The 5th Son
A/N- pops a piece of gum in her mouth and cracks knuckles I've been looking forward to writing this chapter for so long. Oh how I will enjoy writing it! -
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Chapter 18: He wasn't strong enough
Finally back at the manor Miroku, Sango, and Kagome ran through the manor doors. 'Inuyasha we're coming!' Kagome thought to herself as they reached the room they had left Inuyasha in…
And all came to a skidding halt. Before them, was everyone. Saori , with her hand cupped to her mouth, Lady Mio sobbing into InuTaisho's shoulder, and all the guys, strait, shocked faces on.
Kagome took a step forward… "Inu…" tears began to prick at her eyes. InuTaisho looked up "He died about 10 minutes ago." He said, his voice cracking.
"No…" Kagome barely whispered. "This can't happen!" She screamed as she pushed her way past InuTaisho and up to Inuyasha.
And there was his body, a sheet spread over it. "No" She gasped as she fell to her knees. Pulling the sheet back she stared wide-eyed at Inuyasha. They had already changed him into his Funeral Haori.
More tears brimmed at her eyes, yet to have fallen. "Inu..yasha…". Kagome shook her head "No! You can't do this to me! You were supposed to be stronger! You weren't supposed to die on me too!" she shrieked the tears now streaking down her soft cheeks.
"You can't be dead!" she shouted again. And then she took the bottle that contained the antidote. Popping of the cork she dipped the bottle down and let it's contents into his mouth, squeezing her eyes shut tight, praying to Kami he'd come back.
"Kagome…?". Kagome gasped, that, it sounded like Inuyasha's voice. Opening her eyes Kagome looked down, expecting to see a live Inuyasha smiling up at her.
But no… he was still laying there, pail as ever, no life what so ever. Kagome cringed and hung her head low. "Kagome?" InuTaisho tried again. " The antidote won't bring him back. He's already gone…".
Kagome turned, her vision a little blurry from the tears. And then it hit her. "The Tensaiga!!!" she shrieked standing up. "What?" InuTaisho question in confusion.
"The Tensaiga! It gives life! You can bring Inuyasha back!" replied in a rush. "Oh, you poor thing.." Mio said softly stepping up. "What?" Kagome asked.
"The Tensaiga, only works on human dear." InuTaisho replied. Kagome looked at him like he was an idiot "Inuyasha is half human! So it'll work on him right!!!?" she insisted.
InuTaisho shook his head "It'll only work on his human half. And his human half can not survive with out his Demon half. If I were to use the Tensaiga on him, he'd live for about 5 seconds, and then die all over again." InuTaisho replied sadly.
"But…" Kagome fell to her knees once again. "That means, he's gone…" Kagome choked as tears began to flow full force once again.
InuTaisho sighed 'Why Kami? Why did you have to steal him from us?'. "He'll be laid in the main hall for three day of viewing before he is cremated, it's tradition" InuTaisho said rubbing his forehead.
Saori stood up and looked at the group before her. So many sad faces… "Well, it's exceptionally late, and I know we're all tired. So how about heading off to bed for now?" She said as she began walking away.
Everyone else nodded and one by one left eh room. Except for Kagome and Sango.
Kagome, still on her knees next to Inuyasha, and Sango still standing by the door that they had come through.
Kagome's body began to shake as sobs racked her body. "You promised you'd do your best to protect me, (in her dream, chap 11) but how can you protect me if you're not here?" Kagome gasped out quietly.
Sango looked on in pain, she had just lost one of her best friends ever. And just had the heart broken of the other. Sighing Sango walked up behind Kagome and put a hand on her shoulder "You need some rest, come on."
Kagome looked up with red, tear swollen eyes and nodded. Standing she walked with Sango to the doors, and glanced back once, her heart clenching with pain.
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(The next day)
Miroku stood in front of the vile thing in determination. With tons of bottle of lady Mio's perfume, which happened to be very flammable, and a flint, a twinkle of anger sparked in Miroku's eyes.
"You!" he shouted. "You have caused much pain in this house!" He said bluntly, waiting for a reply, but none came. "Oh, silent are we?" he asked.
"Well we'll just see how silent you are when you burn to the ground! This is what you get for killing my friend!" Miroku yelled throwing the bottle of perfume at the Manors largest closet.
A Sadistic look in his eye, Miroku took the flint and prepared to light the evil closet aflame, when suddenly he was grabbed from behind!
Come on Miroku, that is the third time this morning you've tried to light a closet on fire, and my mom is running out of perfume" Keita stated bluntly hauling Miroku away .
"No! You don't understand!" Miroku yelled flailing his arms and legs trying to get away. "The closets were in on it I swear! They're why Inuyasha is dead!" Miroku accused.
But Keita just continued walking, Miroku flung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. "You got lucky this time!" Miroku y4elled pointing to the closet.
Keita shook his head and blinked away a tear. Sure, Miroku had good intentions, he WAS doing it for Inuyasha after all, he just wasn't completely in his right mind.
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Sango sat in the Kitchen as she popped a Sugar roll into her mouth. Sighing she swallowed it and then popped another in her mouth.
'Damnit Inuyasha, why'd you have to die?' she thought to her self morbidly as she popped another sugar roll in her mouth.
A tear trickling down her cheek she swallowed and reached to grab another one, just to find that she had finished all of them.
"Oh well" she sighed as she hopped off the counter and then walked to the pantry to get more stuff to eat. Opening the door Sango stepped back and gasped as she was surprised by Keita standing inside the pantry.
"You'll eat yourself to death soon you know?" He said knowingly. "I.. um, I don't know what you mean." Sango replied guiltily. Keita unfolded his arm "Oh come on Sango, eating your sorrows away will not help anything."
Sango looked up "Er… I know" She sighed as tears began flowing down her cheeks. Keita rubbed his temple, and then looked at her again. "How about, you go see my mom. I'm sure she could use some help." He said.
Sango nodded and then exited the kitchen morosely . "Two down, more to go" Keita thought shaking his head and headed for Ryuichi and Keita's room. He had to make sure no one was doing anything stupid out of sorrow.
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Sesshoumaru sat in a large velvet chair in his room. The drapes closed, he sat completely in darkness, that's how he liked it when he wanted to think.
His eyebrow twitching Sesshoumaru slammed his fist down on the small wooden table next to him. "Damnit!" He yelled his eyes clenched shut.
"This is all my fault" He thought, turning his head to the side. "if only I had gotten him back here faster, they would have had those few, precious minutes that they were late, to get the antidote for him.
Sesshoumaru squeezed his eyes shut tighter. He could feel tears trying to seep their way out. But he refused, he would NOT cry!
But the longer he held his eyes shut, the more tears that built up, until finally they escaped his eyelids. "No!" Sesshoumaru shouted looking down.
He'd never let anyone else know, but Inuyasha was probably the most Important person to him in the world. He was his youngest brother… He was still just a pup to Sesshoumaru…
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Ryuichi and Ryohei sat in their room talking quietly. "Remember that one time he helped us die Keita's hair pink while he was sleeping" Ryohei laughed softly. "Ya, Keita couldn't get it out for months." Ryuichi replied leaning back.
"Or that one time we brought the wild pig home for a pet, and he let us hide it in his room so mom and dad wouldn't find it" Ryohei continued. "Ya… wait, what ever happened to that pig?" Ryuichi asked sitting up.
"Uuhh.." Ryohei didn't get to reply as their bedroom door opened. "So what are you two up to?" Keita asked stepping in and eyeing them suspiciously. Their way to deal with things usually wasn't the best way.
"Just talking about things we remember about Inuyasha." Ryohei replied. Keita looked dumbfounded "Just talking? It's never just talking with you two." . Ryuichi stared at him "Actually ya, that's all we're doing." He replied plainly.
Keita gave them one last suspicious glare before deciding they weren't lying, and left the room.
"He's gone?" Ryohei asked. Ryuichi looked back at the door "Yep" he replied as Ryohei opened a drawer and pulled out a parchment of paper.
"Ok, here's the plan for getting Inu back." Ryohei said showing it to Ryuichi. "We'll just bring him back as a zombie!" Ryuichi cheered at the idea of not only getting his brother back, but how cool it'd be having a zombie for a brother.
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Kagome sat on her bed, staring blankly at the wall. She wasn't crying anymore, but that was just because she had no tears left to cry.
Her eyes were red and throat was soar from crying all night, but she didn't care. She didn't care about anything anymore, nothing truly mattered anymore….
'I can't believe he's gone' she thought biting her lower lip. 'He was supposed to be strong. He said he'd protect me…' Kagome bit harder "Well guess what Inuyasha! All you did was break my already shattered heart!" she yelled out to no one.
"All he did was break my heart more…" Kagome whispered biting her lip again. 'I truly thought things were getting better. I really believed that I could be happy here, happy with him. But then fate just had to turn around and murder another one of the people I loved more than anything!" by now Kagome was biting down so hard on her lip that it was bleeding.
'And, that dream I had when I was at the southern lord's manor, it connects to this. The way I couldn't control my own body in the dream, was like how I couldn't control my body when the demon was controlling me. And, Inuyasha, he died… and he was in the black Haori and everything…"
And then, once again, Kagome defied all odds as tears began trickling down her face again. Apparently she hadn't cried them all away.
And then, a gentle breeze blew in, making the curtains that hung before her balcony flutter. Kagome looked up 'That's it!' she thought as she stood and made her way hastily to the balcony.
'I can't see him again in this world, but…' the cool wind blew over Kagome cooling her skin as she took a step on, onto the edge of the balcony railing 'I can see him in the next world..' Kagome smiled at the thought of seeing Inuyasha again as she let go of her hold on the side.
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Sango knocked lightly on Mio's door. She heard some shuffling, and then the sound of Mio's voice ushering her in. Stepping in the room Sango saw Mio sitting on the floor in the middle of a piles of random Papers, and textures of cloth.
"What's all of this about?' Sango asked stepping between a paper here, and a cloth there to reach Mio. Mio looked up "Oh, I've got to pick the colors, and the flowers and what not for Inuyasha fune-" Lady Mio choked on the last word.
"I understand" Sango replied sadly. Lady Mio nodded and then went back to shifting through the black cloths.
"Is, there anything you need help with?" Sango inquired quietly. "Well…" Mio hesitated "We need to make a decision as to where Inuyasha's ashes will be buried after he is cremated." Mio replied her voice cracking every now and then.
Sango thought for a moment "Well, I'm not really sure.." she responded. Mio nodded "I wasn't sure of where either. But, I feel, that it should be Kagome decision…" Mio said softly.
Sango nodded, I'll go ask her about it right now" She said as she exited the room. Mio looked on behind her, and as soon as Sango left , she began crying again. It was such a horrible thing, to have to arrange the funeral of your own child.
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Walking to Kagome's room Sango didn't bother to knock, as she opened the door. "Kagome, Mio and I wanted you opinion on…" Sango stopped talking as she looked around. But she didn't see Kagome anywhere.
"Kagom-" Sango cut herself short ashes noticed the balcony curtains blowing in the wind 'Oh, she's just on the balcony' Sango thought as she made her way to the balcony.
But she stepped out just in time to see Kagome standing on the balcony rail, and let go of the side.
"Kagome!" Sango yelled as she bound to the end of the balcony and caught Kagome by the wrist.
Hanging in the air, Kagome looked up to see Sango. "Kagome, what were you doing!" Sango said as she began pulling Kagome up.
But answering Sango was not on Kagome's list of priority things to do. Right now, the only thing between her, and Inuyasha, was Sango's hold on her wrist.
"Sango let go!" Kagome yelled as she tried to twist herself free. "Wha-? Kagome stop that you'll make me drop you!" Sango yelled as her grip on Kagome's hand started to loosen.
"You don't understand! I want you to drop me!" Kagome pleaded tears streaming down her face. "I want, to be with Inuyasha again." She whispered hoarsely.
And then she twisted as hard as she can and Sango lost her grip on Kagome's wrist. "Gotcha!" InuTaisho said as he caught Kagome's wrist before she fell, and then pulled her up. (Sango wasn't strong enough to pull her up).
Crying Kagome pounded on his chest "I want to be with Inuyasha! Why won't you let me!?" She screamed into his chest.
"Ssshh.. It's ok Kagome" InuTaisho said patting her back. "Now, it's dinner time, and you haven't eaten anything all day. How about you come down to the dining hall and have something to fill your stomach?" InuTaisho asked.
Kagome shook her head "No.. I'd rather go back to sleep" She said miserably as she went over and got in the bed. InuTaisho sighed "It isn't healthy to not eat." He said knowingly, but got no response.
"There" Sango said as she walked over and Handed InuTaisho a key. "The balcony doors have a lock on them now, just incase she tries that again." Sango explained. InuTaisho nodded "Come on, let us go eat dinner" He said as he led her out the door.
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A/N- Hides in a bomb shelter and locks the door as tons of angry readers try to kill her .Ehehe.. you guys don't hate me do ya? Gets a bunch of "Yes we do hate you"s. Well, anyways, I plan on finishing this story this week. Most likely tomorrow, so I'll probably be posting chapter 19 AND 20 tomorrow if I get the time. Just keep I mind, if you kill me, then you'll never get to read the ending of this story .-
Angelwingsbaka
This chapter was inspired by all of you whom aren't going to threaten my life in your review O.O;
Your AVDT (Anger, Violence, and Death Threats) are understandable and expected.