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Love Isn't Just a Memory

Chapter Thirty: In the Well House

By: Nimerin

The spell was still wrapped around the spell when Kagome looked at it; there was no way that it was going to break so that she could pass through to the other side. 'What am I going to do? There isn't anywhere left to run to since the well isn't working and there is no where to hide. I could try and disable the spell again but that would leave me weak and she would kill me before I had a chance to get through.' Kagome was so lost in her thoughts that she failed to her the door to the well house open, nor did she hear the soft footsteps that approached her from behind. Kagome bit her bottom lip in thought, "I just don't know what I am going to do."

"Nothing." Came the cool reply. Kagome whipped around to face Kikyo who continued speaking, "You are going to die." Kikyo raised her bow as Kagome prepared herself.

"Kitsune bi!" Shippo shouted and jumped out of his hiding space before launching himself at Kikyo. Just before he was going to land on her, a white barrier crackled to life and flung him into the wall knocking him unconscious.

"Well that was rather pathetic." Kikyo commented before returning her attention to Kagome.

"Shippo!" Kagome had wailed for the little kitsune as soon as he had jumped from his hiding spot and now she was calling his name even more fearfully. She raced to get to him but a shining arrow whizzed in front of her stopping her in her path.

"How could you do that? He is just a child!" Kagome raged, "How could you do any of the vile things that you do. Kami! You want to drag the man you claim to love to hell and then you try to kill just because he doesn't agree with you. You are supposed to be a miko; you are supposed to protect people!"

Kikyo snorted, "Inuyasha and that little kitsune are not what I would call people; they are youkai and not worthy of the protection of a miko."

"How can you say that?" Kagome hissed, "You love Inuyasha and were going to marry him."

"Inuyasha is half human. I would have married him had he turned full human. There is a difference."

"You're sickening."

Kikyo shrugged and loosed an arrow at Kagome who dodged it by diving to the side. Unfortunately, the dodge required that she land on her knees on the ground and she had to scuttle back to dodge the next arrow. The third arrow that Kikyo loosed did not miss; it struck Kagome in the left shoulder and pinned her to the well.

Kagome cried out in pain and gripped her now wounded shoulder; she then tried to pull the arrow out so that she might escape but found that it was too far imbedded into the wood. She looked up at Kikyo, her gaze hazy with pain.

Kikyo now knelt in front of the weakening Kagome a satisfied smirk on her lips. "I could just kill you; but that would make retrieving your soul a little harder since you would still have your memories and your attachments to this world. No, I think I will finish my original plan and steal your soul by draining it from you as before." She extended a now eerily glowing hand towards Kagome's forehead and placed on her temple as she concentrated sending the energy into her. Kagome tried to swat Kikyo's hand away with her good arm but was thwarted when Kikyo's free hand grasped her wrist with bruising force. Kagome began to slip away into the darkness that seeped into the edges of her vision.

Kagome awoke in a dark place that seemed somehow very familiar to her; had she been here before? It was so empty and cold that she began to shiver and hunched down on her knees. "Hello?" She questioned into the void, she didn't even receive an echo as a response. Kagome tried to remember how she had gotten here, or where her was but she was kept drawing a blank. Frustrated she sat down and cried as she slowly felt all the warmth being drained out of her.

"So you are just going to give up like that?" the voice startled Kagome and she looked up at her companion, "Well, are you?"

Kagome frowned in confusion, "Who are you?"

The figure sighed, "I suppose you don't remember but I'm that part of you that represents your miko powers. Which, might I add, are being drained away from you right this moment along with your soul."

"My soul? How can someone do that?"

"I don't have time to go over this with you again. Are you going to fight or what?"

"Who am I fighting?"

Exasperation coated the figure's voice, "Kikyo of course."

Kagome sensed the depth of fear that accompanied with that name and the despair that followed it. "I don't think I can beat her."

"Then you have finally given up on Inuyasha?"

"Inuyasha?" Kagome sounded confused as a sudden warmth spread across her chest with realization, "No!"

A bright warm pink light erupted from Kagome and into the well house as soon as she opened her eyes and screamed that one word. Kikyo was knocked back a few feet from her from the sheer force of the blast. She regarded her reincarnation in disbelief as she watched the girl reclaim the part of her soul that she had been able to siphon out of her when she was unconscious.

Kagome watched Kikyo with steady clear eyes, "You will not take my soul; I won't let you." She then grasped the arrow lodged in the wood, her body still glowing a faint pink, and yanked it out. She cried out in pain and slumped forward grasping her shoulder as the light dimmed from around her.

Kikyo stood and brushed herself off. Things were not going according to plan; why couldn't she ever steal this girl's soul? No one had ever been able to transfer it out of her successfully, and she was beginning to see that she would not be able to do so either. She brought up her bow as Kagome glared at her from beneath her bangs. "If I can't have your soul, then neither will you."

AN: Well, that's it for this chapter. Only one more left and maybe a prologue and the story is over. Sniffle sniffle. THANK YOU FOR READING AND PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!