The Silence Chapter 5

By: Kisu

A/N: Have you ever experienced the feeling that your friends aren't actually your friends? That they call each other and they never call you? Do you ever feel like you need to change how you are for others to like you more? Well…that's how I feel right now. -_- This always cheers me up!

Disclaimer:…I N UY A S H A does not belong to me…

Previously:

Sesshomaru turned around to head back inside when a youkai ran up to him.  "My lord, Sesshoumaru-sama!" He cried.

"What is it, Jaken?" He asked. 

"The lady! Lady Kimiko has acted up again!" Jaken gasped.  Sesshoumaru ran into the castle without another word.  Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku followed him quickly.  A scream made them run even faster toward the suite at the end of the hall.

Chapter 5

A midnight breeze whispered through the fields of grass and was accompanied by the occasional chirp of a cricket.  Overhead, endless stars twinkled in the night sky and everything was quiet.  However, inside the palace of the Youkai Lord of the Western Lands, a woman stirred in her sleep. 

"Inuyasha…"  She whispered as she tossed and turned.  "Iie."

            "Kagome!" The hanyou yelled.  "No! Sesshoumaru!"  The girl with black tresses and bluish-gray eyes turned around and stared in shock.  Sesshoumaru swooped down on her, his claw leaking green poison.  Kagome quickly brought a sword in front of her.

            "KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled in desperation. 

            "Kagome."  The woman whispered as she opened her eyes.  She stared at the ceiling for a brief moment as she recollected her thoughts.  Slowly, she sat up and stared at the far wall where the half-moon cast its rays over the white surface, creating mysterious shadows. 

"Did Sesshoumaru kill Kagome?"  She whispered to herself.

Silently she got up and grabbed her robe from where it hung on the wall.  She slipped her arms through the sleeves and walked into the dark and silent hallway.  Unfazed, Kimiko walked soundlessly down the halls.  As she past Sesshoumaru's empty room, she paused for a brief second before continuing her walk to her final destination.  The garden.

            Once outside, she breathed in the night air before walking to a stone bench and sat down on the cold surface.  She pulled her robe closer together and tilted her head back to stare up at the stars.  It hadn't been the first dream she had after meeting Inuyasha.  The other thing was that she felt like she had known Inuyasha for years.  Was she who he thought she was? Was she, Kagome?

            "Lady Kimiko."

            Startled, she quickly turned her head to look at the owner of the voice and found out it was none other than the hanyou.  "Inuyasha-san.  Why are up so late?"

            "I could say the same for you."  He replied, smoothly.  Kimiko smiled. 

            "I came out here to gather my thoughts."  She told him, smiling.  "I thought I was quiet on my way out here."

            "You were."  He said.  "I'm usually alert and I don't like to sleep indoors."

            "So, you sleep in the trees."  Kimiko murmured.

            "What? How'd you know?" Inuyasha asked, his amber eyes widening.  "How do you know that?"

            "I don't know."  She murmured as her hazel eyes wavered in confusion.

            "Kimiko."  Inuyasha prompted.  "Say 'osuwari'."

            "…Osuwari?" Kimiko repeated, blankly.  Inuyasha slammed face down onto the ground.  "Inuyasha-san! Are you all right?"  Inuyasha groaned and gave her a reassuring laugh.

            "You have no idea how good that feels."  He grinned.

            "What happened?" Kimiko asked, puzzled.  Inuyasha sighed.

            "You said the word."  He told her.

            "Word?" Kimiko repeated, thoughtfully.  "Osuwari?" Once again, the hanyou ate dirt.  "Gomen nasai, Inuyasha-san!" She cried in dismay.  Inuyasha waved her attempt to help him up and sat up all by himself.  "How come that word has such an affect on you?"

            "This rosary."  Inuyasha explained as he lifted the necklace from his haori.  "It is a subduing spell that only Kagome can control, none other."

            "How awful.  Let me remove it for you."  Kimiko said as she reached out.  Inuyasha quickly leaned back and shook his head.

            "This is the only thing I hold that reminds me of Kagome."  He said.  "I believe that you are Kagome or another reincarnation of Kikyo."

            "Kikyo?" Kimiko repeated as she felt something stirring within the depths of her mind.

            "Hai.  Kagome was the reincarnation of Kikyo."  Inuyasha told her.  "They both possessed miko abilities."

            "Honto ne?" Kimiko stated.  "However, Kagome was someone special to you, wasn't she?"

            "They were both special to me."  Inuyasha said, softly.  They were silent for a while, as they gazed off in different directions, lost in their own thoughts.  "Oh, this belongs to you."  He pulled out a rosary from the sleeve of his haori and held it up.  Attached to the rosary was a pink jewel.

            "How pretty!" Kimiko said.

            "This is the Shikon no Tama."  Inuyasha said with exasperation.  "The jewel of the four souls."

            "Shikon no Tama?" Kimiko repeated.  Once again she felt a tickle in the back of her mind.  She reached out and touched it.  Pink light suddenly flared from her fingertips and Kimiko collapsed, unconscious.

            "Kimiko-san!" Inuyasha gasped.  "Kimiko-san! Daijobu?"  He quickly pressed the Shikon no Tama into her hand and swept her up into his arms and dashed back inside.

            "Shikon no Miko…"

            "Nani?"

            "Awake."

            Kimiko's eyes opened and she sat up with a moan.  Her hand brushed an object as she got off the ground and she stopped to see what it was.

            "Shikon no Tama?"

            "Remember who you are.  Remember what I am." 

            Kimiko's eyes widened and she quickly dropped the rosary.  She backed away slowly and turned to run, only to be stopped by a young priestess.

            "Kimiko."  She smiled, softly.  "Kimiko.  You are Kagome."

            "Who are you?" She asked, fearfully.

            "Do not worry, Kimiko.  I am Kikyo."  She answered, kindly.  "You are Higurashi Kagome, Shikon no Miko.  Remember who you are."  Kikyo said.

            "You must be mistaken."  Kimiko replied.  "I am Kimiko.  I've always been Kimiko."

            "Whatever your chosen name will be, Kagome will always be Kagome."  Kikyo said.  "You cannot deny your past."

            Kimiko shook in suppressed fear and anxiety.  Suddenly her eyes widened and she narrowed her eyes.  "Kikyo.  I remember you.  You tried to take Inuyasha away from me!"

            "It's true that having hate as a soul had altered my true self."  Kikyo responded, softly.  "I apoligize.  However, you haven't been fair to Inuyasha either."

            "Nani?" Kimiko whispered.

            "He loves you." 

            "Kikyo."  Kimiko whispered as her startled blue-gray eyes shot open.  The confusion from those orbs vanished slowly as she recognized her surroundings.  She was in her room.  As she sat up, she spotted Inuyasha leaning against the wall with his sword next to him.  His left ear twitched as she pulled the blanket away from her.  "Tetsuaiga."  She said, slowly as she recognized the sword.  Unaware of the Shikon no Tama in her hand, she walked towards him.  His eyes opened at her approach.

            "Kimiko-san?" He stated, carefully.  Kimiko stared at him for a long moment before reaching out quickly and jerking the rosary away from his neck.  The beads bounced and rolled along the floor as they stared at each other in shocked silence.

            "Inuyasha."  Kimiko whispered as tears gathered in her eyes.  "Forget about Kagome.  Kagome is gone."  She turned and ran out of the room.

            Inuyasha stared at the door she had just exited and he slowly picked a rosary bead off the ground.  He had seen her eyes.  Her eyes were-

            "Kagome!" He yelled as he shot to his feet.  "Kagome! Wait!" He ran out the door after her and he quickly spotted her.  With an extra large jump, he landed in front of her and crushed him to her.  "Kagome!"

            "Inuyasha."  She sobbed.  "Inuyasha, I can't love you."  He froze and she pulled away from him to look up at his frozen face.  "Inuyasha, I'm married."

            "I know."  He whispered as he tightened her hold on her.  "You're Sesshoumaru's mate."

            "You just had to give the Shikon no Tama back to me."  She sobbed.  "You shouldn't have.  You should have kept it and become a youkai."

            "Don't you understand?" Inuyasha asked, roughly.  "My life will never be complete without you."

            "Inuyasha?" She gasped as she pulled back.  "I-I…"  Inuyasha captured her lips into a heart-aching kiss.  She curled her fingers into his haori.  When he pulled back, she gazed at him with glazed eyes.  A mixture of sadness, guilt, and longing flickered through her eyes and disappeared.  She stared up at him, not with Kagome's eyes but a stranger's eyes.  "Inuyasha.  I love Sesshoumaru and I will now and forever be, Kimiko."  She pulled herself from his arms and walked away, never turning back.

            "K-Kagome!" He whispered, hoarsely.  He curled his hand into a fist and brought it up to his chest.  "…No."

            Sesshoumaru landed lightly onto the ground and turned back to stare at the direction where he had came from.  An uneasy feeling came over him but he quickly brushed it off.  He had to destroy the thing that was controlling Kimiko.              "You're looking in all the wrong places, Lord Sesshoumaru."  A voice said.  He looked up and almost smirked.

            "Kagura.  How nice to see you alive."  He replied, coldly.  Kagura smiled at him from her feather and tapped her chin, thoughfully.

            "I want to make a deal with you."  She said.

            "I, Sesshoumaru do not make deals."  He said.

            "Right."  Kagura grinned.  "I want you to retrieve my heart and I'll tell you who you are looking for."

            "No."  He turned around and began walking away.

            "You're looking for Naraku.  He resides in the South as a miko."  Kagura said.  "He holds my heart and the other."

            "Whose could that be?" Sesshoumaru asked, boredly.

            "Your Lady Kimiko's."  Kagura smiled.

            "What do you mean that Naraku is alive?" Sango exploded.  Miroku slowly pushed back his sleeve to reveal the prayer beads wrapped around his wrist.  He unraveled and Sango stared at the small black hole in the middle of his palm.  Wordlessly he wrapped the prayer beads back around it.  Sango sat down hard and stared at the ground.  "All this time and he is still alive.  How?"

            "He must have latched onto an energy source before he died."  Miroku said, thoughtfully.  "It would have been the closest thing that was near him."

            "What was the closest thing?" Sango asked.  Miroku met her confused gaze and an agony filled scream broke their serenity. 

            "Kagome-sama."  Miroku realized.  He and Sango got up quickly from the grass and ran toward the sound that was on the opposite end of the meadow.  "Naraku has somehow gotten a hold of her!"

            "Kagome-chan."  Sango whispered with dread.  They quickened their paces as another scream rang out from the mentioned miko.  "Kagome! Hold on!"

TBC! ….^_^