InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Cry For Me, My Destiny ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

“What is it?” Sango asked, reaching down to take whatever it was out of Kirara's mouth. Suddenly she gasped. “Inuyasha…look…” she said slowly.

 

“What is it?” he asked, turning around. He almost dropped the gifts when he saw what was in her hand.

 

“How…why…is that here?” Sango stammered. “Wasn't this the one that…” she stopped, her throat suddenly tight.

 

“Yeah, it is.” Inuyasha said, reaching for the hair tie that was in Sango's hand. Slowly, slightly afraid at what he would smell, Inuyasha lifted in to his nose and took a sniff. “It…smells fresh…like she was just here.”

 

Sango went pale. “But…” she said slowly, trying to figure this out in her head quickly before Inuyasha, or herself, did something stupid. “It can't be. She's…”

 

“I know what she is!” Inuyasha said, looking away from the tie in his hand. “I know…”

 

“Inuyasha. Let's go back inside. I must just be your imagination, or you just smell the scent better because of the snow.” She started to walk back in and Inuyasha followed, the odd presents in his hands and the tie in his pocket.

 

“Ohhhhhhh, Inuyasha, are those for us?” Rin and Shippou squealed as Inuyasha entered behind Sango.

 

Inuyasha glanced at Kikyo, who he thought was acting weird. Usually she would be talkative with both Shippou and Rin, or with Sango, asking about the babies. But instead, she kept glancing towards the door, to the far wall and back. What was out there? A demon? But, Inuyasha would have felt it if there had been.

 

Shaking himself mentally, Inuyasha nodded to Shippou and Rin, unsmilingly, and set the odd presents with the others. Shippou face, once he was able to look at them properly, fell. He turned to Inuyasha, about to ask him about the wrapping on them, but was cut off by Sesshomaru moving the little ones off of his fluff and standing up. He then went over to the presents Inuyasha had just brought in and sniffed them slightly.

 

“They have the scent of Kagome-sama on them.” He turned to Inuyasha, his eyebrows slightly raised, which surprised Inuyasha more than anything. “It is fresh.”

 

Everyone was silent and looking at Inuyasha. Shaking his head, he pulled out the tie and showed everyone. “Kirara found it in the snow. It's the one that Kagome was wearing when…when she killed Naraku.”

 

Still the room was silent. Then, looking around her, Sango said, “Speaking of Kirara, where is she?”

 

Inuyasha and the others also looked around. Kirara, who apparently hadn't come in with Sango and Inuyasha, must still have been outside. Sighing slightly but standing up Inuyasha said, “I'll go look for her. She won't want to miss opening her presents.” He stepped outside and sighed again.

 

“Inuyasha?” asked a voice from within and Miroku stepped out into the cold morning air. “You're not going to go off and do anything stupid are you? Like look for Kagome or anything? She's not coming back, Inuyasha, there was nothing left of her.”

 

“Shut up monk.” Inuyasha said, growling. He didn't like the way that everyone kept reminding him about Kagome's death. About how he hadn't said anything to Kagome's three little words, even though she hadn't really given him a chance to.

 

“I was just saying.” Miroku said, and he re-entered the hut.

 

“Keh.” Inuyasha said and he jumped off in the direction that Kirara's scent was coming strongest from.

 

~`~`~`~`~Somewhere in the forest surrounding the hut~`~`~`~`~

 

“It's nice to see you to, Kirara.” Said a light voice from the shadows where the small cat demon was mewing at. “But I can't stay long. I just wanted to give you all the presents and see you all.”

 

Kirara mewed again and rubbed against the body that the voice belonged to. The voices owner smiled and pet the small demon lightly before saying, “It was the least they could do, for my helping the free them from him.” She paused in her story and her stroking until Kirara urged her on. “After he was gone, I lingered for a few moments, as a soul only though, to make the wishes. I was just about to have one last look at Inuyasha and leave when they blocked my path.”

 

The owner of the voice, a tell, browned eyed, blacked haired female, stretched her legs out and continued, “I'm not sure how they saw me, although I think it was Kanna's mirror that really was able to see me, not them.” Kirara leapt into the girl's lap and sat again, listening to the girl's story.

 

“Kagura, looking right through me, really, said `I can't believe I'm saying this, but thanks. You didn't do it for us, we know, and we don't care, but you freed Kanna and I.' Then she sighed, as though she really didn't want to say what she did. `We are in your debt.' She said. `And since your dead there's only one thing we can really do for you.' I didn't have a mouth so I could ask what but she said anyways, `You would ask if you could but you can't so I'll just tell you. We'll let you live again. A real, live body, not like that dead Miko's body that needs souls of the dead. All we need is a little blood and some flesh, which there is plenty of down there.' Then her feather things starts to descend and I went with it, I think the mirror was holding on to me or something.”

 

Kirara mewed and nodded, a trick she'd picked up from Sango. Kagome went on, “Anyways, they went and gathered up all of the blood that was mine with another mirror that Kanna had. I don't know how it knew what was mine and what wasn't, but it did. It was icky, but it also collected all of the flesh of mine that was there to. It was just as they were leaving that you and the others came and started to yell and Kagura and Kanna. That's why there wasn't any of me left there, Naraku had been purified and was gone entirely except for a bit of his blood. I remember Inuyasha wanted to know why they were there. I remember…” she suddenly stood up.

 

Kirara fell from her lap and mewed angrily up at her. Kagome smiled down at her apologetically and said, “Sorry, don't tell Inuyasha I was here, ok? This body isn't quite…right…something went wrong when they were gathering the blood and…” she cut herself short and said, “Kirara, I wish you and the others well, I'll come see you when my body is sorted out!” and she ran off.

 

Kirara started after her but Inuyasha's call stopped her and she turned back around. Kirara knew that Kagome knew what she was doing. Kagome, like Sango, was smart for a human, in Kirara's eyes.

 

“Kirara?” Inuyasha called again, still following her scent, which was now mixed with another's. And that others was someone Inuyasha really wanted to find. “Kirara, where are you? Hurry up, we have presents to…” he stopped and sniffed the air. A foul stench had just reached his nose and he started to growl. How could he be here? He was suppose to be obliterated, along with Kagome.

 

Inuyasha jumped forward, expecting to see the loathed demon behind the trees, but no one was there. When he landed, Kirara trotted up to him and mewed. Inuyasha glanced down, noticing that Kirara didn't seem to have noticed anything. Maybe all of this was his imagination, or form the dream. Maybe someone else who knew them, though Inuyasha could not guess who, had thought to give them brightly wrapped packages.

Kirara tugged on Inuyasha hukama and tried to pull him over to the spot where the girl had been. She wanted Inuyasha to stop worrying about her and wait until she was ready. Inuyasha let himself be pulled, still deep in thought, until her scent, stronger than ever, hit his nose.

 

“Kagome!” he called out, looking around wildly, as though expecting her to drop from a tree nearby. “Kagome? Where are you? Kagome!” but there was no answer. Inuyasha looked down at Kirara. “She was here, wasn't she?”

 

Kirara, remembering that Kagome hadn't wanted her to say anything, looked away and mewed. Inuyasha sighed, guessing that maybe Kirara hadn't found Kagome, that maybe Kagome had run when she sensed Kirara approach. But why would she?

 

Shaking his head he gestured to Kirara for them to head back the way Inuyasha had come. Kirara followed, only stopping once to glance back and see something that looked like a feather rise up into the air and out of sight.

 

~`~`~`~`~In a deep cave by Kaeda's village~`~`~`~`~

 

“That was a stupid thing to do you know.” Someone said, shaking the girl with distant brown eyes out of her thoughts. “You might have been caught and your body reversed to his again. You know what'll happen if it does that again.”

 

“I know, Kagura, I just wanted to see him…them. And give them their presents.” The girl frowned then. She had seen Kikyo in the room with the others. Why hadn't she said anything. Kagome, the girl with the distant eyes, was sure that she had felt her. Kikyo had certainly glanced in her direction a lot.

 

“Whatever.” Kagura said, leaning back slightly. “At least wait a while more before you do anything like that again. Kanna thinks that she knows what the last words to the spell are, but she's having a difficult time with a few of the letters.” Kagome nodded. The language was that of such ancient Japanese only Naraku had know it. One of the demons that he had devoured, a very old clumsy one, had given him that knowledge and that was why he had been able to do some of the worst thing he had.

 

Kagome sighed and said, “Well at least I was able to help some with it. There's one good thing that came form Having some of Naraku's blood in me: being able to translate almost anything.” She wanted to sigh again but didn't. Her emotions were starting to get away from her again and the ache was starting up as well. “Wake me when we get there, please, Kagura. I need to go have another talk with that demon inside of me.”

 

Kagura nodded and said, “Fine, Kagome-sama, but don't piss him off to much this time.” Kagome was already asleep though and didn't hear this. Kagura, along with most of the people who had heard the tale of Naraku's defeat, now respected Kagome to no end it seemed, Kagura and Kanna among them.

 

~`~`~`~`~Kagome's DREAM~`~`~`~`~

 

The second that Kagome's eyes had closed and she had fallen into slumber, she was on that barren plain again. Nothing was here, besides the tall grass that grew as far as Kagome could see.

 

“You'd think there would be a tree or mountains but no, there has to be grass.” She looked around herself, looking for what she wanted. “Lots and lots of grass.” Finally she spotted it. The small, black raised platform out to the far north of where she stood. “That gets farther and farther away each time I come here. Though, that might be a good thing, I don't know.”

 

She started to heard in the direction of the platform, a shield of Miko energy springing up around her out of pure instinct. The distance was long, even for her DREAM form, but, altering between running, jogging, and walking, she was able to reach it in the space of twenty minutes. Panting, but not as hard as she would have been if she hadn't been doing that since she met Inuyasha, she started to walk around the base of the black stone until she was able to reach the front.

 

“I thought I sensed you coming.” The man chained to the rock pillar said, laughing coldly. “What do you want this time?”

 

Kagome, who didn't believe that he had been able to sense her since she had had a shield up, said, “Nothing that would be of interest to you. You and I need to have a long talk here and now though.”

 

Naraku, still smiling, said, “And what is it that we shall be discussing?”

 

Kagome glanced to her sides, even though she knew that nothing was there. `It must be in my other form.' She thought and said, “How I'm going to get your nasty blood out of me and back into the ground where it belongs.”

 

Naraku shook his head, shaking the chains that bound him to the rock. For some reason, Kagome always forgot that he was trapped here, inside of her, with only chains. She suspected, though, that they must have been spelled by someone, or something, powerful enough to keep him there.

 

Suddenly Naraku laughed. “It seems that we won't be having any talk today. Your having trouble in the open and are about to leave me.”

 

Kagome felt out with her mind and found that she was being awakened. How had he known? She thought. Then, smirking, she muttered coldly, “There is better than here with you any day.” And she was in the waking world again.

 

~`~`~`~`~On Kagura's feather~`~`~`~`~

 

“Kagome-sama, we've got trouble.” Kagura said. “We've been spotted.”

 

“Spotted?” Kagome said, still a little shaken by what she had heard Naraku say. How had he known? She thought once again. “By who?”

 

“Your friends.” Kanna said. Kagome glanced at her. She was usually quiet, so was hard to notice most of the time. “Kirara let slip to Myoga where she had been and they had set off after you. They are right behind us.”

 

Kagome, low in the feather so as not to be seen, looked over it's back, spotting a small black dots in the distance. “They're so far away, though.” She said, sitting up slightly. “We'll make it to the cave with plenty of time.”

 

“But our scents.” Kagura said, playing with her fan. “They'll smell us and follow that. Right to the cave.”

 

Kagome nodded and said one word, “Barrier.” Before another thought struck her and said, “But then again, Kikyo will be able to pass through. Well, her I can deal with, just be nice and tell he to be quiet to the others.”

 

Kagura was silent, as was Kanna. Kagome knew that it was a long shot, but it was either that or get caught and have her risk another shift of spirit. She wanted to cry. It had happened before, and she had had to almost kill herself for a second time to regain control. Even though she had, she had almost died again anyways, but Kagura was able to save her again.

 

“We're there.” Kanna said, looking over the side. “They are catching up.” Kagome looked back again, the black dots now so much easier to see.

 

~`~`~`~`~After Inuyasha and Kirara had returned. ~`~`~`~`~

 

“Kirara!” Sango exclaimed. “Where have you been?”

 

“She was in the forest, looking for something.” Said a small voice that came from Inuyasha's shoulder. “But what it was I do knot know.”

 

Kirara mewed happily and Inuyasha smacked his neck, stopping the flee Myoga's sucking of his blood. “Why me?” he asked.

 

“Because you're a flee.” Inuyasha said. “And because you're annoying.”

 

“Myoga?” Sango asked, looking at the small demon. “Why not ask her? You're the only one who can.”

 

Myoga nodded and did as he was asked. Kirara, though, only looked away and mewed, saying that she didn't remember. Myoga jumped onto her and went up by her ear, asking again and asking why she didn't want to tell. Kirara, sleepy from her breakfast then running so much, told him before snapping her mouth shut. Myoga relayed this to the others and they set off, even Sesshomaru and Rin went s well.

 

“Take them to Kaeda, alright Ah-Un?” Sango said, placing her babies onto the double headed lizard horses back.. “If anything happens to them, I'll cook you.” And Ah-Un took off, careful not to let the precious cargo slip off.

 

~`~`~`~`~With Kagome, Kagura and Kanna again~`~`~`~`~

 

Finally the feather touched down and they all hurried off, quickly making for the opening of the cave. It took them a minute to find it, though, as it was so well hidden. Finally inside, Kagome turned back around and placed her hands on the right side of the cave wall.

 

“Kanmon”

 

She removed her hands. They were now glowing a slight pinkish white. She moved slowly to the left, the glow spreading out from her fingers to the cave entrance and forming a barrier. She reached the left wall and placed her hands on it.

 

“Owari”

 

The glow from her hands faded and the barrier turned a blue, purple color shot with pink and white. It would be easy for Kikyo to see that it was Kagome's Miko energy, but then again, she might not say anything. Moving farther back into the cave, Kagome repeated the process. She knew that Kikyo would be able to get through, but it would not be so easy with all of these barriers to go through.

 

It wasn't that Kagome was against Kikyo, she just didn't want to be found, She had made her piece with Kikyo a long time ago, and it still held. She knew that Kikyo was taking care of Inuyasha for the moment, even if she did want to someday kill him.

 

“Kagome-sama, hurry, they are coming down now.” Kagura said from farther within the cave. Kagome nodded to herself and ran through the rest of the twisting cave into the very heart. It was a wide open space, a natural cavern, that let light shine through the small holes in the roof. Even if they tried, they wouldn't be able to get through those holes. For one, they were to small, and for two, even though they were to small, Kagome had still put a barrier up against them.

 

“Let's wait here.” Kagome said, sitting down on the floor and bringing out a pack of cards. “If Kikyo is able to get through, I don't want her to think that I really am hiding from her or anyone.”

 

“Kagome…” Kanna said, resting her soft, dead eyes on the girl. “You can't see Kikyo, it would be to much emotion from Naraku and yourself.”

 

Kagome shook her head hard, and said, “I don't care, nothing is going to happen.” She stopped for a moment before she went on to say, “Besides, he's asleep right now, he won't be able to tell anything is happening.”

 

Kagura nodded, though she didn't want to agree with the girl, and sat down across from her, asking, “Speed?”

 

Kagome laughed and started to deal the cards for the game. She had taught them to play when she had fist gotten her body back, before Naraku had taken it over, to pass the time. Now Kagura, and even Kanna, were happy to play with Kagome, trying to beat her and build their skills.

 

~`~`~`~`~With Inuyasha and the others as they touch down~`~`~`~`~

 

“They're close.” Inuyasha as he landed beside Kirara and Sesshomaru and Rin beside him. “Or they were. Their scent is faint now…”

 

“A barrier, brother.” Sesshomaru said. “Over there.” He nodded to the side of a large hill that was covered in a thick blanket of foliage. “The entrance is hidden.”

 

Inuyasha glared at his brother and muttered as they walked in the direction he had indicated, “I knew that…mostly…” Sango smiled and Miroku laughed.

 

“Where is it?” Shippou asked, poking his nose in between the bushes. “I don't see any…OW!” something bit his nose and he withdrew his head. A small rat was on the end of his nose, trying to bite it off. Having been woken by these intruders in its territory, it was trying to protect its young, as all Inuyasha did was flick the little thing off and apply some of the last bit of medicine they had from Kagome onto the wound.

 

“That's what you get for poking around places without thinking, shrimp.” Inuyasha said as the others moved more plants out of the way. “Now come on, let's help.” Shippou nodded and got up.

 

“Over here,” Kikyo said, moving aside a large bush. “It's strong, stronger than anything I or Kaeda taught her. It must be…” she stopped herself. “I think only I can get through.” She said instead.

 

“Incorrect,” Sesshomaru said, stepping up beside her and putting his hand through the barrier. It sizzled loudly but he was still able to pass. “Come.” And he passed all the through, Kikyo right behind him.

 

“Be careful Sesshomaru-sama, Rin will be displeased if Sesshomaru-sama is hurt!” Rin called after him.

 

“Dimmit!” Inuyasha yelled just then, making everyone look over at him He was about to run at the barrier, also wanting to go through.

 

“No, Inuyasha, don't!” Sango yelled and stepped in his way, Miroku at her side. “You'll only get hurt if you try.” Miroku said.

 

“I don't care!” Inuyasha pushed past them and went at the barrier again. “I want to see her!” he hit the barrier. But instead of bouncing him back, or even throwing him back, he passed through it.

 

“What the hell?” Inuyasha said, looking at himself, making sure he wasn't human. It had happened before, at Mt. Hakura. He had passed through the barrier, but in doing so had become human. But, no, he was still a half demon. “Wait here for us!” Inuyasha called and he raced off after the other two.

 

~`~`~`~With Kagome, Kagura and Kanna in the deep cave~`~`~`~

 

“They're coming closer.” Kanna said, looking up from her mirror. “Sesshomaru was able to get through.” Kagome nodded. She had slightly expected that this might happen. But it didn't matter. She really didn't know him that well, even with all of the time they had spent together, so she wouldn't be all to much shocked. “And…so had Inuyasha.” Kanna said.

 

Kagome fell to her side, the ache that she had to live with until everything was translated turned into a sharp, stabbing pain that made her eyes roll back. When she came to a few moments later, Kagura's face was the fist thing she saw.

 

“How many fingers?” she asked, holding up three of them.

 

“Eighteen.” Kagome said, sitting up. “I'm fine, just…a little dizzy.”

 

Kagura watched her a moment before she said, “They not to far off, Sesshomaru and Kikyo. Inuyasha is having a harder time with it though. All of those barriers are really starting to drain his energy and life.” Kagome's face paled. “They'll notice.” Kagura said, knowing what Kagome wanted to do.

 

“So?” she said. “They already know I'm here, why keep them waiting?” Kagura just shook her head and cursed a little. Kagome only smiled and went to the gaping black hole in the wall that was the entrance and exit into their, for now, home.

 

Raising her hands to the wall on her right she mouthed a word in ancient Japanese that Kikyo had taught her. Ten of her twenty barriers went down, and she knew it was noticed.

 

“Now,” she said, coming back and laying down beside Kagura and Kanna. “I think I'll take another nap. I want to make sure Naraku doesn't interfere with anything.” Kagura nodded and placed a sitting pillow under her head. At times, Kagome thought sleepily, Kagura really can be thoughtful without even realizing it. Sleep claimed her.

 

~`~`~`~`~`~With Inuyasha~`~`~`~`~`~

 

“At least they're not all at once anymore.” He panted as he sat, having come through yet another barrier. They were strong, and had been getting stronger until a moment ago. “She must know we're coming.” He said to himself, launching himself up and swaying from sudden dizziness. “So why doesn't she run?” he moved onwards, hoping to make it through the next barriers alive.

 

Inuyasha would have liked to use his Barrier Breaker move, but in this tight space, and not knowing where Kikyo and Sesshomaru were, or where the end of this tunnel was, he didn't dare risk it. What if it went all the way and hit Kikyo and his brother? Hit Kagome? No, he was better off just fighting his way slowly through the barriers.

 

~`~`~`~`~`~With Kikyo and Sesshomaru~`~`~`~`~`~

 

“Why are you coming along?” Kikyo asked as she waited for the dog demon to pass through a tough barrier. “I could have come on my own, but you have also followed.”

 

But there was no answer. Pulling the last of his body through he gave the undead Miko a cold stare and said, “She is one of the only people I respect, I shall not let harm come to so rare a person if I may stop it.” And he moved on, a shocked Kikyo following a moment later.

 

“There are two more to go.” She said, feeling out with her Miko energy. “But I can't tell from then. Kagome has blocked me from her sight. It is either that or…” once again she stopped herself. “She took down a lot of them. For Inuyasha's benefit?”

 

Sesshomaru, though, did not reply and continued ahead. Not much farther along they came upon the last two barriers, barely enough room between them to stand without going over into the next. Kikyo easily passed through, but it took Sesshomaru a full five and a half minutes to do it, having to stop often to fight back the purifying power.

 

“If you don't hurry I'm going to go on ahead and leave you behind.” Kikyo said after a few moments. “You are wasting time and I don't think it is time that we have.” It had been then that he was able to go through. He only gave her a cold glance before starting ahead again.

 

~`~`~`~`~`~With Inuyasha ~`~`~`~`~`~

 

He was closing in on the last two barriers, the ones that had given his brother so much trouble, and Inuyasha knew that they were there, right beside each other.

 

“I won't give this up!” he said, panting up to the double barrier. “I'll either make it through here or die. But Kagome's in there, so I'll have to make it damnit!”

 

But, instead of moving to go through the barrier, he sat next to it to catch his breath. “I won't give up…I won't…” he kept repeating.

 

~`~`~`~`~`~With Kagome, Kagura and Kanna~`~`~`~`~`~

 

“They're here,” Kanna whispered to Kagura. Kagura nodded. She then heard them, both foot falls of Kikyo and Sesshomaru coming down the tunnel.

 

It was moments before they came into the light spilling from the holes in the ceiling above. Kikyo blinked a few times, trying to get use to the new light. Sesshomaru only blink once, slowly, before he looked down at the three girls on the floor.

 

“Hello Kikyo, Sesshomaru, so glad you could make it to our little tea party.” Kagura said, standing up. “What do you want?”

 

“We're here to see Kagome, Kagura, not you.” Kikyo said, searching the rooms in front of her that she was able to see into. “Where is she? I'm not able to sense her.”

 

“You're also blind.” Sesshomaru said and pointed for a moment to the floor. Kikyo looked down, curious to why he wanted her to look at the floor. Then she saw Kagome on the floor. To her, as well to Sesshomaru, it looked as though she was dead.

 

“What have you done to her?” Kikyo asked, taking a step forward. Kagome, though, moved slightly in her sleep, muttering, “You'll do no such…thing…”

 

“We haven't done anything to harm her.” Kanna said, mirror, as always, in hand. “She has fallen asleep to battle…”

 

“Quiet, Kanna,” said Kagura. “That is not something they are going to know from us.” Kanna was silent.

 

“Battle who?” Kikyo asked, taking another step forward. “What is she doing in her mind? I can feel it, even if I can't feel her. She's…not herself, I've felt that much.” She opened her mouth to say more but just then Kagome's eyes came open.

 

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