A/n: Hey guys! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in such a long, long time. The thing is, I used to live in LA with my mom (in other words, I went to school there), but now I have to live in San Fransisco with my dad (and go to school here, too!). And my strict parents here won't let me use the computer on weekdays (which is when I usually work on fics). And, if that's not bad enough, these people have uninstalled the Internet! This fic was supposed to come much, much earlier, if only the Internet was here. Boo hoo...
Enough of my excuses, I have an important announcement. I'm planning on finishing up Lavenders Blue. There are a lot more fics I plan on working on. I have so many new ideas, I can't contain them all for too long. So, expect to see the end in a couple more chapters.
Disclaimer: (In the tune of, 'Any Dream Will Do') I close my eyes, draw back the curtain, to see for certain, if what I saw was true. Far far away, InuYasha was kicking, (yes, yes) and beating, (oh-wo) major ass. And then I saw, (mm-hm) Kagome sleeping, (where's Shippo?) while everyone was fighting, (wha?) what up wit dat? A crash of drums, a flash of light, Naraku came right into sight, then he faded into darkness, Inu kicked his butt! (oh, yes!) In a few years, (yes, yes) Sango and Miroku married, (uh-huh) had twenty children, (right on) Inu and Kag too! (The moral of the story is: I don't own InuYasha....so review!)
Chapter Fifteen: Kagome's Harsh Reality
Kagome hurriedly washed the king's fine china so she could get to her break. At the corner of her eye she saw Sango steal a pastry from a nearby regal cabinet and quickly stuff the small treat in her mouth. Kagome laughed as she finished drying the last piece of china.
As she walked by Sango she muttered under her breath, so only Sango was in earshot of hearing, "Don't worry, I won't tell anybody."
Sango blushed in embarrassment then smiled in gratitude.
Kagome walked towards the door leading to the secret little garden she would visit each time she got her break at the end of the day, where the sun shone on the carnations and violets at the right angle that made them seem to come alive.
And she would always watch the sunset with the same exact person she would argue and bicker with every single day since her arrival at the large castle. And that was InuYasha.
Each day they argued less and less. But, they still argued. Even so, they both opened up to each other and showed they're vulnerable side to each other.
Although that may have been very easy for Kagome, it took a lot of getting to know each other for InuYasha to open up to Kagome. He told her things he never told anyone. Not even Miroku, not even his own, dead mother.
Kagome walked through the forest casually, expecting to see InuYasha. Instead she saw a man with long black hair. He wore a dark blue mask, and wore something that looked something like a baboon suit.
"Um," Kagome stuttered, "May I help you?"
The man chuckled, almost evilly, "You know what I want, my dear Kagome,"
Kagome stiffened at the words, "I'm not sure what you want, sir. And I don't know why you know my name but I think you might want to ask Makoto if you want to-"
The man removed his mask and revealed his true identity.
His identity that is Naraku.
Kagome's eyes grew as large as saucers and her jaw touched the ground.
"Na-Naraku? How-how did you.....?" Kagome stuttered frantically.
"Well, Kagome dearest," Naraku replied calmly, as if reading her mind, "To put it simply, I followed your scent."
Kagome gasped unwillingly, "But, that would mean that you're a....a...."
"Yes, Kagome," he nodded in answer, "I am, indeed, a demon,"
Naraku grabbed Kagome by the waist, "Come Kagome. Your search for a groom has almost come to an end," He smirked the same disgustingly cocky way he did every time he had ever talked to Kagome, "I have noticed that you have gotten close to a certain dog demon. I don't approve of it at all, but that will all be taken care of, my dear."
Kagome thought, "If he knows about InuYasha, then-"
Naraku looked at Kagome, and as if reading her mind, again, he answered her, "Yes, Kagome dearest. I have been following and watching you since you first started your little journey. Your fun is over, dear Kagome. It's time for me to kill the person you care for most, and then kill you."
(A/n: Omigaa, I just noticed I keep having Naraku call Kagome 'dear'. Argh! I'll stop....I'll try anyways...-sry, back to da story-)
Kagome closed her eyes tightly, struggling against Naraku's crushing arms.
"There is no use fighting, Kagome. You know you can't beat me," Naraku stated.
Kagome refused to give up. She knew that no matter what happened, she would fight.
Fight to the end. Even if it's hopeless, she refused to die helplessly under Naraku.
Even so, Kagome didn't know what else to do but struggle helplessly.
"Am I gonna die?" Kagome thought, "I don't want to die! I want to live! What about Miroku and Sango? And Sota, Keade, and Mama? What will happen to-"
"INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed unconsciously.
'Why did I just scream InuYasha's name?' Kagome thought to herself.
-InuYasha sat at the large glass dining table with his father, whom was all the way across from from the table. Some other royal (A/n: Forgive me for not researching on royal peoples. I'm just in such a hurry, yet again! --') people were scattered on the cushioned wooden seats on the sides of the table.
"InuYasha....." InuYasha's father, InuTashio, said firmly, "You and I know that two months is coming in less then a week. We are here to discuss about your new wife,
Kiky-"
Before King InuTashio could finish his (o-so-sad) sentence, a loud scream was heard.
"INUYASHA!" The unknown voice screamed.
InuYasha's hidden demon ears perked at the sound, "That sounds like-"
Instead of completing his sentence he ran into the garden seeing a struggling and yelling Kagome and a tall man trying to shut the girl up.
InuYasha instinctively changed into his demon form, not knowing or caring if anyone saw.
"Let go of Kagome!" (A/n: Vimiku! Sorry, to much Alice 19th...hehehe...) InuYasha slashed at Naraku with demonic speed only to find his attack had been missed.
"Why, hello InuYasha," Naraku said primly "What a pleasant surprise to see you here. I was just about to take back my fiancée. We are to be married in less than a week."
"Your, fiancée?" InuYasha began to get a bit pale, "Yeah right, monkey face! If Kagome was your fiancée then why would she be struggling under your grasp?"
"He's not my fianc-" before Kagome finished her sentence Naraku whispered in her ear, "Finish that sentence, and not only do you die, but all the people around you who you care about will die an equally slow and painful death. No matter woman, or child,"
Kagome bit her tongue and held back unshed tears, "He-he is my f-fiancé," Kagome hung her head down in shame and allowed a few tears to drop to the ground.
"Wha-what?" InuYasha's face had become as pale as a ghost, "You can't be serious, Kagome! I-I don't understand...."
By looking at InuYasha's rare confused look, Kagome felt even more ashamed of herself, "Damn you, Naraku," she whispered ever so quietly.
"What did you say, Kagome dearest (a/n: there I go again...)?" Naraku questioned the girl with a deep gaze that Kagome could almost feel as she turned her head away from his face and said, "Nothing,"
"Enough of this nonsense! There is a wedding to plan for, Kagome! Let us go," Naraku disappeared from sight leaving InuYasha nothing but painful memories.
"Wait!" InuYasha cried out desperately, "Wait....." he whispered ten times quieter and softer.
InuYasha's amber orbs that were softened by the kind Kagome became amber and hard with anger.
"Damn! What the hell is wrong? I know Kagome didn't mean that...she couldn't of have." Then he thought aloud, "What if she did? What if she really did intend to marry that guy? I mean, she did say it herself."
Before he could contemplate what had happened, his father scolded at him from 10 yards away, "What was the about, InuYasha? We were right in the middle of an important meeting when suddenly you just burst from the room and-"
InuYasha ignored his father and just started to sulkily walk to his room.
"Oh Yashie!" a piercing high pitched voice could be heard throughout all of the castle corridors, "Where are you Inu, my love? We have not spoken in days! Oh, Inu!"
InuYasha panicked and ran around in circles until Kikyo came and put her palms together, then at one side of her cheek, "Oh Inu, my love. You can be so funny at times!"
InuYasha didn't even bother to yell at her, he just knew that his uttermost deadly glare was enough to make even the toughest of men cower and run away.
"Oh my," Kikyo squeaked timidly, "Umm, I probably came at a wrong time...."
InuYasha just nodded while Kikyo ran far, far away until she disappeared into the darkness of a hallway.
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Kagome came back to her country of Hyrule with Naraku at her side. All of her people cheered and cried out her name in pride.
There was a great feast for her return. The reward of 20 million yen (a/n: I would go back to the other chapter to see how much the reward was, but I can't go on the Internet. Sorry.) was given to Naraku promptly.
The position of king, was also to be given to Naraku. After his marriage to the new queen.
When Kagome entered her large stone castle the first thing she did was cry. She cried bucket after bucket feeling sorry for herself.
She lay in her bed and thought about memories before Naraku, and of InuYasha and her friends.
She hadn't bathed in days, so she smelled awful. She refused to pick a wedding dress and said she would rather go to her wedding in rags. She just lay in bed, still in her old dirty maid's uniform. She didn't even bother to change. It was a very sad sight to see.
A young girl full of life become a dead wallowing zombie who can't stop feeling sorry for herself.
A knock on her door was from Sota and her mother.
"What is wrong Kagome?" her mother asked quite angrily, "Are you saddened that you had to come back? Do you really hate us? I do not understand Kagome. This is not at all like you!"
Kagome didn't even bother to sit up and acknowledge her.
Kgome just said in return, "I don't hate you. I hate this place. I hate Naraku. I'd be happy if I had died before I came back," Kagome didn't even bother to keep her thoughts to herself, "I probably am going to die, too. And there is nothing any of us can do about it. You people are are all fooled by Naraku. That bastard....I wish he would just die."
A heart-breaking sob came out of Kagome.
"If that's how you feel," Kagome's mother tried to sound firm, "Then I shall just leave you be,"
Kagome closed her eyes tightly and pretended that what her own mother said wasn't true.
When her mother left, Sota came up to Kagome, "Mama doesn't know what to do, so she's acting like that. You don't have to worry," Sota's words had little effect on Kagome, "Kagome....do you really....hate us? Please tell me what we did,"
Kagome felt lower then low could get and she hugged Sota's head like he would disappear if she let go, "Of course not, Sota. I love you. I love Mama, too. I'm just having a hard time is all," Kagome forced on a sad smile.
"What is going to happen to us? Are we going to-" Sota dared finish his sentence, "Is somebody....going to die?"
Kagome took him from her embrace and looked at him, then hugged him even tighter, "Of course not!" Kagome lied, trying to believe in her own lie, "Not in a million years,"
She let go of Sota and let him go outside to play.
"I'm so shallow...." Kagome thought to herself, as she watched with envy as her little brother played Sasami, the youngest maid, "If only I was Sota right now...."
After a few more hours of feeling sorry for herself she finally got up, and without knowing, she came up to Naraku while he was in a meeting and smacked him so that it left a red mark on his cheek, and so that he was embarrassed from his entire firm.
Naraku excused himself from his meeting, dragged Kagome to a nearby storage room, and beat her. She didn't really care. She knew that that was probably what was going to happen.
"Kagome, dear. I was thinking of not even killing you. But now, I'm going to invite your little boyfriend dog demon to our wedding. Then, when we say our vows, I'm going to make him watch, then die. Along with you,"
Kagome kicked Naraku in the groin then ran to her room and locked herself away from her horrific reality.