Title:What It's Like To Be Forgotten
Summary:One of Naraku's foul tricks causes tragedy beyond anything they've experienced before and changes the groups lives forever.
Rating:PG-13 (just in case)
As Kagome walked through the woods, she entered a clearing to see Naraku's white cloak laying on the ground with blood staines scattered on it. As she approached the cloak she say a sight that made her almost colapse; Inuyasha's limp body lay motionless on the ground, as it began to rain. She regained herself and ran towards him, dropping to her knees beside him and splattering mud onto him and herself.
"Inuyasha!" she cried, "Oh, please wake up!"
She began to cry frantically as she shook his limp body. Her attempt to awaken him was unsuccessful, and taking him into her arms, she sobbed for what seemed like days. She finally managed to tear herself away from the scene and ran as fast as she could through the woods. She came to a stop as she reached the clearing where Naraku's castle had been, but it was gone. She dropped to her knees feeling completely helpless. Memories of Inuyasha flashed through her head and whiping away her tears, she stood and started off through the woods again. She came to a stop infront of the well and fell to her knees before it.
"The others will find him..." she thought to herself, "He'll get a proper barrial..." she tried to hold back her tears, but some managed to escape, "I can't bring myself to tell them...Oh god, he's really gone...! He's...dead..." she stood and put on an artificial brave face, "I can't stay here...How could I face the others without him...knowing he's gone..." With that she made up her mind; she took one last look at the grey and rainy world she'd become accustomed to and with that, she pulled out a loose brick and placed the shards she'd held with her for so long and replaced it. She knew the others would come looking for her before any demon could find it and Kirara would sense the shards. She looked at the brick for a moment and then stood and jumped through the well, for the last time.
Back at the clearing, Inuyasha's body stood up and transformed into Naraku.
"Kikyo, you can come out now," he called and Kikyo walked out from the trees to join him and he pulled out some of Kagome's clothes, "Your turn...here, I had one of my incarnations steal these from her bag a few days back while another demon attacked...they never knew they were gone."
Kikyo took the clothes and changed quickly behind the trees. Inuyasha should come in just a few moments after he smells her scent that I have placed on you. Kikyo nodded in reply and sat down on the ground in her place. Naraku turned and began to walk away.
"Now, in doing this, he will believe he has lost her and there is no way for him to disprove what he believes?" she asked him skeptically.
He turned to face her and nodded, a smirk across his face.
"He'll be devestated..." he answered and began to walk away again, "I assure you..."
"Now the fun begins..." Naraku spoke under his breath, "Now you will truly suffer..."