Ch. 5
me: sorry if I scared ppl with the last chapter... lol. I think I've been hanging out with the maniac points to Kikyo-chan for too long.
Kikyo: excuse me?!
me: lol
Kikyo: im not a maniac...
me: Oo please R&R! Btw, im gonna be away for a weekend, so sry if it takes me a while to post!
Kagome knelt in the damp grass, her head in her hands. The three people she thought she could trust most had turned their back on her. And they hadn't even cared about her side of the story. Kagome sighed and stood up, wiping the moist dirt off her pleated school skirt. She needed to find InuYasha. Hopefully, he had calmed down a bit.
But what if he hasn't? Kagome wondered, nervously. Pushing that thought out of her head, she began walking toward the dark forest, in search of the white haired hanyou.
"Houshi-sama, do you think we were too hard on Kagome?" Sango asked anxiously, twirling a piece of dark hair that had fallen from her ponytail. She sat outside Kaede's hut, staring at the ground. "After all, we don't know the whole story..."
"Sango, she killed Kikyo." Miroku said dutifully. He sat next to Sango, his eyes shining with remorse. "She didn't have any reason, she just shot her. Now if that's not considered murder, I don't know what is." Shippo glanced up at the monk from his spot in the grass.
"But Miroku...what if Kagome did have a reason? Maybe it was self-defense!" Shippo said confidently. "If I know Kagome, then she wouldn't just do something like that without a good reason!"
"If that's what it was, then we've been far too hard on her." Sango stood, a determined glint in her eyes. "We need to find InuYasha and ask him about it."
Miroku sighed. "Sango..."
"Are you coming with us or not?" Sango asked, scooping up the fox youkai. Miroku stared at her for a second, then sighed again and got up.
"It couldn't hurt to know, I suppose..." Miroku said, shrugging.
InuYasha wandered in the deep forest, carrying the bones tenderly in his arms. The sunlight made patterns on the ground, and small animals scurried across the path. It was so damn cheerful, InuYasha could have killed himself right then and there. Instead he sat down heavily, examining the nearest tree...
...which for some reason, looked familiar...
It wasn't the old God Tree, that was for sure. But it was still somewhat familiar...InuYasha closed his eyes, as a flashback came tearing into his mind.
An arrow flew through the air and pinned a white haired teenager to the tree, by his kimono sleeve. It didn't pierce the skin, but it shocked him, nevertheless. The shooter, a young girl with long dark hair, grinned smugly.
"Got ya again!" She yelled, wiping the sweat of her forehead with one long white sleeve. The boy scowled, his dog ears twitching in annoyance.
"Am I your target practice, Kikyo?!" He yelled, trying to pull himself free without ripping his sleeve. Kikyo smiled again, and shot another arrow, making sure it just barely missed him. This time, it caught his pant leg.
"InuYasha, you need to be much quicker if you ever want to be a full demon," Kikyo said, shaking her head in mock sadness.
"Yeah, well, full demon's wouldn't sit here and let a wench like you shoot them for fun!" InuYasha retorted angrily. His unpinned hand reached to pull out one of the two arrows, but the miko was having too much fun to let him go that easily. Her next arrow barely missed his head.
"Goddammit! Finish me off already, if that's what you're getting at!" He yelled. Kikyo looked at him, surprised.
"You didn't think I'd really kill you, did you, InuYasha?" She asked, walking over to him and pulling the arrow that pinned his arm to the tree out. "You're my friend, you know."
"Yeah, well..." InuYasha couldn't think of a comeback to that one, so he remained silent, allowing Kikyo to pull out the other two arrows. She placed them back in her pouch, avoiding his eyes.
"I don't think you understand how hard it is to be me, InuYasha." Kikyo said quietly. "Day in and day out, I'm expected to keep calm, under control, otherwise, my village may go into chaos. Kaede-chan is counting on me, as is every single villager. If I let my guard down for even a minute, everyone notices. Which is why everyone is so suspicious of me being friends with a possible threat to our village."
"Heh...is that a hint, Kikyo? D'ya want me to leave and never come back?" He moved a little closer to her, staring into her eyes. Did she know what he was thinking right now?
"No! No, don't leave! You're the only true friend I have...the only one who understands me..." Small tears formed at the edge of her eyes, as InuYasha realized:
He'd never seen Kikyo cry...
"Kikyo..." He pulled her close, in a gentle hug, quite contrasting to his usual angry demeanor. She held back her tears, determined to uphold her strong nature, but she allowed herself to be hugged by the hanyou. She stared into his eyes. Was it just her, or was he getting closer...
And closer...
"Grr!" InuYasha shook his head angrily. He didn't want to think about that, not at all. That was over half a century ago. A thing of the past. Yes, he had kissed Kikyo, countless times. But what was the point in remembering that, if all that remained of her was bones? InuYasha stood up. This tree had been special to both him and Kikyo, and it was the perfect place to lay her to rest.
It was almost unnerving to think that the miko who had cheated death twice, was now being laid to rest by him, InuYasha. A no-good hanyou, with a full demon brother, and a father known throughout the villages. And a mother...a mortal mother.
It would have been funny, had it been someone else besides him. InuYasha knelt down besides a patch of dirt, soon to be Kikyo's final grave. And this time, she wouldn't come back...
Me: muwahaha. Evil cliffy-ness.
Kikyo: -drools over kurama pictures-
me: -takes them away and burns them-
Kikyo: WHA-?!?! MY KURAAAAAMA!! -breaks down and sobs-
me: Oo please R&R!
Kikyo: -goes online to download more pictures- hehehe, lookit the funny hentai...