Chapter 18

Kagome felt free, light and graceful like non other. The phrase 'I am Woman' now replaced with 'I am Demon'. Every move took minimal effort and she felt more refreshed and energized then she had ever felt in her life. She hadnt realized just how tired humans really were until now. It was like being on a sugar high when you just cant seem to keep still, everything seems so much more exciting and your body seems to buzz with life. It was like seeing the world from a different perspective. One minute she would sit down in a fluffy chair to attempt to calm down, the next she would see a bird out the window and would run outside, lightening speed, just to watch the feathers as they glide through the wind in a graceful melody.

It was then on one of her trips to the great outdoors that she caught a wiff of something in the wind. The smell was new to her, yet every smell seemed to be new. For all she knew she had smelt this before, or had seen where it was coming from. But what was it, the smell seemed to keep her on end, the hairs on the back of her neck rising. Her heart quickened as the smell filled her nostrils, almost enflaming them. It smelled of death.

She could pinpoint the direction it was coming from, it flowed with the wind. With her nose held high she walked towards the smell with caution. She didnt know why she needed to find out what it was, it was like one of those horror movies where they would have stayed alive if they hadnt gone and checked wut the crash was from the kitchen, only to find a hack murderer standig over her dead husbands body. The more she thought of this the more she felt she should return home to InuYasha. She hadnt even told him she left, he was going to worry. He would probebly come looknig for her. If she got into trouble, what was the chance that he would be here to save her? Slim at best.

Finally, a few blocks from her home, she tracked down the smell. It came from a pile of ashes that seemed to be spread all over the place. The smell of this death was everywhere, on the tress, in the grass, on the buildings, it was overwhelming. What had happened here? It didn't even make sense. It was sickening and made her want to run far far away. It seemed impossible for something to make such a smell as horrible as this but then death was a horrible thing was it not? There was no such thing as a good death. Death is death, and the expression "it smells like death in here" was fianlly a realization for her.

Ashes...why ashes? Wheres the body? The corpse? The rotting flesh? The only thing here was ash. At a closer look there wasnt much ash at all, had some just...flew away? Where ever it went, she didnt much care. The smell was like sick, she needed out. So she started to walk away but then took one final glance, one final glance ment all the difference. There on the ground was a footprint in the ash. The footprints walked through the grass and into the forest. Someone had been here. But the grass had not been distrubed anywhere before she ashes, just at them, and on.

"What is going on here?" she said quietly. "Oh shit!" Inuyasha was still at home and probebly wondering where she was. Now was no time to play detective. She darted down the street to home. She was almost there when she smelt it. Busted! 'Where is he?' she thought as se scoped the streets for movement and silver. There was a small sound of footsteps in the snow before she found herself wrapped in someones arms from behind.

"Going somewhere?" he whispered into her ear softly.

Her whole body shivered, "No, just walking around." she leaned her back into him. His arms found themselves wrapped around her waist with his two clawed hands set on her slender stomach. This was the first time he felt control and he was going to abuse it. His soft lips found their way to her delicate neck next, kissing and brushing against her skin. With a deep breath she closed her eyes and tilted her head to the side. When they reopened she saw the snow and remembered they were on the street. With a breathy voice she asked, "do you think this is the right spot for this?"

The realization hit him that they were expressing thier love in the middle of the street and the thought terrified him. Blushing quite a bit he picked her up and ran into the house as fast as his demon legs could take him. Once inside, the threat gone, her looked into her eyes, smiled warmly and bent down and nuzzled her nose affectionatly. He carried he bridal style up the stairs and eventually in the bedroom, where he gently layed her onto the bed. Her hair fanned out in all directions among the red blanket. "God your beautiful," he commented as he lay ontop of her and gazed at the face he loved so much. His silver shining mane fell around their faces like a curtain shielding them from the rest of the world.

As she stared back at him she revealed a pulchritudinous(new word for the day) smile, showing off her two canine teeth. "So what do you think? Do you like the new me?" one of her fuzzy puppy ears twitched slightly.

He leaned in and softly kissed her, "My demon side finds you irrisistable." he gently started to kiss her cheek, "I'm sure my human side will think the same of your human side." he remembered the night that he turned human and how much more beautiful she had seemed to him. He caressed her soft cheek and looked deep into her new eyes. With them brought a new love he didnt know was possible. This was how it was always meant to be, he knew that now.

Somewhere In The Meantime!

She didnt belong here, she knew that now. What place could she have in this world? There wasnt one for her kind. But she would not be allowed to die. Something held her here, she couldnt leave. In shadows she feasted, sleep was not needed. Only that of others.

Her body was not yet fully healed, flesh hung from her bones. Souls was the desire and she needed them to live. But did she want to live? Did she even have a choice. Her "friends" knew where she was and what had happened to her, her remains was all that resided. But they did find her, and they wouldnt let her die. How she longed for death, needed it. Her soul felt tortured every second that she lived. With no home, no friends, no family, what point was there. No one still wanted her here, it was made clear to her. Food had no taste, simple pleasures she used to ignore where now gone. When you see this side of the world, it all seems pointless to even go on, pointless to have hope, to fight to live, because in the end...everyone dies. Depressing isnt it? But its the hard facts, the truth within everything. Life is the longest thing we will ever do...and yet it isnt long enough.

Her friends arrived with more food. As it entered her body she felt alive, but the feeling only lasted a few moments. Soon her body was completely healed, she looked as she did before the dreadful incident. She tied her lose dark hair back into a pony tail and brushed off some dirt, then slightly smiled.

A good looking boy walked by as she wandered out into the open. He seemed interested in her. He had blond hair and glowing green eyes, his strides showed nothing but confidence, this boy must have had it all. He eyed her up, taking in her whole body and not hiding the fact that he was doing so at all, mayb thinking this gets the girls attention, and mayb even get them to talk. But this...was no normal girl. She was not some piece of meat, and the fact that he distrespected her so sent waves of anger through her body. Her eyes faintly gave off a red light and her hair flew around her by an unknown wind force. Now this cought the boys attention, but in a much different, less pleasant way. Terrified, he put his head down, hands into pockets, giving the impression of a school nerd who everyone shuns and puts down, then started to walk very fastly down the street and out of sight, most likely to never look at a girl again.

What next? She wondered. Where would one as herself go? One person came to mind, but that...seemed out of the question. Mayb he could help though, she could be relieved of her pain and suffering and given iternal sleep. She would do it then, Inu-Yasha, she will find you.

Somewhere far away on a flying feather!

The two sisters had been travelling ever since they fled Naraku. Thier mother understood and they promised to return, when, they didnt know. But travelling the world had not complained with them. They got to see things some people would never see in a life time. They visited foriegn demons in all countries, but found that there wasnt the large amount that they had back in Japan.

The U.S. had not been kind to them, they could not blend and they noticed them easily, so they wandered on elsewhere, Canada, Brazil, and the Jamaican Islands (where they REALLY didnt fit in) They had just reached Paris whena sickening feeling struck Kagura.

"What is it sister?" Kanna's monotone voice followed. But she felt it to, her skin seemed to pale more then normal and her body froze.

"...Kikyo is alive somewhere."

omg im so sorry! I had THEE worst case of writers block ever! Plus ive been all busy with like...finals etc, I totally forgot. BUT, Im like yeah...I need to finish this chapter, so thats wut I spent the last 30 minutes doing:) So glad to have it done! Bleh! ok:P And I kno...IKNO! I brought Kikyo back,... sigh but did you ever notice how in the show, no matter wut you do, she doesnt die? This is what I was going for:P But ya, im going to try my HARDEST! to get the next chapter up soon, I always say I will, and it never happens, so im gonna start soon! like tomorrow, I cant today, I still have no idea whats going to happen yet. okie, well Sukida!

Jenny