Chapter 22-Inuyasha's choice.
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Kagome was worried. She was standing to the side of a huge burning furnace, in one hand was the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls, in the other, Inuyasha's prayer beads, the ones that kept him from attacking her, his dog leash.
Kagome was terrified.
Inuyasha took one slow step forward. His theory was that he would close his eyes and grabbed whatever he found first. Crappy plan, but he didn't know what to do. Inuyasha didn't like not-knowing what to do, it made him vulnerable.
Inuyasha took another step.
That was when Kikyo slowly walked out in front of Kagome.
At first, Inuyasha thought he was seeing things, then he realised that he wasn't seeing things.
"K...Kikyo?" He stammered as she stared at him, her eyes completely empty.
"Were you hoping I was dead? Inuyasha?" She asked coldly, he voice as empty as her eyes.
Inuyasha shivered as she spoke his name. He could see Kagome frozen behind Kikyo, her eyes were wide and her mouth was open a little way in disbelief.
"Ye...I mean, no! I just thought that...that..." Inuyasha was panicking; he thought he'd lost all feelings for Kikyo when she decided to take a long walk off a short cliff. Yet, here he was, trembling, as she looked him in the eye.
She began to walk toward the hanyou, her feet making the only noise in the room. When she was in front of him, Kikyo carefully put her hand on Inuyasha's cheek. It was deathly cold and he flinched, ever so slightly, but not slight enough for Kikyo not to notice.
"Don't you like me anymore Inuyasha?" She asked, trying to look sad.
Inuyasha was at a complete loss. What was he going to do?! Kikyo's cold hand began to stroke his cheek lightly and he felt his eyes closing.
"Inuyasha." She whispered quietly. Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but nothing would come out. With his eyes half closed he watched as Kikyo leaned into him.
And the last thing he saw before his eyes fully closed was Kagome, looking like she was about to cry.
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" I reckon Inuyasha's doing unholy things to Kagome." Miroku said with a smirk.
"Naaaah." Replied Sango, "She wouldn't take that kinda crap, no matter how much she likes him."
Miroku turned around to face Sango. "Kagome likes Inuyasha?"
"How could you NOT notice?!" Sango sighed, pushing her way in front of Miroku. He scratched his head and hurried to catch up with her.
"So....Sango, who do you like?" He asked nonchantly. He watched Sango blushing out of the corner of his eye and he smiled to himself.
"No one in particular...." Sango stammered. "What about you Miroku kun?"
NOW was the time for Miroku! All those years of pining after the same girl, he KNEW that she liked him, finally, and that this was the time to confess his undying love!
Taking a deep breath, he grabbed Sango's hands in a very manly way, then he looked deep into her eyes and said...
"No one either, really."
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Kagome stared. Kikyo had strategically placed her lips in Inuyasha's, they stood there, for the longest time. Kagome watched in horror as Inuyasha's arms wound around Kikyo's body.
She thought...
She thought...
How could she have been so STUPID?! Just because she has feelings for Inuyasha, doesn't mean he has feelings for her! She really WAS an idiot. After all, she was Kikyo's reincarnation, if Inuyasha ever did have any feelings for her, it would be because she was Kikyo's double.
She was a substitute for Kikyo.
Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She ran up the stairs, onto the hotel's first floor, she flew out the door and down the road. Inuyasha hadn't noticed. He was too busy playing tongue wrestling with Kikyo. But it didn't matter. Nobody would've noticed if she had gone anyway.
"Okaaasan!" She shouted, tears streaming down her face. "Soooota! Graaaandpaaaa!" She had no idea why she was yelling, but if it helped her feel better, she would do it. She missed her family like crazy, though she took pains to hide it, and every time she laughed or smiled, she would feel guilty because she should've been mourning.
Kagome ran down the street, shouting out, desperate to be heard.
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Inuyasha was shocked. Just as he closed his eyes, he felt Kikyo's arms leaning on him, and before he knew it, they were kissing. Even though Kikyo's lips were as cold as ice, it didn't matter anymore. She was back, they were together. Nothing else mattered.
He carefully wrapped his arms around her and kissed her deeper. It was heaven, all those years of being on that tree. All the hurt and the pain and the suffering was all washed away by one sweet kiss.
That was, until, Miroku popped into his head.
Inuyasha suddenly recalled a conversation he and Miroku once had, while Kagome and Sango were asleep.
"If you think about it Inuyasha," He had said. "I doubt that you and Kikyo were even in love."
Inuyasha had scowled at the monk, before clashing some stones together to make a nice, warm fire. He sat next to Miroku, his arms balanced on his knees. They had sat there for a few minutes.
"For instance, you were sad because you weren't a full demon, and Kikyo was sad because she couldn't be like other girls. You were basically licking each others wounds."
"Will you SHUT UP?!" Inuyasha had hissed at Miroku.
"And you know," He continued, unabashed. "When you saw Kikyo, your eyes were all glazed over and sad," He took a bite from an apple he had plucked out of the tree above them. "But I notice that when you look at Kagome, your whole damn face lights up and you look almost like a child."
"So, what are you saying?" Inuyasha had asked, getting pulled in by the conversation.
Miroku swallowed. "That maybe you didn't like Kikyo as much as you thought you did, and that maybe you like Kagome because she's Kagome, not Kikyo."
Inuyasha's eyes sprung open and he forced Kikyo away from him. She looked at him with menacing eyes, before she smiled evilly.
"Inuyasha, you don't like me do you?" She asked, though it was more of a statement than a question.
Without saying a word, Inuyasha barged past the priestess and headed for the exit, but Kikyo grabbed his wrist and dug her nails in.
"You're not leaving Inuyasha." She said calmly, sliding an arrow from her sleeve with her other arm.
"Kikyo." Inuyasha growled. "I will kill you if I have to."
Kikyo laughed and attempted to plunge the arrow into Inuyasha's arm, but he snatched it out of her vice-like grip and, using his other hand, tore at her face with his claws.
"Inuyasha." Kikyo pleaded, covering her bloody face. "How...how could you?"
Inuyasha was shocked at what he had done. He lowered his hands and made a move towards Kikyo.
She lashed out at him, cutting the edges of his haori with her arrow. He jumped back and automatically stabbed his claws into her belly.
Kikyo grabbed the wound and staggered a bit, her eyes looked towards the hanyou. He looked at her with pure hate before slashing her throat.
She let out a gurgling gasp and Inuyasha winced, before she slumped onto the ground. Dead. Again.
Inuyasha squeezed his eyes shut. "Gomen." He whispered and turned to leave.
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Kagome had been walking around for the good part of half an hour. Her legs were sore, her throat was dry and tears were still running down her cheeks every now and then.
Looking up to the sky, she heard a noise. Quick as a flash, she looked behind her.
There stood Inuyasha, smirking like a school boy.
"Kagome." He scoffed. "You are SUCH a weakling!"
Kagome didn't answer him; instead, she turned right back around and carried on walking. Unfazed, Inuyasha walked behind her, his hands behind his back.
"What's eating YOU?" He asked, poking his face in front of hers.
Kagome stopped dead. Inuyasha copied. She reached into her pocket and drew out the Shikon no Tama, then, she threw it at his head.
He caught it as it rolled down his front. "What's going on?" He asked, confused.
"You know what Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, her voice sounding tired. "Fuck it. Ok? Just fuck it."
Inuyasha cocked his head to the side. "Nani?"
"I'm TIRED of you! I'm tired of this journey, I'm tired of this country, I'm tired of this LIFE!" Kagome threw her hands up and let them drop down again. "Go back to your stupid Kikyo bitch, cos you know what? I-DON'T- GIVE-A-FLYING-FUCK-ABOUT-YOU!"
"OOOOOOH," Inuyasha said, sounding like an old man who just caught onto a rude joke. "I get it!"
"What? What do you get, oh great Inuyasha?!" She screamed at him. Kagome was pissed. In fact, she felt like she wanted to burst. She couldn't take all this crap with Inuyasha and her feelings.
"You're jealous!" He smiled.
Inuyasha could've sworn he saw steam come out of her ears.
"YES, I'M JEALOUS!" She yelled, her voice getting louder. "YOU THINK I'D JUST STAND THERE AND WATCH AS YOU TWO DECIDED THAT YOU STILL LIKED EACH OTHER?! YOU'RE AN IDIOT INUYASHA!"
Inuyasha listened to this with surprising patience as Kagome ranted.
"YOU KNEW THAT I LIKED YOU! YET YOU SHOVED THE FACT THAT I'M JUST A KIKYO LOOK-A-LIKE IN MY FACE! WELL YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS SHITTY YOUKAI WAR, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE SHIKON NO TAMA, AND I ESPECIALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT YO--"
Kagome was cut off there due to the fact that Inuyasha was now kissing her quite passionately. Her eyes were wider than melons and she was as stiff as a board.
And that's not just because she had never kissed anyone in her whole entire life.
So, you have a hanyou kissing a frozen human, in the middle of a destroyed street.
Thousands of thoughts were running through Kagome's head, like 'Is he doing this to shut me up?' or 'Does he really like me?" but the two main ones were; 'holy shit! Am I a good kisser?!' and 'when the hell do I breathe?!'
Inuyasha, though, was having the time of his life. Not ONLY was Kagome a lot warmer than Kikyo was, but she was one hell of a kisser. He slowly started to open his mouth wider.
And Kagome started to become stiffer.
Something told Inuyasha that maybe Kagome was nervous, so he, very lovingly, put one hand on her cheek and one hand in her hair.
After Kagome realised that she could breathe whenever the hell she felt like it, she began to relax. The feel of Inuyasha's hand on her face made her tingly all over and she couldn't help but wish it would go on forever.
But, sadly, Kagome had forgotten to breathe again, so she pushed away, gasping for air. Inuyasha was looking at her with a silly smile on his face.
"What the..." Was all Kagome could actually say. Inuyasha's grin became wider.
"Me and Kikyo, we weren't meant to be." He said. "Plus, she tried to kill me then I was about to go after you."
"Oh."
Inuyasha started stroking Kagome's hair. "I don't like Kikyo, I don't want the Shikon no Tama. I want YOU, Kagome."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha strangely before, FINALLY, relaxing into his arms and hugging him like there was no tomorrow.
And there they stayed, in each other's arms, before Inuyasha handed the Shikon Jewel to Kagome and they made their way to the edge of Kyoto.
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OK, I'm thinking that that was actually a crap chapter. I've got writer's block AGAIN! But I HAD to write it seeing as how I'm still in a HUUUUGE fluff mood! I just saw Peter Pan so that only INCREASED my need for fluff.
As for the kissing, I didn't entirely know what to write. I'm not good at writing slushy moments! -sweatdrop- And I'm paranoid that when I DO have a proper kiss, I'll end up fainting because of lack of air! -Bigger sweatdrop- Seriously! Cos once I was kissing this guy and I couldn't breath, so I had to keep on pushing him awa--aaan you don't wanna hear about that!
I can always re-write this one if I end up hating it, but I was bored and fluffy. Any excuse.
Anyway, time for my shower! I have babysitting with an evil, attention- seeking child!
Happy New Year!
Sakura Clover
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Kagome was worried. She was standing to the side of a huge burning furnace, in one hand was the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls, in the other, Inuyasha's prayer beads, the ones that kept him from attacking her, his dog leash.
Kagome was terrified.
Inuyasha took one slow step forward. His theory was that he would close his eyes and grabbed whatever he found first. Crappy plan, but he didn't know what to do. Inuyasha didn't like not-knowing what to do, it made him vulnerable.
Inuyasha took another step.
That was when Kikyo slowly walked out in front of Kagome.
At first, Inuyasha thought he was seeing things, then he realised that he wasn't seeing things.
"K...Kikyo?" He stammered as she stared at him, her eyes completely empty.
"Were you hoping I was dead? Inuyasha?" She asked coldly, he voice as empty as her eyes.
Inuyasha shivered as she spoke his name. He could see Kagome frozen behind Kikyo, her eyes were wide and her mouth was open a little way in disbelief.
"Ye...I mean, no! I just thought that...that..." Inuyasha was panicking; he thought he'd lost all feelings for Kikyo when she decided to take a long walk off a short cliff. Yet, here he was, trembling, as she looked him in the eye.
She began to walk toward the hanyou, her feet making the only noise in the room. When she was in front of him, Kikyo carefully put her hand on Inuyasha's cheek. It was deathly cold and he flinched, ever so slightly, but not slight enough for Kikyo not to notice.
"Don't you like me anymore Inuyasha?" She asked, trying to look sad.
Inuyasha was at a complete loss. What was he going to do?! Kikyo's cold hand began to stroke his cheek lightly and he felt his eyes closing.
"Inuyasha." She whispered quietly. Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something, but nothing would come out. With his eyes half closed he watched as Kikyo leaned into him.
And the last thing he saw before his eyes fully closed was Kagome, looking like she was about to cry.
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" I reckon Inuyasha's doing unholy things to Kagome." Miroku said with a smirk.
"Naaaah." Replied Sango, "She wouldn't take that kinda crap, no matter how much she likes him."
Miroku turned around to face Sango. "Kagome likes Inuyasha?"
"How could you NOT notice?!" Sango sighed, pushing her way in front of Miroku. He scratched his head and hurried to catch up with her.
"So....Sango, who do you like?" He asked nonchantly. He watched Sango blushing out of the corner of his eye and he smiled to himself.
"No one in particular...." Sango stammered. "What about you Miroku kun?"
NOW was the time for Miroku! All those years of pining after the same girl, he KNEW that she liked him, finally, and that this was the time to confess his undying love!
Taking a deep breath, he grabbed Sango's hands in a very manly way, then he looked deep into her eyes and said...
"No one either, really."
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Kagome stared. Kikyo had strategically placed her lips in Inuyasha's, they stood there, for the longest time. Kagome watched in horror as Inuyasha's arms wound around Kikyo's body.
She thought...
She thought...
How could she have been so STUPID?! Just because she has feelings for Inuyasha, doesn't mean he has feelings for her! She really WAS an idiot. After all, she was Kikyo's reincarnation, if Inuyasha ever did have any feelings for her, it would be because she was Kikyo's double.
She was a substitute for Kikyo.
Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. She ran up the stairs, onto the hotel's first floor, she flew out the door and down the road. Inuyasha hadn't noticed. He was too busy playing tongue wrestling with Kikyo. But it didn't matter. Nobody would've noticed if she had gone anyway.
"Okaaasan!" She shouted, tears streaming down her face. "Soooota! Graaaandpaaaa!" She had no idea why she was yelling, but if it helped her feel better, she would do it. She missed her family like crazy, though she took pains to hide it, and every time she laughed or smiled, she would feel guilty because she should've been mourning.
Kagome ran down the street, shouting out, desperate to be heard.
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Inuyasha was shocked. Just as he closed his eyes, he felt Kikyo's arms leaning on him, and before he knew it, they were kissing. Even though Kikyo's lips were as cold as ice, it didn't matter anymore. She was back, they were together. Nothing else mattered.
He carefully wrapped his arms around her and kissed her deeper. It was heaven, all those years of being on that tree. All the hurt and the pain and the suffering was all washed away by one sweet kiss.
That was, until, Miroku popped into his head.
Inuyasha suddenly recalled a conversation he and Miroku once had, while Kagome and Sango were asleep.
"If you think about it Inuyasha," He had said. "I doubt that you and Kikyo were even in love."
Inuyasha had scowled at the monk, before clashing some stones together to make a nice, warm fire. He sat next to Miroku, his arms balanced on his knees. They had sat there for a few minutes.
"For instance, you were sad because you weren't a full demon, and Kikyo was sad because she couldn't be like other girls. You were basically licking each others wounds."
"Will you SHUT UP?!" Inuyasha had hissed at Miroku.
"And you know," He continued, unabashed. "When you saw Kikyo, your eyes were all glazed over and sad," He took a bite from an apple he had plucked out of the tree above them. "But I notice that when you look at Kagome, your whole damn face lights up and you look almost like a child."
"So, what are you saying?" Inuyasha had asked, getting pulled in by the conversation.
Miroku swallowed. "That maybe you didn't like Kikyo as much as you thought you did, and that maybe you like Kagome because she's Kagome, not Kikyo."
Inuyasha's eyes sprung open and he forced Kikyo away from him. She looked at him with menacing eyes, before she smiled evilly.
"Inuyasha, you don't like me do you?" She asked, though it was more of a statement than a question.
Without saying a word, Inuyasha barged past the priestess and headed for the exit, but Kikyo grabbed his wrist and dug her nails in.
"You're not leaving Inuyasha." She said calmly, sliding an arrow from her sleeve with her other arm.
"Kikyo." Inuyasha growled. "I will kill you if I have to."
Kikyo laughed and attempted to plunge the arrow into Inuyasha's arm, but he snatched it out of her vice-like grip and, using his other hand, tore at her face with his claws.
"Inuyasha." Kikyo pleaded, covering her bloody face. "How...how could you?"
Inuyasha was shocked at what he had done. He lowered his hands and made a move towards Kikyo.
She lashed out at him, cutting the edges of his haori with her arrow. He jumped back and automatically stabbed his claws into her belly.
Kikyo grabbed the wound and staggered a bit, her eyes looked towards the hanyou. He looked at her with pure hate before slashing her throat.
She let out a gurgling gasp and Inuyasha winced, before she slumped onto the ground. Dead. Again.
Inuyasha squeezed his eyes shut. "Gomen." He whispered and turned to leave.
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Kagome had been walking around for the good part of half an hour. Her legs were sore, her throat was dry and tears were still running down her cheeks every now and then.
Looking up to the sky, she heard a noise. Quick as a flash, she looked behind her.
There stood Inuyasha, smirking like a school boy.
"Kagome." He scoffed. "You are SUCH a weakling!"
Kagome didn't answer him; instead, she turned right back around and carried on walking. Unfazed, Inuyasha walked behind her, his hands behind his back.
"What's eating YOU?" He asked, poking his face in front of hers.
Kagome stopped dead. Inuyasha copied. She reached into her pocket and drew out the Shikon no Tama, then, she threw it at his head.
He caught it as it rolled down his front. "What's going on?" He asked, confused.
"You know what Inuyasha?" Kagome asked, her voice sounding tired. "Fuck it. Ok? Just fuck it."
Inuyasha cocked his head to the side. "Nani?"
"I'm TIRED of you! I'm tired of this journey, I'm tired of this country, I'm tired of this LIFE!" Kagome threw her hands up and let them drop down again. "Go back to your stupid Kikyo bitch, cos you know what? I-DON'T- GIVE-A-FLYING-FUCK-ABOUT-YOU!"
"OOOOOOH," Inuyasha said, sounding like an old man who just caught onto a rude joke. "I get it!"
"What? What do you get, oh great Inuyasha?!" She screamed at him. Kagome was pissed. In fact, she felt like she wanted to burst. She couldn't take all this crap with Inuyasha and her feelings.
"You're jealous!" He smiled.
Inuyasha could've sworn he saw steam come out of her ears.
"YES, I'M JEALOUS!" She yelled, her voice getting louder. "YOU THINK I'D JUST STAND THERE AND WATCH AS YOU TWO DECIDED THAT YOU STILL LIKED EACH OTHER?! YOU'RE AN IDIOT INUYASHA!"
Inuyasha listened to this with surprising patience as Kagome ranted.
"YOU KNEW THAT I LIKED YOU! YET YOU SHOVED THE FACT THAT I'M JUST A KIKYO LOOK-A-LIKE IN MY FACE! WELL YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T CARE ANYMORE! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS SHITTY YOUKAI WAR, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE SHIKON NO TAMA, AND I ESPECIALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT YO--"
Kagome was cut off there due to the fact that Inuyasha was now kissing her quite passionately. Her eyes were wider than melons and she was as stiff as a board.
And that's not just because she had never kissed anyone in her whole entire life.
So, you have a hanyou kissing a frozen human, in the middle of a destroyed street.
Thousands of thoughts were running through Kagome's head, like 'Is he doing this to shut me up?' or 'Does he really like me?" but the two main ones were; 'holy shit! Am I a good kisser?!' and 'when the hell do I breathe?!'
Inuyasha, though, was having the time of his life. Not ONLY was Kagome a lot warmer than Kikyo was, but she was one hell of a kisser. He slowly started to open his mouth wider.
And Kagome started to become stiffer.
Something told Inuyasha that maybe Kagome was nervous, so he, very lovingly, put one hand on her cheek and one hand in her hair.
After Kagome realised that she could breathe whenever the hell she felt like it, she began to relax. The feel of Inuyasha's hand on her face made her tingly all over and she couldn't help but wish it would go on forever.
But, sadly, Kagome had forgotten to breathe again, so she pushed away, gasping for air. Inuyasha was looking at her with a silly smile on his face.
"What the..." Was all Kagome could actually say. Inuyasha's grin became wider.
"Me and Kikyo, we weren't meant to be." He said. "Plus, she tried to kill me then I was about to go after you."
"Oh."
Inuyasha started stroking Kagome's hair. "I don't like Kikyo, I don't want the Shikon no Tama. I want YOU, Kagome."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha strangely before, FINALLY, relaxing into his arms and hugging him like there was no tomorrow.
And there they stayed, in each other's arms, before Inuyasha handed the Shikon Jewel to Kagome and they made their way to the edge of Kyoto.
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OK, I'm thinking that that was actually a crap chapter. I've got writer's block AGAIN! But I HAD to write it seeing as how I'm still in a HUUUUGE fluff mood! I just saw Peter Pan so that only INCREASED my need for fluff.
As for the kissing, I didn't entirely know what to write. I'm not good at writing slushy moments! -sweatdrop- And I'm paranoid that when I DO have a proper kiss, I'll end up fainting because of lack of air! -Bigger sweatdrop- Seriously! Cos once I was kissing this guy and I couldn't breath, so I had to keep on pushing him awa--aaan you don't wanna hear about that!
I can always re-write this one if I end up hating it, but I was bored and fluffy. Any excuse.
Anyway, time for my shower! I have babysitting with an evil, attention- seeking child!
Happy New Year!
Sakura Clover
