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Chapter 2

"Kikyo!" Kagome yelled in shock.

'Okay, girl, calm down. Deep breaths.' She told herself over and over.

"Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it," Kikyo's voice was so calm and her face showed absolutly no emotion, just like normal.

"Wait, its not what it looks like, Kikyo!" Inuyasha pleaded.

'Then just what was it, Inuyasha!' Kagome wanted to yell at the half-demon she loved so much. The half-demon who would never belong to her with Kikyo around.

Kikyo gave a knowing smile as she looked at Kagome who was standing a little ways behind Inuyasha with her arms around herself for support.

"Still you come back to me, begging, when even a fool could see how much she loves you. You come back to the woman who tried to kill you, to the once was priestess who wants nothing more than to drag you with her to her death."

Inuyasha looked back at Kagome who stared at him with forgiving eyes, and for some reason, that cut right into his heart. He could tell she was trying not to cry and he wanted to hold her.

'Kagome...I do love you...I know that now, but what about Kikyo?' Inuyasha sighed.

"She knows you will always belong to me, but she still wants to stay with you as long as she can. Even I feel sadness for her."

Kikyo spoke with complete seriousness and finished, "I've said all I must. I'll leave the two of you with these shards. Naraku only has three remaining now."

"Did you...take them from him?" Asked Inuyasha softly.

Kikyo gave him a mocking smile, "Yes."

"He could have killed you Kikyo! What are you thinking!"

She let out a quiet, chilling laugh that had Kagome stepping back farther, "Oh Inuyasha, will you ever figure out I am already DEAD?"

"Kagome, take the shards," Inuyasha ordered.

Shaking, she did what he said without arguing and walked forward, but as she reached out, Kikyo closed her hand, "I release my claim on his life to you, Kagome. I no longer seek his death, because he will always be what he is, a half-breed."

Kikyo took Kagome's hand and curled the living girls fingers around the shards, 'Why should I, the walking dead, have the power to take away from the living? Kagome as my reincarnation will be able to do what I had never been able to. I had despised his demon side, but this girl does not. I will go now, and Inuyasha will have her pure love.'

"Good-bye forever Inuyasha, " Whispered Kikyo. She would not miss him, but for his benifit, she tried to sound sad.

"Bye, Kikyo," Inuyasha replied surprisingly calmly.

'She released her claim on his life...' Kagome said unbelievingly in her head, as the priestess disapeared with her soul collectors into the thining mist.

"Kagome?"

'Inuyasha...' Kagome smiled weakly at him.

"I'm sorry."

Kagome looked to the ground and shook her head, " Sorry for what? For kissing me? Or telling Kikyo it was nothing?"

"It WAS something...I just-"

With a little laugh, Kagome intwined her fingers in his, "I understand. Now I don't have to worry she'll take you away from me. That makes me so happy."

Inuyasha didn't say anything. He couldn't, because he had a feeling of peace. He hugged Kagome like he hadn't let himself hug her before.

She hugged him back and at least for the night, they didn't have to worry about losing eachother.

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"Good-morning Kagome," Sango said with a smile as the girl got up.

Everyone was inside and Kagome heard tapping on the roof, 'Rain, great. Inuyasha always gets restless when he has to stay inside and he gets grouchier than normal.'

"Hi...Oh, I feel like I've slept forever!"

Miroku smiled at her and told her, "Inuyasha told us you needed some rest, so we let you sleep. There's not much to do today after all with it storming like it is."

'I havn't slept that well in a long time,' Thought Kagome with a smile as she looked over at Inuyasha who looked restless already.

"Are we going back to my time today?"

"Why not. Like the lecher said, there's nothing to do here while its storming."

Miroku looked at Inuyasha, surprised, and said silently, 'Inuyasha agreed without arguing? How strange. Just like me touching Sango's butt and not getting slapped. Maybe Kagome was right about the whole atmosphere thing.'

He smiled at the memory of Sango sleeping against him and he got a dreamy look on his face that both women noticed.

"What made you look so happy all the sudden, monk?" Asked the sceptical demon slayer.

He smiled and said happily, "Oh, nothing."

That got a glare out of her, and Inuyasha shot at him, " Probably just thinking about some woman he asked to bear his child."

'Inuyasha, my friend, your more right than you know.'

Kagome was smiling while she looked at Miroku. She understood how he felt after all.

Kikyo had told Kagome Inuyasha was his, but now, it was up to Inuyasha.

"Lets go, Kagome, if we're going to. I don't want to stay in here any longer than I have to," Inuyasha growled with a twitch of his ears.

"Ok, lets go," Kagome agreed and added to her friends with a smile, "We'll be back in a couple days you guys. Miroku, stay out of trouble, and Sango, keep an eye on him. You know he's good at getting into trouble."

Sango let out a feminine snort of agreement.

"Hey!" Miroku protested, but found he was ignored.

"And Kirara, keep an eye on Shippo for me please," Kagome added with a pat on the twin tails head.

'She acts like a worried mother,' Inuyasha humored himself with the idea.

"I think thats all then. Well, bye!"

"See ya," Inuyasha offered and followed Kagome out.

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"Mama!"

Kagome ran to hug her mom after throwing her bag to Inuyasha who caught it effortlessly, but still glared at her.

"Oh, Kagome!" Mama replied as she hugged her daughter tight.

Sota and Graps came into the front room having heard Kagome arive and everyone hugged over and over. Kagome even started to cry and Inuyasha started to feel bad.

Maybe I shouldn't keep her from home so much...He thought to himself.

"Hello, Inuyasha. I see you've been keeping my Kagome safe from demons."

In the happy mood, even Inuyasha got a hug from Kagome's mother, and Sota hugged one of his legs, all the farther he could reach.

"Hey," Inuyasha blushed and looked up in time to see Kagome smile.

"Sis, how long are you going to stay?" Sota asked, trying not to to sound hopeful but Kagome picked up on it.

"I told the others we would be here for a couple days..."

Mama looked slightly surprised, "Thats all?"

Kagome turned to look at Inuyasha pleadingly.

'Fine, if it will make her happy, I don't see how it could hurt.'

"I guess we can stay a few days if Kagome really has too," Inuyasha said and that rewarded him with a big smile.

'A happy Kagome is a lot better than a angry Kagome.'

"I'm going to take a nice hot bath and wash my hair a hundred times...Inuyasha, stay out of trouble," Kagome chirpped as she gave one of Inuyasha's ears a quick rub and ran up the stairs.

"Inuyasha, why don't you tell me what you and Kagome have been up to?" Asked Mama and Inuyasha nodded, but he would definatly leave out a few minor details.

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"Oh, thats so much better..." Kagome sighed as she colapsed onto the couch next to Inuyasha, "I had forgot how nice a clean, hot bath was."

"Yeah, you better have enjoyed it! Its been two whole hours!"

"Come on Inuyasha, there's no need to be grouchy. I know, why don't we get supplies for the fuedal era?"

Inuyasha's face lit up at the possibility of getting to leave the shrine, "You mean I actualy get to go out?"

"Sure, but you'll have to wear a hat of course."

'Figures...' Inuyasha siethed, "Fine."

"Okay, lets go then."

Inuyasha stayed happy for about the first five minutes, until he figured out he had to take the human way to the supper-market.

His sensitive ears hated the noise the bus and the subway made, and not to mention the loudness of the people on them.

He actualy covered his ears the whole way there, getting funny stairs from other people not only for that, but his clothing also. He simply glared at the people who were giving him looks and they hurried on with whatever they were doing.

Kagome started to feel bad, but once Inuyasha found ramen at the supper-market, he was completely content.

'I guess I could let him leap from building to building on the way home as long as we don't get too much,' Kagome thought.

Kagome knew that so much ramen would distract him for a little while, and while he looked it over, she went and got all the other things they would need.

They ended up with more ramen than anything else. Kagome had gotten Shippo some candy, Kirara some samon flavored cat treats, and Kaede some medical supplies.

Darkness fell, Inuyasha and Kagome in her room.

"Inuyasha, what do you think is going to happen?" Kagome asked as she sprawled out on her bed and Inuyasha sat on the floor right against the bed.

"Where did that come from?" He asked in a cold voice.

He had no desire whatsoever to talk about that.

"Well, I've just been thinking about it lately. Plus, what about Koga and Kohaku's shards? If we take Kohaku's he will DIE. I can't do that Inuyasha, I just can't."

"I know, but sometimes we have to do things that we don't want to."

'You're too soft Kagome, and its only going to hurt you in the end,' Inuyasha thought sadly.

"I don't know what will happen, but I do know I won't let anything happen to you."

'Thank you, Inuyasha...' Kagome whipered secretly and got under the covers.

"I hope the others are ok..."

Inuyasha smiled, but didn't let Kagome see it, "They're fine."

"Mmm. Goodnight Inuyasha," She whispered, sleep already taking hold of her.

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He stood, watching her as she lay in her own pool of blood, dying.

The woman's wound would be fatal, but he didn't care. He showed no remorce, no regret for what he had just done.

Why should he care? The small village was of no importance to him.

"Please..." The young woman begged, head rising ever so slightly from the ground, "...help me..."

An evil smile crossed the demons mouth, "Even a priestess is not protected from death."

"A demon such as you, Akakios...is the kind...I have strived to wipe from this world."

Akakios looked down at her gasping form, the afterworld taking its hold on her, "It seems as though it will be me who wipes you from this world, priestess. I don't care what happens to you, or any other human for that matter. I take great pleasure in watching you die..."

"Then I will bind you with me, so when I die, you die..."

With an evil laugh, Akakios hissed, "You think you are powerful enough to put a binding spell on me? I am the all powerful Akakio. I have slept for hundreds of years, but now, I have finally awoken."

The last of the womans soul slipped out of her and her body went limp.

"Now, I go to seek the head of my sworn enemies son, the half-breed, Inuyasha..."

'You will die at my hands, Inuyasha, and so will your friends,' He laughed humorously.

The cruel demon walked through the lifeless bodies of the villagers as he continued on his quest.

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