InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Those We Leave Behind ❯ Great Expectations ( Chapter 16 )

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Those We Leave Behind

Chapter Sixteen

Great Expectations

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What was she doing agreeing to something like that in the first place? Would she have actually gone through with that asshole's 'prize' if she had lost?

Inuyasha had been thinking about Kagome since he had left her earlier. It had taken all his willpower to separate himself from her devastated eyes. It was all his fault. He had caused her such pain. The tears she shed because of him gnawed at his soul. Seeing her again broke his heart again and only forced the feelings of loneliness and depression to re-emerge after four hundred fifty years.

He wished the situation could have been different. But he damned well wouldn't let another woman he cared about die because he was too selfish to put her welfare in higher regard than his own personal longings. That was what separated him from that son of a bitch (literally and figuratively) brother of his.

Miroku was the one to kill Naraku all those years ago. Ironically enough, Miroku used the Kazaana to suck in the entity that created it.

That was another thing. It didn't seem to Inuyasha that Naraku was one being. It was like he was a conglomerate or a federation of beings. He was insulted that Naraku had been labeled by many as a hanyou.

Not only did it insult him, but it fucking pissed him off.

However, he could not take back the wish he had made, nor would he if given the chance. He would, however, change who he would allow to help him. He blamed himself for the betrayal Kagome suffered at Sesshoumaru's hands. Before he had even known about the secret relationship that had formed between the two, he had asked his half-brother for his help in the seperation of worlds.

Naturally, Sesshoumaru had jumped at the offer for increased power.

If only he had found a different way. He remembered the intense wish-selection process. It had taken months. The jewel had allowed him to preview the outcome of each possible scenario. However, he had not been able to communicate with anyone outside Midoriko's cave, where he discovered after months of searching, was the location from where the wish had to be made.

He bitterly recalled the little catch that few had known about. If he had known, he might not have tried so hard to obtain the jewel. He might have been more understanding about Kagome's needs in her own time. After all, only a good person could enter the cave in the first place. To wish upon the jewel one would have to enter. Therefore, the wish could only be used by someone who had good intentions.

Maybe not. Although the wish was useless to a rotten person, the jewel could also enhance strength to anyone who had a fragment of the Shikon no Tama.

He remembered the wishes he asked the jewel to show him. The most special memories he had were of those he viewed, yet knew he could never ask it to grant. One in particular was of Kagome's body rounding with his child. He saw himself attending to her needs, lavishing her stomach with gentle caresses, staring lovingly into her eyes. The painful part was not just seeing this, he actually experienced it. He, for a short time, actually thought he and Kagome were having children.

He knew with Kagome he would have been happy, but that wish was not meant to be made. Continually watching a life where they lived together in bliss drove him nearly insane. Yet he knew he could not indulge himself in a life that could not be, in fear of weakening his resolve to do the right thing.

He kept searching for the right one. He had been to Kagome's time and he knew that whatever wish he chose, it was supposed to permanently change the future.

Many of the previews confused him. They had shown him a world like his own, a world where demons and humans intermingled. That was not what Kagome's world was like.

He searched through wishes that would eventually make his world into Kagome's and ones that uplifted his soul, showcasing a life he was not destined to enjoy. His days as her protector had not yet come to an end. She just wouldn't know about it.

He had to call upon someone he had not spoken to in a long time. That person had knocked on Inuyasha's door just as his name came to mind.

Inuyasha could feel the man's presence and allowed him entrance to the estate. Then, he returned his eyes to the screen displaying the initial shock of the detectives at Hiei's defeat, followed by their timely departure.

Finally, Inuyasha spoke.

“Hello Enma.” Inuyasha's voice was filled with sorrow and regret, as if some travesty had befell the man at his hands.

A pregnant pause filled the air until the man, now revealed as Enma, collected his thoughts and calmed his usually raging blood. He could not afford to lose his temper nor control in front of Inuyasha. He had learned firsthand the result of such an abrupt, impetuous action. “Hello, Father.”

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Hiei had been livid with rage. How could this human girl do this? How could his first impression of her been so dead wrong? These were some of the thoughts that had crossed Yusuke's mind as they made the journey back to Kurama's house.

However, this line of self-questioning detoured as he returned to one cosmic conclusion. She was hot. That dress had made her look so good, and the way she was a sweet, innocent girl who tried to cheer him up combined with the tough badass she just revealed herself to be played on every male weakness he had for girls.

However, before he thought about Kagome in any way other than a friend, he had to figure out what relationship she shared with Kuwabara. They could not be more than friends but, why did he sense such a strong connection if that was true?

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Kagome and Kuwabara made preparations to return to the shrine along with Shizuru. They had to get to Gramps right away. They did not expect the other three to join them, especially Hiei.

However, Kagome and Kurama had needed to go to the school to inform their teachers they needed to take a trip for a family emergency. They didn't stay long but, Kagome was all of a sudden very eager to pay when they went to one of the Kyoto branches of WacDnald's for lunch. It was an odd request, but being a gentleman, Kurama allowed Kagome her desire when she rebuked his insistence to pay himself.

When they had ordered, Kagome conspicuously pulled a currency equivalent to seventy-five dollars. Kurama could merely gape. “Where did you make so much money so quickly? When you arrived, you claimed you had none.”

“I did have none. Let's just say this money came from a very lucrative idea I had.”

Knowing she would say no more on the matter, Kurama left it at that. His mind, however, followed his suspicion down many the paths of possibilities. He would pursue the truth from her later in a discreet manner.

Now, he had to prepare for the journey to Tokyo.

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He hadn't stopped bugging her since she got back from the school. He had followed her from room to room for no other reason but to bug her until arranged for him to revert back to the way he should be. Amazingly enough, Hiei actually needed someone to help him. He ruefully acknowledged the fact that that person was Kagome Higurashi.

She didn't really seem to care or even pay that much attention to what Hiei did. Personally, she didn't feel sorry for him. It wasn't as if he was weak. He had about as much power as Yusuke did when his work with the Spirit World began.

However, his speed had diminished a great deal. She compared the difference between normal Hiei and Hiei as he was now with Kouga. The change in speed was comparable to Kouga before and after the jewel.

However, that was not to say that Hiei, even as a demon, was anywhere near as fast as Kouga, even a demon Hiei and a shardless Kouga. She very much despised his demeanor. She knew what it was too. He was one of those people who put up a macho front in order to hide how weak they felt...like Inuyasha had when she met him.

He really didn't look different. He still had that third eye, but that wasn't really there because he was a demon. He had that implanted. Right now, she knew he couldn't open it because of the energy it required. She had to admit that for an evil, self-centered maniac, he was damn sexy. But those ruby eyes creeped her out.

By no means did she think they were not absolutely gorgeous. However, those eyes were far too reminiscent of the evil being who plagued and tried her for so long. Those eyes looked like Naraku's. Her mind didn't even want to relate the coincidence that those same eyes were shared by Kagura.

But she would not think about that similarity just yet. No. Now, she would try to make up for all the time she and Kazuma had lost over the years. This was their time to reconnect.

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