Title: converging fate and time
Author: ilovemilknhoney
Discription: by travelling to the past, kagome cheats the laws of time, and journies along another possible path of fate. however, once all her callings of the feudal era are resolved, she is transported back to her own time, the time in which the lessons of her true fate will begin. but, in being a reicarnation of kikyo will fate repeat itself?
Prologue One; inuyasha and kagome, the final battle
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an immence whirl of dark wind blew around the pair, towering above them as she felt his arms move around her waist, pulling her into his embrace. she was standing there, so close to him that she could feel his warm breath on her cheek. their clothing tryed to assist in consuming them in the strom, as they blew with the pull of the wind. he was staring at her with his golden eyes, not daring to let her out of his sight. she could feel his eyes on her, as she stared at the golwing jewl, causing her to blush. the temptation to look into his affection was strong, but she couldnt risk losing her consentration.
why now inuyasha? her own thoughts were two-timing her, as her frustration caused the darkness to once again overcome the jewl. her hands lay open together, adjacent to her body, the jewl gravitated slightly above the inside of her palms, she feard the darkness was too strong for her. she couldnt do it, negative thoughts eneterd her mind as she doubted her own ability to purifly it. finally lost in confusion she lifted her gaze to inuyasha, not knowing what else to do.
pulling her into him even closer, inuyasha parted his hands from her waist placing them under her hands, the jewl, was protected by the closeness of the two bodies. feirce, the wind blew her hair across her face as she continued to stare into inuyasha eyes, help me inuyasha, she spoke to herself, please inuyasha.. protect me.
kagomes eyes screamed her thoughts at him, he knew she could do it, stop doubting yourself his eyes spoke in response, attempting to comfort her own. but she was so scared, her expression so vulnerable. he moved his nose up to hers, brushing it slighlty, so she could look directley into his eyes.
"..ka..kagome" he spoke so softly, she bearly caught it creeping out his lips. "i'll protect you, even if it kills me"
she looked into his eyes, letting out a deap breath before gently closing her own. he sensed releif free the strain in her expression, as he moved his lips up to her ear, making sure she didnt miss anything he needed to say to her. he knew this was quite possibly the end, and he felt the accumlilation of all his feelings for kagome regergitate towards his throat. damned, if he was going to die without sucsessfully articulating the emotion locked up inside of him. the emotion he thought he would never experience again, until he met her. he took a breath to speak, but then hesitated, slightly bearing his fangs at his own weakness, before swallowing hard and then finally speaking...
"i've always loved you kagome"
the seconds between his declaration and kagomes reaction seemed like a lifetime for the half demon, so many thoughts raced through his head as he held his breath, just waiting. releived, he almost gasped for air, as forgetting the jewl and all her logic, kagome gracefully wraped her arms around him, tears just escaping from her eyes as she tucked her face subject to his neck.
as she held him, the wind grew stronger, overpowering the two as their feet lifted off the ground. inuyasha swiftly gripped hold of her, resting his chin on her shoulded, as they floated in the eye of the whirl wind. she held him tightly, pressing herself into him, he closed his eyes feeling her against him, "i'll never let you go"
he felt the wetness of kagomes tears on his neck, as unanticipatedly her skin grew warmer beneath him. shocked, he opened his eyes to see a barrier of pure light surrounding them.
"the jewl!"
his ears twitched and eyes widened as he broke the hold he had on kagome, now free from the effects of the wind, they both floated amongst the saftey of the barrier. the jewl glowed with purification inbetween them, and inuyasha could feel its power. he looked up into kagomes face opposite him. she floated bewitchingly, her eyes still closed. however, she didnt look scared as before. he looked at her closley, tilting his head as he tried to determine how she was feeling. a look of content was on her face, it was as if there was a great warmth inside her, trying to escape.
"kagome!" he tried to yell out to her, but was suprised at how sound hardley travelled through the space consumed by the barrier.
"KAGOME!" even while yelling as loud as he could, he could barely hear himself. frustrated he tried to move closer to her, but even while able to move, he found himself no closer to her, he just hurt himself in the process. the large gash on his arm continued to bleed, he held it, trying to prevent anymore bood loss, it was already beginning to make him light headed.
"DAMMIT" he clenched his fist feeling his nails dig into the palms of his hand, drawing blood. as the blood dripped down his arm and fingers, he looked though the barrier to the darkness surrounding them, and noticed it being sucked up through the barrier, diminishing into nothing. looking again at kagome he relaxed, remembering how she responded to his words earlier.
"is she doing this?" he spoke to himself, changing his view to the pink glowing jewl as he noticed it move swiftly towards kagome. it plunged into her chest, forcing her to gasp as she opend her eyes looking into inuyashas. the barrier suddenly dissapeared, as had the darkness. they both began to fall to the ground, but inuyasha interfered taking hold of kagome and landing to his knees on the ground beneith them.
he looked up above them, it was bright again, as before the battle, with the sun high in the sky shining down on them, the air smelt fresh too, free of demonic auras. he glanced down to kagome lying peacefully in his arm, he could see the jewl still shining through her chest. although a little shakey, she started to move placing a hand on inuyashas wound.
"we.. we did it inuyasha" she smiled at him her eyes like pools, in the light. he smiled back at her, and without even realising what he was doing, he tilted his head moving in close to her, kissing her softley on the lips.
she embraced the soft warmth of his lips as they gentley caressed her own. too overwhelmed to move, she lay in his arms in complete bliss, over the current situation and at the fact that all her dreams had finally come true.
after he pulled away, she breifly glanced at his lips then into his eyes, "i've always loved you too, inuyasha"
he smiled, watching her giggle as she blushed at her own words. a new happiness overcame him, as he realised he had finally opened up his heart once again. opened himself up to another, hoping, in return that they would open up to him. every person he had ever given his love to, had left him, all alone. his heart couldnt handle it again, but at the same time couldnt handle the loneliness. kagome made him once again vulnerable to pain, but this time gave him her own heart to protect him from it.
with his free hand he brushed the strands of hair covering her face behind her ear, then moved his hand down and around to clasp her neck. she smiled peacfully leaning into his hold, as he moved into a more comfortable position, crossing his legs, kagome still lying in his lap.
"stupid girl... you almost got yourself killed because of me" he ran his finger over a small cut on her forehead.
her nose crinkled a little, in disaprovement playfully, as she looked down at the still bleeding gash on his arm, "looks more like the other way around to me"
he huffed turning his head, and staring off into the distance, " keh, thats nothing"
kagome smile grew even larger, this was the inuyash she loved, and now she knew he loved her too. she giggled wrapping her arms around his waist and snuggling her face into his body.
he sighed, resting his head on hers as he smoothed out her hair which rested on his arm. it was finally over, everything they had worked for up to this point, he could finally relax, and finally start to recover. and this, he thought, he could definetly get used to.
not a second after the realisation of his current contentment, the warmth of kagomes skin he felt minutes earlier, rapidly made itself felt for the second time. quickly opening his resting eyes he watched as the glow of the shikon jewl spread through kagomes body, he tried to hold onto her, but failed, as she slowly dissapeared from his arms.