[Disclaimer]: If I owned Inu Yasha, I would be the one tanning in the Bahamas instead of some Japanese guy. Sucks to be me, huh?
This story where finally, Inu yasha reveals his love, but its too late to share it. Inu yasha has taken his last risk, and Kagome has now to come to grips with his death. Hope you enjoy it, it is my first story J !
The Rain Has No Mercy
Inuyasha licked the fresh blood from his wounds. Inu-yasha laid in it, staring at the sky. Blood surrounded his body and the ground around him as it spewed from his gaping wounds. The rain that fell was cold . . . like tears. It was as though the gods were crying for him . . . pitying him.
"No," his raspy voice leaked from his bloody lips. "I don't deserve pity . . . or mercy . . . It's my own fault I'm like this . . .It's my own fault I'm dying . . ."
Inu-yasha opened his topaz eyes. Freezing rain fell into them, but he did not flinch or blink. The water spilled down his face from his eyes like tears. Since his body was too weak to make his own, he used this water instead. This way he felt less guilty.
"Kagome . . ." he croaked. "I'm sorry that I couldn't . . . I'm sorry I couldn't . . . tell you . . ." he raised his eyes to the heavens once again, watching as the rain began to fall more steadily. "That I love you . . ."
Inu-yasha's voice died first, but his mind was still very alive.
'Please,' he prayed with all his might. 'Let my spirit find peace and let it visit Kagome one last time . . . please . . . I beg of you . . .'
Inu-yasha thought about Kagome for the last time, picturing her in his mind for one last moment.
The rain began to pour
. . . and Inu-yasha was dead.
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Kagome sat bolt upright in her sleeping bag. She clutched her chest and felt her heart speeding. Fear and concern filled her as she looked around the campsite. Inu-yasha was not there. He had been gone for too long.
Had it been just a dream? Was he really in danger? Was Inu-yasha really . . . gone?
Kagome rose to her feet and slowly walked to the tree he had last rested in. She stared at it, longing to see him there. But alas, he was no where in her sight's or mind's range. She couldn't sense him at all.
He had left after she had sensed a jewel shard. She told him it was only a small one, and so he had left alone. Even though it was a small jewel shard, Kagome still felt that there was great danger, but Inu-yasha insisted he go alone . . .
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"No, Inu-yasha!" Kagome yelled after him when he began to run in the direction she had pointed out. "Don't go! It's only small! It's not worth it! Please, I sense danger . . . a-a l-lot of it!"
"Kagome," Inu-yasha growled, stopping in his tracks and looking back at her, his gold eyes shining. "If it's small then I can handle it. Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"No," Kagome ran over to him. "The shard is small, the beast that has it isn't."
"How would you know?" Inu-yasha said dryly.
"I can just . . . I can just feel it, OK?"
"Feh!"
Inu-yasha began to walk away from her, but she ran in front of him, holding out her arms and blocking his path.
"Please, Inu-yasha," she was beginning to get tears in her eyes. "I have a real bad feeling about this. Please don't go."
"Kagome," Inu-yasha wiped the tears from her face trying to smile. He hated it when she cried. "I promise I'll be back."
Kagome nodded slowly and watched helplessly as he walked past her and out of sight.
"Oh, Inu-yasha," she began to cry harder. "I'm not so sure . . ."
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The feeling of fear made her gut clench. She was afraid . . . afraid he was gone . . . forever. Suddenly, the rain started to fall. Retreating to her sleeping bag, Kagome curled up into it and thought about Inu-yasha.
"Why does he always have to be so stubborn? That's all he cares about is the Jewel shards. Not me. I'm just a pawn in his plot to become a youkai. He doesn't feel the same way I do . . . Oh INU-YASHA!" Kagome felt the rain begin to fall steadily and she cried herself to sleep.
The rain started to fall harder and harder until it was pouring non-stop and the girl in her sleeping bag was shivering uncontrollably. She was scared and alone . . . frightened and unprotected . . . cold and wet.
"Inu . . . yasha . . ." she whimpered, tears rolling down her cheeks. "Come back to me . . . Inu-yasha . . ."
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Kagome's near. I can feel her. I can smell her. I can hear her. I'm flying towards her. I can't stop. I don't want to stop. Wind is blowing through my body as if it doesn't exist. What's going on? Kagome's there. She's in front of me. She's crying. She's cold. I'm cold. I want to touch her. I want to hold her. I want to comfort her. I want her.
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"Inu-yasha?"
Kagome heard a strange sound. It was a soft sound, but it was intense. Her heart skipped as she heard Inu-yasha's voice but his words seemed scrambled. It came from all sides, whispering in her ear the next minute, a few feet away the next.
"Inu-yasha?!"
The sound stopped at her distress, but started again when a white light pulsed a few feet away from her. The light swarmed around her, taking shape of the one she had been thinking about for so long.
"Inu-yasha!"
Kagome was about to wrap her arms around him, when she noticed something wasn't right. His body was limpid and the rain fell through it as though it wasn't even there. The wind swept through him and onto Kagome. It was Inu-yasha, but not Inu-yasha's body. Only his spirit.
"Kagome."
The spirit raised it's lucid hand to her face and stroked it lovingly. Kagome gasped and started crying. His hand was cold. His face was distressed. There were tears in his eyes.
"You're dead." Kagome breathed. "Inu . . . Inu-yasha you're . . . dead."
Kagome's mind raced. He couldn't be dead. It wasn't possible. Inu-yasha just wasn't the person who would just die. He couldn't die. He wouldn't . . .
"Inu-yasha," she whimpered, looking into his transparent face. "Why did you leave me?"
Inu-yasha quickly took his hand away from her face and averted his eyes from her face. The light surrounding him pulsed and he inched towards her.
"Kagome." He wanted to say so much, but this was all his voice would allow him to do. "Kagome."
Kagome backed away from him in fear and sadness, her eyes flowing with tears. She screamed at him, telling him he wasn't real, that it was all a dream, and he wasn't dead. But it was all she could do for comfort. His cold, lifeless hands were not much help.
"Kagome." Inu-yasha rose to his feet and followed her frightened form that fled from him. He hated seeing her run from him. He hated seeing her cry. "KAGOMEEEEEEE!"
At his desperate cry, the girl stopped short. He wasn't whispering. She could hear his real voice for the first time and it made her believe. She turned and approached his glowing spirit. It was sad. It was not the way his spirit should have been.
Despite the rain, Kagome was warm against his now shining body. Her lips pressed against his see-through ones and her arms hung around his barley-there neck. Inu-yasha's spirit just stood there tense, not knowing what to do. His limbs hung loosely as he watched the girl desperately trying to get him to kiss her back, for it was the only one she would ever get from him.
She pulled away, angry. "What's wrong, Inu-yasha?!" she screamed, crying her eyes out. "Is the only reason you came here was because you wanted my jewel shards?! You're dead! You can't use them! But fine! Take them!" the girl ripped her neck lace from her neck and threw the jewel shards at him. They passed right through his sheer body and out the other side. "All I ever wanted was to love you Inu-yasha! All I ever wanted to tell you that I loved you! But now . . ." Kagome was crying hysterically and she fell to her knees. " . . .now . . ."
"Kagome." Inu-yasha mewled, collapsing beside her and wrapping his cold arms around her. "Kagome."
Kagome sobbed and turned in his arms, looking up into his face. He looked down at her and nuzzled her face, purring softly. Another sob raked Kagome's body. He moved his cold face across hers until their lips were aligned.
"Kagome," He whispered. "I'm ready now. I have to tell you . . . I love you . . ."
Inu-yasha kissed her, hard. The girl gasped, and Inu-yasha used it as an advantage to slip his tongue in. She lay still in his embrace, feeling his cold body press against hers and beg for her to kiss him back. Knowing that this chance would never come again, Kagome kissed him back, feeling his muscles lax.
The kiss continued but Inu-yasha started to drift away from Kagome, beginning to float towards the heavens. But they still clung to one another, desperate to feel each other's body against their own again. But Inu-yasha's grip on the girl was not strong enough and he slipped, grasping for her again quickly and grabbing her hands.
Light burst from Inu-yasha's body and his shirt was ripped from his form. Wings erupted from his shoulder-blades and the unseen force continued to pull him towards the clouds.
"No!" Kagome screamed with all her might and Inu-yasha stopped in mid-air. Their hands were still locked tightly and they wouldn't let go. "Gods, listen to me! I will never let him go! If it's not possible for him to return to earth, let me go to heaven with him! Please!"
Inu-yasha whimpered. The gods would not listen. The pull on his body begun again. His legs levitated upwards but his front half still stayed close to the earth, clinging to Kagome. With all his might, he pulled himself forwards, grabbing Kagome by the waist and holding her in a tight embrace.
"Kagome," he pulled. "I promise I'll return . . . someday . . . I love you . . . so much . . ."
Inu-yasha and Kagome were immediately wrenched apart. His wings beat furiously and the clouds broke, letting down a pillar of light. Inu-yasha was sucked up in it, as he screamed his loves' name, his tears joining those of the god's.
"KAGOMEEEEE!"
*** Thanks for reading the whole thing too, it's only a one shot thing. Please review, I would appreciate some constructive criticism Don't go easy on me just cause I'm a newbie!