Authors note: Wow, The most annoying word to spell is "enthusiastically"... I mean, It's so freakin' long!! Well... not that it has to do with anything....
I'm sorry about taking so long to update these two chapters, but suspended my account because of reference to some stuff, although I'm not really that sure HOW that stuff is even in my stories...
But anyway... I wasn't allowed to update until the 12th, so don't blame me. To make up for it, I wrote 2 chapters, after listening to both, Avril lavigne's "Slipped away", and "My Immortal" By evanescense. (I still can't spell that right) I'd also like to add that those two songs are very good for angsty depressing kind of stories, but then, thats how I write these stories....
Okay, for those of you that I missed in the second chapter, here ya go!
kittycat-Hehe, I know cliffhangers are evil, but what good story does not have cliffhangers? Don't worry, kagome will have some nicer things happen!
Starfire77-Well, I am an angsty person, and I was semi-depressed when I wrote that chapter... So yeah!
Kj-kagome-thanks, I'm glad you like it!
dustywilson-I'm glad that I'm really getting through to you guys, I'm hoping, that you readers are feeling the distress that kagome is feeling... Thats my goal. .
tachisukumu-heh heh, yes poor ham-ham! well, hojo will believe anything that grandpa says, so I guess not..
Gotta-love-the-ears- thank you! And I wholely agree with you, you gotta love the ears .
SanaKurataSangatsuNanoko- oi! you have a long name! Don't worry, I already have the fourth chapter almost done!
Dew-Drop-Viper- I'm glad that you like my story!
lilcrazy15- yeah, I've had a few people call it tragic.. but don't worry, things will get better soon!
oroko- Thank you!
iLvsimplepln2- Yes, hojo will always ask kagome on a date at the worst of times, and she'll be powerless to say no... Or at least outright refuse him. : D
Kougagurl666- I will! And, speaking of your nickname... We might be seeing some of kouga in here too, but I'm not sure how to work him in.
Silver-shadow-fox- Thanks for the compliments!
Demonchik39-Yes! Go inuyasha! I wouldn't mind having a statue of him in my back yard!
Lupin-Thanks! I hope I'm doing a good enough job for you guys, seeing as this is my first full length inuyasha fic! Grandpa IS a big part of the comedy releif, so I thought I'd have him do what he does best! .
Pyro6-No! I didn't kill him! you guys don't have to worry! But anyway, thanks for the compliments, please keep reading! .
okay then, thats all I have to say, read and reveiw!
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Kagome walked a little faster as she spotted the shrine, her feet suddenly seeming a tiny bit lighter.
She reached the steps to the house in almost no time, but something bugged her, she cast a glance at the clump of bushes that she had fallen into that morning. Wondering about the statue that resided behind them, hiding from the world.
Dropping her backpack, she walked lightly over to the bushes, stepping down through them carefully. She easily slid down the small hill, and gasped as she looked up. Inuyasha's statue, was covered in toilet paper and garbage, some kids must have done it, thinking that it was part of the shrine.
She growled and immidiately began to clear all of it away, revealing the hanyou's image once again. The light splayed across it, showing it clearly to kagome, who had only seen it by the moons light.
The figure really wasn't crouching, he looked to be... on his knees. His hands thrust forward like he was holding something that was no longer there. The look on his face was clearer now... His expression was one of sadness.
She stepped closer to get a better look, and saw, what looked like a small river, grey in color, trailing down his cheek.
Feeling her own tears beggining to form, she reached out and touched his face, tracing the small river of what she imagined to be tears.
Those villager were so cruel to make such a thing, why would they make a statue of him, crying and in pain? He was never like that, though she knew that sometimes he had wanted to. The only time that he had actually cried was when he had thought that she was dead, she remembered...
He had held her to his chest and shivered, she had woken up to the warm sensation of inuyasha's warm chest against her.
And she had never forgotten that feeling, not even to this day...
She bit her lip before gathering the rest of the toilet paper from inuyasha's statue. Even when his image was a statue, he had to endure so much, just because he was a half demon. It wasn't fair, it was never fair... And it never would be, but all she could do and did do, was comfort him, and accept him, when others would not.
Thats what love was about... And she loved him, deeply and truly. She had only wanted to stay by his side, couldn't he have at least granted her that?
Sighing, she stood back up and gathered the garbage into a ball. Maybe this place meant something... maybe it was more than it looked, maybe she was just crazy.
Once again, she cast a glance to the statue as she walked back up the hill. It would serve SOME purpose in the future, she was sure of that, but she didn't know what.
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"Kagome? are you bedding down for the night?" her mother called to her from the kitchen
"Yeah mom, g'night!" She smiled and got up, heading for the stairs to her bedroom.
"No sneaking out tonight, good night." She heard her mother close the door to the kitchen and assumed that she was done talking. She wasn't planning on it anyway...
Souta was already fast asleep when she passed his room, she peeked in silently and smiled fondly, he was out like a light...
She padded quietly up to her bedroom, yawning in tired empathy. It had been a full day today, she had been busy for most of the time after school, and didn't even have time for a simple nap.
She ploped onto her neatly made bed, falling asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow...
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Kagome opened her eyes, but she was no longer in her bedroom, she no longer felt warm at all.
The land in which she was in... it was cold, and barren, with no trees and no grass, there was no sun.
"Where... What is this place..?" She whispered, rubbing her bare arms for warmth.
This place was dark, utterly dark. She didn't want to be in such a negative place... it would remind her of all the pain.
Shaking her head, she got up, meaning to trudge forward to find a way out of this place. It wouldn't help her to think of him now...
She walked forward, noticing that there were strange sounds, almost like low voices echoing through out the place.
As far as she could tell, there were two voices that she could tell the diference between them.
One voice, was low. It was rough, but familiar..
And the other, sounded strangly like her own... But there was something different about it... maybe it sounded happier, an emotion that she hadn't had in a long time.
She looked ahead, squinting to see a dull red ahead of her. All of the sudden, the voices got louder... Ad the one that sounded like hers, dissappeared, leaving the rough one.
If only she could forget who she knew it was...
"Kagome.." The red blur began to take shape, kagome's eyes widened as she watched.
It was inuyasha, yes... But he was not the same, he looked sad, almost lonely. Kagome had to restrain herself from rushing forward to him and comforting him. But he was only an image. He had to be...
She still couldn't see his eyes, his newly formed head looked like it always had, but she had yet to see his amber orbs. He kept his head bowed.
"Kagome.. do you know where we are?" He spoke. She couldn't believe it, he spoke! And his voice was the same, bringing back so many memoeries that she had kept back like a flood wall keeping back a lake. And like a river, those memories swept forth, overwhelming her.
She feverishly shook her head, unable to do much more.
"We're in your mind, or.. you actually are..."
"Wha-what do you mean?" He wouldn't look up, he would only look down at the ground.
"This place... it's a look inside your mind, I'm only a figment of it... a memory." He slowly raised his eyes to hers, his gaze almost scalding her with the intensity in which he looked at her with.
And for a moment, she had to doubt that what he said was the truth. It was so easy to think that she had rejoined him, the one she loved.
"Th-then why am I here?" She looked down, the tears of realization flooding down her face.
He didn't answer right away, instead, she felt his hand on her chin, gently lifting her head so that her eyes would meet his.
"So that I can keep you from losing hope." He smiled sadly, his eyes intensity lessening a bit.
This... this was just like him, her old inuyasha, she never would have guessed that he was just a thought...
She reached up, her eyes wide with wonder, and she caressed his cheek, moving slowly to the furry ears sitting atop his head.
"Kagome... Do you believe that I'm dead?" He asked as he closed his eyes in comfort at her touch.
She wanted to say no, but she knew in that corner of her heart that she really did. Hesitating at first, she nodded.
He said nothing.
"Did you love me, while we were together?" Kagome's eyes widened, although he was a thought, it didn't mean that it was hard to say, even to THIS inuyasha.
"Yes, I still do." She swallowed and looked into his eyes for comfort.
She found his sympathetic glance comforting.
"You wish that I would tell you that I return the feelings, But I can't tell you that..."
"Why not?" he chuckled to himself as she asked the question, disappointment inching into her voice.
"You might call this divine intervention, but... All I can tell you, is that inuyasha, your inuyasha, his soul still survives."
She gasped, he was still alive? Her inuyasha was still alive!?
"But you see... He is lost, as lost and alone as you are. Only you can find him. Not kikyo, you" He said firmly, driving any thought of the dead priestess out of her mind.
"But how can I find him?" Okay, she was taking orders from a thought... Maybe she really was crazy, but then, who wouldn't be, after all she had been through...
"You'll know... when the time comes. You'll know how to save him." He backed away from her, still smiling in his sad way.
"Remember this dream, because he needs you, to save him, for once..." The dream image of inuyasha began to flicker, and lose it clearness. Kagome couldn't say anything, the experience left her completely speechless. But it also, in a subtle kind of way, reminded her why she loved inuyasha so much. Because he needed her, and she had gotten used to him needing her, after all of his time alone. As a young hanyou, running from demons who wanted nothing more than to kill him.
It had been hard for him to learn to trust her, as well as the others who had joined their little group. Little by little, he inched closer and closer to her, until they had been just as good as best friends, no, more than that...
She had been in love...
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Wow! Kagome knows what to do! at least in a way... I wrote this while listening to my immortal, which I mentioned before. It really is a good inuyasha kagome love song, and perfectly fitting for this kind of story! If you haven't heard of this song, than you must be dead, or don't have a TV or something! Then again, how would you know about inuyasha if you didn't have a TV or go out... So anyway, I was completely surprised by the amount of feedback I got from the first chapter! as well as the second! Since I'm very cruel, I'm going to wait to update for at least a day... though you guys deserve to have this chapter early!
Anyway, read and reveiw!