InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Precarious Relationships ❯ Kikyo ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: I am not Rumiko Takashi…I cannot draw nor did I create the plot for the INUYASHA series…I wish I did…*sigh*

Precarious Relationships

Chapter 5- Kikyo

"Inuyasha? Are you okay?" Shippo asked.

"Yeah. What's it to you?" he said irritably.

"Geez. You don't have to bite my head off." whined Shippo, pouting with his tiny arms crossed.

Kagome blinked, wondering what the deal was with them. She didn't dare say anything.

Inuyasha stood up abruptly, walking outside. He strayed away from the cabin towards the woods.

"How could she smell like that if she wasn't pregnant? It's not possible. But if she is…that means…" he said, stopping to smell the air.

"Wait. I know that scent. Kikyo…" Inuyasha said, forgetting momentarily about Kagome.

A few soul dragons flew past Inuyasha and into the woods. Inuyasha followed them cautiously to Kikyo.

Kikyo sat in the crotch of a large willow tree, her eyes moving over to Inuyasha.

"I knew you'd find me." she said.

"Whatda you want this time Kikyo? Are you going to try to kill me again? You know this is getting really ol--" he said, getting cut off as Kikyo climbed out of the tree stepping towards him and stopping right in front of him.

"Inuyasha…hold me…please." she whispered.

Inuyasha looked at her perplexed for a second. Then he wrapped his arms around her as she leaned against him.

"K-Kikyo. You don't know how long I've waited for you to let me hold you like this again." he whispered.

Kikyo laid her head on Inuyasha and clung to him, her hands on his back. In a way she was enjoying it but she had something else planned.

Inuyasha closed his eyes.

Kikyo smirked. Her aura changed and electric-like energy started forming at her fingertips.

"Inuyasha. You are so easily deceived." She said, putting her hands against his chest and shocking him, causing him to fly backwards.

"K-Kikyo…"

"Did you not think I would find out about Kagome?"

"W-what do you mean?"

Kikyo shook her head.

"Inuyasha. Do not try to tell me that you didn't know Kagome is with child."

Inuyasha gathered himself, as well as his dignity and stood up.

"How do you know about Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded.

"I am not as naïve as you seem to think." Kikyo responded.

"I have my ways."

Inuyasha watched as the soul dragons wrapped themselves around Kikyo's torso.

"Don't you dare touch Kagome. She's done nothing wrong to you!" Inuyasha yelled as the dragons lifted her feet off the ground.

"She's having your child. Is she not?" Kikyo said, then she was gone.

Inuyasha stood alone in the forest.

"S-she's mad at me. I don't believe it. S-she's jealous of Kagome."

He wandered out of the forest, his hand at his chest where Kikyo's energy had burned him. It stung. But what stung more was the fact that he was torn between both Kikyo and Kagome.

'Kikyo is jealous of Kagome. That must mean she still has feelings for me. But…to go as far as killing Kagome?'

'No. If Kagome dies… then so will my child.' He looked up at the sky.

"Darn you Kikyo!"

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Everyone else at the cabin finished eating. The tension had calmed down a bit.

"Sango. Where did you get that ring?" Kagome asked, those he had an inkling.

Sango beamed.

"I gave it to her. Sango and I are to be married soon." Miroku said.

Kagome smiled.

"I'm so happy for you."

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Inuyasha reached the cabin and sat outside next to the door.

He heard Kagome laugh as Miroku said something funny.

'I can't tell her. No way. Not while she's happy. I can't stand to see her upset like she was the other night.' he thought.

Sango excused herself and stepped outside.

"Oh. Inuyasha. I didn't see you there." She said, sitting next to him.

"What's with you?" he asked her.

"Why aren't you in there with the others?"

"Everyone needs a break sometime right?" Sango said.

"Yeah. I guess."

"Inuyasha. There's something wrong isn't there." She said, looking closer at his face.

Inuyasha looked away from her.

"It's about Kagome isn't it?" Sango asked.

Inuyasha's eyes widened and he looked at her.

"Women such as Kagome and I can tell things. We have our ways."

"You sound like Kik--" he began, but he shut his mouth.

"Kikyo?"

"Hn."

"Well. I won't bug you any longer. But when you're done thinking, do come in with us." She said, getting up.

"Sango. Wait."

Sango stopped.

"Congratulations."

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