InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayed ❯ InuYasha ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter Four: InuYasha

               

Two weeks InuYasha had been fallowing the same river Kagome had fallen into. Two weeks and still no trace of her body. It was a disturbing thought anything could have happened to it at this point and without the body Kagome’s death served no purpose other than he could now openly travel with Kikyo but still he couldn’t help but feel a little guilty that Kagome was now dead. As many times as he tried he couldn’t help but think back to that night.

“Go to her.” Kagome’s words caught his attention from her sleeping bag. The rest of the small group had fallen asleep hours ago but Kagome was still awake. InuYasha looked down at her from his place on the tree branch with confusion in his eyes. “I know you want to go to her and she’s waiting for you.” Kagome didn’t know just how much her life would change that night.

InuYasha had seen the hurt look in Kagome’s eyes as he rushed off after the soul collector to see Kikyo. He knew deep down that he should forget Kikyo or even send her back to the afterlife. A life with a body made out of clay and graveyard soil, not being able to feel anything but hate was not the kind of life any one should have. But he couldn’t bring himself to do it. He owed Kikyo any kind of life he could give her, after all it was his fault she died. If he had been more watchful, if he had been stronger back then he could have saved her and prevented all of this. He could have found happiness with her and she with him. They could have been a family with children and love. Most of all they would have had love.

So no InuYasha could not bring himself to do what he knew he should do and he would spend his time making up to Kikyo what she had lost any chance he got. He knew it hurt Kagome and that hurt him as well but he had a debt that had to be paid to Kikyo. And he would pay his debt and once that was over he would then be free to choose who would make him happy.

The soul collector stopped a few miles away from camp at the beginning of a barrier. InuYasha waited patiently as Kikyo stepped out from behind its safety. The full moon over head shone brightly above them providing all the light that they needed.

“InuYasha I wasn’t sure that you would come. I was afraid that you had forgotten about me, but I see that you haven’t and my hope was not false.” Kikyo spoke as she moved closer to him.

“What do you want Kikyo? You can’t have Kagome’s shards not this time.” InuYasha shot at her. He had never been one for sudleties and he found no reason to start now.

“Brash as ever InuYasha.” Kikyo smiled as she ran her cold had down the side of his face. He knew that she couldn’t feel him but he could feel her. Kikyo’s touch was so different from Kagome’s even when Kikyo was alive their was always some form of stiffness and coldness to it where Kagome was always warm and accepting. It was truly hard to believe that Kagome was Kikyo’s reincarnation.

“Then what do you want Kikyo. I’m not in the mood for your games.” InuYasha shot at her as he grabbed her wrist pulling her hand away from his face.

“What if I told you I found a way to come back to life. A way that allows me to be real woman again?” Kikyo paused as she stepped even closer to InuYasha placing both of her hands on his chest. “Would you help me InuYasha? Would you help me to live again?”

InuYasha was taken back by Kikyo’s words. Could it really be true had she found a way to be a real woman again? One that could feel one that could breath, eat and even have children. InuYasha knew there were many forms of magic and most of them came with a price. If Kikyo really had found a way, he knew the price for her return would be a heavy one. Was it one that he was willing to pay? To have Kikyo back to have his first love back in his life.

“Kikyo don’t toy with me! There is no way this is possible! You don’t even have half of your soul.” InuYasha growled as he grabbed her upper arms squeezing just enough that he heard her clay body begin to crack.

“InuYasha I am not toying with you. I truly have found a way. A way that will allow me to come back just as I was before, flesh and blood, a beating heart all my powers and I would even be able to have children.” It was with the last words that feel from Kikyo’s lips that InuYasha knew whatever she asked him to do he would. She was willing to have his children and he doubted that any other woman would ever want to.

“Kikyo just tell me what to do! Whatever the price is I will pay it!” InuYasha pulled Kikyo close as for the first time in a long time he allowed himself to hope. Hope for a future that he and Kikyo had been cheated out of once before. He would do whatever it took to bring her back to life.

“Even if it means killing Kagome?” Kikyo asked him and for a moment his heart dropped at the thought of killing the young girl. Could he really do it, could he really kill his best friend the only other person who had ever showed him any kindness. The person who had brought all of his friends to him. Could he kill the purest person he ever knew?

“Yes Kikyo even if that means killing Kagome.” InuYasha had made his choice. It was Kikyo it had always been Kikyo.

That night had changed everything for him. Over the weeks that he an Kikyo worked out their master plan InuYasha found himself becoming colder and more distant to Kagome. Going out of his way to point out her flaws. He didn’t know if he was doing it to make her love him less or so he could find reasons to not feel bad about Kagome’s impending fate.

Then the night came. The night that Kikyo and he had prepared for and Kagome made it that much easier by wondering off on her own that night. Stating that he was going to go find her after enough time had passed InuYasha would not stumble back into camp until a few hours after dawn. He would ever forget the look of bewilderment on his friends faces as he spun his web of lies.

InuYasha had told them all that he had found Kagome sitting on edge of a cliff overlooking the river below. She had been crying saying that she was going to go home for good. That she felt like she was just a Burdon to everyone. When they had been attacked by a snake demon. He had told them that it had bitten him with poison that overtook him. Then when it tried to go after Kagome it had knocked her off the cliff onto the jagged rocks below. It was a simple enough lie one that Kikyo had insisted upon. The more complex the easier it would be for them to be caught in the long run. InuYasha hated lieing to his friends but they just wouldn’t understand why he had to do this. But what he wasn’t ready for was the reaction to the news of Kagome’s death.

He had just been standing there in front of all his friends none of them moving, none of them dared to say a word. It was as if they were waiting for Kagome to walk out of the tee line like this was all some bad joke that they could be angry about later. It was then that all hell broke loose.

“NO!” Shippo screamed at the top of his lungs while Sango healed him tightly. “Kagome was supposed to be my new mama!” He sobbed into Sango’s chest. “This is all your fault InuYasha you stupid bastard! You were supposed to protect her! Her life was worth more than yours will ever be!”  Shippo lunged out of Sango’s arms claws ready to strike but all InuYasha did was swat him away like a fly with Shippo landing hard on the ground.

“Shut up you brat! It wasn’t my fault I couldn’t smell the snake! I was paralyzed all I could do was watch her fall helplessly over the cliff! I couldn’t even find the body!” Which was the only true part of his story.

“It is your fault InuYasha my mama is gone because of you.” Shippo cried while whipping tears from his eyes as he jumped back into Sango’s arms. Sango had yet to say anything and everyone was sure she was in shock.

“We need to find Lady Kagome’s body.” Miroku stated. “We owe it to her family to return her to her home where she can be laid to rest.” 

The worst part was the next week when InuYasha came back with Kikyo calming that they needed her to replace Kagome. He thought that they were all going to leave. Shippo ran off and Sango literally tried to kill him. If it hadn’t been for Miroku InuYasha was sure that she would have. It was the day that the group broke down the middle.

 

And that was how he ended up hear fallowing the river for two weeks with not even a hint ok Kagome’s body. He didn’t even want to think of what it would look like now if they wound it. There would be no way that Kikyo could use it like the had originally planned no now they would have to find her a new body.