InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Realization ❯ Chapter 35 ( Chapter 42 )

Author's note: An update! It must be a miracle, lol. I've been working on getting this chapter done for the past few months and now that it's finally done it feels like a dream lol. Here's a short recap for everyone, seeing as it's been a while since the last chapter. Kagome is alive and well but she's been having strange dreams and sleepwalking. It's already caused her to sprain her ankle; thank God Inuyasha was there to keep her from getting hurt worse. She's told her mom about following Sneaks to the well and someone pushing her in. When we last left her Kagome was sleeping on the couch, her family eating dinner in the kitchen.

 

 

 

Chapter 35

 

Kagome struggled to free herself from arms that were tight around her. She wanted to scream but every time she opened her mouth nothing came out. It was so very dark; she couldn't get a look at the person holding her.

 

“Free yourself to me.” The softly whispered words filled the darkness.

 

“Who are you?” Kagome didn't recognize the sound of her voice; she sounded more like a croaking frog.

 

“Free yourself.” Came another whisper.

 

“You're the only thing I need be freed from.” Her voice was steadier.

 

“Free yourself from your restraints.”

 

“You're my restraints.” Kagome struggled again. Suddenly she felt light as air and spun around. No one was there. She was alone in the darkness.

 

“Am I?”

 

“Who are you?” Kagome demanded. She spun around again when she felt something lightly brush her hair. Still there was no one. “Why are you doing this?”

 

“See the truth and be free.”

 

“What truth? What are you talking about?” Kagome felt panic stricken. I'm dreaming right? She questioned herself. Since I've been revived I've been having the strangest dreams, will it forever be this way?

 

“Until you free yourself.” Came the whispered answer.

 

“This can't be happening.” Kagome rubbed her temples. “I couldn't have died just to come back crazy.”

 

“You must fulfill your destiny.”

 

“Complete the Shikon no Tama? That's my destiny, isn't it? To put the Shikon no Tama to rest and let the souls find peace?”

 

“Peace is not for you to give. You must see the truth.”

 

“The truth shall set me free, is that it?” Kagome asked sarcastically.

 

“See.”

 

Kagome felt herself loosing her temper and closed her eyes against it. “Stop speaking in riddles. If you've got something to say, then say it. If you've got something you want me to see, then show it to me. If not then ….” Kagome trailed off, then what?

 

“Then wake up.”

 

Kagome had been willing herself to wake up but so far it seemed pointless. You pinched yourself to see if you were awake, what did you do to wake yourself up? Kagome jumped when she heard laughter fill the darkness. Suddenly giant flames leapt up around her nearly scaring her to death. Kagome screamed and spun around wanting to back away but found there was no place to go

 

“Fire?”

 

“STOP IT!” Kagome screamed and the fire died back down and again she was surrounded by darkness. “I don't know what you want from me.” She sighed. “Why are you trying to scare me?” She whispered wringing her hands.

 

There was no answer. Kagome uselessly looked around her but could see nothing in the darkness. Kagome jumped and her hand flew to her throat when a light went on a few feet in front of her. It wasn't much light, it made a small circle in all the darkness, but it was light.

 

She took a hesitant step forward and did a double take when she saw the flicker of a shadow within the light. She felt pain and looked down to realize her nails were digging in her neck. She dropped her hand and looked back at the light and took another step towards it and again she saw a shadow in the light. It was vague; she couldn't make out what it was.

 

“Who's there?” She called out. No answer. She wasn't expecting one, really, but she was so scared she had to ask. She took a deep breath and took another step and then another. With each step she took the shadow started to take its form, growing arms and legs.

 

With each step Kagome's expression slowly turned to one of horror when she realized the person in the light was her. She was wearing the school uniform, her eyes were closed, and she had a huge smile on her face. Kagome felt herself start to tremble as she stared at her self-image in the light.

 

“What do you want?” Kagome asked in a forced whisper.

 

Kagome flinched when `she' opened her eyes and her smile softened. Kagome's breathing became ragged when `she' extended an inviting hand towards her. She took a step back as she shook her head. In the light Kagome tilted her head to the side as she nodded her head.

 

Kagome swallowed her nervousness and fear and took in what was happening. She was dreaming, that was most important, she was really asleep on the couch, and her family was in the kitchen eating. Her dream was odd, unlike anything before, and it scared her. She couldn't help it. Who wouldn't be scared? A message was trying to be conveyed to her but she wasn't sure what it was exactly. See. That was what she, I guess, Kagome decided as she looked at herself, said. She looked at the hand that was extended out to her. She clenched her hands into tight fists before relaxing. She reached out to the hand and stepped into the light.

 

The white light drove away all the darkness that had surrounded her. She felt lightweight, there was a tingling that started in her toes and worked its way up her body and down to the ends of her hair. It feels wonderful, actually, she thought as she shivered from the sensation. She was alone in the light, she realized as she looked around. She looked to see her hand holding thin air and dropped it.

 

“Hello?” She called out with a raised eyebrow.

 

Silence.

 

“What a surprise.” She said softly to herself. She took one step forward when out of nowhere a strong gust of wind blew, forcing her back as she braced against it. She brought her hands up to block the wind from her eyes as she attempted to see what was coming. And whoosh she found herself in a hallway. There were five doors on the left, five on the right, and there was a door at the end.

 

The light was dimmer now. Gray was mixed in with the white. Over each door was the whitest of the light. It drew her attention as she again looked over the eleven doors.

 

She wondered how to choose which door to open. Was she to open them all? See what was in them? But then what? She closed her eyes and again wished to be awake but it was pointless at the moment. If her dreams were trying to reach her then she needed to pay attention.

 

Deciding that she stepped into the light left hand first she walked to the first door on the left. She leaned to the left and right but couldn't find the source of the light and settled her gaze on the wooden door before her. There was nothing unusual about it, as she looked it over from top to bottom, noting the silver doorknob, before dropping her gaze to the floor before the door. She tilted her head in curiosity as she looked over the green floor mat. She looked at the rest of the doors and saw they too had colored floor mats.

 

Eleven different colors for eleven different doors: green, blue, red, yellow, purple, pink, orange, white, black, gray, and brown.

 

She turned her attention back to the silver doorknob, and with a shaky hand she turned the knob and heard the soft click of the metal. She pushed the door open a crack and saw light. With a whoosh the door was flung open and the light became blindingly bright. Kagome screamed, threw her arms over her head, and took a step back.

 

Kagome opened her eyes and blinked a few times as she tried to again adjust to the dim lighting. Next door I open, I'm not standing so close. I'll throw it open myself. She thought to herself as she lowered her arms. She tried to look past the light to what was in the room without moving towards it but she couldn't. Determined Kagome stomped to the doorway and looked in.

 

“A tree?” Kagome said out loud to herself as she looked at the lush green of the leaves. She could hear birds chirping, the wind blowing softly, the soft rustling of the leaves, and the groaning of the branches. See. Kagome heard the soft voice in her head. Kagome got down on her knees and leaned forward to look past the green and brown of the tree. Kagome squinted to see clearer. “I couldn't have gotten a closer tree?” She said sarcastically.

 

“Is that Inuyasha?” Kagome said as she focused on the blur of red and with another whoosh the scene below her, that she struggled to see, was as clear as a picture. She saw Inuyasha, Keade, Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Kirara. Inuyasha squatted down and she saw herself lying on the ground in front of a large basin. Kagome blinked a few times as she looked at herself, lifeless. Inuyasha reached out and gently brushed a few strands of hair out of her face. Kagome's eyes filled with tears as she watched him drop his hand away and his head bow.

 

She turned her attention towards to the basin. Lying inside it was Kikyo. She looked lifeless as well. Her hair was floating around her, as she laid in the potions and herbs. Suddenly her body jerked and her back arched. Her eyes opened and they were red, and then energy and the fluids surrounded her.

 

“I wonder if this is what it looked like when my soul was taken to resurrect Kikyo?” Kagome whispered softly as she watched herself lift into the air and take possession of her soul.

 

Kagome heard a creak and with her eyes wide she moved back just in time as the door slammed in her face. Kagome sat back on her feet and put her hands over her face. “Why do you have to do that?” Kagome asked and then suddenly she got mad and stood up. “It's okay to slam doors, is it? That's what you want to see? Well let's slam doors.”

 

Kagome was completely annoyed and pissed. She'd had just about enough of this and was tired of being toyed with. She just hoped that if she was sleep walking that she didn't hurt herself and she stepped back and kicked open the door that slammed shut in her face. She turned around and threw open the door that was behind her, the bright light didn't bother her and she didn't even look to see what was inside. She went to the next door and threw it open too, and so on. When she was about to do the same to the eleventh door, she stopped when she heard crying. She didn't turn around, she closed her eyes and listened, trying to decide if it was coming from one of the rooms, and if so, which one.

 

Kagome slower turned around and slowly walked back down the hallway, listening. Kagome stopped in front of the door with the black mat and looked inside. She saw her bathroom and in a ball on the floor she saw herself and she was crying. Kagome froze in horror as she listened to herself sounding as if she were crying her heart out. She wanted to comfort herself, find out what happened, why she was crying but when she took a step onto the mat the door slammed in her face. She jumped when the other nine doors slammed shut as well and twirled around when the eleventh door slowly opened, revealing her room. Her heart lurched when she saw it and she ran towards it and jumped over the brown mat in front of it.

 

There was a blinding light surrounding her when she landed. Then it was suddenly black. She suddenly felt as if the world was spinning and when it stopped she was standing in the middle of her room. She looked at her wall, at her desk, she turned and looked at her window and her bed, and jumped when she turned towards her door and saw her family and Inuyasha standing in the doorway, looking at her as if she'd lost her mind. She shifted nervously from one foot to the other and watched them as they looked down at her feet.

 

“Your ankle isn't hurting you?” Her mother asked, she sounded as shocked as she looked.

 

Kagome looked down at her foot and shook it. Kagome laughed at the strangeness of the situation, as she shook her head no. Was she really awake? Was this part of her seeing?

 

“You were sleepwalking again.” Inuyasha said as if sensing her thoughts.

 

Kagome stopped laughing when she realized how uncomfortable everyone was by what was happening to her.

 

“Again?” Sota asked intrigued. “You've been sleepwalking, nee-chan?”

 

“Yeah.” Kagome said thinking about what just happened. “I've been sleepwalking.” What the hell is going on?