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~*~Chapter Two: Forgive me…
Pain shot through Inuyasha's shoulder as he slowly felt himself leave the calming embrace of unconsciousness. With a muffled groan, he struggled to open his eyes. As he did, the hanyou winced as clear white light broke through.
"Thank Kami! He's coming to!" A female voice blurred through his mind.
Sango's voice…
Sango!
With a jolt, Inuyasha snapped his eyes open and turned his head, looking anxiously up at his friend. When he winced and bit his lip to keep from crying out.
The woman put a reassuring hand on his left shoulder.
"You shouldn't move so fast." Sango said, smiling down at him as he glowered dangerously at her.
"Keh."
Wait…why was he in a make shift hospital anyway? That's right that…miko.
"What happened to that girl? The miko." Inuyasha inquired his gold eyes not facing his companion as he opted to gaze soullessly into the window instead.
" I managed to talk to her. The poor thing is rather in shock and asked to be left alone to sort out her thoughts."
" I am suing you know."
"It was accidental injury Inuyasha."
The boy growled and sat up, glaring at her, his claws flexing.
" An accident? You call me being shot with a miko arrow, as she knew my name an accident? Bitch must have brainwashed you."
Sango rolled her eyes.
" No she didn't. She isn't from here exactly…"
"What do you mean by that?"
" She is from the feudal era. And her name is Kagome, Kagome Higurashi."
" You expect me to believe that bullshit!?" Inuyasha cried, using every ounce of his weakened strength not to strangle Sango.
" I'm serious. Remember the Shikon no Tama? We just found our real live link to it. She is the priestess who purified and protected the jewel. She would know its whereabouts! Don't you see? We can use her and get the jewel and finally stop following false leads!" Sango exclaimed, her eyes ablaze with enthusiasm.
" Yeah right."
"Don't believe me?" She scoffed, before setting a book in his lap. The pages were yellowed with age, the gold lettering of the title and spine long faded away, and the book was practically falling apart.
Sango pointed to a picture on the left page.
It was the spitting image of the girl that had attacked him! The black hair, the stormy eyes, everything! But why was she standing with someone that looked like him? With something glowing in her hand?
" Apparently, the legend says that she fell in love with a hanyou. He promised to love her and use the jewel to grant them an equal life span of a full demon so they could live and die as one entity. But on the day she brought the jewel to him, he attacked her shoulder. In anger, she had managed to shoot him. But he had ransacked her village and sealed her. But the seal didn't go as planned. Instead of sealing her to a tree with her own arrow. The Shikon protected her and sealed her elsewhere. Deep in a secluded cavern in Alaska, where its mistress would no longer feel pain and it wouldn't become any more defiled. And the hanyou could never find her, and died without knowing the truth."
" You are his reincarnation if my intuition is correct." Sango finished, watching his reaction as he took all this in.
" Keh." He gingerly set the book on the bed stand, before crossing his arms stubbornly over his chest.
" Think about it Inuyasha. You look exactly like him, bear the same name, hell your claw size fits her wounds perfectly, and you even have the same haori stashed somewhere in your attic as an heirloom. Even the sword is the same, only you changed it into a gun for efficiency. And you both felt a connection, I know you did. Kindred souls often do. Face it, you are the reincarnation of Kagome's 'murderer' so to speak."
Inuyasha didn't answer.
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Kagome simply gazed out the window from her wheelchair, her stormy gray eyes sad and soulless. Everything she knew and loved was gone. Her village, her family, her friends, everything. Time had made them wither away and die off into the wind. Her heart ached and a familiar burning sensation tickled behind her eyes, but she fought it off. She didn't have time to cry. She had to go and get herself used to this new time. Hundreds of years after her sealing, Inuyasha was dead. The hanyou she loved was gone, even if he had sealed her he had died. She had no chance to go and get her revenge now; she could no longer put her vengeful soul to rest. Kagome had to settle for the next best thing, adapt to her new era. Kagome was starting over. And she needed her new acquaintances to do it.
Inuyasha was dead.
The thought kept echoing in her mind, her beloved hanyou was dead. And now that she thought about it…
Inuyasha never had any magical aura to begin with. So how was he able to seal her in the first place? And why didn't she feel any magical aura if he had an accomplice? Her mind tried to sort through her past, not noticing the fact that she was letting her tears fall. Kagome's mind was so preoccupied that she didn't even notice the arrival of her lost loves' reincarnate.
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Inuyasha slowly rolled his wheelchair across from her own, ignoring the throbbing pain in his shoulder from every movement he made with his right arm. He stopped, and looked over at her. Kagome's eyes were shimmering with tears and a few stained her pale face, her stormy eyes were sad and her mouth was set in a soft frown. Bandages were wound around her wounds and around her chest, constricting her breathing patterns slightly. Now that he thought about it…she looked like his girlfriend, Kikyo.
He winced in remembrance she wouldn't understand this. She'd demand to throw the miko in jail for wounding her precious lover. For once in his career of archaeology, he actually didn't want to return home. He sighed, not realizing he had thrown the girl across from him out of her trace like state.
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Kagome's eyes jolted open as she heard a loud male sigh, with a slight gasp of surprise, the miko turned her head toward the boy in front of her, where she winced as her eyes caught the sight of the bloodied bandage on his shoulder.
Their eyes met and the room was blanketed in tensioned silence.
Kagome fidgeted uneasily and toyed with the cloth of her hospital gown, her eyes cast downward.
" I'm sorry." Kagome started, breaking the silence.
Inuyasha looked up in surprise as her own demure and sorrowful eyes met his.
" I'm sorry I shot you, and called you those terrible names. I just thought that you…" She trailed off and let her line of sight fall to the floor.
" It's okay. You didn't know." Inuyasha said, forgiving her gruffly. She seemed to only be eighteen years old at most.
" No it isn't okay. I never should have jumped to conclusions like that. I knew in my heart that you weren't him. But I wanted to avenge myself so badly that I didn't listen. I'm sorry."
Inuyasha blinked at the utter sadness in her gaze and her own inner anger at herself for being so selfish in her blood lust.
" Hey, don't beat yourself up over it or anything. I've been through worse then just a miko arrow in my arm. Believe me."
Kagome smiled forlornly, " Of course you have." She offered him a shy smile.
" I have no idea what to do though. Since I can never have my revenge, I need to start anew. But I don't know anything about this era." Her eyes grew confused.
" We'll help you out."
"Even after what I did?"
" Feh. Of course, I can't just leave some defenseless girl out on her own in a world she doesn't understand. Even I have some honor."
Kagome smiled.
" I'll make it up to you. I don't like feeling guilty. I promise to help you if I can. Though I doubt I can do much, I'll try." She wheeled over next to him.
Inuyasha gazed at her warily and the girl sighed.
" Besides…I owe you for everything you've done. Allowing yourself to let me be cared for even though I attacked you, and agreeing to helping me. I owe you." She whispered, delicately running her nimble fingers over his bandages, her fingertips glowing pink as the wound began healing.
Inuyasha gazed at her in shock.
" Since you don't remember anything from his life. I hold nothing against you. I'm so sorry." She said, tears filling her eyes as she ran her hand over his now healed shoulder.
Inuyasha wheeled over to the doorway, her tiny form trailing after him.
" I forgive you." He answered softly; running his own hand over his incarnates claw marks, erasing their mistake.
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Luna: Slightly, shorter but I wanted to end it there.
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