InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Death is only the beginning ❯ The beginning of suffering ( Chapter 1 )

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He was gone.
She finally realized what that meant, and no amount of wishing could change it. She couldn't believe how it had happened. It was all so quick, no one had realized what had happened until it was already too late. By then he was gone without hope of saving him. The memory of that moment would stay with her for an eternity, burned into her mind by the sheer terror she felt when she had looked upon his lifeless body.
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"You will die tonight, Naraku. And it will be a painful death, one that will not compare in the slightest to the pain and suffering you have caused though. Which is a damn shame."
Kagome stared at the menacing half-demon that stood acrossed the room from her. His long, ebony hair floated in an invisible wind, eyes glowing blood red from beneath the monsters bangs.
"Do you actually believe you can kill me when none of your comrades could? The demon exterminator lays mortally wounded, the hanyou mutt not far from her with broken limbs. You have no chance." His voice was harsh, chilling the miko to her very bones.
"Now why would you think that?" Miroku stepped out from behind a statue and looked at Naraku, murder glazing his eyes over.
Kagome turned to the houshi and made no change in expression. She was frightened by the look in his eyes, but better that then sorrow.
"Ah, you finally decided to show up. When all the others have been mutilated. Very heroic." Naraku taunted, clapping his hands in mock salute.
Miroku walked up beside Kagome and glared at the demon."Your life ends here." He turned back to where he had stood and nodded his head.
Kikyo stepped out from the shadows and smiled an eery smile at Naraku. "I believe I have something you want." She said, pulling a chain from inside of her yukata. On the end of the chain was the shikon jewel, all of the pieces melded together to form the entire jewel once again.
Naraku growled low in his throat. "How did you get that?"
"I have my ways." The dead miko replied.
Kagome quickly pulled out her bow and arrow as he was distracted. She shot the arrow right throw his chest, creating a large void in the center of it.
Naraku cried out in pain, the sound of it was ear-piercing. Kagome fell to her knees and covered her ears.
With his last ounce of strength, Naraku shot a bolt of energy through Miroku, sending him careening across the room. Naraku then disappeared in a cloud of dust, scattered throughout the room.
Kagome looked up and turned to where Miroku had been standing beside her. She glanced behind her and screamed when she saw the monk's shaking form across the room.
"Miroku!" She yelled, running to him. She collapsed at his side and looked at his wound. There was nothing she could do, the wound went right through his chest, blood errupting uncontrollably from it.
"Oh God. Miroku." Kagome placed a shaking hand on his cheek as tears spilled down her cheeks.
He looked up at her with vacant eyes, and placed a weak hand on hers. Her smiled slightly and was gone. His head lolled to the side and his eyes slid shut.
Kagome screamed in agony, hugging his lifeless form to her chest. She cradled him even when the others roused and saw her. The others were i too much pain to do anything. Kikyo attended to the others and all left the young girl to her misery.
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Kagome sat beside the place where Miroku had been buried. She no longer had any tears left, so she sat in silence, thinking of what she had endured, all for a small piece of glass.
She had lost one of the people that she loved dearly. And it ate at her inside. She couldn't deal with all this death and pain anymore. She wanted to go home. She didn't want to deal with Inuyasha and Kikyo. With Sango and her grief for her brother. With the loss of Miroku. It was all too much.
Kagome stood and stared at the patch of disrupted earth. One single, solitary tear slid down her cheek. The last tear that she would shed in a long time. She placed a lily on Miroku's grave and walked down the hill, towards the well. Where she would go home and never return to the Feudal Era again.

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This is only the beginning. The will be more to come in explaination of Kagome's extreme distress over Miroku's death. And more information will be given as to the reason behind everything else. Stay tuned...
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