Laying Amongst the Dead

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Chapter Nineteen

"Don't be," I said softly and tried to touch her face again.

"I shouldn't have reacted like that. I ended up killing you," she cried, tears lightly flowing down her cheeks.

I was getting frustrated at not being about to touch her, much less comfort her. "Don't talk like that. It wasn't your fault, Kagome," I said sternly.

She went silent for a while. I cursed myself for being so hard on her. She just had to go through having to watch me die. Well, not actually watch, but be there while I died.

"I-I had a dream about you," she said suddenly.

"What kind of dream?" I asked kindheartedly while wondering why she was bringing up the matter.

"I dreamt that you were laying amongst the dead," she said, making my heart skip a beat.

A weary silence spread out between us. How did I know that she was going to say that? I dreamt of the same thing the first time I almost died at my brother's hand. I dreamt that Kagome was given a deal that would change her life and she declined it. Sending me to hell in the process.

"Death had given me a deal to become a hanyou. I said no. I watched as the ground from under you started caving in. Hell was trying to suck you in. I tried to reach out to you, but demons kept on trying to drag me away from you. I watched as red dead body's rose up and grabbed your legs. They pulled you into hell where they tortured you until you were screaming for your life. Are you in hell?" she asked, shocking me yet again.

"No, love. Not yet anyway," I muttered under my breath.

"Is Death with you?" she asked, shivering slightly.

I nodded and looked up at Death who was hovering near us. Observing us. He looked at me and nodded.

"Yes," he said strongly.

"I'll take your deal only if InuYasha comes back right now. I don't want to have to wait like he did. We've done enough waiting," she said with anger rising in her tone.

"I won't make you wait, child. So you're willingly giving half of your human blood and replace it with demon blood for this youkai?" he asked, making sure this was what she wanted.

She nodded. "I've never been more willing in all my life," she answered.

My head suddenly had a pounding sound in it that made it hard to hear what was going on. It hurt like hell. It felt like something was hammering at my brain. I closed my eyes and grabbed my head. I rolled onto the ground and tried to block the sound out.

My eyes snapped open when I heard Kagome's high scream. I leaned up, noticing that she was in my lap, and grabbed onto her arms as she continued screaming. She suddenly went limp, her head leaned backwards, enabling me to see her face.

"Kagome?" I asked.

She moaned softly and I felt her arms tense. She lifted her head up with her eyes closed. She waited until she had full function of her body before she opened her eyes.

She opened her eyes slowly. My breath caught in my lungs as I stared into her beautiful brown colored eyes that were mixed with a yellow color and a silver tint. My mouth dropped and my cheeks burned.

"Kagome…you're a…" I started to say.

"Hanyou. I know. That's what I had to do to get you back," she said softly as her eyes filled with tears.

I smiled. "You never change, do you? You're always thinking about other people and not yourself," I mused mostly to myself.

"I changed for you," she muttered under her breath.

My smile faded her words drifted through my head. I looked up from her eyes and spotted two…dog ears. My heart jumped to my throat. She did change for me. She gave up having pure human blood for the blood of a hanyou. She'd never be the same now.

"You should not have done that, Kagome," I said sharply.

I felt her flinch. "I did it because I had no other chose, InuYasha," she said in a frightened tone.

I looked down into her once brown eyes and felt my anger rise. It was stupid of her to do something like that for me. I'm grateful, but she shouldn't have had to do that.

"You always have a choose, Kagome," I growled.

"What's wrong with you? I chose this because I love you. I made my choose. Why can't you see that?" she asked with pain and anger shining in her eyes.

"Do you know what a demon can do to you? You'll never be the same after this. Damn, Kagome! It was absolutely stupid for you do this," I growled and stood up, yanking her to her feet.

Her lip was trembling and her eyes were filled with anger and hurt. The hand that I was holding was shaking visibly. She looked like she was about to rip my head off.

I blinked and felt her hand whip away from me. "You're a fool if you can't see the motivation I had to do what I did," she yelled and spun away from me.

I watched as she ran at the speed no ordinary human could run. I sighed and weaved my hands into my hair. What I said was true. It changes a person to something they don't want to be. I don't want Kagome turning into something like that.

I heard a twig snap from behind me. I whirled around and started into my brother's cold eyes. He had a deep frown on his face. I groaned and put my hands down.

"You are a fool, InuYasha. That woman willingly gave something that was great importance to her to spare your life," he said grimly, "I may have been the one to kill her, but you were the one that broke her heart."

I turned and stared in the direction Kagome had sped off in. I could still smell her tears in the air and the change in her blood. Sesshomaru was right. I was a fool.

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Well, that's chapter nineteen. Now you know where the title comes from. smile How do you guys like it? I didn't like the other version I put up, so I changed it. It didn't feel right to me. It was too…mushy if you know what I mean, and I didn't knw how to continue it so this chappie came up. It's not that different it just doesn't have them all mushy at the end. The mushy part will come later. (he he) Well, tell me what you think of this new version. If you have any suggestions about it or anything, please tell. It helps. Well, please send me some of those reviews, so I can look forward to something. I appreciate it. Love ya.