Here it is. Just a teaser though. I can't seem to get
the rest of it out with out getting some C&C on what's
wrong with this part! I'm trying not to let Inu-Yasha
get too OOC, but I'm not sure how well I did. Anyway,
C&C would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Inu-Yasha woke several hours before dawn to find
himself strewn across a tree limb. His injuries from a
few hours before had healed. He sat up straddling the
branch and shook his head.
"Ugh. Kagome! Where's Kagome? And the jewel!
ARG!!" He sniffed the air. He could barely find the
slightest hint of blood. 'Kagome's blood,' he thought.
Inu-Yasha increased his speed as he leapt through the
trees. 'Stupid girl. She had better be all right. She
almost got herself killed . . . and then the jewel.
What did she do to the Jewel of Four Souls? She used
its power? But she's human. The jewel is powerless to
humans.'
He stopped when trees became burnt and opened
into a clearing (now larger than it had been
previously). Inu-Yasha could smell her blood strongly
now, but the scent that defined Kagome herself was not
present. He swept across the clearing to the crater at
its center. He blinked. She was there! She was
sprawled across the ground . . . asleep!
"Kagome!" he jumped down the slope and kneeled
beside her. "Kagome! Kagome, wake up, girl! Are you
all right?" He leaned down and sniffed across her
chest and abdomen. This didn't smell like Kagome. 'But
it has to be her! It looks just like her! No one else
could have such ridiculous clothing.' He nudged the
body gently at first then roughly. Getting no response
and not being the most patient of people Inu-Yasha
growled, "WAKE UP, GIRL!"
She shot up almost instantly and took in her
surroundings. 'She . . . she has yellow eyes!'
Inu-Yasha thought immediately. 'They're just like
mine! And . . . and fangs! She's got fangs! Oh no.'
"Kagome?" he asked cautiously. Her eyes finally
focused and turned to him. A smile spread across her
face- he loved that smile. It made his heart ache.
"Inu-Yasha!" She threw herself into his arms.
"You're all right! And I'm alive! I thought for sure I
was going to die! That demon slashed my neck open!
Almost no one survives from that."
Inu-Yasha blinked and wrapped his arms around the
girl. This was her. His Kagome. And she was . . . she
was . . . a demon? 'It can't be. The Jewel of Four
Souls doesn't work this way. But then again, who
knows? No one has ever used its full power, obviously,
or it wouldn't have been here. He sighed and softly
said, "Agh, girl, what have you done?"
"What was that, Inu-Yasha?"
"Nothing, Kagome. Ah . . . Kagome . . . where's
the jewel?"
"The jewel! Oh my Gosh! I completely forgot about
it! Where is it?" She started looking around
frantically for the familiar glow. "Inu-Yasha, I don't
see it! I... I... Is it gone? Did something get it?
The whole jewel . . ." Inu-Yasha was looking at her
strangely, almost sadly. "What? What's wrong?"
"Kagome . . . " He took her hand.
"Inu-Yasha!" Kagome began to blush. Inu-Yasha had
. . . they had never . . . He brought their
entwined hands in front of her face.
"What do you see, Kagome?"
"I..." She looked at their hands. Then she looked
at her hand. The glow. "Oh no." Releasing Inu-Yasha's
hand she looked down at herself. "My body! It's
glowing! My whole body! The jewel's back inside me?"
Inu-Yasha sighed and tilted her chin back up.
"C'mon Kagome." He swung her onto his back and was
off.
They stopped at a spring.
"Why are we here, Inu-Yasha?"
He took her hand again receiving only a slight
reddening on Kagome's part. "Come here." He led her to
the water's edge.
Kagome peered in to see herself staring back. She
gasped. "My eyes! My teeth! Inu-Yasha, I have fangs!
What has happened to me?"
The dog demon could see the tears in her eyes as
he predicted. 'Typical. Stupid human.'
She turned to look at him. "Inu-Yasha, what
happened to me?"
He sighed. "You used the Jewel of Four Souls and
turned yourself into a demon. I can smell it, Kagome,
your demon half. It didn't even make you full-blooded.
You're a halfling. A freak like me," Afterwards he
flinched at the stupidity of his own words.
He could see Kagome's bottom lip tremble and her
eyes swell with tears as she tried to restrain
herself. "Sorry," he grumbled.
Kagome lost it. She buried her face in her hands
and sobbed. Inu-Yasha watched her shoulders wrench. He
bit his lip. 'Gyah! What do I do? What do I do? Eh . .
. ' He obviously wasn't one who could deal well with
strong emotions, since he had refused to acknowledge
for many years that he had any compassion at all.
Inu-Yasha did the only thing he could think of.
He remembered Kagome comforting Shippou after he had
fallen and hurt himself. He turned and squatted next
to the girl and put his arm around her. "Uh... there,
there. It's ok." Surprising the dog boy, she wrapped
her arms around his waist and buried her head in his
shoulder continuing to weep.
'I knew it,' Kagome thought. 'I was dying. And I
would have, had I not been able to use the jewel. Now
I'm a demon, a monster. I'm supposed to protect the
jewel from demons and now I am one. How can I go home?
People will be scared of me. I still lost everything
even though I didn't die.'
Inu-Yasha sat cross-legged and pulled Kagome into
his lap. "Shhh . . . " he soothed. "You'll be okay."
'I have Inu-Yasha,' Kagome thought. "I still have
you," she whispered.
"You'll always have me," he replied uncertainly.
Her sobs started to reside. "You are my best
friend, Inu-Yasha."
He felt a stabbing in his heart. Friend. "And you
are mine."
He tightened his arms around her and laughed. "At
least we will never have to fight over the Jewel of
Fours Souls."
Kagome lifted her head and smiled at him. "So you
thought about it, too? I... I think I would have given
it to you Inu-Yasha, but I don't want you to become
like your brother."
"Sesshoumaru?"
"A full demon. Think about it. Have we ever
encountered a friendly full-blooded demon? Shippou
doesn't count."
Inu-Yasha frowned. "Feh." 'I couldn't hurt you.'
"I will just find another way."
Kagome just smiled and snuggled back into
Inu-Yasha's chest. He was surprised, but didn't push
her away. 'This isn't comfort anymore, is it? Is this
possible? Could she? No. No! Just forget it. You're
her friend.'
He rested his chin on Kagome's head. "Well, look
at the bright side . . . at least you didn't get the
ears."
"I don't know," Kagome sniffed. "I kinda like
your ears."
"Feh. Come on, girl. The old hag will want to see
this."
Kagome took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"All right. Let's go."
"Kaede!" Shippou called "Kaede! Kagome and
Inu-Yasha just came into town. Want to go meet them?"
"Hush, child. Something's amiss. We will wait."
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