Luna: I was so unconditionally evil last chapter.

Veron: nods

Luna: rocks out to System of a Down I BUY MY CRACK I SMACK MY BITCH RIGHT HERE IN HOLLYWOOD! Keeps head banging

Veron: . weird…anyway…ignore the lyrics she just sang from Prison Song. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Me own nothing. Neither the System of a Down lyrics or any of the Inuyasha characters. So nyeh!

Chapter 10: And the shadows of the heart consume…

Kagome stiffened as she heard a knock on her door, a feeling of foreboding washed over her, making her skin prick in apprehension.

" Come in."

Swallowing audibly, the miko turned, to become face to face with Kikyo. Kikyo glared and her eyes flashed, her mouth set in a grim line.

" You promised our marriage would be in safe." She murmured her brown eyes aflame with hate.

" Inuyasha drew blood. My blood. I knew he was yours. He awakened who he really was with my blood. We mated for eternity, Inu-kun and I. But only would the feelings be awakened if either of our blood was tasted by the other."

" You made him."

Kagome's eyebrows knitted together in confusion, her eyes narrowing at the haggard faced woman standing in her line of sight. Her skin was starkly pale, bag underneath her eyes from lack of sleep and puffy from crying over her loss. Red marks from her own nails clawing at her skin were apparent on her milky skin, her raven hair rumpled and her normally kind brown eyes dark with hatred, betrayal and anger.

Kagome choked on her breath, it was like viewing her own reflection from when she had been betrayed by Inu-kun. Was this how she had looked before being sealed by the insufferable half demon? Was this how she appeared in death?

" You made him." Kikyo repeated her voice cold and emotionless as she walked menacingly toward Kagome. Every step Kikyo made forward, Kagome took a wary step backwards, until she was pressed up against the cool glass of her bedroom window.

" He loved me. He proposed to me. He wanted me. Not you." Kikyo whispered, over and over in a nearly inaudible mantra, her entire expression and movements made numb and deliberate. Kagome's eyes flashed with sympathy and misted with tears.

It was too late to save Kikyo from her anger and malevolence now.

Her negative emotions had…consumed her.

"Kikyo. You don't understand what you're doing. Kikyo…you have to come back. This isn't you." Kagome persisted, trying desperately to awaken the kind woman she had first met.

" He wanted me. Not YOU!" Kikyo screamed, tackling Kagome, crashing through the glass and out of the bedroom. And into the air, where the two women began to plummet to grass below.

Kagome choked on her screams as she fell her eyes wide and shocked at the utter bloodlust glowing in Kikyo's eyes. When, instinct kicked in.

Kagome's eyes narrowed and glowed with a flash of pink light, before kicking the maniacal woman off of her and twisting away in mid air, before opting to float a few feet from Kikyo's fallen body.

" I did not make him." Kagome spoke, her eyes narrowing as the injured woman shakily stood up.

" You did. He loved me!"

Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku were having a meeting with Sesshomaru, his office a few floors below Kagome's bedroom.

Inuyasha was unusually silent, his eyes haunted and confused, his only response to their inquiries of his health was a twitch of his ears.

" You will be required to interrogate Ms. Fujima on your own later on this week. The police aren't uncovering that much information and are likely to drop the case later on this year if we do not make haste." Sesshomaru spoke, his harsh gaze sweeping over the few employees in his room, lingering for a moment on the strange expression on his half sibling's face.

Sango and Miroku nodded and stood, preparing to gather their belongings and leave when a crash above alerted them.

And two female forms flew right down past the window to the right side of them.

Inuyasha blinked and slammed open the window, staring down as the two girls writhed against the other, until Kagome managed to wrench his estranged ex fiancée off of her.

" Kikyo…" He murmured his eyes glazed and his expression emotionless as Sango and Miroku rushed out looking anxiously out the window.

"KAGOME-CHAN!"

" KAGOME-SAMA!"

Kagome…

I hate you

Inuyasha flinched and he leapt up onto the sill, the strange burning sensation returning to the base of his neck. He leapt out of the window, his eyes narrowed as he watched the ground rise to greet him.

' You may hate me Kagome. But believe me…' He landed on a stone bench and was about to ram through the space between the two women, when he was knocked back by a spirit barrier.

Inuyasha cried out as Kikyo pulled a bow out from thin air and shot an arrow at Kagome, skimming the flesh of her back.

' The feeling isn't mutual.'

Kagome flinched and cried out as she felt an arrowhead slash at the skin of her back, setting her nerves ablaze. With a gasp, she fell to her hands and knees, breathing heavily as the smell of blood reached her nose.

" He is mine." Kikyo whispered, slowly notching an arrow and aiming it at Kagome's fallen form.

With a cry, Kikyo released the bowstring, watching with a smirk of smug satisfaction as the miko arrow barreled towards the girl.

Kikyo gasped as a small shield deflected the arrow, making it fall at Kagome's feet. Kagome's eyes flashed again with miko energy as she stood up, ignoring the throbbing pain of her injury as her calm eyes regarded the maniacal woman before her.

" No…" She whispered softly, echoing defeat and realization as she picked up the fallen arrow and transformed the it into a bow, her eyes merely focused on the horrified expression that was Kikyo's as she tried another arrow.

Kagome merely raised her hand as she deflected the weapon's energy, taking the arrow and notching it herself.

Aiming right at Kikyo.

" No. He's mine." She replied simply, releasing the arrow, the shaft becoming enveloped in a large aura of Sakura colored light.

And Kikyo screamed and fell her breathing shallow as her dark blood pooled around her.

Kagome sighed as the medics took Kikyo's near dead form away, her back had been appropriately mended and she felt so tired.

She faked not being able to speak and Sesshomaru aptly answered all of the police's inquiries. Thank goodness, she was tired enough as it was. Inuyasha stood right beside her, as she gazed at the caution tape that surrounded the area where Kikyo had fallen. Her stormy eyes emotionless and her body unmoving as she kept a death grip on her bow, her ebony hair flowing softly in the breeze.

When the last government vehicle drove away, leaving a trail of gravel and dirt in its wake, Kagome breathed a heavy sigh of relief. One she hadn't realized she had been holding, before she shivered and her eyes rolled back into her head, before collapsing on the grass.

Inuyasha cried out and picked her up in his arms, and stood up looking over his shoulder at his silent older brother.

" Thanks." He murmured softly, gruffly moving his head towards Kagome's unconscious form in his arms. Sesshomaru's eyes widened a fraction before his mask returned once again and he nodded stiffly.

Inuyasha leapt up and entered through the broken window, ignoring the pricks of shattered glass that cut his face and snagged his clothing. Placing her on the bed, he sighed, pulling up a chair and sitting beside her.

He ran a hand through her hair, his claws accidentally making the right shoulder of her blouse slide down and he blinked.

Two little puncture marks milky in shade against the cinnamon tan of her skin.

The mark. His mark. Inuyasha gulped audibly and sighed, making the blouse cover her shoulder once more. His fingertips grazed over the warm flesh as he did this, making him pull away abruptly as the strange burning sensation occurred on the base of his neck.

He sighed, ignoring the feeling for now, before making himself comfortable in the tweed chair. His golden eyes worried and filled with confusion as he watched over the sleeping miko.

The feeling isn't mutual...

Luna: Okay…so I decided to make Kikyo mean after all. But only after she had a reason. Her hate and broken heart consumed her kind soul and made her…

Veron: A vengeful maniacal bitch!

Luna: Um…yeah…

Veron: REVIEW!

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