The Moon Hides Its Light from Me
FadedMoon
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Chapter 3
I Gave Love and Received Hate in Return
Collapsing on the ground next to him, she looked up toward the heavens watching the moon fade away as the sun began to rise. 'Its strange… why DID he turn human? Why can't he see the moon? What if he's just making up about not seeing it?' Kagome sighed. She looked toward the unconscious hanyou next to her, noting his human ears. 'I hope this won't happen again, its going to slow down the hunt for the jewel shards, which means I'm going to have to stay longer and he's going to keep telling me how useless I am other than just a shard detector, then there's Kikyo…' She frowned as the hanyou started stirring. Looking up again, she saw the sun peeking through the trees of the forest. Once again, she felt the hanyou's demonic aura pulsating from the human next to her. She turned her head toward him again, as his raven-black hair started turning silver again and his ears went back up to the top of his head, making her want to scratch them.
The boy sat up, bringing a re-clawed hand to his head, trying to massage the pain out of his pounding skull. Then lifting his eyes to meet hers, Kagome asked him, "So… what happened?"
Looking away from the pleading expression that Kagome wore, he tried to pretend to examine any wounds or bruises on him. He heard a sigh escape from Kagome causing him to look up at her once more.
"Inuyasha…" she said in almost a disappointed voice, "Please… tell me what happened. Tell me why that demon wanted to kill you, not me. Please?"
Taking a deep breath, Inuyasha was about to say something when his nose caught a scent that he had not been expecting to find out here. 'Kikyo…?' he thought, then he opened his mouth, "Kagome, I don't know why she attacked me. I don't know exactly why I became a human last night, but I promise you, I'll find out so I can continue to protect you."
The monk looked up from the fire where he and Sango were resting. "He'd do more than just protect you," he stated with a perverted smile curling from his lips. Sango look up at him with a look of total horror and disgust, despite the bandages on her face, and she once again introduced Miroku to her Hiraikotsu, knocking him out with stars dancing around his head. Sango looked wearily toward Kagome and Inuyasha, "Maybe we should rest while we can? It's been a tiring night, so we can start later today…" she trailed off as she noticed the look that Kagome was giving Inuyasha. It was a cross between a warm loving smile and puppy-dog eyes. Inuyasha melted. How could he say no?
Standing, the half demon stretched and Kagome slowly got up as well. They walked back to the dying fire and Kagome got in a sleeping bag as Inuyasha sat down on the grass. With sleepy eyes, Kagome looked up at Inuyasha and said in a hardly audible whisper, "Arigato, Inuyasha-chan"
Blushing madly, Inuyasha looked away toward the rising sun. In no time at all, he heard the rhythmically breathing of the knocked out houshi and the two sleeping girls. Rising again, Inuyasha looked at his companions resting and yawned, 'Man… I AM tired. But I have to go see if that is actually Kikyo… No, actually I just want to see Kikyo…' Silently, the dog boy crept away towards the woods, breathing deeply to try to keep the scent of his dead lover. As soon as he lost sight of the camp, he broke into a run towards the source of the smell.
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'I can't believe I'm doing this… I can't imagine how much Kagome is going to hate me for doing this… wait… Why am I thinking of that girl?' Inuyasha shot out of the mass of trees into a clearing. Looking around, he saw her. She looked beautiful, despite the fact that she was made out of a lump of clay and some old bones. The incarnation of Kagome was sitting in the middle of a field staring toward the heavens. 'She's so beautiful…' Inuyasha drooled. Then he saw something that he had not expected, a tear formed in the corners of her eyes. She blinked once and the sparkling tear fell to the ground.
"Kikyo…" Inuyasha breathed. Looking toward him, Kikyo whispered back as if she was afraid to break the silence of the new day, "I've been waiting for you… Inuyasha" Inuyasha walked slowly toward her as if in a trance, not taking his eyes off her for one second. Raising a hand, Kikyo indicated the ground next to her for Inuyasha to sit. Inuyasha had thought otherwise though, he sat behind Kikyo cross-legged and pulled Kikyo onto his lap then wrapped his arms around her as if to protect her. He nuzzled her hair away from her ear and whispered to her, "Aishiteru Kikyo…"
He saw the tears forming in her eyes again and questioned her, "Why do you cry? I have known only hate and love from you, from what feeling do these tears come from?"
"I cannot decide Inuyasha," choked Kikyo, "I do not know if I love you or hate you. I long to love you the way I did when I was among the living, but now all I feel that I can do is hate you. I want to love you…" Inuyasha leaned over her shoulder and kissed her cheek. Turning her face toward him, Kikyo let her lips lock with his and deepening their kiss.
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Back at the camp
Kagome's dream
Kagome stood at the edge of a forest near a cliff as the sun was setting. She looked around and walked toward the edge of the cliff to get a better look at the forest that lay over a hundred meters below. As she neared the edge, she heard someone behind her, Inuyasha. She smiled as Inuyasha came near her and held her around her waist, pulling her close.
Sighing, she looked back toward the sunset, it was beautiful and she felt happy. Suddenly and rudely, she felt a gust of wind coming from behind her pushing her forward nearer to the edge. She turned around and saw Inuyasha turning human and behind him, coming out of the forest, was… Kikyo. She was glaring at Kagome and raised a hand pointing past Kagome whose back was facing the cliff now. Her hands instinctively clasped onto Inuyasha's clothes coming closer to him again, but when she looked up into his eyes, expecting a look of protectiveness, she saw him glaring at her with eyes full of hatred. Kagome gasped as Inuyasha grabbed her by her neck and lifted her off the ground. He walked closer to the side and flung her over the edge of the cliff. It seemed like an eternity as she fell for the first few seconds, she saw the hint of sorrow in Inuyasha's eyes though they were clouded full of hate that she knew possessed Kikyo. Then he turned and walked back toward Kikyo. Kagome continued to fall and the sunset and cliff disappeared from around her surroundings. Everything became pitch-black as she fell headfirst toward the never-ending abyss. She closed her eyes and tears formed in the corners of her eyes then flew off the tips of her eyelashes, making a trail of sparkling pearls falling after her.
After falling for what seemed almost like forever to her, she opened her eyes once again and tried to scream, but nothing came out of her throat. Now panicking, she thought frantically, 'Oh my god… someone… ANYONE… HELP! I don't want to be falling like this forever…'
Like the answer to her prayer, a flash of silver flew before her as she felt herself being caught bridal style and squeezed her eyes tightly shut again. Then landing on the ground softly in the arms of her hero, she slowly opened her eyes to look around her. They were in an open field, full of lush green grass, flowers dotting the scenery, and trees growing around a clear blue lake. Then she turned her eyes toward the face of her savior. Tears had glazed over her eyes so she could only tell that he had silver hair and golden eyes. She wrapped her arms around his neck and closed her eyes again as he came in close…
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Kagome sat up suddenly as she realized that Miroku was snoring. Shaking her head, she got up and rolled him over onto his stomach so that his snores were muffled. She looked toward her best friend who was sleeping with Kirara curled up next to her. Turning to the trees, she scanned the limbs for her hanyou friend when the kitsune woke up. He yawned, stretching his small arms and legs, then looked up at Kagome and said, "Hiya Kagome-chan, what are you doing?" She looked down at the adorable kitsune and replied, "I'm looking for Inuyasha, but he doesn't seem to be here…"
Blinking up at her, he stated, "Yeah, I can't smell him, and I'm a DEMON." He gave her his best kawaii smile. Kagome, however, looked slightly worried. She sighed and assumed that he probably went hunting or do something that he usually did. She went and sat on the ground next to the campfire and tried to build the fire so that Inuyasha wouldn't yell at her for not doing anything and that they would be able to cook the food as soon as Inuyasha came back from hunting, if that was what he had actually went to go do. When the fire started burning warmly again, she looked up at the sky. The sun was getting close to directly above them, and Kagome tilted her head back, absorbing all the sun's warm and light on her face.
Closing her eyes, she thought about the dream she had… 'No, the nightmare I had. But then it kind of ended as a nice dream at the end… however, who was that person who had saved me?' she pondered. 'Could it have been Inuyasha? No… he was the one who… who betrayed me…' she frowned. 'But it was his human side… Could he have two different sides? Or was it just Kikyo's doing?' She opened her eyes again to see something she never thought she would see at that moment…
Should I end the chapter here? Should I? Should I?
Yeah.. yeah.. yeah.. I know.. it'd be evil of me but I have homework and I'm such a bad person for procrastinating… then again… do yall even DESERVE me going on? –sigh- oh well, I suppose I'll keep going… just for a few more paragraphs…
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Flying a little over the trees on the far side of the stream, she saw one of Kikyo's soul-stealing demons. Kagome blinked at the sight, then realizing where Inuyasha had REALLY gone, she mentally hit herself. Shippo looked up at Kagome when he felt her go stiff. Following her gaze, he also spotted the demon. "Oh…," was all he could say before Kagome got up and started off after the soul-stealer. She stopped for a second to grab her bow and quiver then broke off in a run to keep up with the flying demon, knowing that it would take her straight to its master, her incarnation.
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After they had ended their kiss, Kikyo and Inuyasha sat there for a while in silence, both content for the way things were for that moment. A breeze blew by, and Kikyo started to get up. "Kikyo?" Inuyasha asked.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha, but I can't be with you if you're divided between me and that so-called miko reincarnation of me."
"Kikyo-"
"No, I'm sorry. Not only that, though she's trying to get you to use the Shikon no Tama for some other purpose than to become a full demon, just as I wanted you to… but I sense that you will waste your wish on her… not on becoming what you had promised me you'd choose."
Inuyasha stopped. 'What I promised her? Does she mean becoming a human?' He stood up as well, now facing Kikyo as he tried to consent with her. Coming close to her, he took the miko into a tight embrace and whispered in her ear, "There might be a way without the Jewel's power." Her only response was a sharp intake of a breath. Inuyasha sighed, perturbed by something that he had realized a while ago: Kagome accepted him for what he was, despite the fact that he was a hanyou, despised by humans and demons alike. But Kikyo, would she only love him the way Kagome did if he became human? Would she hate him for all eternity if he didn't?
"I must go now, the others should be awake by now," thought aloud the hanyou. He turned to go when Kikyo caught his arm, pulling him so that he faced her again and sealed a kiss upon his lips. Inuyasha sunk into the kiss, almost momentarily forgetting about everything around him when a soul-stealer demon whooshed by overhead with Kagome crashing out of the woods on its heels.
'Oh crap… too late…' he pulled away from Kikyo. "KAGOME!" Inuyasha called after her, but she was already running back into the forest. He gave one last glance at Kikyo and started his pursuit after the young miko. Kikyo crossed her arms as she watched the red back of Inuyasha disappeared into the forest. Slowly but surely, a smirk crept across the clay miko's lips as she raised a pale finger to her lips where the half demon kiss her. Then turning around, she headed back to the village.
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