Chapter lll: Second Chances

"KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled after her.

Where inthe fuck did she think she was headed!

He reflexively took off after her when Kikyou yelled out behind him..

"Inuyasha. If you leave me here, this business unfinished, I will fade away to hell alone. Since the jewel is completed, my business here in this world is done...accept for you, Inuyasha. You are the only thing holding me here."

Inuyasha stopped, his back to Kikyou. He could not leave her...he had sworn that he would never leave her alone again. But Kagome...where was she going?

The stress was about to overwhelm him.

"What do you propose I do...Kikyou." He growled out her name angrily. His hands were drawn into fists inside his kimono sleeves.

He was caught in between two people that he truly loved, and his frustration was at it's peak. If Kagome reached the well then she'd be gone forever.

If he left Kikyou, she would also dissapear forever.

It was time to choose, Kikyou or Kagome.

"Let her go back. It is where she belongs, just as we belong together in hell, Inuyasha. She is not even meant to be in this place." Her voice was still sweat, but low...as if she was trying to keep her patients, which was also at it's end.

For some reason Kikyou's words hit a spark inside of Inuyasha, and made him very, very angry. He clenched his fangs together and it was all he could do to not yell at her.

"Kikyou...i'v decided." He then turned to face her. "I'v decided on my wish."

The sun was high in the sky now, and it's heat was beating down on them. It was mid-afternoon.

Kikyou's eyes widened. And she had that old innocent look to her...the look that he loved.

"Kikyou, at one time I loved you. I would have done anything for you but..." He stared at her face. She was so...

"I am just not ready to just give up my life. Fate gave me a second chance...and I came back alive and...I was..loved..."

Kikyou stared at him impassively.

"I have alot of things in my life that I am still looking forward to..." His voice shook ever so slightly. He cared for her so much, and he did not want to do this...for a moment he had second thoughts.

Then he thought about Kagome smiling up at him, with that sweet smile of pure happiness, which was the only thing that kept him going at times during their long, long journey...

So he continued on...

"The Kikyou that I knew and loved died 50 years ago...and she never got a second chance...That Kikyou could have never killed anyone." His voice trailed off. "Not even an evil bandit that tried to kill her." He paused to stare at her.

He couldn't bring himself to talk about it anymore..

"Look at her now."

"Kikyou...i'm sorry that it had to happen like this.." He clenched the jewel in his fist and concentrated.

"Inuyasha, this is what you truly want? For us to be parted, forever?" She said sadly, her emotions were coming through.

"I wish that your real soul will be saved."

The jewel grew warm in his hand and glowed white. At that moment a strong wind blew in from the sky through the trees, and Kikyou and the jewel disentegrated into it and were carried off with the wind into the sky.

"K-Kikyou.." Inuyasha stood there, staring at the spot that Kikyou had just been standing in, with his hand outstretched. And there, in the spot that she had been in just moments before, stood a lone bell-flower.

Inuyasha crouched down beside it and said a prayer, for the first time in his life.

He felt so myserable right now. Had he made the right choice? It felt like his mother had died all over again...but at the same time, there was so much relief that followed when she was gone...Like he had just taken care of a huge problem...but he didn't want it taken care of, but at any rate, he had another huge problem to take care of, he couldn't dwell on this one no matter how much it hurt.

It was just like getting hurt in battle. And now he was having to go save Kagome.

Inuyasha took off. After thinking on it for a little while, he decided that it might be best if he let Kagome walk off all of her frustrations.

It probably wasn't the best idea to confront her right now, even thought that was what he wanted to do so badly.

So he ran back to Kaede's hut, and that was when he started thinking back on what happened.

Inuyasha sat, as patiently as he could be in Kaede's hut. He looked out the window and the sun was now setting. She still hadn't returned, and after all those hours of reminiscing!

"Damn, humans are fucking slow!" He growled out. He looked around, and Kaede wasn't there. She hadn't been there all day, either. It was really strange too.

Inuyasha finally made his mind up to go and get Kagome. He walked out of the hut, and glanced up at the sky.

"Damnit! I shoulda left earlier cuz' the sun's already settin'...and my sences are dulling! Oh man, I just know this isn't a good idea..." He looked out into the woods and hesitated.

If they got caught out there by demons, they were probably gonna be dead. But if Kagome was caught by demons, she was a gonner for sure. He had to go save Kagome.

"Grrrrr. Stupid girl! If this is all because she got herself lost..." He glanced up at the darkening sky and his thoughts changed. "Damn I need to get goin'!"

Inuyasha sprinted off into the woods as fast as he could. He had to find her quickly before he became completely human. If he didn't find her before he transformed, then they were both fuckin' screwed.

She was scared,tired,hungry,bleeding and in pain, and she didn't even know if Inuyasha was alive...and now to top it off, it was pouring down rain...all of this overwhelmed her, but she knew she couldn't cry. Crying in this situation wouldn't do her any good at all. So she held it all in...

One thing that would help her would be to try to fix what was wrong.

One thing was, she had to get back home. But in order to get back home she would have to walk. And to walk...she'd have to fix her foot.

Kagome tried to set her broken hand down on the ground so that she could stand herself up, but she immediately felt so much pain in it. She kicked off her shoe to look at her swollen foot, and boy was it swollen up!

It looked like a giant tomato or something, and it was turning a nasty looking shade of purple..

Kagome peered down at her pulsating foot, which by the minute was swelling up bigger and bigger. And so walking home was more than out of the picture...

Walking back was a hopeless idea, Kagome couldn't move from her spot.

Her foot was so swollen that it stuck under the root. There wasn't any way that Kagome could move it out from under there, and it was hurting so badly!

Kagome looked around at the dark woods...she didn't know what to do now, and she was so terrified.

She was so afraid that she was gonna attract demons with the blood that was slowly sliding down her hand and dripping onto the soil.

She had gotten herself into a very big predicament.

"Inuyasha...please.." She whispered softly as the rain pounded down onto her, she was soaked all the way through her clothes.

Kagome sat there, alone in the woods trembling from the cold and pain and just everything combined.

Ok u guyz! I hope u all luv the story so far! Keep in mind that it's my first one ever, and i'm trying real hard on keeping their personalities the way they should be!

(it's pretty hard) So yah, leave lotsa reviews and tell me if i'm doin' good on it! Should I make the chapters longer, or shorter, or are they fine now?

And am I doing good with their personalities?

You know, I love reading Inuyasha fanfiction, but it's hard to find really good ones. (There are a few out there!) One of the things i'v noticed about Inuyasha fanfiction is that people don't give enough personality, or detail, to the story and it's characters.

That's what i'm trying to work on to keep it interesting, so if my story starts to get boring--let me know! I wanna know what u guyz think so that I can keep it interesting for yall!

Neways, there are gonna be lotsa juicy twists to this story so keep on cumin' back to read sum more! I'm nowhere near done with this story!

Luv yall, and thanks for reading!