InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Jewel Complete ( Chapter 17 )

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Chapter 17: Jewel Complete

 

InuYasha wasn't in pain anymore. He didn't feel anything; he had no consciousness of what was going on in his surroundings. He roused when something touched him, something warm. It was calling his name, urging him to wake. He didn't want to go back, his whole body ached. As long as he stayed away, he didn't feel the pain. But something else lingered in his mind. Something he was supposed to remember.

 

“InuYasha…… InuYasha…… wake up. Please.” Something was familiar about that voice. Something that told him he had to suffer the pain, just for a little while, to seek out the owner of the voice. So he went back. A rush of stinging heat seared through his veins, covering every inch of him. He had to gain control, he had to find the voice. Kagome… Was that who the voice belonged to?

 

“K'gome…” his hand twitched under hers. He felt his hand being lifted and placed near something warm.

 

“InuYasha…”

 

“Oh no, InuYasha!” Another voice. Sango, the exterminator. InuYasha opened his eyes, looking to Kagome. He struggled to speak.

 

“What happened?” This time it was the monk, Miroku.

 

He had to tell them, he had to warn them. “Youkai… Suoh.” He took a deep, slurred breath. “Miroku, protect… Kagome.”

 

“I promise InuYasha, but she needs you more.” Miroku replied. InuYasha turned his head and nodded, then looked back to Kagome.

 

“No! InuYasha, no! Don't go saying your goodbyes, not yet. You promised me! You promised to protect me, and you can't do that if you die!” Her face was full of tears. He couldn't stand to see her cry. Especially when she was crying over him. He knew he couldn't stay much longer. His body was slowly giving away. She was rubbing his ears, that he knew. It was the one bit of comfort he had, the only thing allowing him to stay as long as he already had; her touch. InuYasha raised one shaky hand and cupped Kagome's cheek. He wiped the tears flowing down from her eyes, and smiled at her as much as his bruised face would allow him.

 

“… K'gome… sorry.” His eyes closed and his hand fell away. InuYasha fell back into the darkness; not able to stop himself, not even when he head Kagome's pleading screams. It was over for him, he only wished he had more time to tell her how much he really loved her; to hold Kagome and comfort her.

 

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Kagome sat alone under the dancing lights from the flames of the fire. She had told Sango and Miroku that she wished to be alone for awhile. So many things ran through her head. She kept glancing back toward the clearing, back to where InuYasha's body now laid. Kagome felt ten times worse that when her soul was ripped from her body by that witch years ago. It was breaking, bit by bit, piece by piece. InuYasha was gone. For some reason that sentence would never sound right. InuYasha? Gone? It didn't make any since in Kagome's now swimming thoughts. InuYasha's a hanyou; he's survived having a hole ripped through his stomach, an arrow through his heart, almost being liquefied to be fed to a youkai-tree, and things Kagome couldn't even fathom surviving. How could this be? How could this have happened? He couldn't be dead, no, not after everything they had already been through. Not after finally defeating Naraku and being rid of him for good. Not after the jewel is nearly complete.

 

“Th-the jewel…!” Kagome's eyes went wide in realization. The jewel. All she needed was Kouga's shards. She knew the jewel could be used to turn InuYasha into a full-youkai or a full-human just by a wish. Would the jewel work for something bigger? Could it actually bring InuYasha back to life? Was the power inside strong enough? In the matter of seconds she was on her feet.

 

“What Kagome?” Sango hopped up too.

 

“Sango, there's only two shards left! I can go get the shards from Kouga and use the jewel to wish InuYasha back to life!” She was quick, gathering her bag and getting ready to head to Kouga's den.

 

“Will that work, Kagome? I've never heard of using the jewel to bring someone back from the dead.” The exterminator's eyes were sad. She didn't think the jewel would work that way.

 

“I have to try, Sango. I-…I can't lose him.”

 

Sango nodded. “Take Kilala, she'll know the way, and be careful, Kagome.” She put a hand on Kagome's shoulder. “Good luck.” With a reassuring smile Kagome leaped onto the transformed Kilala took off to Kouga's den.

 

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Kagome leaned against Kilala's soft fur. It had been a long night, but she was almost to Kouga's den. The sun was just now coming up, showing the forest on the horizon. And then she saw it, Kouga's den.

 

“There it is Kilala.” The cat meowed and headed down. The wolves were already out and about, despite the early morning hour. Kouga was the first to spot the two walking up to them.

 

“Kagome! Long time, no see.” He looked behind her. “Where's mutt-face?” Kagome lowered her head, fidgeting with her fingers. Noting the seriousness on her face Kouga lay away all his joking. “Kagome?”

 

“I need your shards! Please! I've got to wish for InuYasha to be alive again!” her tears once again blurred her vision. By that time many of the wolves were aware of the miko's presence, including a certain female.

 

“Kagome, what brings you here?” Ayame wrapped her arm around Kouga's. He looked to Ayame.

 

“Hold on a minute Ayame.” He looked back to Kagome. “InuYasha, was killed?” Kagome nodded her head; Ayame had a shocked look on her face.

 

“Please Kouga, your shards are the last two, then maybe I can use the Shikon no tama to bring InuYasha back! Please?!” Kagome didn't care who was now looking at her or what they thought about her outburst. She was willing to beg and plead for the shards, and did. “I'll do anything, Kouga!”

 

Kouga looked at the heartbroken miko, now forced to her knees with her intense sobbing. Ayame released her hold on Kouga to comfort Kagome. Kouga sighed, then reached down and gathered the last of the shards from his legs. He walked over to Kagome, grabbing her hand and placing the shards in her palm, closing her fingers around them. Kagome looked up.

 

“Bring him back Kagome.” She wrapped her arms around his neck for a quick hug. Then she took the other shards from the vile and added them to the new ones. She looked up to Kouga. He gave her a reassuring nod. Kagome returned to the shards she now held in her hand and closed her eyes, merging them into one. The Shikon no tama now complete, she didn't even take the time to gaze upon it. Midoriku, please, please just bring InuYasha back to me, if at all possible, if it's within your power, please…

 

There was a swirl of pink and white light radiating from the jewel. Kouga grabbed Ayame and stepped back, tucking her behind his back. The light surrounded Kagome, shielding her from view. When she opened her eyes, she saw on older miko standing in the middle of the light.

 

“Midoriku?” the miko nodded.

 

“You are Kagome.” It was more of a statement than question. Kagome nodded anyway. “You wish to bring the hanyou InuYasha back to life. Why?” her emotion was unwavering.

 

“I need InuYasha, he doesn't deserve to die like this!” her voice quieted. “He deserves more than most, more than me.” The older miko nodded, then smiled.

 

“Your wish is the purest I have yet to hear. It will be granted, along with some of my powers being transferred to you, Kagome.” Kagome looked at her questioningly. “It is my gift to you, a pure hearted soul willing to do anything to save the one she loves.” The last bit made Kagome's heart stop. How did she know? “You will not be able to use my gift right away, but you will slowly learn to control your new miko energies.”

 

“InuYasha, he… he's okay now?” Midoriku's smile widened.

 

“Yes. It will take all my power to bring him back, and he will be weak from his travel back from the other side, but he is returning to his body as we speak. Now, Kagome, I bid you farewell, till we meet again.” She vanished from Kagome's sight. The pink and white energy around her came together, forming a ball of swirling light. The energy field created by the immense power sent Kagome's hair and clothes flying in the air. Then the light came to her, and entered her body.

 

Right away Kagome could feel the difference. She felt like for once she was truly awake, surging with power, and then it too faded. Kouga and Ayame looked at her with questions in their eyes.

 

“Midoriku, she said InuYasha's back.” She wasted no time throwing herself on the back of Kilala and heading back to see if it was true. She turned around to Kouga as Kilala took to the air. “Thank you Kouga!”

 

“Anytime Kagome! And tell mutt-face he owes me one!”

 

She waved behind her and focused on getting back to InuYasha.

 

“Please, Kilala, please hurry!” she knew the youkai was worn, but it did pick up speed. Hours later they stopped. She wanted to get to InuYasha as soon as possible, but she didn't want to lose Kilala in the process. The youkai had traveled all night and into the morning. Kagome took the rest time to eat a cup of ramen from her bag and refill her water bottle at a nearby stream. She stretched out on the ground, realizing how tired she was herself. Kilala was suddenly on her feet, transformed and growling.

 

“What is it, Kilala?” the cat continued to growl.

 

“All alone, miko?” Kagome turned around. Standing just in front of the shadows was a dragon-youkai.

 

“Suoh!”

 

He chuckled. “You've already wished him back, haven't you?”

 

“Yes, I have! There's nothing you can do about it now. InuYasha is alive, and you won't be.” Kagome held her head high, in full confidence. This only made the youkai's chuckle incline.

 

“And the miko Midoriku gave you her remaining power, did she not?”

 

“She did.” Kagome wondered what the youkai was getting to. In a flash Suoh was soaring through the air, directed at Kagome. Kilala leaped after him, only to be knocked down after one blow.

 

“Kilala!” the cat-youkai hit the ground unmoving. Suoh continued his attack, landing behind Kagome and wrapping her arms around to meet her back. She struggled to gain control of her own limbs. She felt something course being wrapped around her wrists, a rope. She groaned as the rope was pulled tight and she was thrown to the ground. Suoh stood above her, pulling out a small dagger. He fumbled with it in his hands with an evil grin across his face before kneeling over Kagome and cutting the top of her wrists. She screamed, not really out of pain but more of fear of what the youkai was going to do with her. Still she struggled, desperately hoping to loosen the ropes.

 

Suoh then used the dagger to cut his own arm, dragging it down the length of his forearm. He let the blood drip over the ropes, causing a reddish-orange glow. Kagome screamed again, this time it was from the pain. Suoh's blood ran through her own veins, burning, searing, scorching every cell in her body. It was unbearable, torture, like nothing she had ever felt before. She kicked and jerked around as Suoh grabbed her and threw Kagome over his shoulder.

 

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InuYasha was falling, falling away from Kagome, Miroku, Sango; falling further and further away from his friends. He was once again in a position in which he no longer felt the pain of his body. He no longer had a body. He could not see, or hear, or touch. He couldn't comfort Kagome like he wanted to; he didn't have a chance to warn her not to use the jewel, to go to her time and stay where she would be safe. He didn't have any idea of how much time was passing, or if any was passing at all. He was falling, that is all he knew. Steadily falling into a never ending void.

 

Then, he stopped his decent. InuYasha was in suspended animation, unmoving, then slowly he felt himself being pulled upward. His thoughts were returning, slower at first, then faster as his speed to the surface increased. He felt as if he was slammed to the ground, hitting with a sudden jolt. He wasn't in pain, like he was before, but he also didn't feel up to his best. InuYasha took his time, reconnecting his mind with his body. Clinching his fingers into fists, and releasing them again. Regaining control of his systems. Taking deep breaths with his once again active lungs. Listening to his newly restored heart beating against his chest.

 

He opened one eye, then closed it at the sudden rush of light. His ears flicked this way and that, trying to understand the voices around him. There were two. One was male, Miroku. He then listen to the other voice, this one a female, Sango. But where was Kagome?

 

“InuYasha? InuYasha?” Sango's call rang in his sensitive ears.

 

“I believe he's waking up.” Miroku. InuYasha opened one eye again, this time more cautious to the harsh sunlight. After that eye seemed to focus, he opened the other, taking in his surroundings. It was light outside. When did the sun come up? He looked around, the exterminator and monk hovering over him. But, no Kagome.

 

“Where…?” he could barley speak. His throat was dry and scratchy. He coughed from the dryness.

 

“You're still in the forest.” Miroku stated.

 

“No… Kagome.”

 

“She's not back yet.” Sango replied. InuYasha struggled to sit up, failing and falling back to the ground.

 

“Where?!” this time he was more forceful, causing him to collapse in a series of gasping coughs.

 

“She went to Kouga's den to retrieve the remaining shards. Apparently, she succeeded.” Miroku patted InuYasha's back, easing his breathing.

 

“KOUGA!? ALONE?!” this time he really outdid himself. Coughing, sputtering, sending jolts of pain to his lungs and through out the rest of his chest.

 

“Relax, InuYasha. Kilala is with her, and she can take care of herself. I assure you, she is most likely on her way back here as we speak.” That didn't calm InuYasha down in the least. His mind swirled. It wasn't really Kouga he was worried about, anyway. Kagome could take care of herself around that mangy wolf. There was something else, something that sent heated anger through InuYasha, but he couldn't remember…

 

“Suoh!” InuYasha stood, ignoring his body's objection.

 

“InuYasha, lay back down! He's gone.” InuYasha ignored the exterminator, scanning the ground for Tetsusaiga. He found it not too far from where he was lying.

 

“She's in danger, Suoh is going after her!” The two humans took a step back, shocked. InuYasha wasted no more time. He staggered at first, then broke into a run, faster and faster, willing his body to push beyond his limits. Miroku and Sango were keeping up with him, which only made his anger raise more.

 

She had done it; Kagome had used the jewel to wish him back. He would have never thought she would, but she did. The jewel was gone, and he was alive, but right now Kagome was in danger. Leaving on her own like that was stupid, InuYasha put a reminder in the back of his head to get on to her for it after she was safe. Miroku and Sango were nearly running side by side with him. His energy was spent on coming back from the far reaches of the other realm. After about an hour passed he stopped, sniffing the air.

 

“What is it InuYasha?” Miroku came up beside him. He continued sniffing the air, walking a distance, then his eyes going wide.

 

“Kagome!” he took off, scrambling and sniffing on the forest floor.

 

“InuYasha?” Sango joined Miroku.

 

“She was here, something happened.” He sniffed again. “Suoh.” A growl escaped his throat. “He hurt her! I smell her blood.” The growl increased.

 

“Which way?” A jerk of his head to the left was his answer. Baka! You're too late, he's got Kagome! He sniffed once again, heading over to the bushes, bringing back with him an injured Kilala.

 

“Kilala!” Sango took the cat-youkai from his arms. The cat meowed. Miroku looked over it.

 

“Kilala will be fine, he's healing already.”

 

InuYasha nodded before taking off, following the foul scent of Kagome's blood mixed with Suoh's stench. He'll pay for this, I won't allow him to live.

 

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Suoh threw Kagome down, slamming her hard to the ground. Kagome winced as the sudden pain shot through her body. The ropes binding her hands behind her back, laced with Suoh's own youkai blood, tightened as it absorbed more of her energy.

 

“What do you want!?” her voice was strong, echoing against stone walls.

 

“You, miko, and that power of yours. As you grow weaker, I grow stronger.” she remained silent. “It doesn't matter now, anyway. You and the inu will die. He will watch as you slowly fade into the next world, and he will be powerless to stop it from happening as I grow stronger from your own energy.” He turned to the door and walked out, slamming and locking it as he left Kagome alone in the dark room.

 

She strained to loosen herself from the bindings, but only made her wrists raw from burning. The youkai's blood was working quickly. She could already feel more than half of her miko energy gone, even after Midoriku's gift. The rest of her energy was waning, it seemed the harder she fought against it, the more of her energy it took from her. Giving up was far from her mind, though. InuYasha was alive, she knew it, Midoriku had told her as much and she trusted the miko.

 

“Where is InuYasha?” she heard a familiar, but weak, voice coming from a room down.

 

“K-kikyou?”

 

“Where is InuYasha?!” she demanded.

 

“I-I don't know.”

 

“Tell me, girl, did you use the jewel to wish him back to life? Did Midoriku pass her powers to you?”

 

“Y-yes. Kikyou, what are you doing here? How long has he held you captive?”

 

There was a series of heavy breathing from the next cell. Kikyou was fading fast; her soul collector had been cut off by Suoh for at least a day. She would not live very much longer if she didn't get a soul. “That…matters not… You must not allow Suoh to drain your energy…you…can't…” she fell silent.

 

“Kikyou? Kikyou!” suddenly Kagome felt a rush, an orb of light drifted in front of her, then entered her body. Kagome's back arched as her soul once again combined into one. Kikyou was gone. Kagome sank back down to the cold stone floor, where she cried. She cried for Kikyou, for InuYasha, for herself…

 

If InuYasha was alive, then he was coming after her. Kagome had no doubt that InuYasha would find her. She groaned as she felt even more of her energy leaving her. Please hurry InuYasha… I need you.

 

 

A/N:

Yay! InuYasha's back! LoL. You didn't really think he would stay dead, did you?

 

 

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I feel bad for making everyone suffer through that cliffie so… time for Awards!!

 

Awards:

For the most hysterical review in the last chapter: Tamakia'gss and I AM EOWYN. Thank you for being so emotionally wrought by my cruel cliffhanger.

 

Runner up for the most hysterical review: scarlet(anon)and sarah (anon)

 

For the most supportive and trusting review: Angel6582

You knew I wouldn't let our favorite hanyou stay dead!

 

To everyone else: Thank you!

 

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