Demonic Desires

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Demonic Desires

7

Kagome awoke that morning with a tear-streaked face, like she did almost every morning now. She felt pretty bad, but most of all, there was one certain feeling that always lingered, no matter what she was doing or whom she was with. It plagued her constantly.

Loneliness.

That's what she felt from day to day whenever she ate. Whenever she trained, whenever she was with Sango in the hot springs. And, even though she was surround by her friends, she was sad because one certain person wasn't with her.

Inuyasha.

Even though it had only been about half a week since she and Sango had began her training from day to day, she had grown exceptionally good. Pretty good, in fact, that Sango decided to give her that day off. Kagome was grateful, but all she did was lay in her sleeping bag, trying not to cry.

She was so stressed out because of the training and now, finally, her feelings for Inuyasha had finally caught up with her and took a heavy toll on her. She stood up, finally, and stretched. She figured that, even though she wasn't supposed to be training, she could do something else to occupy her mind.

She went outside to find that her friends were all gathered at the stream. She grabbed her bow and arrows and headed toward the edge of the woods where, after getting her weapons ready, she aimed at a huge tree and fired an arrow.

A huge explosion blew her back about five feet. She just laid there, stunned, looking at the debris left from her arrow. She honestly didn't know her powers were that strong. She knew that they were getting stronger, but she wasn't expecting that.

Sango and the others heard it and, totally prepared to attack, they all came and looked. To find Kagome sitting on the ground with a bow in her hands and her quiver of arrows were lying discarded next to her. She smiled innocently up at them, trying to ignore the loneliness that was still filled in her heart.

"Oh my," Kaede said softly.

Koga stood with his eyes wide in surprise.

"Kagome, are you all right?" Sango asked as she came up beside the teenager, "What happened?"

"Um…I, um…" Kagome looked for an answer. It wasn't a crime for her to go around shooting her arrows, but she couldn't put that into words. "I was just…well…."

"She was testing her powers," Miroku finished, "Weren't you? And I must say, Kagome, that you have grown very, very powerful."

Kagome just stared at him. That was not at all what she had been doing, but she wasn't going to tell everyone how she really felt deep down inside. They would think that she was going to go back to square one and try to help Inuyasha. Which, she wasn't.

"Sure," She answered slowly, wanting them to think that she was tough and not growing soft after all of her training.

"Kagome," Kaede said, "do it again. I want to see."

Kagome nodded cautiously at the elder priestess. Even though she trusted Kaede's judgment, she was still a little skeptical about the whole priestess-power-arrow-that-can-blow-up-thing. She didn't want anyone hurt, so she said, "Get back, everyone."

They all complied with her command and stepped back. She sighed, picked up her bow and pulled an arrow from her quiver and took aim at another tree since, of course, the other one-which was quite big-was blown apart.

Well, I could have been sword fighting with Sango, but I'll settle for this, instead. She thought sullenly.

She drew the bowstring back and released. It sliced through the air, magical energy surrounding it. It crashed into the center of the tree and blew up again, sort of like a ground mine.

This time, fortunately, it didn't knock Kagome to the ground. In fact, she hardly felt the force of it. The others did, however, and stepped back in order to keep themselves from falling.

"Hmm," Kaede said, walking up to Kagome and observing the damage, "your powers have not fully reached their limit and still have some growing to do. Since ye have been training and pushing your body, it gave your powers room to grow as well. Keep it up and soon, ye will be almost exactly like Kikyo."

Kagome felt her heart rate quicken. Just like Kikyo? She knew that she was the reincarnation and everything, but, her, just like Kikyo? How would Inuyasha react? Well, if he ever got back to normal, that is. Suddenly, Kagome asked herself: Would he ever get back to normal? If so, how would he do it?

She felt like crying her heart out. He was never coming back, and she knew it. She blinked back her tears, however, and swallowed. She needed to shoot more arrows, go for a walk, anything, to rid her mind of him.

"I-I'm going to test them out some more somewhere else. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine, I promise." Kagome said in a shaky voice, running inside the hut and grabbing the sword Sango had given her and her bag and ran back outside. Sango and Koga were looking sternly at her.

"What?" Kagome demanded, sheathing the sword at her side.

"You better be careful." Sango said.

"And scream if you need help." Koga added.

"Don't worry, I will." Kagome assured them, turning and running in the direction of the well. She wasn't going home-she could never take that risk because Inuyasha could follow her and slaughter not only her family, but a lot of people in Japan as well.

She stopped momentarily to gaze at the tree. She remembered the first time she'd seen Inuyasha and tweaked his adorable ears while he was pinned there, asleep, under Kikyo's spell. The memory brought a slight smile to her face, but it soon dissipated, however, when she remembered that those adorable dog-ears were now on a killing-machine who was warm for her form.

She walked a little ways past it and found a big tree that she could destroy. She pulled out an arrow and aimed and it, like it had done the other two times, blew the tree up instantly. Man, she was powerful. She blew up another tree and then glanced down at her sword.

Could she really do it? She wondered. There was only one way to find out. She jerked out the shiny, sharp sword, it's big blade in front of her. She concentrated really hard, clutching the sword tightly. After a moment, it was enveloped with the same power that had warped around her arrows and destroyed those trees.

She swung down at a big, thick stump and it split in half easily. Whoa. She looked at the sword, stunned. She had done that. She had actually transferred her powers to a sword and not an arrow like she had been doing. With a little practice, who knew what she could do…

She waved the blade around a little and looked at it, power still encircling it. It was sort of cool looking, especially since she was the one who was wielding such a powerful sword. Well, actually, any sword, she was almost sure, that she touched could be enveloped with that power, so, she was pretty handy to have around in a terrible crisis.

As she was sheathing her sword back up, quite impressed by her abilities, she just happened to glance down at the ground and notice something silver. And, being the curious girl she was, she went and knelt down in front of it.

After staring at it for a moment, she realized what it was and she gasped, falling down onto her butt. Inuyasha's sword. Well, not really his sword because it had been broken into three pieces and here was a piece-obviously the tip of it because it had a sharp point-in the bushes. She picked it up and examined it. Definitely his. No doubt about it.

It had gotten broken when he was fighting a giant bear demon. It broke, he went bloodthirsty, killed the bear demon, and went after Kagome. Koga then saved her because Sango and Miroku knew not of the danger she had been in.

She had, luckily enough for her, brought her backpack with her and she slipped it into a pocket. Just as she did so, an idea flashed through her head:

If she could find all three pieces of the sword and hunt down Totosai, she could get the sword fixed and possibly get it back into Inuyasha'a hands and he'd changed back to normal.

It was possible, she knew. And all she had to do was fine the three pieces. She began to look around in that area and couldn't find anything. Maybe an animal, thinking that it was something to eat, had dragged it away. She looked out ever further and still could not find it.

Just her luck.

She sighed and decided that she'd look for the rest of it the next day after her training with Sango, that is. Picking up her belongings, she began to head up to Kaede's hut. Suddenly, Inuyasha sprang out at her.

She squealed, dropped her bag, and fell backwards. "Get away!" She shrieked.

He only smirked at her and walked even closer as she lay, practically defenseless against him. She jerked out her sword and held it in his face. He looked at it with his crimson eyes, a little confused. She tried concentrating, but was having difficulty. Great, just what she needed at a time like that.

He tackled her down, the sword sliding out of her grasp and away form her reach. "No!"

"Just give up, Kagome," he said, "You'll never win. I'll get what I want sooner or later."

He then kissed her. She stretched as far as she could and managed to grab the sword a little. He grabbed her hand, however, and held it down. Her eyes widened in shock and her heart skipped a beat. The same feeling that had overcome her that day at the hot springs came again and Inuyasha was knocked off of her and she screamed for help.

Of course, Inuyasha fled as soon as Sango and Koga came-he would not try to rape Kagome in front of her friends. In fact, he wouldn't do it in front of anybody.

Kagome simply grabbed her things after Sango and Koga arrived and ran past them toward the hut, not wanting to talk. She wouldn't, of course, tell them her plan. She would complete her secret task on her own.

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