InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Demon You Made Me ❯ When My Soul Returns ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 7: When My Soul Returns

"You bitch…" kagome seethed as she gasped in pain. "You never fucking answered my question Kikyou…why don't you just kill me here and now? What is it that you're really after?" she asked. Kikyou smirked again as she felt inuyasha approaching. "For one kagome, I want my soul back, the soul that is denied me because we exist at the same time. And two, you stole the love that is truly mine, you stole inuyasha from me. You and him together, took it all from me. And now, by watching the two of you die together, I can have all of that returned to me." She explained, her eyes boring holes into the ground as she stared at her feet, her shoulders beginning to shake.

"that's it? you're pissed at everyone because you DIED?! First off, I have no soul to give you Kikyou! I lost THAT when I was forced back to my life, and after I died, I would never get it back. And second, a creature like yourself doesn't deserve love or a soul for that matter, something like you is unnatural, which is why I was returned to this era. You cant see that Kikyou? The fates know that you were denied such, so they made a way that it would be returned, through me! I was given your soul, I was given your duty and power, AND I was given the opportunity to save inuyasha from the insanity of losing you. There is no reason why you should want to destroy such a blessing…if anyone should be unhappy with this arrangement its me!

I was robbed of a normal life, of a happy one. Instead, I was left to deal with the aftermath of your life, of this world. I could have been truly happy, still carefree as I was the day I came to this world…before I knew who I was meant to be…" kagome forced out as she continued to wince through the pain. She was becoming increasingly infuriated at the selfishness, and hard heartedness of her past self. `if I can get her to see what a bitch she is before I die, that will truly make me happy. To see the look on her face when she realizes she's in the wrong, that's what I live for.' she thought to herself.

"silence you fool! You know nothing of fate, of what I was and was not meant to be! How I live now is MY life, and I shall do as I please. And the only way for me to be happy with my choice, is to do away with the one thing that has always been in my way, you." She yelled, and stepped closer towards her.

Kikyou raised her hand towards kagome, and flipped her wrist. Kagome's eyes went wide and her pupils dilated as a completely new level of pain was realized throughout her body. Her fists clenched to the point that blood fell from her palms, and her whole body shook violently.

"Inuyasha will be here soon, and you know what you have to do…kill inuyasha." Kikyou said menacingly.

`no! I cant do this, but her hold on me is unimaginably strong, I CANT escape it! what am I going to do? I cant kill inuyasha, no I cant!!!!!' she thought as she threw her head back and let out a soul wrenching scream.

Inuyasha sliced through the barrier with his red tetsusaiga, and the scene unfolded before him. Kagome's hair was whipping wildly around her with the force of energy coming from her body, and just as she let out her scream of horror, a black light engulfed her, and then shot out all around her.

Inuyasha stood behind his sword, as the energy whipped around him, and burned his knees and arms. He grit his teeth as the power began to subside, and he looked above his sword where kagome was a moment ago.

Now she lay on the ground, still surrounded in the black light, but Kikyou was no where to be found. His eyes grazed over the surrounding area, and finally found her. The ashes of her clay body danced in a dust funnel.

He then witnessed as a light floated into the air, and soul catchers came to claim it. but when the demons came close to the loose soul, they were all obliterated. Then the light flashed, and rushed towards Kagome's fallen form. The soul came at her in waves, hitting her from every angle, and her body lurched at each impact.

As he was about to step towards her, Kyuni walked infront of him, and stood between them, her face stoic. "kyuni? What are you doing? Get out of my way, go tell Kouga what has happened, tell him we're going to need more help than we thought, Kagome's under a strong spell, and Naraku is still hiding." He ordered the wolf, and made to step around her, but she moved infront of him again.

"Kyuni!" he snarled.

`would you hit a girl inuyasha?' the wolf asked him. "nani?!" `there's nothing you can do to save her, she's good as dead, as are you.' She said again.

"listen, I don't know what the hell your going on about, but I need to get to kagome before Naraku does." He said as he leapt over the wolf and began moving towards the fallen miko.

"but its already too late for that, isn't it inuyasha?" came a familiar voice.

Inuyasha stood still, and turned around. "what did you say wolf?" he asked Kyuni. The wolf opened her mouth and spoke aloud, "I said, you're too late, I have already won." The wolf said.

Inuyasha growled deep in his chest, "masquerading as a wolf, I wouldn't think you'd sink so low, Naraku."

The wolf smirked, and inuyasha watched as it morphed into Naraku's human form. "I thought you'd never figure it out. I've been right at your very side the whole time, and you never knew it was me." He scoffed.

Inuyasha scowled at him, his fangs bared. "but now I'm between you and kagome, and Kikyou is dead, the spell is no longer as powerful, and with her power, we will defeat you!" inuyasha warned.

Naraku smirked at inuyasha, and laid his eyes on the miko in the background. "I wouldn't be so sure of that inuyasha, you see, Kikyou wasn't the one with the hold on kagome, it was me."

"well then ill just have to kill you and our problems will be solved." Inuyasha said simply as he positioned his sword infront of himself, ready to attack. The windscar appeared, and he began to drop the sword, "kaze no ki-"

"I wouldn't be doing that, inuyasha." Naraku interrupted, and inuyasha halted the sword, and caught his words. "and why the hell not?" he asked.

"you think I would make it that easy for you? There's one thing I haven't mentioned about the spell she's under. Not only is it unbreakable, and renders her as my puppet, but now that Kikyou is dead, it does much more." He said with a comfortable and happy grin.

Inuyasha growled in frustration, not liking how Naraku was beating around the bush, purposely driving him mad. "and what else is that?" he urged him on when Naraku didn't continue.

"when Kikyou came to me for my help in disposing of the girl, there was a price she had to pay. I told her that if she bound our souls together, we could feed off each others power, and our goal would easily be reached."

Inuyasha's breath caught, and his eyes went wide, "but that was a lie…you had this planned from the beginning you bastard!" inuyasha finished for him.

Naraku smirked again, "exactly right. I counted on Kagome killing Kikyou in the first place. So now…Kagome's soul is bound to mine. If you kill me, you kill her. So if you wish to put her out of her misery, and save yourself, by all means, kill me inuyasha."

"kuso. You bastard!" inuyasha yelled as he turned around to look at Kagome's still form on the ground. Naraku watched Inuyasha's face with amusement as the dog hanyou stared helplessly at his unconscious companion.

Inuyasha stepped towards kagome, not thinking clearly as his protective instincts began to take over. Naraku narrowed his eyes, and snapped his fingers. "kagome, give into the spell and obey my command. Destroy inuyasha, make him pay for all the horrible things he did to you. You know you've longed for revenge since the day you left, now is the time to act on that hatred!" he commanded her.

Kagome winced at his voice, as she regained forced consciousness. As her mind returned to this world, she screamed in the horror of a completely different pain. She closed her eyes tight and held her head as her mind and soul churned.

Images of times forgotten flooded into her minds eye, as the missing piece of her soul tried to restore what was lost. Her soul had returned, and with it her life.

`I'll protect you kagome'…'stay with me kagome'…'don't leave kagome'…'I need you'…'I'm sorry, kagome'…came Inuyasha's voice

' I love him, without me even noticing it was happening, I have fallen in love with inuyasha…'…'as long as you let me stay by your side, I'll be happy inuyasha…'…'be careful inuyasha, come back to me…'…'he's selfish, ignorant, overprotective, and really aggressive, did I mention he's totally hot?…' she heard her voice repeating.

She heard and saw these events over and over, playing at unimaginable speeds. All memories that were lost to her when she let her soul go when she experienced death. Tears welled over her eyes, and her body stood on its own accord.

`inuyasha…'

then the words of Naraku came to her, and she shrieked and wrenched as her body began obeying the jewels hold on her. Through the pain she was able to detect the attachment to her soul…Naraku was apart of her.

`kill him! Kill him! You and I both know that its beyond your power to stop it. you cant kill me, you know what will happen. You're only choice to end your misery is to give into it, and destroy inuyasha!' he screamed at her through their link.

She stared wide eyed at the terrified look on Inuyasha's face, his eyes swimming in pain and distress. "kagome, no…" he whispered, his voice laced in worry and sorrow. Her hand shakily reached for the shotgun on her back, and slowly raised it from its holster.

~*~*~*~*~

over the hill, Sango and Miroku battled with the nonstop flow of demons. Miroku tried to avoid using his kazaana too much, since the place was flooded with poisonous insects. Sango warded off as many as she could with her hiraikotsu and her katana. Shippou threw fox fire at the smaller demons, doing all he could to help.

"where are they coming from?!" Miroku yelled to the others in desperation. Sango whacked another demon in the head with her boomerang while swinging behind her with her other arm to slice at another youkai, "I don't know Houshi-sama! I cant see past the carpet of youkai." she responded in one breath.

Shippou used his fox magic to scare away a new onslaught of demons, and landed on the ground frantically trying to locate the source before he was surrounded again. Before he got a good look, he was attacked by a youkai from behind, sending him sprawling a good 50 feet away.

He shook his head and looked up infront of him. He gasped when he saw the piece of baboon pelt with an open portal in the bottom where swarms of demons were shooting out from. "here Miroku! Over here!" he screamed behind him.

He threw his giant spinning top at it and it sunk into the dimension, closing it momentarily. Miroku destroyed the remaining demons, then found shippou sitting infront of the piece of clothing. "shippou move!!" he yelled to him as the top began to shrink and demons threatened to throw it from their path.

Shippou jumped away from the portal quickly, and the monk ran up infront of the pelt. "KAZAANA!!!" he yelled as he ripped the prayer beads from around his right hand. Just before the demons broke through, Miroku's air void tore the clothing and portal from the ground and into the black hole.

He quickly rapped the beads around his wrist, but fell to the ground and cried out in agony. "oh kami, what's wrong Miroku!?" Sango screamed as she ran to his side. He gripped at his wrist and gritted his teeth together.

"I-I don't know! I think the portal is still open in the void, and the insects are swarming inside!" he wailed in pain. Sango's eyes began to water, and she stared at him in helpless horror. "sh-shi-shippou!" she screamed, her head snapping towards the terrified kitsune behind her, and he met her eyes, "n-nani?"

"go get help shippou! Tell inuyasha that we have stopped the flow of demons, but haven't seen Naraku. Tell him that Miroku needs help! Get kagome if you can find her, perhaps there is something her miko powers can do to help."

Shippou nodded, and looked back down at his old friend who twisted in pain. "Hurry shippou! Please!" Sango yelled, the tears streaming down her face. Shippou turned tail and ran as fast as his four limbs would carry him.

Sango dropped to the ground beside her husband, and she wrapped her arms around him, not knowing what else to do. "Miroku, its going to be okay, kagome will help, she'll know what to do. Just don't die on me Miroku! You can get through this, be strong, I'm here for you." She cried to him comfortably.

Miroku bit his bottom lip and leaned in against her body, his hand still twitching. He nodded, "I love you Sango, I will be strong for you." He said as his body shook in another wave of pain, "I just hope kagome-sama gets here soon." He cringed, and passed out in her arms.

"Miroku? Miroku no! you have to stay awake, you have to stay awake and fight it!" she wailed as she lightly shook his limp body.

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shippou ran over the top of the mountain and jumped into the air, turning into a giant bird and soared towards the base of the mountain. he landed and transformed back, and began his frantic run again.

"kagome, I hope you're alright…I hope inuyasha hasn't hurt you again. Please, where ARE you kagome, I need you!" he called into the dense forest…'although a day hasn't gone by that I haven't needed you here okasan.' He added sadly to himself.

the small fox bounded out of the trees and saw kagome standing in the distance, and as far as he knew, she was alone.

He was so overcome with his happiness at seeing the young woman, that he didn't bother to look at his surroundings, missing Naraku and inuyasha. "kagome okasan!!! Please help! Miroku, his hand engulfed a bottomless portal of poisonous insects, he's dying! Please help us, Sango is waiting." He yelled to her as he continued to run towards her, tripping over his own feet.

As Kagome's eyes slowly made their way to lay upon the kitsune, he stopped in his tracks. The look in her eyes nearly made his heart stop. They were nearly devoid of life, the only emotions readable in them were sorrow and distress, pure pain.

Kagome heard the little foxes voice, and fought as hard as she could to face him, fighting the orders to fire her weapon at inuyasha. She heard the words that he screamed to her clear as day, and although her face didn't show it, her heart lurched once again at the thought of her dearest friends being in danger.

`he will surely die…' was her final thought. She expanded her aura to find the holy powers of the monk, and found them extremely weak, he wouldn't make it.

anger grew once again in her heart, but this time, it was a holy hatred. Her reasons were just, and only for evil. She let her neck turn back to inuyasha, and he too winced at the look in her eyes. He saw the same thing in her eyes as did shippou, but something new flashed in them momentarily, and it made him even more horrified.

It was a look of determination, but it didn't give him a good feeling, as it would if he knew she was determined to stop the curse, but that wasn't what he saw.

He saw loneliness, and submission…she was letting go of something.

"goodbye kagome." He whispered, and he closed his eyes awaiting his death. He heard the shot of the gun, and sighed as tears flowed from his eyes. "goodbye…inuyasha, please forgive me" he heard her whisper in a cracked voice and Inuyasha's eyes snapped open at the last moment.

Japanese:

Okasan: mother

Kuso: Japanese curse word meaning, eh, urm…'poopy'? lol

Suteki: okay, I feel really bad for ending the chapter there…no I don't! lol, sorry. I wanted to go further, but I wanted to save the rest for the next chapter. Well, I'm happy yet extremely sad to announce that the next chapter will be the last. ::sniff sniff:: I really enjoyed writing this story, it was short and sweet. I think its one of the best, if not THE best I have finished so far (not including February Stars of course, since its not done yet) okay, I'm bragging. I hope that all of my faithful readers enjoyed reading this as much as I loved writing it. thank you every one that helped me with it, especially the ending. Speaking of which, the last chapter is planned to be a songfic, my first, so I'm REALLY looking forward to writing that! Chapter 7 All Ends in Death, Right?