Shadows from the Future

Chapter Thirteen: To My Mistress I'll confess

He smelt the morning drew and saw the red rising sun appear over the mountains behind the village. Inuyasha sat in the same tree he fell asleep in. 'I have to tell Kagome how I feel. She's going to leave if I don't!' He thought about the upcoming battle with Naraku, what if something happened to him...or worst something happened to Kagome. What would he do if he never told her how he felt? That she was always on his mind, that he thinks she was the most wonderful girl in the world, 'That I love her. I really love her.' Inuyasha took a deep breath and leaped from the tree, it was now or never. God knows if he'll summon up the courage to tell her ever again.

Inuyasha peeked into the warm hut and quickly found Kagome's sleeping form. He quietly made his way over to her and lightly taped her cheek hoping to wake her up. Her eyes slowly opened and looked up at his, "Good morning." She whispered. "Is something wrong?" He shook his head, "I just wanna talk to you, c'mon." He carefully helped her up and the two exited the hut.

Kagome yawned as she followed Inuyasha. "So what is it you want to tell me, Inuyasha?" she then noticed they were near the well. "Hey! You better not be planning to take my shards and push me in the well again!" He smirked, "Maybe." She stared at him and crossed her arms and mumbled something under her breath. The pair sat near the well on the cool morning grass. Inuyasha looked at Kagome who still stared at him to see if he was really going to push her in. "I aint gonna push you in, Kagome." She smiled playfully, "You better not!" She then noticed his uneasiness, 'What is it he wants to tell me?' "Okay... Kagome you know I'm not good with words but I've wanted to tell you something for a while now. We all know what happened 50 years ago and the fact that Kikyo wants me to go to hell with her, and um... I have said that the only way to repay her is with my own life. I guess that's still true but... she's different now. She's not the same Kikyo I fell in love with 50 years ago. So-" He looked over at Kagome who was giving him the death glare. "What?"

"You're asking me for girl advice?" Kagome hissed

"What? NO!"

"You lair! You woke me up at the break of dawn to ask me how you get the old Kikyo back to you!"

"WHAT THE HELL? NO! NO! THAT WASN'T IT AT ALL!" He tried to reason with her but she already stomped away.

"KAGOME LISTEN TO ME!" he yelled as he followed her. "NO!"

"YES!"

"NO!"

"YEAH!" Inuyasha yelled thinking this sudden augment of theirs was quite foolish.

"Come on, Keishou! Wake up already!" Shippo cried to his sleeping friend. It was now mid morning and everyone was awake, except Keishou that is. Now both Shippo and Arasoi sat in rather large tree making a sad attempt to wake the sleeping half dog demon. "COME ON!" The young fox demon yelled now going as far as to jump on the boy's chest. "WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" Keishou then hit the fox child sending him flying only to be caught by Arasoi. "This is hopeless! We are going to have to go to the extreme." Arasoi then leapt to the branch over the one her brother slept in. "You gonna used one of your scrolls on him?" Shippo asked from the girl's shoulder. "Nope." Arasoi then leaned down and pushed her elder boy off to branch and watched him hit the ground hard. "Is he dead?" Shippo asked shocked. "No I don't think so." Arasoi answered climbing down from the tree. "But he's not moving!" The girl shrugged. "Probably still asleep." Shippo looked down at Keishou once the duo landed. "I really think you killed him, Arasoi." Arasoi ignored the Kitsune and kicked her fallen brother in the side. "HEY! Get up lazy ass!" she yelled as her brother turned at his back and stared at the morning sky. "What the hell have I ever done to you people?" he asked daze. Suddenly Inuyasha and Kagome came out of the woods. "Yes!" Inuyasha yelled. "NO!" Kagome yelled back. Kagome (who was to busy arguing with Inuyasha to see where she was going) stepped right on Keishou and Inuyasha followed her. "AHH! WHY ME!?" Keishou asked as he whimpered on the ground, but nobody paid attention to his cries because they were to busy watching Inuyasha and Kagome's fight.

"KAGOME! YOU STUPID BITCH WOULD YOU STOP WALKING AWAY FROM ME AND LET ME TALK TO YOU!?" Inuyasha yelled, he was tired of this cat and mouse thing and he was pretty damn fit up with always being the villain. Kagome stopped walking, "You know it hurts me when I see you two together, and when you sneak off to see her. Now you want to talk to me about her, Inuyasha?" Kagome turned around and faced him. Her eyes were glance from tears, her hair rested calmly on her shoulders and her rosy lips were pressed together angrily.

"I hate you."

Everyone was silent. The forest went silent. It seemed as if the world had stopped turning.

Inuyasha felt his eyes water up as he bit his lip, turned his head away and held back the tears, she hated him. She hated him. He finally pushed her over the edge when all he wanted to do was tell her how much he loved her. It was not supposed to go this way, he was supposed to tell her and she was supposed to hug him and tell him she loved him too. Then together they were supposed to defeat Naraku, complete the jewel and live happily ever after. She wasn't supposed to hate him.

"Kagome... please... don't..." He whispered hoping that some strange godly power would help him right about now, but they and Kagome only ignored his pleas. "Where are Sango and Miroku?" she ordered. "They left this morning to help some village." Keishou's voice crackled. "KAGOME! INUYASHA!" Miroku's voice came from the sky. "IT'S SANGO! THE DEMON ATTACKED HER AND SHE'S BEEN INJURED REALLY BADLY!" Kilala landed in front of Kaede hut and watched as Miroku gently held her Mistress in his arms. Kagome looked over her best friend's wounds, her armor had been broken through and she had many deep and bloody gashes on her body. "Let's get her inside."

Sango wounds looked worst than they were, and according to Kaede the young demon exterminator should been back on her feet in two to three days. Everyone was relief by this, especially Miroku who refused to leave Sango's bedside until she was well. It was then night time and Kagome and the others had eaten dinner and were now sitting in the large part of Kaede's hut. Shippo, Keishou, Arasoi and Kaede had noticed that Kagome refused to make eye cotact with Inuyasha and that Inuyasha jut looked as if his soul was stolen. Shippo had earlier told Kaede about their fight that morning and Kaede was amazed that Kagome had uttered those words.

"What exactly did ye hear her say?" she asked.

"That she hated him, pure and simple." The Kitsune answered. He himself was amazed that Kagome said that. He always thought that Inuyasha and Kagome liked each a lot, and secretly hoped that the pair would fall in love and get married. Then Kagome would never leave and he could live with them. But how was all this supposed to happen if Kagome hated Inuyasha?!

Even during the warm summer nights the hut did get pretty drafty and Kagome hugged her legs to her chest. Inuyasha picked this up and found enough courage to talk to Kagome for the first time in hours.

"You want me to get you a blanket?"

"No."

And then the silence returned.

Keishou took a deep breath, "Since the tension in here so thick you can cut it, I'm going out for a walk." He then stood up and left. Minutes later, Kagome noticed that the herbs for Sango's wounds were getting low. "I better go and get some herbs just in case." She then left the hut.

The night forest was dark as Kagome went around the edge looking for the herbs. 'Now I know they were here this morning.' Suddenly she felt something fly pass her, she looked to her right and saw one of Kikyo's soul stealers. Kagome then felt something drag her deeper into the forest, then she stopped. Kikyo then appeared in front of her. "Kagome was it not? I see we meet again." Kagome gasped, "Kikyo. What are you doing here?" The undead priestess smiled. "To take back what is mine, the soul that rest inside your body." Kikyo's outstretched hand glowed a deep shade of purple. She the tapped Kagome's forehead lightly and the power escaped from her and transferred to Kagome causing her to fall onto her knees. 'What's happing to me? Why do I feel so sleepy?' Kikyo's smile widened, "Yes Kagome, let the spell take over your body and let my soul escape from you!" Kagome's eye's widened as she looked up the older woman and was about to say something, but nothing came out from her mouth. No words, no noise. Just silence. "Don't worry, no one can hear you now Kagome. Not even myself. You see this spell of mine is paralyzing your body, which includes your vocal cords." Kagome looked down at the ground and slowly felt her arm mussels start to spasm causing her to fall on her face. Nobody knows where she was and who had her but that wouldn't matter much since Kikyo was going to slowly kill her anyway.

Keishou stood in an on looking tree. 'Here we go. If I attack now I can probably kill Kikyo, then mom would be freed and maybe she and dad get together. If I don't attack now I'll have to go back to the village tell dad what happened, he'll go find mom and there'd be a slight chance his timing will change the course of events thus saving mom.' He grabbed the grip of his father's sword that rested on his back. 'Damn it! Both involve me having to risk something!' He looked down at the scene again and decided to throw all common sense away and jumped down in front of Kagome.

"Don't touch her again, Kikyo." His voice snarled.

"Who may I ask are you, little demon?" She then got a better look at him, "Or should I say half-demon?"

"Shut up witch. I thought priestess only used their powers for good, did hell change you that much?" Keishou smirked as Kikyo examined the boy's appearance and noticed the same aura around him as the one Inuyasha held, meaning that this kid had to be his son, but that was impossible. She clenched her fist in furry. "Who are you?" she demanded. "That's no concern to you; take the spell off Kagome and crawl back into the hole you came out of, Kikyo." Keishou snarled his patience was growing thin. "No one will stand in my way, half-breed." Kikyo threw a purple lightning ball slashing his right shoulder. Keishou fell to his knees and held his shoulder with his hand as Kikyo's soul snatcher then wrapped around Kagome and Kikyo taking them away.

"CRAP! DAMN! CRAP! DAMN!" Keishou screamed as he ran back to the hut and burst through the door. "INUYASHA! KIKYO KIDNAPED KAGOME!"

(AN: Wahaha! I leave you here my wonderful readers! Now review if you want me to update!)