chp 11

This was no place for Kagome to be all alone. This was for people who had love, and for people who had others to love back. She was in the Forest of Enchantment, where couples came to proclaim love, to be together, to find some secret crevice in the forest to claim each other. This place existed even in her time, for no one had the heart to cut it down. She dared to look around, half expecting Inuyasha to be here with Kikyo.

This place is so pure, that those who come jsut to have sex can never find it. Only those who have pure love can, only those who believe may find it.

She knew that this was stupid to come here. Just being able to find it didn't give her right to come in. The only thing it gave her right to do, was look at the barrier that protected it. This was one of the purest places ever created, and the magical thing was that it was created by love. Love wrapped a barrier around the forest, protecting it from harm, protecting it from evil.

Kagome looked around, the silver trees dark with shadows. This whole place was like another world, all glistening and beautiful. She looked around, watching the crytal blue waterfall spray a misty rainbow over the wet rocks. She took out a bottle, and filled it with the sweet cool water. She raised it to her lips, tasting the gentle waters, sweet from the sun and minerals.

She tilted her head, breathing in the scent of wood and sweat. As gross as it sounded, it was a smell that you would have to smell for yourself to understand as to why it was pleasing to the senses. It was both arousing and calming, setting a mood only capable of this forest.

I wonder why the forest is like this, so perfect. Was it made for love, or made by love? Or maybe it was both, like the meeting point in between.

She sighed, the forest making her believe Inuyasha would come carry her away, confessing his undying love the her. She gave a small chuckle, thinking about the ridiculousness of the idea. She began to think about Cinderella, how her prince came and swept her away form all the bad. She held herself, thinking about how funny Inuyasa would look with curly hair, a washed up outfit form the middle ages, and on a big white horse with curly white hair just like his. She laughed out loud, a smile coming to her face.

That was pretty funny, Inuyasha coming for her that is.

I could never come back, not without a reason. Not even for...

Would she come back for him, coule her heart really survive on its own? She needed to love, needed to be loved. She needed to know people loved her, that she had someone to fal back on if she missed a step in life. She wanted to be able to hold Inuyasha in that position, for her to be Romeo to her Juliet.

But could she ask that of him? Would he love her unconditionally, would he love her like she needed to be loved? Could he love her...

Here I am thinking about being loved, when he has no interest in loving me. He's never shown anything more than a hard on crush. Thats all he feels for, and thats all I would expect him to ever feel for me. I'm one who loves, I'm not one who is loved. Even if I would die for him to love me, I'm nothing more than a reflection of Kikyo to him. Nothing more that something that he'll easily through away. I can expect him to ever love me, ever...

She felt hot tears begin to well up in her eyes, and when she blinked, they came spilling down. But she smiled, finally knowing that she could accept that. It made her happy, that she didn't have to hold onto a lost cause forever. Although she didn't doubt that even if she didn't have to, that she would.

She didn't want to let of of the unearthly beauty he held, the way his eyes shinned int he dark. The way hsi silver hair cascaded down his back with such amazing silkiness, and with such wholesome body. How his skin was so tan against the lightness of his unusual hair, how his ears twitched at sounds so low she couldn't hear them...

Oh God, she was obsessed. She was completely and utterly in love with him, and she gave him away. Was she set out to completely destroy herself with these thoughts. Did she regret it now that she saw how much it hurt to be without him? Was this being selfish, to want to change what she did?

She felt the tears fall free, and she rose. She wouldn't sit here and cry in a place of happiness. She gazed into the waters, just for a moment. She watched the sparkling oasis, dreaming of Inuyasha's sparkling silver hair. She felt her tears fall gently down her soft cheeks, and she wrapped her arms around herself. She trailed down the winding road that ran through the forest.

This is stupid, why am I even here?

She looked up through squinting eyes up at the canopy of the forest. White sunshine tore through, shining through leaves, and branches. She wanted to reach out, and be able to capture the light, hold it in her hand and cradle it forever. She wanted to be able to take a piece fo this forest with her forever. And she wanted to leave a piece of herself here as well. She reached to the nape of her neck, looking at the Shikon Jewel.

What to do with you, you only bring misery. You can never give people what they desire, you only give power. Right, you're nothing but bad...

She ripped the jewel from her neck, remembering Midoriko's story. Kikyo told her that the jewel was created from a demon and a priestess' souls. It crystalized, and became the Shikon Jewel. Kagome looked at it, wishing it to go away, wishing that it never existed in the first place.

"I hate this thing..."

She looked at it, refastening it to her neck.

"But I can't do anything about it..."

She almost dared herself to make a wish on it, almost dared herself to throw it away here. She almost dared herself to do alot of things, but she knew she couldn't. She didn't have the will to...

Suddenly she heard a branch snap, and she twisted around. Her eyes couldn't focus before someone hit something her neck, and she passed out completely...

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Kagome woke up, she was in a dark cave, lit only by the light from outside. Her head felt like it was just hit by a lawnmower, she put her fingers to her head,"Ow..."

She tried to figure out what was going on, but first she tried to figure out who the heck did this to her. She tried to find a moving figure, assuming that that would be her captor. She squinted her eyes, finding a moving black figure.

"HEY! Get over here, just what the hell do you think you're..."

But she saw familiar golden eyes staring at her, and saw a gleam of silver on him. No...

"And here I thought you would be happy to see me."

"You...are...horrible..."

"Am I? I know you've missed me..."

"And I asked to be knocked out and taken to a remote area wehre I have no clue where I am?"

"So you did miss me..."

Crap..."Uh...I never said that..."

"But you thought it,"His smile made her stomach do flips. Her breathing became harder, as she felt the mood of the forest begin to take effect. He squatted down, and looked at her reaching his hand to the side of her face. He stroked it, so gentle that she felt she might break at any moment.

"Does your head hurt?"

"Yes, thanks to you..."

"Here," He handed her a bowl of green soup, she looked at him as if he as crazy,"Its for your head, my mother used to make it for me."

She looked at it, and took a sip. It tasted like grass and leaves, but she drank it anyway. She didn't feel immediate results, but after a few minutes her head stopped feeling the size of a basket ball. She looked at him, feeling her stomach begin to give just from his eyes.

"Kagome, can I tell you something?"

"Sure.."

"I think I love someone."

She felt her heart rise and drop at the same time,"I'm glad for you."

"But there's someone in the middle, someone who's still very dear to me, but I don't know how to tell the other person, because I think she might love me too," He looked at her for guidence.

"You should tell the person you love, that you love them. And as for the other person, you've go tot tell them the truth, because if her whole life was based on a lie...well thats no way to live."

"Ok," He pressed his lips agaisnt hers, with no warning what so ever. She was shocked, and couldn't bring herself to pull away. He wrapped his arm around her back, bringing her closer. She didn't know what was going on, and she stayed frozen. He ripped his lips away from her, and looked at her,"Kagome, I love you."

She looked at him, still in shock,"You...what..."

"Kagome I love you, I always want to love you. I need you more than I've ever needed anything before.I know why you left, because Kikyo was there first, that she deserves me. Well I am not an object to be given to someone. I am my own person, who wants to choose who he loves, and Kagome I want to be yours, if you will have me..."

"You...love...me..."

"More than life itself."

"Inuyasha, I love you too..."

He kissed her lips with a fury so passionate she couldn't help but fall under his spell. She sighed against his mouth, his lips comfortng in a way she couldn't begin to express. It was as if her heart had longed for him so long, that now that she finally had him, she wanted to cry and laugh at the same time. She wanted to kiss him, and hold him, and tell him how much she loved him back. She wanted to shout to the world she was in love, and yet keep this amazing little miracale all to herself.

"Inu...yasha..."

"Yes..."

"May I... be... yours?"

He pulled away gently, looking at her with shinning golden eyes,"You want to be mine?"

"Yes, if you will have me..."

"I love you..."

"I love you too..."

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Ok, all I have to say is, its not over, and things are never as you expect. Kikyo...oh God, that's gonna be a tough one. But challenges are fun.

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