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Chapter Two:
Kagome didn't know what to say to the ones before her. Inuyasha and Kouga walked slowly up to the girl who looked identical to the girl who they lost. "Sango what do think?" "Well she saved us so that must mean she is on our side. I doubt it's her reincarnation for it's only been two years." Miroku looked back at the girl. "I know but she is not dead. Kagome died right?" Both had no answer they just looked. Kouga and Inuyasha were about an inch away from the girl and her scent hit them. "No! This can't be it." Kouga moved back but not Inuyasha. He took one more step and touched her. "She is real. She is not a specter. Can this really be my Kagome?" Inuyasha looked into her eyes and there it was her eyes and he could see into her soul. "Kagome!"
Before Inuyasha could do anything else Kouga pulled him back. "I told you to never touch her." Kouga and Inuyasha started to fight as only they did. Kagome's face turned red. She waited till the right moment. "SIT BOY!" Inuyasha came crashing on top of Kouga into the ground. "I come back to this! No tears of joy, just you two fighting!" Shippo's face lit up. "Kagome!" Shippo ran and jumped into Kagome's arms. "Well hello Shippo." Kagome hugged him and Shippo could smell the sweet scent of wild flowers the same, as he smelled when she was with her two years ago. "I see so that really is Kagome." Miroku looked as Shippo was holding tight to Kagome. "So they both came out of the next world."
Kikyou was now getting up from her attack. She looked and tears filled her eyes. There she was, the one person she tried to get rid of. Then she looked at her, she didn't die as she thought. Kikyou also felt the same from Naraku. "Kagome Naraku? He didn't die did he?" Kagome looked over at Kikyou she felt the fear she had. "No, neither of us did. The jewel needed me alive in the next world and that is what kept me from dieing from those flames. As for Naraku he used the last of his power to keep that human heart beating."
Kagome walked past the hole that held her demon friends then ran and hugged Sango. "I missed you my friend." Sango cried with happiness then she stopped. "This means that Kohaku?" "He may not need him for a while. The jewel is not with him. Those souls give him enough power." Kagome then faced the monk. "I am sorry I couldn't do nothing about his spell over your wind tunnel. "Kagome, I would want you here with me as a friend on earth any day then having the tunnel gone." Kagome smiled then looked at Kikyou. "We need to get back to the hut Kikyou your hurt." Kagome and the others started to walk back to Kaede's. "When you two get out of that hole I'll meet you at Kaede's.
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Naraku walked towards a small cave in the woods where he knew an old friend was. "Damn that girl. Her power did grow over the years. So if she hits me in the heart she will take the souls away that I worked so hard taking." Naraku then stooped and kicked the body that lay on the ground of the cave. She turned and went pale. "Kagura I was looking for you in the woods but you were not there. Kagome found you and told you about me." Naraku looked at the girl and smiled. "I wont kill you Kagura. I want this!" Naraku pulled her heart out and it joined his body. Kagura was in shock she lived free for two years and the death she would have been happy to take was gone. "Come on Kagura, we need to find Kanna."
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Kagome sat on the steps waiting for the two boys. They came running up covered in dirt and stopped in front of her. "Well you're here. I need to talk to you both come with me." Kagome got up and they followed her to the hilltop where she sat down. "I wanted to tell you the truth. Kikyou and I talked that day. She told me where to find him and I guess she planted the idea in my head. When I told you where to find him I was already planning on taking him to the next world. I wasn't really ready you leave you all but I was ready to save you all if I could. I am very sorry." The two sat down next to her. Inuyasha was to her left and Kouga was to her right. Kouga spoke first. "I see. Well I have thought nothing but of you. I am going to show you that you don't have to fight then we can be together." Kouga pulled Kagome's hand up and kissed it. "I will show you that I am the only one worth having you." "Why you……." Inuyasha was about to move when he felt Kagome place her hand over his. "That is sweet Kouga but I think you should really be thinking about your brothers. Naraku will start to spread his evil. You are the strongest they need you." Kouga looked at Kagome and then got up. "I see what you mean. Fine mutt you watch over her. Try not to blow it." Kouga then ran off.
Inuyasha felt Kagome hold his hand now, as the wolf was gone. "Inuyasha I am sorry that every time you get close to a person something happens to them. I wanted my death to be a new start for you and Kikyou." Inuyasha moved closer to Kagome. "I learned something when you died. You can love a person, you can love a lot people but you only have one true love. That love not even death can tear apart." Kagome looked at him ready for him to say it. "I found that my love for you was that true love." Kagome was a little surprised she was sure that Kikyou was the true love. "Really? But Kikyou" "Kikyou I love true but I never could see us being together with the family thing. I still believe she would want me to be human. You love me as the half demon. You want to be with the half demon and that is true love." Kagome smiled as she felt the energy she had two years ago. "Kagome I know I said I wanted to stop you from fighting. That wont happen will it?" "I don't think so." Inuyasha pulled his arm around Kagome's waist and pulled her close to him. "I just want you to know that having you here again makes me happy." Tears came to Kagome's eyes. She only wanted him to be happy and live, he was doing that and he wanted her. "Inuyasha I love you." Kagome let her head lay on his shoulder and they let the world move around them.
Kikyou and the others were making some dinner when they saw that Kagome and Inuyasha were not around. "Where did they go?" Kikyou walked out the door and saw two figures on the hilltop she walked up to see that it was them. She felt her heart jump as Kagome was leaning on Inuyasha. "What is she doing? That is my Inuyasha. She should have died and left us alone." Kikyou then walked up and tapped Kagome on the shoulder. "Dinner is ready." Kagome turned and saw Kikyou then turned red. She got up and walked to the hut. Kikyou looked down at Inuyasha. "What is your problem?" "Kikyou I have no idea what you're talking about." "Letting that poor girl think she has a chance. I know she filled your mind with thoughts that the two of you could be together, but you and I are to be." "Kikyou I love you, but not the way I do Kagome." Kikyou took a step back she felt the jealousy for her once again. "You don't know that. We were pulled apart for so long and you never gave me another chance." Inuyasha got up and looked at her. "Fine. Do you love me as a half demon or do you still wish me to be human." "Human only so we could have a family." Inuyasha then walked off he knew that only a true love would love you for what you were not what you could be. He left Kikyou standing there alone. "What was that? Does Kagome love him as a half demon?"
Kagome was eating looking at her friends when Inuyasha and Kikyou walked in. Kikyou sat next Miroku and Sango while Inuyasha sat next to Kagome. "He really wants to be with me." They ate a little more when Shippo couldn't wait any longer. "Kagome why did you stay away so long?" Kagome looked up at him then cleared her throat. "I found out we were alive on the other side but I also knew that Naraku would try to free himself. I couldn't let him get back to this world. I stayed to keep him in the next world. He was weak then. I could hold him so that is what I did. Then he found a way out. That's when I came back." Shippo looked at her then jumped into her lap. "Why did you want to keep him over there?" "I could feel this world becoming peaceful. The demons that gained power from his aura were becoming weak. The land was growing once more. I couldn't let him take that away." Kagome got up and walked out. She was still torn about what she had done. She did the right thing but had to hurt the ones she loved to do it.
Kagome got down to the well when Inuyasha found her. "Kagome what's wrong?" "I feel bad for what I've done to you all. I could have come back, but….." "That right there is why we love you. You could have been like every other human and do what you wanted but you used the strength you have to save us. Yes you wanted that but you chose the harder path. The easy path is what makes us weak and you are not weak!" Kagome looked up and Inuyasha pulled her to him and held her. "I was so lost without you." "Why did you stop fighting with tetsusaiga while I was gone?" Inuyasha looked at her. "I thought it would help the pain if I took out the demons with my own hands. How'd you know that?" "The souls that past going to the next world I could see how they died and their last thoughts. They all were mad that you a half demon killed them but I saw the claw marks not those marks of the tetsusaiga." "I held it with me but then killing didn't help so I stop fighting. I killed those who came after me but I stopped hunting there was no point." "I see. I am very sorry that I hurt you like this." "I know that and you need to know that I am glad you did what you did." Kagome let the tears fall onto the red kimono as her head was sitting on his shoulder. "I thought of you all and I knew that all I wanted was for you all to live. My life was not the point anymore." Inuyasha held her closer and she cried a little more. "You mean the world to me and this time we fight together always. If we live we live together and if we die then it will be together." "Okay. I would like that." Kagome sat there in his arms under the stars like they had years ago. They were one again and as long as they stayed that way nothing would stop them.