Chapter 14- Kagome Tells Everything

This is during season 6 episode 158 "Stampede of the Countless Demon Rats" and season 7 episode 160 "The Lucky, But Two-Timing Scoundrel." What if Kagome tells her friends everything from the day Inuyasha pushed her down to the well to the day Kagome came back to the Feudal Era?

As Inuyasha and his friends are waiting at Kikyo's gravesite, they were with the leader of the Wolf Demon Tribe named Koga along with his friends, Ginta and Hakkaku, and his fiancé, Ayame, and Inuyasha's brother, Sesshomaru. When Koga sniffed Kagome's scent, he nodded Ginta, Hakkaku, and Ayame to signal that Kagome is ready. He nodded at Sesshomaru as Sesshomaru said, "Wait here. Be right back."

Shippo said, "I can't believe that they would bring us here."

Sango asked, "Do you think she's even coming?"

Miroku answered, "I don't know. When I saw them instead of Kagome, I thought for sure that this is a trap."

Inuyasha asked his friends, "Why would Kagome trust Sesshomaru after what he did to her, and trust that mangy wolf, his mate, and his friends?

A voice spoke of Inuyasha's answer, "Because like them, they are after the same person I'm after too."

When Inuyasha and his friends heard where the voice was coming from, they all stood up to their feet, looking speechless.

Koga, Ayame, Ginta, Hakkaku, and Sesshomaru brought out Kagome. Inuyasha said, "I wanna hug you and kiss you at the same time."

Kagome smiled as she raised her right hand to signal Koga, Ayame, Ginta, Hakkaku, and Sesshomaru to disperse around Kaede's village since she can handle them. Koga, Ayame, Ginta, and Hakkaku went to surround Kaede's village as Sesshomaru went back to Jaken and Rin who were in Kaede's hut. Kagome said, "Right now, I could use a hug."

Kagome walked to her friends, and hugged Sango first. Then, she hugged Miroku secondly, hugged Shippo next, and hugged Inuyasha last. After she finished hugging all of her friends, she said to Inuyasha, "I'm glad you're here, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha asked, "Why? I'm not the one you can trust."

Kagome explained, "I need your help. Now that I already exposed my secret identity to you guys, demons will be coming after me. Until I find out who's been threatening me, I can't join you guys, but then… I don't care because it's worth the risk and I want to fight by your side."

Miroku notified her, "Kagome, we think that Naraku's incarnations are the ones who lured us to the netherworld. We think they're the ones who hurt you."

Kagome didn't look surprised as Sango said, "You don't seem surprised."

Kagome said, "It's complicated Sango. I have it all figured out the right way to tell you what you need to know… I might not be able to say the words out loud. "

Inuyasha told Kagome, "Why don't you start from the beginning?"

Kagome sat down in the middle of Kikyo's gravesite as Inuyasha and his friends sat around it. Kagome said to them, "I'm ready to tell you guys everything, but if you guys can't figure it out by tonight, I might as well disappear here and go back to my own era again."

Inuyasha and his friends were horrified as they visualize their lives without Kagome. Kagome added, "And this time, it might be for good."

Inuyasha started talking, "If you want me here to help you to figure out who's hurting you, you must not think that I'm the one who hurt you."

Kagome said, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Inuyasha."

Kagome stared at her friends and explained her whole story. She started her story, "It was a crazy week. It all ends up with a hit on my head. He has been threatening me since after Inuyasha pushed me down to the well. I thought that Inuyasha would come to my era to get me, feeling regret about what he did to me."

(Flashbacks after Inuyasha pushed her down to the well on Chapter 1).

Kagome continued, "I was mad at Inuyasha at first, but when I came back from my era, I found out I needed either the sacred jewel shards or Inuyasha to go back here. Defending myself changed the game that I started training myself for self-defense in case of any demons were in my own time. It was on the top of my list that Inuyasha had every reason to hate me for being weak and defenseless all the time because I'm human."

(Flashbacks when Inuyasha saved Kagome numerous times from season 1 episode 1 to season 1 episode 19)

Kagome reminisced about the second day she was meditating and felt an evil aura leaving her a message. She quoted, "You may not be there, but I see you here. I'll be watching you, priestess."

Sango asked, "So when you tried going back here, you were preparing yourself to protect yourself and live your life at the same time after you received that message?"

Kagome nodded as she said, "When I got home from school on the third day, he made it clear that if he wanted to hurt me, he could."

(Flashback on Chapter 2)

Kagome was wearing her shrine priestess uniform that Kaede gave her on the third day at the Feudal Era. Kagome was about to look in the mirror until she saw the message, "I'm everywhere and soon you'll be nowhere."

Kagome said, "I wasn't safe anywhere, but I finally had a weapon to fight back. I realize that… even though I didn't know much about the Feudal Era, even you Inuyasha, my grandfather told me tales that were true which I never listened. Also, my mother never told me about my father very much that he left something for me for my fifteenth birthday, but never gave it to me since he… he… um… complicated things that I don't want to talk about it."

Inuyasha interrupted, "You didn't know me, Kagome. But I learned something about you before I pushed you."

Kagome assured him, "Don't worry, Inuyasha. Wait for it. We'll get there."

Kagome went down the stairs to head to Kaede's hut since she saw her come out, and left the village. Inuyasha and his friends followed her and went inside Kaede's hut. Kagome continued her story around the fireplace with her friends sitting close to her, "I practiced again after I got home from school to increase my strength. I went back to the well house to test if I can go back to the Feudal Era, but I failed miserably."

Inuyasha said, "I remember bits of pieces, but I'm not sure of what's real and what I've made up before I pushed you down to the well."

Kagome explained, "I was pushing myself to go back home when I first discovered you and the Feudal Era because I didn't know that the sacred jewel was in my body. I thought that after we collected the shards and Kikyo was brought back to life from her stolen ashes and part of my soul, you wouldn't need me anymore."

Inuyasha put together the pieces, "And then I asked you to walk with me away from Kaede's village, which turned out ugly."

Kagome said, "It's like you bottled up every anger you had from fifty years ago to the day I met you and popped that top that morning."

Inuyasha explained, "I thought you were in my way that I told you to get away to safety when I told you that I can handle the fight."

Kagome said, "And I told you not to worry about me, but you were holding on to it like a dog with a bone."

(Flashback season 1 episode 19 when Kagome interfered the fight between Inuyasha and Sesshomaru)

Kagome said, "When I heard you thanking me for my help, put it together, you weren't just relieved that my arrow reversed Tetsusaiga's transformation because you were also grateful."

Kagome continued on her story, "In the well house, I found something interesting… a present from my dad, which was this locket. I went back to the well to get a chance to be back into the Feudal Era, but nothing came. I went to the house, thinking that I won, to silence him."

(Flashback from chapter 2 where Kagome was hit on the head)

Miroku and Sango were shocked that someone would hurt Kagome that Kagome said, "It wasn't you Inuyasha. You were too injured when you pushed me down to the well, and to come and get me from here to there."

Inuyasha cried, "Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I didn't hurt someone else."

Miroku explained to him, "You're not listening, Inuyasha. You were with me and Kaede at Onigumo's cave."

Inuyasha looked at Kagome and asked, "I didn't do it?"

Kagome shook her head that Inuyasha felt relieved. Sango asked, "But you're family saw who hurt you?"

Kagome looked at Shippo in a sad expression look on her face, "Why didn't they do anything to help?"

Kagome started to cry, thinking about that day. Sango asked Kagome, "Did you look to see who hurt you?"

Kagome nodded, and explaining sadly, "He thought I was dead. I was trying to tell him that I was alive. I was screaming. God, can't you see me? Can't you see me breathing? Look at me."

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo had sad expressions on their face, picturing something bad happened to Kagome. Kagome continued, "The words didn't come out. I couldn't move."

Inuyasha comforted her by holding her hands, "Kagome, we're here for you. We're all here for you."

Shippo said, "And we always have been. You should've told us. You didn't have to keep this a secret."

Miroku talked, "I can't believe your family didn't see what happened."

Inuyasha asked her, "Are you sure he thought that you're dead?"

Kagome nodded her head and said, "I thought I was being hysterical. I heard a male voice closer to me, saying things over and over again, 'What have I done? What have I done?'"

Shippo asked, "Who's voice was it?"

Inuyasha answered, "Probably the one protecting himself. That's why he's pointing the finger at me because he's covering himself."

Miroku wondered, "Yeah, but who?"

Inuyasha asked, "Was Kaede telling the truth that she saw you back here while I was away, fighting a demon?"

Kagome nodded to him, replying and crying at the same time, "She tried to comfort me and get me water. I was so scared that she was going to you first, so I ran. I didn't know where I was going. I just knew that I had to go."

(Flashback where Kagome left Kaede's hut and saw Inuyasha fighting against Royakan and Naraku later on)

Kagome said, "I thought I was a goner, but I learned that Naraku got you fooled. He got exactly what he wanted fifty years ago. After I woke up, I notified my family that I am going back to the Feudal Era, and I let them to make sure that Inuyasha thought that I disappeared from here and my world."

Later on as time went by, Miroku assured her, "Kagome, we're going to figure this out by tonight, but you shouldn't leave."

Sango said, "We know everything, Kagome. We can protect you."

Kagome said, "Yeah, you guys know everything, except for who 'he' is."

Shippo said, "If the five of us… if we stick together…"

Kagome told him, "I can't join you guys until I figure out why 'he' was willing to do that to me."

Inuyasha begged, "Come on, you can't leave. Don't you want to be with us?"

Kagome answered, "It was easy for me to stay gone… until you got injured again Inuyasha. How did you not figure out by now that without me, your wounds get worse; however with me in the Feudal Era, your strength grows? I was so scared that you were gonna die from your injuries and you didn't come back for me that time. It was worth the risk. When I saw you in that hut, I saw what Naraku did to you, so I decided to stop running. I tried to keep one step ahead of Naraku, and I did everything I could to keep you safe."

(Flashback to the times where Kagome kept her friends safe from chapter 2 to chapter 13)

Kagome said, "Naraku wasn't completely dead back at Mount Hakurei. I was waiting at the back far away from the mountain when I saw him."

Inuyasha asked, "Were you at the temple the night of the fire?"

Kagome smirked as she nodded her head and admitted to Inuyasha, "I pulled you out Inuyasha."

Inuyasha smiled as Kagome continued to Miroku and Sango, "But before I did that, I pulled both of you guys out by the time Inuyasha went inside and never came out."

Shippo asked, "Did you see how it happened?"

Kagome shook her head. As she saw how the day went by and turned into night, she went to the Sacred Tree, telling her friends, "I have to go."

She immediately ran out the hut as Inuyasha followed her, "Kagome, wait."

By the time Inuyasha went to the Sacred Tree, he saw Kagome staring at where he was pinned for fifty years. Inuyasha asked, "Hey, why did you ran away like that?"

Kagome answered, "Because now that I told you everything, I have to leave here and never come back, which is pretty much what you wanted a long time ago."

Inuyasha turned her around to face him, "That was then, and this is now. Don't you want to join with us? Don't you want to be with me?"

Inuyasha held her hands as Kagome replied; "I do, but you made your promise to Kikyo when you were dragged into Hell with her."

Inuyasha confessed as he embraced her from her back, "Kagome, from the moment you freed me to this tree, the moment you shed tears for me in my human night, the moment you saved me from Sesshomaru, the moment I heard your voice when Kikyo dragged me into Hell, and the moment you saved me multiple times when you were here the whole time, I was losing my mind about seeing you who I care about dying in front of me. I realized… I love you Kagome, and I want to be with you. I will fight for you until our hearts stop beating."

Kagome shed tears about Inuyasha's confession that she also confessed, "Inuyasha, when I first met you, I fell deeply in love with you that you made my heart pound twice before you pushed me into the well. One time when you lied about hating my scent even though you love my scent, and the second time when you almost kissed me that you were looking right through me to Kikyo. I don't care if you are full demon, a full human, or a half-demon, but I love you in either way. But for now, I gotta go my own way."

Kagome was about to leave, but Inuyasha held her tightly. When Kagome was finally free from his grasp, she faced him, taking off something from her neck. She told Inuyasha, "Here, Inuyasha. I want you to have it, and I trust you to keep it safe."

Kagome showed him the sacred jewel with only one shard missing that Inuyasha was surprised that she was the one who collected the jewel shards, and stole the shards from Naraku. He said, "The Sacred Jewel? How did you…?"

Kagome answered, "I took back what's mine, and now I am giving it back to you, so you will become a full demon. Right now, I should leave to go back to my era. But before I do that, here is something you should know, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha listened to Kagome as she said her words to Inuyasha, "I… I forgive you."

Inuyasha didn't hear it right that he said, "You what?"

Kagome repeated, "I forgive you. You weren't born evil. Your life made you that way. You lost your father who is a Great Dog Demon of the Western Lands, and a caring human mother who looked after you until your childhood. Sound familiar?"

Inuyasha shook her head as she continued her speech, "Well, sure you have a brother who despised you for being a half-demon and jealous because you wield Tetsusaiga, and a priestess who loved you fifty years ago but wanted you to become human instead of being yourself. What I'm trying to say is that I forgive you for pushing me down to the well when you wanted me to be there for safety."

Inuyasha said to Kagome, "I don't care about being full demon anymore. When you broke the spell that Kaguya put on me, not knowing it was really you, I want to stay a half-demon a while longer just for you. Thank you for your forgiveness, Kagome."

Kagome replied back, "You're welcome. Right now, I should leave to go back to my own era."

As Kagome was about to walk away, Inuyasha grabbed her hand and kissed her on the lips. Kagome enjoyed the kiss so much that she closed her eyes and kissed him back. When they parted from the kiss, Kagome reconsidered her decision and told Inuyasha as he caressed her cheek, "Okay, fine. I will join with you, but I left out the best part."

Inuyasha asked, "Which is?"

Kagome answered, "I know who 'he' is."

When Inuyasha heard that, he put Kagome on his back for her to ride on, and rushed back to Kaede's hut. Kagome asked, "Inuyasha, where are we going and why are we heading back to Kaede's village?"

Inuyasha answered, "Isn't it obvious? We are going back to Kaede's hut because Miroku, Sango, and Shippo have the right to know who 'he' is who tried to hurt you. Even I have the right to know."

Kagome agreed to his explanation that they both went inside the hut together. Kagome went to sit down with her friends and told the truth about 'he.' She said, "Remember how I said earlier that Sesshomaru, Koga, Ginta, Hakkaku, and Ayame were after the same person I'm after?"

Inuyasha and his friends nodded their head, and Kagome took a deep breath. "Naraku is 'he.'"

Inuyasha was shock to say, "What? Naraku tried to hurt you."

Kagome nodded her head, and said, "I left out a couple of details that you should know. After I was hit on the head and before I lost consciousness, I looked at him who hit me on the head, and he tried to steal my locket. Luckily, it burnt his hand, and decided to disappear. All I saw was a white pelt, but I didn't see what the face look like."

(Flashback to Chapter 2 when Kagome was hit on the head and saw the pelt)

Kagome continued, "When I went to the netherworld to collect the last jewel shard, I let you guys see who I was all this time. As I fought with Naraku, I saw the same burnt hand, meaning that he was the one who hit me on the head and tried to steal my locket."

(Flashback to Chapter 13 when Kagome transformed and fought Naraku)

Miroku asked, "Are you sure?"

Kagome nodded her head. She said, "Now that we have only one shard left, which is from your brother Sango, Kohaku, we can defeat that bastard Naraku once and for all. I made up my mind to Inuyasha and now to you that I will join with you now to defeat Naraku."

Shippo cheered as Miroku had sparkle of happiness in his eyes, and Sango said, "Really?"

Kagome nodded, and Kagome and Inuyasha went to the well to go to Kagome's era to stock up on supplies again. Kagome's family gave them a welcome home greeting, knew that Inuyasha knows everything about Kagome's secret journey to the Feudal Era, and allowed them to stay there for the night. Kagome went outside to stare at the Sacred Tree, and Inuyasha looked at it with her. Inuyasha said, "Kagome, I have more to say to you back there."

Kagome started to apologize to him, "I'm sorry you think that I disappeared from your life. You have no idea how much I put you through, thinking that I was gone."

Inuyasha assured her, "You don't have to apologize, Kagome. Besides, I'm the one to blame. I pushed you farther away when you wanted to be closer to me. I'm sorry Kagome."

Kagome held his hands while he was still embracing her. She replied, "You don't have to apologize. If I hadn't run away when you were fighting against Sesshomaru from before like you told me to, you wouldn't be seriously injured. You didn't have anything to do with me being back to my own era. Plus, I already forgive you for that, and you thanked me for my forgiveness earlier."

Inuyasha started to admit something to Kagome. "Kagome, I want you to listen about how I feel for you. You don't have to say anything, but please hear me out."

Kagome said, "Hmm?"

Inuyasha confessed, "You're not like Kikyo, Kagome. You're a very special person to me. Kikyo was not the Kikyo I knew fifty years ago because she is just a corpse body full of bones and graveyard soil that contained souls of the dead, feeling sad, lonely, and hatred. You are Kagome who shares Kikyo's soul of the living, feeling peace, love, and happiness."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha, looking confused like "Huh?"

Inuyasha continued his confession; "Somehow, it's different with us from me with Kikyo. You see, Kagome… I never have such strong feelings for you like I did with Kikyo."

Kagome blushed as Inuyasha continued talking. "Except, there is one problem… I feel like I can't love you more than Kikyo's reincarnation or a jewel detector."

Kagome was stunned of what he just said to her. He said, "You're my companion, my comrade in battle when I never knew that the woman as the Green Priestess was actually you, the woman who I fought along my side, and the one who stayed by me secretly."

Kagome started to talk, "I… I knew that. You didn't have to tell me anything about how you feel about me. I knew how you felt when you wanted me. It's not as if… is if I hoped you would love me more than you love Kikyo. I never thought that. I never thought of it that way."

Inuyasha smelt her hair as he had his turn to talk to Kagome, "Kagome?"

Kagome interrupted him as she tried to release herself from his grasp, "We said it all, didn't we? Right? I'm going."

Inuyasha held onto her as he said something that caught her in surprise, "I'm just getting started. If this battle with Naraku comes to an end, and my revenge of Kikyo's death, Miroku's cursed windtunnel, and Sango's suffering for her family and her demon-slaying village are broken… if I make it alive with you… if we make it that far, would you come to live with me and stay with me?"

Kagome was speechless that he asked her, "Will you be my mate and bear my pups, Kagome?"

Kagome shed her teardrops onto the ground that she turned around to hug him. Inuyasha was waiting for her answer, saying, "Kagome?"

Kagome answered, "Yes!"

Inuyasha felt happy that he made sure, "Really?"

Kagome nodded as she kissed him on the lips and hugged him as Inuyasha held her on the waists. Kagome added, "I only have two conditions though."

Inuyasha asked, "Which are?"

Kagome answered, "I come back here to my era from time to time for school, restocking supplies, and visiting my family."

Inuyasha asked, "What's the second thing?"

Kagome answered, "Never be like that perverted, lecherous monk ever again."

They both laughed as Kagome explained, "Because the way you asked me about bearing your pups, it sounds like how he asked Sango to bear his children."

They both went to Kagome's bedroom to kiss each other as Kagome lied down on her bed and Inuyasha joined her in her bed to snuggle her. His head was on her pillow as Kagome's head was on Inuyasha's chest, and they kissed for hours until they went to sleep.