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Healing a Broken Heart

Chapter 5:
A Story From a Sad Heart

Kagome gasped at what Inuyasha said, but she soon laughed. "That's more like it, Inuyasha!" she said slapping Inuyasha playfully on the back. "Just be curious that's all."

Inuyasha snickered. "Well, just get on with it!" He snapped as he sat down on the grass.

Kagome sighed. Well, I guess I'll have to tell him if I said so.

"About a year ago, I met a wolf demon named Kouga (I know it's 'Koga' in the english version, but for some reason, I like the spelling 'Kouga' better... And believe me, I don't exactly like Kouga in the show that much...)."

"He was like a dream come true to me, a young priestess at the age of 17 (She's 18 now). He was handsome (Ick!), charming (Ick #2), kind, funny and many more great things."

Inuyasha looked like he was going to puke from all the cheesy things.

"I met him when he had came into my forest chasing after his little wolf who was playing chase with him. Pretty soon after they'd come into my forest, Kouga lost sight of his wolf and he came to me, asking for help. I'll always remember his face when he had came to me for help..." Kagome sighed. "He was all dirty and tired from searching all over the place for his wolf! I took him into the hut and just cooked some stew for him to get the hunger off him."

"That was when I noticed that he had a faint limp, it was a twisted ankle, I soon found out. So that was that, he insisted that he was ok and that he should continue searching for his wolf, but I made him stay just like I'm making you stay, until he had ankle healed." She smiled sweetly at Inuyasha. Inuyasha looked back at her blankly.

"Continue..." He urged impatiently.

"His ankle was more serious than I thought, and would need special herbs to assure that he would be fully healed. It took a total of 2 months to completely heal! And during that time... during that time, I... I.. I fell in love with Kouga."

"I knew that priestesses were not suppose to fall in love. Every single priestess must sign a special parchment to ensure that they shall not do what and only do what. A rule that they shan't do, is fall in love."

"However, love is not controlled by me. I couldn't control it. Kouga told me, that he loved me too! He even told me a way to stay as a priestess and still be with him! All I needed to do, was find back that parchement with my signing on it and take it to the Grand Shrine. Once there, the Grand Priestess would see if I was worth helping, and she would help me erase all traces of the 'Not to fall in love or marry' rule on my parchment!"

"I was determined to do this! So I set off five days after I found out about this way to stay with Kouga and stay as a priestess. Kouga came along with me, which I was grateful for -- at first."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha. He seemed to be so drawn into her story, that he had not known that she had stopped.

She continued. "The first few days of our trip was great! We were able to have great fun and even managed to strengthen our relationship. But then, after I went to sleep, Kouga would start to sneak out and do things which I didn't know of."

"Finally, it was only one more day before we would reach the Grand Shrine when Kouga admitted what he was sneaking out at night for." Kagome felt tears come to her eyes.

Whatever happened, she must've not been able to forget it yet...

"He... He admitted that he was sneaking out to meet his fiancee!" Kagome let out a sob. Why haven't I been able to forget him yet?

"He already had a fiancee?"

Kagome nodded. "He was already engaged to another wolf demoness named Ayame. He... He was only pretending to love me because earlier he had already tricked another priestess into falling in love with him and she had placed a spell on him when she found out that he did not love her. He was only coming to me because the only solution to the spell was for another priestiess to fall in love with him... So deep in love with him until they would suggest to go to the Grand Priestess to change the parchment!" Kagome wiped away a tear only to let more tears fall.

"But why didn't he just admit it to you as soon as you were about to go on your trip to the Grand Shrine?" Inuyasha asked curiously.

Kagome shrugged. "Maybe... Maybe he was having to much fun with it." Kagome took a deep breath before she wiped away her last few tears and smiled brightly at Inuyasha.

"But, I'm happy for him, Inuyasha. Very happy. Kouga was very care-free about relationships and never took love seriously, until he met Ayame. They're married now and living very happily, I suppose... Kouga has been able to change, but after he broke mine and the other priestess' heart."

"I know how you feel, loving someone, but only to find out that they were using you for a hidden reason."

Inuyasha turned away from Kagome's face.

"I really did love Kouga with all my heart. I even wanted to change the my parchment for him! Bu... But I only ended up with a broken heart. I was very angry when he took Ayame by the hand and led her to me."

"I can still remember his very words that day when he brought Ayame to me."

"Kagome. I'd like you to meet someone, she is my fiancee, Ayame.

Kagome sighed sadly and smiled. "From that moment on, I finally knew what he was sneaking out at night for. He told me about the whole deal with him and Ayame and with the earlier priestess... The reason he was lying to me!"

Kagome punched her fist into her other hand. "I was very angry. I even threatened him and Ayame that I would put an ancient spell that would never come off on them!"

Inuyasha looked surprised that Kagome would ever say something like that. Kagome giggled at his expression, which was a mix of surprise and terror. Terror that she'd put an 'ancient spell that would never come off' on him.

"Don't worry, I was only making that up. Although there really is a spell that is like that, I haven't mastered it... Yet."

"Now on with my story. After my threat, Ayame begged me not to. She even got down on her knees with tears running down her face, she begged me not to put the spell on Kouga. Ayame told me that Kouga did what he had to in order to be with her! It was only because of her, she told me over and over again. She said she'd even be willing to take in all the punishment that I wanted to give to Kouga! At that time, even Kouga got down on his knees and begged me not to. Not to put a spell on Ayame. I finally realized that Kouga never loved me and never would. He loved Ayame, and always would. They were both willing to give up their lives for each other! That is what true love is."

Kagome stood up and dusted off imaginary dust off her priestess kimono. "I decided not to put any kind of spell on them at all. Boy, when I told them that, they practically leaped for joy! In the end, Kouga apologized for what he did and with that, I gave them my blessing and they left to go back to their wolf clan." Kagome clapped her hands. "The end."

"Let's go back to the hut now, Inuyasha."

Silence. Inuyasha was too busy thinking about something.

"Inuyasha? Inuyasha!" Kagome finally shouted, pulling on Inuyasha's ears.

"Hey!" He screamed, jumping up into the air. "Watch the ears, watch the ears!" he grumbled, rubbing his ears.

"What were you thinking about so deeply, thinking about Kikyo?" Kagome gasped at what she said. Her hands flew to her mouth and she looked at Inuyasha, who was just standing there, frozen.

"Inuyasha, I... I... I didn't mean to! I mean, it just came out of my mouth!"

Inuyasha glared at her. "Yeah," he snapped, "I admit it, I'm still thinking 'bout the damn bastard, but that was not what I was thinking about before! I wa--"

"Inuyasha! Please! I---"

Inuyasha cut her off. "I was thinking about how you're still thinking about that Kouga! You love him still, you love him, you love him!" Inuyasha taunted, shouting loudly. He should've known better than to say that.

It was too late for him to take back what he said, as Kagome started to breathe heavily. She held her hands in two tight fists and glared daggers at Inuyasha. "I," she started icily, "will not care for your comments, Inuyasha. I know well enough that you still love Kikyo." she stressed over the 'love' and snickered loudly before turning around and heading in the direction to her hut.

Inuyasha only turned his head away from her leaving back. A good while after Kagome had left, Inuyasha turned his head. Di... Did I go overboard?

Little did Inuyasha know, Kagome was thinking the exact same thing.

I have a feeling I'm getting a bad case of something... Something like... A WRITER'S BLOCK! OH NO! GAHH! GET IT AWAY! Ok, nevermind, I just got another idea. –SmileyFace- Next chapter will feature the one and only... KIKYO! -Frankenstein Music- Ahh! It's Kikyo! Oh, Ummm, sorry, little hyper here... Hehe!

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