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"..." character speaking

"..." character thoughts

"..." flashback

telepathic speaking...

Chapter 12: Iriguchi-Entrance

Stare at her...

Lay with her...

Laugh with her...

Enjoy her while you can ladies man. She won't be with you much longer. I can feel it in her heart that she is going to change. She will change right in front of your eyes and there will be nothing you can do to stop her.

So you better get over her quick...

Because what will she know?

All she's ever known before now is rejection and loneliness..

What's one more time going to do?

Think about it ladies man...

Right now, she trusts you.. somewhat..

But...

You'll see Zelda...

You'll fall for her again...

I know you will...

And the minute it happens...

You will know that I'll be there...

You're gonna hurt her, and guess who's gonna be there?...

Me..

And guess what she'll do?

She's gonna run away from you..

And then I'll make my move...

I'll make sure that she won't think about you..

Then, what'll you do?

I'll have taken the very thing that keeps you from Zelda...

The very thing that you cherish so disgustingly...

And there will be nothing that you can do about it...

Think of this as a play...

You start out the hero...

Everybody loves you...

Until you just happen to hurt the person that you said you loved...

Until you run off with the person you loved in the past, and thought you were falling for again, but aren't...

But people won't see that...

People have a thing called 'assuming'...

It's a horrible thing...

People will say that you were cheating her...

You will be hated...

You won't be known as the Hero of Time anymore...

You will be known as the 'stupid git who dumped the Goddess of Eternity...'

And then, that's where I come in...

I will take her under my protection and make her feel that she is needed...

Unlike you..

And the minute that she thinks that I am falling for her...

The minute that she begins to feel that she is loved...

I will tell her the truth about you...

I will tell her everything...

So that she feels pain...

So that she will never trust another human soul again...

Except me...

And then you will be the villain.. and I will become the hero in her eyes...

I will be the man that brought her from the ground and built her back up...

I will be the only thing that she sees...

You may think that you won't fall for Zelda again...

But it'll happen...

Because that's who you are.. You are a pathetic ladies man. You can't just settle for just one girl. You gotta have 'em all.

You can't resist..

Can you?

You can't control yourself...

Can you?

You can't show her how defenseless you really are...

Can you?

Haha... Guess you have me to thank for that..

Get ready...

I'm back...

xoXOxo

"SHUTUP!" Link snapped up from his position, laying haphazardly on the edge of the path, scaring Kagome half to death. The cackles of evil laughter still rang in his ears.

"What!" she said exasperatingly, staring at Link with a look of lost sleep.

"Nothing..." he said, jumping from the ledge and landing on the one below.

Kagome watched him jump into the shallow water below and make his way around the corner until she couldn't see him anymore.

No use in calling out to him.

She looked around and found a gleaming metal lump laying beside the spring.

"He left his ocarina..." she picked it up gently and it shone a faint light in the setting sun. For some reason, she felt that she had played this once before.

Everything was so confusing. It was now that she remembered only a small bit of what was her past life in the Sengoku Jidai. Inuyasha was becoming only an acquainted name. She had forgotten all that she had there, and the memories of what she has here, were coming back to her in slow, steady waves. She felt that she knew too much about what was here. Her dreams weren't just a recollection of the day anymore. They had become maps to guide her through this strangely familiar place.

Kagome put the ocarina to her mouth and began to play a song, that for some reason, was stuck in her head, and she couldn't remember hearing it before.

When she was through playing the song, she put it to her lap and sighed. Without her knowing and without warning, the waterfall next to her parted like a curtain and revealed to her an opening that seemingly just appeared there.

She was quite taken aback and she stared at the small instrument like it was a ghost, and then back at the entrance..

"Link! Link!" she said, hopping down the paths carelessly and just kept running, trying to find the Hylian.

She hardly knew where she was going and was afraid that she would get lost trying to find him. Still, she tried.

"Link?" she checked around a corner, and kept going, not seeing the elf anywhere yet. She wandered around a fence and almost fell into the water, but finally went around it and turned slightly to the right.

"Li---AHH!" she screamed as the ground below her began to rise.

Wait, not ground..

A leaf?

The leaf rose to just above the fence and then sped off over Zora's Domain, "KYAAA!" she exclaimed, holding onto the leaf's edges and crouching over it, curling up into a little ball, it rose higher off the ground, and she saw the cliffs above her and a certain blonde elf sitting slumped over sitting cross-legged with the setting sun beating down on his back. She bit her lip and timed her jump just right, to where she fell right onto the cliff's soft grass. She rolled unceremoniously on the ground, like a child who fell from her bike, going down a hill.

She shook her head and crawled over to Link's turned back and sat down beside him. She watched him pick grass from the ground and throw it aside. There was a defined sadness that filled his eyes and they never met hers. He didn't even acknowledge her presence.

Kagome crawled in front of him and dipped her head low to try and look into his eyes, "Link...?"

He stared up slowly and gave her a heated gaze.

Kagome got a worried look on her face, "Was it a nightmare, Link?"

He kept his eyes locked on hers and his brows furrowed.

Kagome got a funny feeling in her stomach and she lowered her eyes to her legs, "You know, if you wanted to.. ummm.. you could talk to me about it, but if you don't and you just want to be left alone, then that's okay, I mean I could leave if you wanted me to, I was just worried, and plus I did something really weird at the waterfall and it just----"

"Shutup."

Kagome closed her mouth and jerked her head up to him and was met with two of the bluest eyes she has ever seen, the sunset brimming him with a line of orange.

She blushed and looked back down, clenching her fists. She heard a slight rustling of clothing and thought Link was getting up to leave, so tears began to form. But he wasn't leaving.

Link leaned forward and wrapped his arms around her torso and pulled her closer, resting his forehead on her chest. (A/N: NO NOT HER BOOBS PERVERTS! Her chest, near her collarbone.)

Kagome gave a slight gasp, "Umm..."

"Just.. shutup."

She smiled and wrapped her arms around his body and ran her fingers through his hair gently, embracing him back.

"I have to leave you, Kagome." he said, his voice straining intensely.

Kagome closed her eyes and pulled him closer, whimpering slightly.

"If I told you why.. you wouldn't understand." he said softly, unlike his usual voice.

Kagome shook with tears, "Don't leave me... please.. please.. don't go... not again..." she sobbed, staining his hat with tears.

Link pulled her as close as possible and kissed her forehead.

"Why are you leaving? Tell me.. please.. I'll try to understand... please... just don't GO!" she said, diving into his chest and shaking with body-racking sobs, "What did I do?... why does it have to be like this all the time?"

Link welcomed her into his chest and stroked her hair, "You didn't do anything wrong Kagome.. it's me.. let's just say I'm in a losing battle with myself.."

"It's her isn't it!" she screamed and pulled away, "You are no different from any other of the guys... they all have some 'first love' that they can never forget about.. wasn't there a REASON that you broke up! And when they get to me.. it seems like they remember, 'Hey, I have an ex-girlfriend, I'd better go and suck up..' if you are going to do this to me, then why don't you just forget you met me in the first place so I won't have to go through all the crap everyone of you men decide to do! Hell, why even say you LOVE ME!" she got up and began to climb down the cliff quickly, jumping down to the ground halfway down the cliff.

"Kagome! KAGOME that's not what I meant! If you would just let me explain.." he jumped from the cliff.

"That's 'Miss Kagome' to you!" she said, storming off, back to the place where she played the ocarina, "And what is there to explain! That's what they all say before they give some long, drawn out explanation to try and make me feel better... It's not working anymore, I'm sick of being played!" she picked the ocarina up and held it in front of his face, not knowing that he was right behind her the whole way.

"LIKE THI---"

He grabbed her arms and pulled her into a hug, "Would you shutup and let me explain? Please..."

Kagome's heart melted, but her mind and body pulled away, "No... you aren't going to do this me like so many others.. now go away.. I don't need people like you. Goodbye, Link."

With that, she fled from Zora's Domain, ocarina still firmly in her hand, never looking back, feeling very accomplished, yet at the same time, she felt she had lost the best friend she had ever had. Tears flew freely down her face as she watched the sun sink between the bosom of the mountains.

XoXOxo

I guess that was a little quicker than planned...

You should really learn to think before you speak...

Having a pretty face doesn't mean everything..

Oh...

Wait..

Yeah it does...

Ha...

I don't see her coming back anytime soon, so it's going to take a miracle to persuade her to come running to you again...

You really screwed up this time...

Are you proud of yourself ladies man?

Or are you gonna cry?

That'll be pretty sad...

But this has all come along in my favor so what am I complaining about...

I do so love causing pain...

xoXOxo

Link's eyes glowered dangerously as he kept watching the corner that Kagome disappeared around.

'You are really starting to get on my nerves..' his thought earned evil laughter and then an 'awwwww!'

Link suddenly felt a sense of uncontrollable rage and threw the nearest thing next to him, and sprang up from the ground..

"KAGOMEEEEEEEEEEE!" he bellowed, clutching his fists together, hearing the echo three times before it fell silently upon the land.

"DAMN IT! JUST DAMN IT!" he roared, leaping from the paths, "DAMN IT ALL!"

Link ran through the ankle-deep water faster than he ever remembered running before, out of Zora's Domain, into Hyrule Field. He flitted Epona's song on his ocarina and ran with the horse a ways, then gripped the reins and leaped into the air, landing expertly on the saddle of his Clydesdale.

"HYAA!" he lifted the reins and sent them crashing down roughly on the horse's hide with a loud "KRAK!" sending a whinny from her.

"Kokiri Forest, Epona!" she lifted her hooves from the ground in hypnotizing rhythm, galloping across the fields, following the path.

She got to the entrance and Link flew from the saddle without stopping the horse. He sped through the hollow and across the bridge.

'Show me where it ends..' he thought with a grimace and he flew past the befuddled Kokiri, attempting to grab at him with questions and welcomes.

"Link! Link!" a familiar voice called through the forest.

'Ugh.. Mido..'

"No time, Mi--"

"NO, Link, listen, please.." Mido said frightenedly.

'Oh my goddess. Somethings gotta be wrong.. Mido is scared.'

"That lady.. the one that you brought to the forest... she came here and she looked really scary and she was glowing all blackish and stuff.. and we didn't know what to do and we tried to stop her, kuz we didn't know what she was doing, and we didn't want anyone to get hurt.. she said that she was sad, and that she would always live in a life of 'saltitude...' n-no that wasn't the word.. OH I DON'T KNOW! But she was really upset and she went away!" he said all in one breath.

"Mido.. Mido calm down, stop your crying! Men don't cry! Where'd she head to?" he said, eying the young Kokiri softly.

"So what if I'm crying! You been scared too! She went that way!" he pointed a small finger to the entrance to the Lost Woods.

"But she said before she left," he said, stopping Link in his tracks, "that you should go to the tree house before you go there if you'll ever find her. She said she's got somethin' for you.."

"What is it?"

"I don'no! She just said that. I thought maybe you knew." he said, shrugging his shoulders.

Link sighed and ran to his tree house, basically flying up the ladder and into the room.

xoXOxo

Surprise...

xoXOxo

Link held his ground and listened intently, bending his knees and checking around the darkened room. All life seemed to lift from the small house and melt out into the forest as a dark shadow loomed around him, sucking the light from every direction. The darkness bled like an open wound from the walls and floor and they gathered at a point in the room, folding and swirling together like a whirlpool.

'No... No, this can't be happening, not now..' he began to slowly feel hatred bubbling inside of him, and a grimace found its way upon his face.

Slowly, but surely, the figure rose from the depths of the floor, his limbs hanging to his sides like two giant vines. His head was bowed, but his eyes lay keenly upon Link as if he were to devour him any second. Two dangerously red eyes gleamed and an evil smirk made its way up his face as he continued to fully push from the depths of the floor. His feet planted firmly upon the wood and the shadows that conjured him fell into his body.

He held a hand, furling and unfurling, in front of his face as if he just realized that he had one. Shadows bubbled over his fingers, like water and sank into the floor. The smirk grew into an insane look of madness and he grinned towards his lighter self.

"Yo."

Link hung there, frozen like a statue, clenching his fists and gritting his teeth.

"What? Surprised to see me?" shadow Link walked slowly to him.

Link's rage began to heighten and he flung a fist at the grinning mass of evil, but he missed and his fist went right through the air, as his evil being collapsed into a cloud.

"Wait, wait, I don't think that worked. Oh, but so close." he retorted sarcastically, reappearing on his bed.

Link whirled around and faced his opponent with full force, "How are you here!"

"Oh, you mean you don't know?..." he said, leaning back, and flopping on the bed, ".. that little woman of yours, didn't I tell you that she would change? See, I'm smart like that."

"AND IT WAS YOUR FAULT!" he roared with anger.

"Nope. All yours. I'm not the one that told her that I had a...love.. thing.. whatever you call it." he grimaced at the word.

"HOW did you get here... the only way that you can get anywhere is if there is shadow... there is no such thing in this village!" he beginning to grow impatient with this sarcastic bastard of himself.

"I am seriously going to have to thank that little woman.." he said, curling his fingers into his chin.

"What! What does Kagome have to do with this!"

"Do you honestly think everything is about you?" he said, glowering at Link, "Gawd.." he sighed and rolled his eyes, "Ok, ok, since some people here are just a little bit stupider than me, I'll explain. Good grief."

Link's eyes flashed and he gripped his shadow's tunic and shot him a threatening glare, "If you don't shutup, I'm going to chop your smart ass mouth off!"

Shadow Link waved his hands lightly through the air, "Oh, mommy, hold me I'm scared! Keep your panties on!" he said, crossing his arms and disappearing into another part of the room, "You see, my little lighter half, when you upset Kagome, that last bit of light.. called.. hope, I believe.. faded away and she became empty. That was when she lost faith in you, and the rest of your kind, and while she was still the Goddess of Eternity... she was on the borderline of being controlled by people like.. hm.. well.. me. Ha. But the little wench was a smart one, and she fended off the evil forces that I began to 'bestow' upon her."

Link's brow's wrinkled inward as he listened.

"Aaaanddd, while she had fended them off here, their souls left her body and went out into the world again... to become the shadow's. Then, all I needed was your little bit of anger and boom! Here I am. Guess you're good for somethin'." he laughed.

"Where did she go!" he ignored all the sarcastic glory that his shadow figure was portraying.

"Huh? She.. hmm... who do I know that has the name of... she.. oh, right! That little woman! The one you drag around everywhere.. Well, she is pretty hot, so I wouldn't blame y--"

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" he swung his sword from his sheath and sliced through the air, but, again, to no avail, and smashed a pot upon the table beside his bed.

"When are you going to learn that, that doesn't work?" shadow Link said quietly, shifting from one place to another.

"Well, if you must know, she's gone to the Sacred Forest Meadow." he said, disappearing completely from Link's view.

"And why should I believe you!" he retorted.

"Because.. little light side... it could mean the difference between Hyrule's age of prosperity.. or, more importantly, Hyrule's fall.."

Link listened to the cackling around the room, "What! What do you mean by that!"

No answer filled the room, and Link fled from the house, jumping from the balcony and screeching around the corner and flying up the vines to the entrance to the Lost Woods. In the fleeting rush of the moment, he had a temporary loss of his recollection as to which way was next. Then, an idea came to him.

His ocarina...

He reached for the small instrument, but it was not with him and he began to panic.. but then he remembered...

FLASHBACK

He grabbed her arms and pulled her into a hug, "Would you shutup and let me explain? Please..."

Kagome's heart melted, but her mind and body pulled away, "No... you aren't going to do this me like so many others.. now go away.. I don't need people like you. Goodbye, Link."

With that, she fled from Zora's Domain, ocarina still firmly in her hand, never looking back...

END FLASHBACK

'She still has it!' he began to panic, and then just followed his instincts and finally reached the Sacred Forest Meadow, climbing up onto the top of the maze, jumping cleanly across.

'Kagome.. just wait a second.. please.'

xoXOxo

I think you are forgetting who you are up against...

xoXOxo

Link gritted his teeth and bounded safely across, propelling his legs up the stairs, sprinting down the next corridor, and then faster up the next flight of stairs, perspiration dripping its way down his face.

He wandered slowly inside of the sacred place and halted dead in his tracks...

Kagome stood there, on the top of the tall pedestal, and gazed curiously inside the grand opening of the Forest Temple, taking small steps toward the inside.

Link quickly reached for his longshot and aimed expertly at the tree branch hanging over and pulled himself upon the pedestal with Kagome.

She, startled, spun around and gasped, "No, No! I wasn't trying to meddle I---" she stopped when she caught the sight of Link's face.

"How did you get up here?" he asked smiling.

"Link!" she exclaimed, a look of anger growing on her face, "You are such a stalker! Why can't you just leave me alone!"

Link's smile slowly disappeared from his face and his turned his eyes downward.. his darker half had won.. he had been defeated and this was his just reward.

Her abandonment...

"Why do you keep following me Link? Why? Haven't you caused enough trouble?" she said looking into his eyes.

Link turned around and sat down on the edge of the pedestal, his legs hanging over the edge, "Because you never let me explain..."

Kagome sighed and sat down on the edge next to him, looking out to the forest, "Well then, explain.. I'm listening."

Link gasped and wanted to grip her hand.. but he didn't think that she would take it too kindly.

"I don't know if you'll believe me.. it's pretty dumb."

"If it's about Zelda, just tell me.. I shouldn't have gotten je--"

"It's not about her."

Kagome peered over to him and smiled, "Then tell me."

Link sighed and rested his forearm on his knee, "When I was in the Water Temple, I found out that people don't just have one side to them. They have two.. the one that you are.. and the one that is born from everything inside of you that feels hatred, or sadness or grief, or anything like that. And when you encounter it.. it stays with you until you die.. haunting you and becoming part of you.. because naturally, it is you... but not really."

Kagome gave a confused look, "So what you are saying is that you have a darker side of you wandering around? Right?"

Link chuckled, "Uh, yeah, something like that. And I had to fight myself so to speak."

"So when you said you were 'losing a battle with yourself' you didn't mean that you were thinking things over between me and you?"

Link thoughtfully looked out into the forest and blinked, "Yes, I was."

Kagome looked away, "Then why didn't you tell me what I did wrong if you wanted to stay away from me?"

"It's nothing like that!" he said, snapping his face to her, "The darker part of me was telling me all of these awful things about you, and telling me that you would change, and that I would go running to Zelda!" he stopped abruptly, realizing what he just said.

"So." she said softly.

Link swallowed and began to panic slightly.

"You are?" she said solemnly.

"No! I mean.." he slapped his forehead, "Good god... you gotta understand... the darker part of me is a liar and a cheating part of me that I can't get rid of, and as long as he is on this earth, I feel those things, but I don't want to.."

"So, how can I tell that you aren't lying, yourself," she said lowly and feeling a wretch in her heart, ".. since you can't get rid of that part of you?"

"All I can say is, Kagome, that I am being true to you, our relationship, I am being true to that, because I wouldn't lie to you." he said, hoping to make up with her.

Kagome looked over to him with soft brown eyes, half lidded and filled with tears.

"That's not what he said... he said you were a liar.. he said you were cheating on me and that you still loved Zelda.. and you were meant to be with her.. so who am I supposed to believe? If you say.. yourself.. then you are vain, and overconfident... if you say nothing.. then I know you are lying.. so I am so lost, Link... I don't know what to do."

Link's eyebrows furrowed and he looked around as the world inside of the Sacred Meadow grew dark and shadows loomed over the walls and around Kagome.

This time, instead of fending off the dark fog.. she welcomed it with open arms, and disappeared into the darkness of Link's evil half.

Link rose quickly and looked around, "Kagome!" his eyes quivered for a moment, as he saw the fog disappear slowly into the Forest Temple.

'...I don't know what to do..'

Her words stuck with him, as he remembered something else that his dark half had told him...

'.. she will change and there will be nothing that you can do about it...'

She had changed... but there was something that he could do about it... He would be there for her always..

.. even if darkness had overthrown the world...

xoXOxo

So what are you going to do?

Are you going to run after her?

Or are you going to stay and be safe from harm...

It's not like I'm going to do anything to her...

But...

Every man wants a woman...

..and yours just happens to be who I want..

xoXOxo

Link's eyes widened and he sprinted into the temple's entrance, disappearing into the shadows of the realm..

xoXOxo

So that's the end of that one! Not really happy with this chapter.. but " I want U! To review!" please please! I am SO happy that I hit 31! that's much better! THANK YOU! I LOVE YOU ALL! (hugs and kisses for everyone!)

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