InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Fire Bearer ❯ Chapter 6

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"Inuyasha," She whispered as she raised her hand to his cheek. "I'm sorry." And with that her hand fell and her eyes closed as she slipped into unconsciousness.

Everyone was quiet on the way to Keada's village. No one knew what to say, so instead they said nothing at all. They were all deep in thought.

Inuyasha kept looking down at the passed out demoness in his arms, and no matter what he was thinking about, his thoughts kept wandering back to her. I mean, how could they not after what had happened earlier that day.

'God, how could Kikyo do that to me? Or better yet, how could I have not noticed? And with Naraku none the less. Why him, why of all people him? I mean anyone but him. How could you betray me like this Kikyo?' He thought sadly. But as soon as he looked at Kagome again, all the thoughts and sadness for Kikyo were all gone.

'Kagome better be ok, or I swear that I will kill you Kikyo, as well as Naraku. Damn, how did she get that much power. I mean, it's hard enough to break it down, she just walked right through it! How in the seven hells is that possible! And what was she sorry for? Ugh...' He mentally groaned. 'These thoughts are giving me a headache. I'll just have to wait until she wakes up. Until then I just have to concentrate on getting her to Kaede's.'

He kept telling himself that but no matter how many times he said it, his thoughts always wandered back to the girl in his arms.

After a while they finally made it back to Kaede's village. Kaede was very happy to see Kagome again but quickly got to work to see what was the matter. She informed everyone that she was out from over exertion and blood loss from the wound on her head and that she should be up in a couple of hours. She quickly bandaged her head and then wet to pick herbs.

Everyone went there separate ways for a while until she woke up. Keada to gather herbs, Sango to the river, Shippo and Kilala went to play, and Miroku to god knows where. Inuyasha never left that hut, though. He stayed right there by her side just waiting for her to wake up. He was deep in thought until he felt something on his hand. When he looked down he saw Kagome now awake with her hand resting gently over his.

"Morning sleepy head." He said as he turned his hand over and gently wrapped it around hers.

"Hi." She whispered a little bit hoarsely.

"You mind telling me what happened back there?" He asked her not letting go of her hand.

She didn't answer instead she just turned her head to the side and closed her eyes. A
single tear slid down her cheek. Inuyasha was scared he had said something to upset her. He leaned over her and cupped her cheek. He wiped the tear away and turned her face to look at him.

"What's the matter?" He asked her. She opened her eyes and looked deep into hers. They filled with more tears. She sat up and flung her arms around his neck and started sobbing into his shoulder.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She kept repeating over and over between sobs.

"Sorry? Sorry for what?" He asked completely confused. "You've done nothing wrong." He told her as he rubbed soothing circles on her back.

"Yes, yes I have. Everything is my fault!" She shouted angrily. "I fell through the well! I had the Shikon no Tama! I had to get hurt so that it would come out! Then I had to get captured by Urasua which ended up bringing Kikyo back which only brought you more pain. I had to get hurt and captured again which made you choose between me and Kikyo. And I was too weak to protect myself so I died which brought Kikyo back to life which led you to only even more pain, and then I had to come back and start hurting you more. It's my fault! Everything is my fault!" She yelled as even more tears started coming out.

By now Inuyasha's shoulder was completely soaked but he didn't care. All he could think about was Kagome and why she thought it was her fault. "Listen to me Kagome. None of this is your fault. Nothing is your fault."

Kagome sniffled and pulled back from Inuyasha. She looked in his eye and realized he was serious. "How can you say that? None of this would've happened if I hadn't come here."

"Yes, that's true." She was about to yell at him when he stopped her. "But I am glad as hell that all those things did happen."

She was very confused now. Why was he happy? All those things had caused him great pain, and yet he was happy that they happened? None of this made sense. "What do you mean? Because of me you've had to suffer so much pain. How can you be glad?"

"Because," He started. "If you hadn't come here then I would still be stuck to that tree and would never had been able to go on this journey and meet all the people I did and have real friends. And if you hadn't ever been capture by Urasua, then yes, Kikyo wouldn't have ever been brought back, but then I would've never been able to realize something very, very important and amazing. If you hadn't been captured and too weak to defend yourself then you wouldn't have become what you are now and you would've never come back and been able to help us like you did with Naraku today. And all the pain I've ever been caused is my own fault. I had to be stupid enough to fall in love with someone who most likely never loved me, I wasn't able to protect you from getting captured and I protected Kikyo instead of you. If this is anyone’s fault, it's mine."

Kagome just sat there, not sure what to do. She had a million questions running through her head and couldn't decide which one to ask so she just opened her mouth and waited for which ever one it was to come out. "Why did you leave me?"

"What?" He was a little confused on what she meant.

"Why did you protect Kikyo and leave me to die?" She asked, pain etched in her voice and eyes.

He was about to say something when he started to sniff the air. "We'll finish this later tonight, alright? The others are coming."

She let out an annoyed sigh and nodded her head. She had waited three months for answers, she could wait a little longer.

At that moment the others walked in and over to Kagome and Inuyasha. Everyone sat down and was quiet for a moment. Sango was the first to speak.

"So Kagome, how are you feeling?" She asked her friend.

"Fine. Well, I am a little tired and my head hurts, but mostly I'm fine." She said with a warm smile.

"What happened when you were fighting Naraku, I don't think that I've ever seen anyone use such speed or power." Miroku asked.

"Honestly, I'm not sure." She said with her head down. "I just felt so angry, and I wanted to let it out. So I went after the cause of it, which happened to be Naraku. If the damn coward hadn't of ran away, I think I might have been able to kill him right there. Though, it probably would've caused me a lot of harm if had I had fought much longer. I don't know where it all came from. But it felt good as hell." She added and they all started to laugh a little.

"So, you've never used that much power." Miroku asked again.

She thought for a moment then answered, "No, I'm not even sure if I've even used that much power for Fires of Hell. What do you think it means?"

Everyone thought for a moment then Sango said, "Maybe your powers are advancing. I mean, after time they will have to grow stronger since you only just recently became the Fire Bearer. Maybe your rage set the next level of your abilities off."

"I guess, 'cause I do have what, a couple hundred years or so left, so this probably isn't the peak of my power." She said. Her smile faltered a bit but no one noticed but Inuyasha. He could easily smell the sadness coming off of her though she tried to cover it up.

They talked a while longer about this and that before deciding to start dinner. Not to long afterwards Keada returned and her and Kagome said their hellos and caught up. They had dinner and not to long afterwards everyone went to bed. Everyone slept inside but Inuyasha who went to his tree to sleep, though he knew he wouldn't be able to.

It had been about an hour since everyone had fallen asleep and Kagome was still tossing and turning. Something was keeping her awake and she felt very anxious. She needed to talk to Inuyasha, she needed those answers and she needed them now.

After taking a pillow and tucking it next to Shippo so that he wouldn't notice her missing body, she took off to find Inuyasha. She found him exactly where she thought he would be, the God Tree.

He seemed deep in thought and she knew that he wouldn't notice her until she made herself known. So she quickly jumped up to the branch he was on and landed gracefully without him hearing her. She leaned over very carefully and formed a bit of fire above her palm. She brought it closer to his face...

Inuyasha was deep in thought about everything that had been going on lately. He thought he heard something but discarded it as the wind. All of the sudden he smelled fire and his face heat up . His eyes snapped open and he saw fire straight in front of his face and it was extremely close.

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" He yelled as he started to fall out of the tree. He grabbed for the closes thing which just so happened to be the now laughing Kagome. She gasped as she felt herself start to fall. At one point or another on there decent from the tree, they had shifted positions and Kagome was now on the bottom. They landed with a hard thud.
Kagome muttered an 'ow' and tried to move but couldn't because of the extra weight on her body. Inuyasha's body was pressed tightly to her own and his face was right in her chest!

Inuyasha lay there for a moment a little dazed from what had just happened. After a moment he realized that he was right on top of Kagome with his face in her chest! He slowly lifted his face to look at hers and noticed her deep crimson blush and he couldn't help but blush himself. They stayed there for a moment looking at each other before Kagome decided to speak up.

"Umm... Inuyasha, do... you think y-you could get up now?" She asked him still flushed.
Inuyasha quickly jumped off and pointed an accusing finger at her. "Well if you hadn't put the fire in my face then I wouldn't have fallen out of the tree."

"Oh, yeah! Well-" But she stopped for a moment and sighed. "Look, I'm not here to fight. You told me that we could talk later, so I'm here. Now, lets talk."

"Ok, fine. I don't know exactly where to start, so you ask me questions and I'll try to answer them." He told her looking away.

"Ok, well, lets start with the obvious. Why did you leave me to die?" She asked him the one question that had been in her mind since the night he left her.

He let out a sigh and…