Another Death
InuYasha stayed in the forest. He had left to spare Kagome the drama. 'Kagome I'm so sorry' he thought as he watched her sit outside the den in the growing sun light. He felt so bad. She had given him the jewel and had taken away the beads of subjugation. His heart was breaking every time he saw Koga hold or comfort her. 'Kagome I love you. I would do anything to win your forgiveness.'
Kagome could sense him there. A part of her wanted to run to him and cling to him for dear life, but the other part of her wanted to take an arrow and shoot him. He had hurt her so much, but he was the only one who could make her feel better. 'Get a grip Kagome. He loves Kikyo not you.' she told herself sadly. 'I need to do it tonight. I need to go. I can't stay here anymore. I can't go back to my time, my friends are gone, and the love of my life doesn't love me' she thought slowly getting up. She quietly walked to the woods. She soon notice InuYasha following her. She could sense him in the trees nearby.
"InuYasha please stop following me." she said to him in the same voice she had used to dismiss him earlier. He jumped out of the tree he had been hiding in and landed right in front of Kagome.
"Can we talk? Please?" he asked sweetly reaching for her hand. She pulled it out of his reach.
"InuYasha…I don't want to be here anymore. I don't want to feel this way anymore." she said with vulnerability in her voice. It was breaking InuYasha's heart to see her like this. He quickly and forcefully hugged her and didn't let go. Kagome instinctively went to hug him back, but stopped herself just in time.
"Kagome I want to help you. Just tell me what I can do to help you through this." he said stroking her hair softly. Kagome tried to get away then but couldn't.
"InuYasha I…I just want to be alone right now." she mumbled.
"I need you right now though Kagome. You're all I have left and I'm all you have left. Please don't leave me now" he said clinging to her. Kagome couldn't stay mad at him. She realized that she had hurt him. She realized that he was going through the same thing as her. He had lost his home and friends too.
"InuYasha… I feel so cold and lost. I don't know what to do anymore" she said starting to cry into his chest. He pulled away enough to look her in the eye.
"Kagome I…" he started to say, but was interrupted. Koga came into view shouting at him.
"What do you think you are doing? I told you to stay away from Kagome!" he yelled at InuYasha.
"I thought I was talking to Kagome and comforting her." he replied getting angry.
"Koga please. I came here to talk with InuYasha. I wanted to see him. I'm fine here so please leave us be." she said still in InuYasha's arms.
"But…Kagome" he said speechlessly.
"Koga please just go" she said as nicely as she could. He simply nodded his head and left them. InuYasha and Kagome turned back to each other.
"Kagome I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you. It is my fault. Everything, but I will do anything if you will forgive me." he told as he caressing her cheek softly.
"InuYasha… I don't know if I can forgive you. You were with Kikyo when it happened. You have left me so many times to go to her and this time it cost our friends lives. The whole village is dead." she said tears streaming down her face. "I really don't know what there is to live for anymore." she confessed.
"You… You're not thinking of… of killing yourself are you?" he asked scared half to death.
"Give me a real reason to live InuYasha" she said looking into his golden eyes searching for the answer she wanted.
"Kagome what do you want me to say? You should want to live. I want you to live and be happy. I care about you" he admitted hesitantly, but it wasn't what she wanted to hear.
"I know you care, but that isn't enough right now. I need more" she said hanging on tight hoping he would understand. He caressed her cheek more lovingly. He slowly leaned forward.
"I need you and care about you isn't that enough?" he asked his breath warming her face. Even more slowly he leaned farther in to lay single sweet kiss on her lips. Kagome thought she was dreaming. InuYasha was kissing her. It was a loving kiss. He reluctantly pulled away from the heaven that was her touch. She gazed longingly into his eyes.
"I know what you are trying to say InuYasha, but I need to hear it. You have told me the same thing in the same way before. You have protected me, gotten jealous, and done so much more, but you always turn against me eventually. I need to hear you say it now." she said clinging tighter to him. He just stood silent. He had summoned all his courage to just kiss her. He pulled her to his chest. He couldn't find the words.
"InuYasha please, please tell me. I need to hear you say it." she said on the brink of tears. He pulled away and looked down at her lovingly. He opened his mouth to speak and then quickly closed it. He turned his head from her. "What is it?" Kagome asked forgetting about their previous conversation.
"There's a demon coming" he warned her turning. His hand instinctively went to the hilt of Tetsusaiga. Suddenly a demon girl came out of the woods. She looked innocent except for her snake eyes and fangs. She had ebony black hair past her shoulders. She was wearing a simple white kimono similar to the one Kanna used to wear. "Kagome stand back" he ordered gently pushing her behind him. He unsheathed Tetsusaiga.
"I want the Shikon Jewel." the child said coldly.
"I won't let you have it" he replied leaping forward. The demon put up a barrier. It was a strong light yellow barrier like her eyes. It flung InuYasha back at Kagome. He fell to the ground at her feet. She bent down to see if he was ok.
"InuYasha are you alright?" she asked concerned. He looked up at her.
"I'll be fine" he said getting up to attack again. He broke the barrier the next time though. The child materialized a sword to fight him with. She blocked him quickly. They exchanged blows for quite some time before InuYasha was pushed back and lost his balance. He fell to the ground at Kagome's feet. He slowly and weakly got up. The child had landed a few blows on him. He had only hit her once though.
"Either give me the jewel now or die." she said with an evil smirk on her face.
"Never" InuYasha said bluntly.
"Fine have it your way" she said running forward to stab him through his stomach. InuYasha tried to block but was too late. She succeeded. He fell to the ground on his knees this time. She slowly pulled her sword out of him. InuYasha coughed up his own blood. 'No! No he can't die!' Kagome thought. "Now I will kill you" the little demon said rising her sword high aimed for his heart.
"No!" Kagome shouted getting in the way just as the child brought down her sword. It went straight through Kagome. 'Kagome…' InuYasha thought with wide eyes. Her limp body fell from the sword back into InuYasha's arms. He didn't know what to do. She was dieing right in his arms.
"Kagome please hang on" he said lifting his hand above her wound not sure of what he was going to do if she didn't make it.
"InuYasha I'm so sorry… to leave you." she said weakly with blood seeping from her parted lips. InuYasha quickly wiped it away.
"No Kagome don't be sorry. You'll be fine. I won't let you die." he tried to tell her without crying, but one single tear slipped from his eye onto her face.
"I'm sorry to leave… you, but I'll see Sango,… and Shippo… and Miroku and Kilala. Keade will be there too." she said with a smile creeping onto her lips. "Please don't cry for me InuYasha. I want you to be happy." she said trying to lift her hand to his face. He grabbed it and placed it there. He rubbed his cheek into her hand longingly. "I love you InuYasha. I love you and never loved anyone else the way I love you" she told him quietly. His eyes shoot open. 'She… She loves me' he thought overjoyed and deeply hurt at the same time.
"I love you too Kagome" he said leaning down to give her a simple kiss. He could feel the life leaving her. 'No! Please I need her' he thought to himself.
"Thank you for saying that" she whispered when he pulled away. Then her eyes slowly close shot forever.
"NO!" he sobbed burying his face in her hair. He looked up to the demon with red eyes. "You… I am going to kill you" he roared. He dropped Kagome's lifeless body to the ground and leaped forward. He extended his enlarged claws. Then ripped the child demon to shreds. He was panting heavily afterwards. Finally his breathing return to normal along with his eyes. His demon blood had calmed and taken its revenge. Now it was time for his human side to mourn at the lose of his love. He walked to her.
Her body and clothes had blood all over. Blood still oozed out of her chest where the sword had been embedded. Her hair covered her face now since he had dropped her in a hurry. He knelt down and gently brushed it off her face. 'I want you to be happy' Those words rang in his mind. Those words that Kagome, the only person to ever truly love him, had said only moments ago. He put his hand to her soft cheek. He stroke it tenderly and lovingly.
"Why? Why did you do that?" he said aloud pulling her body into his arms. "Kagome…" he whispered clinging to her lifeless form.
It had been a week since Kagome's death. Koga had yelled at InuYasha for almost an hour when he had seen InuYasha carrying her dead body. After seeing the hanyou's face though he had been silenced. InuYasha had buried her body next to Sango and Shippo. 'Kagome…I need you. Why did you leave me by myself?' he thought sitting by her grave. He ran his fingers over the freshly dug up dirt lightly. 'Why did you leave the jewel to me of all people?'. He sighed heavily. 'I do not want to be a full demon. I don't even want to live anymore. What good is this damn jewel if I can't be with the woman I love?' he thought sadly. Then an idea came. 'It is my only chance at getting her back. At getting any of them back.' he decided.
