Title: Shared Soul
Lj: Nozomi429

Notes: This story was done for the Lj community InuFanFicathon and written for Chili, who was the person I was matched up with. For more information, please go to the community. Here is the second chapter.I've sort of rushed it, then added to it and touched it up. Hope you like. For some reason I feel as if I could have done better. Well, you can be the judge of that.

'But maybe Inuyasha really loves Kikyou. Maybe he cares more about her now that she had been gone once to him. After all, the main reason he wished to kill Naraku was because he had taken his identity and killed Kikyou.' Kagome thought, and she sighed. Sitting over a large cliff, she remembered the first time she tweaked Inuyasha's ears, when he was still at the Goshimboku tree. She remembered all the times Inuyasha had saved her, or the way his eyes softened at those times he talked to her.

But now he didn't even care about her anymore. Just like that. Standing up, she looked below her, down the cliff and saw how far down it went. Backing up in awe and fear, she heard the chirp of some flying birds and wondered what it would be like to fly. Of course she couldn't fly. She knew that. But something told her to see if she could.

Backing up, shocked at what she had been thinking, she closed her eyes and felt the wind blow across her face.

"I won't let you stand between us anymore." A voice said, but before Kagome could regain her senses, she felt two hands push her forward. Screaming, her eyes flipped open as she saw her murderer smile; she landed on sharp rocks, and never moved again.

Sango and Shippou had been sobbing hard. Miroku had been wiping his eyes, looking at his feet, and Kirara mewed sadly.

Inuyasha had smelt the great spill of blood. He knew it was Kagome's. He rushed to her, but it was too late for him. She was dead. He had carried her back to the village, tears flowing out of his eyes. Her cause of death? Suicide.

"What's suicide?" Shippou asked between tears. At this Sango sobbed even harder, and Miroku wiped his mouth.

"Its…Kagome…she took her own life." Miroku said quietly.

"What…what!" Shippou understood now. He shook in fury and tears flew from his eyes. "Inuyasha! Its your fault she did this!" He yelled, and he mauled Inuyasha's face, scratching it and biting his ears, holding on as tight as he could. Inuyasha smacked him off, cutting his cheek with his nails.

"It wasn't…it wasn't my fault, okay?" Inuyasha shouted, but inside he knew it was.

"If you weren't with Kikyou all the time—" Shippou started to say, but Inuyasha punched him across the head, knocking him off his feet.

"You don't talk about Kikyou!" Inuyasha shouted, and then he dashed away, to be alone. Kikyou lowered her eyes uncomfortably, her guilt taking her mind. She ignored it.

And now everyone was sitting in a circle, Miroku holding Sango as she sobbed, Shippou sitting by Kirara and hugging the small cat demon, both sobbing uncontrollably. Kikyou was sitting on a rock, sitting with Kaede, who was wiping tears from her own shriveled face.

Now he was sitting in a tree, one that he had always watched Kagome from when she was sleeping, but he could not do that anymore. He fought back his tears and sobs, but it didn't work. Putting his head on his knees, he cried and howled with tears and sorrow.

"Kagome…if only I was there for you…if only I wasn't so caught up with…Kikyou…"

A few months later, things haven't been going any better. Inuyasha had brought Kagome's body back to her time, however, their family forbid him from coming back again, and they closed the well, and they cursed it with many sutras, as Kagome's grandfather believed it would work. In the feudal era, everyone had gotten used to their daily lives of killing demons, but it wasn't as fun anymore.

Sango had to go through many losses, her family, her little brother, and now Kagome. Miroku had lost his father, and now Kagome. So did Shippou. They hadn't been too happy about Inuyasha and Kikyou. Inuyasha had always gone to Kikyou, spending even more time with her than ever. Kikyou, on the other hand, was happy. She seemed more cheerful, even though Inuyasha wasn't. Now Inuyasha was sitting in a tree, watching Kikyou gather flowers below.

'She…Kagome. It's not the same without her…' Inuyasha thought, because everytime he looked at Kikyou smile, he was reminded of Kagome. They really did look so much alike, and even though Kagome had reminded him of Kikyou, now it was vice versa. Kikyou must have noticed him thinking about her, because her eyes hardened and she asked Inuyasha coldly what was wrong.

"Nothing…" He murmured in reply, shifting his head to look at the setting sun.

"I'm sorry, Inuyasha, I'm sorry you've lost a good friend." Kikyou said. Inuyasha looked back at her and nodded.

'Friend…was that all I thought of her?' Inuyasha thought, and he wiped his eyes, trying to keep tears in. He regretted it. Why didn't he notice before? No. He was too infatuated with Kikyou to notice. It was his fault she died. He had actually loved her. He loved her. It wasn't till her death that he realized it. Why didn't he tell her!

"Inuyasha, shall we go to the village?" Kikyou asked softly.

"No…you can go." Inuyasha told her, and Kikyou stood up in dissatisfaction and started walking. She didn't want Kagome to interfere with Inuyasha and her, but things had gotten worse than she planned. She loved children, but for that little fox child to talk about her like that, on the night of her death. She couldn't bear the pain she's caused them. How could she do such a thing? She shook her head roughly and entered Kaede's hut.

"Kaede…where is the scroll of revival?"

"Are you sure you're going to do this, dear sister?" Kaede asked.

"I don't deserve to be alive, Kaede. Look at our ages. Nothing's right." Kikyou said coldly. She retrieved the dirt from where Kagome had landed, and scraped the dry blood from the rocks. "We need her body."

"No one can pass except her and Inuyasha." Kaede said.

"But I share her soul. I'm sure I can pass through. I'll fool her family as a ghost."

Kikyou stood above the well. Taking a look inside, she took a deep breath and jumped in. A flash of light went over her, and Kikyou landed on what seemed to be cold soil and dirt. 'Did I get through?' She thought, and she looked up, towards the opening, but the bright stars nor moon shone into the well. Climbing up, she realized the well was covered, and she pushed it up, moving it to the side. What she saw was wooden steps, leading out to cleared land, except for a shrine and a house.

'I suppose this is Kagome's house.' She thought, and she walked up the steps quietly. Looking about, she looked at her traditional miko clothing and wondered if her family would fall for it. 'I should crawl through some sort of window…' She thought, and she climbed up a tree, looking into a window of a room, with majority color of pink. She saw a little boy walk into the room, and panicked, lowering her head. But it was too late; the boy had noticed her and opened the window. At first he stared at her astonished. Kikyou noticed that his eyes and cheeks were quite red and puffy, obviously he was crying from Kagome's death.

"Kagome?" He asked out loud.

"I…where is my body?" Kikyou asked, trying to sound frightening. She saw the little boy pinch himself. "Where is my body?" She shouted this time. And this time, Kagome's mother walked into the room, hearing her voice.

"Who…who is this?" She shouted. Her face was also puffy and teary. It seemed that no one had really recovered.

"I…I am Kagome…remember?"

"You are not my daughter!" She said, almost in tears again. At that, she ran to the window and shut it, locked it and closed the curtains. Kikyou saw through a crack that they had left the room and shut the door, Kagome's mother in tears again.

Sighing because she had failed, Kikyou heard the window open up again. She looked up and saw the little boy.

"You're Kikyou, aren't you?" The boy asked, his cheeks and eyes still puffy. Kikyou nodded. "What do you want with Kagome's body?"

"I…I am returning her soul."

"This is where she was buried." Souta said, pointing at the graveyard.

"Where is hers?" Kikyou asked. Souta pointed to a brand new grave stone, the name 'Kagome Higurashi' engraved in it.

"Here, take this." Souta said, handing her a small shovel. "Its going to be hard…its six feet below."

"Six feet?" Kikyou asked, for she had no knowledge for the modern measurements. After a long while of digging, she hit something hard with her shovel. Hours had passed, and Souta had gone by then. She opened the long coffin like Souta explained, and squeezed her nose and she smelt Kagome's body. Unable to look at it, she got out of the dirt and picked up the dirt and dried blood she had gathered, and read off a chant from a scroll. Slowly, she felt her body weakening, and struggled to breathe as she kept chanting. She looked at Kagome, who had been returning to life, and looked back at her hands, which had been slowly deteriorating, becoming frail and green. Finally Kagome took her first breathe of air from returning, and she gasped, sitting up and coughing.

"Welcome back, Kagome…" Kikyou had said slowly.

"Kikyou…?" Kagome asked, looking around herself, she realized she was in a coffin, and she screamed and fainted. When Kagome woke up, she stood up frail and weak, as if she lost all control of herself, and lost all muscle to stand up. She climbed out of the six foot hole, and spotted Kikyou.

"Kikyou?" She said, shaking Kikyou. Then she realized it. "You're dead!" She shouted, and sat back. Looking around her, she took the scroll from Kikyou's hand. She could not read it, but she could make out one kanji: return of life. Then Kagome realized it. Kikyou had sacrificed herself to have Kagome return from the dead. Then everything was rushing back to her. Kagome's landing, her fall, and then…the voice who pushed her. It was Kikyou. Kikyou had pushed her off that cliff that day. And now she revived her. Tears rushed into Kagome's eyes. Putting her head on her knees, which the cotten pants she had been wearing were dirty and torn with small holes, possibly from decomposing. Stopping with a final sob, she laid Kikyou into her own grave and closed the coffin. She wasn't quite sure what to do now, except cover the hole back up. Standing up weakly, she poured the dirt back into the grave, picked up the scroll and bottles that Kikyou had used in the resurrection, and started walking home from which she remembered.

Rapping on the door to her house, Kagome sobbed at the sight of her mother opening it, with shock.

"Mama…" She cried, hugging her mother. Her mother cried too, and so had her little brother, Souta, and her grandfather, who was astonished at her return, and he cried as he read the scrolls she had given him.

Inuyasha sniffed the air. He smelt someone he hadn't smelt in a long time. It was Kagome… But that was impossible!

"Kagome?" He asked out loud, and he dashed toward the well. "Kagome!" He shouted. He saw her in her school dress, short green skirt and her glittering brown eyes dazzled him. "Kagome?" He asked, holding Kagome as she held back, and he sniffed her hair, the so familiar scent he used to smell.

"Kagome…I've changed my mind about Kikyou. I love you." He said, and she nodded, in tears. "You'll stay this time?"

"I'll stay forever with you, Inuyasha." She said back, and gave him a long warm kiss. He returned the kiss because he knew who he really loved, and so did Kagome.

The end.