Summary: Kagome sees Inuyasha with Kikyo and runs off, only to be attacked by a demon and placed under a curse by the dark priestess herself. InuKag. Rated PG-13 for Inu's bad words.

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Evil Curse of the Dark Priestess, Kikyo Chapter 2

Kagome ran through the forest, blinded by tears. She slowed down once she got to the small clearing with the ancient Bone-Eaters Well. She sniffled and covered her mouth with her hand, then turned around and walked towards the sacred Goshinboku tree. Once there, she collapsed under it and sobbed freely.

'Why? Why did I ever have to meet him? Why did I ever have to fall into that stupid well and come to this stupid place?!?! I could have lived a normal life and gone to school everyday. I could have just gone out with Hojo (::cough:: hobo ::cough::) and been happy. Why couldn't I have fallen in love with someone who loved me back?" She paused for a moment. "Kami, I'm so stupid. I'm crying over something I couldn't ever have. I should have known Inuyasha could never love me. I can never take Kikyo's place in his heart. If I'd have known it would hurt this much, I wish I never laid eyes on him.'

She looked back up at the Sacred Tree, stood up, and touched the mark in it that had been the result of Inuyasha being pinned to the tree by Kikyo for 50 years. Her eyes began to water again, and she turned around and sank to the base of the tree, leaning against it.

Kagome continued to sob through her hands for the remainder of the night and eventually had cried herself to sleep. When she awoke, she felt something furry in her lap and immediatly shot her eyes open to see what it was. When she saw it, she sighed with relief and smiled to herself. Then she remembered what happened the night before and her eyes began to water again.

"Oh Kagome. Please don't cry. I hate it when you cry. I heard you last night and came over to sleep in your lap. You seemed really upset."

"Oh, Shippo." Kagome lifted Shippo up to her eye level and looked at his cute little frowning face, before pulling him down into a tight hug and crying into his bright orange hair. "I'm s-sorry, Shippo. I c-can't help it."

"It's ok, Kagome. Things'll get better. I know they will."

Just then a giant fifty foot long snake demon shot out of the bushes behind them and hissed at them, baring its long fangs.

"I think I s-spoke too soon," Shippo said, his voice cracking.

"Run, Shippo!" Kagome shouted, grabbing his little paw and taking off towards Kaede's village. The snake demon was catching up with them, leaning back and getting ready to pounce. Shippo was panting and slowing down because of his little legs. Kagome noticed this and picked him up, holding him tight while she ran. (In case any of you didn't notice, Kagome has sort of become like Shippo's adoptive mother)

"Don't - worry, - Shippo. I won't - let anything - happen to you." Kagome said in between breaths. 'I'd probably kill myself if I let anything happen to poor Shippo. He's so small and he's practically my son'

Shippo was panicking and looking behind them every couple seconds at the snake demon, which was now casting a fairly large shadow over them and towering fifty feet above them.

The two finally reached the edge of the clearing and the path to Kaede's village was all downhill from there. 'Almost there, almost there...,' Kagome thought over and over again. The snake demon was right behind them, and she could feel Shippo's body stiffen and his heartbeat increase to a rapid pace. She made a sprint for the village and looked behind her as the snake demon pounced on them. 'Oh no!' Kagome thought, before she tossed Shippo as hard as she could down the hill, hoping he would transform.

"Shippo, go get the others!" Kagome shouted as Shippo transformed into his pink balloon form and flew away with tears in his eyes, thinking 'Kagome, please be ok.'

The snake demon landed right in front of Kagome and hissed at her. Kagome gasped and dug her heels into the dirt, trying to stop herself, but failed as she crashed right into the demon's tail. It wrapped around her and held her up in the air. 'Oh, please hurry you guys...'

Shippo soon arrived in front of Kaede's hut and detransformed with a pop before running in. He looked frantically around the hut and saw Miroku sitting cross-legged in the corner with a big grin and red slap mark plastered on his face, and a fuming Sango pacing back and forth on the opposite side of the room with her hands on her hips muttering, "Stupid lecherous ahole monk...can't keep his damn hands to himself...." Shippo immedietly knew what happened, but waved the thought aside.

"Sango! Miroku! Kagome's in trouble!"

Immedietly, the grinning...ness (i don't know how to turn grinning into an adjective lol) and anger disappeared from Miroku and Sango's faces and were replaced with looks of worry for their friend. After having Shippo tell them as fast as he could where Kagome is and what attacked her, both of them took off out of the hut. Once out, they could already see the snake demon wrapped around Kagome at the top of the hill.

The snake demon squeezed Kagome harder and she was starting to have trouble breathing. Just when she thought she couldn't take it anymore, she heard a familiar voice call out her name. She looked around and saw Sango and Miroku running towards her and if she had any air left in her lungs, she would have breathed a sigh of relief. She tried to wiggle out of the demons grasp, but found her efforts useless.

"Hiraikous!"

Kagome looked around again and saw Sango's trusty boomerang flying in her direction. The next thing she knew, she was falling fifty feet in the air and the once fifty foot long demon was now only thirty feet long. Kagome screamed, hoping someone would catch her, and her wish came true, though it wasn't even close to what she had in mind. The snake demon slithered under her and caught her in its teeth, sinking one fang into her side. A sickening crunch could be heard throughout the clearing as Kagome screamed again.