Disclaimer: I ain't never owned any of these characters...
A/N: Sorry I ended it on a creepy note... I scared myself.... )))))shudder((((( Anywho, I'm writing again... Yay?!?
P.S. for future reference in this fic, Kagome refers to Inuyasha flashing in and out of conciousness.
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Inuyasha sat huddled in the bushes for the rest of the night. His muscles ached and his head was searing with pain, but he refused to relax. All he kept thinking about was the little girl and how horribly grotesque it was to see such a young and innocent creature twitching and twisting in such a possessed way.
Beads of sweat dripped down his face and back, he ignored the itching paths they took and sat staring into the woods. He locked his muscles into place, knowing that if he lost any of his intensity in sitting completely rigid, he's succumb to exhaustion.
It wasn't so much the physical pain that was unbearable, it was the mental jog he had suffered. All the horrors of the past week came rushing back to him and bombarded him with memories tucked deep away. Ones he'd tried to forget, and ones he had forgotten...
Kagome looked into the woods. She could feel... something... She just wasn't sure what it was. He first thought was Inuyasha. She thought he might be in danger, but that was unlikely. Then she thought it was the tree, but dismissed that idea quickly, not wanting to remember that cursed tree.
She walked slowly to the fire pit, an eerie and uneasy feeling settling in. Kagome tried to dismiss the feelings and concentrate on the fire. She stacked some twigs and wood together and used a nearby torch to light it. Then she went inside and found some meat scraps. Placing the scraps on a sharpened stick she slowly roasted it over the fire, watching the flames caress the meat.
A twig broke and scared her to her senses. She turned her head and saw Inuyasha stumbling through the woods, his hands over his ears. His step was swayed and after only a few seconds he dropped to the ground. In an instant Kagome was right beside him.
"Inuyasha! Wake up! What's wrong?!?" panic laced her words. She didn't know what to do so she sat staring at his blank face and wiping the sweat off his forehead.
Sango and Miroku had heard Kagome so they rushed over, Shippo went to get Kaide...
He couldn't ignore it any longer. Every memory was taunting him. Every sound, scent, touch, look.... All of it was right there, exposed to the woods and stripped of its value. His heart was in the open and his soul was bleeding out.
Blackness...Kikiyo...black...Kagome.....blackarrowblackjewelblackNarutoblackmomblack
It all ended on Kikiyo, or was it Kagome? He couldn't tell anymore. Slowly he got up and took one agonizing step towards the village. All he knew was that he had to get away. He followed a zig zag pattern until he could smell a fire and food...
He stepped into a clearing and collapsed.
Miroku and some of the villagers helped lift Inuyasha onto a makeshift bed in the hut. Kaide was busy making something for Inuyasha over the fire.
"Sango! We need some cool water from the spring!" Kagome tried to yell over the noise. It seemed half the village was cramped in the little hut.
"Please! Thank you for all your help but will you leave! We need it quiet in here! We'll send word of how he's doing later!" Kaide's demanding voice hushed the crowd.
Amazing, Kagome thought, she manages to quiet and entire crowd and get them to listen to her without ever turning from the fire!
Slowly the crowd trickled out and Kagome's sanity returned. Sango came back with the water in a bucket and a towel, "I'll wait outside..." she said, leaving only Kagome, Kaide and Inuyasha in the hut.
Kagome set to work. She tied back his hair and wiped his forehead with the cloth. He started to shiver but his fever never ceased. Seeing that that wasn't doing any good, she started to take off his red jacket. Laying it by the fire she noticed it was damp with sweat. She then started peeling away his white shirt. She gasped when his chest was bare, revealing numerouse bruises and cuts. Where his heart should have been there was a black rash. 'What happened to you?' she wondered.
Hearing Kagome's gasp Kaide came over. The sound of a pot falling to the ground and breaking was all the reaction Kagome needed from Kaide to become more worried than ever.
"What? What's wrong what is it?" Asked a hysterical Kagome.
"Tell me it hasn't gotten to this, tell me it isn't so!" Kaide wailed, dropping to the floor and taking Inuyasha's clammy hand.
"They've done it! They've gone too far! Those beasts! Those horrible beasts!" She turned her gaze upward. "Why can't you leave him be? Hasn't he been tormented enough?!"
"Wha-"Kagome started, but before she could even finish Kaide had turned her venomous gaze to her.
"He's not with us right now. He's fighting with the demons from the underworld. They're trying to take his heart away. He be fighting the worst battle ever to exist, the battle of his heart and soul. Only the strength of his heart will judge if he wins or not and even if he does who knows what state he'll be in metally." Kaide then realized who she was talking to and softened her gaze. "I didn't mean to frighten you Kagome. We best stick to our chores and make life for him here as comfortable as possible to make the torment he's going through even the slightest bit better."
All Kagome could do was nod. She carefully managed to get his white shirt off and threw it by the fire also. Like the red shirt it was damp with sweat.
She started running the wet rag all over his torso, hoping to relieve his fever. Every so often his head would turn to one side, but nothing more. After awhile she couldn't help but admire his lean body. The way his muscles rippled over him, how the light from the fire shone on his bare chest...
'Any other time but now Kagome,' she told herself and continued wetting his head.
Kaide and Kagome took turns keeping him cool during the night until it seemed that his fever was breaking enough.
Kaide kept putting small amounts of whatever liquid was on the fire on Inuyasha's temples. 'To keep the demons out of his head' she said, but Kagome thought it smelled an awful lot like smelling salts...
He flickered in and out of conciousness seeing a glimpse of firelight then the eerie faces of demons.
"Why am I here?!?" he screamed, but the demons only laughed and bounced up and down. Kagome. More and more creatures gathered by the dozens around him. Their jeering faced enraged him so much he'd give anything to break free and kill them all. But the bounds by which he was held captive were just too strong.
Kagome
Their grey eyes rolled around looking at everything but seeing nothing. A sea of high pitched cackles and claws was growing ever bigger and more violent.
In the distance he saw a far off figure walking towards him, calming the sea of monsters as it passed. When the figure got nearer he could see it was a young girl.
Kagome!
His head kept rolling onto his chest as he struggled to keep it up from exhaustion.
Kikiyo stood right in front of him in all her glory. Their eyes met and just for an instant he saw pity in them. Then it was gone, engulfed by the flames in her eyes. It was that pity that he'd hang onto for a long time.
He looked pleadingly at her but she turned her head away. "Please..." was all he could manage to whisper before breaking down.
She stopped and slowly turned to face him. "What? Were you begging for mercy?" she threw her head back and laughed a piercing laugh that caused some of the nearby monsters to fall to the ground screeching. Inuyasha's ears were ringing. "That might be the most pathetic thing I've ever hear!" She laughed again and he was sure his ears were bleeding.
Kagome wiping his head
"Oh Inuyasha, have you fallen that far you can't see what's so clearly in front of you? Why have you given up on our love? Don't you remember what we had? Did that mean nothing to you!?!" her cry caused the earth to shake.
He could barely speak. "No, Ki-Kikiyo...I haven't forgotten."
"Then why are you unable to look me in the face?"
Slowly and with great pain he raised his head to see her. She had wounds all over her flesh, wherever it was exposed there was a cut or bruise. Her hair was tangled and ratted and crystal tears were streaming down her face, leaving clean tracks behind them.
"You did this to me. You refused my love and killed my soul! Now I am left to wander in the underworld like this. Is this the punishment I deserve for only wanting your love in return?" She fell to her knees sobbing.
To see her in so much pain was killing him all the more. 'How could I have let this happen to her, to my Kikiyo?' he wondered in astonishment, ashamed of himself. 'I don't deserve to live.'
He threw his head up to the sky and shouted, "Kill me now and let me ease her pain! She doesn't deserve this but I do for what I've done to her!"
Firelight.
Calm, soothing firelight.
A hand pressed a cool cloth to his head and he could feel the drops fall down his cheeks and onto his neck and hair.
He tried to move but the pain was too great, even for him. So he just lay there in comfort.
A bolt of lightning lit up the sky. He looked down, confused for a moment at where he was, then remembering the horrible truth.
Kikiyo stood hunched over in front of him. She was covering her face and laughing a horrible laugh.
Once she calmed she turned her steely eyes on him and walked right up to him. He closed his eyes and could feel her warm breath on his neck. "As you wish, my love."
An intense pain flamed in his chest. It felt as though his very heart was burning inside of him. He looked down to see Kikiyo's hand sticking straight through him. She ripped her hand out and with it cam Inuyasha's very own beating heart.
Kikiyo threw her head back and cackled, the sky turned black and all the creatures around hid in the shadows.
Then it was quiet.
All eyes bored into Kikiyo as she had grown abruptly quiet. She looked at the heart in her hands as it slowly turned to ash.
"No. This can't be happening! This can't be happening!! He gave his heart to me! To meee!! Why am I still here?!"
That was the last thing he heard before slipping into blackness...
I know, I know, the title is very misleading, but I promise, aanother chapter is soon to follow. But I did kinda explain about the girl and the spazes and .....I t WILL become an Inu/Kag love fic soon, just bear with me.
A/N: Sorry I ended it on a creepy note... I scared myself.... )))))shudder((((( Anywho, I'm writing again... Yay?!?
P.S. for future reference in this fic, Kagome refers to Inuyasha flashing in and out of conciousness.
Answers
Inuyasha sat huddled in the bushes for the rest of the night. His muscles ached and his head was searing with pain, but he refused to relax. All he kept thinking about was the little girl and how horribly grotesque it was to see such a young and innocent creature twitching and twisting in such a possessed way.
Beads of sweat dripped down his face and back, he ignored the itching paths they took and sat staring into the woods. He locked his muscles into place, knowing that if he lost any of his intensity in sitting completely rigid, he's succumb to exhaustion.
It wasn't so much the physical pain that was unbearable, it was the mental jog he had suffered. All the horrors of the past week came rushing back to him and bombarded him with memories tucked deep away. Ones he'd tried to forget, and ones he had forgotten...
Kagome looked into the woods. She could feel... something... She just wasn't sure what it was. He first thought was Inuyasha. She thought he might be in danger, but that was unlikely. Then she thought it was the tree, but dismissed that idea quickly, not wanting to remember that cursed tree.
She walked slowly to the fire pit, an eerie and uneasy feeling settling in. Kagome tried to dismiss the feelings and concentrate on the fire. She stacked some twigs and wood together and used a nearby torch to light it. Then she went inside and found some meat scraps. Placing the scraps on a sharpened stick she slowly roasted it over the fire, watching the flames caress the meat.
A twig broke and scared her to her senses. She turned her head and saw Inuyasha stumbling through the woods, his hands over his ears. His step was swayed and after only a few seconds he dropped to the ground. In an instant Kagome was right beside him.
"Inuyasha! Wake up! What's wrong?!?" panic laced her words. She didn't know what to do so she sat staring at his blank face and wiping the sweat off his forehead.
Sango and Miroku had heard Kagome so they rushed over, Shippo went to get Kaide...
He couldn't ignore it any longer. Every memory was taunting him. Every sound, scent, touch, look.... All of it was right there, exposed to the woods and stripped of its value. His heart was in the open and his soul was bleeding out.
Blackness...Kikiyo...black...Kagome.....blackarrowblackjewelblackNarutoblackmomblack
It all ended on Kikiyo, or was it Kagome? He couldn't tell anymore. Slowly he got up and took one agonizing step towards the village. All he knew was that he had to get away. He followed a zig zag pattern until he could smell a fire and food...
He stepped into a clearing and collapsed.
Miroku and some of the villagers helped lift Inuyasha onto a makeshift bed in the hut. Kaide was busy making something for Inuyasha over the fire.
"Sango! We need some cool water from the spring!" Kagome tried to yell over the noise. It seemed half the village was cramped in the little hut.
"Please! Thank you for all your help but will you leave! We need it quiet in here! We'll send word of how he's doing later!" Kaide's demanding voice hushed the crowd.
Amazing, Kagome thought, she manages to quiet and entire crowd and get them to listen to her without ever turning from the fire!
Slowly the crowd trickled out and Kagome's sanity returned. Sango came back with the water in a bucket and a towel, "I'll wait outside..." she said, leaving only Kagome, Kaide and Inuyasha in the hut.
Kagome set to work. She tied back his hair and wiped his forehead with the cloth. He started to shiver but his fever never ceased. Seeing that that wasn't doing any good, she started to take off his red jacket. Laying it by the fire she noticed it was damp with sweat. She then started peeling away his white shirt. She gasped when his chest was bare, revealing numerouse bruises and cuts. Where his heart should have been there was a black rash. 'What happened to you?' she wondered.
Hearing Kagome's gasp Kaide came over. The sound of a pot falling to the ground and breaking was all the reaction Kagome needed from Kaide to become more worried than ever.
"What? What's wrong what is it?" Asked a hysterical Kagome.
"Tell me it hasn't gotten to this, tell me it isn't so!" Kaide wailed, dropping to the floor and taking Inuyasha's clammy hand.
"They've done it! They've gone too far! Those beasts! Those horrible beasts!" She turned her gaze upward. "Why can't you leave him be? Hasn't he been tormented enough?!"
"Wha-"Kagome started, but before she could even finish Kaide had turned her venomous gaze to her.
"He's not with us right now. He's fighting with the demons from the underworld. They're trying to take his heart away. He be fighting the worst battle ever to exist, the battle of his heart and soul. Only the strength of his heart will judge if he wins or not and even if he does who knows what state he'll be in metally." Kaide then realized who she was talking to and softened her gaze. "I didn't mean to frighten you Kagome. We best stick to our chores and make life for him here as comfortable as possible to make the torment he's going through even the slightest bit better."
All Kagome could do was nod. She carefully managed to get his white shirt off and threw it by the fire also. Like the red shirt it was damp with sweat.
She started running the wet rag all over his torso, hoping to relieve his fever. Every so often his head would turn to one side, but nothing more. After awhile she couldn't help but admire his lean body. The way his muscles rippled over him, how the light from the fire shone on his bare chest...
'Any other time but now Kagome,' she told herself and continued wetting his head.
Kaide and Kagome took turns keeping him cool during the night until it seemed that his fever was breaking enough.
Kaide kept putting small amounts of whatever liquid was on the fire on Inuyasha's temples. 'To keep the demons out of his head' she said, but Kagome thought it smelled an awful lot like smelling salts...
He flickered in and out of conciousness seeing a glimpse of firelight then the eerie faces of demons.
"Why am I here?!?" he screamed, but the demons only laughed and bounced up and down. Kagome. More and more creatures gathered by the dozens around him. Their jeering faced enraged him so much he'd give anything to break free and kill them all. But the bounds by which he was held captive were just too strong.
Kagome
Their grey eyes rolled around looking at everything but seeing nothing. A sea of high pitched cackles and claws was growing ever bigger and more violent.
In the distance he saw a far off figure walking towards him, calming the sea of monsters as it passed. When the figure got nearer he could see it was a young girl.
Kagome!
His head kept rolling onto his chest as he struggled to keep it up from exhaustion.
Kikiyo stood right in front of him in all her glory. Their eyes met and just for an instant he saw pity in them. Then it was gone, engulfed by the flames in her eyes. It was that pity that he'd hang onto for a long time.
He looked pleadingly at her but she turned her head away. "Please..." was all he could manage to whisper before breaking down.
She stopped and slowly turned to face him. "What? Were you begging for mercy?" she threw her head back and laughed a piercing laugh that caused some of the nearby monsters to fall to the ground screeching. Inuyasha's ears were ringing. "That might be the most pathetic thing I've ever hear!" She laughed again and he was sure his ears were bleeding.
Kagome wiping his head
"Oh Inuyasha, have you fallen that far you can't see what's so clearly in front of you? Why have you given up on our love? Don't you remember what we had? Did that mean nothing to you!?!" her cry caused the earth to shake.
He could barely speak. "No, Ki-Kikiyo...I haven't forgotten."
"Then why are you unable to look me in the face?"
Slowly and with great pain he raised his head to see her. She had wounds all over her flesh, wherever it was exposed there was a cut or bruise. Her hair was tangled and ratted and crystal tears were streaming down her face, leaving clean tracks behind them.
"You did this to me. You refused my love and killed my soul! Now I am left to wander in the underworld like this. Is this the punishment I deserve for only wanting your love in return?" She fell to her knees sobbing.
To see her in so much pain was killing him all the more. 'How could I have let this happen to her, to my Kikiyo?' he wondered in astonishment, ashamed of himself. 'I don't deserve to live.'
He threw his head up to the sky and shouted, "Kill me now and let me ease her pain! She doesn't deserve this but I do for what I've done to her!"
Firelight.
Calm, soothing firelight.
A hand pressed a cool cloth to his head and he could feel the drops fall down his cheeks and onto his neck and hair.
He tried to move but the pain was too great, even for him. So he just lay there in comfort.
A bolt of lightning lit up the sky. He looked down, confused for a moment at where he was, then remembering the horrible truth.
Kikiyo stood hunched over in front of him. She was covering her face and laughing a horrible laugh.
Once she calmed she turned her steely eyes on him and walked right up to him. He closed his eyes and could feel her warm breath on his neck. "As you wish, my love."
An intense pain flamed in his chest. It felt as though his very heart was burning inside of him. He looked down to see Kikiyo's hand sticking straight through him. She ripped her hand out and with it cam Inuyasha's very own beating heart.
Kikiyo threw her head back and cackled, the sky turned black and all the creatures around hid in the shadows.
Then it was quiet.
All eyes bored into Kikiyo as she had grown abruptly quiet. She looked at the heart in her hands as it slowly turned to ash.
"No. This can't be happening! This can't be happening!! He gave his heart to me! To meee!! Why am I still here?!"
That was the last thing he heard before slipping into blackness...
I know, I know, the title is very misleading, but I promise, aanother chapter is soon to follow. But I did kinda explain about the girl and the spazes and .....I t WILL become an Inu/Kag love fic soon, just bear with me.