Shadows from the Future
Chapter Six: Thoughts and Dreams Under the Stars
"Kagome! Kagome! Wake up!"
Inuyasha shook Kagome and watched as her eyes slowly opened. "Inu... yasha?"
"Come on, we think Kagura may have been killed."
Kagome then sat up to see that Arasoi, Shippo and Keishou were already awake. "Who do you think killed her?" she asked.
Inuyasha looked down at the floor, as if he didn't want to say anymore but Kagome knew him far to well.
"It was... Kikyo wasn't it?"
Inuyasha didn't answer and stood up.
"We should get going as soon as possible." Inuyasha stated before leaving the hut.
'Why is it he can never look me in the eyes when he thinks about her?' she thought as she packed her yellow backpack. 'Inuyasha, do you see me or Kikyo?'
"Um... Kagome?"
Kagome was then snapped back into reality.
"Come on, we're all going." Arasoi said.
Kagome smiled and followed the young girl out of the hut.
"Okay, I'm thinking of a number." said Keishou as the group walked towards where Kagura's scent was last.
"Um... two?" guessed Shippo.
"No."
"How 'bout nine?" Shippo asked again.
"No."
"What about five?" Arasoi chirped.
"Yeah good guess, Arasoi. Okay, I'm thinking of an animal." stated Keishou.
"What in seven hells are you brats doing?" asked an annoyed Inuyasha from the front of the group.
"We're playing the guessing game! It's really fun, almost as fun as that tag game Kagome showed me." Shippo explained.
"Well stop it! It's annoying and it's making me lose my concentration! If you want to play games go back to the hut!"
The three children looked down at the ground in shame.
"Inuyasha, be nice. They were just-" Kagome and Inuyasha both looked to the right.
"Just great," Inuyasha snarled.
"What?" everyone else asked in perplexity.
"Koga's here." Inuyasha and Kagome said in unison.
The wolf-prince's whirlwind then appeared in front of Kagome "Ah! Kagome, I've been looking for you!"
Kagome fixed her now messy hair. "So I've heard. How are you Koga?"
Koga took her hand into his own. "Every waking moment without you, Kagome, is horrible. But now that we're together, my life has been graced with a new light."
Kagome blushed. "Oh, that's so sweet, Koga." 'And yet kinda stalker like...' she thought. She then felt someone pull her backwards. "Ah! Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha just ignored her. "Okay, wolf boy, why are you here this time?"
Koga snarled. "It just so happens that the wind sorceress that murdered my clan was killed last night."
"So, she really is dead?"
Kogo nodded, "Let me guess, you were going to go look for her. I suppose I just got there first. Well that's all I have to say to the likes of you." He ignored the hanyou's growls and glaze lovingly at Kagome, taking her tiny hands in his. "Good-bye Kagome. I'll try to visit you again sometime." He was about to make his leave before something came to mind. "Oh right." He then charged at the unsuspecting Keishou and punched him in the ribs.
"KEISHOU!" Arasoi ran to her fallen brother.
"That's for making a fool of me, you little half-breed." Koga smirked before leaving in his tornado.
"Keishou! Are you alright?" asked Arasoi.
"I WAS JUST HIT IN THE RIBS BY SOME FREAK WITH THREE JEWL SHARDS, WHAT DO YOU THINK!?" he screamed.
"Keishou, let me see." Said Kagome as she took the young boy's shirt off (which caused a loud yelp from Keishou).
"Does it hurt here?" she then placed her hand on his left ribs.
"OWW! YES, THAT'S WHERE I WAS HIT!" Keishou then tried his best to sit up without screaming.
"I told you, Kagome. Your boyfriend is an ass, he punches children." explained Inuyasha a little too happily.
"I am not a child," Keishou fought. "And try to not sound so happy to see me in pain, Inuyasha."
"Well why shouldn't I? I finally got evidence of Koga being a jerk, and some sacrifices need to be made for these matters, even children."
"I AM NOT A CHILD!" Keishou shouted.
"INUYASHA! KEISHOU! BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP SO I CAN BANDAGE KEISHOU'S RIBS!" Kagome screamed at the two hanyous who instantly stopped. Kagome was freaking scary when she was angry.
Keishou lied back down on the ground and Inuyasha sat down by a nearby tree.
"Just as I thought, you got a rib or two broken." Kagome then tended to his wounds along with Arasoi's help.
"Are you sure you're okay to walk, Keishou?" Shippo squeaked as his new friend tried to stand up.
"I agree with Shippo, I'm sure Kilala can give you a ride." Sango added.
"I told you, I can walk. Don't worry about it. I bet by tomorrow I'll be fine."
Arasoi rolled her eyes at her brother. "You're so thick headed Keishou, I'm surprise you have a brain."
"Shut up and give me a hand!"
Arasoi helped her brother up and let him lean against her for balance. "You're a stupid child." She hissed while grabbing his arm to help him walk.
"Well you're an equally stupid runt. Now move." Keishou ordered.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha.
"What?" he asked coolly.
"Now why can't you and your brother be like that?"
Inuyasha huffed and continued to walk. "Easy, my brother's a dick."
She quickly followed him. "Come on Inuyasha, that's not a reason."
Miroku turned to Inuyasha. "She's right Inuyasha, now that Naraku has most of the shards to beat him you may have to join forces with Sesshoumaru again."
Inuyasha quickly turned around to face both of them.
"SHUT UP! I WON'T TEAM UP WITH SESSHOUMARU AGAIN! IT HASN'T WORKED BEFORE AND IT WON'T WORK NOW!" he screamed and then marched in front of the group.
"I'm guessing Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru don't like each other much, eh?" Arasoi questioned. Kagome nodded and sighed.
"Inuyasha can be so stubborn sometimes!"
"Really, I haven't noticed." Keishou said sarcastically as the group followed Inuyasha back to the hut.
Inuyasha looked down at the ground as he walked; it wasn't his fault that he and is brother didn't get along. Sesshoumaru was a powerful full-blooded demon who hated humans and he himself was half human. They were just too different that's all, and he'd admit that he wouldn't mind if Sesshoumaru didn't want to kill him all the time.
They were about ten or fifth teen minutes away from the hut when Kagome walked up to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha?" she asked softly.
"Yeah what?" was his response.
"Thanks."
Inuyasha stopped walking and stared at her. "What the hell are you thanking me for?"
Kagome smiled. "For being the overprotective jerk, that you are." She then continued to walk leaving Inuyasha in a mix of shock and confusion. Was that just an insult or a compliment? He then noticed that everyone was walking passed him. "Hey!" he yelled stupidly when he reached her. "What's that supposed to mean, you confusing wrench!?"
Kagome sighed, translation: "I am confused about what you said please inform me, Kagome."
"Whatever you want it to mean, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha was now even more confused by her words. "You're so annoying!"
Translation: "I still don't understand so I'm just going to insult you now."
Kagome couldn't hold back a smile as she continued to walk onward, he was so predicable. Leave it to Inuyasha to take the slightest comment as an insult.
Kaede faced the group. "Is ye sure that Kagura is dead?" she asked.
Miroku nodded. "I am positive. Inuyasha and I heard her screams before we set out, and by Koga's explanation Kagura should be dead."
Kaede still looked to be in a bit of shock. "But by whom?"
Everyone faced the floor, they themselves didn't know.
"It was Kikyo." Inuyasha's voice broke the silence. "I smelt her scent along with Kagura's blood the other night."
Sango turned to him. "But... wasn't Kikyo on Naraku's side?"
Inuyasha gave her a cold stare.
"No." He said ending the conversation.
Miroku cleared his throat after a long time of silence. "Inuyasha, right now there are probably very little shards left to find, if not any at all. Maybe we should think about how we are going to defeat Naraku." he suggested.
"He's right Inuyasha," Kagome nodded in agreement. "We're going to need all the help we can get. Maybe we can ask Koga or-"
Inuyasha then stood up and left the hut before he did anything he'd regret.
"What the hell is his problem?" Keishou asked in confusion. "It's like ever since last night he's been in a dream world."
Kagome bit her lip in frustration. Maybe bringing up Koga was a bad idea.
Sango stood up, "It seems that we're not getting anywhere tonight, lets turn in shall we?"
Kagome was slowly being sucked into darkness, she then saw Kikyo.
'KIKYO!' she screamed hoping the undead priestess would help her. Kikyo's dead eyes meet hers as she smiled a wicked smile.
'Now die...' she hissed as one of her soul stealers grabbed Kagome and dragged her into the darkness faster.
'NO! KIKYO DON'T DO THIS!' Kagome yelled.
She then saw something behind Kikyo, it was Inuyasha.
'Inuyasha!' Kagome gasped.
Inuyasha didn't seem to notice she was there and he turned to Kikyo. Kagome's insides turned to ice.
'Please Inuyasha! Please help me!' she called, but again got no response.
Inuyasha's eyes looked at Kikyo. 'I don't care how you feel about me now!' He started to approach Kikyo and continued, 'But I swear that I won't let Naraku have you, either! Only I can protect you from him!'
Kagome knew this scene and tried to close her eyes but couldn't. She didn't want to relive this, please not again! She felt herself being consumed more by the darkness, but she didn't care anymore. Anything to get her away from this would be fine with her. Inuyasha suddenly grabbed Kikyo and pulled her into a fierce, smothering hug. 'I will slay Naraku myself so you won't have to fight anymore . . . I will protect you.' Kagome suddenly felt tears in her eyes as she saw Kikyo pull out a knife and stab Inuyasha in the heart.
'INUYASHA!'
Kagome awoke with a start.
"It was only a dream." she whispered and looked around the hut.
Her eyes laid on a sleeping Inuyasha. 'He must've come back in when we were all asleep.'
Kagome sighed, after that nightmare she wasn't going back to sleep for a while. She carefully stood up and made her way to the hut's entrance trying hard not to wake anyone else up. She sat on the porch of the hut and looked at the stars.
"When we defeat Naraku, what will happen to all of us?" Kagome smiled, Sango and Miroku would more than likely end up together, Shippo would stay with Inuyasha, Arasoi and Keishou would return to their village to live with their father.
'But what would I do?' Kagome thought.
She never really thought that far ahead. She probably would go back to her time and finish off high school.
'Will I be able to visit here anymore?'
Kagome really didn't know. If the jewel was to be purified, would she still be able to use it to see her friends? Kagome smiled, she should be, when the jewel was whole and inside her she was able to travel through the well. That's how this whole thing started in the first place.
'What about Inuyasha and Kikyo? Would he die with her?'
Kagome's smiled disappeared and she felt her heart sink. Inuyasha still loves Kikyo, but she only wants him dead. If Kikyo really loved Inuyasha she'd let him live and be happy, at least that's what she would do for him. Kagome felt tears build up in her eyes. Inuyasha was too simple minded to realize that she loved him as well.
'Well you're always putting yourself down and allowing Kikyo to walk all over you.'
Kagome cried she couldn't handle it anymore, she loved Inuyasha and all he saw in her was Kikyo. Kagome wanted to hate Kikyo, but couldn't. How could she hate someone who she shared a soul with? She pitied her, being betrayed is horrible and by someone who you loved more than yourself is even more horrible, even if it wasn't really them. Kagome continued to cry and didn't even notice that she was being watched by said priestess who had a shard of the jewel.
"Inuyasha, if you wish you live I shall live with you, but the only way that could happen would be if I was to steal Kagome's soul and reclaim it as my own." Kikyo looked down at the crying young woman.
'Stupid girl, she always gets in the way! Once she is dead my plans will run a lot more smoothly.'
She grinned evilly as the shard inside her back glowed a deep shade of red.
(AN: I would like to thank all those who have reviewed this far. If it wasn't for you very few people I wouldn't have updated at all, thank you all! So another chapter comes to a close. If you have any ideas about how I should continue this please send them in a review. You all know the drill, review kindly and I shall continue!)