Nothing Is Impossible for Love to Overcome
By: Sandreline
Hey everyone!
I was so moved by your cries of the hated cliffy, I decided that I would update again, just for all of my wonderful readers!
Thank you all so much!
Chapter 13: Kagome's Torn Heart
Shippo came walking up to her slowly, timidly holding a thick book in his paw as he stood before the Miko. "Oka-san?" He asked.
Kagome looked at him. "Hai, Shippo?"
Shippo held up the book with a lady knight holding a sword above her head and a bucking horse behind her. "Can we read some more?" He asked.
She smiled. Reading did always make her feel better…
"Bring it here." She said, patting the ground beside her.
Shippo obeyed happily, and Kilala meowed, also interested in hearing more. She liked the cat in the story with the sarcastic humor.
"Right, so where were we? Tamora Pierce's Lioness Rampant…
Yes, Faithful said when Buri returned to her bed. She is very much like you at that age." Surely I didn't think I could beat an army single-handed!" You still do. "The trouble with arguing with a cat is that cats don't hesitate to say anything about you, no matter how crazy it is," she complained. "You can't win an argument that way!" Nor should you try. With that, Faithful trotted off for a walk in the forest." Kagome read.
Kilala meowed in agreement, causing Shippo and Kagome to laugh.
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Everyone had fallen asleep, but Kagome was still wide awake. She felt… empty. She felt like there was somewhere else that she had to be. InuYasha still had yet to come back yet.
She sighed, sitting up in her sleeping back and quietly slipping out. She grabbed her bow and arrows, and tip-toed out of camp silently.
The Moon was on her back, illuminating the Seal for the birds and night life to see. Kagome walked on, watching the fireflies as they traveled from flower to flower as she enjoyed the tranquility that the scene gave off.
Or, she tried to. She felt so guilty, so empty…
Kagome fell to her knees, her hands covering her face as she cried out, her voice echoing through the forest. "Sesshomaru!"
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Kagome hid her pain from her friends easily, especially after all her practice that InuYasha gave her. Kagome sighed, looking up at the sky hopefully. What was she going to do?
InuYasha had decided that he had seen enough of his half-brother and didn't want Kagome any where near him, and so he was currently leading his group north. He kept grumbling about his stupid brother the whole day while casting glances at Kagome. He wasn't letting her out of his sight, and Kagome had yet to argue with him about it thus only worrying the hanyou more.
Kagome wasn't telling them everything, and he knew it. He was a half demon, after all – he could smell when someone was lying. But Kagome had never lied to him about anything before, so why was she being so secretive about it? Even if Sesshomaru had threatened her, it never affected Kagome before! Hell, that woman never listened to him when he told her to stay out of a fight, and she would always go shooting her arrows at Sesshomaru! So what the fuck was wrong with her now?
InuYasha gave off an audible growl, and Kagome turned to look at him questioningly. "InuYasha, are you ok?" She asked.
"Feh, I should be asking you that." He told her. He crossed his arms over his chest, sliding them in the sleeves of his fire rat top.
Kagome gave him a weak smile. "I'll be better when I find a hot spring." She told him, returning to gaze to what ever she had been staring at.
However, InuYasha really being the softy that he was had searched for a hot spring and decided that they would camp there for the night. When Sango and Miroku went to open their mouths to question him, the hanyou just huffed and jumped into a tree as usual. Sango and Miroku shared a secret smile at knowing the reason behind their friend's actions, before blushing and looking away.
Shippo shook his head. (Adults can be so stupid sometimes…) He thought.
Kagome smiled, thanking any gods that could hear her that InuYasha was letting them camp near a hot spring. "I'm going for a bath!" She said, a smidge of the old Kagome spirit coming out as she grabbed her supplies.
InuYasha's voice barked down from his hiding place. "Not along you're not!"
Kagome pouted, before turning to Sango. She shook her head apologetically, before offering Kilala. Kagome smiled a real smile, and carried the fire cat with her to the hot spring. No offense to Sango, but she really wanted to be alone, though having Kilala would have been better.
Kilala meowed when she was set down a few minutes later, waiting for Kagome to strip off the kimono she wore. Kagome looked down at the perfect silk garment in her hands, touching it tenderly. Then, she set it down, and stepped into the steaming water.
To Kagome's amazement, Kilala actually trudged her way in as well, swimming around like a fluffy little fox. Kagome smiled at how adorable she looked, and Kilala sent her death glares. Kagome, taking the hint, ducked under the water for a moment, before coming back up and leaving against a rock to stare ups at the stars.
Her eyes strayed to the moon, leading her to think of the sapphire blue moon on Sesshomaru's forehead, before her thought landed on him completely.
Kagome's lip began to quiver, and she pressed her hands together in a fist against her chest. Why did she have to try and stop them? Why couldn't she just let Kouga die – at least then she wouldn't have a stalker trying to marry her!
She shook her head, no, what she did was the right thing. She couldn't let Kouga be killed because he was being stupid… although she would have done a lot of favors to a lot of people.
She turned around to lay her torso across the rock, her arms folded as they supported her head. She stared at the patches of flowers and fire flies around the spring, and remembered when Sesshomaru took her for a ride on his dragon Ah-Un.
Cold air hit her back, and Kilala came and laid down on the rock next to her. She meowed, before shaking excess water from her coat before looking around and relaxing a bit. Kagome rubbed her ears for a moment, before returning her arm under her chin.
They stayed like that in silence for a while, Kagome staring off in the distance thinking of Sesshomaru while Kilala kept a silent vigil by her side.
However, Kilala suddenly stood up on all fours, growling. She hadn't transformed, but Kagome made to cover up and turn around anyway.
Before she could turn, however, a sharp pain hit her on the left side of her back, behind her heart. The pain was quickly replaced with warmth, however, and then disappeared. Kilala howled, and Kagome slowly looked over her shoulder. There was nothing there, or around her…
Kagome got out, quickly drying as she was escorted back to camp by Kilala. She couldn't help but feel wary, constantly watching what was going on around her. Blast her for forgetting her bow and arrows at camp! Was she so lost in depression that she also was daft enough to not place up a Miko shield?
(Apparently. Baka Kagome! For all I know I could have been cursed again by someone like the Dark Priestess.) She thought. How could she be so stupid? She was so upset-
Wait a minute, she wasn't upset. Kagome blinked, thinking. She felt back to normal, she couldn't feel her heart ache anymore… she knew that she loved him and felt bad for it and so on… but she couldn't feel the heartache, like it was gone…
(Right… let's put the pieces together here… Let's start with a meddling Greek Goddess who is doing everything she can to stick me with Mr. Stick-up-his-ass. Then there is the fact that to do this, she will do anything. Come Valentine's Day, her son flies around shooting people with-)
"Arrows." She said out loud as she and Kilala stepped into camp.
"Pardon?" Miroku asked.
Kagome blushed and looked away. "Nothing. I think I'm going to turn in early. InuYasha, don't you dare go near my bag. If you get hungry, wake me up and I'll make you Ramen, but if you even think of going near my bag I'll s-i-t you so bad you'll wish you never tried to take the jewel."
InuYasha, who was sitting next to the fire, visibility gulped as he pouted, but nodded non the less. Sango and Miroku smiled, both of them taking note that Kagome had seemed to return to normal.
(That meddling Greek Goddess had her son fire a damn love arrow at me!) She thought.
"Now, Kagome, that's not very nice…" Came a familiar voice."
Kagome glared at the voluptuous blonde, and even more so at the attractive blonde man next to her, before laying down in her sleeping bag. (What did you do to me?) She hissed mentally.
"Now, before you hastily assume that I am as obnoxious as my mother-"
"I can still ground you." Aphrodite growled.
"I am Cupid, son of Aphrodite. For your reassurance, I simply struck you with a special arrow that will help you to deal with your heartbreak."
Kagome, now not glaring so much as she nodded to the man, glared full power at Aphrodite.
"What did I do?" She asked, crossing her arms over her chest. "You don't have any reason to me mad at me, missy." She said.
(FYI this is your entire fault!) She thought. (You brought me and Sesshomaru together, and now he left because of Kouga the moron showed up and Sesshomaru jumped to conclusions and it's my fault because-)
Cupid knelt beside her, taking another of his arrows and touching her with it. Kagome immediately fell asleep.
Aphrodite looked at her son. "Where did you get that?" She asked.
"Secret. Now, wasn't there another you said we needed to see?" Cupid asked his mother.
The Greek Goddess huffed, disappearing in silver light. Cupid smiled as he looked at Kagome, before surveying their camp, and following his mother.
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Ok, that's all for now.
Believe it or not that took me 3 hours to write…
My fiancé is distracting me…
He's throwing water bottles and tickling me and kissing me and trying to get his dogs to drool on my face… Sticks tongue out at my fiancé He's such a butthead… and he's doing this all so that he doesn't have to do his take home exam! growls like Sesshomaru
I'll update again when I get back to my place, so sorry its all weird! Blame Eric! Hehe…
Much love-
Sandreline