Chapter 5: Coping With Past, Present, and Future
Inuyasha looked at a exact copy of himself, only this Inuyasha seemed darker, more twisted. Inuyasha's first reaction was to back away, but he somehow found the courage to stand tall. "Who are you?, he asked.
"I'm you if course, only I'm the true you, the one who's begging to get out. You've kept me away too long. I was front and center with you until you met that damnable Kikyo. That frigid wench, what did you ever see in her, wanting to be human!!!! Wanting to settle down and just live a normal quiet life. Blehhh, you make me sick. Now that Kagome, as frigid as Kikyo was and is, Kagome has all that warmth and that body. You boy Miroku has the right idea, trying to sneak a feel."
At that comment, Inuyasha lunged at whatever this copy was, but it easily dodged him. "Aww what are you getting mad for Inuyasha, you know you've had those thoughts. Whenever you think back on the times you've seen her naked. Whenever you knew she was going to take a bath. You never could admit to yourself how much you desired her, but I always knew. That's why you'd get so mad whenever Kouga showed up. Always afraid that maybe she'd come to her senses and get a real demon to be with. You know she'd give to you willingly, all you ever had to do was ask." By now Inuyasha was in a pure rage and reached to pull out tessaiga to rip the shadow to shreds for talking that way about Kagome. But tessaiga wasn't there. As he looked up at the laughing demon, it morphed into his own demon form.
Laughing it said, "Why do you depend on that pitiful sword, when you have these claws to do your damage." The demon held up its hands and Inuyasha saw they were covered with blood. "You could do whatever you wanted in this form, take what you want when you wanted it. You could the most powerful demon in Japan!!! Who cares about those pititful human lives, they're weak you're strong right. This is what you always wanted, all you have to do is get the jewel." "NO, Inuyasha yelled," I would never be like that, I would never kill people just for the fun of it, Kagome....." "Yes, Kagome, the demon interrupted, "you could keep her too, I'm sure she could fulfill a purpose for you." The demon gave a bone-chilling laugh and showed Inuyasha a vision of him raping Kagome. "Of course she wouldn't be willing at first but we could break her." Inuyasha rushed at the demon, but suddenly it disappeared and he heard the voice he had been dying to hear all along.
"Inuyasha, do you really want to do those things to me?", Kagome asked softly. Rushing to hold her, Inuyasha said, "No I would never treat you like that, you mean more to me than that" Kagome gently shoved him away. "I would Inuyasha, I want to give myself to you, all you have to do is ask. I've always wanted to, since the moment we met. And she proceeded to get out of her kimono. Inuyasha rushed to grab and cover her up again. "No, Kagome, this isn't you." She then shoved him away. "God!!!! I offer myself to you, no strings attached and you couldn't even deal with it!!!!! What the hell was I thinking, getting involved with a pitiful half-demon, you can't even protect me. You're truly pathetic, you know that? A real man would have took the oppurtunity, but no, you and your weakling self just try to cover me back up. "No Kagome this isn't it you.", it said mockingly. Inuyasha looked at it and said, "What would I want with you, you're just a twisted version." "Fine it replied, how about this then. And proceeded to change once more.