Whoo, man, it's been a while... The keyboard is all greasy. :P

Anyway, the reason I didn't update is because of school and my birthday on the weekend. I'm sorry that I haven't been writing lately. I'm going to have to pick a day to update on, but Thursday is a stupid day for that, so I'm gonna pick a different day.

I'm also sorry that I can't give you a long chapter. I haven't found my muse lately.

I'm very, very sorry!

Save Me From Myself

Chapter Twenty: Independence

And so, I was going to kill them. I don't even know how I came to be under Naraku's control that time. Somewhat remembered it afterwards, which came as a huge surprise.

But I was a monster, ready to kill anything in my way.

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Sango gasped and jumped back as Kagome swung her claws at the other girl. Seeing that she missed, Kagome ran at her again but was pushed to the ground by a blur of red and white.

InuYasha pinned Kagome to the ground, his hands holding tightly onto her wrists and his knees keeping her legs to the ground. His brow was furrowed in anger, but his eyes were hurt and empty.

"Kagome, go back to normal," InuYasha whispered to her. Kagome bared her newly grown fangs at him and a deep growl came from her throat.

"This is normal, fool," Kagome answered, her eyes flaring with anger.

InuYasha shook his head, causing his hair to fall, creating a curtain around them. "No. Normal is not this. Normal is a kind and gentle woman who doesn't let shit like this get her!" InuYasha shouted.

Kagome's eyes widened, but then they narrowed again. She managed to release her left arm and pushed him away, sending him a good ten feet away from her. She stood and turned away from her friends and faced Naraku.

The miko grabbed the jewel shards around her neck and clasped onto them tightly, and soon her anger was placed in a different place.

"You're going to die, hanyou," Kagome said, running towards Naraku.

"She freed herself from Naraku's control!" Shippo said, bouncing up on Sango's shoulder.

"Did the jewel shards help her?" the exterminator asked.

Miroku walked towards Sango and said, "Somehow Kagome managed to control herself long enough to realize that she needed to change her opponent."

Kagome released the jewel shards and jumped up, readying her claws for an attack. She managed to barely dodge the tentacles that shot out at her.

"Foolish miko!" Naraku shouted, glaring at Kagome.

"You're the fool. Thinking you can control me! Ha!" Kagome shouted, flying back and glaring at Naraku. "I take orders from no one! Especially a filthy hanyou like you!"

Naraku glared at Kagome and sent his tentacles at her, forcing her to pull elegant maneuvers in the sky.

He sent thousands of tentacles at her, making her dive to the ground. She spread her wings a foot to the ground and sped across it, making her look like a black and green bullet.

Kagome spread out her claws and flew towards Naraku, completely ignoring all the other people watching.

Her claws slashed through the many different body parts and mass of tentacles that was surrounding her, feeling no remorse while doing so. Why would she feel remorse, though, if that someone had been controlling her?

The power of the Shikon Jewel had made her fight without boundaries, but that didn't mean that she wouldn't turn on the others.

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Kagome's mother sat at the table, her eyes misted over as she sipped her tea. Like she often did during her break, Jii-chan was working in the shrine, and Souta was at school, Ms. Higurashi thought about her daughter and what may be happening in that world that she had grown so attached to.

She took another sip, the slurping sound breaking the silence in the room.

Ms. Higurashi often wondered what kinds of demons that her daughter had to fight. She had no idea what happened in that world, but she willingly let Kagome go there whenever she liked.

She understood that the world that Kagome had discovered may have become a second home.

Ms. Higurashi finished the last of her tea and took care of her cup, making sure to wash it out. Then she left the house, feeling the cool breeze whip around her body.

Her gaze landed on the well house that she had looked at so often, even more lately. "Kagome... Please be safe."

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Kagome stood in front of Naraku, her new, leathery wings spread out in anger.

"DIE!" She shouted before running at him once more.

Chapter End