Heart Broken Arrows-Ch. 3

Disclaimer: Not mine…I don't make a profit from it.

Rating: M for language, gore, adult themes, and the Moon eyes I make at Fluffy.

Warning: Non-consensual Lemon/ Lime below.

Last time:

She stood up, shivering a bit in the cool night air. Kagome crept over to Inuyasha's tree, glancing up to see if he was asleep or not. But he wasn't even there…Kagome swallowed the lump the sprouted up in her throat. For Inuyasha not to be here meant that something more important had drawn him away. Kagome let her miko powers search for nearby Jewel shards. There were none.

Kikyou…it was Kikyou then.

Kagome felt the anger rise again.

Present: (REVISED)

The anger filled her, rushing and crackling throughout her body. She felt her face go warm. Inuyasha with Kikyou...He had left them, alone, in the dark. He had left her alone and in the dark. Inuyasha and Kikyou…It was true that she had promised to stay with him no matter what, Kagome reminded herself. She shouldn't be mad. She really shouldn't, and yet, her rage only grew stronger. She could feel her pulse racing, beating loudly at a point above her right eye. Kagome bent down and picked up her bow and arrow. Inuyasha would be irate if she went off into the forest without her weapon. Inuyasha loves Kikyou…Kagome choked back a silent scream that threatened to erupt. She glanced up to search the night sky, clutching the bow to her chest. There…to the west…the eerie blue-green of the soul stealers could be seen over the canopy of the forest. She really shouldn't go there…and yet, every breath she took, every single cell living and moving within her demanded that she go, insisted that she witness with her own eyes the betrayal of Inuyasha as her protector, as her defender, and a friend who cared about her.

After he had promised not to leave her...

So she went. Quietly, so as to not wake her friends, Kagome let the darkness of the forest embrace her. She moved through the dense underbrush as quickly as possible, making sure her feet slid under twigs that might otherwise crack and break, and shifting her body so that she passed between narrowly spaced trunks and bushes without rustling them. She saw signs of Inuyasha's passage through the forest, scraped bark from his claws, a white hair entangled on a thorny vine. Kagome's upper lip curled in bitter irony. Inuyasha had taught her well how to track and follow demons, hanyou and humans alike. Of course, the light of those disgusting soul stealers was a dead give away about where she had to go. All she needed to do was approach downwind of him...and Kikyou.

After about fifteen minutes, Kagome reached the area where Inuyasha was. She crept up and hid herself behind a large tree with nameless blossoms. As she set her bow down, the wind carried the the voices of Inuyasha and Kikyou to her straining ears.

"Inuyasha…" Kikyou's voice sounded both defiant and heart-broken. Her next words were almost too soft for Kagome to catch. "We can not be together."

"I would do anything to be with you Kikyou. Why won't you let me come with you?"

Kikyou's mocking voice answered him, "So soon you forget your promises." The lifeless eyes of the priestess traveled past his face. Kagome froze as Kikyou made eye contact with her. Suddenly, breathing seemed to be the most difficult thing in the world. "The foreign miko with my face, you swore to protect her, did you not?"

"Yeah, but Kagome has learned ho-"

"She swore to remain by you, yes?"

"Yes. But Kagome understands-"

"So many excuses you make on behalf of the girl Inuyasha. I wonder if she knows the half of it." Kikyou kept staring at her. The undead miko turned her lips into the parody of a smile.

"Do you love me still Inuyasha?" Suddenly, the scent of grave soil and water caused Kagome to take a deep staggering breath. She clasped her hands over her mouth, but Inuyasha heard nothing. His face was pointed downwards; his long silver locks covering his eyes.

"I'll love you always Kikyou."

"Yet I am dead Inuyasha." There was cruel taunting laughter in her words.

"The Shikon no Tama Kikyo, if I asked Kagome, she would-"

"She would make me alive again." A purple mist began to color Kagome's vision. She blinked rapidly, trying to dispel the effect, but that only seemed to intensify it. The world around her turned to a landscape of mauve, rose, and violet shadows that seemed to wriggle around her periphery. Inuyasha's hair shimmered like amethysts.

"Yes."

"What about the miko?"

"Kagome has her own time. She would do it for me." Kikyou turned her eyes towards Inuyasha. She took two steps towards him and then peeled off the layers of her white and red priestess garb. Kagome stopped breathing again, and tears filled her eyes. Inuyasha raised his head, and Kagome could see that his eyes were a red-violet, and they were burning with want for Kikyou. He uttered an agonized cry and rushed into her open embrace. Kikyou found Kagome's eyes again and blew her a kiss.

Kagome felt something inside of her shift and break. She had never known they would do...that they did do this...She shivered as the wind again blew the scent of grave soil and water to her. That bastard…she didn't have a real life to return to thanks to him! He had insisted that she leave it behind! She watched in agonized fascination as Inuyasha began kissing the undead body of Kikyou. And then seconds later, Kagome realized that she felt something she never had felt before. It filled her like anger, but it was colder, more solid. Where anger was like electricity through her blood, this was like lead in her veins. Kagome stood up slowly; her thoughts turning inward. What was she feeling? A pink blossom from the tree floated gently down as Kagome turned and began walking away. All thoughts of Inuyasha and Kikyo turned to black in her mind.

As Kagome melted away, confused and alone, back into the darkness of the forest, she did not see the look of pity that crossed Kikyo's face.

Yes, she would Inuyasha. She would do it indeed.

Kagome stumbled through the forest, uncaring of where she went or how she was supposed to get back from whence she came. The leaves of the very trees around her seemed to be mocking her, laughing at her. I am a fool, she thought miserably. She fell heavily against one gnarled tree, bare of leaves and green things. She collapsed to the ground, oblivious to the deep scratches the rough bark gouged into her arm.

When she had first come to the feudal era, Kagome had always spied on Inuyasha and Kikyou. They had embraced, but they had never...an image of Kikyou, undressing, flared in her mind. They had never...Kagome shook her head, trying to shake out the picture. I told him I would give up my true time for him...And he promised that he would give all just like I did. All those things that he taught me...They were just to get rid of me. Kagome felt the weariness in her veins, settle and harden into her muscles and joints. She suddenly felt much, much older than she actually was. Tears welled up in her eyes but froze there.

I wanted his love too...

A rustling in the bushes to her right brought Kagome out of her misery. She reached around, grabbing an arrow in her quiver, when she realized that she had left her bow on the ground near the tree she had hidden behind. Her bones cracked and pop as she stood up to face whatever was approaching.

See Inuyasha, I still forget...I need you...

A swish of fabric announced the arrival of Kikyou. The priestess emerged, with not a hair misplaced on her head. She had Kagome's bow in her hands, and it was notched with a sacred arrow that glowed with purple light. "A true miko would not forget those things that could save her life." Kikyou's words were harsh, yet her eyes seemed to hold a question.

In that instant, a burst of warmth filled Kagome's heart. I would do anything for him...and for her ...They have known so much more suffering than I...It's not right of me to be so selfish.

Kikyou watched as the light returned to Kagome's eyes. She had known that this would happen. Naraku had not believed her, but she knew the purity housed within the form of her reincarnation.

Kagome was incapable of hate, but only because she, Kikyou, had it all.

Kikyou pulled the arrow back, pouring all the coldness of her heart into its purple fire. It was time for the miko to understand. The question was answered. She let go of the shaft and it flew true.

Kagome didn't even scream as the arrow pierced the very center of her heart. The last thing she remembered was the sound of wings.

The undead priestess raised her long, tapered eyebrow in disgust as Naraku ran a hand across her cool flesh.

"You did your job well Kikyo." His crimson eyes slowly caressed the length of her body. "I had again underestimated the strength of Inuyasha's wench." He let one finger hook the corner of her golden kimono, slowly pulling it off her shoulder. Kikyo shuddered in response. "What's the matter, Kikyo? You let another half-demon have your flesh." Naraku ran his tongue across her collarbone. "The miko bitch will be off no use to Inuyasha now. But you are still of great ue to me." Another finger reached up to drag the fabric off her other shoulder. The priestess' pale flesh glowed in the moonlight. She raised a hand slowly and placed it upon Naraku's face. Suddenly, Naraku snarled and ripped the remaining clothes off her body. His mouth descended upon her flesh, burning into her. Kikyo moaned into the still night air. The sound she made brought Naraku's head upwards. He paused momentarily, and his eyes flashed from crimson to brown, and it was then that Kikyo finally spoke.

"Do you want me Onigumo?"

The voice that answered her was higher pitched, but sounded raspy as if from weeks of disuse.

"I will always want you Kikyo." The brown eyes were confused and watery. Kikyo carefully undressed the man in front of her. His clothes fell to the ground in a crumpled heap covering her own silken kimono. In the moonlight, the man's flesh was almost as pale as Kikyo's. He moved awkwardly closer to her with his breath coming in ragged gasps. Kikyo lifted her legs, wrapping them around his waist, feeling the hardness between her. Without warning, he pushed in viciously. Kikyo's eyes flew to his face.

"Nice try whore." Naraku grunted. His crimson eyes were filled with fury as he threw the priestess onto the floor. Kikyo tried to scramble backwards, but tangled in the crumpled clothing, she could only rotate sideways before Naraku was upon her, forcing her back towards him.

Soon, the cries of the priestess echoed throughout the fortress.

Preview of what is actually now Ch. 4:

The sacred arrow was behaving like a drunken hummingbird who had imbibed too much sake. It darted about the clearing, weaving threw tree and bushes. Kagome felt her mouth fall open. It certainly wasn't pink anymore. The wood had taken on a green tinge and the arrow tip had taken on the appearance of a worked sapphire. It didn't even make the right sound. Normally, her sacred arrows had a hum to them which she could feel within herself. This arrow whistled and popped, making her jump back when it dived to close for comfort. It almost sounded like it was…laughing. Kagome turned her head to see the rat demon rolling on the ground in a state of utter hysterics.

Inuyasha shook his head. "Great! It'll just laugh itself to death." Kagome wished the ground would open up and swallow her right then and there.

A/N: So this turning more angst-like then I thought it would, and here I thought I had humor on my hands…well crap, I was WAY OFF…Give me input, corrections as always. If my character decisions don't make sense, please let me know. I'm not saying I would change them, but I certainly would try to fix the story so as they would be more understandable.

Thanks, Aidyn

Oh, spec. thanks to lil inu-I didn't even know I had posted the story right till you reviewed. You were my first ever!