Okay, just to let you know, I've been royally STUMPED on how to properly end this story!
All sorts of endings have been going around in my mind so please appreciate that!
I said before I was going to try and make this as similar to the anime and manga as possible, so characters won't be too OOC, just how I think they would react to a situation like this.
Okay, so enjoy and PLEASE review! Thankyou!
The Miko's true light : Past and Present souls
A girl was falling, continuously falling into darkness. She was falling into nothingness, a deep, dark abyss of nothingness. She'd lost all feeling in her body, her skin was frozen and pale, and her eyes were only slightly open, revealing cold, emotionless brown eyes. Her clothes blew carelessly around her as she continued to fall deeper and deeper, long black hair following in suit down her back.
" Kagome! "
Who did that voice belong to?
" Kagome! Kagome! Kagome wake up! Please wake up! "
There it was again, a desperate, masculine voice...
" Kagome please wake up! "
Who did it belong to? And who was Kagome? The one the voice was calling for?...
" KAGOME!!! "
Who are you?
" KAGOME!!! "
Who...Who am I
Who was she? She didn't know anything. She couldn't remember anything. She couldn't see any of her surroundings. She couldn't feel anything. All she could hear was that voice...
It sounded so desperate. So sad. It was pleading with someone, begging them for something. Who were they calling for?
The girl seemed able to register something. The more of that voice she heard, the more anxious she became. That voice had suddenly started to sound familiar.
" Don't leave me! "
She didn't like the voice, or at least not how it sounded. He, whoever he was sounded so incredibly heartbroken, and she found herself wanting to comfort him somehow, make whatever was causing his suffering go away. But how could she?
She didn't even have a clue who she was, let alone know who the voice belonged to...
" You do not even know who you are? "
Oh great, perfect! Another voice sounded to her. This one was different though, this one was feminine, and sounded perfectly calm, as if they had no troubles whatsoever.
" Tell me who you are "
NO! STOP IT! MAKE THOSE VOICES STOP!!
This was really confusing her. How was she supposed to answer that anyway!?! She didn't have a clue.
The girl felt something all of a sudden. A touch just below her right shoulder, a warm touch. Absentmindedly, the girl fully opened her eyes and looked infront of herself, still falling into the nothingness. She gasped at the sight.
A woman, with long billowing black hair, wearing a white shirt and red hakama pants was falling alongside her.
Huh? Who are you? Was that your voice I could hear?
She vaguely noticed that the woman was the one she'd felt touch her chest. The girl glanced at her chest, and for the first time noticed a red liquid pouring out of a deep gash just below her shoulder. What? How did I-
" Listen to me girl. You must tell me who you are " The woman falling beside her spoke.
Wha? What? I...I can't!
" Do you not want to leave this terrible place? Surely you want to escape hell's clutches..."
WHAT?!? HELL'S CLUTCHES?!?!! The girl staggered at the woman.
Wait...Does...Does that mean that I'm...dead?
" All will be answered, but you MUST remember WHO you are! It is a great evil's doing that has sent you here! But I can help you escape the evil's grasp, if you can just answer me this one question! Only then can you save yourself! "
No-..No...I...I don't know! The girl was beginning to feel fear.
" Tell me who you are! "
I don't know! I have no idea!
" Tell me who you are! "
I told you! I DON'T know!!
" Tell me who you are! "
Something flashed before the girls eyes...
Flashback
The girl stood infront of her opponent, completely exhausted. She'd had enough, the dark priestess Tsubaki had cursed her! Tried to send her to her death! Then she'd dared to try and kill HER friends!
Tell me who you are...
The girl readied her bow and arrow.
" I am KAGOME! I'm not anybody else! "
She fired.
End flashback
Wha-...was that me?...
" You must stop! Shes gone InuYasha! Theres nothing you can do..."
WHAT?!? Another VOICE!!??!
" NO! SHES NOT GONE DAMNIT!! SHE PROMICED! Promiced she'd NEVER leave me..."
The desperate voice again...the one that sounded so familiar now...
A name had been mentioned: Inu...?
" Rememeber girl! Tell me who you are! "
Inu..Inu...?
Flashback
" Sit boy! "
The girl was about to stomp off when...
" Grrrr What did you that for KAGOME?!? " A boy demanded.
She turned back round.
" SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! "
The boy let out a painful moan.
" INUYASHA! You're SUCH a jerk! "
With that, the girl stalked off.
End Flashback
Inu...? Inu...Inu...Yasha?...
" KKKAAAGGGOOOMMMEEE!!!! "
Yasha...Inu...Yasha...INUYASHA!!!!
She suddenly felt a warm tingling senation on her lips...it warmed her very soul...
INUYASHA!!!
" YOU KNOW HIM! NOW TELL ME WHO YOU ARE! "
" NOW GIRL!!! "
I...I am Kagome!
A bright aura surrounded the two women. They both stopped falling imediately, literally suspended in mid air. The light let off crept round them both and warmed the air around them. The hand that was touching the girl's chest glowed brightly aswell, and the bloody wound healed.
The darkness dispersed, revealing complete brightness that out did the women's own light. They were now standing in whiteness. Complete whiteness was the only way to describe it. Though they were no longer falling, both of the women's hair was blowing out around them in waves, aswell as their clothes.
" Well done Kagome "
She knew the woman in front of her. Kagome spoke truly for the first time.
" Thankyou, Kikyou "
-with InuYasha, Miroku, Sango and Kirara-
InuYasha ceased his mouring imediately. He'd just had the strangest sensation. Strangely wonderful that was.
Miroku, Sango and Kirara looked up to where InuYasha still cradeled Kagome's body. What they saw nearly knocked the breath out of them.
Kagome's body was...glowing?...
It was true, Kagome's body was glowing. Brightly at that. Her hair was billowing out all around her, clothes aswell in some sort of 'invisable' wind.
InuYasha's mouth was agape. Kagome's body had risen out of his arms and was now floating in mid air. He and his friends watched as the wound in Kagome's chest seemingly healed itself completely. Not a scar left behind.
Her body was slowly lowering again, and, snapping out of his trance, InuYasha came forward and caught Kagome in his arms once more. " Ka...Kagome?..."
The others were in COMPLETE shock, astonishment AND amazement. What had just happened to Kagome?
Though her body was no longer floating, Kagome was still faintly glowing and her hair, clothes and InuYasha's haori were still blowing around in her in all directions. InuYasha stared at her face.
Her face was no longer pale, nor did her skin feel deathly cold, infact, it felt very warm now. Her skin was giving off the warm glow. It was a faint pink colour, the sort of colour Kagome's arrow left after she fired it. A spiritual glow.
The glow was now disapearing, the apparent wind still there, but Kagome was now turning pale again, her skin now loosing its gained warmth.
" Kagome! "
InuYasha brought his haori around her as tight as he could and pressed her body against his, hoping she would regain the warmth again. He once more rested his forehead on hers, her long black flowing hair lightly touching his face in steady wisps backward and forward, over and over.
" InuYasha "
InuYasha shot his eyes open at that voice. For a second he'd thought it was Kagome, but this voice was most definately not Kagome now he listened to it. It was very familiar though.
" Kikyou? " InuYasha asked mentally.
" Hello again, InuYasha "
" Kikyou! How are you here?!? Where are you?!? InuYasha's voice was laced exitement and shock at the same time. Had Kikyou come back to him?
" Kikyou? You're not really here are you? Its just me..."
" Oh no InuYasha, I am here, but only in spirit, my body is forever lost to me..."
" Kikyou? "
" InuYasha. I am here only to help. Know that I can never truly return from the dead. My time in the world of the living has come and gone, my soul has passed on. I am at peace, like you always said you wanted, I can finally rest, at least after I finish a little leftover business "
" Business ? "
" One involving a corrupted half-demon, a half-demon you were able to rid this world of, a great evil "
" Naraku " InuYasha growled.
InuYasha had a thought.
" Was it you?... When Kagome's body glowed like that? "
" Me and her "
InuYasha's exitement grew again.
" You AND Kagome?!? "
" Yes. Well mostly Kagome's will power, and also your own infact "
" I helped cause that glowing?!? "
" You gave her the strength to fight back "
" Huh? " InuYasha was now confused.
" How? "
Kikyou chuckled lightly.
" Do you not remember that symbol of deepest affection you gave her in her passing? "
" Errr..." Symbol of deepest affection?
Does Kikyou mean the kiss?
" Yes InuYasha, thats exactly what I mean. Do not try to tell me otherwise. Listen to me InuYasha, I am aware of the past feelings you had and may still have for me. Kagome understands aswell as anyone that your old feelings will not just dissapear, just as mine for you. But I am dead InuYasha, a woman who has finally found piece in the world of the dead, as fate dipicted I should. Through death even though, my heart will forever be yours. "
" I want you to live on in your life InuYasha, not forvever over shadowed by my passing. You will not feel guilt as it was not your fault, and neither was it Kagome's. I would have passed on eventually InuYasha, with or without Naraku's interference. There was nothing you could have done. "
" Live your life InuYasha. I do not wish for you to be alone in this world, ever. I know that I am not the only one in your life either. "
" You're talking about Kagome. I know now the mistakes I've made with her. The first being that I ever cared for her at all...but I can't stop fate. Kikyou? I...I can't loose her to. I just can't loose her aswell as you...it would be to much...it already hurts like nothing ever has before...I need her with me now Kikyou...I need Kagome by my side again...I can't loose her too..."
" I understand completely InuYasha, nor do I want you to have a life like that. I have come here to tell you, that there IS a way to bring Kagome back..."
" Theres...Theres a way?!? How?!? I thought the dead were meant to stay dead..." InuYasha said.
" That is true. But it just wasn't meant to be for Kagome, not yet, it isn't her time. She has her whole life ahead of her. She has family, friends...and you...she never wanted to leave you..."
" Kikyou? "
" Kagome's faith in herself and her love for you allowed her to overcome the darkness that consumed her. The darkness that caused her death by the hands of the tainted Naraku. The kiss you gave her allowed her to regain herself, regain what she had lost in her passing. It did not however, save her completely. "
" What do you mean?!? " Fear gripped InuYasha's heart once more.
" You noticed how her skin was cooling once again. It is a sign that she has little time left before she passes on completely, though not to hell. You must help her if you want her to return, she cannot do it alone, her will power alone is not strong enough. "
" No! What do I have to do?! "
" Kagome heard your voice. It brought her to her sences. She is now however stuck in the border between life and death, and cannot escape without you. "
" Tell me what to do! "
-with Kagome-
So. Kikyou had come back to help her for a second time. She was shocked to say the least, but still incredibly thankful. Kikyou had helped her remember who she was, who she cared for, her memories she'd almost lost forever.
Kikyou still hadn't answered her question though. How was she there with Kagome? She'd stayed with Kagome while she died, told her that there was no way to escape death. How had she come and saved her then? Helped her to escape such darkness?...
All these questions were buzzing around inside her, and she failed to notice that Kikyou's spirit had dissapeared.
When she did notice, Kagome panicked. She was alone again. All alone. The voices had all stopped, and she was starting to feel the wind around her, it was so cold...
-with InuYasha-
" Kagome! " InuYasha called out to her.
Kagome's body was now being surrounded by a blue hue, and her skin was growing ever colder, ever paler.
" Kikyou whats happening?!? Whats going on?!? " InuYasha shouted to Kikyou.
" It is as I feared. Kagome has not been completely saved. Death wants to consume her, take her from this world, so she would be forever lost to it. Its calling her, filling her with that same darkness once more, and I am afraid I cannot stop it this time..."
" No! Kikyou please! You HAVE to help her! "
" I cannot InuYasha. She is stuck on the border between life and death. I could only help her temporarily, and do nothing more than that. As I said before, my own will is not strong enough, nor is hers on her own. The darkness that Naraku's tentacle gave her is the thing that is holding her down. Its pulling her back toward the gates of hell, fueling on the insercurity and fear that now fills her heart...She won't last much longer InuYasha, death will win...unless you can help her... "
" Damnit! Tell me what to do! "
" You must reach out to her InuYasha. You must let her know that she is not alone. Keep her knowing that you're there for her, that you need her, that everyone needs her. Let her know you'll always be there for her...Only light can overcome the darkness she feels now..."
-with Kagome-
" Kikyou! Kikyou! Kikyou where are you?!? " Kagome desperately shouted.
She was scared, and there was nothing Kagome could do. She was all alone in an unknown place, far, far away from those she cared for.
It was so cold...
The wind was getting stronger...
Suddenly, out of no where, a great hole opened up near her feet, and it was slowly getting bigger. The wind seemed to be comming from inside it. Kagome screamed, as she ran away as far as she could from it. There was such a horrible noise echoing from it, the yells of pained humans, demons and half-demons alike. It terrified her, and she held her hands over her ears to block out the dreadful sound.
All around her, the safe whiteness she had been in with Kikyou had started to fade, revealing a swirling mass of black and red. The darkness she had been falling into before. Kagome wildly looked at her surroundings, and then back at the hole. Whatever was inside there, it was calling out to her beckoning her into it...
Could...could it be the clutches of hell that Kikyou spoke of?...
Despite the terrifying look of this deep, black and windy hole, Kagome found herself drawn to it in some strange way.
Come...come with me... An unknown force called to her.
" Wha?...What...What are you!? " Kagome asked, trying to swallow the lump in her throat that had formed.
Come...you must come with me...its where you truly belong... The sinister voice called again.
What?! Go with that...creepy voice! No! It was tricking her! It had to be! She wouldn't let it get to her!
Dear Kagome...do you want to continue to be the cause of suffering that your loved ones endure?...
" Suffering...What do you mean!? "
Ever since you freed that Half breed InuYasha from the Miko Kikyou's spell, all you have done is cause suffering to those around you. You shattered the shikon no tama. The demon slayer..Sango..she lost her brother to Naraku because of you! "
No...They'd saved Kohaku! Naraku was dead!
She may have him back now...but whos to say what she really feels about it...whos to say that she doesn't blame you for her family's suffering in the first place?
NO! Sango's my friend! She'd never hate me...
And Shippo? He lost his parents over a shard of the jewell that you shattered! Who is to say he doesn't feel anger toward you for that?! Whos to say he doesn't hate you for the death of his parents... I know I would...
" SHUT UP! I know what you're trying to do! You're trying to turn me against them! You're trying to make me want to forget them all again! I WON'T let you do that! "
Oh? And what of InuYasha? How much do you think hes suffered because of your own mistake? You are the reason he suffers. You couldn't save the ONLY woman he ever loved, Kikyou...YOU let her die for a second time because of you're own weakness! And he blames you to...InuYasha blames her death on you...he hates YOU...
NO!! INUYASHA! HE...he wouldn't...he can't hate me!
All those times he protected you...he was just looking out for his shard detector...that way he could dispose of you when the jewell was whole again. He could wish Kikyou back and finally be with his true love again...
NO! THATS NOT TRUE!! Kagome had tears streaming down her face. She knew it was true though. She was the cause of everyones suffering...So many people had lost their lives because of her silly mistake...Sango lost her family, Shippo lost his parents...and InuYasha...he lost Kikyou...the only woman he could ever lost...
I am aware of the pain you feel Kagome...so don't let them suffer anymore...leave them, rid yourself of them...forget them...you only ever cause them pain after all...come with me...come with me to hell instead...where you truly belong, where you will no longer feel the pain of being the cause of their suffering...where you can forget all the pain...they hate you anyway...
" They...they hate me?..."
More than anyone Kagome, they despise you. Forget them Kagome...come with me...
N-No..I cant-...Inu...Inu...I-Inu... What was she trying to say?...
I-In...S-san...Ship...M-Miro...Kira...? She couldn't remember their names!
Wait...whos names?...The names of the ones she loved? But she didn't love anyone right? There was no one...no one she cared for...she didn't feel emotions...she felt no pain...she felt nothing...
She didn't even know her own name now...she couldn't remember her own name. Maybe she never was...never existed...she didn't have a name at all...ever...
Thats right...girl...forget everything...leave the world you knew behind...
Kagome started to glow a light blue, and grew deathly pale. The wind that only affected her came back again...tossing her hair and clothes around once more. All the while Kagome's eyes grew emotionless...lifeless...completely oblivious to her surroundings...the wind...or what she felt...
The darkness was consuming her...death was consuming her now...
Yes Kagome...forget...allow darkness to feel you're heart...and let me...let death devour your soul!
A bright ball of light escaped Kagome. It flew over to the hole, and became enveloped by the darkness. After a few minutes, another ball of light flew out of her, and was once again consumed by the hole. More and more came out of her, little by little, bit by bit, slowly at first, but quickening every minute. Pieces of Kagome's soul.
-with InuYasha-
" You must hurry InuYasha! The darkness is devouring her soul as we speak! " Kikyou urged.
" HOW?! How can I get to her! Shes on the border between life and death for crying out loud! Theres no way she could hear me! " InuYasha shouted. The tears had come back again.
" You must act somehow InuYasha! If you don't Kagome will be lost to this world forever! "
No. InuYasha wouldn't let that happen.
He looked around wildly, looked at the saddening faces of his friends. They didn't know that Kikyou's spirit was here, only InuYasha seemed to. They'd heard InuYasha shout Kagome's name again, and the small ray of hope that they had gathered from earlier when Kagome's wound had healed had dissapated.
Something sparkling caught InuYasha's keen eyes. He gently placed Kagome's body on the ground and hurredly ran over to what he'd seen. Could it be?...
He reached the spot, and bent down to pick up a pink, circular and glowing object.
The shikon-no-tama!
A sudden idea came into InuYasha's head. This was the jewell that had sealed Kagome's spiritual power! Maybe it still sealed some. Maybe if that was true...he could find a way to reach Kagome on the border between life and death! Spiritually that was...
InuYasha bounded back to Kagome's side with the Shikon jewell in hand.
" Inu...Yasha?..." spoke Sango. She blinked her tears away and looked up at him in curiousity, as did Miroku and Kirara.
InuYasha ignored them. His only focus at that point was reaching Kagome in time, before death completely consumed her, before he was too late. He sat down and held Kagome's glowing body close once more, clutching the Shikon jewell tightly at the same time, preying that this would work.
" Have faith InuYasha, trust in yourself and Kagome. " Kikyou finally said, before she dissapeared.
InuYasha concerntrated as best as he could. He thought of nothing but the thought of having Kagome back with him, having her safe in his arms once more, never to leave him again.
With that thought sercurly set in his mind, he closed his golden eyes tightly and whispered her name.
Kagome...
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Ok I am sorry if this chapter was alittle confusing for people, but I wasn't at ALL sure where to go with it. I sort of made it up as I went along, I hope thats not too obvious and that you still enjoyed it!
One more chapter and maybe an epilogue I think.
Please review! Thankyou!