Chapter 3

Full Life and Half A Life

Kagome looked at Kikyo, her vision blurry from the tears that she failed at trying to hide "uhh Kagome," came Shippo's voice knocking the girl out of her own world and back to reality "could you please remove your hands from my eyes, I can't see anything" he said.

Kagome looked at him then removed her hands; before Shippo could say anything Kagome got up and walked over to InuYasha wiping away her tears "did she really come back to life?" there was worry in Kagome's voice that made Sango look over with interested confusion. InuYasha on the other hand didn't notice at all.

InuYasha gripped the jewel in his hand and nodded his head "yup, the Sacred Jewel brought Kikyo back to life for real" he smirked and threw it in the air and caught in again. He then walked over to Kikyo who was looking around.

Kagome frowned and she looked at InuYasha walk over to Kikyo, she was already in enough pain. Watching InuYasha walk over to Kikyo so anxiously like he did made her want to just burst out at him all Kagome could do was mutter "sit" before stumbling a little. She began to get dizzy and she held her head "InuYasha" she said before falling backwards.

Sango caught Kagome "Kagome, Kagome" she said holding the other girl limply in her arms.

Kikyo looked around; this wasn't the depths of hell or the high skies of heaven. She looked over and saw Inuyasha heading over to her. Kikyo noticed his uneasy walk and the blood falling onto the ground as he ran to her. He reached her in seconds "InuYasha," she said looking at him.

"Kikyo" InuYasha said looking at her, his wounds were pounding and he felt like he was being attacked on the inside but his pain was worth it if his wish really did come true. Right now the pain didn't matter to him; he placed a hand on her shoulder "sorry Kikyo, but I can't let you go down to hell just yet" he told her and held out the jewel. He was about to say something else when he heard Sango screaming out Kagome's name. InuYasha's eyes opened wide when he saw Kagome lying unconscious in Sango's arms. Shit he thought and tossing the sacred jewel to Kikyo he ran over to Kagome and the others "Sango what happened" he asked worriedly.

"She fell unconscious suddenly, I don't really know but all I saw was her collapse, lucky she fell into my arms" Sango said worriedly.

"Kagome" InuYasha said as he looked at her "come on Kagome."

Kikyo looked at InuYasha and the others as they tried to wake up the girl Kagome who was her reincarnation. She placed a hand on her chest where her heart was, it was beating. She looked at her hands and smiled. Kikyo was real, she was alive, and she could feel her emotions again. She was no longer clay and mud and had to live off of souls of the dead. She had a beating heart, skin, blood, bones, she was alive. This thought made tears come to Kikyo's eyes but the happiness soon left her heart when she watched InuYasha. His voice was filled with worry; his face held the same emotion as he called out that girls name, Kikyo looked at Kagome. She was badly injured nothing that the feudal era could provide would help the girl. Kikyo opened her mouth to speak but no words came out, wiping away the tears and standing tall she tried again this time her voice came. "She needs to be returned to her own time" Kikyo said walking over to the group, she looked at Kagome the girl she used to hate…despise with her entire being. She had been blind by her rage at what she had felt as being replaced but in her heart she had felt like she had been reborn and looking at InuYasha knew that there was no way that she could compete against this girl.

"What are you talking about Kikyo?" Sango said for some reason she felt suspicious of Kikyo, she had tried to kill Kagome so many times before now she was trying to help.

"Kagome has lost a lot of blood, she has a fever, and her body is almost as cold as ice" Kikyo said feeling Kagome's cheek. She looked calmly over at InuYasha and saw the fear in his eyes "there is nothing that we can provide, InuYasha if you wish for Kagome to live then she must be assisted back in her own time" Kikyo explained.

The others looked at the revived priestess and InuYasha nodded he placed Kagome on his back and was about to take off but almost as soon as he took his usually giant leap he fell back quickly turning so Kagome would land on his back instead of the ground. "Kirara" Sango said and the twotail nodded, fire surrounded the two tail for a moment and then Kirara grew bigger again. "Kirara, take InuYasha and Kagome to the Bone Eaters well, then meet us back at the village alright" Sango said to her friend. Kirara nodded and jumped into the air and ran off.

Miroku looked at his hand, the wind tunnel was gone, his hand was normal again. He would live, at a moment like this he would've instantly requested Sango to bear him his now safe children but when he saw her he noticed how much pain she was in just by the look on her face. He saw that the demon slayer was trying to hide it but her act didn't pass Miroku. He walked over to her "Shippo how far do you think you can get us to Lady Kaede's village?" he asked the fox demon.

"Not very far" Shippo said truthfully "but I can go as far as I can" Shippo said before he transformed.

"Thank-you for your assistance Lady Kikyo but we must go now" Miroku said as he helped Sango onto Shippo. Once she was safely on there Miroku got on as well but Shippo could barely get off the ground and had to get down "what's wrong Shippo?" Miroku asked.

"I can't carry both of you right now, there's to much weight" he said disappointed.

Miroku got off "get as far as you can with Sango then, we need to get her to Lady Kaede for help" he said.

"Miroku" Sango said but before anything else was said Shippo took off.

"I'll follow you guys as fast as I can" Miroku called as he watched the two disappear. Miroku then began to follow, walking with a limp.

"Miroku" Kikyo said "if I may, I wish to accompany you to the village I would like to see Kaede once again. This time I believe that the visit will be much more pleasant then the one's in the past" she said.

Miroku looked at Kikyo before nodding his head "alright Lady Kikyo" he said with a smile "off to the village then."

Kikyo smiled, she didn't smirk or give off an evil aura that was dangerous like Miroku had felt so many times before, Kikyo's smile had become pure and genuine. Is she back to the way she was before Naraku's trickery or…?

Kagome and InuYasha arrived at the well safely thanks to Kirara "thanks Kirara" InuYasha said as picked Kagome up bridal style. Kirara growled and let out a roar before she took off to the village. InuYasha on the other hand though jumped down into the well. He was surrounded by the usual purple streaks of time passing by and in only instants he found himself in the well again, this time though in the future, with Kagome's well and her home world. "Hold on Kagome" InuYasha said and jumped out of the well and over to Kagome's home, with out even bothering to knock he kicked open the door "hey!" he yelled out into the halls of the Higurashi household.

Sota came running down "InuYa…" Sota stopped when he saw Kagome.