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Disclaimer: What are you thinking? No, I don't own InuYasha.
Tears Shall Fall
Chapter 5
For several moments, no one moved.
A glowing arrow shot past them, hitting Naraku, extinguishing the last of his life. Kikyo stood triumphantly in the open. Naraku was dead.
"K-Kagome?" Her mother stood shakily. "Kagome!" She ran towards the destroyed tree, followed by her father and son.
InuYasha was half-propped up against the fallen part of the tree, bleeding heavily from his severe wounds. The final explosion had been forceful enough to crack his skull against the trunk, which was smeared with blood.
Kagome, lying partly on top of him, had fared no better. Her fragile human body could not withstand the abuse she had been subject to.
Neither girl, nor half-demon was breathing. Kagome's mother fell to the ground beside her daughter, wailing her grief. Sota stopped short, tears falling from his eyes. "S-sis? InuYasha?" He watched his grandfather kneel beside his mother, and she turned to embrace him, sobbing.
"He's dead." It was said calmly, with disbelief and shock. That statement sent chills through InuYasha's friends. They feared who Sesshomaru might mean.
The said demon pounded the ground with his clenched fist, his voice growing louder as he said, "InuYasha, you insolent half-breed, you weren't supposed to die!" Tears fell, despite his iron control over his emotions.
"InuYasha," he whispered. "My brother…"
Behind him, Sango turned right into Miroku's arms, sobbing as he began to tremble with grief. Shippo started wailing. They all knew that if InuYasha had been killed, Kagome had most likely suffered the same fate.
Rin ran to Sesshomaru while Jaken gawked, and hugged him, her own tears falling. Though he didn't show it, he was grateful for the small girl's embrace; it kept him from breaking down completely.
He'd never see his brother again.
"InuYasha…"
Kikyo walked over, looking down at the dead pair. I should be happy, she thought. All three of them killed. Yet I still feel nothing but anger and hate. She turned her gaze to the grieving humans. I should spare them the sorrow.
Silently, she moved to Kagome, and took the Shikon Jewel from the girl's limp hand. 'Hey! What are you doing?" Sota demanded, not yet feeling the full impact of his sister's death. He gasped when the priestess looked at him sadly; he couldn't believe how much she resembled Kagome.
Turning back to Kagome and InuYasha, Kikyo concentrated on the jewel, gathering its power. She directed it at the two, healing their wounds first, then calling their souls back to their bodies.
The jewel disintegrated in her hand. And only InuYasha was breathing again. Resurrecting the dead took much power; the jewel was spent. But there was still something Kikyo could do.
She reached deep inside herself, to the single spark of life that had been given to her body by Urusue. It didn't give her back the life she had lost, but it could do something for someone of true flesh.
InuYasha stirred, opening his golden eyes. "Kikyo?"
Her eyes met his. "Good-bye, Inuyasha." He watched as she knelt, placing her hand on Kagome's brow. Almost instantly, her chest began to rise and fall, and Kikyo's body crumbled, once more ash and earth.
"Thank you," he breathed, sitting and gently pulling Kagome into his lap, embracing her as silent tears of joy slid down his face, and her family looked on in amazement.
The End…for now…
Did you like it? I hope so. Originally, Kikyo wasn't going to bring them back to life, but out of fear from being mauled by my best friends and getting over my issue with happy endings, I patched it up in the end. Oh, and I know Sesshomaru doesn't cry, but I just LOVE messing with him. Hehe, that was fun to write. Now, review, and wait for the sequel!
