Chapter 9
Kagome in blue flames?
Inuyasha was around the bonfire outside the hut, wanting Kagome to come to him to communicate with her besides inside his body. "Inuyasha, do you think this will work?" Shippo wondered. "I don't know, but I have to try" he said lightly. Miroku and the others were sleeping except Inuyasha and Shippo and it was almost midnight
"Ye must concentrate if ye want to ever talk to Kagome." Kaede's words echoed in Inuyasha's mind from earlier when they discussed about it and so he concentrated as if her were meditating, though Shippo tried to concentrate a little too hard and made his head was starting to hurt. After 5 minutes of concentrating, Inuyasha tried to call forth Kagome and it worked, the red and orange of the firey hot flames turned into dark and light blue flames that sent cold chills down your spine. It started to take form of a teenage girl. "It's... Kagome!" Shippo yelled out. Both opened their eyes widely and looked at the blue flames that shaped form of Kagome. "Hi Shippo, you act as if you haven't seen me in weeks" she cheerfully looked at Shippo, he was so happy and pleased. They both looked at her as happy as they could be, she petted Shippo for a minute and turned around to pause a second to look at Inuyasha. "Hi, Inuyasha, been having fun while I've been gone?" Inuyasha stood up "Kagome... I...hey wait, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN 'fun while you were gone'!?!?" he was angry for her to even say that, but was happy to see her busy as much.
"Kagome, how come you didn't depart yet?" Shippo was puzzled "Do you have unfinished business to take care?" Shippo asked immediately after his other question. Kagome giggle a little "I guess you can say that" as she looked towards Shippo but only to have her head look at Inuyasha to his question. "Kagome, when will you departure from our world?" Inuyasha wondered but with a worried face. "Huh? Oh, probably tomorrow but then I'm not sure." She wanted to give them humor because they still seem gloomy. "Why don't you go on a walk tomorrow? All of you, so that way you'll have something to do" Inuyasha looked towards the ground in shame because he couldn't do that with her anymore; they use to do that all the time at night when Kagome couldn't sleep, then he felt a cool breeze on his cheek, it was Kagome's hand though he wished to feel her instead of cool air from blue flaming type of hand. "I know, why don't you all go to Goshinboku?" Inuyasha looked up to her. "Goshinboku? That sounds nice." Inuyasha agreed with Kagome "Yeah, didn't you say it was the first place you went to when you arrived in this Era?" Shippo wasn't sure so he asked.
Kagome took her hand away from Inuyasha's face; he didn't like that because he missed her so much. They both looked towards Shippo "Yes Shippo, the tree is where I first went, and where Inuyasha was pinned to it there" They both stared at Kagome as she smiled at them as if she was sad. "Is there something you are not telling us?" Inuyasha asked questionably "Not at all... but I have to go for now, go to the tree and enjoy yourselves tomorrow." She giggled a little and said "I realized that it feels like I'm a guardian angel; watching over and all." They both looked at her. Kagome looked at them then looked up. "I have to go now, someone is calling for me." "Kagome, you can't leave!" Inuyasha got up and grabbed her cold wrist. "Please stay here!" "Inu...yasha, I need to go, don't worry" She kissed his cheek and said "I'll be waiting for you" in his ear. Then picked up Shippo and gave him a hug and he hugged her back at the same time, she put him down and the blue flames Kagome was formed turned back into the red-orange flames. "Why is it that I smell wolf, but it's not Kouga?" Inuyasha said that when he had stopped looking at the flames. But he didn't really care about the scent because he thought it was from earlier so he let that question leave.
"Inuyasha?" Shippo had a curious look on his face. "Yeah, what?" he returned the same expression but trying to hide some sadness because Kagome left his presence. "I was wondering. If Kagome did departure tomorrow, doesn't that mean that she won't be able to talk to us anymore? Then she would really be just a memory, wouldn't she?" He tried to hide his sadness
Inuyasha was thinking the same thing but didn't want to hurt the little kids' feelings more then it had to. Not to mention he didn't want think to make his heart hurt more also "Shippo, you remember what she said, even she had ever left us... She's still apart of us. Even if she wasn't going to talk to us, she still would be with us." Trying to please the little guy but he was lying to himself. "I know, but we won't be able to see her again, I miss her already." He started to pout and cry a little.
Inuyasha hated it when he cried, not to mention it could wake everyone up "Stop crying, it's not like she's you mom or anything!" He raised his voice to get Shippo to lower his. "She was my mommy! She feeds me, helps me go to sleep, she comforts me when I'm scared, takes care of me, bathes me sometimes in the springs, looks out for me, and protects me from you when she can! Besides she said that I was like a son to her so she adopted me! So she is my mommy!" He stood up to Inuyasha, saying all of that with pride, and Inuyasha saw it in him.
Inuyasha sighed "So I was right, you did treat each other like family" he looked at Shippo with a small smile "You always did take fond of her, even when you met us she took care after I hit you upside the head all the times" he sighed again "Such many memories of all the fun times wouldn't you say?"
Shippo looked at Inuyasha 'Inuyasha kind of acts like a daddy to me sometimes, he protects me when Kagome can't' Then he looked back to the fire. "Inuyasha, do you miss Kagome?" He asked while not looking at him so that way Inuyasha would answer him. "Yeah Shippo, I really do this time" When he said that he started to get up and walk away with one tear fallings from his face thinking that he'll never get to see Kagome ever again. "Shippo, go to bed, you, me, and the others are going to Goshinboku tomorrow morning." Shippo looked at him for one, he admitted missing Kagome, two he actually was nice, and three, he shed a tear for Kagome's death and for her never to be able to return again.
"Wait... Inuyasha?" he wanted to ask one more question
Inuyasha just stopped and which he meant 'what?' so Shippo asked
"Since Kagome is well... not with us... what about the jewel shards? Will we still look for them?"
Inuyasha looked to space and looked at the stars; he didn't answer Shippo and proceeded to walk away.
'I don't blame Inuyasha for feeling bad, there wasn't much we could do for Kagome, but still, it would be nice to have the old Inuyasha back with us.' Then in a soft voice he said "I miss the old Inuyasha almost as much as I miss Kagome" and went in the hut. Shippo didn't know that Inuyasha heard him but didn't really care. Inuyasha just shook his head after that trying to get his mind off of it.
There was a cool breeze that went from Inuyasha's forest to where Sesshomaru's group was. Rin wouldn't go to sleep because she found out about Kagome. Sesshomaru never did like humans, but only the two that could ever show affection of some sort was Rin and... Kagome. Sesshomaru looked at Rin struggling to sleep he mumbled a little saying. "Curse the human girls, they are making me soft." Rin was now sleeping but had spoken before she did saying "Lady Kagome, sing song for Rin" Sesshomaru had noticed that Rin did like that other human girl and was somewhat a mother to her. 'She has been with only male demons since I used the Tenseiga on her, I think I shall follow into the plan the wench set out. She better get out on this or it will cost her... another life...'
