Chapter six: A wolf Prince and Dead mike's encounter
Okay, this is chapter 6. Ok everyone's getting a special treat for so many good comments. You people can choose an idea for a chapter for this story before it ends. Whoever has the best idea, gets that idea in a chapter before the grand finality of the story. So review and give me your ideas. L8TER!
Recap:
In her awkward state of delusion she heard a voice from the heavens. "Kagome, you must choose!" A heavenly body's voice echoed though the land. "Choose what my lord?" She asked the heavenly body. "You must choose between them! Only one!" The last vibrating word met her. "What do you mean!" She asked. "You shall know soon enough!" From the blinding sun's light Naraku exposed his form. He swept her up. Leaving Kouga and Inuyasha, the helpless, thick headed demons they were, to stand and watch as the ascending Naraku took her form.
"Kouga you have to go and get her! You've got power of super speed! Go!" He had sped off even before he had heard all the word that the distressed Demon Slayer had spoken.
He ran, destroying flora and parts of villages that he'd sped though, causing the damage only a tornado could. In the center sky stood the Sun, shine the wolf Prince's way. Kouga couldn't believe that he hadn't caught her scent yet, it was like she'd vanished from this world . . . or maybe worse.
No, Kouga refused to think of his woman 6 feet under. No, she can't be . . . The thought of his journey ending in a graveyard nagged at him. He continued to run, he had to find her, even if it took his entire life to do so. Even if it took his entire life to do so.
"She's gone," As the reluctantly stated words left his lips, her scent graced him, he flashed at the scent.
Something was strange about it. Something was obviously different about it. As Kouga commonly did on a regular basis, he merely ignored that fact. He ran as he never had before, his heart jolting, his vision completely focused and his objective clear. Find Kagome.
He looked around, before him a dense forest. Oddly enough this was where the scent was coming from, not a place Kouga expected that Naraku would hide out, but this was where the scent was coming from. He trusted his demon sense, completely and fully.
Kouga stalked the forest, noticing every moment, every shadow that moved with the
invisible wind blowing. The invisible wind that blow though the rickety leaves. The scent grew stronger with every inaudible step the wolf prince took. As he neared the heart of the forest a strange aura occupied his sense. Kagome's aura was nothing like this. This aura was occupied by unusual feels: Hatred, love, vengeance, but most of all hatred. Things Kagome never felt so intensely, nor had he. Could it possible not be her?
Kouga didn't have the time to question his decision, it was either her or it wasn't. He was about to find out. He came upon a plain were only one tree stood and where a canopy concealed the glorious Sun. Only allowing it to shine through holes in its dense canopy.
He walked though the bizarre barrier. The wolf prince came upon the sight of a woman, her frame against the crook of a tree. Her ruffled white and red Kimono, hanging on the limbs of the tree. She jolted at the hearing his noisy footsteps. He wished to inspect her closely, which would in turn answer his question. Why did a different woman smell so much like Kagome?
"Can I help you Wolf Yokia?" The woman's word surprised the stalking Prince.
"Who are you?" He asked, on the verge of getting his question answered. "Do you mean who I am or what I am?" She answered his question with another question. "Both . . . " He answered immediately.
"I am Lady Kikyo . . . " He interrupted. "Why do you smell like Kagome?"
"Correction, she smells like me . . . " She explained to the at halt Prince. "Kagome is MY reincarnation. She has my face, and my soul." The whole thing confused Kouga. "She has your face?" He asked.
"Well if you look at me in the face, you'll see it." The mike explained. He walked forward, reluctant to get too close. He faced her. She's right... she does look like Kagome . . . He peered upon her face. She was beautiful, as Kagome was, not one wrinkle in her radiant features, the blue light flaring though the canopy of the trees glowed upon her. The only thing separate from their almost twin exterior, were the eyes. Kagome's always held radiance. Sorrow shined though this woman's calm exterior, and what might be anger and the want of revenge, no, the need for revenge.
"Sorrow . . . " His lips tingled as the words left his tender lips. "Sorrow?" Kikyo asked what his statement meant. "Nothing . . . So you're Kikyo, what's you and Inuyasha's story, huh?" This was the woman Kagome had told him about, the woman that had cause his beloved so much pain. "He called me . . . called me . . . Kikyo!" Kagome's shaken words replayed in his mind.
"Ha, ha, ha, You'd like to know that, wouldn't you?" She laughed at him. "What do you have to do with Kagome?" She inspected him. "Wait, now I remember you . . . you're that wolfboy that fell in love with Kagome, aren't you?" She asked him, mockingly.
"How does it to have a once-sided love!" She asked, a strange amount of joy in her voice. "You and I are alike. We both have experienced a one-sided love!" She compared her self to the angered prince.
"What are you talking about? Inuyasha loves you!" He objected to her lie. "My love for Kagome is not one-sided. She loves me back." The mike laughed at his statement of 2-sided love. "Are you so dense that you can't even see what in front your eyes!" She realized the depth of his stupidity. "I know love is blind, but I didn't think it was stupid too!" She made him the laugh of the day. "Kagome doesn't love you. She loves Inuyasha!" She explained to the infuriated Wolf Prince. "Your remind me of Inuyasha, thick headed and stubborn!"
"Your wrong," He stated, furies at the miko's statement. "Kagome does love me." He protected his heart.
"Wolf listen to me, you're gonna end up heart broken if you continue to live this lie." She warned him of the oncoming future. "What are you an oracle?" He asked her, not believing her. "Wolf I've lived this all before, trust me. It isn't the greatest feeling in the world to be betrayed," The reflection of her broken unhealed heart was revealed. "Especially just when you though that they wanted to spend the rest of their live with you..." The pained scar in her heart reopened to him. "I am Kouga, Prince of wolves, I will not be deceived by you!" He refused to accept her version of the truth.
"Kouga listen to me... nothing good can come from this!" She tried to level with him. "Kouga, I don't even know you... why would I lie to you..." She tried to get him to accept it. "If your really telling the truth, tell me how did you're and Inuyasha's relationship get destroyed, with you and him being lovers and all..." He tried to get the truth outta her.
"Lovers is such a strong word, it was more like puppy love..."
Flashback
A day like any another. This was the day that Kikyo was to meet Inuyasha and he was to
use the jewel to become a full human, so that he might live the rest of his life with her as a normal mortal. Their plans were shattered.
As Kikyo was walking to their meeting place, a form dashed behind her. The form's demon-like claws sheared though the fabric of her kimono and leaving her shoulder severed and draining a large amount of blood from it. There she lay, a small puddle of crimson liquid forming near her. The mysterious person before her was none other than the man that was to become her husband, it was Inuyasha.
He place his bare foot on her wrist, and picked up the Shikon-no-tama that she had once held tight in her hands grasp. "Ha, I have no wish to become a human!" The deserted Mike watched as her beloved Hanyou ran and faded in the distance.
Kikyo, exhausted by the lost of blood. Ran towards the village were she spotted him once more, trying to make his escape with Shikon-no-tama. He flew into the air, Kikyo had waited for this moment. She shot a sacred air straight at him. As he turned, the arrow struck him in the heart. His form meet the trunk of the God tree, the arrow binding him to it trunk for what was suppose to be eternity.
Kikyo dropped to her knees from exhaustion, another puddle of the crimson liquid that had escaped from the fairly large wound to her right shoulder, formed around her. A young girl known as Kaede and the younger sister of Lady Kikyo, kneeled by her weakened sister. "Sister Kikyo!"
"Kaede take the Jewel and burn it with my body..." That was the dying priestess' last wish, so as her younger sister, Kaede granted her deceased sister's last wish.
Thus the two lovers became know as the two enemies and in the forest that Inuyasha was pinned to the tree became known as the demon forest of Inuyasha.
End of Flashback
"So in the end, our love was meaningless..." Apparently to her love meant nothing. "So that's the story... if you died how did you come back?" He asked, for to him the only thing that gave away she was dead was the smell of death on her.
"A foolish witch resurrected me..." She explained her state of animation. "Although I have no soul of my own, my hatred for Inuyasha keeps my body alive and the souls the my soul captures bring."
"That's right Kagome has your soul," He tried to fully understand her story.
"Pure is unpure, unpure is pure, to die is to live, to live is to die..." The words slowly exited her lips. "What do you mean?" He asked. She didn't answer back. "To love is to hate, to hate is to love..."
"Tell me Lady Kikyo, how can you love and hate Inuyasha?" He asked, to him it was one or the other. You either love or you hate someone.
"Does it have to be one or the other? Hate or love?" She asked him. "Hmmm, between a man and a woman, yes!" He responded.
"Hmmm, if I had to choose one..." She thought about his response. "Neither... I don't love him and I don't hate him. I love him at one time, but now I don't feel either for him."
"Neither?" Kouga asked, "I thought you loved Inuyasha and he loved you back..."
"Lovers one day, enemies another..." The wind blew the fabric of her kimono. "It's the way of the world, and that's how its always gonna be."
Lovers one day, enemies another... He didn't understand her. How could you possibly love someone on day and hate them another. "How its always gonna be?" There questioning in his tone. That's how it always gonna be...
"Why?" The question surprise him as well. "Because of the fact that people change with the times, like the currant of a river. Always changing." She replied.
"Who is to say Naraku will be your enemy forever?" She questioned him. "Who is to say will continue to fight Inuyasha for Kagome's love?" Her question's made him to look towards the future.
Who is to say... Kouga's questioned his outlook on life. "The reason is that everyone is alike in someway... we all have a part that connects to one another, even to our enemies." She was correct, it was the way of the world. Whether we like it or not.
"I'm sorry, but even with the changing times. Kagome will never love you..." It sounded as if she pitied the wolf Prince. "Her love was taken by Inuyasha..."
"Your wrong!" He stated, denying it. Kouga ran off, away from the truth. Afraid to accept it and afraid that it was the truth. "Kouga, Prince of Wolves! YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM THE TRUTH FOREVER!" Kikyo yelled to the racing wolf.
Kouga ran. The objective that once was his only thought was no on the side of his thoughts. Wait! I gotta find Kagome... The lost objective returned to his center. Kagome was to be found.
Ok everyone that was chpt 6. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I wrote this because I just want Kikyo and Kouga to have an encounter. Also remember to give me ur ideas, I'm just waiting to see what you guys got. Sees you l8ter! Thanx for reviewing.
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