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'Thoughts'

"Spoken"

---- Flashback

-Days later-

Vocabulary:

Baka: Idiot

Gomen: Sorry

Gomen Nasai: I'm sorry

Onegai: Please

Nani: What?

Arigato: Thank you

Previous:

'KILL HER!'

Morgan released the arrow and it flew straight at Kagome, "RUN!!!!!!!!!!" Morgan finally screamed what she wanted to say, she could control herself again, but it was way too late.

Kagome's fate was decided. . . .

Chapter 14

A True Friend Part 1

It all happened so fast. Morgan released the arrow, trying to kill Kagome, to get rid of her once and for all. 'But why?'

Kagome's eyes widened, there was no blood, or pain anywhere on her body. She realized the arrow didn't hit her, but it did hit Inuyasha who had blocked it. He fell back and Kagome was there to grab him so he didn't hit the ground.

"Inuyasha! Are you okay?" Kagome asked.

"I'm fine." Inuyasha struggled to get up back up again. He looked at Morgan who had fallen to her knees, trembling.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?" Inuyasha screamed at her, "YOU WERE ABOUT TO KILL KAGOME, BAKA!"

Morgan knew that it was true, but it hurt more when the one person she fell in love with had said it.

"Gomen," Her voice trembled as she apologized, "Gomen Nasai." She had to wipe some tears from her face until she finally looked into the eyes of her best friend and the hanyou. She could see that Inuyasha was extremely angry with her, but Kagome. . . she just starred at her with eyes of sadness. 'She must hate me. How can I tell her? She'll think I'm crazy if I said that someone was inside my head telling me what to do, but I don't even know if that was true." She dropped the bow and looked at her hands. She was about to kill her best friend, but why? Was she really going insane?

Morgan took a step back then another until she finally turned around fast and ran away. She didn't know where she was heading but any place was better then there. "Morgan! Wait!" She started to go after her, but Inuyasha got a hold of her arm and stopped her, "Inuyasha, Morgan doesn't know this place and she might get lost again!" She tried to pull away, but it came to no avail.

"Why are you defending her she tried to kill you!" Kagome stopped trying to pull away from him and responded, "That's right, but she's my friend and I must find her! --" Inuyasha released her arm and Kagome left him, she wished she knew why he had saved her. All this time she had felt like he didn't care about her anymore, but now she knew she was completely wrong.

Morgan grabbed onto a tree nearby, breathing hard as if each breath she took wasn't enough for her body. Her vision also was starting to blur she knew that soon she would faint.

"Morgan I'm glad you made it here. . ." said a dark voice she recognized, how could she forget? "It hasn't been long has it?"

"You. . .did this," Morgan responded softly feeling weaker and weaker by the moment; she had just now figured out the truth. Naraku appeared in front of her threw the misty fog with his regular outfit, covering his face. "You basterd! You made me do it. . ." Morgan added as Naraku started to laugh, but then she joined in, "I didn't kill her. . ."

Naraku stopped laughing, "you think I'm a puppet don't you? You think you can control me? You're wrong-"she added as a knife appeared at her neck. It shined with the little bit of light there was in the large forest.

"You are going to get those shards from that girl and then kill her-"

"You like other people doing the things for you don't you? Well, I WILL NOT kill Kagome or take her shards so just forget about it!" Morgan just starred at him waiting for him to kill her, but she wasn't scared. She was just full of anger and sadness because Inuyasha had yelled at her and now she didn't have any chance with him. It hurt her a lot; she might as well die since no one cared about her.

'I can't kill her yet. She's still useful to me even though she says that she can't be controlled.' Naraku was still shocked from the response he got from Morgan and he couldn't see any fear in her eyes. Other then that he had never seen anyone talk to him that way before, he had her life in his hands and she didn't care.

"Don't worry I'll make you kill kagome with your own hands. . ." He laughed as he left her alone again, 'that girl she reminds me of Kikyou. It feels like I'm controlling that stupid priestess.'

'Good he left. . .' Morgan felt so weak and tired as if she had just ran around the village a million times. Her eyes kept closing but she forced them open again, but knew she couldn't move another step even if she tried. She also felt really hot; it felt like a really big fever. . .

The last thing she saw in her mind was Inuyasha before everything went black.

As Kagome got deeper into the forest the more fog surrounded her. 'It's going to be even harder to find Morgan in this fog!' she thought without stopping for a break even though her legs were tired.

"Morgan! Are you here? Morgan!" she called out, but there was still no answer. 'Oh wait! I forgot that I could sense jewel shards! I can find her!'

She stopped and looked around until she saw the glow. It was actually two glows, but the other shard glowed a strange color and it also gave her a bad feeling. She didn't realize it before, but this was no time to think about it.

"Morgan!" Kagome found her friend on the grass, her eyes closed. Her face was so sweaty from the heat and it looked like she had gotten extremely sick and worse then before.

'Morgan! I'm so sorry, this is all my fault.' She kneeled next to her and put her hand on Morgan's forehead, it was worse then it looked. 'She could actually die if I don't do something!' Kagome looked around, but she didn't even know where she was and she probably couldn't find any herbs either. 'I must go back to the village, but how? I won't be able to take Morgan by myself. It's really far! I should have asked Inuyasha for help!'

"Morgan! Can you here me! Wake up please!" Kagome felt a rain drop on her nose. It followed by more and more until it was completely raining. Kagome was running out of time she had to decide on doing something. She felt rain and tears fall from her face to the ground, she felt so helpless, "Morgan please wake up! Wake up! Onegai!"

"Inuyasha where's Kagome and her friend! Supposedly you were supposed to go find them!" Miroku said losing his patience with the stubborn hanyou.

"At least tell us where they are!" Sango screamed, "If anything happens to them it will be your fault!" Inuyasha had come back alone with only an arrow on his shoulder luckily it was nothing serious.

"Feh. I found them in the forest, but then Kagome's friend ran away and Kagome ran after her, satisfied!"

"They could be lost in that forest and we don't even know where they are aren't you even going to help?" Miroku asked starting to leave with the rest of the group who were ready to help.

"Go away! I already gave you the damn information!"

"Suit yourself." Miroku responded leaving with Shippou on his shoulder.

"I can't believe you! You'd better just forget about Kikyou she's not coming back this time! She's dead! And all your doing is hurting Kagome!" Sango then left, knowing that she shouldn't be wasting time.

Inuyasha stayed where he was but he couldn't help to think about Kagome. He heard rain pour outside with no end.

---- Morgan took a step back then another until she finally turned around fast and ran away. Kagome saw her friend running away from them and called out her name, "Morgan! Wait!" She started to go after her, but Inuyasha got a hold of her arm and stopped her, "Inuyasha, Morgan doesn't know this place and she might get lost again!" She tried to pull away, but it came to no avail.

"Why are you defending her she tried to kill you!" Kagome stopped trying to pull away from him, "That's right, but she's my friend, I must find her!--" Inuyasha released her arm and Kagome left him. ----

"Kagome, I have to get you out of my mind. I'm sorry but I choose Kikyou and I can't fail her." With that thought Inuyasha remembered Kagome's friend, 'that girl resembles her so much and when I saw her about to kill Kagome. . . she looked like she was Kikyou, again I had mistaken her.'

Morgan slowly opened her eyes, she could see rain and the sky was so gray. Her eyes looked around until they spotted Kagome who was still crying her head down so she didn't realize that she had awoken. "This is all my fault. . ."Morgan heard her say over and over.

"Kagome. . ." Morgan slowly sat up as her friend looked at her, whipping tears from her face.

"You're alright!"

"Well I can't exactly say that that's true. I never thought that you'd be here. . .I thought that you and Inuyasha just left back to the village. He looked so mad and I suspected the same from you, I'm sorry."

"It doesn't matter, we can talk about that later. Your fever might get worse. Can you stand?"

"Your not mad?"

"Iie, lets just talk about that later, c'mon." Kagome grabbed Morgan's hand and helped her up, "are we still friends?"

"Of course, we'll be friends forever!" Morgan smiled.

-One Day Later-

Kagome sat next to Morgan who had fallen asleep again. The fever wasn't as high as it was the day before which was good at least she was recuperating.

'What am I going to do? I don't think she can handle being here. I must have time to think about all this. . ..'

---- "Kagome, I'm so happy here you know that?" Morgan told her as they walked back to the village, Morgan's arm around Kagome's shoulder for support. The rain had stopped but both of their hair were very wet and also were their clothes.

"Why's that?"

"You know, Inuyasha. I must find a way to get closer to him. Oh wait you still haven't told if you were going to help me with him." There was a silence between as Kagome started to walk faster.

"Well—"Kagome looked ahead and saw to people running toward them, "Look! Miroku and Sango! Even Shippou are here. They found us!" ----

"How am I suppose to tell her that? She loves Inuyasha too and if she finds out that I also like him she might think I'm trying to separate them!' Kagome thought, she didn't want to end her friendship with Morgan.

"How's your friend?" Sango asked as soon as Kagome came out of the hut.

"She's fine. "

"Something's wrong right?" Kagome knew that she couldn't keep a secret from Sango for a long time. She was like the sister she never had and both of them cared about each other a lot.

"Yeah, Morgan loves Inuyasha. . ."

"Nani?"

"It's true she told me. She even told me that he kissed her once. And I know she can't be lying"

"Nani?" Sango repeated loudly, she just couldn't believe that one; it was too shocking. Inside the hut, Morgan opened her eyes at the sound of Sango voice. 'I wonder what's going on. . .'

"Sango, your going to wake up Morgan, but yes it's true. . ."

"You still love him, don't you?"

"Who?"

"Inuyasha?"

'What?' Morgan wasn't the kind of person to eavesdrop on anybody, but she couldn't avoid it when she heard Inuyasha's name.

"Yeah, I do like I did before, I can never forget him. Sango, let's go somewhere else to talk. . .I don't want to wake up Morgan." Both girls left the area and their voices slowly faded.

Morgan fell to her knees; from shock at the answer Kagome gave Sango. She felt betrayed again; she felt anger from the conversation she had just heard. 'First you take away Kouga and now you say you loved Inuyasha! You've been trying to keep this entire secret from me, but this time I won't runaway like a scared puppy trying to runaway from the truth. This time I'll make sure that Inuyasha falls in love with me!' Morgan thought, "I hate you Kagome Higurashi!"

"I'm thinking that the Feudal Era isn't the right place for Morgan."

"You're right, not that I don't like her it's just that she's been slowing us down. Since you've gotten here we haven't even had time to search for more shards because she has gotten sick."

"You think I should tell her to go back? I've been thinking about this a lot now and I don't want to send her back just because she looks like Kikyou and Inuyasha might actually like her. . ."

"Trust me Kagome, since the year you left he hasn't done anything but think about you..."

"Until Kikyou died." Sango wished she could encourage Kagome more but she didn't think she could. She had wondered why Inuyasha couldn't just forget about the past and move on, he should do it for Kagome, "It's okay Sango. I'll be fine. Morgan really wants to stay here," Kagome told her friend, "and now the problem is that she loves Inuyasha. When she's around I can't get close to him and when I do I just can't say the words I wanted to say to him. A lot of things changed around here and I don't know if I can take it all."

"What are you going to do about Morgan?" Sango asked her.

"I'll tell her today that it is best that she leave the Feudal Era."

Morgan paced around in the hut, trying to make a plan. She knew that Kagome wouldn't be back for a while since she left her sleeping. The thought of Kagome and Inuyasha together made her even angrier, all the things she had confessed to her so called 'best friend' now she felt so differently toward Kagome, knowing all the truth. 'I could kill that bitch, how could she do this to me?' Morgan thought, she didn't know how long she had been pacing around but she stopped and sat down, regretting that the arrow she shot at Kagome when Naraku was controlling her didn't kill her.

"I got it!" Morgan almost screamed from the idea she just got. Now all she needed to do was find Inuyasha, wherever he was. She mostly never could find him but then again she never tried because she was with Kagome the entire time. She knew in order for her small plan to work she had to forget about being shy, she was always like that around boys especially.

She left the hut with determination and hoping that Inuyasha wasn't still mad from the incident that had happened before, when she tried to kill Kagome.

The human girl turned her head from side to side making sure to look in every tree she saw. "Where could he be? Wait- I see him!" Morgan told herself looking at the area that there was around Inuyasha, there was no one around which was perfect. 'Okay remember not to get nervous, keep your mind clear. . .' as she got closer she wondered if she should do this when she finally got there. She could feel how sweaty her hands were getting her heart started speeding up, but she ignored it until she was where she wanted to be, Inuyasha was right in front of her on the tree.

'I better go before he notices me, I can't do this." Morgan started to turn around until Inuyasha said, "Wait, I want to talk to you," it was as if he knew that she was there all along.

"Really?" Morgan asked, feeling stupid when she had said that, 'Great! Now you have stay put, Morgan and not embarrass yourself again!!' she heard Inuyasha jump off from the tree, but she was a little scared to turn around and faced him, 'what does he want to talk to me about?'

Taking a deep breath she turned, his golden eyes were going straight into hers and she didn't turn away. Both of them stayed still and neither of them said anything. Morgan finally moved her hand up to her forehead; she wasn't feeling to good again.

"Are you alright?" She heard Inuyasha ask her.

"Sort of." She lied, it seemed that every passing second she felt worse. She remembered that back in the modern time she almost never got sick and when she did she was fine in a day. Her vision got blurry, 'NOT NOW!"

Inuyasha got closer to the girl. He could see that she was lying, she didn't look good at all and before he knew it he saw her fall, luckily he was there and he caught her before she could touch the ground. "Hey! Wake up!" he knew that she couldn't hear him so he had no choice. He picked up Morgan and started walking to the hut where she was staying at with Kagome. It wasn't very far or hard to find because of her scent, and of Kagome's.

He wondered why he just thought of Kagome when he knew he had to forget about her. Inuyasha put Morgan down, but it seemed that she was awake already.

"You brought me back, arigato." She told him softly.

"I should get Kagome, "he started to leave her side until Morgan told him not to and she grabbed his arm, "Please don't she must be doing something important and besides I don't want her to stay here with me all day," she smiled a little.

'She does look like Kikyou, but I know she isn't, she is Kagome's friend and I can't think of her as Kikyou.' Inuyasha thought, 'but why did she try to kill Kagome? She is her friend." He kneeled next to Morgan.

"Inuyasha, I . . ." could she actually say it? Was she going to tell him that she liked him? Instead of finishing what she was going to stay she placed her lips on his to tell him what she felt. She felt him pull away a little, but then they stayed that way. She knew there was nothing wrong with her kissing him besides he was the one who kissed her first in the forest.

Kagome walked into the hut she was staying at. As soon as she did she dropped the basket that had some herbs and food in it. She looked shocked as she saw Inuyasha and Morgan pull away from each other and turn to her. "Sorry to bother you. I'll come back later," Kagome took the basket, putting all the things back into them and leaving them as fast as she could.

"Kagome! Wait!" Inuyasha tried to go after Kagome, but Morgan stopped him again.

"Do you really love her?" she asked, Inuyasha didn't respond thinking to himself, "I want you to know that I do, I love you ever since the day we first met and I thought that you loved me as well when you---you." Morgan started to cry as Inuyasha sat down next to her again, "I've been so lonely! Please don't leave me. . . " The hanyou put his arms around Morgan to comfort her as she cried. He wanted to go see Kagome and talk to her, but he couldn't.

'He's not coming after me,' Kagome thought as she walked alone, 'I think that he has actually fallen in love with Morgan and I can't do anything about it.' She didn't know what to do now, could she tell Morgan to leave now that she has finally found the person that she loves? 'She doesn't even know that I never liked Kouga that I have always loved Inuyasha, but what will I do?" Looking up at the sky she remembered the times she had spent with Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou. Those days now could only stay in her memory; everything had already changed.

Inuyasha took a look at Morgan who had already fallen asleep. He could see a sparkle from her eyes from the tears she had cried.

"Do you really love her?" Morgan asked him, but he didn't respond, he didn't know the answer.

'I don't know. . ." Inuyasha thought, "I don't know who I love any more." He stood up taking one last glance at Morgan then leaving her alone. The stars in the sky starred back at him when he got outside, he hadn't even realized that it was already dark. Just then he saw a figure come toward him, when she got closer he saw that it was Kagome. Suddenly he remembered

That Kagome had seen Morgan and him kiss.

Kagome glanced at him once then started walking past him until he grabbed her arm stopping her. "Let go," she told him dryly without looking at him. Inuyasha turned her so he could see her face, their eyes met for a second, but she looked away. "Let go," Kagome repeated as Inuyasha did as he was told.

'I hurt you, didn't I Kagome?' he thought as the footsteps of Kagome faded, 'You were crying because you saw Morgan and I together.' The sadness in Kagome's eyes looked like they would never fade, "Gomen. . ."

When Kagome came in she saw that Morgan was asleep and she sat down next to her quietly so she wouldn't disturb her. She felt a tear escape from her eye and she quickly wiped it out of it. An image of Inuyasha and her clouding her mind and that was all she could think about. Kagome wasn't even paying attention when Morgan awoke from her sleep; she only did when the girl screamed for joy.

"I did it and he didn't pull away from me!" Morgan wasn't even paying attention to Kagome's strange silence, 'you saw it with your own eyes! Oh Kagome I'm so happy!"

"Mm. . ."

"What's wrong?" she finally asked.

"Morgan, I want to ask you something," Morgan just starred at her as she waited to hear her question, "I wanted to ask you to. . .leave the Feudal Era and don't ever come back here again."

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Finally done! I'm glad summer vacation is here, now I have more time to finish this fic!

Ja mata ne!

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