I like this chapter^^. Everyone is all lovey in this one^^
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Chapter 5
A choice among friends and Inuyasha's suffering
Kagome and Inuyasha sat together under the summer moonlit sky on top of the hut. The silence was almost too much to bear.
"She said you have two months Kagome." Inuyasha choked out. Kagome hugged her knees to her chest. No, she thought you have two months.
"Yes." she said so lightly that even his ears could hardly hear her. He turned and gently pulled her face to his so he could look her in the eyes. Kagome was unresponsive. The eyes of a person who knows they will die soon.... and yet....
"Kagome.." he breathed. "Kagome...I'm sorry.." Kagome swallowed and tears ran down her face. He was! He was just going to let her die. He chooses Kikyo. NO! She realized and tore her face from Inuyasha's hand NO HE COULDN'T JUST LET HER DIE! KIKYO WOULD DIE TO! HE WAS GOING TO KILL HER!
"INUYASHA!" she cried, "HOW COULD YOU! PLEASE" she crawled over again and hugged him.
"What?" he asked surprised. "What are you talking about Kagome?" he hugged her back..
"You realize." she whispered into his hair. "That if you.... if...if you don't kill her then you have to kill me?"
He gasped and held her more tightly.
"NO! I WOULDN'T DO THAT!"
"But Inuyasha we can't both die! Someone has to live." and it's not fair! She thought to herself. IM ALREADY ALIVE, KIKYO STOLE MY SOUL!
"IM NOT GONNA LET YOU DIE!"
"SO WILL YOU KILL HER?" she shot out bitterly.
"WOULD YOU KILL YOUR SWEET KIKYO??" She remembered the memory and gasped "OH GOD INUYASHA! IM SO SORRY!"
She tried to pull away but he held her still.
"You're a loud to be mad Kagome. Don't ever think you're not aloud to be mad." she relaxed.
"But you won't do it.." he tensed. She pulled away. He let her.
"No," she said, "I didn't think so." he looked up. HE WAS SO CONFUSED! HE WANTED TO SAY, YES KAGOME I WILL ALWAYS KEEP YOU SAFE BUT.... but he couldn't.
"Don't worry Inuyasha."
"Huh? WHAT DO YOU MEAN DON'T WORRY?!!??"
Kagome shook her head and jumped off lightly.
"I'm going tomorrow Inuyasha..."
"BUT YOU CAN'T KAGOME! KEADE SAID THAT IF YOU WENT TO YOUR OWN TIME YOUR SOUL WOULDN'T GO WITH YOU AND YOU WOULD DIE!"
Kagome looked on as he jumped down infront of her.
"I WON'T LET YOU KILL YOURSELF JUST BECAUSE OF ME!"
"I'm not Inuyasha..." she said giving him a halfhearted smile
"I never said I was going back to my time."
**Meanwhile**
Songo and Myroku dipped there feet into the pond and looked at the sky. Shippo was asleep Songo was thinking about life without Kagome. She was wondering if maybe...just maybe Inuyasha did kill Kagome...she would never trust him again...she would kill him herself! She thought. Even if he did help her to not kill Kohaku...
Myroku was thinking of all the things this group...his make shift family.... had done together. All the Demons they destroyed all the hard times the times when they just laughed or argued. Wasn't that a family? Sure his family wasn't normal but wasn't every family odd in some way? He sighed and looked at Songo. Her face was grim, sad and pain filled. Everyone's face seemed to be that way. Songo noticed his gazed and decided to voice her thoughts.
"What if he does kill her?"
"Kikyo?" he asked.
"No. Kagome What if he just picks wrong."
"He wouldn't do that. You're just worried. I don't think that he could kill either one of them..."
"EXACTLY!" she shouted.
"What do you mean Songo?" he said though he was thinking the same thing.
"Not doing anything will make her just as dead Myroku! Sense when was it him that had to kill Kikyo? Sense when has she ever helped us. If Kagome had almost been murdered by anyone else they would be dead! We did nothing because of there past! Inuyasha should not be able to decide whether Kagome dies or not! MYROKU WE SHOULD GO AND KILL HER!"
"But you know Inuyasha would not allow it!" he said surprised at her outburst. She turned to him and grabbed his shoulders he froze in her grasp. Her eyes were crazy with grief for her friend.
"THEN WE SHALL DO IT IN SECRET! I FOR ONE HAVE NEVER LIKED KIKYO! HAVE YOU?"
"Well...well no...but.." Sango? He thought.
"SHE ISN'T EVEN ALIVE! SHE DESERVES TO BE HAPPY IN DEATH MYROKU! I am going to kill her." she realized him and went for her weapon.
"I leave tonight. Will you come?" Her eyes were pleading with him. For all her talk she was afraid to go alone. Kikyo had powers, and Songo needed support, For Songo knew how hard it was to kill someone she loved even if he was dead already, but she had been ready to do it. For she had thought that he was all gone, no humane soul. She knew Kikyo was gone. How had Kikyo gotten such an evil soul from Kagome? Surly Inuyasha had not fallen in love with such a mean-hearted person.
"Yes Songo." Myroku said hugging his friend.
"Yes we will save her ourselves." She dropped her weapon and hugged him back crying into his strong chest. Until the grief over came him and he dropped to his knees and cried with her. For his friends, for his family, and for all the hardships to come.