InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Soul Stealer ❯ Nine - It's Over ( Chapter 9 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: salvatore-shan
His cute puppy-dog ears were no longer poking out the top of his head… He had human ears…“Hey! Hey, wait a minute!” Kagome cried… Inuyasha… H-He’s transforming…

The battle is over, but what's in store for Kagome now that Callisto is gone? A fatherless child?
But then why is Inuyasha's body changing form - why, when it isn't even a new moon?
Nothing is making sense. But Kagome can't help but wonder...

The final chapter!
There is a sequel for this, called Children of Fate - which I will upload ASAP!

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.02.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 343 | Status: Completed

Soul Stealer
Chapter Nine - It's Over
His cute puppy-dog ears were no longer poking out the top of his head… He had human ears…“Hey! Hey, waita minute!” Kagome cried… Inuyasha… H-He's transforming…
The crowd stopped when Kagome reached the outer rim. From here she couldn't see Inuyasha's face - he was too high up in amongst the throng of people.
“Would you lower him down a minute? Please?” Kagome asked, battling her way through the crowd.
Almost immediately, they lowered him down to the ground - where he landed softly.
The group of villagers dispersed and Kagome jerked forward.
There, on the ground, was Inuyasha. But not as she knew him normally. He looked just like he did on a special night of the month. Looking like he did on the night of the new moon. He was human.
His face was creased up as if he were in pain. And Kagome saw that he was breathing. His chest was heaving up and down, shaky gasps were escaping his throat and his eyelids were flickering.
A hand came up to Kagome's mouth. How? How did he survive that attack? Has his soul returned? Why didn't I notice before? He wasn't breathing then…
“Inu- Inuyasha…?” she whispered, leaning forward. She brushed a couple of loose strands of black hair back behind his ear and stared at him critically. He looked gorgeous. His hair was slightly dishevelled, his cheeks were flushed and a little graze was coming up on his nose. A couple of nicks and scratches lined the side of his face and his shirt was hanging off of him.
At the sound of her voice, his face softened. He looked very young, very content. And then slowly, his eyes opened. He took a gulp of air and his dark-violet eyes met with Kagome's.
Inuyasha sucked in a breath, and smiled. “Kagome…”

Miroku and Sango walked the route Callisto's horse had taken, heading for Kagome and Shippo. Miroku was walking normally. He had one arm holding onto Sango as she leant on him for support. She was limping and dragging her leg - she'd landed on it oddly when Callisto had flung her away. She hadn't felt the pain till now.
Neither said a word. Just kept on going. They could see a village in the distance after walking for fifteen minutes. Kagome must have reached it within five on horseback. They had no idea a village had sprung up so close to Kaede's. It must have been new.
Their faces brightened and they smiled. The sun was rising - the dark was being pushed away. The world was being thrown into an odd colour of pink, red and orange. Sango grabbed the hand supporting her and held it - entwining her fingers.
She blinked back tears and looked at Miroku. “Let's find them,” she said. Miroku nodded.

Inuyasha sat up. Kagome took a step backwards, staring at him with her head cocked on one side. He looked around. “W-Where's Callisto?”
Oh. Was that her name? Kagome wondered. She smiled slightly. “She let me go. I think she might be dead, otherwise you wouldn't have woken up, right?”
Inuyasha glared at her. “What? No. That isn't right. I was dead, I know that… but…”
He stood up, shaking his head. Kagome stood up with him.
“I can't explain it. I felt the tentacle in me, and then it... it was like it removed my soul. But it wasn't my…” Inuyasha clutched his head in remembrance, thinking.
Kagome sighed and touched his shoulder. A grin came to her face. “Who cares? You're alive!” And then, almost upon realising it herself, she started bouncing on the spot, laughing. “You're alive! You're alive!”
“Kagome?” Shippo cried, running over. And when he saw that: yes, Inuyasha was alive - he squealed. “Inuyasha!”
And then the two pounced on him. “Wha-? Hey!” Inuyasha cried. Kagome giggled and hugged onto him.
“You had me so worried! I thought you were dead…! Well, technically you were dead! But who cares? You're alive!”
“YEY!” Was all Shippo could say. Inuyasha ruffled the fox-demon's hair and kissed Kagome's forehead.
“Hey, calm down you two,” he smiled. “I didn't know I meant that much to ya.”
Kagome glared up at him and pointed her finger at him. “Attention seeker.” She scolded. Inuyasha grinned.
Shippo jumped on the spot, tugging on Inuyasha's legs. “Yeah! Now that you're alive we can go back and kick the Soul Stealer's butt!”
“There's no need!” came a startled yet very excited voice. The three friends turned, only to see a very happy and very smug teenager run over.
“You're okay! Inuyasha, you're really okay!” Sango squealed. Miroku stood there, blinking for a couple of minutes, before coming over and joining them.
Inuyasha laughed. “Keh! If you call being human `okay'.”
“We manage all right,” Kagome noted, staring at him under heavy lids. She was smiling and shaking her head, exasperated.
Inuyasha flashed her a dazzling smile.
Shippo giggled. “Everyone's back together, everyone's back together,” he sang. Inuyasha still had his arms wrapped around Kagome. He was grinning even wider now.
Miroku was staring at him. “I thought you were dead,”
“Apparently not,” Inuyasha replied.
Kagome held up a finger and brought the excited group to a halt. “Hold on a minute. Hold on!” she turned to face Sango. “Is Callisto dead? Is that what you were saying?”
Sango nodded. “Miroku sucked her in with his Kazaana. She's gone all right,”
Kagome nodded back. “Which must be why Inuyasha was brought back….”
“No,” Inuyasha cut in. “I told you, Kagome. That isn't the reason.”
Miroku didn't like to but he had to agree. “Inuyasha's right. His soul is still in that jar - we were planning on going back for all the souls after finding you, Kagome.”
Inuyasha creased up his face. “That tentacle. It was like I had two souls within me and it had to pick which one to take…”
Kagome blinked. Then blinked again.
“You may not be a bad person, half-breed… you stillhave a bad spirit,”
“I like collecting bad souls…”
Bad souls. Callisto stole Inuyasha's bad soul. But… but how could he have two? If someone had a bad soul it normally corrupted their original one - they didn't have two sides. So why should Inuyasha?
…Kagome could tell that its eyes weren't likeInuyasha's. They were large. The pupils were small. And they looked so cold…
The fangs were all wrong too. They were too huge. He looked exactly like he did when he was in demon-form…
Inuyasha is a half-demon. Her mind whispered. That soul I saw heading into the jar looked like him in demon-form. And here he is now, in human-form. But it's daytime. It isn't a new moon, last night the moon was full…
And it all meant something. It meant Inuyasha wasn't a half-demon anymore. He was human. Callisto had stolen his demon soul. His demon side.
And Kagome realised that Inuyasha had just found that out too, in his own way. His eyes were wide.
In one movement, he raised his hands up to tap the top of his head - to feel for his ears. He knew he was in human form, so why was he-?
“This… this is permanent?” he whispered, hoarsely.
Kagome slowly nodded. Expecting him to flip out, she grabbed his arm. Inuyasha bowed his head. But instead of yelling, he starting laughing. “Looks like I won't need the Shikon Jewel, anymore - right, Kagome?”
Kagome looked bewildered. Then she smiled. “Right,”
The villagers were still standing around, gawping. But one brave man stepped forward. “Lady Kagome?”
Kagome turned. “Yes?”
The man looked afraid. “W-Who will be our priestess, now?” he asked.
Inuyasha's mouth opened. Kagome's did too. She was about to answer the man when he rushed on.
“It's tradition that the priestess is a woman, of course, but normally she has to be… well, it's not my place to say…”
Kagome gulped. “Go on,”
The man caught her eye. It was the same man who had asked about Kaede earlier and the same man who had offered to carry Inuyasha. He shifted uncomfortably, his profile lit up in the early morning sun. His dark eyes twinkled. “A priestess has to be either over eighteen… or…”
“Or…?” Kagome persisted.
The man fidgeted. Then lowered his gaze. “Or married, ma'am,”
Kagome flinched. The man was continuing. “There is no one in our midst that has miko powers. You are our only hope…”
Kagome gulped. God. My luck wasn't good after all. If Kikyo hadn't died then Kikyocould've been their priestess… But then… if she hadn'tdied none of this would've happened and Inuyasha and I wouldn't have got together…
Inuyasha's eyebrows came down. He stared at Kagome. “Kagome… you want to do this, I can tell.”
Kagome looked very uncomfortable. “Would I still be able to live on the other side? Miroku and Sango could protect the village at that time…”
The villager looked uncertain. But then slowly nodded. “If that would make you our priestess then we could overlook your absences,”
Kagome suddenly looked pleading - images of arranged marriages coming to mind. All she wanted to do was grow up and marry someone she loved. Inuyasha, for example… “But about getting married. You really can't force me to-”
A cough. A very loud cough interrupted Kagome. Someone elbowed her in the arm. She turned to stare at Inuyasha. “What?” she hissed under her breath.
Inuyasha turned so his back was to the villager but was still looking at Kagome. He spoke out of the corner of his mouth, very slowly and very quietly.
“There's a chapel on the other side of the market…” he said.
Kagome glared at him. “So?”
“Lady Kagome, you have to marry. It's the only initiation…”
Inuyasha looked hard at her. “I said `there's a chapel on the other side of the market'. Why don't we check it out?” His voice was still deadly soft, but with a definite ring to his words.
Kagome folded her arms. “Why should we-?” she didn't get to finish properly. Realisation struck her. Oh.
Her legs began trembling. Her hands began shaking too. “Y-You would do that?”
Inuyasha shrugged. “Well, it's not like we'd be helping them. It's… more like we'd be helping ourselves…”
“Oh, Inuyasha!” Kagome cheered and leapt on him, wrapping her arms around him. “Yes! Let's go, come on!”
“Kagome?” Miroku, Sango and Shippo cried at the same time. Inuyasha just grinned.
He started walking away with her.
“Uh, Lady Kagome?” the man called.
Kagome waved a hand over her shoulder as she latched herself onto Inuyasha's side. “One minute.” She stopped, and then looked back. “Sango,” she turned to her friend and smiled. “Sango, brush your hair and wash your face. I want you to be the perfect bridesmaid,”
“Bridesmaid-?” Sango echoed.
“Yeah, and you, Miroku!” Inuyasha turned and sniffed. “Try and look tidy. Shippo, are you coming?”
Shippo jumped up and sped after his appointed `parents'. “Am I ever!” he yelled, giggling.
Inuyasha smiled. Kagome smiled. And they looked at each other.
“Hmm… wasn't this day meant to go with an occasion?” Inuyasha wondered, playfully.
Kagome rested her head on his shoulder. “Killing Naraku and completing the jewel?”
“That's it,” he grinned.
Kagome smiled. “Well, then, there's a new occasion.” She rubbed her abdomen and her smile widened. “Our baby girl,”
Inuyasha stopped. “Uh, I hope you'll find that our baby's a boy,”
Kagome frowned. “Nuh-uh, it's a girl! I've already named her!”
“I say it's a boy! He's gonna be named after me and he's gonna be just as handsome!” Inuyasha growled.
“Girl!”
“Boy!”
Shippo sighed and shook his head. “They'll never make it to the church…”
“Girl!”
“Boy!”
“She's a god-damn girl!”
“I'm telling you - he's a boy!”
“Shut up! SIT!”
Inuyasha hit the floor with a bang. Kagome scowled and walked away. “Idiot…” she muttered.