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A/N- Ahhhh, I am SO, SO, SOOO SORRY! I searched for songs…and songs…and more songs…and in the end, I didn't even put a song in here. I'm so sorry if it might be a little rushed. I typed the chapter 3 different times, and ended up putting them together.
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Let GoChapter Six
Kagome was breathless with anticipation. She couldn't believe it. He was actually here! After so many years…he was actually here…
But just to make sure… "Is it really you?" she asked, voice muffled by his haori.
He didn't say anything, just nodded his head. Oh well, the silent answer was good enough for her. The rain stopped and settled down to a dull drizzle before tapering off into mist.
"I missed you so much…" she said as tears began to form in her eyes again.
She felt his arms tighten around her, fingers digging into her flesh. Kagome ignored it. He misses me; as much as I missed him It was only when his claws began to tears holes into her shirt was she beginning to worry.
"Inuyasha? You're ripping my shirt," she said and stepped out of the hug. Or at least tried to.
He held on, never letting go. "Thoughtless girl," he muttered, voice now harsh with reality. "Whoever said I was that dammed hanyou?"
Kagome shrieked. Baka! Baka Higurashi! You never took a look at him, let alone his face!
His hands, if they were hands, began to rake along her back, tearing the shirt even more. She yelled out of fear.
"Shhh, be quiet my lovely little miko," he murmured in a voice that made her skin crawl.
Using experience, she tried to summon up her miko power. Of course, she was not experienced with this mystical power. Kagome had never trained with it; the pure energy only came when she was in a desperate situation.
And I AM in a desperate situation!
White light began to show on her palms. Using common sense, she grabbed hold of his body and unleashed the sheer power.
White light enveloped the two of them as he let go and shoved her to the ground, roaring in pain and fury.
She landed painfully on her rear, but was up within a minute and running. No one's here to protect you now! Her mind screamed.
Kagome could hear the youkai's furious slashes through trees and other obstacles in his way to get to her. Sharp pains racked through her sides and her legs began to weigh down. It was only the thought of what he would do to her that kept Kagome running on and on.
Gotta make it to the village, Sango and Miroku are there! I so love training for cross-country now! She had partaken in the cross-country sports team, not to mention track.
Yet it was typical that she would trip and fall, losing her advantage. And she did. Argh!!! The noise began to get louder, and soon he would be upon her in a matter of minutes.
She had to fall for the last resort. "SANGO!!! MIROKU!!! SOMEBODY, HELP ME!!!" Kagome yelled as loud and as long she could. She knew this would just anger the rampaging youkai even more.
Oh please, just come soon before I'm ripped apart…or worse
She knew what the youkai's purpose for her was. It wasn't the first time she had been attacked like this. But then again, it was in a way. Inuyasha wasn't here.
"You simpleton girl! How dare you attack!" the youkai's voice was thick with fury.
Kagome screamed and covered her head, waiting for the worst.
The worst never came. Instead a very familiar cry came.
"Hiraikotsu!"
"Kagome! Are you okay?!"
The frightened young woman uncovered her head and saw Shippou's big, adorable eyes.
"Oh! Shippou!" Kagome said inn relief and hugged the kitsune to her body. He wasn't so small as a few years ago, but it was still comforting.
"Kagome-chan! Are you ok?" Sango and Kirara came running and knelt besides the two. Her pretty yellow kimono was wet and splattered with mud.
"Oh, I'm fine Sango but your kimono! Its ruined now!"
Sango looked at her outfit and chuckled. "It can be fixed."
Miroku was the next to appear and looked around carefully. "Are there anymore youkais?"
"I think that was the only one. He-it was the only one that appeared," Kagome replied, and shivered at the thought of more.
Miroku nodded and held out his hand. Kagome took it gratefully and stood up, dropping Shippou to the ground.
"Let's go back to the village," Sango suggested, scooped up the miniature Kirara, and smiled.
"Yea, yea! I still gotta beat Miroku in the paper, scissors, and rock game!" Shippou shouted and began to run back.
Kagome blinked several times before she remembered something she wanted to ask. It had been a question she desperately wanted to know, but forgot in all these turn of events.
"Hey, ummm Sango-chan?" she asked as the two started up a leisurely pace. Miroku was up ahead chasing down Shippou with Kirara at his heels.
"Hai, Kagome. What is it?"
"See, I kinda left the un-completed Tama jewel near the well…before I jumped down never to return…"
"Go on," the taijiya persuaded.
"I was wondering, what exactly happened to it? Heh…" Guilt rose and washed the other feelings inside Kagome. Sango fell silent and continued walking, staring at the ground.
"Sango-chan?"
"I'm sorry Kagome. But I'm trying to tell this to you as easily as possible. And it'll take awhile. Let's sit down."
Kagome arched her eyebrows but agreed. Oh no…what happened?
They walked over to the river and sat on one of the boulders, side by side each looking at the running water.
"Kagome. That night… when you came back for your belongings and left so quickly…we all just thought you and Inuyasha had another one of your 'fights'. And that you'd eventually come back."
Sango laughed, the sound ringing in Kagome's ears.
"But who ever knew eventually would be years? Well…after you left, Inuyasha came."
Flashback"Where's Kagome?!" Inuyasha yelled the moment he entered, startling everyone.
"Kagome-chan? She left a few moments ago," Sango said, bewildered at the hanyou's expression. He looked so helpless, and definitely showed it by his body movements.
His eyes kept searching the room, head turning this way and that. All three, even Shippou, saw how tense he was.
"Inuyasha, what happened between you and Kagome-sama? She was sad…and I noticed she was, and probably still is, crying," Miroku said gently. It was not wise to aggravate him right now.
"Wha-what do you mean crying?! Where is she now?!"
"Inuyasha, clam down. Like Sango said, she just came and left sometime ago. We know not where she went but thy have a feeling the poor child went back to her own time," Kaede murmured.
"Oh really? Well, aren't we glad to be rid of the useless girl," a voice came up out of nowhere.
Sango felt her spine grow rigid, and noticed Miroku's had, too.
Kaede gasped. "Kikyou! How dare thee say that about Kagome!"
"I am free to say what I like, little sister. You have no right to contradict me," the smooth voice said once again.
Kikyou entered the warm hut, and smiled. Not at Kaede, her own kin, but at Inuyasha.
Sango's eyes met Miroku's. The same thought vibrated in their minds. She knew it immediately. Inuyasha had gone off and met Kikyou, Kagome had possibly seen the two together, and left. As simple as that.
"K-Kikyou, what are you doing here?!" Inuyasha asked, his mouth forming a perfect 0.
The soul-less miko became enraged, her once mystical and mysterious face turned bitter.
"I want you to answer my question again. This time in front of the foolish girl so she can hear it for herself."
"Too bad, Kikyou," Sango heard someone talk and realized it was herself. "I'm sure whatever this 'answer' is, Kagome-chan has no need to hear it. I'll be perfectly happy to tell her myself."
"Oh, you will, will you? Taijiya, you are, too, foolish. You do not need to meddle in other's own affairs. Fix your own that's wafting right under your nose."
Sango grit her teeth and positioned herself to get up, but Miroku lay his hand on her arm and told her to be quiet.
"Don't start anything up now," he muttered, eyes on the company and the utterly confused but much needed explanation from Inuyasha.
She nodded.
Suddenly, Kikyou shuddered. Shuddered wasn't the word. It looked as if electricity was running through her whole body and her hair flew up, her face smiling.
"Kikyou?! What has happened?!" Kaede cried out.
"The Shikon No Tama shards your group has collected. It is alone near the Bone Eaters Well. Kagome has left it here."
"What?!" Inuyasha roared with fury and ran out.
"What happened?!" Sango exclaimed.
"Kagome needs the Tama shards in order to travel between time. Inuyasha is the one, and so far only one, that can travel through time without any aid of shards or youkai power," Miroku stated.
End"Wha-what happened? What was the answer to the question Kikyou wanted Inuyasha to say in front of me?!" Kagome was going hysterical.
"Inuyasha came back soon after, with the uncompleted jewel in his hand. Kikyou had already left for elsewhere. I don't know the question or answer." Sango smiled once more. "I remember Shippou pestering him about it for days on end afterwards."
Kagome nodded silently. He never came to the present…or is it future?
Sango answered the question that was floating around in Kagome's head.
"Inuyasha refused to tell us anything, anything at all. So, good naturally, we began to…spy…on him. One afternoon, we caught him near the well jumping in. But we heard his curses echoing form within the well and he jumped out soon after. He stuck around until Kaede-sama past away. We woke up in the morning, and he wasn't there."
"You mean he couldn't travel? Why? I came back didn't I?"
"Hai. But I have no idea why. And how did you come back, Kagome-chan? I thought you left all the jewel shards here with the rest of us."
"I did. I thought I did. I went to visit the well house and climbed down, but I didn't expect to find a jewel shard buried deep within. I remember, before you had joined us, I dug in that soil before. And I was transported between time without the help of a shard. The shards were calling for me that time, and only because Shippou had dropped them on the well ground here."
"I guess its one of those mysteries noone ever solves," Sango said.
"Yeah…"
"Let's go back and join Miroku and Shippou."
"I think I'll just stay here and think. I'll be safe. We're too close to human inhabitation for any youkai to attack."
Sango nodded and got up, leaving Kagome to ,not think, but brood.
Inuyasha, what happened?~*^*~
A/N- Ach, I sooo messed up this chapter. V.V Oh well…please review! You are lucky I woke up at 8:30 on a Saturday morning just to complete the chapter. X-X I don't have enough energy to type all those 'reviews' now. T-T And I have art school in a few hours…. sleep…need…sleep…need sleep…and I need reviews! ^^;;;