Chapter 17
Myoga
This isn't the final copy of this ch anyway, (or of the next one!) but I wanted to get it out to people. I hope you like them!
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"Can we go now?" Inu-Yasha stood on the tree limb right outside Kagome's window back in present Tokyo.
"I'm coming Inu-Yasha." Kagome climbed out of the window and onto her roof. Kagome crouched down, listening to the household around her. Sota was in his room doing some form of homework, her mother was making dinner, and her grandfather was out in the back cleaning a temple. "Let's go." She jumped off of the roof and ran like a flash to the well shrine.
"What's all the secrecy for again?" Inu-Yasha followed Kagome into the darkened shrine. Kagome stopped at the bottom of the stairs and sighed.
"I just don't want my mother to see me like this." Kagome and Inu-Yasha stood there, a tight silence between them. "Let's go." Kagome jumped into the Bone Eater's Well, followed soon by Inu-Yasha.
Kaede sat in her hut, a pot of herbs boiling in front of her. Sango and the others sat around, waiting for Kagome and Inu-Yasha to get back. Shippo sat in a corner, his mind wandering. Sango turned to him.
"What's wrong Shippo?"
"Hu?" Shippo looked up, broken away form his thoughts. "Oh, I was just thinking." Sango smiled at him.
"If this is about—"
"Kagome!" Shippo shouted as the two hanyou's walked into Kaede's hut. The kit jumped into her harms. Everyone looked up.
"Hey Shippo." Kagome gave him a slight hug. Something else was on her mind; and something kept nagging in the back of her head. Kaeda looked Kagome over once. The hanyou wore her uniform, and her hair was the same, but she wore no shoes or socks now, and she had a pair of ears and a tail.
"Kagome," Kagome turned her attention to the priestess.
"Yes Lady Kaede?" Shippo's smile faded as he turned to look at the old woman. Kaede got to her feet and walked up to Kagome. "Hu?!" Kagome stood stunned as Kaede played with first Kagome's ears and then her tail.
"I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it with my own eye." Kaede walked back to her cooking spot and sat down, going back to stirring the pot over the fire. Kagome blinked.
"Believed what?" Kagome snapped out of her surprise.
"You becoming a hanyou." Kagome blinked again before sitting down across the fire from Kaede. Inu-Yasha rested his back against the doorframe.
"Yeah, about that... Lady Kaede, do you know if I'm going to stay like this?" Inu-Yasha tensed. The same question had been on his mind. The old priestess closed her eye.
"Hmmm." Kagome leaned forward. "To be honest with you, Kagome, I don't really know." Kagome sighed and leaned back. "But, I would guess that you will stay hanyou, yes." Kagome lifted her eyes and looked though the fire at Kaede.
"You—you mean this is permanent?" Kagome's heart began to race. She could never go back to being human, never see her friends again? "That can't be right!" Kagome suddenly jumped to her feet and took a step back. Inu- Yasha stood up straighter, watching Kagome carefully.
"Lady Kagome, Lady Kaede said she didn't know if—" Kagome stopped Miroku's words as she ran out of the hut. Inu-Yasha stepped toward the door, but stopped and gave Kaede an deadly glare.
"What the Hell's your problem?"
"Inu-Yasha—!" But again Miroku's words were cut off as the second hanyou ran after the first.
"Leave them Miroku," Kaede stood up. "Inu-Yasha is right, I shouldn't have said anything." Kaede walked to the door and also left. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo sat quietly for a moment before getting up and following the hanyou's out the door and into the woods.
Kagome walked through "Inu-Yasha's" forest, tears of confusion, fear, and anger running down her cheeks. Why had this happened? Kagome stopped and lifted her head to see the Sacred Tree in front of her. Kagome's heart lifted a bit, thinking of how she and Inu-Yasha had first met here; and how her mother had comforted her under this very tree in her own time.
"So, you are drawn here too." Kagome snapped her head up, cursing herself for not paying closer attention to the things around her. A young priestess, who looked much like herself, sat on a limb of the Sacred Tree; her eyes staring at something far off in the distance.
"Kikyo..." Kagome growled, her fangs and claws extending as she took a kind of fighting stance.
"Yes," The young woman's face turned to Kagome. "You took him, you took him from me." The soft, sad, and pale face hardened. Kagome didn't know what to do; the demon in her told her attack this new comer, while her human nature waned to cry.
"That's not true." Kagome tried to fight back a growl. "I let him go, let him be with you, but you lost him. He came back to me." Kagome crouched down low to ground. "Now he is mine." Kikyo sent her soul stealers after Kagome. Kikyo floated to the ground as Kagome dodged the strands of light.
"You can not have him! Inu-Yasha will come to Hell with me!" Kikyo reached out and knocked Kagome out of the air. The hanyou shook her head as she climbed to her hands and knees.
"Why do you stay here?" Kagome got to her feet. "You know Inu-Yasha didn't betray you." Kagome flexed her claws again. "And yet you help who killed YOU!" Kagome jumped forward, her claws and fangs tingling for blood.
Kikyo frowned and jumped out of Kagome's path. "I can not rest until I have killed Inu-Yasha." Kikyo jumped back into the Sacred Tree again. Kagome skidded to a sop and looked up at Kikyo.
"Then let me help you!" Kagome jumped at Kikyo before the priestess could respond. With a thud, Kagome tackled Kikyo to the ground on the other side of the Tree. The hanyou put one hand on Kikyo's throat and raised the other; her claws flexed to strike Kikyo.
Inu-Yasha walked through the trees, following Kagome's scent. He stopped; there was a new scent with Kagome's. "Kikyo!" Inu-Yasha began to run toward Kagome and Kikyo's scent. "Kagome!" Inu-Yasha burst through the trees into the clearing of the Sacred Tree.
The hanyou's feet and heart both stopped as his eyes fell on the scene in front of him. "Kagome..." He turned to look at her. "Kikyo..." He glanced at Kikyo lying on the ground across from Kagome. Inu-Yasha walked over to Kagome. "Wha—what happened?" Inu-Yasha knelt down in front of Kagome who was huddled against a tree, staring at her hands.
"I—I ki—killed her." She whispered. Inu-Yasha took one of Kagome's bloody hands into his own. Blood covered the whole front of Kagome's white shirt, dyeing it a dark chrisom red. There were splatters of blood on her face, mixed with tears running down her cheeks. It was true; Inu-Yasha could smell Kikyo's blood all over Kagome. Inu-Yasha looked over his shoulder at Kikyo's body again.
Kagome lifted her head. "And I still—I still want...more..." As Inu-Yasha turned his head back to Kagome, she reached up and bit just above Inu- Yasha's collar bone. Inu-Yasha tried to push the hanyou off of him, but she dug her claws into his arms.
"Kagome! What's wrong with you?!" A laugh echoed in Inu-Yasha's head. "Naraku." Inu-Yasha growled as he glanced upward. "Get off of me!" Inu- Yasha grabbed Kagome's shoulders and pushed her off of himself. Her fangs dragged a large gash in his shoulder as she fell backward.
Inu-Yasha drew Tetsusiaga as he looked around him. "Where your you? Come out!" Naraku laughed again.
"What are you going to do Inu-Yasha?" Naraku asked. Kagome lifted her head and looked at Inu-Yasha. Her eyes were filled with tears, and fresh blood ran down the side of her mouth.
"I'm sorry Inu-Yasha I didn't—"
"Shut-up." Inu-Yasha snapped. Kagome pulled back a bit. "Naraku, show yourself! What did you do to Kagome?!" Inu-Yasha looked to the tree limbs around him.
"I have done nothing to the girl." Kagome clutched her head, trying to fight the sudden urge to attack Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha growled and his grip tightened on Tetsusiaga.
"No...no, no, no no." Kagome shook her head. She couldn't attack him, she wouldn't attack Inu-Yasha. Kagome's eyes began to dance with fire. "No..." She moaned before running at Inu-Yasha's back.
"What?!" Inu-Yasha fell to the ground, dropping Tetsusiaga, as Kagome tackled him. The Inu-hanyou struggled as Kagome bit into his other shoulder and began to tear into his back with her claws.
"Damn," Inu-Yasha pushed up and rolled so he was on Kagome, pinning her to the ground. He looked into Kagome's dangerously red eyes. "What the Hell's gotten into you?" Kagome bared her fangs at him.
"Damn Dog." Kagome growled and tried to kick Inu-Yasha. He ignored the pain in his head as her claws on her feet partly connected with their target. "You can't control me!" Kagome yelled, tears suddenly filling her eyes.
"What?" Inu-Yasha was stunned for a second.
"Get out of my head!" Kagome knocked Inu-Yasha off of her and jumped to her feet. Inu-Yasha stumbled a step back in surprise as he to got to h is feet.
"Kagome...?" The hanyou sat crouched down close to the ground, her hands clutching the sides of her head.
"No, I won't do it! You can't make me!" She screamed. Inu-Yasha stepped closer. Kagome couldn't fight the smell of blood and the person in her head much longer. "Please no..." Her voice was no more than a whisper and her hands were beginning to shake.
"Kagome?" The hanyou slowly lifted her head. Tears filled those red and black eyes.
"Inu-Yasha... Help me..." Kagome flinched and clutched her head tighter, her hand still shaking. Kagome wasn't talking to Inu-Yasha anymore; she was inside her head again.
"Inu-Yasha? Lady Kagome?" Inu-Yasha turned around to see Miroku, Sango, and Shippo riding on Kirara's back as they walked toward the two hanyou's. Sango stopped when she was Kikyo and then Kagome covered in blood.
"M—Miroku..." She swallowed.
"I see Sango." Kirara turned around and walked back the way she had come, taking Shippo with her.
"Hey, Kirar, where we going...?" Inu-Yasha turned back to Kagome. Miroku and Sango stopped just behind the Inu-hanyou. Kagome sat at his feet, still talking to someone inside of her head.
"Do you sense anything in her Miroku?"
"I'm not sure Inu-Yasha. Her new demon form is blocking all else."
"Who's she talking to?" Sango asked.
"Kage..." Kagome whispered. Sango blinked.
"Kage...? She's talking to a shadow?" The men only glanced at her in reply.
"Lord Inu-Yasha!" Inu-Yasha turned to look at Kagome again.
"Myoga?" The flea appeared on his nose.
"Lord Inu-Yasha, is it too late? Have I returned to late?"
"What are you talking about Myoga?"
"It's the new moon, the night when you, Lord Inu-Yasha, become human; and the night when Kagome will become a full demon."
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Wow. What a twist right? PLEASE TELL ME IT WAS A TWIST AND YOU LIKED IT! PLEASE GIVE ME REVIEWS!!!!!! Remember my um... threat I guess... from the last chapter. It still stands. Two more chapters till discontinue if I don't get more REVIEWS so review if you want more!!!
Mystwriter
Myoga
This isn't the final copy of this ch anyway, (or of the next one!) but I wanted to get it out to people. I hope you like them!
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"Can we go now?" Inu-Yasha stood on the tree limb right outside Kagome's window back in present Tokyo.
"I'm coming Inu-Yasha." Kagome climbed out of the window and onto her roof. Kagome crouched down, listening to the household around her. Sota was in his room doing some form of homework, her mother was making dinner, and her grandfather was out in the back cleaning a temple. "Let's go." She jumped off of the roof and ran like a flash to the well shrine.
"What's all the secrecy for again?" Inu-Yasha followed Kagome into the darkened shrine. Kagome stopped at the bottom of the stairs and sighed.
"I just don't want my mother to see me like this." Kagome and Inu-Yasha stood there, a tight silence between them. "Let's go." Kagome jumped into the Bone Eater's Well, followed soon by Inu-Yasha.
Kaede sat in her hut, a pot of herbs boiling in front of her. Sango and the others sat around, waiting for Kagome and Inu-Yasha to get back. Shippo sat in a corner, his mind wandering. Sango turned to him.
"What's wrong Shippo?"
"Hu?" Shippo looked up, broken away form his thoughts. "Oh, I was just thinking." Sango smiled at him.
"If this is about—"
"Kagome!" Shippo shouted as the two hanyou's walked into Kaede's hut. The kit jumped into her harms. Everyone looked up.
"Hey Shippo." Kagome gave him a slight hug. Something else was on her mind; and something kept nagging in the back of her head. Kaeda looked Kagome over once. The hanyou wore her uniform, and her hair was the same, but she wore no shoes or socks now, and she had a pair of ears and a tail.
"Kagome," Kagome turned her attention to the priestess.
"Yes Lady Kaede?" Shippo's smile faded as he turned to look at the old woman. Kaede got to her feet and walked up to Kagome. "Hu?!" Kagome stood stunned as Kaede played with first Kagome's ears and then her tail.
"I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it with my own eye." Kaede walked back to her cooking spot and sat down, going back to stirring the pot over the fire. Kagome blinked.
"Believed what?" Kagome snapped out of her surprise.
"You becoming a hanyou." Kagome blinked again before sitting down across the fire from Kaede. Inu-Yasha rested his back against the doorframe.
"Yeah, about that... Lady Kaede, do you know if I'm going to stay like this?" Inu-Yasha tensed. The same question had been on his mind. The old priestess closed her eye.
"Hmmm." Kagome leaned forward. "To be honest with you, Kagome, I don't really know." Kagome sighed and leaned back. "But, I would guess that you will stay hanyou, yes." Kagome lifted her eyes and looked though the fire at Kaede.
"You—you mean this is permanent?" Kagome's heart began to race. She could never go back to being human, never see her friends again? "That can't be right!" Kagome suddenly jumped to her feet and took a step back. Inu- Yasha stood up straighter, watching Kagome carefully.
"Lady Kagome, Lady Kaede said she didn't know if—" Kagome stopped Miroku's words as she ran out of the hut. Inu-Yasha stepped toward the door, but stopped and gave Kaede an deadly glare.
"What the Hell's your problem?"
"Inu-Yasha—!" But again Miroku's words were cut off as the second hanyou ran after the first.
"Leave them Miroku," Kaede stood up. "Inu-Yasha is right, I shouldn't have said anything." Kaede walked to the door and also left. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo sat quietly for a moment before getting up and following the hanyou's out the door and into the woods.
Kagome walked through "Inu-Yasha's" forest, tears of confusion, fear, and anger running down her cheeks. Why had this happened? Kagome stopped and lifted her head to see the Sacred Tree in front of her. Kagome's heart lifted a bit, thinking of how she and Inu-Yasha had first met here; and how her mother had comforted her under this very tree in her own time.
"So, you are drawn here too." Kagome snapped her head up, cursing herself for not paying closer attention to the things around her. A young priestess, who looked much like herself, sat on a limb of the Sacred Tree; her eyes staring at something far off in the distance.
"Kikyo..." Kagome growled, her fangs and claws extending as she took a kind of fighting stance.
"Yes," The young woman's face turned to Kagome. "You took him, you took him from me." The soft, sad, and pale face hardened. Kagome didn't know what to do; the demon in her told her attack this new comer, while her human nature waned to cry.
"That's not true." Kagome tried to fight back a growl. "I let him go, let him be with you, but you lost him. He came back to me." Kagome crouched down low to ground. "Now he is mine." Kikyo sent her soul stealers after Kagome. Kikyo floated to the ground as Kagome dodged the strands of light.
"You can not have him! Inu-Yasha will come to Hell with me!" Kikyo reached out and knocked Kagome out of the air. The hanyou shook her head as she climbed to her hands and knees.
"Why do you stay here?" Kagome got to her feet. "You know Inu-Yasha didn't betray you." Kagome flexed her claws again. "And yet you help who killed YOU!" Kagome jumped forward, her claws and fangs tingling for blood.
Kikyo frowned and jumped out of Kagome's path. "I can not rest until I have killed Inu-Yasha." Kikyo jumped back into the Sacred Tree again. Kagome skidded to a sop and looked up at Kikyo.
"Then let me help you!" Kagome jumped at Kikyo before the priestess could respond. With a thud, Kagome tackled Kikyo to the ground on the other side of the Tree. The hanyou put one hand on Kikyo's throat and raised the other; her claws flexed to strike Kikyo.
Inu-Yasha walked through the trees, following Kagome's scent. He stopped; there was a new scent with Kagome's. "Kikyo!" Inu-Yasha began to run toward Kagome and Kikyo's scent. "Kagome!" Inu-Yasha burst through the trees into the clearing of the Sacred Tree.
The hanyou's feet and heart both stopped as his eyes fell on the scene in front of him. "Kagome..." He turned to look at her. "Kikyo..." He glanced at Kikyo lying on the ground across from Kagome. Inu-Yasha walked over to Kagome. "Wha—what happened?" Inu-Yasha knelt down in front of Kagome who was huddled against a tree, staring at her hands.
"I—I ki—killed her." She whispered. Inu-Yasha took one of Kagome's bloody hands into his own. Blood covered the whole front of Kagome's white shirt, dyeing it a dark chrisom red. There were splatters of blood on her face, mixed with tears running down her cheeks. It was true; Inu-Yasha could smell Kikyo's blood all over Kagome. Inu-Yasha looked over his shoulder at Kikyo's body again.
Kagome lifted her head. "And I still—I still want...more..." As Inu-Yasha turned his head back to Kagome, she reached up and bit just above Inu- Yasha's collar bone. Inu-Yasha tried to push the hanyou off of him, but she dug her claws into his arms.
"Kagome! What's wrong with you?!" A laugh echoed in Inu-Yasha's head. "Naraku." Inu-Yasha growled as he glanced upward. "Get off of me!" Inu- Yasha grabbed Kagome's shoulders and pushed her off of himself. Her fangs dragged a large gash in his shoulder as she fell backward.
Inu-Yasha drew Tetsusiaga as he looked around him. "Where your you? Come out!" Naraku laughed again.
"What are you going to do Inu-Yasha?" Naraku asked. Kagome lifted her head and looked at Inu-Yasha. Her eyes were filled with tears, and fresh blood ran down the side of her mouth.
"I'm sorry Inu-Yasha I didn't—"
"Shut-up." Inu-Yasha snapped. Kagome pulled back a bit. "Naraku, show yourself! What did you do to Kagome?!" Inu-Yasha looked to the tree limbs around him.
"I have done nothing to the girl." Kagome clutched her head, trying to fight the sudden urge to attack Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha growled and his grip tightened on Tetsusiaga.
"No...no, no, no no." Kagome shook her head. She couldn't attack him, she wouldn't attack Inu-Yasha. Kagome's eyes began to dance with fire. "No..." She moaned before running at Inu-Yasha's back.
"What?!" Inu-Yasha fell to the ground, dropping Tetsusiaga, as Kagome tackled him. The Inu-hanyou struggled as Kagome bit into his other shoulder and began to tear into his back with her claws.
"Damn," Inu-Yasha pushed up and rolled so he was on Kagome, pinning her to the ground. He looked into Kagome's dangerously red eyes. "What the Hell's gotten into you?" Kagome bared her fangs at him.
"Damn Dog." Kagome growled and tried to kick Inu-Yasha. He ignored the pain in his head as her claws on her feet partly connected with their target. "You can't control me!" Kagome yelled, tears suddenly filling her eyes.
"What?" Inu-Yasha was stunned for a second.
"Get out of my head!" Kagome knocked Inu-Yasha off of her and jumped to her feet. Inu-Yasha stumbled a step back in surprise as he to got to h is feet.
"Kagome...?" The hanyou sat crouched down close to the ground, her hands clutching the sides of her head.
"No, I won't do it! You can't make me!" She screamed. Inu-Yasha stepped closer. Kagome couldn't fight the smell of blood and the person in her head much longer. "Please no..." Her voice was no more than a whisper and her hands were beginning to shake.
"Kagome?" The hanyou slowly lifted her head. Tears filled those red and black eyes.
"Inu-Yasha... Help me..." Kagome flinched and clutched her head tighter, her hand still shaking. Kagome wasn't talking to Inu-Yasha anymore; she was inside her head again.
"Inu-Yasha? Lady Kagome?" Inu-Yasha turned around to see Miroku, Sango, and Shippo riding on Kirara's back as they walked toward the two hanyou's. Sango stopped when she was Kikyo and then Kagome covered in blood.
"M—Miroku..." She swallowed.
"I see Sango." Kirara turned around and walked back the way she had come, taking Shippo with her.
"Hey, Kirar, where we going...?" Inu-Yasha turned back to Kagome. Miroku and Sango stopped just behind the Inu-hanyou. Kagome sat at his feet, still talking to someone inside of her head.
"Do you sense anything in her Miroku?"
"I'm not sure Inu-Yasha. Her new demon form is blocking all else."
"Who's she talking to?" Sango asked.
"Kage..." Kagome whispered. Sango blinked.
"Kage...? She's talking to a shadow?" The men only glanced at her in reply.
"Lord Inu-Yasha!" Inu-Yasha turned to look at Kagome again.
"Myoga?" The flea appeared on his nose.
"Lord Inu-Yasha, is it too late? Have I returned to late?"
"What are you talking about Myoga?"
"It's the new moon, the night when you, Lord Inu-Yasha, become human; and the night when Kagome will become a full demon."
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Wow. What a twist right? PLEASE TELL ME IT WAS A TWIST AND YOU LIKED IT! PLEASE GIVE ME REVIEWS!!!!!! Remember my um... threat I guess... from the last chapter. It still stands. Two more chapters till discontinue if I don't get more REVIEWS so review if you want more!!!
Mystwriter