Chapter 12- I don't have a name for this one!

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"It's been a while hasn't it Inuyasha?"

"Uh...."

"Hey, who used that blue toothbrush? That was supposed to be my one!" Kagome stomped into the hallway and bumped into Miroku.

"What's going on? Why isn't anyone moving?" She asked. Miroku pointed to the opened front door.

"Why don't you say something to me Inuyasha?" Kikyou asked, her voice devoid of any emotion.

"Well....uh.... Shouldn't you be dead?"

Kikyou let a cold laugh and stepped inside the house. She floated past Sango, Shippou and stopped and Kagome, looking her dead in the eye. Then, she continued into the living room where she sat on the sofa. Everyone followed her in.

"What nice accommodation you have Inuyasha." Kikyou said politely.

Inuyasha had suddenly gained some courage and walked up to Kikyou.

"So. How come you're alive?" He asked impatiently.

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

Everyone was in utter silence as they waited for Kikyou's reply. A few seconds passed and Kikyou smiled wryly.

"Well, I'm not complete yet you see.." She turned her gaze to Kagome. "There's still a matter of a soul I need."

Suddenly, a bright light flashed in front of everyone. They all instinctively raised their hands over their eyes.

"Kikyou!" Inuyasha screeched, trying to see through the brightness of the light.

"Inuyasha!" He heard Kagome scream. He fumbled about; trying to get to her but it was no use.

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The only Kagome remembered when the light flashed was Kikyou running at her and grabbing her wrists tightly. She screamed for Inuyasha and she heard him yell back but at that moment, everything went black.

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When she awoke, Kagome found herself in what appeared to be a bath. She struggled but found that she couldn't move an inch. Just managing to move her head, she saw a mangled corpse of what looked like an old woman.

"She was the one who brought me back to this hell." Kikyou said sadly, stepping into view. Behind her was a man who looked like he was wearing some kind of monkey fur.

"Who the hell are you?!" She managed to say as the monkey-man came closer.

"That need not concern you." He said calmly.

They appeared to be in an abandoned shrine in what looked like a forest. There were dead leaves everywhere and it was completely silent. Kagome began to feel scared but she tried not to show it.

"What are you going to do with me?" She asked coldly.

"Oh, just extract your soul, making Kikyou turn into a real human and you into a lifeless shell." The man said casually as he gathered some herbs and placed them into a bowl.

"Oh."

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"Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!" Inuyasha yelled as he destroyed the fourth chair with his razor sharp claws.

"Y'know Inuyasha," said Shippou quietly. "It'd be a lot easier if we went and looked for Kagome instead of watch you destroy chairs."

"Of course!" Inuyasha said as he slashed the last chair. "Why didn't I think of that?! Let's go!" And with that, he ran straight out the house and down the road.

"Uh, was he being sarcastic or did he really not have a clue?" Shippou asked Miroku. Miroku shrugged his shoulders and they followed Inuyasha.

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'I'll follow Kagome's scent! It'll lead me straight to her. But what happened to Kikyou? Why did she take Kagome?'

As Inuyasha tore down the street he distinctly caught the scent of Kagome, and another person and a half dead person.

"What the hell?" He said aloud. Was Kikyou half dead? She DID say something about a soul.

The scent took him to the outskirts of Tokyo, where there was a dense forest.

Without a second thought, he plunged straight into it.

Shortly after he went into the forest, Miroku, Sango and Shippou came into view, huffing and puffing.

"W...where did he go?" Sango asked, out of breath.

"I don't know, but we'd better stop." Shippou said.

"Why?"

"Miroku's just passed out."

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"Gonna. Throw. Up." Kagome muttered through clenched teeth.

"Not long now." Said the man.

Kikyou sat in the corner, watching as the man mixed the herbs together. He then began chanting and Kikyou stood up and stood next to the bath thing that Kagome was in.

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"I'm getting closer!" Inuyasha said as he heard a voice. It sounded like it was chanting something. It almost sounded silly.

He burst through the bushes and scowled. Something white had just flown into Kikyou. Kagome was in a pool of liquid and an ape-man was sitting next to the pool with a bowl of mush.

"What's going on here eh?" Inuyasha said as he eyed up the corpse of a youkai woman.

"Inuyasha. You're just in time." Kikyou said, stepping forward. She looked a lot less pale than when she appeared on the doorstep. She seemed almost happy. Inuyasha looked behind Kikyou at the pool and saw Kagome lying in it. She looked almost dead. Her eyes were wide open but they looked empty.

"Forget about her." Kikyou said, floating up to Inuyasha and putting her hands on his shoulders. "She is nothing."

Inuyasha couldn't move. It had been so long since he had felt Kikyou embrace him. Suddenly, there was no such person as Kagome. There was only him and Kikyou.

++ "I wonder..do I look better as a hanyou, or a human?"

"A hanyou." ++

++ "The girls there are a bit strange."

"That's because they all think you're sooooo cute and sooooo cool. It'll probably get worse."

"Oh. Do you think I'm cute?" ++

Suddenly, Inuyasha pushed Kikyou away from. She fell onto the floor and looked up at Inuyasha, her eyes wide.

"Inuyasha." She said, almost pleadingly.

Sango and Shippou came climbing out of the bushes, huffing and puffing. They immediately stood up when they saw Kikyou. Sango got her boomerang bone ready and Shippou sort of growled and clenched his fists.

Inuyasha rushed to the pool where Kagome was lying. Her wrists and ankles were tied up but a petrifying spell had also been placed on her. He immediately untied the ropes and shook her.

"Kagome, Kagome, Kagome." He said over and over, shaking her harder and harder.

Miroku appeared out of nowhere and kneeled next to Inuyasha, his fingers stroking his chin in a very thoughtful pose.

"She appears to be soulless." He said after many chin-stroking sessions.

"I know that!" Snapped Inuyasha as he shook her again.

"Yeah and shaking her isn't going to help." Miroku said wisely.

"I know THAT!" Inuyasha yelled as he shook her harder.

Miroku looked up and froze. Unaware, Inuyasha carried on shaking Kagome.

"Naraku." He muttered.

"What." Inuyasha said absently mindedly as he carried on with the shaking.

"Naraku." Miroku said louder, his voice full of hate.

"That's nice." Said Inuyasha.

Without warning, Miroku leapt at the monkey-man, his staff held high above him.

"Miroku!" Sango shouted and went to his defence, but Kikyou stood in front of her and blasted the demon exterminator.

"Sango!" Shippou shouted and jumped on Kikyou's face. She staggered about, trying to Shippou off as he scratched at her face.

Inuyasha was completely oblivious to what was going on. When he FINALLY realised that shaking Kagome wasn't going to work, he hung his head.

"Wake up." He pleaded.

"Take THAT and THAT!" Shippou yelled as he hit and scratched Kikyou. She tripped over backwards and landed in the pool. A white essence floated out of Kikyou and into Kagome. Kikyou struggled to get out the pool. When she got out, she began to run into the forest. Inuyasha followed her.

Kagome suddenly opened her eyes and gasped. She looked around and sat up.

"What the hell.." Shippou jumping on her face and trying to claw her eyes out cut her short.

"DIE KIKYOU SCUM!" He shouted.

"Shippou!" Kagome managed to say as she pulled the fox demon off her face. "It's me! Kagome!"

Shippou looked her up and down and cried out in joy. "KAGOME!" He said, hugging her neck.

"Ugh." Kagome said, choking.

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She ran and ran. Her bare were scraped and bleeding from all the stones but she didn't care. If she got too close to that....IMITATION again then the rest of her soul might be sucked out.

Inuyasha followed Kikyou with all he had. He was partly cursing himself for following and partly wanted to go find her.

'I've should've stayed and seen if Kagome was OK.' He thought and he watched the bottom of Kikyou's kimono go in and out of sight.

Kikyou plunged through the bushes and stopped dead. There was a cliff. She looked over. It was REALLY high, and the bottom only had a small pond looking thing.

"Kikyou."

She spun round; Inuyasha was standing there, looking sad. He took a step forward. She took a step back.

"Why did you take Kagome?" He asked softly. She smiled cruelly.

"You really like her don't you Inuyasha?" She said.

Inuyasha's eyes widened. "What are you talking about?"

Kikyou's smile faded and her eyes glazed over. She stepped towards Inuyasha.

"Do you like her more than me?" She asked. Her voice breaking slightly.

Inuyasha strode up to Kikyou and wrapped his arms around her.

"Never.." He whispered.

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"Can someone please tell me what is GOING ON?!" Kagome yelled. Naraku had disappeared and everyone was sitting around the pool. Everyone, except for Inuyasha.

"Well, Kikyou stole you! And we went after her! After Inuyasha broke a few chairs. And Miroku fainted because he's not very fit!"

"I am too!" Miroku interjected.

"Then we found you in this pool and Kikyou had your SOUL! And Inuyasha was shaking and shaking." Shippou imitated Inuyasha but it looked more like he was strangling a chicken very dramatically.

"Then I attacked Kikyou! Sango was too weak!"

"Hey!"

"Then she fell in the pool and your soul returned to you!"

"Oh." Said Kagome, slightly confused. "So...where's Inuyasha?"

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They had been like that for what had seemed like years. Two people embracing each other. Everything else had been forgotten. All the hate. All the torment. It was all gone as they stood there.

"Inuyasha.." Kikyou mumbled. Inuyasha held her tighter.

"You were lying."

"Huh?"

"About that girl."

"What do you mean?"

"It's too late anyway."

Inuyasha felt immense pain in his side. Quickly, he shoved Kikyou away. She staggered back right to the cliff edge. Inuyasha, realising what she was about to do, ran forward, his arm outstretched. Kikyou smiled and toppled off the cliff, only to have Inuyasha grasp her hand at the last minute.

She was still smiling when her other hand started to gather a ball of energy.

"Kikyou, get back into Kagome. Please." Inuyasha said, holding her hand tight.

"You'd dare ask me to give up my life?" Her smile faded. "I died hating you. Nothing can change that." She aimed the ball at Inuyasha's outstretched hand. "And besides, you've already found someone else."

He let go just as the ball hit him. Kikyou fell down and down until Inuyasha couldn't see her frail little frame anymore. He cursed at himself and drew his cut up arm back in.

He stood up slowly, his arm really hurt, but he didn't care. Inuyasha poked the wound a bit, making it bleed some more. He looked towards a cluster of trees.

"You can come out now." He said quietly.

Kagome stepped timidly out of the bushes. She looked at Inuyasha, then at the cliff edge, then back at Inuyasha.

"You okay?" She asked nervously.

Inuyasha looked sadly at the tree behind her, not making eye contact. "Yeah." He muttered, his voice braking. "I'm fine."

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There had been a battle; hundreds of dead bodies lay around, some cut up beyond recognition. Women, children, men, all had been victim to a youkai attack. A deep pond stained red with blood held most of the lost limbs of the dead. Its surface began to ripple, and then a head appeared, then a body. Kikyou stumbled out of the pond. Half alive, half dead, she crawl along the water's edge, staring blankly at the sky, an eerie smile playing on her lips.

"I'm alive...Inuyasha....."

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That took me sooooooooooo long! My neck really hurts and I've been REALLY bad at typing today!

As for the reviews.....I'm impressed. I got a lot more than last time. Good job everyone, I'm proud of you. ^.^ I completed FFX, it was cool, took me ages to kill the guy inside Sin. He just kept on healing!

Well, I think this was a good chapter! I'm proud of it.

Carry on reviewing pleeeeaaaaassssseeee!

Sakura Clover