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Kag/Kak- 2

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Kik/Zab- 0


Chapter 4:

Story Time

Kagome watched Kikyo fidget with the hem of her old nightgown the faded pink turning between the thumb and pointer finger, rolling the fabric for a moment before being let go before being picked up again. Lights flickered as another loud crack of thunder sounded in the sky the rain only seems to intensify with each passing boom, Kikyo sighed before straightening up her shoulders and facing the younger woman. "It started when you wished the jewel away..."


The scene before them was in utter chaos as the power of the jewel exploded over the clearing making those sensitive to the purity to shield their eyes or be blinded from it. Screams echoed out as Kagome felt the majority of her soul being ripped out of her body once more, it was a painful experience just as it was the last time this happened to her. A scolding white hot hand being plunged into her chest right next to her heart, coiling and rolling inside until it had grasped those tender strands of soul and yanked them from their place. Soon another scream was joining in with Kagome's, this time it was coming from Kikyo as her clay shell body was being ripped and torn by violent winds that picked up a shout from Inuyasha as he watched horrified his lover was being taken again. Angry golden eyes narrowing down at Kagome from the center of the group, no sympathy for her as the soul flew from her and slammed into Kikyo. Those blue eyes watering up as her heart squeezed painfully in her chest as her love ran from her to Kikyo as her body thudded to the ground.

'Don't worry child'

A voice sneered in her head before it snickered with sickly sweet intention. 'Your fate isn't over just yet!' another laugh before she felt herself falling, falling into the black void of nothing barely hearing the horrific screams of the ones that loved her. The next time she woke she was at the bottom of the well, weak and broken and barely able to pull on her power.

Back in the past, Kikyo laid on the ground with glazed over brown eyes and a crying half-breed over her shouting that he would kill the one that made her this way, all the while the soul that was taken from Kagome began to repair its body and breathe a new life into her. She floated from the in between and the living; afraid of what would come when the light crept back in. 'Filthy child' a voice crooned around her. 'A second chance of life from one that wished you gone, a second chance to fill your destiny...don't allow yourself to be blinded this time filthy child.' The sound of laughter was the last thing she heard before gasping for breath, lungs burning for air that she hadn't taken in well over fifty years, it hurt more than what she wanted to admit. Everything ached but the most pain was in the center of her chest while color returned to her cheeks and that deathly pale skin turned rosy with blood pumping through it once more. The scent of death and dirt dissipating into the air, she was alive once more!

And for a full year, she learned to live again, learned to earn the respect of the rest of the group that sneered at her and thought her the reason their friend was unable to return to them. In that year she had slain Inuyasha when she wouldn't return his affections and he lost himself to the demon under the skin, protected the village like she had when she lived but this time there was no pressure of the jewel and the taint it brought. Everything was fine until the rains came and with it the voice returned, taunting her with its hate.

'It is time child' it goaded her with its sick glee before everything faded to black once more...

"I woke up in an unfamiliar forest with a sword at my neck and Zabuza" she nodded to the male on the floor. "Standing over me demanding answers I didn't have, I don't know what is going on or why I was sent to a different place or why we ended up here..." Kagome sat in utter shock her heart giving a painful squeeze once again she didn't even love Inuyasha and made good on her promise of slaying him. Slamming down her cup startleing the other woman she left the kitchen and made way to her room her heart broken as tears began to slip down her face. She killed the man she loved...