Hearts Pendulum

Summary: When thinking about life, we fail to realize, that our lives are just clocks counting down seconds until our impending death. Kagome feels that her clock...is about to stop. Is it possible, that one heartless fire hybrid, can keep her heart beating, or will he freeze it in his attempts.

Anime: InuYasha/Yu Yu Hakusho

Couple: Kagome/Hiei

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Rated: M

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Chapter Two

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Thinking...

Can't stop thinking...

Kagome's eyes trailed over the once beautiful grassy veiled fields... Shippou stood silently next to her, his own eyes closed, not wanting to see the field where his friends had fallen. Sesshoumaru stood off to the side with Rin, Jaken and Ah-Un near his side.

Thinking of you...

This...

That...

She leaned against a tree, no longer able to support her weak and aching frame on her own. Still healing from many wounds; physical...mental...

This Life...

That Life...

That day...

"Momma..." Shippou placed his hand on her leg, comfortingly...worry clearly fixed in his bottle green eyes.

That dream was mine...

A utopian dream...

Where we could be...

Happy...

She brought her hand up to her face at the sudden feel of the familiar sting in her eyes. She lowered her face so that her doe brown eyes were hidden behind her onyx black hair.

Your aura; struck me like lightning to a tree...

Pointy, like a star, you shone...

So bright, yet not shining as a star would...

Her form shook in grief and misery. A clawed hand was felt suddenly against her shoulder and she looked up to see the passive yet cold eyes of her first love's brother. Turning around, she let herself fall into his embrace as she cried into his now armor-less figure. His left hand rested on the small of her back as he let her cry.

But as apparent as white chalk on a blackboard...

You would not show off like a star...

Yet you did burn so hot, so fiercely, so explosively – you were a star in my eyes...

Shippou left to keep Rin company while his mom mourned the loss of their friends...her brother...her sister...her unrequited love...

But like all stars, you died...

That gas was gone...

No pull between us...

"Why...?"

Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and listened; that's all he could do.

"Why did they have to die...like that..." Random moments she would sniffle...cry... "I should have died...not InuYasha...that attack was meant for me..."

The atmosphere was dry...

And I began to choke...

I was taken from my star - like a child being taken from its poor, drunken mother - I did not know what was happening...

She hadn't even had time to react; Sesshoumaru had tapped her with the tip of his claw then poked her hard in the forehead. His eyes glared down at her as he watched a little blood slip down her forehead, between her eyes and to the left of her nose.

"What do you think my brother would say if he hear you say that?"

Dazed...

Confused...

Without true reality...

'What would he...say...' She closed her eyes and could almost hear Inuyasha yelling at her for being a moron thinking that way. Yelling about how he wouldn't of done what he did if he had thought she should die.

I there sat...

Wondering...

The end of my world had only just begun...

With yours ending...

"I've been acting foolish..."

"...you've been acting human. Nothing more can be expected."

"Maybe I don't want to act human...I wish I could lock all of these emotions away...like you..."

"...maybe someday..."

"I don't have a someday...Sesshoumaru..."

"...you have a future." He pushed her from his body only enough to look her in the eyes. "I think it's time you return to it. You will see me again."

"No I won't...Demon's don't exist in the future..." Her began to sting again.

"...Demon's will always exist."

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(1 Week Later)

Kagome had said her goodbye, taking Shippou into her arm's, Kilala jumped onto her shoulder and as careful as possible, Kagome climbed onto the lip of the well.

"...I'll see ya..." She said before jumping forward. Her world began to move with the familiar blue glowing surroundings. When her feet touched the ground, the familiar warmth wasn't present. Her heart picked up in pace as she panicked at the sudden feeling of loneliness. She climbed at a steady pace so not to open her finally closing wound. Shippou and Kilala jumped off of her and out of the well as she made her way up. When she was out, she didn't let her wound slow her down as she raced up the steps and out of the well house.

To say she was surprised to find a boy with slicked back black hair and brown eyes sitting on her roof, a smaller boy with crimson eyes and spiked black hair with a white starburst in the center lying in the Goushinboku, a red head boy who was taller than those two with emerald green eyes leaning against her home and another boy, taller even then the red head, with an Elvis-like hairdo in orange and blue eyes lying asleep on her lawn...would be a lie. She was more than surprised, but so was Kilala...and after past events...surprise wasn't needed. The demon feline transformed into her larger form and the four...three...were up and ready for battle. The Elvis boy was still asleep.

"..." I walked forward and in front of Kilala and placed a hand on the growling two-tailed fire neko. "Who are you?" Her voice was hard...soft and unperturbed despite the ongoing fluster of emotions she was dealing with.

"Your grandmother asked our boss to find you. Since he's lazy, he had us do it."

"...you don't hear well." She narrowed her eyes, her aura flaring violently around her. "I didn't ask your reason for being here. I could care less why you are here." She stepped closer and placed a barrier around her son. "What I asked was 'who are you'. I want to know who the three demons and sleeping monkey in my backyard are."

"..."

"Forgive us," The redhead stepped forward, "Kagome Higurashi, allow me to introduce myself and my companions. I am Shuichi Minamino...please call me Kurama though. My short friend with the sword is Hiei and the slightly taller punk over there is Yusuke Urameshi. The sleeping monkey is Kazuma Kuwabara."

"..." She let her aura flow over their own auras before recalling it and letting the barrier drop around her son. "Kilala, they aren't enemies." She walked past them and into her house, Shippou followed closely behind with Kilala in her kitten form next to him.

'...empty...' She closed her eyes and felt her house out. "Where is my family...?" Her voice was broken and sad to listen to. No longer the hard voice she displayed outside, but small and child like.

"Dead. Why the hell do you think we are here?"

"Yusuke, don't be so indiscreet." Kurama stepped forward and caught her stumbling form. "Kagome, your little brother is still alive. He is with Master Genkai."

"..." She looked up into his eyes and he felt his heart fall at the lost look in her eyes.

Kagome couldn't stand anymore; her heart ached, her body was sore, she was tired...and emotionally traumatized. Her mother and grandfather were dead apparently, and...she was just tired of it. Her legs gave out and her mind just quit on her. She had finally let stress get the better of her.

"Great...Grandma's gonna hit the roof when we bring back her grandchild out cold."

"You could have been a little more graceful when telling her that her mother and grandfather were dead. This could have easily been avoided."

"Hn, I don't see what the problem is. We got the girl, let's go."

Kurama nodded and picked her up bridal style when he felt a sudden pain on his forearm. "Ah!" He almost dropped Kagome, but got on one knee and placed her against it.

"Leave momma alone!" Shippou glared.

Kurama sighed and looked at his arm that now had blood staining through his school uniform. "Mother is going to get suspicious if I keep buying new uniforms."

"...who is the rat?"

"I'm a fox demon, not a rat! I'm Kagome's son!"

"She had a demon? Hey wait, how does that work?"

"...it doesn't." Hiei said.

"She took me in as her own."

"I see, she adopted you." Kurama got down before Shippou and smiled calmly. "We need to take her to her grandmother and brother."

"...Why should I trust you?"

"Lord Sesshoumaru, he told us when and where we could find her."

"...Sesshoumaru?! He's still alive?! THAT'S GREAT! Momma will be so happy!" Kurama nodded with the child's enthusiasm.

"Shall we be on our way then?"

"Yeah!"

Kurama made to pick up Kagome again, but Hiei stopped him and did it instead. "The kit bit you pretty hard, you need to heal."

"Sorry," Shippou said, bowing his head in shame.

"Don't be, you were only protecting your mother." Kurama stood up straight and look out the way they had entered. "Yusuke, why don't you go ahead and wake up sleeping beauty while we simmer Genkai down."

"Yeah, right."

Kurama, Hiei, Shippou and Kilala took off. Shippou sat cutely on the full grown Neko as they followed Hiei and Kurama easily.

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...It still hurts...

Drip

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...the pain isn't physical...

Drip

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...but it still hurts so badly...

"Inu...Inuyasha...I can't stop...crying..."

Drip

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