InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cannot Be Broken ❯ Chain Link ( Chapter 14 )

Sango's eyes widened in shock. “Share each other's souls?”

 

Miroku just shook his head. “Hmm, that may be so, but it does not explain why it would one moment suck your strength and the next forcibly distance you.”

 

Kagome looked at the necklace and frowned. “Yeah, I don't know what to think. But it feels like I know what he feels and then I feel it too.”

 

InuYasha frowned. “It didn't feel like that.”

 

All looked at him quizzically.

 

He looked at each of them and scowled, crossing his arms. “What?”

 

“Then what did it feel like?” Miroku asked with a twisted grin of his face.

 

“What business is it of yours, monk?” InuYasha turned his head away, not really hiding the pink in his cheeks.

 

Sango sighed. “What Houshi is implying, InuYasha, is that we must know exactly what this thing does to the both of you so we can tell just what it does and maybe what it is for.”

 

Miroku smiled and moved to stand beside Sango. “Thank you, dear Sango. That is exactly what I was pondering. I can see we are of kindred spirits that even our thoughts….”

 

“Hands where I can see them, Houshi!” Sango barked.

 

Miroku raised his hands to his chest. “That even our thoughts are one. I can truly say I have never felt so close to someone….”

 

“Get to the point at hand, Houshi.” Sango sighed again.

 

“So what did you feel, InuYasha?” Miroku stated, not once skipping a beat.

 

InuYasha growled something incomprehensible.

 

“What?” Both Sango and Miroku asked.

 

“I said, it felt like we were sharing our emotions and that they were the same.” InuYasha crossed his arms, still blushing slightly.

 

“Kagome, is that right for you too?” The monk turned to her.

 

Kagome bit her bottom lip and looked at the far wall, but nodded her head.

 

“This is truly fascinating.” Miroku grinned. “It may then explain what it is that has been happening when you touch the necklace together.”

 

Sango looked from the miko to the demon. “What then?”

 

“I think, that by touching the necklace, they not only feel what the other feels, the necklace also feeds off their powers from their souls' emotional connection.” Miroku rubbed his chin.

 

“So you're saying, that when it shot them across the room, their angry powers did that?” Shippou asked.

 

“Something like that. The rosary is a conduit for their shared emotions thus is able to take each power they have when that emotion occurs to charge them simultaneously into one force.” Miroku stated.

 

“In Japanese, Houshi.” Sango closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose.

 

“When InuYasha gets angry, he becomes impulsive and reckless.” Miroku said matter of factly.

 

“HEY!”

 

“So when he uses that anger, his strength comes into play.”

 

“And Kagome?” Sango looked over at the girl.

 

“She,” Miroku coughed, “becomes very persuasive to make her point clear.”

 

“Um….” Sango looked at Miroku, remembering the state he was in after his first encounter with Kagome. “But how?”

 

“An invisible force.” InuYasha murmured.

 

Kagome bowed her head in shame. “I use my powers to create a wall of force to push others away.”

 

Miroku's jaw dropped. “But how is that possible?”

 

Kagome looked at him confused. “It's a miko thing. Any priestess could do that.”

 

Miroku was about to respond before Sango cut him off.

 

“So the necklace combined the two? InuYasha's strength with Kagome's wall, and it shot the two apart?”

 

Miroku still looked stunned at Kagome before nodding his head and swallowing. “Yeah… yes, my thoughts exactly.”

 

“And just then? What happened then when they touched it and they just stood there?” Shippou hopping up and down, pulling on the monk's robes.

 

Kagome and InuYasha flushed and looked anywhere but at each other.

 

Miroku grinned. “Ah, I think they felt they were friends, very good friends.”

 

“Oh, would explain why nothing happened.” Shippou frowned.

 

Again Kagome and InuYasha glowed redder. No need to tell anyone what their bodies felt from the last touch. It was bad enough that the monk guessed dead on.

 

“But it does not explain why they were drained of strength when the necklace first was touched.” Sango frowned.

 

“Indeed.” Miroku nodded. “I think that it could have been the fight with Kouga that was spending your strengths. Perhaps the necklace was feeding off of that adrenaline, or maybe the emotions you both shared during the time that was making you weak.”

 

“I don't know what you're talking about… spending my strength. Keh!” InuYasha huffed. “I was just getting started on the damn wolf shit. I was no where near tired.”

 

“But what of Kagome?” Sango looked at the miko who seemed pale all of a sudden.

 

InuYasha looked over at Kagome, remembering how they ended up in that position from the beginning. Flashes of seeing her on the ground, covering her face and trying to crawl over to him made his gut twist suddenly. `Why was she in pain? Was it something we did?'

 

Kagome flicked her eyes up at him before turning her gaze away, rubbing one of her arms as if cold.

 

“There was nothing really wrong with me.” She murmured. She didn't want to tell everyone about her powers, not until she spoke to InuYasha about it. She felt it was best to speak privately to him. She didn't feel it wise to let them all know that she had absorbed his youkai aura without explanation. There was also the matter of her powers disappearing after she had touched the rosary. She wondered if they were really gone. If they did share powers through the necklace, could InuYasha be in danger from that light she was seeing? Could she be in danger from it all?

 

Sango's eyes narrowed. “Kagome?”

 

Kagome waved her hand and looked down. “There was nothing wrong with me. Nothing other than shock that Kouga was there and attacked InuYasha. I have never seen Kouga do something like that. There was never reason….”

 

“Keh!” InuYasha sneered. “No reason? Are you telling me you never knew Kouga wanted you for his mate?”

 

“Kouga?!” Kagome grimaced. “Eew no! That's like… kissing your brother or mating with your uncle.”

 

InuYasha paled slightly at that mentioned.

 

“Why would Kouga feel that?” Kagome shuddered then recalled what the wolf said only a few hours before. Something about taking her off InuYasha's hands if it wasn't for Sesshomaru. Her eyes widened. “Oh my gods… he did feel… oh, think I'm going to be sick.”

 

InuYasha looked slightly relieved by her attitude but growled. “Whatever. That mangy wolf had no chance against me. I was no where near tired, not until he put this thing around me.” He hitched the prayer beads angrily.

 

Miroku shrugged. “Then maybe it was just the side effect of the spell once triggered.”

 

“Whatever the case may be, we know what it does now. But why would Sesshomaru feel it necessary for you to wear it, and link you that way with Kagome? More importantly, what do we do about it now?” Sango asked.

 

InuYasha just shook his head. “We wait.” He looked at Kagome. “And see what comes of it.”

 

Kagome just turned away.

 

`And see what comes of us… and of me.'

 

-+-

 

Kagome stood at the balcony of her room, watching as large flakes of snow drifted slowly down, muffling the outside world. She rested her head upon her folded arms on the stone banister. Her face was solemn and her eyes sad as looked to the west and thought.

 

`Otou-san. Why did you do this? Is it a way to make InuYasha and I like each other? Is it a way for us to be torn apart? But it seems it only works if we touch it together. Seems kinda stupid really.'

 

She sighed. `It makes us feel together and it draws our powers together. But what is it for?'

 

Kagome closed her eyes. `We were becoming close. But now, because of the necklace, I am afraid to be near him again. No, I became afraid after we last….'

 

Kagome blushed and opened her eyes to rest on a melting flake on her arm.

 

`After we last kissed, I knew I was afraid. It happened again. The world changed. Kami, what is happening to me, Otou? I wish you and Kikyo were here.

 

It began the night I went away. The day I left you. We kissed and the world changed. It grew bright and then the colour took me. I passed out from it. I remember that now. I woke up and it was back to normal. I thought it may have been a dream or because of the pain of the bear attack. But even then, I could feel it was real because things around me looked more real, though I never really noticed, not until….'

 

Kagome gazed down to the bath chamber below.

 

`It was there. He came to me, and I saw him glow, and he was beautiful. He was real while the rest of the world was dead to me. And then I knew what he felt. I ran. I did not want him to feel that. He was not supposed to feel that way. I did not want to feel that way. I could feel the brightness, not just see it. But it was not complete. But it got stronger when we….'

 

She flicked her eyes to the quiet village beyond.

 

`There. That is where I felt my feelings for him grow. I tried to make believe that what we shared was just him and I was only feeling it from him. But no, it was me. I felt it too. But I didn't want to. I wasn't ready to let go. I wasn't ready… to let you go. I wanted so badly to feel you, remember you, that I pushed him away even though I knew we felt something. And it happened again. Those weird powers. But this time I knew what I felt; I knew what I was seeing. I could see life. I could feel life. I was connected to it, and the world was real to me, as if I am a part of it, not just in it. But I don't understand why or how, only when we are together does it grow. Only when I feel….'

 

Kagome looked to the garden below.

 

`But I can't feel that way now. The day Kouga came, I wanted to. I was ready to. We kissed, and finally I let it all go, and believed. After so long, it was the only thing that felt so right. Then the light I had come so used to seeing grew intense. It was beyond what I have ever known. I couldn't take it in. It was if the very world was trying to pull me apart. No…. Not just that. I felt I was trying to pull it all in me.

 

And I felt him. But it was not InuYasha. It was his youkai, and it was pulling me too, calling me. I was so scared, not for me, but for him. He was scared and he was getting stronger. The pain from him, his heart… InuYasha was fighting it and was calling me to… I'm not even sure what he wanted me to do. I just knew I had to get to him. I knew I had to make him stop, make him himself again. I don't understand it… make him himself again? Was he not himself? I know I'm not.'

 

Kagome blinked wearily, never looking away at a large tree in the centre of the garden.

 

`It only happens when I am with him. When I feel for him. And it had gotten stronger.

 

And now, with the necklace….'

 

Kagome shut her eyes in bitter remorse.

 

`I did it. I made the necklace take our strength away and drain our power. I was absorbing life around me. Otou-san. I'm sorry! I couldn't stop myself! I don't know how I am doing it! I saw the power in him and I touched it. I wanted to be apart of it. I didn't know about the necklace, I didn't see it! And when I touched it, we were drained of our powers.'

 

A tear fell.

 

`Now that I know what it does, that he can feel what I feel, that he can draw the power from me to join with his, what is to say it won't happen again? Maybe the next time we are together, I will feel too much, and I will pull in too much. And with the necklace… the next time, what if I hurt him? Or worse?

 

Why did you give us this? Why did you do this? You had to have known what it was suppose to do. Why would you feel it necessary for us to be joined like this? And why by force? What do you know, Otou? What is it you are trying to do?

 

I can't do this alone, Otou-san. I need you to answer me.'

 

Kagome looked to the west again.

 

`Okaa-san must have had the pup now. Kikyo is tending those who are getting the flu. Ayami is chasing Kouga. Kaede is probably teaching someone to death.'

 

Kagome smiled through her tears.

 

`And I miss you. I love you, Otou-san. And I need to know….'

 

-+-

 

InuYasha sat on a high limp of the tall tree in the middle of the garden, hidden by snow and branches, but he could still see the girl standing above him on the balcony.

 

He sighed, his breath flowing white in the stillness. He couldn't bring himself to talk to her. Not after what happened. He idly pulled at the prayer beads.

 

`What more do I need? So much has kept us apart, and now you do this to me again!

 

Fuck you, Sesshomaru! You have taken my home, my childhood and my life. And then for one moment I had it all. I got back what was mine! And then I got her. But she was yours. Even when I took her, even when you gave her to me, she was still yours!'

 

InuYasha growled in frustration.

 

`How could you? How could you have it all, and when I take what is mine, you still have it. All because of Kagome. Through her you still have my land, my manor, and my heart.

 

Damn it!

 

But yesterday…. She was mine. She was finally mine! You fucker! And she would be mine for life. I would be hers. And again you took it away!'

 

He yanked hard on the necklace.

 

`That damned wolf! He had the fucking nerve to touch her! To keep her from me?! I got mad. And I was without Tetsusaiga. AND HE TOUCHED MY MATE! He deserved to die. I wanted to butcher him on the spot.'

 

InuYasha's eyes flashed and he gripped hard on the handle of Tetsusaiga strapped beside him.

 

`I would have bathed in his blood and revelled in my kill. She would know that I was strong, and that she would be with the strongest. She would want nothing more than me, and she would be mine. And because of you, dear brother, sending that shit ass wolf, I could have lost her. I was about to transform! You know just as well as I do what happens when I am without Tetsusaiga. What happens when I become threatened. I would become a true demon, unable to control my base desires. I would have killed that wolf, and I would have loved every moment of that kill. Then I would have taken her. I would have rutted her without care of pain and blood. I would have loved it all the more.'

 

InuYasha closed his eyes in pain and disgust, his claws clenched into his palms drawing blood.

 

`I could have killed her. But I could not have him take her! And then this! This thing! All she did was touch it and I could tell she felt my youkai! I could have killed her with that rage and power! I could have drawn her power to make me stronger and nothing could have stopped me! It was fortunate all it did was tap our strength. It brought me back, subdued my rage, but it also made me weak against that damned wolf!

 

You fucking ass! You deserve eternal hell, and I would be the one to bring you there!

 

`This thing…' he tugged the rosary, `will only make me weak. How can I protect her with this? How can we be together with this? If we were together, and I could not control my youkai…. With this thing I could destroy her.'

 

InuYasha looked up at the balcony to see her beautiful face gaze down to the tree, looking so sad and alone.

 

`Why did you do this? Why are you taking her from me again? What did I do to deserve this hell? To never even be allowed to be near her… to love….

 

Fuck you, Sesshomaru….

 

Fuck it.'

 

-+-

 

In the threat of the coming night, a swift figure ran to the Western Territory.

 

Silenced by the coming night, a lone figure rode towards the Western Territory.

 

None but one knew they were coming, who waited in the Western Territory.