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Some Dreams Can Come True, Ya Know!
Chapter 8: Inuyasha's Transformation
"So, we can talk together in our mind now, right?" Miroku asked as he sat down. It was the day after Sango and Miroku had made their announcements.
"I guess so… I thought that it was only me and Inuyasha that could do it, though…" Kagome said to them as she sat down after Miroku. Sango and Inuyasha sat down after the others.
"Yes, I guess that we can." Sango said.
"Now, to the wedding plans. Is it going to be a double wedding? When is it going to be?" Sango asked them all.
"I don't mind doing a double wedding. We need to go and find some more jewel shards, so I think that we can have it in about a month." Inuyasha said.
"Okay, now that that's settled, where is going to be? How about here in the village?" Kagome asked.
"That sounds good to me!" Miroku said.
"I really don't want it to be that formal, though…" Inuyasha told the group.
"Your right. Me too." Sango said.
"How about you, Kagome? Miroku? What do you think?" Inuyasha asked her and Miroku.
"Sounds good to me." Kagome said. "Same here." Miroku said.
"Who wants to go and tell Kaede about our plans? And whoever does it, don't forget to tell her that we don't want it to be to formal." Sango asked all of them.
"I'll go." Kagome said as she stood up. And with that, they all left the room, Kagome in the lead.
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Inuyasha, Kagome, Kirara, Shippo, Sango, Miroku, and Kimi were walking in the forest on their quest to find some more jewel shards.
"Inuyasha," Kagome said as she started walking a bit slower than everyone else.
"What is it, Kagome?" Inuyasha asked her as he turned around to look at her. She looked like she was going to be sick.
"Are you all right?" Inuyasha asked her as he went over to her.
"I don't feel good…" Kagome told him. Before anything else could happen, she ran off the path and went behind a tree. There, she bent over and barfed.
"Kagome? Are you all right?" Inuyasha asked her as he, Miroku, Sango Shippo, and Kimi went over to her. Kirara mewed, sounding worried.
"I'm fine…" She said as she wiped her mouth with her hand. She stood up straight.
"Are you sure Kagome? You look a bit pale." Sango said as she walked over to her friend.
"Seriously, I'm fine." Kagome said as she started to get back on the path.
"Kagome? Do you want to get on my back?" Inuyasha asked her telepathically.
"Sure." Kagome answered him and moved to get on his back.
Inuyasha wasn't running, so Kagome easily drifted to sleep.
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"Wake up, sleepyhead!" Kagome heard a voice say in her ear. She slowly opened her eyes. She looked around. She was still on Inuyasha's back. It seemed that the sun was about to set. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kimi were sitting around a campfire.
"Where are we?" Kagome asked him as he gently set her down on the ground.
"Dunno. You looked so tired; I just let you sleep. You were sleeping for at least eight hours!" He told her as he sat down next to the fire.
"Here, we saved you some fish." Miroku said as he handed her a large leaf with some fish on it.
"Thank you." She said as she took it and started to eat. Kagome was half way through her fish, when she stopped.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome said.
"What is it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked her.
"I sense a jewel shard." Kagome told him as she stood up.
"What? You do? Which way?" Inuyasha asked her as he drew the Tetsusaiga.
"It's coming closer." Kagome said as she turned around. Inuyasha did as well. Kimi stood up and got into a battle position.
They could hear trees crashing over and the ground started to shake. Sango and Miroku stood up and grabbed their weapons. Kirara changed into her large form and started to growl. The sun was setting.
The demon finally came into view. It looked like a giant spider, but had a weird mark on its back. It looked like a crescent moon. The sun was more than three-fourths the way down.
"Is this the demon that has the jewel shard?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Yes! It's on its back!" Kagome yelled at him.
"All right! You ready to fight you stupid, slimy spider?" Inuyasha yelled at the spider demon. Kagome looked on the horizon. She watched the sun disappear behind the mountains.
"What's going on?" Inuyasha asked as the Tetsusaiga reverted back to its regular form. Kagome watched in horror as his hair started to turn black. She looked at Kimi. Hers was doing the same.
Before she knew it, they were both human. Kimi had long, black hair in a ponytail, had no clawed hands, no padded feet, no fangs, and no dog-ears, just human ears. Inuyasha was the same.
"Oh, no! It's the night of the new moon!" Miroku yelled to Kagome as he pointed out the moon.
"This can't be happening!" Kimi said as she looked at her hands and feet.
The spider moved toward Inuyasha. It lifted up one of its legs and brought it toward the ground, right on top of Inuyasha. Kagome heard him scream, then, there was silence.
"INUYASHA!" She yelled.
The spider moved out of the way, and went towards Sango. Kagome and Kimi ran over to Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha! Are you all right?" Kagome asked as he knelt next to him.
"Well, there's no blood, so that's good…But what about broken bones? Will he be able to walk? Will he make it through the night?" Kagome thought to herself as she bent over him, becoming more worried at every thought.
"He's okay. He's just unconscious." Kimi said as she sniffed him, even though it did no good.
"He may have a broken bone or something like that, but other than that, he should be fine." They all heard a buzzing sound. Sango turned around.
"Saimyosho!" She yelled to all of them.
"You must hide yourself now!" She yelled to Kimi and Inuyasha as she picked up her Hiraikotsu and started to put it in throwing position.
"Sango and I will distract the Saimyosho, while you go and make sure that they're hidden!" Miroku yelled to Kagome as he put his staff at the ready.
"Right!" Kagome said to Miroku as she started to run toward Kimi.
"How are we going to get Inuyasha away from here?" Kagome asked Kimi.
"I can carry him!" Kimi said as she crouched down. Kagome helped Inuyasha get on Kimi's back. Kagome and Kimi started running toward the trees, with Shippo on Kagome's shoulder. They kept running until they got to a large tree that had large roots that came out of the ground.
"Get under the roots! Quick!" Kagome shouted to them. Kimi put Inuyasha under the same root as her, so that when he woke up, she could keep him quiet. Shippo went into the smallest hole, and Kagome started to run back to Sango and Miroku.
When she was running, she tripped. When she hit the ground, everything went black.
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"Wake up, sleepyhead!" Kagome heard a voice say in her ear. She slowly opened her eyes. She looked around. She was still on Inuyasha's back. It seemed that the sun was about to set. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kimi were sitting around a campfire.
"Not again! This can't be happening! I've got to tell Inuyasha about these dreams as soon as possible!" Kagome thought as she was being put down.
"Where are we?" Kagome asked him as he gently set her down on the ground.
"Why am I even asking him? And watch, he's going to say, 'Dunno. You looked so tired; I just let you sleep. You were sleeping for at least eight hours!' I'll be you anything that that's what he is going to say!" Kagome thought.
"Dunno. You looked so tired; I just let you sleep. You were sleeping for at least eight hours!" He told her as he sat down next to the fire.
"Told ya so! I've got to tell Inuyasha now!" Kagome thought as she stood up.
"Here, we saved you some fish." Miroku said as he handed her a large leaf with some fish on it.
"Well, I am hungry, but I need to tell Inuyasha as soon as I eat!" She thought as she took the fish.
"Thank you." She said as she started to eat. Kagome was half way through her fish, when she stopped.
"Not again, I didn't tell him in time! She thought.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome said.
"What is it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked her.
"I sense a jewel shard." Kagome told him as she stood up.
"What? You do? Which way?" Inuyasha asked her as he drew the Tetsusaiga.
"It's coming closer." Kagome said as she turned around. Inuyasha did as well. Kimi stood up and got into a battle position.
They could hear trees crashing over and the ground started to shake. Sango and Miroku stood up and grabbed their weapons. Kirara changed into her large form and started to growl. The sun was setting.
The demon finally came into view. It looked like a giant spider, but had a weird mark on its back. It looked like a crescent moon. The sun was more than three-fourths the way down.
"Is this the demon that has the jewel shard?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Yes! It's on its back!" Kagome yelled at him.
"All right! You ready to fight you stupid, slimy spider?" Inuyasha yelled at the spider demon. Kagome looked on the horizon. She watched the sun disappear behind the mountains.
"I've got to tell him at least that it's the night of the new moon so that maybe he can get away from the demon!" Kagome thought.
"INUYASHA! IT'S THE NIGHT OF THE NEW MOON!" Kagome yelled at him.
"What? Hey, what's going on?" Inuyasha asked as he tried to understand what Kagome had said, then noticed that the Tetsusaiga had reverted back to its regular form. Kagome watched in horror as his hair started to turn black. She looked at Kimi. Hers was doing the same.
Before she knew it, they were both human. Kimi had long, black hair in a ponytail, had no clawed hands, no padded feet, no fangs, and no dog ears, just human ears. Inuyasha was the same.
"Oh, no! It's the night of the new moon!" Miroku yelled to Kagome as he pointed out the moon.
"This can't be happening!" Kimi said as she looked at her hands and feet.
"Oh, yes it can! I've got to tell Inuyasha to move out of the way!" Kagome thought.
"INUYASHA! MOVE!" Kagome yelled at him.
The spider moved toward Inuyasha. It lifted up one of its legs and brought it toward the ground, right on top of Inuyasha. Kagome heard him scream, then, there was silence.
"INUYASHA!" She yelled.
The spider moved out of the way, and went towards Sango. Kagome and Kimi ran over to Inuyasha. "Inuyasha! Are you all right?" Kagome asked as he knelt next to him.
"Well, at least he'll live through it!" Kagome thought to herself as she bent over him.
"He's okay. He's just unconscious." Kimi said as she looked over him.
"Yeah, I kind of already know that!" She thought, getting annoyed because she knew what everyone was going to do or say.
"He may have a broken bone or something like that, but other than that, he should be fine." Kimi said, NOT to Kagome's surprise.
They all heard a buzzing sound. Sango turned around.
"Saimyosho!" She yelled to all of them.
"You must hide yourself now!" She yelled to Kimi and Inuyasha as she picked up her Hiraikotsu and started put it in throwing position.
"Sango and I will distract the Saimyosho, while you go and make sure that they're hidden!" Miroku yelled to Kagome as he put his staff at the ready.
"Right!" Kagome said to Miroku as she started to run toward Kimi.
"I've got to get them away from the Saimyosho!" Kagome thought, her determination surprising her.
"Let's put Inuyasha on your back! Quick!" Kagome told Kimi.
"Sure!" Kimi said as she crouched down. Kagome helped Inuyasha get on Kimi's back. Kagome and Kimi started running toward the trees, with Shippo on Kagome's shoulder.
They kept running until they got to a large tree that had large roots that came out of the ground.
"Get under the roots! Quick!" Kagome shouted to them. Kimi put Inuyasha under the same root as her, so that when he woke up, she could keep him quiet. Shippo went into the smallest hole.
"Stay there Shippo!" Kagome yelled to her as she ran back toward the spider demon. As she was running, she tripped.
"Ow! That hurt!" She complained as she got up as fast as she could. She started to run faster.
As she approached, she heard Sango scream. Kagome could only run faster.
"I don't think that I can get there in time!" Kagome said to herself as she ran faster.
When she got there, she was almost shocked. Sango was lying over on the side; it looked like she had been knocked out. Kirara was guarding her. The Saimyosho and the spider demon were surrounding Miroku.
Kagome heard him yell, "There's no other choice. I'll have to use my…WIND TUNNEL!"
He took the rosary off of his right hand and the wind started.
"Miroku! NO! DON'T! YOU CAN'T! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THIS! NOOO!" Kagome yelled as she ran over to him.
By the time she got to him, he had already sucked in all of the Saimyosho and the spider demon. He put the rosary back on and fell to his knees.
"Miroku! Are you alright?" Kagome asked him as she ran over to him.
"Make sure that Sango is okay…" He told her, then he collapsed.
"KIMI! SHIPPO! COME AND HELP ME!" Kagome yelled. In about two to three minutes, Kimi showed up with an unconscious Inuyasha on her back and Shippo bounding behind them.
"What's the matter Kagome?" Kimi asked her in a worried tone, not yet seeing Sango or Miroku because she was putting Inuyasha down. When she turned around, she gasped.
"What happened? Is Miroku all right?" Kimi asked her.
"I don't know, he sucked in a lot of Saimyosho! He has a lot of poison in his body! What are we going to do?" Kagome asked Kimi helplessly.
"I don't know…" Kimi said back to her. They both heard Inuyasha groan. Kagome ran over to him and knelt beside him.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yes, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked in a soft tone as she watched him open his eyes.
"What happened?" He asked as he tried to sit up. He gasped in pain and lied back down.
"Well, you and Kimi turned human. Then, the spider demon came at you and…" Kagome said as she trailed off.
"Squashed me?" Inuyasha asked her.
"Yeah." Kagome said as she started to giggle.
"After the demon "squashed" you, some Saimyosho showed up. Kimi put you on her back and we brought you into the forest. After I made sure that you and Kimi were hidden, I ran back to where Sango and Miroku were. Kirara was guarding Sango because it looked like she was knocked out. The spider demon and the Saimyosho were surrounding Miroku. He said that he didn't have any other choice, so he used his wind tunnel. He sucked in the spider demon and ALL of the Saimyosho. When I ran over to him, he said some weird things, then he collapsed. I called for Kimi and Shippo and they came here with you on Kimi's back. Then, you woke up." Kagome told him, pausing every once in a while to take a breath.
Inuyasha sat up, wincing as he did so. He looked over at Miroku.
"Stupid monk, why did he do that?" Inuyasha asked her.
"I don't know." Kagome said, telling the truth.
"I need to go and check on Sango. Kimi? Could you come and watch over Inuyasha?" Kagome asked Kimi.
"Sure." Kimi said as she stood up and walked over to Inuyasha.
Kagome stood up and walked over to Sango. When she got there, Sango opened her eyes.
"Kagome? What happened?" She asked Kagome as she sat up
"Are you okay?" Kagome asked her.
"Yeah…Where's Miroku?" Sango asked almost automatically. Kagome sighed.
"After you were knocked out, I showed up in time to see him being surrounded by the Saimyosho and the spider demon. He said that he didn't have any other choice and he opened his wind tunnel. He sucked in the spider demon and, and…" Kagome said as she stuttered, seeing to look on Sango's face. "He sucked in all of the Saimyosho. I ran over to him and he told me to make sure that you were all right. Then he collapsed." She said.
"Where is he?" Sango asked as she stood up.
"Over there." Kagome said as she pointed toward the direction of Miroku. Sango ran over to him. When she got to him, she knelt by his side. She only had to wait about a minute for him to wake up.
"Sango?" Miroku asked in a weak voice.
"Yes?" Sango asked him softly.
"You're so beautiful. I wish that I could have spent my life with you. That won't happen now." Miroku said, not noticing that tears were coming into his and Sango's eyes.
"Don't talk like that! You're going to live! I know that you will! I'll get Kirara to bring us back to Kaede's village and Kagome can get you some antidote! I want you to live!" Sango told him, tears now rolling down her checks.
"No, it's to late for me. You need to be strong, for yourself, and our child. When I'm gone, don't be sad. Everytime you look at our child, it'll remind you of me. I love you now and I will always love you. I just wanted to see," Miroku said in a voice that got weaker the more he talked, "Your beautiful face one last time…" Miroku said, then, his head fell to the side and he closed his eyes.
"MIROKU! Please don't die! Wake up! I want to spend the rest of my life with you too! I LOVE YOU!" Sango yelled as she shook him.
"KIRARA! KAGOME! GET OVER HERE!" Sango yelled to them.
Kagome was telling Shippo and Kimi what to do to help Inuyasha a little bit. When she heard Sango call, she got up and ran over to her.
"What is it Sango?" Kagome asked.
"Kirara, transform into your large form. Kagome, help he get Miroku on Kirara! Quickly! We need to get him some antidote now! Kagome, please come with me so that you can give him the medicine. I won't know which one to give him." Sango said as she started to pick up Miroku.
Kagome nodded and started to help Sango get Miroku onto Kirara's back. Before she knew it, they were up in the air, flying as fast as Kirara would go. To Kagome, it only seemed to be about five minutes till they got to Kaede's village, but to Sango and Kirara, it seemed like eternity.
When they landed, Kagome said to Sango, "Try to get him inside. I have to and get my bag!" She slid off of Kirara and ran toward their guest home as fast as she could. Sango easily got Miroku off of Kirara and into Kaede's hut. It seemed that she wasn't there.
Sango put Miroku onto a pallet and could only wait for Kagome to come back with the antidote. Before Kagome arrived, Sango started to cry.
"I want you to live! Please! I want you to live Miroku!" Sango said between sobs. When Kagome finally arrived with the medicine, Sango had calmed down a little bit.
Kagome sat Miroku up and gave him the medicine.
"All that we can do now is wait and see if it works." Kagome said as she sat down and leaned against a wall. When Kagome noticed that Sango wasn't trying to get some sleep, she went and leaned against the wall next to Sango. Kagome put her arm around Sango's shoulders and hugged her.
After about ten minutes, Kagome still hadn't let go. When Kagome finally let go, she noticed that Sango had fallen asleep. Kagome didn't want to wake her, so she just went to sleep to wait and see if Miroku made it through the night.
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"Is he awake yet?" Sango asked hopefully as Kagome walked out of the hut.
"Yes. He is. He wants a word with you." Kagome said as she got out of the doorway. Sango walked through the doorway and saw Miroku sitting up against a wall, holding a glass of water.
"How are you feeling?" Sango asked his as she sat next to him.
"Fine." He answered her.
"Miroku?" Sango asked him.
"What?" Miroku asked her.
"Do you remember anything from last night?" She asked him.
"Come to think of it, I really don't. The only thing that I remember is your face. You had tears running down your cheeks. Could you refresh my memory and tell me what happened?" Miroku asked her, curious at what he had said or done.
"Well, when I woke up from being knocked out by the spider, I ran over to you and you said, 'You're so beautiful. I wish that I could have spent my life with you. That won't happen now.' I told you not to talk like that and told you that you were going to live. I said that we could bring you to Kaede's village and get you an antidote, but you said, 'No, it's too late for me. You need to be strong, for yourself, and our child. Everytime you look at our child, it'll remind you of me. When I'm gone, don't be sad. I love you now and I will always love you. I just wanted to see your beautiful face one last time…' then, you fell unconscious. We brought you to the village and gave you the antidote. That's all that happened." Sango said, leaving out the parts where she had yelled that she wanted him to live and that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him.
"I'm sure that he would love to hear that I said those things, but I think that it would be best if I waited to tell him." Sango thought as she leaned against him.
"I love you Miroku." Sango said as she closed her eyes.
"I love you too." Miroku said back to her. Sango felt a chill go up her spine and she went rigid.
"Sango? What's the matter?" Miroku asked her.
"Where is Kagome? I need to speak to her." Sango said standing up.
"I don't know. Why?" He asked her as he stood up after her.
"You'll find out." Sango said as she walked out of the room. She led him to the dining room, where Kagome was sitting there sipping some tea.
"Kagome? Do you sense a jewel shard anywhere near here?" Sango asked Kagome as they walked in.
"What? Wait, now that you mention it, I do! Where's Inuyasha?" Kagome said, going from a calm to alert expressions. They walked around the guest home until they came to where Inuyasha, Kimi, and Shippo were playing a game.
"Inuyasha! I sense a jewel shard nearby! Do you smell anything strange around here?" Kagome said as she walked in.
"Come to think of it, I smell Naraku!" Inuyasha said stopping dead in his tracks. Everyone headed outside and looked ahead of them.
"We can move a whole lot faster if we get put into pairs." Kimi said as she looked around at the gang.
Kagome got onto Inuyasha's back, Shippo got onto Kimi's shoulder, Kirara transformed into her large form, and Miroku and Sango rode on Kirara. They started to run in the direction that Inuyasha could smell Naraku. When they reached a place that had mountains on the horizon, Inuyasha stopped.
"It's right here." He said as he got out his Tetsusaiga.
He turned the blade red and swiped infront of him. Before their very eyes, Naraku's castle appeared out of thin air.
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Well, that was chapter 8. I hope that you liked the chapter. I'm sorry that it took me so long to post the next chapter, but school is really getting to me. I've been having homework every night this week and I still have a little bit left. Sorry that it took so long. I just want to thank the ones who have reviewed my story. I also want to thank a friend from school, because she has given me a lot of ideas and suggestions for the past few chapters. Thank you! Don't forget to review!
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Chapter 9: Our Long Battle Is Finally Over