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So, how was that last chapter? Cliffy? Interesting? Dumb? Boring? Weird? Short? Long?Great? Tell me in your reviews! The title pretty much says it all, but you'd better still read it, or else you could get confused if you skip chapters... And better yet, after you read this chapter, you'll most likely review... Riight? Well, here's the chapter! Enjoy!

Healing a Broken Heart

Chapter 2:
Broken Spells and Broken Trust

Kagome winced. Two insults in a day, what a big Hurray! Not... This Kikyo is getting on my nerves. After I'm done teaching her a lesson, she'll wish she was nev- STOP!

Kagome pushed the thoughts back from her head. I musn't think like that. I am a priestess.

"Kikyo, I shall give you the first three turns. After you've done three moves, my first move will be my last of this battle. Prepare." Kagome said calmly. A few beads shall do the trick!

Kikyo only got angrier. "Are you saying that you only need one move to defeat me, and even with three moves I won't be able to kill you! You think of yourself too high! You prepare to die, not me!" She shrieked. Kikyo held up her bow and arrow and started to mumble her spell.

"Mmmhkk... Arooroahielle, kkiaeliosiyu..." Was along the lines of the spell.Kikyo shouted out the last part and with a gesture of her hand, the arrow flung itself from the bow and as it neared Kagome, it started to glow a deep pink colour.

Kagome closed her eyes. That spell is against an ordinairy miko's power to summon, Kikyo is definitley out to kill! Suddenly, five enchanted beads flew up in front of her and Kagome watched as Kikyo's arrow pierced through one bead and with its strong aura, pierced all of the remaining four beads too.

But the beads' power did their job, their friction slowed down the arrow and caused it to break.

"You... You used a move! How dare you! You're also a priestess that breaks swore promises!" Kikyo was furious. That wretched girl would've been in hell if she had kept her promise! After a moment of silence, Kikyo thought again. But all the better with, this'll strenghthen my technique.

Kagome laughed. "Kikyo, I kept my promise well enough. My beads have a mind of their own and only flew up to protect me. I didn't make a single move. Your first turn is up, use your next." Kagome said in a slightly taunting voice.

Kikyo grittted her teeth and signaled another spell.

Kagome sighed. She knew this spell took a long moment to conjure up.Kagome reapeated what Kikyo said. Kikyo gasped as she thought Kagome would send her spell at her, but to her relief, Kagome had not said the spell in the miko language.

Kagome let out a laugh. "Every one of your spells are deep and dark. Which is why, that is your weakness."

Kikyo's attack finally fired, but once again, Kagome's beads protected her.

Kikyo shifted her feet. This wench is taking harder to beat, however she shall be beat- Wait a moment! Where did that half-breed go? Kikyo glanced around quickly and let out an angry moan. Inuyasha had long gone since Kikyo had started muttering her second spell.

"You witch!" Kikyo pointed at Kagome accusingly, "You accepted my battle notice on purpose of the heart! You let that half-breed Inuyasha escape!"

Kagome too was surprised that she couldn't sense that Inuyasha had gone. "Enough of your rude words, Kikyo!" she snapped. "Inuyasha's leaving is to not to the matter of me! I only fought you because you insisted on it! Conjure you last spell and let the real battle begin!"

Kikyo was speechless. "I... I've never been snapped at like that! And you will not live to tell that you had snapped at me!" Kikyo held up her hands in a circle. That wench!

Kikyo's spell was once agained mumbled by her and it was strong indeed, but Kikyo was too angry to remember about Kagome's beads. 5 huge demons raged towards Kagome, but her beads flew up again and blocked the demons that came towards Kagome.

Kagome grinned. "Kikyo, now, the real battle begins." she said as she narrowed her eyes and smiled.

Inuyasha-

"Damn it!" Inuyasha yelled as he felt the pain in his chest come again. The pain felt like a dozen demons of great weight were piling on top of him. Every new step Inuyasha took, the pain worsened.

"Don't tell me this is the 'spell' that that bastard, Kikyo, put on me!" Inuyasha exclaimed under gritted teeth, the pain was getting worse.

Finally the pain became unbearable! As Inuyasha took two more steps, he collapsed under the pain and clutched his chest. Is this the end? Is this the end of everything? If this is what it was meant to be... "Kill Kikyo. Kill Kikyo, Kagome." Inuyasha closed his eyes and breathed in heavily. Slowly, everything went black, butInuyasha's face continued to twist in pain.

Kagome-

Kikyo panted heavily as Kagome flung a bead at her. Kagome was also panting and behind her, were crushed arrows of every size.

"Kikyo, this battle has to end soon. And there shall be a winner." Kagome stated. "The winner, I'm afraid, won't be you!"

Kagome picked up her bow and arrow and shot the arrow right above Kikyo's head, snipping away a few strands of her hair. Kikyo finally pulled the last string.

Flashback

"You're a worthless priestess, wench girl." Kikyo spat out. "You'd rather help a half-breed than help one of your own kind!"

"You are out to kill and are ever so violent, Kikyo! I would never help someone like the likes of you!"

Kikyo held back her anger. "You live in this pitiful forest and inside a horribly builded hut. You are nothing but a priestess want to be. You're ancestors must've been thieves and now all you're here to do, is kill! Not me!" Kikyo cackled cruely.

"Don't you dare insult my family!" Kagome roared. "Anything, but my family! You've pulled the last straw, Kikyo!"

End Flashback

"Leave!" Kagome screamed. "Leave my forest!"

"Not until you are dead, bastard!" Kikyo screamed back.

I have no choice left! This Kikyo refuses to leave my forest! I have to summon the forest god!

"God of the forest, god of life! Bring this wretch away to her own kind! Away!" Kagome summoned in her Miko language.

Kikyo winced as the ground under her shook. It shook harder and harder until the ground beside her erupted up into the air. "What kind of witchery are you doing, wretch!" Kikyo yelled. Before Kikyo could say anymore, vines crawled out of the holes in the ground and wrapped her like a bun. As quick as you could've said Demonslayer, the vines untwisted themselves, and along with them, was no trace of Kikyo.

Kagome let out deep breaths and finally let herself fall onto the ground.

"Kagome!" A voice shouted. "Hurry, Miroku, Kagome has fallen after her fight with that evil priestess, bring her inside, and don't you dare try anything preverted!"

A young man around the age of 19 ran out and kneeled down next to the woman who called him. He smiled uneasily. "Don't worry Sango dear, I won't!"

The girl, Sango, only rolled her eyes.

Kagome's hut-

Where am I? My chest doesn't hurt as much, but the pain is still here... Inuyasha opened his eyes and to his surprise, he stared back into the eyes of Kikyo!

"Ackh, ahh." Inuyasha murmered, he was too weak. She has found me using her spell.

The Kikyo smiled warmly. "Do you remember me? I'm Kagome! Don't worry, I have sent Kikyo back to whereever she lives - with the help of the Forest God, of course! She was a very tough opponent!"

Inuyasha used all his strength and said the most intelligent word! "Keh!"

"You're very weak from the spell Kikyo had laid on you. After I defeated her, I fainted. And when I awoke, I was pretty sure that Kikyo would send out messengers to find you, so I instantly told my friends Miroku and Sango to find you for me!" Kagome paused before she continued, "Thank goodness they did. I am already working to help you undo the spell, it should be gone in a moment." Kagome smiled again.

"Why should I trust you?" Inuyasha demanded dryly. "You are a priestess," he got up slowly and finally noticed that he was in a wooden hut and lying in a bed of sweet smelling flowers. "The same as Kikyo. The same as everyone! I trusted her and she betrayed me! I won't ever trust you!" Inuyasha spat at her.

Kagome looked away. "Inuyasha, I know that Kikyo broke your trust and hurt you a lot, and you loved her so much! But I am a different kind of priestess, from my Grandmother Kaede, I've been able to find out that Kikyo is the Priestess of Magic and Beauty. Am I right?"

Inuyasha only shrugged like he could careless. "Well, Kikyo is Kikyo, and I am Kagome. Ka-Go-Me. I am not here to kill you Inuyasha, but to help you."

"Help me my ass!" Inuyasha sneered and 'Keh'd'. Inuyasha paused for a bit before speaking."How did you know what happened between me and Kikyo anyways?"

Kagome breathed in deeply. I don'tthink he'll want to know that Imade a mind spell on him while he was asleep and I saw all the things thathappenedbetween him and Kikyo."Lie back down." Inuyasha, surprisingly, did lie down! Kagome closed her eyes for a short moment. "The spell is broken. But you should rest for at least 3 months for the damage that has already happened to you." she said cheerfully after the moment had passed. She grinned broadly and then laid her hand down on Inuyasha's shoulder.

(Gasp) Was that a really surprising ending? Lol, guess not. Was that too long? Kinda seemed like it. To me, that chapter was on a boring scale of 1-10 (1 being not boring, and 10 being incredibly boring), I'd give it a 5... Ahh,(sigh) I still hope you all liked that chapter! Hehe! Review, review! Cause they make me happy and make me want to update sooner! Hehe...

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