands slowly slipped away.
"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled again as Kilala was now higher in the air. Miroku had to hold Kagome from pushing herself off.
InuYasha stared up at Kagome, leaving him.....
"YOU PROMISED!" Kagome cried, "that you'd never let go!!!!"
"Save yourself and be happy..." InuYasha whispered, "Happiness it seems....is something I was never good at giving you. Gomen"
***End of Flashback***
"InuYasha.....come back" Kagome whispered a hopeless cry. Looking at InuYasha, who's eyes were getting more distant as the time slowly passed by.
~If only time were to freeze....~
Kagome saw InuYasha's eyes close. Her heart froze,
~Is he.....dead?!!!!~
"InuYasha!!!!" Kagome cried loudly.
InuYasha could feel his mind becoming more light and fading away, his pain numbing.
~That face......~
There was a picture of a girl dressed in uniform, slowly fading away away from his mind, but stayed clear in his heart.
"InuYasha...." the voice called at him.....calling for him.
~That face.....~
"Ashiteru....." she whispered hopelessly at him.
~Kagome....~
InuYasha forced himself back to reality, feeling the pain shoot back at him again. No longer feeling the numbness of giving up. He couldn't give up life that seemed so precious when Kagome was in it, and such a waist to give it up.
He gently wiped the tears from her eyes,
"I wont...leave you" he weakly whispered, "you won't be able to.....bring me back. Go get help...from the rest....."
"I....don't want to leave you...."
"Just...go"
Kagome nodded as tears flew off her cheeks. She stood up and ran in the direction of the hut.
"InuYasha hold on....."
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Miroku stared at Sango who was pacing the floor of the hut.
Shippo continued on crying as Kilala purred sadly beside him.
Kaede sat in the corner frowning,
~Where could Kagome possibly be.....she has been gone for quite a time~
Everyone didn't want to believe the obvious possibility of what Kagome had done.....suicide. It was the most scary, but possible possibility, InuYasha was dead......and Kagome had dearly loved him.
Sango paced the hut, tears dripping down her face.
"We should have stopped her while we could, Houshi-sama" Sango cried.
Miroku sighed and looked at the floor, ~We've lost InuYasha...I hope we haven't lost Kagome-sama as well~
Sango rested her head against the wall,
"Oh God..." Sango whispered in pain, "We lost TWO damn people now!!" she cried out loud.
Miroku stood up and walked over to her, holding her tightly,
"Sango-chan.....we've lost InuYasha. Don't give up on Kagome. She may not have done what we fear"
"Then what....what would she have been doing for so long?!"
"I don't know.....I really don't know...." He whispered.
Sango slammed her fist on the wall in frustration, and trembling in anguish. InuYasha was gone....the person who had always acted as if he didn't give a damn, but he had shown that he cared. He had stopped her once from killing her own brother. And now Kagome.....the person she shared all her thought and secrets with. The person she felt for as her own sister......
Miroku held Sango in his arms. She stared at the wall with wide eyes in surprise.
Shippo turned around and continued to cry.
"I'll hold you until you stop trembling" he whispered.
Sango closed her eyes, tears rushing down her face. They heard footsteps running towards the entrance of the hut.
Everyone turned to see a girl, her Kimono covered in blood. Her face pale, and panting from the lack of breath. With tears running down her face.
"What....the hell" Miroku muttered in shock.
Sango stared at Kagome, ~she stabs herself and comes to us to die in front of us?~
"Kagome!" Sango cried, "what have you done to yourself"
Kagome started to cry harder, trying to speak.
"It's not....not my blood.....it's....it's InuYasha's. Come, please! Come help him back here!" Kagome cried.
"N- Nani?! He's alive?" Kaede cried in shock.
"Hai"
Miroku dashed out of the hut, then halted.
"Um.....where?"
"Follow me" Kagome said, running to where InuYasha would be lying, bleeding himself to death.
Kaede stayed in the hut, getting all the medications and things needed for InuYasha's arrival.
She frowned as she got ready, ~InuYasha could be in a dying state....it has been two days, and he has been traveling here in such a bad state. He must have bled half his blood out already~
She told Shippo and Kilala to help as well.
Shippo walked around the hut, bring things Kaede told him to here and there, sniffing from tears.
"WAAAaaaa, If InuYasha dies, no one is going to make fun of me anymore" Shippo cried.
Kilala stopped purring and stared at Shippo, looking at him as if he was out of his mind.
Everyone slightly jumped as they heard someone crashing through the door.
It was Miroku and Sango, with InuYasha's arms heavily sround their shoulders for support. His head hanging from the lack of strength and conscousness.
Kagome had tried to help, but it was as if Sango and Miroku had forgotten about her. Too busy tending to InuYasha as if she were a fragile thing.
They lay InuYasha on the matt draped in thick blankets as InuYasha curled up from the cold that shivered through his weakened body. But it increased the pain from moving.
Kagome watched, pain throbbing in her heart to see InuYasha in so much pain.
He lay on the matt as Kaede tended him, telling the rest to leave for a while since it would be a gory business. InuYasha's eye lids closed and opened, trying to stay conscious.
"I'm not leaving" Kagome said determinedly.
Kaede looked at her and shook her head,
"It would be better if you left, Kagome"
"No!" Kagome said, "I'm staying right here with InuYasha!"
"Please, Kagome. I wont be able to concentrate with people arounf. When I need help, I shall call for you. Sango shall stay and help. You are not well to see such gore"
"It's InuYasha we're talking about here! I WONT leave him!" Kagome cried.
"Kagome....just....go" InuYasha whispered.
"B- But...." Miroku came and gently pulled Kagome out of the room, as Kilala and Shippo followed.
"This might hurt a bit....." Kaede said, as she dabbed a cleansing herbal liquid on his wound.
Kagome tightly closed her eyes hearing InuYasha whimpering from the pain. Miroku rubbed her back to comfort her.
"He'll be alright Kagome-sama" he whispered sadly.
"You should go rest, that's what Lady Kaede asked for"
Kagome shook her head, "no"
Kagome nodded, she wouldn't loose faith in InuYasha....
The sound of InuYasha in pain went on for hours until everything was finally all tended to, as InuYasha slowly fell into a sleep where his body felt numb.
Kagome silently peeked in to see Sango and Kaede all covered in blood, looking weary and disturbed by how much InuYasha was wounded.
"Thank God he is a demon and not a human......if a human he was, he would surely have died.....he shall heal much faster than a human" Kaede told Sango.
Miroku walked over and sat next to Sango as he held her weary self in embrace. She gave a shuddering sigh as she rested her head on him.
Kagome sadly looked at InuYasha who was in an uncomfortable sleep
She kneeled down next to InuYasha, holding his cold hands. She looked at his face that was no longer covered in blood, Kaede and Sango had done a good job cleaning him up, Kagome had to admit. His forehead had bandage wrapped around, with spots of blood on it.
Kagome gently stroked InuYasha's hands,
~You'll live InuYasha.....I just know you will....I can feel it in my blood~
Kaede and Miroku left the room to talk. Shippo and Kilala had fallen asleep while waiting. Sango went over to Kagome and sat beside her.
"Kagome-chan.....so what....happened to you?" she asked.
"I feel so foolish......I was about to end it...." Kagome whispered.
Sango gave a sigh of relief that Kagome hadn't committed such an act.
"InuYasha stopped me before I could....I was so glad to see him, I thought he was dead" Kagome whispered.
"Did you talk to InuYasha about.....why he betrayed you with Kikyo and never told you?" Sango asked.
A tear ran down Kagome's cheeks,
"He never betrayed me...."
"N-Nani?! B- But you said..."
"It had been Naraku disguised as InuYasha..the day before he betrayed Kikyo as InuYasha.....when he....became one with her.....it wasn't InuYasha"
Sango closed her eyes in relief and pain for what Kagome must have felt for having treated InuYasha so dryly when he had done nothing at all in the first place.
"But.....I'm glad it wasn't true" Kagome whispered with a sad smile.
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* One week Later [didn't want my first chappie to be too depressing *
Kagome smiled as she leaned back against the cherry blossom tree. The cool sweet spring wind brushing through the tree, as Sakura's drifted to the ground.
She turned her gaze to her side to see InuYasha sitting next to her, still not completely healed and still in a bit of pain. But still alive.
InuYasha hesitantly turned his head and looked down at Kagome who was gazing up at him with a warm smile. She leaned her head against his shoulder.
"Eh......" InuYasha's face turned a little pink as he looked down at Kagome, ~I never do get used to being this close to her.....~
They gazed out, watching the cherry blossom's gently blowing onto the ground.
~I could live my life without many things, but I couldn't face my life tomorrow without your loving arms to hold me....you're the heartbeat of all I do. You're like the air I breath....Kagome~
He reached his hand out and placed it over hers.
Kagome softly smiled and looked down at his hands, but felt a little sad seeing bruises and unhealed gashed on his skin.
InuYasha felt his harm melting as it always did when he was with Kagome.
"Kagome.....ashiteru"
"I love you too....." she whispered back.
They sat together peacefully, their hearts light and happy, cherishing that moment, knowing that there would be tougher times to come....
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Miroku and Sango secretly spied on InuYasha and Kagome behind a bush in the forest, hidden by shadows.
"Wow....InuYasha's getting really good at the two timing thing" Miroku muttered.
"Kikyo's gone now, so it's not 'two timing' anymore" Sango muttered back.
"Then...he's very good at trying to get a girl into his bed...jeez, look at him! He could touch wherever he wants and Kagome would fall for him and let him! He has been influenced by me, the master, and now is becoming more skilled than I!" Miroku said.
Sango had many stress marks all over her head,
"InuYasha is NOT those type of perverts like you!!! Just because he knows that Kagome loves him, he wouldn't take advantage of her. He loves her, so he respects her......"
"Are you serious! You call him teasing her 24-7 respecting?!" Miroku pointed out.
"BAKA! I meant respect as in the...other way. If she...was ready for it, then...yah" Sango said uncomfortably, "but if not, he wouldn't try and take advantage of her LIKE YOU WOULD!"
Miroku sighed,
"Hai .....hai" he muttered as his hands habitually wandered off.
Sango smacked him hard across the face, leaving a red finger print imprinted on his cheeks.
"OWE! What was that for?!" Miroku asked, "I love you...so....why can't I! I never knoew that loved one's would still hit each other!"
"Let's just say that it wasn't a hit on the face, but imprinting on your face of how much I love you. And when the sign of my love for you fades from your face, I'll imprint another after another after another....."
"I get the point" Miroku muttered, rubbing his swore cheeks, "can't you just kiss me?"
Sango's face turned red,
"No" she muttered as she turned and walked away, but her heart beating fast. In her heart was a chibi form of her jumping around squealing, 'ahhh, kiss Miroku the pervert?! WAAAAAAHH......'
~He kissed me before....~ Sango thought as she halted in her path.
"Huh....." Miroku stared at Sango who slowly turned around and walked towards him. He could feel his heart pounding fast, the feeling in his heart that he only felt for Sango.
She looked down at the ground, her face burning fast. She looked up into his eyes and slowly pecked a kiss on his cheeks.
Miroku turned red,
"Sango....." Miroku whispered.
Sango looked down, ready to hear him say that he loved her.
Silence.
~I'm waiting.....~
"Is that all I get?" he asked.
A stress mark appeared on Sango, as she grinded her teeth.
~What more does he want!!!!! That was all my pride could do!!!!!!!! BAKA!!!!!!!~
Miroku stepped closer, and Sango stopped cursing Miroku.
He dipped his head down and kissed her gently on the lips....'gently' so that he wouldn't scare her off by making her think he had perverted intentions.
InuYasha and Kagome had been walking down with their hands holding together, but seeing Sango and Miroku, for some reason, their hands quickly separated.
"Hey......" InuYasha muttered, looking down at a blurry figure of Miroku and Sango (his eyes a little damaged, but would heal very soon).
Kagome gasped, "AWWW, they're making out!!!"
InuYasha looked at Kagome in confusion,
"Making....out?" InuYasha asked.
"Yah.....that's when two people...you know kiss and stuff" Kagome answered.
"Keh, whatever" InuYasha cracked his knuckles, "I'll beat the shit out of Miroku for bring Sango under his hentai spell as well"
"No-----"
But Kagome was too late, InuYasha began to speed to where the couple was. His speed still not as fast from all his injuries.
Kagome looked at Miroku and Sango then at the speeding red light of InuYasha in hopelessness.
"SIT!" Kagome yelled automatically, then greatly regretting it in the end.
BAM!
InuYasha crashed into the ground as Kagome went skipping towards the hole. InuYasha slowly rose up from the hole, glaring at Kagome with evil eyes. His body aching like crazy,
"BAKA!!!!!" InuYasha yelled as he ran after Kagome who sped away.
Sango and Miroku looked around.
"Huh.....I swear I heard something......" they both muttered.
"Nope...."
"Let's get back to the hut" Miroku suggested. Sango smiled as they walked hand in hand back.
InuYasha chased after Kagome who was yelling at him with exhaustion to stop, that his wounds would re-open.
"OK, OK! InuYasha, GOMEN!" Kagome cried, still running.
"I'm gunu get you Kagome!" InuYasha yelled, still chasing after her, slow from his wounds. But knew that he wound catch her within a few more seconds.
Kagome turned and faced InuYasha, running backwards.
"Haha, you're so slow with your wounds! And I said SORRY!" Kagome said.
"Keh, I'll catch you and shred you up!" InuYasha threatened.
Kagome tripped over a stone as she tumbled onto her back. InuYasha's eyes widened as he tried to stop himself from running over Kagome and ended up on top of Kagome.
They looked at each other with wide eyes and quietly panting in exhaustion. Both their hearts beated fast.
"Ouch...my wounds hurt" InuYasha whispered, still looking down at kagome.
Kagome felt her cheeks beginning to burn.
InuYasha's lips came hesitantly closer to hers. Now only but a couple of centimeters away......
InuYasha could feel his heart skip a beat
Kagome felt his burning lips pressing gently against hers. He gently kissed her burning lips, as it slowly opened to him.
His kiss became deeper.....deeper than it had been before.
He could feel his mind spinning from the warmth of her body, her scent, the closeness...and the fact the this person was Kagome.
~It seems that I express my love for her more and more each time I kiss her.....I don't want to go too far......~
InuYasha rolled off of Kagome and lay next to her on his back, staring up at the bright blue sky. Letting the cool spring wind blow through him, making him cool down.
"Gomen...." InuYasha muttered, not knowing why he had just apologized.
Kagome just lay on her back, waiting to make her heart beat slow down.
They silently stared up at the sky.
Kikyo's Shini-dama-chuu's shot across the sky and disappeared. Both InuYasha and Kagome had saw it...
InuYasha felt something bitter and painful arise in his heart, ~Kikyo....~
"Kagome....."
"Yah......" Kagome answered in a whisper.
"I know...this may be the wrong time to ask....but" Inuyasha glanced over at her, "what was the reason you got mad at me for....but then Kikyo had told you it wasn't true?"
Silence.
"You don't have to tell me...." InuYasha whispered.
"No, I'll tell you....it'll just hurt you.....that's why" Kagome whispered painfully, her heart now crying.
"Wut..."
A tear ran down Kagome's cheeks and outlined down her face.
"Fifty years ago....before the day Naraku had disguised himself as you.....he had made himself into you and......had...become one with Kikyo.....before that day......"
InuYasha stared blankly at the sky, his heart no longer beating.
"InuYasha....?" Kagome whispered a cry, tears streaking down.
"Why did it have to come to this....." InuYasha whispered painfully, ~Kikyo, I feel both betrayed and disgusted......even though you hadn't known that it was Naraku. Is that why you felt so betrayed....is that why you thought I belonged to you always....Kikyo.....I guess it was Naraku who belonged to you all the time.....~ InuYasha could feel anger towards Naraku for being so cruel.
~Kikyo must be suffering a lot.....~ InuYasha sadly realized, which Kikyo was not [which was proved in 'Part One']
InuYasha looked at Kagome, feeling her warm hands holding his, telling him that whatever happened, she would suffer with him. That he wasn't alone.....
InuYasha looked to the side at Kagome and warmly smiled.
~Arigato.....~
~But the trouble in my heart for Kikyo......is something I alone can do~
**~~ I always have a problem wit da kissing scenes. I dun know how to write it. From part of one of this fic, someone asked if the thing about Kikyo and Naraku having "done it" 50 years ago was rlly the manga thing. Um, nope, it's not. It was just a made up twist in my story ^^ *phew* aren't you guys glad that I didn't make it rlly IY who had "done it" wit dat Kikyo?! Well Sorry that I had to leave you guys off here!!! Gomen. And.... I tried to keep it as light as possible since it was the first chapter. More angst is to come, and light stuff, n fluff, n action (but action comes a little later on) Sorry for the depressing cut off of this chapter ^^ ~~**
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* Who wants...*cough* more fluff...I mean like PG-13 fluff, nothing further than that????
Note to Sango13: I'm working on the "sealed fate" fic...well I'll get to it now
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For the ppl who have not read PART ONE of this sequel, I'll introduce myself, I am an angst, romance, action/adventure writer that is trying to keep my fic in balance b/w lightness and angst. I also try to add a lot of fluff...but not too much that it's out of character.
Question: is the Hakama wut InuYasha wears under his Haori???
*** Fifty years ago, a tragic history had occurred between InuYasha and Kikyo. Now, that tragic history is fated to occur to Kagome, since she is the reincarnation of Kikyo. Time....do not underestimate it. Time has the power to break apart love, to kill and create. Time will throw many problems at InuYasha and Kagome...will their love endure....can it change the course of the fate they are bound to go through? **
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------ Timeless Love: Part Two -----
Whatever happens....I'll always stay by your side.....My love for you is timeless and eternal.....Ashiteru.....my Kagome -InuYasha [from 'Part One']
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============= Chapter One =============
Tears.
Pain.
Tragedy.
It's all worth it if you have,
Love
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The sky was dark, filled with glittering stars. The moon shone from above down at the two people that held each other tight, murmuring soft and loving words to each other.
One had tears pouring down her face, the other covered in blood. Blood all over his wounded body, and streaking down his face.
His breathing short and weak.
The cool wind of the night brushed gently against them, as her silky black hair brushed against his wounded self.
"Kagome...." InuYasha weakly whispered.
"InuYasha....do you think you can walk back to the hut? It's not that far" Kagome said, still crying from joy, relief and sadness. It hurted to see InuYasha like this, but she was glad that he was alive.
"Keh, I'm not that hurt" InuYasha weakly muttered, sitting up from Kagome's lap, then hissed from the pain that shot through his wounded body.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried, as she held him, "God, you're so stubborn, and you're half dead......" she said in a shaky tone.
InuYasha turned and glared at Kagome.
"Well...... you are. You look just like a pulp of blood" Kagome added in tears.
"I'm alright....Kagome" InuYasha said through his clenched teeth as he stood up. The pain throbbing throughout his body. He unsteadily started to walk.
"InuYasha......" Kagome whispered in worry.
InuYasha bit down on his lips from the pain he felt. He placed his weight heavily on Kagome's shoulder that were the only things holding him up.
"I'm not gunu stay here to rot.....we have to get back" InuYasha pointed out.
"Hai" Kagome whispered.
InuYasha gave a small whimper, the pain overwhelming him.....
He suddenly collapsed to the ground, holding his wounded body. He could feel his body trembling from the pain and lack of strength.
His mind was still just a blur, with an image of Kagome clearly imprinted in it.
Kagome.....she was the only thing that kept him away from the pulling of death.
Kagome covered her mouth with her hands, trying to keep herself from crying.
~InuYasha, you're so hurt....~
***Flashback***
InuYasha tried to unloose the thin tight whip that was wrapped around his neck, but he couldn't.
Seiyamie pulled his whip high into the air, and slammed it onto the ground, causing InuYasha to crash deep into the earth.
Seiyamie raised his whip high up, InuYasha coughed from the whip tightly wrapped around his neck, it cutting into his skin, as blood streaked down his neck.
Kagome watched in horror, trying to go and help InuYasha, But Naraku had some kind of roots holding in her place. And had put a slight spell on her so that she wouldn't be able to speak or cry out his name.
"Showing him that you cared would have helped him a lot....." Naraku told Kagome coldly.
~InuYasha!!!!~
"So sad....having to depart with him on such bad terms..... InuYasha probably thinks that you don't love him anymore....."
***End of Flashback***
Kagome slumped over InuYasha, with her face buried on his shoulder,
"InuYasha, get up....tell me that you're ok" Kagome cried in a muffled tone.
"I'm....ok" he said in a whisper that was barley hearable.
"Don't leave me.....not again..." Kagome cried, looking into his distant eyes.
***Flashback***
As Miroku lifted Kagome up onto Kilala, she felt InuYasha near her. She slowly opened her eyes to feel herself being carried up. She grasped InuYasha's bloody hands in confusion.
He looked sadly down at her.
"Kagome....." InuYasha whispered, he looked down at her pure hands that were holding his bloody hands. InuYasha closed his eyes, ~Will this be the very last time I see you.....~
"Go" InuYasha whispered.
Everyone stared sadly down at him as Kilala slowly began to rise into the air.
"INUYASHA!" Kagome cried out loud, still holding onto his hands tightly, "don't let go, bring me down with you, I want to be with you!!"
Their hands slowly slipped away.
"InuYasha!" Kagome yelled again as Kilala was now higher in the air. Miroku had to hold Kagome from pushing herself off.
InuYasha stared up at Kagome, leaving him.....
"YOU PROMISED!" Kagome cried, "that you'd never let go!!!!"
"Save yourself and be happy..." InuYasha whispered, "Happiness it seems....is something I was never good at giving you. Gomen"
***End of Flashback***
"InuYasha.....come back" Kagome whispered a hopeless cry. Looking at InuYasha, who's eyes were getting more distant as the time slowly passed by.
~If only time were to freeze....~
Kagome saw InuYasha's eyes close. Her heart froze,
~Is he.....dead?!!!!~
"InuYasha!!!!" Kagome cried loudly.
InuYasha could feel his mind becoming more light and fading away, his pain numbing.
~That face......~
There was a picture of a girl dressed in uniform, slowly fading away away from his mind, but stayed clear in his heart.
"InuYasha...." the voice called at him.....calling for him.
~That face.....~
"Ashiteru....." she whispered hopelessly at him.
~Kagome....~
InuYasha forced himself back to reality, feeling the pain shoot back at him again. No longer feeling the numbness of giving up. He couldn't give up life that seemed so precious when Kagome was in it, and such a waist to give it up.
He gently wiped the tears from her eyes,
"I wont...leave you" he weakly whispered, "you won't be able to.....bring me back. Go get help...from the rest....."
"I....don't want to leave you...."
"Just...go"
Kagome nodded as tears flew off her cheeks. She stood up and ran in the direction of the hut.
"InuYasha hold on....."
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Miroku stared at Sango who was pacing the floor of the hut.
Shippo continued on crying as Kilala purred sadly beside him.
Kaede sat in the corner frowning,
~Where could Kagome possibly be.....she has been gone for quite a time~
Everyone didn't want to believe the obvious possibility of what Kagome had done.....suicide. It was the most scary, but possible possibility, InuYasha was dead......and Kagome had dearly loved him.
Sango paced the hut, tears dripping down her face.
"We should have stopped her while we could, Houshi-sama" Sango cried.
Miroku sighed and looked at the floor, ~We've lost InuYasha...I hope we haven't lost Kagome-sama as well~
Sango rested her head against the wall,
"Oh God..." Sango whispered in pain, "We lost TWO damn people now!!" she cried out loud.
Miroku stood up and walked over to her, holding her tightly,
"Sango-chan.....we've lost InuYasha. Don't give up on Kagome. She may not have done what we fear"
"Then what....what would she have been doing for so long?!"
"I don't know.....I really don't know...." He whispered.
Sango slammed her fist on the wall in frustration, and trembling in anguish. InuYasha was gone....the person who had always acted as if he didn't give a damn, but he had shown that he cared. He had stopped her once from killing her own brother. And now Kagome.....the person she shared all her thought and secrets with. The person she felt for as her own sister......
Miroku held Sango in his arms. She stared at the wall with wide eyes in surprise.
Shippo turned around and continued to cry.
"I'll hold you until you stop trembling" he whispered.
Sango closed her eyes, tears rushing down her face. They heard footsteps running towards the entrance of the hut.
Everyone turned to see a girl, her Kimono covered in blood. Her face pale, and panting from the lack of breath. With tears running down her face.
"What....the hell" Miroku muttered in shock.
Sango stared at Kagome, ~she stabs herself and comes to us to die in front of us?~
"Kagome!" Sango cried, "what have you done to yourself"
Kagome started to cry harder, trying to speak.
"It's not....not my blood.....it's....it's InuYasha's. Come, please! Come help him back here!" Kagome cried.
"N- Nani?! He's alive?" Kaede cried in shock.
"Hai"
Miroku dashed out of the hut, then halted.
"Um.....where?"
"Follow me" Kagome said, running to where InuYasha would be lying, bleeding himself to death.
Kaede stayed in the hut, getting all the medications and things needed for InuYasha's arrival.
She frowned as she got ready, ~InuYasha could be in a dying state....it has been two days, and he has been traveling here in such a bad state. He must have bled half his blood out already~
She told Shippo and Kilala to help as well.
Shippo walked around the hut, bring things Kaede told him to here and there, sniffing from tears.
"WAAAaaaa, If InuYasha dies, no one is going to make fun of me anymore" Shippo cried.
Kilala stopped purring and stared at Shippo, looking at him as if he was out of his mind.
Everyone slightly jumped as they heard someone crashing through the door.
It was Miroku and Sango, with InuYasha's arms heavily sround their shoulders for support. His head hanging from the lack of strength and conscousness.
Kagome had tried to help, but it was as if Sango and Miroku had forgotten about her. Too busy tending to InuYasha as if she were a fragile thing.
They lay InuYasha on the matt draped in thick blankets as InuYasha curled up from the cold that shivered through his weakened body. But it increased the pain from moving.
Kagome watched, pain throbbing in her heart to see InuYasha in so much pain.
He lay on the matt as Kaede tended him, telling the rest to leave for a while since it would be a gory business. InuYasha's eye lids closed and opened, trying to stay conscious.
"I'm not leaving" Kagome said determinedly.
Kaede looked at her and shook her head,
"It would be better if you left, Kagome"
"No!" Kagome said, "I'm staying right here with InuYasha!"
"Please, Kagome. I wont be able to concentrate with people arounf. When I need help, I shall call for you. Sango shall stay and help. You are not well to see such gore"
"It's InuYasha we're talking about here! I WONT leave him!" Kagome cried.
"Kagome....just....go" InuYasha whispered.
"B- But...." Miroku came and gently pulled Kagome out of the room, as Kilala and Shippo followed.
"This might hurt a bit....." Kaede said, as she dabbed a cleansing herbal liquid on his wound.
Kagome tightly closed her eyes hearing InuYasha whimpering from the pain. Miroku rubbed her back to comfort her.
"He'll be alright Kagome-sama" he whispered sadly.
"You should go rest, that's what Lady Kaede asked for"
Kagome shook her head, "no"
Kagome nodded, she wouldn't loose faith in InuYasha....
The sound of InuYasha in pain went on for hours until everything was finally all tended to, as InuYasha slowly fell into a sleep where his body felt numb.
Kagome silently peeked in to see Sango and Kaede all covered in blood, looking weary and disturbed by how much InuYasha was wounded.
"Thank God he is a demon and not a human......if a human he was, he would surely have died.....he shall heal much faster than a human" Kaede told Sango.
Miroku walked over and sat next to Sango as he held her weary self in embrace. She gave a shuddering sigh as she rested her head on him.
Kagome sadly looked at InuYasha who was in an uncomfortable sleep
She kneeled down next to InuYasha, holding his cold hands. She looked at his face that was no longer covered in blood, Kaede and Sango had done a good job cleaning him up, Kagome had to admit. His forehead had bandage wrapped around, with spots of blood on it.
Kagome gently stroked InuYasha's hands,
~You'll live InuYasha.....I just know you will....I can feel it in my blood~
Kaede and Miroku left the room to talk. Shippo and Kilala had fallen asleep while waiting. Sango went over to Kagome and sat beside her.
"Kagome-chan.....so what....happened to you?" she asked.
"I feel so foolish......I was about to end it...." Kagome whispered.
Sango gave a sigh of relief that Kagome hadn't committed such an act.
"InuYasha stopped me before I could....I was so glad to see him, I thought he was dead" Kagome whispered.
"Did you talk to InuYasha about.....why he betrayed you with Kikyo and never told you?" Sango asked.
A tear ran down Kagome's cheeks,
"He never betrayed me...."
"N-Nani?! B- But you said..."
"It had been Naraku disguised as InuYasha..the day before he betrayed Kikyo as InuYasha.....when he....became one with her.....it wasn't InuYasha"
Sango closed her eyes in relief and pain for what Kagome must have felt for having treated InuYasha so dryly when he had done nothing at all in the first place.
"But.....I'm glad it wasn't true" Kagome whispered with a sad smile.
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* One week Later [didn't want my first chappie to be too depressing *
Kagome smiled as she leaned back against the cherry blossom tree. The cool sweet spring wind brushing through the tree, as Sakura's drifted to the ground.
She turned her gaze to her side to see InuYasha sitting next to her, still not completely healed and still in a bit of pain. But still alive.
InuYasha hesitantly turned his head and looked down at Kagome who was gazing up at him with a warm smile. She leaned her head against his shoulder.
"Eh......" InuYasha's face turned a little pink as he looked down at Kagome, ~I never do get used to being this close to her.....~
They gazed out, watching the cherry blossom's gently blowing onto the ground.
~I could live my life without many things, but I couldn't face my life tomorrow without your loving arms to hold me....you're the heartbeat of all I do. You're like the air I breath....Kagome~
He reached his hand out and placed it over hers.
Kagome softly smiled and looked down at his hands, but felt a little sad seeing bruises and unhealed gashed on his skin.
InuYasha felt his harm melting as it always did when he was with Kagome.
"Kagome.....ashiteru"
"I love you too....." she whispered back.
They sat together peacefully, their hearts light and happy, cherishing that moment, knowing that there would be tougher times to come....
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Miroku and Sango secretly spied on InuYasha and Kagome behind a bush in the forest, hidden by shadows.
"Wow....InuYasha's getting really good at the two timing thing" Miroku muttered.
"Kikyo's gone now, so it's not 'two timing' anymore" Sango muttered back.
"Then...he's very good at trying to get a girl into his bed...jeez, look at him! He could touch wherever he wants and Kagome would fall for him and let him! He has been influenced by me, the master, and now is becoming more skilled than I!" Miroku said.
Sango had many stress marks all over her head,
"InuYasha is NOT those type of perverts like you!!! Just because he knows that Kagome loves him, he wouldn't take advantage of her. He loves her, so he respects her......"
"Are you serious! You call him teasing her 24-7 respecting?!" Miroku pointed out.
"BAKA! I meant respect as in the...other way. If she...was ready for it, then...yah" Sango said uncomfortably, "but if not, he wouldn't try and take advantage of her LIKE YOU WOULD!"
Miroku sighed,
"Hai .....hai" he muttered as his hands habitually wandered off.
Sango smacked him hard across the face, leaving a red finger print imprinted on his cheeks.
"OWE! What was that for?!" Miroku asked, "I love you...so....why can't I! I never knoew that loved one's would still hit each other!"
"Let's just say that it wasn't a hit on the face, but imprinting on your face of how much I love you. And when the sign of my love for you fades from your face, I'll imprint another after another after another....."
"I get the point" Miroku muttered, rubbing his swore cheeks, "can't you just kiss me?"
Sango's face turned red,
"No" she muttered as she turned and walked away, but her heart beating fast. In her heart was a chibi form of her jumping around squealing, 'ahhh, kiss Miroku the pervert?! WAAAAAAHH......'
~He kissed me before....~ Sango thought as she halted in her path.
"Huh....." Miroku stared at Sango who slowly turned around and walked towards him. He could feel his heart pounding fast, the feeling in his heart that he only felt for Sango.
She looked down at the ground, her face burning fast. She looked up into his eyes and slowly pecked a kiss on his cheeks.
Miroku turned red,
"Sango....." Miroku whispered.
Sango looked down, ready to hear him say that he loved her.
Silence.
~I'm waiting.....~
"Is that all I get?" he asked.
A stress mark appeared on Sango, as she grinded her teeth.
~What more does he want!!!!! That was all my pride could do!!!!!!!! BAKA!!!!!!!~
Miroku stepped closer, and Sango stopped cursing Miroku.
He dipped his head down and kissed her gently on the lips....'gently' so that he wouldn't scare her off by making her think he had perverted intentions.
InuYasha and Kagome had been walking down with their hands holding together, but seeing Sango and Miroku, for some reason, their hands quickly separated.
"Hey......" InuYasha muttered, looking down at a blurry figure of Miroku and Sango (his eyes a little damaged, but would heal very soon).
Kagome gasped, "AWWW, they're making out!!!"
InuYasha looked at Kagome in confusion,
"Making....out?" InuYasha asked.
"Yah.....that's when two people...you know kiss and stuff" Kagome answered.
"Keh, whatever" InuYasha cracked his knuckles, "I'll beat the shit out of Miroku for bring Sango under his hentai spell as well"
"No-----"
But Kagome was too late, InuYasha began to speed to where the couple was. His speed still not as fast from all his injuries.
Kagome looked at Miroku and Sango then at the speeding red light of InuYasha in hopelessness.
"SIT!" Kagome yelled automatically, then greatly regretting it in the end.
BAM!
InuYasha crashed into the ground as Kagome went skipping towards the hole. InuYasha slowly rose up from the hole, glaring at Kagome with evil eyes. His body aching like crazy,
"BAKA!!!!!" InuYasha yelled as he ran after Kagome who sped away.
Sango and Miroku looked around.
"Huh.....I swear I heard something......" they both muttered.
"Nope...."
"Let's get back to the hut" Miroku suggested. Sango smiled as they walked hand in hand back.
InuYasha chased after Kagome who was yelling at him with exhaustion to stop, that his wounds would re-open.
"OK, OK! InuYasha, GOMEN!" Kagome cried, still running.
"I'm gunu get you Kagome!" InuYasha yelled, still chasing after her, slow from his wounds. But knew that he wound catch her within a few more seconds.
Kagome turned and faced InuYasha, running backwards.
"Haha, you're so slow with your wounds! And I said SORRY!" Kagome said.
"Keh, I'll catch you and shred you up!" InuYasha threatened.
Kagome tripped over a stone as she tumbled onto her back. InuYasha's eyes widened as he tried to stop himself from running over Kagome and ended up on top of Kagome.
They looked at each other with wide eyes and quietly panting in exhaustion. Both their hearts beated fast.
"Ouch...my wounds hurt" InuYasha whispered, still looking down at kagome.
Kagome felt her cheeks beginning to burn.
InuYasha's lips came hesitantly closer to hers. Now only but a couple of centimeters away......
InuYasha could feel his heart skip a beat
Kagome felt his burning lips pressing gently against hers. He gently kissed her burning lips, as it slowly opened to him.
His kiss became deeper.....deeper than it had been before.
He could feel his mind spinning from the warmth of her body, her scent, the closeness...and the fact the this person was Kagome.
~It seems that I express my love for her more and more each time I kiss her.....I don't want to go too far......~
InuYasha rolled off of Kagome and lay next to her on his back, staring up at the bright blue sky. Letting the cool spring wind blow through him, making him cool down.
"Gomen...." InuYasha muttered, not knowing why he had just apologized.
Kagome just lay on her back, waiting to make her heart beat slow down.
They silently stared up at the sky.
Kikyo's Shini-dama-chuu's shot across the sky and disappeared. Both InuYasha and Kagome had saw it...
InuYasha felt something bitter and painful arise in his heart, ~Kikyo....~
"Kagome....."
"Yah......" Kagome answered in a whisper.
"I know...this may be the wrong time to ask....but" Inuyasha glanced over at her, "what was the reason you got mad at me for....but then Kikyo had told you it wasn't true?"
Silence.
"You don't have to tell me...." InuYasha whispered.
"No, I'll tell you....it'll just hurt you.....that's why" Kagome whispered painfully, her heart now crying.
"Wut..."
A tear ran down Kagome's cheeks and outlined down her face.
"Fifty years ago....before the day Naraku had disguised himself as you.....he had made himself into you and......had...become one with Kikyo.....before that day......"
InuYasha stared blankly at the sky, his heart no longer beating.
"InuYasha....?" Kagome whispered a cry, tears streaking down.
"Why did it have to come to this....." InuYasha whispered painfully, ~Kikyo, I feel both betrayed and disgusted......even though you hadn't known that it was Naraku. Is that why you felt so betrayed....is that why you thought I belonged to you always....Kikyo.....I guess it was Naraku who belonged to you all the time.....~ InuYasha could feel anger towards Naraku for being so cruel.
~Kikyo must be suffering a lot.....~ InuYasha sadly realized, which Kikyo was not [which was proved in 'Part One']
InuYasha looked at Kagome, feeling her warm hands holding his, telling him that whatever happened, she would suffer with him. That he wasn't alone.....
InuYasha looked to the side at Kagome and warmly smiled.
~Arigato.....~
~But the trouble in my heart for Kikyo......is something I alone can do~
**~~ I always have a problem wit da kissing scenes. I dun know how to write it. From part of one of this fic, someone asked if the thing about Kikyo and Naraku having "done it" 50 years ago was rlly the manga thing. Um, nope, it's not. It was just a made up twist in my story ^^ *phew* aren't you guys glad that I didn't make it rlly IY who had "done it" wit dat Kikyo?! Well Sorry that I had to leave you guys off here!!! Gomen. And.... I tried to keep it as light as possible since it was the first chapter. More angst is to come, and light stuff, n fluff, n action (but action comes a little later on) Sorry for the depressing cut off of this chapter ^^ ~~**
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Note to Sango13: I'm working on the "sealed fate" fic...well I'll get to it now