InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The final task ❯ Chapter 1
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The Final Task
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Summary: It's been a long journey,almost too long.
But I've been enjoying the company of my dear friends.
And the company of the man I have come to love.
Now its the final task. make a wish.
Only do I stay here, or go home?
Rating...the usual PG13 or R
Told in Kagome's POV
Lyrics : Seether and Amy Lee :Broken.
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<I wanted to know, I love the way you laugh
I want to hold you high, and steal your pain away>
I walked through the forest in search of a hot spring.
I had come to love them, they were they only place I could go to relax and think.I knew I had to get away from InuYasha. I knew if I had stayed he would make my decision harder. If I stay , we can live happily, but my friends back home... and Kikyo...he still sees her. I pulled out his picture that took of him last week.
<I keep your photograph, and I know it serves me well
I want to hold you high, and steal your pain.>
He looks so happy. Notice I'm not in the picture.
but I was the one taking the picture.
But yet there is Kouga...if I didn't stay with InuYasha
There is him. I don't want to ..It's all or nothing,,
Damnit I'm crying allready.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.>
Sigh...what should I do...?
I could find out if he loves me.....or Kikyo.
It's not fair. I finally end my enlongated bath and dress
I'm right back at camp...it's midnight...Yash will be pissed.
He seems to never smile....anymore..
Is it me...am I the reason he never smiles?
Omigod I am.....he never smiles around me...
<You gotta win, you don't feel me anymore.>
I feel myself break down. I know I can't hold my waite under such pain right now, so I allow myself to colapse onto the sooft cold ground.
Its ok right now, ya know. I mean I don't have to worry about anyone seeing me in this state. I lay there crying hard. Better get this out of the way before we destroy Naraku, cuz I know there won't be anytime for petty emotions.
I return to the camp after my petty crying.
InuYasha is , as I suspected, not there, but with Kikyo.
Sigh... well what should I expect from him?
No more then that obviously.oh well.
I walk into the hut..
<The worst is over now, and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, and steal my pain away>
On the other side of the forest InuYash was with Kikyo.
"Kikyo I can't continue with this"
"With what InuYasha?"
"This...me sneaking out in the middle of the damn night to see you when I don't want to"
"It's that other girl..my re-incarnation..is it not?"
"Her name is Kagome...Ka-go-me get it right"
"Fine then this Kagome-girl , she is the reason for your betrayel is she not?"
"It's not betrayel Kikyo"
"Well then what do you call it?!"
"Choice ..moving on from the past that was clearly never meant to be"
<The worst is over now, and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, and steal my pain away>
"Not meant..InuYasha it was meant "
"Really then why do you constantly smell of Naraku? He killed you , yet you still see him. If it was meant you wouldn't do this"
"InuYasha..."
"No Kikyo it ends now!"
He snapped storming off.
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I lay in my normal sleeping spot and look at Shippoe who was sitting enxt to the fire. Since he grew he hardly ever slept.he became more and more like a demon with every passing day. And He has also become like my son, always waiting for me, never leaving my side. I wish InuYasha was more like that.
<'Coz Im broken, when I'm open
And I feel like that I'm strong enough>
Shippoe snuggled closer to me but I knew that soon I would no longer feel him next to me for I won't stay ..I can't stay.
I don't belong here I always knew deep inside of me that I wan't meant for this world. Gotta say I have come accustomed to it. But I don't belong .
Kikyo made that clear last summer when I stayed all summer.
She pushed me down the well and InuYasha didn't come get me till three weeks later!!! What was he doing in those three god forsaken weeks.???
Probly seeing Kikyo ...again.
DAMNIT why does he do this to me? What have I ever done to him?
<'Coz Im broken, when I'm open
And I feel like that I'm strong enough>
Had I known this would happen I would have never rescued Buyo from the well house and I would never have been brought here.
I get up from my sleeping spot and walk ouitside. Only to walk into InuYasha.
"Kagome...what are you doing out here?" he asks almost sounding broken
"Walking.. where were you?"
"I was...out "
"With Kikyo?!" I painfully said
"Kagome...I ...uh....you shouldnt be out here its too dangerous at night."
"I can protect myself ..I'm not weak ya know!"
"Kagome I never said you were.... but"
"But whenever I corner you about Kikyo you change the subject.."
"Kagome..."
"NARAKU IS IN HIS TRUE FORM NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO KILL HIM LADY KAGOME!!!" Keada screamed from the desolate area.
InuYasha looes down at me.
"We'll finish this later...go get everyone up I'll check out the damage"
"Kagome..no you get everyone up" But it was too late I had already ran and pretended not to hear him.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm open
And I don't feel like that I'm strong enough
'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.>
I ran out to check the damage and not to my suprise, there lay Naraku glaring at me evilly.
"Miko why do you not run in fear of me?"
"Why should I, I'm not afraid of you"
"Insolent wench" he screams before running at me, enlongated sharp tentacle peircing towards me
I scream but I had enough sense to dodge it.
the tentacle scraped my skin, more like deeply cut
Blood poured out of my leg. I somehow managed to stand
"NARAKU YOU'RE DEAD" I scream aiming and shooting a sacred arrow at him.
I knew it wouldn't be too long beofe the others showed up and I wanted it to end quickly. And prossibly prove to InuYasha that I wanst useless
the arrow wounded him but not enough.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.>
He sends another tentacle at me I wasn't paying attention to the others coming up but all I knew was the tentacle has now peirced my stomache.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" I couldnt help but scream.
"KAGOME!!!" InuYasha cried out. tears fled from his eyes
'Damnit Kagome'
Naraku dropped me. InuYasha caught me as I fell
"Inu...Yasha.....I'm sorry .....I should...have....listened"
"Kagome...no don't be...I mean yea you should have ...but ..don't talk"
He layed me down.
"InuYasha I should have told you this sooner but.." I begin coughing blood.
"Kagome...stop" he says worried
"No I may not get another chance to tell you"
"Kagome don't talk like that you'll be fine"
"I love you InuYasha "
"Kagome....I love you too" He almost begins crying
"InuYasha, kill Naraku"
"Shippoe stay here and protect Kagome"
"Ok" he says
I'm amazed Shippoe has changed so much. he has grown to be like InuYasha, strong, stubborn, and over-protective.
Shippoe looks over at me worridly.And then stares into the battle
"Kagome you're going to be ok you know that right"
He says trying to calm me down
"Shippoe I'm going to die"
"No you're not your my mother and a mother never leaves her kids rember you told me that "
When he said that I began crying. I had always felt like his mother and her always said I was ...when he was younger...and to hear him say it now really means something.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone.>
He hugged me quickly and let go as a tentacle came hurrling to us
He slashed the damned thing .
"Kagome are you ok?" he asked
"Yea" I coughed more blood
"Kagome" Shippoe cried a little, it reminded me of the times when InuYasha and I fought and Shippoe would cry for me.
I teared up inside. and then came the dreaded feeling of death's cold hands grabbing me up
I turn cold and shiver alot. InuYasha runs to my side.
"InuYasha ..I'm -cough- dying" I continue coughnig blood,
He looked at me for second
"I know...I just don't want to say it ...it makes it more real,"
I cough some more
"Kagome please hold on" He pleads for dear life.
"I'll try" I can't hold on I know that
InuYasha runs back into the battle but not before leaving me with a kiss
he slashes Naraku only knocking him out. He then runs back to me
"How ya holding up Kagome"
"I'm so cold ...InuYasha I'm about to die"
"Kagome...." I then feel myself beggining to die. The cold hands of death are ever so slowly grasping my soul. I try to put up a fight, a shield or anything to let me live, I use all my miko powers and strength but it proved uselss.
I fight with all my strenth then ......I knew I had to give up.
there was no point in fighting a losing battle.
"I love you...promise you wont...forget me..."
"Kagome...please ...don't give up" I hear him crying.
My body was fading out of his grasp and I was fading in and out of consciousness.He held me tighter and kissed me. I felt myself die.
In my last attempt to survive I heard InuYasha's words
"Naraku I'll kill you for killing Kagome" He screamed
I was conscious only long enough to watch him kill that bastard
<You gotta win, you don't feel me anymore.>
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Epilougue
I awake to a room of people around me crying. I couldn't tell who they were. I thought I was dead, maybe in heaven. No I couldn't be there, I had an infatuation with a demon. I had a realtionship with what priest called the ultimate evil. InuYasha wasn't like that, he was caring and perfect. Thats the only way to describe him...perfect.
But back to the point, the people around me are crying saying things like 'I though we'd lost her' and 'We did but I couldn't let her go' I knew that had to be InuYasha. I wake fully only to scream his name
"INUYASHA!" I scream
"Kagome" he says with a tear. He lifts me into his arms.
"What happend?"
"You were killed...Naraku killed you...."
"How did I get back"
"I wished you back"
"But I thought ...didn't you wanna be full demon ...or be with Kikyo"
"Some things are just to important to lose" he says kissing me
I feel a tear come to my eye I know where I belong now.
Here. With the man I love and the friends I have come to adore.
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A/N yea sad and happy
R/R
><><><><><><><><>< ><><
Summary: It's been a long journey,almost too long.
But I've been enjoying the company of my dear friends.
And the company of the man I have come to love.
Now its the final task. make a wish.
Only do I stay here, or go home?
Rating...the usual PG13 or R
Told in Kagome's POV
Lyrics : Seether and Amy Lee :Broken.
><><><><><><><><>< ><><
<I wanted to know, I love the way you laugh
I want to hold you high, and steal your pain away>
I walked through the forest in search of a hot spring.
I had come to love them, they were they only place I could go to relax and think.I knew I had to get away from InuYasha. I knew if I had stayed he would make my decision harder. If I stay , we can live happily, but my friends back home... and Kikyo...he still sees her. I pulled out his picture that took of him last week.
<I keep your photograph, and I know it serves me well
I want to hold you high, and steal your pain.>
He looks so happy. Notice I'm not in the picture.
but I was the one taking the picture.
But yet there is Kouga...if I didn't stay with InuYasha
There is him. I don't want to ..It's all or nothing,,
Damnit I'm crying allready.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.>
Sigh...what should I do...?
I could find out if he loves me.....or Kikyo.
It's not fair. I finally end my enlongated bath and dress
I'm right back at camp...it's midnight...Yash will be pissed.
He seems to never smile....anymore..
Is it me...am I the reason he never smiles?
Omigod I am.....he never smiles around me...
<You gotta win, you don't feel me anymore.>
I feel myself break down. I know I can't hold my waite under such pain right now, so I allow myself to colapse onto the sooft cold ground.
Its ok right now, ya know. I mean I don't have to worry about anyone seeing me in this state. I lay there crying hard. Better get this out of the way before we destroy Naraku, cuz I know there won't be anytime for petty emotions.
I return to the camp after my petty crying.
InuYasha is , as I suspected, not there, but with Kikyo.
Sigh... well what should I expect from him?
No more then that obviously.oh well.
I walk into the hut..
<The worst is over now, and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, and steal my pain away>
On the other side of the forest InuYash was with Kikyo.
"Kikyo I can't continue with this"
"With what InuYasha?"
"This...me sneaking out in the middle of the damn night to see you when I don't want to"
"It's that other girl..my re-incarnation..is it not?"
"Her name is Kagome...Ka-go-me get it right"
"Fine then this Kagome-girl , she is the reason for your betrayel is she not?"
"It's not betrayel Kikyo"
"Well then what do you call it?!"
"Choice ..moving on from the past that was clearly never meant to be"
<The worst is over now, and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, and steal my pain away>
"Not meant..InuYasha it was meant "
"Really then why do you constantly smell of Naraku? He killed you , yet you still see him. If it was meant you wouldn't do this"
"InuYasha..."
"No Kikyo it ends now!"
He snapped storming off.
*******************************************************
I lay in my normal sleeping spot and look at Shippoe who was sitting enxt to the fire. Since he grew he hardly ever slept.he became more and more like a demon with every passing day. And He has also become like my son, always waiting for me, never leaving my side. I wish InuYasha was more like that.
<'Coz Im broken, when I'm open
And I feel like that I'm strong enough>
Shippoe snuggled closer to me but I knew that soon I would no longer feel him next to me for I won't stay ..I can't stay.
I don't belong here I always knew deep inside of me that I wan't meant for this world. Gotta say I have come accustomed to it. But I don't belong .
Kikyo made that clear last summer when I stayed all summer.
She pushed me down the well and InuYasha didn't come get me till three weeks later!!! What was he doing in those three god forsaken weeks.???
Probly seeing Kikyo ...again.
DAMNIT why does he do this to me? What have I ever done to him?
<'Coz Im broken, when I'm open
And I feel like that I'm strong enough>
Had I known this would happen I would have never rescued Buyo from the well house and I would never have been brought here.
I get up from my sleeping spot and walk ouitside. Only to walk into InuYasha.
"Kagome...what are you doing out here?" he asks almost sounding broken
"Walking.. where were you?"
"I was...out "
"With Kikyo?!" I painfully said
"Kagome...I ...uh....you shouldnt be out here its too dangerous at night."
"I can protect myself ..I'm not weak ya know!"
"Kagome I never said you were.... but"
"But whenever I corner you about Kikyo you change the subject.."
"Kagome..."
"NARAKU IS IN HIS TRUE FORM NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO KILL HIM LADY KAGOME!!!" Keada screamed from the desolate area.
InuYasha looes down at me.
"We'll finish this later...go get everyone up I'll check out the damage"
"Kagome..no you get everyone up" But it was too late I had already ran and pretended not to hear him.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm open
And I don't feel like that I'm strong enough
'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.>
I ran out to check the damage and not to my suprise, there lay Naraku glaring at me evilly.
"Miko why do you not run in fear of me?"
"Why should I, I'm not afraid of you"
"Insolent wench" he screams before running at me, enlongated sharp tentacle peircing towards me
I scream but I had enough sense to dodge it.
the tentacle scraped my skin, more like deeply cut
Blood poured out of my leg. I somehow managed to stand
"NARAKU YOU'RE DEAD" I scream aiming and shooting a sacred arrow at him.
I knew it wouldn't be too long beofe the others showed up and I wanted it to end quickly. And prossibly prove to InuYasha that I wanst useless
the arrow wounded him but not enough.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away.>
He sends another tentacle at me I wasn't paying attention to the others coming up but all I knew was the tentacle has now peirced my stomache.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" I couldnt help but scream.
"KAGOME!!!" InuYasha cried out. tears fled from his eyes
'Damnit Kagome'
Naraku dropped me. InuYasha caught me as I fell
"Inu...Yasha.....I'm sorry .....I should...have....listened"
"Kagome...no don't be...I mean yea you should have ...but ..don't talk"
He layed me down.
"InuYasha I should have told you this sooner but.." I begin coughing blood.
"Kagome...stop" he says worried
"No I may not get another chance to tell you"
"Kagome don't talk like that you'll be fine"
"I love you InuYasha "
"Kagome....I love you too" He almost begins crying
"InuYasha, kill Naraku"
"Shippoe stay here and protect Kagome"
"Ok" he says
I'm amazed Shippoe has changed so much. he has grown to be like InuYasha, strong, stubborn, and over-protective.
Shippoe looks over at me worridly.And then stares into the battle
"Kagome you're going to be ok you know that right"
He says trying to calm me down
"Shippoe I'm going to die"
"No you're not your my mother and a mother never leaves her kids rember you told me that "
When he said that I began crying. I had always felt like his mother and her always said I was ...when he was younger...and to hear him say it now really means something.
<'Coz I'm broken, when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone.>
He hugged me quickly and let go as a tentacle came hurrling to us
He slashed the damned thing .
"Kagome are you ok?" he asked
"Yea" I coughed more blood
"Kagome" Shippoe cried a little, it reminded me of the times when InuYasha and I fought and Shippoe would cry for me.
I teared up inside. and then came the dreaded feeling of death's cold hands grabbing me up
I turn cold and shiver alot. InuYasha runs to my side.
"InuYasha ..I'm -cough- dying" I continue coughnig blood,
He looked at me for second
"I know...I just don't want to say it ...it makes it more real,"
I cough some more
"Kagome please hold on" He pleads for dear life.
"I'll try" I can't hold on I know that
InuYasha runs back into the battle but not before leaving me with a kiss
he slashes Naraku only knocking him out. He then runs back to me
"How ya holding up Kagome"
"I'm so cold ...InuYasha I'm about to die"
"Kagome...." I then feel myself beggining to die. The cold hands of death are ever so slowly grasping my soul. I try to put up a fight, a shield or anything to let me live, I use all my miko powers and strength but it proved uselss.
I fight with all my strenth then ......I knew I had to give up.
there was no point in fighting a losing battle.
"I love you...promise you wont...forget me..."
"Kagome...please ...don't give up" I hear him crying.
My body was fading out of his grasp and I was fading in and out of consciousness.He held me tighter and kissed me. I felt myself die.
In my last attempt to survive I heard InuYasha's words
"Naraku I'll kill you for killing Kagome" He screamed
I was conscious only long enough to watch him kill that bastard
<You gotta win, you don't feel me anymore.>
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Epilougue
I awake to a room of people around me crying. I couldn't tell who they were. I thought I was dead, maybe in heaven. No I couldn't be there, I had an infatuation with a demon. I had a realtionship with what priest called the ultimate evil. InuYasha wasn't like that, he was caring and perfect. Thats the only way to describe him...perfect.
But back to the point, the people around me are crying saying things like 'I though we'd lost her' and 'We did but I couldn't let her go' I knew that had to be InuYasha. I wake fully only to scream his name
"INUYASHA!" I scream
"Kagome" he says with a tear. He lifts me into his arms.
"What happend?"
"You were killed...Naraku killed you...."
"How did I get back"
"I wished you back"
"But I thought ...didn't you wanna be full demon ...or be with Kikyo"
"Some things are just to important to lose" he says kissing me
I feel a tear come to my eye I know where I belong now.
Here. With the man I love and the friends I have come to adore.
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A/N yea sad and happy
R/R