Chapter 8-Separate tasks

"OH NO! So Shippo is in that horrible place! We have to save him!" Kagome yelled. Just then she heard these words…

' Kagome is only good for one thing, and that's finding the jewel. She just seems to work faster if you pretend to care for her.'

Kagome's heart broke into small, painful pieces. So it's true, She thought, I AM going to kill InuYasha.

*****

Kagome's heart was pounding in her chest, every muscle ached with sorrow. So that was all she was to Inuyasha, a jewel seeker. She should have seen it before! So the future would come to pass. InuYasha cannot be allowed to live.

"… Kagome?" Sango was asking.

"Oh sorry. What were you saying?" Kagome snapped out of her thinking.

"Sesshoumaru and InuYasha are just standing there. Maybe you should get InuYasha to come back to us and think out his strategy." Sango advised.

"Right, yah." Kagome said. I'll get something else while I'm at it. She thought.

She walked over to InuYasha and put her hand softly on his shoulder, like she had always wanted to. InuYasha looked at her with sad, thoughtful eyes, that, for a brief moment, made Kagome forget about her plan.

"InuYasha, you see this is going no where. Why don't you come back." Kagome said in her most innocent voice.

"Yes, why don't you do that." Sesshoumaru advised.

InuYasha just looked at his brother with sad, angry, and troubled eyes and walked away with Kagome by his side.

That night Sango, Miroku, InuYasha, and Kagome set up camp. They explained to InuYasha the situation of Shippo and the need to save him from that time.

"Why doesn't Kagome go and save him." InuYasha chimed in.

"We can't send her there again. Can't you see she's had enough time there already!" Miroku said a bit annoyed by his friend's selfishness.

"No, It's alright Miroku. InuYasha doesn't want me here. There at least I was wanted. Here it's only Kikyou that matters!" Kagome suddenly yelled, with tears flooding from her eyes.

"Kagome…What?…" InuYasha reached for her hand but she pulled it away before InuYasha could hold it.

"If it's Kikyou you want then go ahead have her! Your brother's less savage than you!" Kagome screamed and ran into the forest.

Sango gave InuYasha a hard look and ran after Kagome. Miroku and InuYasha sat in silence a long while until Miroku finally spoke.

" You can be truly selfish sometimes." He said solemnly.

"I know I'm selfish, but you don't understand so just stay out of it!" InuYasha was near tears.

" No you don't understand," Miroku raised his voice," Kagome has to travel back and forth between times, and you treat her like a slave! Yet she comes back, because she loves you! LOVE InuYasha! Unlike Kikyou no matter what you do to Kagome she will always love you, and you abuse her!"

"Don't talk about Kikyou that way!" InuYasha yelled and buried his head between his knees.

" So it's true. You only care for Kikyou. She tried to kill you InuYasha. Do you know that in the time Kagome just came from, you had chosen Kikyou over her, and then used her as your human shield when Kikyou betrayed you again! Did you know that she was told you used to beat her, and she's still not sure if it's true that you didn't!" Miroku was fed up with InuYasha.

" Well I haven't beaten her have I!" InuYasha yelled back at Miroku.

"But you would have." Miroku said softly, "And now you are going to let Kagome, who loves you, leave, and go with Kikyou who hates you."

" Shut the hell up!" InuYasha cried and punched Miroku in the eye, and stomped into the forest.

Just then Sango came back and sat beside Miroku.

"What happened." She asked gently examining his bruised eye.

"InuYasha is going to choose Kikyou over Kagome. I am not afraid for InuYasha, though he will likely die, but for Kagome." Miroku was too mad at InuYasha to care if he died.

" I am afraid this is not our battle. I think we will have to leave our friends to fight it. We should be focussing on Shippo Kagome and InuYasha are out of our hands." Sango said thoughtfully.

"You are right, as usual Sango." Miroku agreed, " but how will we get to the time of Shippo. Only Kagome can do that and she mustn't know because she might go too."

" You are forgetting the future Sesshoumaru that is here." Said Sango.

" Are you suggesting we ask Sesshoumaru for help?" Miroku was confused by Sango's thinking, but he knew her well enough to listen to the whole plan.

" I still believe this Sesshoumaru is evil, but with us in his time he will have more to bribe Kagome with. Then she will follow him to that time, and you, me, Shippo, and her, will escape back to this time." Sango said logically.

Miroku knew this was terribly risky but it seamed that it was the only way to save Shippo and Kagome. InuYasha would have to face his troubles alone.

*****

InuYasha ran through the forest. He wasn't going anywhere specific, just away from everything that was happening. Why had Kagome gotten so mad? He didn't mean to be so selfish. He hadn't decided on Kikyou. Why was she so sure he had chosen Kikyou? But InuYasha knew the answer to that. It was because a part of him had.

Just then he noticed a young women standing in front of him. He slid to a halt and noticed, by her scent, that it was Kagome. Her face was expressionless and her eyes closed. She looked like a statue.

"InuYasha." She whispered.

"Kagome I…" InuYasha began.

"Shhh." She said and softly pressed her finger to his lips, "No more words. I know what I have to do now."

InuYasha was so confused by Kagome's actions he didn't even notice his sword being drawn from its sheath, until it's blade pierced his heart.

"Oh InuYasha. You forget I am part Kikyou."

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