Chapter 59
A gentle glaze colored in the hanyou's slitted eyes, his gurgling growls rumbling to a sudden halt. His lips relaxed, set apart as his brows unfurled to curl upward. His fingers curled inward as his guard fell crumpled to the blood coated ground. His ears flicked softly, his nostrils flaring to take in the dead priestess' scent, just to make sure it wasn't an illusion.
The miko had really returned to him.
Kagome grasped Inuyasha's crimson splotched Yukata that barely hung to his model carved shoulders. She gently blinked away the tears that tickled at the reddened brim of her honey-brown eyes. She couldn't cry. Not now, even though the heart wrenching pain of betrayal flooded her chest, making it ache horribly. She wanted to forget, not only forgive the painfully memorable scene. It was burned into her memory like a branding. It was what Kikyou wanted all along. Now she could only hope and pray that the warmth of her lips on his would overpower the love Kikyou had once given him.
"How could you have picked such a worthless mate?" The priestess asked harshly. It was a shock to the ears for Kikyou to utter such powerfully hurtful words. She had always been careful, nearly silent, all up until now, around the anniversary her quarter demon baby should have been born.
The ticking of the time bomb inside the heartbroken miko was growing deafening in her ears. By the time the insult hit her ears, Kagome had already slipped around her new lover's protective arms and stumbling to her feet. It felt as though the skin of her wound was being assaulted by sizzling hot lava dripped on her raw skin.
"What are you doing, baka! Don't get up!" The hanyou cried out to her, words of defense for the woman he loved ridding from his tongue to shout a protest. He was too late to cast out a hand and grasp the miko's hand as she swept away. All he could do was stare helplessly at the stream of blood that stained down her right shoulder blade. The guilt nearly drown him just by glancing at all that he had done to her. How could she ever forgive him? Was she going to blame it all on him?
"Who said he was my mate? I'm only 16 and a half, ya know!" Kagome shouted to her sudden rival. It hurt beyond belief and words to just breathe. Was this the woman her love would choose over her? His baby was only barely formed in her womb. He had been inside of her, known her inside and out, and loved her all around. She just couldn't compare to the firm, beautiful, mysterious Kikyou. Dead or alive, the priestess would always win against any battle against the 'worthless mate'.
"Hm. I stand corrected. Then, why do you lay so close to him while you sleep. Why do you kiss him, tell him sweet things and look at him with that putrid sparkle in your eye?" Kikyou asked, feet sliding back a small step as the other miko stepped forward boldly.
"Because I love him." Kagome replied, fists clenching tightly at her sides. She advanced on the deceased woman, defense high. It was just a matter until it cracked under the pressure. She couldn't hold out much longer, her temper rising quick.
Kikyou laughed, long and eerie, mockingly, and just enough to snap Kagome's patience like a twig. The teen girl threw herself forward, arms outstretched threatening. She just couldn't take it anymore.
The screams echoed in his head and he knew the only way to cease them was to let go of one of the women he loved so dearly. How could he choose? Kikyou; his first love. Or Kagome; the girl who makes his world keep spinning. She was the girl who made him smile day after day and kept his heart beating his chest. Still, he could not choose. The desire he had for Kikyou still dwelled inside of him, too much to just throw away.
Stop. Everything halt. He couldn't take it anymore. The hanyou wanted everything to freeze, for life itself to be put on hold. He wanted to be the only living person to walk the Earth for just a moment. The only one who could speak or think a single thought or see a single frozen thing. He wanted the world to stop spinning for just one moment so he could tear his claws through his own skin. So he could rip out the strands of his silken silver hair. So he could cry without anyone to stare pitifully at his heaving shoulders. No one to hear his angry and sorrowful sobs. He wanted time to stop just so he could drop to his knees and scream.
But it didn't.
Kagome struck out at Kikyou, hands raised and hazel eyes flashing to the drop off of earth that they stood against. A cliff, and they were heading right for it as the miko backed the priestess up to the very edge. She didn't know what came over her. Maybe she just didn't think at all and let her heart do the talking and take complete control. As soon as it was over, she regretted it so badly.
"I hate you!" The miko screamed, her voice raw and bleeding from the sudden shout of words. Her hands jammed against Kikyou's shoulders.
An expression of sudden horror swept across the assaulted priestess' face. Maybe it was the way she felt the girl's blow ripple across her unfeeling clay body. Maybe it was how she gently stumbled back, shocked at the ground that slipped away from her when she tried to catch her balance. Her wide eyes shot down, a breath choking deep in her throat as she watched her heels dangle over the side of the jutting cliff.
All Kagome's tear blurred eyes caught was the flash of black and white as Kikyou stumbled over edge and was whisped from sight. A horrible sob sent her backwards, ramming into a tree where she sank pitifully to her knees with tears blinding her nearly completely. Suddenly, another explode of color caught her eye. Red and silver. Her mouth cracked ajar, horrified, relieved, guilty as she watched her dear hanyou grasp the pale wrist of the woman who dangled off the side of the cliff, catching her and holding her there just in the nick of time.
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Ooooooh! Harsh, man...stares at Kikyou dangling off a cliff. Suckiness...
I know, it's really short. Sorry. I thought it would be a perfect cliffeh, though! Eh, Eh?
Anyway, I'm starting with some kind of new thing over here with my sweet reviewers, so...yeah. I picked it up from someone else and it's probably some really ig thing with several chaptered fanfics, but I haven't noticed yet. So. Yeah. Don't spoil my fun.
rika- Hm. Sorry it kinda bored you. Well. I sure hope this one didn't! Thanks, anyways.
little-miss-inu- Aw! I'll always love you, miss inu! You're always so great to me. Yes, Inu is alive but unfortunately, Kikyou is too. Sowwies!
Akina315- Oh, thanks a big relief. Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. Really, I am! It really makes my heart flip when I get good reviews.
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Ookami-Inu hanyou- Oh, geez. Thanks, I'm flattered. Heh. I'll get on with it then, "jus fo yo"!
GoingGhost- Yes, then I did my job! It was SUPPOSED to move you and you were SUPPOSED to think they both died! Goody! Now for the Kikyou part...eeeemmmm...we'll see. Heh!
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silverkonekotsukari- Good! I like it when you people cry your eyes out! It means I'm doing good in my sadistic writing! And I can't just stop! This is rated the way it is because of VIOLENCE AND ANGST...AND SADNESS. Whatever. Plus that graphic-y part at the waterfall. Inu completely lost it, and so did Kagome, if ya catch my drift.
Yasha'z Wifey Kyome- Uhhhh...NUUUUU! KAGOME IS YASHA'S WIFEY! Oh, I mean...I may just kill them off, may not. You'll just have to see! But let me assure you. Someone does die in the next few chapters. Or do they. thinks Geez, it's too late tonight. I gotta start sleeping more, reading reviews and updating less...
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