A/N: April 13 '04- This was the very first Inuyasha fic I ever write. I wrote it in June '03. it was on here, but I think no one read it because it was too hard to read, so I edited it and changed it's name.
Note: I will never own Inuyasha or his ears. That belongs to Takahashi-sensei _ Kagome :P
Part 1: Kikyo's Transformation:
(After
opening song, the "Last Time" dialogue with Kagome's voice-)
"We have came acrossed some major obstacles in our journey. We just had
the closest battle with Naraku yet and it seems he is in hiding with nowhere to
be found. Also Kikyo has seemed to vanish as well.
Inuyasha is on the verge of a breakdown from all the stress, so we returned to
the village to cool down. As for Inuyasha? We can only hope".
(Episode Title)
In a small grove of trees on a hill overlooking the small village, Sango,
Kagome, Miroku and Shippo sit in a circle around
Kagome's camp stove eating meals she brought back from Modern Japan. Inuyasha
sat up in a tree with an intense look of despair and depression.
"Dammit! Why always so close! How could we let him get away? We'll find him! He WILL die next time!"
Then his look of despair deepened,
"And my Kikyo. Where are you? Why have you not come back to me? Does Naraku have that much an effect on you? Is there any inkling at all of love for me? But no matter what, I will always love and protect you."
Then a voice yelled up at him from the base of the tree. It was Kagome,
"Inuyasha? You should eat! Come down and eat with us. I know you haven't eaten for a few days."
All she got from up in the tree was a "Keh" She sighed then got an idea. She held up a Cup of Noodles,
"Look what I brought back for you! Cup of Noodles! I brought back a lot of them just for you!"
All she got was silence.
"Kagome-chan," Sango said, "Maybe we should just leave him alone for awhile."
"Yes, every man needs to be away from stress awhile." Miroku said in his noble, eyes closed pose.
"What was that?!" Sango yelled at him. He got a small sweat drop, smiled and put his hand behind his head nervously,
"It was noting in particular!"
then Shippo hopped up onto Sango's shoulder,
"I'm a guy too and I'm never stressed out about such dumb matters!" He said with kind of a being annoyed tone. Miroku looked at him with one eye,
"It's because you are a still a kid, you don't understand."
Shippo growled and got into his face,
"Don't give me that 'You're only a kid ' crap!" Then those three continued to yell at each other while Kagome just stared up into the tree,
"I wish I could
help comfort him. I wish I had something to say, but I know what he thinking
about I could never help him with that".
Meanwhile, far far away-
Kikyou walked in a field with
her little Soul Snatchers flying by her side. She didn't know where she was
going, but she still searched for a place she belonged. She had wondered far
away from where the war between Naraku and Inuyasha was. Then she thought about
Inuyasha.
" Why does he still love me?" She asked herself, "I've tried to kill him and his friends many times, but yet she still is devoted to me",
Then she began having flashbacks of all the romantic and nice times they had together. She clinched her hand into a fist and in anger and said,
"That was the past! It will never be the way it was! It CAN'T ever be the way it was! When will he understand that?"
One of her Soul Snatchers curled around her, almost in kind of a comforting hug. She smiled and it flew back behind her. As they began to walk into some woods, she saw an old man leaning against a tree. The Soul Snatchers fled behind a bush. She approached him quietly.
"Are you the Miko (priestess) they call Kikyou?" He said as he turned to face her.
"Mmm" she said as she nodded.
Then the old man then looked straight into her eyes and said,
"You are also the girl who steals women's souls to survive?"
She got a look of horror and shock. Then got also got an angry look on her face,
"They are souls from women who are already dying"
The man looked at her as if he knew better. She stepped back,
"What do you want?"
He stood up straight.
"Do you know how dangerous living off of souls is?"
"It's not!...ano…"
The man nodded and started to walk away. Kikyou took a step forward,
"Is that all you are going to say?!"
The old man looked back, "I gave you my warning." then he disappeared into the woods.
Kikyou seemed bothered, almost terrified, but the Soul Snatchers flew around her in almost a concerned matter.
"It's alright my little friends." She said to them.
They returned to their normal positions and continued walking with her into the woods.
Back at the village:
It was sunset over the little village
that would soon be the location of the city of Tokyo. Inuyasha laid on the roof of Kaede's house looking into the just
showing, twilight stars. In the house Kagome and the others surrounded the
fire. Kagome's face showed that Inuyasha laid heavy on her mind. Sango told
Kaede about how Inuyasha hadn't said any words to any of them all day, but just
seems to be following them like a quiet ghost. Kirara snuggled Kagome.
"Aww, Kirara." She said as she placed the tiny two-tailed kitty on her lap, but still kept quiet.
Miroku nudged Sango and quietly whispered to her,
"Kagome's very worried about him. Is there anything we could do?"
Sango looked at him and shook her head slowly. He sat back and looked into the fire. Then they heard a "Thump" on the roof. It was Inuyasha jumping off. Miroku was about to get up,
"Let me..."
"No, Let me talk to him" Kagome said as she got up and left.
Miroku gave Sango a "Do you think that's a good idea?" look and Kaede said,
"Go ahead and let her. Inuyasha needs her there for him."
Sango looked at Kaede in shock, "You mean that..."
Kaede nodded.
"He needs her, in more ways then just finding the Shikon no Tama shards."
Meanwhile, outside, Kagome search for Inuyasha. She found him sitting, staring into the sunset. For some reason, Inuyasha's eyes shimmered when he heard her voice,
"Inuyasha?"
He didn't look back until she sat beside him.
"Kagome." He said quietly as he looked at her.
She looked at him, and then she looked at the sunset and sighed.
"I don't need you here to feel sorry for me." he said.
Kagome got a little annoyed face and said,
"I didn't come out here for that! I came out here just in case you needed someone to talk too"
"Keh, I don't need you..."
Then he looked at her pained face. Then his face softened,
"I didn't mean it like that! I meant I don't need you to talk to."
Then something caused Kagome to get a bit braver. She crawled over to in front of him, and then she sat and grabbed his hands with an angry look on her face. Inuyasha stared at her in shock,
"Look, don't be so dumb! You think this tough guy stuff is going to keep you from breaking apart? I know what you are thinking about! I know there's nothing I can do about it! I'm not Kikyou, nor will I ever be! You have to just trust me!"
He looked into her frustrated face. Her eyes showed pain and frustration, yet showed the gentle nature and...love (?), then he blushed that she was holding his hands in his lap, she noticed and quickly let go and blushed severely. She got up to leave when Inuyasha grabbed on her skirt,
"Don't go, yet..."
He looked at here shocked face and let go of her skirt. They both got embarrassed for a second, and then he looked into the sunset,
"Please sit here and keep me company."
She sat right by him, smiled at him, then they both looked into the sunset. Inuyasha thought in his mind,
"I don't want to be alone anymore"
He
put his hand over Kagome's hand, which rested on her knee. Then they looked at
each other, smiled and quietly watched the sun go down. Together.
In the Woods, far away, Kikyou sat, limply leaning against a tree while the Soul Snatchers filled her body with souls. The old man's words still filled her head with every soul that sank into her body. Then out loud she said,
"What am I supposed to do? Die my second death?"
But she felt more strength with every soul, the as one soul entered in her with the full moon on her body, something began to happen. It seemed that the souls of the dead started to consume her. Then her eyes began to glow bright green as she screamed. In a huge flash of light, her body changed. She became a flowing, dark deathish monster. She was now a monster, very similar to what happened to Naraku, but her transformation was caused by all of the elements of death. She now realized that the old man was Naraku in disguise. She stood dark, beautiful women of death, she was now a monster; Kikyou was now a Youkai. Then she heard a noise. She turned around to see Naraku himself.
"You turned out lovelier then I imagined."
Kikyou still had a little bit of her old self inside of her,
"What happened? Did you do this?"
Naraku stepped up to her,
"No, I did not. The elements of death, you have consumed so many souls that they overtook you and because you had death on your heart, you became this, but I must admit, you are beautiful like this."
He looked up and down her. She was snowy pale, with black, flowing clothes that was almost like a night slip you'd wear as a witch. She had dark purple lips and her hair was flowing in the breeze with her dress.
"Now think in your mind how you used to look."
As she did, she transformed into how "zombie (LOL)" Kikyou looked and transformed to look like her normal self.
"This will come in very handy to beat that annoying brat, Inuyasha."
All of a sudden, her mind felt concern, but it all faded away to hateful thoughts. Then he looked at her and said,
"I know what you want." He placed his hand on her shoulder.
She got a bunch of pictures of Kagome and growled,
"I need to kill Kagome and steal her soul."
He thought in his mind,
"Without Kagome, he'd have no will to fight, how awful!"
"If she doesn't have a soul, she can't live to find the rest of the shards," She said with a very evil smile on her face. " And since I lost my soul as a Miko, I need her soul for us to search for shards."
Naraku
smiled with a very devious smile.
(Commercial break)
Like the day before, they sat around the camp stove, but this time, Inuyasha was with them. He ate up 3 Cup of Noodles one after another in a huge mess. Kagome looked at him blatantly,
"I'm glad you've got your appetite back."
They watched him eat like an animal, growling like a dog as he ate. Shippou sat on the pack beside him.
"You should slow down, as you'll get a tummy ache."
Sango agreed, "That is true Inuyasha, perhaps you should slow down."
Inuyasha talked with his mouth full,
"But...... (chew/growl).........it's so........ (chew/growl)..........good!"
Sango looked over at Mikoru,
"Maybe you should eat too Houshi-sama"
Mikoru looked at Inuyasha,
"I think I've lost my appetite."
Inuyasha looked at him with an innocent puppy dog look like
"What did I do?"
Then a huge flock of birds flew over them.
"What the hell?..." Then Inuyasha stood up quickly, "I smell human...and animal blood. A lot of it!"
Kirara transformed while everyone got their weapons. Mikoru, Sango and Shippo rode on Kirara as Kagome rode on Inuyasha's back. As they got closer to the place of havoc, Kagome smelt something awful.
"What is that?"
then Sango said, "That's the smell of burning bodies."
Over a few more trees, they saw it. A burning village with the ground stained with blood and animals and people on fire. Kagome couldn't bare the sight. She hid her eyes in Inuyasha's silver hair. And held on to him tighter. He looked back with concern,
"Are you going to be okay?"
Kagome, without budging nodded. Inuyasha then said,
"Just please don't throw up on me!"
She smiled a bit. Then she thought,
"Holding tight onto Inuyasha and hearing his heartbeat is giving me a feeling I've never had before. Though I'm mostly exposed to attack, I feel very safe, and his heart.... His heart is beating so fast, it almost sounds like a race horse is running. But this warmth...."
Then she got jolted as He took off again.
"I think I smell it this way" He quickly hopped from roof to roof in the burning village.
Some roofs caved in as he quickly hopped on them. Finally they were out of the village and came into a huge clearing.
"Is that it?" Miroku asked as they flew overhead.
They all stopped in some trees near it. The monster was a big black snake looking thing. It almost looked like a Soul Snatcher. It spotted them and spit fire at them. They all jumped back. Inuyasha pulled out Tetsuaiga and was ready to do The Wound of the Wind when he caught the smell.
"Kikyou?..." Everyone looked at him like he was nuts,
"You are not saying this thing is Kikyou!" Sango yelled.
Then the huge Youkai turned into a woman. A woman of death.
"Inuyasha."
She said with an evil laugh. Kagome looked at Inuyasha who looked at her in horror and he looked like he lost something important.
"…Kikyou…"
(End credits)
