This chapter is one of my favorites, simply because its one of my favorite scenes~! (when they flashback to this part as many times as they do, you get to where "its okie", "its monotonous", "you hate it", and then you go into a full circle and love it again, lol)
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha~ I wish I did b/c I'm a selfish lil wench but I don't so hoowha.
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To Be With You Tomorrow
Part Seven :: Kagome, Inuyasha and Kikyou (part 2)
Chapter Twenty-Seven :: The Fatal End
Kikyou looked around, her mouth tight in a small frown. "He's late, I wonder where he is??"
She sighed, looking up at the tree. This oak tree was the one that they had met under every time they longed to see one another. The tree that underneath its branches, Inuyasha had confessed that he loved her. And underneath this tree he would become human-- for her.
She smiled. All night she had stayed up, thinking of him, like some crazed young maiden. She couldn't help it. She loved him so much.
She wondered briefly what he looked like as a human. Hanyous had periods of times that they lost their youryoku, and she was almost certain it was the night of the black moon, the first day of the month, because Inuyasha had never revealed himself on that night to her. He was with her daily and sometimes at night too, but never on the first day.
She looked down at the jewel in her hand. A perfectly round, slight pinkish glass ball, attached to a chain of shells. A jewel which contained pure hatred and evil, purified at once by her hand. A cursed jewel that gave strength to demons, and would be on this day used to silence the youkai blood of a young hanyou.
*As much as I love him, I can't help but say good riddance. Youkai are no good. And I fear one day I would lose my Inuyasha to the monster that lives inside him. Best to... get rid of him now.*
From behind her she heard the rustling of the grass, and seconds later--
--there was a terrible sound of tearing flesh and clothes and Kikyou gasped, the pain in her back incredible. She fell forward, somewhere in her twisted, pain-drenched mind wondering where all the blood was coming from, and she looked up, opening her eyes.
The Shikon no Tama was ahead of her, lying in a pool of her blood. She reached out for it, to pull it back, when someone's foot smashed down upon her hand.
"You fool," said devastatingly familiar voice, "Are you so stupid? I have no wish to become human!"
Kikyou's blood ran cold, and she lifted her face a bit to meet the figure kneeling down at her. His right hand came down, the claws dripping with blood and torn meat. A painfully familiar teenage boy took the Shikon no Tama from her wavering hand and grinned at her. "Thanks for this, though. I sure appreciate it."
Kikyou stared at him, shocked. *Inu...yasha...*
He turned and began to walk away, towards the village. After a few steps he turned back and glared at her with the most wicked grin she had ever seen on his face. "You know, this jewel... it needs to absorb more bitterness... more evil." He resumed his trek back towards her home, "The people in your village... I'm going to kill them all."
Kikyou's mouth hung open in horror. Her whole body shook from the pain. He had deceived her... that.. filthy, wretched hanyou had gotten close to her, made her love him, and then turned around and killed her, in the name of his true goal.
"D.. damn you..." She lifted her head, trying so hard not cry. "GOD DAMN YOU~!!!"
She lay in the grass, in her steadily growing pool of blood, weeping. How could she have been so stupid?! How could she love that... that deceitful monster? Even now.. "I still love him..."
*If I show my weaknesses to anyone, if I waver... some demon will get the better of me.*
"Well he certainly got me..." she laughed bitterly, and then the bitterness of tears and blood met her mouth. "Bastard.. I can't.." Her mind flashed with the shock of Inuyasha's last words.
*The people in your village... I'll kill them all.*
"I can still.. stop him."
Kikyou forced herself to her feet, and struggled the relatively short distance back to the village. She could hear the horrified shrieks of those who attempted to hold back Inuyasha, those who were fighting in her stead. *Bastard... I won't.... ever, EVER... forgive you.*
She saw a bow and quiver, which had been thrown aside, probably by a shocked villager. She took up the bow, fighting a wave of pain in her back and shoulder, and reached for a single arrow. A single arrow was all she would need.
In her mind, Kagome watched. Slowly she comprehended what was happening. What had happened before and what would now happen-- again.
What she would have to watch. What she would have to do.
Kikyou watched him as he shot into the hokora where the Shikon no Tama was kept, and she caught her breath, her blurring eyes searching for a shot. It would be his escape; his escape that she would be able to take the shot. She saw it after only a moment. "The.. tree..."
The Goshinboku.
It was the entrance to his sanctuary, to the forest where he lived, called Inuyasha's Forest because of that very thing. She fought her way towards the Goshinboku, and set the arrow to the bow, pulling back and fighting the hot stabs in her back.
She could see him again, bounding from the hokora. She had been right. He was going to disappear into the forest and to do that he would pass in front of the Goshinboku. He had to.
And he would meet his end there.
*That was your fatal mistake, Inuyasha~ if you get close enough to me to kill me.. surely I... would get close enough.. to be able to kill you.*
She could hear that voice, the voice she loved. The voice she hated. "Too fucking bad, bastards~ Now that I've got this, I can become a real demon~!"
"Take him in one shot," she said to herself, and grit her teeth. "INUYASHA~!"
His name called, he looked up for only a moment, but it was enough. Kagome closed her eyes as she felt her fingers release the arrow, and it shot forward. She heard a gasp and a cry as the arrow pierced his chest, slamming him back against the tree.
She opened her eyes to see the Shikon no Tama hit the ground and roll, Inuyasha hanging against the tree, gasping in pain, one hand tightening around the arrow shaft. She watched it slip off uselessly. She could see the hurt and the betrayal in his eyes, and she could feel Kikyou's own pain.
She wanted to scream at them then, to tell them it was Naraku who had tricked them. Even if she never got the chance to know him because of that, even if falling through the well and falling in love with him would never become an option, she knew he loved her. Inuyasha loved Kikyou.
He might have been happy. They might have gotten married like they wanted, they might have had children. He might've grown old, and died an old man. And because she loved him now, she wanted him happy.
But she couldn't. After all, it was only a memory. Something she could only watch and not change. Never. It was only a memory, with all the emotions attached.
All of the emotions, which is why she realized why Inuyasha did not perish on that day, 50 years ago. *Kikyou... still loved him. That's why he didn't die. Every other youkai who ever attempted to get the jewel, she killed. But Inuyasha only slept-- because she loved him...*
Kagome's heart ached at that thought. *She didn't... use all of her power.*
"Ki.. Kikyou.. you bitch... how.. could you..." Inuyasha slumped against the tree, his hand falling, his eyes slipping in and out of focus. And then Kagome saw his eyes close for the last time.
The last time... until she would come and wake him, 50 years later.
Kikyou moved forward, falling to her knees and taking up the Shikon no Tama. Kaede was there, and so were other villagers, and they were talking incoherently. All she could hear was Kaede.
"Oneesama~! Oneesama, how did you get that wound?!!"
"My..own.. foolishness," Kikyou replied vaguely, clutching the jewel, and then Kaede said, "Oneesama, you have to get help, you--"
*Shikon no Tama, I shall take you to the other world with me.*
"I'm beyond saving... so, listen to me, Kaede." She handed her little sister the Shikon no Tama. "You must take this, the Shikon... no Tama... and burn it with.. my body... You must not let it.. get into the hands of those with... evil hearts~!"
*Inuyasha... I'll be with you shortly... in Hell.*
"Oneesama?!" Kagome felt all feeling leave her, and her eyes close as she fell to the side. "ONEESAMA~!!!!!"
There was nothing for a moment. Silent, black abyss. There was an odd feeling, like time was moving quickly around her, over and under and 'Kikyou' was now 'Kagome.'
Then, a feeling of floating up, and she reached the surfaced again, and it was like breathing. She gasped aloud like she had held her breath underwater for several minutes and she was pushed sharply backwards. Kagome opened her eyes and saw Kikyou's gray ones ahead of her.
The dead miko looked awestruck, as if she could not believe the things she now knew, but Kagome noticed that her eyes were gray again. Not red.
She was Kikyou again.
Then all the energy leave her body, and her vision of the other miko blurred. "Ki.. kyou.." Kagome moaned, falling backwards. She hardly heard it as sleep suddenly claimed her, but it was the distinct voice of her hanyou.
Inuyasha screamed her name. Kagome sighed softly. *Inuyasha...*
And then all was black.
~*~ To be continued ~*~
a/n :: Heh heh~! My favorite scene was of course, the arrow. BWA HA~ BWA HA~ BWA HA HA HA HA~ That was SO fun to write~
Awh man, you people should have seen me~!!! I was crazy. I wanted everything to be as accurate as possible (with a little bit of improvisation of course) but I watched episode 1, 14 and 15 so many times that my mother (who couldn't pronounce a WORD of Japanese if her life depended on it) came into my bedroom and said "If I hafta hear one more 'naze uragitta Inuyasha' I'm gonna naze uragitta you" which proves that she had no idea what it meant, but it was still funny~
Chapter 28 -- Inuyasha's encounter with the real Kikyou~!! Please review and as always, okie ja~
~*~ V^-^V ~*~
~Tessen
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha~ I wish I did b/c I'm a selfish lil wench but I don't so hoowha.
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To Be With You Tomorrow
Part Seven :: Kagome, Inuyasha and Kikyou (part 2)
Chapter Twenty-Seven :: The Fatal End
Kikyou looked around, her mouth tight in a small frown. "He's late, I wonder where he is??"
She sighed, looking up at the tree. This oak tree was the one that they had met under every time they longed to see one another. The tree that underneath its branches, Inuyasha had confessed that he loved her. And underneath this tree he would become human-- for her.
She smiled. All night she had stayed up, thinking of him, like some crazed young maiden. She couldn't help it. She loved him so much.
She wondered briefly what he looked like as a human. Hanyous had periods of times that they lost their youryoku, and she was almost certain it was the night of the black moon, the first day of the month, because Inuyasha had never revealed himself on that night to her. He was with her daily and sometimes at night too, but never on the first day.
She looked down at the jewel in her hand. A perfectly round, slight pinkish glass ball, attached to a chain of shells. A jewel which contained pure hatred and evil, purified at once by her hand. A cursed jewel that gave strength to demons, and would be on this day used to silence the youkai blood of a young hanyou.
*As much as I love him, I can't help but say good riddance. Youkai are no good. And I fear one day I would lose my Inuyasha to the monster that lives inside him. Best to... get rid of him now.*
From behind her she heard the rustling of the grass, and seconds later--
--there was a terrible sound of tearing flesh and clothes and Kikyou gasped, the pain in her back incredible. She fell forward, somewhere in her twisted, pain-drenched mind wondering where all the blood was coming from, and she looked up, opening her eyes.
The Shikon no Tama was ahead of her, lying in a pool of her blood. She reached out for it, to pull it back, when someone's foot smashed down upon her hand.
"You fool," said devastatingly familiar voice, "Are you so stupid? I have no wish to become human!"
Kikyou's blood ran cold, and she lifted her face a bit to meet the figure kneeling down at her. His right hand came down, the claws dripping with blood and torn meat. A painfully familiar teenage boy took the Shikon no Tama from her wavering hand and grinned at her. "Thanks for this, though. I sure appreciate it."
Kikyou stared at him, shocked. *Inu...yasha...*
He turned and began to walk away, towards the village. After a few steps he turned back and glared at her with the most wicked grin she had ever seen on his face. "You know, this jewel... it needs to absorb more bitterness... more evil." He resumed his trek back towards her home, "The people in your village... I'm going to kill them all."
Kikyou's mouth hung open in horror. Her whole body shook from the pain. He had deceived her... that.. filthy, wretched hanyou had gotten close to her, made her love him, and then turned around and killed her, in the name of his true goal.
"D.. damn you..." She lifted her head, trying so hard not cry. "GOD DAMN YOU~!!!"
She lay in the grass, in her steadily growing pool of blood, weeping. How could she have been so stupid?! How could she love that... that deceitful monster? Even now.. "I still love him..."
*If I show my weaknesses to anyone, if I waver... some demon will get the better of me.*
"Well he certainly got me..." she laughed bitterly, and then the bitterness of tears and blood met her mouth. "Bastard.. I can't.." Her mind flashed with the shock of Inuyasha's last words.
*The people in your village... I'll kill them all.*
"I can still.. stop him."
Kikyou forced herself to her feet, and struggled the relatively short distance back to the village. She could hear the horrified shrieks of those who attempted to hold back Inuyasha, those who were fighting in her stead. *Bastard... I won't.... ever, EVER... forgive you.*
She saw a bow and quiver, which had been thrown aside, probably by a shocked villager. She took up the bow, fighting a wave of pain in her back and shoulder, and reached for a single arrow. A single arrow was all she would need.
In her mind, Kagome watched. Slowly she comprehended what was happening. What had happened before and what would now happen-- again.
What she would have to watch. What she would have to do.
Kikyou watched him as he shot into the hokora where the Shikon no Tama was kept, and she caught her breath, her blurring eyes searching for a shot. It would be his escape; his escape that she would be able to take the shot. She saw it after only a moment. "The.. tree..."
The Goshinboku.
It was the entrance to his sanctuary, to the forest where he lived, called Inuyasha's Forest because of that very thing. She fought her way towards the Goshinboku, and set the arrow to the bow, pulling back and fighting the hot stabs in her back.
She could see him again, bounding from the hokora. She had been right. He was going to disappear into the forest and to do that he would pass in front of the Goshinboku. He had to.
And he would meet his end there.
*That was your fatal mistake, Inuyasha~ if you get close enough to me to kill me.. surely I... would get close enough.. to be able to kill you.*
She could hear that voice, the voice she loved. The voice she hated. "Too fucking bad, bastards~ Now that I've got this, I can become a real demon~!"
"Take him in one shot," she said to herself, and grit her teeth. "INUYASHA~!"
His name called, he looked up for only a moment, but it was enough. Kagome closed her eyes as she felt her fingers release the arrow, and it shot forward. She heard a gasp and a cry as the arrow pierced his chest, slamming him back against the tree.
She opened her eyes to see the Shikon no Tama hit the ground and roll, Inuyasha hanging against the tree, gasping in pain, one hand tightening around the arrow shaft. She watched it slip off uselessly. She could see the hurt and the betrayal in his eyes, and she could feel Kikyou's own pain.
She wanted to scream at them then, to tell them it was Naraku who had tricked them. Even if she never got the chance to know him because of that, even if falling through the well and falling in love with him would never become an option, she knew he loved her. Inuyasha loved Kikyou.
He might have been happy. They might have gotten married like they wanted, they might have had children. He might've grown old, and died an old man. And because she loved him now, she wanted him happy.
But she couldn't. After all, it was only a memory. Something she could only watch and not change. Never. It was only a memory, with all the emotions attached.
All of the emotions, which is why she realized why Inuyasha did not perish on that day, 50 years ago. *Kikyou... still loved him. That's why he didn't die. Every other youkai who ever attempted to get the jewel, she killed. But Inuyasha only slept-- because she loved him...*
Kagome's heart ached at that thought. *She didn't... use all of her power.*
"Ki.. Kikyou.. you bitch... how.. could you..." Inuyasha slumped against the tree, his hand falling, his eyes slipping in and out of focus. And then Kagome saw his eyes close for the last time.
The last time... until she would come and wake him, 50 years later.
Kikyou moved forward, falling to her knees and taking up the Shikon no Tama. Kaede was there, and so were other villagers, and they were talking incoherently. All she could hear was Kaede.
"Oneesama~! Oneesama, how did you get that wound?!!"
"My..own.. foolishness," Kikyou replied vaguely, clutching the jewel, and then Kaede said, "Oneesama, you have to get help, you--"
*Shikon no Tama, I shall take you to the other world with me.*
"I'm beyond saving... so, listen to me, Kaede." She handed her little sister the Shikon no Tama. "You must take this, the Shikon... no Tama... and burn it with.. my body... You must not let it.. get into the hands of those with... evil hearts~!"
*Inuyasha... I'll be with you shortly... in Hell.*
"Oneesama?!" Kagome felt all feeling leave her, and her eyes close as she fell to the side. "ONEESAMA~!!!!!"
There was nothing for a moment. Silent, black abyss. There was an odd feeling, like time was moving quickly around her, over and under and 'Kikyou' was now 'Kagome.'
Then, a feeling of floating up, and she reached the surfaced again, and it was like breathing. She gasped aloud like she had held her breath underwater for several minutes and she was pushed sharply backwards. Kagome opened her eyes and saw Kikyou's gray ones ahead of her.
The dead miko looked awestruck, as if she could not believe the things she now knew, but Kagome noticed that her eyes were gray again. Not red.
She was Kikyou again.
Then all the energy leave her body, and her vision of the other miko blurred. "Ki.. kyou.." Kagome moaned, falling backwards. She hardly heard it as sleep suddenly claimed her, but it was the distinct voice of her hanyou.
Inuyasha screamed her name. Kagome sighed softly. *Inuyasha...*
And then all was black.
~*~ To be continued ~*~
a/n :: Heh heh~! My favorite scene was of course, the arrow. BWA HA~ BWA HA~ BWA HA HA HA HA~ That was SO fun to write~
Awh man, you people should have seen me~!!! I was crazy. I wanted everything to be as accurate as possible (with a little bit of improvisation of course) but I watched episode 1, 14 and 15 so many times that my mother (who couldn't pronounce a WORD of Japanese if her life depended on it) came into my bedroom and said "If I hafta hear one more 'naze uragitta Inuyasha' I'm gonna naze uragitta you" which proves that she had no idea what it meant, but it was still funny~
Chapter 28 -- Inuyasha's encounter with the real Kikyou~!! Please review and as always, okie ja~
~*~ V^-^V ~*~
~Tessen