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The Hanyou and the College Girl

Chapter seventeen:

By: darkangelprincess24

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Last time:

He put his hands on his own shoulders and rested his elbows on the ground. He put his forehead to the grass.

"It wouldn't bother me, you know." Kagome said quietly. Inuyasha smelt her tears and lifted his head. "If you went to Kikyo, it wouldn't bother me."

Kagome stood shakily, holding her right arm, which was bleeding profusely. She bit her lip and made a sound in the back of her throat. Tetsusaiga was lying on the ground. She stumbled over to it and picked it up with both hands. She carried it through the woods and, after what seemed like eternity, finally saw the village. Kagome tripped on the dirt outside the hut Sango and Miroku were sleeping in. She tripped again and this time fell to the ground, knocking her head on the stairs on the way down.

This time:

"Is she going to be okay, Sango?"

"She will be, Shippo, now let her rest."

Kagome slowly opened her eyes. She groaned when sunlight blocked her vision. She heard shuffling and forced her eyes open.

"Who's there?" She asked in a raspy voice. Whoever it was knelt beside her.

"It's Sango, Kagome."

"Water?" Kagome choked out. Sango nodded and left the hut.

Kagome nodded and closed her eyes again. Inuyasha…

Wait. Where was he? Is he okay?

Kagome tried to sit up, but fell back gently when a sharp pain coursed through her head and neck. She hissed in pain. Sango returned a few moments later with a pail of water. She helped Kagome sit up and poured the water into her mouth slowly, making her swallow.

After Kagome had some color back in her face, she asked, "Where's Inuyasha?"

Sango opened her mouth to say something, but closed it quickly. "I'm not sure, Kagome." She explained how Kagome hit her head on the ground and had been asleep for about a half an hour.

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Miroku walked deeper into the forest, searching for more firewood. The sky was cast a sinister blue, confirming his suspicions that a storm was coming. The wind started up quickly. A little too quickly for Miroku's taste. A feather drifted from the open sky to the forest. As soon as the feather hovered ten feet from the ground, he smiled without humor.

"Kagura, to what do I owe this visit?"

The wind sorceress smirked as she landed gracefully on the hard ground, tucking the feather behind her ear. "Have you seen Inuyasha lately?" She asked with a smile that showed she knew more than she was letting on.

Miroku squinted his eyes at her. "Where is he?"

Kagura glanced around for spies, or the Saimyosho. When she found none, she leaned in.

"Help me escape from Naraku's grasp, and I will get you Inuyasha." With those parting ways, she took the feather out of her hair and sat elegantly on top of it, floating towards the sky slowly. "Be careful, for Kagome will surely try anything to get her mate back."

'Mate?' Miroku asked himself. He looked in his arms, and, deciding he had enough wood, headed back to the hut.

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He struggled to open his eyes, but tried anyways. He groaned when he realized he was blindfolded. "Hello?" He rasped.

A low chuckle was heard from somewhere across the room. He recognized that laugh.

"Naraku." He spat.

He chuckled again and Inuyasha's blindfold was ripped off and thrown to the ground. "So, you've finally fallen out of your slumber, Inuyasha."

"Bastard," He hissed, "Where's Kagome?" He tried to sniff out her scent, fear creeping upon him when he couldn't find it. "What did you do to her?"

Naraku smiled. "You want to see her, correct? I will show you her. And you." He turned towards the door and waved his hand. "Kanna!"

"Yes, master?" Kanna's scratchy voice was heard in an instant. She seemed to glide forward in her white dress. She held her mirror carefully and glided until she was only a few feet from Inuyasha. He stared at her angrily.

"Show Inuyasha his love."

Kanna nodded slightly and held the mirror up to Inuyasha's face. It seemed to suck him in, like everything else wasn't there. He was a fly on the wall. He glanced around and noted the fact that he was in a forest. He heard a scream and ran towards it.

He came to a clearing of sorts, even if it was surrounded by tall trees. He saw…himself? Kagome was with 'him'. She looked angry. 'Oh, yeah,' Inuyasha remembered. 'That picture of Kikyo.' He blinked and when he opened his eyes again, his twin was kissing Kagome. His eyes went wide.

"Kagome! Come on, Kagome…snap out of it!" He yelled to her. She pulled away sharply and looked like as if she were about to cry. Inuyasha watched the whole scene play out before him until Kikyo's picture fell out of his twin's pocket. Curious, Inuyasha reached into his fire-rat kimono and pulled out a picture, but it wasn't of Kikyo. It was Kagome smiling and seemingly laughing with Inuyasha. He remembered that; Sango had pressed the flash button. He smiled vaguely and tucked it back into his kimono. So…Naraku switched the photographs?

Looking up, Inuyasha barely had time to duck his head from being pummeled with Tetsusaiga. Wait…Tetsusaiga? He reached for his sheath, surprised when he found the sheath but not the sword.

"Naraku," He hissed angrily, looking up to Kagome again when she said his name quietly. "Kagome!"

He rushed towards her when he saw himself gripping her arms so tightly she bled. Before he could get to her, she was thrown in the opposite direction of him and hit her head. He screamed her name and started running towards her. He knelt next to her and tried to cradle her head in his lap, but his hands went right through her skull. He swore, finally figuring out he was transparent.

Slowly, his surroundings were melting away back into the walls of his cell in Naraku's castle. He fell to the ground, his knees hitting the floor harshly.

"Kagome…" When a low chuckle was heard, Inuyasha regained his senses and stood quickly. "Naraku, what did you do to Kagome?" He yelled.

"Simple," Naraku replied, "I just found an old sorceress to make a body much like yours." He laughed evilly. "The body Kagome saw was a bit like Kikyo's, wasn't it?"

Inuyasha's hands balled into fists so tight his knuckles went white. "You have no right to even think about Kikyo's appearance."

Another laugh. "Actually, my dear, dear hanyou, I do."

"What the hell are you-"

"Karei!" Naraku suddenly called calmly, turning towards the door. Inuyasha followed his gaze, which was at the time locked on a figure standing tall and proud.

The figure stepped forward until even with Naraku. Inuyasha gasped. 'K…Kikyo?'

"Heh. No, Inuyasha, not Kikyo. Karei. Kikyo's reincarnation." Naraku spit out the word 'Kikyo' liked it was a bad taste.

Inuyasha chuckled humorlessly. "Impossible. Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation."

"Oh, but is she really?" Naraku paused to circle Inuyasha. "What about Midoriko? Is it not true Kikyo herself was Midoriko's reincarnation? Kikyo died. Five hundred years later, a pathetic reincarnation of Kikyo was born, am I correct?"

"How do you know Kagome's not from this time?" Inuyasha yelled furiously. Naraku's condescending laugh only brought fuel to his fire.

"I may be but a hanyou, Inuyasha, but I am not blind. I see the way that girl dresses. She is clearly from some other time period. Then, of course, there's the Bone-eater's well, which she jumps into to 'go home' as she says, which follows with you, sitting around for about a day then also jumping in the well."

"That still doesn't explain how you know she's from five hundred years in the future!" Inuyasha retorted, trying to hide his blush. Did everyone know about his love for Kagome?

Naraku shook his head. "I have spies, boy. I know everything about you," He took a step forward. "I know what your favorite food is, who you care for the most, and even how you watch over your shard detector as she sleeps, even I can see how you love her. Sounds familiar, ne? Kikyo?"

"Shut up!" Inuyasha yelled. Naraku knew very well he was opening a supposed 'healed' wound. "Just shut the hell up!"

A soft tapping of footsteps got his attention. 'Kikyo' stood before him. She extended her hand to his head until her fingertips touched his forehead. The moment they connected with Inuyasha's skin, a flash of purple light was thrust at him and he was sent flying into the stone wall. He coughed and wiped his bleeding mouth with the back of his hand. He swore and stood shakily. He coughed wildly and closed his eyes in the scratching pain in his throat. When he opened them again, he was standing next to the Bone-eater's Well.

An eerie voice echoed through the darkening sky. "Inuyasha…" It was her voice. Kik-no, Karei's voice. He followed it.

Scene Change to Kagome

One hour earlier

"Kagome, are you sure you'll be alright?"

The eighteen year old rolled her eyes. "I'll be fine." Sango still looked uneasy about the idea of leaving her best friend, but she nodded anyways.

"Alright, if you're okay." She bowed slightly and left the hut. Once she was gone, Kagome waited a few minutes frozen in her spot before starting to cry.

How did he do that? How could he do that? She had told Sango her cuts and bruises were fine, and they were. It was the wounds in her heart that could never be healed.

After ten minutes, Kagome wiped her eyes and stood up like nothing had happened. She rummaged through her yellow backpack for some clothes that weren't shredded to pieces. Careful of her mostly healed wounds, she changed into dark blue jeans and a black, long-sleeved shirt with white lettering on the front. It said, "miko's rule the world". She slipped on her black and blue sneakers and put her hair into a high ponytail before walking silently out into the cold night. She forgot her jacket.

The late-teen hissed in a breath when the chilly air whipped at her cheeks. She kept on walking, nonetheless, straight to the well. "I…I just need some time to think." She whispered to herself.

Once she got to the wooden frame of the portal, she stopped and stared into the darkness it came with. Kagome vaguely noticed the light snow that started to fall when she plunked down onto the ground beside the Bone-eater's Well. She stared silently in the direction of the Sacred Tree for a few minutes before sensing a familiar presence. She jumped up suddenly when he came intro view.

"…Kagome?"

Her bottom lip trembled. "Inuyasha."

Scene change to Inuyasha

Ten minutes earlier

Inuyasha swore when he passed the Sacred Tree yet again. "How come I can't even find my way around in my own forest!" He asked himself quietly while heading in the direction of the Bone-eater's Well, asking himself why he even left it. That place always calmed him. He suddenly remembered. 'Oh yeah, I had to go.'

A familiar scent drifted by his sensitive nose. Kagome?

He followed her scent blindly, knocking into trees and bushes of all sorts until he found the well with a raven-haired girl sitting against it. He hid in the bushes.

Scene Change

Kagome stared at Inuyasha, who was standing in front of her. She stood.

"You aren't the real one." She said simply.

"What the hell is wrong with you, bitch? You can't even recognize me?" He screamed. "We all hate you here, don't you know that?"

"I…Inuyasha…" Even though she had an inkling that he was an imposter, she was still sensitive as ever and easily persuaded.

"No!" He interrupted, his face turning a color only he had mastered. "Sometimes," He said softly, almost to soft for Kagome to hear, "I wonder why I ever chose you over Kikyo."

He looked up. Kagome's bottom lip trembled ever so slightly, she swallowed hard, her eyes started watering, and her face twisted into a face that only made her look beautiful, even while on the verge of tears. She met his eyes and smiled despondently.

"Well, you can go to her, now that you know where she is." Kagome's body shook slightly in a chill. She closed her eyes for a moment to keep the tears inside her. "I…thought you…l-loved me, Inuyasha. Or did you just pretend to because I look like her?"

Inuyasha said nothing. Shuffling was heard in the bushes. Kagome almost burst out crying when Inuyasha didn't put his arm around her protectively like he always did.

"You." He hissed.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled at the figure who had emerged. Only she didn't run to him. She still didn't know if he was the real one.

The newer Inuyasha ran towards her. She held her ground. He wrapped his arms around her and buried his head into her hair. As soon as he was there, he was ripped away from her by the other Inuyasha.

"Get your hands off of her!" He yelled, throwing Inuyasha into a tree. After a few seconds, he stood up again and wiped the blood of his cheek. He nodded towards the well and locked eyes with Kagome.

"Go home and don't come back for a while, Kagome." She opened her mouth to protest, but he interrupted her. "No. Do as I say, Kagome. I'll come for you."

"Inu-"

"Kagome. I will come back to you." He said fiercely, locking eyes with her again. "I promise."

Kagome nodded and fell into the well. Both Inuyasha's waited until her scent was gone before glaring at each other.

The real Inuyasha drew Tetsusaiga. "Well, come on, Inuyasha, let's fight."

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Author's note: I'm so sorry! It took me a long time to update! I had major writer's block, not to mention all my boy problems. Idiot Michael… anyways. Since I'm getting depressed because of someone, I need reviews to help cheer me up!
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