Here's the final chapter Chickadees.
Kagome pulled up on the hem of her dress, trying to keep the snow white material from under her feet. She left Sesshomaru in the dark room as she rushed after Inuyasha. She had no idea where he was going, and tears bit at the corner of her eyes. She ran headlong into Rin who had happened to walk out of her own room. The small girl bounced off of Kagome's hip and she rushed to help her up.
"I'm sorry Rin."
Kagome kept going. She stood in the hallway by the reception hall, she could hear the sounds of people talking and laughing and she wondered if went in there. She reached for the handle to the door but jumped back when it opened for her. The demon in the doorway was familiar to her, but she never knew his name. It was the demon she had met in Sesshomaru's mansion the first day she was there.
She opened her mouth to speak and paused.
"Are you looking for Inuyasha?" He asked, his tone formal as always, brimming with hostility.
She was nodding before she found her voice, "I am, have you seen him?"
He smiled a Cheshire smile at her, "I did. He looked upset. It's the new moon tonight, so he's human. He's always emotional when he's human"
Kagome was stunned. She must have looked it because the demon's smile turned into a look of disgust, "You are such a stupid girl. Half demon's have one night a month where they are left human and vulnerable. Inuyasha's is the night new moon. He really shouldn't be outside alone."
But she knew that. It felt like a life time ago but she remembered when he first told her. Kagome ignored the demon's sneer.
"He went outside?" Kagome didn't care if he was human or demon, she had to explain to him that she didn't know. That she was sorry.
The demon nodded, before heading back inside the reception hall.
Kagome bolted back the way she came, her hair flying behind her in a mass of waves. She found the front door slightly ajar and pushed it open as she ran through, the door banging against the wall in her wake.
She paused outside the elevator.
Should I take the stairs?
It felt ridiculous to be waiting on an elevator but they were 24 stories up, she wouldn't have time to take the stairs, not when she was chasing someone.
She waited impatiently, growing more upset by the second. She stepped inside and pressed the button for the ground floor.
She could feel the form of Sesshomaru's lips and the way he hungrily ate at her. They way she flushed with a cold heat that reminded her of frost bite. The way she let him touch her, and kissed back.
"No matter. You better hurry up and follow him, he's quite vulnerable tonight."
Sesshomaru's words came back to her.
How could I not tell the difference?
They were so different.
The elevator made a loud ding, and Kagome's head jerked up as the elevator doors opened to the lobby. She stepped outside the elevator and looked around for him. He couldn't have gone far. It wasn't like him to run away.
He's stealing my thing.
Kagome thought wryly as she walked through the empty lobby to the front door. She braced herself for the cold as she pushed the door open.
It was colder than she had expected and she grabbed her bare arms quickly with her hands in an attempt to warm them. She looked up and down the empty street.
"Inuyasha!" She called out for him, before picking a direction and walking.
Snow was falling lightly to the ground, and she walked carefully on the icy side walk.
He's going to catch his death out here, shit I'm going to catch my death out here.
It was beyond freezing and she could feel her fingers growing colder by the second, no longer providing her arms warmth. She kept walking, faster now, yelling his names every few steps.
Panic was gripping her heart.
Human. He's human.
That thought terrified her. Before he was invincible, he was untouchable. She never thought to worry about him being cold, he was always warm, she never thought to worry about someone hurting him. But now it was all that was plaguing her mind. She leaned into her steps, pushing herself to go forward when her frozen fingers and toes told her to stop and turn back. She saw a head of ink black hair round a corner and she called after him, running to catch up.
She turned the corner and ran a few more steps before she looked up. In the middle of the street, just out of the reach of any street lamp lay a dark form.
"Inuyasha," Her voice was a whisper lost in the howl of the wind and she bolted for the form, the chill in her bones forgotten. She knelt beside him quickly, her white dress forgotten and blackened with asphalt. He laid on his stomach his arm sprawled out from his body, and twisted. She didn't know where or what to touch. She wanted to ask him what hurt, but he was unresponsive. She gingerly grabbed him and rolled him onto his back and under the street light
Kagome screamed as she jumped back, falling on to her butt as she tried to scoot away from the body. It was a corpse, a hollowed out skeleton. Dark green skin clung to the bones, speckled with white where skin was absent. The eyes were two empty sockets. It reeked an odor so foul it cause Kagome's stomach to turn.
That wasn't Inuyasha, it couldn't be. But she wasn't convinced.
"Inuyasha!" She screamed this time, her voice going shrill at the end. Hysteria was rising in her stomach.
Kagome looked around and she forgot how to breathe.
She recognized this place, these streets, these tall, tall buildings. She had seen it before. She tried to push her way to her feet, but tripped on the hem of her dress, and came crashing back down to the Earth.
"Kagome?"
She recognized that voice, and she tried to scoot away from it. Kagome turned as she crawled on her hands and knees behind a nearby parked car.
This isn't happening.
Kagome felt tears of sheer panic leaking down her cheeks.
"Kagome!"
Her father's voice called out to her, and she pushed herself further into the car, pulling her knees to her chest.
The wind around her picked up, and Kagome's breath came faster.
"Kagome, I'm sorry, I wanted to apologize to you. Come on out!"
Kagome shook her head violently as she covered her wars with her hands.
When he spoke like that it was easy to forget who he actually was. He wasn't the man that had tucked her in and made her dinner. He was the man who had beat her, raped her, and wanted to kill her. The man who murdered her mother.
It was quiet for a moment.
"Kagome!" He roared, and the ground trembled under the power of his voice. She listened with wide frightened eyes. He began to laugh.
"You are so stubborn, just like your mother. I have someone who came to see you."
Inuyasha?
Kagome scrambled to her feet and walked slowly out from behind the car.
There her father stood, holding a squirming girl. Kagome recognized Rin's pale pink dress.
"Rin?"
The girl's eyes were wide as saucers, she stared at Kagome, shaking her head.
"Let her go!" Kagome screamed.
He only laughed at her, before taking hold of Rin's neck. She stopped squirming in his hand and fell limply to the ground.
Kagome resisted the urge to run to her.
"You want me right?" Kagome asked, shoving stray pieces of hair behind her ears.
"To be quite frank with you, Kagome dear, I couldn't care less about you."
Kagome's confidence plummeted. If he didn't want her, what did he want?
"There's a little something inside you that I'm looking for. I need the jewel. I would appreciate it if you would just give it to me, but I'll take it if I have to." His smile was wide, amused.
The jewel?
She barely understood what it could do, why would he want it?
"You'll have to come get it."
Kagome wasn't ready to fight him, she didn't even know how, but she would be damned if she just handed it over to him.
"Can I try?"
A new voice came from behind her. Kagome whipped around, coming face to face with the girl that threatened her at the airport.
Kagome stumbled back a step.
The girl was more prepared than Kagome as the wind picked up and began to whip Kagome's hair into her face.
The girl's eyes began glowing a soft red, and a small smile played on her lips. She began to move her hands and the wind danced in time with her movements.
Shit.
That was all she could think. The wind was growing stronger around her, blowing so hard it stole the breath from Kagome's lips.
The girl moved faster than Kagome could track with her eyes, in the blink of an eyes the girl was beside Kagome throwing a punch. Lille caught sight of her in the last instant and ducked instinctually. Her adrenaline was pumping, and her power came to her easily. Her hand's glowed with the familiar warmth as Kagome stood up and dropped in to the stance Inuyasha had taught her.
The girl's grin widened as she disappeared from sight again. Kagome felt her before she saw her, as the girl swiped Kagome's legs from under her. Kagome fell hard to the ground. She opened her eyes in time to catch the girl aiming a punch for her head. Kagome quickly rolled out of the way, feeling the ground fracture under her. There was a crater where Kagome's head was. Kagome aimed and fired, letting pure energy flow from her. The girl hissed and disappeared. The wind died down and Kagome rose to her feet. The street was quiet.
Kagome looked toward Rin, and found the girl still crumpled on the ground. Kagome began stumbling toward her. She fell beside Rin and with tentative fingers brushed her face. She was freezing.
Kagome pushed two fingers to the girls neck and waited, she could feel the soft beating of her heart and Kagome let out a sigh of relief.
Kagome was yanked backwards to her feet by her neck. Her mind swam. She tried to fight the offending hands off. The ground below her began to rumble and the shadowed asphalt began to move. She watched as the shadows merged together, and her father began to materialize before her eyes. He moved faster than she was prepared for, he was standing right in front of her. He placed a firm hand on her chin, forcing her to look upward and into his eyes.
Kagome's scream died on her lips as his hand plunged deep into her side.
Pain, unlike anything Kagome had ever experienced, caused her knees to go weak. If not for the hands on her neck she would have fallen to the ground. She felt as if she were being ripped in half, the burning contents of her stomach spilling into her insides. He pulled his hand out of her, and she instantly felt her adrenaline fade, as if it were power instead of blood spilling from the open wound in her side. He hissed and she heard something fall gently to the ground.
The hands left her neck and Kagome fell to her knees, further tearing her gaping wound.
"What's wrong?" She could hear the girl's voice.
"It's too pure. I can't touch it." Her father's voice came gruffly.
He screamed and the sky began to bleed red, the ground trembling under Kagome's unsteady knees causing her to fall on to her stomach. She could see him as he approached Rin.
She wanted to scream, to get up and fight but she laid uselessly on the ground, her voice nothing more than a memory.
He looked Kagome in the eyes as he picked Rin up by her hair.
"Watch and remember. I will come back for the jewel. But before I do, I will kill everyone you love. I will destroy you." His voice was calm.
Kagome watched in horror as he put two hands on either side of Rin's head, and without a second hesitation, he snapped her neck.
Kagome heard Rin's body fall the the Earth, but her eyes were unseeing.
This is it.
She was bleeding to death. Kagome slipped into world of darkness. She could hear distance screams, but soon those, too, began to fade, falling on to death laden ears.
I killed Rin.
Rin is dead.
Rin...
Then nothing.