InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bewitched ❯ Chapter Five ( Chapter 5 )
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Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha and I never will but I do own the plot to this story and all the evil goodness!
Okay so here's the long awaited chapter to this story. I really hope that you like it.. It follows the basic Angst that I'm good for and I hope that you like it. Please read carefully because this chapter ties back to chapters one and two. It's not exactly the same but there is some very important similarities that I really hope you notice. Well so why don't you read it and find out for yourself?
Bewitched
By Miztikal-Dragon
Chapter Five
M orning had come to quickly for Kagome and when her mother came to her room and gently shook her away, the teenager couldn't bare to get out of bed. She wished that she could just waste away because she couldn't have what she desired most. Crawling out of bed a few minutes later, Kagome quickly washed her body in the small basin by her door and donned yet another itchy gray dress and a white apron. Pulling on a new bonnet and hiding her long ebony hair, she tried to keep her mind from straying to him, but couldn't help it. InuYasha was all that she could think about, he was the only thing that kept her sane through all the bad times. Slipping on her clog like shoes, she kissed her mother goodbye and headed to the school house for the daily lesson.
She had hoped that Koga would talk to her, but he didn't. When ever he would look her way, there was that disgusted expression on his face that made her feel guilty and her heart sunk lower into her stomach by the hour. By the time the appointed teacher had finished for the day, Kagome quickly darted after Koga who seemed to be leaving before anyone could get up out of their seats. Catching him half way down the road, she placed a gentle hand onto his shoulder only to have him roughly shrug her off and glare at her with pure hatred.
"Keep your hands off me woman." He growled holding the reading book closer to his form.
"Please Koga I have to talk to you," She begged trying to hold back her tears, "Please just give me a moment to explain myselfPlease"
He wanted to throw her to the ground and whip her for her actions, Koga wanted to yell and scream till he was blue in the face telling his precious woman how wrong it was to sign the black book of the devil. How it was wrong to give Lucifer the pleasure of her pure body and soul just for something stupid. He could see the tears waiting to fall from her face and he began to cave. He had always been a softy when it came to beautiful women, and so had his father and his father before him. Sighing heavily as he pinched the bridge of his nose, Koga growled.
"Fine, I'll let you speak woman."
Kagome's mind screamed as she fought for words to say, she didn't know how to save herself and honestly she didn't want to . The only reason she was going to be the boy in front of her not to say a word was because InuYasha didn't want her to have to go through what he had to, she was doing it because she had grown to love the man with amber eyes and long silver hair. Taking a deep breath, she cleared her mind and focused on the task at hand, she had to destroy what was left of her honor in front of this boy and beg for him to keep silent.
"Please Koga," She began, "Please don't speak of the devil in Salem.Don't say anything about last night at the forest Please I beg of youDo you know what Naraku will do to me if he finds out something like thisPlease I'll do anything, just don't tell anyone.."
"Why should I?" Koga spat crossing his arms over his chest superiorly.
"I'll surly be hanged if you tell!" She whispered keeping her voice down in order not to draw any attention to their conversation.
Koga didn't want to think about the possibilities of what would happen to her if she were to be guilty of witchcraft, but he wanted to put her in her place, show her that no woman could ever do anything that a man couldShe would have to live with the shame that she had caused for herself. Thinking long and hard about both the ups and downs of this troublesome situation, Koga finally thought of something that he could agree with and she would just have to go along with it, but that wouldn't' come until later, though not too much longer.
"I won't say anything for now Kagome," He said still jealous about not being the first person to touch the teenage girl before him, "But you mustn't ever go back to the forest for anything. If you do I will have to go back on my word and you will pay for your crimes upon the town of SalemAnd then not even I can save your soul from the torments of hellDo I make myself clear?"
Kagome nodded, how was she able to speak a word if she could barely hold herself strong in front of him. Her life was crumbling around her feet and she didn't know if she was going to be able to pick up the pieces. Giving Koga a smile, she excused herself and headed home. She needed time to think about the rush of things, how had it gone so wrong? Completely lost in her thoughts, she didn't realize what was going on around her until her mother placed a gentle hand on her shoulder snapping her out of the world of depression.
"Don't worry about helping me with dinner tonight my love," Kagome couldn't feel any worse than she did now, "Just go clean up and take a breatherYou look as though you've lost your mind.."
"I feel as though I have lost my heart." She whispered going to her room.
The night had endlessly dragged on and at the dinner table her mother had explained how Kagome was to go over to Naraku's house and clean because he had personally asked for her assistance. Kagome didn't think anything of it and brushed it off as she ate her dinner and went immediately to bed, crying herself to sleep. If this was how she was going to live, feeling alone and dead inside, then it would have been better off if she hadn't lived at all.
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Morning had seemed to come quicker than normal but Kagome rose on schedule, she was a busy girl and she had things to do. She had washed herself, eaten and dressed in a mechanical way, she was lacking any emotion and it showed in her eyes. Her mother had questioned her, but Kagome shrugged it off and continued on doing her morning chores before she would head over to Naraku's and clean his home like he had asked. Slipping on her shoes and pulling on her bonnet, Kagome kissed her mother goodbye as well as her grandfather and headed outside to the warm sunlight.
The weather was completely opposite of what she felt, but she quickly headed towards the center of town where Naraku's home stood tall next to the church. She had only been to his place a couple of times but it reminded her of what her grandmother used to call an old library. The house had a musky old paper scent and was filled with text books and dictionaries of every sort.. Naraku had been a "Harvard" scholar. The gravel crunched loudly underneath her shoes and even if it was a warm day she was cold. The snow had melted some and left the ground around it with mud. Some of the small village boys were running around covered in it as their mother's called for them to come inside and clean up.
Reaching Naraku's house, she calmly went to the door and knocked lightly. She didn't want to be there and it gave her creeps the way his house had the eerie wind blowing by, it was as if there wasn't something quite right with the man. The door opened a few minutes later and she kept her eyes glued to her feet, she didn't want to look at him.
"Why hello Kagome my dear," He said in sickeningly sweet tone, "You've arrived just on time. Why don't you come in?"
Kagome didn't answer but cautiously stepped into Naraku's house and waited for further instructions. She kept trying to brush InuYasha from her mind, but it left a painful hole in her heart when she remembered him saying that he didn't want to see her anymore.. It was like a stab into the heart and all she wanted to do was cry. Not realizing that Naraku had been speaking to her, Kagome was suddenly brought out of her stupor when a large hand brushed against her cheek. Darting her gaze to Naraku's cold black eyes, he gave her a sly grin and ushered her into the living room where she sat down on the chair that he pointed out to her.
"Now Kagome." He said calmly all emotion drained from his voice. "I have not called you hear to clean my home.."
"You haven't?" She asked bewildered.
"Nay I haven't." He stated standing in front of her, "I would like for you to read to me for a few hours a day.. I love to read myself, but in aging, my eyes are not what they used to be and I would like to hear your sweet voice reading the words to me.."
'NO!' Her mind screamed at her, 'Tell him no! I don't want to read to him! He is nothing but a scary old man! How can he be here? There is something about this house that makes me think that he is not human! I need to get out of this place and run as far as my legs can carry me! I must leave this village and just run!'
She never voiced any of her thoughts and nodded contempt at Naraku's request. No matter how much her every being was against it, she had too. If she didn't he would start suspecting something and Kagome didn't want the villagers watching her any more closer than what they were doing now.. It was as if they were trying to catch her slipping up in her well hidden façade.. Well hidden yeah right That's how it started, Kagome would come to Naraku's a little after noon and he would invite her in. She never spoke much, but he always eyed her carefully as he handed her the desired book that she was going to read to him. Hours would drag on and she would leave before sunset.
Nobody in the village seemed suspicious about that, they would give her a genuine smile and wish her good health, nobody care that she went to the minister's house for hours. A week or so passed and that is all that would happen, daily lessons had been forgotten, and Kagome's life seemed to be revolving around Naraku. He didn't want to have her out of his sight, and he was always around her. It was sickening. Koga had stopped glaring at her with persecution, seeing how she had her soul saved by him. But all of it didn't matter to her anymore, Kagome didn't want to live the life she was living now, she didn't want any of it. Everyday seemed empty and she missed InuYasha so much that she would cry herself to sleep every night and fall deeper into her depression. The only thing that she could think of was that she had fallen into a one-sided love, but she couldn't bring herself to accept it and move on.. He had changed her and in a good way; well at least that's what she thought.
Sitting down on the floor with a book propped in her lap as she read aloud she could feel his eyes boring holes into her body and she fought against all urges to shudder. There may have been a fire roaring in the fire place and a completely full cup of water at her side, but she was freezing and thirsty, but she refused to drink. Kagome heard Naraku move and the next thing she knew he was sitting down in front of her, his hands closing the book and putting it next to him. Bringing her gaze to his, she felt his clammy hands take hold of hers and squeeze them gently. Her mind was screaming for her to break free that something wasn't right, that he shouldn't be touching her hands so familiarly, but she was frozen in place. Stuck by her fear of what he would do if she rejected his touch.
"Kagome," He whispered hoarsely as he leaned closer, "I have listened to your beautiful voice now for days and I cannot help but find myself falling in love with you.. I've watched you grow up, but now I want to watch you grow old with me.."
'Get out of there!' It wasn't her voice that rang out in her mind but InuYasha's. She couldn't move as she stared at Naraku and his evil smirk. She felt as though her throat was closing up and cutting off all the air to her lungs, she felt as though she was going to die. The foreboding air around her was suffocating her and she thought that she was going to die, she needed to get out.
"What are you saying?" She asked, her voice coming out softer than a whisper.
"I'm saying Kagome, that I would like for you to be my wife.." It wasn't a question but to her it seemed like a threatening demand.
"I-uh..-I.." She could put her words together "I gotta go.."
Jumping to her feet, Kagome opened the door and ran out into the fresh air. She couldn't believe her ears, they were burning with the words that Naraku had spoken. He wanted to marry her, and Kagome knew that he wasn't asking by the look in his eyes, he was demanding that she accept his proposal. Never stopping, Kagome ran down the road, her mind not able to comprehend what she had just heard, she was refusing to understand what Naraku had asked. She was so wound up in her own thoughts as she ran that she didn't hear Koga calling after her, she probably wouldn't be able to hear anything for a while the way her mind was racing.
Kagome wanted to go running into the forest and scream out her overwhelming emotions, but she had told Koga that she wouldn't and she just couldn't go back on the promise that she had made to InuYasha. Going into her house, she didn't speak a word about anything and went straight to her room where she collapsed on her bed and cried until her eyes burned and her head throbbed. She wasn't able to keep composure any longer. If things continued on like how they were, she would go absolutely bonkers. It was a while after she had come home that she cried herself into unconsciousness all the while both her mom and grandfather watching her with worried eyes from the doorway.
The night had come slowly and when Kagome finally opened her eyes, she had everything somewhat planned out. Finding herself already dressed in her nightgown, she tossed on her cloak and as quietly as she could, snuck out of her house. It was cold and she knew that it would snow later. Not looking back, Kagome took off barefoot into the forest, she needed to see InuYasha and even if it was breaking the promise she made she had to because she just couldn't stand to see another day go by without him. Her chest heaved and her white nightgown fluttered behind her as she ran. Tall trees were everywhere and some snow covered the ground sending cold pricks of pain through her feet as they collided with the white cold substance. But she kept running.
'Please InuYasha come for me!' Her mind pleaded as she felt the wind against her cheeks, 'Don't abandon me when I need you the most. Please come for me!'
She could see the tall trees around her letting up and she immediately knew that she was nearing the lake. It would be frozen over so she wouldn't have to go around the long way to InuYasha's cave and it would mean that soon her cold feet could find warmth at his roaring fire. Completely forgetting about the tree root that stuck up out of the ground that would be hidden underneath the snow, Kagome's foot caught on it and she went tumbling to the ground, her loud scream piercing through the night. She rolled down a small hill that lead to the lake and hit her head on a near by rock as she slid out onto the middle of the ice. Her limp body lay sprawled over the ice, her ebony hair covering her face as her nightgown fluttered in the wind as the snowflakes began to fall to the ground. Kagome had been right, it was going to snow, and now she lay unconscious on the lake nothing but the coldness and darkness around her giving no sense of comfort.
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InuYasha had been sitting near the fire for hours now, his clawed fingers tapping relentlessly against his thigh, there was a bad feeling welling up in his stomach but he wasn't able to put his finger on it. At first he thought it to be just nerves on the impending storm heading his way, yet it didn't feel like a natural storm. Sure he could smell the fresh snow falling from the air, the warmth of his fire kept his cheeks a rosy red and his blood running, but something was amiss. It had been a week since he had last spoken to Kagome, since he had held her in his arms and caressed her face with his fingers and he missed her. Of course he had been watching her from the boundaries of the forest as much as he could, but he always had to remind himself that it was all that he could do now, was watch.
He was torn from his thoughts as a faint scream through the wind reached his ears and his blood ran cold. Many random thoughts came to his mind as he thought about the possible reasons for the scream and the first one was that Kagome was in trouble. His eyes darted around cautiously as his ears swiveled around his head straining to hear anything else. When no sound came his tried to swallow the lump in his throat, it wasn't working too well. Going to the mouth of the cave to stare at the scenery, InuYasha tried to get his mind away from the depressing and unnerving plaguing his mind but it didn't work when he heard the wolves crying into the night. They seemed to be calling for him to the lake, howling as if the land was going to fall into constant darkness, being swallowed by the evil of night for all eternity.
Following his instincts, InuYasha leaped into the wilderness surrounding him, something was not right and his heart was racing with anticipation and insecurity. The air around him was deathly cold and it felt as if the night was trying to suffocate him and he was covered in a cold sweat before he had even started out on his little excursion. As he ran InuYasha could have sworn that he could feel the gaze of sinister eyes watching him, boring into his back as he struggled to find whatever it was that was making him feel as though part of him was dying. Whatever it was he had to find it and by the racing of his heart he had to find it fast.
Jumping through the trees, he could smell her near by and he cursed himself mentally. She had gone back on her word and was there in the middle of the night in the darkness of the forest where anything unnatural could get a hold of her. Honestly was she that stupid? Well whether she was or not, he would give her a piece of his mind when he saw her. Landing swiftly on the ground next to the frozen lake, he let his eyes survey his surroundings in front of him. Kagome's cloak lay half buried in the freshly fallen snow right where the trees opened, but she was no where in sight. InuYasha could feel the panic stirring in his heart and he became desperate. Where the hell was she?
Turning around he gazed out onto the frozen lake and he wanted to cry out as he stared at Kagome's unmoving body under the snow, her hand laid there limply looking as if she was trying to read out to him, her hair covering her face. Her skin was pale and she looked as if she was dead. His breath hitched in his chest as he relived his nightmares yet again. It couldn't be Kagome on the ice, it was Kikyo, she was standing there like she had forty years ago, her hair fluttering into the wind as her arms lay bound behind her back. Her dress flapping about her body as her cold and hard staring at him exposing the tears that she had cried for them. It was all too real for him to comprehend.
He could hear the faint cracking of the ice and the pinpricks of pain in his knees from the crouching position he had been in for a while, and he swore upon the heavens that he could hear Kikyo's soft voice whispering his name into the depths of the night as she disappeared from his sight and all he could see was Kagome's body laying on the ice, small lines dancing around the ice. It was going to give way under her body weight!
"Kagome!" He cried out as he darted for her. He'd be damned if he let her go the way that Kikyo had, being stolen from him by the icy cold water's clutches with out any remorse. Nature could be a different version of a torturous hell of damnation.
Scooping her numb body into his arms, InuYasha gazed at her face with concern with the pale blue color of her lips and the faint beating of her heart, she was going to die of hypothermia if he didn't get her to the fire raging in his cave soon. Shivering at the feel of her body against his and not it the good way, he stepped only to feel the icy giving underneath his weight. The ice was cracking faster than before and he didn't have enough time to move before it split and the icy water seemed to grab his ankle and drag him and Kagome underneath the icy into the unforgiving and freezing waters below. They were both swallowed by the lake.
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Okay so I know that it is a little shorter than normal but I couldn't help it. At first this isn't what happens, but I didn't really like the other version so I changed it and thought that this would be much better! SO sorry that there was no fluff in this chapter. Please review and tell me what you think. I would appreciate some feedback. And thank you to everyone who has reviewed! You're the best that a gal like me can ever hope for!
So until next time, Krystal.
Okay so here's the long awaited chapter to this story. I really hope that you like it.. It follows the basic Angst that I'm good for and I hope that you like it. Please read carefully because this chapter ties back to chapters one and two. It's not exactly the same but there is some very important similarities that I really hope you notice. Well so why don't you read it and find out for yourself?
Bewitched
By Miztikal-Dragon
Chapter Five
M orning had come to quickly for Kagome and when her mother came to her room and gently shook her away, the teenager couldn't bare to get out of bed. She wished that she could just waste away because she couldn't have what she desired most. Crawling out of bed a few minutes later, Kagome quickly washed her body in the small basin by her door and donned yet another itchy gray dress and a white apron. Pulling on a new bonnet and hiding her long ebony hair, she tried to keep her mind from straying to him, but couldn't help it. InuYasha was all that she could think about, he was the only thing that kept her sane through all the bad times. Slipping on her clog like shoes, she kissed her mother goodbye and headed to the school house for the daily lesson.
She had hoped that Koga would talk to her, but he didn't. When ever he would look her way, there was that disgusted expression on his face that made her feel guilty and her heart sunk lower into her stomach by the hour. By the time the appointed teacher had finished for the day, Kagome quickly darted after Koga who seemed to be leaving before anyone could get up out of their seats. Catching him half way down the road, she placed a gentle hand onto his shoulder only to have him roughly shrug her off and glare at her with pure hatred.
"Keep your hands off me woman." He growled holding the reading book closer to his form.
"Please Koga I have to talk to you," She begged trying to hold back her tears, "Please just give me a moment to explain myselfPlease"
He wanted to throw her to the ground and whip her for her actions, Koga wanted to yell and scream till he was blue in the face telling his precious woman how wrong it was to sign the black book of the devil. How it was wrong to give Lucifer the pleasure of her pure body and soul just for something stupid. He could see the tears waiting to fall from her face and he began to cave. He had always been a softy when it came to beautiful women, and so had his father and his father before him. Sighing heavily as he pinched the bridge of his nose, Koga growled.
"Fine, I'll let you speak woman."
Kagome's mind screamed as she fought for words to say, she didn't know how to save herself and honestly she didn't want to . The only reason she was going to be the boy in front of her not to say a word was because InuYasha didn't want her to have to go through what he had to, she was doing it because she had grown to love the man with amber eyes and long silver hair. Taking a deep breath, she cleared her mind and focused on the task at hand, she had to destroy what was left of her honor in front of this boy and beg for him to keep silent.
"Please Koga," She began, "Please don't speak of the devil in Salem.Don't say anything about last night at the forest Please I beg of youDo you know what Naraku will do to me if he finds out something like thisPlease I'll do anything, just don't tell anyone.."
"Why should I?" Koga spat crossing his arms over his chest superiorly.
"I'll surly be hanged if you tell!" She whispered keeping her voice down in order not to draw any attention to their conversation.
Koga didn't want to think about the possibilities of what would happen to her if she were to be guilty of witchcraft, but he wanted to put her in her place, show her that no woman could ever do anything that a man couldShe would have to live with the shame that she had caused for herself. Thinking long and hard about both the ups and downs of this troublesome situation, Koga finally thought of something that he could agree with and she would just have to go along with it, but that wouldn't' come until later, though not too much longer.
"I won't say anything for now Kagome," He said still jealous about not being the first person to touch the teenage girl before him, "But you mustn't ever go back to the forest for anything. If you do I will have to go back on my word and you will pay for your crimes upon the town of SalemAnd then not even I can save your soul from the torments of hellDo I make myself clear?"
Kagome nodded, how was she able to speak a word if she could barely hold herself strong in front of him. Her life was crumbling around her feet and she didn't know if she was going to be able to pick up the pieces. Giving Koga a smile, she excused herself and headed home. She needed time to think about the rush of things, how had it gone so wrong? Completely lost in her thoughts, she didn't realize what was going on around her until her mother placed a gentle hand on her shoulder snapping her out of the world of depression.
"Don't worry about helping me with dinner tonight my love," Kagome couldn't feel any worse than she did now, "Just go clean up and take a breatherYou look as though you've lost your mind.."
"I feel as though I have lost my heart." She whispered going to her room.
The night had endlessly dragged on and at the dinner table her mother had explained how Kagome was to go over to Naraku's house and clean because he had personally asked for her assistance. Kagome didn't think anything of it and brushed it off as she ate her dinner and went immediately to bed, crying herself to sleep. If this was how she was going to live, feeling alone and dead inside, then it would have been better off if she hadn't lived at all.
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Morning had seemed to come quicker than normal but Kagome rose on schedule, she was a busy girl and she had things to do. She had washed herself, eaten and dressed in a mechanical way, she was lacking any emotion and it showed in her eyes. Her mother had questioned her, but Kagome shrugged it off and continued on doing her morning chores before she would head over to Naraku's and clean his home like he had asked. Slipping on her shoes and pulling on her bonnet, Kagome kissed her mother goodbye as well as her grandfather and headed outside to the warm sunlight.
The weather was completely opposite of what she felt, but she quickly headed towards the center of town where Naraku's home stood tall next to the church. She had only been to his place a couple of times but it reminded her of what her grandmother used to call an old library. The house had a musky old paper scent and was filled with text books and dictionaries of every sort.. Naraku had been a "Harvard" scholar. The gravel crunched loudly underneath her shoes and even if it was a warm day she was cold. The snow had melted some and left the ground around it with mud. Some of the small village boys were running around covered in it as their mother's called for them to come inside and clean up.
Reaching Naraku's house, she calmly went to the door and knocked lightly. She didn't want to be there and it gave her creeps the way his house had the eerie wind blowing by, it was as if there wasn't something quite right with the man. The door opened a few minutes later and she kept her eyes glued to her feet, she didn't want to look at him.
"Why hello Kagome my dear," He said in sickeningly sweet tone, "You've arrived just on time. Why don't you come in?"
Kagome didn't answer but cautiously stepped into Naraku's house and waited for further instructions. She kept trying to brush InuYasha from her mind, but it left a painful hole in her heart when she remembered him saying that he didn't want to see her anymore.. It was like a stab into the heart and all she wanted to do was cry. Not realizing that Naraku had been speaking to her, Kagome was suddenly brought out of her stupor when a large hand brushed against her cheek. Darting her gaze to Naraku's cold black eyes, he gave her a sly grin and ushered her into the living room where she sat down on the chair that he pointed out to her.
"Now Kagome." He said calmly all emotion drained from his voice. "I have not called you hear to clean my home.."
"You haven't?" She asked bewildered.
"Nay I haven't." He stated standing in front of her, "I would like for you to read to me for a few hours a day.. I love to read myself, but in aging, my eyes are not what they used to be and I would like to hear your sweet voice reading the words to me.."
'NO!' Her mind screamed at her, 'Tell him no! I don't want to read to him! He is nothing but a scary old man! How can he be here? There is something about this house that makes me think that he is not human! I need to get out of this place and run as far as my legs can carry me! I must leave this village and just run!'
She never voiced any of her thoughts and nodded contempt at Naraku's request. No matter how much her every being was against it, she had too. If she didn't he would start suspecting something and Kagome didn't want the villagers watching her any more closer than what they were doing now.. It was as if they were trying to catch her slipping up in her well hidden façade.. Well hidden yeah right That's how it started, Kagome would come to Naraku's a little after noon and he would invite her in. She never spoke much, but he always eyed her carefully as he handed her the desired book that she was going to read to him. Hours would drag on and she would leave before sunset.
Nobody in the village seemed suspicious about that, they would give her a genuine smile and wish her good health, nobody care that she went to the minister's house for hours. A week or so passed and that is all that would happen, daily lessons had been forgotten, and Kagome's life seemed to be revolving around Naraku. He didn't want to have her out of his sight, and he was always around her. It was sickening. Koga had stopped glaring at her with persecution, seeing how she had her soul saved by him. But all of it didn't matter to her anymore, Kagome didn't want to live the life she was living now, she didn't want any of it. Everyday seemed empty and she missed InuYasha so much that she would cry herself to sleep every night and fall deeper into her depression. The only thing that she could think of was that she had fallen into a one-sided love, but she couldn't bring herself to accept it and move on.. He had changed her and in a good way; well at least that's what she thought.
Sitting down on the floor with a book propped in her lap as she read aloud she could feel his eyes boring holes into her body and she fought against all urges to shudder. There may have been a fire roaring in the fire place and a completely full cup of water at her side, but she was freezing and thirsty, but she refused to drink. Kagome heard Naraku move and the next thing she knew he was sitting down in front of her, his hands closing the book and putting it next to him. Bringing her gaze to his, she felt his clammy hands take hold of hers and squeeze them gently. Her mind was screaming for her to break free that something wasn't right, that he shouldn't be touching her hands so familiarly, but she was frozen in place. Stuck by her fear of what he would do if she rejected his touch.
"Kagome," He whispered hoarsely as he leaned closer, "I have listened to your beautiful voice now for days and I cannot help but find myself falling in love with you.. I've watched you grow up, but now I want to watch you grow old with me.."
'Get out of there!' It wasn't her voice that rang out in her mind but InuYasha's. She couldn't move as she stared at Naraku and his evil smirk. She felt as though her throat was closing up and cutting off all the air to her lungs, she felt as though she was going to die. The foreboding air around her was suffocating her and she thought that she was going to die, she needed to get out.
"What are you saying?" She asked, her voice coming out softer than a whisper.
"I'm saying Kagome, that I would like for you to be my wife.." It wasn't a question but to her it seemed like a threatening demand.
"I-uh..-I.." She could put her words together "I gotta go.."
Jumping to her feet, Kagome opened the door and ran out into the fresh air. She couldn't believe her ears, they were burning with the words that Naraku had spoken. He wanted to marry her, and Kagome knew that he wasn't asking by the look in his eyes, he was demanding that she accept his proposal. Never stopping, Kagome ran down the road, her mind not able to comprehend what she had just heard, she was refusing to understand what Naraku had asked. She was so wound up in her own thoughts as she ran that she didn't hear Koga calling after her, she probably wouldn't be able to hear anything for a while the way her mind was racing.
Kagome wanted to go running into the forest and scream out her overwhelming emotions, but she had told Koga that she wouldn't and she just couldn't go back on the promise that she had made to InuYasha. Going into her house, she didn't speak a word about anything and went straight to her room where she collapsed on her bed and cried until her eyes burned and her head throbbed. She wasn't able to keep composure any longer. If things continued on like how they were, she would go absolutely bonkers. It was a while after she had come home that she cried herself into unconsciousness all the while both her mom and grandfather watching her with worried eyes from the doorway.
The night had come slowly and when Kagome finally opened her eyes, she had everything somewhat planned out. Finding herself already dressed in her nightgown, she tossed on her cloak and as quietly as she could, snuck out of her house. It was cold and she knew that it would snow later. Not looking back, Kagome took off barefoot into the forest, she needed to see InuYasha and even if it was breaking the promise she made she had to because she just couldn't stand to see another day go by without him. Her chest heaved and her white nightgown fluttered behind her as she ran. Tall trees were everywhere and some snow covered the ground sending cold pricks of pain through her feet as they collided with the white cold substance. But she kept running.
'Please InuYasha come for me!' Her mind pleaded as she felt the wind against her cheeks, 'Don't abandon me when I need you the most. Please come for me!'
She could see the tall trees around her letting up and she immediately knew that she was nearing the lake. It would be frozen over so she wouldn't have to go around the long way to InuYasha's cave and it would mean that soon her cold feet could find warmth at his roaring fire. Completely forgetting about the tree root that stuck up out of the ground that would be hidden underneath the snow, Kagome's foot caught on it and she went tumbling to the ground, her loud scream piercing through the night. She rolled down a small hill that lead to the lake and hit her head on a near by rock as she slid out onto the middle of the ice. Her limp body lay sprawled over the ice, her ebony hair covering her face as her nightgown fluttered in the wind as the snowflakes began to fall to the ground. Kagome had been right, it was going to snow, and now she lay unconscious on the lake nothing but the coldness and darkness around her giving no sense of comfort.
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InuYasha had been sitting near the fire for hours now, his clawed fingers tapping relentlessly against his thigh, there was a bad feeling welling up in his stomach but he wasn't able to put his finger on it. At first he thought it to be just nerves on the impending storm heading his way, yet it didn't feel like a natural storm. Sure he could smell the fresh snow falling from the air, the warmth of his fire kept his cheeks a rosy red and his blood running, but something was amiss. It had been a week since he had last spoken to Kagome, since he had held her in his arms and caressed her face with his fingers and he missed her. Of course he had been watching her from the boundaries of the forest as much as he could, but he always had to remind himself that it was all that he could do now, was watch.
He was torn from his thoughts as a faint scream through the wind reached his ears and his blood ran cold. Many random thoughts came to his mind as he thought about the possible reasons for the scream and the first one was that Kagome was in trouble. His eyes darted around cautiously as his ears swiveled around his head straining to hear anything else. When no sound came his tried to swallow the lump in his throat, it wasn't working too well. Going to the mouth of the cave to stare at the scenery, InuYasha tried to get his mind away from the depressing and unnerving plaguing his mind but it didn't work when he heard the wolves crying into the night. They seemed to be calling for him to the lake, howling as if the land was going to fall into constant darkness, being swallowed by the evil of night for all eternity.
Following his instincts, InuYasha leaped into the wilderness surrounding him, something was not right and his heart was racing with anticipation and insecurity. The air around him was deathly cold and it felt as if the night was trying to suffocate him and he was covered in a cold sweat before he had even started out on his little excursion. As he ran InuYasha could have sworn that he could feel the gaze of sinister eyes watching him, boring into his back as he struggled to find whatever it was that was making him feel as though part of him was dying. Whatever it was he had to find it and by the racing of his heart he had to find it fast.
Jumping through the trees, he could smell her near by and he cursed himself mentally. She had gone back on her word and was there in the middle of the night in the darkness of the forest where anything unnatural could get a hold of her. Honestly was she that stupid? Well whether she was or not, he would give her a piece of his mind when he saw her. Landing swiftly on the ground next to the frozen lake, he let his eyes survey his surroundings in front of him. Kagome's cloak lay half buried in the freshly fallen snow right where the trees opened, but she was no where in sight. InuYasha could feel the panic stirring in his heart and he became desperate. Where the hell was she?
Turning around he gazed out onto the frozen lake and he wanted to cry out as he stared at Kagome's unmoving body under the snow, her hand laid there limply looking as if she was trying to read out to him, her hair covering her face. Her skin was pale and she looked as if she was dead. His breath hitched in his chest as he relived his nightmares yet again. It couldn't be Kagome on the ice, it was Kikyo, she was standing there like she had forty years ago, her hair fluttering into the wind as her arms lay bound behind her back. Her dress flapping about her body as her cold and hard staring at him exposing the tears that she had cried for them. It was all too real for him to comprehend.
He could hear the faint cracking of the ice and the pinpricks of pain in his knees from the crouching position he had been in for a while, and he swore upon the heavens that he could hear Kikyo's soft voice whispering his name into the depths of the night as she disappeared from his sight and all he could see was Kagome's body laying on the ice, small lines dancing around the ice. It was going to give way under her body weight!
"Kagome!" He cried out as he darted for her. He'd be damned if he let her go the way that Kikyo had, being stolen from him by the icy cold water's clutches with out any remorse. Nature could be a different version of a torturous hell of damnation.
Scooping her numb body into his arms, InuYasha gazed at her face with concern with the pale blue color of her lips and the faint beating of her heart, she was going to die of hypothermia if he didn't get her to the fire raging in his cave soon. Shivering at the feel of her body against his and not it the good way, he stepped only to feel the icy giving underneath his weight. The ice was cracking faster than before and he didn't have enough time to move before it split and the icy water seemed to grab his ankle and drag him and Kagome underneath the icy into the unforgiving and freezing waters below. They were both swallowed by the lake.
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Okay so I know that it is a little shorter than normal but I couldn't help it. At first this isn't what happens, but I didn't really like the other version so I changed it and thought that this would be much better! SO sorry that there was no fluff in this chapter. Please review and tell me what you think. I would appreciate some feedback. And thank you to everyone who has reviewed! You're the best that a gal like me can ever hope for!
So until next time, Krystal.