Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Attack on Titan.

Pairing

: Levi x Kagome or Eren x Kagome (There will be voting)

Summary

: The first time she saw the creatures, she fled and let mankind fight their battle. The second time she saw them she stayed to fight to make up for the death that stained her heart.

Macabre Dreams
Chapter Five: Crazy Girl

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Head pounding, nose stuffy - Kagome came back to the world of the walking and talking with a cough of blood splattering to the ground.

She blinked crimson crusted eyes and felt them adjust to the dim lighting.

Kagome pushed herself to a seated position, her weak and trembling arms barely holding her up. There was absolutely no food in her system and her body was having a rough time of replenishing energy since she had nothing to replenish it with. She groaned quietly and looked to the corner of her cell and found that they had taken away her water.

Tears welled behind her eyes and threatened to fall but she held them back.

This is my punishment, she thought morosely. I abandoned them, left them at the stake crucified and sacrificed them - hoping that they would make it without me.

Bitterly, hoarsely, she whispered, "Well they didn't."

She wasn't so stupid to believe that she could have single-handedly saved the world but maybe she could have made a difference. She tilted her head back to lean against the stone wall and nausea made her turn to the side and empty out the bile that filled her stomach.

There were traces of blood in the liquid and she cursed, That's not good. Kagome took a deep breath and allowed the nausea to pass before she sat up again and took a shaky breath, leaning against the wall.

A sound of pain caught her attention and she turned to her sister cell. Her eyes caught sight of the small lump leaning closer to their shared wall. Her lips curled downward and she noticed that more blood covered him – more bruises.

Carefully, she maneuvered herself to the left wall of her cell, ignoring her pain. It took her several minutes and sweat slicked her brow. Tiredly she pressed her hand through the bars and touched his forehead. Fingers glowing faintly, skin touched skin and the pain filled sounds faded. The glow sputtered out after a few seconds but an exhausted grin touched her lips anyway.

"I couldn't help you…" She didn't know how to heal after all and even if she could there was almost no power in her. "…but I could numb the pain just a bit."

With a sigh she settled where she was, much too weary to return to her spot. She tilted her head and gazed at the boy through the bars, taking in the now peaceful look on his face but something... seemed... off about him. He was a lovely thing to look at, no doubt, - young, lean - but there was something... dark. Kagome watched the easy pattern of his breathing for several minutes before closing her eyes.

When she next opened them, there was a warm weight pressing against her side, through the bars.

Carefully, stiffly, she turned her head and was surprised to see it was the boy from before.

"Wha - "

His voice interrupted hers and she tilted her head up slightly and met the overwhelming color of his eyes, "You were shivering."

Which made sense... they cell was damp and chilly and she had lost quite a bit of blood. Kagome nodded and concentrated on the unnatural warmth emanating from his body and released a soft sigh of contentment. It was small pleasure, being warm, when her body hurt. Time weighed heavy on her as she sat in the cell, her body pressed against the boy's, knowing that it was just going to get worse.

She curled as close as she could.

How long had it been since she had the comforting touch of another person?

Steel colored eyes flashed in her mind and she had to physically shake his image from her head - he had touched her with violence, it was she thst had been so tired that she fell asleep in his arms.

There was a pained sigh from her cell partner, "They beat you good."

Kagome gave a snort and rolled her eyes to his, "You don't look much better."

He gave her a grin, made gruesome by the blood that leaked from a shallow cut above his eye. He cleared his throat and adjusted his arm, the chains jingling in the silence, "I'm Eren."

Kagome nodded and her lips curled upward, her voice soft, "Kagome."

Eren's voice was quiet but curious when he asked, "Are all those things you said true?"

She turned her head minutely toward him, their eyes met again and she swiftly responded, "Yes."

In order for you to understand how I came to be in that town, you must understand how I came to be. I was granted the gift of immortality by my Gods.

Kagome's gaze was steady, "Every word."

As a thank you for guarding a once sacred artifact.

"You can never die?"

I have passed through moments in time you will never be able to believe.

"I don't think so - I have taken a lot of damage in all my years."

I was a priestess, a shrine maiden, blessed with power to eliminate evil or those with unique energy signatures.

"And you are able to kill Titans with just a bow and arrow?"

Now I wander the land - observing and rarely interfering.

"I can. They are unnatural creatures - created and tainted in unnatural means." The two were silent and Kagome interrupted the silence with a quiet, "Why are you here?"

Eren gave her a wan grin. He had heard what she had say about her story - far-fetched as it was, after all, who believed in immortality? - and he began, "I can change into a Titan."

Kagome tilted her head to the side and grimaced at the pain it caused, "And you... aren't supposed to be able to do that?"

"No." he answered truthfully, though his voice wavered. It was still so weird. One moment he had been himself an the next he had been himself but not himself. It was a weird out of body experience.

Kagome leaned forward, pressing her face close to the bars, eyes closed, "I thought you felt different."

"Felt?" he questioned as she opened her azure eyes and glanced at him through narrowed hues.

She nodded her head, "Yes. Those men... they don't believe me and I doubt you believe me as well." He said nothing to alleviate her concern, "But just like I can kill Titans - I can sense auras and yours..." her voice grew soft. "...it's not that of a human. Not really."

"So could you hurt me?" Eren asked, out of everything she had spouted to the men that came into their cells - he found it all hard to believe. But her power? That he believed in 100 percent. He had seen the bright pink lights that lit the sky.

The miko nodded her head, "I can. Without a doubt, if I needed to? I could kill you." A shiver raced up his spine and he met her gaze again. It was old, her gaze, older than someone her age should have and her eyes looked every bit the immortal that she believed herself to be. Quietly, interrupting the silence that descended upon them, Kagome's voice filled the dungeons, "Can you tell me of this time I have found myself in?"

Eren looked down at her - maybe she as a crazy, mad-stricken woman - but she seemed very ignorant of life behind the walls and maybe that's because she had spent hers outside them. He didn't want to think about the many ways she could have gone crazy and so he nodded his head. His voice was low and soothing, tinged with bitterness, when he began, "You are currently being held captive by the last members of humanity. It has been over a hundred years that the walls were first..."

Kagome listened closely, learning about how gruesome this world was that she found herself in - hoping to find out how to survive.

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The door opened again, this time though - Eren was taken away by different men and Kagome was left behind with the same two men as before.

The boy didn't struggle, he merely called back, voice frantic,he didn't want to leave the girl in the clutches of the men he was barely escaping, "I'm going to come back for you!"

The once miko could only offer him a nod as she observed her keepers with an angry stare.

When in doubt - act like Inuyasha.

"Back so soon?" the sneer on her lips was convincing, the two men immediately were wearier then before.

The taller of the two grinned, "We thought you'd break pretty quickly. It's good for us that you didn't."

The other male nodded in agreement, "It means we get more time with you. We don't often have people brought to us, you see."

Kagome let loose a breath that blew her ragged bangs from her eyes and she offered them the laziest look she could muster though internally she was already cringing in pain, "Let's get this over with then."

The last image Eren saw of Kagome was her slumped over, spitting blood from her mouth.

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'Gome Yuki:: Meh. Some bonding. I like Eren and Kagome. TBH, I have no clue why but I think Eren is probably the most attractive anime character to date [other than Hellsing Ultimate Alucard and adult-Shippo]. I've always loved all the boys I pair Kagome with but I've always been like... "Ehhhh. Kagome and him would be good" but that's about it. I just feel like the art for AoT is amazing, they don't over-exaggerate the men or women and make them impossibly skinny or thick. I feel they have the most realistic body types I've ever seen and I feel Eren was done best. Voting will continue, I think next chapter will be the last chapter to vote. Threesome can't hope to catch up so you can now vote either Eren or Levi. Thanks so much for all the reviews! Keep them coming!

Current Votes:

Levi x Kagome: 40 votes.

Eren x Kagome: 37 votes.

Levi x Kagome x Eren: 19 votes.