Chapter four: Heart broken soul

When Inuyasha got back to the village, it was in shambles. Inuyasha tried to look around for Kaede. He couldn't find her any where. As he walked around he tripped on something big. It was Kaede under a hut wall. He pulled the hut wall off of her. "Kaede, What happened, where is Kagome, where is the Shikon jewel?" He said in a nervous voice. "Inuyasha, ………. I do not know where she ….is……..A white Baboon ma…..ma…….man at…..attacked us. We tried to hold him off, but the prayer beads melted off his skin. He took Kagome and said……. If ye live long enough, tell Inuyasha if he wants his bitch back, ye have to come for her. He also told me what happened when ye went to look for Ki….Ki..Kikyou." Kaede coughed up a little bit of blood as she tried to speak. "Shh, Kaede, don't speak. You will waste your energy. Where is the Shikon jewel then?" Kaede lifted her hand and gave it to him. "Inuyasha, I am dieing so don't waste………time……on….me. Go look…..for…..Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou. They were looking for ye………" Inuyasha looked at the old priestess Kaede as she took her last breaths of life. Inuyasha did something she would have never dreamed of in her life. Inuyasha hugged Kaede and kissed her on the forehead. Inuyasha carried her limp form to a Hiding place. He covered her with leaves and then he would come back to give her the right burial ceremony later. 'Why is all this happening to us? We have done nothing to this ass-hole and now he is killing everyone in sight.' He heard a noise as he was thinking and walking to the Bone-Eaters well. He turned around to see what the noise was. Sango was supporting Miroku to the clearing with Shippou right behind them. Miroku was holding his stomach as he walked. "Where have you three been?" Miroku looked at Inuyasha and then removed his hand from his stomach. There was a dagger sticking out of it. "What in the seven hells happened to you?" Inuyasha looked wide eyed looking at the dagger in his friend's stomach. "Me and Sango put up a pretty good fight against Naraku, didn't we Sango?" Miroku said while trying to get Sango to look at him. Sango had silent tears coming out of her eyes. Inuyasha turned away. "That's it you guys st-st-stay here-," Inuyasha started to have cracks in his voice as he tried not to cry. He couldn't hold it in. Miroku, Sango, and Shippou just stared at him. Sango laid Miroku down and walked over to Inuyasha. She pulled Inuyasha off of the ground and hugged him. Sango walked him over to Miroku where they all agreed to rest there for the night.

Miroku and Sango were asleep, Sango surprisingly let Miroku lay his head in her lap. It was probably because of his wounds. Inuyasha was sleeping up in a tree as usual. 'Kagome, forgive me. I can never forgive myself for letting him take you. Kagome if I come find you Naraku is going to make me make a hard decision. He will probably make me choice you or the jewel, but I need the jewel shard to help you come back to life. What should I do? Kagome, help me, please.' Inuyasha looked into the sky as a tear came running down his face. There was something moving around in the sky. Inuyasha didn't notice. The thing moving around started to come at him very fast. Inuyasha put his hand on the hilt of his sword. The thing disappeared and in flash of a light it reappeared right in front of him. He was just about to pull his sword out when he noticed who it was, but it couldn't be. "Ka-Kagome?" Inuyasha said looking at the spirit in front of him. "Inuyasha, what are you crying for?" The spirit of Kagome said. "You are dead. I failed you." Inuyasha looked away from the spirit. "Give me the jewel Inuyasha. I will take it to my body, but I need you to follow me just in case Naraku pulls something funny." Kagome said. Inuyasha pulled the Shikon no Tama out from around his neck and gave it to her. The spirit started to fly away with Inuyasha not too far from her. They had been traveling for nearly an hour when the spirit stopped. Inuyasha landed right next to her. Inuyasha looked under a tree not too far from them and saw them. Naraku asleep in the body of Kagome's lap. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles and started to growl in a low voice. Naraku was in his human form. The spirit started to go down slowly and carefully to Kagome's body. She was just about two feet away from the body when Naraku opened his eyes. Luckily he couldn't see the spirit or the jewel because the spirit was only allowing Inuyasha to see her. The spirit sat there because if she moved Naraku would definitely see her if she moved. Naraku sat up to look around. Inuyasha started to panic because Naraku would have been able to sense him soon if he stayed awake. Naraku laid his head back down and closed his eyes. The spirit moved forward again. She slipped the jewel under the bandages where Inuyasha had cut her before. Then the spirit slipped in as well. Inuyasha watch closely because he didn't want to miss a thing. Quite suddenly Kagome's eyes sprang open. She started to rub the back of her head because it hurt. She put her hand down on her lap and then noticed a man was lying in her lap. She would have screamed realizing it was Naraku, but couldn't. She knew if she did he would know she was alive. Inuyasha came down from the tree to go get her when all of the sudden he heard a voice. "Inuyasha, you think you are slick don't you? I knew that, that girl's spirit was going to get you and was going to return to her body." Inuyasha looked at Naraku in Kagome's lap and he was still sleeping. "There is no point looking around for me because I am scaring you through your mind." Inuyasha opened his eye wide as he noticed a tentacle was moving around to get a dagger and stab Kagome from the back. Inuyasha ran towards her and cut the tentacle down. Kagome screamed and Naraku's body sprang up. It ran into the woods to get away from Inuyasha. Inuyasha would have run after him normally, but he had a better reason not to this time. "Inuyasha!!!" Kagome yelled as she got up and started running for him. Inuyasha ran to her at the same time. They hugged for a long time. Kagome started to cry of the ordeal she went through just now and in her time. "Inuyasha I was so scared. Don't leave me again." She sobbed in his shoulder. Inuyasha just hugged her and tried to comfort her. "Kagome I missed you so much and so much has happened since you were gone or dead." Inuyasha said while trying to hold back tears of happiness. Inuyasha picked her up into his arms and started to head back to camp.

Miroku was still sleeping in Sango's lap. Sango was rubbing Miroku's head when they were walking up. Miroku opened his eyes slowly. "Inuyasha you found her." Sango screamed while lifting Miroku's head up so he could lean against a tree that Sango had been lying on. Inuyasha put Kagome down so she could go see Sango and Miroku. "Sango, Miroku, you guys are alright, kind of. Oh this is all my fault. You guys got badly hurt and it is because of me." Kagome whined. "Its ok, Kagome. We aren't that badly hurt. Or at least, I'm not." Sango said pointedly at Miroku. "Oh my gods, Miroku, what happened to you. I am so sorry this happened to you all." Kagome said holing back tears. "It's alright, Kagome. It's not your fault. I did this to protect my fr-family." Miroku said. "Where is Kaede? I am sure she can heal that wound in no time." She asked them all. Everyone looked away as Sango answered. "She is dead." Kagome looked at them all, wide eyed. She stood up and walked away from everyone. She had to be alone. All the people that died because of her or for her are gone forever. Kikyou is dead now and that means she wouldn't be able to learn how to bring people back from the dead or how to do any other enchanting things she did. Kagome her foot steps behind her and turned around. Inuyasha was staring her right in the face. His eyes were glowing in pain to see Kagome so sad. "Kagome, what happened when you went back to your world to see your family one last time?" Inuyasha asked. "When I went back, I was walking to my house when all of the sudden the sun exploded. I went in the house because I didn't know that it was the sun that exploded. I walked upstairs and I found my brother hung in his room with a rope around his neck." Kagome started to cry as she spoke. "I found this note." She handed the note to Inuyasha. He read everything. He looked at Kagome and hugged her. He held her in the hug for a long time before he let her go so she could explain the rest of her story. "When I read the note I ran outside to go back to the well. But then I saw a white thing flying from the sky at a fast speed right at me. When it got closer I figured out that it was one of Naraku's dolls. He threw a sword at me and it went right through my shoulder. I did something to him that I had did once before and only once to Mistress Centipede. He disappeared. I got up and started to run for the well again. Right when I got there, I passed out because I had lost so much blood and fell into the well. When I got back to this time I crawled around when I woke up, but then fainted again. And that's all I remember, well except the part where I was a spirit." Inuyasha looked at her and felt a pain in his heart he had never felt before. He felt real bad for Kagome because she lost her family, her life style, and her world all in one big painful package. 'I am going to kill Naraku, even if that means my life is on the line.' He thought to himself. "Kagome, I really think that we should stop with the adventures and have you relax. You have been through enough hell as it is and with a baby on the way, you know?" Kagome nodded. They both started to go back with Miroku and Sango.