"I bet a human like you is hungry?" said Kikyo as she looked down on Kagome. When she didn't answer, Kikyo kicked her. Kagome winced and glanced upward at Kikyo's face, but still didn't say anything. "So that's how it is? When you're spoken to you won't talk? Ah I see."
Kagome lifted up her head and smiled. With a hiss Kikyo stood up straight. "Smiling? I was speaking to you, not smiling." She kicked her again.
"Inu---" Kagome whispered.
"So, it's Inuyasha you want to talk about?" She didn't wait for Kagome to speak, "Well, how would you like it if all of sudden he forgot you? How would you like it he found someone new? "
Kagome tried to stand but she was too weak and she only managed to get to her knees. "I am always afraid that's going to happen." She whispered. Her lips cracked as she spoke and she could taste the blood on them.
Kikyo looked at her, "Just wait till it happens." She said.
Kagome stared at Kikyo. She didn't think she had much in common with Kikyo even though she was supposedly the young priestesses reincarnation. Kikyo had a longer and much sharper face then she believed herself to have. And she was quite certain that neither of them had very much of the same attitude and disposition. "H-he never forgot you Kikyo." Kagome said but her voice cracked and it was more of a whisper.
Outside of the clearing Inuyasha stood dumbly in one place, he could see and hear it all, but he couldn't move. He looked at Kikyo. She thinks I forgot her? Then he looked at Kagome. She looked terrible, all weak and he could see the blood on her lips clearly since her face was so white, but she wasn't giving up. In fact she was explaining things.
"Kikyo. I never….I never feel like he sees me. He always thinks of you….He never forgot you." Kagome whispered. "He s-still l-loves you!" she was crying hard now but she didn't care. It was only Kikyo watching her and as far as she was concerned Kikyo needed to hear that.
You never feel like I see you? Inuyasha was dumbfounded. "Have I really acted that way?" he asked himself.
Kikyo turned around at his voice. "Inuyasha, is that true?" she asked the bushes.
He didn't think he had spoken out loud, but he knew he had when Kikyo kept staring pointedly at the bushes. Kagome looked up as Inuyasha walked out of the bushes.
"Inuyasha!" said Kikyo when she saw him looking at Kagome.
"Yes, yes it's true." He whispered.
Kikyo smiled. "So you do still love me? Then this girl is disposable, she is not needed." She replied.
Kagome looked at Kikyo's back. "Dis-disposable? But NO! Just let me go home." She cried.
Inuyasha looked at Kikyo for a long while then slowly he turned his head to look at Kagome. At first he just stood there looking down at her with the most tortured expression on his face and then finally he spoke. "I do see you." He whispered.
"Come on Inuyasha. You have the first swing and then I'll bind her to a tree." Said Kikyo as she took Kagome's bow and arrows.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha in shock as she watched him grab the hilt of the Tetsusiaga.