Butterfly Smiles and Bullet Wings

By: Sydney Mariah

Author's note: Ok, so like this is my first time writing a story and letting other people read it. I'm more of a poet then an author. So, by being influenced from my dear friend, I've made sure to write a story and hope I can go through with it. By the way, I stopped watching Inuyasha for like a year till like 4 weeks ago, and I've been doing a lot of research on the show, and the characters, so if I'm off then please for the love of GAWD TELL ME!! Lol, just playing with you guys, hope you like the story...;)

Chapter 1: Unforgotten goodbye

Letting you go

This heavy whisper of muffled tears,

Keeps the grasping heart beat flutter into fears,

The red veins in these stoic brown eyes,

Are what stand out upon these watered black lashes,

The rose begins to bloom from my rosy cheeks,

And I can already feel my limbs become weak,

I breathe in the memories I have kept locked,

And this love I have fought,

Was well worth risking life for...

Her raven hair stranded across her pillows, as she warmed up to her sheets, while a gentle breeze of the milky night roamed through her bedroom. She dreamed of meadows and amber eyes, she assumed they were Inuyasha's. It warmed her inside, feeling those eyes gleaming at her. A smile across her sleeping face formed into the night air. And those eyes still remained through her dreams till she awoke.

Her heart pounding from the release of a phase, she took a deep breath, feeling her senses accustom themselves to the morning dawn. "whoa." She muttered to the thickness of the morning chill. She crawled out of bed feeling the sudden movement make her head ache and sink into drowsiness. She sat back down on her bed not realizing a new detail of the same pair of eyes dazed her awareness. She noticed the eyes were magenta lidded. Different from just amber eyes, she blinked, reflecting the image off her thoughts. "That was weird." She noted before standing back up again. She shook her head, checking if it was all just too strange. When she stopped in front of her bedroom door, checking her thoughts were clear, before heading downstairs.

The welcome of steaming tea and a motherly cleanness from inside the kitchen made her realize why she missed home. She strolled down the stairs, tiptoeing to quietness as her socks muffled the neighing creaks of the floorboards. When she reached the kitchen tiles, she felt her nerves and mood grow from groggy to a hopeful peaceful mood.

She opened the cupboard to the cups and poured herself some tea in a single motion. She let herself take a sip, soothing and warm on her tongue, for once it wasn't burning her mouth. Closing her eyes to the moment, the amber eyes glowing from the back of her mind. She sighed, and began to feel sleep wanting to take over. The amber eyes still rolling in her thoughts, they appeared longing. She shook her head again, wanting to get rid of the thought quickly. "He chose to be with Kikyo. Why am I fussing over his eyes?" Kagome muttered as she finished her cup, before rinsing it in the sink, and placing it in the dishwasher

She turned around seeing Sota and Buuyo staring at her with utter loss of confusion. "Why are you here?" Sota asked, eyeing her pleasant mood before saying it. Buuyo warmed up to his leg as Sota watched Kagome stare back at him, "I live here dummy." She glared.

Sota chuckled at her glare hesitantly, stating "You've been here for 3 weeks; usually you're here for 3 or 4 days."

Kagome looked away from Sota, keeping her thoughts together like a chain, 'That's because of a particular person who only liked me for looking similar to Kikyo' the truth bit down to the meaning of why in her mind, before saying, "Yeah, you're right, it's time I should be heading back." She said more to herself then to Sota. She eased back up the stairs, knowing she's needed in the feudal era. When she passed her mother down the hallway, her mother stopped her, knowing Kagome needed to go back, "you're new friends need you Kagome. You need to go back to help them." Her mother stated Kagome's thoughts, before kissing Kagome on the cheek. "I'll go pack some meals for you, just get ready, and I'll have your bag ready in no time." Her mother winked back at her as she headed down the stairs.

'But...how did she know I was going back? Maybe it gives her something to do I guess.' Kagome thought with confusion echoing through her chocolate eyes. She shrugged her shoulders, and headed back into her room, sorting through her clothes.

Behind her heart she felt hurt and used. "I can't believe you Inuyasha...why did I fall in love with you...why?" she kept muttering to the air, hoping for an answer from anything...

When she came downstairs in her school uniform, she saw her grandfather holding onto her bow and arrow, as her mother looked ecstatic about packing Kagome's yellow bag.

Something was calling her back to the well, and she needed to get there fast. When her mother was done with her bag, she grabbed it, kissed both her mother and grandfather on the cheeks. "Got to go, bye." She said in a rush, her grandfather called out to her "Wait, you forgot these," he hurried to her panting for what oxygen he had left in his old worn out body. Knowing how thankful and prayed deep down that she'd be safe,...that Inuyasha would protect her.

Kagome had reached the Bone eaters well, and swarming through her mind the eyes appeared to have more detail to them once again. They were almost showing more of the face, this time she saw the nose; it had a feminine touch to it. But the eyes with magenta colored lids, longing amber eyes, and...and magenta stripes on both of his cheek bones, she couldn't put her finger on it just yet. The thought of the image was draining out her bruised heart from Inuyasha.

She held back the colliding tears, before plunging herself into the well. "Why do you do this to me, Inuyasha?" she whispered to the darkness. When she ended her feet on solid ground, she felt that she was in the feudal era now. She looked up to the sky; the night clouds stretching themselves to her gaze across the well.

She started climbing up the bone-eater well's walls', glancing back up at the sky, a crescent moon signified through her memories. Those eyes refreshed her memory thoroughly, the nose, the stripes, the magenta lidded eyes, and now his face was shown to her. The crescent moon hiding under his silvery bangs, the wind catching his features from her every breath she gave of the thoughts. She was stunned, frozen from the shock, 'SESSHOUMARU! I'VE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT SESSHOUMARU?!' a tweak of shock scrambled her hands from losing grip of the walls gaps she had held on to, her foot becoming entwined with a few vines as she fell off balance, and began hanging upside down. "Great, just my luck," she grumbled, 'First Inuyasha admits he loves Kikyo, I dream about his brother, now I'm hanging upside down in a well!!' her thoughts screamed.

Her yellow bag slacked from her shoulders along with her bow and arrows as they fell to the ground. Hope rose from her when she struggled her control to reach for the vine and untangle her ankle. When the vine wouldn't give she slumped without trying again, and looked down at the bottom of the well noticeing 2 arrows were facing up to the sky at a 90 degree angle. "Great if I fall, it'll be twice as worse then having my brain become splooge" she muttered. She had to do something, she had to get out, she had to survive, but help was just out of reach. Digging her nails in the wall to get her head up, to keep the blood pumping, dizziness and the fading hope she had thickened into her body.

Miroku had gotten ready for his hot spring, passing the bone-eaters well that led to Kagome's world. "I wish Inuyasha would apologize to Kagome....wait...Kagome?" he turned back to the well, beginning to admire the view of panty liners with a ruffled skirt. Shaking the thought from his mind, "Kagome are you alright?" Kagome didn't respond, her head aching from the blood flowing deeply into her head, the vine gave way, she felt her body fall like feathers upon dust, her mind empty emotionless when she gazed up at Miroku to see him instinctively try to grab for her, "KAGOME!" he shouted; his body weight leaning too far into the well, he felt himself falling into Kagome. Her eyes pained out her cry when the arrows shot through her chest, breathless and unable to see the life come through her longing thoughts. 'Just once more...could I see those eyes...just once more..." her heart faded into darkness, as her soul engulfed death.

The pressure of Miroku's landing made the arrows tear into her body deeper. His mind more worried about her, then himself. Apart of the arrow snagged into his shoulder from the landing, he sat up quickly, looking up to see Inuyasha staring into the well, the fading scent of vanilla skies, and butterfly smiles coming from her precious life. The sudden loss of Kagome draining from the window of his soul in his golden amber eyes; he felt his heart plead, "No" over and over, wanting her existence, wanting her presence, wanting her near, and close, wanting her in his arms. He jumped into the well, picking up Kagome from the ground, the arrows shaped through her body effortlessly; he lifted himself, out of the well in seconds hauling Kagome along with him.

As he lay her on the ground gently, he still held her head close to his heart, hopeing for a whisper of life draw from her lips, he felt his heart fade into nothingness. Wishing to admit to the worst, and letting the affection and tender moments from the past explain themselves, "Kagome..." he felt his heart ache once more, stiffeling his tears that were crawling from his soul, "please no.." he begged to her dead figure. "Kagome" he breathed again.

Miroku climbed out of the well with the help of Songo, trying to hold back her fears for Kagome's death, "She's going to be ok, right Miroku?" she reassured herself more then she reassured him. "I don't know." he muttered, he held her at bay, letting her tears scramble down her cheeks, Shippo and Kirara arrived late, seeing the mourning from their eyes, he didn't catch the scent of a dead human till he stopped short in front of Inuyasha cradling Kagome's body, who had been rocking back and forth to drive the darkness away. "Kagome!" Shippo squeaked, Kirara stopped him from going further, letting Shippo cry into Kirara for support.

Miroku held back broken tears, as an idea came to him, 'We need the Tensaiga to bring back Kagome. We need Sesshoumaru,' when he spoke his thoughts to Inuyasha, Inuyasha never motioned it. He was more distant from what Miroku mentioned, and continued to hold Kagome closer to his chest, as he walked from the well, making sure to never let go of Kagome. "Then we're leaving." Inuyasha muttered to Miroku, keeping a steady pace, gently cuddling Kagome to his heart.

Along the way, they picked up their pace faster and faster, Kirara holding the rest of the group on her back, still Inuyasha clutching Kagome in his arms; the branches slashing at his forearms; he made sure nothing touched Kagome. "You'll be ok, I promise" he whispered to her heart. Her scent reeking of death through the woods that had attracted low powered demons following from behind.

"Inuyasha, Inuyasha!" Shippo shouted from atop of Kirara. Inuyasha didn't respond, but picked up his pace faster, now jumping from tree to tree. "What." He barked at Shippo. "We need to rest, Kirara is worn out." Said Shippo. Inuyasha glanced at Kirara who looked perfectly fine, "There's only one speed, and that's my speed. We'll stop when we're 4 miles from the western lands." Inuyasha ordered clenching Kagome tighter, as a low powered demon sprang into the air; Inuyasha slashed it with his claws like broken toothpicks. "Just 3 more hours Kagome, and we'll be there." He spoke to her dead body like she was still alive. He felt lost hope tie behind his words, like she was alive but weak and exhausted. 'That's it, she's still alive, she has to be still alive, she's not dead, no, she's just resting, and we're going to get help, and of all people we need that brother of mine. Of all people we need Sesshoumaru.' Inuyasha thought, as he glanced at the surroundings from time to time, 'we're almost there,' his thoughts keeping his mind alive. 'We're almost there'....

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A/N muahahahaa, ah no worries I'm working on the second chapter as we speak. Please tell me what you think and how you liked it, k. PLEASE REVIEW!