InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Tears of Blood ❯ Chapter Seven ( Chapter 7 )

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Tears of Blood

Chapter Seven

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"Be careful Kagome," said her mother with tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry Okaasan," Kagome said with an empty smile.

"You better come back to me," he mother demanded. They were both crying.

"I'll come back, no matter what." At that point, they both realized that she couldn't live in that time any longer.

"I love you Kagome," she hugged her second, and only daughter.

"I love you too," Kagome replied.

"You have to go," her mother said.

"I know," tears were streaming down her face. "I'll see you again, I promise," she finished and reluctantly let her mother go. She stared at her then turned to look at Inuyasha. The look on his face was one that she had never seen before. It wasn't sympathy, it was despair. She remembered that Inuyasha hardly knew much about his mother. That made her mind upset, for she was leaving her mother. A part of her wanted her to stay, but she knew she couldn't. There was no life left for her in the present, only the past.

"Isn't it ironic," she smiled weakly. "When I was little and Kana was still alive, you used to tell us that the future holds great things," she laughed. "Kana's dead, and I'm leaving to go to the past."

"No, Kagome, you're leaving to go to the future, you're future," her mother told her.

"I suppose you're right, in a way," she smiled.

"I love you Kagome," he mother said one last time. Kagome looked to Inuyasha, than to her mother.

"Goodbye, Kaasan," she said then in one swift movement, she jumped to the well house. She took one last look at her mother, and then went down the well.

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When she got out of the well, Miroku and Sango stared at her. They knew what to expect, but they didn't know how to react. Kagome looked around, she noticed someone was missing.

"Where's Shippou-chan?" were the first words out of her mouth. The two humans looked at each other.

"We don't know Kagome-sama."

"What do you mean you don't know where he is?!" she involuntary growled.

"Shippou-chan has been missing for two weeks, right after you left. We have been looking for him ever since," said the monk.

"Where is my child!?" she grabbed him by the neck.

"Well … it's nice … to see you too …" he said calm and coolly. Inuyasha grinned, she would do well with protecting pups of her own.

"Kagome, stop," he said. Her ears flickered to the back of her head where Inuyasha's voice came from. She turned to him then the monk and let him go.

"Kagome," Sango said. "Let's go to the village, then we'll look for Shippou-chan."

"Keh," Kagome said. Everyone looked at her and gasped, she put her hand over her mouth. With her face pink, she headed for the village.

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"Kagome-chan, ye has returned," the old miko said emotionless. When they entered the hut. "I must speak to ye," she got up and went to the other room with Kagome following her.

"Here," she handed Kagome a kimono, made from the same material as Inuyasha's. "I had Kirara help me," she smiled.

"Thank you," Kagome was confused.

"Ye and Inuyasha are bonded together in body and soul," she started as if she had no time. "Fate planned this before ye or even he was born. Ye are both one, it will be that way even after death."

"Kaede-baba?!" Kagome was really confused and now worried.

"Ye must go child. Ye must find the path fate has made for ye," she looked at the young miko. "… Your destiny may have been written, but ye must find it…" her eyes became be came glassy, before she coughed in her hand and collapsed. That’s when Kagome smelled blood.

"Kaede-baba, you are ill?!" cried Kagome. Somehow, the old miko concealed her sickness. She knew that the others could since it.

"My time in life is over, child, do not worry," said the older miko.

"No! I'll get help," she started to get up, but Kaede grabbed her.

"It …" she winced. "It's too late."

"But-"

"Remember … where there is despair, there is always hope …" she whispered.

"Kaede, no!" Kagome cried a second time that day. She was loosing someone else dear to her. "Please hold on, don't die," she yelled. Inuyasha ran into the room. The older miko looked at him and smiled.

"Remember…" her final words. She closed her eyes and drifted off to eternal sleep. Kagome cried, and Inuyasha just looked wide-eyed at the peaceful looking miko.

"What happened?" asked Sango with Miroku close behind. They both bowed their heads.

"Did you know she was sick," asked the muffled voice of Kagome.

"Yes," Sango said sadly.

"How long was she sick."

"I don't know, she started showing signs of illness a little while after you left. However with the condition she was in, she must have been ill for some time," monk finished.

"She hid it!?" Inuyasha, finally spoke. Kagome stood up, her new white hair covering her face.

"Take any thing you need from the hut and leave," she told the two humans and the hanyou. They did just that. Kagome went to her bag and took out the matches. She looked around the room. She picked up a familiar staff in the corner. That brought back a memory of the older miko trying to train her…

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"But Kaede-baba, I can't do it!" complained Kagome when she was trying to channel her energy into the staff.

"Ye can child," she smiled. "If ye couldn't, ye would not have been born," Kagome looked at her in confusion. "ye were born to protect," the young miko still looked in confused.

"To protect the shekon no tama?" said Kagome.

"Also to protect the ones you love," the older miko said. Kagome was confused beyond all reason. Kaede shuck her head. "I will show ye again …"
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"I was not able to protect you Kaede-baba, I'm sorry," Kagome said and shed one last tear. "Good bye," she lit the box of matches and dropped it on the bed where a corps lay with. With the staff and her bag, she left the hut. Heavens' flames burning behind her.

"… Where there is despair there is always hope …"

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Run' that’s all she could think of. 'Must run faster'

"You damn kitsune. You will pay for that. I will kill you!" growled an overly sized bear.

'Just keep running,' she thought. Then she saw a well and jumped in it, and thought the bear wouldn't be able to reach her.

"I got you now, little kitsune," laughed the bear.

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"Kagome-sama!" yelled a panic stricken villager, one of the few who was not at Kaede's hut.

"What," she said.

"You're a-" he started.

"What's the matter?" she cut him off.

"Youkai … by the well," Kagome looked at him in horror. In an instant she was off to the well, with Inuyasha at her back. When she got there, a bear was about to smash the well. In a matter a seconds the youkai was missing half his arm; regards to Inuyasha.

"Humph, an Inu-hanyou," its other arm punched Inuyasha dead in the stomach making him fly into a row of trees.

"Inuyasha," cried Kagome, looking from him to the bear. She was glowing.

"Kagome?" said Inuyasha, who recovered quickly.

"Inuyasha," she said with out looking at him, "Get the child out of the well," all he could do was stare. "Now!" Without furthermore hesitation, the hanyou went into the well, careful not to touch the bottom. As soon as they got out, a fist came crashing down. The kitsune and the hanyou were safe, though the well was demolished. Kagome's discolored eyes blood red. Now Inuyasha looked in horror.

"You," she said in a voice not her own.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, she heard nothing

"W-what are you?!" asked the youkai. Kagome smiled demonically.

"I am like no other, both youkai and miko alike," Kagome said demonicly. The bear turned to run. He was not able to complete the turn, however. At speeds even too fast for Inuyasha to follow, the youkai was cut in three. Kagome was covered in the youkai's blood.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled again as rain drops of blood fell.

"…And tears of blood shall fall from the heavens, covering the earth with crimson seas…" Kagome recited, not hearing Inuyasha until she felt his touch.

"Kagome!" he said grabbing her wrist. He couldn't believe what she said.

"I- I can't remember where that's from," she stared blindly at him as two streaks of blood ran down her face. Kagome collapsed in Inuyasha's arms.

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She awoke on Kirara's back. The first thing she saw was Sango.

"Sango?" she sat up and the fire cat stopped.

"Kagome," she smiled.

"Where's Inuyasha?" she asked rubbing her head. She could vaguely remember anything. All she could remember was a child in the well, a bear, and raining blood. So much blood that it was all she could see.

"Inuyasha went ahead," she continued smiling, though it was almost forced. "He got too annoyed-"

"The well!?" she said suddenly, cutting Sango off.

"I'm sorry Kagome, the well is in rubble." Sango couldn't look at her friend.

"It matters not," the miko said emotionless. "There is nothing left for me there anyway. I will wait until time permits me to see them again."

"Excuse me," a small voice said from Miroku's shoulder. "Sorry to interrupt, but I have an important message for you," the two humans looked at the kitsune.

"Ah, so you can speak," said Miroku.

"A message from who?" Kagome asked.

"You are Kagome, aren't you?" she asked.

"Yes?" The kit looked relived.

"I have a message from Shippou-chan."

"Kirara, get Inuyasha," Sango immediately said.

"Who are you?" Kagome asked as she took the folded letter from the kit.

"I am Vilna," she said.

"That's who I thought you were," said the voice of Inuyasha. Kagome read the letter aloud.

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Dear Okaasan,


If you are reading this, that means I have been captured and Vilna is with you. We were captured by the bear youkai clan. They are enemies of the snake and want to know where their den is. Please help me. Vilna will show you the way.

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Kagome crushed the letter in her fist. Her whole body was shaking, and her eyes started to change color.

"Kagome," Inuyasha realized what was going to happen, and quickly ran to her.

"Looks like I'm just in time," a voice suddenly said from Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Why if It isn't Myoga, the cowardly flea," said Inuyasha.

"I guess the danger's over for now," Miroku said.

"I'm afraid it has just begun, Inuyasha-sama."

"What do you mean about that," the hanyou asked.

"Here," he took something off his neck gave it to Kagome. It was a beautiful gold and white ring. It started to glow when she put it on.

"Thanks?" she said confused.

"Where it always. That ring will keep your, or should I say Master Inuyasha's blood, in check. It's almost like the sword he holds," the flea explained.

"You mean…" she put everything together in her head. She ruthlessly killed that bear because she became a full youkai.

"Yes," he nodded. "You understand why you must keep it with you always. Kagome bleakly nodded. At that point, she had to know what she did when she was a full youkai.

"Um," the kitsune's voice interrupted. "Sorry, but well still need to get Shippou-chan."

"Of coarse," the flea said, hopping away

"Alright, let's go," Kagome said. "Vilna, we're following you," she smiled. The ring really was calming her down.

"Inuyasha?" said Kagome when they were a fair distance from the others.

"Hum?"

"When I was a youkai, w-what did I do?" He starred at her debating whether to tell her or not. "Please, you must tell me.

"You said something you should not have known," he closed his eyes.

"What was it?" she pleaded.

"It was part of my mother's dying words. ‘… and tears of blood shall fall from the heavens, covering the earth with crimson seas …’" he finished, Kagome's eyes widened.

"Those words are from a book I found at home," she told him. Inuyasha looked at her than took a book out from his sleeve.

"This book?" he asked her. Kagome nodded. "This was mother's book."

"How did it get in my house after hundreds of years?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know," he looked at the worn journal.

"Why don't you read it?" Kagome suggested.

"I'm afraid to," he said but didn't look at her.

"Then read it when you're ready," she told him.

"Inuyasha, Kagome-sama, hurry up before you get left behind," the monk yelled back to the two. Inuyasha mumbled something but quickened his pace.

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