:: Chapter IX ::
"...Kikyo?" Inu Yasha gasped as he saw her emerge from the woods.
"Inu Yasha," her eyes were so solemn, as they always had been. Inu Yasha always remembered how sad her eyes had always looked, so emotionless. Yet, they always had something about... A yearning, maybe? That what he had always guesed. They seemed to long for emotion.
"I have come..." she looked as though she was having trouble saying whatever it was.
"If you've come to kill me, your out of luck! I'm not gonna let you defeat me, Kikyo!" Inu Yasha snapped at the one he used to love and care for so much. Now, she was only an enemy, along with so many other people he cared nothing for.
A sad smile came to her face. "No, nothing like that, Inu Yasha."
"What then! If your going to bother me, get out of my way!" He needed to find Kagome. It was tearing him apart yelling at her like this, but, there was always more time to catch up on this. Like Kagura said, he didn't have any idea how much time he had to go and find Kagome.
"I've come to settle this arguement between us." Kikyo saw Inu Yasha tense, and place his hand on the Tetsiaga. "As I've said, not by fighting." The same smile spread through her lips, so sad, so yearning. "I love you, Inu Yasha."
Inu Yasha gasped. "All this time... you've beentryign to kill me, though! Why are you just now... telling me how you feel..." Words couldn't come close to describing how shocked he was. It all seemed like a strange dream, that he should have forgotten when he woke up.
"I'm sorry I haven't admited to you before now," she looked back at him. "Everything is confusing to me. You must try to understand."
"Kikyo... all this time..." he became slightly hushed. "I don't know what to say..."
"Say that you love me," her eyes became glossed with emotion, and the tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Kikyo..." Inu Yasha glanced up at her, with a slight smile on her face. "Kikyo, you mean very much to me. I-----"
:: Author's Notice ::
cliffhanger. Read, review, or, you don't find out what happens.