Chapter Four: Left Behind

There she stood in all her glory with the brightest smile on her face and hands firmly planted on her hips. She was completely different from their perspective on her. The woman that was locked in the amber had ethereal aura about her. She felt real and yet not at the same time. The woman standing in between them resembled a teacher stepping in the middle of a playground fight. Inuyasha's back was pushed up against the display mount as his brain processed that he unleashed the dark priestess. The woman that sparked wars and caused calamities. The woman revered by demons and feared by humans, and he happened to be the key of all of this.

No matter how many times he thought about it, it didn't make sense.

"So," She begun, cutting the silence that even Mukade and Inuyasha didn't even know was there, "My name is Kagome, and it's nice to meet you Miss Centipede Demon. May I help you?"

"Uh…" Mukade felt lost. Was this the dark priestess of 500 years? She was completely casual in her tone of speech and how she carried herself. Still, Mukade wasn't going to let this opportunity pass. This was the dark priestess and the woman was the one that could change the world. Mukade laid her entire body on the ground, prostrating herself in front of the priestess feet. Her forehead rested firmly on her hand as she didn't dare to look up at the priestess eyes. "Milady, my name is Mukade, and I'm one of your many servants that worship you. That prayed for your awakening these 500 years."

Inuyasha caught it. The small opening and closing of her mouth even though no sound was made. The way she finally took her surroundings into consideration. It was like his eyes were glued to her. The way her chest rose sharply but slowly it descended. She clutched her white haori as she turned to him. A wave of emotions was launched at him at once and he wanted to do nothing more than crawl into a hole and die.

"Beloved…" Her voice cracked a bit, "Why? Why did you wait so long to wake me up?"

Inuyasha felt his mouth open and fall. There was so much going on in his head that words escaped him. Though she called him beloved, did she think that they were in a relationship? Did he look like someone she knew? Although they had the same name, could it be possible she meant him? The longer he gaped like a fish, the more her face contorted in pain, but finally it switched to something of understanding. Her eyes fell to the side as she gripped her red hakama. Her black locks covered her face as she spoke again.

"I…I don't understand why it took you so long," Kagome begun, but she nodded her head as she reassured herself and turned back to him, "but I trust you regardless. If that was the choice you made, I can accept it."

Kagome looked at him with such acceptance and understanding that, for a minute, he couldn't help but think she was beautiful. If she was a dark priestess, her charm was in the way she smiled. That made him feel as if he was the only person in the room.

"Milady, he's not your beloved."

Kagome turned back to Mukade who had lifted her head from the ground, "He's my student and I tell no lies when I speak these words."

Kagome eyes widen like the moon and for a good second Inuyasha cursed himself for not speaking up in time. "What do you mean, he's not my beloved? His name is Inuyasha isn't it? He a half demon, isn't he?" Kagome launched questions at Mukade almost like they were daggers.

"Yes that is the case," Mukade nodded her head as she stood above the girl, "However, he's my student and I know that he has yet to reach his first century."

Kagome took a step back as she looked between the two, before she allowed her hair to hide her face, but Inuyasha saw how she gripped her hakama for dear life.

"Then may I ask why was I awoken?" She asked, but she didn't look at either of them. There was something behind her voice that he could sense. A type of oppressive power underneath the tone, but Inuyasha saw Mukade smile. Could she not feel it? It was so heavy that he felt like he was going to suffocate, but Mukade just carried on.

"Milady I request a pact with you." Mukade request caused Kagome head to shoot up, "I request a bond that will tie us together for the rest of our lives. In exchange, you will not age milady and I will gain the strength needed to change the world!"

Kagome cocked her head to the side, but her tone didn't lighten, "Power to change the world?"

Mukade smile caused her tongue to fall out as she lifted her body, "Yes, Milady. Things have changed over the past 500 years! The demons have lost their power! Humans do not fear us anymore! I want to create a world that resembles the old world! Give those foolish humans something to fear! Even now humans laugh at us, at our legends, at our power. The demons now are nothing more than toothless beast and, with your power, we can change the world. Release the demons from their shackles that the humans dare place on us!"

Kagome stared at Mukade for a second, "Shackles? Toothless demons? My, a lot has changed over the course of 500 years, hasn't it?"

Kagome turned to face Mukade, fully facing the centipede demon. Her back turned to Inuyasha as she dropped her hand from her hakama. "And that is why you awakened me? To wish for a world where humans feared demons? Then tell me, how do you plan to go about it?"

"A war! Another demon-human war!"

Kagome eyes shot a questioning look, "A war?"

"One where I'll lead a demon army to victory! With you at my side, the humans won't know what hit them! We will tear through their forces and create a new world off the slain blood and bones! And those that live will become cattle for us to do what we please." Mukade eyes widened as the thought that the priestess had listened to her request. The world will be rebuilt in their image, a true world for demons made by a demon! Mukade couldn't help but laugh as she wrapped herself around Kagome, her acid saliva spilled on the ground around them but Kagome didn't flinch as she felt the woman hand on her shoulder.

Mukade looked Kagome directly in the eyes, "Lend me your power great priestess! And the world will be ours -"

"I refuse." Kagome began to glow a bright pink as it burnt Mukade hand, forcing her back. "I refuse to be a tool for others suffering!"

There wasn't even a second for Mukade to say anything before a bright pillar of pink light shot from her body and purified her. Just like that Mukade was gone. She didn't even get a chance to scream before she was engulfed in the light. Once the light disappeared there was nothing, not even ashes that remained. Kagome just stood there as she offered up a prayer before turning to Inuyasha. The woman that looked at him with love, was now staring at him such disdain.

And that was when it clicked, he was going to die if he didn't move.

"So did you believe that if you stole his face and his name, that I would bend to your will?" Kagome accused, the light in her hand began to grow, "To think I was nearly tricked by another fake! Although you are different from the other one. How did you wake me? How, when the only key was his soul!"

Her tone was sharp and her glare was strong as she searched for an answer, "How did you break the seal! I demand an answer!"

"I don't know!" Inuyasha retorted finding his voice, "It- just happened!"

Kagome frowned at that answer as her right hand glowed bright pink. The light manifested in her hand twisted and turned taking an elongated shape in which she gripped.

RUN!

The primal side of him willed his body up and he shot across the floor before she launched the light spear at him. It barely missed before destroying and exploding the display case behind him, causing him to lose his footing and tumble before reclaiming his footing. There was no doubt about, she was aiming to kill, but it was different from Mukade. He felt something behind it as he looked at her face. Her behind her grey eyes brewed a storm of pure anger, but as she prepared another pink light lance to skewer him, he couldn't help but feel an overwhelming sadness.

"DON'T LOOK AT ME WITH HIS EYES!" The formation of the other lance was quicker as she threw another at him. Each time he dodged one, another was thrown and then another. Each time he barely dodged one after another, and the more he dodged the easier it became.

Inuyasha dodged the tenth one she threw at him and stood across from her in the room. Her face was drenched with sweat as she stared at him, her glare made his stomach churn. Although, he wasn't in any better state. He was just running on primal fuel. His muscles ached and his heart raced to the point it hurt. This wasn't a natural state for him and his body reminded him of that each time he dodged her pink lances.

She flexed her fingers as light flickered trying to form in her hand. Even though she was exhausted, she was determined to kill him.

"Listen to me! I'm just as shocked as you are that I released you!" Inuyasha explained, "I just knew— no, I felt that I had to!"

Kagome took a deep breath to steady herself before releasing it slowly, "You just felt it? What kind of excuse is that?" Kagome quickly retorted, "That doesn't explain the fact that you released me! Inuyasha's soul was the key to amber case. He's the one that made it; he's the one that can break it!"

"I AM INUYASHA!" Inuyasha countered, "My name is Inuyasha!"

Kagome shook her head violently finally manifesting another pink lance and Inuyasha could feel the power she placed in it as she held it above her head.

"YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A FAKE THAT RESEMBLE HIM!" She yelled, "A FAKE THAT AIMS TO USE ME AND THE JEWEL!"

Tears streamed down her face. The dark priestess was nothing more than a woman struck with anger and grief. However, they both knew that even if he died that nothing would come out of it. She would still be awake and forced to live in this time. This was her temporary fix to a situation, and he would be the scapegoat for all her anger and rage. However, dying wasn't in his plans and, if he had known that was a possibility, he would have never come back no matter how much it itched to see her. No matter what -

He wanted to live! And he felt though all that suffering she was putting herself through she wanted to survive just as bad!

SAVE HER!

A thought passed through his head as he watched her legs quake under the might of the power she was summoning up. Inuyasha clicked his teeth as something inside him still thought of her over himself, and that pissed him off. Even when she was blatantly trying to kill him, there was something deeper that willed him to worry about her. She looked so weak as she crumbled under her own power—beads of sweat mixing in with her tears and her chest heaved with each labored breath. If she launched that at him at the size it was growing, they would both die!

SAVE HER!

The voice growled even louder, almost annoyed at his lack of action.

He could if he knew how!

THE SWORD

That was when it clicked, she was sleeping with a sword when she was in the amber! He thought it was her weapon, but, through all of this, she hadn't used it! Inuyasha scanned around for the sword and found it on the floor with the destroyed amber. If that was what could save them both from death, then he would go for it, but he knew that as soon as he moved she would launch that thing killing them both. That meant he had to be quick. He would only have one shot at retrieving the sword. They stared at each other, the bright amber that radiated like the sun looking back at the grey storm that brewed across from him. He allowed his eyes to glance over to the sword, in which her eyes followed and instantly knew what he was going to do.

"DON'T YOU TOUCH THAT!" Kagome screamed as he launched himself with all his strength across the room. She threw the lance at him with it all her anger and sadness that had boiled over the past 500 years. Inuyasha felt the back of his hair raise as the lance got closer. He reached out his hand to the sword. He felt the heat of lance on his back before he gripped his hand on the sword and almost instantly the lance disappeared and the world turned to a bright white.

Inuyasha tumbled for a second before he opened his eyes. Was he dead? Did the lance hit him? If this was the afterlife it was kind of crap. Almost instantly, the amber reconstructed and Kagome was back inside. Someone materialized with the amber. A man that looked just like him. A man that even Inuyasha could confuse with a clone.

He had long white hair the was tied up in a ponytail, his armor was chipped and cracked and the dark red blood that ran down his chest stood out from the bright red of his haori. Amber stared back at amber, before the man smiled, the purple marks on his cheeks moved. This man was a dog demon with powerful blood. The small differences that stood out other than the marks of a full demon, was how long his hair was and how his ears were slightly different from his own. They were wider and shorter with rounded tips compared to his slightly longer and pointier ears.

"If you get this message, I'm dead and you unsealed Kagome." The man began, however as he started to talk blood ran down the side of his mouth, "Only my soul is the key to her release and you just so happened to have it. In short terms, you are my reincarnation…Congradu-fuckin-lations…"

The man laughed and Inuyasha frowned. It was nice to know he was sharing the soul with an asshole. The man laughed again, coughing up more blood, before he groaned and placed his head back on the amber. The dog ears flatten against his skull as he sighed and looked away from him.

"I couldn't do anything right even at the end. I've done things that I know she'll hate me for." He continued, "I promised her that I would release her from the amber after everything died down, but I kinda fucked up along the way and end up getting myself killed. I don't know how many years will pass for her to be unsealed, but no matter how long it'll be,I she'll be confused. Be patient with her… Please, and, if you can, protect her for me."

The man and the boy looked at each other, and, for a moment, he felt like he was there. That they were holding a conversation, the way the man who looked like him shook whatever foundation Inuyasha was left standing on.

"Can you make her happy for me? Make sure she smiles?" The man smiled but, through it all, he was crying. "I would have done it myself, but I…. I let my emotion get the best of me. In exchange for her happiness and protection, I hereby pass everything to you my reincarnation. My sword and my followers. I forgo my right as the Lord of the East and grant you that title."

"And…from here on out until she finds me…Us…You … I revoke my pact with Kagome until her reawakening."

The man closed his eyes as the white disappeared around him, "One last thing." With a heavy breath, "Know everything that I've done up until this point has been and will always be for her. I honestly loved her."

The world of white disappeared with the man's last breath and for a minute Inuyasha couldn't breathe. There was so much information to process. The dar—No, Kagome had a pact with a full demon and not just any small demon, but the Lord of the East. And he was in love with her, even to the point where his last words were that everything he did was for her. However, the world came crashing back down when he heard a sharp painful screech and quickly turned to see Kagome on the ground clutching her right eye.

She grasped it as if it was going to pop out at any second, but when she looked at him, it wasn't anger anymore but pure disbelief.

"No…. No…" She repeated almost like a mantra, "No! No! I didn't want this! I wanted to protect you! I just…. I just wanted to protect you!"

She broke out into a gross sob as she clutched herself, "Why did you leave me behind?!"

There she was just crying like someone ripped out her heart and soul. The painful screams echoed in the empty museum and he couldn't help but watch as the dark priestess was moved to tears. As she coughed and lost her breath as she screamed and cried, until not a sound came out. Inuyasha stood up and for some reason he couldn't move. She was just trying to kill him a second ago and now she was sobbing on the ground like a child. While his heart stirred to comfort her, he couldn't move because his mind was screaming to run away.

He was stupid for releasing her. He should have stayed home and just lived a normal life. He would have been happier if he just went back home to his apartment tonight, instead of nearly dying. She wasn't his problem, she didn't have to be his problem, and even now he didn't have to listen to his past self-request. Just ignore it, his mind chided him. Go home, she won't even notice if you leave. Put this whole thing behind you and go to school like nothing ever happened. Inuyasha clutched the sword in his hand as she finally stopped her sobs and just shivered and shake like she was a rabbit.

Leave…

His mind once again told him.

Inuyasha took a deep breath and took a step forward. Even as he felt himself groan for this. She was alone and scared. She had no one and probably will never have anyone if he just left her. The man that did this for her cared and cherished her, and to just casually spitting on his face by running away wouldn't have been something he would do for a dying man. As he closed the distance between them, he prepared himself for what was to come. If demons were after her, then he would do his best to protect her until she could stand on her own two feet. He would do what he could up until he knew that she could stand up on her own.

If she was alone in the world, then he was willing to be there for her…

That was what he felt as he reached his hand out to her.

Kagome looked up at him for a minute, she looked confused and scared. A complete 180 from the woman who was attempting to murder him a few minutes ago. However, she attempted to smile as she reached out for his hand.

"I'm sorry for trying to kill you." She chuckled a bit gripping his hand as he lifted her up from the floor with one hand alone, "I…I just really thought that you just were someone that was made to use me."

"Keh, I hope it teaches you a lesson about jumping to conclusion." Inuyasha frowned, but she smiled, just like she did in his dreams.

"Let's try this again," She up at him as if he was a boat in the middle of the ocean, the only thing that kept her from drowning in this world, "My name is Kagome, it's an honor to meet you, may I ask your name?"

And if she needed him to be a boat, he'll do his best for now. Just for a second, he'll save her despite the creeping feeling of what's to come.

"Inuyasha, Inuyasha Takahashi…" Inuyasha explained, "The real fucking deal, don't forget that. I ain't no fake."

Again, she laughed and he knew at that moment he understood the reason why someone like the Lord of the East would have fallen for her. When she smiled, and laughed like that, it made him feel light, like for once in his life he was doing something right.

A/N: Whoa it's been about a little over two weeks! Sorry sorry for the wait, but here it is chapter four! Chapter five and six are already done, those are going to be edited and done sometimes this week or next. If you want to help with editing please let me know, I would really like a beta reader that can take my constant stream of update. But heyyyyyyyy

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