Chapter 10: Breathe into me
Kagome got up and began to walk away. Then the sudden terror of what she had done struck her and she came to a stop. InuYasha's words, don't look back, still rang in her head.
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What did he mean by "don't look back."? Did he want to die? Should she turn around and save him even though he hurt her? If she didn't she would be a…murderer. But wasn't it a crime of passion? She tried to reason in her head, but the word "Murderer" kept coming to mind until she could no longer bear it. She ran back to InuYasha who was lifeless on the ground. His face was pressed into the grass. She knelt down beside him and lifted his head. There was a small amount of blood from his mouth and nose. She touched his lips. They were ice cold! She tried to breathe life back into him, but he remained still.
"INUYASHA! I can't kill you! You can't be dead!" Kagome screamed, while crying tears of self-hatred. Yes the future would come to pass; InuYasha was… no InuYasha can't die. She thought, I won't let him!
She lifted his head and tried once more to give him breath. When that had no effect, she tore off his shirt and began to attempt CPR. She noticed that his wounds were healed, except of a scar. What could this mean?
"That is what happens when a demon dies. He is lucky that at least death was blind enough to consider him a full demon. The wounds are gone, and so is InuYasha, and just as the scar only his memory remains." Sesshoumaru had come from behind her.
"What…?" Kagome managed to say before bursting once more into a sob.
"InuYasha is no more. He will never breath life again."
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"Now that's a trick ain't it." A crazed Shippo laughed.
What have you done to Sango?" Miroku questioned.
"Aw, She's fine. She might be a little, uh, shall we say…forgetful when she wakes." Shippo laughed.
"What is this strange energy I am sensing from you?" Miroku asked, and brought his staff to a defensive position.
"SO that is the question. Does it scar you?" Shippo said in a taunting manner that made Miroku cringe.
" I am no afraid of my friends." Miroku said sternly.
" Oh your not now. So you won't mind if I do…this!" Shippo raised his hand and Sango went high up into the air. "Are you afraid of me now, Miroku?"
"Let Sango go, she has done nothing to you!" Miroku commanded.
"Alright, you're such a party-pooper. I was just having some fun." The crazed Shippo smiled, and let down high hand, and Sango came flying back down. Miroku was able to catch her and lye her on the ground.
"What has happened to you?" An angered Miroku asked.
"PAIN! I'm both inside of me! It hurts! I'm squished!" Shippo screamed, and began punching the ground. "I have to cause other's pain so that I don't feel it! There is to much me in me!"
" I see, so the two Shippos are in one body, but not able to fit." Miroku said aloud to himself.
"IT HURTS REAL BAD!" The Shippo yelled, and lunged for Miroku, who dodged the attack." Feel my pain!" The Shippo screamed.
How was Miroku to get out of this?
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"Kagome, come with me. There is nothing you can do for InuYasha." Sesshoumaru reached out his hand to Kagome.
"No," She turned to InuYasha, "I won't let him die!" Kagome declared as she once again tried to breathe life into him.
" It won't work, Kagome. He died as a demon so it is logical to say he must be revived as a demon, and that takes much time to do. Give him up." Sesshoumaru pleaded.
"You…KISAMA! This is all your fault!" Kagome screamed at Sesshoumaru.
"Don't cast the blame to me. This time you did it on your own accord."
Sesshoumaru was right. She had done it on her own accord. Just then something caught her eye. Sesshoumaru had TWO swords. One the tensuiga and the other…how could she have forgotten! She drew the other sword out of its sheath before Sesshoumaru could stop her, and struck InuYasha with it. The blue light flooded from the sword and InuYasha began to stir.
"InuYasha?" Kagome bent over him.
"Kagome? You've…" InuYasha began in a raspy voice.
" Do not enjoy life too much, for it will soon be over." Sesshoumaru told his brother.
"You are wrong, brother. Father's very disappointed in you." InuYasha grinned. "I am to destroy you Seshsoumaru!" InuYasha yelled and raised to his feet.
"One of us will die." Sesshoumaru said coolly.
"That would be you, Sesshoumaru." InuYasha said, and began cracking his knuckles.
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