InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Existence ❯ Beginning of the End ( Chapter 4 )

Beginning of the End

Kagome was walking out of Kaede's hut when she spotted Inuyasha going towards the forest.

She ran after him, not knowing that Kikyo was quietly following behind.

"Inuyasha! Wait!"

He stopped and turned, waiting for her to catch up.

"Hey Kagome, do you need something?"

"I need to talk to you about something important."

"About what?"

"Kikyo."

His eyes grew anxious.

"Did something happen to her?!"

"Um, in a sense."

"Is she hurt? Where is she?"

"Inuyasha, listen to me, have you noticed how strange Kikyo has been lately?"

"Is she alright?"

"Yes she is, but answer my question, have you notice how strange Kikyo has been lately?"

"What do you mean by strange?"

"Have you felt the...have you felt her aura? How dark it has gotten?"

"I haven't felt a thing, what are you rambling on about Kagome?"

He was about to turn but Kagome desperatly grabbed Inuyasha's sleeves.

"Something is taking over Kikyo, something evil! She is not the same Kikyo we know

anymore."

Inuyasha took a step back and pulled his sleeve out of Kagome's hand.

"That's ridiculous. Kikyo has a pure soul, nothing evil could take over her."

"Please listen to me, you must be very careful around her. She might do something, it's taken

over her almost completely."

"Kikyo would never think of hurting me. Kagome, you sound almost jealous."

"You are blinded by your love for her!"

"Maybe you are blinded by your jealousy!"

He turned and started to run into the forest while Kagome sank to her knees. Something in

Kikyo's aura rippled among the surface, as if a great leviathon was waiting to come out.

While Kagome was walking to her hut with a heavy heart she stopped in her tracks. What he

said was untrue, all she wanted was to warn Inuyasha about Kikyo. She turned around and

started to follow Inuyasha. *He must listen to me!*

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Inuyasha was waiting for Kikyo in their usual place, the clearing with the flowering tree. She

was taking a longer time today and he could feel small tendrils of impatience . There was the

sound of a twig cracking and Inuyasha turned around quickly. Kagome was there, slightly

hidden by bushes.

"Kagome? What now? I don't want to hear any more lies about Kikyo, they aren't true."

"Can't I just be here to be with you?"

Shadows started to flicker in the clearing, darkening the once bright place. Kagome's eyes

glinted animosity that Inuyasha mistook as annoyance.

"Inuyasha....don't you know?"

"Know what?"

"How much I love you?"

"Wh-what?"

Kagome's hands reached from behind her back to grab her bow. She already had a quiver of

arrows on her back, one in her hand to nock it on her bow.

"What are you doing with that bow Kagome?"

"Don't you know how much I love you? If I can't have you, nobody will."

She aimed at his heart and let the arrow loose. A scream shattered the clearing, but it was not

Inuyasha's. Inuyasha was pinned to the tree and was clenching the arrow in his heart tightly.

His sight was beginning to blur but he looked to where he heard the scream and for a second

saw another Kagome. But then the one who shot him whispered something under her breath

and the Kagome who had screamed suddenly turned into Kikyo. His hand on the arrow

dropped, only to rise again to try to grab at open air.

"Kagome....how could you....how could you? I'll kill you for this, kill you!!!!"

His voice faded down to a whisper but not without last words.

"I-I love you....Kikyo..."

His eyes closed and then the air rippled with dark magic. The Kagome who had shot Inuyasha

became Kikyo, the real Kikyo.

"Kikyo, what did you do?!!"

The real Kagome ran up to Inuyasha but Kikyo grabbed her neck and threw her to the

ground. She landed on her knees hard and winced at the pain.

"You told him, you wench!" she gave a smile," but his love for me covered his ears from such

vile truth."

"Why did you kill him? He loved you so much!" she said with tears in her eyes.

"I need no hanyou like him to keep me happy. My happiness comes from this little jewel."

Kikyo took out the jewel hidden underneath her miko clothes. She caressed it like a lover with

a gleam in her eyes that frightened Kagome. She put the jewel back and reached into her

quiver for another arrow. She nocked it onto her bow and aimed at her double on the ground.

With no mercy in her eyes Kikyo shot the arrow through the same place she shot Inuyasha, in

the heart. Kagome made no sound of pain, only staring at Kikyo with tears overflowing her

eyes. She looked down at the arrow imbedded in her heart and pulled it out. It came out with

a splatter of blood splashing all over her clothes. She looked at Kikyo again then closed her

eyes. She began a strange chant, one in a language never used on earth but in the heavens.

The arrow in Kagome's hand and in Inuyasha's heart began to glow an eery blue. When the

last word of the chant was said the glowing arrows grew dull and Kagome fell, dead. Kikyo was

about to walk away when she froze in her tracks, a greater magic freezing her body. A figure

began to form before her and Kikyo could do nothing but watch. It was a man, but cloaked in

a shining white robe with a hood that covered his face. Kikyo struggled to get out of the

magic's grasp, calling upon the powers in the Shikon. She was able to move for a second but

then the man put his hand up and the Shikon's magic was pushed down.

"Priestess, you have failed your duty."

His voice was deep and shook her to the bone. The magic lessened enough for her to move

her mouth.

"You! I know who you are, high god." she said with a sneer.

"As I know you, Kikyo. You have failed."

"I was given the Shikon and the Shikon gave me powers unimaginable. I never failed my duty,

I only fulfilled it!!!"

"Do not talk back to me mortal, for you are already under the counsel's anger."

"What are you going to do? Kill me?" harsh tones in her voice rising.

"That, we cannot do, for you still have a role in earth's future. However, your soul will be

given over to this girl along with your powers. And you will sleep as a rotten corpse till she

awakes."

"Her? Kagome? My blood twin? Yes, the Shikon told me all about it, I know who you are and

better yet I know why we were both born. But she will never save the future, never!!" she

screamed.

But those words were her last because with the swipe of a hand her soul was pulled out of her.

Kikyo fell in a heap and a light blue orb entered Kagome. Her wound was erased and all blood

on her clothes were gone. Her chest rose in the even breaths of a deep sleep. The god looked

at her sadly, wondering why these events had to sculpt the future.

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The girl's body was hidden far away in a forest till the time for her to awake would arrive. The

jewel was placed within the girl so none could take it from her except in death. The hanyou

remains on the tree, pinned in the heart. The girl had chanted a spell that would keep

Inuyasha from dying. But he would sleep for eternity or until she wakes up one day. And so

the myth began. The girl, the priestess, and the hanyou. All three sleep till the girl will awaken

again. And when she does, so will the beginning of the end.