Afterwards, What Happens Then...
Chapter Ten
The next morning was the similar morning that happened in the federal times. Kagome had gotten up early this morning and stepped outside the hut so she could sit against the wood of the hut and think to herself. Lately she had been thinking a lot about what would happen once Naraku was killed and the shards were back to one piece. She wanted to stay, but what would be her motive? Her excuse for coming to this time was to collect the shikon jewel because she was the one that broke it in the first place, but once it's whole again, what would be the reason to come back? Of course to come back to see her friends and to see Inuyasha, but Inuyasha would leave with Kikyo, and she was sure that Miroku and Sango would get married and live somewhere else, which she would only come to Shippou.
She sighed at the thought. She didn't know what to do. But then a thought came to her.
If we collect all the shards of the shikon jewel and Inuyasha makes a wish on it, it would disappear…meaning I couldn't go back to my time to see my family or come back here to my friends!
Kagome got very depressed and confused, she got frustrated. She started to cry.
"No…no. I don't know what to do…" Kagome sobbed.
"Why are you crying wench?" Inuyasha said as he stepped through the hut's door and walked up to Kagome.
She looked up to him with wet eyes.
"It's nothing, don't worry Inuyasha, and go back to sleep it's still early." Kagome said and turned her face so she didn't have to face him.
"If it was nothing you wouldn't be crying." He said and walked over to the side of her and sat down next to her.
"Now tell me what's wrong."
"I'm just thinking about what I'm going to do."
Inuyasha waited a few seconds for another statement to follow, but one never came.
"To do what?" Inuyasha said.
"When the jewel shard is whole, baka! What will I do? I'm going to give it to you so you can make a wish, I've already decided that, but once you make your wish, the jewel will disappear. I won't have access to one of the worlds. It's either I leave my family or my friends."
"Don't call me an idiot when you are the only idiot here. It's easy, you stay here with us."
Inuyasha replied with a snort at the end.
"Baka…" Kagome said.
"Didn't you hear what I said!" Inuyasha said.
"You just don't get it. You say stay here with you and the others correct?"
Inuyasha shook his head in agreement.
"But once the jewel in whole, you are going to hell with Kikyo, Miroku and Sango are probably going to moved and get married some place else, and it'll just be me and Shippou. Everything will change. But if I go home, I can't go back to school because I'm way too far behind. I try to keep up, but when I go back I know I'm going to have to do a year over again or even not go anymore. If I end up not going then what is there to do at home? Either way the outcome won't be something I like, but I'm not sure which one to choose." Kagome started to cry again.
Inuyasha put his arms around her to comfort her.
"Who said that I would go to hell with Kikyo? And I'm sure Miroku and Sango won't move and definitely won't get married so…"
Kagome broke off his huge.
"Baka! Baka! Baka! You already told me as well as the others that you are going, and you promised. Even to me you said you never would break a promise. And you must be seriously blind if you can't see that the two are in love!" Kagome yelled and ran from where the two were sitting towards the woods.
A couple minutes before, Shippou, Miroku, and Sango were woken up by all the yelling from the two and had listened in on their conversation. Miroku and Sango were both blushing furiously and Shippou looked up at them from the floor.
"You guys won't really leave me will you?" He said about to cry and Inuyasha walked into the hut.
"You'll never be alone Shippou don't worry, I'm going to go after Kagome."
"But I want to stay with you guys! I don't care if I'm not alone; I want to be with all of you! Kagome's right you are a baka!" Shippou sobbed.
"Stop crying now!" Inuyasha yelled, hit Shippou on the head, and ran out of the hut to find Kagome.
Kagome had run blindlessly through the woods, until she heard a scream from just next to where she had ran in Inuyasha's forest.
She whipped her tears and looked east from where she was standing. Again she heard the scream. It sounded like it was from a little girl, and without another thought Kagome ran east towards the cries.
Kagome ran and ran, but she never found where the cries were coming from. She heard them again, screaming for help and ran again. Finally she found out where they were coming from. She had ran into an open field in the forest and found a little girl on the ground, bleeding from her right arm, crying with a mole monster about three times the size of herself walking closer and closer to its prey.
"You mole demon! Leave that girl alone!" Kagome yelled, catching the demon's attention.
Kagome reached for her bow and arrows and remembered that she had left the back at the hut.
"Ha, ha, ha, as if a puny little human could ever defeat me. You look just as good as this other human I have here."
The mole demon said and started slowly walking towards Kagome. Kagome walked backwards slowly, but tripped backwards over a root, and fell and the demon jumped and attacked. Kagome screamed.
Inuyasha was running through the forest after Kagome's scent.
'Where the hell is she?' He thought to himself and kept sprinting from tree to tree until he heard her cry for help.
"Shit! Kagome!" Inuyasha said and ran even faster until he came up to where he saw the demon and Kagome on the floor.
From the looks of it, the mole demon and cut her left arm pretty badly, and she had little cuts here and there. There was a little girl there as well, not as injured, but she looked frightened and was crying.
"Kagome! What the hell did you do to Kagome!" Inuyasha said and pulled out his sword.
"He, he. Just tasted her delicious blood." The demon laughed.
Inuyasha growled and swung his sword. One swing and the demon were gone. But then why was Inuyasha still on guard.
'Shit, I feel like I'm in a trap, but from who and what?' Inuyasha thought and rushed to Kagome.
"Kagome! Kagome! Please wake up!" Inuyasha held her carefully in his arms.
Kagome opened her eyes, "I…Inu…Inuyasha…be…behin…you…" Kagome said as Inuyasha turned to look behind him to see the little girl that was crying before, now in front of him.
She punched Inuyasha in the head knocking him to the floor, unconscious.
Kagome looked up at the little girl who looked no more than ten years old in fright.
"Who…who are…you! What have you done!" Kagome said.
The little girl laughed and soon morphed out of the appearance of a little child, into something much more horrifying. Naraku.
"I know your secret, miko. I've been wondering why you have been missing from Inuyasha sometimes, and why I felt safer on different days, but finally after watching your movements threw this little girls appearance, I know."
"Wha…what do you mean?" Kagome said and slowly tried to crawl backwards a little at a time.
"Ku, ku, ku, let me explain, miko. This child you saw before, I merely killed her and captured her soul, to obtain a disguise, and watched you threw this very body. Now I know where your home is."
"What do you plan to do!" Kagome said and she slowly stood up in her place.
"Oh, my dear miko, you will see very soon." Naraku laughed and swung a fist at her head.
The next thing Kagome saw was darkness.
