"Damn!" I swore. Tears streamed down my eyes. "Damn it all!" I punched the
ground angrily. "I couldn't save him." I choked on my tears "I couldn't
save him." I punched the ground over and over again, and my fist turned
scarlet. The hobbits were all openly crying, tears streaming down their
faces; small sobs escaping their lips. Gimli looked almost homicidal and
Boromir had to restrain him.
"It's all your fault!" Frodo suddenly shouted to me. "You knew that Gandalf would die in the mine but you didn't stop us! I hate you!"
I clutched my head in pain and grief. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I tried... I hate me too." Since there wasn't anyone near me I pulled out a dagger. I watched as it glimmered in the sun. "How very... beautiful..." I mumbled, caressing the dagger. Legolas seeing this began to inch towards me and ordered.
"Kagome... what are you doing with that? PUT THAT DOWN NOW!" He screamed as I positioned it near my heart. As I was about to plunge it into my heart an arrow knocked my dagger out of my hands and clutches.
"Why did you do that?" I asked innocently, "I'm a bad girl, and I must be punished." Legolas threw down his bow and wrapped his arms around me. "You tried to warn us Kagome, you did your best." He whispered.
"NO!" I yelled, the waterfall of tears never ceasing. "You don't understand! I didn't do my best I- I failed."
Pippin walked over, his face red from crying. "Kagome..." He broke down and sobbed.
"I have to be punished I'm a bad girl." Legolas held me tighter. "Tis not your fault Kagome, you warned us against it before we left the mountains." Aragorn looked pensive for a moment and asked me.
"How did you know everything that was to happen?" The rest of the fellowship looked at me.
"I- I-." I crawled out of Legolas's warm embrace and towards Pippin.
"How did you know that Gandalf was doomed in there? How did you know that we shouldn't have gone into the mine? How did you know what the journal held? HOW DID YOU KNOW!?"
"I CAN'T TELL!" I curled up into a ball and rocked myself. "I wish Sango was here... she would have saved Gandalf, Miroku and Shippo... Inuyasha... Kikyou even! I wish I never existed." Frodo and the others seemed regretful for my state and Legolas seated himself beside me. "Don't wish for that. You are... one of a kind, and we would miss you if you were gone. Gandalf would have fallen either way."
I buried my face into the blade of his shoulder, as if trying to hide from reality. "Legolas I'm afraid." He rubbed my back in a lulling fashion and whispered
"Don't be." And we stayed like that. Pippin crying near me, Merry, Frodo and Sam weeped, huddled together. Gimli, Aragorn, and Boromir mourning inwardly. Legolas comforting me and grieving at the same time and as for me... I cried into the shoulder of Legolas.
"Legolas," Aragorn said finally. "Get them up!" Legolas looked at him impassively.
"Give them a moment, for pity's sake!" begged Boromir, sounding upset and weary. For once I felt gratitude to Boromir.
"By nightfall these hills will be crawling with orcs!" exclaimed Aragorn "We must reach the woods of Lothlorien. Gimli, Legolas, get them up!" I somewhat attempted to swallow the rest of my tears and stood up, wincing at the pain in my side which was funny because the injury on my stomach had already begun to heal but the cut the orc gave me didn't. "On your feet, Sam," Aragorn commanded gently, setting him on his feet. "Frodo?"
The hobbit had drawn away from the rest of the group, gazing across the horizon. He slowly turned to face us. My heart almost shattered into millions of pieces again. Tears flooded his eyes, falling in gentle streams down his cheeks. The sorrow that dwelt in him was incredibly intense, and it was obvious that the death of Gandalf had the most devastating effect on him as it did on I.
After he managed to get us all on our feet, Aragorn instructed us to follow him. His pace was fast, and it became soon it became difficult for me to keep up which I was confused at, I was a demon, I should have both healed and been able to keep up easily. My wound throbbed painfully, but I ignored it, thinking that it would heal in due time.
Boy, was I wrong.
I managed to tag along without too much agony at first, but it became increasingly difficult to keep pace as time passed.
Pippin began to glance my way. At first I had thought it was because he was feeling uneasy. Then when Frodo and the other little ones began to stare at me I started to feel unnerved.
"Is there something you need?" I asked softly. They shook their heads and sped up. It wasn't until after that I noticed why they were staring. I was covering my wound with my hand unconsciously. I quickly let go and I placed the cloak over top of the blood stained shirt of mine. I found that it hurt to walk normally so I started limping. Now Gimli and the little ones began to stare.
"What!" I snapped, "I'm limping because I want to." They looked away, shamed.
After a few minutes I noticed that it was like carrying the weight of the world just to take a step forward, and that the world seemed to be a little blurrier then before. I began to sway and I became dizzy. It hurt to breathe and I fell into the darkness...
~~~*~~~
Darkness... not even Inuyasha to fill the void with fear.
"Hello?" My voice echoed back to me and I shivered at how frightened I sounded and felt.
"Well..." I sighed, trying to figure out where I was. "Inuyasha's not here so I'm not dreaming... and the fellowship isn't here so I'm not awake... there isn't golden gates to meet me so I'm not in Heaven... There aren't any dark fiery flames... so I'm not in the underworld. That only leaves... I'm unconscious."
'Gandalf... why did you leave us? Come back.' An image of Gandalf flashed by and I tried to grab it. But just as my hand was about to grab hold of Gandalf he moved out of my reach, and out of my sight.
"Souta!" I gasped and ran towards my little brother as fast as I could, but he too disappeared.
"Mother, Jii-chan..." I watched as everyone that ever loved fade out of my life. Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango, Kirara, Miroku, Kouga-kun (he was my friend right?), in the end they all ebbed away into nothingness. I wanted to scream, yell, anything to fill this barren hole... anything to keep me from insanity.
Loneliness and grief nearly drowned me.
"You aren't good enough to be Kikyou's reincarnation."
"No... NO!" I covered my ears desperately trying to block them out.
"You aren't worthy to be called a miko!"
"No!" With each taunt, my resolve died a bit more.
"How could you have ever thought that you were strong enough to survive?"
"NO!" Something inside just burst and I needed to reach out and hurt them as they had done me. I hadn't noticed that my eyes had gone completely aqua and my claws began to itch for their blood. As I lunged at them, I found that with each step that I took, the more they dispersed. A cold-blooded voice without the least bit of a warning spoke.
"It's hard to be alone isn't it?" I glanced around suspiciously for the voice's owner.
"Of course it is." I replied.
"Unfortunate that, that is your future, your fate."
"T-that's t-that's NOT TRUE!" I screamed and clamped my ears again.
"Oh it's true alright. Unless..." He trailed off.
"I'M NOT GOING TO SAY, I'LL DO ANYTHING OKAY?!" I yelled angrily.
Surprise, surprise, he ignored me and continued, "Unless, you stay with me... we'll be alone together." Wiping my tears onto my sleeve I chuckled.
"Do you see the irony to what you said? Also I don't know you! Not to mention I'm not alone."
"Not alone eh?" He sounded amused, too amused.
"Being alone means no friends, no family, no companions. I'm not alone because although they aren't here physically doesn't mean they aren't here with me in spirit."
"Wise words for someone who has merely started to enter adulthood."
"Shut up." I growled, a fist was curled up and clenched tightly.
"Oh!" He really seemed surprised. "It's time for you to leave, but it won't be the last you have heard of me."
~~~*~~~
I sat right up, sputtering water; I can tell you one thing, being drenched head to toe with water isn't very fun.
I glared evilly at Legolas who was unfortunately for him holding an empty bucket. Dropping the bucket he rushed over to me and I blinked. 'That was weird...' Using one hand to support me, Legolas gently laid me down onto a bedroll I hadn't taken notice of till now.
"You shouldn't be sitting up like that Kagome." He scolded a frown marring his handsome features. Wait handsome? His frown deepened as he asked, "Why didn't you tell m-us you were injured?"
"Uh..." I mentally thanked God over and over and over again as the rest of the Fellowship interrupted us.
"Ah! I see Kagome's awakened!" Gimli yelled cheerfully, giving me a hard slap on the shoulder. Aragorn took no heed to what Gimli was blabbering about and rolled up my shirt, before I could protest. (He didn't take off my clothes! He just rolled it up enough so he could treat the wound okay? *Mutters* perverts.) Feeling jumpy I covered my wound with my fingers just before he saw it.
"Stop being utterly ridiculous! Let us see the wound!" Sighing in defeat I let go off my injury to my great surprise it unlike I had thought, was very deep and VERY long. It didn't help matters that the edges made it look like I had caught pneumonia. The edges spiked and what not, was ice BLUE! What kind of wound would turn BLUE? I hadn't even realized that I had blurted it out loud until Legolas gave me a look and answered my question. "Orc's blades are poisoned."
"Oh..." Poisoned? Why those no good, rotting, stinking, cheaters! I came out of my trance just in time to see Aragon frown.
"This is not well. She has left it exposed to the open AND she'd been stressing it." I batted his hand away and I stood up, ignoring the cries of protests.
"Didn't Aragorn say that orcs would soon flood the area? We should be going, the stupid poison those dimwitted orcs bestowed upon me won't kill me." I marched over to my bag and I slung it over my shoulder, only to fall on my knees grimacing at the undeniable pain in my side.
"She has a point though." Gimli! If I could walk I would have walked over to him and hugged him... okay maybe not.
"Glad to see that someone else is thinking straight." I clasped my hands together in fake cheerfulness, before wincing at my pain "We have to leave now."
Aragorn grimly nodded, and Legolas looked like he was about to blow.
"NO!" It was my turn to give him a look. What was up with him? Legolas let out a sigh of defeat after seeing Aragorn's glare. He walked over to me and...
~~~*~~~
I was NOT amused. My face was so red I wouldn't be surprised if someone thought I was an over-grown tomato. Let me tell you, blushing out of embarrassment was only half of it! Legolas would get one underworld of a bashing when I got down! I have to admit though; it did feel kind of nice...
My face turned into a deeper shade of red, as he pressed me closer to his chest.
"I am not weak!" I blurted out suddenly, breaking the long silence. "I can walk!"
Legolas was carrying me bridal style and I couldn't take it anymore! I couldn't take the all-knowing look on Aragorn's face, or the plain amusement on the other's face, and I certainly could not take Legolas's smug look.
"LET ME DOWN OR I'LL SCREAM!" The men flattered in their step and I grinned victoriously. I had won this battle...
~~~*~~~
"Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Faster horsy! Faster!" This was fun! Granted it wasn't as fast as when Inu-I mean the dumb mutt did it for me but it was still fun. Legolas grumbled underneath me, he was really starting to loosen up! At least when he was around me...
"And what may I ask did I do to disgruntle you?" Legolas asked looking up at the sky pleadingly.
"Lego, hunny are you feeling alright?" To be completely honest with you, I was actually really worried for Legolas, I mean; I had a talent for driving people insane! After all I was Kikyou in my previous lifetime, and Kikyou could drive ME off a deep end, that's saying a lot too... I was she, and she was me, so she was basically driving herself batty but she's actually driving me batty but I was her so she was driving herself batty... okay now I'm confused... so was Kikyou confused? Uh-oh... See what I mean?
I frowned, when he flushed crimson. Was he sick? My frown deepened and I placed one hand on his forehead.
"Well Lego, you aren't sick, but you look..." I took a look at him for a word to describe him, "red." I know, lame huh? But he was really starting to worry me. His face flushed even deeper, and I panicked. "Lego, are you okay?" Aragorn's chuckling made me turn my head to him.
"Poor Lego is looking like a volcano and you're laughing?" I would have checked if he really was Aragorn if I wasn't piggybacking on Legolas.
"Poor Lego is suffering from embarrassment." I blinked innocently at Frodo.
"What do you mean? Why is Lego so red?"
"Cute pet name." What did Merry mean, pet name? Oh...
"Nah! It's just a nickname, like," I pointed to Aragorn, "Aggie." I pointed to Boromir. "Yours is Boro." I pointed to Frodo. "Fro." I pointed to Merry "Mar" I pointed to Pippin. "Pin. Gimli is Gruffy, you're lucky that Rin named Sesshomaru Fluffy, or that would be your nickname, don't ask me why, and Sam is Sam because his name is short enough." I managed to look proud even when I was riding Lego. The men (excluding Sam who had his own name, and Legolas who was still red... I wonder why...) belched. I grinned angelically.
"Lego, are you feeling better? You still look... red."
"SHUT UP!" No matter how cheerful I seemed to be on the outside, I was slowly breaking again inwardly and I knew that I would not survive if the chain link of my beloved friends dieing kept up.
~~~*~~~
We went down the road from the gate, leading me farther away from the deadly mines of the kin of Gimli and farther away from Gandalf. I wanted to cry but all my tears had dried up. I was still riding Legolas and I was still fidgeting about, not wanting to make my injury worse. (How am I going to fight with a poisoned wound?) The silence was overwhelming and I couldn't help but wonder, was this how life was going to be for me now? Trying to destroy a ring before it did us? It wasn't much better then the journey to put all the jewel pieces together, but I would take what I could. We trudged on for many more hours... well they trudged on. I decided to catch some shuteye. I laid my cheek to Lego's back and instantly I fell asleep.
~~~*~~~
{Past}
Inuyasha growled and his eyes flashed red. He place one hand onto his precious sword, Tetsusiga, (Dc: Did I spell that right?) but his demon blood took over. He was mad. More then mad, he was about to blow. He was going to kill Kaede for interrupting his connection with what was HIS. 'She is mine and nobody else's.'
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Dark: I am soooooooo sorry for such a short chapter but I have the dreaded... * whispers* writer's block so don't be surprised if I don't update soon
The poll:
Inuyasha: Three
Sesshomaru: Eleven
Kouga: One
Naraku: One
Somebody else: 1/2
(I can drag Youko Kurama into this story if you want.): Four
Does she end up with:
Legolas: ten
Winner: Two
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"It's all your fault!" Frodo suddenly shouted to me. "You knew that Gandalf would die in the mine but you didn't stop us! I hate you!"
I clutched my head in pain and grief. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I tried... I hate me too." Since there wasn't anyone near me I pulled out a dagger. I watched as it glimmered in the sun. "How very... beautiful..." I mumbled, caressing the dagger. Legolas seeing this began to inch towards me and ordered.
"Kagome... what are you doing with that? PUT THAT DOWN NOW!" He screamed as I positioned it near my heart. As I was about to plunge it into my heart an arrow knocked my dagger out of my hands and clutches.
"Why did you do that?" I asked innocently, "I'm a bad girl, and I must be punished." Legolas threw down his bow and wrapped his arms around me. "You tried to warn us Kagome, you did your best." He whispered.
"NO!" I yelled, the waterfall of tears never ceasing. "You don't understand! I didn't do my best I- I failed."
Pippin walked over, his face red from crying. "Kagome..." He broke down and sobbed.
"I have to be punished I'm a bad girl." Legolas held me tighter. "Tis not your fault Kagome, you warned us against it before we left the mountains." Aragorn looked pensive for a moment and asked me.
"How did you know everything that was to happen?" The rest of the fellowship looked at me.
"I- I-." I crawled out of Legolas's warm embrace and towards Pippin.
"How did you know that Gandalf was doomed in there? How did you know that we shouldn't have gone into the mine? How did you know what the journal held? HOW DID YOU KNOW!?"
"I CAN'T TELL!" I curled up into a ball and rocked myself. "I wish Sango was here... she would have saved Gandalf, Miroku and Shippo... Inuyasha... Kikyou even! I wish I never existed." Frodo and the others seemed regretful for my state and Legolas seated himself beside me. "Don't wish for that. You are... one of a kind, and we would miss you if you were gone. Gandalf would have fallen either way."
I buried my face into the blade of his shoulder, as if trying to hide from reality. "Legolas I'm afraid." He rubbed my back in a lulling fashion and whispered
"Don't be." And we stayed like that. Pippin crying near me, Merry, Frodo and Sam weeped, huddled together. Gimli, Aragorn, and Boromir mourning inwardly. Legolas comforting me and grieving at the same time and as for me... I cried into the shoulder of Legolas.
"Legolas," Aragorn said finally. "Get them up!" Legolas looked at him impassively.
"Give them a moment, for pity's sake!" begged Boromir, sounding upset and weary. For once I felt gratitude to Boromir.
"By nightfall these hills will be crawling with orcs!" exclaimed Aragorn "We must reach the woods of Lothlorien. Gimli, Legolas, get them up!" I somewhat attempted to swallow the rest of my tears and stood up, wincing at the pain in my side which was funny because the injury on my stomach had already begun to heal but the cut the orc gave me didn't. "On your feet, Sam," Aragorn commanded gently, setting him on his feet. "Frodo?"
The hobbit had drawn away from the rest of the group, gazing across the horizon. He slowly turned to face us. My heart almost shattered into millions of pieces again. Tears flooded his eyes, falling in gentle streams down his cheeks. The sorrow that dwelt in him was incredibly intense, and it was obvious that the death of Gandalf had the most devastating effect on him as it did on I.
After he managed to get us all on our feet, Aragorn instructed us to follow him. His pace was fast, and it became soon it became difficult for me to keep up which I was confused at, I was a demon, I should have both healed and been able to keep up easily. My wound throbbed painfully, but I ignored it, thinking that it would heal in due time.
Boy, was I wrong.
I managed to tag along without too much agony at first, but it became increasingly difficult to keep pace as time passed.
Pippin began to glance my way. At first I had thought it was because he was feeling uneasy. Then when Frodo and the other little ones began to stare at me I started to feel unnerved.
"Is there something you need?" I asked softly. They shook their heads and sped up. It wasn't until after that I noticed why they were staring. I was covering my wound with my hand unconsciously. I quickly let go and I placed the cloak over top of the blood stained shirt of mine. I found that it hurt to walk normally so I started limping. Now Gimli and the little ones began to stare.
"What!" I snapped, "I'm limping because I want to." They looked away, shamed.
After a few minutes I noticed that it was like carrying the weight of the world just to take a step forward, and that the world seemed to be a little blurrier then before. I began to sway and I became dizzy. It hurt to breathe and I fell into the darkness...
~~~*~~~
Darkness... not even Inuyasha to fill the void with fear.
"Hello?" My voice echoed back to me and I shivered at how frightened I sounded and felt.
"Well..." I sighed, trying to figure out where I was. "Inuyasha's not here so I'm not dreaming... and the fellowship isn't here so I'm not awake... there isn't golden gates to meet me so I'm not in Heaven... There aren't any dark fiery flames... so I'm not in the underworld. That only leaves... I'm unconscious."
'Gandalf... why did you leave us? Come back.' An image of Gandalf flashed by and I tried to grab it. But just as my hand was about to grab hold of Gandalf he moved out of my reach, and out of my sight.
"Souta!" I gasped and ran towards my little brother as fast as I could, but he too disappeared.
"Mother, Jii-chan..." I watched as everyone that ever loved fade out of my life. Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango, Kirara, Miroku, Kouga-kun (he was my friend right?), in the end they all ebbed away into nothingness. I wanted to scream, yell, anything to fill this barren hole... anything to keep me from insanity.
Loneliness and grief nearly drowned me.
"You aren't good enough to be Kikyou's reincarnation."
"No... NO!" I covered my ears desperately trying to block them out.
"You aren't worthy to be called a miko!"
"No!" With each taunt, my resolve died a bit more.
"How could you have ever thought that you were strong enough to survive?"
"NO!" Something inside just burst and I needed to reach out and hurt them as they had done me. I hadn't noticed that my eyes had gone completely aqua and my claws began to itch for their blood. As I lunged at them, I found that with each step that I took, the more they dispersed. A cold-blooded voice without the least bit of a warning spoke.
"It's hard to be alone isn't it?" I glanced around suspiciously for the voice's owner.
"Of course it is." I replied.
"Unfortunate that, that is your future, your fate."
"T-that's t-that's NOT TRUE!" I screamed and clamped my ears again.
"Oh it's true alright. Unless..." He trailed off.
"I'M NOT GOING TO SAY, I'LL DO ANYTHING OKAY?!" I yelled angrily.
Surprise, surprise, he ignored me and continued, "Unless, you stay with me... we'll be alone together." Wiping my tears onto my sleeve I chuckled.
"Do you see the irony to what you said? Also I don't know you! Not to mention I'm not alone."
"Not alone eh?" He sounded amused, too amused.
"Being alone means no friends, no family, no companions. I'm not alone because although they aren't here physically doesn't mean they aren't here with me in spirit."
"Wise words for someone who has merely started to enter adulthood."
"Shut up." I growled, a fist was curled up and clenched tightly.
"Oh!" He really seemed surprised. "It's time for you to leave, but it won't be the last you have heard of me."
~~~*~~~
I sat right up, sputtering water; I can tell you one thing, being drenched head to toe with water isn't very fun.
I glared evilly at Legolas who was unfortunately for him holding an empty bucket. Dropping the bucket he rushed over to me and I blinked. 'That was weird...' Using one hand to support me, Legolas gently laid me down onto a bedroll I hadn't taken notice of till now.
"You shouldn't be sitting up like that Kagome." He scolded a frown marring his handsome features. Wait handsome? His frown deepened as he asked, "Why didn't you tell m-us you were injured?"
"Uh..." I mentally thanked God over and over and over again as the rest of the Fellowship interrupted us.
"Ah! I see Kagome's awakened!" Gimli yelled cheerfully, giving me a hard slap on the shoulder. Aragorn took no heed to what Gimli was blabbering about and rolled up my shirt, before I could protest. (He didn't take off my clothes! He just rolled it up enough so he could treat the wound okay? *Mutters* perverts.) Feeling jumpy I covered my wound with my fingers just before he saw it.
"Stop being utterly ridiculous! Let us see the wound!" Sighing in defeat I let go off my injury to my great surprise it unlike I had thought, was very deep and VERY long. It didn't help matters that the edges made it look like I had caught pneumonia. The edges spiked and what not, was ice BLUE! What kind of wound would turn BLUE? I hadn't even realized that I had blurted it out loud until Legolas gave me a look and answered my question. "Orc's blades are poisoned."
"Oh..." Poisoned? Why those no good, rotting, stinking, cheaters! I came out of my trance just in time to see Aragon frown.
"This is not well. She has left it exposed to the open AND she'd been stressing it." I batted his hand away and I stood up, ignoring the cries of protests.
"Didn't Aragorn say that orcs would soon flood the area? We should be going, the stupid poison those dimwitted orcs bestowed upon me won't kill me." I marched over to my bag and I slung it over my shoulder, only to fall on my knees grimacing at the undeniable pain in my side.
"She has a point though." Gimli! If I could walk I would have walked over to him and hugged him... okay maybe not.
"Glad to see that someone else is thinking straight." I clasped my hands together in fake cheerfulness, before wincing at my pain "We have to leave now."
Aragorn grimly nodded, and Legolas looked like he was about to blow.
"NO!" It was my turn to give him a look. What was up with him? Legolas let out a sigh of defeat after seeing Aragorn's glare. He walked over to me and...
~~~*~~~
I was NOT amused. My face was so red I wouldn't be surprised if someone thought I was an over-grown tomato. Let me tell you, blushing out of embarrassment was only half of it! Legolas would get one underworld of a bashing when I got down! I have to admit though; it did feel kind of nice...
My face turned into a deeper shade of red, as he pressed me closer to his chest.
"I am not weak!" I blurted out suddenly, breaking the long silence. "I can walk!"
Legolas was carrying me bridal style and I couldn't take it anymore! I couldn't take the all-knowing look on Aragorn's face, or the plain amusement on the other's face, and I certainly could not take Legolas's smug look.
"LET ME DOWN OR I'LL SCREAM!" The men flattered in their step and I grinned victoriously. I had won this battle...
~~~*~~~
"Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Faster horsy! Faster!" This was fun! Granted it wasn't as fast as when Inu-I mean the dumb mutt did it for me but it was still fun. Legolas grumbled underneath me, he was really starting to loosen up! At least when he was around me...
"And what may I ask did I do to disgruntle you?" Legolas asked looking up at the sky pleadingly.
"Lego, hunny are you feeling alright?" To be completely honest with you, I was actually really worried for Legolas, I mean; I had a talent for driving people insane! After all I was Kikyou in my previous lifetime, and Kikyou could drive ME off a deep end, that's saying a lot too... I was she, and she was me, so she was basically driving herself batty but she's actually driving me batty but I was her so she was driving herself batty... okay now I'm confused... so was Kikyou confused? Uh-oh... See what I mean?
I frowned, when he flushed crimson. Was he sick? My frown deepened and I placed one hand on his forehead.
"Well Lego, you aren't sick, but you look..." I took a look at him for a word to describe him, "red." I know, lame huh? But he was really starting to worry me. His face flushed even deeper, and I panicked. "Lego, are you okay?" Aragorn's chuckling made me turn my head to him.
"Poor Lego is looking like a volcano and you're laughing?" I would have checked if he really was Aragorn if I wasn't piggybacking on Legolas.
"Poor Lego is suffering from embarrassment." I blinked innocently at Frodo.
"What do you mean? Why is Lego so red?"
"Cute pet name." What did Merry mean, pet name? Oh...
"Nah! It's just a nickname, like," I pointed to Aragorn, "Aggie." I pointed to Boromir. "Yours is Boro." I pointed to Frodo. "Fro." I pointed to Merry "Mar" I pointed to Pippin. "Pin. Gimli is Gruffy, you're lucky that Rin named Sesshomaru Fluffy, or that would be your nickname, don't ask me why, and Sam is Sam because his name is short enough." I managed to look proud even when I was riding Lego. The men (excluding Sam who had his own name, and Legolas who was still red... I wonder why...) belched. I grinned angelically.
"Lego, are you feeling better? You still look... red."
"SHUT UP!" No matter how cheerful I seemed to be on the outside, I was slowly breaking again inwardly and I knew that I would not survive if the chain link of my beloved friends dieing kept up.
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We went down the road from the gate, leading me farther away from the deadly mines of the kin of Gimli and farther away from Gandalf. I wanted to cry but all my tears had dried up. I was still riding Legolas and I was still fidgeting about, not wanting to make my injury worse. (How am I going to fight with a poisoned wound?) The silence was overwhelming and I couldn't help but wonder, was this how life was going to be for me now? Trying to destroy a ring before it did us? It wasn't much better then the journey to put all the jewel pieces together, but I would take what I could. We trudged on for many more hours... well they trudged on. I decided to catch some shuteye. I laid my cheek to Lego's back and instantly I fell asleep.
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{Past}
Inuyasha growled and his eyes flashed red. He place one hand onto his precious sword, Tetsusiga, (Dc: Did I spell that right?) but his demon blood took over. He was mad. More then mad, he was about to blow. He was going to kill Kaede for interrupting his connection with what was HIS. 'She is mine and nobody else's.'
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Dark: I am soooooooo sorry for such a short chapter but I have the dreaded... * whispers* writer's block so don't be surprised if I don't update soon
The poll:
Inuyasha: Three
Sesshomaru: Eleven
Kouga: One
Naraku: One
Somebody else: 1/2
(I can drag Youko Kurama into this story if you want.): Four
Does she end up with:
Legolas: ten
Winner: Two
Review replies:
Ryoko Maxwell3: I can't really kill Inuyasha off... (unfortunately, Inu will bug me till my grave. Inuyasha: Got that right bitch.)
Jupiter's Light: * laughs sheepishly* I'm sorry that this chapter isn't as good or long.
Dark lil Hiei: BWAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Poor Gandalf, indeed. Also I'm sooooooooooo sorry for not updating sooner! But I already had chapter four written so that's why it was faster and I had to type little pieces of this chapie because I have writers block.
MLD: * shows thumb up* Will do.
Aya_chan: * tears up* You are so nice!
Inuyashafreak337: THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Alassea2: Will do. * salutes Alassea*
Kiniki: I have to give them a butt whooping later on though. * sobs* Gimli, Sauron: * glares evilly at me * MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Frozensakurablossems: Yeah... GO KAGOME! Kagome: ^_^.
Silverspun: * looks mysterious* in a later chapter...
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