Author's note: Okay so here's chapter 3 and just a quick shout out to kawaiiemichan for being the first to review, thanks for the encouragement, and sorry but Kagome won't be back for a little while look for clues though they're all over the place. So here's the chapter enjoy
Disclaimer: I almost forgot.... for those of you who haven't figured it out yet and those pesky lawyers…I do not own Inuyasha.
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When Good Mikos Go Bad
Chapter 3 Broken Promise
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'In Inuyasha's Dream'
His legs wouldn't move, the demon's hand struck the ground, realization dawned in her eyes. She fell. When he reached for her his hand felt only air. She continued to fall yet a sad smile graced her lips. She spoke yet he heard nothing save the blood pounding in his own ears. He called out to her yet he had no voice. Her eyes were sad and filled with a message he could not decode.
Anguish, it gripped at his heart as she grew smaller with distance, he tried jumping after her, but his numb body didn't respond for it was dead and frozen. All at once the silence shattered, with a bone crunching sound of flesh impacting ground.
He now stood at the base of the cliff not a yard away from her mangled body. Her bones were obviously broken and pools of blood surrounded her slowly converging into a scarlet pond. Despite the damage to her body her pale face remained unmarred, peaceful even. He approached her wishing that it was possible for her to have survived such injuries, knowing the impossibility and wishing it had been him instead.
He had not taken one step toward the broken girl before her eyes opened, but they were not the warm eyes he had come to know from her they were cold and dark filled with bitterness and when she spoke it was not her voice but that of two powerful miko echoing around him. "And you call yourself our protector, you promised to protect us, is this how you honor that promise?"
'End Dream'
Inuyasha blotted to consciousness, the combined words of Kagome and Kikyo ringing in his all too sensitive ears. 'Kagome, please let her be alive let it have been a nightmare.' The camp was dark as he surveyed it Sango and Miroku were a ways off, deep in hushed conversation not even Inuyasha's ears could pick up. Scanning the site Inuyasha found his target; Kagome's sleeping bag and yellow backpack were set up near the remains of a fire. Breathing a sigh of relief the hanyou crawled towards the form illuminated only by the glowing embers of the fire's ashes and his superb night vision. If he had paid any attention to his nose he would have realized much sooner that it was not Kagome beneath the covers but a sobbing Shippou curled into a sleeping Kiara. So instead Inuyasha trusted his eyes and the sight of the crying kitsune and empty sleeping bag brought confirmation of his worst fears.
Kagome was dead. It wasn't a dream.
"No! She can't be!" His rather loud denial alerted the others to his awakened state.
Miroku and Sango rushed over to the hanyou and the now screaming/crying Shippou. "Calm down Inuyasha," Miroku coaxed while Sango attempted to hush Shippou's wailing.
"Calm down. Calm down! How do you expect me to calm down wjhen Kagome could be bleeding to death!? I have to find her now!
To the surprise of both Inuyasha and Miroku, Sango spoke up, "She's dead Inuyasha let it go! Can't you see you're not the only one hurting here!?" anger and pain coated her words tears welling up in her eyes. Shippou still lay curled in her lap taking a small comfort in the familiar presence.
Taken aback by the sudden outburst, it took a moment for the hanyou to reply softly, "So you're just gonna give up then?" All was quite except for Shippou's sniffles. "At the very least," he relented after a few rather uncomfortably silent moments, "we should find her body-" everyone cringed and Shippou broke into fresh sobs "-and give her a proper burial." The others nodded in agreement, by now day was breaking in the distance, both the monk and slayer unaware of the plan formulating in the hanyou's mind. Good, now they won't try to stop me, not that it matters, it'd just slow me down, and I need to hurry if Kagome's still alive she hasn't got a lot of time left. Just hang on a little longer Kagome. HE pushed out the thought as if the girl would somehow hear him and respond. Hope was there, present within his thoughts, but it was dim, very dim.
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Ok I know its short but I have my reasons for ending it here. Anyway I won't be updating until I get a couple more reviews I write for me but seeing as nearly 60 people have read this in the last week and only two reviews have come in it's a little weird what are you people thinking when you read this I want to know (not to sound desperate or anything) and for those wondering when Kagome will come back sorry to say but I'm not telling it'll be awhile I have to set the scene first before I get to the juicy stuff. I finished writing out chapter five already so updating really depends on reviews and my patience which is sort so hehehe figure it out I really shouldn't be this hyper at one in the morning. Oh well ending very long author notes now with the chapter preview: False Leads and a final plea for reviews