InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Road to Remembrance ❯ A Familiar Nightmare ( Chapter 2 )

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Inuyasha makes his choice between Kikyo and Kagome and Kagome doesn't take the news too well. Inuyasha then experiences a nightmare that seems more like a memory�

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 06.16.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 578 | Status: Completed

Chapter 2

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“That is why this was such a hard decision to make—I think I love you both—but I decided to choose...”

“...Neither of you.”

Inuyasha held his breath in anticipation for a response from either woman. At first both were silent, staring blankly at him as though the answer hadn't quite processed in their minds yet. Then realization dawned on their faces—well, on Kagome's anyway, Kikyo's expression only became colder.

“Do you mean to tell me after you promised to join me in hell you are backing out? Inuyasha, you are a coward.”

Inuyasha had to flinch at that response though he felt it was wholly deserved. He looked at Kagome who seemed more angry than upset.

“Inuyasha you better have a good explanation for this...stringing me along like that. If you had gone with Kikyo I would have understood you had a reason, but now I just think you're a lying bastard!”

Now this Inuyasha wasn't prepared for. Never had Kagome swore at him like that.

“Please,” he said feebly, “let me explain.”

Both women watched him impatiently, still bearing disappointed and angry looks. Inuyasha looked at Kikyo first.

“Kikyo, I hate to say it, and I know it took me too long to realize it, but you aren't the woman I fell in love with. Which is why we would never be happy together in hell. The Kikyo I knew wouldn't be selfish enough to put her happiness before someone she loved—if she even loved me at all. The chance for us is over.”

“It was unfortunate what happened to us, wasn't it?” Kikyo stated softly. Most of her initial anger had disappeared from her face, know replaced with a knowing sadness, “Very well, Inuyasha. I will respect your wishes.”

Without any other words, Kikyo turned serenely and moved smoothly off into the forest. Inuyasha gazed after her retreating form, still not sure if he was making the biggest mistake of his life.

“And what's your reason for not wanting me?” Kagome asked coolly. Inuyasha knew her long enough to know the façade she was trying to pull off. She looked eerily calm on the outside but on the inside she was a mixture of burning anger and anguish.

“It's not that I don't want you Kagome 'cuz I care about you a lot...maybe even love you.”

“Then what's the problem? Why can't we be together if we love each other?” she cried.

“That's just it! I don't even know what love is! The last time I think I ever truly experience it was when my mother was alive. Since then the only people who have shown me affection are you and Kikyo. So I don't know what I'm feeling right now. And for that matter neither do you! We're just kids Kagome. We can't possibly understand what we're getting into.”

“You don't know that Inuyasha!” Kagome said angrily, “You don't know what I feel for you!”

“Oh no? You claim you love me but maybe you just love the idea of being with me. Maybe you just wanted to hold something over Kikyo's head.”

He didn't know why he said it; because it certainly wasn't something he had planned to say. Kagome looked like she had been struck in the face.

“How dare you! How dare you think I would do anything like that! You know me better than that.”

“If you loved me so much then why did you want me to be something I'm not? It has nothing to do with me being a half demon,” Inuyasha said quickly, cutting her off as he saw her open her mouth to object, “I know you accepted me for that from day one. You're trying to turn me into SomeONE I'm not.”

“I don't understand,” she said.

“Hobo—Hojo, whatever his name is. You want me to be like him.”

“I do not!”

“Yes, you do. You use this necklace to teach me manners and rules. Rules you set down and how you want me to behave.”

“Well you need manners!”

“That doesn't give you the right to force them upon me! You pictured that human boy as the perfect boyfriend but wanted me, therefore you tried to train me to act more like him, as if I were a dog! You're not my mother Kagome—it's not your job to instruct me how to behave. These beads were put on me for the sole purpose of keeping me from killing you. You know I would never do that. You've been abusing this power for sometime now.”

Kagome looked like she would like to sit him right then and there but knew it would only prove him right. She didn't know whether she was angrier at his excuse not to return her feelings or that he was right.

“I'm certainly not ready to fall in love yet. I can't love anybody until I learn to accept who I am. Please forgive me.”

Kagome said nothing. She just held her head up high and walked past him, back to Kaede's hut. Inuyasha sighed, his ears drooping. There was no turning back now. He didn't deserve such excellent women—he was just a half-breed.

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He was in a great room with elegant marble floors. There was screaming everywhere. Different colored beams of light bounced along the corridors, occasionally striking people. He ran away from the chaos. A woman was by his side, holding his hand, making sure he was with her at all times. Suddenly he was flying, sailing through the air. He crashed into a wall headfirst. His vision swam in front of him. There was a blinding flash of green light from behind him. He turned.

The woman's body, his mother's, hit the ground directly in front of him. She stared at him with wide, glassy eyes. Dead eyes.

Then he saw red. Blood, blood, everywhere.

Suddenly he was back in the marble-floored hall. A man turned towards him. It looked like a man, but it was too blurry. His vision was still clouded by the red. The man said something and then threw something at him. A glass sphere. A green light struck the man in the back and Inuyashacaught the ball.

A sharp tug behind his navel.

A rush of colors.

Inuyasha cried out as he found himself on his hands and knees underneath the God tree. His palms were scraped so he only assumed he had fallen out of the tree while he was sleeping. He looked up at the branch a good twenty feet above his head and scowled. He had never fallen out of a tree before, but that nightmare seemed strangely familiar. Maybe he had it before? Inuyasha glanced around and sniffed out to see if anyone was no by. Catching nothing, he was thankful no one saw him.

He stood up and brushed off his clothes before heading back to Kaede's hut. The sun was just setting so he must have only dozed off. He was sure by now Kagome had told everyone of his decision. He felt an uncomfortable knot tighten in his stomach, though he didn't know why. So what if they were all mad at him. It's not like he cared about what they thought of him, right?

Miroku exited the hut just as Inuyasha approached it.

“Ah, Inuyasha,” Miroku greeted him in his normal placid manner, “just the man I wanted to see. Kagome came to us bearing some rather disconcerting news.”

“And that would be...?” Inuyasha asked, not in the mood for one of his guessing games.

“That you have rejected both Kikyo and herself.”

“What of it?”

A staff to the side of the head was his answer. Miroku closed his eyes in frustration.

“I just don't understand you sometimes Inuyasha. You are just giving up two beautiful, capable women for no good reason.”

Inuyasha looked away from him, “you wouldn't understand.”

“That may be, but Kagome announced that she is leaving tomorrow. For good. She is using the jewel to seal the well shut.”

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