To Fulfill One's Destiny
Chapter 32- Promise
Kagome shifted a little in her blanket, decided that it was futile, and sat up in her bed. Gazing a little to her side, she picked up a framed picture from her bedside table, one she had taken when they were still...
She sighed. Putting the picture down, she flopped back on her bed.
I know that she had to go. But things were so nice back then, and now. . .
After the makeshift family had left, the group grew closer to each other out of loss. Her relationship with Inuyasha had changed somewhat, but since three days ago, she couldn't stop replaying their fight in her mind.
'Tell me what happened Kagome!
I can't! I would if I could but I can't! I promised!
So what? Why are you two so close all of a sudden?
Oh, like you've never kept anything from me before! Just drop it okay?
NO! I DEMAND TO KNOW YOU STUPID WENCH!
SIT!
Turning, Kagome sobbed into her pillow. Dry sobbed to be precise, because all her tears were already wept away.
It really bothered him that he didn't know what I'd agreed to.
She faced her ceiling once more, whispering to herself.
'When the time comes...'
'... in return for the knowledge...'
"I keep my promises."
'On the night of the huntress moon.'
"Tonight."
It had taken Kagome some time to figure out what a 'huntress' moon was. Once she'd found an old book on ancient miko practices-a birthday gift from Maria, obviously the castle had been notified of Kagome's graduation into a full-fledged miko - nestled among her textbooks, it was no sweat.
"Following the shape of the huntress bow, the moon takes the color of the prey's blood once every century. On such nights the powers of a miko are amplified tenfold."
Since reading that, Kagome had kept a careful eye on the moon. She didn't want to waste a 100-year occurrence, right?
Outside her bedroom window, the crescent moon glowed brightly, stained the color of fresh blood.
Wandering aimlessly, something he hadn't done in a while...okay...twenty minutes, Inuyasha found himself near the well yet again. He would go and get her, but he felt serious foreboding. It was like, if he brought her back here now, he'd lose her forever.
Suddenly, he glanced to the Goshinboku. A light had flashed from behind it.
Rushing forward past the ancient tree, he nearly cracked his skull trying to stop himself from disrupting the scene before him.
There they were, the two.
Mirror images of each other, and yet not at the same time.
He hid behind a tree.
What are they doing?
Kagome had rushed over to the Goshinboku, her heart somehow telling her where to go. She only had to wait a moment before Kikyo appeared, her increased power coming off in palpable waves.
Straightening her silk nightdress, Kagome faced the dead miko with calm determination.
I keep my promises.
Kikyo spared a rare smile for her reincarnation. In so many ways she was like her, not like her, and everything she wanted to be and to reject. Now that she was a full fledged miko, this idea could be realized, though both would be taking a risk in the endeavor.
Looking towards the sky, Kikyo noted the star pattern and moon angle.
It was time.
Time to reinstate the balance. To set things right.
Light and Dark, Day and Night, Fire and Water, Wind and Earth.
Life and Death
The Two would be One once more.