Disclaimer: gods.. who was the decorator who was sent to make my room up? I mean, the author who put InuYasha and Kagome to together in the sengoku judai should get something better than bouncy white walls...
Notes: okay, okay.. i had some computer problems the last few weekends I was supposed to update, but I'm on springbreak now, an my computer is back up again.. so, heres 1 chappy (so yall wouldn't get TOO mad n.n').. But also, I'm allowed to type at least (though not use the net) during da week cus I'm on break.. so I'ma try an finish up typing the end to this fic an post it up Friday/Saturday.. kk?.. so dun hate me ~ please review ~Bunny
~*Over the Edge: Chapter 39 - Reunion*~
'So..what? You're that cheating guy Kagome was telling us about?'
'Kami, how stupid can my friends be? Seriously! The rest of the day had been sheer hell...Well, it could have been worse. It WAS nice to see them again, even if it sent InuYasha into a temper tantrum and I had to 'sit' him...heh, he deserved it.' Kagome finished packing her new wardrobe into her closet, leaving a few items out to go into her new pack for when she'd head back to the Sengoku Judai.
She let out a sigh as she looked out the window to see InuYasha lazing in the Goshibinku on his favorite branch. A twinge of guilt struck her for dragging him along with her to the mall. Then after her friends had shown up there were a few too many questions about her and Hojou, and InuYasha... Kagome bit her lip. Hojou was nice, but he lacked the confidence that InuYasha had.. besides, she'd known for a while now that it was he who held her heart.
'But do I hold yours?...' Images of Kikyou attacking the two of them a while back in the storm raced through her mind. It had been a while since she'd made an appearance...that was what made her nervous.
"KAGOME! INUYASHA!..Dinner!" The young miko watched out of the window as the hanyou's ears perked up an giggled. Tonight, they would eat soba... not the instant stuff either. She smiled and headed down to the kitchen. 'Maybe I should carry out that plan a little more over dessert..heh heh.'
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InuYasha laid against the familiar branch of the ancient God tree on the shrine grounds of Kagome's home. By the gods.. why did everything have to interrupt them whenever they had time alone lately. 'Miroku's probably gotten more action in the last day then I've had in a whole week...feh.' His thoughts wandered back to today and how her friends haad rambled on and on about that Hobo person, vowing that if he crossed paths with him while he was there, that he would kill him. "..not like he had claim on her, the way they were talking.....Kagome didn't have to 'sit' me though.." He mumbled as he rubbed the sore stop on he side that had been so abused after her friends had left the grounds and he went to complain to her. "..women.."
In the direction of the house behind him, he heard Mrs.Higurashi calling them for dinner and his ears swivelled to focus in on her voice. His stomach grumbled and he slid off the branch gracefully. 'Bout time...'
But something other than his stomach was bothering InuYasha. Something on the other side of the well demanded his attention, and it was nagging at him though he didn't know quite what it was. 'Gah... I'll get to it later.' Then he disappeared inside where the scents of food were wafting from the house.
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Sesshomarrou finished tying up his hakama and went over to kiss his mate on the cheek. It was a huge relief to know she was safe, now all he wanted was to do what it was she had asked of him. This time his business would not be to kill his younger half brother, but to deliver that message.
Seiko sat on a rock near the placid waters of a lake, her hair blowing around her with the breeze, and the waters rippled. It was a beautiful site, and Seiko stood slowly as he approached her, her head watching the disturbed reflection of herself on the watery mirror. "Feriahma denl koi."
((Don't be sad, love.))
He lightly took her chin and lifted her face to meet his gaze, he deep brown eyes entrancing him. He placed a feather-light trail of kisses down her cheek, and he felt her put something small in his hand and it nearly cut him, but she closed his hand over it, and it didn't hurt any more after a moment. He drew away to see what it was but she pulled him back and whispered in his ear.
"Just give it to InuYasha..."
With that, Sesshomarrou turned on heal and sprinted off, heading to catch up with the group his mate swore she could not return to for the moment... though she said not why. He gripped the small item in his fist, only looking to see what it was after he slowed down in reaching the town near the mountain that was hers. He eyes widened as he saw what it was he'd been carrying and swallowed hard.
It was a shard of the jewel... the Shikon no Tama. 'Why did she have this?..'
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Kagome shook the can of whip cream as she headed to her room with two bowls of ice-cream. It was fun teasing InuYasha when it seemed like her family was still completely oblivious to the fact that they were together now. But when she opened the door, expecting to see the hanyou sitting back against the wall under her window like he usually did, the window was open, and there was no trace of him around.
"Hmn..." She shrugged as the smile faded slightly and her brows drew together in concern. 'He didn't say he was leaving.. well, he'll probably turn up soon..' With that she set the extra icecream on her desk, shooing Boyou from off her pile off books and away from eating the creamy goodness.
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InuYasha had crept out of the window a while after dinner when Kagome had gone downstairs to get something He figured he should have told her, but he didn't need her worrying any more then she already had. A lot had gone over the past month or so... no need in adding to the list when she was finally getting to relax.
But he couldn't let his guard down too much. He knew that Naraku had been around. He had been the one to kill Oki and the others back at the other village, and now Seiko hadn't caught up to them yet... he just.. he had to check up on the others. Sure it was nice just laying back in Kagome's time, but it was disturbing to think that the time might not exactly be there if Naraku lived. Something was up.
He climbed out when he reached the other side of the well, greeted by fireflies and the familiar sounds that echoed through the forrest. Running into town quickly, not bothering to make his presence known, things seemed normal enough there, but he continued on, passing through the small village where his friends were laughing and resting up from their travels, heading back toward the trail they had come back on only the previous day.
He wasn't comforted as he neared the mountain to have a familiar scent reach his nose, and his brows furrowed together as emotions welled up inside of him, not knowing what to expect, but not liking it. "Kikyou."
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Naraku gave an evil laugh as he tapped into the mind of the huntress who seemed to fight like an amazon warrior of ledged. "How cute. That little imp actually thinks she might save her little friends from herself by sending her little puppy...tsk tsk. And here I thought she was smarter."
He sat up from his position of lounging on the rocks of the cave which he had found to be quite cozy. 'Hmn... but this will never do. She's keeping something from me.' He took control of her with the flick of his wrist and she didn't fight it, only giving off a crude phrase that could only be edited down to 'what the hell do you want'.
'Honestly, such colorful language for a lady, don't you think?'
'Fuck off.' He had her slam into a nearby tree, ripping into her skin that was newly healed.
'Now, now pet, no need to be nasty...Come to me..' But after thinking for a moment as he could feel she wasn't resisting, he changed the order. 'Better yet.. go to HIM.' A malicious smile brimmed his lips as he mused on his new toy. She was fun to play with, and it would be even better once she reached InuYasha.
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"Kikyou." The name that he once would have died for, now felt like dirt on his tongue as he said it aloud.
"You don't sound so surprised InuYasha. Then again, why should you, I vowed I would come back for you, and finally drag you to hell with me after what you did.." Her voice did not waver, but her usual empty expression picked up a tinge of hate as her once lovely eyes narrowed slightly as they locked on his.
"You know I can't just let you take me away."
"Why are you so stubborn?.. You once would have done anything for me... even turn completely human."
The hanyou cringed at those words. They were true. But she spat them out as if he was somehow still tied to what he was going to do so long ago... when Naraku had first wronged everything. "Maybe so."
The undead miko stepped closer to him, coming into direct moonlight as it filtered down from the open night sky to the field at the base of the mountain. "Come along then."
InuYasha took a step back as she reached out to him, tilting his head to one side. "I said 'maybe so'.. As in once I might have done those things. But not now... Kikyou, you shouldn't be alive. I wont go to hell with you. I don't belong with you any more." He turned away from the miko, he couldn't look at her anymore as the gentle breeze blew her hair around her like some kind of cruel de-ja-vu from when he had fallen in love with her. "I can't."
Anger rose in Kikyou's chest and her grip on her bow tightened, her brows knitting together to show her anger. That was it! She couldn't take it any more, if he wasn't going to go quietly, then she'd finish this off the hard way. It would end tonight. She positioned an arrow on her bow and aimed.
InuYasha turned around at the sound of the string being drawn back, just in time to see her release the arrow. His eyes went wide as the arow sailed through the night air. "No."
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Sesshommrou walked through the trees, not quite sure if he was headed in the right direction as his brother's trail had faded and his scent had scattered with the wind. All he knew was that he'd have to cross a mountain, and then find the small village. But his senses seemed to deceive him as night set upon the lands, like he was going in endless circles.
The western lord looked around where he was, beginning to feel bored wiht the scenery, but decided that it was a good a place as any to sleep, he would find the half-whit hanyou in the morning when he could figure out where he was.
Sitting down at the base of a tree, stroking his long tail to get the tangles out, he was ready to doze off... but the sight of a certain hawk youkai caught his attention as it soared down into the shadows of trees from the blanket of stars above to land on his wrist as if it had been a perch all along. It's eyes were flaming as it stared mercilessly into Sesshomarrou's.
Something told him he wouldn't be getting much sleep that night as he rose from the base of the tree and watched to follow where the hawk was soaring above the forrest canopy to lead him.
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InuYasha swallowed a lump at the back of his throat as he saw what happened downwind of him. Kikyou had strung an arrow, but it had not gone toward him as it had fifty odd years ago, but instead to the huntress Seiko who came into view a few metres away from the field on a boulder, crouching down as if she were on a hunt.
The arrow came within inches of her when the young woman snatched it from the air, giving a small laugh with a smirk spreading on her face. "Tsk tsk.. silly little girl. Someone should have taught you to play nice." She twirled the arrow around in her fingers as if it were just a twig, and cracked her neck from side to side as she slid down the steep slope to the field where the two foes were already apart from each other.
But before Kikyou could draw another arrow, or InuYasha could stop her, Seiko grasped the enchanted arrow firmly in her fingers and sent it whizzing back threw the air as though it were one of her daggers, catching the miko right above her collarbone, having her collapse to the ground on her knees, watching with wide eyes as her hands began to grow stiff as the mud she was forged of and age seemed to catch up with her.
"Kikyou!" InuYasha could only watch in horror as the echo of his first love began to crumble before him. Her familiar face holding an expression of true hatred, just like before, but surprise as she stared dumbly at the huntress who smiled smugly while the miko crumbled to pieces...
"How...?" Her own energy burned through the flesh that refused to let her die since she had been brought back. All of the hate and emotion she had felt was slowly easing away, memories of fonder times filtering threw.
"Hmn... I would have thought the mighty protector of the Shikon no Tama who had come to pass would have been more of a challenge to finish off, would you agree InuYasha?.. After all, you seem to yourself."
He could only hold his breath and watch as Kikyou's image faded. She was really gone now.. no more. Why didn't he stop it? But then he turned harshly to face Seiko. "How could you say that?." His fangs gritted together as anger began to set in against the huntress. "You know what it's like to loose, to loose someone..."
A smile spread across her face. It was so malicious, it made him sick to look at her in the moonlight as the breeze blew her tousled hair around her. "Ay, but it makes you stronger, ne?... Or is that just me?" She took a few steps closer, taking a dagger from her belt as her eyes became unveiled from her bangs and he could see the glint of red shimering, and knew she was not in her right mind. "Let's find out, shall we?"
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okay.. I'm guessing 3 to 4 more chapters.. to be up this cumming weekend I hope. PLEASE let me know wut you think. *dances around* ooh! kikyou's dead.. o crap.. did i already kill her off... uh, ok, if i did.....ignore it.. she uh.. came back *ahem*.. Damn.. i should prolly go back an reread this thing hun?... well, this is where i really want her to die, if i had put in that she was dead b4.. my mistake.. eh.. dat's y I'm gonna rewrite this thing an edit it.. you kno.. it's kinda rough arounf the edges.. heh heh.. kk.. please review n.n'
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(n.~) ~Bunny
Notes: okay, okay.. i had some computer problems the last few weekends I was supposed to update, but I'm on springbreak now, an my computer is back up again.. so, heres 1 chappy (so yall wouldn't get TOO mad n.n').. But also, I'm allowed to type at least (though not use the net) during da week cus I'm on break.. so I'ma try an finish up typing the end to this fic an post it up Friday/Saturday.. kk?.. so dun hate me ~ please review ~Bunny
~*Over the Edge: Chapter 39 - Reunion*~
'So..what? You're that cheating guy Kagome was telling us about?'
'Kami, how stupid can my friends be? Seriously! The rest of the day had been sheer hell...Well, it could have been worse. It WAS nice to see them again, even if it sent InuYasha into a temper tantrum and I had to 'sit' him...heh, he deserved it.' Kagome finished packing her new wardrobe into her closet, leaving a few items out to go into her new pack for when she'd head back to the Sengoku Judai.
She let out a sigh as she looked out the window to see InuYasha lazing in the Goshibinku on his favorite branch. A twinge of guilt struck her for dragging him along with her to the mall. Then after her friends had shown up there were a few too many questions about her and Hojou, and InuYasha... Kagome bit her lip. Hojou was nice, but he lacked the confidence that InuYasha had.. besides, she'd known for a while now that it was he who held her heart.
'But do I hold yours?...' Images of Kikyou attacking the two of them a while back in the storm raced through her mind. It had been a while since she'd made an appearance...that was what made her nervous.
"KAGOME! INUYASHA!..Dinner!" The young miko watched out of the window as the hanyou's ears perked up an giggled. Tonight, they would eat soba... not the instant stuff either. She smiled and headed down to the kitchen. 'Maybe I should carry out that plan a little more over dessert..heh heh.'
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InuYasha laid against the familiar branch of the ancient God tree on the shrine grounds of Kagome's home. By the gods.. why did everything have to interrupt them whenever they had time alone lately. 'Miroku's probably gotten more action in the last day then I've had in a whole week...feh.' His thoughts wandered back to today and how her friends haad rambled on and on about that Hobo person, vowing that if he crossed paths with him while he was there, that he would kill him. "..not like he had claim on her, the way they were talking.....Kagome didn't have to 'sit' me though.." He mumbled as he rubbed the sore stop on he side that had been so abused after her friends had left the grounds and he went to complain to her. "..women.."
In the direction of the house behind him, he heard Mrs.Higurashi calling them for dinner and his ears swivelled to focus in on her voice. His stomach grumbled and he slid off the branch gracefully. 'Bout time...'
But something other than his stomach was bothering InuYasha. Something on the other side of the well demanded his attention, and it was nagging at him though he didn't know quite what it was. 'Gah... I'll get to it later.' Then he disappeared inside where the scents of food were wafting from the house.
***
Sesshomarrou finished tying up his hakama and went over to kiss his mate on the cheek. It was a huge relief to know she was safe, now all he wanted was to do what it was she had asked of him. This time his business would not be to kill his younger half brother, but to deliver that message.
Seiko sat on a rock near the placid waters of a lake, her hair blowing around her with the breeze, and the waters rippled. It was a beautiful site, and Seiko stood slowly as he approached her, her head watching the disturbed reflection of herself on the watery mirror. "Feriahma denl koi."
((Don't be sad, love.))
He lightly took her chin and lifted her face to meet his gaze, he deep brown eyes entrancing him. He placed a feather-light trail of kisses down her cheek, and he felt her put something small in his hand and it nearly cut him, but she closed his hand over it, and it didn't hurt any more after a moment. He drew away to see what it was but she pulled him back and whispered in his ear.
"Just give it to InuYasha..."
With that, Sesshomarrou turned on heal and sprinted off, heading to catch up with the group his mate swore she could not return to for the moment... though she said not why. He gripped the small item in his fist, only looking to see what it was after he slowed down in reaching the town near the mountain that was hers. He eyes widened as he saw what it was he'd been carrying and swallowed hard.
It was a shard of the jewel... the Shikon no Tama. 'Why did she have this?..'
***
Kagome shook the can of whip cream as she headed to her room with two bowls of ice-cream. It was fun teasing InuYasha when it seemed like her family was still completely oblivious to the fact that they were together now. But when she opened the door, expecting to see the hanyou sitting back against the wall under her window like he usually did, the window was open, and there was no trace of him around.
"Hmn..." She shrugged as the smile faded slightly and her brows drew together in concern. 'He didn't say he was leaving.. well, he'll probably turn up soon..' With that she set the extra icecream on her desk, shooing Boyou from off her pile off books and away from eating the creamy goodness.
***
InuYasha had crept out of the window a while after dinner when Kagome had gone downstairs to get something He figured he should have told her, but he didn't need her worrying any more then she already had. A lot had gone over the past month or so... no need in adding to the list when she was finally getting to relax.
But he couldn't let his guard down too much. He knew that Naraku had been around. He had been the one to kill Oki and the others back at the other village, and now Seiko hadn't caught up to them yet... he just.. he had to check up on the others. Sure it was nice just laying back in Kagome's time, but it was disturbing to think that the time might not exactly be there if Naraku lived. Something was up.
He climbed out when he reached the other side of the well, greeted by fireflies and the familiar sounds that echoed through the forrest. Running into town quickly, not bothering to make his presence known, things seemed normal enough there, but he continued on, passing through the small village where his friends were laughing and resting up from their travels, heading back toward the trail they had come back on only the previous day.
He wasn't comforted as he neared the mountain to have a familiar scent reach his nose, and his brows furrowed together as emotions welled up inside of him, not knowing what to expect, but not liking it. "Kikyou."
***
Naraku gave an evil laugh as he tapped into the mind of the huntress who seemed to fight like an amazon warrior of ledged. "How cute. That little imp actually thinks she might save her little friends from herself by sending her little puppy...tsk tsk. And here I thought she was smarter."
He sat up from his position of lounging on the rocks of the cave which he had found to be quite cozy. 'Hmn... but this will never do. She's keeping something from me.' He took control of her with the flick of his wrist and she didn't fight it, only giving off a crude phrase that could only be edited down to 'what the hell do you want'.
'Honestly, such colorful language for a lady, don't you think?'
'Fuck off.' He had her slam into a nearby tree, ripping into her skin that was newly healed.
'Now, now pet, no need to be nasty...Come to me..' But after thinking for a moment as he could feel she wasn't resisting, he changed the order. 'Better yet.. go to HIM.' A malicious smile brimmed his lips as he mused on his new toy. She was fun to play with, and it would be even better once she reached InuYasha.
***
"Kikyou." The name that he once would have died for, now felt like dirt on his tongue as he said it aloud.
"You don't sound so surprised InuYasha. Then again, why should you, I vowed I would come back for you, and finally drag you to hell with me after what you did.." Her voice did not waver, but her usual empty expression picked up a tinge of hate as her once lovely eyes narrowed slightly as they locked on his.
"You know I can't just let you take me away."
"Why are you so stubborn?.. You once would have done anything for me... even turn completely human."
The hanyou cringed at those words. They were true. But she spat them out as if he was somehow still tied to what he was going to do so long ago... when Naraku had first wronged everything. "Maybe so."
The undead miko stepped closer to him, coming into direct moonlight as it filtered down from the open night sky to the field at the base of the mountain. "Come along then."
InuYasha took a step back as she reached out to him, tilting his head to one side. "I said 'maybe so'.. As in once I might have done those things. But not now... Kikyou, you shouldn't be alive. I wont go to hell with you. I don't belong with you any more." He turned away from the miko, he couldn't look at her anymore as the gentle breeze blew her hair around her like some kind of cruel de-ja-vu from when he had fallen in love with her. "I can't."
Anger rose in Kikyou's chest and her grip on her bow tightened, her brows knitting together to show her anger. That was it! She couldn't take it any more, if he wasn't going to go quietly, then she'd finish this off the hard way. It would end tonight. She positioned an arrow on her bow and aimed.
InuYasha turned around at the sound of the string being drawn back, just in time to see her release the arrow. His eyes went wide as the arow sailed through the night air. "No."
***
Sesshommrou walked through the trees, not quite sure if he was headed in the right direction as his brother's trail had faded and his scent had scattered with the wind. All he knew was that he'd have to cross a mountain, and then find the small village. But his senses seemed to deceive him as night set upon the lands, like he was going in endless circles.
The western lord looked around where he was, beginning to feel bored wiht the scenery, but decided that it was a good a place as any to sleep, he would find the half-whit hanyou in the morning when he could figure out where he was.
Sitting down at the base of a tree, stroking his long tail to get the tangles out, he was ready to doze off... but the sight of a certain hawk youkai caught his attention as it soared down into the shadows of trees from the blanket of stars above to land on his wrist as if it had been a perch all along. It's eyes were flaming as it stared mercilessly into Sesshomarrou's.
Something told him he wouldn't be getting much sleep that night as he rose from the base of the tree and watched to follow where the hawk was soaring above the forrest canopy to lead him.
***
InuYasha swallowed a lump at the back of his throat as he saw what happened downwind of him. Kikyou had strung an arrow, but it had not gone toward him as it had fifty odd years ago, but instead to the huntress Seiko who came into view a few metres away from the field on a boulder, crouching down as if she were on a hunt.
The arrow came within inches of her when the young woman snatched it from the air, giving a small laugh with a smirk spreading on her face. "Tsk tsk.. silly little girl. Someone should have taught you to play nice." She twirled the arrow around in her fingers as if it were just a twig, and cracked her neck from side to side as she slid down the steep slope to the field where the two foes were already apart from each other.
But before Kikyou could draw another arrow, or InuYasha could stop her, Seiko grasped the enchanted arrow firmly in her fingers and sent it whizzing back threw the air as though it were one of her daggers, catching the miko right above her collarbone, having her collapse to the ground on her knees, watching with wide eyes as her hands began to grow stiff as the mud she was forged of and age seemed to catch up with her.
"Kikyou!" InuYasha could only watch in horror as the echo of his first love began to crumble before him. Her familiar face holding an expression of true hatred, just like before, but surprise as she stared dumbly at the huntress who smiled smugly while the miko crumbled to pieces...
"How...?" Her own energy burned through the flesh that refused to let her die since she had been brought back. All of the hate and emotion she had felt was slowly easing away, memories of fonder times filtering threw.
"Hmn... I would have thought the mighty protector of the Shikon no Tama who had come to pass would have been more of a challenge to finish off, would you agree InuYasha?.. After all, you seem to yourself."
He could only hold his breath and watch as Kikyou's image faded. She was really gone now.. no more. Why didn't he stop it? But then he turned harshly to face Seiko. "How could you say that?." His fangs gritted together as anger began to set in against the huntress. "You know what it's like to loose, to loose someone..."
A smile spread across her face. It was so malicious, it made him sick to look at her in the moonlight as the breeze blew her tousled hair around her. "Ay, but it makes you stronger, ne?... Or is that just me?" She took a few steps closer, taking a dagger from her belt as her eyes became unveiled from her bangs and he could see the glint of red shimering, and knew she was not in her right mind. "Let's find out, shall we?"
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okay.. I'm guessing 3 to 4 more chapters.. to be up this cumming weekend I hope. PLEASE let me know wut you think. *dances around* ooh! kikyou's dead.. o crap.. did i already kill her off... uh, ok, if i did.....ignore it.. she uh.. came back *ahem*.. Damn.. i should prolly go back an reread this thing hun?... well, this is where i really want her to die, if i had put in that she was dead b4.. my mistake.. eh.. dat's y I'm gonna rewrite this thing an edit it.. you kno.. it's kinda rough arounf the edges.. heh heh.. kk.. please review n.n'
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(n.~) ~Bunny