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Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were-I have not seen
As others saw-I could not bring
My passions from a common spring-
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow-I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone-
And all I lov'd-I lov'd alone-
Then-in my childhood-in the dawn
Of a most stormy life-was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent, or the fountain-
From the red cliffs of the mountain-
From the sun that round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold-
From the lighting of the sky
As it pass'd me flying by
From the thunder, and the storm
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view
-Edgar Allen Poe
Chapter Six
Conclusion
-Edo, the Present-
Kagome stopped. The group paused.
"What is it?" Miroku asked, coming up behind the young miko.
"This place..."
"Yes?" the demon exterminator asked, wishing for her to continue.
"This was the last place that I saw Inu-yasha." Kagome looked around and then started running, running back to where it was that the battle had taken place. If he was anywhere, that's where he would be. That's where he would be.
That's where he would be.
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-Edo, the Past-
Sango and Miroku struggled against the thing. It had started to go after Inu-yasha and Kagome and they couldn't let it hurt their friends. They had to distract it.
"Hiraikotsu!" Sango yelled and threw the overlarge boomerang. Where it had killed demons large and small alike, it now only managed to slice open a leg. "Damn it!" she yelled. It came back and she tried once more.
"Foolish mortals," Naraku boomed with that horrendous voice of his. "You will never win. Just give up." He sent swarms of demons their way and the duo, along with Shippo and Kirara, began the exhausting work of slaying them all.
"WIND SCAR!"
The thing stopped in its track as a attack known to kill hundreds of demons merely cut off its leg. "So you come back, Inu-yasha. Where is the miko?"
Inu-yasha glared at the thing. "Like I'm gonna tell you that information." Inu-yasha got ready for another attack, but something stopped him. What was this...feeling? He had to perform the Bakuryu-ha now or... But something just held him back. How could they defeat this thing then? How?
Something in him told him the answer and he accepted it. It would work for now. He started jumping his way up to the demon's height.
There was only two things on his mind.
One, was the miko he had left behind.
The other, was Naraku's heart.
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-Edo, the Present-
Something drawing closer and closer. What was it? It was a nice feeling. But the emotions were running rampage. He wanted to hold that thing, make it feel better. There was... What were those emotions.
Fear... Nervousness, excitement...hope... And was that... Was that...love?
What was this thing that drew nearer and nearer? He tried to move, but it hurt to move now. Hurt to move.
He knew what was hurting him.
It was a human thing...a human thing called a heart.
What was this thing coming nearer?
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She ran and ran. Her legs hurt now. Hurt a lot, but she kept on running. She would run for his sake. She just had to get there, and when she did... Well, her whole life depended on this. She stopped.
Miroku and Sango had already looked, right? What if...
She shook her head. That didn't matter now. Didn't matter. She continued to run again, run and run and run and run.
And run and run and run and run.
Run and run and run.
---
-Edo, the Past-
He had finally reached it, the beast's heart. Naraku had tried his best to keep the hanyou away from his body, maybe fearing what it was that was coming from the half-blooded boy.
Inu-yasha dove and the Tetsusaiga hit the thing's chest.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU INSOLENT FOOL!" the thing shrieked, trying to push the boy off its chest.
Inu-yasha's ears were screaming from the shriek of the beast and it had clawed up his back some, but he continued to hold onto the hilt of the Tetsusaiga and he drove it deeper and deeper.
Black blood sprayed onto him and he didn't care. He dove the sword deeper and deeper.
The thing kept screeching and trying to fling the hanyou off, knowing what he was up to now. A significant amount of blood splattered the boy's face and he knew he had hit the heart. It wasn't very deep, considering how enormous the beast was. He cut his way in and was covered head to toe in blood. He was in the heart now and there was only one thing he would do. He began to tear the heart up from the inside.
The thing's voice boomed all around him and he could actually see that Naraku was trying to claw his way in through his chest. But Inu-yasha finished the job before the monster could even touch him and leapt his way out of the horrid thing.
He reached the ground and he saw the others with grim smiles as they realized that they had made it, they had done it. In his hand was something important that he had found inside the heart. Well, he'd give it to Kagome...he'd give it to her.
Then there was red and then black, and as his vision died away, he could of swore he heard a young voice yell.
"DADDY!"
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-Edo, the Present-
Kagome had finally reached it, the battle scene. She saw Naraku's dead form a few yards off from her, now down to human size once more. There was no apparent sign that Naraku was anything but a human now, no demons, no purple mists.
Kagome stepped back in surprise as a ivory feather landed beside it, two occupants on it. A woman in kimono with black hair and a young albino girl with no emotion at all.
Kagura looked from her dead master to the miko. "Who did this?"
Kagome swallowed her fear and stood tall, her eyes forming slits. "Inu-yasha did."
The wind demon looked back at her master and then closed her eyes and nodded. "Well then, bring him out so that I can thank him."
Kagome didn't move, but her face rearranged itself.
Kagura looked at her once more. "Don't tell me he's died."
"Of course not!" Kagome said, still not looking at Kagura. "Inu-yasha never dies, never. He's really strong and he..." She looked at the woman that controlled the winds with an intensity she never knew she had. "He promised me! He promised me he would come back!"
Kagura held the tip of her fan to her mouth. "So you really don't know then, do you?" She looked back at the miko. "Well then, good luck finding him." With that, she turned to rid the world of the body of Naraku.
Kagome turned, but then remembered the jewel... She turned back, but didn't feel anything from the hanyou's body. Sighing, she turned again and looked around at the trees that encircled the clearing of the last battle Naraku had ever seen.
Something struck her. Why hadn't she felt it before? The Shikon Jewel! She could feel it. If anyone had it, it was Inu-yasha! She began running again, wanting nothing more than to find that silver-haired boy she had given her heart to.
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There was something close to him. It was that same thing as before. So familiar. That smell... Kagome! It was Kagome. He opened his mouth, pain shooting through him, and he didn't know where it came from.
"KAGOME!" he shouted. "KAGOME!" His hand tightened against a smooth sphere. The Shikon Jewel, his head told him. That was right, he had pulled it from the heart of the hanyou known as Naraku. Then Naraku had died...and then what?
The sound of running feet came closer and closer and he grimly smiled. She would be here.
Kagome broke through the tree line and spotted Inu-yasha there. She stopped. Her eyes were wide and Inu-yasha could smell at least a thousand different emotions on her. Concern, nervousness, happiness, and the most important of all.
Inu-yasha gave her a smile. "Hey wench."
A gigantic smile broke her face and she ran to him, tears streaming down her pale cheeks. Kagome jumped and latched herself onto him, making him grunt. "Oh Inu-yasha! I'm so sorry, so sorry!"
He smiled as it looked like her smile would be permanently plastered to her pretty face. He reached up a hand and put it on her hair, stroking it. "Kagome."
She buried her head into his haori. "Inu-yasha, Inu-yasha, Inu-yasha..."
He kept on smiling gently. She looked up at him and just stared at his eyes for a while, before she started to lean up, but then hesitated. Her eyes shifted down but then looked back up at him and then leaned forward against and pressed her lips against his.
Where she had expected him to push her away, his arm wrapped around her back and pressed her against him, deepening the kiss. When she finally drew away, she was breathing a little ruggedly. "Inu-yasha," she breathed out.
He smiled at her and stroked her cheek with a hand. "I told you. I told you that I'd stay alive."
She glared at him suddenly. "You told me you'd come for me! I got worried...and then I ran back... I saw it... I saw it as he... As he..." She turned her head away and tears formed on her eyes again.
"What did he do?" Inu-yasha asked her.
Kagome looked back at him and gave him a sad smile. "It'd be better if you didn't know."
"Why'd it take you so long to find me?" he asked.
She looked away again, ashamed. "I...ran home... I couldn't take it and... I somewhat lost my mind... And I hurt a friend of mine very badly. I will have to apologize to him."
Inu-yasha's eyes slit. "That stupid Homo guy?"
Kagome glared at him. "His name is Hojo!"
Inu-yasha glared at her. "Well why do you care? What, do you love him?"
Kagome glared back with a higher intensity. "You stupid baka! How could you even say that! I love you!" She gasped as it came out of her mouth. She hadn't really meant to say that...it just came out.
Inu-yasha stared at her with wide eyes and then he smiled and started laughing.
"And what's so funny?" Kagome asked, glaring at him.
He leaned down and caught her mouth in another soul-searing kiss. When he pulled back, he smiled gently at her and wiped away the tears on her face, as well as the rivers they had made on her cheeks. "You see, it is funny. Because I love you too." A chuckle escaped his mouth again.
"Well, I find nothing funny about that!" Kagome said. Her hand moved to his neck and she pulled the locket out from the depths of his haori. "Maybe I'll just get rid of this and say the 's-word' a million times!"
His hand closed over hers. "No...let's leave that be." He smiled at her. "Good luck charms aren't meant to be taken away."
She looked back up at him just as the rest of their group emerged from the woods.
"Inu-yasha!" Sango exclaimed.
"DADDY!" Shippo yelled and ran to the fallen boy, hanging onto his arm. Then he froze as he realized exactly what it was he had said AGAIN!
Inu-yasha smiled gently at the little kitsune. "So it was you...who called me that...back then."
Shippo turned around, crossing his arms and legs. "It's not like I really meant it or anything..."
Inu-yasha picked up the kitsune and held him against his chest. "It's okay, Shippo. I don't care."
He looked over at Kagome. "So...are you going to marry Mommy...?"
Inu-yasha's eyes widened and a blush formed over his cheeks.
Kagome laughed a little and then smiled at Shippo. "You know what, Shippo?" she said, taking the kitsune from Inu-yasha gently and holding him in her lap. She leaned down and whispered into his ear. "We might just."
Shippo smiled. "So Inu-yasha finally told you Kagome?"
Kagome laughed a little more. "Yep, he did."
Shippo nodded as if it was final. "Good."
Miroku and Sango joined the little group and somehow it didn't seem like anything was missing anymore.
"We should treat those wounds, Inu-yasha," Miroku said. "I'm surprised you could move at all, and especially this far from the battle."
Inu-yasha shrugged. "All I remember is red and then black, the kid's voice, and then I woke up here. But...the moon... It was strange."
"You noticed too?" Kagome asked. "It's been a new moon for a while now. I thought that maybe it had something to do with you."
Inu-yasha shrugged. "I don't know, but...here." He stretched out the hand holding the Shikon Jewel and open the fingers, showing her what was inside it.
"It's...complete..." She looked over at Sango.
She didn't say anything, but looked down instead. Miroku moved to comfort the woman.
"You know what, Inu-yasha?" Kagome said. "This doesn't belong to me. It's yours." She took his hand and put it in the palm, closing the fingers around the little jewel.
Inu-yasha looked at his hand and then looked around at the group around him that had become his family over the course of a year. He closed his eyes and then opened his hand for them all to see the jewel shimmer and vanish into dust.
"What did you wish?" Kagome asked.
He smiled at her. "If I tell you, it won't come true."
Kagome blinked at him and then smiled.
A noise came from the trees around them and Inu-yasha growled as he recognized that smell.
Kagura came through the woods with the body of a young boy, maybe ten or eleven in her arms. "You might just want this, seeing as you did help kill Naraku and all," she said and placed the body in front of Sango. Then she started walking back. She stopped and then looked back at Sango. "He was lying... Naraku, I mean. That jewel was only there to control the boy, not to allow him to live."
Sango looked at her brother to see that he was indeed breathing. She looked back up at Kagura with tears in her eyes. "Thank you. Thank you so much."
Kagura waved it off like nothing. "It is really I who should be thanking you." She looked back at Kagome and Inu-yasha. "I guess he kept his promise, eh, Miko?"
"Why did he want me?" Kagome asked. "Why did he want me?"
Kagura shook her head. "It is better for you not to know."
"I want to know," Kagome asked.
Kagura sighed. "He was a true beast. He wanted to control you and your miko powers... But...there's only one way to do that."
Kagome's eyes slitted and Inu-yasha started growling as they both knew what was probably to come next. "And what is that?"
"Rape, of course. If it is not rape, then it will not work. So if Inu-yasha there was to take you, he could not control you. But with Naraku, that would have been easy, don't you think?" She looked back at the group once more before she walked off into the woods.
Inu-yasha looked at Kagome. "I told you."
"Don't even start that Inu-yasha."
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And it's all in how you mix the two
And it starts just where the light exists
It's a feeling that you cannot miss
And it burns a hole
Through everyone that feels it
Well you're never gonna find it
If you're looking for it, won't come your way, yea
Well you'll never find it
If you're looking for it (Looking for it)
Should've done something, but I've done it enough
By the way, your hands were shaking
Rather waste some time with you
And you never would of thought in the end
How amazing it feels just to live again
It's a feeling that you cannot miss
It burns a hole through everyone that feels it
Well you're never gonna find it
If you're looking for it, won't come your way, yea
Well you'll never find it, if you're looking for it (For it)
Should've done something, but I've done it enough
By the way, your hands were shaking
Rather waste some time with you
Should've said something, but I've said it enough
By the way, my words are fading
Rather waste some time with you
Time with you (Time with you, time with you, time with you, some time with you)
Waste some time with you
Should've done something, but I've done it enough
By the way, your hands were shaking
Rather waste some time with you
Should've said something, but I've said it enough
By the way, my words are fading
Rather waste my time with you
Should've done something, but I've done it enough
By the way, my hands were shaking
Rather waste some time with you
Waste some time with you
Waste some time with you (Waste some time with you, waste some time with you, waste some time with you)
Waste some time with you
Waste some time with you
(Should've done something, but I've done it enough
By the way, your hands were shaking
Rather waste some time with you)
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"I love you."
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Poem was "Alone" by Edgar Allen Poe
Song was "Blue and Yellow" by The Used
End Chapter Six
Conclusion
Author's Goodbyes and Thank-yous:
Well, it's been fun. I had a great time and I hope that this will touch at least one of you guys. I know a lot of you said it made you cry, and even though it sounds somewhat sadistic, I'm glad about it. This story was meant to be my most emotional and most heartwrenching story...yet... Maybe I'll come out with another sad story...
Though there are no definite plans, there could be some groundwork for a sequel. But that really depends on if anyone actually wants it. :smiles:
And I know that you're all going to yell at me 'cause it's so short, but that's okay. I didn't mean for this to be long. I mean, how long can Kagome look for Inu-yasha, and how long can Inu-yasha have what one reviewer called "intense amnesia", or something like that? I'd like to address that now... He didn't have amnesia. I have too many stories with amnesia to give this one it too. He knew who he was, and he knew who Kagome was... But it's a little too hard to explain now. :winks:
But yes, these are my last goodbyes, if only for this story. And, like always, thank you so much for reading and reviewing! (Or just reading.) You could not understand how much it makes me smile when I see how people actually enjoy my little ramblings. And to get all emotional over the stories! That just blows my mind away more than any gun could.
Well...I'm made enough of a corny fool of myself, so farewell, adieu, sayonara, adios, and many more goodbyes in languages I do not know!
-candysweet
End Story
Alone
(Until the sequel...maybe...)