A/N I'M SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY… but, hehehe, I can explain. This is what delayed my posting:
1) A ton of homework b4 christmas holidays…. I had hardly any sleep
2) I got sick with the flu… had to stay in bed for two weeks, and rest some more for another..
3) I came back to school January 12 and had to do one week's worth of homework plus the science project
4) Now: Intersession, and I've finally managed to get the computer to write all this
Good news: this is over 4 pages long, a lot longer than the previous chapter… well, but at least one page or so
I will try to write another chapter, and update asap… that means, reeli reeli soon
Chapter Seventeen: Kikyou
Before: His eyes widened out of shock. "Ki…Kikyou? That's impossible! You're dead!"
Even more before: *Flashback*
"Inuyasha, it's called water, from a stream. There's nothing wrong with taking a bath for god's sake."
"But what if some demon attacks ya' you stupid girl"
"No! Out of the question, you're not coming with me!"
"But Kagome, we've come so far! Naraku's armies have retreated, but some are still vengeful, after the last incident-" his voice trailed off the sentence, laden with sadness.
"Inuyasha, it's all right, we weren't there, don't blame yourself for the inevitable. The little-" Her voice also broke down. The boy had been in the way of one of the most prized demons of Naraku, a new incarnation he had created to seek them down, just in case his original plan didn't work. Sake, he named it. After the rice wine. And the garbage dump of a monster had killed a small boy they had befriended, Shinaku, and written a message to them with his blood meanwhile placing the boy's head on a stake next to the message. After that, the demon was lying in a bloody mess, put there by Kagome herself, and Inuyasha had become even more protective of her.
But a bath? No way! If she had her bathing suit, maybe, but she hadn't brought that along. Witnessing her nude was ugh! She couldn't think of the pervert. She took her arrows and bow and with a glance at him, that froze him to his spot, she set out to the stream they had located earlier. Killing Naraku wasn't easy, but searching for the remainders of his followers, was simply exhausting. Why won't they just die out? The worst part was that Sake, wasn't the only incarnation Naraku had created behind their backs, there were others, all containing his essence, his want for destruction, control, and of course, the jewel. Simply bothersome and exhausting, that's all they were!
The stream was coming into view and with a sigh of relief; Kagome loosened her grasp on her arrows. Finally, after fighting the last demon, she wasn't quite sure if she had gotten all the blood and guts off of her face. She knelt and released her arrows and bow, completely from her grasp, forming her hands into ladles and scooping up some of the clear water. It felt nice against her skin, especially since it was very hot outside. She scooped up another handful, when she heard the crunching of leaves.
Swiftly turning around, she looked and was greeted by the smell of fresh air and the chirping of birds. She shrugged and looked down at her hands, full of still water. The water was acting like a mirror and allowed her to see everything that was behind her. She gasped and in doing so, the water returned to the stream. She looked behind her once more. 'Impossible! I thought she had died! There was no evidence. But, it has been, I don't know, at least six months since Naraku's death! Supposing that something is dead doesn't make it so. But, I don't see her anywhere' Kagome argued with her common sense. She made sure that her eyes were in fact telling her the truth and once again, she saw nothing behind her. She turned back, looking at the stream and scrambled away from the person standing there.
Her heart beat faster as she came closer and closer, practically floating on the water, her mouth twisted into a grin that could make ghosts feel more dead than they already are. "Hello Kagome." She said, her voice drifting closer to Kagome, but not penetrating her ears.
"But- but you're not, it can't possibly- you're dead- NO! Go away!" Kagome reached for her arrows but her foot was faster and as she stood on both Kagome's arrows as well as bow, Kagome was trying to convince herself to wake up.
"I thought that someone like you would greet me better, but like always, you're a disappointment." Her soul stealers appeared behind her and in an unearthly way glided toward Kagome and held her still. "I'm afraid that I would like my soul back, it is so tiresome to keep dragging these things around" She gestured toward the soul stealers. "Now, if you would hold still for a moment."
"Kikyou, you're dead, now stop!"
"I can only die once he dies with me. I'll be taking these-" she held her hands as the bow and arrows got unstuck from her feet and floated into her clasp. She fitted an arrow and aimed at Kagome's heart. The second she loosed the arrow, Kagome's life darted right in front of her and in a blur of color disappeared. Her eyes lost their color and her limp body fell to the ground once the soul stealers had let go. The arrow disappeared and small orbs of blue color floated towards Kikyou.
Once the soul exchange was complete, Kikyou smiled and sighed, with real breath. "Finally, after all this time, I am complete and can exact my revenge, in the proper manner." She looked down at the girl. Kagome, without a soul, still moved, She sat in upright position and stared at nothing with her dead eyes. "I heard my younger sister once say that eyes were the mirrors of the soul. You can see why she said that now." The eyes still stared at nothing.
Angered for no reason except frustration, Kikyou slapped her across the cheek with such force that Kagome had to move again to get back into her upright position. The red handprint slowly faded away. She still stared at nothing. Kikyou simply laughed her frustration off. "Stupid shell." She said haughtily and walked away from the girl. All this time, she had been planning on doing this, and now that she was once again revived, no one is there to see her.
At first she decided to wait until nighttime to kill Inuyasha, or at least to show herself, but then decided against it because he would find the girl before that. No, this deserved a grand entrance, and the only way to do that is to stay near Kagome until he came to find what had happened to her and why she didn't come back from the stream. Kikyou leapt up onto one of the lowest branches of the nearest tree.
The next thought that crossed her mind almost threw her off balance. 'What will be Inuyasha's reaction? Would he be angry that the copy is dead, or would he be happy that I am alive once more? Maybe, he would be pleased that I took that burden off his hands, but then again, what if he had grown feeling for her and thought of me as an enemy, after all I did to him?' she shook her head rapidly as if trying to empty her head of these thoughts. 'It won't matter really; all I want to do is go to hell and go with him! Maybe this girl can have her soul back, if that happens, if not, then I hope someone puts her out of her misery. Maybe that little fox creature would do it. Even better, Inuyasha himself!' Lost in her thoughts she had not noticed Inuyasha's vice creeping from their temporary settlement.
"Kagome? Kagome! What are you doing in there? You're going to look like a prune, get out now. Kagome? If you don't answer this second, I'm going go on after you, and you can't blame me! I know you're out of the water there is no splashing! Kagome, did you hear me?" After a slight rustle of bushes, Inuyasha emerged from the forest, a look of concern on his face. "What? Where are you? You stupid wench! Where did you go! It's not safe! Kagome-" his last sentence was cut short as he saw an almost lifeless Kagome staring at something behind him.
"Kagome? What happened? What's wrong with you? Kagome? Answer me?" Anxiety rose and still Kikyou did not show herself. 'He's much slower than I first thought. Kagome is lying unconscious on the ground… without arrows. I thought it would have been pretty obvious. But, maybe, he needs something else, like me, to put two and two together.'
"Inuyasha, don't tell me that you're not happy, I'm alive you know."
"Kikyou? What did you do to her? Wait a moment, you're not dead?"
"No. Inuyasha, I just took back what was mine to begin with."
"How dare you?"
"Her soul, my soul, same thing." She jumped off from the tree. "I just deserve it more"
"Give it back to her!" he said drawing out his sword.
"Inuyasha, come to your senses! That scrap of a girl does not belong here, she doesn't live because she shouldn't. I am from this world. Why are you not happy to see me?"
"Kikyou" he said with saddened eyes. "Go back. You're the one that doesn't belong."
"Don't tell me you've forgotten Inuyasha." She came closer and embraced him. At first, he grew tense but then relaxed in her arms. "Now that I am real, the key to your heart belongs to me once again." She whispered into his ear. "If I don't belong here, Inuyasha, I promise that I will give that copy back what she once had, if you give me your soul."
"Kik-"
"Come to hell with me"
"But, I still-"
"You do not need to fight anymore, Inuyasha. Come with me."
"But-"
"Come Inuyasha." She whispered, more silently than before. A black portal opened behind her. Her soul stealers glided into its unknown depths. A small bit of soul flew out of Kikyou and into Kagome. Kagome blinked her eyes and remained still.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha wrenched himself from Kikyou's grasp and ran to Kagome's side, sword clattering on the ground, back into its old katana form. Once again the still Kagome blinked. "Kagome wake up!" he screamed at her.
"Inuyasha, you choose that girl over me? You are no more than a mutt, aren't you?" She sighed, calling the bow and arrows into her hands. She notched an arrow and aimed it at Inuyasha. Suddenly Kagome was engulfed with purple light, most of it coming from her left side. She opened her eyes and they glowed purple as well. An arrow materialized exactly where Kikyou previously hit her. It flew through Inuyasha and disintegrated the arrow aimed at him. But it didn't stop there; it flew into Kikyou, catching her completely by surprise. She tried to catch her balance a little too late and by the time Kagome's full soul returned to her, the black portal, as well as Kikyou disappeared.
*End Flashback*-
"Kikyou, you fell, I saw you do it. Why are you here?" Inuyasha's eyes widened with a probable reason, "You didn't… where's Kagome?"
"Calm down" she said, disappointed. "You're not happy to see me?"
"But, Kagome…"
"Does everything have to do with her? Inuyasha, she isn't the universe you know, I have my own soul now."
"How is that possible?"
Kikyou flipped back loose strands of hair, impatiently. "You have to have a soul to visit Heart. Since my soul was in that girl, and was being 'used', he, or rather it gave me a new one to perform the trial. I was obviously still put into the imperfect soul pile so it was pretty useless."
"Imperfect-"
"Well, let's see. Inuyasha, you of all people should know that most demons and humans have bad souls; some are tainted beyond belief and are thought to not have the ability to be reincarnated. Helping Naraku didn't aid me in that case, but it didn't really matter, they couldn't reincarnate me in the first place. That would mean they would have to have two Kagome's living at the same time. Which of course, is impossible and therefore, it made no difference whether or not I was the most polite and kindest person in the world or the ugliest and most cruel demon, I would still be imperfect."
"But Kikyou," Inuyasha reasoned, "surely if that's the case, you wouldn't be here.
"I know that you fool" she looked towards the moon. "Something must be wrong. The Children must have lost Heart."
"Heart?"
"The dead are more wiser than the living. The being that controls all life is called Heart and the Children are like gods, they do its bidding. They are the rulers of the world and the makers of fate. But if the imperfect should are being released then the Guardian of Protection must be dead."
"What are you talking about?"
"The Children are guards, they guard the principles of life. There is the Guardian of Fate, of Death, of Life, of Protection, of Hope, of-"
"No. I mean, if the Children are like gods, how can one of them be dead?"
"That's is exactly what I'm worried about."
Okay, vocabulary:
Well, I didn't use a lot of Japanese at all.. I think the only word I see is the name Shinaku... which doesn't mean anything
SOOOOOOOOO… ANYWAY
Thank you for all of the people who reviewed… 15 reviews WOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Here are the responses:
Kitty12perfecto: sry this took so long, but I made it longer, I didn't want to write anything about sesshy and kag in this one, but the next one will have the beginning of their adventure… and okay, this chappie, is purely there.. because I got a really good idea in my head… remembering names is a nightmare. Just now, I said hi to one of my friends online when it turned out to be another one 0.0; good thing she was pretending to be drunk… and didn't really notice
Inudemoness247: thx for the spacing, don't worry, I'll get back to reading you're fic, I'm kind of unbalanced right now… its been, two months since I've updated, and I'm really sry, I'm not dead though XD
Kk: ::two months later:: I updated!
Rabid-Inu-Girl: Bath? Oh no… I got a better plan… ::evil grin::
AbyssDemon: Thx, I'm honored, I reread my story and hated it… but that's what happens to all my stories so I don't mind ^-^
Kittymui: Thx… o.0; I need to get back to reading your story.. ack, I will I promise, you probably finished already…
Sunnygurl357: What's with the formal stuff ^-^ ? It will be mostly Ses/Kag, but, Inu/Kag… well, they'll have a moment too, but… really, S/K
Silver-Blue-eyes: I know, I totally agree with you, I think that my friends are a very bad influence on me, but I had to do something and I panicked, I thought that maybe the urine… would I dunno, I ran out of ideas, at least I didn't think of Sesshoumaru having diarrhea…0.0
Black Kitsune: I'm really sorry, but, this is the soonest I got it out
Suki1: this makes me feel so horrible, I promise never to update this un-soon ever again, unless I'm away on vacation
Tenshi Chan: Sorry about the grammar mistakes, I get A's in English it's just that… I type pretty fast for fanfics and only proofread once or so, and sometimes not proofread at all, and about Sesshoumaru, I doubt that if he were real, he would fall in love right away. But I plan to make him realize his inner feelings by the end of this fic… DUH … ^-^
Crazy-Mango-Chick-1: Ah dun worry about it… I really don't mind, we're strangers after all, you wouldn't know if I was or wasn't fifty-fifty chance really…^-^ thx for the review
Female Heero Yuy: ^-^ thx.. well… I guess I will have to make them take a bath or something, but wouldn't it be more funnier if they forget and then reek… ^-^
Silver Phoenix7: thx, I dun really see it getting that good, but I appreciate your opinion
glowing_cresent_moon : Well, I'm really sorry to make you wait, but the new chappie is up, and the next one will hopefully come out within a week
THAT'S IT FOR NOW I HOPE YOU LIKED IT… if you didn't… then hope I get sick again ;p
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~Spoken
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