InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Angel or Devil Heaven or Hell ❯ the fine line between illusion and reality ( Chapter 1 )

::trumpets sound and crowd cheers:: and now for my debut inu yasha fic ::silence cricket cricket cricket:: awwww u guys are no fun. Any way, special thanx to amyfushigiyugi for pushing me to write an inu yasha anything. ^_^

now let the fun begin *grins eviiiiiilly* mwhahahahahahahaha >:D

ur all gonna hate me for this chappie but it's a necessary evil.

(A/N): astriks (*dis li'l thing isn't it cute) mean thinking

Disclaimer: :::Sesshy pats chaos on back::: I don't own inu yasha:::sniff::

Chapter Uno (one)

Looking around, he saw what looked like Inu Yasha's forest, his forest. But he knew it was a trap. It was an illusion created by Naraku. It was just an illusion, wasn't it? Naraku had done this before, create an illusion so real that it fooled even the best. Last time he did that, he recreated the day Kikyo had pinned him to a tree. But this time he knew better. For one, if memory served, he wasn't anywhere near his forest. And two, he was just walking along with Miroku, Sango, Kagome and Shippo on the other side of the territory. If, of course, this was an illusion. His sensitive nose picked up the sweet scent of Kagome, just before the angelic vision that is her smile came through the trees.

* No, this couldn't be an illusion. Keh! Even Naraku couldn't recreate Kagome's sweet scent so perfectly*

But then he smelled it. The vile and nauseating stench of Naraku coming closer, closing in for the kill. Kagome was beaming that sunshine smile at him, unaware of the monstrosity that lurked behind her, coming in fast. He tried to move. Inu Yasha tried to move but it seemed as if his feet had grown large, immoveable roots, and would not let him save Kagome. He yelled out to her. Screamed for her to look out, to move, anything to make her aware of the danger. But nothing came out. Not a sound was let loose from deep within his chest. He looked on in horror, as the massive demon puppet shot one of its large, ugly tentacles at Kagome. It went in through her back, ripped inwards towards Kagome's heart and out through her chest. Her body bent back towards the sudden intrusion, her snapped back looking at the sky in surprise. Blood flew from her open mouth with each inch the tentacle progressed. She looked like a rag doll with her feet and arms limp and dangling lifelessly.

Inu Yasha could now move his feet, but now was too late. Fate was too cruel a mistress to him. Every drop of blood that he saw leave her body meant she was that much closer to death. He destroyed the demon puppet swipe of his claws and caught Kagome as she fell from the disintegrating tentacle. He held her close, knowing that with each breath she came closer to death. Each one more shallow than the last.

He felt a strange and foreign wetness well up in his eyes, sliding down his cheeks and pooling at the bottom of his chin. He was.........crying, something he hadn't done since his mother died. But Kagome couldn't die, didn't she realize how much he needed her? Needed her to keep him grounded. Didn't she realize that he................................................loved her? Love? No that couldn't be right, he loved Kikyo, didn't he? However she, Kagome, made him feel things that Kikyo never did. She made him feel so....so....so alive! The way she was there with her bright smile that cheered him up like nothing else. He always felt at ease around her, and went crazy when she wasn't there. Yes, he knew this much was true, and he wanted to live. GOD knows he wanted to live, he just felt he had owed Kikyo his life. But no longer. He knew who he wanted now, but again now was too late. Rocking back and forth he brought her close and whispered in her ear, "I love you, Kagome." Then he placed a kiss on her forehead as he howled over her cold and lifeless form.

Just as suddenly as she had died, Kagome disappeared from within trembling embrace. Everything around him went black, and an vicious and menacing voice whispered, "This is what will happen Inu Yasha, when we face off in our final battle. I will kill her, Inu Yasha, and you will be powerless to stop me." Naraku's voice seeped with poison as he laughed maliciously. That laugh made Inu Yasha's blood run cold. Before he had a chance to answer, the road that they had all been traveling on, came back into view. No one had noticed that he had stopped dead in his tracks. A very familiar raven haired angel was just up the path, the monk and the exterminator walked just behind.

Inu Yasha ran as fast as he could past Miroku and Sango with one goal in mind; Kagome. Embracing her from behind like she had done so often, he rested his forehead on the back of hers. All it took was for her to murmur his name, very breathy like Marylin Monroe, and he broke down. For the second time that day, he broke down. Kagome could feel him tremble with each silent sob that racked his body. He buried his face deeper into her hair, inhaling her heavenly scent mixed with his tears. As he stood there behind her all she could think was, *Inu Yasha............crying?*