InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Remeber Me ❯ Deja Vu ( Chapter 19 )

Remember Me

 

By Miryokuteki

 

Chapter 19: Déjà vu

 

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“Kagome! Look out!” Kagome ducked as another of Naraku's tentacles came flying toward her. “Hirakutsu!” Sango's huge boomerang whizzed past, slicing the appendage in half. “You alright?”

 

Kagome nodded as her friend helped her up. “Yeah. You?”

 

“I'm fine. C'mon. The other's need our help.” The exterminator took off to rejoin the battle. It wasn't going so well. Only two days after their last battle with the evil hanyou, they had not fully recovered. Kagome glanced out over the battle grounds. Just yesterday it had been a beautiful field of wildflowers overlooking a deep canyon. InuYasha had chosen the place to camp, knowing that she would enjoy the view. Now, however, the ground was scorched black, every flower dead.

 

The young miko cringed as her beloved hanyou took another hard hit. Why is it that every time things start going well, something has to go wrong? The battle had started early that morning. Kagome had woken to find InuYasha gazing out over the horizon. It was beautiful site, with the sun just barely peeking over the canyon wall, casting the most brilliant colors she'd ever seen on the sky. She'd gone to sit next to him and he'd smiled at her. No words were spoken but in that moment she knew. The look behind his eyes told her everything she'd been wondering for the last two years. He loved her. Slowly, he leaned toward her. Kagome's breath caught in her throat as she waited for the kiss.

 

It never came. At that moment Naraku showed up, the others awakened, and the battle began.

 

Kagome shook herself as the memory faded.

 

“Hey, you okay?” InuYasha stood beside her, his brow furrowed in concern.

 

“Hmm?... oh, yeah… I'm fine. I was just… remembering.” She shivered slightly. The place was unnerving. “C'mon. Let's go. This place is starting to creep me out.” Turning, she grabbed InuYasha's sleeve and pulled him with her.

 

InuYasha opened his mouth to respond, to ask her what she'd remembered. Instead he stopped and sniffed the air. Something wasn't right.

 

“InuYasha? What's wrong?”

 

“I don't know. Wait here.” With that he left her side and slowly began prowling the outskirts of the battle grounds. Kagome stood where she was but glanced around nervously. She was getting a bad feeling about this.

 

“Kagome.” InuYasha called from the other side of the field. “I'm going to go a bit further out. Stay there.”

 

“H… hai!” she called back and with a nod she sat down on a stump to await his return. About a minute later, silence was broken by the sound of someone, most likely a small child, crying nearby. “Hello? Is somebody out there?” A rustling in the bushes confirmed her suspicions. “Who's there? Come out where I can see you.”

 

Slowly, the rustling grew louder and a small girl emerged from the brambles. She looked to be no older the five and was quite a mess. Her clothes were torn and she had several scratches on her arms and face. “Hey, are you alright?” Kagome approached the girl but she backed away in turn. “Don't worry. I'm not gonna hurt you.” She moved forward again and the child allowed her to check her wounds. They weren't bad, just minor scrapes. Still… “How did this happen to you?”

 

With out warning the girl burst into tears. “Mama says Tay no leave Mama's side!” she wailed between sobs. “Mama says woods scary! Tay no listen! Tay follow kitty! Kitty big monster! Tay scared! Tay run! Tay want Mama!” with that the youngster threw herself into Kagome's arms.

 

“Shh… It's alright. Don't cry. I'll help you find your Mama.”

 

“*sniff*… really?... *sniff sniff*”

 

“Yeah. As soon as my friend gets back we'll go look for her okay?” Kagome replied with a smile.

 

The girl began to giggle. Kagome was about to join her when the sweet sound deepened into a dark almost menacing laugh. Then, right before her eyes the girl began to change. Kagome scrabbled backward as the three-foot form grew taller and taller, black hair changed to an eerie green, and finger-nails elongated into deadly claws.

 

“Heh heh heh. You really are a fool to fallen for such an amateur trick. And here I thought you be difficult to take down, seeing as you killed so many of my children.”

 

“You… you're one of them! The vanishing demons…”

 

“Wrong! I AM them. I am their creator, their mother, their queen. I took those weak imps and turned them into stronger, faster, more powerful creatures. They are mine.”

 

Kagome stared at her for a moment. The way she talked you would think each of her `children' was some indestructible being. Yet, all the vanishing demons she'd fought had been fairly easy to kill. “Keh!” she replied in an InuYasha like tone. “For such powerful creatures they sure do die easily.”

 

“Hmmm… yes. But you see, `they' were merely my test subjects. The truly amazing ones are being built as we speak. You'll see. Soon the world will be face with the great power of Taysinoka… Actually, you won't see, as you will be dead long before then.” Suddenly, the demon was in the air, poised to strike.

 

“I don't think so! Kaze no Kizu!”

 

Kagome shielded her eyes from the blinding light of Tetsusaiga's power. When she looked up, Taysinoka was gone and InuYasha was standing at the far end of the battle ground. A deep gorge was left in the path of the wind scar, but it was only about two feet wide and the miko jumped it easily as she rushed to the hanyou's side.

 

“You okay?” He asked.

 

“Yeah, just a little shaken up is all. Did you get her?”

 

“I think so. Keh! All powerful my…”

 

“That's right.” InuYasha was cut off as Taysinoka's voice once again filled the air. “I am all powerful.”

 

InuYasha pushed Kagome back as the demon appeared above the forest. “Stay back!” he yelled, before leaping to meet Taysinoka in a fierce clash of steel and claws.

 

Kagome cringed as InuYasha took a blow to the stomach. Somehow this battle seemed all too familiar. InuYasha swung Tetsusaiga in a broad arc. Taysinoka moved out of the way but wasn't fast enough. Blood spurted everywhere as the fang sliced across her chest.

 

“You'll pay for that puppy!” she shouted rushing back in for another attack. This time she caught InuYasha across the stomach, sending him flying backward.

 

“InuYasha!” Kagome yelled moving toward him.

 

“No! Stay back!”

 

“I suggest you listen to him little girl. Continue to breath while you can. You'll be next.”

 

Naturally this angered InuYasha more then he already was. `Nobody threatens Kagome!' “Argh! Kaze no Kizu!”

 

Once again Taysinoka leaped out of the way. “Hmm… too slow!”

 

“Oh really? Why don't you try this on for size? Kongoshouha!” With that, thousands of diamond spears shot out from Tetsusaiga's blade and embedded themselves within Taysinoka's chest.

 

The demon stood there for a moment, a shocked look on her face, before her body erupted into flames. When the smoked cleared, all that was left off the “all powerful” demon were her ashes, which were quickly scattered by the wind.

 

“Wow!” Kagome breathed. “The Diamond Spear Blast… I'd forgotten that one.”

 

InuYasha sheathed his sword and turned to her with a smirk. “Figures. You spend all your time remembering a bunch of stupid songs and you can't even remember the important stuff.”

 

“Oh! And why is it so important that I know all your different attacks? You're the one who uses them. Not me.”

 

InuYasha opened his mouth to reply but was cut off as the ground began to shake. It seemed that the fierce battle had been too much for the already damaged cliff, and it was beginning to crumble.

 

Kagome gasped as the ground dropped out from under her feet. In the split second that she hung in the air, she felt as though she had gone back two years to the final battle with Naraku. And here she was, for the second time in her life, about to fall down into the deep canyon below. There was nothing to grab onto this time. The ground had crumbled for another five feet in front of her. This was it. There was no hope.

 

She felt her self begin to fall and closed her eyes, waiting for the inevitable.

 

When she opened them again, she was not in front of some pearly gates surrounded by clouds, nor was she being pulled through the current of the river below. She wasn't even falling anymore. Instead, she found her self wrapped in the warm, red cloth, that was InuYasha's haori, and through that cloth were InuYasha's arms, clutching her to his chest as though afraid that if he let go she would disappear.

 

Kagome contented herself with lying in his arms for a moment. It felt so natural, so right to be there. Finally, she looked up into his eyes to find him staring into hers. Behind his golden orbs she saw something, an emotion that can not be described in words. It was more then friendship, or even love. It was…

 

Kagome didn't have a chance to find a word to identify the emotion, because at that moment, his mouth descended upon hers in a breath-taking kiss. Wrapping her arms around his waist, she returned the kiss.

 

They stayed that way for several moments, allowing every emotion they'd ever felt for one another to flow through that kiss. Even when their lips finally parted, they held each other close, unwilling to let go.

 

It wasn't until Kagome felt an odd thick liquid on his chest and stomach, that she pulled away.

 

“You're hurt!” she exclaimed as she tried to push his haori out of the way to see the wound.

 

He grabbed her hands, stopping her. “I'm fine. It's just a scratch.”

 

“No it's not! You're bleeding! At least let me get it cleaned up so it doesn't get infected.”

 

“I won't get infected.”

 

“I don't care that you think you won't. You might! And I don't want to take any chances. Now let me see it!”

 

“No!”

 

“Yes!”

 

“No!”

 

“Please.”

 

“… fine”

 

Kagome moved to take off his haori. He stopped her again.

 

“Let's get out of here first. I don't like this place.”

 

Glancing around Kagome realized that they were still in the battle field.

 

“Okay.”