Well Here ya go! The next Fic Yea!
L1LdumieTK- I know Poor Inu, but, hope fully this is gonna stir up some long forgotten memories for Kagome. wink
angelofdeath2010 - thank you! Yes it is depressing, but I tend to have a lot of fluff too!
inuyashaskris - thank you so much I'm so glad you like my writing! Sorry if I being mean with these cliffies but, you gotta admit, it makes the next chapter oh so much sweeter.
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Kagome tried in vain to wake up the hanyou, but he remained trapped as if in some unending nightmare. All of a sudden though she heard him let out a desperate whisper. "Kagome...help!"
The demon's soul broke out in laughter from InuYasha's mind, it would only take a few more seconds, and the human heart that struggled for freedom would finnaly die. The war inside his body would finally end and InuYasha's demon heart would finally claim him. From somewhere inside him Genshiki cackled, "Not even the girl can save you this time, your human heart will die and then, so will she."
'NO!' InuYasha fought back with every fiber of his being.
Kagome felt his forehead. He was burning up and was still thrashing as if fighting off an invisible enemy. Kagome felt fear wash over her, what? What's wrong with him? He looks like...like he's dying!' "InuYasha" she called again. "InuYasha please wake up! What's going on? What's happening to you?" Kagome wrapped her arms around InuYasha and rested her head on his shoulder. She felt a tear slide from her eye.
InuYasha felt a voice once again call to him, but it was interrupted by demonic laughter. "InuYasha do you think you will escape! I have finally claimed your soul! The human heart you once had will soon be a mere memory."
'Genshiki! I won' let you win!"
"Ha! Fool, Genshiki is no longer here!"
'What?' InuYasha suddenly felt cold, it was true, the voice didn't sound like Genshiki. 'Who are you!'
The voice cackled again, "InuYasha, I am YOU! I am the real you! The powerful demon you keep locked away! Inside you are not the man you claim to be! You are truly even darker and more merciless then any demon you have ever fought! Give up the struggle and let yourself be consumed by true power!"
InuYasha didn't know what to do. His human heart was slowly fading. He no longer knew who he was or what he was. Was he human or demon? The only thing that kept him afloat was the girl. The one image that kept him sane for a moment longer. He knew not who she was, only that he needed her. Something about her gave him strength.
"InuYasha as soon as I have devoured your heart I will kill this girl and everyone else you love! There will be no escape!"
"NO!" InuYasha screamed. "You may be a part of me! But my soul belongs to ME!"
He felt a strange, pure power fill him. 'That girl...' Suddenly his memory returned to him. 'Kagome!'
Kagome held him tighter, "InuYasha! Please, hear me! You protected me...you saved me...I need you here, with me! INUYASHA I NEED YOU!" She let herself cry into his shoulder. Suddenly he grew very still. Kagome gasped, no breath came out of his mouth. All of a sudden InuYasha's eyes slowly fluttered open, "I need you too." He whispered.
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Miroku laid, awake in his dorm. He just couldn't get to sleep, too many strange thoughts tore at his mind. And not to mention InuYasha had not come back, 'I wonder where he is.'
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, the door swung open loudly. Miroku 's head shot up instantly. There, standing in the doorway, was Kagome and InuYasha. InuYasha looked very weak, he was dragging himself limply and Kagome was supporting him with her shoulder.
"What happened to you two!" Miroku was both confused and worried.
"InuYasha's hurt!" Kagome blurted out.
"Wait, how did he get like this?"
Kagome gently led InuYasha over to a bed. He groaned and collapsed onto it. Finally, Kagome relayed the story to Miroku.
InuYasha silently listened as Kagome explained all she could remember about that night. When she mentioned Hiten he suddenly recalled the slaughtered bodies of him and his thugs that should have been surrounding the cafeteria. 'Damn, that's right, they weren't there when I woke up!' Inside he knew that Genshiki had most likely just gotten rid of the bodies to conveniently destroy all evidence of his rampage, but, he wished deep down that he didn't have to believe that he had murdered them like that. 'They deserved it thought, right? They tried to hurt Kagome, I was protecting her!...' InuYasha sighed heavily. It was a lie he told himself often, after the many occasions he had killed in his full demon form. But, the real truth was, he just saw his victims as prey to entertain himself with. He shuddered as he thought of how close he came to killing Kagome. 'I really am just a monster...'
"So, Hiten actually cornered and attacked you!" Miroku was stunned, he couldn't believe the story Kagome had just told him. "He really tried to..."
She nodded, trying to conceal the fear and pain in her eyes, "If, InuYasha hadn't come...He would have."
InuYasha's ears perked up at the mention of his name, he groaned and managed to sit up. Kagome turned and sat next to him on the bed. "InuYasha, you shouldn't get up yet!"
"Aww, cmon, I'm not sick or nothing." He let his arrogant swagger once again show, "I must have just bumped my head on something, I'm ok, really..."
Kagome still looked unsure.
"Kagome, I'm more worried about you...that bastard better not have hurt you!" InuYasha growled.
She shuddered but shook her head, "He almost...but, no, I'm alright, don't worry about me."
Miroku felt hatred for Hiten and compassion for Kagome wash over him. He had grown over the years to think of Kagome like an adopted sister. He hated the thought of his friend having to go through so much terror while he was helpless to stop it. 'Genshiki! Look at the pain you are causing. I swear, you will pay!'
Kagome looked up at the clock, "Oh, crap!" She cursed to herself, "I should go. Its really late."
"Your dorm is on the other side of the school, just stay the night with us." Miroku offered.
Kagome gave him a suspicious look, "I think I'll risk it. But, wait...how do you know where my dorm is."
Miroku smiled stupidly, "How else, Sango's your room mate is she not?"
InuYasha rolled his eyes, "Don't worry Kagome, I'll keep you safe from that pervert. He is right though, it's almost midnight, you can't just wander around the campus at night. Here..." He got up and began forming a make-shift bed on the floor with the extra blankets. "You can have my bed, I'll sleep here."
Kagome still didn't look convinced. "You need to rest and it's against the rules for me to sleep in a guys dorm."
InuYasha smirked, 'Doesn't stop Kikyo,' he thought coldly. "Feh, forget the rules, and forget about me, I like sleeping on the floor. Truth is, I kinda prefer it."
Finnaly Kagome nodded, "Ok, but just for tonight." She blushed, "Umm, do you think I could borrow something to sleep in, like a big shirt or something?"
InuYasha nodded and went to his closet, He pulled out a large white shirt and a pair of baggy sweat pants. "Uhh, is this good."
Kagome smiled and took the clothes, "Yup, thanks, I'm gonna go change in the bathroom." She said, ignoring Miroku's disappointed look.
InuYasha pulled off his shirt and dimmed the lights, The monk had already crashed and was almost asleep.
Kagome came out of the bathroom and wandered over to the tired hanyou. "Hey, InuYasha." She whispered.
"Yeah,"
"I never got to thank you for saving me...again."
He smiled, "No problem, I tend to beat up jerks like him a lot. It's just routine."
Kagome returned the smile and finally climbed into the warm bed. While InuYasha positioned himself between her and Miroku's bed. Just in case.
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Kagome tossed and turned in her sleep. Images once again flooded her mind. She had seen something strange when she found InuYasha that night. Something had been different about his face. She strained trying to remember. She had seen him like this before! When! Kagome grimaced in her fitful sleep. The de ja vu feeling had returned to torment her again. A face stirred in her mind. The boy from her dreams. But, no, his face was distorted. He had a menacing grin plastered on his face, jagged lines ran over his cheeks, his eyes were a dark blue where they should be white and red where they should have been gold and he had long, vicious looking claws. 'What are you?' She backed away from it. The thing snarled and took a step closer. "You shouldn't have saved him! You should have left him to me! I will have his soul! You can not stop me!"
Kagome woke up with a start. A cold sweat ran down her back. 'What was that?'
"Hey, are you alright?"
"Huh?" Kagome looked up to see InuYasha standing over her. He looked concerned. "What? Where am I?"
"You had a nightmare, it's ok, your in my dorm remember?"
Kagome pushed off her covers and sat up, "Oh, yeah, sorry if I woke you."
"I was already awake." He sat down next to her. "Kagome, your shivering."
She looked up into his face. The room was dark, but Kagome could still see the worry that creased his face. She stared up at the ceiling to avoid his steady gaze, "Its nothing, just some weird dream."
InuYasha involuntarily scooted closer to her. The small amount of moonlight coming in through the window made her face glow and the fear she had tried so hard to conceal showed clearly on her features. He wanted so bad to comfort her, to let her know she was safe. But, the ever remaining truth of his heart held him back.
Kagome finally turned and faced him. "InuYasha, how did everything change so much in one day?"
He gave her a confused look. "What do you mean?"
She just shook her head, "Never mind...that dream just kinda shook me up."
InuYasha felt her shiver again, "Do you wanna tell me what this dream was about?"
She shook her head. "I'm just tired."
He suddenly felt her lean against him and rest her head on his shoulder. InuYasha felt a wonderful shiver zip up his spine. "Good Night." He whispered softly.
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"Hey, wake up!" Miroku shot up as he felt a splash of ice cold water hit his face.
"Hey!" He looked up and saw InuYasha holding a bucket. "Cmon it's the weekend Yash..." Miroku groaned and pulled the covers back over his head. "Let me sleep."
InuYasha and Kagome were already up and dressed. Kagome wore a pair of dark jeans and a blue Billabong shirt (Yea Billabong! Heh sorry) and InuYasha had on his same baggy jeans and red shirt, minus the bandanna.
Kagome yanked the covers off his bed, "Sorry Miroku, but were gonna go see a movie!"
Miroku just groaned and hid under his pillow.
"Did I mention Sango's coming?" Kagome remarked casually.
"Huh?" Miroku jumped out of bed and was dressed in an instant, "Well, maybe I could come along...I mean a movie sounds fun."
InuYasha groaned, "Figures he'd come if he gets a chance to sexually harass Sango."
Sango met the other three in the hallway. She gave Kagome a weird look, "So, you spent the night with these two huh?"
Kagome sweat drooped, "uhh, no, it's not like that Sango, see I was just."
Sango burst out laughing. "No, no it's ok InuYasha already told me all about what happened. I just thought I'd mess with ya."
Kagome feigned anger and gave Sango a light punch. "Don't do that!"
InuYasha and Miroku pulled the girls apart.
"So, are we going or what!" InuYasha muttered. He was eager to get off the subject of Kagome sleeping over. He had accidentally left out the little detail that Kagome had slept half the night leaning against his shoulder.
"Yea, just give me one moment!" Sango had a big fake smile on her face. She turned and smacked Miroku, who had been keeping himself occupied by stroking Sango's rear, as always.
"Kay, ready!"
At the Theater Entrance
"So, uh, what do you guys want to see?" InuYasha stared up at the 'now playing' sign. This whole movie was totally new to him. What the hell did Rated R for sexual content, language, and abusive squirrels mean?
Miroku had a thoughtful, and slightly lecherous expression on his face. "How about a horror film? Sango, you can always hide behind my manly arms when it gets too scary." He chose to conclude by once again grabbing some Sango butt.
Sango's face looked border-lined murderous.
"Uhh how about we see Sahara?" Kagome tried to change the subject as to keep Miroku from having to experience the joys of facial reconstructive surgery.
"Sounds good." The others said in perfect unison. (I don't know if you've seen Sahara but I loved it! Go Dirk Pitt! I... Oh, right back to the story.)
They all piled into the theater just as the movie started. InuYasha greedily scooped handfuls of popcorn in his mouth. "Mmm...this stuff is good." Half the bag had already been emptied by the hungry hanyou.
"Uhh, I'm gonna cut you off. Your scaring people." Kagome yanked the popcorn out of InuYasha's lap.
InuYasha crossed his arms and pouted. Kagome bit her lip to keep from giggling. 'He really does look kinda cute when he's like that.' Her eyes widened when she realized what she just said. 'Wait, I did NOT just call InuYasha cute!' The lights dimmed as the movie started. Kagome dismissed the thought as just salt and butter induced insanity.
Meanwhile Sango was busy trying to pry the bag of Reeses from Miroku, who was playfully holding it just out of her reach. "Cmon Miroku give me my Reeses!"
"Nope," he laughed at Sango's stubborn attempts to reach her beloved candy.
"Miroku, don't make me kill you!"
He just smirked and held the delicious chocolate higher.
Sango stretched out her arm in a vain attempt to reach it, a death glare clouding her eyes.
"Jeeze Miroku, Stop flirting and give her the damn Reeses before she does kill you." InuYasha rolled his eyes, 'The stupid monk would deserve it though'.
Miroku ignored him and continued his cruel teasing.
Sango had steam coming out of her ears, "Miroku, I'll chop off you man parts with a butter knife! Let's see anyone bear your children then!" (Don't mess with Sango when she's on a sugar high)
He grinned, "You know, my dear Sango, you're really hot when your angry!"
She snarled, "GIVE ME MY CANDY!"
"Sorry, you gotta earn it." Miroku puckered his lips.
Sango let out a mad sigh of defeat, she leaned over and lightly brought her lips to his own in a brief kiss.
Miroku was stunned, he froze as Sango leaned over and claimed her prize from his outstretched hand. "Thank you." she said sarcastically.
The monk just nodded as he stared off into blissful oblivion with an idiotic smile plastered on his face.
Kagome and InuYasha just sat there with their mouths hanging open in amazement.
"What?" Sango shrugged. "I really like Reeses."
"Well, she just made his day." InuYasha muttered, "Either she really, really likes that stuff or someone must have put something in her drink."
Kagome grinned, 'I don't think it's just the Reeses that she likes.' she thought knowingly.
The rest of the movie went by pretty normally. InuYasha ate popcorn, Miroku remained in a trance and Sango ate her much deserved candy.
"That was awesome!" InuYasha shouted as they left the theater. His body was raging with adrenaline, which was only made worse with the high amounts of sugar and caffeine that he had consumed. This whole movie thing in his opinion was alright, even if he was still working out what a sniper, toxin, and cannon was.
Kagome laughed at her hyped up friend. "Hey, InuYasha, you ok?"
He nodded his head rapidly.
Sango laughed at the now vibrating Hanyou. "Hey, you guys, lets hit the arcade. I think someone need to work off some raw energy."
All three of them started to make their way through the chaotic movie going crowd towards the beeping, buzzing, arcade. Suddenly, though Sango remembered that there was more then three of them. "Hey, guys where's Miroku?"
Kagome and InuYasha shrugged.
"He's probably still staring off into space somewhere in the lobby."
Sango groaned, "I'll go get him,"
InuYasha and Kagome exchanged glances, them hit the games. InuYasha was, surprisingly pretty familiar with video games since Souta had a tenancy to drag him into his room and hold him prisoner until he played such games with him.
The first game he tried was a snow boarding game. The concept seemed pretty simple, stand on the board thing and move around until something happens. Needless to say, something happened. GAME OVER GAME OVER PLAYER CRASHED INTO AIRPLANE
InuYasha Feh'd "Stupid video game."
He walked around some more, checking out how people managed to play such disturbingly complicated games, till one thing caught his eye. Samurai Sword fight! He walked over and tentatively picked up the huge sword attached to the game. Suddenly it flashed and a series of instructions played on the screen.
Destroy Your Opponent!
Use attached sword to fight game players on screen
Stay within the box and keep body positioned in the center
Do not play if pregnant or have high blood pressure
InuYasha looked down at the game sword. It kinda resembled the Tetsusaiga. He held it up and walked into the middle of the game's platform. Suddenly a huge dragon appeared on the screen. ROUND ONE - READY- FIGHT! The dragon opened it's mouth and spewed fire at the virtual player on the screen. InuYasha looked at the hp on his side decrease. 'Oh yeah that's bad.' He shrugged, "Well, here goes nothing." He swung the sword down hard and watched as the dragon on the screen disintegrated from his attack. He grinned in victory. "Now THIS is my kind of game!"
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Sango slowly walked into the empty lobby where she had supposedly lost her monk. She glanced around quickly. There he was, right where she left him. Miroku was sitting down in front of the abandoned concession stand.
"Uh, hey Miroku?" Sango waved her hand in front of his face. He was still in a dazed trance. "Cmon Miroku, it wasn't a real kiss..." ... "Uhgh, I was just trying to get my candy back..." Still no response. Finally she resorted to the only tactic that ever worked on the lecherous Miroku. SLAP! The sound rung through the corridor. At last he blinked and rubbed his sore face in confusion.
"Aw, jeeze Sango what was that for? I didn't even do anything this time!"
Sango just groaned and stepped back as Miroku stood and started coming back to his senses. "Woah, how long was I out?"
"About an hour," Sango remarked casually.
"Ugh, it feels like someone hit my face with a wrecking ball."
Sango shrugged, "Sorry, it was the only way to wake you up."
Miroku just moaned again.
Silently they walked to the arcade on the other side of the theater. Miroku felt the tension growing. He finally gave in and broke the silence.
"Hey Sango?"
"Yeah?"
He blushed, "You really are a great kisser."
She blushed back and slapped him. "Pervert." she mumbled while trying to hide the smile that started to play on her lips.
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Kagome watched in amazement as InuYasha tackled each level of Samurai Sword fight without breaking a sweat.
"InuYasha, you payed this game before?"
He smiled confidently, "Nope, I'm just talented."
The screen flashed as the last enemy disintegrated into dust. GAME OVER WINNER! HIGH SCORE!
InuYasha stepped off the plat form and bowed to the applauding crowd that had surrounded him during the game.
Kagome just rolled her eyes and ignored him, making her way to the next empty arcade game. InuYasha turned and noticed Kagome was no longer watching him. Immediately he abandoned his fans and meekly followed after her.
Sango and Miroku returned to the arcade and met up with InuYasha and Kagome.
"So, you found the zombie eh?" Kagome giggled at Miroku's confused expression.
"Jeeze, all it take is a kiss from Sango to turn you into a blob of jelly." InuYasha smirked.
Sango punched the hanyou hard in the shoulder, her eye lid twitching. "IT WAS NOT A KISS!" She had a crazed, murderous look in her eye.
InuYasha backed down from the angry demon slayer and hid behind Kagome. "Wow, she's kinda scary when she's mad."
Kagome just giggled, "So, the fearless slayer is afraid of Sango?"
InuYasha grunted at the irony of that statement. It was Sango after all, not him, that was the fearless slayer. Suddenly his nose began to twitch, he sniffed instinctively and was almost thrown back by Kagome's scent. He could smell her fully again, and for a second he let himself fall into the intoxication of her wonderful aroma.
"Uh, InuYasha?"
He snapped out of his trance, "Huh?"
"Are you sniffing my hair?" Kagome smiled at he jumped away from her.
"What?...I mean I was..." Before he could finish he finnaly realized why he could smell so well again. He turned towards the window so fast he almost got whiplash. The sun was going down! And the weakening light was leaking in through the window. InuYasha started to panic, 'I gotta get back before the sun goes down.'
"Hey, guys, let's head back to the school. I'm really tired." He feigned a yawn, which almost turned into a nervous whimper.
The other three nodded, to his relief, in agreement. They all exited the arcade and started walking back towards the school.
Miroku started to whisper something to Sango, she looked back over at her other two friends and nodded, a scheming twinkle in her eye.
"Uh, I'm gonna run ahead and grab something to eat before I go to bed." Miroku fumbled for a believable excuse.
"And I'm gonna make sure he does that and doesn't just want to spy on the girls dorms." Sango had no problem thinking of one.
Miroku gave her a resentful gaze and they both sprinted off.
InuYasha and Kagome exchanged glances, they both knew what their friends were trying to do, yet, to tell the truth, neither really had any objection.
They walked on in silence for a while, InuYasha kept staring up at the sky nervously. Kagome looked at him curiously as his eyes continued to glance toward the darkening horizon.
"The sunset looks really cool huh?"
"What?" he broke out of his thoughts for a moment and looked back up at the sunset, it was kinda pretty, now that he thought about it.
Kagome stared off into the distance wistfully "It's really beautiful."
InuYasha took a moment to follow her gaze. The sky was lit with colors, the clouds glowed a dark lavender and the sky itself was a deep red. He turned his eyes back to Kagome, her face radiated and reflected the light from the sunset, transforming her into such a true vision of loveliness that InuYasha blushed at the thoughts that began to form in his mind. "So are you." He whispered.
"What?" Kagome turned back towards him, breaking the trance she had put him in.
"Oh,... nothing..." He said quickly.
They approached the school, there was just enough light to get InuYasha back to his dorm in time, he gave a relieved sigh and began walking toward the boy's dormitories when, suddenly Kagome stopped him.
"Um, InuYasha?"
He gave her a confused glance, "Yeah?"
"I've been thinking...and...I just..." she paused as if searching for words, "I need to know."
His confused look only grew.
She searched his golden eyes as if trying to uncover the secrets he held behind them, "InuYasha, that night, when you saved me from Hiten, and...it's just when I woke up, when I found you, something was wrong. I could just feel it, and not just because you were rolling on the floor like a possessed person. Something in your countenance had changed, I mean, I could have sworn for a moment you had..." she quickly averted her gaze away from the top of his head, "I just know your hiding something, and I don't want you to have to. Whatever it is, I want to know."
He sighed, "Kagome, there are things you really don't want to know, believe me." He turned back toward the dorm.
Kagome stepped closer to him and took his hand, "InuYasha, I don't care what it is, I just want you to be able to trust me, as your friend."
He turned and faced the school, he just couldn't handle the pleading look she gave him. But that one word had broken him, trust, could he risk trusting someone else?
'It's not like this isn't something, in reality, that she doesn't already know. But, I've never had to tell her like this before, she found out I was a hanyou when she first saw me.'
He led her inside and stood in front of the door. 'What am I supposed to do?' He shut his eyes tight, he didn't want to think of what she might say if she saw him as a hanyou. 'This world brings out the true nature of people, after all I've done to her as a demon, how could she not harbor some fear of me.' His heart was pounding, could he handle rejection again?
InuYasha stared out into the night, the sun had disappeared, all that was left was the silver moonlight. He finnaly looked back at Kagome, she returned his gaze, at that moment, he made his decision.
"Kagome," he whispered. "There's something I have to show you."
A/N Ha Ha! Another cliffie! Don't be too mad, dodges flaming chainsaws I'll get the next one out soon. PLEASE REVIEW! I welcome suggestions! It makes my stories better!