Chapter9 : I did that…?
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Kagome slowly opened her eyes,

What were those two black things? And why were they in the middle of that round peach colored thing? And why was that dark mass of hair like stuff stuck to it.

And then her eyes became focused...

"EEEEEEEP"

With her eyes focused, it didn't take that long to realize that she had been staring into the dead eyes of the decapitated Naraku.
"So, you finally woke up did you?"

Kagome jerked her head around in terror.
Who was that? What did they want with her? Surely there wasn't going to have to be even *more* fighting.

Instead of facing the voice, something tall, decked in read had blocked her line of vision. Inuyasha? He was awake? It certainly wasn't *him* that had been talking before.
"Don't tell me you forgot about little old me..", Inuyasha moved a little to the side,
now no longer blocking Kagome's view. Kagura. She was still here, and still very much alive..smirking.

"Relax Inuyasha, I don't plan to kill you or your little bitch,...just thought I'd stick around until one of you woke up, and congratulate the your wench on killing the big bad demon, of course, she appears to have woken you both up with that little scream of hers, in fact, I'm surprised it didn't wake up your two *dead* friends.."
Inuyasha was taken aback for a moment. Surely Kagura wasn't saying that *Kagome* had killed Naraku. That was … *impossible*! It defied all laws of logic. Naraku was an evil demon that he himself couldn't even defeat, and, Kagome, was, well .. Kagome!

But If *he* hadn't killed him, and it most positively wasn't Miroku or Sango, and he had ruled out the unlikely candidate of Kagome … Then who could have killed Naraku?

A thought popped into Inuyasha's mind. Why had he been asleep? And what had he been sleeping on? Automatically his attention went to the spot where he had been sleeping. He hadn't had time to wander what it was he was on top of at the time, he had just jumped off of whatever he seemed to be laying on and went to protect Kagome when she screamed.

But now, seeing as how Kagura didn't seem to want to kill him, he had the time to examine things. There, right where he had jumped from, was the bloody, headless Naraku, a site even he could barely stomach.

There was NO way Kagome could have done that! She just didn't strike him as the kind of girl that went around decapiting *anything*.
Kagura noticed the look of disbelief Inuyasha was getting, and the way he kept staring at the dead corpse, and then at Kagome, his confusion only caused her to smirk more.

"Oh, you heard me right Inuyasha, your little bitch killed him, you should have seen her when you got yourself knocked out, just took off there and went to hacking off the poor guys head."
Inuyasha growled, remembering just who had been the cause of him getting knocked out. The idiot Kagura. The stupid little wench.
"I wouldn't have been knocked out if it hadn't been for you, you bitch.
The way that the dog demon was advancing on her, in a most threatening manner, was causing her great unease, though she covered it up by continuing to mock him.
"I stick around just to make sure everyone's alright, even offer my congratulations, and what thanks do I get?, such bad manners Inuyasha!, and in front of your mate too!"
Inuyasha was seriously getting pissed now.

"She's not my mate!"

Why did everyone keep calling her that? They knew she wasn't marked as his, or anybody's for that matter!

The more logical side of his brain disagreed with him, 'yeah, but everyone knows you want her to be'.


Even his stubborn self couldn't deny that, 'No I don't...wait...I don't know..what about Kikyou, what about the difference in our times periods, what about the fact that I'm a hanyou and she's a human....if...we did become mates...she would be dead long before I even reach the physical appearance of a twenty five year old...'
" Oh sure, of course she's not your mate, I don't know *what* I was thinking...but anyway, I suppose you want this?", she smiled a little and held up her shikon shard "here take it, I don't really want it anyway, besides, I guess I owe you something for killing that bastard.."
With that sentence, she tossed the shard to Kagome and left without a backwards glance.

Kagome who, up until now had been staring in shock at the headless body of Naraku, absently put the shard with the rest of her collection.
"I...I...I did that..."

She continued to stare at the blood that glistened in the afternoon sunlight, the blood that was everywhere, just staring, trying to let the full weight of what she had done only hours before register in her mind. She was still so very shocked..And the way Inuyasha was looking at her, was starting to make her feel rather uncomfortable.
Hoping it would make Inuyasha stop looking at her like that, she repeated what she had already said, this time with more confidence.

"I did that."
"*You* did *that*??!??!?!", sure, Kagura had already said it, but hearing Kagome confirm it was totally different.

"Yes.."
"But...how?"

"You...You were knocked out...he was going to kill you...sooo...I just had to save you...and I just yelled the first thing that came to my mind..."
"And that was??", Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest, anxious for her to go on.
" Sit.."

With that word, Inuyasha went crashing into the blood soaked ground, cursing like a sailor..or at least, that's the analogy Kagome would have made, if, in fact, she had ever heard a sailor cursing, actually, a cursing sailor was not near as bad as Inuyasha's 'colorful' choice of language.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR WENCH?!!"
"oh...sorry...that's just..thats what I yelled to save you.."
Inuyasha didn't say anything for a moment, contemplating whether or not he should pursue an argument, at last, he decided it really wasn't worth it.

"Oh...so..well..what did you do then? And don't "accidentally" say that word again.."
"Well...I went over and stabbed him with my arrow.."

"And you just didn't think that was enough?", Inuyasha asked sarcastically as he made a pointed glance towards Naraku's head.
"I just wanted to make sure he was dead...", All this talk was seriously embarrassing Kagome, though she didn't know why.
"So you beheaded him?!"
"Well would you have rather I just let him kill you?"
"I think it is safe to say he wouldn't have been killing anybody with that sacred arrow in his heart."
"I just had to make sure he was dead!"
"Alright, alright, you decapitated him 'just to make sure he was dead', and it had nothing to do with built up anger or hatred towards him?"
Kagome blushed, maybe that *might* have had a little to do with it.

"Personally..", started Inuyasha, "I would have torn him to shreds."
"I can't believe I did that..."
"I can't believe *you* saved ME..!

"

"Well, what would I have done with you dead? Run off to Sesshoumaru? Not bloody likely!"
Inuyasha looked to the ground and mumbled something. "Thanks..."
"Well, I had to make up for all those times that you saved me.."
Before the moment could get any more sentimental, a look of 'Oh I just remembered something' came across Kagome's face, which was quickly followed by her running over to the corpse of Naraku, and digging around for something.
"Just what the hell are you *doing* ??!?"
"Getting these..", she brought her hand away from Naraku and held open her palm, it was completely full of jewel shards..
"Oh...well...put it together wench..."
Kagome briefly glared at Inuyasha but then pulled out her collection of jewel shards, and put the new found jewel shards in place. The jewel was complete.
"Its done Inuyasha..."
"Is it Kagome?" Kagome had never heard Inuyasha sound so forlorn,.. he turned his head to survey the battle scene.



Blood was everywhere...the decapitated head of Naraku lay not far from his feet. The rest of the carcass was not far, covered in a now crimson baboon pelt..A few yards away lay Kirara...still in her demon form, propping up his two dead friends, his two dead friends that were covered in blood, though Sango seemed to have more on her that Miroku, but it was doubtful that all of it was her own.

The way Kagome had sat Miroku, you couldn't see the stab wounds...the only sign of the battle was the new color of his robes...Sango's was a little more obvious, her exterminator suit had been torn in many places where the sickle had went in...there were about 5 stab wounds, at least, that's all he could see anyway.. Her upper body seemed to have taken most of the damage..at least there were no cuts on her face...then he remembered something...

'Oh..shit..'
Something told Kagome that when he had responded to her statement, he wasn't just talking about the Shikon No Tama. And she couldn't help wandering the same thing. 'Is it done? Is it really over now...? Do I go back to my time...my true time, as Inuyasha puts it, and just pretend as if nothing ever happened? Is it my true time?'

Her thoughts went back to her earlier inner battle she had been having before Kagura showed up. She wanted to reply to his question with 'Do you want it to be?', even though she knew that Inuyasha hadn't meant for her to answer. But she was to scared to ask that, to scared of what the answer might be. Then Kagome noticed Inuyasha staring at the body's of Sango and Miroku, she then thought she saw him flinch, as if he had just remembered something horrible..
"Is something wrong, Inuyasha? Shouldn't you go bring them back to life now?"
"Umm...Kagome?....we need to go find Sesshoumaru.."
"Why?"

"Because...he's the only one that knows how to use Tensaiga..."
***A/N**

Revised/edited 2/28/03