Flashback of Inuyasha and Kikyo
There. There it was. Inuyasha picked up the scent of dirt and decay, a scent that could only belong to one person. Kikyo. She was back, again. 'Damn, doesn't she get it yet? I don't love her anymore! I used to but not now. Kagome. She taught me the difference between love and obligation. Damn it all, I'd better go and get rid of her again before my wench….damn…the wench comes back from her time.' He took off running away from the tree he'd been sitting on. The hanyou found her a little way off, towards a field Kaede used for growing medicinal herbs, her shini-dama-chuu floating around her.
"Inuyasha, I see you've finally come. Good. Now is the time for you to come to Hell with me, my koishii." She wore a smirk, watching as emotions clashed across his handsome face. The smirk faded as she saw him square his jaw as he usually did when he was going to reject her. "Inuyasha, don't tell me you let that my reincarnation take my place in your heart! You gave a yakusoku to join me! You love me, remember?" Her normally calm voice held a trace of panic and desperation.
Kagome sighed softly as she threw her enormous backpack up and over the wall of the well, then hoisted herself up the vines that grew along all the sides. 'Man, where's Inuyasha when you need him? I'm getting tired of having to drag myself out of the well all the time! Heh, though I'm getting some actual arm muscles now.' She thought as she sat on the edge on the well, panting. She gazed up towards the sky. 'Ah, I never get to see the stars back home. The lights and buildings always make it too hard to see them.' Kagome nearly fell off the edge when Kikyo's deal soul collectors flew across the moon. She suddenly forgot her tiredness and her backpack, and jumped back onto her feet to follow them. She knew what she was going to see, but she didn't care. 'No way am I just going to sit back as that dead pot drags Inuyasha off to his doom.'
Inuyasha took a deep breath and let it out again, slowly. 'Shit she's making it harder.' He opened his mouth and let the words just come from his heart. "Let me guess, Kikyo. You want me to say Kagome means nothing to me, no matter that she's saved me countless times, she is just a Jewel detector, that she's not even worthy of my attention, and that I only keep her around for your sake, not mine? That I should let her gather the Jewel fragments, let her wish me a full human, and then kill her so you'll have your whole soul back and we can go to Hell together? Well let me tell you something. I did love you, before you died, but no more. Now, you're a cold, scheming, conniving witch! You aren't the person I loved anymore. Kagome is. She's my everything, my koishii." There, it was out in the open now. Ah, it felt good to finally admit his feelings. 'Now, if only I could tell Kagome that!'
Said miko was running from the scene as fast as her skinny legs would take her, hand clasped over her aching, breaking heart. She had entered into their midst just as Inuyasha was saying "Kagome means nothing to me…." And had had enough to leave as he said "we can go to Hell together." If she had listened carefully and noticed the sentences kind of sounded like questions, she just chalked it up to emotion constricting his voice. (A/N): You know when you ask a question, your voice at the end of the sentence kind of comes out higher than the rest? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
More than a little taken back, Kikyo felt her knees go all rubbery and hot tears prick her eyes. "But…but…but you promised!" She cried in a childish-like voice. Inuyasha watched with a twinge of guilt as the priestess in front of him started weeping uncontrollably. "You bastard! You lied to me! Fine, have fun with your little whore!" Kikyo shouted at him between sobs. She created her passage way to Hell, sinking slowly, and flicked him off right before she disappeared forever.
End of the flashback (A/N): Kikyo was OOC there, flipping Inuyasha off and all, but I thought it was called for. That's what I'd do if my beloved sent me to Hell all alone.
Inuyasha sputtered around for words as he shrunk back from Kagome's cold and unrelenting gaze that reminded him so much of Kikyo. "Well, wench, if you saw me with Kikyo when you came back, then of course you'd know I care for you!" Now, it was the young woman's turn to be confused. Her heart didn't dare to hope what he was saying was true. "Huh?" Seeing he wasn't going to be murdered on the spot anymore, Inuyasha risked a small step closer to her and kept talking. "Yeah. If you'd actually listened, you would know by now, I don't love her, aishiteru!" Hey, he was getting the hang of this open feelings thing.
An old sparkle came back to Kagome's dull brown eyes as she looked at him in wonder. 'H-he loves me? Finally, my feelings have been returned!' But just as fast as it came, the sparkle flickered and died. "Oh Inuyasha, how I wish I could believe you! All your promises to stay by my side, only to have you follow Kikyo… I've suffered by your hands long enough and I can't bring myself to stay by you willingly any more. Please, just leave me be…" Her voice cracked into nothingness as she sank to her knees, sword at her side, forgotten.
'She…rejected me….I broke my promise to Kikyo for her and she turned me down…' "No, no, NO! No, Kagome, please believe me! I do love you! I even refused Kikyo, for once and for all, just to be with you!" He got on his knees as well, placed his hands on her shoulders and shook her gently. "Please, don't do this to me! To us!"
Back to Sesshomaru
'I've made it! Finally! I didn't think I ran that far away from her.' Sesshomaru thought before entering into the small clearing where the hot springs were. There he found his brother shaking Kagome, pleading with her. Anger boiled up inside of him unexpectedly and he pulled Tokijin out. "I suggest you take you hands off the girl now if you still wish to have them. If not, I'm more than happy to chop them off, just as you did with my arm." He gestured crudely towards the empty sleeve where his left arm should have been.
Inuyasha just spared a quick glance at his brother and growled threateningly at him. If you were to translate it into English, it'd probably come out to something like: "Chop my hands off and I'll find a way to sever the other arm off your body." His eyes focused intently back onto Kagome who was just kind of zoning out of space in a state of extreme exhaustion. She had ran like 3 miles away from Inuyasha in the early hours of that morning, killed herself in early afternoon, and had spent most of the night talking to Sesshomaru. Her stomach rumbled to remind her that she'd done it all without eating and it was quite hungry.
Sesshomaru noticed this as her eyes glazed over and her head started to droop ever so slightly. "Inuyasha, I suggest you leave now or I'll be forced to kill you here and now in front of the girl. She needs rest and to be far away from you. You've screwed up her life enough for one day, so depart." His voice held a scary tone to it. He left unsaid, "If you don't leave this very second, I'll hunt you down and do unspeakable, life-scarring, horrible things to you that you could only dream about." (A/N): No, not those unspeakable things, you dirty minded readers. Just like cutting off the only thing that shows Inuyasha is a guy and whatnot. (LOL I'm evil) But Inuyasha got the message loud and clear. He swiftly kissed the dazed girl on the forehead, whispered "I'll be back" into her ear, and started running off before Sesshomaru could do those horrible things to him.
The Tai-youkai sheathed Tokijin and looked down in time to see Kagome sway for a second, then fall headlong towards the ground. He acted hastily, just barely saving her from a meeting with the ground. He sighed to himself as he picked her up awkwardly and put her over his shoulder. 'I really am going soft, aren't I? First Rin, now this wench. Next thing you know, I'm going to fall for a human like my father and have little hanyous as offspring.' He fairly shuddered at the thought of little Inuyasha-look alikes running around in the Western Land Castle. 'Thinking of which, I have to get back Rin and Jaken are going to kill me. After all, I said I was only going to be away a day or two for surveying business and it's already the fifth day I've been gone.' He sighed again, thinking of the small girl's and the vassal's homecoming for him. Joyful shouts from one and scolding from the other.
Sesshomaru had been walking for a while when he felt Kagome stirring on his shoulder. He ignored it and kept going. Soon, mumbling reached his ears. "Uh…Inuyasha, I'm uncomfortable, hold me instead…uh…." She brought her arm around and placed it on the stub where his arm used to be. He tried to shift her so she wouldn't touch it, but she wouldn't let go. A strange soft pink light started to emit from the tips of her fingers as she held on tighter. A bright flash and a violent tingle later, Sesshomaru had both arms again. 'Wha…what just happened?' He stretched his newly grown left arm out, admiring it. He switched his stare onto Kagome who was still fast asleep. 'Did she do this? Just so I could carry her?' Feeling this day just reached its ultimate weirdness level, he swung her off his shoulder inelegantly and began carrying her bridal style. Sesshomaru could feel a pounding headache coming on but tried to keep it down to a minimal as he struggled to concentrate getting them home to the Western Lands. 'Only a few more miles. I need sleep. Ugh…'
He decided to run the rest of the way to the castle. 'The sooner we get there, the sooner I can dispose of this wench and the sooner I can rest properly.' So using his lightning fast demon speed he was at the castle in ten minutes. He flew in past the doors hurriedly, feeling his reserve energy fading rapidly. He found a guest room for the girl on his shoulder. Sesshomaru set her down on the bed and tucked her in, still loving being able to use both arms again, as he would normally do for Rin. He turned around, ready to walk away, but he discovered his legs wouldn't hold him up anymore. 'Oh well. I'll just kip here for the night. I'll wake myself up before Kagome finds me here. I'm just too tired to think of anything else.' So Sesshomaru gently pushed the softly snoring woman over and placed his self on the edge of the bed, relishing having someone next to him instead of being cold and alone like he was every night. 'What am I thinking? She's just Inuyasha's wench or I guess, ex-wench now. Today was just too weird for me and is starting to affect my thinking.' And with that, he drifted off into an uneasy sleep.
Dictionary for those of you who aren't familiar with some of the Japanese words I used:
Shini-dama-chuu: dead soul collectors
Koishii: beloved
Yakusoku: a promise/oath
Aishiteru: I love you
(A/N): Hey everyone! Well here's a new chapter for you! Thank you animesorceress169, inu-kitsune-youkai, KaNaGi, SnowAngelYuki, darkkara13,
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