Hey guys. Thanks for the outstanding reviews. After this chapter, I'll have reached 300. Then we'll have to make it our goal to make it to 400! Haha. Well, here's the new chap.
Together Part I
An owl flew past a window late in the night. Going about it's business doing whatever the hell owls do for fun, it flew past a window. A certain window. A certain window of a person we should know very well by this point in the story.
The moonlight shined through the window and bounced off the wall, into the amber eyes of a certain dog-eared hanyou.
Inuyasha sighed as he continued to stare at the ceiling. Not only was he somewhat depressed and angsty tonight, he was angry. Hell, he was furious! He had caught her again. Her, meaning Kagome. She was hurting herself again. It had only been a week after the pig blood incident as well.
It had started off as a normal day. Well, as a normal as a day could be for a ill-tempered yet kind hanyou, and a gothic miko.
Flashback
"Ahh, demon, do you seek my granddaughter here?"Jii-chan asked, as he swept fallen sakura off of the shrine steps.
Inuyasha sighed. "Yeah,and would you stop calling me demon?"
"Nope."
Inuyasha heaved another heavy sigh as he walked inside the shrine house where the Higurashi family resided. Sliding the shoji screen door back in place, he wandered upstairs.
"Inuyasha! It's you! What's up?" Souta yelled, running towards the older boy.
Inuyasha smiled down at him. "Hey. You're sister around?" He asked, walking further down the hall where Kagome's room was.
Souta's bright expression faded. "Kagome is, well, she's not exactly well. For the past week she's stayed in her room most of the time except to eat and bathe. She's acting a lot like she was at the beginning of the school year."
Inuyasha's eyes suddenly went from being friendly to being dead serious. "Souta, I'm gonna go check on her, okay? You just go play over whatever the hell kids do these days..." He said, stopping at her door and shooing Souta off.
Souta shrugged and ran down the hall with a soccer ball in hand.
Inuyasha watched him go then put his hand on the door knob. He opened the door a little, he more or less cracked it, and peered in. What he saw, made his blood boil and his heart ache.
Kagome was standing in front of her window, one leg on the windowsill, as if she were ready to jump out, and a thin line of blood trailed down her paler than normal arm.
She didn't show any sign of sensing him, considering that she still had her back turned to him as the air from the open window continued to blow in.
"Kagome..."
At the whisper of her name, she slowly turned her pained eyes on the hanyou standing in her room.
"Inuyasha..." She croaked out.
Inuyasha stepped closer to her and soon enough he was right beside her at the windowsill. He looked out, and saw that for a human, that would be a suicidal jump. If Kagome made an attempt to save herself with a barrier, she would live, but it looked like that was not her intention.
Inuyasha drew in a shaky breath as he lifted her leg off the windowsill, and grabbed her pale, bleeding arm. He finally looked up at her, staring right at her face.
"I-Inuyasha," She choked out.
Inuyasha swallowed as he opened his mouth to speak. "Kagome, why? Why this again?" He asked.
Kagome let out a choked sound that sounded like a sob, and tried to tug her arm loose.
Inuyasha wasn't going to lessen his grip on the bleeding arm anytime soon. "Where is it?"
No response.
"Where is it!?" He yelled.
Two lone tears trailed down her cheeks and she pointed over to her bed. "Right there! There's the knife! Is that what you wanted?! Will you finish the job for me?!" She yelled.
Inuyasha picked up the knife and threw it out of the window. "What the hell were you trying to do? What would it have solved?"
Kagome continued to try and yank her arm away from him. "Plenty."
Inuyasha's blood boiled at that response and he growled. "Plenty?! What would killing yourself have solved?! Huh!? Leaving behind everyone that cares about you! And for what! Nothing!"
"It's something, dammit! What do you know?!" Kagome shrieked, her tears falling down freely.
Inuyasha growled once more as he pulled her arm, and pulled her close to him. He could feel his shirt getting wet already. From her tears. "I know that Naraku hurt you, badly. That you were reminded of it all on my birthday. Did you hope to escape Naraku or his memory by killing yourself?"
Kagome nodded against his shoulder. "Why are you still here? Why haven't you left me yet? What is it that you still see in me? I don't deserve to be with you!"
"Shut up!"
Kagome let out another loud sob onto his shoulder as they both sunk to the ground once Inuyasha dropped to his knees.
"I'm used merchandise! You need someone who didn't become forcefully impure. Someone like Kikyou! Not me! I cut myself for God's sake! Get someone normal! Get out!" She yelled.
"You don't mean that."
"I do."
"You don't. Not a single word of it. Kagome, I want to help you. But, you have to let me. Please..."
Kagome went into another bout of sobs. "Help me, please. Can you help me, Inuyasha? Please? Can you?"
Inuyasha nodded as he stroked her hair and withheld a growl. "Yes, I can." 'This has everything to do with Naraku, this is all his fault!'
End Flashback (finally)
Inuyasha let out a loud, savage, growl as he recalled the memory. He had held her like that until she fell asleep. Then he had to go. All that commotion, only a day ago.
His amber eyes flashed from red to gold, gold to red, and so forth as he thought about how Naraku had hurt her.
I need to put an end to this. Permanently! He thought, as he hopped out of his bed and saw the clock turn to 11:00. Keeping his angry youkai side under control, he strolled out of his room and was in the huge hallway of the mansion.
"I know exactly what I need to do, too." He mumbled under his breath as he didn't bother to put a coat on or anything and stayed perfectly content with a white wife beater on with tan khaki shorts. That went to his ankles almost.
He hopped over the railing and landed right in front of his mother. Izayoi jumped and then relaxed. "Inuyasha, what are you doing down here? I thought you went to sleep."
"No, mother, I didn't. I need to go somewhere. Tell Dad I'm gone." He said, heading for the door.
"To do what!?" She yelled from where she was sitting but got no response as the door slammed.
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Inuyasha jumped from roof-top to roof-top in the rich neighborhood that he lived in. And so did Naraku. He flexed his claws some as he did.
I'll make you pay dearly for what you did to her... He thought, as he jumped on to another house. The air rushed past him, whipping at his face as he ran as fast as he dared while on rooftops. His silver locks of hair flew in the wind behind him as he jumped on yet another house. Naraku's house wasn't that far away from his. He'd get there soon, real soon.
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Naraku threw a glass at the wall once he was finished with it. No need to keep it around anymore, eh?
He smirked as a maid scrambled to clean it up. "Ah, I love being rich." He said, getting up from where he was sitting on the couch and getting ready to walk inside his large kitchen.
He heard a THUMP noise from downstairs in the basement and sighed. "I need to reshape this body sometime soon..." He mumbled, as he walked past the door and the doorbell rang.
He quirked a brow. "What the hell? Who comes to my house at this time?" He asked himself, as he walked back to the door and opened it.
Only for his face to be met with a large fist.
Naraku went flying back into a wall and slid down slowly.
Inuyasha cracked his knuckles and growled. "Naraku, I'll kill you!" He yelled, charging him.
Naraku's eyes widened as he wiped a thin line of blood from his mouth. "Takahashi?! What the hell are you doing here?!"
"I'm here for revenge. Kagome's honor will be avenged!" He yelled, drop-kicking the spider demon in the face.
Naraku smirked as he suddenly recalled what Inuyasha was talking about. "Oh, she told you about that didn't she? I had fun with her." He said, jumping out of the way of another attack.
Inuyasha's eyes flashed a dangerous deep red. "Shut up, and die!" He yelled, brandishing his claws and running after Naraku again.
Naraku jumped and let out an evil chuckle. "I've had better fucks though." He said, as he kept dodging the attacks.
Inuyasha let out a loud savage howl before charging again. "SANKON TESSOU!" He yelled, slashing Naraku across his chest. Naraku was stunned by the attack, leaving another opening for Inuyasha.
He slammed his fist into the bleeding wound and sent them both through the ground, into the basement.
Naraku's body met the hard concrete of the basement with a crack. Inuyasha growled as he readied himself to attack again, but Naraku rolled out of the way.
"If it's a fight you want, I'll gladly give it to you!" He yelled, coughing up blood.
"About fucking time!" Inuyasha yelled, cracking his claws again.
Naraku's face grew more wide tentacles sprouted from his back, then spider legs. Soon his legs were gone and in place the work-in-progress style Naraku was standing before him with various demon parts sticking out everywhere.
It didn't seem to faze Inuyasha though. "Die." He said, in a calm tone before jumping up and bringing his claws down on one of the tentacles.
One of Naraku's other tentacles smacked him into a wall. He hit it with a loud THUD.
Naraku chuckled. "I don't see why you bother to fight me! You wont win! And used merchandise certainly isn't worth it!" He yelled.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha yelled standing up on shaky legs.
Naraku chuckled again as another long tentacle grabbed Inuyasha around the mid-section and threw him through the ceiling.
All the way to the roof.
"Ahh!" Inuyasha yelled, as he went through a series of floors before he landed on top of the roof.
Naraku jumped right after him and was on the roof now as well. "Inuyasha, you cant win. Maybe after you die I'll take her again."
Inuyasha's eyes went to a complete red as he let out another howl. His fangs and claws elongated, and magenta like stripes were appearing on his arms and face.
He faced Naraku as a full-youkai. "Die." He rasped out, jumping towards Naraku.
Naraku smirked as the hanyou gone demon got close enough. Then, he did it.
He shoved a tentacle straight threw his abdomen.
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Kagome sat on her bed and looked at all her black clothes that were laid out before her. She figured that the first step to getting better would be getting rid of all these depressing colors.
"I think that's all of them, except for this hoody I'm wearing." She said, to herself, as she shoved them in a box.
Kagome sighed recalling when Inuyasha had caught her the other day. Had he been at least two minutes too late, she would've killed herself. It was scary to think about. And she had broke down in front of him. Again.
She walked into the hallway with the box and was heading for the stairs.
Until she felt an incredible searing chest pain.
"Ahh! Dammit!" She yelled, dropping to her knees, clutching her chest.
Kagome then realized what she was really clutching. It was her half of the necklace she gave Inuyasha. The 'Love' part.
Why did it just burn me? What's this necklace's origin? She thought, as she left the box in the hallway and ran downstairs.
"Jii-chan! Jii-chan!" She yelled, running around until she found the old man reading a paper at the table.
"What is it? Why all the yelling?!"
Kagome sucked in a deep breath as the necklace burned in her palm again. "W-what is the origin of the necklace you gave me about a week ago?"
"Hm? The origin? I told you, it is a necklace specially designed for a hanyou and miko pairing."
"Is it supposed to burn skin?"
Jii-chan put down the paper and nodded. "Only when either the miko or hanyou is in danger. Only they can save each other."
Kagome cocked her head to the side. "What do you mean?"
"Once the other knows that their miko or hanyou is in danger, they can save them. For them miko, the necklace burns. For the hanyou, it's an incredible icy cold chill. Kagome, look on the back of your necklace."
Kagome nodded and turned it over and read:
Together we
Together we
Together we
Kagome frowned. "I don't understand! It just says 'together we,' over and over three times!"
Jii-chan smiled. "Do you want to know what Inuyasha's half probably says?"
"What?"
"Together we live, Together we fight, Together we die."
"So, Inuyasha's in danger?"
"Yes."
"Only I can save him?"
"Yes."
"With what?"
"The necklace and your miko powers. Go, I'm sure he's waiting for you."
Kagome nodded. "I think I know exactly where he's at. One question. Where are the artifacts from the Sengoku Jiidai?"
"In the storage room."
"Thanks Jii-chan! I'll be going now!" Kagome yelled, running to the storage room and pulling out a bow and arrows and Midoriko's Sword. She put the sword at her side and slung the bow and arrows over her shoulder.
"Come back safe!" Jii-chan yelled after her.
Kagome ran outside and hit the streets as she started to run towards a certain spider demon's house. "I'm not making any promises." She mumbled, as she ran faster with her raven hair whipping around her face.
Wait for me, Inuyasha. Together we'll fight.
And if we have to, together we'll die!
Well, so sorry for the late update. I haven't felt too well, and on top of which I've been away from my computer for a couple of days. Kagome's inspired to save her hanyou, eh? See what happens next chapter of 'Can You Help Me?' Entitled: Together Part II
Question Of The Day: Who do you predict Kagome will stop to see on her way to Naraku's mansion?
With that said, Sayonara!