Chapter 11 Taking the Jewel
A/N
I want to thank all of you who have enjoyed reading my stories. It really makes me happy. So thank you. I would have had this chapter up way sooner but I'm lazy and Monday I just got back from a four day trip to Pennsylvania,(5 hour trip from Michigan and it took us about….7hours. we stopped for about an hour so…) with my best friend to visit my other best friend! Anyway moving on.
ChineseKagome,
I did look up that song you suggested. "Strong Enough" by Stacie Orrico. I really like it! I have never heard of her or this song so thank you! I'm really glad you pointed it out to me! If you have any other ideas please tell me and if I use them I will make sure you get credit for it. (This goes for anybody else too.) Tee hee. I probably will use this song at some point in this fanfic, so thanks!
Lady moon dragon,
The reason a demon has shown up is because well I wanted him too basically. Demons are still around even though the story is set in present day time. You know. Inuyasha, Sesshomaru are demons to in this story…… did I answer your question?
And jaken will appear in the story eventually. Along with Kirara and anyone else like Kohaku etc.
On to the story! And please tell me of any typing errors and I will try to go back and fix them.
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The next day Kagome awoke back to her normal human self. She glanced at the clock noticing it was already 11:30. It didn't surprise her that she slept in so late. I mean they all had, had a late night. By the time the girls had arrived home it was 2:00 in the morning. Yawning Kagome crawled out of bed and walked down the hall to get breakfast.
"Look who finally decided to grace us with her presence?" Teased Sango from the living room couch with a magazine in her lap.
"Yeah we thought you were dead in there!" Joked Ayame from her place on the recliner.
"Ha, ha. You two are so hilarious," Kagome responded and trudged onward to the kitchen. Breakfast this morning was to be a bowl of cereal. After eating this nutritious breakfast she went to the bathroom to take a shower. While she was in the shower she began to think about getting the jewel from Kikyo. Obviously Kikyo would just say "Of course Kagome you can have the Shikon jewel!" It was going to be a lot harder than that. Most likely Kikyo would fight her over it. But their was no doubt in Kagome's mind that she wouldn't win. 'I'll try not to hurt Kikyo too severely' Kagome was so wrapped up in her thought she didn't realize how long of a shower she was taking until banging on the door startled her.
Bang! Bang! "Kagome! Hurry up in there!" Bang! Bang! "How long of a shower are you going to take? Ayame and I need to get in there too!"
"Sorry! I'll be out in a minute!" Quickly she finished washing out the conditioner out of her hair and stepped out of the shower. She grabbed a towel and tightly wrapped it around her body, then grabbed one for her hair. Her body covered she ran out of the bathroom to finish getting ready in her room. Since obviously she would be fighting Kikyo, she put on her priestess's Kimono. She unwrapped the towel surrounding her damp hair, brushed it and then pulled it back. She was ready.
About an hour later it was one o' clock and the girls were all downstairs ready to go when they heard a knock at the door. The girls looked at each other with confuse expressions on her face. They rarely got visitors. Kagome went to the front door curious to see who it was. She opened the door and was face to face with "her dear friend" (not) Inuyasha with Miroku and Koga behind him.
"Good. We caught you before you guys left." He said.
"You're not coming with us." Kagome stated glaring at him.
"But we might be able to help!" he said earnestly.
"We don't need it! And anyway this isn't about you! So go home and never come back here again. Wait a minute how do you even know where we live?" She asked but didn't wait for an answer and turned to face Ayame.
"What?" Ayame said in a small voice, taking a few steps backwards.
"Did you tell them?"
"Well yeah. I told Koga."
"Ayame! Why! I told you not to tell a soul where we are living!" scolded Kagome.
"Why is she so mad over something so trivially as that?" Asked Miroku.
"One reason is she didn't want Inuyasha to know and we can't afford to let the public know out whereabouts."
"Why?" Koga asked.
"Because! No more questions lets go! I wanna get this over with! And you three stay out of my way," Said Kagome.
The group of six left for Kikyo's house. Because Kikyo's parents were the riches people in town, it wasn't hard to find their house. It pretty much stood out. They arrived at the massive mansion, within a few minutes. The only problem was it was surrounded by a gold fence. How were they going to get inside the fence was unknown.
"What do we do now?" asked Ayame.
"How should I know?" Said Kagome walking closer to the fence for closer inspection. Looking up she noticed a camera with a speaker next to it. Suddenly a voice spoke from the speaker.
"Finally you're here! I was beginning to think you would never come!" The voice Kagome recognized as Kikyo's. "Oh! I see you've brought some friends with you! Hello Inuyasha darling! Have you come to see me beat the shit out of Higurashi? Here I'll open the gates so we can get this battle started!" Kikyo chirped, "I'll see you all around back!"
The golden gates screeched as they opened allowing the group access to the property. Making their way across the dark green and newly cut lawn, everyone couldn't help but gaze in aw at the size of the house. A fountain stood in the center of the house, spewing water from all sides. The walkway leading up to the front door was surrounded by a beautiful garden. Their had to be hundred of different types of flowers growing in all directions. It was obvious that they paid someone to tend to the garden and any other work that needed to be done outside the house. Looking through the windows to the inside of the house, they all saw maids bustling about. The only one who seemed not to be surprised was Inuyasha. I mean he had been to Kikyo's house millions of time anyway.
"Finally they reached the back of the house were Kikyo was now standing. She was dressed exactly like Kagome, with her bow and arrows strapped to her back. "Ready," she asked Kagome.
"Yep." Answered Kagome snapping her fingers, causing her bow and arrows to appear in hands. "Move out of the way." Kagome said to the five people behind her. Doing as she asked they moved off to the side farther away from Kagome and Kikyo.
Kikyo took the first shot at Kagome. Easily Kagome dodged the attack.
"Is that all you got? Come on you can do better than that!" Kagome mocked.
Angered Kikyo shot a stream of pink arrow at Kagome. Kagome sighed and placed her hand in from of her. The arrows fell to the ground a few feet from Kagome.
"You're cheating!" Huffed Kikyo.
"No you're just weak." Then Kagome began to shoot arrows back at Kikyo.
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"I must hurry!" Said Kaede. "If I weren't so old I would be there by now! They have already stared fighting I have to stop them before Kagome hurts Kikyo!"
Finally Kaede arrived at the place of battle. She placed her hand on the gold fence and whispered a one worded chant. The gate opened and she continued running to the back of the house. She could she blue and pink light flying everywhere.
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Kagome saw someone coming out of the corner of her eye, when she turned to see who it was she saw her teacher Lady Kaede.
"Kagome! Kikyo! Stop this nonsense! Kikyo ye must give Kagome the jewel! It was her birthright to protect it! Please listen to me, before some one gets hurt!"
"No!" Shouted Kikyo, "I will never believe Kagome was meant to have the Shikon no Tama! If that's was true she would have had it to begin with! Also why would you take time to train me to protect it if I wasn't its guardian?"
"Kikyo, ye must understand I had to teach you some defense until the Jewel was passed on to Kagome. Until I was certain she was strong enough to handle all the hardships that come with guarding the jewel! If demons find out you have it they'll kill you!"
"No! I don't believe you!" Angered Kikyo sent out her energies at Kagome trying to wrap her in her aura. But Kagome was already a head of her. Using her own aura she blocked the attack. Kikyo was slammed to the ground by the force of the impact.
"Kikyo, give it up now before you get hurt. Give me the jewel. It doesn't have to be this way." Kagome tried to reason with her.
"No! You're my enemy! I will never surrender to you!" Kikyo got to her feet, breathing heavily giving Kagome a death glare.
"Have it your way then," wanting this fight to be over Kagome sent out her aura and wrapped it around Kikyo.
Kikyo suddenly felt this suffocating sensation. She fell to the ground on her hands and knees desperately trying to breathe. Kagome began to walk towards her knowing there was nothing Kikyo could do. When she reached her, she wrapped her had around the Shikon no Tama and pulled if from Kikyo's neck. Kikyo could no longer stay awake and passed out.
"I tried to warn her." Kagome shrugged. She then placed the jewel around her neck. It glowed lightly and then returned to its normal luster.
"She gonna be okay?" Inuyasha asked, nodding his head towards Kikyo.
"Yes. You're girlfriend is fine. She just blacked out." Kagome answered shaking her head.
"Whatever. I don't really care right now." Kagome glanced back behind her and saw Kaede tending to Kikyo. Ayame and Sango were talking to Koga and Miroku. "Come on guys lets go. I want to get outta here." They all followed Kagome off the premises.
"Kagome, we need to talk," said Inuyasha grabbing her wrist.
"No we don't. I just want to go home and get away from you." She yanked her wrist from his grasp and began walking home.
"Kagome, please! Please just hear me out, we can talk somewhere privately." The hanyou pleaded.
"Fine. I guess only then will you give me some peace." She conceded.
"Thank you."
"Girls I will meet you at home later, okay?"
"Okay, see you then." Both girls said at once.
"Where to, big guy," Kagome said snidely.
"Let's go to the new café that just opened down the street," He suggested.
"Whatever. I just want to get this over with."
They entered the café, taking a seat in the far corner. Immediately a waitress came up and took their orders. Kagome ordered a cappuccino and Inuyasha a simple coffee.
"Okay, start talking dog boy," Said Kagome.
"Well first off, I'm sorry for what I did three years ago."
"Don'cha think it's a little late for that?"
"Please let me finish. It was selfish of me. I only broke up with you because I wanted to be popular, Kikyo promised to give me that and I thought I really liked her."
Inu flashback
"If you want popularity dump Higurashi and go out with me. I can give you the school status you desire!" Kikyo said in a sassy voice.
"Well…I don't know." Inuyasha said.
"Come on. She from a poor family who lives on a shrine! She can't give you the things I can."
"Yeah I know but she's a really good person."
"So what if you want to have lots of friends, go to all the hottest parties, you must dump her. I'll be there to help you."
"Okay. I guess. I'll do it."
Flashback ends
"But in the end being popular wasn't as cool as I thought it would be."
Inuyasha flashback number 2
"Inuyasha! Why are you dressed in that stupid fire rat Kimono! If you want to be popular you have to dress correctly! Keep up with the latest styles!" Kikyo was once again nagging him. "How many times to I have to tell you this?"
"It's not stupid! I love how comfortable it is! Unlike those stupid outfits you buy me, I can actually move comfortable in this! Who care what I wear anyway! And can't we just have a nice quiet evening at home. You know watch some late night movies? Or even take walk along the beach? Do we have to go out every night?"
"I CARE what you wear! And yes we have to go out every night! We have to keep our appearances up. I will not have someone tell me I missed something big at someone's party! Now change you're clothes so we can go!"
Inuyasha was tired of arguing he stormed off to change his clothes.
End of flashback
I was tired of Kikyo's constant nagging. And all the attention I got was annoying. I really missed being around you. Later I found out Kikyo was only using me. I over heard her talking to her girlfriends about it and immediately ended things with her."
Flashback number 3
Kikyo and friends are in the girls bathroom talking when Inuyasha happens to walk by and with his dog ears heard them talking.
Yeah. Inuyasha is so gullible. The only reason I wanted to go out with him was because he is like the hottest guy in school and I couldn't let Higurashi have him, could I? I mean isn't it only fair the hottest girl should get the hottest guy?"
"Yeah. Totally." Her friends answered.
"It was so easy to get him to break up with her. You should have seen her run off, crying like a baby!" Kikyo and her friends laughed at the mental image.
End of Flashback number 3
"And you're telling me this because…"
"I'm telling you so you know what exactly happened. How wrong I was. I'm really truly sorry. And I want to make things better between us."
"Well Inuyasha, sorry isn't good enough. Sorry isn't going to take back all the hurt you caused me. Sorry isn't going to change what you've done. That's not how it works. Sorry isn't going to get me to trust you again."
"I know that. I just wanted to get things out in the open in the hopes that one day you could begin to trust me again."
"I don't see that happening, but I appreciate you telling me this. Although I find it offensive I was dumped because of my social status rather than you simply found someone else. Now if we're through here, I'm leaving." Kagome said rising to her feet.
"No, not yet," Said Inuyasha, placing his hand over hers. "Why didn't you tell me of your curse?"
Kagome glanced at his hand on hers then back to Inuyasha. "Why didn't I tell you?" He nodded. "Why? You honestly have to ask why? You didn't stick around long enough to find out about it! I was going to tell you, but you broke up with me!"
Glaring at him, she puller her hand out of his and ran from the café. Inuyasha quickly slapped some money on the table and ran after her. He quickly caught up to her in no time. He grabbed her arm pulled her into a warm embrace. She was crying now, all because of him.
Kagome was surprised when he wrapped his arms around her. She loved the way he smelled, so masculine. It brought back memories of the times she spent with him. Suddenly realizing what she was doing she pulled away from him and ran all the way home.
Inuyasha was glad to be holding her once more. It felt so right. But when she suddenly pulled herself from his grasp and ran he was saddened. But he knew he had to let her go. She wanted to be alone. The only thing he could do was let her go and hope he could make things right.
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So how was it? Please R&R!