**~~ Sorry I couldn't update soon. I'm still studying for my exams this
Monday ^^" I'm also working a bit on my "sealed fate" for those who keep
asking. Gomen ~~**
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Love is a burning fire,
Which water cannot distinguish.
Love is the light,
Which darkness cannot shadow.
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============= Chapter Six =============
The temple had sunlight cast across the lonely place. Shadows lurking around as the chanting of prayers echoed throughout the place.
The sound of a broom sweeping the place echoed throughout the place.
Kagome cleaned the temple, her mind dazed with the thoughts of InuYasha. She gave out a heavy sigh of boredom,
~I don't understand how Kikyo did this kind of work~
Kagome walked out of the temple and walked into the cool spring's day. The cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, brushing gently against her.
She picked up a pot to fill it with water from the river not far away.
As she walked down the forest lane, she caught a glimpse of something leaping from tree to tree.
Kagome frowned and slowly placed the pot down and pulled an arrow and bow out. She aimed it at the figure, she could sense it was a demon.
She stretched her bow, ready to shoot....
~Stay calm...and concentrate~ Lady Metaka's words echoed in her mind.
"Kagome....no" it whispered.
She let go of the arrow.
InuYasha jumped away, but the point of the arrow ripped through his Haori, gashing a little slit on his skin.
"Damn you Kagome..." InuYasha whispered, still hiding in the trees he looked down at Kagome...
He saw the same serious expression Kikyo had always.
InuYasha leaped unnoticedly away,
~I wont believe it.....Kagome is still my Kagome....she will not change into Kikyo~
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It was now the early afternoon, Kagoem had returned to cleaning the temple.
"LADY KAGOME!" a guard cried, running into the temple,
"A Youkai is headed near!!"
Kagome snapped out of her daze and raced to her bow and arrows and dashed out.
This was the fifth youkai that day to try and snatch the Shikon no Tama.
Kagome shot an arrow at the flying dragon, but it swished away from the arrow, but its body hit a side of the roof as blood splashed out of it, but continued to fly in the air . Kagome ran towards it again and aimed....and shot, hitting it on its tail. It gave a horrible scream. Kagome held her ears from the pain of hearing its high pitched cry.
It continued to scream.
Everyone had there ears covered and eyes tightly shut.
Kagome opened her eyes to see it flying towards her. She gasped and ran out of the way, but got away a little too late as it's tail whipped her to the ground.
Kagome landed on the ground with a thud.
A guard ran to the rescue , and pulled Kagome out of the dragon's reach and went to slay the demon, but the dragon slashed its fangs across his arms.
Kagome ran back up to the demon, but it started to screech again. Kagome tightly shut her eyes and ears, trying to stop the sound from ripping her mind apart.
It kept on going, but the sound was getting further away.
After a few minuets, the scream stopped.
Kagome opened her eyes, feeling guilty for not doing anything. But was surprised at what she saw. The dragon lay dead a little distance away, all ripped apart with what seemed....by a claw of another Youkai.
Kagome frowned,
"InuYasha......"
*
In the shadow, someone was speeding away from the place.
InuYasha ran, the branches of the tree cutting across his face. His hands smeared in dragon blood.
"Keh, wench, what would you do without me" InuYasha muttered as he continued to run as far away as he could from Kagome. He knew...however painful it was...that Kagome didn't want to see him.
~You could have killed it by yourself....right? You didn't need me~
InuYasha growled in frustration. Then he halted in his tracks.....
He couldn't run away from Kagome. His heart kept painfully pulling him towards her. He couldn't bear to be away from her. He wanted to be near her.
"Stupid wench....messing with my mind" he muttered as he slowly turned back and walked back to Kagome. His mind deciding whether he should just leave Kagome, or go watch over her in secret.
"She most likely needs me" InuYasha muttered, doubt filling his heart, ~or maybe not~
He walked towards the temple to see her tending one of the soldiers. She reminded him so much of Kikyo....her clothing....everything looked like Kikyo from the distance he was. It was scary.
Kagome wrapped a bandage around the arm of a soldier that had been wounded by the dragon's fangs that had bitten into his arms.
~Stupid InuYasha~ Kagome thought, ~thinks that I'm that weak?!!! Thinks that I cant do anything on my own. Humph, I don't need him!~
She saw something lurking in the shadow, she looked up to catch a glimpse of a red Haori.
"You BAKA! Go away!" Kagome hissed, pain ripping through her heart. She knew who it was.
*Echo: "You're such a weak human girl!! So stay back and let me fight, wench!"
"I'm not weak" Kagome muttered to herself
InuYasha stepped out,
"Keh, no way, remember I baby sit you" InuYasha muttered.
"I don't need you! I can do everything on my own now. I used to be a weak human girl, but now I'm not!" Kagome said.
"I just wanted to be near you, that's all" InuYasha yelled back, "if that's too damn much to ask of a miko then fine! I'll leave if that's what you want"
Kagome's eyes quickly went teary, she stretched out her hands towards InuYasha,
"Inu...InuYasha...I didn't mean to hurt your feelings...." she cried softly.
"A demon has no fuckin' feelings, right? I'm just another youkai that wants to steal the shard, and another youkai for you to slay" InuYasha snapped at her.
"No, InuYasha! I love you!" Kagome cried.
"That's probably what Kikyo would have once said...but she would have slayed me if she had to for the shards" InuYasha bitterly muttered, "maybe it'd be best if I just left"
~For a while~
"InuYasha! I'm not KIKYO!!! I'm Ka-go-me !!!" she cried.
"Keh...." InuYasha silently turned around, "but you're trying to be her, and you're turning into her...."
"N- nani??" Kagome gasped, "I...I'm myself"
"No, you're turning just like Kikyo. Not accepting me as a demon, no longer having any time for me since you are a miko and not needing me any more"
"InuYasha..." Kagome whispered in pain.
"Maybe....we just weren't meant to be" InuYasha whispered, ~What if we..weren't meant to be together....does that mean....I'd have to give you up?!~
"You're a damn miko now, just like Kikyo" InuYasha muttered.
"I do except you as you are! It's just that....it's my fate to become a miko, but that doesn't mean it changes me!"
"No...Kagome, it changes everything. If it is fate for you to become a miko...to become Kikyo. It is fate that we weren't meant to be together" InuYasha whispered as he slowly walked into the shadow of the forests.
~Then change the fate....what will I do if I can't be without you...~ Kagome thought, but he was gone before she could tell her.
"Fine....this is what you want isn't it? You want to get rid of me, cuz I'm a demon. I'll save you the job of slaying me, I'll just leave and stay away...." InuYasha muttered as he ran away.
Lady Metaka's words echoed in his darkened mind.
Fate is to repeat...
He will betray Kagome, and Kagome will betray him.
Their love....
Is shallow as it was with his and Kikyo's love.
That's what :Lady Metaka had implied....
InuYasha could feel his heart throbbing with pain and unshed tears.
A bitter cold tear dribbled down his cheeks, he wiped it away.
~Why can I never have what I want...All I wanted...for sure this time.....was to be with Kagome...Kagome, not Kikyo~
*
"Ah, I see the temple now" she muttered as she flew closer to the place, shadows trailing behind her.
The guards all stood up and covered the gate towards the temple, all glaring at the youkai.
"Who are you?!" a guard asked.
"I am the sealed shadow princess Tohru, ruler of the shadow land, youkai of darkness and I have come to take my revenge on Lady Kikyo" she whispered, her cold voice echoing throughout the place.
"Lady Kikyo is dead" they said, pointing their spears at her.
"Then I will simply kill all that hinders me from the shard"
"Why does a princess need the shard, are you not already strong enough?! We have heard of you, but had thought it a mere myth!"
"No one can be too powerful, and I need it to bring back my fortress. Without it, I am a wanderer" she replied.
The guards bunched up closer together,
"We shan't let you pass anyhow!"
"That is too bad, I was hoping not to waste my time, but I guess I will have to" she whispered.
They all gasped seeing the shadow behind the floating princess was moving towards them, and their own shadows were crawling up their body. They all cried in shock.
"The shadows are now your enemy....they will eat up all the light inside your body. Thus you shall become fully dark...and then I will control you all" she whispered watching the humans dropping onto their knees, clutching themselves of the pain of loosing all the goodness in them.
"The pain will soon be over, and you shall feel nothing. It will be as if I am controlling dead corpse"
They all one by one dropped to the ground.
Tohru rolled her eyes in annoyance,
~ I should have known, human's are too weak to live with only darkness. Only other demons are strong enough....~
The shadow came out of the dead humans, the shadows even bigger from consuming all the darkness and light in them and their own shadows leaving them shadowless...
She glided slowly towards the temple. But as soon as she got really close to the entrance, she backed away with a gasp.
There was strong barrier that was repelling her away. She knew that she could easily get through it.....but she was just too lazy.
"Priestess, come out of the temple" Tohru whispered, her soft and cold whisper spreading everywhere in a breezy echo.
Kagome had 'accidentally' fallen asleep from boredom, into a dark dream of InuYasha.
The cold whispering voice snapped her awake, she grabbed at the bow next to her and walked slowly out of the temple walls.
She looked at the floating woman, cloaked in a black Kimono, with long black silky hair falling down her shoulders. Her face pale, her lips red, and her eyes cold grey.
All in all, the youkai looked damn freaky.
"What do you want?!" Kagome asked, looking around to see all the guards. ~This is all my fault, I should have stayed awake to help them out~
"Is it hard to guess? The Shikon no Tama and to kill you Lady Kikyo" Tohru whispered.
"I'm not Kikyo!!!! And you cant have the shard!" Kagome hissed at her, slowly reaching out for an arrow.
Tohru smiled, letting Kagome shoot at her. But the arrows went through her, as if she were a ghost.
"N- nani?!" Kagome gasped.
"I am Shadow princess Tohru, ruler of the shadow land. Princess of the shadow and darkness"
Kagome felt her heart freeze,
~A miko...against a strong princess....a shadow. How can you defeat a shadow?!!~
Kagome stood there, not knowing what to do.
Tohru flew closer down to Kagome, the shadow trailing behind her.
The demon stretched out her hands as the dark shadow shot towards Kagome.
Kagome could feel her heart beating fast, she didn't know what to do. The shadows were coming closer to her.
~They're only shadows...what harm can they do~ Kagome thought, but still felt cold sweat running down her face.
Kagome got the bow of her arrow as it started to glow with a strange powerful light, she hit the shadows as they backed away from her.
~Ok.....I found one of my unknown power~
Suddenly, Kagome saw herself becoming surrounded by the shadows, coming closer and closer.
She continued to hit them away but there was just to many.
She saw one sweep into her, she felt pain shoot through her. She felt as if it was eating something up inside of her, her heart and mind feeling more heavy.
Tohru frowned,
~Her body is too pure for my shadows to do its job of stealing her purity....it shall be harder than I thought~
The shadows shot out of Kagome, unable to steal such a pure light.
Kagome dropped to the ground, her face pale, just staring at the ground. She clutched her heart, she could feel it trembling. For a few seconds she felt so dark, as if she were loosing her mind into the darkness.
"Then I shall just defeat you with my own bare hands" Tohru whispered as she touched a dark jewel hanging from her neck.
Kagome noticed that the shadow princess always did that before she attacked....as if that was what gave her, her power.
Suddenly, arm like shadowy dark light came out of the jewel, shooting towards Kagome.
Kagome rolled quickly away as they disappeared into the grass..It suddenly turned dead.
Kagome looked up at the princess in shocked curiosity.
She gave a cold chuckle,
"My powers can suck up all the light, leaving it with only darkness. And no life can survive without light. It is essential to life. That is...not the lives of things that were meant to live in darkness" Tohru muttered, "and your stupid miko powers cannot stop me now"
The streak of dark light shot at Kagome many times, missing only by a bit.
*
"Stupid Baka" InuYasha muttered, running back towards Kagome
~I feel so damn stupid, running back and forth after her. Stupid wench, I can feel she's in trouble. Oh, and I guess now she needs me, what am I, her body guard? Am I really just her damn babysitter?!!~
InuYasha continued to curse Kagome as he ran towards her. The bitter wound she had caused him still remained in his heart, he didn't "want" to forgive Kagome and make her suffer as well for what she had done to her, but since when had anything gone "his" way.
InuYasha reached the site to look on in shock.
He knew who that Youkai was. He had once fought with her to get the Shikon no Tama, we he never was able to get. She had been....so strong. He wasn't even able to lay a claw on her.
Darkness cannot destroy darkness.
Kagome saw InuYasha and felt relieve wash over her,
"InuYasha!" she cried.
"Since you said you're a miko, and that you don't need me, you can deal this on your own, right? You wouldn't want another demon to interfere would you? I'll just sit and watch" InuYasha muttered sarcastically in a bitter tone.
He felt strong pain and bitterness in his heart.....but he couldn't even feel the slightest indication of hatred.
He looked up at Kagome to see tears in her eyes as she hit away the shadows shooting at her. She could feel her strength slowly giving up on her.
"Oh, now I have to be the damn hero again" InuYasha muttered, unable to take anymore of this.
He ran up to the demon of darkness and ran his claws at her, but the gash immediately closed up.
"Dammit" InuYasha muttered.
Tohru gazed down at him, ~He would do very well as a helper for me....and I remember that he was in love with Lady Kikyo. He may be able to lead me to her, I know Kikyo is still alive, I can sense it now~
InuYasha leaped back in front of Kagome protectively,
"I want you" Tohru whispered.
Kagome's face went dark,
"N- nani?!"
"I would like you to work for me...and I shall leave your dearest alone"
"Shut up you wench! I'm not helping no....whatever you are. I work for NO ONE" InuYasha growled.
"Then I guess....I must do it by force" Tohru whispered. She touched the jewel again as shadows shot out and shot into InuYasha.
He froze, he could feel his body going cold. His mind disappearing into the darkness and felt the beating of his heart beating abnormally. But....he had felt it before...when he had turned into a full youkai....
"I will take all the goodness out of him and leave him as a strong, and dark youkai" Tohru whispered, "do not fight against it InuYasha, is not this what you've always longed for?"
"Stop it!!" Kagome cried, she got an arrow and shot it with her bow. As the arrow sped, a glowing light formed around it. The light of purity. It hit the heart of Tohru, but did nothing wrong, but the purity light shining at her dark jewel made Tohru have an expression of pain.
She quickly drew back away from InuYasha, leaving him to drop to the ground. The shadow slowly coming out of him.
~My jewel...it was effected by the purity light...~ Tohru thought.
But light can fight against Darkness
"Your purity arrows are not pure enough to destroy me" Tohru hissed.
Kagome ran over to InuYasha who lay shaking on the floor, trying to regain himself.
He looked up at her, but saw Kikyo.
He pushed Kagome away,
"You...you're turning into....Kikyo" InuYasha bitterly whispered.
"InuYasha! Shush...stop saying that!" Kagome cried.
"I see the darkness has gotten into him a bit. The dark side of his mind..." Tohru muttered.
"Make him back to himself!" Kagome cried.
"That is only possible if you destroy me..." she laughed.
"All you do is need me when you need the help, and when you don't, you kick me away" InuYasha hissed,
"You useless human wench...." InuYasha muttered, his eyes flashing red then back to normal. He was on the brink of changing into a full demon. He didn't even know what he was saying to Kagome....it was just words coming out of the dark part of him....that were not true. Words formed from jealousy that Kagome would not need him because of her own power, pain because he couldn't be with her. Rejection, because she wouldn't accept him.
"No! InuYasha! Don't say that! I didn't need you right now, stop blaming me, you always do! I didn't need you right now, I was doing fine!" Kagome cried in bitter anger. He had said it again....a weak human girl. She felt like nothing when comparing herself to Kikyo.
"fine, you don't need me, I don't give two shits" InuYasha muttered as he unsteadily stood up.
"Be that way" InuYasha said as he walked away, his heart broken...
Into millions of fragments...
~Kagome doesn't need me~
Tohru smiled evilly,
~I can see that you are in love yet again with another miko. If you are not willing to give yourself to me....then I will threaten you to~
She swiftly glided into the temple with the shard glittering in her hands and came back out....no one had noticed what she had so easily stolen.
~You're certainly not very much like Kikyo....she would have been paranoid over the Shard, not over the one....she loved~ Tohru observed.
Kagome watched, pain and anger burning inside of her.
"You BAKA! I'm not WEAK!" Kagome yelled loudly at him, suddenly she felt the shadowed wrapping tightly around her.
InuYasha slowly began to turn around,
"When...did I say you were weak- Kagome!!!!" InuYasha yelled, seeing Kagome all trapped by Tohru who smiled at InuYasha.
"LET HER GO BITCH!" InuYasha yelled.
"I shall take her to my fortress....come and save her...if you are willing to give up something for her stead"
"WHAT?!" InuYasha asked.
"Give me...you"
"NANI?!"
Tohru slowly started to glide away into the forest as InuYasha ran after.
"At night, when the moon comes up, follow it and you shall find my fortress" Tohru whispered as it echoed throughout the forest.
"Right now is still early in the day! You think I'll wait that long for me to get Kagome back?! Just give my girl BACK!" InuYasha yelled, leaping into the air for Kagome.
But Tohru faded away into the darkness of the forest, with Kagome.
"I need time...to re-create my fortress again...and I have the shard now" Tohru's voice echoed from somewhere.
InuYasha's face went pale.
"And the whole world will be draped in darkness...Hahahaha"
"NO! KAGOME! Where are you?!!" InuYasha cried.
Silence.
"Kagome...." InuYasha whispered again.
He slashed his claws across the bark of a tree,
"DAMMIT!"
*
~InuYasha will come to me...he will...hahaha....he does not know what he will be facing if he fights against me. Fool...~
She looked down at Kagome, she had draped her mind in darkness. She was sleeping in the darkness, unable to escape.
"If InuYasha comes....I will take him as my slave....and I will kill you after. No one will be able to save you then" Tohru laughed in a whispery way.
*
~~ OK, GOMEN. I bet this chapter sucked. But hey, wut can you expect from a person who is stressing with exams. I jus wrote it for my readers sake....SORRY, I didn't even have time to proofread -_-" GOMEN. I promise, next chapter will be BETTER...since I'll write it after exams n wen im free~~
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Love is a burning fire,
Which water cannot distinguish.
Love is the light,
Which darkness cannot shadow.
*
============= Chapter Six =============
The temple had sunlight cast across the lonely place. Shadows lurking around as the chanting of prayers echoed throughout the place.
The sound of a broom sweeping the place echoed throughout the place.
Kagome cleaned the temple, her mind dazed with the thoughts of InuYasha. She gave out a heavy sigh of boredom,
~I don't understand how Kikyo did this kind of work~
Kagome walked out of the temple and walked into the cool spring's day. The cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, brushing gently against her.
She picked up a pot to fill it with water from the river not far away.
As she walked down the forest lane, she caught a glimpse of something leaping from tree to tree.
Kagome frowned and slowly placed the pot down and pulled an arrow and bow out. She aimed it at the figure, she could sense it was a demon.
She stretched her bow, ready to shoot....
~Stay calm...and concentrate~ Lady Metaka's words echoed in her mind.
"Kagome....no" it whispered.
She let go of the arrow.
InuYasha jumped away, but the point of the arrow ripped through his Haori, gashing a little slit on his skin.
"Damn you Kagome..." InuYasha whispered, still hiding in the trees he looked down at Kagome...
He saw the same serious expression Kikyo had always.
InuYasha leaped unnoticedly away,
~I wont believe it.....Kagome is still my Kagome....she will not change into Kikyo~
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It was now the early afternoon, Kagoem had returned to cleaning the temple.
"LADY KAGOME!" a guard cried, running into the temple,
"A Youkai is headed near!!"
Kagome snapped out of her daze and raced to her bow and arrows and dashed out.
This was the fifth youkai that day to try and snatch the Shikon no Tama.
Kagome shot an arrow at the flying dragon, but it swished away from the arrow, but its body hit a side of the roof as blood splashed out of it, but continued to fly in the air . Kagome ran towards it again and aimed....and shot, hitting it on its tail. It gave a horrible scream. Kagome held her ears from the pain of hearing its high pitched cry.
It continued to scream.
Everyone had there ears covered and eyes tightly shut.
Kagome opened her eyes to see it flying towards her. She gasped and ran out of the way, but got away a little too late as it's tail whipped her to the ground.
Kagome landed on the ground with a thud.
A guard ran to the rescue , and pulled Kagome out of the dragon's reach and went to slay the demon, but the dragon slashed its fangs across his arms.
Kagome ran back up to the demon, but it started to screech again. Kagome tightly shut her eyes and ears, trying to stop the sound from ripping her mind apart.
It kept on going, but the sound was getting further away.
After a few minuets, the scream stopped.
Kagome opened her eyes, feeling guilty for not doing anything. But was surprised at what she saw. The dragon lay dead a little distance away, all ripped apart with what seemed....by a claw of another Youkai.
Kagome frowned,
"InuYasha......"
*
In the shadow, someone was speeding away from the place.
InuYasha ran, the branches of the tree cutting across his face. His hands smeared in dragon blood.
"Keh, wench, what would you do without me" InuYasha muttered as he continued to run as far away as he could from Kagome. He knew...however painful it was...that Kagome didn't want to see him.
~You could have killed it by yourself....right? You didn't need me~
InuYasha growled in frustration. Then he halted in his tracks.....
He couldn't run away from Kagome. His heart kept painfully pulling him towards her. He couldn't bear to be away from her. He wanted to be near her.
"Stupid wench....messing with my mind" he muttered as he slowly turned back and walked back to Kagome. His mind deciding whether he should just leave Kagome, or go watch over her in secret.
"She most likely needs me" InuYasha muttered, doubt filling his heart, ~or maybe not~
He walked towards the temple to see her tending one of the soldiers. She reminded him so much of Kikyo....her clothing....everything looked like Kikyo from the distance he was. It was scary.
Kagome wrapped a bandage around the arm of a soldier that had been wounded by the dragon's fangs that had bitten into his arms.
~Stupid InuYasha~ Kagome thought, ~thinks that I'm that weak?!!! Thinks that I cant do anything on my own. Humph, I don't need him!~
She saw something lurking in the shadow, she looked up to catch a glimpse of a red Haori.
"You BAKA! Go away!" Kagome hissed, pain ripping through her heart. She knew who it was.
*Echo: "You're such a weak human girl!! So stay back and let me fight, wench!"
"I'm not weak" Kagome muttered to herself
InuYasha stepped out,
"Keh, no way, remember I baby sit you" InuYasha muttered.
"I don't need you! I can do everything on my own now. I used to be a weak human girl, but now I'm not!" Kagome said.
"I just wanted to be near you, that's all" InuYasha yelled back, "if that's too damn much to ask of a miko then fine! I'll leave if that's what you want"
Kagome's eyes quickly went teary, she stretched out her hands towards InuYasha,
"Inu...InuYasha...I didn't mean to hurt your feelings...." she cried softly.
"A demon has no fuckin' feelings, right? I'm just another youkai that wants to steal the shard, and another youkai for you to slay" InuYasha snapped at her.
"No, InuYasha! I love you!" Kagome cried.
"That's probably what Kikyo would have once said...but she would have slayed me if she had to for the shards" InuYasha bitterly muttered, "maybe it'd be best if I just left"
~For a while~
"InuYasha! I'm not KIKYO!!! I'm Ka-go-me !!!" she cried.
"Keh...." InuYasha silently turned around, "but you're trying to be her, and you're turning into her...."
"N- nani??" Kagome gasped, "I...I'm myself"
"No, you're turning just like Kikyo. Not accepting me as a demon, no longer having any time for me since you are a miko and not needing me any more"
"InuYasha..." Kagome whispered in pain.
"Maybe....we just weren't meant to be" InuYasha whispered, ~What if we..weren't meant to be together....does that mean....I'd have to give you up?!~
"You're a damn miko now, just like Kikyo" InuYasha muttered.
"I do except you as you are! It's just that....it's my fate to become a miko, but that doesn't mean it changes me!"
"No...Kagome, it changes everything. If it is fate for you to become a miko...to become Kikyo. It is fate that we weren't meant to be together" InuYasha whispered as he slowly walked into the shadow of the forests.
~Then change the fate....what will I do if I can't be without you...~ Kagome thought, but he was gone before she could tell her.
"Fine....this is what you want isn't it? You want to get rid of me, cuz I'm a demon. I'll save you the job of slaying me, I'll just leave and stay away...." InuYasha muttered as he ran away.
Lady Metaka's words echoed in his darkened mind.
Fate is to repeat...
He will betray Kagome, and Kagome will betray him.
Their love....
Is shallow as it was with his and Kikyo's love.
That's what :Lady Metaka had implied....
InuYasha could feel his heart throbbing with pain and unshed tears.
A bitter cold tear dribbled down his cheeks, he wiped it away.
~Why can I never have what I want...All I wanted...for sure this time.....was to be with Kagome...Kagome, not Kikyo~
*
"Ah, I see the temple now" she muttered as she flew closer to the place, shadows trailing behind her.
The guards all stood up and covered the gate towards the temple, all glaring at the youkai.
"Who are you?!" a guard asked.
"I am the sealed shadow princess Tohru, ruler of the shadow land, youkai of darkness and I have come to take my revenge on Lady Kikyo" she whispered, her cold voice echoing throughout the place.
"Lady Kikyo is dead" they said, pointing their spears at her.
"Then I will simply kill all that hinders me from the shard"
"Why does a princess need the shard, are you not already strong enough?! We have heard of you, but had thought it a mere myth!"
"No one can be too powerful, and I need it to bring back my fortress. Without it, I am a wanderer" she replied.
The guards bunched up closer together,
"We shan't let you pass anyhow!"
"That is too bad, I was hoping not to waste my time, but I guess I will have to" she whispered.
They all gasped seeing the shadow behind the floating princess was moving towards them, and their own shadows were crawling up their body. They all cried in shock.
"The shadows are now your enemy....they will eat up all the light inside your body. Thus you shall become fully dark...and then I will control you all" she whispered watching the humans dropping onto their knees, clutching themselves of the pain of loosing all the goodness in them.
"The pain will soon be over, and you shall feel nothing. It will be as if I am controlling dead corpse"
They all one by one dropped to the ground.
Tohru rolled her eyes in annoyance,
~ I should have known, human's are too weak to live with only darkness. Only other demons are strong enough....~
The shadow came out of the dead humans, the shadows even bigger from consuming all the darkness and light in them and their own shadows leaving them shadowless...
She glided slowly towards the temple. But as soon as she got really close to the entrance, she backed away with a gasp.
There was strong barrier that was repelling her away. She knew that she could easily get through it.....but she was just too lazy.
"Priestess, come out of the temple" Tohru whispered, her soft and cold whisper spreading everywhere in a breezy echo.
Kagome had 'accidentally' fallen asleep from boredom, into a dark dream of InuYasha.
The cold whispering voice snapped her awake, she grabbed at the bow next to her and walked slowly out of the temple walls.
She looked at the floating woman, cloaked in a black Kimono, with long black silky hair falling down her shoulders. Her face pale, her lips red, and her eyes cold grey.
All in all, the youkai looked damn freaky.
"What do you want?!" Kagome asked, looking around to see all the guards. ~This is all my fault, I should have stayed awake to help them out~
"Is it hard to guess? The Shikon no Tama and to kill you Lady Kikyo" Tohru whispered.
"I'm not Kikyo!!!! And you cant have the shard!" Kagome hissed at her, slowly reaching out for an arrow.
Tohru smiled, letting Kagome shoot at her. But the arrows went through her, as if she were a ghost.
"N- nani?!" Kagome gasped.
"I am Shadow princess Tohru, ruler of the shadow land. Princess of the shadow and darkness"
Kagome felt her heart freeze,
~A miko...against a strong princess....a shadow. How can you defeat a shadow?!!~
Kagome stood there, not knowing what to do.
Tohru flew closer down to Kagome, the shadow trailing behind her.
The demon stretched out her hands as the dark shadow shot towards Kagome.
Kagome could feel her heart beating fast, she didn't know what to do. The shadows were coming closer to her.
~They're only shadows...what harm can they do~ Kagome thought, but still felt cold sweat running down her face.
Kagome got the bow of her arrow as it started to glow with a strange powerful light, she hit the shadows as they backed away from her.
~Ok.....I found one of my unknown power~
Suddenly, Kagome saw herself becoming surrounded by the shadows, coming closer and closer.
She continued to hit them away but there was just to many.
She saw one sweep into her, she felt pain shoot through her. She felt as if it was eating something up inside of her, her heart and mind feeling more heavy.
Tohru frowned,
~Her body is too pure for my shadows to do its job of stealing her purity....it shall be harder than I thought~
The shadows shot out of Kagome, unable to steal such a pure light.
Kagome dropped to the ground, her face pale, just staring at the ground. She clutched her heart, she could feel it trembling. For a few seconds she felt so dark, as if she were loosing her mind into the darkness.
"Then I shall just defeat you with my own bare hands" Tohru whispered as she touched a dark jewel hanging from her neck.
Kagome noticed that the shadow princess always did that before she attacked....as if that was what gave her, her power.
Suddenly, arm like shadowy dark light came out of the jewel, shooting towards Kagome.
Kagome rolled quickly away as they disappeared into the grass..It suddenly turned dead.
Kagome looked up at the princess in shocked curiosity.
She gave a cold chuckle,
"My powers can suck up all the light, leaving it with only darkness. And no life can survive without light. It is essential to life. That is...not the lives of things that were meant to live in darkness" Tohru muttered, "and your stupid miko powers cannot stop me now"
The streak of dark light shot at Kagome many times, missing only by a bit.
*
"Stupid Baka" InuYasha muttered, running back towards Kagome
~I feel so damn stupid, running back and forth after her. Stupid wench, I can feel she's in trouble. Oh, and I guess now she needs me, what am I, her body guard? Am I really just her damn babysitter?!!~
InuYasha continued to curse Kagome as he ran towards her. The bitter wound she had caused him still remained in his heart, he didn't "want" to forgive Kagome and make her suffer as well for what she had done to her, but since when had anything gone "his" way.
InuYasha reached the site to look on in shock.
He knew who that Youkai was. He had once fought with her to get the Shikon no Tama, we he never was able to get. She had been....so strong. He wasn't even able to lay a claw on her.
Darkness cannot destroy darkness.
Kagome saw InuYasha and felt relieve wash over her,
"InuYasha!" she cried.
"Since you said you're a miko, and that you don't need me, you can deal this on your own, right? You wouldn't want another demon to interfere would you? I'll just sit and watch" InuYasha muttered sarcastically in a bitter tone.
He felt strong pain and bitterness in his heart.....but he couldn't even feel the slightest indication of hatred.
He looked up at Kagome to see tears in her eyes as she hit away the shadows shooting at her. She could feel her strength slowly giving up on her.
"Oh, now I have to be the damn hero again" InuYasha muttered, unable to take anymore of this.
He ran up to the demon of darkness and ran his claws at her, but the gash immediately closed up.
"Dammit" InuYasha muttered.
Tohru gazed down at him, ~He would do very well as a helper for me....and I remember that he was in love with Lady Kikyo. He may be able to lead me to her, I know Kikyo is still alive, I can sense it now~
InuYasha leaped back in front of Kagome protectively,
"I want you" Tohru whispered.
Kagome's face went dark,
"N- nani?!"
"I would like you to work for me...and I shall leave your dearest alone"
"Shut up you wench! I'm not helping no....whatever you are. I work for NO ONE" InuYasha growled.
"Then I guess....I must do it by force" Tohru whispered. She touched the jewel again as shadows shot out and shot into InuYasha.
He froze, he could feel his body going cold. His mind disappearing into the darkness and felt the beating of his heart beating abnormally. But....he had felt it before...when he had turned into a full youkai....
"I will take all the goodness out of him and leave him as a strong, and dark youkai" Tohru whispered, "do not fight against it InuYasha, is not this what you've always longed for?"
"Stop it!!" Kagome cried, she got an arrow and shot it with her bow. As the arrow sped, a glowing light formed around it. The light of purity. It hit the heart of Tohru, but did nothing wrong, but the purity light shining at her dark jewel made Tohru have an expression of pain.
She quickly drew back away from InuYasha, leaving him to drop to the ground. The shadow slowly coming out of him.
~My jewel...it was effected by the purity light...~ Tohru thought.
But light can fight against Darkness
"Your purity arrows are not pure enough to destroy me" Tohru hissed.
Kagome ran over to InuYasha who lay shaking on the floor, trying to regain himself.
He looked up at her, but saw Kikyo.
He pushed Kagome away,
"You...you're turning into....Kikyo" InuYasha bitterly whispered.
"InuYasha! Shush...stop saying that!" Kagome cried.
"I see the darkness has gotten into him a bit. The dark side of his mind..." Tohru muttered.
"Make him back to himself!" Kagome cried.
"That is only possible if you destroy me..." she laughed.
"All you do is need me when you need the help, and when you don't, you kick me away" InuYasha hissed,
"You useless human wench...." InuYasha muttered, his eyes flashing red then back to normal. He was on the brink of changing into a full demon. He didn't even know what he was saying to Kagome....it was just words coming out of the dark part of him....that were not true. Words formed from jealousy that Kagome would not need him because of her own power, pain because he couldn't be with her. Rejection, because she wouldn't accept him.
"No! InuYasha! Don't say that! I didn't need you right now, stop blaming me, you always do! I didn't need you right now, I was doing fine!" Kagome cried in bitter anger. He had said it again....a weak human girl. She felt like nothing when comparing herself to Kikyo.
"fine, you don't need me, I don't give two shits" InuYasha muttered as he unsteadily stood up.
"Be that way" InuYasha said as he walked away, his heart broken...
Into millions of fragments...
~Kagome doesn't need me~
Tohru smiled evilly,
~I can see that you are in love yet again with another miko. If you are not willing to give yourself to me....then I will threaten you to~
She swiftly glided into the temple with the shard glittering in her hands and came back out....no one had noticed what she had so easily stolen.
~You're certainly not very much like Kikyo....she would have been paranoid over the Shard, not over the one....she loved~ Tohru observed.
Kagome watched, pain and anger burning inside of her.
"You BAKA! I'm not WEAK!" Kagome yelled loudly at him, suddenly she felt the shadowed wrapping tightly around her.
InuYasha slowly began to turn around,
"When...did I say you were weak- Kagome!!!!" InuYasha yelled, seeing Kagome all trapped by Tohru who smiled at InuYasha.
"LET HER GO BITCH!" InuYasha yelled.
"I shall take her to my fortress....come and save her...if you are willing to give up something for her stead"
"WHAT?!" InuYasha asked.
"Give me...you"
"NANI?!"
Tohru slowly started to glide away into the forest as InuYasha ran after.
"At night, when the moon comes up, follow it and you shall find my fortress" Tohru whispered as it echoed throughout the forest.
"Right now is still early in the day! You think I'll wait that long for me to get Kagome back?! Just give my girl BACK!" InuYasha yelled, leaping into the air for Kagome.
But Tohru faded away into the darkness of the forest, with Kagome.
"I need time...to re-create my fortress again...and I have the shard now" Tohru's voice echoed from somewhere.
InuYasha's face went pale.
"And the whole world will be draped in darkness...Hahahaha"
"NO! KAGOME! Where are you?!!" InuYasha cried.
Silence.
"Kagome...." InuYasha whispered again.
He slashed his claws across the bark of a tree,
"DAMMIT!"
*
~InuYasha will come to me...he will...hahaha....he does not know what he will be facing if he fights against me. Fool...~
She looked down at Kagome, she had draped her mind in darkness. She was sleeping in the darkness, unable to escape.
"If InuYasha comes....I will take him as my slave....and I will kill you after. No one will be able to save you then" Tohru laughed in a whispery way.
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~~ OK, GOMEN. I bet this chapter sucked. But hey, wut can you expect from a person who is stressing with exams. I jus wrote it for my readers sake....SORRY, I didn't even have time to proofread -_-" GOMEN. I promise, next chapter will be BETTER...since I'll write it after exams n wen im free~~