InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sacrifices ❯ Truth Hurts ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter7: Truth hurts

Kagome stood in shock as she stared back at the miko standing in front of her. Her eyes were widened in shock while her body started to tremble. Kikyo's aura frightened her, she frightened her. Her only presence was enough for Kagome's heart to start beating fast in frustration and fear. As she stared at the cold hearted and expressioned miko, Kagome got lost in her deep cold eyes. Those eyes full of emptiness and hate. Yes, it was hate the only thing Kagome could feel while staring at her, the girl that he loved.

"We need to talk..." Kikyo said, not taking her cold piercing eyes from Kagome. "Let's go..." she stated as she turned around and walked towards the woods behind her.

Kagome just stood there as she watched Kikyo leaving. She didn't know whether to follow her or just stay in that place like she had promised the hanyou. But there was something inside her disturbing her thoughts. She had to go with her, she had to find out what she wanted. After all, it could be important. Kagome's eyes were determined, and as she narrowed her eyes, she started following the priestess.

As they walked into the forest, Kagome's eyes kept that determined expression. She stared at Kikyo's back, not knowing what would come next. " 'What are you doing Kagome... You're getting into something you probably don't want to know...'" she thought to herself. As she made these statements to herself, Kikyo kept her usually cold, non expressioned face; but then she smirked evilly at the thought of Kagome following her. " 'Like a baby duck follows its mother...'" she thought to herself.

Inuyasha ran quickly through the people searching for Kikyo. He held a worried expression, though serious eyes. " 'I know it was her... I just know it!'" he thought to himself as he suddenly jumped to one of the roofs of the houses that were nearby, trying to get a better look of everything around him. "Damn it!!" he yelled as he jumped off and started to run once again, leaving the people around him with confused expressions.

Kagome kept her eyes on Kikyo's back. How could've she taken off with someone she had only seen in her dreams? What if this was just a disguised demon trying to kill her?. These and many questions popped into her mind as she followed the miko. But then again, what if it was something important; what if it involved Inuyasha. Kagome suddenly stopped when she noticed the miko did the same. She turned around and noticed that they were deep in the woods, the road wasn't able to be seen anymore, only her and the miko's breathing were heard. And though it was still daytime, the part of the woods where they were standing was dark. Only a few sun rays managed to illuminate the place, giving her at least a little bit of comfort.

Kikyo turned towards her and stared at her for a few seconds. There she was, standing in front of her... The reason why Inuyasha smiled now; the reason why he had changed so much; the reason why he'd eventually forget her. She hated her as well. Kagome represented her failure. She was her reincarnation, but she represented all the things she wasn't able to do for Inuyasha. Kikyo's eyes narrowed at the thought of this, but then her expression changed quickly into a malicious smiling one. Sure she could just get rid of her now. She could just kill her and take off; but that wouldn't be fun.

" 'I'm gonna make him hate you... I guess I'll have to play Naraku this time...'" She thought to herself as she watched Kagome's determined eyes.

"You... you're Kikyo right..." Kagome's voice was startig to break, but she held back from doing it. She wasn't going to show fear. Not anymore. She was there to find out whatever it was Kikyo wanted to tell her, and she wasn't going to back off now.

"Yes..."

"What do you want to tell me..." Kagome asked not taking her eyes off from her.

"I know you've lost your memory, and that you don't remember anything..." Kagomes eyes widened in surprise.

"How? How did you..." she was cutt of when she noticed Kikyo's smiling face.

"I just do... I know you don't remember anything, but I'm sure you've realized by now about my relationship with Inuyasha..." Kikyo started to walk towards her. "I can tell because your eyes reflect sadness... I can tell because you love him as well..."

Kagome was taken back by her words. How could she notice? Was she so obvious? No she wasn't; there was something more to this Kikyo girl. Kagome turned her gaze away from her with a frustrated expression.

"Inuyasha and I are engaged..." Kagome's eyes widened in shock as she heard those words and stared at the miko once again. "He very well knows he belongs to me... his love is mine, his life is mine..." Kikyo noticed Kagome's expression was angry, and she waited for a statement.

"What??"

"You heard it... he belongs to me..." Kikyo narrowed her eyes as Kagome interrupted her.

"No he doesn't! He doesn't belong to you!..." Kagome stopped briefly as she heard herself say that, and then softened her tone of voice. "Just because he loves you doesn't mean that you own him... his life belongs to him only... what he does concerns to him only... and also who he loves... you don't have the right to..."

" 'I' don't have the right to??... who are you to tell who's got the right to anything??" Kikyo snapped at the shocked Kagome, smirking evilly. "Havent you ever wondered why he cares about you? Why he tells you he'll protect you?"

Kagome's eyes reflected hurt as she waited for the miko's answer.

"It's because we look alike... To him you're nothing but a reflection of me, nothing but that..."

"No I'm not! We're not alike, I'm..."

"You are my reincarnation..." Kikyo smirked in satisfaction after she said this. As she watched Kagome's shocked expression, she could not do anything but smile at the sight of her. Confusion, frustration, fear, hurt; all those emotions reflected on her face made Kikyo feel good.

"Reincarnation... what... what are you talking about..."

"Oh... didn't he tell you?... Well I guess I'm gonna have to tell you the truth now... you see, I don't know how you got here, but what I do know is that you come from another time... that's right, you're not from this era... and what's most important, you're My reincarnation... you know what that means, don't you? It means you're just a copy of me, the souls you've got in you are mine... so in a way, you belong to me too..."

Kagome's eyes were angry now. Even though she didn't remember Sango or anyone telling her about that, she knew it was true. Deep down she knew Kikyo was telling the truth. But what made her angry was the fact that she talked about her and Inuyasha belonging to her like they were simple objects. Maybe she was her reincarnation, but her mind was hers; her feelings were hers.

"Stop it! I don't belong to you! Even if you say I'm your reincarnation I have a mind of my own! A heart of my own! You cant say I belong to you because that's not true!" Kagome snapped at her.

"Hn... you can say anything you want, but the truth is still the same... Inuyasha only sees me whenever he looks at you... that's why he keeps looking after you... only because it's me the one he says those words to... Plus, he's only using you as a shard detector..."

"Shard... detector?" Kagome's voice started to crack.

"That's right... The Shikon shards You broke into a thousand pieces. Once the Shikon no Tama is completed, your job will be done, and Inuyasha will return to me... You did know he's collecting those shards only to give them to me in the end, don't you?" Kikyo was thrilled to see Kagome's hurt expression. " Hn... and you thought you were just a regular girl with several 'friends' well let me reveal the truth to you... they're all after the shards because it'll increase their powers, and you're the only one able to see them, so... you're just a shard detector to them... nothing but a shard detector..."

"That's not true..." Kagome interrupted her with tears filling her eyes.

"You can ask them if you don't believe me... but I think you already know... havent they asked you if you saw any bright spot on a demon they were fighting against ? Think about it..."

Kagome's eyes widened in shock as she remembered what had happened a few days ago. It was true, they really did ask her if she saw a bright spot on the demon's body before they attacked.

"I guess you didn't notice yet they were just using you..." she stopped for a moment before she continued. "Truth hurts... doesn't it?"

Kagome didn't know what to say. There were so many things on her head in that moment that she just went blank. All these new things that were revealed to her hit her with the strength of a thunder. She had found out about so many painful things at a time, she could only stand there, lost in her thoughts.

Kikyo walked up to Kagome and stood close to her, watching her suffer. Then she smirked. "Inuyasha loves me... and he can only think about me when he looks at you... I know you're in love with him, but that's never gonna happen... he could never love you back... and even if he could, could you be sure that his thoughts are all about you? Or will you be thinking if it's me the one he says 'I love you' to..."

Kagome didn't answer, she just lowered her head and let Kikyo finish. " You better just forget about him... all the pain you're feeling now will go away if you just do it..." Kagome widened her eyes in shock as she felt Kikyo's cold embrace. Her body felt so cold, and Kagome could feel all the sadness in Kikyo's heart. Yes, she felt sadness, but why? Didn't she just tell her that Inuyasha loved her?

Kikyo smirked evilly as she tightened her left arm around Kagome's back while her right arm held her neck.Then she spoke to her ear. "I don't want you to suffer later...I'm just doing this to protect you..." Kagome's eyes widened as she heard this and she quickly let go off the cold embrace.

Kagome stared at her with anger filling her eyes. "Protect me?? Is that why you told me all those things??" she snapped at her.

"I care about you... after all... you are a part of me..." Kagome's eyes widened as she saw Kikyo's soul snatchers surround her and lift her up. "I will see you again... dear Kagome" Kikyo finished saying with an evil grin as she disappeared.

"Kikyo!!!... come back!!! I know you're lying!!!!!..." Kagome's voice softened and started to crack. " I know you're lying Kikyo..." as she said this, tears rolled down her cheek. Standing all alone in the middle of the woods, Kagome's eyes stared at nothing, reflecting confusion and hurt.

Inuyasha kept looking around the people for Kikyo. He had searched in almost every house in the surroundings for her, but there was still no sign of her.

"I guess she wasn't here after all..." he said while taking one last look at the walking people before turning around. " You're such an idiot... why do you have to go chasing after her like a stupid dog everytime... especially now... Damn it!! Why did you leave Kagome like that! You stupid hanyou!'" he snapped at himself.

As Inuyasha walked back to the place he had left Kagome, his expression saddened as he pictured her standing by herself in the middle of the road.

" 'She's always been there for you in the worst times and the first thing you do is leave her alone in her condition... you really are an idiot...'" While having these thoughts in mind, Inuyasha started getting flashbacks of the time they had spent together; when they first met; when they started their journey to get the Shikon shards; when they met the others; when he told her he had chosen Kikyo. He stopped when the memories of that day hit him. He started remembering the day when he was headed for the well to say goodbye to her, and found her sitting by it. Even then she told him she wanted to be with him. She wanted to be with him, with the hanyou that had just rejected her.

Inuyasha lifted his face with a determined look in his eyes and started to jump from roof to roof really fast headed for the place he left Kagome at, scaring all the people around him. He didn't know why, but he just wanted to see her; he just had to. His expression suddenly changed into a concerned one as he approached the road where he had left Kagome and didn't see her there. When he got there, he started searching for her in every direction.

"Kagome!!... Kagome where are you!!?" He was starting to get desperate when he heard no answer after a few seconds. "Damn it!!!... Kagome!!"

He was about to go off in search for her when he suddenly turned around after he heard some noises coming from behind him. "Kagome??..." He saw her fragile silhouette walking towards him, though he could notice something was wrong. Her expression was different, it was as if she had been on a fight, because her eyes reflected hurt and angriness at the same time.

"Are you ok?? What happened??" asked an impatient Inuyasha trying to find out what had happened to her. He was surprised when she lifted her head and stared at him with sad eyes.

" 'Is it true you're just using me to find the shards?...Am I only a shard detector for you?...'" she thought to herself as she stared at the worried hanyou standing next to her.

"Kagome?... Daijoubu ka?..." Kagome was brought back from her thoughts as she heard his soft tone of voice. She could see he was really worried about her, and for a moment she forgot about all those terrible things Kikyo had told her earlier.

" 'Why should you believe everything she said...'" Kagome thought to herself. She wanted Kikyo's words to be just lies she could forget, but she knew they werent. She lowered her head and Inuyasha stared at her. "Let's just go..." she stated in a soft tone of voice while walking away from Inuyasha.

"Oi! What's wrong!? What happened?? Did someone hurt you???" Inuyasha was angry now. What could've possibly happened for her to behave that way? He wanted to kill the person that had done this to her. As he grabbed Kagome's arm and turned her to face him, he met Kagome's fake smile.

"I ran into the head of the village... and he said we couldn't stay here..." Kagome watched Inuyasha as he sighed in relief.

"Is that all?? You fool, I thought someone had done something to you... Feh... is that why you're upset?" Kagome nodded slightly faking a smile. " We can always find another village..."

"Sure..."

"Why don't we..." Inuyasha was interrupted when he heard a familiar voice calling for him. As he turned around, he lifted his face and saw Sango, Shippo and Miroku riding on top of Kirara's back. "Feh.." he maged to say while getting a funny look on his face.

"Inuyasha!!! Kagome!!!" cried a happy Shippo while waving his hands at them.

"Shippo calm down! you're gonna make us fall!" stated Miroku, trying to keep his balance while the little fox jumped up and down on his shoulder.

Inuyasha walked up to them as they landed.

"What are you doing here?"

"We just came to check... you were taking too long to find a village and we thought you might have found some 'obstacles'" stated Miroku as he jumped off Kirara's back.

"Feh!... well you came for nothing... we didn't have any troubles, but the head of the village doenst want us to stay here..."

"Why not?" asked Sango as she walked up to them.

" I don't know... Kagome was the one who ran into him..." As they turned around to see her, they noticed Kagome's saddened and thoughful expression.

"Is that why Kagome's..." Miroku stopped when Inuyasha nodded in response. "Well, there's nothing we can do then..."

"Yeah well..." Inuyasha and Miroku kept talking and Sango got suspicious eyes while looking at Kagome.

Shippo went running towards her and jumped to her arms surprising her. "Mou daijoubu Kagome!! We'll find another village!! Besides, this place is too crowded!!" stated a smiling Shippo while Kagome just nodded faking a smile once again.

Sango walked up to them with a concerned expression. "Are you ok?"

"Eh?... hai… hai... I just thought it'd be nice to sleep indoors tonight... but they're right! We can always start searching for a new village tomorrow..." She tried her best to smile in a normal way, but she couldn't help getting a sad expression every now and then.

"Kagome! Don't be sad! I'm sure we'll find another village tomorrow!" yelled Miroku with a smiling expression.

"Hai!" was Kagome's answer as she started to walk towards them with Shippo on her arms. Sango stayed behind watching as Kagome met the others.

" 'This is not right... there's something else...'" she thought to herself as she turned towards the woods. " 'I get the feeling that...'" she was cut off when she heard Shippo calling her.

"Sango!! Let's go!!"

"Hai!" and with that, she walked towards the others, still thinking there was more to Kagome's sad expression than they thought.

Kikyo was walking in the woods with an evil smirk on her face. She was proud of what she had done. But her expression quickly changed into an angry one as she stopped next to some bushes.

"Will you come out of there once and for all? Or will I have to make you..." As she finished her threat, Naraku stepped out of the shadows.

"I see you're happy Kikyo... did you get what you wanted?..."

"Yes... as a matter of fact, things are going better than I thought..." Kikyo turned to face Naraku with her usual cold expression.

"I'm glad then... did the shards you asked for worked?... I wonder what you're plannig to do with the shard you've still got left..."

"That's not on your business... but don't worry, I'll give you the shard once I'm done..."

"It surprised me you came to me... I thought you hated me..."

"Yeah well... I hate him even more than I hate you..." As Kikyo finished her sentence, she quickly used her bow and cut off Naraku's head. As she saw him vanishing in front of her eys, she smirked evilly. "All I've got to do now is wait... just wait..."

Kikyo's soul snatchers surrounded her and started to lift her up again. She stared at one of them especially; the one that was holding a bright soul next to her. " 'Pretty soon... and he'll have to chose between you and me..."

Soon Inuyasha would have to decide. Kikyo disappeared, leaving the sight of a dark part of the woods, as dark as coal, just like her heart.

Author's note: Yay! That's a wrap for chappy 7!! Wow! I never thought this was gonna take me so long! (*the chappy I mean*) Cause I usually just take two hours writing, but this time it took me four! (*it's probably because I've been very busy with all the homework from the university!*) Ahh. I just want vacations!! I don't know when I'll be updating again, 'cause I'm getting tons of assignments!! But if I get lots of reviews for this one, I'll update in two or three days max. (*waaaa! I'm so mean!*) anyways, I hope you review! Ja ne!