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Chapter 7 Kikyo's village and the red arrow

Great. Kagome thought Were am I going to go? I don't even know were she is. Why isn't anyone with me? Maybe I should have waited for Myroku and Sango to come back.... If they were coming back. She sighed and kept peddling she half expected to see Inuyasha running behind her telling her how stupid she was, But when she turned to look she saw on one. Who will be there to save me? She thought. Then she laughed at her own foolishness. She had always needed some one to save her. Sure she had been through crap. Drawn blood more then once, but never alone...could she do this? Could she really just KILL Kikyo so easily. No. But she would try.

*meanwhile*

Myroku looked at the sky and wondered how Inuyasha and Kagome were fairing. How would they take Sango and his absence? What would they think? He felt like a awful friend, but his quest was noble and he assured himself that he would be praised afterward....by, at the least, Kagome and Shippo. HOW COULD INUYASHA BE SO STUPID TO THINK THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN? THAT HE WOULD NEVER HAVE TO CHOOSE?! He grabbed Kelala's fur a little harder, and was met by a growl of annoyance.

"Oh sorry Kelala...I was simply thinking of something..."

Kelala and her master looked at him curiously but paid him no heed. For they, themselves were thinking their own angry thoughts as well.

"Let us stop at that village!" shouted Myroku and startling them both out of their thoughts.

"Yes, we can ask if they have seen Kikyo." answered Sango. Kelala obliged. They we met by the same gasps and sighs as always. The murmurs followed them as they waited for the one in charge to call. When you were this strange they tended not to have to ask to be seen.

"WHO ARE YOU? AND WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS WITH MY VILLAGE? MONK AND FRIENDS." they knew it.

"Hello sir, we mean you no harm, only to ask of you some question concerning a certain priestess we have been looking for." the Man approached.

"Priestess you say? And what was the women's name of which you speak?"

"Her name was..is Kikyo sir." Answered Sango. At once murmurs erupted all around them.

"Kikyo? And why to you seek her?"

"Please sir this is news concerning her illness." More murmuring.

"Illness? Your Kikyo is ill? Ahh well I'm sorry sir Kikyo was here not but a moon ago but has left us to find her cure. If you have news for her then by all means you are a friend to this village!"

Myroku narrowed his eyes. A cure for the illness? Then she knew....

"Thank you sir tell us which way she went and we will take leave-"

"NONSENSE!" shouted the man who was leader. "You will sleep and be fed here! Look yonder! Already the sun melts away! You must be tired?"

"Yes! Yes! You must stay and be healthy to save our Kikyo!" some one out of the crowd shouted.

"Yes! She saved my young daughter! Whatever we can do to help the ones who will help her!"

Sango suddenly felt immense guilt.

"No we cannot possibly-" She started.

"YES, THANK YOU! WE ACCEPT YOUR OFFER!" Myroku smiled and raised his hands.

"Myroku!" she whispered amongst the shouts of approval. "What are you doing we cannot take advantage of these people!"

"We can." he whispered back. "And we will." she was at a loss for words and just glared at him.

"Come, Come! You may sleep at my Lords Castle!" Said the man.

"But I thought you said this was your village?" She blurted out. The young man blushed.

"Ahh well I'm sorry my lady, My lord had asked me to tell you just in case you meant us harm."

"He sent you for himself?!" she asked.

"Yes ma'am. Come, come!" she looked at Myroku. He nodded. ::sigh::

"Yes...I'm coming..." Just as well. She thought she was suddenly, really tired.

They entered the Castle. Myroku was impressed this was just 2ed to Narakus', there had to be some beautiful Princess some were. They entered a large room, in which Myroku suspected was a throne room.

"Welcome." said a voice from behind a screen. "A feast will be served to you and then you will rest. How far have you come?"

"Far enough, but we left late and I'm sure I speak for both of us when I say that we are very tired. Sango nodded, and realizing he couldn't see her said "yes sir, very, thank you!"

The voice laughed.

"Of course! EAT! EAT!" at once a whole army of food was bombarded upon them.

Myroku smiled "see?"

Sango couldn't help but admire him and sighed "yes, yes very good Myroku.."

His smile grew wider...so wide Sango wondered what she had said to make him smile like that.

**Meanwhile**

Kagome crushed the thing in her hand, and fought the urge to throw it in the forest.

"DAMN YOU KIKYO! ALL YOU DO.." she paused to swallow the tears. "ALL YOU DO IS CAUSE PAIN!!" no. Her brain thought. Kikyo is a priestess, her job is to help people. All she does is cause you and Inuyasha pain. That is why you hate her. Not because you know you're going to die..but because as long as Kikyo is alive Inuyasha will never truly be yours.

"But that means," she said aloud slowly opening her hand "that I lied to Inuyasha...I'm never going to accept Kikyo. I'm just a liar!" No you can't change how you feel; you didn't know how hard it was going to be. "AHHHHHHHH THEN WHO'S FAULT IS IT!? IF ITS NOT MINE OR KIKYO!!! WHO'S??"

Kagome stopped her bike and threw it into a tree. and for just a second was upset that it didn't hit very hard. She threw the object in her hand in the bag and threw that into the bike. She looked around tears pushing themselves out of her eyes. She didn't find what she was looking for. Then she remembered. She tore an arrow from her back grabbed it in her hand and ran to a tree. She collapsed in front of it and started stabbing it over and over.

"I HATE YOU KIKYO!!!! I HATE YOU NARAKU!!! Every time she said something she stabbed the tree, and watched the spiked chips fall to the ground. "I HATE YOU INUYASHA FOR LOVING US THE SAME!!! I HATE MYSELF FOR BEING THE SAME!!! I HATE YOU SANGO AND MYROKU FOR LEAVING ME!!! I HATE YOU!! WHOEVER YOU ARE THAT MADE ME COME TO THIS STUPID TIME!!! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!! I HATE YOU!!!" at this she slammed the arrow as hard as she could into the tree. Suddenly her arrow glowed, not pink, but blood red, the tree smashed into a million pieces. Splinters and leaves rained down, she hid her face in her shirt sobbed. "I hate you..." she whispered as she rocked herself "because I love you...my family....my family is falling apart."

Kagome had been so caught up in herself that she hadn't sensed the jewel shards hiding in the tree she had stabbed. The figure jumped down as the tree shattered. He was in awe. He landed lightly next to her, bent down and took her in his arms.

"Kagome, what has happened to you?" She raised her face to the man.

"Koga?"