Before I begin chapter 7 I would like to say a big thank you to all who reviewed! :) Thank you, without your wonderful reviews I wouldn't have made it this far, and yes this will be the second to the last chapter. So enjoy because in the next update will be the last chapter for this story. Thank you for reading and putting up with all my spelling and grammar mistakes. :)
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Chapter 7: Humanity
Returning back to the village where she was born was harder then she thought. Because this time when she left it she would be just like every single one of the, human.
"So this is your village...its beautiful."said Kyle as he looked down from the hill that they were standing on. From that one hill that overlooked the village they could see everything. The houses, the people, and the gifts of nature that surrounded them. The bright emerald green trees and beautiful wild flowers that surrounded them. A gust of wind blew past them making the grass dance in the wind.
"We should get going..."said Kikyou as she walked down the hill. Stopping she looked over her shoulder back at Kyle. "I don't need to tell you everything do I?"
Kyle sighed and put a hand through his black hair that was sticking out of his ponytail. "No you don't. Keeping some of what keeps you to this world will make sure that you don't fall apart. You should already feel different for telling me how you died and how you came back to life."
Nodding at what he said Kikyou continued to walk by Kyle watched her walk away from him. Sighing Kyle looked up at the trees overhead then sat down on the hills cool grass. He brought his knees up to his chest and rested his arms on them, then put his head on top of his arms. He sighed again then closed his eyes.
'Will I be able to turn her back into a human? Even that old woman that I got the map from and the instructions on various spells didn't know for certain if it would work. Maybe I should leave it up to fate, but if I do and something goes wrong...not only will I lose Kikyou I'll lose myself!'thought Kyle to himself as he stood up and began to walk down the hill to find Kikyou.
'Maybe he can't help me...but what choice do I have? I can still defeat Naraku if I'm human, and since everyone in this village thinks I'm dead, I no longer have to be a priestess. I can live my life as a normal women, when this is all over. Plus I will no longer have to live off souls or worry about a person finding out that I'm one of the un-dead. And Kyle...he can return home with the Shikon jewels help, and he won't have to worry about Demis...'thought Kikyou as she neared the very same river that her little sister found Onigumo in. Finally standing by the river Kikyou kneeled down and cupped her hands in the water and brought her hands near to her face to look at her reflection. She was too deep into her own thoughts to realize that another reflection had joined hers until a voice said her name. Looking up she stared right into Kyle's deep black eyes.
"Ready? I'm sure this is the water that we need. I'm ready if you are..."said Kyle. Kikyou let the water in her cupped hands slip through her fingers then stood up. Not breaking her eye contact with Kyle she was about to say something when she sensed a familiar presence.
"Inuyasha..."Whispered Kikyou as she put a hand over Kyle's mouth. "It seems that I didn't mask my presence as carefully as I thought." Kyle's eyes widened sightly when he saw movement in the woods, but they went back to normal when who or whatever it was passed by.
"That was close."said Kyle. "He and his group could have found us-"he was interrupted by the sound of a broken twig.
A figure stepped out of the woods and as he/she came closer untill they could see it was Inuyasha.
"I thought I couldn't fool you forever."said Kikyou as she took out her bow and arrows. Kyle was about to take out his sword but Kikyou put a hand over his. "Let me take care of this, its time I confront the past." Stepping up to Inuyasha, Kikyou waited to hear what he was about to say.
"Kikyou who is this person and what are you doing here? Is he one of Naraku's-"started Inuyasha before Kikyou interrupted him.
"He's not. He has been taken out of his time by Naraku for reasons unknown, but he is also with me to make me human once more." Seeing Inuyasha's surprised expression Kikyou smiled a little.
"Kikyou...what is he exactly? He can't be human from what we saw before."said Inuyasha by looking past Kikyou at Kyle.
"I'm possessed."Kyle said by looking back at Inuyasha. "And what I am exactly is a human with a knowledge of various spells. And its all thanks to that damn bastard Naraku that I am what I am!"
"Kyle..."said Kikyou by looking over her shoulder. Looking back at Inuyasha she continued. "Look, you already moved on, but I haven't. I'm still stuck in the same moment over and over in this form, I've changed and so have you. You have choose my reincarnation and I have choose...Kyle. Through him I'll be able to live again and live my life how I've always wanted it. You can either help or get out of the way. What we had is no longer, and you can't continue to switch between me and Kagome, so I'm moving on I suggest you do the same...good bye Inuyasha."Kikyou turned her back on Inuyasha while Kyle keep quite and turned to getting water out of the river.
"Kikyou...well I guess I couldn't keep it from you forever...yes I have choose Kagome. And I guess now I won't have to go to hell, unless you still want me too."said Inuyasha by putting a hand on her shoulder. "But I will try to help you become human again...think of it as one last favor."
Kikyou smiled then turned toward Inuyasha. "Thank you Inuyasha."
"Well," said Kyle by seeing as they were finished talking. "You could get us something like a bath tub, I doubt Kikyou would want to lay down in this river. Oh and several stones, and maybe something to cut down the trees or their branchs in this surrounding area. That way we can get direct sunlight." Inuyasha frowned and Kikyou just laughed.
Kikyou watched by holding the sacred flowers that they had found. It seemed that not only did Inuyasha get what they need, he also asked the help of his friends. To tell the truth she would have rather done it without them but they proved useful. Even though seeing Inuyasha and Kagome together was...a little pain full she got past it. Her and Inuyasha was the past, and her future is...
"Kikyou!"said Kyle as he ran over to where she was sitting. He stopped in front of her to catch his breath for awhile since he had ran all over the place trying to find her. "Everything's ready now. Are you?"
Kikyou smiled up at Kyle then stood up. "Yes I am, and it seems you need glasses since it took you awhile to find me. I was just sitting outside of this clearing there was no need of you to run all over the place."
Kyle blushed at her words then looked down at the ground by scratching the back of his head. "Well you see...I thought you had gotten cold feet...you know backed out of becomeing human. Since I don't know what will happen...it could be painful..."Kyle stopped talking when Kikyou placed a cold hand on his warm cheek.
"I'm not afraid, besides you'll be with me."after saying that Kikyou walked towards the clearing. Kyle followed her after a minute.
Stopping at the edge of the clearing he looked at he and the others work. In the middle of the clearing was the aged bath tub that they had managed to find and in it already was the water from the river and Kikyou had added the sacred flowers. Around the tub and a few yards away from each other was the several large stones and atop them was the sacred crystals that him and Kikyou had found.
"Well lets get this over with..."said Inuyasha. Him and his group were standing a few yards away from Kyle. Kagome slapped him on the back of his head for his rudeness and smiled at Kyle and Kikyou. Kikyou stood by the tub and looked over at Kyle. Kyle sighed and walked over toward Kikyou by taking the parchment with the spell on it out of his pocket.
"Okay, are you ready?"asked Kyle by smiling to lighten the mood. Kikyou looked up at him and smiled too.
"Yes, now what do I have to do?"she asked. Kyle looked down at the parchment in his hands and pointed to the tub. Kikyou got in and layed down. In a way it reminded her of the time she was brought back to life.
'I hope this works...'thought Kyle as he started the spell. (Okay, I don't know anything about spells. And I'm not going to try to make up this strange writeing that makes no sense. So just imagine him saying some kind of spell like words or something like that.)
As the spell started the crystals lighted up and the light from the sun reflected off of them, making a ring around Kyle and Kikyou. Beams of light from the crystals, pointed to where Kikyou layed and made the water move. Kikyou's body rose up sightly when the water rose up making her stand. Kyle looked up from his reading to her then back at the parchment and the spell continued. As the water moved around Kikyou she began to feel like she couldn't move and a little sleepy. After she went unconscious, the water dropped her slightly and then lifted her higher above the tub. The flowers that had dissolved into the water made the water glow as it stopped moving. Kyle said the final word in the spell and the water rushed into Kikyou's body making her wake up. She started falling forward and Kyle caught her. Opening her eyes sightly she looked up at him and smiled a small half smile from the pain. Kikyou's body glowed and then stopped as everything went back to normal and the crystals turned black.
Inuyasha and the others crowded around them and Kyle looked up at them and smiled. "She should be okay," he said then looked down at Kikyou. She had fell asleep in his arms. "She's just resting."
The sound of a open fire woke Kikyou up. Sitting up she looked around the empty room that use to be her and her sisters house. Reaching for her bow and arrows she found instead Kyle's sword. Tightening her grip on it she looked around for Kyle but didn't see him. She looked down at the sword in her hands and traced the strange markings and symbols with one finger.
'I wonder...'she thought to herself as she took the sword out of its sheath. She let her finger trace the sharp blades edge and was surprised when she felt pain. Bring her injured finger up to her face she could see that she was bleeding. smiling she put the sword back where she found it and stood up. She was about to run out the door to find Kyle when she noticed that she was wearing his clothes. She looked down at herself to find that she was wearing a red shirt and his jeans that were a little too loose for her. She looked around to find her own clothes drying over the fire. She looked around once then ran out the door.
Looking up at the night sky Kyle could see the endless stars and the quarter moon in the sky. He looked down at the lights of the village from where he and Kikyou had stood just a few hours ago. It seemed so long ago now that it was finally over.
'Kikyou's become a human and the curse has lifted. And even if I'm still cursed at least I can move on now...Kikyou has what she wanted and I have what I wanted...Then why do I feel like I'm walking away from something?'he thought to himself as he looked back up at the stars. Sensing someone behind him he turned his head to look. Standing in back of him was Kikyou.
"Kyle...thank you."she said by sitting besides him. Kyle looked over toward her then to the village.
"Your welcome...Kikyou."he replied. Kikyou looked to him and then looked down at the ground.
"Are you leaving tomorrow? Somehow I wish that it wasn't over...that you could always stay with me..."Kyle looked from the village to her as she looked up at him.
"Well that would be nice but..."he started but then trailed off once he saw tears slipping down Kikyou's cheeks.
"So thats it...your just going to leave? At one time I would have liked nothing more then to just be human so that you could leave me...but now I don't know what I want! I wish we had more time-"she was cut off by Kyle putting a finger to her lips.
"We do have time. We have now and maybe that's all we really need."he said as he pulled her closer to him. Taking his finger off his lips he let his hand trail up to her hair by his other hand stayed on her waist. He took the ribbon out of her hair and brought her face closer to his.
"Well then lets hope this night lasts forever..."whispered Kikyou to him as she took the band holding his hair into a ponytail out of his hair. She let her fingers trail through his hair as he suddenly kissed her. Startled at first she didn't respond then she kissed him back as she used her other hand to hold on to him. As they pulled away for air Kikyou whispered against his lips: "I guess even if this moment leaves us, at least I'll hold onto the memory. I'll stay with you...forever."
Well the next chapter really will be the last, and in it we will see if Kyle's free of the curse and Naraku's demise. So stick around for the final battle and (hopefully) the happy ending.