~~ Only a few words to say, I want more reviews!!!!!! ^^" Ok, so was the
last chapter fluffy enough for you fluff lovers? That was..almost as far as
I go. It would be too soon for it to get...too fluffy b/w them. And to
Sango13, I'll post a chapter to 'sealed fate' once I feel stable with this
fic ^^ R&R Plz *_* ~~
Warning: there's this death scene that may...be a but disturbing. But not to me ^^"Hehe....and you guys all hated Lady Metaka right?
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"All the passions make us commit faults;
Love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."
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============= Chapter Four =============
~Wow....it's actually hard to believe that.....Me and InuYasha went that far....Wai !!!~ Kagome daydreamed as her teacher continued to blabber on and on about math.
She could hear InuYasha's voice whispering her name as he had held her close to him. Kagome sighed.
"Miss Higurashi"
"Miss Higurashi....."
Kagome snapped back into reality. The whole class had all turned and was staring at her....waiting for her....for what?
"Will you now give the answer to the equation? What is 6(x-2) = 3x-8+3x ? What is x?" the teacher repeated.
Kagome stared at her desk, deep in thought, not realizing that the teacher had asked one of the most simplest question.
"Oro......um....I don't know" Kagome whispered.
The teacher sighed as her friends looked worriedly at her.
"Miss Higurashi, you must pay more attention. Even if you are away all the time because of your health, that is no excuse to slack off on your work"
Kagome sighed,
"Hai"
*
After class, her friends came running up to her.
"We're going to the mall today, you wanna come along, Kagome-chan?" they asked.
"Um......" Kagome looked back to where she would have been walking to get home, ~get a life Kagome...It's not like InuYasha's actually waiting for you or anything~
"Sure" Kagome replied.
"Yay, let's get going then!"
As they were looking at the jewelry section, something caught her eyes...
A necklace with a charm the shape of a dog tag.
She looked at it closer and it had imprinted on it,
"With all my love"
Kagome squealed, and started hopping up and down the place.
~InuYasha would love this!!!~
She stopped and placed a finger on her lips, ~Or maybe not....it is a dog tag in the first place....But I can't wait to see his face when I give it to him!!!~
Kagome asked the owner how much it was,
He told her the price. It was expensive, but worth it.
"Arigato!" Kagome said cheerfully as she ran back over to her friends.
They looked down at the item Kagome had purchased. They all sweat dropped.
"A doggy necklace looking thing?"
"Uh- huh"
"And who is it for?"
"My...boyfriend"
"That bad ass one that always hurts your feeling and the two timer?"
"Yah..but he's not as bad as you say he is! He.....um, broke up with the other girl"
All her friends sighed,
"We still think Hojo is better and safer for you"
Kagome sweat dropped, ~But Hojo.....he's not strong like InuYasha, annoying or interesting. He's so....normal~
"Ah hah.....yah....sure" Kagome muttered.
"Let's go eat, I'm starved" said one of her friends. They all agreed and walked out of the shop.
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Kagome sighed, resting her back against the wall of the Bone eater's well.
She didn't want to go back to the Feudal era....
She had to admit, her reason was a bit.....how would one put this. Strange.
~If I stay here a little longer...then InuYasha would miss me more. You have to have you missing you once in a while~ Kagome thought, ~Awww, But I can't stand it!~
She leaned her head back, closing her eyes and holding the charm necklace tightly in her hands, and the full shard in the other.
~I wonder....if InuYasha would miss me...~
***Flashback***
"......." InuYasha looked still pissed in Kagome's point of view, "yah, whatever"
"Ok then...." Kagome said in a little depressed tone, "JA!"
"Sayonara!!" Everyone, excluding InuYasha, said loudly, waving there hands to her.
Kagome ran over and took a last glance over at InuYasha, hoping that he'd be looking back at her with his warm eyes. But he wasn't.
***End of Flashback***
"He better be missing me" Kagome muttered.
Kagome gave out a loud sigh,
"Love is so frustrating!!!!"
She stood up, and rested her elbow on the edge of the well, looking down.
She gave out another deep sigh,
~I wonder.....if he really....does miss me...but if he does, wouldn't he come and get me? Nah, he wouldn't miss me 'that' much ~ she thought depressingly.
*
InuYasha rested chin on the edge of the Bone eater's well, looking down.
~I friggin forgot to ask when she was gunu come back.....~
InuYasha loudly sighed in annoyance.
"Baka...."
He looked down the pitless looking well,
~I wonder.....what she's doing right now....~
He felt a little bit of guilt in his heart, he hadn't meant to be so cold to Kagome. Always, it was always like this. Because of his stubbornness he never was able to forgive easily.
And that way, he always hurted the few people he loved...
"Keh...not like I care..." InuYasha muttered, not liking to show emotion or the soft spot in his heart.
Suddenly, he heard something. His ears twitched picking up a familiar sound. The stretching of a bow....
***Flashback***
He heard the stretching of a bow, he turned slowly around to see arrows thump onto the bark of a tree right next to him.
He saw Kikyo holding the bow and an arrow, aiming it straight for him. Her eyes glaring at him coldly.
"Die InuYasha!"
***End of Flashback***
InuYasha quickly leaped away as an arrow thudded onto the well, with a teared piece of material from his Haori pierced to the well.
InuYasha shot his head towards the person.
"Ki-Kiyo?!" InuYasha cried in shock. He looked at her, she no longer dressed as a miko but dressed in a black Haori.
She looked at him, only hatred and jealousy found in her eyes.
"So you are waiting for your lover girl are you not?" Kikyo hissed.
InuYasha just stared at her.
"What do you want from me....." InuYasha asked in a whisper.
"I want....you....your life"
InuYasha looked away,
"Kikyo...It's over....I'm not giving it to you. All I want is for you to rest in peace, I.....can't give myself up to you"
Kikyo sadly looked at him and walked up to him, and crouched down next to him.
Their faces close to each other.
She moved closer and tried to kiss him, but InuYasha pushed him away.
"No...Kikyo, you had your fuckin chance. And you blew it....and I'm glad. If you hadn't blown it, I would never have with Kagome" InuYasha said coolly, looking away.
"So.....you are glad...that through my suffering...you met her. So I am the sacrifice here...." She whispered sadly, standing back up.
"Stop it with your fucking sadness! You have no sadness, you have no damn life to have sadness in you. The person I thought was the Kikyo from 50 years ago, but even that was wrong. I saw the real you, the real Kikyo from 50 years ago again when you had stolen Kagome's soul. I couldn't feel that warmth I had felt for you long ago, because I felt something truer, more warmer, more...better...so don't expect me to give you any of my damn sympathy!" InuYasha hissed.
A bitter cold tear streaked down her cheeks,
"You say I have no life....." She said coldly,
"And before you said you accepted me no matter how I was....it is all your fault that I am like this!! Why must I be the one to suffer! Why ME?! Am I different from the rest?! Yes, I am a monster....but a monster with the soul of a human miko!" Kikyo said bitterly.
InuYasha gritted his teeth, all because of Kikyo.....it had scarred so much of Kagome's heart.
~Many times you have tried to kill Kagome.....~
"FUCK OFF!" InuYasha yelled bitterly.
Kikyo turned and shut her eyes tightly,
"I understand....." she whispered, her frozen heart cracking from the blow of his words.
InuYasha realized how cold he had been to Kikyo....
He didn't much care of what he had just done....but the memory kept coming of the Kikyo he had once known. No...he had not known her well....
He thought he had known her.....but he had not.
He thought he had truly loved her......but had not.
He did not love her.....but he cared for her.
Memories of the past, was one thing he could not forget. Even though he wanted to. Every time he hurted Kikyo, he saw a flash back of the kind side of her.
He wanted to forget....so badly. All he wanted was to be at peace with the thoughts of Kagome brightening up his darkened mind.
But he couldn't.
He looked up to apologies to Kikyo.....but she had already gone.
He felt a pang of slight guilt.
"Gomen....." he whispered.
But the other side of his mind....didn't care a shit for what he had just said to Kikyo. It had been the truth.
InuYasha got up and walked out of the forest towards the field, the tall grass blowing in the wind.
~Why did everything turn out so wrong...Is it that hard for me to just be happy with Kagome and have Kikyo gone in rest~
*
After she made sure InuYasha was out of the forest and she would not again accidentally chance upon him. He was gone...
Kikyo stepped out of the forest, but as she was walking out, she chanced upon Lady Metaka.
"Where are you going..." Kikyo asked coldly, feeling dark at heart.
"I- I was.....just...." Lady Metaka looked away, when she had been teaching Kikyo when she was young, she had acted to sweet. But now...she was afraid of her.
"How can Kagome learn to become me when you are doing nothing?!" Kikyo asked in a little louder tone.
"She shall do it on her OWN. She shall do it out of sacrifice for the people she loves here! She thinks that she must become like you to become a miko...." Lady Metaka muttered, hiding something away from Kikyo, ~but Lady Kagome will never truly become like you in personality. Maybe in strength....but she is different. Very. Who she is...I cannot change. But she can....act like you, but can never become you~
"You are useless...." Kikyo hissed.
Lady Metaka looked down at the ground.
"You have failed us....the most simplest of tasks. All we asked of you was to train her to e like me, nothing more. You are a disgrace"
Silence.
"It is better that you died than lived in disgrace" Kikyo said.
Lady Metaka looked up, a frown placed on her face.
"Lady Kikyo.....what has...happened to you. You are no longer the person I had loved as if my own.....now you are...a.....a mons---"
Kikyo had enough of this, first InuYasha had called her a monster and now this old woman.
She knew InuYasha was near, and she didn't want him to come rushing back smelling someone's blood.
Kikyo got her hands over Lady Metaka's face.
She tried to ask what Kikyo had just done, but her mouth wouldn't open.
She tried to breath....but no air would come in. And unable to scream for help.
Kikyo had sealed her....
She clutched her neck, trying forcedly to breath, she could feel her mind getting numb, her lung feeling as if someone was squeezing it from the lack of air.
She fell to her knees, her nails digging into the soil. Opening her mouth, trying to suck in air, but no air entering.
She could feel her lungs wanting to rip.
All she could do was make coughing sound. She coughed out so hard that blood started to dribbled down her chin and dripping to the ground.
Kikyo watched coldly with a slight smile on her lips, gazing emotionlessly down at the dying woman.
Lady Metaka looked down at her hands that were smeared in her own blood.
"You are letting out too much blood" Kikyo whispered as she stretched out her hands and wrapped it around the miko's neck.
"I shall end your pain quickly" Kikyo whispered, gripping her neck tightly until the pulse was no longer beating under her fingers.
"There....it is done"
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Kagome jumped out of the well at daybreak.
Kagome climbed out of the well and closed her eyes. Breathing in the fresh scent of morning. She gave out a sigh, she was glad that she'd see InuYasha again. And of course her other friends.
She walked out of the forest, putting the miko Haori into her yellow bag. Now wearing her normal casual clothing.
Kagome sighed, wondering where InuYasha was.
As she continued to walk on, she saw from far away a distant figure of InuYasha resting on a tree branch.
Kagome smiled and ran over there quietly. InuYasha in some deep thought had not heard the rustling in the grass.
Kagome looked up at InuYasha who was staring blankly at the slit of sun arising from the land as multiple colors bursting across the sky.
She looked determinedly up at the branch InuYasha was resting on. She had never actually rested on a tree branch before....
~It would be a nice experience~
She started to climb as quietly as she could.
While InuYasha continued to look out at the sky, his mind zoned out in deep thought.
She clasped the branch InuYasha was resting on, quietly panting from the great effort it took. She had a flash back of memory remembering her brother, Souta, climbing easily up a tree.
Kagome sweat dropped,
~Am I that old and heavy now....?!!~
Kagome closed her eyes tightly as she tried to pull herself up.
InuYasha finally snapped back into reality and slowly turned his gaze around, hearing A LOT of noise next to him.
He turned to see something trying to get on his branch.
"Eh?!!!!!" InuYasha cried in shock and not being prepared to face off the thing, and anyway, he had just come out of his thoughts. He lost balance as his arms flapped in the air as if he were trying to fly.
InuYasha crashed into the ground.
"You're a dog not a bird!!!" Kagome said in a teasing tone.
InuYasha looked up after he came back to himself. A little tear droplet on the corner of his eyes from the pain it caused his wounds from crashing to the ground.
"Ahhhh.....gomen" Kagome cried, seeing that InuYasha had not been fully healed. She held her hands together and looked down at him in worry. Suddenly she realized that she was not holding the tree branch which had held her up.
"KYAAAAAAA!!!" Kagome cried, her arms flapping in the air InuYasha's had done. She came crashing down upon InuYasha.
Her eyes still tightly closed, thinking she would have hit the ground. But she felt herself landing hard onto something cushiony.
"Oro......"
She looked under herself to see....InuYasha. She shot off him,
"Gomen, gomen, gomen!!!!!" Kagome apologiesed, looking down at InuYasha who's eyes were spinning.
After a few minuets InuYasha came back to reality and slowly sat up to see Kagome's face close up to him.
He looked at her in slight dizziness.
"GOMEN!" Kagome cried.
"Keh.....it's alright" InuYasha muttered.
Kagome sighed in relief seeing that InuYasha didn't look too pissed.
"Jeez Kagome, how much do you weigh, wench?" InuYasha asked, returning to his normal self.
"SHUT UP!" Kagome yelled with a slight blush, "I'm not that heavy, it's cuz of gravity"
"......." InuYasha had no idea what she had just meant. ~gravity?~
InuYasha dragged himself to the tree and rested against it. Kagome sat close next to him.
"InuYasha......" Kagome murmured.
"Nani....?"
Kagome reached her hands inside her bag as she shuffled through, and took something out.
She handed it to him.
"N-Nanda....?"
"Open it" Kagome demanded.
He slowly unwrapped the present. A necklace.
"Is this another one of those necklace given by Kaede-baba to control me or somethin' ?" InuYasha asked.
"Nope" Kagome replied with a smile, "I just bought it for you"
"Hey...." InuYasha muttered, "don't the dogs in your time have these kind of tags hanging on their necklace? "
"Ah hah" Kagome nervously laughed with a sweat drop,
"I bought it for you, now I can tell you apart from the other dogs!"
InuYasha growled at Kagome and glared,
"Keh...." InuYasha looked down at it, ~It was from Kagome, so he liked it. If It had not been from her.....~
"Do you like it?" Kagome asked, ~Haha, InuYasha is now my dog~
"Keh, I don't want it" InuYasha muttered, ~I never gave you anything, so why should you~
Kagome pushed his hands away,
"I don't want it! It's for you"
They continued to push each other's hands back and forth until InuYasha finally took it, but dropped it into his pocket.
"Dry" Kagome muttered with a glare.
"NANI?!" InuYasha asked, ~I know I love her....it's just that....I'm not used to such kindness....so I'm not used to acting kind back, even though I want to~
"Humph, I'm leaving" Kagome muttered as she stomped away,
"Erg!" Kagome growled in anger, "Ungrateful, dumb ass, jack ass, dry, mean....." and on and on she went, stomping towards the hut, mumbling all the swear words she knew.
"Jeez....." InuYasha muttered, "what did I do now....."
"Rule number three.....right Sango?" Miroku asked her in a whisper.
"I think you were on rule number two last time.....yah"
"Ah, I was right then. Rule number three: Always talk in flattering words when in the presence of a lady" Miroku said.
Sango sighed as they watched InuYasha from their hiding place,
"InuYasha.....can he really get any more stupider than that?"
"Nope" Miroku answered, "he is the stupidest of stupids"
"For once you are right Houshi-sama" Sango replied.
"A monk is always right"
"Right....." Sango muttered, "I better get going. I do not believe Kagome would be in the mood to cook today"
"I'll help out"
Sango slightly blushed, "arigato"
*
InuYasha sat under the tree, still wondering what he had done wrong.
He looked down at the charm to see words imprinted into it,
"With all my heart"
"Ooooops....." InuYasha muttered, ~So...she did want me to have it for a special reason~
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They all stared at Kagome and InuYasha who were walking round an round the place.
Shippo popped some breakfast into his mouth and observed the two.
InuYasha went walking around after Kagome who walked away from him, circling the place the rest were eating breakfast at.
"Kagome!!! What's with you!!!" InuYasha yelled in annoyance.
"NOTHING!!!" Kagome yelled back, "I'M FINE!"
"You don't LOOK it!!"
"Well I AM, BAKA!!!"
InuYasha sweat dropped, ~she doesn't sound fine.....sheesh, I feel so gay, walking around like this~
"They've walked around in circles about nine times already..." Miroku muttered.
"Actually, they've walked around like this for ten and a half times.....I counted" Shippo said, "Oh, now it's eleven times"
Sango sweat dropped.
"OK, I A-PO-LO-GIES!!!!! HAPPY?!" InuYasha asked loudly, still walking round after her.
Kagome abruptively stopped as InuYasha smashed into her, tumbling to the ground.
"That didn't sound like much of an apology...." Kagome muttered to herself.
"Man, Kagome!!! It's just a necklace!!"
"Even though it was little, it meant something" Kagome whispered.
InuYasha's mind was at this moment beating him up for his stubbornness, ~just say SORRY with your heart!!! You know you're in the wrong!!~
Kagome turned and glared at him, but saw her necklace glimmering around his neck.
~He wore it....~
Kagome grinded her teeth, ~BAKA! Making me go through all this because of his stubbornness! Erg....~
"InuYasha....." Kagome said.
InuYasha looked up, "Ka.....gome....."
*Heart skips a beat*
He gazed at her, ~She's.....acting abnormal.....but she....is so nice~
"InuYasha......" Kagome said again, ~for all my trouble~
"SIT!!!!!!!!"
BAM!
~That's the Kagome I know...~ InuYasha thought in annoyance.
InuYasha got up and halted.
Everyone looked at him....
InuYasha frowned.....his ears twitching a little.
"InuYasha?" Kagome asked quietly, "what's wrong?"
~That scent.....so familiar....~ InuYasha sighed, "it's her....."
"It's who?" Miroku asked.
Silence.
~She's like a ghost that will forever haunt me.....until it can rest in peace. A ghost that darkens your mind at every turn......~
InuYasha looked away at the ground, not wanting to accidentally see her,
~Kikyo.....~ InuYasha thought, ~why do you have to torture me like this....can you not just give up on me and leave?!~
Kagome swallowed hard, could he possibly have sensed....Kikyo?
Her heart ripped just thinking about InuYasha still having something for Kikyo.
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The sky was now dark, draped in gray. The scent of the sweet spring now gone, but filled with the scent of coming rain....
Kagome looked down at the Haori of a priestess.
She could hear rain slowly splashing to the ground, each moment, it getting harder and faster. The rain pouring on and on as if there was no end.
She ran her fingers across the material...
~Fate.....has brought me here.....and....fate wants me to become a miko....which I must become. I can't just carry this shard so carelessly...~
Kagome touched the pocket in which that shard was in.
Kagome closed her eyes, ~this is my job....my fate~
The way Lady Metaka had described her job as a miko......was it really like that?
Sorrow swept over her.
*
InuYasha stared boringly out the window, the image of everything blurry from the rain pouring against the window pane.
His heart stopped when he saw a figure.....dressed so familiar....
"Kikyo....." InuYasha whispered as he sprung up and ran towards the door.
~I have to get this guilt out of my system.....it's eating me inside out. Kikyo.....I realize is one scary woman....~
He ran into the rain, his silver white hair became soaked within a second.
He slowly walked over to her,
She stood with her back towards him.
~It's over Kikyo......~
"Kikyo...." InuYasha whispered, not wanting to make her realize that too harshly, "I'm sorry......about what I said today....I didn't mean it to sound so......"
"You met her today....." a voice asked, filled with heart ripping emotion.
~Now she's gone insane~ InuYasha realized,
"Kikyo! I do care for you...." InuYasha confessed, ~but caring is not loving...~
"Why.....why InuYasha didn't you tell me.....?"
"N- nani....." InuYasha asked in confusion.
Kikyo slowly turned around to reveal herself not as Kikyo but......Kagome.
InuYasha's eyes widened.
He looked into her eyes that spilled all her sadness onto him.
She looked deeply into his eyes,
"Why did you not tell me....? Is there something in your heart that still makes it a secret for you to....tell me that you met her?" Kagome asked in a whisper.
InuYasha just stood there, saying nothing. He did not know what to say.
"Why, InuYasha.....why do you have to keep these things from me. You make yourself unfaithful by doing so...if you had told me...."
"Kagome.....I- "
Kagome turned around, "go away...."
~Should I stay...or should I go.....~ InuYasha wondered.
Kagome glanced back at him, ~please stay and tell me that everything is fine....~
InuYasha looked away, ~She doesn't need me here....I'll depress her more~
Kagome watched as InuYasha slowly turned and walked away,
"InuYasha....." Kagome sadly whispered to herself.
She stood there, crying in the rain.....
***Flashback***
"Demons and miko were not meant to be together....." Lady Metaka said.
"A Miko must sacrifice a lot and must live all their life in sorrow and pain..."
***End of Flashback***
She had come out into the rain to bath away her pain that lay in her heart, the fact that she was to be a miko....hurted a lot. And now this.....
More tears rushed down her face, her cried of anguish muffled by the sound of pouring rain. Her tears burning against her cold skin.
"I don't...want to go through pain and sorrow......I just want to be happy with InuYasha......" Kagome cried.
~Isn't that what Kikyo wanted as well 50 years ago.....to become a normal human and not a miko?~
Kagome watched with blurry eyes as InuYasha walked away, his figure fading away from her sight.
"Why did you...leave.....when I needed your...comfort right now" Kagome sadly whispered.
*
~~Hope you liked the chapter ^^ Sorry "Yagirl-123" for not adding more of your fluff I ^^" I'll add the rest a little later!!~~
The dog tag idea was thought of by "yagirl-123" so...give her all the credits on that part ^^ Thnx!
Warning: there's this death scene that may...be a but disturbing. But not to me ^^"Hehe....and you guys all hated Lady Metaka right?
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"All the passions make us commit faults;
Love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."
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============= Chapter Four =============
~Wow....it's actually hard to believe that.....Me and InuYasha went that far....Wai !!!~ Kagome daydreamed as her teacher continued to blabber on and on about math.
She could hear InuYasha's voice whispering her name as he had held her close to him. Kagome sighed.
"Miss Higurashi"
"Miss Higurashi....."
Kagome snapped back into reality. The whole class had all turned and was staring at her....waiting for her....for what?
"Will you now give the answer to the equation? What is 6(x-2) = 3x-8+3x ? What is x?" the teacher repeated.
Kagome stared at her desk, deep in thought, not realizing that the teacher had asked one of the most simplest question.
"Oro......um....I don't know" Kagome whispered.
The teacher sighed as her friends looked worriedly at her.
"Miss Higurashi, you must pay more attention. Even if you are away all the time because of your health, that is no excuse to slack off on your work"
Kagome sighed,
"Hai"
*
After class, her friends came running up to her.
"We're going to the mall today, you wanna come along, Kagome-chan?" they asked.
"Um......" Kagome looked back to where she would have been walking to get home, ~get a life Kagome...It's not like InuYasha's actually waiting for you or anything~
"Sure" Kagome replied.
"Yay, let's get going then!"
As they were looking at the jewelry section, something caught her eyes...
A necklace with a charm the shape of a dog tag.
She looked at it closer and it had imprinted on it,
"With all my love"
Kagome squealed, and started hopping up and down the place.
~InuYasha would love this!!!~
She stopped and placed a finger on her lips, ~Or maybe not....it is a dog tag in the first place....But I can't wait to see his face when I give it to him!!!~
Kagome asked the owner how much it was,
He told her the price. It was expensive, but worth it.
"Arigato!" Kagome said cheerfully as she ran back over to her friends.
They looked down at the item Kagome had purchased. They all sweat dropped.
"A doggy necklace looking thing?"
"Uh- huh"
"And who is it for?"
"My...boyfriend"
"That bad ass one that always hurts your feeling and the two timer?"
"Yah..but he's not as bad as you say he is! He.....um, broke up with the other girl"
All her friends sighed,
"We still think Hojo is better and safer for you"
Kagome sweat dropped, ~But Hojo.....he's not strong like InuYasha, annoying or interesting. He's so....normal~
"Ah hah.....yah....sure" Kagome muttered.
"Let's go eat, I'm starved" said one of her friends. They all agreed and walked out of the shop.
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Kagome sighed, resting her back against the wall of the Bone eater's well.
She didn't want to go back to the Feudal era....
She had to admit, her reason was a bit.....how would one put this. Strange.
~If I stay here a little longer...then InuYasha would miss me more. You have to have you missing you once in a while~ Kagome thought, ~Awww, But I can't stand it!~
She leaned her head back, closing her eyes and holding the charm necklace tightly in her hands, and the full shard in the other.
~I wonder....if InuYasha would miss me...~
***Flashback***
"......." InuYasha looked still pissed in Kagome's point of view, "yah, whatever"
"Ok then...." Kagome said in a little depressed tone, "JA!"
"Sayonara!!" Everyone, excluding InuYasha, said loudly, waving there hands to her.
Kagome ran over and took a last glance over at InuYasha, hoping that he'd be looking back at her with his warm eyes. But he wasn't.
***End of Flashback***
"He better be missing me" Kagome muttered.
Kagome gave out a loud sigh,
"Love is so frustrating!!!!"
She stood up, and rested her elbow on the edge of the well, looking down.
She gave out another deep sigh,
~I wonder.....if he really....does miss me...but if he does, wouldn't he come and get me? Nah, he wouldn't miss me 'that' much ~ she thought depressingly.
*
InuYasha rested chin on the edge of the Bone eater's well, looking down.
~I friggin forgot to ask when she was gunu come back.....~
InuYasha loudly sighed in annoyance.
"Baka...."
He looked down the pitless looking well,
~I wonder.....what she's doing right now....~
He felt a little bit of guilt in his heart, he hadn't meant to be so cold to Kagome. Always, it was always like this. Because of his stubbornness he never was able to forgive easily.
And that way, he always hurted the few people he loved...
"Keh...not like I care..." InuYasha muttered, not liking to show emotion or the soft spot in his heart.
Suddenly, he heard something. His ears twitched picking up a familiar sound. The stretching of a bow....
***Flashback***
He heard the stretching of a bow, he turned slowly around to see arrows thump onto the bark of a tree right next to him.
He saw Kikyo holding the bow and an arrow, aiming it straight for him. Her eyes glaring at him coldly.
"Die InuYasha!"
***End of Flashback***
InuYasha quickly leaped away as an arrow thudded onto the well, with a teared piece of material from his Haori pierced to the well.
InuYasha shot his head towards the person.
"Ki-Kiyo?!" InuYasha cried in shock. He looked at her, she no longer dressed as a miko but dressed in a black Haori.
She looked at him, only hatred and jealousy found in her eyes.
"So you are waiting for your lover girl are you not?" Kikyo hissed.
InuYasha just stared at her.
"What do you want from me....." InuYasha asked in a whisper.
"I want....you....your life"
InuYasha looked away,
"Kikyo...It's over....I'm not giving it to you. All I want is for you to rest in peace, I.....can't give myself up to you"
Kikyo sadly looked at him and walked up to him, and crouched down next to him.
Their faces close to each other.
She moved closer and tried to kiss him, but InuYasha pushed him away.
"No...Kikyo, you had your fuckin chance. And you blew it....and I'm glad. If you hadn't blown it, I would never have with Kagome" InuYasha said coolly, looking away.
"So.....you are glad...that through my suffering...you met her. So I am the sacrifice here...." She whispered sadly, standing back up.
"Stop it with your fucking sadness! You have no sadness, you have no damn life to have sadness in you. The person I thought was the Kikyo from 50 years ago, but even that was wrong. I saw the real you, the real Kikyo from 50 years ago again when you had stolen Kagome's soul. I couldn't feel that warmth I had felt for you long ago, because I felt something truer, more warmer, more...better...so don't expect me to give you any of my damn sympathy!" InuYasha hissed.
A bitter cold tear streaked down her cheeks,
"You say I have no life....." She said coldly,
"And before you said you accepted me no matter how I was....it is all your fault that I am like this!! Why must I be the one to suffer! Why ME?! Am I different from the rest?! Yes, I am a monster....but a monster with the soul of a human miko!" Kikyo said bitterly.
InuYasha gritted his teeth, all because of Kikyo.....it had scarred so much of Kagome's heart.
~Many times you have tried to kill Kagome.....~
"FUCK OFF!" InuYasha yelled bitterly.
Kikyo turned and shut her eyes tightly,
"I understand....." she whispered, her frozen heart cracking from the blow of his words.
InuYasha realized how cold he had been to Kikyo....
He didn't much care of what he had just done....but the memory kept coming of the Kikyo he had once known. No...he had not known her well....
He thought he had known her.....but he had not.
He thought he had truly loved her......but had not.
He did not love her.....but he cared for her.
Memories of the past, was one thing he could not forget. Even though he wanted to. Every time he hurted Kikyo, he saw a flash back of the kind side of her.
He wanted to forget....so badly. All he wanted was to be at peace with the thoughts of Kagome brightening up his darkened mind.
But he couldn't.
He looked up to apologies to Kikyo.....but she had already gone.
He felt a pang of slight guilt.
"Gomen....." he whispered.
But the other side of his mind....didn't care a shit for what he had just said to Kikyo. It had been the truth.
InuYasha got up and walked out of the forest towards the field, the tall grass blowing in the wind.
~Why did everything turn out so wrong...Is it that hard for me to just be happy with Kagome and have Kikyo gone in rest~
*
After she made sure InuYasha was out of the forest and she would not again accidentally chance upon him. He was gone...
Kikyo stepped out of the forest, but as she was walking out, she chanced upon Lady Metaka.
"Where are you going..." Kikyo asked coldly, feeling dark at heart.
"I- I was.....just...." Lady Metaka looked away, when she had been teaching Kikyo when she was young, she had acted to sweet. But now...she was afraid of her.
"How can Kagome learn to become me when you are doing nothing?!" Kikyo asked in a little louder tone.
"She shall do it on her OWN. She shall do it out of sacrifice for the people she loves here! She thinks that she must become like you to become a miko...." Lady Metaka muttered, hiding something away from Kikyo, ~but Lady Kagome will never truly become like you in personality. Maybe in strength....but she is different. Very. Who she is...I cannot change. But she can....act like you, but can never become you~
"You are useless...." Kikyo hissed.
Lady Metaka looked down at the ground.
"You have failed us....the most simplest of tasks. All we asked of you was to train her to e like me, nothing more. You are a disgrace"
Silence.
"It is better that you died than lived in disgrace" Kikyo said.
Lady Metaka looked up, a frown placed on her face.
"Lady Kikyo.....what has...happened to you. You are no longer the person I had loved as if my own.....now you are...a.....a mons---"
Kikyo had enough of this, first InuYasha had called her a monster and now this old woman.
She knew InuYasha was near, and she didn't want him to come rushing back smelling someone's blood.
Kikyo got her hands over Lady Metaka's face.
She tried to ask what Kikyo had just done, but her mouth wouldn't open.
She tried to breath....but no air would come in. And unable to scream for help.
Kikyo had sealed her....
She clutched her neck, trying forcedly to breath, she could feel her mind getting numb, her lung feeling as if someone was squeezing it from the lack of air.
She fell to her knees, her nails digging into the soil. Opening her mouth, trying to suck in air, but no air entering.
She could feel her lungs wanting to rip.
All she could do was make coughing sound. She coughed out so hard that blood started to dribbled down her chin and dripping to the ground.
Kikyo watched coldly with a slight smile on her lips, gazing emotionlessly down at the dying woman.
Lady Metaka looked down at her hands that were smeared in her own blood.
"You are letting out too much blood" Kikyo whispered as she stretched out her hands and wrapped it around the miko's neck.
"I shall end your pain quickly" Kikyo whispered, gripping her neck tightly until the pulse was no longer beating under her fingers.
"There....it is done"
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Kagome jumped out of the well at daybreak.
Kagome climbed out of the well and closed her eyes. Breathing in the fresh scent of morning. She gave out a sigh, she was glad that she'd see InuYasha again. And of course her other friends.
She walked out of the forest, putting the miko Haori into her yellow bag. Now wearing her normal casual clothing.
Kagome sighed, wondering where InuYasha was.
As she continued to walk on, she saw from far away a distant figure of InuYasha resting on a tree branch.
Kagome smiled and ran over there quietly. InuYasha in some deep thought had not heard the rustling in the grass.
Kagome looked up at InuYasha who was staring blankly at the slit of sun arising from the land as multiple colors bursting across the sky.
She looked determinedly up at the branch InuYasha was resting on. She had never actually rested on a tree branch before....
~It would be a nice experience~
She started to climb as quietly as she could.
While InuYasha continued to look out at the sky, his mind zoned out in deep thought.
She clasped the branch InuYasha was resting on, quietly panting from the great effort it took. She had a flash back of memory remembering her brother, Souta, climbing easily up a tree.
Kagome sweat dropped,
~Am I that old and heavy now....?!!~
Kagome closed her eyes tightly as she tried to pull herself up.
InuYasha finally snapped back into reality and slowly turned his gaze around, hearing A LOT of noise next to him.
He turned to see something trying to get on his branch.
"Eh?!!!!!" InuYasha cried in shock and not being prepared to face off the thing, and anyway, he had just come out of his thoughts. He lost balance as his arms flapped in the air as if he were trying to fly.
InuYasha crashed into the ground.
"You're a dog not a bird!!!" Kagome said in a teasing tone.
InuYasha looked up after he came back to himself. A little tear droplet on the corner of his eyes from the pain it caused his wounds from crashing to the ground.
"Ahhhh.....gomen" Kagome cried, seeing that InuYasha had not been fully healed. She held her hands together and looked down at him in worry. Suddenly she realized that she was not holding the tree branch which had held her up.
"KYAAAAAAA!!!" Kagome cried, her arms flapping in the air InuYasha's had done. She came crashing down upon InuYasha.
Her eyes still tightly closed, thinking she would have hit the ground. But she felt herself landing hard onto something cushiony.
"Oro......"
She looked under herself to see....InuYasha. She shot off him,
"Gomen, gomen, gomen!!!!!" Kagome apologiesed, looking down at InuYasha who's eyes were spinning.
After a few minuets InuYasha came back to reality and slowly sat up to see Kagome's face close up to him.
He looked at her in slight dizziness.
"GOMEN!" Kagome cried.
"Keh.....it's alright" InuYasha muttered.
Kagome sighed in relief seeing that InuYasha didn't look too pissed.
"Jeez Kagome, how much do you weigh, wench?" InuYasha asked, returning to his normal self.
"SHUT UP!" Kagome yelled with a slight blush, "I'm not that heavy, it's cuz of gravity"
"......." InuYasha had no idea what she had just meant. ~gravity?~
InuYasha dragged himself to the tree and rested against it. Kagome sat close next to him.
"InuYasha......" Kagome murmured.
"Nani....?"
Kagome reached her hands inside her bag as she shuffled through, and took something out.
She handed it to him.
"N-Nanda....?"
"Open it" Kagome demanded.
He slowly unwrapped the present. A necklace.
"Is this another one of those necklace given by Kaede-baba to control me or somethin' ?" InuYasha asked.
"Nope" Kagome replied with a smile, "I just bought it for you"
"Hey...." InuYasha muttered, "don't the dogs in your time have these kind of tags hanging on their necklace? "
"Ah hah" Kagome nervously laughed with a sweat drop,
"I bought it for you, now I can tell you apart from the other dogs!"
InuYasha growled at Kagome and glared,
"Keh...." InuYasha looked down at it, ~It was from Kagome, so he liked it. If It had not been from her.....~
"Do you like it?" Kagome asked, ~Haha, InuYasha is now my dog~
"Keh, I don't want it" InuYasha muttered, ~I never gave you anything, so why should you~
Kagome pushed his hands away,
"I don't want it! It's for you"
They continued to push each other's hands back and forth until InuYasha finally took it, but dropped it into his pocket.
"Dry" Kagome muttered with a glare.
"NANI?!" InuYasha asked, ~I know I love her....it's just that....I'm not used to such kindness....so I'm not used to acting kind back, even though I want to~
"Humph, I'm leaving" Kagome muttered as she stomped away,
"Erg!" Kagome growled in anger, "Ungrateful, dumb ass, jack ass, dry, mean....." and on and on she went, stomping towards the hut, mumbling all the swear words she knew.
"Jeez....." InuYasha muttered, "what did I do now....."
"Rule number three.....right Sango?" Miroku asked her in a whisper.
"I think you were on rule number two last time.....yah"
"Ah, I was right then. Rule number three: Always talk in flattering words when in the presence of a lady" Miroku said.
Sango sighed as they watched InuYasha from their hiding place,
"InuYasha.....can he really get any more stupider than that?"
"Nope" Miroku answered, "he is the stupidest of stupids"
"For once you are right Houshi-sama" Sango replied.
"A monk is always right"
"Right....." Sango muttered, "I better get going. I do not believe Kagome would be in the mood to cook today"
"I'll help out"
Sango slightly blushed, "arigato"
*
InuYasha sat under the tree, still wondering what he had done wrong.
He looked down at the charm to see words imprinted into it,
"With all my heart"
"Ooooops....." InuYasha muttered, ~So...she did want me to have it for a special reason~
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They all stared at Kagome and InuYasha who were walking round an round the place.
Shippo popped some breakfast into his mouth and observed the two.
InuYasha went walking around after Kagome who walked away from him, circling the place the rest were eating breakfast at.
"Kagome!!! What's with you!!!" InuYasha yelled in annoyance.
"NOTHING!!!" Kagome yelled back, "I'M FINE!"
"You don't LOOK it!!"
"Well I AM, BAKA!!!"
InuYasha sweat dropped, ~she doesn't sound fine.....sheesh, I feel so gay, walking around like this~
"They've walked around in circles about nine times already..." Miroku muttered.
"Actually, they've walked around like this for ten and a half times.....I counted" Shippo said, "Oh, now it's eleven times"
Sango sweat dropped.
"OK, I A-PO-LO-GIES!!!!! HAPPY?!" InuYasha asked loudly, still walking round after her.
Kagome abruptively stopped as InuYasha smashed into her, tumbling to the ground.
"That didn't sound like much of an apology...." Kagome muttered to herself.
"Man, Kagome!!! It's just a necklace!!"
"Even though it was little, it meant something" Kagome whispered.
InuYasha's mind was at this moment beating him up for his stubbornness, ~just say SORRY with your heart!!! You know you're in the wrong!!~
Kagome turned and glared at him, but saw her necklace glimmering around his neck.
~He wore it....~
Kagome grinded her teeth, ~BAKA! Making me go through all this because of his stubbornness! Erg....~
"InuYasha....." Kagome said.
InuYasha looked up, "Ka.....gome....."
*Heart skips a beat*
He gazed at her, ~She's.....acting abnormal.....but she....is so nice~
"InuYasha......" Kagome said again, ~for all my trouble~
"SIT!!!!!!!!"
BAM!
~That's the Kagome I know...~ InuYasha thought in annoyance.
InuYasha got up and halted.
Everyone looked at him....
InuYasha frowned.....his ears twitching a little.
"InuYasha?" Kagome asked quietly, "what's wrong?"
~That scent.....so familiar....~ InuYasha sighed, "it's her....."
"It's who?" Miroku asked.
Silence.
~She's like a ghost that will forever haunt me.....until it can rest in peace. A ghost that darkens your mind at every turn......~
InuYasha looked away at the ground, not wanting to accidentally see her,
~Kikyo.....~ InuYasha thought, ~why do you have to torture me like this....can you not just give up on me and leave?!~
Kagome swallowed hard, could he possibly have sensed....Kikyo?
Her heart ripped just thinking about InuYasha still having something for Kikyo.
*************************************************
The sky was now dark, draped in gray. The scent of the sweet spring now gone, but filled with the scent of coming rain....
Kagome looked down at the Haori of a priestess.
She could hear rain slowly splashing to the ground, each moment, it getting harder and faster. The rain pouring on and on as if there was no end.
She ran her fingers across the material...
~Fate.....has brought me here.....and....fate wants me to become a miko....which I must become. I can't just carry this shard so carelessly...~
Kagome touched the pocket in which that shard was in.
Kagome closed her eyes, ~this is my job....my fate~
The way Lady Metaka had described her job as a miko......was it really like that?
Sorrow swept over her.
*
InuYasha stared boringly out the window, the image of everything blurry from the rain pouring against the window pane.
His heart stopped when he saw a figure.....dressed so familiar....
"Kikyo....." InuYasha whispered as he sprung up and ran towards the door.
~I have to get this guilt out of my system.....it's eating me inside out. Kikyo.....I realize is one scary woman....~
He ran into the rain, his silver white hair became soaked within a second.
He slowly walked over to her,
She stood with her back towards him.
~It's over Kikyo......~
"Kikyo...." InuYasha whispered, not wanting to make her realize that too harshly, "I'm sorry......about what I said today....I didn't mean it to sound so......"
"You met her today....." a voice asked, filled with heart ripping emotion.
~Now she's gone insane~ InuYasha realized,
"Kikyo! I do care for you...." InuYasha confessed, ~but caring is not loving...~
"Why.....why InuYasha didn't you tell me.....?"
"N- nani....." InuYasha asked in confusion.
Kikyo slowly turned around to reveal herself not as Kikyo but......Kagome.
InuYasha's eyes widened.
He looked into her eyes that spilled all her sadness onto him.
She looked deeply into his eyes,
"Why did you not tell me....? Is there something in your heart that still makes it a secret for you to....tell me that you met her?" Kagome asked in a whisper.
InuYasha just stood there, saying nothing. He did not know what to say.
"Why, InuYasha.....why do you have to keep these things from me. You make yourself unfaithful by doing so...if you had told me...."
"Kagome.....I- "
Kagome turned around, "go away...."
~Should I stay...or should I go.....~ InuYasha wondered.
Kagome glanced back at him, ~please stay and tell me that everything is fine....~
InuYasha looked away, ~She doesn't need me here....I'll depress her more~
Kagome watched as InuYasha slowly turned and walked away,
"InuYasha....." Kagome sadly whispered to herself.
She stood there, crying in the rain.....
***Flashback***
"Demons and miko were not meant to be together....." Lady Metaka said.
"A Miko must sacrifice a lot and must live all their life in sorrow and pain..."
***End of Flashback***
She had come out into the rain to bath away her pain that lay in her heart, the fact that she was to be a miko....hurted a lot. And now this.....
More tears rushed down her face, her cried of anguish muffled by the sound of pouring rain. Her tears burning against her cold skin.
"I don't...want to go through pain and sorrow......I just want to be happy with InuYasha......" Kagome cried.
~Isn't that what Kikyo wanted as well 50 years ago.....to become a normal human and not a miko?~
Kagome watched with blurry eyes as InuYasha walked away, his figure fading away from her sight.
"Why did you...leave.....when I needed your...comfort right now" Kagome sadly whispered.
*
~~Hope you liked the chapter ^^ Sorry "Yagirl-123" for not adding more of your fluff I ^^" I'll add the rest a little later!!~~
The dog tag idea was thought of by "yagirl-123" so...give her all the credits on that part ^^ Thnx!