InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Volition ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

~*Volition~*

~~Prologue~~

 

 

“Kongosoha!” InuYasha hollered as he slammed Tetsusaiga in to the ground. Kagome released the arrow she was aiming. It zipped through the air behind InuYasha's attack. The pink light bathed the arrow. Kikyou's blue-lighted arrow joined the bundle of attacks. Sesshoumaru's Tokijin launched an attack also.

 

Kagura, an unlikely ally, unleashed her Dance of Blades at the demon before them. Their ultimate enemy, Naraku, was hit by all attacks. His limbs tore, the arrows purifying his body. Kagome's arrow hit his heart, where the whole and tainted Shikon no Tama was. It had gone to his heart, after Naraku swallowed the black jewel.

 

“N-No!” Naraku's agonizing scream echoed through the woods, perhaps through out all the lands. His body flashed and dissolved, mixing with the dirt on the ground as the wind blew his scatters away. The jewel landed softly on the ground.

 

“I-Is he dead?” InuYasha's question shattered the silence around them. Kikyou was the first to step towards where Naraku had once been.

 

“The jewel is purified,” She commented before picking up pink jewel. InuYasha gave ragged breaths before dropping Tetsusaiga and falling on his knees.

 

“InuYasha!” Kagome cried before running towards the fallen hanyou. “You're hurt” She whimpered, seeing the hole InuYasha had through his stomach. He leaned heavily against her. He managed to give a `keh' before his golden gaze landed on Kagome's ripped shirt.

 

“Y-Y-You're…h-h-u-u-urt…a-also…” He stuttered out. She felt her eyes water before she cradled his head against her chest.

 

“He will be fine,” Sesshoumaru said coldly before putting Tokijin through his waistband. “My presence is no longer required. Miko---” He looked at Kagome. “---you need not worry over that baka. Farewell.”

 

“F-Fuck---” Kagome covered his mouth before he could finished his insult. Sango knelt besides Kagome and blinked back tears. Miroku stood behind her, placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. Kagura looked at them with a tiny smile before taking her feather and flying away.

 

“Kagome,” Kikyou stood over her, the jewel in her hand. “The Shikon no Tama is yours. You are its guardian.”

 

She look the jewel and placed it on the necklace it originally had. She dropped that over Kagome's head. “T-Take care of him…and the jewel.”

 

She turned to leave, but a clawed hand grabbed her wrist. “D-Don't go…K-Kikyou…” InuYasha mumbled.

 

Kagome felt her heart shatter in her chest.

 

`It's not fair. Why did I have to go and fall in love with him?' Kagome scowled at the jewel in her hands. It had been almost two weeks since they defeated Naraku. She hadn't seen InuYasha in almost a week. `He loves her…I knew that and yet…Kagome you're so stupid! So stupid! You fell in love with the wrong person. You fell in love with someone that will never love you back. B-Because…'

 

`Because his heart belongs to Kikyou. It's been hers for fifty-two years.' Kagome chocked out a sob. She leaned over, peeked in to the well. She wanted to wish him harm…wanted to wish to see him miserable. Yet she couldn't bring herself forth to actually wish him anything. No, what she wanted was for him to be happy.

 

“InuYasha,” She whispered, her tears streaming down her face. The front of her school uniform was wet from her crying. She leaned against the side of the well, closed her eyes. How she missed him. She'd only seen flashes of him during the week. A small smile and he'd disappear. `To Kikyou…always to Kikyou! I know he's going to her…I know it.'

 

She sobbed quietly, by herself in the meadow of the Bone Eater's Well…The crisp September air made her shiver, made her groan softly. “Kami, it hurts. It's hurt so much…” She whined. It felt like there was a knife in her chest, hurting her, wounding her so deeply…like InuYasha's meetings with Kikyou had. Like him pleading with her not to leave him when it was Kagome the one cradling him against her.

 

“It hurts to love him,” Kagome sighed softly. “Sometimes I wish I'd just forget everything. The well…InuYasha…everyone and everything that's happened. B-But then I wouldn't have him, I wouldn't have loved him. I just---”

 

The Shikon Jewel pulsed against her. She looked down, watching as the jewel started to rise off the necklace. “Wha--?” Her eyes widened. “Oh! No! No!”

 

“---I wish I'd just forget everything. The well…InuYasha…everyone and everything that's happened---” Realizing her mistake, Kagome panicked.

 

She reached for the jewel, grabbed it, trying to force it down. It wouldn't budge…The glow intensified, bathing her in a pink light that spread across the meadow. Frantically, she tried to cover it, tried to stop the jewel. “No!”

 

“Kagome…thank you for freeing me, for helping me.” Midoriko smiled gently at her, the ancient miko caressing her cheek. Kagome grabbed Midoriko's robes.

 

“Please! Please don't grant the wish! It was a mistake…I-I-I didn't mean it!”

 

Midoriko frowned. “If you did not mean it, why would you wish it?”

 

“Please! Please! Don't take this away from me…” She fell to her knees, her chocolate eyes begging the miko to not grant her wish. “My memories are all I've got…InuYasha, please don't take him away from me.”

 

Midoriko looked sadly at her. She started to fade from Kagome's grasp. “I-I'm sorry…” The miko faded from Kagome, leaving her alone.

 

“No! Please! No! I-InuYasha!!”

 

She felt a pink light engulf her as she lost the last bit on consciousness she had. `Inu…Yasha!'

 

 

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“Wh-What's happening?” Shippo cried as he jumped on Miroku's shoulder. The ground trembled, groaned as a thunderous crash echoed through the woods. Miroku held himself against the side of Kaede's hut, trying to keep himself from falling. Inside, he heard Sango yelp. Then, it suddenly stopped. The wind died out, the forest didn't make a sound as an eerie silence surrounded everything. Miroku looked around to the villagers starting to rise off the ground where they had fallen. No one dared to speak.

 

The silence lasted for a few seconds before the wind slowly started to pick up speed again. The leaves rustled, the animals made their sounds…“What happened?” Sango poked her head from inside the hut.

 

InuYasha crashed through the trees, skidding to a stop in front of Miroku. “What the hell was that? Is Kagome okay?”

 

The monk frowned. “Kagome? She's not here, InuYasha. I haven't seen her all day.”

 

InuYasha's ears twitched, panic taking over his face. In a flash, he sped in to the forest again. If Kagome wasn't in the village, she had to be wandering around the forest. What if she had gotten hurt?

 

“Kagome!” He hollered, trying to locate the missing miko. `Goshinboku!' He turned directions, turned towards the Sacred God Tree. `Kagome…please be okay.' He frowned when he reached the tree. She wasn't there. The air around him felt empty like when…

 

`Like when Kagome jumps through the well…' He leapt towards the direction of the well. The forest seemed to blur around him, seem to just be a mixture of colors until he reached the clearing.

 

`What the hell? Wh-Where's the well?' He felt his heart beat thunder in his ears, felt his blood rushing through his veins as he stared at the scene before him. The clearing was just a clearing. Trees, flowers, and grass…nothing more. The well was gone. The wood that had framed the top was lying on the ground. Where the well had once been, it was only dirt. `N-No…No…'

 

“K-Kagome…” He knelt down, touching the soil. Kagome was gone and so was the well, the only way he could get to her. The initial shock hadn't worn off as InuYasha felt his eyes water. He could only stare at where the well had once stood. `She's gone…she---she's gone! Kagome…h-how could she?'

 

“InuYasha,” Kikyou walked towards him. Her brown eyes were sad as she stared at the hanyou before her. “InuYasha, the jewel is purified. It's gone.”

 

InuYasha blinked as he took in the information. “Sh-She wished on the jewel…damnit! Fucking wench! Sh-She left me!”

 

Kikyou saw his tears. The crystal-like tears that rolled down his cheeks. She fell to her knees, took his face in her hands. “InuYasha, please don't cry.”

 

He looked at her, her sad eyes reminding him of the sad eyes Kagome held all this time after the battle with Naraku. “Sh-She said she wanted to be with me…Kikyou, why would she leave? Why?”

 

“I-I don't know.” Kikyou whispered. He closed his eyes, his hands fisted, claws digging in to his palms. “I wish I did.”

 

Kikyou dragged him in to her arms and he resisted her for only a moment. She offered the comfort that he needed, but she couldn't fix anything. `InuYasha…' She thought sadly. He had been building her a home…which was why he disappeared every day. He had been building her a home so when he would ask her to be his mate, she'd know she would have somewhere to live with him.

 

InuYasha separated himself from Kikyou's hold and stood up. Digging the heel of his foot in the dirt of where the well once was, he threw his head back, unleashing a very loud, sad howl.

 

`Inu-youkai howl…of loosing one's mate…' Kikyou slumped her shoulders. `He's heartbroken…he hasn't lost his mate…she's only five-hundred years away…'

 

 

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“So what will you do?”

 

InuYasha grimaced. “I'm going to wait for her.”

 

Sango looked at him sadly. “Will you?”

 

“Feh! Of course I will! Even if she was a thousand years away from me I'd wait for her, to be there when she comes out on the other side.”

 

And he did…

 

Miroku and Sango married shortly after Kagome's departure. Kaede and Kikyou had performed the marriage ceremony. Miroku and Sango had a total of eight children, much to Miroku's delight. Kaede passed away four years after Miroku's first child was born. Kikyou stayed in the village, becoming the miko of the shrine.

 

Miroku, Sango, their children, Shippo, Kirara, and InuYasha left to the exterminator's village. Together, they rebuilt it and lived there. People started to come to the village, Sango started to train them from a young age. Their children---three girls and five boys---all were trained by their mother. But as human age passed, Sango and Miroku also aged. InuYasha couldn't stop death, couldn't stop when Miroku died or when Sango followed soon after. Their children also grew up, got married, had children, and went their separate ways.

 

InuYasha trained Shippo. And much to InuYasha's irritation, Sesshoumaru came down from the west and they agreed on a truce between them. The tension of war was rising among humans and youkai. Kouga, his mate Ayame, and their three children joined alliance with InuYasha and Sesshoumaru. The wolf prince, the tai-youkai, and the `legendary' hanyou protected many when the war actually broke out. Shippo had also helped, trying to locate Sango and Miroku's kin. Kagura also joined in and she soon mated Sesshoumaru.

 

Slowly, youkai hid themselves away from the human world. Humans, as they died and a new generation came, forgot youkai…made them in to a myth. Youkai hid themselves with powerful concealments. Only youkai could see other hanyou or youkai. Most of youkai had been wiped out when the war broke out. When the modern era started to settle throughout Japan, Sesshoumaru reigned as tai-youkai.

 

InuYasha, Sesshoumaru, and Kouga joined together and set up a company, using the knowledge InuYasha acquired from his visits to Kagome's time. Shippo was considered InuYasha's son and as Shippo grew older, he became more and more like InuYasha. The little human girl that Sesshoumaru had, Rin, had married and died long ago. After almost three hundred years, Shippo took the hanyou Shiori as his mate.

 

Their company grew as time passed, as Kagome's time started to unveil before them. InuYasha never forgot, always remembered the times he spent with the miko. He'd be there when she came out…

 

`Just a little more…just a little more and I can finally hold you again Kagome…'

 

 

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~*Volition~*

Kagome mistakenly makes a wish on the jewel after Naraku's death. It forces the well to close and leave her second family behind. Now, InuYasha has waited 500 years to finally see Kagome again, but when he does see her, she is not the 'Kagome' he thought he'd face...

So how does a hanyou convince a miko to love him all over again?

 

 

Volition- the act of making a choice or decision; a desire; a wish.

 

 

Kongosoha- (InuYasha's) Diamond Spear Blast or Adamant Barrage

Tokijin- Sesshoumaru's sword

Goshinboku- the Sacred God Tree

 

 

Disclaimer, I do not own InuYasha. All right belong to Rumiko Takahashi.