InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Will Have Its Way ❯ How it should have been ( Chapter 2 )

"Naraku came between two souls that have been united since time began…he interfered with the ways of Fate, Destiny, and Love…" Kagome looked back up at Inu-yasha and Kikyo, who was a few feet behind Inu-yasha. "But now… Fate will find itself…Destiny will right itself…and Love will have its way…"

With those words, Kagome started to disappear, fading slowly; Inu-yasha could now see the Goshinboku tree behind her. The Shikon no Tama was also fading with her, though the light it emitted was as strong as ever.

"Inu-yasha," Kagome continued. "We were not meant to be… not here… not now…

"Kagome, I… but…"

"Our souls will be together for eternity… Inu-yasha… as they have been in the eternity of the past…" Kagome's hair waved in the small, cold wind that had breezed through. She closed her eyes and bowed her head a little, as she continued to fade, though now a faint, golden light was surrounding her.

"Farewell, Inu-yasha… Until our souls meet again…" She said, as two tears ran down her face, one after the other. And with that, she was gone. She had faded away, right before their eyes, leaving only a single teardrop that had fallen before she was gone.

Inu-yasha could only stare at the place where Kagome had been standing. He heard Kikyo panting a little bit behind him, probably from the shock of what had happened. He heard her take a few steps forward and put a hand on his shoulder. Still in shock, he reached up and put his hand on hers; what he felt made him spin around in shock.

'Her hand was… warm?'

He saw Kikyo, standing in a light that was similar to that of Kagome's. He stared at her, as she looked back with love in her eyes.

"Ki…Kikyo? What…?

"You chose right, Inu-yasha. Fate is being corrected, and our destinies repaired. I was never supposed to come back. In this world, our love just didn't work. Naraku should not have been… but you should never have been human. I see that now… Now I must go… I am at peace now… I no longer desire to stay on this earth… it isn't my place…. My time here ended fifty years ago…"

"But Kikyo, wait! Where are you going?"

"Goodbye, Inu-yasha. We will meet again."

"But Kikyo- No! Who will I…?"

And with that, Kikyo faded as well, taking her light and warmth with her, and leaving the hanyou staring at the spot where she had been standing. He had no comfort now, except the smell of Kagome's tear, which was sinking deep into the ground, where not even his nose would be able to detect it. He was completely alone.

As the wind carried away their scents, Inu-yasha fell to his knees, a blank look upon his face. He felt so… empty. There was nothing left for him anymore…

A lonely hanyou looked up at the sky. All the stars twinkled brightly, and seemed quite unaware of his misery. Only the moon seemed lonely, with no one near it. Just like him. He knew what he had to do.

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In the present….

Kagome wept openly now. She had faded for a few seconds, or so she thought, out of time and existence, before suddenly reappearing on her bed, just as her other tear fell, making a small dark dot on her blanket. She had been in shock for a while. The Shikon Jewel had spoken through her for a minute… but she had let it… because it was right…

But now her heart was broken. Many more spots had joined that first one on her blanket, and the tears continued to fall. The man she loved was in the past, and would remain there. She had no doubt that the well would no longer work. She had nothing to fix back there. Inu-yasha and Kikyo would be together, and the jewel had remained with her. She was still its protectress, though the job wouldn't be too hard in the present; there weren't many yokai here.

"Kagome, are you in there?" called her mom, who had apparently heard her moving around, but couldn't here her crying.

"Ya, Mom…"

"Some friends are here to see you! They brought some homework for you to work on."

'Well, I guess I need it… It's time to start living a normal life in the present…'

"Go ahead and send them in, Mom."

'There is no life in the past anymore… no Sango…Miroku… I hope Shippo's alright... that Inu-yasha doesn't pick on him too much.' Tears were welling in her eyes now. 'Inuyasha… I miss you…' Now they poured from her eyes in small, hot streams down her face.

Suddenly her friends burst into the room. "Kagome! Where have you been? You've been out for sooooo long!!!!"

"Oh, leave her alone! You know how sick she's been!" They continued to babble, and Kagome was soon lost in her own thoughts of the past again, but was jerked back into reality when her homework (in a very large package, because she hadn't returned for several weeks).

Suddenly, she noticed that her friends were quiet, and looked up at them.

"Kagome, what's wrong?"

Kagome was puzzled at first, until a teardrop hit her hand, and another splashed on her homework; she was crying.

"Nothing, nothing…it's nothing…"

Her friends looked at her with concern, but decided to leave her alone. They knew Kagome: she would tell them when she was ready. They might seem ignorant, but really, they were just some girls who loved having fun. They knew when something was wrong.

But days turned to weeks, and Kagome said nothing. She seemed to be hiding inside herself, holding something in, something huge. She was always wearing this necklace that they hadn't noticed before, with a gorgeous pink bead hanging on it. Well, usually it was pink; it would change colors sometimes. No one knew quite what to make of it, but Kagome never let anyone touch it, much less borrow it.

Kagome's grades went up, and she was doing well in school, but her teachers noted her detachment. It seemed as though she was in another world. When it failed to stop, they began to worry, and called her mom. Her mother said it was the result of so many illnesses. The teachers could tell this wasn't the whole truth, but Mrs. Higurashi said it with a firmness that left no room for questions.

So Kagome moved on. But in her Junior year, she got quite a surprise…

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~~Koneko-chan~~

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