InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The End of the Triangle ❯ Kikyo's return and Kagome's Wrath ( Chapter 1 )

A.N. Ooookay, here I am again, this time with an Inu Yasha fic. The idea popped into my head at about two in the morning one night, and after that I couldn't sleep either. So, I'm sitting here in study hall, bored as hell, with nothing better to do, (except maybe a little homework) but type.

Basically, if you really want to try and squash this into the real storyline, it fits right after the episode "Onigumo's heart: Still beats within Naraku," you know, the one with the giant soul sucker sent after Kikyo from Naraku, and before the following episode, when Kagome leaves. The story arises from the `what if' of: what if Kagome didn't `realize she was alike with Kikyo in their desire to be with Inuyasha, but instead gets really pissed off and decides to do something about it. All hell breaks loose from there, basically.

A note: I HATE and totally DESPISE Kikyo, so have no fear, she will have hell come down on her head by the end of this. The Kikyo/Inuyasha/Kagome love triangle WILL BE DESTROYED!

Oh, and also, I'm trying to go for `more seriousness' here, but knowing me, I can't so that, so, funnies will appear from time to time.

HAVE FUN READING AND THANK YOU!

Disclaimer: I DO not, I repeat, DO not own anything related to Inu Yasha. So get off my back... (No, I wasn't emphasizing anything there.....:) )

THE END OF THE TRIANGLE: Chapter One

It was night.

The last ripples of color from the sun had long sense ducked under the tree- dotted horizon. The stars had appeared, bringing sparkling lights in the blue-black sky. The moon was only half it's normal bulk; and it was casting a ghostly glow across the landscape.

On one rock, sat one certain hanyou, none other than Inuyasha. He was sitting silently on a rock at the edge of the forest, his legs crossed, his hands tucked into the sleeves of his red gi.

He was currently deep in thought.

A slight breeze sent his silver-white hair spilling over his shoulder. He flipped it away irritably, letting loose a slight growl.

`This always happens when she's gone,' he thought grimly. `Why do I feel so...tense?'

Inuyasha shifted slightly, so that the wind was to his back. Kagome had returned to her own era. Again. She had assured Inuyasha and the others that she would return within a day. And this time, she had taken special care to assure Inuyasha himself that she wasn't leaving because she was mad at him, only that she needed sometime to herself...and a shower...and a nap in a `real' bed.

Then, she had left.

Inuyasha snorted. `Yeah right. My ass she wasn't mad.' He wasn't sure he believed the `not mad at you part.' Taking time to say that seemed suspicious. See, a couple of days before she had left, none other than the infamous priestess Kikyo had made yet another (`coincidental') appearance.

Inuyasha wasn't ashamed of what he had told Kikyo after saving her from that gigantic soul-collecting demon that had threatened Kikyo's life. Another demon that had been sent by Naraku.

He remember...embracing Kikyo as he shouted, `But I won't let Naraku have you either. Only I can protect you!'

Kikyo had pushed against him, wanting him to let go, but he refused. `Kikyo....' He whispered.

She suddenly relaxed, and hugged him back. `Inuyasha...I..."

"Only I...only I can protect you from Naraku. And I will, forever...even if it means following you into the depths of hell....'

`Inuyasha....' Kikyo shifted slightly, and the next thing Inuyasha knew, was that there was a knife pressed up against his neck.

`KIKYO!'

She had mocked him, laughed at him, as her own pet-like demon soul carriers had lifted her up from his arms and into the sky.

`KIKYO!'

He had called for her...even after she had threatened his life once again....

And Kagome...and Kagome had seen the whole thing.

Inuyasha shook his head, snapping back to the present. Why...why did he care? Kagome...he did need her...even to some degree love her. But, she could never understand.

`I'm being stupid!' the tiny, sensible side of Inuyasha's brain spoke up for the first time in awhile. `That Kikyo...she HATES you...she tried to KILL you. AGAIN. On numerous occasions. Why do you flock after that bitch like a homeless puppy?'

Inuyasha squeezed his eyes shut. `Because...I don't' know why. But, Kagome didn't have any right to but in, it's one of her business. Kikyo and I...I loved her. And I thought she...'

`You're kidding yourself. That Kikyo that you loved died along time ago. The one who lives now is nothing but a clay pot animated by rage, hate and the need for vengeance. Do Kikyo's true memory, and the WORLD, I might add, a favor. Destroy her.' After that, the small sensible side was silent.

"But...I can't," Inuyasha muttered aloud. "She's still so real. So there...and I..." Inuyasha started to stand. He shook his head. It was about time for him to be heading back to the others. Kagome SHOULD be getting back by now, surely.

Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kilala were gathered nearby in a small clearing within the forest. The small glow from their campfire told Inuyasha exactly where they were.

Inuyasha hopped off the rock with a sigh. But before he could take more than two steps, he caught a whiff of a familiar sent on the wind. Someone he knew, knew all too well...was coming closer. Someone who was so real, yet so fake at the same time.

Inuyasha stood. Wide-eyed as the figure appeared out from the line of trees, looking just as she always did.

She was back. Again. Ironically. (Of course.)

(A.N. Have no fear. This IS NOT a Kikyo/Inuyasha fic. As I said before, I hate Kikyo. But, she and the emotional tension she brings with her is important in the story, so bear with me here.)

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Drip...drip...drip....

A few lingering water droplets dropped from the showerhead down the drain. Kagome shut the door to the bathroom, keeping her towel wrapped tightly around her body. When she made it to her room, she quickly changed into a poofy blue pajama top with matching pants.

She sighed.

`I don't care what Inuyasha does. It's none of my business anyways. I so do not care.' She sighed again as she picked her towel up off the floor.

As she ruffled the water out of her hair with the towel, a brief moment of irritability caused her to ruffle a little too hard, wildly rubbing her head.

"Grrrrrr..." Kagome grumbled, tossing the towel back to the floor in frustration. Okay, so she did care. So what?

Not being too thrilled by the fact that her hair was sticking out at every angle, Kagome plopped down onto her bed.

Sinking down amongst the fluffy pink pillows and blankets, Kagome placed her hands behind her head, while staring at the ceiling. She wished for a moment that it were the sky. There was nothing she found more relaxing than falling asleep under the stars while Inuyasha was watching over her.

It was so cool, how she could be so happy in the Futile Era. Back there...where she was needed...wanted...where she could make a difference. That was her `special place,' somewhere where she could feel like she truly belonged.

But with that Kikyo....

She complicated things.

For about four hours Kagome stared at the ceiling. (A.N. Okay, show of hands, who's ever had that happen to them? Damn homework.) Finally, she came to one startling conclusion.

"Damn that stupid witch," Kagome muttered. She was sick of this. Sick of Kikyo. Sick of Kikyo and Inuyasha. Sick of this damn `love triangle' that they were all trapped in. It was tiring, emotionally draining, and utterly, UTTERLY pointless.

"Dammit...." Kagome cursed again, slapping her hand over her mouth as she did so. She realized that Inuyasha was starting to wear off on her. Another sign that they had grown close...after all, they say that couples start to act like one another, right? That's what her cheesy little friends from school would say.

Upon realizing this, Kagome sat strait up in bed. That was it. She was going to knock some since into that thick skull of Inuyasha's, or else!

Swiftly changing back into her little school uniform, Kagome grabbed her bulging backpack and opened the window. The cool night air fluffed her already fluffed hair as she dropped down to the grass.

She normally wouldn't be leaving like this. She normally would have told her mother, brother and grandpa that she was leaving again, but considering that it was now past three in the morning, she figured they wouldn't be too thrilled with that.

Kagome jogged over to the shrine that housed the Bone-eater's well. She edged herself over the side of the well, dropping down again through the flashing lights and spinning sights. (A.N. Hey! That rhymes!)

Plop! She landed semi-softly amongst the dirt and thousands of bones of slain demons.

"I need to get a ladder sometime," Kagome grunted, squirming out of the top of the well.

She hopped to the ground, turning her head to get a look around. Less than a quarter mile away, she could see the light from the campfire of the others. She wanted to run over to join them, but some little instinct told her that Inuyasha would not be found in that group. Sometimes he was like that: Running off on his own so he could `gather his thoughts.'

She wondered briefly what he would be thinking about now. Probably, thinking about Kikyo. He was always strange-distant-after a confrontation with her. Soon, that would stop, if Kagome had anything to do about it.

Walking up the side of a hill, Kagome gazed across a great percentage of land. A shrub here...a rock there...another shrub...another frickin' rock...a red blob...a shrub-wait.... A red blob? That outfit of Inuyasha's stood out like a sore thumb amongst the dark night. That, and his hair.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome called cheerfully. Too late after, she noticed that there was another person, seated beside Inuyasha. Someone wearing a white gi, a red hakama.

"Uhhhhhh...." Kagome stuttered as she quickly closed the distance. `Oh, well. Who better to tell Inuyasha to stay away from Kikyo then Kikyo?'

"K-Kagome?" Inuyasha faltered. "Your...back...."

(A.N.: Guess who's back...back again...Shady's back...tell a friend...la la la la....)

"Yeah, Inuyasha, I am. I need to discuss certain matters with you as well," Kagome stated, coming to a halt beside the speechless hanyou.

`Oh, shiiiiiiiit...now I'm really screwed,' Inuyasha thought bitterly. `Why is it, that at the most inopportune times, Kikyo, for one, shows up...and THEN Kagome??'

"What do you want, girl?" Kikyo asked in her `I'm-so-bitchy-and-high-`n'- mighty' voice that drives everyone coo-coo. (Except, it seems, Inuyasha.)

"K-Kagome?" Inuyasha said again.

"What do I want? What I want? Well, what I really want is for `this' to stop." She made little quotation marks with her fingers. "It's stupid, ridiculous, pointless...."she dawdled on and on. "And REALLY, man, your not even alive. Please just let Inuyasha go. He's suffered more than enough for your sake. Please, just let him go."

"`Suffered?' " Inuyasha echoed.

Kikyo laughed. (A scary sound.) "You fool, have you already forgotten?"

The wheels in Kagome's mind spun. "Oh no! I totally forgot about that!"

Kagome flash-backed on the time when Miroku, Shippo, and herself had been searching for Kikyo, and only Kagome had been able to pass through Kikyo's barrier. When she then had confronted Kikyo, Kikyo had put a spell on her so no one but Kikyo herself could see or hear her, while having her pet soul-carriers tie Kagome to a tree.

The before Kagome's very eyes, Kikyo had tried to kill Inuyasha again; this time by dragged him down into an eternal hell-like dimension, to spend all of eternity there with Kikyo.

(A.N.: Now THERE'S a scary version of hell!)

As Kikyo was basically killing Inuyasha, she had kissed him, asking, `Inuyasha, would you follow me into the depths of hell? Forever and ever?'

`Yes....' Had been the drugged reply.

That had been Kikyo's ultimate revenge: `To have the heart of the man who killed me...never to have him be able to forget me...never...."

"Oop!" Kagome squeaked, snapping out of it.

"You see now, girl, that he can never forget."

"Forget what?" Inuyasha asked.

"Forget that mud pot!" Kagome yelled, as she took a quick step forward...and slapped Kikyo.

Kikyo rocked back, enraged. "Did you just SLAP me?!" (A.N.: Catfight. Whoo- oo.)

"What if I did?" Kagome huffed. "You don't seem to care about anything except fulfilling your own twisted ambitions."

"In this world, what is wrong with that? What else is a dead woman supposed to do with her restored `life'? The dead only have one wish: To remain amongst the living once again. That will never be realized, and yet, here I am, to use my privilege to continue what I could not do in life."

"Kikyo!" Kagome fumed. "You linger just to kill him! Your, so...evil!"

"Hey, hey, hey, HEY! Would someone please shut up for about two seconds and tell me exactly what the fuck is going on here?!" Inuyasha demanded.

"Yes, I can, you jerk. I'm saying that I'm sick of this! Of you two. Of `us.' I want HER to leave, `poof!,' be gone, bye-bye!, but she won't because she wants to kill you so badly! And you...your too gullible...you dare to think that if you try hard enough, that she'll someday be `your Kikyo' again, but guess what: That's never going to happen!"

"Kagome...." Inuyasha said softly.

"I admit that everything you just said is true, Kagome, however also, I see that there is no way to make you understand. You poor fool," Kikyo sighed.

If Inuyasha was in his smarter train of mind, he would've started throwing punches and `Tetsaiga' ed her ass right about now, but no. He was still in his, `I'm-with-Kikyo-again' funk. Of course.

"WHAT are you talking about? Your not even making sense anymore," Kagome muttered forcefully. Then she stiffened as she felt a hand on her shoulder. Inuyasha had managed to pick himself off of the floor.

"She'll never come back, eh? Kagome...why, are you so...worked up about this?"

"Because enough is enough," Kagome stated. "I'm not going to let you put your life in danger... for HER anymore."

"I see. It's more like obviously, this girl has fallen in love with you, Inuyasha." Kikyo laughed.

"K-Kagome??" Inuyasha's eyes got all big and round.

"What?! No? No! Of course I don't!" Kagome began babbling. "How could anyone ever love that jerk?"

"Huh? Excuse me?"

Kagome began flapping her arms wildly. "I mean, really, once I heard him ask Miroku if he could `have' BOTH of us!"

"Huh?"

"Good point," Kikyo furrowed her brow.

"HUH?"

"Seriously, Inuyasha, I don't know why I even bothered to try discussing this with you," Kagome turned.

"What in the hell?! Is this `beat up Inuyasha day?'" Inuyasha muttered, reaching out to grab Kagome's shoulder.

"SIT."

"ARGH!" Inuyasha squeaked as he was pulled headfirst into the ground in a cloud of dust. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!?!?"

"Now, if you'll excuse me, the others are probably waiting to see me." Kagome trotted off, without looking back.

Inuyasha growled, taking a few steps forward. "Kagome! Wait! Why the hell are you so mad at me?! I wasn't going anything...I think."

He slowly turned around to face Kikyo. "Kikyo...."

She was standing, her arms crossed and a none-too-pleased expression on her face. "You're pathetic. You chase after that little child, yet you still claim to be loyal only to me. I don't know what I ever saw in you."

"WHAT?" Inuyasha asked exasperatedly. "Now YOU'RE going to start?"

"Inuyasha. I'm done here." Kikyo turned away from him and left, leaving Inuyasha totally alone on the hill. The wind blew, messing up Inuyasha's hair again.

"Grrrrrr...Damn. Life is such a major bitch!!" Inuyasha fumed, storming back to the campfire where the others were now all gathered. "Damn. Damn. Damn...." It so wasn't fair, everyone being mad at him. It just didn't make sense.

As Inuyasha entered the first line of trees, he heard a high-pitched `slap!,' like the sound of hand on face. This sound was followed by a high, squeaky "Hentaiiiiiiii!" from someone who sounded like Sango. Inuyasha sighed heavily.

Kagome wasn't going to tell them; everything was going normally as always. This was yet another argument that they would need to figure out on their own. He looked up again, at the stars.

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Kikyo was fuming. Now her hopes of never letting Inuyasha forget her, her hopes of forever claiming him in his own block of hell, had been all but totally squashed. No, he really would never forget her, but now the pain and hopelessness found in that was mulled over, soothed by Kagome. She was his extra leg to stand on. Without physically taking her away, there wasn't any way that Kikyo could ever fully control Inuyasha.

Except....

Except....

She stopped walking, and stared at the ground for a few moments. There was a way to cause him grief, still. She knew that despite being uncontrollable by Kikyo, he still loved her. Deep inside, he always would.

She grinned wildly. Oh, yes. There WAS a way to piss him off...a way to make him seethe with jealousy.

And she knew exactly the person that would help her do it....

A.N.: Guess who's back...back again...okay, I'll stop. This ending is kind of a cliffhanger, but, it works nicely, ne? Of course, I know who's going to help Kikyo...but that's for me to know, and you to find out. Heh-heh-heh.

Bwa-ha-ha! Notice I didn't say how he/she would help Kikyo, why, and even if it was really their decision to make.

I'll try and update as soon as possible. (Note: `As soon as possible' is greatly effected by how many reviews I get. You see that little button in the lower left hand corner that says `submit review.' Click it. It's not that hard.)

Sayonara!

~GCN anime dragon (^-^x)