Dedicated to who it was dedicated to in the beginning. From the very beginning. And until the very end.
I just read the reviews. And then I saw Caiyoko's. Hey people. . . I promise I'll pour my heart into this. Thus, the title of this chapter will be. . .
Time Doesn't Wait.
Chapter 21: Every Heart
'What's going on. . .?' Sol thought in confusion. This tug had been bothering him all day. . .
"It's the end! I see Lunol! I SEE LUNOL!" Kaoru yelled in excitement, her eyes bright with happiness. Even though she left at quite an early age she remembered quite clearly her home.
Sol smiled, his eyes lighted up, it was rare. Kagome widen her eyes, he looked so happy. she didn't even know he could be so happy.
"Dearest Lunol! What the hell have they done to it!" Blake yelled angrily, born and bred in Lunol, the necromancer had a relation with the town as well. But not one as the sun and moon demons ever will.
"Can we get out of here!" Shippo yelled, he never did like the mountain.
"Yeah, but we'll need to be careful. Let's camp at the outskirts of that city." Inuyasha said warily.
"Inuyasha!"
Everybody looked up.
"Sango!" Blake yelled first.
Sango landed Kirara in front of the group. Miroku got off the demon cat and grinned.
Sango and Kagome hugged each other tightly.
"I was so worried Sango!"
"And I, you, Kagome. Oh, I am glad to see you're well!"
"Can we break the tearful reunion for the moment? Inuyasha is right. We'll camp near the city and start planning." Sol said quietly, but his eyes held a raging fury. Blake's outrage on what Jougen and Kubaya had done to Lunol hasn't done it any, any justice at all. He'd break them in half.
Sango looked questioningly at Kagome, who shrugged. Only Kaoru and Blake could understand.
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"So how have you been?" Kagome asked Sango and Miroku as they settled at the outskirts of the city. There was a small clearing in the forest.
"Fine." Sango answered, looking around at the group. "But it doesn't seem like you are as well." Her eyes lingered on Sol.
Sol frowned and walked away to the trees.
"Where are you going?" Inuyasha demanded.
"For a breather. If you guys want to have a happy and teary reunion. I won't stop it." Sol said shortly.
Kaoru took a little golden sheet out of her robes. It was the present Sol had given her for her birthday. She held it tightly.
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Sol ran deep into the forest, very deep. And climbed a tree, looking at the moonlight. He should have been back to a hanyou by now. But there was that shadow spell. . .he had forgot. The first person he had saw after he killed the shadow demon was. . .Kagome. He had forgotten once you kill a shadow demon you must close your eyes for a minute or two, or else he would kill the first person he saw.
He had fought against it in the mountain. The urge to draw Akusho and slice off the human girl's head. The moment he returned to being a hanyou he would be able to cleanse the spell away. . .but. . .the purification ritual was too dangerous for a human.
Suddenly a call from below.
"Sol!"
Sol felt his blood freeze, he looked downwards. It was. It was Kagome. . .alone. Easy prey, no dog hanyou could save her if he acted now-
'Shut up.' Sol thought angrily. Anytime. . .anytime he will return to a hanyou now. Then he could control the urge. And cleanse it away.
Anytime now-
"Sol! What are you doing up there?"
"Go away." Sol growled angrily.
Kagome's eyes flared. "Sit!"
There was no reaction. Kagome cursed inwardly. Sol saw her doing this and nearly smiled, she looked quite pretty when she was frustrated.
But then another pulse of the shadow spell. . .
"Go away!" Sol spat again, this time louder.
"You better come down here Sol! You've been incredibly rude to Sango! You go and apologize!" Kagome reprimanded.
Sol gritted his teeth and closed his eyes in annoyance. The girl didn't know that her life was at stake. But still, such annoying banter-
Kagome, taking Sol's posture as to ignoring her, grew angrier.
"Come DOWN here!" Kagome yelled.
Sol's eyes flared opened and he dropped to the ground, landing on his knee and foot.
One hand was on Akusho's hilt. He grinned. "As you wish. . ."
He drew it, it transformed.
Kagome took a half step back. There was surprise and a hint of fear in her eyes.
"I told you to go away. But no. It had to be come down here! Kagome, you naughty, naughty girl. You ought to listen to me. . ." Sol grinned even more maniacally and began walking forward.
Kagome turned, now where was Inuyasha!
"You run even an inch form where you are and I'll kill you." Sol snarled.
Kagome spun around. "You wouldn't. You can't. . ."
"Can't!" Sol howled angrily. "Can't! Tell me what I can't do!"
I can't. . .
Kagome almost saw a fizz. There was hesitation in those maniac eyes. She took a half step backward and slipped over a smooth rock. The hesitation died out.
"I told you to stay put! We'll se about that!" Sol leapt.
I said I can't!
Sol slammed Akusho down, millimeters next to Kagome's face. His eyes were still processed though.
"I can." Sol hissed venomously. "You have been prodding me ever since I killed that shadow demon. . .prodding and poking at my patience. . .tonight I would have returned to be a hanyou. . .but you slashed at the last thread. . ."
Sol grinned maniacally and knelt down next to Kagome, drawing Akusho and with his other hand, forcing Kagome to sit up. There nose were inches apart.
"I hate you. I hate your eyes that so resembles Aisuyu. I hate your ancestor Kubaya. I hate you so much you'll never believe it's even possible." Sol hissed. He swung Akusho to Kagome's neck. He moved his face forward, the sharp blade bit a little into Kagome's neck. Kagome saw deep red liquid dribbling from the blade.
"You don't. . .we are friends. . .friends forever. . .with the rest of the group." Kagome managed.
I don't. . .I don't hate her! She isn't Aisuyu! She. . .
"We aren't friends. . ." Sol hissed, nut his eyes started to tremble and flash blue. But it was so quick Kagome wondered if she imagined it.
But it wasn't, his eyes flashed blue again.
Kagome gaped. She could see the struggle in his eyes. They were so close she could see them flashing colours. Brown, blue, brown, blue. . .
"You aren't my friend." Sol hissed still. Though his eyes were uncertain.
She. . .isn't my friend. . .
His eyes turned blue, although his hair was still midnight black. Kagome gaped, he was handsome when he was hanyou. He was sort of cute when he was human. But what is he now?
"Kagome." Sol whispered, his tone normal again. Kagome's heart leapt. He dropped Akusho.
"We aren't friends. . .At least, I don't think of you that way." Sol continued in his whisper.
"We are. . ." His face moved closer, all those times he had seen her. . .that time she was crying at the lake under the moonlight. . .when she was sleeping. . .when she was watching Kaoru and Shippo. . .
Kagome closed her eyes.
Suddenly his body flashed to a bright white. When the light dissipated his hair had returned to its bright orange-yellow colour.
Kagome opened her eyes, the warmth of their faces' close proximity was gone, cold air hit her face. Sol was around 2 feet away from her. His eyes wide in shock.
He quickly picked up Akusho from the ground and sheathed it.
"I- I got to do a cleansing ritual. Go ask Kaoru and Blake about it. They'll tell you everything. Now. I. I. . .goodbye!" Sol said in an uncharacteristic hasty voice. And he looked at Kagome for another moment before speeding off.
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Kubaya saw all this in a misty spot of air in front of him. Someone trembled with anger and jealousy next to him.
Kubaya grinned, "Why don't you greet them with a friendly welcome, especially that priestess, Aisuyu?"
Aisuyu walked out of the room. Fuming.
Kubaya grinned as she went. He looked at the mist again where his descendant priestess sat on the ground with a confused and widely shocked expression on her face.
"Every heart has a weakness Sol, and it's vital you find it. Because if someone else, say, your worst enemy finds it first, then they'll use it against you." Kubaya grinned.
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