Disclaimer: ………
Miroku: …hello?
Shel: SHH! I'm thinking…
InuYasha: Yeah right, now what's going on?
Shel: I'm thinking!
Shippo: Please, you don't think.
Shel: Well I'm thinking about Johnny Depp. He's so cute…………
InuYasha: He's that cute that you're thinking?
Kagome: Oh yeah.
Sango: Absolutely.
La and Brookke: Oooh yeah.
InuYasha: Well that answers my question. Miroku?
Miroku: I'm with them. C'mon, have you seen…him…?
Girls: (stare with confused look)
InuYasha and Shippo: (take one step farther away from Miroku)
Miroku: Why did I say that!
Lyric: Heh…cuz it was funny.
La: You again! (hack hack)
InuYasha: Heh. Someone hates someone.
Lyric: Yeah. Me hate you.
InuYasha: What? Why! What did I do?
Lyric: You're …um…you like Kagome!
InuYasha: So? La likes Miroku! You don't hate Miroku.
Lyric: Because I like Miroku!
Miroku: (rolls eyes)
Kagome: What do you have against me?
Lyric: You're an idiot!
Kagome: Am not! I um…uh…
Sango: Kagome is just…unfamiliar with our surroundings.
Shel: ooh, big words in small sentences.
InuYasha: She's an idiot. Kagome…not most of the time.
Kagome: Thank you…jeeze. Everyone is against me.
Shel: I just said you use big words. Okay so all of these characters that have talked and the ones one didn't, I don't own them! Got it? Good. Except the ones who talked a little except Shippo…so yeah.
InuYasha: I wish that made sense.
Kagome: It did.
InuYasha and Miroku: …oh.
La: …Shel, make it stop!
Shel: Stop whining you guys! Jeeze…what I have to put up with…okay so La has a new fic! It's a silly little one-shot where Miroku basically annoys the hell out of InuYasha by singing 'It's a Small World' and well…hehehe you just have to read and see.
Miroku: It's a small world after all…
InuYasha: (covers his ears) AH! MAKE IT STOP!
La: (jumps on Miroku) shush my lecherous sweetie. (Starts to pet his hair like a cat) soon, sooooooooon my pet, everyone will be gone and we will be together at last!
Everyone except her: …
La: Huh? (dark evil giggle) mwahahahahaha………
Lyric: MINE! GET OFF OF MY MOKU-SAMA!
Shel: …um…anyone got anything to add?
InuYasha: Yes, end this damn messed up disclaimer, now.
Shel: RIGHT! So I can't remember if I said this but I don't own any of these characters except La and Brookke and Yumi because they are mine! Oh yeah and I now sucessfully own InuYasha and Miroku illegally!
Miroku and InuYasha: (Miroku holds up a white flag) (unenthusiastically) hooray…
La: I can't believe she owns us.
Brookke: Scary, yes?
InuYasha: Yes.
Shel: No respect! Time for the chapter! YAY! Oh and I must warn you all that there is cute fluff contained in this story!
La: YAY FOR FLUFF!
Miroku: Get off of me…please?
Sesshomaru: Who said Fluffy?
Sango: Fluff not fluffy.
Sesshomaru: …oh…good.
Shel: (attacks Sesshomaru and he falls to the floor) (snuggles up in his fluffy tail thing) Oooh…it's soft…and I love it! (rubs it against her cheek)
InuYasha: (backs away slowly) Yeah…ok…
Kagome: Be happy. She has a new obsession.
InuYasha: Yes! Freedom!
Sesshomaru: I'm not even in this stupid story!
Shel: (still snuggling in the fluffy thing her face totally red for some odd reason) yay! You are now!
Sesshomaru: …damn…
Shel: I understand that this disclaimer is very very very long but YAY FOR LONG DISCLAIMERS! Rite? ……………Ok well, ok.
The forest was so dark. It was night and the trees kept any passing light from reaching beyond the thick branches. Kagome said that she left her bag at the well and was going to go back to get it. That was at least an hour ago and it didn't take that long to get a bag. So after impatiently waiting for her to come back, InuYasha had decided he would go and get her himself.
Her scent had been strong in the air but quite suddenly, it disappeared and that worried him since he was now far from the well so she couldn't have disappeared through it. He found himself in the same clearing he was in moments ago.
"Why is Kikyou still around?" He asked out loud. He couldn't see her but she was somewhere around. But when he turned around to leave the clearing, a horrible sight awaited him.
Kikyou stood hovering over a very pale and wide-eyed Kagome. Blood covered her body and soaked her hair and face. There were scratches all over her but the worst place was the huge gash across her back. Kikyou sighed sadly.
"Kikyou!" InuYasha raged. "What did you do!"
Kikyou sighed again. "Alas, InuYasha, I have done nothing to this poor soul, which was rightfully mine in the first place."
"Then who did this!"
Kikyou glared at him. "Check you sword…"
InuYasha stared angrily at her before unsheathing the Tetsusaiga and found on his untransformed katana, dark, murky blood that crawled up a two or three inches dripping incessantly. The blood was drenched in Kagome's scent. "W-w-w-what?"
Kikyou laughed dully. "You have to face it InuYasha. The only way Kagome is leaving this place forever is by death. Death by you at least."
"InuYasha!"
Finally after shaking him and shouting at him, Miroku had finally broken through to InuYasha. He opened his eyes slowly as if to make sure something awful wouldn't be waiting for him. "What's going on?"
InuYasha shook his head before answering. "It was just—nothing."
Miroku didn't believe that. InuYasha's ears had been back in pain and he had this terrified look on his face. "Well try to keep it down. Nobody got any rest and it's not even morning yet. Sango and I haven't been able to get to sleep and I don't doubt it was the same for you."
InuYasha tightened his arms around Kagome's sleeping form. "Y-yeah. Sure. What about um…her?"
Miroku delayed the answer struggling to answer his question. "Whoever did this to Kagome and Yumi was obviously after Yumi more than Kagome." And he ended it with that.
"So what the hell is that supposed to mean?" InuYasha whispered back harshly careful not to wake anyone.
"Look, I would tell you more but I can't. So just drop it." Miroku answered flatly and sauntered back over to his corner. InuYasha frowned at Miroku and a slight stir came from beside him.
"You guys are the loudest people ever." Kagome whispered groggily. "Jeeze." She pulled away from InuYasha and rubbed her eyes sleepily. With the wrapping covering all the important places, it was cutting into chest. "Shirt."
InuYasha threw Kagome her miko shirt and she sleepily pulled it on. "What's going on?" Kagome asked rubbing her eyes.
"Nothing important." Miroku lied. InuYasha didn't have anything to add.
Kagome shrugged. "Is Yumi awake yet?"
Miroku and InuYasha shook their heads solemnly, not able to say "no."
Kagome got up and not able to look at Yumi moved towards the door. "Where're you going?" Miroku questioned. Kagome halted but did not turn around. "Out. When Yumi wakes up, have her find me." And with that, she walked out the door. InuYasha stood up and followed her out. "Kagome, where are you really going?"
Kagome stopped in her tracks and this time she turned around. "I just need to clear my head. You can come with me if you want."
To InuYasha, it sounded more like she wanted him to come than a suggestion from her. He shrugged and Kagome waited for him to catch up with her.
It was extremely awkward for InuYasha to walk in silence next to Kagome. She didn't seem to mind. She was wrapped up in her own thoughts and it bugged him that she wasn't talking to him. "So, what are you thinking about?"
Kagome exhaled deeply. "Nothing really. Nothing that would be important to anyone else except me really."
InuYasha saw that that was the only answer she was going to give him. Without even noticing it, they both found themselves by the well. InuYasha thought that Kagome planned on going home but even she looked surprised to be near the well. "Oh, guess we got off the path, huh?"
InuYasha noticed that there was something in her voice that made it shake uneasily. Was she going to cry? Most of the time, Kagome told him what was bothering her and it bothered him that she wasn't going to say anything to him. Without thinking, InuYasha grabbed her hand making her look at him. She didn't look like she was going to cry but her eyes held fear and a hint of loneliness along with anger hiding in them.
Kagome didn't budge but she shifted her eyes away from him. "If you want me to tell you what's bothering me, there's nothing to tell."
InuYasha wasn't looking for answers to his questions. "I don't need you to tell me anything." Kagome lifted her eyes back up to his and he didn't look away this time. With Kikyou back, Kagome felt like nothing mattered to InuYasha anymore except Kikyou. Like she was second best. Or last best considering how important Kikyou was…is…is important.
She was jealous and she resented Kikyou for screwing up her life again. She could never hate her though. She was back, she couldn't change it. Actually she could…
InuYasha interrupted her thoughts when he pulled her into a warm embrace. Kagome's reaction was delayed and she was so surprised that she ended up trying to pull away.
"What're you—?" But then she thought to herself and it ended up that that's what she had wanted. She had been too tired to say or do anything that night (or early in the morning, whatever) and Miroku and Sango and Shippo were right there. But she was wide-awake now and they were alone.
Kagome tilted her head back and jumped on her tiptoes to kiss him. InuYasha was stunned by the kiss at first but calmed and returned it, pulling her closer to him.
BOOM!
The deafining explosion caused htem to abrubtly break away from each other. Smoke and dust rose up from the direction of the village. It wasn't far away; it could very well be the village. A dark miasma cloud hung over the couded area and then fainted away. Angery voices sounded from the trees and Naraku's scent was all over this mess.
"Stay here and don't move." InuYasha instructed Kagome before taking off in the direction of the voices. "Wait, InuYasha!" Kagome protested.
InuYasha stopped and looked over his shoulder at Kagome. "If things get too out of hand, get down that well and don't come back until I come for you." And with those last words, he ran into the forest out of sight. Kagome stood there, unmoving. Was she really going to just let him og alone? Not after what had just happened she wasn't. Kagura and Naraku's aura were too strong to let him go.
Kur0: Yes, yes, hate me, love me, another cliffie! …WHOA that ryhmed! Heh, sweet. Okay, now, I know this chapter was extra long but it was cute right? I've had a few people e-mail me asking, "Is Yumi going to die? Is it Kouga that's going to die? Or is Kagome going to be killed?" Because if you remmeber, I had this thing going in the beginning, I would keep giving hints that would tell you would die. So, next chapter I'm going to start a poll. I have an ending for each character if you choose them to die. Well, the characters in the poll. You'll see. Keep reviewing! DAMNIT REVIEW PEOPLE!