InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The real you ❯ Back to you ( Chapter 6 )

I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA. HE IS THE PROPERTY OF RUMIKO TAKAHASHI.

 

-`This can't be happening…' Kagome painfully thought as she looked over the edge of the cliff she was standing. A minute ago she was holding Inuyasha like her life itself; the next minute she was seeing him falling in the dark abyss his words ringing in her head: “I love you…” Why did he have to do such a thing?! This had to be just a horrible nightmare! `This is just a nightmare! This can't be real! Inuyasha is still alive! I know it!' she desperately tried to push the painful thought aside. `I'm in my room and I'm having a nightmare! I must wake up and when I will, Inuyasha will be next to me!' She closed his eyes and counted to three before opening them again. She was in the same place like before, on the edge of the cliff, looking in the depths of the chasm. Her eyes filled with tears yet again as sobs escaped her throat. “Inuyasha you idiot! Why did you do such a foolish thing?! What am I suppose to do now?!” She breathed in deeply. “You told me that you loved me! How can I live with that on my heart if you aren't with me?!” She slowed to a whisper, “I thought that someday we will be together, after Narakus' death…to live our life together…” she yelled again, “This didn't suppose to happen…Inuyasha!!!”

 

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-“I wonder where Kagome and Inuyasha are?” Shippou said while the group rode on Kiraras' back. “I hope they are alright!”

-“They are, Shippou, don't worry…” Miroku calmed him. “We will find them and return to the village, back at Kaedes'”

-“I hope you are right…”

~-“Inuyasha!!!”~

Kirara stopped in her tracks.

-“Was that Kagomes' voice?!” Shippou said as he heard the pain-stricken cry. “Something happened to them!”

-“Kirara! Go to the sound of the yell!” Sango told the nekomata as fear of the worse engulfed her too.

Kirara paid attention to the direction from where the yell came from and in no time, the group came to the chamber in which the fight between Inuyasha and the youkai was. Sango saw her dear friend on the edge of the cliff crying while looking in the depths. She ran to her in spite of her wounded leg.

-“Kagome-chan!”

Hearing her dear sister, Kagome turned to the sound of her voice.

-“Sango-chan…” More tears welled up in her eyes.

Sango came beside her and hugged her.

-“Kagome-chan! I was so worried!”

-“Kagome!” Shippou yelled as he jumped in her lap and hugged her by the waist. “I thought that I will never see you again!”

-“Shippou-chan…” Kagome blindly said. The tears began to stream on her cheeks and she grabbed the kit, burying her face in his red hair as she began to cry.

Miroku looked around on the battlefield. He saw the damage of the fight with the youkai.

-`It must have been a terrible fight if the ground is this damaged. Inuyasha probably used Tetsusaiga twice as much.' Then a single thing came to his mind. Inuyasha was missing from the picture. As always, the hanyou was always here when he finished a fight all keh-ing and saying that it was an easy one. But this time he wasn't…

-“Kagome, where's Inuyasha?” innocent little Shippou asked.

That only question made Kagome cry harder. Sango looked at her trying to understand what was happening.

-“Kagome-chan? Did…did anything happen to Inuyasha?” Sango carefully asked but Kagome couldn't answer.

Miroku looked over the battlefield one more time only to see something red coming from the edge of the cliff. Bending over, he grasped the red material and looked at it. His eyes went wide. It was a part of Inuyashas' haori. He looked into the chasm. He couldn't…

-“Kagome! Where's Inuyasha?!” Shippou said tears of worry in his eyes.

-“I-Inuyasha…Inuyasha…” Kagome tried to say between sobs. “He-He's…he's…”

-“He's what, Kagome?!” Then it clicked. He began to tremble. “Is he…dead?”

-“Don't say that Shippou!” Sango yelled at him.

-“Then where is he?!”

Miroku looked at the piece of fabric and gripped it tightly. It was obvious…He turned to the others. Kagome was crying hysterically, Shippou also crying in her arms. Sango tried to console her friend but couldn't. Miroku decided that some fresh air would do some good for their fried. He carried Kagome in his arms outside the cave under a nearby tree. It was already noon when they exited the cave. They made camp there that day until all of them gathered some powers. They all tried to convince her to get some rest but all she could say was:

-“I couldn't save him…”

When Miroku gave her the piece of material from Inuyashas' haori, Kagome cried so hard until she was out of powers. She cried herself to sleep, holding what little bit of Inuyasha she had left…

 

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The wind wheezed in his ears as Inuyasha fell in the darkness of the chasm. His body was wounded and his powers were drained. He remembered Kagomes' pained face as she saw him falling and guilt panged his mind. He had to do it if she was safe. Her life cost ten of his.

-`If Kagome's alive, I'll die without regret…'

-“He, he, he,” the youkai laughed beside him. “Didn't want to take your woman with you. Too bad…you'll be quite lonely in hell without her.”

-“Keh! Like I'll take her with me to that kind of place! Only you are coming with me!”

-“Heh! Do you really think that I'm going to that place, hanyou?”

-“What do you mean!?” Inuyasha growled.

The youkai threw his hand in the rock next to them and fixed it. In the next moment, a platform appeared a few feet lower. Inuyasha barely had time to register what happened. Thanks to his hanyou speed, he quickly turned to his left and crashed. He rose slowly holding his left shoulder. The articulation was shattered.

-“Damn!” he growled.

-“Already out of power?” the youkai laughed. “Too bad…”

Inuyashas' eyes widened as he saw the youkai mend his wounded body.

-“So, you could have healed your body even in the fight when we were up, couldn't ya?!”

-“Yes, I am an earth youkai and I can use any type of soil to repair my body,” he laughed as he looked at Inuyasha. “Not like you flesh beings.”

Inuyasha unsheathed Tetsusaiga, his left arm hanging limb by his side.

-“Keh! I don't care how bad I'm wounded!” He ran to the youkai. “Because I can beat you into a pulp anyway!” He raised Tetsusaiga. “Take this! Kaze no Kizu!”

Hot razes of energy were unleashed from the blade and were directed to the youkai who was blasted into pieces. Inuyasha landed, resting his weight on Tetsusaiga.

-`Did I get him? No! It was too fucking easy!'

He realized that it was too easy because the boulders transformed into sand and a figure appeared from it.

-“I told you that I am invincible, half-breed! Now I'm going to destroy you!”

The youkai, now turned into sand, turned into a tornado of sand, pulling Inuyasha to him. Inuyasha embed the sword into the ground deeper but the current was too strong. He lost his grip on the sword and was pulled into the sand trap. In the middle of the tornado he felt his skin being cut by small pieces of rock. The youkai turned into the “Inuyasha” form again and held Inuyasha in rock cuffs by the wall. His body had new wounds, his blood dripping on the ground.

-“Looks like you're not so smart after all. How would you like to die: fast or slow?”

-“Damn you!” Inuyasha growled.

-“Still having a little fight in you, eh, hanyou? Don't bother. I'll make sure that you will die slow and painfully.” The youkai got a smirk. “I wonder how will your woman act if she sees me in your form again?”

-“Keh! Even if you kill me and go up there, Kagome is no fool! She will see past your fucking disguise!”

-“Heh! Hanyou, I've got all your abilities, I can talk like you, act like you and even got your memories! Do you really think that she won't be fooled?”

-“What?!” Inuyasha growled.

-“Didn't I tell you? When you touched me in your woman's era, I copied your memories, abilities, all you are! There's no way your woman will deny me…” Inuyasha growled deeply. “I can already see her now…me coming from the cave, she running to me, then when nobody is watching I tell my love to her…” Inuyasha's eyes blinked red. “…I kiss her and then…” The youkai smirked evilly. “…she won't resist me and maybe she will even give herself to me.” Inuyasha snarled and his eyes blinked red. “I can already imagine it…she screaming my name as I pound into her…and, as she is about to cum…PANG!” The youkai yelled as he stabbed Inuyasha with his spear-turned arm. Inuyasha yelled as he felt the sharp appendage coming through his gut and went limp. “I will stab her like this…” He looked at the stabbed, limp hanyou, his blood flowing from the wound he made. “Hmph! Already dead. That is expected from a weak hanyou…” He retracted his arm from Inuyasha's body and turned away. “Time to finish what I had in mind…”

-“You piece of shit!”

The youkai stopped at the sound of Inuyasha's voice. He turned around only to see Inuyashas' crimson eyes with icy blue pupils staring back at him, violet stripes on his cheeks. His mouth with long sharp fangs was turned into a feral snarl.

-“Oh-ho! So the hanyou turned into his youkai form! I'm impressed!”

-“I'm going to rip you apart!” Inuyasha turned demon growled as he freed himself from the cuffs, his shoulder and wounds already healing because of his youkai blood.

The youkai laughed.

-“Did my intentions with your woman awaken you?”

-“Touch Kagome and you're dead!” Youkai Inuyasha growled as he lunged at the youkai.

The youkai raised a rock wall to protect himself but the sheer power of Inuyasha's attack destroyed it in a matter of seconds.

-“Is that all you got, half-breed?!” the youkai said as he transformed into his bigger form. “Now I am invincible!” Inuyasha grinned showing his fangs. “Die!” the youkai threw spears of rock to Inuyasha and they hit. He waited the dust to settle and when it did he saw the place where Inuyasha stood covered by the spears. The youkai smirked. `He's dead. He was just a half-breed after all!'

-“Where are you looking at!?”

-“From above?!” the youkai said as he saw Inuyasha in the air.

-“Take this you worm!” Inuyasha snarled as he slashed the youkai, cutting his body in pieces. He landed next to them.“Heh! Thanks for the fun you fucking bastard.” He turned around to his sword until his ear picked the sound off movement.

-“I told you that I'm invincible!” he heard the youkai's voice.

~ “Damnit! He's still alive!”~ Inuyasha growled behind his youkai appearance. It appeared that his mind was his own and only his body transformed his youkai part only taking control wanting to protect Kagome from harm. The then felt a familiar pulse. He turned to Tetsusaiga. She was calling out to him. He went to the sword and grabbed it. Tetsusaiga pulsed and turned into his bigger form. ~ “What is it Tetsusaiga?”~ The sword pulsed and transformed into a blade with scales. ~ “Dragon-scaled Tetsusaiga!” He smirked. ~ “I get it!” ~ He readied the sword as the youkai finished reassembling.

-“I'll rip you into pieces!” the youkai roared as he threw some giant spears at him.

Inuyasha dodged every one of them then jumped in the air.

-“Tetsusaiga!” Inuyasha yelled and the sword pulsed. Around the youkai began to appear swirls of youki. ~ “One of them should be the real youketsu!”~

-“So, you can see my youketsu, hanyou,” the youkai laughed sensing that his youketsu was revealed. “Let's see if you will be alive until you find the real one!” The youkai threw more spears at Inuyasha and one stabbed him in the side.

~“Damn! I have to find the youketsu fast!”~ He thought as he landed and pulled the spear from his side. He closed his eyes and concentrated.

-“Giving up already? Then die!” the youkai threw spears again.

Inuyasha was still concentrating when he felt a pull from the right.

~ “It's there!”~ Inuyasha yelled as he jumped to the direction from where he felt the pull. On the right there was a large youketsu.

-“Damn!” the youkai roared and tried to beat Inuyasha to it, but with his fast reflexes, Inuyasha cut the youketsu in half. “NO!!!” the youkai roared as he began to break into pieces. “How could a mere hanyou defeat me…?” As his body tumbled to the ground, the boulders became dust and a breeze took them in the abyss.

Inuyasha looked as the last pieces of the youkai disappeared before he crashed on his knees panting hard. He was back in his hanyou form.

-“Damn, that took long enough! He was a lot tougher than I thought.” He looked upward and saw the edge of the cliff from where he had fallen. “It's a long way up but I have to make it!” He got up and begun to climb on the cliff. He managed to climb ten meters before pain surged through his body and his grip ceased. He fell on his back. He was breathing hard. He opened his eyes and looked at the edge. “Damn, the fight took a lot out of me.” He closed his eyes again. “Kagome, wait for me.”

That was the last thought before a well deserved sleep took him. He awakened three hours later feeling much better. He tried his muscles and saw that they didn't hurt that much. Even his shoulder was fixed but still, it was a little sore, nothing he can't handle. “Let's do this!” he said as he began to climb. He climbed, his blood boiling in his veins with determination. After an exhausting half an hour he was on the edge of the cliff, the same edge where he'd fallen off. He ran to the exit of the cave, his heart beating hard in his chest as he exited into the light of the outside. `Kagome, I'm here and I'll never leave your side ever again!'

 

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~Kagome was surrounded by darkness. Everywhere she looked she saw no one and nothing.

-“Hello? Is anybody there?” But no answer. She continued walking in the darkness trying to find someone. “Inuyasha?! Miroku-sama?! Sango-chan?! Shippou-chan?! ANYBODY?!” Still no answer. “Where could everybody be?” She then saw a flash of red on her right. “Inuyasha?!” she ran in the direction where it came from. “Inuyasha! Is that you?! Inu-!” She stopped in her tracks and her blood froze in her veins. A small rivulet of blood was passing in front of her. “Oh no, someone must be in danger!” She ran in the direction from where the blood came. As she got closer she discovered the source of the blood. Her legs began to tremble and she lost her balance, falling on her knees. Tears welled up in her eyes and her heart almost stopped. In front of her stood the broken form of Inuyasha. His hair was spilled behind him, soaked with his blood as well as his clothes. “Inuyasha!!!” Kagome cried as he ran to him. She kneeled in front of him, not caring if she will stain herself with his blood. “Inuyasha! It's me! Inuyasha!!!” But he wasn't moving. His eyes were dull and lifeless and his body was broken. Kagome grabbed his head and hold it between her hands as she wept. “Inuyasha, what happened!?” Kagome then trembled as she saw parts of what happened. She saw two Inuyasha fighting, she was attacked by the false one, the true Inuyasha was trying to save her pushing the false one over the edge of the cliff but falling as well, she managed to grab him by the hand trying to save him but he opened his hand and fell in the abyss, dragging the false one with him. “NO!!!”Everything went black. “I couldn't save him…” ~

Kagome awaked panting hard, her heart beating fast.

-“It was just a nightmare…” she said to herself. Tears began to well up in her eyes. The nightmare was real this time. “Inuyasha…” She looked at the piece of his haori and placed her face in it as she cried, breathing in what little trace of scent it still had. She raised her eyes to the sky. It was almost four o' clock. Being in feudal Japan for such a long time she learned to know the clock just by watching the sun. She looked around the camp. The others were still sleeping, recharging their batteries after the battle. She rose from her place under the tree and went in the direction of the cave. Her movement woke Kirara. Kagome smiled as best as she could. “Don't worry, Kirara. I'll be back in a minute.” The nekomata mewed approvingly and resumed sleeping. Kagome walked slowly until she was in front of the cave opening. `Inuyasha...' memories with him began to swim in her mind and her heart ached. `Inuyasha…' Images with him annoying her, being sat by her, fighting with her, hugging her, kissing her… `Inuyasha…' Kagome hugged the piece of fabric to her chest. ~ “I love you…”~ His voice was heard in her head. She fell on her knees and began crying.

-“Inuyasha…Why? Tell me, why?”

-“Kagome?”

Hearing the voice she never thought she will never hear again, her head shot up and her teary eyes focused on the silver-haired person in front of her.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Inuyasha was a few feet until he could exit the cave until a known scent arrived at his nose.

-“Kagomes' tears…” He approached the exit slowly. The light of the outside engulfed him as he exited the darkness. His eyes burned from the light but eventually got used. In front of him was Kagome, the girl with whom he decided to spend the rest of his life with and whom he told that he loved her. She was crying but he knew that she would. Seeing him falling in the abyss really marked her. Hard. He decided to pull her out from this state.

-“Kagome?” he called her softly. He saw her shot her head up and watching him like he was a creature of the underworld.

-“Inu…yasha?” she softly said, disbelieving the fact that the person in front of her was truly him.

-“Kagome…” Inuyasha softly said and he made one step.

-“Don't move any closer!” Kagome suddenly shouted.

-“Kagome? What are you saying?!” Inuyasha asked confused.

Kagome shook her head.

-“You can't be Inuyasha…”

-“Why not?!” Inuyasha asked then he remembered something. `That's right. She saw two Inuyashas when I was fighting the youkai. I must show her that I am the real Inuyasha!'

-“Kagome, please…” Inuyasha took another step.

-“I told you to stay back!” Kagome yelled placing her hands on her ears. “You are not Inuyasha…”

-“Damnit, wench! What should I have to do for you to fucking believe me!?” Inuyasha yelled. “Feh! You've always been so stubborn!” He then ran by her side in an instant and embraced her.

-“Let me go!” Kagome struggled in his embrace but he held her tighter. “Let me go or I will purify you!”

-“Then go ahead,” Inuyasha said as he looked straight in her eyes. “Purify me all you want but I ain't leaving your side ever again. Got that, wench!?”

Kagome looked at him in the eyes and her hearts' eyes opened. In his eyes she saw the same look she loved, full of trust, gentleness and love. She slowly brought her hands to his face, cupping it.

-“Inu…yasha?” her eyes widened in bewilderment.

-“Keh! Took you long enough to realize that it was me.”

Kagome threw herself at his chest and begun to cry, wetting his haori. Inuyasha let her cry all her pain knowing that he was the source of all of it, not just the one from now but also the pain that was in the past. When he sensed that her breath became normal and she wasn't sobbing anymore he lifted her face to look at his.

-“How?” she asked.

-“It's a long story…I'll tell you later just…” He embraced her again. “Let me hold you like this a little longer.”

Kagome smiled as she felt him embracing her and returned the embrace. Inuyasha, her Inuyasha, was back to her. He was alive and well. She raised her eyes to the sky.

-`Thank you, Kami-Sama. Thank you for bringing Inuyasha back.'

After a few minutes they parted. It was then when Kagome saw his wounds.

-“Oh no! You're wounded!”

-“Keh, these are just scratches. They'll heal in two or three days.”

-“I don't care! They need treating!” she got up and grabbed his hand. “Come on, let's go to the camp!”

She tried to leave but his hand pulled her back in his awaiting arms. She then felt the softness of his lips on hers and melt in the feeling. They both needed it. It was a long, passionate kiss. The kiss lingered as it deepened with every switching of position. Finally after at least 5 minutes, they broke apart, smiled then held each other.

-“You know that we have to go back to camp some time today,” Kagome joked.

-“I don't care about other stuff if I am with you.”

Kagome finally pulled away earning a whine.

-“We'll never treat your wounds if we stay here. Let's go.” She took his hand and pulled him. He gave up this time and followed her to the camp, preparing for all the questions he will be bombarded by the others.

 

~*~*~*~

 

Inuyasha and Kagome slowly entered the camp not to wake their friends.

-`Looks like they had a tough battle whit the other part of the youkai. I can smell the blood on their wounds. But at least they're alive…'

Inuyasha plopped himself at the base of a tree as Kagome searched in her backpack for her aid-kit and the jar of salve from Jinenji. Inuyasha frowned. Did she always have to use that stuff. Didn't she know that it burned like hell?! Kagome got what she wanted and came beside him. Inuyasha tried to disrobe and pain surged in his shoulder. Kagome noticed this.

-“Does your shoulder hurt?”

-“Yeah, fell on it when the youkai made a piece of rock appear under us and it shattered. But when I've became youkai it healed a little. It didn't hurt after I killed the youkai but I think it's because I climbed that cliff to get to you.” He looked at Kagomes' puzzled face as he continued to disrobe. “What?!”

-“What are you saying?!”

Inuyasha passed his clawed hand through his silver hair.

-“Oh, yeah, I forgot. I didn't tell you the story, didn't I?”

Kagome giggled.

-“Something like that. Now turn around and let me treat your wounds.”

She easily cleaned every wound, noticing every one of them, and being careful not to produce any more pain. She was grateful that some of them were already healing. But some of them were still bleeding. Then it came the hard part. Jinenjis' salve. Inuyasha always hated that stuff. She knew it hurt but it was a sign that it worked. She took a scoop and placed it on one of his fresher wounds.

-“Ow! That hurts, wench!”

Inuyashas' yell, even if it was silent enough didn't escape the ears of Kirara who rose to the sight of the two.

-“Mew!” she mewed surprised.

-“What is it, Kirara?” Sango groggily asked then her eyes focused on the silver haired hanyou and the miko who was treating his wounds. “Inuyasha?!”

-“Inuyasha?!” Inuyasha turned to the place the masculine voice came and saw Miroku wide-eyed.

-“What is with all the racket?” Shippou awaked rubbing his eyes and looked lazy at Inuyasha. “Oh, hi, Inuyasha…” and resumed sleeping. It was a matter of seconds until he bolted on his feet. “INUYASHA?!!!”

Inuyasha just looked at the four sets of wide eyes. He slowly raised his hand.

-“Hi…”

There was a long thick silence. Kagome suddenly became nervous. Did her friends just faint with their eyes open? Her thoughts were denied when the others literally jumped on Inuyasha, Shippou first. A sudden babbling of incoherent phrases followed.

-“Inuyasha, it's really you!” a teary Shippou wept at Inuyashas' chest.

-“How is it possible?!” Miroku asked.

-“Kagome was so worried about you!” Sango said.

And all of them at a time. Inuyashas' sensitive ears didn't resist much longer. He felt like his head was about to blow up in a million pieces.

-“QUIET!!!” he yelled and the others stopped. He turned to Shippou. “Yeah runt, it's me.” He turned to Miroku. “I'll tell the story later.” He turned to Sango. “I know how worried Kagome was.” He then plopped back at the base of the tree, folding his hands on his chest.

Kagome smiled and turned to the others.

-“He'll tell you after I treat his wounds.”

After Kagome treated his wounds and after he ate two boxes of ramen, Inuyasha began to tell them how he defeated the youkai. He began telling them how the youkai made a rock appear under them and “saved” his life, how he battled with the youkai, how his youkai part came out when he heard that he was going to lie to Kagome about his true nature, how he used Tetsusaiga to cut the youkais' youketsu and how he returned to them. When he finished the others congratulated him for managing once again to escape death when the odds were against him. He only keh-ed and told them that it was easy to defeat such a weak youkai. Kagome was very proud of him because he protected her from being fooled by the youkai. Later on, Inuyasha told her what the youkai had in mind, leaving out the part with the youkai raping her. Kagome kissed him in return, thanking him for all he'd done. That night, Inuyasha slept with Kagome next to him, enjoying the company and safety of the group.