InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Alone till Love ❯ The Past ( Chapter 12 )

Crescent Moon22000: *in Dragon Ball Z narrator voice* Chapter 12.....GO!

Mia:........riiiiiiight.

Inu: *stuffing his face with ramen*

Cresent: *still in Dragon Ball Z voice* I AM COOL!

Mia: SAVE ME FROM THE ANNOYING VOICE.......on with Chapter 12!

Cresent: *STILL in the Dragon Ball Z voice* Chapter 12......GO!!

Inu: *slowly puts ramen down and walks over casually to Crescent*

Mia: Inu.......?

Inu: *punches Cresent in the face* Okay, NOW on with chapter 12.

Mia: I wouldn't have done that if I were you...... >_<

Cresent: o_O

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Chapter 12: The Past

Kagome climbed to her feet slowly, deliberately. Her piercing silver eyes never left Riku, locked onto his intelligent features and eyes that lacked emotion as he beheld his sister, fully reborn and memories replaced at last.

For an instant, her features softened, and her eyes flickered with withheld sentiment. As quickly as this break in her anger came, it was gone. Her wrath was back, with a vengeance. She took a wobbly step forward, unsure if her legs were stable.

Her senses, now so heightened, seemed natural. She turned to Danika, to find the elven woman staring at her with rapt attention. "Do you want your sword, Kagome?" she asked, voice cool and casual. As if these were events that passed familiarly every day.

"I do." Kagome announced, voice confident and unshaken by her brothers cold stare, which bit into her as she turned to Danika with a fleeting smile. "I hope it is all well with you?" Danika muttered, sure Kagome would hear her voice.

"It was, for only a moment in time."

Danika paused momentarily, offense in her eyes. Kagome's features softened once more, and she silently apologized in thought. Danika nodded. The elf had expected the anger of Kagome, had expected the pain shadowing Kagome's usually cheerful smile.

What she hadn't expected was the obvious guilt in Kagome's silver eyes, or the horribly sorrowful glance at Inu-yasha. What had Danika missed? And even more so, what had Riku missed? Something had happened between Kagome and Inu-yasha......

"Are you certain?"

Kagome nodded at her friend, slowly, with one last glance at an unseeing Inu-yasha. `Kagome......' the hanyou thought painfully. He was snapped from his thoughts by Kagome's warm glance. He slowly raised his head, locking eyes with the now demon Kagome, hesitantly.

She smiled.

He swallowed hard, uncertain if he would ever see this true smile again. Kagome was slipping away, right before his eyes. He turned away, as Kagome once more knelt before Danika. The hanyou slowly backed away, eyes closing as the elf standing before Kagome began to mutter. She placed her index finger in the center of the forehead of the raven-haired woman.

A white light surrounded Kagome instantly, and Danika continued to mutter, stopping only when the luminosity began to fade. In the place where Kagome had knelt, still in her school uniform, was a demon woman. A beautiful, raven-haired young woman with piercing silver eyes and beauty unparalleled by all but Danika.(A/n ok Danika is like the tropical beauty and Kagome is like the Dark/Gothic beauty. OK)

This was the true demon form of Kagome, and Inu-yasha opened his eyes to find the woman kneeling before Danika still, but without the calm expression and thoughtful features.

Kagome was angry.

She once more got to her feet, this time gracefully and without hesitation. "Brother, why do you forsake me?" a cool voice rang out, hinted only barely with that of her human form. Inu-yasha swallowed his words, her name dying on his lips.

Flowing pants, the purest of black silk and sandals that seemed untouched by dirt. Her shirt, whose sleeves hung off her shoulders, was also of the beautiful silk. The off-the-shoulder top revealed a mark upon her right shoulder, the crest of her family, worn by all the royal guardians. The sign of her father.

Inu-yasha marveled at this new Kagome. She was still shorter than him, but she seemed so tall in her renewed elegance. Her silk ensemble clung to her body slightly, billowing in a liquid-like form. She was beautiful, even standing beside the lovely Danika.

At her hip, was the intricately designed scabbard of her heirloom blade. She rested a slender hand upon the seemingly delicate hilt of the blade, and drew out the sword. It was longer than even Riku's Chaos Blade, wide and shining inwardly. Colors mingled in the very core of the sword, luminescent with a pale glow and exotic colors that played across the soil.

Riku closed his mouth tightly at the sight of this blade. It was the Silence. The only blade that their father had foraged with his own bare hands. The only blade with the power of the soul.

Was Kagome truly going to fight him? Here and now? Was his own sister, whom he had risked everything for, ready to attempt to annihilate him?

Riku slowly drew his own sword, as Kagome turned to him, a smoldered flame renewed in her eyes as they locked with Riku's. "Do you truly hate me so, Kagome?" Kagome's steady gaze darkened, burning into Riku. Both demons clenched their jaw, making each appear alike to the other; their relation striking as Kagome opened her mouth to mutter her reply.

"Indeed."

Riku closed his dark eyes, the shadow of a frown crossing his face as he raised his blade. "Then so be it. I shall not hold back." Kagome scowled slightly at these words, casting one last glance over her shoulder at Inu- yasha. He, too, gazed at her in a fearful manner. She loved him, but this was something she must do, on her own.

She sighed inwardly, however. What must be accomplished, must be accomplished; no matter the risk. Kagome raised her sword as well. She was back, and she wasn't accepting her fate sitting down any longer.

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Riku leaped out of Kagome's reach, eyes searching for his sister. From behind, the whoosh of her blade made him jump form his perch upon the largest branch to the hard ground.

Danika glanced at him, then at Kagome. She could defend, or defy, neither. The elf sighed, standing beside Inu-yasha. His eyes never left the new, demon, Kagome. The hanyou turned from the battle. The Kagome he knew, the Kagome he loved, would never allow honor and pride to turn her against her own flesh and blood.

Inu-yasha sighed, walking away from the battle with cloudy eyes. And suddenly, he remembered, this was not his Kagome. The one he knew and loved. This was the ruthless, cold demon Kagome in which a horrible past lay. He hesitated, which he seemed to be doing so often nowadays. He cast a gloomy look over his shoulder and took a step forward.

Just as Kagome and Riku were out of his sight, a roar echoed through the forest.

"BASTARD! MY FATE WAS NOT YOURS TO DECIDE, LET ALONE YOURS TO CONTROL!" Kagome yelled, her brother stopping dead in his tracks. Inu-yasha swallowed his pain and raced to the battle scene once more. He would not let Kagome do what she would only regret in days to come.

Danika stood, eyes watering as her hands absently created faintly glowing charters that posed no real threat to neither Riku, nor Kagome. Inu-yasha slid into sight, Tetsusaiga unsheathed, ready to defend Kagome despite her utter and complete change, both inwardly and out.

"But the heart, my sister, does not always perform in accordance with the brain." Riku replied coolly, his voice losing it's edge and becoming soft once more. Kagome's blade hung slightly at her side. "I was meant to die that day, Riku. Fate had decided, and you were not meant to intervene. It is my fault that so many felt the pain Naraku spoke of."

Kagome swallowed, silver eyes flashing dangerously as she brought the blade up, pointing it's tip directly at Riku. "Inu-yasha and Kikyo, Sango, Miroku! All of them! My friends! IT WAS OUR FAULT!"

"I would have killed Auron, bringing his death alongside mine. But you were selfish, a fool! I AM NOT MEANT TO LIVE!" Kagome threw her furiously glowing blade from her and was in Riku's face before any noticed her movement.

"Yet you still feel my breath upon your neck, and my warm touch, do you not?"

Inu-yasha swallowed stepping forward, tone confident and open. "Once the threads of fate are tangled, they can never be undone." he called to Kagome who slowly turned to face him. "Killing Riku won't do a damn thing Kagome, this isn't you! You're not Kagome, because the girl I know would never do this! Stop, or I'll have to stop you." He raised the Tetsusaiga in a threatening manner, but he would not fight Kagome in truth.

The woman gazed at Inu-yasha, expression softening and arms going limp at her side. For an instant, Inu-yasha saw the true Kagome. Relief washed over him as he realized Kagome was not completely gone, not yet. But still, Kagome's eyes glowed with an enraged radiance.

"Trust me Kagome, please."

Kagome smiled slightly. "Only through another's eyes can one truly see." she said, voice still angry as she glared at Riku, frustrated. "I have nothing more to say to you, but that you will no longer control my life as you once did. "

Riku closed his eyes, turning from his sister with pain he held too tightly.

It seemed Inu-yasha had saved both her heart, and Riku's life. And for even a minute, she had found her old self within this demon shell. Kagome, the true girl, had come back to the world. She sighed inwardly, turning from Riku and walking in the opposite direction.

Inu-yasha had been an anchor to the real emotions, the real heart beating inside her. He had held her back from accomplishing that which would haunt her days for eternity. She smiled gratefully at Inu-yasha as she passed. `Thank you......' she thought silently, and Inu-yasha returned her smile hesitantly.

He glanced at Riku, who's dark eyes where shadowed and back turned to them. Danika went to him, placing a comforting hand on his back. The demon flinched slightly. `She'll never forgive me, Danika… Never.' The elf slowly turned to find Kagome's eyes burning into her.

"I think you have accomplished enough." Danika said, voice steady with cold indifference. Kagome felt her voice bite into her, but spun around and walked off nonetheless. Inu-yasha hesitated once more. "Should I go with her?" he questioned Danika.

The attractive elf nodded. "She will need you before the night is over." Inu-yasha turned without a word, following Kagome.

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The battle had ended before it had even begun, and on his behalf. He had gotten a glimpse of the fact the Kagome he loved wasn't completely gone, and this had been a relief beyond any felt before. For a moment, he had thought Kagome gone forever.

Inu-yasha smiled, catching up to Kagome.

"You.......you really scared me back there, Kagome." He said quietly, smiling fading as Kagome turned to look at him, tears streaming down his face. "Oh Inu-yasha, you were right. That wasn't me back there, that was not my heart beating, or my brain working......"

The demon collapsed weakly against him, and he caught her gracefully. "Kagome! Kagome what's wrong?!" Slowly he sank to the ground, the girl in his arms sobbing silently. "This is too much, I just want to forget......my family, my friends! They're dead Inu-yasha! And thanks to my selfish brother, I may never again have the chance to avenge them!"

Inu-yasha sighed, eyes meeting Kagome's, a gaze without hesitation. The first in a long while.

"Kagome, I don't know where Kikyo is......but I know that inside of me, I always knew someday I would not be with her. And now that the day has come, I won't lie and tell you I have forgotten her. Her love is still with me, even though her hatred eats away at me constantly. I have you now, and I was so happy. I am so happy." Kagome realized how similar their fates seemed, and she closed her eyes carefully.

Kagome smiled slowly, wiping away the tears. She still sat in his arms, and he still spoke, despite the fact that the night was growing black and the stars were springing up across the steadily darkening sky.

"Even though we may never get the revenge we seek, we will always have the love and guidance of those near to us, and that is the gift from those departed from this world." Inu-yasha's voice was soft, quiet; reassuring all the same. "So in the end......when all that's left is that Auron guy and you, just remember that you are Kagome still. Just remember how many people love you......"

He paused, eyes locking with Kagome's once more.

"Do you love me?" she asked, voice mingled with the chill, night breeze. Inu-yasha's mind raced, to the real versions of Kikyo, of Kagome. Then to the new. The deceased, cold Kikyo whose hatred burned. The demon Kagome who lost herself within herself.

He had still loved Kikyo, and now as he sat with Kagome. He realized his love was stronger even then that of his love for the girl Kagome. Their love had completed the test, and proved true. Inu-yasha held Kagome tighter to him.

"Yes."

Inu-yasha smiled reassuringly at Kagome, who kissed him slowly. "I thought you're promise would break, I thought you wouldn't love me." she whispered. Inu-yasha sighed quietly. "I don't care what you look like, or how different your body may seem. I still love you, what's inside of you and what you stand for."

Kagome held onto Inu-yasha only a moment longer before both climbed to their feet.

Inu-yasha had never seemed wise to Kagome, but as the two walked slowly, aimlessly, the demon girl realized at last why both Kikyo and herself had fallen in love with this hanyou in the first place. This made Kagome frown slightly.

Would fate also destroy what she and Inu-yasha now had? Just as had happened with Kikyo? She grabbed Inu-yasha's hand within hers. He had decided to stay with Kikyo long ago, so what had changed within him that she hadn't seen? She beamed all the same, because inside of her, the love was too strong to be broken even with the shadow of Kikyo there.

`I love you, Inu-yasha......and all that you have done for me, and even Kikyo cannot stand in our way now.'

And yet, Kagome could never realize the figure shrouded in shadow, whose face was lost in the foliage of the trees, was the person that haunted both their thoughts.....

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Mia: Yay! That's some nice foreshadowing, eh crescent? Eh? *glances at Crescent* Oh no.......

Crescent: *chasing Inu-yasha around with a metal baseball bat*

Inu: AHHH! GET THIS FUCKING INSANE BITCH AWAYYYYYYYYY!

Mia: Sometimes I feel so normal......until: *dresses up as Steve Irwin* CRIKEY MATES!! Watch as the enraged female attacks the fearful male, do you see that anger?! It's beautiful, just beautiful!

Cresent: IT WON'T BE BEAUTIFUL WHEN I'M DONE!!

Inu: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Mia: .........Ok, I'm leaving now, don't forget to review!!! *runs away from the insane person we all know as Cresent, still wearing the Steve Irwin outfit*

Inu: WAIT FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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Authors: OK people we're not going 2 update 4 a while until we get a like 7 more reviews B/c we don't feel loved. And I have a hole Shit loud of homework 2 do So anyway PLz REVIEW!!!!! Ok JA NEE!!!!!