When It All Comes Down To It
I'm sorry if you hate me for writing this. But it needed to get done.
I still don't own the Inu-tachi and IM SORRY AGAIN TO ALL KIKYOU HATERS/DISLIKERS.
It was a normal day of jewel-searching for the Inu-tachi. The usual scenery; trees, bushes, the works. But something was different. Inuyasha noticed it, but he was it. Kagome didn't realize that anything was out of place, but she did know that something was up with Inuyasha. She could somehow always tell when something was up with him. This time she didn't say anything. Yet she couldn't help the fact that she was staring. If only she could see deeper into his golden eyes . . .
"Uh?" Sango muttered, and they all took one step back in unison.
So that was what Inuyasha could sense. One of Kikyou's shinidamachuu had just passed by, up in the air. Kagome was expecting the usual. The hanyou'd chase after Kikyou, the kitsune would make some statement about how dense Inuyasha was, the slayer would watch, along with the monk, then eventually the two of them would say something like Shippou had.
It didn't happen. Everyone just stared in the direction the creature had gone. Even Inuyasha stayed behind.
"G-go . . ." Kagome murmured, half-crying already. She . . . she wanted him to stay. He turned to face her.
But she wanted him to be happy even more.
"G-go f-find K-Kikyou, Inuyasha." She looked directly at him. Her brown eyes met his gold ones. "Go and get her before she gets hurt. I know how much I want you to save me when I'm in danger. Now what if Kikyou's in danger? You ought to go find her." Kagome hated herself. She was letting her loved one leave her.
She just wished for his happiness.
"Kagome, I'm-"
"Go and save her, Inuyasha." He could hear her tone of voice. He hated to repeat past moments that crushed her, but he jumped with a "forgive me" in the direction of the shinidamachuu. If he hurried, he could catch up with it.
"Kagome-chan, you should get some sleep," Sango told her later the next night.
"I can't. I'm waiting."
"But you can't take this," Sango said. "You stayed up all last night. At least get some rest tonight."
"I can't,"
"What if he doesn't return!"
"Than neither will I,"
"Kikyou! Where are you?" Something was telling him that this time he needed to find her. Something told him to just keep going. "Come out for me, Kikyou . . ."
"Inuyasha,"
"Kikyou!" She came out from behind a tree. "Where are your . . . ?" Kikyou make a simple hand motion and her shinidamachuu approached her from many different sides.
"Now, why do you approach me, Inuyasha?"
"I just . . . I had this feeling . . . Kikyou, I-"
"We can't keep meeting like this, Inuyasha," she said. "You have Kagome. My reincarnation."
"Kikyou, I-" Inuyasha pulled on her wrist and into a hug. "I fell in love with you. No matter what happens, even if you hate me- I can't feel the same towards you, Kikyou. We . . . we're just . . . we're so alike."
"What is it that you want?"
"Stay with me, Kikyou," her told the dead miko. "We'll get the jewel- together, and we'll bring you back to life. You won't need dead souls anymore!"
"Farewell,"
"Do you really have to leave, Kagome-sama?" Miroku questioned. "What if Inuyasha returns?" Kagome took off her necklace the jewel was on and give it to the monk.
"Then you tell him that if he really wants me he should come get me."
"Kagome! Don't go!" The young kitsune cried.
"Kagome-chan, please . . ."
"I can't stay here anymore."
And with that, she made her departure.