InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Stronger Than Yesterday ❯ Chp. 5 A Woman Scorned ( Chapter 5 )

Chp.5 A Woman Scorned

 

~__~LAST TIME~__~

“Look there she goes!” Kuabawra cried.

The Spirit Detectives had been waiting in the woods for almost an hour waiting on Kagome. They would've gone inside the club, but not with their faces looking like that. So when Kagome came into view, they were, how you would say, relieved.

“What's wrong with her?” Kurama suddenly asked out of the blue.

“What do you mean what's wrong, she looks fine to me!” Yuske asked loudly.

“Something doesn't feel right.” Kuabawra put in with a shiver.

“What doesn't feel right, what's wrong with her?!?”

“She's not smiling.” Hiei said.

“I smell death and bones.” Kurama put in.

“And there's another Kagome standing behind her with a bow and arrow.” Kuabawra finally said.

And so there was, and before the others could yell a warning, the other Kagome had let loose the arrow.

~__~THIS TIME ~__~

As if sensing the arrows approach, Kagome turned around with a look of cold hatred written over her face, but she wasn't fast enough to dodge, for the arrow struck her dead on in the shoulder, sending her crashing to the ground with a cry of pain.

“Kagome!” Kurama yelled as they ran to protect her.

“If you want her, you're going to have to go through us.” Yusuke threatened the other Kagome, getting into a fighting stance.

“Idiots.” She growled distastefully, raising her bow. “Stand aside or else I shall have to shoot you where you stand.”

“I'll like to see you try lady.”

“Ignoramus.” she huffed, dropping her bow with an exasperated sigh.

The cocky smile that had crept onto Yuske's face after her seemingly submission, was wiped clean from his face as he saw the other Kagome with her eyes closed making signs with her hands, which were glowing pink. Making one final sign, with her hand held directly in front of her face, the other Kagome opened her eyes and thrust her hands out as if delivering a blow. Form her outstretched hands came a cube of pink light that expanded into a wall as it neared them. It came so fast that not even Hiei could dodge. It hit them full force, sending them flying away from the fallen Kagome.
Regaining their composure, they made to charge the other Kagome but found themselves trapped in a dome of pink energy.

To busy putting a barrier around the spirit detectives, the other Kagome did not notice the fallen Kagome stand, until she felt a familiar spiritual energy coming towards her. Turning on a dime, the other Kagome spun to the side and caught the arrow just as it passed her. Snapping the arrow in half with her clenched fist, she threw it to the ground with a scornful snort.

“You've improved.” The hurt Kagome remarked standing up straight, tying to ignore the wound in her shoulder.

“Getting rusty...Kikyo?” the other Kagome asked, spitting out her name like venom. “Your stolen years are starting to catch up on you? I guess living over 500 has its draw backs.”

"Demon souls last much longer incarnate. And we've lived splendidly, awaiting the time to regain my soul from you.”

"Sorry to have kept you waiting.” Kagome said sarcastically raising her bow, and then on a second thought she lowered it and smirked smugly at the dead priestess. “So where's the puppy? Did you kill it once you got tired of it, or did you still his soul whilst making love?”

“No, actually we've spent wonderful years together with you out of our hair.” Kikyo grunted as she wrenched the arrow from her shoulder and throwing it to the ground.

At the sight of Kikyo getting four arrows ready for the attack, Kagome smiled. Revenge was sweet and she had a sweet tooth.

As the arrows were launched, Kagome calmly stood still and waited, and as they got into range she let her ki flare, disintegrating the arrows at once.

 

 

“You know Kikyo, ever since your clay pot of a body began walking this earth, I've always wondered how you were going to die, how I was going to kill you. And I think I've got it.” Kagome said with a wicked smile as she stared down at her incarnate, who tried to hide any fear.

 

 

How could her sweet, innocent, incarnation seem so cruel, so powerful, so wicked? That was her job.

 

 

“I'm going to kill you with my bare hands. What do you think about that?” Kagome finished getting her hands into attack position as they began to glow pink.

 

 

“I say you're way over your head.” Kikyo said with a snarl as she began to ready a bow.

 

 

“Oh, well I say you're way over my head.” Kagome said with a wicked smile as she thrust one of her glowing hands out into open space. Clenching it close, she smiled as she saw Kikyo drop her bow and arrows and clutch her threat as if someone was choking.

 

 

Grinning like mad she clenched her fist harder and lifting it higher she was satisfied to see Kikyo rising with it. Smiling up at the gasping figure, her face turned to that of pure hatred, and whipping her hand as if operating a whip, she sent Kikyo crashing into the ground.

 

Reeling her fist back like a pitcher, she sent Kikyo flying into a tree. Unclenching her fist she took a flying leap at the prone figure, hands up and ready for the kill, but was taking off guard by hundreds of tiny, flying, blue streaks. They hit her dead on, they were too small to do any real damage but hundreds of them together left her with many a cuts and a torn outfit. Catching one of the streaks, she landed a few feet from Kikyo and inspected her hand.

 

 

“Tree bark, is that the best you can do?” Kagome laughed scornfully at the shakily rising figure.

 

 

“No, this is!” Kikyo yelled throwing her palm towards Kagome as a blast of miko energy careened towards her.

 

 

Swatting the energy away like an annoying pest Kagome began to stalk towards Kikyo. “I think you've lived long enough, it's time to die, and I want my soul back.” Kagome told the wounded and drained dark miko.

 

 

Looking down at her with no emotion Kagome raised her head to deliver the striking blow, when out of nowhere a fist connected with her head. Sending her careening into a tree with such force, the tree split on contact.

 

 

~__~

 

 

“Okay, so Kagome put us in here. We were protecting the wrong girl. Kagome beats the crap out of her look alike. The look alike is seemingly evil. Kagome's about to kill the look alike, when some white haired guy pops out of nowhere and hits Kagome like she's a man. Is that right?” Yuske ranted as they watched this all unfold.

 

 

“That seems about right.” Kuabawra answered.

 

 

“Oh...WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?”

 

 

“Kagome's look alike is her incarnate, Kikyo. Kikyo is a walking corpse living off stolen souls. Kikyo has a portion of Kagome's soul. The white haired hanyou is Inuyasha. Kikyo and Inuyasha are seemingly in love with each other. Kagome used to be in love with Inuyasha. Inuyasha betrayed her. She's taking revenge. And Inuyasha has come to protect Kikyo.” Kurama said giving a brief detail of the situation.

 

 

“Really, so these are the guys from her story earlier?” Yuske asked.

 

 

“Precisely.”

 

 

“Do you think she'll be alright out there fighting by herself?” Kuabawra asked concernedly.

 

 

“She won't if she is still in love with the hanyou.” Hiei finally spoke up keeping his eyes trained to the fight outside.

 

 

“Well do you think she is?”

 

 

No one had an answer, but Hiei had a pretty good guess.

 

 

~__~

 

 

“Inuyasha.” She growled low in her throat as she fought against the pain and stood up, brushing tree branches, bark, and dirt off her as she did so.

 

Standing up, she could clearly see the white haired hanyou fussing over Kikyo. But once seeing her on her feet he smirked and got into a fighting stance, claws out and on the ready.

 

 

“What's the matter Inuyasha? Haven't you missed me all these years?” Kagome spat with a look of hatred on her face.

 

 

“Can't miss what was never there...Copy.” Inuyasha spat right back, hitting her where it hurt most.

 

 

“Why don't you die?” she growled with such hatred that she seriously resembled Kikyo.

 

 

“AFTER YOU! IRON REAVER SOUL STEALER!” he yelled sending his attack flying towards hers.

 

 

But she just stood there with that look of hatred. Reaching behind her back, she pulled out a black handled katana that glowed with her miko powers. With one smoothe motion, she deflected the attack and sprang into action. Sprinting towards her former lover, she attacked him with fury of slashes, kicks, and miko.

 

 

At first, he was caught off guard with the sheer speed of her, but he soon got used to it and began to fight back. The world outside began to become a thing of the past as the two fought their hearts out. But their hatred of each other wasn't completely clean. There was a spot...maybe a speck...maybe there was still love somewhere deep down. Maybe.

 

 

“Why don't you use tetsuaiga? Or did it stop working for such a worthless hanyou? Maybe I should have given it to Sesshomaru when I had the chance. I wonder...did it stop working once you decided to protect a dead pot instead of your friends.”

 

 

“Actually,” he said with a wicked grin. “It stopped working the day I decided to kill our friends.”

 

 

Kagome's heart froze over. Dead, they were dead and it was all her fault. Her moment of shock was all it took for things to crumble in her favor. For now, Kikyo had rejoined the fight.

 

Stringing a bow with six arrows, Kikyo let them loose, all surrounded by her dark miko energy. Smiling, she watched as most hit Kagome dead on, sending her crashing to the ground like a stone. Not all arrows hit, but enough to inflict much damage. One in her right shoulder, one in each thigh, and one where her chest met her stomach.

 

 

Barely making her way back to her feet, Kagome tried to pull the arrows out, but it was too much effort, and her heart was too heavy, so she barely acknowledged anything as Inuyasha began to pummel her body, with fists, feet, and claws. Or when Kikyo dark energy jolted her with painful shocks.

 

“Oh that's right.” Inuyasha laughed picking her up by her throat. “You weren't there. You left, and they died.”

 

 

“At least the monk didn't die by Naraku's curse, it was better this way.” Kikyo adding coming to rest on Inuyasha's shoulder with a malicious smirk.

 

 

Smiling at his beloved, Inuyasha clenched his fist tight around her throat and relished in the sound of her gasping for air, before tossing her to the side like a rag.

 

 

Gasping, she got to her hands and knees, and drowned in her misery as she watched her tears hit the ground.

 

 

“You haven't changed, you're still such a little cry baby!” Inuyasha snarled as he kicked her hard in her stomach, sending her flying into the air and into her barrier.

 

 

Staring at the spirit detectives with, dead, doll like, blank, yet crying eyes. Kagome could do nothing but hear the taunts and haunting information Inuyasha and Kikyo spilt out.

 

 

“Their deaths were quick, but messy. Got rid of Sango and Kirara first. I won't get to explicit about their deaths, let's just say, it was a covered funeral...if they had the body. You should have heard how Miroku called out for her. They were engaged to be married in a month. Miroku went down next, did him and every other woman a favor; cut those lecherous hands of his off. He would bled to death if I hadn't of crushed his heart in his chest. And Shippo,” all the while Inuyasha was saying this he and Kikyo were making their way towards Kagome's prone body, but as he got to the part about Shippo, Kagome's eyes spasm, but the two weren't able to see.

 

 

“And Shippo, how scarred do you think he was...having someone who looked so much like his adopted mother, hold him down as I killed everyone in front of his eyes, before tearing his throat out with my bare hands.”

 

 

Kagome's eyes slowly blinked, and when she opened them, they bled her pink miko energy from the corners as they glowed a white. Her face contorting to that of pure hatred she rose like the dead. She didn't sit up or bend any part of her body in any way. She just rose. Her body radiated with her pink miko, and her hair flew madly around her like hissing snakes.

 

Grasping at the arrows imbedded into her body she, without flinching, ripped every single one out, some came out easily and clean, others with chunks of flesh.

 

 

“You heartless, insensitive, conniving, bastards! I rue the day I released you from that tree! And someone as empty as you shouldn't walk the earth! You both should be dead and buried in your hells!” Kagome yelled, staring the two down with such hatred, that they could feel their skin burning, and so focused on the two at hand, Kagome's barrier fell, but the Spirit Detectives dare not move.

 

 

“w-What d-do you think you're d-doing? You c-can't kill us!” Kikyo stammered hiding behind an equally scared Inuyasha.

 

 

“Like hell I can't!” Kagome yelled holding her arm out towards the two. “GIVE ME MY SOUL BACK YOU BITCH!” she yelled as a ferocious energy blast erupted from her hand and towards the evil lovers. Before the blast could reach them, a protected barrier from the tetsuaiga surrounded Inuyasha, but seeing as how it wouldn't stand a full on blast, he jumped out of the way, leaving Kikyo to die.

 

Kagome smiled wickedly as the sounds of Kikyo's screams of anguish reached her ears. Placing her arm down, she saw that the attacked had wiped everything in that area from the face of existence, including Kikyo. Closing her eyes, she welcomed the remaining part of her soul back with a somewhat peaceful look, and with the rejoining of her soul, her ki and miko flared higher and her hair turned pink as she rounded her ferocious eyes on the cowering Inuyasha.

 

 

“So what now? You're going to kill me?” Inuyasha yelled, searching for an escape route.

 

 

“You don't deserve it!” she yelled as she levitated into the air facing him. Holding her hands out, she clasped them together, and down below, Inuyasha began to grasp at his throat, before screaming in agony as burn marks began to appear on his body...as she purified him. Purification wouldn't kill him, for he was half-human, but the pain was so harsh it would have him wishing for a brutal death, at least then the pain would stop.

 

 

“STOP, PLEASE STOP! I BEG YOU, KAGOME; I BEG YOU, HAVE MERCY!”

 

 

At hearing his please, Kagome laughed scornfully as her glowing eyes leaked tears. “Mercy! You ask for mercy from me! I whom you would have killed without a second thought! I, who, loved you despite your flaws! I, who put up with your name-calling, your picking, your possessive jealous ways! I loved you Inuyasha, I accepted the hanyou, not just the human or demon side, but all of you. And you betrayed for a long dead pot, who's only remaining love for you, was false! You beg mercy from me? Did you give mercy to our friends when you killed them? Did you? Did you even think about what they've done for you? NO! THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE THIS PAIN! NOW SUFFER INUYASHA!”

 

 

“Kill me! I deserve to die at least!”

 

 

“NO, NO YOU DON'T, YOU DESERVE ETERNAL PAIN!” Kagome yelled inflicting even more pain onto the hanyou, even when his body went limp. “SUFFER! SUFFER! SUFF...!” but a sudden pain through her body stopped her ranting, and as the ground flew up to meet her, she blacked out.

 

 

~__~

 

 

“Is she alright?” Yuske asked as Botan came down the stairs a tired and concerned look on her face.

 

 

After knocking Kagome out and bringing her to the house, they had immediately called on Botan to heal her. Botan arrived promptly and one look at the injured miko, she ushered the boys out, for they were in Kagome's room, and began to tend to her patient. That had been over an hour and a half ago.

 

 

“She's going to be fine.” Botan said trying to sound cheerful, but her face fell with the effort. “But she suffered some major injuries, her spiritual and miko powers are nearly drained. I'm afraid if you hadn't stopped her when you did, they would have killed her, and besides all that, her mind's in complete turmoil. She's depressed, angry, dejected, and sad all at once. I'm afraid what she'll do if she's left alone in this state. What happened?”

 

 

Sighing, the spirit detectives informed Botan of what Kagome had told them earlier then what had just happened. By the end of their tale, Botan had tears in her eyes.

 

 

“Oh that poor girl, no wonder she's like this. My heart goes out for her.” There was a moments silence as Botan stared up at the ceiling towards Kagome's room. Sighing she turned to the spirit detectives with a sad smile filled with pity. “Well I must be going now, have to inform Koenma on current events. Oh, and don't disturb her for a while, I just fixed her a therapeutic bath, and she's relaxing in the hot tub.” With that said, Botan hopped onto her oar, and was gone through a newly open portal.

 

 

“Didn't she say Kagome was really depressed?” Kuabawra suddenly asked.

 

 

“Yeah, what's your point?” Yuske answered him with an annoyed look.

 

 

“And she's up there by herself...in a hot tub...filled with water.”

 

 

“You don't think she'll...” Kurama began as he caught on.

 

 

“Well she did just have a fight with her ex-lover and the woman he left her for, plus she found out he killed all her friends.” Yuske said as he summed it up.

 

 

“But do you really think she'll...” Kurama began again.

 

 

“She's a nigen, and a nigen female at that. I wouldn't put her past it.” Hiei added.

 

 

There was a moment's silence as the four looked at each other, and without a second thought, they sprang up the stairs to stop a possible suicide.

 

 

~__~

 

 

Kagome lay in the hot tub soaking as she mused over her life. Her heart was aching. Her eyes were swollen. She was sore all over, and she had just accumulated some nasty looking scars, not to mention she was now drained mentally, physically, and spiritually. But it wasn't so bad now. She had a whole soul.

 

 

`Was there any point in going on now?' she wondered as she washed herself. `She had no friends. They were all dead. So what was the point in going back to the past? Inuyasha and Kikyo were now dead, so what was left for her? Nothing. Because that was all she was worth, nothing.' Feeling a fresh wave of tears coming on she went to wipe them away, but as she was about to, her hand brushed against the Shikon no tama around her neck.

 

 

Sniffling she picked it up to examine it, only half complete. As her tears fell, one splashed upon the Shikon, and it seemed to ripple in her hand on contact. Staring curiously, she watched as it began to glow, and as the glow touched her hand, it spread throughout her body, re-energizing her and giving her the slightest taste of hope. There was hope for her friends. She had a magical well to the past; she could go back and save them.

 

But what if it had already happened? What if it was too late? How could she help them then, how could there be a hope? Unless there was a way to tune the well. Like a spell. Like a spell of some type in a book. A spell book for mikos, like the one in her room.

 

 

Sniffling once more and laughing a sad pitiful laugh, she wiped her tears and placed the Shikon back around her neck, but the tears kept falling and her heart still ached.

 

 

“You made me break my vow Inuyasha. I said I wouldn't let you make me cry anymore. And now look at me. I should just...I should.” Coming up with a decision she closed her eyes, took in a deep breathe, and then submersed her body under the water.

 

 

`Wash away the tears, soothe the pain, when you rise, you shall be whole again.' She chanted in her head under the water. `Start anew; whole again, you can make it through. You have a mission Kagome Higurashi, help the detectives, return to the past, save your friends, collect the shards, you have purpose.' And with that final thought, she opened her eyes and stood up out of the water.

 

Just as four boys burst in screaming, it's not worth it.

 

 

There was an uncomfortable pause between the five, the time past was undecipherable, seemingly a century passed as they stood watching each other with wide eyes. They all were shocked, yeah, and if they would have stayed quiet and just backed away slowly they maybe, probably could have gotten away, but oh no, they didn't.

 

 

Kurama's eyes flashed amber gold, Hiei's eyes were as wide as saucers, Yuske's face formed a goofy, dreamy state, and Kuabawra opened his mouth and, “Oh Wow!” came forth loudly out of his mouth.

 

It only took 15 seconds. Only 15 seconds it took for Kagome to snap out of her state of shock, register the boys gawking, and for her to get extremely pissed. Her eyes seemed to light afire, the collar around her neck crackled but was ignored. Objects went flying around the room, one being a towel which wrapped itself around her lithe form, 10 seconds was all this took, and the remaining five was spent having an unseen force drag the boys into the bathroom and lock the door behind them. 15 seconds.

 

 

But it took longer than 15 seconds for Kagome to vent her anger. More like 15 minutes.

 

 

~__~

 

 

“Thanks boys, I needed that.” Kagome said in a velvety sweet voice as she waltzed out of the bathroom and to her room. Leaving behind one hell of a scene.

 

 

The four boys were a complete mess, the bathroom in an even worse of one. They all were soaking wet, there were a few bruises to go around and just a bit of bleeding. But they all were still red in the face from what they had seen.

 

 

~___~

 

Kagome awoke the next morning with the sun in her eyes. Sitting up, she moaned aloud as the soreness of her body hit her, and that's when she noticed that she was on the floor.

 

 

“Umm...okay?” puzzled she looked around and saw that she sat within a pentagram drawn out with sand and the book was open beside her and four candles, all unlit, lay at her feet. “Oh.” she said aloud as she remembered what had happened the night before.

 

 

She had poured the sand onto the floor and lit the candles, one for each of her friends. Sitting inside the pentagram, she searched within the book for a spell, allowing the candles to melt to nearly nothing. At last, she found a time reversal spell. She would use the candles as test subjects; if the spell worked correctly then the candles would resume their wax. And by the looks of the whole, unused candles, she cheered silently to herself. The spell had worked. But there was something else. While performing the spell, a storm seemed to gather outside, a strong wind had manifested inside her room, and the last thing she remembered before blacking out was a flash of lightening and the lights going out.

 

 

“Maybe I should have stopped.” She muttered as she looked around at the littered room. “Oh well, too late now.” Jumping up, she was about to prance over to her balcony but stopped as something fell down her body and onto the floor. Looking down she smiled mischievously as she saw the collar, and it was the size of a basketball. Just the size it was before being placed around her neck. It seemed it too had been affected by the time reversal. Stepping out of the loop, she picked it up and was about to throw it out the balcony window but stopped herself. It might come in handy. Some time.

 

 

~___~

 

 

By the time Kagome heard the sounds of movement downstairs, she had fallen into another pit of depression as she thought of her friends and the good times they had together. For no matter how she put it, or what she would do, they were still dead. Killed by her ex-love.

 

Not wanting to raise any suspicions, she got dressed and left her room as she headed towards the sounds. Besides, she was hungry.

 

Stopping outside the kitchen door, for that's where all the ruckus was coming from, she took a deep breathe, fixed a smile onto her face, and braced herself for pity stares, but she braced herself for the wrong thing, and was taken by complete surprise.

 

She opened the door and froze in place, The kitchen was a complete mess, the faucet was running over, there was flour everywhere, cabinets were opened with food spilling out of them like they had threw it up. The refrigerator was wide open with a red headed one-year-old sitting in it and eating all the food. There was a spike haired four-year-old hanging from the ceiling fan, and a three-year-old black haired child was currently starting his own band with the pots and pans.

 

With her false smile plastered to her face like concrete, she slowly walked out and closed the door. “Okay, Kagome, you've been through a lot lately and you're hallucinating. You're actually had a nervous breakdown and now you're seeing your friends as babies. Nothing wrong with that, so you're going to cut the crap, walk back in there and see nothing...as scary as that. Okay here we go.” Collecting herself and taking another deep breathe; she smiled and walked back into the kitchen. Only to find that nothing had changed. So she walked out, closed the door again and went into the living room. Making sure that nothing was on the sofa...she feinted, and toppled over onto it.

 

 

~__~

 

 

“Kagome. Kagome. Wake up.” hearing Kurama's voice breaking into the darkness of her mind, Kagome began to come to.

 

 

“Oh Kurama, I had the most horrible nightmare. Everyone were babies. It was...” now conscious she opened her eyes to find, not Kurama leaning over her, but a complete stranger with white hair, gold eyes, and fox ears. Still a bit disoriented she reached a hand up and began rubbing his ears, only when he started purring did she become fully conscious.

 

 

“WHOA!” she yelled hopping up and crawling away from the strange demon. “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHERE IS KURAMA?”

 

 

The demon stared at her confusedly for a moment before giving her a seductive smile, which made her extremely nervous. “Kurama? Well you could say he's gone for the moment, which leaves us alone at last. I am Youko Kurama, by the way.” Smiling at her leaned out slowly as if to grab her.

 

 

“OH NO! STAY BACK!” she yelled falling off the edge of the couch but jumping back to her feet almost immediately. Never taking her eyes off of Youko.

 

 

“Stay back? Oh no, see that's the opposite of what I'm planning. Kurama's had you for all this time and hasn't touched you. It's my turn now, the fox is loose and you're my prey.” Stalking her, he pinned her to the wall and stared deeply into her eyes.

 

 

`Oh please no, not with a fox demon. Please don't let him be my first.' She pleaded in her head even as she felt the effects of his magic wash over her, and found her pleading to be less...meaningful.