Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha. End of discussion.

A/N: I know I'm very slow to update and all that. I just have lost all inspiration to write my fics. Even now I don't have any inspiration. I hope this chapter will be a good one, even because of the fact that I don't have any inspiration.

TRUST

Chapter eleven:

Hitting arrow



Kagome watched how a soul snatcher flew over the river carrying a soul. 'A soul snatcher?! But that means.' The soul snatcher continued its way in the forest on the other side of the river. 'Kikyo'

Quickly glancing around her Kagome spotted a place where she could cross the river. She hopped from stone to stone. The water had made the stones wet and slippery so it was little difficult to keep her balance. She slipped on one of the stones and fell on her knee. The uneven stone made a cut on her knee and leg. Blood came little out and fell on the stone. Kagome didn't mind of those little wounds. She just stood up again and made the rest of her way to the other side of the river. Carefully landing on the steady ground again she observed the soul snatcher and followed it in the forest.

The wind started to blow harder and made the surface of the river move wildly. Those small waves reached on the stones and after a wave and another, the blood on one of the stones joined the water in the moving river.

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Inu-Yasha lifted his head as he smelled an awfully familiar scent. First it was strong but after few seconds it fainted and totally disappeared. But that time had been enough for Inu-Yasha to know where Kagome was. That scent of blood hadn't come from the fireplace. That fact made Inu-Yasha's senses go wild as he tried to catch the smell again as he ran towards the river. 'Kagome!'

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Kagome looked upwards. She could still see the soul snatcher. Sometimes it disappeared behind the tops of trees but she could still see it often enough. Again moving a thin branch of her way she ran after the soul snatcher. She now huffed and tried to keep her breathing steady.

'Why am I running?' She questioned herself as she started to huff harder. Still she didn't slow down. 'Why am I running to find Kikyo?' Even as she questioned herself about it, she didn't stop running. Her breath caught in her throat and she was forced to stop and grab some air. 'I can't believe this. After all those things that I said to Inu-Yasha about Kikyo and now I'm running like a madman to find her. Why?' She lifted her gaze again. No sign of the soul snatcher. Not any glimmer was seen between the tree tops. Kagome moved her hand and leaned on a tree still grabbing air.

Slowly Kagome went down on her knees, still leaning on the tree by her hand. As she got her breath steady again she started to examine the forest around her. As she now watched, every direction looked the same. 'I'm.' Now she stood up and turned around and looked again in every direction. 'I'm lost!' Little panic started to take her over as she time after time tried to figure out where she had came from.

Suddenly Kagome heard a crack behind her. She turned to look at that direction and automatically her right hand made its way over her shoulder to grab--- nothing. She moved her hand little but there was nothing. Just now she realized that her left hand wasn't holding anything. It wasn't holding her bow. 'Oh no!' A new crack took her attention. 'So wise of me again. Run into an unknown forest, alone, without bow or arrows.'

Now the bush before her started to move. Kagome gasped as she knew that something was about to come out of that bush. She took one step back, ready to run. A louder crack was heard and somehow Kagome knew that now it'll jump out of there. She let out a scream.

A white little rabbit jumped out of the bush just to be welcomed with an ear aching scream. Its eyes widened and it looked terrified at Kagome. The raven-haired girl looked at her terrified demon and shut her mouth and opened only to let a sigh of relief escape. 'Only a bunny.' "And I thought you'd be some kind pf terrible demon."

"Who's there?!"

Kagome went stick as she heard shout behind her. Like a robot she turned around to face the source of the shout. She met a gaze as cold as ice with a grey color making it even colder. 'Kikyo?' A little shine caught Kagome's eyes and she turned her gaze from Kikyo's eyes. A little piece of stone attached on a stick. Kikyo pointed at her with a bow.

Kikyo raised a questioning eyebrow as she recognized the raven-haired girl before her. "What are you doing here?" She didn't lower her bow.

Kagome looked at the priestess before her for a while. She didn't know what to answer. "I. I just saw one of your soul snatchers and. I just." Kagome's eyes were caught once again. "Are you going to kill me?" She asked as she didn't see Kikyo doing any movement to lower her bow.

"You don't belong here."

"What?" That wasn't something that Kagome had expected as an answer.

"You don't belong here. You never have and never will. You don't belong in this time."

"But---"

"Your place is not here. This time is mine. Not yours. Go back to where you belong. You have nothing to do here."

"But the Shikon shards---"

"ARE NOT YOUR PROBLEM!"

Kagome took a step backwards. She tried to deny the truth in Kikyo's words but she couldn't. This time really wasn't hers. And would never be.

"You little wench." Kikyo growled to Kagome. "Give me back my soul!"

Kagome could see that Kikyo was about to release her arrow. She shut her eyes and covered her face with her hands. 'Sango! Miroku! Shippo!' She cried in her mind for help. She heard a little sound of leaves, one identified sound and then a gasp of air. Kagome opened her eyes and peeked behind her arms just to see something red fall and Kikyo's big terrified eyes.

'Red?!'

Kagome moved her hands immediately and now saw how Inu-Yasha fell on the ground before her. 'Inu-Yasha?!' Not knowing what happened really she turned her head to look at Kikyo. Kikyo's eyes were wide. She looked at Inu- Yasha and her left hand held the just used bow and her right hand was beside her chest, stiffed of shock.

Kagome noticed that Kikyo's way of right hand was how it is after releasing an arrow. That hit her head hard and she just knew what had happened. "Inu- Yasha!" She shouted as she kneeled beside him. There it was. Attached in his chest. Kikyo's arrow.

Kikyo just watched with terrified eyes as her reincarnation kneeled beside her love. 'Again.' She took one step backwards. 'I can't believe this. I. I did it...' Kikyo gulped as she took another step. "Again" She whispered. No one else heard it but she herself did. And that word made her eyes just wide more and her look became more terrified. An image of herself stabbing Inu-Yasha with her arrow on the god tree came before her eyes. That made her turn around and run away with her eyes shut and hidden behind her hands.

Kagome stared first at the arrow but turned to look at the arrows owner, Kikyo, just to notice that most terrified look on her face as she looked at the happening before her eyes. Than Kikyo had turned and ran away. "Kikyo!" Kagome stood up and took few running steps after Kikyo but didn't then follow her. "Kikyo" Kagome knew about Inu-Yasha and Kikyo. Still she had said all those bad things about Kikyo to Inu-Yasha. And now she saw how Kikyo once again shot an arrow in Inu-Yasha's chest. 'That must really hurt. inside.' "Inu-Yasha" She whispered as she turned to look at the half- demon. 'You took that arrow to save me?'

Suddenly Inu-Yasha sat up and coughed some blood between his legs. He griped the red cloth on his chest as he coughed again.

"Inu-Yasha!" Kagome shouted out terrified and ran back beside Inu-Yasha. "Are you okay?" (A/N: Kagome is still standing)

Inu-Yasha let go of his cloth and instead took a tight grip of the arrow and pulled it out. "Kikyo" He looked in that place where Kikyo had just been and then in the forest. "Kikyo, where did she go?" He didn't look at Kagome. He was like she didn't even notice that Kagome was beside him. But he knew she was. That question was more pointed to Kagome than himself.

Kagome's face and gaze turned sadder. "She ran away." She told as her gaze went to ground.

Inu-Yasha looked deeper into the forest, trying to catch any sign of running Kikyo. His ears moved in different directions as he tried to even hear her. He took his legs right in front of him and moved his body to be on his legs. He stood up, but fell on his knees as he started to cough blood out again.

Not like usually, Kagome started to back up until her back was against a tree. Leaning her back on it, she slowly glided down until her butt met the ground. "Inu-Yasha"

That was only a whisper but the half-demon's alerted ears heard it and Inu- Yasha moved his head little to look at the other girl. His right hand was before his mouth and it was covered with blood. Moving too much had made him cough more blood out so now he didn't try to stand up again. Now he breathed little difficultly. He stared the girl. That wasn't like her. 'Kagome?' She had just there backed up like he would be some kind of demon. Well, he was, at least half-demon, but that wasn't the point. Usually she would have made him hold still and be really worried. Now she looked at him. Was it scariness in her eyes?

"Why did you take the arrow?"

Again Kagome had only whispered, now even quieter than before. Inu-Yasha stared at the girl before him. Was she afraid of something? Usually she would be more relaxed now. Not really relaxed but. There was something wrong. As she was afraid like someone could hop out of somewhere and attack her. 'Why are you afraid? I'm here, right?' Inu-Yasha moved his attention more to the asked question. He turned his head to look at the ground but didn't really look at anything. His hand moved from his mouth. "I thought that taking the arrow would stop her for a second so that I could talk to her. I just forgot her priestess powers and I ended up to loose my conscious and she ran away before I could say anything." His little dreamy eyes returned to the reality and he gazed at Kagome from the corner of his eye. "Why did you ask?"

Kagome just stared at Inu-Yasha with nothing in her eyes. Suddenly the movement of leaves made both look at the bushes. First Inu-Yasha's muscles stiffened but hearing a familiar little clink he relaxed.

After a moment Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara came out of the bushes. They all stopped as they saw Kagome and Inu-Yasha. This wasn't how they though they would find them. Inu-Yasha with blood wasn't a new thing but Kagome. Miroku and Shippo went to Inu-Yasha as he cough blood again. Sango on the other hand looked at her best friend. 'What is wrong with her?'

As Miroku and Shippo treated Inu-Yasha, Sango walked to her friend. She really looked terrified, looking at the ground in front of her with that look. It was something that Sango couldn't explain. "Kagome, what's wrong?" She asked with silent voice. Shaking little Kagome lifted her gaze and looked at Sango. Like a scared child she jumped to hug Sango tightly, seeking for a felling of being safe.

Sango startled little of Kagome's unusual act. Why was she so afraid? What was she so afraid? Placing her hand around the girl she smoothed her head and silently whispered her couraging words, like mother would to a scared child. "It's all okay."

Inu-Yasha had his upper cloth taken off so that Miroku could treat his wound from the arrow. "It's done." Inu-Yasha dressed his upper cloth back looking before him with nothing in his eyes. Miroku looked how Kagome little by little relaxed as she was in Sango's arms. Then she looked at Inu- Yasha. "What just happened here?" He questioned the half-demon. He waited for an answer in vain. Inu-Yasha just stared with nothing. Miroku wondered that did he even hear anything.

Shippo looked first at Kagome and Sango and then at Miroku and Inu-Yasha. The fox-demon snorted as he noticed that Inu-Yasha wouldn't answer. He jumped and hit the half-demon on his head. "Wake up Inu-Yasha!"

Inu-Yasha snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look at Shippo with angry eyes. "Shippo!" He shouted as he tried to take a grip of the fox- demon's tail. Shippo jumped out of his reach and showed his tongue to Inu- Yasha "Nyah, nyah!" "You little." Inu-Yasha jumped up and tried to catch Shippo but fell down coughing blood again.

"You shouldn't move Inu-Yasha." Miroku said as he hit Inu-Yasha on his head with his staff. Inu-Yasha growled under his breath. Then his ears caught little whispers. He looked in that direction and saw Sango holding Kagome. He just snorted and turned his back to them, folding his arms on his chest.

Miroku looked at the situation. Inu-Yasha couldn't move and Kagome was acting strange. "I think we should go back to Kaede's village." Sango turned little to look at the monk and nodded. Then she went back to comfort Kagome. "What?! Go back?" Inu-Yasha stared at Miroku.

"Inu-Yasha, you are in no condition to fight or even move. You have no word in this." Inu-Yasha knew that Miroku was right and decided to only curse under his breath.

"Let's go back to Kaede's village, okay?" Sango said to Sango and moved her little away so that she could look at the other girl's face. Kagome nodded little. "Come on." Sango helped Kagome to stand up and then looked at Kirara. "Kirara, you carry Inu-Yasha and Kagome back." Sango could feel how Kagome stiffened and her grip of her cloth tightened. The demon exterminator blinked her eyes to this. She moved her gaze between Inu- Yasha's back and Kagome. What really had happened before they had come? "Kirara, take Inu-Yasha back to the village and come then back to us."

"What?!" Inu-Yasha shouted but got hit by the monk again. Kirara transformed to her bigger size and went beside Inu-Yasha who went on her back. Then she took of with Inu-Yasha.

When the others couldn't see Kirara and Inu-Yasha anymore they all moved to look at Kagome. She was still stiff, but again, little by little, she relaxed. Her grip of Sango's cloth loosened too. "Kagome, what happened?" Sango asked. Kagome just remained silent.

A/N: I'm not sure but I think there will be only two chapters after this. This chapter was unusual long, but I don't think you readers mind about that. I just hope you don't get too used to with these long ones. My first idea was to have Naraku included here somehow but I decided to not. Naraku won't be in this fic at all. I wrote this without inspiration so it might be really bad one and I don't want to read it all over again, so there might be mistakes.