Alright, everybody! So sorry for the long wait after such a cliff-hanger, but I was actually unable to get to the computer where I had my story saved for a long while! I would have posted this the same day as the last two, as this chapter was originally written on the morning after, but I was unhappy with the last bit so I knew that I had to re-write it. So here I am, sick as a dog, home from school, and at the computer from which I was parted from for so long. Ahh... feels good.../coughs violently/... Damn cold... ruined the moment...
P.S The song is So Far Away by Staind.
(Oh well, here's chapter 14, now excuse me while I go get a lozenge.)
When she opened her eyes for the first time, it was dark out. Her head throbbed and her body ached while she lay there, huddled in her sleeping bag. She reached up to her forehead and felt gauze against her fingers.
"How long has it been?" she thought out loud.
"Three days," a woman's voice answered.
"Sango!" Kagome sat up, only to be greeted by a rush of pain from her abdomen.
"Shh, be careful! You aren't fully healed yet, you have to take it easy." Kagome silently complied as Sango gently set her back down. "Now... what happened?"
Kagome's eyes widened. "We fought Naraku! We killed him! We... Inuyasha! Is Inuyasha okay!"
Sango looked down at the ground and Kagome feared the worst, until Sango pointed to the other side of the clearing to her right. There Inuyasha lay, in the same spot where he fell, with more bandages wrapped around his entire body than Kagome had ever seen. She watched, and saw his chest slowly rise up and down. He was breathing, but it was easy to see that he was having trouble doing so.
"We don't dare move him. Too risky. In fact, we almost lost him, and you." Sango smiled a sad smile. "If it weren't for that flower, you probably wouldn't be here."
"Flower? What flower?"
"Miroku and I don't know. When Inuyasha showed up that morning in the clearing, he was holding you and that flower. He told us to grind it up and make it into a tea, and to have you drink it. That's when he collapsed. He was direct in his orders but I don't think he was fully aware of what was going on. Doesn't surprise me, now that I think about it, seeing the condition he was in- Kagome, what's wrong!" Kagome had begun to cry.
"S-Sango..." Kagome managed out between sobs. "It's my... fault! I'm t-the one w-who hurt him! N-Naraku took control, and I stabbed him, and w-we f-fell off a c-cliff, a-and I-I-I could-couldn't wake up, and t-there was the j-jewel, and-and..."
"Shh, Kagome, calm down. You're not making any sense. I'm sure that, whatever did happen, wasn't your fault."
"Sang-go..."
"Hm?"
'D-Do you think y-you could move me next to him?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Alright then..."
(Later that night)
Every one was asleep, everyone accept Kagome. She couldn't sleep, her mind was racing and it was hard to focus on anything for too long. All the memories Naraku had suppressed had risen to the surface. She felt sick. She had been manipulated, used in Naraku's little game, and worst of all, she had nearly killed Inuyasha. No, she couldn't sleep. If she did, she would have the dream. That horrible, horrible dream were she relived the moment where Naraku kissed her...and then went a step further. No, no! Don't think about it! If you don't stop thinking about it know, you'll never be able to!
Kagome turned on to her side and looked at Inuyasha. His breathing was still heavy. She gently reached out and touched the three long cuts across his cheek. They were beginning to thin, a sign that Inuyasha was healing. Tears welded up in her eyes once more. She slowly sat up and leaned over Inuyasha's ear, much to the disagreement of her body.
"Inuyasha..." she whispered. "Inuyasha, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me... I love you, too..."
(Time skip)
It wasn't until two days later that Inuyasha began to stir. Kagome had been watching him every day since she had first woken up, as she was quickly growing stronger. Thus, when Inuyasha awoke, he was greeted by bright sunlight and a certain azure eyed woman.
"Kagome...?"
"You're awake! Inuyasha, oh, thank god!"
"How many..."
"It's been eight days since Naraku died."
"Eight days?"
"You've been sleeping, but you're still not fully healed. You need to take it easy."
"A-Are you okay?"
"I'm fine thanks to that flower you got."
"The Gekko Bara... Moonlight Rose." Inuyasha tried to sit up.
" No, stop! Don't do that!... Y-You nearly died. I, we almost lost you. I was so worried."
"Feh, you should know I'm tougher than that." Inuyasha said weakly.
Kagome just looked at him a smiled.
"Kagome... What did you do to Naraku?"
"Oh... I'm not sure really. I think I was somehow attacking his consciousness. A simple synopsis would be that I was making his brain blow up... from the inside... or... something... ummm... yeah... his brain went kablui and now he's dead."
Inuyasha chuckled. Everything was slowly returning to normal.
(Time skip...again.)
After a few days passed, Kagome was fully healed, but Inuyasha still had some trouble with the finer things in life... such as walking. The marks on his face had disappeared along with his smaller stab wounds, but those larger ones on his chest, abdomen, and back still remained, though they were faring better. Inuyasha was also finding himself lacking in energy.
It was on one of his better days that Sango decided to confront him while Miroku had Kagome distracted. He had been sleeping at the foot of a tree, but he awoke upon Sango's arrival.
"So," she said, sitting down.
"What do you want, Sango?"
"Well... As Kagome's friend and as the one who's making sure you get off your butt and do this thing, I must know, have you asked her yet?"
"Um..."
"I'll take that as a no."
"Well, sorry, but asking someone to marry you isn't exactly on your mind 24/7 when you've just battled your arch nemesis and are on the brink of personal extinction!"
"Then, when is it on your mind?"
"..."
"It's 24/7, isn't it?"
"SHUT UP!"
Sango sighed. "...Look, she's going to say yes."
"And how do you know that?"
"You know how she was beside you when you woke up?"
"Yeah."
"Well, she first woke up six days before and she asked to be moved next to you!"
"...THAT DOESN'T PROVE ANYTHING!"
"Come on, are you going to do it or what?"
"...Eventually..."
"Oh, 'eventually' could be anything! Give me an estimate and I won't bug you until then!"
"Fine... I'm waiting until I'm fully healed to do anything."
(Time skip...yet again.)
Okay. Don't mess this up, this is your last chance. Sango and Miroku are back at campsite, and you and Kagome are out 'looking for firewood'(or so says Sango). Just breathe and come out with it. Just-
"Inuyasha?"
"Huh? What! Oh! Yeah!... What?" Inuyasha, having just been snapped from his string of thought that had been going on for the past twenty minutes, hadn't been fully aware that Kagome was starring at him.
"Um... Why is your face so red? Are you feeling okay, because you look a little green too."
"Uh, no! I'm fine! Never better!" Inuyasha thrust his fist in the air, as if to accentuate his point... but in actuality... he just looked stupid
"Okay then... Uh, Inuyasha?"
"Yeah?"
"I, um... I've been wondering about this ever since our battle with Naraku... What... What did you... say to me at the end? You know, when you were climbing the mountain."
Huh? Inuyasha thought. What is she talking about...? Inuyasha strained to remember... and then it hit him.
Inuyasha thought. Inuyasha strained to remember... and then it hit him.Oh crap.
"Uh, I, uh...I didn't say an-anything... d-did I?"
"... Never mind..." Kagome said sadly. I must have imagined it...
"Kagome...W-What I-I..." Inuyasha sighed heavily and took a deep breathe. "What I s-said was... that I...uh..." Dammit, don't flake out now! "That I... Well, what do you think I said!" Inuyasha blurted out in frustration and embarrassment.
Kagome blushed madly. She glared at her feet and finally mumbled something incoherent to any human... unfortunately(or is that fortunately?), Inuyasha isn't human.
"Then why do I have to say it again!" Inuyasha yelled, continuing blush madly.
"You mean that's what you really said?" Kagome almost screamed back in shock.
"Well, duh! What the hell else sounds like 'I love you'?"
Both went completely silent. Both had faces redder than ripe tomatoes.
It was Inuyasha who finally broke the silence. "Ahem... W-What I mean to say is, uh... W-Would you...uh, be my, um... mate, Kagome?"
"A-Are you serious?"
"Yeah..."
Kagome was struck dumb. She wanted to say yes, but...
"What about my family, Inuyasha? What about... Kikyo."
"I-I've already asked for your mother's blessings and... Kikyo's... gone."
"YOU ASKED MY MOM ABOUT IT? Wait... gone?"
"She's been laid to rest."
Kagome was shocked to say the least. "B-But, you'll live so much longer than me and the same goes for any children..."
The two blushed even harder at the mention of children. "W-Well, you remember that flower?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, it's called the Gekko Barra, and it'll heal any human's injuries, if they get it in time, and it'll expand their lifespan to that of a demons. It only grows on this mountain and can only be picked at midnight for it to work. Otherwise, it's a deadly poison."
Kagome walked up to Inuyasha and tenderly took his hands in hers. This was her deciding moment. This moment would change her life.
"Inuyasha," she said slowly. "Yes!"
This is my life...
It's not what it was before.
"Kagome... are you sure?"
"Absolutely... I love you."
"... I love you, too."
All these feelings I've shared.
And these are my dreams,
"Even though I'm a half-breed?" Inuyasha choked on the last two words.
"Yes."
That I'd never lived before.
"Even though people will think and say things? Like that you're easy, or that I possessed you?"
"Yes."
Somebody shake me
'Cause I, I must be sleeping.
"Even though-"
Kagome kissed him while in mid-sentence.
"No matter what it is," she said. "My answer is still yes."
Now that we're here,
It's so far away.
All the struggle we thought was in vain.
"You really don't care?"
"As long as it's you I'm kissing, I really don't."
All the mistakes,
One life contained.
They all finally start to go away.
Kagome laughed lightly.
"What's so funny?" Inuyasha grumbled, wondering if she was mocking him.
"Oh, it's nothing," she replied, still smiling. "I was just thinking, to my friends in my time, you're known as Mr. Possessive, and they were always telling me for the longest time to break up with you. Wait until I tell them that I married you!"
Now that we're here it's so far away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I'm not ashamed to be the person that I am today
"Wait, if they've been telling you that for a long time, how long have you actually liked me? And why the hell didn't you say anything!"
"Uh...Just shut up and kiss me again!"
"Kagome!"
These are my words,
That I've never said before.
I think I'm doing okay.
"Wait... Inuyasha?"
"Yeah? What?"
"You used the word mate, right?"
"Um... yes?"
"Does that mean... Inuyasha, does my mom know that you use that word?"
"Um... yes..."
"WHAT!"
And this is the smile,
That I've never shown before.
Somebody shake me,
'Cause I, I must be sleeping.
"Okay, no more talking now, alright?"
"Alright!"
"..."
"..."
"Are you sure you want to do this, Kagome?"
"Are you!"
"Yeah...but..."
"But what?"
"Well, humans are usually ostracized by other humans, even attacked, when they become mates with youkai, and, I mean, I'm a hanyou to begin with, so, the way people treat you-"
"Inuyasha," she said softly. "It won't matter because... you'll always be here with me, to protect me... and our family..."
He had always had fears, she had always had doubts, but then... it really didn't matter...
to any of them.
Now that we're here,
It's so far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
All the mistakes,
One life contained
They all finally start to go away
Now that we're here it's so far away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I'm not ashamed to be the person that I am today
I'm so afraid of waking
Please don't shake me
Afraid of waking
Please don't shake me
Now that we're here,
It's so far away
All the struggle we thought was in vain
All the mistakes,
One life contained
They all finally start to go away
Now that we're here it's so far away
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I'm not ashamed to be the person that I am today
Owari
(End of Chapter 14)
OH MY GOD! END OF CHAPTER 14? THAT MEANS THE END OF FANFIC! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ALL THAT'S LEFT IS THAT LITTLE CANDY CHAPTER THAT I'M ADDING LATER!
Erin: WHAT! You mean after the candy chapter(that's a total drabble, by the way) I Must Keep Going is finished!
I'm afraid so.
Erin: That's kind of an oxymoron... you know... I must keep going... isn't going anymore... umm, oh, crap, I mean, ahem. "NO! YOU MUST DO SOMETHING!"
What? Like, a sequel?
Erin: THAT'S IT! Do a sequel!
Um... SURE! But it'll be a drama/romance and really mushy.
Erin: I DON'T CARE, JUST DO IT!
Alright, alright. So keep your eyes open everybody for a sequel named... Er, what should I call it?
Erin: I don't know! You're the author!
Oh well, I'll give it a name later!
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