"Why did you leave me, Kagome? HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME?" The hanyou demanded to know as he stood before her quivering form.
"InuYasha?..."
"STOP SAYING MY NAME... YOU SHOULDN'T!" The "Youkai" roared as he violently took a swipe at the girl.
Kagome dodged it barely, falling harshly to the ground.
"InuYasha?" She asked looking up.
"Kagome, wouldn't leave me... Kagome wouldn't want me... Kagome loves me... Kagome wants to kill me..." The youkai stated as he insanely swayed with a grin on his face and tears falling from his eyes.
"What's going on?" Kagome thought to herself.
The hanyou shook his head and had a look of disgust on his face. "InuYasha… Killing, Kagome wouldn't like me doing that… why did you come back, wench?"
Kagome softly shook her head in confusion to the question.
"Why would you care for me? I'm just a worthless half-breed… no acceptance from either sides of the worlds…
FUCKERS!"
The hanyou looked down at his claws and the blood beneath them. He cracked his fingers and elongated his nails. "Heh! I dun need'em!" The beast cursed striking down on the girl, but the miko tried to get out of the way, only to be knocked against the tree.
She screamed as her body came in contact with the Goshinboku.
The youkai roughly took her by the throat and pushed her up against the tree leaving his claws almost piercing her neck.
Kagome gasped and wriggled under his hold.
The youkai stared into the girl's eyes, almost as if he had come back to his normal state.
"Kagome… " He called in his old tone, which caused Kagome to look into his eyes. The youkai suddenly laid his head against her bosom as if he was trying to hear her heartbeat. He removed his hand from her neck and wrapped his arms around her waist.
He breathed gently in her scent and then let out a sigh.
Tears ran down his cheeks onto the miko's thighs.
She placed a hand on top of his head in comfort.
They stood there in silence for sometime, in complete harmony and bliss, until the youkai beneath the girl began to shake as a low gurgle came from his throat.
The hanyou began to let out roars and tightening his grip around the miko. The beast seemed to be battling with himself for dominance over the two sides of the demon-dog.
"Kagome… Run." He said in a raspy tone of his normal voice.
She didn't budge.
"Kagome!" He yelled as he pried himself from the girl, jumping back with his hands over his head as he violently thrashed around.
"InuYasha?" The girl hesitantly asked.
"GO!" He barked back. "Leave, Ka-go-me!"
The girl began to cry as she turned and slowly began running for her life.
The hanyou stopped and looked up heaving raspy breaths, his eyes a glow with red. "Where do you think your going, wench?" As he cracked his fingers and extended his claws.
~^.^~
InuYasha walked across a bare strip of land, straining to figure out what could have happened.
"Do I have amnesia? How could I forget twenty sum years of my life?" He asked aloud.
He tried to think, but the image of Kagome kept appearing in his mind.
"Something doesn't feel right… Kagome? Are you really gone?"
The hanyou looked up through the trees overhead. "But… it still feels like you're here. Your scent still lingers and seems to be getting stronger.
Suddenly a scream broke through the air and reached the hanyou's ears.
"Kagome?"
InuYasha leaped into the air and took off towards the distress call.
Kagome gasped for air as she came to another opening. The wind blew over the tall grass causing it to dance with it. Kagome began to shake as she turned around hoping to see nothing but trees, but she saw what she expected to see. The hanyou leaped into view and began to stomp towards her.
"InuYasha…" The miko said quivering.
The youkai growled as he came closer to the girl.
"InuYasha! I know its you in there, please fight it!"
The youkai roared as he leaped to attack.
"I'm sorry InuYasha, SIT!" The girl commanded.
The forest went dead silent. Nothing could be heard, not even the sound of the hanyou crashing into the ground.
From her covered face, Kagome carefully peered through her arms. InuYasha had turned completely around to face the being, covering the sight of it for Kagome.
"What are you?" The voice of InuYasha in his normal voice came to Kagome's ears as if he was farther away then he truly was.
"There's no use, you dumb-shit, I'm in command!"
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
"You can't make me go back! Get out of my head!" The youkai demanded, clenching his head in his hands as he shook.
Kagome shook also; as she leaned against the tree, still enable to see what InuYasha was looking at. "InuYasha… what's going on- what's happening?"
InuYasha turned his head around to look at the girl. His pupils were turquoise and his eyes bled red. "Kagome…" He beckoned softly. His lips dry and cracked as he asked. "Which one do you love?"
Kagome shook her head, she didn't understand. "InuYasha… what do you mean "Which one?""
Her eyes went hazy and she could hear her name being called, but the lips from the hanyou ahead of her weren't moving. "InuYasha?"
The girl stepped aside to see what InuYasha had been looking at.
There, stood her hanyou, arm bandaged, but his clothes were in on piece,
"InuYasha?" Kagome asked.
InuYasha focused on the girl. "Ka-gome?"
The youkai stepped in front of the miko as he growled at the hanyou. "You can't have her!" He barked.
"Get away from her!" The hanyou demanded.
InuYasha's mind went fuzzy. "How's Kagome here… Kagome's dead… but she's right in front of me… DAMMIT! What's going on? Who's this fucker who looks like me?"
"I'm not insane…" Came the voice of the youkai, now heaving breaths. Tears began to fall from the beast's eyes. "I'm not…" As he turned to the girl, "Please… don't leave me…"
Kagome's heart swelled as her eyes began to fill with tears. "InuYasha?" She called as she stepped forward.
The youkai turned to her and wrapped his arms around her and she did the same for him.
"Don't go with him…" The youkai quietly said.
The girl looked up to the now kind face of the youkai
"Why?" She asked softly
"He's the one who said "It"… Not me…"
"Nani?"
"Kagome it's not my fault…"
"InuYasha?..."
"KAGOME!" The hanyou called.
"You're STILL HERE!?" The youkai barked still holding the girl.
"What do I do…"
"Am I… to choose?"
"Which one to love… the one to take…"
"Is this all a test? The test for me to choose."
"This isn't fair!"
"I choose both!"
"It doesn't matter which side I am to choose… I LOVE BOTH!"
Suddenly Kagome pushed away from the youkai. "Why?"
"Why what?" The youkai said a bit aggravated.
"Why must I choose?" She demanded.
"Kagome…" Whispered the hanyou from across the field.
"I'm not some rag doll that you can tug at from either side!"
Tears burst from her eyes and she began to sob uncontrollably. "Why… why must I choose…" She heaved in a jagged breath. "I can't… I won't"
"Damn you InuYasha… how dare you think that of me… something like-!..."
"Like what?" The youkai barked, taking Kagome back a bit.
The girl regained her stance and stared down the youkai. "Like you own me!"
The two demon-dogs froze. The youkai's eyes cleared and he transformed back to his normal state. "You…" He said softly.
The girl turned around and embraced the Goshinkbo. "I WAN'T MY INUYASHA BACK!" She begged and sobbed.
The two hanyous stared at her in shock.
Her back heaved as she clung to the tree. "My InuYasha… where are you?... Why can't you be here… Save me…"
"Kagome… no…" The hanyou from across the field beckoned.
"Kagome…" The hanyou from in front of her called.
InuYasha wanted so badly to leap to her and embrace her, but he didn't want any of this to be true. "Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit…" The hanyou repeated in his mind.
The two hanyous stood their ground as the sun began to set and Kagome had finally tired herself out and had fallen asleep…
"Why haven't you left yet…" The youkai growled looking over his shoulder.
"There will be no leaving until I know what the Hell is going on…"
The cool afternoon air blew over them and their manes blew along with it, you could hear the wind whistle through the branches and the sky drew in a dark blue from the sun resting behind the mountains.
"You're not like the others, are you? " The youkai finally said.
"Nani?"
"Usually the others… who look like me try to at least drive me to kill myself… heh… Your not very good at it…" The youkai chuckled.
"Shut up…"
The youkai's face went dark as he bit his lip, drawing blood.
"I'm not an figment of your imagination…" The hanyou finally said after a long silence.
"Hm…?"
"And what the fuck is wrong with you?"
"What was that?" The angered youkai snarled at the hanyou.
"You heard me… are you some kind of lunatic…"
"I'm not gunna answer that… Ya'know its crazy to be talking to nothing…"
"In yet you're still tying to strike up a conversation… I guess I'm either that charming or that insane…"
"YOU. ARE. NOT. ME!" The youkai screamed.
"Oh, my mistake I only just look like your identical twin."
"Fuck off shit-face! You better leave… or there will be …"
"Be what?"
"You… scattered across this opening."
"Heh… I'd like to see you try it…"
"Fucking ass-face…"
The hanyou turned his full body towards the youkai and snarled bearing full fang.
"I'm taking her…" The hanyou threatened.
"You do and I'll kill you!" The youkai barked as his nails elongated and his cheeks burned with the purple scars.
The hanyou dragged his foot across the dirt and cracked his neck. "Try it!"
The youkia lunged at the hanyou slicing at the air. The hanyou dodged it leaping to the side as he took a kick at the youkai's stomach. The youkai flew forward landing on his hands and did a back flip landing on his feet. The hanyou stepped forward and surged toward the youkai digging his nails into his neck. InuYasha gasped with the look of surprise on his face. "You're… you're real?"
"Yeah… what did you expect?"
Blood ran down the hanyou's fingers. "My blood…"
"Shut up!" The youkai said in a low annoyed voice.
The hanyou pulled his fingers out of the youkai's neck and jumped backwards.
"Tell me… how long has it been since you were pinned to that tree?"
"What?"
"How long?"
"You are most defiantly not like the others…"
"Shut up and tell me!"
"Last time I checked… something around seventy years…" The youkai said with a grin.
"Seventy years? Are you fucking with me?"
They stood in silence…
"Now I get it… pft! I'M IN THE FUCKING FUTURE! FAN-FREAK'N TASTIC! I didn't want to believe it… but seeing Miroku and Sango like that…"
"Miroku…?" The youkai said softly.
"Yeah- They seemed to enjoy my company… fer once…"
The youkai's heart shattered. He had forgotten his friends. "I am… truly lost…"
"Hm?"
"What are they like… are they still the same…?"
"Oh fuck yeah… married actually…"
"I didn't know that… I mean I expected that much… do they?"
"Three… They even named one after Kagome…"
The youkai looked down at the dirt and began to laugh.
"I'd like to see them…"
"Why don't you…?" The hanyou answered whipping the blood off his claws.
"Are you fucking kidding me… do you know how many times I've tried to kill them?"
"Like they care! If you add it up, I'd bet you've saved their lives more then you've tried taking them."
"It's not that easy! I haven't seen them in more than twenty years!"
The two stared at the ground. "What should we do about her…" The hanyou asked looking over to Kagome.
"Take her…"
"What?"
"You're the only one that can save her now…"
"What about you…?" The hanyou asked.
"It's too late… take her!" He responded as a low gurgle permeated from his throat.
"What the fuck?" The Hanyou said stepping back a bit.
"You moron! What are you waiting for… TAKE HER!"
"That aura… You have a Shikon no Tama shard…"
"Not exactly… more of a replica… I took it off of Naraku's cold body and decided to use it for myself."
"You're mad! That things poisoned…"
"You don't understand… the power I can achieve…"
"Yeah and that power is probably going to kill you!"
The youkai stepped forward and a wave of power blew beneath him towards the hanyou almost knocking him off his feet.
"This guys insane! One minute he seems okay the next he's going ape and trying to kill everything!"
The youkai's back cracked as he arched backwards and threw back his head for a roar.
"Holy Shit!" The hanyou yelled.
"LEAVE!"
The hanyou leaped forward away from the youkai and snatched the sleeping girl into his arms and ran for the hills.
The youkia screamed as his flesh began to bubble and his mouth was open wide as his fangs and claws elongated and his mane blew upward. His aura appeared around him and encircled him. The black false shard in his neck glowed and surged through his body. "KA-GO-ME!" He screamed to the Heavens.
The hanyou leaped from tree to tree away from the imploding youkai behind them. Kagome was sound asleep and her face was still wet from her tears. "The one time I need her to not have to fall on me she's asleep in my arms."
"Kagome?" The hanyou called, but she would not awake.
"Dammit!"
Suddenly the youkai appeared and lunged at the hanyou knocking him out of the tree and face planting the ground, still holding the girl.
The youkai landed on a tree branch overhead the fallen couple. His hair was wild and he heaved in breaths and his fangs dripped saliva and his eyes bled red. His pupils could not be seen and he roared flinging spit forward.
"Kagome you need to wake up!" The hanyou called to the lifeless girl.
"She's not asleep... her breathing is abnormal… Kagome!" He called again shaking her.
The youkai leaped forward preparing to crash down onto the couple.
"KAGOME!" The hanyou screamed as he shielded her.
Her name echoed in her head. All she could see was light. The place was warm and had a pink tint to it. "InuYasha?..." She whispered.
"Lady Kagome?" Came forth from the light, but it was not a man's voice but an elderly woman's.
"Kaede?" Kagome asked into the nothing abyss.
"Yes…" Answered the elder woman.
"What am I doing here?" The young miko asked.
"Lady Kagome, I need your help with something… its about my elder sister."
The youkai came down on the two creating a wave of power rippling through the ground. The hanyou screamed as he was pushed into the ground. The girl beneath him seemed on fazed and unharmed. "Kagome?" The hanyou asked surprised.
The youkai jumped back cracking his fingers and licking his lips. "Ready to die?" He called.
The hanyou brushed off earth from his hair and shoulders as he stood with the girl in his arms. "No thanks, I'm not interested." He called back with a smirk.
The youkai straightened out his footing as he growled. The hair on the back of his neck stood up as he prepared to lunge forward.
Suddenly as the youkai leaped into the air for another attack, he was shot back by a force of pink power. He screamed as he hit a tree.
The hanyou gasped and looked down at the girl, whose eyes were glowing pink and her arm extended outward in front of her.
"Take me to Kikyou's body…"
~^.^~
Sango was in the garden with Keiwan while Miroku was tending to the chickens with Tousueku. The sun had risen again and was high in the sky when Sango looked up from her work. In the distance she could see two beings walking with each other.
"Miroku…" The taijya said to her husband.
The moushi looked up and as the beings came closer he could make out the silver haired, red Hinezumi hanyou and the small raven-haired girl in a uniform.
"Sango…" The moushi said as he stood.
The girl stood with a fist to her heart as she gazed in disbelief.
"Kagome…" She whispered.
To Be Continued…