Disclaimer: Last time I checked I didn't own Inuyasha, it's probably not any different now.
Chapter Nine: Kagome Saves Inuyasha
A dream, I'm dreaming...Inuyasha's going to hell...with this girl? Kagome's dream intertwined with what was going on in reality. Her black pupils began to show themselves as her creamy eyelids lifted. The brown eyes adjusted to the darkness and she distinguished Inuyasha and a woman that looked like her. The ebony hair reached down to her waist, the brown eyes were cold and filled with hate. She could almost be my twin, what a minute!
Kagome realized that she wasn't dreaming and her hero was really in trouble. She knew what she had to do. Silently she pulled her body out from under the blankets and scooted to her supplies. Next to the bright yellow back pack laid her bow and arrows that had been given to her by some of the villagers. I need to control my breathing so that the woman doesn't notice I've moved. Kikyo didn't detect that the sleeping girl just a few feet away had awoken and was on her way to get her weapons.
"Inuyasha, why don't you open you're eyes? Are you that afraid of dying?" Kikyo sneered at him, hoping to make him upset. He wasn't afraid though, he just didn't want to see the woman he loved hurt him again; his eyes had already seen that before. Out of the blue his twitching ears noticed that Kagome's breathing had changed, it was no longer relaxed, but it sounded like she was trying to control it...and it was much farther away. His eyes snapped open to take their fill of Kikyo's face, but in the back he saw Kagome take up her bow and arrows.
"Okay bitch, you better have a good reason for coming in here and tying up Inuyasha with...those things," Kagome said coldly in Kikyo's ear, "And you better put your arrows down, before I do something I don't really want to." Right after she threatened Kikyo she poked the woman in the back with one of her arrows. Kikyo didn't move. "All right bitch, your choice!" Kagome screamed as she drew back her arrow swiftly and let it fly in the woman's back. "No one tries to kill Inuyasha while I'm around!"
A high pitched shriek escaped through Kikyo's lips as she was hurled forward and slammed to the floor. The green soul stealers quickly unwrapped themselves and flew to their mistress's side. Inuyasha slumped to the floor and blacked out. The glowing snakes wrapped themselves loosely around Kikyo so they wouldn't damage her more and floated their woman away from the attacker and out into the distance. Dropping the wooden bow to the hard floor Kagome raced over to the lump beside the support beam.
"INUYASHA!!!" With all the commotion going on Shippo barely woke up, but hearing Kagome scream for the half dog demon snapped him awake. Sitting up the child saw the beautiful girl run over to the fallen boy. "Oh Inuyasha, please be okay," she pleaded in his ear, "Please wake up." Her eyes filled with tears and overflowed down her cheeks. She rolled him onto his back and untied his shirts and stripped him of both. Angry burns smoldered in long strips every which way across his chest. Blood started to pool where the soul stealers squeezed his body to the beam.
"Shippo, help me drag him over to the bed." The little helper transformed himself into a modest red wagon. "Good job! That's perfect!" Kagome squealed as she hoisted his upper body on the fox wagon and pulled it over to the bed were she put Inuyasha under the covers. The dark haired girl found some burn ointment and lathered his chest with it. She rebuilt the fire so it would warm her up as Shippo curled next to Inuyasha and fell fast asleep again. Finally when Shippo started dreaming once more, a pair of amber eyes opened to find not Kikyo, but Kagome watching over him. His nose caught the scent of salt and the fire light glistened where the tears had made their paths down her pink cheeks.
"Kagome? Are you okay? You weren't hurt were you?" his voice came out gruffly because his throat had been crushed when the soul stealers trapped him. Her brown eyes were still watering a little bit, but a small smile painted itself across her face.
"I'm okay; I was just worried about you. You were knocked out for a while," she softly reassured him. Her forehead scrunched up and her eyebrows knitted together, "Inuyasha? Who was that woman? It seemed that she knew you." He wanted to ignore the question, it was so peaceful between them now, and he felt right with Kagome, but he knew that she would eventually get it out of him one way or another.
"That," he began with a murmur, "was Kikyo." He checked her face for any hurt or malice; he found none, so he continued with his story. "Kikyo was my first love. We were in love for a long time. She's Priestess Kaede's sister who died fifty years ago after she pinned me to the tree. We were tricked by the demon Naraku and he tried to kill us both so he could get the jewel. Because of him Kikyo didn't trust me anymore, and thought that I would become evil. I loved her even when she shot me." He ended and didn't want to go on; it was like a thousand knife's to his heart and soul. It broke his heart to think of her, even the good memories.
"It's okay Inuyasha, I know it hurts. I'll always be here for you when you need me." A smile graced her face once again as she nudged her way under the blankets next to him. He was a bit surprised, but welcomed the supple girl into his arms and they shut their eyes and fell asleep together.